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The Irresistible, Erotic Allure of Corsets
Jacqui, dressed in her “work clothes” – a black cotton garter-tank that covered all but her most private real estate (which still bore traces of O’s recent dressage work) and opaque black stockings to match – dug her black stiletto pumps into the carpet and strained at pulling O’s already compressed waist in a bit further.
“That’s it if you’re interested in breathing,” Jacqui declared.
Jacqui posed her in front of Marie’s tall rolling mirror, a big smile spreading across her face as O stared at the transformation.
“I think it’s pretty spectacular myself,” Jacqui said.
She wasn’t wrong. The corset took O’s narrow middle in a good three inches, exaggerating her breasts, hips and buttocks even further. With only the faint contrast of her brown leather collar and cuffs and her nude high heels, O appeared to be sculpted entirely of gleaming flesh, Jacqui having oiled her exposed areas lightly before wrestling with the cincher.
Her proportions were so extreme she resembled an unpainted mannequin. O was going for that effect. Though never fully satisfied with her appearance, she was at least grateful for her rigorous exercise, light diet and regular lacings. In profile, the impact was even more arresting.
“Well,” O conceded, “at least it’s comfortable.”
Jacqui threw her hands in the air. “You’re insane! I’d be passing out about now.”
“You just have to breathe from your diaphragm,” O explained, “and it’s good for you in reasonable doses. Helps take the weight off your spine.”
Unconvinced of the practical benefits, Jacqui admitted that the look was, literally and figuratively, breathtaking. To underscore the point, she stole a kiss and copped a feel.
“Steven’s going to want to fuck you the minute he walks through the door.”
O smiled wickedly. “That’s just what I’m hoping.”
–From Master of O by Ernest Greene
If there’s a single object more directly associated with fetishism than the stiletto heel, it has to be the tight-laced corset. A stern bulwark of steel (originally whalebone) boning and sturdy laces, it not only configures a woman’s appearance, but also constrains her movements, making it a wearable instrument of bondage. Limiting flexibility at the mid-section, it imposes an upright posture that presents the chest in full glory while thrusting the backside outward.
As men and women alike became obsessed with reduced waistlines, corsets became more extreme. They increasingly constricted breathing, producing dizziness and even fainting during carnal exertions. Thus, they function in this form as both a mobile bondage device and an instrument of erotic asphyxiation. At the height of the corset’s most punishing period – the end of the Nineteenth Century –waist reductions of four inches or more were not uncommon. The legendary Ethel Granger tightlaced her waist down to a gasp-inducing 13 inches by the early years of the twentieth century. To this day, The Guiness Book of World Records lists her as the smallest tightlaced waist every recorded, while the record for the smallest waist on a living person now belongs to Cathie Jung, who can lace down to 15 inches.
Predictably, fashion appropriates fetish just as fetish appropriates fashion. Corsets can be seen adorning the youthful figures of style vamps who have adopted them as outerwear in various colorful fabrics, not to mention leather and latex, on the dance floors of nightclubs all over the country.
However, a thriving sub-culture of old-style corset enthusiasts persists. Models like Dita von Teese — who can get down to a sixteen-inch waistline doing up her own laces — have been elevated to iconic status. Thanks to them and their admirers, the modern practitioners of the corsetiere’s traditional art remain very much in business.
Just like the skyscraper heels and seamed stockings with which they’re often paired, genuinely constricting corsets that give no quarter to comfort or convenience continue to enjoy a secret life as fetish confection. The public more often sees the less severe forms in music videos and on the racks of trendy retailers. However, many a fetishist owes their interest to a first glimpse in such a seemingly vanilla setting.
While they may wax and wane in popularity as club wear, the corset’s position in the bedroom remains as secure as the garment itself, ever a totem of femininity and the passions it inspires.
http://blog.stockroom.com/fetish-fashion/the-irresistible-erotic-allure-of-corsets/
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Through Scandinavia to Moscow
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William Seymour Edwards
London to Denmark Across the North Sea
Esbjerg, Denmark, August 25, 1902.
We came down from London to Harwich toward the end of the day. Our train was a “Special” running to catch the steamer for Denmark. We were delayed a couple of hours in the dingy, dirty London station by reason of a great fog which had crept in over Harwich from the North Sea, and then, the boat had to wait upon the tide.
The instant the train backed in alongside the station platform – only ten minutes before it would pull out – there was the usual scramble and grab to seize a seat in the first-carriage-you-can and pandemonium reigned. H is well trained by this time, however, and I quickly had her comfortably ensconced in a seat by a window with bags and shawls pyramided by her side the better to hold a place for me. Meantime, I hurried to a truck where stood awaiting me a well-tipped porter and together we safely stowed two “boxes” into a certain particular “luggage van,” the number of which I was careful to note so that I might be sure quickly to find the “luggage” again, when we should arrive at Harwich, else a stranger might walk off with it as aptly as with his own.
Our “carriage” was packed “full-up” with several men and women, who looked dourly at us and at each other as they sat glumly squeezed together, elbows in each other’s ribs. So forbidding was the prospect confronting me that I did not presume to attempt a conversation. These comrades, however, soon dropped out at the way-stations, until only one lone man was left, when I took heart and made bold to accost him. I found him very civil and, recognizing me to be a foreign visitor, he spoke with freedom. One Englishman never forgives another for sitting beside him, unintroduced, and squeezing him up in a railway carriage; but he harbors no such grudge against his American cousin, equally the victim of British methods.
Our vis-à-vis had been a volunteer-trooper in South Africa, and had just come back to England, after two years’ hardship and exposure. He had given up a good position in order to serve his country, and had been promised that the place would be kept open for him against his return. He tells me he now finds a stay-at-home holds his job. He has “a wife and two little lads to keep,” and so far he has had “no luck in finding work.” There are thousands of others in as bad a fix as he, he says, returned patriots who are starving for lack of work. He denounced the entire Boer-smashing business most savagely and declared that as for South Africa, he “would not take the whole of it for a gift.” We hear this sort of talk everywhere among the people we casually meet. The average Englishman takes small pride in his Army. “It gives fat jobs to the aristocracy, it is death to us,” is what I have heard a dozen times remarked. Our new acquaintance seemed to feel the better for having thus spoken out his mind, and when we parted, wished us a “prosperous voyage.”
The ship was in motion within twenty minutes after our train reached the Harwich pier. To my landsman’s thinking the air was yet murky with the fog. Big sirens were booming all about us. The melancholy clang of tidal bells sounded in sombre muffled tones from many anchored buoys. It was a drear, dank night to leave the land. We moved slowly, sounding our own hoarse whistle all the while. I stood upon the upper deck peering into the mists till we had come well out to sea. There were few boats moving, no big ones. Multitudes of small schooners and sloops rode at anchor, their danger lights faintly gleaming. I wondered we did not run down and crush them, but the pilot seemed to apprehend the presence of another boat even before the smallest ray of light shone through the fog. One or two great ships we came shockingly close upon. At least, I was jarred more than once when their huge black hulks and reaching masts suddenly grew up before me out of the dead white curtain of the mists. The estuary which leads from Harwich to the sea is long and tortuous. Only a pilot who has been born upon it, and from boyhood learned its currents and its tides, its shallows and its shoals, may dare to guide a boat along it, even in broad day. How much greater the skill and knowledge required thus to steer a ship through these labyrinthine channels amidst the fogs and blackness of such a night! The Captain told me he was always uneasy when coming out, no matter when, and never felt safe until far out upon the sea. Even in open water he must keep the sharpest kind of a watch lest some one of the myriad fishing craft which haunt these waters, should lie athwart the way.
The sea was quiet, rolling with a long slow swell. The rising wind soughed softly through the rigging when, toward midnight, I at last turned in.
All day Sunday the North Sea lay smooth and glassy as a pond; no hint of the turmoil and tempest which so often rage upon its shallow depths. We did not see many vessels; far to the north I made out the smoke of a steamer which the captain said was bound for Kristiansand, in Norway; and south of us were a few sail, which I took to be fishing luggers from Holland. Nor were there many seabirds flying. The sky hung low and in the gray air was the feel of a storm in the offing. Toward dark, about eight o’clock, a misty rain settled down upon us, and the rising wind began swashing the dripping waters along the decks. Toward half past nine we descried a dim glimmer in the east, – a beacon light flickering through the night, – and then another with different intervals of flash, a mile or two out upon the left, and then our ears caught the deep bellow of a fog horn across the sea. We were nearing the west coast of the Province of Jutland, in Denmark. Our port lay dead ahead between the lights. Another hour of cautious navigating, for there are many sand bars and shifting shoals along this coast, and we came steaming slowly, very slowly, among trembling lights – fishing smacks at anchor with their night signals burning – and then we crept up to a big black wharf. We were arrived at Esbjerg.
The train for Copenhagen (Kjoebenhavn) would leave at midnight, an eight-hours’ ride and no sleeping car attached.
We decided to stay aboard the ship, sleep peacefully in our wide-berthed stateroom and take a train at eleven o’clock of the morning, which would give us a daylight ride.
We were entering Denmark by the back door. The sea-loving traveler generally approaches by one of the ocean liners which sail direct from New York to Copenhagen; those who find terror in the sea enter by way of Kiel, and an all-rail ride through Holland and Germany, crossing the channel to Ostend, Dieppe, or the Hook. Only the few voyage across the North Sea with its frequent storms – the few who, like ourselves, are good sailors and do not fear the stress of tide and tempest. We were now at Esbjerg, and must cross the entire peninsula of Denmark, its Little Belt, its Big Belt and the large islands of Funen and Zealand to reach our journey’s end.
I am already beginning to pick up the Danish speech, a mixture of English, German, Dutch and new strange throat gutturals, the latter difficult for an American larynx to make. And yet so similar is this mother tongue of Scandinavia to the modern English, that I can often tell what a Dane is saying by the very similarity of the sounds: “Go Morn” – (good morning), “Farvel” – (farewell).
Our fellow passengers were mostly Danes. This is their favorite route for coming home. They are a quiet, rather pensive people. The men, much of the time, were smoking, and drinking beer and a white brandy. The women were often sitting in the smoking room with them, enjoying, I presume, the perfume of tobacco, as every right-minded woman should, and it may be, also finding solace in the scent of the strong brown beer, which they are not themselves indisposed to quaff.
The cooking on this Danish boat has been good. We have keenly appreciated the improvement upon the diet of roast beef, boiled mutton, boiled ham, boiled potatoes, and boiled peas steeped in mint, which we have been compelled to exist upon during the past few weeks in Britain.
Esbjerg – Across Jutland, Funen and Zealand, the Little Belt and the Big Belt to Copenhagen – Friends Met along the Way
Hotel Dagmar (“Dahmar”),
Copenhagen, Denmark, August 27, 1902.
Here we are in “Kjoebenhavn,” which word you will find it quite impossible properly to pronounce, however strenuously your tongue may try.
My letter, beginning in Esbjerg, was broken short by the necessity of sleep. We wisely remained upon the ship and took full benefit of our comfortable berths. In the morning we were up betimes, obtained a cup of coffee and a roll, and then, sending our bags and baggage to the railway station, set out afoot.
The air was misty, full of a fine drizzling rain. It was regular Scotch and English weather, but the atmosphere was cooler and not so heavy as in Britain. The little stone-and-brick-built town is clean and neat, with its main street well asphalted. It lies on a gentle slope of hillside which lifts from the water. A giant lighthouse, rising from the highest point of land, is the first object to meet the view. Back of this, upon the level summit, lies the best of the town. The buildings are generally of one and two stories, with steep, gabled roofs.
H, in her Scottish “bonnet,” and I, in my raincoat, were quite impervious to wetness, and we spent the morning strolling here and there, stopping to see, among other things, the tubs and tanks of fish in the market square, where fishwives in big, white caps, stood quite heedless of the rain. The fish were almost wholly the famous roed spoette (red spots), one of the flounder family, much resembling the English sole.
Wanting cigars, I was tempted into a little shop, and found it kept by an intelligent young Dane, who instantly confessed to me, in good United States, that he had lived in America and there done well. In fact, it was plain to see that his heart still beat for the great Republic. His father had died and he had come back to Denmark to care for his old mother, and then, he had fallen in love with the blue-eyed daughter of a citizen of Esbjerg, an only child. So now, with several little Danes added to his charge, he was fixed fast in Esbjerg. But he was “always grieving for America,” he said. He delighted to see us, and sent for his young wife, who came smiling in to us with her baby in her arms. H says he told his wife in Danish, that we were Americans just like all others she would see, if she should ever reach New York! So I bought a box of cigars from him, instead of one or two, and found them good smoking and well worth the very moderate cost.
Crossing the market square to a long, low building, which somehow had about it that indefinable air suggestive of a breakfast comfortably cooked, we came to an inn, in the low-ceilinged dining room of which were little tables set about upon the sanded floor. Two or three men of the sea were smoking in one corner, a bar and a red-cheeked barmaid were in another, and two huge, yellow, Great-Dane dogs occupied most of the remaining space. We chose a table by the window and H ordered roed spoette, rolls and coffee. The fish was delicious, possessing a harder, sweeter flesh than the English sole; and rolls with salted butter rejoiced my palate, for I am dreadfully tired of English butter with no salt; and then we were given big brown pancakes with currant jelly, all we could eat. It was a breakfast fit for a Viking. The bill was only three kroner and twenty oere, which equals about eighty-six cents.
At the railway station, a mile from the docks, our tickets, bought in London, gave us the best on the train, better than similar carriages in England, for here they are bigger, with larger windows and the cars are set on trucks.
The journey to Copenhagen was over and through a sandy, flat and slightly rolling country, more carefully tilled and more generally cultivated than in England, with more grain, wheat and rye; with more vegetables, turnips, carrots, cabbage and potatoes. There were cattle, herds of large red cows, for Denmark is now the dairy of all Europe. But I saw no steers, nor beef cattle, fattening for the market, and but few sheep; nor any hogs running afield – the last are probably kept up. The houses are set singly upon the farms, are surrounded by outbuildings, and are usually of one story and often big and rambling with ells and gables, and generally have thatched roofs. The barns are big and substantial. More people are here upon the land than in England, and not living in clustered villages, as in France; the fields are divided usually by hedges. There are sluggish waterways and canals, and ponds where fish are bred and raised for market; and almost every hilltop is capped with a Dutch-looking windmill.
The train moved deliberately. It made from twenty to twenty-five miles an hour, stopping a long time at each station. We hadn’t gone far when a bald-pated, round-headed Herr climbed in and we speedily fell into talk with him. H speaks Danish enough to get on, and I use my pocket dictionary, and pick up what I can. His name was Hansen and he “owns” the “Hotel Kikkenborg,” at “Brammige,” wherever that may be. He told us of the country we were passing through and helped me on the Danish gutturals. You must gurgle the sounds down in your gullet as though you were quite filled with water, and the more profound the depth from which the sound comes forth, the more perfect the speech. We lost him at the first change of cars, when we boarded an immense ferryboat to cross the strait of water called the Little Belt, which separates the main land from the large island of Funen, but we found ourselves again in kindly company, this time, with a gray-bearded man and two ladies, his wife and daughter. He was “Inspector of Edifices” for the Government. They had been spending a few weeks on the island of Fanoe at Nordby, a fashionable seaside resort much patronized by the gentry of Copenhagen. He talked with me in fluent German, and the ladies conversed readily in French, while all spoke with H in Dansk and so we got on, fell fast friends and were introduced to a beau of the Froeken, a young “Doctor” who had “just taken his degree.” We sat together while crossing the island of Funen and on the ferryboat top all through the long sail across the Big Belt which divides Funen from the island of Zealand. Our friends here pointed out to us where it was that Charles X of Sweden, and his army of foot and horse and guns made their dare-devil passage on the ice that night in January, 1658, crossing the Little and Big Belts to Zealand and Copenhagen, forcing the beaten Danes by the Peace of Roskilde to cede the great Provinces of Skaania, Halland and Bleking, which made Sweden forever henceforth a formidable European state, – “God’s work,” the Swedes declared, for these salty waters were never before frozen solid enough to bear an army’s weight, – nor have they been since. We parted only at the journey’s end. Our friends were pleasant people of the aristocratic office-holding class, content to live simply on the modest stipend the Government may grant, who neither speak nor read English, and who listened to the tales of bigness in America with doubting wonder. “A building twenty stories high!” “Impossible!” “Eighty millions of people!” “Incredible!” “America already holds four hundred thousand Danes – one-fifth of the Danish race.” “Ja! Alas! That is too true!” “Our young men are never satisfied to come back to stay when once they have lived in America!” “Our young men don’t return, it’s hard upon our girls.”
Our new found friends, when we lunched upon the big ferryboat, introduced us to that very Danish dish called Smoer Broed, thickly buttered rye bread overlaid with raw herring or smoked goose breast, a Viking dainty – a salty appetizer well calculated to make the Norseman quaff from his flagon with more than usual vim, and to drive an American in hurried search of plain water! These salty snacks of cold bread and cold fish are as eagerly devoured and enjoyed by the Scandinavian as are the peppery, stinging eatables for which every Mexican palate yearns.
It was dusk when we arrived in the large and commodious Main station at Copenhagen. The suburbs of the city were hidden from us by the gathering darkness, and the electric lights were glowing when we left the train.
We missed General and Mrs. C at the station, so great was the crowd, but found them when we came to our hotel, the Dagmar, they having themselves missed us and followed on our track.
There are many good hotels in Copenhagen and this is among the larger and more popular stopping places of the Danes themselves. It is built along the clean Vestre Boulevard, with umbrageous trees in front of it, and possesses that rare thing, an elevator. In the dining room we sit at little tables, and find the cooking much superior to what one generally meets in England. It is more after the French sort, the Danes priding themselves greatly upon their soups and sauces. In our rooms, which look out upon the broad, paved boulevard, the furniture is old style mahogany, very substantial, and in the corner there is one of those immense porcelain stoves reaching to the ceiling, which is the general mode of heating large rooms in these Scandinavian lands.
Copenhagen is a city of four hundred thousand people, one-quarter of the estimated population of Denmark, and the city is growing steadily at the expense of the country, – increasing too fast for a land the population of which is as steadily growing less. English is said to be the fashionable foreign tongue in court circles, by reason of the British royal connection; but among the people the German speech is steadily and stealthily taking a foremost place, and this despite the fact that the Danes dislike Germany and view the Germans with well-founded fear. You will talk to a Dane but a few moments before he is pouring out his heart to you about the atrocious robbery of the splendid Provinces of Sleswik and Holstein, of which Bismarck despoiled the little kingdom nearly forty years ago. Almost half of Denmark was then lopped off at a single blow, – nor England nor Russia interfering to save the Danes, – and now they are ever in uneasy spirit lest Germany encroach yet more upon them and ultimately devour them, land and sea. They feel she is incessantly creeping on to them with all the cunning of a hungry cat.
Copenhagen, a Quaint and Ancient City
Kjoebenhavn, Dannmark,
(Copenhagen, Denmark), August 28, 1902.
The Copenhagener declares that his beloved “Kjoebenhavn” is not really an ancient city, although he admits it has been in active business since the middle of the tenth century, nearly one thousand years.
My Danish friends assert that it is my “Yankee eye,” which is so new, and prove the modernity of their town by telling me how many times it has been bombarded, how often sacked and razed, how frequently burned up; and yet, despite their facts, I still make bold to say the city bears the markings of an ancient town.
Long, long ago, even before the time of King Gorm the Old, here were markets by the water’s side, where the fisherman brought his catch, the peasant fetched his eggs and milk and cheese and what the soil might yield, where the itinerant merchant came to show and trade his wares. These handy markets by the sea were at first moved constantly about; by and by they came to be held, year after year, in the self-same spot; the temporary clustered settlement became a lasting town. As the centuries rolled on these market hamlets expanded into a single commercial rendezvous for all the northern world. Thus Copenhagen won her name (Kopman-haven– merchant port) and grew until her commerce made her the heir to the trade and traffic of the Hanseatic League, and she was recognized as supreme mistress of the commerce of the North by London and Bremen, Brussels and Bordeaux, as well as by the merchant fleets of Venice and the Levant.
Those were the days when her Kings and hardy seamen would as lief drink and fight and die as eat and live; their very recklessness made them masters of the North; they even annexed the mighty Norseman, and made Norway a Danish Province; they hammered and held in check their doughty cousins, the Swedes; they brought beneath their sway the Provinces of Skaania, of Halland and of Bleking, the southern portion of what is now known as Sweden; they dominated the cities along the shores of the North and Baltic Seas.
Copenhagen became, in fact as well as in name, the veritable capital of the North. In politics and in intrigue she played the master hand. She gathered to herself the arts and the sciences, the fashion and the elegance, of the North; and to-day, although warlike pride and power have fallen from her, although trade and commerce have lessened in her midst, yet the arts and the sciences, the culture and the elegance are still her own, and the fine old city claims to be as markedly as of yore the intellectual center of the Scandinavian race.
Copenhagen is a flat-lying city; it has no hills in it, while there are many canals and watery lanes which wind through it and lead to the sea, or as the Danes would say the Sund (Sound), – that narrow strait which links the Baltic to the Kattegat, where Denmark and Sweden appear once to have split apart.
The buildings are generally of brick, sometimes of stone, never of wood; they are large and substantial, often four and five stories high, with gabled roofs, sharp and steep, covered with tiles.
In the older parts of the city, the streets are narrow, and twist and turn and change their names even more often than the Rues of Paris. In the newer section, toward the north and northwest, there are long straight boulevards and straight cross streets, and the inevitable air of modern monotony.
The feeling and impression which stole over me the first morning I strolled about the city became almost one of sadness. The wistful, pensive faces of the people; their unobtrusive politeness; the inconsequential traffic of drays and carts along the quiet streets; canals and quays half empty where there should have been big packs of boats; absence everywhere of bustle and ado, – all these were almost pathetic. It might have been a Puritan Sabbath, so silent stood the big stone docks and piers among the lapping waters. There was none of[Pg 17][Pg 18] the ponderous movement of London, none of the liveliness of Paris, nor the busy-ness of Hamburg, of Bremen, of Amsterdam, of Rotterdam and Antwerp, although once Copenhagen was peer of any one. The bales of goods, the tons of merchandise which once filled her lofts and cellars are no longer there. The commerce which once made the city rich and gave her power has ebbed away. She is far fallen into commercial and industrial decay.
The causes which have wrought this collapse of the once great city are, perhaps, difficult to analyze. At least, those Danes with whom I have talked upon the matter are not at all agreed. Nor are they united upon the solution of the problem of restoring the city to the proud place she once held as metropolis of the northern world.
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John Adams to Wilhem & Jan Willink and Nicolaas & Jacob Van Staphorst, 24 Mar. 1786
Grosvenor Square March 24. 1786
Gentn.
inclosed is a Letter from the Board of Treasury, which I am to transmit to you.
on the 20. Feb. I drew an order for fifty Guineas in favour of Coll Smith to bear his Expences to and from Paris, on the public Service of the United States.
on march 11. I accepted a Bill of Mr Barclay in favour of the order of Mr Grand for one hundred Pounds Sterling at 30 days Sight. 1st. of the sett. marked Letter A. not numbered. dated Bayonne.
N.B. This 24 March I drew an order on Messrs Puller for two hundred Pounds Sterling in favour of Coll Smith to be charged to the U States as part of his Salary as secretary
“John Adams to Wilhem & Jan Willink and Nicolaas & Jacob Van Staphorst, 24 Mar. 1786,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-01-02-0565. [This is an Early Access document from The Adams Papers. It is not an authoritative final version.]
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How the industry is reacting to E3’s cancellation
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The ESA held out as long as it could, but in the end it was inevitable: E3, the highest-profile videogame show in North America, was cancelled today because of the global coronavirus health emergency.
The shutdown is bad enough in its own right, but making matters worse, it comes in the wake of growing questions about E3’s relevance at a time when broadband internet has enabled game publishers to reach their customers directly.
In fact, industry analyst Doug Creutz told the Wall Street Journal (via Sarah E. Needleman) that the coronavirus could prove to be an existential turning point for E3: If publishers are able to adequately reach their fans directly through online presentations, the absence of the show could end up demonstrating beyond any doubt that it’s simply not relevant anymore.
Publishers respond
That’s what many major publishers are looking to do. Almost immediately after E3 was officially cancelled, Microsoft’s head of Xbox Phil Spencer took to Twitter to say that it will hold a “digital event” instead.
E3 has always been an important moment for Team Xbox. Given this decision, this year we’ll celebrate the next generation of gaming with the @Xbox community and all who love to play via an Xbox digital event. Details on timing and more in the coming weeks https://t.co/xckMKBPf9hMarch 11, 2020
Ubisoft wasn’t as firm, but said that it is also looking into streaming options.
An update regarding E3 2020. pic.twitter.com/cThkDIkfVmMarch 11, 2020
Electronic Arts, which holds an annual EA Play press event at E3, has “continued to follow the coronavirus developments around the world very closely,” a rep said in a statement. “Clearly the situation is evolving by the day, and we’ve been reviewing how it will change our plans for EA Play 2020. We will share more soon.”
Devolver Digital, which got the E3 cancellation rumor ball rolling downhill last night, is “bummed” about the cancellation but still plans on holding a Devolver Direct livestream in 2020. Speaking strictly for myself, as long as that warped festival of weirdness is happening, I’ll be satisfied.
The week of E3 has always been a big part of what we do and are genuinely bummed about the cancelation of the event itself.Lots to juggle but right now we plan on having a livestream Devolver Direct / press conference and possibly more. pic.twitter.com/nGDAEsIzUsMarch 11, 2020
THQ Nordic had a slightly different take. I’m not sure this makes up for the whole 8chan AMA thing, but I do love this meme.
F pic.twitter.com/wOlXR7Xm3xMarch 11, 2020
We at PC Gamer also put on a show during E3 week, and we’re currently investigating multiple options to bring The PC Gaming Show back for 2020, and will have more to share in the coming weeks.
Indie reactions
While major publishers seem relatively unruffled by the cancellation, the situation is somewhat different in the indie scene.
“While E3 is far less visited by indie devs than GDC is, especially so for international devs, this still means another opportunity for pitches, meetings, announcements, and opportunities gone,” tweeted Rami Ismail of Nuclear Throne studio Vlambeer. “Whether this was good for E3, or a nail in the coffin, well, we’ll see in a year.”
Mike Bithell of John Wick Hex developer Bithell Games had similar thoughts:
The impact of a year without GDC and E3 in terms of projects unsigned and deals undone, is gonna last for years. It’s a largely invisible influence, but I don’t know of many devs above a certain budget level that this hasn’t had any effect on.March 11, 2020
International Game Developers Association
The IGDA, which has partnered with Gamedev.world and Take This to help alleviate the impact of the coronavirus on developers, predicted that the outbreak will drive a greater focus on online events in the future.
“The cancellation of two of the largest events for game developers to connect and market their games will certainly affect marketing strategies for 2020 and beyond. I believe we will see more online announcements planned by larger organizations, while smaller studios will come together to support each other for their own announcements,” executive director Renee Gittens said.
“The IGDA is launching a program to promote the game and fundraising launches of our members to our audience of over 100,000 game developers and fans. We hope that programs like this will help soften the blow from the loss of these events.”
Gittens also clarified that its partnership with Gamedev.world “is for all developers affected by COVID-19, not just for GDC. The IGDA is considering other ways we can serve developers affected by the closure of E3 but has nothing definitive to announce at this time.”
The end of E3 as we know it?
The loss of E3 will inevitably be disruptive, but the extent of that disruption will depend in large part on how publishers are able to manage it. Based on precedent, it may not be too much of an obstacle for the big companies: Sony skipped last year’s event to no apparent ill effect and wasn’t going to show up this year, and Nintendo has relied on its Nintendo Direct presentations rather than conventional E3 press events for years.
Interviews and hands-on demos will be missed, but that also presents an opportunity to spread that information out, rather than firing it into our veins like a blistering speedball of digital fury.
For smaller studios and professionals who hoped events like GDC and E3 would lead to new connections, deals, and publicity, the effect may be far greater.
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Stratigraphy and the study of sedimentary rocks
Pyrenean Tectonics
Glacial Landforms
Periglacial Landforms
Industrial Archaeology
Geological Landscape
Turbidic Channel in Arro
Sedimentary rocks of deep marine origin.
Municipality: Aínsa-Sobrarbe
To access the PIG (Point of Geographical Interest), take the N-260 road from Aínsa towards Campo, and after reaching Arró village (Km 426), turn and take the road leading up to Los Molinos. After approximately 4Km, we reach the outcrop, past the Los Dolores Hermitage, on the right hand side of the road. On the left hand side, opposite the outcrop, there is a car park
Characteristic Turbidites in the “Turbidic Channel in Arro”.
Geological Context
Rocks in the surroundings are sediments of deep marine environments (turbidites) of the south-central Pyrenean Eocene Basin (stretching from the Lutetian to the Bartonian stage). More specifically, it belongs to the turbidic system of Arro, which is framed by the Fosado System on its base, and the Gerbe System on its top. These systems, among others, form the system known as Hecho Group (Mutti et al., 1972). The Arro System was developed during the Upper Ypresian and it is the first stage of sedimentation rich in sand of the Eocene turbidic Basin.
Along the eastern sub-basin of Aínsa and in this area of Geological interest, this turbidic system is formed by facies of turbidic channels and its characteristic filling of deposits..
Geological Significance
The turbidic systems located in different sedimentary basins all around the World currently have a high economical value. For instance, more than 80% of major productive crude oil fields are developed within this type of sedimentary system. For this very reason, understanding the formation of turbidic systems and their features as reservoirs is highly important in order to develop exploration strategies. Thus, turbidic channels and other associated features are currently the target of a lot of crude oil research. Channel systems are frequently observed in this kind of study, and examples such as this provided by these geotopes are useful to suggest new hypothesis for crude oil geologists and other scientists, in order to better understand unexplored counterparts in their studies.
At this spot, we can also observe the physical expression and the facies, on a large scale, of the filling and the sandy growth of a canyon, in this case, the canyon known as Charo-2, within its structural frame. Deposits formed from unstable deposits, such as debris flows, hyper-concentrated flows and dunes stand out.
Atiart Canyon
Cut of a submarine canyon.
Municipality: La Fueva
In order to access the point of geological interest, first you must reach the houses 700m before Fosado. Once there, park your car and walk 500m heading west across the fields until you reach the gorge, where you will find an outcrop cut by a submarine canyon.
Outcrop cut by a submarine canyon.
At the south of the Ferrera Mountain range, we find a system of dipping faults (known as the Cabezonada-Arro by some authors) from the Ypresian-Lutetian stage. The Atiart dipping fault belongs to this system. It is an overlapping dipping fault system cutting the topographic surface from NNW-SSE to NW-SE.
These structures strongly determine sedimentation in this area of the basin during the Ypresian stage, since each of them give way to a ramp where a series of erosions are marked, overlapping the turbidic system in Torla-Fosado. Some of these marks, which are very large, can be observed at this point of interest.
The fact that the sedimentation process and the tectonic activity overlapped during the same period of time, which can be easily observed in the terrain, allows us to study the complex dynamic evolution of this area.
The dipping fault in Atiart has an upper block formed by platform facies with fauna in situ, which belongs to the Castigaleu group and to the Castisent 1 base. The lower block is formed by proximal turbidites.
The Atiart dipping fault is important because it has been traditionally used as a reference for dating the Cotiella mantle formation (Ypresian stage).
Thanks to the study of this canyon, we can answer some questions about its large scale submarine erosion features and about the details of their faults, erosion, and the value of its contribution to related turbidic systems.
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Documentary Evidence of Covert Electronic-Weapon and Neurotechnology Use By US Government on Americans Series (2) The Limited Effects Technology (LET) Program Report | JPSG, OOTW/LE Programs, 1996
Posted on January 30, 2020 by Ramola D | 1 comment
RAE (Report, Analysis, Op-Ed) | Ramola D | Posted January 30, 2020
Documentary Evidence since 1994 of Covert High-Tech Electronic-Weapon and Neurotechnology Use in Targeted Surveillance, Experimentation, Operations by US Government on Americans: A Series
(1) The DOD/DOJ Memorandum of Understanding on OOTW/LE, 1994
(2) The Limited Effects Technology (LET) Program Report | JPSG, OOTW/LE Programs, 1996
Unremarked in mainstream media, deliberately hidden from wider readership, there have been a series of declassified document FOIA-releases over the past few years which astonishingly reveal many facets of the now-known covert use of electronic-weapon and neurotechnology surveillance, experimentation, weapons-tests, and operations on the American public by various agencies and departments of the US Government and their contractors.
Similarity with Covert Global High-Tech Policing Operations: Similar operations have been unleashed worldwide, as reported extensively at this site and others online earlier. Some documentation in the public domain testifies to this global program, and will be reported more fully here shortly. For now, please see this Twitter thread, which discloses NATO High-Tech Non Lethal Weapon/Neuro Policing operations in Europe and discusses also how Non-Lethal Weapons Testing & Neuro Surveillance have been unleashed inside the USA:
HTML Page: Thread on Non-Lethal DEW Operations in USA, Europe, world, with references to US, NATO documents, articles
On Twitter: Thread on Non-Lethal DEW Operations in USA, Europe, world, with references to US, NATO documents, articles
This series aims to address the public disclosures in recent FOIA releases of ongoing US Government use of Electronic Weapons and Neurotechnologies on Americans.
“Electronic Weapon” herein refers to the spectrum weapons used in Electronic Warfare as defined by the Department of Defense (DOD) in documents, particularly relates to anti-personnel weapons, includes all labeled as non-lethal-weapon, less-than-lethal weapon, psychotronic weapon, neuroweapon, next generation and emerging technologies, and includes RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) and BCI (Brain Computer Interface) tech.
PDF: The Limited Effects Technology (LET) Program Report | JPSG, OOTW/LE Programs, 1996
Recent document releases into the public domain include this Limited Effects Technology Program Report (linked above) released by the US Department of Defense on FOIA request on May 31, 2019 to Harun Krasna via Muckrock News, on a multi-document request made in January 2018, where initial notice of delays from the DOD FOI Office (until September 2018) suggesting high volume of responsive records seems to have petered out by May 2019 into return of a single report from DARPA, as their final response letter shows.
This FOIA request was made in January 2018 and asked DOD for “Copies of all research reports, annual reports, and indices of the Joint Program Steering Group (JPSG) as established by the 1994 MOU between the Department of Justice and Department of Defense, dating from 1994 to the present.”
(NOTE: The same request was sent by Mr. Krasna to the Department of Justice in January 2018 and yielded several documents in February 2018, including the 1994 DOD-DOJ MOU reported here earlier. Of note, this writer had also queried the DOJ for this very same 1994 MOU in 2015, and was at that time denied this document, citing “no responsive records” and several claimed exemptions.)
The purpose of this article is to report on the structure, disclosure, and highlights of this JPSG LET Program Report, and offer insight into its content with an eye to more fully informing the American public what the implications and ramifications are regarding the use of anti-personnel military weaponry by domestic law enforcement and military branches on the American public, which is what this JPSG LET Program Report is premised on.
Notable About This Foia-Request Response
DARPA chose to return one single document, after a 1.5 year delay, on this multi-document request for documents dating back (from 2018, time of request) to 24 years. (This should not be found acceptable to the American public—other reports obviously exist and are being withheld; DARPA should be queried again.)
This document is dated 1996; no recent reports were released by DARPA; no notice of the ending of these JPSG joint DOD-DOJ programs has been given in this May 2019 response.
This document is not redacted and is released in full, which implies that the disclosure of technology and policy in this document is acceptable now to DARPA; this is in line with the slow release of information on Non Lethal Weapons, Electronic Warfare, and Neuroweaponry the DOD has made online and in print—via notice of programs, weapons, conferences, articles, and recorded lectures in public-domain documents and sites online–in recent years. However it also implies the JPSG (a DOD-DOJ entity) chooses currently to reveal what’s in this document as applicable to Law Enforcement—which could be a way of corralling tacit public consent to Law Enforcement use by thus publishing notice of this insidious and pernicious weaponry.
It is essential therefore for Media, human and civil rights groups to take note now of the disclosure here and ask further questions, examine implications for all, and delve deeper into what is really at stake with this “Limited Effects Technology Program.”
Basic Structure of This Limited-Effects Technology Report
This 9-page report with the JPSG Defense-Justice logo on the cover and naming David Fields as the Program Manager is divided into the following sections:
Program Thrusts
The Limited Effects Technology Program
Electric Stun Projectile
Laser Surveillance and Dazzler System
Handheld Laser Dazzler
Pyrotechnic Devices
Acoustic Study
The Section Titled “Background”
Notable from the information in this section titled “Background” is the following:
This Limited Effects Technology Program is acknowledged to be a JPSG program resulting from the MOU from 1994, reported earlier.
The need for such a joint program merging the efforts of Defense and Justice in developing technology applicable to both is being rationalized and legitimized by recourse to stated historical reference of common “need” as technology requirements for both “converge.” This is assertion which is neither specific, transparent, nor explicatory. It is presumption which seeks to hide the fact that what is being discussed here, as the immediate technological lead-up to the 1994 DOD-DOJ MOU, discussed here, demonstrates, are Remote Human Access-and-Control Neuro/Bio Weapons—Non Lethal Weapons and Neurotechnologies (to some extent revealed in “Program Thrusts”), which are arguably highly invasive of bodily and brain privacy, integrity, health, and safety.
Please see the section Some Context to this MOU in Article 1 of this series for historic Non Lethal/EMF Spectrum & Acoustic/Neuro/Bio Weapons-Development background to the MOU and all technology programs the MOU has given rise to.
Examples given of operations sharing this need are “the (Defense) provision of humanitarian assistance, peacekeeping, countering the flow of drugs into the United States, counterterrorism, etc.–and (Justice) law enforcement forces engaged in LE operations.” We are expected to agree that military operations, even “peacekeeping” (which should not be considered a military activity in the first place: weapons cannot “peacekeep,” they subjugate) share a common need for “limited effects” tech i.e., silent Human Access Weapons—which, it should be noted, are not being named as such here. This notion of “need” is presumption, and emblematic of coercion of consent.
The Need to Limit Force or apply only a “minimum amount of force” as primary principle of action is posited here—again without corroboration from real-life where war casualties and police violence abound—as a severe constraint to military and police ability to function. The solution to this false claim (false because it does not seem to be a real-life principle by which either police or military adheres) then funnels down to Non Lethals or Limited-Effects weapons, which are being characterized as force-limiting weapons within a claimed hierarchy of severity which completely ignores the unethical, human-rights-violating aspects of bio-hacking and neuro-hacking weapons, which is what they are (as will be seen shortly). More accurately, this section should be headed The Need to Be Seen to Limit Force, with Public-Image-Boosting Non-Visible Weapons.
Common Threats posit militarized drug-smugglers and terrorists with access to military and LE Tech, which in real-life is made possible (as we understand now from much investigative and whistleblowing reportage including from journalist Gary Webb, LAPD investigator and government whistleblower Michael Ruppert and others) by gun-running, drug-running, and open arms sales by government, military, CIA, mafia, and private-sector alike, which makes this a circular argument: Military and LE fuel the arms/police weapons industry which creates these weapons, as well as tools such as electro-optic imaging devices to aid night vision goggles and Electronic Weapon countermeasures. This circular view also promises endless escalation via blackmarket sales of new weapons. “The criminals have our guns so we need new guns” could go on forever.
Common Missions which name the War on Drugs and the War on Terrorism imply that these are both military campaigns just as much as law enforcement campaigns, which would explain both the military-style DEA and LE SWAT team “drug” raids on homes, terrorizing children and families, and the non-lethal weapons-operations via DOD/USAF weapons-testing contracts on people wrongfully labeled “terrorists” as ensured by the Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995 after the Oklahoma Bombing (a staged insider event, as per whistleblower evidence), and later the Patriot Act of 2001 post 9/11 (another staged insider event, as per much public analysis and testimonial). Yet, in mainstream media and government press releases, these missions are not disclosed as such—the military aspect kept hidden–with much secrecy especially attending the field testing aspect of otherwise openly-disclosed non-lethal weapons testing contracts inside America.
The most significant disclosure from this section comprises notice of 1) the members of the Joint Program Steering Group, as deriving from DARPA, the National Institute of Justice, the FBI, the Bureau of Prisons, and the US Army; 2) their ability to engage at any point in R&D of the weapons mentioned here; 3) the notion that they could participate in “demonstrations” of this technology just as much as developments. Are demonstrations then, what people are reporting today as 24/7 silent microwave/milliwave/infra-red/neurotech weapons operations in their neighborhoods, with use of drones, small planes, satellites, helicopters, zooming cars, parked vans and cars, antennas, cell towers, smart meters, backpack stalkers? (These also appear to be weapons-testing activities, weapons-training activities, and weapons-operations activities.)
Also significant is the information that the Limited Effects Technology Program is only one part of a multi-technology program established by the JPSG to address joint tech priorities of Defense and Justice in 1995. The other tech programs are described in Program Thrusts.
The Section Titled “Program Thrusts”
This section in the LET report discusses the actual technology programs of the JPSG, names certain technologies being developed, tested, and used in training, reveals that most if not all of these are Remote Human Access spectrum and sonic technologies, yet maintains quite some obscurity in disclosing certain of these technologies, for example using vague terms like “communications security technologies.”
It is interesting indeed that this document titled The Limited Effects Technology Program Report in actuality presents information on all JPSG DOD-DOJ programs (or all deemed safe to record), yet focuses only on some LE tech, and uses the same opening Background section to preface notice of all JPSG programs—which implies commonality of context and nature of weaponry, i.e., Non-Lethal, Remote Human Access/Control (as will be seen below).
Significant, in this section, are the following.
The JPSG Program—the most essential program ensuring DOD-DOJ liaison re. “advanced technology development” as per the 1994 DOD-DOJ MOU—focuses on 7 technology areas, which, on close perusal, cover quite a bit of territory. This program in other words is being used to develop, test, and demonstrate sophisticated and secretive wireless, remote, radiation, EMF spectrum, acoustic, bio-communications detection, monitoring, tracking, and communications technologies with major implications for all individuals and the entire urban environment.
The first six program areas are presented only in summary, with slightly more elaboration of the Limited Effects Technology program which titles the report. Notably, even this seventh section is not comprehensive in its coverage of the LET it purports to cover: the devices highlighted do not comprise the whole of the LET program, only that portion DARPA is willing to put in a document clearly intended for eventual public-release (after 25 years!) into the public-domain, which has happened now. (More on this subject in the LET Program section below.)
Concealed Weapons Detection:
Concealed- Weapons-Detection technologies the JPSG reports here it seeks to develop are “unobtrusive” —read, concealable in plain sight–systems which can detect weapons of various kinds, including those with little to no metallic content, from over 9 meters—27 feet, width of a couple rooms–away. Initial efforts were to cover stationary devices—but clearly this 1996 wording suggests mobile devices would also be developed.
Actual detection technologies in process then in 1996 included:
3.1 An X-ray sensor: which refers to sensor technology; X-ray sensors are variously used in medical/dental radiography and in scanning systems as in airport scanners for people or baggage.
They are possibly also used in Backscatter X-ray technology as reportedly carried in NYPD vans, about which NYPD, although sued by ACLU, was protected by the NY Appeals Court from divulging much about, while companies contracting with the US Government to produce “Z-Backscatter-Vans” offer more information on the X-ray imaging of vehicles they do;
3.2. Combined passive millimeter wave and infra-red sensors: which are sensors used in scanning systems which can detect objects by their relative millimeter wave glow or infra-red heat signature profile, literally see through clothes better than X-rays and give rise to images highly invasive of personal privacy. Both millimeter wave sensors and infra-red sensors are energy sensors, detecting bio-field energy and thermal signatures; the distance from which such sensors can be used is a matter for further research. Some infra-red sensors are used in cameras mounted on aircraft and satellites.
Interestingly, a document online from the Air Force Research Lab, written by an apparent contractor, Decision-Science Applications Inc., found online after the bulk of this article was written, reports in 1998 on Concealed Weapons Detection programs run on grants from the NIJ and DARPA--which suggests a possible connection to these JPSG programs, while revealing that NIJ and DARPA were funding the Air Force Research Lab, which in turn funded a private contractor, in a chain of inter-agency connections–and points to sensor technologies being intentionally developed to penetrate clothing.
Concealed Weapon Detection Program, AFRL Report/https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a359699.pdf
https://www.millivision.com/technology.html
People-counting system with infra-red sensor, https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Highlight-people-counter-system-HPC005-Reflective_60305782701.html
Camera with Infra-red sensor showing heat signatures/https://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-infrared-imaging.htm#
3.3 Combined ultrasound and radar sensors: which translates to:
a) Ultrasonic sensors: the use of high-frequency ultrasonic pulsed transmitter/receiver sensors to send and receive waves in echo from materials to determine their composition or proximity (used in a variety of industries including healthcare, agriculture, target-tracking of animals or humans from UAVs or manned aircraft, water-level sensing, car or obstacle detection), used in short-range, up to 10-meters application;
b) Radar sensors used in short and long range (up to 100 meters) object detection, tracking target movement, collision avoidance in cars, and to detect materials with guided wave radar or special antennas which ultrasonics may miss, such as softer, powdery, foamier, dustier materials, using either Doppler pulses or frequency-modulated continuous wave radar.
Ultrasonic sensor/https://www.bannerengineering.com/us/en/products/sensors/ultrasonic-sensors.html?pageNum=1&#all
https://www.maxbotix.com
3.4 Low Frequency Magnetic sensor: Magnetic sensors use a variety of physical effects related to magnetism, such as eddy current sensing, measuring small relative changes in earth’s magnetic field created by variations in magnetic material, to detect flaws in metal, movement of metals (as in weapons) carried on a person’s body, movement of large metallic objects such as cars, etc. Magnetic sensors detect metal carried on persons when radar alone, stopped by metallic-walls or reflective insulation barriers, is not enough.
Low magnetic fields relate to biofields; low frequency magnetic sensors can pick up low frequency (ELF, ULF body resonance frequency below 10 Hz, below 30 KHz) magnetic fields as indicated in rise and fall of chest cavity; this capacity is used in earthquake life-detection and through-wall surveillance in combination with radar sensors.
Then there are super-conducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) which also pick up very low emfs, such as brain ELFs.
MEMS and nanosensors using thin film magnetic technology also exist. (On this subject: Radar sensors used in prisons are taking recourse to radar tagging to distinguish inmates from guards—implying the use of nanosensors in tracking, which appear to be of different kinds.)
Through-the-wall surveillance technologies/https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/07_01.pdf
Squid/Wikipedia
Finally, this section’s disclosure on then-current use notes that the X-Ray sensor was being “demonstrated”–meaning, operated–in a correctional institution in California—a prison or juvenile detention center. The use of sensor and imaging technologies in correctional and detention institutions must be thoroughly investigated, in relation to the bioeffect harms from such technology usage.
What Is Not Being Explicitly Stated But Implied In This Entire Section?
These sensor technologies are being tested on populations as per the 1994 DOD-DOJ MOU in joint military-police programs, which means they are being used silently and experimentally on people.
All sensor technologies, unless passive, require emission as well as reception of signal. This means that people—unwittingly, without being informed—are being subjected to X-rays, ultrasound radiation, millimeter wave technologies, radar technologies, ULFs, ELFS, and magnetic fields, at short-range and long-range, close-in and remote, ostensibly for weapons-detection testing purposes, in any number and type of environments, including but not limited to airports, train stations, public areas, and private homes. These technologies could be directed at people from inside buildings and homes, from inside cars, pickups, trucks, vans, from mountings in public locations, from parked vehicles in parking-lots and from moving vehicles while driving.
Sensor technologies being tested at short and long range include low frequency magnetic sensors which track biofields, breathing activity, body resonance emfs, and low frequency brainwaves, plausibly using superconducting quantum interference and tunneling technologies, and comprising earthquake-life-detection monitoring or through-wall-surveillance as described in various other public documents, and plausibly also Remote Neural Monitoring or neurosurveillance, of the kind spoken about 28 years ago in the ex-NSA employee John St. Clair Akwei lawsuit against the NSA.
As in the found document Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars, which posits the surreptitious use of socio-economic weapons of degradation to disable and disarm entire populations without their conscious awareness, the surreptitious testing of sensor technologies on populations is essentially the leveling of silent military spectrum weapons technologies on the bodies of citizens, without their knowing.
The surreptitious leveling and usage of silent military spectrum weapons of bodily and brain monitoring, assault, and modification is precisely what thousands of reporting victims of EMF/Neuro DEW crimes worldwide—often labeled and dismissed as Targeted Individuals—are currently reporting, both inside the USA and out. Could it be that the testing of sensor technologies in concealed weapons detection constitutes one aspect of this surreptitious assault on citizens?
Factually speaking, the disclosure in this document along with the disclosure in the 1994 DOD-DOJ MOU that these technologies are being tested is, at minimum, evidence that invisible, spectrum technologies are being operated and tested on the bodies of people, from a distance and from close-by, exactly as thousands of highly credentialled and credible people– often labeled as “Targeted Individuals” and falsely characterized for credibility-disappearance as “Mentally Ill” by mainstream Govt-propaganda-pushing media–are reporting.
4.Geolocation/Navigation/Communications:
Three aspects to location, ID, and tracking technology are being covered in these JPSG programs, as delineated in this section on Geo-Location/Navigation/Communications in the LET Program Report:
4.1 Locating or precision-finding, precision-targeting of specific people, objects, or vehicles—this implicates GPS (Global Positioning Satellite) and other satellite technologies, including handheld satellites, for GPS-tracking of RFID human/object tags, cell phones; as well as human/object RFID/other, Nano/Micro tagging technologies to facilitate GPS-tracking, in other words, Surveillance and Tagging-for-Surveillance technologies.
4.2 Identifying or pinpointing identity of individuals & things—this suggests Identifying Biometric Surveillance & Tagging-for-ID- Surveillance: Facial/Gait/Iris/Fingerprint/Body/DNA/Other Recognition Surveillance; Unique RFID Tagging (Nano/micro biosensors & object tags) & WBANS (Wireless Body Area Networks) for Identification. Again, Surveillance and Tagging-for-Surveillance technologies. Involves Biometric Data Collection.(Law Enforcement has long been involved in this.)
4.3 Monitoring or tracking movement of people and things—this suggests Surveillance & Tagging-for-Surveillance: Audio/Visual Surveillance using microphones and cameras; Cyber Surveillance of computers; Through-Wall Surveillance with RF/ULF/Magnetic sensor technologies; Medical/Health monitoring & continuous detection of RF/other Implants & WBANs using Radar, Wifi; ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance) surveillance using Radar from drones, spy/commercial planes, satellites, ground vehicles; Tagging-for-Surveillance: Unique RF/Spectrum & Nano/Micro tagging (correctional, medical) technologies, CCTL—Continuous Clandestine Tracking and Locating (military, intelligence) technologies; Sensor technologies (as discussed in the previous Concealed Weapons-Detection section). Again, Surveillance and Tagging-for-Surveillance technologies. (USAF, AFRL, USMC are currently conducting Non Lethal Weapons tests and ISR tests using these.)
Notably, “reduction of power consumption” is mentioned as a DARPA interest in tracking technologies; this might account for the increased development of passive or inert nanosensors which can be activated or energized by energy signals sent to them, rather than relying on inbuilt battery packs.
Slide/https://www.powershow.com/view/f0dfc-MTVjN/Nanosensors_powerpoint_ppt_presentation?varnishcache=1
4.4 The two JPSG efforts mentioned here include Tagging, as discussed above, very slightly referenced with this line about tiny wireless sensors, termed “devices,” notably marked “modular” as in implantable WBANs, which do indeed have modules or nodes in a network. These are not just object-tagging devices, they are human-tagging devices.
Military tracking of objects and humans using sensors
The fully-implanted and centrally-monitored human
Sensors at level of cell, molecule, DNA
And this is not a slight JPSG effort at all: Tagging and sensor technologies constitute multi-billion dollar businesses and are intimately linked to all aspects of Geo-Location, Navigation, and Communications, as discussed above. Again, here too, DARPA should be more definitively and minutely questioned about these tagging technologies and how they are being used inside America, on Americans—especially since thousands of Americans, as also people worldwide, are reporting violative, non-consensual RFID micro and nano implants in their bodies.
4.5 The first JPSG effort mentioned here, Soldier 911, is mentioned in DARPA literature as an emergency radio to help find soldiers in crisis.
However from the description in the LET report, it also sounds like a handheld satellite linked in to an emergency response network, functioning as a device to locate, identify, and track “the movement of individuals and vehicles,” which, if an additional feature (undisclosed in DARPA literature) on this device, is only possible through the use of pre-tagging of said individuals and vehicles with sensor and tagging technologies–or the use of SIGINT Remote Neural Monitoring, as described in the John St. Clair Akwei lawsuit vs the NSA in 1992, in the case of humans.
5. Sniper Detection Sniper Detection systems as mentioned here were intended to be of various kinds, including manually-portable, bodily-worn, and vehicle-mounted.
These systems, as stated above in the LET Program report–being explored and tested publicly from 1996 on–involve sensors: acoustic sensors, infra-red sensors, and integrated infrared-acoustic and infrared-laser sensors.
Interestingly, this section appears to be discussing technologies for detection of actual gunshot or sniper fire—not non-lethal fire, not spectrum-weapon-related shots. However the detection technologies themselves are spectrum technologies.
Brief research of these detection technology sensors indicates that acoustic, infra-red, and laser technologies are being developed and used by militaries to determine with pin-point precision the direction and location of fire from a weapon after a first shot. Sensors today are becoming highly sophisticated with universities (working on military grants, partnering with private firms) also involved in developing bio-mimetic systems of detection, using neural network learning and studying how bats and dolphins process sound and vibration.
It is notable that this program of Sniper Detection has been included as a JPSG program in this Limited-Effects Technology report as one of the multi-technology program thrusts of the JPSG.
JPSG, we recall, is the Joint Program Steering Group formed by the 1994 DOD-DOJ MOU employing parties from both Defense and Justice in mutually-relevant matters and projects of security and law enforcement, OOTW and LE, intending to jointly develop and test “advanced technologies” of common interest.
Some Undisclosed Conclusions
1. Could it be therefore that Sniper Detection is related to matters of Mass Shooters, the phenomenon of supposedly crazed “lone gunmen”–plausibly mind-control victims of MK ULTRA RHIC-EDOM (radio hypnosis intra-cerebral electronic dissolution of memory) radio-hypnosis—shooting up people in random settings, as well as the Live Action Drills with Active Shooters run by the Department of Homeland Security?
If so, this offers a connection not merely between the DOD and DOJ but also with the DHS; all three departments are in some way involved in these sniper detection programs.
This also offers a connection to War on Terror programs and funding, since mass shooters are characterized internally as Domestic Terrorists—even if their “Manchurian Candidate” creation is by covert agencies in Defense/Justice/DHS/CIA, undercover of Live Action Drills, for purposes of driving Agenda 21/2030 Gun Control agendas, as is often surmised by many analysts.
2. Further, the JPSG efforts noted here to develop sensors, in its inclusion of biomimetic systems and neuroscience research, now used in sniper detection in the field, may well involve the use of neuroprosthetics, as indicated by the acknowledged use of cochlear implants in medical and neuroscience research over several decades by a Defense contractor, Biomimetic Systems, Inc.
http://www.terasemjournals.org/PCJournal/PC0201/Cauller_g.html
Neuroprosthetics/Center for Innovation in Neuroscience and Technology
3. It is plausible therefore—and a matter for further investigation—that the non-consensual use and implantation of cochlear and other neurological implants—which numerous citizens have come forward to report, over the last three to four decades–for the study of neural networks and auditory processes has accompanied the JPSG efforts in this area of Sniper Detection.
6. Information Technology: While this section is quite opaque, a few conclusions can be drawn:
The JPSG states that it is addressing the needs for instant and secure communications needs in LE and Military by taking advantage of advances in civilian and govt-sponsored IC technologies. This would not however require a separate program to do so, unless undisclosed advances were being acquired.
These advances, hinted at but not specified, could include Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, autonomous systems, cybernetics, cognitive computing, Internet of Things, Internet of Humans, lesser-known Neuro/Bio-communications technologies such as V2K (Voice to Skull) and Synthetic Telepathy, Hive Minds and Brain Nets revealed by whistleblowers like Richard Alan Miller and Robert Duncan (while some brain projects are openly revealed by public-domain DARPA information and known to exist via academic/government focus in US and worldwide), robotics, nanotechnology, the miniaturization of electronics, quantum computing, and other aspects of modern ICT which are left unnamed here. Simulating all 100 billion neural connections of brain on future supercomputers/https://www.kurzweilai.net/new-algorithm-will-allow-for-simulating-neural-connections-of-entire-brain-on-future-exascale-supercomputers
Brainternet-Connecting a Brain to the Internet as an IOT device/Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSdN–axYbA
This possibility—of such undisclosed advanced projects being part of the IT program sketchily noted here–is once more underlined by the opaque disclosure of “innovative exploitation” of existing ICT infrastructure intended in the creation of interagency crisis management systems.
“Communications security technology” in common parlance includes encryption and authentication technologies which today include biometrics and RFID microchips, but is not further specified in this section.
http://mindfreakingtechnologies.blogspot.com/2012/06/biometrics-technology.html
Considering that the rollout of biometrics (iris, fingerprint, face, voice recognition) at airports and borders is being overseen by TSA, a part of DHS, and that DNA is collected by LE at jails and detention centers, it can be safely concluded that any joint program of Defense and Justice in this area would indeed encompass all of these certainly exploitative technologies.
“Sharing information among agencies” points to shared information from different databases collected by different parties, including DNA collection databases managed by LE, and recently exposed for massive privacy violations. Police databases are apparently highly insecure, and corrupt officers have made it a practice to sell databases to private companies for thousands of dollars, a practice revealed by recent news articles, including by Chief Jones on Ramola D Reports.
Information Sharing across Law Enforcement/RAND report/https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR645.html
Law enforcement investigators seek out private DNA databases/Mashable
Police Are Collecting DNA From People Without Telling Them/Futurism
Police use of surveillance technology raises privacy concerns/MintPressNews
Across US, police officers abuse confidential databases/AP
Agencies Behaving Badly: Government Surveillance and Privacy Act Violations/Jurist
Ramola D Reports| Report # 120: Retired Police Chief Daymond Jones on Policing in America Today
To conclude, the opacity of this section on Information Technology appears to hide much. It is entirely possible that non-consensual, clandestine implantation of RFIDs, as part of developments in Military/LE cybernetics, telemetry, biometrics, neuroinformatics in “innovative exploitation” of communications security technologies, is being executed by this JPSG program—as reported by high numbers of Americans. Again, this presents therefore an issue to be examined further with DARPA and the Justice Department.
7. Personnel Armor: This section, like the Sniper Detection section, seems to pertain explicitly to lethal weapons and not non-lethal or spectrum weapons.
However, it notes that lethal weapons threats—bullets from rifles and handguns—affect OOTW and LE operations both.
Protection from rifle bullets via advanced lightweight body armor in the course of OOTW/LE operations of any kind appears to be the focus here; the implication appears to be that such operations could involve rifle threats; it is possible therefore that this pertains, as also the Sniper Detection section, to mass shooters and the weapons (assault weapons, rifles) some have used, as well as to regular LE activities, which do involve lethal exertion of force, warranted or unwarranted, in situations of gun violence.
It’s interesting that this has been designated an area for Defense-Justice collaboration; plenty of Defense contractors exist who research and develop body armor, as any cursory inquiry into the market shows. LE also has a dedicated market producing police gear. For the JPSG to enter this arena suggests a corralling of new Federal funds perhaps, or some kind of development of new technology – countermeasure shielding for spectrum technology? – that is not being fully disclosed here. Note that what is being stated above as aspects of this program are presented as inclusions (“efforts include”), not all-encompassing and exclusive.
8.Biomedical Technology:
This is also a relatively opaque section suggesting telemedicine application in penitentiaries and OOTW rescue operations, which implies audio-video consultation and data transmission of medical detail perhaps but does not expand on the suggestions implicit in the label of “biomedical technology” which could include medical telemetry, meaning implants, body area networks, biosensors, and implanted biomonitors, at nano- and micro-levels, to aid in remote patient monitoring and other telehealth initiatives.
New Atlas article, 2018/https://newatlas.com/profusa-health-monitoring-biosensors/53870/
To reiterate, the incidence of such biomedical implants found to have been non-consensually implanted in what can only be understood to be undisclosed and covert human experimentation and tracking operation projects involving variably, academic, medical, and military/Intelligence personnel has been reported in large numbers by Americans as also people worldwide. It is possible therefore that the opacity of the language in this section obscures the larger truths of such non-consensual implantation being part and parcel of a plethora of telehealth processes and technologies being tested silently on people.
This latter possibility in fact has increasingly been reported by people experiencing invasive radar activation of non-consensual implants within contexts of seemingly being probed in public by a rotating army of stalkers masquerading as community monitors and healthcare workers.
9. Limited Effects Technologies:
Significant, from this brief introduction (further screenshotted below):
As noted earlier, this section, which titles the report and occupies 5 of the 9 pages of this report yet details only one portion of the multi-technology JPSG program.
Further, its detailing is incomplete, as indicated by the language in the opening section.
Crowd control and deterrence devices being studied and developed under this LET program are presented here as innocuous, benign, and needed—as per a nonspecific claim of need. There is no indication however of actual studies to establish they are such, or actually “eyesafe” or “less lethal” as stated.
A significant fact to note is the language referring to “sponsoring” and “funding” programs and projects to develop these limited-effects technologies, which means JPSG is handing out grants and contracts to Defense/LE contractor companies to develop these weapons. This might well be the protocol by which all JPSG programs work, and could explain the AFRL contract with Decision-Sciences Applications, Inc. on NIJ and DARPA grants, mentioned above in the Concealed Weapons Detection section.
This “effort” relates to a physical projectile using wireless, gas, or “conventionally propelled” means intended to electrically shock and stun a human target, as Tasers also do. Hardly a “Limited Effect” weapon, this is a stun gun intended to be used as a shock-defence if a soldier or LE officer is attacked. Note that the intent is still incapacitation, blunt trauma, high impact force–but using an electrical charge, not a high-velocity bullet.
Developed in San Diego, tested on the Marine Corps, probably rolled out and in use now, post 1997. Notice that the photograph is blacked out almost and reveals nothing. DARPA is not going out of its way to provide clear information here.
A look into Jaycor, the company, online, now subsumed into Titan Corporation, a larger Defense contractor engaged in large-scale DEW, satellite, and navigational systems manufacture, reveals their interest in other counter-personnel stun-gun non-lethal weapons and crowd-control devices. Titan Corporation is therefore now manufacturing both large-scale DEWs to take out battleships and smaller-scale non-lethal weapons (being characterized here as “Limited-Effects”) to take out human beings, or fell them for a while–no doubt with damages, as “crowd-control.”
While blinding lasers were banned by the European Parliament in 1995, the use of lasers to dazzle and disorient human targets did not stop, as BOSS, developed by the US Air Force’s Phillips Lab in Albuquerque, New Mexico demonstrates. It is interesting that this surveillance and dazzler system was developed for and presumably funded by the JPSG at an Air Force laboratory.
From Defense Review, 2005/Laser_Battlefield_Optical_Surveillance_System_BOSS
Notably, this system 1) involves the use of infra-red thermal sensors to find targets plus lasers to dazzle targets, 2) can be applied remotely from a considerable distance, and 3) intends both a psychological effect in alerting targeted individuals to being targeted by way of Show-of-Force bright illumination and the physical effect of deleterious uber-brighting or dazzling of the target’s eyes.
Again, not exactly Limited Effects, but labeled as such.
Finally, it is notable that further integration of this “Limited Effect” optical sensor-and-weapon system with acoustic sniper detection systems already developed under JPSG (as indicated above also by the AFRL/Decision-Sciences Applications 1998 Report) was also being explored in 1996, further evidence that sensor and “non-lethal” spectrum technologies were being developed and tested by the JPSG for multiple uses.
Also developed by the US Air Force’s Phillips Lab, the handheld laser dazzler—whether portable in a backpack or camouflaged as a flashlight—demonstrates that non-lethal energy weapons, including lasers, promising limited-effects were being made by the JPSG on a smaller scale, at lesser power, for purposes of portability and ease of use.
Portable Handheld Laser Dazzlers/https://www.tech-lasers.com/dazzlers/portable
Again, as per the 1994 DOD-DOJ MOU, the non-lethal Spectrum/Acoustic sensor-and-weapon technologies being developed by the joint Defense-Justice partnership here were being tested—are being tested, have been tested for the past 25 years—and “demonstrated” on real targets.
The publishing of flash-bang devices designed to fast-bloom-smoke, dazzle, whistle, and other such is the one consistent element that disclosure on non-lethal weapons has maintained. Unwilling to speak openly of radar and sonic devices with silent and invisible physical bio-effects on humans, literature from the Joint Non Lethal Weapons Program has not refrained from pointing openly to these dazzle and vibrate devices, in obvious attempts to misdirect focus away from the far deadlier bio-hacking and neuro-hacking devices of non-lethal sensor technologies and neuroweapons.
This is evidence that infra-sound (below 20 Hz, the threshold of human hearing) weaponry for crowd-control was being researched in 1996 and tested on people, specifically to determine the biological effects of such transmissions, and explore means of incapacitating individuals for crowd-control purposes with infra-sound.
Prior information, available online, shows that infrasound had long been known to produce bio-effects and brain-effects–nausea, disorientation, brain fog–in humans, since Dr. Gavreau’s discoveries and experiments with infrasound in the 1950s, and efforts had already been made to create devices and systems to use infrasound in a weaponized way against humans, as in the published US Patent 3612211, screenshotted below.
A salient point to note is that infrasound weapons (like other emerging weapons technologies) had been reviewed in the 1970s by United Nations conferences on disarmament, and efforts had been made, particularly by the Soviet Union, to halt the development of all such new weapons then seen as weapons of mass destruction. The US and UK were prominent naysayers to this plan in 1978 at the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament, where Hungary presented a paper on infrasound weapons and their effects. Now it appears that not only were such weapons not halted in development between 1978 and 1996, DARPA was arranging in 1996 for further development and testing of these dangerous acoustic weapons, long known to harm human bodies and brains.
The Section Titled Summary
While this document has touched on major program areas of the JPSG, its title and detail elaborate the more obvious flash-bang aspects of the “Limited-Effects Technology” program, while the Summary remains opaque. Notable however is the casual mention of “corrections” being aligned with the main parties involved in these joint programs, as in “military, law enforcement, and corrections” as the primary “user communities” being awarded “new, more effective tools,” with little description or specificity on the nature or kind of tools, and no summation of the high points of this document.
However, some definite conclusions can be reached regarding this entire document, in addition to all noted above at end of sections.
DARPA returned this one 1996 document to a multi-document request on JPSG programs begun 25 years ago, after 25 years.
This is not a fully disclosive document; much is being obscured, summarized, glossed over.
The Limited-Effects Technology program is only one of several JPSG programs mentioned in this document.
All these JPSG programs need to be understood, as stated, as deriving from the 1994 DOD-DOJ MOU which announced the testing and demonstration of “advanced technologies.” That MOU followed on the heels of a classified Non-Lethal Weapons conference in 1993, and several decades of development and study of Non-Lethal technologies and “Psycho-Corrective” Neurotechnologies. (See Background & Context, MOU.)
The need to limit force is reiterated as primary motivator in bringing DOD and DOJ together in a quest to find and use common modalities in wars on drugs and terrorism—a need which points directly to Anti Personnel Non Lethal Weapons—which are EMF Spectrum and Acoustic Weapons.
These JPSG OOTW/LE programs therefore are definitely focused on Non Lethal Weapons, that is, EMF Spectrum and Acoustic Weapons, which, by nature of the physical bio-effects they have on humans’ bodies and brains, are also Bioweapons and Neuroweapons—not mentioned as such in this document, but elsewhere disclosed, as for instance, by Debra Schnelle at the 2019 Blue Ribbon Emerging Biodefense Conference as Neuro Cognitive Weapons, by Dr. James Giordiano as Neuroweapons in numerous lectures, and discussed at length in the declassified US Army document Bio-Effects of Selected Non-Lethal Weapons as Bioweapons and Neuroweapons, with intended damage to the human body and human brain.
The JPSG comprises members from DARPA, US Army, National Institutes of Justice, Bureau of Prisons, and the FBI. Stands to reason that each of these institutions therefore—and their overseers, the Department of Defense and the Justice Department and leaders, the Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and the Attorney-General William Barr–is fully cognizant of the JPSG programs developing and testing sensor-and-weapon technologies on the streets of America described in this report.
Further, each of these institutions is being permitted to participate in all aspects of the RDA (Research, Development, Acquisition) spectrum, meaning it is acknowledged that these non lethal neuro/bio EMF/acoustic technologies can be tested and demonstrated by the Bureau of Prisons (on prisoners), FBI, and NIJ (on watchlisted citizens? on unwitting members of the public at airports, train stations, hospitals, stores, roadways?) just as much as by DARPA and the US Army (on military personnel? On civilians near military bases? on “indefinite detainees”?) and just as much as jointly developed.
Concealed weapons-detection technologies being developed indicate that people—unwittingly, without being informed—are being subjected to X-rays, ultrasound radiation, millimeter wave technologies, radar technologies, ULFs, ELFS, and magnetic fields, at short-range and long-range, close-in and remote, ostensibly for weapons-detection testing purposes, in any number and type of environments, including but not limited to airports, train stations, public areas, and private homes. These technologies could also be directed at people from inside buildings and homes, from cars, pickups, trucks, vans, from mountings in public locations, from parked vehicles in parking-lots and from moving vehicles while driving.
Sensor technologies for weapons-detection being tested at short and long range include low frequency magnetic sensors which plausibly track biofields, breathing activity, body resonance emfs, and low frequency brainwaves, using superconducting quantum interference and tunneling technologies, and comprising through-wall earthquake-life-detection monitoring, remote neural monitoring, and the surveillance and monitoring of brain states and emotion states.
GPS Tracking and identification technologies being tested and developed imply tagging-for-surveillance sensor technologies inclusive of RFID microchips, WBANs, biosensors, and nanosensors, and include monitoring and surveillance technologies such as different kinds of radar being tested and operated under ISR and military/Air Force Non Lethal Weapons Testing programs.
Sensor technologies being developed for sniper detection, based on biomimetic systems, could include the use of cochlear implants and other neuroprosthetics in the study of auditory and neurological processes, as indicated by companies developing such systems.
“Innovative exploitation” of IT communications infrastructure & new technology here could include hive-minding AI projects, nanobots, Brain Nets, quantum computing, and synthetic telepathy, among other undisclosed technologies, involving non-consensual, clandestine implantation of RFIDs and BCI Tech, as well as biometrics/DNA data collection and sharing—as part of developments in Military/LE cybernetics and telemetry, and as reported today by high numbers of Americans.
“Personnel armor” being developed as a JPSG program could include research and development of countermeasure shielding for spectrum and acoustic non-lethal bio/neuroweapons, although not expressly stated here.
Biomedical technology initiatives involving telemedicine and telehealth could include medical telemetry, meaning implants, body area networks, biosensors, and implanted biomonitors, of nano- and micro-levels, to aid in remote patient monitoring and other telehealth initiatives. Non-consensual implantation may well be part and parcel of a plethora of telehealth processes and technologies being tested silently on people, in prisons, as noted, and elsewhere.
Limited-effects technologies being developed and tested under JPSG include electric stun projectiles, dazzling laser devices of both mountable and portable kinds, and other crowd-control devices.
Acoustic devices using infrasound to produce physical effects for use in crowd-control to “incapacitate” was being studied at an Air Force Laboratory—and possibly being field-tested and “demonstrated” on populations to provide the needed “hard evidence” mentioned here.
Factually speaking, the disclosure in this document along with the disclosure in the 1994 DOD-DOJ MOU that these technologies are being tested is, at minimum, incontrovertible evidence that invisible, spectrum technologies are being operated and tested on the bodies of people, from a distance and from close-by, exactly as thousands of highly credentialled and credible people– often labeled as “Targeted Individuals” and characterized for credibility-disappearance as “mentally ill” by mainstream Govt-propaganda-pushing media –are reporting.
This document’s disclosure therefore—notwithstanding that much of its details have been withheld–is profoundly important in establishing that non-lethal weapons and sensor technologies, specifically EMF Spectrum and Acoustic Bio/Neuro Weapons have been developed, demonstrated and tested on populations under the aegis of joint Defense-Justice JPSG programs, since 1994.
Documentary Evidence since 1994 of Covert High-Tech Electronic-Weapon and Neurotechnology Use in Targeted Surveillance, Experimentation, Operations by US Government on Americans: (1) The DOD/DOJ Memorandum of Understanding on OOTW/LE, 1994
Public Disclosure on Neuro Weapons and Neuro Technologies In Use Today
Extrajudicial Targeting Technologies (Weapons Use/Tests/Abuse); Biometric Surveillance, Non Lethal Weapons, Neuroweapons
False-Claim of Mental Illness in the Microwave, Millimeter Wave, Other “Non Lethal” Weapons Testing on Citizens in USA & Worldwide
Ramola D/No Longer True: The NSA “Isn’t Getting Violent Internally in the US”: Millions Today in US Are Targeted with RF/Scalar/Sonic Weapons, Nano Weapons, Neuro Weapons, Chem/Bio Weapons
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RAE (Report, Analysis, Op-Ed) | Ramola D | Posted December 1, 2019
From Riot Control Tear Gas to Pulsed Microwaves and “Acoustic Psycho-Correction” The irritant chemical weapons of riot control of the 1960s and ’70s—the original non-lethal weapons–have steadily given way to a plethora of non-lethal technologies in the range of electromagnetic, acoustic, scalar, and other exotic neuro/bio technologies steadily released by military weapons research into law enforcement, and currently also into futuristic crime-prevention or Pre-Crime use over the ’80s, ’90s, and beyond.
(The Early History of Non-Lethal Weapons, Neil Davison;
Timeline/EM Weapons Interact with the Nervous System, by Judy Hall)
Public Domain Disclosure on Non Lethal Weapons Has Ramped Up Lately
The Memorandum of Understanding Between Department of Defense and Department of Justice on Military Operations Other Than War and Law Enforcement, 1994
PDF: The Memorandum of Understanding Between Department of Defense and Department of Justice on Military Operations Other Than War and Law Enforcement, 1994
Recent document releases into the public domain include this MOU (linked above) released by the US Department of Justice on FOIA request in February 2018 to Harun Krasna via Muckrock News, signed by Janet Reno and John Deutch on April 20, 1994, when Reno was Attorney-General of the United States and Deutch was Deputy Secretary of Defense.
Some Context to This MOU
This Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was preceded by decades of reported development of non-lethal energy weapons and neuroweapons by different departments of the US Government, including Defense, Justice, Energy, US Army, Navy, Air Force, DARPA, NSA, CIA, and NIJ, as indicated by various conferences held through the ’80s and early ’90s, by white papers from military and intelligence personnel, by declassified documents currently in the public domain as released by DOJ, CIA, NSA, and DOD, inclusive of the CIA’s MK Ultra documents and Project Stargate archives, and by information preserved in the Congressional record.
For instance, information on the growing focus by the Justice Department through the ’80s and ’90s on electromagnetic weapons can be gleaned from government reports on NIJ (National Institute of Justice) conferences on electromagnetic weapons.
Numerous military reports in journals detail the military development of infrasonic, radar, microwave weapons from the ’50s onward; their use in US Law Enforcement seems to have occurred particularly from the ’70s and ’80s upward.
Significant, in the ’80s-’90s lead-up to this MOU, are the following sampling of reports, white papers, and articles:
NIJ Reports
Sherri Sweetman’s NIJ Report on the Attorney-General’s (1986) Conference on Non-Lethal Weapons dated March 1987
NIJ 1993 report, NIJ Initiative on Less-Than-Lethal Weapons
Military Reports & Articles
The Electromagnetic Spectrum in Low-Intensity Conflict by US Navy Captain Paul Tyler, an essay included along with other critical essays in the 1986 Low-Intensity Conflict and Modern Technology edited by US Air Force Lt Col David J. Dean (link opens pdf of this essay).
Controlled Offensive Behavior (USSR) – a DIA Report, 1972
Nonlethality: John B. Alexander, The Pentagon’s Penguin, June 1993, Lobster Magazine
The New Mental Battlefield: “Beam me up, Spock” by US Army Lt. Col. John B. Alexander, Dec 1980, Military Review
1969: Physical Control of the Mind: Toward a Psychocivilized Society by Jose Delgado
1970: Between Two Ages: America’s Role in a Technetronic Era by Zbigniew Brezinski
CIA Reports/Congressional Record
1977: Project MK Ultra, the CIA’s Program in Behavior Modification/Joint Hearings
Summations & Compilations of Reports, Patents, Studies from this time-period:
Mind Control, The Ultimate Brave New World by Dr. Nick Begich
Remote Mind Control Technology by Anna Keeler
Mind Controllers by Armen Victorian
One Notable Classified Conference
The 1993 Los Alamos-sponsored Classified DOJ/DOD Conference on Non Lethal Defense
The singular and secretive Los-Alamos-sponsored Justice/Defense classified conference on Non-Lethal Defense in 1993 at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory no doubt had a direct connection to this Memorandum of Understanding, signed in 1994. The agenda for that conference is posted here.
Please see my earlier discussion on that deliberately-kept-secret conference and its consequences for Americans in these two critically questioning articles here—which include disclosures from multiple researchers, writers, and investigative journalists including Dr. Nick Begich, Dr. John Hall, Dr. Robert Duncan, and Renee Pittman Mitchell:
Lack of Media Coverage, Human Rights Coverage, Public Disclosure & Debate of Non-Lethal & Neurotechnologies Promised by This MOU
Significantly, there have been no public debates, discussions facilitated by Media and human rights or civil liberties groups, disclosure from the Justice Department, nor disclosure from the Defense department on the intended or ongoing use of non-lethal Remote Human Access Weapons and Neurotechnologies on Americans, which this MOU promises.
Instead, there has been an unethical and treasonous official Media and Human Rights cover-up, which has led to the public being misinformed. (This has been discussed extensively at this site, including in Open Season on Targets: Blacklisted Individuals, Extreme Abuse in Targeting, Secretive Lab-Rat Exploitation, & Massive Establishment Cover-Up.)
Highlights of this Memorandum of Understanding
The purpose of this article is to report the content of this MOU—which is not fully transparent–highlight its main points, and offer insight into its intent with an eye to more fully informing the American public on what exactly has transpired here, what exactly this MOU has permitted, who is aware, who is involved, and who needs to be held accountable.
Significant, as stated, in this MOU are the following.
From the Section titled General, A and B:
This was an agreement to permit Defense and Justice to jointly share and develop certain kinds of technology and systems for shared purposes, for Military Operations Other Than War (MOOTW), and for Law Enforcement (LE).
This agreement sought to “conduct a program to enhance” both MOOTW and LE operations. (Was this also the kept-quiet political persecution program to target innocent Americans, activists, journalists–falsely labeled as terrorists–extrajudicially under Watchlist Fraud, and covertly use their bodies and brains for target practice in OOTW?)
This agreement came on the heels of DARPA, NIJ, and FBI deciding to gift Law Enforcement with these certain advanced technologies on the basis of findings of “convergence” they made regarding the applicability of these technologies—still not described–to both military and law enforcement operations.
DARPA, NIJ, FBI also felt these advanced technologies would “enhance the effectiveness” of both military and law enforcement missions.
From the Section titled Concept:
The objective of this joint program was to “develop and exploit” this advanced technology for military operations and law enforcement operations both—and does not refer to this technology as weaponry here, although it clearly is, if being applied militarily or forcibly by military or police. This is weaponry.
This joint program intended to open a “development and application program” contract creation industry where competing technologies, components, and systems—presumably from Defense/Security Service companies–could compete; the implication appears to be the promotion of competition in the development and testing of these advanced technologies, which have still not been described, in this Concept section. This Joint Program was unleashing a mercenary competition between rival tech weaponry companies—Defense/Security Service contractors–to develop, test, and fine-tune these sophisticated advanced anti-personnel technologies inside America, on Americans. (The involvement of Law Enforcement implies anti-personnel technology.)
“Testing and objective evaluation” was legitimized as necessary to ensure “quality of the competition.”
From the Section titled Implementation:
This was a 5-year MOU, which presumably has been extended periodically (to be confirmed).
A Joint Program Steering Group (JPSG) was created, with someone from DARPA chairing it and DOJ appointing a deputy chair, with technical program managers from both Defense and Justice. Significantly, a representative from US Army is designated to be on the JPSG, in addition to reps from DARPA and DOJ.
This Steering Group, chaired by DARPA, would make decisions on technologies of interest (to jointly share and develop presumably), plan, manage development, test, “conduct technology demonstrations and evaluations” – which suggests that military tech, already developed, would be demonstrated for law enforcement use – and make decisions on “transition strategies.”
“Test bed units” or “user organizations” would test the “transitioning products” (meaning the up-til-then secret or classified tech from DARPA, perhaps) and suggesting:
* for LE operations: different police/sheriffs’ departments possibly, or corrections departments—prisons and juvenile detention centers;
* and for MOOTW (which could include information warfare, psychological operations—Psy Ops/MISO, counter-terrorism and counter-drug operations, show-of-force operations et al): military units (such as the Marine Corps, Air Force, Navy, Army) or special operations forces.
The implication appears to be that those groups intending to use this technology would serve as testers of it. There is a connection here to Non Lethal Weapons Testing contracts announced by US Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne in 2006, when he stated weapons would be tested on Americans, which needs to be further explored; these military weapons-testing-contracts continue, and notice of them can be found in the public domain.
The JPSG would move physically to DARPA in the first quarter of 1995 to begin “intensive management of the OOTW/LE program” from DARPA. (Then called ARPA; Note that DARPA is a weapons research and development agency for the Department of Defense, and not part of the Department of Justice. This MOU establishes military management of Justice, Law Enforcement, and FBI programs using these “advanced technologies”.)
Policy guidance would be provided by a Senior Review Group which would include the Deputy Secretary of Defense and the Deputy Attorney-General. This implies that both parties—and it is significant that the DAG is involved, FBI Directors frequently serve first as DAG (witness, Mueller and Comey) —would have full cognizance of these particular advanced technologies to be deployed by Law Enforcement and Military divisions both, and would make decisions to “facilitate technology transition to applications.”
JPSG projects would be of 3 types—transitioning or transferring existing military tech to DOJ (Corrections & Law Enforcement) where DOJ would test these; transitioning ongoing in-development-military-tech in “current programs” to DOJ where DOJ would modify as needed and test these; or jointly developing new tech, where DOD and DOJ would separately modify and apply tech as they needed. From analysis of conference reports from DOJ prior to this MOU as well as materials from DOD, some linked above, it appears that many forms of Biometric Identification, Pre-Crime Monitoring, and Neuro Surveillance technologies might well have fallen within the aegis of these categories. There is a connection here also to C4ISR (C4 (Command, Control, Computers, Communications) Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance) technologies, many being tested now via Non Lethal Weapons Testing contracts, e.g., by the US Air Force Research Laboratory, which needs to be further explored. (Please see my Twitter thread at head of this article, for links.)
From the Section titled Responsibilities:
Defense would identify tech and systems, existing and in-process, to hand over to Justice for testing, modification, and use as above.
DOJ would identify those requisite military technologies and systems in process at DOD found attractive for use by DOJ; interestingly—perhaps for obvious reasons, since it implies DOD has all the technology already that it could choose from to hand over–it appears that DOD is the primary party responsible to identify and select already-extant technology for DOJ use, but DOJ would be made privy to current military technology programs in process. This probably also implies that a lot of this DARPA tech is classified, and DOD would pick from extant tech to hand over to DOJ, leaving DOJ out of the loop there; with regard to in-process tech, DOJ would be permitted disclosure and be allowed to choose.
Yet both departments are required to identify their own requirements and “candidate technologies,” presumably within the constraints above.
Security classifications would be used as per whichever department was acting as the Executive Agent for specific projects.
Specific projects would be described in Annexes.
Important to note is the fact that the Attorney-General would be fully cognizant of this joint program and its essentially military activities, as reported to him or her by the DAG in charge of the senior review group. This is a program of testing advanced military technology on the streets of America by military units and special operations forces, and in America’s prisons and detention centers by sheriffs and police departments and all contractors interfacing with them, that the AG, DAG, and FBI would be fully aware of.
Further Conclusions
Notice of Joe Biden’s Omnibus Counter-Terrorism Act of 1995, which predated the 2001 Patriot Act, and established Military interference in domestic Law Enforcement, created the “Terrorist” label for domestic use, permitted indefinite detention without judicial review, and stripped Due Process from Americans.
This 1994 MOU establishes that the Attorney-General and DOJ and FBI and local Law Enforcement nationally in the USA were fully cognizant and partaking in joint military-justice advanced-tech weapons testing operations on Americans from that time onward and, significantly, during milestone moments in American history, such as the very next year at the time of the Oklahoma Bombing on April 19, 1995 followed by Joe Biden’s Omnibus Counter-Terrorism Act of 1995 (proposed in February 1995, passed in May 1995), then seven years later at the time of the 9/11 event in 2001 and the passing of the Patriot Act in 2001, and one decade later, at the time of the President’s Bioethical Commission hearings in 2011.
Americans testify at the President’s Bioethical Commission, 2011
On that historic occasion, over 300 Americans—out of over 600—registered to give their testimonials of being covertly persecuted with electromagnetic and acoustic neuroweapons “testifying to their ongoing, unwilling enrollment in non-consensual human experimentation with military-grade electromagnetic (EMF) neurotechnology projects in the USA,” with only 40 being allowed to testify, the rest repressively turned away by Amy Gutmann, Chair, and Valerie Bonham, Executive Director, claiming “the Commission was not a “law enforcement, regulatory, or legislative body” (The American Public Informs President Obama’s Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues About Ongoing Non-Consensual Experimentation in the USA Today) PDF of this article here
“Advanced Technologies”: Remote Human Access Non-Lethal Weapons and Neurotechnologies
In the entirety of this opaque MOU, nowhere is it mentioned in so many words what exactly these technologies are. However, from the lead-up news reportage prior to this MOU, the many preceding technology conferences, succeeding documents released on FOIA-request, and succeeding execution of Directed Energy Bio Behavioral Research projects using Non Lethal Weapons contracted publicly by DOD, USAF, USMC, others, it becomes evident that these technologies DOJ and DOD jointly sought to deploy—and are currently deploying–are less-than-lethal weapons, non-lethal weapons, through-wall-surveillance weapons, weapons-detection technologies, behavior-modification technologies, medical monitoring technologies, and—secret of secrets–neuroweapons.
Details on some of these technologies now emerging from other FOIA-released documents will be explored in succeeding articles in this series covering these documents.
Secret Policing Inside the United States of America: “Domestic Adversaries” and Covert Electronic Weapons
Twitter thread on Non Lethal Weapons Testing in the USA and in Europe via NATO: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1114347466667769856.html
Washington’s Blog: The American Public Informs President Obama’s Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues About Ongoing Non-Consensual Human Experimentation in the USA Today PDF of Article
No Waivers of Informed Consent, PERIOD: The Public Reports Ongoing Non-Consensual Experimentation and Demands the Common Rule Protect Citizens, Not Covert Activities
Posted in America, Countering Violent Extremism, covert harassment, covert implants, covert surveillance, crimes against humanity, directed energy, electronic harassment, electronic surveillance, EMF Radiation/Sonic Neuroweapons, emr weapons, Homeland Security, human experimentation, Human Subject Experimentation, neuroweaponry, non-lethal weapons, Waking Up
Tagged 1994 DOD-DOJ MOU, Biometric Surveillance, Harun Krasna, Janet Reno, John Deutch, LE, Los Alamos-sponsored conference, MOOTW, Neuroweapon Experimentation, Non Lethal defense, pre-crime, Ramola D
Worldwide Appeal to Doctors, Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Law Enforcement: Extreme Human Rights Violations with High-Tech Remote Human Access Weapons Ongoing MUST Be Stopped
Posted on November 22, 2019 by Ramola D | 2 comments
Appeal & Checklist | Ramola D | November 22, 2019
With thanks to early reviewers especially biomedical scientist Tracy W for review and contributions to this checklist.
In light of the continuing use, worldwide, of Remote Human Access neuro/bio/chemical/RF/sonic/scalar/nano weapons which are causing untold suffering to millions, both physical and psychological, via unconsented-to Bio-Hacking and Neuro-Hacking, and which essentially constitute Torture, prohibited by all nations of the world, healthcare and law enforcement professionals in particular are called on today to wake up, get informed, and take action to protect, care for, and support the reporting victims of Fusion Center, Intelligence Agency, Military, Security Service, Telecom, Defense contractor, and University/Research Institution crimes of non-consensual human experimentation, harassive Electronic Weaponry persecution, and subjugatory Electronic Surveillance, permitted and being hidden by massive Watchlist Fraud, as described in the Notices, Memos, and articles listed below, as well as disclosed elsewhere widely by other writers in articles, books, and websites online.
This Ten-Step Checklist with preface offers all concerned citizens, human rights advocates and activists, civil rights groups, media, medical professionals and ethical law enforcement officers a document listing the suggested steps hospitals, law enforcement, and doctors should take to honor the reports of genuine victims, to investigate these reports from a human rights and healthcare perspective, and to respond appropriately in the face of Intelligence agency, Fusion Center, Deep State/Military crime and political persecution with high-tech remote human access weapons and life-takedown operations to assist reporting victims and provide basic health care and community care–starting with checking for RFID implants, measuring EMF pulses on their bodies, doing X-rays, MRIs, Scada analyses, and generally honoring their witness and further exploring and assessing it with the help of radiology, medical physics, and other sciences.
High-Tech Remote Access Weapons Being Operated Worldwide Today on Humanity
Extrajudicial Targeting Technologies (Weapons Use/Tests/Abuse) & Biometric Surveillance, Non Lethal Weapons, Neuroweapons
Note: Psychiatry is being used to disappear these crimes, and is the problem here, not the answer. The profound irony of doctors, psychologists, and psychiatrists daring to suggest that reporting victims are “Mentally Ill” and hustling them into Psychiatry Wards & Mental Institutions, forcing them to take brain-damaging drugs, and refusing basic medical healthcare–based on their ignorance of Mil/Intel High-Tech Crimes today, their blind indoctrination by collusive mainstream media, and their own lacking medical education, or by way of their avarice and avid complicity–in essence, re-victimizing already traumatized and terrorized victims who need caring physical healthcare, not mental–must be addressed.
Law Enforcement — despite being fully aware of ongoing National Institute of Justice advanced-technology testing, US Defense and Air Force and NATO microwave/milliwave/other weapons-testing & Directed Energy Bio Behavioral Research, military-academic social engineering and Psychological Operations–is still trained to run community mental health interventions or 5150/302/Baker Act Mental Health Involuntary Holds on anyone complaining of DEW harassment, Neurotechnology harassment, or other harassment from neighbors or satellites and celltowers: this is entrenched perfidy, enabling the crimes of torture of citizens with Remote Human Access weapons and must be stopped.
Ten-Step Checklist for all Doctors, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Law Enforcement PDF
How to Use This Checklist with Preface to Raise Public Awareness:
Print and make copies of the PDF Ten-Step Checklist for handout at your local hospital Emergency Rooms to all ER staff.
Send the Ten-Step Checklist PDF by email to hospital doctors and local law enforcement.
Post the Ten-Step Checklist PDF online at your websites for easy access.
Send your own doctors the Ten-Step Checklist and a link to this Worldwide Appeal.
Select a few hospitals and Universities locally and email or letter-mail or fax this Ten-Step Checklist PDF to specific doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists.
Select a few Universities locally, identify key Human Rights, Psychology, Bioethics, Neuroethics faculty and send this Ten-Step Checklist PDF by email or letter-mail to them.
Send the Ten-Step Checklist PDF to human rights groups, civil liberties groups.
Supporting Notices, Memos, Articles
Public Notices on Patriot Act Crimes and Worldwide Crimes Against Humanity Using Remote Human Access Energy and Neuro/Bio Weapons
World Notice of Crimes Against Humanity Using Energy & Neuro/Bio Weapons
Memoranda to President Trump on Patriot Act Crimes–Massive FISA and Surveillance State Abuses–Leading to Crimes Against Humanity with Remote Human Access Weapons
Once Again, A Memo to President Trump: Massive Surveillance State Abuses | Treason on the Ground, in the USA: Public-Private Partners in Targeted Killing of Americans
Memorandum to President Donald J. Trump on Domestic US Torture Programs Running Under Cover of Surveillance
Key Articles on Mass FISA Abuse and State-Run Domestic Terrorism: Fraudulent Targeting, Watchlisting, Subjugating with Electronic Warfare Neuroweaponry, Blacklisting, Community Policing, Human Trafficking into Barbaric Human Experimentation
How Secret Policing With Deadly “Non-Lethal” EMF/Scalar/Sonic Neuroweaponry Has Been Installed Domestically Inside the US, & Globally
Is the US Department of Justice Secretly Permitting Local Law Enforcement & the Military to Assault American Citizens Using Covert Directed-Energy &;Non-Lethal Weapons?
2015: “Targeted Individuals” are Non-Consensual Subjects in Criminal, Clandestine, Classified & “Top Secret” MKULTRA-Extended Mind & Behavior Control/Torture Experimentation by Joint Military/Intel/Justice/Academic Institutions, as well as Targets of COINTELPRO and Electronic Warfare
Key Articles on the Media Cover-Up (Operation Mockingbird/Information Warfare) of Targeting and Neurotech Crimes
Failure-To-Report-Crime | The Chicago Sun-Times Debacle: Neil Steinberg, Ella Free, David LaPorte, Ph.D, and the Ruthless Tearing-Down of All Reporting Unethical US Mil/Intel/Medical Experiments and Political Persecution Operations with Neuro/Bio/Energy Weapons as Delusional, Paranoid Schizophrenics Enjoying a “Mass Delusion”
Failure-To-Report-Crime & False-Reality-Construct | #Media POPPCon | 60 Minutes/CBS/Sep 1, 2019: “Targeted Americans: Brain trauma suffered by U.S. diplomats abroad could be work of hostile foreign government”
Robert Duncan, Regarding 6/10 NYT Article on Gang-Stalking & Targeted Individuals: “When Weapons Are “Field Tested” They Need To Be Very Secretive”
United States of PsyOps: Call Them Paranoid. Call Them Delusional.
Censorship, Lies, Deception: WIRED Removes Writer’s Comment Exposing DOD/CIA Crimes at Laura Yan’s POPPCon (Psy Op Propaganda Piece) for the Deep State
Fourth of July, 2019: Implications of Targeting Individuals in US and World that Mainstream Media and Alt Media Ignore
Key Articles on Use of Psychiatry in Disappearing Reporting Victims of FISA Fraud, State-Run Domestic Terrorism, Military/Intel/Justice Weapons Testing and Neuro Experimentation
NSA Whistleblower Wrongfully “Baker-Acted” by Florida Sheriff’s Department After Providing Hard Evidence of Covert Electronic Harassment
Disappearing the Testimonials of Today’s Clandestine Human Subjects: How US & Western Psychiatry Function As Political Tool to Muzzle Witnesses
Seth Farber, Ph.D: The Psychiatric Metanarrative, Targeted Individuals, and the Deep State: A Response to The New York Times
Ten-Step Checklist for all Doctors, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Law Enforcement
This checklist should be provided to all doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists, Law Enforcement officers, EMS personnel, nurses, hospital staff, technicians, administrators, all medical staff in Emergency Rooms in hospitals.
In conjunction with this check-list, a badge of Citizens Rescuing Citizens from Surveillance & “National Security” State Abuse should be presented.
This is because Defense, Security, and Intelligence agents flash badges, court-orders, and warnings to doctors and psychiatrists, stating the reporting victim is under a “National Security” protocol and demanding the withholding of all services and help to the reporting victim, also stating that the reporting victim is “mentally unstable” and is under surveillance; all this, while using, abusing, exploiting, and enslaving the reporting victim in terminal, torturous, persecutory and inhumane experimentation involving covert RFID implants, EMF/Neurotech Assault, DEW Testing, DEW Operator Training Psychological Warfare, Blacklisting, Character Assassination, Organized Stalking, Community Persecution and Life and Career Sabotage.
Extreme Human Rights Violations Ongoing Must Be Stopped
Women and men and children are being raped, burned, and mutilated with these EMF/Neuro weapons. Pulsed microwaves are being shot at people’s faces, throats, heads, lungs. Pulsed microwaves are being shot into people’s genitals. Organs are being destroyed, Knees are being destroyed, Heart attacks are being induced. Respiratory infections are being induced. Invasive and degrading sounds, smells, sensations, images, dreams, emotions are being injected into their brains. Additionally, they are being stalked, Psy Opped, and assaulted verbally in public. Then they are named “Mentally Unstable” by Mil/Intel so they can be isolated and guinea-pigged for life.
21st-Century Citizens’ Clean-up of Non-Consensual Weapons Testing/MK Experimentation & Military/Intelligence/Contractor Crime:
In Case of EMF/Neurotech Crime Reports by Reporting Victims of Covert Tracking Implants, Microwave/Directed-Energy-Weapons Assault, Invasive Brain Technology Assault, Anti-Personnel Electromagnetic Technology Assault, Organized Stalking & Harassive Community Surveillance
Call on Radiology: Send reporting victim of EMF/Neurotech Crime to Radiology for thorough and complete scanning to detect the presence of RFID chips or other kinds of emitting/receiving micro/nanotech all over body, particularly in upper arm, brain, spine, teeth/jaw, and cochlear implants in ear. Obtain FCC license markers from FCC RF registration tables for all radio frequencies detected.
Record burns and scars: Examine and record all scars, breaks, scabs, burn marks on victim’s body, and record with detail any narrated incident related to each.
Scan with Spectrum Analyzers, Acoustic and EMF Detectors: Isolate and observe if pulsed or other radiation directed on the reporting victim of EMF/Neurotech Crime can be detected in a ward which is kept as secluded from WiFi and EMF radiation as possible, using Spectrum Analyzers, EMF Detectors, Acoustic Detectors, and other means of radiation detection which radiologists and radio/electrical engineers can advise on.
Document the Report of Assault: Record and document in detail the entire narrative of covert-implant assault and radiation-technology assault the reporting victim offers.
Open 24-Hour Radiation Assault Watch: Put thereporting victim of EMF/Neurotech Crime on a 24-Hour Radiation Assault Watch, recording and reporting all Spectrum Assaults and sonic assaults on this person, using meters and detectors as noted above.
Scan Victim’s Home: Send an EMF Detection team to reporting victim’s home, so they can take scientific readings of incoming pulse radiation or sonic attacks at a variety of different times and locations inside the home over a 72-hour period.
Map the Cell-towers, Antennas, Satellites, Drones Near Home: Map the pattern of cell-towers and antennas surrounding the home. Map the satellites recorded over home and neighborhood. Map the presence and frequency of drones over home and neighborhood.
Call for Diagnostic Testing, Toxicology & Forensics: Use DNA damage kits and Live Blood Cell Analysis to detect radiation damage. Add testing for altered sugar metabolism and detection of internal infections like Dysbiosis, Systemic Candida, Scalp Candida, SIBO, SIFO, etc. Send reporting victim to Toxicology for forensic analysis of nanotechnology lodged or self-assembling in body and brain. Research and establish origins of nanotechnology
Call for Surgery: Send reporting victim to Surgery for theremovalof all detected RFID implants, Bio-MEMs and others which can be removed. Retain all removed implants for the record.
Create a Detox & Support Regimen: Start the reporting victim on a Detox and Support Regimen using powerful natural detoxing and cleansing methods, while also providing a supportive atmosphere for the reporting victim to rest, recover, and rejuvenate post this criminal Mil/Intel/Electronic Enslavement ordeal.
Posted in Activism, Agenda 2030, America, bio-behavioral research, Bio-weapons, classified research, Consciousness, covert harassment, covert surveillance, Creation of Terror, crimes against humanity, electronic harassment, electronic surveillance, emr weapons, human experimentation, Human Subject Experimentation, Humanity, Waking Up
Tagged Coalition for Ethical Psychology, Defense Contractors, Doctors, Fusion Center Crimes, Intelligence, Law Enforcement, military, psychiatrists, psychologists, Remote Access Crimes, Remote Access of Humans, Remote Brain Targeting, remote human access weapons, remote neural monitoring, remote radiation neuroweaponry, Telecom, Ten-Step Checklist, Weapons Testing
Posted on November 5, 2019 by Ramola D | 2 comments
Notice | Ramola D | November 5, 2019
While it is clear that Offices of Legal Counsel at organizations such as the US Department of Health and Human Services, which houses the OHRP, Office of Human Research Protections–an office which appears to function in name only since it brazenly ignores public comment sent in to the SACHRP, Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Research Protection on the importance of Informed Consent in human experimentation, as reported previously here and as evident in their pushing-through in 2016 of a revised Common Rule rife with exemptions for Informed Consent, handed like candy to Intelligence agencies, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Justice, along with other government departments and Universities–who have essentially been thus (self-)permitted, by Deans of Universities, academics in Medicine, Law, and Bioethics, and government departments to freely prey on American bodies and brains without consent–basic humanity, common sense, and awareness of crimes against humanity from a general human rights point of view dictate the following:
That the Remote-Access Bio-Hacking and Neuro-Hacking of humans without their prior Informed Consent (as in fully-consented-to medical health monitoring) is most definitely a Crime Against Humanity.
That everyone who participates in such remote-access-of-humans with Covert or Stealth bio-hacking and neuro-hacking radio frequency/sonic/scalar/implant/neuro/bio/chemical technologies and equipment, on the instruction of another, whether within the context of a secretive or overt Intelligence/Defense/Justice/Fusion Center contract or academic grant as employee, contractor, student or as a volunteer in Community Policing programs involving Electronic Surveillance, all in the false name of Surveillance, Public Safety, and National Security, Public Health, Mental Health, or Medical Bio/Behavioral Research, is knowingly participating in this Crime Against Humanity being enacted without Informed Consent, as a modality of electronic and remote capture, suppression, and subjugation of another, and thereby engaging in Human Trafficking.
The OHRP is particularly responsible since it requires all agencies of the government engaging in research using human subjects, including military divisions with internal Institutional Review Boards to submit a Federal Wide Assurance indicating adherence to ethical principles embodied by a particular set of guidelines such as the Belmont Report, Helsinki Declaration, or Common Rule.
Human Trafficking is Understood Worldwide to be a Crime
President Trump’s Executive Order 13818 on Human Trafficking
UN’s strictures on Trafficking in Persons
UN OHCHR’s Human Rights and Human Trafficking Fact Sheet No. 36
Electronic Enslavement is Akin to Physical Enslavement Which is Understood Worldwide to be a Crime
World Notice of Crimes Against Humanity Using Energy Neuro/Bio Weapons
“Non-Lethal” Weapons Cannot Be Used Indiscriminately & Criminally on Humans
The International Legal Implications of “Non-Lethal” Weapons by David Fidler/Michigan Journal of International Law
Non-Lethal Weapons Police Use to Suppress Protest are Killing People/Huffington Post
“Less-Lethal” Weapons can kill and police misuse them for torture/Amnesty International
Today, as graduate students, neighbors, small business owners, private sector and Security service employees are increasingly drawn into chilling programs of Fusion Center community policing and monitoring as well as unethical medical or bio-behavioral research which include GPS tracking and electronic “anti-personnel” monitoring of people with wireless technologies, it is important to remind people of their base sense of morality, humanity, and integrity and ask everyone to think deeply about their own culpability in Torture, Electronic Enslavement, and Human Trafficking when they assent to participating in the remote-access bio-hacking and neuro-hacking of humans, often their next-door neighbors, customers, colleagues, employees, or family.
This notice was written a couple months ago specifically to inform work colleagues of the crime against humanity they were committing on an American woman non-consensually implanted who is still seeking justice, who reported (to this writer) she was being remotely-accessed at her workspot continuously, with intense pulsing pain signals being sent to various organs including private parts. It is this kind of remote access, for torture and sadism, that many people from all walks of life are reporting today, both in the USA and worldwide, and which needs to be fully outlawed, legislated against, and terminated.
This notice is being published in the hope that Human Rights, Common Decency, and Common Sense will prevail over the insanity of compliance to unlawful physical assault and battery on humans, achieved covertly and remotely—for whatever stated reason. The day will come when such crimes will indeed be prosecuted.
Notice of Crime Against Humanity in Remote Access of Human Beings in PDF Format (easier to print and share as a flyer): Notice of Crime Against Humanity: Remote Wireless Manipulation of Human Beings
PLEASE POST WIDELY, IN EVERY NATION OF THE WORLD, FOR THE PROTECTION OF ALL HUMANITY
NOTICE OF CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY
DO NOT PARTICIPATE IN REMOTE ACCESS OF HUMAN BEINGS
Remotely Vibrating, Pulsing, Burning, Manipulating Human Bodies
USING WIFI, CELL PHONES, BCIs, WBANs, REMOTE EMF/SONIC DEVICES
Without Full Continuously Verifiable Informed Consent is a Crime Against Humanity
& Criminal, Prosecutable Offense as Torture of a Human Being
By international law, every researcher/agent/student/contractor/employee accessing anyone without their Full Informed Consent is a Human Trafficker.
Notice to One is Notice to All
Please be advised that by International Law, Article 7 of the Rome Statute, the Geneva Conventions, and the Nuremberg Treaty,
You are prohibited from remotely manipulating the bodies or brains of any human being without their own vocal, witnessed, verifiable, public, open informed consent in that moment and prior;
You are becoming an accomplice to crime if you participate in such manipulation on someone else’s directive, whoever it is, whether identified to you as a researcher, an investigator, an officer or agent for any agency, military, government, hospital, or your own boss, and for whatever reason;
You are personally responsible even if you perform such actions of wireless, remote manipulation under presumption, belief, or notification from anyone of your subject having “impaired consent capacity,” or of your subject being a “participant in a research project for her/his own good,” or “needing therapy” which you are falsely told you are providing through such bodily manipulation;
You can be publicly named, shamed, and prosecuted by the subject of your manipulations;
You can be held publicly accountable by human rights organizations, courts, and councils for your own individual actions of harm to another.
The covert remote access and manipulation of a human being by means of a wireless, spectrum, sonic, neuro device such as a cell phone app, bar code reader, RFID detector, infra-red emitter, microwave emitter, or scalar wave emitter, whether sold to you as Surveillance or Medical Monitoring, used to pulse, vibrate, send electrical vibrations, shocks, spasms, skin-burn, and other human bio-effects, is, quite explicitly, Torture, and a Crime Against Humanity. Please use your common-sense: no-one wants their private parts or any other body parts vibrated, pulsed, or burned by you—whatever misapprehension of “therapy,” “research,” or “benefit” you may be laboring under. These are crimes, and you can indeed be held personally responsible. Therefore, please DO NOT PARTICIPATE IN REMOTE ACCESS OF HUMAN BEINGS. You can and must say No, to unscrupulous traffickers, which may include Universities & agencies. (Note that every researcher/agent/ student/contractor/employee accessing anyone without their Informed Consent is a Human Trafficker.)
Posted in Activism, Agenda 2030, Agenda 21, America, arms industry, bio-behavioral research, Bio-weapons, biomedical research, cell tower radiation, CIA MKULTRA, Civil Liberties, Clandestine, classified research, COINTELPRO terrorism, Collapse of America, Counter-Intelligence, Countering Violent Extremism, Covert Assaults, Covert Civil War, covert harassment, covert implants, covert surveillance, Created Terror, Creation of Terror, crimes against humanity, electronic harassment, electronic surveillance, EMF Radiation/Sonic Neuroweapons, emr weapons, human experimentation, Human Subject Experimentation, Humanity, Independence, Individual Liberties, Individual Rights, Informed Consent, Waking Up
Tagged Bio-Hacking, Common Rule, Crime Against Humanity, Do Not Participate, informed consent, neuro-hacking, Notice, OHRP, Public Notice, Remote Access Crimes, Remote Access of Humans, SACHRP, Wireless Manipulation of Humans
Karen Rex, Silicon Valley Security Whistleblower: US Army Base in Florida Threatens National Security
Posted on September 17, 2019 by Ramola D | 2 comments
Report | Karen Rex | 9/17/2019
The US Army is known for telling its recruits to be “Army Strong” ironically the Army is strong in violating our National Security. New technologies created by the Pentagon’s Brain, DARPA, have new weapons to use on US citizens on US soil apparently!
Image from https://spectrum.ieee.org/
The Army is currently targeting Americans on the very soil they are ordered to protect.
Karen Rex and Justin Pitts
Former Army Ranger Justin Pitts was attacked by non-lethal weapons by the US Army’s Program Executive Office Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation (PEO STRI). They are located at 12211 Science Drive, Orlando, FL 32826. Justin was a personal friend, we were both what is termed Targeted Individuals. This is a new program run by our government. If you are unlucky enough to be put in this program, your life as you knew it will NEVER be the same.
Electromagnetic Frequency (EMF) and Cyber Operations
The US Army in this case is running what they have labeled Electromagnetic Frequency (EMF) Warfare and Cyber Operations. The Army is using the PEO STRI to run simulations that control a target’s electronics, including his or her actual mind and body. The carrier EMF signals have the ability to send voices to your head that only you hear, termed Microwave Acoustic Hearing. The technology is so advanced that you can have EMF signals sent directly to your brain changing your mood. The technology causes all kinds of life- changing problems for those attacked.
US Army Ranger Justin Pitts
Justin and I met on YouTube. He was a kind, skinny, short southern Army Ranger that was targeted during his last year as a recruiter for the military. While he was still Active-Duty, the Army base in Orlando, FL started targeting him. Justin started hearing voices receiving Synthetic Telepathy. This is not too different to my targeting; however, Justin could not keep weight on his body. He was constantly eating junk food. Justin also had severe EMF attacks where his entire body would shake. His targeting increased when he, through microwave hearing, heard someone blow their nose into a trash can while he was not at work. This gesture is common among military men. He had heard the guys at the recruiting office make that noise before and identified it. This was the first time he realized that someone had tapped into his brain. Justin’s targeting would start to escalate at that time.
We decided to take our information and put it together to figure out a way to help expose the targeting of US citizens. We knew these were crimes against humanity not unlike the Nazi treatment of anyone they deemed unfit. These non-lethal weapons were designed in the last 40 years. Justin and I interviewed on YouTube to get information out about how individuals are targeted.
Cyber Reconnaisance (Karen Rex) and Justin Pitts (Due Hass) Interviewed by Nexx Level
Justin was targeted with gang stalking. He had military helicopters and planes fly over his home in South Carolina. Justin was smart and had the ability to review the Army’s Cyberspace and EMF Operations FM 3-12 Manual that is available online. Justin’s targeting would continue and his hearing one person turned into a classroom of Army soldiers exchanging paperwork and talking. He would be in his home and hear the classroom become animated. He saw cars drive into his neighborhood with Florida license plates at this time. Justin continued to also be targeted throughout his body with electromagnetic-frequency-attacking causing him to shake uncontrollably. No matter how much they attacked Justin, he continued to fight back going up the Army’s chain of command to expose the National Security violations.
Justin Pitts in his own words, September 5, 2018, at his Youtube channel
Targeting Individuals Threatens National Security and Abuses the Security Clearance System
The targeting of the individuals threatens National Security and abuses the security clearance system. The Army is also committing treason, murder, cyber espionage, human trafficking, violating children’s online privacy act (COPPA).
https://fas.org/irp/congress/2015_hr/dod-cyber.pdf
The Congressional hearing dated September 30, 2015 stated that definition of cyber included “emerging technologies, drones, nanotechnology, and a slew of other technologies which the term cyber is inadequate to define.” This is true and is why Targeted Individuals have a hard time trying to explain what is going on with them. Targeted Individuals will be labelled a psychological dysfunction by uneducated citizens. However, these crimes are really happening.
Justin was able to start to file complaints with numerous military and intelligence agencies. He went up the Army’s chain of command and this went nowhere. Then, he was harassed by the military planes in his neighborhood, so Justin filed a report with the Oconee County, South Carolina Sheriff’s Department. This was not enough to stop the program. Justin went to US Army Special Operations and Military Police to file complaints. However, people including military and intelligence agents do not know about technologies torturing US citizens on US soil. This is by the very definition treason, punishable by death.
Justin then was clever enough to start recording phone conversations when he filed complaints. His perpetrators told him where they lived and their names. Justin had one of them come near him. This perpetrator told Justin his name over the Acoustic Microwave Hearing from the base in Florida. The man’s name is Joshua Pierce, Sergeant 1st Class, Non-Commission Officer. This perpetrator had a complaint filed by Justin to the FBI.
Justin contacted the NSA and filed a report with them since the Army was violating National Security with the Cyber and Electromagnetic Warfare tools at their disposal. Next, he contacted an UN journalist and NATO’s biomedical military command.
Justin talked with Presidential correspondents, however, he could never get his computer secure enough to send the information to the White House. Finally, when all these attempts to stop the targeting did not succeed, he went to Washington, DC. Justin tried to have Congress listen as well as the Pentagon. Unfortunately, this technology is so powerful that people at all levels are mind controlled with electromagnetic frequencies. Functional MRIs are also used to read and change people’s thoughts and minds.
Image from https://derinstrateji.wordpress.com/
Our world is no longer a free will society. We can be mind controlled without our knowledge at anytime. That is how truly powerful these weapons are becoming. All of Justin’s complaints fell on deaf ears, and he started to become very depressed. I did not see Justin at that time. If he was feeling that way it was probably an inserted frequency and not actual depression.
In December 2018 around Christmas, Justin supposedly took his own life; I do not believe that to be true. I cannot believe it when the soldiers at the US Army Base in Orlando, FL have the power to insert frequencies to make you feel how they wish. It is extremely unfortunate that I lost my friend, but he has left us the ability to stop the PEO STRI. This base is threatening our National Security by causing a substantial and specific danger to public health and safety. This is one of thousands of crimes they commit hiding behind a security clearance that needs revocation. We can together stop this base from taking all Americans’ free will. The 5G network will only enhance the crimes they are already commit daily. The PEO STRI is abusing their authority, causing gross mismanagement of military assets and wasting taxpayer funds.
Image from FM 3-12 Cyberspace and Electronic Warfare Operations
Mainly, I am bothered by the children that they can essentially mind control to do whatever they wish. This is a sick form of pedophilia, and these soldiers are criminals. The amount of people under the treasonous Cyber and Electromagnetic Warfare will continue to increase. Thus, more citizens will become human experiment test subjects without consent.
Neuroweapons kill US Veterans at a staggering amount daily. These programs are murdering good people as they come back from war. We must join together and support Targeted Individuals notifying Congressional Representatives. We can also fight back by filing FOIA Requests for the US Army’s PEO STRI program, alerting Inspector General offices, and Civil Liberties offices everywhere.
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We must not turn a blind eye to our enslavement. No matter who is in political office or where you are, you will not have free will to go and choose what you want in life. Our children deserve their innocence and freedom. America’s children deserve protection even if you choose to be complacent, what about the children of our nation and the entire world? Please, if you do not understand the technologies, try to, for our nation is at stake in a major way.
We must always remember what Thomas Jefferson stated, “Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant and not our master!”
Karen Rex describes herself as a Targeted Individual and former Security Operations Manager and contractor with Lockheed Martin. An Accountant & Business Information Associate with degrees from De Anza College in Silicon Valley, Karen has 15 years’ experience as Construction Financial Controller and Software Migration Engineer in the Bay Area. A whistle-blower of Cyber Espionage in 2015, she is currently a Whistle-blower of the Targeted Individual Program being run by the US Army.
New Security Operations Lockheed Whistleblower Reveals National Security Violations, Treason, and Public Safety Endangerment via Electronic Weapons Simulation & Experimentation Programs from Orlando US Army Base
Newsbreak 38: NSA Whistleblower Karen Stewart Recommends Informing Judge Trenga Further on the Unconstitutionality of the Terrorist Watchlist/
Many thanks to Karen Rex for her article and information on unlawful targeting operations and disclosure as related to Remote Neural Monitoring Terrorism activities from an US Army base, as reported by late US Army Ranger Justin Pitts, and the broad framework of Cyberwarfare and Electronic Warfare operations within which they are putatively conducted. Many thanks also to Justin Pitts for his many commendable efforts to report these crimes to both government agencies and the public–Rest in Power, Justin. Many thanks to Nexx Level for conducting that video interview with Karen and Justin at an important time. This article will be followed up soon with further discussion and analysis, including focus on related targeting technologies reported by those targeted as well as by government and military whistleblowers.
–Ramola D
Posted in Civil Liberties, Clandestine, classified research, Covert Assaults, covert harassment, electronic harassment, electronic surveillance, EMF Radiation/Sonic Neuroweapons, emr weapons, Human Subject Experimentation, Waking Up, whistleblowing
Tagged Cyberwarfare, Electronic Warfare, Florida, Justin Pitts, Karen Rex, Orlando, remote neural monitoring terrorism, Silicon Valley whistleblower, Targeted Individuals, US Army base
—Ramola D/Posted 9/16/2019
A former Security Operations manager and Lockheed contractor has stepped forward to whistleblow on national security violations, treason against American citizens, and hazards to public safety engendered by abusive Electronic Warfare weaponry use on targeted Americans by a US Army operation named Program Executive Office Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation (PEO)(STRI) operating out of an Army base in Orlando, Florida.
PROGRAM EXECUTIVE OFFICE SIMULATION, TRAINING AND INSTRUMENTATION | http://www.ndia-cfl.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/NDIA-Briefing-No-Notes_23-May.pdf
Working currently on sending FOIA requests and letters of information to various offices such as the OIG and ODNI as well as civil liberties organizations, Cyber Reconnaisance (Karen) wrote recently to the Pentagon Security Clearance Review team, requesting that the military base be reviewed for violations of security clearance and national security (letter below).
“ They are committing treason, human trafficking, murder, cyber espionage, and violating children’s online privacy act (COPPA). The other violations are abuse of authority, gross mismanagement, gross waste of funds, and putting national security at risk.
These soldiers are targeting US citizens including children on US soil. These crimes use electronic warfare, electronic harassment, EMF non-lethal weapons, and microwave acoustic weapons to target US citizens on US soil.”
The base itself had been identified by late US Army Ranger Justin Pitts, a friend of Karen’s who had reported that he was told as much by soldiers who worked there.
“The soldiers there have been located by violating their security clearance and alerting citizens they are using for experimentation who they are and where they are.”
Justin Pitts had made efforts to report violations of security clearance and abusive experimentation on Americans, going up the chain of command as per his Army training.
“Justin made a complaint to the US Army Special Operations, Military Police, Oconee County South Carolina Sheriffs Department, FBI, Pentagon, NSA, NATO, UN, and presidential correspondence. He warned all appropriate parties going up the correct chain of command for the US Army and the intelligence agencies.”
His death one month later, in December 2018, was reported as a suicide, but those today being targeted with radio frequency weapons know that neural and emotion manipulation can be achieved with this neuroweaponry and may have been responsible, as Karen surmises. (More needs to be investigated here.)
Aware that national security is being violated and public safety endangered by the use of these weapons and trafficking operations on citizens and their children, Karen is seeking to expose these crimes, and alerting military and Intelligence authorities of the great harm to Americans.
Illicit Military Experimentation and Weapons-Tests Targets Individuals
One more piece in the puzzle regarding illicit, non-consensual human experimentation and weapons-testing by Military/Intelligence divisions and agencies with the stealth weapons of Electronic Warfare, which was recently highlighted in this second Memorandum to President Trump by this writer, and endorsed by NSA whistleblower Karen Stewart, this story will be further investigated at Ramola D Reports shortly.
US military and federal security clearance reviews were shifted to the Department of Defense last year from the Office of Personnel Management apparently after Edward Snowden and Chelsea/Bradley Manning’s disclosures of classified documents prompted interest in periodic criminal and financial background checks of cleared personnel and backlogs of 700, 000 applications were noticed, according to the Associated Press.
Karen’s letter to the Pentagon is below. Many thanks to Cyber Reconnaisance (Karen) for disclosing this matter and stepping forward to whistleblow on these crimes against humanity and Americans.
Dear Security Clearance Review Team,
I am a former Security operations manager that worked with Lockheed Martin in Sunnyvale, CA. It has come to my attention that the US Army base located at 12211 Science Drive, Orlando, FL 32826 is abusing the security clearance system and violating national security. My friend and US Army Ranger, Justin Pitts, was murdered in Newry, SC by the soldiers that told them they worked in Orlando, FL in December of 2018. This base operation named Program Executive Office Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation (PEO) (STRI) is a substantial and specific danger to public health and safety.
The soldiers there have been located by violating their security clearance and alerting citizens they are using for experimentation who they are and where they are. I am requesting that this base have it’s current programs reviewed for security clearance and national security violations. They are committing treason, human trafficking, murder, cyber espionage, and violating children’s online privacy act (COPPA). The other violations are abuse of authority, gross mismanagement, gross waste of funds, and putting national security at risk.
These soldiers are targeting US citizens including children on US soil. These crimes use electronic warfare, electronic harassment, EMF non-lethal weapons, and microwave acoustic weapons to target US citizens on US soil. If we do not expose this immediately my fear is that more US citizens will be exposed and possibly used as human experiment test subjects against their will. Please, investigate these programs and help stop them from committing violations against our National Security and abuse to security clearance system.
National security is at stake if no one exposes these new cyber, neurological, and microwave acoustic non-lethal weapons that are currently being used on US soil. Justin made a complaint to the US Army Special Operations, Military Police, Oconee County South Carolina Sheriffs Department, FBI, Pentagon, NSA, NATO, UN, and presidential correspondence. He warned all appropriate parties going up the correct chain of command for the US Army and the intelligence agencies. Please, review all documentation regarding Justin’s complaints against this base and its soldiers.
I worked in Silicon Valley and ruined my career trying to expose these crimes. I would be happy to give you any other additional information you need to help you in your investigation. I have video, audio, and other documentation. I have sent a FOIA request on the US Army base and the PEO STRI.
I fear that the request will not reach the US Army FOIA office in Ft. Belvior, VA due to my computer web security being totally compromised.
I would like to help in anyway possible due to the fact that Justin is dead. I am making FOIA requests, and notifying the Inspector Generals and civil liberties offices trying to expose these crimes myself.
Your time and attention is greatly needed to address the national security violations and abuse to the security clearance system.
Cyber Reconnaissance (Karen)
Posted in electronic harassment, electronic surveillance, EMF Radiation/Sonic Neuroweapons, emr weapons, human experimentation, Human Subject Experimentation, Waking Up, whistleblowing
Tagged Cyber Reconnaissance, Electronic Warfare, electronic weapons, Experimentation, Instrumentation, Involuntary Human Experimentation, Justin Pitts, Karen, National Security, Orlando military base, Program Executive Office, Public Safety Endangerment, Security Operations and Lockheed whistleblower, Simulation, Targeted Individuals, Training, treason, US Army
Suzie Dawson and #Unity4J: Legitimate Questions, Unrevealed Allegiances, and the Public Media Ignoring of Deadly EMF/Neuro DEW Targeting
Posted on December 27, 2018 by Ramola D | 7 comments
–Ramola D/Posted 12/27/2018
A few days ago, a young emerging writer, activist and friend, Cassandra alerted me on Twitter that Suzie Dawson of #Unity4J fame and “Being Julian Assange” fame, Occupy, Internet Party, #ContraSpin and #DecipherYou fame, and other journalistic work of renown, whom I have interviewed (in a 3-hour long interview where I was charmed and impressed by her warmth and brilliance and undoubtedly essential work in digging through some of Snowden’s documents as exposed by The Intercept and unearthing nuggets of importance regarding the NSA, the Five Eyes huddling of fascist global uber-surveillance, and other Intel agency shenanigans the world over), had blocked her on Twitter. She sent me the tweet that had got her blocked, which she’d responded to in a thread, where she had posted some of my article-links as well, and noted to me that she had no idea why she had been blocked for this tweet and this tweet thread.
Well, a brief glance yielded nothing to me in the way of clarity or speculation either as to why this particular tweet or tweet thread had been blocked.
So I resolved to address this in my own tweets later that day when I had a chance, and did so that night, posting my thoughts in a tweet as I retweeted Cassandra’s tweet thread.
This is the tweet by Suzie Dawson to which Cassandra responded to, after which she was blocked.
This is the full tweet by Cassandra in response to Suzie Dawson’s tweet which she reports got her blocked by Suzie Dawson:
Cassandra’s tweet thread reporting the blocking:
#DisclosureOnTargeting Just got blocked by @Suzi3D for tweeting about #DEWs/#neuroweaponry torture on knowingly innocent people that these alt media journalists won't cover yet Suzie talks about her own targeting which does not include #electronictorture. pic.twitter.com/BQIr3lWSuJ
— Rupture Corruption #DisclosureOnTargeting (@NHScorrupt) December 20, 2018
(I screenshot the rest of the tweets in Cassandra’s tweet-thread reporting Suzie Dawson’s blocking below).
Cassandra’s tweet-thread with links to articles can be read here: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1075607040263905281.html
My first response on Twitter to the blocking of Cassandra by Suzie Dawson on Twitter:
Interestingly, Suzie Dawson responded, and what followed was a conversation on Twitter that appeared to me increasingly misframed and misdirected by Suzie Dawson, which I sought to correct, to no avail, as a series of censuring and increasingly repressive tweets were sent my way.
Suzie Dawson responded to my tweet above as below. My response to her follows. I will replay the conversation below in screenshots, pardon occasional repetition.
This nasty crack from a #Unity4J journo who along with others has spent quite some time in articles and tweets rebutting and countering smear campaigns on Julian Assange lately from mainstream journos and publications like Barrett Brown and The Guardian seems amazingly shortsighted and thoughtless to me, particularly since the recent podcasts Suzie Dawson references here were made to counter false allegations and accusations, severely defaming and slanderous, made by a former colleague who bears all the marks of being an infiltrator, impostor, and counterintelligence operative–quite possibly from an overarching ZioNazi or GCHQ JTRIG faction infiltrating activist groups to mow down legitimate activism, advocacy, and journalism on the vital subject of uber-targeting and extreme persecution of targets with EMF/Neuro DEWs.
Suzie Dawson blocked me shortly after that tweet above. The next morning I noticed a tweet in response to this last one from @BBFromPA, whom I don’t know and have never communicated with. I responded however to her chastising and misframing and deliberately obtuse tweet–which, like Suzie Dawson’s tweets, persisted in distorting what I had said on this thread from the very beginning.
Just for the record, my support of #Unity4J and Julian Assange, whose work with Wikileaks I have, like many other writers, activists, and journalists found invaluable in helping inform the world what secretive governments and militaries are really doing, has never been in question. I too had been dazzled at the promise of the #Unity4J interviews and vigils and covered some of the opening interviews, here, praising the work Suzie Dawson and #Unity4J were doing: https://steemit.com/unity4j/@ramolad/unity4j-normalized-captivity-of-leading-whistleblower-journalist-who-s-helped-expand-humanity-s-consciousness
I have discussed the human rights ramifications of a journalist held in virtual captivity and curbed from open Internet communication while his work in releasing important information and videos has helped raise the consciousness of humanity with documentary filmmaker and Decency founder and activist Jeff Godwin:
While praising the work of #Unity4J in bringing together the valuable voices of journalists, whistleblowers, and political commentators in supporting Julian Assange, I have also discussed the need for the US Government to back down from its stance of wishing to indict and prosecute Assange and possibly step forward to have him assist as a National Security witness, an idea put forward by NSA whistleblower Karen Melton-Stewart:
I re-published Jude Fleming’s letter to the Australian High Commission: Jude Fleming: Letter to the Australian High Commission, Ottawa/Free Assange
Three years ago, in October 2015, in keeping with the ethos of my site, The Everyday Concerned Citizen, which started off as a solutions journalism and petitions-posting site (and has since morphed into an investigative journalism media site and blog) I started a petition for Julian Assange to receive medical care: https://www.change.org/p/david-cameron-mp-tell-the-uk-govt-they-must-permit-julian-assange-a-hospital-visit-for-mri-treatment
I posted notice of this petition on my site and asked people to sign and speak out: Julian Assange, WikiLeaks Being Denied Medical Care/Please Speak Out
Here I wrote: “Please speak out and ask the Prime Minister of Britain to step up and act humanely and responsibly in this situation and immediately make arrangements to permit Julian Assange to visit a hospital for the medical diagnosis and treatment he needs. To all intents and purposes, he is being held as a political prisoner in the UK, and the UK would be contravening the Geneva Convention and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and every national and international coda of human rights by denying basic medical care to a prisoner.
In his unwavering pursuit of truth, as Julian Assange and WikiLeaks have exposed hidden information on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, active deception as revealed in US diplomatic cables, and continue to expose information vital to all peoples of the world, including the text of the most-secret TPP document, he has brought us to a more awakened world where more of us are focused on pursuing and supporting truth, transparency, and justice. Please speak out for someone who has unstintingly spoken out for all of us. Julian Assange needs medical care today, and he needs our advocacy. Please sign to make your voice heard.”
After learning the next morning that Suzie Dawson had blocked me, I posted a few more tweets on the subject:
Thread I posted on RNM Mind-Reading, Game-Playing, and Restriction online, which includes tweets on #Unity4J and Suzie Dawson:
#DisclosureOnTargeting #ForTheRecord Directly after a THOUGHT I recently had that my articles on @Steemit were not being read, even though it is a site for journos, as I pondered writing abt the @Suzi3d fallout, this comment appeared on a page on my creativity website, not ECC: pic.twitter.com/aSXj8SaLOM
— Ramola D (@EccEveryday) December 22, 2018
#DisclosureOnTargeting It is precisely this incredible abuse of power, massive evidence of #SurveillanceAbuse and free-fall suppression of Americans' human rights and civil rights which #Unity4J journos–as protected by @Suzi3D in her recent tweets to me–refuse to cover. #qanon https://t.co/cgrCGximZ9
#DisclosureOnTargeting I will not forget & will keep publicizing the incredibly obtuse behavior being meted out to reporting victims of #SurveillanceAbuse by journos of all stripes, who refuse to cover, but misframe & misdirect when questioned as @Suzi3D of #Unity4J recently has. https://t.co/MiavXV2QYc
Unrelenting, world-informing activist, Cassandra, whose page on Twitter features Julian Assange, and the hashtags #ReConnectJulian and #TargetedLikeJulianAndWorse has worked diligently online to support Julian Assange, Wikileaks, and myself–a fiction-writer, poet, activist, mother, children’s and adults’ creativity workshop-leader, college creative writing and English faculty up to 2011 targeted extremely since 2013–as I have battled debilitating and ruthless targeting with inhumane stealth Electronic Warfare weapons, character assassination, employment sabotage, blacklisting, and social ostracism in my community for five years while pounding articles out, or posting and publishing others’ work , week after week, month after month, year after year, since late 2013–and lately, tweets as well, and podcasts and interviews since March 2017. Articles and podcasts ignored alike–I mean with no public acknowledgement, recognition, or address–by mainstream media and altstream media, including #Unity4J journos such as Suzie Dawson, Elizabeth Lea Vos, Cassandra Fairbanks, and Caitlyn Johnstone–despite my own support of them, openly in articles, tweets, and podcasts. Also ignored by so-called “adversarial journalists” as Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, and the entire Intercept operation–whose moderated community boards have been egregiously adversarial to “Targeted Individuals” including a targeted Time & Atlanta Journal journalist who reports cavalier responses there from Greenwald’s lawyer Mona Holland who has not merely been scathingly rude to being-physically-irradiated-and-neuro-tortured-TIs but who has set up a False-Reality-Construct page on Wikipedia or Rational Wiki abusively decrying, mocking, and ridiculing those reporting targeting–as delusional and paranoid– including myself, by name–a rare recognition indeed of Ramola D, but one made primarily for public denigration. Also ignored by Wikileaks, Julian Assange, and Ed Snowden. Also ignored by whistleblowers such as Ray McGovern, Kevin Shipp, John Kiriakou, Thomas Drake, and Bill Binney, whom I have contacted, informed, and made interview requests to. The Bury Ramola D at Any Cost Brigade has been in action for a very long time.
On this subject, and in stark contrast to the above-named, I will name three outstanding Government whistleblowers–also targeted extremely and being persecuted by the US Government, as I am, too (heart-hit with ultrasonics as I write, on Christmas Day, 2018, in Quincy, Massachusetts), and as Cassandra is, too–who have stood by me, supported me, recognized my work, validated me, done interviews with me, stood right beside me as we have each worked in our own intensive ways to inform the world of the horrors of ongoing EMF/Neuro DEW targeting, and given me the honor and privilege of their friendship and counsel: NSA whistleblower Karen Melton-Stewart, CIA whistleblower Barbara Hartwell, and FBI whistleblower Geral Sosbee.
It is also illegal and CRIMINAL to use WEAPONS on Americans — without due process, without Informed Consent, and in removal of ALL human rights and civil rights. Be on Notice: @TheJusticeDept @DeptofDefense . I stand with NSA Whistleblower Karen Stewart: https://t.co/Ptw4fw3AKY
— Ramola D (@EccEveryday) October 25, 2018
#MustRead! NSA Whistleblower Karen Melton-Stewart Informs the World about Targeting crimes. #SurveillanceAbuse American Zersetzung https://t.co/xEo4X5efLj via @activistpost Thx to @karen_kams56
FBI Whistleblower Geral Sosbee gives voice to the thousands of targeted Americans who are hounded by "an abusive legal process" and harassive entrapment set up by corrupt Intel agencies and corrupt Law Enforcement. what would you do if? https://t.co/1uV8VnqNPm #RevealTheirCrimes
— Ramola D (@EccEveryday) September 23, 2018
FBI Whistleblower Geral Sosbee lays bare for all to see the Wrongfulness of ignoring FBI/Fusion Center #SurveillanceAbuse promoted by Mindwash Media which simply Refuses to Report. https://t.co/Ph8pLFT3Ic
We have descended into Communist Oligarchy, with selective taking out of intellectuals, activists, whistleblowers, people of integrity. True heroes like @GeralSosbee @karen_kams56 @Kevin_Shipp Barbara Hartwell & others have been sounding the alarm. @NewsBud_ @MintPressNews @icc
Silence is no longer an option. Cowardice is no longer an option. Keeping to UNCONSCIONABLE Gladio B/NSL Gagging of Conscience & Voice is American Suicide. Any media of integrity left needs to speak out for humanity or risk Complete American Anihilation. https://t.co/sNLKL9FYyN
#MustRead Fascinating expose & focus on the Mass Mind Control, Trauma, and Satanic Ritual Sacrifice of 9/11-as a terrible, treasonous false flag event run by criminal Satanists & "Bonesmen" for power over Americans- by CIA whistleblower Barbara Hartwell https://t.co/Tj7UcyFyaV pic.twitter.com/fTYpSYjpUY
NSA Whistleblower Karen Stewart has had personal experience with corrupt managers at NSA who sic'd Naval Security "Silent Warriors" & others using Stealth Military Counter-Personnel Radar/Sonic weapons on her: https://t.co/nI5Nh3s6qs
On #AntiSlaveryDay2018 in UK https://t.co/pteJakvYTC I thank all whistleblowers, writers, journalists, activists, and reporting victims of ELECTRONIC SLAVERY, NEURO SLAVERY, AND DEW SLAVERY being run today by unethical & inhumane sadists in Fusion Centers, govts, Fed agencies. https://t.co/yyEBsF9p7i
Grateful for Outstanding #CIA Whistleblower Barbara Hartwell whose candid disclosures & letters of support on wrongful Neuro/DEW use in extreme retaliation against people of integrity, activists, writers continue to rock the world https://t.co/ce4fqO4QXR #NationalWhistleblowerDay
— Ramola D (@EccEveryday) July 30, 2018
Grateful for exceptional, outspoken #FBI whistleblower Geral Sosbee, whose true disclosures of FBI/CIA criminality incl. use of Neuro/DEWs on people pave the way forward for a new century of Truth, Dismantling Corrupt Orgs, Change https://t.co/EpInkp8aCG #NationalWhistleblowerDay
Grateful for THE Most Imp. #NSA Whistleblower of this Neuro DEW Century: Karen Melton-Stewart @karen_kams56, unafraid to speak out about the horrors of undisclosed use of Anti-Personnel EMF/Neuro DEWs in extralegal use & testing on people worldwide TODAY #NationalWhistleblowerDay https://t.co/Ts3N95miGA
I will write more on all these matters at a later date, and return here to the point I am trying to make that as a supremely-targeted and extremely-attacked writer turned journalist, I have yet supported the freedom of the Press, Wikileaks, Julian Assange, and the #Unity4J efforts in a spirit of open-heartedness and intellectual allegiance, and so has Cassandra, as any cursory glance at her extraordinary online activism–singular in its insightful and incisive perception, acuity, and analysis–will readily demonstrate.
I had not known until recently what an extraordinary job Cassandra has done in helping broadcast my articles and podcasts online–while “journalists” working as journalists in new or old media online ignore with studied fervor anything associated with my name–in nominating me for a Project Censorship award, and in rallying others online to notice the vital subject and content of my reporting. I thank Cassandra hugely for this unswerving and selfless raising of public awareness on her part and especially for her kind and continued championing of my work, my name, and the notice of my own travails as a targeted, persecuted, and being-tortured American journalist and writer–ignored also by PEN American, I should add, of which writers’ organization “supporting persecuted writers” I am a member, and whom I have notified several times, to no avail whatsoever. I especially thank Cassandra, knowing after interviewing her and speaking with her, what she too, a young EFL teacher with degrees in Modern Languages and Linguistics, is being put through and has experienced, in the UK: extreme targeting with anti-personnel DEWs as well as neuroweaponry, orchestrated police set-ups, social isolation, and employment blacklisting. It is a testament to her personal sense of humanity, open-heartedness toward others, will, resolve, and intellectual fortitude and courage that she continues to speak for those who are targeted and voiceless, and those like me who are targeted and ignored, even as I strive to speak out myself and help raise to public recognition the voices of others targeted, used, abused, and exploited by a mercenary military and industrial and Intelligence complex keen to full-spectrum-subjugate humanity at the neuro/bio level of brain, nervous system, muscle, organ, cell, and DNA.
There is a much deeper story, I suspect, to the blocking of Cassandra’s tweets by Suzie Dawson–as also to the blatant and oddly obtuse misframing and acerbic responses she sent my way–and I will discuss this further below. But first I want to thank and honor Cassandra for her extensive and diligent activism and raising of public awareness about Electronic Warfare and Neurowarfare weaponry targeting–with all the Social and Psychological Psy Ops and Police State Persecutions that go with it–and particularly for her singular recognition and insistent publicizing of my otherwise-disappeared-by-most-so-called-journos work.
I am not new to online censorship. I have experienced this distinctive repression for five years now, since 2013, as I have sought to openly discuss and publish online the current-day horrors of post-9/11 and post-Patriot Act out-of-control-fascist-surveillance, where absolutely innocent people in America and worldwide, including myself, are being hit, egregiously and outrageously, and supremely invasively, with deadly and barbaric and Physical Torture-administering Electromagnetic/Sonic/Scalar Neuroweapons, coyly hidden by the US Department of Justice as “Anti-Personnel Non-Lethal Weapons” and undisclosed “Surveillance Devices” and “Crowd-Control Devices,” while the FBI rolls their targets-of-private-sector-vengeance (activists, whistleblowers, indy journalists, people of integrity exposing local corruption or smart moms like me with a history of anti-war and human rights and animal rights activism who speak out to School Board syndicated-criminals are their especial favorite) into “Countering Violent Extremism” and FISA-Warrant-Needed-Suspected-Terrorist and Federal-Magistrate-Judge-Ordered-”Endless Fake Investigations” programs, and the CIA/NSA Black Ops Conglomerate rolls in to poach off these innocents now wrongfully blacklisted and watchlisted and feed them like shrimp into their decades-long Neuro-Monitoring, Neuro-Surveillance, Neuro-Hacking, Neuro-Modification, AI and BCI-CBI, EEG Heterodyning, EEG Cloning, Bio-Robotizing, Zombie-Making, Mass-Shooter-Hypno-Patsy-Creating, Manchurian-Milling, Cybernetic-Hive-Minding, Neuro-Retardation, Neuro-Takeover, Neuro-Colonizing, Neuro-Cannibalizing, MK ULTRA-extended Neuro-Appropriation programs, all in the interests of Supercomputing, Singularities, Transhumanism, Supersoldiering, and Full Spectrum Dominance of All Humans on Planet Earth—and let’s toss in all Insects, Animals, and Reptiles, Plants, and Trees there too, anything with a Nervous System, Brain, or EMF field, really—and the US Navy and the US Air Force and the US Army, NRO, NGA, NASA, DOE, and other US Government agencies swoops in to cluster these innocents, numbered and named, true Nazi style, as Human Test Subjects, Fully Non-Consenting, now named “mentally challenged,” “incompetent,” “autistic” “schizophrenic” “bipolar” and other carefully-concocted loophole designations, in order to on-paper justify their Use, Abuse, Exploitation, and Criminal Appropriation of these innocents in such public-domain EMF/Neuro DEW Weapons Testing contracts as Directed Energy Bio Behavioral Research contracts running field-weapons tests all over the USA—and apparently the entire world—using planes, drones, satellites, celltowers, vans, trucks, SUVs, cars, bikes, backpacks, walker-stalkers which include children and teenagers, and Project Minerva social engineering projects running self-permitted Psy Ops on whole populations, all under the guise of doing benevolent “research” intended to benefit these very innocents themselves. Yes, classification conceals crime, and the entire US government appears filled with criminals currently.
Every single reporting victim of this weapon use—in tandem with the Social Psy Op Program run on them involving massive employment and social and community Blacklisting, Character Assassination, and Life-Sabotage—has reported these crimes on their person, to me, to other writers, whistleblowers, human rights activists and journalists, and widely online in social media, on blogs, videos, Facebook, Twitter, elsewhere, as nothing less than Torture.
The physical use of physical weapons on a person’s body is indeed invasive of personal physical privacy, and is Torture; the remote neuroweapon use on a person’s brain with abusive V2K or synthetic telepathy, voiced or subliminal, and other military bio-communications technology streaming images, video, and other people’s brainwaves (EEG Heterodyning/Cloning) as well as deliberate harvesting and restreaming of one’s own anger or fear brainwaves into one’s own head is also invasive of personal physical privacy, and is Torture; every one of the military and medical “researchers” here as well as every FBI agent permitting these crimes should be prosecuted for torturing people—torture is a crime recognized as crime by US and international law.
None of what they are doing is legitimate—when reporting victims report this weapon-use as torture, then hello, let’s conclude, quite clearly, that all this “covered research” is nothing but a Cover Story for Nazi and Satanic criminals in high places to run Torture Operations on the populace—and get away with it.
These weapons clearly, are the ultimate weapons to destroy humanity with: they’re here, they’ve already been developed and fine-tuned (although, as per recent hints by US Airforce Secretary Heather Wilson, endless further finetuning in precision sensor monitoring via Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance contracts is forthcoming) and the Inhumanes Abusing Power in the military and Intelligence agencies, well-supported by their private-sector Defense and Security contractors, are doing a good job destroying humanity with them—starting with outstanding Americans whose brains, bodies, and entire lives they wish to damage.
By these means, the New World Order of George Bush and co. is already running its Fascism and Repression and Complete-Subjugation operations on humanity—and keeping the means, the remote Neuro DEWs and Remote Neural Monitoring and Covert Implantation and EMF/sonic/scalar weapons well-hidden.
My articles, videos, tweets, tweet-threads reporting my findings, speculations, opinions, and interviews with reporting victims and whistleblowers and scientists have all been censored online and shadowbanned and restricted. A cursory glance at the figures underneath my podcasts—even in comparison with similar videos by any other person such as Kerry Cassidy or Alfred Webre who have also covered similar subjects (although I do not in any way wish to suggest comparison with any extant alt media, including these above-named, regarding full-spectrum-in-terms-of-subject-matter or duration of their efforts)—will establish that.
There is indeed a singular Black Hole in operation online, whereby the work I do in interviewing those reporting targeting and persecution by fusion centers and Intelligence agencies, including whistleblowers, scientists, nurses, doctors, engineers, attorneys, in video and print journalism is simply disappeared online; only the rarest of alt media acknowledges or recognizes it at all. More often it is simply disappeared, as those who are targeted and persecuted in the USA, UK, Europe, entire Western world, Five Eyes countries—as well as elsewhere worldwide–are being disappeared. I emphasize the West because the West pirouettes the most in Government Propaganda media—aka mainstream media—touting “human rights” records, which is a bleak and macabre joke, because in-house-torture, all-locations-torture, and everywhere-in-sight-of-satellites, celltowers, drones-torture is being practiced, contracted, budgeted, taxpayer-supported, expanded, extended, entrenched, industrialized now by Western governments, starting no doubt with that beacon of human rights protection, US Inc.
Basic human rights and basic civil rights are being incontrovertibly violated, and extremely, by use of these anti-personnel neuro/bio weapons which permit remote access, invasion, and manipulation of human brains and bodies. My position on these weapons, as that of many of the whistleblowers (every “targeted individual” is a whistleblower) I have interviewed, is unflinching: they should be completely and absolutely banned.
By disappearing my journalism online, publishing notice of this weapon use on world populations—as also disappearing the groundbreaking journalism and notice of Paul Baird, Cheryl Welsh, Renee Pittmann Mitchell, Mark Rich, Dr. Rauni Kilde, Gloria Naylor, Soleil Mavis, John Finch, Barbara Hartwell, Dr. John Hall, Roseanne Schneider, Dr. Eric Karlstrom, Vic Livingston, Deborah Dupre, Mojmir Babcek, Arlene Johnson, Harlan Girard, the original Eleanor White, and the original Julianne McKinney and many others via their websites, articles, and books—journalists today in both mainstream and altream media appear to be existing in a Twilight Zone of denials, refusals, close-mindedness, behind-the-times inability to cover modern weaponized neuro/bio technology and Electronic Warfare weaponry, of which today there is ample information online—as well as outright, lies, propaganda, and deceit, practiced ardently by the most obfuscating arms of the New World Order ZioNaziMasonicVaticanBanksterSatanic State we are all being oppressed by worldwide, including such POPPCon (Psy Op Propaganda Piece Con) pushers as the New York Times, The Washington Post, Wired, VICE, The Daily Beast, Buzzfeed, Motherboard, Wikipedia, and Rational Wiki.
When I first engaged with Suzie Dawson several months ago—almost a year ago, actually, I think in January 2018 (Suzie Dawson has blocked me on Twitter currently, wiping out the record there of her conversations with me then and later)—along with former Time and Atlanta Journal reporter E. Coady (Twitter handle @HeadlineJuice), Suzie was vocal in deprecating E and myself for critiquing and criticizing Glenn Greenwald for not publishing further on those spied-on and targeted, and not covering the testimonials of those reporting extreme targeting aka, in shortform for dismissal in media today, “Targeted Individuals.” (I, like many others targeted whom I know, have all written to Greenwald and received silence in return.) Readers may recall it was Glenn Greenwald who was given Snowden’s documents and published only a miniscule fraction of them, being ostensibly bought out for millions of dollars by Pierre Omidyar’s Intercept and the NSA and CIA behind him—on whom Whitney Webb published on January 26, 2018: https://www.mintpressnews.com/fbi-whistleblower-on-pierre-omidyar-campaign-to-neuter-wikileaks/236414/, a story picked up and followed by FBI whistleblower and Newsbud publisher Sibel Edmonds, https://www.newsbud.com/2018/01/26/billionaire-omidyars-intercept-government-silicon-valley-nexus-to-intercept-censor-whistleblowers/.
Sibel Edmonds of course had earlier published on Glenn Greenwald, Paypal, and Omidyaar’s NSA and CIA connections at her site Boiling Frogs Post in 2013: https://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2013/12/11/bfp-breaking-news-omidyars-paypal-corporation-said-to-be-implicated-in-withheld-nsa-documents/
In looking back on this series of articles and interviews and all the information contained in them, I realize anew there is a lot of murky deception afoot. There are factions and unrevealed allegiances among these whistleblowers and publishers and journalists. I did not understand at the time the true nature of the politics behind Greenwald, Snowden, Omidyar and the Intercept, but now that I see a little more clearly Suzie Dawson’s own role in playing defense here—and the scales are rapidly falling from my eyes as it becomes obvious to me I need to express this in the simplest of terms—I will spell out in completely candid terms my own speculations shortly below.
In January 2018, Suzie Dawson (in her tweets to me and @HeadlineJuice then) defended Greenwald and Snowden while calling on the “targeted community” to support whistleblowers like Assange and Snowden. In the course of a heated exchange—which tapered off with an offer from me to interview Suzie Dawson and an acceptance by her—I remember writing through tears and recording that despite all evidence currently that journalists refused to cover targeting and uber-surveillance persecution being reported by those targeted (TI’s), I would myself cover till I died, while also congratulating Suzie Dawson for her earlier work reporting the Wikileaks documents covering DEWs, and her #DecipherYou project.
Snippets from that thread:
Thank you for persisting on this thread. I am personally not waiting for anyone else to cover anymore, I have witnessed their perfidy. I will cover till I die. Writing through tears. For all of us.
— Ramola D (@EccEveryday) January 22, 2018
I eventually interviewed Suzie Dawson in an open-ended, non-confrontational conversation livestreamed by her on Jan 29, 2018 permitting her free rein to tell her story of targeting, activism, journalism and defending Assange and Snowden as the world’s most famous“Targeted Individuals.”
That interview, the fourth in my Changemaker series can be found here:
Over the course of this year I have supported Suzie Dawson’s #DecipherYou broadcasts, retweeted her tweets, and supported her #Unity4J campaign, as described below. I have indeed stood up for Julian Assange myself, although I found the September 2017 tweet from @AssangeDefence suggesting the US diplomats in Cuba reporting sonic weapon hits suffered from “paranoia” profoundly dismissive of Electronic Warfare weaponry and promotive of current false narratives afoot in suppressing the truth about EMF/Neuro DEW targeting.
Now, examining the virulence of Suzie Dawson’s misframing and insulting responses to me in defending Cassandra and her tweets calling for coverage and acknowledgment from #Unity4J journos of the larger spectrum of NSA/CIA/DHS/FBI EMF Neuro/DEW targeting which contextualizes Julian Assange’s own targeting and persecution, and of my work—as a journalist reporting such targeting by people all over the world—I do wonder about her unrevealed allegiances and unrevealed support base, as she continued in her responses to misframe and to fixate on defending Snowden at all costs and Assange at all costs and talking about #Unity4J as a “movement” that the persecuted targeted should emulate—including myself and Cassandra, two writers who report targeting and report on targeting, instead of simply answering Cassandra’s pleas and queries and notices regarding supporting my journalistic work or including me as an interviewee on #Unity4J vigil broadcasts or the possibility of #Unity4J journos covering the horrors of neuro/bio weaponry targeting, Surveillance Abuse, and Non-Consensual Military/Intelligence experimentation themselves.
While there are several glaring problems on this Twitter exchange with Suzie Dawson’s bulldog-behavior and repressive/patronizing attitude in striving to shut down writers and vocal targets of extreme EMF/Neuro DEW assault by government, fusion center, military and mercenary criminals in power such as Cassandra and myself, I will point out a couple especially egregious and unpardonable aspects. One, throughout this latest thread where Suzie Dawson apparently felt the need to keep responding obliquely and repressively to my clarifying responses to her inexplicable tweets, she appears to harp on building movements and starting campaigns and doing activism, while it should be fairly clear to anyone reading Cassandra’s tweets and my own that what we were really talking about was the need for more journalists and for #Unity4J journalists to cover the horrors of undisclosed targeting with undisclosed Spectrum weaponry which hundreds of thousands of people worldwide are reporting today. The notion of asking reporting victims to do their own activism—which they are actually doing, incidentally, since journalists for sure are not covering the crimes and violations of human rights they report, except myself and a few others—in itself being more than quaint. When did the Holocaust victims get asked to run their own campaigns? When will journalists like Suzie Dawson realize that what we are reporting are nothing less than targeted Killing programs, treasonous and Trojan and extreme, where every reporting victim is reporting extreme bodily harm, neuro and brain invasion, assault, injury, and persecution with the New Age Weapons of Mass Destruction, Electronic Warfare Neuro/Bio Weaponry, which crooked governments and crooked militaries and crooked Fusion Centers and crooked Intelligence agencies and crooked Law Enforcement are bending over backwards to hide? People are being experimented on with carcinogenic DEWs and torturous Direct Contact chemical and nano bioweapons and bio-robotizing neurotech and body-shocking, electro-vibrating, body-raping and brain-raping radio frequency weapons non-consensually unto death, targeted unto death, persecuted unto death. I myself, as a reporting journalist and victim both, am being heart-hit and face-hit and head-hit and back-hit and spine-hit not just on a daily basis or nightly basis but on an hourly and minute-by-minute basis. We are literally speaking from Inside the Holocaust. Anyone listening?
Two, Suzie Dawson reports being targeted, positions herself as a targeted and oppressed journalist herself, and says she supports and identifies with targets, and in these tweets to me, actually mentioned being an ally–whom apparently I had now alienated with my responses—and someone already working on the issue—to no effect that I can discern, from her recent journalism. Note that I have in the past thanked and praised Suzie Dawson for her work, including reposting her Twitter thread on DEWs not so long ago, with her predicting that this would be the year DEWs would be increasingly covered, and making noises about this future DEW coverage garnering eventual Pulitzers—completely forgetting and overlooking extant journalism and literature on this subject already published and online and in books, including my own, I may add—but then of course the Bury Ramola D at Any Cost Brigade no doubt understands that closed-eye attitude perfectly: https://everydayconcerned.net/2018/04/21/breakthrough-in-reaching-mainstream-audiences-on-dews-surveillance-abuse-wrongful-targeting-as-suzie-dawson-sets-twitter-alight/
Note also that I supported and asked others to support Suzie Dawson in that post replaying her tweet thread where she mentions many different aspects of Surveillance Abuse, field weapons testing, community policing, fusion center mayhem, non-consensual military Intelligence experimentation on populations and other aspects of uber-targeting already reported—including by myself, seeing her as a sister journalist working to bring such crimes to the wider notice of mainstream and altstream media readers. An irony in itself, since I have most certainly covered these subjects way, way more than Suzie Dawson—despite her challenging tweets to me lately suggesting, wrongfully, that she has “discussed targeting extensively”and written much about it and that I have not read all her work covering this subject and have a “slanted perception” of her work. I challenge Suzie Dawson and her followers to examine the entire compendium of work I have on my websites—both my own and my reposting and recognition of others’ work–at everydayconcerned.net and Youtube/RamolaDReports before she gets back on Twitter or online pronouncing to one and all on matters of covering, reporting, or discussing EMF/Neuro DEW targeting and State tyranny, suggesting her own primacy in this regard—she has simply not been covering the depredations of Surveillance Abuse and Military/Intelligence/Private Sector tyranny and terrorism against civilians as I have, choosing, like every other journalist in alt and mainstream media to turn away from covering this vital subject integral to all our freedoms as human beings in this benighted technology-driven century—and talks down to victimized and persecuted writers instead, telling us to “get on” with “building our own movement.”
However, what this brings me to is the note I recently received from Thomas McFarlan after I announced my intention to write further on the subject of Suzie Dawson’s repressive tweets to me, saying he wished to further inform me on her unknown-to-me intentions by letting me know that Suzie Dawson had recently reached out to him—with no previous contact efforts on his part—after reading an article he had recently published on Medium on targeting, and told him she wished to work further with him to expose “organized stalking” and help promote his article which she had found very impressive and so forth. Now this is all well and good and rather interesting all around but the question does cross my mind: why would Suzie Dawson not contact me on this subject at all, given my previous support of her work, and given my longstanding, quite-evident body of work online on this subject, but instead, a little while later, not having informed me of her interest in promoting McFarlan’s article or indeed any other effort on her part to further cover this subject, excoriate me repressively on Twitter for supposedly “berating” and “trying to shame” journos like her into covering targeting, and chastising me for being ignorant about her ongoing efforts and alliances in this area—which I was never informed about?
Over the last few months, Thomas McFarlan, newly arrived on the scene of journalism on targeting and Surveillance Abuse, has been publishing a few articles on the subject—which I have indeed found encouraging and helpful, given, as noted before, the dearth of journalism on this subject, even though I do not agree with his characterization of targeting as “security-service-stalking” or his focus on “organized stalking”: extreme-targeting is being run out of fusion centers and fusion-center trafficking into military, Intelligence, and mercenary private-sector EMF/Neuro DEW Torture, Terminal Experimentation, and Cheka/Stasi-style Social Terrorism projects; “gangstalking” or “organized stalking” is an aspect of these cybernetic hive-minding and Social Psy Op programs. One of his articles was noticed and promoted at Collective Evolution by Richard Enos whom he had contacted, and another, republishing portions of an article of mine (with my permission) was also noticed by Richard Enos.
Interestingly, both have let misspellings of my name stand, one as “Ramola Reports” rather than “Ramola D Reports” and the other as “Ramola Dharmaraj” rather than “Ramola D,” my publishing name. Is this an honest mistake or some kind of underground express ZioNazi Magick spelling trick I know little to nothing about–again, designed to Bury Ramola D at Any Cost Online?
Returning to my central question here, what really is behind Suzie Dawson’s repressive admonitions to me to cease bothering her—with a misframed and quite inaccurate construct of “berating journos”–while behind-the-scenes connecting and seeking to promote Thomas McFarlan instead? How is it Richard Enos or Collective Evolution has never republished my work except only after Thomas McFarlan contacted him? (And really, how is it no other alt media online ever bothers to republish or notice my work—which features the voice of important whistleblowers as well?) I bring these questions up for a reason, and I bring them up only because Suzie Dawson’s authoritarian and oppressive language to me in her tweets does make me wonder why she is so vehement in her uber-defensive attitude about Snowden and in her repressive attitude toward me—when I have been the lone, continually publishing journalist on the subject of targeting, “targeted individuals,” and all attendant crimes for quite a long time, almost five years now. Is the Bury Ramola D At Any Cost Brigade working overtime to bury me online? And is she working for them?
I have certainly experienced an uptick in repressive operations aimed at me lately, as for instance Katherine Horton’s recent smear campaign against me, apparently a counterintel construct seeking to defame and slander and tie me up in knots which I have written about—where I have made reference to the constellating of alt media around those who pose no significant problem to the controllers of controlled opposition working in our midst, whereas I do, being non-controllable as a writer, and further, non-belonging to the special tribe of operatives who all appear to have underground connections with each other—despite working in separate pods or cells but apparently all riding the ZioNazi underground express together.
So is that what we are seeing here unfold now? Is Suzie Dawson a sophisticated media quarterback playing defense for limited-hangout whistleblowers such as Snowden playing Oppressed, and possibly/putatively even more secretively limited-hangout whistleblowers like Assange, and reaching out to other new journalists riding the same Inner Circle Rothschild Circus while bumping off non-belongers-to-the-tribe such as yours truly and doing so in fact quite offensively? Is the whole spectacle of Snowden and his focus on spying via phone and email, landline and cell, computer and electronics the set-up snow job to detour attention from the Greatest Scandal of All Time—the ZioNazi Empire/Central-Bankster-Run Neuro Hacking and Bio Hacking of people’s bodies and brains worldwide, in hidden covers of Biometric Surveillance and Sources & Methods of Gathering Intelligence, with deadly stealth weaponry these Covert Factions assaulting all peoples equally worldwide wish fondly to keep stealthy forever and undisclosed to the increasingly-targeted, progressively-sickened, mind-controlled, brain-damaged, and bodily-subjugated world public?
These are the sorts of speculations not aired so often in media—which is maintaining all sorts of other pretences and deceits as well. And I raise these speculations openly not because I am convinced they are all true but because I too have started probing the field for subterranean connections and unspoken allegiances. In this quest, I have been working with Dr. Eric Karlstrom, retired Emeritus Professor in Geography from California State University, on the Global Gestapo series where we have been exploring different facets of this worldwide program of torture-targeting and surveillance abuse, where we especially examine the Segregating, Racist, and Gentile-Excluding Crypto-Jewish or Zionist Empire aspect of the Global Gestapo in Episodes 7 and 8:
For ultimately, the most hidden secrets are also the most egregious. Unrevealed allegiances and infiltration in every field are rife currently. Dual citizens from Israel run all our offices and councils and governments and insinuate themselves into every group. “We always lead our own opposition,” according to Theodore Hertzl, father of Zionism.
“I don’t care if Americans think we’re running the news media, Hollywood, Wall Street or the government. I just care that we get to keep running them.” –Joel Stein
Well, I am pretty sick and tired of the ZioNazi primacy carnage corporation. I have spent an entire lifetime chasing after literary journals, literary agents, and the bogus literary publishing industry, helmed in New York, which I now see clearly—from research, reading, and newfound awareness of the Crypto-Jewish/Zionist/Jesuit/Satanist/Eugenicist/Bankster aspect to the longstanding CFR/Tavistock and CIA-run Operation Mockingbird hold on journalism, literature, and publishing–is controlled from the inside and most definitely has a high Zionist profile. I have seen my manuscripts of poetry and fiction rejected year after year while seeing the publication of surprising text ranging from insipid to mediocre to absolute tripe all around me, and witnessing the cultivation of literary and teaching careers by those inside this Zio system, willing to be tokenized by this system, or willing to remain subjugated and hierarchized by it. I have had my manuscripts read and patronized by literary agents incapable of understanding what they were reading. Some careers are supported by the ZioNazis, some careers are interfered with and destroyed or seriously thwarted. My first collection of short fiction, Temporary Lives, which took over ten years of endless submittals to publish, was, notably, not reviewed by a single literary reviewer when it came out, even though it had just won the prestigious national AWP Grace Paley Award in Short Fiction (2008). And unlike other talented writers whose work sees publication much faster, I have several fiction and poetry manuscripts, acclaimed by highly-credentialled readers and well-known writers and academics, from one and two and three decades ago, still in search of publishers.
Now, after surviving five years of absolute carnage—with implants sharpshot into me, implants clandestinely implanted in me, remote radiation weapons sending microwave pulse hits into every part of my body, consistent heart-hits for over three years, massive migraines, electromagnetic rape, laser burns, millimeter-wave weapon burns and blisters, nanoweapon attacks, direct-contact chemical weapon attacks, continuous access by precision tracking radar and scalar pencil weapons, remote electro-shocks, remote electro-vibrations—along with all sorts of other indignities such as neighborhood and family character assassination and social and employment blacklisting and Psy Ops Gangstalking Even By Relatives also reported by others so persecuted by the Satanist Masonic ZioNazi crowd infiltrating fusion centers and local governments alike—through all of which I continued to read, research, do FOIA requests, investigate, discuss, speak, write, and publish on these crimes levelled at others as well, and in persistent danger for my life, which is continuously and egregiously attacked every single day, I have neither time nor patience for beating around the bush here.
Despite her statement regarding #Unity4J being a “single-issue movement,” the fact remains that Suzie Dawson and the journalists and public commentators she has featured on #Unity4J vigils—in their public #Unity4J silence on this subject–have established their absolute disregard for the reportage of extreme Surveillance targeting and persecution, as well as of the DE and neuroweapons being used to accomplish this tyranny, which I have been covering and exposing for years. Instead of disrespectfully snapping online on Twitter at writers like me who are still surprisingly alive to tell the tale of nasty targeting here, I suggest she come clean and break free of her unrevealed allegiances and biases if she wishes to be seen as a truly concerned investigative journalist and not the putative puppet of a secret and sophisticated Illuminati/Rothschild ZioNazi & Israeli Cons and Carnage Operation running Snow Ops on the entire world—of which Snowden and Greenwald and Omidyaar it seems are most definitely a part. (Just as an aside, Greenwald in particular has been informed about Uber-Targeting by several highly-educated people, including myself; two highly accomplished and intellectual people I know, one long-targeted, the other not, have informed me of conversations they have had with him via email and in person at a book-signing, informing him, and receiving cognizance of his awareness on the subject.)
The jury’s still out on Julian Assange—but I must note here he has never spoken publicly of EMF/Neuro DEW targeting and Brain/Body Control Weapons either, although he has indeed made one historic reference to “enforced telepathic readings”–about which he is wrong too, it’s not “only a few years left” to get to that point, we have been at that point for over three decades already. Remote Neural Monitoring, Surveillance, and Modification have been practiced for a while now—yes, people’s minds are being eavesdropped on and being read, via trauma-based mind control, courtesy the Paperclip Nazi #MengeleMen who litter our Universities, DOD, and Intelligence agencies. The 1992 John St. Clair Akwei vs NSA lawsuit offers massive disclosure on NSA Signals Intelligence which can pull this off from satellites. There is much other disclosure—covered elsewhere, and to be covered further as well elsewhere.
It’s that complete lack of truthful coverage on DEW targeting and New Age neuroweaponry that alt media journalists, mainstream media journalists, and indy media journalists alike are refraining from offering, that continues to keep the wider public in the dark about the true state of brain and bio hacking, now in late 2018 being used definitely as a tool of torture, terrorism, tyranny, eugenics, and genocide by Black Ops Banksters running governments worldwide.
However, I am no longer holding my breath and advise that no-one else sit around either waiting for the ZioNazi Underground Express and the Inner Circle Rothschild Circus to “reveal” and “expose” targeting in no doubt covered and constricted terms to the world–while creating fake superstar “truthtellers” who play to scripts and have been pre-marked for Pulitzers, in themselves questionable given their being-situated in the selfsame ZioNazi Industry of Publishing & Media Deceit.
I am already covering this subject—as a few others are–and aim to do so to the end. We, the truly targeted, the truly speaking-out, and the truly publishing for decades, have already exposed these crimes, and continue to expose them. Despite being censored, censured, banned, shadowbanned, proxied, spoofed, cyberhacked, cybersabotaged, hidden, shut down, thwarted, obstructed, restricted and perennially oppressed online.
Note to the many ZioNazi infiltrators cybertrolling among the targeted in various guise, running Controlled Opposition ops in our midst as they gatekeep, reframe, misframe, misdirect, and attempt continuously to repress the whole Truth: I do not, cannot, will not ever again work with you. My interest is Complete and Absolute Exposure of Every Single Covered Crime Being Indulged In by Tax-Paid and Fiat-Floated Criminals–which is resulting in the absolute persecution, extreme suffering, utter human rights violations, and killing of hundreds of thousands of innocent, beautiful, accomplished and wonderful human beings in America and worldwide, my sister and brother victims in this Publicly Unacknowledged But Extreme Third World War EMF/Neuro/Nano DEW Full-Spectrum Eugenics-Laced Lucifer-Driven Holocaust running worldwide.
As always I invite other new-and-true-media outlets to freely republish, in full, my many articles on the subject, with full accreditation and linkback. I do ask that you kindly get my name and the name of my sites and channels right. Thank you.
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Dr. Daniel Lebowitz/Senate Hearing, 2014: Targeted Individuals: Covert Repression in the 21st Century
Posted on October 28, 2018 by Ramola D | 4 comments
Many thanks to Dr. Daniel Lebowitz for this detailed and historic presentation on the subject of politically targeted individuals and the extreme and inhumane nature of the Program of Targeting within the emergent police and surveillance state presented at a Senate Hearing in 2014 on The State of Civil and Human Rights in the United States, and to Targeted Justice for posting this document online. This document in PDF is here: Dr. Daniel Lebowitz 2014 Senate Presentation.
Sign of the Stasi/Seal of the Ministry of State Security of the GDR/Wikipedia
For all those unaware of the extent of unlawful, invasive, illegal and over-reaching surveillance, targeting, and persecution with deadly anti-personnel electromagnetic weapons, character-assassination, psychological warfare and organized stalking operative today in the United States, and played out identically worldwide, these words on The Program will be an eye-opener:
What is the Targeted Individual program that these people are complaining of? It is many things all at once. It is a discrediting and disruption campaign, similar to COINTELPRO. In some cases (not all) it is a torture/trauma-based brainwashing and mind-control program like MK-Ultra. It is a secret form of repression, persecution and psychological warfare, carried out in the community largely by regular people, along the lines of Stasi or Zersetzen torture. It is a political abuse of psychiatry, as has been carried out in many countries as a way to torture and discredit dissidents. Finally, it is unethical non-consensual human experimentation on unwitting subjects with advanced directed energy and psychotronic weapons systems.
Overall, it represents a coming together of the most vicious and effective tools and weapons for covert harassment and political control of dissidents, activists, whistleblowers, agitators, and other so-called “undesirables” that the world has ever seen.
What are the goals and purposes of the program? Again, they are many. But, in a word, the neutralization of the target.
To combat the ongoing spate of propaganda issuing forth from the Mainstream Media Government Propaganda machine, seeking to bury the truth of these barbaric and sadistic Globalist torture- and trauma-based targeting and persecution programs in the United States, all Five Eyes (Anglo-American/Commonwealth) countries, European countries, Asian countries, Latin American countries, the words of individual researchers, writers, and human rights activists exposing these programs become critically important for all to hear. Many thanks once again to Dr. Lebowitz, whose stature as a medical doctor adds to the weight and scholarship of this presentation.
Presentation submitted to the Senate Hearing on “The State of Civil and Human Rights in the United States”
Dr. Daniel Lebowitz
My name is Dr. Daniel Lebowitz. I’m a medical doctor. Over the past two years, I have worked with a Human Rights organization called Freedom From Covert Harassment and Surveillance, or FFCHS. People in this organization state that they are being targeted by an illegal and unethical government program that represents a modern version of COINTELPRO and MK-ULTRA combined. These victims call themselves targeted individuals, or T.I.’s.
I have worked with the leadership of FFCHS, and I have worked with the medical committee as well as with the Board of directors. As a result, I have communicated with hundreds of self-described targeted individuals.
Additionally, I have worked with two other activist physicians on behalf of targeted individuals: Dr. John Hall and Dr. Terry Robertson. I have also worked with Dr. Robert Duncan, a scientist turned whistleblower, who states that he has worked on some of the very weapons systems that are used in the remote electronic harassment that many targeted individuals say they experience.
My presentation today is entitled:
Targeted Individuals: Covert Repression in the 21st Century
To understand the Targeted Individual phenomenon, you need to understand several things about it. You need to understand the societal and political and human rights trends which allow it to occur. You need to understand what the program is. You need to understand what the goals and the purpose of the program are. You need to understand who gets targeted. You need to understand where the program came from, in other words, compare it to counterintelligence programs and unethical human experimentation of the past. And you need to understand the implications of the program, and what it means for the future. Finally, we’ll take a look about what must be done about it.
STATE OF HUMAN AND CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE US: THE EMERGING POLICE AND SURVEILLANCE STATE
In the United States, in short, we are seeing the emergence of a police and surveillance state. Former President Jimmy Carter recently wrote in the New York Times, “The United States is abandoning its role as the global champion of human rights.” In his article, Carter points out that top US officials are now openly targeting US citizens for political assassination, “disappearance,” unlimited surveillance, and other forms of gross human rights abuse. Are people prepared to call a former U.S. President a conspiracy theorist? Or has the U.S. strayed far from its roots as a democracy where rule of law and human rights are uniformly respected?
What are the goals and purposes of the program? Again, they are many. But, in a word, the neutralization of the target. Let’s start with understanding the mindset of the state. President Obama’s information czar, former Harvard Law professor Cass Sunstein, co-authored a paper in 2008 which advocated that the government should “cognitively infiltrate” and “disable” those who have ideas the government finds threatening, for example, 9/11 truth activists. Now, at a minimum, this suggests running illegal COINTELPRO-type disruption campaigns against people. But, more interestingly, let’s parse the words carefully: “cognitively infiltrate” and “disable”. Cognition refers to the mind, or to thought. Infiltrate means to penetrate with hostile intent. So, literally, this means to penetrate the minds or thought processes of so-called “troublesome” individuals, with the intent to disable them. Fascinating, in light of what targeted individuals say that they experience.
So, more specifically, what are the goals of the program?
Force the target to stop “unacceptable” activity (whistleblowing, activism, exposing corruption, etc.). Silence the target both about their original activism and about their targeting.
Subject target to noise campaigns, swarming, colors, or repetitive behaviors as a form of harassment.
Attack any psychological weaknesses. Cause target to blame themselves for their targeting and as such destroy the will to fight back.
Create a track record of so-called “mental illness”, useful for both discrediting and plausible deniability.
Discredit the target.
Isolate the target from all forms of support using secret notifications, slander, and covert harassment carried out largely by regular people.
Encourage the target to lose hope and lash out in suicidal or homicidal rage secondary to covert harassment, and destruction of the target’s life.
Set target up for possible institutionalization or arrest.
Damage or ruin the career and/or finances. In some cases, break up the family. In some cases, cause the target to lose their home.
After breaking the target’s will to fight, in some cases, attempt to change the mindset, politics, ethics of the target. Create a mindset more useful to the state. Evaluate the potential for corruption or even recruitment.
To summarize: the goal is the neutralization of the target. Exactly the goal pursued by the former COINTELPRO.
THE TARGETS
Ok. So, who gets targeted by this program? There’s a lot of overlap with COINTELPRO. COINTELPRO targeted “Perceived threats to the Established Political and Social Order”. Which, in practice during COINTELPRO meant primarily those pursuing greater social and economic equality, peace activists, dissidents, so-called “unfriendly” politicians, and even non-conformists. In some cases, it can be proven that counter-intelligence operations have been undertaken against those aware of high-level criminality or wrong-doing. Like everyone else, many targets have weaknesses, foibles, flaws, problems, etc. Some have addictions. Any perceived weaknesses (manufactured, real, or exaggerated) are used viciously to aid in the discrediting of the target. Let’s learn from some actual examples of people who became targets for covert operations:
Thomas Drake, NSA Whistleblower: Forced out of his job, blacklisted, financially ruined, forced to defend himself against criminal charges, placed under physical and electronic surveillance.
Jean Seberg. Actress and civil rights activist. Supporter of the Black Panther Party. Experienced FBI Surveillance, harassment, stalking, break-ins, intimidation, defamation and discrediting. Victim of a false FBI story that she was pregnant by a Black Panther Party member, while married to a white husband. The stress of this caused premature delivery of her baby, which died at 2 days of age. The baby was white. Eventually committed suicide.
Arnold Lockshin. A Cancer researcher and supporter of socialism. Experienced surveillance, harassment and threats by strangers, break-ins, psychological warfare, implied death threats through the 1970’s and 1980’s. Eventually sought asylum from Russia and was immediately fired, blacklisted, accused in retrospect of mental instability and deteriorating work performance. Notably, reported that even his children’s classmates and his own father had been brought into a Stasi-like campaign against him and his family. Wrote a book about the ordeal in 1988 called “Silent Terror: One family’s history of political persecution in the US.” The book was never published or distributed in the US. On the web: ArnoldLockshin.Wordpress.com. By the way, his work performance and mental stability in Russia are apparently just fine.
Adrian Schoolcraft. Blew the whistle on corruption, wrongful arrests, arrest quotas, and the stop and frisk program within the NYPD in 2009. Received on the job harassment and was shunted to the NYPD psychologist. Within 3 weeks after reporting corruption he was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric ward, handcuffed to a bed and prevented from using a telephone. He was portrayed as paranoid during his hospital stay, which lasted 6 days. After discharge, he was suspended from the force without pay. Tapes he had made were eventually reported by the New York Times and others and he has been largely vindicated.
Dr. Lawrence Doerr. Orthopedic surgeon. As reported in the NY Times, wrote an open letter to fellow surgeons in 2008 warning about a flawed hip prosthesis. Subsequently became the target of a whisper-campaign that questioned his skills and competence as a surgeon.
Russell Roderick. Insulted a powerful, politically connected firm by refusing continued employment. Unclear if he was aware of high-level wrong-doing. Has been the target of a 25 year, multi-national campaign (you will find that these programs are multi-national and follow targets wherever they go) including slander, character assassination, allegations of incompetence, paranoia, drug-addiction, sexual deviance, and being “a deranged, suicidal maniac.” Has experienced blacklisting, financial devastation, isolation, stalking and overt surveillance, street theather, telephone/computer and mail tampering, Stasi-like manipulation of people into a campaign against him, death threats, intimidation, harassment, and a shut-down of all avenues of support. He refers to this as Zersetzen torture. On the web: Zersetzen.wikispaces.com.
Greenham Common Women’s Peace Protestors. In the 1980’s, were protesting the presence of US cruise missiles at an English air force base. Came under microwave weapon attack in 1984. Scientists from Electronics Today demonstrated the presence of electromagnetic waves. Dr. Robert Becker, twice nominated for the Nobel prize, found their symptoms were consistent with exposure to a microwave weapon. Every time a cruise missile convoy was ready to drive by, these women were experiencing severe headaches and unbearable fatigue, etc.
Andy Lewis and friends. A group of former British soldiers. Became targets of full-on gang stalking in 1996 after attempts to draw attention to what they viewed as an unethical experimental vaccine program that had been given to Gulf War soldiers in 1991. These men have experienced blacklisting, covert harassment, directed energy and psychotronic weapons attacks, overt and covert surveillance, stalking, secret notifications, etc. They have made two excellent websites: targeted-individuals.com and gang-stalking.com.
A long list of 9/11 truth activists have reported being targeted with electromagnetic weapons and death threats. Some have died under suspicious circumstances. US Army Major Doug Rokke, PhD physics from University of Illinois, former head of the US Army depleted uranium cleanup project after Gulf War I, says these weapons are very real, and commonly used in military circles. He has described how he personally used such weapons on a regular basis while training with Special Forces at US Army facilities: “We had them van-mounted, truck-mounted, plane-mounted, and hand-carried. We would go around zapping each other for fun. This was during exercises, or sometimes just as a practical joke.” Rokke further stated that, based on his firsthand knowledge of US military mind-set and capabilities, 9/11 truth activists have undoubtedly been targeted by exotic non-lethal (and lethal) weapons. Remember again Cass Sunstein, who openly advocated cognitive infiltration and disabling of 9/11 truth activists. Is he talking about psychotronic weapons attacks?
Jill Hansen. Professional surfer, model and entrepreneur. She received wide acclaim for her performance in a TED speech in 2010 about her spiritual values and altruistic beliefs, Entitled “Open Mind, Open Heart”. In the talk she espouses values including compassion, honesty, integrity, generosity, belief in God, charity, hope, faith and love. She concludes by stating that the world would be a more beautiful place if we all thought this way. Within weeks after this talk, which received a lot of publicity, she found herself the victim of stalking and electronic harassment. Fast forward a few years. Unfortunately, In May 2014, she was charged with attempted homicide for allegedly running over a woman intentionally with her car. TI’s report that attempting to get them to act out inappropriately with strangers is a common protocol. A couple interesting facts: 1) none of the news stories mention that she considered herself a TI and 2) Interestingly, The local Neighborhood Watch Group’s 500 members had been alerted about Hansen—supposedly for reckless driving. A representative of the group was reported as saying, “We need everybody to be on the lookout for her, it’s that scary.” So here we have someone reporting being a victim of organized stalking, and it turns out that—HELLO—there was a group of at least 500 people deliberately on the lookout for her.
Ted Gunderson. Worked for the FBI from 1950 – 1979. Former head of the Los Angeles FBI, where he was in charge of 700 personnel and had a budget of over 22 million dollars. In 1979 he was one of a handful interviewed for the job of FBI director, which ultimately went to William H. Webster. He retired and started a private investigation firm. He became a whistleblower and eventually filed an affidavit in support of attorney and targeted individual Keith Labella in his FOIA request from the FBI regarding gang stalking. Gunderson explained: “It is my professional opinion based on information, knowledge and belief that the information sought by Mr. Labella in this FOIA suit regarding gang stalking…reasonably describes an ongoing, active, covert, nationwide program that is in effect today and…has been in effect since at least the 1980’s…[and] has increased in scope, intensity and sophistication by adapting to new communications and surveillance technology.” As a whistleblower, Gunderson was himself targeted. He experienced whisper campaigns, surveillance, phone tapping, computer hacking, poisonings, group stalking, aerial stalking and more. Stated that based on his experience, victims are targeted for a variety of reasons including government and corporate whistleblowers, parties to financial and employment disputes, parties to marital disputes (usually divorced women), and even jilted paramours. Journalists covering controversial issues, and, even attorneys and private investigators representing unpopular clients or interests. Gunderson’s affidavit can be viewed on the internet, and in my opinion, is a fascinating read.
William Binney– An NSA whistleblower. Has stated he is well-aware of mind control technologies.
There has been a steady increase of mass shootings every year since 2000 from 5 per year until now, about 16 per year. Many of them were complaining of electronic harassment and/or organized stalking, stating that this led them to attack. This is being largely ignored and/or covered up by the media. Does a faction of our government actually want gun violence in the US, perhaps as a pretext to reversing gun rights, or even individual rights in general? Let’s discuss 3 mass shooters.
Jiverly Wong– Chinese Immigrant. Reported being targeted with covert harassment for 18 years. Reported experiencing: stalking, harassment, chemical attacks, nausea, shortness of breath, job harassment and job loss, spreading of rumors, phantom touching at night while sleeping, home entry and theft of funds from his home, vehicular stalking and harassment, electronic body shocks. Became a mass shooter of 14 people including himself. Blamed his harassers for the killings. Paranoid? Or victim of a high-tech covert operation that he could not even begin to understand? Let’s not forget that some goals of COINTELPRO included trying to get people to commit suicide (e.g. MLK) or trying to get people to commit serious crimes (e.g. Black Panther Party members) in order to discredit and destroy them.
Aaron Alexis– Ex-Navy veteran. Navy yard shooter. Contacted FFCHS stating he was under ELF weapons attack and was being stalked and surveilled, and he believed this was at the hands of the Navy. Interesting things about his case. 1) Although he corresponded with FFCHS, thus identifying himself as a TI, and stating his belief that the Navy was attacking him, the FBI after investigating and speaking with FFCHS Board members, insisted that he was a random shooter with no motive. 2) A heavily armed SWAT team was in the vicinity of the Navy Yard when Alexis started his shooting rampage and was on site within 5 minutes. Inexplicably, they were ordered to stand down and leave the area. The shooting rampage subsequently went on for 45 minutes.
Myron May. A promising, young black attorney. Worked first for a well-known law firm and subsequently trying to help disadvantaged children. Cared about people and about God. Reported being recently targeted with directed-energy weapons and law enforcement harassment. Decided to draw attention to the abuse by mailing packages of information to 10 people, shooting people, and “suicide by cop”. He made his goal clear by ending his letter saying, “what targeted individuals need more than anything is media attention.” These packages were confiscated by Federal agents. His suicide note described, “financial, emotional, and psychological pain….a living hell” inflicted upon him as a targeted individual. He stated: “Our government is able to capitalize on [the] lack of knowledge among the general population to curb sentiments toward questioning the mental health of targeted individuals rather than admitting the truth: that there is a system of covert torture of ordinary innocent citizens that is happening within our borders.” He believed there was no hope for him and so he stated, “Consequently, I am making a sacrifice so that others in my same position might have a chance at a normal, harassment-free life.” He shot three people. None of them died. I wonder if, even when driven to extremes by secret government torture, whether he was still too moral to bring himself to kill…
Ok, so we know who it happens to. We know this is the most sophisticated take-down program the world has ever seen. So, where do all these tactics and techniques come from? Well, as I mentioned before, a look at historical programs is highly instructive here.
RELEVANT HISTORY: COINTELPRO, MK-ULTRA, STASI / ZERSETZEN TORTURE
So- COINTELPRO. Known tactics included: Discrediting, smearing, character assassination. Covert campaigns to destroy interpersonal relationships, Harassment, Conspicuous surveillance (also known as stalking), anonymous letters and phone calls, IRS tax audits, legal harassment, Manipulation or strong-arming of parents, employers, landlords, school officials and others to create problems for targets. Threats, intimidation, surreptitious home searches and “black bag” jobs, vandalism, Constant surveillance.
MK-ULTRA features and goals included: Create a subject who is easier to control and manipulate, create programmed assassins, develop more effective means of torture and interrogation, break down the personality of the subject and insert new belief systems, ethics, politics, personality traits; performed on unwitting and unwilling subjects; manipulate mental states and alter brain function; surreptitious drugging; isolation; verbal and sexual abuse; various forms of torture employed; promote illogical thinking and impulsiveness in the subject so that they will be discredited in public; attempt to produce amnesia for periods of time; surreptitious production of shock or confusion in subject over extended periods of time; attempt to alter the subject’s personality to become dependent on the tormentors; attempt to lower the subject’s ambition and work efficiency; attempt to impair eyesight and/or hearing; attempt to activate specific behavior by remote means.
Stasi tactics, also known as Zersetzen torture, included such features as: secret persecution, secret methods of control and manipulation, involved even the personal relationships of the target, extensive use of unofficial collaborators–also known as regular people; used the State’s influence to turn public and private institutions against the target, psychological attack intended to deprive the target of the ability to mount hostile political action, often causes irreversible damage to the target, attempt to gain influence over the target in such a way that undesirable attitudes and beliefs would be slowly changed to more preferable traits over time, Attempt to cause fragmentation, paralysis, disorganization and isolation of target, Attempt political and ideological “re-education”, used in situations when judicial procedures are not convenient for political reasons, a.k.a. extrajudicial punishment, attempts to frame or entrap targets, slander/character assassination involving some true and some false, but always degrading information, orchestrating a series of social and professional failures in order to damage self-confidence, creation of doubts about future, stimulation of mistrust or paranoia, exploitation of target’s personality weaknesses, addictions etc., shaming due to the spreading of rumors to those around the target, overt and covert surveillance, intercepting mail, calls, etc., tampering with property and vehicles, poisoning the food and tampering with medications, entering the residence and leaving traces of evidence in order to threaten or intimidate the target by adding removing or modifying objects.
The items on these lists will sound very familiar to targeted individuals. Nearly all of them apply to the current program. And nearly all of them are reported by Targeted Individuals. I have no reason to not believe them. Now, add in the use of advanced directed energy and neuro-weapons, and you have a very potent takedown program.
THE WEAPONS
Ok so at this point we have a pretty good understanding of the program. But there’s one more thing that needs to be understood about this program. The advanced weaponry that is being used.
Evidences/Examples:
The Moscow Signal: low-power microwave beams were directed into the US embassy for more than two decades, from 1953 until 1976. Discovered in 1962, US scientists studied the signal until the 1970’s before finally telling the diplomats it was there, and offering them hazard pay. Many got sick, some died. Was not exposed to the public until 1976 when unearthed by an investigative reporter. This led to DoD’s ARPA Project Pandora
From 1965 through to 1970, Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA), with up to 70-80% funding provided by the military, set in motion operation PANDORA to study the health and psychological effects of low intensity microwaves with regard to the so called “Moscow signal”. This project was quite extensive and included (under US Navy funding) studies demonstrating the ability to: induce heart stoppage, create leaks in the blood brain barrier, and production of auditory hallucinations. Nervous system function could easily be degraded with properly pulsed signals. Memoranda of Richard Cesaro, Director, DARPA, confirmed that the program’s initial goal was to “discover whether a carefully controlled microwave signal could control the mind.” Cesaro urged that further studies be made “for potential weapons applications.” This was 1970, and very specific neurological and physiological weapons capabilities of microwaves had already been recognized.
Jose Delgado—the scientist who stopped the charging bull by remote control. Dr. Jose Delgado’s secret work in Project Pandora was directed towards the creation of a “psycho-civilized” society. In his paper “Intracerebral Radio Stimulation and recording in Completely Free Patients”, using radio waves, Delgado observed that: “Radio Stimulation on different points in the amygdala and hippocampus in the four patients produced a variety of effects, including pleasant sensations, elation, deep thoughtful concentration, odd feelings, super relaxation, colored visions (hallucinations), and other responses.” Speaking in 1966, Delgado asserted that his research “supported the distasteful conclusion that motion, emotion and behaviour can be directed by electrical forces and that humans can be controlled like robots by push buttons. Delgado stated that EM weapons were “more dangerous than atomic destruction.” “With knowledge of the brain, we may transform, we may shape, direct, roboticize man. I think the great danger of the future is that we will have roboticized human beings who are not aware that they have been roboticized.” He created a brain transponder that was IN FACT used to roboticize human subjects.
Dr Ross Adey, formerly of the Brain Research Center at the University of Southern California, worked on the CIA’s infamous Pandora project. His research involved inducing of specific behavior modifications by electromagnetic means. In his pioneering work, Dr. Ross Adey determined that emotional states and behavior can be remotely influenced merely by placing a subject in an electromagnetic field. He also demonstrated that EM radiation, properly modulated and pulsed, can induce calcium efflux events to interfere with brain’s function—the so-called “confusion weaponry”. Again, this is by 1970.
Lawrence Pinneo, a neurophysiologist and electronic engineer working for Stanford Research Institute (which is a leading military contractor), “developed [in 1974] a computer system capable of reading a person’s mind. It correlated brain waves on an electroencephalograph (EEG) with specific commands.
Dr. Eldon Byrd, a Navy medical engineer with a graduate degree from George Washington University, worked on the Polaris weapon system as an engineer, worked for Naval Surface Weapons Office, was tasked in 1980- 1981 by the US Marine Corps as Project manager to develop non-lethal electromagnetic weapons for purposes including “riot control”, clandestine operations and hostage removal. Worked on ELF, non-linear magnetics. He worked with Ross Adey, Dr. Elizabeth Roscher, Michael Persinger on the ability to entrain human brainwaves at a distance. And he said, “We accomplished it.” 1980. His project went dark after that. It was taken away from him. He had it confirmed from a senator—Senator Pell—confirmed for him that his project went dark. Byrd was quoted in a lecture around 2001 as saying, “Is Mind Control Possible? Absolutely. There is a mountain of evidence.” He went on to say that, “Today we know there are technologies that can induce sound into the brain at a distance, can monitor and alter brainwaves at a distance, can alter behavior at a distance, can induce images into the brain at a distance, can target individual organs at a distance. Can disrupt the calcium ions binding on individual cell surfaces at a distance, creating pain and other effects anywhere in the body. Mind control technology exists, without a question.” Less than a year later, Dr. Byrd was dead. Maybe it was a coincidence.
A 1980 NASA document [NASA abstract Report Number: AD-A090426, June 1, 1980] described that one can remotely create the perception of noise in the heads of personnel by exposing them to low power, pulsed microwave…. By proper choice of pulse characteristics, intelligible speech may be created . 1980. Yes, 1980.
For further documentation, I recommend the following webpage: http://educate-yourself.org/mc/listofmcsymptoms05jun03.shtml. This webpage documents that there is truly a mountain of evidence about these terrifying weapons. Some highlights include the PROVEN capabilities to induce false memories in the brain, Subliminal command implantation into the brain to modify behavior (including suppressing dissidents).
Finally, In July 1996, the Spotlight, a widely circulated right-wing U.S. newspaper, reported that well-placed DoD sources have confirmed a classified Pentagon contract for the development of “high-power electromagnetic generators that interfere with human brain waves.” Dr. Emery Horvath, a professor of physics at Harvard University, has stated in connection to these generators,”These electronic ‘skull-zappers’ are designed to invade the mind and short circuit its synapses… in the hands of government technicians, it may be used to disorient entire crowds, or to manipulate individuals into self-destructive acts. It’s a terrifying weapon.”
To quote José Delgado in his book Physical Control of the Mind: Toward A Psychocivilized Society, p. 116:
Individuals whose brain centers are electrically stimulated believe their evoked actions are their own ideas; their conscious mind rationalizes the evoked actions away. People experiencing this electrical stimulation aren’t consciously aware of an external influence.
In summary, these weapons have the ability to mentally and physically torture people, and to influence human psychological behavior. With, or even WITHOUT the target’s knowledge or awareness.
SUMMARY OF THE PROGRAM AND ITS IMPLICATIONS
In summary, we have a program which includes the earmarks of past programs including COINTELPRO and MK-Ultra. It also uses collaboration of regular people to carry out much of the harassment, similar to Stasi or Zersetzen torture of the prior East Germany. Furthermore, it uses advanced neuro-weapons to mentally and physically torture victims from a distance– whether in their homes, workplaces, or wherever they may go. The goals of the program are many, but ultimately boil down to torture, control, discrediting, and neutralization–exactly the same goals as the prior COINTELPRO, MK-ULTRA, and Stasi or Zersetzen torture. While some victims may be chosen at random, many cases, upon examination, are shown to be perpetrated against activists, whistleblowers, and those who have spoken out against corruption. The consequences are severe. Most targets lose their jobs, homes, and/or their families. Many end up on dangerous medications or institutionalized. Some end up committing suicide or homicide.
Of course, the implications for humanity are frightening. Is it possible we are heading toward a synthetic reality, where people’s thoughts, conversations, hopes, dreams, illnesses, major life events are controlled by supercomputers and handlers, all without their knowledge?
Is our society becoming one in which no-one can be trusted, with everyone spying on everyone else? With a large percentage of the population becoming government informants and spying collaborators?
Are we developing a class of people with “less” rights, who can be harassed at will, even as we all slowly have our rights eroded? If so, doesn’t that sound like a totalitarian regime such as Nazi Germany?
WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Several things. First of all, targets must speak out. Especially those who have their wits about them. This program is highly disruptive, and is specifically designed to make even the most solid citizen look as if they have become delusional. Compounding the problem, many targets are either forced to, or willingly take powerful psychiatric medications in hopes of decreasing the severe attacks they are suffering, or to appease skeptical friends and family members. In the case of real mental illness, this should resolve the symptoms. In the case of TI’s, it does not stop the torture and harassment and manipulation of their lives.
So, that leads to the next point. If you know someone who this is happening to—don’t count them as crazy. They may be a victim of this program. Recognize that the issues they were speaking about before they got into their current situation are still just as valid now as they were before . In fact, it was probably the very legitimacy of their issues that led powerful forces to want to discredit them so thoroughly. Remember that.
Whistleblowers must come forward who are aware of this program.
Fearless journalists must pursue the story. It was investigative journalists who brought widespread attention to MK-ULTRA, COINTELPRO, and much of the unethical experimentation that has occurred in the USA.
Targets must come together. There is strength in numbers. Targets should never give up the fight.
Finally, Congress MUST thoroughly investigate the intelligence agencies, DOD research programs, and black operations. The targeted individual program is happening. It’s not science fiction. It needs to be EXPOSED AND SHUT DOWN FOREVER. Thank you for your attention.
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Suzanne Maher/The Liberty Beacon: The Human Target – Directed Energy Weapons and Electronic Warfare
Posted on September 5, 2018 by Ramola D | 3 comments
–Posted 9/5/2018
Re-posted with permission of author Suzanne Maher, leading geoengineering/chem trails/stratospheric aerosol researcher and activist, who writes and posts critically important information about our current technocratic and dystopian reality at Bye Bye Blue Sky, also a staff writer for The Liberty Beacon, where this article was first published. In the United States as in many other countries worldwide, the issue of unlawful targeting and assaulting humans with publicly undisclosed Anti-Personnel or Counter-Personnel Directed Energy Weapons or Non-Lethal Weapons developed over the past few decades for use in Electronic Warfare as well as “Homeland Security” by the Department of Defense as well as the Justice Department is very real, and continues to be covered closely at this site. This wide-ranging article covers some of the classified technologies being used on people, the phenomenon of “Targeted Individuals” — which mainstream media, led by profiteering and sociopathic entities in the Intelligence Community and military, criminally refuses to cover, dismissing all reporting victims of these technologies as delusional, reports of neuro experimentation and covert implantation, and ways in which those targeted can deflect the deadly health effects of these pernicious and inhumane technologies and protect themselves from such criminal human rights violations. Many thanks to Suzanne Maher for this detailed and comprehensive article.
The Human Target – Directed Energy Weapons and Electronic Warfare [Video]
The Human Target – Directed Energy Weapons and Electronic Warfare
by Suzanne Maher | TLB contributing writer
A subject that is getting more and more attention from people all over the world is deliberate electromagnetic targeting of people. A neural rape or assault on people’s bodies and brains developed from classified military technology. More often now, people are valiantly speaking out about being a “Targeted Individual”.
This is a subject that has not surprisingly received little to no attention from the corporate owned media. It is disconcerting enough that the world is now saturated in dangerous elf/ulf/vlf/rf/ and so many other types of frequency waves which permeate our bodily tissues causing serious degradation of our health. There is also a Military Intelligence Program that is gaining world wide recognition which uses these “smart grid” frequencies to target individuals.
Electronic Warfare and the Targeted Individual
Electronic warfare is defined as any military action involving the use of electromagnetic and directed energy to control the electromagnetic spectrum to attack the enemy. The Navy calls this “electromagnetic battle management”. Who would that enemy combatant be; a person or persons that is seen as so seemingly dangerous or threatening to the power structure?
That enemy would be you and I….
For those unfamiliar with the term “TI or Targeted Individuals”, it is important to note there are different methodologies that the functionaries or agents apply to targeted individuals carried out by various government programs or agency initiatives. This article discusses individuals targeted by; remote neural monitoring, mind control, brain mapping, gang stalking, implants, voice to skull technology (V2K) which beams frequencies into the head, and nervous system manipulation 24 hours a day. Targeting can be covert, or overt.
This classified technology has been created by governments and military and used on its own citizens. Helpless citizens which have been victimized by BILLION DOLLARgovernment funded technology designed for quiet wars, to create harm. What the powers that be are looking for is RESPONSES, which they can track, measure and log. This in effect, is an omnipresent electromagnetic gulag in the privacy of your own home, workplace, or streets.
Funding for many experiments has been provided by the United States Government, particularly the United States Military, the Central Intelligence Agencies and private corporations involved with military activities. These human research programs have been highly secretive, and in many cases information about them was not released until many years after the studies had been performed. After the incidents are exposed, the standing President is trotted out to issue a counterfeit apology, as if apologies somehow make up for the destruction of lives.
Targeting can be done by radio-frequency weapons, high powered microwave technology and acoustic technology. These are deliberately orchestrated attacks and TI’s will suffer from these assaults even when exposure to frequencies are reduced. Some TI’s report that the constant barrage of electromagnetic radiation also brings with it multiple chemical sensitivity.
Unethical human experimentation has been conducted on citizen for decades, and we have seen large swaths of the population being subjected to cruel and inhumane treatment, often the sick and vulnerable and economically depressed.
One example of this unethical government research was the classified human radiation experiments conducted on over 4,000 innocent American citizens during the Cold War. These and a number of other clandestine human experiments are discussed in this article by By Alan R. Cantwell Jr., M.D.
THE HUMAN RADIATION EXPERIMENTS — How scientists secretly used U.S. citizens as guinea pigs during the Cold War
http://whale.to/a/cantwell9.html
The elites have their warfare covered, microwave targeting is one more assault on our individual person hood. Mutagenics, transgenics, epigenetics, endocrine disrupters, free radical and radiation damage. When we now look at our world we see the multi pronged attack of the chemical spraying of our skies, genetically modified food stuffs, vaccines, fluoride and “microwave targeting of peoples”.
Our bodies and brains may be accessed to harass and torment us in the New World Order and Smart Grid Infrastructure. We the people are guinea pigs of technology and test subjects for many government experiments.
Project Pandora is an early example of a U.S. Government microwave experiment on animals from 1965 to 1970;
http://www.topsecretwriters.com/2013/09/project-pandora-and-us-government-microwave-experiments-on-animals/
The use of hidden directives such as ‘DOD Directive 5240.1-r – Procedure 13 Human Experimentation for Intelligence Purposes’ allows for the testing and evaluation of any technology on any U.S. Person and those foreigners living on U.S. soil. This ‘directive not law’ has been unethically and inhumanly passed from agency to agency and contractor to contractor resulting in TORTURE TESTING ON HUMAN BEINGS (defined as U.S. Persons).
Anyone who is part of the new media, the truther movement, or a front line activist, will most likely have experienced some kind of targeting. The general population at large is also subjected to microwave targeting.
We all have been sprayed with micro processors, micro sensors, nano bots, smart dust, etc., from the chemical engineering of our skies and the manipulation of our weather. Nano is a Greek word which means “Dwarf”. A nanometer is a billionth of a meter and this tech is so small it can fit inside a blood vessel, our bodies and brains have no firewall against this nano technology . It is simply a matter of “activating or turning on” the Program that has been implanted in our bodies with the use of frequencies or DEW’s. We are all vulnerable to this type of attack and some TI’s have had implants show up in various scans and x-rays. Implants are capable of transmitting voice signals, high voltage pulses, emitting a small tracking beacon signal, or other unspecified uses.
Thank you to Advances Electronic Security Company for these photos
This technology which is networking inside us, is the Program which allows the powers that be to have full scale access to our brains and our bodies to manipulate as they wish. This is the New World Order System of Artificial Intelligence, Smart Grid Infrastructure and The Internet of Things. The engine the world is now running on is derived on the premise of “keeping the Program in tact”. Attempting to separate us from consciousness and severing our neural network.
With the advent of 5G technology, microwave radiation will be increased exponentially using small millimeter waves small cell deployment. This could mean wireless antennas on every lamp post, utility pole, home and business throughout entire neighborhoods, towns and cities It does this by using largely untapped bandwidth of the millimeter wave (MMW), which is between 30GHz and 300GHz, as well as some lower and mid-range frequencies.GHz is a unit of frequency equal to one billion hertz. Humans oscillate at approximately 7.83 hertz otherwise known as the Schumann Resonance. Since our bodies resonate at a very low hertz, they simply cannot handle the inundation of this microwave technology. A bodily inferno created by an unregulated, unapproved, lay it down everywhere tech. Moreover, with this updated 5G tech, it will allow the Program now being activated in our bodies to take on a much more aggressive role, because the AI feeds off these frequencies.
Dangers to the human brain and body from electromagnetic radiation are immeasurable, the scale is so large. Dr. Elizabeth Plourde of emffreedom.com says that; “We can liken this assault to being machine gunned. All of our cells are getting holes and leaking, our blood brain barrier is getting holes and leaking and our gut is leaking. “Electromagnetic and Radiofrequency Fields Effect on Human Health
https://www.aaemonline.org/emf_rf_position.php
Artificial Intelligence and Mind Control
The Artificial Intelligence Program can and will induce anything it wishes. It can be a disease, emotional distress, brain targeting, genital targeting. Our moods and emotions are being manipulated and controlled through Artificial Intelligence and work in concert with these frequencies.
Ask yourself when you feel lower vibratory emotions of; disgust, fear, anger, violence, sexual thoughts, jealousy, etc., are these my own emotions, or implanted emotions through these frequencies and the AI technology?
The frequency hit will induce a physiological, emotional, physical response, attacking brain waves. Unless people know about Targeted Individuals and the Artificial Intelligence Program, they will not understand these invasions. The Artificial Intelligence is overriding us and our cellular matrix. The program can do virtually anything it wishes.
Mind control is a frequent report from targeted individuals. Torture is also a frequent report from TI’s. Many tactics and means are employed. There are a number of ways to target individuals; electronic telepathy, microwaves and electromagnetics, holography, lasers, radio frequency energy beams, satellites, and radar to name some. Targeting of people in this manner using directed energy weapons will prompt extreme distress and may lead to get them diagnosed as schizophrenics so they will be marginalized and maligned by friends, family and community.
One well known individual targeted with directed energy weapons is Dr. Katherine Horton;
This is silent, encroaching warfare, dripping like a slow running faucet, and many find it difficult to come to terms with the fact that it actually exists and our governments would be criminal enough to use it against populations. This experimental warfare is done under the cloak of National Security, which is always a cover for plausible deniability.
Elana Freeland, author and researcher of the book “Chemtrails, HAARP and the Full Spectrum Dominance of Planet Earth” has in depth knowledge on the subject of targeted individuals. She personally knows a number of TI’s and also ghost writes for some.
Freeland discusses in her very detailed essay Directed Energy Weapons For Political Control, in Nexus Magazine, “The Non-Lethal’s” You Don’t Hear About, and says this; “Then there are the EM weapons that are even less public because they are used covertly for political control in quiet war against populations, dissidents and individuals displeasing to various powers that be. Examples include laser systems (free electron, x-ray, neutral particle beam, chemical oxygen iodine, mid-infrared advanced chemical laser, etc.) delivering blurred vision and holograms, ion-beam plasma and augmented reality mind control delivered by satellites that first track targets via their bio-energetic signatures and then couples plasma with their EM fields; and of course non aural carriers that directly induce silent, subliminal messages into the brain, often known as voice to skull (V2K) or synthetic telepathy. In line with Cold War secrecy and deceit, thousands of non consensual human subjects have been used for target practice of weaponized electromagnetics.”
Freeland goes on to say; “In homes and walls, offices across the nation millimeter wave scanners are penetrating walls, looking for target brains for microwave transmitters to beam specific mood inducing excitation potentials into. Other people in the room will be oblivious to the fact that an excitation potential for suicide or murder is resetting the brain of their friend or relative for depression or rage. (This technology may have been behind the “suicides” of political activist Abbie Hoffman, singer Kurt Cobain, journalist Gary Web, etc., etc.,”)
U.S. Patents also attest that the capability is there to target individuals with frequencies;
Nervous system manipulation by electromagnetic fields from monitors
US 6506148 B2
https://www.google.com/patents/US6506148
“Voice to Skull” Microwave Device – U.S. Patent 4,877,027
Thank you to Clyde Lewis of Ground Zero for this photo depicting how Voice to Skull Microwave is used:
Extremely low frequencies and microwaves can cause agitation in humans and these frequencies have been known to cause serious illness and eventual death. Moreover, mind control through sound wave technology would be the ultimate non-lethal weapon; stealth warfare. Remember, this experimentation is to log, monitor, track and assess an individual’s response to this electronic harassment. The Orwellian Nightmare come to fruition.
It’s clear that we have a shadow government that is puppeteering this psychotronic fantasy. In a book written by Zbigniew Brzezinski (co-founder of the Trilateral Commission), entitled Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technotronic Era published in 1970, he writes; “Speaking of a future at most only decades away, an experimenter in intelligence control asserted, “I foresee a time when we shall have the means and therefore, inevitably, the temptation to manipulate the behavior and intellectual functioning of all the people through environmental and biochemical manipulation of the brain.”
The elites and their minions have been marching to the beat of their “Brave New World” for decades.
Torture: Physical, Mental & Psychological
TI’s suffer enormously and some common health related issues that TI’s deal with are listed onTargeted Individuals Association;
http://targetedindividualsua.weebly.com/ti.html
Direct pain in the body that tends to get worse and more severe, pain the in the spinal cord or back, lethargic and aching pains, pain in the back of the head, pain in the amygdala or the limbic system, pain in the forehead or front lob, cooked brain (slight heating of the brain to induce synthetic emotional states or stress disorders, electroshocks in the brain, involuntary body movements caused by nervous system attacks, pain the the chest, palpitations and adrenal rushes, toothaches, gum bleeding, mild heart attacks, pain in vital organs, electronic sexual “rapes” during sleep or while awake, are just some of the torture tactics TI’s have to endure, notwithstanding the mind control, surveillance, isolation and vilification from society.
One individual who has been electronically targeted is Robert Stanson. Stanson [pictured here] has been targeted for over two years. The targeting has created havoc and upheaval in his life. He was targeted neurally and genitally to the point of extreme discomfort wherein he couldn’t stand comfortably in one location. He would experience sharp jolts to the head, heart palpitations, acute pains to the body, stomach distress and fear of going out in public. Stanson’s quality of life was sharply declining and he took proactive counter measures to battle the assaults. TI’s are left to their own devices to find ways to battle this weaponry since the health/police/judicial communities have long since abandoned the people they serve and collude with those harming us.
Stanson developed a Reverse Polarity Helmet and Anti Polarity Cup, in effect, fight frequency with frequency. Jam the attacks being directed at him. He states that he has slowly worked up to wearing his helmet daily, and states the targeting has measurably decreased and is able to sleep through the night, thinks more clearly, and negative lower vibratory emotions have ceased. He can now reach a comfort state with a marked amelioration in symptoms. The helmet and the cup are very good ideas to protect our DNA and genetic code.
More and more TI’s are standing up against these assaults and finding ways to help mitigate the devastating impacts the targeting has had on their lives. The items Robert has created, corroborate with other researchers and their technologies like Health Researcher Tony Pantalleresco’s Electromagnetic Frequency Pulser that can also jam the frequency attacks .
Please watch Robert’s you tube videos to make the helmet and the cup. If you are dexterity challenged, Robert will make the items for you.
How To Make the Reverse Polarity Magnet Helmet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KabgGmMuVjo
This is “The Bugsweep’s Electrostatic Active Shield System” which protects the targeted individual from directed energy attacks. The transmission panels emit an electrostatic energy that forms a protective field. Any directed energy attack is deflected off this energy field giving the targeted individual the ability to get on-going relief.
There are also well written books exposing this targeting, such as; Guinea Pigs Technologies of Control authored by Dr. John Hall,
https://www.amazon.com/Guinea-Pigs-Technologies-John-Hall/dp/163135552X
Well known MK Ultra survivor and CIA Mind Control Slave, Cathy O’Brien in her book “Access Denied For Reasons of National Security” wrote about the agenda that Cheney, Bush, and other global elite ushering in the New World Order totally believe in; the plan mapped out by Artificial Intelligence. They were allowing Technology to dictate global control. “Life is like a video game,” Bush once told me at the rural multi-million dollar Lampe, Missouri CIA mind control training camp complex designed for Black Ops Special Forces where torture and virtual reality technologies were used. “Since I have access to the technological source of the plans, I dictate the rules of the game.”
These actions are HUMAN AND CIVIL RIGHTS ABUSES, and all equate to HUMAN TORTURE of millions of citizens TODAY.
This experimentation and torture is very real and very painful. We cannot be free while hooked up to a monitor and surveyed, tracked, monitored and assessed. We know mind control harassment through covert and overt practices is a program designed to create apathy, distress and ill health, while stifling spiritual evolution.
The Nuremberg Code was created to protect people after World War II from government malfeasance and precisely this type of silent weaponry. This is a sea of bio energetic torture that we cannot see, taste or smell. How do we fight an invisible enemy and their acts of war against their citizens? Should these inhumane torturous acts be allowed to continue to genocidal proportions?
We are now knee deep in World War III, although many still cannot see it, the AI program is now overriding cognitive thought and intellectual rationalization. People find more comfort now with their cellular devices than human companionship. Socialization, intimacy and communication have been replaced by the wireless tentacles threatening to subsume our human existence. This must change so we can evolve and see the “big picture” and what the elites have designed for humanity. The power structure is silently attempting to disarm us psycho spiritually, cognitively and physically through this electromagnetic warfare.
Sun Tzu a Chinese general, military strategist, and philosopher stated that; “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting”.
It’ s up to us, we the people to step back from this technological prison and become fully aware of the dictates of the NWO game and the secret government operations that are using technology against us. Once we understand their game we can assume spiritual and physical healing. Truth and wisdom is our path to reconciliation and peace.
We need to recognize exactly what these frequency attacks are doing to us and look within and apply vigilance and healthy coping mechanisms. We do have the power and the counter measures to reject these attacks and assimilation. We must bring these crimes to light.
Thank you to all the TI’s and individuals sharing their stories and helping educate others about this subject.
About Susan Maher: She is the founder of ByeByeBlueSky.com, an anti-geoengineering activist, researcher and blogger. She devotes all her time to educating people on these deadly programs and believes it is everyone’s moral, social and ethical responsibility to awaken others to geoengineering (and programs beyond) and to do something about them. She does many forms of outreach to communicate her message such as; educational social media sites, hosting public events, awareness sessions, interviews, speaking engagements, and has launched over 20 awareness billboards across North America communicating Bye Bye Blue Sky’s mission.
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Article Links and Resources:
Targeted Individuals Worldwide – Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/susieogren365/
Robert Stanson’s TI Support Page
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiKUcbkiBxQ&feature=share
Advances Electronic Security Company, Specialists in Electronic Countermeasure Security
http://www.bugsweeps.com/info/electronic_harassment.html
Organized Crime of Covert Electronic Assault, Stalking and Surveillance New Zealand
http://www.organised-crime-of-covert-electronic-assault-nz.com/
Chem Trails & Nanotech Rain: Wake up and Recognize Humanity is Being Exterminated—You Must Act
Need to Know Report No. 8: Detox & Stop Depop Nanotechnology/Aerosols with Suzanne Maher and Tony Pantelleresco
Ramola D Reports/Report #14: Elana Freeland – Takeover of Humanity: Transhumanism, Nanotech, 5G, Chem Trails, HAARP
Posted in Activism, Chem Trails, EMF Radiation/Sonic Neuroweapons, emr weapons, Targeted Individuals, targeting individuals, The Matrix is Collapsing, Transhumanism, Waking Up
Tagged Directed Energy Weapons, Electronic Warfare, Targeted Individuals, targeting
Suspected DEW attack on Retired American Doctor in California
Posted on July 3, 2018 by Ramola D | 6 comments
–Ramola D/Posted 7/2/2018
Dr. Edward Spencer, retired Yale and Stanford-trained neurologist as well as current researcher of human history reports that he may have been the victim of a suspected Directed Energy Weapon attack last week on his GI tract when he woke from a brief evening nap one weekday evening to find himself copiously bleeding. He has been admitted to a San Francisco medical facility where he has undergone a surgical procedure and is recovering, although currently battling a colon infection and seeking to recover his strength.
Dr. Spencer spoke to this writer from the ambulance transporting him to the hospital and subsequently over the past week from his hospital room.
Prior to this attack, Dr. Spencer had been keeping good health and had in fact sounded in good spirits over the phone to this writer just a few hours earlier.
Misleading Mainstream Media Coverage on Cuba/China “Sonic” Attacks Does Not Obviate Reality of Ongoing Directed Energy Weapons Testing/Training Contracts in US
It should be noted that despite CIA-led mainstream media coyness currently in reporting DEW attacks on US diplomats in Cuba and China as “bizarre,” “mystifying,” and a “mystery,” and State Department officials (well-coached by CIA?) supposedly saying (to the New York Times) they were “baffled” and “confounded” and “flummoxed,” as if there were no precedent for such reports, and as if the DOD’s Joint Non Lethal Weapons program and Electronic Warfare weaponry programs did not exist—and as if the USAF/Navy/Army & Military contractors General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin and others were not testing their Directed Energy Weapons on Americans, which federal contracts and whistleblowers prove they are—it is well-known that thousands if not millions of Americans and citizens worldwide have been openly approaching media as well as HR groups like ACLU and Amnesty International with cries for help and accounts of painful assault with EMF weapons, DEWs, and neuroweapons for over two decades now.
In other words, despite lies of omission and commission published by controlled mainstream media, some educated citizens are perfectly aware that non-consensual weapons testing of EMF weapons on Americans is going on, and non-consensual experimentation as well as undisclosed and invasive neuro and physical DOJ/FBI surveillance with classified “dual-use” technologies—reported here earlier—is underway.
Not everyone in the reading public however is aware, given the control over mainstream media by the dark forces in this country who seek to keep Americans dumbed-down and uninformed. This precise problem is being addressed currently by a US-Europe Joint Investigation Team campaign-in-planning to inform doctors and psychiatrists of the reality of covert military experimentation and Spectrum weapon-use on Americans, and the pressing humane need to provide medical and surgical care to such citizens, whom the military and Intelligence agencies work to discredit by having doctors and hospitals dismiss them as “mentally ill” and “delusional” and “paranoid” in order to keep their Mengele-style New World Dysorder experiments deathly quiet.
Hospitals are Not Sanctuaries for Patients from Targeted Directed Energy Weapon Attacks
Fearing that he may be the recipient of ongoing microwave weapon assault while in the hospital—not an idle speculation given the many reports of others who have experienced electromagnetic assault even inside hospitals (pulse shots to head and body parts)–a phenomenon experienced also by this writer, at Brigham Women’s Hospital in Boston, Quincy Walk-In Care and Quincy Satellite Emergency Medical Center in Quincy, and reported publicly on the JIT weekly broadcast at Techno Crime Fighters’ Forum—Dr. Spencer sought to obtain shielding of some kind to protect his body, including at the region of his heart, where he was monitored to show a slight fibrillation, and requested a lead apron from the nurse on duty, which unfortunately elicited quite some resistance from her and other staff.
This writer was present on the phone during this request when the nurse attempted to relay to the doctor that “no-one was being microwaved at the hospital” and that she “didn’t want him to be anxious about microwaves.” Dr. Spencer, rightfully, informed the nurse she had no idea what she was talking about and that she needed to quiet down and listen to others who knew better about what was going on. On his request, this writer informed the nurse about her research, reportage, and publishing in this area, conveying the authenticity of this information—that indeed American civilians are being attacked with microwave weapons, millimeter wave weapons, and neuroweapons—as borne out by DOD/DOJ Memoranda of Understanding, military weapons-testing contracts, and the revelations of whistleblowers.
Finally, reports Dr. Spencer, a lead apron was provided.
Important Discussions on Scanning Reporting Victims Interrupted
It is interesting to note that the day this attack occurred, Dr. Spencer had just called this writer across the continent in Boston to declare his interest in seeking out and establishing scientific scanning operations in the USA for those wrongfully targeted and over-surveilled members of the public who are reporting covert and criminal RFID implantation as well as covert assault with electromagnetic neuroweapons—both related to ongoing US Military and Intelligence-Agency abuse of surveillance with non-consensual experimentation rolled in, a human rights and High-Tech subject frequently covered by this writer–and to suggest a later conversation that night on the subject.
Scanning and RFID detection under controlled Faraday-cage conditions requires the participation of scientists, radiologists, or University physicists with access to the right kind of spectral and EMF detection equipment, and is something that is greatly needed today as more and more Americans come forward to report the egregious crimes of remote access and assault of their bodies and brains with through-wall surveillance radar, microwave weapons, sonic weapons, Active Denial Systems infra-red heat weapons and others which leave burns, lesions, blisters, rashes, and scars, or administer remote electrical shocks and vibrations, or inject synthetic sounds, images, smells, voices, and dreams into skulls.
In Europe, human rights organizations such as ICAACT and ICATOR have set up scanning sessions for reporting victims.
Scanning for radio frequencies either received on the human body from satellites or celltowers or seemingly emitted from localized spots on the body has indeed previously established the detectable presence of non-consensual implants at various sites including the skull, spine, and heart for various individuals. However, experienced and qualified scanners are few and far between, and until Universities open their doors to assisting reporting victims of these crimes with such scanning and follow-up surgical removal, Americans will it appears continue to suffer these abuses being perpetrated by the Military Industrial Intelligence Complex under cover of classified and non-classified research activities, criminal justice activities, and intelligence collection activities.
Scanning therefore is most important, and the efforts of medical professionals such as Dr. Spencer in this area would be invaluable.
Dr. Spencer reports that he suffered a similar GI attack only one time earlier, several years ago when he was headed to Kuala Lumpur to give a presentation on the hazards and toxins contained in the swine flu vaccine. On both occasions his efforts also to share the fruits of some of his research into human origins and other planetary species through radio talks and online video shows had been gaining prominence.
Dr. Spencer also reports disruptions in the visual field and has provided to doctors at Pacific Medical Center this important article stored at NIH online on microwave effects on the brain: Effects of microwave radiation on brain energy metabolism and related mechanisms by Yan-Hui Hao, Li Zhao, Rui-Yun Peng/Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine.
Additionally, Dr. Spencer reports an EMF protection device using Tesla technology he had purchased over Amazon.com, which he had kept under his pillow, only to wake in the middle of a medical crisis–something he therefore suspects as possibly instrumental in the attack on him and wishes to explore further.
This writer is working on getting some useful shielding to Dr. Spencer to shield his head and heart from pulsed microwaves, and to help him determine whether indeed he is being hit from the outside.
For all readers seeking to shield or to learn if you are being hit similarly when afflicted with sudden medical emergencies or random pains: a shield made from basic Teflon-coated bakeware such as a small cookie/baking sheet or pie pan, covered with Reflectix, which is aluminium bubble-wrap used in home insulation, and then wrapped in foam craft sheets you can get from a children’s craft store, will indeed record the audible pulse shots from a PEP weapon—a Pulsed Energy Projectile weapon or a high-powered microwave weapon—and can be recorded. These weapons are mentioned in Navy and Air Force contracts. Of course, EMF detectors and meters will also record pulse shots.
Posted in electronic harassment, electronic surveillance, EMF Radiation/Sonic Neuroweapons, emr weapons, neuroweaponry, non-lethal weapons, Waking Up
Tagged California, DEBR, DEW attack, DEW testing, Directed Energy Weapon, Dr. Edward Spencer, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Pulsed Energy Projectile, Scanning
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Finite-Weber-number motion of bubbles through a nearly inviscid liquid
Volodymyr I. Kushch, Ashok S. Sangani, Peter D.M. Spelt, Donald L. Koch
Department of Biomedical & Chemical Engineering
A method is described for computing the motion of bubbles through a liquid under conditions of large Reynolds and finite Weber numbers. Ellipsoidal harmonics are used to approximate the shapes of the bubbles and the flow induced by the bubbles, and a method of summing flows induced by groups of bubbles, using a fast multipole expansion technique is employed so that the computational cost increases only linearly with the number of bubbles. Several problems involving one, two and many bubbles are examined using the method. In particular, it is shown that two bubbles moving towards each other in an impurity-free, inviscid liquid touch each other in a finite time. Conditions for the bubbles to bounce in the presence of non-hydrodynamic forces and the time for bounce when these conditions are satisfied are determined. The added mass and viscous drag coefficients and aspect ratio of bubbles are determined as a function of bubble volume fraction and Weber number.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022112002008145
Published - Jun 10 2002
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Kushch, V. I., Sangani, A. S., Spelt, P. D. M., & Koch, D. L. (2002). Finite-Weber-number motion of bubbles through a nearly inviscid liquid. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 460, 241-280. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022112002008145
Finite-Weber-number motion of bubbles through a nearly inviscid liquid. / Kushch, Volodymyr I.; Sangani, Ashok S.; Spelt, Peter D.M.; Koch, Donald L.
In: Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 460, 10.06.2002, p. 241-280.
Kushch, VI, Sangani, AS, Spelt, PDM & Koch, DL 2002, 'Finite-Weber-number motion of bubbles through a nearly inviscid liquid', Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 460, pp. 241-280. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022112002008145
Kushch VI, Sangani AS, Spelt PDM, Koch DL. Finite-Weber-number motion of bubbles through a nearly inviscid liquid. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2002 Jun 10;460:241-280. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022112002008145
Kushch, Volodymyr I. ; Sangani, Ashok S. ; Spelt, Peter D.M. ; Koch, Donald L. / Finite-Weber-number motion of bubbles through a nearly inviscid liquid. In: Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2002 ; Vol. 460. pp. 241-280.
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Bryan Fischer: By Letting Muslim Give Prayer at RNC, Republicans Invited “Demon-God” Into Party July 21, 2016 Hemant Mehta
Bryan Fischer: By Letting Muslim Give Prayer at RNC, Republicans Invited “Demon-God” Into Party
Leave it to Christian Right leader Bryan Fischer to complain about one of the few bits of diversity seen on stage at the Republican National Convention.
Referring to Sajid Tarar, head of American Muslims for Trump, who delivered the closing prayers on Tuesday night, Fischer argued that Republicans had “collectively committed the sin of idolatry.” And then it got worse.
“The Republican Party last night allowed a demonic power to be invited into its building,” he said.
Fischer said Republicans at the event “collectively committed the sin of idolatry” by observing the prayer and committed a “dangerous” act by inviting “a demon-God into its party.”
“Multiculturalism, ladies and gentlemen, is simply a six syllable [word] for cultural suicide,” he continued, pleading with the party to “clean up this mess” by asking a Christian preacher to pray over the event.
1) Multiculturalism has seven syllables, not six.
2) There is no shortage of Christian preachers praying at this event.
3) Tarar gave a passing mention of “the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)” in his address, but it wasn’t even in a reverent way. He used the generic “God” everywhere else. Hell, a Christian preacher could have given a prayer that was 99% identical to this one and no one would have noticed.
So what the hell is Fischer freaked out about?! It’s clear that he didn’t actually hear the prayer. He just knew the man was Muslim, saw the brown skin, and jumped to every negative conclusion he could come up with.
For Fischer, the Republican Party is merely an extension of evangelical Christianity and any deviation from that — even by way of token speakers meant to appeal to groups that want nothing to do with the GOP — is blasphemy.
(via Right Wing Watch)
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When the weather turns warmer and the grass grows greener, it’s easier to understand the promise of new life and renewed hope that Christians proclaim as “Easter people.”
As we celebrate the Easter season, the 50 days after the resurrection, we see reminders all around us. So be sure to keep an eye out on your next spring stroll.
The robin, a very common bird in the U.S., has a red breast and a legend to explain it. Seems that once a gray robin flew to Christ’s crown of thorns to draw out a thorn, and when it did, a drop of Christ’s blood fell on its breast, leaving a stain forevermore.
It takes lots of buzzing bees to spread the pollen and make flowers grow. The honey these creatures create is a biblical symbol of God’s favor. The Torah agrees, for it describes God’s promised land again and again as “flowing with milk and honey.”
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I believe in my heart that faith in Jesus Christ can and will lead us beyond an exclusive concern for the well-being of other human beings, to a broader concern for the well-being of the birds in our backyards, the fish in our rivers, and every living creature on the face of the earth. —John Wesley
Long considered a symbol of hope and new life, the daffodil is one of the blooms most often connected to the Resurrection. Tradition says that giving a gift of daffodils will ensure happiness for the receiver—but always give a bunch: a single bloom signals doom.
The flowering shrub known as the forsythia is what I call the Easter tree, because when its spidery branches are moving with the wind, they seem to be arms waving in praise of the season. According to tradition, forsythia means anticipation—an appropriate companion word for Resurrection.
It is said the dogwood tree used to grow straight and tall, but after it was used as a crucifix for Christ, God made it short and twisted with a thin trunk so it could never be used as a cross again. The dogwood bloom has four parts, each with a rusty red color on the end and a small hole, a reminder of where the nails were driven into the cross. The center stamens look like the crown of thorns.
The tradition that developed around these spring symbols helped explain the concept that God in the flesh took on death and came back to tell us there is life on the other side. What fantastic news!
This spring, be a witness to the good news that Christ is risen:
The four branches of dogwood blossoms remind people of the Cross. It is believed Christ’s crucifix was made from a dogwood. Photo by Cindy Caldwell.
Learn about the symbols and notice them when you are outdoors this season. Even better: plant some dogwoods and flowers in your yard and on the grounds of your church.
Fashion a cross from cuttings of spring flowers. Invite others to help. Set it out in front of your church, or even your house, for all to see.
Make (don’t buy) a gift for someone who needs to be reminded of the love of God made known in the Risen Christ.
Play. Not a video game or a phone app. Physically play. Move. Dance. Interestingly, the Irish jig and tap dancing have their roots in an early Saxon tradition called the “hop-egg.” The purpose was to step among a dozen eggs as if walking the Stations of the Cross. This egg dance is likely the distant relative of hopscotch.
The Council at Nicaea in 325 AD gave the Church a revised creed. The last line reads:” We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come.”
As Easter people, we don’t have to look further than spring for an exclamation point to that affirmation.
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COVID-19: Nigeria not expecting upsurge of fatality – FG
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Boss Mustapha, says the Federal Government is not expecting an upsurge of fatality in the fight against novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the country.
Mustapha, who is also the Chairman, Presidential Task Force (PTF), made the remark on Monday in Abuja during PTF daily briefing on COVID-19 in the country.
The chairman said there was keen interest by the government to ensure it did everything possible to flatten the curve of the pandemic in the country.
He, however, stated that the nation was in a difficulty moment fighting an unseen enemy.
The SGF disclosed that the government had received medical consumables from the United Nations to fight the disease and they were about five tonnes.
Speaking also, the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, said that the figure of confirmed cases of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country would fluctuate as more testing will be conducted.
Ehanire, while speaking on use of face mask, said that it did not have to be a hospital graded masks or surgical masks.
The minister added that the purpose was to shield a person from another.
“If you are in a neighborhood where many people have tested positive, you are advised to go for testing,” he said.
On mobility, he stressed that for health workers who had to travel far away, the arrangement would be made by their hospital.
Dr. Sani Aliyu, Coordinator of PTF on COVID-19, said that testing was not recommended in the absence of symptoms because COVID-19 might not show during incubation time.
Aliyu said that there was no room for massive community testing for COVID-19 in the country as it would be inefficient and expensive.
“What we should be doing is improving efficiency of the targeting of the tests.
“We also do not recommend doing the test in the absence of symptoms,” he said.
He, however, argued that “physical distancing” is a much more apt and appropriate term than “social distancing.”
”Physical distances are what we actually need to be maintaining as much as is possible at this time.
Meanwhile, speaking of Gender Base Violence, Aliyu said that the government would continue to protect the victims of domestic violence not just during the COVID-19 lockdown but at all times.
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to economic uncertainties, loss of jobs, increase in depression and more.
The incidences of domestic violence and sexual abuse rises as victims are forced to stay in the same location with abusers due to the lockdown.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has urged the government to help victims access support and voice out against injustice as well as end the violence against women and girls.
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Shows improvement in second year
Sample finished the 2020 season with 40 catches for 349 yards and his first NFL touchdown.
Analysis: While Sample won't be drawing comparisons to Travis Kelce anytime soon, the 2019 second-round pick from the University of Washington did make important strides, taking advantage of the playing time resulting from C.J. Uzomah's season-ending injury.
Published: Wed, Jan 13 at 11:31pm by Rotowire.com
Notches first career TD
Sample caught an eight-yard touchdown pass in Sunday's 37-31 win over the Texans.
Analysis: The 2019 second-round pick has produced some notable games this season with C.J. Uzomah (Achilles) out of the picture, but this was his first trip to the end zone. Sample has now produced a 38-334-1 line on 50 targets this season.
Published: Mon, Dec 28 at 12:41pm by Rotowire.com
Three catches in losing effort
Sample had three catches for 21 yards on four targets in Sunday's loss to the Cowboys.
Analysis: Sample's activity has picked up the last four weeks, as he's had four or more targets each of those games, but that hasn't translated into that much production. He still doesn't have a touchdown this season, and his highest yardage total in a game has been 52 yards.
Published: Mon, Dec 14 at 8:57pm by Rotowire.com
Elevated role in loss
Sample secured all seven targets for 49 yards in the Bengals' 19-7 loss to the Dolphins on Sunday.
Analysis: Sample surprisingly tied Tee Higgins for the team lead in targets while setting the pace in receptions, with slot receiver Tyler Boyd's first-half ejection likely playing a pivotal part in the tight end's elevated role. Sample has had numerous solid efforts during his second season, but Sunday's catch tally tied a career high, while his target total checked in as his second highest of the season. His production is likely to continue fluctuating week to week, but he could enjoy relatively robust…read more
Published: Sun, Dec 6 at 2:43pm by Rotowire.com
Giving away free Samples
Sample caught four passes for 40 yards on five targets, but also coughed up a critical fumble in Sunday's loss to the Giants.
Analysis: The fumble came in the fourth quarter deep in Bengals territory and ultimately led to the Giants' final field goal, one that would provide their margin of victory in the 19-17 game. The target and catch volume were Sample's highest since Week 7 however, and suggest he'll remain a bigger option in the passing game with Brandon Allen under center instead of Joe Burrow (knee).
Published: Mon, Nov 30 at 10:55pm by Rotowire.com
Another small Sample
Sample had two catches for 29 yards on four targets in Sunday's loss to the Football Team.
Analysis: Sample remains without an NFL touchdown through the first 19 games of his career. He didn't add much in the blocking aspect of the game either - he was the lowest rated offensive regular using Pro Football Focus's ratings, Jay Morrison of The Athletic reports.
Minimal activity
Sample had just one catch on two targets for nine yards in Sunday's loss to the Steelers.
Analysis: That's two consecutive games where Sample has been nearly invisible on offense, despite playing 57 snaps. Sample has yet to score this season, and outside of two games against Cleveland, he has had eight catches in the remaining seven Bengals games this year.
Published: Mon, Nov 16 at 6:53pm by Rotowire.com
Plays nearly every snap
Sample had five catches for 52 yards on six targets in Sunday's loss to the Browns, playing 73 offensive snaps, good for a 97 percent snap share.
Analysis: Sample is getting a good workload with C.J. Uzomah (Achilles) done for the year, but he hasn't yet scored this season despite eight red-zone targets, including three inside the 10 yard-line. Sample's not going to be a top-five tight end any time soon, but he's pretty close to breaking his season projection only halfway through the campaign.
Published: Tue, Oct 27 at 12:11am by Rotowire.com
First catchless game of 2020
Sample didn't catch his lone target in Sunday's 31-27 loss to the Colts.
Analysis: Sample has largely underwhelmed since C.J. Uzomah (Achilles) was ruled out for the season, as he's posted a 6-70-0 line while getting targeted just nine times over the last four games. He's getting plenty of playing time, recording at least a 75 percent snap share in each contest. The 2019 second-round pick's not dependable in redraft fantasy leagues, but he'll be a valuable DFS option if he happens to fall into the end zone.
Published: Tue, Oct 20 at 12:27pm by Rotowire.com
Only two targets
Sample caught both of his targets Sunday against the Ravens, netting 22 yards.
Analysis: The Bengals next face the Colts, who allowed 10 targets and five catches to Austin Hooper in Week 5, so Sample might have a bigger role Week 6.
Published: Mon, Oct 12 at 8:14pm by Rotowire.com
Very active day
Sample had three catches for 47 yards on five targets in the Bengals' win over Jacksonville on Sunday. He also was the targeted receiver on Joe Burrow's lone interception, a play in the end zone where Jaguars linebacker Myles Jack outfought Sample for the ball after it initially ricocheted off of Sample's facemask.
Analysis: Sample was on the field for 64 offensive plays (85 percent), more than any of the other Bengals running backs, wide receivers or fellow tight end Cethan Carter. Despite the end-zone miscue, he's becoming more than just a blocking or check-down tight end for Burrow.
Published: Mon, Oct 5 at 1:17pm by Rotowire.com
With C.J. Uzomah out for the season, Sample is in line for a permanent role at tight end with the Bengals, sharing the snaps with Cethan Carter and Mason Schreck.
Analysis: It was a bit of a surprise that the Bengals took Sample in the second round last season, especially as he had little in the way of receiving history at the University of Washington. Now with Uzomah out, Sample has been thrust into a prominent role as a check-down option for Joe Burrow beginning with a matchup against the Eagles, which just gave up three touchdowns to the Rams' Tyler Higbee last week.
Published: Mon, Sep 21 at 3:42pm by Rotowire.com
Co-team-high catch total in loss
Sample secured seven of 10 targets for 45 yards in the Bengals' 35-30 loss to the Browns on Thursday.
Analysis: The 2019 second-round pick's role in the passing game quickly become more prominent upon C.J. Uzomah's Achilles injury in the fourth quarter. Sample caught several short passes down the stretch as Joe Burrow checked down underneath against the Browns' nickel and dime defenses, and he was able to make good uses of his opportunities overall. The University of Washington product saw his rookie season cut short due to a Week 10 ankle injury, but if Uzomah's injury is deemed to be a long-term one,…read more
Published: Thu, Sep 17 at 9:45pm by Rotowire.com
Clean bill of health
Sample (ankle) is healthy and ready to go for 2020, James Rapien of Sports Illustrated reports.
Analysis: Sample's rookie season with the Bengals was cut short after he suffered a high-ankle sprain in Week 10, but prior to that he had accrued just 30 yards on five receptions. The 24-year-old was selected by Cincinnati in the second round of the 2019 NFL Draft. Despite playing a limited role on offense last season, Tyler Eifert's departure for Jacksonville could open up an expanded role in 2020. Sample will presumably compete with C.J. Uzomah for playing time and targets.
Published: Tue, Jun 23 at 5:14pm by Rotowire.com
Ticketed for expanded role
The Bengals expect Sample (ankle) to handle a larger role in 2020, Paul Dehner of The Athletic reports.
Analysis: The 2019 second-round pick operated as the Bengals' No. 3 tight end during his rookie season, recording five catches on 108 offensive snaps in nine games before a high-ankle sprain sent him to injured reserve. He'll now have a chance to take on some of the work that previously went to Tyler Eifert, who saw 63 targets last season before signing with the Jaguars in March. C.J. Uzomah is also a candidate to handle some of those snaps and targets, and he'll likely line up as the No. 1 tight end…read more
Published: Wed, Apr 8 at 7:00am by Rotowire.com
Lands on IR
Sample (ankle) was placed on injured reserve by the Bengals on Saturday, Tyler Dragon of The Cincinnati Enquirer reports.
Analysis: Sample suffered a high-ankle sprain Nov. 11 in a matchup with the Ravens. The severity of the injury will keep him out for the remainder of the year. Drafted in the second round, the rookie tight end will finish his season with five receptions for 30 yards in nine games.
Published: Sat, Dec 7 at 10:43am by Rotowire.com
Ruled out again
Sample (ankle) is ruled out for Sunday's tilt against the Browns, Tyler Dragon of The Cincinnati Enquirer reports.
Analysis: Sample is set to miss a fourth straight game due to his lingering right ankle injury. The Bengals will roll with Tyler Eifert, C.J. Uzomah, Mason Schreck and Cethan Carter at the tight end position in Cleveland on Sunday.
Published: Fri, Dec 6 at 10:49am by Rotowire.com
Remains out Week 13
Sample (ankle) has been ruled out for Sunday's game against the Jets, Jay Morrison of The Athletic reports.
Analysis: Sample will miss his third straight game since suffering the right ankle injury Week 10 against the Ravens. Tyler Eifert and C.J. Uzomah are the team's only healthy tight ends since Cethan Carter (concussion) also has been ruled out.
Published: Fri, Nov 29 at 10:44am by Rotowire.com
Dealing with serious ankle issue
Sample has a high-ankle sprain, and he's considered a candidate for IR, Ian Rapoport of NFL Network reports.
Analysis: Sample will undergo additional testing to determine a timeline for his return, but the winless Bengals may opt to shut down their rookie second-rounder to avoid him unnecessarily aggravating the injury. The nature of the injury will keep him out at least through Week 11's matchup against the Raiders. Cethan Carter will work as the No. 3 tight end in Sample's place.
Published: Tue, Nov 12 at 12:59pm by Rotowire.com
Sports walking boot
Sample wore a boot on his right foot after injuring his ankle during Sunday's loss to the Ravens, Ben Baby of ESPN.com reports.
Analysis: Sample didn't return after sustaining this injury Sunday, and his status is uncertain for Week 11's matchup against the Raiders. We'll know more when the Bengals release their first official injury report following Wednesday's practice. Sample has five catches for 30 yards this year, and Cethan Carter would bump into the No. 3 role if Sample's unable to play.
Published: Mon, Nov 11 at 11:40am by Rotowire.com
Injures ankle Sunday
Sample was forced out of Sunday's game against the Ravens with an ankle injury, Jay Morrison of The Athletic reports.
Analysis: Sample hauled in a three-yard pass before exiting the contest. If he's unable to return, Cethan Carter could see an increase in duties behind Tyler Eifert and C.J. Uzomah.
Published: Sun, Nov 10 at 11:16am by Rotowire.com
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Cincinnati Bengals' rub routes free up tight end Drew Sample for open TD in the flat.
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Cincinnati Bengals rookie quarterback Joe Burrow's sideline strike to Bengals tight end Drew Sample is placed perfectly
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Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow hangs in the pocket for tough fadeaway toss to tight end Drew Sample.
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<FONT SIZE=1>EPISODE NUMBER - 114</FONT>
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A mysterious affliction wipes out the entire population of a planet, plus an SG team -- except for one young girl. Carter befriends her, but learns that she is being used by the Goa'uld.
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jenniferhailey
May 3rd, 2004, 12:10 PM
My most watched SG Episode ever. Singularity is awesome.
Katie Stuart is one of my favourite actresses, and I liked her a lot better than that annoying replacement. In fact Im a huge Katie fan and co-run a website for her.
Note: Katie was replaced only because she was filming her own tv show.
I love the whole bomb plot line and the Sam/Cass relationship. It's such a sweet episode! :D :D :D :D
I like "Singularity", too. It sets the stage for the relationships between Cassie, Sam and Janet, and it also gives us an insight into Sam's psyche.
I'm always a sucker for character development stories.
"Singularity" along with "Solitudes" are my two most rewatched eps in S1.
Slainte gg
SamInChicago
May 5th, 2004, 02:19 PM
I'm a sucker for any episode with a kid in it, and I think Katie Stuart did a great job. That "Sam!" right before the door shuts just tears your heart out. Definitely one of the best of the season.
KorbenDirewolf
Ah... well I never really like this episode all that much but its not one that I hate to watch. The naquadah/potassium reaction is pretty cool.
I liked this ep.
It was well acted, Katie Stuart was excellent, and AT got to show some serious emotion in the lift. WOW! :D
The lift scene was cool. Did anyone see that mistake with the watch?
bcmilco
what was the mistake?
Selmak
I like the scene when Jack and Teal'c run through the gate with the suits on and there is an explosion and the disinfectant sprays.
I didn't catch it but a would assume... there was one then there wasn't.
I always thought the little goof with the appearing/disappearing watch was from "In the line of Duty" (S2),but maybe it happened in this episode too !
::Things to do when I get time : Rewatch Singularity :: ;)
I second all that,Slainte ! :D
Also,although we didn't see her "Onscreen", Nirrti was first introduced and the stage was set for her story arcs,and her nefarious schemes. :cool:
I wonder what the name of the episode signifies?
Major Fischer
My guess is that it refers to the black hole (quantum singularity) that SG7 was originally on the world to study. It also has the double meaning of Cassandra being the single survivor.
My only regret in this is that we didn't get to see much of Janet's first trip through the gate. But that's a real minor thing...
Replicarter
I loved the part where sam had to kil the girl, wait, that dident come out right. i mean the emotion in the scene and how sam lover her so much. though i do prefer the girl in Rite of Passage more.
Wow. I LOVED this ep. Great character development for Sam; it really added another dimension. She's not just Briefing Room Sam, people.
What was good:
a. Just about everything. Really.
b. The opening, with the "it could be an accretion disk" line. Came out of left field but was handled beautifully: "well, one can understand why the local population would...what did you say?!" Or something to that general effect.
c. The "Welcome to Hanka" sign. Really fun. I can just picture one of the SG teams getting bored, scrounging up some plywood and paint, and making the sign. I sense a fic!
d. Katie Stuart. She's adorable!
c. Janet. She. Rocks.
d. Sam!! AT was brilliant; the scene in the lift was super-powerful. Me mom cries during that part...but then she cries during Kodak commercials for that matter.
e. Jack. Didja notice he called her Sam? I'm not implying ship...nevermind that, I am...but it was cool. He understood what Cassie's imminent death was doing to her.
f. The dog. I don't like dogs much (looong story), but this was cute. ONLY Jack would've bought her the dog.
What wasn't so good:
Alas...
a. Some parts ran like a bad soap opera. When everyone but Sam's in the briefing room, Daniel says something ominously and everyone looks concernedly at the security camera feed in unison...I mean, get real.
b. Didn't Teal'c refer to Nirrti as "he"? In later eps, Nirrti is female. Although I suppose that the goa'uld could've just changed hosts; if shake comes to shove, I don't think that goa'uld really care about gender all that much. After all, Jolinar was hiding in a guy when she took Sam.
I was so happy when they brought Cassie back! Long live Cassandra!
Lord Zedd
This is one of the episodes that really how shall I say this,moved me.Poor Cassie,luckly she could stay on Earth and that SG-1 and Fraiser are so friendly for her.O'Neill bought her a dog :D
Uncle Dick
b. Didn't Teal'c refer to Nirrti as "he"? In later eps, Nirrti is female. Although I suppose that the goa'uld could've just changed hosts; if shake comes to shove, I don't think that goa'uld really care about gender all that much.
Martouf established in The Tok'ra that the symbiotes themselves were genderless which also explains the gender confusion that accompanied Jolinar in In the Line of Duty.
This episode could have strayed into manipulative sappiness, but I think the balance of action (including the emblematic shot of the death glider strafing the Stargate that made it into the syndicated opening sequence), humor (Jack's telescope) and a new, ruthless threat kept the melodrama in check. Season 1 ruled.
Daniel's_twin
This episode was great! We love this episode at home because it showed that Carter has more to her personality then just the "I have to prove I'm one of the guys" thing. What really showed this was (spoiler: highlight to read)when Sam was crying so hard when she left Cassy in that bomb testing facility. It was one of the most heartbreaking episodes they've done yet.
Oh, yeah. This is definitely one of their best. :cool:
That's right, I'd forgotten Jolinar. :rolleyes: And Selmac, for that matter--wasn't it (for lack of a better term) in a woman before moving to Jacob?
I always think of Selmek as a nice Jewish grandmother type. :)
Daniel's Sister
I L-O-V-E this episode! The first time I saw this one, I cried. It's so heartbreaking. But other than the crying, I love this episode. ;)
michelleb
This is my favourite season one episode. Katie Stuart is great, so convincing, and managing not to be annoying in the way so many kids in sci-fi are. Very eerie on the planet, and the whole 'kid is a bomb' thing..that was just chilling, to think a gou'ald could do that. And Sam going back down the lift shaft, and the whole team choosing to stay to share her fate....very much a team moment, one that showed how close they'd become. Great episode all round.
Cpn. Chris(tine) Bowman
I love this episode, it's my favorite in this season along with Emancipation, Tin man and Solitudes. That scene in the lift just makes me cry every time! I think it's AT's best acting moment (although she is soooo cool as Jolinar!). I can't get enough of that scene.
Katie was awsome all through the episode. I loved how scared and fragile she looked when she clung to AT!
And I loved how they introduced Sam's more feminin/motherly side. Because most of the time they show the Sam the warrioress side. Not that I mind :D Sam's awsome.
Of course, this is a nice Jewish grandmother who brings you tea and cookies before kicking serious goa'uld a** and beating the crap out of a few System Lords! :p
I'd love to have that kinda grandma. 'Course, it'd be a little hard to figure out which half I was talking to. :cool:
Can you imagine what she'd do if she caught you snitching cookies? You wouldn't know if she was going to give you another one or zat you until it was too late!
All the "nice jewish grandmothers" I've known are tough cookies themselves. ;) So yes, that's exactly the kind of thing I was thinking of.
I'll take that to mean that I'd likely the zatted, then. Ouch. I think I'd take Catherine as a grandmother, then!
On the other hand, Selmak'd be great for writing family histories. I can imagine it now: "Well, one part of my grandmother is from Chicago and worked at H&R Block, but the other part is a little over three centuries old and is part of a massive underground resistance movement against the freakish aliens trying to enslave the galaxy..." I think I'd flunk the report if I handed it in for a social studies class!
(Actually, Fischer, I think I may have missed your point entirely...shh)
Elite Anubis Guard
November 3rd, 2004, 12:09 PM
about five of the episodes around this episode were mainly focused on character development among series development and while it isnt all action oriented, its still good, and its an interesting mystery introduction for the nasty goa'uld!
I think this was Sam's best episode, which is kind of sad (considering how early it was). However, this episode stands out as being the place where I can pinpoint where I fell in love with Daniel. When Sam says she knows she's supposed to be detached, and Daniel says, "Who says so?" Swoon! I know it was the difference of views between the military and civilian part of SG1, but I just love a man that isn't stereotypical macho man.
I liked the episode but I haven't seen it in a while.I don't have it on DVD I liked to see it again.Perhaps the following weeks I get the first season :D
yes I finally got the DVD and I have seen it today.Poor Cassie whole the planet died except her.Knowing what will happen later she was doing well.It was a big shock for her.
I loved the scene wherer Jack and Teal'c are talking about the black hole
Teal'c:I do not quite understand this black hole concept.
O'Neill:It is a hole out there in space where things get sucked in.
Teal'c:I see
not my most favorite episode but i liked the development it did for sam!
WraithWarrior
I collect the DVD magazine and have only just watched this episode, but oh my god it is so good. Its also very sad and sam must have been very scared when the time for Cassandra to explode came. I think Sam would make a great mother and Jack must miss his son as you can tell when he gives Cassandra the dog at the end.
Did Dr Fraiser look hot or wot when she was in the black t-shirt on the planet? Jacks explanation of the black hole was also very err..good and Teal'c must have known exactly wot he was on about lol
ShimmeringStar
It was nice to see Jack showing he wasn't ‘dumb’ with his slip of the tongue about astronomy in the first scene. His scene later, describing what a black hole is to Teal’c, was classic Jack and Teal’c. And it was nice to see the little break in Jack’s tough guy façade when he was trying to get a response out of Sam after the time when Cassie's device was supposed to have exploded. Yep Zats, he did call her 'Sam' here & in Solitudes, 4 eps later.
I also liked the two scenes between Daniel and Sam; good writing & acting.
After the way her entrance was written in CotG, it was nice to see Sam’s character developed more with a slightly softer touch.
I agree michelleb, it was nice to see the 'all for one, one for all' comraderie had developed so quickly.
January 2nd, 2005, 01:39 PM
The elevator dialogue--between Jack and Sam--was really good, I agree.
Have you noticed that everyone on the team is softer around the edges than they first seem? They all seem so tough, but a little digging enearths real emotion. They're very real that way.
Yep. Which I'm very glad for. While I could live with a great villain who is a more one-dimensional blankety-blank, it is alot easier for me (and probably other?) if the 'good guy' leads are more 3-dimensional and we learn more about what makes them tick and see them in situations where they're shown as more passionate and compassionate people.
Which then leads to more storyline opportunities, branches coming therefrom, and therefore a better show!
SmartFox
Except for maybe Daniel. He doesn't put on that tough guy routine but its sweet when you see him kick butt like in WTSG and TSL.
I think this ep really gives Sam more charchter then any other eps in this season and think the other eps and other Sam revovled eps dont hold a stone to this one.
hermajesty
I agree with everything you said here - this was a great episode. I liked the look that Jack gave Daniel when he was surprised that Jack knew about astronomy.
This was a great character episode for sam. The writers really got this one right - when you compare it with emancipation, another main Sam-based season one episode, it's like a billion billion billion times better! There was some great acting from Amanda Tapping. The lift scene was amazing. I also really liked Daniel in this ep (well i always love Daniel!) because he was so sweet and thoughtful. And he put so much emotion into the line "Oh God," when Sam told them Cassie was awake.
I'm watching through season 1 dvds at the moment, and from about the 9th episode (Thor's hammer) they suddenly get much better. Each episode now seems to have emotion and character development. Up until then it had the Buffy season 1 syndrome of "Baddy of the week", but now they are more character focussed which i prefer. Perhaps the writers just got to know the characters better.
PugGate
I like the Naquada/Potassium bomb thing and when Jack tries to explain Black holes to Teal'c
...I also really liked Daniel in this ep (well i always love Daniel!) because he was so sweet and thoughtful. And he put so much emotion into the line "Oh God," when Sam told them Cassie was awake.
The "Oh, God" completely sold the scene. It's funny how two words can be the difference between a really crappy and a really emotional/believeable scene.
Daniel's the opposite. He's so completely sincere that you think you see everything--raw emotion, impetuous passion for one cause or another. Then circumstances go straight to chaotic hell and we find how much more is there--the one that kicks butt. :D
GatetheWay
Okay, I've wanted to know this for a long time. What was the breed of that dog that Jack gave Cassy at the end? It looked so cute and fluffy :p I think I might want one. :D
_Owen_
did anyone else notice that when jack and teal'c are running back to the gate, the earth gate has the decon thing in front of it and then when the stargate activates it isnt there anymore, and then after it is activated it is there again.
Yeah. I attribute it to the fact that they just decided to use the same old opening graphic, and figured that it would go so fast no one would notice (were they wrong or what?) :cool:
they were wrong, what they should have done is when earth started to dial out have two guys run up to the gate lift it up and run offf of the screen with it, then they could use the opening graphic then when the gate activates, they open the iris O'Neill and Teal'cjump through they close the iris then the two guys run back and put it at the bottom of the ramp.
QuiGonJohn
Who put the Welcome Sign on the planet and what all did it say? It seemed to have a lot of information.
NEVER MIND - Answered myown question, put the DVD in the computer and was able to pause it on the sign. Guess SG-7 put it there when they started setting up the telescope.
Psiberian
Hi...Just joined up with the boards, so hello! :)
I've been watching my season 1 DVD and it's my first time seeing these episodes in quite a while; I've been watching for certain "firsts" and I'm wondering: Is this the first episode where the Stargate material is referred to as Naquida? Unless I missed something, it's the first time I can recall hearing that name in season 1 (not to mention about it's explosive qualities)...If so, where did the name come from? Did they just randomly come up with a name? Or did it have something to do with the periodic table they found in The Torment of Tantalus? Is this ever explained?
(I always get curious about little details like this - if only for the "Oh cool!" factor)
I don't know when the term was first used on the show...I do know that it was a city (state? region?) in ancient Thebes. (I think...it's been a while since that class...)
I think its from a Goa'uld word.. If I remember right this would probably be the first time it was used. I'm not sure exactly... VCR's broke down so I can't even check.
I don't think we ever got an explanation. I did a quick transcript check and yes, it was first used in this episode. I believe before it was just referred to as "the material the Stargate's made out of".
Janet: "There a traces of the element the Stargate is made of in her blood."
Sam: "Naquadah?"
I don't think we ever find out where the word's from, nor how we got hold of it.
okay, that sounds close to what I remember. Not sure why I thought it was a Goa'uld word.
I seem to remember the goa'uld using the term at some point. I don't know if we picked it up from them offscreen or vice versa.
.:Lemon:.
I totally agree :)
I quite enjoyed this ep, even though I think I've only seen it the whole way through once or twice. I usually just catch the end of it
i have only seen this epsidoe once in my marathos a few monts ago, and it was okay not a great ep but it was well writen from my POV
walter_MacChevron
They gotta show Cassie again! Alright eepy IMO
I thought the girl who played Cassandra was excellent, and I loved the "Carter goes nuts in a lift" scene, very well done by AT.
Metarock Sam
A well written episode which gave Sam room to open up from her military exteria to show how emotional she is.
Svengoolie
Dude, the chick in this is hot. I was going crazy the way she was feeling up Carter's inner thigh and then held on to that hot dog all provocatively... then they opened up her shirt! They had tape over her nipples, which was pretty funny.
You're all gonna think I'm sick for saying that... but I'm not the one who made the episode. There's some nasty stuff going on there. Maybe it takes a sick mind to notice it, but there were Disney style subliminal messages.
Samuel J. Tilden
Dude, she's 12 years old! I can gladly say that I didn't see any of the alleged innuendo that you noted. Besides, neither Cassandra was particularly hot, although I give version 2.0 a slight edge in attractiveness.
I liked the intensity of this episode. It was a level of emotional connection that Stargate rarely reaches.
captain jake
I dont feel they were trying to make it perverted in any way.
i like this epsiode the intro to the sam janet cassie realionship and and i forshadowing of nirrti
Wow ok you need to take some more english classes. Just joking
Um yes nirti was mentioned, not that great of a "forshadow" but I dunno.
luthienberen
June 2nd, 2006, 01:36 PM
I loved this episode. I actually liked Carter and I'm definitely not a fan of Sam Carter. I loved seeing the emotional side of Carter where she followed her emotions instead of her militaristic-scientific side.
I especially felt that the character interactions between all team members were done surperbly: 'we don't leave our people behind' was lived up to as was the friendship between Janet and Carter and Daniel and Carter. I cried at the scene in the lift where Carter has to leave Cassie and when she turned back I was yay!:samanime24: :sam59:
The beginning with Jack displaying his intelligence to Daniel made me laugh.
TPTB handled Carter's emotional-maternal side excellently in these forty-five mintues and haven't often lived up to such a standard after this ep.
When Singularity ended I thought - yup, Carter could make a good mother if she wanted children one day. 5/5!
Realy? I can't see sam as a mother at all.
Chelle DB
June 3rd, 2006, 02:56 AM
One of my favorite eps. Loved the way Sam looked after Cassie - it was nice to see that side of her. It was nice to see Teal'cs reaction to Cassie as well when he had to coax her out of the bushes. I thought it was a nice quick ep - not too long and not too short - just right!! I enjoyed it and that's what counts!!
I don't see her as being a good or capable mother any more. In this episode though I thought so (and whenever I watch it), but not any more.:(
I was just watching the ep again and I noticed somethin. About six minutes in as SG-1 are tagging the dead bodies, the 'dead person' on the right of the screen moves her (I think it's a her) head. rflol! :)
Wow, I am going to have to check that out.
L.A. Doyle
Yep, chelle. It's a nice ep. Sam's softer side comes out. I just wish we could see more Cassie!
Harlan's Speechwriter
While it was nice to see a 'softer' side of Sam, I would have liked to have seen Teal'c's relationship with Cassie develop more; he was so good when he coaxed her out at the beginning.
angelfire east
I love this episode! Very well acted by everyone. THe actresss who played Callie was brilliant, the best kind of child actor. AT was amazing, she hit all the right emotional notes:) Daniel was such a sweet heart in this episode, I loved it. I also really liked Jack at the start of the eprisode when he showed his brains.:)
Why not anymore?
Vhladynineer
My favorite Sam ep after Jolinar's Memories/The Devil you Know. This was the character I very much missed in the later seasons. She has maternal, assertive, yet with a vulnerability that wasn't soapy and wishy washy. There are great and sorely missed interaction here from Jack-Teal'c and Daniel-Sam.
My favorite scene was at the infirmary with Sam and Daniel.
CARTER: I know I am supposed to be detached...
JACKSON: Who said that?
CARTER: Sometimes I forget you're not military.
This definetely exemplifies the best character written ep of Sam for me. Jolinar's Memories/The Devil You Know had the characterization pretty much shared with other team-mates. This one was written by RCC who also wrote some of my favorite mythology and character eps like TOT, TBFTGOG, In The Line of Duty, Need, Fifth Race, Fair Game, Deadman Switch, The Devil You Know, Maternal Instinct, Absolute Power and Meridian. :) Although I can't deny that he was responsible for clunkers as well but he did prove here that he can write something that has "heart" which I prefers over the Trek-like stories of late. :)
I mean compare Singularity to a Sam ep from the latter seasons such as Prodigy, Space Race, Avenger 2.0, Chimera (which ironically was written by RCC ;) ), Gemini, Grace, Death Knell, Desperate Measures, 2001, 2010 etc. ?
Yikes. They had more plot, but definitely less heart than this ep. ;)
HelloVelo
May 31st, 2008, 01:44 PM
Is Sam the most huggable person ever?
Full Review:http://stargatesummer.blogspot.com/2008/05/singularity.html
I didn't care for the emotional side of this episode, however all the rest of it was very interesting. We get a glimpse of a Goa'uld Mothership and the first off world research outpost. I believe this to be a turning point for the SGC they are flexing their ability to take on larger and more important missions that require more than just a four person team. It also shows a more advanced medical sittuation in which science-fiction bonds with our modern medical abilities. The off world black hole observatory is also extremely cool. There is a lot more to this episode than Cassandra this is a key episode leading up to the SGC's fight with not only Apophis, but the Goa'uld system lords.
L E E
i always knew that jack is just pretending to be dumb.
the bomb in the girl is a fascinating technology. evil goaulds are sooo sneaky.
sam gets too attached too quickly. i don't expect her to be a robot or unemotional. it's just that its too fast. not even a day. although, it would be very hard for me to do what she did, leading the girl in that chamber and leaving her there to die. i'm kinda glad she did not leave her alone in the end.
jack explainin black holes to teal'c is funny.
Just wait, there are many of us that think he is actualy an ascended ancient simply messing around with lesser mortals.
I couldn't agree with you more I hate the relationship between her and Cassandra. I completely understand that the young girl would get attached to the savior figure. However for Sam to reciprocate seemed really out of character.
That was a great Jack/Teal'c moment.
TEAL'C: I still do not understand this black hole.
O'NEILL: Well a black hole is this really...big thing. It um...well basically it's uh...massive...hole, out there.
TEAL'C: I see.
O'NEILL: What happens is, everything gets sucked into it, even light, that's why we can't see it. Just gets...sucked in.
TEAL'C: Thank you.
Ulkesh47
You know how Teal'c called Nirrti "he"?
Is it possible that Teal'c did this because the last he had heard of Nirrti, he/she was in a male host? And that some time between that time and "Fair Game", Nirrti went into a new, female host? I don't recall Teal'c showing any surprise about Nirrti's appearance in "Fair Game"... So could this be the case?
Gater_Gurl
According to Hindu mythology, the god Nirrta is the male form of the goddess Nirrti so if Nirrti were in a male host, she would probably use the name Nirrta.
It was probably just a typo or a misspoken line.
pritnep
Agreed completely. This for me was another of the episodes I original thought was boring but actually looking at it now while not my favourite episode it did have it's moments.
Seeing that "softer" side of Carter was nice, the only other time we heard her speak about children was the kids she is an auntie to "I miss them like hell" I think she said a couple of episodes back. Janet and Carter certainly have a friendship you can see it come out and especially with all the scenes they have together.
First look at the Mothership bit of a tease, a glimpse through a monitor but still nice. The Goa'uld/Nirrti aspect was also interesting and kind of shows the lengths Goa'ulds will go to.
Hehe I like how Jack new about the black hole and about his telescope not being used to spy on the neighbours...initially - class Jack. :D
Like several others have mentioned, this was a Sam-centric episode about her getting all emotionally attached with Cassie.
Now that sounds like I didn't like this episode, but I did. I liked the Jack/Teal'c interaction, I liked the whole "how evil are they? using kids as bombs!" theme, the Janet/Sam and the Sam/Daniel stuff.
I thought Sam got attached to Cassie a bit quickly. I don't see Sam as the mother type, perhaps this is where/when she makes that final personality shift to realizing she's not going to be a mother? I say personality shift versus decision because I don't think it's a conscious thing, more like a turning point in life where you accept the path you're heading down or you don't. Sam's remark to Teal'c in the park seemed to conclude this as well.
Also, having that attachment shift so quickly to Janet seems a bit bizarre, but at least Cassie was kept in the SG family.
General Yogi Bear
Exactly 11 years ago on Halloween Friday Oct. 31 1997 this show first aired. Today is Halloween, Friday Oct. 31 2008 and the Stargate Franchise is still going strong. At the time I thought that this was a pretty powerful episode (using a child as a bomb) and Carter breaking orders to be with that child (comforting her) even though it would cost Carter her life. (And also that scene with Carter in the elevator struggling with her decision to leave Cassandra was very moving.) And at the time what made the episode neat was that we got a glimpse of a guald mothership. This was the first time we saw a fully formed mothership. In the original movie we had only seen the pyramid part of the ship. It was a good Halloween episode because it was dark and was a good episode in general because it had a happy ending. (Cassandra living and getting a dog, etc.)
RononXSpecialist
Good ep to bad we didn't get to see the black hole =\ And is it just me or do Jaffa have bad aim with death gliders ? lol.
Butlersgate
we do see the black hole, right at the start and also in the distance of the malp on the comp screen. i think this is an important episode where blackholes were seen as an important part of stargate
"Every kid has got to have a dog. This is a dog, and he's yours."I liked that.
It was fun..
the whole Cassie being a bomb and sam not leaving her was a really ice touch to the episode. It shows how caring sam really is. And how cruel nirti can be.
Cheerful Dragon
Cassie got attached to Sam first. Sam got attached when Cassie wouldn't let Sam leave her alone. I don't think Cassie made a rapid attachment shift to Janet. When we see her in the park with Sam, she's still attached to Sam but she knows she can't stay with Sam because of the amount of time Sam spends off-world. I also don't think Sam will have realized she'll never be a mother at this stage. Amanda Tapping was only 32 when this was made. Assuming Sam's the same age, that's a little early to realize you'll never be a mother.
I enjoyed this episode. The moment in the elevator when Cassie woke up, followed by Sam's inner conflict over leaving her, and Sam's decision to go back to her were incredibly moving. I admit that I cried.
Wonder what happened to the dog. We never see him again.:P
lordofseas
And it was a cute dog, too. :[
This is an alright episode for me.
Kehaan
I also made a new thread about the questians. But was becouse i first not could reply here. But seems like i can now :)
It was a great episode, but i have 2 questians for it.
1: Why is it called Singularity? Was it becouse that Sam cant explain the attractment for the girl? Or something else? Everything that gets in the singularity gets destroyed, but cant really find a solution to why the episode have that name.
2: Where is the black hole? I know we cant see it, but what is the reason that they have to look in the telescope then? Atleast as the explain they can see some "dust" that get "sucked" in. But we never see that?
Becouse i am asking the questians, is becouse i need to analyse the episode for a school project, and those is the only two questians i have about the episode, which seems like i cant find the answer to other places :)
Thanks, and sorry for my english. Im from Denmark :)
From Kehaan.
sunrek
His new thread is Here (http://forum.gateworld.net/showthread.php?t=72077). Don't know if mods should merge them or not
gateship15
good ep i like how sneaky the gou'ld are using humans as weapons. i also like sam befriending the girl
mrscopterdoc
At the time I thought that this was a pretty powerful episode (using a child as a bomb) and Carter breaking orders to be with that child (comforting her) even though it would cost Carter her life. (And also that scene with Carter in the elevator struggling with her decision to leave Cassandra was very moving.)
I agree. I also loved the part where Jack tried to explain black holes to Teal'c. Classic. :P
hawk97135
A good character development episode for Sam, with some nice humor thrown in throughout the episode.
However I do remember the 1st time I saw this episode, I thought that Cassandra should have bonded with Teal'c instead of Sam, seeing that the 1st time Cassandra saw Sam she was wearing the hazmat suit whereas Teal'c wasn't.
But nevertheless quite a good episode.
maneth
Great Sam ep. Teal'c looks so intimidating even when he smiles that it didn't surprise me Cassandra bonded with Sam instead...
FreshFero
I suppose I'm the only one (haven't read all the post) who sees a similarity between the scenes of when Ripley and Newt first interact and when Sam and Cassie go through their silent period. Also I need to mention I generally don't like the episodes with kids (I might like one other one I guess with the kid that the bug alien creates) but I really like this one with Cassandra.
Vagabond Serpent
I loved "Singularity" - it's a very strong episode. Builds up Sam's character greatly, when she feels herself so bonded to Cassie suddenly that she even refuses to obey her orders and stays with the girl. Sam's no longer a military-to-the-bone and I'm-as-good-as-men-are as before. And the episode shows that SG-1 is already the one whole when Daniel and Teal'C refuse to leave at that moment. Also it's obvious after this episode that Goa'Uld treat all others like crap, not giving a damn about their slaves or their servants, trying to achieve their goals whatever means possible. They wiped out the whole planet to create a trap, and used an innocent girl as a set up, knowing that Earthlings will take care of her and will take her home with them.
But there're some funny moments too. I loved the very beginning when Daniel was startled when Jack said about the accretion disk and the following dialogue about telescope. :D When Jack was trying to explain to Teal'C what's a black hole, it was funny to watch too. Teal'C's friendly face... Well, that was gem. :P
But there's one thing that bothers me - how Teal'C was able to identify the Ha'Tak as Nirrti's ship? IIRC they all look similar without any distinguishing marks of their owners? :confused:
Tallifer
I liked this episode quite much, probably because I am an English teacher of many young children, so it was easy for me to empathize with Sam and Cassie despite not having any offspring of my own.
The plot concerning the implanted bomb and the virus was also quite good and suitably horrific as touching the ruthlessness of the Goauld.
ChulaksPrincess
In this episode, we truly see the heartlessness of the Go'uld in the way they used Cassie. I am so glad she survived, and got to have a life.
Never ask Jack a scientific question like explaining a black hole. I felt bad for Teal'c. He went to the wrong person for that explination.
WraithCommander
I just watched it again today and did anyone else think "Wow the Jaffa are pretty lousy shots" When trying to fire at Teal'c and O'Neill?
Cause they are firing from a staff weapon held under the arms while on the run.. Also they went to the "A-Team school for baddies shooting"
maylet
This is my favorite episode of season 1, I love this episode,I've seen so many times already I lost count.
I love the bond that Sam and Cassie have since the first moment they meet. I cried so much (again) when Sam is taking Cassie to die alone in that building, and even more when she came back, because she couldn't leave her alone. Even today, it would have been really fun for Sam to adopt Cassie, but it's okay that Janet did it.
mathpiglet
I was kind of surprised Sam could leave Cassandra there at all! Of course she went back! It would have been heartless to do anything else.
How would it be heartless to leave someone who is effectively a walking bomb? At the time we had no way to neutralize it.
Despite the fact Cassandra is a bomb, she is primarily a child. If you have a heart, I could not leave a child to suffer her fate alone.
If there is no way to save her.. yes.
That's a war. Imagine Hitler Jugend shooting at you. Will you not let them suffer their fate alone?
the fifth man
I agree. To some extent, self-preservation plays a role.
Being shot at is a different situation. In that case, I believe I would act without thinking and yes, try to save myself.
I will need to respectfully disagree. An adult could tell me to leave, they understand their fate and I could leave them alone. I know that I could not leave a child for any amount of time to suffer alone.
Even if meant your death as well?
muziqaz
Janet with long hair - nice :)
I think this is the last episode where Sam talks with that weird sounding voice.
But anyway, Teal'c trying to look friendly - priceless :D
It seems mother's instinct woke up in Carter.
have you noticed change of jack's tone of voice:
Captain Carter, can you hear me?
Sam, can you here me?
And liked Daniel trying to help Carter.
Very nice episode getting us to know more about SG1 members
Starscape91
I really enjoyed this episode we got to see a whole other side to Carter and the lengths the Goa'uld would go to in order to destroy Earth.
jckfan55
Though it was a Carter featured episode it was also very teamy, which I love. e.g Jack, DAniel & teal'c didn't leave when Carter didn't.
dtheories
The team cohesion was excellent. Learning about other SG teams; how they lived off-world; the fact that teams could be stationed for extended periods, that stuff always interests me.
"With darkness would come the apocalypse." Such a sad line. But the concept of an internal organism being planted that could be triggered by life saving devices and medicines to cause supersized destruction...I mean, these writers are incredibly imaginative!
I think Sam's emotional responses were excellently played to distract the viewer from what was happening. Sam was the one who acknowledged that Cassie became ill when approaching the 'gate, and then Cassie very clearly shared she was no longer tired in the elevator going down and even walked without hesitation. All big, honkin' clues, but we were so worried about Sam that little Cassie almost got missed.
Seeing Janet and her crash team in action was rather exciting as well.
Good ep for Jack, Teal'c and Daniel to primarily provide only comic relief.
Lieutenant Sparrow
An okay ep I suppose.
My favourite part was seeing the Ha'tak haha.
KayLyne
despite this being a fairly Sam-centric episode, it did have a few other great moments - like Teal'c trying to look "friendly" when he was trying to get Cassie to come out from hiding. I also loved seeing Janet going off world. And of course the great 'team' moments towards the end - first when Jack, Daniel & Teal'c wouldn't leave after Sam decided to stay underground with Cassie, and then the ending with Cassie in the park .
Now to the main theme of the episode:
Sam going from "Holy Hannah, it's a child; I'm not good with children, let somebody else take her" to "I'm going to stay with this child until the end, even if it may cost me my life."
Probably the greatest scene to show Sam's conflict in this episode is where Daniel comes into Cassie's room, Sam & Daniel watch her sleep, and we hear Sam voice her conflict of being in the military and how she's not supposed to be emotional about this whole situation.
and can't forget about the 'eating the hot dog' scene. That would probably be me eating just the plain wiener as well.
I loved the ending at the park, however, I wished they would have had Janet there as well, instead of just mentioning that Janet was going to be taking care of Cassie. It would have been great to see Janet, Sam & Cassie walking off together to go to the swings. Then we could have also seen Janet's reaction to Jack getting Cassie a dog without her permission.
Some of my friends felt that 'sams conflict of whether to stay in or get out and mother cassie' was proof of why women should not be in.. Though i felt it a little too misogynistic, it did have a little merit.
lookupwardsnshare
One of my favorite episodes! Luv it!! Great writing, acting and directing. Katie Stuart does a great job as Cassandra...the kid can act. AT as Sam is great. Liked the idea of wanting to observe the blackhole and the setup of the telescope on the planet. Gou'ald will do anything...evil and clever...never seem to surprise at what lengths they will go to.
I dont believe that Sam's attachment to Cassie was over the top n is not why women should not be in the military (if that was what garhkal was hinting at). Cassie opened up to Sam and felt safe with her. It would have been cold of Sam to just shrug her off just b/c of her military status. Not all men could have done that military or not. Sam's brain was going and she had a theory of what was happening to Cass and decided to be there for her.
Funny moments:
in beginning at gate...Sam: "you dont think Col has telescope just for looking at the neighbors" Jack: "not at first"
at end in the park... Jack: "Teal'c, know anything about dogs? Teal'c: "nothing"--just the way he says it and his expression.
poundpuppy29
This was a great Sam ep really saw Sam the person
Jae'a
My LiveJournal post (http://jo-r-lee.livejournal.com/4888.html)
I'm not much of a kid person and I can never decide how much I like this episode. But I do like it. Especially the cute dog at the end, which, if anyone is interested, is a Shiba inu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiba_inu) :D
another scientist
A really sweet episode. I love how Teal'c is trying to convince Cassie to come out of hiding.
Good thing that Cassandra isn't one of those aliens who stay on earth but are never heard of again.
hlndncr
I like this episode. Up until this point we've seen Sam trying to act like she's as tough as any guy. Here she at first seems scared and reluctant to care for and care about Cassie. But then she really does show the soft, caring woman she is beneath the military bravado she's had to cultivate.
AT does such a great job conveying the pain of leaving this little girl she's come to love behind to die and then realizing she just can't do it. For me, far more than any tough talk or fight to the death, that demonstrates just how strong she really is.
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Nindif
I loved this moment also. teal'c has some good moments in this episode, including him trying to get cassie out of the grass. Good stuff.
I like this episode. I think they do spend a little too long focussing on Sam and Cassie, but i understand why.
The chase on the planet with jack and Teal'c is very well done and it is great to see our first Goauld ship since the film/CotG.
The medical elements were well done and Janet is developing into a consistent character now. I enjoyed the medical drama/ ticking bomb/ astrological/ interplanetary structure of this episode. Definitely one of the best from season 1.
Off-Topic: Anyone know what breed of dog that is at the end?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiba_inu
Credit for this link is not mine. Someone in other thread posted it. Sorry that 'someone' I have some major problems with my memory, I hope you don't mind.
chaddergate
A pretty good episode, I really liked seeing the ha'tak. And the moment near the end in the elevator with Sam & Cassandra was emotional.
:lol: Hi!
I wouldn't mind, but it was only 3 posts above Nindif's! :P
Just kidding, don't worry about it. ;)
That is why I couldn't find it :D i remember it being posted somewhere, and looked in quite a few threads but did not check this one :D
Jack offers to take Cassandra down but Sam refuses.
I wonder how the scene would have played out if it had been Jack with Cassandra instead of Sam.
Krisz
Whilst this was a good discover more about Sam episode I always remember it for showing what lengths the Goa'uld go to destroy those that defy them. The use of a child as a bomb, one of the more despicable things in their catalogue of despicable things! It hits emotionally on so many levels.
I'm not really a dog lover, but that dog was a nice looking dog! :)
Badhron
I liked the scene where Jack is explaining black holes to Teal'c.
Also, the decontamination structure built around the gate suddenly disappears when the gate activates when Teal'c and Jack are coming back to earth.
That dog's name was......oh escapes me, but it was a make a wish dog. The owner, Tara, was sick, and her wish was to have her dog on TV. So he was.
Stargate did a lot with Make a Wish back then. Lots of kids visited the set, and many of the proceeds of the early gatecons went to Make a Wish. JR Bourne's niece (he played martouf) has cystic fibrosis, so sick kids was near and dear to the hearts of the cast and crew.
Boomer.
ah boomer. that's it, thanks
He came to many of hte early gatecons, as did tara.
Matt G
Another Sunday afternoon, another ep of SG1 and another ep I haven't seen for a while.
1. Nice to be reminded of Jack's astronomical knowledge, could also have done a better job in explaining the black hole.
2. Cassandra's clinginess was a bit freaky to start with and it was a bit wierd to see Sam go seemingly gooey, I mean it was the sort of thing you'd more likely see from Daniel. Still, looking back it was sort of sweet.
3. Bomb, in kid. Holy cack!
4. That was one hell of a gamble Sam took, initially I'd assumed that she just didn't want the kid to die alone and that the team would have to go down and get her before Cassie went boom.
jlovette
My wife put it best when she saw this episode for the first time a few years ago -
"The Goa'uld suck!"
LeftHandedGuitarist
A good episode, fairly strong performances all round and each of the main characters does get some good material to work with (well, I guess Daniel is a little left out). AT does very well especially towards the end of the episode, and Chris Judge again appears a little more comfortable in his role. A few of his lines feel closer to the Teal'c we'd all know later (notably, "...nothing.")
The girl who played Cassandra was very good, and I'm glad when we see her later they used the same actress (mostly, her last appearance was someone else). Her character seemed strangely Americanised compared to most aliens we encounter. 'Cassandra' is obviously an Earth name and she used the word "mom". Some of the moments with her and Sam are a little cringeworthy, but sweet at the same time.
It's nice the way Janet adopts her, but we are not really shown any kind of bond developing between them so that comes a bit out of the blue.
The amount of apperances Doc Frasier has now appeared in should put Teryl Rothery in the main credits! It feels like she's been in a consistant run of quite a few now. Odd to suddenly see Dr. Warner again, I figured that after his first appearance they maybe couldn't get the actor back and so recast with Teryl, but here he is again. His appearance in 'The Enemy Within' gave the impression he was in charge of the medical staff there, but I'm fairly sure Janet is. A little confusing. They also introduced Dr. Mackenzie in 'Fire and Water', so we're getting a mix building up. I guess it's more realistic.
It was good to have a reference back to Jack's astronomy knowledge, and I really like Daniel's "oh God" reaction when Sam said that Cassie had woken up, plus the way Daniel gave Teal'c a little punch in triumph after everything was okay! There's a moment wheere I expect Teal'c to belt Daniel one across the chin!
- First mention of "naquahdah" which until now had always been called 'the Stargate material'. I wonder who came up with that name and why?
- Nirrti mentioned, and Teal'c refers to her as "he". Obviously it's because the writers just hadn't established the character yet, but could easily be explained as the previous host being a male.
- Great action sequence as Jack and Teal'c run for the gate, nice to see the gliders and mothership, and they looked pretty good for the time and budget.
- Whatever Jack uses to wash his hands after touching the dead body looks nasty!
Rating: 6.5 out of 10
I suspect Janet adopted her because well...someone with the right security clearance had to and as Cassandra said in the ep, it couldn't be Sam because she'd be offworld too much to really raise her.
Odd to suddenly see Dr. Warner again, I figured that after his first appearance they maybe couldn't get the actor back and so recast with Teryl, but here he is again. His appearance in 'The Enemy Within' gave the impression he was in charge of the medical staff there, but I'm fairly sure Janet is. A little confusing. They also introduced Dr. Mackenzie in 'Fire and Water', so we're getting a mix building up. I guess it's more realistic.
Actually, it makes a lot of sense. Janet Fraiser was probably assigned to the base because of her area of expertise (exotic diseases) once the program was finalized, which is around the time of The Enemy Within. Doctor Warner, however, is a surgeon who would be in charge of the OR when he's performing surgery. Doctor MacKenzie is a psychiatrist, who was actually introduced in The Children of the Gods as he was the one performing the autopsy (which he can do because of his basic training before specializing in psychiatry). It's possible MacKenzie and/or Warner was already assigned to the base before the program got started as I assume every base would need medical personnel...
SF_and_Coffee
My impression is that the hierarchy of the medical staff at the SGC is Fraiser as Chief Medical Officer, with Warner and MacKenzie both on staff, and practicing their specialties. After all, you can't really run the entire infirmary and medical department of a base that size and that complicated (especially given what they'll run into, and the need for strict secrecy) with just one or two MDs. Not to mention that Janet still also had that portion of her practice that was connected with the Academy hospital (remember her office from "In The Line of Duty"?) and for all we know, she may rotate to Peterson AFB regularly as well.
NowIWillDestroyAbydos
August 22nd, 2011, 04:51 PM
An average episode. We hinted on a new Goa'uld, who we'll first see in Early Season 3.
There is not much to say about this episode. See you tomorrow, when we'll meet the Tollan.
Absolutely love that scene! Every time I watch this episode I rewind it just to watch it again :lol:
Sorry, newy here so I don't know how to double quote in a post.....
I can't say I really noticed Sam talking with a weird voice?!
Sam talking in a weird voice? I don't remember that, and I've seen this episode many times. This show is good, but sad. I felt so sorry for the little girl. However, I was glad that she was rescued.
juggernaut975
LOVED this episode. Fantastic Sam episode. It's odd that, at the end, they did that whole implying that she knew that the bomb wasn't going to go off....or did she sort of thing which I found annoying because, as we all know, she was completely willing to sacrifice herself rather than leave Cassandra's side.
Out of the adventure, all the heroism we've seen in Season 1 thus far Sam going back down that elevator is by far the most significant act. With Jack on the intercom ordering her, and then pleading with her, to come back up she instead holds Cassandra as the seconds tick down. I had forgotten this but it was this episode that totally sold Sam for me. Sure, she's a super-high speed, low drag Astro Physics super-star like I'm in school for but it was this episode that did it.
Also, we all know that Apophis is SG1's big foe early on and he's done some despicable stuff....but Nirrti showed us just how villainous the Goa'uld could truly be. What she did to Cassandra makes the rest of them seem like pikers really.
I think there was a lot involved in Sam going back to Cassie. She realized in the elevator why they could be wrong about the bomb, and she was willing to bet her life on it by going back to stay with Cassie. I don't think she was 100% sure she was right, but she was going with her "gut feeling" about it, and she was right. Plus, she couldn't have lived with herself if she had actually left Cassie alone down there, regardless of what happened, so she went back, and was prepared to deal with the consequences of disobeying an order.
If Jack had been the one to take Cassie down there, I don't think he would have been able to leave her alone there either, in spite of all his training.
Traveler Enroute1
SG Rewatch episodes: 101 - 105, 106, 107, 109, 110, 111,112, 113, 114, 115
Fair amount of tension in this story, and Sam finds an alien that she can keep. Starts off with a gruesome body found near the Stargate, progresses to find that the SG team that preceded them are all dead and the other inhabitants as well. Then Sam spots movement on the roadside, and they find a survivor, a young girl.
As they prepare to return to the SGC, the girl attaches herself to Sam. She probably felt safer with a female. That left Jack and Teal'c to remain on the planet to complete the scientific mission the SG team couldn't finish, recording a rare black hole.
So the plot splits into the mystery of the girl's survival where everyone around her died, and Jack and Teal'c in an observatory on the planet. At first I thought the black hole mission was superfluous in the face of the tragic deaths, even with Sam's plea to complete it in honor of their fallen comrades. But aha, the plot thickened.
Back at the SGC we learn the girl's name is Cassandra. Yipes, the girl's a time bomb! Yipes, a Goa'uld ship is just about on top of the planet where Jack and Teal'c are!
The two storylines converge in a really cool race from both sides of the gate, neither knowing the other is about to dial out or in. My fingernails survived as by one thin chevron lock, Jack and Teal'c dial in and get Cassandra away from the gate. I liked how these events played, but my nails were still in danger. Cassandra remained a lethal ticking bomb so they needed to let her detonate somewhere on earth. Luckily (ok, too luckily) an abandoned nuclear facility was handy and conveniently located.
Here was the episode's real hook. While Sam is holding the unconscious girl, Cassandra wakes up. Torn but with time passing, Sam leaves and we see an anguished captain wrestling with her deed in the creeping elevator, alone and angry at Cassandra's plight. Suddenly something occurs to Sam and she sends the elevator back down. Jack is visibly shocked, and obviously helpless to get his captain back up in time.
Kudos to Amanda for fielding that elevator scene. Sam's outrage was building all through the efforts to help Cassandra, and the final drop at the facility let it all spill out. In one of the commentaries or an interview, Amanda said the director, a little old man - Mario Azzopardi, was constantly niggling her for 'more, more, more!' I always think of the part where she kicks the wall as Amanda kicking him! But it paid off, Amanda; great scene.
The focus is mostly on Sam here, but there are a couple of sweet scenes with Sam and Daniel. He really scored big for me as he stayed close to support her. And when he's sitting outside Cassandra's room and tells Sam she doesn't have to carry this all alone, I sent him a whopping kiss. I think in this episode Daniel comes to admire her even if he probably doesn't understand her. She's fierce, intelligent, and now she's quite emotional over the welfare of a lone survivor. I expected him to hug her when she was crying, but then I'm sure he figured she wouldn't want that.
Some nice camera shots here. Liked the child's eye view of the gateroom when Cassandra comes through, kind of intimidating. The scenes of the old facility were shot from below which added to a sense of foreboding. The music added to the tension of the walk down the empty corridors.
Teal'c and Jack - great pair. A natural straight man for Jack's one liners. Whooped when Jack tried to explain what a black hole was. Teal'c seemed very un-enlightened!
In their run for the gate, the explosions seemed awfully close on Jack and Teal'c's heels. Made for nice action viewing but I kept thinking they were close enough to be hurt while filming.
Sam fully intended to carry out her orders in the facility, distasteful as she found them.
When Teal'c talked of Niirti, he said 'he'. Had he ever met her? Or did Niirti have a male host at one time?
Noticed that the kawoosh! has a narrow projection, leaving the sides of the ring untouched. The disinfectant frame doesn't get vaporized when the wormhole formed.
Loved the team's expressions of relief. Jack seemed torn between relief and a 'wait-till-I-see-you-later' annoyance toward Sam.
Jack seemed SO proud of his gift to Cassandra. But not sure why Sam found it so funny. What a gorgeous pup.
Those silent Generals were there again. Window dress-blues. Glad they faded with the series!
Another dastardly Goa'uld name is added - Niirti, who double crossed some other Goa'uld by blowing up his Stargate en route to a sit down. This one played genetic tricks to kill the city's people and engineer a biological bomb delivery system via Cassandra. Each Goa'uld they meet is nastier than the previous one; earth has officially pissed off more than one. Cool. Looked forward to seeing all of them.
An episode that pointed out that Sam's also capable of 'female' feelings. Though she did deny the maternal instinct thing Teal'c suggested, its fair to say she has something like it. From the guys, these actions wouldn't be termed paternal (i.e. Jack and Skaara), so I'll just say she's capable of showing her softer side, too. Nice to see.
Definitely not, given how strongly we are shown him as having a soft spot for children in the series.
I actually think Jack would have left (even though it would have killed him inside). If you notice, Sam only decided to go back down to Cassie after she had realized, while the elevator was going up, what was actually happening - with Cassie waking up and getting better when they were far enough away from the gate. Jack wouldn't have had that insight into the situation. And while both Sam & Jack have taken their military training (protecting the innocent; leave no man behind, etc) to some great lengths at times, both are smart enough not to sacrifice oneself when there are alternatives.
I think Teal'c has gender confusion. Nitiri isn't a he:P
This episode has two stories. A plot story and a character story. As character story in a lot of ways its really the first Sam story. Yes we have had Sam stories before but this is really the first one that devulges into how she thinks. Using Cassandra as an outlet its the first episode to show Sam's deep morals and emotions.
The plot aspect shows just how far the Goa'uld. Yes we know the Goa'uld are monsters who will go to no end to destroy their enemies. But using a human child as a weapon aims to shows just how sinister they are to achieve thier goals. But I can't grasp why Niriti attacked us. Our war was more with Apophis. Its not like we attacked like we did with Apophis.
The symbiote Nirrti is not a Goa'uld queen and is therefore not female, so the generic pronoun "he" is not incorrect. Nirrti's human host, on the other hand, is definitely female. But host gender =/= symbiote gender. Teal'c isn't confused at all; he's using completely proper terminology.
The symbiote Nirrti is not a Goa'uld queen and is therefore not female, so the generic pronoun "he" is not incorrect. Nirrti's human host, on the other hand, is definitely female. But host gender =/= symbiote gender. Teal'c isn't confused at all; he's using completely proper terminology. The Jaffa and Teal'c have always used gender for the Goa'uld based on the god they have posed as
the more practical explanation also is....Nirti USED to be in a male, but switched to a female sometime since the last time Teal'c knew of him/her.
perhaps there was more than one goa'uld pretending to be nirti? Old male Nirti was killed by new, female Nirti who took his identity? (the old 'dread pirate roberts schtick'...it's the name that's scary, the person holding it changes)
I'm wondering how much interaction Teal'c would have had with the other System Lords? As someone who required his 'divinity' to hold sway over his subjects, would Apophis ever acknowledge that he was merely one of several System Lords who, with Ra's demise, were at odds with each other?
With Teal'c it's a bit different I'm sure as he was First Prime and all and had already determined Apophis and the other Goa'uld to be false gods but I'm certain it wasn't an easy decision for him, it was one of the hardest things he's ever had to do.
He, like all Jaffa, had been raised since birth believing that the Goa'uld they served were their Gods. I wonder how much if any information was made available to them about the other System Lords. The higher ranking Jaffa, sure, they'd be important enough to be exposed to other 'gods' but the lower ranks?
To me at least I'd wonder how they would be able to reconcile with their subjects the fact that there are OTHER supreme beings that they're in conflict with :)
Well, considering Teal'c's father used to be in the service of Cronus (and was killed by him) which led his mother and himself to leave Cronus' domain and apparently end up with Apophis, I'd say Jaffa in general are well aware of different Goa'uld. After all, the Goa'uld hardly do anything but fight and the Jaffa are their foot soldiers. And it seems like most Jaffa are aware of which tattoo belongs to which Goa'uld etc, which would also indicate they are well aware of the different "gods".
StarSancFar
I loved this ep! The way we got to see more of Sam's personallity and the way she reacts with Cassie, just beautiful. One of my faviies from S1 :D
In polytheistic systems, the idea of multiple coexisting gods is accepted as a given. Deities in such systems are not regarded as "supreme" in the sense that a deity in a monotheistic system would be. The closest you'd find would be the chief deity of a particular pantheon, who would rule over the other deities in that pantheon. The Goa'uld are their own pantheon (they simply utilize personae and identities from several different groups of Earth deities), with their own internecine squabbles from time to time over who is, in fact, the ruler of the others. (This is, in fact, also a common occurrence in Earth mythology between various deities within each pantheon. Check out Greek and Hindu mythology, or even Norse.) So having the Jaffa exposed to multiple Goa'uld "deities" would not pose a problem, as there is no expectation or need for a Goa'uld System Lord to have his or her Jaffa believe that he (or she) is the ONLY deity in existence.
moondragon
This was another favorite episode of season 1. Teal'c definitely learned to smile since the last time he did it (The First Commandment) and it seemed to have helped ease Cassandra. I also liked the banter of SG-1 before getting back to the planet. "You didnt think he had a telescope on his roof just to look at his neighbors?" and Jack looking insulted before going "not at first" LOLz My favorite part of this episode was the relationship between Sam and Cassandra. You can see her not wanting to get attached because of her military background, but eventually having no choice in the matter. Her attachment to Cassie showed us that Sam is more than the tough soldier, she can be a mother figure to a lost little girl. Her guilt and anger when leaving Cassie at first was definitely heartfelt and kudos to AT for such a powerful scene. And as a shipper it was great to see Jack worried for Sam when she wouldn't answer the comm.
December 23rd, 2011, 10:05 AM
Cassandra will be important, just saying.
Sam-n-Jack-in-<3
EXCELLENT episode...one of the best of Season 1.
Character observations:
-Teal'c being the one to get Cassandra to come out of hiding. That smile of his is awesome; so glad he used it more in the later seasons. :tealc:
-Sam staying with the girl even though she has other duties. She goes as far as getting pictures, nicer bedding, and stuffed animals to make it more comfortable for a kid. And then, of course, the complete and total anguish on her face as she kicks angrily at the wall in the elevator before punching the button and heading back down. Just goes to prove that, Air Force Captain or not, she still has those maternal instincts.
-Daniel's natural empathy had a chance to show itself here. He really seems to have a quiet, gentle manner about him. Gah, why can't he have a girlfriend who isn't taken over by a Goa'uld? :danielanime07:
-Jack was all military in this one. He seemed kind of cold...then again, he does bring by the dog at the end. Hey, whatever happened to that pooch, anyway? Did Jack keep him? Does Cassandra still have him? :confused:
All in all, another one of the best episodes ever.
Major_Clanger
oh dear I don't like this ep.
I really would rather that Sam hadn't been relegated to the baby sitting role there, it would have been better to have been someone not from SG-1.
Apart from that, it was ok ish but not one for me to rewatch.
And why the heck didn't Jack let the puppy walk?
Um, there are two aliens in their group who probably aren't that familiar with dogs/puppies, so they (okay, Cassie is more likely than Teal'c) could get frightened/scared if an overenthusiastic puppy runs up to them...
oh and isn't this our first introduction to the devine Col Maybourne?
GateGipsy
OK so if they go according to schedule tonight's ep on Pick TV is Singularity. Now I can see that MC didn't really like this one (hope you're feeling better!) but I've only re-watched this once since it first aired so I don't remember a thing about it apart from the elevator scene and the ending with the puppy. Will be interesting to watch again - like watching it for the first time again! Anyone else watching tonight?
November 21st, 2012, 03:11 AM
oh dear clearly Singularity is not an episode that pushes any of my buttons. I fell asleep about five minutes in and woke up just as they thought the bomb was going to go off. Clearly not an elevator though - where was Sam? Does anyone really like this one?
Seaboe Muffinchucker
Does anyone really like this one?
Seaboe
Jolinar_of_Malkshur
November 21st, 2012, 12:32 PM
I like this one quite a bit actually, but then I'm a fan of Sam and Cassandra and enjoy their interactions, so as this is where it all began it has a special place in my heart ;) Have just recently re-watched it and am in the process of reviewing it on LiveJournal :)
discodiva
I don't mind it....good acting from AT....very nice Early Daniel & Sam friendship and support which is lovely...the soppy music got on my nerves a bit....nice big telescope...;)
Oh and that dog at the end was simply gorgeous.....started me off on a long love affair with Shiba Inu's and/or Shiba Crosses... <3
Deeds xx
Yes. :)
well I'll just have to try again! I have always really liked the Daniel and Sam friendship too, and there was some good stuff in this episode. It just didn't hang together for me - I think I wanted to like it more than anything. Like Deeds I really liked the dog scene at the end, but mostly because we had all the guys out there together, somewhere other than the Stargate base or off world (or 'Toronto'). Actually on Earth!
So for those that enjoyed this one, what was it that you enjoyed?
What did I like? The small moments and beats,as ever really.:)
Team goodness all the way through the episode.
Introduction of Nirrti as a recurring menace and meddler.Humans had Linnea ,The Asgard had Loki.The Goa'uld had Nirrti as their "mad scientist."
Nirrti didn't appear onscreen but since the first time I ever saw this ep,I felt that plot contrivance added to her threat to Cassie/Earth.
( Sometimes "telling,not showing" works to heighten interest and drama.)
Sam/Janet friendship.Sam/Cassie bonding.
Beginning of the Sam-Janet-Cassandra family/friendship arc ( such as it was.Continued in eps ITLOD,Urgo,Rites of Passage...)
Jack/Teal'c dry humour while they were waiting on the planet.Got to love the "explanation" Jack gave when T wanted to know exactly what a Black hole is in astronomical terms.
Sam being vulnerable : Daniel offering to help her through.
I love the line (paraphrasing) where he tells her she doesn't have to be detached all the time .Civilian or military imo, they both have the right to care about a lonely kiddie and to have compassion for others.
Sam railing against leaving Cassie ,getting upset,ignoring Jack's order and then going back to face things together.
Loved the doggie and the whole scene in the Park.
I agree with Jack up to a point .Every kid should have a dog (or a pet of some kind) at some time where their family are pro-pet,and their housing situation allows animals.:D
( This of course excludes kids who have allergies,asthma,or don't want a pet.)
I'll think of more moments sometime,but I missed the ep on Pick TV ,and I'm going by what I noticed when I did a fast flip through the dvd scenes a few minutes ago.:o
November 23rd, 2012, 01:58 AM
You're right in that all the right ingredients are there. Everything I really love about the show, which is mostly the camaraderie between the team. So why doesn't it grab my attention right from the start in the same way Hathor does (and that ep has far too little to recommend it by comparison!).
As requested by GateGipsy, here's my review/ramblings on this episode: Singularity (http://midnight--gypsy.livejournal.com/82680.html) :)
Here's the thing: my analysis of why I like it isn't going to help you like it. I'm not you, and you're not me. I will say that one of the things I like about it is Jack as a competent leader and not a buffoon (as he sometimes was in the later years). Humor has not yet taken precedence over competency.
thanks! Will bookmark to read when finish work.
I certainly got rather furious with the whole if it's science then Jack can't know anything about it thing by Season 7. Like some guy who has his own telescope won't get how to use one all of a sudden (but was quite competent at using a whole observatory just a few years before).
Falcon Horus
The episode in which O'Neill shows he's smarter than he makes himself look. Loved Daniel's surprised What did you just say?... :p ...and initially he didn't spy on the neighbors. I have to say having a telescope myself, it's very tempting not to. :p
Nirrti's really bad-ass, and yet she'll make it into my favorite Goa'uld-list nonetheless.
Random note to the pyrotechnics crew: you should hide where you buried your explosions better cause the crater was there before the deathglider had even hit the ground. :p But I noticed only once.
Carter's pretty good with kids (must be cause she's an auntie). I like how Daniel was right there, offering his help and telling her she isn't alone (kinda a mirror scene to the one in season 5's Rite of Passage where he pretty much says the same to Fraiser).
Of course Janet's gonna keep Cassandra -- there's no one more qualified (no outsider anyway). However, I sincerely hope she doesn't have to count allergic to dogs to her already extensive allergy-collection. The every-kid-has-to-have-a-dog-rule might not go over well. :p
Btw, that dog looked really fluffy, though he was shedding hair by the gazillion if Jack's shirt was any indication. :p
I forgot to watch an episode last week, forgive me. Season 1, disk 4.
I've always liked this episode. I like enthusiastic Daniel and Sam, I like the way Sam ties her scientific curiosity to the deaths, I like how amazingly (unbelievably) fast Teal'c learns to use the controls of the telescope, I like the camera work on the wait for the explosion that never comes.
I also think Sam's explanation for why she thought it would be safe to go back to Cassandra is a wonderful piece of after the fact justification. I think what she initially told Jack "Sir, she's awake" is the real reason--she would rather die than leave that poor child alone. The business about knowing nothing would happen was a way of justifying her actions.
Radio Picon
I was surprised how real this episode got towards the end when Sam took the girl deep underground. I was thinking to myself how dark the show had turned, but in a "real" way that made me think what I'd do in a similar situation.
I'm doing a first watch (sometimes rewatch) of the series and I don't know the first season well at all. I was expecting a lot more fluffy feel-good stuff than I'm getting which is good. I like the surprise.
AsgardGirl
It is a good episode, but I don’t like it, I really don’t know even why. Maybe is just too big emotional drama for me. I like the smart Jack.
ngewakl
Good episode. Although I didn't buy that Sam Carter motherly type. She just seemed to young then and too much of a soldier. Also liked smart Jack.
I really like smart Jack. :)
Pretty good episode, very dramatic.
I think we see she is a little uncomfortable with Cassandra at first but then really becomes attached to her. I thought that fit with what we knew about Carter so far.
Nice personal interactions, far beyond military rules.
:sam::daniel::jack:
Claire98909
DANIEL So, how sure were you really?
CARTER I can't explain it, Daniel; I just knew.
TEAL'C Mother's instinct, perhaps.
CARTER (Grins.) Subtle, but no. Dr. Fraiser is going to take her until we can find qualified parents.
What did Teal'c mean by "mother's instinct"? Did Carter have a kid in the past that she gave up for adoption or something? Perhaps she had one with Jonas Hanson? Doesn't Carter's "subtle" response imply that?
Teal'c's just referring to the age old idea that women have a "mother's instinct" when it comes to children.
I consider it old-fashioned thinking, but that's me.
maternal instinct: "the natural tendency that a mother has to behave or react in a particular way around her child or children"
IMO, it was always implied that the job came first with Carter, so no children past or present (or future).
But the very definition that you provided states that it's an instinct that women who are already mothers have.
The assumption is that all women have it, whether or not they're mothers. Teal'c is saying that being exposed to Cassandra has brought it out in Carter.
It's sexism, is what it is, disguised as tradition. Not that TPTB would consider it that.
What SB said.
SB--is that me? It's nice better than SM (please don't call me that), thank you.
Wanted to refer to you as Boe first but didn't... though SM didn't make the list. :p
If this is true how can the behaviour of many female mammals be explained which 'adopt' orphaned young ones without having babies themselves then - they don't know anything about sexism or traditions, do they?
Except we're talking about humans - not animals.
It's blatant sexism. You obviously don't see it that way, but I and Seaboe do. So, I wonder, how's your maternal instinct? Do you have kids? Are you planning on having kids?
We belong to the mammals, we've not come from a higher plane of existence - so why do you deny humans those basis genetic heritage? Are we so different that we, the human beings, do nothing that we cannot control or plan? No, much in us is ordered by genetics and there are differences between males and females - at least the females carry out the infants, this fact alone implies that there are genes for motherly behaviour. That's not sexism.
That's not sexism.
It is when a man automatically assumes maternal instinct is inherint in every woman.
Sexism explained:
Sexism or gender discrimination is prejudice or discrimination based on a person's sex or gender. Sexism can affect any gender, but it is particularly documented as affecting women and girls. It has been linked to stereotypes and gender roles, and may include the belief that one sex or gender is intrinsically superior to another.
And I see you ignored my questions about your maternal instinct. Going by your username, I assume you are a woman so how's the maternal instinct going for you? What time is it on your biological clock? Not ticking yet or gone past kid two-point-oh?
Note: another question I'm fairly certain not every woman likes to hear every time the conversation turns to having children. :p
First: I know what sexism is (I own an appropriate dictionary - two actually).
Second: A female's genetics is bound to the ability of reproduction - it can't get lost (yes,there is crossing-over and gene deletion).
Third: Since it's not me in Singularity my motherly instincts are not the point here - but, yes, I do have them, I do have them a lot!!!
Evolution brought us humans to the peak of the mammals (so it's said) but evolution did not erase basic traits embedded in
the genetic making - females are different than males.
Proof the opposite and the next Nobel Prize will be yours.
But it has nothing to do with genetics. I'm female too and I have no maternal instincts whatsoever. My clock's battery has been empty since the day I was born.
So there... your turn again.
I'm a female and have a strong nurturing instinct for animals but really don't care for children. I'd risk my life to save a child's life but other than that I'd rather not interact with them.
The reason the assumption about Carter's maternal instincts is sexism is because Teal'c asks that only of the female in the group. He does not ask any of the men about their paternal instincts.
You may say all women have a biological imperative for reproduction and subsequent care of the resulting offspring, and that it is simply biology. Why don't you say the same about men? It's in their biology, too.
What makes it sexism is the assumption that only women (and all women) have it, without a corresponding assumption that men do, too.
ETA: Assumptions that only men have instincts (violence, e.g.) without a corresponding assumption that women do is also sexism. Not "reverse" sexism (there is no such thing), just sexism.
Although in Teal'c's defense, Carter DID get incredibly attached to Cassie, far more than any of the guys. Which is why I wondered if Carter perhaps had a kid in her past who she gave up and was unconsciously trying to replace with Cassie.
Yes, she did get attached. And if he'd asked if Carter's attachment to the girl might lead to adoption, I wouldn't consider it sexist. But he didn't (or, rather, TPTB didn't). He queried her instincts instead.
Teal'c didn't have any reason to ask one of his male team mates because none of them cared as much as Carter for the girl!!! If Jackson had stayed with her maybe he would have asked him the appropriate question.
Men can't give birth, that's a fact - so there is an undebatable difference between men and women. Newly born mammals can't survive without their mother so a 'mother' must have special instincts not to abandon their offspring. These instincts are always there they only have to be triggered - men don't have these, they can't let the babies suckle.
These instincts are not equally developed - some women may lack them but that's not the rule
You know that hole you're digging - you're halfway to China by now. :rolleyes:
I'm still confused about the exchange between Teal'C and Carter. Did Carter say "Subtle, but no" because Teal'C was hinting (or she assumed he was hinting) that she should be the one to adopt Cassie? It would make sense, since right after that she said that Janet was taking her.
Teal'c doesn't hint. That's simply not in his nature. :p
Not in those early days anyway.
I can't remember exactly but I don't think Janet was first option. She would just take the kid home and look out for her until they found a suitable family but with all the paperwork and where Cassandra originated from, it would be a nightmare so it would be no surprise to Carter and the others if Janet would be the adoptive parent in the end.
Carter's married to the job. I think she was quite happy being Cassie's aunt of sorts, and probably her guardian in case something would happen to Janet... which in the end... well, we all know what happened in season 7 (if you haven't, I haven't spoiled it ... much).
Then why did Carter tell him "Subtle, but no" after he said "Mother's instinct, perhaps?"
You said that you would save a child but beyond that want to keep them as far away from you as was humanly possible. Put yourself in Carter's position and think about what you would have done.
Cassie had fallen unconscious the closer she got to the gate, so with the bomb inside her chest ready to blow they took her to that silo in order to contain the blast. However, she woke up the further away they were from the gate, thus Carter more or less took a big risk, trusted her gut instinct and went back down. She wasn't sure but something told her that the kid was going to be just fine, and the bomb wouldn't go off. There was no 100% certainty her theory was correct but she risked her life to stay with the freightened Cassie, who - as we have to add - had already seen her entire village killed by Nirrti.
The Subtle, but no is in reference to her theory that Cassie would be just fine. It was a huge risk she took, but in the end she guessed right.
Or at least, that's how I see it. It's all superficial, and at that point in time TPTB simply had no deeper meaning to add.
Newly born mammals can't survive without their mother so a 'mother' must have special instincts not to abandon their offspring. These instincts are always there they only have to be triggered
Really? Always? You haven't read enough true crime, then. Twenty moms who killed their kids (http://thoughtcatalog.com/jim-goad/2014/04/20-moms-who-killed-their-kids/).
I'm done with this. You have your opinion (which you claim to be a biological imperative), I have mine. It's clear this is going nowhere.
Actually, Falcon Horus, I'm with Claire on this one. However, I don't think Teal'c was intentionally hinting. I think that was his way of asking if Carter was going to take Cassandra. She assumed it was a hint.
Sam got attached to Cassie. No prior kids necessary for that.
See, we work well together, don't we?
Twenty moms amongst how many million? Glad you accept my opinion, feel better now. And it did go somewhere - I learned that I am a biological imperative. Can I print that on my cards?
For the record...
Biological imperatives are the needs of living organisms required to perpetuate their existence: to survive. Include the following hierarchy of logical imperatives for a living organism: survival, territorialism, competition, reproduction, quality of life-seeking, and group forming. Living organisms that do not attempt to follow or do not succeed in satisfying these imperatives are described as maladaptive; those that do are adaptive.
You must have reached China by now. :rolleyes:
But good for you.
FYI, the rest of us are maladaptives and probably not considered "normal".
Good thing I'm gay and already considered abnormal. :p
Teal'c was sincere in his own way. :p
Glad you accept my opinion, feel better now.
I accept that it's your opinion. I do not accept that it is correct.
Didn't say that, but I'm grateful that you allow me to have an opinion of my own!
Not China, ocean because you always come out in water somewhere if you start digging on solid ground.
Just for the record: I've never ever said anything about the rest being maladaptive or not normal.
You didn't have to, the definition of the words did. ;)
Which words?
...I learned that I am a biological imperative.
These words - I looked up what they meant, and as per its definition...
So by your own account you're adaptive, those of us without an inherent need to have children or wanting to nurture them are maladaptive, which if I look into the Thesaurus is synonym to maladjusted, nonadaptive, unfit, abnormal, defective, dysfunctional (at least I can put the FUN in it), flawed and unstable.
Problem is SB called me that I only mocked at the word I didn't accept that 'title'. (page 11). So, please, don't write "by your own account"!!!
If it was only in geste, perhaps use a way to make it look as such... things get lost in translation, i.e. sarcasm and irony don't read well. A bit of :rolleyes: or a :p almost never do any harm...
Nevertheless, I know Seaboe a lot longer than I do you and she made a conclusion from your replies. So, I don't know... but I doubt much mocking needed to be done.
I also remember how you didn't seem to mind a little "healthy stalking" from the other half.... All that, an image makes. ;)
Oh good grief, what did I start here?
You created a monster. :p
Or, you know, opened a can of worms... :p
Just like old times
Something good, good brain work and an exchange of attitudes (no irony involved here).
No reason for sleepless nights.
Simply fun and some thinking.
Do more!!!
October 23rd, 2015, 02:34 AM
And we remember them fondly... :p
Them days we broke GW... :p
Another episode in season 1, I really enjoy rewatching. It delivers on a lot of my likes: a good portion of Fraiser (even off-world), drama, action and adventure, explosions, good character interactions, a new Goa'uld in town and causing trouble for Earth.
Note concerning the explosions: when Rick and Chris are running towards the gate, you can spot the place at one point where an explosion is going to hit. There's a neatly dug hole, which fits the blast of a virtual deathglider later in post, though the actual explosion happens right behind their heels. :p
The episode starts innocent enough with Jack all astronomical smart, blowing Daniel off his feet with his knowledge. Of course, he still uses the telescope to spy on his neighbors (I mean, who hasn't done that).
Off to see the wizard on Hanka... I mean, SG7 which has been preparing for the eclipse and the black hole show.
But [insert ominous music]... dead bodies are in the way of things... plague-ridden bodies, including SG7, and everyone's dead... except, nope one's alive. Technically, that should have set of an entire orchestra of alarmbells but well that would have made the remaining 30 minutes of the episode obsolete and we wouldn't have gotten that nice of bit Carter-drama in the elevator, or the Jackson/Carter/Fraiser working together moments.
Nirrti (who'll become one of my favorite Goa'uld in the series) is one sneaky bastard, and as the enemy of Apophis' one up him by destroying the stargate on Earth. That would have been quite a nodge on his belt (her belt but for now according to Teal'c it's a he). The Trojan Horse tactic works and Cassandra is wearing one hell of a suicide vest -- one that, from first looks, can't simply be cut away or taken off or away. Really puts an edge on things.
Anyway, like I said... I really enjoy Singularity as an episode and it is the beginning Fraiser's development as a fullblown character, and I really like that. Also, the dog at the end... furball of cute!
How would you rate SG-1's "Singularity?"
I'm giving it an excellent, because it delivers on all my personal likes.
Here I am with the 3-episode quiz (https://goo.gl/forms/n2ihrJCAG5F4PcBE3) and the jigsaw puzzle for Singularity (https://www.jigidi.com/solve.php?id=HDE7WX7I).
Note concerning the explosions: when Rick and Chris are running towards the gate...
If you look carefully, at least during part of that run, it's not Rick, it's Dan. Their runs are different.
Looking for Dan-as-Rick--without going frame by frame--is one of my little pleasures. :D
I too like this episode. Except... putting on their gear before they clean their hands means they've contaminated their gear. Not to mention that by the time they put their gear on, they've already been exposed.
Ah... now I'm gonna pay attention to even more of those little details. :p
And Jack also leaves the swipe with the body -- didn't his momma teach him to take his trash with him or to recycle it in the appropriate bins. :weiranime34:
Dan is actually the one carrying Sam back over the walkway after she passed out. :)
aretood2
8 Minutes and 57 Seconds.
November 22nd, 2017, 07:18 AM
He's also the one carrying temporarily dead Daniel through the Stargate in the Light. :D
November 22nd, 2017, 04:51 PM
10 min 21 sec & 9/15
Sorry FH. I have to disagree. If I was to describe this episode it's boredom. I don't hate it but I'm so tired watching the Cassandra story. I never liked her as a character. I was more interested it what the Goa'uld Nirriti which was kind of glossed over why she did what she did. That is until S5. SG1 has to have terrible Haznat protocol. I'm calling this poor
November 23rd, 2017, 01:12 PM
I saw it more as an average episode. I never thought of it being anything special.
I do like how in the future they did revisit the whole "Hey we brought an alien kid back to earth" thing.
Though this did bring a question to mind...don't you think Teal'c would have been writing a "Goa'uld for Dummies" book for everyone and have it be required reading? I mean this isn't the only time a "Oops,
I forgot to tell you about this plot relevant Goa'uld thing". :P
Let's call the recurring theme of "Oh, small oversight..."
7 minutes and 35 seconds. Felt a little pressure there PuzzleTood
LOL -- PuzzleTood :p
I find that to be a very...puzzling name.
BethHG
Loved this episode! I really liked seeing the more emotional side of Sam. AT was amazing in the elevator scene!
AT was amazing in the elevator scene!
Director kicked her verbally in the gut for that -- he told her what an awful person she was, leaving that little girl all alone down there. What kind of a person does that? You're a monster. It worked. :p
Platschu
1. The symbol of the Tauri is upside down on Sam's uniform:
http://csillagkapu.hu/kep.php?kep=http://kepek.csillagkapu.hu/hiba/1x14/04.jpg
2. Teal'c changed the gender of Nirrti:
"This Goa'uld Nirti, he once sent an emissary of peace to negotiate a treaty concerning a Stargate Apophis had taken control of. The negotiation was a ploy. The Stargate was destroyed."
While we know that the "he" is actually will be a "she" in season 3.
3. They go down only 28 floors and not 30 as Jack said it.
"O'NEILL : This elevator goes down thirty floors through solid rock. Takes about three minutes to get to the bottom. That gives you four minutes to start back up."
4. The extra moves slightly her head:
5. The desinfection gate disappears during the dialing.
My comment : The kawoosh would have destroyed it anyway.
6. There was sunshine on planet Hanka, while they were expecting a solar eclipse.
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coefficient of friction synonyms, coefficient of friction pronunciation, coefficient of friction translation, English dictionary definition of coefficient of friction. ... such as the coefficient of friction. tion (frik'shŭn), 1. Static friction is a force that must be overcome for something to get going. Most dry materials in combination have friction coefficient values between 0.3 and 0.6. In friction …constant ratio is called the coefficient of friction and is usually symbolized by the Greek letter mu (μ).Mathematically, μ = F/L. Where F k is the force of kinetic friction, μ k is the coefficient of sliding friction (or kinetic friction) and F n is the normal force, equal to the object’s weight if the problem involves a horizontal surface and no other vertical forces are acting (i.e., F n = mg, where m is the object’s mass and g is the acceleration due to gravity).
How to use coefficient … Coefficient of friction (COF) is a dimensionless number that is defined as the ratio between friction force and normal force (Eqn (2.1)).Materials with COF smaller than 0.1 are considered lubricous materials. Define coefficient. That's the question Francine's teacher, Mr. Campo, asked in physics class. coefficient Values outside this range are rarer, but teflon, for example, can have a coefficient as low as 0.04. The coefficient of friction is a ratio used to quantify the friction force between two objects in relation to the normal force that is keeping them together. A higher coefficient of friction means that more friction force is present relative to the normal force.
The force required for relative motion of two bodies that are in contact. coefficient synonyms, coefficient pronunciation, coefficient translation, English dictionary definition of coefficient. Types of friction include kinetic friction, static friction, and rolling friction. Frictional forces provide the traction needed to walk without slipping, but they also present a great measure of opposition to motion. There are two coefficients of sliding friction, depending on whether the objects are static or stationary of if they are kinetic or moving with respect to each other. by Ron Kurtus (17 July 2019) The coefficient of sliding friction is a number that indicates how much sliding friction there is between two object for a given normal force pushing them together.. Friction is a component of the science of tribology, and is an important factor in many engineering disciplines. After that, the object experiences kinetic friction. coefficient meaning: 1. a value, in mathematics, that appears in front of and multiplies another value: 2. a value, in….
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Coefficient of friction definition: the force required to move two sliding surfaces over each other, divided by the force... | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples The act of rubbing the surface of an object against that of another. Learn more. Coefficient definition is - any of the factors of a product considered in relation to a specific factor; especially : a constant factor of a term as distinguished from a variable. [L. frictio, fr. One is kinetic, which means the object or objects are already in motion; the other is static, which means the objects are at rest. COF depends on the nature of the materials and surface roughness. Coefficient of friction definition is - the ratio of the tangential force that is needed to start or to maintain uniform relative motion between two contacting surfaces to the perpendicular force holding them in contact, the ratio usually being larger for starting than for moving friction. n. pl.
2. What is the coefficient of friction? The friction coefficient is defined as the friction force divided by the load. The coefficient of friction is an important consideration during material selection and surface requirement determination. Define coefficient of friction. A number or symbol multiplied with a variable or an unknown quantity in an algebraic term, as 4 in the term 4 x, or x in the term x .
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Demi Lovato has been a powerful, outspoken advocate for mental wellness for a long time. And now, Demi Lovato produced a documentary called Beyond Silence that focuses on mental health.
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Moscow, May 11 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Suspected ivory poachers have slaughtered 26 elephants in the Dzanga Bai reserve in the Central African Republic, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said.
The reserve is known as the “village of elephants”.
“At least 26 elephants were massacred in the Dzanga Bai World Heritage Site in the Central African Republic, after 17 heavily armed suspected poachers entered the site on May 6,” the WWF said in a statement.
Local residents have started taking meat from the carcasses at the site, which has been described now as an “elephant mortuary”, wildlife officials said.
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Giedi Prime is a brand new band based in Prague and Reset is their first release. Although the band is relatively new, they already have a solid following in the local music scene, with some Praguers making sure they attend every Giedi Prime gig.
Giedi Prime’s sound is a perfect fusion of garage rock and blues. You can hear the gritty-garage sound from the distorted guitars and the fuzzy vocals. The blues influences are felt when you hear more than just three chords being played, when you hear blues shuffles, and a walking bass, all tied together in a sustained tempo. The elegant deep vocals are the cherry on top.
Mixing the blues and garage is not a unique idea, however it is definitely not a popular genre these days, and definitely not in the way these guys do it.
The album kicks off with ‘Straighten Up,’ which introduces each instrument one after another. By the time we can hear the guitar and the drums playing, it sounds like it could be quite plausible for the song to evolve into a Lightnin´ Hopkins-esque ballad.
Then there is suddenly a hit on the distortion pedal for the guitar, the bass and the garage vocals come in, and the song pushes towards The Black Keys’ direction.
The album finishes off with ‘Jelloboy,’ which is my personal favourite. Not only because you can hear Dave, the singer, talk at the start without having realised the record button has been pushed – for some reason I love these little bloopers, but also because the end the song becomes so energetic and noisy. You can just picture Giedi Prime rocking out when they were recording this.
They use a Hammond B3 with Leslie 122 organ at the end of this song, which gives it a pretty original sound too! Also, by listening to the lyrics carefully, try to guess which egg the song is about?
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Seeing this album performed live would definitely be an experience. I hear that Dave is terrible at remembering lyrics, so every song is always improvised on stage.
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If you could ever have seen Patti or Bob live, you wouldn’t have been able to sing along to Patti’s ‘Horses’ and ‘Babelogue’, or Bob Dylan and the Band’s ‘Basement Tapes,’ because those were famously improvised almost on the spot.
The album was released as a CD and is also available in digital format on Spotify, iTunes and Deezer. Limited copies of the CDs of course sold out in an instant, however you can listen to Giedi Prime’s music online.
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By Nate Lawson
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Rounding out the main card, former EliteXC lightweight champion KJ Noons returns to the cage for the second time in just over two months to face off against exciting brawler Jorge Gurgel, and fast-rising heavyweight Bobby Lashley takes on Chad Griggs to open up the night’s action.
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Daniel Cormier’s hype train keeps rolling along. The dynamic heavyweight prospect needed just over one minute to dispose of his most recent victim in the final preliminary bout on tonight’s card. Riley and Cormier clinched in the early going, but, when the two fighters separated, Cormier landed several vicious shots that had Riley damaged. Cormier moved in for the kill and forced his opponent to submit to avoid any further punishment. A quick and dominant outing for the rising heavyweight. Cormier def. Riley via submission (strikes) at 1:02 of Round 1.
Andre Galvao vs. Jorge Patino
Galvao’s return to the Strikeforce cage was a bit more difficult than the submission ace likely expected. The world-renowned grappler looked strong early, taking Patino’s back within the first few minutes. However, after being shaken off, it was quite the downslide for Galvao in the first round. Patino landed a nice combination that dropped Galvao, and, when Galvao tried to stand back up, he was immediately put down again with more shots. However, Galvao survived the round and it seemed Patino’s chance at an upset had passed.
Beginning in the early part of the second round, the tables turned and Galvao was able to get the fight to the floor and step out of harm’s way. Patino struggled from the bottom, and Galvao scored points from the top, taking the round rather easily. However, with the fight likely tied at one round apiece, Galvao did not seem content with a decision win.
At the start of the third, Patino came out with a combination that ultimately led to his demise. Galvao managed to take down his off-balance opponent and go to work. He utilized ground and pound, as well as transitions, to continue putting Patino in trouble. Once Galvao moved to the back, Patino was mercilessly rescued by the referee after taking a plethora of strikes. Galvao def. Patino via technical knockout at 2:45 of Round 3.
Bobby Lashley vs. Chad Griggs
Lashley went back to his bread and butter right off the bat in his heavyweight contest against Griggs. The former WWE star immediately took the fight to the ground and moved into side control, peppering his opponent with punches from the top. However, Griggs was not the one looking damaged after the first round. Griggs tagged Lashley with a solid shot that opened up a cut under his left eye. While he may have dropped the first round, he did have Lashley bleeding rather badly.
Lashley did his best to battle through the adversity, opening up the second with a big slam. He immediately began going to work on the floor, transitioning and utilizing ground and pound from the top. He earned the full mount and began pounding away, but Griggs survived, and the fatigued Lashley did not stay active enough to keep the position. The fight was moved back to the feet and Griggs saw his opportunity. After stuffing a desperate takedown attempt by Lashley, the underdog pummeled his opening with hammerfists. Lashley clung to a leg, but continued taking in the shots, resulting in a stoppage at the end of the second round. Griggs def. Lashley via technical knockout at 5:00 of Round 2.
KJ Noons vs. Jorge Gurgel
In the second fight of the night, rising contenders Noons and Gurgel made it clear early that they were willing to slug it out. Noons took the center of the cage with Gurgel circling around. Gurgel moved about quickly, landing several combinations with vicious kicks, while Noons calmly walked forward, utilizing his dominant boxing. However, even though he was struggling against the former EliteXC lightweight champion, Gurgel was willing to stay in the pocket and trade, which was definitely not his best bet. At the very end of the round, Noons and Gurgel exchanged and, immediately following the bell, Noons landed a vicious left hook that floored Gurgel.
When the second round began, Noons could smell the blood and immediately looked for the knockout. He landed a vicious combination that sent Gurgel to the mats again. Noons looked at the referee for a stoppage, but it was not immediately granted. He hit Noons several more times before exiting with a big knee to Gurgel, who was still down on the floor. The official ruling was a technical knockout for Gurgel, but that illegal knee had “disqualification” written all over it. Noons def. Gurgel via technical knockout at 0:19 of Round 2.
Middleweight Championship: Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza vs. Tim Kennedy
The middleweight title bout opened with a minute of each fighter feeling the other one out, but “Jacare” quickly changed that, landing several big shots to Kennedy in the second minute. Clearly the fast fighter, Souza worked combinations nicely, remaining the aggressor, while Kennedy looked for opportunities to counter. With time running down in the round, Kennedy finally landed a big shot, and Souza fell to the mats from a trip. He worked his way back to the feet and smiled as the round came to a close.
The start of the second was similar to the start of the first, with each fighter still attempting to feel things out. However, each fighter still seemed content in the striking. Kennedy utilized kicks and small combinations, but was still overmatched by the speed of “Jacare”. With one minute remaining, Souza looked for a takedown, but Kennedy stuffed it, and the two went back to the striking match. The round, which was much closer than the first, ended with a front kick and nice right by Souza.
After two rounds of conservative fighting, Kennedy entered the third with a completely different mindset. The military veteran came out throwing his heavy hands and pushing Souza backwards. However, Souza remained confident, landing several combinations of his own, one of which opened up a cut above Kennedy’s left eye. Kennedy remained in the pocket as blood ran down his face, but finally decided to work for a takedown and tripped Souza to the floor. However, Souza quickly worked the fight back to the feet, and the two traded shots in a very technical manner. The round ended, and Kennedy’s cut received some much needed attention.
Following the minute break in which Kennedy’s cut was sealed up momentarily, the two fighters entered the championship rounds. After little action, Kennedy looked to wrap up “Jacare”, but the Brazilian effortlessly broke away from a potential clinch. Souza then shot for a takedown and it appeared he was going to get it, but Kennedy did a fantastic job stopping it. A short while later the fight was stopped momentarily when Souza took a kick to the groin, and each fighter had some time to recover. When the action resumed, Kennedy immediately looked for the takedown, but Souza stuffed it easily, and, once again, the fight remained away from the floor. The action went back-and-forth for the remainder of the round without either fighter landing anything significant.
The final round of the championship bout began with a headkick from Kennedy, as well as a solid flurry, though he failed to land anything significant. Kennedy shot in for a takedown, but failed to earn it, and it appeared as though the striking battle would continue. After a few punches from Kennedy missed, Souza clinched and looked for the trip. Kennedy avoided the takedown, but, moments later, “Jacare” had control of his back. Yet, once again, Kennedy avoided the takedown. In the waning moments of the fight, “Jacare” landed several big shots, but it was Kennedy who ended the fight with a bang. Souza was slammed to the mat in the final seconds, and the two went to the judges’ scorecards after five competitive rounds. Souza def. Kennedy via unanimous decision (49-46, 48-47, 48-47).
Light Heavyweight Championship: Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal vs. Rafael Cavalcante
Cavalcante was the first fighter to really bring the action in this fight, rushing “King Mo” right out of the gate. However, the Brazilian failed to land anything significant, and Lawal quickly blasted forward with a flurry of his own. When the two fighters clinched, the champion picked up the challenger, slamming Cavalcante to the floor, but the fight quickly worked its way back to the feet. By the midpoint of the round, the pace had slowed considerably, as each fighter continued to feel out his opponent. However, Cavalcante landed several big knees, including one the the head of Lawal. Still, Lawal seemed unfazed and willing to stand and strike, at least for the remainder of the round. The pace slowed once again, and “King Mo” taunted his opponent in a minor way. Cavalcante landed a nice leg kick to make sure that didn’t happen again as the round came to a close.
Cavalcante picked up the second round the same way he ended the first, landing a solid leg kick right off the bat. Lawal pushed forward and looked to put together a strong flurry, but Cavalcante avoided it. After some rather unexciting moments, Cavalcante landed some nice shots, but allowed Lawal to score a takedown. Once again, Cavalcante quickly worked his way back to the feet. Back to the striking game, the challenger lunged forward with strikes, but Lawal evaded, only to come back with several body shots to the midsection of Cavalcante. Lawal finally began to turn it on, attacking Cavalcante, whose back was against the cage. However, the strikes did not seem to affect Cavalcante, but it did appear as though he was fading. But he was not too tired to avoid another takedown attempt as the round came to a close.
The third round began with a bang, as Cavalcante landed a huge right hand that staggered Lawal. “King Mo” smiled, but ate another huge shot, this time in the form of a knee. A damaged Lawal began shifting backwards, and Cavalcante landed a right that floored his opponent. Lawal desperately looked for a takedown and rushed Cavalcante back into the cage after eating several punches. Lawal clung on to a single leg, but Cavalcante reigned down elbows to the side of his head. Referee John McCarthy finally rescued Lawal when his arm dropped and his defenses seemed simply ineffective. With tears in his eyes, Cavalcante raised his arms in victory, earning the Strikeforce light heavyweight title. Very impressive victory for the new champion. Cavalcante def. Lawal via technical knockout at 1:14 of Round 3.
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Wired for Music
By Sarina Rodrigues | December 1, 2008
Humans have made music for tens of thousands of years, going back to prehistoric times. Archaeologists have even found remnants of a “flute” fashioned by Neanderthals. And in recent years, neuroscientists and psychologists have uncovered further evidence that music has been intertwined with human evolution. Judging by the ways that our brains and bodies respond, it seems humans may be wired for music.
Music appreciation starts at birth. Research has found that lullabies lower heart rates and induce deeper sleep in infants; infants also have shown the ability to identify fundamental properties of music, such as pitch and rhythm, with the same accuracy as musicians. In fact, in a recent study, brain scans of two- and three-day-old babies indicated that they recognized a drumming pattern and were surprised when the drummer missed a beat.
As children, songs help us learn essential knowledge, including the letters of the alphabet and the names of the 50 states—a learning device that continues to serve us well into adulthood, suggesting to neuroscientists that music plays a pivotal role in helping the brain form new pathways.
As we all know, music also has a huge influence on our emotions—a fact recently documented at the neural level. Research by Robert Zatorre at the Montreal Neurological Institute has shown that when people listen to music they say they enjoy, their brain activity spikes in regions involved in reward and motivation. On the flip side, another study found that dissonant music activates brain structures involved in unpleasant emotional states.
In his recent book Musicophilia, neurologist and best-selling author Oliver Sacks tells intriguing tales of how music has helped those suffering from neurological disorders. For instance, he writes, music has been shown to bring words to the mouths of stroke patients who are otherwise unable to speak; liberate people suffering from Parkinson’s disease, inspiring relatively motionless people to move; and improve the mood, behavior, and cognitive functioning of people with Alzheimer’s disease and schizophrenia. Even for people with advanced dementia, hearing old, familiar songs can rummage up seemingly lost memories, especially motor memories that go with certain dances.
And humans aren’t the only animals whose brains seem wired for music. Extensive neuroscience research on birds has found that they produce new brain cells, a process called “neurogenesis,” at higher rates during the months when they are learning the greatest number of new songs. Researchers have even identified genes in birds and mammals that are associated with the ability to learn songs and develop language.
What’s more, animals ranging from great apes to whales to seals have been found to make music, whether through drumming or singing. And in one study, when a researcher tried to teach koi (cousins to goldfish) to associate certain music with a food reward, the results showed that the fish were able to distinguish classical music from the blues! The language of music may indeed be universal.
Taken together, this research suggests the deep evolutionary roots of music, and music’s primal role in human development. Music truly provides a window into human emotion, memory, and learning. And you can dance to it, too.
Sarina Rodrigues
Sarina M. Rodrigues, Ph.D., is a neuroscientist and postdoctoral research fellow at the Greater
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COVID-19: Why China’s wet markets should not be shut down to fight coronavirus
Ban on illegal trade in wildlife and awareness programmes will help keep out next pandemic
Published: April 15, 2020 13:58 Last updated: April 16, 2020 07:23 Shyam A. Krishna, Senior Associate Editor
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The Chinese move to reopen wet markets has been greeted by a chorus of protests around the world, because many believe these markets are the source of the new coronavirus.
Is it true? Maybe, but there’s no firm evidence yet. Here’s what the reports say: 27 of the initial cluster of 41 hospitalised patients (but not the first recorded patient) had visited the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, which is thought to be the source of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that has been rampaging around the globe.
Although some cases have no exposure to the market, its link to the virus seems likely. That has prompted authorities in China to close down the wet markets, around three months ago.
The lockdown in Wuhan, where the new coronavirus is believed to have originated, was lifted on April 8. Soon the Baishazhou wet market, one of the biggest in the city, was buzzing again. That’s when protests erupted, complaining of China’s lax approach to a global pandemic.
The wet markets in China and some other parts of Asia are an essential part of everyday life. They provide clean, fresh produce. To the rest of the world, these are markets with dodgy hygiene. That’s not entirely true.
Without wet markets, the Chinese food distribution system will come to a halt. Why else would the Chinese be in haste to open these markets?
What is a wet market?
‘Wet market’ is a term that originated in Hong Kong and Singapore to differentiate markets selling fresh meat and fresh produce from ‘dry’ markets which sell packaged and durable goods such as textiles and electronics, a report in The Conversation says.
More like the farmers’ markets in the west, it’s the traditional backbone of China’s food supply system. The wet markets in big cities are generally well-managed and hygienic, but the cleanliness and sanitation can be spotty in markets in smaller communities.
Wet markets are not limited to China. These public markets are found across Southeast Asia: Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, and in countries with Chinese diaspora.
Why are these markets popular?
Wet markets are popular because the products are less expensive and fresher than in supermarkets. There’s no refrigeration, and everything must be sold on the day. The markets also offer opportunities to strike bargains and are social interaction spaces.
These places play a vital role in passing down cultural food knowledge. Vendors often make recommendations and discuss recipes with the customers, advising them on ingredients that traditionally go together, a Los Angeles Times report said, adding that the markets nurture long-term relationships between customers and vendors.
The markets also provide rural migrants with a chance to earn a relatively high income and move up the social ladder.
Wet markets are good for children’s health. It’s true
A 2012 study based on China Health and Nutrition Survey found that when families have access to wet markets, children eat less manufactured supermarket food, which has higher amounts of added salt and sugar, the Los Angeles Times reported. These markets are integral to providing nutritious food for children, particularly of low-income families.
Is hygiene an issue?
Hygiene may not be a problem in major cities where they are well-regulated. Beyond that, several reports have pointed to appalling levels of cleanliness and sanitation in some markets. A Bloomberg report cites instances where “animals in are penned and slaughtered or sold live right next to stalls selling fruit and vegetables”. Such places can be a fertile breeding ground for viruses, some of which could mutate and jump the species barrier to humans.
Why the world hates wet markets
Anthropologists Christos Lynteris and Lyle Fearnley say: “In western media, wet markets are portrayed as emblems of Chinese otherness: chaotic versions of oriental bazaars, lawless areas where animals that should not be eaten are sold as food, and where what should not be mingled comes together (seafood and poultry, serpents and cattle).”
Wet markets and wildlife markets. They are different
Wet markets are often confused and conflated with wildlife markets. Most wet markets are not wildlife markets. Some do have a section for wild animals. The vendors also slaughter animals upon customer purchase. That’s where the risk comes in. Such places can spawn zoonotic diseases (diseases that spread from animals to humans).
Some scientists insist that wet markets are not the problem, it’s is the sale of wild animals for consumption which is dangerous. They say these places where humans and wildlife converge increase epidemiological risks.
“It’s misleading to focus on wet markets when we discuss the outbreak,” said Zhenzhong Si, a research associate at the University of Waterloo, told Bloomberg. “It overshadows the true problem here, which is the supply chain of wild animals. We shouldn’t demonise wet markets because of the coronavirus outbreak.”
How are epidemics linked to these markets?
Markets, where wild animals are sold, bring humans in close contact with them. This commingling increases the potential for zoonotic transmission. (from animals to humans).
Scientists say the avian flu (H5N1), SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome), and COVID-19 can be traced to wet markets, more specifically wildlife markets which sell exotic meat.
The demand for exotic meat
The consumption of wild animals is said to be of appeal to only a small minority of people. Most of the demand comes from the traditional Chinese medicine trade, where exotic meat or animal body parts are used for therapeutic value or as aphrodisiacs. Lot of it is also reported to be rooted in superstitions: eating exotic fish will make you a better swimmer, and owl meat can improve your eyesight.
All exotic animals are not from the wild
A majority of the “wild animals” sold in these markets are bred and raised in captivity. Wild boar, ducks, snakes, bamboo rats, mallard ducks, frogs, or snakes are some of them. Only a small proportion of the animals on sale are caught from the wild.
The call to ban wet markets
It’s important to differentiate between wet markets and wildlife trade. When Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, acting executive secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, calls for banning “wet markets” that sell live and dead animals for human consumption, she means wildlife markets.
The call to ban wildlife markets has gained in appeal due to the potential for zoonotic diseases and risk to endangered species. A group of US lawmakers, US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci, and China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation Secretary-General Zhou Jinfeng have all appealed for the closure of wildlife markets worldwide. Former Beatle Paul McCartney, a vegetarian, too lent his voice to the chorus calling for a ban.
Wet markets and wildlife markets, can they be banned?
Closing wet markets isn’t the solution. It’s China lifeline, a place where most Chinese people get their daily sustenance.
“Banning wet markets is not only going to be impossible, but will also be destructive for urban food security in China as they play such a pivotal role in ensuring urban residents’ access to affordable and healthy food,” Si, a research associate at the University of Waterloo, says.
Wet markets were banned from selling wildlife in 2003, soon after the SARS outbreak, but the ban was lifted after the threat faded.
Tighter regulation, not ban, is needed
The pandemic stems from a wildlife regulation problem, not a wet market problem. A ban will push it underground. So instead of a ban, stricter regulations should be enforced to curb illegal trade in exotic animals in the markets. It should also include stringent norms to maintain hygiene.
Awareness, regulation, farm supervision, and legal avenues for consumers are all needed to counter the menace of illegal wildlife trade.
What are the Chinese doing?
A committee of the Chinese Communist Party recently issued a statement vowing to address shortcomings in public health. “It is necessary to strengthen market supervision, resolutely ban and severely crack down on illegal wildlife markets and trade, and control major public health risks from the source,” the statement said.
The world should act
Illegal trade of wildlife is not just China’s problem, there should be a global ban on the commercial sale of wildlife.
The astonishing diversity of wild animals in markets…, packed in small cages in crowded market stalls, created a perfect laboratory for the unintentional incubation of new viruses that can enter human cells. Viruses can be spread through saliva, blood or faeces, Christian Walzer, executive health director of the Wildlife Conservation Society, told the New York Times.
“Each animal is a package of pathogens,” he said.
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Ella’s strange cult activities re-examined
Angela Power-Disney does waffle on, doesn’t she? The other day she published three videos in which she “exposed” her erstwhile friend and fellow Hoaxtead mobster Tracey Morris—literally hours of Angela droning on about Tracey’s various shenanigans.
It’s Angie’s signature move, really: befriending somebody, singing their praises to the skies, and then turning on them and “outing” them on her blog, Facebook, YouTube, or all three. We’ve lost count (well, all of us but the Office Tapir, who remembers everything) of the number of people she’s done this to, but yesterday in our Comments section we were reminded of a particularly egregious instance: her repeated allegations against Ella Gareeva Draper, whom she accuses of having participated in the imaginary Hampstead cult, and of having made videos featuring herself sexually abusing a young child.
We have absolutely no love for Ella, but we reject Angela’s story, which she claims came to her via one of her usual “impeccable sources” who turned out not to actually have the goods. Surprise!
However, a conversation in yesterday’s Comments section reminded us that while Angela’s version of Ellagate was obviously fabricated, there are other well-documented reasons to suspect that Ella was involved in cult activities of one kind or another.
The Gold-Digger Academy
In October 2017 we noted that Ella was the admin of a group on “OK.RU”, a sort of Russian version of Facebook. The group was called “Ellochka the Cannibal”, a well-known Russian fictional character whose single-minded man-hunting proclivities made her the model for Russian “gold-digger academies”.
These schools teach attractive women all they need to know to attract and retain the attentions of wealthy men—so a poor art student, struggling to get by in Moscow, might meet a well-to-do financial expert and latch onto him, just for example.
As commenter Surreal Hustle pointed out, the “gold-digger academies” engage in some very nasty practices:
There is a post on this blog about Ella’s involvement with a “Man-Eater / Gold Digger Academy” and this raised many red flags for me as I have been researching these organisations for almost a decade. Many of them (in fact all of them that have some to my attention) are linked to extremely dangerous cults / sects that harvest collateral / compromat from followers early on in their involvement. The collateral usually takes the form of compromising photos or videos of transgressive sexual acts. This is exactly the same method used by the cult NXIVM, except that in NXIVM the women were told that collateral being collected to keep them in line. In the Gold-digger Academies (often called Goddess schools / Geisha schools / courtesan academies and the like) compromat is collected during “tantric initiations” that are portrayed as spiritual awakenings.
There have been reports in credible sections of the Russian press that, when the police raided these establishments they seized photographs and video films showing cult members sexually abusing children and engaging in sexual acts with animals.
So, just for the record, I do believe that it is possible that some compromising film or video of Ella exists, in fact, given her involvement in the Gold-Digger Academy it would be surprising and unusual if some compromising material on her does not exist. It would certainly consist of Ella engaging in a sexual act that would be considered transgressive and very shameful by most people. That is the whole point of the collection of such material. Such material would have been collected prior to Ella’s marriage to Mr Draper and would not have involved her own children as they had not been born back then.
This interests us, as we recall that in the early days of the Hampstead SRA hoax, Ella complained that RD had been “harassing” her by sending her “unwanted pornography” on her phone. This seemed very odd to us, as the former couple had been involved in a protracted and very bitter legal battle over RD’s access to the children.
Is it possible that the unwanted pornography in question might have been something which either RD or one of his friends dredged up online? We may never really know the answer to this, but it raises some disturbing possibilities.
Ella and the Supreme Master
We can be much more certain, though, of Ella’s involvement in a well-known cult: as Ydychyncachu Tracey pointed out yesterday, Ella was a devotee of the “Supreme Master” Ching Hai, who claims to have a direct pipeline to God (don’t they all?).
An article on DW.com states,
In just four years, vegan restaurant Loving Hut has opened more than 200 locations in the United States, Austria, Germany, Australia and South America, which makes it the biggest vegan chain worldwide. Its founder, known as Ching Hai, has more than 500,000 followers (by some counts up to 2 million) who believe she has direct conversations with God and call her Supreme Master.
With thousands of videos on YouTube showing spiritual lectures going back to the 1990s, Ching Hai preaches all over the world to acolytes of a meditation-based philosophy she has dubbed Quan Yin. Wearing colorful outfits and sitting on outlandish sets with one or two favored followers, Ching Hai mixes Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, Hinduism and Islam to instruct her believers in how they can achieve higher levels of consciousness and also speak directly to God. She claims to be the next “master” following in the likes of Jesus, Buddha, and Mohammed.
In the lectures, she also reminds her adherents that they should not be ashamed of making money, “people will make you feel guilty about making money…it’s none of their business.”
She also sometimes advocates something called breatharianism, which is a denial of food and water in favor of spiritual “sustenance.” The practice, sometimes associated with older religions, has been tied to numerous dehydration and starvation deaths.
In a 1999 article in The Independent, Ching Hai’s London recruitment drive was highlighted. At that time, alarm was expressed over her organisation’s control over members:
Fears are growing…that Ching Hai’s recruits have undergone changes in personality after being recruited at great speed. According to the Cult Information Centre, relatives of her followers are also worried by the large amounts of merchandise available to disciples and the money they can spend to be in the presence of their leader. Last week the sect gained 300 new British members during a course of 19 lectures where people crowded around desks to be “initiated” before being “immediately enlightened” by Ching Hai.
Recruits are interviewed and have to follow five rules including becoming vegetarian and meditating for two-and-a-half hours a day.
Visitors to Ella’s home prior to the Hampstead hoax have told us that her walls were plastered with posters featuring Ching Hai. And readers might recall that during the police interviews, the little girl mentioned that she was able to meditate for three hours per day, though she did not enjoy it and tried to find ways out of it.
Whether Ella’s involvement in Russia’s gold-digger academies led to incriminating material being posted online or not, she certainly did not seem averse to exposing her children to a bona fide cult which advocates some very strange practices.
Peculiar, then, that when it came time to accuse her ex-partner of the most heinous crimes possible, she chose to set them in the context of cults and cult behaviour. Then again, we suppose it’s easiest to talk about what one already knows.
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129 thoughts on “Ella’s strange cult activities re-examined”
“It’s Angie’s signature move, really: befriending somebody, singing their praises to the skies, and then turning on them and “outing” them on her blog, Facebook, YouTube, or all three. We’ve lost count (well, all of us but the Office Tapir, who remembers everything) of the number of people she’s done this to…”
Thanks, EC. And your wish is my command…
Friends Angela’s alienated/fallen out with:
Alan Alanson
Eilish de Avalon
Sandy Bergen
Biggi Boho
Heather Brown (on and off)
Abraham Christie
Kris Costa
Beth ‘Jockney Rebel’ Donnellly
Ella Draper
Dawn ‘Hope Girl’ Feagin
Miles Johnston
Arthur Kaoutal
Mary McDermott
Belinda McKenzie
Jim McMenamin
Stephanie Oostveen
Andy Peacher
Rupert Quaintance
Melanie Shaw
Margaret Sneddon
Nina Valentine
Sonia van Gelder
Mel Ve
Charlotte Ward
Many of them (in fact all of them that have some to my attention) are linked to extremely dangerous cults / sects that harvest collateral / compromat from followers early on in their involvement.
So they purport to be teaching a scam to would-be scammers, whiley in fact they are operating a scam on them?
So ella was trained to be able to romance and control wealthy men for her own gain ? probably skipped a few lessons as she ended up with a failed gold investor cum hemp soup nutritionist who helped her lose custody of both her children and flee the uk as a wanted fugitive. I recently read a post where someone claimed abe would publicly drink his own pee as a party trick.
It’s claimed the scientologists do that. some would say the catholic church’s confession is open to abuse. cults are bad m’kay.
Cat & Malcolm’s Butt-Hurt Bonanza:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1tb8UHAoIVAuv21tlpn9QQ0Hnb8KcOGXf
A roundup of the last 24 hours of fuming, fury and feather-spitting by the Highland Hag and the Kincorth Creep
I particularly love how they’ve posted a Wiki entry that states ‘coyote’ means someone who smuggles people into the US – and that it has nothing to do with people-trafficking – to ‘prove’ that EC traffics children into the UK. I genuinely believe that these people don’t actually read their own sodding evidence before posting it!
I once heard Angela described as a dangerous cult. I think they said cult anyway.
When a mexican illegally aids someone over the border they’re a coyote. when a canadian crosses the border their satnav had packed up.
Cat uses spiderman as her avatar image. just google rock spider and pay attention to it’s usage as australian slang. by the powers invested in me by casual coincidence and the ability to type words into an online search engine i find her guilty !
Jumpin' Jack Harrison says:
She also sells Mickey Mouse (Boo! Evil Disney!) and demonic skull keyrings. Join the dots, sheeple 😮
An impressive list by any standard.
Dances with Swords says:
OMG, where is the outrage? 😡
Keyrings you say ? well a key is used by a gatekeeper of course. and we all know what a gatekeeper is. as for ring ? well this is the ring a satanistickal term for anus and also a very real circle drawn on the terrorchamber floor with a child’s dismembered limbbone dipped in blood and known to initiates as the ring of fire. Only when inside the confines of the ring is it ignited. and it burns burns burns, the ring of fire. Be careful not to fall into a ring of fire. the mouse of course is symbolic of the saucemakers apparatus, chill medievel devices to harvest the hormonal juicewaters of a victims prostate glands as they are sacraficiated on the alter of darkness. the skull represents the skull, no symbolistickal elements there. i declare her guilty of keyringery most foul.
Sounds accurate to me.
Roman popalovski attended many terrorchamber masses while researching rose marie’s baby and he later showed the ring of fire ceremony in the nine greats with johnny depp as a turfaccountant who stumbles into frank langella’s evil insurance scam to raise the value of antique books and get his castle fixed up. i watched the film only through a tinted mirror with to sound off to prevent mack basking of subliterate messages defeating me.
Two things strike me about ella.
1. she is incredibly uptight and completely obsessed with control. she flies into rages when challenged and smoulders bitterly over any challenge to her.
2. she never acts alone. she had abe make the videos and put the children before the camera. she had other people post the police interviews on her behalf. on the recent polygraph fiasco she had footage of a long dead person cut into it to speak on her behalf along with the polygraph specialist. ella very rarely does anything without someone else pretending to be an expert on her behalf.
as for the compromising video that was reduced to ‘written evidence’ from a vague source and related to oldcastle’s journo in chief ? i’d give that a very wide berth as it’s probably imaginary at best.
as far as cults go i’m not very clued up beyond watching stuff on tv but they do attempt to convince people of all manner of bizarre practices at large in the unsafe world beyond the true beliving members of the cult.
Damn it. finger slipped and i lost an entire boxful. i forgot what i wrote now. in short i think it’s possible the vegan cult influenced ella in some ways, it’s equally possible she was already of a mind to agree with the cult if it echoed her own opinions. as for the importance of diet it was central to the issues that first brought ella into conflict with the teachers and social services concerned the children were underfed.
Now assuming you’re an extremist vegan who is almost militantly against meat your absolute nemesis and chief nightmare would be an infanticidal anthropophage (anyone who isn’t a joe d’amato fan or egregdously overvocabulized can google it, that means you cat and malcolm). so maybe the cult or the meditation planted the cannabalistic elements into the storyline. maybe cult members believe that any outsiders eat babies ? just a thought. obsession with food is frequently a problem for people with control issues, just google ian brady or anorexia for more details.
JasmineRose says:
Well. I just want to know what’s taking Interpol so long in capturing Abe and Ella? RD and his kids and all the people unfairly harmed by those criminals have a right to justice. Eddie et al are itching to restart this hoax. What will stop its re-emrgence is for all those who started this evil lie to be behind bars. Come on The Police, do your job please!
I have an unrelated question that I hope you guys can help me with because its something that is upsetting me greatly.
My neighbour for some reason has become fixated with me and he has asked me to be his life partner. This neighbor is in his early 60s, I am over 30 years younger than him, he has also told me he has come up with a new religious way of life were you can’t eat meat or drink milk or buy wood or paper or write with pencils but he has written a letter to me. Confusing isnt it?? Its so odd, he clearly is unstable and he does have bipolar so I wonder if he is off his meds? Couple of weeks ago he also exposed himself to me as he was looking at me across the street from his window and he has been knocking on my door constantly as he has stated in the letter he wants me to answer his letter or ask him questions about his religion-which was two pages long. In that creepy letter he says he is not egotistical but he is and creepy. I am literally living in fear. I feel like he is becoming a dangerous stalker. Also I haven’t spoken to him for over a year as he tried to start problems with me with other neighbors and come on to me. I rebuffed him and ran away from him. I really dislike him.
Please advise me in what I should do. My friend thinks I should report him to the mental health department in our area or even the police. But I don’t want to if it will make things worse as he lives one door down. But if I need to I will. Another friend has said her husband will talk to him but it could turn nasty and I don’t think that’s a good idea either as it might lead to confrontation or even violence.
Thank you for reading and I hope you can help me.
The more i think about it the more the extreme diet becomes the central theme of the initial conflict with the school. has anyone got the dates and history of it ? when did abe enter the fray ? before or during the food conflicts ? did ella provide the cannabalism to which abe added the sexual and cult elements ? was ella planning it before she met abe and had him add to the bizarre conspiracy plot ? bloody hell, it’s like listening to beatles records and working out which bits john and paul did.
Ching hai is interesting. once donated a massive sum to the clintons but had it refunded due to concerns of how it was raised. suck that up pizzagatekeepers, suck it up. she also had an illegal artificial island removed by the feds and it’s assumed her followers built it. in china she is considered a dangerous anti communist. she maintains people have ten eyes but nine of them are closed if you’re boozed up. drugs and booze aren’t allowed. she’s vietnamese. she’s worth a mint but is suspected of improper fundraising. she has a clothing line should you wish to dress like a supreme master.
Some of them are exactly like that Smut Clyde, some present themselves in different ways, with more of an emphasis on being a spiritual school of shamanism, a yoga school, a tantra school, an academy where parents learn how to raise genius children, a business school teaching the “money making secrets” of the Jews or the ancient Egyptians.
Women are generally treated so badly in Russia and have such little power that marrying a wealthy man, whether a Russian “Forbes” or a foreigner, like Mr Draper (Ella’s mission was a success in that respect) is an aspiration for many. Feminism is considered a disease of the West. Domestic violence and rape are serious problems and victims seldom secure justice. Women have very limited choices and these academies exploit a range of women from would be scammers and social climbers through to women who are vulnerable through poverty, abuse and poor mental health.
The article linked to in the original Hoaxtead article is below and well worth a read.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/russias-gold-digger-academy
The article describes the school that teach women how to ensnare a wealthy husband and they charge a lot of money to do so.
At one time I could have shown you clips on the BBC and on Channel 4 where famous journalists visited one of the most monstrous of the cults involved. In both examples the cultic school concerned was reported on with an element of humour and disbelief but the reporters seemed unaware of quite the kind of enterprise they were involved with.
The female reporter on the Channel 4 documentary at least expressed disgust that the school taught women to lick men’s arseholes in order to impress them but taught them that they should never expect a reciprocal arse licking. The BBC male reporter seemed embarrassed to watch a class in which women were invited to practice deep-throating bananas. He declined to try the banana element of the class himself and seemed rather shocked by the whole thing.
Both programmes have since been removed from all platforms and are unavailable, which is probably for the best.
The more overtly cultic end of these businesses emphasise a range of practices including but not limited to:
Complete, unquestioning obedience to a teacher or guru
Prolonged periods of chanting and / or meditation
Vegan, low protein raw food diets
Water fasts (prolonged periods of starvation)
So called “liver cleanses” (the use of emetics and purges)
The use of enemas to rid the body of “blockages”
Drinking urine as a form of medicine
Theatre and acting skills
Clowning skills (often presented as a sacred path)
Yoga, especially kundalini and tantric yoga but any kind of yoga will do
Tantra / neo-tantra
The acquisition of sexual and seduction skills
The acquisition of erotic dance skills including pole dace / lap dance / striptease
The acquisition of skills in bellydance and other dances that may be perceived as sexy e.g. tango
The acquisition of skills in hypnotism and emotional manipulation
The acquisition of martial arts skills (although to be fair the “martial arts” they learn are usually as fake as everything else the teach)
A syncretic mishmash of spiritual beliefs incorporating appropriated and twisted elements of shamanism, Buddhism, sexualised “tantra”, Hinduism, Christianity, the debunked works of the fraud Carlos Castaneda and whatever else they can think of.
Aliens usually feature in the narrative, sometimes the guru claims to be an alien
Training in divination, astrology, tarot etc.
The use of “magical make-up” – basically drugs applied via the transdermal route
The consumption of highly addictive drugs via so called “life-enhancing elixirs” that leave students in a robotic, disengaged state.
The denouncing and abandonment of friends and family. The guru is everything.
One of the links to false SRA allegations that these “schools” have is the teaching that trauma is trapped in the body at a cellular level. Narratives about “awakening” and “yoni activation / awakening” through intimate massage, learning “sacred sexual secrets” and learning how to use supernatural energy fields in the body and how to use orgasms to develop supernatural powers permeate various schools of body psychotherapies and schools for goddesses / gold-diggers.
We have already started to discuss here some of the many links between body psychotherapies, cults and false allegations of SRA / CSA.
In the below link various “academics” posit that quack body psychotherapy can be used to treat DID
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232998513_Using_Psychomotor_to_Treat_Dissociative_Identity_Disorder
The Notorious SRA promoter Norma Howes, who presented a lecture in the UK on 22nd September 2018, is now practicing as a Sensorimotor Psychotherapist (a body psychotherapist)
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/curiosity-not-conclusions-assisting-not-assuming-with-norma-howes-tickets-45555495714
SRA promoter Phil Mollon has his insane theories about “energy therapies” plastered all over the www.
Self-proclaimed SRA survivor and sinister cult leader Teal Swan also has multiple articles and videos re “tantra” using orgasms and sacred energy to awaken human body. She posits that women need to remember / awaken their “divine feminine”. The below video is an interesting example
She describes the divine feminine as something that women repress and that they need to awaken. In some ways this narrative mirrors that of Scientology. The concept is that humans have forgotten who we are. In Scientology we are alien souls reincarnated in human bodies. In goddess cults and gold-digger academies women are really goddesses who have forgotten who they really are. In both instances they are invited to “remember who they really are”. Both Scientology and the goddess schools are, at heart, organisations inviting us to remember things that never happened. They are organisations whose foundations are false memories.
Narratives regarding gender are common in these sects and a much promoted theme is that feminism is toxic and that women are pressurised by society to be masculine and that to become empowered women need to awaken their “inner goddess” (actually her inner “holy whore”) who knows about ancient spiritual and sexual secrets. The narrative is like a highly sexualised version of the “surrendered wife” movement combined with pick up artist and hypnotism / NLP skills.
Another common theme is to present sex work as a sacred sexual path that helps women to be lightworkers, goddesses, “dakinis”, etc. and to awaken the planet from it’s state of sleep. It is unsurprising that some of these schools have faced legal problems in various territories, usually relating to criminal charges re sex trafficking and other sexual offences including sexual offences against children.
In these schemes women learn to “awaken their inner goddess” and then are encouraged to set up their own goddess school with associated blog / website / FB page / youtube channel inviting more women to do the same. And so it spreads, like a virus, via social contagion and multi-level marketing.
Because of the way in which it spreads via social networking sites, it leaves a trail behind and anyone taking to time to examine the lineages can identify “tics” or indicators and email addresses, telephone numbers etc. that demonstrate the evolution of the schools and their histories. Taking screen shots is highly recommended. Saving videos and webpages in the archive also recommended. Websites come down, FB groups close and change, videos come down or are changed to “private”.
It is no big surprise to me that Ella was (is?) involved in such schemes. She fits the demographic in many ways. Yoga teacher, new age entrepreneur, raw vegan diet, promoting videos on “natural” ways to stay young (facial yoga), promoter of cannabis as a cure-all, into enemas / colonic irrigation, neglectful of her children and incredibly narcissistic. I can’t help wondering whether her robotic, distant, disengaged manner is a result of the consumption of “elixirs”?
Again I am left feeling devastated for Ella’s children, for Mr Draper and for RD. They all deserve so much better and I hope that they can find some much deserved peace and enjoyment in their lives.
Looked around. i say around, on here of course. the kids being left alone and hungry dates to 2013. Apparently vegan diets are a complicated affair as there are vital nutrients harder to find outside of meat and dairy so you need to be very careful and really know what you’re doing, doubly so if you’re feeding children. so the food issue predates the Pissdrinking hemphead’s arrival and establishes ella’s initial conflict with the school she would mercilessly attack the next year. i read an interesting blog that theorises that cults use vegetarian or vegan diets to control followers as
The hard to find nutrients missing result in impaired mental ability, unclear thoughts, docility, lack of concentration. dunno how much validity there is in that but some people obsessed with control are funny eaters and ella obviously took exception to social workers criticizing her parenting skills and, allegedly, malnourished children. of course the Wankers all conveniently forget this and want to only focus on the tattoos and ‘believe the children’
PMSL Grobnob
Been digging again and just read about mister draper and the monthly payments he made to ella. The comments on that post are closed, just like mister draper’s wallet. i’d love to have been a fly on the wall when ella realized she wasn’t getting her income cheque or bank deposit. don’t suppose the warm salty lager drinker was happy either. oh it’s all gone so monumentally wrong for ella. lost her marriage, lost her boyfriend, lost her kids, lost her uk citizenship (unless she likes prison food), lost her alimony that afforded her a comforable life without working and has to content herself with kisses from the wet salty lips of a urine drinking imbecile who thinks cannabis soup can be given in place of blood in transfusions. not really what you can call a success is she ?
Sorry to hear about your experience Rose
Definitely, definitely phone the police. It sounds like a potentially dangerous situation. He is harassing you and in exposing himself to you he has committed a crime. It is an extremely unsafe situation and you need all the help and support you can get.
You may also like to phone your local rape crisis or similar helpline. The helplines are there for women who have been sexually assaulted and your neighbour exposing himself to you is a kind of sexual assault and can be deeply traumatising. What concerns me the most about this is that it is part of a pattern of slaking and harassment of you. He may be harassing others online or in real life. He sounds potentially dangerous unless he gets urgent treatment.
I appreciate that you don’t want to make matters worse but you are in a a dangerous situation right now.
You have the letters from him yes? This is great as it is evidence of harassment. Record any further interactions / conversations with him on your phone. Also explain to the police that you are afraid of making things worse. They may be able to contact the MH team and get him sectioned without him knowing it was you who reported him.
You may prefer to phone the police and make an appointment to attend the police station or to request non-uniformed police to attend for discretion.
Just tell him to Fuck Off
Here is a non-recent Russian documentary regarding possibly the most notorious of these gold-digger academies / goddess schools, the extremely dangerous “Ashram Shambala”. Warning: Includes distressing scenes.
The video shows a reporter attempting to infiltrate a yoga event run by the sect. Yoga is one of the many fronts the sect uses to disguise its activities.
The video shows a lot of non-recent promotional material produced by the sect. In one horrifying scene a skeletal cult follower shows off his emaciated body, apparently in the belief that he possesses supernatural martial arts skills (a common delusion of people in the cult).
At 5.03 you can see cult members engaging in the practice of acting out stabbing cult enemies, this is a routine practice in the cult.
The cult teaches that “might is right” Hitler was a wonderful person who was misunderstood. Women should be sexy “goddesses” who serve men sexually. People not in the cult are “grey mice” upon whom any violent act can be committed with impunity. Cult members are routinely drugged with addictive psychoactive substances, recommended by the cult as life enhancing “elixirs”.
longer video here
Pay attention especially at 5.12, where there is a brief clip showing some of the promotional material of a goddess school / gold digger academy (similar brief cutaways appear throughout the documentary) – this is exactly the kind of group that Ella was involved with and in fact appears to be an administrator for such an online group.
13 mins in there is a brief section showing one of the first of many sections showing a popular pastime for cult members; practicing stabbing enemies of the cult.
At 15.36 there are brief cutaways of goddess / gold-digger school promotional material and then a section showing the distressed parents of a missing young woman who got involved with the sect. The mother leafs through a folder showing various certificates awarded to her daughter by the “school” before she went missing.
At 16.42 a former cult member leafs through a similar document folder from the same organisation. The website URL on the top of the page is no longer active but you can see a translated version of a 2012 archived page here
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F20101124064436%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.ladyworld.ru%3A80%2F&edit-text=
I would recommend NOT clicking on any links in the above archived page. Just read it and then close the link.
The section immediately following this is interesting as the former cult member talks about the school’s training in yoga and massage and at 18.09 there is another brief clip of some of the sect’s published materials.
Viewers wishing to avoid watching scenes of extreme violent abuse / torture of women and subsequently of a helpless cat by the cult leader are advised to skip the section between 23.33 to 25.25
at 35.10 the report refers to the use of drugs by the cult
at 35.12 the report covers criminal charges against a senior member of he sect a man called Pavel (Paul) Handozhko whose face is clearly visible in the footage. He is a Russian psychiatrist and surgeon who is fairly high up in the cult and a very close associate of the leader.
He travels all over the world recruiting new members and was in the UK in 2010.
I have photos of him attending a raw food cafe in Chalk Farm, NW London, at this time. I also have screen shots from his blog advertising his London events.
He has HIV and is wanted in Russia for infecting dozens of people with HIV in orgies presented to followers as “tantric rituals”.
Even though the above videos are in Russian language they are worth paying attention to. They show how many Russian families are losing their beloved children to this disgusting cult.
To conclude:
I have no idea whether Ella sexually abused children. However her involvement in a gold-digging / man-eater academy does raise the possibility that she has been involved serious criminality including sexually transgressive acts. It is extremely likely that someone somewhere possesses compromat on Ella.
In fact Ella was not simply involved in a gold-diggers’ academy, she ticks all the boxes indicating involvement in one of the sinister criminal sects that use sexual rituals and the sexual abuse of minors as part of their MO.
Operates as an admin in a goddess / gold-digger school – major red flag
Succeeded in marrying a wealthy, influential man – check
Involvement in yoga – check
Advocates raw, vegan diet – check
Advocates enemas / colonic irrigation / purging – check
New age entrepreneur – check
Promoting anti-ageing products or techniques – check
Advocates the use of psychoactive drugs to attain enlightenment – check
Appears to be under the influence of drugs / robotic – check
Alienated from immediate family – check
promoter of conspiracy theories – check
Abandoned her children – check
Hmm, good luck with that, Johnny. Sigh 🙄
Thank you surreal hustle. Yes I will call the police because things are getting out of hand. Yes I do have the letters. Thank you for advising me. Its means a lot.
What the actual Fuck is going on with arsehole licking (annilingus, trade ~ rimming, rimjob) being taught as something to do to please me. next they’ll be encouraging them to slip a cheeky finger up the bottle and glass. ladies, golddiggers or otherwise, please restrain yourselves from going anywhere near my jacksy. I’m writing to the british ambassador in moscow about this. i refuse to have russian bints hell bent on tonguing my rusty sherif’s badge. keep these communist sirens out of the uk and away from my chocolate starfish.
What the actual Fuck is going on with arsehole licking (annilingus, trade ~ rimming, rimjob) being taught as something to do to please men. next they’ll be encouraging them to slip a cheeky finger up the bottle and glass. ladies, golddiggers or otherwise, please restrain yourselves from going anywhere near my jacksy. I’m writing to the british ambassador in moscow about this. i refuse to have russian bints hell bent on tonguing my rusty sherif’s badge. keep these communist sirens out of the uk and away from my chocolate starfish.
All those people must be delighted at Praterson and Devine publishing their email addresses.
Someone’s spell check has gone wrong.
ella gareeva is found in no sense a fit mother.
I can remember watching this documentary years back and can remember my disbelief at the sex lessons in how to please a man as a way of winning a Westerner,
Also Ella’s involvement in the Ching Hai sect does not in any way detract from her involvement in the gold-digger academy and associated cults.
To study cults is to study networks, nodes and how networks interact with one another.
While some people might possibly be involved in insular cults that have little or no connection to other cults this is not the case for most cults. Even before the internet many cults endorsed each other and gurus and leaders posed for photos and PR events alongside other gurus and leaders. Cults are just businesses and in the same way that DJs and producers in a certain genre of music will promoted and endorse each other cults do the same thing.
Most people involved in Ashram Shambala, to my knowledge, are also involved in other cults. It is easy to target vulnerable people and recruit them if they have a social network page identifying their interests, especially if they are already involved with cults that have been exposed on reputable news sites or on cult awareness websites. Anyone who is a proud member of a cult that has been exposed multiple times is someone with a strong commitment to “positive thinking” (critical thinking is based on fear. or something). They are likely to reject the MSM as a source of information. They are ripe for the picking by other cults.
The worst of these cults are merely criminal enterprises. If you look at the traditional structure for Italian mafia networks it is pyramidal. The Don is at the top of the pyramid, the Capos are underneath him and the soldiers are at the bottom. OC networks emanating from former soviet territories have a different structure. They are not pyramidal, they are nebulous shape shifters. Individuals may belong to several networks or may shift alliances. Networks form, disperse and reform depending on the task in hand. This shape-shifting model seems to me to be the new way in which OC networks operate post internet.
The study of cultic networks is the study of shape shifting, nebulous entities. Their use of social networking websites and their strategy of “cuckooing” the personal blogs and social network pages of vulnerable people means that they can change appearance and form extremely rapidly.
In some ways they are like this remarkable creature
I will worry about you now, as will others here
Do let us know how you get on
For anyone still in doubt about Malcolm Konrad Ogilvy being a sick fuck (trigger warning):
https://postimg.cc/TK7R4nHj
I think that you would be wise to follow the advice from Surreal Hustle. This man has already displayed behaviour that is way beyond anything that could be described as normal behaviour. It is best to try and get this man stopped before he gets worse. Don’t feel guilty or sorry for him when reporting him to the police as you have done nothing wrong whereas he has already overstepped many boundaries.
Yes, hardly a success at all Grobnob. Whatever her life-plan involved i am sure that losing her children and being skint whilst unable to return to the UK was not part of her life’s dreams.
I picture Praterson and Devine both wearing over-sized suits with orange curly hair wigs, white face paint with a red nose and over size shoes.
Poor old JournoAngie. She never was the sharpest pin on the porcupine…
Wait – who’s obsessed with whom, Angie?
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1DhwAfc1GMaBuYqi27_dvBFN9zp5QuCV4
Angie’s disgusting posts about Karen’s daughter and the numerous banned videos she and her ‘anons’ posted to intimidate Karen aren’t included in the above folder.
Jasmine Rose, I have gone through something eerily similar to what you are going through, only a few years ago. Please, contact the Police.
Also, pass on any crime reference numbers to his landlord (private, council, Housing Association) and make them aware. They may remove him from the property.
From the same pair who brought us such gems as “We’re working hard to expose the Hamptead children” 😆
Just realised that the videos I linked to show old video footage that is very out of date
Nowadays recruitment looks more like this
I think the last video gives a clear impression of the brand of the cult and how it appeals to new agers
Arthur Pint and surreal hustle thank you. I have spoken to the police this morning and a non-uniformed police officer will come over tomorrow morning. The police operator also said they will have to get mental health involved too if he does have a mental health issue. As well as discuss ways of protecting me like restraining order. I just hope I will get no more letters from him and he leaves me alone.
Will keep you all posted.
OK, pardon my dimissitude but I’ve now read that post through three times and can’t see that quote! Whereabouts is it?
“It is best to try and get this man stopped before he gets worse”
Yep. And before he does this to someone else.
Flashing his old chap at you is never a good sign and unchecked there’s a likelihood it could escalate to something more extreme. the guy’s obviously got a screw loose and isn’t very happy so needs a mental health intervention before he pulls his stunts on the wrong person and gets beaten up or worse. call the authorities and maintain that you want him compassionately attended to as a sick person and not a malicious criminal. i’m sure there’s a department for steering lonely old perverts back on to the straight and narrow short of clink.
The female to the left of the first video has travelled extensively internationally including long periods in the UK. She is Lithuanian. Poster who have known Ella, Araya Soma and others in the dirty 30 IRL may recognise her.
I hope he leaves you alone too.
I don’t know where you are, or whether you own or rent your home, but in the U.K. if you or your neighbour are council or housing association tenants they can get involved protecting you as well. Not harassing neighbours is often on private tenancies.
I hope the police are helpful.
If you are in immediate danger ring 999 or whatever your emergency number for police is.
There are also charities who provide advice to victims of stalking.
Singlewhitefemale ? angie didn’t get the memo then ? hilarious stuff when a police interviewed suspect who’s had high ranking officers come and confiscate her web devices and two cars who personally knows people who’ve been locked up for exactly the behaviour she’s involved in has the gall to type this utter codswhallop and balderdash ? is she going for diminished responsibility on the grounds of being from planet wrong ? alert australia, the hole she’s digging for herself might pop out the other side.
Good for you for doing the right thing.
If he had done to someone else what he had done to you, you would have no hesitation in advising her that she reported him to the police.
The effect of violating sexual and other assaults and harassment is, very often, to leave the victim questioning her/his own reality and I think that this is what happened to you Rose. I have experienced it myself, countless times.
When someone intrudes upon our life in a violating and frightening manner we cannot comprehend it. “People are not supposed to treat me like this” we think and a part of us might think “so maybe it didn’t happen or isn’t serious”. It can have the effect of putting the victim into a helpless trance of inaction.
Cults routinely abuse victims for exactly this reason.
Apologies for using your delicate situation to make a point about dissociation, but I think it is important to think about this kind of thing.
The hoaxers spout insane narratives about MKUltra and the creation of Manchurian candidates or mind controlled super-soldiers and while their narratives are as crazy as they sound there is a grain of truth in the idea of abusing people in order to better control them. Abe knows a thing or two about this very subject.
I am so pleased that you have stood up for yourself and called the police. If this man intrudes upon you between now and your appointment tomorrow morning just call 999.
Wishing you well
And speaking of mentally unhinged bandwagon jumpers…
Aww, bless – another opportunity for Malcolm and Freakyfucker to demonstrate their pathological hatred of women to the World and for Malcolm to clarify once again why he’s not allowed anywhere near his daughter.
Fasting, low calorie and low protein diets are fairly routine as is sleep deprivation.
You only need 2-3 hours sleep a night if you want to be a shaman. Apparently.
Also not all cults promote raw, vegan diets but most do in my experience.
It is easier to control people if they are sleep deprived and starving, obviously,
Cat must be so proud of him 😆
I really don’t want to alarm you and I’m sorry if this does but I just need to make you aware and to be on alert. Restraining Orders don’t always work and didn’t in my case.
Cat will love Ogilvy’s comment about “fat fucks” too, I’m sure.
Something Abraham Christie aka Abe Christie, Abraham Jemal Christie, Papa Hemp and Nemesis says, frequently, “If you are crying you are lying”. I can only conclude childrens’ distress is evidence of deception to the foul individual.
I know he is paranoid. He assaulted his minor son over an accusation of theft of money, he accepted a police caution for this. You must accept your guilt of the offence to receive a caution. He also accused the children of stealing money and bits and pieces.
Food comes up a lot with Ella and Abraham. They were raw food devotees. I think Ella was controlling with food.
Paragraph 27 https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2015/26.html She also made a fuss about her children eating vegan Hula Hoop crisps.
Having said that, I don’t really have any criticism of a healthy vegetarian or vegan diet, even for children. I know there are lots of sweets and treats that are vegan!
She properly Fucked herself up with an absolute anti midas touch own goal of the most inept blackmail attempt ever. if the guiness book of records had a stupidest scheme section she’d be a shoo in.
How’s Gus?
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1VT3DYbv98MxLO5x81nlI2oG_CE9WKCjc
On a side note to answer your first question, Interpol has no powers of arrest. It is an intelligence sharing operation only.
Extradition to the UK from Morocco is only available for offenses that carry a sentence over 12 months. Can’t remember if Abe or Ella have ever been charged but criminal harassment has a maximum sentence of 6 months. Those who get headline higher sentences are normally done for breach of an order, contempt of court, or a higher order crime (such as assault) not the original offence.
They’ve going to be furious when they find out that ‘karen irving’ is only a pen name adopted for the fictional novels she published 2 decades ago and she’d hardly use her real identity on a facebook account set up only a year ago when she was fully aware of what the mob was like. suck it up people, suck it up.
I could have worded that better, I’m not saying don’t get a R.O.
Just remain alert if you do.
Flo Destroyer says:
Thanks for this hadn’t realised they had tried to put my name up and location.
Yeah. i’m convinced the food stuff was instrumental in ellas warped vision of child rearing early on prior to mister p drinker entering the story. i’d also agree that in the right circumstances vegetarian or vegan diets can be healthy for children, but only if you’re very sensible and have really done your research on nutrition. Ella and abe probably aren’t such individuals and thankfully school and social service intervention will probably have ensured the children were fed at the school along with being monitored. it looks, to me, that the diet was the source of all the early conflicts between ella and the school while child access was entirely the issue between ella and ricky. i wonder if she has a karl pilkington level iq ? it’d explain how she thought the baby killing scam would work.
There is something very disturbing about his sense of ‘humour’ there. 😟
“Up all night writing”?. It may take you 12 hours to string a paragraph together Olgivy out of that sewer pit of a mind but us ordinary mortals can usually do it within minutes.
“The blog came to the realization that it is pointless”.
Oh I don’t know Olgivy- how else would we be able to read in one place about all the arrests and convictions of hoax promoters like you?. I won’t mention names but Quaintance & Berry come to mind (others are awaiting court appearances).
We may read all about you one day.
That’s very perceptive of you Arthur as a pal of mine at the Home Office (MI5 operative) sent me copies of their passport snaps and you were very close.
My flabber is completely ghasted! Thanks for all that, SH.
I assume this is the same sister she said should be horsewhipped:
Have all your fucks been whatted?
You’re welcome SC
This isa youtube channel from the Mexican wing of the cult – should let you know that this is a massive criminal network operating in multiple territories internationally
https://www.youtube.com/user/Diosasyartefemenino/videos
If you check out the videos you will see videos promoting colonic irrigation, tantra, bellydance, healing foods, yoga type exercises and spiritual retreats to the Altai mountains in Siberia.
This old video shows some of the subjects I have described in earlier posts being taught in Mexico
I would advise extreme caution re researching these networks. They are extremely dangerous, not least because they exert profound influence over many mentally unwell and brainwashed people all over the world (see earlier cult activity of practicing stabbing enemies with knives).
The earliest videos on this channel feature a female with many aliases who appears in many of the cult videos. In these videos she is called Miradas, she is also known as Tamara Ra and Ilirya Kanti and a load of other names.
Also this is the sexual predator and criminal who is wanted in Russia for infecting dozens of people with HIV. Like all the people in this network he uses multiple aliases.
He liked to hang out in Chalk Farm in London when he was here. He was especially keen on an expensive raw / superfood vegan cafe in Chalk Farm (now closed) and also a yoga school in the area (re-branded – under new ownership?). I have not been on FB for a while but from my old screen shots of his FB friends pages I know that he is / was FB friends without least one of the original dirty thirty.
Breaking news: There’s some action going on between a YT user named Wavyevergreen and Angela Power Disney. Check out both their channels.
Angela is the angriest I’ve ever seen her on her response video to Wavyevergreen.
Grateful if someone could please let us see the conversations hereif poss as some of us don’t have facebook
They’re both on YouTube.
That WavyEvergreen guy ain’t taking no prisoners. Can I make a suggestion that we don’t comment on there, as Angie would inevitably use it to counter RD’s complaint against her and it could undermine the case. Probably best not to post the link here either, so she can’t accuse us of being part of the harassment. The guy’s threatening to attack her and her friends across various platforms, so my thinking is we should avoid being associated with it. Any thoughts, EC?
That said, Angie’s apoplectic response is well worth a butcher’s. Sample quotes:
“Take your glasses off, you Brummie bastard” 😂
“Eww, you can see Satan coming out of your mouth” 🤣
Thanks for letting us know about these, Jake
I see from her screengrabs that the PC she’s been lent is still on Windows 7 🙄
“One has to assume you’re a paedo”. That well worn cry of all the hoaxers 🙄
I’ve just reported the bit at 12:40, where she says she hopes the UVF track him down.
Simply because the guy told her he would troll her on all platforms.
I reckon Ange’s idea of “saving her life” was when she was throttling her in the playground and then decided to stop and let her live!.
WaveyEvergreen is my new Hero.
It’s amusing that they have gone into overdrive re Ms. Irving and are posting ever increasing hatefests..yet it was all RD or GCHQ before. Flighty bunch they are.
Actually, my view is that we should distance ourselves from him. She’ll inevitably link him to us and use it to undermine the RD harassment case.
Thank you everyone for your kind words. I didn’t realise the council could help me too in staying safe, I will discuss this with the police too.
The police operator discussed a woman’s refuge if I was in serious danger so my neighbour doesn’t know where I am.
Yes I have been informed to call 999 if things get worse and I will guys.
R.O might not work but atleast it will go on his record so there is a history of his behaviour. I wish I reported him when he exposed himself. I realise now my very calculated and unhinged pervy neighbour is very controlling as he has tried to cause me problems with others all in the hope I believe to isolate me and make him think I will run to him. That will never happen.
Thats one of the funniest videos ive seen in ages! lololol
Well done JasmineRose. You have done the right thing by alerting the police to his behaviour. You just never know what actions you may have prevented him from doing to yourself or somebody else in the future. Well done indeed JR, a great move that you have made, 👍
Wow GOS, that is quite spooky in their likeness. You must thank your MI5 operative contact for us.
“Dimissitude” has surely got to be recorded in our Big Book Of Words as today’s word of the day? Well done Tinribs. 👏🏻
Yes, that really could have gone better.
So…just to clarify here: I am actually a Mexican who smuggles people across the U.S. border? Helluva long commute to work each day.
Yes, very good points. She likes to have others do her dirty work for her.
Good luck, JasmineRose. I hope the police will help, and that you regain peace in your life.
Yes, it’s interesting to consider how many times the children mention food during the police interviews. Food, the obtaining thereof, etc. obviously loomed very large in their lives at that time. And for some reason they didn’t seem to think that Abe’s hemp soups were particularly tasty.
Dear, dear, dear. Funny how some people think that if they say awful things about you while they have you blocked on Facebook and Twitter, you won’t know about them, and will have no opportunity to reply. 😀
Yes, it’s not the vegetarianism or veganism which concerns me, but the children’s evident obsession with food. The fact that they were fishing food out of the bins at school says a great deal to me. Interesting, too, that the medical report notes that both were significantly under-sized for their age. While some children are just naturally tiny, RD’s children’s current pictures don’t show them as emaciated or under-sized, which makes me wonder whether they had gone a very long time without enough to eat.
Yes, I was not impressed with Wavy’s video either. I feel that sort of thing can be “weaponised” by someone like Angela, who will use it to claim that we are bullying her.
Agree 100%, Tinribs. He’s nothing to do with us, and while we disapprove of Angela’s actions, getting behind someone who appears to be making threats towards her is not the way to go, in my opinion.
Why does one “have to assume” this? Is this the standard thing one “assumes” whenever one thinks someone has said unkind things about one?
In that case, must I “assume” that Catriona Selvester/Catherine MacKinnon, Angela Power-Disney, Malcolm Whatsisname, and others are all “paedos”? Nasty unintelligent bullies, yes, but “paedo” seems a bit of a stretch to me.
I was taking a good look at the morocco footage and the girl had bags under her eyes and looked worn out. on repeated viewing the amount of coaching and leading responses from the children is chillingly evident. i suspect this contributes to the belief in the videos because the children were definately abused, but not by the named individuals. you can clearly see the girl looking to offscreen ella and back to the camera as she’s guided in to giving the coached responses. I dread to think how weak and uncomfortable the combination of underfeeding, drugging and sleep deprivation made those poor children feel as they were forced to lie repeatedly.
‘Fox dimissa nescit reverti,’ he murmured.
‘Dimissus!’ snapped Chapman, always a stickler for that kind of thing.
‘Kindly leave my wife out of this,’ Keats said stiffly
I have to say, I thought a “Gold Diggers School” would just be a paticularly venal charm school, equipping young women to snare rich older men. This is coming across as closer to the Manson Family.
Hehe, thanks Hugh 🙂
I’ve been hoping that one might catch on, lol.
The guy’s clearly a pervert.
I believe the phrase is “Lie, cry and deny” and it’s something I’ve been happy to throw back at him whenever he’s told porkies, thrown hissy fits and/or blocked me and run away 😀
I think it’s becoming a default term of abuse, EC. I reckon in time it will lose its impact and become akin to calling someone a bastard, which has completely lost its original meaning.
I was just thinking, Charles Manson was simply ahead of his time.
I’d say that Malcolm and Angie are child abusers but not paedophiles to my knowledge.
By the way, do I take it that Catherine McKinnon is a Cat pseudonym (or “pysendeum” as that nice Miss McDermott would call it)?
You don’t want a big kiss from Ella then?
Neelu’s up to her antics again. Somehow I didn’t think the auction would be the end of the matter…
I saw that. She is not going to give up and accept the situation. She didn’t pay all the mortgage. The bank got the house.
The sad thing is all the costs for the security will mean she gets less money in the end.
I saw she has posted the pictures off the two policemen she says are the same person. They are very clearly different blokes. Someone needs to get her some help.
Also,no one took her niece’s organs. The baby’s eyes were padded slightly with something.
This is an article which explains some of what embalmers do. Perhaps they were eye caps to keep the eyelids closed and a more natural shape. Don’t read it if you are squeamish about things like this.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/science/spiky-contact-lenses-keep-your-5229622
I think Neelu is deluded as in she has delusions.
Looks that way, yes.
I wonder what excuse she will use when the new owner moves in?
“Excuse me (as she barges past them through the door) you are in my stolen house, I need my remedy! Please remove yourself at once!”
He’s obviously not one of us but I was sort of amazed by his “passion” as she has upset him dreadfully somehow. I guess time will reveal what it’s all about. I didn’t think he was physically threatening her which of course is unacceptable.
But Ange should not think one person’s actions- unconnected to this website- cancel out her shenanigans. She cyber harasses innocent individuals and encourages others to take physical actions against them ( Rupert Quaintance).
She endlessly harasses an innocent father and continues to publish details about 2 children who should be left in peace to grow up. Even when they try to make an honest living she attacks.
She should not be surprised when she pushes a person over the edge to the point. Clearly she has done so with this guy. Why? Who knows.
New owner will just call the police and it’ll be a much more serious matter than trying to annoy a security guard who she’s being billed for. dunno what the procedure is but it’ll probably involve a restraining order and however many breaches it takes to escalate it in order to prevent her going near the former home. if it was me i’d just ignore the silly woman and let her enjoy the weather as it turns colder and wetter.
Yes. If you study folk tales such as those of the Brothers Grimm for example, food and the need to avoid starvation feature prominently. The Hampstead children’s sorry tale of abuse, neglect and starvation reminds me of the story of Hansel and Gretel. It is a very modern nightmare rather than a folk tale with countless evil people playing the role of the child eating witch.
On a tangent I can remember reading a news story about rising rates of rickets amongst middle class vegan families where the parents failed to grasp the central importance of vitamin D in bone growth.
Some examples of the problems that can arise from vegan diets for children below
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/shock-as-vegan-diet-girl-12-979912
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-26382654
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6. Form a parish Vocation Committee that will develop means of fostering all Christian vocations in the youth of Holy Cross Parish, especially to the religious life and priesthood. Fall 2016
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7. Create a committee of parishioners, choir members, members of the pastoral council and pastoral team, and an outside resource person to evaluate, with the director of music, a process for balancing the desire for both new/contemporary hymns with known/traditional hymns and for balancing the repetition of seasonal hymns with the desire for a greater variety of hymns. Implement Fall 2015
8. Continue to educate the parish community on the centrality of sung prayer in liturgy through occasional pastor’s columns, bulletin inserts, presentations at mass, and other means. Fall 2015-Ongoing
9. Form a committee of Pastoral Council members that will undertake a feasibility study for the possible use at all masses of screens for the projection of hymns. Implement if feasible Fall 2018
10. Create a committee of parish teens, members of the parent advisory board, members of the pastoral council and pastoral team, and an outside resource person, with the parish youth minister, to study means of increasing the involvement of parish teens in the youth ministry program and in the parish in general. Implement Fall 2015
11. Develop a plan to offer periodic presentations in the Brother Andre Chapel, using resource people in the area, for parents during the Sunday morning Faith Formation classes. Implement Fall 2016
12. Form a committee of parishioners to plan the celebration of our parish’s 50th anniversary in 2016-2017, which begins on Sunday, April 24, 2016. Fall 2015
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13. The Parish Pastoral Council and the Pastoral Team will study the diocesan pastoral plan, when promulgated, in order to develop a parish implementation of the plan. Within 6 months of release of diocesan plan
14. Create a committee of ministers of hospitality, members of the pastoral council and pastoral team, and an outside resource person, with the parish director of liturgy, to develop strategies to attract more parishioners to the ministry of hospitality and to further develop the hospitality aspect of the ministry. Implement new strategies Fall 2016
15. Strengthen the recruitment and training of altar servers, with an emphasis on the responsibilities of the ministry and the servers’ ability to fulfill them. Spring 2015-Fall 2015
16. Investigate options for strengthening relationships with local charities, service organizations and Catholic groups, especially within the Town of Easton. Implement Fall 2017
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Home » STUDIES ON HISTOLOGICAL AND HISTOPATHOLOGICAL MYCOSIS VARIATIONS OF CHANNA STRIATUS (BLOCH) FOUND INFECTED WITH ASPERIGILLUS FUMIGATUS AND ASPERGILLUS NIGER SPP.CAUSED EUS CHARECTERSTICS.
STUDIES ON HISTOLOGICAL AND HISTOPATHOLOGICAL MYCOSIS VARIATIONS OF CHANNA STRIATUS (BLOCH) FOUND INFECTED WITH ASPERIGILLUS FUMIGATUS AND ASPERGILLUS NIGER SPP.CAUSED EUS CHARECTERSTICS.
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Koteshwar Rao Podeti * and Benarjee G
Fisheries Research Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Kakatiya University, Warangal, 506009. Telangana, India.
ABSTRACT: The present investigation deals with the histological and histopathological altarations in Channa striatus infected with fungi Aspergillus fumigates and Aspergillus niger. Fresh water murrels were collected from Dharmasagar and Hasanparthy lakes and Local fish markets of Warangal district. This is due to the nature of their habitats as many native species of fish suffer from living beneath turbid water. Among the recent emerging infection diseases responsible for severe population declines in plant and animal taxa, fungal and fungi-like microbes have emerged as significant contributors. Isolated fungi from infected fish bodies were identified as Aspergillus fumigatus and Aspergillus niger. Histopathologically different kinds of destructions were observed in Skin, Muscles, Gills and Liver of the infected fish. Histopathological observations of stained sections of infected fishes revealed pathological lesions of varying severity in studied organs including skin (exhibits compeletely lost epidermis, destiended cells, many of cells lost their cytoplasm and nuclei. Necrotized muscular layer with the formation of granulomas and encysted conidiophores), gills ( hyperplasia and hyperplasia of lamellar epithelium, fusion of lamellae, rod like structures of secondary gill lamellae, cystic- like lesions) and liver ( hypermia and haemorrhage, bile duct hyperplasia, dialated sinuses, interstitial oedema, monocellular necrosis, nuclear degeneration and hypertrophy in hepatocytes). The present study is aimed to assess the histopathological impact of fungal infection of an air breathing freshwater teleost C. striatus. Penetrating fungal hyphae were observed in skin and complete muscles were observed with formation of mycotic fibrillar granulomas. This is concluded that the mycosis variations in certain histological and histopathologically, exerted destructive effects on skin, gills and liver of Channa striatus.
Channa striatus,
Aspergillus fumigatus, Histopathological, Necrotization
INTRODUCTION: Channa striatus (Bloch) the air breathing fishes are one of the most important groups of vertebrates which provide free economic services to human beings in multipule ways 1. In the world fish production, India ranks third 2, in particular fish is a rich source of animal protein and its culture is an efficient protein food production system from aquatic environment.
With increasing freshwater fish production movement around the world for farming, releases into the wild for sport fishing and human-driven habitat changes and this is expected, along with improved environmental monitoring of fungal and fungal-like infections that are full extent of the impact of these pathogens on wild fish populations will soon emerge as a major threat to freshwater biodiversity 3. In India the fisher men is facing serious problems with fungal diseases. Fungi is mostly attacked by due to change in temperature and filthy conditions of water which allow excessive zoospores to grow and the ammonia which is formed by rottening of fish waste wears away the mucus that protects the skin 4. It is fresh water edible fish found suspectiable to fungal infection Aspergillus fumigatus and Aspergillus niger is a pathogenic group of fungi causing EUS infection in fresh water fishes. The pathogenesis of Aspergillus fumigatus and Aspergillus niger have been reported in fresh water fishes by 5. The effect of these infections on seizes in fresh water ecosystems. Some other workers isolated Aspergillus sp from fresh water fishes are 5, 6. Stressed environmental condition and low temperature will increase fungul pathogens in the fresh water and marine water fishes. This kind of pollution has been developed to causes the EUS infection is serious diseases in India and through out of South Asia.
The commercially important fish populations are declining due to over fishing, pollution in water and low aeration in lakes. Infection of L. Rohita and silver carp, Hypophthalmichthys Molitrix with Aspergillus sp and Alternaria sp has also been reported by 7. The present study is an experiment to diagnose the pathogensity of the isolated species of Aspergillus fumigatus and Aspergillus niger, infects on some fresh water murrel fishes. And in the histological alterations in various tissues such as Skin, Muscle, Gills and Liver due to the fungal infection.
MATERIAL AND METHODS:
Collection of fresh water fish samples:
The total numberof 60 mycotic infected fishes showing external symptoms were collected fresh water fish Channa striatus from Dharmasagar and Hasanparthy lakes at Warangal district, Telangana. India. The present study was during the period of October 2013- February 2014. Fishes were brought to the laboratory for further clinical examination. The infected fishes were identified from red spots on their body, excess mucus secretions, damaged and sluggishness. The Microbial investigation was carried out in different infected parts were separated from fish of Channa striatus, namely, Skin, Muscle, Gills and Liver. The Microorganisms such as Aspergillus fumigatus and Aspergillus niger were determined in the various organs.
Preparation Fungal Culture and Isolation of Fungi: Small pecies of organs was taken from the lesion and culture media for the isolation of the fungus. Potato Dextrose Agar (PDA); Corn Meal Agar (CMA) were used as media in to the Petri dishes the tissue pieces were transferred in to other set of Petri dishes. Petri dishes were placed inverted in incubate at 28oc- 30oc for three days, until a circular fungal mat developed, which were used for sub culture of fungus. Identification of fungi was carried out on the basis of keys of 8. These fungal culture results are obtained from NCFT (National Center OF Fungal Taxonomy) New Delhi, followed A. fumigatus (6627.15), A. niger (6629.15).
Histological Examinations:
For the histological study, Skin, Muscle, Gills and Liver tissues control and infected were examined. Tissues were fixed in Aqueos Bouin’s solution for 48– 72 hours. The fixed tissues were then processed routinely and with Azan stain. Prepared in to paraffin blocks then sectioning in to 3- 6μm thickness and stained with Azan and Aniline Blue. Slides were observed under the Microscope to study the variations. Standard histological methods of 9 were followed for histo- pathological investigations.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: A total number of 60 fresh water fishes were observed during the investigation for fungal identification and 30 fishes were observed to have infection of conidial fungi showing the symptoms like eroded scales, skin darkening, damaged caudal, pectoral and pelvic fins. In some fishes caudal fin was found completely lost, black patches on abdominal region and ulceration in skin. Total infection was observed mostly on head and tail region of Channa striatus fishes. One of the key risks associated with this new aquaculture environment is the stress caused by intensive production.
Some of fungal pathogens such as Saproglegnia for example are more prevalent and virulent in host (salmonids in particular) that are raised under stressful conditions 10, 11. In the examination of laboratory isolation of fungi reveals that the presence of Mycelia growth in form of small cottony tufts on the external body surface. The fungal diseases in aquaculture represents the most significant economic losses and in particular fungal infections, which in terms of economic impact are second only to bacterial diseases 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17. One of the examples it has been reported in Japan some annual losses of 50% in the production of coho salmon Oncorhynchus kisutch and elvers of eel Anguilla Anguilla due to outbreaks of S. Parasitica 18, 19. In some fishes hyphae, wound and necrotic lesions were observed on the Skin, Muscle, Gills and Fins. (Fig. 1-3). Cultures grown from innocula takes from different regions of the body showed the presence of two species of Aspergillus fumigatus and Aspergillus niger (Fig. 4- 8).
FIG.1 AND 3: CHANNA STRIATUS INFECTED WITH ASERGILLUS FUMIGATUS AND ASPERGILLUS NIGER SPP. BLOOD HAEMORRHAGE (BHE), FUNGAL HYPHAE (FHG), ON ITS HEAD AND TAIL WITH ULCER REGIONS (UR).
FIG. 4: ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS CULTURE ON POTATO DEXTROSE AGAR (PDA) AND CONIDIA RELEASING SPORES.
FIG. 5: ASPERGILLUS NIGER CULTURE ON POTATO DEXTROSE AGAR (PDA) AND CONIDIA RELEASING SPORES.
Histo- Histopathological Examinations:
Results of inoculation of pure cultures on infected fish showed both species of fungi are pathogenic to Channa striatus. Fungal infection was studied in C. Catla three types of genera like Aspergillus sp, Blastomycetes sp and Pencillium sp were isolated from head, opericulum, eye, buccal cavity, obdomen, skin and gills of C. Catla Aspergillus sp was the most prevalent fungus infecting all the organs of C. Catla followed by Blastomycetes sp and Pencillium sp. 15, 7. In addition, mycoses spread in freshwater fishes are often seen as a secondary phenomenon. However, due to their virulence, their current emergence in wild fish populations and also the risk of spill back from aquaculture facilities to the wild, routine pathological examination should include (in addition to bacteriological ones) mycological examination 20. Dominant fungal pathogens reported in aquaculture are oomycetes including the genera Achlya, Aphanomyces and Saprolegnia 10, 21, 22. A. invadans for example can cause epizootic ulcerative syndrome in over a hundred of mostly freshwater fish 23, 24 ,25, but also in some brackish fish species 26, 27. In aquaculture conditions, the most appropriate control is through eradication of the stock, quarantine of new stocks and good husbandry 19, 28, and as such represent a significant cost to the trade 29.
In the present study Results of histopathological examine showed various types of destructions in the selected tissues of Skin, Muscle, Gills and liver. The Skin of Channa striatus exhibits compeletely lost epidermis, destiended cells, many of cells lost their cytoplasm and nuclei. Necrotized muscular layer with the formation of granulomas and encysted conidiophores. Gill lamallae were observed necrotizes with degraded epithelium and fungal hyphae encapsulated by multiple layer of fusiform hepatocytes found in the gill tissue 30.
Conidiophores were observed in between hepatic tissue of Liver, showed vaculolization of liver cells was observed. Similar pattern of histological changes were observed by 9, in Tilapia sp infected with A. flavas. Histopathological manifestations due to Mycotic infection fresh water fishes have been reported by 31, 32, 4. A pathogensity of three species of A. fumigatus, A. niger and A. sydowiion some fresh water fishes.
FIG.7: INFECTED SKIN SHOWS THE PATHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS OF EPIDERMIS AND DISTENDED DERMIS (DD) AND NECROTIZED MUSCULAR LAYER (NML).
FIG. 8: CONTROL GILL SHOWS WITH GILL LAMELLAE (GL), LAMELLAR EPITHELIUM (GLE) AND GILL EPITHELIUM (GE).
FIG. 9: INFECTED GILL LAMELLAE SHOWS WITH DEGENERATED EPITHELIUM (DE), FUNGAL HYPHAE (FH), ENCAPUSALATED BY FUSIFORM HEPATOCYTES AND DISORGANIZATION OF SECONDARY GILL (DSE).
FIG. 10: CONTROL LIVER SHOWS WITH NORMAL HEPATOCYTES (HC), CENTRAL VEIN (CV), PORTAL VEIN (PV), HEPATO PANCREAS (HP), NORMAL VACUOLES (N.VAC) AND KUPFER CELLS (KC).
FIG.11: INFECTED LIVER SHOWS NECROTIZED HEPATIC TISSUE (NHT), BLOOD HEMORRHAGE (BHE), BILE DUCT HYPERPLASIA (BDH), DIALATED SINUSES (DS), MONOCELLULAR NECROSIS (MCN) AND VACUOLIZATION OF LIVER CELLS WITH FUNGAL HYPHAL GROWTH (VFHG).
CONCLUSION: During the present investigation it was concluded that the both Aspergillus fumigatus and Aspergillus niger were pathogenic fungi of Channa striatus causes for development of EUS charesterstics on fresh water fishes of Dharmasagar and Hasanparthy Lakes. This was also observed during the study period these species of fungi may develop conidiophores inside the body as well as external surface. And the infection was observed in internal organs and on epidermis of Skin. Although wounds and lesions were also observed on epidermal surface of the body. According to review of literature the fungal and fungi-like pathogens of fish has highlighted present knowledge gaps that need to be rapidly filled if future epizootics are to be control.
It has also indicated that epidemiological elements arising from other non-fish specific fungal pathogens could be used to refine our true understanding of present and future ecological impacts of these types of pathogens on global fish diversity. Existing pathological data arising from fungal pathogen challenges of fish should be used to develop SEIR models (i.e., susceptible-exposed-infectious-recovered) specific to fungal pathogens and fish hosts. This would allow a simulation of the true extent of the ecological risk and provide elements for a better environmental monitoring and understanding of these species of fungal pathogens. These types of Aspergillus fumigatus and Aspergillus niger may be effects by fish even under the low temperature (20- 25oC) and stressed environmental conditions.
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Authors: Koteshwar Rao Podeti * and Benarjee G
Authors Address: Fisheries Research Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Kakatiya University, Warangal, Telangana, India
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The Ruddock Creek high grade zinc-lead project is a joint venture with Imperial (45.29%), Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co. Ltd. (28.05%), Itochu Corporation (18.70%), and Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC) (7.96%). Imperial operates the project through its wholly owned subsidiary Ruddock Creek Mining Corporation. The property is located 155 km NE of Kamloops, British Columbia, encompassing 22,195 hectares and consisting of 43 mineral claims.
The 2019 diamond drill program was funded by JOGMEC. The program consisted of 17 drill holes totaling 8,802.1 metres targeting the V Zone (11 drill holes; 6,955.5 metres) and the Q Zone (6 drill holes; 1,846.6 metres). Highlights included drill hole RD-19-V54, which intersected 40.9 metres (true thickness 36.8 metres) grading 16.83% zinc, 3.46% lead and 4.74 g/t silver, including 20.1 metres grading 18.93% zinc, 4.15% lead and 6.11 g/t silver. Drill hole RD-19-V54 targeted the deep V Zone, where RD-18-V41 (located 52.0 metres below hole RD-19-54) had intersected 21.7 metres (true thickness 21.5 metres) grading 16.99% zinc, 3.44% lead and 2.41 g/t silver, including 10.4 metres grading 25.70% zinc, 5.41% lead and 3.44 g/t silver.
The V Zone drilling was designed to expand and increase the confidence in the resource in the deep portions of the zone. The V Zone has a steeper dip than all the other known zones at Ruddock Creek. The steeper dip should facilitate lower mining costs than the shallower dipping zones, and thus a larger resource of steeply dipping mineralization in the V Zone would improve the economics of the project. The wide high-grade intercept in RD-V19-54 will add to the resource, along with the other V Zone mineralized intercepts.
A comprehensive review is planned, and will utilize the geophysical and geological data from the past two years of field work to recommend future exploration at Ruddock Creek. Plans for further exploration, in the vicinity of the excellent results obtained in a portion of the V Zone, will be developed and discussed with our joint venture partners. [note: no exploration has been conducted in 2020]
Jim Miller-Tait, P.Geo., VP Exploration, is the designated Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 for the exploration program. Ruddock Creek samples for the 2019 drilling reported were analyzed at Bureau Veritas Mineral Laboratories in Vancouver. A full QA/QC program using blanks, standards and duplicates was completed for all diamond drilling samples submitted to the labs.
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HomeInvestigationsSorcha FaalPresident Trump’s First Martial Law Threat To Democrats Invokes Rage
President Trump’s First Martial Law Threat To Democrats Invokes Rage
December 11, 2018 Sorcha Faal Sorcha Faal
President Trump’s First Martial Law Threat To Democrats Invokes Coup Plotters Rage
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
A very sobering new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today authorizing for public release all classified correspondence with the United States on alleged Russian election meddling, grimly notes that the patience of President Trump against his leftist-socialist enemies appears to have ended as evidenced by his threatening to have the US military take control of their southern border and build a border wall unless the Democrats vote in his favor—a martial law move being urged on Trump by his nation’s citizens who are writing to him such things as “for far too many years a veritable guerrilla army of criminal illegal aliens has been infiltrating our southern border with virtual impunity…and just as a hostile, invading regular army wages a war of death and destruction, these criminals have been committing murders, rapes, armed robberies and vehicular homicides as well as illegal drug and sex trafficking that are wreaking havoc throughout our country”—but whose actions have predictably invoked the rage of those seeking to overthrow Trump in a coup—most notably the virulent anti-Trump so-called newspaper The New York Times saying that “as long as Trump is on the ticket, the 2020 election is set to be a banana republic-style death match”—supposed Republican and disgraced former FBI Director James Comey saying “use every breath you have to defeat Trump in 2020”—and the equally disgraced former CIA Director John Brennan saying there won’t even be a 2020 election and ominously declaring that “Trump will never have a chance to run for public office again”. [Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]
According to this report, with President Trump, his wife and his children now being threatened on a near hourly basis with being thrown from power and jailed for the rest of their lives for crimes no one is even sure what they are, it was left to one of the oldest publications in America called The Atlantic to warn these leftist-socialist coup plotters the catastrophic dangers they are headed for—and was thoroughly outlined in their just published article titled “What the President Could Do If He Declares a State of Emergency” wherein they warned “from seizing control of the internet to declaring martial law, President Trump may legally do all kinds of extraordinary things”.
Unknown to most Americans, this report notes, a parallel legal regime allows President Trump to sidestep many of the constraints that normally apply—with the moment the he declares a national emergency—a decision that is entirely within his discretion—he has more than 100 special provisions become available to him—specifically the emergency powers contained in 136 statutory provisions that give Trump more power than any other leader in the world.
Further available to President Trump, this report explains, are the Presidential Emergency Action Documents (PEADS)—a secretive collection of documents and orders little is known about—but, in 1987, The Miami Herald reported that Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North had worked with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to create this secret contingency plan authorizing “suspension of the Constitution, turning control of the United States over to FEMA, appointment of military commanders to run state and local governments and declaration of martial law during a national crisis”.
A 2007 Department of Homeland Security document, this report continues, lists “martial law” and “curfew declarations” as “critical tasks” that local, state, and federal government should be able to perform in emergencies—followed, in 2008, by US government sources telling a reporter for Radar Magazine that a version of PEADS still existed under the code name “Main Core” allowing for the apprehension and detention of Americans tagged as security threats—and, since 2012, the Department of Justice has been requesting and receiving funds from Congress to update several dozen PEADS first developed in 1989—but whose funding requests contain no indication of what these PEADS encompass, or what standards the department intends to apply in reviewing them.
First Presidential Alert test outlined in PEADS documents hits phones across American on 3 October 201
Once notifying the American people that he has declared a national emergency and imposed martial law, this report says, President Trump is then able to seize control of US internet traffic, impeding access to certain websites and ensuring that internet searches return pro-Trump content as the top results—and to anyone attempting to stop him would find them being met by the feared Executive Order 13224—that allows Trump to need only a “reasonable basis” for believing that someone is involved with or supports terrorism in order to designate them as terrorists, and whose targets are given no advance notice and no hearing.
Further available to use by President Trump, this report notes, is The Insurrection Act of 1807—that as amended over the years, allows Trump to deploy troops upon the request of a State’s governor or legislature to help put down an insurrection within that State—allows Trump to deploy troops unilaterally, either because he determines that rebellious activity has made it “impracticable” to enforce federal law through regular means, or because he deems it necessary to suppress “insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy” that hinders the rights of a class of people or “impedes the course of justice”.
With President Trump ruling over a nation today that already has 30 declarations of national emergency in effect, this report points out, his ability to deploy American military forces under the authority of The Insurrection Act of 1807 was just stunningly displayed barely 48 hours ago when ordered US war planes to flood the night skies of America—that came at the same time the International Monetary Fund warned that the world is unprepared for the gathering storm clouds of the looming catastrophic global financial crisis that’s about to strike.
President Trump, however, this report details, is preparing to meet this global financial crisis with the most feared weapon at his disposal called the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA)—which is a law passed in 1977 that allows him to declare a national emergency “to deal with any unusual and extraordinary threat” to national security, foreign policy, or the economy—and whose powers allow him to impose martial law and close down the US Congress and all US Courts, thus making him able to rule over the United States by Executive Orders alone—and that unknown to most Americans, have the full force and power of US law.
In knowing what President Trump is preparing to do, this report concludes, a bipartisan group of nearly four dozen former US Senators has just warned current and future members of the United States Senate that the United States is “entering a dangerous period”, and urged them to defend America’s democracy by “serving national interests rather than political ideologies”—which Trump has in the past been more than willing to do—but whose new threat to begin using US military forces to build a southern border wall in his first step towards imposing martial law clearly shows his patience is at an end—as would any world leader be whose life, family and supporters are hourly being threatened with death and imprisonment for non-existent crimes that were made up in the fevered minds of their leftist-socialist coup plotter enemies.
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President Donald Trump displayed in his unloading on his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, calling the French president’s idea of a “real European army” independent from Washington, an insult, states that Macron’s concerns of his nation’s future is, indeed, justified as France is now warned is on the verge of civil war— that comes at the same time all of Europe is cowering in fear of Trump—and just days after Trump openly threatened his radical leftist Democrat Party enemies by declaring “if they investigate me, we’re going to do the same”—a threat Trump wasted no time in fulfilling in his toppling from power Democrat Party leader US Congresswoman Linda Sanchez by his criminally charging her husband for breaking US federal laws. […]
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Iran Lobby Weighs in On Hillary Clinton as Nuclear Agreement Draws Scrutiny
If there is any silver lining in the wave of terrorist attacks, sectarian wars being waged and ominous threats and provocative actions coming out of the Iranian regime, it is that virtually all of the candidates running for president in 2016 are united in their collective wariness of the mullahs in Tehran.
That lack of desire among the presidential candidates ranges from outright hostility to the regime to a recognition that the mullahs are committed to an agenda that does not support moderation or regional peace hopes, but that certainly has not stopped the Iran lobby from attempting to influence those campaigns or the American voting public.
The lobby’s chief advocate has long been the National Iranian American Council and its newly created lobbying arm, NIAC Action, which has been urging its supporters to sign and send in petitions and letters to the various campaigns urging them to support the nuclear deal and a broadened dialogue with the regime should they win the White House.
Judging by the lack of enthusiasm from the various campaigns, we can assume that the petition drive by NIAC is being received with less than stellar applause, which might explain by Reza Marashi of NIAC took to Huffington Post with an editorial criticizing Hillary Clinton for taking a harder line against the Iran regime and Islamic extremism in some of her stump speeches.
Marashi took exception to a speech Clinton delivered the Council of Foreign Relations where she said:
“We cannot view Iran and ISIS as separate challenges. Regional politics are too interwoven,” she said. “Raising the confidence of our Arab partners and raising the cost to Iran for bad behavior will contribute more effectively to the fight against ISIS.”
Her views that Iran’s Arab neighbors could become more effective partners in the fight against rising Islamic extremism only if the Iranian regime was held accountable for its actions, such as the recent attempt to overthrow the government in Yemen and the effort to take over the Iraqi government, is both a prudent and smart foreign policy declaration for someone who could very well be sitting in the Oval Office in 2017.
The fact that Marashi takes the well-worn Iranian regime talking point blaming its Arab neighbors for the supporting these terror groups is evidence of how paltry and bereft of substance the arguments are from the Iran lobby. The NIAC and other regime supporters have opted to try and shift blame for the rise in terror, including the bloody attacks in Paris on anyone else but the Iranian regime.
But Secretary Clinton recognizes a key point that Marashi and his ilk are desperate to cover up, which is Iran, as a theocratic state, uses its status as a country to support and prop up many terror groups around the world and engage actively in proxy wars that have threaten to draw the rest of the world into bloody conflict. While the flow of funds to some terror groups may be traced back to donations from individual donors, Iranian regime is the only nation-state that has devoted its treasury, military, economy and political influence in supporting groups such as Hezbollah and the Houthis, as well as provided safe harbor and shelter for members of Al-Qaeda and ISIS in the past.
The one true statement Marashi makes is when he says “the more options America has, the greater its leverage becomes.”
In this he is correct, but not in the way he intended because in agreeing to the nuclear deal with Iranian mullahs, the U.S. has unwittingly hampered itself by taking a whole host of tools off the table ranging from continued sanctions to restrictions on the flow of cash coming from the Iranian regime and into the coffers of various terror groups.
But what is even more surprising are the revelations in a recent National Review story that pointed out that the nuclear agreement had not even been signed by the regime and in effect has no legal standing.
“The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is not a treaty or an executive agreement, and is not a signed document,” wrote Julia Frifield, the State Department assistant secretary for legislative affairs, in a November 19 letter written in response to an inquiry sent to Secretary of State John Kerry by Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.).
Regime leader Hassan Rouhani discouraged his nation’s parliament from voting on the nuclear deal in order to avoid placing legal burdens on the regime, saying “If the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action is sent to [and passed by] parliament, it will create an obligation for the government. It will mean the president, who has not signed it so far, will have to sign it,” Rouhani said in August. “Why should we place an unnecessary legal restriction on the Iranian people?”
That statement has led to rampant speculation on Capitol Hill that the nuclear deal is already null and void, which explains why most of the presidential candidates have already staked out policy positions visibly diverging from what the Obama administration negotiated with regime.
As more journalists point out this inconvenient truth, such as Michael Ledeen writing of the lack of any signatures in Forbes, we can expect an even more desperate attempt by the Iran lobby and Marashi to try and shift more attention away and onto another false canard. Maybe they can blame El Nino on too much methane coming from cows next.
By Michael Tomlinson
Filed Under: Blog, News Tagged With: #NuclearDeal, Featured, Hilary Clinton, NIAC, NIAC Action, Nuclear Deal, Reza Marashi
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Yellow Vehicles Rally In Support Of Man Whose Car Was Vandalized For 'Destroying A View'
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JP gets cameo in music video
by • October 9, 2009 • 0 Comments
John Ruch
Image Courtesy McAlister Drive
A couple reunites in a scene shot in JP’s Monumnet Square for the band McAlister Drive’s music video for the song “Drowning.”
Jamaica Plain is for lovers.
At least, it is in a new music video by the indie rock band McAlister Drive that shows a couple reuniting in JP’s Monument Square.
The video for the song “Drowning” debuted last week as part of the Somerville band’s performance at the CollegeFest event in the Back Bay’s Hynes Convention Center.
The video begins with scenes of couples breaking up. The happy ending comes when a man and woman reconcile while sitting on the granite wall surrounding the Soldier’s Monument. The black-and-white footage turns to full color during the scene.
The video offers an unusual but attractive view of Monument Square. Most photos of the square are taken from South Street to show the monument and the First Church in Jamaica Plain Unitarian Universalist. But the video is shot from Centre Street. It barely shows the monument, instead highlighting the green space around it, with Curtis Hall appearing prominently in the background.
The Gazette encountered the band’s frontman, Christoph Krey, and the crew from McElroy Films shooting the JP footage last March.
Most of the video was shot elsewhere. Krey told the Gazette this week that the filmmakers chose Monument Square for the key scene as a “perfect in-between” from a city look and a suburban look.
“We did know about the location before [and] we tried to encompass areas that the band is familiar with and have a high artist population,” Krey said. “JP and Somerville captured both quite well.”
The “Drowning” video can be viewed at http://www.myspace.com/mcalisterdrive.
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Small End-Window and Angle-Window Geiger Counters: Measurement of Radioactivity in Intraocular Tumors Following Injection of Radioactive Phosphorus
CHARLES I THOMAS, M.D.; JACK S. KROHMER, M.A.; WILLIAM J. MaclNTYRE, Ph.D.; et al MARY BOVINGTON, A.B.
From the Department of Surgery, Division of Ophthalmology, and Department of Radiology, Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and University Hospitals.
The use of radioactive phosphorus has become a valuable aid in oncologic studies and in the diagnosis of ocular neoplasms. Measurement of the uptake of this radioactive substance by the tissue under investigation gives an index that furnishes a substantial evaluation of certain metabolic processes occurring in that tissue. To facilitate such measurements, special Geiger counter probes * have been constructed which provide satisfactory results for both anterior and posterior ocular tumors. Bettman4 has also designed a scintillation counter for similar use.
Recently, we have been studying the uptake of radioactive phosphorus by ocular neoplasms in experimental animals, with the hope of establishing a firm basis for the understanding of similar cases observed clinically. In these investigations, we originally used the same counter probes on animals that had been designed for clinical determinations. Both the end-window and the angle-type counters, however, proved to be a little too large for satisfactory
THOMAS CI, KROHMER JS, MaclNTYRE WJ, BOVINGTON M. Small End-Window and Angle-Window Geiger Counters: Measurement of Radioactivity in Intraocular Tumors Following Injection of Radioactive Phosphorus. AMA Arch Ophthalmol. 1956;55(4):519–521. doi:10.1001/archopht.1956.00930030523010
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THE SANTA CLOSET: The Door is Open and Santa’s Coming Out
The Santa Closet: Where Theatrical Journalism & Non-Binary Humor Meet
A COVID-conscious, Pandemic-appropriate Theater Review by Julinda D. Lewis
At: Richmond Triangle Players at the Robert B. Moss Theatre, 1300 Altamont Avenue, RVA 23230
Performances: November 18-December 19, 2020. Live & Streaming options.
Ticket Prices: In-Person Tickets: $30 & $35; $10 for Students. Streaming Edition: $25; $10 for Students. Choice of Eddie Webster or Levi Meerovich.
Info:(804) 346-8113 or rtriangle.org. See the theater’s website for their COVID-19 precautions, digital programs, online drink orders, and more
Even in the midst of a worldwide pandemic we can depend on the Richmond Triangle Players to give us a unique, memorable, and satisfyingly humorous holiday show. This year’s one-man production of Jeffrey Solomon’s The Santa Closet fulfills all those requirements and does not disappoint!
Originally titled Santa Claus is Coming Out when it premiered some ten years ago, starring the author, the title was changed to indicate the play is not just a silly, vapid little play about coming out. The Santa Closet, on the other hand, implies all the depth and layers and “stuff” that are in that closet – and that make this play such a delightful journey.
It all starts with a young child’s letter to Santa. We first meet little Gary when he writes a letter asking Santa for a “Sparkle Ann” doll – a Barbie look-alike. Gary’s best friend, a feisty little girl named Cheyenne, defends him every step of the way. She, after all, is the recipient of Gary’s creative skills in designing doll clothes and hair styles. But his mother, Trish, is floundering on the edge of tolerance while his father, Frank, is lovingly homophobic (yes, it’s possible to be both of those things).
But Santa disappoints little Gary, who receives a truck instead. The following year, Gary tries again, asking for a Dream Date Norm (if you’re with me, you’ve already figured out that’s similar to a Ken doll). Once again, Santa doesn’t deliver, and Gary’s faith begins to wane.
Cut to the big guy himself. We find a conflicted Santa first having drinks in a gay bar in Manhattan, and then being reluctantly drawn into participating in the Stonewall Rebellion of 1969. (For those not familiar with the history, this was a series of what the LGBT community of the time referred to as demonstrations and the police and city administration referred to as riots. The movement was sparked by a police raid of the Stonewall Inn in NYC’s Greenwich Village.)
Eddie Webster stars in the Richmond production, with Levi Meerovich performing a limited number of performances. I had the pleasure of watching Meerovich performing on Saturday night. Wearing the familiar COVID uniform of pajamas and robe, Meerovich used a variety of accents and mannerisms – and the occasional hat or glowing red nose – to smoothly transform into about a dozen distinct characters.
Besides young Gary, his mother Trish, and his father Frank, the actor must portray Santa; Santa’s agent Sidney; Pete the head Elf; Rudolph the head reindeer (pronouns he, him, his); Gary’s BFF Cheyenne; Santa’s Italian lover Giovanni (a great-great-great-great-great grandson of Pinocchio), the family’s pastor, a waning actress, Beatrice Pond (known for her one-woman portrayal of The Cherry Orchard) who is hired to portray Mrs. Clause; Santa’s gay friend Jose; and Mary Ellen Banford who is the leader of the local branch of Families Against the Gay Agenda, or FAGA for short.
The Santa Closet establishes a delicate balance of humor and tenderness. Solomon wrote the play as if each of the characters is being interviewed and there are “Breaking News” interruptions several times as the drama unfolds. Damage control is required after the Stonewall incident, and reflecting the original title, Santa and Giovanni go missing, never to be seen again. Of necessity, most of the gay characters are over the top. With Meerovich portraying so many different characters in rapid succession, that helps the audience keep up. It also makes the moments all the more sensitive when Gary accepts being different, or when his parents join a support group to help them along their journey to accept their now-adolescent child.
Director Nora Ogunleye has directed with a gentle but steady hand that left Meerovich plenty of room to do what he does so well, while expressing the nuances Solomon wrote into the play. Richmond Triangle artistic director Lucien Restivo kept the costume and set simple (pajamas and slippers, three arched openings, an angled platform, a stool, some holiday lights, a couple of Christmas trees that appear to be fashioned from children’s letters to Santa). This provides a pleasant and seasonal backdrop but allows the audience to focus on the actor and the many characters he portrays. Anything else would have been far too busy and distracting.
Two small wall-mounted screens contain relevant projections, but perhaps I should have said “too-small wall-mounted screens. Even from my fairly close seat in the second or third row from the stage, it was difficult to see the detail on some of the projections. This size may have been a well-reasoned choice, but I am sure that many others with “mature eyes” may also feel they are missing some of the visuals.
Speaking of the audience, the already-intimate theater has been further limited to a maximum of 27 patrons for live performances. Seats are socially distanced in pods of 1, 2, or 4. Masks are required, there is no intermission, drinks may be ordered and paid for online, everyone’s temperature is taken on entry, and programs are fully digital (a pandemic adaptation that many theaters will likely continue when this is all over).
Other members of the creative team – yes, it takes as many people to produce a one-person show as it does to produce a show with a larger cast – include Joey Luck, sound; Deryn Gabor, lighting; Yara Birykova, projections; Sheamus Coleman, technical direction; and Erica Hughes for some really fun dialects.
There are live performances Thursdays through Sundays, with one Wednesday performance. Check the theater’s website for details and to order tickets or purchase the link to purchase one or both of the streaming editions (one features Eddie Webster and the other Levi Meerovich). [I haven’t yet seen Webster’s portrayal, which I expect may be quite different and I will add an addendum to this post after I’ve seen him in the streamed version.] In the meantime, if you’re looking for a little holiday cheer (with a bit of an edge, due to the history), this should fit the playbill. The Santa Closet is highly recommended (for those over age 15).
Photos: Richmond Triangle Facebook page.
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Julinda D. Lewis is a dancer, teacher, and writer, born and raised in Brooklyn, NY and transplanted to Richmond, VA. A retiree from both the New York City and Richmond City Public School systems, she is currently an Adjunct Instructor for the Department of Dance and Choreography at Virginia Commonwealth University, and holds the degrees of BS and MA in Dance and Dance Education (New York University), MSEd in Early Childhood Education (Brooklyn College, CUNY), and is currently working on her dissertation in Educational Leadership (Regent University). Julinda is the Richmond Site Leader for TEN/The Eagles Network and the East Region Coordinator for the International Dance Commission and has worked in dance ministry all over the US and abroad (Bahamas, Barbados, Haiti, Jamaica, Kenya, Puerto Rico). She is licensed in dance ministry by the Eagles International Training Institute (2012), and was ordained in dance ministry through Calvary Bible Institute and Seminary, Martinez, GA (2009). View all posts by jdldances
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PCOS, BPA and Endocrine Disruptors Part Three
Posted on May 19 2014 by Jeffrey Dach MD
PCOS, BPA and Endocrine Disruptors
by Jeffrey Dach MD
This is part three of a series. For Part One Click Here. For Part Two, Click Here.
At the May 16 A4M Meeting in Orlando, Felice Gersh MD gave an excellent talk on PCOS, which I will attempt to summarize in this article. Dr. Gersh in an integrative OB/Gyne in Irvine California.
What is PCOS ?
Poly Cystic Ovary Syndrome – PCOS
PCOS is characterized by anovulatory cycles, increased testosterone and DHEA levels causing hirsutism and acne, insulin resistance, and increased inflammation in the body. In addition, recent studies show dysfunctional Estrogen Receptors (ER alpha and ER Beta) and Progesterone receptors.(1)
Endocrine Disruptor BPA Bisphenol A
Dr Gersh was very blunt about the cause of PCOS, linking neonatal exposure to the endocrine disruptor chemical BPA (Bisphenol-A) to the increasing epidemic of PCOS affecting 10-20% of the female population.(1-7)
Dr Gersh pointed out that in experimental animals, neonatal exposure to BPA (Bisphenol-A) results in a PCOS-like syndrome in
adulthood. In addition, there is elevated BPA levels in PCOS patients.(6) Genetic studies show polymorphism or genetic mutations in the Estrogen receptors.(4)
The altered Estrogen Receptors leads to altered follicle development and explains the anovulory cycles.
Bis-Phenol-A Physiologic Effects
BPA-Endocrine Disruptor
1) Reduces the number of oocytes
2) Lowers successful number of births
3) Changes gene expression – differences only apparent after
estrogen exposure.
4) Reduces the function of Estrogen Receptor Beta
5) Negatively affects mitochondrial function
6) Alters hypothalamic pituitary- gonadal axis Increases testosterone,
7) lowers progesterone,
8) alters GnRH secretion
9) Increases glucocorticoids,
10) heightens response to stress, elevates levels of anxiety
BPA is Everywhere !
Bisphenol A is found in plastics and in the plastic lining of canned foods (see above image) and we are unfortunately exposed to huge quantities of it in our everyday life.
Early Environmental Pioneers
Early pioneers in the field who warned us about the effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals in the environment were Rachel Carson in her 1962 book, Silent Spring, and Theo Coburn in her book, Our Stolen Future: Threatening Our Fertility.
This is Part Three of a series.
For Part One Click Here.
For Part Two, Click Here.
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Our Stolen Future Web site.
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PCOS part three references
Estrogen Receptors altered in PCOS
1) http://www.medwirenews.com/45/12531/ObGyn/Estrogen_receptor_expression_altered_in_PCOS_follicles.html
Estrogen receptor expression altered in PCOS follicles
17 December 2002. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 2002; 87: 5532–8
The fertility problems associated with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) may be partly due to abnormal granulosa cell expression of estrogen receptors (ERs) in women with the condition, a study shows.
Noting that high estrogen concentrations are “a defining characteristic of dominant follicles,” Dr. Denis Magoffin (Ceders-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA) and co-investigators examined whether abnormal expression of ERs could contribute to poor follicular development and ovulatory failure in women with PCOS.
They obtained follicles from 12 polycystic ovaries from women with PCOS, and 23 normal ovaries from women with regular menstrual cycles.
Expression of ER-alpha mRNA was similar in control and PCOS follicles in the granulosa cells, but in the theca cells, ER-alpha concentrations were significantly increased in the PCOS samples, compared with the controls. ER-beta mRNA expression was higher in small antral than in dominant follicles from the control ovaries, and was observed at an intermediate level in PCOS follicles. Interestingly, however, ER-beta protein was detected at similar levels in the PCOS follicles and control dominant follicles.
“The results of this study demonstrate that there are significant alterations in the expression of ER-alpha and ER-beta in PCOS that may be related to abnormal follicular development,” Magoffin et al conclude.
Journal abstract
2) http://www.jbiomedsci.com/content/pdf/1423-0127-21-2.pdf Endometrial progesterone resistance and PCOS. Xin Li1,2, Yi Feng1,3, Jin-Fang Lin2 , Håkan Billig1 and Ruijin Shao
3) Ovarian Actions of Estrogen Receptor-β: An Update Ann E. Drummond, Ph.D.1 Peter J. Fuller, B.Med.Sci., M.B.B.S., Ph.D., F.R.A.C.P.1 1Prince Henry’s Institute of Medical Research, Clayton, Victoria, Australia Ovarian_Actions_of_Estrogen_Receptor_β_ Drummond_2012
4) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19185861
Fertil Steril. 2010 Apr;93(6):1942-7. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.12.040. Epub 2009 Jan 30.
Estrogen receptor beta gene +1730 G/A polymorphism in women with polycystic ovary syndrome. Kim JJ1, Choi YM, Choung SH, Yoon SH, Lee GH, Moon SY.
To investigate whether the +1730 G/A polymorphism in the estrogen receptor (ER)-beta gene is associated with susceptibility to polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).
University Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
PATIENT(S): Women with (n = 138) or without (n = 290) PCOS.
INTERVENTION(S): Genotyping was performed by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment-length polymorphism analysis.
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): Genotype distribution and allele frequency of the +1730 G/A polymorphism in the ER-beta gene.
RESULT(S): There was a significant difference in the genotype distribution between the patients with PCOS and controls (non-GG rates were 22.1% for patients with PCOS and 36.6% for controls). There was also a significant difference in the G and A allele frequencies between these two groups (11.7% in patients vs. 19.1% in controls with A allele). But in patients with PCOS there were no significant differences in the serum levels of hormones, biochemical variables, or ovarian morphology between GG and non-GG genotypes.
CONCLUSION(S):
The ER-beta gene +1730 G/A polymorphism may be associated with pathophysiologic aberrancies involved in PCOS.
5) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3660316/
PLoS One. 2013; 8(5): e64801. Published online May 21, 2013.doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064801
Genome-Wide Methylated DNA Immunoprecipitation Analysis of Patients with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Hao-ran Shen,1 Li-hua Qiu,1 Zhi-qing Zhang,2 Yuan-yuan Qin,1 Cong Cao,2,* andWen Di1,*
Elevated Levels of BPA in PCOS
J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2011 Mar;96(3):E480-4. doi: 10.1210/jc.2010-1658. Epub 2010 Dec 30. Endocrine disruptors and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS): elevated serum levels of bisphenol A in women with PCOS. Kandaraki E1, Chatzigeorgiou A, Livadas S, Palioura E, Economou F, Koutsilieris M, Palimeri S, Panidis D, Diamanti-Kandarakis E.
Bisphenol A (BPA) is a widespread industrial compound used in the synthesis of polycarbonate plastics. In experimental animals, neonatal exposure to BPA results in a polycystic ovary-like syndrome (PCOS) in adulthood. A bidirectional interaction between androgens and BPA levels has been disclosed.
To determine BPA levels in PCOS women as well as the association between BPA and hormonal/metabolic parameters compared to a control group.
DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS:
Cross-sectional study of 71 PCOS (National Institutes of Health criteria) and 100 normal women, age- and body mass index-matched, in a University hospital setting.
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES:
Anthropometric, hormonal, metabolic parameters and BPA blood levels were determined. Patients (PCOS) and controls (C) were further subdivided according to body mass index into lean and overweight subgroups, respectively.
BPA levels were significantly higher in the total PCOS group compared with the controls (1.05±0.56 vs. 0.72±0.37 ng/ml, P < 0.001). PCOS women, lean (PCOS-L) and overweight (PCOS-OW), had higher BPA levels compared to the corresponding control group lean (C-L) and overweight (C-OW): (PCOS-L = 1.13±0.63 vs. C-L = 0.70±0.36, P < 0.001) (PCOS-OW = 0.96 ± 0.46 vs. C-OW = 0.72 ± 0.39, P < 0.05). A significant association of testosterone (r = 0.192, P < 0.05) and androstenedione (r = 0.257, P < 0.05) with BPA was observed. Multiple regression analysis for BPA showed significant correlation with the existence of PCOS (r = 0.497, P < 0.05). BPA was also positively correlated with insulin resistance (Matsuda index) in the PCOS group (r = 0.273, P < 0.05).
Higher BPA levels in PCOS women compared to controls and a statistically significant positive association between androgens and BPA point to a potential role of this endocrine disruptor in PCOS pathophysiology.
7) Semin Reprod Med 2012; 30:32–38 .
Ovarian_Actions_of_Estrogen_Receptor_β_ Drummond_2012, Ph.D. 1 Peter J. Fuller, B.Med.Sci., M.B.B.S., Ph.D., F.R.A.C.P. 1 1 Prince Henry’s Institute of Medical Research, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a common endocrine
disorder characterized by anovulation, elevated levels of
androgen, hirsutism, and insulin resistance.64,65 Folliculogenesis is arrested at the antral stage of development, and it is the accumulation of these follicles that gives the ovary its
characteristic morphology of a necklace-like pattern of fol
follicles in the periphery. Because estrogen has been shown to be
essential for folliculogenesis beyond the antral stage, it is
perhaps not surprising that ERβ mRNA and protein are
reduced in granulosa cells and theca cells from PCOS patients. 11,66
We hypothesized that changes in the ratio of ERβ
το ERα may result in abnormal follicular development. Similarly,
in a rodent model of PCOS, levels of ERβ protein were
decreased in the granulosa layers of cystic follicles.67 Idiopathic
ovulatory dysfunction has been found to be associated
with a G/A (1730) polymorphism in ERβ.2. Given that ovulatory
dysfunction is a key feature of PCOS, one group investigated
a cohort of PCOS patients to determine if there was an
association with this polymorphism.68 They reported significant
differences in the genotype distribution and allelic
frequencies between controls and PCOS patients that supported a correlation with the G/A polymorphism.68 To date,
the underlying mechanism has not been established.
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Open access isn’t as open as you think, especially when there are corporate interests involved
Matthew Grosvenor
Cambridge computer scientists have established a new gold standard for open research, in order to make scientific results more robust and reliable
A group of Cambridge computer scientists have set a new gold standard for openness and reproducibility in research by sharing the more than 200GB of data and 20,000 lines of code behind their latest results – an unprecedented degree of openness in a peer-reviewed publication. The researchers hope that this new gold standard will be adopted by other fields, increasing the reliability of research results, especially for work which is publicly funded.
The researchers are presenting their results at a talk today (4 May) at the 12th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) in Oakland, California.
In recent years there’s been a great deal of discussion about so-called ‘open access’ publications – the idea that research publications, particularly those funded by public money, should be made publicly available.
Computer science has embraced open access more than many disciplines, with some publishers sub-licensing publications and allowing authors to publish them in open archives. However, as more and more corporations publish their research in academic journals, and as academics find themselves in a ‘publish or perish’ culture, the reliability of research results has come into question.
“Open access isn’t as open as you think, especially when there are corporate interests involved,” said Matthew Grosvenor, a PhD student from the University’s Computer Laboratory, and the paper’s lead author. “Due to commercial sensitivities, corporations are reluctant to make their code and data sets available when they publish in peer-reviewed journals. But without the code or data sets, the results are irrelevant – we can’t know whether an experiment is the same if we try to recreate it.”
Beyond computer science, a number of high-profile incidents of errors, fraud or misconduct have called quality standards in research into question. This has thrown the issue of reproducibility – that a result can be reliably repeated given the same conditions – into the spotlight.
“If a result cannot be reliably repeated, then how can we trust it?” said Grosvenor. “If you try to reproduce other people’s work from the paper alone, you often end up with different numbers. Unless you have access to everything, it’s useless to call a piece of research open source. It’s either open source or it’s not – you can’t open source just a little bit.”
With their most recent publication, Grosvenor and his colleagues have gone several steps beyond typical open access standards – setting a new gold standard for open and reproducible research. All of the experimental figures and tables in the award-winning final version of their paper, which describes a new method of making data centres more efficient, are clickable.
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New material opens possibilities for super-long-acting pills
Shiyi Zhang, a postdoc at the Koch Institute and the paper’s lead author, holds a ring-shaped device prototype (left), which can be folded into a swallowable capsule (right) for easy and safe oral delivery.
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A pH-responsive polymer gel could create swallowable devices, including capsules for ultra-long drug delivery
Medical devices designed to reside in the stomach have a variety of applications, including prolonged drug delivery, electronic monitoring, and weight-loss intervention. However, these devices, often created with nondegradable elastic polymers, bear an inherent risk of intestinal obstruction as a result of accidental fracture or migration. As such, they are usually designed to remain in the stomach for a limited time.
Now, researchers at MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have created a polymer gel that overcomes this safety concern and could allow for the development of long-acting devices that reside in the stomach, including orally delivered capsules that can release drugs over a number of days, weeks, or potentially months following a single administration.
This polymer is pH-responsive: It is stable in the acidic stomach environment but dissolves in the small intestine’s near-neutral pH, allowing for safe passage through the remainder of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. The material is also elastic, allowing for the compression and folding of devices into easily ingestible capsules — meaning this polymer can be used to create safe devices designed for extremely prolonged residence in the stomach.
“One of the issues with any device in the GI tract is that there’s the potential for an obstruction, which is a medical emergency potentially requiring surgical intervention,” says Koch Institute research affiliate Giovanni Traverso, also a gastroenterologist at MGH and an instructor at Harvard Medical School. “A material like this represents a real advance because it is both safe and stable in the stomach environment.”
Traverso and Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT and a member of the Koch Institute, are the senior authors of a paper in the July 27 issue of Nature Materials that describes the application of this new polymer gel for creating gastric devices. Shiyi Zhang, a postdoc at the Koch Institute, is the paper’s lead author.
Safely stretching
Designing devices for the stomach is a complicated matter of sizes and shapes. The stomach naturally empties its contents in a matter of hours, so for devices to be retained, they must be wider than the pylorus — the valve at the end of the stomach, about 1.5 to 2 centimeters in diameter, that allows gastric contents to pass into the small intestine. However, because the most convenient path to deliver these devices is through the esophagus, which is only marginally wider than the pylorus, the researchers were interested in developing a polymer with elastic properties.
“An elastic device can be folded into something small, such as a capsule, and be easily ingested through the esophagus before expanding in the stomach, restoring its original shape,” Zhang says. “When you have a device that’s larger than the pylorus, there’s a much higher probability that it will be retained longer in the stomach.”
But the size and shape of existing devices with elastic polymers have been limited by safety concerns, as there is a greater risk for fracture if a device is too large or too complex. Because of this, the researchers wanted their polymer to also be enteric — or have a mechanism that would enable it to pass through the stomach unaltered before disintegrating in the intestines.
“To lower any possible risk of obstruction, we wanted a material that could dissolve in the intestines, thereby dissociating the device, and safely pass out of the body,” Zhang says.
To create this new material, the researchers synthesized an elastic polymer and combined it in solution with a clinically utilized enteric polymer. Adding hydrochloric acid and centrifuging the solution resulted in a flexible, yet resilient, polymer gel that exhibits both elastic and enteric properties.
The researchers used the gel polycaprolactone (PCL), a nontoxic, degradable polyester, to construct several device prototypes. They first created ring-shaped devices by using the gel to link arcs of PCL in a circular mold. These elastic devices had a diameter of 3 centimeters — wider than the pylorus — before they were folded into orally ingestible capsules.
In testing the capsules in pigs, the researchers found that the rings expanded into their original shape within 15 minutes of ingestion and remained in the stomach for up to seven days. After the device passed out of the stomach, the polymer gel dissolved, allowing for the safe passage of the small PCL pieces without obstruction. The researchers also created larger devices in various shapes that could be folded and delivered through the esophagus with the assistance of an endoscope. These devices remained in the stomach for up to five days, after which the gel similarly dissolved, allowing for the remnants of the device to safely pass.
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1.General terms
1.1. This Public Offer is addressed to individuals and (or) legal entities (hereinafter Customers) and is an official offer from LLC "Insunrise", represented by General Director A. V. Bryukhov, hereinafter referred to as "Contractor", to conclude a Contract on rendering of services of non-exclusive access to ASDI program (INSUNRISE DISC Assessment System) to process data for INSUNRISE reporting, as well as business and/or other type of consulting, diagnostics, coaching and other consultancy services, presented on the official web-site(s) by insunrise.com, idisc.insunrise.com or other Contractor domains.
1.2. In accordance with paragraph 2.437 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, this document is a Public Offer, and should the conditions set forth below be accepted, Customers who accept this Offer shall pay for Contractor Services in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Payment by Customer to Contractor is considered to be a moment of complete and unconditional acceptance of Contractor's Offer to conclude a Contract set forth in the Offer Conditions (i.e. acceptance of the offer), in accordance with paragraphs 1 and 3 of article 438 of the civil code.
1.3. On the basis of the above, Customer, in the process of familiarization with the text of the Public Offer, and in case of disagreement with any point of the Offer, retains the right to refuse Services provided by Contractor.
1.4. Customer (if a private individual) guarantees the right and legal capacity necessary for the conclusion and fulfilment of this Agreement.
1.5. In this Offer, unless context requires otherwise, the following terms have the following meanings:
"Offer": public offer from Contractor addressed to any individual (citizen) or legal entity, to conclude a service contract (hereinafter "Contract") on the existing conditions contained in the Contract, including all appendices.
"Customer": a private person or legal entity that has entered into a Contract with Contractor on the terms contained in this offer.
"Acceptance": full and unconditional acceptance by Customer of all terms in the Contract.
"Services": a list of all types of services provided, presented on Contractor’s official internet site(s).
"Consultation": the form of Contractor’s work. It can be conducted in person or in absentia, verbally or in writing, as agreed with Customer (hereinafter Consultation).
ASDI- INSUNRISE DISC Assessment System has been created on the basis of DISC methodology computer program designed to process INSUNRISE DISC questionnaires (hereinafter Program).
INSUNRISE DISC Questionnaire(s) are an ordered list of questions designed to measure the degree of intensity present in a person's certain personal and professional qualities (hereinafter Questionnaire).
INSUNRISE report is a result of processing INSUNRISE questionnaires by Program, presented in the form of information arranged in chapters, which describe and measure personal and professional qualities of the person tested as selected by Customer (hereinafter Report).
Access to Program and Questionnaire is provided via an alphanumeric combination of an electronic access key with which Customer receives access to Questionnaire(s) as part of access to Program on Contractor’s internet site(s) in order to process entered data and receive paid report(s).
Internet acquiring-acceptance for payment by bankcard and electronic money via the internet using a specially designed web interface that allows you to make calculations and pay for various services.
2. Subject of contract
2.1. Contractor provides services offering non-exclusive Access to Program and Questionnaire(s) for processing data to obtain INSUNRISE reports, and access to Consultations, and/or other services in accordance with the list of Services and the current price List published on Contractor's website.
2.2. Services of access to consultations are provided to Customer in person/in absentia by agreement, remotely, using modern means of communication: telephone, e-mail or via Skype or other messengers, as agreed on by the Parties.
2.3. Customer pays for selected type of Service in accordance with the list of Services and the current price List published on Contractor’s website, and receives Services in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
2.4. Terms of Service depend on the content of Services requested by Customer, but may not exceed:
in respect of services to provide non-exclusive Access to Program and Questionnaire(s) (providing Customer a letter-number combination electronic access key) 6 (six) months from the date of receipt of finds on Contractor’s settlement account, and then, unless access keys are not valid, the service is considered rendered in full.
in respect of services for access to advice and other services 6 (six) months from the date of receipt of funds to Contractor’s account, after which, access to advice is not valid, Service is considered to be provided in full and the obligations of Contractor to Customer fully and faithfully concluded.
2.5. The current version of this Agreement (Public Offer) is available on Contractor’s website insunrise.com
2.6. This Agreement shall have the power of an act on provision of services. Delivery-acceptance of rendered services is made without signing of the corresponding act.
3.1. Payment for all services under this Agreement shall be made in the form of one hundred percent pre-payment and in the manner established by this Agreement.
3.2. Payment for Services is carried out by transferring funds to Contractor’s account through the internet acquiring system posted on Contractor’s website(s).
3.3. The moment of payment for services selected by Customer is considered one hundred percent receipt of funds, in an amount corresponding to the order, to Contractor’s account.
3.4. The cost of Services is indicated on Contractor's website in the current price List. Details for payment of Services are fully specified on Contractor’s website and in clause 8 of this Agreement.
3.5. Customer independently pays for bank services and other agents associated with the transfer of funds to Contractor’s account.
3.6. Customer shall be solely responsible for promptness of payments made and correctness of personal data entered in connection with provision of Services under this Agreement.
3.7. Should early termination of the contract on Customer’s initiative arise, and it is a legal entity, advance payment to Customer is not returned and is withheld by Contractor as an amount of penalty for non-compliance by Customer with its obligations.
4. Procedure for provision of services
4.1. Customer shall pay for Services in accordance with clause 3 of this Agreement.
4.2. Customer informs Contractor about selected Services and payment made for (amount, date, sender's data and purpose of payment) by means of a letter sent to the e-mail address specified by Customer and on the website in the user's Cart.
4.3. Access to Consultation(s) is provided in an amount corresponding to the amount of payment for Services and on the subject agreed with Customer verbally or in writing when placing an Order.
4.4. The obligations of the Parties shall be deemed duly fulfilled after providing Customer with access to Consultation(s) in an amount corresponding to the amount of payment for Services determined by this Agreement in paragraph 2.4.
4.5. This Agreement shall have the power of an act on provision of Services. Delivery-Acceptance of services rendered is made without signing the corresponding act.
4.6. Contractor shall not be liable, both to Customer and to third parties, for quality and consequences of services rendered to Customer and shall not return payment made if Customer has hidden from Contractor of being registered in a psychoneurological clinic, or having hidden or distorted other information necessary for Contractor to conduct quality Consultations.
4.7. Consultant of Contractor has the right to unilaterally refuse to provide access to Consultation and to consult or provide Access to Customer (individual), subject to the return of paid funds minus bank commission for the implementation of the relevant transfer, and provided this does not contradict other clauses of the Contract in the following cases:
if Customer at the time of ordering Services is under 18 years of age
if Client appears on account in a psychoneurological clinic
if criminal or ethical standards have been violated
if there are temporary organizational reasons
5. Rights, obligations and responsibilities of the Parties
5.1. Obligations and rights of Contractor:
5.1.1. Provide services in good faith under this Agreement and in accordance with its terms.
5.1.2. Provide access to consultations according to time parameters agreed with Customer(s). Should change of time or other parameters of the appointed consultation arise, Contractor is obliged to notify Customer no later than one day before the beginning of the appointed consultation.
5.1.3. Maintain confidentiality of personal data in accordance with legislation of the Russian Federation.
5.1.4. Cease rendering services to Customer in case of disrespectful communication between Customer and Contractor, concealment of the fact of an account in a psychoneurological clinic, untimely payment of access to consultation(s), appearance on consultation in a state of intoxication and for other reasons which Contractor considers sufficient for termination of work.
5.2. Obligations and rights of Customer:
5.2.1. Pay for Services in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
5.2.2. Provide accurate information in the process of creating an account (registration) on the site.
5.2.3. Not to reproduce, repeat, copy, record audio or video materials; sell, or use, for any purpose, information and materials made available in connection with provision of Services, except for personal use.
5.2.4. Maintain in good technical condition equipment and communication channels that provide access to Contractor’s site. Contractor shall not be liable for failure to provide (poor quality) services for reasons beyond Contractor’s control.
6. Use of Customer personal information
6.1. Provision of information by Customer
6.1.1. When registering on the site in the framework of and for the provision of services by Contractor and Customer under this Agreement, as well as for its fulfilment, Customer undertakes to voluntarily provide the following information: surname, name, patronymic, e-mail address, phone number, other necessary information in the framework of the reception and transfer of services to provide access to Advice and interaction with Contractor.
6.1.2. Contractor shall use the data provided by Customer during the entire period of Customer's registration on the site/Contract validity in order to:
6.1.3. When placing an order on the site, Customer provides the following information: Last Name, First Name, Patronymic, address and time of reception and transfer of services to provide access to consultation(s), contact phone number/phone numbers, personal identifiers (nicknames) in messengers, account numbers or Bank cards, in case of a refund, answers in questionnaires.
6.1.4. Customer, in concluding this Agreement, in accordance with the Federal law of 27.07.2006 N 152-FZ "on personal data", agrees to the processing, storage and other use of personal data contained in documents and other information transmitted to Contractor in order to ensure the fulfilment of the contract.
6.1.5. The use of information provided by Customer and received by the Contractor is reduced to:
registration/authorization of Customer on the site;
processing Customer's orders and fulfilling their obligations;
implementation of activities to promote services of Contractor;
other actions necessary for the provision of services under this Agreement and compliance with its terms and conditions and/or for the purpose of marketing, collecting statistical data or carrying out mailings to promote Customer's products and services.
6.2. Contractor undertakes not to transfer the information received from Customer to third parties. It is not considered a violation for the Contractor to provide information to agents and third parties acting on the basis of an Agency, dealer or dealer agreement with the Contractor for the performance of obligations to Customer and only within the framework of existing agreements.
6.3. The transfer of information in accordance with reasonable and applicable requirements of legislation of the Russian Federation is not considered a breach of obligations.
6.4. Contractor retains the right to use the technology "cookies". "Cookies" do not contain confidential information and are not transmitted to third parties.
6.4. Contractor receives information about visitor IP-address to its website(s) and information about the link from which the visitor came to the Company’s website. This information is not used to identify the visitor.
6.5. Contractor shall not be liable for information and personal data published by Customer anywhere and in a publicly available form, as well as for the correctness of personal data and other information provided to Contractor or published by Customer.
6.6. When processing Customer's personal data, Contractor shall take necessary and sufficient organizational and technical measures to protect personal data from unauthorized access, as well as from other illegal actions with respect to personal data.
6.7. Customer undertakes not to disclose to third parties login and password used for identification on Contractor’s site(s), as well as access keys issued by Contractor in the framework of rendering services under this Agreement.
6.8. Contractor is not responsible for transfer to third parties keys to access the program, usernames and passwords issued to Customer, and provides reports and access to advice in accordance with personal data entered by Contractor independently.
6.9. Customer undertakes to ensure due diligence when storing and using login and password, access keys (including, but not limited to: use of licensed anti-virus programs, use of complex alphanumeric combinations when creating a password, not to make available to third parties a computer or other equipment with Customer's login and password entered on it, etc.).
6.10. Contractor, using personal data provided by Customer, retains the right to inform about promotions and special offers through electronic mail. Unsubscribing from newsletters is possible at any time in the "Personal account" section and/or through the "Unsubscribe from the mailing list" link in the Company's e-mail.
7. Term of the offer agreement
7.1. The agreement shall enter into force upon Customer's acceptance of its terms and conditions and shall remain in force until the Parties fully meet their respective obligations under this Agreement.
8. Details of the Contractor
INSUNRISE LLC.
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St. Petersburg, Polyarnikov st., bld. 5, office 2
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Payment account: 40702810732330000232
in the ST. PETERSBURG BRANCH of ALFA-BANK Public corporation
Box / Num. 30101810600000000786 in NORTH-WEST GU BANK OF RUSSIA
Bank Identification Code (BIC) 044030786
www.insunrise.com
info@insunrise.ru
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Priceless Object
The Priceless Object (PO9K)
This project is intended for people willing to make changes in our society. The mission of this project is to develop the citizen conscience by stating a Supranation with a global standard where a massive number of people declare themselves as World Citizens and declare their surroundings as Regions of The Supranation. The Priceless Object intends to standardize civic practices rather than cultural heritage.
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About Priceless Object
This project is intended for people willing to make changes in our society. The mission of this project is to develop the citizen conscience by stating a Supranation with a global standard where a massive number of people declare themselves as World Citizens and declare their surroundings as Regions of The Supranation. The Priceless Object intends to standardize civic practices rather than cultural heritage. This point is crucial because it makes this proposal far from previous attempts to develop World Citizens. For this purpose, this proposal created a tool named The Trace. The project issues a token named PO9K (cryptocurrency) in accordance with supranational macroeconomic policy. PO9K is unprecedented and it is described in this White Paper. A 30-year lapse is considered for the complete execution of the supranational proposal.
The Priceless Object Manifesto represents a frontal critique of the whole global system and intends to be the trigger of the beginning of a new social, political and economic stage of humanity where humanity will be empowered, however, this empowerment should be synonym of responsibility. This criterion was also developed to create an interactive bridge between citizens, corporations and governments. These interactions will construct a solid economic model and will create value with a unique supranational currency. The Priceless Object Manifesto intends to standardize civic practices rather than cultural heritages. An extract of The Priceless Object Manifesto is presented below.
Open Priceless Object whitepaper (pdf)
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Artist/Principal Director "Devaes"
Diego Ignacio Perez
Finance Director of "Devaes"
Carlos Del Monaco
Statistics Director
Dinko Anton Tudor
Legal Director "Devaes"
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- The conception of the idea.
- The definition of the artistic proposal "The Triad";
- The elaboration of the sculpture "The Priceless Object".
- The design of the "Flag";
- The composition of the "Anthem" and the "Anti-Anthem.";
- The registration of "Devaes";
- The development of the concept of "Regions";
- The composition of the poem "The History".
- The publication of the Facebook App.
- The publication of the video (09/09/09) "The Priceless Object" with an initial amount of nine billion American dollars (US$ 9,000,000,000).
- The value of "The Priceless Object" increased from nine billion American dollars (US$ 9,000,000,000) to nine hundred billion American dollars (US$ 900,000,000,000).
- The Priceless Object was granted by the author to "Devaes" in character of permanent custody, maintaining it as an original symbol of the present proposal.
- "The Priceless Object" tokens (PO9K) were released on this stage on 09/09/2018.
- This period starts during the global and massive manifestation of "World Citizens" and ends following the completion of the agreement with the concessionaire. After this closure, "Devaes" aims to obtain recognition as a supranational and political entity. At this stage, "The Priceless Object" intends to be the supranational fiat reserve, and smartphones should evolve into devices whose main use will be to allow holders to interact within "The Supranation" as "World Citizens". The evolution of smartphones into "Smart Passport" is a vision of "The Concessionaire".
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SS7 Point Code Administration
SS7 point codes are unique addresses that identify individual network elements for a Signaling Point used in Message Transfer Part (MTP) to identify the destination of a message signal unit (MSU). The national administration and assignment of point codes for the United States and other North American Numbering Plan (NANP) countries are maintained in one database by iconectiv on behalf of ATIS-PTSC.
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Point codes are 24-bit binary codes that are needed for all signaling points using the Signaling System 7 (SS7), also known as Common Channel Signaling (CSS) network. They identify network nodes so that the SS7 network can route calls properly.
Point codes consist of 9 digits. The first three digits represent the network, the second three digits represent the cluster, and the third three digits represent the member. Large networks start at network 254 and are decrementing. Small networks are assigned from network code 002, and point code blocks are assigned from network code 005.
iconectiv is responsible for the administration and assignment of SS7 point codes in the United States and other North American Numbering Plan (NANP) countries. For international point codes, contact the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) at 202-418-2214.
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Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide
Norris, P. (2001). Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Development | Digital Divide
Since the mid-1990s the explosion of the Internet has prompting intense speculation about its ultimate impact upon the economy, society and politics. Many hope that the Internet will be a powerful new force capable of transforming existing patterns of social inequality, strengthening linkages between citizens and representatives, facilitating new forms of public engagement and communication, and widening opportunities for the development of a global civic society.
But will the Internet transform conventional forms of democratic activism, or only serve to reinforce the existing gap between the technologically rich and poor? Will it level the playing field for developing societies, or instead strengthen the advantages of post-industrial economies? Will parties, interest groups, and governments use the Net to encourage interactive participation, or will the technology be used as another form of ‘top-down’ communications?
This book sets out to understand these issues, drawing upon worldwide surveys of public opinion, systematic content analysis of web sites, and case studies of online civic engagement. Much existing research on the Internet is based upon the situation in the United States, but it is not clear how far we can generalize more widely from this particular context. Democracies offer citizens different structures of opportunity to participate in their own governance. Based upon an examination of OECD countries, this book argues that the political role of the Internet reflects and thereby reinforces, rather than transforms, the structural features of each country’s political system. In some, voluntary organizations and community groups mobilize people into politics. In others, citizens often become active via strong mass-branch party organizations. In yet others, grassroots social movements involve people in protest politics, such as direct action to protect the environment. The Net becomes a common resource which different agencies can use in the attempt to generate public support and to influence the policy process. The Internet thereby alters the mobilizing structure, providing new points of access into the political system, creating new possibilities for collective action, organizational linkage across distances, and informal networks.
The comparative framework for book adopts a ‘most similar’ comparative research strategy by focusing upon democratic states sharing similar economic and political backgrounds, comparing advanced post-industrial (OECD) societies. There are significant variations within this universe in terms of the Internet, such as the costs and ease of access, the availability of online newspapers and television, and the structure, availability and organization of political web sites. The last section of the book focuses on the United States and the 15 member states of the European Union, drawing on public opinion data from the American National Election Study, the Pew Center on the People and the Press, IRIS surveys of Internet users, and the European Commission.
Part I of the book sets out the theoretical framework in the Internet Engagement Model which suggests that use of the new technology can be understood as the product of resources (like time and money), motivation (like interest and confidence) and the structure of opportunities (such as how social networks and political actors use the Internet). The introduction locates the discussion within broader theories of social communications and civic engagement. The book distinguishes the global divide meaning inequalities of Internet access between countries, the social divide between groups within societies, and the democratic divide between those online who do, and do not, use political resources on the Internet. Chapters 2 and 3 then discuss the trends in global access to the internet and the social divisions in the online community, including gaps of gender, class and generation.
Part II compares the structure of opportunities for political use of the Internet, in terms of the news environment, political parties and campaigns, civic society and the government.
Part III then examines the impact of attention to the Internet for news and political engagement, considers the major explanations of net civic engagement, and evaluates the main policy options for reducing the digital divide.
The conclusion draws together the major findings and considers their implications for democracy.
(from http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~pnorris/Books/Digital%20Divide.htm)
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Vagrant Story Coming To PAL PSN
Released on the Japanese PlayStation Network in August, Square Enix is bringing classic PlayStation RPG Vagrant Story to the PAL PlayStation Network. Can a North American release be far behind?
How good is Vagrant Story? At a time when Square was releasing Final Fantasy VII through Final Fantasy IX, Vagrant Story was the only original PlayStation game to receive a perfect score from Japanese video game magazine Famitsu. That's how good it is.
The game, which actually takes place in the Final Fantasy Ivalice setting used in the tactics titles and Final Fantasy XII, follows the story of Riskbreaker Ashley Riot as he investigates the link between a cult leader and Duke Bardorba of Valendia. It's a solo dungeon crawler that relies on weapons crafting and modification rather than the random shopkeepers scattered across most RPG worlds.
It's an exquisite experience, and according to the latest European Square Enix newsletter, forwarded to us via Kotakuite Emilia, it's coming soon to the PAL PlayStation Network.
Way back at the dawn of time (better known as the year 2000), a certain video games company called SQUARE made a game called VAGRANT STORY, which stormed the charts, became a genre-defining classic and, amongst other things, garnered a perfect score from Famitsu magazine - so pretty much business as usual for character design god Akihiko Yoshida. But the great news is that SQUARE ENIX are bringing it to the PS3 and the PSP on the 12th November!
Note that Square Enix has clarified since the newsletter was released that the date given is incorrect, and the title is coming soon. Hopefully this means we'll be seeing the game released in North America soon as well. It's a PSone Classic I would purchase without hesitation if I didn't have the original sitting on a shelf behind me.
Foxstar loves Bashcraft
So good that it will never ever see a Vagrant Story 2. I don't even know if the team who put it together is even still with SE. #vagrantstory
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Former BJP activist shot at in Tral, hospitalised
Srinagar, May 02 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, former Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) activist was injured after being shot at by unknown gunmen at Kuch Mulla of Tral in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Thursday night. »
Kashmir, Palestine issues root cause of instability: Sehrai
Srinagar, May 02 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, the Tehreek-e-Hurriyat Jammu and Kashmir Chairman, Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai has said that unresolved issues like Kashmir and Palestine are the root cause of instability and human sufferings in the world. »
APHC condemns suppression, repression in IOK
Srinagar, May 02 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) has condemned the worst policy of suppression and repression, perpetrated by the Indian forces against the younger generation in particular and the common people in general. »
Over 6 dozen arrested before polls in IOK
Mirwaiz, Sehrai & others denounce arrests
Srinagar, May 02 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, Indian forces continuing their massive crackdown arrested more than six dozen people in South Kashmir ahead of the fifth and final phase of sham Indian parliamentary elections scheduled in Pulwama and Shopian on Monday.
Over 60 people were arrested in Gudoora, Newa, Tahab, Parigam, Chewakalan and Murran areas of Pulwama district. Six youth were arrested from Vehil and Narwah areas of Shopian district. The arrests were made just days ahead of the so-called Indian parliamentary elections on Islamabad’s Lok Sabha seat to be held on Monday. »
Indian sham election in IOK mere military exercise: JKFM
Jammu, May 02 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, the Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Freedom Movement (JKFM), Muhammad Sharif Sartaj has said that the sham Indian parliamentary election is nothing but a military exercise and in no way can be alternative to Kashmiris’ right to self-determination.
Muhammad Sharif Sartaj in a statement issued in Jammu said that like past, the people of Kashmir rejected the recent farcical elections by staying away from the poll process. He said Kashmiris gave a clear message to India and the rest of the world that they have no interest the so-called elections but wanted only their right to self-determination. »
Reign of terror in Pulwama and Shopian denounced
Srinagar, May 02 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, Hurriyat leaders have strongly condemned the reign of terror unleashed by Indian forces in Pulwama and Shopian for the past many days.
The Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference, Shabbir Ahmad Dar, Mohammad Iqbal Mir, Imtiyaz Ahmed Reshi, Ghulam Nabi War and Ghulam Nabi Wasim in their statements said that the mass arrest of youth, nocturnal raids and harassment had created fear among the whole population and people had been forced to migrate to other areas.
They said the people of Kashmir have rejected the sham election in the territory and would also stay away from the third phase of polling for Islamabad parliamentary constituency scheduled on May 6. »
Mirwaiz denounces youth detention in IOK
Srinagar, May 02 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, the Chairman of Hurriyat forum, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has denounced the detention of dozens of youth in South Kashmir.
Taking to Twitter, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq strongly condemned the daily arrest spree of youth from Pulwama and Shopian.
In his tweet he said, “Continued repression in South Kashmir is heart rending. Unless all those who claim to speak for fundamental human rights of all don’t speak up, people of Kashmir will continue to be at the receiving end.” »
IOK journalist in list of ‘most urgent’ threats to press freedom
Srinagar, May 02 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, the illegally detained journalist, Aasif Sultan, who was arrested last year by Indian police, featured among this month’s list of the 10 ‘Most Urgent’ threats to press freedom across the globe.
The list – released monthly by the One Free Press Coalition, which was founded by a dozen news organizations including TIME, with the goal of defending journalists under attack – identifies 10 of the most severe examples of threats to press freedom around the world. Aasif Sultan features at seven in the list. »
India to add 2 more aircraft to strengthen AWACS capabilities
New Delhi, May 02 (KMS): In a bid to further its hegemonic designs, India will acquire two more PHALCON airborne warning and control systems (AWACS) aircraft from Israel.
Media reports suggest that the Indian Defence Ministry moved the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) for acquisition of two more AWACS aircraft just days before the aerial clash between the Indian Air Force (IAF) and Pakistan Air Force (PAF) in February, this year. PAF had shot down two Indian fighter aircrafts and captured a Wing Commander of IAF after they violated the Pakistani airspace along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir on February 27. The deal is worth around $ 2 billion, with the radar mounted on Russian platform. »
Sehrai condemns arrest spree in Pulwama, Shopian
Srinagar, May 02 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, senior APHC leader and the Chairman of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat (TeH) Jammu and Kashmir, Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai, has strongly condemned the arrest of over three dozen youth by Indian forces in South Kashmir’s Pulwama and Shopian districts ahead of sham Indian parliamentary elections.
Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai in a statement issued in Srinagar said that India was pushing the Kashmiri youth to the wall. The Indian forces have created a sense of insecurity among innocent youth in the occupied territory particularly in South Kashmir, he added. He said that India continued to ignore the basic reality and ground situation in Kashmir. »
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Osage City Invitational - Meet Recap!
Osage City Invitational
Matt Goeckel
Council Grove's Kodi Downes runs down the final straightaway to win the junior high boys' race.
The last week of the regular season is one where many schools like to hold out their top runners to rest up with league, regionals, and state on the horizon. That, however, was not the case for the 14 teams that made the trip to the cold and blustery Osage City Golf Course for Thursday's meet. For these runners, there were statements to be made, home turf to be defended, and rivalries to be rekindled.
As usual, the junior high races led off the day. On the girls' side, Wellsville's Karizma Shay led the way in 13:12, with Audrie Davis of Rossville coming through in 2nd at 13:34. On the boys' side, it was a familiar sight as Council Grove's Kodi Downes (11:31) and Northern Heights' Cooper Hamlin (11:59) went 1-2 by a wide margin for the fourth time this year.
The high school girls race was a battle early on. Silver Lake freshman Mariah Farmer has been quietly posting solid times. Her 4th place finish last week doesn't seem like much until you notice that the 20:19 showing puts her in the top 5 in 3A. Alongside Farmer at the front was West Franklin's Emma Bailey, another rising freshman in 3A. This isn't the first meeting between the two, and they've actually got a bit of a rivalry going. Bailey led early by a step or two, but Farmer took over shortly after the mile mark. At the halfway point there was a long straightaway into the wind. Farmer powered into it, open a lead large enough so that both leaders had to take the blunt of the wind. The move was a game-changer, and Farmer would slowly extend her lead for the rest of the race, finishing in 19:55. Emma Bailey settled for second in 20:16. Meanwhile, a battle was raging for 3rd place. West Franklin senior Bailey Leach had held the bronze medal spot for the majority of the race, but Rossville's Julia Streit had closed the gap and made the pass along some switchbacks with a quarter mile to go. Leach, runner-up in the 800 last spring, showed her speed on the homestretch to take it back, finishing in 20:29. Streit was 3 seconds back in 20:32. Anderson County's Rayna Jasper rounded out the top 5 in 20:53. The team race was tight. The team title came down to the 5th runners of Rossville and Silver Lake. Rossville's Alexis Zabala edged Silver Lake's Kristen Rakestraw by 1 second to take the team title by a score of 52-53. Anderson County was nipping at their heels with 56 points. The Bulldogs had a strong 6 and 7, displacing scoring runners on every team. West Franklin packed 3 in the top-10 but did not post a team score.
On the boys side, Silver Lake had something to prove. Osage City's golf course is one of the flattest the Eagles run on, and they were determined to put down some solid times to show they belong in the conversation for a 3A title. Star Freshman Kamryn Kaniper was held out of the race, so everyone had to step up a little. A pack of 4 settled to the front by the mile mark, Kyler Kaniper, Mason Brokaw, Gabe TenEyck, and Cameron TenEyck. Four became three by the time they reached the windy backstretch, but the Eagles continued to work together. A chase pack of Kyle Haner (West Franklin), Walker Stromgren (Osage City), and a slew of Anderson County runners was starting to creep a little closer, though. The Silver Lake machine fell apart late in the 2nd mile, and the race got interesting. Stromgren smelled blood in the water and moved up with Kyler Kaniper at the front just past the two-mile mark. Haner and the Anderson County boys had found themselves with the rest of Silver Lake's team giving chase. Heading back into the wind late in the third mile, Haner had moved into 3rd, followed by a pair of Silver Lake runners and Anderson County's Riley Hedges. At the front Kaniper opened his lead to 15 yards and would hold on to win in 17:24. Stromgren finished in 17:30. Silver Lake's Cameron TenEyk (17:33) took the bonze medal, while his brother Gabe (17:36) took 5th. Kyle Haner (17:34) was sandwiched between the two in 4th, and Riley Hedges (17:38) was just a couple seconds behind in 6th. Silver Lake took the team title with 44 points over Anderson County, who had 68.
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Toddler’s Hug Helps Pizza Man After Heartbreaking Tragedy
Via ABC6
A sweet moment between a 2-year-old boy and a pizza delivery driver was caught on video and is guaranteed to give you all the feels.
Sometimes I really think kids can sense emotions on a whole other level than adults. I mean, some days my kids just seem to know that I could use some extra snuggles.
Well, this 2-year-old boy in West Warwick, R.I., somehow seemed to know that his pizza delivery man could use a hug -- and gave him one.
And sure, he could have just been excited and hugged the guy who was bringing him his tasty dinner, but I'd like to think there was more to this cute moment, and here's why.
ABC6 spoke with the delivery man, Ryan Catterson, and it turns out he had just lost his 16-year-old daughter last week.
Catterson's daughter lived in California with his ex-wife, had struggled with mental health and recently passed away unexpectedly.
Clearly there was no way this young boy could possibly know that, but somehow he saw that Catterson could use a hug, and happily gave him one.
It's so touching and so adorable, I can't even stand it.
It's one of those times when you have to love social media and the reach it can have.
According to ABC 6, the boy's mom, Lindsey Sheely, shared the video on her social pages and it made its way to Catterson. I'm so happy it made its way even further than that so we could share this incredible moment of kid kindness too.
Source: Toddler’s Hug Helps Pizza Man After Heartbreaking Tragedy
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Psychology and Behavior in Sport/Exercise (72)
Sport and Exercise Science/Kinesiology (12)
Sport Business and Sport Management (47)
Social Studies in Sport and Physical Activity (85)
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In Sport History Review Volume 51 (2020): Issue 2 (Nov 2020)
The Kids Are Alright—Right? Physical Activity and Mental Health in College Students
Steven J. Petruzzello and Allyson G. Box
The status of physical activity in higher education has changed dramatically over the past 100 years. In this paper, we aim to (a) provide a brief history of physical activity on campus; (b) describe how that activity has changed from a requirement to an elective; (c) illustrate how mental health (particularly stress, anxiety, and depression) has changed in college students over the past few decades; and (d) describe the relationships between physical activity and mental health, particularly in college students. The paper culminates with recommendations for how colleges and universities might facilitate better student mental health through physical activity. There is room to improve the physical activity and mental health of college students, realigning higher education with the promotion of mens sana in corpore sano.
“Make a Home Run for Suffrage”: Promoting Women’s Emancipation Through Baseball
Lindsay Parks Pieper
At specific moments in history, women publicly entered the masculine realm of baseball to advance female suffrage in the United States. Girls and women took to the field in the nineteenth century, enjoying newfound bodily freedoms and disrupting Victorian constraints. While their performances may not have always translated into explicit suffrage activism, their athleticism demonstrated strength at a time when many people used women’s supposed weakness as an argument against their political enfranchisement. However, as the popularity of baseball increased at the turn of the century, the number of female ballplayers decreased. Activism in the sport therefore changed. In the mid-1910s, suffragists advertised at men’s baseball games. The women recognized the value of promoting suffrage through sport; yet, they also acknowledged that by entering ballparks, they entered a male space. Suffragists therefore exhibited conventional White gender norms to avoid aggrieving male voters. Women’s different engagements with baseball, as either players or spectators, had varying consequences for women’s political and sporting emancipation. Women’s physical activism in baseball demonstrated female prowess and strength in sport, but only abstractly advanced women’s political rights; suffragists’ promotional efforts through men’s baseball more directly influenced the eventual passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, but their actions supported women’s position on the sidelines.
In Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal Volume 28 (2020): Issue 2 (Oct 2020)
Re-Education: What Can Complementary and Alternative Approaches to Movement Education Teach Kinesiology?
David I. Anderson
The goal of this special issue of Kinesiology Review is to expose kinesiology to a body of knowledge that is unfamiliar to most in the field. That body of knowledge is broad, deep, rich, and enduring. In addition, it brings with it a skill set that could be extremely helpful to professional practice, whether in teaching, coaching, training, health work, or rehabilitation. The body of knowledge and skills comes from a loosely defined field of study I have referred to as “complementary and alternative approaches to movement education” (CAAME). The field of CAAME is as diverse as the field of kinesiology. This introductory article focuses on what the field of CAAME has to teach kinesiology and what the field could learn from kinesiology. The overarching aim of the special issue is to foster dialogue and collaboration between students and scholars of kinesiology and practitioners of CAAME.
In Kinesiology Review Volume 9 (2020): Issue 3 (Aug 2020): Special Issue: “Re-Education”
Behind the Scenes: COVID-19 Consequences on Broadcast Sports Production
Roxane Coche and Benjamin J. Lynn
Live events are central to television production. Live sporting events, in particular, reliably draw big audiences, even though more consumers unsubscribe from cable to stream content on-demand. Traditionally, the mediated production of these sporting events have used technical and production crews working together on-site at the event. But technological advances have created a new production model, allowing the production crew to cover the event from a broadcast production hub, miles away, while the technical crew still works from the event itself. These remote integration model productions have been implemented around the world and across all forms of sports broadcasting, following a push for economic efficiency—fundamental in a capitalist system. This manuscript is a commentary on the effects of the COVID-19 global crisis on sports productions, with a focus on remote integration model productions. More specifically, the authors argue that the number of remote sports productions will grow exponentially faster, due to the pandemic, than they would have under normal economic circumstances. The consequences on sport media education and research are further discussed, and a call for much needed practice-based sports production research is made.
In International Journal of Sport Communication Volume 13 (2020): Issue 3 (Sep 2020): Special Issue: Sport and the Coronavirus Crisis
Jimmy Sanderson and Katie Brown
COVID-19 has dramatically altered and disrupted sport in unprecedented ways, and youth sports is one sector that has been profoundly impacted. In the United States, the youth sports industry generates $19 billion dollars annually, while youth sport tourism is estimated at $9 billion annually. With youth sports at a standstill, the effect on the youth sports infrastructure is significant. The purpose of this scholarly commentary was to discuss the psychological, developmental, and economic fallout from the stoppage of youth sports that has touched millions of participants, their families, and a substantial youth sports structural system. This work also addresses the potential restructuring of youth sport megacomplexes, cascading effects of canceled seasons, likely sponsorship losses, and potential growing socioeconomic divide in participation that could result from the pandemic. Thus, there is still much uncertainty about the future of youth sport participation and subsequent adjustments that may impact established participation and consumption norms.
Critiquing Anthropocentric Media Coverage of the COVID-19 Sport “Hiatus”
Samuel M. Clevenger, Oliver Rick and Jacob Bustad
This commentary highlights a recent trend of anthropocentrism (a focus on human-centered interests and activities) in the media coverage in the United States and Europe on the disruption of the contemporary sports industry caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors argued that the coverage promotes anthropocentric narratives by framing the pandemic as an external force causing a temporary and unforeseen “hiatus” in the sports industry. As a result, media consumers learn about human interest stories associated with consumer demand and industry adaptation: stories that renormalize, rather than question, the sports industry in its current and hegemonic form. Such media discourses bypass an opportunity to consider the longstanding entanglements of human and nonhuman actors in sporting contexts, rethink sport through environmental and nonhuman perspectives, and, ultimately, advance more progressive, democratic politics. The commentary employs a posthumanist lens to critique the recent anthropocentric media coverage, highlighting the ways in which it reproduces the dualist logic of neoliberal capitalism and deflects attention to the human and nonhuman relations that have always existed in contexts of sport and human physicality.
Do We Really Want Sports Public Relations to Return to Normal?
Christie M. Kleinmann
Sports public relations has long been used to promote the big game and highlight key players. Then, the coronavirus crisis halted sports, and the constant stream of public relations content fell silent. There was no game to hype, no sports moment to celebrate. This essay is about the public relations lessons learned during the pandemic. It discusses how sports public relations prior to COVID-19 often valued relational breadth over depth. As a result, sports public relations operated at a superficial level of momentary engagements sustained by creative content rather than the deeper relational connections that public relations purport. The essay then illustrates how COVID-19 cultivated opportunities for relational breadth and depth to grow between players and fans. Finally, the essay questions if we really want sports public relations to return to normal or if sports public relations professionals should incorporate these lessons into sustainable, postpandemic public relations practice.
The Elephant in the Room: How COVID-19’s Financial Impact Further Threatens Title IX Compliance
Karen L. Hartman
This scholarly commentary addresses COVID-19’s financial impact by examining how current and proposed National Collegiate Athletic Association bylaw waivers could negatively affect women’s collegiate athletics and Title IX compliance. These potential bylaw changes come after years of misinformation, a lack of education, and minimal understanding of the law. In the chaos of COVID-19’s impact on American society and athletic programs, Title IX has become the elephant in the room. The essay concludes with three recommendations that could help athletic departments alleviate Title IX compliance issues when enacting the bylaw waivers.
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← Home ownership: Decline and rise?
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Did Help to Buy help?
Posted: February 16, 2016 | Author: julesbirch | Filed under: Help to Buy, Housebuilding, Starter homes |Leave a comment
Originally posted on February 16 on Inside Edge 2, my blog for Inside Housing
If you believe Brandon Lewis, the Help to Buy equity loan scheme is a resounding success: it’s helped thousands of people to buy a home who could not have done otherwise; and it’s done it without inflating house prices.
But does an external evaluation for the Department for Communities and Local Government back up his claims? The good news for the housing minister is the central verdict that 43% of homes built under Help to Buy were additional and would not have been built without the scheme. And the report certainly has a positive conclusion:
‘Overall, the scheme has met its objectives in terms of increased housing supply. It has done this via a stimulus to demand which has fed through into an expansion of supply and with little evidence of a serious and destabilising impact on house prices.’
But look a little deeper and there is plenty of ammunition for critics of the scheme too. Most obvious is the flipside of that headline figure: if 57% of Help to Buy homes would have been built anyway, is that really a good use of the £9.7bn that the scheme is set to cost by 2020?
And the 43% is not quite what it seems either on closer inspection. It’s an amalgam of answers to three questions and is the proportion of buyers who ‘would not have been able to afford the same or similar property in the new build or existing markets without the scheme’s assistance’. Some of them, in other words, could have afforded a cheaper home without Help to Buy.
In addition, as Brickonomics points out, the 43% appears to include people who answered ‘don’t know’ or ‘neither agree nor disagree’ to the three questions.
The report’s authors say this is a ‘best estimate’ of the impact since ‘it is not possible to establish any meaningful counterfactual and disentangling the effects of the policy from other related policy initiatives add further complication’.
If you listen to house builders, the scheme launched in April 2013 is also very good news. The report estimates that Help to Buy supported around 33% of their sales. Combine that with the 43% figure and it concludes that Help to Buy added around 14% to total new build output. House builders think the scheme could have contributed as much as 45% to new build output in 2013/14 and that sales would have fallen without it.
But isn’t this all a bit Mandy Rice-Davies? After all, the schemes that came before Help to Buy required house builders to fund part of the equity loan or mortgage guarantee themselves. The report only mentions sales incentives in passing but the scheme has also enabled developers to eliminate offers such as free white goods and increase their profit margins accordingly. And it does not look at soaring house builder margins, profits and share prices at all, and rather assumes that these will translate into more homes in future.
A dip in housing starts and completions in 2012/13 is seen as evidence that output would have fallen without Help to Buy. However, it could also suggest that house builders delayed construction until they could benefit from the scheme and private enterprise starts duly leapt by 30% in 2013/14.
The report also finds more intangible effects on confidence, with Help to Buy sales feeding through into land purchases and increased output of homes of all kinds. This may be true but it’s a funny kind of confidence that has private enterprise so reliant on state support. Free market sales are falling.
The response from lenders is much more mixed. Some have always been dubious about lending on new homes because of the new build premium that disappears as soon as the home becomes second-hand. While some now seem more likely to lend on new homes, others say they preferred the predecessors to Help to Buy because house builders had ‘skin in the game’.
Help to Buy aimed to help buyers caught by the post-credit crunch mortgage shortage that made it very difficult to get a loan for more than 75% of the value of your purchase. The 20% equity loan (plus a 5% deposit) bridges that gap. However, the general availability of mortgages for people with small deposits has also improved over the same period.
To my mind, the equity loan scheme is the respectable end of Help to Buy. Unlike the mortgage guarantee scheme, it supports supply rather than just demand. Unlike the ISA, it provides loans that are repayable rather than handing out free money (unsurprisingly 250,000 people have opened an account so far and who can blame them?). It grew out of schemes that played a major role in rescuing the housebuilding industry from disaster after 2008.
If you accept the 43% additionality figure at face value, a generous assessment might be that it represents a reasonable return for the government’s stake so far; even more so when you take account of Hometrack’s conclusion that the government is sitting on a paper profit of £213m from its share of rising house prices.
But whatever the record so far, does that mean it’s time to boost Help to Buy even more? A harsher judgement might apply if we consider the decisions first to extend the scheme for another five years and then to double the equity loan to 40% in London. Both look a dubious proposition if more than half of the homes supported by equity loans would have been built anyway.
An emerging problem identified in the report is what happens when somebody who bought with an equity loan wants to move. Some 36% of buyers said they felt unable to move up the property ladder.
Similarly, look at the position of someone wanting Help to Buy now. True, they can get a 20% equity loan, but the price of a new build home is up 24% since the start of the scheme.
And then consider Starter Homes. Surprisingly they are not mentioned in the report but the FT reports this morning that 70,000 people have joined the queue even though the scheme has not been launched yet. The original Help to Buy looks a reasonable proposition by comparison with a scheme that offers a 20% discount financed by cannibalising affordable housing provision that disappears into the pocket of the buyer after five years. How is that remotely justifiable if more than half of the sales would have happened anyway?
However, a discount will surely be much more attractive than a loan to buyers, so won’t the two schemes just compete with each other (as Savillswarned last week)? Alternatively, buyers will use a combination of the two schemes to buy a bigger and better located home than they could otherwise have afforded. In London, the government could end up supporting 60% of the value of homes, around the same as the proportion that would have been built anyway.
Everyone knows this. But Help to Buy is just part of a wider support system for the housing market as a whole alongside quantitative easing and ultra-low interest rates. This has inflated house prices and left people not already on the housing ladder needing ever more help to buy while homeownership continues to decline. Even ministers know that eventually it will have to be weaned off the drugs – just so long as it’s not until after the next election.
Five things we learned from the English Housing Survey
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One Last Tune-Up Before Post 20
Posted by Jeremy McDonald on July 13, 2019
SALEM, Ore.– It’s not too often anymore that American Legion teams get to play a nine inning game.
Three-years ago, it was a common occurrence to have at least a nine-inning game with league before playing two seven’s. But with Saturday’s game, Withnell had the opportunity to test out their endurance before their last series of the regular season with a nine-inning game with Bend’s D-1 team.
“I felt like it was really good, I don’t think we’ve played a single nine-inning game this year yet and it showed,” said Jake Davidson. “We got to the last few innings and everyone was kind of getting gassed out. There was a lot of life in the dugout but I think it’ll help come extra-inning games, close games.”
The team they’re playing for the league title Tuesday and Wednesday, Post 20, had played an 11-inning game versus Corvallis Wednesday at Western Oregon and have played in a few long games themselves this season.
Jake Davidson going into the infield grass to make the routine fly-ball out in Withnell’s 8-2 win over Bend (Picture By Jeremy McDonald)
Saturday’s transition game between the Mid-Coast Dungies and the Dirtbag series was a good preparation for sure just in case they get into another extra inning game as they did when the two teams met in the Willamette Classic Title game back on June 23.
“It’s good to see it and know what it’s like all-around. Playing, pitching and everything. Just get use to it,” said Rylan Webster.
Webster and Davidson each had two hits each in the win with Withnell producing eight total hits to eight runs on the board. Webster had a two RBI single in the first inning that helped the Dodgers in their three-run first inning.
South Salem’s Ricky Alvarado got the starting nod, going five innings with three strikeouts before Sprague’s Brett Hassoun came in for the sixth. The Dodgers pushed their lead to 6-0 before the Lava Bears plated two runs in the sixth inning.
Hassoun too struck out three over three innings in relief with the Dodgers playing some depth and giving everyone an opportunity to get some reps entering the home stretch of the season as they had a good transition game for what’s ahead of them.
“It’ll be kind of good to push forward with the momentum for Post 20 for sure. We got somethings to work on, but we’ll get it done,” said Webster. “We hit well today, but I know for sure everyone could be better. There’s always things to work on, the little things. Tune up.”
The Withnell bats produced three runs in the first and three more in the fourth to build a 6-0 lead entering the fifth inning Saturday (Picture By Jeremy McDonald)
The pressure is there, the target is on their backs now up two games on Post 20. At least a split would win them the title and hand them the automatic bid to the State Tournament in Klamath Falls on July 27.
But with the Dirtbags, faced with Corvallis on their backs in the standings and having a few injuries on their roster at the moment, won’t be anything short but difficult in the process.
“Just playing Withnell baseball. Hitting the ball, going out and attacking, leaving it all on the field,” said Davidson on the pressure. “We just have to look what’s past that and set goals. I think we lull a lot because we don’t see the potential we have and think ‘oh we’ll have it handed to us’ or blah, blah, blah and there’s no life.
“So I think that’ll help us a lot if we just set goals and beat Post 20, that’s the goal.”
The series starts Tuesday at 3pm at Western Oregon University.
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C1 - Senior Policy Manager
Consulting, Politics & Policy, Research and Development, Graduate, Senior Leadership, Civil Service Recruitment, Public Sector
Happy to talk flexible working!
Edinburgh, Glasgow
We are looking to bring in a number of high calibre individuals with a track record of success in leadership roles to support the Scottish Government’s response to and recovery from the COVID-19 crisis.
The work of government is hugely varied, and increasingly complex. Our people need to have sound judgement, and be able to operate at pace to define and communicate clear and deliverable policy options which have the greatest positive impact on national health, economy and wellbeing.
To be successful in these role you will be pro-active, self-motivated and be able to quickly get up to speed with new topics and the demands of the role. You must have the flexibility and willingness to integrate with or move between existing team functions to add support where it is most needed.
You will be expected to function independently and take full responsibility for your work and that of your team(s). This will include keeping up-to-date with relevant developments concerning the policies you manage in a fast moving, constantly changing environment, building effective relationships to help you do so, and to produce and broker solutions for submission to senior staff and Ministers. You must be able to see ways to adapt precedents/principles, to work with complex ideas and arrive at evidence based decisions.
Typical tasks for these policy posts include: providing leadership and oversight of key projects, providing policy advice, leading development and delivery of policy, leading consultation. You will also be required to support senior colleagues in presenting, and often leading the dissemination of information to stakeholders.
We set out below the key tasks candidates will be expected to undertake, and the skills and experience required to do so effectively. Relevant experience in a policy development/delivery role would be ideal.
- Innovative Thinking
- Communication and Relationships
- Decision Making
Working for Scottish Government
The Scottish Government lies at the centre of Scotland’s network of public services and institutions, working to make Scotland a more successful country and a better place to live. The Scottish Government has a distinctive way of delivering policy and public services. This has become known as the Scottish Approach and is focused on the realisation of national performance outcomes as expressed in the National Performance Framework. This has at its heart a core Purpose which aims to:
- Create a more successful country
- Give opportunities to all people living in Scotland
- Increase the wellbeing of people living in Scotland
- Create sustainable and inclusive growth
- Reduce inequalities and give equal importance to economic, environmental and social progress
Guided by values to:
- Treat all our people with kindness, dignity and compassion
- Respect the rule of law
- Act in an open and transparent way
As Civil Servants we’re politically impartial and serve the government of the day in line with the civil service code. Our core values are:
Integrity – putting the obligations of public service above personal interests.
Honesty – being truthful and open.
Objectivity – basing advice and decisions on rigorous analysis of the evidence.
Impartiality – acting solely according to the merits of the case and serving governments of different political parties equally well.
>b>Innovative Thinking
A Centenary pandemic raises issues we have never dealt with before. You will need initiative and originality to develop or modify existing systems or principles, or to tackle new, complex tasks where the course of action is not readily apparent. You will need an ability to analyse, interpret and understand large volumes of information, data and evidence from multiple (sometimes conflicting) sources, and spot where there are evidence gaps. You will want to coordinate and motivate different teams and stakeholders within your remit, and be resourceful in proposing and testing solutions.
Communication and Relationships
Communications skills are vital in these posts. You will be able to write well, quickly and with clarity have frequent contact with the Senior Civil Service, and be responsible for drafting clear, consistently high quality submissions and framing decisions for Scottish Ministers. You will have contact with other Government Departments and a range of external public sector organisations to discuss policy issues; negotiate; consult; and broker agreements, whilst maintaining relationships and service standards.
You will be directly involved in setting direction, planning the delivery of outcomes, taking a project approach to this work and managing resources accordingly. You will need to be comfortable in taking daily decisions around the management of policies, procedures and regulations, and show sound judgement around the kinds of decisions and circumstances which require senior and Ministerial input and clearance.
Senior Planning Policy Officer
Full-time Flexible
Planning Policy Officer (Neighbourhood)
Deputy Director, Head of Line of Route Policy
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Deputy Director Reserve Forces and Cadets Associations Review Implementation
MOD Main Building, London. Lately, however, the team has been working at home in accordance with Government COVID-19 advice. A significant degree of remote working is likely to continue for the immediate foreseeable future.
There are thirteen Reserve Forces’ and Cadets’ Associations (RFCAs - one in each of Wales and Northern Ireland, two in Scotland, and nine in England). They were founded by Lord Haldane in 1908 and have since developed into substantial organisations with responsibility for delivering advice to the Defence Council on the state of the Reserve Forces. The Reserve Forces and Cadets Associations are also the stewards of the volunteer estate, provide hard and soft facilities management in addition to acting as prime contractor for capital projects.
The Deputy Director Reserve Forces and Cadets Associations Review Implementation role will lead the Reserve Forces and Cadets Associations Implementation Team to deliver the legislative and structural changes recommended in the 2019 Tailored Review of the Reserve Forces and Cadets Associations to Full Operating Capability in March 2023.
Transformation of the Reserve Forces’ and Cadets’ Associations’ in to a single Non Departmental Public Body (NDPB) will be a key enabler in strengthening the Reserve Forces’ and Cadets’ Associations to ensure they are compliant with Cabinet Office guidelines and the MOD Permanent Secretary can assure Regularity and Propriety of Managing public money.
Reporting directly to Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff (Reserves & Cadets) you will deliver an ambitious transformation programme, initially focused on establishing a new Single Departmental Public Body through the Armed Forces Bill and developing the new Reserve Forces and Cadets Associations Non Departmental Public Body Operating Model and Governance framework. As the owner of the Implementation Programme, you will be responsible for successful delivery working closely with Reserve Forces & Cadets Head Reserves who owns the BAU relationship with the Reserve Forces and Cadets Associations.
The post holder will gain exposure to the Defences most senior leaders and they will be required to implement tangible changes in the short term whilst taking a strategic approach over the longer-term implementation programme. This involves setting a clear strategy to outline design provisions in primary and secondary legislation to ensure the new body achieves Initial Operational Capability by March 2022 and Full Operating Capability by March 2023.
Key tasks are to:
• Build, lead and motivate a high performing and empowered Implementation team consisting of approximately five Policy, Change Management, Project Delivery specialists;
• Develop a clear strategy and framework which will implement the Reserve Forces and Cadets Associations review recommendations and deliver its vision.
• Ensure that the programme is robustly managed using appropriate project management documentation and governance arrangements to effectively support implementation of the report recommendations;
• Working with Cabinet Office and HM Treasury to ensure approval for the establishment of a single non-Departmental Public body in line with relevant Cabinet Office guidance;
• Work closely with key senior stakeholders within Defence, as well as with the Cabinet Office, HM Treasury and the Reserve Forces and Cadets Associations;
• Design and deliver the Primary legislation change and subsequently regulations to deliver the legislative and governance framework for an Reserve Forces and Cadets Associations Non Departmental Public Body;
• Producing a plan for the implementation of any recommendations to be delivered in conjunction with the final report. Put in place reporting mechanisms to demonstrate progress to senior stakeholders; Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff (Reserves & Cadets) Reserve Forces and Cadets Associations Implementation Steering Group, Challenge panel and Executive Comity.
• Actively manage the risks associated with delivery of the programme, being mindful of the tight timeframe for the delivery of the legislative changes.
• Develop and maintain a strong network of internal and external contacts. Negotiate with senior stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of the implementation programme and a smooth and timely transition from programme closure to business as usual.
The post holder is responsible for ensuring that resourcing levels are optimised to deliver the programme. They will ensure that the balance between Policy, Change and programme management functions is at the right level to deliver the programme, basing their decisions on the requirement of the different stages of the programme.
They will directly line manage 1 individual and act as Counter Signing Officer for 4 individuals. They will be responsible for report writing and objective setting for the directly line managed individual and will have Counter Signing Officer duties for the indirect reports. They will be responsible for the skills development of the team, particularly in the area of business change and legislative change.
As a member of the Senior Civil Service in the Reserve Forces and Cadets Directorate the post holder may also be expected to contribute to wider initiatives where Civil Service competence is required as directed by Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff (Reserves & Cadets).
The post-holder is wholly accountable for the use of resources in the Reserve Forces and Cadets Associations Implementation programme in line with the Managing Public Money handbook and wider Departmental policy. Deputy Director Reserve Forces and Cadets Associations Implementation will be expected to make decisions in relation to the delivery of the programme, which will be held to account on progress by the Senior Responsible Owner and a bespoke challenge board, which will be made up of representatives from across Defence.
They will have ownership of the communications strategy relating to the delivery of the programme and will play a key role in managing senior stakeholders. Their performance will be measured by their performance in the role and by the success of the programme (performance, cost and time).
Reserve Forces and Cadets Associations chief executives are retired military officers and Reserve Forces and Cadets Associations membership varies significantly by region, in both size and quality. There is also substantial political influence amongst the Reserve Forces and Cadets Associations membership, including several MPs, local authority councillors and Lord Lieutenants; the post holder will need to ensure the influence of these stakeholders is proportionate. The post holder will need to deal sensitively with all stakeholders across MOD and more specifically those in the Reserve Forces and Cadets Associations who may be personally affected by the changes in order to ensure maximum impact and buy in from them. This programme will have a widely-felt impact across the Reserve Forces and Cadets Associations footprint, delivering far-reaching changes through Primary Legislation which will fundamentally change the design of the organisation.
To deliver results the post holder will need to have the authority to influence persuade and negotiate with the Senior Leadership community to ensure deadlines are achieved, leveraging support from Chief of Defence People to remove barriers. This may include negotiation, persuasion, representation and or co-ordination both within the department and beyond.
The post holder will need to coordinate work and approaches to implementation, making sure that interdependencies are identified, and points of confliction are identified and swiftly resolved.
The post holder will need to make sure that they and their team work with other enabling functions across Defence (e.g. Finance and Commercial) to provide the Senior Responsible Owners with consistent support and challenge.
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Fearful of RTW defeat, Republican lawmakers threaten to move referendum vote to August primary
WORKING FORCES MASSING: Nearly 700 people crowded into the IBEW Local 1 union hall in St. Louis Feb. 26 for a We Are MO campaign kick-off rally to defeat the phony “right-to-work” (Proposition A). – Jake Hummel photo
By TIM ROWDEN
Jefferson City – Republican lawmakers who giddily passed the phony anti-worker, anti-union “right-to-work” (RTW) legislation last year only to have working Missourians turn in 310,567 petition signatures to halt its implementation and force a public vote, have now introduced legislation that would move the statewide referendum on Proposition A (RTW) from the November general election to the August primary, when statistically fewer people turn out to vote.
In the House, Rep. Holly Rehder (R-Sikeston), the sponsor of the House version of last year’s RTW legislation, has introduced a bill to move the vote from November to August. An identical measure was introduced in the Senate by Sen. Dave Schatz (R-Sullivan).
It will be up to GOP leaders who control the House and Senate to decide if they want to pursue a bald-faced attempt to undermine the vote or table the measures and allow voters the unfettered chance to make their voices heard.
‘A THUMB IN THE EYE OF VOTERS’
Sen. Jake Hummel (D-St. Louis), a member of IBEW Local 1 and secretary-treasurer of the Missouri AFL-CIO, said Republicans want to change the election to August because statistically fewer voters go the polls in August.
“When the voters signed that petition, they signed it with the understanding that the election was going to be in November,” Hummel said. “If they are moving it to August, it is strictly for political reasons, which I don’t think is right. It’s certainly a thumb in the eye of voters. For something this important, I don’t know why we wouldn’t want to let a bigger population vote on it.”
PLAYING THE ODDS
“They know good and well that only 50 percent of the people vote in a primary election compared to the total number of people who vote in November,” Mike Louis, president of the Missouri AFL-CIO said. “Holly Rehder has at the top of her agenda passing RTW and she doesn’t care what she has to do to get it done, even if it means doing it in the dark of night.
“I’m confident our voters are going to be out there whether it’s in August or November,” Louis said. “If they want to play the wait and see game, we’ll be ready whenever they decide to do it.”
Indeed, some 700 workers turned out Feb. 26 for campaign kick-off rally at IBEW Local 1 in St. Louis to learn the truth about RTW and what they can do to help defeat it. Similar rallies are being held throughout the state.
PROPOSITION A (RTW) IS WRONG FOR MISSOURI
So-called RTW (Proposition A) attacks the freedom of working people to join together to negotiate a fair return on their work by banning union represented businesses from negotiating labor contracts that assure workers will either pay dues or a smaller “fair share” fee to cover the union’s costs of bargaining and representation.
The goal of RTW is to financially starve unions – which under federal law must represent all workers in a union shop whether they are dues-paying members or not – thereby limiting the union’s ability to negotiate for and represent workers.
“Proposition A is wrong for Missouri,” said Jessica Podhola, spokesperson for We Are MO, the coalition of union members and working family allies behind last year’s petition drive and the ongoing effort to defeat RTW (Prop. A). “It’s not what it seems and the politicians who supported it know this. That’s why they are trying to thwart the will of the people by changing the date of the election to a time when less voters participate.
WILL DRIVE DOWN WAGES
“Over 310,000 Missouri voters exercised their constitutional right by signing a petition to place this issue on the November ballot,” Podhola said. “Changing the date that this issue will appear on the ballot doesn’t change the fact that Proposition A will drive down wages and hurt Missouri families.”
It also doesn’t change the fact that historically, in Missouri, initiative petitions have been successful in defeating or overturning terrible legislation.
The last time Missouri voters faced a similar ballot initiative was in 1982, when they rejected a proposed law that would have allowed larger trucks on the state’s major highways.
In the 26 similar referenda dating to 1914, voters rejected all of the laws but two.
The last time RTW was on the ballot, in 1978, voters overwhelmingly defeated the measure.
DARK MONEY POURING IN
Big money is already pouring into the pro-RTW campaign from out-of-state CEOs and dark money PACs bent on making Missouri a RTW state.
“A New Missouri” a group formed a year ago by Gov. Eric Greitens’ campaign staff to promote his pro-business, anti-worker agenda, recently contributed $750,000 to “Freedom to Work,” a group formed last year to stop the worker and union-backed effort to defeat the legislation.
A New Missouri also contributed $350,000 last fall to another pro-RTW group, “Missourians for Worker Freedom,” a Kansas City-based political action committee that shares the same address and phone number as yet another pro-RTW group, “Liberty Alliance.”
Freedom to Work received a $500,000 contribution last month from Richard Uihlein, the Illinois Republican mega-donor behind family-owned Uline packaging company. Uihlein has also contributed over the years to a number of conservative candidates and causes, including Greitens’ campaign for governor, Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner and Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley’s bid for U.S. Senate.
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The FACTS about Proposition A (RTW)
Proposition A (RTW) will hurt middle-class families because it will drive down wages, hurt job creation and slow the Missouri economy. It is a forced agenda of greedy CEOs. It is not just a union issue. RTW will eventually hurt everyone in the state.
Here are some quick facts about RTW and its devastating effects:
• Median household income is $8,740 less in states that have RTW laws, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
That means middle-class Missouri families will have less money to buy cars, purchase goods and do things like eat at restaurant or go to a movie.
• Rate of workplace deaths is 58 percent higher in states with RTW laws, according to the AFL-CIO’s 2017 report “Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect.”
CEOs and big-business lobbyists support Proposition A because it will let them earn even bigger profits, outsource jobs and form monopolies that drive small businesses out of the state.
RTW is WRONG. Vote NO on Proposition A.
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Book Review: The Astonishing Color of After
The Astonishing Color of After
Emily X.R. Pan
I like to situate my book reviews in the real world - whatever is going on in my life, I try if possible to relate it to what I've read. I do this because I'm not a professional book reviewer, and I want to offer something more unique than a bog-standard review you might read in a newspaper.
As it so happens, I read The Astonishing Color of After - which deals with depression and suicide - during a time when I was (am?) coping with anxiety, mostly related to graduate school. I don't have depression - anxiety is not the same thing - but what drew me in was a line towards the beginning of the novel - the colors around me were all wrong. I was lucky, if only because I was able to see that something was wrong in time to seek professional advice (it turns out that my case is mild and I don't really need anti-anxiety medication if I make a few lifestyle changes - breathing exercises, no social media before bed, that sort of thing). But what really helped me connect with this novel was realizing that while I'd always known intellectually that sometimes brains just don't work the way they're supposed to, I hadn't really understood personally - viscerally - what that could be like, even mildly. Now I do.
The Astonishing Color of After is, theoretically, YA (Young Adult) literature. The writing style is fairly straightforward, the first-person viewpoint character is a teenager dealing with teenage issues and it fits nicely alongside other YA classics. Because of this - and despite it being quite fat - it's a quick read for adults. I didn't realize that when I picked it up, but I'm happy things shook out that way - I'd just finished my dissertation proposal and needed some mental rest with easier prose. It surprises me that it doesn't seem as though this novel has gotten a lot of press among English-speaking Taiwan bibliophiles. I knew when Green Island, Lord of Formosa, My Enemy's Cherry Tree and Wedding in Autumn all came out, but hadn't heard of this book until I came across a copy at eslite. It's a shame, too - YA literature about Taiwan that can be enjoyed by anyone, even if they have no connection to Taiwan, is a niche that needs filling. That kind of soft power helps.
That said, because the narrator is a 15-year-old girl, the prose is written a bit too...muchly. There's explicitness where something might be implied, melodrama where subtlety and implication would suffice. It works, though - the story is told as a 15-year-old might tell it. You can almost envision what the journal entries of the narrator would be like.
Without spoiling too much, the story follows Leigh Chen Sanders, 15-year-old American-raised daughter of Dory Chen and Brian Sanders. When her mother, Dory, commits suicide, Leigh is convinced she's turned into a huge red bird, and eventually seeks answers to her mother's family history in Taiwan. Leigh not only grapples with her mother's death, family secrets and feeling lost in an unfamiliar country, but a father who can barely cope himself as well as a very common teen issue: wanting to do something creative with your life as one of your parents pushes you down a practical path that you are entirely unsuited for.
This struck home for me too. I'm not a teenager anymore, and I'm not in a 'creative' profession (writing is a hobby, not a consistent income source). But along with my dissertation, I've been grappling with exactly why I chose to become a teacher when I don't feel the money I earn really justifies my choice (and don't always feel appreciated in a professional capacity either). I know people think foreign teachers out-earn other professions here, but that's really only true early on. When you hit your thirties, gain experience and professional development and credentials, you start to notice that if you'd gone to work for some corporate machine you'd be earning more by now. But, as with art or music, there are other reasons to choose teaching.
Taipei is rendered as accurately - if generically - as post-smartphone suburban America, and the story is deeply engaging. Pan does a great job of narrating the difficulties Leigh has with Mandarin - a language she is familiar with but doesn't really speak and can't read at all - and Taiwanese, which is incomprehensible to her. The flourish of her Taiwanese mother not really wanting to return to Asia despite her American father being keen do to so - and that same American father speaking and writing fluent Mandarin as his Taiwanese wife avoids her native language - presents a flourish to the story that upends stereotypes readers may have. Frankly speaking, it's a circumstance I've seen play out in real life, and it was interesting seeing it depicted in fiction. It reminded me of how my own grandfather, himself not a native speaker of English, purposefully never taught any of his children Western Armenian. As a result, I never learned it either.
I'm of two minds about Pan's depiction of Taipei. Everything was accurate - the alleys, the doors, the weather, the parks, the house slippers, the apartment shrines, the shops and temples. The depiction of supernatural events fits fairly well within Taiwanese religious beliefs, and the touch that Leigh's mother would visit both a Taoist and a Buddhist temple and not see any problem with that sort of syncretic belief (a fairly common thing to do in Taiwan) was a thoughtful flourish. Leigh's grandparents could be any number of older couples in Taipei city.
But...but. I wish she'd been more specific. Which street with brick arches did she reference? Was it Dihua Street? If so, the temple she described looks nothing like the most famous temple on that street. Was it Longshan Temple? It could have been. But if so, what street? What neighborhood did the Chens live in? Which spot on the North Coast did they actually go to? (Jiufen is referenced but then not much more is said about it or what the scenery is like.) One thing I love when reading novels that take place partly or entirely in Taipei is reading about the author's description of very specific places that I can go visit, if I like. When Pai Hsien-yung talks about Longjiang Road and a park which is obviously 228, I have specific mental images I can conjure up to give life to the story. There's something to be said for referencing a generic residential lane, a generic neighborhood park - the Chens could be anyone and there's literary merit to that - but I like my fictional Taipei to be grounded in a reality that I can personally reference.
I was intrigued by the very common Taiwanese family story of the Chens - a grandmother born in Taiwan and growing up in poverty, and a grandfather who came with the ROC military from China. Leigh's grandmother speaks Mandarin and Taiwanese (her grandfather's linguistic background is less clear). When we start to see flashbacks of Leigh's mother's life in Taiwan, one reference concerns her marrying someone "Chinese" (me: not Taiwanese?) but later that's references as "Chinese or Taiwanese". Which...huh.
There's a lot of digging that could be done into family political dynamics there, a lot of engagement in that particular issue that Pan - and by extension Leigh - could have pursued. But it's left there; there's no further discussion of issues of Taiwanese linguistic, historical or cultural identity. I suppose that'd be a bit much for a YA novel not necessarily marketed only to readers familiar with Taiwan, but it would have been interesting to explore.
Where the novel does a little better is discussing Taiwanese religious beliefs and superstitions, especially regarding ghosts and the afterlife, and Ghost Month in particular. Although I wish the novel had actually gone to Keelung for Ghost Month after explicitly referencing it, beliefs about ghosts roaming the earth and burning items for them to use in the afterlife, I think foreign readers will find these descriptions interesting.
All in all I'm happy I read The Astonishing Color of After, especially when I did. Its ideas and plot threads came through at a time when they could resonate especially strongly for me, and its clear prose was an inviting fictional place for my mind to escape to when it very much needed an escape.
Even better? I think you can still buy it at eslite!
Labels: arts, book_reviews, books, books_about_taiwan, bookstores, masters_degree, reading, taiwanese_history, taiwanese_identity, writing
Yes, it's been almost two weeks since I've updated, and no, it wasn't planned. I just really had to get my dissertation proposal in. I was going to jump back into blogging with a few restaurant reviews, a few long-overdue trip reports, a book review...you know, the sorts of things that a person who's just spent the past two weeks deeply stressed out might post. But no, some kids in Kaohsiung decided to be awesome, and now that has to come first.
I have a jumble of thoughts about these kids - who are old enough to have been my kids in a very different timeline, which is super weird because I totally want to buy each of them a Taiwan Beer like an old friend or Cool Aunt. I love how creative they are, how willing they are to take public risks to say what they think, and how thoughtful and full of integrity they are at that age. How civil the points they are making are - there is nothing uncivil about telling the mayor to finish his term, or pointing out that he lies. He does lie. It's speaking truth to power at an admirably young age.
I mean, damn - I was a total dipshit at 17. To be honest, I'm jealous. If these are our future leaders, we're going to be okay.
My first thought is that if we can keep Taiwan safe - as in, still a functioning democracy and not sold out to China - long enough for this generation and their immediate elders (think Millenial Taiwanese) to be the most influential voting block, then Taiwan will be just fine. A large enough percentage of them are smart enough to see Chinese media infiltration and other nefarious tricks for what they are, and showed up in droves (tens of thousands, not thousands) to protest it. They understand what equal rights really means and are willing to put in the time to physically show up and voice their discontent.
In fact, their way of protesting Mayor Han was creative and ballsy enough, clear and concise yet civilized, that Taiwanese civil life will be made better as more of them grow up to be activists and public figures, or start otherwise contributing to the discourse here. They are quite literally doing what their parents and grandparents won't, seeing things their ancestors are too naive (or wrongheaded, or brainwashed) to see, and noticing that if a public protest against Han is going to be lodged, they're the ones who have to do it. They're doing what their elders should be doing - but aren't - as it becomes clearer that Han is a Manchurian candidate, with a whole host of undesirable puppet masters.
They know the pro-Han, pro-China, pro-KMT media won't report on their rebellion, but they also know their parents and grandparents will be in the audience or see those photos. They're aiming their protest not just at the media, at Han, and Taiwan at large, but at their own elders, in such a way that they can't look away or ignore it. That's just smart.
That's the thing, though - China knows this. The KMT knows this. The unholy China-KMT Union (yes, it is a thing, don't pretend you don't know) knows this. They are perfectly well aware that they will never, ever win the hearts and minds of the youth, so the plan is to rip the carpet out from under the youth before they gain enough political power to stop it. The war (yes, it is a war - yet again, don't pretend you don't know) is escalating because they know their window of potential victory narrows every time an easily-manipulated older person dies, and a more attuned one gets the right to vote. They need to destroy Taiwan's democratic norms and will to resist before that happens, and frankly, we're not fighting back fast enough.
That's not to say every older person is 'easily manipulated', but enough of them are that it's a real problem, and China is absolutely seizing on it.
My next thought concerns this response from Han, from the Taipei Times link above:
“I think it is a great thing when young people speak their mind,” Han said yesterday in response to media queries.
He has always encouraged young people to express their opinions and will support them under any circumstances, but it is “inappropriate” to tie political issues to an educational event, he said.
“If students have opinions, they can express them off-stage,” he added.
Taking a photo on stage with the mayor after receiving an award for graduating with top grades is the “most honorable moment of [a student’s] life” and he hopes such educational events can remain pure, Han said.
First, Mr. Han, if you really thought it was a 'great thing for young people to speak their mind', you wouldn't say that they should do it offstage - in the least effective way, where it won't hurt you at all. You're fine with them saying what they want as long as nobody listens.
Secondly, this whole thing is a massive concern troll - "inappropriate", "it's an honorable event, keep it pure"? Yeah, okay, and I bet you're just "worried about their health" or "don't want them to have any trouble later", too. Whatever buddy.
And, of course, it's absolutely laughable that a politician showing up at an event would say that event should be free of politics. If you want a politics-free event, politicians should not be invited. They are public figures and must accept that they are fair game at any public event. They make it political by being there. Otherwise Han's just saying that his politics - photo-ops with award winning students are inherently a political activity undertaken to make a politician look good - are apolitical, but everyone else's politics 'impure'.
A lot of people are saying that these kids are the brightest, the award-winners, the smart ones - they're not representative of Taiwanese youth as a whole. And yes, they do stand out. But every generational shift and successful social movement has the people at the tip of the spear. That doesn't mean the rest of the spear isn't there, or isn't important.
If anyone knows where I can formally offer to buy every last one of them a beer - yes, even the underage ones though they can have bubble tea if they'd prefer - I'd love to hear it. And I'm not sure I'm joking.
Labels: anti_china_protests, china, civic_life, han_kuoyu, kaohsiung, kmt, media, media_bias, politics, protests, public_discourse, screw_china, social_movements, taiwan_media, taiwanese_politics, taiwanese_youth
Hong Kong residents and Taiwanese gather outside Hong Kong representative office in Taipei
This morning, around the same time that protesters began amassing outside of Hong Kong's legislative council (LegCo) to protest the proposed extradition bill that would allow extraditions from Hong Kong to China, a few hundred Taiwanese and Hong Kong residents gathered outside the Hong Kong representative office in Taipei between Songgao and Xinyi Roads (the office is located in the same building as eslite Xinyi).
I missed the first round of speeches by social activist groups and notable people - including former Sunflower leader Lin Fei-fan - due to work. However, I came by later to find several dozen or perhaps a hundred people still there, braving the worsening rain to continue the demonstration.
Speeches continued after the official line-up had finished, with anyone who wanted the mike able to take it. Longtime expat Sean Kaiteri did so; I did not. In between speeches, a television set up under an awning played a feed of the escalating situation in Hong Kong.
Most of the speeches were in Cantonese, so I couldn't really understand. A huge number of the protesters were also from Hong Kong - mostly students and interns unable to return to Hong Kong to join their friends and fellow citizens in Central. What struck me was that, while anyone with an ARC (Taiwan residency card) does have freedom of assembly - so they actually can participate in protests, just not organize them - it's a bit less clear if some of the students and interns are technically legally able to do so. Some are only here for a few months. Worryingly, there were reports and rumors of immigration police sweeping through. Otherwise, however, the police left the demonstrators alone and some people who appeared to work in the representative office appeared to be watching the demonstration from just beyond it.
I had to leave to work on my dissertation, but as far as I know the demonstration is still going on. This isn't likely to end soon and looks like it's getting bad in Hong Kong, so keep your ears open. I suspect there will be more news to come.
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Taiwan's under-appreciated smackdown of the Hong Kong extradition bill, plus huge media fail
It's not a beautiful cover image, but I don't know how to make it clearer, guys. Quit it already.
You may have noticed in the vicious opposition to the (deeply terrifying) extradition law that Hong Kong looks set to pass by the end of June - yes, despite the massive protest - that one of the reasons the CCP-owned Hong Kong LegCo (the city's legislative body) gives for the urgency in passing this law is directly related to Taiwan.
Hong Kong resident Chan Tong-kai murdered his girlfriend in Taiwan in 2018 before flying back to Hong Kong, and is currently in custody on money laundering charges related to his dead girlfriend's assets there. However, as the murder took place in Taiwan, Hong Kong can't charge him for it. As there is no formal extradition treaty between Taiwan and Hong Kong, he can't be sent back to Taiwan to stand trial, either. Because he's not in jail for murder, he could be free by October. So now, China Hong Kong is insisting that it needs to be passed so that Chan can be sent to Taiwan to face murder charges.
Here's what's interesting to me - I kept seeing this repeated in the media. It appears in almost every Ali Baba Daily South China Morning Post piece on the extradition bill and subsequent protests. It's present in the Reuters article above. Even the New York Times is including that tidbit, and the BBC has been leaning on it for awhile. It also pops up in The Guardian.
Here's the thing, though. Taiwan has already said it will not ask for Chan's extradition - which negates the 'we need this bill for Taiwan' argument altogether:
“Without the removal of threats to the personal safety of [Taiwan] nationals going to or living in Hong Kong caused by being extradited to mainland China, we will not agree to the case-by-case transfer proposed by the Hong Kong authorities,” Chiu Chui-cheng, deputy minister of Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council, told reporters on Thursday" [last month - this piece is from May].
And yet most media are still pretending that China's Hong Kong's argument is still valid enough to include without comment, without mentioning that the bill is not at all needed for this purpose, because Taiwan's already said it isn't.
It's a wonderful smackdown from Taiwan, making it quite clear that their solidarity with the real will of Hong Kong residents will not be compromised.
The impact of this extradition bill will be huge to HK. Its position of being the Asian financial will be undermined. Read more here: https://t.co/iUhXKjuzr6 https://t.co/gQ6kqX7gut
— Yu Wan-Ju (Karen) (@karenyu) June 10, 2019
Taiwan does not want this bill to be passed despite China Hong Kong using that as an excuse. Yet nobody is reporting it.
Protests and demonstrations in Taiwan frequently enjoy solidarity from Hong Kong, and Hong Kong democracy and sovereignty movements are strongly supported among social movement activists in Taiwan (and have some level of popularity among everyday people here, too). There's a huge amount of cross-pollination and quite a few friendships that bridge the two groups of activists - a state of affairs which China is unhappy about, but can't really do much to stop (beyond banning Taiwanese activists and certain political figures from visiting Hong Kong). Even outside of social activist circles, Hong Kongers and Taiwanese share a bond stemming from their common threat and common desire to either obtain or uphold democratic norms. The two movements - formal independence for Taiwan and sovereignty for Hong Kong - are quite intertwined.
So, I happen to think this goes beyond trying to convince Hong Kongers of the need for expediency in passing the law. To sow discord between Taiwan and Hong Kong by drawing attention to a murder case in Taiwan that can only be solved by this Trojan Horse extradition law would be a major victory for China - I have to believe this "Taiwan excuse" is a push in that direction.
More people should be appreciating that Taiwan shut it right down over a month ago. At the very least, the media should be including a short acknowledgement of it every time they include China's Hong Kong's "Taiwan excuse", or stop including it altogether.
It makes sense that Taiwan wouldn't buy it (and you shouldn't either) - nobody who is sympathetic to the fight against encroaching Chinese expansionism, who thinks about the issue for more than a few seconds, would think that the extradition of one murder suspect to Taiwan would be enough to merit the passage of a broadly damaging law in Hong Kong. The price is simply too high.
So jeez, guys. Stop recycling stale old garbage. If it smells bad, dump it.
Of course this isn't the only media fail - in the Chinese-language Taiwanese media...well. They're either not covering the Hong Kong protests at all or put them way at the back:
“How to burry a news” by China Times. pic.twitter.com/ComUEFDM0w
— Pierre-Yves Baubry (@pybaubry) June 10, 2019
I told my family members who rely on "the old three 老三台" for news, none of them are aware of HK Protest. At least not in the prime time https://t.co/OI4wGbGFiO
— Chen-Yi Tu (Crystal) (@crystaltu_) June 10, 2019
As my husband pointed out when he fired up the United Daily News app out of curiosity: "UDN does cover it, but to get to a story about it you have to scroll through three pictures of Han Kuo-yu, a picture of Wang Jin-pyng and a picture of Terry Gou."
So while all my green and colorless friends know what's going on, once again all the blue-leaners in Taiwan won't realize the import of these protests and make up their minds accordingly. Thanks, Chinese Taiwanese media, for being so singularly awful!
Labels: bad_journalism, china, china_sucks, demonstrations, extradition_law, hong_kong, hong_kong_politics, international_discourse, international_media, media, media_bias, protests, taiwanese_politics
Hong Kong's proposed extradition law should terrify you
I want to address this to my friends - especially real-life friends outside Asia, but really anybody who cares even nominally about my well-being. I'd like you to read this with the thought in your head that every possibility described below could very well happen to me - this isn't some abstract thing that might affect people you don't know in a place that's far away. It's a very real thing that might affect someone you do know. Please consider that, and read on.
A massive demonstration took place in Hong Kong today to protest a proposed extradition treaty that would allow people facing criminal charges to be sent to Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan for trial. Nobody is quite sure how many are in attendance but everyone agrees that it is at least several hundred thousand (well, the police don't, but they have a reputation for purposely under-reporting).
That may sound fine - boring, even. You might do a quick search and learn that Hong Kong already has extradition treaties with 20 other governments, so why not add these to the mix? Why would up to half a million people or more* take to the streets of Hong Kong Island to protest it, grinding much of the city to a halt?
Because, as this video from the Progressive Lawyers' Group in Hong Kong explains, there is simply no hope of a fair trial in China. The government decides whom it wants to convict, and throughout the sham trial their conviction is a foregone conclusion. Extradition treaties are based on the belief that the other country or territory will give the person a fair trial - and Hong Kongers would be right to have no such faith in China.
It's an even more troubling situation for Hong Kong, where the government is ostensibly partly elected, but in practice under the thumb of the CCP. They run their own Beijing-backed candidates; if too many pro-Hong Kong/anti-China candidates win seats in Hong Kong's legislative committee, they simply fabricate charges to get them kicked out of the government and in some cases put in jail.
If China decided that someone they wanted to punish, 'disappear' or sentence to death would not be adequately punished/disappeared/killed in Hong Kong, they could simply order the government they ultimately control to send that person to China - even if the alleged crime had not been committed in China. Even if whatever action the Chinese government wanted to punish was taken in a place where it was legal, such as Hong Kong or Taiwan. Then China could do what they liked with that person.
Don't believe me? Ask Lee Ming-che, who is currently serving a prison sentence in China despite having committed no crime (what he did took place in Taiwan, where such actions are quite legal - not China.) And he's not the only one.
Under such a system, Hong Kong would have the appearance of a semi-elected governing body and fair, independent judiciary tasked with upholding residents' and visitors' access to their legal and human rights, but in fact every last one of them would be ultimately subject to the much less fair and transparent Chinese legal system - as their extradition could be requested at any time. It would be very difficult to convince skeptics (and a complicit international media) that this is the case, because on paper, Hong Kong wouldn't have the same legal framework as China. In reality, the difference between them would not matter at all.
What does this have to do with me?
I go to China sometimes, and I know that I risk being detained over my criticisms of the CCP. It probably won't happen - there's an element of white privilege (although they have detained non-Asians), and the fact that I'm relatively obscure and will probably stay that way. They seem to be more reticent to detain US citizens. I write in English for an English-speaking audience on a platform blocked in China; my work isn't aimed at China or Chinese readers. But imagine that one day they do decide that I'm trouble, and need to be dealt with.
I'd probably be aware of that well before I tried to enter China, which at that point I might simply stop doing. Hong Kong, on the other hand, is supposed to be a place I can visit where I would still have some basic protections and access to human rights. Under this new extradition law, however, the Chinese government could order the Hong Kong government to send me to China for trial, despite having done nothing illegal in China itself - or anywhere else (nothing I write is illegal in Taiwan or, ostensibly, Hong Kong.)
Now imagine that Taiwan is forced to come under the same 'One Country Two Systems' framework as Hong Kong, either through some annexationist effort from China or Taiwanese blundering into electing a (potentially) a bought-and-paid-for stooge of the CCP groomed to run on a populist, "let's all get rich" platform with absolutely no substance or follow-through, but very attractive rhetoric that cuts right to some endorphin center in enough people's brains. That elected someone would sign over Taiwan's sovereignty for the right price, or no price at all.
China would insist that "One Country Two Systems" would allow Taiwan to keep its current political structure, but in practice everything that's happening in Hong Kong would start to happen here. Intentional flooding of immigrants from China who disrupt elections. Beijing-backed candidates running in races. Beijing-opposed candidates being kicked out of office on bogus charges until everyone in the "elected" Taiwanese government is sufficiently pro-China. The international media would play its same old fake neutrality card, claiming that perhaps this is problematic although the two places technically have different systems.
By then, the same extradition treaty they're forcing through in Hong Kong would be in force in Taiwan, as well.
And I wouldn't just be unsafe going to Hong Kong - I'd be unsafe in the country I call home. If this happens, every single thing I write on Lao Ren Cha could be the thing that lands me in a Chinese prison - despite living in a place that would seem to have its own democratic government and independent legal system. Both, however, would be irrelevant. China could simply tell the government it controls to "send her over", and that'd be that. For all intents and purposes, I'd be under the Chinese legal system.
You know I consider it a moral obligation not to keep my mouth shut about political injustice. How do you think that would go for me? I don't expect random readers to sympathize with the idea that Taiwan is my home and I don't have another one I can easily 'return' to, and I admit to the privilege of having that blue passport. But you guys - my actual friends and family - you know that this is my home and deciding to 'just leave' isn't so simple.
This obviously affects Taiwanese citizens even more - they'd be more unsafe than me, with fewer places to go. Please remember that. But, as I'm addressing my friends outside Asia right now, all of those people might seem like abstractions. They're unknown - a large population you have no connection with. Far away. You know me, though. You have a connection with me. This shouldn't be an abstraction. It could affect someone who is actually a part of your life.
I shouldn't have to put it this way - that millions of Taiwanese people would be at risk should be enough to scare you. It should be enough to care. But I'm aware that when talking about large groups of people you don't know from a far-away foreign country you've never visited, it's hard to apply that same level of individual human concern. I ask you to try - but if your brain just won't cooperate, make it personal. Think of me.
Don't like that? Well, let me show you how it's even worse.
I can't substantiate this, but the story flicking around Twitter is that shady pro-CCP groups offered to pay pretty decent sums of money to get a few hundred people to come out to support the extradition law, because they know it's so unpopular. If true, they are literally fabricating support for CCP initiatives to make it seem like this is some sort of controversial issue with many sides. It's not - Hong Kong residents are quite clearly opposed to it.
五毛藍絲中共狗找不到人出來遊行，加價到1800塊一天加一個盒飯。香港有骨氣的人，給一萬八、十八萬、一百八十萬買你子子孫孫後代的自由你肯嗎？輪流打爆這個電話，流氓政權無恥行為！ pic.twitter.com/yPiI70BP66
— HK-妮珂（新號） (@Hk60740379Hk) June 8, 2019
There is also word (as of when I am writing this) that police beatings are breaking out in Hong Kong.
Even sadder?
Despite the massive size of this protest - I don't think either side estimated that many people would turn out - this law will probably be passed, and Hong Kong will become just as unsafe as China for anyone who expresses opinions the CCP doesn't like.
In Taiwan, a protest this size might just be a wake-up call. Though its light is fading, the Sunflower Movement had a real effect here and its spirit lives on in some of us. In Hong Kong, this should be a clarion call to LegCo (the city's legislative body) not to pass this law - but LegCo is in the CCP's pocket, and the CCP doesn't care.
But hold on tight - if these protests continue, things could get tense in Hong Kong, in exactly the way they need to. It counts for something that people are standing and fighting. Don't stop.
And friends in far-flung places - please don't forget that this isn't an abstraction. It's not some boring legal battle going on in a place you don't know well, affecting people you don't care about on a personal level. However tangentially, it affects me. I know we all have a lot of competing issues battling for space in our hearts and minds, but it's worth your time to care about this.
Labels: china_sucks, democracy, democracy_in_asia, demonstrations, elections, extradition_law, hong_kong, hong_kong_politics, human_rights, international_discourse, one_country_two_systems, protests, taiwanese_politics
Review: Joseph Bistro 想想廚房 (high-concept Indian cuisine)
Joseph Bistro
#13 Lane 69 Songjiang Road
Zhongshan District, Taipei
(MRT Sonjiang Nanjing)
On the heels of a discussion on whether there is, or should be, a distinction drawn between 'elevated' or 'high-concept' Asian regional cuisines and 'authentic' Asian cooking, it was interesting to find myself at high-concept Indian restaurant Joseph Bistro.
For the record, I don't think the cuisines of Asia need to be 'mom's cooking' to be authentic or delicious, and one of the things I love about living in Asia is that, unlike the West, when someone opens a restaurant that is not 'mom's cooking' and tries to do something different, there's a lot of room for that. You won't hear a gaggle of confused Westerners who mistake knowing something about Asian food for deeper intercultural competence going on about how it's not 'authentic', and they should know. How can it not be? It's Asian food, made by Asian people, in Asia. And, to quote Tricky Taipei: "Why does cheap have to equal authentic when it comes to Asian food that’s not Japanese? Why is it so hard for us to say a simple but quality bowl of beef noodle soup can be worth paying US$14 for?"
I'll only add two caveats to that. If I can get excellent, say, dumplings at one price point, I'm not likely to pay a higher price point for dumplings that I can't tell are any better. But if you wow me with your more expensive dumplings, I will pay. Second, there is (and I honestly think should be) more room for people with cultural ties to a place, who have been eating and preparing food from that place their whole lives, to get creative with its cuisine. There is less room for foreigners to come in and say what is and is not 'elevated' (as opposed to just odd). If you're in the latter group, that doesn't mean you can't jump in, but there's simply a higher chance that you won't really know what you're doing because you didn't grow up with that food - and it's more likely to show in the output. If you want to go there, know your stuff.
All of this brings me back to Joseph Bistro. Forget 'elevated' vs. 'authentic' - it doesn't matter. The food at Joseph Bistro is simply great. You'll pay for that greatness (by Taipei standards at least), but you'll be happy to fork over the cash, because Chef Joseph will wow you.
Joseph Bistro fills a much-needed gap in Taipei's culinary scene - there isn't another place quite like it among Indian restaurants, and outside of some high-concept Japanese restaurants, there isn't a lot of this kind of high-end cuisine from other parts of Asia available. There are tons of Indian restaurants, some of them quite good, but they are standard Indian restaurants. And that's as it should be - we need a selection of such places, and I frequent them. But none of them 'elevate' the way Joseph Bistro does.
I went with friends I don't get to see often, so we were feeling spendy. First, while I would not typically order wine with Indian food (to me it's beer food), the food here matches well with wine. We chose what I cheekily ordered as "a bottle of your cheapest red, please!" But the dry Italian red we got was scrumptious and matched the food well. A good price, too - NT$950/bottle is not bad for wine in a restaurant. (White wines start at NT$1500/bottle, but I'm a red wine person.) There is also a robust selection of beer non-alcoholic drinks.
We started with an appetizer of potato kofte served in a fruit salad raita (raita is a spiced, salted yoghurt). It came topped with edible flowers and we were instructed to mix everything together to eat it - and let me tell you, it was phenomenal. The distinctive flavor of raita mixed with the flowers and fruit - which included both fresh and dried fruits for varied texture and flavor - produced a memorable salty-savory combination that defies description. The potato puffs provided an umami base for this distinctive taste.
We also ordered a Goan fish croquette topped with sea urchin, which combined flavors from three cuisines: the fish cake is a lightly spiced Goan take on a Portuguese classic, with Japanese-style sea urchin for a burst of saltiness. It's great on its own or eaten with pappadum for a bit of a crunch.
The mains run the gamut from clear fusion to classic Indian - we stuck closer to classic Indian but I'm now curious to try their more adventurous dishes, which include a longyan duck leg and argan-oil scented rack of lamb, as well as a cobia steak served with tandoor spices, lemon pickle and grape mint sauce. We had the Goan fish curry, palak paneer and tandoori chicken with coriander chutney. In part I was just feeling like that sort of food, and in part I wanted to see how well Joseph Bistro could do the classics.
Everything was superb - the chicken especially stands out as being perfectly cooked and tender (not dry as some tandoori chicken can be) in an intensely flavorful sauce, the Goan fish curry reminded me of the delicious fish curries I had there - far from Goa but just as good, if not better. I appreciated that the palak paneer used large chunks of high-quality paneer. Basically, although writing this the next day I realized we ordered some of the most boring items on the menu, every last one of them was absolutely wonderful and worth the money we paid for them. All that's done is make me think I have to go back to try more.
The desserts are also worth saving room for. They're some of the most generous portions of dessert you'll get in Taipei. They look pricey but can easily serve 2-3 people, so don't fret too much about it. Definitely try the deconstructed rasmalai, which comes served in a layered cup with chocolate mousse, coffee jelly and rasmalai-mascarpone sauce. Driving your spoon all the way down to get a bite of each layer, you get salty, sweet and bitter all at once and it comes together perfectly.
Or, as my friend said, "it tastes like...summer!"
We also had the crusty red wine apple with vanilla creme - absolutely wonderful. The soft red wine-marinated apples was a perfect textural counterpoint to the flaky-crispy pastries and creamy vanilla topping.
And all this while, we enjoyed our meal in comfortable, tasteful but unpretentious decor. You don't feel like you have to 'dress up' for Joseph Bistro (though you can), but you still get the feeling that you're having a high-end experience that's worth the money. And yet, there was a (cute) young child at the next table putting spoons on his head and generally being a kid. Nobody bothered about it - classy and comfortable, but also unpretentious and kid-friendly.
Did we blow through more than NT$5000 for three people? Yes. (But then we did everything - starters, wine, desserts, the works).
Did we mind? Not at all.
Forget the 'authentic' vs. 'elevated' Asian food debate. Ask yourself - can Asian food be worth paying real money for? Yes, of course. How is that even a question? And ask yourself, is it good?
If it is, and you've got the cash, just don't worry about it. Fretting over authenticity in Asian food strikes me as a specifically Western thing to do. I assure you that in Asia, it's simply not a thing.
Quick note: the chef recognized me from Lao Ren Cha (I was not paid or asked to do this review and received no special discount for writing it), and made the food spicier than he normally would for Taiwanese diners. He did add just the right amount of kick. If you also want your food to be spicier, you may want to request it.
Labels: curry, eating_out, food, foreign_food, india, indian_food, indian_restaurants, restaurants, south_indian, taipei_restaurants
My favorite Taipei cafes: 2019 rundown
In the past I've done reduxes of my favorite cafes for atmosphere - which is mostly accurate still, though a few places have moved (such as Nancy), rebranded as restaurants (Anhe 65), are now noisy tea shops (Red House Theater), or closed (Mono Cafe). I've done one for good coffee in Taipei as well - though that's a bit more outdated: My Sweetie Pie is long gone and there is now more than one George House in the Yongkang Street area. I don't think Naruwan Indigenous People's Market is still a thing anymore, either, though I haven't been in awhile.
Both posts are now badly in need of an update - most of the places I mentioned are still open, but I've found new haunts that I like just as much.
To deal with that, I'll leave those old posts as they are (links above) and provide here a new redux of where I'm imbibing right now. This isn't just for folks who live here - when I've traveled to other cities with hopping cafe scenes, I've found blogs in English by committed residents of those cities to be helpful guides as to where to go. So I want to be one of the people who does that for Taipei. Plus, as a grad student, I spend a lot of time in cafes getting reading done or writing papers so my list of good spots has grown.
You'll see some of my old entries repeated here, with new ones added, and I've prioritized places with outdoor seating, as that's so hard to find in Taipei. I've also noted where some cafes are near other good options, as seating can be so hard to come by. There's also a bias towards southern Taipei because that's where I live and hang out. Overall there's simply a lot of bias for "places I actually go to", so there's not much more to unite them thematically than that. No pretension to "the best" or "the top 10" or whatever - just my real world.
Instead of looking up each address like it's still 2010, I've gone ahead and made a Google Maps list, which you can access here. (I realized after I'd made it that I could actually create a map rather than just a list, but I'm too lazy to go back and re-do it, so this'll do for now.)
Heritage Bakery and Cafe
This 'newcomer' (opened in 2016) has quickly become a go-to spot in the Taipei Main Station/Ximen area. Pretty much everything about it is excellent - you feel as you walk in that you're somewhere in New York being exceedingly posh in that middle-class hipster sort of way. If that doesn't sound appealing to you - a bit to gentrificationy - don't let that deter you (you're not gentrifying much here - the neighborhood is much the same as it always was). Go for the bright, attractive upstairs seating with exposed brick walls, the very good coffee and other drinks (non-coffee drinkers can choose a variety of teas or fizzy drinks, or beer) and most of all, the desserts.
Oh, the desserts. Westerners who complain that Taipei doesn't have good dessert options can shove some of this cake in their cakehole - from fluffy, perfect, cinnamony cinnamon rolls which sell out quickly to pink guava cheesecake to sea salt caramel Belgian chocolate cake all in generous or even huge servings, this place knows how to do Western-style desserts. The foccaccia sandwiches are quite good too - try the chicken avocado club.
It's not particularly cheap - drinks, sandwiches and a cinnamon roll for 2 will cost you NT$900 and change - but it's not insane. 90-minute limit on holidays and weekends. Otherwise, pretty much the only downside is that the air conditioner is often on full-blast, which makes it a bit chilly. Bring a cardigan.
This Cafe (（這間咖啡）
This is quickly becoming one of my favorite work cafes. Very strong social movement bent (check out the "I Support Taiwan Independence" banner in the back), good wifi and lots of plugs - it's quiet and you can usually get a seat. It's a little dimly lit but that just adds to the charm and isn't a problem if you're on a computer, and the table in back is set under antique Taiwanese milk glass hanging lamps. They have non-coffee drinks including beer, and a small selection of sandwiches and salads which are reasonably priced. I think I also like it because the guy who most often works there knows me on sight and knows my order by heart now. Plus they're open pretty late. There are other cafes nearby, such as Perch (nice, but often crowded) and PuiBui, which I haven't tried yet.
Cafe Le Zinc
Set in the back of an old Dihua Street shophouse, Le Zinc can be accessed through the Art Yard ceramics shop from Dihua, or directly from a little lane that snakes around the back. Seating is limited but I've never had a problem, and the well-lit long table has plugs. There's also strong wifi. Windows look out into the narrow courtyard of the old house, where the bathroom is. There's an extensive (but expensive) wine list - house wine by the glass is more affordable - beer, coffee and light food. Music leans toward the jazzy and old-fashioned, which I like. It's a good place to work (on account of the big table, wifi and plugs) and also a good place to meet friends just to chat.
In fact, this whole area is bursting with cafes - if you can't get a seat at Le Zinc, you can surely get a seat somewhere. There are so many that I can't possibly put them all on my map.
Dihua Street is actually bursting with cafes these days - a huge change from my first few years here when it was a somewhat forgotten corner of the city where you could do a little fabric or dry-goods shopping and check out the old buildings, but not much else. If anywhere in Taipei has gentrified, it's here - and yet the fabric and dry-goods sellers still mostly seem to be in business. Where Le Zinc stands out for its table space and wine/beer list, Fleisch has some unique coffee drinks - my favorite being a latte with dried Mandarin orange (dried citrus slices are fairly common dried goods in Taiwan - they make a nice drink steeped in boiling water.)
Hakkafe
A very new addition to the Dihua Street cafe scene, Hakkafe was opened by an entrepreneurial Hakka guy named Terry who is friendly and enthusiastic about his mission to create a modern cafe space with a traditional Hakka twist. The space is large, minimalist and quiet, done in shades of black, white, gray and wood. We especially liked the Hakka BLT (with Taiwanese pickled green chilis), and the brownie was wonderful. I highly recommend the Hakka breakfast tea - Terry noticed that England has a 'breakfast tea' culture but Taiwan, another tea-drinking nation, does not. So he set out to blend his own. The results are stunning.
This is the only place on the list that doesn't actually serve coffee, but you won't miss it if you try the Hakka Breakfast Tea.
It's also near funky-looking Chance Cafe (一線牽), which I haven't tried yet.
The Lightened
Formerly Backstage Cafe, which had a student activist/social movement theme (yes, a theme, but the former owner was apparently active in those circles), The Lightened is now associated with Anmesty International Taiwan. Located on Fuxing South Road near the back gate of National Taiwan University, The Lightened is unpretentious, well-lit, there are lots of plugs and good wifi, and you can always get a seat. The coffee is good (and fair trade), there's a small selection of beer and the desserts are homemade. On weekends a spunky black-and-white cat might be around.
Rufous Coffee
Almost directly across the street from The Lightened, Rufous is a bit darker, more famous, and is known for having top-notch coffee. Any of the single origin choices are good, and the Irish coffee is spectacular. That said, non-coffee drinkers won't find much here, and they don't have much in the way of food, either. I like it for its cozy, friendly atmosphere, though it can be hard to get a seat sometimes. Not far away there's a 2nd branch, which is quite close to URBN Culture.
Shake House (雪可屋)
I simply cannot write a post about coffee without including my long-time hangout. I don't know why I go to Shake House. There's no wifi, nor any plugs. The bathroom is tiny and through a dilapidated passageway. Lamps are hanging flower pots with ribbons. The chairs are ancient. But I just love the place - it's like, in every city I live in, I need my student hangout in some old building that's falling apart, and I just get attached to it. That's how it is. The coffee is good, the chicken sandwiches above average, the beer selection excellent (and affordable as cafes go), they're open very late and the music is...eclectic. From odd movie soundtracks to church music to Johnny Cash to John Coltrane to whatever. You just literally never know what you'll get. Also, I know the owners and they know me.
If you really need plugs and wifi, Cafe Bastille is just across the lane (and there are other cafes in the area, including Drop Coffee and its new neighbor).
Drop Coffee (滴咖啡）
Drop is another coffeeshop I always include. On Xinsheng Road just across the street from NTU, the space is a renovated Japanese wooden house. The owner is passionate about coffee and does a mean siphon brew. The dog - 橘子 (Orange, although he is black) - is unfriendly in a comical way. There are a few teas on the menu as well as some desserts but really you come here for the coffee. A new place has opened across the lane which has more space, but I haven't checked it out yet.
Cafe Philo
If you go to any sort of political or activist talks or activities, you know Cafe Philo. They have a space downstairs just for that. Upstairs, they have generous space and a wide menu which includes food. I've been going there recently as I'm taking a course (not related to my Master's - because I'm insane) and I can always get a seat.
This large black-and-white space on Yongkang Park advertises itself as an ice cream shop, but you can absolutely get coffee here. They have a good deck if you want to sit outside, and the coffee is high-quality. You can get some interesting coffee drinks here that you may not find elsewhere - I had iced coffee in a glass flask that I could pour over a giant ice ball, and my friend had a huge ball of iced coffee that melted as he poured foamed milk over it.
Caffe Libero
Another classic, I've found myself going here less ever since Red On Tree left (they used to sell excellent French-style pastry confections on-site), and they close early on Sundays. But I still love the place for its outdoor seating, quirky indoor decor, cigar selection and more.
Yaboo
Near 8% and Libero, Yaboo has decent sandwiches and - most importantly - cats! Also a nice atmosphere, but it fills up on weekends. A seat is not guaranteed. But the cats are sweet and friendly.
Another minimalist place, I like it for its weird shape and good coffee (though all they really have are coffee and a small dessert selection). Big windows let the light in, and it's called Angle because it's set in a weird triangular building outcrop on Rui'an Street (Pillow Cafe, which is also good and used to have a corgi, is nearby. They're under new ownership - hence no more corgi - and friendly.) I find myself here on the occasional Sunday as one can usually get a seat, and there are good views from the bar seats.
Slo-mo Cafe
This place has generous indoor seating and an outdoor area partitioned off from the lane - although smoking is allowed outdoors, it's never too overwhelming. The lane is not particularly busy (except at rush hour) - you may know it as the shortcut between Keelung Road where the gas station is and the Far Eastern Hotel or Carnegie's. The only real downside to sitting outside is that there are some mosquitoes - but that's an issue with all of the outdoor options listed. The desserts are standard cafe fare - though I like the lemon cake - and the glass of white wine I once got on a scorching day was pretty good. Even better? This place never seems to fill up.
Beautiful Tree Coffee (美樹咖啡館）
This place is tiny and odd, run by a friendly older man. I absolutely love it. There's something of a rainforest theme going on, with a little outdoor area that has birds. And a ceiling with faux stained glass skylights! I'm not sure how to describe this place beyond that, it sort of defies description and, like many quirky spots, is in a gussied-up old building. The coffee was fine, and I genuinely liked their ham and cheese sandwich. Not too expensive, either. It's very close to Slo-mo as well as another place called Kaldi that I haven't tried yet.
A8 Cafe
A8 is one of my favorite workspaces. It was opened by world-famous Taiwanese indigenous pop star A-mei and employs indigenous staff. The space has a sort of industrial decor (concrete floor, warehouse windows, exposed brick) with good lighting, big shared tables as well as individual tables and couch areas (one of which is set under a real potted tree - my favorite spot), quirky decorative elements, plugs and good wifi. They have a full menu of cafe standards as well as meals and alcohol, but they close a bit early (around 9pm, but they'll let you stick around until they really pack up for the night.) They're closed on Mondays and sometimes take business breaks, but nearby 青沐, which is technically a restaurant, will let you order a drink and just hang out if they're not too busy. There's also a nearby place called Pachamama which I haven't been to, but looks cool.
The FOLKS
I go here because it's near my home - it's not really a workspace but you can sit outside on the little deck, and it's basically a cool, bare-bones espresso bar in a quiet lane.
Cafe Costumice
The Big Mama of cafes where you can sit outside, Costumice is that cafe everyone knows about, and yet you can usually get a seat (not always outside, though). Its major selling point is the huge front deck (bring bug repellent) which feels like an outdoor urban oasis. Though they are a little expensive, they're worth a splurge. There's a modest but pretty good food menu, wine (including a sparkling white which makes for a decent champagne on a hot brunch-y day) and beer.
I'm including The Key's cafe - The Key is my gym - because I've been spending a lot of time there, and they make a real effort to provide quality fare at good prices (and members get discounts). Strong wifi, plugs, a range of sandwiches and a protein-rich chicken meal if you're keto and a good range of drinks beyond coffee make it a fine place to hang out. It's been useful for me to go to the gym, do a short session on one of the cardio machines, and then head to the cafe to get some grad school work done. There are a few tables outside as well. Just down the road is another cafe decorated with hanging plants which looks promising as well - I think it's where the churro place used to be - but I haven't checked it out yet.
Coffee Tree （咖啡樹)
This spot near Zhongxiao Dunhua has a range of fattening desserts, beer, coffee and more. The interior decor is interesting, but we go because they have outdoor seating along a lane popular with pedestrians. It's near Quay Cafe which I haven't been to but would like to try.
Coffeeology
My go-to spot when I'm in the Taipei Arena neighborhood. Coffeeology has truly excellent coffee at great prices. No food - just some cookie-like snacks - but you can get a large latte with Irish cream (real Irish cream, not just a flavor syrup) for very little money by coffeeshop standards. There are a few chairs outside, but the whole space is fairly open so you feel like you're outdoors even though you're technically not. Great beans to bring home at good prices, too.
Zabu (in its new location)
I actually haven't been in ages because it's quite far from where I live, but if I'm in the north Tienmu area, this is my spot. It's the same Japanese-influenced hipster haven it's always been, with great rice balls, cats, and student-funky decor that it used to be in Shi-da all those years ago before the jerks made that neighborhood boring.
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Every few months, I teach a six-week course at the Shi-da school of continuing education, on the campus that Yongkang Street hits as it ends. During one of these classes, I have to give my trainees their final exam and then stick around to pick it up, so I go to cat.jpg while they work.
You'll find cat.jpg one lane behind that Shi-da campus, where are a small klatch of cool places, including Bea's Bistro (friendly, but more of a restaurant), Nom Nom (below) and cat.jpg. There's also a local population of yellow-and-white street cats and an urban garden, some of whom are friendly and all of whom seem to be kept healthy and fed by the local community.
cat.jpg has two of their own cats who are sociable enough (one is firiendlier than the other). They have wifi, a big work table and sandwiches on the menu.
Nom Nom is not only a great cafe (and place where you can buy ceramic ware), but also a decent brunch spot. Sandwiches and fried chicken are served with luscious little salads, and there's French Toast on the menu. Try the cumin chicken sandwich with apple and honey for sure. Their milkshakes are straight-up luxurious, served overflowing on lipped coasters so they don't mess up the table. The mint chocolate milkshake is garnished with mint leaves and a dried orange slice and then sprinkled with chocolate bits. Also, the place is Peak Taiwanese Hipster.
Classic Coffee (品客經典咖啡)
Classic Coffee, in the Shi-da Road neighborhood which used to be fun, doesn't look like anything special. There's food and perfectly good coffee. But this place has a major selling point - a super friendly old cat who will aggressively love you, and a similarly friendly fat corgi who gets jealous of the cat. It's my favorite cat cafe because that cat is just so in-your-face with the cuddles and snuggles, and it's a fluffy cat, too.
Notch (Front Station)
I don't typically expect funky, studenty coffeeshops in the Taipei Main Station neighborhood - it's an area loaded with cram schools, cheap shopping, a few government buildings...not a place where students really hang out. But this particular branch of Notch brings it. It's also not particularly far from the Legislative Yuan, so if you need a place to go after a good hearty protest, this is a great choice. When the same-sex marriage bill was passed last month, I spent a period of time here out of the pouring rain, watching the deliberations at the Legislative Yuan on their good wifi (far better than trying to connect alongside 20,000 other people standing outside in bad weather).
Look Upstairs (上樓看看）
An excellent 'work cafe' in Xinyi near City Hall Station, this place has good drinks and beer. There's food too, but it's a little expensive. Lots of space, good light, wifi and plugs - you can settle in here to get things done, especially upstairs. Some tables and countertops even have desk lamps.
Another cat cafe! This little place in a tiny shack-like building is very close to Liquid Bread and is attached to a vintage store (of which there are not too many in Taipei). I've only had the beer and coffee - they have a DPP beer! Which...odd, but tasted fine! But a big selling point here are the two cats, one black and the other white. It's also easy to get to from Xinyi, an area that isn't exactly known for its great cafes, so it's a solid choice in that neighborhood.
BreakFirst Cafe & Studio (棗點咖啡)
Sometimes we take care of a friend's pets in the Dazhi area, and this is our go-to when we're around there. The main selling point (beyond seats usually being available) is that they have several cats!
Lion / LineUp Dessert
I ended up liking this place because I reviewed it for FunNow - but it's a funky little spot in an area not known for cafes (the Zhongshan Elementary School MRT area), with great desserts and solid croque sandwiches. The coffee is just OK, but I go for the desserts.
Jing Xin Cafe （晶心咖啡館）
To be honest, this isn't a place I go to hang out - it's sort of a hybrid coffeeshop and crystal shop in an odd corner of Taipei. But, they roast Taiwanese coffee beans which make great gifts (and they sell them at a reasonable price), so I wanted to include them for this reason.
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Justia › US Law › Case Law › Federal Courts › District Courts › Texas › Western District of Texas › 2017 › Brown v. Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. › Filing 17
Brown v. Home Depot U.S.A., Inc., No. 1:2017cv00733 - Document 17 (W.D. Tex. 2017)
Court Description: ORDER GRANTING 6 Motion to Remand to State Court. Signed by Judge Sam Sparks. (ml)
Brownv.HomeDepotU.SA.,Inc. Doc.17 FILED IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WE DIVISION SEP 28 Afl 8: IO EY LUCY BROWN, Plaintiff, CAUSE NO.: A-17-CA-00733-SS -vs- HOME DEPOT U.S.A., INC., Defendant. ORDER BE IT REMEMBERED on the 29th day of August 2017, the Court held a hearing in the above-styled cause, and the parties appeared in person or through counsel. Before the Court are Plaintiff Lucy Brown's Motion for Remand [#6] and Defendant Home Depot's Response [#9] thereto, as well as Plaintiff's Supplemental Brief [#12] and Defendant's Supplemental Brief [#13]. Having reviewed the documents, the evidence presented at the hearing, the arguments of counsel, the relevant law, and the file as a whole, the Court now enters the following opinion and order. Background Plaintiff initiated this action in state court against Defendant and Defendant's former employee Amber Ruales on November 20, 2015, alleging Ruales and several other Home Depot employees assaulted and falsely imprisoned Plaintiff on suspicion of shoplifting. Notice Removal [#1-2] (Plaintiff's Original Petition) at 1; id. [#1-3] (Plaintiff's Third Amended Petition) at 3. On September 19, 2016, the state court action was called to trial, but the trial date was subsequently reset for August 21, 2017 after the parties failed to empanel a jury. 3. At the original trial date, both Ruales and Home Depot remained defendants. Id [#1] at Id / Dockets.Justia.com On February 27, 2017, Defendant emailed Plaintiff asking if Plaintiff would dismiss the personal claims against Ruales, a nondiverse defendant. Mot. Remand [#6-1] Ex. A (February 27, 2017 Email). Defendant conceded all actions by Ruales were within the course and scope of her employment and assured Plaintiff that Ruales had "pledged full cooperation, such that she need not be treated as a nonparty and subpoenaed." Id. Defendant also specifically noted "the case has now been pending for more than one year [and] cannot be removed even if there is complete diversity." Id. On July 20, 2017, Plaintiff proposed to dismiss Ruales in exchange for Defendant's cooperation in taking various photographs of the store premises and ensuring Ruales's availability at trial. Id. [#6-2] Ex. B (July 20, 2017 Email). Pursuant to this agreement, Plaintiff dismissed Ruales from this action on July 21, 2017. Id. [#6-3] Ex. C (July 21, 2017 Email); Notice Removal [#1-3] (Plaintiff's Third Amended Petition) at 3. Defendant then more than a year and a half after Plaintiff filed suitto proceeded remove the action to this Court on August 7, 2017. Id. [#1]. Analysis I. Legal Standard District courts have diversity jurisdiction over civil actions between citizens of different States, where the amount in controversy exceeds $75,000.00. 28 U.S.C. Court has interpreted this statute to require "complete § 1332(a). The Supreme diversity"that is, the citizenship of every plaintiff must be different from that of every defendant. Caterpillar inc. 68 (1996). Further, diversity actions are removable "only v. Lewis, 519 U.S. 61, if none of the parties in interest properly joined and served as defendants is a citizen of the State in which such action is brought." 28 U.S.C. § 144 1(b). 2 If an action is not removable based on the parties' initial pleadings, a notice of removal may be filed within thirty days after the defendant receives an amended pleading, motion, order, or other paper from which it may first be ascertained the case has become removable. Id. § 1446(b)(3). § However, an action may not be removed on the basis of jurisdiction conferred by 1332 more than one year after commencement of the action, unless the district court finds the plaintiff has acted in bad faith to prevent removal. Id. § 1446(c). Though the Fifth Circuit has not set a definitive standard for determining bad faith under § 1446, most courts focus on whether the plaintiff's conduct demonstrates manipulation of the statutory rules to prevent the defendant from exercising his right to removal. See Rantz v. Shield Coat, Inc., No. 17-3338, 2017 WL 3188415 at *5 (E.D. La. July 26, 2017); Bryson v. Wells Fargo Bank, NA., No. 1:16-CV-28, 2016 WL 1305846 at *5 (E.D. Tex. March 31, 2016) (emphasizing focus on "clearly egregious" facts); see also Johnson v. HCR Manorcare LLC, No. 1:15CV189, 2015 WL 6511301 at *5 (N.D.W. Va. October 28, 2015) (drawing a distinction between "trial strategy" and bad faith forum manipulation). The burden of showing the plaintiff acted in bad faith is borne by the party seeking removal. See, e.g., Rantz, 2017 WL 3188415 at *5; Bryson, 2016 WL 1305846 at *5; see also Manguno v. Prudential Prop. and Cas. Ins. Co., 276 F.3d 720, 723 (5th Cir. 2002) (noting any doubts or ambiguities regarding removal "are construed against removal and in favor of remand to the state court") II. Application The current action was pending in state court for over a year and a half before Defendant sought removal to this Court. Nevertheless, Defendant alleges removal under § 1332 is timely because Plaintiff acted in bad faith by improperly joining a nondiverse party, Ruales, to prevent 3 removal. See 28 U.S.C. § 1332, 1446(c). The Court finds Defendant has not carried its burden of showing Plaintiff has acted in bad faith, and accordingly, remand is appropriate. Defendant has failed to identify any "egregious facts" suggesting bad faith forum manipulation by Plaintiff. Bryson, 2016 WL 1305846 at *5 Though Defendant claims Plaintiff "never intended to prosecute claims against Ruales individually," Defendant acknowledges Ruales remained a defendant when Plaintiff brought this case to trial in September 2016. See Def.'s Resp. [#9] at 1; Notice Removal [#1] at 3. Plaintiff has also previously deposed Ruales regarding her role in detaining Plaintiff on February 12, 2014. See Def.'s Resp. [#9] at 2.' This is a far cry from other scenarios in which courts have found bad faith forum manipulation by the plaintiff. For example, in Lawson v. Parker HannijIn Corp., the plaintiff waited seven months after initiating the lawsuit to serve the nondiverse defendant, did not move for a default judgment when the defendant failed to appear, never sought discovery from the defendant, and finally nonsuited the defendant shortly after the expiration of the one-year period for removal. No. 4:13-cv-923-O, 2014 WL 1158880 at *5 Similarly, in Tedford v. Warner Lambert Co., the Fifth Circuit found the plaintiff acted in bad faith by joining a nondiverse party hours after learning that the defendant intended to remove the case, despite the plaintiff's inability to state a cognizable claim against the nondiverse party. 327 F.3d 423, 427-28 (5th Cir. 2003).2 The plaintiff then signed and post-dated a notice of nonsuit prior to expiration of the one- year removal period, but failed to file the document with the court until the one-year removal period had lapsed. Id. By contrast, in this case Plaintiff brought arguably meritorious claims The parties' briefmg indicates the present action was filed after Plaintiff nonsuited a prior action brought on the same set of facts. See Def. 'S Resp. [#9] at 2. Ruales was deposed as part of the prior action. Id 2 Section 1446(c) encompasses the equitable exception to the one-year removal limit applied in Tedford. See Day v. Western World Ins. Co., No. 14-00348BAJSCR, 2014 WL 4373301 at *4 (M.D. La. Sept. 3, 2014) ("Whether under Tedford or the statute, the legal standards to be applied are the same because the 2011 amendments to the federal jurisdiction statutes simply codified the long recognized jurisprudential equitable-tolling exception to the one-year deadline."). 4 against Ruales,3 deposed her regarding her role in detaining Plaintiff,4 and attempted to empanel a jury in state court while Ruales remained a defendant. See Def.'s Supp. Brief [#13] at 1-2; Def.'s Resp. [#9] at 2; Notice Removal [#1] at 3. Moreover, on February 27, 2017, Defendant explicitly asked Plaintiff to dismiss Ruales from the lawsuit, suggesting Ruales was "no longer needed as a party" because Home Depot was conceding Ruales's actions were within the course and scope of her employment. Mot. Remand [#6-1] Ex. A (February 27, 2017 Email). Defendant also assured Plaintiff the case could not be removed to federal court if Ruales was dismissed. Id. Thus, it was Defendant, not Plaintiff, who initiated dialogue regarding the dismissal of Ruales from the suit.5 When Plaintiff eventually responded to this proposal and negotiated several concessions, Defendant then promptly sought to remove the case to federal court. See Mot. Remand [#6] at 6-7. Finally, Defendant has given no compelling explanation for its decision to wait until eight months after the removal deadline to file a notice of removal with this Court. See Def.'s Supp. Br. [#13] at 1-2. Defendant alleges Plaintiff has done nothing to prosecute her claims against Ruales for over three years. Def. 'S Resp. [#9]. If Plaintiff's failure to prosecute her claims against Ruales is as readily apparent as Defendant suggests, the Court is at a loss as to why Defendant has never specially excepted to Ruales's inclusion in this lawsuit as a proper defendant. See Notice Removal [#1-3] (Defendant Home Depot's Second Amended Answer and Special Exceptions) at 1-7; see also Def.' s Supp. Brief [#13] at 1-2 (acknowledging Ruales was proper party to the suit). See Johnson v. NCR Manorcare LLC, No. 1:15CV189, 2015 WL 6511301 at *5 (N.D.W. Va. October 28, 2015) ("[T]he fact that [the dismissed party] was deposed stands in stark contrast to other cases where a defendant's participation was far less substantial."). Defendant's notice of removal fails to mention Defendant asked for dismissal of Ruales from the lawsuit, instead painting the parties' agreement to dismiss Ruales as a proposal originating entirely with Plaintiff. See Notice Removal [#1] at 5. 5 Defendant waited almost eight months after the removal deadline before using § 1446(c)' s bad faith exception to remove the case to federal court.6 Conclusion In these circumstances, the Court finds Defendant has failed to carry its burden of demonstrating Plaintiff engaged in bad faith forum manipulation. See 28 U.S.C. § 1446(c). Therefore, the Court GRANTS Plaintiffs Motion for Remand. Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that Plaintiffs Motion for Remand [#6] is GRANTED. SIGNED this the h 7ay of September 2017. SAM SPARKS UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 6 Defendant's response suggests the real reason for delay in removing the action lies in Defendant's own ignorance of applicable law. See Def. 's Resp. [#9] at 3; see also Shriver v. Sprintcom., Inc., 167 F. Supp. 2d 962, 964 (S.D. Tex. 2001) (noting with respect to dilatory removal that "[e]quity aids the vigilant and not those who slumber on their rights").
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Off-Duty Cop Drew Gun on Man He Mistakenly Thought Stole Mentos (WATCH)
Alberto LuperonMay 6th, 2018, 12:41 pm
A California man is sharing his experience after an off-duty cop mistakenly drew a gun on him.
“My wife could be a widow after tonight,” Jose Arreola told The Orange County Register about his thoughts at the time.
Surveillance footage shows the March 16 incident in which Arreola went to a convenience store in Orange County to buy Mentos on behalf of his wife. Arreola put the mints in his pocket while waiting for the cashier to give him change.
“Hey, give that back,” the unidentified officer says on video, and pulls out his gun. He says he’s a cop.
Arreola says he paid for it, but complies with the officer’s order to put the mints back on the counter.
The officer tells the cashier that Arreola tried stealing the mints.
“Take your cash and leave,” the officer tells Arreola. “Get your cash and leave,” he tells him again as he picks up his change.
Arreola insists he paid for it. The officer asks the cashier if he paid for it. The cashier says yes.
“Are you sure?” the officer says.
The cashier confirms this again.
“My apologies, sir, my apologies,” the officer tells Arreola.
Arreola told The Register he felt anger at being treated that way by a cop he described as “arrogant, almost like cocky.”
The Buena Park Police Department has confirmed the officer is one of theirs.
“The video of the incident clearly shows our officer drawing his gun, but not pointing it, at a subject he allegedly believed was committing a theft inside the mini-mart of a Chevron gas station in Buena Park,” Chief Corey S. Sianez said in a statement posted to Facebook. They were aware of this after it happened, and began running an administrative probe into the officer, he wrote.
Sianez also said there was a formal complaint filed over the incident, and that the complainant (Arreola) has an attorney.
“I want you to know that after I watched the video I found it to be disturbing, as I’m sure it was to you,” he wrote. “However, because there is an ongoing personnel investigation and potential litigation pending against the city, I am unable to discuss the details of our investigation.”
[Screengrab via Orange County Register]
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'Unbelievable grief': Meghan Markle reveals heartbreaking miscarriage
by Daniela Elser
When it comes down to it, the reason The Crown has proven so popular is that it does something mundane but unprecedented: It humanises the royal family.
Over the course of four series we see that they are just so … normal.
And yet we would never have really seen and understood this if it were not for the Netflix series, because to be a member of the royal family is to live a life brutally partitioned into public and private.
Now, Meghan Duchess of Sussex has, metaphorically speaking, taken a sledgehammer to that particular arrangement, publishing an essay about her hitherto unknown miscarriage in July this year.
In the piece, published in the New York Times, the 39-year-old writes that one morning, earlier this year, "I felt a sharp cramp. I dropped to the floor with him in my arms, humming a lullaby to keep us both calm, the cheerful tune a stark contrast to my sense that something was not right.
"I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second."
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She goes on to take the reader into her hospital room with husband Prince Harry and describes "his knuckles, wet from both our tears."
The Duchess' story of her and husband Harry's loss is eloquent and deeply moving. Her aim is to shatter the silence around pregnancy loss by the power of simply asking another person, "Are you okay?" as a means of healing.
With this Times piece, Meghan has deftly and powerfully demonstrated the awesome reach and impact that members of the Queen's family can have to immeasurably change public conversations around taboo subjects or issues.
Reading Meghan's piece, the thought struck me: This is the sort of thing that Diana, Princess of Wales would have done, had she been a young princess today and experienced a similar loss.
What Diana understood was the awesome power of her royal position to change public opinion with breathtaking swiftness and force.
In the 1980s as HIV and AIDS swept across the world, sufferers faced extreme stigma and ostracism. In 1987 Diana was invited to the opening of an AIDS ward at Middlesex Hospital was photographed shaking the hand of a HIV positive man. Such was the fear and shame around the disease he would only be shot with his back to the camera.
The effect of this simple gesture cannot be underestimated in profoundly changing the public conversation about what had, until then, been seen as a deeply shameful disease.
Meghan's piece is the 21st century equivalent of that moment.
The actress-turned-duchess clearly understands she can have her pick of any publication, title or platform in the world and that will happily help spread whatever message she wants.
More than that, she understands the full breaktaking scope of her power and is more than willing to use it. She is willing to put her heart on her sleeve for the good of other women, the world over, whether it trounces royal custom or not.
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The impact of the Duchess' piece will surely be seismic but it also throws up a particularly sad truth about royal life: That to be a frontline member of the royal corp is to accept the largely unspoken dictate that one's personal suffering is meant to be kept, for the most part, firmly under wraps and out of the public eye.
If Meghan today was still a senior member of the royal family, if she had experienced a miscarriage and wanted to go public with her loss to support others experiencing the same trauma, I find it hard to believe she would have been given permission.
Consider this: Kate, Duchess of Cambridge has three children and yet we don't know, nor will ever know, if she too has suffered this horrendous tragedy that affects 10-20 per cent of pregnancies.
That is an extraordinary tragedy of its own.
In 2001, Sophie, Countess of Wessex, Prince Edward's wife, was rushed to hospital after collapsing at their home and underwent emergency surgery. She had a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy.
A Buckingham Palace spokesman then put out a statement to the press, which did not once use the words 'pregnancy' or 'baby' and who said "I cannot comment on the nature of the operation - this is medical in confidence. However, her condition is described as comfortable."
Today it reads like they are trying to throw an awkward, embarrassed blanket over the whole situation; that the palace couldn't bring themselves to openly address what had actually happened given it involved the ickiness of lady parts.
Nearly 20 years on, reading those cold sentences from a faceless palace spokesman makes me want to rage: How dare they use such anodyne language, such weasel words to mask the immense pain that Sophie and Edward must have been feeling?
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Meghan's essay equates to a blunt, truly impressive refusal to follow in the muted footsteps of royal women before her.
What today's news highlights so perfectly and so tragically is the underlying failing of the monarchy at this point in time to more substantially use their platform to smash taboos and tackle the difficult but important issues society is facing.
We have seen Prince William, Kate, Harry and Meghan all take steps in this direction with each having spoken about their own personal mental wellbeing and having worked hard on the issue of mental health.
But here's the thing: Is it enough? Is it enough for the royal family to rely on their younger members to go out and bare their souls a smidge? Is it enough that they advocate about certain issues that are already fast encroaching on the mainstream, such as climate change?
The royal family could give a voice to the voiceless and advocate on issues that are still on the margins such as trans rights. Instead, pre-COVID, the Court Circular was stuffed with visits to regional railway museums and endless charity roundtables.
They don't have to worry about being voted out, or missing pre-selection or being booted out of the cabinet. Taking a more controversial stance here and there might spark a few chuntering op-eds but it won't see them evicted from Buckingham Palace. My point is: They can afford to take the risk.
And yet, they don't.
When they speak, the world listens and they remain gallingly silent.
The more I think about it, the more I think the royal family has a moral responsibility to use their global reach to affect far greater change.
Tonight, Meghan has proved just how badly they are failing.
Daniela Elser is a royal expert and writer with more than 15 years experience working with a number of Australia's leading media titles.
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Microsoft quietly lays off another 1,000 employees
Himanshu, 23 October, 2015
Just a few months after laying off a whopping 7,800 people, Microsoft has quietly cut another 1,000 jobs, which is less than 1% of the Redmond, Washington-based company's total global work force.
The fresh round of layoffs came after the software giant announced its Q3 2015 earnings, revealing a 54% year-on-year decline in the revenue of its phone business, although the results were better-than-expected overall.
"The job reductions were spread across more than one business area and country and reflect adaptations to business needs," a company spokesman told The New York Times.
While the earlier layoffs mostly affected the company's phone's unit, the latest job cuts are said to affect the financial and legal departments, although there is no official confirmation on the same.
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Their mobile division isn't doing good rest is.
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many are from the poor selling Xbox department
Android is a headache. It's a no-go for enterprise with no software updates and different mess of UI on every phone. Android OEMS and carriers put spywares on every phone.
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Disease Surveillance and Prevention (DEWS) (July 2014 – June 2022)
Through the Disease Surveillance and Prevention project, USAID supports the World Health Organization to collect information on a weekly basis on 15 targeted communicable diseases in Afghanistan. By monitoring sites in all 34 provinces, the project provides accurate and timely data on the outbreak of disease and seasonal trends. Investigations result in quick action to mitigate disease outbreaks and prevent epidemics. The project also coordinates health surveillance in the field, disseminates public health information, and collaborates with the Global Polio Eradication Initiative and Expanded Program on Immunizations.
Health facilities operating in all 34 provinces of the country monitor 15 priority infectious diseases and potential public health emergencies of international concern and report weekly to the Afghan Ministry of Public Health. This process strengthens the polio surveillance network in Afghanistan.
Investigate outbreak alerts received from health facilities or communities in coordination with related stakeholders
Hold disease control meetings in every province; early warning system collaborates with programs at national and provincial levels to include cross-border coordination and notification on acute flaccid paralysis cases
Train medical personnel and other stakeholders in surveillance and outbreak response protocols
Collect potentially infected specimens in the field, then store and transport at recommended temperatures for analysis at Central Public Health Laboratory in Kabul
Establish Ministry of Public Health internal standard operating procedures and external quality assurance measures for outbreak detection
Expanded DEWS from 424 health facilities to over 600 health facilities in 2018
Improved immunity levels: 84 percent of Afghans are living in areas free of polio virus
National Surveillance Directorate compiled and analyzed100 percent of Ministry of Public Health weekly disseminated reports to donor groups, UN agencies, other ministries, and non-governmental organizations working in health service delivery
Conducted on average, 16 targeted immunization days at the national and local level each year
Investigated almost 99 percent of outbreak alerts within 48 hours of notification
Detected cases of Q-fever and Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever for the first time in Afghanistan; health workers been developing and distributing treatment and prevention guides for those and other infectious diseases since 2015
Recruited the NGO Coordinator for the Ministry of Public Health Emergency Operations Center in 2018
US Agency for International Development
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20 South Florida Dining Essentials
These popular eateries don’t tell the entire South Florida culinary story—but they’re compelling places to start.
by Clarissa Buch
In the last two decades, the tri-county region has blossomed into a serious foodie destination, one that features celebrity chefs, James Beard Award winners, iconic waterfront spots and buzzworthy resort restaurants. These popular eateries don’t tell the entire South Florida culinary story—but they’re compelling places to start.
Beachfront and Intracoastal Dining
Enjoying a meal on the water—whether by the ocean or near one of the many scenic intracoastal waterways—is quintessential South Florida. Some might argue a trip to the tri-county area wouldn’t be complete without at least one reservation by the sea.
Steak 954 featured image
Steak 954 serves far more than award-winning meat. The restaurant’s backdrop is against the ocean, a rarity among top-rated steakhouses in the area. Reserve a table alfresco and enjoy sunset dining at the expansive outdoor terrace facing the water. 401 N. Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd., Fort Lauderdale; steak954.com.
Shooters Waterfront
Though long renowned for its dramatic Intracoastal views, Shooters Waterfront has enhanced its position as one of Fort Lauderdale’s most iconic waterfront restaurants thanks to chef-driven South Florida fare—including some of the best paella in the region. Along with every seafood incarnation imaginable, offerings include sushi rolls and raw bar treats, flatbreads and a host of decadent desserts. 3033 NE 32nd Ave., Fort Lauderdale; shooterswaterfront.com.
Amara at Paraiso
Every seat at James Beard Award-winning Michael Schwartz’s Amara at Paraiso features sweeping views of Biscayne Bay and Miami Beach. Sit outside and share a platter of grilled meats with the Tomás Collins cocktail, made with a blend of Latin gin with cucumber and maté. 3101 NE Seventh Ave., Miami; amaraatparaiso.com.
Rusty Pelican
Located in Key Biscayne, the Rusty Pelican is the place to come for savory seafood and stunning views. Similar to Amara at Paraiso, every table offers an ample view. You’ll want to order wine here, as the restaurant offers a glass cube cellar that has been recognized with a Wine Spectator Restaurant Award. 3201 Rickenbacker Causeway, Key Biscayne; therustypelican.com.
Celebrity Chef-Driven Spots
Similar to cities around the country, celebrity-chef stardom has made its way to South Florida. TV chef personalities, including Janine Booth and Jeremy Ford, and award-winning kitchen stars such as Clay Conley have found a home amid the sun and sand.
Stubborn Seed
Top Chef winner Jeremy Ford chose South Beach as the location for his first solo restaurant. There, he has built a reputation for serving a class of dishes many diners have never seen before, including umami short rib, and warm celery root braised in olive oil. To savor the best, elect for the chef’s tasting menu, which features a handpicked selection of Ford’s most popular items. 101 Washington Ave., Miami Beach; stubbornseed.com.
Florie’s
Argentine-born, French-based chef Mauro Colagreco debuted his first U.S. restaurant in Palm Beach last year. Now, fans of Colagreco’s world-renowned restaurant, Mirazur in Menton, France, which earned the No. 1 spot on the 2019 World’s 50 Best Restaurants list, can sample his daring Mediterranean cuisine 5,000 miles away at the Four Seasons Resort. 2800 S. Ocean Blvd., Palm Beach; floriespb.com.
Root & Bone Dessert Assortment
Mi’talia, Stiltsville Fish Bar, and Root & Bone
Top Chef alums Jeff McInnis and Janine Booth are South Florida restaurant royalty. Partners both in life and in restaurants, McInnis and Booth have opened numerous eateries in South Florida, including the Italian restaurant, Mi’talia (5958 S. Dixie Highway, Miami); the upscale fish shack, Stiltsville (1787 Purdy Ave., Miami); and the fried chicken empire, Root & Bone (1801 Collins Ave., Miami Beach), which also has locations in New York and Puerto Rico.
Imoto at Buccan
Inspired by Clay Conley’s next-door restaurant (Buccan), Imoto (which translates to “little sister” in Japanese) is where the five-time James Beard Award nominee for “Best Chef in America: South” flexes his Asian culinary know-how through his own renditions of sushi, sashimi, dumplings and tempura. Best-selling plates include the kimchee fried rice, tuna foie sliders, and spicy seared yellowtail roll. 350 S. County Road, Palm Beach; imotopalmbeach.com.
Noteworthy Resort and Hotel Restaurants
Thriving off of decades of tourism, resort and hotel eateries stand as some of the best-known restaurants in South Florida.
Wild Thyme at the Atlantic Hotel
Wild Thyme, named after restaurant’s dedication to fresh, locally grown ingredients, is a step up from the traditional Fort Lauderdale beachside spot. Sit along the water and feast on hummus topped with minted tahini sauce and the butcher’s board. 601 N. Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd., Fort Lauderdale; wildthymeoceanside.com.
Blue Point oysters from And Fish
And Fish Kitchen & Bar at the Fort Lauderdale Marriott
This fresh-catch restaurant pays homage to Pompano Beach’s casual coastal charm, world-class fishing and abundant diving. Try the ceviche of the day, pecan-crusted corvina and the oyster roast. 1200 N. Ocean Blvd., Pompano Beach; marriott.com.
Café Boulud at the Brazilian Court Hotel
One of Palm Beach’s most coveted dining destinations, Michelin-starred Daniel Boulud serves his award-winning French cuisine with a South Florida twist. The result is Dover sole meuniere filleted tableside, octopus a la plancha drizzled with citrus, and Key West pink shrimp with French cocktail sauce. 301 Australian Ave., Palm Beach; cafeboulud.com.
A handful of restaurants have stood the test of time in South Florida. Yet the select few still standing prove fresh seafood, warm hospitality and stunning backdrops will forever reign strong.
Joe’s Stone Crab
For the past 100 years, Joe’s Stone Crab has been considered South Florida’s definitive spot to tie on a bib and dig into a fresh platter of steamed claws. If you want to beat the crowds, dine in the afternoon or during early-bird dinner. 11 Washington Ave., Miami Beach; joesstonecrab.com.
Nauti Dawg
This hidden gem dockside eatery brings a Key West vibe to Lighthouse Point. If you fancy an afternoon of fishing, consider the “Hook & Cook,” so you can go right from the docks to having the restaurant prepare your catch. 2841 Marina Circle, Lighthouse Point; nautidawg.com.
15th Street Fisheries
Set up within one of Fort Lauderdale’s most famous nautical landmarks, the two-story 15th Street Fisheries caters to all diners. Enjoy a fine-dining seafood experience upstairs or make your way downstairs to order a fresh mahi mahi sandwich on the restaurant’s dock. Don’t forget to feed giant tarpon from the deck after a meal. 1900 SE 15th St., Fort Lauderdale; 15streetfisheries.com.
Celebrating 25 years, Canyon is a Fort Lauderdale favorite known for American cuisine with hints of Latin, Asian and Central American undertones. Sample the notorious Pickly Pear margarita with crispy pork tacos and smoked salmon tostadas. 1818 E. Sunrise Blvd., Fort Lauderdale; canyonfl.com.
Taste of Cuba
South Florida has emerged as one of the country’s most accurate representations of a cultural melting pot, blending flavors from every corner of the world. But Cuban cuisine remains one of the region’s calling cards.
A Little Havana icon, Versailles is responsible for some of South Florida’s most authentic Cuban cuisine. Opened in 1971, the restaurant serves as a gathering place and unofficial town square for Miami’s Cuban exiles, as well as a must-visit destination for tourists in search of Cuban culture. 3555 SW Eighth St., Miami; versaillesrestaurant.com.
A family success story that started in South Florida nearly 45 years ago continues to flourish under the stewardship of a third generation of Padrinos. The menu mix of modern interpretations and recipes created by one of the family matriarchs, Candida Rosa, continues to draw diners to locations in Palm Beach, Broward (including Fort Lauderdale) and Miami-Dade counties. 1135 N. Federal Highway, Fort Lauderdale; padrinos.com.
Café La Trova
James Beard Award-winning chef Michelle Bernstein and Cuban cantinero legend Julio Cabrera come together at Café La Trova, a Little Havana restaurant offering a modern interpretation on classic Cuban cuisine. Pair that with live music almost every night of the week and you’re sure to feel like you’ve transported yourself to the island. 971 SW Eighth St., Miami; cafelatrova.com.
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About the LPO
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Libertarian Party 2018 National Convention Delegation
This policy defines the process for becoming an Oregon delegate to the 2018 Libertarian Party National Convention.
Any member of the Libertarian Party of Oregon may request to become an Oregon delegate by contacting any director or officer, or by contacting the Party by postal mail. The Party shall maintain a list of interested members, the “delegate pool.”
The board of directors shall from time to time vote to designate individuals from the delegate pool to be members of the Oregon delegation as a “delegate” or “alternate,” limited by the number of positions afforded to us in each category by the national Libertarian Party.
If the size of the delegate pool at the end of March is smaller than the number of available positions, then the entire delegate pool at that time is automatically added to the Oregon delegation, first as delegates, then as alternates, in the order that the individuals' requests are received.
Requests by delegates to withdraw from the delegation are accepted automatically.
The board of directors may vote to recategorize people between delegate and alternate to give preference to those who confirm that they have booked travel or other convention-related expenses.
The Oregon delegation chair shall be Drew Layda.
The Oregon delegation may vote to fill vacancies at the convention, and such new delegates are not required to be members of the Libertarian Party of Oregon.
(Adopted 2018-01-22)
Board Meeting Minutes Publication Policy
To provide transparency to our membership regarding the work of the board and the votes of the individual board members, minutes of board meetings should be public and timely.
1) The Secretary is expected to circulate a first draft of board meeting minutes to the Directors within one week after each board meeting.
2) The Directors are expected to send comments and corrections within one week after receiving the first draft of board meeting minutes.
3) The Secretary is expected to circulate a second draft (with changes from the first draft tracked) of board meeting minutes to the Directors between one and two weeks after the first draft was circulated.
4) If the time between the circulation of the second draft of board meeting minutes and the subsequent board meeting is less than two weeks, approval of the minutes will be taken up at the subsequent board meeting. Otherwise, the Chair is expected to put approval of the minutes to an e-mail vote.
5) Approved board meeting minutes are expected to be posted (with change tracking information removed) to the LPO archive in a word processing format and to the LPO website in a PDF/A format.
Committee Reports Policy
Each committee established by the board of directors is expected to adhere to the following policy regarding committee reports.
1) Committee chairs are expected to submit a written report to the Chair and Secretary at least 48 hours in advance of each board meeting.
2) Committee chairs are expected to present their reports at board meetings, or to select another committee member to do so.
3) Committee reports are expected to summarize what the committee has done since the previous report, work that is still in-progress, and what it expects to do before the next report.
4) Committee reports may contain proposed motions or resolutions, but these are not taken up automatically, and must be moved and seconded in the ordinary manner.
5) Committee reports are expected to be posted to the LPO archive, and at the Secretary's discretion may be summarized or included in part or in whole in the meeting minutes.
Elected Officials Listing Policy
The LPO shall list on its website, and/or inform its national affiliate to list on its behalf, all party members elected to partisan office and all party members elected to nonpartisan office who desire to be listed.
Policy on Affiliated Organizations
To view a PDF of the current LPO Policy on Affiliated Organizations, please click here.
Adopted January 14th, 2019
Authority to establish policy:
Libertarian Party of Oregon Bylaws, Article 11: “The board of directors may grant charters to groups of LPO voting members wishing to establish an affiliate party or organization. The board of directors must establish a policy for how such charters are granted and maintained. Affiliate organizations do not have any authority to nominate candidates or indenture the LPO in any manner.”
Refers to any of the 36 established political and geographic subdivisions of the State of Oregon.
County Party
County Parties are organized for the purpose of representing the registered Libertarians within a specific county or counties, and:
are defined in their respective representative jurisdiction by county boundaries, to the exclusion of other county parties.
consider all registered Libertarians within their jurisdiction to be members.
Affiliates other than county parties. These affiliates may be any type of organization but must be identified by a designation that is not confusingly similar to the LPO or its County Parties and meet at least one of the following criteria:
be organized for the purpose of promoting the philosophy of libertarianism;
particularly serve registered Libertarians
be organized for the purpose of promoting the Libertarian Party of Oregon or its candidates.
All affiliated organizations shall:
be separate legal and financial entities from the LPO, not subsidiary branches thereof;
in accordance with Article 11 of the LPO Bylaws, affiliated organizations do not have any authority to nominate candidates for public office or indenture the LPO in any manner. Reciprocally, the LPO Board may not indenture or bind affiliated organizations.
independently comply with all applicable laws;
establish their own bylaws and processes for amendment of bylaws;
establish their own parliamentary authority, if any;
appoint their own officers;
arbitrate disputes with other organizations or internally without involvement from the LPO;
notwithstanding Section 2.6., individual LPO officers and directors are not precluded from participating in their individual capacities in arbitration of disputes involving an affiliate if they are asked to do so or are otherwise already involved.
notwithstanding Section 2.6., the LPO Board of Directors may undertake the termination of an affiliate relationship if they judge a dispute warrants the response. See Section 3.3
Method of Affiliation and Disaffiliation
Application requirements in general
Organizations seeking affiliation shall submit the appropriate application form provided by the LPO, and provide the following information:
How the organization fulfills the definitional requirements of this policy for their affiliation type;
The purpose and benefits of affiliation for both organizations;
Any specific projects that they want to collaborate on;
A description of any expectations regarding the proposed relationship (e.g. information sharing, liaison personnel, etc.) that differ from the standard relationship described in this policy;
A copy of the governing document(s), including bylaws, charters, policies, registration with the Secretary of State (if applicable), roll of officers and directors, and any other materials pertaining to the governance of the organization.
Information that should reasonably be kept confidential from the public (e.g. credentials for accessing banking accounts, social media accounts, etc.) is exempt from disclosure.
Any supplementary conditions or agreements to be considered with the application.
The LPO Board may, by a majority vote, establish an affiliate relationship with an organization in conformity with this policy.
The LPO Affiliate Committee shall suspend an affiliate organization for breach of this policy, but shall first notify the organization of the infraction and give it a reasonable opportunity to rectify the breach.
The consequences of the suspension are at the discretion of the LPO Affiliate Committee and may include the loss of some or all benefits of affiliation. Penalties may increase over time.
The LPO Affiliate Committee shall lift a suspension after the affiliated organization has returned to conformance with this policy.
Disaffiliation
The LPO Board may, by a two-thirds vote, terminate an affiliate relationship with an Affiliate Organization for any reason they determine to be in the best interest of the LPO and its constituents.
An Affiliated Organization may disaffiliate from the Libertarian Party of Oregon.
The ongoing duties of the LPO and its affiliates shall be:
To abide by this policy document.
To abide by written affiliation agreements.
To bring to attention any potential breaches of the Policy on Affiliated Organizations or written affiliation agreements.
To provide each other with updated versions of governing documents within 30 days of any changes.
To notify each other of any projects of the LPO or its Affiliates that might benefit from cooperation between multiple Affiliate Organizations.
These are expected benefits of affiliation:
Listing on the LPO’s website as an Affiliate Organization.
Other benefits as agreed at the time of affiliation. Possible benefits may be but are not limited to:
Sharing or exchange of information, such as email lists, donor lists, volunteer lists, candidate lists, etc.
Collaboration on projects with the LPO and its affiliates.
Buying advertising space in LPO mailings.
Calling upon the LPO Board for assistance and advice regarding legal compliance, projects, fundraising, operations, and other business.
Additional Affiliation Requirements for County Parties
Organizations that apply to be County Parties of the LPO shall:
If established after January 14th, 2019, establish their founding documents and bylaws at a convention called for that purpose, with the provision for any member of the intended constituency (i.e. registered Libertarians in the corresponding county(ies)) to attend and vote;
Quorum for the organizing convention shall be 0.5% of the active registered Libertarians in the county, but no less than 5. A multi-county organization must meet this quorum requirement separately for each constituent county (i.e. 0.5% of registered Libertarians in County X AND 0.5% of registered Libertarians in County Y, with a minimum of 5 for each)
When forming a multi-County Party, a majority of the delegation from each county must affirm that they support their respective county’s participation in forming the multi-County Party.
Submit a County Party application supplied by the LPO, and additionally include:
A copy of all available minutes from meetings and conventions.
Organizations formed after January 14th, 2019 must include a roll of attendees in the official minutes of the organizing convention.
Be registered with the State of Oregon as a Political Action Committee “in support of a party;”
Include “Libertarian Party” and the name(s) of the constituent county(ies) in the name of their organization.
If established in a county or counties already participating in a multi-County Party, shall meet all the same requirements as if there were no previously existing affiliate.
In a circumstance of reorganization such as described in 6.5, the remaining county or counties of the previously existing County Party shall have the duty to reorganize at or before their next regularly scheduled convention to exclude the county(ies) that reorganized under 6.5, when applicable. Failure to comply with this section shall be considered an act of disaffiliation.
Additional Duties of County Parties
In addition to the duties listed before, County Parties shall also:
conduct business of the registered Libertarians in their jurisdiction, as described in their governing documents.
provide the LPO with minutes of meetings of the County Party Board of Directors within 30 days of approval.
maintain and grow a pool of local volunteers, candidates, and donors.
Lists of contact information for these should have ongoing access available to the LPO.
formally endorse or oppose ballot measures, legislation, policies, rulings, and other acts of government.
assist the LPO in recruiting candidates for partisan office.
recruit Libertarian candidates for nonpartisan public office.
support Libertarian candidates for public office.
support and promote the formation of local libertarian communities.
support and promote civic and community engagement by libertarians.
host and promote social, political, and community gatherings or events for libertarians.
Additional Benefits extended to County Parties
In addition to those listed before, these benefits will be available for County Parties of the LPO:
Approved use of “Libertarian Party” in the name of the organization.
Listing on the LPO’s website as an official County Party.
May use an internet subdomain of the LPO’s domain (e.g. countyname.lporegon.org) for their organizational website at no charge.
May have their organizational website hosted through the hosting service account used by the LPO at no charge.
May have an announcement of their formation and updates regarding ongoing activities published through the LPO Newsletter.
May use the Customer Relationship Management software (CRM) used by the LPO at no charge.
May have ongoing access to LPO lists of candidate, donor, volunteer, and voter contact information for their area.
May formally endorse candidates in any LPO election, with such endorsements to be printed in the LPO Voters’ Guide (subject to the restrictions of 2.1.1. of this policy)
May buy advertising space in LPO mailings.
May call upon the LPO Board for assistance and advice regarding legal compliance, projects, fundraising, operations, and other business.
May recommend nominees to the LPO for partisan races without a Libertarian nominee after the LPO's primary election.
May cultivate the growth of local Libertarians to foster potential leadership for the LPO.
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Sugar & Sports
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Prince William: Soccer Not Taking Mental Health Seriously
SugarAndSports
CNN reports the Duke of Cambridge, who is the English Football Association's President, has criticized professional clubs in England, accusing them of failing to take the mental health of their players seriously. Speaking during a trip to Northern Ireland, Prince William described the sport's failure to fight the issue as a "dereliction of duty." He pointed to clubs' willingness to move players on without regard should they fail to make the grade, without considering the adverse effects the treatment could have on their individual well-being.
Former Liverpool and England striker Stan Collymore, who has previously spoken out against his own battles with depression, praised the Duke's comments in a column in the UK's Daily Mirror newspaper.
He called the words "potentially game-changing for the way mental health issues are dealt with in football," given his global platform as the second in line to the throne.
Love and Soccer
My daughter fell in love with soccer and we went along for the ride, but nothing lasts forever.
Contributor Pooja Mittal
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Ayesha Curry's International Smoke
Matt and Nicole embark on a culinary adventure.
Matthew.solorio
#RelationshipGoals: Alexis Ohanian and Serena Williams
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We Need ESPORTS for Everyone, Not a Separate Women’s ESPORTS League
Why is there such a huge gender pay gap in ESPORTS?
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Life Of A Female Sports Fan
When it comes to being a female sports fan, people may think you’re just along for the ride.
"CRAZY"
Nike’s new Serena Williams ad encourages girls to "dream crazier"
9-year-old Riley Morrison wanted a pair of Curry 5's, but couldn't find them in girls' sizes. She…
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Three Ways To Reinvent For The Fourth Industrial Revolution
Education institutions at all levels need to adopt an inclusive growth mindset that embraces change. New curriculums are needed that teach technological literacy, equipping students with the skills needed to succeed in this new era of digitally computer assisted design and manufacturing. Programming, technology- and user-experience design, and equipment operation and management will be valued skills, along with cognitive abilities like creativity and logical reasoning. This extends beyond the classroom. Needed skills will continue to evolve throughout a person’s career. As more jobs are automated, employers must commit to providing their employees the tools and on-the-job access to learning that are necessary for future success.
IoT Is A Security Mess And Regulators Are Paying Attention
The next generation of IoT devices will probably have better security and privacy protection baked in, but there will still be billions of insecure devices out there from before – devices like smart doorbells, with longer life cycles than mobile phones – which are easy pickings for hackers looking to gain entry to a network, LeBlanc said. And in toto the data that can be pulled from ubiquitous sensors is also far more comprehensive and personal than what can be obtained from online browsing behavior. “It’s true that you can track everywhere someone goes on the web, but with IoT you can track where someone works, what food they eat, how long they exercise for, how much electricity they consume,” said Heather Zachary, a partner at law firm WilmerHale. “It’s a full picture of your entire life and that’s only going to become more the case.”
Usability and security key to payments via the Internet of Things
It is not realistic to expect device manufactures to equip all devices with bank-grade security. However, it is still essential to secure payments and money movement activities from the devices connected to the Iot. Doing so will require securing the device itself, apps on the device as well as creating layers of security beyond the device – such as into the cloud – as part of a multi-layered approach to security. To break this down, we can think about the two primary ways payments are initiated via the IoT – by a person or by the device itself. If a person initiates a payment from a device it is quite possible they are using an app intended for the purpose of making payments – accessing online banking from their connected car to make a bill payment, for example.
Changing enterprise architect role opens new doors, closes others
The enterprise architect role is particularly important in businesses with a hybrid cloud strategy, he said. "The enterprise architect must provide the vision on how to maintain a consistent approach to delivering IT services across all these platforms, while providing a unified approach to foundational IT components," Carroll said. This will also include providing secure, consistent access to these applications. Carroll said he envisions the new enterprise architect functioning essentially as a cloud and mobile services leader for the business, choosing the appropriate platforms and creating a clear vision for the use of cloud and mobile technology.
The future of AI is humans + machines
From being able to scan information ranging from school records to social media posts and then pulling the information into an initial pass/no-pass decision to weed through candidates is only the first step. Intelligent agents will eventually be able to look at a mass of available candidates and rank order them against existing job requisitions ranking them by whether they are internal or external, by education and experience, and by personality and work ethic. Thereby, the top three that you actually interview or recruit will not only meet the hard qualifications of experience and education, but the soft qualifications of personality and ethics. This isn’t just about selecting the employee, it is about monitoring them and their interaction with management.
Many organisations falsely equate IT security spending with maturity: Gartner
Explicit security spending is generally split among hardware, software, services (outsourcing and consulting) and personnel. However, any statistics on explicit security spending are inherently "soft" because they understate the true magnitude of enterprise investments in IT security, since security features are being incorporated into hardware, software, activities or initiatives not specifically dedicated to security. Gartner's experience is that many organizations simply do not know their security budget. This is partly because few cost accounting systems break out security as a separate line item, and many security-relevant processes are carried out by staff who are not devoted full-time to security, making it impossible to accurately account for security personnel.
6 Cyberthreats Keeping CIOs Up At Night
In a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, an attacker sends a massive amount of requests to a target computer or network resource, from multiple, distributed devices across the internet — for example, sending seemingly legitimate HTTP requests to a website. The traffic overwhelms the resources available to the web server or application, making it inaccessible to customers. DDoS attacks often use botnets — thousands of devices connected to the internet of things (IoT) — to amplify the scale of these attacks. These attacks can hit retail sites particularly hard in the pocketbook, preventing customers from doing business. Hackers may also use DDoS attacks to distract IT while they simultaneously try to compromise other parts of a company’s network, Barbounis said.
China’s Cybersecurity Law: Game over for foreign firms?
The new law formalises several key requirements, namely: That a potentially wide range of companies censor ‘banned’ information, and demand real name registration of their users – that is, for services like instant messaging – in order to restrict online anonymity; “Critical information infrastructure operators” must store “personal information and other important business data” inside China. This need only be data related to Chinese operations, but the terms remain vague enough for them to apply to a wide range of data and companies. Those wanting to transfer data outside China need to pass an additional security assessment; Organisations monitor and report any “network security incidents” and provide “technical support” to help in investigations. This could mean providing the authorities with access to communications and so on.
Reinforcing cyber security strategies with cyber insurance
Cyber insurance can help to strengthen comprehensive cyber security strategies to minimise the impact of disruptive events. Most of these policies cover liability and the costs associated with dealing with a breach or attack. These include the cost of restoring data; business interruption; dealing with privacy breaches such as identity theft and payment fraud; network breaches; public relations expenses; and even money paid to cyber extortionists or cyber terrorists. Policies may even cover legal liability to third parties, including fines and penalties. Despite its usefulness, cyber insurance remains relatively unknown among businesses of all sizes. Further, many security professionals are unaware it exists.
Electronics-sniffing dogs: How K9s became a secret weapon for solving high-tech crimes
Similar to drug or arson detection dogs, electronics detection dogs are trained to recognize a chemical odor, and to sit when the odor is present, in order to alert their handler. When the dog correctly identifies an odor, he or she gets food. Officers begin training the dogs to identify large amounts of the compound, eventually using less and less. They place devices with the odor in different boxes, and expand the training into different rooms. The Connecticut program spends five weeks imprinting the dogs with the odor and teaching them how to do their job, and then six weeks training them to work with their handlers, Real said. "We teach them everything from searching people, boxes, bags, vehicles, outside," Real said. "Anywhere these dogs might be asked to search, we train them to work in that environment."
"The most successful people are those who are good at Plan B." -- James Yorke
Labels: artificial intelligence, automation, CIO, cyber crime, cyber security, cyber threat, enterprise architecture, insurance, IoT, Legal, opinion
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Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers
Kevin Nguyen, Paul Lisicky, and More
By Literary Hub
The Lit Hub Author Questionnaire is a monthly interview featuring seven questions for five authors with new books. This month we talk to:
Paul Lisicky (Later: My Life at the Edge of the World)
Kevin Nguyen (New Waves)
Katy Simpson Smith (The Everlasting)
Jessi Jezewska Stevens (The Exhibition of Persephone Q)
Julian Tepper (Between the Records)
Without summarizing it in any way, what would you say your book is about?
Katy Simpson Smith: The fallibility of true love. The infallibility of Satan.
Paul Lisicky: Community. Illness. The management of feeling—the costs of. Joy and jokes as a way to pull through a crisis. Desire. Anxiety. Anxiety about contagion, sex, attachment. Futurity. The fear of futurity. Learning not to be afraid of rage. Coming of age when one is already a grown up. Saying goodbye to one’s parents.
Jessi Jezewska Stevens: Denial and art, or the art of denial.
Kevin Nguyen: New Waves is about how grief turns people into hilariously selfish people.
Julian Tepper: Following in the footsteps of the father, brothers and the competition for parental-love, self-hatred, self-sabotage, the inheritance of identity. And rock ‘n’ roll.
Without explaining why and without naming other authors or books, can you discuss the various influences on your book?
Paul Lisicky: Living in relationships. Living as a single person. Losing loved ones and acquaintances. Joni Mitchell’s open guitar tunings. Early ‘90s house music. Early ‘90s Provincetown culture. PrEP. Animals, plants, and the ocean.
Kevin Nguyen: Old internet forums, late ‘70s Japanese pop, every kind of shitty bar in New York, Pac Man, science-fiction magazines, The Wonder Years, Benihana, the death of a best friend, Perfect Blue, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing.
Julian Tepper: Early-aughts Brooklyn/Woodstock, “I Want My MTV,” Sunset Blvd., British Invasion music, American highway culture, Greek plays, Scandinavian literature, fear of failure.
Jessi Jezewska Stevens: Kind people influenced my book. I hope they see their kindness reflected in it. Also the Met, the controlled rage of “domestic” fiction, and a select set of literary ranters in translation.
Katy Simpson Smith: Catholicism. Crustaceans. Botticelli. Keats (not Keats the author, Keats the angst). Vespas. Crypts. Ruins. Sunlight. Heartbreak. Spaghetti.
Without using complete sentences, can you describe what was going on in your life as you wrote this book?
Julian Tepper: Turned forty, partner of fourteen years left me for a woman. About sums it up.
Kevin Nguyen: Stuck-on-subway anxiety.
Katy Simpson Smith: Falling into and out of faith with men.
Paul Lisicky: My father’s death. The end of a sabbatical. A move to Brooklyn. A guest teaching semester in Austin. A wisdom tooth extraction. Lots of travel.
Jessi Jezewska Stevens: A great deal of self-doubt. The 2016 election. Increasingly absurd exercise of demanding evidence-based argument from college students when election cycle rewarded anything but. A tile-top credenza and a string of Christmas lights in a jar, set opposite the oven.
What are some words you despise that have been used to describe your writing by readers and/or reviewers?
Kevin Nguyen: Edgy, tender, satire, Asian, Dave Eggers (disclosure: the last one comes from my dad’s Goodreads review).
Paul Lisicky: Gentle, beautiful, melodramatic, sensitive, poetic.
Julian Tepper: Wes Anderson-like (I’m a Jewish New Yorker for Christ’s sake, and he’s an Anderson from Texas); Arrested-Development-like (no!); dreary (please, I’m a hopeless optimist!).
Jessi Jezewska Stevens: I’m new to all this so I don’t have a lot to draw on, but: Lerner-ish. I like and admire Lerner’s work, but I bristle when the comparison is used merely to signify “literary prose style.” I have also received the feedback that certain readers would like to bash my head in with a rock. This I also resent, though I respect the specificity. (It’s very Parasite.)
Katy Simpson Smith: Several have called it “bleak” and one called it “silly,” and it seems to me there’s a wide gulf between those perspectives; perhaps that’s the very gulf I’m swimming in.
If you could choose a career besides writing (irrespective of schooling requirements and/or talent) what would it be?
Jessi Jezewska Stevens: This would take a total personality overhaul, but I maybe I’d like to be a sailor.
Katy Simpson Smith: Carpentry or baking. I would also like to have a giant farm for all types of broken animals, and I think this would be compatible with making bookshelves and croissants. Oh, and restoring old homes! And bagging groceries! Translating non-English novels. Running a native plant nursery. Is my writing getting in the way of my dreams?
Julian Tepper: Topiarist, sushi chef, maybe centerfield for the New York Yankees.
Paul Lisicky: A singer-songwriter. Say, Joni Mitchell’s lost younger brother.
Kevin Nguyen: When I was a kid, I really wanted to be a fighter pilot. (It got to the point where I had very strong, uninformed opinions about F-15s vs. F-18s.) My mom squashed those dreams early by explaining that my eyesight was far too bad to ever pilot an aircraft. She wasn’t wrong, but I also think she didn’t want any more of our family to be in the military. So that, if my eyes were better.
What craft elements do you think are your strong suit, and what would you like to be better at?
Julian Tepper: Pacing, beginnings and endings, being very concise—believe I’ve got these things down. For now anyway. Come tomorrow, it could all go away. Getting better at trusting my reader (i.e., saying less/allowing space for the reader to exist), I always want to improve there.
Jessi Jezewska Stevens: I think I do okay with voice and ekphrasis. I’d like to be better at everything else. I’d especially like to be cleverer about using the novel (scaled to individual consciousness) to address phenomena that exceed human scales of comprehension (climate change).
Paul Lisicky: I’m pretty good at taking elements from the essay, the poem, and narrative fiction, and spinning them into a form that sounds like me. On the other hand, my work would probably reach more readers if I could find a way to care about writing a structure that’s less associative and more linear.
Katy Simpson Smith: I think I’m good at sound and rhythm on a sentence level. I want to work harder to consider the experience of the reader: unspooling character and detail at the right pace, providing enough hooks and arcs. I can get too wrapped up in my own fun.
Kevin Nguyen: I used to be pretty good at Starcraft, and I would like to be better at Minecraft.
How do you contend with the hubris of thinking anyone has or should have any interest in what you have to say about anything?
Paul Lisicky: I’m trying to write toward the empty space on the shelf, what I haven’t seen written yet, what I’d like to read. In order to feel hubris, I think you’d have to believe that there was already a huge band of readers waiting for you, and is that true for any of us in this culture? It’s a lot like tossing flares out the window and hoping somebody will catch one.
Julian Tepper: Really I’m just trying to entertain myself.
Katy Simpson Smith: Writing feels like being in conversation with someone; let me share my secrets, and then let me hear your burdens. So I write (speak), and then I read (listen). And for every book I write, I try to read two hundred more.
Jessi Jezewska Stevens: I’m glad for this question, because I suspect it never becomes comfortable. I try to tell myself that whatever I’m working on better be really, really good, and that I should aim to bring in as much of the world as I responsibly can. Then, when I fail, try to tell myself that the next thing ought to be really, really good… Americans love second chances.
Kevin Nguyen: Well, white people have been operating with this hubris for centuries, so I think I can too, at least for the length of a book.
Between the RecordsJessi Jezewska StevensJulian TepperKaty Simpson SmithKevin NguyenNew WavesPaul LisickyThe EverlastinThe Exhibition of Persephone Q
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Question: What Is The Average Height Of A Black Woman?
Is 5’7 average height for a woman?
Is being 5’9 tall for a girl?
Are tall girls attractive?
What is the average height of an African American female?
Is being tall attractive?
Is 6ft 2 tall for a girl?
What height is too short for a girl?
What race is the tallest?
Do men like tall girls?
Are short girls attractive?
Does race affect height?
Which race has the shortest height?
Is 5ft short for a girl?
What is the most attractive height for a girl?
Is 5 foot 10 too tall for a girl?
Do men like short girls?
What race is the shortest?
About 10 percent of the female population in the United States is over 5 feet 7 inches.
Some people think all females are getting taller, but the average height for women from 18 to 24 is still about 5 feet 4 inches, according to the National Bureau of Standards..
Originally Answered: is 5’9 tall for a girl? yes. In the U.S. the average height for girl is 5′4″ , so a girl who is 5′9″ is taller than 95% of girls , for men the average is 5′9″ so a girl who is 5′9″ is taller than 50% of men. Originally Answered: Is 5′9″ considered tall for a girl?
Someone who finds tall girls attractive, yes. I consider taller girls much more attractive because of the things that back up there height. Usually they got more confidence, ambition, and more competitiveness but that just may be because of their activity interests and fathers or something.
5 feet 4 inchesAverage heights of U.S. women vary some by race or ethnicity: White non-Hispanic: 5 feet 4.3 inches. African American: 5 feet 4 inches.
The ideal height for a woman, according to the average man, is 5’6”. Notably, this excludes 10% of men who say there is no such thing as too short and 9% who say no height is too tall. Similarly, there is no “too short” for 4% of women and no “too tall” for 7%.
Towering, statuesque men do tend to have more allure. Study after study has found that taller men and women are generally considered more attractive. Intriguingly, you can even guess someone’s height from their face, meaning a mugshot on a dating website is not going to hide a more diminutive frame.
Is 6’2″ too tall for a woman? I am 6’2, and I have never been in a relationship. No, there is no “too tall” (or “too short”) for women, because female height is almost entirely irrelevant regarding men.
Median threshold height deemed too short for adult females was 56 inches [48, 59] among male respondents and 57 inches [50, 60] among female (p<. 05). Median threshold height for adult males was 61 inches among males [60, 64] and females [59, 66] (p<. 05).
Men from Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Netherlands, Croatia, Serbia, and Montenegro have the tallest average height. Data suggests that Herzegovinians have the genetic potential to be more than two inches taller than the Dutch.
While men might see taller women as more conventionally attractive — and even more intelligent — than shorter women, men find the latter to be “more nurturing and likely to be better mothers.” According to Dobson, “men believed that shorter women were more considerate, nurturing and homely.”
Short Girls Are Cute Some men can find short girls very cute and even more feminine than their taller counterparts. Again, this all comes down a man’s preference as some men can also think the opposite and find tall girls to be cuter and more feminine than short girls.
In some cases, ethnicity plays a role in adult height, but studies on immigrant families have shown that moving to a country with better access to nutritious food, healthcare, and employment opportunities can have a substantial influence on the height of the next generation; this suggests that some differences in …
At the other end of the spectrum are the top ten countries with the shortest average height, which currently include:Indonesia 62.2 inches.Bolivia 62.9 inches.The Philippines 63.7 inches.Vietnam 63.82 inches.Cambodia 63.98 inches.Nepal 64.17 inches.Ecuador 64.37 inches.Sri Lanka 64.41 inches.More items…
Is 5′ 1′ a short height for a woman or a girl? – Quora. If you’re an white American girl, you’re short. 5′1″ far below average (-1.5SD which is 7th percentile) so it’s definitely short.
For women, 5ft 5in was the most right-swiped height while 5ft 3in and 5ft 7in came second and third place.
Originally Answered: Is a height of 5 feet 10 inches too tall for a girl? It’s only “moderately” tall as 11% of women are taller than you. There is no such a thing as “too tall”.
Do guys like small girls? Guys definitely do like short women. Many men will be attracted to their petite and diminutive looks. Short girls also help a guy feel tall, strong, and manly which can be a big attraction for many men.
The world of running is getting laughed at in Philadelphia by the organizers of the 0.0 Instant Gratification Run–the shortest race ever. That’s right, it is 0.0K, or 0.0 miles, or 0.0m and so on. The race is over in less than a second.
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Do Special Education Teachers Make More Money Than Regular Teachers?
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Quick Answer: What Is Short Height?
What height is considered short? The average USA male
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Burnout Risk for In-Prison Educators Could Jeopardize Programs for Incarcerated Students
Innovative initiative will strengthen programs by training California Community College faculty and staff on trauma and resilience
Contact: Sheryl Huggins Salomon, mcsilver.comms@nyu.edu
Kimiko Martinez, kimiko@theopportunityinstitute.org
BERKELEY, CALIF. (JANUARY 15, 2019) — Teaching in prison takes an unexpected toll on the health of college faculty and staff. And if educators don’t have the tools and resources they need to counteract those impacts, the sustainability of their programs — and the fates of thousands of students — are put at risk.
The McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research at New York University and Corrections to College — a joint project of the Opportunity Institute and the Stanford Criminal Justice Center — are teaming up to address this challenge. They’re partnering with faculty and staff from 17 community colleges for Sustaining Futures: A Trauma-Informed and Resiliency-Based Community of Practice for California Community Colleges Teaching in Prison, an innovative initiative that will help faculty and staff learn how to better navigate the high levels of trauma in in-prison classrooms by providing a contextual framework on trauma and resiliency and by offering a comprehensive set of tools.
“The burnout risk is very real for educators working in prisons,” said Kellie Nadler, Corrections to College deputy director. “Faculty and staff are passionate, but often unprepared for the very real impacts of serving people who have been dehumanized by the incarceration system. It’s critical that faculty and staff get the support they need to continue serving the thousands of students who rely on them.”
California’s community colleges are leading the nation in reaching incarcerated students, offering more than 270 full-credit degree-building college courses in 32 of our 35 state prisons and serving nearly 4,500 incarcerated students.
“We want to help faculty and staff understand and improve the ways they respond to the trauma of incarcerated students,” said Andrew F. Cleek, PsyD, chief program officer of the McSilver Institute. “We hope this will improve the performance of the students and likelihood that they will continue their education after release, but also improve retention rates of faculty and staff.”
The team of experts at NYU McSilver has 10 years of experience running Communities of Practice on trauma-informed care for social workers, health care providers, and large organizations. The team has concrete strategies for reducing staff turnover, improving student engagement, integrating trauma-informed classroom strategies, and boosting faculty and staff well-being.
Research shows that higher education can reduce recidivism, change lives, and open pathways to living wage careers for people who have been incarcerated.
“If the community of practice created during the program succeeds in California, it can serve as a model to replicate in other states,” said Michael A. Lindsey, PhD, MSW, MPH, executive director of the McSilver Institute.
Sustaining Futures: A Trauma-Informed and Resiliency-Based Community of Practice for California Community Colleges Teaching in Prison will include in-person trainings in Los Angeles, Bakersfield, Sacramento and San Diego throughout 2019, concluding with a fall convening in November 2019.
ABOUT THE MCSILVER INSTITUTE
The McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research at New York University is committed to creating new knowledge about the root causes of poverty, developing evidence-based interventions to address its consequences, and rapidly translating research findings into action through policy and best practices. Each year it holds the McSilver Awards, recognizing extraordinary leaders transforming systems to tackle structural poverty and oppression. Learn more at mcsilver.nyu.edu and sign up for regular updates.
ABOUT CORRECTIONS TO COLLEGE
Corrections to College is part of Renewing Communities, a five-year initiative designed to transform the public higher education system so that the state’s colleges and universities serve incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students as part of their mission. It is a joint project of the Opportunity Institute and the Stanford Criminal Justice Center.
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college in prisonCorrections to Collegeprison educationSustaining Futuresteaching in prisontrauma
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Karen Anderson, PhD
Associate Professor & Associate Chair, Behavior Analysis, Department of Psychology
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University of Mississippi Medical Center
My research interests concern Behavioral Pharmacology and how drugs and behavior interact in different environmental contexts. I am particularly interested in issues related to substance abuse. Certainly, not everyone who tries a drug becomes an “addict,” so what is different about those individuals who do develop substance-abuse disorders? There is a well-established correlation between substance abuse and impulsivity, but it is not clear if increased impulsivity leads to drug abuse, if long-term exposure to drugs results in increased impulsivity, or if other factors are involved, e.g., early learning history, genetics, neurochemistry. In our laboratory, we use non-human animal models (different rat strains) to help identify determinants of choice, particularly when that choice is deemed impulsive (choosing a small, immediate reinforcer over a larger, but delayed one). We are also interested in the behavioral and pharmacological effects of drugs on impulsive choice. Other research interests include: drug discrimination, drug self-administration, response acquisition with delayed reinforcers, and behavioral factors involved in drug tolerance.
The work in our laboratory centers around issues related to the Experimental Analysis of Behavior and Behavioral Pharmacology. A primary area of interest concerns identification of determinants of choice, particularly impulsive choice. Impulsive choice may be operationally defined as the choice of a smaller, sooner reinforcer to the exclusion of a larger, later reinforcer. For example, choosing to receive $10 now instead of $100 in a day would be the impulsive choice; choosing $100 after a day would be the self-controlled choice. The amount or size of the reinforcer and the duration of its delay to presentation have been shown to affect choice systematically in a paradigm known as delay discounting. With delay discounting, the value (choice) of a reinforcer is decreased as the delay to its presentation is increased, and the rate of discounting can be assessed quantitatively. Individual differences exist in rates of discounting.
There is a strong correlation between impulsive choice (increased delay discounting) and substance abuse such that drug abusers are more likely to have increased rates of delay discounting and increased scores on other assessments of impulsivity compared to non-abusing individuals. This correlation may have connections with their choices of a relatively immediate (short-term) drug “high” over drug abstinence that may have longer-term health, personal, and legal benefits. With this population, the impulsive choices are often maladaptive and have negative outcomes in their lives, but yet, the abuse of drugs continues. What is different about the individual who develops a substance abuse disorder compared to those who try the drug, but do not develop an abuse disorder, e.g., an alcoholic vs. a social drinker? Factors that contribute to increased rates of delay discounting may have implications for the answer to this question.
We are evaluating differential rates of delay discounting in different rat strains (Lewis and Fischer 344). Choice is between 1 food pellet delivered immediately vs. 3 food pellets after a delay, which varies across blocks of trials. The Lewis rats have been shown to have increased rates of delay discounting, i.e., emit more impulsive choices, than Fischer 344 rats (see Figure). The Lewis rats (in other studies) have also been shown to self-administer various drugs of abuse to a greater extent than Fischer 344 rats. These two strains also differ with regard to neurochemistry (particularly in the serotonin and dopamine systems), which may contribute to some of the observed behavioral differences and differential drug effects.
Interestingly, some drugs decrease rates of delay discounting (increase self-control choice), but may do so differentially depending on individual, behavioral, or contextual factors. Stimulant drugs are often given to children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) to decrease impulsive behaviors. We have also observed decreases in impulsive choice following stimulant administration in our rodent models. We are currently trying to address the behavioral and pharmacological variables that result in these behavioral changes. The knowledge gained may help in better understanding impulse-control disorders and in developing better prevention and treatment strategies for drug abuse, ADHD, and other impulsive-type behaviors, e.g., gambling, aggression.
If you are interested in working with Dr. Anderson, please apply through the Department of Psychology: psychology.wvu.edu.
Krebs CA, Reilly WJ, Anderson KG (2016). Reinforcer magnitude affects delay discounting and influences effects of d-amphetamine in rats. Behavioural Processes, 130, 39-45.
Krebs C Anderson KG (2015). Extra (non-contingent) food does not affect behavioral tolerance to d-amphetamine's rate decreasing effects. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 132, 142-151.
Slezak JM Anderson KG (2014). Observing of chain-schedule stimuli. Behavioural Processes, 105, 19-27.
Hiskinson SL, Anderson KGEffects of different fixed-ratio requirements on delay discounting in rats. Behav Processes (2013 Nov) 100:18-22. doi: 10.1016/j.bepro.2013.07.013.
Slezak JM, Krebs CA, Anderson KG A within-subject analysis of d-amphetamine exposure on delay discounting in rats Pharmacol Biochem Behav (2012 Oct) 102(4): 502-6. doi: 10.1016/j.pbb.2012.06.019.
Huskinson SL, Anderson KG Effects of acute and chronic adminstration of diazepam on delay discounting in Lewis and Fischer 344 rats Behav Pharmacol (2012 Aug) 23(4): 315-30. doi: 10.1097/FBP.0b013e3283564da4.
Krebs C, Anderson KG Preference reversals and effects of D-amphetamine on delay discounting in rats Behav Pharmacol (2012 Jun) 23(3): 228-40. doi: 10.1097/FBP.0b013e32835342ed.
Huskinson SL, Krebs CA, Anderson KG Strain differences in delay discounting between Lewis and Fischer 344 rats at baseline and following acute and chronic administration of d-amphetamine. Pharmacol Biochem Behav (2012 May) 101(3): 403-16. doi: 10.1016/j.pbb.2012.02.005/
Bruner NR, Salm AK, Anderson KG Effects of prenatal stress on lever-press acquisition with delayed reinforcement in male and female rats. Behav Processes (2012 Mar) 89(3): 256-63. doi: 10.1016/j.beproc.2011.12.003
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Doctor Who The Collection Season 10 Blu-ray
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BBC Studios announces Season 10 as the next installment in the DOCTOR WHO: THE COLLECTION Blu-ray range
BBC Studios continues to offer Doctor Who fans the opportunity to build their own home archive on Blu-ray. The first jam-packed release for Jon Pertwee’s Third Doctor, Doctor Who – The Collection: Season 10, debuts on Monday 8th July, the very day after Pertwee himself would have turned 100.
In 1973, Doctor Who celebrated its tenth anniversary with a very special story reuniting the first two Doctors – William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton – with Jon Pertwee’s then-current Doctor. The Three Doctors kicks off an explosive, colourful series of adventures across all of time and space as the Doctor and Jo Grant (Katy Manning) encounter the rogue Time Lord Omega, the terrifying Drashigs, the noble Draconians, fearsome Ogrons, deadly Daleks and slithering giant maggots. Season 10 also includes the final appearance of Roger Delgado as the Doctor’s arch nemesis The Master, plus adventures alongside Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney) and UNIT.
Starring alongside Jon Pertwee are Katy Manning, Nicholas Courtney, Roger Delgado, Richard Franklin and John Levene.
With all episodes newly remastered from the best available sources, this Blu-ray box set also contains extensive and exclusive special features which include:
A brand new feature-length documentary examining the Third Doctor’s Era, with archival contributions from Jon Pertwee, Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks plus all-new interviews with Katy Manning, Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, presented by Matthew Sweet.
Updated special effects and surround sound mix for Planet of the Daleks.
Five new instalments of Behind the Sofa, featuring Katy Manning, Richard Franklin (Captain Yates) and John Levene (Sergeant Benton), along with 21st century Doctor Who panel Phil Collinson (Producer/Executive Producer), Pete McTighe (Writer) and Joy Wilkinson (Writer).
Looking for Lennie, a documentary investigating the life of director Lennie Mayne.
Keeping up with the Jones’, which sees Katy Manning with Stewart Bevan (Cliff Jones) pay a return visit to the Welsh locations from The Green Death.
Plus: a repeat omnibus of The Green Death unseen since Christmas 1973, rare Panopticon convention footage, Blu-ray trailer, HD photo galleries plus scripts, production files and rare documentation provided as PDFs.
The six-disc box set also includes hours of extensive special features previously released on DVD including two episodes of The Sarah Jane Adventures that saw Katy Manning’s Jo Jones meet the Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith).
A specially shot announcement trailer – and sequel to classic adventure The Green Death – has debuted on the Doctor Who YouTube channel; written by new series contributor Pete McTighe (Kerblam!) and starring original Doctor Who companion, Katy Manning.
DOCTOR WHO: THE COLLECTION – SEASON 10 includes the following stories from 1972/73:
The Three Doctors
Carnival of Monsters
Frontier in Space
The Green Death
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April 15th, 2020 - 2:49pm
Is anyone else having difficulty with the booklet holder falling off as the glues underneath isn’t holding it in place?
dazzleshell
I had that on one corner on Season 19.
Used PVA glue and patience to fix it back in place.
Jordan9364
January 20th, 2020 - 10:54pm
Bit the bullet and ended up ordering this from CEX for £60. Praying that it arrives undamaged
February 15th, 2020 - 3:36pm
Curious, might order from them, did it arrive in good condition?
October 18th, 2019 - 6:01am
Even better news for those of us in New Zealand.
Season 10 is now available to preorder from JB HI Fi in New Zealand.
This is the first set to be released here.
I have canceled my order with JB HI FI in Australia and placed an order with them here in New Zealand. Yay! No long wait for it to arrive in the post.
I only hope that the previous 3 sets are released here too. I imagine there will be a few annoyed people if they start their collection with Season 10 not realising that several seasons have already been released but not made available in New Zealand.
Just a heads up to Australian purchases, this set is finally available for pre-order on JB HI FI’s website.
Get it while you can!!
Londonjustin
September 25th, 2019 - 8:00am
For Aussie purchasers (like me) who have been waiting nervously for this, BBC Studios ANZ have just let me know that Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Australia (phew) will be releasing this one November 13 – yay!
September 27th, 2019 - 8:57pm
I have been regularly checking JB Hi Fi’s website but so far no sign of this.
It’s nice to finally have some news.
I will definitely pre order this when it becomes available.
I wonder what the packaging will be like for one?
Season 18 was a simplified version of the UK set which was still nice but it would be great to go back to the original designs.
September 3rd, 2019 - 8:42am
This box set seems to be no longer available. Even though it hasn’t had a proper release over in Australia. The 3 previous Collection Blu Rays were sold in stores at JB Hi Fi. Season 10 is yet to show up online. Did the BBC just give up on sending it to Australia. There’s barely any copies on eBay either. And the Zavvi website no longer lists it. Why are the BBC working these good box sets out of existence? How are people going to watch Classic Who once these are all sold? And the previous standard DVD line is completely discontinued in Australia now. I haven’t seen Season 10. At this rate I never will. Anyone have any information?
universal has just taken over distribution from roadshow. Probably taking a bit of time to changeover.
UNIVERSAL PICTURES AUSTRALASIA ENTER INTO HOME ENTERTAINMENT DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT FOR AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND
BBC Studios Australia & New Zealand (BBC Studios) and Universal Pictures Australasia (Universal) have signed a multi-year distribution agreement for Australia and New Zealand across physical formats. In Australia, BBC Studios’ broad range of content will be distributed by Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Australia Pty Ltd and, in New Zealand, by Universal Pictures NZ, and includes all sales, marketing and distribution. The news was announced today by Jon Penn, Managing Director of BBC Studios Australia & New Zealand, and Jim Batchelor, Managing Director, Universal Sony Pictures. Jon Penn said: “We were impressed by Universal Pictures’ experience and creative flair in managing diverse, category leading portfolios. Their expertise will bring a fresh energy and focus to the delivery of physical formats through retailers to our customers.” “We are proud to be partnering with BBC Studios to distribute their premium quality and award-winning content from many of the planet’s best program makers. Some of our first releases will be Bluey, the hit Australian animated television series for pre-school children, the stunning series The Planets and the wildly imaginative drama, Good Omens and we look forward to working with our Retail partners to launch these exciting new properties in Australia, as well as the BBC’s extensive library of content.” said Batchelor, Universal Sony Pictures. “The BBC has consistently delivered world-class content across every genre and we are delighted to become BBC Studios’ Home Entertainment Distributor in Australia and New Zealand,” said Eddie Cunningham, Worldwide President, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.
August 7th, 2019 - 8:41am
To Rob W
Ordered. Thanks mate. Appreciated.
August 7th, 2019 - 12:09pm
Cheers pal!
August 6th, 2019 - 11:18am
Does anyone know when this will be released in Australia?
August 6th, 2019 - 5:46pm
The U.K. release is A$94.99 plus $5.99 standard delivery from Zavvi.co.au mate…
https://www.zavvi.com.au/blu-ray/doctor-who-the-collection-season-10-limited-edition-packaging/12090910.html
Tardis7
July 27th, 2019 - 10:00am
So it says on amazon there only 10 left no Mention of more on the way
They are limited edition so they will sell out eventually.
July 29th, 2019 - 12:26pm
It was No 1 in the Official U.K. Blu-ray sales chart on it’s first week of sales, then fell to No 35 and is now at 62.
M.C.Reynolds
July 22nd, 2019 - 5:08pm
I know I’m probably late to the party, but I’ve seen the Jon Pertwee folding caravan footage somewhere before – I just can’t remember where (I even remember that it was supposed to take eleven seconds to fold up). I think it was on a DVD or Blu-ray, but I can’t remember for certain, and if it was I definitely can’t remember which one (I know it’s all over the Internet, but I’m sure I saw it on disc). I’ve looked at various sites that list the extras and Easter eggs on the various discs, but found no mention of it. Anybody who can nudge my weary old brain towards an answer to this would have my sincere gratitude. Help!
July 19th, 2019 - 8:28am
Finally got mine in. Watch the first three parts of Three Doctors, and I’m impressed with how good the picture quality is. Loving these sets.
July 21st, 2019 - 9:47am
A think I heard a couple of clicks on the sound early in episode 2 of Colony In Space.
TigerMan1995
July 22nd, 2019 - 4:22am
Colony in Space? That’s S8, and the only thing I know of that being released is the US MOD DVD re-release in two days.
I meant Frontier In Space! A typo/hangover – delete as appropriate.
I Cotterill
July 11th, 2019 - 8:41pm
Just got my copy from Amazon today. Can’t wait to start watching through it! 🙂
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The U.S. National Science Foundation will spend more than US$400 million over the next seven years to fund next-generation wireless research in an effort to bring super-fast mobile service to the country.
U.S. officials hope the investments, announced Friday, will speed up the county’s move to next-generation 5G mobile service, potentially offering speeds of 10Gbps, and allow for a rapid expansion of the internet of things.
The next-generation mobile services will enable self-driving cars, an “always on” IoT, smart cities, new virtual reality offerings, and video to aid police, firefighters, and emergency medical responders, said John Holdren assistant to President Barack Obama for science and technology.
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“Time and again, history has shown us that when we make sustained federal investments in fundamental academic research and in public-private partnerships … we as a nation reap the benefits,” Holdren said at an NSF event in Washinton, D.C., Friday.
The NSF funding, part of a new White House Advanced Wireless Research Initiative, includes $50 million as part of a partnership with more than 20 mobile companies and trade groups to roll out advanced wireless testing sites in four U.S. cities. The testing will include deployment of small cells to boost signals of high-band, millimeter wave spectrum.
Friday’s announcement piggybacks on a Federal Communications Commission vote Thursday to open up nearly 11 gigahertz of high-band spectrum to 5G and IoT services.
The NSF expects to spend $350 million over the next seven years on fundamental research and testing of next-generation wireless technologies, the agency said.
The FCC and other agencies want to focus on making spectrum available so that wireless companies can experiment with the best ways to deliver new services, said FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler. Some countries have pushed to set 5G standards before moving forward, but not the U.S., he said.
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Crooks found a way to reinfect computers with malware via the Windows BITS service, months after their initial malware was detected and deleted from the infected system.
BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service) is a Windows utility for transferring files between a client and a server. The utility works based on a series of cron jobs and is the service in charge of downloading and launching your Windows update packages, along with other periodic software updates.
According to US-based Dell subsidiary SecureWorks, crooks are using BITS to set up recurring malware download tasks, and then leveraging its autorun capabilities to install the malware.
Abusing BITS is nothing new since criminals used the service in the past, as early as 2006, when Russian crooks were peddling malicious code capable of using BITS to download and installing malware on infected systems. Initial malware infection took place back in March 2016 In the particular case, SecureWorks staff were called to investigate a system that had no malware infections but was still issuing weird security alerts regarding suspicious network activities.
The SecureWorks team discovered that the initial malware infection took place on a Windows 7 PC on March 4, 2016, and that the original malware, a version of the DNSChanger malware calledZlob.Q, had added malicious entries to the BITS service.
These rogue BITS tasks would download malicious code on the system and then run it, eventually cleaning up after itself.
Since the user’s antivirus removed the initial malware, the BITS tasks remained, re-downloading malware at regular intervals. Because BITS is a trusted service, the antivirus didn’t flag these activities as malicious but still issued alerts for irregular activities. BITS tasks could be used in much more dangerous ways In this case, SecureWorks reports that the BITS jobs downloaded and launched a DLL file that executed as a “notification program.”
BITS jobs have a maximum lifetime of 90 days, and if the malware coder had used them properly, they could have had a permanent foothold on the infected system.
SecureWorks staff presents a method of searching for malicious BITS tasks in their technical write-up, along with a list of domains from where this particular infection kept downloading malicious code.
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Men’s soccer falls 1-0 to West Virginia
David Peltz|October 3, 2009
The Marquette men’s soccer team suffered a frustrating 1-0 loss to West Virginia Saturday night at Valley Fields. The Golden Eagles created few chances in the game and earned three yellow cards, two of which went to midfielder Anthony Colaizzi, resulting in a sending off. The other yellow went to sophomore Calum Mallace, his fifth so far on the season, which means he will not play against Notre Dame on Wednesday
The Golden Eagles are now 2-5-2 overall and 1-2-2 in the Big East.
“I think we kind of shot ourselves in the foot a little bit,” coach Louis Bennett said. “They smothered us. But then the dynamics of the game changed.”
The first half started off slow, with much of the play occurring in the middle of the field. Marquette dominated most of the possession, but like games past, failed to create any opportunities to score.
The Mountaineers had the first real chance at scoring in the 29th minute when Abel Sebele made a shot that curled just wide of the post. However, Marquette answered in kind when a 40th minute cross from Billy Von Rueden found the head of forward Andrew Krynski. The ball was about to cross the goal line but deflected off the hands of the West Virginia goalkeeper.
“The first half we played great,” Krynski said. “We put a lot of pressure on them. I thought we had chances and we still could have won.”
In the second half, Marquette’s best opportunity at a goal was in the 60th minute. Mallace fired a long range volley from 30 yards out that dipped over the hands of the goalkeeper, only to hit the sidebar and bounce away. However, in that same minute, Mallace received a questionable yellow card from the referee for a slide tackle.
West Virginia scored in the 74th minute after a corner kick caused a scramble in the box. The ball landed in front of Jason Bristol, who capitalized and fired the ball into the back of the net.
“I saw too many blue shirts and not enough white,” associate head coach Stan Anderson said. “(Matt Pyzdrowski) got his hands on the ball but they know they have to impact that play and they didn’t impact that play. It’s an easy goal for them and that’s what we need to learn from.”
In the 76th minute, Colaizzi received a caution and four minutes later he picked up his second yellow and was sent out of the game.
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Marijuana paraphernalia a sticky issue under new bill
by Meg Tully | Apr 13, 2014 | General Assembly | 2 |
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf
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Flickr photo by Smokers High Life
Zooming down the highway late one night, a man is exhausted, not really paying attention to the speed limit. His friend accidentally left a small baggie of marijuana in his car, along with some paper to roll it into joints, which sits in a tiny pile on the passenger seat.
Police officers pull him over in the next mile for speeding, and as they shine a flashlight through the car window, they eye the loot stashed on the seat.
In Maryland, he could be charged criminally for one of these items, but it’s not the drugs.
The recent move to remove criminal penalties for 10 grams of marijuana or less has been heralded by its supporters as radical reform that would save state money, and alleviate a significant portion of drug-related arrests, which are racially imbalanced.
But a hole in that legislation — one that remains unaddressed — is that drug paraphernalia similar to the hypothetical rolling paper, remains criminal. Lawmakers haven’t developed concrete answers to the problem, other than theoretical discussions for the future.
Sponsor of bill kept paraphernalia penalty to aid law enforcement
Paraphernalia alone, encompassing items like dime bags, bongs, pipes — anything used to store or consume a drug — is not illegal. Circumstantial paraphernalia is, and is often encountered during a traffic stop, leading law enforcement to believe a drug was present.
No jail time is associated with possession of circumstantial paraphernalia, but the charge does carry a $500 fine, according to the marijuana decriminalization bill’s sponsor, Sen. Robert Zirkin, D-Baltimore County.
Zirkin said he intentionally shied away from language that would decriminalize paraphernalia, as law enforcement uses its presence as cause to search a car during a traffic stop — but it’s a matter that will likely need to be deliberated, he said.
“There is some incongruity there,” Zirkin said.
Marijuana possession would still result in fines
The bill that passed the General Assembly on the final day of session Monday, April 7, levies a fine against offenders — akin to a parking ticket — that gradually increases each time they’re charged. First-time adult offenders 21 and older pay $100, pay $250 on the second offense, and must must appear in court after their third offense and pay a $500 fine. The bill does not allow for driving while impaired.
Sara Love, public policy director for the Maryland chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, said Zirkin was hesitant because he wasn’t positive the bill would pass with a provision that would decriminalize paraphernalia.
Love said that she hopes law enforcement respects the intent of the bill, which is to make marijuana a lower priority, though she acknowledged law enforcement could still charge someone criminally for paraphernalia possession.
Officers will have discretion
Officers can use discretion whether to issue a criminal citation or a warning, similar to if an offender were pulled over for speeding, according to Greg Shipley, spokesman for Maryland State Police.
Shipley said state police officers will undergo training on the new law, and will consult with the Attorney General’s office for further legal interpretation.
MSP also will be guided by future court decisions on the law, Shipley said.
“If I find a marijuana pipe, no residue in it, there’s a man not sitting there not smoking it, under current law it is paraphernalia, it’s still illegal,” Shipley said. “Police officers will have the difficult option of what they will do then.”
Shipley said the MSP did not oppose decriminalization, but Webster Ye, an assistant in the House Judiciary Committee said MSP submitted a “letter of concern” as testimony during the committee hearing. That technically means they took no position for or against the legislation.
Racial disparity still an issue
Rachelle Yeung, legislative analyst with the Marijuana Policy Project, said her organization hopes next year that the legislature would amend the legislation to include paraphernalia.
“Legislators have stated repeatedly that their greatest concern with the current marijuana laws is the racial disparity in enforcement,” Yeung said in an email. “It would be terrible if police officers deliberately circumvented the legislature’s attempt to address the racial disparity and the future-destroying collateral consequences that a criminal record can carry.”
Judiciary committee members would have to consider further legislation
Del. Mike McDermott, R-Eastern Shore, who has worked for the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office since 1988, blasted the legislation for being sloppy and hurried. McDermott is also a member of the House Judiciary Committee. That committee initially converted the bill to a task force to study decriminalization.
McDermott said the legislature wanted to enforce a “bright line” — a 10 gram threshold — while in most cases, law enforcement works in shades of gray. He said on the road, there’s no way for a police officer to accurately measure how much marijuana a person is holding.
“That’s what happens when you rush a bill out of committee,” McDermott said. “You have all these nuances, like the paraphernalia aspect, that have to be tied together.”
Del. Luke Clippinger, D-Baltimore City, another member of the House Judiciary, said he advocated for some of the stricter provisions included in the final bill — amendments that ensured law enforcement could still perform necessary searches during a traffic stop, and arrest someone if they suspected they were high while driving.
“I honestly don’t think there will be a large movement to change anything having to do with paraphernalia,” Clippinger said. “Paraphernalia is an all encompassing thing — it’s harder to say, well, this is paraphernalia for pot, and this is paraphernalia for heroin — you can’t really differentiate. But it’s an interesting sideline to consider.”
Del. Mike Smigiel, R-Eastern Shore, another member of House Judiciary, a vocal supporter of the bill across the party line, said he didn’t have an answer to the paraphernalia problem.
“You could do it by regulation, you could have the attorney general get involved, I don’t know how, you can get creative,” he said. “But there is a problem.”
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justathought on February 24, 2015 at 11:41 am
I’ve always thought that paraphernalia possession charges were stupid to begin with. If I have a clean, unused bowl or even a clean unused needle in my possession, why should I be charged with anything? It’s like saying that if I go to the store and buy a knife and I’m taking it home in my car, you can charge me with carrying a weapon. The drug should be what’s illegal.
Rstc on December 29, 2014 at 12:10 am
Clippinger is clearly devoid of brain cells. If a police officer can not differentiate between marijuana paraphernalia and heroin paraphernalia they probably shouldn’t be a cop. Last I checked one doesn’t shoot weed with a needle… And if they’re the rare heroin smoker a quick test kit of the paraphernalia will solve the issue…
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Venturi-Schulze Balsamic
Layer upon layer.
Story: Bryce Warnes
To appreciate what makes Venturi-Schulze winery’s balsamic vinegar special, one must appreciate what goes into making true balsamic.
In an alchemical process, grapes are pressed and simmered down on open fires; microbial cultures are introduced; and the whole mixture is gradually moved through a series of barrels, following a solera system similar to what’s used for the production of sherry. By the time balsamic meets bottle, it’s been running through the system for about 12 years. “What I want you to leave with here is how insane the whole process is,” says owner Giordano Venturi, adding he wants people to have an awareness about how long the process is for the vinegar to reach maturity.
It is a mild Vancouver Island day in Venturi-Schulze vinegary, a room filled with numbered casks of varying sizes that are marked “acacia”, “cherry”, and “chestnut”, and with the names of other woods. This is where real balsamic comes from. The stuff labelled “balsamic” in grocery stores mostly consists of red wine vinegar, boiled grape must, and caramel colouring. Venturi remembers his mother storing it in a big bottle beneath the sink. “I kind of like it,” he says. But he’s quick to point out that true, traditional balsamic is a different beast altogether. For one thing, there’s the flavour: concentrated, complex, and explosive. Layer upon layer. More akin to a top-shelf single malt than something you’d put in salad dressing.
Then there’s the secrecy. Complex microbiology, and a bit of alchemy, and the fact that the Italian producers are not anxious at all to share their processes, their production secrets.
Venturi comes from Modena, Italy, one of two Northern Italian regions (the other being Reggio Emilia) allowed to produce aceto balsamico tradizionale (traditional balsamic vinegar). A local regulatory association makes sure the product adheres to strict parameters, both in terms of look and smell. While in Modena, Venturi became familiar with the product, and after immigrating to Canada in the ‘60s, decided to try it himself. He experienced some problems in the beginning, but Venturi was determined. And eventually, he got assistance. “A friend was kind enough to help me,” he says. In 1971, he was able to obtain from Modena a sample of the mother of vinegar, the cellulose membrane that floats on the surface of the liquid, harbouring the organisms that convert alcohol into acetic acid. It looks like a mutant jellyfish floating in brown juice (“I had a difficult time getting it through customs,” says Venturi). Shortly after establishing the Vancouver Island vineyard in 1987, Venturi and his wife, Marilyn Venturi—a microbiologist by training—received a federal research grant. They were able to receive unpublished scientific data on balsamic vinegar, especially from Reggio Emilia, which helped solve their initial production problems.
Today, annual releases of Venturi-Schulze balsamic are in full swing, albeit on a modest scale. The vinegar is as good as liquid gold, and locavore gourmands snatch it up. The time, the alchemy, the secrets, the work: maybe it is insane. But anyone who tastes even a drop seems happy to indulge in the madness.
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September 24, 2013 by Angela Allen Leave a Comment
Angela D. Allen, PhD, MSW has been a community program coordinator and community educator in city and neighborhood planning, digital media arts, and education. Education has been central to her sustainable community development with residents through partnerships that make building community capacity real and vibrant. The CNRED Educator – Milwaukee County position brings her experience full circle, and provides the environment to work with those stakeholders who are essential to realizing transformative community change.
Since fall 2011, Angie lived and volunteered in Northeast Detroit; the community in which she was born and raised, as her neighbors formed a joint organizational partnership to create their first resident-led, comprehensive community revitalization plan called RESTORE Northeast Detroit (Residents Empowered, Strengthened, and Transforming Our Residential Environment; http://www.restorened.org). Angie co-authored the successfully funded Strategic Alliance Demonstration Project Grant that allowed RESTORE NED to achieve the technical assistance partnerships needed; including a fully resident engaged and digitized residential parcel survey of over 60,000 parcels, undertaking a participatory land use planning process, and creating their website, which she established to coordinate community-wide information. Angie’s passion for asset-based, comprehensive community capacity building and strategic planning began as a community issue organizer with local Detroit nonprofits, and as a former Planner/Coordinator in the City of Detroit Planning Department with the 1997 City of Detroit Community Reinvestment Strategy.
In spring 2011, Angie graduated from Allied Media Projects’ Detroit Future Media community training program. With three other DFM graduates, the documentary they co-produced has received national recognition in 2013. “13 in the Hole”, about 13 community residents’ 40 year struggle to gain environmental justice in one of the nation’s worst polluted ZIP codes, has been featured twice in July 2013: at the Culture Unplugged Online Film Festival, and; a national briefing call on using film as community engagement with Arts and Democracy.
Angie deeply values the role university faculty, staff & students play in facilitating sustainable community development. During her doctoral program, involvement in national community-university partnership conferences and projects inspired her to co-create the 2007 Emerging Engagement Scholars Workshop of the Engagement Scholarship Consortium with a fellow doctoral student. Shortly after, she was invited to co-author 3 chapters in the two-volume 2010 Handbook of Engaged Scholarship (Michigan State University Press). A 2008 Charles F. Kettering Foundation Doctoral Research Fellow, Angie co-authored “Higher Education Institutions and the Civic Capacity of Communities” with KF program officer Dr. Derek Barker (March 2011). In July 2013, she was invited back to the Kettering Foundation for a Civic Capacity Builders Workshop with 20 other national civic builders.
Angie holds a PhD in higher, adult, and lifelong education from Michigan State University, a Master degree of Social Work in community organization administration with children, youth and families from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and a Bachelor degree of Science in Urban and Regional Planning from Michigan State University. For more about Milwaukee County Cooperative Extension, please visit http://milwaukee.uwex.edu
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Article Empire State Building Unveils Brand New Second Floor Observatory Experience
By NexGard SPECTRA
The Empire State Building (ESB) has announced the second phase of its top-to-bottom re-imagined Observatory Experience.
Opening to the public on 29 July, 2019, the $165 million project presents the only museum in New York City that is open seven days a week from 8 a.m. to 2 a.m.
Located on the second floor of the international icon, the 10,000 sq. ft galleries invite guests on a journey from the building’s construction to its current place in pop culture. Named the most Instagrammed U.S. landmark in a study conducted by Sony Mobile, the new galleries feature immersive and interactive exhibits that fulfill the desire of today’s modern traveller to share authentic experiences – all as they make their way to the one-of-a-kind views from the 86th Floor Observatory.
Led by experienced designer Thinc, with team members IDEO, Squint Opera, Beneville Studios, Diversified., Intersection, Kubik Maltbie, Otis Elevator Company and Tenguerian Model, phase two follows the first phase, a brand-new Observatory entrance at 20 West 34th Street which was completed in August of 2018.
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The galleries through which visitors travel to experience ESB’s famous views from the centre of New York City include:
The Site in the 1920s: A black-and-white panoramic image depicts the site of the original Waldorf-Astoria Hotel as construction of the Empire State Building begins. Through building surveyors, Guests can look in and see the New York City streets of the late 1920’s come to life in full colour.
Construction: Inspired by the photography of Lewis Hine, visitors will be transported back in time as hot rivets, and steel beams fly overhead, and the sounds of New York City come alive in surround sound. Visitors can also interact with specially commissioned cast sculptures of construction workers as they work and take their lunch break.
Opening Day: The excitement of opening day is palpable with a newsboy announcing the opening of the Empire State Building as he sells his papers on the streets of 1930’s New York City
Modern Marvel: The Modern Marvel exhibit outlines the specific measures taken to make the Empire State Building a world leader in sustainability and a leading example in energy efficiency.
Otis Elevators: Otis delivered the groundbreaking technology that made the towering height of ESB possible. In a dedicated exhibit, Otis showcases not only how the original elevators operated, but teaches visitors about the latest technology installed in the newest elevators, which transport more than 10 million tenants and Observatory Guests each year. Visitors will also walk through a simulation of an actual elevator shaft and feel the energy created by the movement of the cars up close.
Urban Campus: Very few visitors to the Empire State Building are aware of what goes on in the nearly 100 floors they don’t see. Urban Campus offers a glimpse into some of the major tenant spaces, amenities, and hidden views of the building as experienced by those who work there. The exhibit highlights some of these contemporary internet-age businesses, visible through peepholes that give guests an insider’s view of what these high-tech offices are like.
World’s Most Famous Building: Set to an original score commissioned for this exhibit, more than seventy screens display highlights of ESB’s starring role in pop culture from every decade since the 1930’s. Visitors from around the world will recognise the hundreds of movies, TV shows, commercials, cartoons, comic books, and video games that feature the world’s most famous building.
King Kong: Visitors walk into an office from the 1930’s where the famous, giant ape’s fingers pierce the walls as he dangles from the building and dodges vintage fighter planes. Those brave enough can even step into Kong’s hands – but beware, you might feel the power of this fearsome ape firsthand!
Celebrity: The Empire State building is a popular destination for A-list celebrities and worldwide talent with many famous faces from around the globe visiting its world-famous 86th Floor Observatory. This exhibit highlights some of the most-famous visitors (athletes, musicians, actors) with their images and signed memorabilia adorning the walls for Guests to admire as they head to the elevators that will take them to their next stop: NYC: Above & Beyond on the 80th
“While the views from the 86th Floor Observatory are world-famous, the Empire State Building has a rich history filled with exciting events and innovative projects that we are now able to share via our new second-floor exhibits,” said Anthony E. Malkin, Chairman and CEO of Empire State Realty Trust.
“We began in August 2018 with the relocation of our Observatory entrance to 34th Street, and now our new galleries on the second floor give our visitors the chance to learn and engage with the iconic authenticity that only the Empire State Building, unique not just in New York City, but in the world, can provide. With the expertise of our design partners, these new galleries will engage visitors in unprecedented ways.”
The cross-disciplinary, best-in-class team from the arts and architecture, technology and entertainment industries, which conceived and curated the project include:
Beneville Studios
Corgan
Diversified.
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Syska Hennessy Group
Tenguerian Models
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Composed and directed by Eric Bress (‘The Butterfly Effect’),”’Ghosts of’ War’ changes from 1 genre to another several time throughout its 90-minute runtime. It Is a war play at the first action, a terror in the next, and a science fiction in the next.
While the film is less predictable due to how Bress uses jump scares and classic war movie tropes, the last twist is genuinely surprising. It gives the otherwise conventional movie layers of complexity and makes it very entertaining.
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In 1944, at the height of World War II, five US soldiers, Chris (Brenton Thwaites), Kirk (Theo Rossi), Eugene (Skylar Astin), Tappert (Kyle Gallner), along with Butchie (Alan Ritchson), make their way through the French countryside due to their newest assignment, which is to guard a mansion till further notice.
Ahead of the Allied forces occurred, the home was employed with the Nazi high command. If they arrive there they discover that the members of this squad they are supposed to replace at the mansion have been seemed to become calmed by something and can’t wait to escape from there.
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This confuses Chris and his men. The supplies are all complete, and the palatial house offers every comfort and luxury imaginable. When they question another team, the responses they get are elusive at best.
It will not take them long to learn the real reason for the last group’s hasty departure. The house is haunted by the spirits of its original owners, a group of four, that had been murdered by the Nazis seemingly because they were giving refuge to Jewish individuals.
The boy (Kaloyan Hristov) has been drowned. The girl, Christina (Yanitsa Mihailova), has been hanged. The five soldiers start receiving odd messages like”I have no legs” through Morse codes. Later, a demonic voice screams at them that if they attempt to leave, they will die.
1 night, the Nazis attempt to return the mansion. Although the attack is crushed, Butchie is mortally injured after attempting to look after the others by falling onto a grenade. Before he expires, he screams repeatedly, “This is not real”, “It was all”, and Recall.”
The rest of the soldiers attempt to leave the mansion but find out they can not always end up walking the very same streets. They return to the mansion, hoping that performing the final rites of the Helwig family will spare them of this loop.
Regrettably, it does not. They get attacked by the ghosts. But abruptly, the ghosts start glitching, and Chris wakes up in the real world.
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In the end, it turns out that not one of those items that Chris and his guys experienced before there in the film is real. They are modern soldiers that were deployed in Afghanistan. They were placed in a World War II simulation to assist them to heal psychologically and mentally.
However, what Dr. Engel, the man in charge of this off-the-record facility where Chris and others are kept (he can also be reflected in the simulation as the Nazi major whom the American soldiers encounter and kill) and his team did not foresee is the unconscious minds of these injured soldiers will continue to remind them which the simulation is not real.
The Morse code about not having legs would be Chris’ subconscious reminding him that his legs had to be amputated after the assignment. Kirk attempting to scratch his thighs is the result of a phantom itch, as he too lost his legs.
Since Chris correctly figures out, the demonic voice over the radio is not a danger but a warning, but that lets them know when they leave the simulation, they could die.
Butchie’s self-sacrifice throughout the German assault was stimulating enough to wake him from the coma. The simple fact he gets injured during the Afghanistan mission while performing the very thing must have also played a critical role in his awakening.
According to Dr. Engel, Butchie expired after viewing his bodily condition, but until he did, he strove to create others remember what really happened.
What is Vetrulek?
Since it’s a simulation, then the soldiers wind up walking on a loop. The diary belonging to a German soldier which Eugene finds looks blank initially to Chris for precisely exactly the same reason.
Since the memories of their actual lives start to invade the simulator, the text from the journal suddenly becomes and the Helwigs that an Afghan family. In the movie, Vetrulek is an early Islamic curse employed by a victim of an atrocity towards people who stand by and do so.
Although it’s totally fictional, composed just for the movie, it gives the horror aspects ghosts of’ War’ a theological angle. In Afghanistan, the group’s assignment was to move a physician and his household to a safe place in Kabul.
The intel the physician supplied led to the record of some of the greatest leaders of Isis from the country. But the terrorists discovered that he was working with the American forces.
They arrive before the extraction, so forcing the team along with the doctor’s CIA handler to abort the mission. They hid and watched helplessly as the associates of the Afghan family were killed in a specific manner as the Helwigs.
After the terrorists were gone, the team came from hiding. It was then that the mother rushed, with an explosive inside her hands. The ensuing explosion is what resulted in their current ailments.
Before she dies, she curses them together using Vetrulek. It’s followed them to the simulator, tormenting and penalizing them because they didn’t do anything to guard the Afghan family.
Why Chris Return to the Simulation in the End?
After regaining his memories, Chris understands what is happening and convinces the doctors to put him back into the simulation, therefore that he can save his team.
However, he loses all his real memories through the transition and also wakes up in the same woods as the opening scenes, even using exactly the same stranger covered in the darkness watching him, and Chris inquiring, “What would you desire?’
The simulation variations of the members of this group are all resting in the same circular design as their counterparts that are real. Evidently, the simulation has experienced a resume.
Chris, together with his memories totally shattered, does not realize that, and is bound to relive the horrors of the digital hell once again together with his pals.
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In the preceding commentaries, Nicholas Timasheff has been raked over the coals. Hoffmann criticizes him for failure to grasp just how serious Stalin et al. were about building "socialism." Dobrenko does not deign to address Timasheff's arguments at all, beyond critiquing both him and Hoffmann for failing to understand that discourse and ideology are "reality." Brooks indicts Timasheff as an apologist for Stalin.
It is an easy game to take apart a work that was written 60 years ago without access to archives or even much firsthand reporting from inside the USSR other than the Soviet press itself. I myself have frequently enjoyed such sport. I think, however, that Timasheff deserves better.
The Great Retreat was one of the first books to identify and link a number of real and important policy changes in the Soviet Union in the 1930s and the first half of the 1940s. These included the revival of Russian patriotic /nationalist rhetoric, the criminalization of abortion and the restriction of divorce, the abandonment of pedagogical experiments in favor of pre revolutionary methods in education, the relaxation of anti-religious campaigns (a temporary relaxation, as it turned out), the disbanding of the Comintern, the granting of small "private" plots to collective farmers, the introduction of the "one-man management" policy in industry, and more. Timasheff dubs these policy turns taken together "the Great Retreat." He explains the "Retreat" as the result of the failure of the Bolshevik "blueprint" for a communist utopia and regime leaders' drive to stabilize Soviet society and increase their mass support in preparation for war.
Hoffmann oversimplifies Timasheff's work when he attributes to the latter the view that the Retreat amounted to "a conscious abandonment of socialism" (652). Timasheff does not make this claim. Rather, he argues that "utopian revolutionaries who take power ultimately must modify their utopian policies that they may preserve power and even the opportunity to cultivate some part of their utopian garden" (italics added).1 Here, Timasheff is [End Page 721] talking about the realities of holding onto political power. Even utopians who seek total power to mold reality meet resistance and obstacles. They must compromise their original policies, whether or not they consciously abandon the utopian project (socialism) in toto.
On a related issue, Dobrenko and Hoffmann both question the view (which they attribute to Timasheff) that the policy shifts of the 1930s and the 1940s amounted to a return to traditional cultural norms of prerevolutionary Russia. This is part of their schematization of Timasheff's argument: utopian socialists retreat to traditional Russian cultural and social practices and assumptions. This schema seems to make sense based on Timasheff's use of the term "retreat," but again, it is an oversimplification. Timasheff emphasizes that the policy changes he describes are part of a synthesis of the Bolshevik project with prerevolutionary culture in a new Soviet culture, not a simple return to the prerevolutionary status quo.2
Timasheff pinpoints 1934 as marking the beginning of the general "retreat" in culture, society, and economics; and he offers two proximate motivations for it. One was the internal disruption (including mass starvation) created by collectivization and the implementation of the First Five-Year Plan in industry. The second was the development of an outside coalition (Hitler's Germany and imperial Japan) threatening the USSR. Under these circumstances Stalin and his lieutenants had to accommodate the population in some ways and mobilize their subjects for war—thus the Great Retreat. Timasheff's explanations are functional and instrumental, and they do not refer to changes in the leaders' personal ideology.
A page-by-page reading of The Great Retreat shows that while Timasheff considers 1934 a turning point, he sees the dynamic of utopia confronting reality at work from war communism straight through 1945. Dobrenko (690-91) intimates that Timasheff ignores the New Economic Policy (NEP) retreat, when in fact the latter devotes an entire section of chapter 6 to precisely this topic.3 "Lenin ordered a retreat which lasted eight years and is known as the New Economic Policy," Timasheff writes. "Retreat is not always a symptom of final defeat; it...
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Joseph Franklin De Yong was a western movie extra, a cowboy artist, protégé of Charles Marion Russell (Montana’s cowboy artist), and an historical consultant on western films. Dan Gagliasso wrote, “While director John Ford made extensive use of Frederic Remington’s art in his western films, it was the Russell “look,” kept alive by De Yong’s costume designs, scenic sketch art, and historical advice, that influenced the form and feel of such classic Westerns as The Plainsman (1937), Union Pacific (1939), Buffalo Bill (1944), Red River (1948), and Shane (1953).” A personal friend and business associate of De Yong, Richard J. Flood was responsible in large part for assembling this collection, which reflects the life, career and relationships of Joe De Yong. Below are just a few of the items in the collection. Please also view the Guide to the Joe De Yong/Richard J. Flood Collection.
De Yong & Dick Flood, 1963.
Joe De Yong/Richard J. Flood Collection
Joe De Yong, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, 1908.
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De Yong sketching, ca. 1920.
Andy Devine & De Yong, ca. 1938.
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De Yong costume design probably for the film, North West Mounted Police, 1938.
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Tom Mix & Selig Co. extras including De Yong (sitting far right), ca. 1913.
Selig Co. shooting a movie in Prescott, Arizona, 1913.
Emmett Dalton, 1931.
Will James, 1931.
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Will James & De Yong, ca. 1930.
Left to Right: ?, Will Rogers, & De Yong, ca. 1930.
De Yong & Russell at Russell’s log cabin studio, Great Falls, Montana, ca. 1914.
Charles M. Russell rolling a cigarette, ca. 1895.
Charles M. Russell, ca. 1920.
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Treating Pneumonia: When Antibiotics Fail
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Shannyn Fowl, ND
So many pulmonary pathologies are difficult to treat and sometimes even difficult to diagnose. Pneumonia, on the other hand, is usually a clear diagnosis after an X-ray, and naturopathic tools are pure gold when it comes to treatment.
In this article I will share a few cases of pneumonia. Please notice that 3 of these cases were failed by standard-care treatment options and that it took a natural approach to finally achieve healing. Please be assured that, as naturopathic doctors, you not only have an incredible array of tools to use, but when you “take in the essence of a patient,” you can also use those tools with extraordinary accuracy. Please also note that because of their healing experience, most of the patients described here are now natural health advocates and patients for life.
Case Study 1: After 3 Months of Antibiotics
A 73-year-old male presented to my clinic with pneumonia of 12 weeks’ duration. He reported that his symptoms began several months prior, initially starting as unilateral facial nerve irritation and swelling. This facial nerve issue was treated with antibiotics.
He was very busy with family visits, then became so fatigued that he was unable to do anything. No one else in the family had been sick. Over the next 3 months he was treated 4 times with IV and oral antibiotics, had 3 inconclusive lung biopsies, and his lungs were aspirated twice. He would feel temporarily better after antibiotics. His most recent doctor’s visit was to the emergency room, 4 days before consulting me, where he was given a chest X-ray and a new prescription of antibiotics.
The patient has continued to experience shortness of breath and night sweats, and has lacked energy to the point where he struggles to get dressed for the day and spends the day on the couch. He reported no other underlying health conditions, other than an enlarged prostate.
Physical exam revealed a very tired man without a cough.
Lungs had light expiratory wheezes on the left, but 2-3-second expiratory wheezes on the right. No anterior wheezes were found. Slight crackles were noted inconsistently.
No other physical abnormalities were found.
Although this patient was supportive of naturopathic medicine in general, he had not sought care with a naturopathic doctor or used natural medicine before this condition. Both patient and wife seemed like they would follow through, if not, in fact, desperate to find something that worked so that he could get back to “living.” This case seemed clearly to have some viral influence.
Get copies of lab tests, pathology reports, and X-ray reports to me
Mustard packs 1-2 times daily on the back or chest for 3 days or until we discuss stopping them. Patient given a handout and briefly instructed on the procedure in the office.
Warming socks at night. Handout provided.
Vitamin A for anti-viral effects and repair of mucosal tissue. Told to take with food.
Start with 50 drops (500 000 IU) per day for 3 days
Reduce to 25 drops (250 000 IU) per day for 3 days
Day 7: Reduce to 12 drops (120 000 IU) per day for 3 days
Day 10: Reduce to 6 drops (60 000 IU) per day for 2 weeks after symptoms abate
Aromatherapy: Patient given an essential oil combination containing Pinus silvestris, Eucalyptus globulus, Melaleuca viridiflora, Terebenthina, and Thymus vulgaris. Told to take 5 drops up to 5 times per day.
Bland diet of soups, veggies, and meats
Patient was directed to call with any questions and to follow up by phone in 3 days. He was told that he should see results within 3 days, and was instructed to call if signs or symptoms worsened.
He did call in 3 days, but to report that he was doing 95% better than he had in 4 months. He felt very grateful. He was told to continue the treatment plan and to follow up in the office in 3-4 days in order to review labs and auscultate his lungs. It took him a month to follow up.
At this 1-month follow-up, he reported that he was 80-95% back to normal. He had started some exercise and was getting back into life again, in general. He still needed an afternoon nap. His appetite was also improving, though he was still having night sweats and some wheezing. He’d had no facial swelling reoccurrences. He’d stopped the warming socks because he was developing some fungus on his feet.
Physical exam revealed clear lungs with good air movement.
His labs from our first visit showed high WBC, iron-deficiency anemia, negative TB test, and low vitamin D. A differential was not run on the CBC, which would have been helpful.
During this visit, the patient was advised to take vitamin D, probiotics, iron, zinc, and a garlic/cinnamon combination (to be taken 3 times daily with food), to prevent a reoccurrence. An X-ray was ordered for 2-4 weeks. He was advised to take good care of himself, since weakened lungs could increase his risk for a repeat pneumonia.
The patient did not follow up for an entire year, only presenting at that point for a rising PSA. In this visit, he reported complete resolution of the pneumonia and symptoms after following the recommended treatment plan. After months of a geriatric patient battling pneumonia, and 4-6 scripts of antibiotics, 3 cultures, and inadequate labs, through naturopathic care he was able to feel 95% better within 3 days and experience complete resolution of his pneumonia within 4-6 weeks of seeking care. This is not an isolated case; naturopathic medicine is gold for pneumonia.
Case Study 2: Dragged in by a Spouse
A 45-year-old male presented with strained breathing. He would lean forward in his chair and off to one side. He had congestion, green-colored sputum, fatigue, wheezing, fever, and chills. His symptoms started with a head cold 2 weeks prior; then his ear became clogged. Muscle aches in his thighs made it difficult to sleep and caused him to moan. Although he felt too tired to even check his emails, he’d been jogging daily. His wife did the warming socks procedure for him and started him on vitamin C, vitamin A, and zinc. She also told him to take an herbal immune-boosting formula (Echinacea, Spilanthes, Baptisia spp, and Commiphora myrrha), which he was still taking when he came to my office.
On physical exam, his lungs sounded suspicious for pneumonia, with lots of crackles. He was sent for a stat X-ray and given 2 local options where they could cash-pay. We also drew some blood for lab tests.
This case involves a spouse of a current patient. He didn’t necessarily buy into our office’s philosophy of medicine until he had a need himself. With the nature of his discharge and discomfort, bacteria seemed involved, but I wanted to protect him from a complicated viral infection as well. We also discussed how to protect the rest of the family by limiting their exposure to his saliva including droplets of saliva from respiration, sneezing, and coughing. We also discussed how pushing ourselves with stress can impair ciliary function in the lungs; when defense resistance is lowered, an infection is more likely to go deeper into the chest.
I did not encourage this patient to call with questions, since we were already getting a massive amount of calls from this family. However, I repeatedly covered what was safe and not safe, in an attempt to address any questions pertinent to the treatment plan. I encouraged his wife to write down any questions that arose so we could cover them in person in a few days. Imaging and labs can be financial obstacles for patients, so being aware of cash-pay options, where patients can get in quickly with minimal frustration, will help you provide quality care.
In the meantime, the patient was instructed to take the following:
Vitamin C: 3 grams or to bowel tolerance
Magnesium for muscle pain: 2 capsules at bedtime (too much can cause diarrhea)
Vitamin A: Start with 7 drops (70 000 IU) for 5 days. Then reduce as follows:
6 drops for 3 days
Antimicrobial product containing vitamin A and 7-8 botanicals: 1 tablet 3 times daily with food. If side effects (eg, headaches, nausea, belly pain, dryness), take only 2 tablets daily. If no problems, increase to 4/day, then 6/day (2 tablets 3 times daily) for 7 days.
Ginger tea, to increase body temperature and warm the lungs
Inhale eucalyptus-scented steam (place eucalyptus oil in steamer or use in the shower)
The patient was told that he should be getting better by the third day of treatment; if not, we would do something different. He was instructed to follow up for lab and imaging results.
I spoke with the patient and his wife by phone the next day to discuss lab results, which included electrolyte imbalances, elevated liver enzymes, WBC elevation (neutrophils primarily involved), and bronchopneumonia per the chest X-ray. Diagnosis was bacterial bronchopneumonia with full lung involvement. At this point we added probiotics and mustard packs. We also called in a script for antibiotics in case they chose to go that route; it was a safety net for the patient.
He followed up the next day for a slow IV Myer’s push. His lungs had improved somewhat, with friction rubs throughout and crackles mostly in the right-middle lung and lower edge of the upper lung, as opposed to throughout the lungs.
The Myer’s push was repeated 4 days later. One week after the push, his upper lungs were clear, although some wheezing in his middle lung, and crackles in his lower lungs, were still present. At this point he appeared to be getting headaches from the antimicrobial product and vitamin A. We discontinued both and started 3 homeopathic drainage products.
A week later, he was still having headaches despite stopping the antimicrobial and vitamin A, but it seemed he was also working too much. He was advised to rest and repeat the X-ray.
At the 6-week point, his X-ray was clear, lungs were clear, and he felt back to normal. They never used the antibiotics, since they never felt they needed them. This patient is now a complete believer in naturopathic medicine, perhaps more than the doctor herself at times.
The next time I saw him was for a severely abscessed bug bite, which I wasn’t sure how to treat without lancing (a procedure not within our scope); however, the patient was such a believer in our other tools that we successfully treated it with homeopathics and botanicals. Just when we might be overwhelmed by running a business, these patients often remind us and reflect back to us the heart and confidence of our amazing medicine.
Case Study 3: A Return to Her Roots
A 56-year-old female, with a predisposition to frequent upper respiratory infections (URIs), returned to the office with pneumonia that was unresolved after 3 courses of antibiotics. The patient’s rib cage was very sore from coughing. She had been coughing up yellow and green mucus, and cried in my office from exhaustion.
Physical exam revealed inspiratory and expiratory crackles throughout her lower lungs, but her upper lungs were clear. Each course of antibiotics would help for awhile but then stop; the pulmonologist told her that the infection was resistant to all the antibiotics they had tried, but that they would keep trying new ones. She reported that her boyfriend was worried about her, was very supportive, and would be willing to help her with mustard packs.
This patient was a true believer in natural medicine. On top of the antibiotics prescribed for her at an urgent care clinic, she was trying some herbal mixtures suggested by a family member who was early in her studies at a naturopathic university. Her only obstacle to seeking follow-up care for an acute illness in my office was the cost.
The patient was instructed to do the following:
Mustard packs: Mix 1 cup of flour with 1 tbsp mustard, and make a paste with water. Apply the paste to the back and watch for burning; pink is okay. Cover with a hot, wet hand towel. Leave on for 20 minutes; don’t get chilled.
End with an icy cold rub with a washcloth.
Do this twice daily, if possible, for 3 days.
Saccharomyces boulardii while on antibiotics: 1 capsule daily until 3 days past finishing the antibiotics. Pause on the probiotics while taking the Saccharomyces.
Antimicrobial product with vitamin A and 7-8 botanicals: If tolerated, take 3 times daily with food; otherwise, take 1 tablet twice daily with food.
Vitamin A: 10 drops (50 000 IU) daily for 3 days
Then 2 drops/d for 3 days, then 1 drop/d until a week past feeling healed
Vitamin C: 2000-4000 mg daily
Thyme tea was recommended
Four homeopathic drainage products: 5 drops 3 times daily
Consider nebulized glutathione for 3 days (estimated cost $200-300 plus the cost of a nebulizer)
The patient was instructed to let us know how she was doing in the next 3-4 days
Four days later the patient reported by phone that she was very much on the mend and feeling much better. She was encouraged to follow up to have her lungs listened to and to get a repeat X-ray with her insurance-based doctor, due to the cost. This is just another shine for naturopathic tools in a failed pharmaceutically treated case of pneumonia.
Case Study 4: Graduation Day
A 16-year-old male presented with shortness of breath. Symptoms initiated with a fever 1 week prior, progressing to a cough (eventually with yellow sputum), headache, weakness, and fatigue.
On physical exam, his breathing was harder and faster than usual. His lungs had consistent crackles, both inspiratory and expiratory, throughout his lungs, sparing only his lower-left lung. His oxygen saturation was 80%, improving to 92% with deep breaths.
This final case is of a teenager who was graduating from high school later that day but was so sick that he was concerned he wouldn’t be able to walk across the stage after sitting up front for the ceremony. He had missed several dance performances this week, but had also pushed through several. They had been to urgent care, been told it was a viral URI [influenza test was negative], and to watch and wait; however, he was not improving. They came to my office in a last-ditch attempt for help that could enable him to participate in graduation. We discussed how we might be able to find a middle ground for attending graduation, such as coming in at the last minute to walk; a doctor’s note was also offered to help make this possible. This was the first visit for this family.
The patient was given homeopathic Lycopodium to get him through graduation day. He was also instructed to do the following:
Kali phosphoricum and Ferrum phosphoricum cell salts: 2 pellets of each product 2-6 times daily
Vitamin C: 3000-5000 mg daily or to bowel tolerance
Vitamin D: 3000 IU daily with food
Berberis formula (equal parts of Berberis vulgaris and Berberis aquifolium): 1 capsule (50 mg) 3 times daily with food. Patient told to stop if side effects developed (eg, dryness, headache, breast tenderness, nausea), and to report back.
Vitamin A: 5 drops daily (50 000 IU) until next meeting
Warming socks; instructional handout given to patient
Food: Soups, blueberry, pomegranate
The importance of rest was discussed
X-ray was strongly recommended; a written order was provided
I strongly encouraged them to follow up in 3 days; however, I was under the impression that if his illness resolved, I would likely not hear from them again. So I PARQ’d them as best I could (PARQ = Procedures, Alternatives, Risks, and Questions). We also scheduled an appointment, which they later cancelled by phone. I followed up by phone, leaving a message about the importance of having the lungs rechecked within 6 weeks and that complications that could occur. They called and left a message that graduation went very well and all was very good; they decided against a follow-up visit. I didn’t see them for a full year, at which time they presented for a physical for dance camp.
Honestly, I have not had a case of pneumonia in my office that our natural tools have not been able to heal. It may happen yet, but I can confidently look my patients in the eye and tell them that naturopathic medicine is gold for pneumonia. Our teachers have passed down powerful and effective tools for treating this problem. Hopefully this article has inspired you to do the same!
Shannyn Fowl, ND, is a graduate of NCNM and a naturopathic doctor in family practice at Journey of Health, in La Mesa, CA. She practices Docere for the general public at San Diego Community College, and teaches nursing CE classes, such as “Intro to Naturopathic Medicine” and “Hydrotherapy and Homeopathy for the Family”; she also teaches biology and chemistry via parental involvement in her son’s elementary classes. Dr Fowl is presently working on her book geared toward successful assistants in integrative clinics. She resides with her husband and son at a villa in San Diego, where they welcome like-minded visitors.
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Assamese artist criticizes Prime Minister Modi for remark on dyslexia
GUWAHATI , March 6, 2019 12:27 pm
File image of Mehnaz Ummeid Ali Sharma Bhorali. Courtesy: facebook
Hyderabad based Assamese artist Mehnaz Ummeid Ali Sharma Bhorali has criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his ‘distasteful’ remark about people with dyslexia.
Bhorali who launched online petition to provide free training programmes to understand dyslexia in schools across the country two years back, has termed Modi’s remark as unfortunate and tragic, according to reports.
The artist who also suffered from dyslexia in her childhood, said that Modi should have a complete knowledge of dyslexia and the political leader should not have broken into a chuckle when an engineering student was trying to explain how her project could help people with dyslexia.
File photo of Prime Minister Narenda Modi. Image credit – News Hour India
During a video interaction with students at the Smart India Hackathon in IIT Roorkee, a student told Prime Minister Modi about her project to help dyslexic kids and gave an example of the movie Taare Zameen Par. Modi asked her if the project “will help a kid who is 40-50 years old”.
When the student replied positively , the Prime Minister said , “the mother of such kids would be very happy.”
The remark of Modi drew widespread criticism from a large number of people and most of them wanted the Prime Minister to apologize for his ‘insensitive’ comment directed towards people suffering from dyslexia.
Bhorali said that while the engineering student was trying to explain her project that could benefit people with dyslexia, Modi’s remark not only made her feel uncomfortable but also led other students at the event to have a hearty laugh.
She also said that if the Prime Minister had shown a little respect for the student’s project, it could also have encouraged people suffering from dyslexia.
The government did not respond to the artist’s petition as it had not gain the required number of signatories.
However, the artist was not discouraged by this and proved to be a perfect example of inspiration to the society through her works in art.
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Gauhati Medical College Cancer Hospital caters to 8000 patients during its first year
by SUKRITY GOGOI
GUWAHATI , February 15, 2018 8:41 pm
Gauhati Medical College Cancer Hospital. Photo: Sukrity Gogoi
In its very first year, the Gauhati Medical College Cancer Hospital catered to over 8,000 patients from Assam and the Northeast.
“Last year, around 1,281 patients underwent radiotherapy and chemotherapy was provided to 964 patients. In total, we catered to over 8,000 patients,” director of state cancer institute Dr BC Goswami told Northeast Now.
Speaking about the prevalence of cancer in the region, Superintendent I/C of Gauhati Medical College Cancer Hospital, Prof K Bhuyan said, “Oral cancer is highly prevalent in the region followed by breast cancer. Among children, a blood-related cancer (haemetological cancer) is mostly seen.”
The hospital has a total capacity of 200 beds.
“Currently, 120 beds are fully operational. The rest is in the process,” Bhuyan said. “Moreover, of the 41 doctors, 13 are cancer specialists,” he added.
“People in the Northeast region consume a lot of red meat which triggers cancer. The different food habits like having smoked meat, uncooked food also contribute to it. We have also seen that oral cancer is highly prevalent in Meghalaya owing to the use of better nuts,” Bhuyan noted.
On being asked about organising awareness camps in the last one year, Dr Goswami said, “Last year, we were busy in the recruitment process and haven’t organized any awareness camps. We plan to organize awareness camps in the upcoming year to reach out to people in various places.”
Dr Goswami mentioned that in many cases, patients interrupt or discontinue their treatment. He further added that the treatment at the Cancer Hospital is provided at a subsidized rate.
Under the Atal Amrit Abhiyan, the government provides financial assistance of Rs 2 lakhs per person per year for a number of ailments, including cancer.
“We will provide free healthcare to all AAA cardholders and we are also planning to introduce the cashless system this year,” Dr Goswami said.
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Meghalaya Election 2018: This is an unusual election
by HH MOHRMEN
, April 12, 2018 6:05 pm
It is final now; the total numbers of candidate contesting the February 27, Meghalaya Election is 370 and for the first time in the history of the state with a matrilineal lineage culture; of the 370 there is an increasing numbers of 33 women candidates in the fray. The Congress has fielded candidates to contest all the 60 seats in the house, the NPP 52, the BJP 47, UDP 35, PDF 26, NCP 21 HSPDP 13, KHNAM 8 and GNC 6 and the 85 other candidates are contesting as independent candidates. Considering the fact that the major regional parties already have a pre-poll alliance; therefore the UDP, the HSPDP and GNC together are contesting 54 out of the 60 vacant seats in the august house.
Other parties too like Aam Aadmi Party, Lok Janshakti Party, All India Trinamool Congress, Republican Party of India (A) and the North East India Development Party have also fielded candidates in some assembly constituencies. This is an unusual election because we already have report of election related violence across the state. There was a violent attack on the brother of PN Syiem candidate from Mawsynram constituency in the East Khasi hills district; there were reports of election related violence in Nangbah village in the West Jaintia hills district, Sutnga village in the East Jaintia hills district and a live Chinese hand grenade was found from a spare tyre of a Bolero vehicle which belongs to Michael Pakyntein, a strong supporter of Congress candidate from Shillong West Constituency Mohendro Rapsang. There are also reported violence in the Garo hills regions.
Place like Sutnga already has a history of violence during the election; if the district administration in the area look at the election history in the district, one will find that the constituency particularly Sutnga witnessed similar violent incidents in the last 2013 election too.
The election this time is highly sensitive and respective district administration will have to be on high alert especially in the constituencies where there are reports of violence. But this election also marked the sharp rise in the numbers of cases where cash was confiscated from different individuals across the state despite the wide publicity of prohibition against carrying cash in the state beyond the permissible limit; yet the flying squad ceased cache of money from different parts of the state.
Despite the violence and the use of money power during election; there are still reasons to be optimistic about the future election in the state. The silver lining in the sky is the fact the certain community has initiated measure to help clean the election process in the state. Local committee like Dorbar Chnong Panaliar, Jowai has taken a bold step prohibiting carrying of voters from the different localities and villages which fall under the 2- Jowai constituency to the place where the candidate campaigns.
The practice now is that candidates irrespective of their parties ferry people every day from their respective places to wherever the candidate campaigns. In doing so, the candidates have to incur huge amount of money to hire cars and buses to ferry voters from their respective villages to the place of campaign. Right now candidates in Jaintia hill are hiring buses even from Assam and each candidate is hiring not less than 8 buses a day. Not allowing the candidates to bring voters to campaign will help minimise the expenditure the candidates have during the election because one can calculate how much it will cost the candidates to hire minimum eight buses a day for more than twenty days.
If all the Dorbar Chnong follows the footsteps of Panaliar then the candidate would not have to spend money on hiring buses and cars to ferry the voters from one place to another. When campaigners visit different places there is also the waste issue because after the campaign one will find that the place is littered from one end to another.
In spite of all the bad reports about the election campaign; there is always a ray of hope that change will take place and change can take place not because of the politicians but the initiative of the common people.
Mohrmen is a freelance writer and environment activist based in Jowai, Meghalaya. He can be reached at [email protected]
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Netflix Offers Immortality in Altered Carbon
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By Dave Clark Last updated Dec 31, 2019
British super group Queen once famously asked ‘Who wants to live forever?’ Apparently quite a few people, given how often immortality finds it’s way into popular sci-fi. This time around it’s in Altered Carbon, a new R rated series coming to Netflix. The show has been some fifteen years in the making, with showrunner Laeta Kalogridis struggling to get studios to buy in due to the adult content of the novel. Kalogridis is so confident in the property that she optioned the rights before the book even made it to print. That confidence has paid off, with Netflix stepping in to bring it to screen in February 2018.
Altered Carbon shows us a world where death is nothing more than an inconvenience. Instead of perma-death, when someone dies they can have their consciousness transferred to a new body, or sleeve. The hero of the piece is one Takeshi Kovacs, a former Envoy. The Envoys are a special military unit with boosted senses that enable them to adapt quickly when moving to a new sleeve. The reason for all the transfers? Humans have discovered faster than light travel, but only for their consciousness, which is transmitted through needlepoint transfer.
The most notable side effect of this is that murder is now close to impossible. What better witness to a murder than the victim themselves? The meat of the story in altered Carbon is the possible murder of Laurens Bancroft. Laurens is a Meth, a nick name for the long lived referencing Methuselah. After an apparent suicide Laurens finds himself unable to remember the last 48 hours but suspects foul play. He hires Takeshi to find out what really happened, and all hell breaks loose as a result.
The novel on which it is based won the 2003 best novel honours in the Philip K. Dick awards, so this could be something really special. The latest trailer certainly looks like it has a lot to offer. The show is set to air on February 2nd 2018.
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79:2.1 India is the only locality where all the Urantia races were blended, the Andite invasion adding the last stock. In the highlands northwest of India the Sangik races came into existence, and without exception members of each penetrated the subcontinent of India in their early days, leaving behind them the most heterogeneous race mixture ever to exist on Urantia. Ancient India acted as a catch basin for the migrating races. The base of the peninsula was formerly somewhat narrower than now, much of the deltas of the Ganges and Indus being the work of the last fifty thousand years.
79:2.2 The earliest race mixtures in India were a blending of the migrating red and yellow races with the aboriginal Andonites. This group was later weakened by absorbing the greater portion of the extinct eastern green peoples as well as large numbers of the orange race], was slightly improved through limited admixture with the blue man, but suffered exceedingly through assimilation of large numbers of the indigo race. But the so-called aborigines of India are hardly representative of these early people; they are rather the most inferior southern and eastern fringe, which was never fully absorbed by either the early Andites or their later appearing Aryan cousins.
79:2.3 By 20,000 B.C. the population of western India had already become tinged with the Adamic blood, and never in the history of Urantia did any one people combine so many different races. But it was unfortunate that the secondary Sangik strains predominated, and it was a real calamity that both the blue and the red man were so largely missing from this racial melting pot of long ago; more of the primary Sangik strains would have contributed very much toward the enhancement of what might have been an even greater civilization. As it developed, the red man was destroying himself in the Americas, the blue man was disporting himself in Europe, and the early descendants of Adam (and most of the later ones) exhibited little desire to admix with the darker colored peoples, whether in India, Africa, or elsewhere.
79:2.4 About 15,000 B.C. increasing population pressure throughout Turkestan and Iran occasioned the first really extensive Andite movement toward India. For over fifteen centuries these superior peoples poured in through the highlands of Baluchistan, spreading out over the valleys of the Indus and Ganges and slowly moving southward into the Deccan. This Andite pressure from the northwest drove many of the southern and eastern inferiors into Burma and southern China but not sufficiently to save the invaders from racial obliteration.
79:2.5 The failure of India to achieve the hegemony of Eurasia was largely a matter of topography; population pressure from the north only crowded the majority of the people southward into the decreasing territory of the Deccan, surrounded on all sides by the sea. Had there been adjacent lands for emigration, then would the inferiors have been crowded out in all directions, and the superior stocks would have achieved a higher civilization.
79:2.6 As it was, these earlier Andite conquerors made a desperate attempt to preserve their identity and stem the tide of racial engulfment by the establishment of rigid restrictions regarding intermarriage. Nonetheless, the Andites had become submerged by 10,000 B.C., but the whole mass of the people had been markedly improved by this absorption.
79:2.7 Race mixture is always advantageous in that it favors versatility of culture and makes for a progressive civilization, but if the inferior elements of racial stocks predominate, such achievements will be short-lived. A polyglot culture can be preserved only if the superior stocks reproduce themselves in a safe margin over the inferior. Unrestrained multiplication of inferiors, with decreasing reproduction of superiors, is unfailingly suicidal of cultural civilization.
79:2.8 Had the Andite conquerors been in numbers three times what they were, or had they driven out or destroyed the least desirable third of the mixed orange-green-indigo inhabitants, then would India have become one of the world's leading centers of cultural civilization and undoubtedly would have attracted more of the later waves of Mesopotamians that flowed into Turkestan and thence northward to Europe.
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Polish women are taking to the streets to reject the Church’s hold over their bodies – and country
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Belarus bishop alerts amid election protests: “Truth cannot be found where there is violence”
Deadly clashes continued into their fourth night across Belarus.
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Albany, NY, Dec. 01, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics (AIM Photonics), a program of NY CREATES today announced $19 million in research program awards for advanced integrated photonics under The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Lasers for Universal Microscale Optical Systems (LUMOS) program.
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“The AIM Photonics consortium, our Rochester and Albany-based team, and I thank DARPA for trusting us to lead the development of this critical next gen PIC technology,” said Dr. Michael J. Cumbo, CEO of AIM Photonics. “The advantages of on-chip lasers will provide not only significant benefits in military microsystems, but also in diverse commercial applications, including autonomous vehicles, augmented reality, big data, biosensing, and quantum computing.
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World's smallest computer and unhackable data top IBM's annual future-tech list
By Michael Irving
World's smallest computer and ...
Among IBM's annual 5 in 5 list is the world's smallest computer, smaller than a grain of salt – seen here as the tiny white dot on the lefthand corner of the chip
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IBM Research has released its annual "5 in 5" list, outlining five technologies that the company believes will be instrumental in reshaping society and business over the next five years. This year's list has a strong focus on security and AI, predicting that by 2023 we'll have unhackable encryption methods, unbiased AI and mainstream quantum computers.
While the technologies on show are rooted in research coming out of IBM, the unpredictable nature of progress means they're not always on the money. Previous lists have had mixed success, from the spot-on prediction that we'd be unlocking our phones with iris scans by now, to the more ambitious idea that by 2017 we'd have real-time baby translators like that episode of The Simpsons.
Blockchains, "crypto-anchors" and the world's smallest computer could counteract counterfeiting
Nobody likes knockoffs. Crypto-anchors and blockchain will unite against counterfeiters.
With the explosion of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, blockchain seems like a bit of a buzzword lately, but the technology could have far-reaching applications. Basically, a blockchain is a distributed ledger that doesn't allow existing "blocks" of data to be edited, creating a secure database that clearly shows the entire history of whatever information is entered. The first blockchain was invented to secure Bitcoin transactions, but they could be applied to anything that needs this kind of security.
In this case, it's fighting counterfeiting. Tiny, tamper-proof digital fingerprints that IBM calls crypto-anchors would be embedded into products or packaging, recording that product's entire journey from manufacturing to the end user. By scanning these tags, users can see its history in detail and be sure it's not a knockoff. These crypto-anchors could take the form of optical codes, edible magnetic ink splotches on pills or food products, or even the world's smallest computer. IBM has crammed up to a million transistors onto a chip the size of a grain of salt.
Quantum computers will become ubiquitous – for better or worse
Today, quantum computing is a researcher's playground. In five years, it will be mainstream.
Quantum computers are advancing fast, but for now they're still restricted to labs. Where traditional computers process information as bits, a series of ones and zeroes, quantum computers use qubits, where data can be either a one, zero, or both at the same time. That allows them to conduct massive amounts of simultaneous calculations, opening up the possibility of solving currently-unsolvable problems.
But for quantum computers to become commercially useful, scientists predict they'll need to be built with at least 1 million qubits. Our current most advanced prototype is Google's Bristlecone, boasting 72 qubits, so there's still a long way to go, but IBM is confident that they'll be out of the lab and into the hands of the public within five years.
Lattice cryptography will be unhackable
Hackers gonna hack. Until they encounter lattice cryptography.
As useful as they may be for medicine and data centers, if quantum computers were to fall into the wrong hands they could be used to brute-force their way through our current best encryption methods. So, IBM is building some stronger defenses.
The new security method is known as lattice cryptography, which hides sensitive data inside elaborate, multi-dimensional lattices. These structures are so dense and complex that the researchers believe no algorithm will ever be able to crack them, allowing traditional computers to stand up to quantum cyberattacks.
This technology is also being used to build what's known as Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE). Normally, files are encrypted while they're being transmitted, but open while sitting idle on a computer or in use. This technique allows files to remain encrypted even while calculations are performed, meaning information is never vulnerable. The other benefit is that it remains anonymized, so, for example, credit agencies could calculate a client's credit score without specifically looking at their details, or medical professionals could share patient data without revealing their identity.
AI systems will be free of human biases
AI bias will explode. But only the unbiased AI will survive.
Like a child picking up their parents' bad habits, AI systems can inherit the unconscious biases of their creators. And with AI becoming ever more common and over 180 defined biases to try to avoid, that problem could keep getting worse.
Whether we realize or not, our decisions can be influenced by racial, gender or ideological biases, and these can all be transferred to AI systems which we depend on to be impartial. The MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab is working to identify the kinds of principles that people use to make decisions, and teach AI to spot inconsistencies that might indicate a bias. Future AI systems could be trained to apply human values and principles to their decision-making.
Autonomous microscopes use plankton as living water sensors
Our oceans are dirty. AI-powered robot microscopes may save them.
Water is essentially the most important resource on Earth, yet the quality of water supplies can be hard to track in real-time. Specialty sensors are often deployed, but they're usually on the lookout for specific markers and won't notice when other things enter the ecosystem.
Conveniently, plankton, the microscopic organisms that inhabit many natural bodies of water, can act as natural sensors. Keeping a close eye on them can tell us a lot about the health of the water, and IBM says it's currently working on small, autonomous microscopes that could analyze and track plankton in the wild.
These microscopes could be fitted with AI systems to analyze the behavior and health of microorganisms in real time, alerting observers to changes in temperature or chemical composition to give early warnings for events like oil spills and algae blooms.
These five technologies sound like reasonable predictions based on the direction of today's technologies, but we'll reserve judgement for the versions of ourselves looking back from 2023.
Source: IBM
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Michael has always been fascinated by space, technology, dinosaurs, and the weirder mysteries of the universe. With a Bachelor of Arts in Professional Writing and several years experience under his belt, he joined New Atlas as a staff writer in 2016.
John Kline Kurtz March 20, 2018 10:15 AM
So in other words, one might say that the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab is training an AI with a bias toward inconsistencies... it is still biased toward the 180 defined biases... oh boy!
McDesign March 20, 2018 01:34 PM
I'm afraid that when we "train AI to be without bias" it will be hard to discount or argue around the truths it will reveal. We have whole industries based on that now.
darkstar01 March 20, 2018 01:39 PM
I call bullshit on this... it'll be unhackable for a short period of time until hackers gain access to computing power like this...
Douglas Bennett Rogers March 20, 2018 02:36 PM
Biases are acquired because they simplify procedure. Eventually they become ineffective and even counterproductive. Monitoring and evaluating biases is very valuable.
I_AmOk March 20, 2018 02:50 PM
How can the researchers be sure about their objectiveness is not biased? Introducing such interference into AI algorithms is twisting a system to our likes. AI algorithms may have missing parameters, but saying it is bias is our subjective thinking.
For example, if a gender is one of the parameters with a huge training set, after training, it turns out the weight of the gender parameter is very low, implying gender is not significant in future prediction. However, by adding weight to the parameter will nullify the training. If you think it is not right, getting better or more training data. Don't twist the data or algorithm to suit your bias.
Daishi March 21, 2018 04:10 AM
They want to remove bias and teach AI to be consistent with our values but aren't there biases that we do value? Affirmative action and corporate diversity initiatives are biases that are openly pursued and cheered as consistent with human values.
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Twitter Will Label or Hide Tweets That Aim to Undercut the Election
Twitter has announced a new policy just in time for the presidential election to label or remove tweets containing false information that intend to undermine confidence in the election process, according to CNBC. These tweets will include any misleading information about election officials or other election-related laws.
“We will not permit our service to be abused around civic processes, most importantly elections,” company officials said, according to CNN. “Any attempt to do so — both foreign and domestic — will be met with strict enforcement of our rules, which are applied equally and judiciously for everyone.”
Impacted tweets will also include unverified information about election rigging, vote tallying, or election results. This includes anything where candidates claim to have won their elections before all of the election results are tallied or verified. Tweets provoking unlawful conduct that could hamper a peaceful transfer of power will also be affected.
Twitter officials say the policy will be “applied equally and judiciously for everyone.” President Trump has created doubts about the election and claimed on social media, without evidence, that mail-in ballots will lead to voter fraud. He has also asked voters to illegally vote twice. Twitter began fact checking some of Trump’s tweets earlier this year. As a result, he signed an executive order targeting social media and tried to get lawmakers to pass more strict Internet laws. Twitter’s new policy is expected to go into effect next week.
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Neil Pasricha has a new formula for success.
Neil Pasricha remembers the old formula for success: Study hard, get straight As, go to a great college, work hard, and get promoted so you can make a bunch of money and achieve happiness. Pasricha doesn’t quibble with elements of that premise. He’d simply flip the equation on its head.
“That model’s actually the opposite,” he says. “It’s not ‘great work leads to big success, which leads you to be happy.’ It’s ‘being happy leads to great work, which leads to big success.’”
The road to that realization presented itself for Pasricha only after he experienced great personal distress.
In 2008, he started the blog “1,000 Awesome Things” on impulse after his wife told him she wanted a divorce and his best friend committed suicide following a lengthy bout with mental illness.
Begun primarily as a salve for his own despondence, Pasricha’s steady stream of simple, free, universal pleasures soon attracted a massive audience.
From his initial post examining the oddities of the broccoflower to essays celebrating old, dangerous playground equipment, flipping to the cool side of the pillow in the middle of the night, and waking up to realize it’s Saturday, Pasricha captured everyday joys we too often overlook.
“If you can see the value in simple things, then it will be simple to be happy,” Pasricha says.
That principle applies to the workplace, where we spend so much of our lives—often unhappily. Studies indicate seven of eight employees don’t enjoy their jobs, he notes.
Over the last decade, he strived to disrupt that ratio while serving in a leadership development role at Walmart.
Through on-the-job experiences and a deep dive into psychology research, Pasricha discovered people can choose to be happy—and that happier people not only perform better in the workplace but also engender positivity among their co-workers, breeding still more success.
Recently, Pasricha left Walmart to co-found the Institute for Global Happiness, which produces organizational resources to inspire employees.
And on the heels of four successful iterations of the “Book of Awesome” series, Pasricha recently published “The Happiness Equation,” a 300-page open letter to his then-unborn child detailing nine secrets to living a happy life.
“The biggest thing I learned from this process is that the glass isn’t half-full or half-empty. In fact, the glass is refillable,” he says. “I gave myself permission to think of my happiness as something I could pour into myself. It might not be easy, but the concept has inspired me personally and taught me a lot about how to turn a bad day into a good one.”
For more from Pasricha, listen to a recent interview with him on the CUNA News Podcast.
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Agribusiness has flagged a stronger year ahead
Prashant Mehra
Agribusiness GrainCorp has flagged a stronger year ahead due to a larger crop and operational efficiencies achieved in its storage and logistics business over the past two years.
The company’s profit in the year to September 30 dropped four per cent from the previous year to $30.9 million, while underlying profit rose 18 per cent to $52.7 million, in line with the company’s guidance.
Australia’s biggest grains handler now hopes to benefit from a larger crop in the current fiscal year, with 1.5 million tonnes of grain already received.
“We think it will be a much better year for us than 2016 was,” managing director Mark Palmquist said, though he did not provide specific financial guidance.
“While this year’s larger crop is welcome, harvest is at least three weeks late this year and there is a long way to go before it is all stripped and in the bin,” he cautioned.
Mr Palmquist expects conditions in the grains marketing business to remain challenging, as a global oversupply of grain, strong competition and lower demand for produce from Australia’s east coast weigh on prospects.
GrainCorp’s storage, logistics and marketing businesses have contracted in recent years, while its malt business has grown due to rising demand for whisky and craft beer.
The malt business is likely to build further on its strong performance, helped by an expansion at its Pocatello facilities in the US and continuing demand growth in America and overseas markets.
GrainCorp is the world’s fourth largest commercial malts producer, supplying brewers and distillers globally. The division contributes the bulk of the group’s earnings.
The company expects improved margins in its edible oil business, helped by a larger Australian canola crop and expansion projects.
GrainCorp shares dropped two cents to $8.58.
SMALLER CROP DENTS GRAINCORP’S PROFIT
* Net profit down 3.7pct to $30.9m
* Revenue up 1.8pct to $4.16b
* Final dividend up 1 cent to of 3.5 cents, fully franked
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The whistleblower who called out Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme has accused General Electric of wide-scale fraud in a move that has sent the conglomerate’s share price into a tailspin.
In a report titled General Electric, a Bigger Fraud Than Enron, investigator Harry Markopolos claims GE is engaging in accounting fraud worth $38bn. He said GE is heading for bankruptcy and is hiding $29bn in long-term care losses.
“GE’s $38bn in accounting fraud amounts to over 40% of GE’s market capitalization, making it far more serious than either the Enron or WorldCom accounting frauds,” he writes, referencing two of the largest corporate accounting scandals in history.
After a year long investigation for an unidentified hedge fund, Markopolos writes he has discovered “an Enronesque business approach that has left GE on the verge of insolvency”. Enron, a Texas-based energy group, filed for bankruptcy in 2001, brought down by a massive accountancy scandal.
This report is “going to make this company probably file for bankruptcy”, Markopolos told CNBC’s Squawk on the Street. “WorldCom and Enron lasted about four months … We’ll see how GE does.”
In a statement GE said it “stands behind its financials” and operates to the “highest level of integrity” in its financial reporting. “We remain focused on running our business every day and … will not be distracted by this type of meritless, misguided and self-serving speculation.”
GE’s share price sank close to 15% after the report was released.
General Electric is already under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the US’s top financial watchdog, and the justice department over accounting irregularities related to its insurance and power divisions.
Once the world’s most valuable company, GE has struggled in recent years. Former CEO and chairman John Flannery was abruptly removed last year after only a year on the job and replaced by former Lawrence Culp, former CEO of the Danaher conglomerate.
Markopolos is best known for his role as the whistleblower who warned the SEC about Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. Madoff was jailed for 150-years in 2009 after pleading guilty to swindling investors out of $65bn in savings.
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July Issue 2012
Pakistani Media Caught In the Eye of the Storm
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It took a long time coming, but when it did, not many within the media industry were surprised. All is not well inside the media machine, but strangely, viewers are just finding out.
The now infamous interview of real estate tycoon Malik Riaz on Dunya TV and the leaked footage of banter between the guests and anchors during a news break came as a shock to an unsuspecting media consumer market. That one single incident transformed the hunter into the hunted. At about the same time, a mysterious list appeared on the social media and added insult to injury. The list — which is highly suspect — was made on a Bahria Town letterhead and carried names of prominent journalists and details of alleged payments made to them by Bahria Town. The timing of the list could not have been worse. Despite being highly dubious, it found traction among a wary public smarting from the blow of the Dunya TV interview. Suddenly all media was suspect. And corrupt. And in bed with the power-wielders it criticised daily. Something, somewhere had gone horribly wrong.
This ‘something’ and ‘somewhere’ is not really a mystery if one digs a little deeper into the inner working of the Pakistani media industry. Plagued by unprofessionalism, vested interests, twisted values and domineering commercialism, the media is groaning under the weight of its own contradictions. The face it shows to the world through its screens and front pages — laced with sanctimonious verbiage — is not the real face. This Janus-like way of operating has finally begun to bite.
But is the bite hurting? For a while it may, but sadly the controversy will blow over. Once that happens, it will be back to business for the media till a new scandal erupts. The need to reform is fleeting, because those opposing reform are the biggest beneficiaries of the status quo within the media industry.
In Pakistan, media means money and power. A deadly combination by all standards. With its vast reach and access to the highest offices, the media platform is all too open — and tempting — to abuse. Hiding vested interests, personal, political and commercial agendas within the folds of the news and current affairs is fairly simple. In mature media markets, however, such abuse is checked through a journalistic value system. Journalism’s professional requirements act as a barrier to distorting truth and fact in order to extract gains. It separates right from wrong, ethical from unethical.
This is why Pakistan’s airwaves are a sacred trust of the people licensed to an entrepreneur in the name of the citizens of Pakistan. These airwaves belong to the people, not to any one individual or a group. The entrepreneur can extract profit from the license he has paid for, but his ultimate responsibility is to use these airwaves for the larger public good. If he is using them for his own vested interests, he is violating the sacred trust bestowed on him by the state in the name of the people.
Unfortunately, this is where the problem starts in Pakistan. Right from the top, commercial factors dominate from the start. Content is then tailored accordingly, regardless of its merit. Saleability trumps credibility. Balance sheets dictate editorial sheets. Marketing and product development personnel become gatekeepers to content instead of journalists. The mantra is not ‘inform, educate and hold accountable,’ but rather, ‘sell, sell, sell.’
Some do it less crudely than others, but all follow the same model. Owners, news managers, anchors, producers, reporters all follow the commercial Pied Piper. Journalists may crib and cry, but there’s little they can do except opt out of the industry. They have become part of the unholy nexus which sees media peddlers peddling their wares to power peddlers, who in turn peddle their political interests to media peddlers — all on the basis of the platform they have acquired in the name of the people of Pakistan.
Journalism is bleeding.
The Dunya TV exposé is merely the tip of the iceberg. The rot within is spreading like cancer, infecting vitals and weakening the body. A code of conduct at this stage would be nothing more than one stitch on a gaping wound. Much deeper and broader reform is required if journalism is to be saved in Pakistan. Such reform can only be instituted if there is institutional consensus to back it. No single c hannel, or media organisation can undertake such an exercise. All stakeholders — including the government, the parliament and advertisers — have to provide input for a comprehensive reformation of the media, before it is too late.
The problem is the stakeholders themselves. The owners have little incentive for reform as long as the cash machine keeps ringing. The news managers and anchors stay on the owners’ right side because they get their fat paychecks, politicians in government and parliament tread softly as they need the media for their own use, the advertisers play along as their checkbooks cast a deep shadow over editorial content, and the viewer…well, the viewer sits at home and consumes the digestible but unhealthy content being spewed out of his TV screen.
When everyone has a finger in the pie, who would want to reach for the remote?
This article was originally published in the July issue of Newsline under the headline “In the Eye of the Storm.”
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Monsoon reaches Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh; weather hot and humid in North India
With the southwest monsoon knocking across Maharashtra on Sunday, it also reached parts of Gujarat and Chhattisgarh, while the weather remained hot and humid in many parts of North India. The India Meteorological Department said that the monsoon has knocked over most parts of western and central India, but its progress is likely to be slow this week.
Delhi crossed 40 degrees
The highest temperature in the national capital remained around 40 degrees Celsius while the humidity level remained between 40-82 percent. Safdarjung Observatory, which provides data for Delhi, recorded a maximum temperature of 40.8 degrees Celsius, slightly above normal. At the same time, the Palam and Pusa weather stations recorded maximum temperatures of 41.4 and 42.2 degrees Celsius respectively.
A thunderstorm can occur in many parts of Rajasthan today
Meanwhile, several places in eastern and western parts of Rajasthan received heavy to moderate rain on Sunday morning while some places are in the grip of scorching heat. 58 millimeters in Kotputli, 50 mm in Kolayat in Bikaner, 47 mm in Salumbar in Udaipur, 45 mm of rain in Kotkasim in Alwar rain was recorded in the region. Sriganganagar was the hottest place in the state with 44.9 degree Celsius.
Monsoon reached Maharashtra
At the same time, after four days of hitting the Maharashtra coast, the southwest monsoon has made steady progress and now it has reached the entire state. An Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) official said on Sunday that so far the monsoon progress has been normal and in line with expectations.
Monsoon active in Chhattisgarh
Meanwhile, Monsoon has been active in Chhattisgarh and many districts of the state are likely to receive heavy rains in the next two days. An official of the meteorological department said that the monsoon usually reaches Ambikapur (northern Chhattisgarh) by the third week of June, but this time it reached here a week ago
Chance of rain in the next five days
Heavy rains are likely over some areas of South Gujarat in the next five days. Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar and Valsad and some areas of Union Territory of Dadar and Nagar Haveli have received heavy rainfall since Saturday.
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With Puzzlewood, Plone Invites Listeners Into an Analog Synth Wonderland (Review)
Puzzlewood is the retro-futurist synth band’s first album in over two decades — and it’s a welcome return.
Puzzlewood by Plone
2020, Ghost Box
One of my favorite releases on the venerable Warp label is Plone’s 1999 debut album, For Beginner Piano. Sounding like Joy Electric remixed by Boards of Canada, the group’s analog synth music was by turns playful and nostalgic, and served as a whimsical counterpart to their retro-futurist contemporaries in Broadcast and Pram. (That Plone’s music was a pleasantly humble rejoinder to Warp’s bigger, more audacious acts like Autechre, Squarepusher, and of course, Aphex Twin was just an added bonus.)
Unfortunately, Warp rejected Plone’s sophomore album and shortly thereafter, the band’s members moved on to other projects (e.g., Modified Toy Orchestra, Seeland, ZX Spectrum Orchestra). I’d still do the occasional search for Plone in the following years, just to see if anything was in the works, but I’d pretty much given up hope for any new music from the band.
Jump ahead to last week, when Spotify’s algorithm deigned to alert me to a new Plone album (even though it had actually been released back in April). My excitement was further compounded by the fact that Puzzlewood was released on Ghost Box, which is pretty much a perfect match. Ghost Box’s aesthetic, with its focus on library music, strange analog experiments, and skewed nostalgia, taps into the same vibe that characterized For Beginner Piano all those decades ago. (Indeed, I wouldn’t be surprised if Plone is counted as an influence by some members of the Ghost Box roster.)
Part of the joy of For Beginner Piano was how simple and straightforward its songs were, replete with playful melodies rendered bright and colorful by Plone’s knob-twiddling. Puzzlewood finds the band’s remaining two members still conjuring up playful, uplifting tones. Consider the ear-dazzling kaleidoscope of bleeps, bloops, and other analog bric-à-brac that immediately sets the album’s tone on the opening salvo of “Years and Elements,” “Miniature Magic,” and the too-cute title track — a tone that’s marked by whimsy, optimistic flights of fancy, and starry-eyed reminiscence.
But it’s also obvious that the duo has expanded their sonic palette, with shimmering guitars (“Miniature Magic”), horns (“Watson’s Telescope”), and even string arrangements (“The Model Village”) supplementing and enhancing the duo’s array of vintage synths and vocoders.
The resulting music isn’t as direct or straightforward as For Beginner Piano, but upon repeated listens, the layered and intricate Puzzlewood reveals itself to be just as charming as its predecessor — though with the added delight of being a bit unpredictable. For example, I’m still thrown for a loop whenever those funky guitar licks and danceable rhythms à la Out Hud kick in on “Day Trip” or when “Chalk Stream” becomes propelled by arpeggiated synths and a krautrock-ish beat.
Puzzlewood does contain moments that fall flat. “Sarcelle,” for example, evokes a twee Ladytron with its vocal samples and rapid-fire synthwork, and would probably have been a better b-side. The same holds true for “Sweet Factory,” which feels less like a proper song and more like a clearinghouse of samples and sounds that Plone couldn’t fit in anywhere else.
Those minor quibbles aside, Puzzlewood is a welcome and delightful return. When they released For Beginner Piano in 1999, Plone billed their music as “timeless electronic melodies.” Two decades later, Puzzlewood is proof of that descriptor’s truth. At its best, Plone creates music that truly feels like it’s being channelled in from another era — an era that the duo brings to vivid life with oodles of analog charm.
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