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Culture November 15, 2020
Netflix Announces Eight-Film Partnership with Saudi Arabian Production Company
by Annie Schumacker
A still from Six Windows in the Desert: Is Sumiyati going to Hell? Courtesy of Netflix
Streaming giant Netflix has announced its newest partnership with Saudi Arabian production group Telfaz11. The collaboration will see the creation of eight films, the first expecting to be released in late 2021.
The partnership between Netflix and Telfaz11 comes after the success of the award-winning short-film collective Six Windows in the Desert, which was released earlier this year. The short-film collection saw Telfaz11 bring the region’s rich, cinematic culture to the big screen on an international scale. The eight new films scheduled for production will look to appeal to viewers from both, the Arab and global audiences.
“Great stories can come from anywhere and be loved everywhere. We are expanding our library of Saudi content and showcasing the beauty of Saudi storytelling by joining forces with its creators to produce authentic and intriguing stories that will resonate with both Arab and global audiences. We hope that Telfaz’s work will offer Netflix members around the world a chance to experience Saudi culture, humor, and art,” said Nuha El Tayeb, director of content acquisition at Netflix.
Telfaz11 was founded in 2011 and has been widely regarded as the entity responsible for reinventing innovative and powerful storytelling across the Arab region and influencing pop-culture in the Kingdom. The company was founded by CEO and Chairman Alaa Yousef Fadan, writer and director Ali Al Kalthami, and comedian Ibrahim Al Khairallah. Al Khairallah was previously featured on Netflix’s Comedians of the World, as one of the four Arab comedians in the acclaimed stand-up comedy series.
The trio has expressed their delight at Telfaz11’s new partnership with Netflix, and hope the eight upcoming projects, beginning in 2021, will offer people around the world a glimpse into the creative minds, humor, and entertainment that Saudi Arabia has to offer. “We are thrilled to partner with Netflix in an important validation of both our success at Telfaz11 and the region’s burgeoning production ecosystem,” said co-founder and CEO of Telfaz11, Fadan. “These eight films will showcase for global audiences the incredible culture, locations, and talent that exists within both our region and the Telfaz11 filmmaker network.”
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ICICI Lombard Awarded the Asia Insurance Technology Award for "Best Mobile Application"
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ICICI Lombard Awarded the Asia Insurance Technology Award for "Best Mobile Application" PR Newswire MUMBAI, December 5, 2012 MUMBAI, December 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Ltd., the country's largest private sector general insurance company, has been awarded the prestigious Asia Insurance Technology Award for the "Best Mobile Application" in the non-life insurance sector. This award recognises those insurers who exhibit true innovation in the use of mobile technology. ICICI Lombard General Insurance was bestowed the award for implementing the 'Enterprise Mobility Initiative', having launched several mobility applications targeting diverse stakeholders including end customers, agents, claims surveyors, and internal employees, thus providing quick service and information access at the touch of a button. The winners for Asia Insurance Technology Award 2012 were chosen from a highly competitive field that included nominations from India, Japan, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Australia and New Zealand. Commenting on the achievement, Mr. Eswaranatarajan N, Chief-Operations & Technology, ICICI Lombard GIC Ltd. said, "We are honoured to have received the award for 'Best Application Award' from Asia Insurance Review and Celent. At ICICI Lombard, customer-centric product innovation remains an imperative for sustaining growth.
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MUMBAI,December 5, 2012/PRNewswire/ --
ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Ltd., the country's largest private sector general insurance company, has been awarded the prestigious Asia Insurance Technology Award for the "Best Mobile Application" in the non-life insurance sector. This award recognises those insurers who exhibit true innovation in the use of mobile technology. ICICI Lombard General Insurance was bestowed the award for implementing the 'Enterprise Mobility Initiative', having launched several mobility applications targeting diverse stakeholders including end customers, agents, claims surveyors, and internal employees, thus providing quick service and information access at the touch of a button.
The winners for Asia Insurance Technology Award 2012 were chosen from a highly competitive field that included nominations from India, Japan, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Australia and New Zealand. Commenting on the achievement,Mr. Eswaranatarajan N, Chief-Operations & Technology, ICICI Lombard GIC Ltd.said, "We are honoured to have received the award for 'Best Application Award' from Asia Insurance Review and Celent. At ICICI Lombard, customer-centric product innovation remains an imperative for sustaining growth. By migrating our services to the technology platform, we have been able to enhance our service delivery both in terms of reducing the number of processes as well as the tim e required for settling claims. We shall strive to continuously set new industry benchmarks by bringing in best practices and enhancing our products, processes and service deliverables."
About: Asia Insurance Technology Award
Asia Insurance Technology Awards recognises excellence and innovation in the use of technology within the insurance industry. The second Asia Insurance Technology Award was given on the Asia Insurance CIO Sum mit on 9 Nov 2012in Marina Mandarin Singapore.
Asia Insurance Technology Awards is organised by Celent together with Asia Insurance Review. Twenty nine nominations were received this year from India, Japan, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Australia and New Zealand, and eight winners were selected by Celent AITA evaluation team consisting of analysts from Asia, Europe and North America.
About: ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Ltd.
ICICI Lombard GIC Ltd. is a joint venture between ICICI Bank Limited,India's second largest bank with consolidated total assets of overUSD 91 billionatMarch 31, 2012Canada basedand Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited, a USD 30 billiondiversified financial services company engaged in general insurance, reinsurance, insurance claims management and investment management.
ICICI Lombard GIC Ltd. is the largest private sectorgeneral insurance companyin India with a Gross Written Premium (GWP) ofRs 5,358 crorefor the year endedMarch 31, 2012. The company issued over 76 lakh policies and settled over 44 laky claims and has a claim disposal ratio of 99% (percentage of claims settled against claims reported) as onMarch 31, 2012.
The company has been conferred the "Golden Peacock Award 2012" for Corporate Social Responsibility, "G olden Peacock Innovation Award-2010" for Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana. It also received the "Skoch Financial Inclusion Award-2011" in the micro finance category. The company has been conferred with 'NASSCOM - CN BC TV18 IT User Award 2010' for Best Technology Implem entation in the Insurance Sector. It has been awarded CNBC Awaaz Consumer Award 2010 for being the 'most preferred brand' in the General Insurance category. ICICI Lombard Auto Insurance has been rated highest in customer satisfaction by J.D. Power Asia Pacific in India among 11 auto insurance providers. It was awarded Customer and Brand Loyalty award in the 'Insurance Sector - Non-Life' at the 3rd Loyalty awards, 2010 and the 'General Insurance Company of the Year' at the 11th Asia Insurance Industry Awards.
ICICI Lombard allows instant policy issuance and renewal through its websitewww.icicilombard.comfor all retail insurance products includingCar Insurance,International Travel Insurance, Two Wheeler Insurance, Home Insurance andHealth Insurance in India. There are multiple payment options available including internet banking, credit card, debit card and cash card.
For more details about the company, log on to the w ebsitewww.icicilombard.com.
Primary Media Contact: Girish J Kalra,girish.kalra@icicilombard.com, 91-9167226767
Secondary Media Contact: Sulakshna Mukherjee,sulakshna.mukherjee@icicilombard.com, 91-22-61961451
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Voice problems can develop at any age. They do not always result from trauma such as yelling, coughing or reflux. Sometimes changes in voice are due to medication side effects, inadvertent nerve damage from surgery, viral nerve paralysis, HPV, cancer or neurological conditions. Below are examples of a variety of voice conditions and a brief description of how they typically develop. Treatment for voice disorders should begin with an ENT doctor, preferably with specialty in laryngology. Be certain to inquire whether your doctor uses a strobe light when they perform endoscopy to look at your vocal cords. This allows for clear and accurate depiction of the vocal cord tissue and assessment of vibratory integrity. An endoscopy without stroboscopy prohibits assessment of this movement, which may be essential in determining the source of hoarseness. If the condition you are experiencing is related to breathing difficulty, as in vocal cord disorder (VCD), the managing physician may be a pulmonologist or allergist. The ENT may decide to pursue surgery, therapy with a speech pathologist who specializes in voice disorders, or both.
Muscle Tension Dysphonia
MTD means excessive throat compression is occurring during speech or singing. It typically manifests as a secondary response to an underlying voice conditions such as vocal cord weakness (paresis or paralysis), growths on vocal cords, reactive to reflux exposure in throat, general hypersensitivity from medication, allergies, post-nasal drip or environmental irritants. It is important to explore all potential causes before trying voice therapy to change speaking patterns because the condition may reverse itself without direct intervention. There are rarer cases where MTD expresses itself without organic triggers seen in the larynx. This may occur with psychological distress and often requires direct intervention with a voice therapist to train relaxed speaking patterns. Concurrent counseling or psychiatric services may be warranted.
Vocal Nodules
Vocal nodules are symmetrical calluses that develop on the free edge of the vocal cords. They form from chronic traumatic vocal cord closure such as loud talking, yelling, unhealthy singing, coughing and throat clearing. These conditions may result from more indirect causes such as reflux, stress, post-nasal drip, dehydration or allergies. The calluses are similar as to what a guitarist would develop on the fingers he used to hold the strings on his fret board. As long as there is no additional pathology identified such as a polyp or cyst, the callusing will resolve once the behavior causing it stops. This occurs in voice therapy where a specialized speech pathologist will help modify speaking and singing styles to reduce excessive compression of the vocal cords.
Vocal Cyst(s)
Cysts usually develop on one vocal cord and may cause callusing where it strikes the contralateral side. They are not necessarily caused by overuse; however, can be worsened in a person who uses their voice excessively. Formation of a cyst is typically the result of a blocked glandular duct or abnormality of a mucous membrane. They are differentiated from a polyp in that the lesion is typically dense and inflexible. The voice quality of a cyst is generally characterized by persistent hoarse/harsh quality, whereas a polyp may result in intermittent normal quality due to the flexibility of the lesion. Treatment involves surgery with an ENT doctor. Your doctor may refer you for peri-operative vocal therapy to reduce compensatory muscle tension speaking patterns.
Vocal Polyp(s)
Polyps are fluid filled sacs that form on the striking surface of the vocal cords. In contrast with vocal nodules, it is possible for a polyp to develop on one or both vocal cords from a single traumatic event. They also occur from chronic overuse. Some believe polyps are resolutions of prior hemorrhages, whereas an individual speaks through the bleeding and an organized fluid filled sac develops. Depending on the stage of the polyp and vascular structure of the vocal cord, the polyp may be acutely hemorrhagic. The resulting vocal quality of a polyp will often differ from a cyst and/or nodules. Due to the hypermobility of the fluid, sometimes the striking zone of the vocal cords is clear and the voice will sound normal. Management of medium to large polyps almost always involves surgery with peri-operative vocal therapy to reduce traumatic speaking/singing patterns. In some cases, the vocal cords are excessively swollen and may appear to be nodules. As an individual begins voice therapy and swelling reduces, the nodules may evolve and reveal a polyp or cyst.
Vocal Fold Hemorrhaging
Hemorrhaging is an acute vocal cord condition requiring absolute vocal rest to heal without potential of causing permanent damage to the tissues. It may happen from yelling, coughing, sneezing, laughing or other circumstances that induce forceful traumatic vocal cord closure. Dehydration and blood thinning medications can cause predisposition to hemorrhaging. Vascular structure of each person’s individual vocal cords also determines risk of hemorrhage. If a singer who prefers belting style has large blood vessels along the striking surface of the vocal cords, they are at particular risk. ENT doctors will sometimes remove the blood vessels on the vocal cords to prevent hemorrhaging, especially if there is chronic inflammation or prior nodules/polyps/cysts.
Laryngeal Papilloma
Vocal cord papilloma are irregular growths resulting from infection of human papilloma virus (HPV). They can cause severe hoarseness and even breathing difficulty depending where they grow in the throat and airway. Laryngeal expression of HPV occurs in only a small number of people who carry the virus. It may recur many times or lay dormant for long periods of time. Treatment of vocal cord papilloma requires surgery. This typically is achieved with a laser and may need to be performed on multiple occasions. There is a role for voice therapy in papilloma cases, as the repeat growths and surgeries may cause compensatory muscle tension or chronic scarring/stiffness of the vocal cords.
Vocal Fold Paralysis
Vocal cord paralysis or paresis (partial paralysis/weakness) occurs when there is damage to the laryngeal nerve(s). This can develop for a variety of reasons including viral infections, neck surgeries (cervical spinal fusions), thyroid removal, intubation and trauma anywhere on the neck. Left vocal cord paralysis is more common than right vocal cord paralysis because the nerve on the left side loops below the heart. Some patients who undergo heart surgeries sustain vocal cord paralysis due to damage of this nerve. Prognosis for vocal cord paralyses varies. If it is believed the injury is due to viral illness or bruising/stretching with a surgery and the voice is beginning to return, it may completely resolve without intervention. Temporary vocal cord injection can be performed by an ENT surgeon to alleviate hoarseness and swallowing difficulty. If there is a known cut to the nerve due to surgery or injury and the voice has remained persistent breathy without any change, it is likely the patient will require permanent augmentation of this vocal cord where the surgeon pushes the vocal cord to the middle so it can meet the other side, creating improved speaking quality.
Irritable Larynx Syndrome: Paradoxical Vocal Fold Movement, Vocal Cord Dysfunction, Laryngospasm, Chronic Cough, Chronic Throat Clearing, Muscle Tension Dysphonia
Irritable Larynx Syndrome may manifest with any of the aforementioned conditions. It is the result of nerve hypersensitivity. The 10th Cranial Nerve, called the Vagus Nerve, branches off to the throat, esophagus and stomach, among other places. Sometimes this nerve can become hypersensitive and cause chronic irritation. The hypersensitivity may be the result of a virus, surgical injury, response to a medication, reflux, post-nasal drip, allergies or stress. Once factors such as reflux, allergy and medication management have occurred, there is a role for vocal therapy where behavioral suppression of coughing, throat clearing and laryngeal tension occur. Paradoxical Vocal Fold Movement (PVFM), also called Vocal Cord Dysfunction (VCD) may manifest only as breathing difficulty and often is confused with asthma. Asthma involves difficult with exhalation, whereas PVFM involves difficulty with inhalation and may be accompanied by a gasping noise called stridor. It is possible to suffer from both conditions. If asthma inhalers are ineffective, the breathing difficulty comes on and resolves rapidly (within minutes), it is suspicious of PVFM. Treatment for this condition is accomplished with a speech pathologist who will provided tailored approach for disengagement of laryngeal muscles to allow for comfortable breathing.
Neurological Disorders: Spasmodic Dysphonia, Tremor
There are three variations of spasmodic dysphonia, which involves involuntary spasms outward and/or inward of the vocal cords. The types include adductor spasmodic dysphonia (ADSD), abductor spasmodic dysphonia (ABSD) or mixed spasmodic dysphonia. This unfortunate diagnosis can severely impede the ability to talk. Voice therapy may be useful in providing strategies to speak around the spasms, but will not cure the condition. Recurrent Botox injection is the most common form of management for spasmodic dysphonia. Some patients eventually undergo nerve surgery in attempt to stop the spasms. Tremor is another condition that can be highly disruptive to vocal clarity. It is more difficult to manage. Vocal therapy typically addresses modifications to speaking style in attempt to hide the tremor such as pitch, speaking rate and inflection. Medical management for tremor may involve trial of medications or Botox. The tremor may be local to the throat muscles or also present in other parts of the body.
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‘Do PM Modi, Amit Shah want to kill Arvind Kejriwal?’: Manish Sisodia after attack on Delhi CM
AAP Spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj Too Alleged That The BJP Might Be Behind The Attack And Asserted The Incident Would Not Deter The Spirit Of The Party.
News Nation Bureau | Edited By : Aniruddha Dhar | Updated on: 04 May 2019, 08:02:14 PM
Launching a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra and BJP president Amit Shah after Arvind Kejriwal was slapped by a man during a roadshow in Moti Nagar in the New Delhi constituency on Saturday, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia questioned whether both the BJP leaders wanted to kill the Delhi chief minister.
Taking to Twitter soon after the incident, Sisodia tweeted in Hindi: “Do Modi and Amit Shah now want to kill Kejriwal? In the last five years, they could not break his morale, could not be defeat in elections... Now, you cowards want to remove him this way? This Kejriwal is your end.”
क्या मोदी और अमित शाह अब केजरीवाल की हत्या करवाना चाहते हैं?
5 साल सारी ताक़त लगाकर जिसका मनोबल नहीं तोड़ सके, चुनाव में नहीं हरा सके..अब उसे रास्ते से इस तरह हटाना चाहते हो कायरो!
ये केजरीवाल ही तुम्हारा काल है.
— Manish Sisodia (@msisodia) May 4, 2019
"Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal got attacked during the roadshow. We condemned this cowardly act. This opposition sponsored attack cannot stop the Aam Aadmi Party in Delhi," he said.
BJP Delhi president Manoj Tiwari condemned the incident and said the AAP might have "scripted" the incident.
"We do not support violence and condemn such action by anyone. But I have doubt as to why such incidents happen with Kejriwal in election time only.
"I doubt this incident may have been scripted by Kejriwal himself," Tiwari alleged.
Kejriwal was holding the roadshow in favour of New Delhi candidate Brijesh Goyal who is contesting from the Lok Sabha seat.
This is the second time Kejriwal has been slapped in a public rally. Earlier, he was also attacked with ink and spices.
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Kamal Haasan’s MNM party explains his remarks on Nathuram Godse, says he was quoted 'out of context'
Haasan Had Said On Sunday That “free India’s First Extremist Was A Hindu', Referring To Nathuram Godse Who Killed Mahatma Gandhi.
News Nation Bureau | Edited By : Srishty Choudhury | Updated on: 15 May 2019, 01:33:13 PM
Actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan’s Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) on Wednesday tried to explain the party chief comments on Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Ghodse and said that Haasan was calling for “religious tolerance and co-existence”.
“This has been taken absolutely out of context and the speech has been painted as anti -Hindu with a malafide intent. This has created complete confusion and utmost anxiety amongst many common citizens who are not privy to this larger conspiracy,” the MNM said, according to news agency ANI.
The Tamil Nadu police Tuesday filed an FIR against actor-politician Kamal Haasan for his controversial "free India’s first extremist was a Hindu" remarks referring to Nathuram Godse. Several saffron organisations had moved the courts in Delhi against the actor-politician. However, the Delhi High Court dismissed petition against Haasan, and said that the petitioner Ashwini Upadhyay may approach the appropriate forum as the incident took place in Tamil Nadu.
Haasan had said on Sunday that “free India’s first extremist was a Hindu”, referring to Nathuram Godse who killed Mahatma Gandhi. Mahatma Gandhi was shot dead by Nathuram Godse on January 30, 1948, in New Delhi.
"I am not saying this because this is Muslim-dominated area, but I am saying this before a statue of Gandhi. Free India’s first extremist was a Hindu, his name is Nathuram Godse. There it (extremism, apparently) starts," he said in bypoll-bound Aravakurichi.
BJP and AIADMK condemned him for his remarks, though Congress and rationalist outfit Dravidar Kazhagam backed him.
Tamil Nadu had gone to polls for 38 Lok Sabha seats and 18 Assembly by-polls on April 18. Voting for four more assembly by-polls will be held on May 19 along with the last phase of the national election.
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Jaishankar to visit China to prepare ground for second informal summit between Modi and Xi
The Primary Objective Of The Visit Will Be To Prepare Ground For The Second Informal Summit Between Modi And Xi Which Is Likely To Be Held In The Second Week Of October.
PTI | Updated on: 20 Jul 2019, 11:44:49 PM
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is expected travel to China next month to prepare ground for the second informal summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping in India in October, government sources said.
In Beijing, Jaishankar will hold wide-ranging talks with State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi covering various aspects of bilateral ties besides discussing key regional and global issues, they said.
The primary objective of the visit will be to prepare ground for the second informal summit between Modi and Xi which is likely to be held in the second week of October, the sources said.
In the informal summit, the two leaders are likely to focus on further broadening India-China ties which will include enhancing people-to-people contacts and expanding cooperation in trade and investment.
The two leaders held the first informal summit in April in Chinese city of Wuhan months after bilateral ties came under severe strain following a 73-day standoff between the armies of the two countries in Doklam in the Sikkim sector of the border.
In the Wuhan summit, Modi and Xi decided to issue “strategic guidance” to militaries of the two countries to strengthen communications to build trust and understanding, a move aimed at avoiding a Doklam-like situation in the future.
China’s new Ambassador to India Sun Weidong said in Beijing that with two strong leaders at the helm in both the countries, the ties are set to reach new heights.
Under the strategic guidance provided by Xi and Modi at their first informal summit in Wuhan last year, the China-India relations have gathered a “very good and sound momentum of development”, Sun told a group of Indian journalists.
“This year the two leaders are going to hold another informal meeting. I believe, this will be a top priority in our bilateral relations which will surely take our relations on to new heights,” he said.
Modi and Xi held a bilateral meeting last month in Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit.
It was the first meeting between the two leaders after Modi’s re-election following the massive victory of the BJP in the general elections in May. Modi had described the meeting as “extremely fruitful”.
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Residents of Kolontar evacuate from the threat of re-filling of waste
09.10.2010 14:30 (Updated: 09.10.2010 23:08)
A second flood of toxic sludge from a storage reservoir at a Hungarian aluminium processing plant is "likely" after a new cracks appeared in a dyke, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Saturday.
"The reservoir is so damaged that it is likely that it will give way for a second time," the prime minister said, according to AFP.
Residents of two Hungarian towns are being evacuated after prime minister Viktor Orban warned it was very likely the weakened wall of the red sludge reservoir will collapse.
Around 800 residents were moved from the town of Kolontar just before dawn and more than 5,000 are being evacuated from Devecser over fears that another spill could be imminent.
At least seven people died and more than 120 were injured when the walls of a reservoir at a metals plant gave way on Monday flooding several towns in western Hungary with 184 million gallons of toxic waste, Sky News reports.
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Lukáš Bauer, photo: CTK
In this week’s Sports News: Czech cross country skier Lukáš Bauer draws closer to victory in this season’s World Cup; Radek Štěpánek loses in the final of tennis’s San Jose Open; Sparta Prague, wearing a special strip, trounce Viktoria Žižkov; and Chelsea keeper Petr Čech will, like Slavia Prague, be cursing his luck against Spurs.
Bauer edges closer to World Cup title with skiathlon win in Sweden
The Czech cross country skier Lukáš Bauer is drawing ever closer to the Crystal Globe for overall winner of this season’s World Cup: Bauer’s win in the 30-kilometre skiathlon at Sweden’s Falun on Saturday saw the man from west Bohemia increase his lead to a practically unassailable 408 points. A happy Lukáš Bauer explained his successful tactics after the race.
Lukáš Bauer (centre), second placed Norway's Tord Asle Gjerdalen (left), and third placed Sweden's Anders Sodergren (right), photo: CTK
“My tactic was to not to go hell for leather, to remain in towards the front but not in the lead and save as much energy as I could for the skating section, which was very difficult. I concentrated on staying in a position from which I could attack and around 500 metres from the finish line I overtook Gjerdalen. It was a tough finish, but now I couldn’t be more satisfied.”
Lukáš Bauer again reached the podium on Sunday as part of the Czech relay team, who finished third in Sweden.
Štěpánek loses to Roddick in San Jose final
Radek Štěpánek was beaten in the final of tennis’s San Jose Open on Sunday by Andy Roddick. The top seed dispatched Štěpánek 6-4 7-5 after breaking the Czech’s serve in the very first game.
Sparta hammer Žižkov in Prague derby
Sparta Prague - Viktoria Žižkov, photo: CTK
Sparta Prague turned out in special blue shirts in a Czech football league game against Viktoria Žižkov on Sunday night. As part of a special anti-hooliganism campaign the words “Sparta fandí slušně” (roughly “Sparta fans behave decently”) appeared on all their players’ backs. And they might want to adopt the strip permanently – Sparta hammered Žižkov 6:1, with Miroslav Slepička scoring two and setting up two more.
Slavia Prague - Tottenham Hotspur, photo: CTK
That win puts Sparta just two points behind league leaders Slavia Prague, who play Brno away after the recording of this programme. Slavia put up a good fight against Tottenham Hotspur in London on Thursday, drawing 1:1 but losing 3:2 on aggregrate in the last-32 stage of the UEFA Cup.
Chelsea lose English League Cup final after unusual mistake by Čech
Czech international goalkeeper Petr Čech will also be imagining what might have been against Tottenham: his (uncharacteristic) mistake in Sunday’s final of England’s League Cup allowed Spurs to beat Chelsea 2:1.
Author: Ian Willoughby
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Becky became an attorney in 1988 and has been practicing in the field of insurance defense for over 30 years. Becky joined the Firm in 1996 and since then has devoted her time to evaluating, defending, and trying cases about products liability, trucking accidents, and catastrophic injuries. Becky has handled hundreds of construction cases-from construction defects affecting hundreds of apartments to personal injury claims due to alleged construction defects and jobsite negligence. As would be expected, these claims often turn into contract related issues pertaining to indemnification and tender issues. Becky has been a part of the Rapid Response Team for various trucking companies and insurers to ensure the evidence from trucking accidents is preserved and the integrity of the scene is maintained. Becky has also handled toxic tort cases and environmental cases assessing the coverage issues and also defending insureds against the IDEM. Becky has successfully defended several CAFOs for “odor nuisance” obtaining summary judgments in state and federal court for the local farmer and the national producer. Becky has tried over 40 jury trials throughout Indiana, from Booneville to Lafayette and from Winchester to Terre Haute.
Becky has taught trial advocacy in the Illinois/Indiana Trial Academy. Becky has also been a featured speaker for various organizations on trial related topics including cross-examination of medical experts and economists, trial strategy and dispute resolution. She has also provided in-house seminars for many of her clients on topics such as rapid response in trucking accidents, documenting a claim file, and investigation and documentation of construction accidents.
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Reeves v. Boyd & Sons, Inc., 654 N.E. 2d 864 (Ind. Ct. App. 1995), trans. denied (defense verdict affirmed in pick-up v. semi accident where plaintiff was intoxicated. Defendant obtained counterclaim in its favor for damage to its semi)
Forrest v. Gilley, 570 N.E.2d 934 (Ind. Ct. App. 1991), r’hg denied (Court of Appeals reversed trial court and entered summary judgment in favor of defendant after plaintiff fell off defendant’s horse TWICE while intoxicated, breaking her jaw)
Eisman v. Murdock, 542 N.E. 2d 236 (Ind. Ct. App. 1989) (summary judgment affirmed for horse owner after plaintiff was driving along road and struck horse that had escaped its enclosure)
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Rated: 7.2 out of 10 with 1,693 votes.
In 1971, four college students got together to form a rock band. Since then, that certain band called Queen have released 26 albums and sold over 300 million records worldwide. The popularity of Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon is stronger than ever 40 years on. But it was no bed of roses. No pleasure cruise. Queen had their share of kicks in the face, but they came through and this is how they did it, set against the backdrop of brilliant music and stunning live performances from every corner of the globe. In this film, for the first time, it is the band that tells their story. Featuring brand new interviews with the band and unseen archive footage (including their recently unearthed, first ever TV performance), it is a compelling story told with intelligence, wit, plenty of humor and painful honesty.
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Title:Queen: Days of Our Lives
Release Date:Sunday, May 29th, 2011
Directed by:Matt O'Casey
Genres:MusicDocumentary
Keywords:Rock-N-Roll1970SQueenRock-StarConcertMale-HomosexualityPopularityRock-Band1980SMusic-Documentary
Alternative Titles:Queen: Elämämme päivät, Квін: Дні нашого життя
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Canada: Paintings removed due to nudity
Cultural entity ‘[co]motion, agitateur de culture’ removed six of the 15 paintings by Christian Messier, which were part of an exhibition at André-Mathieu Hall in Laval, Quebec. The decision, taken on 23 February 2017, came after alleged complaints from visitors over nudity in the paintings, reported Radio Canada.
Two weeks of negotiations with the artist ensued, after which he resolved to take down all of his other paintings featured in the exhibition, well before its scheduled closure in June 2017. “To me, it was a set,” said Messier. “There is no agreement, it’s all or nothing.”
In a statement issued on 22 March 2017, [co]motion clarified that it had partnered with artist association ‘Verticale, centre d’artistes’ for the exhibition. Verticale was set to provide and curate the artistic content under mutually agreed upon terms.
The decision to take the paintings down, however, came after alleged complaints from the public, who felt shocked by the nudity in some of Messier’s paintings and threatened not to return to the venue if the artworks were not taken down, reported Le Devoir.
“In 17 years, I have never seen this. That people complain, yes, but not that they announce to not come back,” [co]motion’s Director General Julie Perron said. She also noted that the venue’s main events are shows and performances, and not painting exhibitions – something that influenced the decision to give to the demands.
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The leader of the Right Sector, Dmitry Yarosh: The new Rada is “leftover from the old regime”
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By Kristina Kharlova Last updated Feb 19, 2018
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Translated from Russian by J. Hawk
Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada in its current form is a leftover from the internal occupation regime, and has not incorporated the changes that were demanded by the Maidan, believes Deputy Dmitry Yarosh. He spoke about this on Gromadske TV.
Discussing the reasons why he became a deputy, Yarosh notes “I did not want to go to the Rada—the organization gave me an order. I am a soldier of the revolution and I follow orders. I knew that it will be difficult for me there, because it is such a snakepit.”
Even though one can find normal, decent people there, especially the new faces which were elected at the same time as I, but overall the current composition of the Rada makes it is impossible to resolve problems.”
“Of course, one can approach the Rada Speaker and say “Promise, otherwise I’ll knock you out,” but that’s not civilized and against the rules of the current Rada.”
“I believe that the current Rada is a leftover of the regime of internal occupation that we have had for the last 23 years. And when one sees what is going on in the Rada and the Cabinet of Ministers, I don’t see any transformations in these institutions, they have not become defenders of the people, or even wanted to do something,” says the founder of the Right Sector.
He also talked about his work as a deputy. “It is changing—one can see that—they are afraid of the people, afraid of the Right Sector, but keep doing what they’ve been doing. Unfortunately, the Rada did not undergo the revolutionary transformation demanded by the Maidan.”
“I knew that they expected me to go to the Rada and kick someone’s ass, make a spectacle, but I don’t play by the rules, I don’t do what’s expected of me. For me being in the Rada, especially right next to open enemies of Ukraine, is a cause of discomfort.”
“And I always carry a grenade with me—if need be I’ll throw it. They have no right to search people’s deputies. They ask—do you have weapons? And I reply, no, and go on, but in fact I have been carrying one for a long time, for about a year.”
This is an expanded transcript of the infamous “bring a grenade to work day” interview, and here Yarosh makes it even more clear he does not consider the current Ukrainian institutions, not only the Rada but also the Cabinet of Ministers which is filled with “Western partner”—approved officials, including a US citizen, as permanent, or as desirable. He goes so far as to rank them on a par with the previous Ukrainian government, which was overthrown in a violent coup, which suggests the fate Yarosh has in mind for the current one.
The main question that is difficult to answer is the extent to which Yarosh is an independent actor. Considering that he is, in fact, the leader of the Right Sector, an organization he founded and run since its inception, it is unlikely he is taking orders from Kolomoisky or any other oligarch. After all, it is difficult to imagine Yarosh being replaced as the head of the Right Sector any time soon. So it would seem that Yarosh is already positioning himself to take the lead of the next uprising against the state, in the name of the people whose Maidan dreams were “betrayed”.
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Film Noir--Gangster
Wednesday May 19th on TCM
By mrroberts,
May 12, 2010 in Film Noir--Gangster
Arkadin
*Silver Screen Oasis* was started roughly three years ago when the TCM boards blew up with incessant fighting, trolling and flame wars. Moira, who runs the board is part of TCM's Movie Morlock bloggers and many of the same posters here are also on the SSO board. SSO is more tightly moderated than TCM to ensure trolling and other flare ups do not occur.
http://silverscreenoasis.com/oasis3/index.php
ValentineXavier
I got myself into a situation here that I can't get out of.
LocationAnn Arbor, MI
> {quote:title=Arkadin wrote:}{quote}
> My post was an intent to get beyond labels and dissect some of these films on an individual basis. I thought we had started this by questioning *Blade Runner* and might continue with that film or others (what about Melville's films for instance?, or why do some people think *L.A. Confidential* is the greatest noir of the modern era?)..
I agree it is best to get beyond labels at some point. They can be useful, but also restraining. I have long argued for a broader definition of film noir, beyond the US made films of the 40s and 50s, that most can agree on. I've pointed out in the past that two of my favorite noirs are Robert Mitchum westerns. I quite agree that *Blade Runner* is a film noir, even self-consciously so.*Memento* is also an excellent modern noir. I can't quite put my finger on why, but to me *L. A. Confidential* is more of an homage to the 50s crime films, than a noir. Perhaps it's the references to Dragnet, and because everything resolves so neatly, unlike most noirs. I do think it's a fine film. To me, what makes a film a noir is more a matter of atmosphere, attitude, tone, all subtle qualities, as opposed to fedoras, femme fatales, urban streets, etc.
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I infer that Silver Screen Oasis does not focus primarlily on CLASSIC films, as do these boards. Am I incorrect?
LoveFilmNoir
You all have made some great points. I still feel that once you are familiar with the 40s and 50s noirs, you can "feel" the noir in any other film from any other period. I think *Chinatown* and *Memento* are definitely noirs. I also think *Rawhide* is a western noir. I too would rather spend less time talking about if they make the noir cut and instead talk about the actual film.
Noir is my favorite film genre but at the end of the day, I like any kind of mystery. I have seen every episode of Murder She Wrote, I love an Agatha Christie whodunit. I don't think any movie reviewer or film historian really has the authority to give a definition in stone.
No "authority" is required. Any writer can say whatever he or she pleases, and be willing to accept any flak that results.
> {quote:title=finance wrote:}{quote}
> No "authority" is required. Any writer can say whatever he or she pleases, and be willing to accept any flak that results.
Agreed! I own a few noir books and I don't agree with some written in it but at the end of the day, any crime/mystery film will get at least one viewing from me....if it is from the defined era of noir....it will get a couple of viewings no matter how bad or how contrived the plot (people on this site and others slam *Beyond A Reasonable Doubt* and I watch it every time it is on).
misswonderly3
*Beyond a Reasonable Doubt* - is that the Fritz Lang film with Dana Andrews? I love that! And talk about exploring the dark side of human nature...
Another really bizarre "old-school" film noir I really like is *Decoy*. You never hear much about this one, but it's got one of the strangest plot devices I've ever heard of. Anyone seen it? Does TCM ever screen it?
As to newer noirs, I agree *Memento* is right up there. Another dark world view. Only problem is, I can't remember if I've seen it or not. Uh-what movie was I talking about? What is this, anyway...???
That's exactly the film. I really enjoy it and watch it every time it is on. But then again, I am a Dana Andrews fan and any film he is in will get at least 2 screenings out of me.
I have never seen Decoy but I will definitely check it out. I am waiting for another big Amazon sale so I can stock up on some noirs particularly in box sets - I am trying to learn how to record from my DVR ( I know it is more simple than I believe!)
Finance, no that is not correct. The majority of discussion at SSO is classic film (we have a slew of silent and precode posters), but individuals may discuss whatever films they wish (just like here).
CineMaven
It's also very well moderated. Whew! And that also makes it an oasis.
LoveFilmNoir wrote:
*The Friends of Eddie Coyle is a perfect example of post 1970 noir. The only reason why one would simply call it a crime drama is because of the fact it was shot in color and released in 1972.*
Which is exactly what Hollywood considered the vast majority of its product made in the 40s and 50s, which we now call Film Noir, crime dramas pure and simple.
These films should be rightfully called Classic or True noirs, to differentiate them from what came afterward. The idea of neo-noirs as being self-consciously so, or as mentioned a pastiche or an homage, is a good way of looking at many later films, from Chinatown to the present.
Great point Arturo. As long as it feels like noir to me, then it is noir. *Eddie Coyle* was released in 1972 and is more of a classic than several film noirs released during the defined film noir period.
I think what is common to all film noir, regardless of time period, setting, etc., is the dark world view these movies explore. In fact, when the occasional noir has a happy ending, I think of it as flawed! For example, I love Pick Up on South Street, it's one of my favourites, but - Spoiler - I wish Skip McCoy had been killed by the "Commie" bad guy in that struggle they have near the end. Well, I guess it's not a spoiler, since he wasn't killed.
Maybe that's one of the essential aspects of latter-day noir; they are even bleaker than their classic antecedents. Filmmakers who make noir , post the "golden" age of movies, are even more cynical, more pessimistic, than those from the 40s and 50s. Just look at some of the examples people have listed on this thread over the last few days (many Coen brothers movies, Friends of Eddie Coyle,
Chinatown, Memento...).
Something that interests me is, what draws us to this dark vision, why do I often prefer those kinds of movies to those with happy endings? One thing, they affect me more. I remember them.
MURDER MY SWEET also had a happy ending.
Well written mswonderly!
I too am drawn in by the sad endings. Why? I think it may be because no matter how we live our lives - whether doing good or bad, the ONLY thing we are promised in it is DEATH. The pathetic characters in film noir remind us of this. By pathetic I mean the "down on his luck", or "good guy turned bad", or "I was framed and instead of going to the police I am going to find the bad guy myself and hand him over" characters who we watch carefully in 90-120 minutes go through highs and lows, fist fights in dark alleys, meetings with femme fatales in dirty smoke filled offices with venetian blinds - it's dark, it's noir and I love it.
Whenever I read up on noirs, I come across info regarding the director and studio heads clashing over the ending. In those days Hollywood didn't mind the violence to an extent, but didn't want to see the blood or bullet holes (only Bogey or Cagney can be shot six times without a single wrinkle in their 3 piece suit! LOL) they also wanted "happier" endings meaning the bad guy ALWAYS got caught and the femme fatale (for the most part) marries the same guy that had her pinned to a murder 35 minutes ago!
By the 70s, the director's definitely had more freedom with violence, dialogue and endings. It's not that I don't like happy endings, I just like more realistic endings. I have watched noirs with completely contrived plots and endings...or a strange twist within the last 15 minutes where the bad guy gets his comeuppance (I guess this is where the re-shot footage comes in after the studio tells the director "no" to his unhappy ending). Very Recently I caught George Raft in *The House Across The Bay* - he swims back to Alcatraz why exactly ? How ironic that director John Huston would be the bad guy in Chinatown with such a dark ending....when had he made that film 20-25 years prior, Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway's characters would have been leaving a courthouse as newlyweds instead of the ending we know today.
*. . . they also wanted "happier" endings meaning the bad guy ALWAYS got caught and the femme fatale (for the most part) marries the same guy that had her pinned to a murder 35 minutes ago!*
Sometimes the studios would insist on a happy ending, but it was the straitjacketing of the Production Code in full force that forced the situation. Criminals could not be seen getting away with it, etc.
There are indeed some film noirs with happy endings, although I always feel that the "happiness" of the remaining characters is tenuous at best. For instance, -spoiler - in Kiss of Death, Victor Mature and Coleen Grey are reunited, and crazy Richard Widmark is gone, but it's unclear if Victor is going to live. And then there's The Big Sleep, although that hardly counts because a) I regard it as much as a comedy as a noir or even a crime drama and who the hell knows what's going on in that movie anyway?
A type of noir that we haven't discussed much is the "family situation", films such as Suddenly, The Desperate Hours, and Cape Fear. Although in these movies the family members remain physically unharmed- more or less -they are "changed". They have been damaged psychologically by their tormentors and will never be the same. So even when their ordeal is over, and the criminal/maniac either killed or arrested, it's not really a happy ending per sec. And the films are more powerful because of that.
Arturo, I think you have something here:
" *These films should be rightfully called Classic or True noirs, to differentiate them from what came afterward. "*
We've been discussing the idea of some kind of definition of film noir, opening up the criteria for what constitutes noir and so forth, for a while. We all seem to agree that it is most certainly not limited to the "classic" period, and yet it's helpful to have some sort of term to refer specifically to the "dark" movies that were made then. Seems reasonable to have a general term, "film noir", which encompasses all of those cinematic works which examine that dark view of human nature and the way the world works, and maybe to reserve the term "Classic" noir to refer to that beloved classic noir period where it all began. (Or not -weren't we also going to look at "pre" noir films? )
I prefer the word "Classic" to "True" , because it has fewer connotations attached to it; the word "True" has more emotional resonance somehow. Arturo, great idea!!
Can you noir mavens name any noirs in which there isn't a single character whose bad qualities didn't outweigh his or her good qualities?
But I like bad good guys! Where's the fun - or even the entertainment value -in a paragon of virtue?
What about Van Heflin in Act of Violence ? His present life is unimpeachable-upstanding citizen, happily married, etc. Oh, I supppose that's what it's all about; his past life catches up with him. But it's partly that very ambiguity about his character that makes the film interesting.
Dick Powell in Cry Danger! He spent all that time in prison, and he was framed -an innocent guy.Of course, he is motivated by revenge - not exactly a model of righteous behaviour.
I know, two out of the three Roberts in Crossfire. Robert Young and Robert Mitchum's behaviour(s) is exemplary. There you go.
Come to think of it, I don't want noir heroes to be "good". They're far more interesting with all their flaws and faults. Bad qualities/good qualities...Baby, I don't care.
Edited by: misswonderly on Jun 10, 2010 11:28 AM
misswonderly wondered:
**" . . . and maybe to reserve the term "Classic" noir to refer to that beloved classic noir period where it all began. *(Or not -weren't we also going to look at "pre" noir films?* )**
This "reserve the term 'Classic' noir" does not preclude using "pre-" or "proto-" noir, since by definition, they came before those designated as "Classic".
C.Bogle
Nice noir characters? Who could forget the lovely couple from D.O.A. ? If the
competition wasn't so stiff, Frank and Paula could have been America's sweethearts.
She's golden, and his only fault is a roving eye. Unfortunately, their story ends in tragedy.
Awwww.
Noirs are sort of an opposite pole to musicals and romantic comedies. The latter
paint a too sunny picture of everyday life, and the former a too dark picture, but
they're still entertaining. Personally, I usually prefer noirs.
My question, which was probably buried in too many double negatives, was whether there were noirs in which every single character was reasonably bad. In ACT OF VIOLENCE, e.g., Janet Leigh was OK. So was Mary Astor....... My initial thought is BORN TO KILL. Everyone was pretty much up to no good.
Edited by: finance on Jun 11, 2010 9:58 AM
Now I see what you meant: is there any noir film in which all the characters are relatively "good" or at least more "good " than "bad"? Or, to turn it around, is there one in which they are all relatively "bad"?
I agree, Born to Kill is a good candidate for this. That Claire Trevor, I love her, so damn good in everything she did. Good at generating sympathy when the role calls for it ( Key Largo ) and equally good at **** sympathy -voila , Born to Kill !
But the film hinges upon the uncharismatic nature of the Lawrence Tierney character. What makes this a particularly interesting noir from the point of view of character is, we don't know what to make of Tierney. Usually in a "classic" film noir, we know who we're supposed to identify with, or at least sympathize with, by the way the hero is portrayed. Even if he is a criminal, weak, or possessing other faults, we know he's our protagonist, and we follow his exploits with interest and sympathy. But Tierney! Scary guy! Born to Kill refuses to provide that character-identification element.
Trivia -(which you probably already know): Lawrence Tierney played Elaine's intimidating father in a very early Seinfeld episode. Don't know why, but it's the only time he appears in the series. In fact, it's the only time there's any mention that Elaine has a father.
Edited by: finance on Jun 11, 2010 10:24 AM
To "compound" the trivia----What song was Tierney singing as the episode ended?
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The Best 5 Jewish Art Exhibits of 2014
December 19, 2014 By Aimee Rubensteen
1. “Dani Gal: As From Afar,” The Jewish Museum
In its United States premiere, Dani Gal’s short video installation addresses the relationship between a Jewish Holocaust survivor/ Nazi hunter and Hitler’s chief architect/armaments minister. This fictionalized story draws from real-life conversations found in letters between the two men. The show compels the viewer to choose to agree or disagree with the relationship onscreen as it unfolds and knots back together.
2. “Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Assyria to Iberia,” presents a survey exhibition that focuses on the early first millennium B.C.E. Providing a didactic display ranging from Assyria’s land-based expansion to imagery representing Babylonian control, the exhibition also references relevant passages of the Bible. The integration of biblical and Jewish cultural objects successfully explains the role of Jewry in a broader narrative of the ancient world.
3. “Israeli & International Art,” Sotheby’s
This pre-sale exhibition (the week before an art auction, the work on sale is displayed with free access to the public and potential buyers) publicizes an impressive range of traditional and emerging artists. In particular, the highlighted female photographers revealed a sense of identity and self-evaluation in Israel that is about more than themselves.
4. “Nir Hod: Once Everything Was Much Better Even The Future,” Paul Kasmin Gallery
Nir Hod is no stranger to controversy, especially after exhibiting painting of babies smoking cigarettes in his “Genius” series. But his most recent exhibit emphasizes his ability to elegantly juxtapose grand themes of life and death, creation and destruction in his paintings of flowers in flames.
5. “Menashe Kadishman: Shalekhet (Fallen Leaves),” Jewish Museum Berlin
Located in the museum’s gallery designated as the Memory Void (an empty space in the incredibly designed Libeskind Building), more than 10,000 iron plates cover the floor with sculpted and carved faces. Viewers are allowed to walk on the faces and hear the sharp, striking sound of the iron smashing against the floor. Whether the viewer decides to walk on the open-mouthed faces or not, it is an effective expression of just how helpless the millions of victims were to their Nazi oppressors.
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Our Lady of Fatima teaches us the Apostolic prayer
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Apostolic prayer consists in asking for graces for one’s neighbor, such as his conversion, his sanctification, or for anything else profitable to his soul. Our Lady had this second prayer in mind when she asked the children to pray for the conversion of sinners.
The work of the apostolate consists in the turning of the will, which is prone to evil, towards what is good, so that a person who might be far from God or even openly be His enemy, might draw near to God and become His friend.
The conversion of a soul and its salvation one of the greatest graces that God wants to give us. How can we draw this grace down from heaven? Our Lady teaches us that the principal means are prayers and sacrifices. Fr. Kolbe writes: “Through prayer and suffering, we can obtain many graces. External activity only prepares the way for grace, but of itself it cannot provide these graces. There is one prayer that surely corresponds to God’s will, namely the request for one’s own sanctification and that of one’s neighbor. … Once Napoleon was asked what was needed to win a battle. He answered: ‘Three things are needed: Money, money, and still more money!’ Just so, when it is a matter of sanctifying souls, one needs prayer, prayer, and still more prayer… Prayer is the most misunderstood and yet the most powerful means of restoring peace to souls, of making them happy, and of bringing them close to God’s love. Prayer renews the world!”
The example of the youngest of the children of Fatima is a wonderful manifestation of this truth. What were the prayers of seven year old Jacinta? Of course, she offered those prayers which she had received from the angel and from Our Lady Herself: the prayer of the Angel, the Rosary, and beloved ejaculatory prayers. The best devotion to the Immaculate Heart is not the recitation of many prayers, but rather the simple, intimate relationship of a child to its Mother, which is best expressed through short but very fervent and frequent ejaculatory prayers. A child who loves his mother does not say many words; often a glance or a single word is enough. When he is in danger, he calls almost unconsciously: Mother!
Especially in today’s hectic world, the apostolate of ejaculatory prayer, in which Our Lady of Fatima encourages us, is the best way of remaining in union with God and elevating one’s activities to the supernatural and of doing much for the salvation of souls. If towards Mary our ejaculatory prayers are like loving sighs of a child to his mother, towards the enemy of our salvation they are like bullets from a machine gun, with which we strafe him destruction.
Jacinta’s own preferred ejaculatory prayer was: “Sweet Heart of Mary, be my salvation!” Especially in the last months when it became difficult for her to say longer prayers, Jacinta repeated these short sighs of her heart to Our Lady’s Heart, so everything became a constant offering of sacrifice and prayer for the conversion of sinners. Certainly Jacinta prayed much more for others than for herself in her short life. Our Lady’s reward should always remind us of the old rule: what you do for the others, you do it twice for yourself! By sacrificing herself for the sanctification of others, Jacinta herself became a saint.
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G100 Network Notebook | March 2019
Facebook’s Next Big Bet
When G100 hosted members at Facebook headquarters earlier this year, David Marcus, who leads Facebook’s unspecified blockchain business, offered the clearest explanation to date on what the technology means for business. His new division, tucked away in a restricted office at Facebook, is expected to launch a digital currency this year to facilitate cross-border payments, says a new report from The New York Times. An excerpt:
The company is overhauling its messaging infrastructure, which would connect three of its properties – Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram. That integration, which could take more than a year, would extend the reach of Facebook’s digital currency across the 2.7 billion people who use one of the 3 apps each month.
Millennials are Risk Averse
Turnover among millennials is 20% higher than other generations in the workforce. Are faulty assumptions about their motivations a factor? Workforce scientist Haig Nalbantian thinks so. His new research questions the common wisdom that millennials prize career growth and flexibility over higher pay. Instead, he argues, they fear risk. An excerpt:
The higher the base pay is as a percentage of total compensation, the stronger the retention effect on millennials. This is an outcome not consistently found with other employees. It suggests an aversion to having more pay at risk, a finding at odds with the idea that millennials are intrinsically more entrepreneurial or mission-driven.
Turning Seasonal Workers into Full-Timers
On May 30th, G100 will host UPS CEO David Abney and his CHRO Terri McClure to talk about managing a large, widely dispersed workforce. UPS is known to have far less turnover in its workforce than most large companies, and UPS credits some of that success to its investment in seasonal workers. Here is an excerpt from a flattering profile in Business Insider:
In 2017 and 2016, 95,000 seasonal employees were hired each year. A third of them stayed on permanently… That’s more than other major seasonal employers; Amazon keeps about 15% of its seasonal workforce and Kohl’s around 20%. Target, like UPS, hires a third of its seasonal staff for permanent roles.
What Apple and Automakers Have in Common
Future growth will increasingly come from digital services, rather than unit sales, argues Zuora CEO Tien Tzuo, a speaker at our G100 Meeting in Silicon Valley last month. With driverless cars on the distant horizon, Tzuo urges automakers to learn from Apple, citing their recent decline in iPhone sales and growth in service revenue last year ($40 billion). Compelling numbers to support Tzuo’s prediction that data and services associated with cars will become more valuable than the vehicle itself:
McKinsey estimates that automotive data could be worth $450 – $750 billion worldwide by 2030. UBS estimates that revenue from self-driving technology by 2030 will be up to $2.8 trillion, with $472 billion of that coming solely from in-car monetization – in other words – selling services and experiences to passengers who used to spend all their time driving.
Are Index Funds All Talk at ESG?
That is the growing sentiment among investors, analysts, and advocates who see a disconnect between the long-term expectations of index funds and their proxy voting patterns. For example:
An analysis based on the Morningstar database of proxy voting showed that last year, Black Rock supported only 8% of 40 resolutions on climate change, 22% of resolutions dealing with public health and public safety, and 8% of 24 resolutions promoting workers’ rights and welfare. State Street and Vanguard’s voting records were similar.
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Articles tagged “new age spirituality”
New Agers Trash Mayan Pyramid At ‘End Of The World’ Party
Revelers at an Apocalypse party at the ancient Mayan site of Tikal in Guatemala have damaged one of the pyramids, AFP reports.
Temple II, built at Tikal’s height around 700 A.D., was damaged when a crowd of partygoers ignored signs saying it was off-limits and climbed up it anyway. An official at the site didn’t reveal how extensive the damage was but did say it was permanent.
About 7,000 tourists visited Tikal on Friday to mark the end of a cycle in the Mayan calendar, which many wide-eyed dupes believed would bring the end of the world, or at least some New-Agey world transformation that would imbue their crystals with deep spiritual significance.
If they had asked the Maya themselves they would have learned that the world wasn’t actually ending, but why do that? Traditional cultures and UNESCO World Heritage Sites are only there as props for jaded First Worlders shopping for a cheap semblance of spirituality the same way they’ll buy Save The Whale T-shirts made in Filipino sweat shops.
They’ll also blithely ignore the real historical and cultural significance of such sites in preference for silly theories about secret civilizations, aliens or Atlantis. This sort of New Age archaeology is rooted in racism. As some locals complained, the party wasn’t really about the Maya at all.
Dave, an old friend of mine, calls the New Age movement “Newage,” because it rhymes with “sewage.” I propose a worldwide movement to adopt Dave’s term for these callow crystal-clutching consumers. Protect ancient Mayan sites by flushing the Newage movement!
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Your iPhone X Gets Its Swimming Trunks with the Wetsuit Impact Case
TOPICS:iPhone GearMobile Phones & Gear
Posted By: Greg Alston April 18, 2018
Even though the weather is just as confused as us on what season it is every day, soon it will be summer, and pools will begin to open. If you plan on being poolside, or simply just out and about this summer, you should check out Dog & Bone’s Wetsuit Impact water and drop-proof case for the iPhone X.
Made specifically for Apple’s iPhone X, the Wetsuit Impact, while I haven’t had the opportunity to try in a pool or at the beach, if it’s anything like previous renditions of their cases, it’s going to be an awesome companion to bringing your phone to the beach. When inside of the Wetsuit Impact, your iPhone X which is only “water-resistant”, now becomes water, drop and shockproof. Offering up complete protection for the front and back of your iPhone, the back shows off the elegant glass backing of the phone itself which I think is pretty nice.
In my personal drop tests, I can attest that the Wetsuit can be dropped from up to six feet and keep on ticking. Now I wouldn’t do this consistently because even though it’s encased completely, I still am not sure of how strong the outer casing would last with frequent drops, and potentially opening up if dropped on a corner. The front of the Wetsuit is a glass screen protector which is deemed as flexible, but I’ll have to admit, I really dislike it. As someone who typically uses a glass screen protector, I had to remove it for testing of the Wetsuit, and there was just a tad bit of space between my iPhone X screen and the glass of the Wetsuit, which is a bit cumbersome to type on. I would MUCH rather have the Wetsuit Impact do away with the screen and be similar to previous models of the Lifeproof Nuud allowing you to tap and touch your screen directly.
Despite that the case is VERY protective, maybe to its detriment, and as someone who enjoys the thin bezel-less iPhone X, I’d like for the case that I put it in to be just as minimalist. Sure there’s an additional lanyard which is appreciated, however, you have to decide which tradeoff you want: Bulk and protection, or slim yet susceptible to breaking.
For what it’s worth though, Dog & Bone has a Made for iPhone “BackBone” wireless charger that is compatible with its cases and supports fast charging for up to 7.5W. This is an additional cost, but in practice, I really do like it, and I use it daily (even when I do not have the Wetsuit Impact on my phone). It is available for $34.95 and is compatible with the iPhone X, or the iPhone 8.
Available in Electric Orange, Blackest Black, Silvertail, and Oceana, you can pick up the Wetsuit Impact for $79.95.
Check out Dog & Bone’s website for more information today.
Source: Manufacturer supplied review unit
What I Like: Completely waterproof and drop proof; included lanyard
What Needs Improvement: A bit on the bulky size, and has a clickity-click feel when tapping on the glass while in case.
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Collin Wills decides what his next move will be while surrounded by wilderness.
Growing up revolves around many pleasures and exciting adventures – getting your own car, becoming more independent, being able to apply for jobs, and overall, learning how to successfully transition into adulthood.
However, the privileges to freedom also means more responsibilities and burdens from not only your own but other people’s expectations.
At Granite Bay High School, it’s not rare for students to come to this conclusion early on in their lifetime, especially for athletes who surpass the average performance level.
Meghan Gul, a junior, has made it onto the national team representing the United States for acrobatics gymnastics. In order to achieve such heights, she and her team had to come out best of the best at multiple events, ranging from local to nationals. They also were judged by the consistency of their high-ranking scores.
“There’s a lot of pressure not only from our coach but (United States of America Gymnastics), which is the head of the USA team,” Gul said. “If we don’t do well in certain competitions, we have a chance of losing our spot. I want to cry every single time before we go out on the dance floor because I’m overwhelmed and worried if I mess up. Through the middle of routine, I just get in and perform. When I’m done, it’s a huge pressure relief.”
The road to success as an athlete isn’t easy. There are a lot of components happening behind the scenes that not many people notice. No matter how high the expectations are or how much work has been done, an athlete’s mental mindset is what determines the make or break during competition season.
I was feeling amazing, so I went into nationals thinking it would be hard… I made finals and just got crushed at finals.”
— Colin Wills
Colin Wills, a senior, is considered as close to a prodigy as anyone can get at rock climbing. But, even at a professional level, perfectionism isn’t always served on a silver platter.
“I came off of a win at Pan-American championships which got me psyched – I was feeling amazing, so I went into nationals thinking it would be hard but I’ve done better at bigger competitions,” Wills said. “I made finals and just got crushed at finals. Mentality is huge. Everyone in finals in a given competition can win depending on the day, depending on what the routes are. It’s just being on it for that round.”
Failures can be huge motivational setbacks for athletes, especially for those who already opened doors to opportunities that could fulfill their dreams and aspirations for the future. So many would wonder, why continue with the pain? Why keep struggling when the reward isn’t consistently satiable?
“We competed in another national meet in Vegas, and we ended up in sixth place because my teammate messed up on her tumbling,” Gul said. “So, I didn’t talk to her the entire time because I was super frustrated and hurt by that because we had a chance of winning. I cried and it was super painful for me. I performed with the best of my ability, and it wasn’t fair to see that someone else ruined it.”
However, after reminiscing through the story, she shrugged a shoulder and her face lit up again. As one of the prominent members of the national team, her focus has shifted to bigger and better things.
“We competed in the Calgary International Cup … and ended up getting second place,” Gul said. “It really showed us our ranking internationally as well … coming into the second season and seeing that our scores are pretty close to Great Britain, who’s really really good in the past.”
(Rowing is) definitely one of the hardest sports I’ve ever done, but the hardest thing is the most rewarding, and I’m so grateful.”
— Jessica Varakuta
The mark of success and form of reward to an athlete can come in all different shapes and sizes – the triumph from a trophy, the recognition from a certificate, the smile from a podium. But, the majority can agree it’s the meaning and story behind each reward that fuels their motivation to keep going.
“(Rowing is) definitely one of the hardest sports I’ve ever done,” said senior Jessica Varakuta, who trains as part of the Capital Crew rowing program. “But the hardest thing is the most rewarding, and I’m so grateful. I was offered official visits by many schools – all of the Ivy Leagues except for Harvard.”
Varakuta has been rowing for barely under two years and despite her seemingly lack of time with the sport, her accomplishments and passion for it says otherwise.
“I love rowing. It’s definitely enjoyable for me. Just exercising in general relieves my stress and rowing especially because I am in nature, surrounded by beautiful scenery and animals. This sport has definitely taught me resilience, persistence and discipline.”
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Spring/Summer 2021 Trends from Milan Fashion Week
As Italian designers returned to the runway, L’OFFICIEL breaks down the top fashion trends of the season
From runway shows with masked attendees to creative livestream and video presentations, Milan’s Spring/Summer 2021 shows thus far have been a welcomed treat amongst the turbulence of the ongoing pandemic. Although fall has just begun, L’OFFICIEL is already looking forward to the warmer days awaiting us next year. Here, the stand out Spring/Summer 2021 trends from the top shows from the Italian capital’s week of fashion.
Unconventional Knits
For Spring/Summer 2021, designers presented options wildly different yet just as unique: some with intricate needlework and embellishments, others with attention-grabbing prints. There were even different variations of the same styles: Prada’s distressed sweaters were adorned with carefully-placed holes, while Marni’s were perfectly rugged.
Since the heydays of Coco Chanel and Azzedine Alaïa, matching sets are nothing new, but today’s designers have kept them going strong. Spring/Summer 2021 runways modernized them by experimenting with different types of layering-like Sportmax’s combination of sheer and opaque-and silhouettes-whether going the structured route of Alberta Ferretti’s floral three-piece or the free-flowing route of Emporio Armani’s monochrome asymmetrical cami and pants.
Peek-a-Boo Bras
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Declaration for Ladakh in the budget
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Farmer Budget
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has also made a big announcement regarding the bank deposits of customers. He said that now customers will get a guarantee of up to five lakh rupees on bank deposits, ie even after the bank sinks, your five lakh rupees will be completely safe.
The first full budget of the second term of the Modi government has been presented. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman while presenting the budget for the financial year 2020-21 on 01 February 2020 said that the average growth rate during 2014-19 was more than 7.4 percent. Average inflation during this period was 4.5 percent. He said that India has now become the fifth largest economy in the world and the central government’s debt has come down to 48.7 percent of gross domestic product (GDP).
The Finance Minister has announced new tax rates. In which the middle class is relieved. At the same time, the government has announced to sell a part of its capital in LIC and the entire part of IDBI.
Highlights related to Budget 2020
@ 1: 45 pm: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has given the biggest budget speech ever. Earlier, in 2003, Jaswant Singh gave a speech of 02 hours 13 minutes. The Finance Minister’s speech started at 11 am, which lasted more than two and a half hours.
@ 1: 39 pm: Tax (tax) provision: New construction companies will have to pay 15% corporate tax. The central government insisted on making the tax easier. 10 percent tax will have to be paid for earning from 5 to 7.5 lakh rupees. You will have to pay a 15 percent tax for earning 7.5 to 10 lakh rupees. 20 percent tax will have to be paid for earning from 10 to 12.5 lakh rupees. 25 percent tax will have to be paid for earning up to Rs 12.5-15 lakh. Income tax of more than 15 lakhs will have to pay a 30 percent income tax.
Income Tax Slab
The old income tax rate
The new income tax rate
2.5 – 5 lakhs on earning
On earning 5-7.5 lakhs
7.5 – 10 lakhs on earning
10 – 12.5 lakhs on earning
12.5 – 15 lakhs on earning
On earning above 15 lakh and above
@ 1: 38 pm: No deduction will be included in this under the new tax system, those who want to take the deduction can pay tax at the old rates. Tax concession has been given to promote the startup system. The limit of business has been increased from 25 crores to 100 crores.
@ 1: 37 pm: ‘Dispute to trust’ scheme will be brought to reduce litigation indirect tax, it will continue till 30 June 2020.
@ 1: 36 pm: It is proposed to extend the additional deduction by another year for the purchase of the cheap house by Rs 1,50,000.
@ 12: 59 pm: In the finance sector: the remaining capital of IDBI Bank will be sold on the stock exchange. The Finance Minister announced that up to Rs 5 lakh deposits of people in banks will now be safe. Earlier this limit was only 1 lakh rupees. This means that if an account holder gets a rupee, then they are guaranteed to get five lakh rupees.
@ 12: 58 pm: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that the 15th Finance Commission has given its report, which the government has accepted. The expenditure in this financial year is estimated at Rs 26 lakh crore.
@ 12: 53 pm: The government has proposed to sell part of its share capital in LIC. The government has proposed to sell part of its share capital in LIC by IPO. The government has kept the projected rate of GDP at 10 percent for the financial year 2020-21.
@ 12: 48 pm: The government will arrange full monitoring on all banks. Concrete steps will be taken to improve the banking system. This year the fiscal deficit is estimated to be 3.8 percent of GDP. A target of 3.5 percent has been set for next year.
@ 12: 35 pm: Ladakh in the budget: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that the central government is committed to the development of the northeast. The government will continue to work for the development of Jammu, Kashmir, and Ladakh. It is proposed to allocate Rs 30,757 crore for the recently formed Union States in 2020-21. A budget of Rs 5958 crore has been announced for Ladakh by the government.
@ 12: 34 pm: India will organize the G20 conference in the year 2022, for this, 100 crore rupees will be given by the government.
@ 12: 30 pm: In the field of tourism development: 2,500 crores will be spent for tourism development. A museum will be built at these five archaeological sites. Hastinapur (UP), Sivasagar (Assam), Dhaulavira (Gujarat), Adichelannur, Rakhigadi (Haryana). Apart from this, a Tribal Museum will be built in Ranchi. India has risen from 65th to 34th position in tourism.
@ 12: 25 pm: In the field of environment and climate change: from 01 January 2021, manufacturing will be focused on keeping the climate in mind. Development works will be done keeping in mind the natural disaster. New plans have been made for clean air in cities. For this, Rs 4400 crore has been allocated.
@ 12: 24 pm: Several measures will be taken to prevent pollution. 4 thousand crore rupees are being spent so that people can get clean air. The Finance Minister said that the issue of security is the most important in the country.
@ 12: 20 pm: Art Culture Zone: Such museums will be built which will be world-class. 5 mythologically important sites are being developed. 3150 crores were allocated to the Ministry of Culture.
@ 12: 19 pm: In this budget, it has been proposed to make the Indian Institute of Clutch. Some iconic museums will be built in the country, including Hastinapur in Meerut district.
@ 12: 10 pm: Women Child Development Sector: ‘Nutrition Campaign’ was started to increase the level of nutrition. A new policy will be introduced for newborns. 35,000 crore for nutritional policy. Rs 33,000 crore was allocated for Scheduled Castes and Tribes.
@ 12: 09 pm: Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao schemes got a lot of support, there has been a big difference in child ratio through this scheme. Information about the nutrition of 10 crore families will be given. More than 6 lakh Anganwadi workers were given smartphones.
@ 12: 08 pm: The marriage age of women was increased, now our government is also discussing the age of girls becoming mothers. A task force will be formed which will prepare a report on this issue in 6 months.
@ 12: 06 pm: Rs. 9500 crore allocated for the benefit of senior citizens and differently-abled.
@ 12: 05 pm: In the area of industry: Data Center Park will be built. Private sector participation will be important in this. All gram panchayats will be connected with Bharat Net fiber cable. Rs 8,000 crore is being allocated for quantum technology, India is the third-largest country in this field.
@ 12: 04 pm: Infrastructure companies will be appealed to add youth to their startups. Traders should be confident that the government has done justice to their tax.
@ 12: 03 pm: Nirmala Sitharaman announced that the formation of Investment Clearance Cell through which the investors will be helped. A new scheme has been announced by the government for the electronics manufacturing industry. In this, mobile, electronic manufacturing will be promoted.
@ 12: 03 pm: A scheme will be launched to create export hubs in each district. For this, people will be given loans under Nirvik Yojana. There is a target of investing Rs 100 lakh crore in the next five years.
@ 12: 02 pm: In the area of railways: 5 big steps for railways, railways are being connected with solar energy. To connect big cities, the number of trains like Tejas will increase. Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, Chennai-Bengaluru Expressway will be completed soon.
@ 12: 01 pm: 24000 km. The train will be made electronic. The number of Tejas trains will be increased. Bullet train work between Mumbai-Ahmedabad will be expedited. Water development road will be extended, there are plans to extend this route to Assam. Rs 1.70 lakh crore will be invested in transport.
@ 11: 58 am: Health sector: The government is taking big action to promote the Fit India movement. The number of hospitals in Ayushman Bharat scheme will be increased, so that help will be provided in T-2, T-3 cities. For this, the help of the PPP model will be taken, in which hospitals will be connected in two phases.
@ 11: 57 am: Rainbow mission being run by the central government will be expanded. Whatever tax is received on the medical device, it will be used to promote medical facilities.
@ 11: 56 am: Campaign will be launched in the country against TB, ‘TB will lose, the country will win’. The government is trying to make the country TB-free by 2025.
@ 11: 55 am: Number of centers will be increased under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Aushadhi scheme. Announcement of about 70 thousand crores for health schemes.
@ 11: 54 am: Government is working to improve higher education, students of the world will be given facilities to study in India.
@ 11: 52 am: Students from India will also be sent to countries in Asia, Africa. It is proposed to make National Police University, National University of Judicial Sciences.
@ 11: 50 am: A plan will also be made to establish medical colleges in district hospitals. An internship facility will be provided to young engineers to work in local bodies.
@ 11: 49 am: In the budget, 99,300 crore rupees have been allocated for education. Out of this, 3000 crores will be spent on skill development.
@ 11: 47 am: Teachers, nurses, paramedical staff are required in a big way in the country. Special courses will be made for them so that world-class skills can be made available. 99000 crore rupees will be allocated for education.
@ 11: 46 am: Forensic University, Police University will be formed. Special medical colleges will be made at the district level.
@ 11: 45 am: Online education will be provided for children from disadvantaged areas of society. New education policy will be announced.
@ 11: 44 am: Education sector: By 2030, India will have the most employed people.
@ 11: 38 am: Special arrangements will be made to deal with solid waste. With the allocation of Rs 3.6 lakh crore, water will be provided from the tap in every house.
@ 11: 36 am: Kisan credit card scheme will be extended for 2021. The government will run a scheme to double milk production.
@ 11: 35 am: Fisheries will be promoted through Blue Economy. Fish processing will be encouraged. Assistance to farmers will be increased under the Deen Dayal scheme.
@ 11: 32 am: Indradhanush mission has been expanded. Priority will be given to areas without Ayushman impaneled hospital. AI will be used so that diseases can be controlled with the help of technology.
@ 11: 29 am: Krishi Udaan scheme will be started. This scheme will be started on International, National route.
@ 11: 28 am: Blessed Laxmi Yojana for women farmers was announced. Under this, women will be mainly linked to seed related schemes. The government will start Kisan Rail and Udaan service.
@ 11: 27 am: Through the PM Kusum scheme, farmers’ pumps will be connected to solar pumps. In this, about 20 lakh farmers will be linked to the scheme. Apart from this, grid pumps of 1.5 million farmers will also be connected to solar.
@ 11: 26 am: Nirmala Sitharaman said that a big scheme will be run for the water systems in 100 districts so that farmers do not face any problem of water. A provision of Rs 15 lakh crore has been made for the agricultural credit space sector.
@ 11: 25 am:
Farmers will be assisted by NABARD under the village storage scheme. In this, farmers will be able to preserve their produce. Agricultural flying will be started.
@ 11: 24 am: Making a big announcement for farmers, Nirmala Sitharaman said that our government announces a 16 point formula for farmers, which will benefit the farmers. There is a need to open farmers’ markets so that their income will be increased.
@ 11: 23 am: Government will insist on the limited use of chemical fertilizers. Giving the example of Tamil Nadu, the Finance Minister explained the usefulness of the land.
@ 11: 22 am: Solar pumps are being installed to eliminate the dependence of diesel kerosene. 16 lakh farmers will be given assistance in the first phase. Barren land can be used for solar energy systems, which can benefit the rest of the farmers.
@ 11: 21 am: Nirmala Sitharaman said that the insurance scheme is being run for 6.11 crore farmers. The income of farmers will be doubled by the year 2022.
@ 11: 20 am: Nirmala Sitharaman read a lion in Kashmiri during her speech during this. He said in the speech that our country is blooming like Shalimar Bagh, our country is like a lotus blooming in the Dal Lake, like the warm blood of youth, my country – your country – our country – the most beloved country in the world.
@ 11: 19 am: He said that due to the policies of the Modi government, between 2014 and 2019, FDI came to $ 284 billion, which increased the business.
@ 11: 18 am: Nirmala Sitharaman announced that an easy version of Goods and Services Tax (GST) will come in April 2020. This will ease small traders.
@ 11: 17 am: Three important topics of budget: Aspirational India, economic development and caring society.
@ 11: 15 am: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that our government is moving forward on the policy of Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, and everyone’s trust. India is leading the growing economies in the world today.
@ 11: 13 am: Nirmala Sitharaman said that with the help of technology, efforts will be made to improve the economy. Also, an effort will be made to bring the country on the path of progress by connecting the youth with technology.
@ 11: 12 am: Nirmala Sitharaman told that 271 million people have been taken out of the poverty line. We have become the fifth largest economy in the world.
@ 11: 11 am: Nirmala Sitharaman said that crores of people have benefited from housing schemes and pension schemes in the country. Our growth rate has been better than in other countries all the time.
GST initially faced difficulties but now in the last 2 years, about 16 lakh new taxpayers have been added. Nirmala Sitharaman described GST as historic. He said that there is something special for every section in the budget 2020-21.
@ 11: 09 am: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in his speech that Narendra Modi’s government got the majority in the Lok Sabha elections, the results of 2019 are the mandate given on our policies.
@ 11: 06 am: Nirmala Sitharaman paid tribute to former Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and started the budget speech remembering his contribution to the economy.
@ 11: 04 am: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has started reading her budget speech in Lok Sabha. The proceedings of the Lok Sabha have started.
@ 11: 02 am: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has presented the budget 2020-21.
@ 10: 57 am: Cabinet approved the budget in the meeting held in Parliament House. Sitharaman is going to present the country’s bookkeeping in the Lok Sabha in a while.
@ 10: 55 am: According to the report, Indian Railways can get a big gift in the budget. According to the report, in the budget, the financial assistance to the railways can increase from 10 percent to 12 percent.
@ 10: 34 am: It will be stamped in the Modi cabinet before the budget is presented in the Lok Sabha. After this, Nirmala Sitharaman will present the budget in Parliament. Nirmala Sitharaman is the first woman Finance Minister, who has full charge of the Finance Ministry.
@ 10: 22 am: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also reached Parliament House. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the Union Budget in the Lok Sabha shortly.
@ 10: 18 am: Nirmala Sitharaman will present her second budget today. Many steps can be announced to increase private investment in railways.
@ 10: 15 am: The second budget of Modi government 2.0 will be presented at 11:00 am. Printed copies of Budget 2020-2021 have been brought to Parliament House.
@ 10: 07 am: Officials and ministers have started arriving in Parliament House before the budget is presented. Union Minister Jitendra Singh, Prakash Javadekar has reached Parliament House.
@ 10: 01 am: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has reached Parliament House from Rashtrapati Bhavan. Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba has also reached Parliament House. The budget will be formally approved in the meeting.
@ 9: 52 am: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman met President Ram Nath Kovind along with Minister of State for Finance Anurag Thakur at Rashtrapati Bhavan. During this, Sitharaman took approval from the President to present the budget. Before the presentation of the budget, there will be a meeting of the Modi cabinet at around 10:15 pm in the Parliament House.
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The Hall of Fame Index
Hall of Fame Index: Post War II Hall of Fame Pitchers
We are reaching the end of the post-World War II pitching list. Something to keep in mind is that there were only 15 seasons in this particular era (1946-1960). So, the list of Hall of Famers will be smaller and it should be. We are eliminating a couple of Hall of Fame pitchers that had a cup of coffee in 1946 and 1947 but did the rest of their work before that. Before we move on to the four Hall of Famers, let me take a look at the data we were looking at and offer some interpretation. This time, we are using seasonal data by decade.
SO/9 BB/9 SO+BB
1950 3.9 4.1 8.0
2000 6.5 3.8 10.3
We’ve discussed this before, but I think this bears repeating. This data has two major impacts on the game in general and on pitching specifically. Primarily, this helps account for how modern pitchers can be as valuable as their predecessors despite hurling fewer innings. Just in the last twn years, the strikeout rate has skyrocketed. Moreover, it helps explain one of the reasons why pitchers throw fewer innings.
Often, the talk of traditionalists infuriates me. On the one hand, they talk about how “we didn’t count no pitches” back in the good ol’ days, but then they also turn around and prattle on about Nolan Ryan or Bob Gibson and some 200-pitch game. Sure. How does one get there without counting pitches? So, we harken back to a time when the men were men and the livestock was nervous. The proliferation of the bullpens could be attributed to lack of durability, but I have a better solution. Let’s check out two randomly selected years (2018 and 1970) and see what you notice.
INN ERA SO/9 BB/9 HR/9
2018 Starters 26066 4.19 8.2 3.0 1.2
2018 Bullpen 17422 4.08 8.9 3.6 1.1
1970 Bullpen 9992.2 3.79 6.0 4.0 0.8
What we discover is that teams are using their bullpens more, but the interesting discovery isn’t that obvious fact, but the fact of why. Relievers outperformed starting pitchers in 1970 and today. Teams that can exploit that gap (in other words, make it bigger) win more games. Teams now are not afraid to try new things when the data shows they should. Most teams in 1970 were doing things the way they always did them because that was the way they were always done.
The point is that pitchers are throwing fewer innings for a multitude of reasons. First, it is taking them more pitches per inning (maybe on the order of five per inning) than it did back in 1950. So, if It takes a typical modern starter 15 pitches an inning then he reaches 100 in the sixth or seventh inning. A starter from the past could go a whole game and get to 100 pitches.
Secondly, teams are wiser about using their bullpens to their advantage. Teams that can stack two or three dominant relievers in the bullpen can effectively shorten the game to six innings. That becomes particularly huge when it comes to the playoffs. Of course, they play matchups as well and that slows the game down. It’s one thing to oppose this strategic change. I get that, but you can’t deny its effectiveness.
Finally, take a gander at many of the pitchers we have profiled. You’ll notice that a lot of them were virtually or completely done by their early thirties. Sure, you get the occasional Nolan Ryan that can pitch forever, but the modern era has those guys too. Every era does. The vast majority get to 3000 innings and peter out. That could come 200 per season for 15 years or it can come 250 a year for 12 seasons. I could go on about which method is better, but we need to move on to the post-war Hall of Famers.
Career Value
BWAR FWAR WS/5 Total
Bob Feller 63.4 62.6 58.4 184.4
Early Wynn 60.7 58.6 61.8 181.1
Hal Newhouser 62.5 60.7 52.8 176.0
Bob Lemon 47.9 32.3 46.4 126.6
We call this the post-war era, but two of these pitchers were dramatically impacted by World War II and the Korean War. Feller lost three prime seasons and a large portion of 1945 serving his country. Lemon lost three prime years as well. If you ask Feller he would tell you that he was one of the greatest pitchers that ever lived. Yes, he was cocky, but he averaged 17 wins in the three seasons after the war and 25 wins in the three seasons before the war. Even splitting the difference gives him an additional 60 wins. That throws him over 300 for a career.
Put it another way, he averaged over seven wins a season (in terms of WAR) in those same six seasons. If we give him those 8 wins a season you add roughly 70 wins to his career value. Also, since it came during his prime you would also be adding to his peak value. The upshot is that he would have been amongst those all-time greats we saw earlier.
Lemon is less dramatic as he averaged two and a half wins in the three seasons. If we conservatively give him an additional nine wins then he would have added 27 to his career value and a little more to his peak value. Maybe he adds 40 to 45 real wins in that time. That would put him close to or better than 250 wins for his career. So, there is more to these guys than the index.
Peak Value
BWAR FWAR WS/5 Total Index
Hal Newhouser 57.5 55.6 46.4 159.5 335.5
Bob Feller 55.0 47.5 41.8 144.3 328.7
Bob Lemon 47.2 32.4 44.6 124.2 250.8
Early Wynn 44.8 35.7 39.8 120.3 301.4
The index is designed to deal with exceptions. So, the cases for Feller and Lemon exist largely beyond the index (although Feller certainly qualifies with it). No one would ever claim seriously that Newhouser was better than Feller. The notion seems absurd and when you include the lost seasons you begin to see why. The same is true for Lemon to a lesser extent. If I were to haphazardly guess, I would guess his final index score would fall between 290 and 300 with those additional three seasons. However, it is impossible to know how the rest of their career would be impacted if they had not missed those seasons.
Newhouser and Wynn seem like comfortable choices. Ironically, three of the four pitched for the Indians at the same time. Those teams won only won World Series and advanced to only two. Had there been a league championship series or divisional round then who knows. That’s part of the fun of baseball back in those days.
Wins PCT ERA+ SO/9 BB/9 HR/9
Hal Newhouser 207 .580 130 5.4 3.8 0.4
Bob Feller 266 .621 122 6.1 4.1 0.5
Early Wynn 300 .551 107 4.6 3.5 0.7
Bob Lemon 207 .618 117 4.0 4.0 0.6
If we have learned anything we have learned about the folly of following wins and winning percentage. Let’s assume everything else were equal. Newhouser has a 130 ERA+ and won only 58 percent of his games. Newhouser had 337 decisions. If we apply his ERA+ then he should have won 236 games instead. Now, spread these out over a career and you are really talking. That would be a 236-91 record. That’s not half bad.
The others are less dramatic, but the point still comes through. ERA+ is probably the best single statistic when evaluating pitcher performance. Certainly, some things like longevity come into play, but you can tell a whole lot by looking at certain numbers. So, some of these conventional numbers are distractors from the truth. That’s why we look at as many numbers as we can.
Playoff Performance
W-L INN ERA SO/9 BB/9 HR/9
Bob Lemon 2-2 29.2 3.94 5.2 4.6 0.3
Hal Newhouser 2-1 20.2 6.53 9.6 2.2 0.0
Early Wynn 1-2 20.0 4.95 6.8 2.7 0.9
Bob Feller 0-2 14.1 5.02 4.4 3.1 1.9
These numbers illustrate the dangers of focusing on small sample sizes. Newhouser somehow struck out more hitters, walked fewer hitters, and surrendered zero home runs and saw his numbers skyrocket. That makes no sense. Except, anything can happen in 20 innings. Meanwhile, a team with three Hall of Fame pitchers can only manage one World Series title. That makes Lemon, Wynn, and Feller the 1940s and 1950s version of Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, and John Smoltz. Are we really going to label them as chokers based on these numbers?
There are so many layers to performance and that is particularly true with less data. Somehow, bad BABIP luck can turn into a rap as a choke artist. Thank God these guys weren’t active now. The talking heads on ESPN and the MLB Network would be analyzing how they “always” seem to come up short. Of course, give them a divisional series and league championship series and the numbers would be far different.
Suffice it to say that none of them really help their cause with their playoff numbers, but beyond that there really is no reason to look too far into those bad performances. A bloop hit here and there suddenly makes you look horrible. That can happen over isolated starts. When you have more than 300 of them then these things tend to even themselves out.
BWAR Cy Young Points
Top 10 Top 5 CY Points
Bob Feller 0 4 3 50
Hal Newhouser 1 3 3 48
Early Wynn 2 2 2 36
Bob Lemon 3 3 0 24
Of course, there is no telling where Feller or Lemon would have been with those three seasons. In essence, the Cy Young points measure the fame level of the pitcher. Some pitchers are really good for a long time and others have spots of dominance that may not make them better over the long haul but certainly burn their memories into our mind. Essentially, we are looking for gaps and we see a significant gap after Newhouser and another after Wynn.
This doesn’t mean Feller was better. I think most observers would agree, but these numbers aren’t proof of that. What they do is give us a clearer picture of their respective careers when we consider all of the facts. We know Feller was occasionally brilliant while Wynn was more often just very good. Occasional brilliance is better for some than simple consistent production, but others prefer consistency. To each their own.
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Synchronous and asynchronous loading types explained
Asynchronous loading: strengths and drawbacks
Decide when to use synchronous or asynchronous loading in the Optimizely snippet
A/B testing scripts can be loaded in two ways:
Synchronously, where scripts are loaded sequentially, one after another, starting with the <head> tag
Asynchronously, where some scripts can be loaded simultaneously
Loading a script asynchronously has the advantage of not slowing the page down, but it can cause a "flicker" on the page, where the original page loads, followed shortly by the variation page.
Optimizely uses a synchronous snippet to prevent flickering and a balanced content delivery network (CDN) system to make sure the impact on the page is minimized.
Do you just want to learn how to implement the Optimizely Snippet? Go to our article on implementing the Optimizely Snippet before you read this one.
You can also learn about custom snippets in Optimizely Web or how to load variation code asynchronously within in a synchronous snippet.
If you specifically want to know about asynchronous and synchronous implementation, read on.
A web page consists of a head and a body. Everything in the body is rendered by the browser while the head is used to load external resources (such as scripts and style sheets) and to add meta data to the page. When the page loads in a browser, the browser starts reading the html from top to bottom. The head section has a special characteristic: normally, the browser will not show anything (a white screen) until all the external resources are fully loaded. This is called "synchronous loading."
However, you could override this functionality to make certain elements load without waiting for all external resources to load. This is known as "asynchronous loading."
Here's what a page's <head> tag would look like when all resources are loaded in a synchronous manner:
<script src="1.js" />
<link href="4.css" />
<body>Hello World!</body>
When all resources in the head are synchronous, the elements will load in order, like this:
Here's what a page's <head> tag would look like when all resources are loaded in an asynchronous manner:
<script async src="2.js" />
When a script is asynchronous, it will load simultaneously with other scripts, like this:
You can see in the diagram, that scripts 2 and 3 are now able to load at the same time, which speeds up the overall loading of a page. However, the browser will not wait until the snippet is done loading before displaying the elements in the body to a visitor, which can lead to "flickering" (see below).
On the plus side, loading asynchronously will prevent any delay in pageload because the page will attempt to load all elements simultaneously, including your A/B testing scripts.
However, when an A/B testing script is loaded much later than the page, a flicker of the page can occur. This flicker happens when the original page loads, followed by the variation. This is not desirable, especially when the loading of the A/B testing script is taking more time than is acceptable.
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Bring Flyer to Okemos Panera on Dec 15 to Help Fight Cystic Fibrosis
Emily Progin, PR and Communications Coordinator
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Young Husband Michael Harmon Is Waiting for New Lungs
OKEMOS, Mich.—This Sunday, December 15 from 4 to 8 p.m., bring a special flyer to Okemos Panera (2080 W Grand River Avenue) and your purchases will help to support a worthy local cause: 35-year-old Michael Harmon of Owosso’s fight against cystic fibrosis, and his dream of securing a lifesaving double lung transplant in the near future.
Michael was diagnosed with the chronic genetic lung disease at just six months old. While most people with cystic fibrosis have reduced breathing capabilities, Michael’s lungs are in dire condition—as his wife of three years, Laura Harmon, explains: “Michael breathes at 14% to 17% on a good day…his lungs are always working overtime just to help him breathe.”
The average life expectancy for a patient with cystic fibrosis is less than 40 years—but there is hope in the form of a double lung transplant, which will forever change Michael’s life. That is, if he can afford it. With out-of-pocket medical costs mounting and average lung transplant billed charges exceeding $1.1 million, Michael cannot cover the cost of a transplant on his own. He is fundraising with the national medical nonprofit Help Hope Live at https://helphopelive.org/campaign/15657/
Bring this flyer to Okemos Panera on Sunday, December 15 between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.: https://s3.amazonaws.com/helphopelive/media/event_flyers/Panera_Donation_Flyer.pdf You can use the promo code PRFUND to order online in advance or for delivery. A portion of every single purchase that you make will be donated to Help Hope Live in honor of Michael Harmon. All donations will offset medical expenses via Help Hope Live’s Great Lakes Transplant Fund. Can’t make it? Make a donation in honor of Michael at any time at https://helphopelive.org/campaign/15657/ or by calling 800.642.8399. Your donation is tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Help Hope Live is a national nonprofit that specializes in engaging communities in fundraising campaigns for people who need a transplant or are affected by a catastrophic injury or illness. Since 1983, campaigns organized by Help Hope Live have raised over $135 million to pay patient expenses.
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==Skills & Abilities== [[File:Carter's_Power.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]Carter is the only character in the game who can access three different focuses at once (with even highly trained magi like the Player only able to use up to two at a time). Carter's focuses are all three magic types, Blood Magic, Chaos Magic and Elementalism. Blood Magic can undo wounds and unleash dark powers on foes but at a cost of the user's health. Chaos Magic mostly manifests in forms of short-range telekinesis but creates random side-effects. Elementalism unleashes the fury of the natural world with fire, electricity and icy-blasts but it can strain the user's anima, requiring time to recharge. In addition to the formal magic training Carter also had been training with Montag to teleport laboratory animals into and out of pocket dimensions, however those lessons were put on hiatus after "a regrettable zoo outing" that occurred the previous year. Carter has had prophetic dreams, as Usher points out both she and Carter have had dreams about the deaths of the staff who fled the school-grounds after Beaumont arrived. Carter is an honor's student of Innsmouth and not only were her powers exceedingly strong even among other magi, but she was a quick study for more traditional school programs.
Return to Carter (The Secret Word).
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The Railroad Tie is back home
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The Bonita wrestling team beat San Dimas in a close dual to win back the Railroad Tie. Varsity Boys won 40-39, JV Boys won 48-27 and Varsity girls tied 15-15.
The Railroad Tie is wrestling’s version of the Smudge Pot; it was made by Head Coach Brian Sandmark when he first started coaching and his initials are carved into the corner. This year’s victory was Sandmark’s first victory over San Dimas as head coach since he made the Railroad Tie.
Wrestlers Liam Barragan, Shane Lohr, Bayley Teach, Nico Dominguez, Giovanni Torres, and Isaiah Garcia all pinned their wrestler, earning the team six points each. Andre Baton won his match 11-5, earning the team four points. Katie Bentz and Tahna Dow both pinned their wrestler and Alyssa Martinez beat the other girl 6-0.
In wrestling, six points is awarded to the team if the other wrestler is pinned, to be pinned, the wrestler must hold his opponents shoulders on the mat for three seconds. If the match is won by having the most points at the end of the six minutes, the team gets three points and if the point gap gets big enough, either five or four are rewarded depending on the gap.
“I feel like we did a pretty good job over all, we some improving to do but over all we are going to be doing pretty well this season” commented Martinez on the girls’ performance.
The varsity match was extremely high energy with everyone cheering until their voices hurt and as soon as the team realized they won, the boys jumped up and started cheering, soon to be followed by JV and the girls, jumping up and down in a big group, holding the Rail Road Tie high in the air, showing it off to the audience.
After everyone calmed down, Coach Sandmark brought everyone together to talk before they went home.
“Enjoy this victory because it is yours for a whole year. That Railroad Tie is going to sit in the office for a whole year, right next to the Smudge Pot” Sandmark told the boys.
Last year, the boys lost the Railroad Tie at San Dimas in a close match, losing by one point and on the bus ride home, no one said a word. This year the boys couldn’t stop talking.
Teach felt, “very conditioned, like I dominated in my match and my adrenaline was up”.
The boys started off the season with a victory and are going to use this momentum to start off another great season.
—Alyssa Palmer
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Barker Associates Architecture Office was tasked with the modernization of a 20th Street townhouse in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, New York.
Location New York City, New York, United States,
Type House,
This 20-foot-wide wood frame townhouse, located at the end of a row along a narrow side yard, had existing front and rear extensions. The building volume was selectively manipulated—in some cases through addition, in others through subtraction—to improve room sizes, sequences and adjacencies. Generously sized skylights, window walls and glazed corners were employed to make the most of available natural light.
The front extension was carved away at the corner to create a covered front porch, wraparound window and mudroom. The rotation of the front door—now perpendicular to the street—attenuates the entry sequence (meaning the visitor doesn’t enter directly into the main volume, as in a typical row house). To open up the exposed wall to available light, the stairs were relocated to the party wall. Instead of a straight run, the stairs take a ninety-degree turn and are lit from above, by a large skylight. The corners of the living room and dining rooms were eroded to bring light in and extend views diagonally.
The rear extension was widened to about 15 feet to create a generous mahogany-paneled kitchen with an island, pantry and home office nook. A deck off the kitchen extends the materiality of the interior living spaces out into the yard. Upstairs, the master suite is located at the front and insulated from the bustle of the house by an airlock of two parallel pocket doors. A windowed walk-in closet, sky-lit bathroom and west-facing glazed wall bring lots of light inside. In the back, corner-wrapping windows take advantage of the open skies behind the house to bring generous amounts of light into the children’s bedrooms. White oak, used for floors, stairs and built-in shelving and cabinets throughout the house, keep the palette pale and neutral.
In the bathrooms, oak elements mix with cement tile and ceramic mosaics in blue and white. In the basement, which is set up as a family room and equipment storage space, vinyl tiles in a graphic pattern provide visual interest. Outside, tongue and groove white cedar siding, paired with integrated fencing and planters, creates crisp square corners. Rectangles of gray stain wrap the corners and insets to emphasize the volumetric shifts in the facade.
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Fate/Grand Order's English Version Celebrates 7 Million Downloads
6:03 PM September 12, 2019
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The English version of the smash hit mobile game Fate/Grand Order has surpassed seven million downloads since its release in June of 2017 and the mobile game plans to commemorate the occasion with its biggest celebration campaign to date. The “7 Million Downloads Campaign” begins September 12th and features a slew of rewards for players, including the highly anticipated return of Limited Time Servant and history’s most famous kingmaker, ★5 (SSR) Merlin. The Mage of Flowers and adviser from the Legend of King Arthur will be accompanied by increased drop rates for ★5 (SSR) Servants, Altria Pendragon (Saber) and Altria Pendragon (Lancer), as well as ★4 (SR) Servants, Altria Pendragon (Alter) (Saber) and Altria Pendragon (Alter) (Lancer).
Furthermore, players will also have a limited time opportunity to receive the “7 Million Downloads Commemorative Ticket” which is exchangeable for one of 42 ★4 (SR) Servants. Players must log in between September 11th and September 18th to receive the commemorative ticket, with the exchange period for the ★4 (SR) Servants limited to the duration of the “7 Million Downloads Campaign.” Only players who have cleared “Singularity F: Flame Contaminated City Fuyuki” are eligible to exchange the “7 Million Downloads Commemorative Ticket.”
In addition to daily login bonuses, players can also look forward to increased success rates and half QP costs for Servant and Craft Essence enhancements, as well as half AP costs for Daily “Enter the Treasure Vault” Quests. Players will also find additional items for exchange in Da Vinci’s Workshop, along with Servant and Craft Essence inventories expanded to 350 slots from 300.
The “7 Million Downloads Campaign” lasts until September 25th with the free-to-play mobile game available for download on the Apple App Store and Google Play in the U.S., Canada, Australia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, and Vietnam.
In February, the English version of Fate/Grand Order entered Part 1.5 of its main story with the release Fate/Grand Order – Epic of Remnant, which consists of four chapters: Shinjuku Phantom Incident, Women of Agartha, Seven Duels of Swordmasters, and Heretical Salem, all leading to Part 2.
The Fate/Grand Order U.S.A. Tour 2019 way to Anime Weekend Atlanta (Atlanta, GA) November 1st through the 3rd before making its final stop at Anime NYC (New York, NY) in November.
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Agile marketing: The move to quicker, more adaptable and responsive marketing
by Mike Nutley | Jan 9, 2021 | Uncategorized | 0 comments
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For many marketers, the Covid-19 pandemic has meant having to respond to changing circumstances faster than ever before.
Audi has kept customers up-to date about changes to showroom opening conditions around the world as governments have modified their lockdown rules. Direct Line performed more experiments on its website in 12 weeks at the height of the UK crisis than it had done in the previous three years. TSB relaunched its friend referral scheme in six weeks.
What all these companies have in common is they use an agile approach to get things done more quickly.
The move towards more adaptable, more responsive marketing didn’t start with the pandemic, of course. For some time, customer experience has been a key point of differentiation as consumers increasingly expect personalised communications from brands in real-time, delivered via their preferred channel of the moment.
And while marketers have access to unprecedented levels of data and increasingly powerful marketing data and analytics to deliver against these expectations, traditional marketing procedures move too slowly to take full advantage. As Rob Lawrence, agile marketing consultant and former Global Head of Digital Marketing at Nivea, says: “To do anything meaningful with data, you have to be able to move fast.”
So, marketers need a quicker, more responsive approach. They need to be more agile. What that looks like and how you achieve it are the subject of a new report from The Drum in association with Neustar, Agile marketing transformation: Why it’s the key to your success.
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When people talk about agile marketing, they most often mean marketing that is more fleet-footed than traditional. This may even include adopting the ideas and procedures of the Agile approach to software development.
“We look at agility as the ability to think and act quickly and easily,” says Blake Cahill, Global Head, Digital Marketing & E-Commerce at Philips. “The Agile Methodology is a way of working that involves shorter cycle times, a higher frequency of releases, and making a greater impact. Through this we achieve agility.”
The Agile Methodology was codified in 2001 by a group of software engineers who wanted a better approach than the then-prevalent “waterfall” model. Rather than trying to design and build a system that would meet users’ needs perfectly, Agile is based on developing by rapid iteration; building something, testing it, changing it according to user feedback, testing it again, and so on.
The other defining characteristics of Agile are that it brings people from across the organisation together in multi-disciplinary teams to work on a specific project, with goals set by the business rather than a particular channel or department.
The results are typically shorter times to market, greater efficiency, the breaking down of silos within the business, and a quicker response changing conditions.
As well as looking at what agile marketing is and how to embed it in an organisation, the report also discusses the qualities needed to be a truly agile marketer. These include being curious, disciplined, collaborative and data-driven, as well as being politically savvy and a good communicator.
The Covid-19 pandemic has shown – if more evidence were needed – that marketing needs to become quicker to react, more efficient and more able to take advantage of big data. It’s also demonstrated the benefits that even small steps towards greater agility can bring. And finally, it’s made clear that agility, across the whole business rather than just in marketing, will be a significant source of competitive edge in the future.
As Sinem Soydar Günal, global senior digital marketing manager, Vodafone Group says:“The adoption of Agile is inevitable. Companies have to find a way to react to changing customer needs that is easier, quicker and more efficient than before. Agile is becoming the new normal.”
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2 edition of 7th heaven found in the catalog.
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Published 1924 by The H.K. Fly Company in New York .
Statement by John Golden; based on the play by Austin Strong, illustrated with scenes from the play.
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Stussy Hong Kong Celebrates Its First Anniversary With Limited-Edition Tee
Featuring a black and white photo of an 8 Ball-inspired vase.
By Pauline De Leon Nov 10, 2020
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Stussy‘s Hong Kong store officially turns one this week. In celebration of this momentous occasion, the Californian brand is set to release a limited-edition T-shirt arriving in a plain white colorway. The front of the garment features a black and white image of an 8 Ball-inspired vase with a flower placed inside. Written in Shawn Stussy‘s signature font, the graphic is topped off with the label’s logo and the phrase “HONG KONG BUILT FOR THE LONG HAUL.” Embroidered on the back is “INTERNATIONAL STUSSY TRIBE,” along with the store’s Hong Kong address.
Take a closer look at the design in the gallery above. The limited-edition tee will be available on November 13 exclusively at Stussy Hong Kong’s store.
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The Christmas Songs Iowans Absolutely HATE
Courtlin
Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love Christmas music, but, there are a handful of songs I could do without!
A new article from the website Best Life outlines some of the most hated Christmas songs of all time, and I liked their list the second I saw the number one song! The site says that "The Christmas Shoes" by NewSong is the worst Christmas song ever, and I agree 100%. The article reads:
"Nothing kills the holiday mood quite like the lyric 'Could you hurry, sir, Daddy says there's not much time.'"
I remember the first time I ever heard "The Christmas Shoes." I was in the car with my mom, and I was at an age where it wasn't "cool" to cry in front of your parents. As I silently sobbed in the backseat, I wondered why anyone would make a Christmas song that's SO SAD. Isn't Christmas supposed to be a joyful time of year? I don't want to feel depressed when I'm trying to get into the Christmas spirit!
Some of the other most hated songs on Best Life's list include "Wonderful Christmastime" by Paul McCartney, "Do They Know It's Christmas" by Band Aid, and "The Chipmunk Song."
We decided to take the debate to Facebook and figure out which holiday songs Iowans hate the most! Here are some of the comments:
Jillisa Claye - "'Last Christmas' by Wham!"
Brianne Adina Willmott - "Dominic the Donkey"
Amanda Kistner - "Any song by Mariah Carey"
Tracy Clemann - "Christmas in Iowa!!!"
Ashley Eckhoff - "George Strait's 'Christmas Cookies'"
Bonnie Alderson Clubb - "Santa Baby"
Bryan Hole - "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer"
Rose Marie Lemmer - "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas"
Haley Meyer - "ALL OF THEM"
Is there a Christmas song that you really don't enjoy? Let us know in the comments below!
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La parte escondida del iceberg
The Hidden Part of the Iceberg
Original title: La parte escondida del iceberg
Category: Fiction | General Fiction
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Earth > Europe > Eastern Europe > Slovakia > Bratislava
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419,678 (31 December 2014)
Major roads:
E 65 E 75 E 58 E 571
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Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia. The city has one airport.
1.1 From Žilina
2 Hitching around
3 Hitching out
3.1 North towards Brno, Prague (D2) E 65
3.1.1 Lamač gas station
3.1.2 Mokrohájska
3.2 East towards Žilina E 75, Banská Bystrica, E 58 E 571 (D1)
3.2.1 Zlaté Piesky gas station
3.2.2 Zlaté Piesky bus stop
3.3 South towards Budapest E 75, Vienna E 58
4 Public Transport
5 Sleeping
6 Other useful info
From Žilina
If you are coming on the motorway from the northeast but your driver is continuing to Hungary or Austria, ask him to leave you at the Slovnaft petrol station in Zlaté Piesky before the airport and the city centre. Jump over the fence in the southwest part of the petrol station area (there is a hole), walk across the field to the other road, follow the sign "Center" and after one or two kilometers you will reach the last stop of tram 2 and 4.
Alternatively, you can ask your driver to drop you near Aupark shopping center, but they need to exit highway right after crossing Prístavný most. Getting back on highway is very easy for them. This place is much more closer to center than previous one, you can get to Hodžovo námestie in 5 minutes with public transport.
Hitching around
If you are just passing by the city (e.g. going from Prague to Budapest) avoid at all costs being dropped at a petrol station in the city by a driver going into Bratislava. The road splits inside the city, the motorway is in the middle and the local traffic goes on a side road. Because of a wall there is no direct access from the city streets and the petrol stations are not on the motorway. If you end up being dropped inside the city somewhere, you must follow the Hitchwiki advice to reach another spot or spend the night in Bratislava.
Hitching out
North towards Brno, Prague (D2) E 65
Hitchhiking in direction to Brno.
Lamač gas station
In the north of the city there is a small service station at the motorway going north to Brno.
There are two options how to get there:
Get off at bus stop called Húščavova. The bus stop is directly after the bus turns left and crosses the highway over a bridge. You need to indicate that you want to get off the bus at this station. In the worst case though, you can get off at the next stop Lipského and walk a bit more. When you leave the bus just walk back over the bridge and turn left and walk to the next traffic light to the station.
Get off at bus stop called Pridánky. You need to indicate that you want to get off the bus. Once you leave the bus, the service station is very close but not visible. Follow the direction in which the bus continues for 100 meters and you will see the exit of the highway and the service station on your left.
Mokrohájska
Go to a bus stop called Mokrohájska, the bus stop is on city road in Brno direction but it's not yet a highway. You can try hitch hiking directly 'behind' the bus stop, there's enough for car to stop or continue walking in the same direction the bus was going, about 300 meters further there's a large OMV gas station, McDonald's and non-stop Tesco shopping mall. You also can try to hitchhike on traffic lights nearby.
East towards Žilina E 75, Banská Bystrica, E 58 E 571 (D1)
Zlaté Piesky gas station
There is a gas station directly on the D1 highway in Bratislava, near the AVION shopping centre. Take bus 61 in the direction of the airport and get off at the stop Fatruny. You can try either hitchhiking on the on-ramp or asking drivers at the petrol station 750 m from the bus stop. It's bit harder to get in to petrol station, you have to walk past highway for a while. There are a lot of trucks going by this on-ramp, because this is one of the industrial parts of Bratislava.
Zlaté Piesky bus stop
Take a tram 2 or 4 east to the last stop called Zlaté Piesky. Cross over the big road to your right and walk down past the Porsche dealership. Hitchhike on the highway just beyond the bus stop. Its not the greatest spot, but there isn't any other. The road splits into the E75 and the E58/E571 approximately 30 km east from here.
South towards Budapest E 75, Vienna E 58
Probably the easily reachable way to go Vienna: Take the bus number 50 and get off the last station which is named Aupark. There is OMV petrol station, McDonalds and big shopping mall as well. Since this location is not that far from the center of Bratislava there are some local people who go to further into Slovakia or city center. But there is a good possibility to find a ride for Vienna. In my case ıt took 5 min from OMW to find a lift and ıt was at around 18h, December 2013. For local people you can ask like that " Idete do Viedna?"
Probably the best way : From the city centre take a tram number 4 in direction of Zlate Piesky, get off at the last stop. Then walk along the road around 15 minutes. When you see the beginning of the motorway with a sign Győr, Wien, on your righthand side you will notice a petrol station. Go a few metres through bushes, and once you get to the fence, there is a hole in fence. Jump over it (its just one metre or something) and you are at the petrol station directly on the motorway. From there its very easy to get a lift to Wien, a bit harder to Hungary. Some people also go to Italy using this way to avoid paying for vignets for Austria, which are expensive. You can get here also by buses 53, 56, 65 , 514. This is how you can get here Here is the map
Attempted the above directions this morning and they need a little further explanation. Only tram 4 goes to Zlate Piesky, which is the name of the last stop. From here you'll see a footbridge, which you need to cross over and continue up the road in the direction the tram was heading. You'll be walking along a grass verge so be careful along the road. Have some faith, keep moving and you'll pass a lake on your right hand side. Continue on and you'll see a bridge up ahead with a petrol station on the other side of the carriageway. There are some offices to your right here. Push on under the bridge and you'll see in the distance the petrol station you're after. Follow the tracks in the field and you'll find the hole in the fence through to the station forecourt and truck stop. No problem from there. Here is the map [[1]]--Looking for Stu (talk) 17:38, 4 December 2012 (CET)
A very good way : Motorway-petrol station in the northeast of the city. Take Bus 63 (crosses the whole town) and get out at Tesco Lamac (next to a shopping centre). Walk 1 km northwards and you get to a bridge that crosses the motorway. Go down the steps at the bridge and another 100m north and you're there. Or you can get there also by bus 83, 34, 22 and 20 or even 30. When taking the buses 83, 34, 22 and 20 you have to get off at the bus stop Húščavova, walk back few meter to the bridge, go under it, and walk 50m to the gas station. When taking the bus 30. Get off at Pridánky, cross the bridge over the highway, go under it, and walk 50m to the gas station. Both bus stops require you to give the driver a signal it's a button in the bus (When there's only one button that is it. When there are two buttons it's not the one that opens the door, it's the one that says STOP.) Most of the cars will be locals but there are also some trucks passing by here. If nobody is going far ask people also if they aren't going along the D2 to Jarovce and passing by the big gas station located there. Here is the map
The most traffic but it's hard to get there : There is a big gas station on the D2 highway south of the city. It's a quite walk to get there. Go by bus 93 or 95 to the bus stop Vyšehradská(It is the last stop of the bus 93), Cross the big road called Panonská Cesta and walk to the gas staion. It a bit far.Here is a map
Having arrived in Budapest from the above location last night, it's worth knowing that most (see: virtually all) cars are either heading into Vienna or back to Bratislava from this location. If you're looking at heading into Budapest from here, then you might do better with a sign simply reading 'HU' rather than your end destination. There is a petrol station further along on the M1, a little after the first exit for Gyor, from which you'll be able to catch a lift to Budapest in no time.
walk towards Vienna. Following highway B9 parallel to the Danube walk towards Vienna with your thumb out. The traffic is slow and light enough that people can stop and pick you up easily. (2012.01.24 I took this route and only ended up walking about 6km between two people who gave me rides. Probably better than waiting in town for a ride. -lex)
Walk south over the UFO bridge and follow the pedestrian/cyclepath to the right. You will arrive at a bus stop on Einsteinova, standing at the front of the marked off lane will give drivers a place to pull over. The road splits shortly after, but both ways lead towards Vienna, so to catch all possible rides it's best to wait before the fork. It's not ideal as three lanes of traffic are moving quickly by. If you are unsuccessful, two bus companies operating between Bratislava and Vienna pick up right at that bus stop about every 15 minutes during the day. Also, there's an on-ramp from the bridge onto Einsteinova, where cars have space to pull over, Zenit got a ride there within 15-20 minutes.
OMV petrol station near shopping centre AUPARK. Try to get a lift to the first petrol station on the motorway named Jarovce.
(I tried this option with a girlfriend. Enough cars, a lot of drivers speak English, but nobody is going to the motorway and everybody has a car filled with groceries, kids or a wife (MF))
Bratislava has pretty cheap and fast (except rush hours) network of trams, buses and trolleybuses. In Slovakia public transport is referred as abbreviation MHD. The cost of 15 minute one trip ticket is 0.70€ and 60 minute ticket (90 minutes on weekend) is 0.90€. When using night lines you have to buy night ticket which costs 1.70€. It's not possible to buy ticket from driver, you have to mark your ticket instantly after entering vehicle. To plan your journey you can use maps of lines, online route planner or offline Android route planner (1 month trial). Blackriding is not advised, ticket inspectors don't wear any uniforms and penalty is very high compared to ticket price (50€ until 5 business days, 70€ afterwards). They always come in three, two of them are ticket inspectors and one is from security.
It's not possible to sleep at the railway station, you will be asked to leave, valid ticket won't help you. Better option is to sleep in sleeping bag or set up a tent in one of many forest areas, it's absolutely normal to wild camp in Slovakia, you won't have any problems. One of the best options are Koliba, just use trolleybus 203, get out at final stop and walk on the top of hill. You should find nice place to sleep. You can also try Pečniansky les on the right side of Danube river. It's also possible to sleep around Draždiak lakes in Petržalka or in forests near Železná studienka. If you are willing to spend more time in public transport, you can take a ride to Čuňovo and sleep close to local lake.
There is no problem in finding free or unsecured Wi-Fi. City offers free hotspots at Main Square, along Danube and in many other places. There's also possibility to connect in many of McDonald's, railway station, or KC Dunaj also has very good connection.
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Abraham accuses his niece of being a cult member
For the past couple of days we’ve been scouring Abe and Ella’s latest video release—the 3 hours recorded by Abe’s brother-in-law Jean-Clement Yaohirou on 4 September, 2014.
It’s a rough ride for anyone who cares about children, as Abe is clearly pushing RD’s kids to provide the correct, pre-scripted answers to his questions, and the children stumble over themselves to comply. At one point, Abe can be heard prompting them to yell, “Kill! Kill! Kill the babies!”…exactly as noted by Mrs Justice Pauffley in this section of her fact-finding judgement of 19 March, 2015:
However, this isn’t the only disturbing section of the video.
At about 2 hours and 6 minutes, it sounds as though Abe, Jean-Clement, and the children are in the front hallway of Jean-Clement’s house. One of our team members kindly put together a clip of the interchange that takes place:
It seems that one of the children pointed to a picture, wondering who’s in it.
Abe says, “That’s Jean-Clement’s daughter, that’s my niece…she likes to touch as well“.
Jean-Clement responds, “No, no, no, no, no, she doesn’t”.
In a more serious voice, Abe says, “She came to my house in Marrakech (“to see me”? hard to make out)”.
Jean-Clement, more forcefully: “Noooo”.
Abe (sarcastically): “Oh, I’m a liar?”
Jean-Clement: “Well, how come you never say that?”
Abe: “Well, what am I going to say?”
There’s a great deal of cross-chatter happening here, and the sound quality is bad for a few seconds, obscuring the conversation.
Then we hear Abe justifying his extraordinary statement about Jean-Clement’s daughter: “She used to do it, she used to touch, she used to kill, she used to touch, she used to kill. She used to. I believe that she’s growing out of it slowly”. Then, as if this explains everything, he says, “This is what they do, Jean-Clement. This is what they’re taught to do”.
What does Abe mean by all this?
Is he seriously claiming that he has first-hand knowledge that his own niece is a member of his imaginary cult?
The fact that he seems to think that Jean-Clement’s daughter was involved in ‘touching’ (we assume he means sexual touching) and ‘killing’ speaks to a much broader issue: Abe is clearly expressing his obsession with children doing sexualised, violent things to one another. If he was fantasising about his niece doing these things at his home in Marrakech, then this grotesque sexual obsession must predate his relationship with Ella.
Hardly surprising, then, that as soon as he got his clutches on RD’s children, he began spinning elaborate fantasies about them, too.
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60 thoughts on “Abraham accuses his niece of being a cult member”
There is some sort of strange dynamic going on here between Christie and Clement. I have a daughter and if such a remark had been made about her in my presence, the conversation that ensued would have been entirely different. Perhaps those that have had dealings with Christie are afraid of him.
Danielle George says:
“…exactly as noted by Mrs Justice Pauffley in this section of her fact-finding judgement…”
Mr. Coyote, you make me floaty. That’s music to my ears! The fruitcake crew – I’m sure you knew – disputed that for years!
Yes, folks – there it is. After the endless whining from the fruitloop brigade about how every word of Justice Pauffley’s report was a lie, that there’s no way on God’s green Earth that Abe coached the children, that there’s absolutely no way he would ever have led the children in chants of “Kill kill kill the baby”, here he is in all his glory, recorded for posterity and uploaded by…er…Abe himself!
I suggest that we never forget the many things the fruitcakes have called us for claiming Mrs. Pauffley was telling the truth and that this actually happened (let’s just say that putting our heads above the parapet has been enriching for our vocabulary). But I also suggest that we lay back and savour these delicious “I told you so” moments, so eloquently encapsulated by that nice Mr. Coyote 🙂
Helen Does Hampstead says:
Yes indeed and I think there’s quite a significant bit just before Abe goes into his “She used to do it…” spiel:
Abe: “Ask Mutter…”
JC: “…No, that’s just exploratory. That’s different.”
Abe: “That’s not exploratory. She used to do it…”
I’m thinking it’s a strong possibility that Abe sexually abused JC’s daughter but is twisting it round to say that she was a member of the fictitious satanic cult in order to divert attention from himself as the alleged perpetrator.
I also have to be honest and say I don’t think he says “She used to kill”. It sounds more like “She used to kick” (“She used to kick, she used to touch. Jean-Clement, you’re living in a dream. She used to kick, she used to touch…”). That said, he does then go on to claim that she and other children are “taught to kill” by the cult. And “kick” still supports EC’s theory about Abe having an “obsession with children doing sexualised, violent things to one another” anyway.
By the way, ‘Mutter’ is the German word for ‘mother’. It appears to be Abe’s nickname for Ella and is also used elsewhere in the recording. In all honesty, it sounds more like ‘Murter’ and may be another language’s word for ‘mother’ (not Russian, though – I checked). Anyhoo, the point is that it sounds like Ella knows about Abe’s alleged sexual abuse of his niece.
Disturbing stuff.
Mister Tickle says:
What the hell is going through Abe’s head when he says “They have babies for packed lunch”? Charlotte and others have claimed he’s been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder over the children’s “revelations” about being forced to eat babies. Yet here he is casually joking about it!
I have a feeling Abraham Christie will eventually be facing child porn and sex abuse charges.
That’s very disturbing indeed. I really think this man should be locked up. And I share the first commentator’s concerns about the other male, although I presume the recording was made by him and therefore he was letting the convo roll on.
Abraham needs locking up and the sooner the better. He is obviously a danger to children and listening to him chanting with the children puts shivers down my spine.
A wee addition to paragraphs 95 & 96 above:
The Thinking Man's David Howard says:
Google “Abe Christie polygraph test”
Abe Christie – what a complete cult he is.
It is not ‘Mutter’ but Ma***, the name of Abe’s children’s mother, his wife who must have been with him at his house in Marracech.
And it could also be ‘kiss’. Hard to tell, but whatever the k word, the rest is very clear: JC tries to defend his daughter as best he can, saying ‘it’s just exploratory’….Abe realises that he has just revealed himself, and tries to backtrack, smoothing it over: ….’I believe she is growing out of it’, and they both quickly move on past this bombshell, JC doing the only thing he can to preserve his daughter’s dignity.
The conversation is jaw-dropping, and as you say, EC, it proves without a shadow of a doubt that Abe was entertaining his dark fantasies well before he ever met RD’s children. He watched young girls in their sleep, imagining what it is that turns him on. He really is a disgusting little piece of shit.
I think it is in an Alfred Webre interview that Abe or Ella say that he (Abe) ‘recognised’ aspects of RD’s children’s behaviour, from own experience, as his niece was sexually abused. I apologise for discussing this person here and see identifying details have been edited out of the tape. I hope that if she were to read this she would understand it in context. It is necessary to lay bare the machinations of Abe Christie’s warped mind to try to prevent future harm to others.
Thanks for the clarification on the ‘Mutter’ thing, Emma. So Abe’s ex was with them in this recording (made post Marrakech)? He directly addresses her in the other section of the recording, just before he launches into his “Kill the baby” chant.
It’s definitely not ‘kiss’, by the way. You wouldn’t believe how many times I’ve now listened to that same clip with my old-school super-large Sennheiser headphones turned right up and pressed hard against my ears. Abe in eardrum-splitting stereo – it’s an interesting experience
Jacko the Shepherd says:
“She came to my house in Marrakech (“to see me”? hard to make out)”
I think he says “She came to my house in Marrakech and she touched (my bottom?) or (the bottle?)“. I can’t make out the last words but he certainly claims that there was some touching.
No, Abe says ‘ask M****’ as if M**** was there with him at the time his niece was visiting in Marrakech, as if to say: don’t believe me? ask so and so, she was there, she saw it too etc.
I know but to reiterate, I was referring to the bit in the other video, just before he launches into his “Kill the baby” chant.
1:09 – “One moment, M**** ”
Is this just me being daft?
And yes, he does call Ella ‘mum’ on occasion. In other words, Ella ‘mum’ is referred to in the present, as the recording is being made, as opposed to the reference to ‘ask M****, she was there’ is someone who was in Marrakech, in the past. Both begin with M but they are different people.
As to the k word, it could be ‘kicking’ as Abe seems to go on to say ‘in her dreams, she used to kick, she used to touch’. So this was when asleep. Quite how Abe equates kicking in sleep and touching one’s own body, as is perfectly normal unconscious behaviour during sleeping, to cult activity, is beyond me, though.
My reaction would have been to deck this nasty creep but I guess Jean Clement is a gentleman.
What a horrible man this Cristie is.
The more I hear & read about Abella the more grateful I am that we have sane, thorough & intelligent judges like Justice Pauffley.
Emma makes an interesting point about the niece kicking in her sleep. When I was very young & we went on holiday once to the seaside I had to share a bed with my brother who said I kicked so badly during the night he refused to sleep in the same bed again.
So it begs the question : how would the creepy Abe know his niece kicked while asleep unless he watched her for hours (it ‘s not a regular thing, more like tossing & turning every few hours. Or was she in Abe’s bed? Ewww..what a horrible man !
Not telling says:
It could be that Abraham Christie is aware of something involving his niece that her parents have put down as age appropriate behaviour, and Abraham Christie is insisting it’s something sinister, just like he did with Ella’s two children. He has some warped ideas as we all know. That’s why J-C responds as he does. Sick, sick man for insisting his niece kills babies. It is clear to me that Abraham drags anyone and everyone into his perverted fantasy.
How anyone with even half a brain can listen to this recording and support Abraham Christie I don’t understand. And certain people have listened to it and still supported the disgusting pair.
The judge’s point was that if the police had listened to this recording at the outset the police would have realised the coaching and all the rest much before they did. If anything, it allowed Abraham Christe and Ella Draper to escape scrutiny for too long.
If Ella really was going to be in trouble for taking the children out of the UK and the children missing contact with their father, how convenient to have something to justify that. Shows her up doesn’t it! All the insistence that there was no dispute in their contact with their father is a pile of steaming bull.
And Ella’s lack of concern about her eldest, she cannot justify it and continue to insist the whole sordid tale is true.
If this tape contains a recording of a clip of the children being played, one that wasn’t part of the tranche that was released, then that shows the recordings had to be done again and again and Ella forwarded a selection. It is also clear the children were not speaking spontaneously and freely, that it was grotesquely stage managed.
That comment was mine!
Perfectly logical follow up from Christie, ‘she’s growing out of it’. Touching and killing, just the sort of stuff one grows out of. Sorted!
Judge Pauffley did not include the remarks about the niece in the judgement. She may have thought it ethically sensitive material that needed to be left out. It may be a good illustration of one of the many instances where evidence was not presented to the public, despite its importance.
Abe is doing his “everybody is RD” routine:
I remember someone on Abe’s old blog bringing this up. They were asked to provide evidence numerous times but always dodged it. Turns out they were telling the truth.
You would think with so many people being accused of being in the cult, and/or children behaving sexually around Abraham, that his supporters would have reason to pause and reconsider.
It’s very disturbing in light of what was later found on Abraham’s phone, that according to him he is surrounded by children who like to touch. That when it Is suggested that it is normal exploratory behaviour, Abraham insists it is more than that. That the children have been abused by adults. Abraham thinks that of JC’s daughter in the past. and goes onto think it about Ricky’s children.
In this video he describes that he knew an adult had to teach them, again not accepting that it maybe normal exploratory behaviour.
On a side note, I found the part where the children describe Ella buying the Mentos quite interesting. Abraham jumps on it and states that he will have the children tell him about it later. Hints of his controlling behaviour over Ella (just as Araya described him to be with his ex). After all, he has only known them a few months, what business is it of his if Ella wanted to buy her children sweets.
It’s difficult to work out if he is suffering a manic episode, or is fully aware of his bullshit.
He seems to be both highly disturbed and highly manipulative. I don’t know if he believes any of the things he says, I would guess he doesn’t; he just takes a childish glee in telling lies and forcing other people to accept them as facts.
He reminds me of a little boy I knew at school who would come out with some piece of erroneous information and insist it was correct, no matter how much evidence to the contrary was presented to him, just because he knew it was incredibly annoying. I hope he grew out of it; Christie would seem to be stuck in an infantile mindset, mainly because he is surrounded by people, especially children, whom he can bully into accepting anything he says.
#JeSuisRicky says:
Ah, you beat me to it 😀
I did, apparently they are unable to make one robust enough to deal with that level of untruth.
LMAO @ “Tokigirl”
She’ll be over the Moon with her new Japanese-sounding name 😀
I think a might hit the roof too, but we were not in JC’s situation. He may be aware of how Abe may react to being challenged, who would Abe take it out on, he had two children and a woman with him. He is also a Policeman.
As we can hear at the end he was straight on the phone to his colleagues.
Hampstead Fruitcake Hunter says:
I had the same thought. If someone were to say something like that about my daughter, they’d be eating through a straw for the foreseeable future, but J-C tries to brush it off. If I had to guess, I’d say he’s afraid of Christie and the thugs he associates with in London.
Always happy to oblige, DG! 🙂
This also calls into question the fruitloops’ insistence that the police ‘hid evidence’. If anyone hid evidence, it was Abrella, who took a full year and a half to release this highly incriminating video.
Thanks for checking this out so thoroughly, HDH. My listening set-up here is pretty primitive, consisting of a pair of semi-decent earbuds…so I could only report what I could make out.
Yes, we didn’t even get into that portion of the clip–but we know from various witnesses that the children were constantly hungry, as they stole food from other children, and dug through bins for remnants. To them, perhaps ‘eating babies’ was a good made-up excuse for why they brought home their salad lunches every day! It would get them into far less trouble, apparently.
I don’t think for one minute that Christie believes those kids were abused. The accusations are his method of grooming. Perhaps that has been a successful MO for him in the past.
shevacrossofchange (@shevab1) says:
I just had a thought there, had abe a flicker of a suspicion that he might have been recorded, clearly he would have edited this, had JC not handed it in ? am i right on that point ?
Having been around quite alot of sick twisted psyco’s,, perhaps he inserted something that he thought JC would not want to be heard by the police ? it was just what popped in my mind knowing how these rats operate, and think of everything, for self preservation.
Helen Does Hampstead (@HelenDoesH) says:
Oh of course, Mr. C. It was by no means a criticism of your excellent – and much appreciated – work. I just thought I’d raise the question. In fact, there’s quite a lot muttered in the background on these recordings that could be very revealing if we ever figured out what they were.
Jean-Clement, if you’re reading this, do please get in touch!
Biddy Buffoon says:
No, I didn’t think it was a criticism–I think the more ears we have to listen and try to decipher this stuff, the better.
Check out the Facebook page (or maybe you shouldn’t) of that hideous creature Angela Power Disney. She re-publishes the children’s videos plus links to..and a blatantly child porn painting..to that demented Australia satanic promoter. Power-Disney needs locking up.
Abe's own sister couldn't be arsed with him says:
I saw that. Nauseating.
Just the thought of that creepy-arsed hemp-munching goblin observing his niece sleep turns my stomach.
Sushi will !
LOL! I think this is where we break out our #JeSuisRicky badges. 🙂
No kidding. He shouldn’t be allowed near children.
Angela Dizzy Powder will never admit that she was wrong about anything as it would hurt her pride to do so.
I’ll be keeping an eye on her fund raising schemes in the future.
That’s a really interesting point. As you say it’s as if he was trying to incriminate Jean Clement and his family, and thus make sure he had him where he wanted him.
I haven’t listened to much of this yet but at the beginning Abe commands Jean Clement to go to the school and arrest all the teachers It’s as if Abe imagines JC is his own personal police force and can be manipulated to do his bidding. Its a very odd understanding of how the police operate apart from anything else.
Thank Goodness JC made these recordings though, they absolutely confirm that the children were coerced. How anyone can believe otherwise is astonishing.
Sorry, my comment was to Sheva, should have said.
Yes, the part where Abe insists that J-C should go to the school and start arresting people is interesting. He seem to think that J-C is empowered to do this (he’s not), and that he could somehow just put on his spurs and six-shooter and head out to make arrests without benefit of a warrant, etc. It’s strange, as Abe has been arrested himself many, many times. How is it that he doesn’t understand the process?
My goodness, does this mean I’m Ricky too? My family and friends will be surprised; as am I. I knew I should have looked in a mirror.
Mine were shocked too, but they’re starting to adjust. It’s a process, I’m told. #JeSuisRicky
FS, it is hard to keep track. I’m not sure who either of us is any more. I think we should check our birth certificates just to be sure.
@U Fredericks
Whoever you are, I like your style 😉
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Black Hebrew supremacist is an Abe loyalist
We’ve talked here before about the strong racist and anti-Semitic strain that runs through the Hoaxtead mob as a whole—Araya Soma, Sabine McNeill, Angela Fag-Ash Disney, Charlotte Ward, and many others have all shown blatant signs of racism and/or anti-Semitism in the time we’ve been following them. In fact, we’ve come to expect it from this lot.
Of course it almost goes without saying that many of the chief Hoaxtead pushers are religious fanatics of one sort or another—many parrot the fundamentalist language of evangelical Christianity, though they don’t seem to feel any obligation to live by Jesus’ teachings.
So we were very interested the other day when regular commenter Justin Sanity drew our attention to a particularly fanatical and dangerous religious sect that combines all the Hoaxteaders’ favourite things: racism, anti-Semitism, religious fanaticism, child abuse, homophobia, and murder.
Justin is referring, of course, to Abe and Drifloud’s friend Desmond During, aka King Ishijah or Yohannes Ishijah.
While he lives in the Stoke-Newington area of London now, Desmond During (then known as Yohannes Ishijah) emigrated in 2005 to Ethiopia, according to an article in The Guardian:
Nine months ago Yohannes Ishijah was a familiar sight to commuters rushing through Leicester Square underground station in London.
“I was a busker. I used to play Bob Marley songs in the underground. I got arrested all the time,” he said. Last year Mr Ishijah inherited some money from his father and left his home in Crystal Palace, south London, to emigrate to Ethiopia at the age of 41.
“This is great. I think it’s incredible that so many years after Bob Marley’s death he can still inspire such amazing shows in the name of the Most High. Bob Marley has penetrated through time. We are with the King of Kings.”
Over time, it looks as though his religious beliefs shifted from Ethiopian-based Rastafarianism to the hard-core side of the Black Hebrew supremacist movement, which is (somewhat ironically, given the ‘Hebrew’ part of its name) openly anti-Semitic.
(We should note here that in researching this story we’ve run across conflicting reports about the Black Hebrew movement as a whole, with some claiming it’s deeply anti-Semitic, and others saying adherents take a ‘live-and-let-live’ approach.)
Desmond During on Twitter
On Twitter, where he calls himself @dezrez7, During is very friendly with both Abe (@hampsteadTBMC) and Drifloud, and retweets them frequently:
Desmond During on Facebook
During’s Facebook page, under the name ‘King Ishijah’, features numerous posts about Hoaxtead, including illegal images of RD and his children.
Looks like he even bought one of Abe and Ella’s ‘Free the Hampstead 2’ t-shirts, which he’s wearing proudly in the top right-hand shot:
Meanwhile, the two bottom Facebook posts reflect During’s views about Jewish people.
Desmond During on YouTube
Most of you, though, will know During from his YouTube page, where he has posted illegal videos of the children, reposting them whenever YouTube gets round to removing them. Some of his other videos, though, reflect his anti-Semitism and his devotion to the Black Hebrew supremacist sect:
Here, During quotes Adolf Hitler, noted Jewish historian…
…while in this video, he refers to ‘ISUPKProphets’. According to the Real Life Villains Wiki:
In addition to their volatile racism ISUPK are homophobic, anti-semitic and extremely anti-authoritarian: they believe that God will destroy every nation save the “chosen” and that Whites will be enslaved and massacred in great numbers by both God and Blacks while Native Americans and Hispanics may be allowed into the “chosen” (likely to boost their numbers and feed into racism by these oppressed groups).
ISUPK believe in beating women to keep them “in place” and blame them for the spread of HIV and the rise in abortions – although some ISUPK leaders claim they do not necessarily hate “Whites for being White” and treat them with contempt rather than calling for genocide they universally say all homosexuals should be put to death.
This sounds very much like the group Justin cited above: a virulently sexist, homophobic, anti-Semitic Black supremacist sect that uses religion as a weapon and deems itself morally superior to others.
Why are we not surprised?
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Mickey Mouse & Donald Duck are part of the Illuminati plot according to Desmond During. Sigh.
Just what all these mysterious symbols they claim represent and how they are supposed to affect the “shepple” is never quite explained is it?
I mean they can rattle off all the “clues” such as black & white floor tiling or how the shape of curtains in the White House reflect Freemasonry & Illuminati Satanic symbols and really expect us to believe this claptrap somehow will seduce the great pubic.
Mind you my kitchen has a B/W floor which was there before I moved in so maybe it was used to chop up babies to put in mince pies. Anything’s possible in the World of Stark Raving Bonker Loony Land where this mob exist.
Did someone mention in the last thread?..what a hideous dark place their minds mist be at.
They exhibit not a skerrick of joy and every single thing on the telly, every newspaper article and every symbol ever made by man, all pop music and probably classical and Opera as well is supposedly a plot against their minds. Barking. Barking & Dangerous.
Yes, I try to imagine thinking the way they do, and I just can’t. I think part of it is that I have a functioning intellect. But also, I’m not a paranoid raving loony. (Well, most of the time.)
I think ‘Barking & Dangerous’ should be their new motto.
Love how these lowlifes call Youtube, JooTube and rant and rave about “The Cult” removing their videos but they still love to upload their crap vids to it. Hypocrites.
If at first the world does not end on the prophesied date, get a new prophesy.
The Israelite Church of Universal Practical Knowledge is a hate group according to the SPLC. That doesn’t mean all Black Judaism groups are.
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2015/history-hebrew-israelism
So, Ella gets killed or enslaved then? Sure Abraham Christie is fine with someone with those beliefs as long as it furthers his objectives.
Another similar group actually murdered people as part of initiation to their group.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahweh_ben_Yahweh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rozier
A case of don’t look here, look over there at them?
isupk and other hardcore black hebrew israelite groups claim they are the real israelites coz of a passage in the old testament that says someone had whooly hair, thats it! and they claim the white man is from a cowardly brother coz when he was born he had red skin, they are nutters who preach extreme racism in washington but they only seem to ever hurt each other. They are regarded by most blacks and whites as a harmless joke but they are basically the KKK mirrored
242 times the world definately really should have ended but presumably a paid government paid shill or something got in the way.
http://www.bible.ca/pre-date-setters.htm
As far as I’m concerned and one race only; that’s human! From experience I can tell you that anyone who has any element of multiple ‘races’ in their family will have discovered that racism isn’t a one-way street, it’s a multi-laned highway used mainly by out-of-control drunks! – Racists are utter throwbacks. And these guys are just another tedious example of that…… As you say, just the KKK mirrored.
According to The Church of !BLAIR!, the human race will probably be terminated at 3:28 AM (Soho, England time) 2047, SEP. 14!. The church teaches that if the human race does not discard their plastic conformity, then the Gods will withdraw their protection. The Gods don’t want us to worship them; they don’t want sacrifices or even offerings. They just want us to rid itself of our excessive “Normalcy”. At that point, Astro-Lemurs (extra-terrestrials similar in shape to lemurs, but with rainbow colored bodies) will attack the entire human race and beat them to death with gigantic burritos.
Sssh dont tell Mel.
OK…. That’s fine with me. I’m on Glaswegian central time and any space Lemurs will either have to settle down and buy their round – passing the burritos around of course – or we’ll just set about them.
Yes, it’s a little tricky to tease out all the threads in this thing, and I don’t want to accuse anyone unjustly. However, as you say, the ICUPK (which During seems to follow) is definitely on the hate group end of things.
Yes, any group that promotes racial supremacy—whatever the race—is dangerous.
Yes, I’m surprised they even use the internet. Perhaps they should go back to carrier pigeon, to be more consistent with their beliefs.
I’m thinking the rainbow space lemurs could be sorted out by the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
And in the worst case, I’m sure J.R. “Bob” Dobbs could have a word with them:
p.s. Yes I am really old. Why do you ask?
Calling that particular bunch a hate group is fine by me. I think the person with 88 in their Twitter handle might be veering towards the hate group style too.
Sounds that way, yes.
https://twitter.com/Raubritter88
Variations on a theme:
Nuwaubian Nation of Moors
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/nuwaubian-nation-moors
“The group’s founder and leader, Dwight York, took extreme advantage of its adherents, sexually abusing their children and conning the adults out of their possessions. In April 2004, he was sentenced to 135 years in prison for molesting children, among other crimes”.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/11184489/taylor-stevens-joaquin-phoenix-david-berg-children-of-god.html
Tony Alamo
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2009/07/tony_alamo_pastor_convicted_on.html
“Tony Alamo, a one-time street preacher who built a multimillion-dollar ministry and became an outfitter of the stars, was convicted Friday of taking girls as young as 9 across state lines for sex”.
These links constitute the answer to a question. For Neelu’s trillion-pound “leans” fortune, what is the question? Anyone? Anyone?
The question is…”what do real child-abusing cults look like?”.
Thank you, Alex…
I begin to wonder whether any of these people are not child abusers of one sort or another.
I found out recently that the 88 stands for the eighth letter of the alphabet and two 8s mean HH as in Heil Hitler. Someone with 88 in their YouTube name was harassing me lately (in July).
I wondered about that too. Just recently learned what it meant.
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Shake a family tree and a Jew drops out. My mum had all those mad sayings. But shake any family tree and so many races may drop out.
Australia’s resident racist ratbag Pauline Hanson had her DNA lineage examined and it was found her ancestors originated from Turkey which did not go down well with the Muslim hating dyed redhead.
The internet seems to have brought all the racists out of the closet and you can see just how demented they are. But dangerous also.
Isn’t that profile pic of the little girl wearing a Swastika (a young Araya Soma?) a cartoon from that notorious Japanese child porn cult?
What’s a black guy doing supporting the Nazis? I Feel sick. Traitorous bastard 😦
“Mickey Mouse & Donald Duck are part of the Illuminati plot according to Desmond During.”
I notice he left out Daffy Duck, who happens to be black. Cherry-picking bastard! 😀
You may recall that a vast swathe of troofers – including some of our favourite hoaxer twunts – were last August stating vehemently that the World was going to end on 23rd September (to coincide with the Pope’s visit to the US).
And they were extremely abusive to any of us who questioned them on this.
I’m guessing that a lot of these were the same troofers who 5 years ago were stating categorically that a nuclear bomb was going to go off at the London Olympics.
Again, they were abusive to anyone who questioned this “fact”.
Sooo, if anyone spots any retractions or apologies, do please let me know. Or if you spot Elvis landing a flying saucer in a Brigadoon car park and dropping off the Loch Ness monster (a far more likely occurrence, methinks).
And how does Greta Garbo fit into all this?
Thanks for that Deb
In my spare time I am a volunteer and wear a sparkly suit to call out the bingo numbers at the local JHSWWS(Jewish holocaust survivors weight watchers society) in Golders Green and am forvever being verbally abused by the rotund octegenarian twin sisters who occupy the front row when I call out “88, two fat ladies”
Phew,at last I have an alternative.
What does a real cult look like even?
A charismatic leader. Control of acolytes down to them giving their possessions to the group, cutting off contact with outsiders, having sex with the leader, apocalyptic prophesies predicting end of the world or similar, paranoia about outsiders, ideology or religious beliefs that are unique to the group.
Off the top of my head.
For some reason I cannot see anything in the Hoaxtead claims that are objectively apparent and that scream cult or controlled cowed group of people. The opposite in fact. They look like exactly what they are, a disparate group of people smeared by the vile Abraham Christie. And no Hoaxer nutters, being FB mates and some people actually having spent a little time together isn’t evidence of being part of a cult.
It has to be a smokescreen of some sort, perhaps a cunning ploy to infiltrate the neo nazi hierarchy.Either that or he has some major issues in the cognitive dissonance department.
For your information. Latest Freedom Radio broadcast via Rupert Wilson Quaintance IV. He intends to base himself in London area. I hope he is stopped at the border, otherwise there is going to a lot of trouble.
htt p://www.americanfreedomradio.com/archives/Rupert-Q-32k-080616.mp3
Base himself in London for how long? More than three months?
I don’t think he has the funds for that, but he has supporters like Belinda McKenzie to stay with.
Rupert Wilson Quaintance IV at around 0:50 minutes says he intends to confront “paedophiles” aka he is going to harrass innocent people. His radio show is about to become televised, so anything he videos or interviews will end up on the internet.
Similarly, the violent far right group Combat 18 take their name from the initials of Adolf Hitler.
Hands Off Hampstead says:
https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/the-cult
Be careful though, it might be a coincidence. Look at what they say. They may be born in 1988 say!
Rupert Wilson Quaintance IV at around 1:16 minutes again repeats he is going to confront people, and he wants to encourage a culture of vigilantism against paedophiles. The problem is that he and his allies are making accusations against innocent people of paedophilia such as RD, and then encourages people to attack them. I have seen a comment yesterday by Jason Streatham on this site making threats to kill Satanists, which is to be taken seriously. People such as Rupert encourages people like Streatham to attack the innocent.
Even if RD and everyone in Hampstead case have no connection to Satanism, the hoaxer message of linking those people and paedophilia to Satanism is putting real Satanists plus their families in danger. I think this has reached the point that those in Satanism are justified to act to protect themselves and their families by taking direct action.
Rupert Wilson Quaintance IV now has said about killing people.
Given his stated intentions to “kick doors down” etc I would have thought he is arrestable under a number of laws include those covering terrorism.I would certainly fear for my famiies welfare if I resided in Hampstead because this drug fueled pyschopath is completely off the rails.
Hope his mummy brings him his peas and carrots at visiting hours. Twat.
I am still hearing this rant. He must not get through our borders.
Let’s hear it for Hereward Fenton at TruthNews Australia.
http://www.truthnews.com.au/web/radio/story/satanic_ritual_abuse_a_primer_for_sceptics
The Right Hand Bath says:
“I’m temporarily not a comedian.”
Hmm, just take out the word ‘temporarily’ and you’ll have an excellent description of yourself there, Rupert.
“I’m trying to find this one article. Something about 500,000 people raped. You know, they did some kind of a survey, or they…er…something.”
First-rate research, fact-checking and preparation as always there, Roops.
If he does follow up and allowed through border control it will effectively be granting a grren light to any terrorist planning harm on UK citizens.He has and is stating his intentions loud and clear and heads would roll bigtime were he and/or others to proceed to inflict harm on anyone.
“Investigative journalism website Exaro closes
Despite its small size, Exaro has broken a number of high-profile stories, including a string of allegations about alleged child abuse by senior figures in government and politics that have prompted follow-ups by other media outlets and police investigations.
However, its role in publishing allegations of a paedophile ring centred around Dolphin Square in London has proved controversial. In March, the Metropolitan police’s Operation Midland investigation, which relied heavily on evidence provided by one of Exaro’s main sources, known as Nick, collapsed.”
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jul/21/investigative-journalism-wesite-exaro-closes
[PS: there’s nothing in that article about the owner being arrested, as Angela’s claiming. I think that’s typical Angie bullshit.]
Rupert Wilson Quaintance IV and the other Satan Hunters behind the Hampstead SRA have the same obsession and mindstate as the Islamic State.
I no longer have confidence in the legal authorities to protect the innocent.
Gabriella Barney says:
Is it just me or does Angela’s voice sound even smokier, deeper, creepier and more disgusting than usual in this interview?
A metaphor of Rupert Wilson Quaintance IV and others who have transformed this hoax into a dangerous and darker situation for everyone.
Rupert the lying twat is claiming that we’ve been sending him death threats.
And EC, can I nominate Angela’s comment that “the lady doth protest too much – they’re putting way too much time and effort into this to suppress the truth” for the Hoaxtead Hypocrisy Award? (Though Rupert’s rant about how we’re rude and insulting must surely come a close second.)
"Paedophile Faggot" (apparently) says:
“Does anybody want a fist fight? Do any of you paedophile faggot assholes want a fist fight? Coz I would drop you like a fly. I can’t stand it.”
Yeah, Rupert – any time, any place, you lying child-abusing GILF-shagging twat.
Oh for crying out loud.
It sounds like Rupert is getting worse since he has mingled with the likes of Angie.
Perhaps he is moving in with Kev Weaver whist Kev hitchhikes to Scotland.
I’m just having a look at that Freedom Radio page.
I see Ed Opperman has a show on there.
I thought he had come out as saying Hampstead is a hoax.
If I’m correct, it’s interesting that the Freedom Radio have hosts of opposing views.
Rupert being a supporter and believing all the tripe.
This is Angela’s fourth radio show this week, right?
Yep – I concur – the lady doth protest too much.
Mel Ve has to be in the running with her ” I have an open mind” assertion.
Whilst understanding they are both mentally challenged surely we can find a place in in our hearts to honour Jake and Kev for going beyond the call of duty in their outstanding contributtions to verbal wankery.
Presumably as the would-be child abuser Quaintance went through Irish immigration he will have no problem entering the UK yes?
Or her classic: “I’m not a racist or white supremacist but under Apartheid black people had their own post office queues and parks – they didn’t need to use ours.”
Rupert is right to be upset about the number of rapes and sexual abuse cases. It’s all new to him and seems to have hit him hard – in that respect he’s a normal human being. He seems to think though that if someone is accused of being a paedophile then they’re fair game and has no understanding that his aggression is, in part, being misdirected towards a lot of innocent people.
As we don’t live in the wild west I suggest he calms it down because the authorities here are aware of him and won’t take kindly to any illegal activity on his part. He’s already on thin ice because he’s on the radio inciting violence like some kind of lunatic. He seems to have no understanding that he’s been manipulated by those around him and that he’s being set-up big time. The cause needs a martyr. Rupert?
Many people who attend Spiritualist churches (me) which is very established in the UK have noticed a spike in fanatical attacks upon their beliefs from the fundamentalist Christian movement and so many are now reserved about expressing their beliefs in public. Most Spiritualist churches are Christian based in every way but have the added element at services where they attempt to commune with passed ones.
There is far more behind these fanatical attacks than people realise.
The US Evangelical “Christian” movement has been cemented into US life for over 100 years. As Noam Chomsky has amply demonstrated they are part of a fierce US right-wing sub culture that has attacked unions for decades and promoted policies akin to the Nazi movement in Germany pre-WW2.
I believe the Satanic hoaxes in the UK are a result of their fanatical meddling. Note that all these super-creeps like APD & N.Berry profess “Christian values” all the time while being among the most un-Christian of people.
I would agree if he knew what rape statistics he’s upset about. He doesn’t. Everyone has a right to their views but not to base them on blind speculation, erroneous information and idle gossip.
Excellent. Thanks, Fnord. I’ve added the link to the collection:
https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/evidence/satanic-ritual-abuse
Predictably. Angie gets the begging bowl out at 52:00.
To be fair, CP, Angie’s chain smoking must be putting a dent in her pocket and she will require assets to remain out of harms way whilst she sends her super soldier mega arsehole into battle to ears his corn and the shit hits the fan.
He’s scared. What are the chances that he’s ranting so he makes sure he gets turned back at border control? He doesn’t want to come does he but he’s got no choice cos he’s taken money from people.
…or” her fan hits the shit”..you decide.
Bear Watch says:
Bloody hell, is that sort of thing allowed in America? 😮
He came through the UK last time and stayed with someone near Gatwick airport.
He has obviously forgotten that we have all seen what a skinny little runt he is in one of Angies videos.
Has Rupert forgotten that we all heard him stating how he would like to have sex with a child to see what it is like?
…And that “children under 18 are your property, so it’s your right to beat them”.
I wondered what Dwight Yorke got up to after his football career 😉
The only people who have stated things about hurting children are Angie and Rupert. Angie beat her kids and Rupert wants to try having sex with one. Hiding in plain sight?
Yeah….. Q… Just pointed out that the number 8 in Chinese culture is considered ‘lucky’. – something to do with Cantonese bats and the number looking like stacks of money or something. I think his wife is Chinese? ’88’ – Double happiness is a traditional thing at Chinese Weddings? Then Sam, our Indian friend pointed out that they’re a bit pissed off at their Swastikas being nicked…
In other words, Nazis just make random shit up from bits they’ve stolen.
Rupert, condemned by his own words……
Blueberry Shill says:
And ‘Rocket 88’ is widely regarded as the first rock ‘n’ roll record. Maybe the group are all just massive Ike Turner fans.
Yes, it’s all there, so he can’t deny what he said
Yes i can’t figure that one out myself.
crazy mf says:
We are now entering the very dangerous waters of racism and terrorism. I would advice anyone to cool down because many of us travel in the Cities of Paris and London and we are in danger of being killed by these fanatics.
Rupert Wilson Quaintance IV is the last major card that the Satan Hunters behind the Hampstead SRA hoax have to play. Unfortunately Quaintance is a dangerous card, as he is the type to unite and motivate people to take actions they would not otherwise take. Quaintance will come under the banner of investigating paedophiles in order to make a name for himself and attempt to cut out a role for himself in what is an empty and mediocre life. His activity will cause considerable distress to innocent people, bring violence to the streets of London and open a new chapter of harrassment and intimidation for the victims of Hampstead, because he will be on their doorsteps filming them and gathering more material to pile onto the internet to harrass them further.
The legal authorities ignore this threat at their peril as it will cause them to expend a vast amount of critical resources putting right what this man is going to cause. The solution is to stop this man from entering the UK, and it is probably down to all of us to make sure the authorities know about Quaintance and act to deny him entry when he appears at our harbours or airports.
Think he’s gone through Angie’s borders.
Well Rupert will get Sabine arrested yet again if he enters the 200m perimeter of Hampstead or whatever the Restraining Order says.
Sabine has donated to his travels, so he will be acting as her “Agent” if he does so imo.
Here’s your chance Rupert not to go anywhere near Hampstead.
Get out whist you can and go back to Virginia to Mom.
Perhaps she’ll cook you some nice Pasta with carrots n peas.
Rupert hasn’t got a clue what he’s doing or what he could get himself caught up in.
Angie is grooming him like a “good un”, except she’s not good.
I’m not sure who these 10 people a day he thinks he is going to interview are.
If he gets anywhere near Hampstead Rupert is going to get himself arrested, the fool.
All for a free meal and a bit of f….
I’ve now realised Rupert and Angie are both going to attend the Rally at Westminster on 17th September.
Joining the dots as you do.
Mummys little soldier reporting for duty.
Does anyone know if a truther has actually ever been bang on the money about anything ever?Been racking my brains but so far to no avail.
Its just that under the law of probability by now one of them must have got something right.Maybe someone did but they were a bit shy and didnt want to make a huge song and dance about it..Rumour has it Jesus had a fair crack at the whip but that didnt turn out to well by all accounts (allegedly).
Between 1964-2010 the James Randi foundation had a million dollars up for grabs for anyone who can proove they have paranormal abilities Many came forward but they always ended up making utter tits out of themselves blaming the “conditions or vibrations” were not quite right and other shit.The chl
Maybe its time we had a whip round via a gofundme page and offer a few squid to Mel, Angie and the cabal of ranting headcases if they can definitively prove they are not talking out of their arses by coming up with some hard,verifiable material facts to support their wild and damaging claims.The unclaimed money can pay for Rupert to spend a weekend in Glasgow or somewhere.
Indeed FA.Angies own border control facilties are so slack it may have given Rupert a false sense of how things operate on this side of the pond.
Possibly his thinking is not entirely flawed regarding that.Time will tell.
Angela must eat, sleep n crap Hampstead.
She can’t have time for much else, even to chat to her boys, one of whom she is supposedly a full-time carer of for benefit purposes. Meaning she spends approx 36 hours a week caring for him. Puh! Not even 36 mins a week.
Angela’s got plenty of time to chat to Rupert and the rest though. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
I wonder what her daughter thinks of her Mother’s behaviour?
I did notice Gabriella put on her sunglasses as soon as Angela said “Rupert says hi” in one of those Angela’s Caches comedies. Obviously not keen on him. Most probably seen it all before.
I wonder what the local neighbours in Oldcastle think of Rupert? Or does Angela only go out with him at the dark of night so he’s not to be seen.
At least in Lanzagrotty people will think he’s her son or even grandson, as they wine and dine on a Pasta meal at one of the local eateries, paid for of course by the saps back in England.
There are REAL African Israelites, such as the Lemba:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemba_people
These self-professed Western Black Hebrews are an unrelated phenomenon.
Fascinating! Of course I’d heard of the Falasha people, the “Ethiopian Jews”—I met a very nice Falasha lady once who had just emigrated and was learning all sorts of new-to-her Jewish customs and holidays, such as Hanukkah. Fascinating stuff.
The open racism on the internet seems to be a relatively new thing—perhaps the past two or three years? I find it very alarming.
Yes, I remember Charlotte Alton Ward’s breathless reporting last year: “So-and-so is on someone’s Facebook friends list, and look, they have an awful lot of pictures of themselves with their own children. Probably means they rape them and sell them for sex. Of course, we can’t be sure….”
Based on his recent discussions with Angie, it sounds as if he’s planning to be here for the last 10 days of August and the first 10 of September.
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I agree. This isn’t something anyone should try to take on themselves. As we’ve said all along, if Rupert does anything illegal, the police should be notified immediately. They are well aware of his antics, and will shut him down promptly.
Racism has always run rampant in the “truth movement.” I noticed before 2009 that the so-called “truth movement” was very anti-Jew. And I saw it getting worse and worse over the years. In recent years, it has become much worse all over the internet, not just with troofer types.
I disagree with satanicviews latest comment 100% In fact the opposite will happen. . Once anyone including this Sick MF rupert comes to UK to steer Trouble the antiterorrist police will intervene and new laws.
I thought Angie said previously that she was going to be in England for 10 days, then Ireland for 10 days, then England for 10 days which would tie in with the 17th September Rally, where I’m expecting her to attend with Rupert n them to interview these 10 people for 10 mins each that he has promised.
He’s a ponce, buying new trainers with donation money imo is not on.
It’s for bread n water n cheap travel NOT romantic pasta meals for him and his latest squeeze.
I wonder if Rupie has a girl in every Port?
Shhh…
They need to wash their dirty
…. feet.
Yes, that’s what I mean by it being more open: in the past, I saw it only on extremist sites, but more recently it seems to be ‘okay’ for closet racists to ‘come out’.
Rupert has leapfrogged any thresholds regarding the response from the authorities.Any softly softly “right to free speech” crap has long past with his unequivocal statements of intent both to incite and use arms against citizens of these islands.Many other charges can be thrown at him if he so much as attempts to set foot in this country
Maybe he is hoping for Brits to fund his flight home to mother when he is repatriated and for his parents to bail him out of shit he will face on his return stateside.He probably dreams of getting onto Oprah to sell his story and his 5 mins of fame.
The loser is not a comedian but he will raise a chortle or three when seen in his orange jump suit. Wanker.
Yep Rupert’s stated he’s got guns.
I take that, as his intent to bring them in to England.
I can’t see how he’s going to achieve that.
Possibly by boat?
It’s all bs of course.
Anyone that was actually going to do anything, wouldn’t be telling all and sundry of their plans.
He’s mentally ill at the very least. Lives in a dream world. Fancy someone of 37 never having had a proper job. A spoilt brat, over indulged by his Mom at least.
I think you have a point, that he’s hoping he gets sent back by the UK Border Agency to the good ole US of A.
Rupert will achieve sweet fanny adams in England.
I hate that you’re really old. It means that I’m likely to be, too. I’ve seen stickers with that man’s face all over my home town! I never knew his name, though. Perhaps I’m young after all 🙂
https://plus.google.com/102213116736352864729/posts/3pbvVywJtFE
Agree FA anyone with a semblance of sanity planning to commit such crimes would be very quiet and not broadcast such intent.This may well point towards bravado,seeking accolades in an otherwise pathetic,futile existence. (Sad Roopy)
Rupert evidently has several screws missing to put it mildly not aided by paranoia fueled by excessive self medication.This has been tapped into by the likes of Angie who far from acting as friend and urging caution is egging her manchild puppet on at each turn. Some weird maternal deprivation shit going on there.(Mad Roopy)
The authorities cannot blithly hope Ruperts stated intentions are just hot air as a clear potential remains that he will follow through with the threats or even worse.That would take some explaining in a post serious incident inquiry and the authorities will be cognizant of that as one imagines they have bills to pay and mouths to feed. (Bad Roopy)
EC advises that the police are well aware of Ruperts antics and on that basis I for one would be gobsmacked if he were afforded admission to the Uk. But hey stranger things have happened. 😦
Rupert has spent a fair bit of time in Amsterdam of late and I am sure he mentioned having connections in the hells angels somewhere in his ramblings. .. again possibly utter bollox.
However,There are a number of Pubs/coffee shops in Amsterdam frequented/run by chapters of the angels.
From what I understand most of these guys would have nothing to do with this twat but others are very much into organized crime and potentially could assist with “this and that”if the terms were right.
Probably right off beam but should not be entirely dismissed maybe.
The real story behind Exaro closing is the owner and backer who is a rich financier pulled the plug because he was threatened with a massive law-suit by the Brittan family who were not going to take their false assertions lying down.
That would have opened the floodgates as it would have meant dragging into court the nutcases like “Nick” & ” Darren” & police who did not do due diligence and the Exaro hacks who outrageously accompanied “Nick” at police interviews.
Even “Nick” etc would possibly have had a case to sue Exaro as did genuine victims.
One genuine victim I personally know has now engaged a solicitor after contacting Exaro nearly 2 years ago who pumped him for endless information as they tried to infer a place where he had been raped as a teen by 3 men may have been Elm Guest House which he had never heard of before.
Then Exaro just dropped contact with him which he says sent him into a depression and although recovered he is now quite distraught that the Exaro records of his email interviews could be floating around.
The former owner Jerome Booth suddenly pulled the plug on the website right after assuring those working there he would be investing new funds, presumably on the fact that winding up the company would prevent any lawsuits & there is a fairly credible story that the Brittan family demanded no less: remember Leon Brittan’s widow suffered terribly because of the false claims.
The vile creatures like Power-Disney can make of what they will that Booth was finding himself persona non grata among circles of power after the appalling Lord Bramall claims and while the website originally did some very good work uncovering financial misdeeds which was why he funded it in the first place but apparently Booth was furious it had diverted into an outlet for lurid accusations with no evidence.
Quaintance exhibits the sort of mentality I found so often over the years in middle USA (among so many wonderful people)- a sort of arrogance that sadly the US can breed- a total ignorance of the world outside their own sphere and upon discovering some lurid new ‘thing’ a fanatical adoption of mad claims that have nil evidence to back them up.
The internet has bred a new generation of them. Quaintance is a good example as a do-nothing lay-about who really does believe he has a career in the media.
There are so many players like him who delude themselves- Mel Ve and her ridiculous CNN which we know has a viewership less than the occupant in ladies lounge in the local pub. Genuine journalists would be embarrassed to think they have an audience of under 10 people but this mob delude themselves that because the internet reaches billions of people that somehow they do as well. I know real journalists on local newspapers who have 10,000s of weekly readers but they do delude themselves that they have real influence.
The dangers of Rupert Quaintance – quite apart from his expressed desire to rape a child – is that he may inspire those who are clearly not 100%- the Jakes of the world who may think they need to physically attack someone to put the world at rights.
Quaintance may not have quite breached the rules to enter the UK although I think he has by announcing he will “kick down doors” and so on as listed here so often. The very least that should happen is Quaintance is taken aside by Immigration and lectured that he is only permitted to enter the UK on the basis he obeys it’s laws.
But if he does harass or attack even one person the police could be held accountable as they have been repeatedly warned many times.
I know Fanny Adams and she wouldn’t touch a goon like Rupert with a barge pole. Not after Angie’s had her mitts on him.
My solicitor has encountered the Hells Angels in Oz in various lawsuits.
Those on bikes are just like front men but behind them are well organized crime gangs who are loosely affiliated as various Mafia mobs were.
They have their own lawyers and accountants. Senior ranks may ride bikes in leather jackets at times but mainly they get about in suits and BMWs. The arrival of the internet and online financing has been a huge boost to these gangs and they are stronger and more powerful than ever.
Quaintance is the ideal mug candidate to be chatted up by these gangsters who are always on the look our for some dimwitted dill who can be used without them even knowing.
Not many people have made much noise about this apology
http://www.exaronews.com/articles/5866/patrick-mahony-apology
And an article a couple of weeks later elsewhere
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/28/1mdb-inside-story-worlds-biggest-financial-scandal-malaysia
Maybe their financial investigation wasn’t all that or it slipped by the wayside.
It’s shameful if exaro acted like that to someone. What did they think they were playing at? People who have been through horrible things deserve better than that sort of thing. It makes me wonder what exactly their motives were.
I also remember reading people suggesting that Leon Brittan was handed a Dickens dossier actually naming Leon Brittan himself as an abuser. These people can’t use their brains, their thought processes move like cooling toffee. Dickens himself was a raging bigot and homophobe.
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1987/nov/12/business-of-the-house#column_565
There aren’t the same immigration checks when entering via Ireland. That doesn’t mean there are none though.
Would he be coming through Ireland? I thought he’s currently in Lanzarote?
These two nutters are tragic and hilarious in equal measure. I finally understand what ambivalence is.
Then there are more checks. Good.
Unlikely with all the admiration of Hitler going on.
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You appear dangerously uninformed.
Enlighten then ArticNick.
Best left to you I think. I am sure you know how.
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Suspect with assault rifle arrested at ‘Pizzagate’ restaurant
Since the inception of the Hampstead SRA hoax in early 2015, parents, teachers, and clergy have lived with a terrifying possibility: that all the kidnapping and death threats spouted by promoters and followers of the hoax might take root and result in tragedy. “All it takes is one lunatic”, people have said—and with good reason.
Yesterday afternoon local time in Washington, D.C., police were called to Comet Ping Pong, the target of the “pizzagate” phony news story, where a gunman armed with an assault rifle was apprehended.
According to witnesses, the restaurant, popular with families, was full of customers at the time. Fortunately, no one was injured.
The Washington Post reported:
D.C. Police responding Sunday to a report of a gunman at a popular pizza restaurant in Northwest Washington detained a man armed with an assault rifle, according to a police spokeswoman.
D.C. police Chief Peter Newsham said a lone suspect in his 20s walked into the front door of Comet Ping Pong with an assault rifle. Newsham said it appeared as if the suspect may have fired one or multiple shots into the ground. The man has not yet been identified and his motives were not clear.
But Comet Ping Pong, a pizza restaurant on Connecticut Avenue with ping-pong tables that is popular with families, has been caught up in a wave of conspiracy theories and fake-news stories that spread during the presidential campaign that have prompted death threats to the restaurant and nearby businesses.
Startled patrons rushed out of the restaurant onto Connecticut Avenue, taking shelter in nearby businesses and remaining locked down for more than an hour.
Newsham said the license plates on the suspect’s car were not from D.C., Maryland or Virginia. Police said the man may have had an additional weapon, possibly handgun, in his car
Police received a call about a man with a weapon a just before 3 p.m., said Aquita Brown, a spokeswoman for the department.
She said there were no reports of injuries.
It’s not clear what motivated the suspect in Sunday’s incident. The restaurant, however, was swept up in the onslaught of fake news that was prevalent during the presidential campaign.The restaurant’s owner and employees were threatened on social media in the days before the election, the New York Times reported, after fake news stories circulated claiming that then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and her campaign chief were running a child sex ring from the restaurant’s back rooms. None of it was true, but the fake stories and threats persisted, some even aimed at the employees’ children. The restaurant’s owner was forced to contact the FBI, local police, Facebook and other social media platforms in an effort to remove the articles.
Within an hour of reports beginning to emerge, conspiracy theorists had started screaming “false flag!”, claiming that the reports were either untrue, or were part of (yet another) conspiracy to discredit the conspiracy theorists (following all that?).
On Sunday, Washington Post reporters involved in reporting on the story were the target of online threats shortly after it posted.
What does this mean for Hampstead?
We think the relevance to Hoaxtead is pretty self-evident. We’ve discussed how some of the Hoaxtead mobsters have desperately jumped aboard the “pizzagate” fake news story as they try to breathe new life into the dying Hampstead hoax, and we’re all too familiar with what an upsurge in the hoax could mean.
Death threats are just another fact of life for anyone who disagrees that a cult of baby-eating, child-raping Satanists run an industrial-scale baby import business out of a church and school in a busy North London neighbourhood.
Here are just a couple, taken from a video posted by Aaron Dover:
If you have the stomach for it, check out the Trolls page on this blog for a nice cross-section of death threats we’ve received in the year and a half since we took this blog online.
Now, imagine that someone like the Washington suspect reads one of those threats and decides to make good on it. Not a pretty thought, but it’s one the people of Hampstead cope with daily.
Yesterday’s gunman only serves to underline a point we’ve all been screaming from the rooftops since Ella and Sabine published the names and personal information of Hampstead residents online: all it takes is one crazy person with a weapon to tip this thing from madness into tragedy.
Update: Shooter identified
According to The Washington Post, the shooter has now been identified as 28-year-old Edgar Maddison Welch, of Salisbury, N.C. He “walked in the front door of Comet Ping Pong and pointed a firearm in the direction of a restaurant employee. The employee was able to flee and notify police. Police said Welch proceeded to discharge the rifle inside the restaurant”.
“The man told police he had come to the restaurant to “self-investigate” an election-related conspiracy theory involving Hillary Clinton that spread online during her presidential campaign”.
“Police said in addition to the assault rifle, they also recovered two firearms inside the restaurant; an additional weapon was recovered in Welch’s car. Bomb-sniffing dogs and at least one armored vehicle were present at the scene”.
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Guess being like most of your commenters, seeing hoaxstead for what it was early, our biggest fear was this type of scenario or worse. As Alex Jones is pushing that this is now “worldwide” Its going to cause a lot more chaos than Hampstead. However, we need be on our toes for how many are using Hampstead as substantial evidence to push this shite. This could get very serious over there. The comments of youtube are wild as hell. I truly hope no harm comes to anyone over there, and hope there are no repercussions for Hampstead.
I feel lucky enough to have once been one of these knee jerking conspiracy theorists and thankfully got to the other side.
Yes, I’m glad you were able to move past the knee-jerk conspiracy thing too—glad to have you here.
I do worry about violence in Hampstead, but as you say, even more about violence in the USA.
Naturally, this frightening development will prick Angie’s conscience and make her wind her neck in.
This is terrible. Its probably done for some form of martyrdom. A joint investigation into nothing but speculation, breed from 4chan. Yet 4chan supports mayhem, suspect images of young teens, racism, and pushing teens to suicide (An hero) Yet this has become the source for this nonsense, joint investigation into complete hell for these business owners and politicians. I admit to first debating with some, but become easily jaded to the response that its “Well known” the elites are all up to this, as well as being cannibals. I can’t and won’t debate or argue with stupid. You cant win.
If anything is a false flag, its this whole Pizzagate. Creating useful idiots. However, she should acknowledge how dangerous this could and probably will get.
Hopefully this will throw pizzagate into the mainstream where it belongs.
On hols says:
Angela doesn’t care about any danger she causes to anyone. She just likes to create drama. Grooms youngish men and gets them in all sorts of trouble. Causes devastation in her wake.
Well that’s not surprising, whats surprising is nobody’s been killed yet.
Yes, I think 4chan has a great deal to answer for. At least Reddit had the common decency to shut down the “pizzagate” thread; but it has simply moved over to Voat, under the guise of “free speech”.
The problem is that most of the people who bleat about “free speech” don’t have the slightest idea what that term really means: it means, simply, that anyone can express dissenting views, free of government interference. It doesn’t mean “I can publicly accuse anyone I like of anything that takes my fancy”. That’s where slander, libel, defamation, and harassment laws come into play. And in the extreme, accusing someone of, say, running a paedophile ring in the back room of a family restaurant, and then exhorting people to “take action” and do something about it, takes it into the realm of hate speech and death threats.
If she admitted that this could get very dangerous very fast, she’d have to admit the same about Hoaxtead.
Yes, I think it’ll be useful to have the cold glare of public scrutiny turned on it.
The co-owner of a bookstore across the street from the restaurant says that the gunman came in “looking for the alleged tunnels” where children were supposedly hidden and tortured. He also said that many businesses in proximity to Comet Ping Pong have also received threats. All of this sounds dismally familiar.
She has already inspired an American to travel to London, financed him and urged others to do likewise.
The Jo Cox murder is the UK’s first casualty in this bizarre new war and many have posted congratulations on websites praising her killer.
Apparently the Ping Pong Pizza restaurant has been packed nightly with local supporters wanting to send a message they will not be intimidated by these creeps but that could have meant more innocents could have been hurt.
Other restaurants on the same Washington block have also had loyal customers flocking there but owners and staff have also received death threats just for being close-by.
We have a president-elect in the USA who seems happy to fan the flames of bigotry and conspiracy just for his advantage who is apparently clueless to the forces he has unleashed not just in the US but abroad.
As you can see with the appalling Angela Power-Disney there is simply no respite from their hysterical wickedness and nothing can divert them (such as facts) from their wicked crusades.
Authorities should have come down like a ton of bricks on these internet defamers and harassers – even here in Oz it is a criminal offense to use libel on the internet, by telephone and so on to cause fear in a person with a possible 5 year prison sentence but try getting police to actually do something- they barely knwo the law themselves. Same same UK. It will probably take another Jo Cox tragedy before they wake up.
I also think the Redit response was too little, too late just as Facebook, Youtube, Blogger etc allow this stuff to flourish.
I hope you’re wrong—that another innocent person won’t have to die to bring this message home to our law enforcers and courts. But I do think the police here ought to be paying extremely close attention to events in the USA right now. Yesterday’s Comet Ping Pong episode could have turned tragic very quickly, and the same could quite easily happen in the UK.
I agree with you that the primary Hoaxtead mobsters ought to have been arrested right away quick; I’m somewhat heartened by the recent spate of arrests, but frankly feel that they should have been made more than a year ago.
Yes, I agree. The fact that they allow it in the first place, and don’t shut it down the minute names and addresses start being bandied about, speaks volumes.
Angela can bite me.
Interesting that on Twitter right now, the main reaction seems to be “oh, here it comes, they’re going to start blaming everyone who participated in #pizzagate now, it’s just an excuse to try and make us look bad”.
Well yes, we are going to start blaming all the knuckleheads who participated in a witch hunt based on a bunch of pretend magic symbols and alleged super-dooper code words. We’ve seen it all before: people who put 2 and 2 together and get 9,485. Think of “researcher” Charlotte Ward and the mental midget Kris Costa, neither of whom can reason their way out of wet paper bags in a rainstorm: do we really want people like this encouraging the not-very-tightly-wrapped among us to commit acts of violence in the name of their crackpot theories?
I suppose the one positive thing about the “they’re just trying to make us look bad” whinge-fest over on Twitter is that at least a few of these numbskulls seem to realise that having some goon show up in a family restaurant carrying an assault rifle and a couple of other weapons is going to make the ninnies behind #pizzagate look very, very bad indeed. Yeah, they look bad now. They looked bad before; it’s just that no one knew about them. Now they’re out in the public view, and that’s a good thing. Watch them twist themselves into pretzels trying to explain this one.
D D'Coy says:
You mention Jo Cox; let’s not forget that her killing was very much a copy-cat crime. One that was encouraged over a decade ago by one of the most notable attention-seeking nutcases in Britain…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/sweden/1441452/Eurosceptic-hails-Lindh-murder.html
It took a dozen years for someone to take up the nutter’s clarion call, but taken up it was! And that same headcase is still around – somewhat depleted thanks to being exposed for being the fantasists he so surely is – but still out there abusing and terrorising people; making them fear for their safety etc. Immune, it seems, from the law of the land.
Hoaxtead is one issue.
These games have been played for decades and take many forms. It’s ridiculous and completely unacceptable that certain individuals seem untouchable, the Police and other authorities just don’t take these things seriously – even to the extent they’ve been known to fuel the fires with their inept (some say suspiciously so) bungling!
Hoaxtead happened – and let’s not forget that it real families have had their lives utterly disrupted; at least one has been uprooted from its home and forced to move to the opposite end of the British isles…
And what of the recent spate of arrests? Once wrists are gently slapped they’ll be back on the job. – Rupert Quaintance fully expects to be back in looneyland with his gun-toting mommy for Christmas. Oh, he’s quiet enough just now, but don’t expect that to last once he’s out of reach of the Bobbies.
Given that the Jo Cox tragedy was itself another Anna Lindh tragedy, how many lives need to be wrecked or destroyed before we get to a stage where the Police WILL get off their arses and do what they should be doing?
In my experience the situation is getting worse. – Phone the police about any common issue and you will probably find yourself talking to an operator whose main job is to find an excuse not to despatch officers…
I reported a burglary in progress the other night; the robbed family are STILL waiting on the Police to attend three days later; that’s just the way it is these days.
I also blame Wikileaks & Julian Assange for their blatant partisan campaign against Clinton. While they have every right to support politically who they want they knowingly allowed sensational emails to be published knowing there were 1000s of lunatics out there who would misinterpret them.
Many people are saying it was because a campaign had begun to accuse Assange of being a pedophile- a claim I don’t believe – but they have actively promoted this garbage knowing there are a million rednecks, armed to the teeth, who thrive on this stuff.
As for Assange, I believe he has gone mad and has completely blown any notion he may receive leniency from the US and it is becoming apparent as I argued with many who actually thought Trump may give him a pardon (although what for as he hasn’t been charged or convicted of any crime yet), the opposite is happening – anyone with half a brain could see Donald Trump is a person who will use you and dump you as soon as your usefulness has vanished. Now that Ecuador has cut of this internet access and I doubt they will restore it, I think Assange has become a millstone around their neck and may end up rotting in that Embassy for years to come.
## Wikileaks were repeatedly tweeting the false Podesta ‘Satanist’ claims and tweeting links to phony stories about then right up until the day of the US election. They have several million followers. If there are any tragedies that come out of all of this Wikileaks and Assange will wear it like a cross of thorns. And like true cowards they remain anonymous while they set out to destroy lives and pervert democratic elections.
### I still believe some sort of control of the internet is on the cards. The Bush government actively pursued the idea that access to the internet could be controlled by just a handful of internet providers who pay the US government $$millions for the privilege and then put ‘gates’ which price out the average consumer or condemn them to a frustrating slow service. Rupert Murdoch is an active proponent for this.
TN says:
Yes, authorities and social media companies need to get a grip on this Pandora’s box.
It’s been neglected because let’s be honest they either don’t know how or don’t have the will to address it. IMO it’s quite shameful that innocent peoples’ rights to live free from persecution – surely a key role for the state – have not been defended. Since when did death threats start to become a daily fact of life for people? Is this the kind of society we have to accept? How long do people in this community or others for that matter have to live in fear?
Police seem to have been ill prepared for this. While likely they are decent and diligent they are overstretched and seem to lack the understanding, expertise and will to address this failing. Too little too late, I say!
Social media companies need to step up and take responsibility for the monster they have helped create. We all know this is not about free speech, laws are being broken. Present company accepted, it seems that deeply disturbing to me that people are losing sight of what’s decent, real or true anymore.
Julian Assange is a little creep who also happens to be wanted for sexually abusing two former colleagues, if he is innocent then he should turn himself in
A good analysis of how this fraud was perpetuated including the very first Tweet about it by an obvious phony “DavidGoldbergNY” – an apparent attempt to give credibility by using a Jewish name in New York with it’s huge Jewish population.
This has been a carefully planned plot and achieved it’s desired result.
Not sure how the members of Morons Are Us like Power-Disney feel about being played like a cheap violin.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/fever-swamp-election?utm_term=.hyr57PZlrE#.soZRKDGk6M
How The Bizarre Conspiracy Theory Behind “Pizzagate” Was Spread
The Hampstead madness brought Rupert Wilson Quaintance IV to London from USA looking to break down doors and entertaining notions of having sex with children. All sleazy stories are going to motivate the mentally ill and deviants to act upon them.
Angie has set her epic fail silent rant to private so now only close allies can now bask in her masterclass of twattery.MK Devils are quick off the mark to preserve this timeless classic as a monument for the rest of humanity,lest we forget.
Failed human being Angie claims a fag shortage for her latest scurry into the undergrowth albeit the timing is uncanny with a fair bit of shit about to hit fans in the coming weeks.Angies boomerangs of shit are it seems coming home to roost 🙂
So-called ‘social media’ companies won’t take responsibility simply because it is not what they’re about. They make their money off social discord and conflict, and have no regard for the damage they cause. Nor will they ever until it starts hitting them in the pocket. – It’s the same thing with online selling platforms; they pay lip-service to consumer protection – but are quite happy to have systems that are obfuscatious and conflationary so as to make it difficult or impossible to uphold consumer protection laws…
The internet is a kind of ‘wild west’. Made all the worse by the fact that at local level there is no resource and no will to uphold the laws which theoretically protect people.
Sam has a point in that this will ultimately give those with an agenda to do so an excuse to try and restrict the internet; but the nature of the beast will render that all but impossible. And the real issue here is the reluctance to apply existing laws. This isn’t helped by the fact that civil remedies are practically impossible to access for the average person.
Excellent article (thank you!) and excellent, insightful comments by everyone.
Please let me share with you an experience that I’ve had, (and in some ways, that I’m still having).
In the fall of 2010, I sent the FBI a brief detailing my reasons for believing that unrestrained dissemination of paranoid conspiracy theories and fraudulent rumor-mongering, by political ‘outsiders’ in the US, was likely to incite mentally ‘confused’ and/or deluded persons to commit acts of violence, possibly including assassination attempts, against American political, judicial, military or law enforcement leadership or associated front-line personnel, and that specific academics and activists in certain fields might also be targeted.
I stated that I did not perceive a volitional conspiracy between these political outsiders, but rather a complex web of public communication connecting persons, groups and communities, with a variety of professed primary interests, many of whom would be unlikely to have personal knowledge of each other.
I stated that elements common to many of these conspiracy theories and rumor-panics included; fantasies & delusional beliefs about an international elite of predatory pedophiles in business, government, law enforcement and social institutions, who prey upon the children of less advantaged citizens through complex “ritual abuse” and “mind control” conspiracies, or fantasies & delusional beliefs about secret “brain-washing” programs run by national governments on behalf of an “Illuminati” or “New World Order”.
I named some individuals whom I had reason to believe were engaged in dissemination of such material with genuinely malicious intent, and some individuals who appeared to be targeted by campaigns to incite widedpread, indiscriminate hatred of them.
On January 8, 2011, a paranoid schizophrenic named Jared Lee Loughner attempted to assassinate U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, near Tucson Arizona, killing 6 people and wounding 13 others.
I knew nothing of Loughner, he wasn’t ‘on my radar’ at all, but he was alleged to be obsessed with conspiracy theories promulgated by anti-government theorists. Gabriellle Giffords wasn’t on my lists either, but she was a victim of an apparent assassination attempt by a disturbed individual.
I was far beyond stunned, by this seemingly coincidental tragedy. I went around in a daze for weeks after. I became fearful, even paranoid, about people around me that I knew were sympathetic toward any of the above listed ideas. I probably had a wee ‘break-down’ going on.
Since that time, there have been multiple cases in the US and Canada, of police officers being assassinated by persons obsessed with anti-government conspiracy theories. My prediction continues to be validated, or my mind insists on interpreting events in this way. I sent a short follow-up to my brief, to various authorities, pointing out the apparent validation of my prediction. I’ve never received any replies, but I did become aware that some persons I named were advised by someone to tighten their personal security. I’ve been at a loss, what I could/should do since 2011. So, I do nothing. Just wait for more shoes to drop.
What is this old crow really on about? She must be in her 60s. Does she really think the Truther ‘movement’ is going to adopt her as a star? Clearly she can’t afford a hairdresser with that bleached mess on her head. She should remember that dumping pure bleach on the crown is what killed Jean Harlow as it rotted through to her brain.
You know I think her claim she has a place in Lanzarote is total bullshit. She may have been there for a holiday and posts snaps from that time but her looks do not match. You have to question every single thing this dame says- it’s all smoke and mirrors as she attempts to create a persona that is anything other than what she is- a washed up has-been who has drifted, conned and lied her way through life.
Yes, her goal isn’t to protect anyone’s interests but her own. Self-promotion is the name of her dirty game.
I’m now reading that some of the people who’ve been tapped for roles in said President-elect’s cabinet have actually sent out tweets supporting the pizzagate hoax. The apples don’t fall far from the tree, and all that.
Yes, Assange’s leaks were very conveniently timed, I thought. And yes, if tragedies result from Wikileaks and Assange’s actions, they will have a great deal to answer for.
When I began looking into Hoaxtead, one of the people I met in my internet travels was utterly convinced that the rationale behind the hoax was to justify a UK government clampdown on the internet. I still don’t completely buy this argument, for a couple of reasons—including the fact that the hoax itself, while we think of it as large and all-encompassing, is in fact tiny and obscure in internet terms.
However, I do think that ultimately the unfettered sewage that currently comprises a large part of the internet today will need to be dealt with, and I expect that various governments will begin looking for ways to stem the flow. How ironic that the behaviour of those who bellow and moan the loudest about “repression of free speech” will, in the end, have contributed to its demise online.
Ah, but you see, it’s all part of the stitch-up! (At least, that’s what he claims.)
Yes, those who claim “if what I’m saying is untrue, why haven’t I been sued for saying it?” are being disingenuous at best. The fact is that it costs a huge amount to launch a lawsuit, and while there are some lawyers willing to accept such cases on a “no-win/no-fee” basis, most people simply lack the resources to push ahead with lawsuits.
That’s not to say that none will result from Hoaxtead: we’ve talked about this in the past, and I can see a few glints of hope on the horizon.
But most people, when faced with harassment of this sort, will turn to the police for protection—in fact, the police urged many who were targetted by the Hoaxtead mob to do so! But the police are sadly under-equipped to cope with the flood of complaints; the laws exist, but it can take herculean efforts to ensure they’re enforced.
“When I began looking into Hoaxtead, one of the people I met in my internet travels was utterly convinced that the rationale behind the hoax was to justify a UK government clampdown on the internet. ”
There is quite a body of opinion – which includes some very credible people – that takes something similar to this line. And it does seem to be something of a pattern when the authorities seek to impose more power. i.e. some crisis that has been allowed to fester is cited that justifies some new impingement on our freedoms.
Some people really do seem absolutely immune to the law of the land, and the question that needs to be answered there is why? Who sanctions this? Then there is the reluctance to apply the law and/or bizarre actions taken by prosecuting authorities that leave more questions than answers. Something stinks.
As I said elsewhere, Hoaxtead is just one case. As you say it is tiny and insignificant in terms of the wider internet. But there does seem to be a pattern and almost a common cast with these things. Hoaxtead had its prototype did it not – the guy up north who abused his own daughter by getting her to repeat his sick fantasies into a mobile phone to frame her grandpa? Where does the storyline for pizzagate emerge from? A tiny insignificant corner of old London town perhaps?
Under-resourced certainly, and lacking in will. Too many take the line that this is all just ‘kids in the playground’ stuff. And certainly when you consider some of the misfits and scroungers involved I can see why there is a temptation to hang back and just let them carry on ‘bitchfighting’.
I obviously don’t know Julian Assange as well as you appear to but the point was that he didn’t trust that Sweden would not simply hand him over to the yanks. Frankly I don’t blame him.
He has stated that he would be happy to be questioned in the UK and I fail to see why that was an issue for Sweden. After 6 years Sweden finally got around to questioning him last month, they could have done that any time in that 6 years. They have left it so long that some of the charges are past statute of limitations, the prosecutor should be sacked for incompetency.
If Sweden wanted to keep him in the country then they shouldn’t have questioned him, closed the case and let him leave.
I have no opinion on the guy either way but this whole thing smells of some Swedish prosecutor on a fishing trip on behalf of the yanks.
It dosent work like that, when someone is accused of a crime (especially if more than one person accuses) the police arrest them, lock them up in a cell for a few hours and then question them, why should Assange be treated different? fact is Britain have an extradition treaty with the US that is much quicker than swedens. the point in arresting and questioning suspects in the nick is to take you out of your comfort zone
When Rupert peed on the church that really made my blood boil, if one of us did that in America we would be lucky to get home alive, even though its not my church I really wanted revenge.
I take your point, but I still cannot really get behind the idea that Hoaxtead, the gentleman you refer to up north, and “pizzagate” were all part of an elaborate ploy on the part of the Powers that Be to restrict internet freedoms. I do think that these small puzzle parts could become part of the basis for an argument that some sort of control is needed, and I suspect that whatever controls are put in place will benefit the corporations that now seem to “own” much of the internet’s prime real estate, rather than those of us who simply want to use it for our own purposes.
Fascinating timeline, GS. Thanks for sharing it. You’re right that it does look pre-planned, particularly given the way it started. And some of Trump’s minions are still trying to spread it around, surprise, surprise.
Yes, although I’m far from a religious person in the standard sense of the word, that act hit home for me as well. I feel the same way when I discover that mosques or synagogues have been desecrated by hoodlums. Something about the deliberate desecration of a sacred space, even if that space isn’t my own, really goes against the grain.
Thanks, Justin. The attempt on Gabrielle Gifford’s life, and the murder of six people and injury of 13, filled me with shock and horror at the time. I actually did not realise that Jared Lee Loughner was yet another conspiraloon—and it must have been a terrible feeling to know that you’d passed along warnings, but this one had slipped under the radar.
Similarly here: we have created briefs on any number of Hoaxtead mobsters, but the ones that concern us most are the ones we don’t know about…yet. We don’t know if/when some mentally disturbed person will decide to conduct what Kris Costa euphemistically calls “open source investigation”, possibly involving weaponry. We hope it won’t happen, but when people like Rupert show up outside Christ Church School bragging that they’re armed with a knife, they can expect a swift reaction from the community.
What I can confidently predict, however, is that if/when such a thing happens, the fruitcakes will argue that:
* It didn’t really happen.
* It was a false flag event designed to discredit the fruitloops.
* News reports are biased and unfair and waah waah waah ad infinitum.
* The person or persons involved were stitched up because they “knew too much”.
* The event in question was reported upon before it actually happened, because these morons don’t seem to grasp the concept of “time zones”.
Assange is also a borderline antisemite.
The pessimistic way of looking at this: oh shit, this is like Hoaxtead with guns.
The optimistic way of looking at this: thank fuck Hoaxteaders aren’t allowed guns.
Back before Angela completely changed her mind and decided that her parents had abused her 😀
You sure about that, Spiny?
How did this work out for you, Angie?:
Coyote said “…it must have been a terrible feeling to know that you’d passed along warnings, but this one had slipped under the radar” – yes, somewhat. More intense, I think, just sheer shock that my hypothetical scenario became a reality, and such a horrific one to boot. I actually caught myself wondering if I could have caused the tragedy by imagining similar scenarios – very irrational.
A friend did eventually help me to see, that the info I provided authorities was much too general for anyone to have acted on in any case. My belief that I was “sending a warning” was probably a tad delusional in itself.
In any case, the days of consequence-free misuse of this internet tool, created to facilitate the flow of beneficial knowledge originally, has to come to an abrupt end. Soon.
And the ridiculous assumption that “new technologies” can’t be harmful in themselves, only in how they are used, has to be confronted. You create a technological wonder, you better build into it some means to prevent its misuse. What if this guy had killed everyone in the pizza place? No one else could be held responsible? Grrrrr!
I don’t think Angie ever says “I love you” with complete honesty unless she is facing a mirror.
Very true. Nice positive reframe there. 🙂
The notion of an elaborate ploy implies that there is some sort of coherent forethought and planning. No, it’s not as clear as that – on the part of the authorities, it’s simply a failure or refusal to act and in some cases that appears to be quite deliberate. Nobody’s sitting in an office in Whitehall dreaming these things up.
The hoaxers themselves act quite organically IMHO… i.e. the idea for putting the kids on youtube via a mobile phone video was inspired by the failed Aberdeen hoax; didn’t they take that guy’s kid off him? . In turn pizzagate, or an element of it at least, seems to draw from Hoaxtead. The UK mob seem to be a relatively small inter-connected clique as far as I can see. And it’s not surprising that some across the pond would pick up on the ‘failed scripts’ from over here.
Ah..the alleged secret tunnels/secret rooms. A big favourite of the hoaxer conspiranoids.
Oh, sorry, I didn’t mean to imply that you were saying there’s a deliberate ploy to shut down internet freedom—more that this is a thing I’ve heard argued, and I don’t believe it.
I do think that the hoaxes tend to feed off one another, and that those who perpetrate them tend to try things their friends might recommend (like getting kids to do video clips about alleged abuse, “just like that other fellow did”).
Yes, if one’s mind were of a Freudian bent, one might really have a field day. 😉
I had a good laugh at one guy’s video who filmed inside Comet Ping Pong who was conspiratorially saying “There’s children going in and out of that back secret room.”
I had just watched another video of the owner of Comet Ping Pong showing another conspiranoid around the premises and happily showing him the back room which is the room the children and their families celebrate their Birthday parties.
Establishments like this have always had private rooms for family events such as Birthdays.,,,but oh no the conspiraloons don’t believe a family establishment celebrate children’s parties.. they “conduct paedophile activities and child trafficking!”…Sigh..
No, nothing is ever as it seems in the mind of the conspiranoid.
Angie likes to blag on that she is soooo well connected and has sources of “intel” from very high places including even a personal hotline to Mr God at Universe command HQ.
IMAGINE FOR 30 SECONDS Mr God cant be arsed with her whinging either and has given her the number to a premium intergalactic piss take line.Her phone bill will have been astronomical.
Sigh … You are probably right of course about social media companies. I think I have come, reluctantly, to realise this. I hope – rather than believe – that a tipping point will be reached where it will become socially unacceptable to be facilitating hate crime and disgusting hoaxes; where it will start to hit where it hurts for no-conscience corporations and where it is required that police are helped not hindered.
I also agree that the real issue is the reluctance to apply existing laws and we’ve seen this very clearly on the Hampstead case where numerous laws have been broken but not enforced. I think that as we see more attendant issues, law enforcement will be forced to address the post truth internet age. They will need to skill up significantly to do this!
Things getting desperate at CCN.Here Bigears brings up his ring after taking on board psychoactive frog juice.All of course in the name of making the world a better place.
Delivered courtesy of MK`s Devils.
WARNING:Bigears in his underpants.
OMG! HAHAHA!
Notwithstanding the Insanity of Bigi’s Shamanic Bathroom Habits and Fecal Channeling of Mel Ve’s Soul, this “hoax” harassment of innocent victims online has gotten very dangerous. That Jerad Miller guy in Nevada who killed two cops in CiCi’s pizza is another prime example. The people at Comet must have been terrified. The unmitigated Gall of these Bums is astounding! What can people do to curtail this criminal activity. The Sandy Hook Hoaxsters have encouraged crimes and perpetuated threats also. Imagine how the deceased children’s parents feel? Why no injunction for their sake? Baffling.
It doesn’t work like what? Did you read what I put? Sweden had already questioned him, closed the case and let him leave a free man.
Suddenly after the leaks they wanted to ask more questions and for 6 years he has been inviting them to pop over to the embassy and question him over tea and scones, no problem at all. The prosecutor didn’t want to but strangely now has after refusing to do it for 6 years.
All this doesn’t strike you as being a little odd? Why on Earth would you simply not jump on a plane to go and see the a guy and question him? British police go abroad to question people all the time so what’s the issue that you are on about? It is nothing unusual at all.
Do you really think it is a coincidence that after the leaks and the yanks wanting him, Sweden suddenly changes it’s mind and wants him back for a cosy chat in one of their cells?
Britain can’t extradite somebody under the protection of an embassy, so I fail to see the the point of extradition timescales as he would be in a Swedish cell and they can take as long as they wish.
You do believe in innocent until proven guilty, yes? If Sweden has a case then let them present it, it doesn’t appear to have been able to the first time around though, they closed it and let him go!
There are injunctions in place; the issue is getting them enforced.
I think the problem is a deeper one, and has to do with the unfettered ability for nutcases to share their deranged theories with others, especially when those theories involve targetting innocent people. We need to start looking into the way social media platforms and search engines aid and abet this victimisation, and they need to become subject to laws regarding defamation and harassment, just as any other corporations or individuals are, under the law.
I really don’t see any other way to get this thing under control, and I fear what could happen if it isn’t reined in as quickly as possible.
I wasn’t aware of any Sandy Hook Injunctions only Hampstead? Agree with your conclusion!
Oh, sorry, when you were mentioning injunctions I thought you were referring to Hoaxtead. You’re right, I’m not aware of any Sandy Hook injunctions.
Alex Jones has retracted research into Pizzagate now. He probably understands it’s a conduit for the fake news purge, which means infowars could fall victim to it.
Pizzagate won’t go anywhere – it’s not like they had testimonies from victims and medical reports showing evidence of sodomy, is it?
For some reason I find it hilarious that Jones would drop pizzagate like a hot coal once he realises that the dreaded MSM has figured out, and is telling a very interested general public, that it’s fake news. As you say, I think the fake news purge is currently building up to tsunami strength, and sites like Jones’ will be swept away. The thought makes me smile.
Let’s hope so EC!
After looking at that Aussie Cult he was raised in, he looks like “Lebensborn” too! lol I never trusted him or anything that has “wiki” in it’s name, especially “wikipoet”!! hahaha I’ll bet that idiot “Sands” is conducting a “tunnel search” like the “sandy hoaxers” in the defunct Fairfield Hills Mental Asylum!
Interesting discussion. I have read that a man was recently arrested for threatening a Labour MP on social media. If the threat was credible and real, and not just stupid banter, then yes, he should be held to account for his actions. But making a threat is not the same as actually carrying it out.
Among other events, in the last twelve months, we have seen a political assassination – a brutal murder – take place on UK soil – the first in a quarter century to occur in the UK.
The man convicted of her murder, in spite of leaving a ‘trace’ (having a history of ordering far right magazines and the like) and also apparently having been photographed at least one extremist right wing political rally, apparently wasn’t on the radar screen of the intelligence services……so it seems to me that the vast complex of state intelligence failed to protect a democratically elected MP (regardless of your views on her personal politics – that is, or should be, irrelevant).
Why has May, and Cameron before her, not called in senior people from M15, M16, etc and read them the proverbial riot act? Why have senior people not resigned? Why, for that matter, have the mainstream media only given grudging coverage to the trial of her assassin?
Some posters want to see massive increases in resources for the police to, well, police pretty much everything on the net. But the UK is in (as far as I tell) ‘cost-cutting’ mode. I am not seeing how this circle can be squared. If you want more police, you should vote for parties that want to increase the size of the state sector, but the UK electorate largely votes for the Tories and UKIP that want to reduce, the size of the state sector, to lower taxes, and to, well, screw the poor, basically.
The actions of the idiots, nutters, and in some cases, criminals (whether deluded, reckless, or intentional) behind the Hoaxstead and Pizzagate hoaxes do seem to me to lend weight to those forces who wish to increase governmental controls on freedom of speech on the internet. On the other hand, the right wing gutter rags like the Mail and Sun will continue to ply their trade (they being part of the ‘mainstream’, ‘respectable’ media). El Coyote – unless I misread him/her, apologies if so – isn’t troubled by this potential outcome and seems to fully support it.
@Spiny Norman
Indeed. Restrictions on gun ownership in the UK are much stronger than in the US, particularly since the Michael Ryan case of the 1980s and the Dunblane murders in 1996.
” I still don’t completely buy this argument, for a couple of reasons—including the fact that the hoax itself, while we think of it as large and all-encompassing, is in fact tiny and obscure in internet terms. ”
IIRC, it was claimed that there were several million views for the footage of the kids talking to camera that was put on Youtube. I don’t know if these stats were ever validated, and if so was it made clear that it was several million discrete IP addresses, or a relatively small number of addresses repeatedly viewing the same Youtube video.
I’m actually not sure what the answer to this conundrum is, tdf. I am in favour of free speech as a principle, and don’t think it should be curtailed. However, to my mind there’s a difference between free speech and hate speech/harassment, and I’d be in favour of looking at ways to ensure that the latter could be policed more effectively. People need to understand that just because their words are “spoken” online, they don’t go into a huge void, never to be seen or heard again. As with any other form of publishing, the internet can be dangerous if misused. And people who misuse it need to face the consequences of their actions. How do we get from here to there, though? That’s a discussion we all need to have, and it goes far beyond the purview of this blog. I think these are important questions you raise, as they speak to the idea of checks and balances between freedom and responsibility, privacy and public safety. The question, as always, is where to draw the line, and who should draw it?
I don’t know if they were ever able to verify which it was, but in terms of the scope of the internet, a few million views is really just a drop in the bucket. That said, for those affected by the hoax, a thousand views of something vile with one’s child’s name on it is huge.
@Justin Sanity
The experiences you’ve shared here put me in mind of the experiences of people who warned the authorities of the developing bubbles and, in some cases, outright frauds in the years running up to the 2008/2009 financial crisis – specifically IIRC there was one financial analyst who repeatedly warned the authorities in relation to the Madoff funds.
@El Coyote
Yep I know what you mean. It’s a complicated conundrum, and my own thinking is in flux also.
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Quantum Effects and Broken Symmetries in Frustrated Antiferromagnets
We investigate the interplay between frustration and zero-point quantum fluctuations in the ground state of two spin-half frustrated spin systems: the triangular and the J1 - J2 Heisenberg antiferromagnets. These are the simplest examples of two-dimensional spin models in which quantum effects may be strong enough to destroy the classical long-range Néel order, thus stabilizing a ground state with symmetries and correlations different from their classical counterparts. In this thesis the ground-state properties of these frustrated models are studied using finitesize spin-wave theory, exact diagonalization, and quantum Monte Carlo methods. In particular, in order to control the sign-problem instability, which affects the numerical simulation of frustrated spin systems and fermionic models, we have used the recently developed Green function Monte Carlo with Stochastic Reconfiguration. This technique, which represents the state-of-the-art among the zero-temperature quantum Monte Carlo methods, has been developed and tested in detail in the present thesis.
Quantum Effects and Broken Symmetries in Frustrated Antiferromagnets / Capriotti, Luca. - (2000 Oct 27).
Capriotti, Luca
Autori: Capriotti, Luca
Titolo: Quantum Effects and Broken Symmetries in Frustrated Antiferromagnets
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Chinese Journalist Sentenced Four Years for Reporting Early on COVID-19 in Wuhan
Zhan was charged for ‘picking fights and provoking trouble.'
By Christopher McFadden
张展/YouTube
A Chinese citizen journalist, Zhang Zhan, has been sentenced to four years in prison for her reporting on COVID-19 in Wuhan earlier this year. The sentence came on Monday this week.
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Zhan was charged for "picking fights and provoking trouble"
Back in February of 2020, Zhan, a former-lawyer, had traveled to Wuhan and posted various information on social media about the outbreak. She was later arrested in May this year as part of China's ruling Communist Party's (CCP) attempt to curb the outbreak and control information flow out of the country.
She was formerly arrested in Shanghai in June under charges of sending "false information through text, video and other media through [platforms like] WeChat, Twitter, and YouTube".
Zhan was also accused of accepting interviews with foreign media outlets and "maliciously spreading" information about the virus in Wuhan.
Screenshot of Zhang from her YouTube channel. Source: 张展/YouTube
Zhang, 37, was then later reported to have undergone a prolonged hunger strike while in detention. This prompted authorities to begin a program of force-feeding to keep her alive.
According to some sources like CBS, her legal representative, Zhang Keke, revealed that Zhang was restrained 24 hours a day with a belt around her waist and hands to prevent her from removing the feeding tube.
“In addition to headache, dizziness, and stomach pain, there was also a pain in her mouth and throat. She said this may be inflammation due to the insertion of a gastric tube," Zhang Keke reported.
Zhang is not the only journalist facing imprisonment
Zhang is one of several citizen journalists whose early work provided the outside world with tantalizing information about the turmoil in Wuhan in the early days of the pandemic. Another journalist, Chen Qiushi was also detained in February this year, as well as Li Zehua and a Wuhan resident Fang Bin. Zehua was later released in April.
Chen Qiushi has been placed under government supervision and Fang Bin's whereabouts are currently known, according to the BBC.
Screenshot from Zhang's last video upload to YouTube. Source: 张展/YouTube
Since the start of the current COVID-19 outbreak, China has been accused of covering up information during the initial outbreak and delaying the release of other crucial information.
Beijing has denied this and says that it took swift action that allowed for the rest of the world to prepare.
Information is tightly controlled by the CCP in China who regularly seeks to block the spread of any information it hasn't approved for release. This was clearly demonstrated in the early days of the outbreak with the reprimand of several Wuhan doctors for "rumor-mongering".
Her last tweet was posted in May of this year. Source: 张展/Twitter
The best known being Li Wenliang who later died from COVID-19.
Ms. Zhan has run into trouble with the Chinese authorities on several occasions in the past too. According to the NGO Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD), she was summoned by the police in Shanghai in September 2019 and detained for voicing support for activities in Hong Kong.
She is also undergoing psychiatric examination while in detention, reports the BBC. Given Zhang's apparent poor health, a lengthy prison sentence will not be welcome news for her friends and family.
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9 Flint / ETZNAB – The Work of Love: Day 9 of 13
9 Flint / ETZNAB
“Flint Beams the Stellar Ray of Truth to Earth as a crystal sword cast down along the path of a lightning flash… bringing things to a head to wipe the slate clean.”
Tone 9 completes the Truth of the Holy, Holy, Holy. Human takes 2 steps as 1. First we receive the Truth as Divine Inspiration for a Leap of Faith. To hold the Truth as our Own, we have to take another step to apply the Truth to our own Experience.
Divine Inspiration holds us by a thread of Divine Ether until we Feel the Truth. It takes Time for the Truth Above to manifest as an experience. The Divine Truth won’t be forgotten. The Truth will hold its place in our Consciousness, while an Unseen Force moves us to the Time and Place that Human can claim it in the world below.
Like climbing a real pyramid in the hot and humid climate at Ek’ Balam, I didn’t have to try to know I would have CRAWLED up, clinging to the next higher step. A Truth about Love is shared through every experience. Human’s unconscious thoughts can “fall back” to truth the way we saw it before. When we reach the limits of Remembering, we might wonder how an experience captured our attention in such a Divine Way. Maybe it was just a coincidence. Maybe it didn’t mean a thing.
A very small thing – in a Moment – can Move us as a Spiritual Experience. We often can’t explain how or why it changed our whole perspective. The Faith to Believe is all we have to hold. Though, if we keep reaching for a Higher Thought, if we carry out the Patience of 9 to see a Bigger Picture, we’ll Hold our Higher Ground as we Stand with Both Feet on the Truth to reach an Even Higher Truth.
Peak Tone 9 defines a Truth of the Holy, Holy, Holy, by the Truth of Universal Laws – the Wisdom that holds an Authority over every thing. When we KNOW we’re living for a Divine Cause, we will Expect to See the Divine Effect of Love. We always see Love, when Love is what we expect to see. That’s what we will be prepared to See, and by Divine Will, we’ll Know an Exponential Power of Love is True.
We see that every Cause has an Effect. Applying that Wisdom of Truth, we CAN claim a Higher Truth of how our Work of Love was always part of the Divine Plan. A Divine Creator manifested Life for the Highest Cause of all… Love without Condition, shared in Divine Harmony with the Whole. For all the Love we Create as an Offering to the One Above, we Multiply a Power of Love to it’s Highest Return. Through the Patience of 9 to see our Life as a Whole and the Creation as a Whole, we can Feel the Truth that Love was the meaning of Life. Love guides the Road to our Divine Destiny. Where we know Love is the Truth, we See a Divine Choice we can follow to the end.
All things being Equal, we’ll see the exponential Power of Love that tips the Balance for Human limitations. Through the Highest Authority of Love, the darkness and the light can exist in the Balance, when both Know the Truth of a Higher Power of Love that breaks as a Light for ALL to See a Truth of Divinity.
MASTER NUMBER 999:
Today is 9 Flint/ETZNAB, and by the Aztec Haab calendar, we’re guided by the Year Bearer, 9 Flint/ETZNAB, AND we’re navigating the 9th uinal of the Tzolk’in’s Harvest cycle of Truth multiplied to Abundance. 9 is a Divine Number of the Holy, Holy, Holy that Completes the Understanding of a Meaning and Purpose. 9 can be expressed as 3+3+3 by the most elementary-linear equation. Though, 9 can also be expressed as an exponential equation of 3 x 3. In a reflection of Numbers as Symbols, an absolute language in the Universe, “X” is a factor of symbolic power, exponentially greater that the Sum of the equal parts. Tesla said that the Whole Truth of the Universe could be known through an understanding of the symbols, 3, 6, and 9. If you look at 369 as a symbol, there is a Divine Trinity in the Highest Place. In the Lowest Place 9 represents a Whole Investment of Divine Trinity, aligned with a REASON of Divine Trinity Above. Together, 2 Divine Trinities (6) create the Holy, Holy, Holy state of mind that Believes in the Highest Power of Love. We will believe by an Act of God, a Voice of Truth in the Wind that Proves a Divine Cause will always manifest a Divine Effect. 999 can manifest a Divine State of Mind, and experience of Truth beyond Time meant to ALWAYS Be. “Truth” is found in the root words of the Alpha and Omega. A Truth of Love was Spoken as The Creation that would reveal the Truth in Divine Time, in the very moment our Heart was opened to Feel the Reason Why.
Flint/ETZNAB delivers a Divine Truth like a Spark that creates a path for Believing. Flint resides in the North, the direction of Divine Wisdom. North is the “up above” in our realm of “down below.” The North marks the Truth of direction like a compass. The glyph illustrates the pyramid as seen from Above. All the steps we’ve climbed were leading to a “zero point” – the axis mundi of the Highest Meaning and Purpose. The path gets narrower the higher we climb. All Roads are Divinely led to One End of Eternal Love.
Flint/ETZNAB is also known as the Mirror, the Obsidian Mirror that returns a Perfect Reflection of the Truth. Flint strikes a spark and Obsidian is Earth forged by Fire. We’re being changed by a Force of Passion in the up-above. We only have to let go of what we “think we believe” so a Divine Creator can reveal what we KNOW we Believe. Everything we see is a reflection of our Self, defining what we expect and what we’re looking to see.
ETZNAB holds the Element of Air, a field of electrical thoughts through which we are connected to the Whole in every Breath. ETZNAB’s Power of Truth is held by the Heart of Sky, the god Huracán, that can change the whole landscape of our Life. The Element of Air is a Power held for an Act of God, if that’s what it takes for us to see the Truth of Love. Like the hurricane, our lives can be turned around to forget every Human matter for a Divine Intention to save another Human Being.
Flint prepares us for the Moment when a Divine Truth will break through to our Heart. Like the static energy before a Storm (CAUAC), positive and negative charges are being drawn apart. In a thundercloud before the storm, all the positive charges rise to the North, and all the negative charges accumulate in the “South” where we Feel the resistance to Love One Another. The further away a Divine Truth may seem, the greater the attraction will be to See what we Really Believe is True.
Flint’s Truth is unexpected, yet it’s Truth we knew all along. We either buried it as “too good to be true,” or denied it for the changes we knew it would bring. Through the guidance of Flint/ETZNAB we’ll get the Point that the Truth ALWAYS sets us Free to live by Faith that’s just as good as Believing.
Flint is said to tempt us to “act out of character.” Though, “out of character” IS Truth we cover up. The Truth you’ve been covering up WILL be known today. We’re being prepared for a change of course. This is a good day to think about ALL the Truth we Know. Change always leads us through the chaos that is a breakdown of an established order. A New Life demands a turn away from something familiar. We are being prepared to hold our Faith in the Truth through any storm.
It’s hard to tell what this Sword of Truth will be. It CAN be a “hard truth” or it can be a “stroke of genius.” We might realize a Dream we had a long time ago was a Divine Idea from the start. ETZNAB will share a Power of Light to prove your Truth is real.
There can be a Shift of Consciousness on Flint late in the afternoon as the Light moves toward the Western horizon. We see the Whole Truth of the Day at Sunset. The Elders taught us to offer our cares to the Setting Sun and to Give Thanks for next Sunrise. Tomorrow will always leads us to a Higher way.
To all my relations, may we Rise to Claim the Wisdom of our Own Truth of Love. May we claim the Power of Love to share the Truth that’s Real with one another. May we claim Faith that doesn’t need at Act of God to reach our Heart, because our Heart was Offered as the Sacrifice for every Truth we would have to Feel to Know.
May we Remember a Mother who knows just how we feel, standing at the threshold of a New Life we must claim by taking another Leap of Faith. May we reach beyond the ashes of our past and all the hard lessons of Love we learned before. We have been raised by a Divine Mother to Maturity. We’ve reached a Time and Place where we are about to see the Fruit on the Vine. The way is narrow and the climb is steep, and at the apex we’ll see the invisible threads that guided our Heart on a climb toward Higher Ground.
May we Know the Truth of ALL the Beauty we see from the Earth to the Stars is an Affair of Love as a Divine Communion of Consciousness. One Above knows the Highest Truth of Love as a Universal Law. One Below Feels it and conceives the Beauty that could be created as an experience of Love. Both a Consciousness Above and Below are focused on the “X” that marks a Time and Place, when Human rises to by Faith to Move on the Truth we Believe.
May we LOVE the Truth we learn by Experience, exactly when we need to Know.
in lak’ech, i am another you,
Debra, Jaguar Woman, 9 Eagle/MEN
9 Flint/ETZNAB (Cherokee, Flint/DAWI’SGALA)
Galactic Tone 9: Patience. The energy of Nine is one of getting a better perspective of the bigger picture. With the energy of Nine, plans or patterns begin to come to completion. Nine requires patience and perseverance that is found in the bigger picture, otherwise there is great suffering from the lack of insight. A completion of cycles of action is all-important to Nine.
Flint/ETZNAB: Mirror of reality. As a struck flint, these persons are the divine sparks of intelligence. Flint’s innate abilities are utilized to discriminate emotions from fact. Flint persons stand tireless to protect, defend, or cure others by personal sacrifice. By courageously wielding the sword of truth, falsehoods are cut away. Flints, it was said, can receive information on inter-personal troubles or evil plots of others by reflecting in an obsidian mirror. Their valiant service as warriors of the truth must be impeccable or they will experience sufferings of accidents, misunderstandings and gossip.
Cherokee, Flint/DAWI’SGALA: Flint’s symbol is Chawa’ or Castor of the Castor and Pollux Twins in Gemini. Castor appears in the evening personifying darkness. Pollux then appears in the east at dawn to end the night. Totem is a Flint Knife. Flint spirit shone a light like the sun and gave the people the Sacred Venus Calendar, fixed the days and promised to watch over the earthlings. A flint person endeavors to keep that covenant. Opener of the Way, a creator, innovator, stretches the mind to outside limits of capabilities. Changes the static to the dynamic. Brings about change, often through separation and destruction. Beams the Stellar Ray of Truth to Earth as a crystal sword cast down along the path of a lightning flash. The transformer brings things to a head and wipes the slate clean.
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2014 Activities and events
Books by Jean L. Cooper
Shortwood Press
Jean L. Cooper
~ Author, editor, publisher, speaker
Shortwood Press is an exclusive press that publishes quality books on topics of historical interest. It was created as a forum for sharing scholarly discourse among the growing community of researchers who strive quietly and diligently to recover Virginia’s past to inform today’s understanding in preparation for tomorrow.
With Shortwood Press you keep 100 percent of your intellectual rights and 100 percent of your royalties. Shortwood works with you to format your book for publishing in print and electronic forms, and manages the process of submitting the book to a print-on-demand printing service, so that you can concentrate on what you do best — writing and researching! Services available include: editing, indexing, and formatting.
Contact us at: shortwoodpress@gmail.com
Tracing Their Steps (2019), by Bernice Alexander Bennett
Winner of the 2019 Phillis Wheatley Book Award for Historical Nonfiction – Family Histories from the Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage; and the 2020 International Afro American Historical and Genealogical Society Book Award for Non-Fiction, Short Story.
Freedmen of the Frontier,
volume 1 (2019),
by Angela Y. Walton-Raji
Freedmen of the Frontier, volume 2 (2020)
Winner of the Phillis Wheatley Book Award for Historical Nonfiction – Genealogy, Research Methodology from the Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage.
Index of Students of the University of Virginia, 1825-1874 (2011),
by Jean L. Cooper.
Martha Jefferson Randolph: Republican Daughter & Plantation Mistress (2013), by Billy L. Wayson.
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Sites I like:
Students of the University of Virginia, 1825-1874
Martha Jefferson Randolph: Republican Daughter & Plantation Mistress
Header illustration: The Lawn and Rotunda of the University of Virginia.
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Taxonomy of the Oligoporus hibernicus complex (Basidiomycota), with the new species O. parvus
Authors: Renvall, Pertti
Journal: Karstenia, Volume 45 (2005), Issue 2, pages 91-102.
Key words: Aphyllophorales, Oligoporus, polyporaceous fungi, Postia hibernica, taxonomy
Abstract: The taxonomy of the Oligoporus hibernicus (Berk. & Broome) Gilb. & Ryvarden complex (Basidiomycota) is revised. The study is based on extensive herbarium material chiefly from northwestern Europe and the type material of the taxa involved. The examination of the type of Polyporus hibernicus Berk. & Broome revealed that the name has been misapplied. The name belongs to a taxon, which often has pale yellow basidiocarps and was often erroneously called Physisporus flavicans P. Karst. or Poria johnstonii Murrill, and recently described as Oligoporus septentrionalis Vampola. The name O. parvus Renvall is proposed for the species that has erroneously been called as O. hibernicus in northwestern Europe. Four morphologically very similar species are recognized in the O. hibernicus complex in Europe: O. hibernicus sensu typi, O. perdelicatus (Murrill) Gilb. & Ryvarden, O. simanii (Pilát) Bernicchia, and the new species O. parvus, which is reported from Finland, Norway and Sweden. O. perdelicatus has been collected from seven localities in eastern Finland and is here reported as new to Europe. The species are described and discussed in detail.
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Google-Shocked
Image credit: “#Google #ThinkShopper” by aguynamedtommy on Flickr via Creative Commons.
You’re in second grade, enjoying summer vacation, when a neighbor boy comes out of nowhere and thrusts his fist—hard—into your stomach. For seconds, you gasp for air. He’s no foe. In fact, you would have called him a friend until about three seconds ago. What just happened?
Not all of us have been shell-shocked. But we’ve all had the air knocked out of us at some point. For me, it once happened in the way described above. (The little boy thought he was being funny, although his mother laughed at his joke by grounding him.) Well, last week, Google singlehandedly knocked the air out of all of us.
We’ve been Google-shocked.
Google is the search engine that the majority of us trust and consult daily for information, news and directions. Who could blame us? Google has a track record for surpassing its competitors like Bing and Yahoo! in terms of producing reliable results.
Last Monday, Google fired an engineer named James Damore who was technically great at his very technical job. There was one small problem. Damore’s personal and political opinions differed from those of Google’s left-wing corporate management. Damore said in a YouTube interview shortly after his firing: “Definitely those [at Google] who aren’t on the left feel like they need to stay in the closet and not really reveal themselves.”
Damore was canned shortly after distributing this 10-page memo to Google employees and sharing his belief that Google’s so-called “diversity” policies are “illegal” and unjust. Damore stated that he considers himself to be a “classical liberal” (similar to what we today refer to as “conservative” or “libertarian”) who “strongly value[s] individualism and reason.”
Google may seem “neutral” because it’s a search engine. In truth, the executive chairman of Google’s parent company Alphabet, Inc.—Eric Schmidt—endorsed Barack Obama in 2008. His loyalty was rewarded when the Obama administration gave one of Schmidt’s other companies a special $1.6 billion “1705” stimulus loan for the development of Ivanpah, a massive solar thermal project along the California-Nevada border. As if a billionaire like Schmidt needs taxpayer help for anything, let alone a solar thermal experiment.
Google’s current CEO, Sundar Pichai, is the first major tech CEO to have “gender-balanced” his executive team to be comprised of seven men and almost the same number of women (six). So Pichai was particularly peeved with Damore for using his memo to express traditional beliefs on gender roles. Precisely, Pichai was perturbed by Damore’s assertion that the tech “gender gap” is largely due to the fact that “men and women biologically differ in many ways” that “aren’t just socially constructed.”
In defending his decision to fire Damore, Pichai said it was “not OK” for a Google employee to express an opinion that differed from his own, specifically that women “have traits that make them less biologically suited” for working in tech.
Men Are Not Women (just Google it)
Type the word “man” into Google’s search field. As of yesterday, you’ll get 6.91 billion results. Now, type the word “woman” into Google’s search field. You’ll obtain 133% fewer (2.97 billion) results. Now try “men” versus “women” and you’ll still get millions more results for “men” than for “women,” showing that females literally can’t best males in a Google search—even by strengthening their numbers.
By Pichai’s own standards, Google seems to be sexist (and therefore hypocritical) because its search results indicate that it finds men to be 133% more worthy of discussion than women. Who is he to preach on gender parity?
In truth, women are doing very well in the business world. In 2016, the average female CEO made $13.1 million, or roughly 15% more than the average salary for a male CEO ($11.4 million). But Pichai won’t be happy until equal numbers of men and women are CEOs. Even if more women don’t want to be CEOs.
As Damore elucidates in his memo, research shows that men put premiums on “systemizing,” “status” and “competition” whereas women prioritize “empathizing,” “people” and “work-life balance.” Hence, men are eager to do what many women are simply uninterested in doing even if it means forgoing a higher paycheck: working longer, less interactive, more stressful and often more dangerous hours in fields ranging from tech to coal mining.
The Brain Gap
There is one thing which Pichai seems to value more than gender diversity at Google: thought uniformity.
The main problem at Google is a lack of intellectual diversity. No Google employee can confidently express an opinion that differs from Pichai’s without fear of retribution. Until this culture changes, Google will be a dead-end company. Google must constantly innovate, and fearful employees cannot think creatively.
Let’s say Pichai gives an internal presentation at Google. Odds are, everyone in the room will nod vigorously and stammer “Brilliant!”—even if Pichai presents them with the dumbest concept they’ve ever heard. Because Google employees don’t live under rocks and—thanks to Damore–every Google employee now knows that Pichai prefers yes-men.
Sure, Pichai may stack his executive team with equal numbers of yes-men and yes-women, but there’s no use denying that this is a façade. Nobody is getting into Pichai’s inner circle if he or she will push him to think outside the box. Which, unfortunately, is exactly the sort of person a strong, mature and successful CEO wants on his or her team.
Damore cast sunshine on Google’s anemic corporate culture. Now is the time for Silicon Valley innovators to do the opposite of Pichai and embrace intellectual diversity. Don’t forget that a high tolerance for intellectual diversity kept us ahead of our Chinese and Russian enemies. While those countries cracked down on free thought, we let our people innovate.
Google-shocked we are, but we weren’t struck by lightning. While there’s still time, let’s learn from Damore’s courage and stop allowing unscientific political correctness to restrain American progress.
Katie, are you kidding me with this crap? I get that your sensationalism is what makes your living, but I remember you as a smart girl–you must see the gaping holes in your arguments and know that your readership is too easily triggered to find them. What exactly is the point of stirring up vitriol for your side? Has that ever helped win arguments on any scale? Your writing astounds me. Consider using your platform to explore balanced arguments intelligently, as I know you can.
Thanks for reading my column, Meghan. What are you up to these days?
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“False claims of a coronavirus ‘cure’ are spreading online. Can misinformation be stopped?” host Nik Zecevic, NBC LX, July 28, 2020.
“Security concerns on social media,” host Katherine Bang, Morning Wave in Busan, July 16, 2020.
“A ways to go: Only sustained energy will create systemic change,” reporter Ray Roa, Creative Loafing, June 11, 2020.
“IRL: How your actions on social media have serious consequences for the real world,” reporter Phil Buck, WTSP, March 3, 2020.
“How to leverage social media for better career opportunities,” by Emily Young, Career Charge, USF Corporate Training and Professional Education Blog, December 27, 2019.
“Let’s get social,” Of Mic and Men podcast, hosted by Carl Bernardo, November 4, 2019.
“Hurricane Dorian: As storm approached, why did county officials stop talking?” reporter Jane Musgrave, Palm Beach Post, September 6, 2019.
“Social media’s influence on school fights,” reporter Natalia Verdina, Fox 13 News, September 20, 2019.
“Social med ia shines strobe light on devastation in Bahamas,” reporter Briona Arradondo, Fox 13 News, September 3, 2019.
“You see the numbers go up and you just think ‘hey’,” reporter Elise Dybvig, Morgenbladet (weekly newspaper in Norway), August 16, 2019.
“What the heck is 8chan, and why are mass shooters using it?” reporter Phil Buck, WTSP, August 5, 2019.
“Screen time out?” by Dyllan Furness, Tampa Magazine.
“National bomb threats look like a new spin on an old bitcoin scam,” reporter Emily Dreyfuss, Wired, December 13, 2018.
“Bob threats across the country,” reporter Jana Katsuyama, KTVU San Francisco (carried also on other Fox stations), December 13, 2018.
“Want to grow your LinkedIn network effectively Follow these expert tips,” staff writer Marr Reinstetle, The Penny Hoarder, September 27, 2018.
“Facebook and Privacy,” Morning Wave in Busan (South Korean radio program), April 9, 2018.
“Listen to USF Professor: Be Wary of Social Media,” columnist Ernest Hooper, Tampa Bay Times, March 25, 2018.
“Romano: Here’s a Tip for Fired Outback Server,” columnist John Romano, Tampa Bay Times, February 15, 2018.
“Responses to Trump’s tweets,” reporter Candice Aviles, WTSP, January 10, 2018.
“Facebook loses friends and big tech is under siege,” reporter John Kehoe, Australian Financial Review, Sept. 29, 2017.
“Hurricane cakes, memes, and bottled water: How Publix won the internet during Hurricane Irma,” reporter Ashley Kritzer, Tampa Bay Business Journal, Sept. 15, 2017.
“Hurricane Harvey Shows Benefits, Risks of Turning to Social Media in a Disaster,” WJLA, reporter Stephen Loiaconi, August 28, 2017.
“Suicides on Facebook,” appeared live on WTSP with anchor Courtney Robinson, April 26, 2017.
“People Still Think Facebook is Eavesdropping through their Phone’s Mic,” The Outline, reporter Andy Martino, April 24, 2017.
“Is Facebook responsible for suicides being broadcasted on its network?,” NewsTalk Florida, reporter Allison Leslie, Feb. 7, 2017.
“How Facebook determines what your feed shows,” WTSP, Jan. 30, 2017.
“QQ4U: How well do you know teen texting codes?” WTSP, reporter Phil Buck, Dec. 14, 2016.
“Customer service with 140 characters instead of 1-800,” WTSP, reporter Allison Kropff, Nov. 28, 2016.
“Stalking case shows dangerous side of social media,” WTSP, reporter Kendra Conlon, Nov. 23, 2016.
“Social media, fake news, and politics,” Florida Matters, WUSF, host Carson Cooper, Nov. 22, 2016.
“Twitter helps users cut through bullying with new features,” Fox 13 News, reporter Crystal Clark, Nov. 16, 2016.
“In wake of Donald’s Trump’s comments on women, hashtag #NotOkay going viral after Twitter question,” ABC Action News, reporter Sarina Fazan, Oct. 11, 2016.
“Missing Jose Fernandez jersey returned to Alonso High,” WFLA, reporter Chip Osowski, September 30, 2016.
“UNDEAD BOP: Bay area busker Max Pierre, very much alive,” Creative Loafing, reporter Ray Roa, August 31, 2016.
“WhatsApp opens data to Facebook,” Politico Morning Tech, reporter Li Zhou, August 26, 2016.
“Facebook Eavesdropping: How a Fake Story Became ‘Real.’” Tom’s Guide, reporter Paul Wagenseil, June 6, 2016.
“No, Facebook doesn’t eavesdrop on your phone. But it does spy on you,” Washington Post, reporter Caitlin Dewey, June 6, 2016.
“Is Facebook Listening,” Scared Sh!tless Podcast #17 by the Kim Komando Show, host Tim Hattrick, June 3, 2016.
“Facebook listening claim denied by professor,” BBC, reporter Zoe Kleinman, June 3, 3016.
“Spying secrets: Is Facebook eavesdropping on your phone conversations?,” WFLA, reporter Melanie Michael, May 20, 2016. (Story picked up by international media.)
“The right man? Should we care what the head of a popular film festival says online?,” Creative Loafing, reporter Kate Bradshaw, April 28, 2016.
“Staged videos part of Internet life,” WTSP, reporter Ian Reitz, April 19, 2016.
“Models: Tampa strip club stole our photos,” Fox 13, reporter Evan Lambert, April 8, 2016.
“Super Bowl ads hope to inspire,” WTSP, reporter Courtney Robinson, February 2, 2016.
“Facebook ‘secret sister gift exchange’ is a scam,” WFLA, reporter Peter Bernard, Nov. 5, 2015. (Also carried by many other news organizations, including Mashable and Good Housekeeping.)
“Former teacher pushing for change,” The (Lakeland) Ledger, reporter Sara Drumm, Oct. 30, 2015.
“Periscope pitfalls: Advice for parents to give kids on social media,” WFLA, reporter Melanie Michael, Oct. 13, 2015.
“Hillsborough School Board makes social media policy,” WFLA, reporter Adrienne Pedersen, Sept. 28, 2015. Also carried by AdWeek.
“Best back to school apps for kids, parents,” WTSP, reporter Ian Reitz, August 6, 2015.
“Sheriff: Coach posed as woman, sought boys’ photos,” WTSP, reporter Kendra Conlon, June 19, 2015.
“Cop turned convict turned artist opens transmedia gallery in Bradenton’s Village of the Arts,” Bradenton Herald, reporter Janelle O’Dea, May 8, 2015.
“Facebook to automatically tag you in photos,” WTSP, reporter Courtney Robinson, Feb. 18, 2015.
“Couples turn to smartphones to live ‘appily’ ever after,” WTSP, reporter Kendra Conlon, Feb. 14, 2015.
“Gerard getting a little too social online,” Champaign News-Gazette, columnist Tom Kacich, Feb. 11, 2015.
“Linkedin advised as future of industry connections,” USF Oracle, reporter Amar Rele, Feb. 3, 2015.
“School resource deputy gives from the heart—and wallet,” Tampa Tribune, reporter Keith Morelli, Dec. 11, 2014.
“Bay Area plastic surgeons cash in on selfie craze,” WFLA, reporter Melissa Beckman, Nov. 18, 2015.
“Lack of information on Ebola spreading fear, trust,” Tampa Tribune, reporter Keith Morelli, Oct. 17, 2014.
“Debate over fan creates social media buzz,” WFLA, reporter Jeff Patterson, Oct. 16, 2014.
“Experts weigh in on social media in local political campaigns,” Inweekly blog, by Rick Outzen, Oct. 15 2014.
“Snapchat hacked by third party app,” WTSP, reporter Charles Billi, Oct. 10, 2014.
“New site Alibaba takes aim at Amazon,”WTSP, reporter Charles Billi, Sept. 29, 2014.
“Sharing big ideas on media and youth activism,” USF News, by Barbara Melendez, Sept. 20, 2014.
“Ice Bucket Challenge,” Capitol Report (WFSU), reporter Regan McCarthy, Aug. 22, 2014.
“Other nonprofits awed by ALS ice bucket challenge,” Tampa Tribune, by Keith Morelli, Aug. 22, 2014.
“Social media 101: The apps your kids use,” WTSP, reporter Dion Lim, August 6, 2014.
Facebook Newsfeed Story, Bay News 9, reporter Anne Imanuel, Aug. 1, 2014.
“Amy Van Dyken-Rouen staying positive on social media,” Denver Post, by John Marshall (AP), June 27, 2014.
“Six ways to maximize your summer,” Schools.com, by Chris Couch, June 26, 2014.
“#Areyouready? Social media retooling hurricane season,” Tampa Tribune, reporter Keith Morelli, June 1, 2014.
“School’s crack down on unpaid internships,” Washington Post, by Jena McGregor, May 16, 2014.
“Who’s watching what you post?” WFLA, reporter Josh Green, Jan. 27, 2014.
“Polk teen’s death spurs social media conversation,” WFLA, reporter Natalie Shepherd, Sept. 11, 2013.
“PR NewsChannel partners with USF to provide real world experience to public relations students“, PR NewsChannel Release, August 27, 2013.
“Social media can become an addiction but you can break free,” Tampa Bay Times, reporter Irene Maher, July 25, 2013.
“How much do college students care about online privacy,” USA Today, by Katey Psencik, May 29, 2013.
“How to Beef up Your Resume,” College Lifestyles, by Michaela Williams, May 28, 2013.
“Get ready for hurricane season in Tampa Bay with social media,” WFLA, reporter Melissa Beckman, May 27, 2013.
“How USF engages in education,” Fox 13, reporter Kerry Klecic, May 16, 2013.
“Role of social media in Tarpon Springs Rape Case,” WFLA, reporter Chip Osowski, April 25, 2013.
“Kate Upton’s on his arm, but she’s still a world away,” Washington Post, reporter Jessica Goldstein, March 20, 2013.
“Pinellas Co. student suspended over Facebook post,” WFLA, reporter Lauren Mayk, March 18, 2013.
“USF Nominated for Best Social Media Usage,” USF Oracle, reporter Alex Rosenthal, January 29, 2013.
“Social media played a significant role in the way we learned information about Friday’s school shooting in Newtown,” WTSP, anchor Allison Kropff, Dec. 15, 2012.
“Facebook’s new trend of tracking users,” WFLA, reporter Natalie Shepherd, Nov. 14, 2012.
“Election Day tweets set social media milestone,” WTSP, anchor Reginald Roundtree, Nov. 7, 2012.
“Shadow Debate Part of Presidential Race,” USF News, by Peter Howard, Oct. 3, 2012.
“Top of the Day,” Front Row Tampa Bay, hosts Kathy Fountain and Frank Robertson, August 28, 2012.
“The Conventions and Social Media,” WTSP, anchor Heather Van Nest, August 21, 2012.
“Social media engaging or ruining Olympics experience?” WTSP, anchor Heather Van Nest, July 31, 2012.
“PR Competition,” WUSF, University Beat with Mark Schreiner, July 30, 2012.
“Facebook considers giving kids access to social networking site,” WTSP 10 News, reporter Isabel Mascarenas, June 4, 2012.
SNOPA story, Bay News 9, anchor Al Ruechel, May 5, 2012.
“A call for Yelp,” My Fox Tampa Bay, reporter Russell Rhodes, May 1, 2012.
“YouTube entrepreneurs profit from Roswell73 video hits,” WTSP 10 News, reporter Ashley Porter, April 27, 2012.
“Too focused on the phone,” My Fox Tampa Bay, reporter Lloyd Sowers, April 24, 2012.
“Kony 2012,” WUSF Radio, reporter Mark Schreiner, March 19, 2012.
“Bay area wonders can Kony video save lives in Uganda?,” WTSP 10 News, reporter Tammie Fields, March 9, 2012.
“ Politics and social media: A good mix,” USF News, reporter Amy Mariani, Jan. 18, 2012.
‘Hiding your online identity can save customers, your job,” WTSP, reporter Adam Freeman, Jan. 11, 2012.
“Was Casey Anthony video diary a result of hacking? Could you be next?,” WTSP, reporter Adam Freeman, Jan. 6, 2012.
“Police: Missing girl, 13, found safe; posed as 19-year-old,” WTSP, reporter Eric Glasser, Dec. 6, 2011.
“To interact with students, USF gives Tumblr a try,” St. Pete Times, by Aubrey Whelan, Oct. 2, 2011.
“Many Users ‘Dislike’ New Facebook Changes,” WTSP, reporter Adam Freeman, Sept. 21, 2011.
“Poll: Young People Let Loose on Facebook,” Good Day Tampa Bay, interviewed by Russell Rhodes, Sept. 21, 2011.
“Universities finally accept social networking–adoption rate near 100%,” USA Today College, by Daylina Miller, Sept. 2011.
“USF harnesses the power of social media,” Welcome Back, USF Advertising Section of the Tampa Tribune, by Sarah Worth, Aug. 26, 2011.
“Will Weiner scandal change the way social media is used?,” WTSP, reporter Adam Freeman, June 7, 2011.
“Streaming video affects television, advertising,” Tampa Tribune, by Bryan Friesen, May 22, 2011.
“Geotagging: Are you putting your safety at risk via smartphone?,” WTSP 10 News, by Jeff Butera, May 11, 2011.
“The Dish on the New Queens of All Media,” Fameology blog (NYU), by Arielle Schwarz, May 10, 2011.
“Q&A: Kelli Burns,” Buzzsaw, Ithaca College magazine, by Carly Sitzer, May 5, 2011.
“Online support for parents after pregnancy losses,” Associated Press, May 3, 2011.
“Twitter buzzes with news of Bin Laden death,” ABC Action News, May 3, 2011.
“Social media impacting major headlines,” Good Day Tampa Bay, Fox 13, May 3, 2011.
“Celebrations erupt locally upon news of bin Laden’s death,” Tampa Tribune, May 3, 2011.
Special Report on the death of Osama bin Laden, WTSP Channel 10, May 2, 2011.
“Social Media Drives bin Laden Coverage,” USF News Release, May 2, 2011.
“Newbury Park Teen’s World is Rocked by Justin Bieber,” Ventura County Star, Feb. 10, 2011.
“Your Turn with Russell Rhodes,” Segment on Fox 13, Feb. 8, 2011.
“Talk of the Town,” WUSF, Jan. 25. 2011.
“Noteworthy” podcasts on iTunesU: Introduction to Social Media and Twitter
“What’s the Line Between Promoting and Exploiting Your Child?,” Family First, Nov. 14, 2010.
“Antoine Dodson Appears on Lopez Tonight and Demonstrates his Staying Power,” St. Petersburg Times, Nov. 9, 2010.
“Online Product Reviews are all the Rage, but are They Real?,” ABC Action News, Nov. 8, 2010.
“Social Media: What’s Next?”, Florida Matters, WUSF, Oct. 12, 2010.
“Condo Resident’s Website Connects Downtown Miami Dwellers,” Miami Herald, Oct. 1, 2010.
“Woman Sues Debt Collector for Contacting her Family Via Facebook,” St. Petersburg Times, Sept. 25, 2010.
“Facebook Fame has its Hazards, says USF Mass Comm Prof,” Inside USF Blog, Sept. 7, 2010.
“Social Media and the Stars: USF expert explores the changing social media landscape and its impact on celebrity,” USF Release, August 27, 2010.
“You Tube’s You Too,” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, May 9, 2010.
“Study: Teens Text More than Talk,” Fox 13 News Tampa Bay, April 21, 2010.
“Enterprising USF Student Cooks up Sweet Job in Down Economy,” St. Pete Times, April 14, 2010.
“Social Media Provides Old-School Socializing,” Tampa Tribune, April 12, 2010.
“Toyota’s Troubles,” USF Release, April 7, 2010.
“Students have the Chance to Blog for Major Magazines,” The Oracle, April 5, 2010.
“Will Politics Make Facebook Unfriendly?” Tampa Tribune, March 25, 2010.
“Target your Codes of Ethics,” Panel sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists at USF, November 12, 2009.
“Dos and Don’ts of Facebook,” The Oracle, September 22, 2009.
“Social Networks: Revolution Online,” BayNews9.com, June 23 and June 24, 2009.
“USF Moves on Twitter,” The Oracle, June 18, 2009.
“College Students are Twitter-Less,” LiveCrunch, April 16, 2009.
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Luke Bryan Surprises Beloved Elementary School Coach Who Loves Country Music [Watch]
Luke Bryan and the good folks at Good Morning America made sure things turned around for an elementary school coach on the verge of losing his job due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Not only did the morning talk show partner with Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation to give Matthew Bailey a donation of $65,000 to help him continue his coaching duties at Manzanita Community Elementary School in California, but they also made sure that he got to virtually meet one of his favorite country music stars: Luke Bryan.
"I've been following your story," Bryan tells the shocked Playworks coach, who was originally profiled on the show last year. "Every morning my wife (Caroline) and I watch GMA as we're getting the kids going, and I remember seeing your story originally and to find out you are a fan of mine is amazing."
"Thank you so much for all your contributions to these kids, it's so important," Bryan continues. "I had teachers and coaches that still have lasting advice and life lessons burned into my brain."
WATCH: Luke Bryan's Wife Attacked by "Al" the Turkey:
Bailey works for Playworks, a nonprofit group that operates in lower-income communities, getting kids involved in recess and other hands-on activities to make school fun.
While Bryan says he doesn't know when he's going to be touring again, the American Idol judge knows that he definitely wants to meet Coach Bailey in person someday.
"To be associated with positive people like yourself is so inspiring," the star tells him. "Watching everything you’ve overcome and still have the attitude to continue to get up and continue to give, to give back tenfold, [it’s] very inspiring."
"I am so blessed," Coach Bailey remarks after the virtual presentation. "I really appreciate you all."
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Vitamin D receptor Fokl, BsmI, TaqI, Apal, and EcoRV polymorphisms and susceptibility to melanoma: A metaanalysis
Young Ho Lee, Gwan Gyu Song
Department of Rheumatology
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine wheth-er vitamin D receptor (VDR) polymorphisms are associated with susceptibility to melanoma. Methods: A meta-analysis was carried out to investigate the association between the VDR Fokl, BsmI, TaqI, Apal, and EcoRV polymorphisms and susceptibility to melanoma. Results: A total of 11 studies were evaluated, which included 4,413 patients and 4,072 controls (all European). The meta-analysis revealed no association between melanoma and the BsmI B allele (odds ratio/OR=0.901, 95% confidence interval/CI=0.783-1.036, p=0.144). However, an association was shown between melanoma and the Bb+bb genotype (QR=0.868, 95% CI=0.767-0.982, p=0.025). No role in the development of melanoma, and genetic factors are considered to contribute to its development [1], Although the primary function of vitamin D involves the maintenance of bone mineral homeostasis, it is also involved in interleukin (IL)-2 inhibition, antibody production, and lymphocyte proliferation [2], It has been reported that 1,25-di- hydroxy vitamin D3 (l,25(OH)2 D3) inhibits interferon secretion and negatively regulates IL-12 association was noticed between melanoma and Fokl polymorphism (OR for the F allele=1.016, 95% 01=0.869-1.189, p=0.839). Moreover, melanoma risk was not associated with the TaqI, Apal, and EcoRV polymorphisms (OR for the T allele=0.986, 95% 01=0.842-1.156, p=0.864; OR for the A allele=0.949, 95% 01=0.842-1.069, p=0.388; OR for the E allele=0.993, 95% 01=0.875-1.126, p=0.9U, respectively). Conclusions: This meta-analysis demonstrated that the VDR BsmI polymorphism is associated with susceptibility to melanoma in Europeans, suggesting that carrying the VDR BsmI B allele may be a protective factor against melanoma development.
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Lee, Y. H., & Song, G. G. (2015). Vitamin D receptor Fokl, BsmI, TaqI, Apal, and EcoRV polymorphisms and susceptibility to melanoma: A metaanalysis. Journal of B.U.ON., 20(1), 235-243.
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England Third Test victory overshadowed by James Anderson injury
by John Welsh on July 31, 2015
Although England eventually won the Third Ashes Test against Australia by eight wickets, their firm grip on a match which nearly finished on the second day was briefly threatened by an Aussie revival and a hint of complacency from the hosts. For the first couple of days, the majority of the Aussie batsmen appeared unable to cope with the seam bowling of James Anderson on Wednesday and then Steven Finn during their second innings. Overall, 27 wickets tumbled on the first two days of the test match as the hosts recovered from their embarrassing defeat at Lords to enjoy a more comfortable experience at Edgbaston, but a muscle injury to Anderson later on Thursday raises doubts as to his fitness for the remainder of the series.
On a fairly lively wicket and with movement detected for the quicker bowlers at an early stage, Australian captain Michael Clarke may have regretted his decision to bat first after winning the toss. Anderson was swinging the ball in both directions and confusing the batsmen so much so that Australia were reduced to 94-7 and then 136 all out as only Chris Rogers accumulated a reasonable innings by scoring 52 before being trapped lbw by Stuart Broad. Rogers had only just passed a fitness test after succumbing to dizziness during the previous test.
Meanwhile, Anderson claimed figures of 6-47 to erase the memory of his dearth of wickets at Lords and help build a platform to allow England to build a sizeable first innings lead. In scoring 133-3 at close of play on the first day, the hosts appeared set to achieve that task with Ian Bell compiling a useful 53 runs in front of his home supporters.
However, there were ominous signs for England at the start of the second day when Mitchell Johnson snared both Jonny Bairstow and Ben Stokes with vicious high deliveries which both batsmen gloved to wicket-keeper Peter Nevill. Although Joe Root amassed 63 runs, his dismissal and that of Jos Buttler, with score at just 190-7, suggested that the English lead would not be as healthy as first envisaged.
Moeen Ali and Stuart Broad thought differently as they shared a partnership of 87 with the former scoring 59 to suggest that he could also be seriously considered as a true all-rounder. As the England innings eventually concluded at 281and a lead of 145 runs, there was genuine hope that a rapid victory could be secured within three days.
That hope soon became two days as Steven Finn quickly claimed five wickets to justify his recall to test match cricket. Finn was sent home from the ill-fated England tour of Australia during 2013-14 with his bowling deemed unsuitable and an associated loss of form necessitating a reappraisal of his bowling action.
With confidence and form now restored, Finn helped England to claim seven Australian wickets by close of play on the second day with only David Warner of the top order batsmen offering any resistance by scoring 77. The Aussies entered the third day leading by just 23 runs but then proceeded to add another 97 to their total to ensure a third day afternoon session would be required, with England needing 121 runs to complete the victory. They duly accomplished that feat during a much longer day than expected and with a few anxious moments as Adam Lyth and Alastair Cook departed cheaply.
In a test match series of fluctuating fortunes, England have now regained the initiative and Australia must respond at Trent Bridge as per their performance at Lords, but the loss of Anderson to a side muscle strain will affect the English bowling attack in the Fourth Test, offering some hope another Aussie revival.
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“Let Us Empower Our Community”
Dean Robert Goldschmidt’s 43 Years Leading LAS
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Where others saw a challenge, Dr. Robert Goldschmidt, Dean of Lander College of Arts and Sciences in Flatbush (LAS) and Touro's Vice President for Planning and Assessment, saw an invaluable opportunity.
“The thrust of Lander College of Arts and Sciences was, ‘Let us empower our Jewish community with the ability to pursue a higher education of quality,” recalled Dr. Goldschmidt. “We will give our community this ability to pursue this education in a place where their values are supported, not attacked, where their perspectives are reinforced instead of undermined.”
For more than four decades, Dr. Goldschmidt has led LAS and guided the paths of thousands of successful LAS alumni. Through his tenure at LAS, he has built LAS to become bastion of scholarship where Jewish students can excel without having their core beliefs challenged.
“The values of yiddishkeit are supported and encouraged at LAS,” Dr. Goldschmidt explained, listing myriad of alumni who have gone on to have successful careers in almost every profession.
Part of LAS’s success stems from Dr. Goldschmidt’s personal interest in each of his students.
“I think of every student as a person of great potential,” stated Dean Goldschmidt. “Our job is to help them reach that.”
Dean Goldschmidt’s almost encyclopedic memory enables him to recall hundreds of LAS alumni by name along with their majors, graduation dates and other family members that have attended the institution. Whether it’s women from Russia just learning about their Jewish heritage, yungerlicht from Lakewood, or yeshiva bochurs from Brooklyn, throughout the years, each student has found their own place at LAS and in Dean Goldschmidt's memory. He has often found himself an honored guest at simchot throughout the world.
“Thank you for enabling my family to complete their education and become financially independent,” alumna Chaya Prager wrote while describing the successful careers her five siblings attained because of their LAS education.
Another alumnus recalled Dean Goldschmidt helping him land his first interview.
“I owe my entire career and success to you since you were the one who got me my first job,” wrote a partner at a large accounting firm. “I am forever grateful to you for your assistance.”
“As graduation approaches I reflect on my time in Touro College and think about what the future will bring,” wrote Yehuda Lehrfield. “I am sure that whatever it is that dental school has to throw at me I will be well prepared because of my time spent and lessons learned in Touro College.”
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Aston Villa 2-1 Leicester City (3-2 agg.): A missed opportunity
January 31, 2020 by leicestershirepress Leave a Comment
By Ben Sanderson
Perhaps Leicester City’s best chance this season of winning a trophy disintegrated as they were ousted 3-2 by Aston Villa on aggregate in the League Cup semi-final, after losing 2-1 in Tuesday’s second leg.
Villa dramatically won the match, which Leicester dominated, right at the death in the 92nd minute when two Egyptian substitutes, Ahmed Elmohamady and Trézéguet, combined for the latter to tap in a winner from Elmohamady’s long, curving ball.
Villa took the lead after Jack Grealish, who will make the latest of many trips to Wembley on 1st March, made a dangerous, pacey run into the left-hand side of Leicester’s area and then passed to Matt Targett using clever footwork to outwit Leicester’s defensive pressure, and Targett slotted home into the right-hand bottom corner of the goal.
Leicester equalised after Harvey Barnes yet again made a great run which had an opposition defence in tatters and his curving cross was tapped in by Kelechi Iheanacho in one of the easiest goals the Nigerian will ever score.
It was a night that will, ultimately, be looked at with great regret by the Foxes, as their fantastic progress in the league would have been further validated by a cup victory, and it would have been icing on the cake for a superb season.
Leicester, especially James Maddison, the hero against West Ham for masterminding Foxes attacks, were very wasteful in front of goal, only scoring once from 22 opportunities, with Maddison in particular rushing to take too many shots when good goalscoring chances could have been created.
Leicester hit the ground running (and remained on the front foot for most of the game despite the result), with Iheanacho, starting in place of Jamie Vardy, who was on the bench as Brendan Rodgers was unwilling to risk the Premier League’s top scorer who came off injured against West Ham on Wednesday, seeing his shot from a great angle go straight to Orjan Nyland, man of the match for spectacular saves he made, who palmed away.
Grealish put through Targett in the next encouraging bit of attacking play but Targett’s cross was blocked by Kasper Schmeichel’s stretched leg.
Leicester had one of their best chances at the 5-minute mark, when Maddison was played into space and his shot looked destined for the right-hand bottom corner, nutmegging Tyrone Mings, only to be tipped wide by a great diving save by Nyland.
Two minutes later, Maddison had another shot, this time from the edge of the 18-yard area, after Ricardo Pereira’s cross to Ayoze Pérez was cleared by the Villa defence only as far as Maddison, who shot wide of Nyland’s right-hand post.
Maddison shot for the third time in the opening ten minutes from roughly 25 yards out and his shot again went wide of the right-hand post, the third of six first-half attempts for him.
Grealish and Maddison both have had excellent performances this season which has led England fans to have just reason to be excited about the possibilities in this summer’s Euro 2020, but tonight the Villa man triumphed where Maddison failed, as Grealish’s unselfish play to spot the run of Targett in behind gave the left-back a golden opportunity.
He did not scupper it, finishing into the right-hand bottom corner beyond the outstretched dive of Schmeichel in the 12th minute, for his first ever League Cup goal.
Maddison, responsible for everything right against West Ham, was tonight’s villain, with presumed frustration rising from possibly Nyland’s early save which denied him a goal, and he gave away a free-kick which Anwar El-Ghazi shot marginally over the bar from range in what would have been an amazing goal.
Villa did score a goal in the 26th minute but this was ruled out for offside as Frédéric Guilbert was offside in the build-up.
That would have been a first goal for Villa debutant Mbwana Samatta, who is set to become the first Tanzanian to play in the Premier League.
Either side of those were long shots well wide from Pereira and Maddison again, before Youri Tielemans had Leicester’s best first-half chance from the edge of the Villa penalty area, bringing out a magnificent save from Nyland.
The shot was curling into the top corner with exquisite precision but Nyland made a fingertip save to help the ball onto the crossbar, and the rebounded ball turned into another shot for Maddison, and this was blocked by Marvellous Nakamba’s hand, though appeals for a penalty were waved away by VAR.
Leicester had a more dangerous chance towards the end of the first-half but Iheanacho failed to get his cross away after nutmegging Mings, and Nyland gathered the ball.
For all the Leicester misses, Villa scored with their only shot on target.
Grealish did have a shot in the second-half that went just wide after he dribbled through the Leicester defence and this was followed up by a shot from distance by Targett which went well wide.
Ezri Konsa was booked in the 57th minute for throwing the ball away and had reached the booking limit in the cup, but this has been wiped, allowing the defender to play in the final.
Around the hour mark, there were a flurry of a chances, with Barnes having a trademark mazy dribble and crossing to Iheanacho who shot straight at Nyland, Grealish shooting over the bar and then crossing wonderfully for Samatta who missed the ball and his best chance for a debut goal, the Tanzanian substituted off soon afterwards.
Yet another wasted Maddison chance was followed by Leicester’s goal and that started with Barnes using skill to get past Guilbert after a fast run and his cross passed Nyland and the reach of the Villa defence.
Iheanacho was on the end of it to poke home and Leicester now looked closer to the final of the competition they last won in 2000.
With ten minutes to spare, Maddison shot over from a good position, and in the last ten minutes the best chances, from Evans and Iheanacho, both went wide.
The winner was scored in injury time as the tie looked to be headed for extra-time, as Leicester cleared a Villa chance from another free-kick Maddison gave away and Villa gathered the ball, with Elmohamady in acres of space to cross a ball in.
His good ball found Trézéguet on the left-hand side of Leicester’s penalty area and he dispatched into the right-hand side of the back of the net, knocking out Leicester and their best chance, perhaps, of a trophy this season.
After Maddison’s free-kick hit the wall, the final whistle blew, and Leicester had had 22 shots (6 on target) to Aston Villa’s 9 (3 on target) and 63% of possession – and failed to make this count.
A pitch invasion ensued as Villa now have a chance to win the tournament they were the first champions of in 1961, and are back at Wembley this time as a top-flight club amid excitement for a major trophy.
Once again, a struggling team in claret and blue have got the best of Leicester when they really should not have, and once again it was a mixture of a spectacular goalkeeping performance and general wastefulness in front of goal that were Leicester’s downfall, as they carry on playing exciting football, dominating games and creating chances but lack of end product has been costly.
It did not have to be this way tonight, though, as there were shots that could have been withheld from in order to create better chances, and Maddison is the main guilty party for this on what was a bad night for the midfield maestro.
He and the Foxes will see tonight as a great chance to start a trophy dynasty for the up-and-coming Leicester missed, and as having failed to make the best of a great opportunity.
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Colorado Governor Grants Thousands Of Marijuana Pardons With New Clemency Powers
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The governor of Colorado on Thursday signed an executive order granting nearly 3,000 pardons for people convicted of possession one ounce of less of marijuana.
Pursuant to a new law that he signed in June, Gov. Jared Polis (D) made the pardons on the first day the policy took effect. While the law gives him authority to grant clemency for cases of possession of up to two ounces, his office explained that he limited it to one ounce because that’s the legal possession limit under Colorado’s cannabis program.
“We are finally cleaning up some of the inequities of the past by pardoning 2,732 convictions for Coloradans who simply had an ounce of marijuana or less,” Polis said in a press release. “It’s ridiculous how being written up for smoking a joint in the 1970’s has followed some Coloradans throughout their lives and gotten in the way of their success.”
Thank you to @repjamescoleman, Sen. Julie Gonzales (@SenadoraJulie), and Sen. @VickiMarble for sponsoring this historic bill. Rep. @leslieherod and Rep. Jonathan Singer (@Singer4BoCo) were also champions of passing this legislation.
— Governor Jared Polis (@GovofCO) October 1, 2020
Convictions impacted by the governor’s action range from those that took place in 1978 though 2012.
“Too many Coloradans have been followed their entire lives by a conviction for something that is no longer a crime, and these convictions have impacted their job status, housing, and countless other areas of their lives,” he added. “Today we are taking this step toward creating a more just system and breaking down barriers to help transform people’s lives as well as coming to terms with one aspect of the past, failed policy of marijuana prohibition.”
The new law allows the governor to use his clemency power for cannabis offenses without consulting with prosecutors and judges involved in the cases, as is typically required under statute.
“For the individuals pardoned in this Executive Order, all rights of citizenship associated with the pardoned conviction are restored in full without condition,” the order states. “All civil disabilities and public sufferings associated with the pardoned conviction are removed.”
People who are eligible for the pardons don’t have to do anything to clear their own records; it’s automated, and individuals can check a website to see if they’ve been processed.
Those who have municipal marijuana convictions, or who were arrested or given a summons, don’t qualify for the pardon. The action only applies to state-level convictions.
A frequently asked questions document states that while Polis has declined for now to use the full extend of his pardon power by applying it to people with convictions of up one to two ounces, the “administration will continue to evaluate” cases that could receive clemency. A representative from the governor’s office did not immediately respond to a question from Marijuana Moment about whether plans are imminent to expand the pardon pool.
The governor’s action also calls on the state Department of Public Health to “develop a process to indicate on criminal background checks which individuals’ convictions have been pardoned pursuant to this Executive Order.”
Colorado isn’t alone in pursuing opportunities to enact marijuana-focused restorative justice policies.
In June, more than 15,000 people who were convicted for low-level marijuana possession in Nevada were automatically pardoned under a resolution from the governor.
The governors of Washington State and Illinois have both issued pardons for cannabis offenses since their states legalized the plant.
Polis told Westword that beyond the practical benefits of having these records cleared, the move is “also symbolically important, because it shows that as a state and nation, we’re coming to terms with the incorrect discriminatory laws of the past that penalized people for possession of small amounts of marijuana.”
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What is a Library Publishing Program?
Many libraries have developed publishing programs to provide outlets for dissemination of materials that do not fit within the profile of traditional university presses. In some cases these publishing programs co-exist with university presses; elsewhere, they serve as the sole publishing outlet on campus (but do not generally claim to fill the same role as a traditional university press). Library publishing programs typically produce materials in digital, open-access format, sometimes with options for print-on-demand; types of materials published run the gamut from scholarly monographs to campus-produced gray literature to journals.
The library’s Digital Publishing Program comprises three components: management of Northeastern University Press publications; support for journal publishing; and digitization and dissemination of Northeastern-produced scholarly materials.
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While Northeastern University Press no longer publishes new titles, the University Press of New England continues to manage sales and distribution of Northeastern’s list of in-print titles, and the library oversees associated revenues and expenditures.
The library has re-release as 18 open-access digital books on Boston history from our out-of-print backlist. These publications serve as a cornerstone of the Digital Publishing program while helping to preserve the important legacy of Northeastern University Press. In 2018, the Northeastern Library was awarded $38,000 from the Mellon Foundation to complete this project, in combination with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. This was part of the Humanities Open Book Project.
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The library supports journal publishing on campus using Open Journal Systems (OJS), an open-source platform. As of 2017 the publishing program supports five faculty- and student-run journals, with more in development. Interested in starting a journal? Visit our OJS information page!
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Publishing activities on campus produce scholarly materials in many forms. In many cases, these activities can benefit from centralized support through a library-based publishing program. The library is well positioned to offer publishing services as an expansion of the work it has already undertaken in the development and management of the Digital Repository Service (DRS) and its predecessor, IRis; the digitization of Archives and Special Collections materials; and its partnerships with digital humanities and social sciences projects on campus. The library’s Archives and Special Collections also contain a wealth of Northeastern-produced content that the Digital Publishing program can make discoverable to a worldwide audience. This component of the Digital Publishing Program is currently in development.
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The Digital Publishing Program was launched in the 2015-2016 academic year. Its services and goals are guided by a three-year plan and will be reviewed regularly to ensure that the program continues to align with current and emerging needs on campus.
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4 bills passed by voice note in Andhra Assembly on Thursday
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Amaravati, Dec 4 (IANS) Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly passed four bills, AP Disha (special courts for specified offences against women and children bill) 2020, AP Land Tilting Bill, AP Municipal Laws (second amendment) and Electricity Duty (Amendment) Bill, 2020 on the fourth day of the winter session through voice vote.
Home Minister Mekathoti Sucharita tabled the Disha Bill and explained its salient features. She clarified that AP Disha (special courts for specified offences against women and children bill, 2019 was withdrawn.
The new bill was introduced as it has provisions for speedy trial.
Across the state, 18 Disha police stations were set up, which obtained ISO certification as women and child friendly stations.
As many as 12 lakh people have downloaded the app until now.
The House passed AP Land Tilting Bill which proposes to provide permanent land ownership and settle disputes over the boundaries and ownership.
Revenue Minister Dharmana Krishna Das said Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy took a historic decision by introducing this bill which will enable the government to distribute land tilting patta (documents) once the comprehensive survey is completed.
Likewise, AP Municipal Laws (second amendment) bill as per article 197 (1) of the Constitution of India, which proposes to amend the house tax structure by a nominal hike was passed.
Though the bill was rejected by the legislative council, it was again introduced in the Assembly.
Similarly, AP Electricity Duty (Amendment) Bill, 2020 was tabled by Energy Minister Balineni Srinivasa Reddy, who explained the amendments of the bill.
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Toyin Abraham, Beverly Naya, Deyemi Okanlawon Star In ‘2 Weeks In Lagos’
Highly anticipated Nollywood Film, “2 Weeks In Lagos” is set for release next month after the initial postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The movie which was billed to be released in March last year was postponed indefinitely due to the massive increase in the pandemic.
The true Lagos Love story features top Nollywood actors from the old to the young and the new such as Mawuli Gavor, Toyin Abraham, Beverly Naya, Joke Silva, Shaffy Bello, Deyemi Okanlawon, Jide Kosoko, Yaw, Tina Mba, Patrick Nnamani, Efe Irele, Uto Usman and a host of others.
“2 Weeks In Lagos” is directed by Canadian-based award-winning director, Kathryn Fasegha, whose debut project titled, “Treacherous Heart” won awards for Best Drama in Diaspora at the African Oscars in North Carolina, USA, also won Favourite Director African Oscars Washington DC USA and award for the Global Women Vision Award Calgary.
“2 Weeks in Lagos” is a captivating, turbulent and thrilling journey into the love affair of Ejikeme (Mawuli Gavor) and Lola (Beverly Naya). Their lives collide when Ejikeme an investment banker comes home from the United States to invest in Nigerian businesses. It is love at first sight for them and as they embark on a journey of discovering this new love, they have to contend with the political ambitions of Ejikeme’s mother who is planning a marriage between him and the only daughter of Otunba Ayodeji, a political juggernaut who is considering Ejikeme’s father as his running mate for the Nigerian Presidency. His mother’s actions create a rift between Ejikeme and Lola that puts their families on a deadly collision course.
The movie captures the excitement and vibrancy of everyday life in Lagos and reflects the complexity of life in Lagos, a dynamic city where anything is possible in two weeks.
The movie was first screened at Cannes Festival which happens to be the biggest film festival in the world on Friday May 17, 2019 in Cannes France and will be released in all cinemas in Nigeria next month.
Veteran actor, Prince Jide Kosoko, also claims working on the project, “2 Weeks In Lagos” was exceptional as it told a simple story with excellent performance.
We said, “Working on this project meant a lot to me, because for the first time, a simple and original love story is told with excellent performance.”
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Star Trek: Birth of the Federation
by James315
Part 24: Turn 219
Just south of Cardassia, another Cardassian Battleship is caught alone by 5 cloaked Battle Cruisers.
Another one bites the dust. The Cardassians are afraid to risk all of their Battleships in one massed battle (well, besides the one at Cardassia), so they're losing them all in small ones.
The capital of the Cardassian empire falls before the sheer weight of our bombardment and Troop Transports.
Yet again, we capture a system with no surviving intelligence structures. But we can build them. The Cardassians invented the type 9 intel center (for all the good it did them).
TURN 221. A bunch of orphaned Cardassian Troop Transports are caught by some of our Battle Cruisers arriving in the northwest.
With no escort, they certainly won't be launching any counter-invasions any time soon.
Our saboteurs score a coup by destroying the Orbital Battery defenses of the Lamenda system. Unfortunately we have no idea where that system is, so we can't take advantage.
The northwestern corner of the galaxy looks awfully Romulan these days, with all our ships around. The only Cardassians take refuge on Angosia. Impatiently waiting for Troop Transports to arrive, a strike force will bombard Caldonia.
TURN 222. Speaking of Cardassians on Angosia, they are not safe from the relentless pursuit of our Battle Cruisers.
Another pair of Battleships. They are sunk.
Caldonia's defenses are swiftly stripped from the system.
TURN 223. This time, Romulan spies manage to destroy the Orbital Batteries on a system that we've located. It's the remaining former Federation territory controlled by Cardassia.
Conveniently, we have a small fleet still sitting at Sol, next door. The Troop Transports and a token group of weak warships will just slide on over there before the Orbital Batteries can be rebuilt.
Our Troop Transports arrived on Caldonia, the Minor Race system that the Cardies conquered. We have the option of liberating them. Since we're merciful, and because it's kind of a novelty, we will do so.
Angosia is another Minor Race system enslaved by the Cardassians. While we wait for Troops, our Destroyers will knock out the Orbital Batteries. It's all very procedural now.
TURN 224. The Caldonians are rescued by brave Romulan troops. They had better be grateful.
On Angosia, however, our Destroyers only manage to kill one Battery. What gives?
We feel the Caldonians should be more than receptive considering what we have done. We offer them membership in the empire. If they join, their morale will be better than if we had enslaved them.
TURN 225. We assign some Battle Cruisers to assist the remaining Destroyers in bombing Angosia, and it works better.
Ledonia had no Orbital Batteries thanks to our spies, so it's a simple matter to ninja-invade them. This is the Romulan way to take a system.
The Caldonians offer a condescending message to us after we saved their lives. The blood of the Romulan populace boils.
Worse yet, the Caldonians ignored our membership offer and sent us a watered-down proposal for affiliation instead. This is intolerable. The Caldonians fundamentally misread us.
This is the last time we will stomach the Caldonian ambassador. We see their affiliation proposal and raise them a war declaration. Not since the Ems dispatch has there been such a thorough blundering of diplomacy.
Yet because the Romulan people are a good and righteous people, we decide to try liberating the Angosians from Cardassia as well. Will they learn from the Caldonians' mistakes?
TURN 226. It's been so long since we declared war against a defenseless Minor Race that it's kind of got a nostalgic feel.
The Angosians are set free. But do they know how much the galaxy has changed since they got conquered by the Cardies?
Diplomacy is confusing. We withdrew a membership proposal in favor of a war declaration. They withdrew an affiliation proposal which we managed to reject anyway. Basically all this means that the Caldonians are toast.
We now control 52 systems, while the rest of the empires have less than half of that combined. They should be giving up any time now.
We sent the Caldonians a document with a picture of a big bird on it, so it's legal to send troops to their planet.
TURN 227. The Caldonians are added to our empire, bringing us to the threshold of galactic dominance. The Cardassians, Ferengi and Klingons are unable to deny our dominance now. We graciously accept their surrender.
A parade of our only two Warbirds flies around, admiring our galaxy. Even our enemies have to admit that these ships look pretty cool.
Somewhere, someone looks through a high-powered telescope. They might be looking at our galaxy. Who knows? We must find this person and invade their galaxy.
With no enemy empires to sabotage, the Tal'Shiar is rededicated to internal security. Unfortunately there are also no more enemy empires to defend against. But the spying must continue, because most of the galaxy's citizens are employed as spies. Are you still a secret agent if everyone knows you're an agent because everyone else is one, too?
Our empire longs for the day that we discover some enemies to send these detailed war declaration paintings to. But we are cursed with peace. We accepted the surrender of our enemies, so there is nothing more to do.
Having retired, we are treated to this graph, which charts the power of each empire over the course of the game. One can see the early demise of the Federation, the early lead that the Ferengi enjoyed, the period where Romulus' power was in question, the moment at which the Romulan economy really took off, and the fairly quick decline of the Klingons, Ferengi and Cardassians each after the other.
...But what if we didn't accept the galaxy's surrender?
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Workout wear that works anywhere
By Ethan Boldt
REMEMBER THE DAYS when workout clothes were workout clothes only? Everyone had a drawer-full: apparel that worked, literally and figuratively, only in the gym. Clothes that made one feel, frankly, a little out of place anywhere else.
Those days are gone. Now, people want to be able to zip from the gym to the store to the coffee shop without having to change—and this need is filled by more fashionable sports apparel, which has the dual advantage of wicking away sweat and still being presentable no matter how hard gym enthusiasts hit the speed bag. Yes, the sweat-soaked T-shirt look has been blessedly allowed to retire.
“It’s definitely athletic wear, but it’s also casual wear as well. It can be part of people’s lifestyle,” described Nicole Britt, the national account executive for Los Angeles-based ALO. Indeed, because the new breed of fashion-friendly workout clothes expands far beyond the gym, promotional opportunities with athletic clothing have never been better.
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“In the past 10 years, exercise apparel has become a staple in people’s wardrobes for a several reasons,” said Margaret Crow, director of marketing at S & S Activewear, based in Bolingbrook, Ill., which offers ALO, Badger and Augusta Sportswear. “First, more people are working out and joining health clubs than ever. Business travelers now rely on workout facilities in their hotels (and often need to grab something from the hotel gift shop for their workout). And probably most important, workout clothes are now made to go straight from errands to the gym.”
As a result, Crow stated for the promotional apparel industry, workout gear fits perfectly into promotional programs at gyms, health clubs, schools, camps and resorts.
Michael Topliss, vice president of Burnaby, British Columbia-based ID Wear, recognized the shift toward more lifestyle-driven products. “Over the years we have been investing more into athletic wear, because it is not only fashion-forward, but provides performance product features,” he explained. “We provide a look that goes beyond corporate basics.”
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Four Seasons Resort Seychelles at Desroches Island re-opens
Naturally blessed by the remote beauty of its Outer Amirantes location, Four Seasons Resort Seychelles at Desroches Island has now re-opened its doors to welcome back guests for highly customised stays in its Presidential Villa and multi-bedroom Private Retreats. With this re-opening, health and safety will be front of mind through Four Seasons new global Lead With Care program and contactless Chat experience.
Boasting 14 kilometres (8.7 miles) of white sand beaches and an array of island activities, Four Seasons Resort Seychelles at Desroches Island will be welcoming guests exclusively for Private Retreat stays through March 15, 2020, ahead of the full resort re-opening. Over the next few months, guests staying in one of the Private Retreats will benefit from near-exclusive access to Desroches Island from which to enjoy:
A fully customised dining program. Upon arrival, a Four Seasons chef will meet with guests to craft tailored menus to be enjoyed in the privacy of their Residence or in an endless choice of pop-up locations – from a beach picnic to a stargazing dinner on the island’s runway.
Assistance from a dedicated Island Concierge to support in planning and making arrangements for the duration of the stay.
Access to the wide choice of island activities, including diving, getting to know the giant Aldabra tortoises at the Tortoise
Sanctuary, tennis and more.
A number of family amenities to cater to all ages.
For guests looking for the widest flexibility, the Resort’s Island Retreat offer includes round trip private charter flights for a minimum stay of three nights, plus daily breakfast, lunch and dinner. Alternatively, the Resort’s Castaway Paradise offer is available for stays of seven nights and is inclusive of round trip domestic flights on the scheduled Thursday flight, plus daily breakfast, lunch and dinner.
To learn more about the current government travel advisory and all entry conditions into Seychelles, click here.
Private Jet Access
Private jets are welcome in Seychelles with prior government approval and with Desroches having its own runway, jets may land directly to the island (subject to fees and local authority approval).
The Private Retreats
In an organically secluded setting, the Private Retreats in Desroches comprise a Presidential Villa, which through its three separate units may be booked as a Three, Five or Seven Bedroom accommodation, alongside a choice of Three, Four and Five-Bedroom Residence Villas. All Private Retreats boast expansive indoor and outdoor living areas, a private infinity pool and tropical garden, and a picturesque beachfront location.
Grounded in health care expertise and enabled by access to leading technologies and tools, the Lead With Care program is focused on providing care, confidence and comfort to all Four Seasons guests, employees and residents within the new COVID-19 environment. The new program outlines clear procedures that educate and empower Four Seasons employees to take care of guests and each other. While guests will see many of the enhanced Lead With Care procedures, behind-the-scenes measures also take place through employee training, additional food handling protocols, and enhancements to ventilation systems and other back-of-the-house operations. In addition, Four Seasons continues to invest in its award-winning App and Chat that further allows guests to control how they engage with others – limiting face-to-face interactions while maintaining the highest levels of personal service. Features include the ability to make and manage reservations, request luggage pickup, airport transfers, room service, restaurant and spa reservations, and much more. Wait-free check-in and check-out is also offered, while Four Seasons Chat integration offers instant translation of 100+ languages giving guests the flexibility for contactless engagement throughout their stay.
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Lillian Gish still favorite dish – By Marilyn August, October – 1983
Desert Sun 15 October 1983
Famed star of silent films Lillian Gish still favorite dish
By MARILYN AUGUST Associated Press Writer
PARIS (AP) France’s cultural elite is shining the spotlight this week on American actress Lillian Gish who turned 87 Friday and gained fame on the silent screen when the French were embroiled in World War I. “I really don’t know what I’ve done to warrant all this generosity and goodness,” said Miss Gish, the uncontested grande dame of silent movies who is being honored during week long festivities in Paris.
Miss Gish charmed generations of movie-goers as the heroine in D.W. Griffith’s 1915 Civil War classic “Birth of a Nation,” as the sad mother in “Intolerance,” and the luckless damsel in “Broken Blossoms.” Miss Gish, who Thursday received the prestigious Commander of Arts and Letters Award from French Minister of Culture Jack Lang, made her stage debut at age 4.
AP Wire Press Photo Lillian Gish, Jack Lang, Arts Letters Commandeur Medal 83
She has been working almost non-stop ever since, winning honors for performances in 102 movies and 50 plays that included works of Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams. French film director Francois Truffaut says her career of 83 years “follows cinema history as closely as two parallel tracks of the Union Pacific.”
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Miss Gish and her sister, Dorothy, are the subject of a television documentary by Jeanne Moreau to be aired soon, along with a song-and-dance tribute to their careers. Her soft face set off by curls the color of champagne, Miss Gish showed no trace of fatigue after a whirlwind week in the French capital that included newspaper interviews, dinners, receptions and television appearances.
Lillian Gish with Jeanne Moreau at the premiere Jerusalem Film Festival 1984
“I suppose silent film did speak to the world in a way you don’t have today,” she said, pressing the arm of a reporter. “You had to write the words so you remember them longer. Nowadays, everything’s done for you so you can just sit there and eat popcorn.” Although she had a major role recently in Robert Altman’s “Marriage,” and believes cinema is the major art of the century, she says going to the movies today “hurts my pride.” “We used to play to packed houses in theaters that held 6,424 people,” she said. “I go to the movies today, and there are only six people in the audience and they don’t react.” Miss Gish’s love affair with France began in 1917 when she, her mother and Dorothy came to film a “movie to make America make up its mind to go to war for France and England.”
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“I bet there aren’t many people here who saw Paris for the first time with not one light burning only a full moon,” she said. “We weren’t afraid because we had just come from London where they were having air raids without warning. At 11 o’clock one night a bomb hit a tramway right under our windows at the Savoy and 11 people were killed. We couldn’t stay in our rooms for the screams of the wounded.” Paris was a veritable haven, except that “we got thin and nervous, and mother got shell-shocked at the front.”
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Her voice dropped as she recalled the mud, the rats and an epidemic “that came like a reminder that we were all doing something very bad.” But it was “dear Mr. Griffith,” the man who discovered her in 1912 and cast her in a movie with Mary Pickford, who determined the course of her long and brilliant career. Miss Gish never married, and many say Griffith was the unspoken love of her life. “He was older than my real father, so much more serious and fatherly. He was a genius, a poet with a beautiful baritone voice,” she said, smiling. They disagreed only over her name. “What kind of name is Gish for an actress,” she quotes Griffith as saying. “Gish, pish, fish, dish.” “Well, said sister Dorothy, if Gish was good enough for mother, it’s good enough for us.”
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Complaints From Citizens About Drug Activity Lead To Arrests
(L-R) Angers Denby Crisson,
Heather Michelle Beal,
Michael Ray Woody
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LINCOLNTON, N.C. – Numerous complaints from citizens of drug activity in the 2000 block of Keener Road, Lincolnton, led to the arrest of three people on drug charges.
The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Unit began an investigation into the complaints. On September 21, 2020 narcotics officers and North Carolina Probation officers conducted a joint operation that led to the arrest of three Lincoln County residents.
Angers Denby Crisson, 62, of 2258 Keener Road, Lincolnton, was charged with possession of methamphetamine, maintaining a dwelling/vehicle for a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia. He was given a $15,000 secured bond and placed in the Harven A. Crouse Detention Center. Anger Crisson’s probation will also be revoked.
Heather Michelle Beal, 39, of Guy F. Beal Lane, Lincolnton, was charged with possession of a controlled substance Schedule II and possession of drug paraphernalia. She was jailed under an $8,000 secured bond.
Michael Ray Woody, 31, of Westridge Lane, Lincolnton, was charged with possession of a controlled substance Schedule II. He was jailed under a $5,000 secured bond.
Most drug related investigations begin with tips or complaints from citizens. Detectives then begin using various tools and investigation methods, such as a surveillance operation, to build a case.
Anyone with information concerning drug related activity is urged to call the Drug Tip line at 704-736-8606 or Lincolnton/Lincoln County CrimeStoppers at 704-736-8909. All tips are investigated and callers can remain anonymous.
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Canadian aid worker feared religious persecution in Pakistan during the floods
Posted by Mersiha Gadzo April 5, 2011
The incident in Haiti still bothers Dr. Aslam Daud.
Daud, the executive director of Humanity First, a Toronto area volunteer-run humanitarian organization, had brought loads of aid and supplies to Port -au- Prince last year for victims of the Haiti earthquake.
Yet, when it reached customs in Haiti, the two containers stayed there. Humanity First had to pay $16,000 in what Daud feels were bribes, to retrieve the goods for the supplies to reach victims in need.
Corruption is just one of many challenges the organization faces in order to help victims.
Humanity First, relying entirely on volunteers and public donations, provides disaster relief services worldwide. Founded by Daud, a Pakistan trained medical doctor by profession, in 2004 during the Indonesian tsunami, some of their relief projects include the Pakistan floods, Haiti earthquake and Hurricane Katrina.
Daud also organizes local projects throughout the GTA and Windsor area including Feed A Family, which delivers food to the doorsteps of the needy. This past Christmas, a group of volunteers distributed pizza and drinks to the homeless in downtown Toronto.
For his efforts, Daud was nominated for CBC’s Champions of Change contest this past fall, a contest which highlighted the contributions volunteers have made to society.
“It’s an honour actually. I never expected that,” Daud said in an interview March 4 at Centennial College’s journalism program.
Daud, 46, recounts how his work in humanitarian aid began when he was a medical student in Karachi, Pakistan. He had heard about communities living in rural areas in Pakistan, where they had never seen a doctor and had never received medical treatment. Together with some of his friends who were doctors, they drove for eight hours to reach this rural area. What he saw there sparked his conscience.
“In one day we covered 400 patients. We were shocked to see the conditions,” Daud said. “That motivated me; that people do need help here. From then on, my passion grew.”
What started out as an informal, individual project in 1996,, Humanity First grew into an international collaboration between the charity’s four chapters: Canada, USA, England and Germany. Each country is responsible for a particular region in the world.
But, it’s not easy.
Working in poor countries, aside from problems with corruption, there are other risks.
In Bangladesh, Daud travelled for 16 hours on vehicles and ferries, crossed seven lakes and rivers in order to reach a remote island with a community in need of aid. Daud says that particular trip was very dangerous. Accidents can always happen as well as being mugged or attacked by people. And while treating victims of the Haiti earthquake out on the street, without benefit of a regular hospital set up, Daud worried about infectious diseases spreading.
“The risks are always there,” Daud said. “But if you want to serve humanity, if you want to do something good, you have to take some risks.”
But helping the flood victims in his native Pakistan this year, brought Daud face to face with a far more direct risk: being murdered, because of his religion.
With his charity, Daud decided to return to Pakistan, a country he had fled because he is an Ahmadi Muslim.
Ahmadi Muslims have been persecuted in Pakistan and surrounding regions because of their different take on Islam. In 1974, Pakistan’s parliament adopted a law declaring Ahmadis non-Muslim, and violence against the community has been rampant for decades.
“You can expect anything. Anybody can attack you, anybody can kill you,” Daud said.
In September 2008, religious extremists repeatedly shot and killed Daud’s former classmate, Dr. Abdul Mannan Siddiqui, after they broke into his medical clinic in Pakistan.
“You would not expect such an action from an animal,” Daud said. “These people do not have any humanity in them.”
To avoid being attacked while on the ground, Daud and his team members concealed their identities and their religious beliefs, and didn’t share the fact they were Canadian, as he said westerners were also being targetted. Daud cites the Qur’an which he said teaches that life is sacred, no matter which sect of religion someone practises.
And while he acknowledges that Ahmadi communities affected by the flooding did not receive much aid from the government, he refused to condemn Pakistan’s efforts.
Back home in Toronto, waiting for the next world humanitarian crisis to respond to, one can’t help but wonder when will Dr. Daud ever find the time to relax?
Daud likened it to having a family member in hospital.
“I think this world is a family and human beings are a large family,” Daud said. “If someone is suffering, you cannot relax. You could probably have it off your mind for a little while, which is normal. But, sitting and doing nothing when you can do, and have time, that would never happen.”
Dr. Aslam Daud, Humanity First, being interviewed by Maryam Shah and Mersiha Gadzo, Centennial College Journalism, March 2011
Dr. Aslam Daud, executive director of Humanity First, at Centennial College journalism school March 2011
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How We Learn Analytical Skills on the Job: Christin Price in Finance
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August 14, 2018• 4 minute read
Liam Hausmann
Any time you look for patterns in previous experiences or make a tradeoff between one option and another, you're working with analytical skills. Improving these skills is one of the best investments you can make; you can tackle your own problems at work and get closer to answers for your own questions.
The most effective way to improve your analytical skillset is to work on a problem you care about. At Mode, everyone in the company, whether data analysis is a core part of their job or not, is encouraged to apply data analysis to the problems they face. Many of our colleagues have learned skills that make huge improvements in their daily work. In this blog series, we're taking a look at how three of our colleagues here learned analytical skills on the job. We’ve already spoken to Alexa Guerra, Senior Manager of Demand Generation, and Brian Libicki, Senior Product Manager. Today, we'll talk about finance.
Christin Price, Strategic Finance and Operations Manager
Getting acquainted with Mode
Prior to Mode, Christin Price worked in economic consulting, where she primarily used SAS to structure data and build econometric models used in commercial litigation. From there, she went on to work for startups as an operations generalist.
“I learned early on in my career that the quality of the underlying data is what determines the quality of your work, not the model specification. 90% of the work I was doing was becoming acquainted with the data and then cleaning it based on what I'd learned,” Price said of her time in consulting. At her startup gigs afterward, “I was living in Excel, building financial models and projections.”
When Price came to Mode, she began by applying her skills as an Excel wizard to explore revenue and operations questions to inform Mode's strategy and answer ad hoc questions from the board and investors. But she quickly realized there were many opportunities to increase her impact using SQL.
“It's usually pretty obvious early on whether a question should be answered with Excel or with a query,” Price said. “I didn't have the skills right away to start answering those SQL-oriented questions myself, but I saw the potential.”
From Excel to SQL: Identifying legacy customers
One of the first examples of a question that begged to be answered with SQL was identifying legacy customers that were on outdated month-to-month pricing plans. Despite their small monthly payments, some of these customers had the potential to command very high contract values based on their usage. She wanted to make sure that all those customers had an account manager assigned to them so that they could receive special attention and transition them to the modern pricing structure and feature set.
“This question could have been answered in two ways,” Price said. “I could build a report within the Salesforce UI and then merge it with historical usage information in Excel, which is clunky and frustrating and would have taken me a while. Or, with a Definition and a merge in Mode, I could generate a better report in seconds.”
So, she took matters into her own hands and got her hands on the data through Mode's SQL Editor.
“I investigated what the tables themselves looked like. I looked at how they relate to each other and how other people had utilized them in their reports to identify and properly integrate the data I needed. And of course, I asked a lot of questions,” Price said. “I got the report delivered quickly, but I also gained a much deeper understanding of the actual data structure underlying Salesforce and our in-house billing and subscription portals.”
“Since then, I've been able to come up with new ideas to improve the way we collect data for other metrics, which will require less maintenance moving forward, thanks to the fact that I know what the data itself looks like.”
Mode helps Christin get ahead of data quality issues
Her hard-won knowledge came in handy just a couple months later, when it was time to produce historical revenue numbers. An old Excel table built by Derek Steer, Mode's founder and once an analyst himself, didn't quite match with data coming out of Salesforce.
“Before, I would have had to export the data from Salesforce into Excel, and experiment with various matching formulas to find all the places we needed to reconcile records. But instead, I was able to use SQL to identify the heart of the problem, instead of resorting to short-term fixes. The Mode report I built is flexible enough to point out any discrepancies on an ongoing basis and help us get ahead of data quality issues before they balloon into a bigger problem.”
Today Price spends, in her words, “a lot less time in spreadsheet land” than she did when she first started at Mode.
“I'm bringing a better toolkit to the problems I need to solve these days, and I'm becoming more effective at creating more permanent solutions thanks to the fact that I have an understanding of the state of the data itself.”
Her mission now is to create a foundation for Mode’s future by making her job function fully scalable.
“I will rely 100% on building out reporting tools and data quality checks in Mode,” Price said. This is something she could only do now with her deepened skillset and familiarity with Mode's data. “There is no way I could achieve this using Excel. But with Mode, I can automate and set up most of the work so that it is intuitive for other people to engage with. I can accomplish on a short time horizon what would otherwise be an impossible task.”
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EDITA Digitally Transforms Egypt’s USD 15 Billion Retail Food Sector
EDITA, a leading FMCG company in Egypt and the Middle East, announced today at Cairo ICT that it is moving forward with its digital transformation roadmap with global technology company SAP, to drive Egypt’s USD 15 billion retail food sector.
As Egyptians continue to show rising demand for food and beverages, the country’s retail food market has reached an impressive USD 15 billion, according to the United State Foreign Agricultural Service.
EDITA is supporting Egypt’s food innovation. With five state-of-the-art production facilities encompassing 31 production lines, as well as a nationwide distribution network, EDITA is well able to meet the constant demand for its products. Its customer base includes more than 66,000 wholesale and retail customers, with exports to more than 17 markets in the region.
EDITA went live with one more successful implementation of SAP Direct Store Delivery (DSD) Mobile Android Solution 2.0 integrated with SAP ERP Central Component (ECC), mobilizing all the sales and distribution processes into the new state of the art technology. EDITA now runs business processes with the best practices in the consumer products industry. With SAP and partner help, EDITA has achieved its requirements and can move into the digital transformation of the DSD operation.
With a big-bang go-live of nearly 700 devices over 25 distribution centers scattered all over the country, SAP DSD Mobile Android and SAP DSD Backend on ECC runs the complete end-to-end sales force and distribution activities, including presales and van sales scenarios. EDITA, using the full functionality offered by the product, is helping to increase the market share of brands that are leader in the Egyptian market.
“As the Middle East’s food and beverage market rises, EDITA needed full visibility to enhance production and distribution, and to meet customer needs,” said Hoda Mansour, Managing Director, SAP Egypt. “EDITA, thanks to its digital transformation with SAP, now has real-time insights to enhance its competitiveness and Egypt’s standing as a leader in food and beverage manufacturing.”
The vendor ZEBRA offered the latest mobile hardware technology and printers, so that the SAP solution runs with the best performance and processing time at point of sales.
“This project started in January 2020 as part of Edita Information Technology strategic roadmap with a very detailed design phase, keeping all technical and business requirements from the business as a key of success, push the change management to move towards more paperless environment using E-signatures,” said Ihab Selim, Chief Information Officer, EDITA. “EDITA’s requirements also included making sure of systems availability up-and-running in a very high demand operation and synchronization process; using the full end to end functionality.”
The project is one of the few worldwide implementations of SAP DSD Android 2.0, integrated with SAP ECC, including a lot of standard customizations, validations, and control points on the mobile platform.
The company also needed real-time market order creation on the ECC side, such as deal conditions, uploading of PDF documents for legal purposes, reloading and unloading, stock visibility, loading confirmation, e-signatures, and invoice and credit note generation. Additional functionalities are real-time tracking for all drivers’ achievements during the day, using our internal dashboards.
“EDITA would like to thank SAP Consulting, development teams, the partners MAS and MBIS for their project management skills, expert technical teams for helping them to deliver this amazing project remotely and during COVID-19”, said Eng. Hani Berzi, Chairman & CEO, EDITA. “The magic five words that can define this project: project management, planning, experts, dedication, and seeking success.”
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I can't resist passing on a few selected clips from Anthony Lane's review of the new Pixar Movie, "Inside Out." Pixar writer and director Pete Docter, in describing the actor's inside a child's head, has produced an an engaging depiction of of many of the ideas I try to get across (much more obtusely and ponderously) in my MindStuff: Guide for the curious user written ten years ago.
The new Pixar film, “Inside Out,” is about the life of Riley. She is an only child...who, aged eleven, moves with her parents ... from Minnesota to San Francisco. Not much happens...The bulk of the movie takes place out of sight, within the confines of Riley’s mind, where primary feelings affect her every move. There are five in all: Joy (Amy Poehler), who is butter-yellow and fuzzy at the edges; Anger (Lewis Black), who looks like SpongeBob soaked in blood; Fear (Bill Hader), a writhing dweeb with a bow tie; Disgust (Mindy Kaling), who has frosted green hair and lashes; and Sadness (Phyllis Smith), a bespectacled blob of blue. Now and then, they contend for supremacy, but mostly they join forces and react to the world beyond. They behold it through Riley’s eyes, from a spiffy control center, like Kirk, Spock, and the gang on the bridge of the Enterprise...Dreams are produced in—where else?—a dream factory, with soundstages and camera crews. It closes down when she wakes. Experiences are delivered to the control room as if they were bowling balls, colored according to their mood; some are stored away, others dropped into a pit of forgetfulness, where they darken and crumble like spent coals, and a few are enthroned as core memories. And that, we are told, is how a personality is made.
So brisk is the defining of all this...that we barely pause to consider the assumptions behind it. Pixar...has no time for old-school habits, like lodging the emotions in the heart...They are located squarely in the brain, presumably displacing Reason, whom we never meet, but whom I picture as French, bald, and wearing an English suit. ... Neurologists and therapists will examine the movie and pronounce themselves largely satisfied. ... I sensed..., that I was following the transcription, by very clever adults, of their own theorizing—literate, frantic, and endlessly chewed over—on the subject of human development, rather than the story of a growing girl.
...the biggest laughs, without exception, come when we exit Riley’s head and take a quick vacation to the crania—and the mania—of others. During an argument at dinner, for instance, her father’s emotions are miles away; all of them are watching a hockey game. And, as the closing credits approach, Docter, realizing that he has a pack of wild gags that have been kept leashed for too long, releases the lot in a flurry. We peek inside the mind of a dog, a cat, a prepubescent boy (“Girl! Girl!” the alarms sing out), and, best of all, the cool chick with eyeshadow at Riley’s school, voiced by Rashida Jones. ...You start to wonder what a grownup sequel to “Inside Out” would look like, with a host of new feelings barging into central command and wrenching the controls away from Joy. Would Lust be spoken by Rupert Everett, or would it sound more like Chico Marx, working his way through a chorus line? How about Love of Money, or black-browed Mortal Terror? There are places, I guess, where even Pixar cannot go.
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Communiqué of the 810th meeting of the PSC on the situation in the Horn of Africa, 22 November 2018
The Peace and Security Council of the African Union (AU), at its 810TH meeting held on 22 November 2018, adopted the following decision on the situation in the Horn of Africa:
Takes note of the briefings by Ambassador Smaïl Chergui, Commissioner for Peace and Security on the developments in the Horn of Africa, as well as the statements made by the representatives of the countries of the Horn of Africa, namely Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia and Sudan;
Recalls its Communiqués, PSC/PR/COMM. (DCCL) of 6 February 2018 and PSC/MIN. (DCCXCVII) of 24 September 2018 on the need to promote peace, security and development in the Horn of Africa;
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Commends the commitment expressed by the regional countries led by H.E Ismail Omar Guelleh, President of the Republic of Djibouti; H.E Uhuru Kenyatta, President of the Republic of Kenya H.E. Isaias Afwerki, President of the State of Eritrea,; H.E. Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo, President of the Federal Republic of Somalia; H.E Salva Kiir Mayardit, President of the Republic of South Sudan; H.E. Omar Hassan Al-Bashir, President of the Republic of Sudan; and H.E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, President of the Republic of Uganda, to address the political, security and economic issues as well as their efforts towards integration of the Horn of Africa;
Welcomes once again, the sustained positive developments in the Horn of Africa marked by the improved diplomatic relations between and among the countries of the region, particularly between Eritrea and Ethiopia. Council commends, once again, the bold decision taken by H.E. Dr. Abiy Ahmed, Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, and H.E. Isaias Afwerki, President of the State of Eritrea towards, ending the 20 year-long political stalemate between their two sisterly countries;
Welcomes the signing of the Joint Declaration on Comprehensive Cooperation between Ethiopia, Somalia and Eritrea signed in Asmara, on 5 September 2018, with a view to further fostering partnership and cooperation in the region. Council recognizes that the agreement between these countries aimed at improving the economic conditions to the benefit of all the people of the Horn of Africa through the alleviation of poverty as it is one of the sources of conflict situation in the region. In this context, Council notes that this agreement further creates a sense of ownership among countries of the Horn to safeguard and consolidate the peace and stability of the region;
Notes with satisfaction the positive developments taking pace in South Sudan, following the singing of the Revitalized-Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan, which is a significant step towards ending the devastating conflict in the newest African country. In this respect, Council urges the international community to extend the necessary support to the implementation of the Agreement, which will contribute to facilitate the processes of reconciliation and reconstruction in South Sudan;
Commends the progress made on the reconfiguration and draw-down process of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur’s (UNAMID) and urges all Darfur movements to join the peace process, on the basis of the Doha Document for Peace and Development (DDPD), with a view to find a lasting solution to the conflict in Darfur. Council reiterates its satisfaction at the rapprochement between the Government of Sudan and the United States of America, which led to the lifting of the unilateral economic sanctions in October 2017, as called for by the Assembly of the Union and the PSC;
Express its full support to the Communique of the 66th Extra-Ordinary Session of the IGAD Council of Ministers held on 16th November 2018, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In this regard, Council welcomes the IGAD decision to convene a Retreat of its Council of Ministers dedicated to the consideration and analysis of the new political and diplomatic dispensation in the Horn of Africa, in the light of the ongoing developments;
Expresses satisfaction at the adoption on 14 November 2018, of Resolution 2444 (2018), by the United Nations Security Council, lifting the arms embargo, travel bans, asset freezes and other targeted sanctions imposed on the State of Eretria through the UNSC Resolutions 1907, 2013, 2060 and 2111. Council underscores that this go decision will go a long way in contributing to efforts aimed at alleviating the economic strife faced by the people of Eretria for the past two decades and expresses appreciation for the regional efforts that contribute to this decision;
Takes note of the ongoing election process in the Federal Member States in Somalia. In this regard, Council urges the political leadership of Somalia and all stakeholders in Federal Member States, to continue demonstrating statesmanship and restraint, with a view to spare any further challenges that could spoil the efforts aimed at consolidating the hard-won gains made in the country. Council notes with concern continued security threats posed not only by Al-Shabaab and other emerging armed groups, such as the Islamic State, but also by ongoing inter-clan differences and militias. Council strongly underscores the need to revamp Somalia’s security and to pursue the implementation of the Somali Transition Plan and the National Security Architecture, and encourages the AU Commission to sustain its ongoing support to the Somali National Forces, working very closely with the FGS as it increasingly takes a leading role;
Welcomes the bilateral engagement between Djibouti and Eritrea and calls on the two countries to continue engaging towards finding solutions to the issue of missing soldiers and the border between the two countries, in line with the Resolution 2444 (2018), and as part of the efforts towards the rapid normalization of their relations, in the context of the efforts for peace, security, stability and reconciliation in the Horn of Africa;
Notes the complexity of the political, security and economic dynamics prevailing in the Horn of Africa which demand measured, yet robust partnership and engagement on all tracks in support to the Federal Member States. Council underscores the need for stakeholders to have a common understanding of the regional dynamics and develop a joint, well-coordinated and inclusivity approach on how best regional and international actors could support the ongoing peace and normalization efforts between the countries of the Horn of Africa, while avoiding overlaps and external interference;
Requests, the AU Commission to avail all the tools at its disposal to assist the positive developments in the Horn of Africa, as deemed appropriate. Council calls on international and regional partners to support these efforts to ensure that the positive momentum is sustained;
Further requests the AU Commission to provide quarterly briefings on regional developments in the Horn of Africa;
Decides to remain ceased of the matter.
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Response of dry bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) to inoculation with indigenous and commercial Rhizobium strains under organic farming systems in Minnesota
R. A.I. Abou-Shanab, M. Wongphatcharachai, C. C. Sheaffer, M. J. Sadowsky
Biotechnology Institute
Agronomy and Plant Genetics
Soil, Water, and Climate
Organic farmers recognize the importance of using Rhizobium to meet crop N fertility needs and to reduce use of chemical fertilizers. Field experiments were conducted during the 2015 and 2016 seasons at different organic fields to assess the effect of indigenous Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. phaseoli (OrgK9) and commercial R. tropici (CIAT899) strains on symbiotic performance and grain yield of bean varieties, Eclipse and Redhawk. Averaged for both varieties, nodule numbers on plants inoculated with CIAT899 (35.2 ± 3.7 and 26.3 ± 2.6 /plant) and OrgK9 (29.6 ± 2.5 and 26.8 ± 2.1 /plant) were significantly greater (P < 0.0001) than the control (18.9 ± 2.2 and 10.5 ± 3.1) in 2015 and 2016, respectively. Bean genotype Eclipse cultivated at Lamberton and inoculated with OrgK9 had (P < 0.0001) greater number of nodules compared with CIAT899-inoculated or non-inoculated plants. The N-content (3.3 ± 0.04%) of plants inoculated with CIAT899 was greater (P < 0.0001) compared with plants inoculated with OrgK9. Strain CIAT899 increased nodule occupancy by 29 and 62% and 4 and 26% on Red Hawk cultivated in the Lamberton and Farmington fields compared with the control in season 2015 and 2016, respectively. The majority of nodules formed on Red Hawk (76%) and Eclipse (64%) at Farmington were occupied by CIAT899 and OrgK9 in 2015 and 2016, respectively. Eclipse inoculated with OrgK9 had a significantly greater seed yields (2683 ± 402 and 2546 ± 247 kg/ha) compared with control (2265 ± 996 and 2058 ± 51 kg/ha) in both years, respectively. These results clearly indicate that symbiotic performance and grain yield of dry bean can be significantly increased by using Rhizobium inoculation under organic farming systems.
Dry bean
Nitrogen content
Nodule occupancy
Rhizobium strains
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Abou-Shanab, R. A. I., Wongphatcharachai, M., Sheaffer, C. C., & Sadowsky, M. J. (2019). Response of dry bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) to inoculation with indigenous and commercial Rhizobium strains under organic farming systems in Minnesota. Symbiosis, 78(2), 125-134. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13199-019-00609-3
Response of dry bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) to inoculation with indigenous and commercial Rhizobium strains under organic farming systems in Minnesota. / Abou-Shanab, R. A.I.; Wongphatcharachai, M.; Sheaffer, C. C.; Sadowsky, M. J.
In: Symbiosis, Vol. 78, No. 2, 15.06.2019, p. 125-134.
Abou-Shanab, RAI, Wongphatcharachai, M, Sheaffer, CC & Sadowsky, MJ 2019, 'Response of dry bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) to inoculation with indigenous and commercial Rhizobium strains under organic farming systems in Minnesota', Symbiosis, vol. 78, no. 2, pp. 125-134. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13199-019-00609-3
Abou-Shanab RAI, Wongphatcharachai M, Sheaffer CC, Sadowsky MJ. Response of dry bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) to inoculation with indigenous and commercial Rhizobium strains under organic farming systems in Minnesota. Symbiosis. 2019 Jun 15;78(2):125-134. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13199-019-00609-3
Abou-Shanab, R. A.I. ; Wongphatcharachai, M. ; Sheaffer, C. C. ; Sadowsky, M. J. / Response of dry bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) to inoculation with indigenous and commercial Rhizobium strains under organic farming systems in Minnesota. In: Symbiosis. 2019 ; Vol. 78, No. 2. pp. 125-134.
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Synthesis, characterization, and in vitro quantitation of N-7-guanine adducts of diepoxybutane
Natalia Yu Tretyakova, Ramiah Sangaiah, Ten Yang Yen, James A. Swenberg
Diepoxybutane (DEB) is an important metabolite of 1,3-butadiene (BD), a high-volume industrial chemical classified as a probable human carcinogen. Rodent inhalation studies show strikingly high sensitivity of mice to carcinogenic effects of butadiene compared to rats, which has been linked to differences in metabolism. Both species convert BD to 3,4-epoxy-1-butene (EB), but mice further oxidize a significantly greater part of EB to DEB. DEB is a potent bifunctional genotoxic agent which is 100-fold more mutagenic than EB and is likely to be involved in BD-induced carcinogenesis. Identification of specific BD-induced DNA adducts is critical to understanding the mechanism of its biological activity. We have previously described reactions of EB with guanine and adenine as nucleobases, nucleosides, and constituents of DNA. In this work, DEB-induced guanine adducts were isolated and structurally characterized by UV spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, and nuclear magnetic resonance. When guanosine was reacted with DEB in glacial acetic acid followed by hydrolysis in hydrochloric acid, three products were isolated: N-7-(2',3',4'-trihydroxybut-1'-yl)guanine (DEB-Gua I, major adduct), N-7-(2',4'-dihydroxy-3'-chlorobut-1'-yl)guanine (DEB-Gua II), and N-7-(2',3'-dihydroxy-4'-acetoxybut-1'-yl)guanine (DEB-Gua III). We suggest initial formation of the N-7-(2'-hydroxy-3',4'-epoxybut-1'-yl)guanine intermediate followed by nucleophilic substitution at the 3',4'-epoxy ring with hydroxide, chloride, or acetate anions to give DEB-Gua I, II, or III, respectively. DEB-Gua I and the epoxy intermediate were also isolated from hydrolysates of DEB-exposed calf thymus DNA (CT DNA). N-7-Guanine adducts are known to undergo spontaneous and enzymatic depurination producing apurinic sites. If not repaired before DNA replication, apurinic sites can give rise to mutations and ultimately cancer. The extent of alkylation at the N-7 of guanine in DEB-exposed DNA (58.7 ± 1.1 adducts/103 normal guanines) was similar to that previously reported for CT DNA exposed to EB at the same molar ratio. Since EB and DEB appear to induce comparable levels of overall DNA alkylation at the conditions applied in this work, other factors, such as formation of DNA cross-links by DEB but not EB or differences in repair of EB and DEB adducts, may be responsible for the differences in mutagenicity.
Chemical research in toxicology
https://doi.org/10.1021/tx970004q
10.1021/tx970004q
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diepoxybutane Chemical Compounds
Guanine Chemical Compounds
3,4-epoxy-1-butene Chemical Compounds
1,3-butadiene Chemical Compounds
calf thymus DNA Chemical Compounds
Alkylation Chemical Compounds
Tretyakova, N. Y., Sangaiah, R., Yen, T. Y., & Swenberg, J. A. (1997). Synthesis, characterization, and in vitro quantitation of N-7-guanine adducts of diepoxybutane. Chemical research in toxicology, 10(7), 779-785. https://doi.org/10.1021/tx970004q
Synthesis, characterization, and in vitro quantitation of N-7-guanine adducts of diepoxybutane. / Tretyakova, Natalia Yu; Sangaiah, Ramiah; Yen, Ten Yang; Swenberg, James A.
In: Chemical research in toxicology, Vol. 10, No. 7, 01.07.1997, p. 779-785.
Tretyakova, NY, Sangaiah, R, Yen, TY & Swenberg, JA 1997, 'Synthesis, characterization, and in vitro quantitation of N-7-guanine adducts of diepoxybutane', Chemical research in toxicology, vol. 10, no. 7, pp. 779-785. https://doi.org/10.1021/tx970004q
Tretyakova NY, Sangaiah R, Yen TY, Swenberg JA. Synthesis, characterization, and in vitro quantitation of N-7-guanine adducts of diepoxybutane. Chemical research in toxicology. 1997 Jul 1;10(7):779-785. https://doi.org/10.1021/tx970004q
Tretyakova, Natalia Yu ; Sangaiah, Ramiah ; Yen, Ten Yang ; Swenberg, James A. / Synthesis, characterization, and in vitro quantitation of N-7-guanine adducts of diepoxybutane. In: Chemical research in toxicology. 1997 ; Vol. 10, No. 7. pp. 779-785.
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AU - Yen, Ten Yang
AU - Swenberg, James A.
N2 - Diepoxybutane (DEB) is an important metabolite of 1,3-butadiene (BD), a high-volume industrial chemical classified as a probable human carcinogen. Rodent inhalation studies show strikingly high sensitivity of mice to carcinogenic effects of butadiene compared to rats, which has been linked to differences in metabolism. Both species convert BD to 3,4-epoxy-1-butene (EB), but mice further oxidize a significantly greater part of EB to DEB. DEB is a potent bifunctional genotoxic agent which is 100-fold more mutagenic than EB and is likely to be involved in BD-induced carcinogenesis. Identification of specific BD-induced DNA adducts is critical to understanding the mechanism of its biological activity. We have previously described reactions of EB with guanine and adenine as nucleobases, nucleosides, and constituents of DNA. In this work, DEB-induced guanine adducts were isolated and structurally characterized by UV spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, and nuclear magnetic resonance. When guanosine was reacted with DEB in glacial acetic acid followed by hydrolysis in hydrochloric acid, three products were isolated: N-7-(2',3',4'-trihydroxybut-1'-yl)guanine (DEB-Gua I, major adduct), N-7-(2',4'-dihydroxy-3'-chlorobut-1'-yl)guanine (DEB-Gua II), and N-7-(2',3'-dihydroxy-4'-acetoxybut-1'-yl)guanine (DEB-Gua III). We suggest initial formation of the N-7-(2'-hydroxy-3',4'-epoxybut-1'-yl)guanine intermediate followed by nucleophilic substitution at the 3',4'-epoxy ring with hydroxide, chloride, or acetate anions to give DEB-Gua I, II, or III, respectively. DEB-Gua I and the epoxy intermediate were also isolated from hydrolysates of DEB-exposed calf thymus DNA (CT DNA). N-7-Guanine adducts are known to undergo spontaneous and enzymatic depurination producing apurinic sites. If not repaired before DNA replication, apurinic sites can give rise to mutations and ultimately cancer. The extent of alkylation at the N-7 of guanine in DEB-exposed DNA (58.7 ± 1.1 adducts/103 normal guanines) was similar to that previously reported for CT DNA exposed to EB at the same molar ratio. Since EB and DEB appear to induce comparable levels of overall DNA alkylation at the conditions applied in this work, other factors, such as formation of DNA cross-links by DEB but not EB or differences in repair of EB and DEB adducts, may be responsible for the differences in mutagenicity.
AB - Diepoxybutane (DEB) is an important metabolite of 1,3-butadiene (BD), a high-volume industrial chemical classified as a probable human carcinogen. Rodent inhalation studies show strikingly high sensitivity of mice to carcinogenic effects of butadiene compared to rats, which has been linked to differences in metabolism. Both species convert BD to 3,4-epoxy-1-butene (EB), but mice further oxidize a significantly greater part of EB to DEB. DEB is a potent bifunctional genotoxic agent which is 100-fold more mutagenic than EB and is likely to be involved in BD-induced carcinogenesis. Identification of specific BD-induced DNA adducts is critical to understanding the mechanism of its biological activity. We have previously described reactions of EB with guanine and adenine as nucleobases, nucleosides, and constituents of DNA. In this work, DEB-induced guanine adducts were isolated and structurally characterized by UV spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, and nuclear magnetic resonance. When guanosine was reacted with DEB in glacial acetic acid followed by hydrolysis in hydrochloric acid, three products were isolated: N-7-(2',3',4'-trihydroxybut-1'-yl)guanine (DEB-Gua I, major adduct), N-7-(2',4'-dihydroxy-3'-chlorobut-1'-yl)guanine (DEB-Gua II), and N-7-(2',3'-dihydroxy-4'-acetoxybut-1'-yl)guanine (DEB-Gua III). We suggest initial formation of the N-7-(2'-hydroxy-3',4'-epoxybut-1'-yl)guanine intermediate followed by nucleophilic substitution at the 3',4'-epoxy ring with hydroxide, chloride, or acetate anions to give DEB-Gua I, II, or III, respectively. DEB-Gua I and the epoxy intermediate were also isolated from hydrolysates of DEB-exposed calf thymus DNA (CT DNA). N-7-Guanine adducts are known to undergo spontaneous and enzymatic depurination producing apurinic sites. If not repaired before DNA replication, apurinic sites can give rise to mutations and ultimately cancer. The extent of alkylation at the N-7 of guanine in DEB-exposed DNA (58.7 ± 1.1 adducts/103 normal guanines) was similar to that previously reported for CT DNA exposed to EB at the same molar ratio. Since EB and DEB appear to induce comparable levels of overall DNA alkylation at the conditions applied in this work, other factors, such as formation of DNA cross-links by DEB but not EB or differences in repair of EB and DEB adducts, may be responsible for the differences in mutagenicity.
U2 - 10.1021/tx970004q
DO - 10.1021/tx970004q
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The relation between grain size and 40Ar/39Ar date for Alpine white mica from the Siviez-Mischabel Nappe, Switzerland
Michelle J. Markley, Christian Teyssier, Mike Cosca
Earth and Environmental Sciences-Twin Cities
Variations in Alpine white mica 40Ar/39Ar dates from the cover units of the Siviez-Mischabel Nappe relate to regional variations in the thermal history of the nappe. We focus on three regions within the nappe: the central Siviez-Mischabel (CSM), the southern Siviez-Mischabel (SSM), and the eastern Siviez-Mischabel (ESM). Our approach weaves together observations of quartz and mica textures in thin section, the variation of 40Ar/39Ar date with grain size, considerations of the effective diffusion dimension (EDD) of argon in white mica, and a comparison of dates with diffusion model results. In the CSM, pressure solution of quartz and dislocation glide in mica accommodated Alpine deformation. Dates record mica growth during nappe emplacement from 40 to 36 Ma and do not vary with grain size. In the SSM and ESM, both mica and quartz show textures associated with dynamic recrystallization, and dates decrease with grain size. In the SSM, dates also agree with the timing of nappe emplacement, but in the ESM, dates significantly post-date the timing of nappe emplacement. A comparison of dates with diffusion model results supports inferences from rock fabrics that the SSM experienced higher peak temperatures than the CSM, even though dates from both units approximate the timing of mica growth. Dates obtained from the ESM, however, do not compare well with simple models, and the thermal evolution of this region of the nappe, in the neighborhood of the Simplon Fault Zone, is not well understood.
Journal of Structural Geology
Funding Information:
Thanks to John Wheeler for use of DIFFARG, and to Bill Hames, Simon Kelley, and Dirk Slawinski for help modifying and running DIFFARG. Thoughtful, critical reviews by Peter Gromet, Kip Hodges, and Mike Williams significantly improved this manuscript. MJM thanks the American Association of University Women for support during the revision of this manuscript. Dating in this study was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (2000-056849). Field research was supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (EAR 9206118).
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Markley, M. J., Teyssier, C., & Cosca, M. (2002). The relation between grain size and 40Ar/39Ar date for Alpine white mica from the Siviez-Mischabel Nappe, Switzerland. Journal of Structural Geology, 24(12), 1937-1955. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0191-8141(02)00006-8
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In: Journal of Structural Geology, Vol. 24, No. 12, 2002, p. 1937-1955.
Markley, MJ, Teyssier, C & Cosca, M 2002, 'The relation between grain size and 40Ar/39Ar date for Alpine white mica from the Siviez-Mischabel Nappe, Switzerland', Journal of Structural Geology, vol. 24, no. 12, pp. 1937-1955. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0191-8141(02)00006-8
Markley MJ, Teyssier C, Cosca M. The relation between grain size and 40Ar/39Ar date for Alpine white mica from the Siviez-Mischabel Nappe, Switzerland. Journal of Structural Geology. 2002;24(12):1937-1955. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0191-8141(02)00006-8
Markley, Michelle J. ; Teyssier, Christian ; Cosca, Mike. / The relation between grain size and 40Ar/39Ar date for Alpine white mica from the Siviez-Mischabel Nappe, Switzerland. In: Journal of Structural Geology. 2002 ; Vol. 24, No. 12. pp. 1937-1955.
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When the first lockdown began back in March, I decided, as well as spending more time on the important things in life such as family time and learning, I would also find time to relax and unwind. Therefore, I decided to pick a TV show on Netflix or Prime to watch.
I did not realise the show I selected would have such an impact.
It is a comedy, but when I finally finished the ninth season (yes I watched almost 200 twenty minute episodes over 8 months!) something struck me which I think solidified an idea I have had about the optimum way to inspire young Jewish people.
The series, for those who haven’t watched it, is called ‘The Office’ and it is a mockumentary about people in an office in Scranton, Pennsylvania. We really get to know them, and connect to them. It is testimony to the series that most of the main cast were together for the vast majority of the episodes. We see them getting married, having kids, having problems, their ups and downs etc.
The final episode has them eventually all sitting in the office after a wedding reception. It is a very poignant scene when you realise how much they all mean to each other – and to the viewer as well.
It was then that it hit me.
In 2000 I was appointed the Assistant Rabbi of Stanmore Synagogue. I was informed that my major responsibility was the engagement of the youth. When I began, pretty much the only youth involved post bar and bat mitzvah were the religious youth. Over the next few years we (the wonderful youth team I worked with) put together a strategy to engage a much higher percentage of youth by introducing a slew of programming at the younger ages to create connections between the youth and each other as well as with the staff. This could include trips, plays, clubs and eventually European Tours, visits to Israel, Prague and Poland.
The results of the strategy were phenomenal, over 75% of youth stayed involved and it revolutionised the community.
The strategy began with year 5, and for the next nine years we worked with the kids, got to know them and formed very strong connections – which thank God have lasted until today.
In July 2009 our first year group ‘graduated’. We decided therefore to have a graduation weekend and to invite the year group to spend a Shabbat away at Birmingham Hillel House.
For the next six years, we hosted each year group that we had known since they were nine years old. Each year, different leaders came with me, leaders who had had a special connection to the specific year group and some leaders who always came every year.
Those Shabbatot were some of the most special I have spent as an educator.
To sit with students who you have known for nine years, whose bar and bat mitzvah’s you have been at, who you have been on Jewish journeys around the world – you have a very strong Kesher – connection to them and them to you.
Every year they came, approx. 20 each year – that was 60% of the year group, the vast majority not from religious homes – but they came because of the kesharim with each other and the kesharim with us.
We would sit and chat during Shabbat and reminisce of the journey we had together over the years.
I thought of those Shabbatot when I watched the finale of ‘The Office’.
It was similar – the connection of the group to each other and to the leaders in the office.
I believe that imparting Judaism to young people needs experiences, not just education and needs kesharim with leaders but most importantly needs time.
Yaacov was given this idea in this week’s parsha.
As he flees from Esav, he is not sure what to expect. Was he correct in his encounter with his father? When will he see his parents again? What does Hashem think of his actions?
We all know the story, he sleeps and has the vision of the ladder. The ladder of course was used to show the angels going up and down. However, they could have just moved up and down, why the need for a ladder?
Rav Dessler speaks about how we can learn from the ladder, that true growth is acquired step by step that you cannot jump any part of the way. Similarly, when it comes to Jewish observance, it is not healthy, particularly wise or ultimately successful to go from zero or little observance to full observance in a short time. Like the ladder we should gradually take on more and more – so the growth may be gradual, but it will last.
My experiences in Stanmore – with both parents and youth, was that growth happened not over a weekend or even a year, but over a number of years, gradually building on the previous experiences to cement the growth.
Our love and concern for the characters of ‘The Office’ came from the time we had ‘spent’ with them. And the care and love they had for each other was because of the ‘years’ they had worked together. Yes, it is only a TV show, so kal v chomer – how much more so – when it is actual relationships based over a number of years.
Any meaningful educational experience needs to have at the heart of it:
a) Building of kesharim between students and leaders with immersive experiences
b) a group experience
c) over a number of years
As I quoted recently, the JPR study in 2014 – ‘Strengthening Jewish Identity: What works?’, came to a similar conclusion that there needs to be ‘three critical factors: Jewish immersion, group experience, and duration’.
That is why a year in Yeshiva and Sem is so powerful – the relationships with your teachers through experiences and education, a group experience, which is for a year or two.
Of course, that is also the reason why Bnei Akiva has had and still has such an impact on thousands of young people. I had my Shevet, my year group, who I was with for machanot and other programmes for a number of years with similar madrichim – once again immersive experiences and education, a group experience, over a number of years.
As I mentioned two weeks ago, we are hoping to launch a major initiative in the summer to create leadership – it also will be employing these same three concepts to hopefully have a major impact on the community.
So ‘The Office’ has finished – and hopefully lockdown will soon end as well – but the lessons from ‘The Office’ go far beyond a mockumentary, to the heart of truly lasting Jewish experiences.
P.s. See you tomorrow night at the quiz!
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January 1, 2020 • Jody White • Uncategorized
From the beginning, 2019 was a good year of fishing. The FLW Tour got off to a rollicking start on Sam Rayburn, and it really stayed pretty great from there, with a lot of good fishing and a killer Angler of the Year race. Beyond the Tour, all the other circuits had plenty of highlights, too. We saw impressive feats accomplished at all levels and some very exciting individual events.
Here’s a rundown of the year that was.
The Northern Division AOY race was pretty rad
Sometimes FLW Series Angler of the Year races can get a bit buried by other tournament action, which is an unfortunate circumstance. But, the hard-core fishing fans were treated to one simply beautiful AOY showdown in the Northern Division in September. Going into the season finale at the St. Lawrence River, Scott Dobson held a two-point lead over Casey Smith, Troy Morrow and Adrian Avena.
It felt like a foregone conclusion that Dobson would make the cut at the river, considering his smallmouth expertise and what was on the line, but it was impossible to count out any of the others. In the end, Dobson iced it with a second-place finish, but it was not without drama. On day one, the Michigan pro caught “only” 19 pounds and languished outside the top 20, behind both Avena and Smith. Catching 23-6 on day two, Dobson cruised into third place and slightly ahead of Smith. On the final day, he did enough with an overall tough bite to hold off the New Yorker for his first Northern Division AOY title.
Sam Rayburn shows out
Despite being one of the best lakes in the country at nearly any point in time, Sam Rayburn hadn’t hosted an FLW Tour event before 2019 since Bryan Thrift won there in 2014. In January, when the pros descended on the big lake, they ran plumb into a fascinating scenario – super-high water during the winter. Many boat ramps around the lake closed, and there were miles of new water to fish, with possible patterns changed up quite a bit.
The fishing turned out to be phenomenal, if somewhat difficult for those that got left out. Despite the flooded cover, if you were on ’em, you most likely fished offshore, and there were some places that seemed to have nearly infinite fish, even if the 8-pounders did get a little scarce on the weekend. Still, four pros weighed 25 pounds or better on day one, two did it on day two (including a 33-9 haul by eventual winner Terry Bolton) and Thrift came literally an ounce shy of the mark on the third day.
There was also a ton of huge individual fish. Sam George caught a giant, Troy Morrow caught one about as big as he was and Bolton nailed one that was nearly 10 pounds to anchor his mega-bag. For the daily big bass awards, Scott Martin weighed a 9-12 on day one, and Andy Wicker caught an 11-2 on day two.
Heck, even the bad stuff turned out good at Rayburn. After postponing the final day due to bad weather, everyone enjoyed a good breakfast before the tournament wrapped up on Monday. It was the first time the final day of a Tour event took place on a weekday in the FLW Live era, and it was an all-around success.
Blade’s run
Terry “Blade” Bolton was undisputedly the feel-good story of the year through Lake Seminole. One of the most well-liked anglers on Tour, the newly married and refocused Bolton put together a masterful event at Rayburn to win for the first time in 24 years on the FLW Tour. Then, he kept on catching, making day three at Toho, the final day at Seminole and the third day at Grand. At Seminole, he punctuated the final day with a 27-2 catch, which was the biggest of the event. Though Bolton trailed off a bit as the season wore on, he still put together a wonderful year that resulted in a seventh-place AOY finish – the best of his career.
Thrift finally wins the Cup
Going into the FLW Cup at Lake Hamilton it felt like it might finally be Bryan Thrift’s year. Not only was he perfectly suited to Hamilton, everyone knew there was a possibility that this would be the last Cup and his last chance at a win. Luckily for history and Thrift’s trophy case, he did win, leading wire-to-wire and characteristically doing a bit of everything to secure the win. And so, on his 13th try and after so many close calls, the Shelby, N.C., angler finally got to hoist the Cup and check the last box in his FLW resume.
The B. Lat win
Pretty much everyone loves Brian Latimer, and it is with good reason. He’s a genuinely wonderful individual, and he’s shared his journey to the top levels of fishing in a uniquely engaging and down-to-earth manner. This year at Seminole there were some other pros with high-flying single-day showings and exciting flurries, but Latimer kept plugging, not catching many, but catching the right ones as the tournament wore on. Super engaging on FLW Live, his final day was tense and exciting, and when he weighed his fish and hoisted the trophy the emotion was unbelievable.
Butler makes waves on Chickamauga
It takes a lot to legitimately assault the record books, but Brent Butler did it on day two of the FLW Series event this year at Lake Chickamauga. Weighing 37 pounds, 5 ounces, Butler rocketed into the lead with the fifth biggest bag in FLW Series history. Butler’s big fish was an 11-10 on day two, and he went on to win the tournament with a total of 68-8.
Zimbabwhat?
You wouldn’t think an angler from Zimbabwe would come anywhere near the lead in an FLW Series Championship event loaded with pros on Lake Cumberland, but Roger Cousens did it on day one this year. A hammer in Zimbabwe, Cousens was representing the International Division, and though he didn’t make the cut, it was the first time in FLW history that an international angler led at the Championship.
The College Fishing Natty was a good one
Because it was held on the heels of the Phoenix Bass Fishing League All-American, the FLW College Fishing National championship could have easily been a lesser redux of the prior week, but that was not the case. Instead, the fishing was markedly better, with the grass-winding bite taking off and plenty of bass hitting the scale. Though Jarrett Martin and Nickolas Marsh of Adrian College probably had the best catch of FLW Live, it was the Murray State duo of Blake Albertson and Adam Puckett that got the win by 3 ounces over Tristan McCormick and Dakota Pierce of Bethel University.
G-Ville goes off
Lake Guntersville hasn’t been a slam dunk the last couple of years, but this spring the FLW College Fishing Southeastern Conference hit it perfectly. Houston Calvert and Justin Lane of the University of North Alabama won with 29-3, and everyone in the top 30 weighed 19 pounds or better, with 23 teams surpassing the 20-pound mark. Vibrating jigs in grass reigned, and a big wave of late-February and early-March prespawn fish seemed to roll up to be caught at just the right time.
The clutchest double ever
Catching a double is really cool, even a little one on an umbrella rig. Now, imagine catching a double on a crankbait in the FLW Cup. Also, imagine both the fish being the kickers you need to make the final day. Well, that actually happened to Kyle Walters this summer. One moment he was mired in small fish and a tough day, and the next he’d landed two kickers in one indelible moment. We’ll probably never see the likes of it again, but gosh is it special that it happened.
MLF acquires FLW
In fall of 2019, one of the biggest business moves in the history of professional bass fishing was finalized as Major League Fishing acquired FLW. The deal combined MLF’s star-laden 80-angler no-entry-fee Bass Pro Tour with FLW’s hierarchy of tournament fishing that spans from the grassroots level to the pro ranks. With the change came a lot of positives, including lower entry fees for the FLW Series and Phoenix Bass Fishing League and the promise of more live broadcasts and television time for fans to enjoy.
Cherokee shows out
Andrew Upshaw won the tournament, but the real winner was everyone who watched this spring’s FLW Tour showdown on Lake Cherokee. East Tennessee was resplendent in her spring colors, but the smallmouths stole the show. Seemingly every bass in the lake pulled up to the banks to start spawning, and plenty of pros got on the bite, meandering around islands and rocky points and banks and plucking smallies on just about every cast with a Ned rig.
Nobody really expected the fishing to be as good as it was, but by golly it was great. During the event, the top 23 all averaged better than 15 pounds through three days, with most of that weight being brown. The only pro catching largemouths in the top 10 was Dylan Hays, and even he couldn’t keep up with the smallies, as both Upshaw and Grae Buck beat him out.
Cox in his element
Watching John Cox put on a sight-fishing show in Florida is something of a winter tradition now, and this year at the FLW Tour event on Toho was no different. On day one, Cox started fast with a big one, and then another, plucking some huge spawners early. Then, he did a little fishing, and he ended the day with a giant on a worm. When it was all said and done, Cox weighed 31-9 on day one. Though he didn’t end up winning (he’s due for a Florida W soon, though), he still had arguably the most exciting day of the tournament, even accounting for Buddy Gross taking the trophy.
Some Phoenix Bass Fishing League magic
We’ve hit on a lot of notable Phoenix Bass Fishing League performances lately, but one angler that has missed a little of the shine is Bryan Elrod. This year, Elrod picked up three regular-season wins: one in the Shenandoah Division on the James River and the other two in the Piedmont Division on the James and Smith Mountain Lake. Three dubs in a year is super hard to do, and it’s even more impressive that he didn’t get them all on the same body of water.
Another record for Dudley
David Dudley has been among the uber-elite of bass fishing for years as FLW’s all-time leading money winner and a Cup winner, but this year he really set himself apart. Winning an unprecedented fourth AOY title in a tightly contested race against John Cox gave Dudley the most AOY titles of all-time, bumping him ahead of Clark Wendlandt and Andy Morgan.
Dudley had a phenomenal season from the get-go, making the cut in every event but Seminole. To fishing strong, Dudley placed fifth at Chickamauga and went into Champlain just one point ahead of John Cox. There, he closed things out on one of his favorite lakes, weighing more than 17 pounds each day en route to a seventh-place finish and the title.
Thrift on Champlain
You can come up with about a hundred Thrift highlights in any given year, but he put together one pretty special run in 2019 at a lake that he’s not known for success on. In June, Thrift finished third in the FLW Tour event on Champlain, in part because of an electrifying topwater bite he had rolling on his first stop of the morning. Then, he followed it up by winning the FLW Series Northern Division event in July. For that event, he dropped a massive 22-6 bag on day one, then survived brutal wind on day two and a big charge by Edward Levin to earn his first win on a Northern fishery.
Eric Jackson makes a cut
There’s no denying that Eric Jackson has struggled since his debut as a pro on Tour, finishing below 125th in the standings every year and not cashing a check until this season, when he earned two. However, Jackson literally beat Thrift twice this year, and he ended the season in style, making his first top 10 and almost winning the Champlain FLW Tour event.
Running to Ticonderoga each day, Jackson was simply off the hook on FLW Live, as you’d expect if you’ve spent any time around him. He dominated the discussion in the live chat on YouTube, and came dangerously close to winning the event over a lot of Tour pros with much more on their resumes.
Bradford Beavers closes strong
Summerville, S.C., pro Bradford Beavers has been a hammer in the FLW Series for several years, but 2019 was arguably his breakout year. Beavers was a rookie on the FLW Tour, racking up two top 10s and finishing 12th in the points. During that time, he also grabbed a W in the FLW Series Southeastern Division event on Santee Cooper – one of his favorite lakes in the country. But, even after the FLW Cup when most pros let off the gas, Beavers kept cruising. He won a Phoenix Bass Fishing League Super Tournament on Lake Hartwell, and a few weeks later grabbed a Regional title up at the Potomac River. Not a bad season for the 33-year-old pro.
Rapala Varsity Bass takes flight
Spawned off the idea of Circuit Breaker, this year FLW launched Rapala Varsity Bass presented by General Tire with the idea to shine a light on college and high school anglers from across the country. From how they deal with adversity during events, to success in life off the water, Varsity Bass has been a great way to spread the word about high school and college fishing. With six episodes out, covering individuals to entire school teams, the series is just one more way FLW has helped try to grow the future of our sport.
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Creative and imaginative idea + skill and training = published writer.
Although not easy to achieve, this equation is simple. So why are there so many frustrated, baffled, intimidated novice writers out there who can’t get their creative and imaginative ideas on the page? Could it be that far too often, they are never taught the basic skills that craft a story?
When it comes to teaching fiction writing, I divide instructors into two camps: those I call the wizards of Oz and those that actually understand and share with their students the mechanics of the writing craft. The latter are terrific, and congratulations to any student lucky enough to find them.
However, today let’s consider the wizards and the harm they do to writing newbies that trust them for guidance that’s never imparted.
The wizards play a smoke-and-mirrors game of shrouding fiction writing in a veil of mystery, as though it is some obscure, barely understood rite attended by the handmaidens Vagueness and Opacity. Their classes may be muddled emotion-fests (“Roberta, why don’t you share with us what you felt as Ambrose read his story?”) or they offer exercises in elitism and the so-called critical reading that focuses on works written only to be critically read. In either case, they are shams.
In the 1939 MGM film, THE WIZARD OF OZ, there is a huge buildup about the Great Oz before the protagonist ever encounters him. He is represented as the all-seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful wizard. When Dorothy finally gains audience with him, great puffs of purple smoke float across the projected features of the Great Oz. His booming voice is stern and scary, thundering at her to forget her goal of returning home to Kansas. But once the green draperies are pulled aside, he turns out to be a con man operating levers on a smoke machine. He’s refused her request, not because he’s so mighty and majestic she’s beneath his notice, but because he really doesn’t know how to help her. He’s not intimidating or powerful. Nor does he possess magical abilities. And because he lacks these qualities, he’s puffed himself into a mysterious and awe-inspiring entity while hoping no one will ever guess the truth–which is there’s nothing to him at all.
Too many writing programs at all levels in American public education are taught by wizards practicing what I call the Oz Factor. Teachers toss a published story at students much as a zookeeper chucks a raw piece of roast at a tiger. The students read it. They discuss it. The teacher rhapsodizes over it. Some students appreciate it. Some don’t. Then the teacher says, “Now that you’ve seen good writing, create a story of your own.”
What? Hold on a moment!
Would you expect a neophyte surgical student to watch an operation and then be told to “try it” on the next patient? Is a hair stylist trained to cut hair by looking at a fashion model? Is a naval pilot taught to fly a multi-million-dollar jet by playing a video game? Do we learn how to write a novel by observing an author at work every day for several weeks?
No. No. No. No.
The teacher of my example is probably sincere in her desire to introduce her students to writing. She has shared a fine piece of literature with her class. But sharing isn’t enough. She may feel frustrated when the majority of her class fails to write anything worthwhile for their assignment. She may wonder why the youth of today have so little to express.
The fact is, young writers have plenty to say but are hindered through a lack of tools by which to express their ideas.
If a teacher fails to provide clarity of instruction in the writing craft or doesn’t know how a story works on the principles that underlie plot progression or how a story is built from start to finish, how can she convey anything useful to her class?
From a student’s perspective, there is often bewilderment and frustration generated by not knowing what the teacher wants.
(Just because you pop the hood on a Chevy Corvette and show students its engine, that doesn’t mean any of them has the least comprehension of how to change its oil.)
Those who really know how a story is written can explain it. Those who don’t, can’t. And when someone can’t explain it, then the Oz Factor usually comes into play. Recently a teaching colleague of mine who is not a novelist forwarded a taped interview to me. It featured an obscure short-story author describing how an idea grows in his mind before it morphs to the page as though in a dream. If that works for him, terrific, but it doesn’t explain anything to anyone else, does it? And after all, idea generation isn’t what most students need to know anyway. They need to know how to turn their ideas into viably plotted tales.
Utilizing a monkey-see, monkey-do method instead of teaching nuts-and-bolts craft is a bogus approach–however well-intentioned–to writing instruction.
My experience with young writers is that they often feel their writing instructor is all-seeing and all-knowing, but that this knowledge of writing is hoarded or that their teacher possesses special skills but chooses not to share them. Writing is therefore perceived as an ability granted only to a special few members of the inner circle. These are the elite participants in class, the ones the teacher favors. Once again, the Oz Factor is at work. Some writing wizard has snowed these inexperienced acolytes, taken their tuition money in exchange for a diploma, and promised them knowledge they never acquire. And sadly, sometimes the more prestigious the writing program, the thicker the snow job.
Consider the 1987 comedy film, THROW MOMMA FROM THE TRAIN, in which Billy Crystal plays a writing teacher. Yes, there is comedic exaggeration in the movie, but his method of teaching illustrates the fakery I’m discussing in this post. He tells his class, “A writer writes!”
When I watch the classroom scenes, I’m reminded of another movie, 1962’s THE MUSIC MAN, where the con man Professor Hill introduces the “think method” to the band members, assuring them that if they think long enough about the tune he’s assigned they’ll be able to play it. In the film’s happy ending, the “think method” works just enough to save Hill from being tarred and feathered.
But in THROW MOMMA FROM THE TRAIN, what caliber of writing is submitted by Billy Crystal’s students? Dreck.
As a teacher, he’s frustrated with his students and struggles visibly to be courteous. He gives blatantly false praise, and he ditches class at every opportunity. Yet what has he actually taught them? Nothing. The only student he ever shares any writing craft with is Owen, and then only because Owen stalks and pesters him for knowledge. And because he inadvertently teaches Owen–much in the way he might toss a stick into the shrubbery to distract a rambunctious puppy from bothering him–Owen eventually writes a viable plot that’s published.
When wizards of Oz assign students to write a story, they–like Billy Crystal’s character–offer no nuts and bolts instruction of how to do so. Instead, like him, they say in effect, “Just do it. If you’re talented, then you can write. If you can’t write, then you aren’t talented.”
Students that manage to scrawl some kind of loose narrative in such classes are praised. Maybe they’re invited to read their effort to the rest of the class. And although their story may be contrived, ludicrous, or fail to reach a cathartic climax, they’ve written! Behold the effort. Ignore the result.
All the while, a far more talented student may be scrunched down in the back of the class, her mind teeming with a fantastic story world and dynamic characters, yet she’s blocked from writing because she can’t bridge the chasm between her mind and the page. There must be some way to move her characters to the next plot event, but how? If she asks the teacher–a wizard will brush her off, saying, “You haven’t read enough. Go look at James Joyce. Or pay more attention to what your peers are doing.”
Adding to the student’s confusion are the rambling scribbles of classmates praised for writing what her story sense tells her is poorly plotted. If she dares disagree or asks too many questions about construction specifics, she’s likely to encounter the elitist blockade of the Oz Factor. If she probes too deeply into what the teacher doesn’t know–thereby jeopardizing the Oz mask–this student will be told she just doesn’t understand and should consider doing something besides write.
Of course she doesn’t understand the puffery and obfuscation of what should be a clear, easy-to-grasp process of conveying exciting, reader-engrossing story. The writing principles that make a plot flow, that keep readers turning pages, that generate excitement and emotion in readers, have been in play since antiquity. They are simple and clear. They are proven. Sophocles understood them. Shakespeare understood them. Agatha Christie understood them.
But not all so-called writing instructors understand them.
In praising or rewarding weak writing that may be stylish, witty, pretty, or profane–while offering next to no plot–and in ignoring dynamic storylines that wobble but could roll if given correct guidance, these wizards perpetuate a phony pseudo-fiction that doesn’t come close to a soundly plotted genre story and satisfies only the elitist audience contrived for it.
Such a closed, isolated system leads eventually to extinction.
Civilization, however, needs good stories. It is through the art of the story that we share experiences and emotions. It is how we bond. It is how we realize truths. It is how we vicariously survive almost-insurmountable tests and emerge victorious. It is how we play and make believe. It is how we cheer and boo and gasp and live our dreams. It is how we discover what it means to be human–both flawed and wonderful. In these ways, stories serve our society.
Fakery and style alone cannot feed our psyches the way well-constructed stories can. Muddle teaches nothing, and when nothing is taught stories falter.
I consider Toto to be the real hero in THE WIZARD OF OZ. While the other characters are milling around and falling for the great con, Toto just pulls the curtains away and reveals the truth. That is when Dorothy’s dilemma and all the other issues are finally sorted out.
Truth, honesty, and clarity should support learning the craft of writing. Writing teachers have a responsibility to part the veil, end the mystery, and step past the purple smoke. They should draw back the curtains and show their students that scene construction is a clear, easy-to-follow process, that the judicious placement of hooks keeps readers engaged and turning pages, that characters can be introduced in myriad ways with myriad effects, that solid plots need villains, and that stories should build to a conclusive, emotionally cathartic climax built around story principles even the ancient Greeks used to pack theater seats.
As one of my students has said, “Showing the process behind things doesn’t reduce the value of the end product.”
Beware any teacher that proclaims writing can’t be taught. Writing skills certainly can, and should be.
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Service Chiefs Want To Retire But Buhari Hasn’t Give Them Directives – Fayemi
Chairman of Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State on Sunday said some of the current Service Chiefs are desirous of retiring but have refused to do because President Muhammadu Buhari who appointed them have refused to give them directives.
Speaking on Channels Television programme ‘Sunday Politics’, Fayemi, who advocated for the renewal of leadership in the top military echelon said that “the morale of those who should have been in the leadership positions in our security architecture is at the lowest ebb because our service chiefs are still holding sway.”
Fayemi, who said the governors will inform the President about the feelings of Nigerians on the insecurity crisis in the country, said if he was the President, he would have asked the current Service Chiefs to suggest the best of hands to succeed them and after that has been done, the service chiefs can be eased out.
“If I’m in that position, my approach would have been different. I think the Service Chiefs have served the country well. They have been committed. I know them personally and I know how well they are committed to ensuring that we get rid of this insurgency.
“But the point is, if you have done something, the same thing for five years and you have even gone beyond your retirement age. Of course, you can argue that for Service Chiefs, there is no really a retirement age. But the military has protocols and processes and from time to time, one of the really important considerations is the renewal of the leadership.
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How were the others able to handle the power of the stone?
I understand that Peter Quill was able to handle infinity stone without destroying himself possibly because his father is a (powerful?) alien of an unknown species. But how were the other Guardians of the Galaxy able to handle the power of the stone?
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Probably due to the "power of fellowship/community/friendship" or something as fuzzy. ;-) – Napoleon Wilson♦ Sep 3 '14 at 16:40
I suspect the same :) – bobbyalex Sep 3 '14 at 16:41
Though, one could also ask how Ronan could control it as well, but I guess he's quite powerful, too. – Napoleon Wilson♦ Sep 3 '14 at 17:01
Because all are non-human ;) – Ankit Sharma Sep 3 '14 at 17:02
Remember, during the Collector's explanation of what the Infinity Stones are he mentions "a group was able to share the energy" (although they were eventually destroyed). – Oliver_C Sep 3 '14 at 17:04
Over the course of the movie, we see three different "entities" try to use the power of the stone:
The Collector's assistant (daughter, I think?) tries and quite spectacularly fails, because she's just a mortal and can't handle it.
Ronan tries, and briefly succeeds, before welding it onto his war hammer. Note that, in the "flashback" scenes during The Collector's exposition, we also see the stone being wielded through another object, which appears to make the stone much more manageable. We know that Ronan is not a 'normal' mortal, so he was able to survive the stone for the short time it took to attach it to his weapon. However, it was clearly trying to destroy him even during that time.
The entire Guardians team, who were the only ones that seemed able to control the stone. But note that Peter's ability to hold the stone was hinted at in the final scene as possibly being due to his non-human father. The rest of the Guardians were only in contact with the stone through Peter.
Basically, the way I interpreted the scene is:
Quill was acting as a buffer, taking the brunt of the force of the stone for himself, but able to handle it because of his nature. The rest of the Guardians were acting as a kind of "focus": by supporting him as a team, it allowed Peter to channel the energy of the stone directly without overwhelming him.
(On a side note: this is also the reason why the Infinity Gauntlet exists in the first place: apparently, even an immortal being like Thanos would be unable to control the stones directly; he needs to embed them into an object that he can use to control and channel their power in order to use them.)
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...able to handle it because of his nature - I'm not sure Peter actually could. His face did start to disintegrate until the others joined in. – Oliver_C Sep 4 '14 at 19:53
@Oliver_C my suspicion is that anyone would have problems controlling a stone directly for very long (even, possibly, a titan like Thanos); Quill was just "better" able to handle it than most people. – KutuluMike Sep 4 '14 at 20:33
Quill was able to handle the power because he is only half human. The other half is Spartoi, a humanoid species with much longer life spans than humans, (upwards of 200years). Between this and the fact that he was sharing the power of the stone with the other 3 all of whom are non-human allowed the power to be controllable for a short time.
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Spartoi? When is it established? – Ankit Sharma Apr 3 '16 at 20:29
In the comics his father is Spartoi, but there's evidence that the creators of this version of Quill aren't going with that route. See: Who is Peter Quill/Star-Lord's father? – Möoz Apr 3 '16 at 21:44
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The tourism industry in India is booming at a fast pace. Shimla recently saw a deathly traffic jam that kept more then thousands got stuck along with all other tourists in the Shimla and Manali route.
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It was Saturday evening when the incident took over the news where a long traffic jam was witnessed on the roads leading- Shimla from Shoghi and Kufri from the Dhali tunnel. The reasons given by the passengers were heavy rainfall and inadequate parking areas. It is noted that more than 4,500 tourist vehicles enter Manali and 5,000 from Shimla every day, creating the condition of the traffic more worst.
“As Shimla doesn’t have enough parking spaces, the tourist has no choice but to park their vehicles on roadsides, which leads to traffic jams,” says Kamal Kishor, Deputy Superintendent of Police (traffic) to Hindustan Times.
It is also told that the traffic increases during peak seasons. A visitor from Ludhiana says the Times of India- “ We are on the third visit to Shimla. But this time, the number of vehicles in Shimla was relatively larger, We got stuck in a traffic jam near Chotta Shimla for nearly an hour.” The hotels were jam-packed with the crowd from different places and were booked in full capacity. Also, Shimla is well-liked due to its pleasant climate. But, this Saturday the climate has taken a back seat.
Congestion has always been the issue in many places where passengers get jammed in a place for a long time thus draining them impatient. Cars are never seen parked in the areas allotted to them rather they are seen in between the road thus blocking the way for many others. There should be proper traffic guidelines and traffic policing during peak hours.
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900 Saint Clair Avenue West
Toronto Ontario M6C 1C5
Contemporary urban living takes center stage at this luxurious midtown luxury residence that caters to today’s active urbanite looking for straightforward answers in a complicated world.
St. Clair Village Condos is a mid-rise condominium currently in pre-construction. This project made by Canderel and KingSett Capital that is located at 900 St. Clair Avenue West in the York neighbourhood of Oakwood Village, and has an occupancy date of October 2021.
As the next vertically-focused residence to spring up along this midtown streetcar corridor, this future mid-rise condo looks to further the intensive development that has reinvigorated this venerable Toronto street.
Owing to its practical solutions for moving around the city, midtown becomes the ideal compromise between an overcrowded downtown core and a remote suburban sprawl. By choosing this condo, you can become the centre of attention with this stunningly-designed new condo that provides an ideal city lifestyle free of demanding commutes.
Enjoy the best that the city can offer instead of always contending with its worst. Invest in a midtown condo and incorporate vibrant urban living into your lifestyle.
This Quadrangle-designed condo will contain a total of 122 living units spread throughout its 12 storey-tall structure.
Suites will range from 450 to 1,301 square feet in size. Available room models include 1-bedroom, 1-bedroom + den, 2-bedroom, 2-bedroom + den, and 3-bedroom units, of which combo units are available.
1-bedroom units range between 450 and 566 square feet; 1-bedroom + den units will measure from 560 to 701 square feet; 2-bedroom units will have an area space between 733 and 895 square feet; 2-bedroom + den units will take up anywhere between 875 and 1,124 square feet in space; and 3-bedroom units will measure from 998 to 1,301 square feet.
Total of 122 living units spread throughout its 12 storey-tall structure
Underground parking spaces will be available to buy for purchasers of units exceeding 732 square feet in size, while purchasers for storage lockers located on P1 will be put on a waiting list. The parking complex will be two levels deep, of which all lockers will be located on the P1 level.
In addition to these spacious accommodations, these condo units will be decorated with a number of upmarket finishes, each contributing towards a decadent and unparalleled living experience.
Standard features include 9 foot-high ceilings, integrated kitchen appliances, designer cabinetry with contemporary panel doors, halogen track lighting, kitchen islands, balconies and terraces (as per plan).
A Mixed-use Developmentin the York neighbourhood of Oakwood Village
Deluxe "Collection Suites" will feature special upgrades that include an exclusive Miele appliance package that include a refrigerator, an electric oven, a cooktop, a hood fan, and a wine fridge, and also modern wide-plank engineered hardwood flooring in all rooms (except bathrooms and laundry).
To complement this stunning array of interiors, this condo will also provide a full range of opulent amenities.
Residents will be serviced by a 16-hour concierge located in a condo lobby equipped with a warm fireplace set against the cool sleekness of a stone backdrop.
This condo will also be home to a modern-style fitness room filled with contemporary fitness equipment, an elegant wine and co-working lounge with temperature-controlled wine storage as well as an exclusive “Club 900” indoor party room with accompanying outdoor terrace.
Meanwhile, an expansive 2,526-square-foot rooftop terrace will provide residents with spectacular views of the downtown core.
As well, this mixed-use development will reserve 975 square meters of space for retail use at ground level. Conceptual drawings show a two-storey glass facade that opens up to face both St Clair and Alberta Avenue, creating a warm retail space that livens up the surrounding neighbourhood.
In addition to enjoying all the comforts of home in this veritable lap of luxury, residents at St. Clair Village can enjoy the best in urban living due to a central midtown location where transit and services can all be found conveniently close by.
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Modernizing the math classroom
By Paul Katula
Putting the polynomial division and imaginary zeros of algebra 2 in the crosshairs, The Wall Street Journal writes about how Steven Levitt, Conrad Wolfram, and other reformers are “pushing for a more equitable [mathematics] curriculum that better equips students for a data-driven world.”
Mr Levitt, the co-author of Freakonomics, has a simple plan for high school math: Condense algebra 1, geometry, and algebra 2 into two years and devote the freed-up third year of high school math to topics that are more relevant, such as data science or financial literacy.
The new curriculum would acknowledge the role computers play while advancing the ideas of data literacy, broadening the pathways to college acceptance, and preparing students for real-life issues, including amortizing a mortgage, evaluating the impact of waste on the environment, or deciphering infection rates of Covid-19.
A typical data science course, says Stanford professor Jo Boaler, might involve using real data sets to evaluate problems such as the spread of wildfires in California or hidden trends within crime rates.
Mr Wolfram, the author of the book The Math Fix: An Education Blueprint for the AI Age, says the fundamental problem with today’s math curriculum is that it doesn’t acknowledge that computers exist. He believes the process of mathematics involves four separate phases or steps:
Pose the right question
Turn that into a math model or setup
Do the calculation
Turn the answer back into the real world and critically verify it
“We should be using computers to do step 3, except in rare cases where it is still useful to do mental arithmetic,” he says in a 2013 address. “And we should be using students to do a lot more of steps 1, 2, and 4. We don’t want students to be third-rate computers; we want them to be first-rate problem-solvers.”
Without a total makeover, he says math education in the US runs the risk of becoming as obscure as Latin: “The big question is, how and when it changes,” the Journal quoted him as saying.
Part of the answer to Mr Wolfram’s big question is getting states to approve any changes to the curriculum and getting colleges and universities to accept the new coursework for credit when students apply for admission.
Ms Boaler is on a committee now working with California’s state education department, and she is also working with Stanford and other California universities to acknowledge the replacement of data science or other real-world math courses for algebra 2, the Journal noted.
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Firefox Fission will avert nasty Spectre-style attacks
One of the most widely feared and an unpopular, unpleasant instance experienced in the online world was the discovery of Spectre. The vulnerability affected nearly every computer chip (modern processors) manufactured in the last 20 years and impacted system performance significantly. Fortunately, this tragedy was reversed by the combined efforts of security researchers. Fast forward a year; we learn Mozilla is working on a project – Firefox Fission to keep your computer safe from the nasty Meltdown and Spectre CPU security flaws.
Firefox Fission will offer better security
Mozilla is aiming to build a more robust browser that would not only offer protection against known security vulnerabilities but also feature layers of built-in defense against potential future vulnerabilities. To accomplish this, the developers have already started to revamp the architecture of Firefox and support full Site Isolation.
Over the last year, we have been working to lay the groundwork for Fission, designing new infrastructure. In the coming weeks and months, we’ll need help from all Firefox teams to adapt our code to a post-Fission browser architecture.
Fission is a massive project, spanning across many different teams, so keeping track of what everyone is doing is a pretty big task. While we have a weekly project meeting, which someone on your team may already be attending, we have started also using a Bugzilla project tracking flag to keep track of the work we have in progress, said Nika Layzell, a Firefox platform engineer, in a blog post.
The makers of the browser haven’t yet set a deadline for the completion of the project. However, they have assured to complete the shipping of its elements in the Firefox Nightly test version when it’s ready.
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Connie Walters
Connie Walters has been named vice president of employment law for Cox Enterprises. She will report to Cox Enterprises Senior Vice President and General Counsel Jennifer Hightower.
Walters will serve as key legal adviser to Cox Enterprises’ People Solutions organization by providing employment law policy and employee relations subject matter expertise, investigation guidance and recommendations in resolving employee relations issues.
“Connie’s experience in managing complex employment matters and her commitment to Cox’s core value of always doing the right thing are assets to the Cox family of businesses,” Hightower said. “Her leadership of our employment law team will serve us well as we work to support our businesses and serve our most important resource — our employees.”
Walters joined Cox Automotive in 2012 and was most recently assistant general counsel of employment. In that role, she supported the People Solutions leadership team, providing advice and counsel to Human Resources professionals on all aspects of employment-related matters.
Prior to Cox Automotive, Walters worked with the Employment Learning Innovations, two Atlanta-based law firms and the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
Walters earned her bachelor’s degree in economics and international studies from Michigan State University, and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School.
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How digital transformation shaped the lucrative K-pop industry
Victoria Ticha
There are four useful lessons that businesses can learn from K-pop's digital transformation success, says a UNSW Business School expert
K-pop has become a thriving cultural and global enterprise because the industry invested in technologies that enabled creative communication between fans and content producers, says Dr Felix Tan.
K-pop (Korean pop) is not just a music genre; it is a global phenomenon. Hailed as "South Korea's greatest export" by Time magazine, it is one of the most lucrative industries in the world.
But how has K-pop become such a thriving cultural and global enterprise? Felix Tan, Senior Lecturer in the School of Information Systems and Technology Management at UNSW Business School, says digital transformation has driven much of K-pop's industry change towards success in recent years.
Together with colleagues, Dr Tan set out to find how the digital transformation of ecosystems unfolded within the K-pop industry from 2015 to 2018. Their paper Digital transformation of business ecosystems: Evidence from the Korean pop industry was published by the Informations System Journal in April this year.
So what role has IT played in accelerating K-pop's success, and what lessons can companies take away from its digital transformation success?
1. Explore new boundaries
K-pop's robust business ecosystem consists of an array of stakeholders who all have different interests and roles in making it a success: artists, entertainment companies, media, fans, digital platforms and event managers. Some have been present in the business ecosystem for a long time, while others joined more recently as the industry started to incorporate the use of IT, explains Dr Tan.
Because technology helps shift boundaries, it also enables the commercialisation of innovation, allowing for the development and creation of new interdependencies between the existing stakeholders of a business ecosystem.
The crucial role of IT, and the digital platforms that support these technologies, is to drive the reshaping of boundary practices and these essential practices enable the formation and transformation of new business ecosystems, explains Dr Tan.
"[So] when we talk about the role of technologies, it is really to enable these new interdependencies and new capabilities for commercialising innovations within that business ecosystem to be developed," he says.
2. Treat the creative process as a commodity
The researchers also discuss the importance of platforms in allowing for the commoditisation of creative content.
"The commoditisation of creativity invites different stakeholders within a business ecosystem to come together and join in core innovation to build effective content generation and delivery," explains Dr Tan.
The success of K-pop has also proven that language barriers don't matter; instead, it is the clever use of technology for the public dissemination, consumption and commodification of the creative content that leads to success.
"It is also developing a template in which people can readily consume this creative content – technology plays a huge part here," he says.
3. Create a digital identity
Another key takeaway that businesses can utilise is to create thoughtful digital identities through technology.
"It makes it easier for consumers to understand your value proposition and your value creation process," says Dr Tan. He suggests businesses must have considered dialogues and engage with the customers if they are to stay relevant and survive in the new era.
Businesses must invest in technology that allows them to create more relevant content and deliver better processes – another thing the K-pop industry has done so well.
"Businesses must treat data as a new currency [and] use data to enable new partnerships, new ways of commercialising innovations and fixing customer problems," continued Dr Tan.
The paper also highlights that IT-enabled multidirectional communications among fans, content providers and content producers played a huge role in K-pop's success. Much like how K-pop relies on its engaged fan base, companies should learn from this by creating spaces for more meaningful dialogues with their customers, as businesses cannot be silent.
4. Leverage platforms
Platforms can change the way people consume information. "Twitter and Facebook became the leading platforms for fans to share information and news about artists, including behind‐the‐scenes footage for weekly music shows, fan‐subbed material and images taken by fans," explains Dr Tan.
Notably, Korean became the seventh language that Twitter supported from 2010 when the social media platform partnered with Korean web portal Daum to display Korean tweets.
"So what the platforms that Facebook and Twitter do, is that they reduce the search costs of suppliers and consumers of the business to a very low level, so the barriers of entry to this content are very low," says Dr Tan.
But the platform also must maintain a close dialogue with consumers and suppliers of the content. "Hence, what is created is exactly what the consumers want and what the consumers are willing to pay for," continues Dr Tan.
"The lasting impact of this has been that there are now new ways of creation and commercialising ideas and innovation; there will be new economic communities, interactive organisations and individuals that are created as a result of the digital transformation between 2010 to 2018," he adds.
Indeed, K-pop utilises technology in a way that enables the development and transformation of an existing business ecosystem, and Dr Tan suggests this process can be applied to several industries, and not just K-pop.
For the full article 4 lessons in digital transformation from the lucrative K-pop industry, visit BusinessThink which shares the latest UNSW Business School research stories, analysis, evidence-based opinion and insights
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Is It Time For ‘Dining Time Limit’ In NYC Restaurants?
Zagat Survey Says 60 Percent Of Americans Think People Take Too Long To Eat August 24, 2011 at 10:59 pm
Filed Under:Dining time limit, Scott Rapoport, The Four Seasons, Zagat Guide
You may soon have to pay more if you want to eat during prime time hours at NYC restaurants. (credit: CBS 2)
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — It is a timeless experience, but not in a good way.
You wait and wait in a packed restaurant for your table, but nobody gets up to leave.
However, according to a new survey many diners say it’s time for a change.
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You’ve seen it a million times: someone or a group of people hogging a table for two hours. It’s almost like you want to get their attention, point to your watch and say, “hey, tick-tock, dude.”
On Wednesday, CBS 2’s Scott Rapoport spoke to some annoyed diners that said they just wish more people showed common decency.
“I wish they would move along and leave so I can sit down,” one person said.
Related: New York’s 10 Best Gastropubs
That seems to be the sentiment of many restaurant goers these days. A nationwide Zagat survey of diners says 60 percent of foodies favor putting time limits on people eating at restaurants during peak hours.
“I agree because then you give everyone a chance to sit there,” one person said.
If done, it would eliminate the seemingly endless wait for tables created by lingering customers and their marathon-like meals.
C’mon, you know who you are.
“They should be courteous and get up and leave,” one diner said.
Oh wait, not so fast say others.
“I wouldn’t want a time limit because I wouldn’t want a time limit imposed on me,” one person said.
At the iconic and posh Four Seasons restaurant in Manhattan, where a dinner for two can run $500, owner Julian Niccolini says time limits are off limits.
“I think it’s disrespectful because they are basically rushing you out,” Niccolini said.
At The Four Seasons, the average dinner lasts about 2 hours, 45 minutes. And if it’s longer … so be it.
“I think when people go out they should enjoy themselves. After all, they’re spending their own money,” Niccolini said.
Yeah, but try saying that at the Balilo diner, where customers are in and out in about 20 minutes.
“Half an hour at the most,” one patron said.
It is food for thought for the next time you sit down for a long meal, because to somebody waiting, the clock may be ticking.
Workers at The Four Seasons restaurant said the longest meal there was five hours. It included champagne, white wine, red wine, cognac and then cigars, which are no longer permitted.
Do you think there should be a dining time limit in NYC? Please offer your thoughts in the comments section below.
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Pete Hoekstra’s racist Super Bowl campaign ad feeds — and feeds on — paranoia about China
By Gil Asakawa | February 9, 2012 - 1:41 pm | February 16, 2012 asian american, japan & asia, media, politics, pop culture, race
(NOTE: Updates posted at bottom, including more parodies as they’re posted and more crazy stuff from Pete Hoekstra as he says them).
This ad was shown during the Super Bowl, but only in Michigan, where former Republican Congressman Pete Hoekstra is running to unseat Democratic Senator Debbie Stabenow. The 30-second spot shows a pretty young Asian woman in what looks like Vietnam, riding a bicycle among rice paddies with a conical hat slung over her back, who stops and says to the camera, “Thank you Michigan senator Debbie Spend It Now,” for contributing to U.S. deficit spending and borrowing more and more money from China.
Yes, the ad shows Southeast Asia (a familiar sight to anyone with even a modicum of familiarity with world history of the past 40 years, and certainly Hoekstra) but it bashes China as a way to get at Stabenow. The woman in the ad never says “China” but it’s clear who the target is, as the woman speaks in her sort-of-broken English, after a gong (that’s not a cliche at all) starts off the spot:
“Debbie spent so much american money, you borrow more and more from us. Your economy get very weak. Ours get very good. We take your jobs. Thank you debbie spend it now.”
The ad is so chockfull of racially-charged symbolism it’s disgusting as well as unintentionally comical (some Chinese are puzzled because they can see immediately the setting isn’t China).
It’s messed up and offensive on multiple levels, and not just because Hoekstra’s campaign chose to mash together westerner’s scant knowledge of Asia into one image: “Oh, relax, it’s all Oriental, right?” It plays on stereotypes of the “Hot Asian Babe,” Asians’ broken English, sense of superiority over outdated notions of third-world rice farming economies, and fear of China/Japan/Koreans/Viet Cong/the Asian flavor-of-the-year.
It’s also politically very dishonest.
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Doña Ana County Republican Party chairman resigns after social media rant
By Andy Lyman | August 15, 2017
After lashing out on Facebook at “leftists” for “getting exactly what they asked for” just a day after a rally of white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia turned violent, Doña Ana County Republican Party chairman Roman Jimenez has resigned. Jimenez posted his thoughts on the county party’s Facebook page. Almost immediately, people across the state called for Jimenez to resign or for the county party to remove him from his position. Criticism came from Democrats and Republicans alike, including the state Republican Party chairman. On Tuesday afternoon, Victor Contreras announced he would take over the Doña Ana County chair position until the county central committee meets to find a permanent replacement.
A day after Charlottesville white supremacist rally, county GOP chair blames ‘leftists,’ ‘Soros’ for violence
By Matthew Reichbach | August 13, 2017
After a white supremacist rally in Virginia, during which a woman was killed and over a dozen people injured, a Republican Party county chairman lashed out at “leftists” and George Soros. A now-deleted statement on the Facebook page of the Doña Ana Republican Party attributed to chairman Roman Jimenez blamed “leftist protesters” for violence and said “they’re getting exactly what they asked for.”
Republican Party of New Mexico chairman Ryan Cangiolosi said on Twitter he “fully repudiates Jimenez’s statement, which does not reflect the views of the RPNM or the Repub Party of Doña Ana County.” Here is the full statement from Jimenez:
These violent, leftist protesters are the brainless robots that are created by evil Soros money. The white ones have been taught to hate their color, the women are taught to hate men, black and minorities want to kill whites and police. They then have the audacity to call conservatives racist.
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Pearce Las Cruces office vandalized
By Matthew Reichbach | March 29, 2017
A Las Cruces office for U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce was egged this week, according to reports. The Las Cruces Sun-News reported the Las Cruces Police Department said the front door of the office was the only area to be egged. In addition to LCPD, Pearce’s office contacted the U.S. Capitol Police. Pearce denounced the actions in a statement to NM Political Report, saying the “act of vandalism is beyond civil discourse.”
“All of my congressional offices belong to the people of NM-02, and are essential to the everyday operations of assisting people with their social security, veteran benefits, and much more,” Pearce said in the emailed statement. “I thank my Las Cruces staff for cleaning up the mess so that we can resume work as usual for constituents.”
While Pearce’s office said they don’t know who egged the office, the Doña Ana County Republican Party said on Facebook, “This behavior has been a consistent pattern from the Democrat party and their affiliate groups.”
In February, hundreds of people held a protest outside the Las Cruces office and called for Pearce to hold a town hall.
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Coworkers, Deli, Health & Body, Holidays, Minnesota, USA | Working | December 22, 2017
(I work part time in a grocery store deli. It’s around Christmas time when one of my coworkers brings in gifts she made for everyone in the form of some homemade sweets, like caramels and hot cocoa mix, all together in a plastic jar. She gives me mine.)
Coworker: “Here you go. I remember you’re allergic to nuts so I just gave you extra caramels instead of the nut clusters.”
Me: “Awesome. Thank you so much!”
(I put the jar away in the sandwich station fridge and go back to work. However, something is bothering me about the gift: I can’t quite place where I’ve seen those slender jars before. After a little while, I ask her.)
Me: “Hey [Coworker].”
Coworker: “Yeah?”
Me: “Where’d you get those jars you used?”
Coworker: “Oh, it’s just a peanut jar.”
(I pause, and stare at her silently.)
Coworker: “…oh. S***.”
(In her defence, she says she washed it out, but I still ended up just giving it to my roommate rather than risk it.)
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SHTF Content: RoE Civil Unrest
Reposted from comments: Civil Unrest by Violent Extremists.
What exactly are the Rules of Engagement for civilians during a breakdown in Civil Order when Teh Police are incapacitated or otherwise unable/unwilling to respond – especially when those who have actively precipitated and participated in causing that breakdown are threatening you on your doorstep?
Recent #OWSFail activity in Socialist-mismanaged municipalities (Oakland, CA) show a strong tendency for the Socialist-imprimatur Judicial-Class (in that jurisdiction) to be lenient on pampered, brainwashed, full-grown, mentally-stunted affluent “Activists” who wantonly and feloniously destroy hard-earned private property (for the fleeting, briefly-stimulated pleasure of an ideology), but have never had to earn any of it themselves and indeed are quite incompetent to do so.
1.) Are there really any “innocent” active-participants in rioting and thuggery?
2.) Is a simple camera or camera-phone really a sufficient *excuse* to participate in mass-activism and still sustain plausible deniability and avoiding a Second-Degree warrant?
3.) When such *participation* results in destruction, injury, or death is that not still a Felony, Assault in the Second Degree? Can that be plea-bargained down to Reckless endangerment in the second degree? Can I bend them over a waterboard and give them the THIRD degree?
4.) Do you submit to being deprived of your immediate and future life by stupid ass-clown thugs with metal teeth, or deprived of the rest of your life by incarceration, under a heartless .Gov?
5.) Does the guy asshole hiding his identity under the black hoodie get the first one? (Guess!)
6.) After you finish with them, do you submit the cleanup bill to their dumb-ass parents who failed them so miserably in Life?
Tagged Communists in Office, Eco-Fascists, Lower Education Bubble, Nimrods and Bozons, Obamunism, Old School Communists, Preparedness
Class Warfare Meme
Following Tam, I wandered over to Sonic Charmer at Rhymes With Cars & Girls to smarten-up and git me some edumacation. While there I chanced to drop a comment at Andrea’s Spleenville, where the meme-in-progress was being rendered with What color is your bubble?, who goes on a good tear and says:
Anyway, for your amusement, I’m going to answer RWCG-guy’s parodic takeoff on the test.
And I thought, “Hey, Likewise!” Somebody please score me because I went to California schools where they used us as New-Math guinea-pigs, and subsequently I can’t do the math.
But first my Certificata from Test-Ology Camp, and before I attempt to gather some cleverness together, first I have my say.: UPDATE: bLAH-BLAH-bLAH
Moi? Part of the New Upper Colostomy? So, on to the fun part:
Ivy league? Went to one (or Stanford): 2 points. 0 or Oops 2 – does three Quarters at Stanford count as anything? I am too close to the local Megaversity.
# of Malcolm Gladwell books read? Who? 0
Best TV show in history? 0 – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea! Sheesh, or Rat Patrol! The Wire? 2 points. The Sopranos? 1 point. Never watched a single episode of either of those shows, don’t have/never had cable. Is CableTV a prerequisite for Teh NEW Upper Class or a precursor for Teh Damned Lower Class – is it a Uniter or a Divider?
Complete the sentence: “The science is AMAZING! VULCANOLOGY! ” Huh? Settled? 2 points. In: ? WTF? In ?? 1 point. 0 – I see what you’re trying to do there but it won’t work and you shouldn’t sneak in another UN Globular Whore-ming question.
(a) People drive too much (b) I live in a big city where PARKING is teh SUXXOR and car-robbery is rampant: Both: 2 points. (a) only: 1 point. 0 (c) Ride a motorcycle and be even more Elitist and Superior! Where’s my freakin’ Flying Car they promised, you call this The Future?
What’s there to do in K-Town? 0-k, K-whaa? Karaoke and Korean food: 2 points?? Korean food: 1 point? Kolkatta on the Hoogly where the flying fishes play, and the sun comes up like thunder out of Burma ‘cross the Bay…
Name a sport that’s on the decline. 0 Baseball is a sport? Don’t they play Baseball-games? As Hemingway said, Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports, all the others are games...
Zagat? Have it: 2 points. Know what it is: 1 point. 0 – Something to do with Android phones, or iPhones that all the rich (employed) assholes have?
I helped recommend my college friend for a job he/she got/got a job from a college friend’s recommendation.Both: 2 points. One: 1 point. 0 – I didn’t get any help (or was in a position to offer any) from College friends for anything, jobs or nuthin – and don’t have much connection with the ones I went to School with – I guess it didn’t “stick”.
Worse grades in college, Bush or Kerry? Bush: 2 points. I see what you’re doing there, but the premise of that question is flawed: 1 point. 0 – Kerry had ’em worse.
What’s the matter with: Wassamatta-U Kansas? 2 points. That’s a sentence fragment: 1 point. I heard it was a book or something by an Edu-snoot.
Good reason for private elementary school for your kids? I believe class size/personalized attention is bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla anecdote about your own kid]: 2 points. I researched a lot of bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla and an X% effect with an R^2 of [bla bla]: 1 point. 0 – Private Schools are good and necessary to counter and avoid the propaganda and dumbing-down of education that occurs in Teachers-Union Government Skools, but really you should get off your ass and Home-School like I was, partly anyhow.
Bush’s Brain: Yes I saw that documentary, what about it?: 2 points. Um, is dumb/damaged? (duh): 1 point. – 0 this question is a h8er.
(a) Approve of Obamacare (b) haven’t read it/pretty much don’t know the details at all: Both: 2 points. (a) only: 1 point. 0 – No. NEVER, there’s no excuse for it.
Sarah Palin would be a terrible President because she’s:Dumb and crazy: 2 points. Crazy: 1 point. 0 – She’s brilliant and all the rest is h8ter propaganda and some dork who thinks it’s not her child.
Name two Nobel Prize winners. Nobel, Barack Obama and Paul Krugman: 2 points. Barack Obama and (someone else): 1 point. Paul who? The Peace Prize Terrrorist Killer Obama? Heisenberg! Eugene O’Neill! No Nobel Prizes awarded between 1940 and 1943, wonder why, think maybe #OCCUPYNORWAY might have somethign to do with it?
After she graduates from grad school you’d be most pleased for your daughter to get a job at a: Nonprofit: 2 points. Hedge fund: 1 point. I don’t have any children. If I had them, I’d be pleased if they got a job anywhere that got them out of the house.
(a) Believe in Anthropogenic Global Warming (b) know nothing about climate modeling and have never studied let alone engaged in anything of the sort: Both: 2 points. (a) only: 1 point. No, it’s a fraud on an international scale that’s rapidly coming apart.
Podcast: This American Life: 2 points. Other NPR-related: 1 point. The Vicious Circle – only podcast I ever heard about – but I don’t listen to podcasts.
Fill in the blank: GUNBOAT Diplomacy! Smart: 2 points. Cowboy (as in “Bush’s Cowboy diplomacy”): 1 point. 0
Constitution and Obamacare: I don’t see how Obamacare can be unconstitutional: 2 points. I recognize the tension but I pretend not to and instead insist on arguing that Obamacare fits inside the Commerce Clause: 1 point. Didn’t we already have an Obamacare question? It’s un-Constitutional and Illegal and WRONG.
Alexander Payne movie: Max Payne? Sideways: ?Quel? 2 points. Citizen Ruth: ?1 point. Never heard of him, don’t go to movies – saw Sideways on DVD.
(a) Cities are great because of all the cultural opportunities, like the symphony/museums/etc. (b) Don’t really go to the symphony/museums/etc.Both: 2 points. (a) only: 1 point. Cities are places with stuff all gathered into one place, and the Military calls it a TARGET. Bombs away!
A kind of tax we need more of: Pigouvian: 2 points. Value-added (or financial-transaction): 1 point. 0?? Pig-what? LESS taxes of all kinds, taxes are STUPID.
Who’s dumber, a PhD or an MBA? MBA: 2 points. PhD: 1 point. A PhD with an MBA. PhD’s generally are blockheads who stop thinking and can’t be taught anything more once the sheepskin hits their hot and sweaty little fist.
OK, I’m done – put a fork in me…
Tagged Communists in Office, Old School Communists
Why We Don’t Have Flying Cars – Part#1
Part #1. The Education System. (H/T Midwest Chick at Non Original Rants).
Certainly much more is available on the utter and abject failures (some intentional, some structural, all insidious) of the Leviathan tentacle I call Behemoth Educratology, much of which can be found in the writings of Gun-Rendezvouser and friend Kevin Baker at The Smallest Minority, but MidwestChick delivers this superb gem.
Seriously, does the Obama team do any fact-checking?
This particular factoid from the SOTU is quite ironic. The Colorado school (grades 6-12) that Obama praised (School Hailed by Obama Succeeded by Firing Teachers, Bucking Union) as a model school is one who was granted an exemption from union rules in 2007. They had all teachers re-apply for their jobs and only six made the cut. The school’s first graduating class had a graduation rate of 97%. You’d think that his fact-checkers should know that this school goes in direct opposition to Obama’s connection with the teachers unions. So, at least one path on the step to student success is the punting of teachers unions. Interesting….
Thank-you MidwestChick!
Tagged Old School Communists
Weasel Boy Marky-Marxisty
Look it up in Wikipedia and see a picture of a Weenie. Firedoglake – I should have known, havn’t been there in over five years, it’s a third-circle of Hell mental wasteland. The smoke and stench that comes off the burning lake drives people mad, and those who swim in it are intellectual skeletons. After reading a number of sources and comments about this vicious-tongued, violent-minded little creep – a hairy little mental-midget – one common thread of opinion emerges: “He must have got beat up a lot in school.”
I doubt it, because fights and violence teach a lesson whether you like it or not and produce at a minimum, interaction with concrete “facts” and physics – and evidently he has not learned much outside his little bubble worldview. I submit he has zero actual experience with violence apart from movies, video-games, and comic books – and based on his motor-mouth skills I’m guessing he’s been able to avoid it entirely. Violence might have taught him something, empathy at least for victims of Government – but I suspect even that is too much to ask his shriveled husk of a brain.
Kids like him, JournoListas, have been coddled their entire lives and grown-up in an affluent hot-house bubble. That’s what makes it so easy for them espouse the actual, violent views of unrestrained Marxist ideologues – they have no idea what threats of real violence and subjugation their political policies demand. Their contempt for Capitalism also shows they also have no idea how much sweat and actual labor it takes to work and save and buy a car, so that you can stop taking the bus (or bicycle) and get to work in a better job, in a better place, on time and advance your career – or what it’s like to have your stuff stolen by thieves. Kids like him live in a Lotus-land of pre-provided prestige and opportunity and get their “jobs” the old-fashioned way, through patronage. And they call them selves journalists.
Tagged Communists in Office, Machine Politics, Media Political Machine, Old School Communists
Obamerica
What a day. H/T Alan But FIRST it was the thing with the kids that got me.
Despite and amid all the circus smoke, buckets of tinsel and confetti, and wacky mirrors of ginned-up “outrage” over AIG and the general confusion caused by money in amounts so huge it could go around the Moon twice, yesterday the US House of Representatives shamed itself in a huge way. They might as well have poured a bucket of liquid excrement upon themselves.
It pushed-through something called the “The Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act” – known as the GIVE Act, by a 321-105 margin, which now goes to the Senate. It s eems there’s even a provision for Uniforms(SEC. 1508.) and of a PERMANENT CADRE.
Since when in a Republic (or a real Democracy) do we use the Euro-words “cadre”? It’s a kinda give-away to who’s/which Central Committee is planning this…
Obama Youth will be indoctrinated in the principle of “service learning,” which will be a “mandatory part of the youth curriculum in all of the secondary schools served by the local educational agency”. I think it sounded better in original German in the 1930’s when it was announced on the floor of the Reichstag – before they burnt it down.
Then there’s the whole redistribution of wealth thing that’s the main, big, Rocky and Bullwinkle Media slight-of-hand, nothing-up-my-sleeve – it’s all about chewing up the airwaves and demanding attention to prevent any bit of light from being shone behind the curtain. Like the above action. And the ilegal AND unconstitutional bill of attainder, which wouldn’t pass even the most cursory constitutional challenge; so it was re-written to be broader…
Then Journalist/blogger Fetching Jen sends me an email of some further intentions by our non-taxpaying Socialist Apparatchik Overlords:
I just found out about a meeting coming up on April 2nd that is being held by Common Cause. It is being billed as a “Community Discussion about Local media” but buried in the memo is:
“The Federal Communications Commission has proposed the establishment of community advisory boards to local advise local broadcasters. How would the community benefit from this?
How would the stations benefit?
Should local print and Internet resources also have community advisory boards? Why?
The Obama administration is trying to create “advisory boards” that will control the content of all media: print, radio, television and internet (bloggers).
We must attend this meeting and stop this immediately.
The evening’s discussion will be recorded and a report submitted to local media and the Federal Communications Commission. Feedback may help establish federal policies impacting local media ownership, increased localism, the establishment of community advisory boards, radio and television licensing procedures, and more. Read the memo.
It reminds me of the time I visited a nasty little village and had to walk past an outhouse on the way to get there. The out-house was called Checkpoint Charlie and it was a rather ugly and dreary place. This is exactly how a portion of the STASI did their thing, through constant monitoring of Communication channels. Then they sent reports to their superiors.
I thought we got rid of this ugly, vile, filthy crap twenty years ago when the Berlin Wall came down – something I had prayed for ever since visiting the rotten, pustulant, open-wound that was East Berlin. It was a project that started on 6 June 1944 and was never quite finished.
But noooo, now we have a disproportionate bunch of greedy, unscrupulous, tax-evading, power-hungry Senators and Congressmen in office who have forgotten what it was all about.
Tagged Obamunism, Old School Communists, Socialist Bastards
Obama – Dreams From My Ghostwriter
H/T to GunRendezvouser American Citizen at Traction Control for the inspiration. As John McCain observed, “For A Guy Who Has Already Authored Two Memoirs He Is Not Exactly An Open Book.”
Also for a guy who’s got to demonstrate his executive experience to America, “he remains strangely silent about his eight years (1994-2002) as a director of the Joyce Foundation.” Is he a quiet guy just because of Ayers, or does that quietness include the shenanigans at the Joyce Foundation? Maybe he got a little help from another published author. What if Ayers wrote Obama’s books? That might very well explain his reticence at discussing his relationship.
In the great tradition of Democrat Politics the propaganda machine is revved-up and press-releases are pumped out, media-friendly fictions are created to enhance a candidate’s resume and position – so why is it so hard to find actual Obama scholarship and publishing? We all know now that JFK (with whom Obama likes to compare himself) didn’t himself write Profiles in Courage. He was a lousy writer but a great talker (like Obama without the teleprompter). Jackie helped but JFK’s ghost- and speech-writer was Ted “Ask-Not-What-Your-Country-Can-Do-For-You” Sorensen – and it even got him a Pulitzer Prize! That book helped established JFK’s intellectual credentials and helped make him a credible presidential candidate. It launched his political career on a Presidential trajectory – much as Obama’s two efforts are geared-towards.
Jack Cashill has written a book on intellectual fraud called Hoodwinked and says, “I developed an eye for literary humbug, and Dreams serves up an eyeful.”
Prior to 1990, when Barack Obama contracted to write Dreams From My Father, he had written very close to nothing.
As an undergraduate, Obama had written what he justifiably calls some “very bad poetry.” He published nothing under his own name in The Harvard Law Review, where he served as an editor and as president. And after leaving Harvard, he published nothing in its review or in any law journal.
Then, in 1995, this untested 33 year-old produced what Time Magazine has called–with a straight face– “the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician.”
Obama’s memoir was published in June 1995. In January 1995, Ayers had chosen Obama, then a junior lawyer at a minor law firm, to chair the multi-million dollar Chicago Annenberg Challenge grants.
In the fall of that same year, 1995, Ayers and his wife, Weatherwoman Bernardine Dohrn, launched Obama’s ascent to political stardom with a fundraiser in their Chicago home.
In short, Ayers had the means, the motive, the time, the place and the literary ability to jumpstart Obama’s career. And, as Ayers had to know, a lovely memoir under Obama’s belt made for a much better resume than an unfulfilled contract over his head.
Go read more of the Cashill analysis.
The Left loves to have their own poetry and prose published – including even such well known Nobel Laureate-frauds as Rigoberto Menchu (faked autobiography), and scientific ignoramus Algore’s An Inconvenient Fiction (using among other things, computer-generated Antarctic ice shelves from the 2004 science fiction film “The Day After Tomorrow”).
Socialist Dictators from Tajikistan to North Korea use the State to fund their insane literary efforts that every citizen has to watch and listen, sung or danced or enacted on TV – and taught in school as a part of their education. Education remember, Ayers is an Edu-guy.
Even more-so than the Mainstream Media in general, the Publishing Industry is heavily and famously pro-Democrat, so much so that most conservative books receive a negative (if not merely unresponsive) reception at best and are often pushed aside to marginal, smaller publishing houses despite an enormously successful and proven post-publishing sales record. Yet the Big Publishing Houses still offer huge advances to kack-handed and futile Lefty writers who flounder and flail (Pelosi’s book) as they seek to advance the narrative – as they so often like to put it, “By any means necessary.”
Obama dissembles lethally when he describes Ayers as “just some guy in my neighborhood.” He is much more than that and quite possibly, as I have argued, the real author of Dreams From My Father.
The publisher of Dreams, the openly liberal Peter Osnos, tells how Obama dumped his devoted long time agent after Dreams took off and then signed a seven-figure deal with Crown, using only a by-the-hour attorney.
Obama pulled off the deal after his election but before being sworn in as Senator, this way to avoid the disclosure and reporting requirements applicable to members of Congress.
Isn’t that just Hopey and Changey…
Tagged Communists in Office, Media Political Machine, Old School Communists
We are Doomed – to Socialism and to Hell
No wonder I woke-up nauseous and with a headache – it’s must be my psychic-hotline calling-in.
When you see these guys doing this, these nasty Clowns – it’s time to raise the black flag…
Kevin’s favorite quote (6:20-7:08 in the video.):
Mr. Raines: $1.1 million bonus on a $526,000 salary. Jamie Gorelick: $779,000 bonus on a salary of $567,000. This is… What you state on page 11 is nothing less than staggering. “The 1998 earnings per share value turned out to be three dollars and twenty-three cents and nine mills ($3.239) – a result that Fannie Mae met the max, the EPS maximum payout goal right down to the penny.
“Fannie Mae understood the rules and simply chose not to follow them, if Fannie Mae had followed the, the practices, there wouldn’t have been a bonus that year.”
As Ace says,
I think the worst thing about this bailout plan is it makes it nearly impossible to argue for free market solutions to problems going forward. Regardless of how much of the $700 Billion is actually spent or recouped, it will be thrown in the faces of people who say, ‘let the markets work’.
UPDATE (from my friend The Conservative UAW Guy):
Looking in at the party of elites through the farmhouse window, the common animals can no longer tell which are the pigs and which are the human beings.
George Orwell – Animal Farm
Tagged DemocratMachinePolitics, Old School Communists, Socialist Bastards
Crazy Uncle
Some thoughts: Obama’s got a problem with Organized Religion, perhaps more than one – wouldn’t be the first time a person had their own private wrestling match with Faith. But in this instance he’s gone and denounced his spiritual adviser for the Coin of Politics. There’s a very judgmental term for that act, but the Media doesn’t like Judgments, they’re a Narrative Killer.
As much as I vehemently disagree with Wright I recognize that he’s just a mouthpiece for a set of typical and well cultivated sentiments of Liberalism: Teh Victimhoodz. Cutting Wright off at the knees with his “Old Uncle” slapdown is a cheap-shtick and Obama does the rest of us no service. He especially does no service to the many who have bought-into and ingrained Teh Core-Victim Path. Will he ride off that way or go to The Bridge To Change? Getting them victims up and throwing off those crutches, tearing away the bandages from their eyes — that would be Real Change, the “Change” he says WE are, and that Obama declares he seeks — yet he does not seem to know it.
The Rev. Wright’s rhetoric is hateful and venomous, but it’s just the standard “Me!” platform of Identity Politics, and if you listen much you can hear it anywhere in my neighborhood, in the most Progressively Leftist Churches, on many bumper-stickers, and chanted at rallies.
It’s a mistake to think that Christianity is simply A Thing of the Right, unless you’re a confirmed atheist, or agnostic, and totally oblivious and unaware of the Activist Christian Left and Liberation Theology. (Thanks, Harvey Cox!) The Media make very little mention of the Lefts’ Christian Soldiers (Cadre more like) because they are an In-The-Pocket assumption, and what little Religious Narrative trickles through is fairly dismissed. When Bill Clinton attends Church it’s glossed over as a trifle, it’s no different to The Narrative than, “Bill Clinton goes shopping and eats a Big Mac.” When “during prayers” a “Cleric” of some kind goes off on an “Evil Administration, American Hating Screed” (with which they fundamentally, in Narrative agree) it’s mostly contained. glossed-over, or ignored.
Whereas the Narrative, “Republicans Court Evangelicals” is a dark (and exciting) story of misogyny and sex and exploitation, of secret societies and the racist roots of the Christian Right — mainly because they cannot find a counterpart on the left quite as juicy, or as pre-fabricated — and what they do find they simply won’t discuss. Equivalency is a One-Way street.
“Evangelicalism” is a bright and burning, straw boogy-man, simply because for Republicans the Evangelical Vote is a group that matters in quantity and substance. A similar group on The Left, the Left-Liberal Christian Pro-Choice Gay-Marriage Vote matters just as much and is equally as much presumed as is the Black Vote. But it’s Religious and they try to avoid that Narrative unless they can distance themselves, or unless the Religious do it for them with a convenient, congregational, anti-Americanism. Now they kinda have-to acknowledge the embarrassing “Revrend Wright Stuff,” since the window was opened-up and they got caught peeking-in.
The a-Thiest Equivocating Media is/are so obviously uncomfortable, un-schooled, and unfamiliar with Religion beyond a really superficial caricature: Invisible Friend In The Sky Narrative – they even deny their own deeply fundamental worship of Socialism-The-Answer-to-Religion: Invisible Che in the Future Sky. So they fumble the ball terribly. But don’t talk about it or bring it up because they are uncomfortable with Religion and it’s not fair — unless they are busy making YOU uncomfortable about religion, which is fair game and all just grist for the mill…
IPSC Sock Puppets Profiteers
From .:DANEgerus we get a listing of the Global Hoaxing “hedge”-fund profiteers. Interstingly enough (or not surprisingly, or sadly enough) Governments that have signed-on to the IPCC Kyoto scam have opened the floodgates to various tidy Lefty investment strategies and profits to be reaped (or is that raped), from taxpayers who are left with no recourse and very likely future criminal penalties for individual noncompliance.
Don’t be too surprised, some of the richest people in the world are Communists and they didn’t get that way by the sweat of their OWN brow…
* Richard Tipper of the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Management (ECCM), a consulting company deriving revenue from carbon-absorption forestry projects. According to Ecotopia, “ECCM works closely with Future Forests… Tipper helped form ECCM some months after being appointed to the LULUCF panel.”
* Mark Trexler, a founder of Trexler & Associates, a pioneering firm “poised to make millions of dollars by promoting and monitoring carbon sequestration and other ‘climate mitigation’ projects.”
* Pedro Moura-Costa, an executive of Ecosecurities Ltd., a consulting firm specializing in the “generation of Emission Reduction Credits” from carbon-offseting activities. Ecosecurities has offices in the US, the UK, Brazil, Australia and The Netherlands.
* Gareth Philips of SGS Forestry, a division of the Societe Generale de Surveillance (SGS) of Geneva, the world’s largest inspection, auditing and testing company. SGS Forestry derives revenue from its carbon forestry projects. SGS certifies Costa Rica’s carbon offsets and “hopes to expand its work.”
* Sandra Brown of Winrock International, an Arkansas-based organization which accepts contracts from “public and private” sources. Winrock “provides forest carbon monitoring technical services to U.S. government agencies and a wide range of private sector and non-governmental organizations. “
* Peter Hill of Monsanto Corporation, which has a “large stake in genetically modified organisms, including, potentially, organisms modified to take up or store carbon more efficiently.”…
The World Rainforest Movement investigated these bizarre financial ties and concluded that the IPCC report “must now be shelved due to their clear conflict of interest and a new report instigated which will be free of the taint of intellectual corruption.”
In April 2007 an investigation by the Financial Times of the carbon offsets industry reported:
* Widespread instances of people and organizations buying worthless credits that do not yield any reductions in carbon emissions.
* Industrial companies profiting from doing very little – or from gaining carbon credits on the basis of efficiency gains from which they have already benefited substantially.
* Brokers providing services of questionable or no value.
* A shortage of verification, making it difficult for buyers to assess the true value of carbon credits.
* Companies and individuals being charged over the odds for the private purchase of European Union carbon permits that have plummeted in value because they do not result in emissions cuts.
Algore’s gettin’ rich, a bunch of UN-connected dudes are scamming for all they’re worth (as per-usual) and gettin’ rich, and the UN club-for-dictators announces even scarier booga-booga! NEWS, to drive more sheep into the shearing pen.
As Phil Valentine at the Tennessean notes:
..Global warming is the perfect template for Marxism because it’s the great equalizer. The wealthier a nation, the more CO2 it produces. To atone for its sins, it must pay carbon offsets. In other words, the producing nations pay the non-producing or under-producing nations in cash for the sin of emitting a harmless gas. It’s beautiful.
The global warming movement is a way to not just confiscate money and wealth from the producers, but because of their guilt, they gladly hand it over. If Karl Marx were still alive, he’d be beaming with pride.
Tagged Eco-Tards, global retarding, Old School Communists, Public rip-off, Socialist Bastards, Stupid Politicians
Happy Reminders of Mordor
Guns and Guts reminds us that it was a scant eighteen years ago already, that,
On this day in 1989 the East German government announced that anyone that wanted to could leave the country. Thousands did so, and over a few weeks time they tore down the greatest symbol of the Soviet’s horrible oppression of millions.
It reminds me that there’s a generation who have grown up not mindful of the evil and horrors perpetrated behind that wall – and that a body of creepy, ugly, and mentally-deficient thugs remain who seek to dull and divert attention from that knowledge and gloss-over its impact.
I went through Checkpoint Charlie and spent a day walking around among the strangled sklaven population. I watched the East German Honor Guard goosstepping past their war memorial without a hint of irony in that action. I ate the lousy food in The People’s Cafeteria. At least the beer was ok.
Besides the Islamofascists, it is They who we still fight: the ex-Stalinists and “former” Sozialistfascists who hide behind the word “Democratic” – about as laughingly Democratic as GDR was — the “German Democratic Republic” with their misshapen steroidal manwoman athletes. I saw the man in the tower with the binoculars looking out at his targets, and the “natty” Russian tourists coming off a tour bus in their stylish East-bloc suits and dresses. Clothing that looked like it was cut from carpet and upholstery remnants or material suitable for floor-covering. Heavy tweed-weaves in colors of bitter cyanidal orange and radioactive chartreuse, flecked with the bile of chemical-purple. You might think 1977 was bad in America, but you aint seen nothing.
The place sucked massivly but for one thing, one bright and luminous essence – an element of beauty that the East Germans could hold but never touch or become.
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She was in a darkened room, in the Ägyptisches Museum and I had worshiped her since I was Ten years old and see her picture in an encyclopedia, and I had my very quiet and small camera with me…
Tagged Old School Communists, Socialist Bastards
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Nyko Releases Power Shell Case for Nintendo Switch
All-In-One Solution for Charging and Storing the Nintendo Switch
LOS ANGELES – January 16, 2018 – Nyko Technologies, the inventive LA-based video game accessories manufacturer, today announced the launch of Power Shell Case for Nintendo Switch. This new accessory lets gamers conveniently store and charge their Nintendo Switch while on the move. The Power Shell Case for Nintendo Switch is now available at Amazon and Nyko.com for an MSRP of $39.99. The Power Shell Case will also be available on Toysrus.com, and in Toys“R”Us® stores later this month.
Power Shell Case for Nintendo Switch features a durable hard shell and an internal 5000 mAh battery that charges the Switch via the case’s stowaway Type-C™ charging cable — doubling the console’s battery life! Gamers who want to get even more out of their Switch while on-the-go can utilize Power Shell Case’s built-in fold out stand for tabletop gameplay and storage slots to store up to 12 games and 4 microSD™ cards. The LED indicators show the Power Shell Case’s charge levels, so you always know how much battery life you have left at a glance.
“With a flexible set of features including a built-in charging cable and storage options for games and microSD cards, the Power Shell Case is the Swiss Army Knife of Nintendo Switch Accessories,” said Chris Arbogast, Nyko’s Director of Sales and Marketing.
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Store up to 12 games and 4 microSD cards
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1. Loux, Shavahn C. Hyperactivated Motility of Stallion Spermatozoa.
Degree: 2013, Texas Digital Library
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969; http://hdl.handle.net/2249.1/66721
► In vitro fertilization does not occur readily in the horse. Recent evidence suggests that this is due to failure to initiate hyperactivated motility in vitro;… (more)
▼ In vitro fertilization does not occur readily in the horse. Recent evidence suggests that this is due to failure to initiate hyperactivated motility in vitro; however, little is known about the induction of hyperactivated motility in equine sperm. In mice, hyperactivated motility requires the CatSper channel, a pH-gated calcium channel, therefore we investigated this channel and its related intracellular changes, alkalinization and calcium influx, in equine sperm. Motility was assessed by computer-assisted sperm motility analysis, andchanges in intracellular pH and calcium were determined via the calcium and pH-specific fluorescent probes, BCECF-AM, Fluo3-AMand Fluo4-AM. Additionally, a demembranated sperm model was developed to investigate the direct effect of major regulators of sperm motility on axonemal function. Increasing intracellular pH induced a rise in intracellular calcium, which was inhibited by the known CatSper blocker mibefradil, supporting the presence of a pH-gated calcium channel, presumably CatSper, in equine sperm. Hyperactivation was induced by treatment with high-pH medium, procaine and 4-aminopyridine. Hyperactivation was associated with moderately increased intracellular pH, but appeared inversely related to increases in intracellular calcium. Sperm treated with procaine in calcium-deficient media both maintained motility and underwent hyperactivation, suggesting that extracellular calcium was not required for hyperactivation. CATSPER1 protein was localized to the principal piece of equine sperm on immunocytochemistry. Analysis of the predicted equine CATSPER1 protein revealed species-specific differences in structure in the pH-sensor region. Demembranated equine sperm required ATP for reactivated motility, but did not require cAMP. Motility of demembranated equine sperm was not inhibited by elimination of calcium (chelation to below 20 pM). Excess calcium inhibited motility at concentrations lower than those reported in other species. Calcium-inhibited sperm arrested with a straight tail rather than in a curve, as seen with calcium arrest in other species. Hyperactivated-like motility was not induced at any pH or calcium concentration. Equine sperm were not inhibited by cadmium at concentrations that profoundly inhibit motility in demembranated sperm in other species. These findings indicate species-specific differences in calcium regulation of sperm motility which may relate directly to the inefficiency of functional capacitation of equine sperm under standard in vitro conditions. Advisors/Committee Members: Hinrichs, Katrin (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: sperm
Loux, S. C. (2013). Hyperactivated Motility of Stallion Spermatozoa . (Thesis). Texas Digital Library. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969; http://hdl.handle.net/2249.1/66721
Loux, Shavahn C. “Hyperactivated Motility of Stallion Spermatozoa.” 2013. Thesis, Texas Digital Library. Accessed January 20, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1969; http://hdl.handle.net/2249.1/66721.
Loux, Shavahn C. “Hyperactivated Motility of Stallion Spermatozoa.” 2013. Web. 20 Jan 2021.
Loux SC. Hyperactivated Motility of Stallion Spermatozoa. [Internet] [Thesis]. Texas Digital Library; 2013. [cited 2021 Jan 20]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969; http://hdl.handle.net/2249.1/66721.
Loux SC. Hyperactivated Motility of Stallion Spermatozoa. [Thesis]. Texas Digital Library; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969; http://hdl.handle.net/2249.1/66721
2. Pacheco, Sara E. Sperm Molecular Alterations are Biomarkers of Testicular Injury and Dysfunction.
Degree: PhD, Pathobiology, 2012, Brown University
URL: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:297568/
► The goal of this dissertation was to utilize high throughput genome-wide approaches to identify specific alterations to the rat sperm transcriptome and human sperm transcriptome… (more)
▼ The goal of this dissertation was to utilize high throughput genome-wide approaches to identify specific alterations to the rat sperm transcriptome and human sperm transcriptome and DNA methylome, which may serve as sensitive biomarkers of toxicant exposure and infertility. Currently, no method exists that easily and reliably compares testicular toxicant responses in pre-clinical laboratory animals and humans. We hypothesized that applying “omics” techniques to pure sperm populations would be a useful approach for the development of molecular biomarkers of testicular injury or dysfunction and allow for improved hazard identification and a more robust risk assessment. Aim 1 focused on identifying transcript biomarkers of testis damage within rat sperm after sub-chronic low dose exposures to classic testicular toxicants. This study was novel because it was the first to assess whether sperm mRNA content was altered after sub-chronic low dose exposures to model testicular toxicants. Aim 2 focused on developing molecular signatures of human sperm function. It was the first study to assess whole-genome molecular profiles for mRNA content and DNA methylation in the same sperm samples. The results of this study indicate that subcellular markers within sperm have the potential to advance our understanding of the molecular features of sperm associated with fertility status. This research builds on our existing knowledge of toxicant specific toxicity in animal models and develops the foundation required to extrapolate these observations to human samples. This has a broad range of applications including toxicity testing, exposure biomonitoring, and fertility assessment. For example, sperm molecular biomarkers will be of importance for biological monitoring of male reproductive effects in therapeutically, occupationally, and environmentally exposed men. In this scenario, sperm molecular profiles from these men can be directly compared to sperm isolated from animals with parallel exposures. Overall, augmenting the routine assessments with subcellular sperm biomarkers will provide a more comprehensive analysis of adverse health effects and clinical diagnostics. Advisors/Committee Members: Boekelheide, Kim (Director), Hixon, Mary (Reader), Kelsey, Karl (Reader), Sigman, Mark (Reader), Chapin, Robert (Reader).
Pacheco, S. E. (2012). Sperm Molecular Alterations are Biomarkers of Testicular Injury and Dysfunction . (Doctoral Dissertation). Brown University. Retrieved from https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:297568/
Pacheco, Sara E. “Sperm Molecular Alterations are Biomarkers of Testicular Injury and Dysfunction.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, Brown University. Accessed January 20, 2021. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:297568/.
Pacheco, Sara E. “Sperm Molecular Alterations are Biomarkers of Testicular Injury and Dysfunction.” 2012. Web. 20 Jan 2021.
Pacheco SE. Sperm Molecular Alterations are Biomarkers of Testicular Injury and Dysfunction. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Brown University; 2012. [cited 2021 Jan 20]. Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:297568/.
Pacheco SE. Sperm Molecular Alterations are Biomarkers of Testicular Injury and Dysfunction. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Brown University; 2012. Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:297568/
University of California – Riverside
3. De Los Santos, Carla Gabriela. Analysis of Transitions in Sperm Motility.
Degree: Bioengineering, 2015, University of California – Riverside
URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/2vc9n134
► Introduction: In animals, the process of fertilization requires that a motile sperm interact with an egg. In most sperm, including those of insects, the motility… (more)
▼ Introduction: In animals, the process of fertilization requires that a motile sperm interact with an egg. In most sperm, including those of insects, the motility apparatus is a eukaryotic flagellum and its regulation results from a series of tightly regulated molecular events. The flagellum is a biological nano-machine that is widely conserved through evolution. In recent studies using the mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus, Thaler et. al. (2013) observed a series of three flagellar waveforms that progressed from activation to full progressive motility. This same activation pattern occurred in sperm from a related species, Culex pipiens. The three distinct waveforms observed in vitro were: a low amplitude, low velocity, and high frequency waveform (A), a high amplitude, high velocity, and low frequency waveform (C), and a low velocity intermediate waveform that had superimposed features from both waveforms A and C (B). Based on these findings, we are interested in identifying the molecular switch responsible for the waveform transitions during sperm motility in C. pipiens. Here, we report our studies on C. pipiens with the aim of modeling the mosquito sperm flagellum as a nano-machine.Materials and Methods: Mosquitoes were euthanized by placing them in a chamber containing a piece of cotton soaked in chloroform. Seminal vesicles and accessory glands were removed while in PBS solution. They were then placed on a glass slide with a drop of insect Ringer’s solution and a coverslip. In some cases, only the seminal vesicles were used. Pressure was applied to the coverslip to break open accessory glands thereby activating sperm. Data was acquired with a Nikon Labphot Microscope at 10x magnification using phase contrast optics and a DAGE-MTI CCD 100 camera. Images were captured using Scion Image and processed using ImageJ to quantify wave parameters.Results and Discussion: Using phase contrast microscopy and image processing methodologies we obtained parameters for flagellar wavelength and amplitude as well as progressive velocity for sperm displaying waveforms A and C. In addition, we were able to determine the beat frequency for waveform C as well as the dimensions of the sperm head and tail. Once all the desired parameters have been measured with a large sample size, average parameters for each waveform, A and C, will be used to test current physical models. This will provide insight into the development of a mathematical model for this system that will describe the regulation of flagellar motion in both two- and three-dimensions.Conclusion: The results for the parameters describing waveforms A and C provide confidence in obtaining values that are accurate in order to develop a mathematical model for sperm motility. The model can then be combined with molecular events that occur during motility in order to provide a deeper understanding of flagellar motion. The eukaryotic flagellum serves as an example of a naturally occurring cellular motor and with a better understanding of the mechanism, can aid in the design of…
Subjects/Keywords: Biomedical engineering; Insect Sperm; Sperm; Sperm Motility
De Los Santos, C. G. (2015). Analysis of Transitions in Sperm Motility . (Thesis). University of California – Riverside. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/2vc9n134
De Los Santos, Carla Gabriela. “Analysis of Transitions in Sperm Motility.” 2015. Thesis, University of California – Riverside. Accessed January 20, 2021. http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/2vc9n134.
De Los Santos, Carla Gabriela. “Analysis of Transitions in Sperm Motility.” 2015. Web. 20 Jan 2021.
De Los Santos CG. Analysis of Transitions in Sperm Motility. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of California – Riverside; 2015. [cited 2021 Jan 20]. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/2vc9n134.
De Los Santos CG. Analysis of Transitions in Sperm Motility. [Thesis]. University of California – Riverside; 2015. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/2vc9n134
4. Saenz, Jesse Ray. Cryopreservation of Domestic Cat Epididymal Spermatozoa.
Degree: PhD, Animal Sciences, 2015, Louisiana State University
URL: etd-04102015-141538 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/158
► The primary lines of defense in preventing any exotic species from becoming endangered or extinct should be the protection of their habitat and from poaching.… (more)
▼ The primary lines of defense in preventing any exotic species from becoming endangered or extinct should be the protection of their habitat and from poaching. For wildlife conservationists, these primary measures are often not feasible, and thus cannot be the only means to prevent extinction. The objective of this research was to identify a semen extender that contained little to no egg yolk and could still effectively freeze domestic cat epididymal spermatozoa, for the purpose to sort spermatozoa into X and Y, using flow cytometry. In the first experiment we compared a TesT (Tes + Tris) 20% egg yolk extender (control) to a modified human sperm preservation medium (HSPM) and a Tris citrate extender that contained bovine serum albumin (TCBSA) to compare their effectiveness of preserving feline epididymal spermatozoa in relation to control spermatozoa. Results from this one experiment showed no significant difference among any of the treatments when measuring membrane integrity or acrosomal status. There was significant difference when comparing the pre-cool motility value between the control and the human sperm preservation medium extender (HSPM), but this difference was not detected in either of the post-thaw evaluations. In the second experiment, an attempt was made to determine what concentration could egg yolk be reduced to, and still exhibit cryoprotection. Three egg yolk concentrations (10%, 5% and 2%) were evaluated. It was determined that even at the lowest concentration, 2% egg yolk was not significantly different from the 10% or the 5% when comparing motility, membrane integrity and acrosomal status. In the third series of experiments, a TesT 2% egg yolk extender was evaluated to determine if exposure of the spermatozoa, before and after freezing, to 0nM, 1nM and 5nM of pentoxifylline (a motility stimulant) would have an effect on the post-thaw parameters measured. It was determined that there was no significant in post-thaw sperm motility, membrane integrity or acrosomal status when the epididymal sperm were exposed to the pentoxifylline both before and after freezing. In the last series of experiments TesT 2% egg yolk extender was compared with the BioXCell® and Biolife® extenders (neither containing egg yolk, and predominantly used for cool liquid sperm storage) on their effectiveness to maintain feline epididymal spermatozoa at 4°C for 72 hours. Although no significant difference was noted, the TesT 2% egg yolk and the BioXCell® extenders showed the most promising results for cooled liquid storage up to 72 hours. These experiments have shown that viable epididymal cat sperm can be collected from the epididymides of castrated toms, cryopreserved in extenders that contain little to no egg yolk and thawed, resulting in acceptable post-thaw values sufficient enough for IVF, possibly for AI and most certainly for ICSI. Finally, sperm were frozen in the TesT extender with and without egg yolk and frozen from room temperature and after cooling to 4°C. The TesT without egg yolk, frozen from room temperature,…
Subjects/Keywords: Sperm Cryopreservaion; Cat sperm
Saenz, J. R. (2015). Cryopreservation of Domestic Cat Epididymal Spermatozoa . (Doctoral Dissertation). Louisiana State University. Retrieved from etd-04102015-141538 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/158
Saenz, Jesse Ray. “Cryopreservation of Domestic Cat Epididymal Spermatozoa.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, Louisiana State University. Accessed January 20, 2021. etd-04102015-141538 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/158.
Saenz, Jesse Ray. “Cryopreservation of Domestic Cat Epididymal Spermatozoa.” 2015. Web. 20 Jan 2021.
Saenz JR. Cryopreservation of Domestic Cat Epididymal Spermatozoa. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Louisiana State University; 2015. [cited 2021 Jan 20]. Available from: etd-04102015-141538 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/158.
Saenz JR. Cryopreservation of Domestic Cat Epididymal Spermatozoa. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Louisiana State University; 2015. Available from: etd-04102015-141538 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/158
5. Maree, Liana. Sperm mitochondria: species specificity and relationships to sperm morphometric features and sperm function in selected mammalian species .
Degree: 2011, University of the Western Cape
► Numerous studies on mammalian spermatozoa have reported large variations in the dimensions of the main sperm structural components, namely the head, midpiece and flagellum. These… (more)
▼ Numerous studies on mammalian spermatozoa have reported large variations in the dimensions of the main sperm structural components, namely the head, midpiece and flagellum. These variations in sperm architecture are believed to be adaptations for functioning of spermatozoa in complex environments outside the male reproductive system. The midpiece of the mammalian permatozoon contains a varied number of mitochondria, but the reason for the marked difference in the size and structure of this sperm component is not clear. This study confirmed the variations in the sperm morphometry of seven selected mammalian species and revealed unique features of the sperm midpiece and sperm mitochondria of these seven species. Evaluation of several sperm kinematic parameters revealed the unique swimming characteristics of the different spermatozoa. The importance of using standardized motility parameters was highlighted as well as the assessment of different subpopulations of spermatozoa in order to produce more reliable and comparable data. Investigating the role of sperm mitochondria in human sperm metabolism indicated that these organelles are related to sperm function in terms of sperm motility. Furthermore, it was suggested that glycolysis and mitochondrial respiration are linked processes and that both are important for the maintenance of human sperm motility. By optimizing and employing standardized experimental procedures and analysis techniques, this study was able to confirm the species specificity of almost all the sperm parameters evaluated, while also elucidating the phylogenetic relatedness of the non-human primate species. In conclusion, the present study has confirmed that the various midpiece morphometry parameters are related to the remaining sperm morphometry parameters as well as to the sperm kinematic parameters. These proposed associations between the various sperm parameters were used to explain the sperm velocity of two hypothetical and morphologically different sperm structures. Therefore, the results of the current study support the idea of co-evolution between sperm components in mammalian spermatozoa and propose that the midpiece morphometry parameters that are selected for in these spermatozoa are midpiece volume, total number of mitochondrial gyres, thickness of the mitochondrial sheath and mitochondrial height. Advisors/Committee Members: van der Horst, Gerhard (advisor), Kotzé, Sanet (advisor), Henkel, Ralf (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Sperm mitochondria; Sperm morphometry; Sperm midpiece; Sperm motility; Sperm kinematics; Sperm metabolism; Mammals; Computer-aided sperm/semen analysis; Glycolysis; Oxidative phosphorylation
Maree, L. (2011). Sperm mitochondria: species specificity and relationships to sperm morphometric features and sperm function in selected mammalian species . (Thesis). University of the Western Cape. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11394/3053
Maree, Liana. “Sperm mitochondria: species specificity and relationships to sperm morphometric features and sperm function in selected mammalian species .” 2011. Thesis, University of the Western Cape. Accessed January 20, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/3053.
Maree, Liana. “Sperm mitochondria: species specificity and relationships to sperm morphometric features and sperm function in selected mammalian species .” 2011. Web. 20 Jan 2021.
Maree L. Sperm mitochondria: species specificity and relationships to sperm morphometric features and sperm function in selected mammalian species . [Internet] [Thesis]. University of the Western Cape; 2011. [cited 2021 Jan 20]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11394/3053.
Maree L. Sperm mitochondria: species specificity and relationships to sperm morphometric features and sperm function in selected mammalian species . [Thesis]. University of the Western Cape; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11394/3053
6. Ntanjana, Nomfundo. Hyperactivation in human semen and sperm subpopulations by selected calcium modulators .
► A functional sperm is critical for successful fertilization in order to deliver an intact genome to the site of fertilization. It is often characterized by… (more)
▼ A functional sperm is critical for successful fertilization in order to deliver an intact genome to the site of fertilization. It is often characterized by high motility and normal morphology. Moreover, sperm hyperactivated motility is imperative for both detachment from the oviductal wall and for penetration into the zona pellucida, subsequently resulting in fertilization. Several semen parameters such as volume, colour, sperm morphology and sperm concentration are used to clinically discriminate between fertile and sub-fertile males. Additionally, several sperm functional tests assess sperm function and a male’s fertility potential. A sperm feature that is not currently assessed clinically, but could possibly discriminate between fertility and infertility, is hyperactivation. The aim of this project was to investigate motility degrees (good, medium and poor) of sperm subpopulations and induce hyperactivation in each subpopulation, as well as to sperm in semen, by addition of caffeine and procaine. This was achieved by separating three sperm subpopulations from a semen sample using the Puresperm density gradient separating technique. Sperm subpopulations were exposed to 5mM caffeine and 2 mM procaine respectively for 15, 30, 60, 90 and 120 minutes. Sperm in semen was exposed to caffeine and procaine using a flush technique and analysed at 0, 5, 15, 30, 45 and 60 minutes. Sperm displaying hyperactivation was determined using cut-offs for curvilinear velocity, linearity and amplitude of lateral head displacement. The results indicate significant differences in overall percentage motility, sperm kinematic parameters and hyperactivation among the three subpopulations (p<0.05). Procaine and caffeine both induced hyperactivation in subpopulations, although the most pronounced effect of procaine was evident after 15-30 minutes compared to caffeine (60-90 minutes) in subpopulations. Maximum hyperactivation of sperm in semen was seen after 15- 30 minutes in both procaine and caffeine. Moreover, caffeine had significantly higher stimulating effect than procaine. The results suggest that the existence and distinct motility characteristics of subpopulations should be considered in future during clinical assessment of male fertility, especially when assessing hyperactivation. The immediate and higher stimulation response of sperm with the flush technique indicates that the technique may be an ideal sperm functional test compared to the separation technique. The separation technique may be used to categorize sperm subpopulation of a patient in terms of motility (high motile or low motile) and to stimulate such subpopulations with chemicals for use in assisted reproduction technologies. Advisors/Committee Members: Maree, L (advisor), Chauke, C (advisor), Van Der Horst, G (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Hyperactivation; Sperm motility; Sperm subpopulations; Calcium modulators
Ntanjana, N. (2014). Hyperactivation in human semen and sperm subpopulations by selected calcium modulators . (Thesis). University of the Western Cape. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4329
Ntanjana, Nomfundo. “Hyperactivation in human semen and sperm subpopulations by selected calcium modulators .” 2014. Thesis, University of the Western Cape. Accessed January 20, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4329.
Ntanjana, Nomfundo. “Hyperactivation in human semen and sperm subpopulations by selected calcium modulators .” 2014. Web. 20 Jan 2021.
Ntanjana N. Hyperactivation in human semen and sperm subpopulations by selected calcium modulators . [Internet] [Thesis]. University of the Western Cape; 2014. [cited 2021 Jan 20]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4329.
Ntanjana N. Hyperactivation in human semen and sperm subpopulations by selected calcium modulators . [Thesis]. University of the Western Cape; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4329
7. Machado, Sergio. Regulation of boar sperm function by the oviduct – formation of a sperm reservoir, modulation of Ca 2+ influx, and release from storage.
► In mammals, an elaborate series of physiological events take place before fertilization of the female gamete. Upon insemination, a small fraction of the sperm deposited… (more)
▼ In mammals, an elaborate series of physiological events take place before fertilization of the female gamete. Upon insemination, a small fraction of the sperm deposited in the female reproductive tract is transported to the lower oviduct (isthmus) to form a functional sperm reservoir. The sperm reservoir extends sperm lifespan, prevents polyspermic fertilization, and is implicated in the regulation of capacitation. Once capacitated, a small number of sperm is released from the storage site to form a pool that can bind to the egg. The precise identity of the molecules that mediate the interactions between spermatozoa and epithelial cells of the isthmus are not currently known. Similarly, the molecules and mechanisms involved in the sperm release from the reservoir are poorly understood. It has been proposed, however, that oviduct glycans play a major role in the molecular interaction that leads to the formation of the sperm reservoir. A glycan array previously demonstrated that porcine sperm bound predominantly to motifs containing either biantennary α2,6 sialylated lactosamine (SiLN) or LewisX (LeX) trisaccharide present in the luminal epithelium of the isthmus. Functional data generated by blocking the interaction between uncapacitated sperm and isthmic oviduct cells in vitro strongly suggests that the glycoconjugates containing SiLN and LeX are at least partially involved in the formation of sperm reservoir in swine. These glycans, involved in binding, are also implicated in the regulation of the capacitation process by extending sperm lifespan. Proper calcium ion uptake is a key element for the sperm to acquire hypermotility, which is essential in the final steps of capacitation. Uncapacitated sperm binding to SiLN and LeX reduce intracellular Ca2+ levels under capacitating conditions, which is compatible with the notion that sperm binding to the isthmic epithelium suppresses the normal Ca2+ increase in sperm that occurs during capacitation, thus extending sperm lifespan. The stimuli associated with separation of sperm and epithelial ligands, including glycans, on the oviductal isthmus are not entirely recognized. The endocrine milieu, changes in local secretory activity, and cumulus-oocyte complexes might participate in the events accompanying sperm release. This work demonstrated that progesterone stimulates sperm Ca2+ influx through CatSper, a sperm-specific channel. Moreover, these data suggest that progesterone and CatSper channels are involved in the process of sperm detachment from oviductal cells in vitro. Progesterone treatment of sperm bound to isthmic epithelial cells stimulated sperm detachment and inactivation of progesterone-responsive CatSper channels blocked the effect of progesterone on sperm release. Collectively, these data suggest that: 1) sperm binding to porcine epithelial cells of the oviductal isthmus to form a functional sperm reservoir is at least partially mediated by SiLN and LeX glycan residues; 2) the glycans involved in the formation of the sperm reservoir suppress Ca2+ entry,… Advisors/Committee Members: Miller, David J. (advisor), Miller, David J. (Committee Chair), Wheeler, Matthew B. (committee member), Knox, Robert V. (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: swine; sperm; oviduct; sperm reservoir; glycans; capacitation
Machado, S. (2014). Regulation of boar sperm function by the oviduct – formation of a sperm reservoir, modulation of Ca 2+ influx, and release from storage . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2142/46877
Machado, Sergio. “Regulation of boar sperm function by the oviduct – formation of a sperm reservoir, modulation of Ca 2+ influx, and release from storage.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign. Accessed January 20, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/46877.
Machado, Sergio. “Regulation of boar sperm function by the oviduct – formation of a sperm reservoir, modulation of Ca 2+ influx, and release from storage.” 2014. Web. 20 Jan 2021.
Machado S. Regulation of boar sperm function by the oviduct – formation of a sperm reservoir, modulation of Ca 2+ influx, and release from storage. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign; 2014. [cited 2021 Jan 20]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/46877.
Machado S. Regulation of boar sperm function by the oviduct – formation of a sperm reservoir, modulation of Ca 2+ influx, and release from storage. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/46877
8. Alexander, Alana. The influence of social structure and molecular evolution on genetic diversity in the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus).
Degree: PhD, Wildlife Science, 2014, Oregon State University
► The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) shows some of the most derived characteristics of any mammal: a large body size, large brain, complex social organization and… (more)
▼ The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) shows some of the most derived characteristics of any mammal: a large body size, large brain, complex social organization and a capacity for deep foraging dives that few other marine mammals can match. Despite a history of exploitation that removed hundreds of thousands of individuals, the sperm whale population remains relatively abundant in comparison with other large whale species. Given this abundance, and the sperm whale's matrifocal social organization, it is surprising that previous research found that mitochondrial DNA control region (mtDNA CR) diversity in sperm whales is extremely low and population structure is relatively limited within oceans. This dissertation addresses several questions spanning evolutionary and ecological time scales, including whether the low levels of mtDNA CR diversity and differentiation seen in the sperm whale have been limited by sample size and geographic scope in previous studies; how sperm whale genetic diversity is partitioned at several hierarchical levels; and hypotheses explaining the low mtDNA CR diversity. To achieve this, I generated DNA profiles representing 557 individuals from circum-equatorial regions, strandings around the coasts of New Zealand, Samoa and Oregon, and biopsy samples from the Gulf of Mexico. DNA genotypes constructed from these samples (mtDNA CR, sex, 13 microsatellite loci), and mtDNA information from 1,167 previously published samples, indicated a high degree of mtDNA CR differentiation within the previously un-sampled Indian Ocean (FST 0.314, p < 0.001). The level of differentiation seen was similar to that found with the marginal seas of the Atlantic i.e. the Gulf of Mexico and the Mediterranean (FST 0.469, p < 0.001). In contrast, levels of mtDNA differentiation seen in the Pacific were much lower (FST 0.061, p < 0.001). Microsatellite differentiation was much less marked for all three oceans, consistent with tests indicating male-biased dispersal and gene flow. In addition to regional differentiation, significant differentiation was seen among social groups. However, the magnitude of this differentiation differed by ocean. Hierarchical mtDNA analyses showed that in the Pacific, 'social group' explained more variance than geographic region. In contrast, in the Indian Ocean, regions explained more variance than social group. In the Atlantic, the number of social groups within regions was too limited to make conclusions. Social group was the only level that explained significant variation in microsatellite allele frequencies in any ocean. Increased relatedness within social groups does not appear to explain the microsatellite differentiation. Instead, the likely explanation is different breeding males consorting with different female-dominated social groups. mtDNA differentiation seen among social groups appears to be driven by ‘lenient matrilineality', where 38% of groups were strictly matrilineal, and a further 25% of groups were comprised of more than one matriline, but fewer matrilines than expected… Advisors/Committee Members: Baker, C. Scott (advisor), Liston, Aaron (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Sperm whale – Genetics
Alexander, A. (2014). The influence of social structure and molecular evolution on genetic diversity in the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) . (Doctoral Dissertation). Oregon State University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1957/52554
Alexander, Alana. “The influence of social structure and molecular evolution on genetic diversity in the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus).” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, Oregon State University. Accessed January 20, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/52554.
Alexander, Alana. “The influence of social structure and molecular evolution on genetic diversity in the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus).” 2014. Web. 20 Jan 2021.
Alexander A. The influence of social structure and molecular evolution on genetic diversity in the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus). [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Oregon State University; 2014. [cited 2021 Jan 20]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1957/52554.
Alexander A. The influence of social structure and molecular evolution on genetic diversity in the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus). [Doctoral Dissertation]. Oregon State University; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1957/52554
9. Diogou, Nikoletta. Deep (Sea) Listening: acoustic ecology of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) and ambient noise analysis in the offshore gulf of Alaska and the Greek Seas.
Degree: 2019, University of the Aegean; Πανεπιστήμιο Αιγαίου
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/45687
► Sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) is the largest of odontocetes, and a cosmopolitan species widely distributed in the world oceans. With their populations in the Mediterranean… (more)
▼ Sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) is the largest of odontocetes, and a cosmopolitan species widely distributed in the world oceans. With their populations in the Mediterranean Sea and the United States listed as Endangered, knowledge of the critical habitats, the temporal variability of the habitat use and environmental conditions that define those habitats is fundamental for the conservation efforts of this apex predator. Known for their extreme diving abilities, sperm whales are difficult to observe visually but their loud and characteristic calls are easily distinguishable acoustically. In this dissertation, an autonomous sub-sampling acoustic recorder was used to investigate the long-term sperm whale presence in three locations in the North Pacific and the Eastern Mediterranean Sea and enrich our understanding of their ecology. By analyzing a year-and-half-long acoustic data set from the Greek seas and a five-year-long acoustic data set from the Gulf of Alaska (GOA), it is demonstrated that sperm whales are present year round at Pylos (Pylos Station of the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research – HCMR) on the Hellenic Trench, and at Ocean Station PAPA (OSP) offshore the GOA. The absence of sperm whale detections in the North Aegean Sea at Athos (Athos Station of the HCMR) was linked to the almost continuous detections of another teuthophageous deep diving odontocete, the Risso’s dolphins (Grampus griseus), and is likely explained by the differentiation in ecological niche between the two species. Even though sperm whales were detected year-round at Pylos, the number of days with detections was low compared to OSP and that was attributed partly to a smaller population sustained in highly oligotrophic conditions. Additionally, the acoustic dominance of delphinids, which occupied the majority of the acoustic recordings at Pylos, would cause an underestimation of the sperm whale acoustic presence. The examinations of temporal patterns showed higher number of detections during late spring and summer at Pylos. The, almost constant, sperm whale presence at OSP presented strong seasonality with significantly higher detection rates during the summer months and lower in the winter. This pattern was linked to the seasonal latitudinal fluctuations of the North Pacific Transition Zone, a source of nutrients and organisms at the North Pacific, and to shifts in the intensity of the Alaska Current. Quantification of the interannual variability of sperm whales at OSP, based on habitat-modeling results, indicated a positive relationship between sperm whale acoustic detections and ocean heating, circulation, and stratification. Further investigations hinted that these oceanographic conditions are characteristics of the relaxation of the Alaska Gyre and the intrusion of coastal mesoscale eddies at OSP, which in turn are associated with stronger El Niño events and warm phases of the PDO. During Los Niños, the Subarctic Frontal Zone and North Pacific Transition Zone migrate northwards transferring prey close to OSP. Therefore,…
Subjects/Keywords: Φυσητήρας; Sperm whale
Diogou, N. (2019). Deep (Sea) Listening: acoustic ecology of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) and ambient noise analysis in the offshore gulf of Alaska and the Greek Seas . (Thesis). University of the Aegean; Πανεπιστήμιο Αιγαίου. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/45687
Diogou, Nikoletta. “Deep (Sea) Listening: acoustic ecology of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) and ambient noise analysis in the offshore gulf of Alaska and the Greek Seas.” 2019. Thesis, University of the Aegean; Πανεπιστήμιο Αιγαίου. Accessed January 20, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/45687.
Diogou, Nikoletta. “Deep (Sea) Listening: acoustic ecology of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) and ambient noise analysis in the offshore gulf of Alaska and the Greek Seas.” 2019. Web. 20 Jan 2021.
Diogou N. Deep (Sea) Listening: acoustic ecology of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) and ambient noise analysis in the offshore gulf of Alaska and the Greek Seas. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of the Aegean; Πανεπιστήμιο Αιγαίου; 2019. [cited 2021 Jan 20]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/45687.
Diogou N. Deep (Sea) Listening: acoustic ecology of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) and ambient noise analysis in the offshore gulf of Alaska and the Greek Seas. [Thesis]. University of the Aegean; Πανεπιστήμιο Αιγαίου; 2019. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/45687
10. Akati, Desalegn. Comparasion of sperm viability stainings and fixations .
Degree: DE – ATC – Mezőgazdaság- Élelmiszertudományi és Környezetgazdálkodási Kar, 2012, University of Debrecen
► The research applied viability staining techniques, originally described for frozen bull spermatozoa. The objective of this study was to compare three different methods of staining… (more)
▼ The research applied viability staining techniques, originally described for frozen bull spermatozoa. The objective of this study was to compare three different methods of staining with different concentration of formalin in order to evaluate frozen bull sperm viability. Frozen bull sperm samples were stained with 0.1% Congo red, 0.16% Chicago sky blue and 0.2% trypan blue with the concentrations of 0 (control), 0.1% and 0.3% formalin fixative treatment to each staining techniques to compare the staining and percentage of fixative for the viability of bull sperm. 0.16% CSB staining method replaces both 0.2% TB and 0.1% CR which was true for those findings to replace 0.2% TB staining with CSB. As compared to the three staining methods 0.16% Chicago sky blue with 0.3% of formalin was the highest mean of sperm viable counted while 0.1% Congo red staining showed the lowest with the same concentration of formalin in the PBS. Advisors/Committee Members: Kovács, András (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: sperm viability; stainings
Akati, D. (2012). Comparasion of sperm viability stainings and fixations . (Thesis). University of Debrecen. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2437/127311
Akati, Desalegn. “Comparasion of sperm viability stainings and fixations .” 2012. Thesis, University of Debrecen. Accessed January 20, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2437/127311.
Akati, Desalegn. “Comparasion of sperm viability stainings and fixations .” 2012. Web. 20 Jan 2021.
Akati D. Comparasion of sperm viability stainings and fixations . [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Debrecen; 2012. [cited 2021 Jan 20]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2437/127311.
Akati D. Comparasion of sperm viability stainings and fixations . [Thesis]. University of Debrecen; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2437/127311
11. Gulyas, Jenna Lara. The potential of rosmarinic acid, carnosic acid and carnosol as antioxidants to preserve sheep (Ovis aries) sperm viability and morphological integrity.
Degree: MSc, Animal Sciences, 2017, Stellenbosch University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/102956
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The use of assisted reproductive techniques (ART’s) such as artificial insemination and embryo production, which requires the use of good quality sperm, is… (more)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The use of assisted reproductive techniques (ART’s) such as artificial insemination and embryo production, which requires the use of good quality sperm, is hampered by the susceptibility of ram sperm to cold stress and heat stress. Short-term (cold) storage has a definite effect on the viability, morphological integrity, and subsequently the fertilizing ability of sperm, due to an increase in oxidative stress caused by an excessive build-up of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Heat stress has a number of deleterious effects on sperm production and maturation, with the excessive build-up of ROS resulting in a decrease in sperm viability and quality. The study therefore investigated whether diterpenes in common rosemary and wild rosemary varieties, which has a natural antioxidant activity, can minimize the deleterious changes caused by cold storage and heat stress (HS). The findings indicated that sperm viability decreased over time under both cold and heat stress conditions, but that there was no significant contribution of the antioxidants (AO’s) on the changes in viability. The wild rosemary species had a higher level of morphological abnormalities than the common rosemary species for the cold storage and heat stress studies. However, when considering the two species individually, there were no significant differences for morphology. There appeared to be no protection from the AO’s on maintaining sperm viability for both the cold storage and HS studies, and the AO’s also appeared to have no protective effects on morphology during the HS study. Cold storage resulted in an increase in the percentage of abnormal sperm when considering the individual effects of the AO’s. To conclude, supplementation of sperm media with both rosemary aqueous extracts did not show a significant level of protection against the deleterious effects of cold storage and HS on sperm quality. The extraction technique that was used for the present study was not sufficient in optimizing the AO yield to its maximum potential. Rosmarinic acid was extracted at a higher concentration than that of carnosic acid and carnosol due to the hydrophobic properties of both carnosic acid and carnosol. The wild species was difficult to filter after extraction, likely due to the structure of the leaves, and this too would have hindered the AO yield. Future studies need to determine the most suitable extraction methods for each AO in each plant species in order to optimize the effects of the AO’s on improving sperm quality. It would also be beneficial to determine how each of the AO’s interact with the sperm membrane, how they are able to enhance the effect of the natural AO defense mechanism, and how they can minimize the negative impact of heat stress.
AFRIKAANS OPSOMMING: Die gebruik van ondersteunende reproduksietegnieke (ART's) soos kunsmatige inseminasie en embrio produksie, wat die gebruik van goeie gehalte sperme benodig, word beperk deur die vatbaarheid van ramsperme vir beskadiging tydens berging by lae temperature asook hitte stres.…
Advisors/Committee Members: Lambrechts, Helet, Stellenbosch University. Faculty of AgriSciences. Dept. of Animal Sciences..
Subjects/Keywords: Sheep sperm viability; Sheep sperm preservation; Morphological integrity of sheep sperm; Sheep – Reproduction; UCTD
Gulyas, J. L. (2017). The potential of rosmarinic acid, carnosic acid and carnosol as antioxidants to preserve sheep (Ovis aries) sperm viability and morphological integrity . (Masters Thesis). Stellenbosch University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/102956
Gulyas, Jenna Lara. “The potential of rosmarinic acid, carnosic acid and carnosol as antioxidants to preserve sheep (Ovis aries) sperm viability and morphological integrity.” 2017. Masters Thesis, Stellenbosch University. Accessed January 20, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/102956.
Gulyas, Jenna Lara. “The potential of rosmarinic acid, carnosic acid and carnosol as antioxidants to preserve sheep (Ovis aries) sperm viability and morphological integrity.” 2017. Web. 20 Jan 2021.
Gulyas JL. The potential of rosmarinic acid, carnosic acid and carnosol as antioxidants to preserve sheep (Ovis aries) sperm viability and morphological integrity. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Stellenbosch University; 2017. [cited 2021 Jan 20]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/102956.
Gulyas JL. The potential of rosmarinic acid, carnosic acid and carnosol as antioxidants to preserve sheep (Ovis aries) sperm viability and morphological integrity. [Masters Thesis]. Stellenbosch University; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/102956
12. Ngcauzele, Asanele. Seasonal differences in semen characteristics and sperm functionality in Tankwa goats .
► Tankwa goats have been free-ranging in the Tankwa Karoo National Park in the Northern Cape for more than 80 years. A genetic study concluded that… (more)
▼ Tankwa goats have been free-ranging in the Tankwa Karoo National Park in the Northern Cape for more than 80 years. A genetic study concluded that these feral goats are a unique genetic resource compared to other goat breeds in South Africa and should be conserved as a distinctive population. A decision taken by the South African National Parks who is the managing authority in the park, was to remove all alien species, which included the Tankwa goats. Several animals were translocated to the Carnarvon Research Station by the Northern Cape Department of Agriculture, Land Reform & Rural Development, where the Tankwa goat population has grown to a few hundred individuals. Currently, sound scientific decisions including the application of a wide range of technologies and approaches are applied to conserve the population, such as an informed understanding of the reproductive biology of these goats. The aim of this study was to define sperm quality in Tankwa goats using various macroscopic and microscopic evaluation techniques. Advisors/Committee Members: Maree, Liana (advisor), van der Horst, Gerhard (advisor), Kotze, Antoinette (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Tankwa indigenous goat; Sperm motility; Sperm morphology; Hyperactivation; Computer-aided sperm analysis (CASA)
Ngcauzele, A. (2018). Seasonal differences in semen characteristics and sperm functionality in Tankwa goats . (Thesis). University of the Western Cape. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11394/6789
Ngcauzele, Asanele. “Seasonal differences in semen characteristics and sperm functionality in Tankwa goats .” 2018. Thesis, University of the Western Cape. Accessed January 20, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/6789.
Ngcauzele, Asanele. “Seasonal differences in semen characteristics and sperm functionality in Tankwa goats .” 2018. Web. 20 Jan 2021.
Ngcauzele A. Seasonal differences in semen characteristics and sperm functionality in Tankwa goats . [Internet] [Thesis]. University of the Western Cape; 2018. [cited 2021 Jan 20]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11394/6789.
Ngcauzele A. Seasonal differences in semen characteristics and sperm functionality in Tankwa goats . [Thesis]. University of the Western Cape; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11394/6789
13. Wienen, M.F.P. van. Effect of SLC on motility, morphology, viability and ROS production of boar spermatozoa.
Degree: 2007, Universiteit Utrecht
URL: http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/37019
► The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of single layer centrifugation (SLC) on boar sperm samples. At the same time scaling up… (more)
▼ The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of single layer centrifugation (SLC) on boar sperm samples. At the same time scaling up the SLC technique was tested with two volumes: 4.5 ml and 15 ml. In total, 32 ejaculates from 8 boars were used in this project. The boars were of different breeds: Swedish Landrace (n=1), Norwegian Landrace (n=2), Swedish Yorkshire (n=1) and Hampshire (n=4). Three treatments were used: control (untreated), SLC with 4.5 ml extended semen, and SLC with 15 ml extended semen. The evaluation of the samples was based on motility, linear motility, progressive motility, number of sperm, yield, viability and ROS production. With the SLC treatment it was possible to select spermatozoa with a more linear motility and higher progressive motility, and also spermatozoa with normal morphology. No difference in viability between the different treatments was detected. In contrast, ROS production was slightly increased in the SLC-selected samples. There was no significant difference in results between the 4.5 ml SLC volume and the 15 ml SLC volume, indicating that the technique can be scaled up to 15 ml without compromising sperm quality. For the future the technique must be scaled up more to be useful in practice. Advisors/Committee Members: Morrell, J.M., Parlevliet, J.M..
Subjects/Keywords: Diergeneeskunde; SLC, sperm, boar, quality
Wienen, M. F. P. v. (2007). Effect of SLC on motility, morphology, viability and ROS production of boar spermatozoa. (Doctoral Dissertation). Universiteit Utrecht. Retrieved from http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/37019
Wienen, M F P van. “Effect of SLC on motility, morphology, viability and ROS production of boar spermatozoa.” 2007. Doctoral Dissertation, Universiteit Utrecht. Accessed January 20, 2021. http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/37019.
Wienen, M F P van. “Effect of SLC on motility, morphology, viability and ROS production of boar spermatozoa.” 2007. Web. 20 Jan 2021.
Wienen MFPv. Effect of SLC on motility, morphology, viability and ROS production of boar spermatozoa. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Universiteit Utrecht; 2007. [cited 2021 Jan 20]. Available from: http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/37019.
Wienen MFPv. Effect of SLC on motility, morphology, viability and ROS production of boar spermatozoa. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Universiteit Utrecht; 2007. Available from: http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/37019
14. Struik, M.E.A. Sperm production of the native Thai pony.
► Thailand possesses a small population of native pony's. There's no studbook or any other kind of registration for this breed. There seemed to be some… (more)
▼ Thailand possesses a small population of native pony's. There's no studbook or any other kind of registration for this breed. There seemed to be some problems involving fertility according to local Thai people living in the provence of Khon Kaen. The study involved five adult native Thai stallions who were examined in the months January and February 2009. Total testicular volume and total testicular width were measured followed by assessment of two ejaculates gathered with an hour in between. Volume and concentration of the ejaculates were examined as well as the total sperm number (TSN) of the ejaculate, motility, vitality, morphology, total normal built moving sperm (TNM) and the sperm plasma membrane function by the HOS-test (hypo-osmotic swelling test). These parameters were compared with those of sires of Dutch Studbooks; Dutch Warmblood horse, Friesian horse, Welsh Pony and New Forest. Despite a relative big total testicular width and total scrotal volume of the native Thai pony, the average TSN (2425.50x106 SD:234.05x106) was significantly lower compared to the other breeds, as well as the average TNM (1234.37x106 SD:372.41x106). HOS-test outcome was 22.70% (SD:3.26%) HOS+, which is assumed to be very low, indicating a low sperm plasma membrane quality. This outcomes are indicative of a poor sperm production and quality of the native Thai pony. Since only five pony's are involved in this study, more research should be done to confirm this. Whether inbreeding and climate play a role in these results should be subject to near investigation. Advisors/Committee Members: Colenbrander, B.C..
Subjects/Keywords: Diergeneeskunde; sperm production Thai pony
Struik, M. E. A. (2007). Sperm production of the native Thai pony . (Doctoral Dissertation). Universiteit Utrecht. Retrieved from http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/41169
Struik, M E A. “Sperm production of the native Thai pony.” 2007. Doctoral Dissertation, Universiteit Utrecht. Accessed January 20, 2021. http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/41169.
Struik, M E A. “Sperm production of the native Thai pony.” 2007. Web. 20 Jan 2021.
Struik MEA. Sperm production of the native Thai pony. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Universiteit Utrecht; 2007. [cited 2021 Jan 20]. Available from: http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/41169.
Struik MEA. Sperm production of the native Thai pony. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Universiteit Utrecht; 2007. Available from: http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/41169
15. Matheny, Kelli Lynn. Effects of resveratrol on post-thaw quality of stallion sperm.
Degree: MS, Animal and Dairy Sciences, 2014, Mississippi State University
URL: http://sun.library.msstate.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-11022014-205429/ ;
► Current equine sperm cryopreservation methods fail to reliably prevent damages to important cellular structures such as the cell membrane and DNA. The objective of… (more)
▼ Current equine sperm cryopreservation methods fail to reliably prevent damages to important cellular structures such as the cell membrane and DNA. The objective of this study was to determine the effects of supplementing a stallion semen extender with 1 or 10 mM resveratrol on post-thaw sperm characteristics. Results showed that sperm death was increased with 10 mM compared to both the control and 1 mM (P < 0.05). DNA fragmentation was increased in the 1 mM treatment compared to the control (P < 0.05). ROS activity was reduced the most in the 10 mM with differences between all groups (P < 0.05). Membrane integrity was not different between groups (P > 0.05). Motility of the control was higher than the treatment groups (P < 0.05). Resveratrol was able to reduce ROS but was unable to preserve motility or viability at the concentrations tested. Advisors/Committee Members: Molly C. Nicodemus (chair), Erdogan Memili (chair), Richard M. Hopper (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: stallion; sperm; cryopreservation; resveratrol
Matheny, K. L. (2014). Effects of resveratrol on post-thaw quality of stallion sperm . (Masters Thesis). Mississippi State University. Retrieved from http://sun.library.msstate.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-11022014-205429/ ;
Matheny, Kelli Lynn. “Effects of resveratrol on post-thaw quality of stallion sperm.” 2014. Masters Thesis, Mississippi State University. Accessed January 20, 2021. http://sun.library.msstate.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-11022014-205429/ ;.
Matheny, Kelli Lynn. “Effects of resveratrol on post-thaw quality of stallion sperm.” 2014. Web. 20 Jan 2021.
Matheny KL. Effects of resveratrol on post-thaw quality of stallion sperm. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Mississippi State University; 2014. [cited 2021 Jan 20]. Available from: http://sun.library.msstate.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-11022014-205429/ ;.
Matheny KL. Effects of resveratrol on post-thaw quality of stallion sperm. [Masters Thesis]. Mississippi State University; 2014. Available from: http://sun.library.msstate.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-11022014-205429/ ;
16. Langhorne, Cecilia Jane. Developing assisted reproductive technologies for endangered North American amphibians.
Degree: PhD, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology and Plant Pathology, 2016, Mississippi State University
► An alarming number of anuran (frog and toad) species are facing the threat of extinction in the wild. In efforts to address this conservation… (more)
▼ An alarming number of anuran (frog and toad) species are facing the threat of extinction in the wild. In efforts to address this conservation crisis, captive breeding programs are rapidly being established at zoos and research institutions worldwide. However, the captive management of anurans can be challenging, as their reproduction is a tightly regulated hormonal response to environmental stimuli, often unknown or absent in captivity. Consequently, ex-situ breeding efforts tend to be greatly hindered by a paucity of knowledge in anuran reproductive physiology and, for many species on the brink of extinction, time is running out. Assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs), such as exogenous hormone induction of gamete release, artificial fertilization for population augmentation, and cryopreservation for the long-term storage of genetics, have the potential to greatly enhance captive breeding efforts in lieu of natural breeding. Broadly, research aims were to develop assisted reproductive technologies for captive populations of the declining Southern Rocky Mountain boreal toad (<I>Anaxyrus boreas boreas</I>), the critically endangered Mississippi Gopher Frog (<I>Lithobates captio sevosa</I>) and Puerto Rican crested toad (<I>Peltophryne lemur</I>). Specific objectives were to a) trial the efficacy of exogenous hormone treatments on sperm release in male target species by characterizing spermiation response across time; b) investigate methods for increasing sperm longevity through cold-storage and cryopreservation techniques; c) ascertain motility recovery rates and functional capacity of cold-stored and frozen-thawed spermatozoa through artificial fertilization techniques, and; d) apply successfully developed ARTs to determine the feasibility of genetically linking <I>in-situ</I> and <I>ex-situ</I> populations of A. <I>b. boreas</I>, through artificial fertilization of male and female gametes from wild and captive toads, respectively. Research outcomes from this study include the successful development of exogenous hormone protocols, spermiation profiles and sperm cryopreservation techniques for all target species. Additionally, these studies enabled validation of an alternative method for increasing genetic diversity in captive anurans through <I>in-situ-ex-situ</I> gamete linkage. Overall, this research emphasizes the potential value of assisted reproductive technologies as conservation tools for supporting the recovery of endangered frog and toad species worldwide. Advisors/Committee Members: Andrew Kouba (chair), Scott Willard (chair).
Subjects/Keywords: amphibians; hormone; cryopreservation; sperm; conservation
Langhorne, C. J. (2016). Developing assisted reproductive technologies for endangered North American amphibians . (Doctoral Dissertation). Mississippi State University. Retrieved from http://sun.library.msstate.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-12182015-123843/ ;
Langhorne, Cecilia Jane. “Developing assisted reproductive technologies for endangered North American amphibians.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Mississippi State University. Accessed January 20, 2021. http://sun.library.msstate.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-12182015-123843/ ;.
Langhorne, Cecilia Jane. “Developing assisted reproductive technologies for endangered North American amphibians.” 2016. Web. 20 Jan 2021.
Langhorne CJ. Developing assisted reproductive technologies for endangered North American amphibians. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Mississippi State University; 2016. [cited 2021 Jan 20]. Available from: http://sun.library.msstate.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-12182015-123843/ ;.
Langhorne CJ. Developing assisted reproductive technologies for endangered North American amphibians. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Mississippi State University; 2016. Available from: http://sun.library.msstate.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-12182015-123843/ ;
17. Fahad, Abed Sharqy. Cryopreservation of equine spermatozoa: Identification of good and poor freezer stallions and effect of sperm density per straw.
► This study was carried out primarily to evaluate the cryo-tolerance of equine semen from four stallions through assessing the spermatozoa motion characteristics with Computer-Assisted… (more)
▼ This study was carried out primarily to evaluate the cryo-tolerance of equine semen from four stallions through assessing the spermatozoa motion characteristics with Computer-Assisted Sperm Analysis (CASA). Four stallions were collected during the breeding season (summer). For each ejaculate, fresh and cryopreserved samples were taken for sperm motility characteristics evaluation. Data analysis demonstrated that sperm cells of stallions were significantly affected by (P<0.05) cryodamage. Stallion (A) was cryotolerant, and was classified as a good freezer, whereas stallion (D) was not and classified as a poor freezer regardless of the concentration of sperm. In addition, a concentration of 0.4 x 109 sperm cells/ml had higher percentages of rapid sperm and velocity parameters (P<0.05) compared to 0.8 x 109 sperm/ml. Further research is necessary to identify potential biomarkers for good and poor freezer stallions. Advisors/Committee Members: Jean M.N. Feugang (committee member), David L. Christiansen (committee member), Peter L. Ryan (chair).
Subjects/Keywords: biomarkers; sperm density; good freezer
Fahad, A. S. (2012). Cryopreservation of equine spermatozoa: Identification of good and poor freezer stallions and effect of sperm density per straw. (Masters Thesis). Mississippi State University. Retrieved from http://sun.library.msstate.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-10032012-004447/ ;
Fahad, Abed Sharqy. “Cryopreservation of equine spermatozoa: Identification of good and poor freezer stallions and effect of sperm density per straw.” 2012. Masters Thesis, Mississippi State University. Accessed January 20, 2021. http://sun.library.msstate.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-10032012-004447/ ;.
Fahad, Abed Sharqy. “Cryopreservation of equine spermatozoa: Identification of good and poor freezer stallions and effect of sperm density per straw.” 2012. Web. 20 Jan 2021.
Fahad AS. Cryopreservation of equine spermatozoa: Identification of good and poor freezer stallions and effect of sperm density per straw. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Mississippi State University; 2012. [cited 2021 Jan 20]. Available from: http://sun.library.msstate.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-10032012-004447/ ;.
Fahad AS. Cryopreservation of equine spermatozoa: Identification of good and poor freezer stallions and effect of sperm density per straw. [Masters Thesis]. Mississippi State University; 2012. Available from: http://sun.library.msstate.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-10032012-004447/ ;
Kyoto University / 京都大学
18. Gyobu, Sayuri. A role of TMEM16E carrying a scrambling domain in sperm motility : スクランブリングドメインを有する膜タンパク質TMEM16Eと精子運動.
Degree: 博士(医科学), 2016, Kyoto University / 京都大学
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2433/215460 ; http://dx.doi.org/10.14989/doctor.k19634
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新制・課程博士
甲第19634号
医科博第72号
Subjects/Keywords: TMEM16E; scrambling; phospholipid; sperm
Gyobu, S. (2016). A role of TMEM16E carrying a scrambling domain in sperm motility : スクランブリングドメインを有する膜タンパク質TMEM16Eと精子運動 . (Thesis). Kyoto University / 京都大学. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2433/215460 ; http://dx.doi.org/10.14989/doctor.k19634
Gyobu, Sayuri. “A role of TMEM16E carrying a scrambling domain in sperm motility : スクランブリングドメインを有する膜タンパク質TMEM16Eと精子運動.” 2016. Thesis, Kyoto University / 京都大学. Accessed January 20, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/215460 ; http://dx.doi.org/10.14989/doctor.k19634.
Gyobu, Sayuri. “A role of TMEM16E carrying a scrambling domain in sperm motility : スクランブリングドメインを有する膜タンパク質TMEM16Eと精子運動.” 2016. Web. 20 Jan 2021.
Gyobu S. A role of TMEM16E carrying a scrambling domain in sperm motility : スクランブリングドメインを有する膜タンパク質TMEM16Eと精子運動. [Internet] [Thesis]. Kyoto University / 京都大学; 2016. [cited 2021 Jan 20]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2433/215460 ; http://dx.doi.org/10.14989/doctor.k19634.
Gyobu S. A role of TMEM16E carrying a scrambling domain in sperm motility : スクランブリングドメインを有する膜タンパク質TMEM16Eと精子運動. [Thesis]. Kyoto University / 京都大学; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2433/215460 ; http://dx.doi.org/10.14989/doctor.k19634
19. Evans, Karen J.(Karen Jennifer). The life history of sperm whales, Physeter macrocephalus, from southern Australian waters.
Degree: 2003, University of Tasmania
URL: https://eprints.utas.edu.au/19772/7/whole_EvansKarenJennifer2003_thesis_ex_pub_mat.pdf ; https://eprints.utas.edu.au/19772/1/whole_EvansKarenJennifer2003_thesis.pdf
► One hundred and fifteen sperm whales (97 female, 15 male, 3 unknown gender) were involved in three mass stranding events during the month of February… (more)
▼ One hundred and fifteen sperm whales (97 female, 15 male, 3 unknown gender) were involved in three mass stranding events during the month of February 1998 along the west and north-west coastlines of Tasmania, Australia. Sixty six of these whales stranded at Ocean Beach, Strahan, 35 at Greens Beach, Marrawah and 11 at Black River Beach, Stanley. The remaining three whales stranded singly along the coastline. Three mass strandings of this species in such close temporal proximity have not been reported in this area before, and this is the first time that samples have been systematically collected from complete or near-complete groups of sperm whales from Tasmanian waters. The broad aim of this project was to examine the life history of complete or near complete female groups of sperm whales in an effort to contribute to the paucity of knowledge on two key areas of research identified for sperm whales in the Australian Government's Action Plan on Australian Cetaceans: the basic biology of this species and pollutant impacts on this species. This study is made up of three components: (i) by developing modifications to current methods of age determination, an assessment of the demographics and growth of the female component of these groups was undertaken; (ii) by collecting stomach contents and blubber samples, an investigation into energy acquisition and storage was undertaken and (iii) concentrations of organochlorines were determined from blubber samples and concentrations and interpreted in light of ecological factors such as diet and demography. The three stranding groups were composed primarily of adult females. Total lengths of all animals ranged from 417-1200 cm and ages ranged from 0.75-64 years. Female sperm whales, unlike many other mammals, demonstrate high, relatively stable survival throughout their entire life span. Overall, growth is prolonged in female sperm whales, not reaching asymptotic length until around 20 years. The longevity, low fecundity, slow growth, delayed sexual maturation and high input of resources into young over a protracted period define sperm whales as extreme K-selected animals. Survival in mature female sperm whales in this study was higher than those observed in mature females from Japanese waters and similar to that observed in female sperm whales deriven from Western Australian whaling operations. This suggests survival in female sperm whales from Australian waters may have undertaken little change post whaling. However, there appear to have been some changes in the age structure of female sperm whale groups and additionally increases in the total lengths of individuals, which indicate some postwhaling demographic changes. The diet of southern Australian sperm whales in late summer was dominated by oceanic cephalopods. Cephalopod beaks from stomach contents represented 48 species from 14 families of Teuthids, two species from two families of Octopods and the single Vampyromorph species. Subtropical and muscular species of cephalopods dominated the…
Subjects/Keywords: Sperm whale
Evans, K. J. (. J. (2003). The life history of sperm whales, Physeter macrocephalus, from southern Australian waters . (Thesis). University of Tasmania. Retrieved from https://eprints.utas.edu.au/19772/7/whole_EvansKarenJennifer2003_thesis_ex_pub_mat.pdf ; https://eprints.utas.edu.au/19772/1/whole_EvansKarenJennifer2003_thesis.pdf
Evans, Karen J (Karen Jennifer). “The life history of sperm whales, Physeter macrocephalus, from southern Australian waters.” 2003. Thesis, University of Tasmania. Accessed January 20, 2021. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/19772/7/whole_EvansKarenJennifer2003_thesis_ex_pub_mat.pdf ; https://eprints.utas.edu.au/19772/1/whole_EvansKarenJennifer2003_thesis.pdf.
Evans, Karen J (Karen Jennifer). “The life history of sperm whales, Physeter macrocephalus, from southern Australian waters.” 2003. Web. 20 Jan 2021.
Evans KJ(J. The life history of sperm whales, Physeter macrocephalus, from southern Australian waters. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Tasmania; 2003. [cited 2021 Jan 20]. Available from: https://eprints.utas.edu.au/19772/7/whole_EvansKarenJennifer2003_thesis_ex_pub_mat.pdf ; https://eprints.utas.edu.au/19772/1/whole_EvansKarenJennifer2003_thesis.pdf.
Evans KJ(J. The life history of sperm whales, Physeter macrocephalus, from southern Australian waters. [Thesis]. University of Tasmania; 2003. Available from: https://eprints.utas.edu.au/19772/7/whole_EvansKarenJennifer2003_thesis_ex_pub_mat.pdf ; https://eprints.utas.edu.au/19772/1/whole_EvansKarenJennifer2003_thesis.pdf
20. Faucette, Azure. Changes in Gene Expression of Goat Developing Testes and Sperm During Breeding and Non-breeding Season.
Degree: PhD, Physiology of Reproduction, 2012, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-05-10780
► Testicular function is fundamental to male fertility, since testicular cells act in collaboration with each other to signal sex differentiation, the initiation of puberty and… (more)
▼ Testicular function is fundamental to male fertility, since testicular cells act in collaboration with each other to signal sex differentiation, the initiation of puberty and spermatogenesis. Complications that can be influenced by many factors will affect sperm number, morphology, motility, chromatin quality and acrosomal integrity. The purpose of these studies was to analyze the changes in gene expression in the developing testes and analyze the seasonal changes in gene products in sperm of mature bucks. In the first experiment, testes were harvested from five Alpine bucks at 0, 2, 4, 6, and 8 months of age. Northern and in situ hybridization indicated that the largest change in gene expression occurred during the first 4 months of goat testes development. Sex determining region Y-box 9 (SOX9) and Heat Shock protein A8 (HSPA8) peaked at 2 months of age, and were expressed in Sertoli cells and spermatogonium, respectively. At 4 months, expression of Stimulated by Retinoic Acid gene 8 (STRA8), Protamine1 (PRM1) and Outer Dense Fiber protein 2 (ODF2) was strongly up-regulated in early and maturing germ cells, respectively. In the second experiment, RNA from ejaculated spermatozoa collected from mature Alpine bucks in peak (October) and non-peak (April) breeding season were analyzed on a 4 x 44K Agilent bovine microarray. One thousand three hundred and eighteen gene products were differentially expressed 2-fold or more (p ≤ 0.05 ) was expressed in mature goat sperm collected October and April. To eliminate the likelihood of false positives, the cut off was set to fold change of 3 or more at p ≤ 0.01 which narrowed the list of genes to 50 transcripts. Real time PCR results confirmed the expression of Sperm Adhesion Molecule 1 (SPAM1) in April, and the expression of Glycerol kinase 2(GK2) and Myc Binding Protein 2 (MYCBP2) in October. Based on the results from both experiments, it can be concluded that: SOX9 and HSPA8 expression play an important role in tubular formation and germ cell maintenance; two months after SOX9 and HSPA8 expression, genes that are associated with spermatogenesis initiation and completion are upregulated; and validation of the seasonal changes in sperm mRNA levels may provide additional insight to testicular events as they relate to breeding and non-breeding season. Advisors/Committee Members: Forrest, David W. (advisor), Ing, Nancy H. (advisor), Cavinder, Clay A. (committee member), Newton, Gary R. (committee member), Nuti, Louis C. (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: goat; sperm microarray; testis; seasonality
Faucette, A. (2012). Changes in Gene Expression of Goat Developing Testes and Sperm During Breeding and Non-breeding Season . (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-05-10780
Faucette, Azure. “Changes in Gene Expression of Goat Developing Testes and Sperm During Breeding and Non-breeding Season.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University. Accessed January 20, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-05-10780.
Faucette, Azure. “Changes in Gene Expression of Goat Developing Testes and Sperm During Breeding and Non-breeding Season.” 2012. Web. 20 Jan 2021.
Faucette A. Changes in Gene Expression of Goat Developing Testes and Sperm During Breeding and Non-breeding Season. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2012. [cited 2021 Jan 20]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-05-10780.
Faucette A. Changes in Gene Expression of Goat Developing Testes and Sperm During Breeding and Non-breeding Season. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-05-10780
21. Barzideh, Jaleh. Epigenetic modification in human male germ line.
Degree: MPhil, 2010, University of Newcastle
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/923302
Masters Research - Master of Philosophy (MPhil)
The purpose of this study was to examine the methylation status of human sperm DNA in relation to… (more)
The purpose of this study was to examine the methylation status of human sperm DNA in relation to the functional competence of these cells. In order to achieve this aim discontinuous Percoll gradient density centrifugation was used to generate sperm populations that were either normal (high-density Percoll fraction) or functionally impaired (low density Percoll fraction). The methylation status of these cells was then examined using HPLC, immunocytochemistry or flow cytometry and ultimately correlated with additional markers reflecting the tendency of these cells to default to an intrinsic apoptotic pathway. The results of this study suggest that the mitochondrial genome is heavily methylated during spermatogenesis possibly as a means of suppressing expression of the paternal mitochondrial genome following fertilization. Extensive methylation of the mitochondrial genome appeared to be a ubiquitous, consistent feature of these cells and was present in both the high and low quality sperm populations. By contrast, the methylation status of the nuclear genome appeared to change dramatically in relation to the functional competence of the spermatozoa, such that defective cells exhibited a statistically significant increase in nuclear DNA methylation. Such hypermethylation of defective cells was confirmed by all 3 of the techniques used in this study (HPLC, immunocytochemistry and flow cytometry). Different patterns of 5-methylcytosine expression were observed sperm nuclei by immunocytochemistry and possible interpretations offered in terms of the packaging of chromosomes into the nucleus during sperm differentiation. Furthermore, the methylation status of these cells was negatively correlated with various aspects of sperm function including sperm motility and the tendency of these cells to become apoptotic as reflected by the expression of activated caspases and Annexin-V binding. In addition the hypermethylation of human spermatozoa was highly correlated with their capacity to bind chromomycin3A, a marker that reflects the efficiency of sperm chromatin protamination. These results clearly suggest that defective human spermatozoa are associated with hypermethylation of their nuclear genome, possibly as a consequence of the defective control of DNA methyltransferase activity during spermiogenesis. These hypermethylated cells are functionally defective and exhibit a tendency to default to an apoptotic cascade that features activation of endogenous caspases, phosphatidylserine exteriorization and DNA damage. These results have important implications for the safety of assisted conception procedures that frequently involve the forced fertilization of oocytes with defective spermatozoa
Advisors/Committee Members: University of Newcastle. Faculty of Health, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy.
Subjects/Keywords: DNA; methylation; human sperm
Barzideh, J. (2010). Epigenetic modification in human male germ line . (Masters Thesis). University of Newcastle. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/923302
Barzideh, Jaleh. “Epigenetic modification in human male germ line.” 2010. Masters Thesis, University of Newcastle. Accessed January 20, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/923302.
Barzideh, Jaleh. “Epigenetic modification in human male germ line.” 2010. Web. 20 Jan 2021.
Barzideh J. Epigenetic modification in human male germ line. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Newcastle; 2010. [cited 2021 Jan 20]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/923302.
Barzideh J. Epigenetic modification in human male germ line. [Masters Thesis]. University of Newcastle; 2010. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/923302
22. Lovercamp, Kyle W. Factors Affecting the Presence of Reactive Oxygen Species in the Fresh and Extended Porcine Ejaculate.
Degree: PhD, Poultry Science, 2009, North Carolina State University
URL: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/resolver/1840.16/5409
► Experiment 1 examined changes in ejaculate characteristics, semen quality and membrane lipid peroxidation over time in boars maintained under a 3 times or 1 time… (more)
▼ Experiment 1 examined changes in ejaculate characteristics, semen quality and membrane lipid peroxidation over time in boars maintained under a 3 times or 1 time per week collection frequency and determined the effects of semen extender and storage time on semen quality and sperm membrane lipid peroxidation. In general, extender and storage time affected sperm quality. Sperm stored in a commercially available 3-day extender were lower for sperm quality and higher for lipid peroxidation after 7 days of storage post-collection compared to a commercially available 5-day extender. Experiment 2 used density gradient centrifugation to separate extended boar sperm into sub-populations for analysis of sperm quality, plasma membrane lipid peroxidation and sperm cell fatty acid composition over a 7 day storage period post-collection. Three ejaculates were collected and analyzed following exposure to three consecutive collection periods. The first ejaculate was collected from boars that had previously been maintained on a 1 time per week frequency. The second ejaculate was collected following a period of five collections in four days (fifth collection analyzed). The third ejaculate was a collected after a period of three days of rest following the collection of the second ejaculate. Collection period affected sperm motility over the storage period post-collection. Collection period, density layer and day of storage post-collection affected the separation patterns of sperm cells using density gradient centrifugation. These results suggest that changes in sperm separation seem to be primarily affected by collection period and day of storage post-collection and to a lesser extent, sperm motility, but not plasma membrane lipid peroxidation. Experiment 3 evaluated the effect of dietary selenium on sperm production and sperm quality. The dietary treatments were a non-supplemented negative control basal diet or the basal diet supplemented at 0.3 ppm with either organic selenium or inorganic selenium. A secondary objective was to examine changes in sperm quality over a six day storage period post-collection. Boars were fed the dietary treatments beginning at the time of weaning. Dietary treatment affected the level of selenium in the blood plasma but not the semen. Dietary treatment did not affect volume, concentration or total sperm in the ejaculate, nor did dietary treatment affect sperm motility, progressive motility, morphology, membrane lipid peroxidation and glutathione peroxidase activity over the 6 day storage period postcollection. Following density gradient centrifugation, sperm motility, progressive motility, morphology and the percentage of sperm recovered were higher in the 90% gradient compared to the 45% gradient on day 1 but not day 6 of storage post-collection. These results indicate that dietary treatment affected selenium levels in the blood, but did not affect sperm production or quality. Boar sperm cells decrease in progressive motility and buoyant density over a six day storage period which appears to affect the… Advisors/Committee Members: Sarah Ash, Committee Member (advisor), Glen Almond, Committee Member (advisor), M. Todd See, Committee Member (advisor), William L. Flowers, Committee Chair (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: boar; reactive oxygen species; sperm
Lovercamp, K. W. (2009). Factors Affecting the Presence of Reactive Oxygen Species in the Fresh and Extended Porcine Ejaculate. (Doctoral Dissertation). North Carolina State University. Retrieved from http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/resolver/1840.16/5409
Lovercamp, Kyle W. “Factors Affecting the Presence of Reactive Oxygen Species in the Fresh and Extended Porcine Ejaculate.” 2009. Doctoral Dissertation, North Carolina State University. Accessed January 20, 2021. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/resolver/1840.16/5409.
Lovercamp, Kyle W. “Factors Affecting the Presence of Reactive Oxygen Species in the Fresh and Extended Porcine Ejaculate.” 2009. Web. 20 Jan 2021.
Lovercamp KW. Factors Affecting the Presence of Reactive Oxygen Species in the Fresh and Extended Porcine Ejaculate. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. North Carolina State University; 2009. [cited 2021 Jan 20]. Available from: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/resolver/1840.16/5409.
Lovercamp KW. Factors Affecting the Presence of Reactive Oxygen Species in the Fresh and Extended Porcine Ejaculate. [Doctoral Dissertation]. North Carolina State University; 2009. Available from: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/resolver/1840.16/5409
23. Becks, Kayla. Immunomagnetic Beads Coupled with Anti-PH-20 Antibodies to Isolate Sperm from DNA Mixtures for Sexual Assault Kit Application.
Degree: MS, Forensic and Investigative Science, 2019, West Virginia University
URL: https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.7410 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/7410
► Sexual Assault Kits (SAKs) account for a large portion of DNA mixture samples that are processed within a forensic laboratory, most commonly in the… (more)
▼ Sexual Assault Kits (SAKs) account for a large portion of DNA mixture samples that are processed within a forensic laboratory, most commonly in the form of vaginal swabs. A typical vaginal swab from a SAK contains the female victim's epithelial cells and varying concentrations of sperm cells left by the perpetrator. The key to analyzing these types of samples is to separate the mixture into male and female fractions. As such, there is a demand to develop novel techniques that have the capability of recovering as much of the male fraction as possible, specifically in cases where there is a limited sperm concentration to begin with. Magnetic beads are a versatile product in that they can be coupled with a variety of substances including a silica coating or various antibodies. Several studies have explored techniques to target testis specific molecules to isolate sperm from DNA mixtures. This study targeted a protein (PH-20) that is not testis specific but is intrinsic to the head of a sperm cell. The goal was to evaluate the efficiency of magnetic beads coupled with anti-PH-20 antibodies in isolating sperm cells from DNA mixtures. Results suggested that streptavidin (SA) coated immunomagnetic beads (IMBs) recover more male DNA than carboxylic acid coated IMBs in both male-only samples and male:female mixture samples. Overall, the SAIMBs recovered approximately 21.7% of the total male DNA available in samples. While more research is needed to optimize the recovery of male DNA utilizing the IMB process, magnetic beads coupled with PH-20 antibodies have shown success in recovering male DNA and have considerable potential for forensic applications. Advisors/Committee Members: Tina Moroose, Clifton Bishop, Casey Jelsema.
Subjects/Keywords: Immunomagnetic Beads; Sperm Isolation; Biochemistry
Becks, K. (2019). Immunomagnetic Beads Coupled with Anti-PH-20 Antibodies to Isolate Sperm from DNA Mixtures for Sexual Assault Kit Application . (Thesis). West Virginia University. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.7410 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/7410
Becks, Kayla. “Immunomagnetic Beads Coupled with Anti-PH-20 Antibodies to Isolate Sperm from DNA Mixtures for Sexual Assault Kit Application.” 2019. Thesis, West Virginia University. Accessed January 20, 2021. https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.7410 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/7410.
Becks, Kayla. “Immunomagnetic Beads Coupled with Anti-PH-20 Antibodies to Isolate Sperm from DNA Mixtures for Sexual Assault Kit Application.” 2019. Web. 20 Jan 2021.
Becks K. Immunomagnetic Beads Coupled with Anti-PH-20 Antibodies to Isolate Sperm from DNA Mixtures for Sexual Assault Kit Application. [Internet] [Thesis]. West Virginia University; 2019. [cited 2021 Jan 20]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.7410 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/7410.
Becks K. Immunomagnetic Beads Coupled with Anti-PH-20 Antibodies to Isolate Sperm from DNA Mixtures for Sexual Assault Kit Application. [Thesis]. West Virginia University; 2019. Available from: https://doi.org/10.33915/etd.7410 ; https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/7410
24. Tarlan, Farhang. Method for the Selection of High Quality Sperm via Two-dimensional Slither Swimming.
Degree: 2018, University of Toronto
Sperm locomotion is central to natural conception and assisted reproduction. Most sperm selection technologies rely on sperm motility in bulk fluid. In vivo, however, sperm… (more)
Sperm locomotion is central to natural conception and assisted reproduction. Most sperm selection technologies rely on sperm motility in bulk fluid. In vivo, however, sperm tend to accumulate and transit near surfaces, often using a two-dimensional slither swimming mode, where the entire body of the sperm is confined within 1 μm of the surface. The most significant contribution of this thesis is the finding that a subpopulation of sperm capable of slither swimming possess enhanced DNA integrity compared to the motile and raw sperm populations. This result is found in both high-quality donor as well as low-quality patient semen samples. Selection of sperm based on their ability to swim in a slither mode was made possible in this work by the development of a microfluidic platform, which additionally offers a means to readily implement this sperm selection strategy in clinical workflow.
M.A.S.
Advisors/Committee Members: Sinton, David, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering.
Subjects/Keywords: fertility; intracytoplasmic sperm injection; in vitro fertilization; planar swimming sperm; slither swimming sperm; sperm selection; 0548
Tarlan, F. (2018). Method for the Selection of High Quality Sperm via Two-dimensional Slither Swimming . (Masters Thesis). University of Toronto. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1807/97660
Tarlan, Farhang. “Method for the Selection of High Quality Sperm via Two-dimensional Slither Swimming.” 2018. Masters Thesis, University of Toronto. Accessed January 20, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/97660.
Tarlan, Farhang. “Method for the Selection of High Quality Sperm via Two-dimensional Slither Swimming.” 2018. Web. 20 Jan 2021.
Tarlan F. Method for the Selection of High Quality Sperm via Two-dimensional Slither Swimming. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Toronto; 2018. [cited 2021 Jan 20]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/97660.
Tarlan F. Method for the Selection of High Quality Sperm via Two-dimensional Slither Swimming. [Masters Thesis]. University of Toronto; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/97660
25. Lai, Abbe. Men with Klinefelter Syndrome and their Thoughts on Testicular Sperm Extraction.
Degree: 2016, Brandeis University
► Klinefelter Syndrome (KS) is a sex chromosome abnormality causing a variety of clinical features and infertility. KS occurs when a male individual has an extra… (more)
▼ Klinefelter Syndrome (KS) is a sex chromosome abnormality causing a variety of clinical features and infertility. KS occurs when a male individual has an extra X chromosome resulting in a karyotype of 47,XXY. Much research has been done to look at the fertility of men with KS and in the mid-1990s a surgical technique, testicular sperm extraction (TESE), was shown to be effective in preserving the fertility of some men. Less is understood about the experiences of the men who utilize this procedure. The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of men with KS who have undergone TESE to understand the decision making process and to identify opportunities to support men with KS undergoing this process. Individuals 18 years and older with self-reported KS (n=2) were recruited from an online support network and by word-of-mouth to participate in a semi-structured interview focusing on the feelings about TESE, the challenges they faced with their condition, and the supports they utilized. The main motivation for undergoing TESE was a desire for biological children. Participants reported a number of different challenges including: coping with the clinical features of KS phenotype, acceptance of their infertility after a failed TESE procedure, passing on KS and the need for hormone v supplementation. The supports these men utilized included: parents, a partner, and other non-familial supports, such as physicians and online support groups. None of the men in this study were offered an appointment with a genetic counselor. However, genetic counselors may have a role in the care of a man with KS by helping men with KS through the decision making process to undergo TESE, setting reasonable expectations for the procedure and providing support after the procedure.
Subjects/Keywords: Klinefelter; Infertility; Testicular Sperm Extraction
Lai, A. (2016). Men with Klinefelter Syndrome and their Thoughts on Testicular Sperm Extraction . (Thesis). Brandeis University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10192/32249
Lai, Abbe. “Men with Klinefelter Syndrome and their Thoughts on Testicular Sperm Extraction.” 2016. Thesis, Brandeis University. Accessed January 20, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10192/32249.
Lai, Abbe. “Men with Klinefelter Syndrome and their Thoughts on Testicular Sperm Extraction.” 2016. Web. 20 Jan 2021.
Lai A. Men with Klinefelter Syndrome and their Thoughts on Testicular Sperm Extraction. [Internet] [Thesis]. Brandeis University; 2016. [cited 2021 Jan 20]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10192/32249.
Lai A. Men with Klinefelter Syndrome and their Thoughts on Testicular Sperm Extraction. [Thesis]. Brandeis University; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10192/32249
26. Murphy, Craig. A functional assessment of the sperm membrane: a multi-species approach.
Degree: 2014, University of Limerick
A functional sperm membrane is essential for many of the processes which lead to the fertilisation of an oocyte, but this membrane is susceptible… (more)
A functional sperm membrane is essential for many of the processes which lead to the fertilisation of an oocyte, but this membrane is susceptible to oxidative damage with increasing duration of storage in liquid semen or during the cryopreservation process. The objectives of this thesis were to examine the effects of storage temperature, catalase supplementation and sperm number on the membrane function of liquid stored bull semen, sperm membrane protein profile on the membrane integrity of liquid stored boar semen and stabilisation of the stallion sperm membrane using cholesterol, prior to cryopreservation, on the membrane function of frozen-thawed stallion semen. Sperm progressive motility was assessed by microscopy, glucose consumption and total antioxidant capacity were assessed using commercial kits, and viability, oxidative stress, mitochondrial activity, acrosomal status and membrane fluidity were assessed by flow cytometry. Conception rates in dairy cows were assessed as the 60 day non-return rate in a field study assessing the effects of lowering the sperm number in liquid bull semen, which included a frozen-thawed semen treatment. In liquid bull semen, storage at temperatures above 22 °C had reduced motility and membrane integrity (P < 0.05), in comparison with storage at 5 to 22 °C. Catalase supplementation had no effect on oxidative stress in liquid semen (P > 0.05). Reducing the sperm number in liquid semen insemination doses reduced ROS generation and glucose consumption, and increased viability (P < 0.05), however, storage at 4 and 3 × 106 sperm per dose had a reduced non-return rate on Day 2 of storage in comparison to the frozen-thawed semen treatment (P < 0.01). In liquid boar semen, the sperm membrane and seminal protein profiles differed between boars of high and low sperm membrane integrity (P < 0.05). Peroxiredoxin 5 and α-mannosidase were found to have a greater expression in sperm from boars of high membrane integrity (P < 0.05), while fibronectin, thrombospondin, AQN-1 and PSP-1 had a greater expression in sperm from boars of low membrane integrity (P < 0.05). In frozen-thawed stallion semen, the addition of cholesterol, prior to cryopreservation, increased sperm viability and membrane integrity, and reduced the generation of the superoxide anion, post-thaw (P < 0.05). In conclusion, this thesis provides new insights into sperm cell function in the bull, boar and stallion. Storage of liquid bull semen at lower sperm numbers is beneficial in reducing oxidative stress, but lowers non-return rates on Day 2 of storage. Boars differing in field fertility can be differentiated based on their sperm membrane protein profile while the addition of cholesterol to stallion semen, prior to cryopreservation, is beneficial to membrane function and semen quality, post-thaw.
Advisors/Committee Members: Fair, Seán, IRC, EI, Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.
Subjects/Keywords: sperm membrane; equine; animal reproduction
Murphy, C. (2014). A functional assessment of the sperm membrane: a multi-species approach . (Thesis). University of Limerick. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10344/4433
Murphy, Craig. “A functional assessment of the sperm membrane: a multi-species approach.” 2014. Thesis, University of Limerick. Accessed January 20, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10344/4433.
Murphy, Craig. “A functional assessment of the sperm membrane: a multi-species approach.” 2014. Web. 20 Jan 2021.
Murphy C. A functional assessment of the sperm membrane: a multi-species approach. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Limerick; 2014. [cited 2021 Jan 20]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10344/4433.
Murphy C. A functional assessment of the sperm membrane: a multi-species approach. [Thesis]. University of Limerick; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10344/4433
27. Fahrig, Brooke. Cryopreservation by pellet freezing of epididymal and ejaculated spermatozoa from male dogs.
Degree: MS, Animal Sciences, 2003, Louisiana State University
URL: etd-0405103-193813 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_theses/1859
► In this study, I evaluated the cryopreservation by pellet freezing of spermatozoa from individual dogs. In Experiment I, spermatozoa from 15 pairs of epididymides were… (more)
▼ In this study, I evaluated the cryopreservation by pellet freezing of spermatozoa from individual dogs. In Experiment I, spermatozoa from 15 pairs of epididymides were suspended in glycerol, frozen as pellets of 10, 50, 100, or 200 μl volumes, and thawed by dilution with TALP (Tyrode's solution plus albumin, lactate, pyruvate). In Experiment II, spermatozoa from 16 pairs of epididymides were suspended in glycerol, dimethyl sulfoxide, or ethylene glycol, frozen as 100 μl pellets, and thawed by dilution with TALP, canine capacitation medium (CCM), or 3% sodium citrate solution. In Experiment III, spermatozoa from 15 pairs of epididymides were suspended in glycerol, frozen as 100 μl pellets, and thawed by dilution with CCM. In Experiment IV, ejaculated spermatozoa from each of three dogs and epididymal spermatozoa from each of four other dogs were suspended in glycerol and were frozen and thawed as in Experiment III. Survival was determined by microscopic evaluation of motility and of membrane integrity. In Experiments III and IV, survival was also assayed by measuring the zona-binding capacity of the spermatozoa. Survival of frozen-thawed samples was significantly lower than unfrozen samples. Sperm survival after freezing depended significantly on the pellet volume, reflecting the effect of cooling rate as a function of pellet volume. Thawing solutions and CPAs also significantly affected post-thaw sperm survival. The highest post-thaw survival was obtained with a pellet volume of 100 μl and with the CPA-thawing solution combinations of glycerol-CCM and glycerol-TALP. The number of membrane-intact spermatozoa bound to each oocyte was significantly higher for unfrozen samples than for frozen-thawed samples. Ejaculated spermatozoa exhibited survival and zona-binding capacity similar to that of epididymal spermatozoa, and there was little variation in the survival of ejaculated spermatozoa from an individual dog. There were significant differences in post-thaw sperm survival and zona-binding capacity among individual dogs. These results complement previous studies showing male-to-male differences in freezing susceptibility of canine spermatozoa.
Subjects/Keywords: canine; sperm
Fahrig, B. (2003). Cryopreservation by pellet freezing of epididymal and ejaculated spermatozoa from male dogs . (Masters Thesis). Louisiana State University. Retrieved from etd-0405103-193813 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_theses/1859
Fahrig, Brooke. “Cryopreservation by pellet freezing of epididymal and ejaculated spermatozoa from male dogs.” 2003. Masters Thesis, Louisiana State University. Accessed January 20, 2021. etd-0405103-193813 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_theses/1859.
Fahrig, Brooke. “Cryopreservation by pellet freezing of epididymal and ejaculated spermatozoa from male dogs.” 2003. Web. 20 Jan 2021.
Fahrig B. Cryopreservation by pellet freezing of epididymal and ejaculated spermatozoa from male dogs. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Louisiana State University; 2003. [cited 2021 Jan 20]. Available from: etd-0405103-193813 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_theses/1859.
Fahrig B. Cryopreservation by pellet freezing of epididymal and ejaculated spermatozoa from male dogs. [Masters Thesis]. Louisiana State University; 2003. Available from: etd-0405103-193813 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_theses/1859
28. Markandona, Ourania. Μελέτη γενετικών πολυμορφισμών σε άνδρες με διαταραχές της σπερματογένεσης.
Degree: 2016, University of Thessaly (UTH); Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας
MLH3, a MutL (MutL-homolog, MLH) homolog protein in mammals playing a role in DNA mismatch repair (MMR), is associated with spermatogenesis and male infertility. The… (more)
MLH3, a MutL (MutL-homolog, MLH) homolog protein in mammals playing a role in DNA mismatch repair (MMR), is associated with spermatogenesis and male infertility. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the association of the singlenucleotide polymorphism (SNP), rs 175080 in the MLH3 gene, with sperm parameters in a Greek population. The study included 300 men of couples undergoing in vitro fertilization/intracytoplasmic sperm injection-embryo transfer (IVF/ICSI-ET) treatments (years 2011–2013). Genomic DNA was extracted from 300 peripheral blood samples, and conventional quantitative real-time PCR (Q-PCR) was performed for genotyping. Of them, 122 were from men used as “controls” and 178 from men used as “cases”. Allocation to the two groups was based on sperm concentrations (≥15 and <15 million/ml, respectively). Serum FSH, LH, estradiol, testosterone, and prolactin concentrations as well as sperm parameters were compared between three genotypes (GG, GA, and AA). Furthermore, the frequencies of these three genotypes were compared between “cases” and “controls”.Anthropometric parameters and hormonal values did not differ significantly between the three genotypes. Significantly lower spermconcentrations were found in men with the AA genotype as compared to men with the GG and GA genotypes (p<0.001). The AA genotype had the lower progressive motility values as compared to the other two genotypes (p<0.05). Also, there was a significantly different distribution of the frequencies of the three genotypes between “cases” and “controls” (p<0.001). Furthermore, clinical pregnancy rate was significantly higher in the AA genotype group (33.3%) and the GA group (29.3%)than in the GG group (11.1%)(p<0.05). It is suggested that the deteriorating effect of the mutant type on sperm characteristics is not relative to the ICSI-ET outcome.
Η πρωτεΐνη MLH3 είναι ένα μέλος της οικογένειας των MutL (MutL-homolog, MLH), ομόλογων στα θηλαστικά, πρωτεϊνών που συμμετέχουν στην επιδιόρθωση των βλαβών του DNA (Mismatch Repair, MMR) και συνδέονται με τη σπερματογένεση και την ανδρική στειρότητα. Ο σκοπός της παρούσας μελέτης ήταν να διερευνηθεί η συσχέτιση του μονονουκλεοτιδικού πολυμορφισμού, rs175080 στο γονίδιο MLH3, με τις παραμέτρους του σπέρματος στον ελληνικό πληθυσμό. Στην έρευνα, συμμετείχαν 300 άνδρες υπογόνιμων ζευγαριών που ακολούθησαν θεραπευτικά προγράμματα εξωσωματικής γονιμοποίησης / μικρογονιμοποίησης ωαρίων και εμβρυομεταφοράς (IVF/ICSI-ET) για τα έτη 2011-2013. Το γενωμικό DNA απομονώθηκε από 300 δείγματα περιφερικού αίματος και για προσδιορισμό του γενοτύπου χρησιμοποιήθηκε η συμβατική ποσοτική PCR (Q-PCR) πραγματικού χρόνου. Οι συμμετέχοντες κατηγοριοποιήθηκαν σε δύο ομάδες, η πρώτη περιελάμβανε 122 άνδρες που χρησιμοποιήθηκαν ως μάρτυρες και η δεύτερη ομάδα των 178 ανδρών ως “περιστατικά”. Η κατανομή στις δύο ομάδες έγινε με βάση τις συγκεντρώσεις των σπερματοζωαρίων (≥15 και <15 εκατομμύρια/ml, αντίστοιχα). Επίσης, στον ορό του αίματος μετρήθηκαν οι συγκεντρώσεις της FSH, LH, οιστραδιόλης, τεστοστερόνης και…
Subjects/Keywords: Αίτια ανδρικής υπογονιμότητας; Sperm infertility
Markandona, O. (2016). Μελέτη γενετικών πολυμορφισμών σε άνδρες με διαταραχές της σπερματογένεσης . (Thesis). University of Thessaly (UTH); Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/39546
Markandona, Ourania. “Μελέτη γενετικών πολυμορφισμών σε άνδρες με διαταραχές της σπερματογένεσης.” 2016. Thesis, University of Thessaly (UTH); Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας. Accessed January 20, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/39546.
Markandona, Ourania. “Μελέτη γενετικών πολυμορφισμών σε άνδρες με διαταραχές της σπερματογένεσης.” 2016. Web. 20 Jan 2021.
Markandona O. Μελέτη γενετικών πολυμορφισμών σε άνδρες με διαταραχές της σπερματογένεσης. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Thessaly (UTH); Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας; 2016. [cited 2021 Jan 20]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/39546.
Markandona O. Μελέτη γενετικών πολυμορφισμών σε άνδρες με διαταραχές της σπερματογένεσης. [Thesis]. University of Thessaly (UTH); Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/39546
29. Schuster, Andrew. Physiological roles of sperm-borne small RNAs.
Degree: 2016, University of Nevada – Reno
► The discovery of RNA interference (RNAi) nearly two decades ago revealed a complex and ubiquitous layer of gene expression regulation in both plants and animals.… (more)
▼ The discovery of RNA interference (RNAi) nearly two decades ago revealed a complex and ubiquitous layer of gene expression regulation in both plants and animals. Small noncoding RNAs (sncRNAs), the effectors of RNAi, are present and active in both somatic and germ cells, and appear to play an indispensable role in reproduction. Interestingly, despite cessation of transcription prior to their formation, diverse populations of sncRNAs are present in sperm. While it has been established that sperm-borne sncRNAs are delivered to the oocyte during fertilization, their function and physiological significance in the early embryo remains unclear. To better understand the importance of the paternal sncRNA contribution in the early embryo, this dissertation investigates sperm-borne sncRNAs in multiple contexts. Both miRNA and miRNA / endo-siRNA deficient sperm were generated for fertilization studies, to determine whether the paternal contribution of either class of sncRNA was required for successful early embryo development (Chapter II). To improve our knowledge of the conservation and characteristics of mammalian sperm RNA content, catalogs of both large and small RNA expression were compiled for multiple species, using a methodology that emphasized consistency between datasets (Chapter III). The recent discovery that sperm-borne sncRNAs are involved in epigenetic inheritance prompted an investigation into whether they are active in vinclozolin-induced, epigentically inheritable disease phenotypes (Chapter IV). In these studies, sperm-borne sncRNAs were consistently found to play a non-trivial physiological role in many aspects of mammalian development. Advisors/Committee Members: Yan, Wei (advisor), Berninsone, Patricia (committee member), Hennig, Grant (committee member), AuCoin, David (committee member), Verma, Subhash (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: epigenetics; small RNA; sperm
Schuster, A. (2016). Physiological roles of sperm-borne small RNAs . (Thesis). University of Nevada – Reno. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11714/2177
Schuster, Andrew. “Physiological roles of sperm-borne small RNAs.” 2016. Thesis, University of Nevada – Reno. Accessed January 20, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11714/2177.
Schuster, Andrew. “Physiological roles of sperm-borne small RNAs.” 2016. Web. 20 Jan 2021.
Schuster A. Physiological roles of sperm-borne small RNAs. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Nevada – Reno; 2016. [cited 2021 Jan 20]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11714/2177.
Schuster A. Physiological roles of sperm-borne small RNAs. [Thesis]. University of Nevada – Reno; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11714/2177
30. Friesen, Christopher R. Patterns and mechanisms : postcopulatory sexual selection and sexual conflict in a novel mating system.
Degree: PhD, Zoology, 2012, Oregon State University
► Postcopulatory sexual selection—sperm competition and cryptic female choice—has become a major area of research over the past 40 years. Within this field there are many… (more)
▼ Postcopulatory sexual selection—sperm competition and cryptic female choice—has become a major area of research over the past 40 years. Within this field there are many outstanding questions at every level of analysis, from proximate to ultimate. The fitness consequences for both sexes in the period after copulation and before fertilization are considerable, but are obscured within the female reproductive tract. Our understanding of postcopulatory mechanisms is especially sparse in taxa other than birds and insects. Nearly nothing is known in reptiles except that multiple paternity is common and widespread, and often results from long-term sperm storage across breeding seasons. We present some of the very first data on the determinants of fertilization success in the context of sperm competition in reptiles, a group that accounts for 30% of terrestrial vertebrates. In the first chapter, "Asymmetric gametic isolation between two populations of red-sided garter snakes", we discuss the use of between-population crosses to reveal gametic isolation. The effect of population density and operational sex ratios on mating systems and the speciation process has fueled theoretical debate. We attempted to address these issues using two populations of red-sided garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis) from Manitoba, Canada. Our study populations differ markedly in their density mating aggregations, with a 10-fold difference between them. Using microsatellite markers for paternity analysis of litters produced from within and between population crosses. We found that the population with highest aggregation density, and presumably with the highest level of sexual conflict (i.e., when the evolutionary interests of the sexes differ) over mating, was also the population that exhibited homotypic sperm precedence. The less dense population showed a distinct postcopulatory male-size advantage. We also demonstrated that sperm stored within the female over hibernation can father 20-30% of offspring in a litter. In the second chapter, "Sperm competition and mate-order effects in red-sided garter snakes", we test whether females use mate-order effects to ensure that a larger (fitter) male will sire her offspring. Does that second male should have precedence in sperm competition? We tested for second-male precedence using singly-mated females that mated with a second male. Average proportion of paternity was shared equally among the first (P₁, i.e., proportion of offspring from a litter fathered by the first male to mate) and second males (P₂) to mate, and stored sperm (P[subscript ss]). This may be a case where last male precedence breaks down with more than two males. All females were spring virgins (they had not mated that spring, but may have stored sperm from fall matings); thus sperm stored presumably from fall matings is important in this system. As the interval between matings increased P₁ increased at the expense of P[subscript ss]. As the second male to mate's copulation duration increased, P₁ also increased at the expense… Advisors/Committee Members: Mason, Robert T. (advisor), Arnold, Stevan J. (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Sperm Competition; Sperm competition
…28 SPERM COMPETITION AND MATE-ORDER EFFECTS IN RED-SIDED GARTER SNAKES… …79 SPERM-DEPLETED MALES AND THE UNFORTUNATE FEMALES WHO MATE WITH THEM ............ 89 4.1… …of paternity attributed to stored sperm (Pss), the first male to mate (P1… …of how the plug is situated in the female’s cloaca, the distribution of sperm within the… …between sperm numbers from natural ejaculates, male size and copulation duration…
Friesen, C. R. (2012). Patterns and mechanisms : postcopulatory sexual selection and sexual conflict in a novel mating system . (Doctoral Dissertation). Oregon State University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1957/36205
Friesen, Christopher R. “Patterns and mechanisms : postcopulatory sexual selection and sexual conflict in a novel mating system.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, Oregon State University. Accessed January 20, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/36205.
Friesen, Christopher R. “Patterns and mechanisms : postcopulatory sexual selection and sexual conflict in a novel mating system.” 2012. Web. 20 Jan 2021.
Friesen CR. Patterns and mechanisms : postcopulatory sexual selection and sexual conflict in a novel mating system. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Oregon State University; 2012. [cited 2021 Jan 20]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1957/36205.
Friesen CR. Patterns and mechanisms : postcopulatory sexual selection and sexual conflict in a novel mating system. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Oregon State University; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1957/36205
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Occupy the 2nd Amendment
A Leftist View on Gun Politics by Ross Eliot, former Editor and Publisher of American Gun Culture Report
About O2A
Tag Archives: Liberal
Interview with the Liberal Hunting Enthusiast
Elise Letizia uses she/her pronouns, lives in New Hampshire and runs an internet project called The Liberal Hunting Enthusiast which exists on Instagram, WordPress and Youtube. Our conversation has been edited for length and clarity. All photos used with permission from her IG account.
Ross: How long have you been a hunter and what sparked that?
Elise: Two years ago my dog caught and killed a rabbit in our yard. I was going to compost it (since I worked for a commercial composting company that could handle meat and bones) but instead decided to utilize the meat, so I skinned and cleaned it and made a delicious rabbit stew. This was the experience that connected my theoretical interest in hunting to a tangible one.
Ross: What sort of raining or education have you undertaken?
Elise: My husband and I took an online hunter education with an in-person field day last April and obtained our New Hampshire licenses after that. We did a mentored grouse hunt in October as well as a deer hunt with a friend. Both hunts were amazing but we did not harvest an animal. I went out over the winter for a small game season (snowshoe hare and squirrel) with still no harvest. We’re participating in spring turkey and haven’t harvested anything yet, but love the experience and learning curve!
Ross: Is this related to other sporting pursuits?
Elise: I have always been an outdoor enthusiast with a love for nature and the environment. I studied natural resources at an agricultural high school and have been passionate about sustainability since then, including our food sources (in regards to both animal protein and produce). I took the NH Natural Resources Stewardship program in 2015 and one of the classes was about hunting and the North American Model of Conservation. I was amazed to learn about the history of hunting and trapping in the US and about how the current model is sustainable for both game and non-game species conservation. I love the idea of conservation through ethical consumption, and fully believe that supplementing my diet with hunting, fishing, foraging is the most sustainable way to source food, especially living in a rural area.
Ross: What do you feel are the biggest misconceptions about hunters?
Elise: One is that hunters just want to shoot an animal. I have never met a hunter that thought like that, and in fact, in my experience hunters are very concerned with the ethics of harvesting an animal for food. I think there is a stereotype of hunters being a certain demographic and while historically true, there are more women, people of color, LGBTQ folks, and Liberal/Left people getting into hunting and firearm ownership! That is exciting, I am passionate about making these practices widely available and accessible to all people.
Ross: Were you a gun owner before becoming a hunter? Would you still have firearms if not for that purpose?
Elise: My husband bought a rifle before we were into hunting with the intent to use for hunting and home defense. I was less than thrilled, but over time going to the range, I became interested in shooting sports. Then, when I wanted to start hunting I got a Ruger 10/22 for small game like squirrels and rabbits. I now own a 20 gauge Mossberg 500 for turkey, upland bird, and small game. I also have Glock 48 that I carry with me when hunting or hiking alone. I think now, with the understanding of firearms I have gained, I would still own firearms even if I did not hunt.
Ross: Do you use the term Liberal as your political identification in a general sense? Is there anything on the Left spectrum that you resonate with more specifically?
Elise: I do use this term in a very general sense. Liberalism: being open to new behaviors or opinions, a willingness to discard regressive traditional values and embracing education for broadening a person’s knowledge. Liberals typically believe that government is necessary to protect individuals from being harmed by others, but they also recognize that government itself can pose a threat to liberty. I am definitely Left-leaning in regards to social betterment and individual civil rights/liberties, and actually see the 2nd Amendment as a part of this – something that directly supports these views.
Ross: Many Liberals I’ve known considered hunting unethical. How would you respond to their concerns?
Elise: I love and respect animals, and was a vegetarian for several years, although my friends will tell you I was the worst vegetarian, frequently eating meat when local and sustainable options were available – for me, my body just feels better when I have some animal protein. I was definitely on board with the idea of hunting but wasn’t sure I could handle the complexity of caring about animals and also hunting them for food. I think this paradox is part of what keeps me interested, it’s a challenging practice – one that is almost spiritual for me (as an eclectic agnostic).
Ross: Does the Democratic Party resonate with you?
Elise: I no longer identify as a Democrat (for many reasons, mostly that partisan politics and the assumption that one will blindly accept a specific stance on any given issue) and think of myself as an independent and even a moderate who is willing to work toward common ground and better dialogue involving difficult issues. I am always trying to entertain new perspectives with the goal toward understanding and empathy, not necessarily agreement. I feel most strongly about the equity of all peoples, such as LGBTQ rights and achieving racial justice.
Ross: What led you to start this project and what are your goals with it?
Elise: I wanted to give my Left-leaning friends and family a unique perspective on hunting and firearm ownership, a lived experience not often portrayed by mainstream media (usually there is a very negative stereotype around gun ownership and hunting). My goals are simply to provide that perspective in hopes that it can cultivate understanding for these subjects.
Ross: Have you gotten any pushback? If so, is it more from anti-hunting folks or Right-wingers who don’t want Liberals taking away their issues?
Elise: Actually, I have received very little pushback. I’ve been pleasantly surprised by how many Left-leaning folks are open-minded to what I have to say (possibly because most of my current followers know me personally). There have been a few that simply don’t want to entertain this perspective, perhaps it complicated their own belief system and challenges them in a way they aren’t ready or willing to deal with – and that is okay, too. Most of my Conservative followers are supportive since my experience tends to shed a more positive light on them than mainstream media, and the gun community and hunting community are far more welcoming and accepting than I ever would have imagined. Of course, there are always outliers – I’ve been called a “snowflake” a time or two, it can sting at first but I remind myself that snowflakes are beautiful and unique and try to take it as a compliment.
Ross: Are you involved with any groups related to hunting or shooting?
Elise: Yes, I am a Liberal Gun Club member and the Gun Owners of America as well, although I frequently disagree with some of their sentiments. I don’t belong to the NRA as their original goal of educating people about firearm use and safety has become lost to partisan politics and corruption. I follow several groups like Armed Equality, Pink Pistols, and the National African American Gun Association. I also belong to Backcountry Hunters and Anglers.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged 2nd Amendment, Gun Control, Gun Politics, hunting, Leftist, Liberal, outdoors on June 20, 2020 by Ross Eliot.
NORTH & HAMMER: More Reasons to Burn the NRA
Together their surnames sound like a Black Metal band on trial for church arson, but Oliver North and Marion Hammer recently managed in just one day to throw additional fuel on everything that makes the National Rifle Association such a trash fire.
On May 7th, the NRA announced their next president, an iconic position historically often given to retired military officers or more recently, Right Wing public personas. Lt. Col. North fills both requirements. While he came across sympathetically to many during the 1980s as a stoic scapegoat from the Iran-Contra scandal, his career more recently involved playing a Fox News contributor in the most typical scribble-by-numbers sense. Wide eyed disbelief at how Democrats allegedly hate police officers, sorrowful head shaking when activists shout anti-war slogans and incongruous outrage at NFL players peacefully kneeling during the national anthem as protest against State Terror by police forces.
Instead of winning more people over in support of gun rights, choosing North signals that the NRA seeks no deviation from it’s tragic policy of marrying the 2nd Amendment to regressive political and unrelated social issues. While the human right of self defense should hold universal appeal, it has instead promoted characters like Executive Vice-president Wayne LaPierre, who wrote sarcastically against feminism, singled out Ben and Jerry’s ice cream for attack* and repeatedly blamed shootings on video games. Of course, anecdotal evidence strongly suggests video games make teenagers extremely boring, yet no scientific link has ever been found to demonstrate that digital violence ever leaves the domain of ones and zeroes.
Still, LaPierre’s bungles pale in comparison to NRA board member Ted Nugent who most infamously created a new definition for White privilege when he evaded legal jeopardy after threatening to machine-gun President Obama, besides calling him a “subhuman mongrel” and then issuing a half-apology no parent would accept from their six-year old. Nugent’s other antics include referring to Hillary Clinton as a “bitch,” whore” and “toxic cunt” besides a whole host of slurs against Black and queer folks among many others. His dimwitted social observations are hardly original among the most ignorant, but by elevating such a man so highly, the NRA irresponsibly gives clear endorsement to such views. One could hardly imagine a better way to alienate decent minded people from the gun rights movement than a 60 second google search of Nugent’s quotes.
Then, if this wasn’t all bad enough, just hours after Oliver North’s new job announcement hit the airwaves, former NRA president Marion Hammer appeared on the NPR program All Things Considered. Immediately she fired off a classic culture wars bazooka. In her social analysis, the root cause of gun violence is “the breakdown of families. Parents don’t raise children the way they used to. There are too many children who grow up on their own without guidance.”
Hammer didn’t specify further, but it’s clear where she was riding the family values train and is an easy argument to dismiss. For example, divorce rates in the European Union as a whole are roughly identical to the United States, just under 50%. However, the EU is much more friendly territory for gay marriage and adoption, gender equality, including trans rights, not to mention atheism, abortions, birth control access…etc…etc…in other words, the vast host of issues that conservatives blame on destroying traditional virtues. Yet despite these trends not increasing divorce rates, they also don’t lead to Europeans murdering one another with the same enthusiasm as Americans. It’s obviously something else.
Unfortunately, North, LaPierre, Nugent and Hammer are ideological prisoners, clawing at any excuse to blame shootings on something besides guns, yet ignoring what actually makes the United States so dangerous. Institutional racism is a huge factor, yet kneeling at football games never hurt anybody. Video games don’t kill, but toxic forms of masculinity remain dominant themes among mass murderers. Healthy families are obviously important, but children raised by queer parents are no worse than others. Systemic poverty destroys whole communities, leading to tragic violence levels, yet the NRA would rather play off skewed Right Wing social biases than face the truth. It weakens their organization long term and sadly, hampers the work of everyone who cares about the right to be armed.
*Both from Wayne LaPierre and James Jay Baker. Shooting Straight: Telling the Truth About Guns in America. Regnery Publishing, Washington DC, 2002. 3 & 129.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged 2nd Amendment, activism, Firearms, Gun Control, Gun Politics, Liberal, marionhammer, nra, olivernorth, red nugent, Shooting, waynelapierre on May 20, 2018 by Ross Eliot.
Ten Tips: How to Talk to Liberals About Guns
Language Choices: The way we talk frames everything else and couldn’t be more crucial because the real goal is persuading others. For example, when people discuss why they own firearms, it frequently comes from a perspective that makes the issue seem overly individualistic. Take a more collective approach and use words like Community Defense. Avoid cliche stances and arguments. Employ current terms that identify your social awareness. Learn the history of government sanctioned violence in America. Explain how oppressed peoples have always banded together using every tactic of resistance at their disposal, including arms. Point out how gun restrictions historically disempower such marginalized groups. Clearly condemn White Supremacist and police terrorism.
Humanize Adversaries: Understand that people who support gun control don’t hate freedom, they just hate seeing dead children on television. Conversely, make it clear where your own beliefs come from. For myself, I purchased my first gun after an extended research project about the 1994 Rwandan genocide. It impressed me that such effective mass murder could take place largely with machetes and made me reevaluate what causes violence in societies. I wanted to become a more valuable member of my community in case of collective attacks against vulnerable people, as has happened in America before.
Make Concessions: People often enter a political debate convinced that compromise means weakness but there’s nothing wrong with flexibility. Good faith negotiations require that on both sides. Recognize we never get exactly what we want in life and especially not in politics. Pick a few things worth bending around. Maybe that’s raising certain age limits, or requiring more intensive safety classes for concealed handgun licenses or regulating bump stocks like full-auto rifles are already.
Check Your Privilege: People often take this the wrong way, but it’s not so hard to understand. Just be honest about who you are and how you got where you are. For example, I arrived where I am in life through tons of hard work but unavoidably also by taking advantage of my ruling class race and gender. That doesn’t mean everything came easy but it sure helped give me a leg up over many other people and it’s foolish to pretend that isn’t part of my success. Don’t let reality make you defensive, but instead take it as a lesson in humbleness.
Burn the NRA: This is a great time for anyone who cares about the future of self defense to incinerate their NRA card. When gun control supporters criticize them, vehemently join in. Point out how during the early 20th century, when black Americans were put on trial for defending themselves against lynch mobs, they sat on the sidelines as leftists like the attorney Clarence Darrow upheld the 2nd Amendment in court as a human right for everyone. The NRA is racist, a fear mongering disaster and completely incompetent. Don’t hesitate to distance yourself from that cultural trash inferno.
Avoid Macho Posturing: Remember that advertisement from a few years back suggesting an AR-15 could reissue your “man card?” Ever notice how many guys like to pose for internet photos with their pistol pointed directly at the camera? What about all the machismo flying around about how .45 pistols are more manly than 9mm? These are all pretty much the definition of toxic masculinity in action and turn otherwise sympathetic people against gun culture.
Health Care Hypocrisy: There’s few things more embarrassing than when 2nd Amendment supporters suddenly become mental health advocates. If you are a Conservative, Liberals will immediately want to know what you have ever done that could strengthen the social safety net in general or specifically provide funding for mental health care. Besides scapegoating the mentally ill, should it turn out you voted for candidates or policies that actually reduced access to such services, this political dodge won’t fly very far.
Big Picture Mentality: It’s the long view that matters. People focus on particular details or anecdotes that reinforce their narrative but remember that social violence in America is a giant spectrum. It goes up and down through complicated factors unrelated to how many weapons are available or what regulations exist. Don’t let sensational incidents distract from the fact that most gun related deaths involve pistols, close proximity and a small number of shots fired.
Less Flag Waving: Most Liberals have a knee jerk reaction against the kind of bloated pageantry that many right-wingers enthusiastically embrace. They are rightfully suspicious after so many terrible disasters from the Vietnam and Gulf Wars to the Patriot Act came packaged inside red, white and blue wrapping paper. Ideas should stand on their own merits without patriotic camouflage. Don’t let gun rights be visually lumped in with so many other failed and ignoble exercises.
Don’t Open Carry: I understand how for many folks, the open carry movement is about culturally normalizing firearms and raising awareness. These are completely worthwhile sentiments. However, if you’re trying to win people over by showing off a black rifle in the deli line, some reevaluation is in order. This comes across as an intimidation tactic and makes few friends compared to the numbers it alienates.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged 2nd Amendment, conservative, Defense, Firearms, Gun Control, Gun Politics, guns, Liberal, nra, Shooting, Warfare on May 6, 2018 by Ross Eliot.
Open Letter to Conservative Christians
This letter is my response after a week of listening to Right wing religious talk radio while at work. Of course, with all the money activists can collect from George Soros, soon I won’t need a job at all! That myth was a particular obsession of theirs, but with so much foolishness being broadcast, it would have required a twenty page letter to counter even their most absurd theories.
KKPZ
9700 SE Eastview Dr.
Happy Valley, OR 97086
Dear Rose City Forum,
As someone who finds value receiving feedback, whether positive or negative in my own endeavors, I thought you might appreciate some from me.
The FM function on my radio ceased working last week, so I have been tuning into RCF on my lunch breaks with much enthusiasm. I perhaps differ from your typical listener, being a long time militant Leftist and Atheist, who focuses on providing small arms training and knowledge among subculture communities, yet come from a Christian background which provides an interesting context to absorb your program from. I always enjoy hearing perspectives different from my own.
I was particularly struck by a few items, most shockingly upon hearing ill considered apologies for the police officers who beat Rodney King, but also from the extended piece using an old television show plot with examples to demonstrate supposed values lost by modern society. I found it amusing, since the same folksy anecdotes used to castigate dishonesty and lack of concern for others, while promoting alleged Conservative values, are essentially the same ones that formed who I am.
I became a Leftist because I believe strongly in fair reward for honest labor, consequences for failure and despise freeloaders. Of course, the most egregious examples countering my values to be seen in America are endemic throughout the skewed Capitalist system. Yet instead of hearing righteous anger directed by RCF at, for example, massive rewards given to Wall Street bankers after driving their companies into the ground or other injustices of economic equality, RCF instead seems primarily concerned with condemning broken windows and minor social disturbances in reaction to, say, instances of State Terror in Ferguson, as revealed by investigations into their police dept. or endorsing the election of a President who openly admires a totalitarian, anti-democratic state like Russia. It’s baffling to imagine such cognitive dissonance.
At any rate, until I either repair or replace my radio, I plan to continue tuning in. Thank you for providing much insight into your though process and segments of society that I wholly oppose.
Ross Eliot
http://www.occupy2a.wordpress.com
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged 2nd Amendment, christianity, conservative, fascism, Firearms, Gun Politics, kkpz, Leftist, Liberal, religion, RKBA, rosecityforum, Shooting on February 20, 2017 by Ross Eliot.
O2A Makes a Meme
A Brief Pause Before Punching Nazis
In the rush of emotions surrounding Donald Trump’s first several days in office, hardly a moment has been more cathartic for those opposing him than the ubiquitous image of alt.right leader Richard Spencer blindsided by a fist to the head from a black clad assailant. It’s an easy act to swallow and the memes practically write themselves.
Spencer calls for his vision of racial cleansing. Groans.
Spencer makes misogynistic remarks about women. Boos.
Spencer raises a right hand in the iconic Heil Hitler salute. Hisses.
Spencer hits the ground after his face collides with the Black Bloc. Applause.
Now, I’ve never actually punched a Nazi, but I did shove a rather large racist man into a concrete wall once while delivering a Give-No-Fucks tongue lashing at point blank range and felt the euphoria only extreme self righteousness can deliver while watching him literally sprint away.
It was worth it, even though I got fired the next day.
As satisfying as such an action can be, whether delivered at the cost of employment, or safely viewed on Youtube, it’s important to keep in mind who the serious enemies are. Most damaging human depravity comes through the policies of respectable people in suits instead of shrill, small time agitators. Richard Spencer is a noisy blip of racism enjoying peripheral glow from Donald Trump’s victory. He can only fantasize about equaling the damage done to communities of color by skewed drug sentencing laws, for-profit prison systems and years of warfare in the East.
Now, I will never support legal restrictions on even the most regressive speech or opinions, but during a period of low-level insurgency against vulnerable populations, people must make their own ethical choices of how to best respond. Self defense can take many forms. Just remember that while Spencer’s kind are more visible currently, deeper and more serious problems have persisted under every administration, regardless of party.
I also want to encourage a healthy hesitance over resorting to violence. Clearly this is not a pacifist weblog, yet the current enthusiasm over “punching Nazis” plays into very unappealing macho worldviews regarding problem solving. I salute the individual who struck Spencer, but acknowledge this is all much bigger than knocking down one man or even removing one president.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged 2nd Amendment, alt.right, Firearms, Gun Control, Gun Politics, guns, Liberal, political violence, richard spencer, Shooting on January 29, 2017 by Ross Eliot.
Trump, the NRA and Inauguration Day
There’s a narrative the NRA is pushing that I want to break down. Unsurprisingly, they are reveling in Donald Trump’s victory, calling it “a stunning political upset–led by America’s gun owners.”(1) Their bold assumption is essentially that the election constituted a national referendum on gun rights, as embodied by themselves.
Indeed, during times when many Republican leaders shrunk from association with Trump, the NRA provided complete, uncritical support. While establishment icons from the Bush family to Colin Powell, Mitt Romney and even the Koch brothers turned against a candidate who bragged about sexual assault, smeared a Gold Star family and changed policy stances at the slightest breeze, the NRA never wavered. As I wrote in October, they stood almost alone by refusing to even acknowledge issues that made so many high profile conservatives spurn Trump. Of course, this seemed particularly odd, given his mixed record supporting their main focus, the 2nd Amendment.
If there is any reason for them to take credit, it is Hillary Clinton. While Democrats, in general, spent the last twenty years viewing gun control as a losing issue, Clinton mistakenly sensed a change in the air and attempted taking advantage of the one place she could be perceived as politically Left of Bernie Sanders. Clinton and the NRA leadership may have little in common, but one thing shared is their overestimation of the firearm factor.
Instead of guns, the single greatest element in the 2017 presidential election was sheer dissatisfaction with the status quo. Angry voters from every direction sought a standard bearer. Clinton tried haphazardly to bear that mantle, which fell much more naturally around Sanders shoulders, enough that it took a rigged primary system to make her the Democratic nominee. Trump, on the other hand, harnessed this groundswell and rode it to victory, even trampling roughshod over his own party elites. The point is, Democrats apparently didn’t hold Sander’s weaker record on gun control against him and at the same time, Republicans rejected candidates with much stronger pro-2nd Amendment claims.
The NRA oversells their value in Trump’s win and by the same token, paints all opposition to him as anti-gun. They do this using conflation. On the cover of America’s 1st Freedom for January, images of gun control promoting billionaires George Soros and Michael Bloomberg hover above a crowd of placard waving anti-Trump activists. An article inside then declares: ‘“Not My President” protesters symbolize a looming threat to gun rights–one that didn’t accept defeat on election day.”(2) However, for all their alleged symbolism, if you look at the anti-Trump signs being carried, they say nothing about firearms at all. Instead, the messages read: “LOVE TRUMPS HATE” and “REFUSE TO ACCEPT A FASCIST AMERICA” and “UNITED AGAINST HATRED.”(3)
There are many issues uniting Americans who despise Donald Trump. Gun control simply isn’t one of them. If anything, the wave of racist attacks and actions unleashed by his victory has made the Left more conscious of their vulnerabilities, as seen by increased gun sales to women and minorities, greater interest in groups such as The Liberal Gun Club and even just my own personal experience of more Lefty Portlanders seeking information about firearms and Concealed Cary Permits.
This Friday, January 20th, Donald Trump is scheduled for inauguration as President of the United States, while again, protests oppose him nationwide. With Republicans primed to control every branch of government, the NRA needs enemies justifying scare tactics in their fundraising. Now that Obama and Clinton are removed, they will continue using anti-Trump activists instead. Don’t believe it.
As Trump is sworn in, I will be out on the streets of Portland with thousands of others who refuse to accept naked authoritarianism at the helm of State power. He cannot take office without a great cry against his lies, contempt for women and minorities and complete disregard of the Constitution. The tone must be established that armed Americans have a duty and presence in opposition, despite how the NRA portrays reality. I will be proud marching among comrades from every background in this and implore everyone who cares about creating a just, equitable future to join with us.
(1) America’s 1st Freedom, January 2017, p. 33.
(2) Ibid.
(3) Ibid. p.32.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged 2nd Amendment, activism, antiwar, bouazizi, fascism, Firearms, Gun Control, Gun Politics, guns, inauguration, Leftist, Liberal, liberalgunclub, nevertrump, nra, potus, RKBA, Shooting, trump on January 20, 2017 by Ross Eliot.
The Tet Offensive and Trump
If a perfect metaphor to symbolize the current state of American politics is sought, look no further than the world of commemorative firearms. You can find ads for these in many leisure periodicals, usually featuring triumphant patriotic themes or personalities like John Wayne and General George S. Patton, emblazoned with gold filagree.
This is a time when the president-elect of the United States not only coddles White Nationalists and openly admires Russian strongman Vladimir Putin, but has already broken longstanding protocols keeping peace with China and implied willingness to break international treaties controlling nuclear weapons. A candidate who ran as an outsider to “drain the swamp” of status quo politics, now stacking cabinet positions and government departments with insider apparatchiks.
Therefore, how appropriate under such circumstances that the first issue of the NRA’s political magazine, America’s 1st Freedom since Donald Trump’s election, contains a full-page ad for a Colt .45 pistol commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Tet Offensive.
The Tet Offensive. A series of intense battles in 1968 that is widely considered to signal when the United States began loosing the Vietnam War.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged 2nd Amendment, altright, Firearms, Gun Control, Gun Politics, guns, Leftist, Liberal, nra, Shooting, trump, vietnamwar on December 29, 2016 by Ross Eliot.
Trump, Safety Pins and Resistance
This being my first writing since the election of Donald Trump, I’d like to admit being very wrong. Again. Like most observers, the chance of him even becoming the Republican presidential nominee seemed so remote, I completely discounted it. From an article last March, I apologized about that oversight, making note of how unprecedented it was that, in this day and age, a high profile politician could come so far while promoting nakedly racist policies, as opposed to the more socially palatable (yet just as fundamentally racist) economic agendas embraced by both Republican and Democratic elites.
Then, in late October, I predicted Trump’s defeat “which looks increasingly certain (barring some new sensational Clinton revelation), will only cement the 2nd Amendment alongside misogyny and comb-overs in American political consciousness.” In all fairness, however, the FBI re-opening Clinton’s email scandal was hardly new or sensational. The main disturbing revelations were long exposed, serving perhaps just enough of a reminder to tip the balance against her.
Not wanting to sound alarmist or overly demonize Trump voters, I’m well aware the White Nationalist element among them is not a majority. Many simply picked him as being the only candidate opposing Clinton, a status quo politician backed by the reviled economic 1%. Still, that’s no excuse. It’s an unacceptable decision to spite Wall Street hedge fund managers by actively sacrificing the vital interests of vulnerable fellow citizens and immigrants.
Now here we are. Trump the president-elect. Fascism represented among his senior staff. Racist attacks on the rise nationally. Nearby in Oregon, a black woman was beaten by brick wielding white men who allegedly praised Trump during the assault. It’s pretty much the kind of worse case scenarios that prompted me to become a gun owner in the first place. Already, I’ve been contacted by more Portlanders than usual seeking firearms training and information about concealed carry permits.
It remains to be seen if the true face of Trump in action will indeed swing federal power down in the worst ways, with mass deportations, religious registries and press censorship. Until then, his election emboldens bigots on a local level to increasingly abuse minorities. This must be strongly countered by every means available. It’s all very well and good to signal solidarity using safety pins, as many Americans are these days, but a symbol is only effective when backed with substance against violence. Many lynch mobs and racist attacks have been thwarted when opposed by armed resistance. Less so if sewing supplies are the only recourse.
Countless brave people from our shared history have successfully confronted fascism and state terror. In the coming months and years, we may be tested just as surely. The spirit of Harriet Tubman and Eleanor Roosevelt and the Abraham Lincoln Brigade live on inside everyone who chooses such paths. With those inspirational legacies, we still have hope for the future.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged 2ndamendment, Firearms, fucktrump, Leftist, Liberal, liberalgunclub, never trump, nra, Pink Pistols, RKBA, safetypin, safetypinproject, Shooting, trump on November 20, 2016 by Ross Eliot.
Trump and Armed Vigilance
First of all, I’d like to admit that I was wrong. Terribly wrong. As recently as five months ago, during casual political discussions, I spoke breezily about the unexpected longevity of Donald Trump’s candidacy and what a fascinating window it shone onto disaffected elements within the Republican Party. My observation always concluded, “But he can never be president.”
While Trump remains far from actually winning the presidency, I was still wrong. Of course, what I meant, was that an establishment candidate must inevitably triumph, with vast superpac resources and party backing. Rank and file Republican voters might briefly flirt with entertaining, yet absurd personalities like Ben Carson or Trump, but someone on the order of a Jeb Bush would necessarily become nominated. That’s how the game works. Or worked.
For now, we can skip over the litany of inconsistencies, incredible claims and bizarre statements by Trump that would have shattered any other serious campaign and have already turned most party power brokers against him. By this point, his opponents are well aware of them and most supporters simply don’t care. However, for a weblog about firearms and social violence, the calls to action uttered by Trump himself require serious scrutiny.
Irresponsible rhetoric is nothing new to American presidential politics, from caustic personal insults during the 1800 Thomas Jefferson .v John Adams campaign, to John McCain’s joke about bombing Iran in 2007. Trump possesses no reservations against using similar language regarding political opponents, but ups the ante by encouraging rally attendees to physically attack protesters, even claiming he will pay their legal bills if arrested. Crowds are listening.
Besides a reluctance to distance himself from the endorsement of KKK leader David Duke, Trump’s gatherings have become noted for assaults, not to mention hand-raising “loyalty oaths,” which many perform in a classic Heil Hitler salute. In one amazing incident, Trump campaign officials didn’t even bother relegating one of their neo-Nazi volunteers to stuffing envelopes in a back room, but let her be interviewed on television, with fascist tattoos prominently displayed. For an election cycle already over the top, it’s beyond parody.
Now, many people observing these incidents immediately take a predictable worse case scenario and compare the situation with 1933 and Hitler’s rise in Germany. I am hesitant at making such a leap, but still, the potential for civil disorder appears to be growing. No matter who becomes nominated by either party, 2016 will surely be a very bitter election. Trump has already threatened supporters will riot if his bid is thwarted at the Republican convention.
Assuming, it is indeed Trump on the Republican side, what might his adherents do if he looses the general election? Will people who consider this man their saving grace from alleged hordes of Mexican rapists, simply concede defeat, after being urged to take matters into their own hands? Or, conversely, should he win, take that victory as license to exercise violence against Trump’s declared foes among minorities?
I hate to think of what might be possible under these conditions, which is the reason I became a gun owner in the first place. Historically, whenever skeptics asked why I keep an AK-47 handy, my response, as a historian, was generally: lynch mobs. While some comfortably imagine such terrible outbursts only occurred long ago in America’s past, per just one example, it was 2007 when a racist crowd attempted murdering two Latino men, just several miles south of my home in Portland, Oregon.
Though Trump has clearly mastered redirecting class resentment along ethnic and religious lines, his supporters shows signs of being uncontainable. The 2016 presidential race is already leagues off any map into uncharted territory. If frustrated or euphoric right wing voters use violence against vulnerable members of society, it may very well fall on common people to make hard choices. Turn away in shock, or respond with prompt action.
Far too often in US history, individuals have taken the easy path and let mobs carry out extremist justice, from Gold Rush era purges against American Indian to the Zoot Suit riots against Latinos and Blacks of 1943. Should Trump’s slogan “Make America Great Again” signal a return to the days of unaccountable pogroms, armed citizens must be ready to counter them. If dark days lie ahead, at least we can choose not to enter them helplessly.
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Optilase Eye Clinic // April 01, 2012
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Pro Football Betting -- Eagles and Washington Out to Gain Ground in Wildly Bad NFC East
In Charles Jay
Sun, Nov 22nd, 2020 11:37:53 am
By Charles Jay - Exclusive to OSGA
Both the Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Football Team hope to put on a furious pass rush as they oppose Heisman Trophy-winning quarterbacks and try to improve their position in the NFC East race.
The Philadelphia Eagles (3-5-1) and Washington Football Team (2-7) are doing battle in the NFC East, where the Eagles actually have the division ;lead. They are also looking to put severe pressure on a pair of Heisman Trophy-winning quarterbacks (and #1 overall picks) who they will oppose on Sunday.
Let's take a brief look at these games:
PHILADELPHIA EAGLES at CLEVELAND BROWNS
BetAnySports Pro Football Betting Line: Browns -2.5 (-115), Total 46
With 12 INT's, Carson Wentz is admittedly not having a real good season. He's shorting it a lot (6.2 yards / attempt) and some of the skeptical Eagles fans (and there are plenty of them) wouldn't mind seeing Jalen Hurts behind center.
But Wentz is getting some weapons back, including Alshon Jeffery and Jalen Reagor; he's got an offensive line that is filling out a little better (Isaac Seumalo returns this week), and he has Miles Sanders back for a couple of weeks. Let's not forget that the Eagles are averaging 5.1 yards a carry.
And we have to think that defensively, Philly may be able to exercise a matchup advantage. The Browns don't have Odell Beckham available at this point, and they are essentially an offense that has to run first. They are good at it, without question; between Nick Chubb and Kareem Hunt, they have a 1-2 combination that is as good as anyone has.
The Eagles have a way of countering that, if the metrics give us any indication. They have a better "stuff rate" than anybody, which means they create negative (or neutral) on a more frequent basis than anyone.
And defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz would love nothing better than to force Baker Mayfield into situations where he has to pass, because he knows that under pressure Mayfield has completed only 40.7% of his attempts, which puts him WAY down the list as far as starting NFL signal-callers. Rushing the passer is a Philly staple; they have 31 sacks, which is third highest total in the league.
In this instance, we are fully content moving with first place (yes, that's right) PHILADELPHIA plus the points.
CINCINNATI BENGALS at WASHINGTON FOOTBALL TEAM
BetAnySports NFL Line: Washington -1.5, Total 47
The Bengals are doing the right thing by rookie quarterback Joe Burrow, as they are letting him run around and throw the ball a lot and learn the offense. And he's not doing so badly.
But what goes along with all of that is a propensity to get sacked. In fact, he has suffered 32 sacks this season, and on Sunday he'll be facing a pass rush that is second best in the league, as we are measuring it in terms of "sack percentage." And Burrow won't have his #1 back, Joe Mixon, who is out with an injury.
Did you know that Washington has allowed fewer passing yards per game than any other team in the National Football League? We make mention of this for a few reasons, one of which is to point out that they have the best single unit on the field in this one.
And although we would not expect that Alex Smith - like Burrow (and Mayfield) a #1 overall draft pick, in his time - will repeat his 390-yard effort against Detroit last week, he is bringing something steadier to the table and is now getting his legs under him (pardon the pun). We'll go with WASHINGTON, and lets not lose sight of the fact that if they win and Philadelphia loses, they will trail the Eagles by only a half-game in the NFC East.
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NFL Playoff Props --- Saints-Bucs: Will Brees and Brady Launch an Air Raid on Sunday?
NFL Playoff Picks -- Saints Out to Complete Clean Sweep of Bucs
NFL Playoff Betting -- Can the Chiefs Pile Up a Margin Against Cleveland?
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The Safe Bet Of An Old White Guy To Beat Trump in 2020
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I am writing this post on August 20, 2019. On this morning’s broadcast of The Morning Joe Show on MSNBC, Joe and Mika all but endorsed and used their platform on MSNBC as a campaign ad for their friend Joe Biden. Joe and Mika are certainly entitled to their opinions, and MSNBC uses a 100% opinion format. No news is presented on the network without inserting an opinion. I get that.
Joe Scarborough Lauds Biden’s First Political Ad: ‘Reaganesque Vision of Where This Country Can Be’
We already know that Fox “News” Channel, except for Shephard Smith and sometimes Chris Wallace, is nothing but a propaganda platform for the Republican Party, and in the past two years for Donald Trump. Although MSNBC is often promoted by the right as being a propaganda medium for the Democratic Party, the network at least allows input and opinions from conservatives and treats those opinions with respect. If MSNBC chooses to use its network to promote a particular party or candidate, I suppose they have a right to do that. However, as a long-time viewer/consumer of programing on MSNBC, I prefer facts. Opinions are fine, but even opinions are more credible when they are supported by facts.
Joe and Mika are promoting Joe Biden’s campaign promise to support the ACA/Obamacare, rather than scrapping it and starting over. Comparatively, they support Biden’s claim, which is also echoed by Republicans, that Medicare-For-All or a universal single payer health insurance system would take away choices Americans now have for their healthcare. That is Joe’s and Mika’s opinions, but it is not factual.
The most important point in discussions around healthcare programs is to understand that healthcare insurance does not provide health care. Hospitals, clinics and their staffs provide health care. Healthcare is funded by private insurance companies and the government. The United States is the only first-world nation that does not use some form of a universal healthcare system to fund healthcare for its people. The unique healthcare insurance model used in the USA is for Americans to pay premiums to the private healthcare insurance industry when we are young and mostly healthy, but when we get old and more likely to be sick, our primary insurer becomes the government, i.e., Medicare. That is a really good gig for the private healthcare insurance industry, but not so much for Americans when we get sick.
Another very important fact is that the Supreme Court decision in NFIB v. Sebelius, the court ruled that the individual mandate part of the ACA is unconstitutional under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution. The court allowed the law to stand because the penalty for not participating in the individual mandate, which is unconstitutional, is administered by the IRS, so the court allowed it to stand because of the authority of Congress to levy taxes. Yes, I agree that it doesn’t pass the smell test, but that is how the court ruled. The Trump administration and the Republican Congress eliminated the penalty as part of their tax reform law in 2018. A ruling from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is expected in the fall of 2019 in Texas v. United States, which challenges the constitutionality of the ACA now that the penalty is eliminated.
Joe Biden was recently asked what is his Plan B for the ACA if the court rules that it is unconstitutional, and he essentially said there is no Plan B. So, whether Biden or Obama or anyone else prefers the ACA over scrapping it and starting over, that might be the only choice available, depending on how the Roberts court rules on Texas v. United State. So, the fact is that Biden’s argument that Elizabeth Warren and other more progressive Democrats want to take away your healthcare choices is weakened on yet another front.
Additionally, in a recent Fox “News” poll Biden, Sanders, Warren and Harris polled as beating Trump in the 2020 general election, so the “electability” advantage that Biden supposedly had is now a moot point. So, despite Joe’s and Mika’s opinions, the old white guy(s) in the Democratic Party may not be the only chance to beat Trump in 2020 after all.
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I remember the same MSM outlets like MSNBC during Obama’s push for the ACA, cautioning the overly-ambitious nature of it, preferring a much more conservative and incremental change to health care that “could appeal to Republicans”.
Er…trying to appeal to Republicans on health care for all is like trying to appeal to Lex Luthor…on health care for all.
When Dems lost the filibuster-proof Senate with the death of Ted Kennedy and the election of Scott Brown, Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s Chief of Staff, led the charge of the Establishment Dems to insist to Obama that he will never pass the ACA now, that he had to give up on the ACA and just settle for a small tweak here or there because that’s all that could be passed.
Instead, we all know now that Obama’s determination resulted in a historic change and rescue for tens of millions of Americans, saving countless lives.
The point is, Republican pundits like Joe and Dem pundits on MSNBC can pound their chests on how impossible and what a huge negative it is for Progressive Dems to be supporting Medicare for All/Single Payer, that giving up ambitions and making the big changes needed are too politically unpopular…so vote for Joe Biden!
But that is not how leadership works. Obama fought against incredible odds to pass the ACA because he would not accept the Dem Establishment’s insistence that he would only fail. A leader brings the people along to their vision, people who may have opposed it or at least not supported it previously.
We should all remember how unpopular the ACA was when it passed and after Repubs demonizing it in 2010, how public opinion tanked (where are those death panels again? Oh yeah, in the Trump WH).
Medicare for All/Single Payer may not have majority support right now but knowing that this is how nearly all developed countries provide healthcare successfully for all of their citizens…with better outcomes than in the US…a new president who is a true leader with vision and determination can bring the public along to support what will in the end, be best for them and all Americans (unless we like the idea of health insurance being permanently threatened, the ACA being supported then undercut as Dems and Repubs trade power in each election).
Actually, there were only a few blue dog Democrats who supported the ACA as it was passed. The majority of congressional Democrats as well as Democratic voters, wanted more. At least a public option. Republicans did not so much object to the ACA as they did “Obamacare”, which of course is the ACA. After all, the ACA is the same plan republicans offered as an alternative to Hillarycare during the Clinton administration.
Obama did not put up a fight at all for single payer or a public option because he thought he could pass the ACA as a bipartisan law. Democrats have tried to pass a universal healthcare plan since the Truman administration. In fact, before Reagan, even Eisenhower and Nixon supported universal healthcare.
MurphTheSurf3
Here’s the thing….I begin with a very simple statement. Whoever it is has to be able to slice and dice Trump. Frankly, I don’t think Biden is all that adept at verbal sparring and I do not know of a time when he was able to land a killing verbal blow.
With a public that generally votes based on impressions….that look to one of the least reliable barometers of presidential timber, “debates” (which are in fact side by side Q and A’s with the occasional cross stage jab to drive enthusiasm…..I need someone who is going to engage him in such a way as to take control of the narrative and to put him into the hole from which he crawled.
With a public that has such a low knowledge base matched by the belief that the public is in fact wise (ignorance and arrogance paired), the voters are easily misled by propaganda. Labeling is a key tool and the Dems cannot be successfully presented to the average voter as the Socialist Party, as the Radical Party, as the UnAmerican Party. Sad to say, but there are more than a few Dems who have played into that (not to say that any study of what they are actually saying makes such labels nonsense and not to say that what they are proposing is not worth serious consideration)….and in doing so they have made themselves an easy target for Trump Bombing runs. Again, I am being very concrete in all of this.
Further….I think that the Democratic field understands this…..and those who are making the cut are wrestling with how they can frame themselves as The Trump Toppler…..
Vote Blue I don’t care Who!
Nonpartay
It’s always been amazing to me that the arguments against the ACA were all based on lies. The only reason I can think of for Republicans to oppose it (it had been a Republican plan originally) at any cost is that they didn’t want to give President Obama such a win. Who cared about the American people? Certainly not Republicans. The ACA was passed at great cost to Democrats—at first—but now it’s popular with people recognizing its value, as Nancy Pelosi said they would once it was in place. But for some reason, Republicans still want to screw over the American public and take away access to health care for millions of people who hadn’t had it before. And people will actually vote for them. What??? The ACA isn’t only about providing more affordable health insurance, btw. It has many aspects to it that enable us to have better health care, like enabling anyone who has insurance to have a free annual checkup and the free tests necessary. Over the years, I’ve asked many “conservatives” online what the Republicans have done for them lately. There has never been an answer. If only Democrats were able to convince their people to vote no matter what like Republicans do. At least the Democrats they would vote for are trying to help them, not just the über-rich.
NoManIsAnIsland
Very well said!
One of the best concise arguments in support of the ACA.
Opie Cat
I will not be voting for an old white guy in the primary, but if an old white guy gets the nod by winning the primary, I’ll definitely vote for him and be involved in getting out the vote or him. The democratic health of our country and our people depends on ousting Trump.
Agreed Murph, I think the Dem field is quite a smart group of people who recognize what nasty political mudslinging is being concocted by the Repubs, including the socialist/communist/Israel-hater BS and none of them will play into that.
And I agree with you about Biden, he is too shaky as a speaker to come out of a debate with Trump as a strong winner. As soon as Biden falters and drops a gaffe in a debate with Trump, Trump will slice him up and say it proves Biden is senile/dottering/too old/etc.
To me, Biden feels like he’s just kind of holding together right now, not strong but tentative, as if the spit and bailing wire keeping him together might snap at any moment. I think it will in the upcoming debates.
On the other hand, I think the campaign trail is strengthening Warren. I haven’t seen her look weak or tentative in the debates, forums or rallies. She appears steady and well-balanced. It’s hard to imagine Trump putting her off balance. Whereas Biden, it seems an eventuality.
Despite the MSM and Establishment Dem hype for Biden as the most electable, I think Dem voters will vote for who they think will be the best president and by beating Biden in the primary, Warren will prove her electability.
Not only that, since Biden’s only argument to vote for him is his electability, if he loses in Iowa, I think the proof that he isn’t the most electable will sink him quickly (though he may still do well in SC because the older African American vote there is more conservative but after that, in this scenario, he’d be cooked).
Well, until you look at the primary/caucus lineup. Right after Iowa comes NH, yet another small near lily White State in no way representative of our diverse Party. Then soon after come Nevada and South Carolina way more strongly representative of our two major non-White voter groups, Hispanics and Blacks. Biden is extremely strong in those two diverse states. Then comes Super Tuesday with 14 states, half Southern with major proportions of Black voters who really like Biden way more than any other candidate. Still, three other states on that day are home states for top candidates and are generally considered must wins for them, Harris in California, Warren in Massachusetts and Sanders in Vermont (well, there is Beto’s Texas but he is not a top candidate). Little question Sanders will take Vermont. Very close race in California for Harris. So far, not looking good for Warren in Massachusetts.
Among these first 18 states, the most important will not be little near lily White Iowa but really big diverse California. Iowa and NH will not be the bell weathers for California, Nevada and South Carolina will be more that, especially neighboring Nevada with its large Hispanic population. If Biden holds his dominance among non-White voters he has a very good chance of taking California. He does that, and it’s hard to see how he doesn’t get the Nomination.
I am completely puzzled by Biden’s lead among black voters in the polls. I have not talked to a single black person who supports Biden for president, and there is some indication that Obama does not even support him for president.
https://www.newsweek.com/biden-promised-obama-hed-never-run-president-1455074
Most black people I talk to are more impressed with Warren than any other candidate. That is not a scientific poll, but it is sort of a “word on the streets” thing. If Biden is so sure he is the only one who can beat trump, why doesn’t he run in the republican primary against trump, since he wants to appeal more to trump’s voters than he does Democratic primary voters?
Younger Democratic voters are not excited about Biden, and older voters seem willing to accept him only because the media is telling them that he is more likely to beat trump.
The media is also reporting false analysis of the push for universal healthcare by more progressive Democrats, whether it is Medicare-for-all or some other form of universal healthcare insurance. The media is questioning how universal healthcare insurance will be paid for, when they KNOW that it will be paid for by a tax that replaces the money being paid currently to the private health insurance industry, and there is no reason for people to lose their healthcare providers. Since I started on Medicare, I have the same provider I had when I was covered by the company I worked for before I retired. A universal healthcare insurance program will work the EXACT same way.
The media is engaged in a disinformation campaign related to universal healthcare insurance.
All the Dem candidates are sure they can beat Trump. So maybe we should drop the Dem Primary and have them all become Republicans and run against him in the Republican Primaries. My surprise is how few Blacks seem to support Harris and Booker. But then again, few Jewish voters support Bernie. I haven’t checked on the Asian support for Yang or the Native American support for Warren.
For what it’s worth, with the exception of Bernie, Biden is ahead in the average of the RCP polls in the home states of all the other Dem candidates. This kind of undermines the narrative that his support is only because of greater name recognition.
The argument that the trillions a year in new taxes to pay for the elimination of private health insurance with a Federal health insurance monopoly will make no difference to the public since they would no longer have to pay private insurance premiums will go over politically like saying raising trillions in new taxes to pay for free food for everyone is fine since the public would no longer have to buy food. The new Federal Government food monopoly will provide everyone’s food free based on its determination of their needs. Hey, this is the only reasonable way to do it since so many people are hungry and those evil private food corporations make too much profit.
My guess is you have supplemental health insurance with your Medicare to cover the 20% not covered. That means you have private health insurance in a system that is NOT Single Payer and is NOT administered by a single Federal agency but by a big bad old private corporate insurance company.
Biden supports Universal Health that does not replace the private insurance industry with a gigantic new Federal Monopoly in DC. It builds on ObamaCare with a Public Option. It will need new taxes but only a tenth as much as Bernie’s and Warren’s Single Payer.
Same here, Opie Cat. I may have to shift from voting enthusiastically for a Dem to voting for a Dem to prevent a second term for Trump but I will be voting for a Dem to rid this country of the stench of Trump no matter who the Dem nom is.
With what happened in 2016, anyone who tries to stand on some purist ground and proudly proclaims they will vote 3rd party or not vote at all “to send a message” to the Dems, is pathetic and de facto an ally of Trump’s.
Damn, me too even if that old White guy is old Trot Bernie, God forbid…
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Agile Research with Rob Holland CEO at Feedback Loop
On this 242nd episode of "Marketing Today," host Alan Hart speaks with Rob Holland, the CEO at Feedback Loop, a technology growth company that provides rapid consumer feedback through its agile research platform.
We begin the interview with Holland's upbringing in Staten Island and eventually to the West Coast, but wherever he went, it never seemed to be permanent. Holland believes "being comfortable with mobility has been a real game-changer," allowing him to adapt quickly to new environments. We then move to Holland's financial background and how it helped him when making the transition to managerial positions. Though he started in finance and eventually found his way to the marketing side, Holland has "always been connected to the consumer in some way."
Holland then dives into Feedback Loop, defining agile research as a tool that "provides directional guidance early and often to guide decisions that might otherwise be made by opinion or rank, rather than data." Holland has seen first-hand that "the whole idea of getting rapid consumer feedback to solve rapidly changing needs in very dynamic markets has never been greater," and it's not going to go away anytime in the foreseeable future. Lastly, we end our conversation on the current polarizing state of the world and how "it's forcing marketers and brands to take sides in places that they really have no need to get into." Marketing teams need to tread lightly!
Highlights from this week's "Marketing Today":
Rob grew up in Staten Island before heading to the West Coast after high school, though he has remained a Mets fan. 1:20
Both sides of Alan's wife's family are your typical Italian family from Staten Island. 1:49
Throughout his career, Rob has stayed connected to the end-consumers the entire way. 2:38
Starting in finance, Rob moved into market analytics, where he began to climb the management ladder. 3:16
Rob's operational finance background gave him an advantage when he made the transition to the management side. 4:11
Find someone who knows the finance side of the company, as it will always be an advantage. 5:50
Feedback Loop provides an agile research platform that serves teams that want to do their own research. 6:06
The Founder of Feedback Loop recognized the lack of ability to get rapid consumer feedback. 7:16
Over time, Alpha's platform (prior name) evolved and grew with its customers and product development teams. 8:10
After so much growth, Alpha stopped describing the platform accurately, so the company changed its name to Feedback Loop. 8:56
Rob has seen the impact of the constantly evolving market on Feedback Loop and the marketing research industry as a whole. 10:48
Research teams are having a hard time trying to keep up with the shifting market, and that's where Feedback Loop hopes to help. 11:36
Agile research provides small chunks of information quickly to inform incremental decisions. 12:45
The rapid feedback provided by Agile Research is most comparable to using windshield wipers during a storm, allowing you to keep moving forward. 13:55
Product teams and research teams need buffers, and Agile Research provides those controlled parameters. 15:05
Feedback Loop works with consumer-faced businesses of various sizes across a variety of industries. 17:25
Farmers Insurance, a client of Feedback Loop, created Toggle, a direct-to-consumer product that allows them to connect to younger generations. 17:48
Due to COVID, the behaviors and expectations of consumers are changing rapidly. 20:50
Feedback Loop is working with brands that are being forced to re-evaluate because of the massive shift that the world is going through. 22:17
Industries that had pre-understood truths have to re-evaluate what those truths are and show consumers that they are adapting. 23:40
Moving around often while growing up gave Rob the flexibility to adapt to new environments very quickly.
2021 Global Marketing Trends with Deloitte's Ashley Reichheld
On this 241st episode of "Marketing Today," host Alan Hart speaks with Ashley Reichheld, principal at Deloitte. Reichheld discusses the findings of Deloitte's 2021 Global Marketing Trends Report and dives deep into a few of its seven trends.
We start our conversation with Reichheld's background of traveling. She talks about her experiences living and working in over 40 countries across six continents and how it helped her gain insight and perspective into different cultures. From there, we dive into the meat of the interview, Deloitte's 2021 Global Marketing Trends Report. With this report, Deloitte aimed to dispel some of the uncertainty that this past year has brought to marketing.
Reichheld then discusses her favorite trend category, trust, and how "overall, trustworthy companies outperform their competitors by 2 ½ times." For a long time, public trust in corporations and governments has been on the decline and presents both a threat and opportunity to marketing departments worldwide. Deloitte uses its metric, HX Trust ID, which measures trust drivers: humanity, transparency, capability, and reliability. By measuring these four drivers, Deloitte can predict buying tendencies and motivations for consumers and employees. Lastly, we talk about marketing effectiveness and how to know if your efforts are working or not.
Ashley has lived and worked in over 40 countries, picking up an appreciation and empathy for cultural differences. 1:19
The level of uncertainty in 2020 fueled Deloitte's 2021 Global Marketing Report. 2:23
Purpose, human experience, and fusion are the three trends that confused most people. 3:13
There has been a drop in confidence across the board in C-Suite executives from consumers during 2020. 4:52
Organizations have had to pivot to better serve their customers and that ability largely affects a customer's continued loyalty. 6:40
Interpreting and acting on data is especially difficult for marketing departments because people are irrational creatures. 7:55
For a long time, trust in companies and the government has been on the decline and has only been exasperated by the pandemic. 8:50
Trust is the key to continued loyalty from both consumers and employees. 9:51
Deloitte uses its metric, HX Trust ID, which measures trust drivers: humanity, transparency, capability, and reliability. 10:37
By measuring these four drivers, Deloitte can predict buying tendencies and motivations to work for consumers and employees. 11:40
Deloitte's Global Marketing Trends Report shows a direct link between employee trust and consumer trust. 12:34
Recent research suggests that governments and corporations can't be both ethical and competent. 14:20
Being aligned around common goals and being driven by a purpose takes companies further than being driven by incentives. 15:38
The airlines are all dealing with the same problems, but the companies that have remained customer/employee-centric are gaining traction.16:08
Alan believes that the perfect storm exists when the purpose is aligned with business results. 17:28
Bringing in the right talent and preparing employees for C-Level positions is one of the biggest challenges in marketing today. 18:04
CMOs have an extensive range of responsibilities, making it hard for employees outside of marketing to transition. 19:23
Marketing isn't finance, but a finance background isn't useless in marketing. 20:44
The best way to measure your marketing's effectiveness is to simply turn your marketing off for some time. 22:20
Because Ashley believes that we are the sum of all experiences, she can't point to just one experience that has helped shape her. 23:04
If she could look back, Ashley would practice more mindfulness and take things slow. 23:49
Ashley has recently joined the board of The Center for Women & Enterprise to help underserved populations
Unlocking Brand Growth with Belvedere Vodka CEO Rodney Williams
On this 240th episode of "Marketing Today," host Alan Hart speaks with Rodney Williams, president and CEO of Belvedere Vodka. With a bevy of experience leading successful marketing campaigns across a plethora of industries, Williams is truly an expert when it comes to closing the gap between a product and its consumers.
To start our conversation, Williams discusses his business school experience and the nonprofit sector before he began his journey to become a marketing expert. In school at Northwestern, Williams quickly learned that "you have a strong chance of getting a good grade by joining a group with people that don't think like you." This experience helped him understand a simple fact of life; to truly be successful, you must be open to the perspectives of others.
We then dive into Williams's experience working for large companies like Johnson & Johnson and Procter & Gamble. It was his success at these companies that taught him both "the element of brand-building where you're really fundamentally problem-solving" and not only the importance of "really tapping into what was already there." Williams then takes us into his induction into the Wind and Spirits industry, which eventually led him to his current position at Belvedere.
To end the conversation, we discuss how "the push for social justice has opened up brands in a big way" and how "the need for brands to take a stand and stand up for values that they believe in has never been more important." Williams touches on how the views of different cultures in the corporate business world have changed since he entered the workforce. "We're not there yet, but we're making progress!"
Before business school, Rodney ran a direct mail business in Chicago that hired disadvantaged employees.1:53
Rodney has stayed in-tune with how the business world affects the communities that it is in. 3:03
Growing up in Evanston, Illinois, it was a natural fit for Rodney to attend Northwestern's business school. 3:35
After business school, Rodney worked for J&J and Procter & Gamble in a pursuit to learn sophisticated marketing. 5:32
Figuring out how to get the brand in the right position where it can connect with its customers is like a game to Rodney. 6:20
In his time at J&J, Rodney learned the ins and outs of working in an intrapreneurial environment. 6:55
Over time, Rodney slowly developed into an enhance-growth guy that has been able to take companies over the top. 8:47
J&J required that 25% of each business under its umbrella's revenue had to be from new products in the last three years. 9:15
When Rodney arrived at Band-Aid, he was able to take it from stagnant to The New York Times by using Barry Manalo's jingle. 10:22
The ability to understand the essence of a brand and what it means to the consumers allows a brand to enhance its imagery. 12:26
A former colleague's call about a dot-com opportunity led Rodney to quit his job and head to the West Coast. 13:04
Rodney's time working with OnStar eventually led to his entrance into the Wine and Spirits industry. 14:41
It was the health benefits of wine that initially drew Rodney to interview with his first wine company. 15:58
Robert Mondavi taught Rodney the importance and value of presentation. 17:20
Kendall Jackson, the number 1 chardonnay over $10, presented Rodney with an opportunity to launch the biggest product in company history. 18:37
In 2011, more women than men graduated from high school for the first time in history and saw the gender gap begin to grow. 20:28
Since coming to Belvedere, Rodney has seen that vodka takes people back to experiences they have outgrown. 21:30
Belvedere aims to add some class and flavor to an alcohol category that has become stagnant. 22:30
Just before the pandemic, Belvedere ran a study that showed people in different markets around the world valued the s
Media Assurance & Transparency Still a Global Issue with Rizwan Merchant
On this 239th episode of "Marketing Today," host Alan Hart speaks with Rizwan Merchant, CEO at Media Merchant. Merchant is the first guest from Pakistan and brings over a decade of experience in the Pakistani Media Industry. Today, we talk about the 2016 ANA Transparency Report and how these issues are still present today, four years on.
We start our conversation with the exploding media industry in Pakistan, which has gone from less than $100M in advertising expenses to over $550M in just ten years. With that massive growth has come a plethora of problems, not only in Pakistan but also for marketers worldwide. Merchant has seen "exactly what goes on behind the doors." Merchant then takes us through the ANA Transparency Report that came out in 2016, which identified a myriad of problems and fraudulent practices among the agencies that bridge the gap between the media houses and advertisers. The advertisers have forgotten that "agencies are there in the business to make money as well," so their intentions may have nothing to do with the benefit of their client. Advertisers are still losing boatloads of money because of their inability to structure contracts for themselves. Merchant says, "the easiest way to plug that financial outlet is to start paying the media directly instead of going through the agencies."
Merchant suggested that the best way to battle this problem is for clients "to upgrade their knowledge when it comes to the media supply chain." Another problem now is that "many agencies have started to own the media that they are pushing to advertisers." It seems if there is money to be made, agencies will find a way. The onus is on marketers to be smarter and more vigilant.
Rizwan currently lives in Pakistan, part of Southeast Asia, and is a growing market with a booming media industry. 1:45
The Pakistani media industry has grown from less than $100M in advertising expenses to $550M in the last ten years. 2:30
An accountant by education, Rizwan joined Mediacom on the finance side when he returned to Pakistan in 2004. 3:35
In 2015, Rizwan started his media audit agency, Media Merchant. 5:10
The ANA Transparency Report identified problems with the rebates received by the agencies based on advertiser money. 6:00
Principal transactions came up in the ANA Transparency report, showing that agencies were buying inventory through holding companies. 6:50
Agencies were found to be selling free inventory they received from the media houses to their marketing clients. 7:15
Advertisers were found to be trusting agencies blindly, a failure on the part of the advertisers. 7:47
Rizwan identified multiple problems that didn't come out in the ANA report. 8:15
Media Buying Houses came into existence by providing the agencies with multiple suggestions that acted as a financial bomb. 9:20
The agencies exploited the lack of connection between the advertising clients and the media outlets. 11:50
While there are specific rules and regulations in different countries, this is still a problem all over the world. 12:24
With media outlets being drained of their finances, their ability to create content is greatly affected. 14:30
The relationship between the media and advertising industries the opposite of what it should be right now. 16:00
As a result of the ANA report, guidelines were created to guide the creation of the contracts. 17:34
The main problems are found in the governance of the agencies within the creation of the contracts. 19:24
The creation and execution of one's own media plan make it hard to do their own homework. 23:28
Marketers and financing departments should act as the custodians in the creation of contracts. 24:05
The best thing that marketers can do is stay up to date on policies and control the abundance of fraud amongst agencies. 26:20
Agencies are in this to make money,
Beyond Beer at Anheuser-Busch with Lana Buchanan
On this 238th episode of "Marketing Today," host Alan Hart speaks with Lana Buchanan, vice president of marketing for Beyond Beer at Anheuser-Busch. Buchanan oversees the marketing for everything that does not fall in the category of beer and, as such, has a massive portfolio full of product categories that require different marketing approaches!
We start our conversation with Buchanan's background in the alcohol industry and the horror story that forced her to become an expert cocktail creator. Then Buchanan discusses what it's like working with such an extensive portfolio of products and why she loves it. "With every different category, I get to think differently in terms of the consumer," Buchanan says.
At Beyond Beer, all the separate teams have the same goal, "create an innovation that really fits the needs and the wants of the consumer in the different moments." Buchanan then breaks down different marketing techniques that help them connect with consumers on an emotional level, because at the end of the day, "the most powerful brands are the ones that make you feel something."
We then discuss how Buchanan's time working on Bon Viv and her experience from traveling Europe after college helped her learn how to pivot with the changes in front of her. Lastly, Buchanan dives into the BLM movement and the importance of changing your marketing strategies with the world's continually shifting landscape. "If you don't evolve with the consumer, you're going to get left behind!"
Lana bought a puppy during the pandemic. 1:33
During her time at Campari, Lana was forced to learn how to create a smattering of classic cocktails. 2:15
Lana currently handles everything that is not in the category of beer at Anheuser-Busch. 4:30
With so many categories, Lana chooses to take a consumer-first approach when handling her extensive portfolio. 5:33
Between categories, there are similar marketing frameworks that are used, each having its subtle differences. 6:49
Innovation goes beyond just the business opportunities in growing categories, and Lana must find out what factors are driving that growth. 8:28
Each team keeps a vision board that includes both the short and long-term goals. 10:10
Through small-market tests, each team does their best to see if they can connect to the consumer. 10:38
Small tests are still brewed in the full tanks but are strictly tested in very small regions for months at a time. 11:34
Next year, on top of launching big campaigns, Lana's team will be conducting 4 or 5 small tests. 12:22
When it comes to marketing alcohol, connecting with the consumer at an emotional level is an incredibly important goal. 14:00
Knowing your target and what they want is one of the most powerful things a marketer can have. 15:42
Wherever a drink lies on the spectrum, they all have the same goal of connecting with the consumer. 16:32
Social Club is one of the projects that Lana is most proud of because it challenged the standards that have been created in its category. 17:14
The business dynamics have already changed 4 or 5 times this year alone because of the pandemic. 19:35
During her time at Bon Viv, Lana learned how to pivot a marketing plan to connect with what's important at present. 20:20
With a safety-first mindset, traditional sampling has been adjusted so that consumers can have the experience. 22:41
Don't be afraid to pivot when something doesn't feel right. 23:52
After graduation, Lana decided to pass up on multiple job prospects to travel around Europe and get closer to her Russian background. 24:57
Lana looks back and wishes she had stopped to celebrate the wins more. 26:34
Lana recognizes the importance of the BLM movement and works to implement change in her team. 29:37
Too many marketers and agencies are afraid to recognize the change in the world and refuse to evolve. 30:48
ThirdLove Agility and Empowerment through Tough Times with co-founder Heidi Zak
On this 237th episode of "Marketing Today," host Alan Hart speaks with Heidi Zak, the co-founder and CEO of ThirdLove, the 3rd largest online bra and underwear company in the United States. Zak is passionate about making sure all women feel comfortable in their underwear, no matter their shape or size.
Our conversation starts with a glimpse of Zak's past, growing up in a town of just 3,000 people and working at a farmers market. After college, Zak finally found her way to the Big Apple while working in an investment bank's retail division. Zak then talks about the cushy job with Google that pulled her out west, the same cushy job that she decided to leave to start ThirdLove. In a market dominated by men, Zak had a hard time finding investors for her women's bra and underwear company, that is until some men were able to see the "opportunity to do things differently in all aspects."
We then dive into the challenges presented by COVID that forced ThirdLove to "cut back on marketing expenses to focus on efficiency." Zak then tackles the issue of creating content when the world is shut down, claiming, "as a marketer, you're constantly in the cycle of content creation, but sometimes you might not maximize the assets that you've already created." Lastly, Zak discusses ThridLove's support of entrepreneurs with its TL Effect program in an attempt to show everyone that "you can support causes through what you show to the world!"
Heidi grew up in a 3,000-person town just outside of Niagara Falls and learned a lot from her time working at a farmers market. 1:41
It wasn't until after college that Heidi found her way to the retail group at an investment bank in NYC. 3:01
Like most college graduates, Heidi had no idea what she wanted to do after school. 4:09
Banking served as an excellent entryway for Heidi to understand basic business skills that she used to build her own company. 4:32
Heidi made the switch to the operations side out of a desire to learn more about operating a retail business. 5:12
A job at Google brought Heidi out to the West Coast, where she got her first taste of entrepreneurship and the startup industry. 5:50
Heidi quit her job at Google to start ThirdLove with her husband after seeing a need in the market. 6:40
It was difficult to raise seed money for ThirdLove in a world dominated by men at the time. 7:31
When COVID hit, ThirdLove hunkered down and prepared for the worst-case scenario. 8:49
The market for bras has changed a little as more and more people have started working from home. 10:24
ThirdLove had to cut back the most in the Television marketing sector while becoming more efficient in all other sectors. 11:38
In the last month or two, ThirdLove has been able to reinvest in mid to upper-funnel marketing. 12:30
Heidi is always testing out new markets to see where the potential lies for innovation. 13:00
Creating content became trickier when COVID hit, forcing ThirdLove to do things differently with the same stuff. 14:25
Leveraging content from customers and the team has allowed the brand to connect with its audience. 15:32
With so many social movements going on in today's society, ThirdLove has put the elements of inclusivity and diversity at the company's forefront. 16:55
TL Effect supports a new-business female founder of color by providing mentorship, a monetary grant, and promotion through ThirdLove. 17:55
Kyutee Nails was the first winner of the TL Effect and provides unique nail services while many salons are shut down. 20:02
Competitive gymnastics during her childhood showed Heidi the power of dedication and determination. 21:45
Just like Alan, Heidi struggled with how the apparel industry makes its clothing around these one-fit models. 23:14
If Heidi could go back, she would focus more on the moment and less on the future. 25:35
ThirdLove has been c
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YB2C Live! Season 4, Episode #200 Cheryl Herrick Biz Coach & Motorcross Racer
Welcome to the YB2C Live! Podcast for Entrepreneurs, Season 4, Episode #200, featuring our special guest, Cheryl Herrick of Ponytail Racing and PTR Consulting and Coaching, of Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina.
We record this podcast weekly from our studio in the Historic Boston-Edison District in Detroit, Michigan. This special episode was recorded as part of the PodMax Global July 2020 Virtual Conference.
Through her company PTR Consulting and Coaching, Cheryl Herrick offers programs in business leadership, personal and professional transformation, tapping into your creativity. Cheryl’s Ponytail Racing company holds several different drag racing and Motorcross events. One of her signature events is “Racing for Warriors,” a series of events that offer a fun, safe day at the race track for U.S. Veterans affected by PSTD and other consequences of their service.
What Our Guest Talked About
Cheryl grew up in Michigan and started her entrepreneurial journey at an early age. Almost every time she said she wanted something, her parents would ask: “Well, how are you going to pay for that?” Cheryl decided that she would go out and do odd jobs (several different things, but not babysitting!) to get the funds she needed. Her mom was an entrepreneur and a role model for Cheryl’s later business ventures.
Cheryl always loved racing, and eventually, she found a way to incorporate her love of racing, along with her training in transformative coaching and business leadership into two viable companies that she leads today.
In this episode, Cheryl talks about what questions people should ask and what they should learn about themselves as they prepare to go into business or to change their business model.
Cheryl reminds our listeners that they be sure that there is a market for their product or service, and then ask, “Is there any margin in that market?” Next, you have to have a method of delivery of your product or service that sets you apart from your competition. Finally, just keep going.
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YB2C Live! Ep #203 Trevor Lohrbeer: App Developer and Time Management Specialist
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YB2C Live! Ep #202 Michelle and Angela May: Musicians and Counselors
Welcome to Season 4, Episode #202 of the YB2C Live! Podcast for Entrepreneurs. Our special guests this week are native Detroiters Michelle May and her sister, Dr. Angela May. They are excited about the relaunch of their consultancy, A.M. May & Associates, through which they provide customized coaching and consulting growth strategies for individuals and organizations worldwide. Our podcast is sponsored by our companies, Your Business Your Brand Creatively and Detroit Ink Publishing. You’ll hear more from our sponsors later in this episode, and we appreciate your support! We record this podcast weekly from our studio in the Historic Boston-Edison District in Detroit, Michigan. Please support our sponsor, the YB2C Pam’s Power Hours, providing customized one-hour business consulting to clients worldwide. About Our Guests Michelle and Angela are both very talented and accomplished musicians, and both have performed on local and national stages. Both sisters teach music students at their private music studio, focusing on violin, voice, and flute. Additionally, Michelle performs and records regularly with her jazz and classical fusion music group, Musique Noir. Angela published a book, “Freedom: What Is the Experience of Living Without Negative Self-Imposed Limitations?” that is available on Amazon. Michelle, a Licensed Professional Counselor, and Angela, who holds a Ph.D. in clinical and forensic psychology, are both also professional counselors and coaches. Michelle teaches at Oakland Community College and Angela is in private practice. Michelle and Angela first started their private counseling business in 1996, and have now re-launched it as a virtual coaching consultancy, offering individual and group counseling, workshops, coaching, speaking engagements, and consulting, working primarily with creative professionals and entrepreneurs. Please support our sponsor, Detroit Ink Publishing, which provides an entire suite of services for writers who want to become published authors. What Our Guests Talked About Michelle and Dr. Angela strongly feel that they now have clarity about the services they offer their clients: diversity issues, self-care for caregivers, the African-American community, women, transitional issues for women and men involved in the criminal justice system, motivation, time and stress management, college survival techniques (undergraduate and graduate), and more. Many people of all ages and stages in life are dealing with mental health issues, trauma, grief, and anxiety. The sisters strongly believe that talking through these issues with professional counselors help people to open up and be able to see new opportunities in spite of their trials and challenges. YB2C Premium Logo Please support our sponsor: If you are a creative or solo professional, entrepreneur, or small business owner looking for education, motivation, community, and inspiration about branding and marketing specifically designed for you, you are invited to join the #1 Global Facebook Group, YB2C Premium! Words of Wisdom Michelle and Angela want our listeners who are entrepreneurs currently questioning their choices to remember that the same sets of talents, resilience, strength, joyfulness, passion, and all those other things that built your business, that you may have lost, are still right there within you. What’s Next Thank you for listening to this week’s episode! Please make sure to support our sponsors and to sign up for our email list so that you’ll be notified about all of the programs and services especially for you! Join the YB2C Premium Facebook Group for Creative and Solo Professionals Follow me on LinkedIn and Instagram Contact me here Subscribe to the Podcast on: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Pandora iHeart Radio
YB2C Live! Ep #201 Tisha Davis: Graphic Designer and Marketer
Welcome to the YB2C Podcast for Entrepreneurs, Season 4, Episode #201, featuring our special guest, Tisha Davis, the CEO of DesignJunkieTees, a graphic design and customized clothing company. Tisha recently took the leap of faith and transitioned into full-time entrepreneurship. We record this podcast weekly from our studio in the Historic Boston-Edison District in Detroit, Michigan. Please support our sponsor, the YB2C Pam’s Power Hours, providing customized one-hour business consulting to clients worldwide. About Our Guest Tisha has a Bachelor's Degree, a Master's Degree, and a certification in entrepreneurship essentials from Harvard Business School online. Tisha says that when you work for someone else, you are helping them with their vision, but when you work for yourself, you are achieving your own vision. Tisha is a graphic designer, a content marketer, a clothing designer, a speaker, a marketer, and a singer. Tisha was an entrepreneur, then into the corporate sector, then into the nonprofit sector, and then back to corporate, and now she is again a full-time entrepreneur. Tisha’s father was an entrepreneur, and following his example, she now uses all of those skills and expertise with her own company. Please support our sponsor, Detroit Ink Publishing, which provides an entire suite of services for writers who want to become published authors. What Our Guest Talked About Tisha believes that even during this pandemic, we have to be marketers because that’s what we do. Her business allows her to design—her favorite thing—and make her dreams come true. Please support our sponsor: If you are a creative or solo professional, entrepreneur, or small business owner looking for education, motivation, community, and inspiration about branding and marketing specifically designed for you, you are invited to join the #1 Global Facebook Group, YB2C Premium! Words of Wisdom Tisha has a couple of words of wisdom: 1) Just get started and learn what you need to know along the way. 2) Connect with other people who are doing similar things and ask a million questions. 3) Get a team together and have your team members handle what you’re not good at. Design Junkie Tees Website Tisha on LinkedIn Tisha on Facebook Subscribe to the YB2C Live! Podcast for Entrepreneurs on: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Pandora iHeart Radio
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Little Hope Release Date, Trailer, and All You Need To Know
Isheeta Kumar
“Little Hope” is a sequel to Man of Medan, already has a teaser trailer, and is predicted to release by June 2020! “The Dark Pictures: Little Hope” is the second in its Anthology of horror experiences and is created by Supermassive games. This game falls under the genre of horror, mystery, and drama, and for all the gamers out there looking for a thrill and something to keep them on their toes, “Little Hope” is sure to check all the right boxes!
The storyline of the game revolves around four university students and their professors who are the characters one will play as. They each end up lost in the small town called Little Hope, and the objective of the game is to keep as many players alive by using one’s wit and moral compass. They must evade nightmarish visions that stalk them through a mist that doesn’t seem to dissipate, and the more they explore, the more they understand that everything is related to them! The town has a gruesome history of witch trials and an eerie atmosphere about it.
The storyline in itself seems to be enough to draw anyone into this experience, and so it comes as no shock that gamers and fans are excited for its release this June 2020! Man of Medan is yet another survival horror game where four friends and their captain embark on a diving holiday trip to find a World War 2 wreck. But, as the day unfolds, things grow sinister as a storm rolls in. This video game, released in 2019, has set the stage and expectations for “Little Hope” for a while now.
The cast includes:
Will Poulter – Andrew (Voice)
Pip Torrens – The Curator (Voice)
Ellen David – Angela/Anne (Voice)
Scott Haining – David (Voice)
David Smith – Carter (Voice)
It is produced by:
Dan McDonald – Series Producer
Pete Samuels – Executive Producer
Jason Graves
Casting by:
Art, Sound & Casting Department:
Wes Nike – Storyboard Artist
David Daoud – Sound Recordist
Sheraz Ahmed – Casting Associate
Little Hope Release Date
Little Hope will be released on June 15, 2020, and it has been officially confirmed.
While the short teaser has created great excitement among the horror lovers, the teaser has revealed some information on what the game may be like with its very familiar American imagery of witches and inquisitors.
The game by Supermassive got its start with the sleeper horror “Until Dawn,” which put known actors in cinematic horror situations. After its prequel “Man of Medan,” Supermassive has tweaked the small errors in the game in “Little Hope” and has tuned up the experience. With Little Hope, Supermassive wants to capture that shifting, uncertain narrative but ground it in more solid game design.
The Dark Picture Anthology is a set of horror games. Currently, there are eight planned to release two every year. These little experiences much compliment the tense moments and atmosphere of these survival horror games.
These games are linked by the mysterious Curator, who is telling the audience these stories and occasionally guiding them along the way. While “Man of Medan” took place in modern-day on a horrifying and haunted boat, “Little Hope,” the second title travels through multiple periods with hideous monsters and bringing back then the legacy of witch burning.
“With Man of Medan, we showed that we’re not afraid to have the format of ‘man is the monster’, but we don’t want any one theme to dominate, so it’ll be quite a mix of supernatural monster movies, with devils and demons.”
Says director Pete Samuels in an interview. It hails from a period where people did horrible things other people, and so, Supermassive has been sure to keep in mind what it draws from this history.
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Is Fat-Free Sour Cream Healthy?
By: Mike Samuels
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Sour cream makes a tasty addition to many Mexican foods such as chilli, tacos and fajitas, and it's also a creamy topping for bagels and sandwiches. Regular sour cream can be very high in fat and calories though, making it far from the ideal dieting food. Switching to the fat-free version is one way you can still enjoy sour cream while cutting your calories and fat intake, helping to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Calories and Fat
A typical fat-free sour cream contains around 20 calories per 30-gram serving, which is around 2 tablespoons. This hardly makes a dent in your recommended daily calorie intake, as United States Department of Agriculture guidelines state that women need between 1,800 and 2,400 calories per day. As for fat, under USDA regulations, non-fat sour cream must contain less than 0.5 grams of fat per 50 grams of product.
Potential Health Issues
While fat-free sour cream does provide nutrients such as calcium and vitamin D, it also contains tyramine, which can be a trigger for migraines, according to dietitian Joy Bauer. If you suffer from irritable bowel syndrome, you may also feel discomfort after eating fat-free sour cream. Consult your doctor if you're worried about the potential negative health effects of eating fat-free sour cream.
Going for low-fat and fat-free alternatives isn't always the best idea, according to Annemarie Colbin, professor of nutrition at Empire State College New York. Many fat-free products, such as fat-free sour cream have added artificial gums and starches to improve the taste and texture once the fat has been removed. These added gums can cause digestive issues and make you feel gassy and bloated. You may be better off with just a small serving of the real thing than a large serving of the fat-free version, adds Colbin.
Fat-free sour cream can be part of a healthy, balanced diet. While you can lose weight by eating regular sour cream, choosing the fat-free option does help cut calories. By skipping the saturated fat in sour cream, you can also eat more fats from heart-healthy monounsaturated sources such as nuts, olive oil and avocados. Swap your carb- and fat-laden baked potato with sour cream and bacon bits for a baked sweet potato with fat-free sour cream and grilled chicken breast for a much healthier comfort meal.
Anderson Erickson: Healthy All Over Fat Free Sour Cream Nutrition
United States Department of Agriculture: Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2010
Agricultural Marketing Service: USDA Specifications for Sour Cream and Acidified Sour Cream
Joy Bauer: Health Benefits of Dairy
Foodandhealing.com: Fat-free Food: A Bad Idea
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Larger proportion of incident unrecognized MI in women
Sex-Based Differences in Unrecognized Myocardial Infarction
Literature - Van der Ende MY, Juarez-Orozco LE, Waardenburg I et al., - J Am Heart Assoc. 2020;9:e015519. DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.119.015519
Symptoms of dyspnea, nausea and fatigue may be indicative of ischemia, and more common in women. However, these symptoms are more likely not to be mentioned by patients, or unnoted or misinterpreted by the doctor. This may lead to possible underdiagnoses of myocardial infarction (MI) [1].
Studies have investigated unrecognized MI and findings suggest that up to 64% of MI is not recognized at first presentation [2], with a larger proportion of unrecognized Mis in women [3,4]. Limitations of previous studies however are that they report prevalence of unrecognized MI and date of ascertainment (data of decades ago). More informative data on incidence of unrecognized MI is limited. This study aimed to determine sex-specific incidence rate of unrecognized MI in the Lifelines Cohort Study and describe sex-specific association with self-reported symptoms and other potential predictors.
The Lifelines Cohort Study recruited a contemporary adult population of >150.000 participants in the Netherlands to examine health and health-related behaviors [5,6] and included systematic collection of serial electrocardiographic evaluations (at baseline and 5-year follow-up visit). Participants were asked about specific symptoms in the past 7 days using questionnaires, at baseline and follow-up visits. ECGs data of 57276 women and 39927 men were available. Median follow-up was 3.8 years (3.0-4.6, 25th and 75th percentiles).
A total of 139 (0.24%) women and 305 (0.76%) men reported to be diagnosed with MI.
Based on ECG changes, another 59 women and 60 men were classified as having unrecognized MI. This results in a proportion of unrecognized MI in women of 30% and 16% in men (P<0.001). The difference was greatest in age categories of 40-49 and 50-59 years (43% vs. 17%, P=0.001 and 30% vs. 11%, P=0.008, respectively).
Incidence rate of recognized MI age-standardized for the general Dutch population was 1.69 (0.84-3.19) in women and 2.67 (1.86-3.95) per 1000 person-years in men (P<0.001). For unrecognized MI, the general population adjusted incidence rate per 1000 PY follow-up was 0.23 (0.14-1.45) in women and 0.63 (0.24-1.52) in men.
Prevalence of hypercholesterolemia was lower in individuals with unrecognized MI compared with recognized MI (24% vs. 41%, P=0.001). Compared with individuals with unrecognized MI, individuals with recognized MI more often reported chest pain or dyspnea. Dizziness and nausea were the most commonly reported symptoms in individuals with unrecognized MI. Compared with referents (without evidence of an infarction), individuals with unrecognized MI did not significantly report more symptoms.
Hypertension, smoking status and blood glucose levels were predictors of unrecognized MI, with no difference in association between men and women.
The proportion of unrecognized MI was higher in women than in men (30% vs. 16%) in a contemporary adult population. This translates to an incidence rate of unrecognized MI of 0.23 in women and 0.63 in men per 1000 PYs. Notably, individuals with unrecognized MI did not report more symptoms than those without evidence of an infarction. Predictors of unrecognized MI were hypertension, smoking status and glucose levels.
1. Mehta LS, Beckie TM, DeVon HA, et al. Acute myocardial infarction in women: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association. Circulation. 2016;133:916–947.
2. Valensi P, Lorgis L, Cottin Y. Prevalence, incidence, predictive factors and prognosis of silent myocardial infarction: a review of the literature. Arch Cardiovasc Dis. 2011;104:178–188.
Zhang ZM, Rautaharju PM, Prineas RJ, Rodriguez CJ, Loehr L,
3. Rosamond WD, Kitzman D, Couper D, Soliman EZ. Race and sex differences in the incidence and prognostic significance of silent myocardial infarction in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study. Circulation. 2016;133:2141–2148.
4. de Torbal A, Boersma E, Kors JA, et al. Incidence of recognized and unrecognized myocardial infarction in men and women aged 55 and older: the Rotterdam Study. Eur Heart J. 2006;27:729–736.
5. Scholtens S, Smidt N, Swertz MA, et al. Cohort Profile: LifeLines, a three-generation
cohort study and biobank. Int J Epidemiol. 2014;44:1172–1180.
6. van der Ende MY, Hartman MH, Hagemeijer Y, et al. The LifeLines Cohort Study: prevalence and treatment of cardiovascular disease and risk factors. Int J Cardiol. 2017;228:495–500.
Find this article online at J Am Heart Assoc.
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