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__label__wiki	0.548516	0.548516	My Blind Brother Tag: My Blind Brother Filmmaker Q&A: Sophie Goodhart By Brigid K. Presecky By Senior Contributor Lesley Coffin More than a decade ago, Sophie Goodhart wrote and directed a hit comedy short titled My Blind Brother, about two brothers (one blind) competing in a charity swimming competition. The film debuted in the short categories at South by Southwest and Cannes in 2003, making a name for Sophie Goodhart…	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1221
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__label__cc	0.729238	0.270762	Obama made the trains run on time, & other accomplishments Larry Kummer, Editor Politics 2 June 2015 10 June 2015 Summary: Nothing reveals our values like what we applaud. The Left’s love for Obama, and the things for which they applaud him, reveal their corruption and why they’ve become trivial political force in America. {2nd of 2 posts today.} “Mussolini may have done many brutal and tyrannical things; he may have destroyed human freedom in Italy; he may have murdered and tortured citizens whose only crime was to oppose Mussolini; but ‘one had to admit’ one thing about the Dictator: he ‘made the trains run on time.’ — From The Prevalence of Nonsense by Edward Darling and Ashley Montagu (1967). This shows a common form of applause for Obama. How many ways can this graphic astonish us? Myopia about anti-liberal actions First, it displays myopia on a fantastic scale, ignoring Obama’s anti-liberal actions. His illegal surveillance programs (& advocacy for broad NSA power), most aggressive-ever use of the Espionage Act of 1917, persecution of whistle blowers, mockery of his pledge to run the “most transparent administration ever“, continued use of Guantanamo Bay, and his assassination programs (including US citizens). He has done many of the same things Liberals condemned Bush Jr for doing, and done things Bush did not even imagine — such as the gift to the world’s mega-corps called the Trans Pacific Partnership (so awesome we’re not allowed to see the text). Blindness to his wars Second, it shows blindness to Obama’s wars, breaking with the Left’s anti-war tradition. He executed Bush’s plan for withdrawal from Iraq, deepened our wars in Afghanistan and Yemen, waged an illegal war in Libya (of the sort he specifically promised not to do) — with terrible results — and laid the foundation for future ways by expanding Africom. GDP over liberty and equality Second, we see the Left’s decay in its prioritization of economic growth over liberty and equality. No political polarization when it comes to the interests of the 1% (largest beneficiaries of the growth of the stock market and GDP, and the reduced deficit). Folly about the power of the leader Third, these claims are foolish. Presidents have limited effect on markets, GDP, and employment. They share control of fiscal policy with Congress; neither has much influence over monetary policy — by far the stimulus tool most strongly wielded since the crash. Also, the state of the economic art provides only weak guidance on how to assure economic growth. This implies Obama is a kind of chief wizard of the economy. We might as well applaud him for the rains in Texas. We have heard this before Last, this displays a horrific lack of historical memory. It’s the equivalent kind of claim to “Mussolini made the trains on time” — both false and masking the leader’s ugly deeds. Together these vividly show why the Left has become a marginal force in America, an ineffective force even to slow the rise of a New America on the ruins of the Republic-that-once-was. Abandoning its principles for support of the 1%, the Left has cut their own roots. Listen carefully and you’ll hear the 1% laughing. This is another in a long series of posts explaining how and why the Left has become so weak in modern America. See the other posts here. If you liked this post, like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. See posts About the quiet coup in America and all posts about Obama and his administration, especially these… Under the cloak of liberalism America slides to Fascism — By Norman Pollack. Not technically accurate, but all too true. What will Obama do in term II? He’ll finish the great work of term I! The real Obama revealed, at last! — Truths the Left refuses to see. Obama + assassination + drones = a dark future for America. Obama repeals Magna Carta, asserting powers our forefathers denied to Kings. Published 2 June 2015 10 June 2015 Previous Post News from England on the great experiment about gun rights Next Post Dreams of apocalypses show the brotherhood of America’s Left & Right 14 thoughts on “Obama made the trains run on time, & other accomplishments” freeze says: I know you don’t like seeing the average America’s response of powerlessness to the problems of this country, but things aren’t looking good for America. I’m beginning to look at it like a democratic/republican(small d, small r) version of the proverb “shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations.” We’ve simply been spoiled with the gift our ancestors gave us. “America’s response of powerlessness to the problems of this country” I don’t know what that means. We are passive, but powerful. “the proverb “shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations.” Todd Guthrie says: “shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations” There is a saying that the wealth of a family can last for only three generations. As it goes, the first generation works hard and earns the wealth; the second generation feels obligated to preserve their parents’ legacy and so protects the wealth; the third generation, not having the memory of hard work, the experience of money management, or the feeling of connection, squanders the wealth. http://familylinevideo.com/three-generations/ Todd, That is an interesting aphorism. It is perhaps true for the lower rungs of the rich, but factually incorrect for the 1%. At that level wealth erodes away like Mt. Everest. epagbreton says: There is no “Left” in the USA. Maybe not since Eugene Debs. The Dem. Party in France would be seen as far right of even Sarkozy. Make your point, fair as it is, but beating the drum against the Left is silly. Obama? Democrat Party? Please. A Libertarian from some flyover state had to filibuster for our liberty. Tell you anything? Breton, “There is no Left” Perhaps by your definition. But by the usual definition of today’s America there is a large and vibrant Left. It is just politically marginalized, despite many of the policies they advocate having wide support. Determining why that is so deserves attention. infowarrior1 says: The left has one largely through achieving Gender Equality hence scuttling the need for feminism. The days are long gone where women couldn’t vote where patriarchal families are the norm. Where submission by the wife is nowadays viewed as oppression. Since they have no more enemies to fight they fight amongst themselves. 2 June 2015 at 10:08 pm infowarrior, The Left has goals other than women’s rights. Climate change, foreign policy, pollution, inequality, education, etc. They’re losing on almost all fronts. I give a lot more leeway here than do most websites. But people have to at least try to have a serious conversation. There’s also an incredible amount of cherry-picking in the Obama stats, along with gross abuse of statistics. Example: the Obama stats carefully choose the depths of the Bush recession to compare with current unemployment. What the Obama stats don’t show is immense and ongoing drop in the percentage of the population employed — for the simple reason that so many millions of Americans have stopped looking for work that they are no longer counted as unemployed. Another example: the Obama stats tout the GDP growth as though it were something wonderful. But 93% of that GDP growth since the recession of 2009 has gone to the top 1%. Why should the bottom 99% of ordinary Americans give a damn about GDP growth if they’re not getting any of the benefits of it? If we’re going to catalog Obama’s illegal and unconstitutional atrocities, we should also include the murder of U.S. citizens without a trial and without accusing them of a crime (clear violation of the 5th and 6th and 8th and 14th amendments of the constitution) and his ongoing murder of women and children in Pakistan by drone (more than died on 9/11), plus the added murder of rescue workers who try to help survivors (the infamous ‘double tap’ which the U.S. has previously used to define terrorism). The sheer scale and scope of the lawless unconstitutionality of the Obama administration dwarfs previous presidential lawlessness and makes the Watergate scandal look like a minor contretemps by comparison. FB, Please consider maybe Americans who rose up were part of a global movement that no longer exists. Please also see: “Who has predominant power in the United States? The short answer, from 1776 to the present, is: Those who have the money ” http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/class_domination.html Winston, Thanks! I have seen that, and it is interesting. But it’s too binary for any use, except as justification (if any were needed) for the “it’s hopeless” crowd. There have been periods of substantial reform in America, despite the dominant role of the rich. Collective action has produced large-scale change from the Founding through the civil rights era. Useful analysis tells us how that was done, and can be done again.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1224
__label__wiki	0.636899	0.636899	Mothers Arrested in Heartless Raids Maryland Families Next Victims in Administration’s Ongoing Publicity Stunt (Washington, DC) Today, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials continued their heartless strategy of raiding workplaces to arrest law abiding immigrant workers and tear their families apart. The overwhelming female workforce was taken into custody in the Baltimore area, separating mothers from their children, including the mother of a 4-month old U.S. citizen baby. This recent raid comes on the heels of a controversial raid in New Bedford, Massachusetts that stranded well over 100 children whose parents were arrested and detained while going about their work day. Statement of the Fair Immigration Reform Movement: "Today's raids are a part of the Bush Administration's heartless strategy to appear 'tough' on immigrants. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has only managed to disrupt the lives of young children, mothers, fathers, and entire communities. We are at a moral crossroads as a nation. If it is legal to make orphans out of hundreds of young citizen children, then we clearly need to change the law and fix a badly broken immigration system. "The Administration's raids policy has nothing to do with security, but rather is a morally twisted public relations stunt separating moms and dads from their children. "With the full backing of the immigrant rights community, we demand the Democratic leadership in Congress to stop watching this humanitarian crisis from the sidelines. Congress has a responsibility to exercise their complete oversight powers and hold the Administration accountable for their deplorable actions. "The Bush Administration's anti-family raids must stop." The Fair Immigration Reform Movement and our member organizations have planned a series of actions, demonstrations, faith assemblies, and bus tours during the Easter Congressional recess designed to expose the injustice of a policy that separates children from their parents and calling on Congress to act on a comprehensive reform bill that provides a pathway to citizenship. More information can be found at www.fairimmigration.org . RaidsFIRM Admin March 29, 2007 More Mothers Jailed - More Children Stranded Rein of Terror Continues - Administration Out of Control! UncategorizedFIRM Admin March 29, 2007	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1226
__label__cc	0.537263	0.462737	Catherine Martin on Creating the Costumes for The Great Gatsby We sat down with The Great Gatsby producer, set designer and costumer Catherine Martin to get all the dish on how the incredible clothes and sets came together. She revealed that you might even be able to see them up close and in person at an upcoming exhibition, too. It may be premiering later than we expected but The Great Gatsby, I can attest, is well worth the wait. (Production for the film started in 2011.) I was lucky enough to score an invite to an advanced screening of the film--and even luckier to get a chance to sit down with Catherine Martin, director Baz Luhrmann's wife and longtime-contributor, and the woman behind the film's truly spectacular costume and set design. Despite the fact that most movie-goers probably don't know her name, Martin's legacy looms large in the industry. She's won a zillion awards, including three Oscars for costume and set design, and, with Luhrmann, she's responsible for some of my all-time favorite movie fashion. The film is truly a visual feast--I was a blown away. So I have to admit I was a little intimidated as I made my way into Martin's room at the Plaza where she was giving press interviews. But I had nothing to worry about: Martin was approachable and charming--and clearly eager to talk about the work she's so passionate about. For Gatsby, Martin served as producer, production designer, and costume designer. That's a lot of work on any film, but on a movie like Gatsby, it was truly a colossal undertaking. The whole movie was shot in Australia, meaning that Martin and her team had to recreate 1920s New York--right down to its most intricate details--at Sydney's Fox Studios. Everything from Gatsby's mansion--with its ballroom, pool, library, and grotto--to the Plaza's suite was created specifically for the movie. And when it came to the costumes, it was just as daunting a task to get them right. Some of the film's party scenes had close to 300 extras on set--each one outfitted in his or her own unique costume. To give you an idea of just how many costumes that is, Brooks Brothers supplied 1,200 in total. And that's just on the men's side. Miuccia Prada helped out on the women's side, designing 40 background dresses as well as some of Daisy's (played by Carey Mulligan) costumes. Not that any of that fazed Martin. But it did present a challenge--one that, we learned, she was more than happy to take on. Read on to find out what Martin had to say about creating the costumes, working with Ms. Prada, and what happened to the garments once the film had wrapped. Bringing such a beloved, classic novel to life is no small task. How'd you start? The beginning of the process was a bit of fear and trepidation. I mean Baz is a visualist as a director. So it's fantastic on the one hand because you get a lot of focus, a lot of resources, in your department--never enough of course--but you get a lot of it. And so you know it's always a pleasure because you're not flailing around on your own. People are interested in what you're doing. But by the same token the bar is always very high. I can imagine. What were the first conversations like between you and Baz, deciding what direction to take? One of the first things Baz told me is, 'I don't want a nostalgic New York, I don't want a sepia-toned New York, I want a New York that feels as vibrant and sexy and visceral and modern as it would have to Zelda and Fitzgerald, or any of the characters in the book.' And he also said to me, 'I don't want it to look like a gangsters and their gun moll's 21st birthday party. It has to be totally the '20s, but you have to find an unexpected fresh way of seeing it. I don't want to see people swinging pearls and twirling their feather boas.' That was his horror. The horror, the horror! And so you sort of think 'Huh, how am I gonna do that?' So how does the actual process begin? First of all, Baz always starts with the book, or whatever the source material is. So the first thing is to read the book, and to analyze what people are wearing, what Fitzgerald says they are wearing. And then you go like a detective, and you go to the Met library and you go to FIT and you look in books, and you go to libraries, and you look online, and you look on museum websites and you read as much as you possibly can. And you try and work out what the landscape of the clothes were, and what the references in the book actually mean. You know like, what's a tricorn hat? Why is Daisy wearing one? You just start piecing all those references together and getting all the images, so you know what the landscape actually is. How true to the era did you stay? One of the other rules Baz made at the very beginning of the project was that, because the book is set in the summer of '22, published in '25, and foreshadows the crash of '29, we were actually allowed to use the whole decade as a reference base. So that gave us a little bit more scope. But what you realize even by the early '20s, just about any silhouette--from a bias cut, to a strapless, to a robe de style, had all been invented. One shouldered looks, beading, embroidering, harem pants, feathered skirts, halter necks, v-necks... all kinds of different silhouettes. We think of the '20s as a shift, a beaded embroidered fringed shift. And in reality the silhouettes were incredibly varied and had all kinds of influences form folkloric to Arabic, Orientalism--every kind of influence that you can possibly imagine, including Egyptian by the time Tutankhamun's tomb had been opened up. It was much more varied than even I, who knows something about it, even realized. In the costumes for the men, we erred on closer to the beginning of the decade because we went for a much slimmer silhouette. For the women it was later in the decade, when there was much more of a body-conscious silhouette. Looking at a historical period through a modern lens is a signature of yours and Luhrmann's. How did you go about modernizing some of the 1920s fashion? One of the things that really interested me was in the '20s there was a lot of photographic records of the clothes, and for the first time in history there are sketches and then there's a photo of the actual dress. What I became really interested in was the idealization of the silhouette in the drawing and how they always tended to be leaner and meaner in the drawing than they were in reality. And I became very attracted to being more faithful to the idealized silhouette as opposed to the reality. But I think too, if you watch a movie, I think it was 1927's Speedy, the clothes are very body conscious, lots of sleeveless dresses. You see by the late '20s a real consciousness of the body and a changing perspective on how we see ourselves. I think that comes from the fact that people are taking photographs of themselves and they're seeing what they look like on camera and the ideals of beauty are changing. What is considered beautiful is more petite, slimmer, more tanned. In the production notes, Joel Edgerton, who plays Tom Buchanan, praises you for adding little details--in his case a Skull and Bones lining in his suit, a reference to the character's Yale days--to help actors get more into character. Are there any other details like that, that you felt were important to add, even if they're not immediately obvious to the viewer? For Daisy's clothes I got a vast majority from a fantastic lace company called Solstiss. They're French and they've been around since the late 19th century. They have an enormous archive, they do work for all the big fashion houses--Chanel, Alexander McQueen when he was still alive--you name it. And I think that what was fantastic about having that resource is that I could really get that kinetic--whether it was the floral tassels on the purple dress, or the fluttery skirt made of organza petals on the dress that you first see Daisy in. I always try and make sure that everything an actor has is beautifully made and enjoyable to wear and relatively easy to get on and off. I think the girls were really excited that they were wearing real Tiffany's jewelry. And it was worth millions of dollars. Carey, who's usually rather sparing and very tasteful in her jewelry choices, was like 'Oh I just want everything.' She loved all the jewelry. How did the collaboration with Miuccia Prada come about? Well Baz has been a friend of Miuccia's for I suppose nearly 20 years, since Romeo + Juliet. She made a suit for Leo, his wedding suit. And so they've had a great friendship and a really challenging, active, artistic and philosophical dialogue. And just having that phrase of Baz's 'I don't want New York to be a boring sepia' in my head--well the boring part is my imposition on that--but I kept thinking of how both of them, in completely different ways, use the past as an inspiration, but then transmute it into something unexpected and something totally modern. So you approached her, and then how did the collaboration get underway? You know Miuccia is exigent from a philosophical point of view and she asked me 'Why do you think my anachronistic clothes are going to be right?' I said 'Well, look at these clothes from all your past collections and see how they speak to the '20s. And with these minor tweaks we'll be able to get, I think it will really speak to the '20s and I think it will provide that sort of modernity and extraordinariness and visceral excitement that Baz is looking for.' And she also liked the fact hat Baz asked for each extra to have a character name and a little bio. And so it was about working for a character, not about just doing clothes. So I went back through the archives and I selected [items that I thought could work]. She wound up designing 40 of the background dresses for the party scenes. So, 20 for the 'glamorous party' and 20 for the 'sad and tawdry party,' which is what we called it. She also made Daisy's chandelier dress and fur when she goes to one of Gatsby's parties for the first time. I have to ask: What happens to all the amazing costumes once the film is finished? Well Prada's all goes back to their archives, but they're doing an exhibition here in New York and I think it might go to Tokyo as well so that's great. And then some pieces go to the archives at Warner Brothers--they have an extensive and very serious archive. But meanwhile they haven't quite finished their work life, poor old darlings. They're on the road selling the movie. They're in Brooks Brothers and Harrods and they're all around. Do you ever feel tempted to just take them home with you? Look, I used to feel like that all the time, until I ended up with warehouses of this sort of stuff, and I realized through long and hard experience the best record of your work, is the work itself. Photos: Courtesy of Warner Brothers Click through to see more stills from the film. EntertainmentTiffany'sGreat GatsbyCostumesBaz LuhrmannNewsLeonardo DiCaprioCarey MulliganDaisy Buchanan Miuccia PradaPradaCatherine MartinBrooks Brothers First Look: Brooks Brothers' Costumes for The Great Gatsby (Plus Our Guesses On Who Designed the Women's Costumes) As we're all now more than well aware, thanks to this amazing trailer, Baz Luhrmann's upcoming adaptation of The Great Gatsby will be full of specta Fashion Teasers from the New Great Gatsby Trailer We're super jealous of Daisy's dresses and Gatsby's color-coordinated shirts. Get Up Close and Personal with Prada's Great Gatsby Costumes, On View Now The costumes designed by Miuccia Prada for The Great Gatsby have been the subject of much buzz in the months leading up to the movie's (very) long-awaited release--and now, you can check them out at Prada's SoHo store. Miuccia Prada Designed Costumes For The Great Gatsby The epicly gigantic September Vogue is officially on newsstands. Perusing its 916 pages the other day, we stumbled upon a bit of news--that those deca	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1230
__label__cc	0.619819	0.380181	Jack Wodhams Jack Wodhams was an English-born science fiction writer who lived in Australia from 1955 until his death. He also wrote as Trudy Rose and Caroline Edwards. Wodhams was born on 3 September 1931 in Dagenham, London and died on 3 August 2017 Books written by Jack Wodhams The Vanilla Slice Kid By Adam Wallace & Jack Wodhams & Tom Gittus	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1232
__label__cc	0.554279	0.445721	Sagas of Sundry Sagas of Sundry Celebrity Playlist: Selina’s Playlist by Erika Ishii Sagas of Sundry is our horror-themed RPG show, available exclusively on Alpha. The cast will be doing a special wrap-up show – One Night Only: Madness – on Saturday, January 13th to share their personal experiences and take your questions. In the meantime, check out Erika Ishii’s commentary and playlist for her character Selina Tsukiyama accompanied by her insights and some behind-the-scenes tidbits below. I’d like to begin by saying that it was an immense honor to be part of this story and get to work with such an unbelievably talented cast and crew. It was the most intense and rewarding acting experience of my life and the community response has been truly humbling. Thank you so much for watching and joining us in our collaborative madness! Music is the language of my heart. I play violin and I create and listen to Spotify playlists to express and augment my torrid emotions. So I went into shooting with 3 playlists for Selina: one defining who she is, one with songs that she would have listened to while she codes, and one made for me by a friend to help understand her mental state. It was agonizing to consolidate the lists into a single album that said everything I wanted to say. In the end, I hope when you listen you can experience a bit of what it was like to be in Selina’s head for this remarkable journey. Warning: Sagas of Sundry: Madness spoilers below. Beneath the Brine- The Family Crest When she feels like she’s drowning in the whispers and fear and loneliness, she reminds herself: “The walls are real. He is real. I am real.” Shape of My Heart- Sting He deals the cards to find the answer The sacred geometry of chance The hidden law of a probable outcome The numbers lead a dance “I feel like when I’m dancing in the code, I’m really alive.” Selina doesn’t play for the money she wins, she doesn’t play it for respect. Sure, it’s the thrill of the game. But problem-solving and executing the meticulous details of an infiltration is one of the only ways she can stay sharp. And be sure her faculties are still all there. Air V – You Forgotten- Sasha Siem This is just one of the voices in her head but it sings her greatest fear. It’s programmed into her DNA to forget, or maybe be lost to the voices and the visions. The song is from a playlist made for me by a friend who sometimes experiences auditory and visual hallucinations similar to Selina’s. Listening to the playlist and the discussions we had were invaluable in helping me understand what psychosis feels like. Little Talks- Julia Sheer, Jon D Two people who loved one other, but now one is gone. Dead? Some people have speculated this is a song about one member of a couple having Alzheimer’s. Selina never let anyone get too close. She’d say it’s because “people are stupid.” Which is easier than admitting she’s afraid of letting someone in. That maybe one day someone she cares about would have to watch her forget who they were. And herself. She maintains her distance… until the soulful writer down the hall. You’re gone, gone, gone away, I watched you disappear All that’s left is a ghost of you Now we’re torn, torn, torn apart, there’s nothing we can do, Just let me go, we’ll meet again soon Gasoline- Halsey “Maybe she’ll understand. Maybe I can trust these people” This one is for her fellow tenants. Especially Abigail. Dread was about friends torn apart, Madness is about strangers coming together. The Beginning is the End is the Beginning- The Smashing Pumpkins The ticking. The journey across the desert. The Black Door. This quintessentially 90s song somehow perfectly captures the otherworldly weirdness and rhythm of the Watcher’s domains: Send a heartbeat to The void that cries through you Vincent- Don McLean For Fenley. The artist. The beating heart of the group. Behind the scenes tidbit: the line alluding to this was edited out (likely due to my very poor wording of it) but a few weeks after the incidents depicted, Fenly’s abusive ex-boyfriend woke up to find extremely compromising criminal materials on his home computer. At the same time as a knock on the door from the FBI. Fenley protects. Firewall- Les Friction The challenges. Selina had to protect first her mind and then her body from the Watcher. She’s no stranger to building firewalls that protect her networks and she’s always hidden herself away from the world to maintain control. This time the stakes are higher. They come to your dreams with illusion They come to bring shape to your mind You know how to stop the intrusion We all have to fight for our lives Another song from the playlist by my friend. While it evokes the desperation inherent in her mental state, the lyrics happened to fit perfectly for the challenges. Another New World – Punch Brothers In this cover, a brilliant explorer finds another new world in the Arctic. When disaster befalls the expedition, to survive he must leave behind the only friend he ever loved. A harrowing story of guilt, loneliness, and isolation. I am obsessed with this song. Whenever we weren’t shooting, I was in the green room listening to it literally on a loop while doing pushups, situps, and planks. It kept me in Selina’s body and mind. To me, it defined so much of her character, and now I even see some parallels to her story. World Spins Madly On – The Weepies “Keep it on.” The whole world is moving, but she’s standing still. Despite the pain of loss, she will tend to the machine. She will find a door back. If you haven’t seen Ryan Woodward’s masterfully animated video “Thought of You” set to this song, please check it out. It’s one of my favorite pieces of art and has inspired me through a lot. Moon River (Vocal Audrey Hepburn) – Henry Mancini “I’ll see you on the other side.” Bonus playlist! In order to decompress from the intensity of shooting and to cope with The Feels, I put together an in-character playlist that Selina would have made for Emmett. I used only music she would have had access to during the time period, songs she would have wanted to share with him. I’ll spare you the explanation of every song on there, but there’s a great deal of meaning behind each one. Want more Madness goodness? Get insights into Sagas of Sundry from GM Ivan van Norman. Check out Marisha Ray’s playlist for her Sagas of Sundry: Madness character, Abigail. Show your love for the show with this official Goatman t-shirt! Erika Ishii, sagas of sundry. celebrity playlist Sagas of Sundry Celebrity Playlist: Emmett’s Playlist by Liam O’Brien Sagas of Sundry Celebrity Playlist: Fenly’s Playlist by Xander Jeanneret Sagas Of Sundry Playlist: The Sounds of Dread And Madness 10 Great Games to Play on Your Travels This Summer One day left. #TenCandlesEclipse premieres tomorrow at 9pm. https://t.co/YTXi6jc8PW	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1236
__label__cc	0.72659	0.27341	The Lolita Express That's the name of Jeffrey Epstein's private jet. Here's a list from A-Z of everybody involved in this mess. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-bill-clinton-donald-trump-alan-dershowitz.html Even if I were rich/famous/perverted enough to catch a flight to Epstein's private Island, I think I'd be like, "Yeah. . . you got any in the 30-40 year old range? I want to have a cocktail and a conversation both before and after." Some of these names are the most famous people in the world. What do you think Epstein has on them? Nothing. Because they're rich, famous, whatever, these people believe they deserve to do what they want free of all repercussions. Rules don't apply to them. Epstein...another Shanda fer de goyim. George K Super Moderator Posts: 9,799 Senior Member This is vile libel in at least one case. Woody Allen never had sex with an under age girl unless she was his step-daughter. Fake news. Keep your stinkin' government hands off my Medicare. MikeA Senior Member Posts: 3,752 Senior Member As I posted on FB. All the headlines and comments today are filled with outrage at this guy getting away with being a pedo because he's rich. Then on my drive home I hear a twofer tues of Michael Jackson. You know the guy who molested 7 year old boys. Retire MJ forever. July 10 #6 What!!! ALL....i mean ALL!!!.....Pure as the driven snow I am not going to jump to conclusions even regarding Trump. But if they are guilty, lock them away and fire the warden. During the 2016 election, Trump alleged Bill Clinton might have a strong connection to Epstein, Clinton is reported to have traveled on Epstein’s plane dozens of times. Referring to Clinton, Trump stated, “Nice guy — uh, got a lot of problems coming up, in my opinion, with the famous island, with Jeffrey Epstein. A lot of problems.” Court Documents: Trump Banned Epstein From Mar-A-Lago For Alleged Assault On Underage Girl https://dailycaller.com/2019/07/08/trump-banned-epstein-mar-a-lago-victims-lawyer/ Bradley Edwards, a lawyer who represented Jefferey Epstein victims, stated in court documents that Trump had barred Epstein from his Mar-A-Lago estate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=13&v=kEAj2qbB3DA Well if Trump said it, then by God it must be true. July 10 #10 He said it in 2016. We shall call him Nostratrumpus Green Mt Boy Senior Member Posts: 959 Senior Member Trump once hosted an exclusive party with Jeffrey Epstein at his Mar-a-Lago estate, a new report says. It was just the 2 of them and '28 girls.' https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-epstein-party-at-mar-a-lago-women-2019-7 So Sherb, I have to ask: how on earth do you think Acosta justified this deal? I can understand keeping it quiet, as it's pretty infuriating. Well there you go. This is how things work in the swamp. Acosta should pay dearly for this if true. I don't know. It looks awful, no doubt. My guess is that it wasn't a very strong case, and the prosecutors thought that if they didn't give the deal, they might walk away with nothing. which would have been worse. Sometimes, a plea deal is just a less worse-but still bad-option. Lord knows I've made my share of them over the years. Sometimes its just better to roll the dice and go to trial. At least then if you lose, you can say you tried. But the almighty success ratio will go down! How will that look when they campaign for office? All things to consider. a couple of points: Wins/losses are much more of an issue at the federal level. They usually won't touch a case unless its a slam dunk. Winning is important, for a number of reasons. Defendants can't be held accountable if they're found not guilty, and in the case of a guy like Epstein, you are basically telling him he's untouchable. That's a bad outcome. The number one press inquiry that elected prosecutors get is always their win loss-rate. Now, a savvy Prosecutor will use this as an opportunity to talk about the role of a prosecutor and how winning isn't always the #1 goal. But it still matters to constituents, who aren't easily able to determine what effective prosecution looks like. BUT. . . The prosecutor who is afraid to take a tough case to trial is dead meat. the Sharks will smell blood in the water every time, and they will bend you over for a sweetheart deal every chance they get. Its better for an office OVERALL to have a reputation of being willing to take tough cases (and inevitably lose a few) because then you get more favorable results in the pleas you do make. I aim for about a 75% trial conviction rate, consistent with the national average. (overall conviction rate nationally is about 94%, as most cases plead out). This allows the occasional loss while still holding the majority of offenders accountable. How does average Joe and his accomplishes get a sweet deal like this from lack of evidence in a 53 page FBI indictment ? I guess I’m missing something as usual. Acosta says he stepped in and took over the case from the State of Florida. By stepping in, he actually got more punishment for Epstein than Florida was seeking. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/10/labor-secretary-alex-acosta-holds-press-conference-on-jeffrey-epstein.html yeah, I saw that. Frankly, that doesn't make a lot of sense. But I'll give Acosta his due. Over the course of thousands of cases, we all make deals that we regret. We never know which deals are gonna come back to bite us. Its just the nature of the beast. Oh boy. I just realized something. Acosta's global agreement with Epstein may have inadvertently bound the other federal districts from prosecuting him. It depends on the terms of the agreement. I guess we will know soon enough. MAGAt conspiracy theory is that Epstein will divulge everything if he gets immunity. In exchange he will take down the Clintons, the Democrat party, and prove Pizzagate is real. July 11 edited July 11 #25 For Steven: https://twitter.com/shimonpro/status/1149087861670633474?s=21 https://twitter.com/peteralexander/status/1149082300203917312?s=21 He's digging his grave. He might be better off to try this. Acosta's out. Proving once again that the only person Trumpism applies to. . . is Trump. Everybody else is subject to the normal playbook. Who from the fed was involved in the Federal Non prosecution agreement? Anyone? Given the high profile of the defendant, I'm sure someone from DOJ in Washington was involved and at least reviewed the plea deal. I don't know who. I don't get it. Why would the US attorneys office agree to such a deal when they have all this evidence? Like Peter said, they don't take a backseat to State prosecutors. But they did.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1239
__label__cc	0.557021	0.442979	Board index » Miscellaneous » Role-Playing » RP Character Bios Jake, a seemingly ordinary student.... Moderator: Deciton_Reven Location: GMT+8. Have fun figuring out the rest. Skype: Ask and ye shall receive. Currently Playing: FE6-8, Radiant Historia, TWEWY Planning to make a duel soon, so this'll probably be my character. supertoku, my character may seem a little weak at first, but push him to the limit enough and he'll have... a little more power, to say the least. Putting background first because it explains a lot of my bio. Will make a separate Mia bio later, but lazy right now. Character name: Jake Smith. Background : A seemingly ordinary student in New York, Jake never, on the outside, seemed to be anything special, to his teachers, to his friends, to his parents. In his heart, however, he secretly held anger against his principal, not even knowing why he could easily get angry at the school for no apparent reason. That was until the day when his principal called him out during a special assembly of the school, for talking during one of the principal's typical long speeches. Embarrassing him in front of his friends, anger began to build up in Jake's heart more than ever. In a fit of rage against what he thought was evil, a force overtook him, a light shone, and he fell unconscious. As he awoke after the force overtook him, he noticed that he was in paralysis, and that a mysterious girl had taken over his life to use. He only heard one word from the girl and she faded out into his life: "Revenge." The girl, while Jake was paralyzed and unconscious, stabbed the principal in the neck with lightning speed, revealing the presence of evil in the school. The girl faded out again back into his unconscious, introducing herself as Mia and saying that she took over his body because one of the evil generals she had faced(principal) was in close proximity . Jake immediately ran away from his home, afraid of the imminent punishment of being sent to jail. He roams the streets of Washington, trying to suppress his anger at times against seemingly nice people. But in his heart, he knows that it's only a matter of time before Mia completely takes over, and starts unleashing hell. Personality : Jake: Concerned with fitting in, cares a lot for the well-being of others, is forgiving and a pacifist. Mia: Mysterious, reveals little of her motives. Shows no mercy towards those she feels anger towards. Alignment : Jake: Neutral Good Mia: Chaotic Good Age : Jake: 13 Mia: Unknown, but looks around 20. Race : Human either way. Physical Description :Jake: About 1.8m tall, he's lean. Pale white skin, from many hours of staying indoors. Doesn't stand up tall, instead hunches slightly. Eyes are black, and his hair is black as well. Wears an unbranded blue t-shirt, skinny jeans and a pair of worn sneakers. Has a cheap digital watch on his left hand. Mia: About 1.7m tall. Wears a black cloak that completely covers her body. Long blond hair, though prefers to hide it. Blue eyes. Slightly pointed ears. Equipment : Jake has nothing on him. Mia has two daggers(Daggers of a sacred city(thinking of name), stolen), and a set of throwing knives, as well as her cloak, which shields her from minor elemental spells(magic, basic fireballs, ice and wind). Abilities : Jake has no abilities by himself, but when he gets near a person who Mia thinks is evil, he is possessed by Mia. Mia, however..... Speed: Very quick. Quite literally able to move at the speed of lightning, though only for very short periods at a time(a second or two, using a bolt, requires a lot of energy, only one direction). Even when walking and running, still significantly faster than the normal human, able to easily outpace a cheetah, all without using up too much stamina. Enhanced reflexes, to the extent of being able to dodge arrows consistently. Strength: No super-strength or whatnot. Very weak body, not able to withstand a lot of damage. Skill: Highly skilled with dual-wielding daggers. Elements controlled: Lightning. Under this: Lightning Bolts-Range is about 1km, and the bolt itself is about 10cm radius when striking an object. Accurate to the nearest 10cm. From above or from palm. No cooldown whatsoever, though only one bolt at a time may be summoned, and it requires about a second's worth of summoning. Lightning Infusion-Self-explanatory. Uses this without thinking, often to charge up her throwing knives and her daggers. Lightning Grab-Whenever she touches someone, lightning automatically goes through them, shocking them, enabling her to follow up. Lightning Sphere-Requires about two second's worth of preparation. Surrounds enemy with a lightning sphere, which shocks them. Can be held for ten seconds, radius is about 4m maximum, and requires a substantial amount of energy. Lightning Invulnerability-Invulnerability to lightning. When struck by a lightning bolt, is granted speed for a short amount of time(a second or two), while anyone who hits her in that state is fried by lightning. Ravager: When this happens, the sky darkens and booms, already an indication of her power. She pauses for a moment, then teleports towards her enemy, whispering in his/her ear: "Ravager." before teleporting her enemy to a lightning sphere around their size, holding them in position for the hell about to ensue(the sphere already hurts though). She prepares multiple lightning bolts, keeping her knives inside her cloak. After a moment, the sphere is released, and multiple lightning bolts strike the opponent from all directions, while she very quickly slices through her opponents multiple times as well. Comes with a great cost, however, as Mia subjects her body to tremendous amounts of mental stress, making this move only viable during times of great emotional and physical pain. Will edit later. "With many sighs, they got up, and I followed, for what better way to spend the last week of your life than by watching humanity go about its usual failures?" Sig courtesy of Arthur: eternally grateful.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1241
__label__wiki	0.523903	0.523903	Police Scotland and Accenture were at odds over ill-fated IT project i6 An audit into Accenture and Police Scotland's disastrous attempts to develop a unified IT system has found that the project collapsed because Accenture underestimated the programme's complexity and the resources needed to develop it, alongside a breakdown in the two parties' relationship. Published this morning, the report by … Add to 'My topics' Thursday 9th March 2017 12:00 GMT Anonymous Coward The same Accenture... Who totally screwed a new ticketing system for Singapore Airlines. Another crapita 11 0 Reply Thursday 9th March 2017 12:23 GMT Titus Aduxass Re: The same Accenture... Yes. And that'll be the same Accenture who employs the "consultants" I e-mailed yesterday. Here's is a line from that e-mail.... "It might be better for people – especially, it would seem, experts brought in from Accenture - to ask me specific questions rather than continually guessing." The rest of the e-mail was along similar lines. Thursday 9th March 2017 12:15 GMT frank ly "at odds"? "Police Scotland was committed throughout to working with the supplier, Accenture, and the Scottish Police Authority, whilst maintaining the integrity of ongoing discussions during that process and commercial elements of the contract." "There were challenges and issues on both sides, but we worked closely with Police Scotland ........ and we mutually agreed to end the project." They're not at all 'at odds'. They both agree that they did the best they could under the circumstances. I'm sure they'll be dating each other again in the future. Thursday 9th March 2017 12:42 GMT Brewster's Angle Grinder Re: "at odds"? The words say one thing. The financial settlement says something completely different -- for once a contract they couldn't wriggle out of. Friday 21st April 2017 12:55 GMT Halfmad Quite impressed that the Police had a contract sewn up like that, good on them - now if only whitehall could start doing that. I don't think so. An alternative theory could be that they tried the usual Change Control racket to add charges despite the fixed price and got unexpected pushback which meant they had no way to recover what they underbid in the first place to win the contract. Colour me impressed if someone managed to outscam them :) Thursday 9th March 2017 12:18 GMT Pserendipity Plus ca change . . . When I worked for Acccenture (before it had changed its name to protect the guilty) they did a survey of their clients which effectively had two questions: Q: Did we do exactly what we said in the contract? A: Yes. Q: Would you use us again? A: Never! Thursday 9th March 2017 12:22 GMT Phil O'Sophical So they signed a fixed-price contract, but allowed the client to make changes? And both sides were surprised that it didn't work out? They never learn. Thursday 9th March 2017 12:43 GMT smudge Of course they did. You make most of your money from change requests. Thursday 9th March 2017 13:02 GMT theblackhand But but but... They only lost a few ten's of millions of pounds in the process and it was resolved in a few years. Given the history of government and public sector contracts, that is progress as normally they would replace the project teams three or four times before admitting that nobody really wanted to do this in the first place... Thursday 9th March 2017 13:04 GMT Buzzword It's how the public sector works. You want to do ABCDEF, but there's no way you can get the budget for it. So you do ABC, and hope to tack on DEF as change requests later. A couple of years later, once the project has actually started, you are shocked, shocked I tell you, to discover that you also need DEF. The budget simply must be produced. In the old days when government was flush with cash, that usually worked out ok. These days it doesn't. If Police Scotland had been honest up-front about their IT requirements, the entire project would never have been signed off, and they'd be doing things on paper. That may be no bad thing. Thursday 9th March 2017 13:47 GMT Red Bren "If Police Scotland had been honest up-front about their IT requirements..." It sounds to me like Police Scotland were honest and up-front about their requirements. Accenture spent months assessing the requirements. The disagreement was whether Accenture's solution would meet the requirements, not that the requirements were changing, because changing requirements are where consultancies make their money. The fact that Accenture gave a full refund plus compensation suggests desperation to avoid a court case and a desire to protect their reputation, whatever that might be worth... Thursday 9th March 2017 13:41 GMT Keith Langmead "So they signed a fixed-price contract, but allowed the client to make changes? And both sides were surprised that it didn't work out? They never learn." From the settlement I'd guess it wasn't the Police making changes to what was required, otherwise the requirements would differ from the agreed contract and there'd be no reason for Accenture to not only pay back what they'd already been paid, but also more than that again in compensation. That's why people like that don't mind requirements changing... when things don't work out you're no longer in breach of contract since the customer changed what they wanted. I imagine the requirements given initially stayed the same, but they underestimated what would be required to fullfil them and perhaps failed to properly find what was needed. If the Police say that every officer needs x, you base your costs on a guess there are 1,000 officers and it turns out there are 5,000 officers, it's not the requirements that have changed. From the settlement I'd guess it wasn't the Police making changes to what was required Fom the article: "As the report acknowledges, the scope and the complexity of the solution for i6 increased significantly during the project. This was driven by the client ... it was not possible to agree the necessary changes and we mutually agreed to end the project." @Phil O'Sophical As I said, the requirements didn't change. To also quote the article, "Accenture underestimated the programme's complexity and the resources needed to develop it" What's missing from the Accenture quote you requoted are the reasons why the scope and complexity of Accenture's solution increased. "This was driven by the client" could easily mean Police Scotland knew exactly what was required and were holding Accenture to deliver it as agreed. Friday 10th March 2017 08:40 GMT Sooty If the Police say that every officer needs x, you base your costs on a guess there are 1,000 officers and it turns out there are 5,000, it's not the requirements that have changed. the first question anyone competent should ask is, and how many officers, not just guess, then get that in the requirements. They should also ask about projected staffing increases over the next few years, at least over the run of the project. My guess would be that they intentionally under quoted to win the contract, and were going to use change requests to bump the costs back up into profitability, but then found out that there weren't any/enough change requests to actually get the price up to where they could deliver without making a loss. Thursday 9th March 2017 13:04 GMT Chewi At least they got some money back instead of watching it spiral out of control as what usually seems to happen in these situations. Thursday 9th March 2017 13:06 GMT H in The Hague Better contract than most "Accenture paid £24.65m back to the Scottish Police Authority the following July, refunding the £11.1m that had been paid to that date, as well as a £13.6m settlement." Hats off to the lawyers and procurement personnel at Police Scotland who appear to have drawn up a better contract than many of their colleagues (in most public sector IT disasters the vendor seems to keep the money and get compensation, here it's the other way round). Re: Better contract than most If Law Enforcement can't get the plum contract treatment, no one else can! Thursday 9th March 2017 13:25 GMT John Smith 19 £46m to save £20m PA. So the contracted result would have to work for about 1 1/4 years perfectly to pay for itself. Instead it didn't work at all. Hats off to Police Scotland (or should that be Polis Scotia as First Minister Sturgeon would like them rebranded ?) I suspect that merging the 8 (?) forces in Scotland will be like the back offices of the various UK councils. It will need to be done gradually, with the consent of the various IT departments IE bottom up, not top down. Re: £46m to save £20m PA. Which might just have paid for the extra VAT requirement that was imposed when Police Scotland was created. Each individual force could reclaim VAT but as a National body PS couldn't. Or something along those lines anyway. "So the contracted result would have to work for about 1 1/4 years perfectly t" That should of course have been 2 1/4 years to break even. I'll take a wild stab and say it'll be a lot easier to merge some of these forces IT systems together then you'll have a 2-3 clusters left whose structures and way of doing things will be so different that merging them will be a serious PITA. OTOH how "real time" do you need your data to be? "instant?", Every few minutes? Hourly? Nightly? Apparently clumsy (but fully automated) linking existing, working systems may beat a new centralized super duper (but overdue and highly buggy) SoA package. Friday 10th March 2017 11:35 GMT Halfmad It's likely more complicated than that, infrastructure will be quite different from one area to another and changing that can cost a lot of money and require existing contacts to expire first. Thursday 9th March 2017 14:42 GMT Gordon Pryra Thats one way of reportng things The other side of the fence would probably mention how many times the Police moved the goal posts once work had started. Accenture may be bollocks, but the audit is not independent. Re: Thats one way of reportng things Just follow the money. If the police had kept changing their minds about what they wanted, you can bet Accenture would be happy to oblige, and demand payment in full if it all went fubar. The fact that they refunded AND compensated the police would suggest the audit is correct. If only every public* sector IT project was as tightly governed. * And a few private sector projects I've witnessed... well at least they did make an effort to get rid of the 8 forces. Pity England\Wales can't do it with their 42! There's ideas being mooted of merging some of the remaining health boards and/or potentially parts of councils too. I can see the merit in some of it, but as always with IT there's a lot of contracts which need to expire etc for it to start happening without a huge amount set aside for buying out/penalty clauses. What I don't get is why England can't do something similar, if anything everything there is becoming more fragmented year on year. Friday 10th March 2017 00:58 GMT Anonymous Coward A few things... Lots of other companies were approached and avoided this like the plague, saying it couldn't be done in the way the Police wanted it done, and that the task was huge. They may have refunded a sum of monies, and ICT are keen to stress we didn't lose out of it... what about the i6 Department that had over forty cops, up to Super rank working in it? What about the hundreds of thousands of pounds on their wages? Plus the cost of re-fitting Anderston police station to make it the i6 hub. The whole thing was a joke, and lots of Superintendents were sucked in with hospitality and top class treatment. 1: The 8 Legacy Forces of Scotland -are- merged into one Force. We use in the main, the same systems which are generally accessed via the Intranet, but there are several different systems still in use. Primarily, these are the systems for recording crimes and the investigations into those crimes. It's not a huge issue as this is not information that is ever really required to go Force wide. 2: i6 cost a lot more than the quoted figure. The i6 department was around 40 cops, up to Chief Superintendent rank. Over three years, that's over one million pounds on wages. That's not coming back. We also lost 40 cops on the street to this department, although some were light duties and not operationally deployable There were also two sites in Greater Glasgow that were refitted for i6 at great expense. 3: i6 caused the biggest problem in that none of our current systems were updated, because i6 would bring the full solution. As such, we made do with crappy systems that were old and not fit for purpose. We're now scrabbling around trying to find solutions to this future gap, and it's not easy. Some very important enquiries are done on MS Word for fucksake, meant to be accessible to all to update and track the investigation. A nightmare. There's one key system that was designed in house and the guy died / retired years ago and no-one quite knows how to update it! 4: There was almost no mission creep from the Police. We knew beforehand what we wanted to replace or integrate, the systems existed in different styles around the Force, we had everything roadmapped. Apart from some small extra tweaks, nothing big changed. Accenture simply couldn't cope and massively under-bid hoping to scam us. 5: Lots of other companies were approached with this, and they all said it's too big for them. That's coming from some blue chip IT firms. 6: The reason Accenture paid up, was that because when relationships soured (which they did) and we reached a state of no return, and things failed, the plug was pulled and Accenture started being dicks. The 40 cops who had been working alongside them were then re-tasked from developing i6, to conducting the investigation, gathering evidence and putting together the court case against them for charges relating to breaches of contractual agreements. That, is why they paid up. :) Saturday 18th March 2017 15:49 GMT a_yank_lurker Re: A few things I often wonder whether some of these integration projects should be done in-house. The problem with many insultancies is they do not understand the client's workflow and the nature of the routine tasks. In this what really needs to integrate and can be safely ignored for later. Internal staff often have a better feel for this. Their Failure Record Goes back decades I knew this outfit back in the 80/90s when they were Arthur Andersen Consultants. Expensive and rarely much help - used fresh graduates at client sites in order to train them. And then the Enron Scandal. Glad the Scottish Police made them pay up.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1243
__label__wiki	0.717497	0.717497	Documents filtered by: Author="Adams, John" AND Recipient="Warren, James" AND Period="Revolutionary War" From John Adams to James Warren, 20 June 1775 To James Warren Phyladelphia June 20. 1775 This Letter will go by the sage, brave, and amiable General Washington,1 to whom I have taken the Liberty of mentioning your Name. The Congress has at last voted near twenty thousand Men in Massachusetts and New York, and an Emission of a Continental Currency to maintain them. You will have Lee, as third in Command, Ward being the second, Schuyler of New York the fourth, and Putnam the fifth. Ten Companies of Rifle Men too, are ordered from Pensylvania, Maryland and Virginia. Nothing has given me more Torment, than the Scuffle We have had in appointing the General officers. We could not obtain a Vote, upon our Seat for L.2 Sam. and John fought for him, however, through all the Weapons. Dismal Bugbears were raised, there were Prejudices enough among the weak and fears enough among the timid as well as other obstacles from the Cunning: but the great Necessity for officers of skill and Experience, prevailed. I have never formed any Friendship or particular Connection with Lee, but upon the most mature Deliberation I judged him the best qualified for the Service, and the most likely to cement the Colonies, and therefore gave him my Vote, and am willing to abide the Consequences. I am much obliged to you for yours of June 11. Pray write me a State of the Army, their Numbers, and a List of the officers and the Condition of the poor People of Boston. My Heart bleeds for them. We have a great Show this Morning here. Our great Generals Washington and Lee review the three Battalions of this City. I believe there never was two Thousand Soldiers created out of nothing so suddenly, as in this City. You would be surprized to behold them, all in Uniforms, and very expert both in the Manual and Maneuvres. They go through the Wheelings and Firings in sub-divisions, grand Divisions, and Platoons, with great Exactness. Our Accounts from all Parts of the Continent are very pleasing. The Spirit of the People is such as you would wish. I hope to be nearer to you at least, very soon. How does your Government go on? If We have more bad News from England the other Colonies will follow your Example.3 My Love to all Friends, yours, RC (MHi:Warren-Adams Coll.); addressed: “To the Hon. James Warren Esqr at the Provincial Congress favoured by General Washington”; docketed: “Mr. J. A Lettr June 1775.” 1. Washington left Philadelphia on 23 June for Cambridge, where he arrived on 2 July (JA to AA, 23 June, Adams Family Correspondence description begins Adams Family Correspondence, ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1963– . description ends , 1:226; Washington, Writings, ed. Fitzpatrick description begins The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745–1799, ed. John C. Fitzpatrick, Washington, 1931–1944; 39 vols. description ends , 3:308, note 35). 2. What JA means is that although he and Samuel Adams supported Lee, they could not secure the majority needed among the Massachusetts delegates if the colony was to cast a vote for him. 3. That is, in reinstituting government under charter forms, but ignoring the royal governor. Note: The annotations to this document, and any other modern editorial content, are copyright © The Massachusetts Historical Society. All rights reserved. Warren, James “From John Adams to James Warren, 20 June 1775,” Founders Online, National Archives, accessed April 11, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-03-02-0023. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 3, May 1775 – January 1776, ed. Robert J. Taylor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979, pp. 34–37.] From Warren to Adams [11 June 1775] All correspondence between Warren and Adams	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1247
__label__wiki	0.604133	0.604133	Documents filtered by: Author="Randolph, Edmund" AND Author="Jefferson, Thomas" AND Recipient="Washington, George" Cabinet Opinions on Indian Affairs, [25 February 1793] Cabinet Opinions on Indian Affairs [25 Feb. 1793] The President having required the attendance of the heads of the three departments and of the Attorney general at his house on Monday the 25th. of Feb. 1793. the following questions were proposed and answers given. 1. The Governor of Canada having refused to let us obtain provisions from that province or to pass them along the water communication to the place of treaty with the Indians, and the Indians having refused to let them pass peaceably along what they call the bloody path, the Governor of Canada at the same time proposing to furnish the whole provisions necessary, Ought the treaty to proceed? Answer unanimously, it ought to proceed. 2. Have the Executive, or the Executive and Senate together authority to relinquish to the Indians the right of soil of any part of the lands North of the Ohio, which has been validly obtained by former treaties? The Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary at war and Attorney general are of opinion that the Executive and Senate have such authority, provided that no grants to individuals nor reservations to states be thereby infringed. The Secretary of state is of opinion they have no such authority to relinquish. 3. Will it be expedient to make any such relinquishment to the Indians if essential to peace? The Secretaries of the Treasury and War and the Attorney general are of opinion it will be expedient to make such relinquishment, if essential to peace, provided it do not include any lands sold or reserved for special purposes (the reservations for trading places excepted). The Secretary of state is of opinion that the Executive and Senate have authority to stipulate with the Indians and that if essential to peace it will be expedient to stipulate that we will not settle any lands between those already sold or reserved for special purposes, and the lines heretofore validly established with the Indians. 4. Whether the Senate shall be previously consulted on this point? The Opinion unanimously is that it will be better not to consult them previously. H Knox MS (DLC: Washington Papers); undated; in TJ’s hand, signed by TJ, Hamilton, Knox, and Randolph; written with Cabinet opinions on the debt to France of same date on one sheet folded to make four pages; endorsed by Tobias Lear. PrC (DLC); unsigned; overwritten in part by a later hand. Entries in SJPL: “[Opins of heads of deptmts.] on proceeding in treaty with the hostile Indians” and “on previous consultation with Senate.” The President put these questions to the Cabinet because on the previous day he had received dispatches from General William Hull to the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of War containing two critically important pieces of intelligence about the forthcoming Lower Sandusky peace conference with the hostile Western tribes. In the first place Hull reported that Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe of Upper Canada had refused his request to purchase supplies in Canada and transport them to the Indians attending this conference. Hull had been dispatched on this mission by Hamilton after the Treasury Secretary received assurances from George Hammond that Simcoe would be amenable to such a request. At the same time, moreover, Hull enclosed various documents which made it clear for the first time to the Washington administration that the Western Indians were demanding an Ohio river boundary as a condition of peace with the United States (Washington, Journal description begins Dorothy Twohig, ed., The Journal of the Proceedings of the President, 1793–1797, Charlottesville, 1981 description ends , 66–7; Syrett, Hamilton description begins Harold C. Syrett and others, eds., The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, New York, 1961–87, 27 vols. description ends , xiii, 382–3, 479, xiv, 9–13). As a result, the Cabinet decided to allow the treaty to proceed in order to mollify domestic critics of the Indian war and not from any genuine hope that a peaceful settlement was possible as long as the Western tribes sought to interpose an Ohio river boundary between themselves and the United States (Notes on Cabinet Opinions, 26 Feb. 1793). For a discussion of the origins of the Lower Sandusky conference, see Notes for a Conversation with George Hammond, [ca. 10 Dec. 1792], and note. In addition to the intrinsic historical importance of the subjects with which they deal, this document and the one that follows are also significant in American constitutional history as the first written corporate opinions that the Cabinet submitted to the President. Hitherto Cabinet members had either submitted individual written opinions in response to specific requests by Washington or made their views known during group meetings held in his presence. The combination of a formal consultation of the heads of the three executive departments and the Attorney General with the President and the subsequent submission to the chief executive of a corporate opinion embodying the views of these officers was an important milestone in the development of the American Cabinet system. See Mary L. Hinsdale, A History of the President’s Cabinet (Ann Arbor, Mich., 1911), 7–16, for a generally useful account of the evolution of the Cabinet during Washington’s administration that nevertheless overlooks the significance of these two documents. Knox, Henry “Cabinet Opinions on Indian Affairs, [25 February 1793],” Founders Online, National Archives, accessed April 11, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-25-02-0236. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 25, 1 January–10 May 1793, ed. John Catanzariti. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992, pp. 258–259.]	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1248
__label__cc	0.587264	0.412736	Documents filtered by: Author="Washington, George" AND Recipient="United States Senate" Results 1-10 of 187 sorted by editorial placement 1Address to Charles Thomson, 14 April 1789 (Washington Papers) Sir, I have been long accustomed to entertain so great a respect for the opinion of my fellow citizens, that the knowledge of their unanimous suffrages having been given in my favour scarcely leaves me the alternative for an Option. Whatever may have been my private feelings and sentiments, I believe I cannot give a greater evidence of my sensibility for the honor they have done me than by... 2From George Washington to the United States Senate, 18 May 1789 (Washington Papers) I thank you for your Address, in which the most affectionate sentiments are expressed in the most obliging terms. The coincidence of circumstances which led to this auspicious Crisis, the confidence reposed in me by my Fellow-citizens, and the assistance I may expect from counsels which will be dictated by an enlarged and liberal policy, seem to presage a more prosperous issue to my... In pursuance of the order of the late Congress, Treaties between the United States, and several nations of Indians, have been negociated and signed. These Treaties, with sundry papers respecting them, I now lay before you, for your consideration and advice, by the hands of General Knox, under whose official superintendence the business was transacted, and who will be ready to communicate to... 4From George Washington to the United States Senate, 11 June 1789 (Washington Papers) A Convention between his most Christian Majesty and the United States for the purposes of determining and fixing the functions and prerogatives of their respective Consuls, Vice Consuls, Agents and Commissaries, was signed by their respective Plenipotentiaries on the 29th of July 1784. It appearing to the late Congress that certain alterations in that Convention ought to be made, they... Mr Jefferson the present Minister of the United States at the Court of France, having applied for permission to return home for a few months, and it appearing to me proper to comply with his request, it becomes necessary that some person be appointed to take charge of our affairs at that Court during his absence. For this purpose I nominate William Short Esquire, and request your advice on the... 6From George Washington to the United States Senate, 3 August 1789 (Washington Papers) A List having my signature to it is herewith presented to you, containing the names of Persons whom I nominate as Collectors, Naval Officers and Surveyors for the Ports to which their Names are respectively annexed; And as several applications have been addressed to the President and Senate conjointly I lay all under this description before you, for your information. New Hampshire Districts &... In the list of Nominations which I laid before you the 3d instant there was a mistake in giving in the name of David Lambert as Surveyor of the Port of Richmond. This mistake I now desire to correct by inserting in place thereof, the name of Corbin Braxton. LS , DNA : RG 46, First Congress, President’s Messages—Executive Nominations; LB , DLC:GW . This message was delivered to the Senate by... My nomination of Benjamin Fishbourn for the place of Naval Officer of the Port of Savannah not having met with your concurrence, I now nominate Laclan McIntosh for that place. Whatever may have been the reasons which induced your dissent, I am persuaded they were such as you deemed sufficient—Permit me to submit to your consideration, whether on occasions, where the propriety of nomiminations... By the act for settling the accounts between the United States and individual States, a person is to be appointed to fill the vacant seat at the Board of Commissioners for settling the accounts between the United States and individual States; I therefore nominate John Kean, of the State of So. Carolina to fill the vacant seat at the said Board of Commissioners. LS , DNA : RG 46, First... 10From George Washington to the United States Senate, 18 August 1789 (Washington Papers) In conformity to the Law re-establishing the Government of the Western Territory, I nominate Arthur St Clair Governor. Winthrop Sargent Secretary. Samuel Holden Parsons, } John Cleve Symmes and Judges of the Court. William Barton I also nominate Ebenezer Tucker, Surveyor of Little Egg Harbour in the State of New Jersey. LS , DNA : RG 46, First Congress, President’s Messages—Executive...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1250
__label__wiki	0.730542	0.730542	Documents filtered by: Recipient="Franklin, Benjamin" AND Recipient="American Peace Commissioners" AND Correspondent="Franklin, Benjamin" AND Correspondent="Adams, John" Continental Congress to the American Peace Commissioners: Instructions, [15 June 1781] Continental Congress to the American Peace Commissioners: Instructions Copies: Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères,2 Library of Congress (two), National Archives (two), Massachusetts Historical Society, Charles E. Feinberg, Detroit (1957);3 L (draft):4 National Archives; LS:5 Philip D. Sang, River Forest, Illinois (1959), Massachusetts Historical Society [June 15, 1781]6 Instructions to the honourable John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Henry Laurens and Thomas Jefferson, Ministers Plenipotentiary, in Behalf of the United States, to negociate a Treaty of Peace. You are hereby authorised and instructed to concur in behalf of these United States with his most christian Majesty, in accepting the Mediation proposed by the Empress of Russia and the Emperor of Germany. You are to accede to no Treaty of Peace which shall not be such as may 1st effectually secure the Independence and Sovereignty of the Thirteen United States according to the Form and Effect of the Treaties subsisting between the said United States and his most christian Majesty; And 2dly. in which the said Treaties shall not be left in their full Force and Validity.— As to disputed Boundaries, and other Particulars, we refer you to the Instructions given to Mr John Adams dated 14 August 1779, and 18 October 1780, from which you will easily perceive the Desires & Expectations of Congress.7 But we think it unsafe at this Distance to tye you up by absolute & peremptory Directions upon any other Subject than the two essential Articles abovementioned.— You are therefore at liberty to secure the Interest of the United States in such manner as Circumstances may direct, and as the State of the belligerent—and the Disposition of the mediating—Powers may require. For this purpose you are to make the most candid and confidential Communications upon all subjects to the Ministers of our generous Ally the King of France; to undertake nothing in the Negotiations for Peace or Truce without their Knowledge and Concurrence; and ultimately to govern yourselves by their Advice and Opinion; endeavouring in your whole Conduct8 to make them sensible how much we rely upon his Majesty’s Influence for effectual support9 in every thing that may be necessary to the Peace, Security, and future Prosperity of the United States of America.— If a Difficulty should arise in the Course of the Negociation for Peace, from the Backwardness of Great Britain to acknowledge our Independence, you are at liberty to agree to a Truce, or to make such other Concessions as may not affect the Substance of what we contend for, and provided that Great Britain be not left in Possession of any Part of the United States.— . Samuel Huntington Presidt Cha. Thomson, secry. Notation: Juin 1781. 2. In BF’s hand. The foreign ministry made a French translation: Doniol, Histoire, IV, 604–6. 3. The last of these is in WTF’s hand. BF attested that it is a true copy and endorsed it, “Instructions relative to the Peace Treaty.” It also bears an endorsement by JA, “Ultimately to govern ourselves by their Advice & opinion.” 4. In the hand of Charles Thomson and printed in JCC, XX, 651–2. 5. We do not print from either of them because they are partially in code. On the former is a notation by Charles Thomson, “Mr Jay has the Key.” The latter, which is in a different code, has been partially decoded. 6. The date is taken from the first LS and also appears on the National Archives copies (which are in the Secret Journals). See also JCC, XX, 650n. 7. JCC, XIV, 958–60; XVIII, 948–50; Adams Papers, X, 278–80. 8. The preceding fourteen words were added on June 11 after a contested congressional vote. Four days later a motion to reconsider was defeated: JCC, XX, 626–7, 650. Delaware delegate Thomas Rodney (who had voted to reconsider) considered this passage “Abject and Humiliating” (Smith, Letters, XVII, 325); BF and his colleagues basically disregarded it. 9. The preceding word is supplied from JCC, XX, 652. Continental Congress American Peace Commissioners Jay, John Laurens, Henry “Continental Congress to the American Peace Commissioners: Instructions, [15 June 1781],” Founders Online, National Archives, accessed April 11, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-35-02-0121. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 35, May 1 through October 31, 1781, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999, pp. 166–167.]	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1252
__label__wiki	0.913356	0.913356	Documents filtered by: Author="Lee, Richard Henry" AND Period="Confederation Period" AND Project="Washington Papers" sorted by: date (descending) To George Washington from Richard Henry Lee, 8 July 1788 From Richard Henry Lee Chantilly July the 8th 1788 I have the honor to enclose for your consideration and signature papers relative to our execution of the trust reposed on us for selling Mr Booths land and purchasing the lands in lieu. The partys are very desirous to have this business finished, and I have no doubt but that the saving clause, and the provision at the end of the deed, renders this conveyance perfectly safe for us. You will please to observe that young Mr Booths letter requests us to convey to R. Lee; but circumstances in that family, unknown to him, renders this improper. It is this however that causes Mr Charles Lee in his letter enclosed to say “I expect Mr W.A. Booth will give his direction for conveying to Miss E.A. Lee instead of R. Lee &c. Till such direction be given by Mr W.A. Booth I presume the Trustees will forbear to execute the deed[.]” This circumstance, together with Mr Bealls letter herein also enclosed, render two things necessary to be observed, before the deed shall be parted with by you—the one is, that Mr W.A. Booth signify his assent to the alteration of the conveyance and also that Mr Brooke Beall certify his receipt of the ballance due on this purchase, as requested in his brother Mr S. Bealls letter.1 I wish that the late excessive rains may not have injured your Crops nearly as much this year, as did the drought of last summer. This family join me in presenting respectful compliments to your Lady. I have the honor to be, with every sentiment of esteem and regard, dear Sir your affectionate and obedient servant ALS, DLC:GW. 1. For a description of the transactions with regard to the Booth property for which both GW and Lee were trustees, see Lee to GW, 16 April 1787, n.1. The quoted letter from Charles Lee is to Richard Henry Lee, 6 April 1788 (DLC:GW). Booth’s letter to Richard Henry Lee has not been found. https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/04-06-02-0337 Lee, Richard Henry “To George Washington from Richard Henry Lee, 8 July 1788,” Founders Online, National Archives, accessed April 11, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/04-06-02-0337. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Confederation Series, vol. 6, 1 January 1788 – 23 September 1788, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997, pp. 375–376.] From Lee to Washington [11 October 1787] From Lee to Washington [6 April 1789] All correspondence between Lee and Washington	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1254
__label__wiki	0.668505	0.668505	Witness to Murder A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window. Ginger Rogers steals the show as a selfish, snide Broadway superstar in Nunnally Johnson’s Black Widow, preening, snooping, gossiping, and bestowing air kisses in equal abundance. Rogers is Carlotta Marin,… Hobson’s Choice Henry Hobson owns and tyrannically runs a successful Victorian boot maker’s shop in Salford, England. A stingy widower with a weakness for overindulging in the local Moonraker Public House, he… An Inspector Calls Based on a famous stage play and set in the year 1912, an upper crust English family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl… The Glenn Miller Story A vibrant tribute to one of America’s legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller’s rise from obscurity and poverty to fame and wealth in the early 1940s. 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__label__cc	0.65956	0.34044	The nominations for the 88th Academy Awards have been announced this morning. Feast your eyes on them after which take pleasure in our scorching takes. We warmed them up only for you. Chris Rock’s monologue has certainly already written itself. 2 Andrew 5 Alex Bean So, Andrew, I’ve a tough time considering of a option to begin with something but the following. HOLY SHIT! MAD MAX: FURY ROAD GOT TEN OSCAR NOMINATIONS! TEN!!! THAT’S CRAZY. I CAN STILL SCARCELY BELIEVE IT. WHAT KIND OF CRAZY WORLD ACTUALLY LETS OSCAR VOTERS SEE A POST-APOCALYPTIC PUNK ROCK AUTOMOTIVE ACTION MOVIE AND VOTE IT INTO BEST PICTURE AND DIRECTOR?!?!!?! This movie received 10 Oscar nominations. What a time to be alive. Okay, with that out of my system, I can truly speak shop. The nominations chief is The Revenant, which is a movie each of us found to be completely vacuous. Leonardo DiCaprio could be very undoubtedly going to win Greatest Actor for his position as mountain man Hugh Glass, however I’m having a hard time seeing The Revenant profitable a ton of awards beyond that. Not only does it really feel like the sort of film that peaks on nomination morning, however its author/director, Alejondro G. Inarritu, simply gained Oscars for Screenplay, Director, and Image last yr. No one has gained those massive awards in back-to-back years since Joseph L. Mankiewicz did it in 1950. That isn’t something that Oscar voters will truly take into consideration as they vote, nevertheless it’s nonetheless an enormous statistic. Contemplating that, I feel our prohibitive favorite to win Greatest Picture is Spotlight. It’s a small movie and appeared prefer it was slipping during the precursors over the past month. This morning gave it an enormous shot in the arm, although, since it landed appearing nominations for Mark Ruffalo and Rachel McAdams and a Film Modifying nod. These nominations are about as much as might fairly be anticipated and make me assume it’s the movie to beat at the second. I would like you to maintain preaching in your two massive points. Mad Max: Fury Street is considered one of the most jaw-dropping, breathtaking, ecstatic movies of my lifetime. The Revenant is pointless dreck illuminated only by Chivo at his apex…and coming off two wins in a row, he might not win for the similar cause as Inarritu. Right here’s what fascinates me: aside from the appearing nods for DiCaprio and Tom Hardy, Fury Street and The Revenant go head-to-head in ten categories. TEN. It’s a battle I feel is unprecedented. And it might mean nothing as a result of along with those nominations you mentioned above, Spotlight picked up a slot for writing, which in my thoughts means the Academy takes it with an extra degree of seriousness. But let’s take a look at the different five Greatest Picture nominees for a moment. The only one I missed is Bridge of Spies, which appeared to me to be strong and unspectacular. Brooklyn is an unambitious but endearing film that’s so harking back to basic Hollywood that I’m not stunned by the adore it acquired. The Huge Brief and The Martian are two of the most clever and genuinely entertaining movies you possibly can think about coming from the huge studios they usually deserve every nomination they obtained. Room‘s across-the-board racking up of the major classes was a small surprise, especially when Lenny Abrahamson bumped Sir Ridley Scott and Todd Haynes out of Greatest Director, but it’s a image of impeccable crafting and genuine uplift. Carol is the yr’s most egregious Oscar snub. Nevertheless, it wouldn’t be an Oscar column from us if we have been glad about every part. Listed here are my 4 largest complaints: The Greatest Actor and Greatest Supporting Actor categories are a sleep, and the more I think about them, the sleepier I get. I used to be a fan of Matt Damon’s appeal, Michael Fassbender’s breathlessness, and Mark Ruffalo’s dedication to an unusual character, however there was nothing of particular energy or interest. (Fassbender got here the closest, which is sort of bizarre.) The Academy’s refusal to fill all ten spots for Greatest Image continues to frustrate, and this yr Carol is my nice frustration. This lovely, searing film received five nominations for the nice work of its stars, cinematographer, writer, and first-time nominee Carter Burwell, so the Picture shutout is a thriller. Whereas I can’t slam Burwell, Morricone, or Williams (who gave us what may be his last masterpiece with “Rey’s Theme”), a number of less-known names produced the greatest scores of the yr for my part: veteran Harry Gregson-Williams (The Martian) and newcomers Michael Brook (Brooklyn) and Stephen Rennicks (Room) created work that has lodged in my mind and never left. Most damningly of all, for the second yr in a row, regardless of two films particularly that made numerous money and have been essential successes, no POC appearing nominees and very few in the technical categories. So three massive questions, Alex: What have been your private peeves beyond Revenant love? What nominations aside from George Miller & Co. made you the happiest? And how do you are feeling about Sam Smith, Woman Gaga, AND The Weeknd gracing the Kodak Stage? My largest disappointment outdoors of The Revenant main the nominations despite being complete crap is the continued lack of variety among the nominees. Two years in a row and not using a individual of colour nominated for appearing doesn’t sound awful at first blush. Then the realization that meaning 40 slots over those two years went to white actors. That’s flabbergasting and damning. The film critic Sam Adams tweeted that the Academy only nominating white forged and crew from Straight Outta Compton and Creed is “like a criminal asking to be caught.” It’s in all probability not acutely aware racism, homophobia, or sexism, but these snubs transparently mirror an unconscious bias in the direction of the straight white male hegemony in Hollywood. Straight Outta Compton was a crucial and in style success however acquired one measly nomination. I do assume it goes past just the Academy voters, although. Most movie critics (including us) are straight white men. Many Oscar prognosticators and the business strategists they work with are additionally straight white males. From top-to-bottom, the Oscar food chain is built upon individuals like us. Many are open-minded and considerate, in fact, however it’s referred to as an unconscious bias for a cause. Perhaps it should take a generational change to see this sample break down? I’m unsure. I simply hope the tide turns sooner slightly than later. As to what else I appreciated, there weren’t really many down-ballot surprises or delights for me. The performances of Fury Street and Spotlight have been gratifying, but in addition expected. Perhaps it’s simply dangerous luck, but I used to be left comparatively unimpressed by lots of the late-breaking movies I saw. The Huge Brief is sweet, nevertheless it’s not a film I’m emotionally hooked up to. Bridge of Spies is sweet in every respect, but is the very antithesis of a ardour decide. The Hateful Eight is a hard film to determine, much much less adore. The Revenant is, as we’ve made clear, a useless sack of crap. Guess I should have listened to you and Travis and seen Room and Star Wars by now? As to your final query, I have no response to any of those issues besides slight befuddlement. I discovered way back that Greatest Unique Music is the blackest sheep in the Academy Awards and will only be thought of once we need lols. There are none this yr. So we should look to the superb previous. Close us out, Andrew, after which wave like Joni in your approach out. This yr was my favorite yr for films in a few decade and the Oscars reflects that: I used to be irritated by half of final yr’s slate but this yr gave me a plethora of flicks I liked and am so completely happy the Academy recognized. My comments on Unique Music have been a little bit of a joke, however I am thrilled that the class allowed The Searching Ground and Youth to receive nominations. And I’ll see you your “Alone Yet Not Alone” and lift you the music I’m rooting for by Her Ladyship. Speaking of women, the Actress classes made me need to rise up and cheer. Not solely did the great Charlotte Rampling get her first nomination (and also you greatest consider I’ll be reviewing 45 Years when it opens here), however the slate additionally read like the next 20 years of Hollywood: veterans Cate Blanchett and Kate Winslet and newer blood Brie Larson, Saorise Ronan, Rooney Mara, and Alicia Vikander all did standout appearing that put their male counterparts to disgrace–heck, Larson gave the greatest efficiency of the yr and Vikander might have been a double nominee–and provides me lots of optimism for highly effective female voices in Hollywood. She will probably be holding another statuette in just some weeks. I really like Edward Lachman’s Super 16mm cinematography, and that I obtained to see three of the five Greatest Animated Function nominees and all of them have been terrific (Anomalisa, Inside Out, When Marnie Was There), and that Greatest Tailored Screenplay may be the first Oscar category the place I will applaud whoever wins (although a bit more for Drew Goddard’s complicated script for The Martian and Emma Donoghue adapting her own novel), and I really like that the Academy favored stories that severely criticize damaging institutions and enjoy feminism. Yes, additionally they favored Leonardo DiCaprio’s trip to the Lifeless Spotted Horse (TM Travis), however as Jason reminded us in our post-nomination conversations, movies with a lot of nods can and can strike out in the heat of competition, his example being American Hustle–I feel the Academy obtained embarrassed by their generosity as simply as I am now embarrassed by my respectable evaluation. (It’s still up on right here for many who need to see me pressure to praise it. I do know we’ll be watching the next month and a half intently earlier than popping our own champagne on February 28th, and I’m thrilled to have an Oscars with multiple movies to relish. And in conclusion, let me level out that a) regardless of how good the melody is, honoring a track that rhymes “unexpected” and “expected” annoys the crap out of me and b) go see Room and Star Wars already. Alex Bean A life-long Midwesterner, presently dwelling and working in Chicago. Primarily writes here about tv and film (which is what he accrued crushing debt to review in class), however will write about books, sports, video games, or no matter else strikes his fancy. He’s the one who thinks baseball is actually boring. 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__label__wiki	0.669531	0.669531	Review: Eden Tomorrow – Eden Never Again March 1, 2019 Collin Sparling When I initially saw Soulpix’s Eden Tomorrow, I was excited to find a story-driven sci-fi adventure that I could immerse myself in. It seemed to be full of visually interesting set pieces, peaking my curiosity about the story that wove them together. Once I got the game I was excited to fire up my PSVR headset and lose myself in another world. That excitement quickly declined after the first hour when I realized I’d be doing absolutely nothing interesting gameplay-wise for the entirety of the game. Eden Tomorrow begins with you as an unnamed protagonist crash landing on an alien planet. After nearly getting eaten by a dragon-like creature, you pull yourself out of your wrecked space pod with the help of your drone friend Newton, who almost looks like a rip off of the Ghost from Bungie’s Destiny but without any of the personality. Realizing you’re stuck in a cave, Newton suggests that he may be able to fly around the cave and find a way to escape. He then installs a chip in your head which gives you full control over him at the press of a button. Charge my shockwave! As Newton, you can fly around freely within a limited range of your character. Newton’s key ability is his shockwave, which can be used to move debris and stun specific enemies. Once you find the exit to the cave, Newton says that his shockwave isn’t powerful enough to move the debris out of the way. You must then find three blue energy cores strewn throughout the immediate area to charge his shockwave, making it powerful enough to blow away the debris. I need a tetanus shot. And that’s the gist of the gameplay in Eden Tomorrow: Walking to your next destination while Newton force feeds you the narrative. If you can’t progress, you switch to Newton until you open the path, then switch back and keep walking. During action scenes, there was never a sense of danger or consequence. If you “die,” you’re simply loaded back seconds before your fatal mistake. You’re even put in a literal “safe space” in the form of a forcefield while controlling Newton. It’s worth noting that Eden Tomorrow is only compatible with DualShock 4. It wasn’t indicated whether there was PlayStation Move or Aim support in the game’s description, so I tried each and neither seemed to work in-game. Not supporting the Move controllers is a disappointing choice, because it could have been an easy way for Soulpix to make the gameplay more engaging. One of the first things you’ll notice after putting on your headset is that the game is very dark in certain areas. Even after turning up the brightness, there were points where it was difficult see almost anything at all. It even ruined some of the more visually stunning areas. This was one of the more beautiful shots in the game, but it’s so dark you can barely see it. Welcome to Sci-Fi Land! Story-wise, you play an amnesiac who must piece his past back together while discovering what happened to the people that populated a desolate alien planet. The story itself is certainly the centerpiece of Eden Tomorrow, as it should be for a game of its genre. It’s far from the most original as far as sci-fi goes, with some strong inspiration from the likes of Blade Runner and Event Horizon. There was one point where a twist from Annihilation is straight up recycled. The sentient AI trope is here too. Soulpix sets up the basis for an interesting story, but I never found myself truly invested even during the most revelatory moments. And that’s mostly due to Newton. At times, Newton made me feel like I was taking a guided tour of some “Sci-Fi World Adventure” attraction at a generic amusement park. Newton would even shout “Look behind you!” when you were being chased by a monster or the path you were running on was crumbling away. Newton talks as if periods don’t exist, speaking almost exclusively in run-ons. When listening, it sounds like the voice lines were just smashed into each other with no gaps in between during editing. After any sort of story event happens, Newton leaves you no time to digest it before he hits you over the head with an explanation. The narrative isn’t the most complex in the world, so having everything over-explained comes across as disrespectful to the player. At least you get to see some dinosaurs. The narrative itself could have easily been told through the environments, the various items and journals you pick up, and the audio logs you listen to during your journey. With the exception of a few details that needed more context, Newton’s explanations just felt unnecessary. I would have liked to have seen him as a companion that experienced the emotion of the story’s events along with you. This would have put more impact behind Eden Tomorrow’s more introspective themes. What first attracted me to this game were the interesting areas you get to explore, and the game rarely delivers. Most of the time, you’ll be seeing a whole lot of sand and rock textures, every once in a while changing it up with bland spaceship interiors. I was waiting for something to wow me, leaving me with a sense of awe, but what you see in the trailer for Eden Tomorrow sums up what you get. And even the set pieces from the trailer are only impressive for a fleeting moment before you return to the repetitive gameplay. I’ll admit, I’m a sucker for sunsets. Otherworldly Creatures and Cinematic Music Usually when you think “alien planet,” you think otherworldly creatures, and Eden Tomorrow delivers on that aspect. To my memory, I ran into seven different species of creature throughout the experience, with one of them being reused at several points. You’ll see dragon-like creatures chasing you down, while other times you’ll run among long-neck alien dinosaurs. The inhabitants of this planet are fun to look at albeit stiff and almost animatronic in their animations, which can be off-putting at times. Your main enemies, however, are flocks of evil drones controlled by a sentient AI. They look identical to Newton, but with a color swap. I understand that this makes sense for story reasons, but being chased by drones and dragons almost the entirety of the game only adds to the sense of repetition. What I didn’t expect and is one of the standout parts of this game is the quality of the music. The orchestral pieces included are cinematic in nature and sound like a ton of effort was put into their compositions, which is ironic given its juxtaposition to the gameplay. If anything, it only makes the rough gameplay stick out like a sore thumb even more. Is it really sci-fi without baby pods? A Disappointing Experience Eden Tomorrow feels like a new developer’s first outing. The gameplay is basic, repetitive, and just plain boring. The narrative would be solid, were it not shoved in your face by your flying robot companion. Aside from the music, I found myself almost completely uninvested in the game past the first hour or so. Even the occasional towering visual set piece wasn’t enough to elevate the experience. And with so many deeper, more involved experiences on the PSVR platform, Eden Tomorrow feels like a step back. Collin reviewed Eden Tomorrow on PS4 with a code provided by the publisher. Tags: Eden Tomorrow, Playstation 4, ps4, PSVR, Soulpix, Virtual Reality, VR Previous post: March 1, 2019 Review: Will: A Wonderful World – Attempting to Wield the Power of a Deity Next post: March 2, 2019 Saturday Spotlight: Mirages of the Ol’ West About Collin Sparling When Collin isn't talking about working at a brewery in Seattle or worrying about grad school, he's throwing more games on to his backlog and looking at headphone equipment that's too expensive. 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__label__wiki	0.516461	0.516461	Hymnody Third verse 'O God beyond all praising' chonak March 2016 Well, as you know, the tune is hugely popular in England with the patriotic text "I vow to thee my country" -- perhaps even more prominent than The Planets -- and the combination got a worldwide publicity boost in 1981 at the royal wedding. In 1982 Perry wrote the religious text for it. Thanked by 1Brian Michael Page Annabel March 2016 pace Chonak (who doubtless understands), Spring Rice's patriotic text was already a religious text also - after all, he called it "Urbs Dei or The Two Fatherlands". For a certain demographic, THAXTED is probably best known as the tune for "The World in Union". (A hearty type described "I vow to thee, my country" as "the rugby song" when it - rather than "Abide with me" or "O valiant hearts" - was the recessional at a requiem I attended a few weeks ago for an old soldier's anniversary.) Liam March 2016 Rather, the tune's popularity in the English-speaking world has to do with the text ("I Vow to Thee, My Country") penned by the British ambassador to the USA during World War I, and for which Holst adapted that melody in 1921 (The Planets was written during that war, but didn't premiere until September 1918). It became a national hymn for the British in the way The Battle Hymn of The Republic did for the Union in the generations after the Civil War. The text is an interesting thing, given how it embraces, and then transcends, national piety. Thanked by 1Jahaza a_f_hawkins March 2016 Poking round the web, I find he was inspired by the ancient motto of the Spring family "Non mihi sed Patriae" melofluent March 2016 I respectfully disagree, Francis and Chuck. Cosmologies concur IMO. From a Remembrance Day service: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0nBGdwOYUI When Elizabeth II passes from this mortal plane, "I Vow To Thee My Country" will cause a lot of people around the world to tear up as they sing it. Thanked by 2Spriggo canadash hymndescants.org March 2016 The popularity is not that it came from The Planets which relatively few have heard. If it has an impetus it probably comes from its use in recent English state ceremonies (Diana's funeral, for example).... and the fact that despite it's unsingable tessitura, it is majestic. 'The flower of earthly splendor' is actually a rather nice verse, and I for one am glad that Proulx requested it. Perryw July 2018 A revision to the “second” verse I suggested above to give it a more doxological feel more consistent with the original two verses: For at the cross of Jesus we see your love displayed, As there he suffered for us, our sins upon him laid. And three days later rising, he triumphed o’er the grave, That we may know, rejoicing, your mighty power to save - To know of your forgiveness, to know your boundless grace, And give us hope in darkness that we will see your face. Gamba July 2018 There is a versification of the Te Deum to this tune by the Lutheran pastor Steven Starke (b. 1956), and included in the most recent hymnal of the Missouri Synod. For me, it knocks the socks off “God, we praise you, God we bless you...”, with its stream-of-consciousness cataloguing. We praise You and acknowledge You, O God, to be the Lord, The Father everlasting, by all the earth adored. To You all angel powers cry aloud, the heavens sing, the cherubim and seraphim their praises to You bring: "O holy, holy, holy Lord God of Sabaoth; Your majesty and glory fill the heavens and the earth!" The band of the apostles in glory sing Your praise; the fellowship of prophets their deathless voices raise. The martyrs of Your kingdom, a great and noble throng, sing with the holy Church throughout all the world this song: "O all-majestic Father, Your true and only Son, and Holy Spirit, Comforter -- forever Three in One!" You, Christ, are King of glory, the everlasting Son, yet You, with boundless love, sought to rescue everyone: You laid aside Your glory, were born of virgin's womb, were crucified for us and were placed into a tomb; then by Your resurrection You won for us reprieve -- You opened heaven's kingdom to all who would believe. You sit in splendid glory, enthroned at God's right hand, upholding earth and heaven by forces You command. We know that You will come as our Judge that final day, so help Your servants You have redeemed by blood, we pray; may we with saints be numbered where praises never end, in glory everlasting. Amen, O Lord, amen! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d51Mym0Mq6c Thanked by 4toddevoss M. Jackson Osborn CHGiffen kevinf kevinf July 2018 My pastor is a Brit and when I first suggested alternate words to "Thaxted", he was shocked that there were other words and said he could not let go of his British heritage. So, we have not sung it. But right before summer started, he made a passing reference to it and said it was okay to find a text. The one that Gamba appropriated above might just fill the bill. toddevoss July 2018 Gamba - that is a terrific Te Deum if only a paraphrase. Could be used as a hymn. As a former Lutheran I am very proud of my old denomination on this one. Thanked by 1Gamba And the singing in the recording I linked to on YouTube, from a Lutheran youth conference in 2014, puts most any Catholic youth event to shame. Thanked by 3M. Jackson Osborn CHGiffen toddevoss M. Jackson Osborn July 2018 Amen, and amen! Catholics CAN, of course, sing like that. (If only they WOULD.) Singing is believing! Believing is singing! (And, no, that's not to deny the value of silence and attentiveness to that 'still, small voice'. There is a time and a place for both.) Thanked by 3CHGiffen toddevoss Carol Chris Garton-Zavesky July 2018 Jackson, Catholics shouldn't sing like Lutherans. Rather they should sing like joyous (or sorrowful) Catholics. Music is in the soul, and those who disdain the importance of music (to paraphrase someone) don't belong in positions of authority. Imagine if Catholics sang like Anglicans, and broke out in 4-part harmony at every opportunity! Imagine if Catholics sang like ….. (oh, wait, that would be a different post). In all seriousness, though, I don't think we can or should try to learn from those who lack the fullness of the faith on matters which impinge on the faith. Chris - I shall (with a parcel of begrudgment) grant you your point about singing like Catholics - except that the singing of too many Catholics can hardly be styled 'singing' at all. One has to sing, really sing, to sing like a Catholic. For there to be an objectively Catholic manner of singing for Catholics to sing like (and it's highly debatable whether or not there is) Catholics first need to sing - really sing - like the good people at St Basil's Chapel, UST, Houston, did this morning. (They sang well 'Iste confessor', 'Wareham', and 'Duke Street' from 'Worship IV', in addition to the Belmont mass and a chant-like responsory which i improvised for them.) There is nothing, absolutely nothing so beautiful and inspiring than to hear a congregation really and heartily singing about something in which they truly believe. Further - If you were to be taken as correct in your last assertion (which you shouldn't be), then we should stop (right now, this very day) singing any German chorales, any English hymnody, any song at all that didn't flow from a Roman Catholic pen - and we would need to establish Hymn Police to see that we didn't. Argghhh! How much the poorer of inherently Catholic praise and sentiment would our Catholic singing be! No more 'Thaxted' to rake over the coals, and no more potent 'Te Deum' translations to go with it. No matter its literary and theological merit or its content, down with it all if it wasn't written by an actual 'bona fide' Roman Catholic. Oh! How great would be our loss that Johann Cruger, Paul Gerhardt, Johann Franck, and R Vaughan Williams, Herbert Howells, and Benjamin Britten (not to mention the Eastern schismatics, St John Damascene et al.) would be on the Index, 'verboten,' whilst Marty Haugen and GIA 'favoriti' get a free pass. What a cruel, cruel irony, a dumbfounding paradox. Let me try to be more precise. No one attending a Catholic Mass can really participate in that Mass who lacks the grace of baptism, for properly termed participation isn't external first at all, but interior (not internal). There is, I submit, a Catholic manner of singing, which doesn't depend on natural ability, training or snobbery, but on the condition of the soul. St. Paul used his considerable knowledge of the law, skill as an orator and ability to hold coats to persecute the Church until his conversion. God didn't abolish the skill Saul had developed while still outside the Church, but harnessed it for the advancing of His Divine Will in time. God grants even to non-Catholic the skills He invites them to turn toward His designs, and so Bach can produce great works of music which, in some manner, bring honor and glory to the God Who is the origin of the skills in the first place. To your point about being written by an actual 'bona fide' Roman Catholic, would music by Fr. John Foley S.J. or Fr. James Martin S.J. (if he has written any) be better than, say, the music of Ralph Vaughn-Williams or Sir Charles Parry.... evidently not, but the grounds for excluding the music of these four would not be identical. Whilst I am much enlightened as to your thought and in agreement with the tenor of your reply, it is difficult to determine whether Bach is being 'damned with faint praise' or the opposite. Still, it isn't seemly, I think, for us to banter any further on this vexatious topic; though I do cringe at the sum of your last paragraph. No. I could not remain silent if the music of Vaughan Williams or Parry was banned on the grounds that it (or they) was not Roman Catholic. Nor do I think that I am the only Catholic who would not remain silent. (Chonak! the italics and other options are not working on this thread. Can that be fixed?) There is much ground to cover in the topic, and I consider that it would be valuable to cover it, but perhaps that is another thread. Here's one example of why. Thomas Day excoriated the "Voice of God" hymns which so populate the music of the Ordo of Paul VI, yet the Introit for Easter Day, "Resurrexi" is clearly a first-person narrative. Why is the one appropriate and the other, (say, "And He Will Raise you up on the last day") execrably not so? melofluent July 2018 "...whilst Marty Haugen and GIA 'favoriti' get a free pass." Church of Christ member Haugen hardly gets a pass here and elsewhere, Jackson. Theoretically he would be consigned to the non-RC dustbin, n'est pas? Thanked by 1M. Jackson Osborn Carol July 2018 Wait, are you saying Marty Haugen isn't Catholic? Never has been, Carol. I'm not "saying" it, it just is. Thanked by 1Carol CharlesW July 2018 "Wait, are you saying Marty Haugen isn't Catholic?" (quotes feature not working) I'm not always sure he's even Christian. Liam July 2018 Well, he was at least baptized. From the Catholic Church's perspective, it's a roach motel in that regard. One might be a bad Christian, but becoming a non-Christian is very difficult in the Catholic perspective - the notion is more of a Protestant one. Thanked by 1CharlesW My understanding is that he was Lutheran - ELCA, if I remember correctly. Then he moved to the United Church of Christ, likely the most liberal church in the country. Thanked by 1Liam He is what my husband calls a "singer-songwriter." hymndescants.org October 2018 Is the subject still THAXTED? Free third verse. https://hymndescants.org/thaxted	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1269
__label__wiki	0.786955	0.786955	Season 12 (Final Season) [Spoilers] Season 12 Discussion Thread By Tensor, July 6, 2018 in Season 12 (Final Season) bfm 13,080 "It'll last forever" 7 hours ago, joyceraye said: So Americans call a pillow a pillow and a certain type of cushion a pillow. Snap is called twins. That's my most recent lesson in the learning of the American language. I've mostly picked it up from TV and radio over the internet. I know they call braces suspenders and suspenders garters. I don't yet know what they call garters. They call a brace on the teeth braces but a brace on the back a supporter. They call a supporter a fan. They call a lorry a truck and they call a truck a boxcar. They call a fruit stone a pit and a pit a pit. They call a cinema a theater and a theatre a theater. They call an estate car a van or minivan and they call a van a van. They call a TV series a season. They call the last episode in a series a season finale and a finale a curtain call and curtains drapes. They call a handbag a purse and a purse a wallet and a wallet a wallet. They call a waistcoat a vest. I don't know what they call a vest. They call trousers pants and pants underwear. I don't yet know what they call underwear. I know they call blouses and T-shirts shirts and shirts shirts. I've noticed they call their language English. Well, now I've learned some things about UK English haha Not an American but we are taught American English and almost everything I watch (in English) is American, so that's what I know. I am always puzzled by the use of "wallet" to describe a small purse though... In Hebrew the word for wallet is only used to describe the thing you put money and cards in. In most other cases there's just one word for both UK and US words (e.g. "Carit" means pillow/cushion, no other word for that). Sah 4,187 Senior Executive Member You always make me smile with your posts joyceraye ! This one was no exception. vonmar 37,938 Chief Executive Member joyceraye 6,398 12 hours ago, 3ku11 said: We call it a Season in NZ too. We also call Dinner "Tea". If it's the meal you eat at home in the early evening after work, in the parts of England and Wales where I come from it's called 'tea' too, whether or not it's cooked. A cooked evening meal is called 'dinner' when it's a bit later but too early to be called supper, and something of special occasion, or eaten out. Schools in our area call the midday meal 'dinner' unless it's packed and brought from home, in which case it's called 'lunch'. When we meet people for a midday meal out we call that 'lunch' too. Because the terminology varies with the region of the country and to some extent with age and social class,hotels and holiday boarding houses advertise 'BB and EM' (Bed, breakfast and evening meal) or 'BB and ED' ( Bed, breakfast and evening dinner) so as to make it clear, and adverts and menus for 'lunch' usually specify the time it's served. The stuff the TBBT crowd eat we just call a 'take-away' unless it's fish and chips or pizza, in which case we call it 'chips' or pizza, regardless of time or place. We don't go out specifically for ice cream because inland towns don't tend to have that sort of shop. hokie3457 14,276 Peanut Gallery Member 15 minutes ago, joyceraye said: Fascinating!!! What about elevenses??? Zephon75 1,453 4 minutes ago, hokie3457 said: I think elevenses is a drink and a light snack, so i suppose in America it could be what they call brunch, but i don't know as i have never had elevenses TBBT78 886 This might help https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevenses luminous 41,094 Neck.Shot.Lime Tensor 31,565 Ratings Guru From Mark Sweet, audience warm up, and overall nice guy. From TV Line Big Bang Theory Retrospective to Air May 16 Following Series Finale CBS is getting more bang out of its Big Bang Theory goodbye buck, slotting a 30-minute retrospective to air the same night as the sitcom’s series finale. Titled Unraveling the Mystery: A Big Bang Farewell, the special — hosted by series stars Johnny Galecki and Kaley Cuoco — will air Thursday, May 16 at 9:30 pm following the one-hour Big Bang closer (8-9 pm) and the Young Sheldon Season 2 finale (9-9:30 pm). Per CBS, Galecki and Cuoco will “lead fans on a trip down memory lane, sharing some of the best-kept backstage secrets and personal memories from the past 12 years. They will reveal their favorite moments playing beloved characters Leonard and Penny, and revisit some of the most memorable stories from “The Big Bang Theory Stage.” In addition, the special will feature a tour of the iconic sets, including Leonard and Sheldon’s apartment” as well as “unforgettable clips and interviews.” As previously reported, the Big Bang cast will also appear on Late Show With Stephen Colbert on May 16. News of the retrospective special comes one day before the Big Bang Theory cast tapes the show’s final episode. Die Zimtzicke 4,227 1 minute ago, vonmar said: This is probably what they were referring to earlier when they were talking about something special. 6 minutes ago, vonmar said: Interesting, however, I am curious as to why it's Johnny & Kaley, I mean if Sheldon is supposedly the most popular character on the show, shouldn't it be Jim instead ? or Jim & Mayim?. 18 minutes ago, vonmar said: MTBigBangTheoryFan 2,860 Looking forward to that. I think it should air before the finale tohugh 16 minutes ago, Zephon75 said: I get the feeling Jim Parsons is completely over having anything to do with the Big Bang Theory. I don't think he wants to do anything extra. He is the only one who does not appear to he affected by the show ending. 3 minutes ago, Sah said: I don't blame him really. I think he want to get away from Sheldon and it can't come soon enough shell 440 Just now, Sah said: I have a feeling he's very busy-- being a producer..'Special' on Netflix-- others in production...starring in Boys in the Band...he's ready to move on.. I read he has a lot of things lined up... where as the rest of the cast aren't too sure yet where they're going to proceed.. During the course of Season 12 Jim has participated in about 99% of BBT related events. Interviews, photo shoots, press days, award shows, talk show appearances, etc. 8 minutes ago, MTBigBangTheoryFan said: Yep...I think so too. It makes me sad in a way. I wish he would post some sort of flash back picture or something, anything that shows some sort of feelings...but what are you going to do? 10 minutes ago, shell said: I read he has a lot of things lined up... where as the rest of the cast aren't too sure yet where they're going to proceed.. Johnny has one sale to CBS, and two other series in development (due to shoot next year). He also has guest appearances on The Conners lined up. Kaley's production company will produce The Flight Attendant and Harley Quinn. She will also star in the former, and voices the latter. He's a pretty private guy... 5 minutes ago, shell said: It doesn't have to be personal. Perhaps post a picture that has not been seen before...dressing room door being closed in finality. An empty Shamy apartment picture. I am easy to please. Any thing that has to do with the show. These are not overly personal.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1270
__label__wiki	0.585082	0.585082	id Software co-founder criticizes Apple stance on iPhone games Posted: November 21, 2007 5:28PM Apple has made "horrible decisions" when it comes to third-party iPod game development and isn't very supportive of the iPhone as a gaming platform either, says id Software co-founder John Carmack, who admits butting heads with Steve Jobs over these very issues early this year. The gaming icon, responsible for titles such as the Quake series and the upcoming Rage, is known for his long vested interest in the Mac platform. This past June, he joined Jobs on stage at the company's annual developer conference to renew his studio's commitment to the platform, announcing plans to release Rage for the Mac alongside versions for Windows and game consoles. Carmack, in a recent interview with GameDaily, also claims to be open to bringing some of his future titles to the iPod and iPhone. However, Apple's less than ideal iPod programming tools and reluctance to allow any iPhone development until the announcement of a native development kit for February have made writing games impractical for either platform, according to the game programmer.. "The honest truth right now is that Apple's not exactly hugely supportive of [games for the iPhone]," Carmack says. "When they finally allowed games to be put on the iPod... in many ways it's one of the worst environments to develop games for. You have to work on an emulator... just all these horrible decisions." He also holds little hope that Apple will improve its resources for developers in the future. Carmack provides more details of a heated debate he and Jobs held while at August's developer conference, noting that Jobs at the time defended his company's limitation of third-party apps to the web under the pretext of security. There have since been follow-up sessions where Apple has been briefed on what Carmack considers "mistakes" in iPod development that should be avoided with the iPhone. Nonetheless, there aren't "any spectacular signs" that these concerns will influence Apple in the next year, he says. Apple's seeming indifference to id Software and gaming mirrors the experience of Valve Software. The Half-Life 2 producer's co-founder, Gabe Newell, has recently recounted a cycle of neglect from Apple as the latter firm routinely agrees to listen to requests by Valve only to take no action and reportedly act as though it had never spoken before about the matter. In spite of this pattern in Apple's approach to games as a whole, Carmack confesses that Apple has no reason to pay attention to his particular company's needs, as the current iPhone feature set is already appealing to many of Apple's customers. "[Apple's] strategy seems to be working just fine from a business standpoint, so I'm not going to second guess them and tell them they're being fools or idiots for not focusing on this," the developer admits. solipsism Posts: 25,726member As a non-gamer I have to say "Waaah!" mitch1984 Posts: 55member It's to stop people getting hands on d kits and hacking iPod's & iPhones I guess, The public have already proven they can't be trusted with all the unlocking that's going on. mdriftmeyer Posts: 7,280member Carmack running out of subsidy money on his failing space venture? If the man can't wait until February that's his problem. Somehow a self-taught programmer thinks Jobs actually gives a shit about his influence one way or another. John sure has an ego the size of the Solar System. waytogobuddy Posts: 205member he's right. on both calls. Apple sucks games. Apple has no reason to change that. nagromme Posts: 2,834member Apple's "not supportive" because the tools aren't ready NOW? It's a brand-new platform. The tools are coming. And Apple has said when. As for the iPod--which iPod? A game for one would not work on another. The Touch tools are coming. The wheel iPods have come in a zillion flavors (the recent ones of which do have games) but none of them are the future. No need to bemoan a lack of tools for a disappearing platform, when tools are on the way for a much better one. ireland Posts: 17,614member I applaud this guy for speaking up, Jobs and Co. make some good products, but sometimes they have way too much wax in their ears. macfandave Posts: 603member Yeah, it's really too bad that I won't have constant access to ultraviolent fantasies. I can't have blood, guts and gore while I'm sitting on the crapper at work. I guess the iPhone sucks in that way. I'd like to see Carmack come out with a game where scoring is based on hands held, hugs given and verses of Kumbayah belted out! greenvitruvius Posts: 1member While I understand ID's desire to spread the gaming market for themselves and others, I really don't understand why Apple hasn't tried harder to appeal to a larger base of user. I'm a recent Mac Convert, and while I love my MacBookPro, I've been really unsatisfied with the range of games. I've only recently switched to Mac because I've become so tired of hardware failures with my past Windows Machines and the lack or true customer service. Unfortunately it seems like Mac is becoming, or maybe has been before, a company more concerned with only a few small NEW endeavors, and isn't as concerned with the follow-up. It seems to take a very large push from disgruntled clients to really grab Mr. Job's attention. It's really hard to know where they stand, honoring their products and the people who use them, or profiteering and forgetting about where that money came from. The only reason I say this, is because one day they are bringing out the best invention since sliced bread.... then they betray their users who are honoring the spirit of innovation and trying to open new ways of using products like the iPhone by deliberately sabotaging them because it might hurt their kick back money from a Monopoly deal. Well, I guess I'll just put it this way. It makes it hard for me to invest more of my soul into a company that seems to become more morally suspect, the more I look into it. This I think is most recently evident, by the way Apple just eliminated their Authorized Business Agent program. Frankly, I find it truly heartless to end it in a way like that. Wouldn't it make more sense to simply, stop issuing new licenses for the ABA program and let it fade out. I can't imagine that http://www.firsttech.com/, in my home town of Minneapolis, MN is really giving Apple retail stores a run for their money. But what they have done, is raise awareness of Mac made products for the last 30 years. (by the way I'll honestly say I think first tech is affected by this decision, but I can't be sure). Well, it's getting late around here, and I'm sure you've all read just about enough of me. HAve a great night and Happy Turkey Weekend! (Probably not for the turkey's though) -GreenV gon Posts: 2,437member Originally Posted by nagromme It has been six years since the first iPod. Each individual iPod model has sold millions to sum up to 120m total sold iPods. BAD EXCUSES ARE BAD. If a timely API offering is too much to ask, which it isn't, they could have opened up these devices, just thrown some internal code and docs out there with the toolchain, access to the device filesystem and full factory restore, and someone would have found a way to get results with them. APIs, preliminary and frozen, can follow at the pace they become ready. I'd certainly have welcomed an outline viewer on an iPod, among other things. Apple doesn't care about 3rd party development on its handheld devices. Never has. Maybe in three months we'll see the first extended hand from them - or then we'll see a bunch of anemic widgets that a code signing treadmill makes inaccessible to all but the most wealthy developer. pomo Posts: 51member To my understanding, Apple is trying to sell products that fit to our digital lifestyle. We have music, digital picures, the web, and movies. I do understand that gamers should stick to their gaming systems, but I do feel that gaming plays a big role in the "Digital Lifestyle." I bet that many game developers are bummed out because the iPhone is like the coolest mobile gaming (hopefuly soon to be) platform. Screw the PSP or the DS. Imagine a multitouch game library that is stored right on the device instead of carrying cartidges or discs. That, my friend, would be awesome. indecisive pc user Posts: 73member Nice one - that comment certainly made my morning a lot more pleasurable! nanoakron Posts: 122member How early do I have to get up to beat all of the Apple apologists into the room? Apple's failure to support games on one of the most-hyped and coolest handhelds to date - especially when they're approached by a company of iD Software's talents - is staggering. Any the general ambivalence on this board is just shocking. If you really liked Apple, and wanted to see them achieve greater market penetration, I'd've thought this would be a match made in heaven. Possibly even taking them to a level to rival Nintendo's hand-held division. Imagine sitting on a train home and firing up the handheld version of WoW, or multi-player Quake/Half-Life/AoE/EVE/Sims/whatever! But no....'I'm not a gamer so I don't care' said one of the early posters. Brilliant. Well done you. That approach was described in Aesop's fables - the dog in the manger - as pure selfishness. Fanbois are really starting to change my opinions of the Apple community. And not in a good way. ak1808 Posts: 108member I have the feeling Apple just doesn't "get" games. Yes, showing off HD pictures from your last holiday is great - if you can afford regular exciting holidays. For the masses, a good fantasy game is their holiday, and they have every right to have that "digital lifestyle" supported on the hippest device around. Apple is being snobbish about the whole music/pictures/movies thing. As if games couldn't be art, too. wessan Posts: 37member Well, I think Carmack is right when about the fact that Apple is doing fine without game or 3rd party support. But what I really hate about Apple is that it does not care about developers much. All the problems around closing KHTML code in Safari and breaking the licence, no word about Java 1.6 and no 3rd party for iPhone. It seems like Apple would like to be the only writing the native apps for their platform and everyone else to develop webapps. I really hate agorance of Apple, unfortunately they are the ones who have the best OS on the market. Yesterday I tryied playing with Google's Android and the platform seems pretty promising. Development is peace of cake with all the 3D/media/maps/webkit/others APIs. Developers can use Java IDEs that are much more advanced that for any other language (IntelliJ IDEA is my favorite) and applications are secure because of "language level security". I think this is way to go and I believe Apple made another big mistake that will cost it a lot of potential market. cleverboy Posts: 84member This is funny and sad. It's funny, beause Steve Jobs is a chess player. He's constantly weighing odds, even while the market is interactively trying to second-guess him. Like Gates said at the D conference, both of them have been around long enough to see the peeks and vallies of things, and they know what they want to focus on to be successful not JUST in the short-term, bt in the long term. When you ADD features to something, you ADD expectations. That's why the mainstream hacking of theiPhone has been so disasterous for Apple on the PR front. People were adding expectations to a product and subsequently getting MAD at Apple for no supporting these new expectations! Gizmodo rated the iPhone as "wait" initially. Then, on the eve of rating it a rabid "BUY!" Apple released an update that sent Brian Lam into an AppTap deprivation induced rage. --All while Apple worked towards improving security and adding functionality to the device. Meanwhile, Apple is working to launch games, but in a way Apple feels will benefit the large majority of its customers. Moreover, Apple is looking to release the type of games that cater to the type of customer Apple sees as the mass-market... the "casual gamer". If the iPhone gets a rep as a "hardcore shoot-em up" device, it radically changes the image of prestige and branding Jobs wants. Recently, in his position on Disney's board of directors (and largest stockholder in the house of mouse), Jobs expressed his opinion that Disney needs to stop doing its direct-to-video sequels of its famous pictures. Like Alladin 2 or Alladin 3... or Lion King 2 1/2, etc. In his estimation, while these sell well, they are gradually eroding the brand. --And guess what? He's totally right! Churning out otherwise decent films as direct-to-video instead of "feature presentations" does indeed erode each of these brands. Its the same reason some movie stars are reticent to appear on televsion or "the small screen", unless they're willfully attempting to re-align their careers or making a fan-tittilating cameo appearance. Does anyone want to see Jerry Seinfeld on the big screen? Nope. How successful has Bill Cosby done in the theatre after the Cosby Show ended (didn't know he had any films, did you?) The jump between the mediums can be extremely taxing on the ego when it comes to public reaction. Same thing with products. Apple never says never. EVER. They just wait for the public to speak, work inuitively up to a point... then await feedback. And work on things in quiet... like the iTunes rental system. When they release it, you'd better believe they'd really worked hard to hammer out the experience as seamless. Games on the iPhone? Whenever Apple releases a new device, it seems they'd like to do the first applications, or at least chaperone them in. They don't want others defining that experience in a way the makes people acutely aware of the system's limitation, but emphasizes its strengths. --More than that? Apple is EXTREMELY tight-lipped. It's amusing that they're even tight lipped to a developer like id software. The gamer crowd is an extremely demanding audience to approach. Highly diverse, territorial, critical, and generally spoiled. While I might anxiously await their rumored Nintendo announcement that may never come... I also accept that we may never see Apple push non-casual games on its multi-touch system. We may never see Apple transform the Apple TV into a game box. We may never see Apple add DVR capabilities to the Apple TV. --Rumors come and go, but the market is always speaking, and sooner or later Apple will respond, whether or not they ever dreamed they would. The last thing Apple seems inclined to do, is to be the instigator of unreasonable, unmanageable, and unattainable expectations for its target market. ~ CB jeffdm Posts: 12,946member In some senses, it was released as a late stage beta. The veneer was good but the code infrastructure probably wasn't finished. Other companies had managed to make devices that had a good amount backward compatibility. It's not always perfect, but 95% is better than 0%. I really don't see why the Classic and current nano couldn't play 5G games. The touch screen devices are probably a very different animal, there's probably not a good way to emulate a clickwheel. Originally Posted by Mitch1984 Maybe if the devices are distributed with a clear disclaimer that the user is only leasing the unit, then that attitude would make sense. valanchan Posts: 41member The whole gaming industry is feeling the pinch now that they are developing expensive games for consoles that are not selling as well as they had hoped. Nintendo's Wii and DS are acting as spoilers to the PS3, PSP and a lesser extent the Xbox360. Developers must look at other hardware to develop for and that obviously includes the Mac and iPods. suhail Posts: 192member Soon enough Zune will start offering SDKs to developers. Then you'll find games and apps popping-up for the platform. The developers will market their apps on the internet and magazines, thus indirectly marketing the Zune platform as a product for more than just music. Zune sales will top iPod sales. Thanx to Mr. Jobs' ear wax.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1271
__label__cc	0.710257	0.289743	Services: IMDb.com Services: Data Issues & Policy Discussions Updates to User Reviews Today we are announcing changes to User Reviews as part of the broader site update announcement (https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/upcoming-changes-to-several-imdb-features-du6man1opd5q0). After in-depth discussion and examination, we have decided to simplify the features and functionality for reviews as follows: “Your Reviews” are now ordered by Date and reviews on each Title sub page are ordered by Helpfulness.We will continue to update functionality in the new year, starting by bringing back the ability to sort reviews from newest to oldest/oldest to newest. We appreciate your patience as we continue to improve the overall experience. We have removed the Index view. We updated the way that reviews with spoilers are displayed. Additionally, on our iOS and Android apps, you can now browse all reviews for a movie or show, as well as see which reviews were voted most helpful. In the next few days we’ll be updating the Review contribution experience, which will be the foundation to enabling mobile users to write and post reviews in the near future. For more information about Reviews, see the IMDbHelp Center. Karen, Employee Thanks for the feedback so far. The team is monitoring this thread, although focused on launching the new review contribution experience right now, so detailed follow-ups may be delayed. Some quick follow-ups now ... As explained on https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/upcoming-changes-to-several-imdb-features-du6man1opd5q0 this is part of an essential technology migration -- there is no option to go back. We appreciate that changes to familiar interfaces are always difficult, and there are some painful casualties in terms of feature / sorting / filtering losses. However, we need to start with a common review platform across the main web site, the mobile site and the iOS and Android apps. Once we have this, we can build a better review experience for everyone more quickly than ever, providing review features consistently and everywhere instead of only on the web interface. One change already live in the latest app versions (updates to these are rolling out now) is that all customer reviews are now available on the popular IMDb iOS and Android apps as well as the IMDb mobile site. Until this change, only a subset of reviews were available on mobile. Far from limiting the audience of your reviews, we have more than doubled the audience with this single change. This also clears the way for reviews to be written and submitted on mobile which is also a popular customer request. The new system enables us to fix a longstanding issue with reviews containing spoilers; please see https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/reviews-without-spoiler-warnings-on-overview-page For those people who think reviews have been removed from the main title pages, this is probably because you are using the old, unsupported (7+ years out of date) version of IMDb. Please go to your site settings at https://secure.imdb.com/register-imdb/siteprefs and ensure both "Always display full cast and crew credits" and "Show reference view (old title/name page layout)" are unchecked. We will shortly be making changes to the "Always display full cast and crew credits" view which will move it onto the new technology platform and will restore more direct access to the reviews. Please continue to provide feedback as this will guide us on where next to take the new system. If there is now a push to align the desktop site with the mobile app, then it devalues the desktop site. This is not always true and is something we are trying to avoid. Over on https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/update-to-list-pages we wrote this a couple of days ago: "In the meantime, do you have an iPhone or iPad? The list implementation on our iOS app is actually the best one -- Android, mobile web and the desktop web are playing catch-up with the power of iOS. One the advantages of the new changes is that they clear the path for the same powerful list experience on all platforms." The iOS app is already (IMHO) the best implementation for many other things, including: sorting & filtering filmographies; viewing showtimes; ticketing; box office; and locations. Is it possible to at least have the same format than the "ratings" page, which means that we can choose the view (grid view, detail etc. and then we can sort them chronologically or by usefulness. I just checked the '"ratings'" page and it's possible to load the titles by series of hundreds. There's no reason why that format can't be applied for reviews. Seriously, we need to be able to reach any of our reviews whenever we want. It won't solve the filtering issue though, so I'm not sure our reviews will have that much visibility. If people can't search for reviews by prolific authors, there's no chance to reach more users with that new format. Seriously, all whining put aside, was that really necessary? So I see it correctly that spell check (together with the entire preview option) is gone too now? What a bummer, right when I thought I kinda liked the new "write a review" window. This is a massive disadvantage for non-English native speakers like myself. Maybe it is indeed time to move on... IMDbmember I agree that the changes to the reviews are awful, and, as it stands now, I plan on not writing anymore reviews for IMDb. Also, I didn't see anyone else mention this, but it seems that some older reviews have had their paragraph spacing removed. Correct me if I'm wrong; granted, I'm having enough trouble navigating the new site with my mere 515 reviews (I can't imagine the horror for someone like planktonrules/Martin Hafer). I approached the 1,000 words limit on some of these reviews, and they're quite ugly as a single paragraph blob. clore I just pass by the walls of text, some of which are made even more difficult as users don't space after punctuation such as commas or close parentheses. I saw some of my own reviews were marked as containing spoilers but I usually don't go past the first 1/4 of a film. Just enough to tease someone into watching it. There's one person on the site who gives every detail right down to "The End" in every "review" - they're actually summaries, little or no critical content. bob the moo Just dropping in to add my voice to the general dismay. Good things: I like the sexy little side popup of the “add review”; it is pure cosmetic but it feels swish I like the spoilers tag and the changes to how spoiler-tagged reviews are shown Bad things Index view / view all etc of my user comments page: finding a specific comment of mine on most titles is now impossible without endless clicking. Index view made it hugely easy either with Ctrl-F, or listing all alphabetically. Sorting of title comments: I used “prolific commenters” and chronological and occasionally a few others. I really never used Helpful or Best since mostly the highest rated seemed to be those of simple thought who state popular opinion and get upvoted by the majority The loss of functionality hurts anyone who used the user comments as a tailored experience, people who enjoyed specific writers and had them bookmarked; people who wanted to see what a certain writer said about a certain title; people who used their comments as a record of opinion they could easy revisit. Instead the User Comments is set up as cluttered ball of noise and voices, with the only value of the section being that IMDb can say that users have a place to speak their mind. But this is superficial and the value of the user comments as a section for me personally is significantly reduced by giving zero flexibility to how I can access the opinions of others. The thing that strikes me the most I guess is how unsurprised I am by this. IMDb continues to move in a certain direction with a specific business focus which does not involve non-value adding elements. And as much as the user comments adds significant value to my IMDb experience, it doesn’t add value as defined by the business – hence it is gone, with the same “limits of technology” excuse rolled out...because apparently producing a list of titles in index view listed alphabetically is beyond the wit of man.... I appreciate the responses in this thread – we had a great community of individual user comment writers for many years, and it is sad to see that lost by this removal of features and functionality. note: I am not an IMDb employee, nor in any way affiliated with IMDb Elshikh4 Hello, Mr. bob. I'm a great fan of yours. I love your work, and respect your dedication, since years. You're an icon, and a role model, for all of us (I have only 1200 reviews on IMDb). Though, I have to disagree with you on one thing; this recent change has no good things whatsoever :) Really, it can't be more shocking. How come they thought that that was improvement by any mean ?? I hope, just hope, that they may reconsider. Because of our anger, and - more - because of simple reason. Best regards. Mark Grindberg Hey Bob I have read a lot of your reviews. Wish I could continue but as of this newest change I've simply given up. Theo Robertson If the worst comes to the worst Bob let us all know where you've transferred to . I'm sure I'm speaking for all of us when I say how much I;ve enjoyed your reviews over the years and your reviews are always the first I look to @Elshikh4 @Mark Grindberg @Theo Thanks for the kind words; I think over the past 15 years I have had quite a handful of messages from people saying they look for my reviews – which was really encouraging to know. I was lucky that having visibility has given me some credits on films/tv from filmmakers who checked out something I had written on their work. Ironically, it makes these changes sting more that nice little moments of community such as that are now gone. Theo will confirm that I also had many writers (such as himself) that I regularly read for the pleasure of reading their opinions, or to see their thoughts on something I just watched. The only saving grace is that when I do that now for Theo’s thoughts on the original Doctor Who episodes, there are usually only a handful of comments – so not too much scrolling. It is terribly sad to think that for any title of note, it will not be incredibly time-consuming to find a comment by a specific writer unless by chance it happens to be one they wrote very recently, or conversely to have been considered one of the most “helpful” ones. I am horrified and devastated to see that the review index and sorting features are gone. This is a very bad move, as the review index and sorting features are the fun parts of typing a review. Seeing the review having helpful likes, and looking at the review number I obtained (I know that's strange) are great motivating factors for me to contribute to this site. I noticed that the review number has disappeared from the comment approval confirmation email since a few weeks ago. I could still find the comment number from the review index, but now that is gone, and there is no way for me to find the comment number. As others have said, there is now no way to find an old review - I have contributed almost 3000 reviews. I am not clicking "load more" several hundred times to find an old review. The simplification of the review page may be easier for beginners, but it is seriously alienating the dedicated contributors. As your site has already been around for over 20 years and have a massive following, appealing to new users should not be a priority. Instead, looking after dedicated users and contributors should be the priority. This site relies on the contribution of many dedicated contributors around the world. If the dedicated contributors leave, then the dream of having a comprehensive movie database will be impossible. I strongly urge you to at least reinstate an option to bring back the review index and sorting functions. Thanks. I appreciate that you have responded to us. I think everyone knows and expects that it's a new format is a hard adjustment. Everyone knows there are usually "bugs" that need to be worked out. And, given some of the frustration and unhappiness in the world today, a "kneejerk" reaction to changes instigated by a large corporation comes from a suspicious place. Thanks for the feedback on this. One of the purposes of this thread is to gather exactly this kind of feedback from which we can build in 2018 when everything is on a unified platform. Maybe we should consider cracking the "pagination keys". I don't know. Desperate times call for desperate measures. I think it may be possible to create a third party app to slup down all the reviews and reprocess them the way any given "customer" prefers via provided customization settings. Although not a reviewer I am a regular user of IMdb. I thank all the reviewers for their time and effort and the variety of perspectives that are offered regarding film and TV Series. I use their reviews to assist in winnowing the wheat from the chaff of current film offerings. The changes to the user reviews page that I am unhappy with are as follows: 1) Reviewer star rating no longer graphical number of stars. Previously I could skim the reviews to look for low ratings to see why that reviewer thought the film was disappointing. It is often this type of outlier review that highlights overlooked aspects to the film. 2) Pagination, the set length page with navigation bar no longer available. Limits users ability to traverse reviews where there are many reviews and seek out specific times when reviews were written. 3) Although not every reviewer listed it I found the reviewer location very useful. If, for example I was interested in a foreign film from say the middle east I could determine those from that country or region to see their opinion of the film. This was very useful to discover if the film reflected the reality of the particular country of if the film was slanted against the country. Also if there existed a national, political or religious animosity on the part of the reviewer that went beyond the films content. Example some American reviewers who would trash a film made in China simply beacuse it is Chinese or Arab reviewers who would trash an American movie simply because it is made in America. Small gripes, I know, but these features were extremely useful to me when deciding which movies to invest my time and money by viewing. Could they at least have a button on the page that says something like "Revert to old style reviews page" that would take you to the old style version of the page. When youtube and yahoo mail changed they offered this option to users. Only my 2 cents worth but considering the amount I have written I should say my 50 cents worth. John Seal These boilerplate statements overlook the elephant in the room: will the functionality of user reviews be restored once all the updates/changes have been completed, or is it gone forever? If the former, wouldn't it have made more sense to hold off on releasing the updates until they're fully functional? If the latter, can you please just tell us this is the case so that we can stop wondering and hoping? If the latter, can you please just tell us this is the case so that we can stop wondering and hoping? It is the latter ... from the (updated yesterday) text at the top of this thread: "We will continue to update functionality in the new year, starting by bringing back the ability to sort reviews from newest to oldest/oldest to newest. We appreciate your patience as we continue to improve the overall experience." so, yes, the sorting functionality will return. To answer your other question If the former, wouldn't it have made more sense to hold off on releasing the updates until they're fully functional? At any other time, yes, however the systems powering over 210 features at IMDb are closing down on or before 31 December 2017. We have quite the incentive to be off them before this date, as the alternative is that anything still on the old software come 1/1 would simply cease to exist. The IMDb product and software teams have pulled off a minor miracle in already migrating / retiring / re-inventing 202 of the 210, mostly in the last 4-6 months so we have just 8 to go now and we will make it before the holidays. Igor Gligorijevic This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled How to find my own specific review. Many things on IMDb changed, but I am sorry to say that most of it made it harder and more complicated to use. Among several things I do not like, my main issue is how to access specific review of my own. So far I wrote about 500 reviews. Before I was able to go to Reviews quick link and get complete list of my reviews that I could sort in several ways, alphabetically or by date etc. When sorted alphabetically it was easy to find specific review I needed. Also, I could go to page for movie in question, click on write review, get answer that I already posted review for that movie and get options to either edit or just read old review. This second direct option is disabled now and I just get an empty box to write new review even if I already have one for that movie. And quick links review option gives me all my reviews ordered by date when they were written, so the only way to find specific one is to start from the top and scroll until I find one I need. Scrolling through 500 reviews searching for one that can be anywhere on that list is tough and complicated and I can just imagine how troublesome it is for guys with thousands of reviews. I hope this is just temporary issue cause by updating IMDb in progress, but if it is permanent change you should seriously reconsider it. Please tell me if I overlooked solution for my issue cause I really spent too much time already trying everything that came to my mind. Also, canceling sorting options for movies in My Lists was really bad idea too. Ole Jon Tveito I trust Col Needham when he says Needham has himself more than 10.000 ratings, and I'm sure he understands the needs and frustrations. I trust that the migration is a difficult one, and that the changes was badly explained. Advanced search could be better with a top choice "My ratings". To be honest, I don't care much about the new/old or old/new sorting, yes I like to have a chronological overview of work but I think what reviewers want, what's most important to them is to have the capability to get to any review immediately, in less than say three or four clicks. All right, I've been doing reviews since 2010, suppose I sort them chronologically so I can either have the 2010 at the top or the 2017 ones, what if I want to read one of my 2013 reviews? If IMDb provides a system that allows you to have a full listing of your reviews at once, then it'll be an improvement... but there's more. What's the point of allowing users to vote for helpful reviews if the reviewer can't sort his own reviews by helpfulness. Yes, we want to see the reviews that were better rated than the others, call it an "ego" thing but since we're dedicating a lot of time for something we're passionate about, don't get paid for it and don't care about not being paid for it, how about allowing us that bit of satisfaction. And how about reviewers who want to give their reviews some publicity, one who wants to apply to a movie-related job and provides the link to his reviews or one who just wants to show his writing skills, this new format doesn't help at all. It all comes down to a simple thing: we write reviews so that anyone can be read by anyone and that means us too, IMDb's previous format was the best, whatever changes they make now, it'll never be like it used to be, because you can't guarantee that every review you wrote can be found and read, so what I'm doing right now is protecting my work, for all it's worth. Maybe migrating it is useless because it's just a matter of time before Letterboxd comes up with similar "updates" but I also copy paste them on Word files, I thought IMDb was the safest place to put my reviews (I really trusted it since I never copy-pasted any review before) but I was wrong. There's no alternate scenario: the only way to make any review accessible is to get back to the old format, and that will never happen. It all comes down to a simple thing: we write reviews so that anyone can be read by anyone and that means us too We have heard the feedback in this thread, and as explained already, we will be adding sorting options in the New Year for both readers and authors. We agree it is important that people can access all reviews easily and we will look at the issues with navigation. However, from our earlier official reply to this thread, you may have missed this point: One of the big problems with the old system was that your reviews simply could not be read by everyone until this week. Thanks for the reply, I guess I'm too conservative... sorry, I registered in 2004 and I got used to using the desktop for 95% of my IMDb activity. I can't stand these new changes... or let's just say: were they really incompatible with the old format? To be honest, I never felt that my reviews had a limited audience because they were less available via the mobile medium, and I don't know how their audience can double if you can only sort the reviews in order of helpfulness, the oldest ones are the most likely to be at the top, unless you write the review of a new movie at the very time of its release, but we reviewers review old movies as well. And supposing our reviews have a bigger audience, so far there's no way to know it, you have to sort your reviews chronologically and check at the end of each one how many users found it useful, one by one... can you imagine? In the old system, you sorted your reviews by helpfulness and could find which ones were rated or not with the "show summaries" and we could all tell when a movie was "upgraded" because it would always affect the order in the listing and it would show at the top of some specific pages. Anyway, in less than 20 seconds, you could see if there was some new ratings of helpfulness or not. I had my "reviews" page on my mobile and any time of the day, I could do a little check-up. But now, whenever I get to my reviews' page, I find the oldest reviews I wrote and it's perhaps the order I'm least interested in. Maybe the new features are more interesting for the review of a newly released movie, which might explain the insistance on writing reviews on mobile, like a gut-reaction after leaving the theater... but speaking for myself, I don't know how can anyone write a review on a mobile, I think it's really diminishing the 'intellectual' value of a review to assume it can be done on a mobile. I could never have written what I just wrote to you right now on a mobile, how shouldn't that apply for reviews? If you can allow users to write reviews on a mobile, they will not be different from Twitter reactions. And you should also understand why people are so perplex, there's been so many infuriating changes recently, the removal of the message boards being one of them, I used to invest a lot of time and intellect on IMDb, sometimes at the expenses of my professional responsibilities, just to be able to share some thoughts with fellow movie lovers and these exchanges were all erased from the memory of the website. I spent time suggesting polls during the daily poll days and the history page has been completely erased, it's like everything we do for IMDb can disappear at any time, and I just don't want that to happen with the reviews. Shoot. Everything we do for any website can disappear at any time. Like life I guess, everything you do for someone else can be thrown in a trash bin, serves me for being such an idealistic prick... but seriously, if it wasn't for these "updates", I would have written like ten reviews by now. I'm not sure they realize that this decision was totally counter-productive. James Davies Before the update, if I wanted to see if I had already reviewed a title on IMDB, all I had to do was click the "write a review" button and, if I had already written a review, it would bring up a page saying that I had already reviewed the title, and I could edit the review or replace it. Please bring back this feature. As it is now I have really no way of knowing if I have already reviewed a movie; the panel comes up to write a new review regardless. I also can't just search through all my reviews either, as the site doesn't list them all on the one page (you have to keep clicking the button to make it load a few more each time). Please bring this feature back so we can easily see and edit/replace our old reviews from the title's page. I'm curious what happens if you have a review already and add another? Will there be an error message or is it simply added/ignored? I have been wondering about this myself. I assume it won't let you review the same movie twice, but since it doesn't tell you if you have already reviewed the movie, you will waste time writing a new review and won't find out about the old one before you click submit. This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Review requirements. I hate to go on about this, but I see that there's now a minimum of 50 characters for a review. Could you change this to, let's say, 200 characters? 50 characters is short, as short as this sentence. (!) Note: This conversation was created from a reply on: New IMDb Help hub. Frazer Caird Definitely a clear example of IMDb wilfully dumbing down. I would now go as far as to say that it is now actively encouraged to post super-short reviews here, hence why the system is geared towards very short reviews on the display in that with those you would never need to click on the button to expand your review to see if it had a useful tick. The unwritten rule seems to be, keep it really short for less hassle. With the 50 character minimum rule I could now take ten seconds to submit a review for Ingmar Bergman's Persona that only says: 'This film ROCKS my SOCKS! If you don't like it you SUCK!!!' And that would qualify as acceptable. That doesn't sound like a step in the right direction. I'm afraid this thread isn't the right place to talk about this issue, but as you can see, IMDb has placed it here... Anyway, I hope more people will speak their mind about the "50 characters is enough" rule. (this post contains 208 characters) This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled The new format sucks.. The new format sucks. Before I could quickly scan several reviews just by the number of stars given. Now you have to look for a numeric rating on a scale of 1 to 5 at the right side of the review. The new design makes it look like all the reviews are positive when they aren't. Faterson Yes, this is horrible. Removing visual clues is just awful design. Laoakai This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Problem with the new user review system. I am trying to add a review, where I wrote a list like this: - argument 1 Everything else gets added, but all the points with " - " before it are removed? Do I need to list it with 1. 2. or a) b) ? And second the reviews are sorted to "by helpfulness" I would like to sort it chronologically or by "hated it" "loved it", how is that possible now? Thanks for any help Pixxel Wizzard It's not possible to sort the reviews now, they removed that feature. IMDB has special formatting rules and certain characters are not allowed in reviews. I don't have a complete list, you just have to work around them. "And second the reviews are sorted to "by helpfulness" I would like to sort it chronologically or by "hated it" "loved it", how is that possible now? At this point, unfortunately it isn't. You don't need numbers, if things get added, just get back to the text and click on "Enter" to add spaces between the paragraphs. It should work normally. Sdk ElMaruecan: The OP is referring to a bulleted list. Pressing "ENTER" doesn't create a bullet point. I got it... my point is that you've got to put the bullets yourself or the numbers, it also works with the "-" but you've got to add them manually, pressing "ENTER" won't create a bulleted list... anyway, I've always written the reviews on Word and then copy-paste it. It might be good idea if the "helpfulness" of a review was calculated with the following formula: would be the helpfulness for a given review is the number of "Yes" votes for a given review is the number of "No" votes for a given review is the number of "Yes" votes plus "No" votes for the review with highest number of such is some positive fraction significantly smaller than (like one thousandth) a whole number is a fractional weight constant between half and one It would seem that a similar formula has already already in place. I'm not sure how "helpfulness" metric is exactly determined. The same message over again but using SVG instead of PNG... is the helpfulness for a given review apaternite Any kind of decent algorithm would be great. The existing one is very bad. Deadpool 2 for examples lists a review with (32 / 58) helpful ratings at the top when that should be a very unhelpful review. Acceler8 This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Display the number of stars given in the ratings. One strange change made to the User Reviews listing is displaying only a single star beside a user's rating, whether it's 7/10, 5/10, or anything else, instead of the actual number of stars. Why eliminate such a simple and convenient visual aid? Yes, this (among other things) is so infuriating... I'm so shocked by what happened to IMDb. Why fix what isn't broken? Just think - all of this could have been avoided (and I'm sure it has been a headache for Col and company) if IMDb ran a beta version for users to interact with and offer feedback. Or announced their intentions to the public ahead of time. Nope, not for them! They just made huge changes without a care for the users at all. Think, McFly, think! Yes, in an ideal world. Unfortunately practical considerations sometimes intervene, please read all of https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/upcoming-changes-to-several-imdb-features-du6man1opd5q0 for context This doesn't explain hiding previously available free features such as box office, filming dates, or company credits behind a paywall now. The context is all on Get Satisfaction (quoted text from the threads in italics) ... Box Office -> https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/announcement-updates-to-box-office-on-imdb-title-pages-imdbp... I think it's a misunderstanding. It is useful we have a really firm example here with which we can work though. Here is how things were before last week: IMDb box office information was available in three different places, with three different data sources: IMDb.com / IMDbPro.com / Box Office Mojo (remember we own BOM and the same software team is responsible for its upkeep). The layout of the old IMDb.com box office page dates back to when we launched the section in 1996 -- it had not changed in 20 years and has a simplistic data model; meanwhile Box Office Mojo has a superior data model and more information / reporting. The three systems (more than) triple the on-going support and future enhancement costs. Every fix we make to any box office feature (twice over) is time which could have been spent adding or enhancing something else instead. We are done with this old approach. The situation we are in now with box office is better than last week, but it is still a bridge to where we want to go in 2018. We now only have two box office systems instead of three; on IMDb.com we have added more box office data to the main pages so more people will see / benefit from this than any updates to an under-used sub-page. Next we can tie all three sites better together, get things down to one underlying system, and enhance box office related searches across all three sites. Nothing has changed in the fundamentals of what is in the Contributors' Charter @ https://contribute.imdb.com/charter nor what we are doing and what we are about in the help section (and history and press room) @ https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/general-information/what-is-imdb/G836CY29Z4SGNMK5 -- the changes allow us to do all of these things better and faster. Filming dates -> https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/announcement-updates-to-box-office-on-imdb-title-pages-imdbp... Sorry this should have been covered above; the information on filming dates will return in an update to one of the other title sub-pages. The timing should be early in 2018. [BTW these dates are not behind a paywall either; they are currently not in the IMDbPro data set either] Company credits -> https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/company-credits-see-more-link Thanks for the extra details on your usage. We have taken another look at this and the best way to build this with the new system would be as a search result. We already offer limited company searches on the advanced title search page at http://www.imdb.com/search/title so for example, wherever we reference "20th Century Fox" on the site, the company name would be linked to the corresponding search results, as in http://www.imdb.com/search/title?companies=fox The same would apply for all companies, so in your examples, companies like JC Films, Fernsehen der DDR, MarVista Entertainment, Xces Film, Paramount Pictures, PETA, MPAA etc. would be linked to their advanced search results similar to Fox. Aengus Fallon Is there any way for users to access their deleted reviews? There are one or two that I regret deleting that I would like to post again. if we could just access our non-deleted reviews :) Yoann Jean-Marie Shmuntal Larrieu This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled I can't find an alphabetic list of my reviews + can't access review from film pag.... Hello. It used to be possible to have an index in alphabetic order of all my reviews for quick navigating and scanning. Also it was possible to know whether I'd written a review already for a film on its page by clicking "User Reviews" and then "Add Review" and it'd tell me I'd already written one, now I've no clue and it would take forever to find out whether I'd written one for a given film or not. Please help, this is way too complicated for such an elementary task. Thank you for the on-going feedback on user reviews (and a reminder to see https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/upcoming-changes-to-several-imdb-features-du6man1opd5q0 for the wider context). This is an update for 12 January outlining the progress so far: Already implemented: Make all user reviews available across all IMDb platforms (web, mobile web, iOS, Android) [DONE] Allow voting for reviews from user/reviews pages [DONE] No longer display reviews with spoilers on the main title page [DONE] Integrate reviews into main IMDb database to improve management and processing [DONE] Add reviews and “Report This” to the “Track My Contribution” feature for better feedback on processing [DONE] On the iOS app, add sort orders: chronological, by rating given to title by reviewer, by helpfulness (all in both directions) [DONE] Fix “Load more” functionality on Internet Explorer [DONE] Allow IMDb mark-up in review text to link name/title pages from inside reviews [DONE] Increase default view of reviews shown before “Load more” from 10 to 25 [DONE] In progress across Q1: On the web site & mobile web, add sort orders to the title/reviews page, ideas under review include: chronological, by vote volume, by rating given to title by reviewer, love/hate view, by volume of reviews by reviewer, by helpfulness (all in both directions) On the web site, add sort orders to the user/reviews page, ideas under review include: alphabetical by title, chronological, by vote volume, by rating given to title by reviewer, by helpfulness (all in both directions) On the Android app, add sort orders: chronological, by rating given to title by reviewer, by helpfulness (all in both directions) Allow review contribution from mobile devices (mobile web, iOS, Android) Fix known issues posting new reviews with certain browser / system combinations Ideas for the longer term: Allow helpfulness voting on mobile devices (mobile web, iOS, Android) Improve the algorithm used to determine default helpfulness sorting Please bear with us while we work through the above list (and equivalent lists for other impacted features). Our aim remains to make IMDb the best place to read, write and discover reviews of movies, shows (and other title types) ... both on the web and on mobile. Finally a reminder from the above list: the IMDb iOS app already supports sorting of reviews by three options if you have access to an iPhone or iPad. That's good enough for me, thanks! Alessandro Machi Is it possible to add a small encapsulation of an Actor's performance in a specific episode of a TV show they were guest starring in? Example. As Angelita in Maverick, The "Guatemala City" Episode, Linda Dangcil's Angelita is a Remarkably Precocious presence that invites one to connect with her on a multitude of levels. Angelita immediately shuts down Maverick's anger in one scene, Instantly reminding Maverick of the honor in being gentlemanly in non violent situations. Besides Dangcil's on screen high energy yet calming presence, in another era she might have been a Shampoo Ambassador for her unending but well managed Tresses. I'm a prolific author myself, and I miss also putting my own E-mail, beside my IMDb name, on every review of mine. Is it possible to see that again ? No sorry, this is not something we feel it is wise to encourage these days. If you wish to be contacted by email then you may add your email address in the "Your Description" section on http://www.imdb.com/profile Bear in mind, each of person would be wise to avoid using the same e-mail address that he/she uses to log into IMDb (unless via Twitter or Facebook is the method) as his/her contact information associated with reviews. There is always the possibility of the e-mail account being targeted and illegally commandeered, which then allows the hijacker to compromise all accounts associated with the e-mail address via password reset functions. Remember, the Internet is like the wild west. You have to be careful. scarletmacaw "Spoiler alert" was added to some of my reviews, including one of a documentary. How can you "spoil" a documentary? There is no "plot" in a documentary to spoil. A documentary consists of historical or scientific facts, and if you don't know the basic facts already, shame on you! If I write a review that states the sun rose in the east in the film, will it be tagged with a spoiler alert?? cartman_1337 Not all documentaries deal with facts that are common knowledge, though. Just because they are factual historically and/or scientifically doesn't mean that you can't spoil the experience of watching a documentary by revealing too much in a review of it. Many watch documentaries to learn things, and would perhaps prefer to learn them there, instead of in the review. Not saying that "spoiling" a documentary is as bad as spoiling the plot twist of a popular movie, or something, but I can certainly see the point behind a decision to also consider giving away certain details about a documentary could be construed as a spoiler to some. I agree with Cartman. 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The State Department Is Proposing a $2 Billion Sale of Arms to Taiwan (WASHINGTON) — The State Department is proposing the sale of $2.2 billion in arms to Taiwan, including 108 Abrams tanks and 250 Stinger surface... Trump Administration Plans to Sell More Than $2 Billion of Arms to Taiwan The proposed weapons package, including 108 tanks, is the costliest in recent years. The sale would add to tensions between the United States and Chi... UPDATE 1-U.S. State Department approves possible $2.2 billion arms sale to Taiwan The U.S. State Department has approved the possible sale to Taiwan of M1A2T Abrams tanks, Stinger missiles and related equipment at an estimated valu... Four Countries Challenge Beijing To Naval Drills In The South China Sea In fresh show of naval force in the contested South China Sea, a US guided missile destroyer conducted drills with a Japanese aircraft carrier, two I... Coast Guard arms entire cutter fleet with ship-launched drones The Coast Guard’s vigorous push to equip its entire Cutter fleet with deck-mounted surveillance drones offers an interesting window into the service'... U.S., Japan, India and Philippines challenge Beijing with naval drills in the South China Sea In fresh show of naval force in the contested South China Sea, a U.S. guided missile destroyer conducted drills with a Japanese aircraft carrier, two... Taiwan’s military trains for a Chinese invasion on the beach FANGSHAN, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwanese tanks and soldiers have fired at simulated Chinese forces in an anti-invasion drill on the island’s coast. Th... Taiwan's military stages mock Chinese invasion Thousands of air, sea, and land troops took part in the exercises across the entire island. The drills took place amidst what Taiwan says is increasi... China says U.S. actions on Taiwan, South China Sea threaten stability The United States' actions on Taiwan and the South China Sea are hardly conducive to maintaining stability in the region, a senior Chinese military o... ASEAN summit – Southeast Asian nations wary of US-China trade row The US-China trade dispute is high on the ASEAN summit agenda. The bloc's leaders are set to sign an economic partnership deal at their annual meetin... Ethiopia holds memorial for slain military chief Ethiopia held a memorial on Tuesday for the army chief of staff slain at the weekend along with four other senior officials as part of what authoriti... Southeast Asian leaders emphasize economic strength in face of U.S.-China tensions Southeast Asian leaders agreed on Sunday to work together on regional economy and security to strengthen their positions amid growing U.S.-China tens... Southeast Asian leaders meet, expected to discuss Rohingyas, South China Sea Southeast Asian leaders met on Sunday for a second day of a summit in Bangkok, where they were expected to discuss pressing regional issues including... Warburg Pincus nearing close of $4.3 bln China-Southeast Asia fund - sources Warburg Pincus LLC is nearing the final close of an at least $4.25 billion private equity fund focusing on Chinese and Southeast Asian investments, p... Serbia holds military parade amid tensions with Kosovo BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia is holding a military parade to mark Victory Day, the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, in an apparent show of f... Russian bombers fly near Alaska coast, US military says Four nuclear-capable Russian bombers and two Russian fighter jets were intercepted off the west coast of Alaska by U.S. aircraft, American military o... Southeast Asia making good progress on South China Sea conduct code: Thailand Southeast Asian nations made good progress on a Code of Conduct negotiating draft for the disputed South China Sea and likely will finish a first rea... Exclusive: Thousands of Colombian FARC rebels return to arms despite peace accord - military intelligence report Roughly a third of the fighters in Colombia's former FARC rebel army have taken up arms again following a 2016 peace accord, posing a growing securit... China says U.S. should 'not play with fire' on Taiwan China's top diplomat Wang Yi warned the United States on Friday that it should "not play with fire" on the question of Taiwan, expressing anger about... China tells US: Hands off Taiwan The Chinese government has slammed Washington for engaging with Taipei and ordered the Trump administration to cease diplomatic engagements with the ... China's top state-owned refiners skip Iranian oil buys as US sanctions waivers end Sinopec and China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) are skipping Iranian oil buys for May loadings, after Washington ended sanction waivers to turn up p... Taiwan profits from America’s trade war with China President Donald Trump’s threatened 25% tariff is prompting Taiwanese companies that opened factories in China to make PCs, smartphones, and tablets ... Vietnam, Taiwan winning the US-China trade war Vietnam has emerged as the biggest beneficiary as importers in China and the US look to skirt tit-for-tat tariffs, a report shows. But it warns the f... Taiwan complains about Spain's extraditions to China Taiwan is accusing Spain of double standards when it comes to extraditing criminal suspects to China after the government in Madrid sent to Beijing a... 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Foxconn Founder Terry Gou Wants to be Taiwan’s President—and a Go-Between for U.S. and China If you want to know how focused Terry Gou is on the campaign trail, look at his pants. When the billionaire Foxconn CEO gives televised interviews, s... Taiwan: China refuses to rule out force over reunification Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe said the army had a "sacred duty" to defend Chinese territory. Beijing still sees Taiwan as part of its territory... China signals won't follow Taiwan in allowing same-sex marriage The Chinese government signaled on Wednesday that it would not follow Taiwan's example on same-sex marriage after the first legal unions in Asia were... China signals it won’t follow Taiwan in allowing gay marriage BEIJING – The Chinese government signaled on Wednesday that it would not follow Taiwan’s example on same-sex marriage after the first legal uni... U.S. Navy again sails through Taiwan Strait, angering China The U.S. military said it sent two Navy ships through the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday, its latest transit through the sensitive waterway, angering Chi... China rebuffs Shanahan’s rebuke over military outposts in South China Sea SHANAHAN DENOUNCES CHINA’S ‘TOOLKIT OF COERCION’: Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan went to Singapore with the intent of laying down a marker... China announces South China Sea military training exercises BEIJING (AP) — China has closed off an area of the South China Sea this week for military training. The China Maritime Safety Administration says dri... U.S. 'playing with fire' on Taiwan, China says ahead of defense meeting The United States is "playing with fire" with its support for self-ruled Taiwan, China said on Thursday, in angry comments ahead of a meeting between... On Tiananmen anniversary, Taiwan says China continues to cover up crackdown China continues to cover up the truth about the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in and around Tiananmen Square 30 years ago, Taiwan's... China has stepped up efforts to infiltrate Taiwan, president Tsai Ing-wen says Taiwan President Tsai Ing-Wen said on Friday that China has stepped up its efforts to infiltrate and gain influence in Taiwan and she asked national ... Taiwan says 'unrepentant' China covering up June 4 Tiananmen crackdown China continues to cover up the truth about the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Square 30 years ago... Taiwan breaks ground on submarine shipyard to counter China KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan has broken ground on a shipyard to produce submarines to counter China’s growing military threat. The self-gove... Taiwan's marriage law brings frustration and hope for LGBT China Public acceptance is improving, but in some cases Chinese authorities are moving in the other directionIt was a landmark moment for LGBT rights. When... Taiwan president to visit U.S. this month, move likely to anger China Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen will spend four nights in the United States this month while visiting Caribbean diplomatic allies, her government said ... China To 'Fight At All Costs' For 'Reunification' With Taiwan: Defence Minister China will fight anyone who tries to interfere in its "reunification" with Taiwan, Defence Minister Wei Fenghe said on Sunday in a combative speech p... China to 'fight at all costs' for 'reunification' with Taiwan: defense minister China will fight anyone who tries to interfere in its "reunification" with Taiwan, Defense Minister Wei Fenghe said on Sunday in a combative speech p... Taiwan's China Airlines signs MOU for 11 Airbus A321neo jets Airbus unveiled an aircraft deal with Taiwan's China Airlines on Wednesday, snatching the carrier's medium-haul fleet renewal from Boeing a day after... Many in Hong Kong, fearful of China's grasp, flee to Taiwan For Hong Kong resident Yung Xiu Kwan, 67, a proposed extradition law that would allow people in the former British colony to be sent to mainland Chin... Taiwan calls on China to 'repent' for Tiananmen Square crackdown Taiwan has called on China to "sincerely repent" for the bloody crackdown in Tiananmen Square, as the government remains silent on the 30th anniversa... China says it won't take part in trilateral nuclear arms talks China on Monday dismissed a suggestion that it would talk with the United States and Russia about a new accord limiting nuclear arms, saying it would... US is preparing big weapons sale to Taiwan in a challenge to China amid trade war The United States is pursuing the sale of more than $2 billion dollars worth of tanks and weapons to Taiwan, four people familiar with the negotiatio... Taiwan opposition picks pro-China mayor as 2020 presidential candidate Han Kuo-yu angered some Taiwanese this year by meeting with mainland officials and signing deals with mainland cities. He once described Taiwan's ful... Hong Kong protests fortify Taiwan, and the West, against China's expansion Mass protests against Chinese President Xi Jinping’s attempt to encroach on Hong Kong’s judicial system have fortified neighboring Taiwan and other U... U.S. House passes pro-Taiwan bills, amid trade tensions with China The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday unanimously backed legislation supporting Taiwan which faces military and diplomatic pressure from China... \| Taiwan and US officials hold rare meeting amid China tension Senior national security officials from the United States and Taiwan have held their first meeting in four decades this month, with the aim of deepen... Taiwan’s iPhone Tycoon Walks a Fraught U.S.-China Line in Presidential Run Terry Gou, who on Friday stepped back from his electronics empire, must strike a balance between the Washington and Beijing as the trade war simmers.... For China's LGBTQ people, Taiwan's rainbow victory is a moment of joy and pain When Chinese gay rights activist Peng Yanhui heard that Taiwan had approved a bill legalizing same-sex marriage on May 17 as he boarded a flight, he ... China’s Xi holds talks with Kim Jong Un in North Korea The leaders of China and North Korea were meeting in the North Korean capital, with stalled nuclear negotiations with Washington expected to be on th... Exclusive: U.S. pursues sale of over $2 billion in weapons to Taiwan, sources say, angering China The United States is pursuing the sale of more than $2 billion worth of tanks and weapons to Taiwan, four people familiar with the negotiations said,... Taiwan opposition party picks pro-China mayor for 2020 presidential race Taiwan's main opposition party on Monday picked a populist, pro-China mayor as its candidate for the 2020 presidential race against an incumbent... Canadian navy ships sailed through Taiwan strait amid tension with China China's Defense Ministry said on Thursday that Canadian navy ships sailed through the Strait of Taiwan, which separates self-ruled Taiwan from China,... Taiwan and U.S. security officials hold rare meeting amid China tension Senior national security officials from the United States and Taiwan have met to deepen cooperation, the government in Taipei said, the first such me... Candidate Seeks Closer China Ties, Shaking Up Taiwan’s Presidential Race Han Kuo-yu, the new star of the opposition Kuomintang, has galvanized older Taiwanese by pledging to roll back pension cuts and seeking closer ties t... Exclusive: U.S. preparing to sell over $2 billion in weapons to Taiwan, testing China - sources The United States is pursuing the sale of more than $2 billion worth of tanks and weapons to Taiwan, four people familiar with the negotiations said,... China holds appeal hearing for Canadian sentenced to death A Chinese court has held an appeal hearing for a Canadian who was sentenced to death for drug smuggling in a case that has deepened a diplomatic rift... 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Russia starts army drills to respond to Central Asia threats MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian military has launched a massive exercise to simulate a response to possible security threats in Central Asia. Defense Minis... School shooter drills are unnecessarily terrifying children: New York Post columnist School shooter drills are terrorizing children unnecessarily and they should not be a staple in the everyday lives of students, New York Post columni... U.S., Japan, South Korea, Australia hold first naval drills in Western Pacific U.S. Navy ships conducted joint drills with warships from allies Japan, Australia and South Korea in their first combined exercise in the Western Pac... Shanahan to meet Chinese counterpart at Singapore security conference as he lays out US strategy to counter China’s military expansionism SHANAHAN AT SHANGRI-LA: Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan is in Singapore today, where he is scheduled to deliver a major speech announcing t... 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New Fund for Southeast Asia Tech Hits First Close A new Southeast Asia-focused private-equity firm launched by a group of seasoned technology executives has hit the first close of its debut fund, the... 17 children recovered, 82 arrested in child sex sting in Southeast US ATLANTA (WXIA) – A firefighter. A business owner. A dishwasher. They were among 82 people arrested as part of a massive, multi-state child exp... Southeast Asian leaders open summit in Bangkok Southeast Asian leaders opened a two-day summit in Bangkok on Saturday, though it was unclear what progress their 10-country group could make on disp... Remnants of storm Barry dump more rain in the U.S. southeast The remnants of the once mighty storm Barry, the first hurricane of the 2019 season, dumped dangerous amounts of rain as it crawled north through the... 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Flooded Arkansas, Oklahoma brace for more rain; Southeast gets record heat Flooded Arkansas and Oklahoma were bracing for more rain that will feed the already swollen Arkansas River, forecasters said on Monday, as Missouri d... Heavy rain and widespread power outages hit southeast Texas, Louisiana Hailstones the size of golf balls along with fast, heavy rains pelted the Texas' Gulf coast from Houston up into Louisiana, bringing as much as 4 inc... It's not wet everywhere: Record-shattering hot, dry weather sparks drought and wildfires in Southeast While the Plains and Midwest endure drenching rain and record-breaking floods, extreme heat is fueling drought conditions and fires in the Southeast.... After Trump calls off military strike against Iran, the US struck Iranian military computers U.S. military cyber forces launched a strike against Iran after President Donald Trump backed away from plans for a more conventional military strike... 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Southeast Asian nations, among worst ocean polluters, aim to curb plastic debris Thai zero-waste advocate Thanaboon Somboon never leaves his home without what he calls a full "weaponry" of reusable shopping bags, coffee tumblers a... Month of rain in a day: Parts of Southeast deal with flooding, high water rescues Roads became rivers, high-water rescues were underway, and states of emergency were declared in parts of the Southeast. ... Livelihoods of millions in East and Southeast Asia at risk from Swine Fever epidemic The rapid spread of African Swine Fever (ASF) across East and Southeast Asia is threatening the food security and livelihoods of millions of househol... Soccer: Southeast Asia to launch joint bid to host 2034 World Cup - Thai PM Southeast Asian countries will jointly bid to host the World Cup in 2034, Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Sunday, after meetings betwee... 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__label__wiki	0.666814	0.666814	Updated: May 23, 2019 1:05 pm Finance minister orders audit of NB Liquor after $400K bonus payouts By Staff The Canadian Press A customer shops in the craft beer section of the NB Liquor store in Fredericton, N.B., on Friday, June 16, 2017. The Canadian Press/Stephen MacGillivray New Brunswick’s finance minister has ordered an internal audit of NB Liquor, just days after reports revealed that an accounting issue prompted a huge payout of extra employee and management bonuses. The Crown-owned liquor retailer paid out almost $405,000 in extra sales incentives and executive bonus payments at the end of the 2017-18 fiscal year when it had to add an extra week to the fourth quarter. NB Liquor said the added week was an effort to comply with accounting procedures set out in the province’s Liquor Control Act. The year end was pushed back in 2017-18, requiring a 53rd week. READ MORE: NB Liquor paid out $400K in bonuses after extra week added to 2017-18 fiscal year The added week increased the net income for the corporation, and in turn, the bonuses. However, by removing the week from the first quarter of 2018-19, targets weren’t met and no bonuses were paid for that quarter. Finance Minister Ernie Steeves says the audit will be done by the Office of the Comptroller. “Our government is committed to be open, honest and accountable to New Brunswickers and to protect their interests,” Steeves said in a statement Thursday. “It is important to be up front about how we manage their taxpayer dollars. By making this decision, we ensure complete fiscal transparency and, most importantly, we ensure that we maintain public confidence in our Crown corporations, agencies and departments.” Bonuses are paid out if results exceed approved budget targets. WATCH: New Brunswick microbreweries worry for future as N.B. Liquor slashes prices According to figures provided by NB Liquor, the total amount paid to general employees under the sales incentive plan for 2017-18 was $862,531, with an additional $69,423 for executive management bonuses. Those amounts for 2018-19 fell to $252,242 and $56,923 respectively. The company says future annual reports will detail the actual number of weeks to ensure there is no confusion. The audit will start immediately, and the Office of the Comptroller will report back to the government by September. © 2019 The Canadian Press Ernie Steeves Liquor Control Act New Brunswick Audit New Brunswick Finance Minister New Brunswick liquor New Brunswick Office of the Comptroller	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1286
__label__cc	0.537092	0.462908	The Bombardment of Greytown, Part Three Mar17 by freedmenspatrol George N. Hollins Original Stealing Cuba: parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and revisited. The Nicaragua-Cuba Connection: parts 1, 2, 3, 4 The Bombardment of Greytown, parts 1, 2, behind the scenes Horace Greeley concluded his July 26, 1854 article on the destruction of Greytown with a demand for reparations, apologies, and the expectation that neither would come from the Pierce administration. That that situation, he advised, would find its best remedy in properly informed voting come November. Along the way, he added his voice to the congressional demand for the papers relating to the affair. When Pierce had not coughed up the papers by July 29th, Greeley presented his take on events again and took the silence as admission of guilt in an affair so notorious that We cannot recall any other public question with regard to which there has been such unity of opinion. Journals habitually opposed on every other subject representing every shade of party feeling, every divergence of interest, and every antagonism of nationality concur to declare the destruction of San Juan a needless, unjustifiable, inhuman exercise of warlike force. Conservatives and radicals, Whigs and Democrats, Americans and Foreigners all agree in this one thing-all express the same horror and disgust. Indeed, among all the papers which have yet spoken, we know of but one, and that an obscure and scurrilous sheet in this City, which has attempted to find an excuse for the measure. Horace Greeley One can call Greeley a partisan hack, but one does not make that strong of a claim about the writing of other papers lightly if one expects to maintain one’s credibility. Allen Nevins quotes the passage as evidence of a broad revulsion at George N. Hollins’ destruction of the town and given the previous, I take him at his word. However openly partisan, Greeley took his paper seriously and saw it taken seriously by others. Inventing a broad disapproval where none existed would have undermined his credibility as surely as reporting that he had the moon in his pocket and just kindly let it out every night for exercise. But Pierce did eventually oblige Congress by giving up the correspondence on Greytown. Greeley dutifully printed the lot on the third of August. They did not much help the administration’s case, as Greeley saw it. He devotes most of two columns on the second to repeating his account of the affair and, with good reason, declaring himself vindicated: They [the documents] contain nothing that in the least relieves the enormity of the transaction, nor anything that removes the responsibility of it from the Administration. It is plain, from the orders of the Secretary of the Navy to Commander Hollins that the extremity of destroying the place was contemplated by those sending the Cyane on her mission. James Cochran Dobbin, Secretary of the Navy Greeley does allow that the orders ask Hollins to tread lightly: “It is, however,” says the Secretary, “very much to be hoped that you can effect the purpose of your visit without resort to violence and destruction of property and loss of life.“ But note, as Greeley did, the language used. The Secretary of the Navy hopes that Hollins can complete his mission without working violence or ruin on anything or anyone. He hopes, but does not require. From this, Greeley takes that Washington foresaw the possibility of violence and counted it an acceptable, if not the preferred or ideal, outcome. James Dobbin could have written more pacific orders, specifying the use of force only in certain circumstances. He settled for a vague hope. This entry was posted in Kansas-Nebraska Act, Road to War and tagged Cuba, Filibusters, Franklin Pierce, Greeley, Greytown, Manifest Destiny, Nicaragua. ← The Bombardment of Greytown, Part Two The Bombardment of Greytown, Part Four →	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1302
__label__wiki	0.506252	0.506252	Lee Rogers #racist #conspiracy #fundie dailystormer.name [From "There are Many Legitimate Reasons to Explain Why People Hate the Jews"] There is a misconception promoted by a number of highly dishonest individuals who claim that anyone who hates Jews, hates them for no specific or explainable reason. They claim that they are driven by irrational hate and smear them as “anti-Semites.” This notion is entirely ridiculous and absurd. The fact of the matter is that the Jewish race has been hated throughout history because of their subversive and parasitical behavior. They infiltrate societies and feed off of them through trickery, scams and fraud. Generally speaking, people have no reason to hate the Jews until they encounter them first hand and see for themselves the collective chicanery they’re involved in. Adolf Hitler who is considered by the Jews to be the most notorious anti-Semite in modern history wrote in his book Mein Kampf that he only began to hate them after observing their behavior. Sometimes I stood there thunderstruck. I didn’t know what to be more amazed at: the agility of their tongues or their virtuosity at lying. Gradually I began to hate them. Before Hitler came across Jews during his time in Vienna, he had no reason to dislike them. But you can say pretty much the same thing for anybody else who the Jews consider to be an “anti-Semite.” The issue isn’t even necessarily with individual Jews themselves. Throughout my life, I’ve dealt with a number of Jews who did nothing specific to make me personally dislike them. The problem is that the Jews collectively as a racial group represent a dangerous presence to our nations. This is largely due to their biological behavior which is based around infiltrating and subverting cultures from within. It is a survival mechanism inherent in the Jew no different than a parasite which survives by feeding off of a host organism. This is by no means a complete list as there are literally an endless number of examples one could cite to justify their hatred of the Jews. But just this list alone represents more than enough justification to have their entire race purged from Western civilization for all of eternity. Jewish involvement in the 9/11 attacks It is an admitted fact that the Jews were heavily involved in the 9/11 attacks. Israel knew in advance that these attacks were going to happen. But instead of warning the United States like a good ally would do, they sent Mossad agents to secretly film the attacks. They behaved recklessly and were spotted celebrating the attacks which ultimately resulted in their arrest and eventual deportation back to Israel. Upon their return, they admitted on Israeli television that they were in New York City to document the attacks. Jews and Israel were also the primary beneficiaries of the attacks. George W. Bush’s administration was filled with Jewish neocons who helped architect the so-called “war on terror” which was used as justification to invade countries hostile to Israel. In the years that followed, the United States invaded Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya while launching all sorts of drone strikes around the world in the name of this Jewish terror war. There is simply no denying the Jewish and Israeli involvement in the 9/11 attacks. The fact that Jews were complicit in these attacks, is a very legitimate reason to hate the Jews. Jewish Holocaust Hoax For decades, Jews have falsely claimed with no evidence that Germans during World War II systematically murdered six million of them in concentration camps. They have further claimed that Jews were gassed in wooden shower rooms, masturbated to death, burned in ovens, given rides on death roller coasters and killed via other incredibly bizarre and unusual methods. Ritual Circumcision with Oral Suction or metzitzah b’peh Jews have very disgusting religious practices. One of the most disgusting is the rabbinical practice of circumcising and sucking the blood off of a babies’ penis. This so-called religious practice is demonic. It is a gross violation of a defenseless infant and not something any normal person would find appropriate. There are numerous horror stories surrounding this horrible ritual including a baby dying from herpes after having it performed on him. Jewish Control Over Hollywood and Entertainment Since the early 20th century, Jews have exercised control over most major Hollywood film studios and entertainment companies. Since that time, they have promoted all sorts of degenerate garbage through their movies, television and music. Today, we see things like homosexuality, trannyism, race-mixing, feminism, abortion, drug use and other horrible things regularly promoted as normal, trendy and cool by these Jewish companies. They have used their control over the entertainment industry to push social engineering agendas that are extremely harmful and destructive to our people. Jews Have Conspired to Flood our Countries with low IQ brown and black populations from the Third World Jews are at the center of promoting open borders and advocating for a flood of low IQ brown and black people from the third world to resettle in nations that were created by White Europeans. They are deliberately trying to genocide the White race out of existence through this agenda. Whites are unquestionably the most creative and innovative race on the planet. Much of what we have today is due to the genius and creative abilities of White men. The fact that they seek to destroy the most creative of the races is a testament to the evil nature of the Jew and shows that they stand in direct opposition to the creator. The Jewess Barbra Lerner Spectre fully admitted that people would hate the Jews due to their leading role in helping transform Europe into a multicultural cesspool. The fact that these Jews openly admit that they are trying to genocide and destroy all of the natural creative potential of the White race is another perfectly acceptable reason to hate the Jews. Jewish Usury and Control Over the Banking System Jews didn’t just gain all this power in a vacuum. They gained much of their power by engaging in usury and other financial scams. The modern day version of Jewish usury is perpetuated through the Central Banks and their associated member banks. These organizations run a monetary system that is entirely based off of debt. They literally create money out of nothing and charge interest on the money that is created on computers. From there, nations are forced to pay interest on this debt that was created out of thin air which is paid via excessive taxation on the people. It is no coincidence that the Federal Reserve was founded at around the same time that the income tax was implemented. But what the Jews are doing today is no different then what they were doing over 2,000 years ago. Back then they were ripping people off by forcing people to buy Jewish Temple coins at insanely high prices that could only be used inside of the Temple. There was a man named Jesus Christ who did not appreciate the fraud that these Jews were engaging in so he stormed their Temple and forced the money changers out. Jews Were Responsible for Killing Jesus Christ The Jews are also the race responsible for killing Jesus Christ the aforementioned central figure of the Christian religion. They had him crucified because he challenged the Jewish power structure of the day. Even today, Jews are proud and openly brag about how their evil race was responsible for killing Jesus. The hateful Jewish comedian Sarah Silverman even said that she would kill Jesus again if she had the chance. Jews are a plague on our nations and on our people. We need to do everything in our power to have them removed. Potential annihilation awaits us if we do not implement a practical solution to the Jewish problem. submitted by JeanP 6 days ago and got 11 comments Andrew Anglin #sexist #racist dailystormer.name [From "California Love: Wetback Shoots Niglet in the Head After Coalburner Spurns His Advances (Intersectionalism)"] I think I might finally be starting to understand what they mean when they say “diversity is our greatest strength.” A 10-month-old Fresno girl was shot in the head Sunday by a man who was apparently angry that the baby’s mother had rejected him, police said. The baby, Fayth Percy, was rushed to the hospital where she underwent surgery to remove bullet fragments from her head, Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer told reporters. She is in critical but stable condition. And of course, Dyer is a white guy. He must love his job, babysitting the most vibrant of diverse cultures and experiencing their intersectionality, where magical things happen, like a Mexican shooting a white woman’s black child because he’s ashamed she would have sex with a black man but not him. submitted by JeanP 2 weeks ago and got 11 comments Pornidor Quixote #sexist dailystormer.name [From "Lawyers for Nashville Public Schools Say It’s Not Sexual Harassment to Slut Shame Students"] The moment women start getting the tingles down there, that’s the moment they turn into sluts. Lawyers for metro-Nashville’s public schools say it’s not sexual harassment when students share secretly recorded videos of unwanted sexual encounters and then bully the victims. The arguments were filed in an ongoing, multi-million dollar lawsuit against the school system. Parents of four girls said in the lawsuit that their daughters were pressured into sexual contact and then taunted when students shared the videos, according to The Tennessean. Last month, it was reported that the four girls said the surreptitiously recorded sex tapes were shared online, including on adult sites like Pornhub, in a practice common among teens that is known as ‘exposing’. Oh, come on. Protect the students how? By shutting down the internet and erasing the memories of everyone who watched the videos? One of the lawsuits was filed by the family of a 15-year-old girl against Metro Nashville Public Schools and Metro government for $3million in August 2017. That has to be the most expensive porn star ever. Imagine making that money off of just one video. The complaint said the girl was part of unwelcome sexual activity at Hunters Lane High School recorded without her knowledge and posted on the internet. Notice the wording. “Unwelcome sexual activity.” Was she raped? Of course not. No one would bully these girls if the videos showed them crying in pain and screaming in desperation while kicking and trying to close their legs. The girls only say that they were pressured into it and that it was “unwelcome” and “unwanted” in an attempt to appease the slut-shaming mob. “NO WAIT I DIDN’T REALLY WANT IT! See? I’m not that slutty.” The complaint said that the male student who made the sex tape uploaded it to Pornhub, and even though the girl immediately transferred to another school, the ill fame associated with the video followed her there. She described being bullied on a daily bass and being called names like ‘ho,’ ‘nasty’ and ‘worthless’. Imagine what she was doing in the video to be called “nasty” and “worthless.” In just four years, the district documented 45 sexual assaults, 218 inappropriate sexual contacts, 950 instances of sexual harassment and 1,200 instances of inappropriate sexual behavior. “Inappropriate.” Pomidor Quixote #racist #psycho dailystormer.name [From "Ebola-Chan Reaches Uganda, Already Killing Blacks"] Ebola-Chan has raped Uganda’s border and is now on official cleanup duty there too. A 50-year-old woman infected with Ebola has died in western Uganda, a day after her five-year-old grandson died. They are the first cases reported there since the virus spread over the border from Democratic Republic of Congo, where nearly 1,400 people have died. Three suspected Ebola patients have also run away from an isolation centre in south-western Uganda. YES! I mean… no. That’s terrible. They’ll infect everyone and veterinarians won’t be able to track the spreading. What a tragedy. Declaring the outbreak a global health emergency would be a move intended to get more white people to throw more resources at blacks and to send more veterinarians to Africa. “Oh no! Niggers are dying in Africa – this is somehow everyone’s problem!” Besides, global health emergency? Niggers in niggerland are the only ones affected. Just cut off all contact with blacks and problem solved. Let them fight their own battles and the rest of the world will be safe. She’s off to a good start. Remember to thank her. Your support is fueling her Holy War. These numbers may not look like much now, but one mistake from white veterinarians is all it would take for Ebola-Chan to be unleashed on a major city. Once she’s in and completely free, there’ll be no stopping her. submitted by JeanP 3 weeks ago and got 8 comments Pomidor Quixote #wingnut #racist #homophobia #sexist dailystormer.name [From "China Defends Handling of Tiananmen Square, Says Killing People Asking for Democracy is “Correct Policy”"] China refuses to apologize for fighting off democracy. A senior Chinese official said it was ‘a correct policy’ for Beijing to kill unarmed students during a pro-democracy protest in 1989 because of the great changes the country has experienced since then. By killing those democracy faggots, China has protected itself from these democracy faggots: “Democracy” doesn’t really exist. Name-dropping “democracy” is a Jewish trick to advance the Jewish agenda. “Equality” is a necessary pillar for the modern idea of democracy. Everyone is equal, race is a social construct, gender is a social construct, blacks and whites are equal, and men and women are equal. Because everyone is equal, everyone gets to vote. Everyone gets to vote because all voices matter. Of course, equality doesn’t exist. Everyone is different. Not all voices matter. Not all lives matter. Equality is a destructive delusion that enables another destructive delusion: modern democracy. Ask yourself if it makes sense to let people who are against America’s Founding Fathers vote in America just because they happen to be in America. “I hate what the creators of this country created, I hate this country, therefore I’ll vote against it.” Ask yourself if it makes sense to let drooling retards (women) vote. Ask yourself if anything about democracy makes sense today. Not even the people who talk about democracy the most believe in the idea of democracy that they sell. Thanks to democracy, faggots are getting married. Thanks to democracy, faggots are able to adopt kids. Thanks to democracy, the armies of Mordor are invading our countries. Thanks to democracy, the Jews are able to hide their fingerprints. I’m happy for China. Any country that defends itself from democracy has a better chance at preserving its national identity and its sovereignty. Killing the democracy faggots was not just a correct policy — it was also a correct long-term strategy. submitted by JeanP a month ago and got 13 comments [From "Iran: Guy Accused of “Raping” 23 Women by Pretending to be Argentinian Football Player"] Women are so absolutely repulsive. Imagine that it is considered “rape” in many Western countries to have sex with a woman by telling her you’re famous. How about if we’re going to do that, we make it illegal for a woman to have sex with a man after telling him, “I’ve only slept with five guys, never any blacks”? Because: what exactly is the difference? If men and women are equal? Of course, they are not equal, we live in a society where men are dominated and ruled over by cunts – which is why it is a “crime against humanity” to mutilate a female’s genitals, and it is encouraged by doctor in America for you to mutilate your infant boy’s genitals. Lionel Messi’s Iranian doppelganger Reza Parastesh has denied tricking 23 women in his native country into sleeping with him after taking on the Argentine football icon’s identity to seduce them. Spanish sports publications Marca circulated the accusations earlier this week that Parastesh had told the women he was in fact Barcelona’s all-time top scorer, which could be classified as ‘rape by deception’, illegal in some countries. He went on to say that he would be punished for this if it had happened, but obviously he wouldn’t be in Iran. He should have been like “motherfucker, this isn’t illegal in my country, we don’t live in a gynocratic matriarchy. These hoes are fake as fuck, and they deserve what they get for being ready to sleep with any guy who claims he’s famous!” That actually would have made him more famous. And it would have made him a hero and an inspiration for oppressed men everywhere. By the way: does this open back up the “are some Iranians actually white?” debate? I mean, he looks exactly like the Spanish-Italian football guy. I’m sure he’s had a nosejob (they all have), but he’s at least as white as most Southern Europeans. There are definitely a lot of brown people in Iran, but I do think that their ruling class is more or less proto-white. Not that it really even matters. We’re not trying to integrate these people into Europe or anything. But it does show that they are the Master Race of the Middle East and should be ruling it instead of the disgusting Sunnigger sandniggers that Blingrund Blingoff is BFF with. Pomidor Quixote #sexist dailystormer.name i][From "Honorable Chinese THOT Patroller Scripts Facial Recognition Tool for Amateur Pornsluts"] This Chinese programmer showers the Chinese people with GREAT HONOR. His heroic creation and intentions will not be forgotten. A user on China’s popular social media website Weibo claims that he has developed an algorithm that can match the faces of porn actors with their social media profiles. As reported by Vice, the user who purports to be living in Germany said his software has ‘successfully identified more than 100,000 young ladies‘ which he then used to create a searchable database. In a Twitter post which has since gone viral, a PhD student at Stanford details the users claims in a post. While Vice reports that the creator and his friends intended for the tool to be used by men who are engaged to women that they suspect of being featured in porn on the internet, or what he calls the ‘right to know on both sides of the marriage,’ he has since rolled back some of those claims. In subsequent statements, he claims that the platform is to be used by women who suspect that explicit videos of them have been uploaded to the internet without their consent. This is how we officially start the THOT Patrol agency. Once we have facial recognition data for women featured in porn videos, we can do multiple things with it. 1. Create a “THOT/WHORE/SLUT or Not” website We could have a site called something like www.thotornot.com to let men search the database by uploading a picture. Think of Google’s reverse image search, except instead of finding similar images and instances of the image, you upload the face of a woman and you get search results if she’s featured in porn videos. Take that one step further and… 2. Have a “Coalburner or Not” function Once you identify their face in a porn video, it may not be too complicated to let the database know the likelihood of a brown or black being featured in that video. But why stop there? Have the thing not only search for porn videos, but also search social media pictures of them where blacks and browns are also featured, so you not only get results if they’re featured in a porn video but also if they have any social media images with browns or blacks. 3. Make a THOT-Patrolling AI to automatically Patrol THOTS A program can be running that constantly scans social media for new profiles and porn sites for new uploads, and cross-references facial recognition to find matches. Once it finds a match, have the AI send automatic emails and messages to the social media contacts of the whore with links to her porn videos (you’d have to work around being labeled as spam though). It could also scan existing videos and social media profiles to create an even larger database, but that would probably need even more space to store that information. The possibility is there though. An AI that automatically identifies whores and informs their family about their whoring would be world-shaking. Why stop there? Pictures where alcohol or drunk people are present and pictures of whoring parties are okay too. The kind of pictures that would be shameful. 4. Make women scared of whoring on the Internet Whores gonna whore, but we can make them terrified of whoring on the Internet. They’d be scared of posting pictures and videos of themselves, and terrified of other people taking pictures and videos of them. We could kick whores off of the Internet. “BEGONE THOT!” submitted by JeanP a month ago and got 9 comments Roy Batty #racist #wingnut #homophobia dailystormer.name [From "Justice Served! Wretched Anti-German Politician Found Dead in Garden"] Walter Lübcke will forever go down as one of the worst politicians in history and a traitor to the German people. If there is anything sad about this death, it is that we cannot be sure that Walter suffered enough before he died. This is one of the most famous pro-refugee politicians that came out of the “Syrian” Migrant crisis that gripped Europe five years ago. Here he is, telling the German people that they have no choice but to accept 800 migrants in their town. He added that if they don’t agree to it, they should leave town. Less often cited by the media was Walter Lübcke’s proclivity for migrant cock. Close friends say that the veteran politician never came across a migrant cock that he could say no to. “Give me those cocks, give me all those migrant cocks!” – Walter would often say. He’s also survived by thousands of his adopted brown children running amok in the town. Now the speculation begins: who performed this act of public service and why? No one is arguing that a patriotic German taking revenge would be an amazing White Pill, but I contend that a gay migrant lover having done the deed would be cosmic karma and far lulzier. So that’s what I’m hoping for. Besides, we all know that we, as a society, can always rely on migrants to do the dirty jobs that the natives simply won’t do themselves. Andrew Anglin #sexist #wingnut #psycho dailystormer.name [From "British Politician Sargon of Akkad Calls for Women to be Raped"] "100% deal with it." UKIP candidate Carl Benjamin stands by his comments that he "wouldn't even rape" a female Labour MP and tells Sky's @KateEMcCann to "deal with it". Get more on this story here: http://po.st/5WnwrX You might remember Sargon of Akkad from YouTube. And you may have been thinking “what the heck happened to that lad?” Well, he’s a politician now. And he is based and redpilled, and is calling for women to be raped. This is quite awesome. Aside from exterminating Jews, the main thing that I have always wanted was for women to be raped. For years, we have not had a single politician in a Western country that was willing to call for women to be raped – even while this is a very popular position in Middle Eastern countries. It’s yet to be seen if Sargon will be able to enact his policy of rape once elected, or if he will pull a Donald Trump and build a few miles of groping and call it rape. What is certain is that Sargon will win the election for Prime Minister of the UK based on the promise that women will be raped. Rape has overwhelming popular support as a policy among the public, with up to 98% of people supporting it. However, thus far, no politician in the West has had the nerve to run on a rape platform. I salute Sargon of Akkad, and wish him the best. The Daily Stormer is officially endorsing Sargon of Akkad as Prime Minister of the UK. submitted by JeanP 2 months ago and got 30 comments Andrew Anglin #psycho #transphobia #sexist #racist dailystormer.name [From "Communism Isn’t a System – It is a Tactic"] Everyone constantly says “communism doesn’t work.” And that is obviously true if you believe that communism is a system. However, the reality is that communism is a tactic. If the goal of communism is to abolish the state and create a workers’ paradise, then it is obviously a failure of a system. However, if the goal is to tell the masses of people that you’re going to abolish the state and create a workers’ paradise so that you can use them to kill all rich people, along with millions of others, then it is a tactic that has literally never failed anywhere it was implemented. Communist leaders just feed low-IQ poor people a bunch of gibberish about a workers’ paradise and march them off to commit a slaughter so that they can completely cleanse the old elite and establish themselves as supreme leaders. Every successful communist revolution has resulted in the entire ruling class being killed or driven out of the country. Millions of people always die. The people that start the revolution are never the ones that finish it, and the ones that finish it are rarely the ones holding the cards when it’s finally over. Jews used the tactic of communism against the elite of the early 20th century, who were all white people. At this point, the logical thing is to use that same communist system against the current elite, who are all Jews. That is why I think we should aggressively endorse and support all forms of communism. To be clear, I’m not talking about any kind of “nationalistic communism” or Nazbol. I’m talking about the current push for communism all over the Western world, which is coming in under the guise of “progressivism” and “socialism.” Instead of fighting against the current, we should embrace the mainstream push for communism, and escalate it into a full-on Bolshevist-type revolution. I have no idea how that will turn out. No one does. And that is the fun of it. But how could things get any worse simply because all rich people (Jews, mainly) and millions of other random people were killed in an unfathomably violent communist revolution? It’s a serious question which begs for a serious answer, and the serious answer is that obviously, it couldn’t be any worse. Firstly, all of the faggot soyboys pushing for communism are going to die in the first wave. None of these people are ready for the bloody mayhem of a total revolution. Do you think a bunch of trannies and heroin junkies are going to be able to deal with a situation in which people get dragged out of their homes and shot in the street on a civilization-wide scale? And whomever grabs power during the first stage of the revolution will order all trannies and junkies to be sent to camps or killed, because they will be dragging down the rest of the workers as people struggle to eat after all of the production and infrastructure is shut down because all the people who ran it before have been killed. All of the weak will die in this upcoming series of communist revolutions. Literally every antifa I’ve ever seen has been: * A fat lad * An emaciated drug user * A tranny, or * A woman But we have to support them, because they are the first wave of the revolution. The complete useful idiots who have literally no idea what kind of hell they are about to bring down on themselves when the communist revolution finally starts rolling at breakneck speed. There are going to be jacked dudes in flip-flops, sports shorts and bandanas piling up bodies to burn them in the wreckage of totally burned-out suburbs. This is going to be no place for a fat lad or a tranny, I can tell you that much. So basically, we need to keep agreeing and amplifying the message of the current brand of communists, and calling them cucks for not pushing further with it. Because antifa is being used to attack right-wingers and Trump supporters, they’re getting massive amounts of money poured into their thing by the government and Jews. It’s the perfect situation. We also need to whip people up into a frenzy accusing communist – oh sorry, “socialist” – politicians of betraying the revolution. The way that this “purity spiraling” phenomenon has already taken over the left is incredible, and it is already out of their control. They obviously don’t want the Democrat Party rallying around Bernie Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez – they are trying to push them back into neo-liberal Joe Biden’s Jewish ranch complex – but they can’t seem to control it, because the revolutionary urge is too powerful. There is no clear path to a white racial revolution. You can’t force a meme when white people in general don’t want anything to do with it. But this is no obstacle. The important thing is that there is a revolution, and it is easiest to use the existing revolutionary zeitgeist, which – quite conveniently – is communism. Once the revolution is finished, a white power state will be established. Or who knows? Maybe it won’t. No one knows. Look: I’m not going to pretend that inciting a communist revolution isn’t a Hail Mary play. But I can’t see anything other than a white power state resulting from it. What are the other options even? Besides literally everyone starving to death, I mean? Surely, when there’s mass starvation and a cleansing of the useless eaters, all nonwhite groups are going to be declared undesirables and enemies of the socialist people’s revolution. They’re not going to be contributing to the revolution after the second wave. It will be a matter of necessity that in order to maintain the revolution, racial minorities be cleansed. Racial minorities are always cleansed in the second wave. submitted by JeanP 2 months ago and got 7 comments Roy Batty and Andrew Anglin #conspiracy #homophobia dailystormer.name [From "Childhood Ruined! Turns Out Mr. Ratburn was a Gay Pedo the Whole Time"] The Gay Mafia will stop at absolutely nothing. Nothing is safe from their clutches. I don’t know how we’re going to salvage all these beloved shows after the Reclamation Wars. Too many shows have been infected with The Gay. We may have to go full Kaczynski and burn all the media, all the flash drives and the CD-ROMs to prevent the infection from resurfacing after the purges. The PBS cartoon “Arthur,” which has been airing since 1996 and is based on an even older series of children’s books, has just decided that the teacher, Mr. Ratburn, is a homosexual. Retconning a character to make it homosexual in order to get publicity and praise is a very Rowling-esque move. The character’s creator, Marc Brown, has been writing children’s books for his entire life and still works on the show. He’s from Massachusetts and isn’t Jewish. Something doesn’t add up here. Since he still participates in the making of these cartoons, I can only assume that he’s recently been infected with The Gay. On some level, I think I get what the author is doing here. And he should be commended for his public service. He’s sending the people a warning. Arthur is a third-grader, and given the fact that most homosexuals prey on children, we’re surely not supposed to believe that Mr. Ratburn never tried to fiddle his aardvark pecker. This revelation certainly makes the cover of “Arthur’s Teacher Trouble” look ominous. Someone needed to point out that a lot of these teachers working at schools now are homosexuals, closeted or otherwise. And these kids need to know that they’re in a complete and total danger zone when they enter school, and not just from the n-words and the lying hos and the school shooters. There is no money, no prestige and no sense of cultural duty associated with becoming a teacher anymore. Only dumb women and gay men do it now. Gone are the days of the well-learned and respected schoolteacher who would put dunces in the corner where they belonged, and who would beat the girls with a switch for gossiping. Even the well-meaning college kids don’t do it anymore. They try Teach For America for a couple of semesters and drop out of the program out of frustration because they just can’t deal with uppity n-words all the time. The only people left are the kind who like having unfettered access to children. I’m glad that the good folks at PBS are taking it upon themselves to teach children these valuable life lessons and to keep a wary eye on the pedo at the head of the class, scribbling away on the blackboard. Kids nowadays are in more danger than they know. Pomidor Quixote #sexist #psycho dailystormer.name [From "Some States Want to Prevent Husbands From Having Sex by Closing Loopholes in “Marital Rape” Laws"] You can’t really genocide whites if they’re having successful marriages and lots of kids. Having sex is needed in order to have kids, so making having sex harder for husbands is a critical part of the destruction of the family and the lowering of white birthrates. AP Witches were still being burned at the stake when Sir Matthew Hale came up with his legal theory that rape could not happen within marriage. The 17th century English jurist declared it legally impossible because wedding vows implied a wife’s ongoing consent to sex. Three and a half centuries later, vestiges of the so-called “marital rape exemption” or “spousal defense” still exist in most states — remnants of the English common law that helped inform American legal traditions. Legislative attempts to end or modify those exemptions have a mixed record but have received renewed attention in the #MeToo era. Witchcraft is real and demons are real. Burning witches was necessary to prevent society from degenerating into something like what we have today, where witches are allowed to hold positions of power, to pervert society and to do all kinds of evil. The most recent efforts to roll back protections for spouses focus on rapes that happen when a partner is drugged, unconscious or otherwise incapacitated. Minnesota is the latest to take action. The state Legislature this week voted to eliminate the exemption, which had prevented prosecutions in those cases. Saying that “marital rape” is a thing is like saying that you can rape a prostitute after paying for her services. The idea that a husband can rape a wife is preposterous. “Marital rape” is only a thing because of this stupid Talmudic “consent” gibberish that managed to confuse people about the basic nature of human mating. What is even the point of marriage if your wife can just refuse sex as if she were not your wife and divorce you whenever she feels like it? Women are property. Rape is bad because it lowers the value of another man’s property. It turns good quality womb-golem virgins into loose-lipped STD-infected used items, and used items are worth less than brand new items. If she’s your wife, the whole point of marriage is that her uterus is yours, and you don’t damage your tools by using them for their intended purpose. Rape is supposed to be about property, not about women’s feelings. A law stating that a man cannot have sex with his wife is a law stating that marriage does not exist and that the woman is not his, which goes back to “what is even the point of marriage nowadays?” A wife denying sex to her husband is literally stealing from him. Daily Stormer #wingnut dailystormer.name [From "Sargon the Black Resurrects the Blackshirt Movement in Britain!"] Sargon the Supreme Individualist finally caved and decided to resort to collectivist violence administered by his very own right-wing rape posse. Two protesters have thrown milkshake at UKIP European election candidate Carl Benjamin at a rally. Mr Benjamin was holding a gathering on Lemon Quay in Truro, Cornwall, with British activist Milo Yiannopoulos. It is understood a man and a woman tried to target Mr Benjamin with the milkshake but missed. Supporters of Mr Benjamin pulled the man to the ground after he threw the milkshake. Police said they received reports of an altercation. A bit of the old ultraviolence. Brother Blackshirts confirmed. Sargon has finally accepted and imbibed the spirit of his forerunner, Oswald Mosley, and begun to take to the streets to speak the truth and fight back against vicious neo-libs and paid Jewish shills. This is a serious escalation. Because at this point, Carl is a man with nothing to lose. He’s been kicked off Twitter, kicked off Patreon and now YouTube is demonetizing him for pledging to rape his female opponents to death in the elections. I see the two events (Death Squad and demonetization) as being closely related. First, they took away Sargon’s support system – his ability to care for himself, his wife and his wife’s son. Then, they made him dangerous – they forced him to organize a Blackshirt Bloc and repudiate his previously-held views on individualism and liberasty/liberistism. Sargon didn’t create Sargon. They created Sargon. They made him put on the black shirt. I dare say that Oswald Mosley has found a worthy successor in Carl Sargon. Pomidor Quixote and Mr Justice Hayden #sexist #wingnut dailystormer.name [From "British Judge Says Sex With Wife is a “Fundamental Human Right” and Everyone Loses Their Minds"] The Jewish media puts sex everywhere to make people think about it constantly, but the Jews also make heterosexual sex much more difficult to achieve by introducing convoluted ideas about “consent” and about what marriage is supposed to be. One man is taking a stand against that bullshit. This judge is bringing old ideas and common sense back into the discussion about the role of marriage in our society, and he’s doing all of that by… saying that a husband should be able to have sex with his wife. RT wrote: A British judge has invoked the ire of online commentators, activists and politicians after remarking that it was a man’s “fundamental human right” to have sex with his wife during an already controversial court case. “I cannot think of any more obviously fundamental human right than the right of a man to have sex with his wife… I think he is entitled to have it properly argued,” senior High Court judge Justice Hayden was quoted as saying during a preliminary hearing on a case involving a married couple of 20 years. The wife has learning difficulties and her condition is deteriorating, prompting social services to raise the alarm about the potential for sexual abuse in the relationship as they felt the woman was no longer able to make decisions about whether she consented to sexual relations. Social services ultimately brought the case to the Court of Protection in London. The husband has pledged to no longer sleep with his wife but prosecuting lawyers are still pushing for a court order barring sexual relations to prevent the woman from being raped. Let’s get something out of the way first: all women have learning difficulties. It’s just a matter of how severe those difficulties are. That said, if she can say yes or no to a question such as “do you want some ice cream?” or “do you feel like watching a movie?” then she can absolutely consent to sex. This whole “consent” thing is a retarded Jewish invention that overcomplicates basic male-female interaction. If a woman doesn’t want to have sex, she resists, if she wants to stop having sex while having sex, she makes it known. If she for some reason decides to pretend to be okay with having sex while not feeling like having sex, then that’s her problem. Literally something that happens in her mind that can’t be measured or proven. The insanity of this story is augmented by the fact that even though the poor husband pledged to no longer sleep with his wife, prosecutors still push for a court order to officially make him unable to have sex with his wife. Do you understand how insane that is? If a man can’t have sex with his wife, why does he have a wife? The idea about marriage that most people have in their subconscious was put there by tales of old, by their grandfathers, and by the Jewish social-engineering media machine. If marriage doesn’t ask anything from women, and gives them half of your stuff or more whenever they please, it not only does nothing to stop relationships from breaking down but it actually provides incentives for relationships to break down. These whores will destroy your life if you let them. The moment they feel they’ve secured you, that you have no alternative front-hole, and that you’re socially and legally prohibited from looking for their replacement… that’s the moment they’ll decide to stop having sex with you. Sex will become less and less frequent. She’ll never be “in the mood,” she’ll always be tired or with headache. She’ll never treat you the same. She’ll look at you with disdain. She’ll resent you. She’ll feel trapped by you even though you’re the one that’s really trapped. She’ll feel you’re abusive even though she’s the one being abusive. She’ll file for divorce and she’ll take as much from you as she possibly can, and then she’ll tell everyone you know about how terrible you are. She’ll go fuck some loser that can’t compare to you but that will have more than you because she’ll share the stuff she took from you with him, and they’ll laugh at you every time you go get your kids on the weekends. Your kids won’t understand why daddy looks so poor now while mommy and her new boyfriend seem so well off. You’ll want to explain to them… but you won’t be able to. You wouldn’t even know where to start. As time passes, you’ll see how your own kids prefer mommy’s boyfriend. They’ll tell you how funny he is, how many great things they do together, and how much time they spend together. Every time you send them back to her house… you’ll feel like a shadow. An empty human husk trapping the echoes of the man that you once were and mixing them with the cries of the man that you wanted to be. All because you thought marriage meant something other than your doom. Andrew Anglin #sexist #fundie #psycho dailystormer.name [From "Blasphemous Evangelical Wench Executed by God at 37"] /CBS News: Rachel Held Evans, a popular, progressive Christian writer who challenged the traditional evangelical views, died Saturday, her husband confirmed in a blog post. She was 37. So, why did God decide to execute this stupid bitch? Her popular writing and views on Christianity often enraged traditional evangelicals. In 2015, The Washington Post called her the “most polarizing woman in evangelicalism.” She was an advocate for LGBT membership in the church, urged fellow pro-life Christians to vote for Hillary Clinton and wrestled with the role of the patriarchy in the church. She served on former President Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. She eventually left the evangelical church, writing in 2016 that “church universal is so much bigger than white American evangelicalism, and that’s going to become ever more apparent in the months and years to come.” We need to pray that God will start executing more of His enemies. In particular, heretical Christians should be executed by God in order to show the stupid believers in this blasphemous hoax that they are anti-Christ. People who use the name of God to promote man-on-man anal, infanticide, feminism, Judaism and other satanic activities are the epitome of evil on Earth, and they all appear to be begging for divine judgment. Take comfort in the fact that this bitch is now burning in Hell for all eternity. And take this opportunity to remember that the Gates of Heaven will open for those who fight against the evil of Satan and his Jews. If you have faith, keep fighting and you will not lose it. If you do not have faith, keep fighting and you will find it. Pomidor Quixote #sexist #pedo dailystormer.name [From "High School Whore Gets Two Teachers Jailed by Giving Them Blowjobs, Sues School, Asks for $15,000"] In the modern world there’s this thing called “sexual abuse” which sometimes means that women are in love with their abusers, willingly eat lunch with them, kiss them, give them blowjobs, get them jailed, and then ask for $15,000 because of all that abuse they endured. Orlando Sentinel: A former Ocoee High student who was sexually abused by two teachers at the school when she was 17 years old filed a lawsuit last month accusing Orange County’s school district of negligence, court records show. The young woman, identified in court records only by initials, filed the suit in Orange County circuit court April 11 and is seeking more than $15,000 in damages. Named as defendants are Orange County Public Schools and the Orange County School Board. According to a police report, the girl said she would eat lunch in Kirkpatrick’s classroom and also went there during his planning period, which is when the abuse occurred. They would move to a long table against a wall so no one could see them, she said. So she gave some blowjobs and kisses and had lunch with them and whatever. Why should she get $15,000? Why should the men go to jail? The fact that both of those men unknowingly “abused” the same girl suggests that she is the problem, and not them. What are the chances of two evil predators separately picking the same poor innocent girl as their target? The girl obviously initiated both relationships. Come on. Calling what those men did “abuse” is insane. Illegal? Yes, but nowadays legal and illegal are not really indicators of anything but Jewish whims. The goblin invasion of America is legal, because they’re seeking asylum. Having a silly mutual infatuation with a 17-year-old is illegal because uh… it’s somehow bad for the minor. Something about power difference. Yes, that’s it. The problem is the power dynamic. [Portrait of Karl Marx] Andrew Anglin #sexist dailystormer.name [From "Sluts Must be Made to Pay for Their Insolence"] People often ask me: “Anglin, after the revolution, what are we going to do with all of these filthy e-sluts with premium Snapchat accounts that are milking the blood of desperate, lonely victimized men? Will we take them out and burn them alive, or put bullets in their heads and throw them into mass graves?” And my answer is that death is too good for them. The solution to them is obvious: We will give away these whores as sex slaves to the winners of video game tournaments. They will be forced to live in sheds out back and wear electric shock collars. In actual fact, all women will be forced to live in sheds out back, unless their owners apply for special permits. The application for the permit will cost $900 and there will be no guarantee it will be approved. Women smell terrible and they are filthy, and generally have no place inside of a house. They also snore and drool in their sleep. They are a detriment to the well being of children, the elderly and more civilized animals such as cats. They also may pose a danger to fishes in aquariums, because they don’t know what “pH” means. We love our aquarium fish, don’t we folks? The question on everyone’s mind is: what video games will be involved in these tournaments? Well, this is very simple: Dota PUBG But you might be saying to yourself “but I’m not really a gamer, I play sports or whatever.” Well friend, there’s good news for you as well. We will also be having sports competitions to give away the sluts from the other problem zone, which is Instagram. Those particular whores are usually in better physical shape than Snapchat whores, so it is fitting they will be given to the more fit in these sex slave reward tournaments. We will do all of the sports, including water polo and ping pong. Basically, there is going to be a massive surplus of sluts, because we’re pretty much going to kill almost all the men during the purge. So I mean, this isn’t going to be an “everyone gets a trophy” situation, but it will basically be like that. Many men will end up with a surplus of sex slaves, which they will be encouraged to share with the men who didn’t win any of the tournaments. Men who have more than 3 or 4 will probably be trying to give them away, because as people with experience with women are aware, women who are locked in sheds out back howl at night, and they also attack one another, and unlike any other mammal on earth, they will resort to cannibalism even when well-fed. submitted by anonymous 2 months ago and got 11 comments Diversity Macht Frei and Renaud Camus #racist #wingnut #conspiracy dailystormer.name [From "French Writer Renaud Camus May Face Prosecution Over 'Condoms for Africa' Tweet"] Renaud Camus, the French writer who coined the phrase “Great Replacement” has again been indicted for wrongspeech in France. The complaint was over a tweet he posted last week which translates as follows: “A box of condoms offered in Africa, that’s three fewer people drowned in the Mediterranean, a hundred thousand euros in savings for the French benefits system, two prison cells freed up and three centimetres of ice shelf preserved.” Back in the 70s, the Jews successfully lobbied for reforms to speech laws that would allow third parties to file complaints, rather than just the people directly affected by the supposed wrongspeech. Since then, the limits of free speech in France have largely been determined by Jewish “anti-racism” organisations. In this case, the organisation filing the complaint is LICRA (International League Against Racism and Antisemitism), a quintessentially Jewish organisation that has brought in a few browns to make it look real. It started life as the “League Against Pogroms”, its mission being to secure the acquittal of a Jew who had murdered a visiting Ukrainian dignitary, with the claim that he had been involved in pogroms. The Jew did indeed get away with murder on that occasion and Jews have been getting away with murder ever since. Camus makes a point of public advocacy using his own name, disdaining anonymity. This is noble. But its practical result is criminal conviction. We’re living in a system that isn’t fair, that is, in fact, genuinely genocidal and tyrannical. We have a ruling class committed to bringing about our ethnic extinction, one that seemingly sincerely believes the mere assertion of our right to exist constitutes some strange species of wickedness that merits the severest persecution. Trying to play the game as if this were a contest of honour between gentlemen is only likely to have unhappy results. Andrew Anglin #racist dailystormer.name Poll: 16% of Americans Want to Go Live in Another Country I think it is safe to assume that 100% of these people are white, because immigrants surely don’t want to leave. And black people sure as hell don’t they’re barely aware that other countries even exist. In fact, I don’t think you could really say that they are “aware” of that fact, because it becomes too abstract to imagine somewhere they’ve never seen as being real. So if 16% of the total and only white people answered yes, then that means do the math. Probably about a third of whites said “yes, I would like to move to another country.” Blaming this on Donald Trump is insane. Typical HuffPo gibberish. Nothing has changed since he has been President, other than that things have gotten much more Jewish because Jews have lost their minds and flexed their muscles. I cannot imagine that a single liberal can name a single way in which their own personal life has been negatively affected by the Trump Presidency, at all. Let alone in such a large way that they feel they need to flee the country. It certainly has negatively affected the lives of conservative white people because again, Jews have lost their minds, they’re clamping down on everything. Maybe the women said they want to leave because of Trump, because they felt they were morally obligated to say that. I don’t know. Nor do I care about what women think. But a lot of the men answering they want out is simply because the US has become a shithole country. I haven’t lived in the US really at all in my adult life, and I miss my people but I’m not sitting around longing to go back. No Freedoms People hate living in America because there aren’t any freedoms. We’re actually living under an extreme form of brutal Jewish tyranny. For as much as the ostensible American vision is about “freedom,” there is hardly a country on earth that has less freedom than America. The only “freedoms” that exist that don’t exist in alleged “dictatorships” are “freedoms” to be deviant and depraved stuff that should be illegal. In America, you have the freedom to: Do man on man anal masturbation March around naked Be a Moslem Produce, distribute, consume pornography Inject your son with estrogen Inject yourself with fentanyl Smoke marijuana Own guns (restrictions apply) In America, you do not have the freedom to: Live in a homogeneous community Send your kids to a homogeneous school Pray at school Refuse vaccinations Drive around without being threatened and harassed by police Post your views on the internet Go to a brothel Go camping on public land Not have health insurance Demonstrate in public without fear of being physically attacked and then charged with crimes Have sex without fear of being charged with fake rape and sent to prison Safely get married without fear of being divorce-raped Do anything at all without some license Hire employees based on merit or other employer preference Buy bump stocks Not bake an anal cake In China, you have the freedom to: Drive through any neighborhood without fear of being shot by black people Walk around at night without fear of being attacked by black people Post your views on the internet (everything except anti-government) Keep your bar open as long as you want Beat your wife (within reason, restrictions apply) Start your own small business without being taxed to death Live in safe, homogenous communities Work and make a good living Get married without fear that the government will give all of your money and your children to your wife in the event of a divorce Smoke cigarettes in coffee shops and bars Do things without being asked for a license Hire whoever you want Bake cakes for whoever you want In China, you do not have the freedom to: Criticize the government Own a handgun without a license So I mean, I don’t know it’s not exactly a math equation, but it would be a hard argument to make that you actually have MORE freedom in the USA than you do in China. Certainly, on a day-to-day basis, you feel a lot more free in China than you do in America. Though this is not exactly specific, in America, you have a constant feeling that there is pressure pushing down on you from all directions, and you do not have that in China. At least not as a foreigner. Chinese people do feel a lot of pressure from their parents. Overall, the argument that there is a higher level of freedom in America than in China or whichever other country is demonized as a non-freedom country by America is stupid, and I think a lot of people feel very oppressed in America. The Browning I haven’t lived in America in a very long time, but I talk to people, and everyone says that all these places I grew up in are now overrun with various “New Americans.” We know that diversity creates a feeling of alienation, and I imagine people want to escape that. It is not an exaggeration to say that the number one reason that ex-pats give for having left the West is immigration. Granted, that is usually Europeans rather than Americans, because there aren’t very many American ex-pats, relatively. But clearly, the same principle applies. So I would not be at all surprised if a lot of men answering this poll were responding to immigration. Even if they aren’t consciously aware of it, or willing to admit it, this is the thing that is changing America. Donald Trump regrettably is not changing America. That’s how we all feel. But much worse. It is deep, soul-crippling alienation. So it really isn’t a surprise that people want to get out of this mess. Especially when all of these social-engineering programs have successfully broken down family ties. America was the best country that ever existed, and these kikes have wrecked it completely. It hurts me to think about what they took from us. submitted by anonymous 6 months ago and got 9 comments Just Imagine: The Media is Confused Why People Thought Liberals Would Want Poor Brown People in Their Neighborhoods Fox News has run with the same narrative I ran with yesterday when I read the WaPo article about how the Trump Administration is considering busing tens of thousands of invading Central Americans to Democrat cities: this is a gift that the Democrats should be thankful for, and referring to it as a “cruel punishment” is virulent racism. Tucker quoted many liberal sources who referred to this as “dumping” like dumping trash. Laura Ingraham also did a piece, echoing this same sentiment. I’m still shocked at the fact that the WaPo ran this story in the first place, that Nancy Pelosi gave comment, and that all of these liberal outlets ran with the story without considering the obvious implication. This was so clearly a setup that it is mind-blowing that the media is so out-of-touch that they couldn’t see it for what it is. As soon as I saw it, I said “well, obviously Stephen Miller leaked this himself to get this response.” But these people are so disconnected by their privileged status as the elite ruling class that they cannot grasp the fact that anyone would be taken aback by their position that “diversity” is simply a way to punish working and middle class Americans even when they openly say “actually, we only want to flood other people’s neighborhoods with diversity, and doing it to us is a cruel punishment, because we don’t deserve this dumping.” But maybe this shouldn’t be shocking. Maybe the media is as shocked that people are shocked that the shocked are shocked. Truly, they must be thinking: “I thought everyone understood that we were only using immigrants to harm working and middle class white people? How did they not know this?” Well, the reason people didn’t know it is that they didn’t say it. They said “diversity is our greatest strength,” without stipulating that what they meant is “displacing normal white people by destroying their communities will make the ruling ideological elite stronger.” This entire spectacle almost makes the media seem more honest. They just assumed that everyone knew that they didn’t think diversity made people stronger in a general sense, and that this was simply an attack on white people. What I hope is that they now feel comfortable just coming out and saying things straight. They are saying things straight by saying they don’t want this genetic refuse “dumped” on them. But they need to expound on that, and just tell the whole truth and nothing but: We only want to use immigrants to destroy normal white people, because America will be stronger when white people are gone. We don’t mean strength’ as in your communities get stronger if there is less social cohesion’ that doesn’t even make any sense at all. When we say diversity is our greatest strength,’ we mean that America and the world is stronger if white people are destroyed. Sorry, we thought all of our viewers understood what we meant, and we didn’t realize there was any confusion about this until Donald Trump threatened to dump these illiterate peasants in our neighborhoods. Now that we’ve cleared this all up, we trust that you will continue to support our plan to ethnically displace and ultimately commit genocide against white Americans using the tool of mass nonwhite immigration. To clear things up going forward, instead of using the phrase diversity is our greatest strength,’ which has led to this confusion, we will say wiping out the white race is our greatest strength.’ Thank you. Then, everyone is honest, and we can finally have this discussion we’ve been waiting so long to have. Or, perhaps we can’t have it. Perhaps after the media clears this up, the left will continue to be just as rabid if not more so about silencing all dissent. But that’s fine. If they come out and say “we’re silencing you while we commit genocide against you, because we don’t believe you have a right to defend your own existence,” then at least everyone is honest and we all know where we stand. It’s much better to admit that the censorship agenda is because they do not want us to defend ourselves from genocide than for them to keep slandering us as terrorists with this “hatred and violence” mantra. All I’ve ever asked for was honesty. And Stephen Miller’s sanctuary city troll might have just led us all to total honesty. Pomidor Quixote #racist dailystormer.name [From "UK: Radical Eugenicist Tory MP Proposes Street Combat Knife Crime Policy to Purge the Weak"] I do not usually appreciate African culture, or feel enriched by it. I am often annoyed or disgusted by its bestial lack of depth and only rarely do I like anything about it. But I need more of these knife fight videos. They bring me joy. The best way for me to get more of these videos is for all UK citizens to be taught street fighting unarmed knife defense combat skills. Sir Christopher Chope agrees with me. Children should get fitter’ so they are more able to repel the growing threat of knife attacks, an outspoken Tory MP told senior police officers today. Sir Christopher Chope says more youngsters should be encouraged to try judo and taekwondo to avoid them feeling the need to carry a blade themselves. The Brexiteer, who represents Christchurch in Dorset, suggested martial arts would help youngsters be physically able to deal with the situation’ by either disarming a rival or fighting back. Dave Thompson, Chief Constable of the West Midlands Police, told MPs today that the best knife prevention technique is to run away, as fast as you can’. Sir Christopher replied: You do need to be fit to do that’. I assume that Sir Christopher winked at someone as he spoke those last words. It’s clear what he meant to say. Some people are more fit than others. None of us chose for things to be this way. This is how things are ordered in nature. [Pictures of Hitler's quote "Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live", of "Pyramid of Capitalist System" and of a food chain] Sir Christopher was tired of reading good news about the economy. He stood up and bravely declared it to be self-evident that Parliamentary authority be justified only through its adherence to one first principle. Parliament must strengthen the British people. To strengthen the collective spirit, each individual Briton must know mortal combat. To strengthen the national bloodline, the weak must be purged. Sir Christopher’s radical politics of civilizational bloodsports seen through virality algorithms of mass surveillance footage are the logical extension of his ecofascist worldview. He believed in the genetically determined Neitzchean superman as the only valid social goal. He believed in himself, and in his own imperative to supply me with ever-increasing sacrifices of relatively athletic knife fight videos with moral consequences to jungle barbarians. It does not matter what has to happen to society in order to produce the imagery. The violence was fast-paced and tactical, but Sir Christopher knew that there could be more. To achieve his goals, society would have to be repurposed away from the production and consumption of consumer goods, and towards the attainment of the ideal human form through mass sacrificial combat. Ecofascists such as Sir Christopher Chope believe that the three factors which conspire to determine a nation’s destiny were land, divine fortune, and blood nobility. Britain’s land mass was already sufficient to sustain many more Britons (if only they would breed in captivity!) and in any case could not be increased because there were no more wars. A worldly man, Sir Christopher reasoned well that divine fortune was often indifferent to man’s interests and could not be surely appeased with any policy of Parliament. For one revolutionary MP, it is racial destiny itself which must be mastered. Of all the factors incumbent upon the United Kingdom’s inevitable destiny, it is only this factor which could be improved upon through its subjugation to Parliamentary policy. Through mass conscription of the civilian population into a street fighter knife defense training program, Sir Christopher saw the most expedient path to the completion of German idealism, and the justification of previous acts of Parliament. The Briton would be forced to confront knife-wielding barbarians, which had already been brought to roam their homeland through previous acts of Parliament, as a test of personal strength. The Briton would share this experience of Victory with all other Britons through their culture, and recall the culling of the weaker Britons in their collective racial memory. This test of martial nature would define their national identity and embolden their will to exist and to struggle as a People. If the Briton were to achieve his perfect form, it would not matter to him if society were to collapse or if government were to fall into corruption and chaos. Civilization was created once through collective spirit of will to power. As long as the spirit of greatness is within man, he can create it again, stronger. Andrew Anglin #fundie dailystormer.name [From "On the Virtue of Letting Cancer Children Die"] Earlier this week, I proposed that instead of spending billions of dollars to try to prolong the misery of cancer children, we instead force cancer children to fight one another to the death in cages. Most people found this to be a very reasonable proposal that stems from basic common sense. However, some faggots said I am a big meanie. And they said: how would you like it if you had a cancer child? Firstly, I won’t have a cancer child, because I have excellent genetics and only bang sluts that are 10/10 HOT and who only eat green vegetables and probiotics. Secondly, if I did ever have a cancer child, I wouldn’t be some pussy faggot and let its life drag on in misery to meet my own deranged emotional needs. I would give it the pillow it deserves. One astute commenter replied to the childlike babies who became sad at the thought of bald cancer children being forced to fight to the death for our amusement in cages with wisdom and guile: Apparently, some faggots think this is a motherfucking game. It’s not Boomerworld, where everything is discussion, and rhetoric, and moralizing, and hand wringing, and fucking virtue signaling. We are living in the real world and if the white race loses, or if humanity goes extinct, there’s no chance for a retest. Big picture. What does the white/human race gain by providing extra life to failed life? Cancer children are a plague that needs to be wiped out. Boomer values are “the strong protect the weak.” As if this is moral. Well, how has that worked out? Not very well. Propping up the weak above the strong leads to chaos, with the weak oppressing and abusing the strong because the weak are fundamentally vindictive and hateful, with a drive to take revenge on their betters. Exalting weakness as virtue is decadent and depraved. It is not morality. It is anti-morality. Actual morality is strength itself. God is only as just as nature, and nature is pure justice. In nature, the strong survive. If we had instituted “the strong shall rule” as a policy, niggers wouldn’t be running wild, women wouldn’t leave the house without a chaperone let alone fuck every guy they walk past, and Jews the weakest of all races wouldn’t be ruling over us. Jeff Bezos wouldn’t be the richest man in the world because War Machine who would be free and on the loose in a world of pure natural justice would break into his house and rape his wife and Mexican girlfriend in front of him and throw him off the roof. And then War Machine would be the head of Amazon, and we would be able to find out what the result of that dynamic would be. The first step in our journey is to pass a law saying it is illegal to give medical treatment to children with cancer and also ban health insurance and socialism. The second step is to release War Machine from prison and pass a law that says he can’t ever be arrested no matter what he does including but not limited to murder, rape and mass murder. We’ll figure out the third step later. Roy Batty #racist dailystormer.name EU Parliament Decides to Pay “Afro-Europeans” Reparations Why are countries that didn’t even have colonies being asked to pay reparations? What in the world is going on here? Daily Caller: The European Parliament overwhelmingly approved a resolution Tuesday addressing “structural racism” in Europe against Europeans of African descent. The resolution calls for “reparations for crimes against humanity during European colonialism.” The document was written by the British Labour MEP Claude Moraes and was inspired by the racist behavior allegedly experienced by Italian socialist MEP Cécile Kyenge, who served as Italy’s first black government minister, according to The Guardian. The resolution was approved with 535 in favor, and 80 against with 44 abstentions. Observe: the Eternal Anglo is trying to bring down all of Europe again. Will Brexit ever happen???!??? These awful people will never ever fucking leave. And worse, they’re going to trash the house nice and thorough before they finally get the boot. Why can’t they just be miserable on their own little island? Why must they spread misery wherever they go? Just as the reparations debate began in earnest across the Atlantic in America, it suddenly debuted in Europe as well. It’s almost as if these things are coordinated. If America is going to do it, then it seems some random UK asshole politician will make sure that Europe gets to work on the agenda as well. The resolution also clearly endorses action regarding reparations made to Afro-Europeans for “crimes against humanity during European colonialism.” How many colonies did Poland have? The European Parliament’s press release about the resolution reads, “Additionally, people of African descent should be taken into account more in current funding programmes and in the next multiannual financial framework (2021-2027).” This means that they’re not actually going to start a Reparations Tax or a “Fairness and Equality” Tax yet. They’ve only acknowledged the moral need for such a measure to eventually be undertaken, but aren’t quite ready to talk numbers. But you can see where this is heading: the organized looting of Europe. All of it to pay for infiniggers from Africa and to assuage the Eternal Anglo’s bloodthirst, which is fueled, paradoxically, by the Eternal Anglo’s burning White guilt. Hopefully, Brexit can happen before the Anglos get a chance to introduce any more creative new moral ideas. And hopefully, the Visegrad countries get the hell out of the EU before they’re made to pretend they had colonies, pretend they have White Guilt and pretend they feel morally obligated to take care of and coddle the world’s niggers from now until the end of time as the Anglo’s beady-eyed God obliges them to do. [From "I Wish Donald Trump was Going to Take Away Everyone’s Health Insurance"] Just as I wished all of those stories about Donald Trump secretly being a Nazi were true, I wish that he was going to actually take away everyone’s health insurance. Firstly, old people are already taken care of. So only three kinds of people need health insurance: Fat people Cancer children Government health insurance is simply yet another plot to redistribute wealth to the weakest, most pathetic and most useless people on earth. Socialism is a system for the weak. Show me a person who isn’t pathetic who supports socialism. I want a system where only the strong survive. Where Apache UFC fighters are given medals for beating the shit out of their whore porn star girlfriends, instead of being wrongly imprisoned. If you’re so pathetic you need a doctor to solve your health problems, then nature should be left to deal with you using her own devices. Instead of giving fat people free health care, I want to force them to fight one another to the death for my amusement. I want to cleanse the earth of fat people and children with cancer. Who would win in a death match: a 300 pound man, or ten repulsive bald children with leukemia? I want to know. You might even say I would make a wish to see that fight. But I never will know. Because Donald Trump won’t take any fat piece of shit’s health insurance. He’s not going to force any bald cancer children to fight to the death for your amusement. This man is sending billions to spread man-on-man anal sodomy in Africa. I would prefer Pastor Ssempa was president. You think Blormf is going to let some fat slob keel over and get himself out of our misery? He’s probably going to up the funding to the sickening cancer children just like he is trying to save retards from being exterminated. [From "Brenton Tarrant was a Uniformed Partisan Fighting an Occupying Force"] In Brenton Tarrant’s manifesto, he acknowledges that the act was technically terrorism, by the accepted definition of the term. But he argues that he is actually a partisan, fighting back against an occupying force. Though the definitions of “terrorist” and “partisan” are such that there is a lot of overlap and one could probably be considered both at the same time (especially given that the definition of the former is broad and vague), the bottom line is that a terrorist is an illegitimate combatant and a partisan is a legitimate combatant. Tarrant made a concerted effort to ensure that he meets the definition of a partisan. In the Q&A section, Tarrant writes: Do you consider it a terrorist attack? By the definition, then yes. It is a terrorist attack. But I believe it is a partisan action against an occupying force. Further, he states plainly what his defense will be at trial: If you survived, did you intend to go to trial? Yes, and to plead not guilty. The attack was a partisan action against [an] occupying force, and I am a lawful, uniformed combatant. A partisan is defined thusly: A member of an armed group formed to fight secretly against an occupying force, in particular one operating in enemy-occupied Yugoslavia, Italy, and parts of eastern Europe in World War II. Wikipedia has the historical context of the concept pre-WWII: The initial concept of partisan warfare involved the use of troops raised from the local population in a war zone (or in some cases regular forces) who would operate behind enemy lines to disrupt communications, seize posts or villages as forward-operating bases, ambush convoys, impose war taxes or contributions, raid logistical stockpiles, and compel enemy forces to disperse and protect their base of operations. Under international law, no distinction is made between a soldier and a partisan, and a partisan is considered a soldier so long as he meets four requirements: There is someone at the head of the organisation, who assumes liability They can be identified by a sign or mark, which is visible from far away They carry their weapons openly They adhere to the customs and laws of war, during their operation Though Brenton was not a member of an organization, he assumed liability for his own actions. He also included a section in his manifesto about contacting the reborn Knights Templar, the group of Anders Breivik, and getting their blessing, which I suspect he included to fulfill the first requirement. He wore a uniform with a visible military insignia. [Black sun emblem on his clothes] And he carried his weapons openly. People would try to argue that he did not adhere to the customs and laws of war, which are defined by the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, because he attacked unarmed persons. However, the fact that the mosque he attacked had been caught recruiting terrorists means that it qualifies as a military base and could thus be considered a legitimate military target. Unsurprisingly, Jewish partisans who fought against the Nazis on the Eastern Front have been celebrated as heroes, despite the fact that they were engaged in terroristic tactics that violated the laws and customs of war. So the real world difference in definition between a terrorist and a partisan is thus: A partisan must be fighting in his own lands against a foreign force, whereas a terrorist is either fighting against his own people or the government of a foreign power In order to be considered a partisan instead of a terrorist, you have to win The argument of the current Western globalist regime is that the Moslems of Christchurch are “New Zealanders” because they live there, and thus a white man fighting them is fighting against his own people. Because the governments of our countries are a completely autocratic, authoritarian force, they are not under any obligation for their assertions to make any sense. Right now, it is looking as though the government of New Zealand is planning to do some kind of secret trial for Brenton Tarrant, who has said that he will be representing himself in court. We shouldn’t apologize for Brenton Tarrant or the many more who will inevitably follow him with similar acts. Nor should we ever endorse them. However, because we have no ability to stop these events from happening, we have no choice but to deal with them, in the same way that the government and media cannot stop Moslem terrorist attacks but can only manage the public perception of them in the larger context of society. Slut Privilege: Stupid Bitch Gets Probation for Triple Manslaughter A completely different set of laws exists for women. This is just the reality. They have all of the benefits of being a man, but none of the responsibilities. They can just kill people, and literally nothing happens to them. Breitbart: Zoe Reardon, 19, will serve three years’ probation and 240 hours of community service for killing three pedestrians with her vehicle in 2017. Kaitlin Hunt, 28, her daughter 3-month-old Riley Hunt, and 61-year-old family friend Kathy Deming died after being hit by Reardon’s jeep on September 9, 2017. The baby died that day, while both of the women survived just a matter of days longer before they too perished. Reardon’s defense claims it was not a case of distracted driving, with Reardon herself insisting she never saw the group crossing the road in front of her. The victims’ families, however, refuse to accept that answer. “It’s ridiculous to say they walked out in front of you. That didn’t happen, and you know it didn’t happen,” said Deming’s widower Mike during his impact statement. And while the defense pushed for the most severe possible punishment, Reardon will be allowed to continue as a student in Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and Judge Alan Jordan will allow her to check in with a Texas probation officer during her time there. “You’re pretty young,” Jordan said to Reardon during sentencing. “You’ve got a lifetime ahead of you. I expect this is something you’re going to have a hard time dealing with the rest of your life.” It’s just unbelievable, the way we let these whores just do absolutely whatever they want, and never suffer any consequences whatsoever. You know they get away with most things, but then you think “okay, this bitch killed three people including a baby, they’re going to have to do something to her.” But nope. The same group that is believed, no matter what they say, if they accuse you of anything, is 100% above the law, and is allowed to do whatever they want, including just killing people on the street at random. The Jews have turned women into a type of super-class that is completely untouchable. And all they do the single thing that they do is destroy. No one can point to any one benefit that “liberating” women has brought society. Not one. Nothing, at all. Every aspect of this program has been entirely negative. But every single day, we are told we need more of it which just means “even less consequences.” There are feminists out there thinking “why should she have to have probation? This is pure sexism, suggesting that she deserves to have any form of responsibility for her behavior whatsoever even if it is merely symbolic.” Women must be beaten, they must be raped and they must be locked in cages. We don’t have any other choice. DerekWIll & G-Man #sexist dailystormer.name (DerekWIll) Boys should not be raised by women beyond age 6 or so. Women, from mothers and aunts to teachers and other strangers are very likely to try their best to suffocate their boy’s sexuality, to make him into the kind of man they wish they were attracted to. This is how you end up with mountains of nice guys. The reason, quite simply is the nature of female sexuality as submissive to male sexuality, and women not wanting to appear as sexual beings in front of their offspring (which is normal). Men have to raise boys to be men. School, and civilization generally, also have a neutering effect, in that they demand compliance. (G-Man) The jews are pretty brilliant at making their deviant fantasies come true. The various races of the earth are not equal, but by encouraging miscegenation eventually the jews make everyone equal, so it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. Same thing with Freud, his Oedipal Complex probably only applied to a handful of men, but thanks to modern (((conditioning))) all moms want to shoot pornos for their sons - progress! Study Finds Sex-Based Brain Differences IN UTERO: Blank Slatism BTFO Did that misogynist just imply that men and women are different? From the study’s abstract: Sex-related differences in brain and behavior are apparent across the life course, but the exact set of processes that guide their emergence in utero remains a topic of vigorous scientific inquiry. Here, we evaluate sex and gestational age (GA)-related change in functional connectivity (FC) within and between brain wide networks. Using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging we examined FC in 118 human fetuses between 25.9 and 39.6 weeks GA (70 male; 48 female). Infomap was applied to the functional connectome to identify discrete prenatal brain networks in utero. A consensus procedure produced an optimal model comprised of 16 distinct fetal neural networks distributed throughout the cortex and subcortical regions. We used enrichment analyses to assess network-level clustering of strong FC-GA correlations separately in each sex group, and to identify network pairs exhibiting distinct patterns of GA-related change in FC between males and females. We discovered both within and between network FC-GA associations that varied with sex. Specifically, associations between GA and posterior cingulate-temporal pole and fronto-cerebellar FC were observed in females only, whereas the association between GA and increased intracerebellar FC was stronger in males. These observations confirm that sexual dimorphism in functional brain systems emerges during human gestation. Bbbbut a top neuroscientist woman recently told us that men and women have the same brain! Everyone knows that men and women are the same and here’s proof: Women hate women Feminists say men and women are equal Feminists hate men Feminists say all kinds of bad stuff about men while also saying that they’re equal to men, so the logical assumption here isn’t that women just hate themselves but that they hate men and that they’re equal to men. Okay, maybe women do hate themselves. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pJeK1MRZkk But that’s just further proof of how terrible men are. Besides, baby boys and girls already have different brains while inside the womb because their mothers have been socially conditioned by the patriarchy and the babies somehow got that conditioning through the umbilical cord. Okay? If trannies had babies, the babies would be gender-neutral. Or something. Probably something. Mothers Furious After Watching Rape Porn Make a Porn Film to Show to Their Kids Some mothers will make their own porn films to educate their kids about what sex is really about. This isn’t even peak degeneracy yet. Daily Mail: A group of five mothers are making a porn film they would be happy to show their children after being disgusted by watched X-rated videos online. One mother was so horrified by online porn that she threw up and one was so traumatised that she quit the whole process. Sarah, 40, from North Wales, cried while watching rape-based content during the mothers’ research portion of the show. According to The Mirror, she said: If that was the first time I’d seen anything about sex I’d be petrified. I just thought all of a sudden that I was going to throw up. We need to show kids that there’s something else than this horrible sht we see on the internet. If my son treated a woman like that I would kick his a to kingdom come. She added: Porn doesn’t represent normal women, the actors and actresses they use mislead kids. They need to realise it’s not normal.’ The mothers are making their own porn film as part of a Channel 4 TV show called Mums Make Porn. The three-part series will see a group of mothers create a film with sex in it that they would be happy to let their children watch. Their mission was to create a porn film which promoted positive attitudes towards sex and realistic expectations of what it involves. They worked with industry experts and were given all the tools they would need to make the film. At the end of the series, the mothers reveal their X-rated film to their friends and family, including their children. That’s right, kids. Mommy will teach you how to fuck women now. How about not letting kids watch porn instead? They’ll likely say that that’s just not realistic, but if that’s the case, how can making them watch more porn even if homemade be the solution? Because this isn’t even about porn. It’s about women policing men’s sexuality. One of the mothers literally said “If my son treated a woman like that I would kick his arse to kingdom come” and that is the perfect synthesis of what all of this depravity is really about; women not approving of how men experience their sexuality. Old story, really. Don’t let front-holes tell you how to fuck. You are the one doing the fucking. These bitches do nothing but lay there anyway, so what say should they have in the activity? If they don’t like it, they can go get themselves fucked and beheaded by niggers. Besides, women really enjoy when you’re not concerned about their enjoyment of sex. They actually want you to take control over their bodies for your own pleasure, without worrying about their pleasure. It’s all just a gargantuan shit-test. Daily Stormer author and unnamed Strasbourg Yellow Vests #racist dailystormer.name [From "Stormer, Volume 76: The Yellow Vests March Upon a Synagogue"] Every day I read about what is happening in France and I sleep easier knowing that the Jews are going to pay for their wickedness in at least one major developed nation. Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace The event, which brought together 1,300 people at the height, was peppered with incidents throughout the day, first in the European Parliament, then at the station where the police were hit by jets of projectiles (including firecrackers), and on the edge of the Great Synagogue where racist and anti-Semitic remarks were made. They marched on a huge regional synagogue and started screaming “youpin” (French for kike) at yid passerby. [Drawing of persons burning on the stake] This thing is a pogrom in slow motion. It’s going to boil over any day now, and the evil Jews will be subject to discipline for the first time since the forties. I’m glad of the assistance I’ve been able to offer the French with infrastructure, logistics, and policy tips. I’m glad that they got to learn from the failures of the American alt-right. This kind of work has immense value. But I can also get pretty bitter and angry about the opportunity loss in the United States. I did not sign up to this thing to save France. I signed up to Make America Great Again. The French did everything right. They mobilized a mass movement by refusing to have centralized leaders or spokesmen. They chose a neutral symbol, the vest, and based their movement not out of any specific ideology or policy point, but mutual dissatisfaction with the Democratic establishment. This is how a mass street movement gets done. If Trump voters would simply put on their MAGA caps and start engaging in this kind of behavior at places Democrats congregate we’d have all of Trump’s campaign promises achieved by year’s end or a massive civil war in which we’d have the pretext to exterminate Democrats wholesale. Why couldn’t we do this? Where did we go wrong? How did the American ring wing dissident movement collapse in a circus of trailer trash stereotypes? The more I examine the realities of where the alt-right went all wrong, I come to the conclusion that the problem is we are spiritually barren. We were incapable of expelling false prophets primarily because we rejected proper authority within our own hearts. We are adrift, a people rootless. If you have no connection to the divine, you start looking for idols. If you start looking for idols, you’ll quickly find them in many things like podcasters with too much to say and too little wisdom backing it, or narcissistic fools chosen as “leaders” for you by a hostile media elite. You’ll do anything, even if it is to the detriment of your stated ideology or philosophy, as long as other people around you are telling you it is a good idea. Plenty of people on the right engage in social signaling too, and it is usually even dumber than when liberals do it. Alex Linder #sexist dailystormer.name [In response to the question 'What is the most important thing you have learnt in the last year?'] That women really are, per Schopenhauer, overgrown children, and the corollary: a man should never follow the advice of a woman where his own ideas and masculine reasoning and intuition would lead him the opposite way. Women are always wrong about the deepest stuff, and I have come to believe it is probably wrong ever to discuss politics with them. They simply aren’t a serious sex, although they are involved with very serious matters. Roy Batty #fundie dailystormer.name [OP of "Player 2 Has Joined: Loyalist Militias Are Prepping in Northern Ireland"] So I guess it’s time for this thing again. There’s a new IRA on the block doing bombings. And the Loyalist militias are recruiting again. I am excited. Although, I’m not sure what these loyalist groups are planning on doing. The UK never liked them, and they’re trying to arrest and crack down on them even though these people are ostensibly on the same side. In fact, there is a chance that the “Loyalists” will be a force for positive change in the UK. You get this pretty often. Whenever you have people that live on the border of an empire, they’re usually more loyal and more hardcore and more proud of their ethnicity because they have an Other nearby that constantly reminds them that these values are important. Shire-folk, on the other hand, are always the opposite. Spoiled and capricious and weak. Back in the 60s, in Algeria, you had “Loyalist” French colonists who had been living in the French colony for more than 300 years. When France decided to stab them in the back and give up on the counter-terrorism operation in Algeria, some of these pied-noirs decided to take revenge on France and began fighting both the French and the Moslem terrorists. They also started as a right-wing paramilitary group working with the colonial power (the OAS) but eventually went rogue. I think there’s similar potential for the Loyalists in Northern Ireland. They may even be the people to lead the Shire-folk in middle England in resistance to whatever fresh horrors London has planned for the English people. Drumont #sexist dailystormer.name Re: France: Haji Murders His Sister’s French BF for Being an Unclean Infidel And this, folks, is one of the many reasons why you shouldn’t get involved with a kebabess. Mmmmmmm. As a lifelong Parisian, I must admit I’ve had my fair share of kebabesses. They are everywhere around where I live, so Interesting species, from a purely sexual perspective. Our response to tacosluts in the US. But yeah, you should target those who do not have male family members, or who have already broken up with their families or, at least, whose family members are not involved in some type of thug life/criminal activity (hard to find in their community). And, that goes without saying, you should never enter in a longtime relationship with a kebabess, or worse, get married to one. My experience with them is that they are generally highly pleasant once you hit the sack, but a pain when you have to actually “do the things couples do”. Psychologically unhinged, very unbalanced, full of anxieties, it’s as if their brains were trying to live both the Western life and the Muslim life and, as a result, are in a constant state of cognitive dissonance. [OP of "Maduro Under Siege! Bank of England Confiscates Venezuelan Gold Reserves!"] An alternative headline could read: “Judea Declares War on Venezuela!” The noose is tightening around Venezuela. Funny enough, Israel doesn’t want to play ball yet. What makes this story even more interesting is the little-known tidbit that Maduro himself is Jewish. His grandparents were Sephardic Jews who converted at least that’s what he says. He might just be saying that to make Mossad hesitate, who knows. [Link to "I don't know who's jewing who anymore"] One thing seems certain though: everyone in power in the West seems to be unanimous in demanding that Maduro be overthrown. Which begs the question: why? I’m not sure yet myself what the real reasons at play here are. It feels like Venezuela is just the only country left that the US can wallop without suffering any real casualties or consequences. There’s that explanation and then the whole “war for oil” thing plus the military industrial complex demanding fresh wars. One thing is for sure: the official reasons that are given make no sense. Pompeo’s speech at the UNSC was a blast to the past, a return to Bush-era rhetoric: “Either you’re with us, or you’re evil.” Nearly two decades later, and absolutely nothing has changed. There are more countries than not in the Third World suffering from hunger and a mismanaged economy. The Establishment shills seem content enough to allow them to wallow in their own poverty though. Only Venezuela keeps Pompeo tossing and turning at night worrying about the humanitarian situation there. And the worst part is that it’s all so contrived and insulting. Because they actually expect you to believe and parrot the official line that this whole thing is about saving Venezuelan children from hunger. If they dropped the faux humanitarian language, it would all be so much less demeaning and exasperating for the American people. Just think: if they rationally stated the case for why a foreign power was a threat to our own, would peoples have such seething disgust for America’s role in the world? I think people would feel a lot better about the situation. It’s one thing to pick a fight and lose. It’s another to be destroyed and told that it was for your own good. And quite another when everyone has to listen to Neocons like Pompeo blather on about muh values and muh babies. Roy Batty #sexist dailystormer.name 10-Year-Old Drag Child Becomes Canada’s Greatest Cultural Icon What the flip is going on in Canada, mang. This is some heavy shit, I kid you not. A photo showing a 10-year-old Canadian drag queen posing next to a half-naked adult performer sparked outrage online. But the boy’s mother thinks it’s all OK and the child is not overtly sexualized. The world of drag queens male performers taking on exaggeratedly female personas and taking to the stage may seem like an inappropriate place for minors. After all, sexuality plays a major part in a drag performance, and the common wisdom is that sexualizing young children for entertainment is a taboo. Yet there are child drag queens. One of them Nemis Quinn Mélançon-Golden received some unwanted attention online after a photo of him posing in a black dress and fishnet tights next to an adult drag queen was posted online. This child tranny thing I’m writing about it a lot now and I’m not sure why this is even a thing. If you had asked me 5 years ago, “Hey Roy, where do you see yourself in 5 years?”, I can guarantee you that trying to convince people that little boys in drag is a bad idea was not what I had in mind as my first answer. It’s one of those things that’s so absurd it’s hard to explain why it’s bad. I feel like a conservative Boomer stuttering and trying to explain what I believe and finding that I can’t because I haven’t had to ever give it any thought. I just get angry and start banging the table and yelling about how much money I make. Here’s an interesting take from the article. The article mentions conservative speaker Ben Shapiro, who is described as an “alt-right mouthpiece and fierce critic of child drag queens”, who criticized the mother of another child drag queen for exploiting him “for attention.” The “child drag debate” is an example of “the widening gap between Liberals and Conservatives in North America and beyond” in the age of Donald Trump, Turton believes. “Alt-right mouthpiece and fierce critic of child drag queens” is MY preferred monicker. Ben stole it. Imagine a conversation with a liberal. Xir: Like, why is it wrong for mothers to drag their 10-year-old boys to male strip clubs, dress them up as women and let gay AIDS-infected men grind up on them? Me: I I I don’t know how to answer that. The very premise of the question angers and confuses me. I don’t have the energy left to keep an open mind. My worldview can’t tolerate any more shocks and disruptions. I know what I know and I want to go back to a better time. Besides, I shouldn’t have to explain such basic principles to people. And frankly, I don’t want to explain them. If you’re so fucked in the head that we even have to have this conversation, well, you belong in the bog. CASE CLOSED. I’m just going to dig my heels in here and not even try to explain why allowing your nation’s sons to become mommy’s little twinks is wrong. Fuck that. Like, if a liberal is going to start a conversation on, say, Global Warming, okay, we can have that conversation. It’ll be annoying and frustrating, but I can get where they’re coming from. I used to be concerned about greenhouse gases once upon a time too and the issue sometimes does come from a genuine place of concern for the environment, which I totally get. But my reasonableness has limits. This child tranny/drag thing is just so beyond the pale that words fail me. Stormer needs to hire a young Zoomer finishing up high school who can pick the ball up from here and provide commentary on these little guinea pigs. Because I’m just too damn old. I can’t even begin to relate or even contemplate the idea. Clearly, this child tranny thing is here to stay and these kids are going to need someone to provide in-depth rebuttals to child-tranny theory. Can’t do it, mang. Sorry. I tap out. “Illegal Immigrants Commit Fewer Crimes Than Natural Born Americans” Is Anti-Black Hatespeech It is time for the media to stop touching black bodies with their hateful statistical facts. After President Trump’s speech in the Oval Office telling America about the need for a wall, the media returned with an old anti-black canard to defend Mexicans: the theory that natural Americans commit more crimes than illegal immigrants. It was all over the gosh-darned place. Of course, what they are all dog-whistling is “blacks are more violent than precious Mexicans.” It is an old canard based on long-debunked annual statistics that are released by the FBI every year. The theory, promoted by the FBI using racist information, is that blacks commit so many crimes that no other race could possibly make a statistical difference of any kind. True or not, there can only be one reason for bringing up this information: pure hatred for the color of the skin. One type of racism can’t be used to justify another saying “oh but niggers are killing everyone anyway” is racist, even if true, and should not be used by the media in a conversation about immigration. Doing so is hatespeech, and I am shocked that the media is willing to sink this low simply to take a cheap shot at Donald Trump. The fact that Mexicans commit 50-100% more violent crime than white people is no reason not to flood America with criminal latinos. In fact, it is all the more reason to do so, as it will teach white people a lesson. But we do not need to insult the blacks in order to accomplish this goal. Watch: Slut Airport Meltdown, Telepathic Rapist Saves the Day Although this isn’t as epic as the psychotic meltdown from the vape shop employee, it has some charm. This is the shocking moment a woman erupts into a furious tirade at a member of staff at an airport in front of horrified passengers. The passenger, who was scheduled to fly on JetBlue on Sunday, launches a furious verbal attack at the staff member standing behind the desk as he tries to call for help. Footage, captured at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, Florida, shows the female passenger screaming at the staff member after she was denied entry to the plane due to signs of intoxication. Saying that normal female behavior is a sign of intoxication is very misogynistic. What the woman in the video does is a symptom of not becoming a mother immediately after their first period. She threw a tantrum because she’s still a child. Women are in a perpetual state of infancy and the only option they have to evolve their brains a little bit is becoming mothers. The sooner after they first period, the better. Pregnancy begins changing their brains and best case scenario, it takes their psyche from child-level to teenage-level. Sterilizing themselves through birth control so they can become community flesh toys stunts their growth and denies them their existential purpose. They’re born with the baby-making organs to use them. Women are baby factories. There’s no way around that. They exist to make babies and operate kitchens. If they were supposed to do other stuff, they wouldn’t have been born with the baby-making organs, and they wouldn’t have been born so weak. Physically and mentally weak. The further away they get from their purpose, the more corrupted they become. In the recording, the unnamed woman launches her body above the desk and bellows: God damn it! Who does that to a woman like me. Who?’ As she hoists her body off the ground and onto the JetBlue counter designated as a help desk for Cuba flights she carries on her verbal outburst by calling staff rapists’ and threatening that she has a gun. She continues: Get me out of here! Get me out of this sick fing place! Get me out of here! Get me out of here! I have a f**ing gun on me because I’m homeless! She should insert herself into the music industry. Her first hit could be called A Woman Like Me. Check out its lyrics: Get me out of here! Get me out of this sick fucking place I have a fucking gun on me because I’m homeless Get me out! It has some ring to it doesn’t it? She doesn’t even need to make the lyrics longer or say anything else really. Modern mainstream music is carefully designed by occultists to harvest your energy through low-vibration negative mantras anyways. Most people even physically feel their energy being taken away, the so-called chills, and assume that’s just a feeling people get when the music is good or when they like it very much. Normies are so uninterested in reality But yeah, some interesting symbolism in her sayings there. Fertile women that are not mothers are emotionally homeless because they see no place for their hearts in the world. Deep down they know the reason why they were born the way they were born is so they could bring more babies to the world. Imagine knowing without a doubt what your life purpose is what you were made for and thinking that you can’t or aren’t supposed to fulfill it. Can you imagine that feeling? That’s what women feel thanks to the relentless Jewish social engineering that has brainwashed them into believing that what they are is not okay and that they should be more like men. They experience a constant existential crisis. The infuriated traveler then picks up a large, green duffel bag and walks away. Walks away for a bit. If the airport staff hadn’t telepathically raped her, the meltdown could have been much worse. Who knows, maybe she’d have taken out the gun she carries around because she’s homeless and the headlines would have been different. Rape saved the day. Octavio Rivera #sexist dailystormer.name [From "Skull-Crushed Hoe Consented to Negro Gang Sex Skull Status: Crushed Anyway LOL"] Last week, I wrote about Hannah Cornelius, a hot blond aristocratic college girl in South Africa who was gang-raped by negros, who then crushed her head with a big rock and then stabbed her in the neck. Now, shawking new details have emerged: She consented. However, this did not stop them from smashing her skull anyway for the lulz. Imagine my shawk. A 21-year-old student murdered in South Africa told her attackers they could have sex with her if they let her go afterwards, one of her attackers claimed. Gotta admit, she had a good sense of humor for a whore. She was serious? She thought there was a chance those niggers wouldn’t kill her after raping her? Or uhh consensually group-sexing her as freely loving adults. Or, one adult and four simians. Consensual bestiality? There’s video footage from Hannah’s encounter with the nigger gang: As you can see, that was no time for a woman to be outside. What was she doing? Whoring around, of course. Parsons told the court that the gang wanted to steal the car but things escalated when they realised Hannah and Cheslin were still inside. But the men allegedly used a massive 82lb rock, which was preciously shown in court, to smash in her skull. One thing lead to the other and next thing they knew they were dropping a big rock into a girl’s skull. You have to understand these niggers, man. Shit happens. Are you really gonna blame them? It was late at night man, the girl practically wrapped herself up as a gift. If you leave a hundred dollars unattended on the floor, can you blame people for picking them up? This useless whore can still be redeemed. But she needs your help. Add captions, make some lulz for a bro. lol jk she’s beyond redemption. [From "Heroic Holo-Skeptic Robert Faurisson has Passed Away at Age 89"] Tis a dark day. A hero has passed away. But he is a man who lived a very full life, fighting the Jewish menace, and he died with honor, having never walked back anything he ever said. Robert Faurisson, a former French academic who was convicted several times for claiming there was no systematic mass killings of Jews by Nazi Germany, has died aged 89 in his hometown of Vichy, central France, his sister and his editor said Monday. British-born Faurisson was also a staunch defender of Marshal Philippe Petain, the Vichy French leader who collaborated with Nazi occupiers of the country during World War II. Faurisson dedicated his life to truth and justice, and despite the way the Jews have smeared him, he will be remembered for what he was: a hero of the people and a champion of Western civilization. Jean-Marie Le Pen has issued a statement on his death, which is only being covered by the Jews. The Jews are the only group of people ever in all of history who successfully passed laws making it illegal to accuse them of lying. But Faurisson fought on, valiantly, despite repeatedly being prosecuted and harassed and beaten up by Jews for telling the truth about the lie of the goofy Nazi gas chambers. Evil Has A Bad Sense Of Humour Award Heroic Bitch Who Pushed Other Bitch Off a Bridge Said That Shit was Lolz as Fuck You know, I can really respect this mindset. Pushing some bitch off a bridge is fucking hilarious. Why is it illegal? If we’re going to legalize marijuana, surely we can legalize pushing sluts off of bridges. Fox News: An 18-year-old woman said she “didn’t think about the consequences” before pushing her 16-year-old friend off a bridge that was 60 feet high equivalent to six stories in Washington state last week. Her friend, Jordan Holgerson, suffered several broken ribs and an injured esophagus and trachea after falling into the river. “I thought she would be fine,” the teen, Taylor Smith, told ABC News’ “Good Morning America” on Friday. Smith has been charged with reckless endangerment, according to ABC News, a charge that is punishable by up to a year in jail and up to $5,000 in fines. Earlier this month, a video that showed Holgerson being pushed off a bridge at the Lewis River at Moulton Falls Regional Park in Vancouver went viral on social media before it was removed. That shit was ultimo lolz. Gotta admit. I hate women and don’t think they’re funny, but that was truly hilarious. Pushing stupid bitches off of bridges is like, a classic joke. Like a fart joke or a joke about someone’s dick. It is eternal. It will always be hilarious to push some bitch off a bridge. If there is one thing we need more of, it is more stupid skanks getting pushed off bridges. submitted by anonymous 11 months ago and got 20 comments [From "Daily Stormer Health Organization Declares August 12th International Obesity Awareness Day"] In honor of the tragic death of the morbidly obese communist activist Heather Heyer, who had a heart attack and died on August 12, 2017 at the ripe age of 32 after she was standing next to a car accident, the Daily Stormer is declaring August 12th International Obesity Awareness Day. Here are the top five facts every person needs to know about obesity. 5. Fat People Have No Self-Respect The first thing you instinctively note when you notice a fat person is that they have no respect for themselves. And it is impossible for a person who has no self-respect to respect any other person, or society. They are declaring to the world that they do not believe they have any value as people. The world does not value them as people either, and no one really cared when Heather Heyer died of a heart attack. They simply used her as a political weapon. No fat person can ever be loved or even considered to have any form of value at all by any human being. This is why fat people often keep cats. 4. Fat People are Worthless Fat people are of virtually no use to society, whatsoever, as they are incapable of performing virtually any physical task, and because the fat infects their brains, they are incapable of even performing menial mental activities. A fat person’s only real purpose for their existence is to consume food. Fat white women can also provide sex to black people. Though the benefit of that to society is questionable. 3. Fat People are Disgusting There is nothing more offensive than seeing a fat person, other than possibly seeing someone with Down Syndrome. No one wants to look at a bulbous blob. It is fundamentally repulsive. The reality of this is evidenced by the fact that no memorial to Heather Heyer shows her as she actually was, instead portraying her as thin. 2. Being Fat is an Anti-Social Act Just as rioting in the street and attacking random people in cars is anti-social, being fat is anti-social. It not only demonstrates that you have no respect for yourself, but also demonstrates that you have no respect for other people. Forcing other people to view your disgusting form is a hateful act against everyone on earth. 1. Obesity Shortens Life and Causes Heart Attacks The main issue that was brought to light by the events of Charlottesville last year is that a morbidly obese woman of a mere 32 years was killed by a heart attack caused by a loud sound. It was impossible to perform CPR on her bulbous form, because you can’t push through that fat. You just bounce off. It is like pushing against a bouncy house. So if you want to stay alive, folks, stay fit. Stay lean. 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__label__wiki	0.62231	0.62231	Tag Archives: Screen Actors Guild Awards Rust and Bone by Jacques Audiard Put in charge of his young son Sam, Alain (played by Matthias Schoenaerts) leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Alain’s bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stéphanie (played by Marion Cotillard) suffers a horrible accident where she loses her legs. I have struggled with writing about this movie for months now. I have accepted the fact hat this review just simply won’t do the film any justice. So I’m going to just go straight into it… Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts both give great performances. I don’t know if it’s because I find Marion Cotillard really attractive or if she’s just really engages me an actress, but in every one of her scenes, I feel like I’m watching someone suffer right in front of me. This is probably what people were describing back then when Marlon Brando broke out with method acting in A Streetcar Named Desire. Matthias Schoenaerts plays Ali like a brute animal that wants to communicate but doesn’t know how to show his soft side. The way Ali fathers his son Sam is upsetting yet very engaging to watch. It dispels the idea that a lead character doesn’t necessarily have to be likable as long as he’s watchable. We can see how he is trying to be better, even though he can’t help but be himself. Ali and Stéphanie are one of the the most memorable onscreen couples I have seen in a while. These two characters cannot be anymore different from each other and yet I believed their relationship. It feels so real the way the two leads play it. The film is gritty, poetic and even elusive at times. It hit a very deep note inside me and that makes it very hard to talk about the film’s inner workings. It made me think of how love between two people really is very dependent on need, circumstance and timing. Ali’s animalistic alpha male nature is the exact thing that feeds into Stéphanie’s trauma from the tragic loss of her legs. He is so straightforward about having sex to the point where he almost doesn’t even notice she is legless, which in turn is what begins to make feel Stéphanie normal and even beautiful again. This slowly lifts her out of depression and she regains meaning in her life and supports Ali’s animal nature (in the form of underground boxing), which is the exact personality trait that always gets him in trouble. Against the film’s gritty raw palette, the unfolding of their relationship was very touching and deeply romantic as I felt what every action and reaction means internally and externally to both characters. When two people fall for each other, it feels like they’re creating their own private internal world together. This movie made me feel like I am watching that world slowly being created between these two people. I liked being inside their idiosyncratic world. Even though the actual situation would seem depressing, on the contrary, it’s executed with such vivid detail with so many poetic truthful moments that it made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. One noteworthy poetic moment was a scene where Stéphanie revisits her workplace and regains meaning to move on from her injury as she watches a killer whale through a tank. Some have said that the ending feels abrupt. I did not feel that way. The melodramatic emotions all properly build powerfully underneath throughout the movie till it wells up and completely geysers its way to a satisfying finish. It did not feel like a jump at all. Some can say it was a hokey cheesy way to end the movie and that can be a legitimate critique but it worked for me. Rust and Bone punched my gut, turned me into a sap and left me speechless. It’s one of the best films I’ve seen in 2012. I tremendously enjoyed it and recommend it to anyone. 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__label__cc	0.513476	0.486524	Celebrity Birth Eva Mendes Gave Birth to Ryan Gosling’s Baby Celebrity BirthCelebrity Couples By Rita Ryan Last updated Sep 17, 2014 Good ol’ People magazine has confirmed the news that Eva Mendes has given birth. ‘The Place Beyond the Pines’ star and Ryan Gosling welcomed their first child, a baby girl, on Friday September 12th, 2014. The pregnancy news was confirmed in July, but I clutched my copy of ‘The Notebook,’ while rocking myself in corner hoping it was just a mistaken case of burrito bloat. Maybe she just had too much delicious queso?! Alas, a friend of the couple confirmed Eva is “absolutely in heaven being a mom.” The pal went on to state, “She’s never been happier.” Of course she is. Ryan Gosling could take his shirt off to fight crime like some superhero with panty-melting powers that could be a major step in world peace. I am sure a dose of baby pictures will follow on Twitter because the friend adds, “She and Ryan are just in awe of this beautiful person they created. It’s a really special time for them.” So, if Twitter breaks it’s because pictures of Ryan Gosling holding an adorable baby have simultaneously exploded the social network and ovaries everywhere. If this Mendes/Gosling baby doesn’t make your eyes green with envy, Ryan was reportedly a humble servant and doting expecting father. “Their lives completely changed as soon as Eva got pregnant,” another pal explained. “They used to travel all over the place together and go on hikes with their dogs. She barely left the house [after her bump began to show]. Ryan has been taking care of her, picking up food and running errands. He has been very supportive of keeping things a secret.” All joking aside, congratulations to the proud parents of the little pink bundle of joy. I only hope when he held Baby Gosling for the first time, he leaned it and whispered…”Hey, girl.” Rita Ryan Rita Ryan has been writing since the age of thirteen, starting with songs and later short plays and articles. In her teenage years she was known as “Rita Lorraine” and tried to get into the country music recording industry in the 1970s and later the gospel music industry in the 1990s. Now, she concentrates her writing on soap opera spoilers specializing in General Hospital, aspires to write a series of family-friendly mysteries in the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries style, and the rest of her time is spent being grandma to her three grandchildren and cat mama to Mollie & Missie. She is married to her childhood sweetheart whom she rediscovered after 30 years apart. Here’s Why Kylie Jenner Can’t Let Go Of Jordyn Woods Brad Pitt DID NOT Commit Child Abuse – Angelina Jolie LIED! Meet Meghan Markle Prince Harry’s Girlfriend Charlie Sheen Threatened Denise Richards’ Life – Two and Half Men Star…	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1313
__label__wiki	0.948693	0.948693	Honey Loves Shocking moment toddler walks in on mother's murder By Jo Abi\| 4 months ago A lawyer for the family of murdered Colorado mum Shannan Watts says the woman's toddler daughter walked in on father Chris Watts killing the woman. Chris Watts strangled his wife and smothered his two young daughters, later pleading guilty to all three killings. Attorney Steven Lambert - who represents Shannan's family - has shared disturbing details on Dr. Phil. Watts pleaded guilty to all three killings. (Facebook) The pre-recorded interview is yet to air but has been seen by PEOPLE. Lambert claims Bella, four, walked in on the murder. "Bella walked in and asked, 'What are you doing to Mommy?'" Chris Watts arrested over the deaths of his wife and children. (AP/AAP) He says Watts told his daughter that "Mummy is sick", and needs to go to hospital to make her feel better. The man later smothered Bella and sister Celeste, loading their bodies into his truck with their mother and hiding them at a oil work site where they were found three days later. Mum’s extensive contract for son’s mobile phone use Boy, 3, suffers near-fatal reaction after eating mum's hidden chocolate Mum can't vaccinate son against US measles outbreak due to cancer treatment Mum of boy who died from cancer stole $186,000 raised for him In November 2018, Watts pleaded guilty to all three killings and is currently serving five life sentences without the possibility of parole. Watts with wife Shanann. (Facebook) It was later discovered that Watts was having an affair with a co-worker at the time of the killings and it is thought his desire to start a new life was behind the despicable murders. Lambert says Watts and Shannan were fighting about the affair when she was killed. “In that fight, [Chris] essentially confessed to having an affair, that he wanted a divorce, that it was pretty much over between them,” Lambert told Dr. Christopher Watts is in court for his arraignment hearing. (DP) “[Shanann] said something to the effect of, ‘Well, you’re not going to see the kids again.’ As a consequence of that conversation, he strangled her to death.” Seinfeld star Charles Levin found dead	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1315
__label__cc	0.707681	0.292319	Medical Devices » National Health Innovation Portal Ministry of Health & Family Welfare Launch of National Health Innovation Portal to boost the innovation in public health National Health Innovation Portal is being launched to serve as a platform in public domain to facilitate collection and dissemination of good practices and innovations that are found to be replicable.Updated: August 16, 2015, 00:16 IST Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India launched a national initiative for innovation on July 3, 2015. Inaugurating the National Summit on Healthcare Innovations at Shimla, JP Nadda launched the national innovation portal. The national innovation portal has been made to facilitate the innovators to boost the innovations in public healthcare. National Health Innovation Portal is being launched to serve as a platform in public domain to facilitate collection and dissemination of good practices and innovations that are found to be replicable. This portal would serve as a gateway for integrating innovations into mainstream healthcare and has potential to bring about transformative improvements in healthcare delivery by accelerating the uptake of successful innovations of products, processes and programs. The National Healthcare Innovations Portal is an attempt to pool-in and showcase innovative programs designs, practices, technology solutions and products across public and private healthcare sector of India. These solutions have either demonstrated abilities to address health systems challenges in specific contexts or hold a promise for future. This platform will act as an inspiration to health entrepreneurs as well as provide newer program designs, devices and approaches to cover those in greatest need of healthcare. Tags : Medical Devices, National Health Innovation Portal, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Innovation, Healthcare Most Read in Medical Devices Engineering students design AgriDoc which monitors crops and alerts farmers about diseases Medtronic recalls insulin pumps that can be hacked Fujifilm SonoSite showcased innovative line of Ultrasound products at AORA conference Startups have recongnised the need for new products and technologies that don't exist : Siraj Dhanani Bluetooth-enabled medical implant may help manage chronic disease: research Mini robot may help detect colon cancer	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1324
__label__cc	0.741636	0.258364	The multi-window monitor for interventional imaging Necessity is the mother of invention, an old saying but particularly true in interventional radiology. Whenever minimally invasive procedures need monitoring from different angles and by different modalities, physicians and technicians in angio labs muster all their DIY skills and build huge monitor towers often with eight screens. Now, however, the new Large Display jointly developed by Siemens and Eizo opens several windows on one screen -- and the physician can even rearrange windows during an intervention László Solymosi Aneurysm intervention: Configuration for an aneurysm intervention. The working projection is important and thus enlarged, while other images are minimised Features include 142 cm (56”) active full-colour medical-grade monitor; 8 megapixel resolution at 4 x HD (3840 x 2160 pixel); fully integrated tableside control; over 200 layout options; connect over 20 image sources. Professor László Solymosi, head of neuroradiology at University Hospital Würzburg, Germany, has been testing the Large Display there for two years. His department, part of a head clinic established in 1974, was the country’s first of a kind and among the earliest centres of interdisciplinary medical cooperation. The trio of neurology, neuroradiology and neurosurgery is complemented by an ENT clinic and eye clinic. His clinic, explains Prof. Solymosi, has become one without borders, by allowing the physicians to offer the complete range of diagnostics and therapies for neurological diseases, including surgical interventions that need team performance, e.g. skull base surgery. For neuroradiologists and neurosurgeons interdisciplinary cooperation opens up increasing possibilities for the joint treatment of patients, particularly since major diagnostic imaging examinations, e.g. angiography, have become interventional procedures. Today in Würzburg a radiologist treats 75% of all cerebral aneurysms and the strategy is planned in advance in an interdisciplinary consultation. In angiography exams, neuroradiologists are supported by monitors functioning as a surgical microscope. Resolution, brightness and contrast play crucial roles, since they ensure even minute vasculature is displayed in diagnostic image quality. The new Large Display offers brilliant images in full HD-TV quality on a single 56” screen. According to the professor, its major advantage is outstanding flexibility: ‘You can view images not only in the same way as with a wall of monitors, but also adjust window size and layout to your individual requirements and preferences. So, I can enlarge the one image I am particularly interested in during a certain phase of the intervention while maintaining the other, smaller ones, such as the optical path, X-ray image or reference images.’ A keypad offers access to 12 different window layouts that can be reprogrammed any time, even during an intervention. Professor Solymosi’s clinical experience contributed significantly to the development of the Large Display’s multi-window functionality. He suggested equipping the system with a window displaying physiological parameters, such as pulse oximetry, and with access to 3-D angiographies, which are usually not processed in the angiography suite but on a separate workstation. All imaging modalities integrated into the PACS can easily be called up on the monitor. ‘Enhanced visualisation and flexibility of the Large Display allow us to optimise both workflow and precision of the intervention’, he points out. ‘This multi-window monitor technology has the potential to affect the work of an interventional radiologist positively, thus I am sure it will soon be a standard feature of any angio lab.’ angiography (102) display (423) interventional radiology (76) medical technology (1239) More on companies: EIZO Europe GmbH Improvement of cardiac care Rapid myocardial infarction verification The use of troponin assays to rule in or rule out myocardial infarction (MI) rapidly is critical on several levels. The quick result can reassure the patient that they have not had a heart attack and… #assay #biomarkers #clinicial chemistry #heart attack #laboratory AI helpers simplify clinical MRI scans The new 1.5 Tesla MRI from Siemens Healthineers, Magnetom Sola, is packed with helpful algorithms and other functions. AI-supported systems monitor patients and scan parameters and ensure consistent… #equipment #personalised medicine It takes a team Clinical laboratories need to meet greater testing demands, improve efficiency, and deliver reliable, high-quality results, while at the same time, facing an increasing shortage of skilled employees… #Labbook Siemens Healthineers – 50° wide-angle Tomosynthesis Siemens Healthineers – Acuson Freestyle Siemens Healthineers – Acuson Freestyle Elite Siemens Healthineers – Acuson Juniper Ultrasound System Siemens Healthineers – Acuson NX2 Siemens Healthineers – Acuson NX2 Elite	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1325
__label__wiki	0.864287	0.864287	Tag: Noname 18 of ’18: The Best Music Videos of the Year Just under a full week into 2019 doesn’t seem like much but it affords time to go over what all of 2018 has to offer, right up until midnight on December 31. It’s a method that also provides room for close examination of the year’s finest releases in each major category (songs, music videos, and albums). While it’s literally impossible for any one person to hear or see every single release in those formats, a focus should be given to the best of what’s been experienced. Thousands of music videos made their way through the Heartbreaking Bravery channels, these 18 selections found ways to stand out from the pack. Anna Burch – With You Every Day Ever since the music videos for Anna Burch‘s gorgeous Quit The Curse started rolling in, there was a unified visual aesthetic. It’s a point that was strengthened with the release of “With You Every Day”, which finds Burch eschewing some of the sunnier palette tones to lean further into a ’90s art world sensibility. More than that, “With You Every Day” wisely refocuses from underlining Burch’s carefree tendencies to zero in on the sheer joy that’s evident in the emergent songwriter’s live performances. Tied together, those elements make for a mesmeric video that comes off as unabashedly honest, leading to another quiet triumph for Burch. Car Seat Headrest – Nervous Young Inhumans It’s next to impossible to talk about Car Seat Headrest‘s “Nervous Young Inhumans” without mentioning that the song’s chorus is a fucking monster. A reworked full band version of one of Will Toledo’s most celebrated solo releases, the video was used — and used extremely effectively — to tease the total overhaul of Twin Fantasy. Visually striking and teeming with meaning, the side-by-side widescreen clip lays out everything you’d expect from one of the decade’s more discussed breakout acts: tongue-in-cheek humor, wry witticisms, a clear level of self-awareness, and enough artistry to dispel any notions of being effete. While some might find the act cloying, the self-directed “Nervous Young Inhumans” video goes all in on just about every one of the band’s aspects and winds up as one of the band’s most definitive individual release to date. Phoebe Bridgers – Scott Street Phoebe Bridgers‘ Stranger In the Alps proved to have quite a bit of staying power through 2018, with the record spawning a few widely-circulated music videos well afters its initial release. Far and away the most moving of that selection was the restrained, lovely clip for “Scott Street”. The premise of the clip’s simple enough: several people dress up as Phoebe Bridgers and enjoy a day out together, riding mechanical bulls, taking to a trampoline park, and taking a bus to some unknown destination. All of it’s lensed tenderly, letting a palpable sense of affection become the clip’s defining element. When Bridgers herself finally makes an appearance in the clip’s final stretch, there’s a surreal emotive heft to the gesture that propels “Scott Street” from being great to being unforgettable. Sean Henry – The Ants “The Ants” stood out on Sean Henry‘s latest release, Fink, and was rightfully tapped for a music video. The visual treatment the song’s given plays into the song’s enigmatic nature, positioning Henry front and center, following the songwriter’s trip through NYC in costume store vampire teeth. Nervous tension and general mischievousness collide in an unexpected way, rendering the core narrative of “The Ants” oddly gripping. Aided by some stunning cinematography, “The Ants” becomes a fascinating journey on multiple levels that pull the viewer deeper into a world that’s more concerned with presenting questions than providing answers outright. Casper Skulls – Colour of the Outside From a beguiling, extended introductory sequence, “Colour of the Outside” takes great pains in comprehensively immersing its viewers into the world it places Casper Skulls. Softly lit and bathed in ghostly blue hues, the first half of “Colour of the Outside” provides a tug-and-pull between competing sense: familiar comfort and an unsettling tension that grows in small increments. Eventually, that dichotomy detonates as a huge portion of the set falls away and the band’s revealed to be playing in a basement. The light increases, objects get smashed, and the spell manages to find a route to amplification, lingering as the song dissipates amidst a haze of feedback. A deceptively clever clip, “Colour of the Outside” also manages to be strangely powerful. Haley Heynderickx – No Face Haley Heynderickx’s “No Face” is one of a handful of clips on this list that took a simple premise and executed it with panache by Evan James Atwood, leading to surprisingly memorable results. A stop-motion video that puts Heynderickx in full silhouette, “No Face” uses static framing to perfection. Consisting of no more than Heynderickx miming along to the song and another pair of hands for some additional meaning, “No Face” is a testament to what anyone can achieve with a shoestring budget. A million frames can make up an incredible picture, even when the images barely differ. An inspired — and inspiring — work from a deserving breakout artist. Swearin’ – Grow Into A Ghost One of the most heartening things about a year that didn’t always have a lot of those on hand was the return of basement pop legends Swearin’. Select orders of their first record after reuniting came with a version of 3D glasses that’d been relegated to a curious footnotes in the annals of film history. A fun gimmick on the surface was provided some extra weight with a pair of videos with “Grow Into A Ghost” becoming a genuine standout. Embracing a ’50s aesthetic and the stoic sensibilities of the era, Swearin’ have all sorts of fun with the animation integrated into a modernized strain of an updated technology. “Grow Into A Ghost” was the perfect reminder of what we’ve been missing. Lucero – Long Way Back Home Jeff Nichols is one of the most talented filmmakers working today. His collaborations with Michael Shannon have yielded countless accolades and an overwhelming amount of acclaim. Nichols’ brother, Ben, also happens to front Lucero, who have provided a few songs to those films. The brothers Nichols and Shannon team up once again for this short film set to Lucero’s “Long Way Back Home”, teeming with the quietly desperate rural lyricism that’s flickered away in the core of the trio’s work for years. A few more notable actors make appearances in a narrative that keeps the viewer in a vice-like grip up until the ambiguous final moments. While there’s no clear resolution, “Long Way Back Home” is a ride worth taking. Mitski – Geyser While the Christopher Good-directed clip for “Nobody” makes appearance after appearance — and deservedly so — on The Best Music Videos of 2018 lists, it’s also worth taking a look at the clip that preceded that one, “Geyser”. A gorgeous tracking shot on a desolate beach follows Mitski as the songwriter mimes the words to “Geyser” before abandoning that conceit entirely, fleeing the camera and collapsing onto the shore, writhing around in a place between catharsis and desperation, pointing to the sheer nakedness of the work on Be The Cowboy. A huge moment for both Mitski and filmmaker Zia Anger. Iceage – The Day The Music Dies Iceage and Graeme Flegenheimer teamed up for “The Day The Music Dies” video, which finds the post-punk act tapping into a strain of Southern Gothic visuals once again, producing a series of visuals that immediately register as formally classic, bringing to mind cinematographer Robert Elswit’s work on There Will Be Blood. “The Day The Music Dies” is flooded with iconic imagery but for all its formality, there’s a very evident sense of playfulness coursing through the clip. Tongue-subtly-in-cheek — check out those borderline nonsensical breaks for the car commercial shots — and fiery as hell, the clip’s a very strong example of how abandoning reservations can significantly elevate the material. Noname – Blaxploitation A cutting, socially conscious work from Noname, “Blaxploitation” leans hard into metaphor and film history. Taking its cues from the monster film genre, “Blaxploitation” depicts a young black child navigating a model set. Framed as a towering monster, the subject explores the small neighborhood, clearly innocent despite striking an imposing figure, relative to the setting. Tragic for all of the typical, endlessly frustrating reasons, Alex Lill’s video for “Blaxploitation” is every bit as thoughtful as the record on which it resides. Hypnotic and incredibly pointed, “Blaxploitation” is very clearly not just among the finest music videos but the visual format as a whole. Lonely Parade – Night Cruise “Night Cruise” was the first of Lonely Parade‘s releases to get a huge push and that attention couldn’t have come at a better time. Released in advance of one of the year’s best records, the clip ably demonstrated the band’s identity. Soft strobes of neon hues, softer saturation levels, and some clever one shots cut to the core of the band’s confrontational sensibilities. “Night Cruise” showed that Lonely Parade know exactly who they were and exactly what they were about while still managing to be visually hypnotic. Easily one of the year’s best hangout clips, “Night Cruise” marked the arrival of a band whose career promises to be worth following. La Dispute – Rose Quartz / Fulton Street I La Dispute made a return in the year’s final month, unveiling the startlingly intense animated clip for “Rose Quartz / Fulton Street I“. A fever dream narrative plays out in the clip, which centers around a car colliding with a deer on the road. Psychedelic imagery swirls around this event, which plays out more than once, lending additional meaning to the event. There’s an impact, things are altered, objects are wrecked, but there’s a beauty that undercuts the despair, reminding the viewer of life’s fragility as much as its inherent tenderness. “Rose Quartz / Fulton Street I” is an astonishing work that may just be the band’s finest release to date. Mozes and The Firstborn – Hello For all the serious subject matter that tends to dominate these types of lists, there are moments of lightness to be found and celebrated. For instance: Mozes and the Firstborn‘s humorous, lighthearted clip for “Hello“. It’s an exceptionally simple premise that’s executed to perfection and imbued with genuine joy. One tracking shot keeps guitarist/vocalist Melle Dielesen front and center, surrounded by a marathon that was taking place in real time. Layers of clothing are shed, several with song-specific message scrawled or printed on them, a cigarette gets smoked, and the song is mimed while runners react to Dielesen’s tongue-in-cheek antics. Easily 2018’s most outright fun video. Dusk – Leaf Finn Bjornerud has long been Tenement’s go-to music video director and continues to work with the members’ other projects. As good as some of the Tenement clips have been, Bjornerud hits a career high by some margin with the breathtaking video for Dusk‘s “Leaf“, which remains one of the best songs of the present decade. The song itself lends an additional potency to Bjornerud’s signature camera movements but also forces the camera to stay relatively still, fixating on the mundane details of winter life in the upper Midwest: the boots in the snow, clothing layers being shed, a flock of geese taking off from a snow-capped field. Tethering in a quiet, loving relationship between two people finding ways to celebrate their continued survival gives “Leaf” another empathetic layer that’s strong enough to ensure its rightful place on this list. Fog Lake – Push Some of 2018’s most brilliant editing work in a music video came courtesy of Noah Kentis’ twisting, multilayered visual for Fog Lake‘s “Push“. The first of a series of intentionally blurred smash cuts hits at just after the minute mark and every time is startling and powerful enough in its execution to warrant chills. No matter how many times its replayed or used, there’s a singular perfection to the framing and implementation that’s enough to knock a viewer out. As the Charlie Kaufman-esque narrative of “Push” unfurls, there’s a deepening sense of mystery inextricably tied to the ambiguity that characterizes the clip’s final moments. A masterclass in composition and editing, “Push” also stands tall as one of the most mesmerizing videos to have come out over the past handful of years. IDLES – Danny Nedelko For some reason or another, white supremacists started using the okay sign as a “covert” way of communicating their reprehensible ideology. Since they’re terrible at everything, the general public discovered what they were doing right around the time it started happening. Enter: IDLES, the band who made 2017’s best music video and missed that title this year by a hair. “Danny Nedelko” a standout track from Joy As An Act of Resistance was a song explicitly about their friend, an immigrant. The black-and-white video follows Nedelko through a series of vignettes, meeting up with other immigrants while dancing, laughing, and flashing the okay symbol with a sheepish grin. It’s a pointed missive of reclamation that’s framed with a welcome level of affection for its subjects. Joy As An Act of Resistance indeed. MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR Hop Along – How Simple Every publication told its readers the same thing at the end of 2018, which was destined to be a certainty from the moment of its release: the music video that defined the year was Hiro Murai’s astonishing clip for Childish Gambino’s “This Is America“. While that video more than deserves all of the praise its received, the aim of this site is to shed some more light on what’s flickering away in the shadows, which brings us to Hop Along‘s incredible video for 2018 highlight “How Simple.” The first image of Derrick Belcham’s video for “How Simple” is a spotlight, centered on an unopened door. As a visual cue, it’s deceptively striking and open to many valid interpretations but it’s an image that only lingers for a few second as guitarist/vocalist Frances Quinlan seizes that spotlight and turns in a tour de force performance as the clip’s central subject. Exuding classic Hollywood charisma, bringing to mind the likes of Audrey Hepburn, Olivia de Havilland, and Jean Simmons. Quinlan’s an inherently magnetic presence on stage (and in studio) so it’s not a surprise the wildly gifted songwriter dominates nearly every frame of the “How Simple video, which is perhaps a calculated outcome for a narrative so heavily centered on personal identity. There’s an incredible emotional spectrum on display here with Belcham leaning hard into Quinlan’s facial expressions, which tell a story all their own. “How Simple” is an incredible journey that’s gifted an incredibly appealing setting as its story unfurls, navigating everything from shame to resentment to anger to acceptance to celebratory self-reconciliation. Wisely making its home in the mundane nature of every day existence, “How Simple” cuts to the root of several hard-won realizations. By the clip’s purposeful resolution is revealed, Belcham’s ensured a moment of appreciation for a quiet triumph of perseverance, putting one last piece of finite punctuation on the best music video of 2018. Further Watching: Peach Kelli Pop – Drug Store’s Symbol of Happiness \| Lemuria – Kicking In \| Advance Base – Your Dog \| Dilly Dally – Doom \| Pedro The Lion – Yellow Bike \| Vundabar – Acetone \| Hala – Sorry \| Free Cake For Every Creature – Be Home Soon \| Slothrust – Double Down \| Onlyness – Comfortable \| Deaf Wish – FFS \| Spirit Was – Golden Soul \| Harry Permezel – Wax Man \| Alien Boy – Somewhere Without Me \| The Magic Gang – Getting Along \| Shame – Lampoon \| Clearance – Had A Fantastic \| Amos Pitsch – Piece of the Season \| illuminati hotties – Cuff \| Snail Mail – Heat Wave \| Courtney Barnett – Charity \| Lauren Hibbard – What Do Girls Want? \| Tomberlin – Self-Help \| Homeboy Sandman & Edan – The Gut \| sewingneedle – Feel Good Music \| The Beths – You Wouldn’t Like Me \| Zuzu – Can’t Be Alone \| Flasher – Material \| The Glow – Beamer Watch This: Vol. 158 Last week’s Monday-Sunday stretch yielded a large handful of outstanding live videos. While normally Watch This segments run on Sunday, this one (and the posts soon to follow) were held back by outside circumstances. The posting on Heartbreaking Bravery will be more frequent going into the future. Getting that rotation started is this crop of clips, which were strong enough to render compelling takes from the following as honorable mentions: Jesca Hoop, Sigur Rós, Los Gold Fires, AJJ, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Dolfish, The New Pornographers, The Regrettes, Amy O, Sean Rowe, Desert Mountain Tribe, Weyes Blood, Hollerado, Vagabon, Future Islands (x2), Craig Finn, Noname, Deap Vally, Jonny Grave, The Smith Street Band, Car Seat Headrest, Hannah Lee Thompson, Hinds, Beach Slang, Liz Cooper & The Stampede (x2), Lou Canon, Sue the Night, Peter Silberman, Mipso, Juliet K, Ceschi, Anna Tivel, Lillie Mae, Bruise Violet, Hayley Heynderickx, Cold Country, Kyle Morton, Lisa Hannigan, and Kim Janssen. As is typically the case, that’s a uniformly strong crop that reflects well on the selected features. So, as always, take a seat, calm down, take a deep breath, adjust the settings, lean in, and Watch This. 1. Vagabon (Audiotree) A staple on this site for a few years, Vagabon‘s finally beginning to receive the levels of admiration, acclaim, and attention they’ve deserved for some time. Touring heavily on one of 2017’s finest releases thus far, the band recently found time to stop by the Audiotree studios and deliver a mesmerizing set. Running through several highlights from Infinite Worlds, the band remains in sharp form throughout and delivers one knockout blow after another, solidifying their status as one of today’s most exciting musical prospects 2. Lady Pills (BIRN) Lady Pills have made a few brief appearances on this site but this two-song take for BIRN virtually guarantees them expanded coverage. Both “I Hate You” and “Irrelevant” reveal an understanding — if not outright mastery — of a very specific style of songwriting. Energetic, commendably contained, and compelling, the band lights into both tracks with both force and feeling. The instrumental segue that bridges the two songs is a thing of beauty and Lady Pills never stop providing reasons to commit their name to memory. 3. IAN SWEET (PressureDrop.tv) When a label like Hardly Art shows interest in a band, there’s usually a handful of good reasons behind why they’re paying attention. Occasionally a band crumbles under the pressure or disintegrates in the face of a new set of challenges. IAN SWEET repaid that kindness in full, and then some, with their debut full-length, Shapeshifter. Following the record’s release, the band made a name for themselves on the live circuit. This full session acts as both a document and as definitive proof of their live prowess. 4. Forth Wanderers (KVRX) A short while back, Forth Wanderers released one of the best EP’s of 2016 in Slop, a staggering career highlight by any metric. They’ve been hard at work ever since, promoting that EP and working on new material. In this intimate, stripped-down KVRX session, the band splits the selections between Slop, Tough Love, and offers a look ahead. All of the songs remain mesmerizing, even when scaled back to only guitars and vocals, aptly demonstrating that the band’s appeal — and talent — runs far deeper than the surface offerings. 5. Creepoid (Audiotree) Creepoid‘s built a deeply impressive run over the span of their career, offering up plenty of fascinating twists along the way (the short film Ernest Undead being a notable example). In that time, they’ve also honed their live abilities, transforming into a tightly-knit wrecking crew that knows how to both enhance and accentuate the heaviness of their recorded material while still doing the ambient trappings justice. In this Audiotree session, they bare their teeth and clamp down, drawing a fair amount of blood.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1328
__label__cc	0.742106	0.257894	Tag Archive: Jesin The World Will Know Your Name Filed under: Dragens — Leave a comment Panre took one last look over his shoulder before he bounded through the portal. He was intending to look for food for his older siblings and his parents. It never occurred to him that he would not be able to return. He clambered over the snowy rocks now, wondering if he’d ever see his family again. Suddenly something swooped down over him. The being was a dragen. They spoke of many things. Then he, ever so gently, scooped Panre up and carried him off into the sky. A part of him was afraid. The abominables could fly like this also. However, the dragen, Myro, seemed kind-hearted. They landed on a high precipice. Panre looked around in shock. The place was like and unlike where the abominables lived at the same time. It was a cavern, as they dwelled in. At the same time the place seemed open, alive and happy. There were no slaves here. There were no bars blocking off certain caves. “Elder Myro, what an unexpected pleasure,” a tall winged being greated. His hair was very long and almost white it was so fair. He had an open, friendly face though. “And who’s this with you?” “His name is Panre and he’s a yetean,” Myro said softly. “His people live in the realm of the demons and they treat them as they treated us. The problem being that… well…” he trailed off. “They can’t get away as easily as we did,” the being who could only be the Elder Jesin that Myro had mentioned said. “Perhaps we can get together with Mage Denair and see about helping them.” “I would truly appreciate it,” Panre said. He looked around the cavern and thought about how he had left home to search for food and had actually found help for his people. Tags: dragens, Jesin, Myro, Panre Chapter Thirteen and Fourteen Excepts Filed under: Dragens, NaNo 2009 — Leave a comment (This is what happens when we get sick.) We Are Like Blue Flowers, Trying to Live Aram was dreaming, he knew. Only in his dreams was he safe. Even after escaping the demons, life outside his mind was difficult at best. For the most part it was dangerous. Apart from the demons, the wilds held their own dangers. There were wild oni and other monsters that would love to feast on his soul or his body. There were plants that did the same to any who came too close. Five months in the wilderness had taught him to keep moving. It had taught him not to trust even the most benign-looking area. What seemed a placid pool might turn out to be a trap laid by a beast or plant of the wilds. Nothing was what it seemed. In his dreams he was safe though. His wings were whole and strong and he soared over the dangers that lay in wait on the ground. He nestled amidst the blue flowers that dotted the rocky cliffs of his father’s home. His older sister or brother were always nearby to watch him, to protect him. He could feel himself rising out of the dream and he moaned, trying to stay safe in his mind. He couldn’t stop his body’s needs though, so against his will, Aram woke. He woke, as usual, in pain. But I Want to Keep Believing that our Wishes Will Become Wings It had always been too much to hope for, especially after the gate had been sealed. Any rescue mission would have been suicide, they had been told all those years ago. He’d given his son up for lost then. He’d lived for his remaining children. He and Shyrala had lived for each other and sealed their lost son away in their hearts as they had allowed him to be seal physically into another plane. However, a small part of him had always wished that things could be different – that somehow they could have their child returned to the, if not unharmed at least alive. Now, though it meant dire things for all dragen-kind, it seemed his wish had been granted. His son was going to be returned to him. Now he feared, as he flew with his mate and two older children, that the sweet little child he’d lost had been irrevocably changed by the beings that had taken him. He feared what he would find when they saw their son again. Would he know them? Would he have retained any of the innocence that had been in his soul when he was taken? He could only pray the boy of his memories was not entirely different from the wounded youngster found by the world gate sentinels. As he flew his thoughts drifted back to that singular day; that had begun so like any other and had ended with such tragedy. Tags: Aram, dragens, Jesin, Shyrala Chapter Eight and Nine Excerpts Busy weekend… what can I say? Those Days That Will Pass us by are Already a Distant Dream Dalia nodded and set the wind to swirling on the communicator. She left quickly, not wanting to intrude on the fussy old dragen’s conversation with her parents. “Elder Shyrala, Elder Jesin, I’m afraid there is bad news,” the old dragen said as soon as the line opened. “That would be?” Shyrala said softly. “The sub-elder of the earth dragens has been killed. It appears that it was done by demons. It was… like a raid on a much smaller scale,” he said. He looked anxious and tense. “Are we dealing with another incursion? Is there any sign from the world gate?” Jesin asked. “No, none, but it’s possible that the demons have slipped through a smaller rift,” he said. “Are you calling a convocation?” Shyrala asked. “Not yet,” Eldest Yantalin said softly. “I’ll tell everyone this way and leave it at that. In other news, young Elder Myro has set his cup for his sub-elder.” “Good for him,” Jesin said softly. “Are you going to intercede?” “Why should I?” The old dragen looked baffled and then turned off the communicator. Shyrala snorted and pecked Jesin on the cheek. “Some day you’ll be able to set your cup for me officially, dearest,” she promised. “It isn’t nice to tease the eldest.” “I know… it just, to this day it aggravates me,” he said as he settled down beside her. “What were you saying about the demons coming back?” “I need to not say these things,” Shyrala murmured. “Where were we before our daughter came in with a message from the eldest?” Soon they were distracted from the demons by something else altogether. The Proof of Living that You Gave Me What was probably the worst thing was the whole idea of not knowing. He didn’t know if the demons had won the war. He didn’t know if his family and friends had lived through the war. He didn’t know what to expect from his demon master. If what was happening now was any indication, he didn’t know anything anymore. He watched from his cage as his master entertained, that was the only word he had for what was going on, a dragen. He sat amongst them, chatting and eating. He wore a voluminous hooded cloak, but there was no doubt that he wasn’t a demon. He spoke the demon language with a softer, more lilting voice than any of the demons used. What features showed marked him as completely different from the demons he supped with. Denair leaned back on the bars of the cage to try and listen in. Then he sighed and gave up. He couldn’t understand the guttural language the demons spoke. One thing was obvious. This dragen was no slave or possession; he was an equal. He might even be more than an equal. The demons seemed to defer to him. When he spoke they were silent, a courtesy that they never showed their own kind. It was obvious that he was working with the demons on something, even if Denair couldn’t be sure what it was. Finally he stood and left. Denair sat up a little straighter, wondering if the dragen was returning to their world. He’d always figured that he was trapped in this alternate realm but perhaps he wasn’t. The stranger was leaving and he’d come from somewhere. Perhaps he’d come from their homeland. For the first time in ten years, Denair had hope of a better life. He was trapped in the cage though. Tags: Denair, dragens, Jesin, Shyrala	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1331
__label__wiki	0.594411	0.594411	This may be the reason Khloé Kardashian named her daughter True Thompson Danielle Jackson Just under a week after welcoming a baby girl with boyfriend Tristan Thompson, Khloé Kardashian finally revealed her baby’s name on Monday afternoon. The internet didn’t miss a beat when it came to offering up opinions on the new mom’s decision to name her daughter True Thompson, but as it goes with many of the Kardashian-Jenner babies, there’s a deeper meaning behind the newborn’s name. According to Kris Jenner, True is a family name. Kris Jenner took to Instagram on Monday afternoon to post a congratulatory message to Khloé and Tristan on the birth of their daughter. The famous momager captioned a photo of a room full of pink balloons with a message regarding her family history. In it, she explained that her paternal grandfather’s name was True and her father’s middle name was also True. “I’m so excited to welcome my precious little granddaughter True!!!,” the caption reads. “FUN FACT… my Grandfather’s name on my Dad’s side was True Otis Houghton….my Dad’s name was Robert True Houghton…so i am so excited Khloé named her daughter True!!! #lovebug #familytradition #family @true.” (Yes, True already has her own Instagram.) True Thompson was born on April 12th. Khloé and Tristan both have yet to share any photos of their new bundle of joy, but it’s possible that we might be getting those pretty soon because little True Thompson already has an Instagram account (this is real life). If you’re like us and you can’t get enough of the Kardashian-Jenner babies, you might want to go ahead and follow her ASAP. By Danielle Jackson These are the traits Khloé Kardashian hopes her baby will inherit from mom and dad, and we're kind of surprised Khloé Kardashian and Tristan Thompson's seemingly "united front" on Instagram isn't the whole truth, according to reports Kate Hudson explained the important family history behind her new baby daughter's name Khloé Kardashian got real about mommy-shamers who criticize her time away from True: "Do you think I'm leaving my child alone?" Kate Hudson says Goldie Hawn was “right in there” at her daughter's delivery, and LOL Celebrate the working mothers of hip hop this Women's History Month Kim Kardashian turned her home into an actual wonderland for Chi's Alice In Wonderland themed-birthday Khloé Kardashian just revealed her daughter's name, and we never could have guessed it Pregnant Khloé Kardashian posed in the kitchen in nothing but her underwear, and it's a legit work of art The new Calvin Klein underwear ads feature an 8-months-pregnant Khloé Kardashian Surprise! Gabrielle Union welcomed a daughter with husband Dwyane Wade Gabrielle Union clapped back at mommy-shamers who targeted her for kissing her daughter Khloe Kardashian's daughter, True Thompson, is just days old and already has her own Instagram Khloé Kardashian shared a sneak peek of True's nursery, and it's a pink-and-lucite dream Khloé Kardashian has officially given birth! Keeping Up with the Kardashians filmed Khloé Kardashian giving birth AND the whole Tristan drama — but is that fair to Khloé? Cardi B gave the cutest shoutout to her daughter Kulture on new song "Money" Khloé Kardashian shared a tease-y photo with True, and tbh, we'll take what we can get All the Meghan Markle royal baby name theories, ranked in order from most to least plausible Khloé Kardashian gave birth to her baby girl, and Twitter's reactions sum up all the love we're feeling right now Celeb Baby Names Kardashian Babies Celeb Moms	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1333
__label__wiki	0.586989	0.586989	Can We Survive the Death of the Sun? • episode "S4E03" • Through the Wormhole We are all at the mercy of the Sun. Its glowing disc sustains nearly all life on Earth. But the Sun also holds a dark secret: someday, our aging, expanding star will bathe the Earth in a fiery holocaust. Everything we know will turn to hot, bubbling, plasma. Through the Wormhole • 2017 • 17 episodes • When Did Time Begin We float along the river of time. But does that river have a source? Where did time come from? Some believe time and space are one thing, and the Big Bang started the cosmic clock. Others believe the universe existed for almost half a million "years" before light could move and time began. Still others say time is older than our universe. But what if time itself is an illusion? Incredible new experiments may hold the answer. One groundbreaking experiment gives us the power to punch holes in time…and another may create a machine that operates outside time’s boundaries! Is Gravity an Illusion We feel it every moment of our lives but for physicists, gravity is the longest running unsolved mystery of the universe. Why do all objects that have mass pull on one another? Cutting-edge theories are proposing unexpected answers. Will We Become God? Humanity’s potential seems limitless. But could we become as powerful as God? Is There a Shadow Universe? It appears we live in a universe filled with light. But scientists are now certain there is far more matter in the dark portions of our universe. Can We Survive the Death of the Sun? Can We Travel Faster than Light? It's called the speed limit of the universe. Einstein blew all of our minds when he worked out the Theory of Relativity, and showed that space and time were malleable substances. He also theorized that we as humans can never travel faster than the speed of light, which leaves the stars and other galaxies almost impossibly out of our reach. But the dreams of Star Wars and Star Trek are not dead. In fact, there could be ways to travel faster than the speed of light - and some of them are already being tested in labs around the world. Is Reality Real? Do we live in the "real world" or is it all in our mind? Our perception of reality is controlled by society. Thanks to "the optimism bias", we make unrealistic assessments about our own reality. Human senses capture only a small part of nature. Is Luck Real? Do you make your own luck or does luck make you? We find luck, good and bad, in casinos, basketball courts, genetics labs and the subatomic world. It's a journey that will radically revise your understanding of the laws of nature and the human brain. Quantum theory, the best explanation of how atoms and anything smaller behave, is so weird even scientists who have mastered it find it baffling. But bit by bit scientists are finding maybe it's not so weird as comparable behavior is discovered in our every day world. It's just that no one noticed before. Will Sex Become Extinct? Every single person who has ever lived was created from the genes of one man and one woman. But human sexual reproduction, unchanged for millions of years, is about to undergo radical change. When Does Life Begin? We can all trace our lives back to a beginning. But what defines the beginning? Is it the moment when two cells unite? Or does something have to know it is alive before its life can begin? Do you sometimes tell a lie? Why? Is it human nature to lie? Do We Live in the Matrix? Our universe seems real. But what if it’s a videogame? Scientists in a variety of fields are taking seriously the possibility that we live in a virtual reality. Maybe the Big Bang was just the moment someone flipped the switch and turned on our universe. Maybe what looks random has already been programmed to happen. If some advanced civilization did design and program our universe, would we ever know? Scientists are looking for glitches in the laws of the universe that may uncover its hidden code. Is The Force With us? New research is beginning to reveal a hidden force in the universe - one that penetrates space with trillions of invisible connections, instantly linking every place in our world and joining our future with our past. Is the Force with us? 2017 • Science Can We Cheat Death? Death is life's greatest certainty. But that may be about to change. Scientists have discovered an immortal animal that may hold the secret of endless regeneration. They're on the brink of editing our DNA so that we can cure death like a disease. Or is dying necessary for the survival of our species? Can We Hack the Planet? Humanity is under threat - from storms that seem to get ever fiercer, earthquakes that seem ever more deadly, and killer viruses that are engulfing the globe. Some scientists think it's time for us to fight back. Can we - should we -hack the planet? Is gun Crime a Virus? Every 17 minutes in America, someone is killed with a gun. Politicians can't seem to stop the violence. But epidemiologists, psychologists and big data crunchers are discovering that gun crime spreads like a virus -and science may be able to stop its spread. Pop: The Science of Bubbles Physicist Dr Helen Czerski takes us on an amazing journey into the science of bubbles. Bubbles may seem to be just fun toys, but they are also powerful tools that push back the boundaries of science. The soap bubble with its delicate, fragile skin tells us about how nature works on scales as large as solar system and as small as a single wavelength of light. Then there are underwater bubbles, which matter because they are part of the how the planet works. Out at sea, breaking waves generate huge plumes of bubbles which help the oceans breathe. From the way animals behave to the way drinks taste, Dr Czerski shows how bubbles affect our world in all sorts of unexpected ways. Whether it's the future of ship design or innovative new forms of medical treatment, bubbles play a vital role. The Science of Dust All we are is dust in the (cosmic) wind. How Many Heartbeats Do We Get? Ever wonder how the heart symbol came to stand for the actual heart? And why do we speak of the heart as the seat of love, when love really happens in our brains? Is it true that animals only get a billion heartbeats? This week, we give you enough cool cardiac science to make your heart skip a beat. It's Okay To Be Smart • Science Across Oceans Throughout history, human society has run on trade, and trade moved on the oceans. The innovations that allowed faster an more accurate oceanic travel revolutionized to the world. New inventions now help people move on water for fun and recreation. 1/4 • Speed • 2019 • Science Professor Jim Al-Khalili tells the story of how we used light to reveal the cosmos. 1/2 • Light and Dark • Science The Coriolis Effect Why do storms spin in different directions depending on their location—and why do they spin in the first place?	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1335
__label__wiki	0.825042	0.825042	TikTok shows no signs of slowing down What’s Driving the TikTok Trend? TikTok, the app born out of the online lip-syncing trend, is now the name on everyone’s lips. Just a few weeks ago, it was the top free app on Apple’s App Store, and inspired a new regular segment on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon. But what does a TikTok user look like? Why do they use it? Is it the next big thing, or a flash in the pan? We [GWI] carried out a special survey in November this year to tackle precisely these questions – one of the first to illuminate this hot topic with data from the users themselves. While TikTok has surged up the download charts of late, it still has a way to go before it can challenge the social media heavyweights. 15% of internet users in the UK and U.S. actively engaged with TikTok last month; some way below Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook. But while TikTok may currently have fewer engaged users, there are still valuable lessons to take from what it offers them. It’s no great surprise that TikTok users skew young, with 41% of them aged between 16 and 24. Reports about TikTok often compare it to Vine, the 6-second video platform shuttered by parent company Twitter in 2016, and there’s some truth to that. When asked why they like using it, TikTok users say they are most interested in seeing other people’s creativity, and the chance to be creative themselves. It’s worth pointing out that more strictly social factors, such as “I like the community”, or “it lets me stay in touch with friends”, are further down the list. TikTok’s surge in popularity this year is no coincidence. It’s largely down to social media trends [GWI] have commented on before. In recent years, using social media to share personal updates and connect with friends has become less important to internet users. Using it to find entertainment is now a bigger priority. This trend is often referred to as “passive browsing”. But TikTok shows us that the appetite to actively create and upload creative content to social platforms may have been underestimated. Among TikTok’s engagers, the ratio of people uploading to viewing videos is high. 68% have watched someone else’s video in the last month, while 55% have uploaded one. These stats are admittedly drawn from TikTok’s more active users (and as a smaller service, it benefits from dedicated early adopters), but it’s still an impressive number of people actively contributing to the platform. TikTok’s success has come off the back of easy access to uploading and editing tools, empowering their users to become content creators. This is a valuable lesson that the whole of social media can learn from. While TikTok can offer its users a slew of tools to express their creative flair, what Tiktok currently lacks is the widest audience base to let their efforts be seen. One of the other findings of our survey was that TikTok engagers are keen to share the content they find to as broad an audience as possible. But at the moment, this means sharing it to other platforms. Half of TikTok engagers are sharing videos they find to other networks. Going by the other social networks they engage with, many TikTok users are giving content a second audience on Instagram. TikTok’s rise has come through capitalizing on a gap in the market. It’s made it easier than ever for internet users to make and share content that is bitesize, but still creative. The challenge now is distribution. Now that TikTok has brought something new to the table, the threat on the horizon is bigger platforms leveraging their user bases, and adding creative tools on top. Want more? See our November blog about TikTok here. Facebook makes saved posts more social with shareable collectionsWith Instagram’s latest update you can share Stories with your favourite people	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1342
__label__cc	0.734958	0.265042	Taking stock of fencing The exotic grass Wild Oats (Avena barbata) dominates a fenced plot at Terrick Terrick National Park. Stock grazing has reduced the conservation value of many native grasslands and woodlands in southern Australia. Not surprisingly, we often remove stock to help restore degraded areas. But how well does this work? Can damage caused by past grazing be reversed, or will the removal of stock create new, unexpected communities? In a fantastic new report, Josh Dorrough assesses how stock grazing affects native and exotic plants in lowland (non-alpine) grasslands and woodlands in southern Australia. Josh collated data from all available grazing studies (79 in all) and used a meta-analysis to analyze the pooled dataset. He asked two questions: (1) how does grazing affect plants, and (2) how does the removal of grazing affect plants? To answer the first question, Josh analyzed studies that compared ungrazed remnants (such as cemeteries and rail-lines) against unfertilized, grazed pastures. For the second, he analyzed studies that compared unfertilized grazed pastures against pastures that had been fenced to exclude stock. If grazing effects are reversible, species that decrease when grazed will increase when fenced, while those that increase when grazed will decrease when fenced. However, if grazing effects are irreversible, we might get surprising outcomes. For example, a species might decrease when grazed, and then decrease even faster when fenced. [Note: I use the term ‘fencing’ to refer to the total exclusion of livestock, as this is how fences are often used for conservation. The terms ‘grazing’ and ‘pastures’ refer to livestock grazing in unfertilized pastures only; fertilizer affects native plants much more than grazing alone]. How many ways can plants respond to grazing and grazing removal? The range of outcomes can be shown in simple charts. Figure 1a below shows how five imaginary species (each represented by a dot, A-E) respond to initial grazing. Species on the left (e.g. species A) are abundant in ungrazed remnants and rare in pastures; species in the middle are equally common in remnants and pastures (species C); and species on the right are abundant in pastures and rare in ungrazed remnants (species E). Figure 1. Potential effects of (a) grazing and (b) grazing removal (fencing) on the abundance of five imaginary plant species, A to E. Similarly, Figure 1b shows how plants might respond when pastures are fenced. Species A is abundant in fenced areas and absent from pastures; species C is equally common in both areas; and Species E is abundant in pastures and absent from fenced areas. These patterns aren’t very exciting, but things get more interesting when we combine the two charts. Figure 2 shows how five species might respond to initial grazing (from left to right) and fencing (from top to bottom). Figure 2. Potential effects of grazing and grazing removal (fencing) on five imaginary plant species, A to E. This chart combines the patterns shown in Figures 1a and 1b. Species A and B, in the top-left corner, decrease when initially grazed (i.e. are more common in remnants than pastures) and then increase when stock are removed following fencing. We might expect many ‘grazing-sensitive’ native plants to behave like this. By contrast, species D and E in the bottom-right corner behave in the opposite way. They increase when grazed (i.e. are more common in pastures than remnants) and decrease when fenced. We might expect (or hope) that many ‘grazing-increaser’ exotic plants would behave this way. Species C, in the middle, is equally abundant in all situations, and isn’t consistently affected by grazing or grazing removal. The patterns in Figure 2 illustrates reversible changes: species A and B decrease when grazed and increase when fenced, and species D and E do the opposite. But what happens if grazing has irreversible effects on some species? To represent irreversible changes, our chart needs to be expanded to show two extra patterns. Each corner of Figure 3 represents a different combination of the effects of initial grazing and fencing. Reversible effects are shown in green and unexpected irreversible changes are shown in blue. Species that plot in the center of the chart are either unaffected by grazing or fencing, or respond differently in different areas. Figure 3. The range of potential impacts of grazing and grazing removal (fencing) on plant species. Josh’s report has a complex chart that shows how every analyzed species responded to initial grazing and fencing (Fig. 6 in his report). In the charts below, I’ve simplified Josh’s figure by using shading to indicate the proportion of species that lie in each corner of the chart. I’ve ignored the many species in the center, and only show species that consistently responded in a particular way. In the charts below, dark blue indicates that many species lie in that corner (i.e. many species showed that response), and light blue indicates that few species are in that corner. For example, if nearly all exotic species increase when grazed and decrease when fenced, the bottom-right corner would be dark blue and the other corners would be light blue, as in Figure 4. By contrast, if nearly all native species decrease when grazed and then increase when fenced, the top-left corner would be dark blue. Figure 4. The pattern we would see if most plant species increased when grazed and decreased when fenced. Before reading on, take a break and think – If you had 100 native species, how many would sit in the middle and how many would sit in each corner of the chart? How many would consistently increase or decrease when initially grazed? How many would increase and decrease when pastures were fenced? How many would show surprising patterns? What about exotics? Would they show similar or different patterns to native plants? If we know the answers to these questions, then we know how well fences can work. If we don’t, we may get some surprising outcomes. So read on… and perhaps be surprised. How do native plants respond? I imagine that many people would think that most native plants will decrease when grazed and then increase (perhaps slowly) when fenced. If this was the case, the top-left corner of the chart would be dark blue and the other corners would be light blue. Josh’s analysis shows that things aren’t that simple. Many native species showed no consistent response, and responded differently in different studies. (These species sit in the middle of the charts, and I haven’t shown them in my charts for clarity). Consequently it is difficult to predict how lots of plant species will respond to grazing or fencing in any particular situation. Scaly Buttons (Leptorhynchos squamatus) is a consistent casualty of grazing exclusion. Original photo by Peter Fagg. Source: Australian National Botanic Gardens These inconsistent species aside, different natives respond to grazing and fencing in different ways, as shown in Figure 5 and as listed at the end of the blog. Most species respond in predictable, reversible ways (top-left and bottom-right) and relatively few show surprising, irreversible outcomes. As expected, many natives consistently decrease when grazed and increase when fenced (top-left); Bulbine Lily (Bulbine bulbosa) and Yam Daisy (Microseris lanceolata) do this. However, many natives do the opposite (bottom-right), and consistently increase when grazed and decrease when fenced, such as Red-leg Grass (Bothriochloa macra) and the ground-hugging daisy, Smooth Solenogyne (Solenogyne dominii). A smaller group of natives act ‘surprisingly’ and increase when grazed and then increase even more when fenced (top-right), for example Purple Wire-grass (Aristida ramosa). Luckily, only a few natives decrease when grazed and decrease even faster when fenced (bottom-left). The daisy, Scaly Buttons (Leptorhynchos squamatus) is a notable example. Fencing is hell for Leptorhynchos. Figure 5. How native species respond to initial grazing and fencing of grazed pastures. The darker the blue, the more species show that response. How do exotic plants respond? Like natives, many exotics respond inconsistently to grazing and fencing. Of the consistent species, most increase when grazed and decrease when fenced (bottom-right in Figure 6). Common examples are the annuals, Cape Weed (Arctotheca calendula), Barley Grass (Hordeum leporinum) and Brome grasses (Bromus hordeaceus and B. rubens). However, the next most common response by exotics is a ‘surprising’ outcome. A group of exotics increase when grazed and increase even more when fenced (top-right). Wild Oats (Avena species), Rye Grasses (Lolium species) and Sweet Vernal-grass (Anthoxanthum odoratum) are some of the worst offenders. All three are vigorous, transformative weeds, capable of out-competing many natives. Fig. 6. How exotic species respond to initial grazing and fencing of grazed pastures. How did you expect native and exotic plants would respond? Did any of these patterns surprise you? Did you expect to see such a diversity of responses by natives? What do these patterns tell us? Many of the messages in Josh Dorrough’s report aren’t new, but they are worth repeating. The biggest message is that grazing and fencing have unpredictable impacts on many species. Peter Vesk also found this in an earlier, excellent study. The next obvious message is that grazing and fencing affect different species in different ways. This isn’t surprising. Notably though, many exotic and native species respond in the same way, especially by increasing when grazed and decreasing when fenced. Much as we’d like to promote natives and reduce exotics, we have to accept that native-exotic mixes are here to stay. How good is fencing? Fencing has inconsistent impacts on many species, but consistently benefits some natives and consistently reduces others; it isn’t an obvious win-win outcome for all natives. On the other hand, continued grazing isn’t win-win either, as it also consistently benefits some natives and consistently reduces others. Many of the natives that decline after fencing are abundant in unfertilized grazed pastures, so their decline may not be a problem at regional scales. Fortunately, very few natives consistently decline when grazed and decline even faster when fenced. Ungrazed remnants appear to be the best refuges for these species. The biggest problem with fencing is that it consistently leads to increases in some very problematic exotics, especially Wild-oats (Avena species) and Rye-grass (Lolium species), which compete strongly against natives. We need to develop better strategies to control these problem species. It’s worth emphasizing that Josh’s review (and this blog) only examines ground plants, and grazing and fencing both affect many other natural features, including soils, water courses, regeneration of trees and shrubs, and habitat for birds and animals. Notably, the review compares two very simple options: ‘grazing’ versus ‘no grazing’. Few people would debate the effects of ‘burning’ versus ‘no burning’, as most people readily accept that fire regimes influence outcomes, not fire per se. However, many people view grazing as being intrinsically ‘good’ or intrinsically ‘bad’, and grazing exclusion is a common management response in many areas. Clearly, we need to refine the dialogue about grazing, and we need to do much more work to examine how different grazing regimes, such as short-duration grazing or seasonal grazing, affect vegetation composition. A key conclusion from the review is that the effects of grazing and fencing are highly variable, across and within regions. Local experiences can’t be extrapolated to other sites and regions, as variability and uncertainty are the norm, not the exception. Given this unpredictability, the safest management strategy is to avoid ‘putting all your eggs in one basket’. At regional scales, we have created – and will continue to create – mosaics of patches, each managed in different ways, and each promoting different species. A range of management styles may promote diversity across regional scales, even if diversity isn’t extremely high within each patch. Josh’s fantastic review suggests that it may be useful to review our expectations about fencing. The major benefit from a fence may not be that it increases the diversity of native plants within it. Instead, a major benefit may be that fences increase the diversity of management regimes across regions, and thereby increase the diversity of vegetation and habitat types across different patches. If fences bring flexibility, then flexibility may bring diversity. Dorrough J (2012) How do different levels of grazing and fertilisation affect vegetation composition in temperate Australian grassy ecosystems? Systematic review and meta-analysis. Final Report by Natural Regeneration Australia to the Victorian Dept of Sustainability and Environment. [You can download a copy of the report from this link]. Vesk PA & Westoby M (2001) Predicting plant species’ responses to grazing. Journal of Applied Ecology 38, 897-909. [You can download a copy of the article for free from this link]. Footnote: Native species lists This section lists many of the native plants that consistently displayed each of the four responses. These species have responded in a similar way in past studies, so we can be reasonably confident that they will respond this way in the future. The native plants that consistently decline when grazed and recover when fenced include Bulbine bulbosa (Bulbine Lily), Microseris lanceolata (Yam Daisy), Senecio quadridentatus (Cotton Fireweed), Enteropogon acicularis (Curly Windmill Grass) and Gonocarpus tetragynus (Common Raspwort). Most geophytes also do this. The surprising ‘fence-winners’, that increase when grazed and increase even more when fenced are an odd group. They include Aristida ramosa (Purple Wire-grass), Lomandra filiformis (Wattle Mat Rush), Small Poranthera (Poranthera microphylla ) and Wurmbea dioica (Early Nancy). Based on past performance, these species are ‘sure-fire winners’ from fencing schemes, if they are present. Many natives consistently increase when grazed and decrease when fenced. These include some Wallaby-grasses (Austrodanthonia racemosa and A. setacea), Red-leg Grass (Bothriochloa macra) and Slender Rat’s Tail Grass (Sporobolus creber) and the small herbs, Austral Stonecrop (Crassula sieberiana), Smooth Solenogyne (Solenogyne dominii) and Common Sunray (Triptilodiscus pygmaeus). Finally, the ‘surprising’ casualties of fencing schemes, that decline when grazed and decline even more when fenced, include the daisy, Leptorhynchos squamatus (Scaly Buttons) and Schoenus apogon (Common Bog-rush). Can livestock grazing benefit biodiversity? Restoring Woodland Understories #4 Posted in Ecology, Environmental weeds, Grassland, Grazing, Invasive species, Research, WoodlandTagged Australia, biodiversity, conservation, environment, plants Previous The Candles of Dunkeld Next Reading the bush: juxtapositions in history Nick Schultz says: Great blog again… About the native species that increase when grazed and decrease when fenced… The major species highlighted in this category are perennial grasses that have the ability to dominate a grazed pasture (particularly Bothriochloa and Aristida). We need to take into account here that increasing isn’t necessarily always good or desirable. Perennial grasses such as these are commonly present in ungrazed grasslands in lower abundances, whereas in grazed pastures, the absence of grazing sensitive species allows them to dominate – I suspect a lot of the pastures in Josh’s analysis were ‘wall-to-wall’ Bothriochloa (potentially further reducing the inter-tussock space that allows other species to persist). I suppose my point here is that we need to ask: which native species are increasing? From a conservation perspective, i think a rare native species increasing is worth more than a common native species increasing. There is also the possibility that those weed-infested exclusion areas that we see in the landscape might be providing opportunities for grazing-sensitive species despite their weediness… In which case we must ask: is a rare species increasing worth the increase in weeds? (I suppose it all depends…). So many questions… I could go on for hours. I won’t. Nick Schultz Hello Nick, thanks very much for your comment. You can see how all species responded in the appendix in Josh’s report. I listed many perennial grasses in the blog as I thought many readers would know them, but there are also many forbs in the list. Your point about ‘which native species’ is a good one. Often we compare effects simply by measuring species richness but this doesn’t take into account the broader regional context. Sue McIntyre from CSIRO highlighted this many years ago in a series of papers from woodlands in Northern NSW and Qld. I guess this points to the need to refine our rationales, especially at large scales, although this can be hard to do. Thanks again, Best wishes Ian Hi Ian – I’ve scoured the list… a lot of the forbs that increase with grazing are ‘common’ also, but others are not so common, so I agree it is complex (and of course it is different in different regions and different landscape contexts!). I like your final sentiment about increasing the diversity of habitat types. In landscapes where ungrazed areas represent a very small proportion of the total landscape, there are huge ‘habitat diversity’ gains to be made by fencing, regardless of the specific outcomes… We might not know which species we will get when we fence, but we might be providing opportunities for species that find little opportunity elsewhere in the landscape. Josh Dorrough says: Hi Ian and Nick, you have made some really good observations here. Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that most of the native species that increase with grazing tend to be ‘common’. Livestock grazing has been and continues to be the dominant land use in the landscapes these data come from, while, as Nick indicates, long ungrazed areas are rare – so if plants respond to long-term presence or absence of grazing we might predict that at a landscape scale most native species that increase with grazing will now be frequent and common, while ‘decreasers’ will tend to be be infrequent and rare. Your comments also highlight another really important issue, that we rarely have information on the response of infrequent or rare species (that might be of higher priority for conservation). So while in this case I intentionally avoided analysis of richness or diversity because my interest was in how individual species responded, there is little data on the truly rare species. This is a common problem in most ecological analyses – we often exclude the infrequent species from analyses – and there is a risk that this will affect the subsequent conclusions and decisions we make. Thanks Ian for a great blog – you have done a really fantastic job of summarising and communicating the analysis. Best wishes, Josh Hi Josh, thanks very much for your clarifications and feedback on the post. I’m glad I captured the essence of your report accurately. Thanks also for the huge amount of work that you invested in writing the report, it’s a great resource. I’m looking forward to reading the paper that you will undoubtedly publish from it in the future. Best wishes Ian Just Judith (@justjjoke) says: Thank you for such a clear description of this study, and through you to Josh for his work. It certainly provides lots to consider in a disciplined and accessible way. It’s a great example of the value of dedicated research(ers) and clearly determined insights from fresh minds. (says she, pondering appropriate fencing of an about-to-be-declared, suburban-based Heritage Listed bush block) Hello Judith, thanks very much for your comment. I think Josh’s study is also a brilliant example of the benefits in investing in good research. The papers Josh included were published over many decades, and the original authors would be awed at how much value Josh (and new analyses in general) has mined from their work. If we are to improve our understanding of how other grazing strategies (and other management approaches) work, then we need to continue to invest in quality research. Otherwise all we have left is local anecdotes, and we will never know how well, or badly, the anecdotes apply in other places. Thanks again, and best wishes with your work, Ian Pingback: Grazing and fencing – read all about it! \| Victorian Volcanic Plains Spotlight Chris Helzer says: Nice post, Ian. You hit it on the head with your call for consideration of “grazing regimes”. Grazing is actually a much more flexible tool than fire or maybe any other land management tool. With grazing, we can control timing, duration, intensity, and frequency. That control doesn’t mean we can accurately predict the outcomes of each combination of those factors, but at least we can adapt as we evaluate how each combination works. You won’t be surprised that I think varying the grazing (or rest) from year to year is the best option. Since every plant species (and animal species?) responds differently to every management option, a dynamic system likely stands the best chance of accomodating the highest diversity. It’s easy to understand the perception of many people who see grazing as a negative management tool – especially if their entire experience with grazing has been overgrazed areas. However, my analogy is that eating doesn’t make us fat – overeating and/or poor eating choices make us fat. Of course, even conservation grazing isn’t appropriate everywhere, but usually because of “other” impacts such as trampling disturbance, etc. Aside from those exceptions, negative aspects of grazing (including tramping) can usually be mitigated by good management planning, and livestock can often help address issues that are difficult to address in other ways. It was particularly nice to see that most of the plant species impacts in Josh’s study weren’t irreversible. Plants are pretty tough. Eliminating them from a site or ecological system takes pretty hard work! Hello Chris, and thanks very much for your comment. I suspect that many of our grasslands and woodlands, especially in dry regions, differ from your prairies in a couple of ways. First, while grasslands and woodlands in Australia were obviously grazed by native herbivores before European settlement, grazing intensities are generally considered to have been very low compared to livestock grazing levels after European settlement. Fire rather than grazing is generally considered to have been the driving force in our systems originally, whereas fire/grazing interactions appear to have been much more important in your system. Consequently, our systems suffered very extensive changes following the initial introduction of stock, to both soils and vegetation. As I understand it, this differs to a large degree from many prairies, where bison herds grazed before settlement and where, because of this, livestock impacts were not as dramatic, except where heavily over-grazed, as you describe. Thus, initial grazing by livestock appears to have been much more of a ‘shock to the system’ in many Australian systems than in your prairies. Also, because we have such poor soils and our climate is often very dry, biomass levels are much lower in many of our woodlands than in than yours, so disturbances like grazing and burning often aren’t needed to reduce biomass and promote ground plant diversity. Nevertheless, we do have many areas where burning and grazing can play an important role in promoting diversity. We have a lot of work to do to work out how to manage these areas better, to conserve plants and animals. Your prairie work provides a fantastic example for many of us. Your comment on the need to use dynamic or variable grazing regimes rather than repeatedly using the same approach in an area is a great one. Readers may enjoy many of Chris’ posts on grazing and prairie restoration at his blog site, at the following links… (and he has a great new post on fire management too)… http://prairieecologist.com/2013/01/08/lessons-from-a-project-to-improve-prairie-quality-part-1-patch-burn-grazing-plant-diversity-and-butterflies/ http://prairieecologist.com/2011/11/28/a-skeptical-look-at-mob-grazing/ http://prairieecologist.com/2010/11/11/grazing-in-prairies-part-1/ Thanks again for the fantastic prairie restoration blog site you have created. It’s been a big inspiration for my site. Best wishes Ian Shaun Kennedy says: Hi Ian, re better strategies to control Avena sp. – I have seen very good selective control of Avena sp. vs. Wallaby grass pasture using the herbicide flamprop-M-methyl, designed for “the control of Wild Oats in Wheat and Triticale”, without injury to a range of native grasses, some forbs and sedges, needs to be well timed to stop the Wild Oats. Hello Shaun, thanks very much for your tip. There must be a huge range of practical techniques that people have used successfully of which I, and many others, are completely unaware. If you get to read my reply… at which stage of the life cycle of wild oats is it best to apply the herbicide, early in the life cycle or late? Thanks again, best wishes Ian	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1347
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__label__cc	0.617001	0.382999	Reports: Attacker mows down pedestrians in London, assailant shot outside Parliament while wielding knife; Update: Four dead, 20 injured AllahpunditPosted at 11:39 am on March 22, 2017 And so the grim game of “terrorist or crank?” begins anew. Let’s get the NBC live feed up and then I’ll update below. It’s unclear as I write this, by the way, that the man who hit bystanders with his car is the same man who showed up at Parliament with the knife. The latter, at least, has been neutralized: British cops shot him at the scene, but not before he managed to stab a police officer. Stand by. Update: From the Daily Mail story, an eyewitness: “We were taking photos of Big Ben and we saw all the people running towards us, and then there was an Asian guy in about his 40s carrying a knife about seven or eight inches long. “And then there were three shots fired, and then we crossed the road and looked over. The man was on the floor with blood.” “Asian” in Britain typically refers to people from South Asia, not the Far East. In other words, Indians, Pakistanis, etc. But it’s early yet. Grain of salt on everything. Update: Eyewitnesses tell NBC that a dozen or so people are down on the ground on Westminster Bridge. Whether this is jihadism or something else, “ramming” attacks have grown increasingly popular with terrorists in recent years and are favored by ISIS, for obvious reasons. They cost next to nothing, they’re almost impossible to sniff out in advance, and they make every pedestrian in a targeted city fearful for his or her life. Update: This map will give you a sense of how close Westminster Bridge is to Parliament. Assuming the driver is also the man with the knife, the entire attack might have taken less than a minute. Update: The NYT has photos of the injured on the bridge. Update: The toll is climbing, with the BBC reporting four people dead and other outlets claiming another 20 injured. Tags: attack bridge knife mow parliament terrorist westminster Toxic: Did This Terrible Polling Spook Pelosi Into Attacking 'The Squad'?	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1356
__label__cc	0.704055	0.295945	Topical Forums» Happy Marriages Is there really unconditional love in marriage? Jump to Last Post 1-41 of 41 discussions (86 posts) dawnMposted 8 years ago Do people really love their spouse unconditionaly or do they place conditions on their love? replyreport Woman Of Courageposted 8 years agoin reply to this Hi Dawn, It's possible. My husband and I choose to love each other unconditional. I hope you and your family have a Happy Thanksgiving. dawnMposted 8 years agoin reply to this you too!!!! happy thanksgiving IntimatEvolutionposted 8 years agoin reply to this I think we most certainly put conditions on love. We do so as a form of control. I think we do it, without even realizing it. Stevennix2001posted 8 years agoin reply to this it really depends on the people we're talking about here, as I've seen people who claim to be in love with each other but in the end, they just end up hurting each other over time. However, I do believe that for some couples there is such a thing as unconditional love, as I've seen it. I remember once a coworker of mine named Jake (fake name to hide his identity), found out his wife not only cheated on him with her ex boyfriend, she also told him that she's not sure if she even loved him anymore. Needless to say, I don't think anyone would've blamed him if he had walked away and divorced her over that. However, what he did really surprised me, as well as a lot of people. He not only demonstrated what the true unconditional love was, he's the very definition of it if you ask me. Why am I saying that? Well its simple, you see even though his wife did this to him, he told me that he REFUSED to give up on her and their marriage. Sure, he knew that she cheated on him and that there was a distinct possibility she no longer loved him, but that didn't stop him from trying to win her back anyway. You want to know what happened? Well as it turns out she came to realize that she made a mistake, and went back to Jake. Jake not only forgave her for what happened, he still loves and trusts her just the same, as if nothing had happened. Sure, they both still remember it, but both claim that their love is stronger than ever because of that ordeal. That to me is the definition of unconditional love. When you love someone so much that no matter what mistakes they make to hurt you in the relationship, your always willing to forgive them and try to work through adversity to strengthen your relationship. Anyways, i hope that helps... Hi Steven, I really enjoyed reading what you wrote, it made sense to me. I have always equated unconditional love with children, the parent child relationship, but I think that when we take the judgment out of loving another person we have a better change of loving them on a deeper level. I would like to think that what you wrote above is an example of unconditional love and maybe it is, or maybe this man still loved his wife and believed in the vows of marriage. I still think that unconventional love with a man and a wife has conditions, such as expectation from that person in marriage, so then maybe undcondial love is acceptable in a marriage, when it is done lovingly, just playing around with the idea and the word, it has always interested me. I know for me when I had my children and they were put in my arms I loved them without conditions, I can’t say the same for my husband and I love him but with the conditions that is to honor, respect and love me, just as I would do for him, conditions of marriage. Stevenix, your post is a great example of unconditional love in a marriage. Anyone can show unconditional love to their spouse if they make up their mind to do it. Anesidoraposted 8 years agoin reply to this And I disagree. Steven's example was not one of unconditional love. He wanted her, she made a mistake, he chose to forgive her. He didn't say -"sure go do it again, i'll always love you anyways no matter what you do." I imagine that in fact he did place a very specific condition on her, at least in his own mind. Your right, he didn't say that she was allowed to do such a thing again, nor do I know of what else was said between them privately outside of what he told me. However, to me when we're talking about unconditional love between lovers, it means that no matter what flaws or adversity that stands in your way, you'll always try to work things out. Seriously, if a person chooses to walk away from a relationship, at the first sign of trouble, then that's a sign they never loved you to begin with. Whereas if the person is willing to stand by you, even when you make a mistake, then that's what true love is. Sure, love will never be perfect, as I like to think Topher Grace said it best in "Valentine's Day." When you love someone, you don't just love them for the parts about them that you like, but you have to love their flaws and things you don't like about them as well There's never going to be a perfect relationship, and anyone that says otherwise is selling something. Anesidora, I love unconditionally because it's my choice. It may be impossible to you, but not for every married couple. I only answered the question on this thread from my own experience. WOC would you still love your spouse -as your spouse- if it turned out he was into raping babies and then eating their barely-there remains? Say yes so we can all admire your magnanimous ability to mindlessly love. Now come on, you must admit it now, for you have already said "unconditionally". Therefore you cannot reject him now just because he ripped your grandkid into two and offered you a piece. Go ahead, tell me that you just know that your husband would never do that. Oh hey guess what? You knowing that -whether or not you're right about it- makes that a *CONDITION! Did I say it was impossible to romantically love someone unconditionally? Whoops, my bad. I didn't mean impossible, just amazingly stupid. Well you do offer a good point there, as i think that would be a breaking point for anyone in a relationship. However, I doubt seriously her husband would do that because for one if your married to someone, then it's a fair assumption you would KNOW everything about this person that your married to. After all, it would be very naive to marry a person you barely knew anything about. However, if you marry someone, then you should know exactly when something bothers them or if they're capable of acting crazy. skyskaterposted 8 years agoin reply to this @Anesidora: You're just bringing up and stretching your natural mind defense mechanisms needlessly. Love deals with the heart, and the heart recognizes a heart. When you truly love someone, you understand the person's heart, his pure and immortal soul and his body instinctively or no, and yes this may not be a case of true love because it needs more indications to prove it's true love, but people can wholly fall in love with someone, and love the persons in all conditions, including death, being married to someone else and anything else you can think of. It lies with the mind and it's like a tie.. and surely, when someone shows unfaithfulness you're bound to feel hurt as a human, but it doesn't beat the fact that you still love him/her. There is no rejection or hate, just sadness and worry. Love is quite deeper than most know. As for marriages, it's usually difficult especially given that we are experiencing something ethereal on earth. It's bound to be tainted by our earthly weaknesses.. sorry if I sound awkward though Thanks WOC. I'm glad you think so. Jake may be a bit a slob, but he certainly earned my respect after that incident, as I don't know too many men that would've been that big enough during such a situation. You are welcome. I agree, there are no perfect marriages the clean lifeposted 8 years agoin reply to this Steven, What a excellent explanation of unconditional love. I surly can relate to this kind of love as you know with my writings. My wife stood by my side through thick and thin and I love her even more than ever for hanging in there till I got back to planet earth and out of the make believe world I lived in. If it is true love there will be forgiveness and hope. Never give up on the Love. Me, Steve Waltersposted 8 years agoin reply to this Shoot dang....there must be unconditional love available in marriage...or else how could 'ya explain why in the world my wife puts up with me!! lol ...... thats a good one lol, that is a good one! Shadesbreathposted 8 years agoin reply to this It really depends on what you mean when you say "unconditional." If by putting conditions on the love like, "Don't sleep around," or, "Don't drive our children into a lake and drown them," then I would say, I doubt there are many marriages out there that are "unconditional." Marriage is a bond of trust, and by the very nature of that trust, there are expectations. But the expectations are not articulated like a set of "rules" or "conditions." Love does not have a TOS page we can link to when our spouse is doing something we don't like. We just have to communicate feelings as they come along, and, through time, we get to know our partners and intuit what the most loving way to treat them is as best we can in balance with our own selfish tendencies. I think that is as close to "unconditional love" as there is. Frankly, the phrase is really an empty, pop-psychology thing that is more likely to do harm than good if used to discuss real relationships. It over-simplifies something that is very complex. TOS. ROFLOL. I like that. And you're right. Unconditional love simply doesn't really exist. Unconditional love as in if you piss me off, I'ma try to forgive you -yes. Unconditional love as in when you grow old, I'll still love you -yes. Unconditional love as in should you end up paralyzed and unable to satisfy my sexual needs I'm gonna try real hard to be okay with that, but whatever happens I'll still love and care for you - yes. Unconditional love as in can you spend all the rent money on booze and bimbos (other than myself)- not so much. Unconditional love as in can you mess with my kids - No. I will kill you. So even once 'unconditional' love is given, it still rests on certain conditions being met. Sure, many people will say 'i know my mate would never..' Yeh, whatever. Heard that one before. I can say for sure, that I have never even imagined myself to be 'in love' with any man who didn't meet certain conditions. It's not a very accurate term. I can't even make sense of it. Did christians make this shit up? That'd make sense. freshand40posted 8 years agoin reply to this though marriage comes with loving and excepting eachother for our differences but i still feel its conditional for most. although i have known people who have been married for years and worked through things i myself dont think i could work through....to me they found the unconditional love...i guess it stems from our exceptance of what one would tolerate to know for sure if you have found the unconditional love so many of us seek. Druid Dudeposted 8 years agoin reply to this Un conditional love also means unconditional RESPECT. Unconditional love is Unconditional patience. Understanding. Everything mutually, one to another. Some equate it with unbridled passion. That comes, but without the rest, it would always be a short term path. Deborah Sextonposted 8 years agoin reply to this There are many marriages with unconditional love. which one? the unconditional part or the fact that people put conditions on marriages? Fixed my answer oh okay. sorry. when you posted originally, it was kind of confusing to know what you meant. sorry. Moonchild60posted 8 years agoin reply to this I have only seen 2 incidences of unconditional love in my life. I am sure there are millions more, I just have not been witness to them. I am afraid that kind of love is truly rare. Mishaposted 8 years agoin reply to this Well, it may be possible, yet I did not see it. Yet. The closest one can get to unconditional love here on Earth seems to be parent love to child, sometimes. Motown2Chitownposted 8 years agoin reply to this Love is not a feeling, it is an action. We may experience feelings of affection, desire, and happiness drawn from us by another person. I can find that person amusing, inspiring, admirable, and interesting. These feelings are conditional upon how a person acts on any given day, and how I respond. When we got married my husband and I said "I do." Neither of us said anything akin to "I do, as long as she......" or "I do, but only if he....." Unconditional love exists. It is offered and present no matter what circumstances may arise, or how we may feel at the moment. Is it easy? Uh, does one sunbathe nude at the North Pole? But it's what we promised to each other in front of God and other witnesses, and we ACT on our love for each other without condition. We will continue to do so until we leave this earth. speedbirdposted 8 years agoin reply to this I believe unconditional love is practical but both spouses need to work towards it. Jaggedfrostposted 8 years ago its yours but give you must or nothing will last. Urbane Chaosposted 8 years ago Unconditional love is like having a robot for a sex slave. Wait, I can say that in here, right? er.. I mean, everyone is different. That's a fact of life. So, you have to accept someone you love no matter what "minor irritations" they may have. But, you still expect things from them - to take out the trash occasionally, or wash the dishes, or to take Mr. Big Barfy outside for a walk.. If love was unconditional then if that person didn't want to do those things, they wouldn't, and you'd have to accept that. Romance is about compromise. You take those things that you expect from your partner (the conditions you set on them), and you find a middle ground. Half of the fun in being in a relationship is taking those "conditions" and turning them into compatibilities. That's my two bits anyway.. If there is unconditional love expressed by both partners, then that wouldn't be true. Partner A wants Partner B to take out the garbage, so Partner B takes it out even though they don't want to. And the Partner A doesn't mind when Partner B doesn't want to and so Partner A takes it out, and doesn't expect Partner B too. With unconditional love, you love the other no matter what. Why? How? Impossible. Impossible for me to love a man as my mate no matter what he does? Very true. I have standards. Greek Oneposted 8 years ago The only condition I place on my love is that she doesn't murder me in my sleep. If she does that, then I have to reconsider the progress of out relationship. I'm not saying that we would break up, just that we would have to do a lot of talking sd98posted 8 years ago If you love someone unconditionally that doesn't mean you have to love everything they do. When I was with my childrens father I always wondered if I loved him unconditionally or not. Now that he is my ex, I do believe I love him unconditonally. He did a lot of awful things and betrayed the children and I so much. He left and the children and I don't hear from him at all. I hate his actions, they are cruel and selfish, but after everything I still love him and always will. When and if he is ever ready to be a dad again, I will be there cause no matter how at times I wish I didn't I love him. To me that is unconditional love. wychicposted 8 years ago I believe there is such a thing as unconditional love, but not such a thing as an unconditional relationship. I love my husband, and my love for him is not dependent on his actions or his ability to rise to my expectations. There are a couple of things he could do to make it so that I would no longer be willing to live with him, either because of a lack of trust or if I felt my children's safety was at risk, but they wouldn't stop me loving him. Now, taking Shadebreath's example of driving the kids into a lake and drowning them...k, I'd likely still love the person I know him to be, but I'd still make sure he died a very slow and painful death. Of course, if he were capable of something like that, then obviously I never really knew him, and thus the person I loved might not even have ever existed. Something like that does make it a tiny bit murky. know oneposted 8 years ago There could be. There could also be life on Mars. But I'm yet to see evidence of either. MrsInfertilityposted 8 years ago I do believe there is unconditional love in some marriages, but I believe it is very rare. When it comes down to it we have to make the decision to love our spouses, day after day, no matter what. I agree with wychic, unconditional love and unconditional relationships are two different things. ItsThatSimpleposted 8 years ago Does love need to be unconditional in order for us to keep the idea of love on it's pedestal? I wrote a reply on a similar question and have to wonder how important it is to us that love be unconditional. I think the answer to your question is that all marriages sadly do not involve unconditional love. I think it's what many of us aspire to have and for a lot of reasons have varying levels of success. to those who feel that God doesn't exist or is anything less or requires anything less of his children then what he requires of himself that question has merit and can devolve into an endless assortment of caveats. And perhaps that is where I differ from most. My Father commanded his children to be perfect, not flawless. Whole and complete actually. When he did that he set a different standard in everything so yes Love needs to be unconditional from a certain point of view. However understanding what that means to me is going to be difficult because I understand that the same love that gave Abraham a child after one hundred years was the same love that caused Father to ask him to sacrifice that same child. It was that same love that caused the Flood to be necessary and Sodom and Gomorrah to go up in smoke. It was also the same love that caused Christ to call out "Mary" to one of his wives who grieved at his grave. It was the same love that he issued as a plea on the cross when he said, "Forgive them for they know not what they do." Understanding the difference between unconditional love and shielding people from consequences when it may be those consequences that will yield a better result then shielding them ever will is key. It is with this understanding that I unconditionally love my wife and in her way she has unconditionally loved me in return. You are right again, it is rare but not because it was meant to be rare. It is because people have walked away from the concept of eternal life where relationships matter enough that unconditional love, not shown may come back to bite you and Unconditional love shown and developed will change not only your life but that of everyone else around you. Unconditional love doesn't entail unconditional masochism. It doesn't have anything to do with the situation you stay in for your sake and that of any children that happen to be involved. It has to do with having that person's best interests at heart and not holding any grudges. Sometimes it means doing what is lawful to make sure they get help even if it isn't the kind of help they want or think they need. Unconditional love has more to do with the individual showing it and not so much the one being shown love. TammyHammettposted 8 years ago My thoughts on "unconditional" are that no matter what the other person does or says, my love for them will never change. For example, for me, I will love my children no matter what they do. They will always be a part of my life and I will do whatever it takes to work through any issues that arise. Also, take my younger sister, for example. I will love her no matter what happens between us. I will do my best to reconcile any differences we may have. But as far as my husband goes, there is not any blood bond. My love for him, however intense, is given to him based on the mutual love and respect we share. If he cheated on me or was abusive, then I would be able to rescend my love a lot easier than I would for my children, sister, or parents. Based on our mutual love and respect, I will love him even though he may leave dirty dishes on his bedside table, forgets to take the trash out, or anything like that. Those things do not matter to me enough to fall out of love with him. He treats me like a queen and I couldn't feel any more loved, therefore, he has all the love that I can possibly give to him, but with the condition that he cherishes the love that I give to him as much as I cherish the love that he gives to me. Maria Ceciliaposted 8 years ago I think when you married someone you are ready to give unconditional love. That is why the only best reason to marry the person is because you love him or her, and you want to live the rest of your lives with him... John Wiggensposted 8 years ago when first married you are ready to give unconditional love. But after 43 years its just something else that goes away. It would be great to walk away from the last 43 years Huh. See that's what unconditional love gets ya. Forget that. Not me. Anesidoraposted 8 years ago Yeah. That's why I'm not buying into unconditional love. And not to take anything away from your boy there, but I know dozens of people who have stayed together through similar situations. I really dislike terms or beliefs or pretty ideals which only warp a person's thinking and leave them ill-prepared for reality. Sorry if my last post sounded critical of your's, wasn't meant to be that way. I just think that what you described and what other people mean when they say unconditional love is just love, plain and simple. Well, I mean, I don't wanna come across too blunt again. Why would you love someone "no matter what"? That is just crazy talk. May as well be a mail-order bride. How would you love someone "no matter what"? Again, crazy talk. And not worth a whole lot either. Oh forget it. I'm fighting against popular understandings of a word and it really doesn't matter to me. Amber4posted 8 years ago I'm not real sure. I mean, I love my husband, but to me unconditional love is more like a parent-child relationship. I "condition" him depending on what mood I'm in, what diet I'm on as well as various other things daily. Lol.... But I will fight to the death to fix anything before I would consider divorce....so if that fits into your definition of unconditional love then great! elayne001posted 8 years ago that would be ideal to always have unconditional love in marriage, but seems like it is more give and take. I will always love him no matter what he does, but I am nicer to him when he does what I want : ) Amber4posted 8 years agoin reply to this And that is how women are programmed! We'll still love them, but it never hurts for them to get some brownie points! I agree with you. Give and take....and give and take equally. You can never take advantage of one another's kindness and forgiveness. Example, my husband knows that I like to be right about everything so he usually caves and admits that he's wrong even if he thinks/knows he's right. Unfortunately, this means that occasionally when I just KNOW that I'm right.... I have to say that I'm not . It just makes his day! damian0000posted 8 years ago Unconditional love doesn't really exist, no? You love him / her for what they are, if they change from being that wonderful person you fell in love with, your feelings will change too feisty womanposted 8 years agoin reply to this This is very true Damian. Rachel2022posted 8 years agoin reply to this People don't just change under your eyes unless they have been possessed. Our minds like making up things just to satisfy your opinions KCC Big Countryposted 8 years ago I think everyone has unwritten, often unspoken, conditions when they choose to love someone. Think about, everyone has some limit to what they will put up with before they snap and say enough is enough. Some may live with someone 50+ years and that person never even gets close to crossing that invisible line. That's conditional love. I will love you as long as you don't ever do X. I made the distinction about when you choose to love someone because like Misha touched on, I think other instincts come into play when the relationship involves a parent/child. Even though you still have a choice whether or not to love them, your parental instincts normally (NORMALLY!!!) kick in and you are drawn to loving them, no matter what. There are still things you won't tolerate from even them, but there's always that tug at your heart for them. On someone you choose to love, that tug is either non-existent or easily ignored. That's exactly what I'm saying Anesidora, just not as graphically. There is some line that everyone has where they would be willing to walk away. They will try to argue that deep down they still love them. But, I don't think that's quite the same. Steven, you can't predict what someone is going to do 10-20 years down the line before you marry them. People change. True. People do change over time, and grow apart. However, that's what makes love so grand in my opinion, as it's so rare among people that when you do have it, you never let it go. KCC Big Countryposted 8 years agoin reply to this You've never been married, have you? Some change and things get better, some change and things get worse. Some can overcome the "worse" and thrive in spite of it. But, some can't and some just downright shouldn't have to. They shouldn't be made to feel ashamed when that happens. It's not a matter of "loving enough" or "trying hard enough". Sometimes, it's just time to move on. banzaradiwanaposted 8 years agoin reply to this thanks KCC BIG Country ,your thoughts are so TRUE First in regards to your previous post, where you spoke of people obviously knowing everything about the person you marry, well, gosh I hate to say this, but wow that makes you sound young. Or maybe it's just that feeling I frequently get that alot of people don't come from the same world I do. Are things really always that peachy keen where you come from? I don't really mean that sarcastically. I know from my own experience that worlds of difference separate classes and circumstances separate people even further. No, I just can't agree with what you've said. I've seen way too many marriages fall apart and way too many lovers grow distant, cold and ugly as all hell. It's sad when they get divorced, it really is, and so much damage done, but it's even sadder when they stay together and learn to hate each other, slowly decimating each other. Hate actually can become unconditional. What you all are refering to isn't some extra special, super upgraded "unconditional" love. When you refer to forgiving people for making mistakes and trying to understand their lover's perspective, or growing past squabbles over who takes out the garbage for Christmas's sake, THAT'S JUST LOVE! Plain and simple. It can and will grow past a whole lot, given the right conditions. These vary from person to person. For some the condition is that nothing better comes along, and for some individuals they'll stay and learn to love a child molestor. Both are wrong, like extremes always are. I will concede. WHich is actually why I came back here. After thinking on it, I reckon some people can love their spouses -even the worst of the bunch- unconditionally. Deborah's comment expressing some opinion that we should love our mates unconditionally made me dwell on it, and now I see the same opinion from WOC. So I was thinking about it, and briefly wondering if I should feel guilty for not feeling a need to love my man 'unconditionally', but I came to realize that when I said it was impossible I had somehow completely overlooked the obvious. I do that, sometimes. It's not impossible to love unconditionally, people do it all the time. Women battered and abused, some with dead children murdered by the men they love unconditionally, some convinced it's all their fault while their man cheats on them over and over again, some adapt and use it to their advantage in some twisted way playing the long-suffering martyr (my mother), and some keep loving unconditionally because they are deluded into thinking it's the right thing to do, usually with religious reasons at the core, for some it's financial, and then again some people really are just that masochistic. So yes, I reckon that truly unconditional love is indeed possible if someone chooses to commit themselves to it. And indeed as the ladies here already pointed out, plenty of people are doing it. But should they? Of course I guess that's another question. Ya'll are right -those who said it, unconditional love is possible. I'll stick with my conditions, which of course with love became winnowed down as necessary. ah, so my previous post wasn't needed. I regret to be reminded again that women have suffered a lot from men due to their more wholly-submissive nature. I have some reasons though to think that these women loved so because their family was all they had, which is not so with women of 'nowadays' MermaidMoneyposted 8 years ago It is entirely possible but not always probable. I learned how to let go of the petty stuff years ago and loved my husband unconditionally. He however did not decide to do this, and he held onto resentments and fears and eventually pushed me into a divorce. During the court dates, I found myself smiling at him, opening the door for him and was actually happy when he found a girlfriend. I told him that I know I love him unconditionally because I genuinely wanted for him to be happy and that if he couldn't feel it with me, then I am happy he could feel it with another woman. Really and truly, I could not see myself behaving this way 15 years ago! LOL!!! But I have grown as a person and as a woman in so many ways and I appreciate the 13 years we had together as husband and wife. Now I am in a new relationship and I find myself being completely open, non judgmental and very loving towards this new man. It is refreshing and yes, unconditional love is possible if you work at it. It is best of course if both parties work on it! Blessings to you all this holiday season! Then again maybe I'm just way too skeptical and critical. I never sign on to anything that says unconditional. After reading my post I realize it sounds like I'm somewhat jaded about marriage. In defense of my husband I'd like to point out that he's my first, we've been together for 23 years this February, and I anticipate seeing the next 23 and more. When I said someone must come from a different world than I, I was not refering to my own marriage. Just didn't want anyone to get the wrong idea. We have a great marriage, but we really know alot of people who either ended up divorced or just have really bad marriages that continue to reach new depths of amazingly bad. I can't tell you the number of times I have said "you've got to get out of there" to someone. So yeh, unconditional? I've seen some pretty bad conditions. F** that. Are we loved when love is all about us? Is it really love if there is no choice? It is easy to love when there is no oppostion... When a fire is banked where will it consume? Will it dwindle and die for the lack of fuel or will it find new ways to consume and intensify in heat? sureyeposted 8 years ago I say that to say this, every morning you wake up you already have a foundation of love for your spouse but you must choose to UNCONDITIONALLY love them every day. The wife needs unconditional love but the husband needs unconditional respect. They must coexist and you must choose every day to take one more step TOGETHER. Joy56posted 8 years ago He loves me unconditionally, like i sit at the computer all day, he does moan about it..... However the conditions for him are He brings me a drink up every morning before he goes to work, however early it is. He makes the meal when he gets in. He does the shopping. He understands i am always right. My money is my money, his money is my money. It works so well for us chrissie123posted 8 years ago I think it is possible SomewayOuttaHereposted 8 years ago ...oh darn...can't remember everything i've posted about luv and stuff....it all depends on my mood at the time.... ...so tonite....i think so? ...how's that? perfectperceptionposted 8 years ago Love should definitely be unconditional in any marriage but not everyone values and respects the sanctity of marriage. Rachel2022posted 8 years ago Love is always conditional, and should be. You marry someone based on a massive variety of factors. You marry them based on their personality, their looks, their beliefs, their income etc. These are examples, and some are a little superficial but I'm sure you know what I mean - you have your reasons for marrying someone, just as you have your reasons for friendships. These reasons are conditions. If you marry based on the condition that that person is the way they are today and in X years time they are someone totally different, it would be odd if you still loved them. Unconditional love doesn't exist, not really. Even your own flesh and blood could, if they wanted to, do things so abhorrent that you wouldn't love them anymore. The conditions are what makes a couple wonderful. "I love you because you're beautiful, funny, smart and you have similar interests to me..." simultaneously means "I wouldn't love you if you were none of these things". You also set certain conditions when you get married, like fidelity. I want someone to love me based on the stipulations of marriage i.e. that I won't cheat and I will do my best to make my partner happy. If love is entirely unconditional you don't have to do anything to earn it, and if you then put no effort into a marriage or a relationship it's likely to fail. All-forgiving is great but if you constantly need to forgive someone it shows a lack of respect on their part. Enforce conditions, and expect the same from your partner. If you both know where the boundaries are, and are a little forgiving of each other (we're all human) everything will be swell. Well you conclusions and judgement are wrong, and you are also on a involuntary mind defense trail. Love is known for its foolishness because direct logic doesn't really apply to it. I happen to be one person who have seen what unconditional love truly looks like, and I daresay, it's none of those things. You don't get to love someone unconditionally because he or she's funny and so on. You just watch them, admire them and like to be with them, a bond is created between you two, it's something of the heart and spirit. something strangely now I reconsider, only death can break. Yes, it's a difficult thing when it comes to marriage, especially for those who marry for values like beauty and luxury, which is in our nature. But go to somewhere remote where these things hardly mean anything, and you may understand the point people are trying to make here. Even the minority can make a difference. LondonGirlposted 8 years ago Unconditional love? I might continue to love him, but I would certainly split up with him if he did certain things. If I became his punch-bag, or he brought prostitutes into our home, or abused our son. That would be a Game Over situation. (Obviously, there are other things that would be, too) It is my feeling that if you get into an unconditional relationship you do your homework upfront. You take them to all of the places you think they should freak and watch their reactions carefully. You spend a lot of time talking together and even more time listening. In my culture, unconditional love is something that goes for everyone but consequences to actions cannot be prohibited or interfered with. obviously you aren't going to marry everyone so there are special steps you can and should take in order to keep things on the level. If the other person shows any signs that tend to things you know you cant live with, by all means dump them. Be a good judge of character by all means but once you say, "I do." You are lying to yourself and them if you hold reservations under any circumstance. What you are really saying is, "I do... maybe... unless he makes me really mad then SIKE." pisean282311posted 8 years ago Rafiniposted 8 years ago sometimes, not always. I think it's pretty close to impossible without lying. not to say that no marriage is capable, just that not many would make it for long. Jaynie2000posted 8 years ago I think unconditional love does exist, but that doesn't mean it will last. We all expect things from our partners, whether or not those expectations are realistic. When our partners fail to live up to those expectations we can be very disappointed, sometimes irrevocably so. When that happens, relationships usually fail. Yet even as the relationship fails, we can still feel love. In short, I can love you no matter what, but I may not be able to live with you no matter what. mdlawyerposted 8 years ago Unconditional love is a rarity now. It needs sacrifice. I N33D Answersposted 7 years ago I could use some help, maybe some answers.. I am 5 months away from getting married. This will be my second marriage. When my first marriage became a disaster I never really looked at getting married again. I mean, I lost everything. I met this girl 5 years ago, she practiaclly saved me from being homeless and possibly dead. From then, she has done nothing but help and be there for me. I can see her as a true friend, and a year ago when I proposed to her I honestly felt I loved her. But now time has passed, I still have feelings but I don't think they are as strong. well, here we are planning for a wedding and I don't know what to do. It would completely devistate her if I up and left but I'm not sure I wanna live in a lie either. That's not all, More heart throbbing drama. I happen to come across my teenage dream the other day. We've been talking and things are just amazing. Her feelings for me are the same feelings I've had for her forever. I just never thought I would ever hear from her again, I mean, life moves on, people move on. I don't know what to do. I know if it's God's answer, he will tell me somehow, but just that fact that after 13 yeas she has come back in my life, does that say anything? Any suggestions would be grateful, Thank You... I N33D ANSWERS.... pharuk temmy tposted 7 years ago Of course there is unconditional love in many marriages, those who got married with each other for whom they are and not what they are,and also there are others based on conditions because they got married for what they both are. A house built of wax would surely disolve when the sun rises...but a house built of stone stands when the sun rises and also when the rain falls. jump to first post Unconditional love. by FOOFOO GUY 8 years ago Unconditional love is impractical; the very theory of it is a trap designed to snare newly weds in the abyss that is marriage and inevitable divorce? We create sociologigal expectations of each other that are both extremely demanding and impractical. The expectations do not reflect our knowledge of... Can love be truly ' unconditional'? by Mohan Kumar 7 years ago Can love be truly ' unconditional'?Literature is strewn with 'unconditional' love- can this really be, can we just love without reciprocity and understanding, without a return for our passion and persistence? Do you believe that children love their parents unconditionally? by chiefmomofficer 2 years ago Do you believe that children love their parents unconditionally?Some believe that parents have unconditional love for their children, but do children love their parents unconditionally too? What is the difference between "unconditional love" and "true love"? by Jenny Pugh 2 years ago What is the difference between "unconditional love" and "true love"?These phrases are becoming common, do we really understand them? True Love Is just a Momentary thing !! by alisha4u 7 years ago I recently realized that true love might just not exist at all. The feeling of love is momentary, i.e. what you feel at that particulart point of time... Nothing is same after a lapse of time, or rather we are no longer the same.... Parenting Skills, Styles & Advice Dads - Trying to develop a relationship with a older estranged child. by dje71 22 months ago There are a lot of discussions in forums by dads desperately wanting to be "dad" to their estranged children. My take on it is different; I used to be one of those dads.The mother of my daughter and I separated a year after my daughter was born. The mother did everything she could to...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1360
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__label__cc	0.55324	0.44676	Smith Family Top Forty: 2010 Edition May 8, 2010 May 1, 2017 / J. Eric Smith Mother’s Day weekend is when I annually reset the play counts on our iTunes account. This account serves my car and gym iPod, Marcia’s car iPod, Marcia’s gym iPod, and the Fambly iPod that Marcia, Katelin and I listen to when we’re hanging out weekend mornings or playing Scrabble or whatever. There are 7,886 songs on my computer right now, and for the last 365 days, these are the 40 songs that we collectively have listened to the most. Some explanations of the genres of the songs included, if you’d like to investigate further. I’ve previously featured some of these in prior “Five Songs You Need to Hear” posts, and have picked five more cuts to spotlight in links below, if you’d like to hear them immediately. And now . . . RESET!!! 1. “Dadje Von O Von Non” by Gnonnas Pedro et ses Dadjes (R&B from Benin) 2. “Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You” by The Bee Gees (Weird pop) 3. “A Certain Kind of Fool” by The Eagles (Country rock featuring the two good ex-Eagles: Bernie Leadon and Randy Meisner) 4. “Dusk” by Genesis (Early Peter Gabriel era acoustic prog) 5. “Workers Comp” by Mos Def (Hip hop inflected skankin’ R&B) 6. “Dance Tonight” by Paul McCartney (Rock) 7. “Seventeen” by Jethro Tull (Relatively rare early blooze prog B-side) 8. “Fumbling Over Words That Rhyme” by Edan (Hip hop) 9. “New Killer Star” by David Bowie (Rock) 10. “Temporary Secretary” by Paul McCartney (Weird early synth rock) 11. “Chuma Che Nledi Nkwigaila” by Ngaina Nolo and Mtonya Bota (Traditional Gogo music from Tanzania) 12. “Atom” by British Sea Power (Anthemic pomp rock) 13. “Assaramessugu” by Hamza El Din (Traditional Nubian music from Egypt) 14. “Life and Limb” by Napalm Death (Grindy metal) 15. “Magneto and Titanium Man” by Paul McCartney and Wings (Rock) 16. “Mr. Bee’s Bumble” by The Residents (Bubbly synth pop) 17. “Sing The Changes” by The Fireman (Paul McCartney playing pop under another name) 18. “Shrink Wrap” by This Heat (Clattering post-rock) 19. “Tiny Demons” by Todd Rundgren (Dark pop) 20. “Inkulu Into Ezakwenzeke” by Nontwintwi (Traditional Xhosa music from South Africa) 21. “Rock and Roll” by Edan (Hip hop) 22. “Crackerbox Palace” by George Harrison (Rock) 23. “Junk Rock (Million Monkeys)” by Utopia (Prog pop) 24. “Quiet Dog” by Mos Def (Hip hop) 25. “Hot Burrito #2” by The Flying Burrito Brothers (Country rock) 26. “Procrastination Of The Empty Vessel” by Napalm Death (Metally grind) 27. “No Hay Nada Mas” by Mos Def (Hip hop) 28. “Biological Speculation” by Funkadelic (Classic soulful funk) 29. “On the Way (To Oklahoma)” by The Residents (Avant Weird) 30. “Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn” by The White Stripes (Madrigal rock) 31. “Sun/C79” by Cat Stevens (Pretty pop) 32. “Blessed” by Simon and Garfunkel (Pretty nihilism) 33. “Join Together” by The Who (Rock) 34. “Carpet Crawlers” by Genesis (Stately prog) 35. “Let Me Roll It” by Paul McCartney and Wings (Rock) 36. “Inconvenience” by Super Furry Animals (Welsh proggy rock) 37. “Saint Veronica” by Sybris (Anthemic indie) 38. “Pulse” by Todd Rundgren (Pop fugue) 39. “The Very Best of Neil Diamond” by Super Furry Animals (Rocky Welsh prog) 40. “Mama Josephina” by Ilunga Patrice and Misomba Victor (Traditional music from Congo) ← When I Own A Record Label Mother’s Day in the Military →	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1368
__label__wiki	0.60815	0.60815	WeChat Case Study: Mulberry Gets Lovestruck Fans to Go the Distance for Qixi Campaign Jessica Rapp @jrapppp British luxury leather brand Mulberry is looking to woo Chinese shoppers—and lovers—today in its mobile-led marketing campaign for Qixi Festival, or Chinese Valentine’s Day. Called “Mulberry Love Letters,” the O2O campaign allows Chinese people based all over the world to send heartfelt messages over WeChat that, with the help of digital marketing firm Hot Pot Digital, Mulberry transforms into a custom image for the recipient. To then bring people into their stores, Mulberry has promised a selected number of recipients a chance to take their digital love letter into one of the participating shops in Shanghai, Beijing, London, Paris, New York, and Toronto to receive a handcrafted leather bracelet that can be personalized. Companies marketing during Qixi the past few years have attracted criticism over whether their campaign strategies traded Chinese tradition for Western-charged Valentine’s Day romance. It seems, though, that Mulberry has stuck with the Qixi legend on this one. In the mythology surrounding the festival, every year on the seventh night of the seventh moon on the Chinese lunar calendar, two lovers who have been banished to either side of a river are able to reunite with the help of magpies who form a bridge across the water. Mulberry’s WeChat campaign may as well be those magpies, aiming to connect Chinese people separated by miles of land and ocean through social media. “Given the global nature of today’s Chinese community, we felt it was important to recognize our Chinese customers in the UK, US, mainland Europe, and beyond,” said Mulberry Brand Director Anne-Marie Verdin. “We love the fact that Mulberry is helping our fans to reconnect with a little romance on this important day in the Chinese calendar.” The heritage fashion house is stressing the long-distance factor this year, but Jaguar opted to do a similar digital campaign last year when it encouraged WeChat followers to make “love confessions” that its system would then pair alongside a car that best matched the recipient’s personality. These were then sent to the recipient in the form of a digital card. Swiss luxury watchmaker Piaget also used a WeChat e-card for Qixi in which it had its fans write three-line poems. Mulberry joined WeChat just over a year ago, and this is one in a series of digital marketing campaigns the brand has been using to get customers into the store. During the past winter holiday shopping season, it launched an interactive app that allowed users to shop a virtual 360-degree image of its flagship store in London. E-Commerce, Social Media, Tech china, china luxury, china social media, Luxury, luxury wechat, mobile, mulberry, o2o, qixi, wechat The Future of Luxury Little Red Book Tightens Influencer Policy to Spur Growth	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1373
__label__cc	0.733648	0.266352	Silver & Base Metals Silver & Base Metals News EDITOR: InvestorIntel \| May 16th, 2019 Goldplay Announces its 2019 Drilling Program at its San Marcial Project in Sinaloa, Mexico InvestorIntel \| May 16, 2019 \| No Comments May 16, 2019 (Source) — Goldplay Exploration Ltd. (TSXV: GPLY, FRANKFURT: GPE, OTCQB: GLYXF) (“Goldplay” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce details of its 5,000 metre diamond core drilling program at the San Marcial Project (the “Project”) in the Rosario Mining District, Sinaloa, Mexico. The objective of the 2019 program will be three-fold: to expand the current NI 43-101 silver (“Ag”) resource by drilling the Faisanes target; to define a new gold (“Au”) resource at the Nava target; and to investigate newly discovered zones along the Faisanes-Nava Corridor (Figure 1). Figure 1 – Location Faisanes and Nava Targets in relation to current San Marcial Resource Area. (CNW Group/Goldplay Exploration Ltd) The drilling program will be comprised of two phases. During Phase I, approximately 5,000 metres of shallow drilling (250 m to 300 m) will be completed aiming to define shallow down dip and along strike continuity of mineralization already outlined by recently completed surface exploration and sampling programs. At the Faisanes target, the drilling will focus on wide intersections at surface located adjacent to the existing San Marcial resource area. It will investigate down dip and along strike extensions of high grade silver mineralization, including 56 m @ 196 g/t Ag (see News Release February 21, 2019), as well as mineralization recently identified in trenches along a strike length extending 600 m to the west of the San Marcial resource area (Figure 2). The 600 m long Faisanes target compares with the 500 m strike length of the San Marcial resource area, which represents an immediate opportunity for resource expansion. Figure 2 – Location of Planned Drill Sections – Faisanes Target (CNW Group/Goldplay Exploration Ltd) At the Nava target, the recently discovered wide gold mineralization, 40 m @ 0.7 g/t Au (see News Release May 7, 2019), represents a low sulphidation epithermal system with a potential strike length of 500 m. The proposed shallow drilling program will investigate down dip and along strike continuity of the mineralization in the zone defined by Goldplay’s recent trenching (Figure 3), and later expand 400 m towards the western extension of the mineralized zone. Figure 3 – Location Planned Drill Sections – Nava Target (CNW Group/Goldplay Exploration Ltd) The Company anticipates drilling other highly prospective areas in the Faisanes-Nava Corridor where there is evidence of a favorable geological setting to host Au-Ag mineralized zones associated with old workings. The Company is fully permitted to drill up to 69 drill holes and has obtained all land access and legal permits to carry out all exploration activities including drilling at the San Marcial Project. Subject to results of the Phase I drilling program described above, the company is anticipating further drilling in late 2019 and early 2020 with a Phase II drilling program. The Phase II will aim not only to expand the Au and Ag mineralization further down dip and along strike, but also to investigate eight exploration targets located along a 6 km trend outside of the 500 m long San Marcial resource area (Figure 4). Figure 4- Location Exploration Targets in the San Marcial Project (CNW Group/Goldplay Exploration Ltd) Goldplay President and CEO Marcio Fonseca commented, “Goldplay’s strategy for San Marcial is to achieve a material increase in the high-grade resources by drilling the new targets in the vicinity of the current resource over the next six months. The Company has built a robust and attractive high-grade silver, potentially open pit, project and the recent discovery of Au targets has transformed the San Marcial Project into a multi-commodity resource-development stage project. Our successful exploration program has enabled Goldplay to discover eight targets in a short period of time, making the San Marcial Project one of the most attractive projects in the Rosario Mining District. We look forward to moving forward with drilling and exploration with the goal of identifying significant tonnage of high-grade material which will continue to dramatically improve the attractiveness of the San Marcial Project.“ The Company has engaged a drilling contractor to immediately commence drilling on the San Marcial property. This initial drilling program is expected to be for up to 5,000 meters at the newly discovered Faisanes and Nava targets. Subject to the approval of the TSX.V, the Company intends to issue common shares to the drilling contractor for the services provided in regard to this Phase I work program, with the number of shares and share price being determined at the market price at the time the work has been completed, in compliance with the policies of the TSX.V. About Goldplay Exploration Ltd. Goldplay owns a >250 sq. km exploration portfolio in the historical Rosario Au-Ag Mining District, Sinaloa, Mexico. Goldplay’s current focus includes resource expansion at the San Marcial Project, as well as a follow up exploration program in the 100% owned exploration portfolio. Goldplay is one largest concession holders in one of the most prolific mining districts in Mexico, controlling strategic concessions next to large gold and silver producers in Mexico. The San Marcial land package consists of 1,250 ha, located south of the La Rastra and Plomosas historical mines and 20 km from the Company’s 100% owned El Habal Project in the Rosario Mining District, Sinaloa, Mexico. San Marcial is an attractive, near-surface high-grade silver, lead and zinc open pit project for which a NI 43-101 resource estimate was completed by Goldplay in early 2019. It is a low risk resource development stage project, fully permitted for all exploration activities and with support and authorization by local communities to carry out all necessary work on the project. San Marcial exhibits significant exploration upside supported by regional exploration programs completed by previous operators who identified 14 exploration targets similar to San Marcial within its 100% Goldplay-owned concessions. Some of these exploration targets consist of old shallow pits, caved shafts and historical underground workings in areas with extensive hydrothermal alteration, hosted by major regional structures. The El Habal Project is a drilling stage project. The oxidized gold mineralized zone outcrops along a series of rolling hills with evidence of historical shallow underground mining along a 6 km long prospective corridor. The El Habal Project is located near the historical gold-silver Rosario Mine which reportedly operated for over 250 years. Goldplay’s team has over 30 years of experience with senior roles in exploration, financing, and development in the mining industry, including over ten years of extensive exploration experience in the Rosario Mining District, leading to previous successful discoveries. A current NI 43-101 report on the El Habal Project is filed on SEDAR. Disclaimer for Forward-Looking Information This press release contains forward-looking statements and information that are based on the beliefs of management and reflect the Company’s current expectations. When used in this press release, the words “estimate”, “project”, “belief”, “anticipate”, “intend”, “expect”, “plan”, “predict”, “may” or “should” and the negative of these words or such variations thereon or comparable terminology are intended to identify forward-looking statements and information. Such statements and information reflect the current view of the Company. Risks and uncertainties may cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated in those forward-looking statements and information. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause our actual results, performance or achievements, or other future events, to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Mr. Marcio Fonseca P. Geo, President & CEO Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this press release.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1378
__label__wiki	0.672928	0.672928	Home / Stock Picks / Hot Stocks / Can CVS Stock Overcome the Latest Wrench in Its Aetna Merger? Can CVS Stock Overcome the Latest Wrench in Its Aetna Merger? CVS' acquisition of Aetna is on hold after Judge Richard Leon indicated he may try to stop it By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor Jun 13, 2019, 10:22 am EDT June 13, 2019 Senior Judge Richard Leon sent shares in drug store chain CVS (NYSE:CVS) lower after saying he might try to stop its $69 billion merger with Aetna (NYSE:AET), a health insurer. CVS announced the deal in December 2017. Since then, CVS stock is down over 25%. It was due to open for trade June 12 at about $54 per share. CVS’ market cap of $70 billion is now just 36% of its 2018 revenue, which was $194 billion. Source: Mike Mozart via Flickr Leon told CVS’ and Aetna’s lawyers to “cancel their summer vacation,” arguing the Department of Justice barely considered what adding 21 million customers could do for CVS’ Caremark, a Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM). Oral arguments will be held July 17, a ruling coming shortly after. CVS has already agreed to sell its Medicare Part D plan, the only overlap with Aetna, to Wellcare, which in turn is being bought by Centene (NYSE:CNC). The Question of Costs Centene’s involvement begs the main question raised by the merger, which is whether the deal can cut healthcare costs. Centene’s market advantage is cost visibility. Its business model is to profit in Medicare and Medicaid by owning clinics and other facilities its covered patients use. It was a big winner on the Obamacare exchanges, where it could offer much lower prices than standard insurance plans. The American Hospital Association opposes the CVS-Aetna merger, while supporting mergers between hospital groups, arguing that hospitals aren’t the cause of health care inflation. They’re right. Drugs are. Combining PBMs and insurers is how the industry is fighting drug costs. CVS plans to turn 1,500 stores into “HealthHubs,” after the merger, with labs, nurses and dieticians to treat chronic conditions like diabetes, representing 75% of America’s health care bill. CVS has been preparing itself for a favorable outcome since February, when it reached the agreement with the Department of Justice Judge Leon is now reviewing. The Question of Competition Leon’s objections are centered on Caremark, but that unit’s problems were behind the merger in the first place. The PBM model was upended four years ago when UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH), the largest private insurer, bought Catamaran, another PBM, for its own OptumRx unit. The deal made the stand-alone PBM market untenable. Since then, Express Scripts, the largest PBM, was acquired by Cigna (NYSE:CI), an Aetna rival. That merger, and the CVS-Aetna tie-up, followed failed attempts by Aetna to merge with Humana (NYSE:HUM) and by Cigna to merger with Anthem (NASDAQ:ANTM). Having failed at horizontal mergers because of their size (despite UnitedHealth being bigger than either combination), the second-tier players moved toward vertical mergers, hoping to compete through cost control. Thus, Leon seems intent on stopping a train that has already left the station. UnitedHealth, Centene and Cigna own PBMs, and he’s going to stop CVS-Aetna because CVS owns one? The Bottom Line on CVS Stock Not all mergers work. CVS’ own acquisition of Omnicare, a long-term care provider, caused it take a $3.9 billion write-down in the second quarter of last year, and a net loss for all of 2018. But given how far insurers have gone along the road to matching income with outgo, the Aetna merger was looking like a winner. The delays have pushed CVS shares down enough to give its 50 cent per share dividend a yield of 3.82%, even though absent of write-offs, it covers that dividend with earnings two to three times over each year. The Leon delay looks like a good opportunity for income investors to grab a bargain. Dana Blankenhorn is a financial and technology journalist. He is the author of the mystery thriller, The Reluctant Detective Finds Her Family, available at the Amazon Kindle store. Write him at danablankenhorn@gmail.com or follow him on Twitter at @danablankenhorn. As of this writing, he did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities. Article printed from InvestorPlace Media, https://investorplace.com/2019/06/can-cvs-stock-overcome-the-latest-wrench-in-its-aetna-merger/.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1379
__label__cc	0.650038	0.349962	RPTFE Vs. EPDM Specifications by Manny Jeter EPDM stands for ethylene propylene, while RPTFE stands for reinforced polytetrafluoroethylene. RPTFE is also known as reinforced teflon. Both EPDM and RPTFE are organic compounds with well sought-after properties. The compounds are resistant to other harmful compounds, making them useful for many applications. The automobile industry is the main user of both compounds. EPDM is resistant to water, chemicals, gas and heat. The compound is resistant to temperature of up to 302 degrees Fahrenheit. RPTFE is resistant to aggressive chemicals, fillers, and nitrogen tetroxide, also known as highly oxidizing media. RPTFE's heat resistance is superior EPDM's since it has a heat resistance of up to 520 degrees Fahrenheit. EPDM has an elongation of up to 600 percent while RPTFE has an elongation of up to 300 percent. Elongation refers to how far the material can be stretched before breaking. EPDM has a hardness range of 30 to 95 and RPTFE has a hardness range of 50 to 55. EPDM has a tensile strength from 1 to 3 PSI and a specific gravity of 0.88 gm/ml, while RPTFE has a tensile strength of 4,000 PSI and a specific gravity of 2.2 gm/ml. Tensile strength defines how much force is required to pull the material to a point where it breaks or snaps. Specific gravity defines how dense a material by comparing it to water. EPDM is used in automotive weather stripping and seals, radiators, tubing, belts, garden hose, electrical insulation, roofing membrane, motor oil additives, brake systems, and much more. RPTFE is used on ball valve systems, drilling parts, washers, conveyor slides, conveyor guide rails, gaskets and much more. RPTFE is also used in laboratories by scientists who use it for tubing, containers, and vessels because of its chemical resistance. RPTFE is a chalky-white color while EPDM is black. RPTFE is 15 precent glass filled and normal PTFE that has no filler. RPTFE is recommended for food applications and products that need resistance to heat, chemicals, and acids while EPDM is not. RPTFE was discovered in 1938 and EPDM has been known since at least the 1500s. Plastomer Technologies: PTFE Properties: Azom: Ethylene Propylene Rubbers -- Properties and Applications of Ethylene Propylene Diene (EPDM) and Ethylene Propylene Copolymers (EPM) Cam-Tite Seat Design DKI Rubber: Ethylene-Propylene (EPDM) Tru-Flo: Ball Valve Seat Material Guide The AW 46 Hydraulic Oil Specifications What Materials to Use for Motorcycle ... Hydraulic Fluid Vs. Transmission Fluid Properties of Rubber Tires What are the Functions of Carbon Brush? Chemical Properties of Tires Ingredients in Fiberglass Resin Types of Mineral Oil A Usage Guide for Dremel Bits	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1386
__label__wiki	0.506171	0.506171	by KRISTINA MCMORRIS Sometimes we have to make sacrifices for the ones we love… [The detective pulled a chair over to me in the hospital.] I heard, “Can you tell me how it all started?” The reporter in my head blended with the detective before me. I wasn’t entirely sure which of them had asked… I nodded at him slowly, remembering as I replied. “It started with a picture.” Sold on a Monday, like many popular works of historical fiction set in the 1930’s Great Depression is based on an iconic photograph. My favorite being, Mary Coin by Marissa Silver based on Dorothy Lange’s photograph entitled, Migrant Mother. Sold on a Monday was inspired by a photograph (later questioned as authentic) of a mother and four children on a porch. A sign near them reads – 4 children for sale, inquire within. Author, Kristina McMorris, nudged by the writer’s innate question…what if… has created a world where a dramatic photograph, taken for personal use by a newspaper reporter on his own time, is found drying in the darkroom by the editor’s secretary, Lily Palmer. The moving picture shows two children near a sign reading – “2 children for sale. Recognizing the work of Ellis Reed, Lily shows the photo to the editor. The editor, recognizing the dramatic impact the picture will have on newspaper readers, instructs Ellis to write a story about it. Sniffing a chance to advance himself, perhaps leading to his own column, Ellis obliges. Puffed up proud, Ellis is brought down quickly when he is told that the negative and photo have been damaged and he must replace it immediately. Returning to the house, he finds the sign leaning against the porch and the family gone. (We never learn what happened to the original family; something that nagged at me long after I finished the book.) In that instant he panics. He spots 2 children playing nearby at another house. Grabbing the “children for sale” sign, and with their mother’s reluctant permission along with a handful of money, Ellis stages a new photo. Thus begins a spiral of disquiet that follows Ellis into his new career at a larger newspaper; a success launched by this story. As he rises in notoriety, he is constantly aware it is based on a lie. Lily, also observes, he has lost that special something that reaches the common man. Lily Palmer, harboring a deep secret of her own, is reminded time and again of the deception when letters and gifts continually arrive at her newspaper for the exposed children. The gifts and letters are placed on the porch in the dead of night, the deliverers unable to face the family. The innocent children were never for sale. After a time, and independently, Ellis and Lily seek to find out what consequences their individual actions have had on that misused family. They are both rocked to learn that the mother has been confined to a sanitarium and has died. The children were placed in an orphanage. The now infamous photograph led to the sale of the two children to a wealthy family. Using his newspaper network, Ellis finds the family and scouts the new home. Peering through a window, he spots the young girl, Ruby, neatly dressed, and sitting near a smiling woman. He believes he hears a young a boy giggling in another room. He tells Lily that all seems wonderful at first glance. But further efforts reveal that appearances don’t necessarily define reality. Ellis and Lily set out to right their consciences and dredge up darkness they never dreamed possible. Their lives and the lives of the children are in danger. Sold on a Monday is a fabulous 1930’s era “Agatha Christie” mystery with some really sharp edges. The suspense moves slowly at first, careers sputter, personal relationships simmer, and all along we are aware that this is the Great Depression. Desperate times where desperation can lead a person to the “Dark Side.” The novel does come to a spectacular moment that then settles down to a “happily-ever-after” finish. Good read for a rainy day! Tagged as book review, Great Depresssion, historical fiction, mental illness, Mystery, Newspaper Reporters, Sold on a Monday, Suspense, Women's Roles ADRIFT: a true story of tragedy in the icy Atlantic – and the one who live to tell about it Author Brian Murphy On January 16, 1856, the American ship, John Rutledge, left for New York from Liverpool, with 16 crew men and 120 migrant passengers packed into steerage. On February 19, the ship knocked against an iceberg, causing catastrophic damage. As the ship foundered, passengers and crew raced to the lifeboats – not everyone reached the safety of the 5 lifeboats. Those souls finding a place in a lifeboat found them ” the simplest of craft. [E]ach lifeboat was about twenty-five feet long and without any kind of cabin or nook for shelter.” There was no mast to hoist a sail, only oars. There were no provisions (only a handful of hard tack and a small container of water). There was no way to flag the boat to standout against the vastness of the sea. There was no way to communicate with the other lifeboats or to send a signal of their location to rescuers; these were the days before transatlantic communication, satellite phones or weather planes. As the five lifeboats pulled away from the stricken ship, the question in everyone’s mind had to be – Have I just delayed my death? Am I really better off than those doomed and unable to reach the lifeboats? Feb 29, 1856, day nine after the loss of the Rutledge, one of the lifeboats was spotted in the rough icy waters. Seaman Thomas W. Nye, frozen and nearly incoherent, was pulled from the sea by the packet ship, Germania. He proved to be the sole survivor from the Rutledge. After a desperate search for the other four lifeboats from the Rutledge; none were ever found. Here’s the rub that keeps the book a three star in my view. Well, actually the first part is a two star and Nye’s story is a four star so I decided on the middle ranking. Thomas W. Nye’s story is remarkable. Interviews with him reveal a harrowing and horrifying nine days spent drifting in the dead of winter with twelve other people; one by one the others die from exposure and starvation. Most died painfully quick after ignoring Nye’s pleas to avoid drinking seawater. I’ll admit I never really understood what it was the seawater did to the body and how it killed in such a short period of time. It is heartbreaking. The demise of the Rutledge and its passengers was but one of hundreds of big and small ships and nearly 1000 souls lost to rough seas and extreme ice flows during the three winter months of 1856. The author’s research of that time in world history and coverage of that devastating winter of 1856 is admirable; and he felt the need to share every tidbit and trace. Intermingled with the horrors of Nye’s story are the history of maritime commerce, ship designs, history and ownership of specific vessels, biographies of sea captains and their families, and the mass migration from famine starved countries in the mid 1800’s. The choice to research the “mundane” John Rutledge and its crew and passengers highlights the disparity of books that cover renowned disasters like the Hindenburg, Titanic or the Lusitania. The Rutledge was a significant ship in international commercial trade at the time, but insignificant to the world-at-large when placed against the great passenger ships ferrying the rich and famous back and forth across the Atlantic. The foundering of several of these high-class ships was covered much more extensively and of much more interest to the general public than a small transport filled with destitute immigrants. To his credit, the author, in selecting the Rutledge, shows the humanity of the average seaman and the steerage passengers; those now lost souls with ambitions and hopes every bit as important as the high society victims on the opulent passenger liners. The interjection of lengthy footnotes and history lessons felt like the interruptions in the flow of a good suspense movie by commercials. I understand that Murphy needed to add perspective and background, but in my opinion, a little less coverage would have been sufficient. Perhaps, if the footnotes were placed in a separate addendum, the story would have flowed more smoothly. I will say this, I learned a lot. Judging from the wide range of reviews on this book, there is something for everyone to like and I would say if you are interested in sea disasters, you will find it an interesting read. Tagged as book review, Icebergs, International Trade in 1850s, Irish Migration, North Atlantic, Sea Captains, Sea Disasters, Ship Design, Steerage Passengers, The John Rutledge I AM NOT YOUR PERFECT MEXICAN DAUGHTER: a novel I love a book that makes you sit up straight in your chair with a shocking start. What could be better than an opening paragraph with fifteen-year-old Julia Reyes staring into her dead sister’s face. Olga Reyes, the “good daughter”, distracted by her cell phone, had stepped off a bus into the path of a semi and died at the tender age of twenty-two. But I am getting ahead of myself. Julia’s parents illegally entered the United States in 1993 fleeing a violent life in Mexico with hopes of a better life. They settled in Chicago and maintained the necessary low-profile. Their Latinx culture and extended family contacts tethered by a phone line back to Mexico. With the birth of her daughters, Amà, strives to do her duty to pass along her culture and family traditions to her girls. Olga proved pliant but Julie fights her hoof and nail. “Perfect daughters” would be obedient, respect elders, and place needs of the family before needs of the self. They would marry a Latino, raise a family and eschew a life away from their parents and ethnic community. Olga was Amá’s pride and joy. But beneath Olga’s quiet nature lies a deep secret. Julia breaks into her dead sister’s sealed bedroom and discovers something strange. In time she learns her sister’s secret and she must decide whether to reveal it to her parents. What good would it do to destroy their lives? “Here [Olga] was, a grown-ass woman, and all she did was go to work, sit at home with our parents, and take one class each semester at the local community college. What kind of life is that? Didn’t she want more? Didn’t she ever want to go out and grab the world by the balls? Julia is the polar opposite of Olga. While Olga spent her days cleaning and cooking, Julia escapes (literally) the house to visit art museums and the library. She dreams of college and a career. Her descriptions of her favorite books and pieces of art work will drive you to Google to find out what she sees for yourself. (She identifies with Edna Pontellier in The Awakening by Kate Chopin.) She feels she is holding her breath until she can become a writer and move to New York – or anywhere that wasn’t Chicago. She and her mother had been at loggerheads forever but after Olga’s death, Amá was on Julia’s back like white on rice. Amá determined to control Julia’s future and Julia determined to be free from her suffocating mother. “When I tell her I need privacy… she tells me I’ve become too Americanized. ‘You kids here think you can do whatever you want.'” It is hard to like Julia; she’s every parent’s nightmare. A teenage girl. She is foul-mouthed, abrasive, outspoken, and angry all the time. She lashes out and confronts everyone about everything. Her favorite “power word” is f***. It is evident that the anger is a defense mechanism to mask her severe depression and anxiety disorder. The softer side of Julia reveals a deeply caring person desperate to be loved and feeling unloved. The book’s powerful discussion of depression and Julia’s suicidal attempt might be a trigger for those teens experiencing the same feelings. Julia’s therapy sessions should offer hope to those same troubled kids. In and among the cornucopia of stressor topics that derail Julia are strong characters that see beneath her bluster and guide her toward adulthood and peace within herself and among her family. She learns she doesn’t need to cast off her culture to achieve her dreams. “I have so many choices they’ve never had. And I feel like I can do so much with what I’ve been given. What a waste their journey would be if I just settled for a dull mediocre life.” Recommended reading. Tagged as Art Appreciation, book review, Books, Depression and Anxiety, Drug Use, Gangs, Latino Culture, LBGT, Mexican-American, Sex, Sexual Abuse, Undocumented, Young Adult 14-18 STATION ELEVEN: a novel The bitter tragedy is that it is all too fragile, our lives are written not in the rock forever, but upon the all too fragile and transitory parchment and of human flesh. [Sermon after World Trade Center attack] Station Eleven is a post-apocalyptic world that follows a pandemic of the Georgian Flu. Georgia, the Eurasian country, not the state. This latest assault on humanity arrived in North America on a plane from Russia. Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, set in a burned-out shell of the United States, is a physically altered natural world, where the sun never shines and survival is cruel and heartless. This is the usual standard of dystopian fiction. A haunting story of a father desperate to retain his humanity and save his son. Station Eleven, however, is a more sanitized apocalyptic story, picking up twenty years after the pandemic, and is set along what had been the Canadian and American borders. It is more a mystery than a descriptive survival story with cannibalistic humans and parched earth; it lightly touches on how they stay alive physically but concentrates more on the mental aspects of their new lives. This now sparsely populated and undefined land, freed of political boundaries, is an unfettered world where nature reclaims everything man has tamed. The survivors of the nearly extinct human race, in a blink of an eye, must face the total loss of everyone and everything. The question becomes – now what? “The beauty of this world where almost everyone was gone. If hell is other people, what is a world with almost no people in it?” This multifaceted and multi-voiced story takes highly evolved mankind with its technology and global reach and reduces him to nomadic life. Unlike our early ancestors, these newest nomads have evidence of a past history: rusted cars strung like beads on a broken necklace, crestfallen houses and darken light poles. The further the world travels into the future, the fewer people understand the old world and the old ways. In the last days of the old world, in a Toronto theater, a Shakespearean play is ongoing featuring the world famous actor, Arthur Leander, playing King Lear. Arthur, in what appears to the audience as a highly dramatic moment, collapses and dies of a heart attack on stage. Unknown to the theater crowd, death has been twining among their seats and in a matter of three weeks, most of them, as well as most of the world, will be dead. Arthur had just received two copies of a comic book series, entitled “Station Eleven”, designed by his ex-wife, Miranda. Before stepping on stage, he gifted one set to a charming eight-year-old actress, Kirsten Raymonde. Kirsten and her brother survive and join the millions of people on the run. She carries with her a few comfort items that include these comics. The struggles of the first year on their own mutes her past; the last thing she remembers clearly is the play, the comics, and Arthur. Twenty years after the pandemic, most survivors have settled into small communities. Outliers remain nomads caravanning along crumbly roads, as predators, traders and in Kirsten’s case, a caravan of musicians and actors calling known as The Traveling Symphony. Sometimes the Traveling Symphony thought that what they were doing was noble. There were moments around campfires when someone would say something invigorating about the importance of art, and everyone would find it easier to sleep that night. Kirsten, now 28, while scrounging for supplies and food in abandoned houses, obsessively searches for Arthur in old newspapers and magazines. When she finds a picture or a story, we are transported backward into his life. Arthur’s parallel story line merges seamlessly and is not a distraction. Other survivors who knew Arthur including his best friend, Clark and one of his three ex-wives, Elizabeth tie the two stories together. The stories come closer and closer together finally merging at the end of the book. Where’s the mystery you might ask? It begins with The Traveling Symphony’s stop in the community of St. Deborah By The Water; a community much like Jonestown with a similar cult prophet. The Symphony had stopped there a couple of years earlier, prior to the prophet’s arrival, and a pregnant Symphony member and her husband stayed there to have the child. This newest Symphony stop was to retrieve them and to entertain the community with a Shakespearean play. Things seemed a little off; their friends were not there. When they found three grave markers with their friend’s names on them, they bolted town, only to discover a teenage girl hiding in one of the caravan wagons. A teenage girl expected to be the prophet’s next wife. How far will the prophet go to recover his “bride”? Rumor had it that their friends were still alive and heading for another community known as Museum of Civilization. What really happened to their friends? What is the fate of the cast members that disappear on the way to the new community? How does Arthur’s story fit into the picture? This isn’t a book that will make your hair stand on end like a Stephen King novel. Nonetheless I found myself curious and entertained throughout. Somehow, despite the tragedy of the pandemic, the survivors have a beautiful world in which to begin again. The sun rises and falls. The earth stands ready to help man get back up on his feet. Recommended reading. A nice read on a long road-trip. Tagged as book review, Cults, Dystopian fiction, Emily St. John Mandel, Music, Pandemic, Station Eleven July 6, 2018 · 3:41 pm WARLIGHT : a novel by Michael Ondaatje In 1945 our parents went away and left us in the care of two men who may have been criminals… I was fourteen at the time, and Rachel nearly sixteen… The arrangement appeared strange, but life still was haphazard and confusing during that period after the war… [Our guardian was] “The Moth”, a name we invented. Ours was a family with a habit for nicknames, which meant it was also a family of disguises. [I was called “Stitch” and my sister, Rachel known as “Wren”]. It’s 1945. The WWII armistice has been reached but the war still rages behind the scenes. A piece of paper and a handshake doesn’t cut it for renegades bent on revenge. Behind the screen labeled peace, a shadow war continues. Warlight is the coming-of-age story of two abandoned children, living in their family home, under the care of a “guardian” appointed by their mother. The guardian, she insists, is someone they met years earlier. The narrator is Nathaniel, now an adult. Part 1 covers the time immediately after their parents left in 1945. Part 2 begins in 1959 and chronicles his career in British Intelligence where he is able to surreptitiously scour archives to search for his mother’s deepest secrets. His sister, Rachel, appears in both parts, more as a jack-in-the-box, popping up now and again to be a counterbalance to Nathaniel’s devil-may-care personality. As I read along, I felt like I was in a Twilight Light Zone episode. The dialogue filtered just enough to obscure the depth of its meaning. Each encounter or observation creating a jigsaw puzzle piece the reader must gather to form the final picture. Part 1 begins with Nathaniel and Rachel seeing their father off at the airport headed to Singapore for a year on a new job. Their mother, Rose, plans to join him soon. Sometime after Rose left, the children discover her carefully packed trunk hidden in the basement. If Rose didn’t go to Singapore, where is she and what has been she doing? The years pass with never a word from either parent. It has been a crazy time with strangers wandering in-and-out of their house at all hours. Who were these people? “The Moth” calls them colleagues, not friends. How does their mother know all these people? Or does she? How do they know this house? Nathaniel is always scavenging clues about his mother whereabouts from these people but never getting at the truth. Rachel grows more and more angry and elusive over the years, exuding an awareness of their mother’s secret but never confiding in Nathaniel or the reader. Their “orphaned” lives are filled with intrigue and adventure. The two children wander the dark-side of London in the company of “The Moth” and another frequent visitor, “The Pimlico Darter”, named for his penchant for illegal greyhound racing. When Rachel drifts away, her place in the midnight runs up London’s canals is filled with Nathaniel’s girlfriend, “Agnes”. Agnes and Nathaniel complement each other. They seek privacy in each other’s company in abandoned building. They believe their escapades are unobserved. Yet. There is always the feeling of being watched. Maybe that was what The Moth meant when he repeatedly told them to be aware… prepare for “schwer”, moments when things get difficult.. prepare for the unknown. “It was a strange warning to be given, to accept that nothing was safe anymore.” The Moth, himself, was unprepared for schwer when it arrived. The Moth had parked in an alley alongside the theater when a man got into the front seat beside him, put a hand behind his head and swung it forward, banging it against the steering wheel then against the door [killing him]..someone else slid in next to Rachel and covered her face with a cloth…. [He] put the same cloth over my face…“The schwer, I’d have thought if I had been conscious.” A hand touched me in the darkness to pull me awake. “Hello Stitch.” I recognized my mother’s voice. [Heard her ask someone.] “How did they get so close to my children?” Before they knew what happened to them, the children were whisked away from their current lives for their safety. They simply disappeared along with their mother. Rose took her children to her childhood home. It is obvious she cared for her children, but she never warmed to the role of “mother”. Rose Williams, known in the dark underworld as “Viola”, hung up her spurs, but not her vigilance. She knew that revenge has no time limits. She knew she faced a day of reckoning. And one day, it arrived. Nathaniel, jumping his story to 1959, sits down in the secretive intelligence archives. He hopes to learn why his mother chose a life of peril and intrigue over her family. He works each newly discovered puzzle piece into a jigsaw puzzle of Rose’s life. The final picture shows there are missing pieces that died with Rose; not enough is revealed to give Nathaniel the closure I think he deserved. Schwer. If you enjoy a book with code names and buried secrets, this book is for you. Tagged as book review, British Spies, coming-of-age, England, London, Michael Ondaatje, Secret Intelligence Service, Warlight, World War II	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1387
__label__wiki	0.770921	0.770921	Trudeau to visit gurdwara after government removes reference to Sikh extremism - InfoNews for Kelowna and Area Infotel News Kelowna Trudeau to visit gurdwara after government removes reference to Sikh extremism Justin Trudeau, Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, addresses supporters at the 2019 convention of the Liberal Party of Canada (Ontario) in Mississaugua, Ont. on Friday April, 12, 2019. Image Credit: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young VANCOUVER - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will visit one of the largest Sikh temples in Canada this morning, just hours after his government agreed to remove a reference to Sikh extremism from a report on terrorism. Trudeau and Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan will speak at the Ross Street Gurdwara in Vancouver, then partake in the city's Vaisakhi Parade to mark the Sikh holy day. The visit comes a day after the Liberals agreed to make a change to the 2018 Public Report on the Terrorism Threat to Canada, which drew the ire of the Sikh community when it was released in December. For the first time, the report listed Sikh extremism as one of the top five extremist threats in Canada. But late Friday, the language was changed to remove any mention of religion, instead discussing the threat posed by "extremists who support violent means to establish an independent state within India." There are roughly half a million Canadians who identify as Sikh, most of them in the Greater Toronto Area and suburban Vancouver. Popular kelowna News Central Okanagan authorities cracking down on sloppy recyclers KELOWNA - In an effort to clean up its recycling act, the Regional District of the Central Okanagan is sending “ambassadors” to look into as many as 21,000 blue recycling bins this sum iN VIDEO: Take a virtual tour in a vintage World War II plane over Kamloops West Kelowna Estates residents wake to boil water notice WEST KELOWNA - Some residents of West Kelowna woke to a boil water advisory this morning, July 15. A notice fr	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1394
__label__cc	0.738823	0.261177	Fixing our fast food breakfasts with “Deb’s Delicious Quinoa & Compote.” Quick. Easy. Healthier. Our Three Goals: Quinoa and peach compote, with tree nuts. And black coffee (because that’s healthy, too!) Substitute a quick, healthier breakfast for our current go-to of fast food or microwave, highly-processed junk food (pre-packaged, high carb, preservative-filled, high-sugar, non-nutritive, “convenience” food). Support the ongoing process of weaning ourselves away from an undeniable sugar addiction — one of the greatest long-term health risks we embrace. Nudge ourselves toward more consistently eating for tomorrow, rather than eating for “right now.” For busy people, eating — especially breakfast — too easily becomes a grab-and-go, on-the-fly activity optimizing short-term convenience over current and future health. But we all know that eating should be mindful, not mindless. Like anything else when it comes to caring for ourselves, the diet we choose in this decade directly affect how we’ll look and feel in the next one. The habit we want to form is one that shifts our focus from eating crap because it’s convenient toward eating healthy because we’ve made it just as convenient. That’ll help lay our foundation for a happier, healthier future. With this breakfast choice, we address the sabotaging attraction of fast food or quick, microwavable breakfasts for an alternative that’s just as fast (if not faster!), and much healthier (while still being tasty!). Because when you eat better, you feckin’ feel better. Seriously! The number one key toward sustaining healthy eating is to add just enough organization to your life to make healthier choices convenient. In the case of this breakfast, that can be accomplished with a little as 30 minutes of prep time on a weekend. That will allow you to eat healthily all week long! What We’ll Need Two, 2-quart saucepans (or just one, if you want to make the two components below serially instead of at the same time). One cup of quinoa (available in the “grains” section of your grocery store, usually in the same area as rice). Two 1-lb bags of frozen, sliced peaches (you can slice your own, but our goal here is speed and ease, right?). Stevia (I like the Truvia brand) brown-sugar blend (this mixes natural, low-cal Stevia sweetener with a little bit of brown sugar, which reduces the sugar you’re eating (yeah, there’s still some sugar in this recipe, but we’re going for healthier, not militant! …and, over time, you may find you’re fine with cutting this ingredient out altogether, and just going to with Stevia). Vanilla Extract (organic is ideal, but any extract will do) (Optional) Some walut halves (or chopped walnuts). If you like another tree nut, you can grab some of those, too. What I like to do is add (or make) a trail mix blend that has a high ratio of tree nuts (walnuts, almonds, pecans, etc) to dried fruit. Your Weekend Prep Step 1. Start your compote bubbling! Dump the peaches into your saucepan. Add in about a half-cup of water. Add in about 1/4 to 1/3 cup of the Stevia brown sugar blend (you can use up to 1/2 cup if you’ve been a sugar addict and still need your food really sweet for it to be tasty; over time, eating more healthily will retrain your palate so you don’t need everything to be sweet, salty, or fatty to enjoy it). Add in about 2 tsps of cinnamon (vary to suit your preference) Add in about 1 tsp of vanilla extract. Stir. Bring to a boil, then cover and let simmer for a bit (15-30 minutes, whatever). Chanting the “Double, double, toil and trouble” verse from Hamlet will make you sound more educated, here. Or maybe a little crazy. Either is good, right? Step 2. Cook the Quinoa. (Note — if you’ve never eaten quinoa and want to ease into its flavor (which can be a little nutty at first), you can also mix the compote into oatmeal instead of using quinoa. Quick-cook, steel-cut oatmeal cooks in the microwave in about 2 1/2 minutes, so it’s pretty convenient, too. Then, perhaps over time, graduate to 1/2 oatmeal and 1/2 quinoa. Then finally to just quinoa, which is better for you in many ways than oatmeal (lower glycemic index, more protein, more fiber, etc). Or, hell, just do this breakfast using oatmeal every now and then for a change of pace! Variety is the spice of life, right? Okay, back to the quinoa, though: Dump 1 cup of quinoa into your saucepan (note that some brands of quinoa recommend rinsing it first. If that’s the case rinse your cup of quinoa in a strainer, then dump it into your saucepan). Add in 2 cups of water (like cooking rice, Quinoa just takes a 1:2 quinoa:water ratio). Optionally, add in a pat of healthy butter from grass-fed cattle (e.g., Kerry Irish Butter). Bring to a boil, cover, lower to a simmer, and cook for 15 minutes. Allow your quinoa and compote to cool. Then stick each separately into tupperware containers. That’s it. You’re prepped and ready to eat healthy all week long! Your Weekday Rush-Around-And-Out-The-Door Breakfast Grab a bowl. Toss in about a 1/3 to 1/2 cup or so of your pre-prepped quinoa. Add in about the same amount of your peach compote (vary the ratio to suit your preference). Add in your optional nuts and/or trail mix — these give this bowl o’ goodness a more varied, interesting mix of textures, which I really like. Heat the whole thing in the microwave for about 90 seconds to 2 minutes. Voila! You have a healthy breakfast that’s a helluva lot better for you than the pre-packaged crap being sold throughout most of your breakfast store’s frozen breakfast section. And it’s just as fast to prep on a weekday when you’re rushing around before work. If you’re feeling froggy, add in some fresh blueberries. And/or strawberries. Get creative. P.S. I like to alternate this meal occasionally with a breakfast of fried eggs over a piece of whole-grain toast; or occasionally scrambled eggs, onto which I put some salsa. To either of these I like to add 1/4 or 1/2 of an avocado on the side, sometimes with a couple marinated artichoke heart quarters. Sprinkle it all with a little salt and pepper and go to town! Yum! Hope you enjoy your evolving, healthier bod! Kevin H. Recommendations Leave a comment June 8, 2018 June 8, 2018 4 Minutes For more than two decades, MMOG developers have known that completely open-ended games without strict community guard rails guiding and limiting behavior and player interactions bring out both the best and worst in people. More often than not the veil of anonymity that some choose to hide behind while online reveals an unfortunate lack of character. In such environments, one bad apple can degrade the enjoyment of many others. As a result, given the massive expense associated with creating online games, very few game developers will risk letting the players interact as they will within that virtual space. But Frontier Development did with their game, “Elite: Dangerous” (“E:D”). The reward for giving players complete freedom to spend their time as they will is that such lack of constraints enables people to surprise and delight you with their inventiveness, their creativity, and the communities they create. In E:D’s full scale recreation of our 400-billion star galaxy, many people spend their time exploring distant worlds and sharing the magnificent views they’ve found there. Flying around our solar system in virtual reality, and then the myriad worlds within several hundred light years of our sun, Sol, has provided me with uncounted breathtaking views. The level of immersion is incredible. But I’m just an amateur in-game “photographer.” Thousands of E:D community members are both farther ranging and more talented at capturing their in-game experiences. So I wanted to share some of the experiences they’ve had, captured through the windows of their cockpit or via the in-game camera. All of these images are taken from within the game as it exists today. If you were inclined, you could outfit a spacecraft, visit these locations, see these sights, dock at these space stations, perhaps fly with some of these pilots. In an update due this spring, Frontier has promised that these environments will gain more fidelity, more beauty! That’s something to look forward to. Until then, I hope you enjoy this brief taste and that it stirs whatever latent Walter Mitty you have within. Did you dream of being an astronaut, or exploring the vastness of space, being the first to cast eyes on the startling beauty of far worlds? I still do. With a little searching via Google or Youtube, you can find thousands more of these screenshots. I use them as fuel for the imagination during the cold winter days and long nights here on Earth. …when I’m not flying around the galaxy myself, of course. Kevin H. Elite: Dangerous, Writing Leave a comment January 16, 2018 2 Minutes Dateline: The Galactic Enquirer. January 4th, 3304. Agricola’s Ascent, Pleiades Sector DL-Y d65. [This picture was not taken anywhere near Agricola’s Ascent. But it was taken by the author and he let us at the Galactic Enquirer use it royalty free, so there’s that…] Galactic Enquirer sources have revealed that the “Thargoid Threat” is a manufactured one, created in a cooperative effort by the embattled executives at Lakon Spaceways and the cash-strapped Alliance. The Agricola’s Ascent orbital is crowded these days. One can’t walk anywhere without bumping into packs of feral billionaires who have flocked to the Pleiades region pursuing the latest topPercenter and Trustafarian pastime: “Hunting Thargoids.” Hundreds, perhaps thousands of these nouveau riche thrill seekers have left humanity’s boring bubble hoping to join the “elite” club of those who’ve successfully ambushed one of the peaceful alien space flowers in hopes of securing its heart for their trophy case. Agricola’s Ascent’s corridors and brandy lounges are filled with the swaggering machismo and raucous flamboyance these billionaires flaunt like a million-credit cloak. Ask them why they’re here and to their credit some will honestly reply it’s strictly for the thrill of the kill. But eight times out of ten the response will be some variant of “To save humanity from the growing xeno threat.” Those respondents are convinced their mission is truly that noble, that the reason they’re willing to sacrifice their billion-credit ships (if not their lives) is this “defense of humanity.” But The Galactic Enquirer has uncovered highly placed sources that suggest the threat to humanity is a manufactured one. That makes many of these Dudley Do-Rights unfortunate sheeple, herded by a heretofore unimaginable galaxy-wide conspiracy. Investigators at the Galactic Enquirer have sifted through thousands of pages of documents provided by the shadowy hackers famous for populating the GalactiLeaks Galnet site. Our intrepid journalists have uncovered secret emails documenting the manufacture of an interstellar, possibly criminal manipulation of public sentiment. And the conspirators? None other than officials at the highest levels of the Alliance, working in conjunction with Lakon Spaceways! Together they’ve seeded a campaign through the media channels of hundreds of worlds that goes far beyond the normal underhanded but legal persuasion techniques employed by common, high-value marketing campaigns. Like with most crimes, all investigation takes is following the money. Hundreds of the GalactiLeaks documents reveal increasingly frantic correspondence over the last eighteen months between Lakon Spaceways product development, financial, and marketing departments. These documents reveal C-level panic throughout Lakon’s highest executives. From the documents, it’s clear that early leaks citing underwhelming flight performance figures for Lakon’s massively hyped new Type-10 “Defender” resulted in an almost total evaporation of military demand for the heavy ship. Coming at a time when rumors of major market share lost to both Faulcon DeLacy and Core Dynamics for the fourth straight quarter shook investor confidence, the leaks triggered a catastrophic plunge in Lakon’s stock value. Lakon executives needed a miracle. According to documents we discovered, company executives responded to their company’s Edsel moment by manufacturing a threat so serious, so existential, that the galaxy would become desperate for an answer. Enter the Alliance, whose own influence has steadily waned from its recent peak in 3300. As the major power driving Lakon to produce the Type-10 Defender before canceling half their contracts last year, the cash-strapped Alliance needed to cooperate with Lakon to avoid ruinous lawsuits. For people who believe one should never let a good crisis go to waste, the sudden return of Thargoids was a godsend for Lakon. Although big, beautiful, and not hostile unless threatened or attacked, the lumbering space leviathans’ utter alien-ness made them the perfect foil for Lakon executives desperate to create a new market for their heavily armed and armored, 2250-ton, 500MM* Cr recycled space barge. [* Weight and value figures common for a Defender minimally outfitted for Thargoid hunting. –Ed.] In the words of one Lakon Executive, from one of the discovered interoffice memos, “We need to make those weird-looking space daisies evil and threatening. There’s no other way we’ll unload all these flying pigs- er, “Defenders” [poop emoji] the damned Alliance decided not to buy! Ha! Coming up with a campaign to make floating daffodils reek of evil — that oughta keep those marketing weasels in PR busy for the holidays!” But the Lakon PR folks seem to have done the impossible. They’ve painted the Thargoid presence as a looming menace to our civilization. Despite resembling nothing so much as a giant flower and possessing a nature that seems nothing if not benignly inquisitive toward anything man-made, the Thargoids’ very otherness works against them. They’re so alien to us that even their sentience (and thus any possible guilt at even being able to form the hostile intentions accorded to them by Lakon Spaceway’s guerilla marketing) is still very much in question. What is known is that they’ve never initiated an attack on a human ship without that ship either firing first or at the very least aggressively infringing on the Thargoid’s immediate space. But you don’t have to take this reporter at face value, gentle readers. Use your Randomius-given powers of logic. Ask yourself: If these aliens really posed an existential threat to humanity – or even to humans that didn’t provoke them first – would the Alliance, in conjunction with the Pilots Federation and other major powers, only award a measly two million credits as a Thargoid bounty? That’s a mere 2M credits for a kill, when defeating one involves the following hurdles and risks: Pilots must foot the bill to buy and/or outfit a ship (ideally the Defender, of course!) that costs at least 500-million credits and be willing to risk the associated 25-million credit insurance deductible if they lose the ship in combat. (And note, the Thargoid hunting builds that improve one’s chances run closer to 750M or even a cool 1B credits!) Pilots must foot the bill in hiring and paying a ship-launched fighter operator, without whom that pilot’s chances of survival, let alone victory, became low indeed – and pilots must do this understanding that even if they themselves make it to an escape pod, their hirelings will DIE if the pilot fails and loses his ship to the Thargoid; Pilots go into their hunting knowing that even if they succeed – which most will not do at first, if ever – their ship restock and repair will almost certainly cost almost half-a-million credits (and that’s for a solo fight against the weakest of the Thargoids!). If you’re doing the math, you’re realizing that hunting one of these dangers to humanity virtually requires a multi-billionaire to put a billion in assets (and his life) on the line, and then offers him a net profit of …about a million credits. It’s a laughable amount in a galactic economy that provides entrepreneurial pilots with profits that are literally fifty times that (or more), in the same amount of time, with a lot less investment, simply for ferrying passengers to remote starports (with little or no risk). Your realization, gentle citizens, must be: That doesn’t add up! And Lakon’s marketing slogan, developed to rally humanity’s xeno hunters (and, coincidentally, sell lots of Type-10 Defenders!) waives all that financial consideration with a simple slogan: “You don’t do it for the money; you do it for humanity.” There’s only one solution to this puzzle: Lakon Spaceways has convinced thousands of pilots to conduct genocide against the first and only alien megafauna we’ve ever encountered, for the sole reason of selling a ship that would otherwise be a market flop. This must not go unanswered! Humanity is better than that! [Submitted to the Jan 6th edition of the Galactic Enquirer by Cmdr Talion Camisade] Kevin H. Elite: Dangerous, Writing Leave a comment January 6, 2018 5 Minutes I love this commencement address by Peter Dinklage to Bennington College’s class of 2012 (link goes to a Facebook page): Peter Dinklage: The Importance of Taking a Leap of Faith I watched this today and it made me realize that in almost every major (professional) change I’ve made during my adult life, and certainly all those I look back on as positive inflection points, I chose against common wisdom, against the advice, the counsel, of those advocating a safer, more conventional path. I chose for novelty, for adventure; I chose for passion, and I chose to be contrary. And, yup, chance plays a role, and holy crap it was hard, exhausting, stressful work for long stretches of my life. But I think that incredible man has a point! #FailForward #DoItAgain Kevin H. Attitudes, Entrepreneurialism 1 Comment August 26, 2017 August 26, 2017 1 Minute The events in Charlottesville, VA, over the weekend beginning August 11th, which included the death of one woman and the injury of dozens of others were tragic. My heart goes out to the family, the friends, and the community to which the slain woman, Heather Heyer, belonged, and to all those injured when a homicidal white supremacist drove his car into a crowd. My hope is that James Fields, allegedly the man behind the wheel, will be found guilty and sentenced to death — a sentence that gets carried out in Virginia faster than any other state. I no longer live in Charlottesville, though I did once. As a result, I’ve a great many contributors to my social news feeds from that wonderful city. All are saddened; most are broadcasting anger. As a beginning Stoic, I ask: What do we want to accomplish? How best will we get there? Many of those affected by that weekend’s events are clamoring for censure, some for the removal of freedoms that underlie our society. As an American, I understand their hurt, their rage, but believe that it’s not just the wrong answer, but a counter-productive one. It won’t solve the problem, it would exacerbate it and cause greater ones. (Full disclosure, I believe that to be true for most “solutions” that seek to apply the power of The State to force constraint, control, or the limit of freedoms, upon The People.) Ramez Naam, a born Egyptian who rose to prominence in the US as a Partner and Director of Program Management at Microsoft, an award-winning author, a patent-holding entrepreneur, futurist, and technologist, posted this on his blog today: “Don’t let the terrorists win.” We said that a lot after 9/11, and have for the last 16 years. As air travel became absurdly cumbersome, as civil liberties were eroded, as people were arbitrarily blacklisted or detained without room for appeal – we said the terrorists were winning, causing us to undermine the underpinnings of our own society, to crack down on the freedoms that are central to the principles of the United States. Now, I see friends calling for cracking down on freedom of speech, for restricting the First Amendment, taking away its protections from speech they (and I) consider loathsome. I even see friends advocating for physical violence against people because of their speech. That, my friends, is letting the terrorists win. I loathe the ideology of white supremacy. But to let fear or anger at it undermine our notions of civil liberties or civil society… that would be letting the terrorists win. We’re bigger than that. We’re stronger than that. Don’t let the terrorists win. In all the footage I’ve seen of those rally’s, without exception, “counter-protesters” are broadcasting hate, vitriol, and disgust at assemblies of white supremacists and neo-nazi’s, who are themselves there to trumpet their irrational hatreds and disgust toward anything “other.” It’s an emotional, understandable reaction for even rational, tolerant humans, as deeply wired into us as our core values. Emotional responses often come from deeper places, stemming from shared heritage, cultural identity, or our own experiences with justice or lack thereof. But nowhere among the thinking, the tolerant, does there seem to have been consideration of the question: What do we want to accomplish? Because, sure as shit, answering hatred with hatred has never worked worth a damn. We know that! In fact, we as a civilization know pretty fucking well at this point that anger, loathing, denials — even the threat of (or actual!) violence — has never done a damn thing to knock a fundamentalist movement from its ideological perch. When you apply force that will not be sufficient to break a belief, you only strengthen it. Knowing that, why would we choose to strengthen the voices of racists for them? You don’t kill ideologies by denouncing them any more than you do by making martyrs. Denunciation didn’t work against the original Nazi’s. It doesn’t work with Islamic fundamentalists like Isis. And it won’t work with any other form of dogmatic, institutionalized, hatred like that paraded by supremacists. The most it can do is drive such movements underground where they fester like a cancer until achieving metastasis. Then there’s really hell to pay. Answering hatred and intolerance with hatred and intolerance is like deciding it’s smart to put out a fire with gasoline. When you see someone doing that, you have to ask, “What exactly are you expecting to accomplish?” Martin Luther King knew that. He knew that “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” Mahatma Gandhi knew that. He knew “You must be the change you wish to see in the world. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” Most importantly, he knew that “Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.” Hell, even Aesop, the storyteller and slave in ancient Greece back around 600 BCE taught that lesson in his fable, “The Wind and the Sun.” The Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger. Suddenly they saw a traveller coming down the road, and the Sun said: “I see a way to decide our dispute. Whichever of us can cause that traveller to take off his cloak shall be regarded as the stronger. You begin.” So the Sun retired behind a cloud, and the Wind began to blow as hard as it could upon the traveller. But the harder he blew the more closely did the traveller wrap his cloak round him, till at last the Wind had to give up in despair. Then the Sun came out and shone in all his glory upon the traveller, who soon found it too hot to walk with his cloak on and took it off.” The moral, of course, is: “KINDNESS EFFECTS MORE THAN SEVERITY.” These great men knew that meeting hatred with hatred was counter-productive. And in that knowing, they accomplished the seeming impossible. Why have we forgotten that? As citizens in a complex society, filled with partial information and misinformation, we should know that often the intuitive, emotional response is the wrong one, the least productive one. And the more complex or deep-rooted the problem, the more counter-intuitive the solution will often be. It’s one of the reasons why societies ruled by demagogues or tyrants inevitably collapse. What do we want to accomplish? How best will we get there? Well, we know for damn sure that you cannot bully people away from an ideology. You cannot soften a mob’s will by flipping it the bird, shouting epithets, or throwing stones. So if you’re not willing to employ lethal force to “change” someone’s mind, the only rational response is to embrace an approach that will work over time. Be cool. Be measured. Be smart. Because peoples’ minds change slowly, when they change at all. When a little kid throws a tantrum, the fastest way to suck the energy out of it is to deprive it of an audience. That’s why timeout is so effective. At the same time, when you want to kill a fire, you don’t spray water at it’s top. You take away its source of fuel. You wet what hasn’t yet burned. When your war is one of ideology, the only way to win is over time. You undermine its recruitment. You make the beliefs so ridiculous that the cult’s target recruited demographic does not want to be associated with it. In short, you starve the movement of fuel. You educate whom you can. You remain human, and caring. You contribute to the society you believe in. You stop fanning emotional fires by attempting to put them out with facts — they don’t work. You look through those trumpeting irrationality and vitriol. You give no voice to those who would tyrannize or terrorize others. And you bide while waiting for intolerance to die. In the meantime, give racism, hatred, NO audience. Zero. Zilch. Nada. Because mobs and fundamentalists are like two-year-olds. And you don’t raise a two-year-old into an adult by mirroring their own tactics back at them. That’s no more likely to accomplish anything meaningful than, well, showing up at a bigots’ rally about hatred with a bucketload of your own. Much more effective, especially against adults, are leadership by example; gentle, consistent, persuasion; and pity. King knew it; Gandhi knew it; Marcus Aurelius knew it; and even the lowly Aesop knew it, more than 2500 years ago. What would happen, I wonder, if counter-culture rallies proclaiming the embrace of ignorance, the spreading of barbarism or self-serving revisionism, went completely ignored? If nobody showed up? If nobody gave a damn that a bunch of crackpots chose to demonstrate their conviction that the world was flat, or (as in this current case) that others should be blamed for ones’ problems simply due to the color of their skin; their willingness to work smart or hard; or for their choice of beliefs? What would happen if such rallies were completely ignored or, better, that those who witnessed such displays in passing, going about their peaceful, productive day, simply shook their heads, half-smiled with visible, sad pity, then went about their business? What if no news broadcasters showed up to amplify delusional voices? Because people declaring sad, ludicrous beliefs are NOT NEWS? If you cannot, will not, or should not, use force — especially deadly force — to change minds, you must use persuasion. You must find and use the leverages that are inherent in our being a social species to shape amoral or aberrant behaviors over time. You find the vulnerabilities, then apply pressure when and where it will be productive. Many people like to embrace anger as their first response. It’s as natural as flight-or-fight in response to a perceived threat. But no one rational, no one who’s educated, no one who’s studied history’s errors and would avoid repeating them, jumps to anger as an answer when the questions they should be asking aren’t how do I feel right now, but: What do we want to accomplish? And, How best will we get there? Obstacles are opportunities. What happened in Charlottesville was tragic. And this is going to happen again, and again, there and elsewhere, if we as a society continue to take our responses from ideologues that are like carpenters whose only hammer is anger. Kevin H. Attitudes, Musings 1 Comment August 16, 2017 August 16, 2017 7 Minutes Home is where the heart …gets healthy again! For me, it’s always great to get back home from a trip. We had a wonderful time …but of course, like people often do, while touring Italy I allowed the excuses of “vacationing” and “environment” for a solid week of lazy exercise and detrimental dietary choices. Unsurprisingly, Italian food, commonly served in 3- or 4-course meals, always with wine (and desert!)(at least on the group tour we took, where many of the meals were pre-ordered for us) created an easy +5lbs in 9 days. Because, “Hey, everyone else is ordering that way!” It’s ridiculous how easy it is for me to fall back into nom nom nomming foods that reinvigorate those American-bred, fattening, aging, sugar and wheat addictions! It’d be easy to shift blame to those childhood “clean your plate!” instructions, but let’s face it: If I claim sentience I also have to accept responsibility for the food I shovel into my pasta hole! So I always feel that one of the best parts about coming home from a trip is resuming the healthy lifestyle that is too often the first casualty of world travel. That feeling made this recent post by Rohan Rajiv, whose blog I follow, resonate this morning (@4am, because of course my I’m still recovering from a week on European time!): Your environment versus your willpower You can find his post at: https://alearningaday.com/2017/07/18/your-environment-versus-your-willpower/. Now I’m looking forward to a short run and a mindful breakfast! Kevin H. Attitudes, Musings Leave a comment July 25, 2017 July 25, 2017 1 Minute Thunderstorms and Golden Doodles We get awesome thunderstorms in the Midwest. I love them. Karly H., aged twelve’ish. My dog? Not so much. As you can see here, during any stormy rumblings, she will only be found down in the basement, in my writing cave, hunkered under my desk. Today, while Debbie and I were sitting at the table eating taco salads for lunch, looking over a backyard being inundated with needed rain (about thirty minutes before the adjacent picture was taken), Karly and I had the following exchange: [Scene: Two humans are seated at a dinner table. Their faithful canine companion is curled beside the man’s chair, snoozing (and perhaps snoring) as only twelve-year-old dogs can do within 8 seconds of laying down, anywhere, anytime. Lightning flashes.] Man: “Oooh, that’ll be a good one.” [Thunder rocks the house. The dog sproings from sound sleep to stiff-legged alarm. She pivots toward the stairs leading down into the basement.] Man: “Karly, it’s just a little Spring storm. Stay and watch with us.” [The dog pauses, perhaps recognizing the word “stay” in her master’s speech. A command? Really? Now? Is he freakin’ kidding? She looks over her shoulder. “Hooman,” her eyes say with deep sincerity, “fifteen thousand years ago, when our kind first began living with your kind, there were two kinds of dogs. There were my kind — those smart enough to know full well that storms were dangerous and the only wise thing to do when the sky growls is always seek shelter below ground, where dens are supposed to be dug (for good reason!) — and there were the other kind of dog, those who left risk determinations in the hands of their supposedly smarter hoomans… “As far as I’m concerned, there’s only one kind of dog left. “Now, are you coming, or not?”] [The dog exits, stage left.] Kevin H. Musings Leave a comment June 13, 2017 1 Minute This weird new snake oil can extend your life! Edit: This article was updated on Jan 25th, 2017, after an exploratory conference call with the Ambrosia, LLC, Founder. -KH So, do you wanna live forever? When I began writing my number one non-selling book, “Surrogate Threats,” I was motivated by the idea that advancements in medical science had put us near the cusp of consumer-accessible life extension. Even back in 2015, a growing number of very smart people were predicting near immortality within ten years. My contemplation of that possibility spawned the creation of a fictional antagonist named Ryk Marius who, obsessed with the desire to become immortal and unwilling to be constrained by regulatory brakes or cumbersome morality, developed a plausible plan for life extension using today’s (and, okay, a little bit of tomorrow’s) medical technology. As an entrepreneur, I had such great fun hashing out my antagonist’s business model and innovating through his logistics challenges, I ultimately put his company, Marius Technologies, online at Rejuvi.me. I’d be lying if I didn’t admit to spending part of 2015 caught up in recurring fantasies about extracting the (mostly) legal aspects of Marius Technologies to create and fund an actual bio-tech venture. If I’d known then what I know now, I might just have done it! The Tantalizing Business of Life Extension My sticking points in 2015, other than a chickenshit reticence toward funding legally gray, outlandish, futurist ventures, were (1) that I didn’t think I’d be able collect quite enough funding to get my life-extension venture off the ground; and (2) that I’d have to move out of the country to get around the United States’ oppressive regulatory environment when it came to building businesses out of experimental bio-tech. Put another way, I’d pretty much have to become a full blown Bond villain to develop this world-changing therapy into a profitable business. So I was stymied. What made it more frustrating was that I was pretty sure someone could actually pull my plan off, if those meddling kids (and, you know, the rest of the world) would just leave them (and me, and my imaginary investors) alone to do it! I needed a way to advance the vision that the rest of the world wouldn’t consider insane, ethically dangerous, and/or shudderingly creepy. Aye, therein lay the rub! I was stuck. Then, a week ago, I was stunned to learn I could have worked within the current US regulatory system to offer experimental age rejuvenation services while collecting substantial revenues — even if the process ultimately didn’t work! After all, while Winston Churchill once said, “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm,” Kevin Higgins adds, “…and, even better, with no loss of your own money!” There WAS a way! The inciting element in this week’s narrative was a blog post on the site Singularity Hub by Peter Diamandis titled, “Stem Cells Are Poised to Change Health and Medicine Forever.” Buried about three-quarters of the way into that article, in a section about the four main areas of stem cell therapies to watch, was a section on parabiosis. (For those not into linking away while reading, parabiosis was the term originally coined in the 1860’s (!) for linking the circulatory systems of two creatures, one young and one aged. The resulting blood sharing was found to literally, significantly, reverse the age of virtually all bodily tissues in the older creature. More recently, parabiosis is a term used to describe a process where blood (or plasma) from young donors is provided to elder recipients. The most energetic studies of parabiosis potential today in the US are being done at Stanford, where the treatments are being explored for their potential to stop (or reverse!) the progression of Alzheimer’s. Similar studies are being pursued at many other universities and research clinics elsewhere in the world.) It’s really not science fiction that hordes of our most advanced researchers are beginning to view aging as a disease that can be cured. It may turn out that Ponce de Leon’s long-sought “Fountain of Youth” was circulating through the arteries of the Utes* around him all the time! This is the part where your inner mad scientist says, “Well, wait. If learned and aggressive clinical research doctors are securing valuable (and always scarce) funding to explore whether parabiosis rejuvenates aging, Alzheimer’s-riddled brains …and a full century of parabiotic experimentation with animals has created reams of peer-reviewed findings documenting the reversal of cellular age in virtually all bodily tissues …then maybe parabiosis has a strong chance of becoming at least one part of a multi-faceted strategy to cure people of aging!” And your inner entrepreneur says, “Holy crap — that’s one of the Holy Grails of bio-tech!” (the other, of course, is to resolve once and for all whether a European Swallow might carry a coconut)(sorry, that was obligatory after a Holy Grail reference, but I digress) Meet Dr. Jesse Karmazin, MD, Founder of Ambrosia, LLC, and your Conductor on this Entrepreneurial Train to Sci-Fi Town. Because what Dr. Karmazin has figured out, which I missed back in 2015, is (1) how to offer old (and perhaps wealthy, or desperate, or both) people access to the blood of youths via transfusions of plasma (a modern day, lower-risk take on actual parabiosis), while (2) operating under FDA regulations in the US, AND (3) get the applicants to pay the cost of the clinical trial! Genius! Karmazin realized that as part of the Federal Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007 (one of many regulatory evolutions that opened up and increased transparency around clinical trials), establishing a clinical trial has become much more accessible (read: cheaper). He also pieced together two additional key allowances that made Ambrosia’s study viable: (1) (some) patient-funded clinical trials now fall under less scrutiny than they used to, and (2) the FDA doesn’t require approval for processes that are well-established, standard treatments. As you might expect, common blood transfusions (and, especially, even less-risky plasma transfusions) fall under this category! One valuable type is genius is the ability to solve Gordian Knots of bureaucratic red tape with Alexander-like clarity. Having found a way through the regulatory maze that I thought would require going offshore, Karmazin next had to develop a capitalization scheme — never an easy prospect when your core enabling technology (blood or plasma transfusions) isn’t protectable via patent. Because without developing a barrier to competition, finding Angel Investors, let alone Venture Capital, is a low-probability moon shot! Still, the financial prospects were persuasive: 600 participants at $8000 USD per enrollee …comes to a cool $4.8MM in potential revenue for this study! …if you can find that many applicants. Advancing science while making money? That’s enough to make the Pet Shop Boys sit up and take notice! And the costs? Here’s my personal speculative back of the napkin work: The wholesale prices for getting blood tested and bio-markers reported can be found for less than a couple hundred dollars (depending on the various markers being evaluated and the accuracy desired). [Update: this may cost significantly more, given the vast number of biomarkers being tracked in this study.] You’ll need that done at least twice. And the cost of an actual unit blood plasma? Only about $61, on average. (Maybe one might pay a little more for the special order, primo stuff — like the plasma of Utes). [Update: this article’s initial calculations were based on erroneous information found online. Dr. Karmazin’s study is for an initial infusion of seven (7) units of Ute plasma, not the ~3 units originally reported.] Add in some consumables here and there and that creates estimated testing and plasma variable costs of about $1000 for each study enrollee. But, then it gets harder; you have to have a place for the participants to go for initial testing and qualifications, to receive the transfusions, and for subsequent blood draws and foll0w-up. That requires staff and office space. And, as every entrepreneur knows, fixed costs can be a bitch for a small venture (it’s why we so often start them in a garage). [Update: At about an hour per unit of infused plasma, the seven (7) hours of clinic “seat time,” which is spread over a two-day period, will have to be factored into the variable costs.] Enter young Dr. Karmazin’s savvy choice of business partner, Dr. Craig Wright, a longtime luminary in the field, a board-certified physician with over 30 years experience in seeing patients and working in the biopharmaceutical industry, an innovator (he holds over 15 patents), and a man with one additional important contribution: He’s already come out of retirement to open and operate an infusion clinic in Monterey, CA! With one brilliant partnership, that smashes our fixed costs flat and flattens out many of the other logistical hurdles — opening and managing clinical office space, tapping into an existent business for insurance and regulatory compliance, hiring technicians, etc. And it’s a win for Dr. Wright — his clinic is (presumably) already operating in the black; this is yet another source of (high-margin) revenue that doesn’t increase his existing fixed costs. Work your way through the creation of a clinical trial and register it on the FDA’s clinicaltrials.gov web site, pay the requisite fee, and Voila! You’re in business! [Update: And there’s an additional business model strength. The shortness of the clinical trial (one month) introduces opportunities for participants to come back for multiple transfusions, enabling this clinical trial to perform financially more like a therapy. That’s beautiful. As an entrepreneur, being able to sell deeper into your market, tapping satisfied customers, is usually a more profitable course than having to acquire new customers for additional revenues (assuming your therapy works).] So, who wants a chance to feel (and perhaps actually become) younger? As a bonus, you may help advance the science of longevity, of anti-aging. Step right up. You pays yer money and you takes yer chances. * “Utes” – Youths Kevin H. Entrepreneurialism, Musings Leave a comment January 24, 2017 January 25, 2017 7 Minutes Sliding windows of opportunity Author Nir Eyal , who wrote “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products” published an article an Internet eon ago (roughly 10 days), titled, “What to Do When Someone ‘Steals’ Your Amazing Idea.” I came across it in my newsfeed from Observer.com. Now that, thought I, as a self-identified (paranoid) entrepreneur and occasionally penitent bad sharer, looks like something I should read. Because while a mere idea is the 1% inspiration to the 99% perspiration required to breathe life into a new venture, that flash of what often feels like original genius is the inciting element that starts every entrepreneurial snowball rolling down Mount Disruption. That lightning-like “Eureka!” moment strikes rarely and without warning, so it’s natural to adopt a Gollum-like protectionism over your conceptual Precious, less some sneaksy Bilbo-analog snatch away your visions of changing the world. The hard truth, of course, as Nir writes, is that that attitude is the “Sign of a Novice.” He explains, “People tend to believe ideas are rare things, gems to be collected and hoarded. But in fact the nature of creative work, be it corporate innovation, academic research, or artistic endeavor, tells us quite the opposite—that if a useful insight pops into your head, it’s most likely in other people’s minds as well.” Well, that stings. I’m a serial entrepreneur and I still want to behave that way when I get speared by inspiration out of the blue. Nir continues, “It’s called the ‘multiple discovery theory,’ which, contrary to the ‘heroic theory of invention,’ posits that discoveries are most often made by multiple people, not by lone ‘geniuses.’ History is littered with examples: the formulation of calculus, the discovery of vitamin A, the development of the telephone, the light bulb, the jet engine, the atom bomb. ‘When the time is ripe for certain things,’ the mathematician Farkas Bolyai said, ‘these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in early spring.'” Of course, most people who think they’ve stumbled onto some novel idea discover truly original insights are as rare as Astatine shortly after rushing off to uspto.gov (or Google) to execute a quickie patent search. Mr. Eyal and Mr. Bolyai are inarguably correct. One’s idea is almost certainly not unique or novel to the world. But that doesn’t suggest that dismissing such shower thoughts, or approaching their development with slow deliberation, is the sane course of action. On the contrary, embracing the slavering enthusiasm that such ideas fire is what separates entrepreneurs from those preferring the path most trodden. The thing to recognize about such ideas is that they fuel the furnace that creates the steam it takes to start an entrepreneurial locomotive up Disruption Mountain. But here’s the thing I would add to Nir’s article: That those flashes of inspiration are almost always shared by others does not mean they are not scarce. Nor does it imply that birthing an idea simultaneously with (or after!) some other inventor(s) dilutes one’s chances of fanning that baby into the kind of conflagration that burns yesterday’s paradigms down. It’s an adage that while many people get ideas; few do anything with them. But that’s not entirely true and it’s a worldview that can be dangerous for the erstwhile entrepreneur. There are a lot more people that, once shown the path, can figure out the execution than there are those who can see the path to begin with. Each of those ‘Amazing ideas’ (assuming you’re not delusional) may represent what I think of as a sliding window of opportunity. Once opened, they’re only going to remain that way for a short period before someone else will slam it shut. The risk that makes inventors averse to sharing should not stem from fear of theft. The greater danger is that sharing an idea beyond a select few known and trusted fellow visionaries wastes time that could be spent in research, refinement, and development. In the early stages of business conception, after commitment to the unicorn-like Golden Idea, sharing and the doubt that can introduce from people who don’t have time or interest in your vision can slow one enough that they never get out of the starting blocks. Sometimes, that instinct to guard one’s embryonic inspiration with at least some level of discretion is the best way to convert innovative adrenaline into the most precious of all entrepreneurial elements: The will to begin the work of building a product. That protecting your Precious reduces the chance of theft and exploitation by a pent-up competitor is merely a bonus. Kevin H. Musings Leave a comment December 17, 2016 December 18, 2016 3 Minutes Friday Flections: “9 Rules For Building A Successful Business” (or life). Today’s “Friday Flection” is from the blog of Tim Ferris and conveys some sagacity from Dr. Peter Diamandis (@PeterDiamandis), who has been named one of “The World’s 50 Greatest Leaders” by Fortune magazine. In the field of innovation, Diamandis is Chairman and CEO of the XPRIZE Foundation, best known for its $10 million Ansari XPRIZE for private spaceflight. Today the XPRIZE leads the world in designing and operating large-scale global competitions to solve market failures. Enjoy Peter’s Principles (which are very different from the “Peter Principle!”) at the below link: http://fourhourworkweek.com/2016/09/22/peter-diamandiss-9-rules-for-building-a-successful-business/ Have a great Friday and remember — if you’re not chomping at the bit for Monday morning to roll around, your life’s parabola might need some flexing! Kevin H. Attitudes, Recommendations Leave a comment September 23, 2016 0 Minutes	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1395
__label__wiki	0.753409	0.753409	Fleur de Lys to close this month By Paolo Lucchesi on June 5, 2014 at 7:53 AM Photo: Mike Kepka / The Chronicle Image 1of/9 Hubert Keller. Chef Hubert Keller serves up exquisite French cuisine at Fleur de Lys. Photo: Stephanie Wright Hession Fleur de Lys Resturant at 777 Sutter Street San Francisco. Fine-dining restaurants draw a well-dressed clientele, but they are increasingly the exception in San Francisco. Photo: John O\'Hara / The Chronicle The interior of Fleur de Lys Resturant at 777 Sutter Street in San Francisco. Hubert Keller, Fleur de Lys. Chef's dish- Seared Venison Loin Sauteed Pineapple Julienne, Red Beet Flan enhanced with a Poivrade and Kirsh Sauce. Photo: Michael Macor / The Chronicle Co-owner and Chef Hubert Keller, standing back, dishes food for himself as he talks to his restaurant staff during a staff meal main entree of "Baeckeoffe" (oven-baked meat and potato stew) at Fleur de Lys restaurant in San Francisco in 2001. less Co-owner and Chef Hubert Keller, standing back, dishes food for himself as he talks to his restaurant staff during a staff meal main entree of "Baeckeoffe" (oven-baked meat and potato stew) at Fleur de Lys ... more Photo: Darryl Bush / The Chronicle The kitchen staff of cooks eat a staff meal main entree of "Baeckeoffe" (oven-baked meat and potato stew) at Fleur de Lys restaurant in San Francisco in 2001. Hubert Keller of Fleur de Lys in 2005. The Fleur de Lys Resturant, in San Francisco. The dining room of Fleur de Lys. Photo: John O’Hara/The Chronicle After more than 40 years of business, San Francisco fine dining institution Fleur de Lys is closing at the end of June. The last dinner service will be Saturday, June 28. Chef-partner Hubert Keller announced the news on the Fleur de Lys website, noting that they “have decided it’s time to turn a page in our lives and close Fleur de Lys for good.” Longtime Fleur de Lys partner and front-of-house maestro Maurice Rouas passed away in 2012. Rouas opened the restaurant in 1970. The following decade, he helped herald the era of the chef-driven restaurant in 1986 when he brought in rising star Alsatian chef Hubert Keller as a partner. Fleur de Lys quickly became one of the top restaurants in the city, if not the country; it held a perfect four stars from the Chronicle for many years (until 2007, to be precise). Among other pioneering roles, Keller was one of the early adopters of an all-vegetarian menu option. In his 2005 article on the Bay Area’s four-star restaurants of that year, Michael Bauer called Fleur de Lys “the grandaddy of the constellations, still on top after 35 years” and declared it the most romantic space in the city. During the run, Keller also made frequent television appearances, opened a Fleur de Lys in Las Vegas, (which he closed in 2010 and flipped into a more casual concept), and opened Burger Bars in San Francisco, Vegas and China. The goodbye note from Fleur de Lys: All of us here at Fleur de Lys want to give our most sincere gratitude to all our loyal customers who have shared with us an amazing 28 year journey. We have decided it’s time to turn a page in our lives and close Fleur de Lys for good. Our final business day will be Saturday June 28th, 2014. It has been a very difficult and emotional decision and we are very sad to say goodbye. Please come see us during the month of June to get a few last Fleur de Lys experiences, share stories, and say goodbye. Call for reservations here at 415-673-7779. Avec les meilleurs souvenirs, The Fleur de Lys Family No word yet on what will happen to the space. Updates as warranted. Share your Fleur de Lys memories in the comments. Fleur de Lys: 777 Sutter St. (between Jones and Taylor), San Francisco; (415) 673-7779 or hubertkeller.com	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1396
__label__cc	0.543208	0.456792	Changing Careers for Fun and Profit by Mark Feffer March 4, 2009 7 min read Career AdviceCareer PathsJob News Changing careers requires perseverance, conviction and frequently a temporary downshift in lifestyle. If you’ve ever considered a switch, here’s how to go about it. By Leslie Stevens-Huffman \| November 2007 Changing careers is difficult. It requires perseverance, conviction and frequently a temporary downshift in lifestyle. If you’ve ever considered changing careers, here’s how to go about it. might be your passion, but many experts say increased longevity will require today’s workers to have multiple careers over their lifetimes. While the need for IT professionals isn’t going away, outsourcing and changing technology have impacted the demand for their services, causing more to consider getting into a new line of work. careers is difficult. It requires perseverance, conviction and frequently a temporary downshift in lifestyle. But for those who can endure a short-term diet of peanut butter sandwiches, the rewards can be fruitful. If you’ve ever considered changing careers, here’s how to go about it. Identify Your Transferable Skills and Passions "No matter what field you’re in, the jobs all require the same behaviors, tools and disciplines," says Ford Myers, president of Career Potential LLC in Haverford, Pa. "The key is identifying the ones that you’re good at and finding where you might be able to use those same skills." Myers, who became a career consultant after 20 years as a graphic designer, has helped many IT professionals change careers. To identify new opportunities that will be right for you, he advocates introspection, assessment and an objective viewpoint. "Assessments such as interest inventories and vocational profiles can help you identify your strengths and job interests," says Myers. "When you change careers, it’s also a time for introspection about what you really want and need in your life, but many people can’t do that objectively. Having an outside person who will be direct and honest with you and who has an unbiased view is helpful." Becoming something like a physician would require a career revolution, accompanied by a huge investment in education and training. So instead of making such a dramatic switch, many IT workers instead choose to evolve into a related field, which requires a shorter learning curve and a faster return to comparable wages. "Nobody ever got hired because they were really good at something. They got hired because the company needed them," observes Waffles Natusch, president of the Rhode Island-based career consultant the Barrett Group, who has himself successfully changed careers. "If you’ve managed people, consider general business management or managing outsourced IT services, because management is a transferable skill that’s in demand. Think about your industry experience. If you’re an IT professional with manufacturing experience, consider becoming a supply chain or purchasing manager." technology sales person, software trainer, construction or engineering project manager and technical writer are all positions that can be attained by technology professionals going through an evolutionary career change process. Test the Waters you’ve developed a short list of possible new positions, immerse yourself in professionals who work in the field to assess your fit and the job market. Attend adult education classes, industry association meetings, networking groups and career networking sites to get a sense of what daily life is like. If you develop a relationship with those in the field, some may allow you to shadow them for a day, and they may help you identify job opportunities. Educating yourself is vital: You don’t want to change careers only to discover your new path isn’t right To Find a Position: Network of the biggest obstacles you’ll face is the mindset that candidates must have pervious experience in order to be considered for open positions. To avoid frustration, go around human resources to directly present hiring managers your resume. Not a natural networker? Start with other networking-adverse people. "I’ve frequently spoken to IT groups about networking, and the key is not to compare yourself with the guy who’s out on the golf course everyday," says Myer. "Start with the guy in the next cube who is also shy about networking, so you can build confidence. Also e-mail people and use sites like LinkedIn to help break the ice and get started." Perform an Attitude Check Evolving successfully to a new career requires you to have the right attitude and perspective about the changes that have occurred in IT. Remember that many industries and professions have gone through radical changes, and many people have had to change careers, even when they didn’t want "I often have to do a great deal of counseling with IT people because they can be their own worst enemies," says Myer. "Wearing your emotions on your sleeve and being arrogant is not going to get you a job anywhere, so it’s important to look at the image you are projecting. Many people did very, very well in the early days of IT. Now you have to have more realistic expectations, and you should count your blessings because most people have never even had the chance to experience a job market like the one that you did." Stevens-Huffman is a freelance writer based in Irvine, Calif. who has more than 20 years experience in the staffing industry. Make a Social Network Work For You Keeping Credit Where Credit is Due Mark Feffer Mark Feffer started as a videotape editor back when there was videotape to edit, then joined the news desk at Dow Jones News/Retrieval, the company's first online product. He produced The Wall Street Journal's first multimedia CD-ROMs and published his novel, "September," in 2006. He lives in Pennsylvania with his wife, their fierce terrier, and a schnauzer who wonders why she ever left California. He's a member of the Project Management Institute.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1398
__label__cc	0.717096	0.282904	Home > Search Results: Komárek, Stanislav National Repository of Grey Literature 63 records found 11 - 20 jump to record: Search took 0.00 seconds. Evolutional origin of the both-sexes exaggerated structures Zběžek, Martin ; Komárek, Stanislav (advisor) ; Figura, Roman (referee) In animal realm, we often meet with body structures that in varying degrees go beyond the limits of their effectiveness and may seems like a burden for its owner rather than a benefit. In case these exaggerated structures are found only with representatives of one sex (we don't think artificial selection applied by humans on their domesticated fauna or sporadic pathological mutations), it is usually not a problem to explain their evolutionary origin through sexual selection. In most of these cases it is sexual selection applied by females on males. The situation is getting complicated, when these traits are present on representatives of both sexes. The search for explanation is less straightforward, and while we are doing it, we must pay thorough attention to the ecology and genetic dispositions of the specific species. Key words animals, exaggerated structures, evolution Tumours in historical and social context in the modern period Hrudka, Jan ; Komárek, Stanislav (advisor) ; Tinková, Daniela (referee) ; Stingl, Josef (referee) Univerzita Karlova v Praze Přírodovědecká fakulta Studijní program: Filosofie a dějiny přírodních věd MUDr. Jan Hrudka Nádory v dějinném a kulturním kontextu v novověku Tumours in historical and social context in the modern period Disertační práce Školitel / Supervisor: Prof. RNDr. Stanislav Komárek, Dr. Praha, 2017 SUMMARY: The PhD thesis called Tumours in historical and social context in the modern period is an attempt to describe a change of medical thinking in modern period; science and medicine turns from antique humoral pathology, explaining all diseases as an imbalance of the four body humours, to pathological anatomy and experimental physiology. In the point of view of pathological anatomy, the viscera of diseased person are no more "screen" or "mirror" of the disease, but it becomes directly the "stage" or "theatre" of the acting disease. This shift in the thought may be labelled as movement from humoralism to localism or ontologism; the disease isn't just abnormal amount of some natural juice any more, but becomes new original entity. This change undergoes the understanding of tumours and cancerous disease as well. Instead of antique understanding tumours as precipitates of black bile, the cell theory occurs in the 19th century. This theory explains tumours as a mass of cells undergoing excessive... Skull trepanation in archaic ethnics Moravec, Tomáš ; Komárek, Stanislav (advisor) ; Hroníková, Linda (referee) This thesis is focused on skull trepanation in archaic ethnics. Trepanation has been used since the Stone Age almost all around the world and since that time have occured the constantly improved tools, trepanation techniques and used anesthesia. However to the present time we are not sure, what exactly was the motivation of then primitive nations to perform such a dangerous procedure. Trepanation has been the subject of many researches since the 19th century, which has been tasked with bringing closer knowledge about the procedure and what was the reason for doing it. This work should provide general knowledge about the topic of trepanations. Factors influencing worldwide zoo collections of lizards, snakes, turtles and crocodiles: effect of conservation status, body size and their attractiveness to humans Janovcová, Markéta ; Landová, Eva (advisor) ; Komárek, Stanislav (referee) There is a large number of species existing in the world; each year, however, the number of the endangered ones rapidly increases. Nowadays, captive breeding becomes an option for their survival in refugees. Sufficient population with satisfactory breeding management gives hope for survival to the endangered species (in mid-term) or even possible future reintroduction to their natural habitat. WAZA is currently the world's leading association of worldwide zoos and similar breeding facilities. Because these institutions operate as a network to facilitate the exchange of reared individuals, for conservation purposes, their captive populations may be seen as one large population characterized by its size, i.e., the total number of individuals. Such view is currently recognized by many conservationists as the so-called concept of Noah's Ark. The space on the Ark is limited, therefore it is needed to heed the characteristics of the species aboard to maximize the conservation potential. Many factors influence the presence of species in zoological gardens. Following previous studies we selected some factors that may be important, i.e., body lenght, taxonomy, and IUCN status. Analysis of these factors among the main reptile clades shall reveal the pattern of reptile composition in worldwide zoos. One of the factors... Metaphors of Madness: Silenced Myth-Makers and Disordered Brains. Müller, Matyáš ; Komárek, Stanislav (advisor) ; Horáček, Ivan (referee) ; Fulka, Josef (referee) The work has basically three aims: 1st to map the wide range of various approaches in the current debate about madness, 2nd to formulate a specific theory of madness, 3rd to identify general philosophical problems the topic brings about, (a 4th aim is also outlined: to understand the presented theory in terms of therapeutic potential). The central thesis of this work is that insanity is an inherently ambiguous and elusive phenomenon and that trying to understand it we are using various metaphors borrowed from other areas, and consequently forget their metaphorical nature. The work is generally motivated by an effort to reconcile conflicting approaches, to understand them as complementary. It also wants to avoid creating an all-embracing synthesis on the one hand, and purely relativistic and pragmatic viewpoint on the other hand. The first part identifies four levels on which particular approaches understand madness as a problem: the level of the individual, the level of the collective, the transpersonal level and the existential level. At the end of the part, I discuss the possibilities and risks of creating a theoretical framework that would enable to understand various contradictory approaches on a common basis. In the second part, I develop my own analysis of madness. It is based on a... Perception of beauty of mammals in Prague ZOO: Influence of respondents' age and education Poláková, Petra ; Landová, Eva (advisor) ; Komárek, Stanislav (referee) 1 Abstract Every year, the number of species considered as endangered increases, especially due to human activities. Nowadays, captive breeding in zoological gardens becomes an option for their survival in refugees. Zoological gardens function as so-called "Noah's Ark", which has the potential to shelter a large amount of individuals from many species. In the future, this opportunity may give us a chance to reintroduce a species that disappeared in the nature. There are many factors influencing which species will be selected to be kept in zoos, e.g., the IUCN status, taxonomical uniqueness, availability, etc., but it was found that especially the size of the animal and the human aesthetic preferences affect the selection. However, every group of animals is evaluated independently in the terms of beauty, and thus, it is necessary to detect these rules and then to apply them to conservation projects. This thesis examines the factors that influence human aesthetic preferences to mammals, both in terms of the characteristics of animals (their colour and morphology), and in terms of human factors (gender, age, education, residence). It was found that especially the pattern, saturation and overall lightness of the animal affect the evaluation of beauty in mammals. On the other hand, dark colours are evaluated... Ethics of biological invasions Klimeš, Adam ; Komárek, Stanislav (advisor) ; Jirsa, Jakub (referee) The Ethics of Biological Invasions Etika biologických invazí Řešitel: Adam Klimeš Vedoucí práce: prof. RNDr. Stanislav Komárek, Dr. Abstract There is a considerable attention ascribed to the phenomenon of biological invasions - to the fast spread of nonnative species in certain area. However evaluation of the biological invasions is usually limited to the calculation of damage costs and means spent on the control of nonnative species. The ethical aspect is marginalized this way, although as it conserns living orgamisms, such aspect is inevitably present. Presented study deals with identification, foundation and analysis of all values threatened by biological invasion or by its control. This can be considered as basis for establishment of an ethical approach to evaluation of biological invasions. Indentified values are instrumental value, value of individuals, species, live and esthetic value. Effects of pattern, size and background contrast of prey on discrimination learning in avian predators Kuncová, Aneta ; Exnerová, Alice (advisor) ; Komárek, Stanislav (referee) The topic of this master thesis was the effects of pattern, size and background contrast of prey on discrimination learning of avian predators. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of selected components of warning coloration on aversive discrimination learning of avian predators of different age and sex. The choosen model organism was the Great tit (Parus major). The comparision was done between hand-reared naïve birds and wild-caught adults of different age and sex. The experiment was taking place in the experimental cage with one way mirror. The experiment used a design of simultaneous task with two pray which differed in one component of the coloration (pattern, size and background kontrast). The differencies in the ability of discrimination learning was found just between hand-rared naïve birds and wild-caught adults. Better results were shown by the wild-caught adults. The ability of discrimination learning of wild-caught adults was not influenced by the age and sex. Pattern was the only significant component of the warning coloration due to which the birds were able to memorise the discrimination task. Key words: avoidance learning, unpalatable prey, pattern, size, background, contrast Social applications of myrmecology between Aldrovandi and Wilson Hampl, Petr ; Komárek, Stanislav (advisor) ; Horáček, Ivan (referee) ; Bezděčková, Klára (referee) The following dissertation presents the history of myrmecology from the times of Ulisse Aldrovandi up to the works of Edward O. Wilson in the 20th century. The oldest mentions of ants in the Antiquity and the Middle Ages are also partially elaborated upon. A special emphasis is given to the general idea about ants as developed by each of the authors, as well as to the mapping out of the contemporary ideas about social insect. This work points out that the portrait of the ant has always been related to the contemporary conception of human society and humanity as such. Throughout its history, myrmecology has always been strongly influenced by anthropomorphism, as the picture of the ant would be derived from the social order, political system and the general opinion on what constitutes human nature. On the other hand, though, myrmecology has also helped to shape the picture of humanity, because the conclusions drawn from myrmecological studies were applied to humans. Therefore, entomology started to influence anthropology and vice versa. In the Antiquity, ants were viewed basically as farmers; only harvester ants were known, they were seen as working on a field, going to the marketplace or holding celebratory festivals. The medieval picture of the ant drew heavily on the Antiquity ideas, but it added... The Efficacy of Sacrifice: Natural Spirits and Human Souls in Maya Culture Kapusta, Jan ; Vrhel, František (advisor) ; Komárek, Stanislav (referee) ; Kostičová, Zuzana (referee) National Repository of Grey Literature : 63 records found 11 - 20 jump to record: 1 Komárek, Šimon	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1401
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__label__cc	0.637027	0.362973	Criminal law, Politics, Society December 16, 2018 December 15, 2018 Deporter in Chief: Deportations Under Obama Still Higher Than Under Trump For both Democrats and Republicans, the recent deportation numbers may come as something of an unpleasant surprise. It turns out the President Barack Obama deported more illegal immigrants than Trump even after two years of Trump’s controversial immigration policies. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Deputy Director Ronald Vitello released the figures for the last year which included the detention of “a record number” of illegal immigrants as well as a rise in deportations of 13 percent since 2017. However, the figures show that the number of those deported under Obama in 2012 reached 409,849 as opposed to 235,413 in 2015 and 240,255 in 2016. In 2018, the figure reached 256,000. Notably, some 145,262 of the 256,000 had prior criminal convictions and 22,796 had criminal charges pending against them. This also included some 5,872 who were known or suspected gang members and 42 suspected terrorists. “Satan Is Sitting Inside Them”: Russian Orthodox Priest Under Review After Violent Baptism Putin On The Rap: Russian President Says Rap Will Not Be Banned But “Directed” By The State 51 thoughts on “Deporter in Chief: Deportations Under Obama Still Higher Than Under Trump” OT: BEARS WIN! Division Champs. Prof Turley believed long enough. So misleading, most of the people Obummer supposedly deported were illegal aliens turned around at the border. Unlike Our great president Donald J Trump’s workplace enforcement deportations. Also Obummer didn’t have federal judges playing identity politics against him. THERE WAS NO BORDER CRISIS TRUMP FABRICATED A CRISIS TO SCAPEGOAT HISPANICS The truth is that border apprehensions reached an all-time peak in 2000 after ticking upwards all through the 1990’s. Interestingly, the Los Angeles School District reached a peak enrollment in 2000. Those trends corresponded with a baby boom in Mexico during the 1970’s. By the 1990’s, that baby boom produced a large generation of restless Mexicans itching to move northward. President Bill Clinton responded to this surge of illegal immigration by implementing construction of a comprehensive border fence; a hard border that hadn’t existed before then. President George W Bush improved the border fence by adding hi-tech surveillance devices and brighter lighting along the busiest corridors. Many of Bush’s improvements were justified by terrorism concerns in the wake of 9 / 11. By the time President Obama took office, border security upgrades had already resulted in a downward trend of border apprehensions. That downward trend also reflected the end of Mexico’s 1970’s baby boom. The demographic wave that had hit the border during the 1990’s had peaked in 2000. What’s more, The Great Recession of Obama’s first term put an end to a housing boom that drew immigrants to thousands of constructions jobs. In fact, studies suggested a pattern of ‘Reverse Immigration’ actually played out during the recession that saw many immigrants returning to Mexico as jobs in the U.S. dried up. Nevertheless, President Obama maintained strict control of the border as Professor Turley notes above. There were periodic stories in the mainstream media reporting that Hispanic leaders were not entirely happy with Obama’s border enforcement. Obama, however, felt no need to brag about his border enforcement. Instead he sought to play it down to avoid alienating Hispanics from the Democratic party. Therefore no serious border crisis existed when Donald Trump began his presidential campaign. Trump was merely ignorant on the topic as he is on many issues. As a consumer of right-wing media, Trump was acting on his ‘gut feelings’ that Obama was ‘soft on immigration’. What’s more, Trump’s campaign was appealing to consumers of right-wing media who shared Trump’s gut feelings about Obama. In the right-wing media bubble, Barrack Obama was a ‘liberal pussy allowing ‘hordes of illegal aliens to invade our country’. It didn’t matter what statistics showed. In the right-wing media bubble, Trump’s gut feelings sufficed. Because Trump is captive to right-wing media, he responds as such which creates a feedback loop of ignorance. Historians will note this loop defined Trump’s leadership. Consequently America has squandered 2 whole years on a phony crisis. Sadly these 2 years could have been devoted to more urgent priorities. issacbasonkavich says: How refreshing to hear another who has a modicum of memory. Just as with the lies and ‘calls to arms’ over the fabricated immigration crisis, Trump lied about everything else, or almost everything else. Trump lied about the economy. The economy was in a sixth year of recovery and growth experiencing the typical corrections along the way. Trump painted a false picture of recession, a recession Obama had mastered, a recession caused by the same incompetence of tax cuts and shallow thinking. Trump lied about cleaning the swamp and getting rid of the polarizing aspects of American politics. America has never been as polarized as now with Trump. Trump went to the Republican swamp for support. Trump is the swamp. Trump lied about getting rid of special interest and oligarch influences in government. The US has never been as beholding to special interests and oligarchs as now. Trump created a tax cut that favored the oligarchs and special interests way, way, way above the average American. Trump, himself is the leader of the oligarchs. Trump lied when he declared that there will be transparency above all, yet he won’t disclose his tax returns or answer questions without lying. Trump is a liar, has always been a liar, and will continue to lie his way through, heaven help us, the last two years of a disgrace, an American shame. What is so disconcerting is that, as this blog routinely illustrates, so many still support this buffoon. Indeed, Issac. It’s been almost 3 years since Donald Trump began his campaign for the presidency. And for America Trump has been a huge waste of focus and energy. For 3 years we’ve only yelled at each other over Trump’s endless web of lies while accomplishing nothing else. FishWings says: And yet, Trump supporters will never see how bad this has been for it’s citizens and country. EIEIO says: The three of you should get a room. Bill Clinton will join you while Shillary will rape womyn, gladly, who attack her licentious “husband” Regards to David “butt boy” Brock Only from Trumpers do we hear the name David Brock. Like every Democrat is somehow linked to Brock. Like Brock’s name is known to ‘all’ of us and we look to him for cues. Brock, I can only guess, is a boogeyman right-wing media trots out to scare Trump supporters. And around and around we go says: Actually Brock has been handsomely funded by George Soros and has entree into elite circles in the Democratic Party, even if John Podesta does think he’s a head case. Tabby, one never sees Brock’s name in mainstream media. We’ve all heard of Soros and Steyer. We all know about Jeff Bezos. But Brock’s name scarcely arises. I suspect it’s because he’s ‘not’ that significant. Peter Hill – the press cannot name its unnamed sources so you never hear the name of Brock. Brock’s name has rarely been mentioned in these threads. On the other hand, Fox News and Hannity are constantly mentioned here by those with TDS, as though merely mentioning Fox or Hannity scores some kind of debating points. PS … pssst, Hillary, Hillary, Hillary—- I wanted to get that in before Peter has the name banned here. If Hillary gets the nomination again in 2020, will she be able to capitalize on the “my opponent is a liar” theme? Or would she blow it like she does in the video I linked? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TlqKFlU7YAs Tom, you’ve been in, ‘What about Hillary” mode this entire week. That should tell you something. Like you have nothing to explain Trump’s endless controversies. So you’re falling back on a now very hackneyed response. Like it’s still 2016 and Hillary looms as a threat. And I think that’s common with Trump supporters. ‘It’s alway 2016 and Trump has yet to take office’. I mentioned Hillary 2 or 3 times among many comments I’ve made over the last week. One comment barely mentioned her, and it was your obsession that caused you to characterize the post as being about Hillary. Another comment was in response the “all they’ve got is excuses” comment somebody made about those who support Trump. I think that was the one where I mentioned Hillary’s long lists of excuses for losing in 2016. I understand that you may not want to hear or see her name after she lost in 2016. It’s not that she is seen “as a threat”…. ( she may be to you if you fear that she’d be the nominee in 2020)…..but she is seen as more of a joke. You could ask this site’s administrator/ monitor to have the filter that screens for cuss words modified so that it screens out any mentiion of the name “Hillary”…..it seems to upset you so much that maybe her name will be banned from these thteads. slohrss29 says: An inconvenient, and documented, truth. Oooooops. How did America accumulate so many easily duped. Well you begin with indoctrinating students through the progressive public education system; then get them dependent on the massive federal bureaucracies; and finally convince them they’ll lose life, liberty and property if they wander outside the Democrat party stockade. Once these zombies have been created, then they’ll willfully but ignorantly accept their party abandoning the rule of law for their progressive agenda. You’ll get these dupes making statements like: the right plan is to…allow illegals with positive potential for the country to stay and sort out their situation over time and through the system. Next question. No Olly It starts with those of us who like almost all of us are inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. The greatest affront to a human who starts off as the center of their universe is discovering that there are seven billion other centers of universes. Being a member of a group helps. The greatest aid and danger is being born as an American. Automatically one is number one. No need to do anything, just revel in being number one. Trump plays this card so well. Trump identifies threats to this god given stature. Trump points out what to do. Trump can help all the regular people regain their importance. Trump was born with the silver spoon of privilege, wealth, contacts, and backing to be anything but a regular. On top of that, Trump has augmented his privilege with lies, cheating, and buffoonery. How anyone can see this fake as having anything to offer other than to himself, is inconceivable. But there it is. But there it is. Where and what is it? Ah, never mind. Can we re-direct that question to Jonathan Gruber? More Turley throwing red meat. “prior criminal convictions”? For what? Would this include people like Manafort and Flynn”? Suspected, charged, but not convicted? Do any of these claims mean we are safer? Anything to create the impression that Trump is succeeding. It doesn’t matter how many you deport if they can turn right around and come back in. How many times have we heard about some criminal committing a murder, who has been previously deported 5, 6, 8 times? Without a wall, “deportation” is just a free trip home paid for by the U.S. taxpayer. Other than repeating themselves the only thing new is claiming the air travel industry is to blame as they bring in more who over stay their visas. The forgotten part is they had to be vetted to get a visa. Most who can afford to buy a passport acquire a visa are in the educated sector of any country. Mexico alone charges the equivalent of four months average income for each family member. The top wage earners for the most part see less and less reason to pursue the myth of streets of gold in the USA. They haven’t priced food in the supermarkets nor the other costs of living. 2.5 times as much as south of the border The US Tax payer gets soaked on medical care by ACA. Pay once at inflated rates for self and family, pay twice to three times for the moochers, And all out of already taxed to the hilt dollars. The headway we made with the double tax deduction is of course in the slave states like California, Washington, Mass, NY etc already being soaked up with new local tax increases and now they want tax texting? More of Nancy’s Crumbs Reclamation Act no doubt She’s worried about her base the shrunken moochers base who are now employed. so the new drive to claim a new recession is on the way. The last one wasn’t a recession it was the Obama bankruptcy. Obama had the right plan, concentrate on undesirable illegals and bounce them; allow illegals with positive potential for the country to stay and sort out their situation over time and through the system. Then came Trump, band standing, lying, exaggerating, and accumulating enough dupes to get himself elected. What a disgrace. How did America accumulate so many easily duped. How did America get duped? They believe what they want to believe, with a little help from “FOX NEWS”……….Sad just sad. Give me a fleet of 400 buses and I can deport the whole kit and kaboodle to Canada and Mexico in three years. The Great Zambini says: A squadron of Chinook’s would be much faster. As soon as they crossover a bottle of water and loaded on a Chinook. Fly 200 miles into Mexico land outside a city and all off. bill mcwilliams says: Trump isn’t crazy. His businesses depend heavily on illegals. His (wealthy) base also likes having a million new buyers in the country each year. JT either knows this or else he’s playing to HIS base. Shame you didn’t or more likely as usual could not come up with any facts figured, sites, cites all credible and verifiable to back up that statement. The same could be said about EVERY business in the country but your forgot to add using US tax payer provided dollars to fund the increase in sales out of their after tax dollars whoops I slipped into the State Economics version of the left which is the modern name for fascist economics. To make it easy for your social promotion education everything you postulated is either a false premise based debate point or it’s nothing more than one of Pelosi’s crumbs. Patriot (@musicman27103) says: Denouncing Obama “long-standing war criminal and warmonger” By Professor Francis A. Boyle University of Illinois College of Law, Before the Foellinger Auditorium, September 7, 2018 Tock. Sorta off-topic: just finished reading the review of “The Field of Blood” in The Nation. It is about how dangerous it was to serve in Congress during the decades leading up to the Civil War. The numbers are confusing regarding who deported more. But the huge number of gang killers and terrorists is awful. Round em up and head em out. Natalie Simpson says: Thank you for informing the public When you have individuals, each with powers to rule that far outweigh the Congress and the President running the country give them credit for what they are doing and define them for what they are. Individual judges mandating this and that are nothing more than a collection of little Hitlers and that is another practice that needs stopping . When is the Supreme Court going to take control of it’s own branch of government and properly supervise them? When is the congress who authorized these two bit shysters to operate going to take responsibility? That Judge from Hawaii where they took in three immigrants telling the nation what to do? With more power than the entire rest of government? What utter crap we have to put up with. When SCOTUS did rule on how immigration would operate these same two bit ham’n’eggers were still issuing edicts over ruling the Supreme Court. How do they get away with that? hocuspocus13 says: +1 counting Obama deporting himself 🎄 To where ? Obama did not have the rogue judges cabal working against him for reason number one and for number two as the Border Patrol mentioned openly the bulk of Obama’s deportation were those who approached the border and were turned away but were never actually in the country. Number three they didn’t count DACA kids and parents who Obama openly invited. Figures can lie and liars can figure. Ex-deporter The excessive amount of extra authorizations from the midde east which blocked ethnic backgrounds who were being euthanized did you remember them? Just from the Syrian area alone. Oh yes I almost forgot Obama cut the Border Patrol and Immigration Services staffs in half and his numbers did not count catch and release. Add in these five factors the story turns out much differently when ALL the component parts are considered. Where I live we have many BP staff who maintain and use boats and they mentioned not being able to patrol as they were being used to perform paperwork and other duties of the understaffed immigration services.But the counting of those who approached but did not actually enter as deportees were his main source of numbers. —- under Obama. Higher numbers? What a farce. The idea of this article is to make Trump and the Wall look bad, not actually look at like numbers. I am with Michael on this one. Leave a Reply to Tom Nash Cancel reply Anonymous on Brooks Offers Old Glory Collec… Anonymous on Trump Tells Freshman Women To… Natacha on Trump Tells Freshman Women To… Karen S on Pelosi Under Fire As “Th… RSA on Trump Tells Freshman Women To…	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1415
__label__cc	0.533056	0.466944	jov ModelFest experiment Model structure Contrast sensitivity filters Model implementation and optimization Model fits Appendix A: Appendix B: Appendix C: Appendix D: Appendix E: Research Article \| October 2005 A standard model for foveal detection of spatial contrast Andrew B. Watson; Albert J. Ahumada, Jr. Andrew B. Watson NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USAhttp://vision.arc.nasa.gov/andrew.b.watson@nasa.gov Albert J. Ahumada, Jr. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USAhttp://vision.arc.nasa.gov/Al.Ahumada@nasa.gov Journal of Vision October 2005, Vol.5, 6. doi:10.1167/5.9.6 Andrew B. Watson, Albert J. Ahumada; A standard model for foveal detection of spatial contrast. Journal of Vision 2005;5(9):6. doi: 10.1167/5.9.6. The ModelFest data set was created to provide a public source of data to test and calibrate models of foveal spatial contrast detection. It consists of contrast thresholds for 43 foveal achromatic contrast stimuli collected from each of 16 observers. We have fit these data with a variety of simple models that include one of several contrast sensitivity functions, an oblique effect, a spatial sensitivity aperture, spatial frequency channels, and nonlinear Minkowski summation. While we are able to identify one model, with particular parameters, as providing the lowest overall residual error, we also note that the differences among several good-fitting models are small. We find a strong reciprocity between the size of the spatial aperture and the value of the summation exponent: both are effective means of limiting the extent of spatial summation. The results demonstrate the power of simple models to account for the visibility of a wide variety of spatial stimuli and suggest that special mechanisms to deal with special classes of stimuli are not needed. But the results also illustrate the limited power of even this large data set to distinguish among similar competing models. We identify one model as a possible standard, suitable for simple theoretical and applied predictions. Models of spatial sensitivity Spatial pattern is one of the primary effective elements of visual stimulation. Pattern vision begins with the ability to sense variations over space in the intensity of the light image. Development of models of this ability has therefore been, and continues to be, a goal of much of vision research. Early treatments of spatial sensitivity emphasized the role of summation within a fixed area, exemplified in such formulations as Ricco's Law (Graham & Margaria, 1935), and resolution, exemplified in acuity measurements (Shlaer, 1937). Introduction of the contrast sensitivity function (Campbell & Robson, 1968) lead to a somewhat more general model embodied in a spatial filter (Campbell, Carpenter, & Levinson, 1969), and later developments led to the idea of multiple spatial filters (Blakemore & Campbell, 1969). Separately, there have been advances in our understanding of how sensitivity varies with eccentricity (Robson & Graham, 1981), orientation (Berkley, Kitterle, & Watkins, 1975; Campbell, Kulikowski, & Levinson, 1966), and pattern size (Robson & Graham, 1981). Many of the studies in this area have, with good reason, concentrated on a single dimension of stimulus variation. But it is desirable to have a model that is sufficiently general to accommodate variation in all of the relevant dimensions. Apart from the theoretical desire for generality, there are also important practical applications in which such a model would be useful. One challenge for those seeking such a general model is the fact that much of the data to be modeled come from different labs, and the reports are frequently lacking in details that would allow combination of data across labs. This difficulty led to the creation of the ModelFest data set. ModelFest The ModelFest experiment was a collaboration among several laboratories to collect a single set of common data for testing and calibration of contrast detection models. The ModelFest data set consists of a collection of contrast thresholds for 43 stimuli from 16 observers in 10 labs (Carney et al., 1999; Carney et al., 2000; Watson, 1999). In Phase 1 of that effort, extending through 1999, data were collected from nine observers. In Phase 2, data were collected from an additional seven observers. Previous analyses Previously, one of us examined the fit of various models to the ModelFest Phase 1 data (Watson, 2000). The data were found to be consistent with a simple model composed of a contrast sensitivity filter (CSF) followed by Minkowski summation with an exponent of about 2.5. Augmenting the model with multiple frequency channels yielded a slightly improved fit and a higher exponent of about 3.8. The ModelFest Phase 1 data have also been examined in a number of other reports. Chen & Tyler (2000) applied principal components analysis to derive the receptive fields of putative detectors and arrived at three, which are the following: a spot detector, a bar detector, and a grating detector (Walker, Klein, & Carney, 1999). Carney et al. (2000) examined relationships among subsets of thresholds to address questions regarding spatial summation and mechanism bandwidths. None of these reports attempted to fit the entire data set with a single model. Present analyses In this report, as in Watson (2000), we fit various models to the entire set of 43 thresholds. This paper extends the earlier report in the following ways. First, as noted above, additional data from seven new observers have been collected. Second, we have introduced and evaluated new elements to the model, notably an oblique effect and a spatial aperture. And lastly, in this report we consider a large number of specific functional forms for the CSF. The fits here provide a reasonably definitive evaluation of a number of candidate forms for the CSF. Following Watson (2000), we have used a component model, consisting of a cascade of elements that may be introduced or removed and whose parameters may be fixed or allowed to vary. In the latter case, we create what are called nested models, with one being a more constrained version of the other. This component model allows some insight into which components are most crucial to accurate predictions, and more generally it indicates the relative contribution to accuracy of each component. The nested cases permit some simple statistical tests. One result of these analyses is the specification of a standard model for foveal contrast detection. This model is not the best-fitting model of all we have considered, but it provides an excellent fit with very few assumptions, parameters, and calculations. We believe it may be useful in a variety of theoretical and applied contexts. We also believe it provides a valuable benchmark against which more complicated models may be compared. The ModelFest stimuli have been described elsewhere (Carney et al., 1999, 2000; Watson, 2000), but we provide a brief summary here. The stimuli, shown in Figure 1, and described in Table 1, consisted of 43 grayscale images, each 256 × 256 pixels in size. Each stimulus is identified by an index number between 1 and 43. A file containing all of the images is included as a supplement to this paper in the file modelfest-stimuli, which is described more completely in 1. ModelFest stimuli. Each is a monochrome image subtending 2.133 × 2.133 degrees. The index numbers have been added for identification and were not present in the stimuli. Each pixel was represented by an eight-bit number between 1 and 255. The stimuli were rendered, using a variety of hardware and software techniques, so that pixel graylevel g in the image was converted to luminance L on the display according to the formula L ( g ) = L 0 ( 1 + c 127 ( g − 128 ) ) where c is the contrast of the stimulus and L0 is the mean luminance. In each lab, L0 was fixed to a value in the range 30 ± 5 cd m−2. The mathematical notation used in this paper is summarized in 3. The viewing distance was set so that each pixel subtended 1/120th of a degree, and the entire image subtended 256/120 = 2.133 degrees. Viewing was binocular with natural pupils. In the time dimension, the stimulus followed a Gaussian time course with a standard deviation of 0.125 s. The display frame rate was at least 60 Hz. The stimuli were presented at the center of an otherwise uniform screen whose luminance matched the mean luminance of the stimulus (L0). Fixation guides were presented continuously in the form of “L”-shaped marks at the four corners of the stimulus image. Contrast detection thresholds for the 43 stimuli were collected for 16 observers in 10 labs. The labs differed somewhat in details of procedure, but all adhered to the following methods. Thresholds were measured using a two-interval forced-choice method with feedback. Each threshold was based on at least 32 trials, and measurement of each threshold was repeated at least four times. Definition and parameters of each of the 43 ModelFest stimuli. Parameters σx and σy are the Gaussian standard deviations in horizontal and vertical dimensions; bx and by are the half-amplitude full bandwidths in horizontal and vertical frequency dimensions. Unless stated otherwise, σx = σy = 0.05 degrees, sinusoids were modulated vertically (90° orientation) and were in cosine phase. Gabor, fixed size 1.12 cycles/degree 2 cycles/degree 11.3 cycles/degree 16 cycles/degree Gabor, fixed cycles 2 cycles/degree, bx = by = 1 octave 16 cycles/degree, bx = by = 1 octave Gabor, elongated 4 cycles/degree, σx = 0.05°, by = 0.5 octave 16 cycles/degree, σx = 0.05°, by = 0.5 octave 4 cycles/degree, bx = 2 octave, by = 1 octave 4 cycles/degree, σx = 0.05°, by = 1 octave 4 cycles/degree, bx = 1 octave, σy = 0.5° Compound Gabor 2 and 2√2 cycles/degree 2 and 4 cycles/degree σx = σy = 30 min σx = σy = 8.43 min σx = σy = 2.106 min Edge × Gaussian Line × Gaussian 0.5 min (1 pixel) wide horizontal line Dipole × Gaussian 3 pixels wide 5 collinear Gabors 8 cycles/degree, in phase, bx = by = 1 octave, separation = 5 σx 8 cycles/degree, out of phase, bx = by = 1 octave, separation = 5 σx Binary noise 1 × 1 min samples Oriented Gabor 4 cycles/degree, 45°, bx = by = 1 octave 4 cycles/degree, 0°, bx = by = 1 octave 4 cycles/degree, 0° and 90°, bx = by = 1 octave 4 cycles/degree, 45° and 90°, bx = by = 1 octave 1/4° diameter Bessel × Gaussian 4 cycles/degree fundamental Image of San Francisco To exclude any ambiguity regarding the data set we have analyzed and modeled, we define a “ModelFest Baseline Dataset.” This consists of the first four thresholds reported for each of the 16 observers for each of the 43 stimuli. Each threshold has been expressed as log10(c), where c is contrast as defined in Equation 1. Each value has been rounded to three decimal places. This data set is provided as a supplement to this paper, as the text file modelfestbaselinedata.csv, described more completely in 2. Results in this paper are primarily expressed in decibels (dB = 20 log10 c). In those units, each threshold is ts,o,r, where the indices refer to stimulus (s = 1,…,S), observer (o = 1,…,O), and replication (r = 1,…,R). The mean for each observer over replications can be written ts,o, and these are shown for all 16 observers in Figure 2, plotted as a function of the arbitrary index number. Each observer is represented by a different color. We write to for the mean of ts,o over stimuli for each observer, and ts for the mean over observers for each stimulus. The variability among observers can be represented by R ⁢ M S 0 = 1 S ⁢ O ∑ s = 1 S ∑ o = 1 O ( t s , o − t s ) 2 . Data from the ModelFest experiment. Each point is the mean for one observer for one stimulus, and the error bars indicate ±2 SE. Each observer is represented by a distinct color. The small pictures at the top illustrate the stimuli. This is the RMS error of a model in which threshold for each stimulus is given by the mean over observers. It is also the maximum likelihood estimate of the standard deviation of a normal distribution underlying such a model. The value of RMS0 for these data is 3.46 dB, indicating considerable variation among observers. Some of this variance is accounted for by the different mean sensitivities of the observers. We can construct a second measure of error, R ⁢ M S 1 = 1 S ⁢ O ∑ s = 1 S ∑ o = 1 O ( ( t s , o − t o ) − ( t s − t 0 ) ) 2 in which we subtract the observer means to from each threshold ts,o, and the grand mean t0 from each stimulus mean ts. This error has a value of 2.29 dB. The RMS error associated with the observers, R ⁢ M S o = R ⁢ M S 0 2 − R ⁢ M S 1 2 = 2.59 d ⁢ B can be regarded as the standard deviation of the observer sensitivities in dB. When this standard deviation estimate is divided by the square root of the number of observers, the result, 0.56 dB, can be regarded as an estimate of the standard deviation of the ts − t0 − (τs − τs), where τ is the corresponding true value. If the models were correct, the models' predictions would be that the τ and the RMS error of the model would be another estimate of this same standard deviation. Our best possible model RMS error is thus 0.56 dB. The average thresholds over all observers are shown in Figure 3. The averages are shown both in units of dB (Figure 3A) and in units of dBB (Figure 3B). The dBB is a measure of the contrast energy of a stimulus, normalized by a nominal minimum threshold of 10−6 deg−2 s−1. Zero dBB is defined so as to approximate the minimum visible contrast energy for a sensitive human observer (Watson, 2000; Watson, Barlow, & Robson, 1983; Watson, Borthwick, & Taylor, 1997). A virtue of the dBB unit is that it takes into account the contrast energy of the stimulus. One quick observation we may make from Figure 3B is that for the average observer, the best thresholds are about 7 dBB above (less sensitive than) the canonical “sensitive human observer.” Curiously, the ModelFest stimulus that the eye sees best is not a Gabor but a small Gaussian (stimulus 28). This differs from the classical result (Watson, Barlow, & Robson, 1983), but that result was obtained with moving rather than stationary targets. Figure 3a, 3b Average ModelFest thresholds. Each point is the mean of 16 observers, and the error bars indicate ±2 SE. The small pictures at the top illustrate the stimuli. (A) Thresholds in dB; (B) thresholds in dBB. The first 10 thresholds constitute a CSF as measured with Gabor functions of fixed size. It resembles similar data collected previously and shows the typical bandpass shape with a minimum of −42.13 dB (7.24 dBB) at about 4 cycles/degree. The following four stimuli (11–14) form a CSF for Gabor functions with a fixed number of cycles, or equivalently a fixed 1 octave bandwidth. The latter thresholds resemble similar data collected previously by Watson (1987). In this paper, we investigate a class of models that incorporate a set of sequential operations, several of which may be inserted or removed or whose parameters may be fixed or allowed to vary. In this section, we define the sequence of elements and the individual elements. The overall structure and sequence of elements of the model is shown in Figure 4. Elements of the component model. The input to the model was one of the digital stimulus images, as provided in the file modelfest-stimuli described in 1. Each image has Ny = 256 rows and Nx = 256 columns. The output of the model was a contrast threshold. The stimulus grayscale image was first converted to a luminance contrast image, defined as the luminance image, minus the nominal mean luminance, divided by that mean. Rearranging Equation 1 shows that this is accomplished by subtracting the nominal mean graylevel of 128 and dividing by 127. Contrast sensitivity filter The contrast image is then filtered by a radially symmetric CSF. The filter is implemented as a discrete digital finite impulse response (FIR) filter created by sampling a one-dimensional CSF in the two-dimensional discrete Fourier transform (DFT) domain. We consider a number of different versions of the CSF, as described below. An example digital CSF is shown in Figure 5, depicted as log gain versus spatial frequency. Note the hole in the center, corresponding to the decline at low frequencies, and the decline toward the edges, corresponding to the decline at high frequencies. Contrast sensitivity filter (CSF). This example is for the HPmH function, described below. In this picture the peak gain has been arbitrarily set at unity. Oblique effect filter (OEF) The oblique effect is the well-known decline in contrast sensitivity at oblique orientations (Campbell et al., 1966; MacMahon & MacLeod, 2003). The ModelFest data do not contain sufficient oblique patterns at varying frequencies to effectively constrain this effect, so we have based our oblique effect model on data from (Berkley et al., 1975). These data are shown in Figure 6 as the log10 ratio of thresholds for 0° and 45° oriented gratings at various spatial frequencies. Data and model for the oblique effect. The points are reductions in sensitivity for targets at 45° orientation, relative to that at 0°, as a function of spatial frequency (Berkley et al., 1975). The red line is a linear fit in these linear-log coordinates. The green line is at zero attenuation. The lower envelope of the two lines is the relative attenuation prescribed by the model for patterns at an orientation of 45°. In these linear-log coordinates, sensitivity at the oblique orientation declines linearly with frequency, reaching a value of about 1.6 log10 units at 25 cycles/degree. We fit a linear function (red line) to these data but truncate it when the function goes above 0 log attenuation (green line). These two lines form the frequency-dependent part of our oblique effect model. We assume in addition that at any given spatial frequency, sensitivity varies as a sinusoidal function of orientation. The resulting model for the oblique effect is then given by O ( f , θ ) = 1 − ( 1 − exp ( − f − γ λ ) ) sin 2 ( 2 ⁢ θ ) i ⁢ f f > γ = 1 i ⁢ f f ≤ γ where γ = 3.48 cycles/degree, λ = 13.57 cycles/degree. This function has two parameters corresponding to the frequency at which sensitivity begins to decline (γ) and the slope of the linear-log decline (λ). From this function we can create a discrete FIR digital oblique effect filter (OEF), as shown in Figure 7. Oblique effect filter (OEF) with parameters γ = 3.48 cycles/degree and λ = 13.57 cycles/degree. Because both the CSF and the OEF are applied in sequence to the image, they may be combined to form a single contrast sensitivity and oblique effect filter (CSOEF) as shown in Figure 8. Combined contrast sensitivity and oblique effect filter (CSOEF). Contrast sensitivity declines rapidly with eccentricity, and the rate of decline increases strongly with spatial frequency (Robson & Graham, 1981). However, in this modeling exercise we have chosen to test only a frequency-independent decline (an aperture). Our rationale was that the region under consideration (2.133 × 2.133 degrees) is relatively small, and we were interested in testing simple models. The form we have chosen for the decline in sensitivity with eccentricity is a Gaussian, A ( r ) = exp ( − r 2 2 σ 2 ) where r is the distance from fixation in degrees, and σ is the standard deviation of the Gaussian (which we also refer to as its size), also in degrees. This function was chosen primarily for mathematical convenience: its rate of decline is easily controlled and it never goes to zero. The peak value of the Gaussian is 1, so that the aperture defines the attenuation of sensitivity relative to that at the point of fixation. The Gaussian aperture multiplies the image produced by the CSF and OEF elements of the model. The aperture was centered on the image, which corresponds to an assumption that the observer fixated the center of each target. There is considerable physiological and psychophysical evidence that the visual system partitions spatial information into a number of parallel channels, each selective for a band of spatial frequency and orientation. Consequently, spatial frequency channels are a common feature of modern models of spatial vision (Watson & Solomon, 1997). As in (Watson, 2000), we implement a set of channels with Gabor receptive fields. We reproduce Table 2 from that paper to specify the parameters of the channel stage of the model. These are implemented as a set of digital FIR filters in the DFT domain. Channel responses are down-sampled in proportion to frequency (pyramid sampling). For a given value of the Minkowski summation parameter β (see below), the channel gains were adjusted to yield approximately flat contrast sensitivity over frequency. This means that variations in contrast sensitivity over frequency are controlled primarily by the CSF. In this report, we did not vary any of the parameters of the Gabor channel component. Gabor channel model parameters. Number of frequencies Number of orientations 2 (odd and even) 1.4 octaves Highest center frequency Lowest center frequency 0.9375 cycles/degree Frequency spacing 1/2 octave Orientation spacing Pyramid sampling The final stage in the component model is a pooling over space and, if present, over channels. Following long precedent, we implement this pooling as a Minkowski metric (Graham, 1977; Quick, 1974; Robson & Graham, 1981; Watson, 1979). Note that all stages in this model prior to pooling are linear, and that the pooled response is assumed to equal 1 at threshold, so we write this as 1 = [ ∑ y = 1 N y ∑ x = 1 N x p x p y \| c T r x , y \| β ] 1 / β c T = [ ∑ y = 1 N y ∑ x = 1 N x p x p y \| r x , y \| β ] − 1 / β where cT is the contrast threshold, rx,y are the processed pixel values, prior to pooling, to a stimulus of unit peak contrast, and px and py are the width and height of each pixel in degrees. These latter terms are introduced to make the result independent of the specific resolution at which the calculation is performed. The Minkowski formulation is useful because it encompasses a number of pooling models, including energy summation (β = 2) probability summation (β ∼ 3), and peak detection (β = ∞) (Watson, 1979). When channels are present, the calculation of Equation 8 is performed within each channel q, and the results are combined over the Q channels, c T = [ ∑ q = 1 Q c T , q − β ] − 1 / β . The CSF element of the model has been described above. Here we describe the various forms of this element that we considered. Because the CSF is bandpass in form, many of the candidate functions are composed of a high-frequency lobe minus a low-frequency lobe. We have avoided a profusion of symbols by using the same parameter names in different functions. Many of the functions share parameters playing approximately the same role; for example a parameter f0 that scales frequency in the high-frequency lobe, a parameter f1 that scales frequency in the low-frequency lobe, and a parameter a that determines the weight of the low-frequency lobe. Note that f0 and f1 may also be thought of as specifying widths of subtractive center and surround components of the space domain convolution kernel corresponding to the filter (which is in turn sometimes thought of as the receptive field corresponding to the filter). Because many of the “lobe” functions (exp, Gaussian, sech) have a value of 1 at f = 0, the DC gain is in these cases equal to 1 − a. Each CSF also has a multiplicative gain parameter that is not shown. Each CSF is identified by a symbolic name (DoG, HSmG, etc.) that we use in the remainder of the paper. In the descriptions and in Table 3, we indicate the number of parameters embodied in each function. Contrast sensitivity filter (CSF) functions. For each function, we indicate the number of parameters and the residual error. Other conditions: no channels, fixed oblique effect, Gaussian aperture, β = free. RMS error (dB) HPmH HPmG YQM Log-sensitivity interpolation (LSI) The LSI function is constructed by linear interpolation between log-sensitivity values at each of the 10 spatial frequencies used in the Gabor function stimuli 1–10. In addition, a parameter value is assigned at 0 cycles/degree. (A further fixed value of −50 dB is assigned at a frequency of 256 cycles/image to bound the interpolation.) This function thus has 11 parameters. It is the least constrained of all the CSF functions considered here. It is included to provide a CSF that embodies few assumptions about functional form. This function is a constant at all spatial frequencies. It is introduced to illustrate the effect of the presence or absence of the CSF. The function has only one parameter (gain), and is written S c ⁢ o ⁢ n ⁢ s ⁢ t ⁢ a ⁢ n ⁢ t ( f ) = 1 . This function is a difference of Gaussians. It is a good description of the sensitivity of individual retinal ganglion cell receptive fields (Enroth-Cugell & Robson, 1966; Enroth-Cugell, Robson, Schweitzer-Tong, & Watson, 1983; Rodieck, 1965). Including gain, it has four parameters: S D ⁢ o ⁢ G ( f ; f 0 , f 1 , a ) = exp [ − ( f / f 0 ) 2 ] − a ⁢ exp [ − ( f / f 1 ) 2 ] . This consists of an exponential minus a Gaussian: S E ⁢ m ⁢ G ( f ; f 0 , f 1 , a ) = exp [ − f / f 0 ] − a ⁢ exp [ − ( f / f 1 ) 2 ] . The exponential is suggested by the nearly linear decline in sensitivity at high frequencies on a log-linear plot (Campbell et al., 1966). This CSF was earlier suggested as a good fit to the fixed size Gabor ModelFest stimuli (Carney et al., 2000). Including gain, it has four parameters. This function consists of a hyperbolic secant minus a Gaussian: S H ⁢ m ⁢ G ( f ; f 0 , f 1 , a ) = s ⁢ e ⁢ c ⁢ h [ f / f 0 ] − a ⁢ exp [ − ( f / f 1 ) 2 ] . This function does not appear to have been used previously to model the CSF. Including gain, it has four parameters. This is the same as HmG, except that the scaled frequency argument of the hyperbolic secant is raised to a power: S H ⁢ P ⁢ m ⁢ G ( f ; f 0 , f 1 , a , p ) = s ⁢ e ⁢ c ⁢ h [ ( f / f 0 ) p ] − a ⁢ exp [ − ( f / f 1 ) 2 ] . This function was suggested by Christopher W. Tyler (personal communication, March 12, 2004). Including gain, it has five parameters. This function is a difference of hyperbolic secants: S H ⁢ m ⁢ H ( f ; f 0 , f 1 , a ) = s ⁢ e ⁢ c ⁢ h [ f / f 0 ] − a ⁢ s ⁢ e ⁢ c ⁢ h [ f / f 1 ] . This function does not appear to have been used previously to model the CSF. This is the same as HmG, with the Gaussian replaced by a hyperbolic secant. Including gain, it has four parameters. This is a hyperbolic secant whose scaled frequency is raised to the power p minus a hyperbolic secant: S H ⁢ P ⁢ m ⁢ H ( f ; f 0 , f 1 , a , p ) = s ⁢ e ⁢ c ⁢ h [ ( f / f 0 ) p ] − a ⁢ s ⁢ e ⁢ c ⁢ h [ f / f 1 ] . This is the same as HPmG, with the Gaussian replaced by a hyperbolic secant. This function does not appear to have been used previously to model the CSF. Including gain, it has five parameters. This function is a parabola in a graph of log-sensitivity versus log-frequency (Ahumada & Peterson, 1992; Rohaly & Owsley, 1993). Including gain, it has four parameters. On the low-frequency side, it is truncated at a value of a: S L ⁢ P ( f ; f 0 , b , a ) = 10 − ( log 10 ( f / f 0 ) b ) 2 = 1 − a f < f 0 a ⁢ n ⁢ d s L ⁢ P < 1 − a . This function was introduced by Mannos & Sakrison (1974) in their pioneering work on image quality. It is the product of what might be called a generalized Gaussian (with exponent other than two) and a linear function of frequency, which serves to enhance high frequencies relative to low: S M ⁢ S ( f ; f 0 , a , p ) = ( 1 − a + f f 0 ) exp [ − ( f / f 0 ) p ] . Including gain, it has four parameters. This function was derived from a model of contrast sensitivity by Yang, Qi, & Makous (1995). Like EmG, it includes an exponential decline at high frequencies, with an additional divisive term to attenuate low frequencies: S Y ⁢ Q ⁢ M ( f ; f 0 , f 1 , a ) = exp [ − f / f 0 ] 1 + a 1 + ( f / f 1 ) 2 . The model was implemented in the Mathematica programming language (Wolfram, 2003). Parameters of each version of the model were estimated by means of general optimization routines. To insure the accuracy of the results, we occasionally used three different optimization routines. These were the built-in Mathematica functions FindMinimum and NMinimize and the GlobalSearch function provided by Loehle Enterprises (2004). Note that no optimization procedure is guaranteed to yield the absolute minimum of an arbitrary function; consequently, all errors reported must be regarded as provision upper bounds on the minimum achievable error. Filtering operations, such as those employed by the CSF, the oblique effect, and the channels, were implemented by cyclic convolution in the frequency domain. Border effects were minimized by the Gaussian apertures used by all ModelFest stimuli. The measure of error that we use is RMS error in dB. If both mean thresholds tj and model predictions mj are specified in dB, and the number of stimuli is J, this is given by R ⁢ M ⁢ S = 1 J ∑ ( t j − m j ) 2 . Effect of components The component model presents a very large number (264) of configurations to be tested, depending upon the choices made regarding the CSF (11), the OEF (2: present or not), the aperture (2: present or not), channels (2: present or not), and pooling (3: β = 2, β = free, β = ∞). For each tested configuration, we estimated all free parameters and recorded the residual error. We have not evaluated the fit of every possible configuration but have rather tried to understand the contribution of each component, the best version of each option, and the best obtainable overall fit. Figure 9 illustrates one trajectory through the error space of the component model. Moving from left to right, each point shows the error as we add one additional component to the model. At each point, all free parameters are re-optimized. Decline in RMS error as individual model components is added. The first point shows the error that results from a model in which all of the model components have been turned off. This consists of a constant CSF followed by peak detection (β = ∞). Alternatively, we may say that it has no CSF, no pooling, no oblique effect, no aperture, and no channels. It has a single parameter (sensitivity) and assumes a target is detected whenever its peak contrast equals a certain value. While not a reasonable model, it provides a useful error benchmark, of about 8 dB, against which other fits may be compared. The second point shows the error of a model consisting of the LSI CSF, followed by a peak detector. The 12 parameters of the LSI function have been optimized. Addition of a CSF thus reduces the error by almost a factor of two but still leaves a poor fit with an RMS error of about 4.5 dB. When peak detection (β = ∞) is replaced with energy detection (β = 2), the error is again reduced by about a factor of two to a value of about 2 dB, as shown by the third point in the series. Allowing the pooling exponent to vary (β = free), which we call generalized energy, results in yet another drop in error by about a factor of two, as shown by the fourth point. The RMS error at this point is in the neighborhood of 1, which we can characterize as a “good” fit (see below). The fifth point shows a further small reduction in error as a result of adding the oblique effect, and adding the aperture reduces error by a similarly small amount, yielding an error of less than 1, as shown by the sixth point. The final point shows the further reduction in error due to the addition of channels. The reduction is substantial but modest relative to the contribution of elements such as the CSF or energy detection. We will return to this point below. This trajectory is just one of many we might have taken, but it serves to illustrate the relative magnitude of the contribution to the reduction of error yielded by the various model components. In the following sections, we consider in more detail the effect of several of the individual components on the overall error. Predictions of best-fitting models To illustrate the quality of fit of the best-fitting models, we plot in Figure 10 the predictions for each stimulus along with the corresponding average thresholds, for the best channel model (point labeled “channels” in Figure 9) and the best no-channel model (point labeled “Aperture” in Figure 9). The greatest difference between the two fits and the largest error for the no-channel model occur at stimuli 35 and 43, which are the noise sample and the natural image, respectively. We will return to this observation below. Figure 10a, 10b Plot of average thresholds (red points), best-fitting model (black line), and residual error (red line and gray area). (A) The best channel model has an RMS error of 0.76 dB. (B) The best no-channel model has an RMS error of 1.02 dB. The vertical axis is in units of dBB, which are a measure of the contrast energy of the stimulus, normalized by a nominal minimum threshold of 10−6 deg−2 s−1 (Watson, 2000; Watson et al., 1997). Graphic conventions To assist the reader in comprehending the results in the remainder of this paper, we have adopted some graphics symbol conventions. An open symbol indicates the use of an aperture, while a filled symbol indicates the absence of an aperture. A square symbol indicates that β = 2, while a circular symbol indicates that β was free to vary. Finally, when channels are included, a dashed line is use to connect the points. Contrast sensitivity functions All of the results in Figure 9 were obtained with the LSI CSF, which consists of a linear interpolation between points on a graph of log sensitivity versus spatial frequency. An example of this function is shown in Figure 11. For comparison, the mean empirical sensitivity (inverse of threshold) at each frequency is also shown in red. The close agreement shows that although the LSI CSF is optimized relative to the entire data set, it nevertheless provides a very close fit to the subset of Gabor data. LSI contrast sensitivity filter (CSF). The black circles show estimated sensitivity values at the spatial frequencies employed in the ModelFest fixed size Gabor targets (stimuli 1–10), plus a value for 0 cycles/degree, which we plot arbitrarily at 0.1 cycles/degree. The LSI sensitivity function is linearly interpolated between these points. This example is the best-fitting version for the case of no channels, an aperture, an oblique effect, and β free to vary. This corresponds to the point labeled “aperture” in Figure 9, and the overall fit shown in Figure 10B. The red points are the mean sensitivities (inverse thresholds, shifted vertically by an arbitrary factor of 2) from the ModelFest data set for fixed size Gabor targets (stimuli 1–10). Note that the LSI function was designed to be a “model-free” CSF, whose shape is free to vary to best match the data. It has 11 parameters, one for each Gabor spatial frequency and one for 0 cycles/degree. Because it embodies few constraints, we expect it to be the best-fitting (lowest error) CSF, and thus a useful benchmark of the achievable fit, and a useful comparison with the other CSF functions. In addition to the LSI CSF and the constant CSF, we have considered the nine specific CSFs defined in Contrast Sensitivity Filters. Here we assess the performance of these functions in the context of the no-channel model. The result of adopting each variant CSF into this condition is shown by the black symbols in Figure 12. The functions, their numbers of parameters and corresponding RMS errors are also enumerated in Table 3. Fit of various contrast sensitivity filter (CSF) functions. The black points are for a fixed oblique effect, the red points are for no oblique effect. Other conditions: no channels, Gaussian aperture, β = free. With the exception of the DoG and constant, all the functions fit reasonably well and differ in their fit by less than two tenths of a decibel. The best-fitting formula is HPmH, pictured in Figure 13. We plot it along with the parameter points from the LSI function (black circles from Figure 11) to illustrate that the continuous, analytic five-parameter HPmH function is a close match to the unconstrained 11-parameter LSI function. Plot of the HPmH contrast sensitivity filter (CSF). The black points are the estimated parameters of the LSI CSF for comparison. Other conditions: no channels, fixed oblique effect, Gaussian aperture, β = free. In Figure 14 we show all nine functions. The purpose of this figure is to show that all of the functions are in close agreement, with the possible exception of DoG and MS. The latter falls rapidly at low frequencies, while the former is much more “flat topped” than the best-fitting curves. Given the roughly equal performance of the functions, other considerations may influence selection of a function for either applied or theoretical purposes. The two best-fitting curves have five parameters, but some functions with only four parameters perform almost as well. The functions YQM and EmG have inflections near to zero, which may be a concern in some applications. LP has a sharp corner on the low-frequency side, which may also be objectionable, and MS is not well behaved at low frequencies. Some of these attributes are evident in a plot of the derivative of each function in the vicinity of zero, as shown in Figure 15. Both EmG and YQM are negative at zero, and MS climbs rapidly as it approaches zero. Best-fitting version of each contrast sensitivity filter (CSF). Other conditions: no channels, fixed oblique effect, Gaussian aperture, β = free. Derivatives of the nine contrast sensitivity filter (CSF) functions in the neighborhood of zero. We should note, however, that in applications or simulations in which the CSF is applied to a digital image, the lowest frequency in the image (apart from zero) is 1 cycle/image. For an image subtending D degrees, this lowest frequency will be 1/D cycles/degree. If the image is small, for example the 2.13 degrees used in the ModelFest experiment, then this lowest frequency will be 0.47 cycles/degree, and what happens to the function between 0 and 0.47 will not be manifest in the digital filtering. Oblique effect As noted above, the ModelFest data set does not contain enough oblique signals at varying frequencies to allow us to use it to estimate the oblique effect, and we have therefore derived parameters for the effect from prior data. Here we examine the effect of including or excluding that fixed oblique effect. The black points in Figure 12 are for the no-channel model that includes the oblique effect, while the red points are for the same model when the oblique effect is removed. As elsewhere in this paper, each point reflects a re-estimation of all parameters. The figure shows that the oblique effect reduces error uniformly over CSFs by about 0.1 dB. Of course, we might expect that inclusion of stimuli at oblique orientations at high spatial frequencies (where the effect is strongest) would yield much larger differences. Pooling exponent β For the no-channel model, estimated values of the pooling exponent β ranged between 2 and 3. Among high quality fits (error < 1.2 dB), the mean β was 2.58 (SD = 0.18, n = 21). As we will see in greater detail below, estimates of β interact with the presence and size of the spatial aperture. Without an aperture, high quality fits of β average 2.7 (SD = 0.02, n = 7) while with an aperture the average was 2.52 (SD = 0.19, n = 14). In their early study of spatial summation, Robson & Graham (1981) found that both foveal and peripheral results were predicted best with an exponent of 3.5. The reason for the discrepancy between their result and ours is not clear; although they did not include an aperture, they used empirical estimates of the decline in sensitivity with eccentricity, which have a similar effect. The estimates of β do vary somewhat with the CSF. In Figure 16 we show the summation exponents β estimated for the no-channel model for each CSF, plotted versus the estimated size, σ. For all except the poorly fitting DoG, the variations in β are modest. But the reciprocity between these two parameters β and σ is striking. We return to this reciprocity in the following section. Aperture size σ versus summation exponent β for the no-channel model. Other conditions: fixed oblique effect. Spatial aperture The best fit of the no-channel model is obtained when an aperture is included, as shown by the black open circles in Figure 17. However, the fit is only slightly degraded when the aperture is removed (filled red circles). However, the removal of the aperture results in a change in estimate of β from 2.39 to 2.70 (averaged over all CSF functions except DoG; SD = 0.06 and 0.02, respectively). This suggests that the aperture and a higher β both serve to reduce the efficiency of spatial summation. This notion is confirmed when β is fixed at 2. The absence of an aperture now causes a marked increase in error (red filled squares), while the presence of an aperture yields a fit which is only slightly poorer than when β is free to vary (black open squares). Effect of contrast sensitivity filter (CSF), aperture, and β on RMS error for the no-channel model. Other conditions: fixed oblique effect. This observation is also consistent with the behavior of the estimated values of the aperture size σ, when β is free or when it is fixed at 2. In the latter case, inefficient summation must rely on the aperture, so a relatively small size is estimated (σ = 0.364 degrees, SD = 0.003), while in the former case a β greater than 2 can do the same job, so a larger aperture is found (σ = 0.615 degrees, SD = 0.06) (in both cases, averaged over all CSFs except DoG). A final observation on the trade-off between β and σ is provided in Figure 18. Here we have fit the standard model, but fixed β at a particular value between 2 and 3, and re-estimated all remaining parameters. We plot the parameter σ and the error. This shows that as β increases, the estimated value of size σ also increases, so that at a β of 3 the aperture is effectively absent. This is further evidence that β and σ both act to limit the efficiency of spatial summation. Trade-off between summation exponent β and the aperture size, σ. The value of β was fixed and other parameters re-estimated. The estimated value of aperture size σ is plotted against the fixed value of β. Other conditions: HPmH contrast sensitivity filter (CSF), fixed oblique effect, no channels. To reiterate, the results show that the visibility of large targets relative to small is less than would be predicted by simple energy summation. This discrepancy can be corrected in two ways: either by using a summation exponent larger than 2 or by introducing a spatial aperture. This observation has both theoretical and practical implications. From a theoretical point of view, it suggests that at least some of the theoretical justification for higher exponents may have been misplaced, and that consequently models (such as template matching) that assume an exponent of 2 may be more tenable than previously supposed. We will return to this point in the discussion. From a practical point of view, an exponent of 2 lends itself to mathematical and computational efficiencies, and these results suggest it can work almost as well as a higher exponent, provided that a smaller aperture is used. Although the spatial aperture yields the best model fits, we may ask how it compares to prior estimates of the decline in sensitivity with eccentricity. As noted earlier, this decline is highly dependent upon the spatial frequency of the target. Robson & Graham (1981) show that the decline is approximately 0.5 dB per cycle, independent of frequency. When β is free to vary, the average size of the aperture is 0.615 degrees. This corresponds to a decline by a factor of 2 in 0.724 degrees. This rate of decline is consistent with Robson and Graham's rule at a spatial frequency of 16.6 cycles/degree. This is well within the range of ModelFest frequencies, which suggests a compromise between a larger aperture (suitable for lower frequencies) and a smaller one (suitable for higher frequencies). This outcome may be the result of the absence in the ModelFest data set of any large stimuli. They therefore cannot constrain the summation behavior outside of a degree or two. Combined with the evident reciprocity between β and size σ, a reasonable conclusion is that parameter estimates of either β or σ should be adopted with caution. Further research will be required to constrain better these two mechanisms for restricting foveal summation. In the preceding sections we considered aspects of the fit of the no-channel model; here we consider models that include channels. Figure 19 shows the RMS error for various combinations of channels, an aperture, and the pooling exponent β. Before discussing this figure further, we note that if the channels consist of an orthonormal transform, whose individual kernels were orthogonal and whose joint effect has no influence on contrast energy, then when β = 2, introduction of channels can have no effect. The Gabor channels that we use do not quite meet these conditions, but approximate them, so we should expect little effect of channels when β = 2. And indeed, the square symbols in Figure 19 confirm this expectation. The role of channels, aperture, and pooling exponent β in fit of models. Other conditions: fixed oblique effect and LSI contrast sensitivity filter (CSF). All effects of β, and all differences at β = free, are significant at the 0.005 level (5). The square symbols for β = 2 also reaffirm the observation made above regarding the trade-off between β and the aperture: either an aperture or β > 2 is required to produce a good fit. If both are absent (solid red squares), the error doubles from about 1 to 2 dB. When β is free to vary (circular symbols), the addition of channels produces a modest but significant improvement in the fit. The error declines by 0.26 dB when the aperture is present (open red circles), and about 0.18 dB when it is not (solid red circles). The estimated values of β are higher when channels are present (2.87 with aperture, 3.40 without) than when they are absent (2.40 with aperture, 2.71 without) and also show some of the trade-off between β and aperture. The results in Figure 19 are for the LSI CSF. The same general pattern is observed for the other CSF functions, although the advantage provided by the channels depends somewhat on the CSF. Error as a function of CSF is plotted in Figure 20 for four models: the channel model with β free or fixed at 2, and the no-channel model with β free or fixed at 2, in all cases with an aperture. As noted above, when β = 2, we expect little difference between channel and no-channel models (red and black squares) and this is borne out here. Error for channel and no-channel models. Other conditions: fixed oblique effect and Gaussian aperture. When β is free to vary, addition of channels results in a reduction of error for the best CSFs of about 0.25 dB (black versus red circles). Some insight into the role of channels in reducing the error is gained from Figure 10, where it can be seen that the biggest change is for stimuli 35 (noise) and 43 (natural image). The advantage of channels for these two stimuli may be that they are broadband, and that channel models correctly exhibit inefficient summation over frequency. We should note that no effort has been made to optimize the channel parameters of the channel model; the parameters used were consensus values drawn from the literature (Table 2). One aspect of the particular channel model used should also be noted. Although channels are implemented that extend as low as 0.9375 cycles/degree, there is no channel at 0 cycles/degree. Thus, targets such as the Gaussian blobs must be detected by channels centered at nonzero frequencies. It is possible that a channel model with a channel at zero frequency would provide a still better fit. Normalized RMS error To this point we have expressed performance of each model in terms of RMS error. A measure which takes into account the number of parameters is given by the normalized RMS error, defined here as N ⁢ R ⁢ M ⁢ S = 1 J − N ∑ ( t j − m j ) 2 . where N is the number of parameters of a model. In using this measure, we do not treat the addition of channels or the oblique effect as adding a parameter because no parameters were estimated in those cases. When comparisons are based on this measure, the best-fitting models are generally those with channels, a fixed oblique effect, a Gaussian aperture, and β > 2. To allow additional comparisons, the fifty conditions yielding the lowest NRMS values are shown in Table 4. The fifty conditions yielding the lowest values of NMRS. Empty cells indicate that a component was absent. CSF = contrast sensitivity filter. NRMS HSmG Theoretical issues In this discussion we draw a distinction between a metric—by which we mean a particular computational formula for predicting target thresholds—and a model—by which we mean a theoretical conjecture about particular mechanism or mechanisms that play a role in detecting the targets. To this point we have focused exclusively on metrics. Now we attempt to draw some connections between models and metrics. Models for visual detection have proposed a great variety of mechanisms: optical blurring, cone sampling, transducer noise, transducer nonlinearities, multiple channels of precortical filtering (e.g., magno- versus parvo-cellular and off- versus on-center), and oriented, narrow-band receptive fields at the cortical level. Mechanisms may vary according to eccentricity, and they may include noise with a nonwhite spectrum and noise that is stimulus related. Models have also adopted various mechanisms for categorizing the stimuli into those that contain a signal and those that do not. For example, the observer may make the optimal decision based on the corrupted sensory information available, or may have uncertainties about the stimuli or have other nonoptimal decision processes, such as template noise, noisy category boundaries, and suboptimal summation. In most models, particular mechanisms have been proposed to account for particular empirical results, but the need for the mechanism in the presence of other mechanisms has rarely been demonstrated. The image-based metrics we have tested can say little about the need for any of the above mechanisms, because other mechanisms can substitute in particular situations, as demonstrated by the trade-off between aperture and spatial summation exponent shown above. On the other hand, some proposed models do predict that one of the metrics we have tested will predict contrast thresholds. Such models must have contrast sensitivity frequency effects represented by an initial linear filter but may differ as to whether they need channels and what summation rule is required. The latter is usually a variant of four general types: peak detectors, probability summation, energy detection, and template matching. Of the metrics we have evaluated, the best fit is provided by the Gabor channel metric, especially when combined with the Gaussian aperture. We speculate that an even better fit might be provided by an aperture size that differs for each channel (Robson & Graham, 1981). We have noted above that channels may improve the fit by reducing the efficiency of summation over frequency for broadband targets, such as the noise image and natural image. The channels here may also be helping to account for the effects of unrelated mechanisms. Position uncertainty, for example, causes low-frequency Gabor images to be detected more efficiently than high-frequency Gabor targets of equal size (Ahumada, 2002; Burgess & Ghandeharian, 1984). The channel model can account for this effect through linear summation within a small, high-frequency mechanism and weaker summation across several such mechanisms. The Gabor channel metric might also mimic the effects of other types of channels, such as line or local edge detectors. Note that while both models of Figure 10 predict that the edge (30) should be more detectable than the line (31), the actual thresholds are nearly identical. Energy detection A metric in which β = 2 is generically described as an energy model. Energy models predict that at threshold all targets have the same filtered contrast energy. Such models can arise from several different mechanisms. In the energy-only model (Manahilov & Simpson, 2001), targets are filtered, their energy collected, and noise added to account for the variability of detection. Manahilov & Simpson (2001) have shown that the energy-only model is consistent with their data on summation between Gabor patches with frequencies a factor of three apart. As we have shown, the energy metric (without an aperture) is not consistent with the ModelFest data. The energy metric with an aperture, while not as good a fit as the channel model, is still consistent with the data. Manahilov & Simpson's (2001) results were for patches placed 7.5 degrees above fixation and are in disagreement with those from foveal studies (Graham & Nachmias, 1971; Graham & Robson, 1987; Watson, 1982; Watson & Nachmias, 1980). It is possible that their peripheral results, because they are from a more homogeneous region of retina, do not require an aperture. Probability summation The generalized energy metric, without channels but with β > 2, may be regarded as the prediction of a probability-summation-only model, where the probability of detection is the probability that any of the noisy outputs of the filter is greater than a constant (Quick, 1974; Robson & Graham, 1981). Note that the probability summation model uses the maximum rule (summation with β = ∞) but the predictive metric for the model has β < ∞. With an aperture, this is the best-fitting no-channel metric. However, its advantage over the energy metric with an aperture is modest (Figure 17). And we have noted that this advantage may arise due to the inclusion of complex stimuli for which a template cannot be formed. Peak detection These data provide conclusive evidence that a simple peak detector on the filter output is not a tenable metric for foveal contrast detection. This is evident in the point labeled “CSF” in Figure 9, which shows that CSF filter followed by a peak detector yields an error of about 4.5 dB, over five times the error of the best-fitting model. The Gabor channel metric with a peak detector has an RMS error of 2.43 dB, indicating that even the addition of these other elements cannot redeem the peak detector. Models with peak detectors must include noise before this stage so that the metric beta is less than infinity. Template models Models that are indifferent to the particular target presented have been previously rejected because they do not perform as well as human observers in the presence of noise (Eckstein, Ahumada, & Watson, 1997) and they do not predict the classification images that result (Shimozaki, Eckstein, & Abbey, 2005). In contrast, template models assume that the observer constructs one or more templates representing the signal and compares the internal representation of the stimulus with the templates. If the matching rule is computing the dot product of stimulus and a single template and comparing the result with a criterion, and if the noise is additive white Gaussian and if the templates all correlate equally well with their associated signals, then the stimulus energy will predict the detectability. (When the correlations are one, the template model procedure is the ideal observer for a signal known exactly.) That is, like the energy-only model, a template model can predict that thresholds will be at a constant filtered contrast energy. Perhaps the first explicit description of the template or matched filter as a model of contrast detection is due to Hauske (1974; Hauske, Wolf, & Lupp, 1976), who noted that it could explain results of subthreshold summation of lines, edges, and bars. Recent work on classification images has given additional credence to the template model (Abbey & Eckstein, 2002; Eckstein & Ahumada, 2002; Levi & Klein, 2002; Murray, Bennett, & Sekuler, 2002; Solomon, 2002), as have experiments on perceptual learning (Beard & Ahumada, 1999; Lu & Dosher, 2004). The template models suggest that there should be divergences from the energy metric in the ModelFest data. As mentioned above, position uncertainty for high-frequency narrow band stimuli essentially means that both the sine and cosine phase Gabor templates are needed and that there will be a drop in performance for these stimuli relative to lower frequency stimuli. It also seems unlikely that the observer would construct a template for the noise stimulus that correlates as well with the noise itself as other templates do with their images, so worse performance would also be expected for the noise stimulus. When no aperture is included, the energy metric has a significantly worse fit than either channel or generalized energy metrics (Figure 17). When both the energy and the probability summation metrics have an aperture, the energy metric fits slightly worse (see Table 6), and the best-fitting exponent is still greater than 2. Within the template framework, multiple explanations are possible for this result: more templates could be used, resulting in increased uncertainty (Eckstein et al., 1997); the template could correlate worse with the signal image, an effect known by the term sampling efficiency (Legge, Kersten, & Burgess, 1987); or the template might be noisier (McIlhagga & Paakkonen, 1999), possibly from slower learning (Beard & Ahumada, 1999). We conclude that a template model, with an aperture and with caveats regarding the perfection of the templates, is a plausible explanation of the ModelFest results. Channels, which are supported by physiological data (De Valois, Albrecht, & Thorell, 1982; Ringach, Hawken, & Shapley, 2002), can coexist with a template model: the template is formed through suitable weighting of channel outputs. In this case, the channels would play no role in the detection except perhaps in the template sampling efficiency. One nice feature of the contrast energy metrics is that they can be computed in other domains, such as Fourier, DCT, or wavelets. Even nonorthogonal domains like the Gabor channels give essentially the same results (note the similarity of the β = 2, channel and no-channel curves in Figure 20). A template model can also coexist with a probability summation model: for relatively compact and simple stimuli, a template is formed and energy summation is observed, while for complex or dispersed stimuli (over time or space) for which a template cannot be formed, probability summation is observed. This raises the question of limits on template formation, which are a subject for further study. Limitations of ModelFest data set It is important to remember that the analyses presented here depend on the selection of stimuli adopted in the ModelFest experiment. For example, we have noted that broadband stimuli are difficult to fit without a channel model; removing these stimuli, or adding many more, could have altered our conclusions. Likewise we have noted that a template model is likely to be less sensitive to complex targets (such as a noise sample); including fewer or more of these would bias conclusions towards or away from such a model. In addition, the ModelFest stimuli do not adequately test or constrain certain aspects of a complete model of contrast detection. For one, the stimuli were confined to 2.13 × 2.13 degrees and thus do not test spatial summation (or the nature of the aperture) beyond a narrow foveal range. Second, as we have noted above, the data do not constrain the oblique effect very well. Another drawback of the ModelFest stimuli is that they largely confounded size and eccentricity: stimuli were always centered on fixation, and when enlarged, they grew into the periphery. Furthermore, except for the disk, they were always windowed by a Gaussian aperture. This led to the confounding of the spatial aperture of the metric and the summation exponent in our results. This confound might be removed by, for example, exploring summation among annular rings of a given frequency. A further omission of the ModelFest group was the failure to report individual trial data. The shape of the psychometric function may be diagnostic for some models. For example, uncertainty is associated with a steepening of the psychometric function. Although single threshold runs do not usually have enough data to estimate psychometric function slopes, good estimates might have been obtained from multiple runs. Because there are so many mechanisms involved in the possible models, and so few dimensions of variation in the stimuli, measurements of particular mechanism properties must be confounded. The addition of a small amount of background noise would have helped unconfound these measurements (Pelli, Levi, & Chung, 2004). A striking aspect of the data is the 10-dB range of observer sensitivities. We cannot say whether this is mainly due to internal noise variations, sampling efficiency variations, uncertainty variations, or variations in other mechanisms. Finally, we note that these data do not address visibility of moving or rapidly varying targets, whose sensitivity is known to differ systematically from stationary targets (van Nes & Bouman, 1967), nor do they address variations in sensitivity with changes in background illumination (van Nes, Koenderink, Nas, & Bouman, 1967). We have found that a range of specific CSF formulae is about equally good in fitting the average ModelFest data. For well-fitting no-channel models, these functions have a peak value of about 220 at 3.34 cycles/degree (β free) or 290 at 3.44 cycles/degree (β = 2) (Table 5). Note that these values, especially the peak gain, are not independent of the other parameters used in the metric. Because we have only considered fits to the average data, we make no claims about fits to individual observers. Elsewhere, a curve that fits the average well has been found to be poor at fitting many individuals in a population of older observers (Rohaly & Owsley, 1993). We also note that the CSF employed here is used to construct a two-dimensional filter that is then used to filter the stimulus image. In addition, it operates in conjunction with other model elements, such as the oblique effect, the spatial aperture, and nonlinear pooling. As such, it cannot be directly compared to previous curve fits to grating or Gabor thresholds on a plot of contrast versus spatial frequency. Nonetheless, we note that the resulting functions (e.g., HPmH) clearly do provide a good curve fit to fixed size Gabor thresholds (Figures 11 and 13). Some caution is warranted in using the parameters derived here to describe a larger population of observers. The collection of 16 ModelFest observers were not selected to be representative of any particular population. Examination of Figure 2 and of the RMS0 value of 3.46 dB (Equation 2) shows that there is considerable variation with the ModelFest population. Standard metrics A simple metric of the visibility of foveal contrast patterns would be valuable in a wide variety of applications. In such a metric, simplicity of implementation and application must be balanced with accuracy. While the channel metric provides the most accurate results, the magnitude of improvement, especially when compared to the variability among observers (Figure 2), is modest. Further, the channel metric involves considerably more computation (about 3×) and is less robust, in the sense that its performance may depend upon detailed aspects of the implementation—for example, the treatment of borders and the zero frequency signal. For these reasons we propose a no-channel metric as a standard. In particular, we propose the no-channel metric that includes a Gaussian aperture, the fixed oblique effect, the HPmH CSF, and β > 2. The parameters of this metric are shown in one line of Table 5 and are labeled Standard A. Because it provides nearly as good a fit, and is computationally much simpler, we also provide second Standard B in which β = 2 (orange highlighting). The user's particular application will determine which of these two standards is appropriate. We hope that these standards will provide useful benchmarks for both future theoretical modeling as well as practical calculations of foveal spatial pattern thresholds. We have explored the quality of fit yielded by a wide range of models and parameter settings. We have shown that the ModelFest data set can be fit quite well with relatively simple models. Over the entire set, the residual error for the best model is 0.76 dB. This best model includes a spatial aperture, an oblique effect, a summation exponent of about 2.9, Gabor channels, and a CSF that is a linear interpolation between 11 discrete values. We have found that a range of specific formulae for the CSF fits nearly as well as the linear interpolation CSF, but with many fewer estimated parameters. We have found that models which lack channels fit less well, but that the increase in error is small. This suggests that practical models may dispense with the added complexity of channels. We have found a profound trade-off between the summation exponent β and the sizes of the spatial aperture. About the same fit is obtained by including a spatial aperture, or an exponent grater than 2. We interpret this as a consequence of both serving to restrict the efficiency of spatial summation. The success of models with exponents at or near 2 (when combined with an aperture) provides support for a template model of pattern detection. We have proposed a particular standard metric for foveal contrast detection, which includes an oblique effect, a specific CSF formula, a Gaussian aperture, a spatial pooling exponent greater than 2, but no channels. We also propose a second metric in which the spatial pooling exponent is equal to 2. We hope these standards will provide useful measures in practical applications and an informative benchmark for theoretical analyses. Supplementary Material - Supplementary Material ModelFest stimuli We have provided a file modelfest-stimuli containing all of the stimuli used in this experiment. The images are provided in a single binary file of 43 × 256 × 256 = 2,818,048 bytes. The ordering of bytes with respect to pixels is left to right, top to bottom, and image 1 to image 43. ModelFest data The file modelfestbaselinedata.csv contains the ModelFest Baseline Dataset. The file is in text form, in comma-separated-value (CSV) format. This format is easily read by many applications such as Microsoft Excel. The structure of the file is one line per subject. The first value in each line is the observer initials; the remainder of line is 172 numbers, corresponding to four thresholds for each of the 43 stimuli. The numbers indicate the log10 of the threshold contrast and are rounded to three decimal places. Here we provide a summary of the notation used in this paper. Model parameters Here we provide parameters for the no-channel model with various CSF formulae. We show both metrics in which β was estimated and in which it was fixed at 2. Within these two categories, conditions are sorted by NRMS. The proposed standards A and B are highlighted. See the definition of each CSF for a definition of the parameters. We also show two derived parameters for each function: the peak gain (max) and the peak frequency (fmax). Parameters and error for the no-channel model with nine contrast sensitivity filter (CSF) functions. Other conditions: fixed oblique effect, Gaussian aperture. The proposed standards A and B are highlighted. NP is number of parameters, max is the maximum value of the CSF, andfmax is the frequency at which the peak occurs. fmax Where two variants of the component model differ only in that in one (M1), a parameter is free to vary while in the other (M0) it is fixed, we say that the two models are nested, in that M1 is a more general version of (and includes) M0. In such cases, it is possible to construct simple statistical tests. If we write SS for the sum of squares of the residual error for each hypothesis, then the statistic q = ( S S 0 − S S 1 d f 0 − d f 1 ) / S S 1 d f 1 will have the F ratio distribution with 1 and df1 degrees of freedom. In the table, we provide 1 − p values for various nested comparisons. All except the final test are significant at the .05 level. Statistical tests of nested comparisons. Columns 4–7 indicate features shared by bothM0 andM1. Column 8 indicates the figure in which the comparison may be found. CSF = contrast sensitivity filter. 1 − p β = 2 β free σ = inf σ free We thank the members of the ModelFest group for collection of the data and for useful discussions. We thank Ellen Salud for expert assistance in production of this paper. This research was supported by NASA Research Grants 711-80-03 and 131-20-30-00. Commercial relationships: ABW has an intellectual property interest in standard observer metrics. Corresponding author: Andrew B. Watson. 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__label__cc	0.666658	0.333342	Whigs, Wages, and Wonder We had last Thursday’s posting on the minimum wage hike in Seattle in mind while doing some research into early nineteenth century socialism, especially the varieties promoted by Henri de Saint-Simon, Félicité de Lamennais, and Charles Fourier. All three claimed their systems were either a new version of Christianity, or replaced Christianity, whatever best suited their purposes. This led us to an article, “Religious Union of Associationists” in the March 1847 issue of The American Whig Review . . . which, of course, you no doubt have lying around the house or have seen in the doctor’s waiting room. We were at first amused by the anonymous author’s remarks. We didn’t know that people in the early nineteenth century could be so . . . sarcastic. He (or possibly she) clearly did not like Fourierism. Also interesting was the fact that the author, clearly not a Catholic, was offended at the way the followers of Charles Fourier, the founder of Associationism, were quick to “borrow” Catholic religious music, language, and symbols, but graft their own meanings on to them. Orestes A. Brownson also noted this, in an essay, “Socialism and the Church,” written about the same time. As Brownson put it, Orestes Brownson The spirit that works in the children of disobedience must . . . affect to be Christian, more Christian than Christianity itself, and not only Christian, but Catholic. It can manifest itself now, and gain friends, only by acknowledging the Church and all Catholic symbols, and substituting for the divine and heavenly sense in which they have hitherto been understood a human and earthly sense. Hence the religious character which Socialism attempts to wear. It rejects in name no Catholic symbol; it only rejects the Catholic sense. If it finds fault with the actual Church, it is because she is not truly Catholic, does not understand herself, does not comprehend the profound sense of her own doctrines, fails to seize and expound the true Christian idea as it lay in the mind of Jesus, and as this enlightened age is prepared to receive it. The Christian symbol needs a new and a more Catholic interpretation, adapted to our stage in universal progress. (Orestes A. Brownson, “Socialism and the Church,” Essays and Reviews, Chiefly on Theology, Politics, and Socialism. New York: D. & J. Sadlier & Co., 1852, 499-500.) But we digress. Our concern here is a commentary on the remarks made by a Fourierist lecturer, the Reverend William Henry Channing (1810-1884), a Boston Unitarian socialist who — surprise! — moved in the same circles as Orestes Brownson . . . and who seems to have irritated Brownson a trifle by his wholesale “borrowings” from the Catholic Church to vest his variety of Fourierist socialism with the prestige of what the anonymous author in the Whig Review considered the oldest and most venerable Christian church. As the anonymous author said, after attending one of Channing’s services/lectures/shows in Boston, William Henry Channing Mr. Channing remarked that it was a well-known and generally-admitted principle in political economy, that high or rising wages are the surest sign of public prosperity; and yet, said he, in face of this knowledge we everywhere see people trying to engage labor at the lowest possible rates. This is one of the inconsistencies which he charges the present misarrangement of society with forcing upon us. Probably he forgot to add, that high or rising wages are a sign of public prosperity only on condition that the employer is absolutely obliged to pay them; and that if paid gratuitously or voluntarily, they are a sign of no such thing, but rather of the reverse. (“The Religious Union of Associationists,” The American Whig Review, March 1847, 494-495.) Now, that didn’t sound right, so we read it a couple more times . . . and it still didn’t sound right. Then we realized we were reading an article written in 1847 from the perspective of 2017, and things started to make sense. Free market (sort of). No minimum wage. No really big wealth differentials in the economy. Meaning? "Hard Times" Token Meaning that if workers were well off, and had alternate sources of income, an employer would be “absolutely obliged” to offer higher wages in order to be able to hire enough workers. Things would be so good, people could afford to turn down paying work. And if things weren’t so good? Then workers could not afford to hold out for higher pay, and they would be the ones “absolutely obliged” to accept whatever an employer was willing to offer. Things would be so bad, workers would be willing to take whatever they could get. Thus, high or rising wages would be the surest sign of public prosperity, and low wages would mean hard times had come again. In common with other socialists and those trained in a socialist mindset, Channing managed to get this (and a whole raft of other things) exactly backwards. Noting that high or rising wages are a sign of public prosperity, he assumed that paying higher wages bring about public prosperity. He confused cause and effect. A model cargo plane to bring back the real planes. Like the Cargo Cultists of the South Pacific a few generations later, who assumed that building airstrips and docks would bring the cargo planes and ships back, socialists like Channing (and John Maynard Keynes) assume that you create prosperity by spending more money. No, people spend more money because they are prosperous, not to become prosperous. The former is a common sense observation. The latter is magical thinking, the “law of similarity”; if you act as if you are prosperous, you will be prosperous. Until the debt comes due, that is. . . . Thus, the anonymous author commented, “Is it in this way that Mr. Channing is going to guide us out of the labyrinth of sophistry in which he finds us so deplorably involved?” (Ibid.) Oddly . . . yes. Nineteenth century America saw seemingly countless attempts to establish utopian socialist communities, many of them Fourierist — and some of which succeeded . . . as soon as they abandoned socialist principles, that is. Many prominent people converted to the various forms of socialism, e.g., the noted journalist Horace Greeley . . . for whom the Fourierist commune of Greeley, Colorado, was named. The town quickly abandoned its socialist principles, becoming a form of coop for a while, and then a “regular” municipality. (See William B. Shaw, “A Forgotten Socialism,” The New England Magazine, August 1893, 773-776.) So, in light of the fact that high wages are an effect, not the cause of public prosperity, is it still possible to raise wages somehow when times are hard? We’ll look at that on Wednesday. Topics: Orestes Brownson, Socialism, Wage System Episode VII: The Return of Common Sense Episode VI: The Distributist Economist Strikes Bac... Distributist Economist Erratum Four & Conclusion Distributist Economist Erratum Three Distributist Economist Errata One & Two Correcting a Few Distributist Non-Facts What’s the Problem, Distributist? “The Kingdom of God on Earth”? 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__label__wiki	0.644119	0.644119	Genocide Survivor Henriette with daughter Naomi. (Credit/Foundation Rwanda) Researchers at Israel’s Bar-Ilan University – in collaboration with a Rwandan therapist and genocide survivor – have taken a close look at the genocide against the Tutsi people of Rwanda almost a quarter of a century after it occurred. As many as 1 million Tutsi people were murdered in the mass slaughter during the genocide, which began in the 1990s. It was led by members of the Hutu majority government during the 100-day period from April 7 to mid-July 1994. Hutu civilians used machetes, clubs, blunt objects, and other weapons and were encouraged to rape, maim, and kill their Tutsi neighbors and to destroy or steal their property. The killing ended after the Tutsi-backed and heavily armed Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), led by Paul Kagame, took control of the capital and the country. The genocide was planned by members of the core Hutu political elite, many of whom occupied positions at top levels of the national government. Perpetrators came from the Rwandan army, the gendarmerie, and government-backed militias. A ceasefire in the civil war was reached in 1993. The rapes used as a weapon of war led to promises that persist today, including HIV infection, including of babies born to mothers infected with the AIDS virus while being raped. Due to the wholesale slaughter of both men and women, many households were headed by widows or totally orphaned children. The destruction of infrastructure and the severe depopulation of the country crippled the economy, challenging the nascent government to achieve rapid economic growth and stabilization. Severe post-trauma was the result for many. The children of Tutsi survivors who weren’t even born at the time of the slaughter are among those most affected by trauma, according to the new Israeli study, which has just been published in the journal Psychiatry Research. The study assessed complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) among Tutsi genocide survivors and its impact on their children. The researchers found that the intergenerational effects of genocide were most prominent among offspring of survivors who suffer from CPTSD. Open tombs of the hundreds of thousands of murdered Tutsi at the Rwandan Genocide Memorial in Kigali, Rwanda. (Credit: Ryan M. Bolton/ Shutterstock.com & breakingisraelnews.com) The parent groups did not differ in level of exposure to the genocide nor in the percentage of participants who underwent other traumatic events. When examining separate types of genocide exposure, 41.1% of the parents reported being injured, 89.8% reported seeing people being killed, 88.1% saw people wounded, and 67.8% and 91.7% had at least one family member who was injured or killed, respectively. The offspring in the three groups did not differ in any of the background characteristics. All offspring were single and only one reported experiencing a traumatic event. These offspring suffer from more symptoms – such as nightmares and preoccupation with the horrors – and feel less equipped to handle adverse situations. The findings also hint at the possibility that while both parental PTSD and CPTSD increase secondary traumatization in offspring, parental CPTSD additionally affects offspring self-perceptions. Whereas PTSD includes symptoms such as nightmares and overall restlessness, CPTSD includes even more serious problems such as affective dysregulation (a term used in the mental health community to refer to an emotional response that is poorly modulate, and does not fall within the conventionally accepted range of emotive response), a negative view of oneself and disturbed relationships. Following studies pointing to additional consequences of extreme traumatic events such as genocide, which are not covered by the existing diagnosis of PTSD, CPTSD is scheduled to appear in the upcoming 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) as a new diagnosis. The preliminary findings, published in the journal, highlight CPTSD as a rather-frequent debilitating condition among Tutsi genocide survivors. “For the first time, to the best of our knowledge, these findings demonstrate that CPTSD may have grave consequences not only for survivors themselves but also for their offspring who were born after the genocide,” said Prof. Amit Shrira, of Bar-Ilan’s department of social sciences, who co-authored the study with Dr. Ben Mollov, a Bar-Ilan political scientist who specializes in conflict resolution, and Chantal Mudahogora, a therapist who survived the Tutsi genocide and currently lives in Canada. Most existing literature on the subject focuses on the effects of parental PTSD, but the researchers said they knew of no works that looked at parental complex PTSD, he added. This pattern is also evident among Holocaust survivors and their offspring, whom Shrira has studied extensively. “We need to understand that genocide and massive trauma can leave their mark not only on survivors who were directly exposed but also on their offspring and probably on other family relatives, as well,” added Mollov. “We also know from previous studies that the effects of trauma may extend across several generations and linger for decades after the focal trauma took place. These insights should guide policymakers and clinicians when planning interventions aimed at mitigating the plight of traumatized individuals and their families, particularly in terms of increasing resilience. This can also bear relevance for improved intergroup relations,” he said. Ben-Mollov-left-and-Chantal-Mudahogora. (Credit: Breaking Israel News.) It became possible for Shrira and Mollov to study the genocide against Tutsi of Rwanda and cooperate with Mudahogora when Mudahogora heard Mollov present a research paper in Bangkok. When she shared with him her concern about the effects of post trauma on survivors of the genocide and their offspring, Mollov brought Shrira, who has studied extensively intergenerational trauma suffered by Holocaust survivors and their offspring, into the research partnership. As the researchers learned more about survivors of the Tutsi genocide, they were especially surprised to discover that they live among the Hutus who took part in the mass killing, They also became aware of the fact from Mudahogora that through the “Unity and Reconciliation Program” spearheaded by the Rwandan government, together with non-profit organizations and faith-based groups, both ethnic groups are making progress in living together peacefully and in harmony. There are even cases of Tutsi survivors who married Hutu perpetrators and embraced them into their families. The researchers intend soon to gain a better understanding of this phenomenon among survivors and their offspring. The researchers hope to present their findings at a seminar in Rwanda and offer assistance in developing applied research and intervention strategies, such as treatment of trauma and seeking to promote unity and reconciliation, to Rwandan stakeholders. With the agreement between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Rwandan President Kagame to open embassies in each other’s countries and establish closer ties, the researchers hope that their applied research can help strengthen Israeli-Rwandan relations for the social benefit of Rwanda. Despite limitations, our preliminary findings highlight CPTSD as a rather frequent debilitating condition among Tutsi genocide survivors, and for the first time to the best of our knowledge, document CPTSD association with more severe responses among survivors’ offspring. By Judy Siegel-Itzkovich, First appeared in breaking Israel News, today. Categories: Survivor stories, Survivors welfare Tagged as: genocide survivors, Rwanda, Siegel-Itzkovich abdulhakim says: You my people i am crazy about you, i love you Tutsi or watusi or WAAYIMAA, i have been told from my grand fathers that we (OROMO) and the TUTSI are the same and share many similarity even the name TUTSI/TUSI/WATUSI/WAAHIMMA/ABATUSI/ all of these name has the same meaning my language “OROMIFFA/OROMIC/ AFAAN OROMOO/. So please write me your response we need to know and regain each other more. I LOVE YOU VERY MUCH , Bye for now 13 Jan 2019 at 3:38 am Thank you, Abdulkarim, for kind words. There is a lot in common indeed. We have a small community of Oromo people where i live and A chance to connect a little further will be much appreciated. Shoot me an email gasakeu@gmail.com	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1423
__label__cc	0.544022	0.455978	The new Google Maps update will alert you when businesses you follow run specials Google will also begin adding profiles for places that aren’t yet opened. Bryan M. Wolfe Google Maps is adding a new feature to help you save money. Currently, for Android users only, the feature lets you follow places you enjoy visiting. In doing so, you’ll be among the first to know about special offers, upcoming events, and other updates about the business. The feature began rolling out earlier this week, according to a Google post. To follow a company on Google Maps, hit the appropriately named “follow” button on its profile page. From there, you’ll start receiving relevant news and updates in the app’s “For You” tab. Looking to try something new? Google will also begin adding profiles for places that aren’t opened yet so you can learn more information about the establishment, including its start date. Places that are opening within three months are encouraged to create a free business profile so Google Maps users can see this information before launch. Recent news regarding Google Maps On Oct. 1, Google Maps began offering real-time traffic and transit information. Located under the Commute tab, the feature lets you know whether the day is normal or if it’s time for you to think of alternative travel routes, which of course, Google will also provide. Noting that travel delays can lead to stress, missed meetings, and skipped breakfasts, Google says its solution is ideally suited for people whose commutes involve both driving and public transit. As such, you can see helpful information about when to leave, and for each leg of your trip. In recent weeks, Spotify, Apple Music, and Google Play Music were also added to Google Maps so you can control your tunes and podcasts directly from the navigation app. On Android, Spotify users can also choose favorite content by browsing through songs, albums, podcasts, and playlists with easy to use navigation. The latest Google Map addition should also prove beneficial for both drivers and business owners. Hopefully, the new follow feature will arrive on iOS soon too. What do you think? Will you use the feature? Leave your comments below. Editors’ Recommendations: Google Lens works with Google Images now, which means you can buy while you search Google now lets you review and delete your recent search activity right from the homepage Lame, Google is limiting its fast-charging functionality on the Pixel 3 to Google-approved chargers Related TopicsappsbusinessesGoogleGoogle MapsNews Bryan considers himself a well-rounded techie, having written articles for MakeUseOf, KnowTechie, AppAdvice, iDownload Blog. When he's not writing, he's being a single dad and rooting for his alma mater, Penn State, or cheering on the Patriots. More in Apps Because we all have a little bit of a MomZilla in us. All you need to know about Google Pay Read on to discover everything you need to know about Google Pay. Your wasted life quantified as Candy Crush reaches its 5,000th level Color bomb your psyche. This is a nice addition. Instagram is working on new features to deal with internet trolls Will they actually help anything? PSA: Don’t download this ‘Updates for Samsung’ app from the Play Store – It’s fake Don't join the 10 million who already have... Chinese border guards are installing a mandatory malware app in tourists’ phones This image has nothing to do with the story. I don't care. Maximum the... This nifty Chrome extension will transcribe YouTube videos for you Gnotes is the best notes. The new Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides shortcuts will save you like 2 seconds out of your day 3D memes will soon be flooding your Facebook and Instagram feeds	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1444
__label__wiki	0.68391	0.68391	Snacktaku Coca-Cola Coffee Released In Japan Filed to: snacktakuFiled to: snacktaku [Image: ryuurubusaiyasu \| Shin-Shouhin via Get News] It’s called Coca-Cola Coffee Plus, and it has fifty percent more caffeine and fifty percent fewer calories. According to Shin-Shouhin (via Get News), Coca-Cola Coffee Plus is a vending machine exclusive in Japan. Each 190ml can has 34mg of caffeine and only 42 calories. The coffee comes in the form of extract powder. This kind of thing isn’t a first for Coca-Cola, which previously released Coca-Cola BlāK in Europe and the United States. Shin-Shouhin says the drink doesn’t smell like coke, nor does it smell like coffee. The aroma is described as “curious” or “odd.” Shin-Shouhin writes, “To be frank, it’s not a very delicious aroma.” The initial taste, Shin-Shouhin continues, is cola-like, but the aftertaste is coffee. The total sensation, the site adds, isn’t one of harmony. “I didn’t think it tasted good, but it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be,” Shin-Shouhin writes, adding that different people respond to different flavors. That explains why a writer for ASCII Gourmet digs the drink, saying he quite liked it. Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am Originally from Texas, Ashcraft has called Osaka home since 2001. He has authored five books, including most recently, Japanese Whisky: The Ultimate Guide to the World's Most Desirable Spirit. Recent from Brian Ashcraft Track: Not The News \| Artist: Thom Yorke \| Album: ANIMA Parents Name Their Baby 'Google' After...Google This Huge Godzilla Collectible Is Only $600	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1446
__label__cc	0.678656	0.321344	30 May 2018by WouterNo CommentsBrands, Shirts The Rite Stuff Loopwheel Pocket T-Shirts The Rite Stuff latest addition in their great collection is the Loopwheel Pocket T-shirt. The Loopwheel Pocket T-shirt is made in Japan by John Lofgren & Co. The Rite Stuff shirts are produced in Wakayama, Japan, at one of the world’s two remaining loopwheel knitting factories. The shirts are available in two colours; white and blue. They’re made in a limited run of 50 pieces each. The Rite Stuff blue & white Loopwheel Pocket T-Shirts. Details Of The Shirts The shirts are made of 100% mid to heavy weight cotton. They’re produced on authentic loopwheel, tubeknit machines, so they don’t have side seams. They used these machines until the 1940’s – 1950’s and changed production into modern machines which are 30 times faster. The specially made loopwheel fabric undergoes no tension during knitting, resulting in a very soft but strong fabric. It’s still the best t-shirt material made today. The round neck shirts have a single chest pocket with flap which is inspired by the workshirts made by Reliance Mfg. Co. of Chicago starting in the 1910’s. The slightly heavier fabric makes it perfect as a layer on cooler days, or as a substantial standalone on warmer days. The shirts have a printed cotton white/blue brand tag. The Heritage Of The U.S. Navy T-Shirts The heritage of t-shirts dates back to the early 1900’s when the U.S. Navy used t-shirts as undershirts. They’r also known as tee. The name of this clothing style is coming from the T shape of it’s body and sleeves. During WW2 the sailors wore them as outerwear which made them a very popular item amongst youth. Teenagers started wearing plain white shirts with jeans too after WW2. They saw their heroes, Marlon Brando and James Dean, on the white big screens in movies as The Wild One and Rebel without a Cause. The new rebel outfit was born. The inspiration from U.S. Navy during World War 1. The Rite Stuff White & Blue Loopwheel Pocket Tees White version. The fit of the shirt. Blue version. https://the-rite-stuff.com brand clothing the rite stuff Written by Wouter I'm the founder of Long John. Next to running this daily magazine I'm working as a freelance marketing specialist for brands and retail. Specialized in denim. Ullac X Tattoo Collab Suit For Women's Charity Auction Arashi Helmets & Denim Jack Purcell Campaign MEET THE PERSON #16: Maggy Tuijp (Denim Development at Denham) 125 Year Old Pair Of Levi’s Jeans Sold For Nearly $100K	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1456
__label__cc	0.716038	0.283962	Historic Street Address: Broad & Chestnut Streets Item pdcc00246, top [image dimensions 10.3 cm x 19.5 cm]: Black and white reproduction of original watercolor painting. Item pdcc00247, bottom left [image dimensions 16.5 cm x 12.4 cm]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Carpenter Carpenter's Wharf was the first wharf built in Philadelphia and could handle ships of 500 tons or more. Samuel Carpenter, colonial merchant and friend of William Penn, became Deputy Governor of Philadelphia and First Treasurer of Pennsylvania. Joshua Carpenter, Samuel's brother, made his fortune as a brewer. Item pdcc00248, bottom right [image dimensions 16.3 cm x 12.5 cm]: From Peter Cooper's "Prospect of Philadelphia," c.1718. Drawn and engraved for the Sunday Dispatch expressly to illustrate Westcott's "History of Philadelphia." Carpenter, Samuel, 1649-1714 Penn, William, 1644-1718 Carpenter, Joshua Delaware River Front Chestnut Street Delaware Avenue Castner, Samuel, Jr., 1843-1929 - Compiler, Carpenter, Samuel, 1649-1714, Penn, William, 1644-1718, Carpenter, Joshua. Castner Scrapbook v.4, Old Houses 1, page 21. [Scrapbooks]. Retrieved from https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/56033 Castner, Samuel, Jr., 1843-1929 - Compiler, Carpenter, Samuel, 1649-1714, Penn, William, 1644-1718, Carpenter, Joshua. Castner Scrapbook v.4, Old Houses 1, page 21. Scrapbooks. Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphia, PA. https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/56033. (accessed Jul 15, 2019)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1463
__label__cc	0.53091	0.46909	I invite you to connect with us. Together, through teamwork, we can build a safer, more prosperous community. Chief of Police, F. Steven Echternach Strasburg Police On Twitter The Strasburg Borough Police is now on Twitter (@StrasburgPD). All of our CRIMEWATCH post will now be pushed out to Twitter along with Facebook. Our main page is CRIMEWATCH (StrasburgPD.org). This site has the ability for "Tip" submissions along with essential department forms. Post from CRIMEWATCH are then pushed out to Facebook (Strasburg Borough Police Department) and Twitter (@StrasburgPD). WELCOME To The STRASBURG BOROUGH POLICE DEPARTMENT The Strasburg Police Department maintains 24 hours per day/7 days a week coverage of Strasburg Borough. 800-957-2677 Non-Emergency 717-687-7128 Administration Sweitzer, Joshua Lee - Aggravated Assault and 2 additional charges Joshua Lee Sweitzer was charged with aggravated assault, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct as a result of a disturbance on East Main St. in Strasburg on 3/4/2019. Aggravated Assault, Resisting Arrest, Disorderly Conduct Sweitzer, Jared Seth - Possession of Methamphetamine and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia Jared S. Sweitzer was charged with possession of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia as a result of a warrant service in the 100 block of West Main St. in Strasburg on 3/1/2019. Possession of Methamphetamine and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia Fisher, Jonathan Ray - Driving Under the Infuence of Alcohol and 2 additional charges Jonathan Ray Fisher was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, false identification to police, and driving while DUI suspended as a result of a traffic stop on Clark Ave. in Strasburg. Driving Under the Infuence of Alcohol, False Identification to Police, Driving while DUI suspended Pagan-Ramos, Nelson E - Possession of Marijuana Nelson Pagan-Ramos was charged with possession of marijuana as a result of a traffic stop in the parking lot of the Rutter's Farm Store on Historic Drive in Strasburg. Berwanger, Daphne M. - Possession of Marijuana and 1 additional charge Daphne M. Berwanger was charged with possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia as a result of a traffic stop on Historic Drive in Strasburg. Possession of Marijuana, Possession Of Drug Paraphernalia Stoltzfus, Anthony John - (1) Count Underage Drinking Anthony John Stoltzfus was charged with underage drinking as a result of an incident at the Rutter's Farm Store on Historic Drive in Strasburg. (1) Count Underage Drinking Ludwig, Corey Matthew - Terroristic Threats Cory Michael Ludwig was charged with terroristic threats as a result of an incident that occurred on Clearview Dr. in Strasburg. Roop, Cindy Rose - Driving while DUI suspended and 1 additional charge Cindy Rose Roop was charged with driving while DUI suspended and driving without required lighting as a result of a traffic stop on Prospect Road in Strasburg. Driving while DUI suspended, Driving without required lighting Gettle, Joshua - possession of methamphetamine and 2 additional charges Joshua Gettle was charged with possession of methamphetamine, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of altered, forged or counterfeit documents as a result of a traffic stop on South Jackson St in Strasburg. possession of methamphetamine, Possession Of Drug Paraphernalia, Possesion of Altered Forged or Counterfeit Documents and Plates Donnegan, Joshua T. - Harrassment Joshua T. Donnegan was charged with harassment as a result of an incident at the intersection of Lancaster Ave. and Miller St. in Strasburg on 1/6/2019. The Strasburg Community Park and the Strasburg Jaycee Park have been experiencing a rash of criminal mischief. There have been stickers, as shown in the photo, placed onto buildings and fixtures throughout the park properties. This action has forced the volunteers of the parks to spend numerous... Geiter, Noel Marie Noel Marie Geiter was taken into custody today, 5/27/2018, on the previously posted warrant Memorial Day Parade Monday We're all hoping for sunny skies on Monday morning, May 28, 2018, when Strasburg Area Sertoma and Paul R. Strubel Post #8710 VFW present Strasburg's annual Memorial Day Parade. The parade forms on Clearview Drive at the west end of the Borough, and moves out at 9:00 a.m., traveling east on Miller,... Family Fishing Fun! Lancaster County Dept. of Parks & Recreation is sponsoring an hour of “Family Fishing Fun” on Sunday evening, May 27, from 7:00-8:00 p.m. at the Strasburg Borough Pond, behind 109 South Jackson Street, Strasburg. During this event, adults do not need to be licensed to fish, but must be... Kat's 5K May 12 Expect some changing traffic patterns on Saturday, May 12, 2018 during Friends of Angels' 4th annual Kat's 5K event. Runners and walkers will be gathering at Wesley United Methodist's Fellowship Hall, 46 West Main Street, Strasburg, and departing at approximately 8:30 a.m., traveling a loop on... No broadcasts at this time.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1466
__label__wiki	0.98402	0.98402	International • News Bangladesh professor hacked to death by Islamic militants The Bangladesh flag. Photo courtesy Shutterstock RNS staff DHAKA (Reuters) A university professor was hacked to death on Saturday in northwestern Bangladesh, police said, with Islamic State claiming responsibility for the latest in a series of attacks on liberal activists. In the attack on Saturday, (April 23) two assailants on a motorcycle slit Rezaul Karim Siddiquee’s throad and hacked him to death, Rajshahi city police chief Mohammad Shamsuddin told reporters, quoting witnesses. The 58-year-old English professor at Rajshahi University was found lying in a pool of blood near his home, where he was apparently waiting for a bus to the university campus about 125 miles northwest of Dhaka when he was attacked. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the killing of the professor for “calling to atheism,” the U.S.-based SITE monitoring service said quoting the militant group’s Amaq Agency. Police said the murder was similar to other recent attacks on secular bloggers by Islamic militants. But fellow university teachers said Siddiquee, while active in cultural events, never spoke or wrote anything about religion or Islam. “Professor Rezaul was killed in a similar fashion as the killings of bloggers,” Shamsuddin said, adding he was a peaceful person and had no enemies. The Muslim-majority nation of 160 million has seen a surge in violent attacks over the past few months in which members of minority Muslim sects and other religious groups have also been targeted. Five secular bloggers and a publisher have been hacked to death in Bangladesh since February last year. A group affiliated with al Qaida claimed responsibility for the killing of a liberal Bangladeshi blogger earlier this month, the SITE has said. Bangladesh authorities said the homegrown militant group Ansarullah Bangla Team is behind the attacks on online critics of religious extremism. The gruesome killing triggered a protest by teachers and students of the Rajshahi University, blocking a major road and demanding immediate arrest of the killers. Three teachers at the university have been killed in recent years. Islamic State has also claimed responsibility for the killings of two foreigners, and attacks on mosques and Christian priests in Bangladesh since September, but police said local militant group Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen was behind those attacks. The government has denied that the Islamic State or al Qaida groups have a presence in Bangladesh. At least five militants have been killed in shootouts since November as security forces have stepped up a crackdown on Islamist militants looking to establish a Shariah-based Muslim state. (Reporting by Ruma Paul) Tagsatheism Bangladesh bloggers Dhaka Islamic militants Islamic State Rajshahi University News • Photos of the Week Aragon the Atheist says: Despicable. Why is the Bangladesh government saying nothing against this crime? Mglass says: Let us hope that Muslims of good will also join forces with others to condemn this brutal slaughter. Jon Cleland Host says: Worse, in past murders they have blamed the victims. Apparently, they continue to do so. And Atheists elsewhere must speak up. There is safety in numbers. New Jersey school board member quits over anti-Muslim comments Harriet Tubman’s long journey to the $20 bill acknowledges sin of slavery (COMMENTARY)	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1478
__label__wiki	0.665973	0.665973	Thirty Percent Finnish Ticks Carry at Least One Pathogen & Candidas Rickettsia Tarasevichiae Found for the First Time Parasit Vectors. 2018 Oct 24;11(1):556. doi: 10.1186/s13071-018-3131-y. Tick-borne pathogens in Finland: comparison of Ixodes ricinus and I. persulcatus in sympatric and parapatric areas. Laaksonen M1, Klemola T2, Feuth E3, Sormunen JJ2, Puisto A2, Mäkelä S2, Penttinen R4, Ruohomäki K2, Hänninen J4, Sääksjärvi IE4, Vuorinen I4, Sprong H5, Hytönen J3, Vesterinen EJ4,6. Almost 3500 tick samples, originally collected via a nationwide citizen science campaign in 2015, were screened to reveal the prevalence and distribution of a wide spectrum of established and putative tick-borne pathogens vectored by Ixodes ricinus and I. persulcatus in Finland. The unique geographical distribution of these two tick species in Finland allowed us to compare pathogen occurrence between an I. ricinus-dominated area (southern Finland), an I. persulcatus-dominated area (northern Finland), and a sympatric area (central Finland). Of the analysed ticks, almost 30% carried at least one pathogen and 2% carried more than one pathogen. A higher overall prevalence of tick-borne pathogens was observed in I. ricinus than in I. persulcatus: 30.0% (604/2014) versus 24.0% (348/1451), respectively. In addition, I. ricinus were more frequently co-infected than I. persulcatus: 2.4% (49/2014) versus 0.8% (12/1451), respectively. Causative agents of Lyme borreliosis, i.e. bacterial genospecies in Borrelia burgdorferi (sensu lato) group, were the most prevalent pathogens (overall 17%). “Candidatus Rickettsia tarasevichiae” was found for the first time in I. ricinus ticks and in Finnish ticks in general. Moreover, Babesia divergens, B. venatorum and “Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis” were reported for the first time from the Finnish mainland. The present study provides valuable information on the prevalence and geographical distribution of various tick-borne pathogens in I. ricinus and I. persulcatus ticks in Finland. Moreover, this comprehensive subset of ticks revealed the presence of rare and potentially dangerous pathogens. The highest prevalence of infected ticks was in the I. ricinus-dominated area in southern Finland, while the prevalence was essentially equal in sympatric and I. persulcatus-dominated areas. However, the highest infection rates for both species were in areas of their dominance, either in south or north Finland. Comment Candidatus Rickettsia tarasevichiae: Causes human disease and is a new species of rickettsiae of the spotted fever group. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1303004 hospitalized with fever asthenia (weakness) eschar (dead tissue that falls off healthy skin) lymphadenopathy (swollen lymph nodes) meningitis-like manifestations: vomiting, neck stiffness, and Kernig’s sign. Coma, renal dysfunction, respiratory acidosis then developed, and the patient died 4 days after admission to the hospital. Laboratory tests showed a slight increase in the leukocyte count elevated level of aspartate aminotransferase increase in the level of cerebrospinal fluid protein and leukocyte count Since none of the patients presented with rash, which is considered to be a typical sign of infections with species of rickettsiae of the spotted fever group their conditions were initially misdiagnosed, and they received penicillin G, leading to a prolonged hospitalization for approximately 20 days. Babesia venatorum Causes human disease: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/20/5/pdfs/12-1034.pdf B. venatorum was first known as Babesia sp. EU1 and was named after the Latin word for hunter because the first reported infected patients were 2 occupational hunters from Austria and Italy. irregular fever (38.6°C–41.0°C) for 12 days myalgia progressive weakness Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis: Causes human disease: https://jcm.asm.org/content/48/5/1956.full, and is an uncultured emerging bacterium that is in the family of Anaplasmosis. It’s close relatives Ehrlichia chaffeensis and Anaplasma phagocytophilum selectively infect the professional phagocytes monocytes/macrophages and neutrophilic granulocytes, which suggests that “Ca. Neoehrlichia mikurensis” may display tropism for leukocytes also. Until now, no one has been able to grow “Ca. Neoehrlichia mikurensis”, which explains why blood cultures remain negative. immunosuppressive conditions haematologic neoplasia myalgia (muscle pain) arthralgia (joint pain) Vascular events such as deep vein thrombosis, thromboembolic events, aneurysm and transitory ischemic accidents skin manifestations, such as erythema nodosum or erysipelas-like rashes elevated C-reactive protein levels leukocytosis (neutrophilia) Ixodes ricinus tick, a.k.a castor bean tick, or sheep tick info: http://www.cfsph.iastate.edu/Factsheets/pdfs/ixodes_ricinus.pdf I. ricinus can also transmit a number of pathogens including Babesia divergens (babesiosis), louping ill virus, tick-borne encephalitis virus, Borrelia burgdorferi (Lyme disease) and Anaplasma phagocytophila (tick-borne fever of ruminants, human granulocytic anaplasmosis). Add to this growing list “Candidatus Rickettsia tarasevichiae,” a new species of rickettsiae of the spotted fever group. Ioxodes persulcatus tick, a.k.a. Taiga tick info: http://www.bristoluniversitytickid.uk/page/Ixodes+persulcatus/25/#.W-mzZREeteI Transmits Russian Spring-Summer encephalitis and Lyme disease. Babesia divergens, B. venatorum and “Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis” were reported for the first time from the Finnish mainland. This article demonstrates why many in “Lyme land” remain ill. You can’t diagnose what you can’t see, grow, and test for. Authorities have absolutely no idea what is infecting everyone, and Lyme is only the tip of the ice-berg. Babesia, Lyme, research, Rickettsia, Testing, Ticks Comments Off on Thirty Percent Finnish Ticks Carry at Least One Pathogen & Candidas Rickettsia Tarasevichiae Found for the First Time Gestational Lyme & Other Tick-borne Diseases – Dr. Jones Researchers Discover Method to Make Bacteria Harmless Medical Marijuana For Lyme - A Doctor's Perspective How to Set Healthy Boundaries	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1479
__label__wiki	0.659398	0.659398	Episode #20 – Dan Donohue, Part 2: Shriv from Battlefront II Podcast 2187 Episode 143: Star Wars Conversations Rogue OneSolo: A Star Wars StoryStar Wars Stories Connecting the Star Wars Stories: Edrio “Two Tubes” "Solo" co-writer Jonathan Kasdan adds some context John Bishop June 25, 2018 So, after my sixth viewing of Solo: A Star Wars Story, I’ve been tweeting my “hot takes”; nothing Earth-shattering, but just notes jotted down during what I assume is my last viewing in a large format theater. However, as I prepared to move into the second half of the movie, I wanted to ensure one of my favorite “easter eggs” was, in fact, a hidden gem. So, I took to Twitter. The Lucasfilm Story Group’s Matt Martin answered almost immediately, confirming what others have said previously (and, in the effort, breaking my heart–I love Rogue One’s Chirrut Imwe). Sharu. https://t.co/fkKoC051jy — Matt Martin (@missingwords) June 24, 2018 But a little while later, Jon Kasdan, who co-wrote Solo alongside his father Lawrence, chimed in and cheered me up. #RogueOne fan too. Hence critical appearance by Edrio "Two Tubes" who had dialogue which was ultimately cut. Wanted to establish the connection between Enfys and Saw, and the slowly developing rebellion across the galaxy. — Jon Kasdan (@JonKasdan) June 25, 2018 First of all. Awesome. Second: Here’s hoping Edrio Two Tubes‘ deleted scene shows up on the BluRay. Sure, it’s a bummer that Edrio’s soliloquy was cut. And yeah, it may never be canon. However, beyond the hot takes, easter eggs, and callbacks, it’s clear that Star Wars creators continue to collaborate to create a cohesive universe for us to enjoy. But, in the wake of the box office blowback on Solo: A Star Wars Story, I’m hoping another Lucasfilm creator takes the final tweet of the conversation to heart. It said: Edrio Two Tubes Jonathan Kasdan Lawrence Kasdan Rogue One Solo: A Star Wars Story A graduate of Boston and Northeastern universities, John Bishop became the beat reporter for BostonBruins.com prior to the B’s 2006-07 hockey season. While with the Bruins, “Bish” traveled North America and Europe to cover the Black & Gold’s every move via laptop, blog, and smart phone. The co-author of two books, Bygone Boston and Full 60 to History: The Inside Story of the 2011 Stanley Cup Champion Boston Bruins, John covered the XXI Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in 2010 and the B’s 2011 championship run and banner raising before taking a faculty/communications position at a prep school outside Boston in 2013. He lives with his wife Andrea and sons Jack, Scott, and Luke in central Massachusetts. By John Bishop Jedi and Padawan? Sith Lord and Apprentice? Depends on whether you are a Patriots fan…. Check Out a Quick Tour of Disneyland’s “Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge” Construction Site The Clone Wars Season 7 Preview!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1482
__label__wiki	0.880342	0.880342	Domain restructures with chief sales officer Tom Ainsworth departing December 12, 2018 2:24 by Vivienne Kelly Domain’s chief sales officer Tom Ainsworth is leaving the company. Sources tell Mumbrella Ainsworth was informed of the news this week and it is believed various prominent Melbourne real estate agents are disgruntled by the decision. Domain, however, insists the decision is part of a wider restructure as newly-installed CEO Jason Pellegrino makes his mark on the company. Ainsworth has worked at both REA and Domain The business formerly known as Fairfax – which has since been absorbed into Nine – owned a 60% controlling stake in Domain. Mumbrella understands Ainsworth’s departure is not related to Nine’s takeover of Fairfax and the resulting combined sales teams and redundancies. Instead, the decision is believed to have come from Pellegrino. Ainsworth joined Domain as executive director of residential sales last year, and became chief sales officer at the start of 2018. Prior to that he had been director of sales at rival REA Group before spending time in the USA with Move, Inc. The restructure which resulted in Ainsworth being let go means Domain will now operate under two business units. In a note to staff, Pellegrino said he was looking to grow the company after observing its processes and spending time with stakeholders during his first 100 days in office. The B2B arm of the business – the residential, commercial, developer and media, agent services, corporate sales teams, go to market, sales operations and customer experience – will fall under the ‘agency/ business’ banner. This arm will be spearheaded by Tony Blamey, who becomes chief commercial officer – a promotion from his current gig as chief product and customer experience officer. The B2C arm – which will include the content and audience teams previously led by Melina Cruickshank who has defected to rival REA Group – will fall under the ‘consumer’ banned and will be managed by a yet-to-be-recruited chief consumer officer. As part of the restructure, Domain is also recruiting a chief product officer, who will report into Pellegrino and have teams supporting both lines of business. The restructure comes very soon after Cruickshank’s departure. Cruickshank will now be REA Group’s chief marketing and content officer, replacing Kieren Cooney who moved across to replace Andy Lark as CMO of Foxtel. Domain’s former CEO – prominent Melbourne real estate and media identity Antony Catalano – left in January citing family reasons.It subsequently emerged, however, there had been allegations about Domain fostering a boys’ club culture. Vivienne Kelly Vivienne Kelly is the editor of Mumbrella. Throughout her career she has worked as a journalist and editor across a number of consumer and B2B finance and real estate titles. She has also spent time in public relations across the health, finance and energy sectors. topics Antony Catalano, Domain, Jason Pellegrino, Melina Cruickshank, Tom Ainsworth, Tony Blamey Gazza 12 Dec 18 Fired. Catalano recruit. Anonymous 12 Dec 18 Comedy show continues Naysayer 13 Dec 18 Tony Blamey back to his rightful role. Extremely overdue Ainsworth exit. Nine don’t tolerate revenue declines. Saving Face 13 Dec 18 100% exited by Falloon. First win to Nine. Domainer 13 Dec 18 Blamey moved back to running the sales teams, where he should have been the last 12 months. There’s a movie series called ‘Back to the Future’ the Domain board members like to watch. Clean Green 14 Dec 18 Blamey been with the business since 2003 and has run every division in Domain.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1486
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__label__cc	0.724028	0.275972	RANT! Southern Shaker “shakes” his finger at Mr. IQD! Happy Wednesday Dinarians, Sorry to have not been posting as much lately, but between the holidays, new year and the flu, I’ve been a bit “out of it”. Besides, the IQD didn’t “RV” or significantly increase in value, and you can bet I keep my eyes on the CBI.iq website for that event. So, there was not much to talk about, but then not long ago I made a post in response to a Mail Bag question I had received. In that post I was trying to illustrate a point to the person whom I was responding to. I was trying to make a point about not spending your hard earned money on IQD if you have other responsibilities which are more pressing, such as food, rent/mortgage, car payment, savings, etc. I was trying to get across that you should NEVER spend money you cannot afford. Here is the direct quote from that Post which got Southern Shaker all riled up: I only own as much as I can afford to lose. Perhaps I’m gambling? But in essence I see the IQD as “throw-a-way” money! This is the same money I would blow spending a few careless weekends in Las Vegas. I used the flippant term “throw-a-way money” and my buddy Southern Shaker took issue with it, and wrote the following Rant! about yours truly “Mr. IQD” – geeze, I never thought I would publish a rant about myself… Enjoy! Name or Handle: SOUTHERN SHAKER Comment (please see note above): Hey MRIQD, Southern Shaker here!!! How’s it been going Buddy!! I was reading the post SHOULD I SELL MY DINAR. I have a serious question (believe it or not). Would someone explain to me what “THROW AWAY CASH” is??? I’m what I consider very well off in today’s world but for the life of me I don’t know what “THROW AWAY CASH” is. Then I think of someone saying “JUST IN CASE” there is a revaluation of the Iraqi Dinar to just 1 USD. Do people realize that 1 Dinar to 1 USD is an increase of 116,000% in the Dinar? An increase of 1 Dinar to $3.44 USD is an increase of 399,000% and an increase of 1 Dinar to $36.86 USD is 4,275,800% (these USD amounts are amounts that’s been given by “gurus”)!!!!!!! Am I missing something here? Does anyone “REALLY” believe in an increase remotely even close to these percentages?? Now back to my original question, what is “THROW AWAY” MONEY? If I was to take $300.00, $1,200.00 or even $5,000.00 and walk outside in a 25 mph wind and throw that money straight up toward the sky is that “THROW AWAY” money?? Maybe if I simply took that same money, walked over to the trash can and threw it in there is that “THROW AWAY” money?? Now I have been to Vegas, Reno and many various casinos aroud the USA and gambled money. Sometimes I won, sometimes I lost, but I had a good time/enjoyment/entertainment/fun doing this. Hell most or some of the time the casino gave me complementary drinks, meals and even a room sometimes!! Now with the dinar thing I have noticed that most folks live in the build em up let em down world. That don’t sound like fun to me?? I got involved in the “take down” of the lying, scamming, scumbag, low life, lazy, good for nothing, cheating, con artist, deadbeat dinar gurus because several of my honest, hard working, good hearted, family people, loyal employees bought into this SCAM!!!!!!! 101% SCAM!!! NO more, NO less!!! Now as you know I’ve been working with, as Tony calls them, the 3 letter agencies taking these scumbags down for over 5 months now. All I can elaborate on that matter is it is going “EXTREMLY” well!! I can tell ANYONE that wishes to know the truth that the Iraqi Dinar RV, RD is 101% PURE SCAM. Not 99.99, not 100% but 101% SCAM!! It seems that checking the background of the so called “gurus” would answer most questions as to the fact was this a scam. Then you would think looking at the ridicious percentages the dinar would have to increase to become even equal to 1 USD would tell you something? Then if you look at the so called self proclaimed “gurus” and their “past” life should tell you something. Number 1 is can “ANYBODY” tell me just 1% of the time “ANY” truth/fact in “ANY” of the so called “INTEL”??? Can “ANYBODY” tell me of “1” time the self proclaimed “guru” has provided “1” shred of evidence of fact for “ANY” 1 PETER PAN IN NEVER NEVER LAND shred of so call intel/excuse?? What I have noticed is that if you “DARE” question the lies that spew from their mouths your banned, marked a negativenellie, naysayer or person of no faith. Beware of false knowledge, it is more dangerous than ignorance!! Now most of the time the so called guru is someone like Tony Renfrow, a “KNOWN” MLM scam man. Or maybe his brother Ray Renfrow a “CONVICTED” felon MLM scam man. Of course then there’s the intel and excuses from these low life bums. Let’s look at a few::::: People dancing in the streets, atm’s loaded, cards loaded, in country rv, contractors paid, whales paid, elite paid, banks on lockdown, employees returning to banks (at night on weekend), call centers manned, FBI, US Marshals, DHS and local law at banks now for rv, rv scrolling across bottom of tv screens in Iraq, Iraqis not reporting to work, people in tents in the parking lots of USA banks stopping rv, people on buses storming USA banks stopping rv, clawback clause, backwall time, done done done, all 100% completed, rv’ed but forgot 1 signature must redo, $3.44 rate, $24.00 rate, $36.86 rate, oil credits, USA contract rate, out of human hands turned over to randomizing computer, Iraqi holiday, 100% done, 1000% done, 1009% done, computer glitch, Maliki didn’t make right speech, Maliki had to make 2nd speech, CL returned to Iraq and told them to get it done NOW, Obama holding up rv, Obama not holding up rv, Obama told Maliki to get back and get it done now, UST in control of rv, UST not in control of rv, IMF in control of rv, IMF not in control of rv, Banks in control of rv, Banks not in control of rv, announced in mosques, banks on highest alert, intel so good you’ll poop your pants but been told not to tell you cause you can’t handle it, Mr DC (a voice on a phone only), Rats being arrested worldwide, politicians being arrested in Washington DC now, rv’ed in several countries but not in USA, rv’ed in Canada but only in certain places, 5,000 whales, 10,000 whales, 15,000 whales, 5,000 elite, 10,000 elite, 15,000 elite, 30,000 elite, 100,000 elite, Wells Fargo, BOA, Chase, Mom and Pop banks, pay it foward, don’t call the banks, open NIB account, don’t open NIB account, NDA, 19 page NDA, 23 page NDA, DHS over NDA, Tony has copy of NDA (never shown), Okie offering to donate his dinars if UST would release rv to poor sheeplin/peeps (if this rv was real you couldn’t pry dinars from Okie’s hands), Okie was offered 3 times last week to cash out but wouldn’t because of dedication to sheeplin/peeps, didn’t think I’d (Tony) be making this call (at least 100 times), given 2 times first one has passed, rv before Christmas, rv before Thanksgiving, Govt wants everybody to have great Christmas, Kuwait rv (never happened), by Jan 1, 2014, by Jan 31, 2014, be in banks on “Sunday”, CIA calling Tony, IMF calling Tony, UST calling Tony to issue 800#’s, IRS calling Tony, people on inside telling Tony conversation in Oval Office (now can ANYBODY REALLY believe that ANY 3 letter agency such as FBI, IRS, NSA, UST, CIA, IMF, DOJ, DEA, SECRET SERVICE, US Marshals, DHS would dare tell ANY everyday, common Joe, plain Jane, blue collar, Joe citizen, known scam artist ANYTHING TOP SECRET, CLASSIFIED, Q-8, CONFIDENTIAL, NATIONAL SECURITY SENSITIVE, SPOKEN IN SECRET IN OVAL OFFICE???) People cashing out now in Dubai, Maliki shooting fireworks in the streets himself, boots on the ground, any minute now, wear shades and ball cap to bank, don’t wear shades and ball cap to bank, total silence (really means guru has something to do the weekend), money in banks NOW for rv, people in Europe cashing now, people in Australia cashing out now, churches being offered deals now, elite and friends paid $38.00, guru Tony knows for a fact that over 100,000 elite cashed out over weekend, USA politicians resigning their post before they go to jail. Now I know I missed some but go back and read each one of these slowly. Keep in mind over a 10 year period most or a lot of these have been repeated time and time again!! But not ONE TIME has a so called “guru” been made “PROVE” one of these excuses/intel!!! NOT ONE TIME!! The “ONLY” people making money on the Iraqi Dinar are dealers, pumpers, gurus, dinar chat sites and IRAQ themselves!!!! Keep in mind when this blows up these people will sell these sites to their old cronies in the MLM for the emails and names!! And they make “GREAT” money on CC’s now!! Heck people are selling Dinars on EBAY people!! Go to http://www.ripoffreport.com type in Tony Renfrow and see one of the BIGGEST GURU’S past out there!! 14DAILYPLUS, RENT MY CREDIT, MIDAS TOUCH, 14DAILYRELOADED, HOME BASED BUSINESS SCHEME are just a few of Old Tony’s scams. Do you REALLY believe Tony would be involved in ANY true honest venture?? Go to GOOGLE EARTH MAPS and type in the address shown on ripoffreport shown for Tony that one of his victims confronted him at: 301 Cascade Falls Drive, Folsom, calif [NOTE: Click the address and it opens directly in Google Maps.] Is that his address, I can’t say 100% yes but why would a victim list a false address?? Look at the aerial view then the street view. If in fact that is Tony’s address he’s doing damned good for a guru that claims he makes NOTHING supplying the poor sheeplin/peeps intel day and night, 24/7/365!! Now I pray you don’t take this wrong but I own a nice size trucking firm and transportation brokerage firm right here in the USA. Yes I have 8 figures in the bank and that home is nearly as large as mine which I built with money I worked for and not 1 copper penny that I beat 1 soul out of (I pray you don’t take this statement wrong). The point I’m trying to make is Tony has built his home on scams of other people’s hard earned money. I have over 200 employees and I’d give them a dollar before I’d dare to beat them out of 1 copper penny!! I must be pretty honest because the less time an employee has been with me is 10 years and there’s only 2 that’s got that short of employment time. Grant it some are getting ready to retire and that time will change but I have many 15, 20 and even 3 – 23 year employees. I have been blessed coming from a single truck owner independent trucker to a company with over 200 trucks. Several of my employees got sucked into this dinar scam. I genuinely care about each individual employee. I felt something wasn’t right so I started investigating it. It didn’t take long at all before I found the cold hard facts of what this Iraqi Dinar RV really was, a 101% SCAM. Many articles have been written by different states, BBB, Congressmen, Senators, investment companies and so forth warning the people of this scam. The people want/desire/crave this get rich quick scheme so they can help others and themselves and that’s an admirable thing and it’s a great feeling to help others. I sign 22 checks a month to donations I uphold, like Childern’s Hospital, Cancer research, Feed the Children, Wounded Warriors, different homless shelters and others. It’s a GREAT feeling that goes with the signing of these checks!!! I bought every Dinar my employees had bought for the amount they paid and I / “WE” had a Dinar burning at my company about 3 or 4 Saturdays ago. We decided to keep 250,000 (ten 25,000 dinar) so I could go to Tony Renfrows Federal Trial in Kansas City, Ks when he goes to trail for the 14DAILYPLUS scam which he beat investors out of over $4,800,000.00 and hand him the dinars as he starts into the court room and tell him to see if the Judge would take these as payment??? Please go to this site, MRIQD.COM, BAGHDADINVEST.COM, DINARDOUCHEBAGS.COM, IRAQ CURRENCY WATCH.COM, RIPOFFREPORT.COM, RAGINGBULL.COM/FORUM/TOPIC/963955 and work thru the sites looking at the hard evidence. Read and research where people like MRIQD, BI, MARCUS CURTIS, JACK, INES, KENNY and others have written. These are extremely smart, educated and LOGICAL people. [Awe Shucks Southern Shaker, you are making me blush and feel embarrassed by your kind comment.] I do not claim to be a smart man myself, just a blessed man. I’m so sorry for rambling on and going in circles but if I can help just 1 person as the one speaking of “should I sell my dinars”, I want too!!!!! As I said, I’m not a smart man but my advice is, if you “CAN” find where to sell those useless dinar please do so and recoop some of your “REAL” money back. Then buy a hungry person a hot meal, give a needy family groceries, go to the casino (who knows maybe you’ll hit it lucky–fingers crossed for you) or simply put it back in your pocket. Only if you keep the dinars does that money become throw away money. Oh and please let me add. My brother is the Director of one of the 3 letter agencies so my obtained information of this being 101% scam is “REAL” intel. One more thing that “REALLY” bothers me!!!!! These so called self proclaimed “gurus” put themselves on a “HIGHER” scale than you people by even calling you”SHEEPLINS or PEEPS”!!!!!!!! With the “REAL” money you make them buying that “USELESS” dinar they should be calling you “YOUR MAJESTY”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love Southern Shakers rants, ideas and commentary and thanks for that one, I really did enjoy it buddy! If I only relied on Hack Guru “Intel” I would certainly agree with you 100% about the IQD being a “scam”! However, I search, read and comprehend the Iraqi News Articles, and my personal feeling and summation is that Iraq will get past their current “Dictatorship” with Maliki, their economy will grow and expand, and over time my IQD that I currently hold will further increase in value. I do feel that a SCAM on our community is when Hack Gurus who are being paid directly by Dinar Broker(s) to incite people to purchase “reserves” on the hype of false “Intel”. That is blatantly a conspiracy, and a scam to defraud individuals. But, please lets not throw the baby out with the bath water. Lets go back a few years to 2008 – Bernard L. Madoff… Bernie was celebrated by very respectable people and organizations, he had been audited by the SEC several times – passing these Audits with flying colors! Here is what the Wall Street Journal had to say: In 1992, The Wall Street Journal described him: one of the masters of the off-exchange “third market” and the bane of the New York Stock Exchange. He has built a highly profitable securities firm, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, which siphons a huge volume of stock trades away from the Big Board. The $740 million average daily volume of trades executed electronically by the Madoff firm off the exchange equals 9% of the New York exchange’s. Mr. Madoff’s firm can execute trades so quickly and cheaply that it actually pays other brokerage firms a penny a share to execute their customers’ orders, profiting from the spread between bid and asked prices that most stocks trade for.[22] However, it is common knowledge to all of us now that Bernie was running a Ponzie Scheme [Wiki Link]. His scheme was an estimated $68 BILLION in fraud helping people Invest in Securities and Manage their Money. So, my question is: Do we say that ALL Securities Brokers and Money Managers are “con artists” and “scams” just because 1 rotten apple mad-off with the money? (Pun Intended). No, of course not. It is my opinion that Iraq will be in a better situation for their economy to grow once Maliki is removed from office, and the new Government is seated after the April 30th 2014 Elections. I should note that some of my IQD holdings have already increased in value since I originally purchased them at a rate of 1170 to $1.00 USD – can that be called a “scam”? Granted, that micro increase to 1166 to $1.00 USD is not what I was hoping for two years ago when CBI (under Dr. Shabibi’s leadership) made this increase – but like you say, a penny is still a penny, and worth keeping. I will conclude with my original post’s contention. If you are a person who does study Iraq’s news, and does your own research, ignores the garbage “intel” being put out by Hack Gurus, if you happen to come to a conclusion that you wish to speculate on Iraq’s economy (i.e. their Dinar), then ONLY spend the money that you can throw-a-way! 🙂 Keep on trucking, thanks for helping your Employees and Friends, while staying safe on our Highways…. Shake! Shake!!! ~ Mr. IQD This entry was posted in RANTS! and tagged intel, IQD, Iraqi dinar, maliki, MrIQD, okie oil man, rv, Tony TNT Renfrow by MrIQD.com. Bookmark the permalink. 16 thoughts on “RANT! Southern Shaker “shakes” his finger at Mr. IQD!” Ines Radman on February 12, 2014 at 4:01 pm said: Aww shucks, I feel honored for being mentioned in the rant! That was awesome, it makes all the work we put into this worthwhile and like he said, if I can change one person’s mind, I have accomplished something. Hey, have you heard a few of us including myself have received an email from BBS Trending to get information on TNT Tony and RV. From me they wanted the original email I received from the IMF, but I sent her a few links to conference calls where Christine Lagarde was being mentioned as she asked me about that too. I hope this exposure blows up in Tony’s face, but then again, these people are so blinded that like TNT did on his conference call “Hey guys, BBC is not going to tell the truth, only We the people know the truth”, but once they read it and see that a credible investigative reporter did the work and collected the data of which I am sure she is not going to find any credible evidence of an imminent RV, hopefully they might start thinking about it. MrIQD.com on February 12, 2014 at 4:44 pm said: Wow, the BBC! I’m sure if they interviewed me, they would want to reveal my identity, which I’m not willing to do. But, I will drop this “hint” I have been on Television several times and I have been in a major motion picture as well. I do have a friend that does work for the BBC and iTV, but who wants to bragg…. 😉 I don’t do interviews, but apparantly my IMF email has gone viral and I get the most hits on it everyday and this woman from BBC, Cordelia also found it on my blog. I want this RV scam finished, it’s not a scam by not existing, but I mean these con artists selling the sheeple false dreams. For a long time I thought it was not my right to interfere and let people make their own choices, but then I realized we’re not all the same and the work we are putting into revealing this is paying off. These people need to get back to their lives, they hare holding on to a dream that is not going to come true anytime soon. Robert Schafer on February 12, 2014 at 5:51 pm said: You can call me Biskitbob. Mr. IQD, this is the first time that I have replied here. I replied on the sheeples site (TNTDINARACTIVEBOARD) and got myself banned for life because I asked a question about verification on their information. Obviously I hit a nerve with that. Now, to make things even better, I got onto the FOREX practice site to play around. I received a call from one of the FOREX workers to greet me to the site. He asked if there was a specific currency that I had in mind and I told him it was the IQD and VND. His reply was that those currencies are NOT tradable at this time and he saw nothing in the distant future for that to happen. He did invite me to check into some of the other currencies such as the British Pound, Euro, Japanese yen and others. He told me he has been with FOREX for 7 years and has never seen the IQD or VND posted. It’s pretty amazing these poor, misled, sheeple are following the POS (piece-o-sh_t) gurus such as Tony, Okie, Frank26, Loechin and others. I would prefer these a$$whipes get tagged by the Feds and the BS stopped before it really gets out of hand. Hi Biskitbob, Thanks for stepping up and commenting here. Funny ain’t it how those hack gurus bann people who just ask simple questions like you did. Regarding your comment about the FOREX – Remember, the FOREX is a private institution, like a Stock Exchange. Therefore lets take for example, The New York Stock Exchange does NOT always list stock of a Corporation, even though this Corporation may be a viable company and could be a publicly traded stock on their exchange. Often that company will have to take their stock to a different exchange, such as The NASDAQ, or even to an International Exchange. The same would be true with the FOREX – just because they have made a business decision not to carry the IQD, does not mean it is not a tradable currency. It also does not mean that in the future the FOREX may change their minds about the IQD. Thanks for sharing your experience – no doubt there are thousands more just like you who have been banned – I hope to hear from them also. alrightynow on February 12, 2014 at 9:39 pm said: There is no IQD or IQN on the FOREX, period. This is another case of the hack guru efforts at pumping themselves up as schoozers with the big boys. Just as there is no connection between them and all the 3 letter governmental agencies. Exception, I believe Tony does have a very important meeting in March and they may be bestowing him with a nice orange jumpsuite as aan appreciation gesture for his efforts at scaming! alrightynow on February 12, 2014 at 10:16 pm said: CORRECTION TO MY REPLY: The word schoozers is a typo, I meant to type schmoozers. On second thought, Tony Renfrow is short one M of a true schmoozer, which would, in fact, make him a schoozer. Paul (@specificproduct) on February 12, 2014 at 10:14 pm said: SOUTHERN SHAKER that was one hell of a rant If you did burn yours and your employees dinar why are you even interested in it anymore! I bought every Dinar my employees had bought for the amount they paid and I / “WE” had a Dinar burning at my company about 3 or 4 Saturdays ago. What will you say to them when the day comes to cash in and you’ve burned it all ! Even if it turns out to be 2% profit it seems to me they have blindly followed you the same way Tony’s followers do him. You say your brother is a director of one of the three letter agencies but don’t say which one the same way tony dose like it’s top secret. No one is going to take your word for it because you say your brother knows it’s a scam. may be if your brother speaks out publicly about what he knows it mite be credible for us all to know. I don’t think George Bush and Dick Chaney who made it possible for people outside of the inner circle to be able to invest in the possibility. Would be the master minds of a scam of this magnitude, ” This war will pay for itself ” GWB What do you suppose he meant by that? He meant when the Iraqi nation is back on it’s feet they will be one of the biggest players in the world markets. Going back to your burning party if I was one of your employees I would have gone along with it just so you don’t weed me out latter. But I’d have also done the smart thing by keeping back the majority of it. This brings me to your other point THROW AWAY MONEY you did what you say doesn’t exist THROW AWAY MONEY you paid your employees what they paid for it then burned it instead of selling it back to a dealer. yes you would not have gotten back what you paid your employees but you’d at least gotten some return. there for that was your THROW AWAY MONEY mike diston (@DistonMike) on February 13, 2014 at 3:39 pm said: Great rant Shaker This is my twitter acc and in the last wk I’ve gone through 3 acc tweeting on #wearethepeople lol. So this is not not my real name but you might know me as the one that Tony Turd gave out my phone number on his blast. I’ve tweeted 1041 just on this acc the last 3 days and I’m finally getting through to these dead heads. I’ve been predicting 100% guarantee each day the next day it wouldn’t happen and have given out all kind of links for docs. One good link is https://services.saccourt.ca.gov/indexsearchnew/ type Anthony Renfrow and there’s a case from 9-30-98 with him being charged with 77 felonies and on 11-5-02 he got 4yrs. My latest tweets are comparing the RV to the Nigerian scam. The Nigerian scam involves you sending a $1000 and receiving $1,000,000 I would ask you wouldn’t fall for that. The Dinar scam buying $1000 dinar and receiving $3,500,000 why would you fall for that. Cordelia of BBC told me she should have an article finished today so keep your eyes open. PEACE Paul (@specificproduct) on February 13, 2014 at 5:10 pm said: If you don’t trust much of what your hearing you can trust Reuters to give you the best facts out there. BAGHDAD, Oct 3 (Reuters) – Many Iraqis have lost faith in their dinar currency but to some foreign speculators, it promises big profits. The contrast underlines the uncertainties of investing in Iraq as the country recovers from years of war and economic sanctions. The logic of the dinar bulls is simple. Iraq’s oil exports rose to 2.6 million barrels per day in September, their highest level in three decades; the country aims to hit 6 million bpd by 2017, which would put it close to Saudi Arabia’s current level. Even if unstable politics, militant violence and bureaucratic inefficiency prevent that target from being hit, Iraq still seems to be on the threshold of an oil boom that will transform its finances. Inflows of new oil revenue could give the country big external surpluses and push state finances deep into the black by late this decade – the classic recipe for a strong currency. “As far as our investors are concerned, when they buy Iraqi dinars they do know it is a long-term investment. You know it takes time for a country to rebuild itself,” said Hassnain Ali Agha, president of Dinar Trade, a U.S. dealer of exotic currencies. Because the dinar is not freely traded by banks outside Iraq, online dealers of banknotes such as Dinar Trade are the only way that most foreigners can invest in the currency. The Las Vegas-based company says it sells as much as hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of dinars daily, shipping dinar notes to thousands of customers in the United States and elsewhere. Agha said that because of optimism about Iraq’s oil wealth, there had been solid demand for dinars since his company was founded in 2004, a year after the U.S. invasion which triggered years of political violence and economic turmoil. Back in Baghdad, however, Iraqis themselves are not convinced. Many take what opportunities they have to change their dinars into hard currency, and conduct all but small day-to-day transactions in U.S. dollars. “We have no trust in the Iraqi dinar – we feel afraid to save it. We trust the dollar more. The dollar does not go up and down, it is fixed,” said housewife and mother-of-two Eman Saadeldine. WILD SWINGS The dinar has endured wild swings over the past three decades. In the 1980s, one dinar bought around $3, but economic sanctions imposed on Iraq around the time of the 1991 Gulf War sent the currency into decline and stoked inflation, which the government fuelled by printing money. By late 1995, $1 bought as much as 3,000 dinars. After the 2003 invasion, the central bank intervened in the currency market to strengthen the dinar, using its supplies of dollars to manage the exchange rate. But over the last several years, even as Iraq’s oil production has expanded, there has been none of the appreciation for which speculators have been hoping. The central bank now sells dollars in daily auctions at a fixed price of 1,166 dinars, a level barely changed since 2009. In fact, the dinar has recently faced downward pressure as a result of the international economic sanctions imposed on neighbouring Iran and Syria. Iraqi traders rushed to buy dollars to sell on illicitly to residents and businesses in those countries, which are hungry for hard currency. The dinar fell as low as 1,280 in the open market this year before Iraqi authorities reacted by allowing two state-run banks and some private lenders to sell dollars, helping push the exchange rate back to around 1,200 currently. Another factor counting against the dinar is the fact that the largest banknote is only 25,000 dinars. This often makes the currency unattractive to use in an economy where the banking system is primitive and deals are often done in cash. Saadeldine recalls paying in cash for a new house in 2009. “If our money had been in dinars, it would have been impossible for us to carry it. It was in dollars and we carried it in a small suitcase,” she said. The central bank has been considering plans to knock three zeros off the nominal value of banknotes to simplify financial transactions. This would not in itself increase the real value of the dinar, since prices would adjust in line with the redenomination, but economic experts say it could improve confidence in the dinar and thus boost its value eventually. “It would increase trust in the dinar even though its value would not change,” said Baghdad-based economist Majid al-Souri. “Indirectly, when trust increases there will be appreciation.” Earlier this year, however, the cabinet decided to suspend the technically complex redenomination plan until further notice, saying the economic climate was not suitable. The biggest obstacle to dinar appreciation is the fact that for now at least, Iraqi authorities appear content with the exchange rate in its current range. In a memorandum to the International Monetary Fund on economic and financial policies for 2011, written in March that year, the Iraqi government said it saw benefits in keeping the dinar stable. “We believe that the policy of maintaining a stable exchange rate continues to be appropriate, as it provides a solid anchor for the public’s expectations in an otherwise uncertain environment and in an economy with a still very low level of financial intermediation,” it said. In the long term, however, Iraq’s finances and economy may improve so dramatically that authorities feel comfortable allowing the dinar to appreciate under the pressure of flows of oil money into the country. The IMF expects this year’s estimated budget surplus of just 0.2 percent of gross domestic product to balloon to 12.1 percent in 2017. The country’s balance of trade in goods and services, in deficit as recently as 2010, is projected over the next five years to shift to a large surplus of 11.3 percent of GDP. Deputy central bank governor Mudher Kasim told Reuters that he expected redenomination of the dinar to go ahead in 2014 or later, by which time the amount of Iraqi currency in circulation would have increased significantly, making financial dealings in cash even harder. In the long term, the central bank aims to make 1 dinar equal to $1 with a combination of redenomination and appreciation, although that will take over three years because of instability in the Middle East, Kasim said: “If not for the regional circumstances, we would proceed faster with that plan.” Some analysts think the appreciation could go further. Kamal al-Basri, research director at the Iraqi Institute for Economic Reforms, an independent research body in Baghdad, said he expected the dinar to stay stable for the next three years, but that afterwards it might strengthen beyond parity against the dollar, including the effect of redenomination. For that to happen, Iraqi politics will have to stabilise, skill and education levels rise and the economy diversify so that it is not so heavily dependent on oil exports, he said. Speaking at the Baghdad currency exchange shop that he owns, Ahmed Abdul-Ridha said the dinar’s stability in the past three years was good, but it did not indicate the long-term trend. “We wish the dinar’s value would go back to what it was like before, when it used to equal $3 in the 1970s and even in the 1980s,” he said. “I expect that day will come. Why not? What we are going through is an abnormal condition…We are an oil country.” LOVE THAT! Paul – I think you really hit a HOME RUN posting up this Reuter’s article. Can you reply back with the link? http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/03/iraq-economy-dinar-idUSL5E8KT13720121003 Keep in mind folks Paul’s link to the Reuters.com article was originally posted in October 2012. But, it is a good example of thinking “long-term” and not “short-term”. 301 Cascade Falls Drive, Folsom, calif. If that is his grib as he would call it His family wont have far to go to visit him in the slam assuming the courts make his new B&B Folsom state pen. Scratch that Tony’s probably hopping for Camp Fluffy were his hero Madoff can teach him how to go bigger next time round. MrIQD.com on February 27, 2014 at 12:52 pm said: Now, despite Madoff being a scumbag – I have to admire his ability to deceive everyone for DECADES, pass several SEC Audits and he “made off” with not just a few Thousand Dollars or even a few Million – no, that man conned Tens of $BILLIONS from “smart” (and also trusting) people!!!! That is impressive!!! Then, you look at a two-bit Hack like Tony TNT, and you really do feel compelled to laugh.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1517
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The article includes images of President Johnson, Vice President Humphrey and members of the presidential commission to investigate city riots. The publication continues with several pages of photographs Martin Luther King, Jr.’s funeral. People identified in captions for the photographs are Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, Senator Edward Brooke, Senator Joseph Tydings, Lawrence Pierce, Wayne Morse, Bertram Baker, Senator Edward Brooke, Harry Belafonte Jr., Gordon Parks, Coretta Scott King, Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Percy Ellis Sutton, Bayard Rustin, Benjamin Wright, Eugene Nickerson and Leonard Farbstein. Following this is a double page image of Robert F. Kennedy’s funeral procession. 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There are also profiles on musicians performing at the Lincoln Center, Morehouse College, the Democratic Party, debutant balls, the New York Giants, 369th Veterans Association, National Pan-Hellenic Council and notable African American business leaders, labor leaders, community leaders, political leaders, doctors, nurses, artists, and activists from across the United States but primarily in New York City. There are approximately 154 pages. The magazine contains both black and white and color advertisements. The back cover has an advertisement for Johnnie Walker Red scotch. United States--Social life and customs Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Anne B. Patrick and the family of Hilda E. Stokely	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1519
__label__cc	0.729668	0.270332	Nooklyn This New Yorker tackles life in the city one (plain) slice at a time By Lyka Sethi · Feb 27, 2019 · · Once in a while I come across a food influencer’s painstakingly curated, hyper-edited, calculated caption-filled Instagram feed, and I just have to turn up my nose. It irks me to see such an emphasis on how food looks over its origins and cultural context and the chefs who make it. (If I see a towering milkshake topped with an inedible quantity of rainbow-colored confections on your feed, I may assume you don’t actually enjoy eating.) It’s rare to encounter someone who has such a genuine love of food that they build their entire lifestyle around the pursuit of a deeper understanding of and appreciation for it. Brooklyn-born foodie J.P. Dimalanta embodies that purity to a T. Though he spends long work days in a hospital emergency room, J.P. uses his free time to the fullest, hitting pizzerias old and new and never ceasing to explore more of the city that raised him. He posts on Instagram as @whatdidjp_eat, but his feed doesn’t look like a cookie-cutter catalogue. It’s genuine, it oozes dairy and gluten, it reflects the chaos of NYC, and it makes your mouth water. I spoke with J.P. about his various obsessions — pizza, the city, the 90s — and how they all fit together. The following conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity. Lyka: You’re from Brighton Beach, right? How did your upbringing influence your love of food? J.P.: My parents came here in the mid-80s from the Philippines. They actually met in New York. So I was raised on Filipino food at home, but my neighborhood had Turkish food, Mexican food, Chinese, a bunch of pizzerias, Russian of course, Indian — I ate samosas after school all the time. I grew up with a lot of Salvadorans too, and I loved pupusas the moment I tried them. L: Mmm, they’re so good. J: When I used to go to friends’ houses, all the kids would have mac n cheese, Lunchables, chicken nuggets, regular grocery food. I was the kid who would bring a can of chicken liver pâté and bread in my backpack. I’d spread the pâté on toast and eat it open faced. The kids would make fun of me — they’d be like are you eating poop? I mean, it was brown smear on toast, but I loved it. And when I go to restaurants now, getting foie gras or chicken liver mousse or pâté just sparks this nostalgia. L: Tell me about how your food adventures began. J: I went to high school at Edward R. Murrow in Brooklyn, and just like any NYC high school they give you this green and white student MetroCard. Before I had the Metrocard I only went to places I could walk to in my neighborhood; my parents didn’t let me take the train by myself. So I explored and became more independent. We got three swipes per day so I went to school with one, and with the second swipe I could go to any part of the city and find a spot to try. Tacos, burritos, dumplings in Chinatown, pizza. It was almost always pizza because it was fast, cheap and delicious. L: What prompted you to start taking photos to document what you ate? J: The photos started junior or senior year of high school. I don’t think my phone had a camera, or at least not a good one, so I always had a point-and-shoot on me. I’d take photos of food and friends just so I could look back and know who I hung out with and what we ate. L: And relive what you tasted. J: Exactly, that’s what I loved about pictures. But my friends would look at the photos and ask why I never put them up online. They’d say, “I want to know, what did JP eat?” That’s where my handle came from. I was never really into social media though. I’m still confused by Twitter and people sharing all their thoughts with the world. L: But Instagram? J: People would always ask me for recommendations so when Instagram came out I thought it was a good way to share. L: Is there a pizza or foodie community in New York that you’re a part of? I’ve noticed you seem to know some owners and chefs personally. J: I became a regular at certain spots like Di Fara Pizza [in Midwood]. They have a system now, but back then there’d just be the old man, Dominic, taking your order. I’d go there, hang out, talk to people, the workers, the owners. For about the last ten years, instead of a birthday cake I do a birthday pizza at Di Fara and I take a photo with Dom. It’s cool to look at them over the years because you can see the changes, Dom getting older, me getting taller and a little fatter. Four years ago my girlfriend Chanelle organized a surprise party for me there, and we shut down the place. We did it again the year after. They even started using us to test new toppings. I went to my local Mexican restaurant the other day to get a torta, and the owner was like, “Damn, I’ve known you since you were as tall as this counter.” Now, 18 years later, I’m still going there, getting the same food. He always asks about my family. So yeah, I frequently went to the same places and people began recognizing me over the years. The pizza-loving community links together through Instagram, but there’s an annual charity event called Slice Out Hunger that brings us, and pizzerias all over the city, together. It was created by Scott Weiner of Scott’s Pizza Tours, and it’s usually in October, which is National Pizza Month. Each pizzeria donates a bunch of pies, they sell slices for a dollar, and the proceeds go toward hunger relief programs in NYC. It unites pizzerias that would normally compete under the positive goal of helping the community. L: Sounds like an amazing event. J: Yeah. I started going as an attendee about seven years ago but then I started volunteering. I wanted to be part of it rather than just consuming it. I watched it grow — in the beginning they had like 30 of the best pizzerias under one roof. Now over 60 pizzerias donate over 1,700 pies. It’s a massive pizza party. L: What’s your go-to pizza order at Di Fara? J: A square slice or pie, usually plain, but I love their pepperoni. I started drinking seltzer at Di Fara when I was 13, because I wanted a beverage that didn’t interfere with the flavor of the pizza. Seltzer is perfect because it’s basically water, but exciting. I still drink it every day. L: What are some of your other favorite pizza spots in the city beyond Di Fara? J: Patsy’s in Harlem, Totonno’s in Coney Island, and Lucali in Carroll Gardens. L: Tell me about what you do for a living and how that fits with your interests, from food to fashion to travel. How does it all work together? J: I’ve been an emergency room nurse for three and a half years. My schedule is flexible — I work three or four days a week. Sometimes I maneuver my schedule so I work the beginning of a week and then the end of the second week, so I have like eight days off straight. L: What do you use that time for? J: Travel, friends, going around the city, doing things that make me happy. I’m kind of stuck in the 90s — the streetwear, music, shoes. New York had its own style back then, and I looked up to the hip hop scene. I don’t follow many new artists or go to music festivals. I’m stuck on 80s and 90s R&B, hip hop and pop. And I’ve been buying vintage Ralph Lauren for the past 15 years. All the clothes I couldn’t get when I was younger. L: So like collecting pieces? J: You could say collecting, but I do actually wear them. I’ve loved sneakers since the 90s as well. I love trying to find a shoe that I used to admire as a kid and seeing all the new iterations. Nowadays I mostly use eBay to find vintage pieces, but I have found things in the city. I was looking for a 1993 Ralph Lauren hoodie for 10 years and finally found it at Round Two, a second hand streetwear resale shop in the Lower East Side. L: Going back to food, do you have any special eating out memories or stories you can share? J: Almost all of my memories are connected to food. The day Chanelle and I became “official” we went to Philly because she’d never had a Philly cheesesteak. I was shocked because I had been eating them since I was a kid. After school my dad would take me to work and I’d wait for hours so I could get one from a food cart on Wall Street. So Chanelle and I got on a bus to Philly, rented bikes and went to like six cheesesteak spots. And at the end of the day I asked her to be my girlfriend. It set the tone of our relationship — we’ve done the same type of thing in New Orleans, London, Montreal. We love to travel, have a good time, bike around, eat. L: What do you love about New York, having been here your entire life? What keeps you home? J: The food, the culture, the people, the feel… I came back from a trip once and I was walking in my neighborhood and I heard the rumbling of the train on the above ground tracks, and it just made me happy. And there are so many cultures, it feels like you’re traveling the world. You can have Jamaican food, drive 15 minutes and have Polish food, then have Italian and Mexican and Nepalese. Where else can you have that all in like a 20 mile radius? L: Is pizza 100% your favorite food? What else do you like? J: I’d consider it my favorite. In New York it’s just the thing to eat. Every two blocks there’s a spot. It’s like our fast food, except it’s all local. You order at the counter, they serve it fresh or you wait for them to warm it up. They give it to you on a plate, no bag, and you eat on the go. It’s delicious, fast, accessible and always available. One of my other favorite foods is sinigang. It’s a Filipino stew with seafood, beef or pork. It’s a broth seasoned with tamarind and tomatoes to make it sour. You add bok choi, taro, radish, and you serve it over rice with fish sauce on top. I eat it once a week when my mom and dad make it. They make a big pot so I always have extra to take home. It’s actually better the next day because the taro, which is a floral, potatoey starch, melts into the broth and thickens it. It becomes like a gravy. It’s comfort food, I never get sick of it. L: Got any tips for people who want to explore the city through food? J: People think I eat a lot because I post so many food photos. But when Chanelle and I go out, we hit up like four places for one meal. We’ll go to one spot for appetizers, another for our main course, a new place for dessert, and then a bar for a drink. We get to share everything and try different places in one night. L: That’s such a good idea. Any other fun pizza facts? J: Lombardi’s in Little Italy is the first pizzeria documented in America, but Totonno’s in Coney Island was the first in Brooklyn. Anthony Pero was the pizza man at Lombardi’s and he opened Totonno’s in 1924. The same family still runs the business nearly 100 years later. What are your favorite restaurants in the city? Tag coconutsmag in your IG photos — we might just feature you! All photos by Chris Setter.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1524
__label__cc	0.585749	0.414251	← Back to Chaplain's Corner All Chaplain's Corner Pages CHAPLAIN'S CORNER " Parable of the Prodigal Son a lesson about God's Love for all people " Luke 15:11-32 (New American Standard Bible) 11 And He said, “A man had two sons. 12 The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the estate that falls to me.’ So he divided his [a]wealth between them. 13 And not many days later, the younger son gathered everything together and went on a journey into a distant country, and there he squandered his estate with loose living. 14 Now when he had spent everything, a severe famine occurred in that country, and he began to be impoverished. 15 So he went and [b]hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. 16 And he would have gladly filled his stomach with the [c]pods that the swine were eating, and no one was giving anything to him. 17 But when he came to[d]his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired men have more than enough bread, but I am dying here with hunger! 18 I will get up and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and [e]in your sight; 19 I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me as one of your hired men.”’ 20 So he got up and came to [f]his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion for him, and ran and [g]embraced him and kissed him. 21 And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ 22 But the father said to his slaves, ‘Quickly bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet; 23 and bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat and celebrate; 24 for this son of mine was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and has been found.’ And they began to celebrate. 25 “Now his older son was in the field, and when he came and approached the house, he heard music and dancing. 26 And he summoned one of the servants and began inquiring what these things could be. 27 And he said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has received him back safe and sound.’ 28 But he became angry and was not willing to go in; and his father came out and began pleading with him. 29 But he answered and said to his father, ‘Look! For so many years I have been serving you and I have never [h]neglected a command of yours; and yet you have never given me a young goat, so that I might celebrate with my friends; 30 but when this son of yours came, who has devoured your [i]wealth with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’ 31 And he said to him, ‘Son, you [j]have always been with me, and all that is mine is yours. 32 But we had to celebrate and rejoice, for this brother of yours was dead and has begun to live, and waslost and has been found.’” Luke 15:12 Lit living Luke 15:15 Lit was joined to Luke 15:16 I.e. of the carob tree Luke 15:17 Lit himself Luke 15:18 Lit before you Luke 15:20 Lit his own Luke 15:20 Lit fell on his neck Luke 15:29 Or disobeyed Luke 15:31 Lit are always with me Points of Interest from the Story: • Typically, a son would receive his inheritance at the time of his father's death. The fact that the younger brother instigated the early division of the family estate showed a rebellious and proud disregard for his father's authority, not to mention a selfish and immature attitude. • Pigs were unclean animals. Jews were not even allowed to touch pigs. When the son took a job feeding pigs, even longing for their food to fill his belly, it reveals that he had fallen as low as he could possibly go. This son represents a person living in rebellion to God. Sometimes we have to hit rock-bottom before we come to our senses and recognize our sin. • The father is a picture of the Heavenly Father. God waits patiently, with loving compassion to restore us when we return to him with humble hearts. He offers us everything in his kingdom, restoring full relationship with joyful celebration. He doesn't even dwell on our past waywardness. • Reading from the beginning of chapter 15, we see that the older son is clearly a picture of the pharisees. In their self-righteousness, they have forgotten to rejoice when a sinner returns to God. Bitterness and resentment keeps the older son from forgiving his younger brother. It blinds him to the treasure he freely enjoys through constant relationship with the father. Questions for Reflection: Who are you in this story? Are you a prodigal, a pharisee or a servant? Are you the rebellious son, lost and far from God? Are you the self-righteous pharisee, no longer capable of rejoicing when a sinner returns to God? Maybe you've hit rock-bottom, come to your senses and decided to run to God's open arms of compassion and mercy? Or are you one of the servants in the household, rejoicing with the father when a lost son finds his way home? You need to be a member of Chaplain's Corner to add comments!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1525
__label__cc	0.555242	0.444758	Category Archive 'M9 Beretta' US Military Small Arms Need Replacing Arms and Armor, M4 Carbine, M9 Beretta, Small Arms, US Military Jim Schatz, in National Defense, makes an irrefutable case for replacing US primary-issue small arms. US forces need a more reliable rifle and both new rifles and new pistols firing more potent rounds. Since the end of World War II, only 10 U.S tank crew members have been killed in warfare. This is an amazing testament to fighting vehicle technology and the money spent to develop and sustain that tactical edge over our enemies. In that same period, the United States has lost some 60,000 soldiers in small arms engagements, an approximate one for one exchange. Few foes on the planet could hope to dominate America in a tank, air or naval battle. Yet every bad actor with an AK-47 takes on U.S. and NATO ground forces in a small arms fight. We are no longer suitably armed to prevent it. This happens because the current U.S. Army small arms development and acquisition system is dysfunctional and virtually unworkable, even for those within the system. It has not brought troops substantial evolutionary small arms and ammunition capabilities in years, or even decades, and too often not at all, and almost never on or under budget. Lives are often lost as a result. … Small arms are the most deployed weapon systems in our arsenal, yet the age of America’s eight most numerous conventional military small arms are on average more than 35 years old. While we have replaced uniforms, helmets, body armor, radios, rations and footwear countless times in three decades, the weapons and ammunition we use in 2015 are little more than variants of Vietnam-era technology possessing the antiquated capabilities of a bygone era. The Army continues to procure weapons with old performance specifications that have been repeatedly eclipsed by superior commercial small arms used by our allies, our top-tier special operations forces and sometimes by our enemies. Elite units — with a few exceptions — do not use the standard-issue U.S. Army small arms or ammunition. Why? Because they are inferior to the more advanced weapons selected by these units. There is a fundamental difference between their acquisition process and that of the “Big Army,” where there are hundreds of decisions makers and countless agencies and offices involved. Schatz doesn’t get into it, but I think the root of the problem is cultural. America has become, in recent decades, much more a nation of metrosexuals than a nation of riflemen. The shooting sports are completely alien to the largest urbanized sector of American society. We now have to look to Germany & Italy to buy military-quality small arms. Colt is in bankruptcy. The Winchester factory in New Haven closed years ago, and Winchester today is just a revived trade name building its products in Japan. The American chattering classes are not concerned in the slightest with feminization of American men or the decline of our domestic arms industry. They’d like to confiscate and destroy all our guns. 10 Comments \| Permalink REPORT FROM A MARINE IN IRAQ .45 ACP, 5.56mm, 9mm Parabellum, AK47, Barrett .50 Rifle, Iraq, M-14 Rifle, M-16 Assault Rifle, M-24 Rifle, M2 .50 cal Machine Gun, M240 Machine Gun, M249 SAW, M9 Beretta, USMC, War on Terror, Weapons Systems Posted on FREE REPUBLIC by Infantry Marine, who asks that it be passed along: Hello to all my fellow gunners, military buffs, veterans and interested guys. A couple of weekends ago I got to spend time with my son Jordan, who was on his first leave since returning from Iraq. He is well (a little thin), and already bored. He will be returning to Iraq for a second tour in early ’06 and has already re-enlisted early for 4 more years. He loves the Marine Corps and is actually looking forward to returning to Iraq. Jordan spent 7 months at “Camp Blue Diamond” in Ramadi. Aka: Fort Apache. He saw and did a lot and the following is what he told me about weapons, equipment, tactics and other miscellaneous info which may be of interest to you. Nothing is by any means classified. No politics here, just a Marine with a bird’s eye view’s opinions: 1) The M-16 rifle : Thumbs down. Chronic jamming problems with the talcum powder like sand over there. The sand is everywhere. Jordan says you feel filthy 2 minutes after coming out of the shower. The M-4 carbine version is more popular because it’s lighter and shorter, but it has jamming problems also. They like the ability to mount the various optical gunsights and weapons lights on the Picatinny rails, but the weapon itself is not great in a desert environment. They all hate the 5.56mm (.223) round. Poor penetration on the cinderblock structure common over there and even torso hits cant be reliably counted on to put the enemy down. Fun fact: Random autopsies on dead insurgents shows a high level of opiate use. 2) The M243 (sic: should be 249, possible error caused by OCR? -JDZ) SAW (squad assault weapon): .223 cal. Drum fed light machine gun. Big thumbs down. Universally considered a piece of shit. Chronic jamming problems, most of which require partial disassembly. (that’s fun in the middle of a firefight). 3) The M9 Beretta 9mm: Mixed bag. Good gun, performs well in desert environment; but they all hate the 9mm cartridge. The use of handguns for self-defense is actually fairly common. Same old story on the 9mm: Bad guys hit multiple times and still in the fight. 4) Mossberg 12ga. Military shotgun: Works well, used frequently for clearing houses to good effect. 5) The M240 Machine Gun: 7.62 NATO (.308) cal. belt fed machine gun, developed to replace the old M-60 (what a beautiful weapon that was!!). Thumbs up. Accurate, reliable, and the 7.62 round puts ’em down. Originally developed as a vehicle mounted weapon, more and more are being dismounted and taken into the field by infantry. The 7.62 round chews up the structure over there. 6) The M2 .50 cal heavy machine gun: Thumbs way, way up. “Ma deuce” is still worth her considerable weight in gold. The ultimate fight stopper, puts them in the dirt every time. The most coveted weapon in-theater. 7) The .45 pistol: Thumbs up. Still the best pistol round out there. Everybody authorized to carry a sidearm is trying to get their hands on one. With few exceptions, can reliably be expected to put ’em down with a torso hit. The special ops guys (who are doing most of the pistol work) use the HK military model and supposedly love it. The old government model .45’s are being re-issued en masse. 8) The M-14: Thumbs up. They are being re-issued in bulk, mostly in a modified version to special ops guys. Modifications include lightweight Kevlar stocks and low power red dot or ACOG sights. Very reliable in the sandy environment, and they love the 7.62 round. 9) The Barrett .50 cal sniper rifle: Thumbs way up. Spectacular range and accuracy and hits like a freight train. Frequently used to take out vehicle suicide bombers (we actually stop a lot of them) & barricaded enemy. Definitely here to stay. 10) The M24 sniper rifle: Thumbs up. Mostly in .308 but some in 300 win mag. Heavily modified Remington 700’s. Great performance. Snipers have been used heavily to great effect. Rumor has it that a marine sniper on his third tour in Anbar province has actually exceeded Carlos Hathcock’s record for confirmed kills with OVER 100. 11) The new body armor: Thumbs up. Relatively light at approx. 6 lbs. and can reliably be expected to soak up small shrapnel and even will stop an AK-47 round. The bad news: Hot as shit to wear, almost unbearable in the summer heat (which averages over 120 degrees). Also, the enemy now goes for head shots whenever possible. All the BS about the “old” body armor making our guys vulnerable to the IED’s was a non-starter. The IED explosions are enormous and body armor doesn’t make any difference at all in most cases. 12) Night Vision and Infrared Equipment: Thumbs way up. Spectacular performance. Our guys see in the dark and own the night, period. Very little enemy action after evening prayers. More and more enemy being whacked at night during movement by our hunter-killer teams. We’ve all seen the videos. 13) Lights: Thumbs up. Most of the weapon mounted and personal lights are Surefire’s, and the troops love ’em. Invaluable for night urban operations. Jordan carried a $34 Surefire G2 on a neck lanyard and loved it. I cant help but notice that most of the good fighting weapons and ordnance are 50 or more years old!!! With all our technology, it’s the WWII and Vietnam era weapons that everybody wants!!! The infantry fighting is frequent, up close and brutal. No quarter is given or shown. Bad guy weapons: 1) Mostly AK47’s . The entire country is an arsenal. Works better in the desert than the M16 and the .308 Russian round kills reliably. PKM belt fed light machine guns are also common and effective. Luckily, the enemy mostly shoots like shit. Undisciplined “spray and pray” type fire. However, they are seeing more and more precision weapons, especially sniper rifles. (Iran, again) Fun fact: Captured enemy have apparently marveled at the marksmanship of our guys and how hard they fight. They are apparently told in Jihad school that the Americans rely solely on technology, and can be easily beaten in close quarters combat for their lack of toughness. Let’s just say they know better now. 2) The RPG: Probably the infantry weapon most feared by our guys. Simple, reliable & as common as dogshit. The enemy responded to our up-armored Humvees by aiming at the windshields, often at point blank range. Still killing a lot of our guys. 3) The IED: The biggest killer of all. Can be anything from old Soviet anti-armor mines to jury rigged artillery shells. A lot found in Jordan’s area were in abandoned cars. The enemy would take 2 or 3 155mm artillery shells and wire them together. Most were detonated by cell phone, and the explosions are enormous. You’re not safe in any vehicle, even an M1 tank. Driving is by far the most dangerous thing our guys do over there. Lately, they are much more sophisticated “shape charges” (Iranian) specifically designed to penetrate armor. Fact: Most of the ready made IED’s are supplied by Iran, who is also providing terrorists (Hezbollah types) to train the insurgents in their use and tactics. That’s why the attacks have been so deadly lately. Their concealment methods are ingenious, the latest being shape charges in Styrofoam containers spray painted to look like the cinderblocks that litter all Iraqi roads. We find about 40% before they detonate, and the bomb disposal guys are unsung heroes of this war. 4) Mortars and rockets: Very prevalent. The Soviet era 122mm rockets (with an 18km range) are becoming more prevalent. One of Jordan’s NCO’s lost a leg to one. These weapons cause a lot of damage “inside the wire”. Jordan’s base was hit almost daily his entire time there by mortar and rocket fire, often at night to disrupt sleep patterns and cause fatigue (It did). More of a psychological weapon than anything else. The enemy mortar teams would jump out of vehicles, fire a few rounds, and then haul ass in a matter of seconds. 5) Bad guy technology: Simple yet effective. Most communication is by cell and satellite phones, and also by email on laptops. They use handheld GPS units for navigation and “Google earth” for overhead views of our positions. Their weapons are good, if not fancy, and prevalent. Their explosives and bomb technology is TOP OF THE LINE. Night vision is rare. They are very careless with their equipment and the captured GPS units and laptops are treasure troves of Intel when captured. Who are the bad guys?: Most of the carnage is caused by the Zarqawi Al Qaeda group. They operate mostly in Anbar province (Fallujah and Ramadi). These are mostly “foreigners”, non-Iraqi Sunni Arab Jihadists from all over the Muslim world (and Europe). Most enter Iraq through Syria (with, of course, the knowledge and complicity of the Syrian govt.) , and then travel down the “rat line” which is the trail of towns along the Euphrates River that we’ve been hitting hard for the last few months. Some are virtually untrained young Jihadists that often end up as suicide bombers or in “sacrifice squads”. Most, however, are hard core terrorists from all the usual suspects (Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas etc.) These are the guys running around murdering civilians en masse and cutting heads off. The Chechens (many of whom are Caucasian), are supposedly the most ruthless and the best fighters. (they have been fighting the Russians for years). In the Baghdad area and south, most of the insurgents are Iranian inspired (and led) Iraqi Shiites. The Iranian Shi’a have been very adept at infiltrating the Iraqi local govts, the police forces and the Army. The have had a massive spy and agitator network there since the Iran-Iraq war in the early 80’s. Most of the Saddam loyalists were killed, captured or gave up long ago. Bad Guy Tactics: When they are engaged on an infantry level they get their asses kicked every time. Brave, but stupid. Suicidal Banzai-type charges were very common earlier in the war and still occur. They will literally sacrifice 8-10 man teams in suicide squads by sending them screaming and firing AKs and RPGs directly at our bases just to probe the defenses. They get mowed down like grass every time. ( see the M2 and M240 above). Jordan’s base was hit like this often. When engaged, they have a tendency to flee to the same building, probably for what they think will be a glorious last stand. Instead, we call in air and that’s the end of that more often than not. These hole-ups are referred to as Alpha Whiskey Romeo’s (Allah’s Waiting Room). We have the laser guided ground-air thing down to a science. The fast movers, mostly Marine F-18’s, are taking an ever increasing toll on the enemy. When caught out in the open, the helicopter gunships and AC-130 Spectre gunships cut them to ribbons with cannon and rocket fire, especially at night. Interestingly, artillery is hardly used at all. The enemy death toll is supposedly between 45-50 thousand. That is why we’re seeing less and less infantry attacks and more IED, suicide bomber s*. The new strategy is simple: attrition. The insurgent tactic most frustrating is their use of civilian non-combatants as cover. They know we do all we can to avoid civilian casualties and therefore schools, hospitals and (especially) Mosques are locations where they meet, stage for attacks, cache weapons and ammo and flee to when engaged. They have absolutely no regard whatsoever for civilian casualties. They will terrorize locals and murder without hesitation anyone believed to be sympathetic to the Americans or the new Iraqi govt. Kidnapping of family members (especially children) is common to influence people they are trying to influence but cant reach, such as local govt. officials, clerics, tribal leaders, etc.). The first thing our guys are told is “don’t get captured”. They know that if captured they will be tortured and beheaded on the internet. Zarqawi openly offers bounties for anyone who brings him a live American serviceman. This motivates the criminal element who otherwise don’t give a shit about the war. A lot of the beheading victims were actually kidnapped by common criminals and sold to Zarqawi. As such, for our guys, every fight is to the death. Surrender is not an option. The Iraqis are a mixed bag. Some fight well, others aren’t worth a s*. Most do okay with American support. Finding leaders is hard, but they are getting better. It is widely viewed that Zarqawi’s use of suicide bombers, en masse, against the civilian population was a serious tactical mistake. Many Iraqi’s were galvanized and the caliber of recruits in the Army and the police forces went up, along with their motivation. It also led to an exponential increase in good intel because the Iraqi’s are sick of the insurgent attacks against civilians. The Kurds are solidly pro-American and fearless fighters. According to Jordan, morale among our guys is very high. They not only believe they are winning, but that they are winning decisively. They are stunned and dismayed by what they see in the American press, whom they almost universally view as against them. The embedded reporters are despised and distrusted. They are inflicting casualties at a rate of 20-1 and then see shit like “Are we losing in Iraq” on TV and the print media. For the most part, they are satisfied with their equipment, food and leadership. Bottom line though, and they all say this, there are not enough guys there to drive the final stake through the heart of the insurgency, primarily because there aren’t enough troops in-theater to shut down the borders with Iran and Syria. The Iranians and the Syrians just can’t stand the thought of Iraq being an American ally (with, of course, permanent US bases there). Anyway guys, that’s it, hope you found it interesting, I sure did. the Archives of Never Yet Melted in the 'M9 Beretta' Category.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1527
__label__cc	0.536493	0.463507	Have questions? We’d ❤ to help! We are here to answer any question you may have. Reach out to us and we will respond as soon as we can. Central Namibia Kalahari Desert Spitzkoppe Waterberg Plateau Northern Namibia Kaokoland Otjikoto Lake Southern Namibia Namib Naukluft Park NamibRand Reserve Naukluft Mountains Coastal Namibia Henties Bay Kolmanskop Ghost town Luderitz Caprivi and Kavango Khaudum Park Nkasa Rupara Park Mahango Game Park Mudumu Park All Tours & Safaris Namibian Culture Trip of your Lifetime! Fall in love with our beautiful country! Namibia, land of shifting sand, is a rough diamond on the African coast waiting to be cut and polished by any eager travelers making their way through this vast land. The treacherous Skeleton Coast lures you in, while Sossusvlei’s giant waves of red sand mystify you, along with the numerous ghost towns, drawing you ever closer with the promise of stories untold. 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__label__wiki	0.844718	0.844718	The White-Boy Comic Who Crushed the ‘Chitlin Circuit’ In the early ’90s I hustled my way through New York’s cutthroat black stand-up scene — and learned the hard way that corny jokes were no laughing matter. Story by D.C. Benny · Illustrations by Paul Loubet · 3.14.16 Story by D.C. Benny Illustrations by Paul Loubet The standing-room-only joint was nicknamed “The ’Mint,” short for The Peppermint Lounge. But there’s nothing minty about it. From the stage, comedians speak to a cumulous cloud of blunt smoke hovering over the back of the room while gold fronts glint and interrupting pagers beep digits of customers coveting cocaine. The décor is a cross between abandoned dining hall and the place you’d bet a fake Rolex on a three-legged pit bull to beat up a one-eyed rooster with a shank duct-taped to its foot. Scuffed Timberlands run heel-to-toe, with more gator skins per square foot than any swamp in Florida. But in the place of everglades is the hard-angled architecture and brick-and-mortar buildings of East Orange, New Jersey. At this point in the evening there isn’t so much a comedy set going on as a sensory assault on the audience; it’s a performance wilding. Onstage, a skinny black man wearing a vest with no shirt underneath asks why women insist that men “take the express train to go downtown on them,” and, once there, the train immediately has to “switch to a local track and make every stop.” But then when it’s the guy’s turn, “she pulls the emergency brake, and the whole subway goes out of order.” When the crowd responds the room shakes. What sets this performer apart is not the hilarity of his jokes though — you can barely hear them with the Naughty By Nature track thundering through the colossal speakers. What is getting attention are the six strippers he’s brought with him onstage, gyrating, touching, tongue-kissing, and giving everyone close-up tutorials of the places where babies come from. If this were taking place in front of a Lower East Side crowd of New Yorkers, or maybe at some underground absinthe bar in Berlin, such an act might be lauded as performance art. But this is the Def Comedy Jam auditions of 1990. A hot set on this uncensored show could jumpstart a black stand-up comedian’s career. It was no secret that the show bookers for Leno and Letterman weren’t giving much love to African-American comics back then, as if letting young brothers through the door would be like bringing Bébé’s kids to the Met. “In Living Color” and Arsenio proved there was an audience for such a brand of comedy, so now there was Def Comedy Jam on HBO, making stars out of folks who at best had a late-night B.E.T. credit while still working a day gig at the D.M.V. It was all or nothing for guys with nothing at all. The vest-clad comic cracks another one-liner, then points to a stripper who has each butt cheek decorated with a tattoo of a palm tree. She walks to the front of the stage while her cohorts fall back into a pulchritudinous phalanx. The palm tree leaves shake slightly with each step as if being coaxed by a mysterious in-house tropical breeze. Once up front she suddenly produces an orange, plastic lighter — though nowhere on her person is there anything that could be defined as a typical pocket. She holds it high for all to see. The crowd grows quiet. Then, she sets her pubic hair on fire. It blazes for only about three seconds before she pats it out, but that brief moment garners the loudest, most enthusiastic reaction I have ever witnessed from a crowd. They award her with a mass-jumping, standing ovation, as if everyone is on a giant trampoline. The comic dramatically drops the mike, and exits the stage with his harem marching behind him in tight formation. A guy in front of me swathed in head-to-toe Carhartt, his neck wrapped in a gold chain thick enough to tow a small boat with, leans over to a security guard and says, “Damn, WHO gonna follow THAT?!” The security guard looks at the lineup of acts posted on the wall. He smiles and replies, “Psssssss… They got some white boy,” and then shakes his head. The guy with the gold chain snorts, “A white boy?! I gotta see this.” I would like to see such a reaction from the audience as well, but I can’t because I’m making my way through the dense crowd to the stage. That white boy is me. To the average person, being a stand-up comedian might seem like an unusual way to make a living. But being a white comedian who, for many years, performed for all-black audiences is a subcategory that most people probably don’t even know exists. Todd Lynn, a controversial black comic infamous for wielding his opinion like a blunt instrument, once said to me, “You’re like the white dude in that movie ‘8 Mile,’ but with jokes.” The author (far right) with his brothers back home in Washington, D.C., in the 1990s. (Photo courtesy D.C. Benny) I’d moved from Washington, D.C., to New York City to be a comedian, leaving behind a day job, a night job, and an ex-wife who wanted babies when the only babies I could love were the new bits I wrote on scraps of paper all day. I’d landed in a Bronx apartment on top of a Jamaican patty shop that doubled as the local weed spot. The owner, Trevor, who looked like the reggae singer Shabba Ranks, frequently sang along to country music he played in the background. I always gravitated toward characters like him: people who seemed to have one foot in another world. One of my first comedic impressions was of a guy named Keith, who, in spite of being white, reminded everyone of George Jefferson because of his walk. It was as if he was always scooping an imaginary substance from out in front of himself and putting it behind him. Keith was the janitor at my elementary school back home, and he pronounced his name “Keef.” He perpetually had a plastic hair pick with a black handle in the shape of a fist jutting out of his back pocket. Keef crooned the Chuck Brown lyrics “I feel like bustin’ loose” to the black female teachers who made up the bulk of the school’s staff. Every Halloween between third and sixth grade, while other kids were Spiderman, ghosts and pirates, I dressed as Keef, hair pick and all. The fact that my stand-up act in 1990 was comprised of characters inspired by people like Keef was probably a contributing factor to the difficulty I had breaking into mainstream comedy clubs. That, as well as having no TV credits, no representation, and not knowing one soul who could act as a reference, led to my being able to perform only occasionally at dive bar open mikes for three drunks at four a.m. On the rare occasions I was able to wangle a club audition through a lottery — after waiting in line for hours — the feedback was blisteringly harsh. Lucien, at the Comic Strip on the Upper East Side, told me he already had enough “real Spaniards” working at the club, and didn’t “need a white guy who looked like one.” Louis, the show booker at Catch a Rising Star in Chelsea, looked at me sadly after my audition set there and rasped, “Not really sure what I just saw up there, kid, but it’s not for Catch.” I had to bribe the doorman, Neal, with a carton of cigarettes and ten bucks like we were in a penitentiary to get on stage at a West Village club called The Boston. Then, he waited until one a.m. to put me on, just as the last two audience members paid their checks. Neal smoked one of the butts I gave him while he watched me by himself. Compared to Louis from Catch, he was more to the point, though. “That sucked” was the extent of his review. About six months into my time as a stand-up, wondering if I’d made a huge mistake, I bumped into a comedian friend from my hometown, Tony Woods, who told me about the Uptown Comedy Club in Harlem, run by Momma Brown and her two sons, Kevin and Andre. “You probably be the only white guy there, though,” he said. I grew up in the heart of 1970s D.C., a town affectionately known among locals as “Chocolate City.” I was a beige-complexioned, liver-lipped white kid with an ass like a Buick busting out of my thrift shop, high water corduroys. One of my first jokes was about surviving D.C. public schools, “the only school system with White History Month.” Because of my complexion, people in the neighborhood would say, “He look like he mixed with something.” When I asked my mother what that meant, she just gave me a tan piece of candy and told me I was the “butterscotch,” and that butterscotch “tasted best when mixed with chocolate.” The following Sunday after chatting with Tony Woods, Butterscotch hopped the A train to Harlem. At that time, The Uptown was a factory of untapped talent, a semi-circle of bleachers around a pit with a big stage in the middle. It was utilitarian, raw, and always packed. I showed up Sunday night — “New Jack Night,” where the audience applauded those they liked and booed whomever they didn’t. The venerable Momma Brown, owner, talent scout, treasurer, advisor, and sometime-bouncer, sat behind a podium at the door and collected tickets. After I introduced myself she turned to the host, Uncle Jimmy Mack, and said, “Put him on. I’ll see what he got.” The rules of this unwritten test were that if I made it through three minutes without getting booed by an audience who loved to boo, I’d pass. When the time came for me to take the stage, Uncle Jimmy Mack looked at me and said, “Just don’t be corny.” At the Uptown, corniness was the real c-word, the kiss of death. My opening bit about how black people and white people pose for photos differently bombed, and a chorus of “mmmm-mmmmm-mmmms” buzzed around the room like impatient bees. I thought about going home to my tiny apartment, defeated, leaving a trail of corniness in my wake. Instead, I shifted gears away from what I’d prepared, Rupert Pupkin-like in the mirror throughout the week. I desperately dug deep in the crates and came up with my childhood Keef impression, where I re-enacted some of Keef’s daily lines to a female audience member in his voice. The author back in the 1990s. (Photo by Robert Clark, courtesy of D.C. Benny) “Yo boo, can I hollah at you a minute? Don’t be scurred. I’m white but not white-white. I can dance, I can dunk, I don’t call strangers ‘Buddy,’ wear shorts in October, think Elvis is still alive, or have a tiny little ding dong.” “Keef” killed, and allowed me to ease back into what I had prepared, which ended up getting me laughs — a sound that had eluded me for some time. When I got off stage, Uncle Jimmy Mack looked me up and down and said, “Ms. Brown says come back next week. You passed.” I was at the Uptown every weekend after that for the next three years. It was an amazing time to be in comedy. I was surrounded by talented young comedians who performed only on this circuit, with no two styles alike. There was Freddie Ricks doing his Ghetto Shakespeare bit, The Toothless Lover using the mike stand as a hair-weave detector, Ruperto Van Der Poole’s Dominican Popeye character complete with a corncob pipe, Mike Epps’ old dudes talking smack on the corner, and Faceman’s signature anti-comedy “Tragedy” bits. Tasha Smith talked about beating her white boyfriend like a slave (as he requested); Macio’s whole act was done in a faux Caribbean accent; Capital J demonstrated how Puerto Ricans will breakdance anywhere; and Mike Britt’s song parodies were better than the originals. The list of incredible performers was seemingly endless, but it was all topped off by an up-and-comer named Tracy Morgan. The Uptown became my boot camp where I beefed up my craft. I learned subtle cultural nuances, too. For example, the casual phrase “you people,” with which comedians commonly addressed audiences in mainstream rooms, took on a whole different meaning at The Uptown. It was there, months after my initial tryout, in the back of the club over a shared forty-ounce beer, that I got “made” by none other than Uncle Jimmy Mack himself. Like a capo de tutti capi, Jimmy granted stage names for comics like Brooklyn Mike and JP Justice. To be named by him was a badge of honor. If your act sucked, you could just go right on being whatever your parents called you, but if he thought you had the right stuff, then there’d be a malt-liquor christening. He dubbed me “D.C. Benny” because I “was Benny from D.C.” and no one could say my last name right: Wartofsky. Although Jimmy recently passed away — he was with Tracy Morgan when a truck collided with Morgan’s limo, causing a multi-vehicle pileup in 2014 — those of us who got our names from him will forever have that little piece of the Uncle with us. Besides the Uptown, there were “the spots,” indie rooms in various neighborhoods where a number of comics organized shows each night of the week. Unlike the city’s high-profile, low-pay “showcase clubs,” where a comic might get between $50 and $75 for a sold-out weekend show, the spots offered plentiful stage time, and they paid better. There was the Sugar Shack in the Bronx on Thursdays, Nell’s Downtown on Sundays, and Indigo Blue in Times Square on Wednesdays. These were the sweet spots in contrast to the so-called “hood rooms”: Sheila’s on Dekalb Avenue in Brooklyn, The Manhattan Proper in Queens, and Nagasaki’s on Long Island. All of those rooms were a gauntlet for comics, each the setting of a more Herculean trial than the last. If a comic did well at one of them, the word got out. They got booked at the next one, and then at the next, and soon they were working New York’s “Chitlin Circuit,” as the black comedy scene was sometimes called by comics and club bookers in the area. The Chitlin Circuit had its own rules. Joke-stealing was frowned upon, but “snaps” — insults — and crowd work were public domain to be passed around like a joint until burnt to a roach. Comics were to never step foot onstage in a pair of torn-up shoes; your act could be dirty as a used Pamper, but your appearance had better be clean. If a show’s start time was nine p.m., think ten-thirty or later if there was an after-party, which was sometimes the only event the audience really came for. It was not unusual for relatively unknown comedians to have huge entourages, with each member having a designated job like “car parker,” “groupie phone-number procurer,” or “Heineken holder.” As for the acts themselves, the “white guy voice” was a guaranteed crowd-pleaser, as was the church deacon end-of-every-sentence laugh, “hah.” And on any given show, the stage’s stool was humped so much it needed birth control. The golden rule, though, was: ALWAYS. GET. YOUR. MONEY. If it was time to get paid and the promoter came over to the performer saying, “We had a situation with the budget,” the comic was being tested like new meat at Rikers Island, and had better be ready to scrap or inevitably be labeled a “punk.” I ploughed through all of these rooms working my way toward an audition for Def Comedy Jam, the show created by Russell Simmons, who named the program after his Def Jam record label. When I finally did get my shot at The ’Mint — following the stripper who closed with the almost-biblical burning bush — I walked onstage with a fire extinguisher pulled from the wall, blasted the smoky air, went into my act, and got my first-ever standing ovation. The booker for Def Comedy Jam came up to me afterward and said, “You might be the one. We gotta talk,” and I knew what he meant. The first white guy on Def Comedy Jam would represent a little piece of history. There was an unspoken no-white-comic policy on the show, believed by many in the industry to be some sort of racial payback for the lack of black faces in mainstream comedy. The taping was coming up and the industry players had eyes and checkbooks ready to cash in on all the fresh young talent. I campaigned hard to get that spot, maybe too hard, cornering Russell Simmons in the bathroom at Nell’s one night, handing him my business card. Under my name it read: “Finally a cracker with flavor.” I was getting close. Tracy Morgan, fresh off his own appearance on the show, stopped me to say, “Streets is talkin’ man. D.C. Benny about to do Def Jam.” About a week before the anticipated taping I got what I thought would be “the call.” But it wasn’t happening. Def Comedy Jam wasn’t going to “dilute the product” with a white performer just yet, someone associated with the show on the other end of the line told me. I was crushed. I felt like a kid who was left back a grade in school and watched all the other students in his class move on. Comics who saw me at The ’Mint that night came up to me, shaking their heads, saying, “Damn, after that set, I thought you had it locked.” But I picked myself up and hit the underground scene, getting gigs at alternative rooms: Lower East Side staples like Surf Reality and Collective Unconscious — places where performance art slipped off-Broadway theatre a roofy and got it pregnant with alt comedy. I performed in front of any audience I could. I did comedy in laundromats, on the subway, in pizza joints, even Washington Square Park, where the “house M.C.” William Stevenson schooled me on how to create a crowd of pedestrians from scratch. Then, one Sunday in the spring of 1996, I got a phone call from another person who was at The ’Mint that infamous night: the booker from NBC’s “Showtime at The Apollo.” “Could you come down for an alternate spot on tonight’s taping in case a scheduled act doesn’t show?” I was back on the A train to Harlem. As it turned out, the crowd that night at the Apollo was in a very bad mood, booing everyone off the stage: singers, dancers, talented children, the show’s producer, and even the usually beloved host, Steve Harvey. While Steve battled the crowd, the producer turned to me backstage at one point and said, “You’re on next. We need five minutes to finish this taping. Do whatever you have to do.” Harvey went back out and gave a rousing speech about how there were no opportunities for black performers in this business, and asked how black people could treat one another so disrespectfully. Then he introduced me. By now this scenario was like déjà vu. I was a boxer who’d been training every waking hour for a title shot and finally got it on a fluke. The first word out of my mouth after Harvey’s speech was what everyone was thinking: “Surprise!” It killed and I went on to have a great set. I closed with my impression of Trevor from the Jamaican patty shop, doing my best Shabba-Ranks-singing-country-music impression, and the whole room shouted, “Whoomp, there it is.” That Apollo set got me an agent, a manager, a college tour, a Comedy Central campaign, a shot at SNL, and a talent deal with NBC, all of which consequently broke me into the mainstream rooms where I began to work regularly. Finally, all the hard work was starting to pay off. One of the author’s later sets at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater in New York City. About five years ago I was sitting in an office at Columbia University with Todd Lynn, my old friend who had once called my life “8 Mile with jokes.” We were on a bill together in the school’s auditorium — Todd had finally begun dipping his toe in the waters of the mainstream comedy circuit. He was pacing the makeshift greenroom, his underarms soaked with sweat, mumbling to himself, “Man this crazy, I can’t do this, this is crazy!” He cracked open the adjacent door and peeked at the audience of older white men assembling in the space, and then resumed his pacing and mumbling. This situation was truly the yin to what had been my yang that night some twenty years prior at The ’Mint. Todd had called me in a panic a couple of days before the Columbia gig. Somehow, he was booked to perform at a convention of scientists, and since I was one of the few white comedians he hung out with, he asked me if I would open for him. He figured I could be a cultural attaché, a Caucasian buffer. Album cover for a recording the author released in 2006. (Image courtesy D.C. Benny.) As he paced, I tried to talk to him. “What are you so scared of, man?” “Have you looked in that room, man?!” Todd said. “Everyone looks like Wilford Brimley. They gonna hate me! They gonna give me that condescending smile, but on the inside they thinkin’, Just another n-” The event’s host knocked on the door. “We’re about ready to start,” he said. Todd nodded and the host left to make the opening announcement. “You’re gonna be fine,” I said. “There is only one thing to remember…” “Don’t be corny.” Todd walked onstage when his time came, grabbed the mike, cleared his throat, and said: “Big black dude with tattoos and braids, wearing a hoodie, up here. Two hundred old white dudes in wide-wale corduroys and Crocs, sitting down there. I’m lookin’ at you, and y’all lookin’ at me and we both thinkin’ the exact same question: ‘Is this some kind of experiment?’” The audience exploded in laughter. “I mean, I heard about mad scientists,” he continued, “but whoever put this show together got to be out they motherfuckin’ mind!” It was one of the last times I saw Todd destroy a crowd before he died of complications from diabetes a couple years later. But I’ll always love that moment. It epitomizes what I think comedy really is: an experiment. It’s a foggy beaker where the unlike matters of a comedian and the audience combine to ponder the question “Who am I?” until the answer finally gets scrawled on the chalkboard: “You are what you laugh at.” And if the guy next to you is laughing, well, then, he is that thing too, which makes him the same as you, whether he’s wearing a wrinkled lab coat or a pair of scuffed Timberlands. 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__label__cc	0.743753	0.256247	Norma Rrae author of many genres; no one likes being stationary Temerarious Tabias May 11, 2019 May 10, 2019 notmewriting To Fall a Tree chp 2 The sound of the silver arm banging against the alarm clock’s bells told Stephen it was time to rise. There was no sun coming through his cabin window, that was the life of a woodsman. Rise before the sun smiles and sleep after the moon yawns. He reached to silence the clock and winched at the memory of the cold side of his wife’s bed. Her pillow remained unwashed and still had her scent. His sadness turned quickly to anger as he smacked the clock silent and jumped out of bed. Marlana’s soul was long passed from Stephen, it was high time he accepted it. It was hard, living along in the woods in Northern BC, Canada. He missed spending the time with Marlana but wallowing in depression wouldn’t put food in his belly. Stephen didn’t turn around to make the bed. In fact, he never even slept under the blankets any longer. It had been his wife that made the bed last and he will keep it that way. They lived off the land together, travelling into town occasionally to catch movies or a fancy meal but since she was gone, Stephen had not returned to town. He couldn’t bare to leave the cabin they lived in together, not even for a day to purchase supplies. For the last several years, he had lived solely off the land. He had no need for slippers by his bed, he slept in his hunt gear and stuffed his toes into his hunt boots in the dark. He would have to move quick to get in place before dawn broke the horizon. That was his best chance to get an elk. His winter stores had run low this year, the garden had begun to fail. The soil was tapped out of minerals and with Stephen refusing to travel to town, he relied heavily on his meat intake. Soups, stews, jerkies, and plain old steak. The near sole meat diet kept the hair on his chest thick (even though it had a silver sheen to it lately) and his muscles responsive. He knew about the grizzly lurking nearby. The farm was littered with its prints and droppings. Stephen had to keep alert, there was no way to contact town if he got mauled. Although that wouldn’t be the worst thing he could imagine. Nope, that would be living here without his wife. But here he was. If he stumbled across that bear, he had a shot gun large enough to take of it and a knife sharp enough to make it a mighty fine rug for in front of his fire place. His boots on, he quickly relieved himself in the bathroom, stuffed a granola bar in his pocket and picked up his hunt bag he had readied the night before. The only time he allowed himself was to percolate a tall travel mug of coffee before closing up the cabin and hiking into the dark forest. “So, I don’t have to drink molasses like you,” he still heard Marlana’s complaints of his thick black coffee brew. Her words sarcastic but her smile so rich with love. They would have turned forty-five together this year, with a twenty year wedding anniversary only months after their shared birthday month of May. It was dead winter right now, as Stephen hiked away from the farm, closer to the edge of the forest. The moon had begun to dip, not giving the animals any light to see his movement. Perfect. Even before the sun rose, the fullness of the evergreen trees filled the landscape. Created a winter tapestry in front of him. The heavy branches weighted down with so much snow it could kill a man. They leaned dangerously close to the ground, yet held the snow strong like bendable men. Birds slept silently in the depths of their nettles. Owls moved even quieter as they flew from one branch to the next, hunting mice beneath the snow pack. Their shadows blend in with the dark of the early morning but all too soon the sun would appear and their cover would be blown. As Stephen trucked on through the wilderness, the clouds began to grow an ominous grey color. Soft oranges broke the horizon and painted the sky with one shade lighter of blue. He picked up his pace, he was still a few miles away from his hunt blind, hidden it the trees. He must be moving slower than normal, he thought to himself. With the sun rise so closely approaching the aurora borealis had bowed out. The moon was now asleep and the night animals disappeared with the shadow of black. The song birds would be announcing the arrival of the bright sun shortly. Last hunt season he had claimed a young four-point buck and proudly turned the deer cape into gloves, hats and new chair coverings. The meat was just that, meat. Hung and wrapped into his cold storage that shared its space with his pigs and chickens. The only storage space he had on his whole farm. He made good use of it and planned in the summer to have vegetables laid out ready to pickle. The antlers he cleaned, boiled and kept with him on hunting trips. If he clanged the two antlers together during rut season, other males would come running. If it were out of hunting season and other animals (mainly coyote or wolf) began hunting Stephen, he would pull them out and create all types of noise. His boots were heavy and he too soon found himself stuffing the granola bar down his throat for energy. No matter the price tag of hunting boots, they were still heavy and loud. He walked sure footed and silent, even in the snow he could be hear far too far away. Only the flow of the river in the distance absorbed the sound of him moving and as the sun gave more light to the surrounding, Stephen saw the path to his hunt blind appear before him. He kept the tree line on one side and the sound of the river on the other as he pushed further forward. Down the cut line from an old gas pipe line. Stephen stayed just in the tree line and glanced around often, being sure nothing stepped out into the clearing. He would hate to scare away a kill that easily. This was his life, his only love now and his chance at survival. Hunting. A loud crack startled him to a stop. He quickly shouldered his bag and looked around with his Swarovski binoculars. “The best money can buy, for the buy man a woman can find,” Marlana’s voice stayed with him always. It only made his heart ache worse. The binos showed nothing of interest. He peered through to the river bank and found the culprit of the noise. The water was moving quickly, crashing against the snow-covered banks and breaking off pieces with it as it roared down stream. The winter must be coming to a close, with the water level so high from the beginning of melt. It made no difference to Stephen. He had nothing more to look forward to in the summer than winter. He replaced his binos in the hunt bag and continued the trek. The cut line beside him narrowed and then ended. A trail off to his right went further into the woods along the river where he would chop his wood. If he cut straight through the woods to his left, after a half day hike or so, he would end up on the highway that would take him to town. His wife and him used to hike this route often. They kept their truck parked off the side of the highway in that location so that no one would bother them at their cabin. Since Marlana passed, Stephen had moved the truck to his farm and left it there to rust and rot. The trail to the highway was heavily over grown and he hadn’t even allowed the thought of going in that direction occur to him. The trees thickened in front of him as he pushed through the snow-covered shrubs and came to his hunt blind. Built around an ancient birch tree, the man-sized fort was ten feet in the air. Stephen had carved foot holes into the tree. He caught his breath for a moment before stuffing his hand into the first hole. In his younger hunts, he would jump, grab hold of the man hole and swing himself in. He was getting too old for that and a broken ankle would mean death for him now. Marlana was no longer around to aid him. He was all alone. Stephen reached for the opening and slowly eased himself into a chin up through the floor of the blind. It was made of planks of oak he had shaved from a tree that fell years ago during a storm. That same storm had flattened his cold meat cellar and left him to scavenge half his animal shelter for hanging meat. Marlana and him had spoke of rebuilding a larger cold cellar and then it happened. He shook away the flooding memories before they weakened his muscles and made him drop. It was bad enough the grunting he was throwing out into the forest for animals to here. His knees collided with a thump on the solid wood floor as he made an entrance. A loud entrance but an entrance all the same. Some noises could not be prevented, sobbing in the forest could be. He swallowed away all thoughts of Marlana and hunkered down for the wait. The sky grew in color, pastels meant for tapestries spread across the horizon and brought the tonnes of snow covering the landscape to shiny diamonds. They glinted and sparkled as Stephen scanned the surroundings. A slit in the blind just large enough for his gun to peak through, a pair of binos to perch on and his coffee travel lid to steam away. A twig snapped. Stephen swung in the direction with his rifle to his eye almost too fast. The coffee lid teetered on the edge but remained in place. The sound came from the direction of the rising sun. Orange shown through his scope, near blinding him. He had to pull the rifle back into the blind. With one hand only, and silent as a garter snake, he pulled the sun shade from his hunt bag and screwed it to the end of the scope. That would give some shadow over the brightness of the sun. He repositioned his rifle and scanned the tree line. The sun was a burning ball of yellow now, the sky bright pink around it. There was no blackness left in the area, no more veil for him to hide under. If an animal stepped out of that tree line, he had to be sure. Another twig snapped. The animal sounded large. Shrubs swayed and clumps of snow fell from the trees as the animal moved sideways from where Stephen was perched. The sound went still for a moment and he feared the animal scented him. He turned his attention to the morning draft, trying to discern which direction it was moving. Was he down wind from the animal? Or could the beast smell him as if he stood next to it? He couldn’t be sure. A thin sapling suddenly swung and cracked and shook in his vision. The animal was rubbing its velvet off its antlers. That put the species down from bear at least. Wolf too, it had to be deer, elk or moose. By the sounds of the size, it was a young bull moose. His mouth watered thinking of the jerky that would make. His pounds and pounds of salt would pay off yet! Marlana’s last trip… The animal stepped out of the forest line. Stephen slowly released the safety, holding his breath at the faint click. The antlers appeared first, soft brown like too much milk in your coffee. He counted the points on the bull elk. He wasn’t disappointed for it to not be a moose, more discouraged he didn’t recognize the more delicate steps of the deer family friend. The elk’s head was dark brown, near black, like coals that had been burnt over night. The hair was thick around his majestic head before it wilted down to a thin skiff covering his body. Amazing from this distance how it looked to be near nothing at all. A coat that could never keep him warm enough in this weather, although the sun was warming quickly. Stephen squeezed the trigger and braced for the recoil against his shoulder. Bang! Whack. The bullet made contact with the animal, it was to the left from where Stephen had aimed. A small circle of blood appeared above the elk’s right hind leg. Stephen blinked in amazement. The 300-magnum bullet should have nearly blown the elk’s leg off. He must be further than what he thought, or thicker than what he appeared. The elk stumbled, looked to Stephen then bolted. “Fuck,” he cursed aloud. No need to be silent now. The whole of the forest knew he was present. The trees parted then sprang back to their places as the elk disappeared into the white landscape. Stephen wasted no time jumping down from his blind, lumbering over to where the elk had stood just a second before and examined for blood drops. The ground was torn up, deep prints in the snow showed him elk, deer, wolf possibly and definitely, a large bear. They went in all directions and with no blood drops showing him which were his elk, the guess was just that. A guess. Sounds of crashing and breaking through the trees dimmed in the distance until Stephen knew he had to follow instinct alone. He wasn’t even sure how deep that bullet had hit, especially with hardly any blood. It could have been just a graze on the top of the elk’s back. He sighed and returned to his hunt blind. The morning was gone, might as well try to track down the shot, or not shot, elk after all. With his coffee lid secured back in place, Stephen chose the most logical direction and hiked. The sun, full in the sky now, told Stephen he couldn’t hike much further away from his farm. If he went too far, he would be hiking back in the dark and that was almost worse than a broken ankle. He hadn’t seen any definite signs of the elk bleeding out. He almost considered giving up when suddenly a shallow elk print had spots of blood. He picked up his own pace and found more as he continued. They were deepening in color, from a soft hue of a pink kiss to a deep red soaked print. There was something else growing too, the sounds of predators that had also tracked the injured elk. The snow was getting shallower as he came to the base of a steep hill. He knew the ridge of hills bent to make way for the mountain ranges. He hadn’t the energy or supplies to hike the mountains but this hill would still be worthwhile. There were patches of brown appearing through the snow where the trees parted and the sun had more chance to beat on the naked earth floor. Stephen had to purposely slow his steps as his breathes were coming shorter and more labored. He was burning upward, to a higher altitude without realizing. Trying to remind himself as far away as he hiked, is what he had to return with an elk packed on his back. With the size of the rack he had seen on the bull, it would take him three if not four trips with the meat. He allowed himself a break to sit and drink water. Peeling the shell off a few hard-boiled eggs, he popped them into his mouth whole. Sloshing water in to swallow them a little less dry. The small stump he sat on was frozen and the cold seeped through his hunt gear. His legs were tired, his breathe had frozen on his beard and had begun to chaff his neck. His ears were covered with a hat but even that had begun to lose its warmth. The water bottle he drank from was beginning to freeze, it was quitting time soon. He had to find the elk, or turn back. A mound caught his attention in his peripheral vision. He had been leaning so far forward, he had threatened to fall off the stump. He stood so quickly that his eyes blurred with tv static, blinking for several seconds, Stephen waited for the image to clarify. It was the elk. Camouflaged in the thicket of the hills foliage but there he was! Dead and ready to help Stephen survive another six months. “Yahooooweeee!” Stephen jumped, in his minds eye he clicked his heels together but he wasn’t actually that limber. He ended up spilling water down his pants and spitting egg bits on the tree stump. He gulped the remaining slushy water down and stuffed the bottle back into his bag. You can’t litter when Mother Nature just gave you an offering of food. Marlana would have been so proud, he smiled to the heavens before ascending on the elk. He placed his trained hand on the elk’s cheek, “Thank you,” and began hiding the beast with the howls of wolves congratulating him. Published by notmewriting Author living in Northern BC. 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__label__wiki	0.836709	0.836709	96001_tables 05p03 https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/go/3976 NTP STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF NON-NEOPLASTIC LESIONS REPORT: PEIRPT10 LAB: Battelle Northwest STODDARD SOLVENT (TYPE IIC) DATE: 01/08/03 EXPERIMENT: 96001 TEST: 05 TIME: 12:16:03 TEST TYPE: CHRONIC CAGES FROM 0000 TO LAST CAGE PAGE: 1 CONT: NO1-ES-75410 ROUTE: RESPIRATORY EXPOSURE WHOLE BODY NTP C#: C96001 PATHOLOGIST: RENNE, ROGER CAS: 64742-88-7 FINAL/RATS TEST TYPE: CHRONIC CAGES FROM 0000 TO LAST CAGE SUMMARY OF STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT (P<=.05) RESULTS IN THE ANALYSIS OF STODDARD SOLVENT (TYPE IIC) Male Rats Organ Morphology ----- ---------- Adrenal Cortex Vacuolization Cytoplasmic Adrenal Medulla Hyperplasia Necrosis Heart Cardiomyopathy Heart: Atrium Thrombosis Kidney Cyst Nephropathy Chronic Kidney: Cortex, Renal Tubule Casts Granular Kidney: Papilla Mineralization Kidney: Pelvis, Transitional Epithelium Lung Inflammation Lung: Alveolar Epithelium Hyperplasia Lung: Alveolus Infiltration Cellular Histiocyte Nose: Goblet Cell Hyperplasia Nose: Olfactory Epithelium Degeneration Hyaline Pituitary Gland: Pars Distalis Hemorrhage Pleura Fibrosis Inflammation Chronic Spleen Fibrosis Thyroid Gland: C-Cell Hyperplasia Female Rats Organ Morphology ----- ---------- Kidney Nephropathy Chronic Larynx Inflammation Chronic Liver Clear Cell Focus Liver: Hepatocyte Regeneration Uterus Necrosis Date: 01/08/03 EXPERIMENT: 96001 TEST: 05 Page 1 Statistical Analysis of Non-neoplastic Lesions in Rats(FISCHER 344) - STODDARD SOLVENT (TYPE IIC) Terminal Sacrifice at 105 weeks \|=================================================================================================================================\| \| \| \| \| \| \| Males \| Females \| \|Dose \| CONTROL 138 550 1100 \|CONTROL 550 1100 2200 \| \| \| MG/M3 MG/M3 MG/M3 \| MG/M3 MG/M3 MG/M3 \| \| \| \|Adrenal Cortex \| \| Necrosis \| \|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\| \|LESION RATES \| \| \| \|----------- \| \| \| \|OVERALL (a) \| 1/50 (2%) 1/50 (2%) 1/50 (2%) 0/50 (0%) \|1/50 (2%) 1/50 (2%) 0/50 (0%) 2/50 (4%) \| \|POLY-3 RATE (b) \| 1/45.09 1/38.81 1/41.36 0/39.41 \|1/45.31 1/44.39 0/44.80 2/41.33 \| \|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) \| 2.2% 2.6% 2.4% 0.0% \|2.2% 2.3% 0.0% 4.8% \| \|TERMINAL (d) \| 0/29 (0%) 0/19 (0%) 0/21 (0%) 0/16 (0%) \|0/36 (0%) 0/30 (0%) 0/32 (0%) 0/25 (0%) \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| 717 625 726 --- \|495 575 --- 625 \| \|-------------------\| \| \| \|STATISTICAL TESTS \| \| \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.380N P=0.692 P=0.696 P=0.608N \|P=0.342 P=0.760N P=0.504N P=0.469 \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.324N P=0.726 P=0.741 P=0.527N \|P=0.349 P=0.756 P=0.502N P=0.468 \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.315N P=0.742 P=0.749 P=0.515N \|P=0.356 P=0.758 P=0.502N P=0.480 \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.315N P=0.757N P=0.722 P=0.568N \|P=0.520 P=0.774N P=0.390N P=0.631 \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.304N P=0.753N P=0.753N P=0.500N \|P=0.366 P=0.753N P=0.500N P=0.500 \| \|ORDER RESTRICTED \| P=0.325N (e) (e) (e) \|P=0.240 (e) (e) (e) \| \| Vacuolization Cytoplasmic \| \|OVERALL (a) \| 15/50 (30%) 5/50 (10%) 14/50 (28%) 10/50 (20%) \|9/50 (18%) 4/50 (8%) 15/50 (30%) 12/50 (24%) \| \|POLY-3 RATE (b) \| 15/47.06 5/38.76 14/43.46 10/40.97 \|9/45.39 4/44.30 15/45.22 12/42.40 \| \|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) \| 31.9% 12.9% 32.2% 24.4% \|19.8% 9.0% 33.2% 28.3% \| \|TERMINAL (d) \| 7/29 (24%) 4/19 (21%) 7/21 (33%) 4/16 (25%) \|7/36 (19%) 3/30 (10%) 12/32 (38%) 7/25 (28%) \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| 476 642 546 522 \|582 606 683 522 \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.253 P=0.114N P=0.390 P=0.546 \|P=0.021 * P=0.182N P=0.080 P=0.114 \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.535N P=0.033N* P=0.576 P=0.294N \|P=0.061 P=0.123N P=0.113 P=0.248 \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.516N P=0.020N* P=0.562N P=0.239N \|P=0.072 P=0.120N P=0.115 P=0.273 \| \|POLY 6 \| P=0.513 P=0.063N P=0.528 P=0.385N \|P=0.050 P=0.131N P=0.109 P=0.215 \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.530 P=0.022N* P=0.487N P=0.189N \|P=0.062 P=0.120N P=0.121 P=0.271 \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.500N P=0.011N* P=0.500N P=0.178N \|P=0.094 P=0.117N P=0.121 P=0.312 \| \|ORDER RESTRICTED \| P=0.283N (e) (e) (e) \|P=0.044 * (e) (e) (e) \| Statistical Analysis of Non-neoplastic Lesions in Rats(FISCHER 344) - STODDARD SOLVENT (TYPE IIC) \|Adrenal Medulla \| \| Hyperplasia \| \|OVERALL (a) \| 12/50 (24%) 14/50 (28%) 23/50 (46%) 15/50 (30%) \|4/50 (8%) 2/50 (4%) 7/50 (14%) 4/50 (8%) \| \|POLY-3 RATE (b) \| 12/46.14 14/41.83 23/43.82 15/42.29 \|4/44.90 2/44.19 7/45.55 4/41.89 \| \|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) \| 26.0% 33.5% 52.5% 35.5% \|8.9% 4.5% 15.4% 9.6% \| \|TERMINAL (d) \| 7/29 (24%) 6/19 (32%) 10/21 (48%) 6/16 (38%) \|3/36 (8%) 0/30 (0%) 3/32 (9%) 1/25 (4%) \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.046 * P=0.128 P=0.004 P=0.056 \|P=0.283 P=0.392N P=0.237 P=0.508 \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.138 P=0.296 P=0.007 P=0.230 \|P=0.366 P=0.344N P=0.269 P=0.605 \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.171 P=0.344 P=0.010 * P=0.271 \|P=0.384 P=0.341N P=0.265 P=0.620 \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.181 P=0.412 P=0.008 ** P=0.297 \|P=0.420 P=0.341N P=0.262 P=0.630N \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.218 P=0.410 P=0.018 * P=0.326 \|P=0.415 P=0.339N P=0.262 P=0.643N \| \|ORDER RESTRICTED \| P=0.047 * (e) (e) (e) \|P=0.285 (e) (e) (e) \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| --- --- --- 673 \|--- --- --- --- \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.035 * (e) (e) P=0.161 \|(e) (e) (e) (e) \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.040 * (e) (e) P=0.210 \|(e) (e) (e) (e) \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.041 * (e) (e) P=0.222 \|(e) (e) (e) (e) \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.039 * (e) (e) P=0.213 \|(e) (e) (e) (e) \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.043 * (e) (e) P=0.247 \|(e) (e) (e) (e) \| \|ORDER RESTRICTED \| P=0.021 * (e) (e) (e) \|(e) (e) (e) (e) \| \|Brain \| \| Compression \| \|OVERALL (a) \| 13/50 (26%) 15/50 (30%) 10/50 (20%) 9/50 (18%) \|9/49 (18%) 8/50 (16%) 3/50 (6%) 6/50 (12%) \| \|POLY-3 RATE (b) \| 13/47.02 15/43.98 10/42.92 9/42.20 \|9/45.08 8/44.95 3/45.29 6/41.61 \| \|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) \| 27.7% 34.1% 23.3% 21.3% \|20.0% 17.8% 6.6% 14.4% \| \|TERMINAL (d) \| 4/29 (14%) 2/19 (11%) 4/21 (19%) 2/16 (13%) \|6/36 (17%) 3/30 (10%) 2/32 (6%) 2/25 (8%) \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.281N P=0.142 P=0.536N P=0.569N \|P=0.341N P=0.586 P=0.090N P=0.517N \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.154N P=0.329 P=0.409N P=0.328N \|P=0.203N P=0.503N P=0.057N P=0.346N \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.129N P=0.366 P=0.369N P=0.285N \|P=0.190N P=0.493N P=0.057N P=0.316N \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.062N P=0.427N P=0.291N P=0.132N \|P=0.166N P=0.479N P=0.057N P=0.295N \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.102N P=0.412 P=0.318N P=0.235N \|P=0.169N P=0.482N P=0.056N P=0.274N \| \|ORDER RESTRICTED \| P=0.244N (e) (e) (e) \|P=0.162N (e) (e) (e) \| \| Hemorrhage \| \|OVERALL (a) \| 4/50 (8%) 4/50 (8%) 5/50 (10%) 3/50 (6%) \|4/49 (8%) 3/50 (6%) 6/50 (12%) 1/50 (2%) \| \|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) \| 8.6% 10.0% 11.8% 7.4% \|8.9% 6.8% 12.9% 2.4% \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.527N P=0.478 P=0.400 P=0.624N \|P=0.290N P=0.557N P=0.354 P=0.262N \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.490N P=0.564 P=0.445 P=0.570N \|P=0.246N P=0.509N P=0.389 P=0.209N \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.464N P=0.599 P=0.467 P=0.540N \|P=0.224N P=0.500N P=0.386 P=0.194N \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.328N P=0.306N P=0.639 P=0.224N \|P=0.134N P=0.473N P=0.400 P=0.136N \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.433N P=0.643N P=0.500 P=0.500N \|P=0.193N P=0.489N P=0.383 P=0.175N \| \|Clitoral Gland \| \|OVERALL (a) \| \|2/49 (4%) 3/50 (6%) 3/50 (6%) 1/50 (2%) \| \|POLY-3 RATE (b) \| \|2/43.62 3/43.87 3/44.88 1/40.65 \| \|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) \| \|4.6% 6.8% 6.7% 2.5% \| \|TERMINAL (d) \| \|2/35 (6%) 3/30 (10%) 2/32 (6%) 1/25 (4%) \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| \|730 (T) 730 (T) 710 730 (T) \| \|LIFE TABLE \| \|P=0.469N P=0.429 P=0.460 P=0.617N \| \|POLY 3 \| \|P=0.378N P=0.503 P=0.513 P=0.525N \| \|POLY 1.5 \| \|P=0.362N P=0.506 P=0.511 P=0.512N \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| \|P=0.440N P=0.429 P=0.504 P=0.617N \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| \|P=0.336N P=0.510 P=0.510 P=0.492N \| \|ORDER RESTRICTED \| \|P=0.371N (e) (e) (e) \| \|Eye: Lens \| \| Cataract \| \|OVERALL (a) \| 6/50 (12%) 1/50 (2%) 3/49 (6%) 2/50 (4%) \|3/49 (6%) 2/50 (4%) 1/50 (2%) 4/49 (8%) \| \|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) \| 13.3% 2.6% 7.4% 5.1% \|6.8% 4.6% 2.2% 9.9% \| \|TERMINAL (d) \| 5/29 (17%) 1/19 (5%) 2/21 (10%) 1/16 (6%) \|3/36 (8%) 2/30 (7%) 1/32 (3%) 2/25 (8%) \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| 674 729 (T) 712 683 \|730 (T) 730 (T) 730 (T) 611 \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.391N P=0.160N P=0.402N P=0.348N \|P=0.250 P=0.583N P=0.348N P=0.347 \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.222N P=0.086N P=0.297N P=0.179N \|P=0.345 P=0.504N P=0.300N P=0.453 \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.221N P=0.072N P=0.279N P=0.158N \|P=0.353 P=0.498N P=0.300N P=0.471 \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.312N P=0.153N P=0.341N P=0.254N \|P=0.320 P=0.583N P=0.348N P=0.458 \| \|Heart \| \| Cardiomyopathy \| \|OVERALL (a) \| 13/50 (26%) 4/50 (8%) 5/50 (10%) 9/50 (18%) \|1/49 (2%) 0/50 (0%) 1/50 (2%) 2/50 (4%) \| \|POLY-3 RATE (b) \| 13/45.98 4/39.15 5/42.71 9/41.38 \|1/44.71 0/43.87 1/44.90 2/41.13 \| \|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) \| 28.3% 10.2% 11.7% 21.8% \|2.2% 0.0% 2.2% 4.9% \| \|TERMINAL (d) \| 10/29 (35%) 2/19 (11%) 1/21 (5%) 2/16 (13%) \|0/36 (0%) 0/30 (0%) 0/32 (0%) 1/25 (4%) \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| 576 605 509 581 \|582 --- 705 589 \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.410 P=0.105N P=0.112N P=0.524 \|P=0.206 P=0.500N P=0.754 P=0.445 \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.420N P=0.033N* P=0.044N* P=0.324N \|P=0.232 P=0.504N P=0.760N P=0.471 \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.424N P=0.023N* P=0.039N* P=0.284N \|P=0.240 P=0.500N P=0.758N P=0.486 \| \|POLY 6 \| P=0.417N P=0.053N P=0.052N P=0.382N \|P=0.224 P=0.509N P=0.759 P=0.451 \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.455N P=0.040N* P=0.034N* P=0.289N \|P=0.298 P=0.478N P=0.748N P=0.584 \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.431N P=0.016N* P=0.033N* P=0.235N \|P=0.251 P=0.495N P=0.747N P=0.508 \| \|Heart: Atrium \| \| Thrombosis \| \|OVERALL (a) \| 1/50 (2%) 0/50 (0%) 1/50 (2%) 5/50 (10%) \|2/49 (4%) 1/50 (2%) 2/50 (4%) 1/50 (2%) \| \|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) \| 2.2% 0.0% 2.4% 12.5% \|4.4% 2.3% 4.5% 2.5% \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| 729 (T) --- 675 667 \|495 652 726 694 \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.005 ** P=0.584N P=0.715 P=0.039 * \|P=0.516N P=0.505N P=0.674 P=0.549N \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.007 P=0.531N P=0.743 P=0.076 \|P=0.473N P=0.508N P=0.691 P=0.536N \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.008 P=0.518N P=0.750 P=0.087 \|P=0.460N P=0.501N P=0.693N P=0.518N \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.007 (e) P=0.748 P=0.071 \|P=0.384N P=0.464N P=0.675N P=0.388N \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.009 P=0.500N P=0.753N P=0.102 \|P=0.438N P=0.492N P=0.684N P=0.492N \| \|ORDER RESTRICTED \| P=0.005 ** (e) (e) (e) \|P=0.490N (e) (e) (e) \| \|Kidney \| \| Cyst \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| --- --- --- 642 \|--- 730 (T) --- 730 (T) \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.029 * (e) (e) P=0.160 \|P=0.457 P=0.199 (e) P=0.427 \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.040 * (e) (e) P=0.210 \|P=0.508 P=0.235 (e) P=0.483 \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.041 * (e) (e) P=0.222 \|P=0.522 P=0.238 (e) P=0.492 \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.041 * (e) (e) P=0.225 \|(e) P=0.199 (e) P=0.427 \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.043 * (e) (e) P=0.247 \|P=0.543 P=0.253 (e) P=0.505 \| \| Nephropathy Chronic \| \|OVERALL (a) \| 50/50 (100%) 49/50 (98%) 50/50 (100%) 50/50 (100%)\|42/49 (86%) 44/50 (88%) 46/50 (92%) 44/50 (88%) \| \|POLY-3 RATE (b) \| 50/50.00 49/49.19 50/50.00 50/50.00 \|42/45.91 44/46.62 46/47.66 44/45.98 \| \|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) \| 100.0% 99.6% 100.0% 100.0% \|91.5% 94.4% 96.5% 95.7% \| \|TERMINAL (d) \| 29/29 (100%) 19/19 (100%) 21/21 (100%) 16/16 (100%)\|34/36 (94%) 30/30 (100%) 32/32 (100%) 25/25 (100%) \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.024 * P=0.010 * (e) (e) \|P=0.003 P=0.063 P=0.073 P=0.004 \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.996 P=1.000N (e) (e) \|P=0.201 P=0.434 P=0.239 P=0.310 \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.772 P=0.897N (e) (e) \|P=0.275 P=0.463 P=0.227 P=0.374 \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.470 P=0.986N (e) (e) \|P=0.031 * P=0.350 P=0.196 P=0.072 \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.468 P=0.500N (e) (e) \|P=0.414 P=0.484 P=0.251 P=0.484 \| \|ORDER RESTRICTED \| P=0.379 (e) (e) (e) \|P=0.163 (e) (e) (e) \| \|Kidney: Cortex \| \| Infarct \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| 611 421 556 581 \|582 --- --- --- \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.447 P=0.569N P=0.565N P=0.549 \|P=0.313N P=0.500N P=0.500N P=0.514N \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.507 P=0.551N P=0.528N P=0.646 \|P=0.288N P=0.504N P=0.500N P=0.519N \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.516 P=0.528N P=0.517N P=0.667 \|P=0.295N P=0.500N P=0.498N P=0.510N \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.604 P=0.252N P=0.382N P=0.643N \|P=0.226N P=0.478N P=0.457N P=0.403N \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.527 P=0.500N P=0.500N P=0.691N \|P=0.303N P=0.495N P=0.495N P=0.495N \| \|ORDER RESTRICTED \| P=0.508 (e) (e) (e) \|P=0.138N (e) (e) (e) \| \|Kidney: Cortex, Renal Tubule \| \| Accumulation, Hyaline Droplet \| \|OVERALL (a) \| 2/50 (4%) 5/50 (10%) 3/50 (6%) 2/50 (4%) \|0/49 (0%) 0/50 (0%) 0/50 (0%) 1/50 (2%) \| \|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) \| 4.3% 12.1% 6.9% 4.9% \|0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 2.4% \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| 476 403 396 432 \|--- --- --- 549 \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.381N P=0.174 P=0.471 P=0.669 \|P=0.190 (e) (e) P=0.491 \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.413N P=0.171 P=0.470 P=0.647 \|P=0.190 (e) (e) P=0.486 \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.385N P=0.191 P=0.483 P=0.668 \|P=0.194 (e) (e) P=0.493 \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.102N P=0.659N P=0.348N P=0.199N \|P=0.291 (e) (e) P=0.631 \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.351N P=0.218 P=0.500 P=0.691N \|P=0.200 (e) (e) P=0.505 \| \| Casts Granular \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| --- 579 729 (T) 522 \|--- --- --- --- \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.039 * P=0.487 P=0.436 P=0.087 \|(e) (e) (e) (e) \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.050 P=0.471 P=0.483 P=0.101 \|(e) (e) (e) (e) \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.054 P=0.484 P=0.490 P=0.109 \|(e) (e) (e) (e) \| \|POLY 6 \| P=0.045 * P=0.452 P=0.474 P=0.090 \|(e) (e) (e) (e) \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.075 P=0.660 P=0.436 P=0.236 \|(e) (e) (e) (e) \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.059 P=0.500 P=0.500 P=0.121 \|(e) (e) (e) (e) \| \|OVERALL (a) \| 0/50 (0%) 1/50 (2%) 8/50 (16%) 23/50 (46%) \|0/49 (0%) 0/50 (0%) 1/50 (2%) 0/50 (0%) \| \|POLY-3 RATE (b) \| 0/45.04 1/38.45 8/41.34 23/41.68 \|0/44.22 0/43.87 1/44.80 0/40.65 \| \|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) \| 0.0% 2.6% 19.4% 55.2% \|0.0% 0.0% 2.2% 0.0% \| \|TERMINAL (d) \| 0/29 (0%) 0/19 (0%) 8/21 (38%) 10/16 (63%) \|0/36 (0%) 0/30 (0%) 1/32 (3%) 0/25 (0%) \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| --- 726 729 (T) 563 \|--- --- 730 (T) --- \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P<0.001 P=0.419 P<0.001 P<0.001 \|P=0.657 (e) P=0.477 (e) \| \|POLY 3 \| P<0.001 P=0.469 P=0.002 P<0.001 \|P=0.652 (e) P=0.503 (e) \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P<0.001 P=0.482 P=0.003 P<0.001 \|P=0.671 (e) P=0.503 (e) \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P<0.001 P=0.404 P<0.001 P<0.001 \|(e) (e) P=0.477 (e) \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P<0.001 P=0.500 P=0.003 P<0.001 \|P=0.697 (e) P=0.505 (e) \| \|ORDER RESTRICTED \| P<0.001 (e) (e) (e) \|P=0.384 (e) (e) (e) \| \|Kidney: Medulla \| \|TERMINAL (d) \| 0/29 (0%) 0/19 (0%) 0/21 (0%) 2/16 (13%) \|0/36 (0%) 0/30 (0%) 0/32 (0%) 0/25 (0%) \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| --- 472 589 593 \|--- --- --- --- \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.152 P=0.096 P=0.478 P=0.056 \|(e) (e) (e) (e) \| \|ORDER RESTRICTED \| P=0.059 (e) (e) (e) \|(e) (e) (e) (e) \| \|Kidney: Papilla \| \| Mineralization \| \|OVERALL (a) \| 1/50 (2%) 8/50 (16%) 30/50 (60%) 39/50 (78%) \|3/49 (6%) 1/50 (2%) 1/50 (2%) 0/50 (0%) \| \|POLY-3 RATE (b) \| 1/45.04 8/39.96 30/46.16 39/48.11 \|3/44.22 1/43.87 1/44.80 0/40.65 \| \|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) \| 2.2% 20.0% 65.0% 81.1% \|6.8% 2.3% 2.2% 0.0% \| \|TERMINAL (d) \| 1/29 (3%) 3/19 (16%) 13/21 (62%) 12/16 (75%) \|3/36 (8%) 1/30 (3%) 1/32 (3%) 0/25 (0%) \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| 729 (T) 621 509 432 \|730 (T) 730 (T) 730 (T) --- \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P<0.001 P=0.005 P<0.001 P<0.001 \|P=0.108N P=0.372N P=0.348N P=0.192N \| \|POLY 3 \| P<0.001 P=0.009 P<0.001 P<0.001 \|P=0.076N P=0.308N P=0.300N P=0.134N \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P<0.001 ** P=0.011 * P<0.001 P<0.001 \|P=0.074N P=0.303N P=0.300N P=0.126N \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P<0.001 ** P=0.013 * P<0.001 P<0.001 \|P=0.108N P=0.372N P=0.348N (e) \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P<0.001 ** P=0.015 * P<0.001 P<0.001 \|P=0.071N P=0.301N P=0.301N P=0.117N \| \|ORDER RESTRICTED \| P<0.001 ** (e) (e) (e) \|P=0.046N* (e) (e) (e) \| Date: 01/08/03 EXPERIMENT: 96001 TEST: 05 Page 10 \|Kidney: Pelvis, Transitional Epithelium \| \|OVERALL (a) \| 0/50 (0%) 2/50 (4%) 8/50 (16%) 5/50 (10%) \|4/49 (8%) 3/50 (6%) 7/50 (14%) 3/50 (6%) \| \|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) \| 0.0% 5.2% 18.8% 12.5% \|9.1% 6.8% 15.4% 7.4% \| \|TERMINAL (d) \| 0/29 (0%) 1/19 (5%) 3/21 (14%) 2/16 (13%) \|4/36 (11%) 2/30 (7%) 5/32 (16%) 3/25 (12%) \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| --- 652 618 684 \|730 (T) 719 563 730 (T) \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.008 P=0.157 P=0.003 P=0.010 * \|P=0.428 P=0.591N P=0.212 P=0.617 \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.012 * P=0.205 P=0.003 ** P=0.021 * \|P=0.551 P=0.504N P=0.276 P=0.546N \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.015 * P=0.219 P=0.003 ** P=0.025 * \|P=0.550N P=0.497N P=0.275 P=0.523N \| \|POLY 6 \| P=0.008 P=0.186 P=0.002 P=0.017 * \|P=0.509 P=0.515N P=0.277 P=0.577N \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.016 * P=0.207 P=0.004 ** P=0.017 * \|P=0.534 P=0.553N P=0.268 P=0.617 \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.022 * P=0.247 P=0.003 ** P=0.028 * \|P=0.507N P=0.489N P=0.274 P=0.489N \| \|ORDER RESTRICTED \| P=0.006 ** (e) (e) (e) \|P=0.454 (e) (e) (e) \| \|OVERALL (a) \| 0/50 (0%) 0/50 (0%) 0/50 (0%) 0/50 (0%) \|25/49 (51%) 23/50 (46%) 27/50 (54%) 27/50 (54%) \| \|POLY-3 RATE (b) \| 0/45.04 0/38.44 0/41.34 0/39.41 \|25/44.69 23/44.62 27/45.21 27/42.53 \| \|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) \| 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% \|55.9% 51.6% 59.7% 63.5% \| \|TERMINAL (d) \| 0/29 (0%) 0/19 (0%) 0/21 (0%) 0/16 (0%) \|23/36 (64%) 17/30 (57%) 22/32 (69%) 18/25 (72%) \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| --- --- --- --- \|634 656 695 611 \| \|LIFE TABLE \| (e) (e) (e) (e) \|P=0.015 * P=0.425 P=0.212 P=0.027 * \| \|POLY 3 \| (e) (e) (e) (e) \|P=0.192 P=0.417N P=0.439 P=0.302 \| \|POLY 1.5 \| (e) (e) (e) (e) \|P=0.239 P=0.400N P=0.448 P=0.362 \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| (e) (e) (e) (e) \|P=0.066 P=0.504N P=0.412 P=0.145 \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| (e) (e) (e) (e) \|P=0.329 P=0.383N P=0.462 P=0.462 \| \|ORDER RESTRICTED \| (e) (e) (e) (e) \|P=0.274 (e) (e) (e) \| \|Larynx \| \| Foreign Body \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| 712 565 647 645 \|509 730 (T) 722 730 (T) \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.183 P=0.384 P=0.440 P=0.190 \|P=0.552N P=0.545N P=0.664 P=0.595N \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.212 P=0.449 P=0.473 P=0.263 \|P=0.480N P=0.508N P=0.694 P=0.543N \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.226 P=0.472 P=0.484 P=0.281 \|P=0.467N P=0.501N P=0.691N P=0.526N \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.245 P=0.535 P=0.506 P=0.288 \|P=0.450N P=0.477N P=0.682N P=0.457N \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.243 P=0.500 P=0.500 P=0.309 \|P=0.446N P=0.492N P=0.684N P=0.500N \| \| Inflammation \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| --- 565 --- 432 \|--- --- --- --- \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.271 P=0.188 (e) P=0.228 \|(e) (e) (e) (e) \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.279 P=0.206 (e) P=0.215 \|(e) (e) (e) (e) \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.294 P=0.220 (e) P=0.225 \|(e) (e) (e) (e) \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.379 P=0.285 (e) P=0.528 \|(e) (e) (e) (e) \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.313 P=0.247 (e) P=0.247 \|(e) (e) (e) (e) \| \| Inflammation Chronic \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| --- --- 593 --- \|730 (T) 730 (T) --- --- \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.484 (e) P=0.191 (e) \|P=0.066N P=0.372N P=0.142N P=0.201N \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.500 (e) P=0.221 (e) \|P=0.043N* P=0.308N P=0.116N P=0.139N \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.522 (e) P=0.227 (e) \|P=0.043N* P=0.303N P=0.116N P=0.131N \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.557 (e) P=0.266 (e) \|P=0.066N P=0.372N (e) (e) \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.546 (e) P=0.247 (e) \|P=0.043N* P=0.301N P=0.117N P=0.121N \| \|ORDER RESTRICTED \| P=0.235 (e) (e) (e) \|P=0.028N* (e) (e) (e) \| \|Liver \| \| Angiectasis \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| --- --- 705 --- \|730 (T) 726 698 730 (T) \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.622 (e) P=0.462 (e) \|P=0.301 P=0.448 P=0.470 P=0.373 \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.621 (e) P=0.483 (e) \|P=0.382 P=0.497 P=0.506 P=0.471 \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.638 (e) P=0.490 (e) \|P=0.401 P=0.502 P=0.506 P=0.486 \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.640 (e) P=0.481 (e) \|P=0.340 P=0.465 P=0.502 P=0.373 \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.657 (e) P=0.500 (e) \|P=0.429 P=0.508 P=0.508 P=0.508 \| \| Basophilic Focus \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| 705 --- --- --- \|730 (T) 691 703 712 \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.378N P=0.612N P=0.538N P=0.593N \|P=0.376N P=0.437 P=0.530N P=0.618N \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.318N P=0.532N P=0.517N P=0.527N \|P=0.301N P=0.499 P=0.495N P=0.529N \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.329N P=0.518N P=0.510N P=0.515N \|P=0.290N P=0.504 P=0.494N P=0.514N \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.360N P=0.552N P=0.519N P=0.540N \|P=0.313N P=0.489 P=0.498N P=0.576N \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.343N P=0.500N P=0.500N P=0.500N \|P=0.274N P=0.510 P=0.492N P=0.492N \| \| Clear Cell Focus \| \|OVERALL (a) \| 6/50 (12%) 4/50 (8%) 3/50 (6%) 3/50 (6%) \|9/49 (18%) 7/50 (14%) 7/50 (14%) 3/50 (6%) \| \|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) \| 13.3% 10.3% 7.3% 7.5% \|20.0% 15.7% 15.3% 7.4% \| \|TERMINAL (d) \| 6/29 (21%) 3/19 (16%) 3/21 (14%) 1/16 (6%) \|7/36 (19%) 4/30 (13%) 4/32 (13%) 3/25 (12%) \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| 729 (T) 642 729 (T) 642 \|509 481 563 730 (T) \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.414N P=0.636N P=0.418N P=0.554N \|P=0.136N P=0.515N P=0.458N P=0.172N \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.221N P=0.467N P=0.285N P=0.306N \|P=0.072N P=0.397N P=0.380N P=0.084N \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.212N P=0.423N P=0.267N P=0.277N \|P=0.062N P=0.387N P=0.380N P=0.071N \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.292N P=0.620 P=0.418N P=0.427N \|P=0.056N P=0.376N P=0.376N P=0.083N \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.201N P=0.370N P=0.243N P=0.243N \|P=0.047N* P=0.376N P=0.376N P=0.056N \| \| Hepatodiaphragmatic Nodule \| \|OVERALL (a) \| 7/50 (14%) 3/50 (6%) 5/50 (10%) 3/50 (6%) \|5/49 (10%) 9/50 (18%) 5/50 (10%) 6/50 (12%) \| \|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) \| 15.3% 7.6% 11.8% 7.6% \|11.0% 20.3% 11.2% 14.5% \| \|TERMINAL (d) \| 4/29 (14%) 1/19 (5%) 2/21 (10%) 1/16 (6%) \|3/36 (8%) 8/30 (27%) 5/32 (16%) 2/25 (8%) \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| 626 582 509 684 \|481 606 730 (T) 647 \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.393N P=0.348N P=0.547N P=0.397N \|P=0.389 P=0.127 P=0.570 P=0.329 \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.253N P=0.226N P=0.435N P=0.222N \|P=0.519 P=0.176 P=0.620 P=0.431 \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.239N P=0.194N P=0.411N P=0.192N \|P=0.555 P=0.188 P=0.628 P=0.464 \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.239N P=0.158N P=0.364N P=0.233N \|P=0.545N P=0.210 P=0.613N P=0.544 \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.225N P=0.159N P=0.380N P=0.159N \|P=0.502N P=0.205 P=0.617N P=0.514 \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| 729 (T) --- --- 684 \|--- --- 610 --- \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.493 P=0.584N P=0.564N P=0.662 \|P=0.583 (e) P=0.249 (e) \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.548 P=0.531N P=0.517N P=0.731 \|P=0.539 (e) P=0.244 (e) \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.548 P=0.518N P=0.510N P=0.744 \|P=0.564 (e) P=0.243 (e) \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.517 (e) (e) P=0.720 \|P=0.683 (e) P=0.262 (e) \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.546 P=0.500N P=0.500N P=0.753N \|P=0.598 (e) P=0.253 (e) \| \|OVERALL (a) \| 3/50 (6%) 3/50 (6%) 1/50 (2%) 2/50 (4%) \|2/49 (4%) 5/50 (10%) 6/50 (12%) 1/50 (2%) \| \|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) \| 6.6% 7.6% 2.4% 5.0% \|4.5% 11.3% 13.0% 2.5% \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.393N P=0.536 P=0.371N P=0.652N \|P=0.439N P=0.192 P=0.128 P=0.557N \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.352N P=0.593 P=0.339N P=0.564N \|P=0.390N P=0.211 P=0.142 P=0.532N \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.338N P=0.623 P=0.325N P=0.536N \|P=0.357N P=0.217 P=0.141 P=0.516N \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.287N P=0.525N P=0.226N P=0.450N \|P=0.289N P=0.227 P=0.146 P=0.450N \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.321N P=0.661N P=0.309N P=0.500N \|P=0.311N P=0.226 P=0.141 P=0.492N \| \|Liver: Bile Duct \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| --- --- 558 675 \|--- --- --- --- \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.058 (e) P=0.094 P=0.170 \|(e) (e) (e) (e) \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.064 (e) P=0.106 P=0.210 \|(e) (e) (e) (e) \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.070 (e) P=0.111 P=0.222 \|(e) (e) (e) (e) \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.079 (e) P=0.143 P=0.217 \|(e) (e) (e) (e) \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.078 (e) P=0.121 P=0.247 \|(e) (e) (e) (e) \| \|Liver: Hepatocyte \| \| Regeneration \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| --- --- --- 642 \|--- --- --- 606 \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.179 (e) (e) P=0.465 \|P=0.007 ** (e) (e) P=0.083 \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.180 (e) (e) P=0.475 \|P=0.010 * (e) (e) P=0.106 \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.184 (e) (e) P=0.486 \|P=0.011 * (e) (e) P=0.112 \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.198 (e) (e) P=0.564 \|P=0.012 * (e) (e) P=0.120 \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.188 (e) (e) P=0.500 \|P=0.012 * (e) (e) P=0.125 \| \|ORDER RESTRICTED \| P=0.101 (e) (e) (e) \|P=0.006 ** (e) (e) (e) \| \|Liver: Periportal \| \| Pigmentation \| \|TERMINAL (d) \| 0/29 (0%) 0/19 (0%) 2/21 (10%) 0/16 (0%) \|0/36 (0%) 0/30 (0%) 0/32 (0%) 0/25 (0%) \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| 674 --- 729 (T) --- \|--- --- --- --- \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.601N P=0.628N P=0.410 P=0.551N \|(e) (e) (e) (e) \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.532N P=0.532N P=0.469 P=0.527N \|(e) (e) (e) (e) \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.525N P=0.518N P=0.482 P=0.515N \|(e) (e) (e) (e) \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.561N P=0.489N P=0.456 P=0.485N \|(e) (e) (e) (e) \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.518N P=0.500N P=0.500 P=0.500N \|(e) (e) (e) (e) \| \|ORDER RESTRICTED \| P=0.321N (e) (e) (e) \|(e) (e) (e) (e) \| \|Lung \| \|OVERALL (a) \| 5/50 (10%) 5/50 (10%) 6/50 (12%) 4/49 (8%) \|1/49 (2%) 2/50 (4%) 1/50 (2%) 1/50 (2%) \| \|TERMINAL (d) \| 5/29 (17%) 1/19 (5%) 0/21 (0%) 1/16 (6%) \|0/36 (0%) 2/30 (7%) 1/32 (3%) 1/25 (4%) \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| 729 (T) 537 642 683 \|582 730 (T) 730 (T) 730 (T) \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.495 P=0.430 P=0.340 P=0.470 \|P=0.621N P=0.458 P=0.747 P=0.712 \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.514N P=0.557 P=0.456 P=0.587N \|P=0.556N P=0.493 P=0.760N P=0.739 \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.488N P=0.589 P=0.473 P=0.555N \|P=0.544N P=0.500 P=0.758N P=0.750 \| \|POLY 6 \| P=0.550N P=0.511 P=0.440 P=0.631N \|P=0.572N P=0.483 P=0.758 P=0.724 \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.478N P=0.622N P=0.431 P=0.579 \|P=0.543N P=0.514 P=0.751N P=0.737N \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.454N P=0.630N P=0.500 P=0.513N \|P=0.525N P=0.508 P=0.747N P=0.747N \| \|Lung: Alveolar Epithelium \| \|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) \| 22.0% 7.7% 14.5% 17.4% \|6.7% 2.3% 2.2% 7.4% \| \|TERMINAL (d) \| 8/29 (28%) 2/19 (11%) 6/21 (29%) 3/16 (19%) \|1/36 (3%) 0/30 (0%) 1/32 (3%) 3/25 (12%) \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| 670 642 729 (T) 522 \|537 593 730 (T) 730 (T) \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.305 P=0.157N P=0.433N P=0.521 \|P=0.394 P=0.330N P=0.327N P=0.516 \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.486 P=0.118N P=0.331N P=0.389N \|P=0.517 P=0.274N P=0.291N P=0.658 \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.530N P=0.036N* P=0.207N P=0.314N \|P=0.507 P=0.301N P=0.301N P=0.651N \| \| Metaplasia \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| --- --- 696 --- \|--- 593 --- --- \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.473 (e) P=0.193 (e) \|P=0.579N P=0.504 (e) (e) \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.498 (e) P=0.219 (e) \|P=0.570N P=0.501 (e) (e) \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.518 (e) P=0.226 (e) \|P=0.568N P=0.502 (e) (e) \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.508 (e) P=0.207 (e) \|P=0.486N P=0.521 (e) (e) \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.541 (e) P=0.247 (e) \|P=0.565N P=0.505 (e) (e) \| \|Lung: Alveolus \| \| Infiltration Cellular Histiocyte \| \|OVERALL (a) \| 13/50 (26%) 11/50 (22%) 7/50 (14%) 5/49 (10%) \|22/49 (45%) 14/50 (28%) 13/50 (26%) 15/50 (30%) \| \|POLY-3 RATE (b) \| 13/46.26 11/39.07 7/42.98 5/38.85 \|22/45.12 14/45.47 13/45.06 15/43.99 \| \|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) \| 28.1% 28.2% 16.3% 12.9% \|48.8% 30.8% 28.9% 34.1% \| \|TERMINAL (d) \| 7/29 (24%) 9/19 (47%) 4/21 (19%) 4/16 (25%) \|18/36 (50%) 8/30 (27%) 11/32 (34%) 7/25 (28%) \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.096N P=0.322 P=0.265N P=0.244N \|P=0.436N P=0.195N P=0.096N P=0.453N \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.026N* P=0.594 P=0.137N P=0.072N \|P=0.136N P=0.059N P=0.039N* P=0.113N \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.022N* P=0.513N P=0.123N P=0.053N \|P=0.126N P=0.058N P=0.038N* P=0.102N \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.030N* P=0.467 P=0.095N P=0.091N \|P=0.149N P=0.070N P=0.038N* P=0.111N \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.018N* P=0.408N P=0.105N P=0.037N* \|P=0.117N P=0.062N P=0.039N* P=0.093N \| \|Lung: Interstitium \| \| Fibrosis \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| 726 421 729 (T) 712 \|537 575 710 656 \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.354N P=0.055 P=0.390 P=0.626 \|P=0.515 P=0.681 P=0.668 P=0.608 \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.312N P=0.077 P=0.470 P=0.726 \|P=0.553 P=0.694N P=0.693N P=0.661 \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.285N P=0.087 P=0.482 P=0.740 \|P=0.572 P=0.690N P=0.691N P=0.677 \| \|POLY 6 \| P=0.353N P=0.063 P=0.455 P=0.707 \|P=0.528 P=0.689 P=0.691 P=0.639 \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.235N P=0.192 P=0.405 P=0.681 \|P=0.523N P=0.667N P=0.683N P=0.659N \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.254N P=0.102 P=0.500 P=0.747 \|P=0.590N P=0.684N P=0.684N P=0.684N \| \|Lymph Node, Bronchial \| \|OVERALL (a) \| 1/15 (7%) 1/12 (8%) 0/16 (0%) 0/13 (0%) \|0/12 (0%) 0/7 (0%) 2/8 (25%) 0/11 (0%) \| \|POLY-3 RATE (b) \| 1/13.77 1/10.20 0/12.55 0/11.23 \|0/9.43 0/5.24 2/6.96 0/8.09 \| \|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) \| 7.3% 9.8% 0.0% 0.0% \|0.0% 0.0% 28.7% 0.0% \| \|TERMINAL (d) \| 0/7 (0%) 1/5 (20%) 0/4 (0%) 0/4 (0%) \|0/7 (0%) 0/3 (0%) 2/5 (40%) 0/3 (0%) \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| 674 729 (T) --- --- \|--- --- 730 (T) --- \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.256N P=0.648 P=0.527N P=0.551N \|P=0.455 (e) P=0.158 (e) \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.226N P=0.693 P=0.518N P=0.541N \|P=0.553 (e) P=0.149 (e) \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.220N P=0.701 P=0.505N P=0.535N \|P=0.577 (e) P=0.143 (e) \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.223N P=0.708 P=0.462N P=0.480N \|(e) (e) P=0.158 (e) \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.209N P=0.701 P=0.484N P=0.536N \|P=0.595 (e) P=0.147 (e) \| \|Lymph Node, Mediastinal \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| --- --- 729 (T) --- \|--- 730 (T) --- --- \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| (e) (e) P=0.132 (e) \|(e) P=0.425 (e) (e) \| \|Lymph Node, Mesenteric \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| --- --- 558 --- \|--- --- --- 549 \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.524 (e) P=0.216 (e) \|P=0.190 (e) (e) P=0.491 \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.499 (e) P=0.222 (e) \|P=0.186 (e) (e) P=0.480 \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.521 (e) P=0.228 (e) \|P=0.190 (e) (e) P=0.486 \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.579 (e) P=0.312 (e) \|P=0.284 (e) (e) P=0.614 \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.546 (e) P=0.247 (e) \|P=0.195 (e) (e) P=0.495 \| \|Mammary Gland \| \| Galactocele \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| 576 670 726 610 \|730 (T) --- 726 730 (T) \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.512 P=0.667N P=0.524 P=0.673 \|P=0.161 P=0.536N P=0.463 P=0.373 \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.511N P=0.574N P=0.617 P=0.561N \|P=0.218 P=0.503N P=0.501 P=0.468 \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.496N P=0.542N P=0.636 P=0.534N \|P=0.229 P=0.502N P=0.501 P=0.481 \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.519N P=0.529N P=0.626 P=0.468N \|P=0.164 (e) P=0.480 P=0.373 \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.479N P=0.500N P=0.661N P=0.500N \|P=0.245 P=0.500N P=0.500 P=0.500 \| \|Mesentery \| \|OVERALL (a) \| 7/7 (100%) 11/11 (100%) 11/11 (100%) 12/13 (92%) \|11/11 (100%) 15/15 (100%) 23/23 (100%) 13/14 (93%) \| \|POLY-3 RATE (b) \| 7/7.00 11/11.00 11/11.00 12/12.46 \|11/11.00 15/15.00 23/23.00 13/13.79 \| \|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) \| 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 96.3% \|100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 94.3% \| \|TERMINAL (d) \| 4/4 (100%) 5/5 (100%) 3/3 (100%) 5/5 (100%) \|8/8 (100%) 8/8 (100%) 15/15 (100%) 8/8 (100%) \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.115 (e) (e) P=0.084 \|P=0.278 (e) (e) P=0.272 \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.501N (e) (e) P=0.928N \|P=0.255N (e) (e) P=0.648N \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.340N (e) (e) P=0.781N \|P=0.223N (e) (e) P=0.596N \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.361N (e) (e) P=0.909N \|P=0.194N (e) (e) P=0.537N \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.239N (e) (e) P=0.650N \|P=0.196N (e) (e) P=0.560N \| \|Nose \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| 626 621 698 705 \|606 703 --- --- \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.553N P=0.345 P=0.567N P=0.523 \|P=0.113N P=0.652 P=0.250N P=0.288N \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.494N P=0.434 P=0.532N P=0.643 \|P=0.090N P=0.689 P=0.240N P=0.259N \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.476N P=0.463 P=0.519N P=0.666 \|P=0.088N P=0.693N P=0.239N P=0.248N \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.462N P=0.569 P=0.492N P=0.655 \|P=0.084N P=0.686N P=0.232N P=0.213N \| \|OVERALL (a) \| 4/50 (8%) 4/50 (8%) 2/50 (4%) 5/50 (10%) \|1/49 (2%) 5/50 (10%) 3/49 (6%) 0/50 (0%) \| \|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) \| 8.8% 10.2% 4.8% 12.4% \|2.3% 11.4% 6.8% 0.0% \| \|TERMINAL (d) \| 3/29 (10%) 2/19 (11%) 0/21 (0%) 1/16 (6%) \|1/36 (3%) 4/30 (13%) 3/32 (9%) 0/25 (0%) \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| 626 621 589 581 \|730 (T) 703 730 (T) --- \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.305 P=0.435 P=0.445N P=0.264 \|P=0.297N P=0.071 P=0.263 P=0.573N \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.422 P=0.558 P=0.374N P=0.428 \|P=0.235N P=0.100 P=0.303 P=0.517N \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.438 P=0.596 P=0.359N P=0.459 \|P=0.215N P=0.103 P=0.304 P=0.508N \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.446 P=0.567 P=0.320N P=0.489 \|P=0.266N P=0.087 P=0.263 (e) \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.457 P=0.643N P=0.339N P=0.500 \|P=0.190N P=0.107 P=0.309 P=0.495N \| \|Nose: Goblet Cell \| \|TERMINAL (d) \| 1/29 (3%) 0/19 (0%) 0/21 (0%) 3/16 (19%) \|1/36 (3%) 3/30 (10%) 3/32 (9%) 1/25 (4%) \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| 729 (T) 667 702 691 \|730 (T) 730 (T) 730 (T) 730 (T) \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.029 * P=0.654 P=0.707 P=0.056 \|P=0.562 P=0.242 P=0.263 P=0.678 \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.056 P=0.726 P=0.742 P=0.141 \|P=0.548N P=0.302 P=0.303 P=0.742 \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.060 P=0.741 P=0.750 P=0.157 \|P=0.527N P=0.307 P=0.304 P=0.751 \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.044 * P=0.731 P=0.730 P=0.076 \|P=0.562 P=0.242 P=0.263 P=0.678 \| \|Nose: Nasolacrimal Duct \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| 729 (T) --- --- --- \|730 (T) --- 730 (T) 589 \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.405N (e) (e) (e) \|P=0.503N (e) P=0.541N P=0.491N \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.343N P=0.500N P=0.500N P=0.500N \|P=0.496N P=0.242N P=0.500N P=0.492N \| \|Nose: Olfactory Epithelium \| \| Degeneration Hyaline \| \|OVERALL (a) \| 2/50 (4%) 8/50 (16%) 2/50 (4%) 3/50 (6%) \|12/49 (24%) 18/50 (36%) 15/49 (31%) 28/50 (56%) \| \|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) \| 4.4% 19.6% 4.8% 7.6% \|26.0% 39.7% 33.0% 59.7% \| \|TERMINAL (d) \| 2/29 (7%) 2/19 (11%) 1/21 (5%) 1/16 (6%) \|9/36 (25%) 13/30 (43%) 10/32 (31%) 14/25 (56%) \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| 729 (T) 565 717 675 \|481 481 581 285 \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.433N P=0.017 * P=0.580 P=0.288 \|P<0.001 P=0.068 P=0.253 P<0.001 \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.349N P=0.030 * P=0.663 P=0.443 \|P<0.001 P=0.117 P=0.307 P<0.001 \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.317N P=0.036 * P=0.676 P=0.468 \|P<0.001 P=0.131 P=0.312 P<0.001 \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.285N P=0.066 P=0.614 P=0.368 \|P=0.002 P=0.156 P=0.330 P=0.004 \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.281N P=0.046 * P=0.691N P=0.500 \|P<0.001 P=0.152 P=0.326 P<0.001 \| \|ORDER RESTRICTED \| P=0.243 (e) (e) (e) \|P<0.001 ** (e) (e) (e) \| \|Nose: Respiratory Epithelium \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| 626 621 729 (T) 729 (T) \|--- --- --- --- \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.271N P=0.288N P=0.275N P=0.359N \|(e) (e) (e) (e) \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.167N P=0.230N P=0.208N P=0.224N \|(e) (e) (e) (e) \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.167N P=0.206N P=0.196N P=0.204N \|(e) (e) (e) (e) \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.192N P=0.188N P=0.213N P=0.249N \|(e) (e) (e) (e) \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.169N P=0.181N P=0.181N P=0.181N \|(e) (e) (e) (e) \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| --- --- --- --- \|--- 730 (T) --- --- \| \|LIFE TABLE \| (e) (e) (e) (e) \|P=0.469N P=0.199 (e) (e) \| \|POLY 3 \| (e) (e) (e) (e) \|P=0.421N P=0.235 (e) (e) \| \|POLY 1.5 \| (e) (e) (e) (e) \|P=0.413N P=0.238 (e) (e) \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| (e) (e) (e) (e) \|(e) P=0.199 (e) (e) \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| (e) (e) (e) (e) \|P=0.402N P=0.253 (e) (e) \| \|ORDER RESTRICTED \| (e) (e) (e) (e) \|P=0.262N (e) (e) (e) \| \|Ovary \| \|OVERALL (a) \| \|8/50 (16%) 9/50 (18%) 8/50 (16%) 5/50 (10%) \| \|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) \| \|17.5% 20.4% 17.8% 12.3% \| \|TERMINAL (d) \| \|5/36 (14%) 8/30 (27%) 7/32 (22%) 4/25 (16%) \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| \|540 670 689 712 \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| \|P=0.263N P=0.490 P=0.606N P=0.323N \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| \|P=0.192N P=0.500 P=0.607N P=0.277N \| \|Pancreas: Acinus \| \| Atrophy \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| 726 621 729 (T) 684 \|730 (T) 726 730 (T) --- \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.490 P=0.566 P=0.610N P=0.497 \|P=0.209N P=0.552N P=0.541N P=0.322N \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.585N P=0.639 P=0.530N P=0.647 \|P=0.162N P=0.503N P=0.495N P=0.256N \| \|POLY 6 \| P=0.579 P=0.602 P=0.545N P=0.616 \|P=0.167N P=0.510N P=0.497N P=0.270N \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.581 P=0.623 P=0.595N P=0.572 \|P=0.198N P=0.535N P=0.541N (e) \| \|Pituitary Gland: Pars Distalis \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| --- --- --- --- \|509 --- 433 682 \| \|LIFE TABLE \| (e) (e) (e) (e) \|P=0.397 P=0.240N P=0.683 P=0.645 \| \|POLY 3 \| (e) (e) (e) (e) \|P=0.414 P=0.245N P=0.693N P=0.656 \| \|POLY 1.5 \| (e) (e) (e) (e) \|P=0.428 P=0.240N P=0.690N P=0.674 \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| (e) (e) (e) (e) \|P=0.601N P=0.189N P=0.642N P=0.569N \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| (e) (e) (e) (e) \|P=0.450 P=0.242N P=0.684N P=0.684N \| \|OVERALL (a) \| 1/50 (2%) 0/50 (0%) 1/50 (2%) 1/50 (2%) \|5/49 (10%) 3/50 (6%) 3/50 (6%) 3/50 (6%) \| \|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) \| 2.2% 0.0% 2.4% 2.5% \|11.2% 6.8% 6.6% 7.3% \| \|TERMINAL (d) \| 0/29 (0%) 0/19 (0%) 0/21 (0%) 0/16 (0%) \|4/36 (11%) 2/30 (7%) 2/32 (6%) 2/25 (8%) \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| 611 --- 708 698 \|582 606 433 611 \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.417 P=0.531N P=0.721 P=0.686 \|P=0.451N P=0.434N P=0.408N P=0.522N \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.468 P=0.533N P=0.740 P=0.729 \|P=0.348N P=0.361N P=0.346N P=0.404N \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.475 P=0.519N P=0.748 P=0.743 \|P=0.334N P=0.354N P=0.345N P=0.380N \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| --- 565 715 578 \|--- --- --- 682 \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.045 * P=0.487 P=0.459 P=0.091 \|P=0.179 (e) (e) P=0.468 \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.050 P=0.471 P=0.483 P=0.100 \|P=0.189 (e) (e) P=0.484 \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.054 P=0.484 P=0.490 P=0.108 \|P=0.193 (e) (e) P=0.492 \| \|POLY 6 \| P=0.045 * P=0.453 P=0.475 P=0.091 \|P=0.183 (e) (e) P=0.473 \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.072 P=0.682 P=0.470 P=0.189 \|P=0.202 (e) (e) P=0.506 \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.059 P=0.500 P=0.500 P=0.121 \|P=0.200 (e) (e) P=0.505 \| \|OVERALL (a) \| 4/50 (8%) 5/50 (10%) 6/50 (12%) 5/50 (10%) \|9/49 (18%) 9/50 (18%) 8/50 (16%) 8/50 (16%) \| \|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) \| 8.8% 12.8% 14.0% 12.4% \|19.9% 20.0% 17.6% 19.2% \| \|TERMINAL (d) \| 3/29 (10%) 3/19 (16%) 2/21 (10%) 2/16 (13%) \|6/36 (17%) 6/30 (20%) 5/32 (16%) 4/25 (16%) \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.260 P=0.278 P=0.249 P=0.251 \|P=0.441 P=0.484 P=0.566N P=0.458 \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.381 P=0.406 P=0.334 P=0.425 \|P=0.493N P=0.601 P=0.495N P=0.573N \| \|POLY 6 \| P=0.341 P=0.348 P=0.318 P=0.379 \|P=0.533N P=0.585 P=0.503N P=0.595 \| \|Pleura \| \|OVERALL (a) \| 2/50 (4%) 12/50 (24%) 5/50 (10%) 1/50 (2%) \|18/48 (38%) 6/50 (12%) 9/50 (18%) 12/50 (24%) \| \|POLY-3 RATE (b) \| 2/45.04 12/40.34 5/41.86 1/39.48 \|18/44.09 6/44.40 9/45.00 12/43.35 \| \|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) \| 4.4% 29.8% 12.0% 2.5% \|40.8% 13.5% 20.0% 27.7% \| \|TERMINAL (d) \| 2/29 (7%) 7/19 (37%) 3/21 (14%) 0/16 (0%) \|17/36 (47%) 4/30 (13%) 7/32 (22%) 6/25 (24%) \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.122N P<0.001 ** P=0.126 P=0.694N \|P=0.545 P=0.015N* P=0.064N P=0.463N \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.065N P<0.001 P=0.187 P=0.546N \|P=0.242N P=0.003N P=0.025N* P=0.139N \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.050N P=0.002 P=0.199 P=0.526N \|P=0.233N P=0.003N P=0.025N* P=0.124N \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.052N P=0.002 P=0.171 P=0.653N \|P=0.278N P=0.005N P=0.032N* P=0.134N \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.041N* P=0.004 P=0.218 P=0.500N \|P=0.226N P=0.003N P=0.026N* P=0.109N \| \|ORDER RESTRICTED \| P=0.027N* (e) (e) (e) \|P=0.016N* (e) (e) (e) \| \|OVERALL (a) \| 11/50 (22%) 2/50 (4%) 1/50 (2%) 5/50 (10%) \|21/48 (44%) 20/50 (40%) 13/50 (26%) 5/50 (10%) \| \|POLY-3 RATE (b) \| 11/46.66 2/38.76 1/41.92 5/40.12 \|21/44.58 20/45.36 13/45.06 5/41.90 \| \|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) \| 23.6% 5.2% 2.4% 12.5% \|47.1% 44.1% 28.9% 11.9% \| \|TERMINAL (d) \| 5/29 (17%) 1/19 (5%) 0/21 (0%) 2/16 (13%) \|17/36 (47%) 15/30 (50%) 11/32 (34%) 2/25 (8%) \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.275N P=0.059N P=0.011N* P=0.330N \|P=0.002N P=0.407 P=0.135N P=0.007N \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.122N P=0.018N* P=0.003N P=0.145N \|P<0.001N P=0.470N P=0.055N P<0.001N** \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.127N P=0.012N* P=0.003N P=0.116N \|P<0.001N P=0.450N P=0.053N P<0.001N \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.149N P=0.009N P<0.001N P=0.093N \|P<0.001N P=0.502N P=0.058N P<0.001N \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.143N P=0.007N P=0.002N P=0.086N \|P<0.001N P=0.432N P=0.051N P<0.001N \| \|ORDER RESTRICTED \| P=0.006N (e) (e) (e) \|P<0.001N** (e) (e) (e) \| \|Preputial Gland \| \|OVERALL (a) \| 1/50 (2%) 1/50 (2%) 0/50 (0%) 2/50 (4%) \| \| \|POLY-3 RATE (b) \| 1/45.11 1/38.82 0/41.34 2/39.94 \| \| \|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) \| 2.2% 2.6% 0.0% 5.0% \| \| \|TERMINAL (d) \| 0/29 (0%) 0/19 (0%) 0/21 (0%) 0/16 (0%) \| \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| 712 621 --- 642 \| \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.332 P=0.689 P=0.546N P=0.394 \| \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.356 P=0.726 P=0.517N P=0.458 \| \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.364 P=0.742 P=0.510N P=0.476 \| \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.386 P=0.749N P=0.527N P=0.521 \| \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.373 P=0.753N P=0.500N P=0.500 \| \| \|ORDER RESTRICTED \| P=0.241 (e) (e) (e) \| \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| --- --- 556 --- \| \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.404 (e) P=0.052 (e) \| \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.372 (e) P=0.054 (e) \| \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.401 (e) P=0.057 (e) \| \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.498 (e) P=0.125 (e) \| \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.436 (e) P=0.059 (e) \| \| \|Prostate \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| 729 (T) 652 --- 581 \| \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.155 P=0.750 (e) P=0.275 \| \| \|OVERALL (a) \| 10/50 (20%) 10/50 (20%) 14/50 (28%) 12/50 (24%) \| \| \|POLY-3 RATE (b) \| 10/46.65 10/42.64 14/44.71 12/41.80 \| \| \|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) \| 21.4% 23.5% 31.3% 28.7% \| \| \|TERMINAL (d) \| 2/29 (7%) 1/19 (5%) 5/21 (24%) 3/16 (19%) \| \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| 576 421 546 563 \| \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.127 P=0.342 P=0.128 P=0.117 \| \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.202 P=0.510 P=0.201 P=0.293 \| \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.236 P=0.550 P=0.216 P=0.340 \| \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.365 P=0.262N P=0.346 P=0.453 \| \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.285 P=0.598N P=0.241 P=0.405 \| \| \|Skin \| \| Cyst Epithelial Inclusion \| \|TERMINAL (d) \| 4/29 (14%) 1/19 (5%) 1/21 (5%) 3/16 (19%) \|0/36 (0%) 1/30 (3%) 1/32 (3%) 0/25 (0%) \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| 611 636 708 729 (T) \|--- 730 (T) 730 (T) 712 \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.559 P=0.377N P=0.343N P=0.632 \|P=0.308 P=0.464 P=0.477 P=0.441 \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.466N P=0.288N P=0.264N P=0.526N \|P=0.332 P=0.464 P=0.477 P=0.474 \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.387N P=0.218N P=0.218N P=0.357N \|P=0.384 P=0.500 P=0.500 P=0.500 \| \| Hyperkeratosis \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| 670 --- 642 684 \|509 --- 730 (T) --- \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.179 P=0.608N P=0.724 P=0.375 \|P=0.438N P=0.504N P=0.747 P=0.504N \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.202 P=0.532N P=0.742 P=0.454 \|P=0.417N P=0.506N P=0.758 P=0.521N \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.206 P=0.518N P=0.750 P=0.474 \|P=0.413N P=0.503N P=0.759 P=0.513N \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.206 P=0.482N P=0.728N P=0.483 \|P=0.338N P=0.488N P=0.755N P=0.338N \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.209 P=0.500N P=0.753N P=0.500 \|P=0.405N P=0.500N P=0.753N P=0.500N \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| --- --- 396 --- \|--- --- --- 730 (T) \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.609 (e) P=0.443 (e) \|(e) (e) (e) P=0.427 \| \|Spleen \| \| Accessory Spleen \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| 729 (T) --- 691 563 \|537 --- 401 --- \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.386 (e) P=0.250 P=0.710N \|P=0.259N P=0.475N P=0.590 P=0.356N \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.400 P=0.500N P=0.309 P=0.753N \|P=0.457N P=0.495N P=0.508 P=0.495N \| \|TERMINAL (d) \| 1/29 (3%) 2/19 (11%) 1/21 (5%) 3/16 (19%) \|0/36 (0%) 0/30 (0%) 0/32 (0%) 0/25 (0%) \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| 691 537 546 667 \|--- 506 563 682 \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.036 * P=0.331 P=0.263 P=0.039 * \|P=0.367 P=0.500 P=0.513 P=0.468 \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.062 P=0.434 P=0.308 P=0.096 \|P=0.350 P=0.501 P=0.505 P=0.484 \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.070 P=0.463 P=0.320 P=0.111 \|P=0.365 P=0.503 P=0.504 P=0.492 \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.072 P=0.487 P=0.380 P=0.073 \|P=0.536 P=0.530 P=0.556 P=0.506 \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.081 P=0.500 P=0.339 P=0.134 \|P=0.388 P=0.505 P=0.505 P=0.505 \| \| Hematopoietic Cell Proliferation \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| 712 --- 593 --- \|481 726 401 --- \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.599N P=0.606N P=0.421 P=0.606N \|P=0.241N P=0.510N P=0.680 P=0.261N \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.532N P=0.532N P=0.473 P=0.527N \|P=0.223N P=0.511N P=0.691N P=0.262N \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.525N P=0.518N P=0.484 P=0.515N \|P=0.212N P=0.503N P=0.689N P=0.250N \| \|POLY 6 \| P=0.544N P=0.552N P=0.460 P=0.544N \|P=0.237N P=0.522N P=0.693 P=0.279N \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.521N P=0.568N P=0.521 P=0.555N \|P=0.095N P=0.467N P=0.643N P=0.108N \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.518N P=0.500N P=0.500 P=0.500N \|P=0.196N P=0.492N P=0.684N P=0.242N \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.544N P=0.496 P=0.253 P=0.655N \|P=0.547 P=0.758 P=0.493 P=0.727 \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.495N P=0.638 P=0.305 P=0.548N \|P=0.543 P=0.758 P=0.504 P=0.738 \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.472N P=0.663 P=0.318 P=0.527N \|P=0.564 P=0.760N P=0.505 P=0.749 \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.444N P=0.699 P=0.381 P=0.551N \|P=0.524N P=0.750N P=0.558 P=0.690N \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.445N P=0.691N P=0.339 P=0.500N \|P=0.596 P=0.747N P=0.508 P=0.747N \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| 476 --- 509 --- \|495 670 --- 451 \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.276N P=0.163N P=0.605 P=0.159N \|P=0.308 P=0.526N P=0.255N P=0.458 \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.238N P=0.156N P=0.621 P=0.151N \|P=0.332 P=0.506N P=0.238N P=0.476 \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.233N P=0.139N P=0.638 P=0.136N \|P=0.336 P=0.501N P=0.236N P=0.490 \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.164N P=0.018N* P=0.383N P=0.019N* \|P=0.569 P=0.471N P=0.204N P=0.629N \| \|Stomach, Forestomach \| \| Ulcer \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| 670 605 633 705 \|--- 656 --- 694 \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.344N P=0.355 P=0.629 P=0.616N \|P=0.191 P=0.228 (e) P=0.180 \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.327N P=0.437 P=0.656 P=0.549N \|P=0.227 P=0.237 (e) P=0.220 \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.307N P=0.464 P=0.668 P=0.527N \|P=0.236 P=0.239 (e) P=0.228 \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.260N P=0.642 P=0.676N P=0.500N \|P=0.245 P=0.246 (e) P=0.217 \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.283N P=0.500 P=0.684 P=0.500N \|P=0.251 P=0.253 (e) P=0.253 \| \|Stomach, Glandular \| \| Erosion \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| --- 670 556 --- \|--- --- --- --- \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.577 P=0.392 P=0.101 (e) \|(e) (e) (e) (e) \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.562 P=0.470 P=0.104 (e) \|(e) (e) (e) (e) \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.592 P=0.483 P=0.108 (e) \|(e) (e) (e) (e) \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.611N P=0.518 P=0.144 (e) \|(e) (e) (e) (e) \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.626 P=0.500 P=0.117 (e) \|(e) (e) (e) (e) \| \|Testes: Artery \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| 621 605 729 (T) 691 \| \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.587N P=0.637 P=0.533N P=0.643 \| \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.575N P=0.662 P=0.519N P=0.666 \| \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.586N P=0.676N P=0.509N P=0.672 \| \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.561N P=0.691N P=0.500N P=0.691N \| \| \|Testes: Germinal Epithelium \| \|OVERALL (a) \| 11/50 (22%) 9/50 (18%) 15/50 (30%) 11/50 (22%) \| \| \|POLY-3 RATE (b) \| 11/45.57 9/39.47 15/42.43 11/40.40 \| \| \|TERMINAL (d) \| 8/29 (28%) 5/19 (26%) 9/21 (43%) 3/16 (19%) \| \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.296 P=0.544N P=0.177 P=0.468 \| \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.335 P=0.481N P=0.204 P=0.524 \| \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.234 P=0.528 P=0.132 P=0.328 \| \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.383 P=0.402N P=0.247 P=0.595N \| \| \|Testes: Interstitial Cell \| \|OVERALL (a) \| 5/50 (10%) 4/50 (8%) 2/50 (4%) 2/50 (4%) \| \| \|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) \| 10.9% 9.7% 4.8% 5.0% \| \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.200N P=0.613 P=0.320N P=0.388N \| \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.152N P=0.567N P=0.254N P=0.270N \| \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.142N P=0.536N P=0.238N P=0.246N \| \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.077N P=0.168N P=0.211N P=0.156N \| \| \|ORDER RESTRICTED \| P=0.229N (e) (e) (e) \| \| \|Thyroid Gland: C-Cell \| \|OVERALL (a) \| 8/50 (16%) 4/50 (8%) 6/50 (12%) 11/50 (22%) \|11/49 (22%) 6/50 (12%) 4/50 (8%) 5/50 (10%) \| \|POLY-3 RATE (b) \| 8/46.03 4/39.62 6/42.00 11/42.27 \|11/44.25 6/43.87 4/44.85 5/41.07 \| \|TERMINAL (d) \| 4/29 (14%) 1/19 (5%) 4/21 (19%) 2/16 (13%) \|10/36 (28%) 6/30 (20%) 3/32 (9%) 4/25 (16%) \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| 576 590 558 465 \|722 730 (T) 718 611 \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.037 * P=0.379N P=0.588N P=0.094 \|P=0.179N P=0.247N P=0.073N P=0.262N \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.092 P=0.257N P=0.458N P=0.232 \|P=0.075N P=0.143N P=0.040N* P=0.109N \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.097 P=0.220N P=0.428N P=0.264 \|P=0.070N P=0.138N P=0.040N* P=0.095N \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.101 P=0.178N P=0.387N P=0.306 \|P=0.063N P=0.133N P=0.041N* P=0.079N \| \|Tongue: Epithelium \| \|OVERALL (a) \| 1/1 (100%) 1/1 (100%) 1/3 (33%) 0/0 (0%) \|0/1 (0%) 3/3 (100%) 0/0 (0%) 1/1 (100%) \| \|POLY-3 RATE (b) \| 1/1.00 1/1.00 1/2.92 0/0.00 \|0/1.00 3/3.00 0/0.00 1/1.00 \| \|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) \| 100.0% 100.0% 34.3% 0.0% \|0.0% 100.0% 0.0% 100.0% \| \|TERMINAL (d) \| 1/1 (100%) 1/1 (100%) 1/2 (50%) 0/0 (0%) \|0/1 (0%) 2/2 (100%) 0/0 (0%) 1/1 (100%) \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| 729 (T) 729 (T) 729 (T) --- \|--- 703 --- 730 (T) \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.556N (e) P=0.638N (e) \|P=0.514 P=0.152 (e) P=0.500 \| \|POLY 3 \| (e) (e) P=0.509N (e) \|(e) P=0.250N (e) P=1.000 \| \|POLY 1.5 \| (e) (e) P=0.504N (e) \|(e) P=0.250N (e) P=1.000 \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.556N (e) P=0.638N (e) \|(e) (e) (e) P=0.250 \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.338N (e) P=0.500N (e) \|P=0.371 P=0.250 (e) P=0.500 \| \|ORDER RESTRICTED \| (e) (e) (e) (e) \|(e) (e) (e) (e) \| \|Urinary Bladder: Transitional Epithelium \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| --- --- --- 647 \|656 --- 730 (T) --- \| \|LIFE TABLE \| P=0.180 (e) (e) P=0.454 \|P=0.528N P=0.505N P=0.475 P=0.531N \| \|POLY 3 \| P=0.180 (e) (e) P=0.475 \|P=0.486N P=0.503N P=0.502 P=0.518N \| \|POLY 1.5 \| P=0.184 (e) (e) P=0.486 \|P=0.475N P=0.500N P=0.504 P=0.509N \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| P=0.196 (e) (e) P=0.557 \|P=0.476N P=0.487N P=0.506 P=0.471N \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| P=0.188 (e) (e) P=0.500 \|P=0.457N P=0.495N P=0.508 P=0.495N \| \|Uterus \| \|TERMINAL (d) \| \|0/36 (0%) 0/30 (0%) 0/32 (0%) 1/25 (4%) \| \|LIFE TABLE \| \|P=0.112 P=0.745 P=0.751 P=0.202 \| \|POLY 3 \| \|P=0.148 P=0.761N P=0.757N P=0.276 \| \|POLY 1.5 \| \|P=0.155 P=0.758N P=0.757N P=0.291 \| \|POLY 6 \| \|P=0.139 P=0.757 P=0.758N P=0.258 \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| \|P=0.161 P=0.750N P=0.758N P=0.255 \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| \|P=0.167 P=0.747N P=0.747N P=0.316 \| \|ORDER RESTRICTED \| \|P=0.158 (e) (e) (e) \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| \|--- --- --- 656 \| \|LIFE TABLE \| \|P=0.032 * (e) (e) P=0.185 \| \|POLY 3 \| \|P=0.043 * (e) (e) P=0.220 \| \|POLY 1.5 \| \|P=0.044 * (e) (e) P=0.229 \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| \|P=0.044 * (e) (e) P=0.230 \| \|COCH-ARM / FISHERS \| \|P=0.047 * (e) (e) P=0.253 \| \|ORDER RESTRICTED \| \|P=0.024 * (e) (e) (e) \| \|Uterus: Endometrium \| \| Hyperplasia Cystic \| \|OVERALL (a) \| \|1/49 (2%) 5/50 (10%) 2/50 (4%) 0/50 (0%) \| \|POLY-3 PERCENT (g) \| \|2.3% 11.2% 4.5% 0.0% \| \|FIRST INCIDENCE \| \|730 (T) 606 730 (T) --- \| \|LOGISTIC REGRESSION\| \|P=0.179N P=0.106 P=0.459 (e) \| (a) Number of tumor-bearing animals / number of animals examined at site. (b) Number of tumor-bearing animals / Poly-3 number (d) Observed incidence at terminal kill. (f) Beneath the control incidence are the P-values associated with the trend test. Beneath the dosed group incidence are the P-values corresponding to pairwise comparisons between the controls and that dosed group. The life table analysis regards tumors in animals dying prior to terminal kill as being (directly or indirectly) the cause of death. Logistic regression is an alternative method for analyzing the incidence of non-fatal tumors. The Cochran-Armitage and Fishers exact tests compare directly the overall incidence rates For all tests a negative trend is indicated by N (e) Value of Statistic cannot be computed. (g) Poly-3 adjusted lifetime tumor incidence. (I) Interim sacrifice (T) Terminal sacrifice # Tumor rates based on number of animals necropsied. * To the right of any statistical result, indicates significance at (P<=0.05). ** To the right of any statistical result, indicates significance at (P<=0.01).	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1547
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Follow Quintessential Media on Twitter Underwraps Agency CEO, Nailah Lymus talks #modest #fashion #inspiration and more with Fox 5 DC. #womenshistorymonth… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 3 months ago Underwraps Agency founder, Nailah Lymus discusses the #gendergap in #fashion with CGTN - China Global Television Ne… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 5 months ago Quintessential Media on FB Tag / Fashion January 24, 2018 January 24, 2018 by Tamara Designer Ana Segura returns to New York Fashion Week with “Rocker Chic” Collection business, Culture, Entertainment, events, Fashion, Girl Power!, Gossip Folks, lifestyle, New York City, PR, Public Relations, Uncategorized, women ana segura, evening wear, Fashion, nyc fashion, nyfw, redcarpet, style NEW YORK CITY— Ana Segura, famed intimate apparel designer, announced today she will be debuting a new capsule collection featuring ready-to-wear pieces during next month’s New York Fashion Week. The presentation style showcase will take place on February 8th at The Armory, located at 529 W 42 nd Street in midtown Manhattan. Known for her sexy yet stylish lingerie assortments of the past, this new collection entitled “Rocker Chic,” represents a departure from Ana’s past as she shifts her attention to ready-to-wear with a focus on pieces that can easily transition from day to night and ultimately to the red carpet. This collection features a strong intimates aesthetic combined with a sleek black and gold palette. “After taking a break to start a family, I decided it was time to return to my true love and passion,” says Segura. “This collection signifies my growth throughout my career—displaying my background in lingerie but showcasing styles made for a woman who loves to be in the spotlight. The collection is edgy and elegant. Rocker Chic reflects me as it features pieces that I would personally wear.” To complement this season’s collection, Ana has teamed with New Jersey-based Voa Salon for hair services for the featured models, milliner Gwen Green of the Hat Studio, Juwelen V by Vanessa for accessories and footwear from Signature by John Ashford. Interior design and visual art phenom, Laura Diaz will provide the set design for the presentation. This season’s presentation has been sponsored by Stadium Soundz. There will be two opportunities to view the collection. The first session takes place from 3p to 4:30p and the second from 5:30p to 7p. For press inquiries or to RSVP, contact tamara@qmedia-pr.com . For sales inquiries, contact annieslimited@gmail.com . ABOUT ANA SEGURA Born in Puerto Rico to Dominican parents, Ana Segura is a contemporary, luxury fashion designer whose talent was born of a rich family tradition in fashion. She honed her craft and matured as an artist at the famed High School of Fashion Industries in New York and later at Florida’s Lynn University where she obtained a Bachelors of Science in Fashion Design. Ana has become known for her distinctive style that evokes a uniquely creative vision to that pays homage to rebellious eras in fashion history. Her collections preserve the femininity and sophistication of the Baroque, Rococo and Victorian eras while rejecting the rigidity and conservatism of those times. The result is a sultry and a distinctively ladylike style aimed at sophisticated, uninhibited and provocative clients who “Dare to Imagine.” For more information about Ana Segura or to view the collections, visit www.AnaSegura.com. June 6, 2016 June 6, 2016 by Tamara INSIDE SOUTH FLORIDA’S CHAMBERS OF STYLE Art, business, Culture, Entertainment, Fashion, Friends and Family, General PR Stuff, Gossip Folks, miami, PR, Public Relations, Uncategorized, women Art, business, culture, Entertainment, events, Fashion, florida, miami, New York City, ny, small business, south florida, style, styles lewis, tresa chambers, women Fashion & Marketing Duo Launch New Tastemaker Event Series; Kick Off Promotions With Radio Show Partnership on 880 The Biz MIAMI, FL– June 6th, 2016– What do you get when you marry the cutting edge style and influence of New York with the sexiness and thriving nightlife of Miami? Enter South Florida’s newest event series, Style Chambers. Co-created by Florida-based marketing expert, Tresa Chambers and New York-based fashion stylist, Styles Lewis, Style Chambers produces events that bring together fashion, art and culture tastemakers and influencers from the region. “It’s exciting to create opportunities to bring emerging entrepreneurs in the creative economy together with their markets in South Florida,” said Chambers. “From here, they have the chance to gain visibility nationally and internationally.” “South Florida, particularly the Miami area, is full of talented creatives.” said Styles Lewis.”Teaming with Tresa to create Style Chambers allows me to help showcase these individuals in a way that is done in places like New York and gives these professionals a global platform to shine on.” Launched earlier this spring, Style Chambers will host their Miami event in August. In advance of the debut, Style Chambers has partnered with AM 880, The Biz (Bloomberg Radio) to launch a new radio program, Fashion Friday: The Business of Style. The show features creative professionals in fashion, the arts and culture who will discuss their experiences starting and growing their business, finding their markets and ways they contribute to the style and culture of Miami, the country and the world. Under the the guidance of well known producer, Wanda Myles (NPR/WLRN), Style Chambers has already put together a great line of guests for the show. The premier episode aired Friday, May 27 at 7:00 pm. Rebroadcasts will be available on the station’s website at www.880thebiz, via iHeart Radio or the Style Chambers’ Facebook page. Creative entrepreneurs interested in being featured on Fashion Friday should contact Style Chambers at Stylechambers.biz@gmail.com. ABOUT STYLE CHAMBERS Style Chambers produces live events, broadcast and digital content that reaches affluent taste makers passionate about fashion, art and culture. For more information about Style Chambers, visit www.stylechambers.biz. June 2, 2016 by Tamara HONORING THE PLUS PIONEERS Beauty, Culture, Entertainment, events, Fashion, General PR Stuff, Girl Power!, Gossip Folks, New York City, Nightlife, PR, Public Relations, Uncategorized, women Beauty, catwalk, curvy, curvy models, Entertainment, events, Fashion, fashion week, icons, legends, models, new york, New York City, ny, nyc, plus models, plus size, runway, runway shows, style, trailblazers, women Full Figured Fashion Week to Pay Tribute to Plus Runway Icons With Legends Showcase NEW YORK, NY–Gwen DeVoe, Creator and Executive Producer of Full Figured Fashion Week (FFFWeek®), announced today that the annual week-long curve centric fashion and lifestyle event will be hosting a special showcase that pays homage to the plus icons that blazed trails on the catwalk. The runway show, entitled the Legends Showcase, will take place on June 16th at 404 NYC in Manhattan. “It’s important that we honor and showcase the women who were the trailblazers for the curvy faces that have become household names today,” says DeVoe, who herself was a former plus model. “It is important to the history of the industry to know the names and faces of the icons who took the first steps down the catwalk and broadened the definition of beauty in fashion all those years ago.” The “Legends” runway show will feature some of the women who paved the way for the equal modeling opportunity for the plus models of today including: Emme, the first plus size supermodel Sharon Quinn, former Wilhelmina model, contestant on Mo’nique’s FAT Chance Lisa Scott, former IPM model Alexandra Boos, former plus model turned writer and actress Chyna McGarity, former MSA model Kim Baker, former Wilhelmina model now celebrity makeup artist Terri Murray, plus size intimates fit model signed with Ford Wyinnetka Aaron, Dorothy Coombs model The Legends Showcase also marks the return of Lane Bryant to Full Figured Fashion Week as a sponsor after a brief hiatus. For more information about the Legends Showcase or to purchase tickets, visit Eventbrite here. May 14, 2016 by Tamara EMPOWERING WOMEN: Broadening the Definition of Beauty in Fashion and the Media Beauty, Brooklyn, business, Culture, Entertainment, events, Fashion, General PR Stuff, Girl Power!, Gossip Folks, New York City, PR, Public Relations, Uncategorized, women advocate, ashay media group, ashley graham, Beauty, beauty blender, bond no9, books, brian beitler, brooklyn, business, christian siriano, cindi leive, curvy, curvy fashion, danielle brooks, decade citizen, diversity, education, emme, empowering women nyc, EMPOWERMENT, Entertainment, events, Fashion, gabifresh, glamour, jill scott, kusmi tea, lane bryant, lida heasley, mattel, media, mikki taylor, msa models, new york, New York City, non-profit, ny, nyc, orange is the new black, plus size, sherri shepherd, style, susan moses, the art of dressing curves, true models, united nations, women, yandy.com On the heels of adding author to her list of titles with the release of her debut book, The Art of Dressing Curves, celebrity stylist Susan Moses is now adding the distinguished position of advocate to her resume with the launch of Empowering Women NYC, a platform to advocate for the equal representation of ALL women in fashion, beauty and the media. The groundbreaking organization officially launched on Monday, May 9th with the “Body Inclusivity & Diversity Summit,” held in the most fitting of locations, the United Nations. Susan gathered over 300 of fashion, beauty and the media’s top thought leaders and influencers to openly discuss how to be “agents of change,” and how to continue to democratize the industry that has slowly began changing its antiquated standards of what is deemed beautiful at the UN’s Prestigious Delegates Dining Room. Guests of the inaugural Empowering Women NYC luncheon were first treated to the showing of the spring capsule collection of the Christian Siriano for Lane Bryant collection which was held out on the terrace. The models for the show included the who’s who of the Curvy Girl lexicon including models Ashley Graham and Candice Huffine, bloggers GabiFresh and Nicolette Mason and Orange is the New Black’s Danielle Brooks, who served as the designer’s muse and closed the show. Following the show, the afternoon’s epic agenda continued with the attendees listening to an eclectic mix of stellar speakers and panelists hailing from the fashion, beauty, creative and media worlds. Some of the diverse class of speakers included: Cindi Leive, Editor-in-Chief, Glamour Magazine Linda Heasley, Chief Executive Officer, Lane Bryant Jill Scott, three-time Grammy Award Winning Singer, Songwriter and Actress Sherri Shepherd, Comedian, Actress and Host of The View Emme, the first plus supermodel, Body Positive Activist Ashley Graham, Model, Designer, Body Activist Mikki Taylor, Author & Editor at Large, Essence Magazine Brian Beitler, Chief Marketing Officer, Lane Bryant Christian Siriano, CFDA Designer Danielle Brooks, Actress and Star of Orange is the New Black and Broadway’s Color Purple Lane Bryant served as the afternoon’s title sponsor with other notable brands including Bond NO 9, MSA Models, True Model Management, Beauty Blender, Mattel, Decade Citizen, Yandy.com (whose Chief Marketing Officer Charley Clemens was on hand to fete the launch of Empowering Women NYC), EMME, Glamour Magazine, Ashay Media and Kusmi Tea. When asked about her vision for Empowering Women NYC, Founder Susan Moses responded, “It’s imperative that we continue to nurture the value of all women equally regardless of size, age and ethnicity in fashion, beauty and the media at large.” For more about Empowering Women NYC, visit http://susanmoses.com/empowering-women-nyc/. For more about the Art of Dressing Curves, visit: http://susanmoses.com/the-art-of-dressing-curves/. ABOUT SUSAN MOSES Susan Moses is a celebrity stylist who has styled for numerous magazines, television shows, films, and red carpet events. Her clients include Britney Spears, Queen Latifah, Brandy, Kathy Bates, Wynonna Judd, Jill Scott, and many others. She is a former stylist for Mode magazine, was named one of the “Six Plus Fashion Power Players on the Rise” in Ebony, and has appeared on HSN to help the network’s plus-size audience dress. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. For more information about Susan Moses, visit her website, www.susanmoses.com. March 31, 2016 March 31, 2016 by Tamara CELEBRATING CARIBBEAN WOMEN IN DESIGN business, charitable works, Culture, Entertainment, events, Fashion, General PR Stuff, Girl Power!, lifestyle, PR, Public Relations, travel, Uncategorized british virgin islands, bvi, caribbean, caribbean posh magazine, charity, Entertainment, Fashion, fashion show, fiona Compton, kristen fraser, markita turnbull smith, meiling, meiling esau, Menen I designs, poshgirl, scrub island, tortola, trefle designs Caribbean POSH Magazine Adds Fashion Showcase to Inaugural Empowerment Event Caribbean POSH Magazine just announced a surprise addition to this weekend’s agenda for the first annual Caribbean POSHGirl Power Brunch: BVI which is set to take place on Scrub Island in the British Virgin Islands. In conjunction with Sabelle Boutique, one of the sponsors for the inaugural event, Caribbean POSH Magazine will host a fashion show highlighting some of the talented women designers that the region has to offer. Attendees to the POSHGirl Power Brunch will get an exclusive look at the newest collections from: Trefle Designs, a Tortola (BVI) based swimwear brand by Kristen Fraser that has been seen on many a celebrity including Chrisette Michelle and Beyoncé Fiona Compton, award winning Lucian designer, photographer and artist, Fiona Compton to reveal her new signature line. Menen I Designs, an emerging ready-to-wear women’s line based in the British Virgin Islands by Markita Turnbull-Smith Meiling, the world famous fashion brand by Trinidadian, Meiling Esau known for dressing high profile personalities including former Miss Universe Wendy Fitzwilliams and Wolfgang Puck as well as her participation (alongside award winning costume designer Peter Minchall) in the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1996 Atlantic Olympics Fiona Compton, who is also be a panelist at this year’s Power Brunch, has teamed with Caribbean POSH to auction of one of the pieces from the Paradise Prints collection of which the proceeds will benefit the Family Support Network, a non-profit whose mission is to help those affected by domestic violence in the British Virgin Islands—continuing the overall mission of the event of supporting women in the community. The Caribbean POSHGirl Power Brunch: BVI looks to grow and host events in various destinations. For more information about this event or to purchase tickets, visit www.caribbeanposh.com/powerbrunch. March 30, 2016 by Tamara CLIENT PRESS: Amber Poitier in The Village Voice’s SHEER Culture, Fashion, General PR Stuff, Girl Power!, New York City, PR, Public Relations, women accessories, alicia appleton, amber poitier, contemporary, emerging designer, Fashion, handmade, jewelry, leather, made in new york, new york designer, style, village voice Super excited for ‪our jewelry‬ client, Amber Poitier , whose pieces are featured in the debut issue of The Village Voice’s new ‪‎supplement, ‪Sheer‬! The new section features Esparanza Spalding on the cover and features the Zoe cuff (pgs 32-33) and Large Basket Earrings (contents and pg 36)! FIT FOR ME by FRUIT OF THE LOOM RETURNS AS PRESENTING SPONSOR FOR FULL FIGURED FASHION WEEK (FFFWEEK®) 2016 business, Culture, Entertainment, events, Fashion, PR, Public Relations, Uncategorized curvy fashion, curvy style, denise caldwell, Entertainment, events, Fashion, fashion week, fffweek, fit for me, fit for me by fruit of the loom, fruit of the loom, full figured fashion week, gwen devoe, new york, New York City, nyc, plus fashion, plus size, plus style, sponsorships, strategic partnerships, women NEW YORK, NY—MARCH 28, 2016—Gwendolyn DeVoe, the Creator and Executive Producer of Full Figured Fashion Week (FFFWeek®), announced that Fit for Me by Fruit of the Loom is returning as the presenting sponsor for the 2016 edition of the plus centric fashion event taking place this June in New York City. This marks the brand’s second year in this marques role. “We are happy that Fit for Me has agreed to partner with us again this year,” says Ms. DeVoe. “As our presenting sponsor, we believe their brand matches perfectly with our event because of their overall mission of providing quality, great fitting products that empower women from the inside out.” As the returning sponsor, Fit for Me will showcase the latest prints, patterns and colors from the line during the retailers’ fashion showcase. Also, along with celebrity stylist and spokesperson Denise Caldwell, the brand will delight media and event attendees with focused events throughout the week focused on sharing expert advice on how “a great look starts with a great foundation” and embracing your curves while doing so. Fruit of the Loom is thrilled to be a part of Full Figured Fashion Week for the second year in a row,” said Karen Kendrick, VP Brand Communications & Creative Services. “Together with the Full Figured Fashion Week team, Fit for Me hopes to empower women to celebrate their curves by providing them a variety of silhouettes designed exclusively with them in mind.” Launched in 2009, FFFWeek® has grown from what was then a bold step to support the plus size fashion movement to what is now a revolutionary weeklong event with over 100 partners including sponsors designers, retailers, bloggers, small businesses and other industry professionals from across the country and around the world. Full Figured Fashion Week features a full schedule of events including of fashion shows, networking events, business development workshops, concerts and more – all catering to the plus community. FFFWeek® 2016 runs from June 12th through the 18th. For more information on Full Figured Fashion Week and the full schedule of events for this season, please visit the website atwww.fffweek.com. ABOUT FULL FIGURED FASHION WEEK® Full Figured Fashion Week (FFFWeek®) is produced by DeVoe Signature Events (DSE), a boutique events management company with an extensive background in the production of fashion-related events and a strong and effective mix of proven plus industry experience and success. With over 20 years of fashion event production in the plus size industry, Full Figured Fashion Week and DSE continue to receive accolades throughout the plus community and national and international media coverage of the event. For more information on Full Figured Fashion Week, visit http://www.fffweek.com. ABOUT FRUIT OF THE LOOM Fruit of the Loom knows the power of positive underwear. That’s why we’ve been helping families pull on a daily pick-me-up for over 160 years. We make colorful, smile-inducing, clothes with fits that won’t quit. And we’re wallet-friendly too. From hipsters to hoodies, boxers to bras, and sleepwear to socks, our clothes are made so you can grab the world by the waistband and start your day happy. For more information on Fruit of the Loom, visit http://www.fruit.com.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1550
__label__cc	0.734697	0.265303	The 2018 State Women's Keelboat Championships at Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club Once again the girls take to the water to contest the right to be the top cats for the year. Amongst the starters this year, I can hardly help but notice that Freshie has not one, but three teams in this year and Royal Perth managed to stump up for a couple of teams as well. If the two Royals don't sweep the field this year I'll have to rethink my opinion of the racing. The other clubs are quietly confident though and given that SoPYC has Mara back at the helm again, well wait and see. No one can put Caroline aside though and all she needs is some of those older and wiser heads at Freo to come sailing with her. Hillary's and East Freo have been known to upset applecarts and given we are likely to have flat water sailing in nor easterlies, it could be a great morning out. A day for the champions. Cool, a light easterly, but certainly enough to sail on and a lot of action on the docks as I arrived. They'd eschewed the traditional coffee and muffins that were inhaled by the early starters and the briefing had been short and sharp. I had arrived just in time, but they were saddling up, and rolling the teams out onto the moorings where the boats had been parked overnight. Some lucky ones had been allotted boats that had been parked further back on the dock, but by 8.30 they were almost ready to go out on the water. For my sins I'd been given a ride with one of the umpires, Richard Goldsmith and as we'd been out before, it was a matter of sorting out the boat and stowing gear before we headed out. The only disadvantage of working from an umpires boat is that I don't get to pick my shooting lines, so long shots and spinnaker hoists get missed as we're constantly in close with the boats. But plenty of action shots were there and I could have doubled the number of images I took, without a certain amount of discretion. On the water, the effort that RFBYC has been putting into women and training came to fruition as the three teams they put onto the water put in solid effort with only South of Perth YC putting the hard word on Adele's team. Slick as a whistle in the light breezes, the experience that the Freshy girls had showed. Hoists and trimming, marks and starts. So rarely did Adele raise her voice above a murmur as she drove the boat, she simply let the team work around her and you could see it as she took the advice from her tactician and played the breezes to her advantage. Both Fremantle and Royal Perth had good teams and it was a bit of bad luck that didn't let them push ahead. At the other end of the fleet Hillary's, East Fremantle and Royal Perth B were busy trying to keep ahead of each other with the occasional 6th place coming as a reward. South of Perth was hoping to make it four years in a row, but they had no answer to Adele's sailing and despite a spirited performance, they had to settle for second place. However with Adele handing out sailing lessons at the front of the fleet and a spirited battle for the back end of the fleet it was a wonderful morning and it became even more interesting when, as the breeze swung a little, the start line was tucked up close to the club start box and the pens. Made it interesting for anyone there and even the umpires were ducking for cover into the pens as the nine boats roared up and down the prestart track. Congratulations to all the sailors, volunteers, chief umpire Jenn Suffield and the start team. Of course, many thanks to Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht club for hosting the event and to the hard working team headed by Andy Fethers at Swan River Sailing who organise and run the racing on the river with these Foundation 36's. Enjoy the images and yes they are for sail. Many thanks to the ladies who went for a moment of madness. Those last few race starts up against the pens at RFBYC were fun. Weren't they? Seriously; it's two looks at the start line and a bit more. FSC, great start line -- the low aspect; and love that RPYC entry in the second start? Then a run around the track with a look at a decision at the bottom by two RP boats. Enjoy. and my apologies to Karen Koedyks team of RP... sorry guys I tried to get one of you, but umpires stop for no one. And Presentations.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1555
__label__wiki	0.744958	0.744958	News: Abarth To Mark 70th Anniversary At Silverstone Classic, And Showgoers Have Two Chances To Drive A Latest Model Abarth To Mark 70th Anniversary At Silverstone Classic, And Showgoers Have Two Chances To Drive A Latest Model Several illustrious marques are celebrating their anniversaries at this year’s Silverstone Classic, and now the legendary Abarth is joining them. It has chosen the mammoth retro racing festival, which takes place at the grand prix track in Northamptonshire on July 26 to 28, to pay homage to the 70 years since Abarth was founded. A range of activities are going to take place at the event to this end, and visitors may be particularly excited to hear that two of them will allow them to get behind the wheel of a latest Abarth car. Showgoers at this year’s Classic can take Abarth and Alfa Romeo models out for a 30-minute test drive onto the country roads surrounding the famous Silverstone circuit, as the two marques are partners in the event’s interactive ‘Drive Live’ feature. Drive Live test drives are included in the ticket price. And in addition, Abarth also will be holding an Autotest Challenge, giving Classic visitors a chance to pit themselves against the clock, racing one of Abarth’s latest models around a figure-of-eight course. As well as these, those at the Classic lucky enough to own an Abarth or Alfa Romeo already will also have access to an exclusive Silverstone club house. And topping it all off, there also at the event will be a special anniversary track parade for the Abarth Owners Club, showcasing Abarth examples from several eras across the seven decades, on late Saturday afternoon. Abarth’s early creations were raced and hillclimbed by famous names such as Tazio Nuvolari and Piero Taruffi and the new enterprise quickly earned itself an enviable reputation–that it exploited commercially by selling high-performance accessories to motor manufacturers such as Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, Alfa Romeo and BMW. Abarth was sold to Fiat in 1971, and Abarth became the racing department of Fiat, managed by famed engine designer Aurelio Lampredi. Some models built by Fiat or its subsidiaries Lancia and Autobianchi were co-branded Abarth. Abarth also prepared Fiat Group’s rally cars including the Fiat 124 Abarth, Fiat 131 Abarth, the World Rally Championship-winning Lancia S4 Delta and the 2011 European Rally Championship-winning Abarth Punto S2000. The iconic Fiat Abarth 124 won the 1972 and ’75 European Rally Championships, and after some years of success it was replaced by the 131 Abarth which won the World Rally Championship during the Group 4 era in 1977, ’78 and ’80. “We are delighted that two great companies with such wonderful sporting pedigrees will be out in force at this year’s Classic,” said Silverstone Classic CEO Nick Wigley of Abarth and Alfa. “This is clearly a very special year for Abarth and I’m sure some of its unique Italian magic will rub off on all those coming to the Silverstone Classic at the end of July.” Abarth UK marketing director Andrea Lo Presti added that: “Silverstone Classic is the perfect event for us to celebrate our 70th anniversary with dynamic activities and a track parade of classic and current models. We are really looking forward to hearing that distinctive Abarth sound echo around Silverstone once again.” Images courtesy of Silverstone Classic Tags Alfa Romeo/ Fiat Abarth/ Group 4/ Piero Taruffi/ Silverstone Classic/ Tazio Nuvolari/ World Rally Championship Featured Mulholland Meets Cars And Coffee At ‘Highway Earth’ News Bloodhound LSR Is Back On Track And Getting Ready For A High Speed Test Run In South Africa This October Motorsport Rally Legend Stig Blomqvist Will Fulfil A Childhood Dream By Driving This 7-Liter Ford Galaxie At Silverstone Classic News Goodbye Sauber, Hello Alfa Romeo, As New Formula 1 Team Livery Is Revealed News McLaren And Alfa Romeo Reveal Their 2019 Formula 1 Challengers News Now There Are New Race Series For Classic And Modern Classic Aston Martins News This Is How Citroën Plans To Celebrate Its 100th Birthday News At Last! Subaru Returns To Its Classic Blue With Gold Wheels Combination	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1558
__label__cc	0.668417	0.331583	+ KNAUSS Nav PONGABOUTWORKCONTACTimprintprivacy Nice to know you are also in Hamburg. Let’s find out if YOU+KNAUSS can be more than just some letters on this page. scroll down for more content Here are 5 easy questions for you to answer. We will give you our perspective to them as well. Do you think Elvis was a good man? My dad would know. No question, we think so too. Because Elvis was not only a good singer/songwriter, but also one of the early stars who understood the concept of being a brand, giving himself the brand name “The King” and striving to be synonymous with an entire music category: rock ’n’ roll. If you don’t know what we are talking about, here is a BBC documentary about him. You probably don’t have a hip to swing, right? We think Elvis was not only a good singer/songwriter, but also one of the early stars who understood the concept of being a brand, giving himself the brand name “The King” and striving to be synonymous with an entire music category: rock ’n’ roll. Congrats on having a cool dad. Because we think Elvis was not only a good singer/songwriter, but also one of the early stars who understood the concept of being a brand, giving himself the brand name “The King” and striving to be synonymous with an entire music category: rock ’n’ roll. Next question Are you a risk taker? Can I push both buttons? That’s the attitude we are looking for. We go along with Ray Kroc (father of McDonald’s), who said: “If you are not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business!” Because without taking risks and challenging the status quo, a company will never develop innovations that are truly meaningful for people and that will grow the market exponentially. You see it happening with brands like Tesla cars, Virgin, Patagonia, Red Bull, Method soap and Chipotle fast food. Sure, you can fail, but that is something we take like Michael Jordan. Then you should get the hell out of business! As Ray Kroc (father of McDonald’s) said: “If you are not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business!” Because without taking risks and challenging the status quo, a company will never develop innovations that are truly meaningful for people and that will grow the market exponentially. You see it happening with brands like Tesla cars, Virgin, Patagonia, Red Bull, Method soap and Chipotle fast food. Sure, you can fail, but that is something we take like Michael Jordan. Aha, really? That kind of guy? We agree with Ray Kroc (father of McDonald’s), who said: “If you are not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business!” Because without taking risks and challenging the status quo, a company will never develop innovations that are truly meaningful for people and that will grow the market exponentially. You see it happening with brands like Tesla cars, Virgin, Patagonia, Red Bull, Method soap and Chipotle fast food. Sure, you can fail, but that is something we take like Michael Jordan. Do you believe creativity can sell more? Let me ask my art teacher. We totally agree. Not only because of the extensive research and smart little book Case of Creativity by James Hurman and the IPA meta study of over 900 cases from 70 categories by Peter Field, which proved that creative work sells better, but we also experience this in the work we do every day. And we have decided to only work with people who agree with this fundamental principle. Then why are you looking for a creative partner? We have taken the decision to only work with people who agree with this fundamental principle. Not only because of the extensive research and smart little book Case of Creativity by James Hurman and the IPA meta study of over 900 cases from 70 categories by Peter Field, which proved that creative work sells better, but we also experience this in the work we do every day. Yeah, you should really hurry up then. Because we have taken the decision to only work with people who agree with this fundamental principle. Not only because of the extensive research and smart little book Case of Creativity by James Hurman and the IPA meta study of over 900 cases from 70 categories by Peter Field, which proved that creative work sells better, but we also experience this in the work we do every day. Do your decisions survive longer than 24 months? Ask me in two years. Thank goodness! Because for a company to be successful, brand building has to be based on strategic, not only tactical decisions. We have worked too often with companies that had a 24-month job-rotation system and as a consequence were unable to implement strategic decisions into everyday behavior. We like to work in the way that IBM’s Ginni Rometty explains here – balancing long- and short-term decisions, always building on the brand personality. Are you sure you are making proper use of your working time? You bet we will ask you again! If your brand died tomorrow, would people notice? It already smells funny. Congrats, then you are part of the happy minority. Because normal people don’t care about brands, as Seth Godin explains here very impulsively. Actually, a survey with more than 12,000 people demonstrates that over 70% of all brands that exist today would not be missed tomorrow . We think people will only miss a brand if its manufacturer gives a true reason why it is on the market, why it makes people and their lives better, and why they should care, rather than only trying to sell people its products. Well, you are in “good” company. Well, a dead brand can be a great new start. And it is not surprising that brands die. Because normal people don’t care about brands, as Seth Godin explains here very impulsively. Actually, a survey with more than 12,000 people demonstrates that over 70% of all brands that exist today would not be missed tomorrow . We think people will only miss a brand if its manufacturer gives a true reason why it is on the market, why it makes people and their lives better, and why they should care, rather than only trying to sell people its products. OK. Thanks for your honest answers. Do you think these ten minutes of your life were well spent? Give me the results, now! Let’s save travel expenses! Sorry to say, but the chance that we will ever produce great work together is relatively small. This is why we will redirect you to a potential partner… redirecting in 15 … Not too bad! You’ve given some interesting answers, and we share most of the same values. However, we should meet, have a cup of coffee together, and discuss things further. We are too close to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Please feel free to give us a call or shoot us an e-mail. Jan Knauss Creative Director and Founder Thies Schuster Creative Director and Partner Matthias Eylers Strategy Director and Partner Christine Ratsch Where have you been all the time? We can’t believe we haven’t met already and talked about the possibilities to further expand your business. We would like to get in touch with you as soon as possible. Please feel free to give us a call or shoot us an e-mail on how and when to best reach you. imprint privacy	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1566
__label__cc	0.621225	0.378775	The Moon's First Friends Only $7.99 with Purchase 1001 Inventions and Awesome Facts from Muslim Civilization by National GeographicNational Geographic $14.95 View All Available Formats & Editions We often think that people from a thousand years ago were living in the Dark Ages. But from the 7th century onward in Muslim civilization there were amazing advances and inventions that still influence our everyday lives. People living in the Muslim world saw what the Egyptians, Chinese, Indians, Greek, and Romans had discovered and spent the next one thousand years adding new developments and ideas. Inventors created marvels like the elephant water clock, explorers drew detailed maps of the world, women made scientific breakthroughs and founded universities, architects built huge domes larger than anywhere else on earth, astronomers mapped the stars and so much more! This book takes the wining formula of facts, photos, and fun, and applies it to this companion book to the 1001 Inventions exhibit from the Foundation for Science, Technology, and Civilization. Each page is packed with information on this little-known history, but also shows how it still applies to our world today. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC is one of the world’s leading nonfiction publishers, proudly supporting the work of scientists, explorers, photographers, and authors, as well as publishing a diverse list of books that celebrate the world and all that is in it. National Geographic Books creates and distributes print and digital works that inspire, entertain, teach, and give readers access to a world of discovery and possibility on a wide range of nonfiction subjects from animals to travel, cartography to history, fun facts to moving stories. 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From chess to clocks, surgery to windmills, astronomy to running water and universities, this book brings to light the ways in which Muslim civilizations of the past laid the foundations for many of the modern conveniences we take for granted today. Many in the West assume that the greatest ideas have come from the Western world, but this book blows that misconception out of the water, and it also shows that the world is smaller than we think, with ideas and inventions moving from one part of the world to another throughout history. Each two-page spread bears a title such as "15 Head-Turning Fashion Facts," "50 Fresh Facts about Keeping Clean," or "50 Facts about Exploration" and is covered with interesting and often surprising facts organized in attractive boxes of different colors with spot illustrations throughout. A selection of further resources include interactive websites and a traveling exhibit. 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__label__wiki	0.704336	0.704336	Sinatra at the Sands by Count Basie OrchestraCount Basie Orchestra In many ways, Sinatra at the Sands is the definitive portrait of Frank Sinatra in the '60s. Recorded in April of 1966, At the Sands is the first commercially released live Frank Sinatra album, recorded at a relaxed Las Vegas club show. For these dates at the Sands, Sinatra worked with Count Basie and his orchestra, which was conducted by Quincy Jones. Like any of his concerts, the material was fairly predictable, with his standard show numbers punctuated by some nice surprises. Throughout the show, Sinatra is in fine voice, turning in a particularly affecting version of "Angel Eyes." He is also in fine humor, constantly joking with the audience and the band, as well as delivering an entertaining, if rambling, monologue halfway through the album. Some of the humor has dated poorly, appearing insensitive, but that sentiment cannot be applied to the music. Basie and the orchestra are swinging and dynamic, inspiring a textured, dramatic, and thoroughly enjoyable performance from Sinatra. Reprise / Umgd One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) One O'Clock Jump "The Tea Break" You Make Me Feel So Young The September of My Years Get Me To the Church On Time It Was A Very Good Year Don't Worry 'Bout Me Makin' Whoopee! 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__label__cc	0.679534	0.320466	Home Arts & Entertainment Film: Wrinkles Film: Wrinkles The search for a lost father Richard Von Busack Oprah Winfrey stars in ‘A Wrinkle in Time,’ a film based on the science fantasy novel of the same name, first published in 1962. Four years ago, Dr. Alex Murry (Chris Pine) vanished in a bizarre physics accident—as the mighty blue Tick noted, “science is not an exact science.” Heroine of A Wrinkle in Time Meg (Storm Reid) is consoled in her fatherlessness by her indifferently drawn mother (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) and her brilliant little brother Charles Wallace (Deric McCabe). Director Ava DuVernay shoots the early scenes in L.A.’s West Adams, a picturesque old neighborhood architecturally similar to Highland Park. The movie gets on its feet when the supernatural emerges: First, a home invasion by Mrs. Whatsit (Reese Witherspoon) to announce that news of Meg’s plight has been received by her space sisters. She is joined by the quilt-covered Mrs. Who (Mindy Kaling)—sadly, no relation to The Doctor. And then comes the arrival of the large-and-in-charge Mrs. Which (Oprah Winfrey). The three teach Meg how to “tesser”—fold space in search for her father. Dad is easily found, considering the size of the universe. Wrinkle’s author Madeleine L’Engle was a devout Episcopalian, but her book is more Manichean. It was the house style of the Cold War, considering a battle of forces of light and darkness. The spiritual side was up front, in its quote of John 1:5 in praise of the power of light. This has been removed to make the movie non-denominational. Inclusivity is never wrong, but what’s replaced the religiousness is a rat’s nest of slogans and exhortations to positive thinking. This movie is going to hit a lot of aging children hard. Wrinkle was the first nerd-book in many ways. Meg was the awkward heroine to many bright rejects, and Reid doesn’t let the character down. But the trio of stars bulldoze the picture, and DuVernay can’t coordinate this bunch who barely seem to be in the same movie—there’s no serious affection or tension between the women. They pose and smile. Bad movies happen to good people. And reactions to the errant awfulness of A Wrinkle in Time may not represent the alt-right’s slander or white backlash from Black Panther’s wonderful world of color. Ultimately, the multi-colored style of this movie will triumph. This film’s failure won’t even be a wrinkle in the progress to come. Previous articleFood & Drink: Foodie Spring Next articleTheater: Timely Story	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1574
__label__cc	0.612145	0.387855	“From Dachau with Love” – solidarity from Germany Posted on July 22, 2013 by prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity German Network against the Death Penalty and Coalition to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal* “Understand that … people are dying who could be saved, that generations more will die or live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act.”; George L. Jackson, former Black Panther activist (* September 23, 1941 – shot to death by prison wardens on August 21, 1971) “From Dachau with Love” The German “Network against the Death Penalty” and the “Coalition to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal” wish the Californian Governor Edmund “Jerry” Brown a pleasant and instructive sojourn in the Federal Republic of Germany, which as we have heard will include a visit to the memorial at the concentration camp of Dachau. We also ask him to learn from German history and to see to the imposition of humane prison conditions in California immediately upon his return to the United States. We welcome the Californian Governor Edmund “Jerry” Brown, his wife Anne Gust Brown and their entourage in our country. We very much welcome the fact that Governor Brown is interested in his German roots. We also very much welcome that he is not only interested in the German conditions in 1848 – the time when his grand-grandfather emigrated – but also in Germany’s more recent history. At any rate, that is what we conclude from his planned visit to the KZ Memorial Dachau. But there is one thing we would welcome even more, namely, if his visit in Dachau would cause Governor Brown to ensure, immediately after his return to the U.S., decent present conditions in the prisons under his authority, to put an end to solitary confinement, to decree the immediate release of about 10,000 prisoners already ordered by the courts, to give the prisoners access to appropriate medical care, and to end enforced sterilization of female prisoners. And moreover, to take action to end the death penalty, to end life imprisonment, and to end the current wave of mass incarceration in the U.S. More than 43 years ago, the imprisoned Black Panther activist George Jackson used to sign his letters from the Californian San Quentin Prison with the words “from Dachau with love.” The concentration camp Dachau existed from March 22, 1933 until its liberation by U.S. troops on April 29, 1945. At first, it was exclusively used for political prisoners, which is one of the reasons for George Jackson’s allusion to this darkest chapter of German history. But most of all, he wanted to use this provocative salute to direct attention to the inhumane prison conditions he and thousands of other prisoners were subjected to. Today, the prison conditions in California and the U.S. are far worse than even almost half a century ago! In California and nationwide, more than 80,000 prisoners are in prolonged or permanent solitary confinement, a condition which diverse UN human rights institutions say constitutes torture. For these reasons, at present about 30,000 prisoners in California prisons are on a hunger strike and refuse to work. For these very same reasons, California is now the scene of the largest prison revolt in the history of mankind. And Governor Brown is the man politically responsible for the root causes of this strike. We ask you, Governor Brown, to set an example. In their time, the U.S. Army consigned the inhumane prison conditions at Dachau to the trash heap of history. The same thing should happen now to the unbearable prison conditions in the prisons of the United States – and especially the prisons in the State of California, which you govern. Act! Put an end to these prison conditions! *Contact: Annette Schiffmann, Moselbrunnenweg 2/1, 69118 Heidelberg, phone: 0049-172-77 40 333, e-mail: anna.schiff@t-online.de, www.freiheit-fuer-mumia.de And an article in German from Junge Welt: “Brandstifter zu Gast: Gouverneur von Kalifornien, ein Mann der Gefängnisindustrie, besucht Deutschland“. This entry was posted in Outside Prison, Press Release, Report Back. Bookmark the permalink. ← Widespread Solidarity Actions on Day 1 of the Strike Letter from a Doctor → 8 thoughts on ““From Dachau with Love” – solidarity from Germany” Crystalina Garcia says: in the mean time he is on vacation…….. Susan Chandler says: que vergüenza, señor gobernador. L.A. says: People who commit crime should be punished by law, but punished by correctional institution personnel? Who gave them the right to exercise absolute power over inmates and do what their sick and sadistic imagination is dictating them to do? Who the hell gave them that right? Why the CDCR is not being held responsible for the tortures of the inmates? Corrupt officers brutally beat inmates at their leisure, and who is responsible for this? Between 1980 and 2005 CA has built 1 university and 22 prisons! A true American GULAG! Hungers strikers are in torture chambers like in Nazi concentration camps. What is the difference between U.S. prisons and Nazi concentration camps? Is there any? The governor and prison system are acting deaf. We Californians pay their salaries so they can torture our loved ones? Let’s fight for justice and speak up to be heard! This is not right and has to stop now! Pingback: Updates from the Hunger Strike \| Freedom Archives Blog Pingback: Mass Hunger Strike by California Prisoners continues despite Retaliation by Authorities Pingback: Solidarity Rally in Berlin July 29 \| Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Pingback: Gefangener in kalifor. Hungerstreik gestorben \| aufruhrblog	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1584
__label__wiki	0.91376	0.91376	Chris Long Andrew Whitworth Cam Newton Geno Atkins Von Miller Kelvin Beachum Sports NFL football Professional football Football Sports team and league operation Sports business Sports industry Media and entertainment industry Business Carolina Panthers Los Angeles Rams Cincinnati Bengals Denver Broncos New York Jets Philadelphia Eagles Cam Newton, Von Miller among 5 finalists for Alan Page Award - Feb. 13, 2019 05:12 AM EST WASHINGTON (AP) — Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton and Denver Broncos linebacker Von Miller are among five finalists for the NFL Players Association's Alan Page Community Award. Cincinnati Bengals defensive tackle Geno Atkins, New York Jets left tackle Kelvin Beachum and Los Angeles Rams left tackle Andrew Whitworth are also finalists for the award, which annually recognizes players for exceptional community service in their team cities and hometowns. Each of the finalists will receive an additional $10,000 for his foundation or charity of choice, with the winner determined through a vote by their NFL peers. The recipient will be announced on Jan. 31 at the NFLPA's Super Bowl press conference in Atlanta and will get a $100,000 donation. The award was previously known as the Byron Whizzer White Award before being re-established this past fall to honor Page, a Pro Football Hall of Famer who was active with the NFLPA as a player representative in the 1970s and continues to have an impact. Philadelphia defensive end Chris Long won the award last year.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1586
__label__cc	0.649964	0.350036	Predatory Guardians: How Courts are Allowing Professional Guardians to Rob Your Assets Propaganda or Not? HOW A FRAUDULENT GUARDIANSHIP COMMENCES AND CONTINUES ppjg Guardianship Abuse Angela Woodhull, asset theft, attorney fees, elder abuse, Guardianship Abuse, professional guardians, property & deeds, stocks 90 Comments Guest Author: Angela V. Woodhull,Ph.D. © 2010-2011, Angela V. Woodhull, Ph.D. All rights reserved.* “A large part of the victim’s money is spent on attorney’s fees and guardian’s fees. As long as there is ample money in the victim’s guardianship account, the guardian and her attorney cohorts will file motion upon motion after motion to the courts,” STEP ONE—“EMINENT DANGER”—THE INITIAL COURT PETITION The professional guardian, with the assistance of her attorneys, commences the embezzlement process by filing an emergency petition in the probate courts to become the “emergency” “temporary” guardian Florida guardianship statutes, like many states, (Chapter 744) require that there be an “eminent danger” in order for the petitioner to become the “emergency temporary guardian.” The guardian oftentimes fabricates the “eminent danger” by , stating that there is a neighbor or relative or stranger who is taking advantage of the elderly person. In some cases, this may be a somewhat true statement, albeit an exaggerated claim. In most cases, upon further investigation, there has been no “eminent danger” whatsoever. Step One takes away all of the victim’s civil rights and therefore gives the guardian and her attorneys full control over the victim and his or her assets. STEP TWO—THE EXAMINING COMMITTEE Once the professional guardian has taken control of the victim on a temporary basis (the emergency temporary guardianship order expires in 60 days) an examining committee of three medical “professionals” steps in to verify the allegation of mental incapacity. Oftentimes, the victim is administered a cocktail of psychotropic drugs to enhance the claims that he or she is incompetent. “Ward” Elizabeth Faye Arnold, for instance, stated, “They put me on drugs that made me feel very drunk. I couldn’t even remember my name. Now that they have all my money, they don’t medicate me that way anymore.” One of the three medical professionals must be a psychiatrist and the victim is generally always found to be mentally incapacitated. The guardian usually has her own set of medical professionals that she utilizes on a regular basis. Back in the courtroom, soon after the three medical professionals file their reports, there is a capacity hearing. The victim seldom is permitted to attend this hearing. The judge quickly scans the medical examinations that “verify” that the victim is “mentally and/or physically incapacitated.” The judge then signs an order that gives the professional guardian full and permanent legal authority over the victim’s person and property. STEP THREE—THE “FEAST” BEGINS Property is sold for below market value and the deeds switch and switch several times. (kick backs are suspected) Bank accounts, annuities, stocks, and CDs are liquidated into one big guardianship account. Out of this large bank account, the guardian is expected to pay all the victim’s, but bills oftentimes go unpaid. HOW THE VICTIM’S MONEY IS SPENT 1. ATTORNEY’S FEES AND GUARDIANSHIP FEES FOR “SERVICES RENDERED TO ‘BENEFIT’ THE ‘WARD’” A large part of the victim’s money is spent on attorney’s fees and guardian’s fees. As long as there is ample money in the victim’s guardianship account, the guardian and her attorney cohorts will file motion upon motion after motion to the courts, such as: –A motion to sell the ward’s furniture –A motion to liquidate stocks and CDs –A motion to transfer the ward to a different nursing home –A motion to sell the ward’s homesteaded house –A motion to open up a safety deposit box Each motion can cost the “ward” in excess of $2,000.00 because the motion must be written, researched, filed, and then a hearing is scheduled. Oftentimes, the motions cost more than what is being petitioned for. 2. PUFFING THE MONTHLY BUDGET—The guardian frequently doubles the monthly expenses then keeps the remainder. 3. SELLING THE “WARD’S” PERSONAL BELONGINGS FOR BELOW MARKET VALUE THEN POCKETING THE DIFFERENCE—The guardian underestimates the amount of the sale of personal items, such as jewelry, paintings, and antiques, for the purpose of the court record inventories, then is free to keep the difference. There is little court oversight. 4. BILLS ARE SIMPLY NOT PAID Oftentimes, the bills of the “ward” are not even paid. When the “ward” dies, the guardian simply places an ad in an obscure newspaper, if there is money left for an estate to be probated. Assuming creditors do not see the ad and file a claim against the estate within 30 days, their claims are forever barred and so the guardian was able to fool creditors and abscond with the money and not have to pay any of the bills. If she is caught, she simply pays the bills of the creditors who caught her. This frequently includes Medicaid. 5. ACCOUNTING IS NOT ACCURATE The guardian can claim a much lower amount of liquid assets than what the victim is actually worth and then pocket the rest. EXAMPLE: Julie Sweeten–$400,000.00 estate with an alleged $80,000.00 remaining when Sweeten died. More than $300,000.00 was spent in three years. Louise A. Falvo started off with approximately $800,000.00. Two months into the guardianship, Fierle filed an accounting with the court stating that Falvo was worth only $672,000.00. Shortly thereafter, a bank statement from Bank of America stated that Falvo now had $449,000 after all accounts had been liquidated. So, approximately $200,000 turned up missing. 6. FAKE WILLS: In this scenario, the guardian claimed that Julie Sweeten desired to leave her estate to her bank. A forged will was entered into the record. Wachovia Bank trustee was then given $80,000.00 from the uncontested, probated estate. STEP FOUR: THE MYSTERIOUS DEATHS Once the funds have been spent, the “ward” oftentimes suddenly dies. -OR The “ward” dies when there is still plenty of money — if a huge probate battle can commence, thereby further enriching the attorneys and guardian. Examples: Carlisle Bosworth died soon after his $250,000 had been spent. James Deaton–$5 million, three years in probate–$3 million in attorney’s fees with a pittance finally paid out to his family members. LOUISE A. FALVO—suspected morphine sulphate overdose as cause of death; huge probate battle to enrich attorneys ensued even though LOUISE A. FALVO’s bank accounts were all POD/ITF to her daughter, so probate should have been completely unnecessary. NASGA, National Association to Stop Guardianship Abuse, has adopted a three part theme to succinctly describe the legally sanctioned exploitative guardianship process: “Isolate, Medicate, Take the Estate.” http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d101046.pdf http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/10/27/elderly.abuse/index.html?iref=allsearch *All court records are available for verification of the facts. Anyone posting about writing to senators and giving similar advice, are you going through it right now? Because we have been battling this for several years and the corruption goes as high as our state supreme court and state attorney general. Greed. How much money is enough for these people? The only solution is to unite families under guardianship and have them attend each other’s hearings by flooding the courtrooms. We did meet another family after court recently with the same guardian. We compared notes and found specific patterns such as under-reporting the sale of homes. We’re sitting ducks without the strength of other families united with us. As I write this, my dad is being drugged to death by the guardian and her attorney who pocketed nearly 200k off the sale of his home and no one is allowed to see or speak to him. I’ve spent days dodging a process server for the guardian’s attorney. Maybe the attorney’s children will inherit that greedy nature and turn on her as she nears the end of HER life. Sometimes karma is the only justice. Seniors Stripped Of The Right To Vote; Florida Is A Hotspot \| Baboon Logic Court of Protection Theft, Families Against Court of Protection Theft – The Court Of Protection Abuse Tim Bennett Write a letter to your lawmakers tell them to end abusive guardianship hold the judges and court appointed guardians responsible for their actions disrupt the court proceedings have the judge investigated and the guardian too One example is a young named Alyssa glider hus had suffered an ruptured brain aeurysm about two earlier her parents were unhappy with the care she was receiving in the rehabilitation unit hospital staffers went to two adult protection agencies to gain guardianship of her it’s not just the elderly and disabled victims of the corrupt court system her mother had mental health issues the mother said she had no mental illness they Alyssa couldn’t make decisions for herself it proves hospitals have no right to keep somebody prisoner the police back off the judicial system is broken them yo clinic staff was in the wrong they should face severe displicinary action for their bad judgement The judges and court appointed attorneys are crooked they don’t care about the ward they want every thing they can get to drain the victims of their money this needs to stop now it’s corruption in the court system the psychriatisc system is a fraud too the ward is a victim of the unjust court system the elderly and disabled are victims the disabled victims are put in group homes and sent to sheltered workshops to be exploited for cheap labor i know i was about become a ward of the state someone came to our house talking to me and my brother telling him to call corporation of guardianship call industrial services I’m thinking I don’t want to live in a group home go to a sheltered workshop and become a slave for cheap labor it’s wrong write your local state house and senate tell them to stop the abuse of the elderly and disabled and the u.s. House and senate lawmakers.guardianship abuse has become more and more as a result of the dishonest court system the judges and court appointed attorneys are taking bribes so they can write it off on their taxes it’s time to have the judges and court appointed guardians locked away in a mental ward have them drugged up take away their hiomes seize their bank accounts sell everything they own Siv. Hello fellow Public Guardian/Trustee & Health/Aged Care victims. I want to say, medical, legal & judicial dept’s or anyone “reasoning” to in a matter of months end the life of drugged up/drug assaulted/dissabled public guardian/trustee & aged care victims because they are FORCED into an UNRESPONSIVE condition WHEN they could of been saved to live a long able life should be thinking about saving these victims. The ones who have stopped their loved ones poisoning abuses have to walk a fine fence because their loved one are NOT PROTECTED being held by Public guardian/trustee & aged care accomplices and could be aggressively poisoned/disabled but my point is they are still alive after many years of captivity as those around them are being poisoned & killed within a matter of months. You all know what i mean & it has to be acknowledged & stopped. Yes there’s a way to stop these judges and court appointed guardians ask the state attorney general to look into the corruption of guardianship the elderly are not the only ones who are the victims of the corrupt court system the disabled are are victims too the judges and court appointed attorneys are accepting from the mental health system it’s time to reform the system expose the judges and court appointed guardians for corruption in the court system write a letter to your elected official and tell them to end guardianship abuse have the judges and court appointed guardians committed to a mental hospital. And have drain their bank accounts and auction their homes and other personal property have them drugged and keep them locked up forever Every victim of Public Guardian/Trustee abuse know’s this beginning statement. The Public Guardian promotes the rights and interests of people with disabilities/lets stop there. That word they use disabilities is backed up with poisoned victims. I think poison substance’s assaulted victims would be more accurate. We all know Public Guardian/Yeustee Dept’s don’t act alone & have what i discribe as criminal violent drs & nurses who disregard poison overexposing, adsaulting, injuring & disabling their victims to ensure the “disabled” symptom’s. Mabe exposing these co-corrupt legal/medical accomplices together will change the publics view about these Public Guardian Dept’s & what their really there for? Silvio Valastro Can’t we just indicte these homicide poisoning corrupt medical & hospice personnel who use a double standard & hide behind perverting the course of justice public guardian/trustee accomplices for TARGETING, KIDNAPPING, POISON ASSAULT INJURING/PURPOSELY DISABLING, ROBBING and MURDERING the public/malpractice victims? The courts are corrupt and the judges and court appointed guardians are crooks as well it’s time to have the judges and court appointed guardians committed to a mental hospital and take away their homes and seize their bank accounts have them drugged against their will put them in a padded room with no windows the judges and court appointed guardians are a danger to the public it’s time to stop guardianship abuse now sivtiger I think this is the tip of the iceburg. MORE surviving victims & their families of pharmaceutical toxins pushing GP, hospital & aged care facility doctors & nurses who use co-corrupt public NCAT/guardian/trustee attorney’s & supreme court judges must expose these corrupt criminals for committing a host of medical/legal/justice scamming, poison assaulting/damaging/incapacitating, robbing and killing the public crimes for NONE of their victims had an illness & their victims chances of recovery was brutally taken away. All the “medical/legal powers” they have/use is to justify & enforce poison damaging/assaulting & incapacertating the public to match their fabrecated diagnosis & produce symptoms to “treat” with more drugs which increases their victims injuries/symptoms. Without being able to indescrimently poison assault/damage, there wouldn’t be so many poison assaulted victims/bodies for these criminals to procure & rob from. You corrupt drs/nurses must also go down with your co-corrupt public NCAT/guardian & trustee attorney’s & supreme court judges for abusing your positions/licences & for daring to medically scam, poison assault/toxins harm/incapacitate, rob & kill the public while perverting the course of justice. I would like to add this Australian ABC/Lateline report everyone here might find interesting. Up to 6,000 elderly people could be dying prematurely each year because of widespread over-prescription of powerful drugs to dementia patients in nursing homes. Experts say anti-psychotic drugs can leave patients immobilised and unable to speak and are often used unnecessarily to keep dementia sufferers quiet for overworked staff. But the drugs can increase the risk of death by 50 per cent, and family members are often left in the dark about their use. John Burns’ family thought they were doing the best thing for their father when they booked him in to a nearby nursing home in Adelaide offering specialist dementia care. Just 63 years old, he had severe symptoms such as disinhibited sexual behaviour. He never hurt anyone but his lewd remarks and wandering put him at risk of harm. What then happened to Mr Burns, while extreme, is not uncommon, according to experts. He walked into the nursing home able to feed and clean himself and able to converse with his family. Within 24 hours he was so doped up they could barely wake him, within a week he was unable to sit upright or converse at all, and within 12 days, he was dead. Jody Playford knows now that her father had a stroke. She also knows that during his short time in the nursing home, he was massively dosed with dangerous anti-psychotic drugs that can heighten the risk of stroke and death. “I don’t think in your worst nightmares you could have every imagined it could have gone so wrong,” she said. “I went down to the lounge room only to find Dad sitting in the lounge room in his own urine and he had jelly in his eyes, his eyes had turned to jelly and the jelly was coming out of his eyes. “And he was away with the fairies. He didn’t know me and we hadn’t had that problem with dementia, so I was rubbing his hand, saying, ‘Dad, it’s Jody, it’s Jody!'” Soon after arriving at the nursing home, Mr Burns had tried to leave. He guessed the security code and wandered outside the locked dementia wing. He also made sexual remarks to staff, raised his fist and touched a female staff member’s breast. None of this is unusual behaviour for dementia patients who often become agitated when adjusting to new environments. No one was hurt. And each time he had become compliant again. But some staff were worried enough to call a doctor who prescribed the powerful anti-psychotic haloperidol, which he was given repeatedly in large doses. “This was a level four chemical restraint, which means your life’s in danger, the client’s life is in danger. It drops them to the floor instantly,” Ms Playford said. High doses of potent drugs One of South Australia’s leading geriatric experts, Dr Craig Whitehead, testified at a coronial hearing into Mr Burns’ death that he believed the overall dose over the next five days was excessive. “He did have a very high dose of halperidol, which is a very potent anti-psychotic… I think he had about 35 milligrams,” he told the hearing. “I would ordinarily give, in that circumstance, at best, 5 [milligrams] orally.” In fact, Mr Burns was given 45 milligrams in five days, as well as other anti-psychotics and sedatives. The coroner heard that sometimes he was drugged because he was restless or wanting to go for a quiet walk in the corridor at night. “And even the coroner said, ‘Well, what else is the man meant to do in the facility? What’s wrong with going for a walk?'” Ms Playford said. The coronial inquest heard the doctor believed he had given an appropriate dose and that he was concerned for the safety of nursing home staff because Mr Burns had become aggressive and abusive. South Australian Coroner Mark Johns found last year that Mr Burns died of a stroke in 2006. He did not link it to anti-psychotic drugs, but he noted that Dr Whitehead’s expert concerns that haloperidol played a role “may well be correct”. “Essentially the man died of a stroke and that had been acquired after what seemed in my mind significant prescription or over-prescription of anti-psychotics to treat his behaviour,” Dr Whitehead told Lateline. “I thought it was a really important example of how these medications we give to people with dementia, a very common problem, and behavioural disturbance in dementia is a very common problem, have serious and high risk effects. And it was clear to me that the family had never been engaged in a discussion about that.” Dr Whitehead says while there are many excellent nursing homes, he is concerned about a lack of properly trained staff to care for the 140,000 dementia patients who now dominate residential care – and whose numbers are set to explode. “I think there is a sense that the aged care industry is less tolerant to patients with behavioural disturbance,” he said. “There is a tendency to gravitate towards blaming the person for their behaviour.” Ms Playford was at her father’s bedside when the doctor who had prescribed the anti-psychotics arrived. “Mum and I couldn’t quite believe it. Because he looked at Dad and said, ‘You know what you did, Mr Burns. We’re not going to tolerate that sort of behaviour here and you know what’s going to happen if you continue to do this,'” she said. ‘Massive amounts of drugs’ Many of the same issues were faced by Beverley Harvey and her family when their mother went into a Gold Coast nursing home late last year suffering dementia. Even though she was 93 years old, Annetta Mackay was mobile and could converse with her family. But within two months she had lost 16 kilograms and was hard to wake. “We walked in and our mother looked dead,” Ms Harvey told Lateline. “I suspected she was heavily drugged. So that’s why I spoke to the doctor. He said, ‘Your mother is on massive amounts of drugs.'” Ms Harvey and her family were told their mother was calling out at night and using vulgar language that upset other residents. Once the sedation began, it did not seem to stop. “They were still drugging her even though she was well and truly comatose, not eating, not drinking, just sleeping,” Ms Harvey said. Experts interviewed by Lateline say the science is clear: anti-psychotics are not beneficial for the vast majority of dementia patients whose behaviour can often be managed by better trained staff. “We also have some limited evidence that stopping those medications improves those outcomes, improves their behaviour and improves their cognition,” Professor David Le Couteur from the Australasian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists and Toxicologists said. “From my perspective, the correct management of behavioural problems in dementia is nearly always reducing medications, not starting them.” The anti-psychotic drugs were stopped when Ms Harvey’s mother went to hospital and suddenly Ms Mackay was able to chat to her family again. But she then returned to the nursing home. “She was like a zombie,” Ms Harvey recalls. “The last day, I put my arm around her and said, ‘We’re going now,’ and she didn’t open her eyes, she just made sure I kept there. “She was sort of holding me in, and said, ‘Beverley, don’t leave me here.'” Her family managed to have the anti-psychotics and sedatives stopped in January, after four months. Ms Mackay died in April. Thousands affected Up to 60 per cent of nursing home residents are on psychiatric drugs, and up to 30 per cent are on powerful anti-psychotics. Professor Le Couteur says in many cases doctors are treating people with dementia in order to make life easier for the carers and the health workers. He calculated how many patients are dying six to 12 months prematurely each year because of the over-use of anti-psychotics, and got figures ranging from 500 to 6000. “I think the answer is thousands,” he told Lateline. “I think there are probably thousands of deaths where can attribute to these medications. He said he was not aware the figure would be so high. “I was shocked, very sad for the elderly people,” he said. “People with dementia are human beings and they need to be treated with respect and sedating them because of their behaviour just feels wrong as a human being.” While not commenting on specific cases, Queensland specialist geriatric psychiatrist Professor Gerard Byrne says there are likely to be hundreds of premature deaths each year with thousands more adversely affected. “I think it’s likely to be hundreds, if not, thousands severely adversely affected each year in this country,” he said. “I have certainly seen on a fairly regular basis, older people with dementia that have been prescribed antipsychotic medication either inappropriately, or in excessive dose or for too long a period. “The problem is that they seem to be used indiscriminately and significantly overused, really.” Minister concerned Federal Minister for Mental Health and Ageing Mark Butler says he has asked for detailed information about the issue from health groups and the National Prescribing Service. He says he has heard the claims before and will investigate them. “When you go to issues like consent, when you go to issues like the proper prescription of medications before non-pharmalogical methods have been proven to fail, I think this is arguably seen as a human rights issue,” he said. I hope this puts into perspective what i and other witnesses have said here and how corrupt NCAT, public guardian/trustee attorneys, supreme court judges & medical/care personnel are perrverting the course of justice of these poisoned to addiction/toxic injuries & an early death victims & their famies are being mistreated & robbed. They must all pay for decieving & comitting a host of poisoning, assault, neglect & robbery crimes against the people/the elderly. The judges and court appointed guardians are greedy low life’s who should sentenced to life in prison without parole for life or have them committed to a psychiatric hospital and drugged against their will seize their bank accounts cars and homes they’re incompetent I’m in favor having the guardian court system shut down the court system is corrupt and dishonest the judges are the problem they don’t care about the person who becomes a ward of the state cruel heartless judges and court appointed guardians are nothing but criminals it’s time to end guardianship abuse put a end to the for profit system The court has no right to appoint a guardian and take the victims money the judges and court appointed guardians are nothing but greedy dishonest and corrupt this abuse needs to end now the ward isn’t permitted to attend the hearing in the court once the guardian starts telling lies the judge signs the papers it’s a violation of the persons right there is sexual abuse in group homes the guardian turns a deaf ear to what goes on in group homes the system has not only failed the elderly the disabled as well it’s time to end the legal abduction of these victims the judges are corrupt and greedy they take bribes time to investigate the court appointed guardians and the judges group homes are prisons too Something has to be done. It’s disgusting that a cut of the peoples taxes isn’t enought for a corrupt/dishonest govt & their co-corrupt/dishonest medical, legal & judicial/justice accomplices who all abuse their positions to avoid being criminally charged as they conspire excuses/reasons/laws to enforce targeting/poison assaulting & poison damaging/abducting & incapacitating the people, is very disgusting. All behind medical fabrecated illnesse/disease & disorder names which is supported/enforced with more poisoning assaults as an excuse/reason to after the fact seize, liquidate & money launder the people’s savings & assetts between themselves which rightfully belongs to the people & family. In other words, if their not all corruption/dishonesty exposed & incarcerated ASAP, it will just be a matter of time before you & your family becomes their next victim & trust me, seeing these corrupt/decieving & intrusive strangers relish in poisoning/abducting/robbing & killing your loved one who didn’t have to be robbed or die if they were given the chance to detoxify/recover all for your loved ones savings & assetts, will leave you & your family psycologically broken, finantially robbed & broken apart. The people have the power, not the corrupt. The corrupt justify & comit/enforce violence & poisoning criminal acts against the people for robbing the people purposes. Vigorously protect your love ones and vigorously attack/expose all the accomplices that have poison assaulted & robbed from your family. The court system is corrupt and unjust the judges and court appointed guardians are criminals 5 years ago a Florida man was in the hospital for a minor surgery someone goes to this judge appoints herself as his guardian he is taken to a nursing home locked up in a isolation ward for people with dementia it took 6 months to get him released from the facility it’s time to have the court appointed guardians and judges locked away in a mental hospital take away their bank accounts homes and anything else they own have them drugged against their will the court system is corrupt it’s time to stop the corruption now All these victims & witnesses stroies/testimonies about their own corrupt med/legal & judicial abuses, IS SHOCKING. Are honest lawyers going to let these corrupt supreme court judges, guardianship/trustee attorneys & med personnel continue to abuse their positions & threaten to ban you from probate courts IF you or your legal partners start to protect/represent & defend state poisoned/abducted/robbed victims & their families? They are very afraid of being exposed/arrested for having a dishonest poisoning & robbing the people, money laundering corrupt partnership. I’ve noticed that everyone who has been decieved by & has been poisoned by corrupt medical personnel & who can’t afford their own legal protection/defence have all been forced into & through the same corrupt guardianship/trustee department & supreme court abusive formalities who, protect the poisoning assailants for a cut of the profits & who pervert the course of justice of the corruption poisoned/robbed victims & their abused families. I think you good/concerned lawyers can not only publically expose these corrupt judges/lawyers & med personnel for abusing their positions & for threatening you & the public, i think you can have them all arrested, banned & incarcerated. Their past & current victims lists is growing. We must stop these corrupt people, for good. 32 years ago I almost became a ward of the state someone came to our house talking to me and my brother told him to call corporation of guardianship call industrial services I’m sitting there thinking I don’t want to go to the sheltered workshop live in a group home guardianship has become a $3 billion a year industry the judges and court appointed guardian are corrupt and dishonest they take bribes from each other the court system is corrupt and dishonest courts have failed to protect the elderly and disabled from these criminals the judges and court appointed guardians are the new gestapo The poisoning & robbing the public/the elderly dependant corrupt, have no place or future in todays anticorrupt global community HONEST President’s & Prime Minister’s who expose/prosecute the dishonest/corrupt should be writing two Presidential/Prime Minestral Directive’s to protect the people. Firstly, for Federal/Local Police to protect malpractice/corruption victims/”patients” from “medical excuse” poisoning assailant’s & their abducting /concealing malpractice/corruption victims legal/judicial abuses. Secondly, for Federal/Local police to start INVESTIGATING/ARRESTING & PROSECUTING these dishonest & corrupt medical, legal, judicial and justice/political accomplices who excuses justify & who oversee/enforce/order the abduction, poison/toxin’s assaulting, injuring, debilitating & after the fact robbery/homicide murder of elderly civilians, for THEIR income’s/a living. Guardianship is a $3,000,000,000./year industry Once the judge signs the papers the victim is taken away by the gestapo to a group home the staff are in it for the money the judges and lawyers bribe each other there is corruption in the court system the judges and lawyers in the guardian court are criminals they need to be committed to a mental hospital and have them drugged against their will lock them up in a padded room and put them in straitjacket over medicate them sell their homes cars seize their bank accounts auction their homes It seems, “probate court” is a dishonest means to after the fact profit off corruption poisoned, assaulted, raped & poisoned to death victims money which you can’t do, The court system is corrupt and full of dishonest judges and lawyers they don’t care what happens to the person who is about to become a ward of the state 32 years ago I was about become a ward of the state someone came to our house talking to me and my brother she said call corporation of guardian ship call industrial services I sit there thinking I don’t want to live in a group home they’re run by by the state and there have been reports of abuse in these group homes lacerations broken bones and death they’re run like psycheitric wards the staff are criminals and molestation goes in these facilities the staff won’t do anything there was a case back in2012 where a 37 old man named Bert Powell he had been molested for seven years what does the staff do nothing How a Fraudulent Guardianship Commences and Continues. 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She is an on tim bennett (@timbenn93985944) guardianship is a $1 billion a year business the system is corrupt the judges and attorneys are criminals the victim becomes a ward of the state because of the injustice of the justice system they don’t care group homes are like psychiatric hospitals and nursing homes the family can’t have contact with their loved ones the court appointed attorney has a panel of experts one being psychiatrist and a nurse they declare the victim incapacitated a danger to themselves and others the court system is full of corrupt judges and other criminals the eminent danger the petition to the court to have taken against his or her will write your lawmaker tell them to do away with article 81 which is a legal way to kidnap someone and take away their rights Just like common criminals, ALL senet, tribunal, med center/hospital, aged care, legal & judicial conspiring/coached accomplices prognosis/diagnosis/ & law swindeling, poison/assaults assaulting, raping & organ harvesting vulnerable/defencessless/alone & weak constitutes with corrupt statutes, legislation & policies, have to be treason fraud, poisoning/violence/negelect, raping & homicide robbery related crimes charged & arrested with ANYONY supporting or bias to their criminal activities also profiting off assaulted constituates money. My malpractice assaults abducted & assaults trafficked vulnerable mother as well as meny simular assaulted victims haven’t escaped yet from, corrupt senet, tribunal, health/medical, aged care, legal & judicial conspiring accomplices prognosis/diagnosis and law swindeling, poisoning, assaulting, raping & organ harvesting constitutes/civillians and families with, corruption conspired/inspired/violently enfroced statutes, legislations & policies untill their, transparency arrested for corruption criminal treason, fraud, raping/pedophlia, homicide poisoning/assaulting/neglecting & murder robbery related crimes to answer to. How to file corruption assault, murder & abuse of licence & position criminal charges against money embezzling politicians, mental & health care drs, nurses & public guardian attorneys involved in medical/legal swindeling, assault, robbery & homicide poisoning criminal activities? ppjg Glad you escaped this. I agree..we should do to lawyers, guardians and judges what they have planned for us. the court system is corrupt and unjust the judges and court appointed attorneys are criminals and get away with it they should be locked away in a prison for crooked and dishonest judges and attorneys i have read horror stories of the elderly and disabled abused the courts have no right to tell them they are going to be a ward of the state it’s time to make the judges and court appointed attorneys to be declared mentally unstable and put them in mental hospitals and have them drugged and take their money and every thing taken away from them i oppose guardianship it’s wrong i almost became a victim of the predatory court system in 2015 north carolina passed a law called bert’s law to protect the disabled from sexual abuse by group home staff he told his parents he was molested by a group home staff member it went on for 7 years the group home didn’t do anything about they kept quiet about one of their staff molesting him the caregiver staff member was in his 60’s he died before the trial began it goes to show the injustice of the probate courts the court appointed guardians who puts the ward in a bad place it’s time for group homes to be closed for good the guardians are not guardian angels they are the gestapo Renee parry What rights do spouses have if sister to spouse forces him to sign conservatorship & made him make his will behind my back & make him lie about it? Then the icing on the cake…she made him sign divorce papers & spend over 17,000.00 of his money on divorce he does not want. We’ve been married 12 & 1/2 years she was not a part of our lives until he became severely mentally ill. Then his 1st of approximately 25+ seizures began. He is & has been on various combinations of anti seizure meds. For going on 17 months now, none of which have helped what so ever he is worse. It got so bad I kept telling his neurologist this & was told in not so many words to shut up he’s not complaining!! He can’t he is horrifically over medicated. He is barely able to walk now & cannot communicate without offending the sister in charge. He is afraid of her. She bullies him, takes him to attorneys all doped up & has him sign legal documents that he has no idea what he signed? And what kind of attorney would allow that? She has my husband convinced I am bulaying him when she is the one. She tells him I spend his money & steal it too. I have NO ACCESS to any of his many bank accounts. If he tells her he doesn’t feel well she tEllis him he is fine. She also has his neurologist working with her telling him also he is fine!! And yes the wife is a bully creating problems…because I speak up for my husband who is NOT ABLE TO, She has gone as far as had a restraining order on Me & has filed legal seperation pending a divorce on his behalf even though thats not what he wants he is so afraid of her its beyond pathetic. He says he cannot question or challenge her because their father made her the executor of his trust,she has denied him copy of father’s will 2 separate occasions. She & my husband are the only heirs of a multi million dollar trust. He has no idea what was left to him, and because of that, HE HAS NO IDEA WHAT HE HAD TO BEGIN WITH IN 2011….LET ALONE HOW MUCH SHE HAS SPENT OF HIS ( SO CALLED INHERITANCE.) If you don’t know how much you began with, how would you EVER know how much is GONE? She refuses access everything. We are aware he can get a copy but now with restrainino order & with 24 hour home care I can’t even take him to court house or an attorney. Today he told me he is dying I believe him, he is 65 looks 95 can hardly speak or walk they sister & Dr. tell him ” YOU’RE FINE!.” HE IS NOT FINE & HASN’T BEEN FOR THE LAST 15 MONTHS YOU CAN TELL JUST BY LOOKING AT HIM HE IS A SHELL OF A HUMAN WHO WAS ONCE FULL OF LIFE, HIS neurologist had the nerve to send notice to D.M.V. stating he has not had any seizures in 2017. That is completely a lie. I have the kaiser & ambulance bills, there were 4 so far this year all documented by kaiser. How is this Dr. able to do that???? How are the attorneys allowing him to sign legal documents especially excluding me entirely from any inheritance from him, remind you we are legally separated not divorced, AND she tells him what he wants to hear, knowing full well he did not read the papers he trusted her word. Nor is he able to comprehend what he is doing? How can such OBVIOUS ABUSE be legal & why are the doctors & lawyers allowed to abuse him so severely when they can see with their own eyes while he signs legal documents that he is severely over medicated & has a far away ou gaze in his eyes????? He is being taken advantage of & abused by both his sister and the entire Medical system at kaiser in California not to mention the monthly dues that are astronomical for a senior citizen he cannot even get the medical help he needs & DESERVES so badly? I am at my wits end no place to turn. I am & have also become sick over all of this torture & abuse that I have a stomach ache everyday & can’t sleep many many nights having to stand by & watch the mental anguish my husband suffers EVERYDAY ALONG WITH HIS SEIZURES just about every 2 weeks maybe 3 sometimes 4 weeks in between seizures. He was hospitalized more than a dozen closers to two dozen in the year 2016, and I CAN DO NOTHING…NOT EVEN SPEAK, yet I was the fUll TIME caregiver that lives to this day with him? ALSO how did a judge grant a restraining order YET IT ALLOWS ME TO CONTINUE TO RESIDE IN OUR HOME TOGETHER???? FYI sister lives 40 minutes away. She is fully aware of what she is doing while pushing the blame on me. And i firmly believe she had this completely & totally planned from the onset of his diminished mental capacity which began 12/26/15. She can see hown badly & rapidly diminishing as well as I can!!! Just a small example of her torture, she talked my husband into buying a new 50,000.00 truck which will arrive this Monday. HE HAS NO DRIVERS LICENSE WAS MEDICALLY SUSPENDED INDEFINITELY LEGALLY he cannot register it or insure it LET ALONE DRIVE IT. And you ask yourself why would she do that? Because it will have to be in her name only on titlle & the only insured driver. THAT MEANS SHE JUST GOT A FREE 50,000.00 TRUCK FREE. FREE I SAID!! THAT’S WHY. MY HANDS AND MOUTH ARE TIED. My heart breaks for him & me not being able to do anything at all for him is killing me too. Is there anyone who can help me, offer advice or point me in the right direction or is it just a lost cause.? I can be reached by phone PST 510 943 8445 my name is Renee. I DO NOT HAVE E ……. E MAIL even though I put it there i no longer have access. If you can help or would like to respond PLEASE CALL MY CELL PHONE. Thanks so very much, soon to be ex wife by his abusers choice NOT OURS. THANKS AGAIN. 510 943 8445 CALIFORNIA TIME. NO E MAIL ACCESS.t Hi fellow Public Guardian victims. It’s silvio again. Here’s a more clearer series of events that can ONLY be described as pure evil & criminal in the extreem! At the beginning. This is about what i witnessed our GP dr George Sayher using his accomplice chemit son & other chemists do with accomplice hospital & nursing home colluges after being a 10 year + carer that kickback malpractice tortured my mothe & harmed her brain they claim is an illness when it’s something more sinister. My mother has been poisoned by our GP dr, his chemist son/other chemists & hospital colluges & has been brutally assaulted at home by a COMPACS nurse & in two separate nursing homes! ALL REPORTED TO POLICE & ONLY ONE NURING HOME NURSE WAS CHARGED! My mother is currently suffering duty of care criminal breaches as the current nursing home she’s in misuse their medical equipment & prescription drugs on drs orders as an excuse to harm & keep her there under false pretenses. They are hiding she fidn’t need all those KICKBACK drugs & isn’t incohetent & is very aware and have ILLEGALLY stolen her Power of Attorney with my psychotic ststers who conspired with her GP Dr, Nepean, Mt druitt & Blacktown hospital social workers & drs & the NSW Public Guardiandhip board members. They are making claims in the high court using Zucker Legal/Tamworth on the 14 of april that i didn’t pay my water bills, bord or land rates for many years AFTER I PERSONALLY REQUESTED (there’s phone recorded records they conceal) Trustee and Guardian to forword MY water untility, bord & land rates invoices which they never did/refused only sending my gas & electricity invoices & have now SET ME UP through Zucker Legal to make ME look like a criminal when i’m not! Who else here has been set up like that? Anyway, all to descredit my honest/trustworthy & kind character & what i have witnessed & who is involved, to stop me testifying against their criminal activities/syndicate. I’m barely getting by as it is and i can’t afford the thousands of dollars they “claim” i owe. I wont even be able to pay it off as i live day to day so their next step will be to paint me as a crminal & criminally charge me and send me to jail. ALL set up by NSW Public Guardian & Trusee & Guardian with the Hammondville nursing home drs/nurses/managers/staff & my sisters ALL GOING AGAINST MY MOTHERS DECISIONS! I can tell you, ME & MOM ARE VERY VULNERABLE & VERY VERY SCARRED! NOT ONLY ARE ME AND MOM ALONE, her house i’m trying to protect for her so she can return to her own home is going to be robbed by the fraudulent syndicate scamming nursing home (Hammondville Nursing Home), NSW publc guardian & Trusttee & Guardian & my sisters who only go there to see if she has degraded and DON’T CARE SHENEEDS AUTHORITIES& INJURY ATTORNEYS/PROSECUTORS PROTECTION! For my sisters to attack/discredit me after mom & me told them how she was poisoned & assaulted resulted in them attacking me & mom on behalf of our abusers & HAVE ABANDONED US TO JOIN OUR ABUSERS hurt both mom & me VERY DEEPLY & its all just to hide they were conspiring with my mothers malpractice dr AFTER he was BUSTED giving her prrscriptions she didn”t need & damaged her occipital lobe & were having meetings with & illegally supplying her or taking her to get the same prescription drugs that were harming her through my mothers, criminal violent GP Dr & his many colleuge accomplices. All they want is to make shore mom or me can’t whistleblow/testify against our malpractice GP dr, his hospital & nursing home accomplices & NSW public guardian, trustee & guardian & my sisters. My VULNERABLE mother is suffering kickback poisoning injuries they want to ILLEGALLY increase, physical assaults & pressure wounds to dibilitate her for the purposes of hide her illnesses are malpractice caused/supported by drugs for the purposes of robbing her & her family. Her 18 carot bracelet was stolen/disaspeared, not that long ago! Anything i say/report to the nursing home drs/managers or if i report it to medical or legal agencies, MY CHARACTER IS ATTACKED & IT’S MY VULNERABLE MOTHER WHO IS THE ONE WHO SUFFERS VIOLENT REPREMANDS FROM THESE MEDICAL/LEGAL SCAMMING/ROBBING, SYNDICATE CRIMINALS! It is making me crazy & KILLING MY VULNERABLE MOTHER! All because she was malpractice harmed and i witnessed it & tried to report it & these criminals act as if their above the law. They even ABUSE/DECIEVE & LIE TO HONERABLE POLICE OFFICERS & SPECIAL AGENTS to protect them & work for them. Me & my hostage held mother really need someones ongoing legal protection/defence or we are FINISHED HERE IN AUSTRALIA/NSW/SYDNEY/ST CLAIR! I want to say A MASSIVE THANKYOU to Angela V. Woodhill, Ph. D for having the intelligence & foresight to see through their criminal scamming syndicates with, HOW A FRAUDULENT GUARDIANSHIP COMMENCES & CONTINUES. It describes EXACTLY, who these Legal/medical fraudulent SYNDICATE perpetrators are and what their doing to our loved ones, us and our families. I PRAY/HOPE somehow, some sort of assistance/aid will come our way because at the moment without any legal/medical protection, after they go through their syndicate criminal scamming process, THEY’LL MURDER MY MOTHER FOR SURE! ALL BECAUSE SHE IS A MALPRACTICE VICTIM! What do i do to save/protect my mother & us when THEY HOLD ALL THE ADVANTAGES/CARDS? Silvio. I live in Australia/Sydney & this is about what i witnessed our dr with accomplice hospitals & nursing home colluges & Public Guardian attorneys do after being a 10 year + carer snd witnessed my kickback tortured mother’s brain injury they claim is dementia when it’s something more sinister. My mother has been poisoned & assaulted by our dr & at home by a nurse & in two separste nursing homes. She is currently suffering care of duty criminal bresches & pressure wound assaults as the current nursing home misuse the medical equipment on drs orders as an excuse to harm & keep her there. They are hiding she isn’t as ill as they claim, she is not incohetent & very aware & have defrauded medical & legal documents to STEAL her Power of Attorney on my psychotic ststers orders who conspire with the NSW Public Guardian. They are making claims in the high court using Zucker Legal on the 14 of april that i am a criminal to descredit what i witnessed and who is involved. I can tell you, I AM VERY SCARRED! NOT ONLY ARE ME AND MOM ALONE, the house i’m trying to protect for her so she can return home is going to be robbed by the medical scamming nursing home, my sisters & these public guardian attorneys! For my sisters to attack/discredit me after me & mom told them how mom was treated & VIOLENTLY attacked only hurt both of us very much but it was just to hide they were conspiring with my mothers malpractice dr when other families defends theirs. All they want is to make shore i or my mother does not whistleblow/TESTIFY AGAINST our UNSCREWPULOUS malpractice dr, his hospital accomplices, my sisters these violent nursing homes & public guardian attorneys. My mother has suffered kickback poisoning, discrediting insults, threats, assaults & pressure wounds to dibilitate her for the purpises of robbing her. Her 18 carot bracelet was stolen/disaspeared not that long ago too! Anything i say to them or report eksewhere ONLY has MY MOM SUFFERING VIOLENT REPREMANDS! This is ment to drivie me & mom crazy. All because she was malpractice harmed and i witnessed/tried to report it! Me & mom really need your protection & help. Please help us? I got this web page from my friend who told me about this site and at the moment this time I am visiting this web site and reading very informative posts at Seniors Stripped Of The Right To Vote; Florida Is A Hotspot \| business via blog Seniors Stripped Of The Right To Vote; Florida Is A Hotspot Guardianship for the Elderly with Ruby Henderson \| TyMarie Talk Show kyrie minor Thoughtful suggestions ! Coincidentally if people are requiring a 14 Day Notice to Quit for Nonpayment of Rent , my secretary used a template form here https://goo.gl/czIAkK. the probate court system is corrupt and greedy the court appointed guardians and judges are like vultures they don’t care about the ward who is the victim of the low life court system Guardianship will open the door to the horrors of the probate system. Guardianship as a legal move is unnecessary. A power of Attorney will do just fine while preserving all her rights and property. Joni Hannigan Predators are all over. A family member who lives in public housing has no direct relatives and is 81 years old. After a month in the hospital, a desk clerk finally called me after the hospital asked if there were any emergency contacts listed. Until that point, no one had thought to offer/ask. My first call to the hospital was to let me know that my aunt had been brought in at some point (no dates), for an unknown reason. Second call was from a doctor who told me in broken English my aunt had severe dementia, was anorexic and needed to be put into a hospice on palliative care. I almost fell over. When I flew out to where she was, she had most of her faculties, was weak from being slammed in bed after a fall in her apartment and was in no way ready for hospice. I have no idea if people thought they were going to benefit by her death or what, but for sure, this is just sad, sad. This woman is a Korean War veteran as well. But they were ready to write her off. I’m trying to get legal guardianship now. After all the issues, I was told I would just need a power of attorney, but then the nurses balked and said, no, I needed guardianship. tedx talks best TED’s media initiatives embrace , where new TED Talks are posted daily; the Open Translation Challenge, which gives subtitles and interactive transcripts in addition to translations from volunteers worldwide; the academic initiative TED-Ed. the court appointed guardian acts like the gestapo they take away the victim’s rights it’s wrong they make the victims a ward of the state i have no trust in the mental health system they are quack salvers social control freaks and criminals they work with the judge and the court appointed guardian to have the victim declared incompentent they abuse the elderly and disabled and have them drugged against their will they act like gestapo officers mental health laws need to be changed they need to be changed effective now the so called doctors are nothing but fraudelent crooks they need to be commited to a mental institution and drugged up against their will a shrink at mental health said i was a danger to society that’s a lie i’m not a danger to myself or to others that was an excuse to have me put in a mental prison i was unjustly imprisoned 3 in a mental hospital a fruitcake ward the file they have on me marked confidential i’m gong to get my file and destroy it Yes they are Tim. One of the most notorious cases being that Of Tracey Miller and her brother who was shot many years ago. The abuse her brother has endured as insurance money’s of all kinds were sought after by numerous professional predators who have all abused, exploited and other wise used this man as a medical ATM machine is one of the most incredibly tragic stories of abuse I have ever known not only are the elderly victims of abuse the disabled are victims as well the court appointed guardian the judge and the lawyers are vultures they don’t care ppj gazette you’re right about guardianship nearly 30 years ago they tried to make me a ward of the state someone came to our house talking to me and brother about calling corparation of guardianship and call industrial services i’m sitting there thinking i’m not going to become a ward of the state they’re often the victim of a court system which is corrupt the judge and the court appointed guardian assigned to the victim are friends they don’t care about the person they’re taking away that person’s rights it’s a civil rights violation the mental health health system is corrupt and greedy they have so called mental to declare the victim incomepentent mental health yuo’re nothing but a fraud shame on the court system vocational rehabilitation had a file on me i met with the counselor judy lockhart april 28 th 1986 my brother asked how much will i make based on productivity they with held information from me i was referred to goodwill industries for$1.00/hour one day i was assembling spindle adapters for measly pennies piece rate pay they paid me by the piece i didn’t have no physical or mental disability it’s time for guardianship to end for victims who are a ward of the state and cut funding to guardian courts and guradianship systems guardians are not guardian angels they are gestapo officers the judges are like adolph hitler 29 years ago i worked for goodwill industries of central north carolina the vocational rehabilitaon counselor judy lockhart referred me to goodwill industries my brother asked her how much will he make it depends on his productivity they with held information from i make subminimum wage $1.00/hour at goodwill industries one day they have me assembling spindle adapters for 0.08 pennies apiece it’s piece rate pay they paid me by the piece based on how many i could assemble in 1 hour i didn’t have a physical or mental disability the mental health system is a fraud too the counselor had a file on me marked confidential they would not tell me nothing over a year earlier they were going to send me to industrial services of guilford a sheltered if any one goes to a goodwill industries retail store the employees bring donated items to be sold go in where the disabled non disabled work it’s a sheltered workshop they do boring stuff on the bulletin board a piece of paper industrial services subcontracts the disabled/ non disabled are being used to do cheap labor because of some dumb legal loophole congress passed in 1938 section 14c states they can pay below minimum wage to the disabled non disabled it’s wrong goodwill industries is a non profit charity they claim under section 510c3 of the irs tax code they don’t pay taxes the ceo’s make $280.00/hour while the disabled/non disabled get paid penny wages don’t make a monetary donation to goodwill They still do this Tim. Glad you escaped the system. about 30 years ago someone cane to our house talking to my brother telling call corparation of guardianship industrial services they wanted to make me a ward of the state put me in a group and force me to work at the sheltered workshop i told my brother i don’t want to go to industrial services and work there the guardian court system is wrong and illegal Debra Little PPJ Gazette is straight forward in speaking the truth about predatory guardians. Their agenda is Isolate, Medicate, Take the Estate. My daughter’s money is gone, half alone went to bond the attorney to watch over the other half, she clearly is isolated as in over three years none of her friends from home…. 30 miles away have been allowed to see her; and rarely anyone from the maternal side of her family. The medicate part… she falls asleep often in the middle of the day….so you tell me if they are accomplishing their goals? I have tried repeatedly to get her freedom back (as per her own request to me)… impossible to do when court officials do not abide by ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) My daughter is 33 (15-18 cognitively) with diagnosis of MR/DD and the court said ON RECORD that they were in compliance as they have an elevator and wheel chair ramp. However, they refused to allow her to attend her own hearing…. and just stared at me without reply when I quoted all her ADA rights to attend her own hearing with a cognitive interpreter. She has (HAD) hopes and dreams… her own jewelry business and is an artist also. The guardian moved her 30 miles from home and isolates her. She is in a day care 30 hours/week where emotionally impaired young men threaten to gang rape her. She had a psychotic break under the guardian’s care…. a ruptured ear drum…. and they refuse to investigate her allegations of improper behavior by a male family member … they continue to send her there unsupervised. I am stressed… overwhelmed…. barely able to get through each day knowing she is slowly being destroyed on all levels… physical, emotional… her hopes destroyed. I have hired an attorney only to have them go through all my funds before we even got to court. Without my daughter in court… all I would testify to regarding her statements to me would be hearsay… inadmissible. Without the medical records I requested I cannot prove the neglect and negligence on the part of the guardian. I was allowed to have those records twice yearly and only asked once in three years. The guardian refused… and the court official just stared at me when I asked if this wasn’t contempt of court as it was written as an order in Nov 2011 that I could request records. Some days the depression is so intense and then I realize it is even worse for my daughter. Know a individual who has guardianship of another, and that person lives in another state, and the Guardian collects this persons SSI check monthly for over 3 years , help me stop this now! Thank you. this is sick, but it all comes out in the wash. i never had money to take but if someone did this to me i’d press criminal charges and civil laws a civil suit. i dont feel anyone could justify being my guardian, there is no need. prayerwarriorpsychicnot Reblogged this on Citizens, not serfs and commented: provide links WOW just what I was looking for. Came here by searching for ebook Linda H i dont know what happened to Mircea Fersedy, simply called Mike. He vanished. I wonder if he was taken by the guardianship ..Anyone heart from him, let me know, thanks. Sara (@braveheartny) It is family and as familes we always don’t get along. The world is not perfect. Kathleen, your right. It does not mean or should happen that a judge appoints a complete stranger to come in and take over. For the professional’s or lack thereof it is about the revenues they get from the estate, and from the reimbursement state and federal funding they get from these so-called professional entity’s. There is no check and balance even though there supposedly is, our courts and elected officals. They all turn deaf ear to the problem. Many of the judges are just letting the guardians do whatever they want. If someone is found incompetent and there is family that want to care for them then that is what it should be even if siblings disagree…. if the so-called imcompetent person wants to be with a competent family member no professional guardian should be appointed. This entire guardianship is one big scam ! just a way to legally steal from people! We need to pass the ELDER jUSTICE ACT..Will protect those justly against forced guardianship. We need to join forces and band together and make the voices heard, and put an end to this..Linda H, Yes its true,I know Mrcea Fersedy called Mike over 30 yrs now. Linda H. Holly Peffer Angella,Are you familiar with the Ginger Franklin story? Is your neighbor released with a clean bill of health from her doctor? I’m in Broward County, FL trying to help my 44 year old neighbor (who has recovered from a brain aneurysm for over 6 months now) released from her psychologically abusive sister-in-law and brother. They had her declared incompetent a year ago when she had only just been released from the hospital. It’s a long story… Can someone help me help her? I’m at a loss… Gary Hollis Its all designed to catch people in old age when in many cases after a life time of work this will be wealthiest we will ever be, have paid our mortgages and saved for pensions in the belief this will give us security in old age. In many cases the professional predatory guardians are professional probate practitioning maggots. This area of law has become the very lucrative pizzo for the legal profession who have the expertise to know they can cut them selves into our estates before our Last Wills are recognised by the Legal establishment. [s24, 1837 Wills Act. (UK)] victim of Article 81 This full case is a scam!!! Who wants this property???? And what do they need it for??? Fersedy is very Competent.How can someone more competent than 90% of the public have this happened to them??? Because if you are deemed incompetent you can’t sell the building on your own. Someone wants control of this building and does not want him selling it . They want control over the sale and the price!!! Wow in NYC you can loose everything to a 3 min interview on the side walk by a psychiatrist who uses a vague diagnoses of having a PIPE DREAM!!! What does this mean?? This building is Fersedy’s There is no Mortgage because its all paid up. All the Taxes are paid on time!!! So at the very min he can pick up money for the sale of the property . This is no Pipe Dream. And he had his windows broken by rocks on many multiple occasions on both sides of his house and bebe guns shots through windows also!!! This is a PIPE DREAM.The Police told him to buy bullet proof glass!!! Who put all the graffiti on the front of his building?? and the bias graffiti on the front door! Wow looks a lot more involved than the writer or neighbor Mancuso wants to paint. Maybe this is why the Psychiatrist never asked Fersedy of the pertinent questions in the street only 3 min interview pertaining to his cognizance.Why because Fersedy is Extremely Competent period. Where are the Police. Why did he have to continually replace windows at his property?? Where was Council person Peter Vallone?? Why was all these attacks on his building not investigated by Vallone or the Police? Wow This article Stinks to High Heaven I challenge every one to meet Mr. Fersedy and see for yourself. This is why now they are going to try to force him into a facility to get him drugged out of his conscientiousness to protect the building to the ones who want it and the fraudulent report of the Psychiatrist. America the Home of the Free and the Brave.. Mr. Fersedy’s building is assessed at $700,000 so why is he now homeless and a guardianship agency now in charge of this house!!! Its all about the house . Maybe they want to build a highrise in the three properties and he is the middle property??? Don’t believe everything you read in the press Go meet Mr. Fersedy. This case is a very big scam and we will fight to keep Fersedy out of any institution for the purpose to drug and Mame him into a psychotic state!!! I challenge every one to get talk with him . This could happen to you, if you have anything in New York State. Article 81 can take all your rights away and a guardian can have all control over your body and your assets. Sham on you NY Post for writing such a one sided article. Why did you not tell the truth!!!! Tuya Vizacrrondo I too, am a victim of guardianship corruption. Only I’m not diasbled. There’s a short video of me on you tube. Type, justice for tuya, in the search box if anyone wants to see and hear me. I took a slum lord to housing court. His lawyers team adjourned my case, to take me to supreme court to have a permanant guardianship agency appointed, for believe it or not, rent arrears, and nusance odors. It didn’t matter that I had 10 years of rent reciepts, and a positive notice from the board of health. The abusive guardian was appointed in a 10 min. bench trial, I was denied a jury trial. Or the right to cross examine anyone. The guardian, had me falsey imprisioned in the suicide ward, with still more corrupt judges and psychiatrists. While trying to get myself released, the guardian cleared out the apt. Destroying/stealing everything. Paid unproven rent arrears. And the landlord rented the apt to another tenant, I am with all of you guys and gals, i want to be an advocate for anyone who becomes a victim of what I called ” forced guardianship ” because that is what it is” forced” all they seem to care about is our money , and i believe that we all can agree on that , but yes that is what i’d like perhaps my new profession to be, and i see here that some of you have included your addy, and that person who said that we all need to stand up and help one another in anyway possible even if it just means for emotional support because I too am under forced guardianship and i hate it very much, because i know how competent and very intelligent i am, but they think that i still need a guardian, and this just goes to show that all of this that is sadly happening to us and to those whom we love that this is all about ” the money” so we need to stand firm to our many protests and say ” no more”, we all are coming together because we are fed up with being bullied by those who think that they have the right the legal right to destory us and take our good earn cash ” No More !!!!!” colleenjensen2011@hotmail.com HOW A FRAUDULENT GUARDIANSHIP COMMENCES AND CONTINUES (via The PPJ Gazette) \| The Life & Likes of Lark I moved to Georgia to be with my brother and family, my mother came along because I was here. elainerenoire Unlawful and abusive guardianships/conservatorships can threaten the health and does threaten the wealth of all Americans. Become an advocate for reform! JOIN NASGA at http://www.StopGuardianAbuse.org. Elaine Renoire http://www.StopGuardianAbuse.org http://www.AnOpenLetterToCongress.info http://www.AnOpenLetterToCongress-2.info http://NASGA-StopGuardianAbuse.blogspot.com Linda Ryals Totally in shock at these stories Im reading, Ive been married to a man for 16 years and his adult daughter has come in an took over our entire life, our bank account is overdrawn, light bill two months behind due to be turned off any day. She filed for Emergency Temp Guardian and also filed a incapacitated, my husband or I was never notified that this was going on until about 5 days after and found out by getting a overdraft notice with the daughter/emergency temp guardian on it have not even seen the daughter since way before all of this happened?? And to top this off I’m holding a DPA that can not be used because of the guardian case being filed. There should be laws that make someone have to notify spouse or other children before things like this happen. Would like to hear from anyone that has gone through this. Thanks If any of our readers see a possible adversarial guardianship coming up, you may save yourself much grief and suffering by moving the person, so at risk, to a much friendlier state. Read the various state codes on guardianship and go from there. Many of the elderly victims do have means and SS to lend to their support. That is easily transportable. After reading the many of the many horrible gurdianship stories as posted on NASGA, it is clear by now that many states and their respective courts can not be trusted. This happened to my 90 year old Aunt. $200,000 ended up missing from the estate. Her 300k home sold for well under 200k. And the process was so slick and well oiled, that a local law firm and the nursing home had to be in on the scam. The conservator charges $80 bucks an hour, and is often out of state on vacations funded by victims. This website is a real eye opener for me. My mother who is a domiciliary of Pennsylvania went to visit her son in Volusia County Florida with my sister. Some may use the term “kidnapped” because although medical records state mother was incapaciated by dementia one year prior to this Florida visit, mother has been held in a Florida nursing home by a “professional guardian,” against mothers wishes and that of her families. Mother has no one protecting her against her abuser. She is alone, scared & drugged, while asking how she can be forced to stay there. She was born and raised in Erie Pa and was a domiciliary of PA her entire life. Her estate is currently being depleted by a professional guardian and her attorneys while mother is slowly murdered with dangerous, non-approved and unnecessary anti-psychotic drugs. If anyone can help us get our mother home to live her “golden years” surrounded by her loving family please contact me at hlpeffer@yahoo.com Thank you for reading my post and PLEASE spread the word of the danger for seniors who visit the state of Florida. We say, “Their ain’t no Sunshine in the Sunshine State” How a Fraudulaent Guardianship Commences and Continues \| NwoDaily.com Mircea Fersedy I am 63 years old, USA Senior Citizen, Alone, supposed to Inherit Good Assets from My Parents, Now HOMELESS! Despite being in Good Sound Mental Health, a Very Dishonest, Corrupt Judge – Charles J. Thomas of Supreme Court Queens, New York City, did issue a False Court Order against me, 100% all lies, Declaring me Mentally Ill and Hence Incompetent, Enforcing Guardianship against me, although I NEVER Had any Mental Illness all my Life, in spite of the fact that there are Documents and Witnesses Proving, Confirming My Good Sound Mental Health: Psychiatrist ( other than Court :Appointed” one), Psychologist, Psychiatric Nurses, Clergy, Church Leaders, Neighbours, Friends, Medical Doctor, No Criminal Record! etc. Judge Charles J Thomas did Never, Ever Talk to me, did Not even See me. The so called Trial and “legall” proceedings have been conducted with No Due Process of Law, Without Witnesses, in My Absence and “Defending” Lawyer – Steven Whimheimer, Missleading me, Providing No Defense, etc. After trial, so Called My Lawyer – Steven Whimpheimer, told me, Qoute “YOU MUST LIVE with it”, unquote, yet, Demanding 8,980.26 dollars from My SSI Money of 761 dollars a Month For “Defending” Me, actually Failing, Despite the Fact that such SSI Money were Already Taken Away (Federal Felony!) by The Temporary “Guardian “The Jewish Association for Services to Adults (JASA!) The Permanent Guardian – Self Help Community Guardians – another Jewish Organization, already did Marshall The House of My Parents, Despite The Fact I am not The Owner of it, Cut Off all My Rights, Gradually stealing it, under The Guise, Name of Charges to “Protect” me, Despite they, in two years, Never, Ever Provided not one Single Help, Service, Except Exhibiting The Worst Hideous Criminality, as They Do Continue to keep me HOMELESS – out of my Parents House in The View of Selling it, out of Any Rights!. Please HELP my Have a Defending Lawyer to Reverse said Criminal Guardianship and all its implications, as I dod not have No Money, No RIGHTS Anymore! Waiting for your Help, Mircea Fersedy 347 499 9317 fersedy@aol.com We need to be aware that a professional guardian may also be on an “examing committee.” Perhaps they have taken a 40 hr. class at the local community college or an on-line class… that’s all it takes. Recently I found two “professional guardians,” Edith Myett of Ormond Beach and Jetta Getty of Port Orange in Volusia County Florida, are both able to serve on examing committees. This information is in the public, on-line, court records at http://www.clerk.org I also found an interesting case. Case No. 2007-32213-CICI states the following: THIS COURT FINDS: 16. “………. This Court does not believe that any scenerio advanced by MYETT or JETTA GETTY as to the …………is believable. The alleged Addition to Proposal is hereby deemed a forgery and this Court finds that Myett knew it to be a forgery………” It goes on to say, ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that: “………………, shall recover from Edith M. Myett fees and damages in the amount of ………………..for a total of $111,917.59………..” (Google her name and you’ll see a Mug Shot.) This certainly appears to be white collar crime. The reason I found this particular case so interesting is because my mother who is/was a resident and domiciliary of Pennsylvania, while vacationing in Volusia County Florida with my sister, fell prey to a guardianship. I have spent the last three years trying to get my mother home while Jetta Getty holds her in Florida using what appears to be “chemical constraints.” Oh, did I mention Getty has paid Edith Myett thousands of dollars of my mothers estate for various things? Well she has! Now just think of the possibilities if two or more professional guardians worked together. They could declare an “emergency guardianship” then get their friends on the examining committee to attest the person is incompetent. It’s a done deal! You have a elder person under the complete control of a corrupt guardian. This guardian has the power to lock the elderly person up, drug them, issolate them from there family, steal their estate and slowly kill them, all this with protection from a state court. My mother continues to say, “How can they keep me here?” “What did I do?” “I didn’t break any laws.” “I didn’t hurt anyone.” Her physical health has been excellent, there is no reason she can’t go home except Jetta Getty says so. Maybe when they are done exploiting her, she can! Ain’t no Sunshine in the Sunshine State! Determined in NY Oh Boy Mr. mdsanchez That is a toughy. No one seems to care and I have and still going down that road. Except my issues are with APS. My husband is a victim of this sort. I have been fighting for years to get my husband home and away from the isolation he is forced to live. They even tried to end his life. I wish I had some answers for you to protect the husband. They are vultures whether they are family, freinds or strangers. What we all should do is protest like they did in Washington DC. There are many guardianship organizations out there they are trying to help. I suggest that he try one of these. No attorney wants to take the case because the money is gone. Your in my prayers and I will let some people know who may be able to help. http://stopguardianabuse.org/ http://www.stopelderabuse.net/index_files/NOTEGAMission.htm http://danielalert.org/ Anthony Clifton Texas is over run with these vultures, this makes the 20th year as an Enemy of the State. Multiple violations of law, and a mass murder case, yet still I am Alive. The Law says no statue of limitations on Murder. Fraud artists, Sodomite shysters and crooked “Judges”…will not have to worry about cold weather for a very long time. Victim of Guardian Predators Everything you said in your article is true Thank you immensely for posting it to Rense.com. Please send to all the websites you can. It is important to do so. The American public must become aware that every human right is violated and raped by the guardianship process gone very very bad. These cases clearly reveal the court-appointed guardians are like the nannies that are actually demonic entities in the movies. You have seen those movies, haven’t you?! They lie, manipulate, go against the very people who are close to the mother because they are in the way. They corrupt all family relationships and feed off of the tremendous emotional pain they cause, acting in the name of the mother, doing things she never would have done, going against all her legal directives. It is a form of identity theft. I am very frightened and can not write more. Scams everywhere! My friend was trapped in a 72-hour “suicide watch” thanks to a neurotic mom and was promptly dosed with a drug that causes seizures when rapidly withdrawn; then they rapidly withdrew him from the drug so as to induce seizures; then they declared that he was having seizures and would need to stay on; then they kept him under “observation” in a heavily medicated state until the last day covered by his family’s insurance policy. Then (surprise!) they declared him all better & let him go. This defines the word “care” for the 21st Century. Let’s start looking out for each other and by all means find a way to intercede against these actions. Isn’t it possible to go to a court with evidence of a criminal pattern? Oh wait, what am I saying… go to a court… I’m talking like a sucker again… LibertyTreeBud truly, I weep. The TRIBE is at it’s work again. mike deburcher Crooks and fraudsters, like this need to be publicly hung. I have seen first hand how these parasites work. Does anyone remember Vice Presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro, that is exactly what her husband does for a living. He was found guilty and received a slap on the wrist and to the best of my knowledge practicing law again. We need to re-instate public hangings for this type of crime and increase survalliance on these criminals and leave the innocent and unsuspecting public alone, (no more strip searches of children in the airports). Once the Yid’s discover an easy way of leaglly stealing your money, they will continue until we the people impose a severe sanction upon the perpetrtators. anadianant What callous times we live in. Callous callous times. Sick. Money sure is a blinder of conscience. http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/the-callousness-of-pornography/ To mdsanchez: “Tony Soprano justice” sounds like the only thing that could give the poor husband any type of recourse and/or gratification out of this travesty! What a bunch of vulture whores! This sort of thing makes me sick! mdsanchez Ok, lets say Wife (71), who is in good health, unexpectedly suffers cardiac arrest. Although she survives the episode, doctors find that she has lost all of her motor skills, however, she is aware of what is going on around her and what is being said. And, although now she cannot speak, she is able to communicate using the “blinking” method, but is unable to care for herself and requires 24-hour care. She has health insurance that will cover the necessary medical care, be it in a medical/assisted living facility or at home where she would be more comfortable, now becomes the center of a guardianship/conservatorship battle. Now enters Husband (80), who, with the assistance of a wheelchair but is not confined thereto, is able to make sound decisions and conduct business as usual, and does drive, becomes victimized by Wife’s estranged son, bi-polar grandson, vindictive older [adopted] sister and the greedy healthcare facility/appt’d conservator. All of whom conspire (with their attorneys) to strip him of every right afforded him by law or by constitutional or civil right, by making him look so dilusionally eccentric and uncooperative before the probate court, so that the court does not allow him to participate in any of the proceedings, despite Husband’s several attempts. Approx one and a half years later, Wife dies after the “parties” decide to pull the plug when she comes down with pnemonia; husband is not consulted. On the 6th day after her passing, step-son files an emergency petition in state court requesting he be appointed PR and SA, begins moving, getting rid of, and dictating ownership of property before the court orders approval to do so, and before anyone can take a breath, petitions the court to allow the sale of the marital residence and all personal property, although he has already placed some of Husband’s personal effects with a consignment store…Husband, even with the help of friends, is still unable to locate an attorney willing to represent him due to rumored [judicial] threats that anyone who does will never practice in probate court again, thus, making matters worse because he now has to try and locate an attorney outside of his county to represent him. What would this legal community suggest he do to protect 26 years of assests, etc.?	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1593
__label__cc	0.619304	0.380696	FDA: The Fraud and Deception Agency ppjg corruption, families, GMO, Government, HEALTH, The PPJ Gazette (FDA) advisory panels, (FDA) Corruption Disinformation, Alex Steblowsky, corruption, families, FDA, FDA coverup, fraud and deception, Fraudulent Research, GMO labeling campaign, HEALTH, pharmaceuticals, vaccines Leave a comment Alex Steblowsky December 1 at 4:56 PM These are my sentiments along with a double major middle finger salute to the Medical Mafia, Pig Pharma, Lying Vaccine industry, FDA (Fraud & Death Administration) , CDC (Center for Disease Continuation), Lamestream media, politicians, government & all their subsidiary’s! Only fools trust these criminal organizations. CHECK OUT THE MANY, MANY, MANY LINKS BELOW OF FRAUD & DECEPTION. Five examples of CDC fraud or deception. http://www.sott.net/…/285703-For-your-protection-The-lies-a… SEE 7 LINKS BELOW OF OUR FRIENDS THE FDA (FRAUD & DEATH ADMINISTRATION) CORRUPTION New Harvard study reveals institutional corruption of pharmaceuticals & how the FDA cannot be trusted with public safety. According to Harvard report, in US alone, every week, 53,000 end up in hospitals & 2,400 die as a result of taking prescription drugs as prescribed. http://seattleorganicrestaurants.com/…/institutional-corrup… Total corruption: Drug companies bought their way onto FDA advisory panels It is now an undeniable fact that the pharmaceutical industry weaseled its way onto key U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panels, which were instrumental in shaping the way drugs are safety tested and approved. According to The Washington Post (WP), a recent public records request has revealed that drug companies purchased special access onto these panels, where they were given the keys to the kingdom in swaying decision-makers about official drug policy. http://www.naturalnews.com/042562_total_corruption_drug_com… The FDA continues to be one of the most dangerous government agencies in the United States. The sheer scope of people it affects with its corruption is staggering. Constitutional Attorney on US Federal Drug Administration (FDA) Corruption, Disinformation and Cover Up of Health Dangers http://www.globalresearch.ca/constitutional-attorne…/5430348 The FDA buries evidence of fraud in medical trials. For more than a decade, the FDA has shown a pattern of burying the details of misconduct. http://www.slate.com/…/fda_inspections_fraud_fabrication_an… FDA Let Drugs Approved on Fraudulent Research Stay on the Market http://www.propublica.org/…/fda-let-drugs-approved-on-fraud… Lies and Deception: How the FDA Does Not Protect Your Best Interests. http://www.smart-publications.com/…/lies-and-deception-how-… The FDA’s About To Get More Corrupt: New Commissioner Is “The Ultimate Insider” http://www.davidwolfe.com/the-fdas-about-to-get-more-corru…/ Big Pharma Officially Owns The FDA http://yournewswire.com/big-pharma-officially-owns-the-fda/ FDA Deletes 1 Million Signatures for GMO Labeling Campaign Read more:http://naturalsociety.com/fda-deletes-1-million-signatures…/	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1594
__label__wiki	0.740851	0.740851	Bilawal Bhutto Zardari paid tribute to Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari while paying rich tribute to Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto on her 11th anniversary of Martyrdom said she was a stateswoman and an inscriber of the history. She had embraced Punjab, Sindh, K.. Read More PPP Demands transparent investigations in award of Mohmand Dam contract Demands that Advisor Commerce step aside till investigations completed Islamabad January 3, 2019: “The award of Mohmand Dam contract to Descon-Pakistan belonging to Advisor Commerce is sheer conflict of interest, most unethical and tip of the iceberg of.. Read More Former President Zardari condoles the death of Malik Hakmeen Khan Islamabad, 4 January 2019: Former President of Pakistan and President Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians Asif Ali Zardari condoled the death of lifelong worker of PPP Malik Hakmeen Khan who passed away on Friday in Lahore. He instructed Party office .. Read More Former President Zardari’s message on Quaid-e-Awam’s birth anniversary Islamabad, 4 January 2019: Former President of Pakistan and President Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians Asif Ali Zardari paying glowing tributes to Quaid-e-Awam Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto on his birth anniversary has expressed his resolve to remain.. Read More Bilawal Bhutto Zardari paid rich tribute to Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto In his message, the PPP Chairman said that the PPP leadership and Jiyalas will continue our struggle to take the philosophy, vision and mission of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Shaheed Benazir Bhutto forward. He lauded Shaheed Bhutto and said that it is.. Read More Plane carrying Bilawal Bhutto skids off runway A private jet with Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on board skidded off the runway at Rawalpindi airport on Sunday. Bilawal as well as all other passengers and crew on board the flight remained unhurt in the incident. The p.. Read More PPP apprehends postponement of... Experiment of Selected government... PPPP issues rejoinder to... PPP Demands transparent investigations... Former President Zardari condoles...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1595
__label__wiki	0.673882	0.673882	WO2019007934A1 - Assembly and method for communicating by means of two visual output devices - Google Patents Assembly and method for communicating by means of two visual output devices Download PDF WO2019007934A1 PCT/EP2018/067892 EP2018067892W WO2019007934A1 WO 2019007934 A1 WO2019007934 A1 WO 2019007934A1 EP 2018067892 W EP2018067892 W EP 2018067892W WO 2019007934 A1 WO2019007934 A1 WO 2019007934A1 output device visual output PCT/EP2018/067892 Thomas Oberhofer Jeronimo DZAACK Atlas Elektronik Gmbh 2017-07-04 Priority to DE102017114905.8 priority Critical 2017-07-04 Priority to DE102017114914.7A priority patent/DE102017114914A1/en 2017-07-04 Priority to DE102017114914.7 priority 2018-07-03 Application filed by Atlas Elektronik Gmbh filed Critical Atlas Elektronik Gmbh G06F3/00—Input arrangements for transferring data to be processed into a form capable of being handled by the computer; Output arrangements for transferring data from processing unit to output unit, e.g. interface arrangements G06F3/01—Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer G06F3/011—Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality G06F3/03—Arrangements for converting the position or the displacement of a member into a coded form The invention relates to an assembly and a method which simplify the communication between two persons (M.1, M.2). The assembly comprises two visual output devices (101) with two display devices (115), an image transmission device (125, 127, 220), and two camera systems (121). Each camera system (121) generates an image of a person (M.1), who is carrying an output device (101) of the assembly. The image transmission device (125, 127, 220) transmits an image from the first camera system (101) to the second visual output device and an image from the second camera system to the first visual output device (101). Each display device (115) presents a visually perceivable display with a transmitted image. Arrangement and method for communication by means of two visual output devices The invention relates to an arrangement and a method which facilitates the communication between two people using two visual output devices. DE 202016000449 U1 shows a communication system 10 with a Communication server 12 and a network 14, which supports a person in need of removal from the distance. The communication server 12 has a first receiving device 18. The person in need of assistance wears spectacles 28, to which a stereo camera 30 and a lamp 34 are attached and which a second Receiving device 40, a second transmitting device 42 and a Acceleration sensor 46 has. In the glasses 28, an optical output device is arranged. The images from the camera 30 in the glasses 28 are on the Transmitting device 42 in the glasses 28 and the receiving device 18 to the Communication server 12 transmitted. The communication system 10 may further include a mobile terminal 48 and a stationary computer 52. The user of the computer 52 or the user of the smartphone 48 can then see what the wearer of the glasses 28 sees and what is picked up by the camera 30 and transmitted to the server 12. The user of the computer 52 or the user of the smartphone 48 can acoustically and visually (video phone ie) give the wearer of the glasses 28 a support. In one embodiment evaluates a Image evaluation unit 20 of the communication system 10 Images of the camera 30 Automatically detects, for example, automatically font or translated user information into another language. It is possible to insert in a spectacle lens Display the evaluation result. In US 2016/0216760 A1 a head-mounted display with several Deformation sensors for detecting the movement of the upper half of the face of the wearer are disclosed, wherein on the head-mounted display a camera, for example by means of a curved support, is fixed such that the camera is aligned on the lower half of the face, which is not covered by the head-mounted display, to also detect the movements of the lower half of the face. In DE 102014018056 A1 is a virtual reality glasses with a display device as near-eye display for displaying a virtual reality and a Detecting means for detecting a predetermined head movement of the wearer of the virtual reality glasses disclosed, in which a captured by a camera system camera image of the environment of the wearer is displayed on the display device. For this purpose, the camera system is arranged directly on the virtual reality glasses in the direction of the wearer. After the head has moved, the camera image can also be partially overlaid by the real environment of the virtual environment. A disadvantage of this virtual reality glasses is that an indication of the real environment in each case only after carrying out the predetermined head movement, such as a pitching motion, carried by the wearer. Thus, another person can not tell if this pitching movement is being executed as approval in a communication or to activate the display. DE 10201410721 A1 describes a display device, for example a three-dimensional screen or a three-dimensional spectacle, for displaying a virtual reality with a gesture recognition device with two integrated cameras for determining a movement of a hand and a display device, wherein the display device displays a representation of the hand. DE 202009010719 U1 describes a communication system with a person operating a transmitting station and a person operating a receiving station, wherein the person operating the transmitting station instructs the person operating the receiving station via executable instructions such that the latter uses images of an object recorded with a camera Supporting station supporting, for example, in their purchase decision by transferring the images. DE 202016008297 U1 discloses a computer-based storage medium for Modification of a three-dimensional virtual objects within a user interface provided in a head-mounted display device. The object of the invention is to provide an arrangement and a method which facilitate the exchange of messages between two people. This object is achieved by an arrangement having the features specified in claim 1 and a method having the features specified in claim 24. Advantageous developments emerge from the subclaims, the following description and the drawings. The arrangement according to the invention comprises a first visual output device and a second visual output device, an image transmission device and a first camera system and a second camera system. The first visual output device comprises a first presentation device. The second visual output device comprises a second presentation device. Both the first and the second visual output device can be carried by one human each. Each camera system is capable of producing an image of the real environment of the camera system. The first camera system is positioned or can be positioned so that the image generated by the first camera system completely or at least partially shows a human wearing the first visual output device. Accordingly, the second camera system is positioned or can be positioned so that the image generated by the second camera system completely or at least partially shows a person wearing the second visual output device. The image transmission device is capable of transmitting an image, which has generated the first camera system, to the second visual output device. Accordingly, the image transmission device is capable of transmitting an image, which has generated the second camera system, to the first visual output device. The respective display device of a visual output device is able to present a representation comprising an image which has been transmitted to this visual output device. The presentation device presents this representation in a form in which a person wearing this visual output device can visually perceive them. According to the solution, the image transmission device is capable of transmitting images of the real environment that the first camera system has generated to the second visual output device. It is able to transmit images of the real environment which the second camera system has generated to the first visual output device. The method according to the invention determines how messages are exchanged between a first person and a second person, and is carried out using a solution according to the invention. The solution according to the invention can be used in a situation in which two people have to exchange messages with each other in order to work together Task to solve, for example, together to control a technical system or to regulate or monitor or to jointly assess an environmental condition. In some situations it is not or not possible with sufficient certainty that the two people talk to each other. For example, the two people are in different rooms, and an acoustic barrier, such as a sound-proof wall, may be present between the two people his. Or the ambient sounds superimpose spoken words. Or the two people do not speak a common language. Even if direct acoustic communication is possible or each person wears a headset and a microphone and can talk to each other in this way, spoken words are often not sufficient to adequately describe a situation over which the two people must exchange messages with each other. Such a situation occurs, for example, on board a surface ship or an underwater ship. The solution according to the arrangement and the method according to the solution improve the exchange of messages, especially in this situation. The solution according to the arrangement and the method according to the solution can be used in combination with acoustic message transmission, for example by means of a microphone and headphones, or instead of an acoustic communication. The solution according to the arrangement and the method according to the solution enable the following type of message exchange: The first camera system generates at least one image that shows the first human, and the second camera system generates at least one image that shows the second human. The images from the first camera system are transmitted to the second visual output device, and the images from the second camera system are transmitted to the first visual output device. The first person thus sees images of the second person, and conversely, the second person sees images of the first human being. One person sees the gestures and facial expressions of the other person. These gestures and facial expressions can complement spoken words. It is well known that the risk of misunderstandings between two people is reduced if gestures and facial expressions are added to verbal communication. These gestures and facial expressions can also take the place of spoken words, for example if the two people do not speak a common language. thanks Of the two visual output devices and the two camera systems, the two people need not be able to see each other visually To exchange messages. The first camera system is capable of producing an image of a human wearing the first visual output device. The first camera system and the first output device can be designed such that the first output device can be moved freely relative to the first camera system and in particular the distance and the orientation between the first output device and the first camera system can be changed freely. This becomes a human being who is the first visual Output device or at least components of this carries on its head, not restricted in its movements by the first camera system. In particular, it is not necessary for this person to carry a camera of the first camera system on his body in addition to the first visual output device. In one embodiment of the invention, the first display device is capable of generating a first virtual object. The second presentation device is capable of generating a second virtual object. These two generated virtual objects represent the same information, in a form visually perceivable by a human. The first presentation device is able to present a common representation that a person wearing the first visual output device can visually perceive. This common representation includes an image transmitted to the first visual output device and the first virtual object. Accordingly, the second presentation device is able to present a common representation which a person wearing the second visual output device can visually perceive. This shared representation includes an image transmitted to the second visual output device and the second virtual object. The two virtual objects may be the same or different. Even with different virtual objects they represent the same information. In one embodiment, each presentation device generates at least one virtual object in each case and rewards this virtual object together with an image which has been transmitted via the image transmission device to the visual output device. It is possible that at least one presentation device generates a plurality of virtual objects and displays this plurality of virtual objects together with the received image. By the display device indicates at least one virtual object, the visual output device is able to output information in a form visually perceptible by a human and thus to represent a virtual reality. In the illustrated virtual reality, a variety of information can be displayed. The presentation device represents this virtual reality virtually on a screen or on the retina of a human eye. Because of this Screen is part of the head-worn visual output device, this screen moves with, when the human moves his head. This feature ensures that the human always has the presented virtual reality in mind. A visual output device with its own output device camera eliminates the need to switch between a representation of the real environment and a representation of a virtual reality. Such switching may confuse a person carrying the visual output device, particularly when the switching is abrupt or when the human is moving relative to the depicted real environment, but not the virtual reality depicted. According to the embodiment, the first visual object showing the first one Displaying means, and the second visual object displaying the second displaying means displays the same information in a human-visually perceptible form. If two people are the two visual Carrying output devices on their heads, so the two people can visually communicate with each other, namely with the help of the images of the two Camera systems. At the same time the two humans see the two visual ones Objects and thereby the same information. In a further development of this embodiment, the solution according to the arrangement additionally comprises a signal transmission device. This signal transmission device is able to transmit a first signal to the first visual output device. It can transmit a second signal to the second visual output device. Both signals contain the information, which is therefore covered by both signals. The first display device is capable of generating the first virtual object depending on the first signal. The second display device is capable of generating the second virtual object depending on the second signal. This embodiment ensures that the two visual objects are based on the same signal and thus in fact the same information is displayed on both visual output devices. In one embodiment of this embodiment, the arrangement comprises a sensor. Or the arrangement is in data connection to a sensor. The sensor is capable of measuring a value of a variable magnitude. Furthermore, the sensor is able to generate a signal which depends on the measured value. The signal transmission device is capable of transmitting the generated signal to both visual output devices, preferably at the same time. According to this embodiment, the measured value which the sensor has measured is transmitted to both visual output devices. Each display device generates a virtual object depending on the received signals. This virtual object shows the same measured value. With the help of the solution Arrangement, two people carrying the two visual output devices can exchange messages about this reading. It is not necessary for one of the two people to view the sensor or a physical output device that displays the measured reading and read the reading. This is especially important if the sensor is located in a difficult to reach or dangerous area for people. For example, each virtual object is a virtually replica of the Reading. It is possible that the representation of the virtual object only then performed or changed if the measured value is outside a predetermined range. This makes it possible to visually indicate an exceptional operating situation, in particular a danger situation, early. This situation is presented on both layout visual output devices. The people wearing these two visual output devices will be informed of the situation even if an audible warning message can not be heard. The sensor, whose signal is transmitted to both visual output devices, is for example an active sonar system, a passive sonar system, a Towed antenna, a radar system, a geoposition receiver, a Speedometer and / or a wind direction or wind speed gauge, in particular on board a watercraft. According to the solution, the arrangement comprises a first camera system and a second camera system. In one embodiment, the first visual output device comprises a first output device camera. The second visual output device includes a second output device camera. The first output device camera is capable of producing an image of the real environment of the first visual output device. The second output device camera is capable of producing an image of the real environment of the second visual output device. The first output device camera can be attached to the head of a person, who carries the first visual output device. The second output device camera can be attached to the head of a person, who carries the second visual output device. Thanks to this configuration, the output device camera is moved when the human is moving or when moving his head relative to his torso. In one embodiment, each visual output device has an output device camera. This output device camera is capable of producing an image of the real environment. The output device camera of a visual output device shows what a human wearing this output device on his head would see if he did not wear the output device. An image of the output device camera can be displayed to the person carrying this output device camera on his head, or to the person carrying the other visual output device of the arrangement on his head. These two embodiments can be combine. The exchange of messages between the two people is further enhanced when both images from the two camera systems and images from the two output device cameras can be displayed and used to exchange messages. In a further development of this embodiment, the image transmission device is additionally able to transmit images from the real environment which the first output device camera has generated to the second visual output device. It is additionally capable of transmitting images of the real environment which the second output device camera has generated to the first visual output device. In a further development of this embodiment, the first presentation device is able to present a representation which comprises an image which was generated by the first output device camera. This representation can be visually perceived by a person wearing the first visual output device. Accordingly, the second display device is able to present a representation with an image which has generated the second output device camera. This representation can be visually perceived by a person wearing the second visual output device. In one embodiment, an image that has created an output device camera is presented to a human who uses the visual output device with this output device. Camera wears. The presentation device presents this image to a human wearing the visual output device with this display device on its head. Because the human carries the visual output device on his head, the output device moves when the human moves his head together with the output device and thus the presentation device. It is prevented that the different sense organs of this person provide contradictory information, namely, on the one hand, the eyes, which see the image shown, and on the other hand further sense organs that perceive the spatial position, orientation and movement of people in the room. In this embodiment, the presentation device is capable of displaying an image of the real environment that a human wearing the output device would see if he did not wear the output device. This image of the real environment is generated by the output device camera and follows a head movement of the camera People who carries the output device. This avoids the risk of human suffering from travel sickness or virtual reality sickness (VR) disease, which can occur especially when a person is moving or standing in a moving, real environment. This may in particular occur aboard a watercraft and assume a shape similar to a seasickness. A visual output device with an output device camera allows one Person carrying this output device to make user inputs or interventions on a machine or plant or system. An image of the Output device camera displays this machine or system or system. The Presentation device of this visual output device shows this image. It is possible to additionally display a virtual object which displays information in a human perceptible form. In one embodiment, the first display device can be switched between at least two different modes. In one mode, the Representation presenting the first display device, an image, which has been transmitted from the image transmission device and was generated for example by the second camera system. In the other mode, this presentation includes an image created by the first output device camera. Accordingly, the second display device can be switched between two different modes. Preferably, the viewing direction of the first output device camera coincides with the standard viewing direction of a human carrying the first visual output device with the first output device camera. Preferably, the viewing direction of the second output device camera coincides with the standard viewing direction of a person carrying the second visual output device with the second output device camera. In one embodiment, the viewing direction of at least one output device camera coincides with the standard viewing direction of a person wearing the visual output device. For example, the visual output device includes a carrier on which the display device and the output device camera are mounted. The The output device camera is mounted on the carrier so that it faces away from the human face and faces outward in the standard viewing direction into the real environment. The images provided by the output device camera thus arranged will show the real environment from the same viewing direction from which the human would perceive the real environment if he did not wear the visual output device. As a result, the displayed images from the output device camera even better match the spatial position and movement of the human head. Contradictory information from different sensory organs of humans are prevented with even greater certainty. Prevented is the often perceived as unpleasant impression that a human, the visual Output device bears, can not see what is in front of him. In particular, it is ensured that the person has the security of recognizing an obstacle when moving in the standard viewing direction. In one embodiment, the image transmission device and / or at least one visual output device comprises an image intensifier. This image intensifier is capable of amplifying an image produced by a camera system or an output device camera. The respective presentation device is able to present an image which has been amplified by the image intensifier. In one embodiment, the image transmission device and / or at least one visual output device comprises a conversion device. This conversion device is capable of converting an image in the infrared light region into an image in the visible light region. The respective presentation device is able to present an image that has been converted by the conversion device. In one embodiment, the arrangement comprises at least one input device. The first visual output device and / or the second visual output device is in data communication with the or an input device. It is possible that each visual output device is in data connection with one input device each. The or each input device is capable of detecting an input of a human, in particular a human, who is wearing a visual output device of the device. The presentation device of a visual output device is capable of altering the presentation presented in response to an input acquired with the associated input device. For example, the appearance of a virtual object is changed. A person wearing the first or second visual output device and the Input device, can change a presented presentation with an image, without having to serve the visual output device. In particular, the human being can increase or decrease the imaging scale or the brightness of the image Change presentation. In one embodiment, the input device comprises a Remote control for the first camera system and / or the second camera system. As a result, a person carrying the first visual output device can change the images that the second camera system generates and which ones to the first visual one Output device and presented by the first display device. Accordingly, a person wearing the second visual output device can change the images from the first camera system. The input device may comprise, for example, a mouse or a joy stick or a switch or a touchpad. The input device may be configured to detect a head movement of the person, for example by means of a Localization sensor, motion sensor or acceleration sensor. The input device may also include a visual evaluation unit, which detects a human gesture and derives therefrom a user input of this person, for example by pattern recognition. In one embodiment, actuation of the input device causes both Presentation facilities in the presentation presented the same Make changes, for example, each highlighted a virtual object for the same information or otherwise presented changed. In this way, a person wearing a visual output device can point out to the person carrying the other visual output device a specific piece of information. This embodiment with the input device allows the two people to communicate acoustically as well as visually without the two humans needing to be within earshot or sight. In one embodiment, the arrangement comprises a voice recognition device. This speech recognition device recognizes a speech input of a human wearing a visual output device having a speech input unit. The arrangement generates information from the recognized voice input. Both Display devices each generate a virtual object containing these Information, ie the object of the speech input, in a visual represented perceptible form. Each presentation device presents the visual object for voice input along with an image of one Camera system or an output device camera. It is also possible that the voice recognition device recognizes a voice input that was made with the one visual output device. The presentation device of the other visual output device generates a virtual object which depends on the recognized speech input and presents this virtual object together with an image. Both embodiments make it possible to visually represent spoken words, for example a verbal statement or a verbal reference, additionally on the visual output device. In one embodiment, the first visual output device and / or the second visual output device belong to a communication device. Or at least one component each of the first visual output device and / or the second visual output device belong to a communication device. This communication device can be carried by a human at his head, which person carries a visual output device of the arrangement. The communication device further comprises a voice input unit, in particular a microphone, and a voice output unit, in particular a headphone. Preferably, the first visual output device encloses an optically dense space in front of the eyes of a human wearing the first visual output device. Or the second visual output device encloses a visually dense space in front of the eyes of a person wearing the second visual output device. It is possible that both visual output devices of the arrangement each enclose a visually dense space in front of the eyes of a human. The or each optically dense space prevents light from penetrating the real environment into the optically dense space. In one embodiment, at least one visual visual output device encloses an optically dense space in front of the eyes of a human wearing the dispenser. The visual output device prevents light from entering the optically dense space from the real environment. Because an optically dense space is provided, the representation presented is the only visual information for a human being who is the subject carries visual output device. In particular, the visual output device according to this embodiment prevents light impressions from the outside from superimposing on the presentation presented. These light impressions can cause the person to become confused or not recognize certain segments of the presented presentation at all or only badly, or that the eyes become overloaded and fatigue quickly. This unwanted effect can occur, in particular, when the impressions vary greatly or rapidly over time due to changing ambient brightnesses. A presentation device can be designed in such a way that it displays pictures of differing brightness differently. In one embodiment, a visual output device presents an image from a camera system and / or from an output device camera together with at least one virtual object. Thus, in a common representation, at least one virtual object and thus a virtual reality is overlaid with an image of the real environment. In one embodiment, the real environment is rendered weaker or more powerful than the virtual reality information. Allows that one Man, who wears the visual output device, perceives a partially transparent overlay of the virtual reality with the illustrated real environment. In one embodiment, at least one screen is adjacent to the optically dense space provided by a visual output device in front of the eyes of a human wearing this output device. The or each screen is located in front of at least one eye of a human wearing this visual output device. The presentation device is able to present the representation with the transmitted image from a camera system and / or from an output device camera on this screen. In one embodiment, at least one visual output device presents a Representation with an image on a screen, which adjoins the visually dense space. This type of presentation is often perceived by a human as less disturbing or threatening than other types of presentation, for example as a projection on the retina. It is possible that one area of the first screen is used to represent an image of the real environment, and another area to represent the virtual object or objects. In one embodiment, the visual output device includes a single screen adjacent to the optically dense space and simultaneously positioned in front of both eyes of a human carrying the output device. In a different way Embodiment, the output device comprises two screens. Each screen adjoins the optically dense space and is positioned in front of each human eye. In a different embodiment, at least one display device comprises a so-called retina projector. This retina projector projects the image with the image onto the retina of at least one eye of a human wearing the visual output device. According to one embodiment, the presentation device functions as a so-called retinal projector. This retina projector imprints the image with the image of the real environment directly on the retina of a human eye wearing the visual output device. According to the solution, the arrangement comprises a first camera system and a second camera system. The first camera system is capable of producing at least one image of a human wearing the first visual output device. The second camera system is capable of producing at least one image of a human carrying the second visual output device. Preferably, the first person with the first visual output device can move freely relative to the first camera system, the second person with the second visual output device freely relative to the second camera system. Preferably, the arrangement comprises at least one localization device which corresponds to the first camera system and / or to the second camera system. It is possible that each camera system is assigned a localization device. The associated camera system includes a camera and an actuator for this camera. The localization device is able to determine the position of a visual output device in the room. The associated camera system generates images of the person carrying this visual output device. The actuator is capable of moving the camera of this associated camera system, depending on localization device signals that locate the visual output device. In one embodiment, at least one camera system comprises an actuator, and the arrangement comprises a location device. The locator device can detect the location of a human, especially a human, who carries a visual output device of the device. It is possible that a visual Output device is mechanically connected to a position transmitter and the Locating device receives and evaluates signals from this position transmitter. The actuator is capable of moving at least one camera of the camera system, depending on localization device signals. This allows the moving camera to follow the movements of a person carrying the visual output device In order to determine the position of a person wearing the first or the second visual output device, in one embodiment corresponding markings are arranged on the visual output device or on the human body. The localization device comprises an image recognition unit which displays these markings automatically detects. In one embodiment of the localization device, that visual output device whose position is to be determined in space is mechanically connected to a position transmitter. The location facility includes this location transmitter and a receiver. The position transmitter on the visual output device is capable of transmitting a position signal. The receiver of the localization device is able to receive this position signal. The Localization device can continue to drive the actuator depending on a received position signal. In one embodiment, the visual output device comprises a transmitter, which transmits a position signal to the localization device. The transmitter of the Output device can emit ultrasonic signals, for example. The design with a transmitter and a receiver makes it possible in many applications reliably to determine the current position of a person who carries a visual output device with the transmitter, in particular when an image, which generates a camera system, in addition to the human with the visual output device shows another human and or if bad Light conditions prevail and or when the human with the visual Output device moves quickly. It is possible that the position signal comprises an identifier of the visual output device, so that the localization device is able to reliably distinguish the received position signal from the visual output device from other signals. In one embodiment, the arrangement comprises an image evaluation unit. This image evaluation unit can automatically evaluate an image which was generated by a camera system of the arrangement. By evaluating the image, the image evaluation unit can automatically determine optically detectable attributes of a human being, with this human being being shown in this image. The image evaluation unit is furthermore able to identify a data record for a human, namely in a data memory among a predefined set of data records with information about different people. This data record identifies the image evaluation unit as a function of the ascertained optically detectable attributes. Or the image evaluation unit automatically determines that no record belongs to the person shown in the image. In one embodiment, at least one camera system comprises one Pattern recognition device or an image recognition device, which is preferably realized with software. This device determines from at least one image, preferably a plurality of images, from the camera system information about a human, which is shown in the images. If the images of the first Camera system, they show the first human wearing the first visual output device. If they come from the second camera system, they show the second person wearing the second visual output device. In some applications, this person is difficult to recognize, especially in low light conditions. The information obtained is presented to the other person. This reduces the risk that one person will not know with whom he or she is exchanging messages or with another unauthorized person People exchanges news. In one embodiment, this information about a person shown in the images is transmitted with visually ascertainable information compared different people. This information about different people is stored in a database. The different people are For example, several crew members of a watercraft. Preferably, a unique identification of the human and / or a portrait of the human being without a visual output device is stored in the database. These Marking and / or this portrait is presented to the person who carries the other output device to which the images are transmitted that show the person with the visual output device. In one embodiment, the arrangement comprises a third visual output device with a third display device and a third camera system. The third The camera system is positioned to produce an image of a human wearing the third visual output device. The image transfer device is capable of transferring images to any visual output device. This can be three People who carry the three visual output devices, exchange messages with each other. The image transmission facility may provide a direct wireless transmission channel between the two visual output devices. It is also possible that the image transmission device comprises a relay station, for example in the form of a computer or server. Between the first visual output device and the relay station a first wireless transmission channel is provided, between the second visual output device and the relay station a second transmission channel. As a wireless transmission channel, for example, electromagnetic waves, mobile radio, Bluetooth, WLAN, near-field communication and / or optical directional radio can be used. It is also possible that the provided transmission channel between the two output devices consists of a wired transmission link and in each case a wireless transmission link for each visual output device. If the solution according to the invention is used on board a watercraft, then the electrical system of the vessel can be used to make up part of the watercraft provide wired or wireless transmission channels. In one embodiment, each visual output device comprises a virtual reality glasses (VR glasses). Such VR glasses are also called video glasses, helmet displays or VR helmets. The visual output device can also be designed as augmented reality glasses (AR glasses). Each camera system may include a single camera or multiple cameras. If a camera system includes several cameras, they have one Cameras of a camera system prefer different viewing directions and / or different viewing angles. Preferably, each camera is capable of producing static or moving optical images of the real environment, in particular a video sequence. Preferably, each camera repeatedly generates images, for example at a predetermined sampling rate or sampling frequency. In one embodiment, the or each camera is configured as a digital camera with a CCD chip. A lens system guides light on this CCD chip. The presentation device uses data on this CCD chip and in the common representation to represent the image of the real environment. At least one camera may be configured as a 3D camera, which comprises spaced-apart lenses or similar optical imaging units. In one embodiment, each camera system comprises a fixed camera, in particular a camera which is attached to the wall or ceiling of a room. In another embodiment, each camera system comprises a mobile camera. In both embodiments, the cameras of the camera systems are spatially separate from the visual output device. According to the arrangement according to the solution and the method according to the solution, the first camera system generates an image of a first person who carries the first visual output device. This image is sent to the second visual output device and the second presentation device presents this image to a second person carrying the second output device. Accordingly, the first presentation device presents an image that was generated by the second camera system. In one embodiment, the first display device may optionally present an image from the second camera system or an image from the first camera system. Thanks to this configuration, a first person wearing the first visual output device can selectively see the second person carrying the second output device, or himself. This embodiment allows the first person to see and check his own gestures and facial expressions. It is also possible that a display device simultaneously presents images of both camera systems, in one embodiment additionally with virtual objects. The arrangement according to the invention will be explained in more detail with reference to an embodiment shown in the drawings. Hereby show: 1 shows a first person who carries a solution-based visual output device in the form of a first VR glasses and an input device; two digital cameras, an evaluation computer and a localization facility 2 shows a schematic representation of what the VR glasses present to the first person wearing the first VR glasses on the screen. In the exemplary embodiment, the invention is used on board a manned watercraft, wherein the watercraft may be an overwater vehicle or an underwater vehicle. Two crew members of the watercraft use two solution-based visual output devices of a solution according to the invention. In the exemplary embodiment, each visual output device has the form of a virtual reality glasses (VR glasses). In one embodiment, an Oculus Rift® is used as VR glasses, which is extended in accordance with the solution. In Fig. 1, a first person M.1 wears a first VR glasses 101. These VR glasses 101 comprise a carrier which comprises a preferably elastic and variable in length tension belt 107 and a frame 106. The tension belt 107 is guided around the head K.1 of the person M.1 and carries the frame 106. The tension belt 107 ensures a secure fit of the VR glasses 101. The frame 106 carries a plate-shaped and preferably flexible holding element 105. In this holding element 105, two camera lenses 103 are embedded, which belong to two digital cameras of the first VR glasses 101. Each digital camera is capable of producing an image of the real environment of VR glasses 101. The viewing direction of each digital camera preferably coincides with the standard viewing direction of the person M.1 who wears the VR glasses 101. The two digital cameras with the lenses 103 form virtually the human's "eyes of reality" and act as the first output device camera of the embodiment. The signals from the camera lenses 103 are recorded on CCD chips. As a result, optical images which generate the camera lenses 103 can be recorded. A computer 1 15 of a display device is mounted on the frame 106 The computer 1 15 evaluates the signals from the camera lenses 103 and generates an image of the real environment. On the inside of the holding element 105, that is to say on the surface of the holding element 105 facing the human M.1, a screen 21 1 is provided. Fig. 2 shows schematically this screen 21 1 in the viewing direction, in which the human M.1, who wears the first VR glasses 101, on the holding element 105 and thus on the screen 21 1 looks. In one embodiment, two screens 21 1 are provided, namely one screen in front of each human eye M.1. An illustrative device described below is capable of generating images and presenting them to the first human M.1 on these two screens 21 1. The screens 21 1 belong to the display device of the first VR glasses 101. The signals from the camera lenses 103 are recorded on CCD chips. As a result, optical images which generate the camera lenses 103 can be recorded. A computer 1 15 of the display device is mounted on the frame 106 The computer 1 15 evaluates the signals from the camera lenses 103 and generates an image of the real environment. The computer 1 15 automatically causes this image to be presented on the or each screen 21 1. In one embodiment, the computer 1 15 generates a stereoscopic representation of the real environment in front of the person M.1 who wears the first VR glasses 101, and uses signals from both digital cameras 103 for this purpose. This stereoscopic representation is presented on the screen 21 1 , FIG. 2 shows by way of example an image 215 presented on a screen 21 1. In this example, the person M.1 who wears the VR glasses 101 looks at another one People M.2, for example, another crew member of the vessel. The image 215 shows an image with the head K.2 and the upper body of this other human M.2. The other person M.2 wears a second VR glasses 301, which is the same as the first VR glasses 101. The person M.1 who wears the VR glasses 101 can perceive gestures and the facial expressions of the other person M.2 without having to set down the first VR glasses 101. This allows the two people M.1 and M.2 communicate visually with each other. This visual communication can complement or even replace acoustic communication when acoustic communication is not possible. The first VR-goggle 101 is opaque, i. it encloses a visually dense space in front of the eyes of the person M.1, who wears the VR glasses 101. This optically dense space is bounded by the holding element 105, in the frame 106 and the head K.1 of the human M.1. In particular, the holding element 105 is configured with the two camera lenses 103 completely opaque. The first VR glasses 101 prevents light from the real environment from entering the optically dense space in front of the head K.1 of the first human M.1. On the frame 106 or on the holding element 105 of the first VR glasses 101, a receiving device 1 17 is arranged. This receiving device is able to receive signals wirelessly. The computer 1 15 of the display device generates images from these signals, which are then presented on the screen 21 1 Two digital cameras 123 continuously take images of the first human M.1, preferably at a predetermined sampling rate. The two cameras belong to the first camera system 121 of the embodiment. Two actuators 132 are capable of moving the stationary cameras 123. Thanks to these actuators 132, the digital cameras 123 follow a movement of the first human M.1 in space, so that the images from the cameras 123 show the human M.1. A controller 134 controls these actuators 132. In one embodiment, an evaluation unit, not shown, evaluates the images that generate the cameras 123, and thereby determines a movement of the first human M.1. In the embodiment shown in Fig. 1, however, a transmitter 128 is mounted on the frame 106 of the first VR glasses 101. This transmitter 128 continuously transmits position signal. In the simplest case, the transmitter 128 sends a signal which distinguishes the first VR-goggles 101 from all other devices on board the vessel, which also emit signals. A receiver 130 receives the position signals from the transmitter 128. A transmission unit 124 transmits the received position signals to the controller 134. The controller 134 evaluates the received signals and controls the actuator 132 based on the received and evaluated signals. This embodiment allows in many cases with greater certainty that the cameras 123 follow the movements of the first human M.1, even if more people move in the vicinity of the first human M.1. The first human M.1 visually exchanges messages with a second human M.2. The second person M.2 carries at his head K.2 a second visual output device in the form of a second VR glasses 301. In the embodiment, the second VR glasses 301 is constructed the same as the first VR glasses 101. FIG. 2 shows these second VR glasses 301 from the front-more precisely, an image of the second VR glasses 301 in the image 215, which is presented on the screen 21 1. This standard viewing direction of the second human M.2 and thus the viewing directions of the two digital cameras of the second VR glasses 301 are directed at the viewer. The following components of the second VR glasses 301 can be seen in FIG. 2: two camera lenses 303 belonging to two digital cameras of the second VR glasses 301, the computer 315 of the display device of the second VR glasses 301, a transmitter 328 which transmits position signals, a receiving device 317, which corresponds to the receiving device 1 17 of the first VR glasses 101. As can be seen in FIG. 1, two stationary digital cameras 123 generate images of the first human M.1 carrying the first VR glasses 101. Thanks to the actuated actuators 132 for the two stationary digital cameras 123 to follow the movements of the first human M.1. An evaluation computer 125 receives signals from the two cameras 123 and generates processed images of the first human M.1. For example, the evaluation computer 125 automatically illuminates or darkens the images to compensate for excessive variations in the brightness of the images. A transmitter 127 automatically transmits these processed images. In one embodiment, a transmitter (not shown) transmits the processed images, which the first camera system 121 has produced, directly and wirelessly to the second VR glasses 301, which the second person M.2 carries. In another embodiment, the evaluation computer 125 transmits the processed images to a central computer 220, preferably wired via the electrical system of the watercraft. The central computer 220 is connected to a transmitter 127. This transmitter 127 then transmits the images wirelessly to the second VR glasses 301. In both embodiments, the receiving device 317 of the second VR glasses 301 receives the transmitted signals with the processed images from the first human M.1. Conversely, the second human M.2 carrying the second VR glasses 301 is shown the rendered images from the cameras 123 showing the first human M.1. Thus, the second human M.2 is enabled to perceive gestures and facial expressions of the first human M.1 without having to discard the second VR glasses 301. Conversely, several stationary digital cameras (not shown) follow the movements of the second person M.2. These images of the digital cameras show the second human M.2 and are sent directly or via the central computer 220 to the first woman 101 submitted. The receiving device 1 17 of the first VR glasses 101 receives these processed images. The first display device with the computer 1 15 presents the received images on the one screen or the two screens 21 1. Fig. 2 shows schematically how the first human M.1 on a screen 21 1 sees the second human M.2. On board the vessel a sonar system with an underwater antenna (not shown) is arranged. This sonar system aims at a sound source that emits sound waves under water, and in particular determines the direction and / or the distance from the vessel to this sound source. This sonar system generates signals depending on the measured values (e.g., direction and distance, and sound intensity as a function of time and / or frequency). These signals are transmitted via the wired electrical system of the vessel to the central computer 220. With the aid of the transmitter 127, the central computer 220 transmits these signals with measured values of the sonar system at the same time to the two receiving devices 17 and 317 of the two VR glasses 101 and 301, for example with local radio. Preferably, the receiving device 1 17 receives the signals at a fixed frequency. The computer 1 15 of the first display device evaluates the received signals and generates virtual objects in the form of virtual instruments 213. The computer 1 15 of the first display device generates a common representation, which simultaneously the image 215 of the real environment, which shows humans M.2, and presents several virtual objects in the form of virtual instruments 213. The receiving device 317 of the second VR glasses 301 receives the same signals at the same frequency. The computer 315 of the second display device evaluates the received signals and also generates virtual objects in the form of virtual instruments. The virtual instruments shown on the screen 21 1 of the first VR glasses 101 show the same information as the virtual instruments on the screen of the second VR glasses 301, and can be graphically constructed the same or constructed graphically different his. It is possible that a person M.1, M.2 changes the virtual instruments shown, for example enlarged or reduced. Preferably, the computer 1 15 updates the virtual instruments 213 at the frequency at which the receiving devices 17 and 317 receive the signals. In one embodiment, the or at least some signals contain presentation information. If a measured value is outside a predetermined range, for example, if the distance to a sound source falls below a predetermined barrier, then the corresponding virtual instrument 213 on the screen 21 1 of the first VR glasses 101 and the corresponding virtual instrument on the screen of the second VR glasses 301 highlighted. As a result, the attention of the human M.1 is directed to this virtual instrument 213 for a relevant measurement. The same goes for the second person M.2. In the exemplary embodiment, the person M.1 uses the human M.2, for example, because the crew member M.2 has previously addressed the crew member M.1. The human M.1 sees on the screen 21 1 on the one hand an image 215 which shows the human M.2, and on the other hand the virtual instruments 213, cf. 2. The human M.1 can thereby perceive the measured values from the sonar system, which are displayed with the aid of the virtual instruments 213, and at the same time communicate visually with the human M.2. The two humans M.1 and M.2 see the same information (the same measurements from the sonar system), represented by virtual instruments. The virtual instruments are presented to the two humans M.1 and M.2, each in a common representation together with an image of the other human M.2 or M.1. The common presentation, which is presented to the human M.1, shows the virtual instruments 213 and an image of the second human M.2, cf. Fig. 2. Conversely, the common representation presented to the human M.2 shows the virtual instruments for the same measurements and an image of the first one People M.1. Both the images of the humans M.2, M.1 and the virtual instruments are constantly updated. As provided, the first human M.1 carries an input device 109 in his left hand. The second human M.2 carries a corresponding input device (not shown). For example, the human M.1 operates a button or button or a touch-sensitive panel on the input device 109. Or, the input device 109 has a motion sensor or an acceleration sensor that registers a certain left-hand movement. With the aid of the input device 109, the first human can select a virtual instrument 213 in the common representation on the screen 21 1. This selection is transmitted by a transmitter 136 of the first VR glasses 101 to a receiver (not shown) of the central computer 220. In one embodiment, the transmitter 136 is mounted on the input device 109. This selection and highlighting are communicated to the second VR glasses 301. The second human M.2 also sees in the common representation the virtual instrument 213 highlighted, which the first human M.1 has selected with the aid of the input device 109. The first human M.1 can visually give explanations of the emphasis, for example, with gestures that the second human M.2 sees on the screen of the second VR goggles 301. It is possible that the two people M.1, M.2 additionally each carry a voice input unit, for example a microphone, and a voice output unit (not shown). The voice output unit that the first human M.1 uses may be integrated into the frame 106 or the straps 107 of the first VR glasses 101. Accordingly, the voice output unit using the second human M.2 may be integrated with the second VR glasses 301. Thanks to the speech input units and the speech output units, the two people M.1 and M.2 can additionally communicate acoustically with one another, even if considerable ambient noise makes acoustical communication without aids difficult. In particular, a Human verbal information on the virtual object just that he or she has previously selected. By way of example, the first human M.1 can select a virtual instrument 213 with the aid of the input device 109 and point the second human M.2 to the displayed sensor value. By gestures and / or by an acoustic instruction, the first person M.1 can instruct the second human M.2 to perform a certain action. As already explained above, two camera lenses 103 of two digital cameras are embedded in the holding element 105 of the first VR glasses 101. In the holding member 305 of the second VR glasses 301 two camera lenses 303 are embedded. The viewing direction of each digital camera preferably coincides with the standard viewing direction of the person M.1 who wears the VR glasses 101. The two digital cameras with the lenses 103 virtually form the "eyes of the reality" of the human being.These two cameras with the lenses 103 virtually form the "eyes of the reality" of the human being. For they show the real environment of the first human M.1. In one embodiment, the first human M.1 can switch between two different representations, which are optionally presented: a representation showing the second human M.2 and constructed as shown schematically in Fig. 2, and - A representation that shows the real environment of the first person M.1, that is, what the first person M.1 would see in an area in front of himself, if he would not wear the first VR glasses 101. The first person M.1 can choose the representation with the real environment in front of the first person M.1 himself, if he does not communicate with a second person M.2, or if he wants to move and make sure that he is not against an obstacle running. In these two representations, the virtual instruments 213 are displayed, so that the first person on the screen 21 1 always a common representation. Accordingly, the second human M.2, who wears the second VR glasses 301, can choose between the following two representations: a representation produced by the stationary cameras 123 and showing the first human M.1 and constructed according to the representation which is shown schematically in FIG. 2, and FIG a representation showing the real environment of the second human M.2, that is, what the second human M.2 would see in an area in front of himself if he did not wear the second VR goggles 301. In one embodiment, the first VR glasses 101 can transmit to the central computer 220 the images of the real environment which the two cameras have produced with the lenses 103. The central computer 220 transmits these images via the transmitter 127 to the second VR glasses 301. The second human M.2 can therefore choose between three representations: a representation produced by the fixed cameras 123 and showing the first human M.1 a representation showing the real environment of the second human M.2, that is, what the second human M.2 would see in an area in front of himself if he did not wear the second VR glasses 301, and The first human M.1 can thus show the second human M.2 something that is in front of the first human M.1, for example a machine or a facility aboard the watercraft. Accordingly, in one embodiment, the first human M.1 can likewise select between three representations. In all three representations, the virtual instruments 213 are preferably faded in each case. In some situations, a person M.1, M.2 may consider it disadvantageous that he sees in the image the other human M.2, M.1 only with VR glasses 101, 301 in front of his eyes. The following embodiment offers a possible remedy for this Problem. In one embodiment, a set of data records is stored in a database. Each record relates to each crew member of the vessel and preferably includes an identifier, a portrait, and a plurality of optically recordable attributes of that crew member, the portrait showing the crew member without a visual output device. An image evaluation unit automatically searches in the images of a human M.1, M.2, which were generated by the first or second camera system for optically detectable attributes of this person the image evaluation unit searches in the database for a record, the appropriate optical detectable attributes and thereby determines the crew member shown in the images. The image evaluation unit determines the portrait of this crew member and transmits this portrait to the visual output device, which is worn by the other person. On one screen, the display device of this other visual output device displays the portrait. It is also possible that the image evaluation unit determines that no data record contains suitable optically detectable attributes. reference numeral 101 first VR glasses, acts as the first visual output device, includes the Tether 107, the frame 106, the support member 105, the camera lenses 103, the presentation device 1 15, the receiving device 1 17 and the screen 21 1, carried by the first human M.1 103 camera lenses of the two digital cameras of the first VR glasses 101, embedded in the holding element 105 105 opaque planar retaining element of the first VR glasses 101, carries the two camera lenses 103rd 106 frame of the first VR glasses 101, held by the tension belt 107, wearing the Retaining element 105th 107 strap of the first VR glasses 101, carries the frame 106 109 input device, allows the first human M.1, a virtual Instrument 213 on the screen 21 1 emphasizes the meaning of the 1 15 computer of the display device of the first VR glasses 101, on the frame 106 arranged 1 17 receiving device of the first VR glasses 101, arranged on the frame 106 121 first camera system, includes the two cameras 123, the actuators 132 for the cameras 123 and the controller 134 123 stationary digital cameras create images of the first human being. M.1, who wears the first VR glasses 101 125 evaluation computer receives signals from the digital cameras 123, transmits evaluated images to the central computer 220 127 transmitters on the central computer 220, transmits images of the first People M.1 to the second VR glasses 301 and images of the second human M.2 to the first VR glasses 301 128 transmitters on the first VR glasses 101, transmits position signals 130 Locating device receiver receives position signals from Transmitter 128 on the first VR glasses 101 132 localization device actuators move the digital cameras 123 in response to position signals Control device of the locator, receives position signals from the receiver 130, drives the actuators 132 in response to the received position signals 136 transmitters on input device 109, transmits a highlighting virtual Instruments 213 to the central computer 22 21 1 screen of the first VR glasses 101, is held by the holding member 105, belongs to the display device, generates the common representation with the image 215 and the virtual instruments 213th 213 virtual objects in the form of virtual instruments, on the screen 21 1 shown 215 image of the second human M.2 carrying the second VR glasses 301 is presented on the screen 21 1 together with the virtual instruments 213 220 central computer, connected to the transmitter 127, transmits images of the cameras 123, the second VR glasses 301 and images of the human M.2 to the first VR glasses 101 and signals from the sonar system to both VR glasses 101 and 301 301 second VR glasses, acts as the second visual output device, includes the Frame 306, the camera lenses 303, the display device with the computer 315 and the receiving device 317, carried by the second human M.2 306 frame of the second VR glasses 301, carries the calculator 315 and the Receiving device 317 315 Calculator of the display device of the second VR glasses 301 317 receiving means of the second VR glasses 301, mounted on the frame 306 328 transmitters on the second VR glasses 301, transmits position signals K.1 Head of the first person M.1 K.2 Second Man's Head M.2 M.1 first person, wearing the first VR glasses 101st M.2 second person wears the second VR glasses 301, shown in the image 215 1 . Arrangement with a first and a second visual output device (101, 301), an image transmission device (125, 127, 220) and a first and a second camera system (121), wherein the first visual output device (101) comprises a first presentation device (1 15, 21 1) and the second visual output device (301) comprises a second presentation device (315), each visual output device (101, 301) being adapted to be carried by a human (M.1, M.2), wherein each camera system is configured to produce an image of the environment of the camera system, wherein the first camera system (121) is positioned or positionable such that the generated image at least partially shows a human being (M.1) carrying the first visual output device (101), wherein the second camera system is positioned or positionable such that the generated image at least partially shows a human (M.2) carrying the second visual output device (301), wherein the image transmission device (125, 127, 220) is configured to to transmit an image generated by the first camera system (121) to the second visual output device (301) and - An image generated by the second camera system to the first visual Output device (101), and wherein each display device (15, 21 1, 315) is adapted to present in a human-visually perceptible form a representation (215) comprising a transmitted image. 2. Arrangement according to claim 1, characterized in that the first presentation device (1 15, 21 1) is designed to generate a first virtual object (213), the second presentation device (315) is configured to generate a second virtual object, wherein both virtual objects represent the same information in a form visually perceptible by a human, and wherein the first presentation device (1 15, 21 1) is adapted to present in a visually perceptible common representation (215) a transmitted image and the first virtual object (213) and wherein the second presentation device (315) is adapted to present in a common visual representation a transmitted image and the second virtual object. characterized in that the arrangement comprises a signal transmission device (127) which is designed to transmit a first signal to the first visual output device (101) and a second signal to the second visual output device, where both signals contain the information wherein the first presentation means (1 15, 21 1) is adapted to generate the first virtual object (213) in response to the first signal, and wherein the second presentation means (315) is adapted to generate the second virtual object in response to the second signal. the arrangement comprises a sensor or is in data connection to a sensor, wherein the sensor is configured to measure a value of a variable magnitude and generate a signal dependent on the measurement, and the signal transmission means (127) is adapted to transmit the generated signal to both visual output devices (101, 301). 5. Arrangement according to one of the preceding claims, the first visual output device (101) comprises a first output device camera (103) and the second visual output device (301) comprises a second output device camera (303), wherein the first output device camera (103) is configured to to be worn as part of the first visual output device (101) on the head of a human (M.1) and to generate an image of the environment of the first visual output device 101, and wherein the second output device camera 303 is configured to to be worn as part of the second visual output device (301) on the head of a human (M.2) and to create an image of the environment of the second visual output device (301). the image transmission device (125, 127, 220) is adapted to transmit an image generated by the first output device camera (103) to the second visual output device (301) and to transmit an image generated by the second output device camera (303) to the first visual output device (101). 7. Arrangement according to claim 5 or claim 6, characterized in that the first display means (15, 21 1) is adapted to present in a human visually perceptible form a representation comprising an image generated by the first output device camera (103) and the second presentation means (315) is configured to present, in a form visually perceptible by a human, a representation comprising an image generated by the second output device camera (303) the first display device (1 15, 21 1) is designed to, optionally an image transmitted by the image transmission device (125, 127, 220) or to display an image produced by the first output device camera (103), and the second presentation means (315) is configured to, optionally to display an image produced by the second output device camera (303). 9. Arrangement according to one of claims 5 to 8, the viewing direction of the first output device camera (103) coincides with the standard viewing direction of a person (M.1) carrying the first visual output device (101), and / or the viewing direction of the second output device camera (303) coincides with the standard viewing direction of a human (M.2) carrying the second visual output device (301). 10.Anordnung according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the image transmission device (125, 127, 220) and / or the first visual output device (101) and / or the second visual output device (301) comprises an image intensifier, which is designed to amplify an image, wherein the respective display device (1 15, 21 1, 315) is designed to present an image amplified by the image intensifier. 1 1 .Anordnung according to any one of the preceding claims, the image transmission device (125, 127, 220) and / or the first visual output device (101) and / or the second visual output device (301) Comprises conversion means, which is designed to convert an image in the infrared light region into an image in the visible light region, wherein the respective presentation device (1 15, 21 1, 315) is configured to present an image converted by the conversion device. 12. Arrangement according to one of the preceding claims, the arrangement comprises at least one input device (109), wherein the first visual output device (101) and / or the second visual Output device (301) is in data communication with the input device (109), wherein the input device (109) is adapted to at least one input of a To capture people (M.1), and wherein the respective display device (1 15, 21 1, 315) is configured to change the displayed representation (215) in response to a corresponding detected input. characterized in that the first visual output device (101) and / or the second visual output device (301) is a component of a communication device, which includes is designed to be carried by a human (M.1, M.2) at his head, wherein the communication device continues a voice input unit, in particular a microphone, and a voice output unit, in particular a headphone. the first visual output device (101) and / or the second visual output device (301) - A visually dense space in front of the eyes of a human (M.1, M.2), which carries the respective visual output device (101, 301) encloses and - prevents the ingress of light from the real environment into the optically dense space. 15. Arrangement according to claim 14, the first visual output device (101) and / or the second visual output device (301) comprises a screen (21 1) which adjoins the optically dense space, wherein the screen (21 1) is located in front of at least one eye of a person wearing the respective visual output device (101, 301), wherein the respective display device (1 15, 21 1, 315) is adapted to present the representation (215) with the transmitted image on the screen (21 1). 16. Arrangement according to claim 14 or claim 15, characterized in that the first and / or the second presentation device (1 15, 21 1, 315) is designed for a person (M.1, M.2) who carries the first or second visual output device (101, 301), to project the representation (215) with the transmitted image onto the retina of at least one eye. the arrangement comprises a localization device (124, 130, 128) and the first and / or the second camera system (121) comprises a camera (123) and a Actuator (132) for this camera (123), wherein the locator (124, 130, 128) is adapted to determine the position of a visual output device (101, 301) in space, and wherein the actuator (132) is adapted to control the associated camera (123) Move signals of the localization device (124, 130, 128). the localization device (124, 130, 128) comprises a position transmitter (128) and a receiver (130), the position transmitter (128) having a visual output device (101). mechanically connected, wherein the position transmitter (128) is adapted to transmit a position signal, wherein the locator (124, 130, 128) is configured to - With the help of the receiver (130) to receive the position signal and - To control the actuator (132) depending on the received position signal. characterized in that the arrangement further comprises an image evaluation unit, which is designed to - by evaluating an image (215) of a camera system (121) optically detectable attributes of a human (M.2), which is shown in this image (215) to determine, and depending on the determined attributes in a given amount of Records with information about people a record for one To identify people (M.2) or determine that no record belongs to the person shown in the image (215). 20. Use of an arrangement according to one of claims 1 to 19 for exchanging messages between a first person (M.1) and a second person (M.2), wherein the first human (M.1) carries the first visual output device (101) and the second human (M.2) carries the second visual output device and wherein the image produced by the first camera system (121) at least partially shows the first human (M.1) while the first human (M.1) carries the first visual output device (101), and wherein the image generated by the second camera system at least partially shows the second human (M.2) while the second human (M.2) carries the second visual output device (301). 21.Use of an arrangement according to one of claims 1 to 19 on board a watercraft. for controlling or monitoring a machine or plant. 23. Use of an arrangement according to claim 4 for transmitting signals of a sonar system of a watercraft. 24. Method for exchanging messages between a first person (M.1) and a second person (M.2) using an arrangement with the method comprising the steps of the first human (M.1) at least temporarily carries the first visual output device (101) and the second human (M.2) at least temporarily carries the second visual one Carries output device (301), each camera system (121) generates at least one image from the surroundings of the camera system, wherein the image generated by the first camera system (121) at least partially shows the first human (M.1) while the first human (M.1) carries the first visual output device (101), wherein the image generated by the second camera system at least partially shows the second human (M.2), while the second human (M.2) carries the second visual output device (301), the image transmission device (125, 127, 220) - transmits the image generated by the first camera system (121) to the second visual output device (301) and - The image generated by the second camera system to the first visual Output device (101) transmits, the first display device (1 15, 21 1) the first person (M.1) presents a representation (215), which comprises the image transmitted to the first visual output device (101), while the first Human (M.1) carries the first visual output device (101), and the second presentation device (315) presents to the second human (M.2) a representation comprising the image transmitted to the second visual output device (301), while the second human (M.2) displays the second visual output device (301) wearing. 25. The method according to claim 24, the method comprises the additional steps of an information is generated the first presentation device (1 15, 21 1) generates a first virtual object (213) and the second representation generates a second virtual object, where both virtual objects are the generated information in one of a Represent people visually perceptible shape, the first presentation device (1 15, 21 1) presents in a visually perceptible common representation (215) a transmitted image and the first virtual object, and - The second display device (315) in a visually perceptible presented a shared image and the second virtual object. 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__label__cc	0.620352	0.379648	Risks, threats and attacks Peace Community of San José de Apartadó: 2016 Among the most severe attacks against the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó in 2016, the following are worthy of note: Threats and acts of aggression 15 March: a member of the San Jose de Apartadó Peace Community’s Internal Council was retained by National Police agents in Apartadó, who photographed him and attempted to unlawfully register his personal information. The Police ended the encounter by threatening to find him at some other time.[1] 3 July: Threat via trespassing on the lands of the San José de Apartadó Peace Community, in the peace village of Luis Eduardo Guerra, by people from the Mulatos area, in order to carry out State sponsored projects.[2] 17 July: Incident in which a known drug trafficker, Luis Adán Rivera, tried to gain entry to the San José Peace Community’s settlement, and was prevented from doing so by members of the Community’s internal council. The individual was captured on 19 July by officers when he tried to transport drugs in Apartadó.[3] 24 September: Death threat against three members of the San José de Apartadó Peace Community, during a paramilitary incursion in La Hoz. The neo-paramilitaries threatened and told the three farmers that they were looking for several people, including Peace Community members, because they were going to kill them.[4] Slander and defamations 8 July: Intimidation of a member of the Peace Community’s Internal Council by two soldiers in a public space in the urban area of Apartadó. They stated that the international community was going to stop accompanying the “s.o.b.” community and after that things were going to change.[5] Tracking and surveillance 17 April: at night, two people in a white van stopped outside the San Jose de Apartadó Peace Community’s settlement in La Holandita, and took photographs of the Community’s fence where its members had erased the graffiti made by the AGC the day before.[6] Detentions and prosecutions 23 February: an Army patrol retained a member of the Internal Council of the Peace Community of San Jose de Apartadó in La Balsa, situated on the road between Apartadó and San Jose de Apartadó.The soldiers said they knew nothing about the Peace Community or the precautionary and provisional measures of protection of the Inter-American Commission and Court of Human Rights covered the Community.[7] 4 March: agents of the National Police retained a member of the Internal Council of the Peace Community, and after several minutes took him to the police command headquarters in Apartadó. He was made to travel with an armed Police officer in the back of the vehicle. At the station, he was photographed and then subjected to insults and verbal and psychological abuse.[8] [1] Peace Community of San José de Apartadó: Círculos cada vez más amplios de represión ilegal, 16 March 2016 [2] Peace Community of San José de Apartadó: Agresiones, estigmatizaciones y tolerancias: nubarrones persistentes en un frágil discurso de paz, 27 July 2016 [4] Peace Community of San José de Apartadó: Campesinos torturados a mano de neoparamilitares, 30 September 2016 [6] Peace Community of San José de Apartadó: Se incrementa asedio paramilitar contra nuestra Comunidad de Paz, 3 May 2016 [8] Ibíd. Peace Community of San Jose de Apartado Previous Post29 years without Nydia ErikaNext PostForced disappearance is one of the most abominable crimes	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1606
__label__cc	0.748698	0.251302	CAFS Continued: Field Trips, Conundrums, Panels, and Banquets Posted on June 3, 2012 by hannahrenglich Day 2 of the Canadian Association for Food Studies conference began with, quite appropriately, field trips for willing participants. One third of the group embarked on a tour to Barrie’s Asparagus Farm, a growing and processing operation run by fourth-generation farmer, Tim Barrie, who also mills and dehydrates his asparagus into flour for items like asparagus chips, soups, and pasta. Another third found their way over to the Urban Homestead at Little City Farm, a 1/3-acre property attempting to run itself self-sufficiently and sustainably, with innovations such as greywater recycling, permaculture, organic gardens, herbal healing, strawbale housing, a hand-built wood-fired oven, and a passive solar greenhouse. The third and final tour went to Pfenning’s Organic, an organic farm and processing/distribution operation that is playing in important function in the rebuilding of the middle of the Ontario food system, at a mid-scale size. The Pfenning’s operation employs about 100 people, includes a processing/packing facility and a farm shop selling their own as well as other farms’ products. As this was the tour in which I participated, I invite you to join the visit, through the eyes of my camera lens. This is the back of one of the six trucks used to transport Pfenning’s produce to 200 stores each week. They are certified organic, but understand this as a very holistic method of care for their plants, explaining that weeds are a symptom of a mineral imbalance, and an opportunity for you to learn how to improve the soil structure. The backside of the farm store and processing facility, which is able to handle the great volume of produce coming through due to careful staging of the crops’ planting and harvesting. The trucks are well-used in that they combine orders for long trips into the city for greater efficiency. Wolfgang Pfenning explains the operations to Carolyn Young (Sustain Ontario) and Stefan Epp-Koop (Food Matters Manitoba). Pfenning’s cultivates 600 acres (400 acres of that in vegetables), and has been operating for 31 years. In the past, they had done sales at Loblaws, but no longer have any ambition to work with big retailers’ giant warehouses and the bullying relationships that come with big business. Instead, they largely service food box companies in Toronto such as Mama Earth Organics and Front Door Organics. Diligent note-takers linger on Wolfgang’s eloquent pronouncements. “Don’t get into organic farming to try to get rich faster than your neighbour,” he chuckled, when asked about the viability of organic farming. “Be on time, pay your bills, be reliable – that’s all it takes,” he said, referring to his preference to stay out of big business and contractual agreements, referencing the strong relationships between his and 40 other farms in Ontario and Manitoba. For a group of food scholars, there was much to learn, and as we stood in a pea field listening to how decomposing pea mass can cause protein spikes (like sugar spikes) that encourage flea beetles, which can devour an incoming crop planted too soon. Steffanie Scott, the new President of the Canadian Association for Food Studies, contemplates the field. Wolfgang gave a little lecture on the outrageous walmartization of the organic ‘industry,’ including restaurants and stores who increase prices exponentially for organic foods, when the processing and labour costs remain fixed even though the raw materials increase in price. He suggested, for example, that if you pay 10 cents more for your grain, your loaf of bread should only cost 10 cents more. This lovely conveyor belt was constructed by our tour host, Wolfgang Pfenning himself, in his shop out back. Coincidentally, he hand-built the living quarters of the migrant Jamaican farmers that live on the property. Inside the cold storage facility, a pallet of organic avocados comes in. This sizer and washer from Germany calculates and releases a finished weight of produce into a Pfenning’s bag every two seconds. Wolfgang explains the carrot (signature crop) conveyor belt, and the relationship established with a small-ish Californian farm twelve years ago, that agreed to grow to Canadian Organic standards (eschewing sodium nitrate fertilizer commonly used on US organic farms, but banned in Canada). This relationship helped to garner a year-round supply of carrots, and if you eat organic Pfennings’ carrots from March-August, the chances are high that they are from California. But as one scholar said, if you know the name of your farmer, it’s local. What do you think? Wolfgang shows us all the rich compost from 3 large piles he overwinters on the property. Sarah Corey (U of T), Carolyn Young (Sustain Ontario), and Phil Mount (UGuelph) get their noses into the compost – an odourless mixture of vegetable peelings, gratings, leaf cuttings, as well as horse and rabbit manure. The newly planted fields await a good spring soaking. And the newly informed conference participants head back to Wilfrid Laurier University for a full day of conferencing. Back at the University, the afternoon began with a brown-bag session on conundrums within food-related issues and at finding approaches to overcome or usefully engage with them in our work. Some of the many conundrums raised were: – how to create spaces for alternatives within a capitalist society? – making research relevant while framing it for your audience – working within a system while trying to change it – bringing in the ‘conventional’ into the alternative – being considered a lightweight in your field due to a focus on food studies, or being considered a lightweight in food studies due to your other discipline – scaling up without losing integrity – different disciplines hold different theories of change The afternoon paper sessions included (for me) a great panel on Local Food, and a pecha kucha session, presentations of 20 slides at 20 seconds each, for a total of 6 minutes and 40 seconds. The brevity forces presenters to keep strictly to time and on point, and without questions in between, it allows the audience to weave together a series of perhaps seemingly disconnected subjects into a greater whole, and come back for discussion at the end. Topics included the quieted voice of hunters in academic food literature and alternatives discussions, food performativity and the role of language, supply management, and the cost of local food. It was a fantastic way to take in a snapshot of many different topics and ideas, though received some thoughtful criticism at the end about being involved in a movement where intention is being recreated and replaced into the conversation (think slow food, deep relationships, community building), and the frenzy of the presentation style might have been counter-productive to this way of doing and being. Another ‘conundrum’ for the list! The day ended with a panel on interdisciplinarity within Food Studies, involving two natural scientists, a social scientist, and Paul Finkelstein, the food educator who runs incredible food literacy programs with students in Stratford, and a cafe called The Screaming Avocado. Day 3 of the conference was the perfect conclusion to a great weekend, and included the most relevant sessions to my work and personal research. I attended “Provincial Perspectives on Food Movement Networks: A Roundtable Discussion” and “International Perspectives” which touched upon immigrant health (better than host country health in Canada’s case, but only for the first five years after an immigrant’s arrival) and a fantastic presentation on Bt Cotton and Brinjal (eggplant) in India, the latter sparking a citizen movement that sprung up just after I left my work and research on the sub-continent. The afternoon included the Canadian Association for Food Studies’ AGM, where a new artwork and websites were revealed, the new slate of executives voted in, financials passed, and news about next year’s conference in Victoria was shared. A fascinating lecture from Terry Marsden probed “Solving the Problems of Food Security and Sustainability: The Emerging Place-Making Agenda,” before the assembly headed toward a closing banquet. Jennifer Clapp, who won the Award for Excellence in Food Studies Research, made a striking remark about the global economy which has caused a destructive world food system, and a global food system which is destroying the environment, but somehow, even with this striking realism, we all tucked into our local, seasonal, vegetarian suppers with enthusiasm and I dare even say, optimism. How could you not leave a weekend of food studies conversation a little fuller than when you came? This entry was posted in Blog, Ecological Peace and tagged Canadian Association for Food Studies, distribution, farming, field trip, organic, Pfenning's, processing, rebuilding the middle, Southwestern Ontario by hannahrenglich. Bookmark the permalink. 3 thoughts on “CAFS Continued: Field Trips, Conundrums, Panels, and Banquets” Pingback: synopsis of CAFS conference « CAFS listserv Sona Hew on March 24, 2013 at 3:48 am said: magine a world where organic farming is the leading form of agriculture. A world where everyone-from all income levels and geographic locations-has access to food grown without chemical pesticides and fertilizers that have been linked to myriad diseases and disorders. A world where instead of just a few agribusinesses getting rich off selling chemicals and chemically grown food, farmers thrive economically while they also help improve the health of our fragile ecosystem. Where the need for millions of pounds of toxins is eliminated keeping them from entering our water, air and soil. 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__label__wiki	0.865099	0.865099	Esther Dell, AMLS Associate Librarian, Harrell Health Sciences Library - Hershey Implementing a Dashboard of Library Statistics Sun, X., Robinson, C., Adams, N., Reed, R., Dell, E. & Hoover, B., 2016, In : Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA. 104, 4, p. 359-360 Starting a Fee-Based Systematic Review Service Knehans, A., Dell, E. & Robinson, C., Jul 2 2016, In : Medical Reference Services Quarterly. 35, 3, p. 266-273 8 p. State Medicine Medical Libraries National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.) Health and Medicine Division Conserving Digital Resources: Issues and Future Access Dell, E. & Shultz, S. M., Jul 1 2014, In : Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries. 11, 3, p. 124-133 10 p. Dell, E. & Shultz, S. M., Oct 1 2011, In : Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet. 15, 4, 1 p. Highlights in Complementary and Alternative Medicine Shultz, S. M. & Dell, E., Oct 1 2011, In : Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet. 15, 4, p. 397-405 9 p. Resveratrol: Enough to explain the French Paradox? Dell, E., Oct 1 2010, In : Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet. 14, 4, p. 420-422 3 p. Shultz, S. M., Dell, E. & Bodan, C. L., Sep 2009, In : American Journal of Nursing. 109, 9, p. 78-79 2 p. Research Peer Review Bibliographic Databases Access to medical literature interlibrary borrowing and lending in an electronic age Dell, E., Jun 26 2007, In : Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery and Electronic Reserve. 17, 1-2, p. 37-43 7 p. Dell, E., Shultz, S. M. & Brazin, L. R., Aug 10 2007, In : Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet. 11, 2, p. 91-96 6 p. Who pays: Insurance coverage for alternative therapies Dell, E., Dec 1 2007, In : Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet. 11, 4, p. 89-95 7 p. Alternative and complementary therapies: Glucosamine/Chondroitin: Still waiting for an answer Dell, E. & Shultz, S. M., Dec 5 2006, In : Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet. 10, 4, p. 95-101 7 p. Detoxification: Not just for addicts anymore Dell, E., Sep 5 2006, In : Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet. 10, 3, p. 105-109 5 p. Dell, E. & Shultz, S. M., Feb 8 2005, In : Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet. 9, 1, 1 p. Dell, E. & Shultz, S. M., Jun 14 2005, In : Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet. 9, 2, 1 p. Dell, E. & Shultz, S. M., Dec 15 2005, In : Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet. 9, 4, 1 p. Tai chi: Health, stress relief, or self-defense? Dell, E., Feb 8 2005, In : Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet. 9, 1, p. 75-80 6 p. Tai Ji Western World Modern 1601-history Dell, E., Jan 1 2003, In : Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet. 7, 1, 1 p. Ariel: Technology as a tool for cooperation Henry, N. I. & Dell, E., 1994, In : Bulletin of the Medical Library Association. 82, 4, p. 436-438 3 p. Library Collection Development A resource sharing project using ariel technology Dell, E. & Henry, N. I., Apr 19 1993, In : Medical Reference Services Quarterly. 12, 1, p. 17-27 11 p. Biological Science Disciplines Use of group 3-level memory telefacsimiles for enhanced interlibrary loan, part II: Network application Bennett, V. M. & Dell, E., 1993, In : Bulletin of the Medical Library Association. 81, 3, p. 265-270 6 p. Telefacsimile Compact library: Aids - cd-rom access to aids information Lingle, V. A. & Dell, E., Mar 26 1990, In : Medical Reference Services Quarterly. 9, 1, p. 13-27 15 p.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1611
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__label__cc	0.586868	0.413132	You are here: Home / Reviews / Book Review — What Has Become of You by Jan Elizabeth Watson Book Review — What Has Become of You by Jan Elizabeth Watson July 15, 2014 by Megan · Leave a Comment What Has Become of You by Jan Elizabeth Watson Published by Dutton Adult Format: eARC What if a teacher’s most promising pupil is also her most dangerous? A tautly plotted psychological thriller, as intelligent as it is mesmerizing What Has Become of You follows Vera Lundy, an aspiring crime writer and master of self-deprecation who, like many adults, has survived adolescence but hasn’t entirely overcome it. When she agrees to fill in for a private school English teacher on maternity leave, teaching The Catcher in the Rye to privileged girls, Vera feels in over her head. The students are on edge, too, due to the recent murder of a local girl close to their age. Enter Jensen Willard. At fifteen she’s already a gifted writer but also self-destructive and eerily reminiscent of Vera’s younger self. As the two outcasts forge a tentative bond, a sense of menace enfolds their small New England town. When another student, new to the country, is imperiled by her beliefs, Vera finds herself in the vortex of danger—and suspicion. With the threat of a killer at large, the disappearance of her increasingly worri-some pupil, and her own professional reputation at stake, Vera must thread her way among what is right by the law, by her students, and by herself. In this poignant page-turner, populated with beguiling characters and sharp social insights, coming-of-age can happen no matter how old you are. AMAZON USAMAZON UKGOODREADS What Has Become of You is part mystery, part psychological thriller, and part character study. With this book, I stepped out of my romance genre comfort zone and into something a little different. I was drawn into the sound of this book. I am a huge fan of character studies. I love getting to really truly know a character’s innermost thoughts to the point that I could predict what they would or wouldn’t do even if it’s not on the page. The story centers around a semi-reclusive woman named Vera Lundy. At nearly forty years old, Vera does not have a steady job, despite being Princeton educated; She has no car and no friends. Most of the minutes on her telephone are used talking to her worried mother. As an aspiring non-fiction writer, she spends a lot of her free time researching serial killers and expanding on her fascination with a local murder that when she was a child. I found her to be a rather sad individual, almost like she hasn’t found her purpose in life. After her job the local community college ends, she gets a temporary job teaching English at a local all-girls college preparatory school. Vera is a very anxious and somewhat socially awkward person. It takes all that she has to get in front of a group of high school girls and teach. The first book she is assigned to teach is The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. But before she even starts her first day of teaching, she gets an email from a student named Jensen Willard, explaining that she has already read the book but looks forward to meeting Vera. Part of the students’ assignment is to write weekly journal entries in response to their assigned reading. The class is composed of several girls—most of their families are wealthy. But one student is different than the rest. Jensen is a scholarship student. Her family is not wealthy. It doesn’t take long for Vera to see just how brilliant she is. Her journal entries are reflective, incredibly detailed, and sometimes disturbing. Often times, she discusses in detail her problems with her classmates. She talks about her boyfriend and her feelings of inadequacy about dating someone so smart. She even starts to bring up pieces of Vera’s personal life, revealing that she’s done her own background check. Jensen’s lengthy entries captivate Vera and remind her of her own high school years—a time she’d rather not remember. They remind Vera of herself. While this is going on, one of Vera’s own students is murdered causing citywide panic and an investigation to find out who did this. THis wasn’t the first murder either. All of the clues begin paint a really scary picture all pointing to one person—Vera. I found many parts of the book to be rather slow, especially in the beginning. The book is written in Vera’s point-of-view but in third person and is very character focused. The more interest Vera takes in Jensen (and vice-versa), the more the story picked up for me. Once the murder investigations started and more of Jensen’s journal entries were revealed, I enjoyed the story more. I was a bit unsatisfied in the ending, only because I wanted a little more closure I liked this novel, but overall it was a little too slow-paced for me. * I received a copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Book Review - In the Air by Crystal Serowka Book Review — Taking Chances by Molly McAdams Waiting On Wednesday #2 \| What Has Become of You by Jan Elizabeth Watson Book Review — This Girl by Colleen Hoover Book Review — The Unimaginable by Dina Silver Leave a Comment · Filed Under: Reviews · Tagged: 3 stars, Jan Elizabeth Watson, What Has Become of You	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1614
__label__wiki	0.953209	0.953209	Commercial » Tishman Speyer Apple now plans tech centre in Hyderabad Apple is in talks with real estate firm Tishman Speyer for long-term lease of around 2.5 lakh sq ft of office space in the city's outskirtsAshish Kulshrestha \| ET Bureau \| Updated: September 19, 2016, 16:58 IST After applying for a single-brand retail licence in India, Apple is now looking at setting up its first large technology development centre and backoffice operations in Hyderabad. Apple is in talks with real estate firm Tishman Speyer for long-term lease of around 2.5 lakh sq ft of office space in the city's outskirts, which could accommodate around 2,500 employees, sources with knowledge of the matter said. “Apple has evinced interest to lease the space at Tishman Speyer's WaveRock facility for a period of ten years to begin with, involving a total expenditure of around Rs 150 crore,“ said a property consultant privy to the development. “Apple may at a later date consider asking the Telangana government to allot space for it to build own campus,“ the consultant added. Tags : Commercial, Tishman Speyer, tech center, industry, hyderabad, Apple Most Read in Commercial Uber may lease 7,00,000 sq ft office space in Bengaluru Amazon eyes four million sq ft work space in Bengaluru Co-working and co-living spaces changing the way you work and live! WeWork looking to raise up to $4 billion in debt ahead of IPO: Source Mumbai: Japanese MNC bids Rs 2,238 crore for three-acre BKC plot Anil Ambani to lease or sell seven lakh sq ft Santacruz HQ for about Rs 3,000 crore Blackstone to buy office space in BKC for Rs 2,500 crore K Raheja Corp set to acquire Citibank’s former HQ in Mumbai M Pallonji buys Turner Morrison building in Kala Ghoda for Rs 150 crore	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1615
__label__cc	0.687805	0.312195	Half of full essay The study of economics is important Photo essay child labor Frankfurt on personhood and moral responsibility Then we will be bound to admit that being coerced does not exclude being morally responsible. When the chips were down he thought of nothing but the threat, and fear alone led him to act. Crucially, the disapprobation is in response to the perceived attitude of ill will or culpable motive in the conduct of the person being held responsible. This is submitted via blackboard. Jones has resolved to shoot Smith. The wanton, conceived as a marble bouncing randomly through a maze of desires, seems more like an automaton. Situations in which a person who does something cannot do otherwise because he is subject to coercive power are either not instances of coercion at all, or they are situations in which the person may still be morally responsible for what he does if it is not because of the coercion that he does it. But the wanton addict has no higher-order volition regarding which of her first-order desires wins out. According to Slote, one cannot draw the desired incompatibilist-friendly conclusion even if the Consequence Argument's premises are all true. What are these limits? These are the three necessary components: If determinism is true, then no agent, x, is the ultimate source of any action, a. Here, the hierarchy of desire still exists, but the inner debate about what I truly value, exists on only one level. Typically, the classical compatibilists' benchmark of impeded or encumbered action is compelled action. Therefore, no one has power over the facts of the future. Here, his example of the willing addict is very important. Central to Frankfurt's attack on PAP is a type of example in which an agent is morally responsible, but could not, at the time of the pertinent action, do otherwise. The philosophical definition of personhood is necessary in the discussion of autonomy and in understanding of moral responsibility. The principle of alternate possibilities should thus be replaced, in my opinion, by the following principle: Frankfurt on free will: But any plausible view of decision or of action will allow that reaching a decision and performing an action both involve earlier and later phases, with causal relations between them, and such that the earlier phases are not themselves part of the decision or of the action.3) Have I explained the relationship between personhood, moral responsibility, and freedom of will? Major hint: Frankfurt discusses true free will vs. doing things freely or willingly. (see my write-up of his view of free will in the Writing Resources folder). The philosophical definition of personhood is necessary in the discussion of autonomy and in understanding of moral responsibility. Harry Frankfurt’s famous paper “Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person” makes two major assertions. Frankfurt presents an account of personhood that focuses on reflection and the tussle between levels of desires. He intends his account to explain personhood, moral responsibility, and free will. But as we saw, Frankfurt’s account has philosophical limitations (ethical and empirical) and unusual consequences. The philosophical definition of personhood is necessary in the discussion of autonomy and in understanding of moral responsibility. Harry Frankfurt’s famous paper “Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person” makes two major assertions. The mystic, like the addict, remains morally responsible for his actions; here, Frankfurt seems to have nailed the issue precisely - the two issues, of freedom of the will and moral responsibility, are in. I The Idea of Personhood as a Desert Base, and a Comparison with Smilansky. To begin, let us consider in more detail why free will theorists often think that giving up the belief in moral responsibility implies giving up all our beliefs about desert. Raleigh and rosse essay Video game bar business plan An introduction to the history of housing in pompeii How to write a good essay for graduate school A christmas carol act 1 Rhina espaillat bilingual bilingue analysis An overview of the education for the movie industry job The effects treatment and ways of prevention of the alzheimers disease Help with ged essay writing John stuart mills and the freedom of speech	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0000.json.gz/line1619

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