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Gold Price Vs. Stock Market: 2022 Edition
Since the start of 2022, the stock market has been on a wild ride, while gold was close to hitting a new record high in March. Which has performed better so far? We guess you already know.🙃
Almost half the year has passed in a flash, meaning it's time for a mid-year review of stocks and gold. 🤓
In this SPOTLIGHT, we will see how gold has performed so far compared with the biggest U.S. and European stock indexes.
But first, let's look at the major events that have been driving the stock and gold markets over the past months.
What has been happening in the stock market?
U.S. stocks have been thrown headfirst into turbulence right at the beginning of 2022.🌊
In January, the S&P 500 fell 3.6%, which was its worst first month of the year since 2009, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq was down 9.49%, marking its worst month since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
This dramatic market drop was largely driven by the Fed's plans to raise interest rates in response to soaring inflation.
Why the stock market is so turbulent?
Reason #1: Runaway inflation and rate hikes
As you know, the U.S. central bank has promised to hike interest rates this year to tame soaring inflation, which has hit its highest level in 40 years.
This idea has spooked stock investors, partly because higher rates could hurt company profits and make stocks appear less attractive than other investments.
To make things worse, February brought a new unpleasant surprise:
global stock markets sank following Russia's invasion of Ukraine on February 24th, bringing no relief to frustrated investors:
In London, the FTSE 100 dropped 3.8% in one day, while the French CAC also fell 3.8%, the DAX was 4% lower in Germany, and the pan-European EUROSTOXX 50 fell 5.08%.
Reason #2: Russia's war in Ukraine
The war in Ukraine has brought new uncertainty to a stock market that already had a rocky start this year.
Russia's invasion has caused a supply shock that has helped drive up oil prices, while also sparking concerns about Europe's economy.
In April, the U.S. stock market fell even deeper into the red, as Nasdaq tumbled 13.3%, marking its worst monthly performance since 2008, while the S&P 500 fell 8.8%.
How is the stock market doing today?
From the looks of it, not very well.
Last week, the S&P 500 fell into a bear market, dropping more than 20% from its record high.
To add to the pressure, the Nasdaq went down more than 27%, recording its longest weekly losing streak since 1923, while the Dow Jones fell 1,100 points for its biggest decline since 2020.
A bear market occurs when market prices fall by more than 20%, often due to negative investor sentiment and a worsening economic outlook.
And in case you need a better visual illustration of the recent bear market, watch this great video showing the market meltdown that happened on the S&P500 on May 18:
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When will the stock market recover?
Unfortunately, the situation is unlikely to change until there's enough economic data to prove that inflation has slowed down.
Here's how Liz Young, head of investment strategy at SoFi, explains it: "I don't think we're at quite peak freakout yet. It might not be enough just to cross over into bear territory."
All of this is making investors nervous about continued losses and the growing possibility of a recession.
Moreover, the ongoing war in Ukraine has lowered investors' risk appetite, leading to many people selling riskier investments and turning to safe-haven assets like gold and precious metals.
What has happened to gold over the past months?
Like stocks, the gold market has lately been driven by 3 key factors:
Soaring inflation
Central banks raising interest rates
But under such circumstances, contrary to stocks, the gold price went up, playing its part as a safe haven and a hedge against risks:
In February, the gold price was mostly surging on inflation and geopolitical concerns.
Days before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the spot gold price hit $1,912 per ounce, rising from its $1,800 range of the beginning of February.
And it didn't stop there.
In March, gold climbed further to $2,043 per ounce, close to its all-time high, showing a rise of 13.5% from the start of the year.
But why did the gold price increase so much?
Well, this impressive price increase was mostly triggered by the growing interest from investors around the world: since the start of the war in Ukraine, many gold dealers have seen their sales going through the roof, doubling their usual levels.
Then why did the gold price went down in April, you may ask?
The short answer to this question is that the Fed started raising interest rates in March, while also signaling a faster pace of rate hikes in the coming months and boosting the U.S. dollar.
This was one of the reasons why the gold price slipped to a more than two-month low at the end of April.
The relationship between gold and the U.S. dollar
Historically, the price of gold tends to fall when the dollar's value increases relative to other currencies.
What are the prospects for the gold price for the rest of the year?
Here's what analysts at Heraeus wrote in their recent gold price outlook:
"Now the trajectory of interest rates appears set for the next few months; if inflation continues to be high keeping the Fed behind the curve, gold could resume its rally."
And it looks like gold may be heading for a significant breakout this year, or at least that's what Bloomberg Intelligence senior commodity strategist Mike McGlone says:
"Gold is near a bottom and on the cusp of a pretty significant breakout — when it gets above $2,000 an ounce and never looks back. One day, we're going to wake up, and gold is going to pop above $2,000 an ounce, which is resistance that will be converted into support, and never look back."
So, is gold outperforming major stock indexes in 2022?
So, now that you know what has happened in the stock and gold markets so far…
You probably can already guess which has done better?😉
Take a look at a quick summary of gold's performance versus the major stock indexes between January and April.
💡 To get the most accurate results, we excluded the latest stock market drop from our calculation, counting in only the 4full months of 2022.
GOLD +3.75%
DAX (DE) -12.99%
SMI (CH) -7.24%
CAC 40 (FR) -10.97%
FTSE 100 (UK) +0.75%
DOW (US) -9.63%
EUROSTOXX 50 (EU) -13.84%
A table comparing the performance of the gold price with the major U.S. and European stock indexes between January and April 2022.
As you can see, gold outdid almost all major stock indexes, except for the U.K.'s FTSE 100, which has increased 0.75% between January and April.
EUROSTOXX 50, a stock index of Eurozone stocks, has suffered the biggest loss of 13.84%, followed by Germany's DAX, France's CAC 40, and U.S. Dow Jones. The Swiss Market Index outperformed other indices with a 7.24% loss.
So what's the bottom line?
Overall, volatility in the stock market can be a powerful reminder of two things:
Why it matters to have a solid emergency fund: before you even start investing, set aside some money in your rainy day fund, and keep it separately from the money you are planning to invest.
Why it's important to have a well-diversified investment portfolio: one way to avoid steep losses from your riskier investments is to spread your money around and back it up with historically more stable investments like physical gold and precious metals.
If you are a beginner investor and unsure where to start, read our SPOTLIGHT to learn how to start investing in 2022.
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In the era of wall-to-wall dating apps, can you still find love offline?
Every couple of months I'll be inspired by an unattached friend who is joyfully dating with the help of an algorithm or a starry-eyed couple who met via the swipe of a thumb, and decide to give online dating another chance.
I'll download the suggested app, create a profile, ask friends for advice on the pictures, and begin swiping. There will be matches, charming conversations, there might even be some dates or a season-long romance.
Tina Roth Eisenberg: "People are lonely and are so happy when someone takes charge and gets humans together." Credit:Getty Images
More often, however, the online dating lull will set in just as it begins to feel like a game rather than a legitimate way to meet people. Conversations unexpectedly fizzle, sparks don't translate in person, dates are cancelled, matches are neglected like a forgotten Tamagotchi.
Disenchanted, I'll delete the app and decide to leave dating up to fate. A few months later, when the optimism around meeting people serendipitously begins to diminish, I'll have an excited conversation with a friend about online dating and thus perpetuate the cycle of deleting, downloading, deleting and downloading.
I'm not alone in oscillating between optimism and being over it when it comes to online dating. In the case of heterosexual couples, a study conducted at Stanford University in the US found that in the last 10 years, online dating apps have displaced the roles of family and friends in bringing people together.
Just as many of us bypass travel agents and now book our own flights online, the rise of online dating has allowed single people to meet romantic partners without the intermediation of others.
Also, many of us know couples who met online, which helps in reducing any stigma. The ever-increasing number of users has also created a larger dating pool, allowing us to get outside the bubble in which we might be and meet people we'd otherwise never encounter.
But many singles still feel disenchanted by dating apps and the impact they've had on other avenues
of meeting people – you're damned if you do, damned if you don't.
For those who wish to meet someone but feel disheartened by online dating and don't enjoy approaching stranger cold, tapping into networks of friends, close and not-so-close, could put love back in the air. But how do you do it?
A web of love
Despite being the founder of online network CreativeMornings, Tina Roth Eisenberg is an in-real-life enthusiast determined to help reverse the decline in meeting romantic partners through friends.
"When I was still married, I realised I was so busy being married and coupled that I didn't pay attention to who was single in my circle of friends," says Tina. "Now that I see just how hard it is to meet someone, I wish I'd helped my single friends by making more introductions."
Now Tina aims to bring circles of friend together, tapping into what Tina calls the "web of love".
"When you introduce two people you have deep admiration and respect for, they instantly connect on a heart level," she says. "It's what's missing from the dating apps, where it takes so much emotional work to figure out if you can trust this person to begin with."
Indeed, the Stanford University study reports that a vetting system is one benefit of meeting via friends of friends, and has been shown to enhance relationship quality and duration. From weddings to summer picnics, there is a multitude of gatherings from which a web of love can grow, but what they often lack is a steady supply of new attendees.
Writer Lorelei Vashti met her partner and father of her two children at a party she and her best friend set up for single pals and themselves.
We knew so many wonderful single women who wanted to meet someone and we could easily find 20 without blinking," says Lorelei. "But we didn't know the same number of men.
"We had a theory that everyone knows an amazing single guy – it could be a friend, could be a brother, a colleague, or even an ex. So we also invited 20 couples who were each responsible for bringing a single man."
While this particular model was geared towards heterosexual singles, having a high ratio of couples to singles also meant there was less pressure and awkwardness than at a singles-only party.
"It took the edge off meeting someone, and also meant that everyone attending knew at least
one person," says Lorelei. "We also held it on the night before New Year's Eve so that everyone
was bringing a hopeful energy."
Tina is also in favour of the secret-single model. For the last few months she has been asking friends for the name, email address and a short bio of a single friend they love, adding them to an ever-growing secret list of wonderful singles.
Working with two collaborators, Tina then invites a selection of the singles to small gatherings called Stoop Stories, where everyone is asked to relate an anecdote about their best or worst date.
"We've had one so far and it was an absolutely delightful event," says Tina. "We are not labelling them as singles events, we just tell guests in the beginning that we all have one thing in common and they'll figure out by the end of the night what that is."
Tina's advice to others wanting to throw a secret-singles event is not to over-think it. "Start the community you want to be part of," she says. "Invite a few people in. Keep it light. Keep it simple. People are lonely and are so happy when someone takes charge and gets humans together."
Be the connector
Being a good matchmaker isn't so much about playing Cupid and calculating compatibilities as it is about enhancing opportunities for your friends to meet new friends.
After several years of being in a couple, Lorelei decided to reignite her passion for pairing up people
and started collecting contacts to introduce by email, but soon found the process unpredictable.
"I have learnt that you can't just put two single people together," she says. "It is more of a subtle
art than a science, which makes it difficult. Much of the time, people don't really know what they want.
Nor can you make assumptions about someone's 'type'." Case in point is Frances Tuck, who met her husband through friends of friends at a wedding. Their relationship came as a surprise to people who knew them both.
"We have a 14-year age gap and at the time lived in different states," she says. "I think our mutual friends really didn't see it coming, and it was a great lesson for me as a keen matchmaker for my friends – it's impossible to know what another person will find attractive or off-putting."
Frances recalls how isolating being the only single person in a group of friends can be, and now makes an special effort to make introductions and get people together. "I have a bunch of magnificent single friends and I'm keeping an eye out for them – I literally ask most guys I meet who seem lovely and aren't wearing a wedding ring if they're single."
Frances is especially conscious of how stressed, tired and time-poor people are, and how that can make it difficult to meet someone. "It's important to be aware and invested in the happiness of those we love," she says. "I can distinctly remember what it was like to be single and how hard it was, so I want to be the friend I really needed back then."
Whether it's a singles party or matchmaking, whether you're single, looking or coupled, the key is about being alive to connection.
"Perhaps the most magical part of our secret-singles party was all the friendship connections that popped up the next day on Facebook as people extended their circle of familiarity," recalls Lorelei.
Even if you don't meet "the one" at a party, tapping into your web of love enhances wellbeing by creating more of what sociologist Mark Granovetter calls "weak ties." These are low-stakes relationships, the kind of connections that have been shown to enhance job prospects, create a sense of belonging and make our daily lives brighter.
We might easily dismiss brief interactions with our barista or brush off a pleasant conversation with someone who isn't our type because we are fixated on finding "the one". But it's these everyday connections that contribute to our happiness and broaden our possibilities of meeting new people.
And isn't that what we are looking for? Coupled or single, we are all searching for something beyond the screen, something that widens our circle and makes novelty worth celebrating – not deleting.
This article appears in Sunday Life magazine within the Sun-Herald and the Sunday Age on sale December 8.
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Rohingya Hindu refugees in Bangladesh want to return to Myanmar: US daily
Thursday - January 10, 2019 9:00 am , Category : WORLD
Los Angeles, Jan 10 (IANS) Rohingya Hindus who sought refuge in Bangladesh want to return to Myanmar but were not being allowed by Bangladesh officials, according to the Los Angeles Times.
In a report from the Kutupalong Refugee Camp in Bangladesh, the newspaper said on Wednesday that 105 Hindu families were ready to leave when a deal was made by the UN last May for refugees to return home to Rakhine state in Myanmar.
But they are stranded in Bangladesh because their return home was canceled when the UN decided it was not safe for refugees to go back to Myanmar, Hindu refugees were quoted as telling the newspaper.
The 400 Hindu refugees in Bangladesh are segregated and housed in a separate facility called Hindu Camp, which is under round-the-clock securit.
Hindu and Muslim refugees in Bangladesh live in a state mutual animosity.
The Los Angeles Times said that Hindu families have appealed to the Indian government for help, but have so far received only humanitarian aid.
"India is a land for all Hindus. Mr. (Narendra) Modi (Prime Minister) is a Hindu. Why is he not helping us?" the newspaper quoted Shishu Sheel, a 32-year-old leader in the refugee camp for Hindus, as saying.
The Hindus were victims of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), a Muslim organisation led by the Pakistan-born Ataullah abu Ammar Jununi, and fled to Bangladesh as it was the only escape available to them, the newspaper said.
Unlike the more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees, the Hindus have Myanmar citizenship, the newspaper said.
The newspaper said that the Bangladesh's Refugee, Relief and Repatriation Commission has ruled out repatriating only the Hindus, and not the Muslims, whose return the UN has determined was unsafe.
"We treat all refugees the same way and will not be prioritising repatriation of the Hindu refugees over Rohingya Muslims," Shamimul Huq Pavel, the commission official who oversees a separate camp for Hindu, told the Los Angeles Times.
The exodus of the Rohingya to Bangladesh began in August 2017 when the ARSA attacked security posts in Myanmar and the security forces and vigilantes retaliated killing hundreds of Muslims and destroying their villages.
The UN has condemned the security forces' response to the ARSA attacks as disproportionate and Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called it "ethnic cleansing".
However, the Hindus were attacked by ARSA unlike the Muslim refugees who were victims of security forces and Myanmarese vigilantes, the newspaper said.
Amnesty International, that verified the the ARSA attacks, said in a report last May that 99 Hindu children, women and men had been killed.
The rights organisation said that in one incident in August 2017, 53 Hindus from Ah Nauk Kha Maung Seik village were rounded up and killed execution-style by the ARSA and later the remains of 45 victims were found in mass graves.
In neighbouring Ye Bauk Kyar village, 46 Hindus disappeared and the community believe that they were killed by ARSA, Amnesty said.
Tirana Hassan, Crisis Response Director at Amnesty International, said: "It's hard to ignore the sheer brutality of ARSA's actions, which have left an indelible impression on the survivors we've spoken to. Accountability for these atrocities is every bit as crucial as it is for the crimes against humanity carried out by Myanmar's security forces in Rakhine."
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by Andrew P. Napolitano – The Washington Times
For two months now, most of America has endured a government-imposed lockdown. I hate to use that word — lockdown — as it connotes locking prisoners into their cells during prison disturbances. But it is the word that the government itself uses when referring to its orders of confinement.
Today, we are the government's prisoners. Wear your mask. Stay at home. Don't go to work. Don't open your business. Don't go to church. And, for heaven's sake, don't gather in any group larger than 25 — unless it is to speak words of which the government approves.
Here is the backstory.
When the United States was founded, the folks who framed the new government shared many political and philosophical views. Some of those views were reprehensible, unnatural and contrary to the others — most notably that the new Constitution would permit the states to enforce a system of human slavery.
That colossal error brought us 75 more years of human degradation, a horrific war, the military occupation of the southern states, Jim Crow, lynching, the advent of the KKK, official segregation and the denigration of blacks by much of the government even today.
When the pre-Civil War Supreme Court was asked to rule on whether a slave who made it to the North could sue his former captors for permanent freedom, the court ruled that blacks were not persons, as contemplated by the U.S. Constitution, and thus did not enjoy the rights of persons that the Constitution protects.
The Dred Scott decision not only triggered the Civil War but also the abuse of blacks, which has followed to this day.
The public torture and murder of George Floyd — a 46-year-old black man — by white Minneapolis cops has crystallized the public awareness of our collective history of looking the other way when these horrors have happened.
The same Framers who were willing to compromise on slavery were unwilling to compromise on other issues. Among them were that the purpose of government is to protect rights and that no government is moral or lawful absent the consent of the governed. The latter requires that we have not only consented to the existence of the government but also to the powers that we have given it.
This theory — embraced by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence and by James Madison in the Constitution — mandates that human beings are born free, that we have natural rights integral to our humanity, that we are free to surrender a small part of those rights to a government, that the purpose of the government is to protect the rights we have not surrendered, that the government (today) must be colorblind and that the government only has the powers that we have surrendered to it.
Stated differently, if we, as free people, did not consent to giving certain powers to the government — like the powers state governors have exercised to lock us down or the police exercised to murder Floyd — the government, quite simply, lacks those powers and should be removed from office by an angry citizenry when it tries to exercise them.
The stated purpose of the lockdown is to shield us from infection. But this raises very serious questions about our relationship to government. We never authorized the government to shield us from infection. We never authorized it to lock us down. We never authorized the police to enforce anything other than legislatively enacted statutes. We never authorized the police to murder confined prisoners.
Here in New Jersey, the police are handing out summonses that look like parking tickets. In the place where they are supposed to write the statute that the recipient has allegedly violated, they have written "Violation of Governor's Executive Order …" This is madness. Crimes consist only of behavior properly condemned in writing by a popularly elected representative body. It is not a crime to refuse to comply with the paternalistic wishes of one person.
If the governor of New Jersey can haul you into court for violating his executive orders, can he be hauled into court for violating our basic liberties — which are guaranteed by the Bill of Rights he swore to protect?
When the Black Lives Matter movement manifested its disgust with government failures to restrain the police, huge gatherings of people defied lockdown orders of governors. Most were peaceful. Most were the quintessential exercise of the freedom to travel, to assemble and to tell the government what you think of it.
To paraphrase the poet William Makepeace Thackeray, folks were shaking their fists in the tyrant's face. A small number of people got arrested for violence, but no one got arrested for violating a gubernatorial lockdown order.
When New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy was asked why he violated his own lockdown orders by personally marching in one of those large peaceful assemblies while his police were issuing summonses for participation in other assemblies, he observed that racism is more troubling than closed nail salons. Good for him.
But he cannot use the power of government to support assembly, travel and speech with which he agrees and punish that with which he disagrees. That's why we have a Constitution.
What a gross misunderstanding of the American ethos he has. He will bar your work. He will permit you to shop for a car but not for a book. You can walk with your family down an aisle at Walmart but not up to an altar to receive Holy Communion.
George Floyd died because the government itself put a knee on his neck. In New Jersey, the governor — without the consent of the governed and thus without any lawful authority — has his knee on the state's neck, choking the air and lifeblood out of those yearning to be free.
How much longer will free people accept this?
• Andrew P. Napolitano, a former judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, is a regular contributor to The Washington Times. He is the author of nine books on the U.S. Constitution.
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I look ridiculously awkward in these photos as a result of standing with my legs apart - I don't even know why, but I do know that I looked very pink today ! I love how the pink collar on this heart print dress gives every outfit it's worn with a slight preppy vibe. Tights have also recently been replaced with knee high socks after deciding to ignore whether they look awful or not on my legs ! I also kept up the whole "yay lettuce be colourful" (you better understand the pun.) scheme and wore my rainbow owl necklace who is always watching everyone.
Also, Nominations for the Company #StyleBloggerAwards are open and it would mean the world to me if you could nominate 'Dainty Sprinkles' for 'Best Teen Style Blogger'. Thank you so much to the people who've nominated Dainty Sprinkles so far - I really appreciate it ! Click on the link here to nominate your favourite blogs.
Today I went to see Divergent with Aveen and it was brilliant just amazing ! The film ending is apparently different to the book ending which is suppose to be better so I'm definitely going to read all books. It was so amazing and I ship #fourtriss and seeing as its one of the few fictional characters I ship (I usually ship real life people hahaha awkward no.) I ship it like crazy. I also loved the music in the film - It was so upbeat and Ellie Goulding's voice is flawless.
My music practical went reasonably ok on Tuesday except for the fact I went off key several times as a result of being extremely nervous but on the positive side, I got off three and a half classes and for the first time ever I didn't mess up on the clap back. I've no funny awkward stories from this week that I can tell although I never told you's about last Thursday when I decided to become a car driving by the P.E lockers and when myself and my friends got to Area One, I "indicated right" and knocked into six very tall people and the wall. I'm pretty sure I knock into everyone I don't want to knock into on the way down corridors on a daily basis and I walk on the correct side you're suppose to walk on. Lots of laughter yay.
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As consequências da Peste Negra tiveram efeitos imediatos e de longo prazo na população humana em todo o mundo. Estas incluem uma série de convulsões biológicas, sociais, econômicas, políticas e religiosas que tiveram profundos efeitos no curso da história mundial, especialmente na História da Europa. Muitas vezes referida simplesmente como "A Peste", a Peste Negra foi uma das pandemias mais devastadoras da História, com seu pico na Europa entre 1348 e 1350, com cerca de um terço da população do continente sucumbindo à doença. Os historiadores estimam que reduziu a população mundial total de 475 milhões para entre 350 e 375 milhões. Na maior parte da Europa, demorou quase 80 anos para que o tamanho da população se recuperasse e, em algumas áreas, mais de 150 anos.

Do ponto de vista de muitos dos sobreviventes, o efeito da praga pode ter sido favorável, já que a redução maciça da força de trabalho significou que sua mão-de-obra ficou repentinamente em maior demanda. RH Hilton argumentou que os camponeses ingleses que sobreviveram descobriram que sua situação melhorou muito. Para muitos europeus, o século XV foi uma época de ouro de prosperidade e novas oportunidades. A terra era abundante, os salários altos e a servidão havia praticamente desaparecido. Um século depois, com a retomada do crescimento populacional, as classes mais baixas voltaram a enfrentar a privação e a fome.

Número de mortos
Veja também: Demografia medieval

Os números do número de mortos variam amplamente de acordo com a área e de fonte para fonte e as estimativas são freqüentemente revisadas à medida que pesquisas históricas trazem novas descobertas à luz. A maioria dos estudiosos estima que a Peste Negra matou até 75 milhões de pessoas  in the 14th century, at a time when the entire world population was still less than 500 million.no século XIV, numa época em que a população mundial ainda era inferior a 500 milhões. Mesmo onde o registro histórico é considerado confiável, apenas estimativas grosseiras do número total de mortes pela peste são possíveis.

Europa
A Europa sofreu um número de mortos especialmente significativo devido à peste. As estimativas modernas variam entre cerca de um terço e metade da população europeia total no período de cinco anos de 1347 a 1351 morreu, durante o qual as áreas mais severamente afetadas podem ter perdido até 80 por cento da população. O cronista contemporâneo Jean Froissart, incidentalmente, estimou o número de vítimas em um terço, o que os estudiosos modernos consideram uma avaliação menos precisa do que uma alusão ao Livro do Apocalipse para sugerir o escopo da praga. Mortes não foram distribuídas uniformemente pela Europa, com algumas áreas afetadas muito pouco enquanto outras foram totalmente despovoadas.

A Peste Negra atingiu a cultura de vilas e cidades de forma desproporcional, embora as áreas rurais (onde vivia a maior parte da população na época) também tenham sido afetadas de forma significativa. As cidades maiores estavam em pior situação, já que a densidade populacional e os bairros próximos tornaram a transmissão de doenças mais fácil. As cidades também eram incrivelmente sujas, infestadas de piolhos, pulgas e ratos, e sujeitas a doenças causadas por desnutrição e falta de higiene. A população de Florença foi reduzida de 110.000-120.000 habitantes em 1338 para 50.000 em 1351. Entre 60 e 70 por cento das populações de Hamburgo e Bremen morreram. Na Provença, Dauphiné e da Normandia, os historiadores observam uma diminuição de 60% das lareiras fiscais. Em algumas regiões, dois terços da população foram aniquilados. Na cidade de Givry, na região francesa de Borgonha, o frade local, que costumava registrar de 28 a 29 funerais por ano, registrou 649 mortes em 1348, metade delas em setembro. Cerca de metade da população de Perpignan morreu ao longo de vários meses (apenas dois dos oito médicos sobreviveram à peste). Mais de 60 por cento da população da Noruega morreu entre 1348 e 1350.  Londres pode ter perdido dois terços de sua população durante o surto de 1348-49. A Inglaterra como um todo pode ter perdido 70 por cento de sua população, que diminuiu de 7 milhões antes da peste para 2 milhões em 1400.

Alguns lugares, incluindo o Reino da Polônia, partes da Hungria, a região de Brabant, Hainaut e Limbourg (na Bélgica moderna), bem como Santiago de Compostela, não foram afetados por razões desconhecidas. Alguns historiadores presumiram que a presença de grupos sanguíneos resistentes na população local os ajudou a resistir à infecção, embora essas regiões tenham sido afetadas pelo segundo surto de peste em 1360-63 (a "pequena mortalidade") e, posteriormente, durante os numerosos ressurgimentos da peste (em 1366-69, 1374-75, 1400, 1407, etc.). Outras áreas que escaparam da peste foram isoladas em regiões montanhosas (por exemplo, os Pirenéus).

Todas as classes sociais foram afetadas, embora as classes mais baixas, vivendo juntas em lugares insalubres, fossem as mais vulneráveis. Alfonso XI de Castela e Joana de Navarra (filha de Luís X le Hutin e Margarida da Borgonha) foram os únicos monarcas europeus a morrer da peste, mas Pedro IV de Aragão perdeu sua esposa, filha e uma sobrinha em seis meses. Joana da Inglaterra, filha de Eduardo III, morreu em Bordéus a caminho de Castela para se casar com o filho de Alfonso, Pedro. O imperador bizantino perdeu seu filho, enquanto no Reino da França, Bonne de Luxemburgo, esposa do futuro João II da França, morreu de peste.

Ásia
As estimativas do efeito demográfico da peste na Ásia são baseadas em dados populacionais durante esse tempo e estimativas do número de vítimas da doença nos centros populacionais. O surto de peste mais grave, na província chinesa de Hubei, em 1334, atingiu 80% da população. A China teve várias epidemias e fomes de 1200 a 1350 e sua população diminuiu de cerca de 125 milhões para 65 milhões no final do século XIV.

O efeito demográfico preciso da doença no Oriente Médio é muito difícil de calcular. A mortalidade foi particularmente alta nas áreas rurais, incluindo áreas significativas de Gaza e Síria. Muitos habitantes rurais fugiram, deixando seus campos e plantações, e províncias rurais inteiras foram registradas como totalmente despovoadas. Os registros de sobrevivência em algumas cidades revelam um número devastador de mortes. O surto de 1348 em Gaza deixou cerca de 10.000 mortos, enquanto Aleppo registrou uma taxa de mortalidade de 500 por dia durante o mesmo ano. Em damasco, no pico da doença em setembro e outubro de 1348, mil mortes foram registradas todos os dias, com mortalidade geral estimada entre 25 e 38 por cento. A Síria perdeu um total de 400.000 pessoas quando a epidemia diminuiu em março de 1349. Em contraste com algumas estimativas de mortalidade mais altas na Ásia e na Europa, estudiosos como John Fields do Trinity College em Dublin acreditam que a taxa de mortalidade no Oriente Médio era inferior a um terço da população total, com taxas mais altas em áreas selecionadas.

Efeitos sociais, ambientais e econômicos
Como os curandeiros do século XIV não conseguiam explicar a causa da Peste Negra, muitos europeus atribuíram forças sobrenaturais, terremotos e conspirações maliciosas, entre outras coisas, como possíveis razões para o surgimento da peste. Ninguém no século XIV considerava o controle de ratos uma forma de evitar a praga, e as pessoas começaram a acreditar que somente a ira de Deus poderia produzir tais demonstrações horríveis de sofrimento e morte. Giovanni Boccaccio, escritor e poeta italiano da época, questionou se foi enviado por Deus para sua correção, ou se veio por influência dos corpos celestes. Os cristãos acusaram os judeus de envenenar o abastecimento público de água em uma tentativa de arruinar a civilização europeia. A disseminação deste boato levou à destruição completa de cidades judaicas inteiras. Em fevereiro de 1349, 2000 judeus foram assassinados em Estrasburgo. Em agosto do mesmo ano, as comunidades judaicas de Mainz e Colônia foram assassinadas.

No que diz respeito às autoridades governamentais, a maioria dos monarcas instituiu medidas que proibiam as exportações de alimentos, condenavam os especuladores do mercado negro, definiam o controle dos preços dos grãos e proibiam a pesca em grande escala. Na melhor das hipóteses, eles se provaram praticamente inexequíveis. Na pior das hipóteses, eles contribuíram para uma espiral descendente em todo o continente. As terras mais atingidas, como a Inglaterra, não conseguiram comprar grãos da França no exterior por causa da proibição e da maioria dos demais produtores de grãos por causa de quebras de safra por falta de mão de obra. Qualquer grão que pudesse ser embarcado acabou sendo levado por piratas ou saqueadores para serem vendidos no mercado negro. Enquanto isso, muitos dos maiores países, principalmente a Inglaterra e a Escócia, estavam em guerra, gastando muito de seu tesouro e exacerbando a inflação . Em 1337, na véspera da primeira onda da Peste Negra, a Inglaterra e a França entraram em guerra no que viria a ser conhecida como Guerra dos Cem Anos. A desnutrição, a pobreza, as doenças e a fome, juntamente com a guerra, a inflação crescente e outras preocupações econômicas, tornaram a Europa em meados do século XIV madura para a tragédia.

A Europa estava superpovoada antes da peste, e uma redução de 30 a 50 por cento da população poderia ter resultado em salários mais altos e mais terras e alimentos disponíveis para os camponeses, devido à menor competição por recursos. O historiador Walter Scheidel afirma que as ondas de peste após a eclosão inicial da Peste Negra tiveram um efeito nivelador que mudou a proporção da terra para o trabalho, reduzindo o valor da primeira e ao mesmo tempo aumentando o da segunda, o que reduziu a desigualdade econômica tornando os proprietários de terras e empregadores menos abastados, ao mesmo tempo que melhora a situação dos trabalhadores. Ele afirma que "a melhoria observada nos padrões de vida da população trabalhadora estava enraizada no sofrimento e na morte prematura de dezenas de milhões ao longo de várias gerações". Esse efeito nivelador foi revertido por uma "recuperação demográfica que resultou em uma nova pressão da população". Por outro lado, no quarto de século após a Peste Negra, é claro que na Inglaterra muitos trabalhadores, artesãos e artistas, aqueles que viviam apenas de salários em dinheiro, sofreram uma redução na renda real devido à inflação galopante. Em 1357, um terço das propriedades em Londres não foram utilizadas devido a um grave surto em 1348-1349. No entanto, por razões que ainda são debatidas, os níveis populacionais diminuíram após o primeiro surto da Peste Negra até por volta de 1420 e não começaram a subir novamente até 1470, então o evento inicial da Peste Negra por si só não fornece uma explicação inteiramente satisfatória para esta extensão período de declínio da prosperidade.

Efeito no campesinato
A grande perda de população trouxe resultados favoráveis aos camponeses sobreviventes na Inglaterra e na Europa Ocidental. Houve um aumento da mobilidade social, à medida que o despovoamento corroeu ainda mais as obrigações já enfraquecidas dos camponeses de permanecer em suas propriedades tradicionais. O senhorialismo nunca se recuperou. A terra era abundante, os salários altos e a servidão havia praticamente desaparecido. Era possível mover-se e subir mais alto na vida. Filhos e mulheres mais jovens se beneficiaram especialmente. Com a retomada do crescimento populacional, os camponeses novamente enfrentaram privação e fome.

Na Europa Oriental, em contraste, o renovado rigor das leis amarrou a população camponesa restante com mais força à terra do que nunca por meio da servidão.

Além disso, a grande redução da população da praga trouxe preços de terra mais baratos, mais alimentos para o camponês médio e um aumento relativamente grande na renda per capita do campesinato, se não imediatamente, no século seguinte. Desde que a praga deixou vastas áreas de terras agrícolas sem cuidados, foram disponibilizados para pasto e colocaram mais carne no mercado; o consumo de carne e produtos lácteos aumentou, assim como a exportação de carne e manteiga dos Países Baixos, Escandinávia e norte da Alemanha. No entanto, a classe alta frequentemente tentou impedir essas mudanças, inicialmente na Europa Ocidental, e com mais força e sucesso na Europa Oriental, instituindo leis suntuárias. Estes regulavam o que as pessoas (particularmente da classe camponesa) podiam vestir, de modo que os nobres podiam garantir que os camponeses não começassem a se vestir e agir como um membro da classe superior com sua riqueza aumentada. Outra tática era fixar preços e salários de forma que os camponeses não pudessem exigir mais com o aumento do valor. Na Inglaterra, o Estatuto dos Trabalhadores de 1351 foi aplicado, o que significa que nenhum camponês poderia pedir mais salários do que em 1346. Isso teve sucesso variável dependendo da quantidade de rebelião que inspirou; tal lei foi uma das causas da Revolta dos Camponeses de 1381 na Inglaterra .

O rápido desenvolvimento do uso foi provavelmente uma das consequências da Peste Negra, durante a qual muitos nobres latifundiários morreram, deixando sua propriedade para suas viúvas e menores órfãos.

Efeito nos trabalhadores urbanos
Na esteira do declínio populacional drástico provocado pela praga, os salários dispararam e os trabalhadores puderam se mudar para novas localidades em resposta às ofertas salariais. Autoridades locais e reais na Europa Ocidental instituíram controles de salários. Esses controles governamentais buscavam congelar os salários nos níveis anteriores antes da Peste Negra. Na Inglaterra, por exemplo, a Ordenança dos Trabalhadores, promulgada em 1349, e o Estatuto dos Trabalhadores, promulgado em 1351, restringiam os aumentos salariais e a relocação dos trabalhadores. Se os trabalhadores tentassem deixar seu cargo atual, os empregadores tinham o direito de mandá-los para a prisão. O Estatuto foi mal aplicado na maioria das áreas e os salários agrícolas na Inglaterra, em média, dobraram entre 1350 e 1450, embora tenham permanecido estáticos depois disso até o final do século XIX.

Cohn, comparando vários países, argumenta que essas leis não foram projetadas principalmente para congelar salários. Em vez disso, ele diz que as medidas locais e reais enérgicas para controlar os preços da mão de obra e dos artesãos foram uma resposta aos temores da elite quanto à ganância e a possíveis novos poderes das classes inferiores que ganharam nova liberdade. Cohn diz que as leis refletem a ansiedade que se seguiu aos novos horrores da Peste Negra de mortalidade e destruição em massa, e da ansiedade da elite sobre manifestações como o movimento flagelante e a perseguição de judeus, catalães (na Sicília) e mendigos.

Inovação que economiza mão de obra
Por volta de 1200, praticamente toda a bacia do Mediterrâneo e a maior parte do norte da Alemanha haviam sido desmatadas e cultivadas. Flora e fauna indígenas foram substituídas por gramíneas e animais domésticos e florestas domésticas foram perdidas. Com o despovoamento, esse processo foi revertido. Grande parte da vegetação primitiva retornou e campos e pastagens abandonadas foram reflorestadas.

A Peste Negra incentivou a inovação de tecnologias que economizam trabalho, levando a uma maior produtividade. Houve uma mudança da agricultura de grãos para a pecuária. A agricultura de grãos exigia muito trabalho, mas a criação de animais precisava apenas de um pastor, alguns cães e pastagens.

A praga trouxe um eventual fim à servidão na Europa Ocidental. O sistema senhorial já estava em apuros, mas a Peste Negra garantiu seu fim em grande parte da Europa ocidental e central por volta de 1500. O severo despovoamento e a migração da vila para as cidades causaram uma aguda escassez de trabalhadores agrícolas. Muitas aldeias foram abandonadas. Na Inglaterra, mais de 1300 aldeias foram abandonadas entre 1350 e 1500.  Os salários dos trabalhadores eram altos, mas o aumento dos salários nominais após a Peste Negra foi inundado pela inflação pós-Peste, de modo que os salários reais caíram.

A mão-de-obra era tão escassa que os Lordes foram forçados a dar melhores termos de mandato. Isso resultou em aluguéis muito mais baixos na Europa Ocidental. Em 1500, uma nova forma de posse chamada propriedade de direitos autorais tornou-se predominante na Europa. Em cópia, tanto um Senhor quanto um camponês fizeram seu melhor negócio, pelo qual o camponês obteve o uso da terra e o Senhor obteve um pagamento anual fixo e ambos possuíam uma cópia do contrato de posse. A servidão não acabou em todos os lugares. Permaneceu em partes da Europa Ocidental e foi introduzido na Europa Oriental após a Peste Negra.

Houve mudança na lei de herança. Antes da peste, apenas os filhos e principalmente o filho mais velho herdavam a propriedade ancestral. Após a praga, todos os filhos e filhas começaram a herdar propriedades.

Perseguições
Fervor religioso renovado e fanatismo surgiram na esteira da Peste Negra. Alguns europeus visaram "grupos como judeus, frades, estrangeiros, mendigos, peregrinos", leprosos e ciganos, pensando que eram eles os culpados pela crise.

As diferenças nas práticas culturais e de estilo de vida também levaram à perseguição. Quando a praga se espalhou pela Europa em meados do século XIV, aniquilando mais da metade da população, os judeus foram tomados como bodes expiatórios, em parte porque uma melhor higiene entre as comunidades judaicas e o isolamento nos guetos significava que os judeus eram menos afetados. As acusações se espalharam de que os judeus haviam causado a doença envenenando deliberadamente poços. Multidões europeias atacaram assentamentos judeus em toda a Europa; em 1351, 60 comunidades judias principais e 150 menores foram destruídas e mais de 350 massacres separados ocorreram.

De acordo com Joseph P. Byrne, as mulheres também enfrentaram perseguição durante a Peste Negra. Mulheres muçulmanas no Cairo tornaram-se bodes expiatórios quando a peste atingiu. Byrne escreve que em 1438, o sultão do Cairo foi informado por seus advogados religiosos que a chegada da praga foi a punição de Alá pelo pecado de fornicação e que, de acordo com essa teoria, uma lei foi estabelecida declarando que as mulheres não foram autorizados a fazer aparições públicas, pois podem levar os homens a pecar. Byrne descreve que essa lei só foi suspensa quando "os ricos reclamaram que suas empregadas não podiam comprar comida".

Religião
A Peste Negra atingiu os mosteiros com muita força por causa da proximidade com os enfermos que buscavam refúgio ali. Isso deixou uma grave escassez de clérigos após o ciclo epidêmico. Eventualmente, as perdas foram substituídas por membros do clero treinados às pressas e inexperientes, muitos dos quais sabiam pouco sobre os rigores de seus predecessores. Novas faculdades foram abertas em universidades estabelecidas, e o processo de treinamento se acelerou. A escassez de padres abriu novas oportunidades para as mulheres leigas assumirem funções de serviço mais extensas e importantes na paróquia local. Flagelantes praticavam auto-flagelação (chicotadas) para expiar pecados. O movimento se popularizou após a Peste Negra. Pode ser que o envolvimento posterior dos flagelantes no hedonismo tenha sido um esforço para acelerar ou absorver a ira de Deus, para encurtar o tempo com que outros sofreram. Mais provavelmente, o foco de atenção e a popularidade de sua causa contribuíram para a sensação de que o próprio mundo estava acabando e que suas ações individuais eram irrelevantes. Os reformadores raramente apontavam para falhas por parte da Igreja em lidar com a catástrofe.

Medicina
Embora a Peste Negra tenha destacado as deficiências da ciência médica na era medieval, também levou a mudanças positivas no campo da medicina. Conforme descrito por David Herlihy em A Peste Negra e a Transformação do Oeste, mais ênfase foi colocada nas "investigações anatômicas" após a Peste Negra. Como os indivíduos estudavam o corpo humano mudou notavelmente, tornando-se um processo que lida mais diretamente com o corpo humano em vários estados de doença e saúde. Além disso, nessa época, a importância dos cirurgiões tornou-se mais evidente.

Uma teoria apresentada por Stephen O'Brien diz que a Peste Negra é provavelmente responsável, por meio da seleção natural, pela alta frequência do defeito genético CCR5-Δ32 em pessoas de ascendência europeia. O gene afeta a função das células T e fornece proteção contra o HIV, a varíola e, possivelmente, a peste, embora, por último, não exista nenhuma explicação sobre como isso faria isso. Isso, no entanto, agora é questionado, visto que o gene CCR5-Δ32 foi encontrado para ser tão comum em amostras de tecido da Idade do Bronze .

Arquitetura
A Peste Negra também inspirou a arquitetura europeia a se mover em duas direções diferentes: (1) um renascimento dos estilos greco-romanos e (2) uma nova elaboração do estilo gótico. Igrejas medievais tardias tinham estruturas impressionantes centradas na verticalidade, onde o olhar se dirigia para o teto alto. O estilo gótico básico foi remodelado com decoração elaborada no final do período medieval. Escultores em cidades-estado italianas imitaram o trabalho de seus ancestrais romanos, enquanto escultores no norte da Europa, sem dúvida inspirados pela devastação que testemunharam, deram lugar a uma expressão intensificada de emoção e uma ênfase nas diferenças individuais. Um realismo duro surgiu na arquitetura como na literatura. Imagens de intensa tristeza, cadáveres em decomposição e indivíduos com defeitos e também virtudes emergiram. Ao norte dos Alpes, a pintura atingiu o auge do realismo preciso com a pintura holandesa primitiva de artistas como Jan van Eyck (c. 1390 a 1441). O mundo natural foi reproduzido nessas obras com detalhes meticulosos cujo realismo não era diferente da fotografia.

Peste Negra

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W Two Worlds Episode 9: The failed happy ending
September 21, 2016 November 8, 2016 heroonthebeach
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We're now halfway through the series! Yay! And I get more excited moving backwards because while I am a strong supporter of the series as a whole, I cannot deny that this series had a significantly stronger start than ending. Each epsiode kept me on my toes and I kept getting more and more impressed with Song Jae Jung's ambitious story telling. It was so powerful that I rewatched the first half of the series with my wife till the wee hours of the night and we both proclaimed it's the best TV drama we've ever watched. It was that impressive.
I've watched two other dramas pertaining to the interaction between two different worlds – Signal and now Queen In-hyun's Man (episode 9 by now). While both shows explore deep issues about the implications of changing the past, the amount of interaction between the two worlds in W is just one notch higher than both shows. The characters are not just participants in the other world (i.e. the comic world) but have the power to actively shape what goes on. We keep getting introduced to new rules governing the comic world, which is intriguing and fun. Plus the
Going into this episode, I was concerned it was going to be a typical slow moving transition episode where Yeon Joo pines for Kang Chul throughout. However, the characters quickly get into action in putting together a happy ending for the comic. While Yeon Joo continues to have heart breaking brief encounters with Kang Chul, Seong Moo and Soo Bong are actively writing the end of W after receiving some help from Kang Chul.
Given that Seong Moo had never meant for the villain to be caught, writing this happy ending isn't easy and Soo Bong asks how they are going to kill the killer since they had made his crimes perfect, with no plot holes. Seong Moo admits some plot holes are inevitable, but they need to ensure the face they give to the killer is logical to Kang Chul. This is where we realize Kang Chul has also helpfully provided them with the case files of all his research on the case to ensure that the killer they create does not fall within the suspects in these files. A smart move indeed! Seong Moo has already decided on the killer's face and Soo Bong gasps when he sees it.
We move back swiftly into the real estate manhwa world where Ajusshi alerts Kang Chul that they've managed to catch the killer on the rooftop through a black box camera of a delivery truck. We watch the video and realize that the fact of the killer is that of Seong Moo himself. Gasp! He claims this is the face that Kang Chul will remember and thus won't be suspicious.
The return to the revenge thriller storyline excites Crazy Dog who waxes lyrical about it to Yeon Joo. This prompts her to call Song Boo who then relates to her the planned happy ending that will happen over four episodes. The killer's identity will be revealed through the W channel and he will be promptly captured by the police. However, just getting him captured is insufficient and dad intends to kill the villain off through Assemblyman Han. Now that the villain's identity is revealed, Assemblyman Han's case against Kang Chul is void and he's asked to step out if the presidential race. Angered by this, he sends people to kill the villain and frame it as a suicide. However, one of the accomplices is caught by W station's crew and featured on the network where he reveals Assemblyman to be the mastermind. Assemblyman Han is caught and the comic gets the happy ending that everyone wants.
Of course Yeon Joo is not as interested in all these and wonders what happens to his love life. Soo Bong tells her that there will be a happy reunion between Kang Chul and Soo Hee at the end, but the story won't go so far as having them date or get married.
Yeon Joo realises that she has really just faded away completely from the Kang Chul's world and nobody will remember her. While reminiscing on their happy moments, she falls asleep but is awakened by an announcement that calls all personal to come and help. She responds to the call and we realize she's back in the comic world again and more importantly, the planning ending has not gone and planned. We learn that there has been a shooting at the W network right as they were announcing the discovery of the villain's identity. More scarily, we return to dad's studio and realize that his face has been stolen! The episode ends with the villain taunting Kang Chul and Yeon Joo staring at news of the shooting, shocked by this recent turn of events.
So much to talk about in this episode! Where do we start?
Let's start with Seong Moo since he's back in the author's seat. While the reason he gives for giving the villain his face is so that Kang Chul will believe it, part of me wonders too whether it's because he believes he can have some more control over the character given that it's modeled after himself. It could also be seen as him confronting his own dark, "killer" tendencies and trying to entrap and eradicate that side of himself. He regains control over the narrative of W too and keeps it as a revenge thriller, deciding not to pursue any possible new romantic ending for Kang Chul. By bringing the narrative back on track, he wins back a segment of his readers like Crazy Dog who are now psyched about what's going to happen and even more impressed that the writer has done a "Hitchcock" move by writing himself into the comic. This victory is shortlived though because just one episode in, he has lost control of the narrative again and now the villain goes on a killing spree at the W network and details the planned storyline. More importantly, Seong Moo has lost his face in the real world and it now seems like we only have Yeon Joo to rely on to save the day.
As for Yeon Joo, she's now the only one besides the villain who has knowledge of the two worlds and how to move between them. Kang Chul's memories of this have been erased thus rendering him ineffective. I like that the amnesia trope was not over-played in this episode and there's also a realization by Yeon Joo that her disappearance from Kang Chul's life may have benefitted him as he now returns to being the Kang Chul everyone loved before – always strong, never discouraged, everyone's hero.
However, Yeon Joo's appearance and exit in the comic book world in this episode went against what has been previously established and what happens after this episode too. It seems like she appears whenever Kang Chul briefly remembers her because he still has some recollection of the dream. However, how does she leave then? It was established that she can only leave when his emotions changed. What's more bewildering is why she appears in the hospital at the end of the episode. Who brings her in? Is it Kang Chul and why? It can't be that he needed her medical support this time round because there's a hospital full of doctors. Could it be the villain who pulls her in – but there's no real reason for that too? Another possibility is that there's a bigger force at work driving this narrative, determining who gets pulled in, where they appear and how they leave. We never quite get an answer for this.
What I thought would be logical was if Yeon Joo had realized through reading the comic that things had gone wrong, then she rushed to her dad's home and realizes he has lost his face. From that point, she then realises she needs to enter the world to save Kang Chul and set things right. However this would have been less exciting and shocking compared to what actually happened – just wish there was a little more consistency and clarity on why Yeon Joo reappeared in the comic a second time since there's no reason why dad, Kang Chul or the villain would bring her in. If anyone has any theories, do let me know.
Moving on to Kang Chul, he has decided to accept the "wretched fate" that dad has given to him but tells dad to stop running away and bring the story to a proper close instead of repeatedly trying to kill him without any context. Once again, Kang Chul helps to give dad a sense of purpose to bring the revenge thriller to a meaningful close and win him favour in the public's eyes. He devises a plan for the dad to create a convincing suspect that he can believe in, based on all the case records of W. When we piece together Kang Chul entire plan including how he saves Yeon Joo by asking her to draw everything as a dream sequence, we realize that he was really actively devising a comprehensive plan in the previous episode.
What this shows too is that Yeon Joo's decision to save Kang Chul from death was not in vain, as it helped him come to terms more with the fate that he had been given by Seong Moo. What has changed though is his motivations, which are no longer just about solving a crime but to protect and save the woman he loves. The killer needs to be identified and taken down because he now knows of Yeon Joo and will find ways and means to kill her. However the loose end that Kang Chul fails to address in his plan is that the killer knows of the existence of both worlds and has already attempted to kill Yeon Joo in the real world. This unfortunate gap is what leads to this plan for a happy ending to fail.
What I really like about this show is that it maintains a very tight core of three characters which are continually challenged and developed and their relationships give the crazy twists and turns of this series a strong emotional core.
All in all, yet another strong episode with so much happening both in terms of plot and character development. Impressive work!
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"just wish there was a little more consistency and clarity on why Yeon Joo reappeared in the comic a second time since there's no reason why dad, Kang Chul or the villain would bring her in. If anyone has any theories, do let me know."
Maybe because Kang Chul's emotion has a lot to do with the story line and how it will flow. Yeon Joo is already a part of his emotion, his soul (not just his memory, which is why Kang Chul has a tear upon awakening from the dream at the Hospital.)
Probably, his subconscious mind calls for Yeon Joo (his Heroine by his heart and soul) even he wont acknowledge it in the physical realm.


My time in London is running out fast now. Fortunately there's something interesting happening back home as well.
I listened to the original Aeroplane remix of Friendly Fires song Paris until I got already bored of it, so finding myself listening to this one over and over again was kind of surprising. Enjoy.


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Wolf Club (often stylized as W O L F C L U B) is an English electropop band from Nottingham.

History
Formed in 2014, the band consists of Steven Wilcoxson (producer, guitarist and songwriter) and Chris Paul-Martin (producer, vocalist, and songwriter). They are often joined on stage by DJ Tim Hartwell.

They released their debut album W O L F C L U B in June 2017.

In 2018, the band signed with Time Slave Recordings and released the album Chasing The Storm in June 2018. "Summer Lights" was the first single released and became number 2 in the Amazing Radio chart.

Later in 2018, the band signed with New Retro Wave Recordings, and in November 2018 released their third studio album Infinity, which was the highest selling album in the world on Bandcamp in its first week of release.

Wolf Club have been played on BBC Radio multiple times.

In 2019 the band was to play the main stage at the Y Not Festival. The band released their 4th studio album Frontiers on Friday August 2nd, which debuted at number 7 in the Billboard electronic chart. The album peaked at number 8 in the UK and number 9 in the US iTunes downloads chart respectively.

In 2020 the band released RUNAWAYS. The album reached number 2 on the electronic iTunes chart. 2 tracks from this album RUSH and REBELS were written for the number one US box office movie Infamous starring Bella Thorne and written and directed by Joshua Caldwell. The movie contained 6 tracks by Wolf Club.

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BALTIMORE -- On the field their teams may be rivals, but off the field, brothers Ma'ake and Chris Kemoeatu -- one a former Baltimore Raven, the other an ex-Pittsburgh Steeler -- are closer than close.
They share a lifelong love of football, an alma mater and now, a pair of kidneys.
Ma'ake Kemoeatu, a former nose tackle for the Ravens, donated a kidney to his brother Chris, a former offensive guard for the Steelers, at the University of Maryland Medical Center in August. The brothers are now recovering from their surgeries.
Chris Kemoeatu's football career was cut short after seven seasons with the Steelers when he learned he'd need a kidney transplant. That's when his older brother, a 99-percent kidney match, stepped in, and left the Ravens in 2012.


aiya... in our country with sun and rain anytime, anywhere wat we coat, paste, stick, wax, polish on our cars will not be a 'miracle' your previous post irked me cos obviously u have judged the products purely from hearsay. and we know everyone has a diff perference, so hearsay opinion shld only be taken like a pinch of salt. furthermore, tuff and CSII is two diff brand of products. in additional, the guys who coat it have diff skills. personally, i have not seen tuff PPS before so i cannot comment how they really fare. i had a good fren, lady Vios driver, white ride, who uses PPS. dunno wat brand tho. one year from now, the car is still sparkling white so white that her solar flim looks too dark a tone! pardon me if my earlier sound strong. but all i meant was that we shld judge for ourselves wat each product can or cannot do. and if it suit our needs and want for our cars.
Hi WEIXIANG_06, hmm.. So far they are not so irate to me lah, they are juz trying to clear doubts, juz need to explain to them what is happening and most important someone must be there to solve their problem and needs. For Toughseal, we do not know how they works, guess those doing with Toughseal should go back to them and check it up with them within the warranty period. That is what the warranty for. (But of course dun take for granted that PPS done, dun have to maintain still will get the shine lah) Perhaps, they should have some instruction to follow to maintain the car, guess should check with the boss on their maintenance part. Over at my side, The maintenance with the preservation is DIY, you do not have to come to me if needed, eg. a black color car will most likely come to me 6 months later to clean away those cobweb mark or fine scratches which lie on the surface of my sealant (Cobweb create by car wash)and there is a charges of $50 for the process. With the continuous use of the Preservation, it will build up a tough, non chip elastic finish. As you are aware that Singapore weather is either sunny or rain.Paint Protection is to maintain your car much easily,prolong the penetration from acidic stain within certain period and prevent from light scratches.
Thanks sherine. This is exactly how my car looked like after CSII PPS, even though my car is 20 months old. They really got good service and spend so many hours on your car that the price doesnt seem to justify the result you get. CSII, must try lah.


Last July I began a whole new health and fitness journey (which you can read about here) and in October I began running. Now I've found that I actually like running and tend to go out around three times a week. Here I'd thought I'd share with you the ten thoughts that tend to circle my mind each time I head out the door.
1) Come on, you can do this. This is going to be great.
2) Wow, I must've been running for ages now, surely I'm nearly finished. Wait, it's only been 3 minutes?
3) *Going downhill* Wow, this is quite easy actually, yeah this is fun, I can run for miles.
4) *Going uphill* Oh fresh hell what is this? How does anyone do this?
5) Just think of how toned your bum will be at the end. Yes all the flab will be gone and you'll be left looking like Kim K. Think of the booty Laura.
7) You're still going faster than everyone sitting on the sofa. Oh the sofa, how I wish I was there, with cake, watching Friends. Run faster Laura, your sofa needs you.
8) I'm nearly finished, yes! So close, maybe I should speed up a bit.
9) Wow, where has all this energy come from? I may as well try and go a bit farther.
10) PB, yes! I love running! I can do anything. I am SuperWoman.
Running isn't the way to get a bootie ;) Try squats and deadlifts, plus they'll make you a stronger runner.


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Home > Delhi > College girl gang-raped near Ggn, one arrested
College girl gang-raped near Ggn, one arrested
MPost18 Jan 2018 6:20 PM GMT
Gurugram: The vulnerability of women in and around Gurugram was again witnessed after a student of BA second year was abducted and gang raped by two men.
Police said the incident occurred in Farrukhnagar on January 15.
According to Inspector Karan Singh, the Station House Officer of Farrukhnagar police station, the rape survivor, who belonged to Kandewala village, was being stalked regularly by the perpetrators who used to live in an adjoining village.
On Monday, after coming to know that she was going to the college they followed her and then forcibly dragged her into the car and took turns to rape her.
They later left her in the desolate spot but not before threatening her not to report about the incident.
The 19-year-old rape survivor, however, gathered her courage and told her parents about the incident, which resulted in a formal police complaint being registered on Wednesday.
After three days since the heinous crime was committed, the Farukhnagar police have arrested a person named Pawan.
Shockingly, the case is of similar nature to the incident in Faridabad where two men who were under the influence of alcohol abducted an office going professional and gangraped in their SuV for two hours.
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Rat in a cage — Rage 2 review
Rage 2 feels like a lot like a trip to an amusement park. You'll spend a lot of time just walking from place to place, not really enjoying yourself, wondering if this trip was even a good idea as you ignore distractions on all sides until you reach the ride you want to go on next. Then it's full-speed excitement, all light and sound and adrenaline, and you never want it to end — for about five minutes. Then back out into the dead space between attractions, the fake castles and set dressing, walls plastered with signs telling you that this is a fun place to be, but not doing a very convincing job of it.
Rage 2 even starts somewhat like a roller coaster. You're strapped in and waiting for the ride to start. You choose whether your character, Walker, is male or female, a mostly pointless choice because they don't have a single defining personality trait either way. You meet your adoptive sister, Lily, as your home town is under attack by a group of super-powered mutants called the Authority. You don a suit of Ranger armor, not really knowing what that signifies, and make your way through the sequence, slowly picking off enemies with your handgun. The roller coaster car slowly clicks up the hill. It's not very interesting, but you know it's all just setup for what comes next. Your adoptive mother is killed and a bizarrely prescient hologram recording fills you in on Project Dagger, a secret plan to stop the Authority once and for all. After the attack, which is maybe 10 minutes at most but still feels too long, you're let loose into the world to pursue Project Dagger. The car speeds down the hill, and it's thrilling for the next few minutes, until the ride ends and you get back in line.
In the moments when Rage 2 is really on, it's fantastic. You have access to a suite of powers from the ground-pounding Slam to the store-brand Force push Shatter, plus an arsenal of weapons both conventional and pure id Studios sci-fi, with which to wreak havoc across the already sufficiently havoc-filled wasteland.
You could spend the whole game using nothing but the assault rifle and shotgun that you get early on, and there were long segments when I did just that. They're probably the most efficient, and definitely the most reliable, weapons that you get in the game. They don't just get the job done; they feel great to use. The shotgun's blasts are super concussive, tearing through enemies and environmental clutter alike in a way that you can almost feel in your chest. The assault rifle feels like a fire hose, nearly leaping out of your hands as it pushes and rends whatever you aim it at. But relying on them is depriving yourself of a lot of the fun in Rage 2.
Most of the weapons in the game seem to be designed not to be the most effective, but to be the most spectacular. Why spend time filling enemies with gravity-negating darts and flinging them into each other or peppering them with explosive pellets then setting them ablaze when you could just kill them in half the time? Because it's fun. Why use an ability to launch yourself into the air, then use another ability to come crashing down on your enemies like a meteorite when a grenade would be just as effective? Try it once and you'll see. You could choose to limit yourself to a random couple of weapons and powers for each fight and never run out of creative ways to turn your enemies into geysers of blood. It seems like the game's designers were just handed the keys and told to see how big of a crater they could make with Rage 2's weapons and powers, and they turned it into one of the most satisfying moment-to-moment games in years. Unfortunately, those moments don't last long.
When you leave Vineland, your now-destroyed hometown, you're told to meet three characters and help them fulfill their part of Project Dagger. You can visit them in any order, but you're told to seek out John Marshall in Gunbarrel first. So I went to him and took my time completing the couple of short missions that he assigned me, while spending much more time cruising through the wasteland picking fights, clearing out bandit dens, searching for digital dog tags from dead Rangers, and looting pre-apocalypse vaults called Arks, which hold powerful technology that you can use. And I had a blast. The sheer fun of Rage 2's combat was enough to carry me through the first dozen hours in a haze of adolescent joy, even as it became more and more clear that there were only a handful of activities that I'd be completing over and over again.
Aside from the activities you find in the open world, each Project Dagger character also has story missions for you to complete. These are easily the most exciting parts of the game; they have at least some narrative stakes, even if the story isn't that interesting, and these missions keep up the pressure for long encounters that give you the best chances to gain some momentum and use your arsenal to its fullest extent.
Between these missions and activities, though, you'll face long periods of simply moving from place to place, scrounging up resources, talking to traders, and driving to your next destination. There's just so much downtime in Rage 2 that it's hard to feel like you're moving forward at all. And when it comes to actually moving around in the vehicles you'll drive around the world, I was disappointed. Driving was easily the weakest part of the preview build I played a few months ago, and while it's gotten measurably better since then, it's still nowhere near the quality of combat. Vehicles all feel a bit stiff, get knocked off course a bit too easily, and just lack the tactile pleasure of the game's combat. You can pick up a variety of vehicles in the wasteland, but the armored car you start with is the best of the bunch.
As I played, I gained currency to purchase upgrades from Marshall's tree under the "Projects" tab in the menu. Each of the three Project Dagger participants has their own tree, which grant you different types of upgrades. One for combat, one for crafting and vehicles, one for mostly utilities like resource tracking. In previews, we were told that you would have to complete different tasks for each character to unlock later tiers in their upgrade tree. That's no longer the case, even though there's still text in the game saying that it is. Now, the individual characters' Project levels are mostly vestigial. You need to reach level five to unlock a mission for each one, but that's the only effect they have. Instead, you just purchase two upgrades from tier one to access tier two and so on. It's probably a change for the better, since the old system would have made the game even more of a grind-fest, but it makes the game's side activities feel even more pointless with it gone.
When I finished John Marshall's questline, which probably would have taken just a couple of hours if I had just done it straight through, I had enough upgrade points to purchase everything that I needed from the second character's tree as soon as I met her and unlocked it. This character, Loosum Hagar, then directed me through an equally short series of missions, which I again took my time with so that I could keep gathering the roughly dozen different upgrade currencies in the game and explore the landscape.
By the time I met Dr. Kvasir, the third main character, things had changed. I had most of the game's main abilities and weapons and I didn't like the area he was in nearly as much as the others, so I just powered through his questline, expecting to open up a new set of objectives now that Project Dagger was off the ground. Instead, I was told that it was time for the final confrontation. So I drove to the big bad's compound in a tank and killed him in a bland boss fight, then the credits rolled. Even for a game that was starting to wear out its welcome, the conclusion was unexpectedly and disappointingly sudden. It felt like I was finally gearing up to start the high-powered end game, not to just draw things to a lackluster conclusion. Still, I had a few more Arks to complete, so I jumped back into the game and finished them, excited to finally be playing with a full deck, but the moment I'd done so, the spell was broken. I was fully equipped now — to do what? My map was full of icons, but all that was left to do was the exact same set of activities I'd been doing for the last 20 or so hours.
It turns out to answer to "what do I do now?" is wait for the game's post-launch content to start rolling out. Rage 2's roadmap is thick with weekly challenges, free updates, and DLC. It's not exactly unprecedented, but for an entirely single-player game that mainly comprises a series of shooting galleries with different wallpaper, it seems like an odd move to rely so heavily on people wanting to come back for a weekly trickle of new content. I also can't help but ask the question, would Rage 2 be a better game if it had released later, with more of this planned content at launch?
Lack of variety is one of Rage 2's biggest flaws; the other is lack of personality. It might as well be a universal law that the harder a piece of media tries to convince you that it's punk, the less punk it actually is. Rage 2's marketing was all neon and mohawks and Andew WK playing to bewildered crowds at E3. The trailers were full of upbeat music, quick-cut action shots, and people saying "ass" a lot so you know this isn't your grandpa's open-world shooter. As irritating as all that corporate edginess may have been, it still had loads more personality than the actual game. Rage 2's opening battle is so dour and drab that I was waiting for it to drop the act and turn into a straight parody. As I arrived in Gunbarrel and got my first quest from John Marshall, a stone-faced war hero looking out for the people of his town, I realized that that wasn't happening.
There are hints in item descriptions and snippets of dialogue that some faction of Rage 2's writers also thought they were working on something with a sense of humor, while others were writing as if they'd be fired if the player so much as cracked a smile. Every beat of the story is flat, and even the action lacks the vibrancy and abandon that we were sold on. Rage 2 may have expanded its color palette from the murk of the original game, but its tone is still pure gray. Worse yet, it continues and expands on the original game's use of physical deformity as a signifier that a character is evil or otherwise unworthy of respect. It's a common trope in post-apocalyptic fiction, but that doesn't excuse its use here.
Even with its poor structure, its bland-at-best story, its aggravating post-launch content drip, and its bait-and-switch marketing, I still enjoyed Rage 2. At times, I was even surprised at how much I was liking it. The fun to be had in Rage 2 is superficial, felt only in the deep recesses of the lizard brain, but sometimes you've got to take your kicks where you can get them.
The list of things I don't like about Rage 2 is much longer than the things I like about it, but the one thing it does better than I even expected is combat. Once you've filled up your toolbox of weapons and powers, you have seemingly endless ways to take on the game's foes. Unfortunately, its bland story, drab tone, and scattered open world drag it down, but the fierce firefights kept me engaged the whole way.
—Bryan Lawver
Incredibly satisfying combat
Great set of weapons and abilities
Dull story and world
Poorly paced campaign and upgrade curve
Few interesting missions and extremely repetitive side activities
A committed indoor kid, Bryan moved from Pittsburgh to Los Angeles for a prettier landscape to ignore. He can be lured outside with promises of taco trucks and film festivals, and enjoys trawling through used book stores for works on the occult. Bryan has been gaming since the SNES era and is a sucker for good pixel art.
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Q: InAppPurchase transactionReceipt environment value in production When I test In App purchases and I decode transactionReceipt from SKPaymentTransaction, I see a field named "environment"
"environment" = "Sandbox";

Can anyone tell me the value from the production?
Thanks a lot!

A: Well as far as i know and based on apple Documentation  .. In Production you will not have this key .. because you are not responsible to do anything with it ,, its just an indication that you are using sandbox when your app will be submitted for production, reviewed and approved, this value will not appear.

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Mark Winters: "Be There" – a brilliant alt-rock feel with a bluesy flavor
Published on May 26, 2019 in Reviews by staff
Mark Winters is a Sugar Land, Texas based rock musician. He started his career playing cover songs at the urging of a close friend. Mark's poetic style comes from his Grandmother who taught him how to write poetry and express himself. Mark combined his music and poetry to form his signature sound – rock with a positive vibe. His past performances include large charity events such as The Matco BB Fundraiser at the Sam Houston Raceway Park, and the MS 150 In La Grange. Mark has great new music set for release in the coming months, leading to the release of his new album "SlipStream" in August. Currently he has dropped the single, "Be There".
This is a transcendental piece of real, road-worn alternative rock. There's knowledge of truth, and some of it from the root. I get the sense of no axe to grind, no wheels to grease, as Mark Winters just comes straight and true about 'being there' for the ones we care about.
His songs have a brilliant alt-rock feel, and is laced with blues, and a slight taste of singer-songwriter imagery, creating a traditional flavor, nodding to his influences, all the while creating his own original alternative sound.
Despite the traditional rock flavor, don't go thinking for one moment that his music is derived from any of his peers, Mark Winters is an artist who stands his ground, and owns every square foot of it. His vocals and lyrics are placed front and center, with his fiery electric guitar, evoking themes of profound thoughtfulness.
He has the insightfulness of a wise man sitting on his front porch with a crystal clear eye. Winter's lyrics reveal an intimate understanding of relationship intricacies, as the song evokes all the uncertainty and hope embedded in a beating heart. In the world of over-produced formula alt-rock, this is a breath of fresh air.
"Be There" harkens back to what rock music ought to be. This is one that you should crank the volume up on, so you can get the full effect of the music that backs up the lyrics. Mark Winters crystal clear voice alone is a powerful instrument, but when you couple it with some overdriven blues guitar, it catches fire.
Winters' has musical wisdom that can't be taught. You either have it or you don't. He sings from a place deep in his soul. His voice transports, and the music gives it wings. We'll see about how Mark Winters' career pans out over the next few years, but if this track is any indication, we may be witnessing the growth of a musician for the ages.
This track will take you down by a railroad station, sit you on a wooden bench just before sunset, and give you plenty to rock back and forth to. If you want an unfiltered muscular beat and lyrics to ponder deeply, this is the music. This is the guy. Mark Winters is the man.
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Newly renamed Palm unveils updated logo
Company also changes its ticker symbol and moves its headquarters after spending US$30 million to gain rights to the Palm name.
By Dinesh C. Sharma | July 15, 2005 -- 02:49 GMT (19:49 PDT) | Topic: Hardware
PalmOne has formally changed its name back to Palm, unveiled a new logo and moved its headquarters, the company said Thursday.
The new logo will start appearing on products this fall, Palm said. The company has also begun trading on the Nasdaq under "PALM," instead of "PLMO." The gadget maker's line of handhelds includes Zire, Tungsten, Treo and the recently launched LifeDrive.
The company announced in May that it was spending US$30 million to acquire PalmSource's 55 percent stake in a company called Palm Trademark Holding.
Ed Colligan, CEO of Palm,
with company's new logo.
PalmSource and the former PalmOne had been spun off from a parent company, the first incarnation of Palm, in 2003. At that time, it was decided that PalmOne and PalmSource would share the Palm brand.
The new Palm says its updated logo reflects the brand equity from the former blue Palm circular medallion. The updated typeface is suggestive of digital content, the company said, and its orange background symbolizes energy.
The company's headquarters have moved to Sunnyvale, Calif., from Milpitas.
"While a lot has changed--our name, ticker, logo and headquarters--our vision remains the same. We believe the future of personal computing is 'mobile computing,' and we aim to deliver superior hardware and software solutions so that we can continue to set the bar in the industry," Ed Colligan, Palm CEO, said in a statement.
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