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BREAKING: Godzilla vs. Kong 2020 release date moved up!
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In a smart move to avoid a blockbuster clash with Fast and Furious 9 at the 2020 box office, Warner Brothers have decided to shift the release date for Adam Wingard's Godzilla vs. Kong (2020)! The third Monsterverse installment will now release on March 13th, 2020, a shift up from it's original May 22nd release date.
We can't blame WB for wanting to give Godzilla vs. Kong as much earning potential as possible and the shift works out great for us fans who will now get to see the epic battle 2 months earlier!
Source: Deadline
20 Fan responses to BREAKING: Godzilla vs. Kong 2020 release date moved up!
Feb-22-2019 7:35 AM
Only a 10 month gap between installments now, neatly makes up for the 5 year wait methinks.
Not surprising after Fast & Furious 9 moved to May 22nd. GvK was going to get killed. A little surprised it was moved to an earlier date though. Luckily it won't face any competition until two weeks later when Mulan comes out--And by then I expect the movie will have largely run out of momentum.
I a become WOKE
Hell yes! It's only a two month difference but it's still closer in the long run.
Moldovan0731 #TeamRodan
What 5 year wait, YukiSpecial? Kong: Skull Islans is also part of the Monsterverse!
Feb-22-2019 10:07 AM
Moldovan0731
I meant between Godzilla films. When 2014 came out we knew they'd greenlit a sequel, but it took a good while for it to finally get into production, and we didn't immediately know about Kong, that's all I was talking about. I loved Skull Island immensely, don't misunderstand, I was strictly speaking about G-Films.
It's about time they moved Godzilla king of the monsters up
MDK 2 (MinecraftDinoKaiju) #TeamGodzilla
Why did they move it up? If anything, It should've been moved down. But nonetheless, it was a good decision.
MDK 2 (MinecraftDinoKaiju),
I assumed they would push it back as well to allow for a little more post-production time. But the new date is the same weekend Skull Island was released on two years ago--Yet with far less competition. It's also a weekend many schools have spring break, so I'm assuming WB is banking on that as well.
I remember when I went to the Tuesday showing for Kong: Skull Island after its release where I live, and it was a REALLY packed theatre; had a line-up going in and everything.
I think it's a smart move.
Godzillatheking123 #TeamGodzilla
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That's a relief. This wait is kinda agonizing.
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SPLUNGE!
G. H. (Gman) Yeah. but then again, you never know what movies may also be coming out around that time. (i.e. a new live-action remake of a Disney movie, or another Marvel movie, or even an original film) So really, either way, it is risky.
But we do know what movies are coming out around that time:
March 6th, 2020 - The Lovebirds, Onward
March 13th, 2020 - Godzilla vs. Kong, Gambit (likely cancelled), Untitled Blumhouse Movie
March 20th, 2020 - I Still Believe, Playing with Fire
March 27th, 2020 - Disney's Mulan, G.I. Joe 3, Snake Eyes
Deadline reported in February that Gambit isn't in active development anymore, Fox has just yet to make an official announcement on the matter.
The only real competition for Godzilla vs. Kong in March is Mulan and that's two weeks later. Something tells me G.I. Joe 3 will move out of the month so it doesn't get bulldozed by Mulan. (Assuming it ever enters production to begin with.)
The rest are romantic comedies, a religious film and a cheaper horror movie. They're no threat.
Yeah, though really, with the *SJW* stuff going on at Disney, Mulan sounds like it might fail. Then again, I could be wrong. Either way, let's just wait and see.
Honestly, whether Mulan is released that weekend or not I wouldn't expect Godzilla vs. Kong to be #1 for a third weekend anyway.
You never know, though. We'll just have to wait and see.
yeetman #TeamRodan
Guys, I wouldn't be worried about competition. Its Fucking Godzilla vs. Kong, although the performance of Kotm will also debate a little on how well Godzilla vs. Kong will do, but a LOT of people are gonna wanna see Godzilla vs. Kong
Yeah, but still, it's the same thing with Jurassic Park and Transformers: a lot of people still want to see dinosaurs and giant robots, but you need to know who the competition is first.

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Shock first, then roll up your sleeves. Within hours, American women began responding pragmatically to the historic decision of Supreme court that after 49 years it abolished the constitutional right to abortion. While anti-abortionists sang victory and thanked God for the victory, pro-choice advocates began paying contributions and making voluntary offerings to associations that would ensure aid to beleaguered women in republican and evangelical states that since yesterday have closed all access to it. Voluntary interruption of pregnancy. Money to finance the trip Those who need to terminate a pregnancy were already created when the document was leaked over the winter, but yesterday they were inundated with standard contributions. A number of notable companies immediately confirmed that they have also included a full flight refund guarantee to get an abortion in their medical insurance packages. It is impossible to list all those that appear in the list, but only summarize some of them, from Netflix To LeviStrauss from Disney To Sony, from Tesla to JPMorgan ChasAnd the. Half of American workers are women, most of whom are still of childbearing age, and the companies involved agreed that forcing them to have unwanted pregnancies would not only go against women's rights, but would also be a losing option for the companies themselves.
president Biden She said yesterday that she will order the Department of Justice to ensure that the rights of women who want to travel to seek abortions are not hampered, which is possible given that some of the most extreme in its anti-abortion belief will also impose travel bans outside state borders to seek abortion elsewhere. For this reason, there are regions of the country that are more liberal, self-regulating, somewhat similar to what happened at the beginning of the epidemic. Northeastern states like New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachusetts pledge to welcome and help women from oppressive states, all huddled in the South and Center. At the other end of America, the governors of California, Oregon and Washington have signed a multi-state commitment to reproductive freedom, pledging to protect women who seek help in their three states. The three conservatives pledge not to cooperate with repressive states if they demand the arrest of women who have fled for abortion. A California Action Support Fund is also being set up to help cover the logistical costs of the trip as volunteer associations commit to providing hospitality and assistance to immigrant women from anti-abortion and oppressive states such as Texas, Oklahoma, Mississippi and Missouri. or Alabama.
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In the second round of this heat, the three remaining designers take on one of the most demanding rooms to redesign on a tight budget – the kitchen. They're each working in a Victorian Half-House, in Walthamstow, North East London, where architectural historian Tom Dyckhoff looks at the story behind these early apartments, and the family who built them. Despite the bigger challenge of transforming a kitchen, our designers still have just £1000 and a small team across just three days. One designer faces disaster when their kitchen units fall apart – putting them behind schedule and giving them and their team a huge amount of work to do. The second designer struggles after what should have been a simple job of fitting a new floor suffers a massive hold up… they must keep focussed in order to complete their scheme in time. Meanwhile the final designer is almost overwhelmed with spatial planning issues, after being asked to incorporate a lounge area to one end of the kitchen. With such a difficult task comes a difficult decision for the judges, who must decide which two designers have the talent to go through to the next round, and which one will leave the competition.
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Ksenija Ivanovna Sjestova (ryska: Ксения Ивановна Шестова; även Инокиня Марфа, Inokinja Marfa [nunnan Marfa]), född 1560, död 1631, var medlem av den ryska adeln och nunna. Hon var mor till tsar Mikael I av Ryssland och utövade ett stort inflytande över statens affärer under de första åren av sin sons regering, från dennes tronbestigning fram till år 1619 då hennes make, patriarken Filaret, efter många års exil återvände till Ryssland. Hon blev formellt nunna före sin sons tronbestigning och antog då namnet Marfa. Hon var känd som "Den stora nunnan".

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Intriguing and exotic, Kevin Ansbro's novel explores how our actions can come back to haunt us in the most unexpected ways.
I just finished reading Kinnara. Such a brilliant and enjoyable adventure!
You know so much about Thailand, have you lived there? You character, Sawat, is so real, did you know someone like him?
Kevin – My wife and I are fortunate to have visited Thailand more than twenty-five times: we love the people/the culture/the overall vibe, and we speak a lot of Thai. Sawat, like many Thais, has an unassailable positivity, despite having to eke out a living in difficult circumstances. He seems to be everyone's favourite character and is based on a friend of mine, whose winning smile would light up any room.
As for your portrayal of the tsunami that hit Thailand, were you there during that tragic and horrendous event?
Kevin – I wasn't in Thailand at the time of the tsunami (we were there a couple of months prior), but waking up on Boxing Day in 2004 to those alarming scenes is something I shall never forget. I was immediately on the phone to friends whom I knew to be in the areas affected. One actually had to cling to a coconut tree while the spiteful torrent surged through, giving me the idea to write that frightening event into the book.
I love your use of the Swan People (Buddhist god, Klahan) and Buddhist mythology in your book. How did that originate and develop?
Kevin – Whenever I'm ferried into Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport in a taxi, I always marvel at the bronze statues of mythical creatures that line the route into the terminal. These statues depict the half-bird, half-human Kinnaree, much-loved in Thai folklore. And it was there that the nucleus of an idea began. By the time I'd paid the cab fare I was already planning a storyline that would involve these celestial beings. The male of the Kinnaree are known as the Kinnara, hence the title of my novel, which is essentially a teeth-rattling thriller wrapped in a burrito of magical realism.
I really enjoy your writing. It's clear, smooth and flows. I'm curious about the German serial-killer connection in Kinnara. It seems to stand out so much from the rest of the story. May I ask how you came up with that?
Kevin – Why, thank you, Ingrid.
The German serial killer connection was dreamt up to give the book an international flavour, my inspiration coming from a lifelong love of Bond movies!
You also wrote a short story entitled, The Angel in my Well. I'm curious where it came from. It is so different from Kinnara, and yet, I can see the underlying magical realism from the description you posted on your website.
Kevin – The Angel in my Well blossomed rather unexpectedly in the darkest of hours.
It was heart-breaking to watch and at that moment I thought how wonderful it would be to have my mum come back to me again, as the scintillating young woman I remembered as a little boy – even if it was just for one day. And so, there and then, the nucleus of a book idea was borne. As with Kinnara, the story is set in our real world, but with something otherworldly happening in that world.
My mum died not knowing she'd inadvertently inspired me to become an author, a silver lining to a very dark cloud.
Thank you, Kevin, for sharing. I'm sorry for your loss. The Angel in my Well sounds like a wonderful tribute to your mother. I look forward to reading it.
Now, Kevin, please tell us all about your next project.
Kevin – Although I'm a full-time writer, it has taken me three years to write my current novel. It's complete, my best yet (I think), and I've only just begun to send submissions off to literary agents.
It's titled The Fish that Climbed a Tree (a metaphor for a Homeric, near-impossible, odyssey within its pages). And, again, there is an alchemy of reality and otherworldliness to my novel but it reveals, within its beating heart, a spiteful, teeth-rattling thriller that is in no way formulaic or prosaic (my style veers more towards the rich and linguistically playful).
I do want to add another question, I was actually referring the family question to your wife, Julie. Any correlation between Hannah and Calum and Kevin and Julie? Aside from the karate and kickboxing of course, btw, I'm totally impressed! So, all the traveling…because of tournaments?
Kevin – There isn't a correlation between Hannah and Julie, though I channeled some of my wife's wisecracks, swordplay and reactions into Hannah's dialogue. Julie is also the first person I turn to for an honest, unvarnished appraisal of my work.
When I was a kickboxer, the only travelling I did was around Britain. I have trained in Muay Thai (Thai kickboxing) while in Thailand though. Don't let looks deceive you; those guys are hard as nails!
Kevin, one of the things I admire about you is your encouragement and support of other writers. With that in mind, what advice would you give to new writers?
Kevin – Thank you! and I'm so pleased you asked this!
I spot a great deal of uninformed guidance on social media: people suggesting that the way to get better at writing is simply to carry on writing. What utter nonsense! You wouldn't employ an untrained person to run a restaurant kitchen on their own and say to them, "There's the fridge; the pots, pans, knives are over there. Away you go!" Yeah, they'll probably muddle through and improve, but will never attain the skills needed to become a great chef.
So, my best piece of advice is to read, read, READ. And don't just read any old piece of pap. Peruse the classics; learn from the gods of literature. Find out about literary devices and how to construct a narrative arc; understand what it means to 'show and not tell'. And please, please accept constructive criticism as if you were Gollum being offered the Ring.
Trust me, you need candid advice more than you need cheerleaders! It's true that all writing has value, but aspire to be the Michelin-starred chef, not the short order cook.
Ingrid, thank you so much for inviting me in for this groovy interview. It's been an absolute pleasure!
I know that you are also eminently passionate about your work and I'd like to wish you every success for the future!
Thank you so much, Kevin Ansbro, for the interview, your thoughtful words, and for your amazing book, Kinnara. I look forward to reading The Angel in my Well and The Fish that Climbed a Tree.
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Raising baby chicks is fun for the old and the young alike. Watching baby chicks grow into full-fledged chickens can teach so many life lessons to young children.
But before you pick up a few baby chicks at the local feed store, there is one thing you need to have first. This item is THE single most important thing you can buy to ensure you raise your chicks safely. What am I talking about? I'm talking about the EcoGlow brooder.
While a heat lamp is the usual way to brood chicks, unfortunately they just aren't safe. Anytime you mix flying animals, pine shavings, and a heat source, you are asking for trouble. Many people have lost their baby chicks, their coops, and even their entire flocks because of a heat lamp. We even know of one family that lost their entire home to a heat lamp fire.
While I don't want to scare you, I am also big on safety. An EcoGlow brooder will run you less than $100 (for the small one that holds 20 chicks). They use far less electricity (only 18 watts) compared to a heat lamp (250 watts), so you will likely save a good bit of money on your power bill.
The first two years we raised chicks, I used a heat lamp. But it's only because I didn't know radiant heaters existed. Once I discovered them, there was no turning back. I've had mine for over 5 years now and it still works great. I won't ever use a heat lamp again.
The EcoGlow brooder uses radiant heat instead of a heat lamp to warm your baby chicks. Radiant heat warms objects, not air. The chicks can run under the heater to get warm and then run back out when they are toasty. The brooder is adjustable, with three different heights, so as the chicks get bigger, you can raise the heating element.
Another benefit to using a radiant brooder is that it is much more like a mama hen than a heat lamp. With a heat lamp you are constantly having to monitor the temperature and make adjustments to the height of the lamp each week. If you aren't careful, you can fry your chicks if it gets too hot. The two years we used a heat lamp, it was very aggravating to adjust the heat lamp every few days and monitor the temperature of the brooder.
A third benefit to using a radiant brooder is that the baby chicks experience day and night. When the chicks are constantly under a bright heat lamp, they don't realize when it is nighttime. While I don't know of any studies that have been done on this, I can't imagine that being under bright lights 24/7 is good for the chicks.
I have noticed that by using a radiant brooder, my chicks feather out quicker. Why is this a good thing? Because chickens are MESSY. If you are raising baby chicks indoors or even in a garage, they will scratch in the pine shavings and send dust everywhere. And I do mean EVERYWHERE.
You will notice that the first few days, the chicks will spend most of their time under the brooder, only coming out to eat and drink. But gradually they will spend less and less time underneath it. Oftentimes, after about two weeks, I find that my baby chicks would actually sleep on top of the brooder.
The biggest downside to a radiant brooder (other than the cost) is that you must raise your baby chicks in an area that stays above 55 degrees. If you are brooding your chicks indoors, this shouldn't be a problem. However, if you are raising them in the winter in an unheated garage, this can be an issue. We have worked around this by placing an oil-filled radiator heater (an older version of this one) just outside the brooder to maintain a warm area.
So while there are many things you need to raise baby chicks safely, the most important thing is a radiant brooder.
What is your piece of mind worth? Is is worth purchasing an EcoGlow brooder?
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How to Set up Your Brooder for Baby Chicks-This post details how to have everything ready for your baby chicks BEFORE you bring them home.
Baby Chick Care-This post will tell you all the ins and outs of caring for those baby chicks the first few weeks.
Building a Chicken Coop-If you still need to build a coop for your chickens, this post will tell you what you need to include when building it.
Moving Chicks to the Coop-There are lots of things to consider before you move your chicks outdoors. From the outside temperature to the feathers on your chicks, this post will help you make that decision.


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By tegan, February 26, 2015 in Idle Banter
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I think maybe it's something about the levity with which he talks about stuff like that gets under my skin
I would agree with that. For me, a lot of the fight is mental. I'm on meds now, but when I was more regularly going to therapy it ended up that the fear of the fear was what was setting me off, so someone talking about it like that removes some of the teeth of the problem for me. Obviously, if my problem was more severe, I doubt that would work and it would probably piss me off quite a bit.
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12 hours ago, therealdougiejones said:
I'm going to repeat myself and say that this is one of the things that bugs me too. I don't necessarily mind what he says (although some of it can be real problematic in context), it's just the "I don't get what the big deal is" attitude that gets to me. As though because he was able to do it anyone and everyone should have no trouble with it either. Or that because it's not an issue in his life it's not something worth thinking about and shouldn't be a problem for anyone else either. Again, I don't think he actually means it that way but that's how it comes across, at least to me.
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13 hours ago, Dewar said:
Yeah, I know his tone can be a little off putting but I appreciate the open nature and candor Alex and Dan have had with their person struggles with Anxiety and Depression, it's actually made accepting my own easier and giving me the strength to talk about it to family, friends, etc. I think it has actually kind of helped remove some of the stigma for me weirdly enough.
I think SAM has hit the nail on the head of my own feelings on the situation in his previous posts.
3 hours ago, SecretAsianMan said:
Sure. Well, I guess if anxiety is his only thing his happy-go-lucky attitude isn't really surprising. For those of us with a fun little cocktail of mental health problems though the picture looks very different. I'm an unusually grumpy person so things like that rub me the wrong way. All that being said I like Dan Ryckert in an overall way, I feel like his instincts and what's in his heart is to be a good and kind person and all. Don't get me wrong!
i'm certainly not going to weigh in on this one, and i don't know if the references will make sense if you are not a regular listener, but this clip from the beastcast a couple weeks ago basically killed me, i could not breathe, etc.
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Haha.. amazing! I don't listen to the GB podcasts, so thanks for sharing.
8 hours ago, kickstandcarp said:
That's the improv bit I was referring to in one of my earlier posts. It legitimately took me a while to realize it was Dan and had me laughing so hard I nearly crashed my car.
It is with a heavy heart that I must announce dan ryckert is at it again.
This time it's about Walmart.
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Man, meet the New Dan - same as the Old Dan.
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Oh man, I forgot all about the Walmart stuff. The pendulum just keeps shifting directions!
Has he ever done an about face on his fascist cop worship?
I worked at a Wal-mart for about a year and a half, doing pretty much every kind of job there was to do in that place. Employees are abused, exploited, and mistreated in awful ways. One Co-Manager had a problem with disabled people, so he moved an overnight stocker who only had one functioning arm from Stationary to Chemicals department. That's the difference between the heaviest product to stock (paper, pens, art supplies) to the absolute heaviest (extremely heavy cases with huge bottles of detergent and bleach). This was used as an excuse to suddenly fire him for "slow performance". He even bragged to another manager that he did this just to have an excuse to fire the guy cause he didn't wanna look at him. Nothing was done about that. Another employee who was injured after getting hit by a customer's car in the parking lot got refused his workers comp (couldn't afford to pursue legal recourse of course) for no valid reason, and then they ran the camera tapes to find a time at 9pm or so when he briefly checked his phone while standing to greet at the garden center. Fired him for that.
At Wal-Mart if you get two "strikes" you get frozen. Meaning you can't qualify for a raise (which is paltry anyway) or promotion for an entire year. My first strike was for using the bathroom three times on a single 9 hour shift. I came to work with diarrhea that day. My second strike was for refusing to unload frozen trucks because I didn't have non-slip shoes on. Taking pallets off the ramp of a frozen food truck is extremely dangerous even WITH non-slip soles, and I'm pretty sure it's some kind of workplace safety violation for them to even ask me. They regularly promote people without ever giving a raise or an on paper promotion. The way it works is they fire the department manager of some department then have a regular sales floor employee cover ALL of the responsibilities for that department manager without ever paying them what a department manager is supposed to make or changing their title. The unloading crew is on a much higher payscale too than floor employees. So sometimes they'll have a floor employee do unloading for several weeks to a month or more but at the same payscale and never being officially labeled as an unloader or given a raise. Not to mention all the creepy stuff like the Wall of Union Hate in the breakroom. Just a whole wall plastered with the FACES and NAMES of local union leaders and labor activists and tons and tons of anti-union slander. Literally I remember one piece saying that unions are just JEALOUS of wal-mart and their amazing profits and happy employees. If you work mornings you are forced to chant and sing with all the other employees, praising your store, and if you don't you can absolutely be written up for not being enthusiastic enough in your performance.
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Every time I'm starting to come around and think Dan is becoming a better person, a huge bummer like this week's Beastcast happens and I'm back to actively hating him.
TychoCelchuuu
Can anyone explain what is up for people who don't listen to the Wildebeestcast or anything?
Dan loves Walmart's low low prices and doesn't know why they're a shitty company is basically it.
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I don't think it's that he doesn't know that's the problem. Ignorance is a temporary and solvable state that we're all in about many things. It's that, when confronted with the fact that Wal-Mart isn't universally adored, and counselled by his friends and colleagues that if he looked into it even just a tiny amount he would see why, he said that he would rather continue to enjoy its low prices guilt free than find out anything that might change his opinion of the company.
He sounds like most human beings! If I told you guys what happens to the animals that you get meat, eggs, and milk from, let alone the workers in those slaughterhouses, you'd probably hurl...
Gormongous
37 minutes ago, TychoCelchuuu said:
Yay, bringing the bad energy from the old Veganism thread over to the Giant Bomb thread. It's the best of both worlds!
Seriously, though, there's no ethical consumption under capitalism, for any of us, but not wanting even to know about the conditions of the workers with whom you interact face-to-face every time you go to Walmart is a particularly conspicuous failure of empathy to me to me to me.
22 minutes ago, Gormongous said:
I think the bad energy might be inside you? I don't think anything in my tone was particularly toxic.
For what it's worth, Zeusthecat, in the veganism thread, was one of the few people who said my posts didn't come across as evil and assholeish and so on. Since you're someone who has been accused of being an asshole in this thread by Zeusthecat, who I'm pretty sure doesn't just label everyone an asshole for no reason (because he gave me a pass!) it might help reflecting on the sorts of things that can cause someone to see the other person as an asshole. So for instance could it be that you think I brought negative energy not because I in fact did, but rather because you disagree with me? Could Zeusthecat think you brought negative energy to this thread not because you in fact did, but rather because he disagrees with you?
Maybe we're all just decent people and nobody is an asshole, and when you accuse me of being an asshole you're really just trying to hide from yourself the fact that you disagree but don't have any good reasons to disagree, just like when Zeusthecat calls you an asshole he's really just trying to hide from himself the fact that he disagrees but doesn't have any good reason to disagree.
But presumably it's not a particularly conspicuous failure of empathy to Dan to Dan to Dan, so I don't really see the issue? Why am I supposed to privilege your view over Dan's view here? What reason could you give me that wouldn't also be a reason for privileging my view over your view (and Dan's view, for that matter, seeing as I'm sure he eats meat)?
If we're now in the business of merging threads and creating new ones maybe we should just slot in the veganism thread here and be done with it.
Again, because I never see the cow I eat face to face, or the miner in a conflict region whence the materials for my phone and computer come, or the political conditions under which most of those materials are made into components, or the sweatshop worker who's paid thirty cents to make my shirt, or the migrant farmhand who suffers deprivation and wage theft for me to get my fruit, or the people driven off their land so that the grains in my bread could be farmed more efficiently, or the millions of insects killed so that grain comes pest-free, or the rainforest that's slashed and burned for ten thousand different reasons... but I do see the Walmart employee working under conditions like therealdougiejones described, every time I walk into Walmart. They have greeters right there, front and center, to show you the face of Walmart's often-captive workforce. It's part of their corporate strategy and it's inescapable, unless you make a concerted effort to sneak past it.
If you're saying that you can't understand why someone ignoring an injustice right in front of them is more worrisome than them ignoring an injustice that capitalism has worked hard to make invisible to them, then... I don't know. Maybe you understand less about human nature than you think you do?
That's one hypothesis! Another is that I don't think human nature = good. So for instance it might be natural for humans to think "out of sight, out of mind," and thus Dan's reaction to Wal-Mart greeters is more unnatural than your reaction to cows, but I don't think that makes Dan worse than you. We might think that it's better to be unnatural than it is to be inconsistent, for instance, and Dan scores pretty well on consistency, it sounds like. At the very least I'd have to hear more about why human nature is a good standard before I sign up for something like "Dan's unnatural and thus a worse person than you." I'm inclined simply to reject claims like that.
Perhaps the claim isn't about human nature but rather about something more specific: "Dan has less empathy than me, so he's bad." Notice though that I could do the same thing to you ("Gormongous has less empathy than I do"), but presumably you'd find that objectionable, perhaps because it's natural to have empathy for people you see but not for animals you don't. And that just brings us back to the claim that human nature is a good standard for judging people, which again I am simply inclined to reject. Human nature sucks! I don't care if someone fails to measure up to that standard. I'd rather fail a thousand times at the human nature test and pass the moral behavior test once, than fail the moral behavior test once and pass the human nature test a thousand times.
Yeah Gorm, what bad energy?
The new Kingdom Hearts series seems like it could be cool.
Why the fuck does everyone have such a raging hard-on for equating criticism of Dan's words and actions with him being a "bad person" and, by implication, the critic being a good person? Did I miss a memo or something?
And by "human nature" I meant the way that human beings process and face moral challenges. I'm not invoking the naturalistic fallacy or anything here. Again, if you see it as morally and naturally equivalent to ignore a beating happening right in front of you and to ignore a beating happening somewhere far away from you... well, I don't think we agree, and you're probably very busy anyway, dealing with the water crises spurred by modern industrialized agriculture, the human and ecological damage of conflict minerals in the eastern Congo, and ten billion other instances of suffering worldwide because apparently proximity has no bearing on the ethical intensity of issues to you.
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Collection 014 Records of the World Congress on Evangelism
Scope and Contents Biographical sketches, participants' lists, form letters, programs, audio recordings of speeches, and study papers relating to the World Congress on Evangelism held in Berlin on October 26 to November 4, 1966. Besides the English materials, there are study papers in French and German and there are programs, correspondence and speech transcripts in German, French, and Spanish. Thirteen audio tapes contain speeches by various individuals including Billy Graham, Carl Henry, John Stott, Oswald...
Collection 276 Records of Christ's Mission
Scope and Contents Correspondence, reports, minutes of meetings, personnel files, manuscripts, pamphlets, audits and other records which document the work of the mission, which provided support to priests who wished to leave the Roman Catholic Church. The mission also sponsored lectures, conferences and publications on perceived errors in Catholic theology and the influence of the Catholic Church in American society.[Note: In the Scope & Content section, the notation...
Collection 279 Oral History Interview with Elizabeth Evans
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Elizabeth Morrell Evans (1899-1976) in which she discusses her childhood; education at Wheaton College; work with J. Elwin Wright; her Christian education activities; the development of the New England Fellowship, the National Association of Evangelicals, and the World Evangelical Fellowship; and her work as a missionary in Taiwan. The time period covered by the interviews is 1899-1976.Elizabeth Evans was interviewed by Robert Shuster on October 8, 1984...
Collection 285 Papers of Torrey Maynard Johnson
Scope and Contents Correspondence, oral history interviews, scrapbooks, sermons, minutes, reports, photos, posters, newspaper and magazine clippings, brochures, audio recordings, video recordings reflecting Johnson's life as an influential American Protestant from the 1930s through the 1990s. Besides documenting Johnson's pastorates of Midwest Bible Church (Illinois) and Bibletown Community Church (Florida), his leadership of Youth for Christ International, and his activities as an independent evangelist, the...
Collection 393 Oral History Interview with David H. Adeney
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with David Howard Adeney (1911-1994) in which he describes his childhood, conversion to Christianity, spiritual growth, education, involvement in InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in Great Britain, preparation for missionary work and his missionary career with China Inland Mission in rural areas of Henan Province, China (1934-1941) and with university students in Nanking (1946-1948) and Shanghai (1949-1950). Other topics discussed include: his father's missionary work in...
Collection 498 Oral History Interviews with William E. Pannell
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with William E. Pannell in which he describes his childhood in Michigan, his family, conversion as a teenager, his growing awareness of racism in America and especially its influence on American Christianity, education at Fort Wayne Bible College, involvement with the Brethren Assemblies, the part preaching has played in his life, the divide between urban and suburban culture and its impact on black and white churches and institutions, his work with Youth for Christ, the...
Collection 517 Papers of Armin R. Gesswein
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews and photographs relating to the ministry of Armin R. Gesswein in which he discusses his childhood as the son of a Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod pastor, the characteristics of that denomination, his education, his conversion, the influence of Paul Rader upon him, his work at Concordia Seminary, his work with Walter Maier, his first pastorate and first experience of revival, his involvement in revival in Norway 1937-1938, friendship with Billy Graham, Charles Fuller, and...
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An advice can simply be good or bad. In finance, financial advisors can be good or bad, either. And there are ways of zeroing in on the better folks among them.
That's well worth doing, but it's also good to remember that we need to be wary of bad financial advice — because it may be coming at us not only from professional advisors, but also from well-meaning friends, neighbors, and relatives, or from financial books or gurus on TV.
There are times when an advice seems to make sense.
Advice that seems to be logically sound. Advice that seems to be intuitive.
On a closer look, however; or unfortunately, as events unfold, the seemingly benevolent advice suddenly puts you on a very difficult situation.
In this article, we list down bad financial advice which seem to look sound and well, but may end up hurting your financial health in the end.
Here are a few examples of bad financial advice. The list is far from comprehensive, though, so be sure to keep your critical thinking cap on when you tend to financial matters.
1. Aside from your home, invest on another one and rent it out for extra income.
Seems like a sound advice.
Indeed, for some, yes. This can work well for some people, but it's far easier said than done, and is not a good idea for many.
Being a landlord involves a lot more than you may have imagined. It involves dealing with empty and income-less properties at times, dealing with troublesome tenants, having to make expensive repairs, and not always being able to sell when you want to for a price you want. Think about the extra cost of owning a real estate property like an apartment or a condominium unit. You will have to pay for the insurance, the homeowner's association dues, or the mortgage.
Pro tip: Say you buy a condominium unit in the metro and rent it out. Carefully scrutinize your finances and look at the cost of owning an estate. Project a cash flow and be realistic about your assumptions. See if you can get returns on your investment. If yes, then fine. If not, getting a property to be leased might not be a good idea after all.
2. Don't borrow money for college.
This is bad financial advice because in general, folks with college degrees earn more, and in these recent days of high unemployment, more educated workers were less likely to be unemployed.
Yes, being saddled with a lot of debt can make life difficult, but many schools are quite generous with financial aid and there's a good chance you won't be paying or even borrowing the full sticker cost.
Pro tip: If you can hustle and joggle school with an job, do so. There are people who have done this. This is beneficial for you in the long-term as exposure in the labor market will give you skill sets you will use later on in life. This will also help you build connections and networks that will help you in your professional career.
3. Pay off all your debt before you start saving for retirement.
It's easy to see the logic here, if you're looking at hefty interest rates.
The stock market has averaged roughly 10% annually over many years, while some credit cards have charged more than 20% annually.
Tackling debt first can actually make sense, but only if you do the job quickly, such as in a year or two. If it's going to take you many years to pay off your debt, then you'll be forgoing many years when your retirement account could have enjoyed compounded growth.
Pro tip: Procrastination can be deadly to your retirement. Perhaps work on both goals at the same time — that's better financial advice.
4. If you can borrow money for, say, 8% and then invest it and earn 10% or 15%, go ahead.
This is the logic used by many who invest using margin — in other words, borrowing from their brokerage.
It looks like a compelling proposition, but for most of us, it's bad financial advice. After all, you'll be on the hook for that 8%, guaranteed. But the gain you hope to get via your investments is not so guaranteed.
Even great stocks can fall for a short or long while, as can the entire market. And fat dividends can be reduced or eliminated. This is usually a risky thing to do.
Also a bad idea: if you're already saddled with debt and you want to try to pay it off by investing with borrowed money.
Umm. Well. No. I outrightly say, no, this is not the case. Of course, nobody becomes truly rich by saving money in the bank only. In order to be rich, you should invest money.
But it does not mean saving in a bank is a loser's move. As a matter of fact, learning how to save money is the foundational financial discipline everyone should master and hone.
Never forget, as well, that when your all of your money is invested onto something (because you hated saving cause you believed it's for losers) all of your money is at great risk!
The returns may be higher in investments. The principle remains, the riskier, the higher the returns. But never miss the part which says "riskier".
Pro-tip: Learn the habit of saving. It's a foundational skill for wealth building. Then ensure proper financial protection by creating an emergency fund, and getting health and life insurance.
Afterwards, that's the time you should invest! At this point, make sure to invest regularly and as much as you can afford.
6. Buy a lot of gold.
It may be surprising to see buying gold among pieces of bad financial advice, but gold has just not been a great long-term performer at all. Sure, it's had some great runs, and has delivered a lot of value to those who timed it well. And even now, many smart people think it's a buy. But many others think alternatives such as stocks make more sense.
There are lots of other pieces of bad financial advice. Taking time to read up on financial topics and to learn more will help you recognize and avoid many of them. But there are some quick and easy red flags that will help, too: Beware of outrageous claims and promises, steer clear of high fees, avoid investments with rules that are too restrictive, and don't expect to get rich quickly.
7. Credit cards are bad. Don't get one. Or else, you will be debt-ridden.
We hear a lot of horror stories involving credit cards. Yes, credit cards may have facilitated the ruin of some people's lives.
But it isn't the credit card's fault, right? It's the user's lack of discipline.
If you don't have a credit card, then you're missing out on the opportunity to do financial leverage.
For example, you can use a good portion of your money for other things first when you buy something on zero-interest installment, as compared to paying full in cash. This is especially helpful for entrepreneurs.
Moreover, if you have a credit card, then you don't have to bring lots of cash in your wallet. Additionally, you'll enjoy perks from the reward points you'll earn from it.
Pro tip: Credit cards are for people who have the discipline to control their spending. But when used right, it can give you financial leverage in the long-term. If you have a great credit history, getting a loan (for whatever purpose, hopefully for investment) will be a lot easier!
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The holding of credible and peaceful elections next year is vital for the process of restoring constitutional order in Guinea-Bissau, a United Nations envoy told the Security Council today, urging continued international support to help the West African nation complete this process. Constitutional order has still not been restored in Guinea-Bissau, which is recovering from an April 2012 coup. A transitional Government led by Transitional President Serifo Nhamadjo is in place until elections are held.
"Progress in the restoration of constitutional order in Guinea-Bissau remains frustratingly slow," the Secretary-General's Special Representative, José Ramos-Horta, said in his briefing to the 15-member body. He said that lengthy consultations among national stakeholders to agree on the voter registration system and to finalize the electoral budget and timeline have significantly contributed to the delay in advancing electoral preparations, including inmobilizing the required resources to cover the elections. Presidential and legislative elections were to have been held this month but have now been scheduled for 16 March 2014. Mr. Ramos-Horta said the holding of these polls "should remain our key priority to ensure a rapid return to constitutional order in the country." He commended the country's international partners for their generous pledges of financial support to the electoral process, and urged them to disburse them rapidly. "The onus is now on the Transitional Government to take the necessary steps towards the timely holding of the elections," said Mr. Ramos-Horta, who is also head of the UN political mission in Guinea-Bissau (UNIOGBIS). Delays in preparations for the elections, he noted, have had a negative impact on the implementation of the mandate of the mission, whose efforts have mainly focused on responding to the country's immediate political, security and human rights challenges. He reported that the human rights and security situation in Guinea-Bissau has continued to deteriorate, "with increased cases of intimidation, threats and restrictions of freedom of expression and assembly, as well as continuing interference of the military in the affairs of the State." In September he expressed concern to the Transitional President over continuing human rights violations and impunity in the country, and referred to the "generalized climate of fear created by the unlawful behaviour of the defence and security forces. "That climate of fear has persisted to date and is not contributing to a conducive environment for the holding of peaceful and credible elections," the envoy stated, adding that the transitional authorities must ensure that those responsible for unlawful acts are brought to justice.
BISSAU, 30 May 2013 (IRIN) - Guinea-Bissau's chronic political turmoil is depriving children of quality education. Access to education remains low, learning is often disrupted by teachers' strikes and the country spends the lowest portion of its budget on education in West Africa.
In that year the government spent 11 percent of the budget on education - the lowest proportion in West Africa. At 30 percent Ghana allocates the highest amount to education in the region. More than 90 percent of Guinea-Bissau's education budget pays salaries, leaving little or nothing for teacher training, buildings and equipping schools, according to the UNICEF.
Teachers only recently called off a strike they began in early May - the third strike this school year, resulting in the loss of about a third of annual tuition time. The teachers' union said some of the dues owed to their members date back to 2003.
The political situation deteriorated sharply following the death in January of President Malam Bacai Sanhá, culminating in a coup in April. It deteriorated further following a reported attack on a military barracks in October, which exacerbated the already fragile human rights and humanitarian situation. The armed forces committed numerous human rights violations with impunity, including arbitrary arrest and detention, beatings and extrajudicial executions. Freedoms of assembly, expression and the press were severely curbed. The killings of political and security figures since 2009 remained unpunished.
In January, President Malam Bacai Sanhá died after a long illness. Presidential elections held in March were won by former Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Júnior. As he fell just short of an outright majority, a second round was scheduled for late April. Ten days before the second round of the elections, the military staged a coup, took control of the capital, Bissau, and arrested the former Prime Minister and Interim President. Both were released from military custody two weeks later and sent into exile.
Repressive measures were imposed to stifle criticism of the self-styled Military Command that had taken control. All demonstrations were banned and soldiers used force to disperse peaceful spontaneous demonstrations. The military claimed their action was prompted by the presence of Angolan troops in the country under a bilateral agreement to assist with the training and reform of the security sector. In early May the Military Command and its civilian allies reached an agreement with ECOWAS for a one-year transition and the deployment of ECOWAS troops to Bissau. Two weeks later, a transitional President and government were appointed, which was not recognized by the international community.
In October the authorities claimed that a group of soldiers and civilians had launched an attack on a military base in the outskirts of Bissau and that six attackers were killed. They accused the former Prime Minister of involvement. Military personnel committed serious human rights violations in the search for the alleged perpetrators of the attack.
Private radio stations were shut down at the time of the military coup and remained off the air for two days. They were allowed to resume broadcasting under severe censorship and at least one radio station decided to remain closed. Journalists were also impeded from carrying out their work and were harassed or arrested. The correspondent of Portugal's state broadcaster, Radio Televisão Portuguesa, was expelled in October for his critical reporting of the government and military authorities.
There were reports suggesting that the six people allegedly killed during the attack on the military base in October, four civilians and two military officers, had been extrajudicially executed. Soldiers also reportedly extrajudicially executed five people in Bolama, Bijagos Islands, whom they accused of being accomplices of Pansau Ntchama, the alleged leader of the October attack. Others were unlawfully killed for their links with deposed government figures.
Luis Ocante da Silva, a close friend of the former Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, José Zamora Induta, died as a result of beatings by soldiers. On 6 November he was taken from his home by a group of soldiers, beaten and taken to an undisclosed location. Two days later soldiers took his body to the morgue in the central hospital. His family were allowed to see only his face and were not allowed to take the body for burial.
No investigations were carried out into these killings or other human rights violations by the military. Impunity also persisted for political killings since 2009.
Following the coup in April, soldiers searching for deposed government officials beat their families, friends and employees and vandalized their homes. Most ministers went into hiding, where they remained for several months; a few fled the country. Members of civil society groups were also targeted. Some, including several members of the Human Rights League, received threats against their lives and took refuge in embassies.
The day after the October attack on the military base, soldiers arrested and beat Iancuba Indjai, president of the opposition Party of Solidarity and Labour and spokesperson of the Anti-Coup National Front, a grouping of political parties and civil society groups who opposed the April coup. Iancuba Indjai was abandoned by the roadside some 50 km from Bissau. Local residents found him seriously injured and alerted his family. He was subsequently taken to a hospital abroad.
Later the same day, soldiers went to the Bissau office of Silvestre Alves, a lawyer and president of the Democratic Movement party; they beat him and took him away. He was later found unconscious by a road 40km from the city by local people who took him to a hospital. He was taken abroad for medical treatment.
The United Nations top official in Guinea-Bissau said today (9 May) that the recent arrest and indictment of two Bissau-Guinean military leaders on charges of drug trafficking "is a turning point in the fight against drug trafficking" in this African country.
José Manuel Ramos-Horta, who is the United Nations Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau, said the arrest and indictment constitute "a strong signal to the Bissau-Guinean elite and those using the country as a transit route for drugs, that the international community will not accept Guinea-Bissau being turned into a drug trafficking platform."
Ramos-Horta was delivering Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's latest report on Guinea-Bissau to the Security Council.
Turning to the political situation, he said "all Bissau-Guineans must absorb a new political culture where elections would not lead to the division of the country and the winner takes it all."
The Special Representative called for a government of national unity following the next legislative elections and said "no single political group can alone manage the transition from the deep hole where Guinea-Bissau has sunk to lasting peace and prosperity."
The report also said that the mandate of the United Nations political mission in Guinea-Bissau, known as UNIOGBIS, which last year underwent a military coup, should be adjusted to support a two-phase process for the full restoration of constitutional order and medium-term stability in the country.
Ambassador João Soares Da Gama of Guinea-Bissau told the Council that the country's economy "is practically on its knees because of the blocking of aid flows from our principal partners as a result of the coup d'etat of April last year."
In order to overcome the current crisis, Soares Da Gama urgently requested that humanitarian assistance "be exceptionally granted to our country."
Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau – a West African country with a history of coups, misrule and political instability since it gained independence from Portugal in 1974 – seized power on 12 April 2012.
The coup d'état came ahead of a presidential run-off election that was slated for 22 April between Carlos Gomes Júnior and a former president, Kumba Yala, prompting calls from the international community for a return to civilian rule.


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Miss Southeastern Idaho, Kayli Schwendamin, took advantage of Read Across America just like Miss Tri-Counties. Kayli was invited to come and celebrate a day of reading with a local school. She spent most of the day reading Dr. Suess books with different classrooms.
But her time spent was more than just reading. She was in charge of organizing readers for the 22 classrooms at the school. And then afer all that work it was time for some play!
Kayli said, "I was able to go to lunch and recess with one class and started a huge relay race. We probably had about 20 kids running and cheering for everyone. They were so cute and it was so much fun!"


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MOTD2 pundits predict the Premier League winners
BBC Sport https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/64155605 https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/live-experience/cps/240/cpsprodpb/7EDE/production/_128187423_p0dsv62d.jpg Will Arsenal go the distance, will Manchester City retain their Premier League title or could Newcastle United surprise everyone?
World Cup winners Argentina arrive home, plus EFL Cup build-up
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Isak: "It really felt like we were playing at home"


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Troy police fatally shoot man armed with knives
James David Dickson
A 23-year-old man, who police say was armed with multiple knives, was shot to death on Monday by an officer who fired four or five times, police said.
It was the first officer-involved shooting in Troy in more than two decades.
Police responded to the 4900 block of Saddle Brook Court, off East Long Lake, just before 7:25 a.m., said Lt. Josh Jones, a Troy Police Department spokesman.
Police said the family called 911 after the man was being "assaultive."
Jones said that a marked police car arrived at the scene, followed by an unmarked car.
By the time police arrived, the man's family had locked themselves in bedrooms to keep themselves safe. They told police he was "screaming, being violent, and hitting family members," according to a Troy Police Department update.
Monday was the fourth 911 run to that home since July 2017, police said.
Pending notifications of next-of-kin, Troy police expect to release the man's name later Monday.
None of the man's family members were seriously hurt, Jones said in a briefing at the police department. Family members report that the suspect had mental health issues.
The suspect, upon seeing the police car, ran right at it, Jones said. An officer in the unmarked car turned on lights and sirens to distract the suspect. At that point, the suspect tried to get into the unmarked car, but failed because it was locked.
The suspect then headed back toward the marked car. An officer deployed a Taser, but it had no effect.
"Tasers, they don't always work," Jones said. "That's why it's important for officers to have multiple tools to address threats."
The suspect continued behaving aggressively and was shot multiple times, police said. Medics transported him from the scene to an area hospital where he was pronounced dead.
A woman who was hurt in the incident was treated by medics.
The Oakland County Sheriff's Office is investigating the shooting, Jones said.
Staff writer Neal Rubin contributed