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Episode 5: Fake Prostate Cancer News
Prostate Cancer Uncensored Podcast – with Guest: Stacey Loeb
FAKE NEWS – when it comes to prostate cancer, it's everywhere. From dated statistics to untested treatments, there's bad – and sometimes dangerous – information at every edge of the digital universe. In this podcast, Dr. Stacy Loeb, a Urologic Oncologist, joins host Jamie Bearse to help prostate cancer patients and caregivers navigate the online seas of misinformation.
Hosted by ZERO President and CEO Jamie Bearse, the Prostate Cancer Uncensored podcast features unfiltered discussion with researchers, caregivers, patients, and medical professionals about how prostate cancer impacts sexuality. Listen online, or subscribe and download on your favorite podcasting platform. Episodes are available for listening on Apple Podcasts, Anchor.fm, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, PlayerFM, Pocket Casts, Spotify, PodBean, RadioPublic, and more.
Jamie Bearse: Hello, and welcome to Prostate Cancer Uncensored, a podcast produced by ZERO – The End of Prostate Cancer.
I'm Jamie Bearse, CEO at ZERO. This podcast is about fake news, or rather fake news for prostate cancer. Unfortunately, misinformation about this disease is everywhere; it's on social media, websites, digital ads, brochures, you name it.
And someone who knows a thing or two about fake news when it comes to prostate cancer is Dr. Stacy Loeb. Dr. Loeb is a urologist at NYU Langone Health Center in Manhattan, New York. She also hosts the Men's Health Show on SiriusXM US-Canada satellite radio. Dr. Loeb, we're grateful and honored to have you with us today on Prostate Cancer Uncensored. Welcome
Stacy Loeb, MD: Thank you so much for having me.
Bearse: We're honored to have you. How are you?
Loeb: Great, great. Good to be here, and what a really important topic.
Bearse: Definitely. And now, Dr. Loeb, when we were talking the other day you had mentioned that it's actually your grandfather that got you into the prostate cancer cause and working in the urology field. Is that right?
Loeb: That is absolutely right. My grandfather and I were very close, he raised me, and he passed away from prostate cancer while I was in medical school. So at that point in time, I decided to dedicate my career towards helping other men and their families who are going through this.
Bearse: That's terrific that you're helping other families. We have a connection there that my grandfather also passed away from prostate cancer after fighting it for more than a decade. So we have that connection there too. What's your favorite memory of your grandfather?
Loeb: Oh, gosh, I mean there's so many. But I remember he would always come to my tennis matches after school, and I would sleep over at my grandparents' house. They were just really wonderful people, and I'll just miss them always.
Bearse: My favorite memory of my grandfather: I would sit on his lap and he would always have a Peppermint Patty for me. So I think that's where I got my chocolate addiction from.
Loeb: Very nice.
Bearse: [laughter] Now aside from being a urologist and a radio host, Dr. Loeb, you're also a researcher. And the research that I'm interested in hearing most about is prostate cancer and the vast amount of misinformation about it online. Can you tell us about your findings or some of the most recent research that you've worked on around that?
Loeb: Yes, absolutely. So, you know, the internet I think is really a double-edged sword for patients because there's certainly a lot of great information out there, including on social media. It's a great way to keep up on new research findings and connect with doctors and researchers in the field. However, the content really is not vetted, and there's also a lot of false information circulating out there.
We started addressing this topic by looking at the first 150 YouTube videos on prostate cancer. What we found is that a significant number of these videos contained biased or misinformative content either within the video itself or in the comments section underneath.
Bearse: And now through the research, Dr. Loeb, what has been the biggest prostate cancer myth that you've seen be repeated over and over and over again?
Loeb: Well, you know, quite a few things. Some of the information is just outdated. So, for example, prostate cancer screening guidelines have changed. At one time the United States Preventive Services Task Force recommended against prostate cancer screening. This was later revised to recommend shared decision-making about the pros and cons of screening. But there's a lot of videos out there that just say that the US Preventive Services Task Force recommends against screening. So one issue with online information is that once something is posted online it just basically remains up there in perpetuity unless it's actively removed. So you have to be very careful as a health consumer about looking at the date of the information and whether it's a very recent piece of information, because things are just constantly changing in medicine.
But then there were other videos that just simply had wrong information. One that comes to mind is a video about injection of herbs into the prostate as a treatment for prostate cancer, which is not evidence-based. This is not a standard treatment that's recommended in the guidelines, however this video has more than 300,000 views on YouTube. So I find this very concerning since we have no research indicating that this type of treatment would work, and, in fact, injecting herbs into the prostate could even be potentially very dangerous.
Bearse: I bet. You had mentioned the USPSTF around prostate cancer screening. One of my concerns with the information that remains out there over de-recommendation from the USPSTF, which basically in layman's terms means don't bother, or you don't have to talk to your doctor about prostate cancer screening. One of my concerns is that it's still that old practice, or that old recommendation is something that really continues to stick in the minds of general practitioners when men who are at risk for prostate cancer come in and talk about some of their health concerns that they may or may not should be thinking about. Do you see that as a concern too?
Loeb: Absolutely, I think it's a huge problem. And, you know, the large amount of online content that continues to discuss those old recommendations would only serve to perpetuate this. So I think this is a really big problem that as the field changes and the science changes there's a lot of old stuff that stays on the internet and kind of remains in the culture of medicine that is really no longer applicable.
Bearse: Definitely. And this question may be obvious, but you had mentioned that there's not only dated information out there, but just plain and simple wrong information – and we'll get into more of that – and I know you gave me an example around herbal injections into the prostate. So there's a lot of wrong information out there. Why do you think this is so harmful to men?
Loeb: Well, I think that first of all if patients and their families see misleading information online it could change their decisions about their care, their perceptions about treatment options. And even if patients and their families end up discussing these options with a doctor and still receive the standard treatment, if a large portion of the medical visit is spent discussing things that people saw on the internet that are not evidence-based, then that's that much less time available to discuss the standard treatment options. So my concern is, 'can it affect decision-making among patients and their families if they see some of these videos with false information that's really compelling?'
In the case of the video about the herbal injections, that's a very popular video. So just because something has a lot of views or likes on social media doesn't mean that it's good or that it's accurate. But this is a trap that we can fall into. I myself am subject to this. When I'm trying to purchase something on Amazon, I do take into consideration the number of positive reviews that something has received. But the truth is these could be from bots, these could be from people working for the company that sells the product, there's no way for me to even vet the people who are reviewing the products that I'm looking at on Amazon, and the same kind of thing would apply to these pieces of content about prostate cancer.
So I think your safest bet is to go to sources that you know are trustworthy for content about prostate cancer, such as ZERO or some of the national health organizations, governmental groups where there isn't commercial bias and you know that the information is trustworthy.
Bearse: Well, great. And you were talking a few minutes ago about herbal injections into the prostate. You had mentioned that had thousands upon thousands of views on YouTube, being a really well produced video. It's almost understandable that men might think that that's legitimate, right, and it almost goes to your Amazon example.
Loeb: Yeah, absolutely. There were some videos by very prominent academic clinicians and researchers in the field that had very few views, but these videos were not produced with high production quality. I think it's very difficult as a clinician and a researcher. I don't have a videography team at my disposal. It would take a lot for me to make a very well-produced video, whereas commercial entities have a large budget for these types of materials.
So if you think about it, many of the videos that don't really have a high production quality could be coming from some of the people who are real experts in the field. So just because it's a snappy video with good production quality doesn't mean that the information is accurate. And vice-versa; if a prominent physician is sitting at their desk and filming something on their iPhone, it may not look very snappy, but they may be sharing really important information.
Bearse: Definitely. And the web is really the first place that many men go – really anybody goes to – when they hear about if they've got a health problem. So men when they hear the words "prostate cancer" or "you've got prostate cancer" uttered by their doctor, one of the first places they go is the web. So with all that fake news, not only is it just harmful to them, but it can really be a waste of your time, too, right?
Loeb: Yeah, definitely. I think it's a big waste of time.
Bearse: Well, for yours, too. You had mentioned that you're putting together a bigger and bigger team all the time to go through some of these videos and misinformation, that I'm sure that you personally get caught into doing it a lot, too, no?
Loeb: Right, absolutely. I think it's a common occurrence that patients come to the office and they've seen something online and they want to talk about it, and really it has no relevance to their case. And it concerns me that we're spending precious minutes in the short encounter dispelling myths.
But we are working on this, as you mentioned, in the research setting. We have developed a larger team of physicians and researchers who want to address this issue, so we're looking into new possibilities. For example, could there be a computer science approach to this where we use machine learning to help us identify potentially misinformative content about prostate cancer?
We have been working on this. We just published a preliminary conference paper about this for a multimodal modeling conference, and basically with our preliminary algorithm, we have about 74% accuracy of the model to identify misinformative videos about prostate cancer. So we're excited about this and we'll see where this research goes.
Bearse: And you had mentioned when we were talking the other day that there's a lot of work ahead of you. Give me a ballpark figure, out of 10 pieces of prostate cancer information that you would find online, what's the percentage of it that's misinformation or just not true?
Loeb: Well, in the sample that we looked at on YouTube, 77% of the top 150 videos had something that was potentially biased or misinformative within the video or the comments, so it depends if you watch the whole video, if you read the comments underneath. But we did see some surprising things. Believe it or not, patients and their families are asking each other for medical advice in the comments section on YouTube and giving and receiving advice; so there were people asking what treatment should my dad have for his prostate cancer, and another user writes back. So bottom line: I think it's very important to let the buyer beware, and for health consumers to be very discerning about where they're going for their information.
Bearse: That's astounding, almost 4 out of 5 pieces of information about prostate cancer on the web may be biased or have some sort of misinformation in them that prostate cancer patients and their caregivers should be aware of. That's astounding. But let's give our listeners some advice, Dr. Loeb. We can't stop men from going online, so when they do, how can they make sure that the info that they're getting is good or reliable?
Loeb: Well, I have a few pointers. Number one as I mentioned, the date of the information is very important. There are new drugs that are approved, guidelines change, new research studies come out that change the sequence of prostate cancer treatments. So this is a constantly dynamic field which is great news, but the downside is that information can quickly become dated. So looking at the date of any content that you're reviewing is very important.
Another piece of advice I would say is to ask your doctor where to look for information. I think that we can all agree, both patients and physicians, that a clinical encounter is too short and it's natural that patients and their families are going to need more in-depth information. And that can be a prospective discussion between patients and their physician – what websites do you recommend, do you have any videos, any books, other resources? So rather than trying to track things down on your own, getting some suggested resources directly from your physician or from a trusted organization like ZERO.
Another piece of advice is just to talk about things that you see online with your doctor. If something is pressing on your mind that you reviewed, or if there's something that's so compelling that it makes you want to change what you do, or even not do the treatment that was originally discussed with the doctor, I think it's really important to just be upfront with that. There's been a lot of research about the impact of the internet on patient-physician communication and it's a really mixed bag, but it can be a real supplement to patient-physician communication.
A patient who is really well informed and has read a lot about their options, really presents new opportunities for the patient-physician discussion. So just making sure to let the doctor in on any doubts or concerns that you may have, or that have been raised as a result of what you read online, so that they can be talked through.
Bearse: And, Dr. Loeb, I believe you split your time between doing research and also on the clinical side seeing patients. Is that right?
Loeb: Yes, that's right. I have three clinical days and two research days. I really enjoy having both components as part of my job, because I see it as the circle of life. Some of my best research ideas have been inspired by questions that patients ask me in clinic; for example, my first NIH grant looked at comparing different strategies for active surveillance of prostate cancer, what happens over a lifetime if you were to have a biopsy every year versus every 5 years, or perhaps do an MRI instead of biopsy.
And there really aren't any randomized trials comparing these different approaches, but patients were asking me, "do I really have to have another biopsy this year." We didn't know the answer, so I made a grant proposal to create a mathematical model that would compare the outcomes of these different protocols over a lifetime horizon, and it felt very validating to then go back to the clinic and tell these patients the results of the research, what we found, and what I would then say about their case.
So I see the clinical and research side as really being an ideal marriage, and there's nothing better than using patients' questions to inspire what really are the most important topics to look at and research, and then to go back to patients with the results.
Bearse: Yeah, it must be amazingly empowering to, like you just said, hear some of the questions that you're getting from your patients on the clinical side, and then to go back and over time, be able to find the answers that they're searching for and be able to deliver on that.
Loeb: Yes.
Bearse: That's wonderful. And putting on my patient advocacy hat, and we're talking about misinformation around prostate cancer and where to go to really get the most accurate information, are there websites that come to mind, you know, maybe two or three websites that come to mind that you trust almost implicitly that you send your patients to?
Loeb: Yeah. Well, I mean, I think right here we're talking about it; you can go to zerocancer.org, I think that's definitely a great website. I just finished my term as chair of the Technology and Publications Committee for the Urology Care Foundation, and there's a lot of good resources available on their website. They also have a print magazine and sometimes sponsor some tweet chats about prostate cancer.
I've also been working with the Prostate Cancer Foundation on some digital content for patients; I helped with the patient guide that they've come out with that discusses different treatment options, and I also work with them to host a once-per-month prostate cancer journal club on Twitter. So anyone who's interested can certainly participate in that, it's open to anyone and it's indexed on Twitter using #prostatejc, which stands for Prostate Journal Club. So we discuss one new article per month there, and a lot of different clinicians and scientists in the field participate in that. So those are a few sources that come to mind.
Bearse: Yeah, it's interesting you bring up the Prostate Journal Club and having that Twitter discussion happen every month. I remember going through and studying for my MPA and hearing one of the professors talk about if you're working on a research project, one of the most helpful tools out there is actually Twitter to communicate among your fellow researchers to get discussion going around some of the projects that are being worked on. So would you say that's a plus. There are places on social media like Twitter or Facebook or whatever that can help spread misinformation, but then you also have it on the flipside, that it's been able to, would you say, it's been able to speed connection among researchers or help collaboration in that way?
Loeb: No question. I think there definitely is a very positive side to social media. ZERO is very involved in social media, and I think it is an important way for patients to get information and support as they go through the process. Some of these things that I mentioned, like the Prostate Cancer Journal Club on Twitter, I think it's really a neat concept.
We have a journal club once a month for NYU Urology. My department meets in one room in the hospital and we discuss six new journal articles that came out, but that is only within our hospital. So the traditional journal club concept, although it's nice to keep up to date on research, it's a bit insular, that it's geographically limited and it's not open to the public.
So these Twitter-based journal clubs is a nice way for discussions about new research to happen among a multidisciplinary group of doctors and scientists from all around the world, and which is open to the public, and therefore patients, caregivers, and other stakeholders can also participate in these discussions.
So I think in a way social media is a great equalizer, it levels the playing field where everyone can view the same information at the same time, form connections. I myself have become connected with many other professionals working on prostate cancer from around the world through Twitter and with many patient advocates who actively participate in these discussions, so I think it's really been fantastic.
So I wouldn't want to give an overly negative viewpoint of social media, I guess you could say there's a lot of promise and a lot of peril, which is why it's just important to be very selective about where you're looking for information.
Bearse: Now, as a member of the public or the general public, what would you say that we could be doing better as a society to spread the correct information around prostate cancer or health issues; what are we not doing that we should be doing?
Loeb: Well, I think ZERO is already leading the charge. I think if there are websites where there's a catalog of resources, where people can look for information, that that's a good start. Certainly if you see anything that's misleading or false, reporting that content would be a good start so that hopefully we can start to get some of these things taken off the internet. And creation of more content that is good, let's try to drown out the misinformation.
They say the solution to pollution is dilution, so as a healthcare professional, I think that part of our mission is to get involved in the public discourse. That's why I participate in social media actively and why I host the radio show on SiriusXM. I see it as part of my duty to help raise the signal above the noise and provide good quality information to the general public. So I would encourage other healthcare professionals and scientists to actively participate in these public networks and help set the record straight.
Bearse: And I was just going to say that, that's definitely some place that men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer or their caregivers or families should go. You have quite a following on social media on Twitter, I believe your Twitter handle is @loebstacy – it's loebstacy – and Dr. Loeb has almost 13,000 followers on Twitter. I know that doesn't necessarily validate that what she's saying is true, but everything that you are saying is factual and true, and you're dedicating your career toward breaking down that misinformation and putting out there the correct information so men can make the best-informed decisions around their prostate health. So that's definitely some place to go is to follow Stacy on Twitter, and certainly listen to your show on SiriusXM. What channel is that on?
Loeb: So the show on SiriusXM channel 110, it's the Men's Health Show. It's live on Wednesdays from 6 to 8 p.m. EST, and there are repeats throughout the week. If you miss the show, it's also available for subscribers in the on-demand section of the SiriusXM website. One bonus of listening to the show live is that we do take questions from callers, so if you are a patient or a family member and have a question about prostate cancer, we get a lot of great experts on the show. I interview all kinds of different people about different prostate cancer topics, and you're always welcome to call in and ask us a question.
Bearse: Now, what's a topic that you keep going back to over and over again, Dr. Loeb?
Loeb: Well, you know, really all different aspects of prostate cancer. Our next show is on prostate cancer genetics, and about BRCA in men. Certainly a lot of people have heard of BRCA in relation to breast cancer and Angelina Jolie, but there seems to be a lot less awareness among the public about the relationship between BRCA and an increased risk of prostate cancer. So that is the topic of this week's show.
We're also going to be doing a lot more on diet and nutrition in prostate cancer on upcoming shows, and about prostate cancer treatment. On my last show we discussed some of the newer approaches to radiation therapy for prostate cancer and some of these shorter-course radiation therapy options. And as new research comes out, we try to just invite the people who write the studies to hopefully give the public the first glance at research that comes out.
Bearse: It sounds like we're aligned on much of this. I just recently did a ZERO Live on Facebook with a doctor talking about BRCA mutations around prostate cancer and how important it is to continue to get somatic and germline testing around BRCA2 genes to see how your body changes over time and how that dictates your risk of having aggressive disease. Definitely an important topic.
Loeb: Yeah, for sure. Really a hot area now is prostate cancer genetics, a huge topic of research, and I think this is going to be extremely important moving forward. Already there's some targeted therapy options for prostate cancer for patients who have specific genetic mutations, and I think we're just at the tip of the iceberg. This is just going to keep advancing over the next few years. So as I see it, a decade from now, probably everything will be genetically determined.
I suspect that all men will undergo germline testing at a young age — this will help determine their risk of developing prostate cancer in their lifetime. Hopefully there will even be targeted prevention approaches where depending on your genetic makeup, certain prevention strategies might work for you better than it would for other people. And then treatment. Probably treatment of the future is going to be based on genetic pathways and targeting the specific mutations in each case. So we're not totally there yet; we're only at the beginning, but I think it's really an exciting time of moving forward into precision medicine, and I encourage all of the listeners to stay tuned on that topic.
Bearse: Definitely, I couldn't have said it better myself, that that's going to help get us to generation ZERO, the first generation of men free from prostate cancer, to be able not only to detect the disease early, but be able to determine what's aggressive disease and what's a benign tumor that you can live with.
Dr. Loeb, thank you for sharing your story with us, and helping us navigate the sea of misinformation out there about prostate cancer. As you said, for our listeners, a place you can always trust for information is zerocancer.org. But then also following Dr. Loeb on Twitter, it's @loebstacy – again that's on Twitter – or tune into her show on SiriusXM channel 110, the Men's Health Show. You can always trust those two places for getting accurate information around prostate cancer.
Dr. Loeb, thank you for joining us today.
Loeb: Thank you so much for having me.
Bearse: And once again, I'm your host, Jamie Bearse. And thank you to each and every one of our listeners for tuning in to Prostate Cancer Uncensored.
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The Maleny Bridge Club aims to provide a comfortable environment where both members and visitors can enjoy a friendly and relaxed game of bridge.
Bridge is popular in Maleny. Remember, playing bridge is a valuable exercise for the mind. It is easy to learn and keeps you mentally fit. A side benefit is that you meet lots of new friends. Currently more than 110 players each week turn up at the club for a game or tuition.
The Club started up in 1994 and operated out of the lower rooms at the RSL up until 2015. We then moved upstairs to the main RSL Hall and enjoyed the extra space and facilities available. The club had been looking to build its own premises since 2005. A sublease over an area of land on the Maleny Precinct was secured in 2017. On the 29th October 2018 the club started operations at the new Clubhouse at 15 Porters Lane. The picture shows an early perspective of a new clubhouse drawn by Gordon Conroy in 2012 and featured in the Club's Business Plan.


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I See Naked People: Tragicomedy "Pure" About Sexuality And OCD
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Dmitry Kurkin
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TV mini-series "Pure" aired on UK Channel 4, an unexpected dramedy about obsessive-compulsive disorder and sexuality, based on a true story. Passed almost imperceptibly and without big names (Joe Cole, who played one of the Shelby brothers in Peaky Blinders, is almost the main star in the cast), "Pure" is nevertheless worth spending three hours on it.
Although those around her would never suspect that Marnie was anything different from them, she herself, since adolescence, has been waging a daily war with her mind. On the street, at a party, on public transport - anywhere - she constantly sees unbridled sex. "It's like seeing dead people - only I see naked people," says the heroine herself. For a while, she manages to endure this non-disconnectable "pornhub" in her head. But when a modest family celebration in her brain turns into a wild orgy with the participation of her parents, it becomes clear that Marnie is one step away from breaking loose and being branded as a "pervert" - a stigma with which it will be difficult to live in her native Scottish town.
For salvation - and answers to what is happening to her - Marnie goes to London. After hearing the expert's suggestion that obsessive fantasies can be an expression of suppressed homosexuality, Marnie goes to test the theory in a lesbian club and quickly becomes convinced of its erroneousness. It becomes much easier for her when a new acquaintance explains to her the peculiarity of life in a multi-million dollar metropolis: in a larger city you are an anonymous person, its inhabitants do not care about you, "as long as you do not try to rob them or talk to them." This thought is reassuring - but it also turns out to be wrong.
The heading "Pure" is short for "Pure O", a shortened version of the term "purely obsessional OCD". This "pure" OCD is an understudied condition that some consider a form and others a phase of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Because of him, a person is haunted by obsessive thoughts, however, she or he does not perform physical compulsive actions - only mental rituals.
The visions can be very different, but Rose Cartwright, the author of the biopic Pure, adapted for the series, got sexual fantasies. "People are ashamed to talk about such things. I have lived with this shame for most of my life, although at some point I just didn't give a damn,"recalls Cartwright, for whom the favorable reviews of the book came as a surprise. "I realized that I can talk about it freely, and I think people will be comforted by the fact that it is not necessary to hide it - it's not so embarrassing, you can talk about it and people will accept it."
The very appearance of "Pure" - after "Lady Dynamite", "Good Doctor", "Atypical" and other attempts, successful and not so, to tell about how people with mental disabilities live is a sure sign that the attitude to the topic mental health in society is gradually changing. If the series had been released ten years ago, it would most likely have turned out to be either a collection of jokes about "naked and funny", or a hypertrophied tear-maker about how difficult it is to be different. Pure's undoubted success is that it maintains a great balance, thanks to which it does not misinterpret the original story (Cartwright admits that due to her condition, she "did not become an outcast, did not lose relationships, did not lose friends), and remains dynamic. The ridiculous situations that Marnie gets into over and over again seem ridiculous for the time being: the editing of "Pure" constantly reminds us that OCD attacks are not a joke (here, too, it was not without personal experience - panic attacks from showrunner Kirsty Swain).
"Pure" is also an honest conversation about sexuality that is not easy to carry out.Every second Marnie realizes that her visions are unreal and that, contrary to her uncontrolled imagination, she will not pounce on others. But this, firstly, does not diminish the burning feeling of shame (even when people around you are understanding, progressive and generally sympathetic to you personally), and secondly, it only encourages further doubts. Where does the obsession end and the usual desire to have sex begin?
Pure has no answers - and that's great. Having succumbed to the temptation to wave a magic wand, "fix" everything and explain everything to everyone, the scriptwriters would deprive the show of the only thing for which these short six episodes are worth watching at all - the sense of genuineness with which the series expresses a simple, in general, thesis. That there are no "normal" people, and that there are things that you just have to live with.
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Reburial of Richard III: resting-place and rites
From Revd Peter Blackman
Sir, - When I was Vicar of Groby, about five miles west of Leicester, a second county primary school was opened in the parish, and called The Elizabeth Woodville School. Elizabeth was associated with Groby because her first husband was John Grey, and his home was The Old Hall in Groby. After they had had two sons, Thomas and Richard, John was killed fighting for the Lancastrians against the Yorkists in the Wars of the Roses. Shortly afterwards, the Yorkists won, and Edward IV replaced Henry VI as King. Edward married the widowed Elizabeth.
The Earl of Warwick (the King-maker) and other leading supporters of Edward disapproved of this marriage for three reasons. Elizabeth was only the daughter of a knight. Her family were Lancastrians, not Yorkists. She was one of a very large family who gained promotion through the Queen.
Until about ten years ago, when Professor Arlene Okerland published her biography Elizabeth Wydeville: The slandered queen, the history of this Queen Elizabeth was based on the opinions of her critics, and was quite slanderous. Elizabeth was a devout and active Christian. She insisted that she would not be Edward's mistress: either he married her or they would have no intercourse. There was an earlier occasion when she had given a lead to help a farmer whose home was burnt. She refounded Queens' College, Cambridge. At the end of her life, she lived in Bermondsey Abbey.
When Edward IV died, his young son succeeded as King Edward V. His uncle, then Duke of Gloucester, became his regent. He immediately became the chief adversary of dowager Queen Elizabeth, whom he hated. Having taken control of the boy king, he had his former carers, Elizabeth's brother Earl Rivers, and her second son, Richard Grey, put to death at Pontefract. Then he impeached and killed Lord Hastings, a leading friend and adviser of Edward IV; and later had the Duke of Buckingham executed at Salisbury, despite both these peers' having supported his regency.
It is beyond reasonable doubt that, guilty of these four murders, Richard III, as he became, was also responsible for the murder of the boy King Edward and his younger brother in the Tower of London.
So Richard III murdered at least six people in order to steal the sovereignty of our country. To give him a last resting-place in any consecrated church or churchyard is inappropriate. To suggest that this might be a means of attracting visitors to that place is disgraceful. The Christian Church does not further its mission of love by making evil attractive.
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Sir, - I have been surprised by the alacrity with which some ecclesiastics have showered the last Yorkist king with claims for his reburial as if this were part of a competition being run by the heritage industry.
The grant of the exhumation licence does not need to settle the matter, as it is open to appeal, and it may be possible to show that the Ministry of Justice has exceeded its remit in the unusual case of handling royal remains. Unless the the Ministry can cite precedent, it would be appropriate for the Minister to advise the Crown and establish the Crown's wish in this unique matter.
But, wherever the king's last mortal remains are re-interred, there can be no funeral service. It is unthinkable that Richard III was buried in the choir of a monastic foundation without appropriate rites, no matter how hurried and how discreetly performed these may have been. There can therefore be no reason to duplicate them now. I suspect also that enough requiems have already been said over the years.
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The worth of Queensland-based stallion Domesday soared on Saturday after his son Extra Brut won the historic Victoria Derby at Flemington.
Extra Brut (Domesday x Dom Perion by Redoute's Choice) is the second classic winner by his sire and was the first Derby starter for his trainer Darren Weir.
He also becomes the fifth G1 winner sired by Domesday, a son of Red Ransom standing at Aquis Farm.
The colt was having his first start in the light blue and black of Aquis Farm after the stud bought into the colt only last week.
A $100,000 Classic Yearling Sale purchase by Spicer Thoroughbreds from the Grange Thoroughbreds draft, Extra Brut has won four of his six starts for prize money of $1,415,620.
He was initially sold for $52,000 to Gary Mudgway from the Stonehouse Thoroughbreds draft at the 2015 Great Southern Weanling Sale.
Bred by Andrew McDonald, Extra Brut was a pinhook success story for Mudgway as he onsold the colt to Spicer Thoroughbreds at the Classic Sale seven months later.
Domesday standing on a fee of only $9,900, is the sire of 18 stakes winners including his five G1 winners Extra Brut, Pressday, Daysee Doom, Doctor Doom and 2017 Queensland Derby winner Ruthven, now racing in Hong Kong.
He is also the sire Five To Midnight who won the Listed Fielding Gold Cup in New Zealand on Saturday.
Extra Brut is one of two winners for his dam Dom Perion, a winning daughter of the unraced mare Chamnpagnecharlotte (Rahy)/, herself a half-sister to G2 winners Esteemed Friend (Gulch) and Badouizm (Sheikh Albadou) and the Listed winner Red Monsoon (Miswaki).
Extra Brut's older half-sister Fill The Flute (Statue Of Liberty) has won four of her eight starts.


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Summer cottages were then built adjacent to it for sale to New York City residents, developing into the hamlet of Lake Peekskill. Today's community is mostly year-round. There are three private beaches on the lake: North Beach, Singers Beach and Carraras Beach.

Following some years when hazardous algal blooms were present, in 2019 it was reported that the recent installation of a diffuser system had ameliorated the problem.

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'THEY LIVE!' – An Esoteric Film Analysis
October 8, 2016 By Jay Dyer 1 Comment
I have only analyzed two John Carpenter films, Big Trouble in Little China and Prince of Darkness (while Branko Malic covered The Thing), but it's admittedly absurd to have not covered They Live! on a site dedicated to deep state connections and film. For most of the audience, the meaning and message of They Live! will likely be obvious, but aspects of the film may have been missed and as our world spirals more and more into total insanity, Carpenter's classic is becoming more and more of a reality – we really are living in a dystopic B sci-fi film!
Our film begins with Banksy-style graffiti, exemplifying the "underground" movement of the anti-establishment proletariat, replete with its own subculture of signs and symbols. Graffiti culture is unique, insofar as it exists in every city, generally dismissed as trashy (it often is), yet hidden within this mystic symbols is another language – a language of codes and ciphers that alert other gangs "in the know." Signaling gang territory and other black market operations, graffiti embodies a crude form of something akin to the NSA's advanced cryptography. Listverse relates (see whole article!):
"Gang graffiti in Los Angeles is not random vandalism. To those who know how to decipher the secret language, these markings are the "newspaper of the street." They reflect territorial boundaries, rivalries, and allegiances. Law enforcement officers have even used the secret messages to solve crimes.
Often the names of the gangs themselves are shrouded in code. The monikers are often written abbreviated, such as "ES DKS SGV" for the Eastside Dukes of the San Gabriel Valley. In some cases, gangs have disguised their names by using Roman or Mayan numbers.
Gang graffiti began in Los Angeles with the emergence of Latino factions over 70 years ago. Initially, it was simply a way of glorifying the organization and marking "turf." Black gangs quickly contributed to the language. The '70s and '80s saw the peak of the gang graffiti movement in Los Angeles.
They Live! graffiti.
There is a marked difference between gang graffiti and the work of taggers. The latter also engage in a coded language of vandalism, but theirs is based more in outsider art than the criminal underworld. However, differentiation is complicated by the fact that taggers often paint on gang-controlled walls, and city authorities have recently used gang injunctions against tagging crews. To those fluent in the visual cryptolect of L.A. gangs, though, they are worlds apart."
Now when it comes to Rowdy Roddy Piper, I am reminded of a dude I went to high school who had jacked up teeth we called Rowdy Rotty Tooth. That has no relevance to the analysis, but I still think it's funny. As for wrestlers, the 80s and the American path to power and glory, think no further than Jesse Ventura and our likely future president, Donald J. Trump.
The smooth transition from Hollywood to politics – one theater to another.
In case you were unaware, Trump was a WWE figure for a bit, and lest you laugh at this pedigree, consider how many actors have become politicians – notably Reagan, Arnold, Ventura, and now Trump. Indeed, Piper in his latter days was also "speaking out" when it comes to political issues (appearing on Alex Jones), prompting knee-jerk YouTuber idiots to cry foul as "Illuminati Sacrifice." I'm just waiting for the Coco Beware/Irwin R. Schiester Presidential ticket, and maybe then my confidence in voting will be restored.
Piper is also interesting as the star of another conspiratorial themed 80s B movie called Hell Comes to Frogtown. This gem is a lot of fun, too, with the surprisingly accurate plot centering around a future dystopia where mankind has been sterilized and Roddy happens to the last virile chap about. Watching this as a teen in puberty on USA's Up All Night, I recall thinking how great this idea actually was, since, as you can guess, Roddy stumbles upon a colony of gorgeous women seeking a fecund male.
USA's Up All Night!
Back to They Live! – as with many Carpenter flicks, the omnipotent street preacher appears with foreboding messages of doom. Here, the message is about a shadowy elite that have engineered the economic collapse that has wiped out the working class. Piper plays "Nada," the aimless drifter looking for work who refuses to join a union. Similarly, the "underground" works with the churches to establish a resistance that can "hack the signal" to awaken the masses (a staple of every dystopian film). The hacked transmission states:
"…our impulses are being redirected. We are living in an artificially induced state of consciousness that resembles sleep… …the movement was begun eight months ago by a small group of scientists who discovered, quite by accident, these signals being sent through television… …the poor and the underclass are growing. Racial justice and human rights are nonexistent. They have created a repressive society and we are their unwitting accomplices… …their intention to rule rests with the annihilation of consciousness. We have been lulled into a trance. They have made us indifferent, to ourselves, to others, we are focused only on our own gain. We ha… …please understand, they are safe as long as they are not discovered. That is their primary method of survival. Keep us asleep, keep us selfish, keep us sedated… …they are dismantling the sleeping middle class. More and more people are becoming poor. We are their cattle. We are being bred for slavery. The revolution…we cannot break their signal, our transmitter is not powerful enough. The signal must be shut off at the source. We have…"
Mindless consumerism.
While tainted with a bit of Marxism and class warfare, the overall message of la resistance is correct and does accurately describe our world. The modern social engineers and Pentagon planners have worked for decades through the large foundations and think tanks to direct culture into a toxic sludge that feeds mindless consumerism. Much of this involves the directing of the passions through mass advertising and marketing.
These techniques were perfected, as has been stated, by figures like Edward Bernays and analyzed by thinkers like Jacques Ellul in his classic work, Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes. The intention of "annihilating consciousness" is almost directly parallel to the infamous statement of Bertrand Russell. As is often the misguided narrative of so many dystopian stories, however, there is no real "resistance" or underground guerilla movement (apart from the Church) that can combat this system. Yet, if read as a metaphor or allegory, Carpenter's film is still appropriate as a picture of our system. Ellul writes of film (perfectly exemplifying the message of They Live!):
"When the American producer makes a film, he has certain definite ideas he wants to express, which are not intended to be propaganda. Rather, the propaganda element is in the American way of life with which he is permeated and which he expresses in his film without realizing it. We see here the force of expansion of a vigorous society, which is totalitarian in the sense of the integration of the individual which leads to involuntary behavior." (Propaganda, pg. 64)
Ella's Propaganda.
Amazingly, Carpenter's film even reveals the core psy op of "Hollywoodism," that the narcissistic indulgence of fame and the camera lens can bring fulfillment – palpably demonstrated in the television scene with the woman describing her fantasy of being "famous" and thereby attaining meaning in her life. As a profound form of revelation of the method (one could argue), They Live! Centers around the television and Hollywood as the means of control – something JaysAnalysis certainly concurs with.
In fact, we even get the sense the "news" broadcast signal and the entire entertainment complex are the nexus of control by the human-looking "aliens." Through both the overt propaganda and subliminal signals beamed out alongside the consumerist-driven mind control, the "signals" seems to also affect brain waves and induce a walking sleep state. This is precisely what television was designed and engineered to do. The reference hearkens to something akin to Brzezinski's famous statements concerning ELF/VLF waves, as well as Col. Aquino's PsyOps claims. I wrote previously:
"Back in 1973, longtime Washington geopolitical strategist Zbigniew Brzezinski described the usage of Tesla technology for the dystopian control of large masses of populations in his Between Two Ages:
"In addition… future developments may well include automated or manned space warships, deep-sea installations, chemical and biological weapons, death rays, and still other forms of warfare–even the weather may be tampered with.
In addition, it may be possible–and tempting–to exploit for strategic-political purposes the fruits of research on the brain and on human behavior. Gordon J. F. MacDonald, a geophysicist specializing in problems of warfare, has written that timed artificially excited electronic strokes could lead to a pattern of oscillations that produce relatively high power levels over certain regions of the earth…. In this way, one could develop a system that would seriously impair the brain performance of very large populations in selected regions over an extended period…. No matter how deeply disturbing the thought of using the environment to manipulate behavior for national advantages to some, the technology permitting such use will very probably develop within the next few decades.
As one specialist noted, 'By the year 2018, technology will make available to the leaders of the major nations, a variety of techniques for conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum of the security forces need be appraised. One nation may attack a competitor covertly by bacteriological means, thoroughly weakening the population (though with a minimum of fatalities) before taking over with its own armed forces. Alternatively, techniques of weather modification could be employed to produce prolonged periods of drought or storm….(Gordon J. F. MacDonald, "Space," in Toward the year 2018, p.34)." (pg. 57 with fn)
…Modern scientism is something I have written about at length, and one of the greatest dark secrets is revealed precisely in the figure of Tesla. Like the Brzezinski quote above, not only has Tesla tech been used for weather warfare, Army psychological warfare expert and founder of the Satanic Temple of Set, Col. Michael Aquino describes the actual usage of Tesla's ELF/VLF radio frequency attacks upon mass populations. In his "From PsyOp to Mindwar: The Psychology of Victory," Aquino writes in the footnotes towards the end:
"Atmospheric electromagnetic (EM) activity: The Human body communicates internally by EM and electrochemical impulses. The EM field displayed in Kirlian photographs, the effectiveness of acupuncture, and the body's physical responses to various types of EM radiation (X-rays, infrared radiation, visible light spectra, etc.) are all examples of human sensitivity to EM forces and fields. Atmospheric EM activity is regularly altered by such phenomena as sunspot eruptions and gravitational stresses which distort the Earth's magnetic field. Under varying external EM conditions, humans are more or less disposed to the consideration of new ideas.
"There are no countries anymore. There are no good guys."
MindWar should be timed accordingly. Per Dr. L.J. Ravitz: Electromagnetic field constructs add fuel to the assumption unifying living matter harmoniously with the operations of nature, the expression of an electromagnetic field no less than non-living systems; and that as points on spectrums, these two entities may at last take their positions in the organization of the universe in a way both explicable and rational … A tenable theory has been provided for emergence of the nervous system, developing not from functional demands, but instead deriving as a result of dynamic forces imposed on cell groups by the total field pattern. Living matter on has a definition of state based on relativity field physics, through which it has been possible to detect a measurable property of total state functions. (Ravitz, State-Function, Including Hypnotic States" in Journal of American Society of Psychosomatic Dentistry and Medicine Vol. 17, No. 4, 1970.)"
The infinite fight scene – I'm here to chew bubble gum and kick ass.
And,"Ionization of the air: An abundance of negative condensation nuclei ("air ions") in ingested air enhances alertness and exhilaration, while an excess of positive ions enhances drowsiness and depression. Calculation of the ionic balance of a target audience's atmospheric environment will be correspondingly useful. Again this is a naturally-occurring condition – caused by such varying agents as solar ultraviolet light, lightning, and rapidly-moving water – rather than one which most be artificially created. (Detonation of nuclear weapons, however, will alter atmospheric ionization levels.) Cf. Soyke, Fred and Edmonds, Alan, "The Ion Effect". New York: E.P. Dutton, 1977.
Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) waves: ELF waves up to 100 Hz are once more naturally occurring,but they can also be produced artificially (such as for the Navy's Project Sanguine for submarine communication). ELF-waves are not normally noticed by the unaided senses, yet their resonant effect upon the human body has been connected to both physiological disorders and emotional distortion. Infrasound vibration (up to 20 Hz) can subliminally influence brain activity to align itself to "delta", "theta", "alpha", or "beta" wave patterns, inclining an audience toward everything from alertness to passivity. Infrasound could be used tactically, as ELF-waves endure for great distances; and it could be used in conjunction with media broadcasts as well. See Playfair, Guy L. and Hill, Scott, The Cycles of Heaven. New York: St. Martin'sPress, 1978, pages 130-140."
Perpetual and total panopticon surveillance. They Live! surveillance drones.
The other interesting insight in the film concerns the mass surveillance the alien establishment covertly operates, keeping tabs on "who is awake." Once fingered, "Nada" is portrayed on television as a "terrorist," a theme often appearing in dystopic films, and amazingly real, as we have recently been vindicated concerning the "staged terror" narrative now being admitted. In fact, the Pentagon hired a PR firm, paying 540 million for the production of fake terror videos. This immediately brings to mind the last two years of glaringly ridiculous "ISIS" videos. Shawn Helton explains:
"Following the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the Pentagon reportedly paid PR firm Bell Pottinger $540 million to produce fake terror videos used to steer Western political interests.
If this latest report by the The Bureau of Investigative Journalism is accurate, the public is once again privy to another startling example of how deep-state social engineering impacts and propels larger geopolitical war campaigning.
This latest Pentagon public relations scandal comes after an onslaught of summertime war propaganda images were found to have been fabricated by the George Soros and US-UK government-backed pseudo NGO known as 'The White Helmets.'"
Patsy and faux-terrorist, John Nada.
Our aliens are said to be interdimensional entities that seek to "make earth's atmosphere like theirs," hinting at geoengineering. While I don't believe in aliens, we can make the connection to the demonic here, echoing my analysis of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, where I wrote:
Like the space jockey of Ridley Scott's Alien and Prometheus, the gnostic reconstruction of ancient mythology and science is a likely scenario for uniting the world under a global faux religion. In fact, panspermia has been promoted by top scientific luminaries, such Stephen Hawking, Sir Fred Hoyle and Francis Crick. There have been numerous hints at just this scenario, but here I am only speculating. Ironically, whether one accepts the existence of aliens or not, the actual out working of the cryptocracy's worldview, like the aliens in Invasion, looks strangely similar to the biblical description of the demonic. In Scripture, the demons seek to enslave man through mind control (possession), and the inducement to idolatry and self-destruction. Deuteronomy 32:16-18 reads:
"They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger. They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not. Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee."
And St. Paul writes in Ephesians 6:12:
"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."
Television entrances and propagandizes the masses.
The other interesting aspect of They Live! Is the revelation of a breakaway civilization, which I spoke about last year. The idea of the breakaway civilization is prevalent in fiction, and is based on the principle of mass depopulation and the creation of a new order, or new civilization of the superclass or super elite. I tend to believe this breakaway plan is not concerned with off-world colonies (at least anytime soon), but rather with earth itself. A much more sensible candidate for the breakaway civilization are the masses of underground bases owned by the military industrial complex, as I covered here. Indeed, we have recently seen mass occult ceremonies that mark the opening of these tunnels, showing They Live!'s scenario of an underground base/breakaway civilization operated by the elite is accurate.
Truly they live, while we sleep, as the television entrances and programs the masses through contrived spectacles – the key message of Carpenter's film. Critical theorist Guy Debord is appropriate here, as he noted in his famous Society of the Spectacle:
"The spectacle cannot be understood as an abuse of the world of vision, as a product of the techniques of mass dissemination of images. It is, rather, a Weltanschauung which has become actual, materially translated. It is a world vision which has become objectified. The spectacle presents itself simultaneously as all of society, as part of society, and as instrument of unification. As a part of society it is specifically the sector which concentrates all gazing and all consciousness. Due to the very fact that this sector is separate, it is the common ground of the deceived gaze and of false consciousness, and the unification it achieves is nothing but an official language of generalized separation."
"We'll have Global Government by 2025," the elite aliens state in the film.
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Former multiple world champion and boxing legend Lennox Lewis believes Anthony Joshua needs to fight outside of the U.K in order to become more respected in heavyweight boxing.
Lewis was known for fighting in other countries on numerous occasions. Lewis fought in places like Ireland, Canada, South Africa and obviously the United States, where he beat the likes of Evander Holyfield, Mike Tyson and Vitali Klitschko.
Joshua still hasn't got a fight under his belt abroad but that might change with the highly likely rematch against Wladimir Klitschko.
"For me, I believe that if you're a world champion, you should fight around the world – it builds you as a fighter and a person. You can have a good following in Britain, but then you go to America, and no one knows you. So you have to build a following there too. It's important to fight in other places. It's a historic thing. Muhammad Ali fought in Africa, so my aim was always to fight in Africa too, which I did," said Lewis according to The Sun.
Lewis says that making a name for yourself can be tough abroad, especially in the United States. But it's something that Joshua needs to do.
"Now, anywhere and everywhere I go, I still get fans coming up to me. In the beginning, when I started boxing over in America, I used to get booed because I was the Brit coming over to their country. But when I won over there, they said 'fine, he's an OK Brit! He boxes well'. They accepted me as a good fighter," told Lewis.
With just 19 professional fights, Joshua still has a long road ahead of him towards the same type of status that Lewis has. He definitely has potential but in order to be number one world wide, Joshua must fight world wide as well and win.


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With over 7,000 miles of coastline, Brazil boasts some of the world's most stunning tropical beaches. This South American beach destination offers year-round sunshine and soft, white sands. Be prepared to see lots of beautiful, bronzed and scantily clad bodies sporting the famous Brazilian bikini on its countless beaches. Made popular by vacationing actress this country beaches have since become a hot spot for dedicated sun-worshippers and people-watchers.
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The coastline offers pristine beaches, tropical forest hillsides, and rocky coasts. In between are ecological refuges, virgin beaches, and hundreds of islands to explore. Brazil has remained as one of the leading destinations, and an increase in the number of foreign tourists visiting the area has occurred. To start with, while areas of wild nature can still be found here, a bustling city life is one of the main features of this cosmopolitan place, together with the beaches with crystal clear water ideal to rest peacefully.
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Brazilian tourists however has some incredibly stunning and near deserted beaches for those looking for beach tranquillity and to get away from the crowds. All along the coastline of the state are reefs and a number of fine beaches with white sands. Most of the beaches are safe for swimming. Beaches are where locals congregate they sunbathe, surf, and play beach volleyball, but they also hit the shores to work out, eat, and drink. This country beaches have some of the world's liveliest boardwalks, and feature some of the best looking and people watching.
The beach is a small bit of sand and rock located between the beginning of Ipanema beach and Copacabana.
Barra Beach is the longest beaches in Rio. The surf is high and the tides strong.
Botafogo is also the name of a district of Rio de Janeiro city, where the beautiful small bay and the beach is located.
Copacabana beach is a very long, wide, crescent shaped, and is great for sunbathing and swimming.
Flamingo beach is the perfect escape for adult guests where sun, sand and real flamingos make this postcard scene come to life.
The beach is quite long and great for surfing and stand-up-paddling or just to relax and enjoy a Caipirinha.
Ipanema beach is bordered by Arpoador Beach on one end and Leblon Beach on the other end.
Leblon is the most affluent neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Leme Beach is a natural extension of famous Copacabana, This is a wide beach.
Sao Conrado is a neighborhood in the South Zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Trindade is a village in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro, 30km south of Paraty.
Urca Beach is a very small beach with only one hundred meters of seashore, and found at the foot of Urca Hill.
Vermelha beach is the main attraction, with its beautiful surroundings.
Vidigal overlooks Ipanema Beach and Ilhas Cagarras. It is located in the South Zone of Rio.
The most famous beach of Recife, this beach goes from Pina in the north the beach of Piedade in the south.
The beach is not very crowded at all during the week, it's very swimmable and walkable. It is popular for cycling and hiking.
Charitas Beach is long and sandy beach. This beach is great for sunbathing and swimming.
There are a lovely piece of shorelines in Flexas Beach and most by far of them are flawless and quiet.
It's the most shot beach in as per Tourist Reviews. Water Sport on Gragoata Beach is renowned one.
Icarai Beach is located in Niteroi. This is a really beautiful place to stay with the family and friends. The beach is clean and calm.
Itacoatiara is a beach with fine golden sands and bright blue or sometimes green water.
It is a beautiful landscape, it is a fisherman's beach. The peace that lives in this place is incredible.
Piratininga in Rio de Janeiro is an exposed beach break that has fairly consistent surf, although summer tends to be mostly flat.
Our guide to the top five beaches in San Francisco will help you to choose an awesome beach excursion for a sunny day.
A beautiful view especially in sunny days, very clear water and few waves. Good to go with family and friends to chit chat.
Angra dos Reis is in Rio de Janeiro state of Brazil. angra dos Reis is a protected area, as numerous endangered species inhabit these islands.
On the Beach there are snorkeling, scuba diving, tanning or lying in the sun, and beach hopping enthusiasts.
Cabo Frio is mostly popular with weekending cariocas, families, surfers, divers and other water-sports enthusiasts.
Guaruja is a city in Sao Paulo state, Brazil, and it is part of the Baixada Santista, the metropolitan area centered in Santos.
Ilha Comprida Beach is beautiful sandy beaches, interrupted only by small streams, make it a popular tourist destination.
Paraty is a coastal historic town and this is very well preserved beach has a small fishermen's village.
Santos is a city in the south of the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Santos beach is a still popular and a good place for a walk.
Ubatuba is one of the most popular seaside towns along Sao Paulo coast.
Barequecaba is a beach located 7 km south from the centre of the Brazilian city of Sao Sebastiao, Sao Paulo.
Boicucanga is a beach and neighborhood in the city of Sao Sebastiao, located on Sao Paulo state's northern coastline.
Guaeca's beach is very quiet, a perfect place to relax and enjoy nature. During winter time there are good waves to surf.
The sea is very quiet, which makes it inviting for families and children to play. But if you like to surf, waves are a lot stronger on the right.
Maresias is a very cozy place.The beach has a green clear water and the sea can vary from rough waves to a very good surfing condition.
Toque Grande and Toque-Toque Pequeno are two beaches at the Atlantic Ocean in the city of Sao Sebastiao. and it is 800m long.
Bonete Beach is located south of Ilhabela, is the widest beach of the island, away from civilization.
600 meters from the Central Beach is one of the postcards of the city, Ilha das Cabras.
The calm and clear sea is also favorable for scuba diving.
Beautiful beach in Ilhabela and also considered one of the most beautiful in Brazil.
Praia do Curral is the busiest and most popular beach for tose who want to have fun in Ilhabela.
This is a beautiful and unexplored beach in the north of Ilhabela.
Praia do Veloso Beach is a small beach. This beach is a Perfect for watching the sunset.
Porto de Galinhas is a small beach town, very popular as a weekend getaway for people from nearby Recife.
Canoa Quebrada is a beach village in Ceara.It is an international tourist beach resort 164 km from Fortaleza.
Florianopolis is the capital and second largest city of the state of Santa Catarina, in the South region of Brazil.
Fortaleza is on the northeast coast of Brazil, near the equator, with a tropical climate.
Jericoacoara is a virgin beach hidden behind the dunes of the west coast of Jijoca de Jericoacoara.
Praia do Cassino is the southernmost beach of the Brazilian coast , on the South Atlantic Ocean.
Morro de Sao Paulo is a village in the northern tip of the Tinhare island in Bahia.
Natal has a great selection of gorgeous beaches and natural areas where you can enjoy extreme sports and More.
Pipa Beach is one of the most famous beaches of Brazil. This natural scenery is a must see when visiting Natal.
Ponta Negra is a famous beach and neighborhood located in the Brazilian city of Natal.


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An Industry First, the Series Offers Call Centers, Museums, Houses of Worship and Other Institutions the Ability to Wash Headphones and Headsets without Having to Worry About Damaging Sensitive Electronic Equipment SAN FERNANDO, Calif., May 31, 2011 – Califone® International, Inc., a leader in the design, development, and manufacturing of A/V products and accessories since 1947, is proud to announce that it will launch its new Titanium™ Series washable headphones and headsets during InfoComm 2011, held in Orlando, Fla. from June 15-17 at the Orange County Convention Center, booth 4117. This is the first product of its kind to offer houses of worship, museums, and other institutions the ability to wash headphones and headsets without having to worry about damaging sensitive electronic equipment. "No other headphone or headsets on the market can be washed, making the new Titanium Series unlike any other headphone or headset products previously offered," said Tim Ridgway, Califone VP of marketing. "The fact that this series offers washable options is incredibly appealing to call centers, religious organizations and businesses looking to improve users' audio-visual experiences without sacrificing product quality or affordability. Not only are these our safest products offered to date, they're also the quietest products we've ever made in terms of isolation of the amplified audio and external ambient noise rejection. The Titanium Series is ground breaking in its versatility, reliability, and durability, yet it still puts the user's listening experience first and foremost." The rugged new Titanium Series includes three headphones and three headsets, can limit the playback volume to 85dB via Sentinel™ technology, and offers a variety of cord options, allowing customers to choose from six different configurations. Availability includes a choice of USB or 3.5mm plug (without the Sentinel technology to limit the volume to 85dB), or not washable with a 3.5mm plug. The Titanium Series utilizes a number of never-seen-before features. Two each of the series' headphone and headsets are washable with the cords detached, providing a new standard for cleanliness. The ability to wash the Titanium Series helps assure that the institution will not need to replace the equipment as often due to wear and tear and also allows them to clean the equipment thoroughly without worrying about damaging the electronic components. No other headphones or headsets on the market can provide such a benefit. "The built-in Sentinel™ technology restricts volume playback to 85dB in adherence to guidelines recommended by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)," added Ridgway. "The first series of its kind to provide this functionality while also being washable, the Titanium Series allows institutions to offer users with an overall high-quality, safe listening experience never before possible." To lend an added degree of safety beyond cleanliness, the Series is made of rugged ABS plastic, which is stronger and less likely to break into dangerous shards, unlike the less durable plastics used in consumer items. Though ultra-strong, user comfort is not sacrificed. In addition to being washable, the supple ear cushions provide a softer point of contact and won't feel as warm after being worn for an extended period of time. A variety of cord options provide unique 5-pin connections with USB, 3.5 mm plug (with a ¼-inch adapter) options. For more information on the new Titanium™ Series washable headphones and headsets, please visit Califone® International, Inc. at www.califone.com. About Califone Founded in 1947, Califone is a leader in the design, development and manufacturing of a full line of audiovisual and supplemental products for use in education, presentation and professional AV markets. Califone products exceed customer expectations in both installed and portable applications at houses of worship, corporate AV, schools, parks and recreation, government, and other commercial market segments as well.
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Fintech startup Oxygen raises $17M in Series A round
Digital banking startup ReliefClub, Inc., which does business as Oxygen, said today it has raised $17 million in a new round of funding.
Runa Capital led the Series A round, which also included participation from S7V, 1984.vc, EFG Hermes, Rucker Park and Inventures, as well as celebrity and prominent fintech investors such as Frank Strauss, of the Private & Commercial Bank for Deutsche Bank AG, Plaid Inc. co-founder William Hockey, Ankur Nagpal, Peter Treadway and NFL wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald.
Oygen has built a digital banking platform and mobile application that it says provides flexible financial services to those who have multiple income streams, contract work or freelance working arrangements.
The platform provides a full range of banking services through its mobile app, which runs on both iOS and Android devices. It provides users with credit cards and debit cards and enables them to send and receive money, apply for a virtual credit card, make payments in stores, apply for loans and perform various other banking-related tasks directly from the app. As a bonus for users, Oxygen doesn't charge monthly fees, which means no overdraft, late or minimum balance fees are imposed.
Users can choose from a personal or business account, and they can top up their account any time by using GreenDot locations at stores such as Walmart or Walgreens. Oxygen has partnered with Visa Inc. on its Fast Track program that enables users to benefit from the reach and security of Visa's network. It also leverages Visa's real-time push payment solution Visa Direct to ensure users can be paid fast.
The company launched its services in January 2020 and says it has enjoyed tremendous growth in the past year, partly thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. It claims more than 125,000 accounts have been opened, with a 969-times revenue increase, though it doesn't provide specific numbers and that growth is no doubt off a small base.
"This investment not only validates what we've built but also enables us to continue pursuing our vision of building financial tools that integrate seamlessly with the digital world of today and delight our customers," said Oxygen Chief Executive Hussein Ahmed. "We founded Oxygen because we wanted to provide financial services in the same way people interact with technology in their everyday lives."
Oxygen said it plans to use the Series A funding to scale its team and offer new financial products and services to users in order to accelerate its growth.
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Sinothando Tiso
Women's Month is a special month for Engen as it provides the company with an opportunity to reflect on its commitment to helping gifted South African women explore new horizons.
Sinothando Tiso is one of many young women whose horizons have broadened thanks to Engen.
Speaking out to mark Women's Month, Sinothando says her personal philosophy is to "find your WHY, and your HOW will fall into place."
Continues Sinothando: "What I am trying to say to all young South African women is that it does not matter where you come from. Or what resources you have. If you strongly believe in your dreams and are willing to work hard enough to see them come to life, then it is possible to achieve them with the little that you have. So, for as long as you know your WHY, you will never lose your path. As one of my high school teachers used say, where there is a will, there is always a way".
Sinothando grew up in Motherwell in the Eastern Cape, where she completed her schooling, and is the first person in her family to attend university. This is a great achievement and the culmination of the enormous effort and sacrifices of her parents and grandmother who consistently encouraged her and always provided for her, despite often challenging circumstances.
"I was raised by my late grandmother who took care of me," explains Sinothando. "My parents worked day and night trying and make ends meet. I am truly grateful, because no matter how tough things got at times, I don't recall ever going to bed on an empty stomach. Also, the values that my grandmother instilled in me, from a young age, are what influenced the good choices I have made in my life, the things that I've achieved and the responsible young woman that I've become."
Today Sinothando is a proud Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering graduate of the University of KwaZulu-Natal. And thanks to her place in Engen's Graduate Development Programme she is employed in Engen's Lubricants Technical Department in Cape Town.
Sinothando attributes her love of science to the Engen Maths and Science Schools (EMSS) that she attended while in high school.
She first heard about the EMSS programme from her physical science teacher. She joined the EMSS Grade 10 group, where she attended the supplementary classes held at Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth, every Saturday, until she matriculated.
"One of the greatest experiences I got from attending EMSS was working in a real science laboratory for the first time. The high school that I attended did not have lab facilities. This had a great influence on my career choice and played a vital role in preparing me for university."
Like most ambitious young people, Sinothando dreams of career success and improving her knowledge. But she admits that she is a big dreamer who has so much that she still wants to achieve. "One of my biggest life goals is to build my parents their dream house. Their consistent support through my university years are what made it possible for me to make it this far. That made me promise myself that I will measure my success by the size of the smile on their faces."
She believes that life is there for the taking and that determination and grit plays a big role.
"Attitude is everything," says Sinothando. "The way you see life and the results of your actions all depend on your attitude."
Leaving the comfort of her home to go and study at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, with no back-up, family or friends was very difficult for her. "But I am rather proud to have made it through, because it brought about an immense amount of growth. When you step out of your comfort zone, you learn more about yourself and get to unleash your full potential."
Upon graduating Sinothando was invited to join Engen's Graduate Development Programme which she describes as nothing short of amazing so far. "The exposure to so many different fields and areas of the Engen business and the limitless opportunities that comes with being on this programme is overwhelming".
Transformation and the empowerment of black women is a top priority for Engen. According to Unathi Magida, Engen's Head of Transformation and Stakeholder Engagement, the company is focused on integrating more women across the entire value chain.
The statistics point to the success of Engen's strategy, with a 46% of Engen retail dealerships now black-owned, 10% of them women-owned. The Engen Limited board comprises 45% black members, and 22% black women, while the Engen management committee is 50% black and 42% female.
On the company's commitment to education, Magida explains that Engen supports excellence and opportunity amongst the youth right from school through to university.
"We are working actively to build a pipeline of black and female graduates, for the future good of the company and the country. We are proud to give Sinothando her wings and look forward to watching her fly," adds Magida.
By continuing to attract and grow the minds and talents of young women like Sinothando Tiso and to shape the careers of gifted graduates, Engen is forging ahead on its journey to make positive change.
Helping talented South African women to explore new horizons proves once again that as a company, Engen is committed to helping build a prosperous future for all South Africans.
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The Inventor of the Onesie: Winston Churchill
Your cute, summer onesie has an apocalyptic origin story. Instead of fading from fashion, the onesie has gone from strength to strength. We chart the greatest moments of the ultimate one-piece fashion item. With festival season in full swing, onesies are once again a wardrobe staple. The loose, one-piece garment and its shorter counterpart, the romper, have been popular for decades (with their cousins, the jumpsuit and catsuit enjoying their own sporadic bursts of popularity). But, unlike the utilitarian jumpsuit, which first came into use by pilots and mechanics in the 1910s, or the union suit (long flannel underwear favored by cowboys, Civil War soldiers, and this writer's dad), the onesie's origins are a bit more colorful.
The infamous 'onesie', a practical one-piece item of clothing originally designed by Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century, Nobel Prize Winner in Literature, first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States. Our great wartime leader designed his own version of the onesie as his ideal clothing choice while fighting the Nazis. He was famous for his all in one suits for every occasion. The "Siren Suit" one of his most famous, and how did Winston Churchill Refer to these.."Romper Suits" (someone else coined the term onesies..but Romper Suits is all his!).
There are only three original Winston Churchill siren suits known to be in existence, including a green velvet garment created by Turnbull & Asser. Churchill reportedly returned his siren suits to the Jermyn Street shirt-maker for repair on several occasions – damaged not through enemy action but by cigar burns.
Churchill wore one of these suits on a visit to the White House, Washington, in December 1941. At a press conference that week, Mrs Roosevelt declared she was having one made for her husband. Churchill himself was devoted to the siren suit and wore his all the time, even after the war, leading to some truly comical photo ops that found the British Bulldog himself, kitted out in a fetching, bottle-green siren suit alongside Stalin, Eisenhower, and other heads of state.
Marking the 50th anniversary of his death, Churchill's Scientists tells the little-known story of how Churchill's fascination with science led to the scientific achievements that helped Britain win the Second World War. One of his onesies was displayed at Blenheim Palace as well as other artifacts from his life, and you can see his Green Velvet Romper Suit at the Science Museum (where they had to commission a specially made mannequin due to his unique proportions). If you fancy one yourself, one went for £29,875 in 2002!
Eventually, the one-piece left behind the memory of its past, leaving us with the whimsical, body-conscious garment we know and love today. Next time we slip one on, we'll be grateful it's worn by fashion choice and not necessity — and of course, we can only wish to wear ours as well as Churchill.