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The 5 Biggest Heroes of 2016
Corey Savage December 26, 2016
Corey Savage
Corey is an iconoclast and the author of 'Man's Fight for Existence'. He believes that the key to life is for men to honour their primal nature. Visit his new website at primalexistence.com
2016 has been a turbulent year to say the least and it is during times of uncertainty that we see great men emerge above the rest.
I've chosen five prominent men of our times who either has shaped the world for the better or shown great leadership capabilities.
1. Nigel Farage
One of the biggest event of this year was the Brexit, and if there is one man who deserves the credit for leading the UK out of the EU, it is Nigel Farage.
Farage fought relentlessly against the EU for years and I've always admired his passion which he exercised without being pompous and crass. What is surprising is just how hostile the media had been towards him and his party as though they were racists or extremists. This, in spite of the fact that there's nothing to suggest that Farage holds any "racist" or extremist views. He has managed to fight through the barrage of defamation efforts to emerge victorious in the end.
The fact that he has stepped down from his party after Brexit shows that he was truly fighting for his country alone and not for personal power or profit. Even though he was one of the major figures in the Brexit campaign, I don't think he has gotten the full credit he deserves. Perhaps the future generation will grant him the historical recognition that he has earned.
First, I'll come out and say that I don't particularly like Trump (the fact that he's already gone back against his words, hired Goldman Sachs executives, and shown his loyalty for the Zionists all suggests that we'll be seeing much of the same old). My reserved "support" and cynical view of Trump has led me to disagreements with both his fans and detractors alike. However, in spite of all the aspects that I may not like about him, I recognize that: 1) You don't have to agree with someone's politics to recognize his strengths and achievements. 2) The other option, Hillary, would likely to cause full-blown conflict with Russia or its allies, leading to catastrophic consequences for the world. That said, no one knows knows for sure what kind of president Trump will be—not even himself, so I'll focus solely on his presidential campaign.
Trump's campaign was both historical and unprecedented. Not since Reagan was a non-establishment candidate able to capture the hopes and enthusiasm of so many Americans. And he did so with such energy that people were made to forget that he reached his 70th birthday this year. Compare that to the lackluster performance and feebleness of Jeb Bush who is several years younger than he.
Trump fought against all the political correct nonsense, the establishment, the mainstream media, the countless accusations and attack on his character, and so on. And like Farage before, he came out victorious in the end against all odds. For his symbolic victory against the leftists, he is one of the heroes of this year.
3. Julian Assange
Julian Assange is an ordinary man fighting the lopsided battle against the global establishment. He's already been trapped inside the Ecuadorian embassy for five years as a result of false rape accusations, and even his life there isn't entirely safe and secure—all for exposing the crimes of the elites.
And as a result of being impartial to the information he releases, Assange doesn't have a strong support from either the Left or the Right. For example, many of the liberals who saw him as a hero for his earlier leaks regarding the Iraq war now regards him as an enemy agent who conspired with the Russian hackers to help Clinton lose (of course, these liberals don't seem to care about the content of the leak itself that exposed just how rotten and corrupt the DNC is). It's clear that Assange really only cares about delivering the truth to the general public without worrying about winning approval. Some speculate that he's helped Trump win in hopes that he'll be granted an amnesty, but I doubt it. I think Assange fights for what he believes is right and releases whatever information he can.
I don't think anyone else on this list made as much personal sacrifice as Assange has for a cause and I hope that he's still alive and well (there's been rumours that he's been silenced, killed, or captured due to his lack of public appearance after his internet connection was severed.)
4. Bashar Al-Assad and all who are fighting for Syria
If there is one country in the world that is fighting against the globalist onslaught, it is Syria. The war there has been waging for almost six years now as American-Wahhabi-Zionist axis along with their allies have been flooding the country with Islamic terrorists and giving them weapons and diplomatic support in an attempt to destroy the secular nation that had previously been stable and growing.
Leading the Syrian nation's fight for existence is Bashar Al-Assad, who, in addition to fighting ISIS and other Islamic militants at home, faces international criticism as a "brutal dictator" who needs to be removed. It's quite telling when an elected Arab leader who defends Christians and other minorities is being accused of war crimes by Western nations that are backing the "moderate" rebels who are really nothing but head-chopping Jihadists and Al-Qaeda offshoots. If you want to know the kind of leader Assad really is, just watch him speak for yourself:
Besides Assad, the Syrian people, the Syrian Arab Army, and other allied groups including Russia, Hezbollah, and Quds force from Iran also deserve mention for fighting against ISIS and other Islamists, something they will never get credit for by the West.
5. Vladimir Putin
Last, we have Vladmir Putin who has been leading the Russian nation against the globalists and the cancerous Western influence that is wrecking the world. Like the other men listed here, Putin has been on the receiving end of relentless media attack to defame him as a corrupt and tyrannical ruler and even a war criminal. He has become the boogie man in the West used to blame everything from the US election results to the war deaths in Syria, as well as serving as an excuse for NATO to expand to the East even when it is the US that is to be blamed for re-starting the Cold War.
Putin's role in making Russia the main resisting force against the globalists and a stabilizing influence in the world is wholly unappreciated. It was Putin who stepped in to stop the West from completely destroying Syria as they had done with Libya, it was with the help of Russian airforce that the Syrian armed forces were able to achieve the victory they did this year, it was Putin who maintained his cool and tamed Turkey so that the two countries could work together even after Turkey downed one of its aircraft. You can tell just how much the world is stacked up against Putin and Russia by how the Western media has been silent on Russia's humanitarian aid to Syria and the death of Russian paramedics in the hands of the "moderate" rebels even as the West lies and sheds crocodile tears about the situation in Aleppo.
Some people still hate Putin because they see him as the enemy of America and a threat to the West, but these people need to realize that it was not Putin's decision to stir conflicts. He's merely been reacting to the West's efforts to undermine Russia. It is the US and its allies that chose to be Russia's enemy, not the other way around. And if the West continues to expand its globalist influence around the world, Putin's Russia will continue to fight back against it.
We have heroes not just so that they may lead us, but so that we be inspired by them. We shouldn't merely worship great men, but strive to be one ourselves. Because no matter how great, an individual man by himself cannot change the world. All the men above did not act alone but had others who followed their lead. If you are truly interested in changing the world, you must become one yourself.
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December 26, 2016 Bob Smith
The biggest hero of all? The father who teaches his son those truly vital skills…
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December 26, 2016 Jim Johnson
Instead, most fathers are letting Hollywierd teach them.
Plop 'em in front of the TV…sad state of affairs, ain't it, Jim.
December 26, 2016 Hipponax (μητροκοίτης)
There was a tv show in the 99's (maybe 80's?) about a grown man who was essentially raised by the television and now all of his interactions with daily life are filtered through old tv
Hmm. Now it's standard operating procedure. That TV show inventor was, like, psychic?
Just remembered show was called Dream On and was an early HBO program which was absolutely brilliant
Never saw it. But I've never seen a lot of things. I like "Dream On" by Aerosmith. That's kinda related…uh…isn't it.
That was the theme song!
Wow. I'll bet if you listened to Aerosmith's "Dream On", while you watched the TV show, "Dream On", you'd wind up voting Democrat, getting a sex change, and attending SJW rallies.
December 30, 2016 bem
hear, hear. Inspired stuff. based on ME.
December 26, 2016 Rue McClanahan
I remember that show, it hit too close to the cultural bone for it to stick around. Even as a kid I thought that was a sad idea.
December 27, 2016 david
I was at dinner with three families a couple weeks ago (early thirties parents.). All of their kids were in the other room playing video games and screaming at eachother. All of them coincidentally have ADHD and 3/4 have mild autism.
Sounds like heaven on earth…glad you survived the ordeal, man.
December 27, 2016 cinder ella
Civility and conversation, a lost art. Such a shame. The alphabet generation comes after the "participation" prize generation.
January 2, 2017 Hyperborean
This is why we need mandatory labor service for a couple of weeks each summer for high school and college students (and I'm talking about robust physical work outdoors,, and not running a cash register indoors in some store), followed by mandatory military service. Yeah I know, that sounds authoritarian and Socialist, but too bad. Those damaged children that you described will never be able to live free – or even understand what that means – without some loving shock therapy to undo the damage done to them by their parents.
January 2, 2017 Ward Dorrity
What you've described should also be one of the requirements for citizenship and voting rights.
January 7, 2017 Shmalkandik
Some one's been reading "Starship Troopers" again. Not that there is any thing wrong with that.
January 2, 2017 Bill Sanders
who else remembers this great movie? Being There (Peter Sellers). Other than gardening, his knowledge is derived entirely from what he sees on television.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_There
December 26, 2016 AutomaticSlim
Or too busy playing golf 4 times a week, or screwing around with his mistress, like mine was. I do not blame him for wanting to get away, with my mother being a vile, evil harpy and all. But he absolutely failed me. He was totally and completely equipped to train me, but simply neglected to do so. He could have also sent me to military school, but I figure he just didn't give enough of a damn. Sure get away from the harpy…but he should have gotten me away as well!
Tell him your perspective. Maybe he'll agree and you can rekindle the comraderie. Ive learned a lifetime of wisdom avoiding my dads mistakes (particularly with women.)
Would be a little tough now, as he's been dead for for almost 12 years.
But very good advice for someone much younger who may be in a similar situation. Especially for a kid or teen who still has a chance. Also good advice for relatives and close friends of men who may be neglecting to properly train their sons. Show them the error of their ways, if possible.
December 27, 2016 jz95
Well can you blame him? Having a spawn like you would drive any man crazy.
January 4, 2017 aodh macraynall
My father also failed to play the man in our household. All his children suffered not just me. I blamed my mother for the problems in our family for a long time. I have lately come to realize that it was my father's responsibility to make sure things happened as they were supposed to happen. Women are who they are. As your father, my father was competent to train me as a man, but alas, he did not. I had to forgive him before I could move on. Believe me, the moving on is doable. The flesh is weak even when the spirit is strong but keep working at it; you will make progress day by day.
January 4, 2017 AutomaticSlim
Yeah, I know you are right.
Even though I was dealt a rotten hand, like you, I suppose I am am plenty to blame as well, for not taking matters into my own hands. I am past half a century now, and it is very hard to get motivated to change. I guess I have to try to figure it out, somehow.
What about K.R. Atom, Texas billionaire, time traveler and inventor of kratom?
He's a legend and a hero. Apples to oranges.
Could not agree more!
I have posted many similar comments and will continue to do so, at the risk of sounding like a broken record.
A father's most important job in life is training his son to be real man. It is more important than even work or being a good husband. Those things are important, yes, but training his son to be a man and to eventually surpass him is the most important job as well as the greatest gift a father can give to his son.
(Applause.)
My dad is my closest friend. Every year I fly him out to spend a month with me. One day Ill have the honor of taking care of him. Its normal in other countries. I would never send him to one of those old age prisons.
I'm sending mine to the glue factory as soon as he becomes weaker than me or loses his sight.
December 26, 2016 VaronosMinxaouzen
Heh. Your sense of humor and subtle association kills me, my friend…
Thanks! Bob, you humour even if it lacks in subletly it makes for straightforwardness and ruthlessness, you hit truth hard on the teeth!
Grazie my friend – I try to take no prisoners…
December 26, 2016 Hunn
Where is ORBÁN VIKTOR???
Long live Hungary!!!
Yeah! Who forgot the possible saviour of Europe!!!
December 27, 2016 AMD_Afficionado
I like Orban, but he'd be pretty far down on the list as there are more effective anti-EU euros who'd merit higher ranking than he.
Orban rattled his saber against the EU, but then relented and decided that perhaps Brussels could be reasoned with, a position that Farage has spent years demonstrating to be be a pipe dream.
So, I'd put the French, Dutch and Austrian nationalists above him.
December 26, 2016 Niagara
Good article some astute observations. Though not sure all are "heros" in the classical sense.
1) Nigel Farange is most certainly. He's achied his taskand devlivered ot the voters. As much as they try the Globalists don't seem to be able to stop Brexit.
2) Assange is defineitly a useful figure in the fight against globalism. The fake rape case against him, that even the girl didn't want to file an that has been pursued without merit for what 6 years says as much.
3) Trump definitely for destroying Big Media and the Evil Democatic Party and HRC but verdict still out. If he can get the US economy going, manage China he'll be a world hero..
4) Assad is little more than a tin pot dictator. Without Russia (Putin) and Iran (Hezbolah) he'd be gone by now. Really he's the best of bad choices in Syria
When he took over in 2000 after his father died he promised democratic change, and could have made a more dynamic economy but devlivered none, and now he lives on Putin's whim and Iran's dime.
Better than terrorists no doubt but a hero? Nope..
5) Not sure Putin is a "hero" in the classical sense but he is your typical autocrat from Russian history no unlike the Tsars of yor. Democracy is and always has been a "managed" affair in Russsia when it's allowed to exist at all and Russians seem to like it this way so that's their perogotive.
Putin's is playing the "Great Game" with the West and winning it no doubt but he mainly acts not out of international concerns but because of domestic ones.
He must look like a big man in Syria and Russia cannot let Assad fall or Putin would look weak to Russians and this what puts autocrats in danger.
Remember he mus keep his cronnies in check, mostly with bribes of one sort or another and force when necessary but really they need each other to rule or exist in Russia.
He knows all of this so well. It will be interesting to see what happens if the price of oil doensn't go up a lot to float the Russian economy as they're exhausting the Reserve Fund and will need to raid other funds to keep things running…
Regardless Putin is not the threat to Wrold Peace that Globalists like Obama make him out to be….
Regardlesss it's been a terrible year for snowflakes and Globalists so let's hope 2017 brings more of the same!!
December 26, 2016 Untergang07
4) Assad is little more than a tin pot dictator. Without Russia
(Putin) and Iran (Hezbolah) he'd be gone by now. Really he's the best
of bad choices in Syria
When he took over in 2000 after his father
died he promised democratic change, and could have made a more dynamic
economy but devlivered none, and now he lives on Putin's whim and Iran's
dime.
Democracy is not god so stop the non-sense. Muslim nations lack the basic building blocks in order to make a democracy work, let alone be successful. Had Assad followed such a formula, Western intervention might not have been necessary, they would be a completely failed state, like Yemen, Libya or Iraq, where majorities oppress anyone they don't like and themselves.
I'd add that democracy for most of the case did destroy and destroys western nation and the conformity it breeds (no one who deviates from the average is taken heed of) is largely to blame for the modern situation. The fact that the people of the USA elected Trump doesn't change the fact that the American people (and not only them) have been making tremendous mistakes in the choice of their leadership for decades. In Greece Democratically we got ourselves in that mess we reside now and there is no political power that can truly fix it. Personally I'd prefer living under a late medieval empire where a Monarch with divine authority would rule. Much better than a rich ex-plebeian with a lot of influence…
The main failure though of democracy is only one: it lacks a political thoery. A political theory is the equivalent of a human's theory of mind (by which we understand and interpet other people's motivation and actions) for states. In a democratic state it is believed that the will of the people cannot err so it doesn't matter how one may run the state or guide it, hence the reason that most democratic thinkers NEVER explain anything beyond the distribution of power.
December 26, 2016 OceanSon
Interesting "extra step" in your thinking…now you've got me thinking…nicely done.
There is also one more thing that I might add to stir you up: Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, the father of Romanian Nationalism, who is sanctified and was the only REAL traditionalist and a fervent fighter of communism in his country once pointed out that the greatest absurdity of democracy is that the people try to elect their own elites…
Dwell on that thinking how Kim Kardashian got her influence and how were people like the Rothschilds allowed to become so powerful. respectively the plebeians liked Kardashian's selling of her private life and bourgeois liked the money recycling abilities of the Rothschilds, disliking the authority of European Aristocracy, who basically made Europe, due to them being uneconomical.
Last small point the problem of bourgeois thought, this is easily demonstrated in the book Why nations fail or any other bourgeois work is that while what they note is correct they never really address the genesis of the reason, for example it is stated that only luck creates good institutions in a society as there are no underlying factors. That and ideology the middle-class gets easily fixated on an idea that it cannot let it go if proven wrong, it will try to rationalize it.
December 27, 2016 Burning Hammer-God of Violence
Fantastically articulated. There is wisdom in what you right and an impressive astuteness and clarity.
Think nothing of it; always a pleasure reading your insightful posts.
Interesting point. Thank you for your response.
December 26, 2016 Cardtheorist
Libya could have united the African nations, and he was actually on his way to doing so. But the US killed him.
The US? I'm pretty sure it was the islamic "Libyan rebels" who fatally sodomized him with a bayonet.
Sure, the USA helped those rebels get that far, but how much help was it? This would be the same USA that bungled Benghazi.
Additionally, the USA lost at least one military aircraft over Libya. That's just shameful, and shows that either Ghaddafi had the power to shoot down US military aircraft, or that the US military had rotted away during the 0bama administration.
The US often proxies their warfare, as with ISIS.
If you play in a lot of crap, some will stick.
I don't know much about the military but it has certainly been declining.
How about bombarding Libyan regime forces, weaponry, money. If that's not support I don't know what it is.
Precisely. There will never be western style democracies in the middle east (or at least certainly not in our lifetimes). The best you can hope for is a benevolent strongman (Ghaddafi, Saddam Hussein) or some kind of hybrid secular monarchy like the United Arab Emirates.
What nonesense? Dictatorship is good?
Nobody's expecting Syria to be like Switzeland's democracy but just ot the south is a country called Jordan where a little more power is shared between the government, the king, and it's people.
That country did not fall into civil war and has a decent economy considering it's flooded with refugees and next to a civil war.
Jordan is proof some form of democracy can work in the Middle East and that decent economy not based on oil can be had..
I guess I have to remind you that
1. Jordan is not a democracy, is a constitutional monarchy where the king enjoys more legitimacy than his counterparts in the Arabic Peninsula (despite their weaponry and influency) due to his blood relationship with the family of Muhammad (the Prophet). That in itself protects him from most of the constant uprisings and and attempts of coup d'etat.
2. Assad opponents are mostly Islamists, supported by the West. Even the "moderate" elements wanted full democracy, something which would invariably degenerate into oppression for all minorities and the very Sunnites living in Syria given their current conditions and culture.
3. Jordan enjoys international support even from Israel (the last thing they want is a wave of millions of refugees streaming through their borders.
Assad whatever his flaws is the best option Syria has for a more or less peaceful existence.
December 26, 2016 tout venant
Assad is better than his opponents, for sure. As were Saddam and Khadafi…Now their countries are ruins and backstage for ISIS and co.
They were NOT good people, but they somehow maintain stability and unity in there very divided countries. And they hated our ennemies with guts (political Islam)
Putin is more complex. Russia was becoming a third world country ruled by Maffias and Oligarchs thanks to 'democracy', and HE brings it back to a superpower with ONE legitimate government.
Russian people really loves him, in their immense majority.
December 26, 2016 Balkaner
Assad is indeed a hero and a good man. Keeping peace and stability while protecting the minorities such as christians and also a relatively stable economy such as pre-war Syria is more than one can ever hope for a middle-eastern country.He has also shown balls keeping fighting when the situation seemed hopeless and the whole "civilized world" was against him. Western leaders who have dropped bombs in Syria are criminals of war and criminals of humanity. Also this democracy thing is bullshit. Look at what is doing to the West. The only worthy form of democracy is that where only males over 30 , who own a certain amount of land and pay a certain amount of taxes vote. We live in the age of degeneracy.
I don't deny that. But real politic is beyound 'good' or 'bad'. Assad is capable, and protective. That' enough for me. Far better than ISIS.
Putin is a true winer because he shows he doesn't give up his allies. In a near future, Russia will have the role than america and Europe had in the middle east… And that won't please the Chinese, who are putting their silent hand on Africa by now… realpolitics…
Agree. There is no "good" and "bad" in politics or elsewhere. Life puts you all the time in situations where you have have to choose the lesser evil. I gues realistically a good man would be someone who has done more good than harm in his life.
December 26, 2016 DeCode
Russia is NOT a superpower.
December 26, 2016 Rob
Depending on your definition they are – 2nd highest # of nukes and right on the door of Europe. They are either #2 to #4 in world politics these days (US #1, China, Russia, Germany 2-4 in random order, with UK just behind)
December 26, 2016 Nevsky
Democracy is a sham, always has been, always will be
December 28, 2016 Sytnyk Andrij
Putin is a threat to the world. The old KGB connections are powerful by faking news and the have nukes. Killed 10.000 Ukrainians until now.
He's a controlled threat. He plays that card to look undpredictable and intimidating but if you look at what he does he's playing an old "cold war" game where there's a lot of posturing but in fact his actions bely a certain amount of caution aimed at conserving reosurces while have maximum propaganda effect.
Everything he he does is aimed at making "Russia Great Again" for the domestic audience as their economy falters to keep Russians distracted.
But he heasn't engaged in any major armed conflicts and committed ground troops like the soviets did in Afghanistan realizing 1) The Russian public doesn't want it and 2) the the Russian budget can't afford it 3) this could leave Russia trapped in a never ending conflict..
The deaths of Ukranians, Syrian etc are an unfortunate consequences but of little concern to Putin and the international community..
In this vein he's not really a threat to the World more neighboring countries. Everyone has nukes..
December 26, 2016 Steve H
Assad and Assange are heroes? This author is pretty nutty. His blind anti semitism is getting in the way of logic.
Assad is a brutal dictator. His only concern is maintaining the primacy of the Alawites, a small religious sect. If Assad doesn't crush dissent, the Alawites perish. Assad had a chance early on to strike a deal for more power sharing but he decided to follow his father's footsteps and crush the rebellion. He is also a puppet of the Ayatollahs and Russians. The result is now the utter destruction of most of Syria and millions of displaced persons and refugees.
Assange helped Trump in this election, but his whole organization is not about parlaying truths, but destroying governments. Every society has a right to keep certain things secret and organizations such as Wikileaks are a danger to the sovereignty of any nation. I don't see him as a hero just a narcissistic prick.
December 26, 2016 Nilton Salgado
I think Obama should have stayed away from Syria. Iran also crushed its rebellion, but without external interference, it didn't became a civil war. Why did the US of OBAMA decide to give weapons to ISIS, er, I mean, the "rebels" of Syria? Without the interference of the US, that war would have had the same fate as the one in Iran or the coup attempt in Turkey.
December 26, 2016 michaelmobius1
"Assange helped Trump in this election, but his whole organization is not about parlaying truths, but destroying governments. Every society has a right to keep certain things secret and organizations such as Wikileaks are a danger to the sovereignty of any nation"
You're saying that a government that records everything we we do and say, online, in emails, on the phone, everything and everywhere, has a right to keep certain things secret?
Mmmkay. You're not a power to the people sort of guy are you?
You dont think the State Department, Department of Defense or any other branch of government has a right to secrets? I think they do. Anyone who signs an oath to keep secrets and then leaks them is a traitor and should be severely punished like that fag Bradley Manning.
Governments have the right to be accountable to the citizenry. That's the only right they can ever have. And seriously, have some respect: the heroine in questions name is Chelsea!
December 26, 2016 Art
But didn't the kind interrogators advise it that gender reassignment was available, at no cost, because 30 years is a long time to be getting sodomised in just one orifice?
not to mention that secret information requires a secret place to put it in
Alas, poor Chelsea (at that time, trying to kiss Killary Clitler's ass maybe for a pardon?) – would be poignant to change its last name from "Manning" to "Tranning"…
(S)hes not very convincing as a woman, but she's still more convincing than Chelsea Clinton
I think you need a girlfriend, pronto.
Maybe I should avoid anyone called Chelsea for safety's sake
You need to get your mind off of trannies and who-knows-whats(like the Clitler spawn), young man.
Fapping will only get you into more trouble.
Therefore, Amsterdam is your friend.
Nothing wrong with fapping, unless of course Chelsea (either of them) is the object of lust. The lord would have smote Onan twice over in that case
December 26, 2016 attila
Beyond anything else, Trump worked extremely hard for his campaign. He held numerous rallies all the way into the Nov 7 midnight. Compare that with the lackluster Clinton's campaign.
December 26, 2016 Reborn Masculinity
It's easy to spot a hero. Just ask yourself: "Who is mainstream media demonizing today?"
Hey Pamela. Go take a few semen bullets from a Rottweiler, and stop trying to do things that don't come naturally. Thanks. Have a nice day now.
December 26, 2016 Jackal89
Seriously? Harambe didn't make the list? It's days like this that I ask myself why I'm still reading ROK. *sigh*
December 26, 2016 B1k3_Ch41N ®❻❾®
But is your dick out for him?
Here's a little day-after-Christmas movie quiz. (And no, you can't find the answer to this one at Google.) How many times did writer/director Quentin Tarantino use the following words, or variants thereof, in his script for the film, "The Hateful Eight". The words are nigger, fuck, shit, hell, ass, whore, bastard, bitch, dick and damn. First guy with the correct answer (one guess only), gets a set of steak knives, payable at some far-out date –
1) 151 times
Correct answer – 3) 221 times. Over the movie's 187-minute runtime length, this means one of these words, or a variant thereof, was used an average of 1.182 times across every single minute of the film (and that doesn't account for the portions of the film that contain no dialogue).
That's awful! Can't most people speak without these in English anymore, it is like the youth here in Greece where most can say only variants of malakas (masturbator), poustis (queer) and gamoto (fuck)!
If you call somebody a genius enough times, people start to believe it. Then they go watch the genius's movies. Then they say whatever the characters in the movie say, after they leave the movie…or so Joseph Goebbels claimed.
I must confess I use the word 'arhidi', 'pisoglentis' very frequently also with the above but only in appropriate company/circumstances but otherwise am incredibly well spoken and articulate.
You 're Greek? I thought you for a German, for some reason!
Interesting that. I'm Greek, yes.
December 26, 2016 Lusitano
Here is my suggestion for the 2017 heroes…although she could be raped and killed in the current year.
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December 26, 2016 Petruccio
Hope she has some MG42s and HK416s to bring along. Oh, I forgot. Can't even get an AR15 in Germany.
Dont you worry now…She is armed with her feeeelliiiinggsss.
December 26, 2016 John Galt
She will end up like the Italian ditz Pippa Bacca. ZFG.
She'll end up like Amy Biehl.
I just googled "Pippa Bacca", as I never heard of her.
Yeah, you are right. That was a very good example.
I agree. Raped and mauled to death by some Anatolian muslim barbarian. What a idiot.
She will be shipped back to Germany in pieces
I bet those pieces will be scattered in Anatolia or some place like that. If she reaches Syria, then, isis will take good care of her…
Never underestimate the insanity of "white guilt".
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December 26, 2016 Vernon Dozier
Is that because the white woman you were able to rope into a relationship weighs 170 pounds?
What the hell are you squawking about, moron?
I thought the brain damaged "jz95" was the designated black/mulatto agitator on this site…
I think you know all about brain damage, Automatic Slim.
Then again I could be wrong. I suppose you need a brain first. And you clearly are deficient in that department.
None needed.
Chances are that she would be raped and killed before she even got out of Germany by males from the Middle East and Africa.
To think it was the boast of Cyrus the Great that there was such peace and safety in his empire, that a naked virgin with a bag of gold in each had could walk the Royal Road and no one would dare harm her. Some people think the passage of time means progress.
December 26, 2016 JDR
Trump…obviously. Seeing all these SJWs pissed off beyond sanity was simply amazing.
2016 was the year that started to change the modern world! It is the right's may of '68 and in time we might even see a reversal of the chaos, although not on all countries of the West, sadly. Still, we didn't have that much of hope and opportunity for many years, we should not allow it to go to waste!
December 26, 2016 Thomas Garrett
I am only slightly dissappointed that I am not on the list.
Some of the true heroes will never be named…somewhere there's an anonymous soldier taking out a brainwashed ISIS shithead, and probably some old and unknown scientists and astronomers working on cures and discoveries that no one will limelight in modern media–because they don't fit into the central narrative that worships shiftless, victimized blocs of SJWs and also-rans.
Or the dad who hands down legacy skills in a difficult age: How to survive alone in the wilderness without a phone or GPS, how to dress fish and game, how to respect and operate weapons, how to build something that matters in this world and how to be a force to be reckoned in a twisted time when pussies and weak-willed sycophants are falsely-empowered celebrities who have suddenly co-opted the mantle of "heroes."
Ok, there's this guy called Sérgio Moro, he's bringing the criminal faction we called government in Brazil single-handedly
I like the cut of his jib; they need to cleanse all the socialist filth over there as they have done Brazil immense damage.
December 26, 2016 Gerhazan
> I'll come out and say that I don't particularly like Trump (the fact that he's already gone back against his words
I'm with you on the Goldman Sachs and zionist bits, but you might want to double check stuff : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLlnO6SdRIA
Newt Gingrich pushed the legislation that Trump ran against in order to get elected.
Newt is also such a left-leaner that he made Mitt Romney look like Reagan crossed with Coolidge back in 2012.
The guy was tossed out of DC by his fellow "swamp creatures", hopefully The Donald will also defenestrate him. No good can come of keeping him on.
Kevin D. Williamson of the National Review (former conservative magazine):
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/443303/
"My own view is that Donald and Ivanka and Uday and Qusay are genuinely bad human beings and that the American public has made a grave error in entrusting its highest office to this cast of American psycho extras."
Trumps are equivlated to the level of the sons of Saddam who used to abduct women off the street and rape them and occassionally feed people through plastic shredders? Keep it classy NR. Keep waving those pomp-pomps for your RINO cucks.
Neo-cons got neutered in 2016. That, coupled with the media being further relegated to the dust-bins of history, was the best thing that happened in 2016.
Agreed. The butt hurt will last awhile and they will flail about, but no one believes them anymore. Their credibility is long spent.
I would also add an emerging hero of white nationalism – Richard Spencer
Really? That autistic joke?
That "Roman Salute" for starters.
You can tell a lot about leaders of movements by the people who are in them. If those men at that conference were representative of the average WNs (and judging from experience I'm probably right) then I think Spencer needs to find a new line of work.
Looking back on it, the media really blew the whole thing hilariously out of proportion. The salutes weren't threatening in the slightest. To be frank it was honestly quite pathetic.
He didnt do any Roman Salutes, but even if he did – so what?
Doesn't matter if he did it or not. The point is his supporters did. And whether you liked it or not, in the end it just came off as pathetic.
Stereotypes don't come out of nowhere. There's a good reason why white nationalists/Neo Nazis are generally stereotyped as basement dwelling, LARPing omega male incels.
Every political group has a fringe element composed of lunatics or extremists. Which political figures do you like?
December 26, 2016 BlindJustice
Most people in the U.K. see Farage for the fucking joke that he is
If true, that does not bode well for the UK now does it?
But, I believe you are wrong. The fact that BREXIT passed tells me a majority of Englishmen are waking up and smelling the coffee, just like us here in the US and the rest of the West as well. No more bowing down to 3rd world savages. No more allowing parasites to invade our countries like locusts. No more ridiculous PC white guilt.
"Trump fought against all the political correct nonsense", Trump talked shit about Carly Fiorina's appearance in a magazine interview, when that topic was brought up in a debate with Carly on the stage somehow Trump failed to talk shit about her appearance but ended up saying she looked great, why was he being politically correct when he was put on the spot?
Trump referred to some Mexicans who come to USA as drug mules, rapists and he continuously said he will make Mexico pay for the wall he plans to build. When Trump had a meeting with the President of Mexico during the photo op Trump had nothing but nice things to say about the President, why was Trump being PC and not tell the President of Mexico to his face in front of all the cameras that he'll pay for the wall and he needs to stop sending rapists and drug mules to the United States?
Trump shit talked Obama on the campaign trail, after winning the presidency Trump had nothing but nice things to say about Obama during the photo op, why was he being PC again? Why did he not question Obama's birth certificate to his face? Why did Trump not tell Obama he has been nothing but a disaster as president to his face?
Have you ever seen "Blazing Saddles"?
If so, do you remember what the old lady told the sheriff when he said "good morning" to her?
December 28, 2016 neoalfa
Politically correctness and personal politeness are two different things.
December 26, 2016 skillet
I would have to include Matt Drudge and Alex Jones on the list. Along with perhaps a Breitbart journalist. I think the name is Bannon or something like that.
I agree with the rest of the list, except perhaps Assad. I would put Trump number one, Farage number 2. Julian Asange merits a place. List perhaps needs to be expanded.
But still a pretty good list.
December 26, 2016 onetruth
The thing from Gingrich about Trump supposedly not wanting to drain the swamp has since been debunked as inaccurate. I forget where I saw it, probably Breitbart or perhaps on Limbaugh's radio show.
December 26, 2016 MCGOO
Trump doesn't have to show his hand until he's inaugurated and has control of the machinery. He's dealing with and placating an old guard of whining, volatile and apprehensive women right now who have the hen house sense that the chopping block awaits them. They're all unpredictable women whether they have balls or not. Shitlib men and women alike are all basically women. Trump knows better than anyone about bitch nature and how to steer and divert it. He's in the 'grabbing them by the pussy' phase currently. Shhh. Don't disturb the process.
Hahaha awesome comment. He is a great manipulator
Absolutely. Did you see the humiliation inflicted upon Mittens Romney? Was wined and dined in public and then knifed in cold blood; it was beautiful and a wonderful exercise of Macchiavellianism if ever I saw it.
Romney might've been humiliated by The Donald (Romney's mock-worthy on-camera "shell shock" was all on him though), but Romney was thrown a big bone for it: his niece is now the next chairman of the RNC.
IMO there might still be a use for Romney, AMTRAK and USPS need someone to rehab them, and PBS/NPR need to be put down.
All business to placate the RINOs and have them compliant so other things can be done without their attempts to derail reform such as what you allude to. I concur with your observation re PBS/NPR; if they cannot be non-partisan they should be put down with maximum contempt.
Mike Pence was ripped a new one when he, as Governor of Indiana, attempted to open up a state-run news service. Perhaps now that could be thrown back at the political left when they protest the demise of PBS/NPR.
I hope that Trump's deal-making with the RINOs does make them amenable to his goals but I notice that Mitch McConnell is still rattling his saber at Trump, despite Trump tapping his wife to be Transportation Secretary.
Yes-that'll be a sight to behold. As far McConnell goes, he needs to be put down like a rabid dog as he is the epitome of the establishment RINO and will stop at nothing to save his and his ilk's hides.
Which makes sense, as Newt Gingrich was is one of the biggest swamp monsters.
NAFTA Newt is a "frenemy" of The Donald. For ~20 years, Newt Gingrich pushed NAFTA hard. Now after ~4, he's suddenly on-board with the man who got to the Presidency by crusading against NAFTA?
December 26, 2016 nick c
I strongly disagree with your Assad assessment he sent supplies and fighters into Iraq during the invasion he can die a horrible death as well.
December 26, 2016 Jack Redrum
So who is this faggot that doesn't particularly like Trump? The man isn't in office yet and people overlook his many good picks and bringing jobs back and point to hearsay about him reneging on his promises. Jesus just give him a chance. He's a hell of a lot better than in anyone I heard in those debates. The other Republicucks were all beta blue-pilled pansies. Trump is red-pilled to the max.
Whoever doesn't like Trump is a fucking faggot. I judge people based on the answer-if they answer in the negative about Trump more often than not they are a blue-pilled beta simp and when I discern their other characteristics they are indeed such.
You are 100% right and it saddens me to see that the writer of this article seems like one of those despicable pearl-clutching people who grudgingly hold their nose for Trump.
It happens. People eventually come around. I was a Trump supporter from the very second he announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination and was elated when he won. What he has done is colossal but now the real test is to come-if he ensures Obongo's legacy is nothing more than a fart in the wind that will be a very solid start.
December 26, 2016 Gammelsvensk
I would like to add Gert Wilders and Viktor Orban to the list.
Beat me to it. I wanted to add those two gentlemen also and commend them for their patriotism and bravery.
One person whom may be considered worthwhile adding despite their being a woman is Marine Le Pen and perhaps also Frauke Petry. I expect big things in the forthcoming elections so all the Leftist progressivist filth is annihilated next year-it is bleeding and we can kill it.
I love Nigel Farage and enjoy watching his debate on YouTube. What a champ. He has that Brit way of basically telling you to "fuck off", but in such a way where you start packing and look forward to the trip.
He just reminds you of Benny Hill and those spanking scenes.
Ha ha ha ha ha……good one Art!!!
December 27, 2016 Trump_apprentice_president
What happened to President Obama?
He saved the nation from the Herbert Hoover Bush economic and monetary collapse.
Only superman could do that.
And he did all that whilst sucking his wife's dick and whistling "Dixie"!
Scott Adams. Honorable mention Michael Moore (unintentional hero)
December 27, 2016 EvigtRegn
Quite the diverse list. One Brit, one American, one Australian, one Syrian and one Russian. Hope the leftists are happy with it 😉
Sounds like a, "Jew, Christian and Moslem walked into a bar…" joke.
Assad and Putin are dictators. Putin himself is a weak guy who let lots of journalists killed.
You are on the wrong side.
December 28, 2016 Stevechang64
I do agree with all your choices
December 28, 2016 Nadia Bizness
Roosh, dammit.
You all left Roosh off the list.
January 2, 2017 GTKRWN
Believing what "someone else said about Trump…" makes you a good goy. Trump hasn't gone back on anything yet. No one gives a shit what Newt says. Trump personally says he's still on board. That's all that matters.
The Lügenpresse won't give up on his "failed campaign promises" and he hasn't even been inaugurated yet.
The rest I will continue to watch, closely. Even Hitler himself worked closely with the Jew. It's unavoidable when one group holds such an incredibly large amount of the power and money. Yet why would the Jew be so desperate to attack Trump if he was actually the ally of the globalist zog? After all… not all Jews are evil, right? According to the (((survivors))) it was the Jews that personally managed, maintained, and operated the labor camps, so they can't all be bad.
Trust, but verify.
January 2, 2017 UriKatsavR
I agree. Trump makes me a little nervous, I don't know if he's going to stick to his words or he's just a charade. Besides, his very gratuitious attacks against Iran and China don't look good. Even more, he's very close to Bibi and the Zionits gang. I hope Putin can canovince him to change his mind in some issues.
Generalissimo Assad is definitely my man. In the worts days of the war, he colud've just left the country, accept tons of money and live in exile surrounded by all kind of priviledges, but he decided to command his People in a war of liberation against the Zionists.
I would put Assange out of list and place Filipino President Duterte instead. The guy has guts and is politically incorrect.
Bashar Al-Assad is a zero, not a hero. Like his murderous father before him. Mind, that does not means that it is in US interest to support the war against him. We should stay out of it.
January 4, 2017 Chetan Biswas
Honorable Mentions: Elon Musk, Bernie Sanders, Edward Snowden, Sam Harris, Paul Joseph Watson & Milo Yiannopoulos
Assad is classic authoritarian Arab nationalist who has no problem killing tens of thousands of his own kind – it's just that his opposition is worse. Similarly, Putin is the Mussolini of contemporary Russia – but he hasn't got the trains to run on time yet;. Russia's economy is in a very bad way. It has only two useful export industries, oil and arms, and oil is going to be less of a source as prices under the incoming Trump administration for US production will drop. To his credit, he has brought order and reined in the kleptocracy. But these achievements won't help Russia become a competitive power.


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Back on August 12th, 2017 an attack between a group of white supremacist and anti-racist protestors took place. On that Saturday in Charlottesville violence broke out due to the taken down of a local Robert E.Lee statue. This Virginian college town is no stranger to past white supremacy riots. In the past years Charlottesville has had many run in over race and other prejudice activities on their turf.
Activities On The Day:
On the Friday before the protest on August 11th,2017 a few college students from University Of Virginia began marching saying the phrases "White Lives Matter" and "Blood And Soil". After hearing the chants counter-protesters soon began from then on the quiet before the storm rushed its way into the small town Charlotteville. Around one pm that Saturday a speeding car driven by James Alex Fields clashed with 34 year old Heather Heyer, leading to her death. While murdering Ms.Heyer the driver also injured nineteen other people,and two state troopers were also harmed through the situation.
After the protest on August 11th,2017 the hunt for the anonymous driver from the event was now on. On August 12th,2017 police and other criminal justice figures took to the streets to find evidence and other things to help with the case. Later, after determining the driver's identity,which was determined to be James Alex Fields, the topic was later turned to the white nationalist appearing in the protest. Those certain white nationalist were caught in the backlash that soon effected their jobs and other occupations they'd take place in.
Donald Trump's Reaction:
On August 12th,2017 President Trump took to twitter to state his first opinion on the situation that occurred. In his tweets he shared his condolences for the families of the victims as well as stated how all the citizens of America should be able to come together as one. Around three days later in a televised interview President Trump took to front stage to express his opinion yet again. He spoke on the protest saying how both sides are to blame claiming that their are both "bad people" and "very fine people". He later stood by his statement saying how the pace he responded in was quick, so the statement he made is "very fine". Within a week President Trump was done with his statements concluding in his final statement saying "the media give a platform to hate groups" and "media turns a blind eye to the gang violence".
Earlier in the welcoming month of August a situation that harmed many individuals as well as their families took place in the city of Charlottesville Virginia. A moment that started with a protest and later transferred to a car crash will now be in our history for later years to come. With condolences for the families of the deceased and injured we all learned a lesson from the dirt being uncovered from our nation's history. With a change that only us the citizens can make we can change this violent cycle to a more peaceful harmonic outcome.
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By MG David J. Francis
I would like to start by thanking MG(R) Crosby, Bill Harris, Janis Arena, and the entire AAAA team for the extraordinary effort put into setting the conditions to allow this year's Mission Solutions Summit to take place. It is long overdue that we bring the Army Aviation community and industry together to forge the future.
CSM Wilson, CW5 Lewis and I are extremely proud of Army Aviation's incredible performance over this difficult year. As the Army Aviation Community, you served our Nation exceptionally well and we thank you for your continued service as we build toward Army of 2030.
Meeting tomorrow's challenges will require the entire Aviation Enterprise to transform our training and doctrine to prepare our forces to receive and integrate Future Vertical Lift (FVL) aircraft. Army Aviation units are 76% globally committed across all components (COMPOS). This commitment includes rotational deployments, equipment fielding and modernization, DSCA requirements, response to national disasters and other homeland requirements. Our Aviation teams tackled another record fire season, the most active hurricane season in a generation, and continue to train and deploy through a global pandemic that challenges every aspect of our military and society. Aviation leadership across all COMPOS continue to execute a very demanding mission set with over 11,500 Soldiers deployed across more than 23 countries providing support to ground forces, partners, and agencies daily. Through all of these requirements you continue to focus on our sacred trust with ground force commanders (GFC) and keep Army Aviation the most lethal, agile, and responsive maneuver asset in the Army.
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Leader development is the most important thing we do across the Aviation Enterprise. We are taking giant strides to update and modernize the way we train our leaders, providing them with a more detailed study of doctrine and tactics to better prepare our force for LSCO. Over the past 12 months we holistically redesigned our Warrant Officer Professional Military Education (PME), placing added emphasis on ensuring our aviators remain the tactical and technical experts we need them to be. We revamped the nine-week Aviation Warrant Officer Advanced Course (AWOAC) in favor of a 4-week Advanced Warfighter Skills course similar in scope to the Air Cavalry Leader Course. This course focuses on the tactical planning and employment of aircraft at the platoon and company level. We are also adding a new Warrant Officer ILE Follow-On course for our senior Warrant Officers to prepare them for battalion and brigade positions. This PME restructure also applies to our Instructor Pilots (IPs). The new UT/E program enables our IPs to serve as the primary tactical trainers in our formations by off-loading basic Aircrew Training Program (ATP) tasks and allowing the IPs to get out of the traffic pattern. The future Aviation Tactics Instructor Course (ATIC) will focus on training our IPs to lead the employment of our aircraft as weapon systems on the battlefield.
Branch Officer PME is undergoing updates with our Aviation Captain's Career Course (AVC3) revision to make sure the instruction is more LSCO-centric while moving away from COIN doctrine and scenarios. Our CPTs will have the opportunity to engage with peers from other branches using a common scenario shared across Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC). We are also transitioning to organic battalion fights instead of the multi-function task force structures used in prior courses. The focus on doctrine and planning will greatly increase our future company commanders and battalion/brigade staff officers' ability to lead in LSCO.
Our Branch recently completed a holistic review of all noncommissioned officer (NCO) professional education courses to assess what is being taught to our junior and mid-level NCOs. All courses are undergoing significant revisions to shift focus from leading during COIN operations to leading in LSCO. The most consequential change to our NCO development is the redesign of the Advanced Leaders Course (ALC). NCOs graduating ALC today are trained in the areas of maintenance management, quality control, and technical inspections. Additionally, they graduate with a greater understanding of the vital role NCOs play in ensuring their unit's ability to successfully and safely execute their mission.
TRADOC's number one priority for 2022 is to acquire the right people for our Army. This is a team effort that requires engaged leadership at all levels to not just recruit the right Soldiers but retain the exceptional talent that our branch needs. Over the past year Aviation Branch continued to focus on incentivizing talent across the ranks with targeted bonuses and increase in flight pay. The provisional Warrant Officer program is adding more Aviation experience at the platoon and company level for our new WO1s. Added time in the unit and the cockpit is essential to their growth and development as aviators. Additionally, we increased our throughput at flight school, while adding a 10-year active duty service obligation (ADSO). These steps will ensure we generate the right number of aviators for our Army 2030 while retaining the quality and talent we need to lead our future FVL formations.
Facilities and Policy
There is an ongoing review and assessment of our current and future facilities to ensure we are ready to meet the future requirements of our FVL aircraft. Hangars, airfields, training areas, and ranges may require adjustments to support the full capabilities of our FVL platforms. Greater speed and range along with unique FTUAS platforms will necessitate relooking our current airspace requirements and regulations. Employment of FTUAS and ALE may require unique training areas to take advantage of our systems and training scenarios. We must also look at our networks and ensure we are able to support the cutting edge technology in terms of mission planning, maintenance, and integration with other joint systems. These updates and reviews apply to the operational force and the institutional force including any potential UFTP-like unit locations.
It is an honor to serve as your branch chief and I am very aware that our endeavors would not be possible without the support of our nation, our leadership, and our incredible Families. Army Aviation is prepared and ready to meet the enemy of today while modernizing to meet tomorrow's challenges. The last two years of Aviation operations represent the safest 2-years in Army Aviation history. This is directly related to engaged leadership, phenomenal maintainers who conduct maintenance to standard, and outstanding aviators who employ their aircraft in a professional and disciplined manner to ensure mission accomplishment. Thank you for your unmatched service and sacrifice.
Finally, please keep all the members of our Aviation Team deployed around the world in your thoughts and prayers.
MG David J. Francis is the Army Aviation branch chief and commander of the U.S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence and Fort Rucker, AL.


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Advances in Molecular Pathology
Advances in Molecular Pathology, Volume 1-1
Editor-in-Chiefs: Gregory Tsongalis
Imprint: Elsevier
Published Date: 25th October 2018
View all volumes in this series: Advances
1. Coming Up to Speed on Whole Genome Sequencing in Critically Ill Children
2. Bioinformatics in Clinical Genomic Sequencing
3. The clinical application of RNA sequencing in genetic diagnosis of Mendelian disorders
4. The clinical and laboratory features of clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP)
5. Comprehensive Monitoring of Patients with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
6. Genomic Biomarkers in Pathogenesis and Clinical Care of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)
7. Molecular Monitoring of Viral Infections
8. The Current State of Metagenomics in Infectious Disease
9. Replacement of Culture with Molecular Testing for Diagnosis Infectious Diseases
10. Syndromic and point of care molecular testing
11. Applications of Pharmacogenomics in Oncology
12. Building Evidence for Clinical Use of Pharmacogenomics and Reimbursement for Testing
13. Large scale data sharing initiatives in genomic oncology
14. Advances in Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics for Clinical Diagnostics: Taking Precision Oncology to the Next Level
SOLID TUMORS
15. Clinical NGS Assays for Solid Tumors: Current Practices, Technological Advances and Challenges in Clinical Practice
16. Emerging Concepts in Liquid Biopsy
17. Therapy Implications of DNA Mismatch Repair Deficiency, Microsatellite Instability, and Tumor Mutation Burden
IDENTITY/HLA
18. Tackling the Human Cell Line and Tissue Misidentification Problem is Needed for Reproducible Biomedical Research
19. Cell Line Detective Work: Basic Principles and Molecular Applications
20. Challenges and Advances in the Development of Cell Lines and Xenografts
21. Historical and Current Methods for Detecting Inter- and Intra-species Cell Mixtures and Thereby Assuring Cell Line Purity
This inaugural issue of Advances in Molecular Pathology will provide a comprehensive review of the most current practices, trends, and developments in the field of Molecular Pathology. Publishing on an annual basis, the volume will be divided into 7 sections: Genetics, Hematopathology, Infectious Disease, Pharmacogenomics, Informatics, Solid tumors, and Identity/HLA. Led by Dr. Gregory Tsongalis of Dartmouth University, a team of experienced pathologists from institutions across the country oversee annual topic and expert author selection. Topics discussed in this volume include, but are not limited to: whole genome sequencing in critically ill children, bioinformatics in clinical genomic sequencing, comprehensive monitoring of patients with chronic myeloid leukemia, genetic biomarkers in the biology and clinical workup of chronic lymphocytic leukemia, metagenomics in infectious disease, point of care molecular testing, pharmacogenomics in oncology, clinical uses of panel testing vs. single gene testing, large scale data sharing initiatives in genomic oncology, clinical NGS assays for solid tumors emerging concepts in liquid biopsy the cell line and tissue misidentification problem, and cell line detective work.
© Elsevier 2018
About the Editor-in-Chiefs
Gregory Tsongalis Editor-in-Chief
Greg Tsongalis is the Director of the Laboratory for Clinical Genomics and Advanced Technology (CGAT) at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Norris Cotton Cancer Center (NCCC) in Lebanon, NH and a Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Audrey and Theodor Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth in Hanover, NH. He is a member of the NCCC Molecular Therapeutics Program and the gastrointestinal and breast cancer clinical oncology groups. In 2016 he became a member of Dartmouth College's Program in Experimental and Molecular Medicine (PEMM), and he has served on the advisory board of the Health Care Genetics Professional Science Master's Degree Program at the University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT). His area of expertise is in the development and implementation of clinical molecular diagnostic technologies. His research interests are in the pathogenesis of human cancers, personalized medicine and disruptive technologies. He has authored/edited twelve textbooks in the field of molecular pathology, published more than 200 peer reviewed manuscripts, and has been an invited speaker at both national and international meetings. He has served on numerous committees of the AACC, ASIP, FASEB and AMP where he is a past President. He is active in the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology, the Association for Molecular Pathology, the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, the American Association of Bioanalyts, and the American Society for Investigative Pathology. He serves on the editorial boards of 8 journals including Clinical Chemistry, Experimental and Molecular Pathology, and the Journal of Molecular Diagnostics. He also serves on numerous corporate scientific advisory boards.
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Director of Laboratory for Clinical Genomics and Advanced Technology (CGAT), Audrey and Theodor Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Lebanon, NH, USA


The power of conservation: clean water, healthy soils is collaboration among 92 Districts, IASWCD, conservation partners.
The stewardship of our natural resources has never been about self-interest or personal gain, but about the wellbeing of generations to come. Indiana's Soil and Water Conservation Districts (SWCDs), one in every county, were created to deliver technical assistance, education and cost-share funding through voluntary programs which help landowners address important natural resource concerns.
The Indiana Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts (IASWCD) and our local SWCDs, share a single mission: to coordinate assistance from available sources — public and private, local, state and federal — in an effort to develop locally driven solutions to natural resource concerns. That is over 450 volunteers across the state serving in elected or appointed positions on SWCD governing boards, who, along with staff at the local level, work with landowners in agricultural areas, cities and towns, and the land areas in between. That is approximately 23 million acres in the State of Indiana.
• Capacity building through our conservation development specialist who supports SWCDs and watershed groups, as well as the successful Conservation Cropping Systems Initiative. The CCSI promotes a systematic approach to production agriculture focusing on: continuous no-till/strip-till, cover crops, precision farming and nutrient and pest management.
• District member benefits including a contribution agreement with NRCS, providing the GrantStation eNewsletter grant resource tool, and liability insurance coverage to Districts.
How you can become involved at the local level Volunteer / Assist your county SWCD with legislative awareness programs for local, state and federal officials, conservation programs, urban and agricultural best management practices (BMPs) field days, fundraising, tree sales, youth and adult education events or surveying. Serve as a Supervisor / Represent your community on the County SWCD Board of Supervisors as a natural resource decision maker. Identify local soil and water conservation issues and priorities and develop SWCD programs that provide solutions to these issues. Serve as an Associate Supervisor / Attend monthly board meetings and provide input to the SWCD board on local soil and water conservation issues and programs.
• USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Soil and water / quality of life . . . whether you live on a farm, in a small town, or in the heart of an urban center, healthy and sustainable communities begin with the wise management of our natural resources. That is why the Indiana Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts is pleased to be part of the Indiana Woodland Steward and the Woodland Steward Institute promoting the wise use of our Hoosier forest resources. These are important conservation best management practices in urban and agricultural land settings.
For more information on the IASWCD and our local Soil and Water Conservation Districts, contact the Association at 317.692.7325 or at www.iaswcd.org.
Jennifer Boyle Warner is the Executive Director for IASWCD.


With more outlets than ever before for documentary filmmakers to showcase their work, the Documentary School's section looks at the different demands faced by working documentary filmmakers while providing a foundation in the essentials of documentary filmmaking through how-to guides, Q&A's and interviews, and articles on industry trends.
When is it Right to Expand Your Documentary to a Docuseries?
Documentary films are generally far less expensive than fiction, but they do have a price tag.
… are you going to be part of 2015's legacy?
HBO Documentaries: Which Ones Make the Cut?
Are Food Documentaries Changing the Food Industry?
Think your options for streaming original and compelling documentaries begins and ends with Netflix?
Fake Shark Week Documentaries: They're Actually Dangerous.
NYFA: Hi Jon, would you mind giving us a bit about your background and what drew you to NYFA's screenwriting program?
NYFA: Could you tell us about your background and what drew you to documentary filmmaking?
NYFA: What is your background and what attracted you to the field of documentary filmmaking?
NYFA: Hello Susanne, to get started, would you mind telling us a little bit about your background and what drew you to documentary filmmaking?


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Q: How to handle distributing lots of large messages to an Akka cluster on startup? We have an actor structure where there is a cluster-sharded actor that calculates a parametric matrix of about 7 meg and has to distribute it to five other nodes for consumption. First of all, there are the following constraints:

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*The matrix has to be generated in one place.

*The matrix is needed on all nodes to handle user load.

*The matrix will be periodically generated again to handle changing variables and then sent off to all nodes to handle user load.

*Saving the matrix in a database is probably not viable as it merely shifts the networking load and the database would get very large very fast. The database only saves the input parameters.

We changed the Akka max message size to 10 meg to accomplish this, but that feels a bit odd and we didn't see another choice. Normally this works fine even though passing 10 meg messages around a distributed pub-sub seems odd to me. However, on startup, the system has to start up 2000 of these all at once. As a result the sharding coordinators scream at us about buffered messages. It eventually calms down and life resumes, but I would love to be able to do this without the bloodbath in the logs.
Can someone recommend an alternative strategy for handling the distribution of the parametric matrix that gets it to every node but doesn't cause a shard coordinator complaint bloodbath?

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The steel mill in Trieste for the cityzens is simply known by the familiar name of "Ferriera".
Located between the gulf and the residential areas of Servola and Muggia, the steel mill is property of Lucchini Group, now controlled for 62 % by the russian steel giant Severstal. It extends for 560.000 square meters, produces coke (coal-derived fuel) and cast iron, and employes about 500 workers.
A white-hot trip between flames and fires, channels of lava, flashes of smoke, liquid metals and blast furnaces that evoke Dante's suggestions. A plece where working is a hard stuff.


Sweet tasty teriyaki sauce poured over tender juicy sirloin steak. With toasted sesame seeds on top to dial up the flavor of this keto, gluten free, guilt free meal.
1. Preheat to 350F. 2. Pour sauce on top 3. Cook for 2 mins or until heated through.
1. Pour the sauce on top. 2 Put the container lid on 3. Cook for 2 minutes.
Obsessed with this dish. Such a good alternative to a beef & broccoli Chinese dish. Didn't even miss the rice!
Delicious beef and kale! Teriyaki sauce was very tasty. Hearty portion too.


Laser scanning is becoming a must-have for the start of every renovation and retrofit. And that makes perfect sense – how else can you quickly capture all the necessary information about as-is conditions and turn it into a usable BIM model for the project?
But did you also know there are other compelling reasons for laser scanning on the jobsite? You can scan a floor for level and make the needed adjustments before interior framing or capture items before a concrete pour, drywalling or ceiling tile installation. And, of course, scan to verify what was intended in the BIM model to what has been constructed on-site.
Applications of laser scanning on today's construction projects.
Practical advice about offering these services.
How to streamline the creation of deliverables to key personnel on any project.


Judging the health of BitBucket, GitHub, etc.
At my new job, we're selecting a hosted "revision control + wiki + issue tracker + document repository" service.
My first recommendation was Bitbucket. I've used it for a while, and have always been satisfied. (I even have a paying account plan!) But after a day of use, we bumped into odd problems. Like, Windows users couldn't upload documents, and errors when we used HTTP Secure protocol. And then I found many issues in Bitbucket's issue tracker (i.e., issues about Bitbucket) that were (open && non-trivial && had no activity for many weeks).
How do we confidently assess the health of a hosted service? Large enterprises can meet the other company's management and get privileged information about its finances, staffing, etc. But individuals or start-ups getting at that kind of information is impossible, or at least will need way more back-and-forth e-mails than they have time for.
The only reasonable way is to ask friends for their opinions, and search for anecdotal evidence about whether the service's "slope" is negative or positive. You've got to look for grumbles, gripes, and unanswered (or insufficiently answered) questions. From that, and poking around the service's own site, you come up with a health assessment. All of which is imprecise, sometimes wrong, and can be a little challenging. In the end you're reading between many lines, and giving online sources your personal sniff test. Real business decisions are based on many indirect and vague indicators.
Rightly or wrongly, my partially informed, best-guess-on-the-available-data opinion is that Bitbucket's development isn't as healthy or vibrant as that of GitHub or other services. So we're now looking for an alternative. CodebaseHQ looks very good. I just need to get a sense of how healthy it is! If you have any opinions about CodebaseHQ, please share them. There's quite a bit of "Bitbucket vs. Github" commentary on the web, but not much about CodebaseHQ.
Thanks for the feedback. We haven't been (as) good at keeping people up to date on what we're doing, and I feel bad about that. What kind of information would you like to see more of?
We are quite active, although much of our time has gone into keeping the site stable as of late.
Deleting the repository I asked you to delete on 5/4, 5/5, 5/8, and 5/13 might be a good start.
You might also look at http://firefly.activestate.com/. Basically, hosted trac. Only did a brief review myself – trac plugins setup, comfortable if you already know it.
Github is offering scn write compatibility now too. Probably what I'd consider the leader in the hosted space. They know it too – highest cost.


Mozilla anunta o revolutie! Lanseaza smartphone-ul de 25 de dolari!
Mozilla lucreaza la dezvoltarea unui telefon inteligent Firefox care ar urma sa ruleze propriul sistem de operare si sa costa numai 25 de dolari. Anuntul a fost facut de seful Mozilla, Jay Sullivan, in cadrul unei conferinte de presa la Mobile World Congress de la Barcelona.
Telefonul ar urma sa fie dezvoltat impreuna cu Spreadtrum, companie care a lansat, cu aceasta ocazie, procesorul SC6821, un chipset care nu necesita foarte multa memorie si care va permite dezvoltarea unor solutii tehnologice ieftine si performante.
Jay Sullivan nu a dorit sa faca niciun comentariu privind dotarile noului smartphone insa din comunicatul de presa reiese ca acesta ar urma sa aiba un ecran de 3.5″ HVGA touchscreen, sa integreze WiFi, Bluetooth, radio in FM si camera foto si sa ruleze aplicatii si internet in HTML5.
Telefonul ar urma sa fie dedicat pietelor emergente, acolo unde Mozilla vede un potential urias.
Pe de alta parte, sefii de la Mozilla au anuntat, la Barcelona, lansarea sistemului de operare pentru 12 noi piete, in urmatoarea perioada. Telefonica va lansa Firefox OS in Argentina, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Ecuador, Germania, Guatemala, Nicaragua, si Panama, iar Deutsche Telekom in Croatia, Cehia, Macedonia si Montenegru.
Mai multe detalii aflati din comunicatul de presa de mai jos.
BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 23, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Today at Mobile World Congress, Spreadtrum Communications, Inc., a leading fabless semiconductor company in China with advanced technology in 2G, 3G and 4G wireless communications standards, and Mozilla, the mission-based organization dedicated to keeping the power of the Web in people's hands, announced that they have teamed up to deliver turnkey Firefox OS reference designs with Spreadtrum's entry-level smartphone chipsets. These solutions expand the global accessibility of open Web smartphones to first-time and entry-level smartphone buyers by reducing the time and cost required for handset makers to bring these devices to market. Spreadtrum and Mozilla have now completed the integration of Firefox OS with several of Spreadtrum's WCDMA and EDGE smartphone chipsets, including the SC6821, unveiled today by Spreadtrum as the industry's first chipset for US$25 smartphones. These smartphones are available for demos at Mozilla's booth (3C30) at Mobile World Congress 2014 in Barcelona.
At Mobile World Congress, Spreadtrum unveiled the SC6821, its new smartphone chipset that redefines the entry level of the global smartphone market. The chipset is designed with a unique low memory configuration and high level of integration that dramatically reduces the total bill of materials required to develop low-end smartphones. With this chipset, handset makers will be able to bring to market smartphones with 3.5″ HVGA touchscreens, integrated WiFi, Bluetooth, FM and camera functions, the advanced phone and browser features of Firefox OS, and access to a rich ecosystem of web and HTML5 applications, at prices similar to much more minimally featured budget feature phones.
Firefox OS smartphones are the first devices powered completely by Web technologies to deliver the performance, personalization and price users want in a smartphone with a beautiful, intuitive and easy-to-use experience that is unmatched by other phones. Firefox OS has all the things users need from a smartphone as well as the things they want like built-in social integration with Facebook and Twitter, HERE Maps with offline capabilities, much-loved features like the Firefox Web browser, the Firefox Marketplace for apps and more. Firefox OS features a brand new concept for smartphones – an adaptive app search that literally transforms the phone to meet a user's needs and interests at any moment.
Firefox OS offers Mozilla-pioneered WebAPIs that unlock the power of the Web and enable developers to build fun and rich app experiences that were previously only available to proprietary native apps, which are fragmented by platform and not portable.
Spreadtrum and Mozilla have completed the integration of Firefox OS with Spreadtrum's SC6821 and SC7710 WCDMA smartphone chipsets, and expect to complete a turnkey reference design for the SC7715, Spreadtrum's single-core WCDMA smartphone chipset with integrated connectivity, next month. Spreadtrum and Mozilla's collaboration will extend across Spreadtrum's full chipset portfolio.
About Spreadtrum Communications, Inc. Spreadtrum Communications, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company that develops mobile chipset platforms for smartphones, feature phones and other consumer electronics products, supporting 2G, 3G and 4G wireless communications standards. Spreadtrum's solutions combine its highly integrated, power-efficient chipsets with customizable software and reference designs in a complete turnkey platform, enabling customers to achieve faster design cycles with a lower development cost. Spreadtrum's customers include global and China-based manufacturers developing mobile products for consumers in China and emerging markets around the world. Spreadtrum is a privately held company headquartered in Shanghai and an affiliate of Tsinghua Unigroup, Ltd. For more information, visit www.spreadtrum.com.