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May 28 Movie Review : Deadpool 2 (2018)
Deadpool was a fringe Marvel character before he was granted his own movie in 2016. He was the cool, cult superhero for real comic book fans. Fast forward two years and he's now that Marvel superstar every faux-nerd brags about knowing before he was cool. The first movie was pretty fun and clever, but it felt like Deadpool had emptied his bag of tricks right off the bad: breaking the fourth wall, superhero cynicism, dick jokes, what else is there to him that would warrant a sequel? Well, Josie and I went to see Deadpool 2 over the weekend and... hold your pants up, it's even better than the first.
I'm going to start with a minor spoiler. The movie begins with Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) being suicidal after his girlfriend Vanessa (the underrated Morena Baccarin) is murdered by a Russian thug. A failed suicide attempt leads him to back to Colossus (Stefan Kapicic) who simply refuses to give up on him. He convinces Deadpool to become an X-Men trainee and their first mission is to stop a young Firefist (Julian Dennison) gone wild from murdering just everybody. This seems like a routine superhero intervention, but sometimes life has a way of giving you exactly what you need.
So, Deadpool 2 is a two hours-long Logan joke, but that's been establish already *. But it's not only that. There's a genuine attempt at moving beyond its own cynicism. It goes to town on the old myth of redemptive violence by having Vanessa being the innocent victim of a criminal vendetta against Deadpool. In a very un-Deadpool scene in act 1, he admitted his guilt in the death of his girlfriend, saying he's the one perpetrator that got away. If he hadn't went after the Russian thugs, they wouldn't have retaliated and Vanessa would still be alive. It's an idea that permeates the entire movie. Deadpool refuses to let violence and murder be a solution to his existential suffering.
Of course, Deadpool 2 doesn't entirely commit to an earnest worldview that champions sacrifice and family because it would be just as big a cliché as going full badass. The post-credit scene basically invalidates the entire movie by rolling back its events and changing key moments. I'm not going to tell you what these events are, but Deadpool's trademark cynicism is going full meta. Not only Deadpool 2 attacks a toxic myth that is at the heart of the moviemaking industry, but it's basically saying: we're a movie too. Please don't take us too seriously because we'll ruin your day if you do. That... fucking blew my mind. And I can't decide whether it's cynical or not.
Don't worry, I thought Deadpool 2 was even funnier than its first iteration. It fires away at just every possible superhero trope, but it was to be expected. And I'm sure you didn't need my review to tell you how fucking clever and hilarious this movie is. What I'm telling you here is that it goes way beyond dick jokes and breaking the fourth wall. Deadpool 2 has something to say about the very nature of the movies we like to "shut our brain off" to and I didn't expect that at all. I would go as far as saying that... welp... it's one of my favorite movies of 2018, so far?
* My guys at Wisecrack will tell you all about it:
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Blogger, brooding author, basketball enthusiast and apostle of critical awareness. Living in Montreal, Canada with better half Josie and a dog named Scarlett.
May 29 Ben Watches Television : Evil Genius (2018)
May 25 Movie Review : Nightbreed (1990)
Mar 20 Movie Review : Logan (2017)
Jan 25 Movie Review : Thor - Ragnarok (2017)
Dec 3 Movie Review : Avengers: Infinity War (2018)


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Chemometrics: the Next Tool in Flavor Research
December 3, 2009 Contact Author	Aditi Inamdar, Associate Editor
SFC Meeting attendees.
Barry Dowles, Jill Moats and Gillian Bleimann (all Berjé)
At a recent Society of Flavor Chemists' (SFC) meeting in Chicago, Gary Reineccius, professor, department of food science and nutrition, University of Minnesota, discussed the need, process and outcome of using chemometrics (or flavoronomics) as the next tool in flavor research. In his presentation titled "Discovery," Reineccius voiced the need for a fresh approach toward finding new flavor compounds existing in nature, as he believed traditional methods give no information on how a flavor compound works in combination with other elements, nor does it explain how it influences or is influenced by other elements. "It ignores antagonism, synergy, etc.," he said, adding that, "for instance, it does not tell us that wine in an oak barrel loses its fruitiness vis-a-vis a stainless steel vessel, and that a whiskey lactone at a level not assumed important, makes a contribution but changes the flavor." To take "this next step," he said, a new approach, perhaps using chemometrics, is needed.
Considering the advances in identification and separation sciences, computing and data handling, and the availability of tools and expertise from other fields, Reineccius concluded that "chemometrics is possible now." Further, he shared valuable insights on the key requisites, methodologies and different stages of this scientific process. Reineccius concluded his presentation by highlighting the achievable results of chemometrics such as identification of compounds linked to the flavor of certain foods or selected sensory attributes, detection of synergies that make a flavor more "true to life," sensory prediction, rapid quality assurance, associate formulation or processing to develop new flavors, and a powerful and timely tool to advance one's knowledge.
In the second technical presentation of the day, Ray Marsili of Marsili Consulting Group took Reineccius' idea of flavoronomics further by citing real-life applications that used multivariate statistical analysis and GC-olfactometry to solve flavor problems. These included determination of chemicals responsible for off-notes in club cheese and failing sensory testing of cheese powders, and shelf life prediction of processed milk.
The meeting also included an address by Barry Dowles of Berjé, who shared his insights on current raw material price trends, market conditions and sourcing details of ingredients from different flavor groups; the company also showcased a few of its ingredients, including methyl cis-3-hexenoate (FEMA# 4164) and 3-(5-methyl-2-furyl)prop-2-enal (FEMA# 4175). In addition, Gillian Bleimann discussed Berjé's acquisition of Whole Herb Co. (disclosed in February) and its strategy moving forward.
The SFC meeting included an address by Barry Dowles of Berjé, who shared his insights on current raw material price trends, market conditions and sourcing details of ingredients from different flavor groups.

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Olympic legends like Usain Bolt, Nadia Comăneci, Cathy Freeman, Nicola Adams, Michael Phelps and Andy Murray star in our new launch film for the official Olympic Channel. It consists of great Olympic moments beautifully recreated by celebrated director Richard Swarbrick and a crack team of animators sourced from within the Watchable Talent Network. The film was launched on the day of the opening ceremony in Rio. You can watch it here on the Olympic Channel's Facebook page. See how many of the Olympians you can name.


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Q: Isn't this article in wikipedia wrong? (Multilinear form) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilinear_form
It says "The exceptional case of characteristic $2$ does not share this property." at last lines.
However, isn't it false?
Let $R$ be a commutative ring and $M,N$ be $R$-modules and $\phi$ be an alternating multilinear map $M^n\rightarrow N$.
Then,
\begin{align}
0 &= \phi(...,x+y,...,x+y,...)\\
&=\phi(...,x,...,x,...)+\phi(...,x,...,y,...)+\phi(...,y,...,x,...)+\phi(...,y,...,y,...).
\end{align}
Hence, $\phi(...,x,...,y,...)=-\phi(...,y,...,x,...)$.
This argument does not use the property of characteristic at all. Isn't the line in wikipedia wrong?
Of course, the converse of this argument must assume the characteristic $\neq 2$, but I think this direction is not the case..

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Worksop Town v Lincoln City pre-season friendly.
Worksop Town have added another three players to the ranks, with the start of the NCEL Premier season looming.
Forwards Shaq McKenzie, who made 23 appearances for Tigers in his first spell, Mark Fereday and 17-year-old midfielder Josh Hobson have all signed on.
The 2015/16 campaign begins in just over a week's time at Athersley Recreation, but first Worksop have the visit of Boston United to look forward to on Monday night.
On Tuesday Tigers sent a team to Penistone and a team to Hallam, winning 3-0 and 2-1 respectively.


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Censorship and Brexit - Ciaran Murtagh
On Friday the BBC re-released a sketch from Horrible Histories that apparently 'trashed Britain'. You can watch the offending sketch here:
It was from a 2009 episode called Vile Victorians and it upset a lot of people including Piers Morgan, Andrew Neill and the Daily Mail, so it must be doing something right.
Caution - this link will take you to The Daily Mail
It piqued my interest because as a kids TV writer, it seemed strange for so many grown men - and it usually is men - to get enraged by an 11 year old sketch, which many children have enjoyed and - crucially - understood for years.
Link to some frankly ridiculous Twitter comments.
The reason for the outrage was the fact that it was unpatriotic. Factually and historically accurate, but unpatriotic because it pointed to aspects of British history, that while true, displayed Britain in an unfavourable light.
No matter that this sketch has been broadcast many times to zero protest. No matter that it's from a show called Horrible Histories - the clue's in the name. No matter that Horrible Histories also trashes the 'Vicious Vikings' and the 'Rotten Romans'- maybe other countries have thicker skin, or aren't in the middle of an identity crisis.
We now live in a country so past irony that The Sun can create a poster celebrating Brexit in which the fictional character Alan Partridge is apparently a Great Britain, while his very real creator Steve Coogan is a shattered Remainer.
Also on the poster and in the Great British camp are Mr Blobby, Basil Brush and Mr Bean. As a writer for at least two of those characters - Mr Blobby writes his own material - I think I can confidently say Mr Bean is apolitical at best and if I had to pin Basil down I'd have him a little 'Countryside Alliance-y', but then again - THEY'RE BOTH MADE UP, SO HOW WOULD I KNOW!?
Noted Great Briton and anti-EU advocate Mr Bean. Apparently.
Regardless it's obviously fine to give fictional kids TV characters British values and agendas to reinforce your political point, but don't you dare put actual facts in front of the kiddiwinks for fear of being labelled unpatriotic. Or maybe The Sun poster is clearly a joke and I shouldn't take it so seriously, in which case... Horrible Histories!
The only thing that's changed in the 11 years since this sketch was first broadcast is that we now live in age where we no longer have a need for experts and facts are apparently negotiable depending on your world view. That and they got a British born Asian to introduce it. Can't have people with a darker skin tone telling us OUR - and their, but lets not worry about that - history can we?
Another criticism levelled at the sketch is that is lacks perspective, it doesn't say anything about all the good things the Victorians and Britain did. Which is true, it doesn't, but then it's a comedy sketch for children, it makes one point and it makes it very well, it's how sketches work. You never hear of any of the perfectly healthy parrots the pet shop owner sold in the Dead Parrot sketch do you? Where's the perspective? Next you'll be telling me that 'Allo 'Allo isn't representative of life in German occupied France and not all Dublin matriarchs are men in drag.
Life in German occupied France not all bad. Apparently.
In the scheme of things it's a silly thing to get annoyed about, but as a children's writer I find it very worrying. It points to an insidious trend. If the future of writing for children means passing some strange Daily Mail criteria for what is and isn't acceptable then we're all screwed.
Children are happy to be challenged, happy to be provoked, happy to question and happy to think for themselves. The evidence of the past few days seems to suggest that certain adults are not. We should always remind ourselves that we're writing for the children who are happy to explore different perspectives, not the grown ups who would rather we reinforce a particular world view.
On a wider note, for anybody who creates anything, if these angry, seemingly educated people feel so threatened by an 11 year old sketch about Queen Victoria on kids TV, just imagine how they'll feel when faced with more grown up criticism on a news show. Or maybe they'll just select favourable journalists from now on.
Regardless, the shouting voices are getting louder. Post Brexit you're either with us or against us. In an age where a slightly peculiar decade old sketch in which Queen Victoria has sugar poured on her head can cause such indignant rage I worry for anybody who dares to create anything with a dissenting voice, no matter how light hearted it may be.
Ciaran Murtagh's work can currently be seen every Friday at 6pm on CBBC on Crackerjack. Follow the link to see an unashamedly apolitical Basil Brush doing his thing.
Posted by Ciaran Murtagh at 04:00 Permalink 5 comments
Labels: Brexit, cbbc, children's writer, Classic children's TV, crackerjack, history for kids, Horrible Histories, Mr Bean, Nish Kumar
'Drawing Europe Together': Sue Purkiss
It's going to be obvious anyway from this post - but I am a staunch Remainer. There. Said it. I think we should stay in the EU for many reasons - think how much time and money we and several other countries would have saved if there had never been a referendum! - but mainly because I love Europe and I really, really want to continue to be a part of it, though I can see now that that's unlikely to happen.
So you can see why a book with this title - Drawing Europe Together - was likely to appeal to me. I came across it in Waterstones a few weeks ago. It's put together by Axel Scheffler, the illustrator of many of Julia Donaldson's books, including the wonderful Gruffalo. He explains in his introduction that "the seed of this book was planted by a German children's book publisher, Marcus Weber at Moritz Verlag, who asked his illustrators to do a 'drawing for Europe'". An exhibition of the drawings eventually came to London, where it was added to by British-based illustrators, many of whom, unsurprisingly, took the opportunity to express their feelings about Brexit. With the creation of this book, the venture was taken a step further.
A lot of the pictures feature Europa, a mythical personage who was kidnapped from what we would now call the Middle East by a god in the shape of a bull, and brought to the place that now bears her name. In Polly Dunbar's image, see the little boy from Britain, who stands apart, looking wistfully back at the other children, one of whom reaches out to him.
It's a sad book in many ways. Axel Scheffler explains his own feelings: "Personally, Britain has been my home for 36 years. I came to study and work here, and that was made possible by the EU. It has enriched my life and I hope that I have enriched the life of this nation in return by creating The Gruffalo and many other popular books together with Julia Donaldson. I've never seen myself as a guest in the UK but it now no longer feels like home to me. The fatal decision of Brexit, which seems to me a tremendous act of national self-harm, fills me with disbelief, pain and anger."
I share his pain and his sadness, and I think it's a dreadful thing that Europeans who have lived here for many years and contributed so much, now feel unwelcome. I too think that we have made a terrible mistake, and I feel angry when I see the posturing and manoeuvering of many of our politicians, who have consistently refused to listen to those derided 'experts' who have tried to warn us. I have often disagreed with government policy, but I have never felt so utterly convinced that the path our country is taking is the wrong one.
Here, Sarah McIntyre presents us with an agitated starling, tied to a stake which keeps him in Britain, while all the other starlings fly free. It's beautifully executed, and its message is clear.
I commend this book to you. There is no anger here, but there is wit, humour, artistry - and considerable sadness.
Labels: Axel Scheffler, Brexit, Europe, Sue Purkiss
An Awfully Big Adventure: Pantsing by train (Anne Rooney)
I'm sorry to say I missed my slot to post last month, because:
Plaque marking the birthplace of
Vlad Tepes, Sibiu, Romania
Vampires. I was in Transylvania and I couldn't get my iPad to connect to ABBA.
Up a misty mountain in Salzburg, in the rain,
looking through an arrow slit in the old
This was a final pre-Brexit European adventure. I wanted time to write and read, so I bought an Interrail ticket and booked a night in a hotel in Koln (Cologne) in Germany and left the country with some books and my iPad and a backpack. On my own. A writing retreat on the move.
I like writing on trains, and I like reading on trains. In fact, I barely touched the book I wanted to work on as I found I can't edit on an iPad. But I wrote other things, so all was well. Over two and a half weeks I spent around 70 hours on trains, walked over 200,000 steps and travelled as far as Romania. I didn't want to tread familiar ground, so stayed away from the usual writerly haunts of France, Italy, Spain, etc. And I didn't have a plan.
Finding fossils in the mountains,
Writers divide into plotters and pantsers: those who meticulously plan where their book is going and those who fly by the seat of their pants and make it up as they go along, seeing where the book takes them. I think travellers divide along the same lines.
Some people like to know exactly where they are going, on the page or the plane. They research their destination and plan what they will see and do when they get there or on the way. I prefer just to get going. A couple of weeks after I got back, I went to the Bookseller Children's Books Conference in London. One of the speakers started off by saying that when you go on holiday, you do lots of research, or at least choose where you are going. Plan where you are going? Why would you do that?
Of course there are dead-ends and you have to rewrite or retrace your steps. Just as I might start a story knowing only that it will be a bit Gothic and set in the past, so I got onto Eurostar thinking I'd go a bit east and stay in decent hotels. (This wasn't to be a return to studenty hostels. This was interrailing for grown-ups. Cockroaches are all very well when there's no alternative, they have their place, but in 21st century Europe?)
Each night I decided on the next day's destination and booked a hotel. Or occasionally I did it the morning I was leaving. A vague route emerged but, just like writing in this way, it didn't always work. In Salzburg, I decided to head itowards Sarajevo. It seemed a suitable place in this last year of the centenary of the First World War. And if I was going to Sarajevo, I might as well do the whole war-and-conflict thing and go to Bosnia and Kosovo, too. So I got a train to Ljubljana in Slovenia with the rough intention of going from there to Bosnia and from Bosnia to Kosovo and Montenegro.
I found this set into the platform at the railway station in Ljubljana:
James Joyce had been to this station before me
City wall, Sighisoara,
It seemed like a good sign, but, just as when you write a good opening line to a chapter and think it means things will go well, it was a delusion. My hotel (which was expensive) was horrible. The room was the size of a matchbox and it was opposite the A&E department of the largest hospital in the country, which had a helipad on the roof. It poured with rain, as though someone was pushing clouds down a funnel straight above my head.
I spent two nights there trying to find a way to get to Bosnia, but all the trains into and through Bosnia had been suspended. I could go by train to somewhere in Croatia and get a bus, but it would take a very long time and I'd have to do the same to get back. Going through Serbia was little better. There was one train a day south from Belgrade and it left at 6 am. It needed a reservation and couldn't be booked online. I'd have to go to Belgrade and hope there were seats. It was too much of a risk. I'd travelled myself into a corner. Time to throw that chapter away. I spent a few hours bemoaning my lost adventure in Kosovo and booked a hotel in Budapest.
Entrance to tea shop in a bomb
shelter, Bratizlava, Slovakie
I was last in Budapest the night the Berlin Wall came down. Then, the station was as packed with people fleeing to Berlin and that little gap in the wall. This time the most remarkable thing was that there are no cashpoints and I'd forgotten Hungary isn't in the Eurozone. Budapest had changed beyond recognition, with all the bullet holes fixed and the secret Hospital in the Rock no longer secret but open to tourists. I went to a dinosaur museum. I wanted to see a Magyarosaurus on its home ground. In fact, the dinosaur museum (the Hungarian Natural History Museum) set me up pretty well for spotting wildlife from the train in Romania. From Budapest I got a train to Romania. One of my daughter's college friends had lived in Romania so I messaged her and she told me some places to go.
Firewood for the winter,
The trains in Romania are slow, cronky and full of elderly people smoking and carrying their spades and things. There were no goats on the trains, but the occasional horse-drawn cart still in the fields, and I got the feeling they would have brought their goats if they could get them up the steps. The trains stopped *all the time* at any random crossroads or wherever someone seemed to wave them down. It took 13 hours to get from Budapest to the first stop in Romania but the trains within Romania were even slower: 4 hours for a 100 miles seemed about the standard. This isn't a travelogue, so I won't go on about how wonderful Romania is, but I will go again. I did buy garlic in the supermarket the day before I got the bus out to Bran and Dracula's castle. And I did hear wolves howling in the night, and go through forest-draped mountains in a thunderstorm. So it was a bit Gothic and rather set in the past.
Nuremberg — where the rallies were
I came back through Budapest again, Bratislava in Slovakia, Nuremburg and Koln once again, but it didn't feel like coming back until Koln, so often a last stop before Eurostar that it rather feels like home being nearly home.
Pantsing as a holiday method is just as exciting and unreliable as pantsting as a writing method. But even the dead ends are interesting.
Anne Rooney
Dinosaur Atlas, Lonely PlanetShortlisted for Royal Society Young People's Book Prize 2018 and
School Libraries Association Prize 2018
Posted by Stroppy Author at 09:28 Permalink 1 comments
Labels: adventure Anne Rooney, Brexit, Dracula, Interrail, pantsters, Romania, trains, vampires
I would pack freedom...poems after Brexit by Miriam Halahmy
Before, during and after the Referendum I had a series of school visits in and around Refugee Week 2016. The theme this year is WELCOME and I set my talks around this theme.
I am drafting this blog in the week after the Referendum and the subsequent turmoil in our country. Everyone seems to be out on the streets or up in arms on social media. No-one seems happy. Our political parties have hunkered down into their separate corners and after some painful dentistry, I am feeling quite low.
What do the children think?
This seems to be about the most important question of the day after everything that has happened.
Sita Brahmachari has written a wonderful piece on the Guardian Children's Website about addressing children's questions and fears post-Brexit.
Going into school with my book HIDDEN and my Welcome message at a time when immigration seems to be the only word on everyone's lips, I really didn't know what sort of reception I would get. The schools I visited were very varied from Tottenham and Hackney to leafy Barnet.
I spoke to Muslim kids, Christian kids, Jewish kids and secular. I spoke to top sets and those with extra learning needs. I spoke to students from Y7 -Y10. I read out from Hidden and Yasmin's Journey (not yet published) - both books champion asylum seekers and ask the reader to put themselves in the shoes of those who have to leave their homes forever. I read out poems by asylum seekers.
How did the students react?
Not one student yawned, or looked out the window, or refused to engage, or made any kind of derogatory comment about asylum seekers/immigration/Refugee Week. They were moved by the stories, entered into spirited and positive discussion and wrote amazing poems about what it would mean to them to leave their homes,their families and their country forever.
As I make my recovery from a painful mouth and an aching heart, it is the children who give me hope for the future of these beautiful islands - the islands that my parents gave up their youth to fight for in WW2 and which my family came to in the mid-nineteenth century to seek safety after the pogroms against the Jews in Poland and Russia.
Here are their words to show you how much hope lies out there in our schools :-
I would pack freedom
I wouldn't pack weapons
I would pack love
I wouldn't pack hate
I would pack food
I wouldn't pack fear
I would pack memories
But I wouldn't pack
I don't want to leave.
Jordana, 13 years.
I might be from abroad,
but when we are together
I feel like I'm safe.
We may get abused but hey
tell me 'It's okay'
when we are actually safe.
Because I'm hurting
but your softest whisper
keeps me sane from all the whispers that keep me up.
So I'll keep on walking
despite the pain in my foot
because you promised me that together we would get to that sacred land,
But you lied and I believed you.
By Haniya Mohamed-Mustaffa
It seems like a long time
Seems like a long time ago
She was in her prime
Life was going so slow
She wasn't told that her life would change
Didn't get to hear the choices made
All she ever knew now out of range
She remembers how scared she was
Unfamiliar faces, no comfort
Only time would tell if she would come to love
Her new home
Memories of before already fade
Right here, right now she smiles, she's safe
This is her home away from home
This is her home away from home.
By Kenny Shomuyiwa
In the dawn of this trembling not so brave new world I wish all the children in the world and everyone, including all the animals and all living things on our planet,
PEACE/SHALOM/SALAAM
www.miriamhalahmy.com
Posted by Miriam Halahmy at 05:30 Permalink 3 comments
Labels: Barnet, Brexit, Guardian children's website, Hackney, Hidden, Refugee Week 2016, Sita Brahmachari, Tottenham
Pick Yourself Up, Dust Yourself Down (Reality Bites: Part Two) – Liz Kessler
After a night of disbelief and a morning of despair, I am picking myself up and blinking against the sunlight that is poking out from dark clouds after hours of rain.
And, cheeky as it might be, I am taking advantage of this still being my 'day' on the ABBA blog to post a Part Two.
There are things I need to say, and I want to say them very clearly.
When more or less half of our country votes one way and half votes the opposite way, neither side can categorise the other with generalised labels or blanket descriptions.
No one will benefit from accusing 17 million or so people of being either ignorant and easily duped or being racist xenophobes. That simply isn't true and isn't helpful as a means of going forward. Equally, to gloat in the faces of 16 million or so people who are suffering and despairing is not going to take our country anywhere good.
I personally believe that Nigel Farage is an extremely dangerous man who has somehow been elevated to a position of power and influence by national media outlets that have granted him a generous and comfortable platform which he did nothing to earn. But this does not mean that everyone on the 'Leave' side of the vote agrees with or supports him.
His image, as an affable chap who's in it together with the good, honest, working folk, has been cleverly orchestrated, and he has used scapegoat politics to give people a focus for their dissatisfaction with the status quo. 'Don't like what those out of touch politicians are telling you to do? Stand up for yourself – and while you're at it, here's some immigrants to blame.'
Yes it sounds simplistic – but it works. It's worked before and it's worked here. But we have to recognise that NOT EVERYONE who voted 'Leave' agrees with his stance or supports those politics.
So here's a challenge.
To those who voted 'Remain', let's shrug off our sadness and shock, and ditch our despair and depression. The vote has happened, and this is where we are. So let's look around and see how to deal with it. Find allies, keep conversations going, shake hands with people whose arguments we have been opposing for these last few months and let's prepare to work with as many people as we can in order to be part of rebuilding our country - and thus still have some influence in how that rebuilding takes place.
There is nothing we can do to change what has happened, so let's turn our thoughts to positive action.
And to those of you who voted 'Leave' for your own, deeply held reasons and beliefs, and have been angry at being castigated as racist and xenophobic – now is your chance to get out from under that label. Join with those of us on the other side in letting Farage and the rest of them know that you don't support him. Work with your communities, support the immigrants you say you are not opposed to, and please, please, whatever you do, try not to gloat over your victory.
And yes, even those who are UKIP supporters - I am utterly, utterly opposed to your politics - but the country has taken a vote and it has led us here, and I would rather have conversations in a reasonable and measured way than sling mud at each other across a wall that is so high neither side can see over the top of it.
We are here now. We have to work with what we've got, so let's do it with dignity, compassion, optimism and kindness.
And maybe when our children grow up and take our world into their hands, there is still a chance that they will look back on these days and be proud – of all of us.
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Posted by Liz Kessler at 15:11 Permalink 6 comments
Labels: #EUref, Brexit, Liz Kessler


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Richard Jankovich
Entrepreneur, Musician, Author
Shoplifter, B(R)ANDS Music Branding, Burnside Project, Pocket (musician), Big Mother Gig, Mon Draggor
Richard Jankovich (born August 7, 1972) is an American entrepreneur, musician and author in Los Angeles. He currently runs music promotion company Shoplifter and brand consultancy B(R)ANDS Music Branding Group.[1][2] His musical acts include Burnside Project, Big Mother Gig,[3] Pocket (musician) and Mon Draggor.[4] In 2013, his first book[5] "Hit Brands: How Music Builds Value For The World's Smartest Brands" was released on Palgrave Macmillan. He has lectured at University of Southern California[6] and spoken at South by Southwest.[7]
2.1 Music: LPs & EPs
2.2 Music: Notable Remixes
2.3 Books
Biography[edit]
Jankovich attended Marquette University in Milwaukee in the 1990s where he formed the alternative rock band, Big Mother Gig.[8] Big Mother Gig released 3 recordings and played over 150 concerts around the Midwest before breaking up in 1996 when Jankovich moved to New York City.[9] In 1999, he founded Burnside Project while working in music licensing and advertising.[10] Burnside Project released 4 albums on Bar/None Records and Sony Music Entertainment Japan and their 2003 track "Cue The Pulse To Begin" was the theme song for Queer as Folk (U.S. TV series) on Showtime (TV network). Burnside Project received critical acclaim from Rolling Stone and Spin (magazine) and were nominated by Cameron Crowe for a Shortlist[11] Award.[12]
In 2005, Jankovich began remixing under the name Pocket and released his first remix in 2005 to critical blog acclaim.[13] Many of his subsequent remixes have received positive critical reviews from websites such as Stereogum,[14] Pitchfork[15] and Pampelmoose.[16] In 2007, Pocket's remix for Radiohead's cover of Björk's "Unravel" was nominated for the 2007 Village Voice Pazz and Jop poll by Will Hermes.[17] In 2009, Pocket began releasing a series of singles featuring guest singers like Robyn Hitchcock, Craig Wedren (Shudder to Think), Steve Kilbey (The Church), Danny Seim (Menomena) and Mark Burgess (The Chameleons). In an interview with Zaptown Magazine, Pocket revealed that the collection of singles was made from a "dream list of all the people he wanted to collaborate with" and that the project took over three years to complete.[18] In 2012, these singles were collected on an album, All of This Happened, released on Tirk Records.[19] Pocket admits the name was bestowed upon him by Brooklyn Vegan when the blog posted his Joanna Newsom "Bridges and Balloons (Pocket Mix)" and referred to him directly as Pocket.[20]
In 2008, Jankovich moved to Los Angeles and continued to make music as Pocket (musician) and Mon Draggor while working at in-store music providers like Mood Media.[21][22] Mon Draggor's double LP "Pulling Strings/Pushing Buttons" was selected as 9th best album of 2015 by PopMatters.[23] In 2013, he launched Shoplifter.[22] Shoplifter specializes in helping artists and record labels get their songs placed into playlists that accompany the shopping experience (i.e. overhead or in-store music.)[24]
In 2017, Big Mother Gig returned with a new EP and began performing live.[25] In January 2018, Big Mother Gig released "The Great Heist", the first of 4 planned singles for 2018.[26] Also in 2018, Pocket began releasing a series of EPs which contained a mix of unreleased songs and remixes with Robyn Hitchcock, Tanya Donelly (Belly), Yuki Chikudate (Asobi Seksu), Vic Godard (Subway Sect), Dave Smalley (Dag Nasty), Styrofoam, Mux Mool, Mount Sims, RemoteTreeChildren and Glen Phillips (Toad The Wet Sprocket).[27]
Works[edit]
Music: LPs & EPs[edit]
Burnside Project:
Burnside Project "Syntax & Semantics" (2016, Bar/None Records)
Burnside Project "The Finest Example Is You" (2005, Bar/None Records)
Burnside Project "The Networks, the Circuits, the Streams, the Harmonies" (2003 Bar/None Records)
Burnside Project "Burnside Project" (2000, Fraga)
Big Mother Gig:
Big Mother Gig "No More Questions" (2018, Sweet Sweet)
Big Mother Gig "Quintessentially Average: 92-96" (2016, Sweet Sweet)
Big Mother Gig "Smiling Politely" (1996, Fraga)
Big Mother Gig "Transition EP" (1994, Fraga)
Big Mother Gig "My Social Commentary" (1993, Fraga)
Pocket "VLT A", "VLT B", "VLT C", "VLT D", "VLT E" EPs (2018, Fraga)
Pocket "All Of This Happened" (2012, Tirk)
Pocket "Singles" (2009, 24 Hour Service Station)
Mon Draggor:
Mon Draggor "Passing Time, Picking Bones" (2018, Fraga)
Mon Draggor "Pushing Buttons" (2015, Fraga)
Mon Draggor "Pulling Strings" (2015, Fraga)
Music: Notable Remixes[edit]
"Nine O'Clock in France (Pocket vs. Ray Ketchem Mix)" - Elk City (2010)
"My Beautiful Girl (Tokyo) (Pocket Mix)" - XO (2009)
"Blood Pressurize (Pocket Mix)" - RemoteTreeChildren (2009)
"Your Friends (Pocket Mix)" - Faux Hoax (2009)
"We're Here to Save the Day (Pocket Mix)" - The Constellations featuring Asher Roth (2009)
"Gamma Ray (Pocket Mix)" - Beck (2008)
"Slippershell (Pocket Mix)" - Kristin Hersh (2008)
"Lost My Taste (Pocket Mix)" - Mendoza Line (2008)
"Unravel (Pocket Mix)" - Radiohead (2007)
"Cherries in the Snow (Pocket Mix)" - Elk City (2007)
"Marfa Lights (Pocket Mix)" - Dirty on Purpose (2006)
"How Lester Lost His Wife (Pocket Mix)" - Of Montreal (2006)
"Hate (Pocket Mix)" - Cat Power (2006)
"My Lady Story (Pocket Mix)" - Antony and The Johnsons (2005)
"Bridges and Balloons (Pocket Mix)" - Joanna Newsom (2005)
Hit Brands: How Music Builds Value For The World's Smartest Brands (2013), Palgrave MacMillan
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^ "20 Questions: Mon Draggor". PopMatters. Retrieved 2017-10-20.
^ "Book review: Hit Brands". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2017-10-20.
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^ "In-Store Radio: 200M Potential Fans | SXSW 2015 Event Schedule". schedule.sxsw.com. Retrieved 2017-10-20.
^ "Big Mother Gig – A Band". bigmothergig.com. Retrieved 2017-10-23.
^ "Ex-Milwaukeean Jankovich releases debut with new band". OnMilwaukee.com. Retrieved 2017-10-20.
^ "Richard Jankovich - Independent Music Awards". Independent Music Awards. Retrieved 2017-10-20.
^ "Assessing Their Performance: The Burnside Project Legacy". PopMatters. Retrieved 2017-10-20.
^ "Burnside Project". Bar/None Records. Retrieved 2017-10-20.
^ "The Perfect Joanna Newsom Remix". Retrieved April 28, 2009.
^ "New Cat Power Remix ". Retrieved April 28, 2009.
^ "New Beck Pocket Mix". Retrieved April 28, 2009.
^ "Two musicians in Portland working together". Retrieved April 28, 2009.
^ "Village Voice Pazz and Jop nomination." Retrieved April 28, 2009
^ "Pocket - Refining The Art Of Collaboration". Retrieved April 28, 2009.
^ "New LP Announcement". Retrieved June 11, 2012.
^ "Evil Monito Interview". Retrieved April 28, 2009
^ "I'm playing Los Angeles for the first time!". Allthingsrichard. Retrieved 2017-10-20.
^ a b "Shoplifter Music - About Shoplifter". shopliftermusic.com. Retrieved 2017-10-20.
^ "PopMatters' Best Pop Albums of 2015". Album of The Year. Retrieved 2017-10-20.
^ "Shoplifter Music - About Shoplifter". shopliftermusic.com. Retrieved 2017-10-23.
^ Willschick, Aaron. "BIG MOTHER GIG Make Their Long Awaited Return with "Alvarado" Music Video". puregrainaudio.com. Retrieved 2017-10-20.
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Many of us believe that the air inside of our home is cleaned. However, indoor air is often more polluted than the air outdoors. Keep in mind that the average person spends 90 percent of their time indoors. That is why it is important to do everything that you can in order to improve your indoor air quality.
Your carpet may have dust, dirt, pet dander and other allergens. Even if you are vacuuming regularly, your carpet may still contain these things. The only thing that can remove these allergens is a thorough carpet cleaning.
Carpet can easily hold moisture, which is why it can be a breeding ground for mold. This is one of the many things that can worsen indoor air quality. It can also cause allergy and asthma symptoms. Vacuuming may not be able to remove mold. A thorough cleaning can remove the mold.
Stains can also cause problems with indoor air quality. For example, if there is a food stain in your carpet, then this can provide a food source for bacteria. This bacteria can easily be released into the air.
How Often Do I Need To Get My Carpet Cleaned?
There are many factors that affect how often you will need to have your carpet cleaned. One of those factors is how many people are living in your home. If you live by yourself, then you can probably get your carpet cleaned every 12 to 18 months. You will need to get your carpet cleaned more often if you have two or more people in your home.
Your home can get dirty very quickly if you have children. You will probably need to get your carpet cleaned every six to 12 months. People with pets will also need to get their carpet cleaned more often. Carpet cleaning is recommended every three to six months if you have pets.
If you have pets and children, then you may have to get your carpet cleaned every two to three months. Keep in mind that your carpet may have come with a warranty. Most warranties require that you clean the carpet every year unless the warranty will be voided.


And now as executive director of the Institute for Global Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, Sepulveda, MD, DSc, MPH, oversees the work of more than 300 faculty and staff. In an exclusive interview with Global Health NOW, the fierce global health advocate discusses this week's health forum in Mexico City, the results of Mexico's soda tax, the diagonal approach to health systems and advice for global health students.
This week you're convening a forum in Mexico City. What will you be doing there and what do you hope the result will be?
This second meeting of the Binational Health Forum—under the auspices of the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the University of California—will focus mainly on disseminating the recommendations of the World Bank publication "Priorities for Disease Control, 3rd edition." The translation into Spanish in a compendium of the main chapters of this publication will allow a more rapid spread and impact in the countries of Latin America.
In times of exacerbated nationalism in the United States and other nations, the construction of bridges—and not walls—among the countries of the hemisphere is important. Health is a natural bridge, and its crossing is the main intention of this forum. The findings and recommendations included in this compendium—the product of a 7-year effort by more than 300 international experts—provide a roadmap that could help improve health and reduce inequities in countries in this region, and thus aim towards meeting the Sustainable Millennium Goals in health.
In the last couple decades, global health as a field has really surged and attracted a lot of support. Where do you see the next 10 years going?
That's a very interesting and important question. You're right, I think the year 2000 marked the birth of global health in a major way with new political will—the Millennium Development Goals—, with new institutions being created—like the Global Fund and Gavi—and with big money coming in—the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It was kind of a magical moment.
I'm seeing now a plateau in funding and also a decline in political will, unfortunately led by the current [US] administration. I see that global health will have less support from the US, clearly, with our introspection and America First doctrine.
What's the one global health issue that keeps you up at night?
Personally, I think the obesity pandemic is the one that keeps me awake because it has so many consequences on the rest of the body. This is preventable, and this is something that is costing people, in terms of suffering, and costing society in terms of the financial burden, so it looks like an uncontrollable epidemic. I think we have to work on prevention much more forcefully. At the policy level, I have been personally involved in studying the sugar tax law that was effectively passed in Mexico. My colleagues succeeded in making exactly the case from evidence to policymaking, persuading the legislators that something needed to be done based on the data and results.
—Is it too soon to get any results on terms of the effects of the soda tax there?
Soda consumption decreased significantly, particularly among the lowest income sector, which is exactly what they wanted to achieve because those are the most affected by cheap calories coming from soda. The consequences in diabetes reduction, of course, will take much longer to be measured because there's an incubation period, if you will. I think it will take at least 5 years, if not 10, to see the result of the sugar tax law in obesity and diabetes decrease.
The soda industry is fighting so hard! It's similar to the tobacco industry in many ways. They are using every single marketing tool to bring back consumption to the levels they had, so hopefully diabetes obesity will decrease measurably, but success will depend on having the consumption kept low, or lower.
In 1990, you designed Mexico's successful universal vaccination program in just 2 years. It relied on the "diagonal" approach. Can you tell us about that?
The "Diagonal Approach" is a system, a new model with which we no longer went by the vertical approaches such as [focusing on a single disease like] polio or HIV, nor to the European horizontal model of health systems strengthening alone, in abstract. Instead, specific health priorities became the drivers of changes in the health system. We called this the diagonal approach. It's a package of health services, of highly cost-effective interventions, delivered [to] communities. And that's a model that [former UNICEF executive director] Jim Grant wanted. He had been advocating children's health, oral rehydration, vaccines, so this in Mexico for him was like, "Wow." He actually brought 3 batches, if you will, of health ministers from Africa and Asia to Mexico to learn about the diagonal approach.
I think vertical programs can only work for so long and I am a strong advocate that we need integrated health solutions. When I was at the Gates Foundation, my title as director was exactly that, Integrated Health Solutions. In Afghanistan and Pakistan now, the only region with remaining cases of a wild polio virus circulation, they incorporate that approach, integrating it, not only vaccinating for polio. People were fed up with polio drops, didn't make much of a visible difference for families. A package of other goodies, along with polio vaccination, was effectively done in a clinical trial comparing polio alone or integrated solutions and measurably, in that complicated area of the world, integrated solutions work much better for polio vaccination than polio vaccination alone. I think that's a lesson that has been probably inadvertently copied in many other regions of the world.
Let's talk about the Institute for Global Health Sciences here at UCSF. What makes it unique?
Historically, Richard Feachem created the Institute of Global Health in 1999 here at UCSF. To my knowledge, that was the first institute of global health created anywhere. The first Master's in global health in the country was started right here. We have now 10 generations, 10 cohorts of Master students in global health. When I say we, I'm taking credit, but I was not even here; I came to UCSF in 2011.
I think that also linking the basic and the clinical and the population health sciences is what makes us distinct. UCSF is better known for its basic and clinical sciences research, less well known—that's a best kept secret—for its population health. The ability to harness all of the wealth of basic and clinical sciences into population health interventions, I think makes also a difference.
Where do you see the institute heading in the next five years?
I think we are moving to make our STEPS to impact strategy more visible. STEPS is an acronym I coined to link science, technology, economics, policy and society. I'm deeply convinced that unless you bring the best of science and technology, but also of economics and policy and the social sciences, you won't be able to reach impact in the future. So, STEPS to impact is our strategy.
As a university, this is not only about knowledge creation through research or knowledge transmission through education. It's about knowledge implementation in the field, in countries, in communities, in families. I see that as part of our public mission. I think the focus has been more on knowledge creation and transmission, not so much on the implementation part.
You think that's a weakness in the wider global health community?
Yes, and I think universities have a role to play. I remember being a member of the board of overseers at Harvard, and the corporation and the overseers were reluctant to have Harvard involved in any health delivery services at all. I think they were worried about liability, and I made a strong case that universities have a role in knowledge implementation, not only knowledge creation. If Harvard had a way to deliver HIV treatment in some communities, so be it. Why not? It was a long battle, but I strongly believe universities have a role to play. We have opened offices, NGO-affiliated offices to UCSF in 6 African countries, so we're very actively involved as part of research and delivery programs in those 6 countries in Africa.
As hard as knowledge creation is, implementation seems to be even more difficult.
There's a new field of implementation sciences, as you know. And yes, it's hard. You have to have "boots on the ground" experience. [There's] no way to do the implementation component theoretically.
What would your advice be to students who are interested in getting into global health?
Of course, they should work hard. That would be my first piece of advice, and to understand the notions and concepts. They have to walk the talk. Global health is not a financially rewarding field, so it does take a real wish to serve—and personal sacrifice. My advice would be, of course, work hard, learn the trade or learn the skills and competencies that you need to do your work, and be serious about it. Check whether this is what you want to do for the rest of your life because it's hard work.
Do you have advice for students who are in global health and think, "Oh, I want to go and work in Africa."? Should they be working in health in their own communities first?
My advice would be work within a secure environment as much as you can with a program or a project that will offer safety, first of all, and also a true learning experience along with service.
I don't think you necessarily want to work first in your community. Now, I just want to emphasize that when I say global health, I am referring both to local and global. We do about half of our work and almost half of our staff is working here in California in poor communities, in the Central Valley with Mexican migrants or Central American migrants. That is also global health. As long as you work in vulnerable populations on issues that affect the bottom of the pyramid, in preventing disease and reducing health inequities anywhere, you're doing global health.
One last question. Bill Gates is famously optimistic about global health and where we've come in the last 20 years or so. Do you share that optimism?
Totally. First, I deeply admire Bill Gates. I've worked with him closely and I think he's a true champion. He's putting his money where his mouth is. He's walking the talk. Polio will be eradicated, and that is only in large part thanks to the persistence of many groups and people, but I think Bill was a key factor in finishing the last mile.
I share his optimism among other things because the alternative is defeat, and I don't admit defeat. You have to be persistent. If you fall once, you get up again.
I think we all have to have moral courage and stand up and defend our values, particularly in a time when the current administration is fighting against all of the things that we value. I hope we see that more moral courage. I think it's a fundamental part of good leadership and universities need to have a larger role. I hope that message gets transmitted.
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En el campo de la biología molecular, la proteína activadora 1 (AP-1) es un factor de transcripción heterodimérico compuesto por proteínas pertenecientes a las familias de c-Fos, c-Jun, ATF y JDP. Está implicada en la regulación de la expresión  de genes relacionados con la respuesta a diversos estímulos, como citoquinas, factores de crecimiento, estrés e infecciones virales o bacterianas. AP-1 controla, de este modo, diversos procesos celulares incluyendo diferenciación, proliferación y apoptosis.

AP-1 presenta la capacidad de activar la transcripción de los genes que contienen elementos de respuesta a 12-O-tetradecanoilforbol-13-acetato (TPA), caracterizados por la secuencia 5'-TGAG/CTCA-3'. AP-1 se une al ADN por medio de una región de su secuencia rica en aminoácidos básicos, mientras que la estructura dimérica está formada por una cremallera de leucina.

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To see inside a heart, to embrace, hold and respond, is the gift of Christmas!
"and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds,not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near."
This year, as we celebrate those we love, those at church, neighbors, children, husbands, let us look inside their hearts to see what is there and respond to them--even as Jesus saw the multitudes and had compassion on them, because He saw inside their hearts that they had no shepherd, sheep with no one to comfort, to guide, to guard.
Candles lit, tables decorated, chairs counted, all preparations made as women started parading through the door.
Amazement filled my mind and heart. Why do they come? Snowy roads, a cold night, leaving their homes. Always, I am surprised as each month precious ones pile through the doorway. Why do they take the time to come, to meet one more time?
As I look at my own heart needs, I see how many years I have felt that deep down, hunger, longing, emptiness from lack of community, wishing for friends who want to share life, for women--for someone who cares that I am alive and knows my struggles, my fears, my heart.
and yet, still so alone. But the places have now been filled by years of sweet, loyal, loving friends who have owned our friendship for years and years through it all. Such a gift.
No one knows, no one helps or reaches out to her.
I understand--how many people are in my life, how few souls have known the scope or depth of the my own soul battles--they are all busy and overwhelmed, too. And this leads me to want to see into the heart of others for what they bear, where they live.
We were made for friendship. Our hearts are prewired to be loved, to belong, to celebrate and share life together, in community--to bear each other's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ.
And so where would the evil one attack?
He would separate us to be alone, vulnerable, weak as one by ourselves in the battle for souls, so that we cannot be strong, joining arm in arm, heart to heart.
He would isolate us in neighborhoods where we live alone, with no knowledge or shared life with those nearest to us in proximity. With values and faith and ideals, that separate us from the world, but impossible to uphold alone.
He would break the close bonds of fellowship that church was made to uphold, the body knit together, and let us go to large buildings filled with noises of music, people all around with nary an intimate friendship.
Loneliness, an epidemic. Here is the battleground.
That feeling in the dark of night that your life is invisible--Does anyone care? Does it matter that I keep dragging on day by day? Does anyone know the weariness of my soul? Do others swell with anger? Or wish for relief? Or feel a lack of worth? Or want to quit and don't even know what that means?
And so we gather, with food, drink, a little reprieve from real life, and touch someone else who shares our world. We gather to listen to His words--together. We gather to understand that our sacrifice is precious to the One who sacrificed all.
We gather to know we are not alone.
Our hearts are cherished and held by the one who counts our tears and sees our faith and knows our exhaustion.
but because of her heart, her boldness to believe, Mary, finding favor with God, being chosen by him to bring His life into her home, so that the son of God find comfort, beauty, love for the years he would live on earth.
Even as we provide life, beauty, comfort, love so our children will not feel alone.
A simple mother, whose heart gave all that He might have a safe haven to find rest for his baby soul.
And so, we meet to find strength, love, laughter, understanding and hope-the hope that keeps our feet on the path, our minds steadfast on our beliefs, our hearts willing to take another step of faith one more day, one more month, one more year, because once again, we know our life of giving and our love poured out is changing the world.
The gift of our time to listen and to share--it is what the baby did when he came for our sake and what we need and what will keep us worshipping a little longer.
You are not invisible to Him, the one who came because He loved saw you and loved you.
Someone else in your life also needs to know this truth.
Today, invite a friend, call a loved one, take initiative to make room for encouragement so that your own soul needs will be met.
Buying one more thing will not satisfy. Investing love and heart time will restore, redeem, fill bring life and hope. Who needs you today? Who do you need to celebrate life with today?
May God bless you with a new friend this season of celebrating the one who himself took initiative in our lives, so that we would not be alone.
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RFID chip: Foundation of the electronic jail
March 18, 2011 Comments
We Are Change Holland
One of the goals to be reached before a national state can be completely controlled, is the implementation of computer chips in every product, every animal and every human being. What? Chips in all humans, animals and products? It is a scenario that most people actually can not yet imagine, but the shocking truth is that the target almost all realized: for instance, every pet is required to be chipped and many products such as clothing and food packages already have a chip.
A step toward chipping man too, seems finally made; Advert Buddi is a new GPS tracking system that can be used, for example, to monitor your old mother and to intervene quickly in emergencies. Under the slogan "Protect your loved ones with Buddi." The 'buddy' in this case is a device that in a purse can indicate grandma's position. Something like a mobile phone nowadays can also reveal where you are (or were). It also warns Grandma's loved ones when grandmothers go out of their "security zones". And to top it all off, it gives a signal as the carrier of the buddy has fallen, probably by a sensor that triggers at a certain speed (to earth in this case). Sounds great, but we know what the next step is, subcutaneous injection of a chip. Because grandma is a little forgetful and sometimes forgets her purse. "Let's just inject a chip in grandma's front leg!." We can already predict the next victims: children, prisoners … and ourselves.
Many new technology is often used first by the army. Sometime later, the technology (in a diluted version then) becomes available to the people. This also applies to the Internet, GPS systems, and finally chipping everything and everyone. Vehicles and soldiers are now equipped with GPS systems. Soldiers still carry a chip on/in their clothing. But the danger of loss or abuse of the chip by the enemy, for example, after killing a soldier, makes the reality to chip the soldiers themselves, a bit closer. One obstacle could be that the costs of such operations are too high.
In 2002, A family in America was the first family in the world who had a VeriChip implanted. The reasons were the unstable health of man and the fear that arose after 9/11. Now I will be the last person who would ban a chip to take it when his/her health or safety can benefit from it. But when will the governments, banks and insurance companies impose on the masses? Under the disguise of bringing down the cost of medical care, economic facilities, or the occurrence of hysteria? It is also not known what the effects of a continuous chip is or can be.
But also companies are starting to consider chipping their employees, also chipping in the nightlife seems to be a trend with such a chip to pay. As in the Baja Beach club in Rotterdam.
This payment option is now offered with the iPhone and Web browser. IBM will make it especially easy for the consumer or as another way to put it: for the benefit of the buyer (Arent they nice, IBM, the inventors of the Holleriths Gascamp Jew Registration system)
At several schools in England and America children already pay with a type of chip system. And let's not forget: the Colleges in the Netherlands, were you can only pay with a "chipknip" this is to condition everyone (young and young adults) to the idea that electronic payment is normal. That the youngsters are being pushed toward electronic payment, is obvious. In Belgium, at some childcare centre's its only possible to enter, after having your fingerprint scanned.
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The history of marking people
Wanting to register and mark all humans is older than the road to Rome. A road to totalitarian control or just for prosperity and ease? That remains to be seen. But people have always been branded or maimed to make their status or the being-in-service-of (slavery) clear.
For many people, the Holocaust is know as one of the most extreme forms of registration. The Jewish prisoner workers were marked with a code on their arms. This code fits a system created by IBM. Although IBM denies any involvement or to have known anything of the purpose for which their registration system was used, the facts show something else.
However you put it, the Nazis could have never tracked down, devide and execute the Jews so fast without computer giant IBM. But IBM was not unique in their special collaboration with the Nazis. So you can also include steel Krups, IG Farben, Shell and people like seniors Prescott Bush and Rothschild. Why IBM was not subsequently prosecuted? For example, during the Nuremberg trials. Well just because they were part of the elite that the war had supported and encouraged. The fact is that many companies were pardoned after the war. The fact that they were wrong was concealed. Perhaps one reason that IBM has been slipping thrue the hoops of the law is, the fact that they had invented a simultaneous translation system, in which the Nuremberg trials could be conducted in a language understood by all, yet. The same company (IBM) and other companies are now on the eve of a further Executive system: the chipping of humans. IBM has used the latest techniques in creating a system that not only can track someone's every move, but it can also predict it, then secretly send that information to company's for use, for example, by giving you ads based on a given profile.
Author Edwin Black, known for the book "IBM and the Holocaust", presents his findings in the next documentary about IBM and the Holocaust. Ask yourself why you never had this taught in schools? The system IBM has made is actually still used today. Only then smarter, faster and more unnoticed in driving an authoritarian totalitarian state. The coding system that IBM then used, is today among the people known as the barcode. The barcode has already been replaced by the RFID-chip: a chip where all data can be stored and can be read remotely. Is this a danger, or are the people who are against the chip are afraid of change? A common defense by too gullible people. VeriChip is one of the biggest driving forces behind the chipping of humans. They propagate the chip under the banner of freedom, human rights and free will. But what's behind? Quite the opposite. The reversal technique: war is peace, love is hate, truth is falsehood. Any technique which can help people in their progress may, in the wrong hands, bring total tyranny and misery
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The dangers of the VeriChip.
Animals have already been chipped so that their owners are easy to trace back: by loss or for veterinary medical information needs. But how safe are these chips and what after studies have been done? You would expect from the Dutch Party for the Animals, to be strongly against this, given that the animal eventually will be severely suffering. From an extensive research in the U.S, where the research was blocked by the manufacturer VeriChip, chipping of animals has serious implications for the health of the animal, such as: an increased risk of cancer. But ofcourse there is little to be found about this on their website. The people of the Party for the Animals, apparently know nothing of such. Maybe time for an email? The leak of the investigation (by an employee) was in fact almost the bankruptcy of Verichip. Ultimately, the company was taken over and they put their deceptive activity's under the name "PositiveID." Exactly people, everything is positive and will benefit your convenience and sense of security……..
In response to the abuses during the Second World War, many European countries changed their national legislation accordingly. There were provisions in the legislation that everyone has the right of self-determination over their own bodies. But with this there is already a discussion about co-compulsory vaccinations, abortion and donor registration. There are already several websites and organizations engaged on this issue. We will therefore approach and support in every way imaginable. One such organization is "We the People Will Not be chipped". Another important step is to inform people early before the authority's and their
propaganda deceptions are being unleashed upon us.
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