There are quite a few blogs and equipment reviews that touch on this topic, but I wanted to add my own firsthand experience. I bought a Byrd SHELIX cutterhead for my Jet 6 inch jointer about a year ago. It was definitely an improvement over the old cutterhead. There were several reasons that prompted me to make the swap. First was the decidedly difficult nature of setting the knives on a standard cutterhead. I've read lots of articles and blogs that made it sound really simple, and those articles did help with lots of valuable info. However, in the final analysis, it was still a cast iron PITA to set the knives up, and it isn't something that you can avoid for long. Which brings me to reason number two; "Longevity". You just can't get anywhere near the service life on a set of standard knives that you can expect from the carbide inserts on the SHELIX head. For my final (and most important [to me]) reason for swapping, "Tearout". Nothing in woodworking is more frustrating to me than spending big bucks on nice lumber only to have it ruined by tearout. I know there are methods of minimizing the effects of tearout, like paying careful attention to the grain orientation; taking very light passes, and keeping your knives sharp. Even with those things in mind, I still had major problems with tear out. With the SHELIX head, the carbide inserts set in the helical pattern and skewed to provide a shearing cut, all contribute to consistently superior results.
I was so impressed, I immediately felt the need to upgrade my Jet JPM-13 Planer/Molder too. That took me a while, because the cost was so much more, but at last I broke down and took the plunge. I ordered mine from a company called "Holbren" online. They were very good to deal with. In fact, I was chatting with one of their sales reps on the website, and I lamented the price for the 13" cutterhead being $200 more than the price of a 15" cutterhead. He empathized with me, and explained it was due to set-up costs incurred by the manufacturer, as they make far fewer of the 13" versions than the 15" ones. He then managed to give me a break on the price, that took some of the sting out.
The swap was a lot more work for the planer than it was for the jointer, but anyone who is reasonably mechanically inclined should be able to manage it OK. There were a couple of tools I had to acquire. A three jaw wheel/pulley puller, and a set of snap ring pliers. There are other tools required, but mostly pretty standard stuff that I already had, (dead blow mallet, screwdrivers, hex wrenches, etc.) I also had to replace the grease in the gearbox. That was probably the most time consuming part of the whole job. My local Jet dealer contacted the technicians at Jet for me because I needed to know what kind of lubricant to use in the gearbox. I assumed it was going to be gear oil, because some of the swap videos I had seen on YouTube showed draining the gearbox oil as part of the process, prior to opening it up. Mine doesn't use gear oil. It uses grease. Which explains the lack of a drain hole on the gearbox. The technicians stated any good standard automotive wheel bearing grease would do. However, they cautioned not to mix the old grease with the new. So, all the old grease had to be removed.
I managed to get it all back together in the proper order, and fired it up for a test run. I was a little concerned because there had been some less than stellar reviews posted online, including at least one on Lumberjocks.com. So far, I have had nothing but awesome results. Like most other reviewers, I too noticed a remarkable difference in the ease of passing the board over the cutterhead on the jointer, and the drastically reduced noise level on both machines. I used to have to wear hearing protection to run the planer. Now, the dust collector makes more noise than the planer does. Smooth surface finish, and no tearout. Mission accomplished! In fairness, it should be pointed out that the one poor review on Lumberjocks is six years old. Whatever caused that customer to get the results he did, I think Byrd has fixed the problem. I highly recommend this product for anyone who needs to replace their jointer or planer blades. Don't waste any more money on standard straight knives. Get a new Byrd SHELIX cutterhead, and you'll never regret it.
I am one of those who made the change on a Ridgid planer, and I have some tear out when I have none on my 8" Powermatic jointer and which I also replaced the head, but overall I am very satisfied.
I have a jet 8" jointer. Starting to think this would be a great Christmas present for myself.
I have one in my 13" planer, and am really impressed with the new head. Like you say, it will save you from causing tearout and that saves time and money. The surface left behind by the Shelix head is vastly smoother than my straight-knife jointer or tablesaw. I have started edge-planing all boards to clean up the tablesaw blade marks. Works great.
Interesting, May have to take the pluch on my 8 inch jointer. Thx for the info.
I got a Byrd SHELIX cutter head for my Dewalt 735 planer and love it.
Great investment and very low maintenance.
-- Anyone who isn't totally confused just doesn't understand the situation.
For those of you who turn wood with Easy Wood Tools, these cutter heads are a perfect match for the EWT Easy Roughers. I started buying these Byrd Shelix heads as a MUCH cheaper alternative to the EWT "disposable" blades. Easy to sharpen with a diamond card as well.
Just thought I'd toss that out there in hopes it saves some fellow LJ's some money.
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our wood shop, after a year of research and search for an installer, bot the Helix from grizzley for our 20 inch planer.
quiter, nice cuts and smooth results worth the wait and expense.
UPDATE: So, the owners manual for my Jet planer states the "minimum thickness" for planing is 1/2". There is a reason for that, learned by me the hard way. When the wood gets thinner than that, it's structural integrity is limited. As the thin board passes through the cutterhead it can start to tear the board apart. it is not pretty when that happens, and it isn't good for your cutters either. I had a thin board blow up on me in the planer, and the sound was sickening. After I got the machine shut down, I took the cover off the cutterhead to inspect it. Sure enough, several of the carbide cutters had chipped edges. The good news is, all I had to do was break out the torx bit driver, and rotate those chipped cutters, and I was back in business in about ten minutes. Love that feature!! So, after 6 months of frequent use, I am still convinced this is a great shop investment.
I might just see what a cutter head would cost me for my 8 inch jointer. Thanks for the review.


If you're going to make your living as an artist, you're going to have to pay for training.
Grad school is one option, though it seems expensive, it's the easiest because your competition has degrees and all the connections that come with it. Those folks have spent 2-3 years working on their craft 6 days a week, 8-10 hours a day while performing. In their final grad school years, they're meeting with all of the industry agents, managers and CD's, so that right after their New York showcase, they are picked up by agents and managers because all the Casting Directors and Network folks already know them. That's what you're up against and why it's so hard to even get seen without an MFA in NYC. The good news is becoming a working artist is not some mystery or sheer good luck. It's a business strategy. You need to have what your competition has, lots of training and performance experience and industry contacts. It's no different from becoming a lawyer or a doctor, you have to play the game as it exists. You can create a career in which you pinpoint which part of the industry you want to work in and then get teachers and mentors to coach you privately to develop the skill-set for your desired place in the industry. You're not accruing tons of student loan debt, but instead paying as you go to acquire specific skills. How long do you train with folks? Well, if your competition has 3 years of training on you, then you need to mirror that in your private training. The good news is that you can focus your private training on one area of the industry. (i.e. acting for film, classical theatre, acting for primetime TV). The second most important thing is to study with folks who can give you a solid technique, so that you show up with the same finely honed performance night after night or take after take. That requires training and technique. In order to figure out who to study with. Look at folks who are doing what you want to be doing in the industry right now. If you want to be doing all August Wilson plays and your teacher has never acted in an August Wilson play, then you're wasting your money. If you want to write, act and produce your own work and your teacher has not done that, they cannot help you get to where you want to be in the industry right now.This is uber important and the piece no one taught me in grad school because my teachers hadn't worked in the industry in 30 years. So they all told me to buy some hair, some nurse/maid outfits and go into auditions. Huh? Whereas, immediately after my showcase, I booked 3 jobs back to back with some silly extensions in my hair and each Casting Director and Director asked me to cut it and wear my hair my own little afro which is the way I had been wearing it since the first day of grad school. Nor did anyone have any idea of how to teach me how to use August Wilson's language or the camera in the audition room and the difference between single cam and multi cam. And these were all the places where black women in my type were building huge careers. Lesson: make sure your teacher knows what the hell is going on in the industry right now.Finally, the third step is if you think you can't afford teachers or grad school, then find master directors, actors, writers, producers and offer to work for them for free in return for on the job training. But guess what, you'll need to work for free for 3 years just like grad school. So you're going to pay money or time for the training, but I promise you, it won't be luck that keeps you working or lands you that first job. It will be time, hard work and effort. You will succeed. You can't put that much blood, sweat and tears into the universe without the love coming back to you. This is not luck, this is not a shot in the dark, this is a business that if you invest in yourself, the business will invest in you.


I have come to the conclusion that my favorite way to enjoy a Terry Pratchett book is through a combination of listening to an audio (preferably read by Stephen Briggs) and re-reading notable passages and chapters in print. What this means is I'm starting to amass duplicate copies of the Discworld novels.
Snuff by Terry Pratchett is the 39th Discworld novel. Commander Vimes is out of his element, taken on holiday to his wife's family estate. He's away from his bacon sandwiches, his Watch, and the streets of Ankh-Morpork. As an unwelcome outsider, and one who doesn't want to play by the rules ascribed to that of a lord, Vimes brings out the worst in people. He's also nearly framed for a murder.
Crime though is Vimes's thing. He has the law in his blood. The brutal killing of a goblin brings to the surface years of subjugation of, and violence against, goblins by humans (and other species of the disc). Vimes through his belief in the law swallows his prejudices long enough to get to know the goblins who live under the hills of this country township.
What surfaces through the investigation and growing friendship is a better understanding of goblin culture and the price they've paid for the expansion of human progress across the disc. While Jingo began the criticism of the spread of the British empire (through a political and military clash between Ankh-Morpork and Klatch), Snuff looks at the civilian cost of conquest � indigenous people wiped out through war and disease, other peoples transplanted through slavery, institutionalized poverty, loss of native culture and the imposing of a new culture and morality.
Snuff is one of most heartbreaking volume of the Discworld stories (I Shall Wear Midnight in close second). What started off as a series of humorous episodes full of puns and ridiculous situations has evolved into a mature (albeit entertaining) discussion of politics, racism, sexism, war, injustice, poverty, class and caste systems, religion, and on and on.


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Was labor unrest at the stockyards to blame for the violence that erupted into the 1919 race riots?
Plus a preview of this weekend's Newberry Library Book Fair and Bughouse Square Debates.
by Deanna Isaacs July 23, 2019 August 18, 2021
The Book Fair, set up and ready to go Credit: courtesy Newberry Library
You may have heard about the instigating event of the 1919 Chicago race riot. On Sunday, July 27, Eugene Williams, a Black teenager, inadvertently floated across an invisible line into the "white section" of the water at the 29th Street Beach, where he was stoned by a white man and drowned. A week of rioting followed, ending with 38 more people dead and more than 500 wounded.
What's not as well known is the convoluted history of Chicago labor tension that led up to the riot, says Concordia University professor David Bates, who's documented that history in a new book, The Ordeal of the Jungle (a title he took from a collection of Carl Sandburg's reporting from the Daily News). The 1919 riot will be the subject of a Newberry Library presentation at this weekend's Bughouse Square, the legendary soapbox orator showcase held annually in conjunction with the huge Newberry Book Fair, a benefit sale of donations collected by the library throughout the year. Since the demise of the even larger (though less esoteric) Brandeis Book Sale in 2006, it's the prime event for book lovers in the Chicago area and beyond.
In the run-up to that—and in conjunction with "Chicago 1919: Confronting the Race Riots," a National Endowment for the Humanities-sponsored, multiorganization project marking this grim anniversary—Bates came to the Newberry last week to talk about his research.
In 1919, he said, when Chicago was, in Sandburg's phrase, "hog butcher to the world," the meatpacking industry was the city's largest employer, with 40,000 workers at its sprawling 400-acre south-side stockyards. But the packing companies were ruthless employers who'd "deskilled" what had started as a skilled-labor job by breaking the butchering process down into a series of repetitive, single steps in factory-style production. Bates says management also had a history of fomenting racial tension among employees as a way to keep the workforce divided and, therefore, weak. He cites their cynical use of Black workers as strikebreakers during a bitter standoff in 1904, when the regular workforce was almost exclusively white, as an example.
During the second decade of the 20th century, with the advent of World War I and the Great Migration, Chicago's Black population grew significantly. There were just 67 Blacks among stockyards employees in 1910, Bates says; by 1919, they numbered 12,000. Their union was part of the Chicago Federation of Labor, which stood for equal pay and nondiscriminatory labor practices, and was led by men who believed (simplistically) that racial problems would disappear if they had a unified labor force. But, Bates says, the CFL's professed ideals were undercut in part by the policies of its parent union, the American Federation of Labor, which was not particularly interested in organizing unskilled workers and didn't want to include them in trade-specific skilled labor unions. To get around this, the CFL organized union workers in the stockyards into units based on their residential neighborhoods. In rigidly segregated Chicago that meant that Black and white workers wound up in separate locals. Unsurprisingly, the percentage of Blacks among stockyards union members in 1919 was not robust, and the union wound up exacerbating—rather than eliminating—racial tensions. Forty-one percent of the injuries in the riot happened in the stockyards district. Segregation enforced by murder at the beach was the match that ignited the riot, but Bates argues that years of built-up and festering labor-related racial suspicions, resentments, injustices, and animosities was the fuel that made it burn.
WBEZ's Natalie Y. Moore and Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism dean Charles Whitaker will lead a public discussion of the 1919 race riot at Bughouse Square, which begins at noon on Saturday in the Newberry's "front yard," Washington Square Park, across the street from the library's main entrance.
The book fair runs Thursday through Sunday, and is bigger than ever this year, with 160,000 books and other items—LPs, board games, the odd art object—up for grabs at prices typically around $3 (half-price on Sunday). Book fair manager Dan Crawford, who's been there since the fair began in 1985 (and is the author of a wry, year-round book fair blog), says the inventory this year, spread through five rooms on the library's main floor and including a new LGBTQ+ category, includes 16 boxes of UFO books mysteriously collected by a Newberry volunteer; 35 boxes of old science fiction paperbacks from an anonymous donor; and 85 boxes of books from the estate of former television and Sun-Times restaurant critic James Ward that contain a sizable collection of cowboy art but no cookbooks. Hankering for a first-edition Death of a Salesman signed by the author? It's there, at the collectibles table, for $2,500. Upton Sinclair will no doubt be around as well.
The checkout line, which can get lengthy, will queue up in a new exhibition area this year, where shoppers can peruse items from the library's collection—such as a rare copy of the Declaration of Independence printed days after it was approved by Congress but with the wrong date—while they wait to pay for their loot. This captive-audience viewing experience, says Crawford, is "our version of exit through the gift shop." v
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A newer, less controversial, system is gaining traction. Marker-assisted or molecular breeding. What is it? With Marker-assisted selection plant breeders are able to locate seedlings with the most promising and most desirable traits. Grow them, and get rid of the rest. It's essentially a selection system that cuts short the long process of physically identifying desirable traits, like the color and firmness of a plant. To quote a recent article in the Washington Post; "This method works with genetic material native to a prospective plant and allows a much larger population to be screened than with conventional breeding."
Because the plant's natural genetic boundaries are not crossed there is a lot less controversy here than with GMOs. It's more attractive because the desirable traits already existing in the plant are selected, as opposed to desirable traits having to be engineered.
Scientists believe that such technology also promises to avert certain crop disasters. For example, the flood tolerant rice gene developed in India. And for the benefit of the consumer, advanced breeding techniques is also allowing for produce with good flavor.
So is this farming of the future? We'll have to wait and see, but what is clear is that the more scientists know about how nature develops new plants, the more knowledge can be applied to building better plants.


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Ukraine is not enacting the 'Great Reset' with an app
Ukraine just announced it's the first country to implement the WEF's Great Reset by setting up a Social Credit Application combining Universal Basic Income (UBI), a Digital Identity and a Vaccine Passport all within the Diia app.
Ukrainians can use the Diia app to store digital ID documents, including vaccine passports and apply for a war payment if they're eligible. But this can't be described as a social credit application, and has nothing to do with 'The Great Reset'—a book by the WEF's founder about how governments respond to a post-pandemic world.
A post on Facebook claims: "Ukraine just silently announced it's the first country to implement the WEF's 'Great Reset' by setting up a Social Credit Application combining Universal Basic Income (UBI), a Digital Identity & a Vaccine Passport all within their Diia app".
People in Ukraine have been able to use the Diia app for ID documents and vaccine passports, and those eligible can apply for a one-off payment if they lost their job due to the war via the app.
But this is unrelated to the World Economic Forum's founder's book 'The Great Reset', which outlines how governments can adapt post-pandemic. And these uses of the app can't really be described as a social credit system.
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What is the World Economic Forum's Great Reset?
The post mentions something called the "WEF's Great Reset". This refers to a book called "Covid-19: The Great Reset", published in 2020 and co-authored by the World Economic Forum's (WEF) founder and executive chairman Klaus Schwab.
Broadly, the book discusses how the world's political, business and social institutions may wish to address pre-existing geo-political concerns, such as global warming, in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic.
'The Great Reset' has become the basis of numerous conspiracy theories since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. We have checked misinformation about this book before, including false claims it said people would die in planned epidemics and that Klaus Schwab had been arrested for crimes related to the pandemic.
What is the Diia app?
Diia is a Ukrainian phone app used by citizens to store official documents.
The post claims the app contains a "Social Credit Application combining Universal Basic Income (UBI), a Digital Identity & a Vaccine Passport".
It's unclear what the post means by Universal Basic Income, as the country has no such scheme, though some outside the country have suggested one should be started by foreign powers using frozen Russian assets.
It's true that the country's Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal announced a one-off payment for those who lost their jobs because of the war, and that those eligible could apply for this money through the app. (Some online claimed that only those who were vaccinated could get this payment, but this isn't the case, and likely came from a mis-translation of the Prime Minister's statement.)
It's true that the app can also contain ID documents, including passports, which are legally equivalent to their paper counterparts there. There's no evidence that having their ID on the app is mandatory for Ukrainians though.
It's also true that the Diia app was how digital vaccine certificates were generated in Ukraine.
What is a social credit score?
It's unclear what the post means by a 'social credit application' being contained in the app, though we have written about false claims of introductions of such schemes before.
There's no evidence that any such system is planned in Ukraine.
Conspiracy theorists often discuss the introduction of a social credit system similar to the one in China, which works like a credit score, whereby actions of citizens, businesses and government entities are monitored and assessed.
In 2014, China began planning a social credit system to be implemented by 2020 (several reports state the 2020 deadline was missed). It has been reported that a good rating could see rewards like priority healthcare, but a bad rating could lead to sanctions such as restrictions on loans, travel and education.
The exact scoring system planned for use in China is not known, and there are no publicly available reports of how exactly it works.
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This article is part of our work fact checking potentially false pictures, videos and stories on Facebook. You can read more about this—and find out how to report Facebook content—here. For the purposes of that scheme, we've rated this claim as missing context because although the Diia app can be used by Ukrainians to store digital ID and a vaccine passport, UBI is not being issued via the app and these things can't be said to be part of the 'Great Reset'.
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Can any team beat LA Galaxy to the MLS Cup this season?
Carlos Evans February 12, 2016 Sports Betting No Comments
With less than two months until the new Major League Soccer campaign gets under way, LA Galaxy are looking very strong and may be tough to beat as they seek a record sixth MLS Cup.
Over the years, Galaxy have built one of the most powerful franchises in US soccer history and, with the offseason additions of Ashley Cole and Nigel de Jong, they almost look unbeatable. Bruce Arena has plenty of proven, experienced talent at his disposal and the likes of Steven Gerrard, Robbie Keane and Giovani dos Santos will only prosper with more quality in the squad.
Last season, Galaxy crashed out of the MLS Cup in the first round of the playoffs which was an incredibly disappointing performance by their high standards. Throughout the campaign, they struggled for consistency and their knockout round clash summed up their entire season.
Galaxy showed their mental strength to come from behind twice during the 3-2 defeat to Seattle Sounders, however, they were unable to find a third equaliser after Erik Friberg gave Seattle the lead once again. Ultimately, Galaxy's defending let them down and that's hardly surprising considering the lack of balance throughout the squad.
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Given time, this LA Galaxy side has the ability to dominate the MLS for the foreseeable future. Galaxy have always been at the forefront of American soccer but there has never been one standout side that has stood tall as the best team in the country.
Los Angeles have both the quality and structure to do just that and they will be looking to begin a new era of dominance with a solid regular season and another MLS Cup victory. Bookmakers will be preparing their MLS betting odds for the season but it is difficult to see past the Galaxy.
Many believe that the New York Red Bulls also stand a great chance this season, and who could blame them? The Red Bulls are a well-oiled, efficient franchise both on and off the field. It wouldn't be a massive surprise to see them feature in the latter stages of the postseason, if not the final of the MLS Cup this campaign.
Bradley Wright-Phillips, who netted twice in a 5-0 preseason victory over Montreal Impact, is one of the division's best strikers and he has netted almost 50 goals in just over 70 appearances for the New York side. He will be crucial to their title aspirations, especially if both he and brother Shaun combine well throughout the year.
However, it's looking as though the title might be Galaxy's to lose. While this statement may be slightly harsh on defending champions Portland Timbers, LA Galaxy are simply too good on paper.
Okay, so football isn't played on paper but Galaxy have the experience, the nous and the talent to mastermind another MLS Cup success this season. It would be a nice way for the likes of Gerrard and Keane to potentially bow out. After all, they were signed for this exact reason: to win trophies and that is what Galaxy must do in 2016.
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UK secularism on rise as more than half say they have no religion | World news
The growth of secularism in the UK is unabated with fresh data showing stark generational differences and a new confidence among the non-religious to declare themselves atheist.
Only 1% of people aged 18-24 identify as Church of England, according to the British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey for 2018. Even among over-75s, the most religious age group, only one in three people describe themselves as C of E.
Across all age groups, the younger people are the less likely they are to call themselves Anglican.
The steady decline in religious belief among the British public is "one of the most important trends in postwar history", says the BSA report.
Fifty-two percent of the public say they do not belong to any religion, compared with 31% in 1983 when the BSA survey began tracking religious belief. The number of people identifying as Christian has fallen from 66% to 38% over the same period.
"Britain is becoming more secular not because adults are losing their religion but because older people with an attachment to the C of E and other Christian denominations are gradually being replaced in the population by younger unaffiliated people," says the report.
"To put it another way, religious decline in Britain is generational; people tend to be less religious than their parents, and on average their children are even less religious than they are."
Non-religious parents successfully transmit their lack of faith to their children, but two religious parents have only a 50/50 chance of passing on their faith, the report says.
The non-religious are increasingly atheist. One in four members of the public stated: "I do not believe in God," compared with one in 10 in 1998. The figures challenge theories that people are "believing but not belonging" – in other words, that faith has become private rather than institutional – the report says.
The proportion of people who say they are "very or extremely non-religious" has more than doubled, from 14% to 33% in the past two decades.
Nevertheless, most people are tolerant of others' religious beliefs. A large majority of both non-believers and people of faith have positive or neutral views of individuals who belong to a religion.
Only 3% of people say they would definitely not accept a mixed-faith marriage within their family, with 82% saying they would definitely or probably accept someone from a different religion marrying a relative.
As religious adherence declines, trust in scientific institutions is increasing, says the report. University scientists have a higher trust rating (82%) than corporate scientists (67%).
In terms of confidence in institutions, 11% of people say they trust churches and religious organisations, compared with 36% who have confidence in the education system, 34% in the legal system, 16% in business and industry and 8% in parliament.
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Almost classic Snakes and Ladders. Teachers will need to have some questions in mind as players are asked questions on each of the snakes and ladders to either prevent them going down or to allow them to go up. Macros need enabling for this to run. Could make for a fun plenary to set both sides of the room off against each other, or to play the girls off against the boys.


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Diversity: dividends and challenges in workplace health – Bupa
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For the latest insights on supporting health in the workplace, take a look here.
The business benefits of diversity are well documented and more importantly, as Dr Caroline Williams, Director of Open Programmes at the University of Oxford Saïd Business School emphasises, a diverse workplace is a future-proofed workplace.
"When we talk about diversity, the picture is greater than 'just' gender and ethnicity," she says.
"Socioeconomic, disability and neuro-variance inclusion also add crucial dimensions to business performance."
With data from the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD) showing 47% of employers are now struggling to fill vacancies, seeking out and supporting a diverse workforce will become increasingly important in the challenge to recruit and retain talent.
Existing inequalities
Building a more diverse workforce also brings specific challenges. For example, how best to support the health and wellbeing needs of individual team members.
It also shines a spotlight on the impact of existing inequalities. The burden of many diseases and health issues is not borne equally.
Women are at greater risk of developing auto-immune conditions such as multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis.
And while they have a lower risk of heart disease than men, if they do have a heart attack the odds of it being misdiagnosed are 50% higher.
Ethnicity also influences our health. White Britons have the highest overall risk of developing cancer but the risks around specific cancers vary.
People of Asian ethnicity have the greatest risk of thyroid cancers. Asian men are at increased risk of Hodgkin lymphoma and Black men are at the most risk of prostate cancer.
Differing risks
People with South Asian or African Caribbean background have twice the risk of developing type-2 diabetes before the age of 80 than White Europeans.
A study based on more than a million UK patient records shows that South Asians are at greater risk of having a heart attack (67%) or stroke (29%). For Black people, the increased risk is 51% and 24% respectively.
Even Covid-19 discriminates against some groups. Data shows that Pakistani and Bangladeshi people are at significantly higher risk of serious infection and death from Covid-19 than other ethnic groups.
Research suggests a number of factors are involved. These include social inequality, genetics and lifestyle behaviours. And this is true of almost all disease.
Ethnicity also impacts mental health. There's evidence that Black men are at higher risk of psychotic disorders. And older South Asian women are an at-risk group for suicide.
There are also significant differences around interventions and treatment.
Unpick assumptions
Employers who are truly inclusive will not only build stronger teams, they will be in a much better position to attract new talent. This includes identifying the health needs facing their team and signposting to tailored support.
HR and wellbeing teams need to make sure their organisation's health and wellbeing offerings match their team's needs.
Amanda Stone, People Director at Bupa Global and UK Insurance, says: "It's important to park any preconceived ideas that we all have broadly similar health and wellbeing challenges — one-size fits all just isn't the case, so we must really take the time to analyse and understand the data we have on our people."
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To support line managers who are tasked with meeting these challenges, Bupa has developed a series of in-depth guides which can be found here. These can empower key team members and provide the resources they need to build healthier, happier, teams.
These include guides which address specific issues, such as mental health conditions or neurodiversity.
This article has been abbreviated by Health & Protection. The full article can be found as part of the Workplace Health Insights series from Bupa, take a look here.
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Стрічка присвячена художнику Сергію Чепику, який наприкінці 80-х емігрував до Франції, де жив і творив до самої смерті у 2011.

Цей фільм разом з 11 іншими у 2011 став переможцем конкурсу кінопроєктів на отримання державного фінансування, що його проводило Державне агентство України з питань кіно та отримав 100-відсоткове фінансування.

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CURB/Agaganian/3G Racing is een Amerikaans raceteam dat deelneemt in de IndyCar Series. Het werd in 1984 opgericht en nam oorspronkelijk alleen deel aan het NASCAR kampioenschap. Het team is verschillende keren van naam veranderd, onder meer Beck Motorsports en Team Leader Motorsports (na een fusie) zijn enkele voormalige namen. In 1995 nam het voor de eerste keer deel aan een Champ Car race. De Japanse coureur Hideshi Matsuda werd vijftiende op Indianapolis. Het team reed voornamelijk gedeeltelijke kampioenschappen. In 2009 kwam voormalig NASCAR-coureur Stanton Barrett bij het team als mede-eigenaar. Hij reed een volledig seizoen in de IndyCar Series. Tomas Scheckter reed dat jaar een beperkt programma.

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Q: Figuring out some sum
You are given the sum 1 + (1+3)/2 + (1+3+5)/4 + … + (2.n-1)/ 2^(n-1).  You should compile a program that (given integer N) finds and displays the value of the sum to the N-th addend.

I've written some code but I can't figure out the formula... Help?
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A: According to Pshemo's notice that 1+3+5+...+n = (n-1)^2 then  your formula will be

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    sum += 2 * Math.pow(i, 2) / Math.pow(2, i);
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On the contrary, overexpression of mutant SOD1s associated with familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (FALS) impairs CN activity both in transfected human neuroblastoma cell lines and in the motor cortex of brain from FALS-transgenic mice [1].
We have monitored CN activity in cultured human neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y cells and obtained evidence that CN activity is promoted by treatment with ascorbate or dithiothreitol and impaired by oxidative stress [1].
After 14 days, in CN mice, the LVIDd and LVMI were significantly increased, but sudden death had not occurred [2].
We conclude that decrease in sodium channel activity is in the common final pathway to asystole in CN mice [3].
Calcineurin (CN) is implicated as a key signaling molecule in hypertrophy [4].
CaM-BPs were expressed differentially, with B lymphocytes having four times more of the CN-like protein than T lymphocytes, while in thymocytes, a 65K polypeptide was the major CaM-BP [5].
The mechanisms underlying the X-linked thymus-independent (B) lymphocyte functional defect in the CBA/N (CN) mice and their F1 progeny were studied [6].
These adaptations occurred despite the fact that CnA* muscles displayed threefold higher calcineurin activity and enhanced dephosphorylation of the calcineurin targets NFATc1, MEF2A, and MEF2D [7].
Moreover, when calcineurin signaling is compromised with cyclosporin A, muscles from OV wild-type mice display a lower molecular weight form of CnA, originally detected in failing hearts, whereas CnA* muscles are spared this manifestation [7].
Here we show that skeletal muscles overexpressing an activated form of calcineurin (CnA*) exhibit a phenotype indistinguishable from wild-type counterparts under normal weightbearing conditions and respond to OV with a similar doubling in cell size and slow fiber number [7].
Because cyclosporin A (CsA) reverses hypertrophy in CN mice, its effects on the time course of the development of sudden death and cardiac dysfunction were assessed [2].
To assess whether decreased sodium channel activity contributes to sudden death in vivo, the response to encainide (20 mg/kg) was assessed: 6 of 10 young CN mice died because of asystole, whereas 0 of 10 wild-type mice died (P < 0.01) [3].
Inhibiting CnA with cyclosporin A (CsA) leads to nephron deficit in rat metanephric organ cultures and apoptosis in various renal cell lines [8].
Consistent with these findings, human genetics studies in a large sample of affected families detected a significant association of the PPP3CC gene, which encodes the CN gamma catalytic subunit with schizophrenia [9].
The cloning and characterization of cDNAs for the catalytic subunit of calcineurin (CN) from murine and human brain libraries were carried out using nonisotopic methods [10].
In addition to alterations in development, there is an absence of proliferation and an increase of cell death in the NZ with loss of CnA-alpha [11].
In summary, absence of CnA-alpha but not CnA-beta leads to a defect in normal maturation of the NZ and glomeruli, alterations in the cell cycle, and impaired kidney function [11].
These results indicate that CN is required for full iNOS expression and the effective activation of NF-kappaB in RAW 264.7 and peritoneal macrophages [12].
Transient expression of constitutively active CN in mouse peritoneal macrophages and RAW 264.7 macrophages strongly activated NF-kappaB, a key mediator of iNOS expression [12].
Calcineurin (CN), a calcium- and calmodulin-dependent protein phosphatase, plays a significant role in the central nervous system [13].
Consistent with this induction, we also observed that members of the dystrophin-associated protein (DAP) complex were present at the sarcolemma of mdx/CnA* mouse muscle [14].
Muscles from mdx/CnA* displayed increased nuclear localization of NFATc1 and a fiber type shift towards a slower phenotype [14].
CnA is a serine/threonine phosphatase activated by intracellular calcium [8].
Ca(2+) and Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein phosphatase calcineurin (CN) have been known to play crucial roles in immune response and inflammation [12].
Using mouse peritoneal macrophages and RAW 264.7 macrophage cells, we demonstrated that LPS mobilized intracellular free Ca(2+) and induced CN phosphatase activity. iNOS expression and NO secretion in response to LPS were suppressed by Ca(2+) antagonists (TMB-8, BAPTA/AM, and nifedipine) and CN inhibitor (cyclosporin A) [12].
The coding sequences of these two genes are distinguished by the absence (PP2B alpha 1) or the presence (PP2B alpha 2) of an amino terminus containing polyproline [15].
The immunosuppressive drugs cyclosporin A and FK506 profoundly inhibit the calcium-dependent signaling pathway in T lymphocytes by interfering with the activity of the calcium/calmodulin (CaM)-dependent serine/threonine phosphatase, calcineurin (CN) [16].
Calcineurin (CN) is a serine/threonine-specific protein phosphatase activated by Ca(2+) and calmodulin that recently has been shown to participate in the growth regulation of cardiac and skeletal myocytes [17].
Overexpression of dominant negative mutant of IKKalpha and -beta demonstrates that only IKKbeta is the target for CN [12].
We also found that CN mediates NF-kappaB activation via IkappaB-alpha hyperphosphorylation and degradation [12].
In the present study, we therefore crossed CnA* mice with mdx mice to determine the suitability of elevating calcineurin activity in preventing the dystrophic pathology [14].
In this context, we previously showed that mice expressing enhanced muscle calcineurin activity (CnA*) displayed elevated levels of utrophin around their sarcolemma [14].
In this report, we show that the PGC-1alpha promoter is regulated by both CaMKIV and CnA activity [18].
In agreement with these results, Northern blots of mammalian brain RNA showed transcripts for both genes, with about two to three times more of the PP2B alpha 1 mRNAs, whereas in chicken and lizard, only PP2B alpha 1 transcripts were detected [15].
Southern blot analysis showed unique restriction fragments for both genes in seven mammalian species; however, in organisms from two nonmammalian vertebrates (chicken and lizard), hybridization was observed only for PP2B alpha 1 [15].
Finally, immunofluorescence experiments using Mac-1 antibodies showed a reduction in the number of infiltrating immune cells in muscles from mdx/CnA* mice [14].
We therefore tested the effect of two different CN inhibitors, cyclosporine A (CsA) and FK506, on mouse pancreatic growth induced by oral administration of the synthetic protease inhibitor camostat, a known stimulator of endogenous CCK release [17].
In our present study, extract of Fructus cannabis (EFC) with activation of CN, extracted from Chinese traditional medicine, was used to determine the effects on memory and immunity [19].
Calcineurin activity is regulated both by redox compounds and by mutant familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-superoxide dismutase. Ferri, A., Gabbianelli, R., Casciati, A., Paolucci, E., Rotilio, G., Carrì, M.T. J. Neurochem. (2000) [Pubmed]
Time-dependent systolic and diastolic function in mice overexpressing calcineurin. Semeniuk, L.M., Severson, D.L., Kryski, A.J., Swirp, S.L., Molkentin, J.D., Duff, H.J. Am. J. Physiol. Heart Circ. Physiol. (2003) [Pubmed]
Decrease in density of INa is in the common final pathway to heart block in murine hearts overexpressing calcineurin. Guo, J., Zhan, S., Somers, J., Westenbroek, R.E., Catterall, W.A., Roach, D.E., Sheldon, R.S., Lees-Miller, J.P., Li, P., Shimoni, Y., Duff, H.J. Am. J. Physiol. Heart Circ. Physiol. (2006) [Pubmed]
Calcineurin differentially regulates maintenance and growth of phenotypically distinct muscles. Mitchell, P.O., Mills, S.T., Pavlath, G.K. Am. J. Physiol., Cell Physiol. (2002) [Pubmed]
Differential expression of calmodulin-binding proteins in B, T lymphocytes and thymocytes. Kincaid, R.L., Takayama, H., Billingsley, M.L., Sitkovsky, M.V. Nature (1987) [Pubmed]
X-linked B-lymphocyte immune defect in CBA/N mice. II. Studies of the mechanisms underlying the immune defect. Scher, I., Steinberg, A.D., Berning, A.K., Paul, W.E. J. Exp. Med. (1975) [Pubmed]
Matching of calcineurin activity to upstream effectors is critical for skeletal muscle fiber growth. Dunn, S.E., Chin, E.R., Michel, R.N. J. Cell Biol. (2000) [Pubmed]
Ectopic expression of the homeobox gene Cux-1 rescues calcineurin inhibition in mouse embryonic kidney cultures. Alcalay, N.I., Brantley, J.G., Sharma, M., Gooch, J.L., Vanden Heuvel, G.B. Dev. Dyn. (2007) [Pubmed]
Investigating Gene-to-Behavior Pathways in Psychiatric Disorders: The Use of a Comprehensive Behavioral Test Battery on Genetically Engineered Mice. Takao, K., Miyakawa, T. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. (2006) [Pubmed]
Cloning and characterization of molecular isoforms of the catalytic subunit of calcineurin using nonisotopic methods. Kincaid, R.L., Giri, P.R., Higuchi, S., Tamura, J., Dixon, S.C., Marietta, C.A., Amorese, D.A., Martin, B.M. J. Biol. Chem. (1990) [Pubmed]
Calcineurin A-alpha but not A-beta is required for normal kidney development and function. Gooch, J.L., Toro, J.J., Guler, R.L., Barnes, J.L. Am. J. Pathol. (2004) [Pubmed]
Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein phosphatase calcineurin mediates the expression of iNOS through IKK and NF-kappaB activity in LPS-stimulated mouse peritoneal macrophages and RAW 264.7 cells. Kim, Y., Moon, J.S., Lee, K.S., Park, S.Y., Cheong, J., Kang, H.S., Lee, H.Y., Kim, H.D. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. (2004) [Pubmed]
Conditional calcineurin knockout mice exhibit multiple abnormal behaviors related to schizophrenia. Miyakawa, T., Leiter, L.M., Gerber, D.J., Gainetdinov, R.R., Sotnikova, T.D., Zeng, H., Caron, M.G., Tonegawa, S. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (2003) [Pubmed]
Stimulation of calcineurin signaling attenuates the dystrophic pathology in mdx mice. Chakkalakal, J.V., Harrison, M.A., Carbonetto, S., Chin, E., Michel, R.N., Jasmin, B.J. Hum. Mol. Genet. (2004) [Pubmed]
Molecular and phylogenetic analysis of calmodulin-dependent protein phosphatase (calcineurin) catalytic subunit genes. Giri, P.R., Marietta, C.A., Higuchi, S., Kincaid, R.L. DNA Cell Biol. (1992) [Pubmed]
Synergism between the calmodulin-binding and autoinhibitory domains on calcineurin is essential for the induction of their phosphatase activity. Tokoyoda, K., Takemoto, Y., Nakayama, T., Arai, T., Kubo, M. J. Biol. Chem. (2000) [Pubmed]
Calcineurin mediates pancreatic growth in protease inhibitor-treated mice. Tashiro, M., Samuelson, L.C., Liddle, R.A., Williams, J.A. Am. J. Physiol. Gastrointest. Liver Physiol. (2004) [Pubmed]
An autoregulatory loop controls peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma coactivator 1alpha expression in muscle. Handschin, C., Rhee, J., Lin, J., Tarr, P.T., Spiegelman, B.M. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (2003) [Pubmed]
The effect of calcineurin activator, extracted from Chinese herbal medicine, on memory and immunity in mice. Luo, J., Yin, J.H., Wei, Q. Pharmacol. Biochem. Behav. (2003) [Pubmed]
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Police are still trying to piece together the details of an accident Dec. 31 that claimed a man's life.
It took place on St. Clair Street near Crerar Drive about 6:18 p.m. Monday night. Police say a vehicle hit a male pedestrian.
The male was taken to hospital, but he later succumbed to his injuries.
The traffic management unit is investigating, and police ask anyone with information to contact Const. Dan Carroll at dancar@chatham-kent.ca or 519-355-1092.
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An important reminder and a nice way to think about starting again. Years ago, when I was trying to quit smoking, someone told me (and I've since read actual research that backs this up) that those attempts at quitting matter. That each time you try to quit, it gets easier. You're doing important work even if you don't "succeed" in the "having quit forever" sense. It's a process and you're right, we're all works in progress.
Thanks, Sam. And we're always works in progress! That's what bodies are, vulnerable by nature, unfixed.
Thanks for this unorthodox and eminently more healthy way to think about New Years resolutions! And thanks for writing for the blog!


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Winner of the 2015 COAL Prize Art and Environment, Elsa Guillaume will take part in the upcoming Tara Pacific expedition. As artist-in-residence she intends to carry out a project entitled "Coral Cosmography."
During Tara's long expeditions, a diversity of artists-in-residence have been welcomed aboard — a way of getting a different perspective on the environment, science and life on board. Tara Expeditions sponsored the first "Oceans" edition of the 2015 COAL Prize. The laureate, Elsa Guillaume presented us with a few pages of her notebook, before getting on board of the Tara Pacific 2016-2018 expedition (start 28th May from Lorient FR).
26-year-old Elsa is already a confirmed adventurer. India, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, China, Japan, Brazil, Panama — Elsa hasn't settled anywhere for long, a habit she began during her 5 years at the Beaux Arts in Paris. "I escaped for half of the year to take a trip," she says. Initially, some winter jobs in the mountains led to a summer job in the Friuli archipelago off Marseille. There, she went diving for the first time: "It was a revelation, an incredible experience, as if I had discovered another world, the other half of the world in fact." On the internet, she found Tara and the Arctic expedition: "Polar immensity, total isolation and stories of this crew trapped for 500 days in the ice. I found it fascinating," she says with a twinkle in her eye.
When traveling, Elsa explores and prefers "not to plan anything, in order to marvel at everything." She takes advantage of student discounts and leafs through guides only after boarding the plane. And then she dives in search of "animals and monsters — all kinds of things, sometimes ugly and weird, that don't look like anything ordinary. The sea abounds in these, but we know very little about the teeming life it contains." In Japan in 2013, she discovered the coral reefs of the Okinawa and Ichigaki archipelagos between Japan and Taiwan. "Corals were divided into small units and looked like tiny islands. Fish darted from one small island to another via the underwater currents, like invisible roads. In these incredibly rich ecosystems, everything is organized, each organism has its territory". Overflowing with imagination, the pages of her notebooks are covered with notes and drawings of tiny crabs, strange corals, sea spiders and chubby fish.
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In Limoges in 2014, the young woman discovered porcelain techniques. At the same time she scoured libraries, immersing herself in the study of 16th century sea charts and atlases of the New World. She was inspired to draw mysterious and bountiful islands where joyful, frolicking cannibals devour each other with charm and elegance. This was the basis of the project she presented a few weeks later for the Coal Art and Environment 2015 Prize in the Oceans category: "I want to show what's under the water's surface and use specific elements from the old marine maps to represent coral reefs in a fantasmagoric way. I've called this "Coral cosmography." From her artwork we can guess the outlines of a commitment she herself has yet to define. But from traveling and learning, Elsa is already sure of one thing: "Like the approach taken by the Tara teams, my work should be accessible to all. So I will focus on drawing, travel diaries, and a cartography full of images, forms and mysteries."
Elsa isn't the least bit worried about meeting the scientific world or daily life on the exploration schooner. "I'm very curious by nature and have no trouble observing, listening and questioning people. I'm waiting to be on board to figure out how to integrate into my work all these measuring instruments, these machines, the crew and their habits," she says impishly. Welcome aboard Elsa!
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What a sunny and exciting day we had aboard the Dream Catcher. While heading along the coastline to look for some marine life we approached our sister company Marine Dynamics, who offer the Great White shark cage diving. After seeing a Great White shark we were heading to Geyser Rock and Dyer Island. Around Dyer Island we slowed down the boat until it completely stopped, we were privileged on this trip to see the penguin release. In our African Penguin and Seabird Sanctuary they have been rehabilitated over the last few weeks and know they were strong enough to been released. Always happy to see them recovering.


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Larry Swedroe Nov 11, 2015
For sports fans, October included a great many surprises. I know a lot of people were shocked the Mets made it to the World Series. Perhaps an even bigger shock, however, was that my St. Louis Rams actually had a winning record headed into November (for the first time since 2006). Add to that Miami's eight-lateral touchdown win over Duke on the last play of the contest – the ACC suspended the officiating crew for that one – and Michigan State returning a mishandled punt (which should have been routine) for a score to beat Michigan 27-23 as time expired. And while surprising, these events also provided us with some absolutely fantastic sports moments.
But for investors, October isn't supposed to be so great. First, it's one of the often-maligned "Sell in May and Go Away" months. Second, only three other months, historically, exhibit worse average returns: February, May and September. Those three months recorded negative average monthly returns of 0.1%, 0.2% and 1.1%, respectively. By comparison, the average return in October, historically, has been 0.5%.
This October, however, the S&P 500 Index managed to return 8.44%, which is 85% of the index's annualized return for the period from January 1926 through September 2015.
What's more, the strong performance of the S&P 500 Index wasn't an isolated case. The MSCI EAFE Index returned 7.82% last month, which is 83% of its annualized return from January 1970 through September 2015. And the MSCI Emerging Markets Index returned 7.13% in October, which is 67% of its annualized return from January 1988 through September 2015.
While the returns provided last month by the S&P 500 Index, the MSCI EAFE Index and the MSCI Emerging Markets Index were exceptionally strong, they aren't all that uncommon.
Historically, the S&P 500 Index has produced even higher returns in 4.5% of months. This means the index has posted such a month about once every 22 months since 1926. In the case of the MSCI EAFE Index, it produced higher returns in 6.9% of months, or about once every 14 months. In the case of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, it produced higher returns in 17.8% of months, or more than once every six months.
The figures above illustrate how difficult it is for investors to time the market, specifically because so much of its total returns occur over such short and – virtually by definition – unpredictable periods. In other words, staying disciplined and ignoring the noise of the markets – the S&P 500, for instance, lost 8.5% from August through September – is a key ingredient of a successful investment strategy. Here's another example from an earlier study:
There are 1,068 months in the 89-year period from 1926 through 2014. The best 89 months – an average of just one month a year, or only 8.3% of the total number of months – provided an average return of 10.5%. The remaining 979 months, or 91.7% of the total number of months, produced virtually no return at just 0.08%.
Legendary investor Peter Lynch offered another illustrative example. He pointed out that an investor who followed a passive investment strategy and stayed fully invested in the S&P 500 over the 40-year period beginning in 1954 would have achieved an 11.4% rate of return. If that investor missed out on just the best 10 months, or 2% of them, his return dropped 27%, to 8.3%. If the investor missed the best 20 months, or 4% of them, his return dropped 54%, to 6.1%. Finally, if the investor missed the best 40 months, or 8% of them, this return dropped 76%, all the way to 2.7%.
Do you really believe there is anyone who can pick out the best 40 months in a 40-year period? Lynch put it this way: "Far more money has been lost by investors in preparing for corrections, or anticipating corrections, than has been lost in the corrections themselves."
John Bogle, Vanguard's legendary founder, said this about market timing: "After nearly 50 years in this business, I do not know of anybody who has done it successfully and consistently. I don't even know anybody who knows anybody who has done it successfully and consistently."
Perhaps legendary investor Bernard Baruch said it best. "Only liars manage to always be out during bad times, and in during good times."
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Neo-fascist violence against British journalist Owen Jones
Posted on August 19, 2019 by petrel41
This 21 June 2019 video from Britain says about itself:
Owen Jones meets Francesca Martinez | 'Austerity is a psychological attack on the disabled'
Comedian and activist Francesca Martinez went viral on Question Time for calling out the government's legacy on austerity – and the impact it has had on disabled people. Francesca has cerebral palsy and says that changes to disability support have made her feel 'humiliated and embarrassed' and calls austerity measures a 'psychological attack on the disabled'. We also found time to discuss her groundbreaking role in Grange Hill and working with Ricky Gervais on Extras
By Robert Stevens in Britain:
Guardian columnist Owen Jones attacked by fascist thugs in London
The Socialist Equality Party condemns the vicious attack on Owen Jones, the Guardian columnist and prominent Labour Party activist, by fascist thugs in the early hours of Saturday morning.
The attack is the latest in a series on prominent left-wing figures and political organisations. On his twitter account Jones describes himself as "Socialist, antifascist, Guardian columnist, author…" He has over 1 million followers between his Twitter and Facebook pages.
Jones was attacked by a group of four men after coming out of a pub in Islington, London at around 2am. He had been celebrating his birthday with his partner and five friends. Jones sustained injuries to the head and back in the attack. A photo showed scrapes on Jones' back.
Describing the events after his party, Jones told the Guardian, "We were about 30 metres away, saying goodbye to each other, when four men charged directly towards me: one of them karate kicked my back, threw me to the ground, started kicking me in the head and back, while my friends tried to drag them off, and were punched trying to defend me.
"It was clearly a premeditated attack and I was their target. They all attacked me and only assaulted my friends when they tried to defend me."
On twitter he added, "The group then scarpered: I don't know if they said anything in the melee. I'm fine other than a big bump on my head and a cut back."
Jones said the assault was bound up with "the rise of an emboldened far right, which is increasingly violent, and targeting minorities and people on the left." He told the Guardian, "In the past year I've been repeatedly targeted in the street by far right activists, including attempts to use physical assault, and homophobic abuse. I've had a far-right activist taking pictures of me, and posting threatening messages and a video."
"Because of this, and escalating threats of violence and death, I've had the police involved. My friends felt it was a matter of time until this happened. Give the context, it seems unthinkable that I was singled out for anything other than a politically motivated premeditated attack."
Jones has posted videos of various attacks, one of which can be viewed here.
Jones is followed down the street and verbally abused by a fascist mob, including the far-right provocateur James Goddard. One shouts, "Why are you doing the dirty work for Corbyn?"
Goddard asks Jones, in relation to Corbyn, "Why do you support a communist?"
Jones is gay and the abuse dished out includes homophobic slurs.
The journalist posted a tweet Saturday reproducing a photo taken previously by a far-right activist of Jones in a pub, with a threatening message. The photo is captioned, "Picture today Islington London Owen Jones."
Above the post, a message read, "It gets worse hope not hate [the name of an anti-racist group] I can get that close to your like minded people its [sic] scary. Do not underestimate my talents of my past and present I even know your address [sic] of all you radicals." It was signed, "Scott Timothy … and I've had enough."
On Sunday afternoon, Jones told the BBC, after being asked if his attackers said anything to him, "It is very difficult when you're suddenly on the floor being kicked in the head." He added that "I've had evidence since, which I can't discuss … which suggests political motivations."
He added, "What happened—to be clear—is they spotted me in the pub, waited for us to leave, and then launched their attack when we were away from the pub—it was planned, not a random attack."
In the last year alone, three leading figures on the left in the UK have been attacked by far-right forces, along with other incidents in which left-wing groups have been targeted in violent assaults.
In July last year, Steve Hedley, the Rail, Maritime and Transport union assistant general secretary was savagely assaulted in a pub by fascists after he spoke at a Stand Up to Racism demonstration in London. Hedley was left bleeding heavily from a head wound. His partner was also assaulted, including being hit by a chair, and ended up in hospital. No charges were laid by the police over the attack.
In March, Labour leader Corbyn himself was subject to an attack by a far-right thug at the Finsbury Park Mosque's Muslim Welfare House. John Murphy approached Corbyn and smashed an egg in his clenched fist into the side of the Labour leader's head while he was sitting down eating with his wife, Laura. Murphy was only given a 28-day sentence for "common assault" despite previously threatening to kill … Muslims in online posts.
It emerged during the 2018 trial of Darren Osborne—who killed a Muslim worshipper and injured 12 others when he ploughed a hired van into a crowd outside Finsbury Park Mosque in 2017—that he had planned to murder Corbyn and London Mayor Sadiq Khan.
Last August, fascists attacked the Bookmarks bookshop in central London, run by the Socialist Workers Party. Again, no charges were brought by the police.
In January this year, far-right activists surrounded a Rail, Maritime and Transport union picket line at Victoria Station in Manchester, verbally abusing striking guards.
Only weeks ago, more than 100 supporters of fascist Tommy Robinson marched through Manchester city centre, holding an unprecedented demonstration inside the privately owned Arndale shopping centre. As part of their rampage, they smashed up the stall of a left-wing organisation, the Revolutionary Communist Group.
The police have said they will be look at CCTV footage relating to the attack on Jones, but as is demonstrated by the incidents listed above, they have done little or nothing to arrest and charge any perpetrators.
It is beyond doubt that if anyone from the wider left had committed such crimes as the attack on Jones, they would have been immediately rounded up, arrested and charged.
The SEP warned after Corbyn's attacker received a paltry prison sentence that the attack on the Labour leader must be taken as "a serious warning of the dangerous right-wing political climate being whipped up by Britain's ruling elite and its media outlets."
The attack on Britain's most prominent left journalist underscores these warnings and raises the necessity for heightened political vigilance and security regarding fascist provocateurs, combined with a determined political counteroffensive for socialism based on a mobilisation of the working class.
Among the tens of thousands who tweeted their support for Jones after the attack was Corbyn who said, "Owen believes it was politically motivated, and we know the far right is on the march in our country. An attack on a journalist is an attack on free speech and our fundamental values."
… Among the leading forces giving succour to the far right are the Blairites—who speak in similar terms as the fascists about the danger of a "hard left", "communist" government if Corbyn were ever to take power.
The assault on Jeremy Corbyn is a warning that must be heeded
See also here.
Three Owen Jones attack suspects arrested: here.
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Owen Jones attacker had collection of 'white supremacist, far-right and homophobic' memorabilia, court hears https://t.co/1dHD0YR4Xf
— PinkNews (@PinkNews) January 19, 2020


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After Moscow Floods, Mayor Hit By Wave Of Mockery
July 25, 2016 22:28 GMT
By Tom Balmforth
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin
MOSCOW -- Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has been mocked online after extraordinary flooding wreaked havoc in the Russian capital and briefly submerged a street next to the Kremlin in knee-deep water.
City authorities said the flooding on July 22 was the result of a freak rainfall, but some local media outlets and government critics, such as opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, laid the blame on city hall and its ambitious My Street program to widen sidewalks and lay new paving stones.
During the heavy downpour, social networks were inundated with pictures of cars driving through what looked like rivers and lakes that had formed on iconic central Moscow streets.
In a video on Facebook of the submerged, upscale Patriarch's Ponds district, Muscovite Aleksandr Belov asked: "Does anyone know if parking for boats is free at the moment?" -- a play on the paid parking that has been introduced to Moscow in recent years.
Against the backdrop of the Kremlin walls, one police officer appeared in a photograph to have mounted from the knee-high water onto the back of a pickup truck in order to continue directing traffic on a street next to Manezh Square.
The Russian capital has been the site of frenetic building works this summer as the city government has carried out the far-reaching My Street program, which has entailed replacing roadways, paving stones, overhauling building facades, and widening sidewalks.
The daily Kommersant noted on July 25 that the areas affected by flooding have recently undergone roadworks, and a deputy department head at Mosvodostok, a state drainage-system company, told media outlet RBK that roadworks for the My Street program caused the floods.
Aleksandr Zakharov told RBK that the drainage wells had gotten blocked up by construction waste from My Street because of the torrential rain, noting that "overall, the most flooded districts were those where construction work is being carried out."
Over the weekend, Twitter users from across the political spectrum attacked Sobyanin over the flooding.
Kremlin pool journalist Dmitry Smirnov tweeted: "Will Sobyanin today assemble his emergency meeting with the words: what have you built, the Kremlin is already flooding?!"
The Rotten West Twitter handle posted a picture of a deep-sea diver with the caption: "Sergei Sobyanin assessed the quality of paving stones laid in the city center. Tverskaya Street, Moscow, Russia."
The KermlinRussia handle that lampoons President Vladimir Putin wrote: "Napoleon set Moscow on fire; Sobyanin drowned it."
Navalny went a step further further, analyzing publicly accessible documents to see who won the state contract to design the renovations on Malaya Bronnaya, a street next to Patriarch's Ponds which saw particularly bad flooding.
Navalny said the renovations were designed last year by a company belonging to Igor Chaika, a son of Russian Prosecutor-General Yury Chaika. "So, when you're going down Bronnaya knee-deep in water and shouting 'who designed this?!' you have the answer," wrote Navalny.
So will anyone be punished by Putin for the flooding?
A tweet by blogger Rustem Adagamov suggested that Sobyanin's job may be safe. It showed an officer paddling a boatload of people down a submerged Moscow street in 1965, and said in the comments that the mayor at the time held the post for nearly 25 years.
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