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Posts Tagged 'Anti-Israeli'
Apparently, the racist Gilad Atzmon is about to have some of his disgusting ramblings published.
The publishers, Zero Books, are a small, relatively new enterprise started in 2009, not to be confused with Zero Press.
Atzmon's work is very popular on the Far Right, so I had assumed that only active Jew haters would take the time and trouble to publish his filth, but that's not the case.
Zero Books publish a strange mixture of Paganism, New Ageism and Christianity, with political material as a topping.
This is what they say about themselves, replete with elementary spelling mistakes.
It is not terribly clear who's behind it, but if you're interested in healing properties of stones and other such nonsense then Crystal Prescriptions will surely be of interest!
But back to the rational world.
Concerning this issue, there is a kerfuffle on various blogs as to why a publisher of Leftwing authors (and I use the term loosely) should be publishing a racist like Gilad Atzmon.
Many of these posts raise interesting questions, but as far as I can see they fail to analyse with any precision why this situation came about.
What would compel otherwise highly intelligent people (book publishers, etc) to print propaganda for a racist?
Could it be that they conceivably agree with his views? That they share some of his prejudices? And if so, why?
And whilst those questions are answered, it would be nice if these issues could be addressed:
Why, latterly, has anti-Jewish racism become so acceptable in Western societies?
What brought this terrible state of affairs about?
There needs to be clear analysis as to why the publishing of the racist Gilad Atzmon came about, not just the details of events, but a broader commentary is needed on why his views are deemed fit for publishing by the intelligentsia and what does that tell us about anti-Jewish sentiment in society?
Tagged with American activists, Anti-Israeli, anti-Jewish racism, Anti-Zionism, Book Publishers, Conspiracy Theories, Far Right, Gilad Atzmon, Racism, Zero Books
The CST takes the Respect Chair, Carole Swords to task for her racist "slip".
Seismic Shock reminded us that she previously promoted a pro-Crusader article from Stuart Littlewood.
Why she would have wanted to associate with an obsessive racist like Littlewood I can't say, but she could have at least looked him up on Google and taken the hint.
Littlewood writes for Veterans Today, a nasty conspiratorial and antisemitic on-line rag run by the crank and friend of the Far Right, Gordon Duff.
Who can forget Duff's kind words about Ernst Zundel:
"The best known scholoar of holocaust theories is Dr. Thomas Dalton, author of
Debating the Holocaust; A New Look at Both Sides. Dalton discusses the history of
the "denialist" movement and efforts made to criminalize, not only politically
motivated efforts to change majority perceptions of the holocaust but also stifle
legitimate research into, not only the holocaust but a more accurate history of Europe
in the mid 20th Century. Most recently, Ernst Zundel, a German born researcher
who has questioned issues related to the holocaust was extradited from Canada and
imprisoned for years in Germany for "crimes" that, in America would be considered
not just "freedom of speech" but relatively modest historical enquiry. Zundel
questioned the number "six million" and, in doing so, was arrested and convicted of
an obscure law that creates a special class of truth when Jewish perception is
involved.
Zundel, and significant numbers of historians of varying credibility believe the
number of Jewish dead is being vastly over stated along with the methods of killing.
It is their contention that since there is no scientific evidence that gassing or
cremation facilities existed designed for masskilling, a major area of their research,
that numbers of dead should be reassessed. They insist that since camps such as
Auschwitz and Dachau are no longer considered "death camps" and that many other
camps listed disappeared "without any trace" according to their research, that the
number dead should be lowered by up to 80%. "
Is it merely coincidental that "anti-Zionists", like Carole Swords, end up espousing racist ideas?
I suspect it is more a case of lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas!
Tagged with 9/11, Anti-Israeli, anti-Jewish racism, Anti-Zionism, Anti-Zionists, antisemitism, Carole Swords, Conspiracy Theorists, Ernst Zundel, Gordon Duff, neo-Nazism, Racism, Respect, Respect Party, Stuart Littlewood, The CST, Veteran Today, Vets Today
It is slow blogging from me for a while, but I would recommend that readers take a long hard look in at Engage.
Recently they have been superb, positively on steroids with a fine bevy of posts.
I would suggest that members of the University and College Union read and think about James Mendelsohn's resignation letter to Sally Hunt, which I produce in full:
"Dear Sally
I was happy to sign the petition of no confidence in the government's HE policies and, like you, I have very serious concerns about the White Paper.
Regrettably, though, I am no longer able to join in UCU's fight against the government's measures. This is because I am no longer a member of UCU. Following the passing of Motion 70 at the most recent annual Congress, I felt that I had no choice but to resign. Not only does Motion 70 reject the most widely-used definition of anti-Semitism in the world, it fails to provide any alternative definition. The motives of those who proposed the motion are clear: they rightly understood that, according to the EUMC Working Definition, their obsessive campaign to single out Israeli academics for boycott year on year might indeed be anti-Semitic. Whether intentionally or otherwise, this has made UCU an even more uncomfortable place for Jewish members than it was previously. I can no longer contribute money to such an organisation in good conscience.
Please do not send me the same generic response you have sent to others who have resigned on these grounds. Sadly, your repeated claim that UCU abhors anti-Semitism is not borne out by the evidence; rather, the evidence points overwhelmingly in the other direction. For example, a union which truly abhorred anti-Semitism would have no truck with Bongani Masuku, whose statements were correctly defined as anti-Semitic hate speech by the South African Human Rights Commission. UCU, by contrast, invited Masuku to promote the boycott campaign. Does that sound to you like the mark of a union which abhors anti-Semitism?
Speaking on a more personal level, I sent you three emails on related issues in 2008, which are attached. I think you would agree that a trade union which abhorred anti-Semitism would take such emails from an ordinary member seriously. Regrettably, I never received a reply to any of them.
I no longer wish to contribute my money to an organisation which has a problem with institutionalised anti-Semitism. I am sure I will not be the last Jewish member who feels forced to resign, even at a time when trade union protection and solidarity are more important than ever. Once again -please do not send me your generic reply. All I would ask you is: do you realise that the boycott campaign is now weakening the union's numbers and credibility, at a time when a strong union is needed more than ever? And do you ever lie awake at night wondering why, in the 21st century, Jewish members have left UCU in droves?
James Mendelsohn
Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Huddersfield " [My emphasis.]
(H/T: Engage)
Tagged with 2011, Anti-Israeli, anti-Jewish racism, antisemitism, Engage, EUMC, EUMC's Working Definition of Antisemitism., Institutional racism, National Executive Committee., NEC, Race Relations Act, Racism, Trade Unions, UCU, UCU Congress, University and College Union, William Macpherson
Some sage once remarked that it was both time consuming and intellectually tiring when you have to explain the nature of antisemitic myths, time after time.
The CST's latest post American Nazi "Prophecy" and Dr Daud Abdullah: Deja Vu? reminded me of the "Franklin prophecy" which I ran across years and years back.
Like many other twisted pieces of antisemitism it sticks in the mind.
Why, I can't say, as I tend to forget even elementary facts nowadays and I have a short-term memory that a Goldfish would be proud of, or supposedly so.
Yet along with all of the nonsense concerning the Federal Reserve, I do remember the "Franklin prophecy", as a nasty fake, a piece of antisemitic propaganda. Peculiar how the mind works?
But what is surprising is that it still in usage nowadays, read more at the CST.
Tagged with American politics, Anti-Israeli, Antisemitic Myths, antisemitism, Conspiracy Theories, Franklin prophecy, Mark Gardner, Paranoia, The CST, The Lobby
Blogs in June 2011.
I thought I should see what others are doing:
Flesh is Grass has an important post on how the EDL managed to march, unescorted, from Redbridge to Dagenham.
Yaacov Lozowick has given up blogging. Pity, I didn't agree with him, much, but he has a thoughtful way and articulates many intelligent ideas.
Johnny Guitar thinks about the Troubles, the Good Friday Agreement and the need for a South Africa-style truth commission, just not at the moment.
Weggis on the case against biofuels. Completely agree, it seems so questionable to use food stuff or related material as fuel for the internal combustion engine.
Harry Barnes on Sorting Out The Labour Party, which I think is very optimistic. In the short term they could ditch Ed Miliband, try to be a bit radical, really, seriously distance themselves from the skeleton of New Labour. Chance would be a fine thing.
In related news, I am not surprised that Ed Miliband is less popular than Iain Duncan Smith or William Hague, when they were in a similar position. Frankly, Miliband's inarticulate, has the charisma of a saucer and he's politically useless.
Jams looks at an evil cat, great photos.
Mark Gardner at the CST has a reflective post on the situation at UCU and its wider implications, From UCU to MEMO and "Israel's British hirelings".
Ten minutes hate on the 'miracle villages'.
Chris Dillow considers Miliband's power blindness.
Nick Lowles provides a photo and details of the EDL thugs racial attack in Dagenham.
Sorrel Moseley-Williams ponders Journalists' Day in Argentina.
Not a blog, but worthwhile all the same. Searchlight on the BNP's use of Facebook and Twitter.
Rosie looks at Fact and Fiction.
James Bloodworth has a couple of cracking posts, Will the Defence Secretary's links with Sri Lanka compromise British calls for an enquiry? and Isn't it time for an apology, Mr Chomsky?
Rebecca provides an update on the Gaza flotilla. Personally, I think the Israeli Government should allow them into Gaza with minimum fuss or hassle. I think Gazans should get as much as they can, after all living under Hamas must be terrible.
Jack of Kent looks at the arrest of blogger Jacqui Thompson and the many unanswered questions.
Greens Engage on Cynthia and Jello.
At Greater Surbiton, a guest post by David Pettigrew, Justice in Bosnia after Mladic.
Eric Reeves has a piece in the Washington Post, In Sudan, genocide anew?
Engage has an abundance of posts which should be read, just a small selection: Open antisemitism doesn't harm your reputation, Sally Hunt pretends not to understand the term "institutional racism" and Richard Kuper on the Working Definition of Anti-Semitism (by Eve Garrard)
Tagged with Anti-Israeli, anti-Jewish racism, Blog Round up, Blogging, BNP, Bosnia Mladic, Ed Miliband, EDL, Facebook, Gaza, Gaza flotilla, Labour Party, Racism, Roundup, Sudan, Twitter, UCU
Whisky, West Dunbartonshire Council And Fakes.
In response to the symbolic boycott of Israeli products by West Dunbartonshire Council some people are organising a boycott of Scotch whisky.
It all seems to me a bit petty, given that West Dunbartonshire Council doesn't actually import any Israeli products. Certainly, they use technology which is derived from Israeli know-how, that includes but isn't limited to Intel chips, Microsoft XP software and Kinect.
However, the Council and the posturing Councillors are hardly going to inconvenience themselves by really boycotting Israeli technology, lest it proves too troubling, like giving up using Google (their key search algorithm was developed by an Israeli).
As for the retaliatory boycott, well I am not sure it makes the required point, but Drink Business Review explains:
"FJMC Executive Director Rabbi Simon's boycott urge followed after Israeli-Anglo blogger and pro-settlement activist, Jameel Rashid publicized on his website a letter to several distilleries located within West Dunbartonshire.
In his letter he stated, the global counter boycott of Scottish whiskey products, distilled in the West Durbanshire council region, is beginning, and requested officers to cease the purchase of any goods that made or grown in Israel.
The West Dunbartonshire Council, while it has not responded publically to calls endorsing a boycott of locally manufactured spirits, has defended the decision which sparked the protest.
The council's boycott only relates to goods 'made or grown' in Israel. The vast majority of mainstream books by Israeli authors are published in the UK, and are therefore not affected by this boycott. "
The intense interest in this issue has revealed an exceedingly unsavoury side to the instigator of the boycott, Councillor Jim Bollan.
Bollan seems perfectly comfortable contextualising the decapitation of a three-month old baby, as the JC reports:
""Violence breeds violence. Have you any idea what may have motivated this man [Awad] to commit this crime? Could it have been because he may have seen Palestinian children slaughtered by the IDF?"
Udi and Ruth Fogel and three of their children were murdered in the West Bank settlement in March. The youngest victim, three month old Hadas, was decapitated.
Responding to another pro-Israel activist, Mr Bollan declared: "Hamas was elected and are freedom fighters alongside the Palestinians fighting an illegal occupation of Palestine by Israel."
Mickey Green of Scottish Friends of Israel said: "I'm not surprised he has sunk to this level. This is a man with pre-conceived ideas and a mental block to reason. He is functioning at a nasty, visceral level."
Judy reports that the fake Gay Girl in Damascus had form, as, er a "anti-Zionist" or something like that.
Marko at Greater Surbiton points out the Guardian's complicity in this issue, The Guardian's disgraceful treatment of Jelena Lecic.
Over at Though Cowards Flinch, Carl has a superb post on Chavez, anti-Zionism, and antisemitism. It is noticeable how the thread is almost monopolised by a particular "anti-Zionist", who is keen to quibble and nitpick on these issues, but he can't see any anti-racism. Well, not when it is aimed at Jews, that is.
Finally, Tim Marshall has a provocative post, The 'Arab Spring' And The Conspiracy Of Silence:
"Across the Middle East from the Arab leaders you can hear the sound…… of silence. A similar sound emanates from many Muslim 'activists'.
Take the most glaring example – Bahrain. The allegation, backed by human rights groups, is that the Sunni ruled state opened fire with live rounds on peaceful protesters from the majority Shia population, killed large numbers of people, then followed up with a wave of arrests which resulted in widespread torture.
The response from Arab leaders? In the Gulf, the 6 nation Gulf Cooperation Council quickly sent troops to assist in the repression whilst most Western nations, aware of the US military fleet based in Bahrain did little to upset the old order. Elsewhere, the Jordanians, Egyptians, Syrians, Algerians et al – just kept quiet.
During the Egyptian upheaval the House Of Saud was quietly horrified at how quickly the Americans let the Generals get their way and remove Mubarak. In private they let Washington know their displeasure, but to have complained openly would have been to do what you don't do in the Arab political world in public (and to a lesser extent in our own systems) which is to tell the truth. "
Update 1: This is a thoughtful perspective on Tom MacMaster, the fake blogger, Understanding #amina.
Tagged with Amina Arraf, Anti-Israeli, anti-Jewish racism, Anti-Zionism, Anti-Zionists, Bigots, Blogging, Boycott, Chavez, Councillor Jim Bollan, Councillor Jonathan McColl, Fraud, Gay Girl in Damascus, Hadas Fogel, Jelena Lecic, Jim Bollan, Letter, Middle East, Offensive boycotts, Politics, Racism, Scotland, Scottish Nationalist Party, SNP, SSP, Syria, The Guardian, Tinpot politics, Tom MacMaster, Udi and Ruth Fogel, Victimhood, Video, West Dunbartonshire Council, Whisky
A Thin Skinned SNP Councillor, The Middle East And Boycotts.
I was going to forward a good letter on West Dunbartonshire Council's boycott of all Israeli products to the Council and Councillor Jonathan McColl, but alas they are blocking communications on Twitter.
They seem naive and thoughtless, to imagine that their actions would not receive a response, but worse than that they haven't really adjusted their positions. Instead they have become truculent and defensive, which is a pity for the Scottish National Party, as it makes them look small-minded and parochial.
This letter from Pete Tobias to Councillor Jonathan McColl of the SNP is well worth a read:
" June 1st 2011
Dear Councillor McColl,
I have just watched your video blog on YouTube and would like to apologise for the abuse that you and your fellow council members have received from members of the public who are responding inappropriately to your council's decision to impose a (somewhat selective) ban on goods produced in Israel. I shall refrain from commenting on your interesting views how items such as mobile phones purchased in stores Glasgow owe nothing to Israeli technology, or how you seek to avoid any accident that might require you to receive medical treatment pioneered in the country you and your council seem to have singled out as the sole perpetrators of human rights abuses and atrocities.
Please allow me to be slightly more constructive and make some suggestions as to how you might restore the image of your council as a legitimate and sensible authority rather than appearing to be anti-semitic by focusing exclusively on the State of Israel for your 'symbolic' gesture.
Why not propose a motion at your next Council meeting condemning the violent and oppressive treatment of the Syrian people by their own government? And in case you think what is currently happening is an isolated incident, check this out: http://bit.ly/mBGcr9 . Worth a symbolic protest of some sort, don't you think?
Or how about the Democratic Republic of Congo? www.savethecongo.org.uk. Darfur? Burma? Tibet? Sadly, the list of places in which human rights abuses are perpetrated by one group of people against another is a long and painful one.
As a rabbi, I have consistently found myself being vilified by my own community for comments that I have made criticising Israel's actions. We are, after all, a people who are taught to think of ourselves as 'poor we us', as you so rightly observe, and how dare one of the Jewish people's own leaders dare to add his voice to those who demand no less than Israel's destruction? But when I do so, I try to balance my arguments (eg http://bit.ly/kLFUky , http://bit.ly/bYbSAI) – and I also recognise that there are other regimes in the world worthy of criticism.
That last point, I am afraid, is where your claim that West Dunbartonshire Council's venture into international relations represents a genuine concern with human rights smacks of the anti-semitism that you seek to deny. Your council's actions are unbalanced, are directed towards one individual country's failings, but do not even try to take into account the numerous other human rights' abuses that exist in our troubled world.
Councillor McColl, if you are genuinely concerned about human rights, and you genuinely want to demonstrate that West Dunbartonshire Council is similarly dedicated to such issues, might I suggest that you seek out one or two other causes to champion in your Council Chambers, some different human rights' violations over which to make a 'symbolic' gesture? Otherwise, I am afraid, your protests that you are not behaving in an anti-semitic manner founder on the knee-jerk reaction your Council has made to one situation while ignoring numerous others.
I look forward very much to hearing that West Dunbartonshire Council has passed a resolution condemning the actions of the Syrian government, the Libyan government, the Egyptian government, the Burmese government, or any other cause of your choice. If you are unable or unwilling to do this, then I am afraid you are guilty as charged, and your position in singling out Israel is indefensible.
Rabbi Pete Tobias"[My emphasis.]
Tagged with Anti-Israeli, anti-Jewish racism, Bigots, Boycott, Councillor Jonathan McColl, Letter, Library, Middle East, Offensive boycotts, Politics, Rabbi Pete Tobias, Racism, Scotland, Scottish Nationalist Party, SNP, SSP, Tinpot politics, Victimhood, Video, West Dunbartonshire Council


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Republican Main Street PAC Launches PRIME Program to Raving Success
Inaugural Event Raises Over $250,000 For Key Candidates
WASHINGTON – The Republican Main Street Partnership PAC help its inaugural PRIME (Protecting Republicans in Main Street Excellence) event last night, raising over $250,000 for key candidates for the House and Senate in the 2016 election cycle. PRIME events are modeled after the ROMP (Retaining Our Majority Party) events of previous election cycles hosted by Leadership.
PRIME events offer an opportunity for Members of Congress to help candidates in competitive races achieve their fundraising goals in a collegial format, which builds key friendships and alliances for future Congresses.
"We take our process of candidate vetting and defending the seats of our Members very seriously," said Republican Main Street Partnership PAC Board Member Steve LaTourette, a former Congressman from Ohio. "Member to Member (and future Member) relationships are a key part of the Main Street Partnership to deliver legislative results and retain a Republican majority."
PRIME are not fundraisers for the Republican Main Street PAC, rather, rather they allow Congressional Members affiliated with Main Street to directly donate to candidates in competitive races. The inaugural PRIME events' key candidates were two first-time candidates seeking office (Brian Fitzpatrick in PA-08 and Jack Martins in NY-03), two Members facing challenging reelection campaigns (Carlos Corbel in FL-26 and Bob Dold in IL-10), and Rep. Todd Young of Indiana, who has a great opportunity to move up from the House to the Senate.
For more information on the Republican Main Street PAC, please visit: www.mainstreetpac.com.

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Tokyo 2020 official logo
By runningrings,
May 23, 2015 in Tokyo 2020 Summer Games
mattygs
Location:Mt Maunganui, New Zealand
Interests:Olympic Games ,sports, music
This one (the Olympic one) seems to be very familiar to me. I wonder a very similar design has been used in an international sport games, or a national games.
It kinda reminds me of one of the alternate Sochi 2014 logos
I actually quite like A, but it would need some tweaking. It's just bit too blue and looks too much like a racing flag. It does however look like it would potentially make the best brand. It's strong.
baron-pierreIV 92 posts
Ikarus360 58 posts
phandrosis 111 posts
TeamBlakeUSA 64 posts
gotosy
https://tokyo2020.jp/en/emblem/
thatsnotmypuppy
I like it. Being a regular visitor to Tokyo and knowing it's skyline and the colours of the cityscape it just works. It is industrial, perhaps even with a touch of steampunk. I think as westerners
Sir Rols
You guys better quit this crap now before me or one of the other mods puts an end to this.
Location:Kraków, Poland
B looks a bit like 2002 FIfa WC logo
All this proves that Japan's great graphic artists of the post-war years, and probably into the 70s, and even the influence of great animator (guy who made PRINCESS MONONOKE) have all retired, are riddled with arthritis, or have crossed over the Tori gate.
tikus_kecil
From A to D, there is nothing that scream Japan nor Tokyo, B it's scream more to China than Japan, C it's look more India than Japan... D is like The Philippines than Japan....and A it's more like east european country than Japan... really what happen to Japan ???
woohooitsme83
Location:los angeles
Actually, now that you mention it, C does kinda give off an Indian vibe. The Paralympic one at least.
No, it proves once again the people leading the Organizing Comittee are geriatrics with no idea of the current times and who have made lots of blunders already (case in point, the stadium). Japan still has lots of good designers, just that they were overlooked for the Olympics, just like Korea also has good designers and we now have to deal with that logo.
Don't blame you, the motif of it is somewhat religious and we all know budhism origins can also be traced in India.
Miss me already?
Better having a crappy logo than an unoriginal ripoff. Sorry.
Faiyez
Funny, because I see nothing original in any of the four new proposals.
Interests:Tokyo 2020,football,cooking, my 5 yoshis.
More bumps on the road to final selection of new Olympic emblem
It has been something of a marathon for organizers of the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics and Paralympics to come up with an original emblem for the event, but the end is in sight.
The first emblem, by a noted Japanese designer, was selected in July 2015, and then ran into legal problems after a Belgian designer threatened legal proceedings, citing plagiarism.
The process since then has not been without its share of speed bumps.
But on April 8, four final candidate emblems were unveiled by the Tokyo 2020 Emblem Selection Committee of the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The organizing committee will accept comments via the Internet as well as mailed on postcards until April 17 before holding a final selection meeting on April 25. Comments can be submitted over the Internet to <www.emblem-comments.jp>.
Those comments will be taken into consideration when the 21 members of the emblem selection committee vote to decide which becomes the official emblem.
The four emblem designs were announced along with a written statement by the creators that outlined the main concept behind each design.
Ryohei Miyata, chairman of the Tokyo 2020 Emblem Selection Committee who is also commissioner for cultural affairs, said, "The four are the result of thorough discussions within the committee."
The call for new emblem designs was made last November, and 14,599 were submitted. A preliminary screening reduced the number of candidates to 64.
In a meeting in January, four finalists were chosen along with another four considered to be at the next tier. During that process, all factors that might prejudice the views of the committee members, including the names, gender and ages of the creators of the designs, were kept secret.
After the eight designs were picked, the process moved toward a check to ensure the designs did not infringe on trademarks registered in Japan or abroad. In that process, three of the four finalists as well as two of the four in the second tier could not clear the trademark condition. That left only three candidates so another design that did not even make the second tier was included after a vote was taken among committee members.
The troubles with the original Olympic emblem emerged after a design by Kenjiro Sano was selected in July 2015. However, it bore a striking resemblance to a logo used by a Belgian theater and legal threats ensued unless it was withdrawn.
Criticism was also directed at the closed nature of the selection process.
In September, Sano's design was pulled, forcing the emblem selection committee to go through the process all over again.
The final selection meeting on April 25 will be held behind closed doors. If a design does not gain a majority of votes, the one that received the fewest number of votes will be dropped and a second round of voting held. That process will be repeated until the final design is chosen.
After the executive board of the organizing committee approves the selection, the new emblem will be officially unveiled.
The Asahi Shimbun
Link to this article:http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201604090043.html
Location:Rio de Janeiro
Interests:Girls, sports and beer in that order or all together.
No. This can be a good logo for a "theatre", not for the olympics All the options are better than this. B, C and D are fine for me but I like more B because is the only one with some color efects. Looks more professional. The only dissapointment is that i was waiting for something inovative after London and Rio.
How refreshing. Much of what I've seen from Brazilians here are lazy attempts at taking cheap shots at Tokyo, and it stopped being amusing a long time ago.
Rio, besides the 3D thing, wasn't much inovative, if anything it was a sendback to the 90's and early 00's logos. After the huge disaproval the London logo got (despite everyone in the end got used to it) they decided to play it safe on recent years.
Rob.
Rio's logo is slick and easy on the eye, understandable, and very reflective of what their Games will be about. It might not be groundreaking but it's far, far better than anything Tokyo is offering.
phandrosis
I feel like something that is equally as important is how the logo will inspire the look of the games. I can already imagine how it would be done for A and D, but for B and especially C I'm not sure what direction they would go...
Now that I have understood more about where A came from it's become my second favorite to D. I still think that B feels a little unbalanced but I wouldn't be devastated if it was chosen. I also was thinking how, if you can possibly remember, the logo for Nagano did technically exist in a 3D form during the handover ceremony and some other instances, so I think that a similar 3D representation could be done for D.
Ha!! Look what I found from 1940 ...
As far as I'm aware the decision should be made next next Monday (the 25th). Interestingly enough, in the Japan Times twitter poll D did significantly better than the others while in the NBC Olympics poll B did.
2 Weeks Away For Tokyo.
Conor15
Location:Birmingham, United Kingdom
Please, TeamBlakeUSA. Stop being a troll and just leave us alone!
I'm Not Trolling, I'm Trying To Help, Stop Messing With Me, You Can't Let Them Do It Now, Because It Doesn't Matter.
Location:Sh*tsbane, Australia
Seriously, just leave this place. No-one wants to talk to you.
We know you're just some idiot who's made his own account on the forum just to annoy us.
Plus you type like a retard.
And I'm talking to you, TeamBlakeUSA
Location:ESP - Spain
A ("Harmonized chequered emblems") has just been chosen as the official logo.
https://twitter.com/Tokyo2020/status/724484799889440768?lang=es
Here is more information about the winning design and the selection process:
Tokyo 2020 Games Emblems
Winning design
Harmonized chequered emblem
Chequered patterns have been popular in many countries around the world throughout history. In Japan, the chequered pattern became formally known as "ichimatsu moyo" in the Edo period (1603-1867), and this chequered design in the traditional Japanese colour of indigo blue expresses a refined elegance and sophistication that exemplifies Japan.
Composed of three varieties of rectangular shapes, the design represents different countries, cultures and ways of thinking. It incorporates the message of "unity in diversity". It also expresses that the Olympic and Paralympic Games seek to promote diversity as a platform to connect the world.
Designer of the Tokyo 2020 Games emblems
Asao Tokolo
Place of residence: Tokyo
Occupation: Artist
Education: Graduated in Architecture from the Tokyo Zokei University
Current employment: Tokolo.com
MOT Annual 2010: Neo-Ornamentalism from Japanese Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Open Space 2010 and 2011 - InterCommunication Center (ICC), Tokyo
2014 Materializing Exhibition II - Chinretsukan Gallery of the University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts
2016 TOKOLO Asao x Aomori City Archives Exhibition - Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori Prefecture
2007 - FRP/F town façade pattern, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture (architect: Hitoshi Abe)
2012 - Façade pattern for the 125th Anniversary of the Education Center, Kogakuin University (architect: Chiba Manabu Architects, design work with Azumi Mitsuboshi, Hachioji, Tokyo)
2015 - BaoBao Issey Miyake bag (Tokolo pattern)
2015 - Low-rise part façade glass pattern for the Dai Nagoya Building, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture (Architect: Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei Inc.)
Runner-up designs
Connecting Circle, Expanding Harmony
Kozue Kuno
Surpassing One's Personal Best
Takaaki Goto
Occupation: Art Director / Designer
Flowering of Emotions
Chie Fujii
Substitute designs
Names and places of residence of creators of shortlisted designs
・Daisuke Kumei
Place of residence: Hokkaido
・Kazuyuki Yamano
・Sayuri Shoji
*In order of received entry
Selection process through to the four shortlisted emblem designs
Tokyo 2020 Games emblems - selection process
Source: https://tokyo2020.jp/en/games/emblem/
I'm not thrilled by the emblems, but there's a chance they can get a pretty dynamic Look of the Games out of this.
Im actually pretty happy they went with these. The others may have been *prettier* and most likely would have won a gb logo contest - but these are good strong marks. I feel the favoured D option would have been far too wishy washy, as weak as Lima's .
This will form a great look of the Games I think.
Only downside with the way this competition was done, is that it's like we are missing out the detailed refinement stage. None of the logos seemed to pay much attention to the typeface, especially when the word mark has been so integral in the branding of recent Olympics.
I think perhaps there would also have been room to shake up the colours used, much like London did. I'd like to think we will get a refined image now they have picked the winner, I highly doubt it though
Even thought my signature is obviously D I was hoping that A would be chosen in the end. Only that and C had any clear cultural representation. I also thought that this one looks a little more modern than the others and, when you think about it, is about the same shape (in a very general sense) as the 1964 logo.


Okotoks is located just 18 km south of the Calgary city limits and 64 km from the Calgary airport. Many residents in Okotoks make the daily commute into Calgary either by car or by public transportation.
If you have your own vehicle, it will only take about 15 minutes to reach the southern tip of Calgary as long as the road conditions are good. Commuters can visit www.calgary.ca/trafficinfo to find out what the road conditions are through the traffic advisories. This site allows residents to make the best travel decisions based on any major delays or roadwork.
Southland Transportation offers commuter service every week day into and from downtown Calgary. The ride is comfortable with new coaches and the travel to the downtown core is direct. On board you'll find washrooms, free Wi-Fi and you'll be able to reserve your seats if you purchase a monthly pass.
You can also travel into Calgary with Greyhound bus services but for the average 9-to-5 worker the travel times just aren't going to work out. Plus, it's a lot more expensive and monthly passes aren't offered through this bus system.
Carpooling from Okotoks into Calgary makes a lot of sense financially and environmentally. There will be less money spent on parking fees and gas and it may turn out to be cheaper than using the public transportation available. If you can get 3 or 4 people together to carpool regularly, the savings can be quite substantial.
If you are new to Okotoks and haven't been able to set up your own carpooling, there is a website that helps to match up potential riders to drivers. This site is available at www.carpool.ca. The services are offered to commuters in partnership with post-secondary institutions, employers and regional governments. The program itself is managed, updated and hosted by carpool.ca. Commuters don't have to pay a fee to use this service.
Whether you are driving in with your own vehicle, carpooling or using public transportation, you'll usually find that the roads are clear and the drive is steady all the way through to the city. You won't have to worry about the major traffic tie-ups that Calgary drivers have to face during rush hours. Even if it takes longer to get to work from Okotoks, you won't have to deal with the frustration of excessive stop-and-go traffic.
Commuting from Okotoks to Calgary is painless and easy once you've done it a couple of times. For many people, the ride from Okotoks into the big city takes less time than traveling from one end of Calgary to the other to get to work.
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For the past few days, I've been hearing this intermittent buzzing sound. At first, I thought I'd become used to it and stop hearing it entirely, but to me, it just became more obnoxious over time. It transformed into something akin to a constant, vibrating noise in the back of my head. It was difficult to focus on anything. It became so bad that I had trouble sleeping, and it's beyond me how my parents never noticed it. You know what they say though. You lose hearing with age, so I wasn't surprised when they gave me confused looks. Tyler, my neighbor, heard it though, and I was relieved at that. It meant I wasn't going crazy. He's actually the one that brought it up when we were in my bedroom playing video games. With him at my side, I became determined to find the source of this noise.
We searched my house first and placed our ears all over the walls. The buzzing sound never seemed to become stronger or weaker, so we went outside. My original thought was that something was wrong with the air conditioning unit. If I was right, it would explain why the sound transferred throughout the entire house. Needless to say, my theory was wrong. We stood beside the thrumming unit, watching the gigantic fan spin around inside. The unit was vibrating, but it wasn't the sound we were looking for. However, we realized the sound was louder outside than it had been in my room.
Searching my backyard up and down, we came to a stop at the wooden face surrounding the yard. We placed our ears to the fence and exchanged a knowing stare. The sound was coming from beyond the fence, and that was enough for the both of us. We climbed the fence and dropped easily to the other side.
The area beyond my backyard was filled with untouched forest. I had been over my fence a few times when I had accidentally kicked a soccer ball over but not often enough to really explore. My parents always complained about there being poison ivy everywhere, and there was. We skirted around it and created a path without a problem. It was really bizarre though. All we could hear was this buzzing sound – nothing else. I mean, we could just barely hear the leaves and sticks crackling beneath our feet, but all other sounds seemed absent. There were no birds chirping which was the weirdest part for me. You'd be hard pressed to find an area of woods where there aren't birds constantly singing to each other.
As we kept walking, the buzzing sound grew louder, and eventually, we couldn't see my fence anymore. We stopped several yards from a cluster of trees covered in tumor-like growths. We just stood there, staring at it, and neither of us could explain what they were. They appeared like they were apart of the tree as if the bark had bubbled outward in these strange formations. Trees can actually develop deformed growths called burls, something I learned in hindsight. Naturally though, our first thoughts were to poke it, but both of us were too chicken to get any closer. So, we grabbed rocks instead. It only took one toss; Tyler was a baseball player. The rock collided with one of the large growths, and upon contact, the growth exploded outward, sending chunks flying.
Not even seconds later, bees, thousands of bees, swarmed out of the opening and formed into a thick, throbbing mass. Both of us screamed and ran. I had never run faster in my entire life. The bees were hot on our heels, and I could feel their stingers plunging into my arms, my back, my legs, anywhere they could swarm. I don't remember hopping the fence or how I arrived in my front yard, but I must have been screaming bloody murder. I stripped down to my underwear, and my mom began spraying me and the persistent bees with the garden hose. The icy, pressurized water didn't hurt as bad as the stings or the welts that formed instantly.
I was ushered into the kitchen, given a towel, and my mom began meticulously removing the stingers with a pair of tweezers. She lost count how many she removed from my body. I was only allowed to change into dry underwear since the stings needed to be iced. The swelling and welts had been unimaginable, and now, I understand how people can die from bee stings. I was forced onto the couch with ice packs positioned all over my body. The majority of the stings were on my back, so I laid on my stomach and must have passed out some time later.
I woke the next day in the same position, and the ice packs had been removed. My mom refused to let me change into comfortable clothing until she inspected all of the welts. Thankfully, the swelling had reduced significantly since the previous day. Over a bowl of soup, I learned that my parents called an exterminator after the incident. Apparently, there had been bees angrily flying around our yard and some of the neighbors' yards. By that point, everyone on our street could hear the enraged buzzing.
The exterminator arrived promptly and followed the trail of chaotic bees back to the nest. The man actually told my parents that it had been the largest colony he had ever seen. He sprayed so many chemicals that he didn't want anyone near the area, not that anyone wanted to go investigate for themselves. The whole situation made me feel like a complete idiot. How could we have been so stupid?
My only consolation was that Tyler might have suffered just as bad as me with the bee stings. I brought this up to my parents and asked how bad his injuries were. My mother gave me this petrified expression that I'll never forget. There had been nobody behind me when I raced around the side of my house. She hadn't even been aware that Tyler had gone back there with me. I felt guilty, beyond guilty. For the next few days, horrible images of Tyler being swarmed consumed me. I swore that he had been right beside me. What made me feel worse is that the exterminator never saw anyone. If Tyler had fallen and been injured, the exterminator would have known because he had to search the entire area for nests and make sure everything was sprayed with pesticides.
About a week after the incident, Tyler was still missing. I decided to search the area for myself, but I wasn't going unprepared. I grabbed a can of my mother's hairspray along with a lighter from the kitchen. If any of these bees were still kicking, then I wanted protection. I hopped the fence and moved slowly through the forest, my right hand clenched tightly on the hairspray. The distance to the nest was much further than I remembered. I knew that I had arrived when I heard a thick crunch beneath my shoes. I glanced down and felt a shiver rush through my body. The entire ground was layered with bee corpses. I couldn't see the dirt or grass, and in some areas, the bees just piled on top of each other.
I was on my last nerve when I approached the nests, trying my best to ignore the sickening crunches underfoot. I narrowed my eyes at the nest that we destroyed, and when I rounded the tree, the rest of the nests became apparent, nearly ten times larger. I cautiously nudged one of the nests which crumbled and revealed thick wax and honeycomb. Dead bees trapped inside of the nest oozed through the opening, and it was enough to turn my stomach. I grumbled beneath my breath and began poking the nest with more confidence, watching more of the pieces fall to the ground.
That's when I heard the buzzing return. My heart skipped several beats, and I nearly stumbled backwards and landed in the disgusting ruin of dead bees. I sprinted back several feet and raised the hairspray and lighter, watching the nest from all angles. These bees could appear from anywhere. They must have formed their nests throughout this cluster of tress, and it was very possible that their nests extended into the ground as well and beneath the roots. I bit my lip and waited for the swarm to appear like last time, but they never did. Instead, an odd and disturbing sight took me by surprise, enough for me to lower my guard. I left the clearing filled with dead bees and stepped through several bushes, trying to confirm what I was seeing. My whole body quivered, and I wanted to call out. My voice failed me though, and it might have saved my life.
Not even ten yards from me was Tyler. He was just standing there with his back facing me, and something was wrong. His movements were off. His body was twitching involuntarily, and when he took a step, his posture was rigid while his arms were locked in janky positions. Despite the horrible feeling in my gut, I wanted to call out to him. My concern quickly transformed into fear. Tyler turned and lolled his head to the side as if his neck were broken. He knew I was here, yet he couldn't see me. His eyes were gone. Two dark sockets stared back at me with bees crawling out of them. Sores layered his flesh which had turned into gaping holes, and a viscous fluid was running down his chin. I was too scared to move. I only ran when Tyler began lumbering toward me, swaying back and forth and twitching.
For the second time, I screamed and ran for the hills, trying to outrun the crashes coming from behind me. When I scrambled over the fence, I felt the wood scraping my skin, but I didn't care. I pounded on my back door crazily and slammed it shut once my mother let me inside. She didn't understand much of what I was saying since I was hysterical, but she gathered that I had found Tyler's body in the woods.
By the time the police arrived, they waited for me to calm down, so I could explain what I saw. It was a mess, and they must have thought that I was nuts. They searched in the area where I saw Tyler, but they didn't find him. They found his body yards upon yards farther away by a creek. Tyler had been reclined on his knees with his forehead against the ground, immobile and dead. I refused to ID him. I couldn't see those empty eye sockets again.
When I recovered from the event, I wanted to know what happened. I emailed the pathologist who performed Tyler's autopsy, and practically begged for answers. I needed a logical explanation for what I saw. He explained how they were going through routine procedure when they hit a minor roadblock. When they sliced Tyler open, dead bees poured out. His body had been literally bloated with bees. His eyes were missing. His jaw was broken, completely unhinged. His teeth were gone along with his tongue which was replaced with wax. The worst part was this. His organs were gone. All that was left was the skeleton, muscles, and tissues which seemed to be the base for the extreme amounts of honeycomb within his chest cavity. The pathologist's only theory was that the bees devoured his organs, but bees aren't carnivores.
The only way that I can explain this is this. There's a scientific concept called microevolution, and it's defined as evolutionary change within a species or small group of organisms, especially over a short period. It must have been triggered by the pesticides. It must have.
Eyy! Reviewed this one a while ago! Love it! 4/5!
The eye socket part reminded me of Candyman. Good story, too, by the way.
Good, tasty pasta. Now I hate bugs.
Not a bad concept, but a little extra explanation on Tyler's impossible limping and twitching with his head collapsed due to a neck break might have helped a little. But that's me! Not bad over all!!
OH GOD!!! NOT THE BEES!!!!
Oh my lord. I loved this story and the amazing Idea! I really enjoyed it but i wouldn't give it an 5 star, The reason why is because i didn't really invest myself to much in the story. Though that's my problem for doing to much at once.
Good story. Explanation re. microevolution was unnecessary and didn't coherently explain anything.
I can say that this is a very creepy story and I loved it. Maybe you can next time give a jumpscare? I was hoping to jump outta my skin just by reading this but maybe not tonight.
Enjoyable story. Very imaginative. I've always had a fear of insects and bees especially.
The "we" wasn't explained until the middle which kinda bugged me. Other than that, awesome!
So this is why bees are endangered these two idiot threw a rock at a bee hive Good story though. The ending was a tad bit confusing but I'll give it a 8.5. Also how come he didn't realize his friend wasn't behind him until the next day like what??
Can this bee a movie? Like the pun? Anyways, it was really good and very intriguing.
The ending really killed ruined the story for me, why was he still moving if his body was filled with beeswax and dead bees?
The ending kind of ruined it for me. The explanation was kind of silly to me.
You just submitted this again…. I don't support that and didn't think it was that great. Eh, since my vote doesn't matter i'll give ya the whole bean, a 5 instead of a debuff of 1 star.
Good story. 7/10. The ending was confusing and made me have to think. Bad idea.


Snerk - I am 100% sure they were not viewing me as competition. It was more "Oh honey, no, you don't want to be on this corner right now. Go over there where it's safe and no one gets confused."
Well, I was 21 that summer. I'm sure no one sees me as a threat now.


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something when he is back in November for a visit.
> wrote to his cuny email and he got back pretty quickly, two weeks ago.
>> maybe we can get him around that time. I am sure he would love to.
>>> he's on sabbatical, not in the country. good idea though!


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How to Use 'Decision Trees' to Improve Your Decision Making
Risk tolerance is the factor that will often help you determine which of your options is best.
By Doug and Polly White • Mar 3, 2017 Originally published Mar 3, 2017
In our consulting business, we often work with entrepreneurs facing tough decisions as they grow their businesses. Learning how to approach these decisions with a logical methodology can make the process easier and the decisions themselves more successful.
Related: The 7 Styles of Decision Making
As an example, we recently worked with a successful restaurant owner. He had built his restaurant over seven years and planned to sell it two years down the road. In our strategy discussion, we determined that he had three options to increase the value of his business during the next two years in preparation for the sale. The options were:
Option 1 -- Open a second location. This would cost about $100,000. If this location failed, the restaurateur would lose his investment. If it succeeded, we estimated he would make an additional $30,000 before selling the business, and increase the value of his businesses by $200,000. But, a caveat: New ventures are always risky. Accordingly, we estimated his probability of success at 50 percent.
Option 2 -- Open a catering business. This would cost about $20,000. Again, if the catering business failed, the restauranteur would lose his investment. If it succeeded, we estimated he would make an additional $10,000 before selling the business, and this option would increase the value of his businesses by $50,000. This move would be slightly less risky, so we put the chance of success at 80 percent.
Option 3 -- Have the restaurateur focus on his existing restaurant to improve its profitability and not pursue any other ventures. By doing this, he might make an additional $5,000 before selling, and increase the price he could get by $20,000.
The question was, which option was best? In scenarios like the restaurateur's, the approach we take our clients through is a classic decision tree. Here, we'll walk through the above example and explore each option, calculating the expected value of each.
Option 1 -- Failure meant losing $100,000. There was a 50 percent chance this would happen. Therefore, the expected value of this outcome was $50,000 (-$100,000 x 50 percent). Success meant making $230,000 ($30,000 in additional profit prior to sale, plus a sales price that was $200,000 higher). There was a 50 percent chance this would happen. Therefore, the expected value of this outcome was $115,000 ($230,000 x 50 percent). The expected value of choosing Option 1 was $65,000 ($115,000 – $50,000).
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Option 2 -- Failure meant losing $20,000. There was a 20 percent chance this would happen. Therefore, the expected value of this outcome was -$4,000 (-$20,000 x 20 percent). Success meant making $60,000 ($10,000 in additional profit prior to sale plus a sales price that was $50,000 higher). There was an 80 percent chance this would happen. Therefore, the expected value of this outcome was $48,000 ($60,000 x 80 percent). The expected value of choosing Option 2 was $42,000 ($48,000 – $4,000).
Option 3 -- We believed this option would succeed if the restaurateur focused on his business. Therefore, we assumed that following Option 3 would capture an additional $25,000 with certainty ($5,000 in increased profit before selling and a sales price that was $20,000 higher).
Our client had the $100,000 to invest. If he decided not to invest in his business, he could put the money into short-term CDs. However, rates on short-term CDs are so low at this time that these earnings were unlikely to influence the outcome. Therefore, we ignored this notion for the purposes of this decision.
At this point in the decision-making process, the chief issue becomes risk tolerance. If the decision-making restaurateur was not risk averse, he could choose the option with the highest expected value: Option 1, which had an expected value of $65,000. However, the decision-maker might quite reasonably be risk adverse.
For example, suppose he saved the $100,000 needed for his 16-year old daughter's college education. Although Option 1 had the largest expected value, there was also a 50 percent chance that he wouild lose his investment. If this meant that he couldn't afford to send his child to college, he might well decide to leave the money in CDs and pursue Option 3 -- focusing on improving the operation of his restaurant. Alternatively, if he could afford to lose $20,000, but losing $100,000 would cause severe hardship, Option 2 might seem the best option.
Related: 7 Keys to Making the Right Decision the First Time and Every Time
Therefore, the message is: Risk tolerance is the factor that will determine which of your options is best. There is no one-size-fits-all best answer. However, using a decision tree as we have here will lay out your choices, allowing you to weigh your options more clearly. By the way, our client chose Option 2.
Doug and Polly White
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6 Ways to Celebrate Black History Month and Be a Better Ally in the Workforce Beyond February
An authentic celebration of Black heritage throughout the year can help companies foster understanding and empathy among coworkers from different backgrounds. Such a celebration also allows employees to learn more about their colleagues' experiences, which promotes a deeper sense of community and understanding. How to be a Better Ally in the Workplace During Black History Month — and Beyond.
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Why Voters Will Punish Democrats in Three Months
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Writing for the Washington Times, David A. Keene explains why today's radicals, an uninspired carbon copy of the 1960s counterculture, are marching towards defeat in November.
Like the Maoist Cultural Revolution, they strive to stamp out traditional and capitalist elements from American society in the name of diversity and inclusion. The irony of their campaign is self-evident to all but the most obtuse.
David A. Keene continues:
In Minneapolis, Minnesota, police have already warned citizens that since they cannot rely on the police to be there when needed, they should be prepared to give up whatever those who confront them on the street or break into their homes demand to avoid violence or death. That's similar to the advice they use to give women facing rape; don't infuriate the rapist, just let him finish and leave. That was bad advice then and worse now.
The protesters have thus far revealed that pusillanimous is the best way to describe the way liberal city mayors and officials react to bullies and driven millions of urban residents to their local gun stores in search of the weapons they might have to rely on to defend themselves, their families and their homes as the cities in which they live spiral toward lawlessness and chaos.
In July alone, the National Shooting Sports Foundation reports that Americans purchased some 1.8 million firearms, making total firearms sales through July just about the same as for all of last year. Most of the guns being bought now are not for hunting or competitive shooting or to squirrel away as part of a multi-gun collection, but by first-time buyers to have available in case they might need a gun to protect themselves from the very thugs the protesters champion.
One can only wonder in the wake of what's happening around them that these voters will react to the Democratic Party's jihad against guns when they realize that both the party leadership and its presidential candidate will, if they get the chance, further weaken the ability of the police to protect them and deny them the right to protect themselves.
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David Keene has been at the center of conservative politics for decades. He is a former Chairman of the Young Americans for Freedom and the American Conservative Union and has served as the elected President of the National Rifle Association. He worked as a campaign consultant, lobbyist and commentator. His writing has appeared in Human Events, National Review and many other conservative publications and remains Editor at Large for The Washington Times after more than four years as the paper's Opinion Editor.
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Punish Dems for:
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Elitisim
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People who vote for the corrupt Leftist/Socialist Democrat Establishment Elite are not as "Dumb" as they act. They have been indoctrinated and not educated. The believe the lies they want to hear and love "free stuff" until it runs out and the are forced to labor and live in a 10×10 ft. space.
It is time for them to "wake up" and "walk away" from the Democrat Party.
Mark the dumbocraps as domestic terrorists
Truckman
somebody breaks into my house they better be ready to face what they get
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In this tutorial, you will learn using MapStruct for mapping/converting Java objects, JPA/Hibernate entity to DTO and vice versa. Let's get started to build a RESTful APIs example with Spring Boot and MySQL to see how MapStruct playing in the context.
MapStruct is a Java annotation processor for generating bean mapping classes.
DTO, stands for Data Transfer Object, is a design pattern used for customizing/aggregating data input and output so reducing the number of call to remote API.
Here you only define simple method signatures, converting Entity to DTO, DTO to Entity, List of Entity to List of DTOs. MapStruct will generate implementation code for you during build time.
Inject your previous defined @Mapper interface into REST API and start using its methods.


Professor Adam Foster's group from the Department of Physics at TUT is going on a lecture and seminar tour in Japan due to the group's near success in the 2010 European Research Council Starting Grant competition.
Surfaces and Interfaces at the Nanoscale group (SIN) is due to visit six universities in two weeks, travelling exclusively by train over a large part of Japan, while offering a diverse menu of lectures and research presentations. The lectures will focus on computational surface science and atomic force microscopy (AFM).
The tour is supported by the Academy of Finland and will begin on Saturday, 12 November.


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For more than three centuries since it rose above the ashes of the Great Fire, the dome of St Paul's Cathedral has illustrated the importance of maths in understanding our physical and philosophical worlds.
The dome of St Paul's cathedral is full of mathematics. In fact three important mathematical curves are key to Christopher Wren's design.
Christopher Wren studied mathematics at Wadham College Oxford, graduating in 1651, but his interests ranged wide from astronomy to architecture. Newton regarded him as one of the leading mathematicians of the day and it was mathematics that is central to Wren's design of the dome of St Paul's.
The dome of St Paul's cathedral is actually made up of three domes. The dome that you see from the outside is spherical in shape. A sphere has a beauty and perfection about it which is particularly appealing when seen from a distance but the shape also tapped into the idea of the church representing the shape of the cosmos.
But the dome you see within the cathedral is not actually the inside of the external dome. It is in fact a second dome whose shape is made up from a new curve discovered by contemporaries of Wren. Called the catenary curve, it is the shape that a chain makes when you hold it at both ends. Galileo had thought this shape was a parabola but this was disproved in 1669 by the German mathematician Joachim Jungius.The equation for the curve, y = cosh (x/a) for a constant value a, was calculated by several of the great mathematicians of the age: Leibniz, Huygens and Johann Bernoulli.
The catenary curves y = cosh (x/a) for different values of a
Wren particularly liked the shape of the catenary because when you look up it creates a forced perspective making it feel higher that it actually is. The use of mathematics to create optical illusion is a big theme of the architecture of the Baroque period. But it is also an important shape structurally as Wren's collaborator Hooke explained to the Royal Society. Turned upside down this shape makes an arch that supports its own weight with pure compression and no bending. The Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi used the shape often in his architecture, for example in the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona.
In addition to the two domes you can see there is in fact a third dome which is hidden from view sitting between the outer and inner dome. Spherical domes have a problem: they are inherently weak at their highest point. So Wren created a third dome sitting between the inner and outer dome whose shape is more conic, made from rotating the positive half of the cubic equation y=x3. Hooke and Wren thought that this was the perfect shape for a dome just as the catenary is the perfect shape for an arch. This dome supports both the top of the external spherical dome and also the lantern that sits on top of the dome.


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Research Uncovers How Organizations Use Security, Cloud, Mobility and Big Data to Drive Success
By Laura Pevehouse | November 4, 2014
Having just come out of National Cyber Security Awareness Month with a series of posts about
Protecting Devices and Data from Human Error,
Getting the Right Data to (Only) the Right People,
Empowering Employees to Take Ownership of IT Security
and more, you might think we've over-indexed on the topic of security here on Direct2Dell.
But, the results of our inaugural Global Technology Adoption Index (GTAI) announced at Dell World today show that security impacts every opportunity midsize organizations have to capitalize on technology trends that can move their business forward.
"These companies know that disruptive technologies like cloud, mobility and big data can drive innovation and create competitive advantage. But, it's often difficult for them to take a strategic approach and overcome security concerns in order to fully harness the potential," says Laurie McCabe, partner, SMB Group.
There is encouraging news from the GTAI, however. In organizations where executive leadership is involved in security, the confidence needed to grasp that potential is increased. Among organizations that are very confident in their security, 84 percent of senior leaders are fully or somewhat engaged, compared to only 43 percent of senior leaders at organizations who are not confident in their security.
Those leaders that are getting involved in security and harnessing trends like cloud solutions, are seeing bottom-line business results from it, too.
The GTAI showed that there's a strong correlation between cloud use and company growth. Of those using cloud, 72 percent of organizations surveyed experienced 6 percent growth or more in the last three years. That's in contrast to companies not using cloud, where just 24 percent have growth rates of 6 percent or more, and 37 percent experienced either zero or negative growth.
"The fact is that companies need to be agile and they need to have a swift, effective, secure way of collaborating," says Jason Cook, chief technology officer for Americas, BT Global Services. "Working with Dell, we use the cloud, our global network and security capabilities to connect our customers' businesses, including voice, video and collaborative services in the most agile, light and secure way possible."
That connectivity is important. As we saw in another recent piece of Dell research, the 2014 International Tablet survey, tablets are increasingly being used by employees who not only travel around the world, but throughout the office or work facility.
The GTAI confirmed what we saw in that survey regarding lost devices still being a top concern regarding mobility. Half of GTAI respondents cited "risk of data breach from lost devices and unprotected wireless networks" as the biggest mobility risk and 44 percent listed "fear of security breach" as the primary barrier to expanding mobile within the organization.
And, that's too bad because it limits more than just financial results. If a company like the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) were to let security concerns stop them from taking advantage of new technology, we could all lose.
"With high-performance computing and cloud solutions, our researchers can quickly turn data into knowledge, knowledge into diagnosis, diagnostics into therapies, and therapies into better quality of life for patients," James Lowey, vice president of technology at TGen notes.
Big data presents a major competitive opportunity, as the GTAI showed us that those organizations that are the most effective in deriving business insights from big data are seeing much higher growth rates than those that are not. The average three-year growth rate (14 percent) for those most effective in leveraging big data is almost twice as high as that of organizations least effective in using big data (8 percent).
To develop the GTAI, we commissioned TNS to conduct quantitative surveys and qualitative interviews with critical IT decision-makers at midsize organizations (those with workforces ranging from 100 to 5,000 employees) in the US, UK, France, Germany, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, India, China, Japan and Australia.
"Security worries may, at first blush, put a damper on technology investment," said our Chief Security Officer John McClurg when looking over the results. "Yet for midsize organizations willing to commit, this barrier can be transformed into an opportunity, driving out the fear and doubt that would otherwise impede a forward-leaning embrace of those very technologies that can bring about their next level of growth. Smart security investment can trigger a cascade of further technological gains that, in turn, can open up a competitive lead."
About the Author: Laura Pevehouse
Laura Pevehouse was profiled as one of five "social media mavens" in the March 2009 issue of Austin Woman Magazine and named an AdWeek's TweetFreak Five to Follow. She has been part of the Dell organization for more than 15 years in various corporate communications, employee communications, public relations, community affairs, marketing, branding, social media and online communication roles. From 2014-2018, Laura was Chief Blogger/Editor-in-Chief for Direct2DellEMC and Direct2Dell, Dell's official corporate blog that she help launch in 2007. She is now a member of the Dell Technologies Chairman Communications team. Earlier in her Dell career she focused on Global Commercial Channels and US Small and Medium Business public relations as part of the Global Communications team. Prior to that, she was responsible for global strategy in social media and community management, as well as marcom landing pages, as a member of Dell's Global SMB Marketing, Brand and Creative team. When she was part of Dell's Global Online group, Laura provided internal consulting that integrated online and social media opportunities with a focus on Corporate Communications and Investor Relations. She managed the home page of Dell.com, one of the top 500 global web sites in Alexa traffic rank, and first brought web feeds and podcasts to the ecommerce site. In her spare time she led Dell into the metaverse with the creation of Dell Island in the virtual world Second Life. Laura has earned the designation of Accredited Business Communicator from the International Association of Business Communicators, and received her Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from Louisiana State University. Before joining Dell Financial Services in 2000, she worked at the Texas Workforce Commission and PepsiCo Food Systems Worldwide.
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While licensed real estate agents make money selling property, you can also make money generating leads for local real estate agents. Here you simply need to generate leads on properties for sale and refer these to your partner agent/broker who closes the deal.
You then, collect your share of the pie upon full or partial payment of the property. It's like being a referral agent who earns by looking for people hunting for property to buy, and then referring them to a company or an individual who can meet their needs.
But first, you'll have to find a partner broker. The first and easiest way is to scout around for properties that are for sale in your neighbourhood. Take down the contact numbers as well as the dates when you saw the "for sale" sign and when the "sold" sign appears.
You want to deal with a broker who sells such properties the fastest rather than those with a large number of "for sale" signs. You may also contact your neighbours, relatives or even an architect if they know of a reliable real estate agent you can do "business" with.
Looking up print ads in your local newspaper, attending Open Houses, or searching online for agent listings are other options. Contacting and actually meeting them will help you size up the personality and dependability of an agent as your prospect partner.
Once you've chosen your partner, you can begin exploring prospects and possible arrangements on how you can earn by helping him or her out in prospecting saleable properties. The agent may agree to give you an outright fee for every "highly probable" prospect you refer, or it might be a "finder's fee" for every sale your agent makes from your referrals.
It all depends on what type of arrangement will result in a "Win-Win" deal between you and your partner agent.
It would be great though if you already have a particular property in mind which the agent can work on. After all, there's nothing like talking about an actual sale to get your partnership off to a good start. This alone is enough to get their attention at the onset, and can fast forward your opportunity to make money generating leads for local real estate agents.
You could augment your efforts by leafleting your local area and including your partner agent's contact numbers. Just remember to include a reference number on each leaflet you send out so that your partner will know that the lead came from you. Otherwise, you could miss out on your commission.
Going online in search of potential customers is an even faster alternative. And if putting up your own website is too tedious, you could always sign up for your own Facebook account and create a page for your real estate "business". With Facebook, you not only increase your chances of finding a potential client among your network of friends and their circles, but also enable existing clients to stay in touch with you and refer you to their friends, business associates, colleagues, and family members.
One you've created your page, convert it to work like another website. Get hold of a "Search Engine Optimization" (SEO) program which is a very big help in getting people to find you. Include other links or "calls to action" that will lead visitors to specific information they'd want such as "Search Properties Now", "Foreclosure Deals" or "Hot Property Alerts" which you have personally searched.
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Add full names, photos, contact numbers and testimonials from your previous "clients" to enhance your credibility. People naturally don't trust strangers most especially on their first encounter, and testimonials can definitely vouch for your name and trustworthiness.
As you gain experience and "expertise" in generating leads, you can also go into real estate blogging. Once you're able to publish such material and people get to read it, they will realize that you do know your "craft", that you're active in the market, and that you're there to help.
But being visible, trustworthy and generating traffic to your site is just one half of your task. You must convert your visitors into real estate leads, and then work with your partner to convert those leads into clients. You must get them to respond and interact with you.
Try adding chat programs, contact forms and other means by which people can interact with you. Posting your cellular phone number or investing in "text brigades" may also open doors. Don't just stick with your website or hand out flyers. Experiment with various strategies and emphasize the means that best works for you. Your being visible, trustworthy and interactive will eventually pay off, not only for yourself but for your partner agent as well.


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