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June 2014, 19(4): 883-959. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2014.19.883
A survey of migration-selection models in population genetics
Reinhard Bürger 1,
Department of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
Received September 2013 Revised January 2014 Published April 2014
This survey focuses on the most important aspects of the mathematical theory of population genetic models of selection and migration between discrete niches. Such models are most appropriate if the dispersal distance is short compared to the scale at which the environment changes, or if the habitat is fragmented. The general goal of such models is to study the influence of population subdivision and gene flow among subpopulations on the amount and pattern of genetic variation maintained. Only deterministic models are treated. Because space is discrete, they are formulated in terms of systems of nonlinear difference or differential equations. A central topic is the exploration of the equilibrium and stability structure under various assumptions on the patterns of selection and migration. Another important, closely related topic concerns conditions (necessary or sufficient) for fully polymorphic (internal) equilibria. First, the theory of one-locus models with two or multiple alleles is laid out. Then, mostly very recent, developments about multilocus models are presented. Finally, as an application, analysis and results of an explicit two-locus model emerging from speciation theory are highlighted.
Keywords: recurrence equations, geographic structure, evolution, perturbation theory, recombination., Differential equations, dispersal, stability, convergence.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 92D10, 92D15; Secondary: 34D05, 34D30, 37N25, 39A6.
Citation: Reinhard Bürger. A survey of migration-selection models in population genetics. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2014, 19 (4) : 883-959. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2014.19.883
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A Chicago-style fried chicken concept called Chicago's Chicken Coop is coming to Dallas, from a restaurateur couple who've been in the Chicago chicken world for 10 years.
Christopher and Angela Raybon previously owned three branches of the famed Harold's Chicken Shack in Chicago, known for fried chicken and also for the experience of eating at a shack. There are about 35 branches in Chicago.
The Raybons moved to Dallas in 2014, whereupon they parted ways with Harold's and created their Chicago's Chicken Coop concept. They still own the three stores in Chicago, and will open a fourth in North Dallas in September, in the Marketplace at Frankford, next to Buffalo Joe's Bar & Grill and an El Tizoncito.
"We just changed the name to Chicago's Chicken Coop a month ago," Christopher says. "For the menu, our chicken is bone-in. We'll do chicken strips but our primary product is bone-in. Our big thing is chicken wings with our famous mild sauce, but we do all parts: breast, leg and thigh, livers and gizzards, plus catfish, perch, tilapia and shrump."
Sides include French fries, cole slaw, breaded mushrooms and breaded okra, sliced bread and whole jalapeno hot peppers.
Harold's opened a take-out branch near Duncanville a decade ago, but it didn't survive long. And another Chicago-style fried chicken concept, Gus's, announced plans to colonize DFW, with a branch coming to Fort Worth.
Raybon says he has a special technique.
"Everybody has their way of doing chicken, but what I've discovered since moving to Dallas is that with most places, it goes straight from the box to the fryer," he says. "Chicago's Chicken Coop takes care of the chicken."


According to Wikipedia the semla was originally eaten only on Shrove Tuesday as the last festive food before Lent.
However, with the arrival of the Protestant Reformation, the Swedes stopped observing a strict fasting for Lent. The semla in its bowl of warm milk became a traditional dessert every Tuesday between Shrove Tuesday and Easter. Today, semlor are available in shops and bakeries every day from shortly after Christmas until Easter. Each Swede consumes on average four to five bakery-produced semlor each year, in addition to any that are homemade.
King Adolf Frederick of Sweden died of digestion problems on February 12, 1771 after consuming a meal consisting of lobster, caviar, sauerkraut, smoked herring and champagne, which was topped off by fourteen helpings of hetvägg (semla), the king's favorite dessert.
This was the sweet chosen to represent Finland in the Café Europe initiative of the Austrian presidency of the European Union, on Europe Day 2006.
One of Stockholm's finest coffee houses calls Wienercafeet designed in a traditional and beautiful Austrian baroque style gives you an ambiance of profoundment.
We love the feeling of sitting in this coffee house and be served with fantastic bakeries and light food.
The bakery is designed with an open glass function and you can see the whole operation in the back.
One of Sweden's most famous and awarded chef's calls Peter Nordin and Per Bäckström designed a new twist to the traditional dessert Semla and calls it Hemla. We had the honor to try out both. We could only conclude that both were absolutely fantastic. Some enjoyed the Hemla more and some preferred the traditional dessert Semla instead.
Although the conclusion was that the highest point of this amazing pastry was the almond icing. It provided absolute and fantastic flavors to both of the pastries and stood out from all others that we have tried.


A few errors were the difference between two good baseball teams on Wednesday/Thursday night. The Jimmies went toe to toe with Marian for most the game before a big inning by Marian in the 4th being the difference. The Jimmies got an outstanding pitching performance from both Cameron Zellers and Braden Garner combining for 3 strikeouts and only 2 earned runs. Leading the Jimmies with 2 hits each were Ethan Allen and Clay Campbell. The Jimmies will have some time to rest up before being back in action Tuesday Night when Bethany Christian comes to town 5pm start time. Jimmies are now 3-3 Overall (1-1 NIC). JV Jimmies improved to 5-0 by beating Marian 16-5.


Meowth: There they go. All we gotta do is follow them on top of them rooftops.
James: Well, I used to be quite a good gymnast.
Jessie: This is our big chance, I could almost taste it! Are you ready?
The English version of the theme song is not a remixed version, as the previous four movie themes were - this theme has the same music and tempo as the TV version. The composers did not create a second verse to the song "Master Quest," so it has the same lyrics as the TV version all the way through.


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Category: Sensible Sentencing
There's nothing sensible about it
97% of Kiwis do NOT support the three strikes law
David Farrar conducted dodgy research on behalf of Garth McVicar
The New Zealand Herald recently published an article claiming that "Three strikes law supported by 68% of Kiwis".
The article was based on a truly dodgy piece of research commissioned by Garth McVicar and carried out by Kiwiblogger, David Farrar. Even Donald Trump would have called it 'fake news'.
To get this result, those participating in the survey were asked this question:
"Since 2010, New Zealand has had a 'Three Strikes' sentencing law for serious violent and sexual offenders who continue to commit offences. This law removes parole eligibility for repeat offenders and imposes the maximum prison term available for the offence committed, for those who offend a third or subsequent time. Do you approve or disapprove of this law?"
David Farrar's research firm rang up 965 people and 645 of them (68%) said they approved. When contacted about these results David Farrar said his team actually rang about 2000 people, but only 965 agreed to participate. So actually that's 645 out of 2000 people who said they approved of the law. That brings the approval rate down to 32%.
Even then, the result is still misleading. In surveys like this, when people are given specific details about the offender and the crime and understand the context, they tend to be far more lenient towards the offender than when asked vague questions like the one above.
To illustrate: there are only two or three offenders on their third strike. One of them is Daniel Fitzgerald who has a history of mental illness. In December 2016, under the influence of alcohol, he approached a woman he did not know in central Wellington. He tried to kiss her on the lips, but in the struggle she managed to turn her head away and he kissed her cheek instead.
David Garrett confused the rules of US baseball with NZ sentencing law
Because this was his third strike, he was sentenced to the maximum sentence of seven years' in prison for indecent assault. The judge in the case said the offending was so minor that without the three strikes law, Fitzgerald would not have been sent to prison at all.
Raven Casey Campbell is another on his third strike. He was already in prison when he was convicted of indecent assault for grabbing a female prison officer's bottom. On top of the sentence he was already serving, he was also sentenced to an additional seven years. Judge Toogood said:
"It may seem very surprising that this consequence could be required by law for an offence of this kind, but that is the law and I have no option but to enforce it."
Context-rich research questions
In order to conduct more meaningful research on the extent to which people approve of the three strikes law, survey questions need to be formulated like this:
"A 45-year-old man with a history of mental illness kissed a woman he had never met on the cheek when he had been drinking. If you were the judge, would you sentence him to a community-based program with a focus on addressing his mental health and addiction issues, or would you sentence him to prison."
The evidence suggests that when people participating in surveys are given background details about the case, they tend to be far more lenient than when asked general questions that don't provide any context.
In a brief survey conducted by Survey Monkey, even when someone has been killed in a drink-driving accident, 97% of respondents did not want the offender to go to prison when told the background circumstances. CHECK OUT THE SURVEY HERE.
rogerbrooking Sensible Sentencing Leave a comment June 29, 2018 September 26, 2018 2 Minutes
Garth McVicar commits a $30,000 finable offence every day
In March 2018, Garth McVicar congratulated the police on his Facebook page for shooting a 29-year-old man near Pohuehue. "One less to clog the prisons!" he wrote.
McVicar was criticised by all and sundry including the police who called his comments repugnant. Action Station urged readers to sign a petition suggesting 'Sensible Sentencing Trust should not have charitable status'.
The reality is that the SST does not have charitable status. It was deregistered in 2010 when the Charities Commission decided it was a lobby group and that its main aims were political rather than charitable. The point was clarified in a press release issued by Charities Services in 2015:
The Sensible Sentencing Trust was created to advocate for changes in the law about sentencing and criminal (penal) policy. It is not a registered charity.
According to Sir Peter Gluckman, Garth McVicar uses dogma, rather than data to make his case in the media. It seems he also uses 'alternative facts' (to quote Kellyanne Conway). On the SST website, McVicar still claims the SST is a 'registered charitable trust' (see screengrab below).
This is illegal under the Charities Act. Section 37 of the Act states that unless registered under the Act, "a person may not use the words 'registered charitable entity' to describe their organisation". Section 38 says that anyone who does so commits an offence and is liable to be fined up to $30,000. That means McVicar is potentially in breach of section 37 of the Charities Act and could be fined up to $30,000.SGRITY SET UP
In order to get around the deregistration, in 2015 McVicar set up a second trust called the Sensible Sentencing Group Trust. The website claims:
"Sensible Sentencing encompasses two very distinct trusts and purposes" – yeah right!
McVicar claims that the role of the SST is political advocacy (which is not a charitable purpose) and the role of the SSGT is solely to support victims – which is considered charitable. The screengrab claims both of them are 'registered charitable trusts'.
However, Garth McVicar is the spokesperson for both organisations: the roles and functions of the two trusts are enmeshed on one website; funds for the SSGT are solicited on the SST site; the few staff who offer victim assistance on behalf of the SSGT are all members of the SST; and the SSGT Trust document (available on line) in effect describes political advocacy in its mission statement. It says:
"We serve to educate the public as to the plight of these victims… and to help them ensure their interests are properly understood by any relevant authority."
'Educating the public' (through McVicar's frequent media statements) and 'ensuring that victims' interests are understood by the relevant authorities' is McVicar's modus operandi. He is constantly calling on the Government of the day to lock up more people. According to Charities Services, as a registered charity, the SSGT is not allowed to do this.
In other words, the SSGT is just a front enabling the organisation to continue offering donee status with the IRD while McVicar continues with his media campaign and political agenda under the guise of the SST. Political advocacy is not a charitable purpose. So in the words of the Charities Service, both the SST and SSGT appear to be "sham charities set up for an illegal or improper purpose".
The SSGT should also be deregistered. Now that would be really sensible.
rogerbrooking Sensible Sentencing 2 Comments April 7, 2018 November 4, 2018 2 Minutes
Corrections should get rid of all 2,500 volunteers
Black power member, Ngapari Nui (right), has been working as a prison volunteer for the last five years trying to steer young gang members away from crime. By all accounts he's been doing a great job.
But this week Mr Nui was given the boot after the so-called Sensible Sentencing Trust made a complaint to Judith Collins claiming that gang members should not be allowed to volunteer in prison. Since then two other volunteers, who also used to be in gangs, have also been shut out.
This puts Collins at odds with her management team – because Corrections likes to use volunteers. On their website, the Department describes how important the role is to them:
"Volunteering within Corrections supports our goal of reducing re-offending, by assisting offenders to meet their rehabilitative needs and transition back into society (reintegration)."
Over 2,500 well-meaning Kiwis are currently authorised by Corrections to fill this role. Despite their good intentions, the reality is that these volunteers don't make much difference. About a quarter of ex-prisoners reoffend in the first 12 months of release and nearly 50% are back inside within four years.
There's a reason these volunteers are ineffective. It's because reintegration is a job for professionals and those doing it should get paid. Look at it like this. What if police officers didn't get paid? Suppose the police was a volunteer force – no skills or training required. Would you feel safe in your community? What would happen to the crime rate?
What if teachers didn't get paid? And only those who love working with kids could volunteer. What would happen to our kid's education if we did that? What if doctors, nurses and social workers didn't get paid? What if prison officers didn't get paid? Only volunteers with authoritarian tendencies required. How many would put themselves forward for that – especially if they were asked to volunteer at Paremoremo. What if city councils relied exclusively on volunteers to collect the city's rubbish? Man, what a mess that would make.
With the exception of rubbish collectors, the people who do these jobs are mostly professionals, with years of training and experience. No doubt there's a bad apple here and there, but most of them are also dedicated – they believe in what they do and they make a valuable contribution to society.
At the heart of all this is the old fashioned principle that if what you do is worthwhile and makes a difference, then you should get paid for it; and the more specialist your skills are, the more you make. This is how it works in a modern economy.
Picking up the trash
So what does this say about the use of volunteers to reintegrate prisoners and reduce reoffending? It says that Corrections regards the resettlement of prisoners in the community as less important than rubbish collection – just chuck them out on the street and see if anyone volunteers to pick them up. It means that as a society, those coming out of prison are worth less to us than our garbage. And it means all the political posturing about reducing reoffending is not worth the paper it's printed on.
These are human beings we're talking about. If we treat them like rubbish, they go back to the dysfunctional environments they came from punctuated by poverty, unemployment, substance abuse and violence.
Judge David Carruthers (left), current chairman of the IPCA and former chairman of the parole board, points out that in Canada, 60% of prisoners are released into halfway houses funded by the Canadian Correctional service; and that this has helped to cut reoffending rates dramatically. Canada now has over 250 halfway houses which provide counselling support and additional rehabilitation programs for ex-prisoners.
The staff in these houses are not volunteers; they're paid professionals. Why? Because the Canadian Corrections service understands that this is not a job for volunteers, and those who do it make a valuable contribution to society, and should be paid accordingly.
In New Zealand, the Corrections Department provides funding for only two halfway houses in the whole country – Moana house in Dunedin, and Salisbury Trust in Christchurch. These two facilities provide beds for a grand total of 25 ex-prisoners at any one time – bearing in mind that about 20,000 people circulate through our prisons every year.
There are no halfway houses funded by Corrections in the North Island where the bulk of the prisoners are held; and there are no halfway houses for women anywhere in the country.
In addition to limited funding for half way houses, in 2013 the Government agreed to fund five agencies to provide Out of Gate reintegration services – to the tune of $10 million over two years. That's $5 million a year – not much when you consider that crime costs the country at least $9 billion a year and the prison population is at an all-time high of 9,500.
Because these agencies are paid so little, they have no choice but to rely on volunteers. Perhaps it should be no surprise that New Zealand has one of the highest ratios of volunteers to prisoners of any country in the world. That says something about the compassion of the average New Zealander. But it doesn't say much for the Corrections Department which treats those coming out of prison with less respect than the rubbish we put out on the street.
The reality is that even our rubbish is picked up and recycled by people who get paid – and I bet that costs a lot more $5 million a year.
rogerbrooking Alternative approaches, Public safety, Sensible Sentencing 11 Comments July 10, 2016 July 10, 2016 4 Minutes
The prison population is out of control – this is why
In April 2016, the prison population reached a record high of 9436 and justice sector forecasts are for it to reach 10,000 by 2017. Trying to explain this, Department of Corrections national commissioner, Jeremy Lightfoot (right) said:
"The current increase is due to more people being held in prison on remand than was forecast; legislative changes have also meant prisoners serve more of their sentence in prison; and there has been an increase in people serving longer sentences for more serious crimes."
Criminal Bar Association president Tony Bouchier (left) disagrees. He says the lack of mental health institutions is a major cause of the rise in prisoner numbers. He says:
"One of the main reasons the prison muster is so high is that our prisons are our proxy for our mental health institutions which we no longer have. "
He also blames the three-strikes law, which is starting to take effect.
"We have got quite a number of people who are on their second strike now and the problem with that third strike is that there is no parole, so what we are going to be looking at is not only an increased prison muster, but a lot more prisoners serving long-term sentences, so that will increase the muster."
Bouchier also believes the growing number of Australians being deported to New Zealand is contributing to the problem.
"These are people who are coming back to a completely foreign land, they've got no family or support… there is only so much that the probation service can do with these people. They are strangers in a strange land."
Bouchier correctly points out that the underlying, root cause of the problem is actually penal populism:
"The (prison) population is going to continue to grow, simply because politicians see votes in getting tough on crime and they can't be any more creative when they are addressing the crime issue in New Zealand. Our prison rates are an embarrassment to us."
New Zealand vs Finland
In Flying Blind – How the justice system perpetuates crime, the point was made that New Zealand could learn a thing or two from Finland about rates of imprisonment. In 1950, the Finns incarcerated 187 people in prison per 100,000 of population. New Zealand's rate that year was 56 inmates per 100,000, less than a third of the Finnish rate.
In the latter half of the 20th century, the Finns became concerned that they were out of line with their more civilised Scandinavian neighbours, which had low rates of imprisonment. This led to some dramatic changes in penal policy, as a result of which the number of people in prison began to drop. By 2001, the rate was down to only 40 people per 100,000 – an extraordinary reduction of 78% in the prison population.
During the same 50 years, the New Zealand rate began to skyrocket. In 2001, instead of being three times less, our rate of imprisonment was three times higher than Finland's – at 150 inmates per 100,000. Since then, more and more 'tough on crime' policies have been implemented and in April 2016, our prison population reached an all-time high of 202 per 100,000. We now lock up almost four times as many people as Finland per head of population.
How did Finland do it?
According to About Time, a Corrections Department report published in 2001, three key factors contributed to Finland's success. The first was widespread political agreement that a reduction in the prison population was necessary. The second was an understanding both in government and the public service that policies had to be based on evidence and 'expert understanding'. The third factor was that the public in Finland actually supported measures to reduce the prison population.
Professor John Pratt (left), a criminologist at Victoria University, put it this way:
"Key people in that society – people who actually knew something about penal policy and the consequences of imprisonment: academics, judges and senior civil servants – felt that the high prison population was shameful".
This wry observation refers to Finland's use of academics and justice professionals to formulate penal policy – whereas in New Zealand, penal policy has mostly been driven by knee-jerk political responses to public opinion. And public opinion on law and order issues has largely been driven by Garth McVicar, a farmer who has no qualifications in law, sociology, psychology, criminology or anything else that is remotely relevant to issues of justice or sentencing.
Why should we care? Because prisons are expensive and the cost to the taxpayer for Police, Courts, and Corrections is now estimated at over $3.7 billion a year – and rising. And because it makes no sense to keep building new prisons and locking up more and more people when the crime rate is actually declining. Unfortunately, the only hope that a New Zealand Government might be persuaded to try a new approach to penal policy is the growing financial burden these tough on crime policies impose. As the wonderfully wise Bill English said in 2011:
"Prisons are a fiscal and moral failure… It's the fastest rising cost in government in the last decade… and my view is we shouldn't build any more of them."
rogerbrooking Costs & funding, Overcrowding, Sensible Sentencing 4 Comments May 14, 2016 May 15, 2016 3 Minutes
Criticism of sensible sentencing trust deleted from wikipedia
In the last 18 months, I have made numerous edits to Wikipedia articles on justice issues in New Zealand. In May 2013, I was banned from further editing – it seems they don't like my perspective. Since then other editors have deleted many of the contributions I have made to a range of different articles. The following information was deleted from the Wikipedia article about the sensible sentencing trust.
For the last ten years or so, Garth McVicar has been a polarising figure in New Zealand politics. While he is supported by some victims and their families, he has been criticised in the media and lambasted on chat forums. Columnist Richard Boock has pointed out that McVicar's public statements are often contradictory and wrote: "What McVicar stands for isn't really clear, but it certainly has nothing to do with justice." Some commentators doubt that the SST actually helps the victims it claims to support. Justice reformer, Kim Workman, believes that when victims get caught up in the rhetoric of the Sensible Sentencing trust, they…
"become trapped in their grief by the Trust and are unable to ever reach peace. These victims are being fed with this retributive agenda from McVicar and from politicians trying to oust one another to be tough on crime. It's just alienating and full of hate. It's not helpful at all."
Offenders are also victims
The Trust's call for harsher sentences has been criticised by justice sector professionals on a number of grounds. The first is that there is no clear delineation between victims and offenders. Tony Paine, CEO, Victim Support points out that…
"the social and demographic indicators that identify those who are most likely to be victimized are identical to the markers for those likely to be offenders. The life stories and cultural contexts that weave victims and offenders together (often within the same person) make any artificial separation between offenders and victims just that: an artifice that oversimplifies our complex world."
The single greatest predictor of youth offending is prior victimisation and thousands of New Zealanders are transformed annually from child victims into young offenders.
Penal populism
Garth McVicar's willingness to publicly criticise the justice system has led to an increase in the public's fear of crime and more politicians competing to be "tough on crime" – a process described by criminologists as penal populism. All too often New Zealand journalists have been lured into phoning McVicar for a quote, rather than investigating the latest research in penal policy, or talking to criminologists and justice sector experts, about what actually works. Kim Workman has written:
"The Trust and its spokespeople have become new kinds of experts, whose knowledge is based not on formal learning and research, but on anecdote, common sense and newspaper headlines: a form of expertise that suits the news making requirements of the contemporary media."
In the process, the media generally ignore researchwhich shows a continuing decline in reported crime rates as well as international perceptions that New Zealand is already regarded as a safe society.
Perversion of justice
Legal theorists argue that the populist goal of a crime free society is a utopian dream. French criminologist, Denis Salas, says societies driven by penal populism develop an insatiable demand for more and more punitive laws in pursuit of a society where there is no risk – and this leads to a "perversion of justice". Chief Justice, Dame Sian Elias, has also expressed concerns about tougher sentencing and believes that New Zealand has developed a "pervasive culture of blame" and that more punitive sanctions have not made New Zealand any safer. In her Blameless Babes speech at Victoria University in 2009 she said:
"The responsibility (of the probation service) to manage risk… is conducted against a public unwillingness to accept that risk cannot be eliminated."
Growing prison population
The "tough on crime" policies advocated by the Trust have contributed to New Zealand's growing prison population. In December 2011, New Zealand's rate of imprisonment was 190 inmates per 100,000 of populationgiving the country one of highest rates of imprisonment among western democracies. Prison numbers have increased so rapidly that in the last ten years, the Corrections Department has had to build five new prisons and according to Finance Minister, Bill English, Corrections will soon be the biggest government department in the country. In 2011, Mr English said repeatedly that New Zealand was facing the biggest deficit in its history,that prisons were "a fiscal and moral failure" and we couldn't afford to build any more.
Ineffectiveness of deterrence
The problem is that longer sentences do not deter criminal offending. In 2001 the Corrections Department released a policy document called About Time quoting the result of 50 international studies involving over 300,000 offenders. It said:
"None of the analyses found imprisonment reduced recidivism… Longer sentences were associated with an increase in offending."
Longer sentences not only fail to deter offending, such policies are expensive to implement. Each prisoner costs the taxpayer $90,000 per year and Corrections annual budget is over $1 billion a year placing a growing burden on the taxpayer.
In an interview with Time magazine in 2010, criminologist, Professor John Pratt of Victoria University made the point that the more a society spends on their prison system, the less they tend to spend on education, health and social security. At the same time, by focussing solely on increasing prison sentences to bring about a 'safe' society, the Sensible Sentencing Trust ignores international evidence that reducing income inequality in New Zealand is what really needs to be addressed. This is supported by an OECD report called "Divided we stand" which points out that since the mid-1980s, the gap between New Zealand's rich and poor has grown faster than in any other developed country. One can only conclude that there is nothing sensible at all about Garth McVicar and the so-called sensible sentencing trust.
rogerbrooking Sensible Sentencing 5 Comments June 7, 2013 May 12, 2016 4 Minutes
The Sensible Sentencing Trust has a lapdog – the media
Justice Minister Judith Collins has decided to limit the number of parole board hearings that prisoners are allowed to attend. Introducing legislation to that effect in September, she was quoted in the New Zealand Herald saying: "For offenders who refuse to acknowledge their offending and have made little or no effort at rehabilitation, it makes no sense to hold parole hearings." Ms Collins went on to say these hearings cause needless stress to victims of crime who have to "relive their ordeal year after year".
On 27 Sep 2012 Rachel Smalley (Frontline TV3) interviewed Ruth Money of the so-called sensible sentencing trust on this subject. Ms Money seems to be the heir apparent to Garth McVicar. She sings from the same song sheet and hits the same wrong notes. First, she told Smalley that "prison is voluntary". It's not. It's a punishment imposed by the court.
Second, Ms Money lied about victims having to attend parole board hearings. Like Judith Collins, she said that family members "have to suffer through annual parole hearings". They don't. According to Kim Workman, 95% of victims do not attend hearings. Ms Money even said that Rita Croskery (mother of murdered pizza delivery man Michael Choy) has to go to 6 hearings every year. She doesn't – it's a choice she makes.
Third, Ms Money also said parole hearings revictimize the victims – who have to prepare for months in advance and get so worked up they vomit. She gave the impression this stress is due to coming face to face with the offender – over and over again. But that's not how it works. The Board holds entirely separate hearings for victims – so that victim and offender never meet (unless they both want to). The stress experienced by victims is because the SST pressures them to attend and winds them up into thinking their input will make a difference. In other words, it's the SST which is responsible for victims being revictimised.
Finally, Ms Money said parole should be abolished and prisoners should serve their whole sentence. She ignored evidence presented by Sir David Carruthers that prisoners who serve their whole sentence are more than twice as likely to re-offend as those released (and monitored) on parole.
Breach of broadcasting standards
TV3's interview with Ruth Money contained so many inaccurate statements it breached at least two broadcasting standards. For instance, Standard 5 (of the BSA code) says: Broadcasters should make reasonable efforts to ensure that news, current affairs and factual programming: is accurate in relation to all material point of fact and/or does not mislead. The item was inaccurate, highly misleading and presented a distorted picture of how the parole board works.
TV3 also breached Standard 4 which says: When discussing controversial issues of public importance in news, current affairs or factual programmes, broadcasters should make reasonable efforts, or give reasonable opportunities, to present significant point of view either on the same program or in other programs within the period of current interest. No one else was consulted – just Ruth Money.
I made a formal complaint about a similar TV1 interview of Garth McVicar in 2008 – which was upheld by the Broadcasting Standards Authority. It will be interesting to see if the BSA upholds my current complaint about TV3's interview with Ruth Money
Why do I care? Why should anybody care? Because the media have been in bed with the Sensible Sentencing Trust for years and are still helping Garth McVicar fulfil his twisted fantasies on television – and because his punitive delusions contribute to competition between the major political parties to be 'tough on crime'. It's time the media got out of bed with the SST and challenged McVicar's distorted version of reality. It's time the media gave McVicar and Ms Money a hard time – just like they're now doing with John Key over the Kim Dotcom disaster. After all, the media are supposed to be the watchdogs of democracy – not the Sensible Sentencing Trust lapdog.
rogerbrooking Sensible Sentencing 8 Comments October 4, 2012 October 21, 2012 3 Minutes
Open letter to Gerry Brownlee – and his little piece of Finland
Dear Gerry,
Thank you for comparing New Zealand to Finland and bringing these remarkable differences between our two countries into the open. Professor John Pratt, a criminologist at Victoria University has been making similar comparisons for years – but no one seems to listen. That's a shame because Prof Pratt is recognised by those in his field as a world authority on the subject.
What's more, Prof Pratt actually knows what he's talking about. He's been to Finland, undertaken extensive research and written numerous articles and books on the subject – so if you want to make another speech about Finland, perhaps he could help you out.
Here's something Prof Pratt could tell you.
In 1950, the Finns had an imprisonment rate of 187 inmates per 100,000 of population. New Zealand's rate in 1950 was less than a third of that – at 56 inmates per 100,000. In the latter half of the 20th century, the Finns became concerned that they were out of line with their more civilised Scandinavian neighbours, which had low rates of imprisonment. This led to dramatic changes in penal policy, as a result of which the number of people in prison slowly began to drop. By 2001, the rate was down to only 40 people per 100,000 – an extraordinary reduction of 78% in the prison population.
During the same 50 years, New Zealandwent in the opposite direction. In 2001, instead of being three times less, our rate of imprisonment was three times higher than Finland's – at 150 inmates per 100,000. Since then, the New Zealand rate has continued to grow and in November 2011, the figure was at an all-time high of 199 per 100,000. During this time we've had to build five new prisons – and even put prisoners into shipping containers.
How did the Finns manage to reduce their prison population? Commenting on the Finns' success, Prof Pratt wrote:
In New Zealand, the media (and the politicians) mostly seem to consult Garth McVicar – a self-proclaimed cow cocky from Napier with no qualifications in psychology, sociology, criminology or anything else remotely connected with penal policy. No wonder our prisons are overflowing and your government is going to build another one at Wiri – with $900 million of our money.
Ironically, your Government has also announced a reduction in reoffending as one of its ten key goals. If you're serious about that – go to Finland and see for yourself. Anne Tolley went – and now she's the Minister of Corrections. The two of you could compare notes. And another thing – Finland has the most comprehensive victim compensation system in the world. You could take Garth McVicar with you. He might learn something about helping victims instead of spouting off about locking up more and more people.
So my advice, Gerry, is give Prof Pratt a call on your Nokia – on your little bit of Finland. You might learn something about how to reduce reoffending, help victims and save the country billions in prison costs.
rogerbrooking Sensible Sentencing 14 Comments March 28, 2012 July 17, 2014 2 Minutes
Garth McVicar clones himself as a woman
The attack on the five year old Belgian girl on holiday with her family at the Habitat Club in Turangi is hard to fathom. Friends of the 16 year old who admitted raping the young girl describe him as a 'nice guy' and are struggling to believe he would do such a thing. His mother also felt that her son was not the monster he had been portrayed by the media.
Despite the general disbelief that this 'nice guy' could do such a thing, angry locals abused his family and threw things at their home. According to the NZ Herald, the attack also stirred a young Auckland woman to call for harsher sentences for violent offenders. Tamsin Marshall started an online petition to introduce cumulative sentences for serious offenders.
She was quoted as saying: "When it happened, I was horrified – I actually lay in bed imagining it was my little girl. I've been reading the papers for years and have watched the increase in violent crimes and being horrified … and this case was the point where enough is enough, something has to be done."
Garth McVicar's clone
Ms Tamsin sounds like a clone of Garth McVicar of the so-called sensible sentencing trust. McVicar has been banging on about the increase in violent crime and lobbying for cumulative sentences for some time. The problem is that Garth McVicar is truely misinformed – there is no increase in violent crime. Over the last 20 years the murder rate has dropped by nearly 50% and crime rates in general are down.
And yet the public believes violent crime is on the rise. A Ministry of Justice study in 2003 found that 83% of New Zealanders held inaccurate and negative views about crime levels in society and 'wrongly believed' that crime was increasing. A more recent study in 2009 by Dr Michael Rowe, also from Victoria University, found an overwhelming public belief that crime has got worse despite New Zealand's murder rate dropping by almost half in the past 20 years.
Global perceptions of safety
As a result of these inaccurate beliefs, a United Nations report assessing global perceptions of crime and safety found that between 2006 and 2009, only 57% of New Zealanders reported feeling 'safe'. This means that New Zealanders feel no more secure than the citizens of former communist states like Bulgaria (where only 56% feel safe) and Albania (54%). We're also on a par with Middle Eastern countries like Iran (55%) and Lebanon (56%) and African countries such as Angola (53%), Nigeria (51%) and Uganda (51%).
There's something wrong here. In the United States, where the murder rate is four times higher than in New Zealand, 75% of the population report feeling safe. In other words, public perceptions of safety in New Zealand are seriously out of touch with reality.
Sensationalist reporting in the media
It's the media and their obsession with violent crime and Garth McVicar, which is largely to blame for this. A 2002 study into the role of the media's coverage of crime reported:
"The selective and disproportionate media coverage of crime, particularly violence, when set alongside actual Police statistics, raises questions of skewed reporting in NZ (and elsewhere) at a time when crime rates are falling".
When respondents to these surveys were asked where they get their information about crime, they said 'from the media'. When journalists are asked the same question, they openly admit they rely on Garth McVicar. In April 2010, TVNZ broadcast a Media 7 interview by Russell Brown about Mr McVicar's extraordinary access to the media. In his introduction, Mr Brown said:
"In the past nine years, journalists have been really lucky. Every time they've needed someone to tell them that their justice system is failing… they've been able to rely on just one man…Garth McVicar, a cocky from Hawkes Bay."
The last thing New Zealand needs is a female clone of Garth McVicar. What it needs is less sensational reporting of crime in the media.
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COVID-19: What have we learned?
You have survived COVID-19, did you catch infertility?
HINT: The answer is "No!"
Restrictions are being relaxed and life is starting to move into whatever the new normal will be. Have we learned anything? This article will address some general findings on the effect the pandemic had on female reproduction, male reproduction, and what the early studies are telling us about pregnancy.
There is a major caveat to follow when considering information about COVID-19: it is important to remember that COVID-19 is a new variant of an old, known virus. That means that some of the behavior of COVID-19 can be implied by how other corona viruses have behaved. But because COVID-19 is a new variant, we do not have any long-term studies and, for the field of reproduction, no scientifically robust short-term studies to help us. Frustratingly, things will continue to change as more information is obtained but preliminary information suggests that many of the predictions are proving to be accurate.
Reuters released a piece on May 5th with the headlines" US birth rate falls to its lowest since 1979 as pandemic-led stress rises." This statement satisfies what most people would assume is true: that COVID-19 caused a decline in US pregnancy rates. However, for those few who bothered to read the article, the author stated that the pregnancy rate has been on a steady decline for years. The article is very well written because the author goes on to explain why the pandemic may not be the direct cause of the pregnancy rate decline. The author notes that the CDC did not attribute the decline to the pandemic and the author gave alternative theories as to why the rate has been on a steady 6-year decline such as marrying later and delaying motherhood. In fact, the CDC data show a peak fertility rate occurring around 2007-2008 but then demonstrating a gradual decline for over 12 years.
COVID-19, or more correctly Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus -2 (SARS-CoV-2), belongs to the CoV group of viruses that includes SARS and MERS. There are seven strains of CoV that are known to cause respiratory tract disease with the severity ranging from mild to severe. COVID-19 is less lethal than SARS or MERS but is more infectious. Infection primarily occurs directly from person-to-person respiratory droplets and less so by touching contaminated surfaces. Asymptomatic people can shed the virus, which has led to the need for masking with as much as 25 – 50 % of new infections coming from asymptomatic people.
Did COVID-19 identify a reason for some unexplained infertility?
Even if COVID-19 does not directly reduce a couple's chance for conception, there are indirect consequences from the virus and the lock-down it caused. For example, many people gained weight during the lock-down due to decreased activity. Furthermore, stress has been shown to alter eating habits. Weight gain has a negative impact on female fertility and the catch phrase '20 in 20 or the 'COVID 20' seems to be an accurate picture for the lockdown. One area of research that has exploded is assessment of COVID-19 and stress. The lock down, the delayed treatment due to fertility centers suspending treatment, and the constant risk of pathology from COVID-19 (including death) all create a high-stress environment. While this burgeoning area of research is fascinating, it seems to fall into the "duh" category of usefulness.
Pardon the 'obvious'
A group from Rome asked if COVID-19 could be used to evaluate a potential cause of unexplained infertility, specifically – frequency of intercourse. The authors identify factors which can causes a reduction in the frequency of intercourse. These include physical fatigue, lack of adequate time, geographical distance, and psychological stress. The evaluation of these factors is not a routine part of the infertility evaluation and some couples may embark on treatment, when addressing these issues could result in conception without treatment. The authors used the pandemic as an opportunity to study the impact of frequency of intercourse as a potential factor in unexplained infertility. The group studied 50 couples affected by the lock-down who had a diagnosis of unexplained infertility. Because of the lock-down, medical treatment for these couples was suspended. The study found that 7 /50 (14%) conceived during the lock-down. All the couples had extended periods of infertility. All seven couples were contacted, and they acknowledged an increase in sexual activity. The 14% spontaneous pregnancy rate is similar to the treatment expected pregnancy rate, so it is as if the increased sexual activity acted as a treatment. This study raises some interesting issues. The evaluation of unexplained infertility needs to include a frequency of intercourse assessment. If there is evidence of reduced coital frequency, then increasing coital activity may be one initial form of treatment. The study leaves open the questions of when is 'enough enough' and when is it time to move into treatment- that is a key question for the patient and their treating physician to determine.
Does COVID-19 or the vaccine reduce a woman's chance for conception?
The short answer is no. However, in spite of a lack of evidence, there persists a fear that the vaccine reduces a woman's fertility and thus many women are forgoing the vaccine. The myth that the vaccine may reduce a woman's chance of conception seems to have originated with a statement by a German epidemiologist that COVID-19 vaccines MIGHT make the woman's immune system react to a placental protein which will interfere with her fertility. However, the placental protein in question is not similar enough to the corona virus be affected by the vaccine. Furthermore, subsequent investigation has failed to substantiate this theory. During the clinical trials with the Pfizer vaccine, 23 women became pregnant (which defeats the "vaccine causes infertility" position.) While this is not a large number or expressed as a frequency in the clinical trial data, it is reassuring.
Pregnancy and COVID-19.
A number of studies have been published concerning the COVID-19 vaccine and pregnancy. The evidence supports the safety of having the vaccine while pregnant. A recent article by Shirmabukuro, et al evaluated over 35,000 pregnant women who received the vaccine while pregnant. Reassuringly, there was no increase in the risk of pregnancy loss, preterm delivery, adverse neonatal events and there was no neonatal death in the pregnant women who received the vaccine. Thus, the vaccine seems safe when given while a woman is pregnant.
What about those who contract COVID-19 while pregnant? Joseph, et al recent published a study concerning the effect of COVID-19 on pregnancy. To summarize what they found, for non-vaccinated pregnant women who contract COVID-19, there is an increase in ICU admissions, ventilation, and death. These recent results also suggest that there is an increased risk of C-section and preterm birth, but intrauterine transmission of the virus to the infant seems to be rare. Comparing the results of these studies, it seems imperative that if a woman is pregnant and has not been vaccinated, she needs to obtain a vaccine to prevent COVID-19 while she is pregnant. At the very least, she needs to observe social distancing and wearing a mask.
As of April 24th, 2021, The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologist (ACOG) updated their advisory for vaccinating pregnant and lactating patients. The advisory also clearly addresses that the lack of effect of the vaccine on fertility. This is an excellent source for anyone interested in a comprehensive summary of the current status of vaccination for reproductive age women either trying to become pregnant or already pregnant. https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/practice-advisory/articles/2020/12/vaccinating-pregnant-and-lactating-patients-against-covid-19
What about COVID-19 and males?
We are beginning to see useable information about whether COVID-19 affects male reproduction, but all studies have a small population of patients and lack the effect of time. Patel DP, et al recently published an excellent review on the current effect of COVID-19 on males. The authors emphasize that the information is preliminary and may change over time. Some couples worry about sexual transmission of COVID-19 in the semen. Most reports have failed to identify the virus in the semen making sexual transmission unlikely. There is very little data on the effect of COVID-19 on semen analysis parameters. Preliminary reports suggest that active infection does negatively impact the parameters of the semen analysis such as concentration and motility. One study demonstrated a return to normal within 35 days from the onset of the symptoms of COVID-19. It is too soon to determine if the children of men who were conceived while the man was infected have any negative outcomes related to the male infection. This seems unlikely but definitive proof will require considerably more time in which to evaluate this question.
So … What did we learn?
Aside from the fact that COVID-19 is a royal pain in the tuchus, the current state of the art suggests two things: 1) attempts to conceive should not be put on hold and, 2) everyone should be vaccinated. COVID-19 has created an incredible amount of stress (deservedly so because of how deadly it can be), but the world is entering the new post – COVID-19 world.
Now would be a good time to heed the biblical phrase "be fruitful and multiply" (Genesis 1:28). There is an abundance of technology available to people today to help with this goal if nature seems to need a little guidance.
J S Rinehart MD, PhD
1 https://www.aol.com/news/cdc-sats-u-recorded-lowest-064155340-143600351.html
2 https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/index.htm
3 Pacchiarotti A, Frati G, Saccucci. A surprising link with unexplained infertility: a possible COVID-19 paradox? J Assit. Reprod. Genet. 2020 37: 2661
4 Shirmabukuro, et al. Preliminary findings of mRNA COVID-19 vaccine safety in pregnant patients 2021 NEJM May, 2021
5 Joseph NT, et al. The effect of COVID-19 on pregnancy and implications for reproductive medicine 2021 Fertil Steril 115:824
6 Patel D, et al .The impact of SARS- CoV-2 and COVID- 19 on male reproduction and men's health 2021 Fertil Steril 115:813
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Top 10 Most Famous & Greatest Saints of India
History By Hina Khan April 30, 2018
India being a country with huge cultural diversity has many religions. Among them, Hinduism is the largest and the oldest. It is actually not clear about how many saints were there in India.
However, here is the list of 10 most famous and greatest saints of India.
1. Ramanuja
"Ramanuja" commonly known as Ramanujacharya or Ilaiya Perumal is the single most influential theologian and philosopher of devotional Hinduism. He was the earliest follower of the Bhakti movement and was appointed as the successor of "Yamunamuni".Ramanuja was born in Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu in a Brahmin family at 1017 CE and died in the year 1137 CE
The vedartha-samgraha
The Shri-shashya
The bhagavadgita-bhashya were the three intellectual basis provided by Ramanuja for the practice of bhakti.
2. Nimbarka
"Nimbarka" commonly known as Sri Nimbarkacarya is well-known for spreading Vaishnava theology of dualistic non-dualism or Dvaitadvaita. It is considered that Nimbarka appeared in the year when the grandson of Arjuna was ruling the country. According to the scripts retained, Nimbarka was born in "Vaiduryapattanam" (in Maharashtra today)
Upasana
Gurupasatti
Prapatti were mentioned by Nimbarka as the 5 methods to salvation
3. Madhvacharya
Madhavacharya was also called Ananda teertha or Purna Prajna, who was one of the most important saints like Ramanuja and Sankarachrya. He was one of the principal philosophers of the Vedanta. Madhavacharya was a critic of both ramanuja's Vishishtadvaita Vedanta and Sankarachrya's Advaita Vedanta. His teachings were based on the principle that there is a difference between individual soul "Atman" and ultimate reality "Brahman". He was born in Pajaka (in the state of Karnataka today).
4. Vallabhacharya
Vallabhacharya also was known as Vallabha, who was one of the important devotional philosophers in India. He was the founder of pushti sect of vaishnavism and Shuddha Advaita. Vallabha was an Acharya and Guru who rejected the asceticism and monastic life. He had a different principle, he taught that loving devotion to Lord Krishna can grant anyone salvation.
Shodash Granth
Anubhashya
Commentaries on Bhagavata Purana were some of the scripts he authored.
5. Ramananda
Ramananda was one of the most important devotional Vaishnava poet Sant. He is also considered as the founder of the Ramanandi Sampradaya which is one of the largest mastic Hindu communities in the modern times. Experts suggest that he developed his philosophy and themes from the inspiration of Ramanuja, some pieces of evidences also indicate that he was also influenced by the yoga school of Hindu Philosophy. Ramananda was the one important medieval period figure that opened the doors of Bhakti for all people irrespective of their caste and sex. Ramananda was born in a Brahmin family in Deougaonraja (in Maharashtra today)
6. Namadeva
Namadeva was also commonly known as Namdeo or Namdev,who was one of the important figures of varkari sect of Hinduism. He is also one of the respected figures in Sikhism and warrior traditions in Hinduism like Niranjani, Sampraday, and Dadupant his which grew in prominence during the Islamic rule. He was well-known for his devotional songs and is known to have influenced by the Vaishnavism. Experts indicate that he was born in Maharashtra; however, it has not been confirmed.
7. Chaitanya
Chaitanya also was known as Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, who was one of the greatest saints of Bhakti movement. He was the founder of Gaudiya Vaishnavism and was a key proponent of the building of Vaishnava school. Scripts indicate that he was mischievous in his younger age and also was a brilliant student. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu has left only one written record of Siksastakam which was written in Sanskrit.
Lord Krishna is the supreme truth
Lord Krishna is the ocean of theology or Rasa
The pure love of Lord Krishna is the ultimate goal
These were the few main topics he taught about in his lifetime.
8. Mirabai
Mirabai also was known as Meera or Meera Bai, who was one of the prominent saints of Bhakti movement and the only woman on this list. She is considered as one of the main saints in North India. Meera Bai was a Krishna devotee and scripts depict her as a woman who is fearless of any social disregard or family traditions. Most of the Meera Bai poemsdepict Lord Krishna as a lover/yogi and she a yogini waiting to take a place at his side in the spiritual marital bliss. The Prem Ambodh Pothi a text which was attributed to Guru Gobind Singh completed in the year 1693 CE and poetry of Meera Bai included in it.
9. Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda was a prominent Hindu monk and the founder of Ramakrishna Mission. He was one of the most important figures that played an important role to spread and introduce Indian philosophy and yoga in the western nations. He alone had a great role in gaining a major world religion status to Hinduism in the 19th century. Swami Vivekananda was born in Calcutta which was once the capital of British India.
10. Sai Baba of Shirdi
Sai Baba of Shirdi also known as Shirdi Sai Baba was one of the famous Indian spiritual leaders who was regarded as an incarnation of Lord Shiva. His teaching always concentrated on charity, love, forgiveness, inner peace etc. One of the notable things of Sai Baba was that his teachings were based on both Hinduism and Islam and he always condemned the distinction of humans on the basis of caste and religion. It is actually unclear if he was a Hindu or Muslim. However, his teachings came from both the religion.
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Why is the United States unhappy with the hypersonic weapons test program
The US military plans to conduct numerous tests of a variety of weapons, including hypersonic ones, off the west coast of the United States over the next seven years. However, officials from Seattle (Washington state) are unhappy with the test program and want to prevent it, writes the Ukrainian information and consulting company Defense Express.
Regional authorities are worried that the tests can cause serious damage to marine mammals, because they are going to test, including a projectile "flying at seven times the speed of sound." Animals "are unlikely to want to be near the site of testing such weapons."
At the same time, the military say that these ammunition will significantly expand their capabilities and strengthen the country's defenses, since they will be able to hit a wide variety of targets (land, sea and air). As for the shooting, during the shooting, observers are usually posted to help avoid the presence of killer whales and other animals in a certain area.
But officials believe that these measures are not enough to fully ensure security. They want the US Navy to review and revise the test program.
Of particular concern to officials is military activity in the Puget Saud Bay system, the third largest in the United States. They recall that in 1972 the United States passed a law that not only prohibits the killing of all species of marine mammals, but even influence and influence them in any way, including "feeding, chasing, hunting or capturing."
The military admits that the Puget Sound killer whale population can indeed be "non-lethally influenced" 2 to 51 times a year during exercises. At the same time, other marine life (whales, fin whales, sperm whales, sea otters and lions), over the seven years mentioned, may be under the same influence a total of about two million times.
In addition to hypersonic missiles, the military is going to test various underwater drones, sonars and bombs. Therefore, officials are insisting that the military limit the use of sonars and other sources of powerful search and tracking stations. But then experiments will lose all meaning.
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Rum rum (Rum rum) 1 August 2020 18: 49
As I understand it, this is a topic from the category - "We would show, but we are not given ...... (and then any reason)." And this is due to the fact that there is nothing to show.
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Magog (Gog Magog) 1 August 2020 21: 13
They do not have vast empty territories, like ours - it remains only over the ocean, away from sea routes. And in our taiga and tundra, wolves and bears are scared, they are used to supersonic jumps ...
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Lawyer (Olaf) 2 August 2020 03: 45
It is well known that the United States is globally lagging behind in high technologies.
For example, they still have not managed to create an analogue of the Kalashnikov assault rifle, the titanium submarine and the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov.
Pathetic, useless attempts to scare the Iskander of Russia!
It is commonly known - the cheapest and most hopeless argument. In the form of sarcasm, even more so.
Sergey Latyshev (Serge) 1 August 2020 19: 24
Ha. Referring to the Ukrainians, talking about the test of amers' hyperweapon?
Tin.
At least they don't refer to cartoons and videos from games.
Here are some strange ones.
In the Russian Federation, without any problems, they launch a rocket with a nuclear direct-flow over a residential area, and they are about killer whales.
Ugh, not the military.
Offline Observer2014
Observer2014 2 August 2020 06: 35
Photo for the article test. Oh
If animals began to speak humanly, people would self-destruct.