Bogged Down with Words, Punctuation, and Images?
First, I don't like grammar Nazis. I also don't like labeling people, however, there are individuals who read a post with the sole purpose of finding fault. The type of person I'm displeased with is the one who takes exception to a dangling participle or is offended by an occasional exclamation point.
But they have valid points.
Maybe because I try to make my communication clear in each post, readers haven't left me scathing comments and critiques.
So, how can you keep your blog grammatically correct, visually appealing, and still be exciting?
Read on… read on. (See, that's the kind of thing I don't like, and yet I did it for a reason.) What's your take on the ellipsis and the parenthesis? Because those are some of the things that bog down your blog. They are distracting for readers, even when they are grammatically correct.
When you narrow your focus, it can seem a little lonely. I'm writing about what bogs down your blog, so I've got several points I can make about that topic, but an inexperienced writer will often want you to know how much they know, love, enjoy, or appreciate about the topic. See, I bogged you down with four attitudes when one was sufficient.
Choose one word and leave all the others for another paragraph.
Every writer has favorite words and phrases that they continue to use in each post. Clearly, if you are writing about widgets, then you'll find that word multiple times, however, there may be clauses, phrases, and transitional words that you frequently use. If you've managed to get a following, do you need to change your tone or style to keep your readers interested and your writing fresh? For instance, I like the word, however. It's shorter than, on the other hand, and less pretentious than nonetheless, but means pretty much the same thing. It transitions the reader from one thought to another, and hopefully, keeps them reading.
However is a transitional phrase. I like them because they move the reader from one paragraph to the next. You may not like, however, so, here are a few more transitional words to help your paragraphs flow. Just remember, that like anything else, too many transitional words and phrases can get redundant.
When you isolate your favorites, run a search and see how often you've used the same words or phrases. I'm not saying use the Thesaurus to change your most common ones, but so you're aware of how many times you've repeated yourself.
There's another problem with too many words. We sometimes use excessive modifiers, which are words or phrases that affect the meaning of another word, functioning as either an adjective or an adverb to illustrate a word or make the word's meaning more specific.
Modifiers are also confusing and vague if they are not near the word they are modifying. For instance, "Scott bought a motorcycle for his wife, Lori, that they call, Apple." So, is it the bike or his wife that is called Apple? It's confusing and will make a reader stop doing their job – reading.
I see them now, scratching their heads and wondering why Scott would call his wife Apple. Well, he doesn't. Because his bike is red, he calls it Apple. Now, we're clear. He may call his wife, "baby", "sweetie" or "darling", but never, "Apple".
How many of you were distracted by the quotation marks around the words? Excessive punctuation is sometimes distracting for readers, and, you got it, they will leave.
It's acceptable to italicize those words, which is easier for the reader, so you'd write: He may call his wife, baby, sweetie, or darling, but never, Apple. It's not just a problem for the reader, either. When you are writing, you develop a natural flow. When you have to stop and insert multiple punctuation marks, it can distract you from your thoughts.
Decide what punctuation is necessary or important and leave the remainder out. Your work and the experience for the readers will be easier. Writing and reading need to stay in the moment and not be distracting.
Yes, it's humorous the way Hornby belabors the functions of editing, while accurately describing the purpose of editing and revising – getting rid of needless words. Besides the needless words, though, is the larger issue – the flow of your words.
Flow is not easily defined. Yet I'll try to define it in my terms. Flow means that the reader is moving between the words and getting to the end with relatively few interruptions. There are no jarring left turns where the reader is shaking their head wondering how they got there. There are no misspelled words or homonyms that annoy us all. Our syntax, or sentence structure, moves the reader from one word to the next, not because they are required to read it, but because they enjoy reading it.
Syntax is the way we structure our sentences. They may be basic and contain only a noun and a verb, or more complex with phrases, but regardless of how simple or complex, they must engage the reader or we lose them. If your sentences read herky-jerky rather than Swan Lake, go back and revise them to read more smoothly.
Although we've gotten used to short texts and Twitter-speak, we can still create longer, well-written sentences that flow and move the reader through the piece. I'll often write a post and let it sit before I revise it. When I take time away from the post and return, my perception of the piece is different, and I can see where I wasn't clear or to the point. I then edit and revise to be more succinct.
But not all sentences have to be short, five-word sentences, either.
For our posts to be interesting, but concise, we give our readers information about the topic in well-structured and well-written sentences to convey the information. If your sentence is effective in five words, that's okay. However, just reading five-word sentences is like an elementary school book, so vary your sentence lengths.
Even with interesting content, our readers expect visuals to make the experience better. We want to know more without reading more, and visuals help us understand the content, too.
Images: Improving, Boring or Bogging Down?
Although we've been taught to use images to reinforce our point, add visual interest to our posts, or create breathing space for the reader, too many images can either slow down your load time or prove too distracting for the reader, and in some cases, are just boring.
One interesting fact is that people like their images either to the right or the left of their text, rather than placed above or directly below it, so having our images adjacent to the text seems normal now.
We also like images that reflect real people. I've used Pixabay as a free-to-use site for about four years and usually manage to find images that reinforce or highlight my posts. But it's more than just an image that reinforces your topic. It has to be an engaging image.
Here's an example of a poorly placed and boring image, even though it is relevant and reinforces the topic of writing.
Readers appreciate it when you take the time to find images that add not just interest but reinforce the words, or add visual appeal to the intent. Size matters for your images, too. Too large, they can display outside of your margins. If they are too small, they appear like a throw-away idea and both are annoying to the reader. Readers feel disrespected and, usually, they will leave. Resolution is important as well, as it determines clarity. In WordPress, you have the option of resizing your image to highlight a particular passage or in some cases, you can use images as a type of subheading.
I also use a screen capture tool called SnagIt. One of the features I like is the ability to include a border or caption. I have more flexibility with this program than I do with WordPress. However, I may not understand all the functions of WordPress, so if you know of better ways to display images using WordPress, let me know in a comment.
Hopefully, when you revise your work, use transitional phrases and realign or resize your images, your readers will make it to the end. If you're here, thanks. But just as importantly, I'd appreciate your comments.
When you're ready to write a post that helps us improve as writers, consider a guest post.
Great article Marilyn! For me, it was a good refresher course in basic grammar and helpful pieces of info about punctuation, quotation marks, and image alignment. A lot of us bloggers are not aware of these simple yet important considerations. Thank you!
Great post, plenty of important points. This is the type of information one can file away, and re-read every few months as a friendly reminder. Thanks for sharing!
Hi, Mike. Thank you for the comment. It means a lot to me coming from you. I have several of yours printed out in an old-fashioned notebook for reference.
Although I've extended an invitation to submit a guest post on several of our shared community sites, I'd like to let you know that I would be thrilled for our readers at Two Drops of Ink to get to know you through a guest post.
Your voice and style would fit here nicely, I think.
So. . . might we expect one in the near future?
Absolutely my pleasure Marilyn, your post was a great benefit to me, especially during a week where I'm struggling to come up with a decent topic. Thanks also for the kind words, you've given me that boost of inspiration I needed to keep motivated. I definitely would love to write something for Two Drops of Ink, the quality of the articles are always excellent. I've copied and pasted your comment into my 'to-do' folder, so I remember to follow up in the near future. I'm struggling a bit with my long fiction work right now, which interferes with my blog, hence I find myself behind as each week progresses. I'm hopeful I'll find my rhythm, and have more time for stand alone articles very soon.
Thank you again Marilyn, I'll be in touch.
Hello Marilyn, thank you for the useful tips.
I put my hands up – I'm a wordy writer! However, I do try to be clear.
Also, is it a bad thing if you have to check a dictionary for an unfamiliar word now and again?
Could you please explain what a beta reader is? I have come across the term a few times and from the context guess it's someone who reads your work but am wondering if there is something more to the role. Is it someone who is qualified in some way?
Great tip about italicizing words rather placing within inverted commas, which I shall now adopt.
Hi, ladycee. Thank you for commenting and I apologize for not responding sooner – somehow missed it. I don't think your posts look boring. We're all struggling with placement for phones versus desk and lap tops. Right side seems to do okay on both. I nest mine sometimes, too, like I did with transitional words. I would never tell someone not to use a dictionary or Thesaurus. What I do stress is use a word that you are comfortable with and leave the rest for another place. I look up words quite frequently. I also use the Thesaurus on my computer just to see if there is another word that encompasses more of the subtle nuances that I'm trying to get across to the reader.
A beta reader gives you feedback on your finished manuscript, so you can adjust it before you self-publish or start querying literary agents. They help you identify any problems with the readability, grammar, etc. If you're part of writing groups on FB, LinkedIn, or you could even tweet that you're looking for one when it's time. I'm sure there are "professional beta readers" and those might charge for the service. A beta reader could also just be a family member or friend, who may or may not charge, but in many cases feel free to critique.
Again, thank you for commenting and I hope this response gives you some answers. That's what we like to do – be helpful.
Hope you visit and comment again.
Dear Marilyn, thank you so much for responding and thanks for explaining what a beta reader is and how I can locate one. Would you be able to tell me how the term came about? Why aren't they referred to as alpha readers?
Thank you for visiting my blog and checking my posts. In fact my newest post includes 3 images placed centrally, left and right, which I'm really pleased with, so I have taken on board your advice.
Once again thanks for replying and for your helpful response.
Hi, ladycee. Alpha and beta readers are one and the same. The terms are from computer programmers' language as in a beta addition of software, games, etc. as I understand the term. You know how there's crossover between language. She smiles.
Okay. Thanks. I had not realised there is such a term as alpha reader. Was just curious.
I wanted to respond yesterday, but I was bogged down in a blog. (Sorry, I could not help myself) Seriously, I follow all your post and always get something positive. I am guilty of using repetitive words. Often, when I find my error, I will change the word for a similar one rather than change the sentence. Since I'm new to writing and especially blogging, your tip on Pixaby is great.
Question: When I read great authors, they often spend a whole page or more describing a scene, character response, or concept. In my writing I think I do not spend enough effort for the reader to come out of the dark. Am I to understand, with blogging it is a different from when we are writing a short story or our manuscript? With blogging we need to use a direct approach? How is that different or is it, from building "tension"?
Thank you for a great post and reminding us of our mistakes we often overlook.
With a short story or memoir piece, which we do publish here, there's a little more room to develop. One of the easiest ways for me is to include thoughts and feelings. Both of those get a reader's attention. We're all curious. What was she thinking when she did? What was she feeling when this happened?
But in developing, we sometimes belabor that, and then wham – here's the point. I think that is sometimes too abrupt. I like to lead them out of the dark, not blind them. Tension is necessary in any writing though or people start yawning, and today, that means they go elsewhere.
That is another thing about blogging. Sometimes we write from breadth – an overview of the topic. Other times, we are writing about one aspect of the topic in depth. I think my memoir posts view various aspects of the genre but stay specific to that one facet and explore more subtle nuances, which is hard in 1500 words on the general topic of memoir. Make sense?
This post on deciding perspective: breadth or depth might help you sort out length and descriptions.
Hi, Joan. Thank you for reading, commenting and reblogging. I appreciate all of them.
Thank you Marilyn. Learning from you here, Is better than sitting in a class room. I always try to incorporate your lessons on writing.
Hi, John. Your comment made my day. I guess it's the coach in me. I hope that people come away with something useful, and like you, they incorporate whatever the lesson and however it will help them improve their writing. And of course, in order to "teach" anything, we have to be willing to learn something, too. So, know that I'm learning as I write as well.
Hi, John. I get it. I've just had to get up earlier and go to bed later to make the blogging work. I don't necessarily recommend it, though. Makes for long days. I've fallen short on my writing goals as well. We'll just keep plugging along and eventually, the writing will get done.
I am struggling with just about every issue you highlight in your blog. I am wordy and verbose. See I told you I had problems. I think the secret is very simple. If I am going to get better at creating pieces of fiction or non-fiction, I need to be a better reader of good material. That's where Two Drops of Ink comes in. Also I need to solicit feedback from folks I trust and respect. And finally, I have to develop better discipline for the process of writing. Thanks for your blog post.
Hi, Jon. I know exactly what you're saying in your comment. I think when I first started writing that I believed I had to use more words to sound like I knew what I was talking about – all posts using five syllable words. It wasn't so much that I was using words I didn't know, but more that I would use complicated words when a simple one would do.
I think I believed that I was dumbing- down if I used the simple word, when in fact, I was being obscure with some of my choices and if a reader can't understand what we've written or has to grab a dictionary, then we have failed as the writer – not the reader.
About soliciting feedback: Which FB groups are you in and have you asked for beta readers or a writing partner? I'm fortunate here at Two Drops of Ink to have Scott read and critique my posts, so I know how invaluable this kind of writing relationship can be. Maybe put up a request and see what you get.
Thanks for your reply. I am in the process of identifying a compatible writing partner. I am in groups at Intentional Blog Group, Tribewriters.com and thewritepractice. Someone should surface. I also have a friend who is a children's author and she critiques my blog posts. She has a background in editing.
Hi, Jon. Thanks for the update. Those resources sound promising. Keep me posted!
Of course one place I did not mention I might find a writing buddy would be Two Drops of Ink. I imagine I ought to start that process by first submitting a piece of writing. I will try that first.
Hi, Jon. By all means, submit!


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BREAKING: Gates, Fauci, and Daszak charged with Genocide in 46-page legal filing
In a stunning 46-page legal filing to the International Criminal Court on December 6, an intrepid attorney and seven applicants accused Anthony Fauci, Peter Daszak, Melinda Gates, William Gates III, and twelve others of numerous violations of the Nuremberg Code. These included various crimes against humanity and war crimes as defined by the Rome Statutes, Articles 6, 7, 8, 15, 21, and 53.
UK Team File Complaint of Crimes Against Humanity With The International Criminal Court
Besides the four kingpins, twelve others were named, including the CEOs of the leading vaccine corporations and the health leaders held accountable for the United Kingdom.
Albert Bourla, CEO of Pfizer
Stephane Bancel, CEO of Moderna
Pascal Soriot, CEO of Astra Zeneca
Alex Gorsky, CEO of Johnson and Johnson
Tedros Adhanhom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the WHO
Boris Johnson, UK Prime Minister
Christopher Whitty, UK Chief Medical Adviser
Matthew Hancock, former UK Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Sajid Javid, current UK Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
June Raine, UK Chief Executive of Medicines and Healthcare products
Dr. Rajiv Shah, President of the Rockefeller Foundation
Klaus Schwab, President of the World Economic Forum
https://docdro.id/WUjv6iw
Dr. Rajiv Shah, having worked for the Gates Foundation since 2001, was named a World Economic Forum "Young Global Leader" in 2007. He now presides over the Rockefeller Foundation, a group funding ID2020 along with the Gates Foundation.
ID2020 promoters Gates and Rockefeller Foundations funded WHO's guideline on digital immunization passes
Klaus Schwab, a wickedly intelligent, perhaps diabolical German with double doctorate degrees in Economics and Engineering, is the founder of the World Economic Forum, a club for the wealthiest percentile of the world's corporate and political elite. He is a power broker who has groomed many presidents, prime ministers, and tech CEOs who now view him with reverence and unswerving loyalty.
Schwab, an economist, and technocrat has befriended many nations, most significantly China's Xi Jinping, who delivered a key speech at Davos. He praised his vision of a New World Order. On January 25, 2021, Klaus Schwab vowed his support for Xi Jinping with these words, "Mr. President (Xi Jinping) I believe this is the best time to reset our policies and to work, jointly, for a peaceful and prosperous world. We all welcome now, his excellency, Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China." See mark 2:26.
Many consider Schwab the mastermind behind the current movement towards cryptocurrency, universal identification, and a one-world (fascist) government to be run jointly, in totalitarian fashion, with China.
https://conservapedia.com/Klaus_Schwab
Attorney Hannah Rose and seven applicants brought the Nuremberg action on behalf of the victims, the entire population of the United Kingdom. She filed the legal proceeding with the International Criminal Court located at The Hague. The Hague is notable for its long history in helping victims seek redress for war crimes and defining appropriate ethical guidelines for conduct during war.
Following the Nazi atrocities committed during World War II, the war crime trials were held in Nuremberg, Germany. Following these, a set of principles was developed, which ultimately led to the development of the Nuremberg Code.
These principles essentially meant that anyone, no matter how wealthy or powerful, even a head of state, was not above the law. The fact that the law of their home nation would permit their action would not relieve the person from justice under international law.
In particular, the medical experiments conducted by the Nazi doctors led to strict rules and ethical principles regarding future human scientific trials, including the doctrine of necessary informed consent and freedom from coercion or threat in submitting to experimental drugs.
As we all know, before receiving a surgical procedure, there is a legal and ethical requirement that the patient be apprised of any significant potential risks, including infection, bleeding, nerve damage, or even death. The patient usually signs the consent form following this explanation. And as we all know, whenever we receive prescription medication, we are notified of the potential risks on a package insert and usually a discussion with the Pharmacist.
The vaccines should be no different, yet they are. A person about to receive the jab is rarely told that there are risks of blood clots, bleeding, cerebral thrombosis, myocarditis, and death, yet those risks exist. See mark 12:58 to 17:40.
https://rumble.com/vg6dcd-peter-mccullough-interview.html
https://ukfreedomproject.org/resources/open-letter-to-dr-june-raine-chief-executive-mhra/
https://www.thedesertreview.com/opinion/columnists/beyond-ivermectin-censoring-medical-journals/article_b1089af2-4279-11ec-b491-5bcaf600d33c.html
https://www.totalhealth.co.uk/blog/are-people-getting-full-facts-covid-vaccine-risks
Attorney Hannah Rose notes in Point 40 of her brief that the ethical standards of the Nuremberg Code amount to an obligation on physicians and pharmaceutical manufacturers to abide by its principles. Accordingly, any physician or research scientist found to have breached any of the ten principles of the Nuremberg Code would face criminal liability.
She notes in Point 42, "The first principle of the Nuremberg Code is a willingness and informed consent by the person to receive treatment and participate in an experiment. The person is supposed to activate freedom of choice without the intervention, either through force, deceit, fraud, threat, solicitation, or any other type of binding or coercion."
In Point 43 she argues, "When the heads of the Ministry of Health as well as the Prime Minister presented the vaccine in the United Kingdom and began the vaccination of United Kingdom residents, the vaccinated were not advised, that in practice, they would be taking part in a medical experiment and that their consent is required under the Nuremberg Code. This as a matter of fact is a genetic medical experiment on human beings performed without informed consent under a severe and blatant offense of the Nuremberg Code."
In addition, Rose argues under Point 44 that there is an obligation for alternative treatments to be discussed, including the risks and benefits of such alternatives. She notes that these were never discussed despite the fact alternative treatments have been proven to be safe and effective "with up to a 100% success rate."
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/indias-ivermectin-blackout-secret-revealed
A key principle of the Nuremberg Code requires that a scientist must be prepared to terminate the experiment at any stage, if he has probable cause to believe, in the exercise of the good faith, superior skill, and careful judgment required of him that a continuation of the experiment is likely to result in injury, disability, or death to the experimental subject.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-nuremberg-code#permissible-medical-experiments-1
In Point 46, she argues, "It is known that the mRNA 'vaccination' treatments have caused the death of many as well as injury and severe damage (including disablement and paralysis) after the 'vaccine' was administered. Despite this fact, the government did not instruct the initiation of an investigation into the matter. It is also questionable that given the experimental nature of these vaccinations, that there are not any full reports available of the numbers of dead or injured, as may be expected in such a medical process for the benefit of the public participating in the experiment."
The reader is reminded that Nazi physicians conducted experiments on human beings in concentration camps without informed consent, leading to horrific suffering and death.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-medical-experiments
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/holocaust/experiside.html
To dramatically underscore the relevance of Nuremberg to the horrific deaths we now see related to the experimental mRNA 'vaccination' program, Rose, in Point 34a, included a statement from a group of Holocaust survivors, those who experienced first-hand both the Nazi experiments and today the vaccine experiment. This is an excerpt from their unique perspective:
We, the survivors of the atrocities committed against humanity during the Second World War, feel bound to follow our conscience…Another holocaust of greater magnitude is taking place before our eyes. We call upon you to stop this ungodly medical experiment on humankind immediately. It is a medical experiment to which the Nuremberg Code must be applied.
Holocaust survivor Vera Sharav issued a statement in Points 34b and 34c:
The stark lesson of the Holocaust is that whenever doctors join forces with government and deviate from their personal, professional, clinical commitment to do no harm to the individual, medicine can then be perverted from a healing, humanitarian profession to a murderous apparatus…What sets the Holocaust apart from all other mass genocides is the pivotal role played by the medical establishment, the entire medical establishment. Every step of the murderous process was endorsed by the academic, professional medical establishment.
As a direct result of the Nuremberg World War II experience, the United Nations asked the International Law Commission to develop the Nuremberg Principles, the key standards to avoid the Nazi doctors' atrocities. Unfortunately, as Hannah Rose pointed out, many of these ten principles of the Nuremberg Code were systematically violated by the United Kingdom and many other countries during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In addition, a permanent international criminal court was established for investigation and enforcement – known as The International Criminal Court. The ICC began full-time operations in 2002 and currently has 123 member nations that have explicitly agreed to be bound by the Rome Statutes.
The United Kingdom is a member while the United States is not. However, under article 12(3) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, even a state that is NOT a member may exercise jurisdiction "by declaration lodged with the Registrar," meaning that any nation may be subject to the ICC depending upon the circumstances, member nation or not. Keep in mind that Nazi Germany had not consented to jurisdiction.
The ICC bills itself as a "court of last resort" meaning that claims should be decided in the perpetrator's home nation whenever possible. However, the core principle of impunity drives the ICC, the belief that no one who commits war crimes should enjoy freedom from criminal responsibility. Therefore, the ICC operates as an impartial and omnipotent arbiter of world human rights and will aggressively step in when it sees flagrant Nuremberg-type atrocities without consequence.
That is precisely what Hannah Rose has identified in her legal brief in Point 2,
"We have tried to raise this case through the English police and the English Court system without success, we have been unable even to get the case registered either with the police or with the court after several attempts…This is such a case which is why we are addressing the ICC directly."
Attorney Rose relied partly upon the expertise of Dr. Michael Yeadon, a research-based PhD in respiratory pharmacology and former Vice President and Chief Scientist at Pfizer.
https://rumble.com/vg4inv-michael-yeadon-full-interview-planet-lockdown.html
In the background section of the brief, she writes in Point 5:
"The Covid-19 'vaccines' do not meet the requirement to be categorized as vaccines and are in fact gene therapy (Appendix 8)…Dr. Mike Yeadon, a joint applicant on this request, asserts that claims calling the Covid-19 injections a 'vaccine' is public manipulation and misrepresentation of clinical treatment.
"It's not a vaccination. It's not prohibiting infection. It's not a prohibiting transmission device. It's a means by which your body is conscripted to make the toxin that then allegedly your body somehow gets used to dealing with it, but unlike a vaccine, which is to trigger the immune response, this is to trigger the creation of the toxin.'
"MRNA uses the cell's machinery to synthesize proteins that are supposed to resemble the SPIKE protein of the virus, which is what it uses to enter cells via the ACE2 receptor. These proteins are then identified by the immune system, which builds antibodies against them. The real concern is that these proteins could accumulate in the body, especially in regions of high concentration of ACE2 receptors, such as the gonads. If the immune system then attacks the location where they accumulate, then you could be dealing with an auto-immune condition."
Dr. Yeadon mentions, in an interview, that our governments have grossly exaggerated the entire threat of COVID-19. He notes that COVID-19 represents a slightly greater risk than influenza if you are older than age 70 but a much lower risk than the seasonal flu if you are younger. See mark 31:00.
"So it's just absurd that you should be happy or willing to let your economy and civil society be smashed for something which represents for almost everyone working a lower risk than influenza – but that's true," Yeadon said in the interview.
"Given this virus represents at worst a slightly bigger risk to the old and ill than does influenza, and a less risk than for almost everyone else who's younger and fit, it was NEVER NECESSARY for us to have done anything.
"We didn't need to do anything, lockdowns, masks, mass testing, vaccines – there are multiple therapeutic drugs that are at least as effective as vaccines are…an off-patent drug called Ivermectin, one of the most widely used drugs in the world, is also able to reduce symptoms at any stage of the disease including lethality by about 90%.
"So you don't need vaccines and you don't need any of the measures that have been introduced at all," Yeadon concluded. See mark 31:15.
For any reader still under the illusion that these mRNA covid vaccines have helped, please read the following article comparing the countries without vaccination to those with it. The most vaccinated nations have deaths per million up to 100 x greater than the least. Always question what the government tells you.
https://www.thedesertreview.com/opinion/columnists/vaccines-work—for-smallpox-and-measles/article_978543f2-56c2-11ec-af20-5ff179ad7b93.html
Yeadon goes on to explain that people need not worry about variants. He explains that our immune system is easily able to deal with ALL mutations of SARS-CoV-2 and explains that 18 years after the first SARS, those people are still protected by their immunity – and this immunity even extends to immunity against SARS-CoV-2, a virus 80% similar but 20% different than the original SARS.
Yeadon's major point is that if survivors of SARS some 18 years later have immunity against the new virus, which is 20% different, why would we believe that a current viral mutant only 0.3% different would be a threat? See mark 35:40.
"So when your government scientists say that a variant that's 0.3% different from SARS could masquerade as a new virus and be a threat to your health, you should know, and I'm telling you, THEY ARE LYING. If they're lying and they are, why is the pharmaceutical industry making top-up vaccines? They are making them," Yeadon said. See mark 35:55
"You should be terrified at this point. I am, because there is absolutely no possible justification for their manufacture. But they're being made, and the world's medicine regulators have said…we won't be asking them to do any clinical safety studies. Let me just say again, the variants are not different enough to represent a threat to you so you do not need top-up vaccines…, Yeadon said.
"The regulators have waved them through. I'm very frightened of that – there's no possible benign interpretation of this. I believe they are going to be used to damage your health and possibly kill you. Seriously. I can see no sensible interpretation other than a serious attempt at mass depopulation.
This will provide the tools to do it and plausible deniability – because they will create another story about some sort of biological threat, you'll line up and get your top-up vaccines, and a few months or a year or so later, you'll die of some peculiar, inexplicable syndrome, and they won't be able to associate it with the top-up vaccines." See mark 36:05 to 37:15.
Yeadon follows this up with his conclusion, "This system (mandatory vaccine passports) is being put in place using lies, and it's being put in place for some purpose, and I believe that purpose is complete totalitarian control, and I think the purpose of that is going to be mass depopulation." See mark 45:40.
"Do not allow it to be an interoperable global fixed-format database because that will be the end of human freedom, and I see no way of recovering from that once the system's up and running." See mark 46:30
Yeadon explained that few people will hear his words and that this fraud was perpetrated on the world's population through censorship, fear and propaganda. Dr. Yeadon, an insightful man, notes that the perpetrators have exhaustively planned this all, and they have considered how people might respond. Yeadon notes that if we all respond as expected, we will lose.
"Collectively, we need to do something unexpected." See mark 48:43.
However, it is likely they didn't plan on the International Criminal Court coming after them. They also didn't plan on Dr. Reiner Fuellmich, an experienced trial lawyer licensed in Germany and California who founded the Berlin Corona Committee, which heads a group of attorneys with global reach dedicated to dragging this deadly conspiracy into the open and suing it into oblivion.
Fuellmich does an excellent job in this interview of exposing the actions of Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum, WEF, also known as Davos. The WEF has as its goal the establishment of a New World Order, with the globe to be run by self-selected technocrats like Bill Gates, himself, and other members of Davos.
In 1971 Schwab founded what was to become the WEF in 1987. It has 1,000 members. In general, qualification requires a business to have more than 5 billion dollars per year in revenue. The theme of WEF and Klaus Schwab has recently been "The Great Reset," which essentially means a new world order. In the following video, Klaus Schwab can be heard discussing this with Henry Kissinger. We hear Dr. Kissinger praising China's Xi Jinping's speech and the formation of a new international order. See mark 2:50 to 4:00.
Schwab himself sums up the 2017 Davos Meeting with the following statement, "What a wonderful opportunity to conclude our week here with such concrete proposals and ideas of how we can really create a New World Order." See mark 26:40.
Professor Andreas Oehler aptly describes the agenda of Schwab and the WEF, "The World Economic Forum seems to be the driver behind and organizer of the global population control operations, be it pandemics, biometric IDs, Great Reset, or public-private partnerships in name of the "common good" (fascist corporatism)." See the following article, "The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse identified, along with the Apocalypse itself."
https://live2fightanotherday.substack.com/
Professor Oehler of the University of Bamberg is widely published in credit, banking, finance, and investor protection. He believes that Klaus Schwab and his WEF members, including Bill Gates, planned the COVID-19 pandemic by sponsoring Event 201, a coronavirus pandemic simulation exercise held in New York City on October 18, 2019. WEF has been a proponent of digital biometric identity systems to make societies "more efficient and productive" (and easier to control).
https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/
Oehler wrote, "WEF collaborates with the ID2020 alliance, funded by the Gates and Rockefeller foundations to run a program to 'provide digital ID with vaccines.' In particular, ID2020 sees the vaccination of children as 'an entry point for digital identity.' In reality, this means that anything a person does or is allowed to do (employment, travel, commerce, health care…) will be linked to the person's digital ID. This will remove any privacy and take total control over each and every activity of any individual on earth."
For readers who may doubt this, read Klaus Schwab's book, The Great Reset. One of his chief goals is to have perfect monitoring ability of every human being and to be able to regulate all behavior, even to the point of complete totalitarian control.
The WEF sees times of great turmoil or catastrophes as ideal opportunities to implement this reset, such as during the financial crisis of 2008, and now the COVID-19 pandemic, which Dr. Reiner Fuellmich feels created a perfect opportunity for the WEF to execute its plan. Fuellmich, a world-renowned trial attorney, refers to Schwab and his henchmen collectively as "Mr. Global."
"Klaus Schwab spells this out in his book, The Great Reset, and demands… a World Government under the UN, which has been brought under control by the WEF. This is to be achieved by creating as much worldwide chaos as possible in the form of pandemics, wars including civil wars and natural disasters so that the world population becomes convinced that the national governments are overwhelmed, and only a world government can help.
At the same time, Schwab calls for the shifting of all wealth to Mr. Global so that in 2030, no one, except Mr. Global, will still own anything, and we will supposedly be happy with that. Cash is to be abolished and replaced by a digital currency. This will be allocated to or taken away from every person in the world who can then also be found anywhere and at any time by various tracking systems. This is to be done by a single central world bank." See mark 32:45 to 33:56.
Fuellmich and Oehler both describe a series of puppets that the WEF has trained to help carry out these missions under the WEF "Young Global Leader" program, which started in 1993. Such people have gone on to become Presidents, Prime Ministers, and CEOs. These include some of the key players in this pandemic and vaccination effort:
Microsoft founder Bill Gates (1993)
California Governor Gavin Newsom (selected in 2005)
Pete Buttigieg (selected in 2019, candidate for US President in 2020, US secretary of transportation since 2021)
Stéphane Bancel (Moderna CEO; selected in 2009)
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg (2009)
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg (2007)
Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page (2002/2005)
Covid Twitter personality Eric Feigl-Ding (a 'WEF Global Shaper' since 2013)
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern (since 2017, selected in 2014)
Australian Health Minister Greg Hunt (selected in 2003; former WEF strategy director)
Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland (selected in 2001; former managing director of Reuters)
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is a WEF participant but is not a confirmed Young Global Leader
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (selected in 1993, 12 years before becoming Chancellor)
Current German Health Minister Jens Spahn and former Health Ministers Philipp Roesler and Daniel Bahr
EU Commission Presidents Jose Manuel Barroso (2004-2014, selected in 1993) and Jean-Claude Juncker (2014-2019, selected in 1995)
French President Emanuel Macron (since 2017, selected in 2016),
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy (2007-2012, selected in 1993),
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz
Former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi (2014-2016, selected in 2012),
Former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar (1996-2004, selected in 1993)
When we notice the harsh authoritarian and mandatory lockdowns of Australia, Austria, and Canada, perhaps it begins to make better sense when we factor in the names of those in the WEF Young Global Leadership program. See mark 34:25 to 34:58.
Now, against our seemingly hopeless situation, Reiner Fuellmich gives us all every reason to be optimistic:
"Against this background, which increasingly more people are recognizing, very large legal disputes have been set in motion in India, South Africa, the US, Canada, and France. Their goal is to hold those responsible accountable under both civil and criminal law. This also includes that the assets that have been taken away by Mr. Global from the world's population…are returned…In particular, Anglo-American Law with its powerful tools of class action, pre-trial discovery, punitive damages…provides the tools for very effective justice." See mark 35:00.
Reiner mentions that he has developed very good evidence that the PCR test was fraudulently used to grossly exaggerate the number of true COVID cases and the courts in Portugal, Austria and Germany, have set excellent precedents in their rulings to that effect.
Fuellmich concludes, "The Berlin Corona Committee already now has extremely incriminating evidence proving that this Corona 'plandemic' NEVER had anything to do with health; rather Mr. Global's actions are aimed solely at these goals:
#1. Destruction of regional economies to make the population dependent on Mr. Global's global supply chains.
#2. Shifting the wealth of the world's populations from the bottom to the top – to the super-rich – to Mr. Global.
#3. Population reduction – you can call it genocide.
#4. The installation of a World Government under the UN which is now under the control of the WEF."
He reminds us that we are dealing with megalomaniacs and sociopaths, those who lack a conscience. Fuellmich reminds us that while the mainstream media may censor, hundreds of thousands of people hear the message anyway; they are taking to the streets in protest in England, Germany, Australia, Brazil, etc. Civil servants, medical doctors, lawyers, politicians, nurses, and police officers are refusing the jab.
Key elements include those of compassion and spirituality, as this has indeed become an epic struggle between right versus wrong. Reiner tells the story of a doctor who walked into a bank and was accosted by a person afraid because he was not wearing a mask. He hugged the individual who began to weep because they had not been held in more than a year. Fuellmich reminds us that we can all laugh, cry, and feel while they (the sociopaths) cannot.
Attorney Rose, now a heroic icon, asked the ICC to take immediate action by way of legal injunction in Points 128 and 153:
It is of the utmost urgency, that ICC take immediate action, taking all of this into account, to stop the rollout of covid vaccinations, introduction of unlawful vaccination passports and all other types of illegal warfare mentioned herein currently being waged against the people of the United Kingdom by way of a court injunction.
In closing, Reiner Fuellmich asked us to remember spirituality. We must celebrate our humanity. Like those in the Nazi concentration camps, who remembered to sing and praise God in the face of the most extreme adversity, we too must cling to our roots in religion and love for one another.
Fuellmich is confident that we will prevail.
That's what this is all about, humanity versus inhumanity. We are human. We can laugh, cry, sing, dance and hug. The other side, Mr. Global and his puppets can't do that. They can only fake feelings and have no empathy at all. This is because the other side has no access to the spiritual side. The US Constitution starts with the words, 'We the People.' And when the wall came down between East and West Berlin, 33 years ago, it was the East German people chanting – We the people – that brought it down. Mr. Global's house of cards will come crashing down the very same way. Without a doubt in my mind, Mr. Global and his puppets will lose this war of good against evil – they will lose their insane war against life and creation itself. There is no other way.
After hearing him speak, I am confident as well. Dr. Pierre Kory once told me, "This situation seems backward. The doctors were the corrupt people who caused this mess, but the lawyers are those with ethics who will save us."
Pierre Kory, as usual, is correct. Someday, today's youth will become senior citizens. They will remind their society of today's Nuremberg II trials, and how they helped stop the largest con job ever perpetrated on the world. It is time to end the lockdowns, the vaccination mandates, the censorship, and the propaganda.
The media will resume reporting real news and cease fear-mongering. Then, journalists will return to what they do best – proper investigative reporting. And the International Criminal Court will most assuredly continue what it does best – bringing cold-blooded mass murderers to justice.
https://famous-trials.com/nuremberg/1903-doctortrial
Here is a change.org petition on the article.
https://www.change.org/p/international-criminal-court-in-hague-office-of-the-prosecutor-covid-crimes-against-humanity-case-against-gates-fauci-tedros-schwab-others
Dr. Justus R. Hope, writer's pseudonym, graduated summa cum laude from Wabash College where he was named a Lilly Scholar. He attended Baylor College of Medicine where he was awarded the M.D. degree. He completed a residency in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at The University of California Irvine Medical Center. He is board-certified and has taught at The University of California Davis Medical Center in the departments of Family Practice and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. He has practiced medicine for over 35 years and maintains a private practice in Northern California.
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This is great news!When will this very prominent ICC hearing commece?

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The Inheritors are a supervillain group which appears in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The family of Morlun, they typically are enemies of Spider-Man and the iterations of him.

Publication history
The Inheritors, who made their first appearance in The Superior Spider-Man #33 as part of the "Spider-Verse" storyline, were created by Christos Gage and M. A. Sepulveda, based on the Ancients, an earlier version of Morlun's family introduced in the 2006 novel Spider-Man: The Darkest Hours, written by Jim Butcher. "Spider-Geddon" again depicts the Inheritors; Gage said, "They're terrific villains – they literally eat spider-people! They're like vampires who feed on their life forces. And now that they're back, they have a score to settle. They're trying to recapture their former power and glory, and God help anyone who gets in the way."

Fictional history
The Inheritors are a clan of totem hunters from Earth-001 who feed from animal, human and deity totems. They capture spider deity Master Weaver on Earth-000 at the cost of the life of their matriarch because Karn hesitated to strike. Patriarch Solus orders Karn to wear a mask and exiles him until he can earn his way back. They use the Master Weaver's power to conquer Earth-001, traveling between dimensions and hunting Spider-Totem avatars because those were prophesied to overthrow them.

Spider-Verse
Superior Spider-Man (Doctor Octopus's mind in Spider-Man's body) finds Karn as his new team (Spider-Man Noir, Six Arm Spider-Man, Spider-Monkey, Spider-Bitch and Assassin Spider-Man) ambushes him on the Cyborg Spider-Man's Earth-2818. Karn is unaffected by their weapons, and they escape when Karn's brother and sister Brix and Bora arrive. Karn goes into another multiverse to kill an alternate Ai Apaec.

Morlun travels to Earth-31411 and encounters Aaron Aikman. He then goes to Earth-51412, where he absorbs Patton Parnell's life force. Morlun kills the local Spider-Man and his teammates Iceman and Firestar on Earth-1983. On Earth-999, Bora and Brix kill Spider-Cat. Daemos kills Spider-Man and several animalistic inhabitants of Counter-Earth on Earth-7891.

Daemos arrives in Eastern Europe to target Kaine Parker, and Old Man Spider-Man, Spider-Man of Earth-70105, and Spider-Woman of Earth-65 appear. He breaks the spine of Spider-Man of Earth-70105, and the others escape through a portal. Verna takes her Hounds Sable, Fireheart, and Kravinoff, Puma, and Kraven the Hunter out to hunt, and Morlun is furious that Daemos was hunting on Earth-616. Solus reminds them that he knows where the Bride, the Other, and the Scion are, and about a prophecy which will doom the Inheritors. Morlun says that he wants to be his father's chosen heir; the Great Web is his legacy and obligation. Solus says that the Web is all things and everywhere, and their kingdom makes them inheritors of all creation.

Spider-Man arrives on Earth-928 and finds Superior Spider-Man in charge. Old Man Spider-Man tells him about the prophecy targeting the Bride, the Other, and the Scion. When Daemos arrives and kills Spider-Cyborg, Superior Spider-Man kills Daemos but he regenerates. As the Spider-Men escape to Earth-13, Spider-Man is told by the dying Old Man Spider-Man to protect the totems.

On Earth-13989, Karn kills a werewolf version of Spider-Man. Solus has the Master Weaver send him to a more challenging world. When Morlun and Jennix arrive on Earth-13, they kill Spider-Monkey and a variation of Captain Spider. As Solus kills Cosmic Spider-Man, Morlun makes off with Benjy Parker.

Ben Reilly of Earth-94, Kaine, and Black Widow of Earth-1610 run into this world's version of Tony Stark and overpower him. As Jennix regenerates on Earth-802 and refuses to return to battle, Black Widow of Earth-1610, Ben Reilly of Earth-94, and Kaine move on his headquarters in the Baxter Building. Solus kills Arachnosaurus and Prince of Arachne and destroys Takuya Yamashiro's Leopardon. On Earth-3145, Silk arrives as Brix and Bora cannot enter this world. As the Spider-Army moves across dimensions, Jennix monitors them. On Earth-001, Morlun gives Benjy to Brix and Bora.

On Earth-802, Jennix reveals that he cloned spiders to help feed his family. As Ben Reilly prepares to sacrifice himself to destroy the lab, Kaine steals Black Widow of Earth-1610's teleporter to confront the Inheritors.

Six-Arm Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2099, and Lady Spider of Earth-803 travel to 2099 to dissect the clone body of Daemos for clues about how to defeat his brethren. Followed to the future by a new Daemos, Six Arm Spider-Man creates a distraction, but is killed before Miguel traps Daemos. Daemos kills himself so another clone can be activated. Miguel enlists the help of the Earth-928 Punisher to hold him off until Spider-Man 2099 and Lady Spider can transport back to Earth-13

Karn comes to Earth-3123 to kill the spider-totem of the reality where Aunt May was bitten by a radioactive spider and became Spider-Ma'am. She surrenders herself to keep her husband and nephew from harm. Karn is turned by Spider-Girl, Spider-UK, Spider-Punk, Spider-Man: India, and Spider-Woman of Earth-807128 against the Inheritors. After Black Widow of Earth-1610 and Kaine destroy the cloning facility on Earth-802, the Inheritors attack; Kaine arrives on Earth-001, transforms into a spider and impales Solus.

The Spider-Men overpower the Inheritors with Karn's help. Morlun tries to attack Peter Parker of Earth-616, Peter teleports him to Earth-3145 and is rescued by Silk. Following the Master Weaver's death, Karn takes his place as the Master Weaver. It was revealed as well that the Master Weaver was none other than Karn's future self. When asked about if Morlun and the Inheritors would survive without Spider-Totems, he says that they are feeding on mutated spiders.

Spider-Geddon
The Spider-Men and Master Weaver have been watching Earth-3145. Although the Inheritors are undernourished from a lack of spiders, they are collecting the heads of the Spider-Bots. Spider-UK and Master Weaver learn about an Inheritor cloning engine on Earth-616. On Earth-3145, Jennix harvests the Spider-Bots' transmitters. Spider-UK advises Master Weaver to call the Web Warriors.

Jennix, Morlun, and Verna emerge from Superior Octopus' cloning machine and Spider-Man Noir and Spider-UK are their first victims. Jennix tells Morlun that his score with the Earth-616 version of Spider-Man is irrelevant.

As Jennix works to regenerate the rest of the Inheritors, the spiders suggest that Superior Octopus trigger the base's self-destruction while Spider-Gwen with her symbiote distracts them. The Inheritors are free, restricted to their current bodies. Verna searches for the crystal containing Solus' life-force. She takes Brix, Bora, and Daemos with her while Jennix rebuilds the cloning tubes. Superior Octopus and Spider-Punk suggest killing the Inheritors. Karn is confronted by Verna for siding with the Web Warriors. After he stabs her, she still feeds on him.

Solus' body is restored as Daemos, Brix, Bora, and Jennix await for Verna's return with the crystal. Spider-Ham reports back to the group. They are attacked by Brix, Bora, and Daemos. During the retreat, Superior Spider-Man learns that Jennix is having trouble with New U Technologies' cloning technology.

After having located Peter Parker, Morlun proceeded to chase him throughout Manhattan where Morlun managed to wound him by breaking his wrist and his Dimensional Teleportation Watch. Before Morlun can finish of Spider-Man, Miles Morales shows up with some Spider-Men in order to provide some distractions which frustrated Morlun. When Morlun is brought down after a fierce fight with Spider-Man, he is trapped in a cage and hit with sedatives fired by Spider-Man and the police.

Using a Dimensional Teleportation Watch, Verna travels to Earth-3145 where they were previously trapped in order to find the crystal with Solus' life force. She and her Hounds would engage Spider-Woman, Astro-Spider of Earth-3145, Spider-Kid of Earth-218, Spider-Woman of Earth-807128, and Kaine Parker. Before being left to die on the radiation-filled Earth, Verna uses her teleportation watch on Spider-Woman as she planned to have her be sent to the rest of the Inheritors.

Spider-Woman returns to Earth-616 where she has the crystal with Solus' life force. At New U Technologies, Jennix grabs her and tells Daemos to share his food with Brix and Bora. As Daemos begins feeding on Spider-Woman, she says that she got her powers from a radiation blast. Jennix tells Daemos to place Spider-Woman in stasis so he can study her later. He puts the crystal in the cloning machine, reviving Solus, who plans to reward his children with a feast. Superior Spider-Man knocks out Ben Reilly and gives him to them as part of a deal which includes Solus sparing Earth-616. As Superior Spider-Man leaves, the Inheritors close in on the unconscious Ben Reilly.

Jennix starts to feed on Ben Reilly's life force and learns from him like his sacrifice in the battle against Green Goblin where Ben saved Spider-Man, Jackal recreating him, and how the cloning banks at New U Technologies work. These memories start to affect Jennix. As Spider-Man of Earth-1048 learns that this was part of Superior Spider-Man's plans, they are attacked by the Inheritors. Daemos attacks, but Solus tells him to stand aside because he has not fed on a spider yet. Solus is then shot in the back by Miles Morales, who was transformed into Captain Universe by the Enigma Force as Spider-Punk says that Jennix is insane and Verna is missing. The Captain Universe-powered Miles attacks, vowing not to make the same mistake as the Spider-Man of Earth-13. Leopardon shows up at New U Technologies and Takuya Yamashiro has it transformed until Daemos attacks. Superior Spider-Man and Octavia Otto free Spider-Woman, who says that Verna died on Earth-3145. As Superior Spider-Man and Octavia Otto revive Ben Reilly, the other spider-powered groups fight the Inheritors. Spiderling of Earth-18199 arrives with Anya Corazon and Spider-Woman of Earth-925, and Spiderling says that she is a Pattern-Maker. The three Spider-Women use the Web of Life and Destiny fragments to take down Brix and Bora, while Spider-Woman of Earth-925 fights Daemos. Spider-Gwen arrives with more spider-powered characters – including Spider-Man who defeated Morlun. Spider-Man catches up to Superior Spider-Man and Octavia Otto, who have restored Ben Reilly to "factory settings." Spider-Man allows Superior Spider-Man to formulate a plan as the Captain Universe-powered Miles uses Leopardon's sword on Solus, Brix, Bora, and Daemos. Superior Spider-Man tells the others that he revived the Inheritors as babies because Spider-Man arranged for the same thing to be done to Morlun. Spider-Ma'am states that her family will foster the baby Inheritors.

End of the Spider-Verse
After the totemic wasp-goddess Shathra had been freed once more, she eventually corrupted Spider-Ma'am and killed all baby Inheritors, leaving Morlun the only Inheritor alive.

Members
 Solus – The patriarch.
 Unnamed Matriarch – Solus' wife who died during the mission to capture the Master Weaver.
 Morlun – Solus' favorite who caused the temporary death of Spider-Man.
 Bora and Brix – Twins who compete with each other.
 Daemos – Solus' eldest son.
 Jennix – The brains of the family whose experiments are on Earth-802.
 Karn – The outcast and youngest son who was his mother's favorite. He abandons the family, becomes the Master Weaver, and is killed by Verna.
 Verna – Owner of the Hounds.

In other media

Video games
 The Inheritors appear in Spider-Man Unlimited with Morlun voiced by Travis Willingham, Solus voiced by Kyle Hebert, Daemos and Jennix voiced by Neil Kaplan, and Karn voiced by Matthew Mercer.
 Karn and Morlun appeared as boss villains in two Spec-Ops missions of the Facebook game Marvel: Avengers Alliance.

Novels
In the Jim Butcher novel Spider-Man: The Darkest Hours, a previous version of the Inheritors called the Ancients (consisting of Thanis, Mortia, and Malos) appear and seek revenge on Spider-Man after Morlun's first death. They are defeated by Spider-Man with additional aid from Black Cat and the Rhino, culminating in Mary Jane Watson driving her car into the last Ancient standing. Once all three have been rendered unconscious, the Ancients are banished to another dimension by Spider-Man using three mystical objects given to him by Doctor Strange.

Reception
In June 2018, Comic Book Resources ranked the Inheritors its fourteenth choice of supervillains for a subsequent Marvel Cinematic Universe.

References

External links

 Solus at Marvel Wiki
 Bora at Marvel Wiki
 Brix at Marvel Wiki
 Daemos at Marvel Wiki
 Jennix at Marvel Wiki
 Karn at Marvel Wiki
 Morlun at Marvel Wiki
 Verna at Marvel Wiki
 Inheritors at Comic Vine
 Inheritors at Spider-Man Wiki

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Marta Dusseldorp is a married woman with kids.
There only a few people in the industry, who have equally contributed to the entertainment industry and human welfare, one of them is Marta Dusseldorp. Dusseldorp is an Australian stage, film and theatre actress.
Marta made her name in the heart of her followers, by outstanding performance in A Place to Call Home (2013), Janet King (2014), and Jack Irish (2016). She is an ambassador for Save the Children Australia and Australia for UNHCR. So, you might want to know about her personal life? Is she married? Who is her husband? Then, just scroll down to know more about her.
Marta Dusseldorp was born on 1 February 1973, Geelong, Australia. She consists of Australian nationality and is of Dutch ancestry. She attended Geelong Grammar School and graduated in 1990. Regarding her siblings, she has three siblings Destroy Dusseldorp, Search Dusseldorp, and Yoris Dusseldorp.
Marta's developed her interest in acting since an early age, she also chased down her dream and became an actress. She attended the University of New South Wales where she majored in theater and film for two years. Afterward, she moved to the Victorian College of Arts for further studies.
Marta Dusseldorp's Personal Life: Is She Married?
Marta Dusseldorp walked down the aisle with her longterm boyfriend and present husband Ben Winspear. Her husband is also an actor and is known for theaters.
Dusseldorp and Winspear met each other back in 2003 when she appeared in a play in Sydney Opera house. The duo appeared in various places sharing their time and making their bonding stronger. Soon afterward, the couple decided to get married. Additionally, she was the one who proposed to her husband and convinced him to get married.
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The protagonist of the series "Stan Lee's Lucky Man" – is an extremely unlucky person in both work and personal life, a policeman from the London Department of Criminal Investigation. Once he meets a strange mysterious woman who gives him an ancient bracelet and he wins, following her instructions 70 thousand pounds. And the owner of this bracelet gets the ability to control luck. But any such gift has its own price.


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Department of Chemistry Seminar Series: Gaurav Sahay
Science Building 1, room 107, 1025 SW Mill Street
Free & open to the public
Oregon State University Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Science, Gaurav Sahay, will present at the Department of Chemistry's weekly seminar series
About Professor Sahay
Gaurav Sahay completed his postdoctoral research with Prof. Robert Langer and Prof. Daniel Anderson at Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT. He received his PhD from the Lab of Dr. Alexander Kabanov at the University Of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). He holds a Masters in Pharmacology from UNMC and Bachelors in Pharmacy from University of Pune.
Dr Sahay's work is on the interface of nanotechnology, cell biology and drug delivery. His lab is interested in unlocking the molecular mechanisms involved in the transport of nanoparticles to deliver small molecules, nucleic acids etc. inside cells. Most nanoparticles utilize intracellular trafficking to enter cells and even the most of efficacious amongst them remain trapped inside endosomes and the productive sites of escape remain elusive.
At MIT using a combination of high-throughput confocal imaging, small molecule library that impacts endocytosis, cell signaling and autophagy, Dr Sahay uncovered that exocytosis of lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) from the late endosomes was a major rate limiting step for siRNA delivery. His current interests lie in understanding nanoparticle mediated delivery of modified mRNA for protein production inside cells, with focus on therapeutic production of proteins in the treatment of lysosomal storage disorders. Sahay's long term goals are to gain mechanistic insights that provide a blueprint for development of new materials and targets for nanotechnology based therapies.
Dr Sahay has 21 publications in top tier journals including Nature Biotechnology, Nature Nanotechnology, PNAS, Advanced Materials, ACS Nano etc and has one of the most cited review article in the Journal of Controlled Release from his graduate school days with Prof. Kabanov. He is the winner of 2013 AAPS Postdoctoral Fellow Award and Nature's Sci-Bx Innocentive challenge.
About the Department of Chemistry
The Department of Chemistry maintains a teaching program of excellence at the undergraduate level and a graduate program emphasizing cutting-edge research in the chemistry of the environment, novel materials, and biological systems. The Department's curriculum, faculty, library, and facilities of the department are accredited by the American Chemical Society.
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Meet the market makers at Huddersfield's Queensgate Market Hall reunion.
Huddersfield will experience a unique and historic event on Monday 6 September 2004.
Huddersfield's 1970 Queensgate Market Hall is a landmark building that is a spectacular combination of architecture, engineering and art, The hall will be the centre of attention at the reunion of the people who designed and built it.
Other market makers are expected. Christopher Marsden of Huddersfield Gem said "We want to hear from anyone who was involved in the market's design and construction they will be very welcome to take part in this very special day for a very special building."
Huddersfield Gem can be emailed at huddersfieldgem@hotmail.com. Details of events on the day and updates will be posted on this website.
At 7.00 pm there will be a presentations from the people that designed and built the market hall at: Meet the market makers: the history and future of Queensgate market: a discussion and debate to look at the building's design, features, problems and possibilities.
All are welcome at the Canalside East Lecture Theatre, ground floor of Canalside East Building, University of Huddersfield, Queensgate Campus. It is a free event.
There has been interest in the event from sculptors, architects, engineers, art historians, urban planners and civic societies.
Media interviews and photo calls with the market makers can be arranged to be held during day on Monday 6 September.
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Kirklees Metropolitan Council is considering seven options to redevelop the area around the Huddersfield's 1930's library. Some of these options involve demolishing the Queensgate Market Hall.
The market hall is currently being considered by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport for listing because of historic or architectural interest.
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Celebrating Ibrahim Alaboud as Our New Executive Director
by Bailey Ulbricht
We are thrilled to announce Ibrahim Alaboud, a former English student who worked in various capacities in the English program before leading the Program as English Program Manager, as our new Executive Director. A core value of Paper Airplanes is listening to students and providing opportunities for them to help shape and run the organization. We are delighted that Ibrahim will be able to draw upon his experiences as a former student and as a longtime staff member to lead Paper Airplanes into its next chapter. Read more about Ibrahim and his journey with PA below.
Ibrahim vividly remembers his first English lesson. A Syrian lawyer who became a refugee after persecution from ISIS, he lived first in a refugee camp in Beirut and then worked at various labor-intensive low-wage jobs including as a cleaner, an agricultural field worker, and a construction worker. Finally, after a year and a half, he settled in a one-bedroom apartment in Lebanon with his family. He was eager to improve his education so that he could apply for jobs that had a greater positive impact, but he needed English to do so. His friend told him about free English lessons at Paper Airplanes, and he was accepted to participate as a beginner English student.
Paper Airplanes Executive Director, Ibrahim
"I remember my tutor opened her camera and immediately started speaking English to me. She kept speaking to me and I didn't understand what she was saying, but I assumed she wanted me to introduce myself. So, I used very simple words like what my name was, and where I was from." But then, he confused his age – instead of saying thirty, he said thirteen. He was so embarrassed and afraid of continuing that he turned off his computer, abruptly ending the lesson early.
But despite this fear, he decided to continue. He apologized to his tutor, an American retired nurse, who gladly rescheduled the lesson. They began meeting regularly – at 5 A.M. his time, because he was working a full-time job in construction and the time difference made it difficult to meet in the evenings. He lived in a one-room apartment with his wife and two children at the time, making early-morning lessons particularly difficult, and he would try to stay as quiet as he could so that he didn't wake them, even placing a curtain in the middle of the room so he could turn on the light. His tutor focused heavily on speaking, which he said is a unique component of PA: unlike English language tutorials that you can find on YouTube, speaking can only really be practiced live, with someone else who knows the language. Ibrahim says that the tutoring was more than just English lessons; the sessions were like an oasis, a mental break from the stresses of his daily life. "I could forget, for a little while, my circumstances, and dream of a better future."
Ibrahim's ambition and drive to succeed led him to study for, and eventually pass, the notoriously difficult IELTS English exam. Through Paper Airplanes he worked with a British IELTS instructor, who helped him prepare for the exam. Their lessons coincided with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, when suddenly everything went online. She was new to the digital teaching space, but needed to learn how because of the pandemic, so their lessons became a bit of an exchange: Ibrahim showed her how to use the technology she needed to teach, and she taught Ibrahim about the IELTS. The two became friends and remained in touch; Ibrahim even became her supervisor at PA after he joined the staff. During a character reference interview for Ibrahim, she shared that "if it wasn't for Ibrahim, I wouldn't be the online teacher I am today."
Ibrahim has always felt a desire to help others. In Syria, he was a lawyer who specialized in criminal law. When the war broke out, he became an outspoken advocate for human rights. He worked to support those who had been arrested by various armed groups, explaining that it was "impossible to stay silent when I saw things happen that were wrong." But he was forced to relocate after it became unsafe for him to remain in his hometown.
Then ISIS came. His situation intensified, and after being investigated several times, ISIS threatened to decapitate him for his political activities and personal beliefs. He was forced to flee, leaving his family behind for a period of time under the terrorist group's terrifying and brutal rule while he lived in a refugee camp, working hard and long hours to try to send money back to his family. During this time, Ibrahim's brother lost a leg from an ISIS bomb, and Ibrahim's son continues to experience cerebral paralysis indirectly caused by living under ISIS's repressive rule.
Throughout all of this, his drive to help others never left him. After he passed his IELTS exam, he wanted to "help other people the way Paper Airplanes had helped [him]." His tutor encouraged him to apply to become a student coordinator with Paper Airplanes, which led him back to the English program. That semester, he was the only coordinator to have students complete all of their lessons. "People were asking me," he recounts, "what is your secret?"
Though he didn't share this, my sense is that Ibrahim's "secret" is simple and yet surprisingly rare: a combination of work ethic, resourcefulness, and an extraordinary amount of empathy. That combination has driven him to come up with new ways to help students, like offering free translation between non-Arabic speaking staff and students, becoming a coordinator for student admissions, creating new internal systems to make some data collection automated, and working as a conversation group instructor, where he encouraged students to also help others. It drove him to push PA to serve more students from Syria and from other conflict-affected areas like Afghanistan and Ukraine. And it eventually drove him to apply for, and successfully become, the new Executive Director at Paper Airplanes.
So far, Ibrahim has, unsurprisingly, fit naturally into his new role as the leader of Paper Airplanes. His goals for the organization remain firmly rooted in how the organization can better serve students: He wants to serve more people from Syria and the MENA region, but also from other conflict areas like Afghanistan and Ukraine. He wants to deepen the impact of the programming so that students get more holistic services like job support or university application help, he wants to diversify program offerings, and he wants the organization to reach financial stability so that all of this can be accomplished. During our conversation he rattled off statistics about PA's popularity and reach within conflict-affected communities: 3,838 applications for the English program in just seven hours. "Do you know how rare this is? Usually organizations are asking for students. Here, it is the other way around," he told me excitedly. "We are forced to turn thousands of students away each semester because we can't afford to serve them. I want to change that."
To achieve his goals, he has hit the ground running at a speed that is impressive if not downright inspiring. By the time we connected – the end of his first full week on the job – he had already met with Ukrainian tutors and groups of potential Ukrainian students, trying to set up partnerships to serve Ukrainians next semester in the English program. During the conversation, he recalled, "they [started] describing to me what it felt like to not have electricity, to wake up and count the buildings that had been bombed the night before." When they began sharing their experiences, he said that he felt he "could really understand what they were going through, because I experienced the same things in Syria. We used to do the same thing every morning as soon as we woke up; it became our daily routine." He shared this with them, and they reacted with surprise. "Wow, you understand what it means for students who miss lessons. You understand their experiences and their suffering," he recounted for me. It was a big "a-ha" moment, and the conversation became warmer, more comfortable, with a sense of shared experiences and an unspoken "you get it" connection.
This exchange drove home for me why leadership by former students is so important to an organization's success. It not only helps the organization connect to volunteers, to donors, and to partners, but it also, critically, connects us to students. Ibrahim's ability to understand students' experiences makes him an incredible problem solver but also a deeply empathetic leader of an organization whose primary mission is to serve students.
Reflecting on this, I asked him what Paper Airplanes can do to help students like the Ukrainians he spoke to. He paused, thinking deeply. "We can't erase the war," he admitted. "But we can help them forget for a little while. And we can give them hope."
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by Asha Britt
"Transwomen aren't men," I find myself insisting on Twitter for the umpteenth time, "we're transwomen. We're our own thing."
"What does the word "man" mean to you?" Asks Fionne Orlander, quite reasonably. My answer, however, rapidly left the realm of reason and jumped right into fantasy. The word "man", to me, has always had a deep history to it. It represents something powerful, dark, and impossible to achieve. In fact, I once wrote a free-association description of a Man:
There is a figure, beautifully muscled and broad shouldered, shirtless, his tattooed arms outstretched and fingers splayed like the wings of an eagle. He stands in front of the sun and protects you from it, becoming both silhouette and internal detail, so powerful that he is opaque. His musculature comes from activity, and breaks the light across his dark skin. There are eagle feathers in his hair. There is a feeling eminating from him that makes me want to bow to him, worship him. Lust for him. His power rides him like the blade of an untested Katana, dangerous yet pure.
The first thing that ought to be obvious here is that whatever my imagination thinks a man is, it clearly has very little to do with actual men.
"The problem," says Fionne as the Twitter conversation continues, "is that you've got a romantic idea of what a man is, but a man is just an adult human male. It's nothing more than that. It's neutral."
At first, I didn't like this idea, because the thing about romance is that calling attention to it tends to spoil it. Moreover, the word "romance" in and of itself tends to be romanticized, which really doesn't help. All my life, I've resisted seeing myself as a man, because it has always felt like a lofty goal I was barred from achieving.
In fact, the more I consider the notion of romantic attachment to words, the more it sheds light on my issues with identity. However, exploring these feelings and attachments wasn't enough to change my perspective on a deeper level: I needed one thing more.
Right now, I am perched on a seat of the top deck of the X43 bus to Manchester, and absolutely brimming with introspective questions. The sun is slowly dripping through the sixteenth hour, and my body jerks back and forth with the rhythm of the bus as we make our way through the English countryside. At first, what struck me about England were the differences, but now it's the similarities that keep jumping out- the way the bus stations are the same, or the way people walk. The same schizophrenic weather. It's the same trees and flowers, though northern England is absolutely infested with daffodils. It's a strange flower- it seems so happily at odds with the dreary weather. On that level, at least, I am beginning to identify with them.
Manchester high-rises pop up in the distance as if the island were simply a cardboard book, and as beautiful as it is, I decide to ignore it and focus instead on my work.
Before Fionne confronted me with the notion that trans people are usually very guilty of romanticizing the words "man" and "woman", I had thought that we only romanticized the word for the kind of person we wished to become. Since my aim in transition was focused on not being seen as a man, rather than being seen as a woman, I had thought myself relatively unaffected by magical thinking.
Boy, was I wrong.
While the word "woman" did, in fact, mean "adult human female" to me, the word "man" was inorexiably bound up in all kinds of positive and negative romances. The more I considered this and understood it, the more I began to realize that I was also wrong about my definition of the word "woman", because I did, in fact, romance that as well.
On some level, I imagined the feminine social role, with all it's misogynistic challenges, as a kind of alternative environment away from the constant social pressures of masculine conformity. The thing I imagine when I picture life after a successful transition isn't me with a female body, but me with social and physical freedom. I dream of the ability to wear colors and styles I like and to flirt with men without encountering constant resistance or homophobia. I dream of waking up in the morning and touching my face and not encountering my father's, instead. And I dream of what it might be like to make love to someone and understand my role on a deeply physical level. I don't picture the act itself so much as how it must feel to be with someone and instinctively know how to enjoy it. To have the way my body is instinctively set up to be the status quo, with no dangling bits of useless flesh blocking me from the ability to physically connect to another person.
In general, I try not to think of these things. They are not my reality. And thinking of what I do not have only brings me pain. Instead, I shut myself off as much as possible, put one foot in front of another, and keep on going. But clearly, I have quite a lot more romance wrapped up in these words than I had ever realized.
I have a lot of thinking to do, yet.
A few days later, I find myself lounging on a twin-size English bed. I love English bedding- it's so sensible! In the US, making a bed is a complex process of putting all these different kinds of sheet together, and making it up in the morning is a pain. In England, they dispense with the silliness and simply put a duvet on a comforter and that's it. It's easy to get into, easy to remake. I love it. But I digress.
I've been considering the notion of romancing the words quite a bit over the past few days as I travel England from checkpoint to checkpoint, sometimes staring out the coach window for hours, sometimes while lugging around baggage I definitely packed too much of, and sometimes during the various conversations I've been blessed to take part in.
Sometimes these conversations wax difficult, sometimes less so. But I have been testing this new, less romantic perspective. As I continue to do so, I'm discovering something interesting: the combination of applying this perspective and having met Fionne and Hex has stabilized my sense of identity in a way I haven't felt, perhaps ever.
For me, this is monumental.
The truth is that I have been wavering. My sense of identity has been continually cycling between three major points, each of which is quickly invalidated by something within me that refuses to accept myself as any of them. Having been freed of the chains of romance, I'm suddenly able to see this cycle differently, and it's a good thing, too.
After my Orchiectomy, things began to spiral a bit out of control. While the surgery improved my health enough to make a trip to England possible for me, it posed a powerful challenge to my sense of identity. I was now totally committed to being a transwoman.
This ought to have been fine. After all, I'd been doing quite well up to that point. But I hadn't counted on the psychological effects of being past a point of no return. And I had severely underestimated my own internalized prejudices. This combination ejected me into a kind of identity spiral, and each time I rejected one mental picture of myself it would take me deeper into the abyss before latching on to the next. I have been more suicidal since my surgery than I have since my mid-twenties. Why?
When you're trapped in a whirlpool, it can be very difficult to see how you ended up there. We have a tendency to blame whatever seems the most obvious, anything, especially, but our own prejudice. As I cycled through identities, my sense of blame constantly shifted from one group of people to another and then would flip back to myself. Each time it did, it felt real.
While I was able to hold on to just enough patience to realize that I wasn't myself, and therefore should do my best to avoid posting much on social media, I was writing furiously. Each spiral took me further into despair until I began to believe that the only way I'd survive was to drink the koolaid, so to speak, embrace orthodox trans ideas, and drop out of the debate in shame. I knew on a deep level that this would be the wrong move, the cowardly one, but the despair I was feeling was rapidly becoming stronger than my mind.
Romance, it seems, is really quite dangerous.
"You know, hen" begins Seven Hex in her incredibly Scottish accent, "you can always just be a badass transwoman".
It's not as though this had never occurred to me before. In fact, the modt basic premise of the TransRational manifesto is based in this exact notion. But in the physical presence of Fionne and Seven Hex, the idea that this was a realistic possibility seemed in evidence as it never had before. Before I met them, it was just an idea. I wasn't really sure how it would work. Both Fi and Hex were good examples of this principle, and what's more, I felt a kinship with them I had never felt with other transwomen. Many of our experiences were the same, many were different, but I feel that there is something that links us: a desire to live authentically and without illusion. We are what we are. What we've chosen to be. We own it, but not with entitlement.
Early in transition, I attended a transwomen's support group. Rather than feeling like a group of women, it vibed like twenty-odd men engaged in live-action roleplay. People spent an inordinate amount of time talking about their trans identities in exactly the same way I've seen men wax romantic about their wood elf wizard who is special because blah blah blah. Don't get me wrong, I love fantasy, but I've never quite understood the excitement in LARPing. Go for it, have fun, but like, don't try to convince the world you really are Killjam Jellydeath the Marmamancer. If you really want to be seen as something in the world, you have to actually become it. Behave like it. And if I look, behave, and move like a man, it's both delusional and entitled for me to expect others to see a woman.
This isn't a pleasant truth, and it's something that a lot of trans people actively fight. The notion that we can't ever achieve our romantic ideal paints a picture of pointlessness. If we can't actually transition and become the thing we so desperately want to be, what's the point of transition? Shouldn't there be a reward at the end of all this pain? Don't we deserve more than this?
Discarding all romance, speaking in the most alkaline truth possible, the process of transition can only take me from man to trans. If eliminating the physical and social dysphoria I'm experiencing isn't enough of a goal on it's own, then I have deeper issues that need to be resolved. Body modification isn't magic, and identity is not a sole proprietorship. It's fine to work to be percieved as something new, but if we, as trans people, genuinely expect the rest of the world to see us the way we see ourselves, we're naïve at best and delusional at worst. It's romance. And the thing about that is:
Romance always fades.
I want to leave you with a parting thought, and I feel this is important:
The root of despair is the presence of false hope.
It's not the absence of hope- any Buddhist monk will tell you that total absence of hope actually reveals a kind of flow state of total acceptance. No hope means no longing, no desire.
False hope, on the other hand, is insidious. It roots itself in your soul, twisting you into knots of pulsing, aching desire for something that can't ever be. False hope is impossible romance. It's unrequitable love. It's the desperate desire to reach up, pluck a star from the sky, and hang it around your neck like a pendant. It's pining away because you've reached out a thousand times and it still isn't working.
Romancing a desire for the impossible brings tremendous pain. Especially when we have felt that desire so often and so intensely that we begin to identify with it. Or as it. Thus, there is no state in which I can desire to become a woman in which I'll end up finding peace.
The way forward, then, is to drop the romance in favor of a rational and defensible position:
Transmen are Transmen. Transwomen are Transwomen.
We become these things by virtue of having completed a rite of passage. It's a state of becoming; a thing we've earned.
Instead of trying to become what we're not, let's set our focus on finding out what we actually are. There's plenty of room for romance in the unknowns that compose our unique potential, and we don't need to infringe on anyone's rights to accomplish this. The simple, subversive act of embracing ourselves as what we are, rather than as something we're not transforms enemies to allies.
This is the sustainable path forward.
This is how we thrive.
TransRational, Asha Britt, @Kinesis
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