The biggest shopping craze is back! With over 375 stores, Metropolis at Metrotown is the ultimate destination to scoop up the best holiday deals.
The 6th annual Black Friday Weekend event at Metropolis at Metrotown starts this Friday, November 23rd at 8:00am. On November 23, you can access the mall through the entrance closest to Customer Service Ground Level, near NYX Professional Makeup, which will open at 6:00 am. All other mall entrances will open at 6:30am. Some retailers are even offering early bird specials from 8:00 am to 10:00 am. On Black Friday, Metropolis will stay open until 10:00pm to make the most out of your holiday shopping.
Here are some tips to make your holiday shopping at Metropolis more convenient this year, download the Metropolis at Metrotown app for iOS and Android to get the latest deals on your smartphone. You can check out some of the great deals available on the Metropolis website at www.metropolisatmetrotown.com. Looking for a particular store, or simply have a question? Now you can text customer service at 604-359-9111.
Burnaby Neighbourhood House and MS Society of BC/Yukon are offering gift wrapping services by donation starting November 23 to December 24. The two gift wrap booths are located in front of The Disney Store on the Ground Level and in front of Plenty on the Upper Level.
After your shopping haul, swing by to see Santa at the Grand Court until December 24th. With a minimum donation of $3 per photo, you will received a digital photo with all proceeds going to the Burnaby Christmas Bureau. You can also register at the kiosk to have the option to leave the line and get a SMS text when it's your turn for photos with Santa.
For Black Friday Weekend only, when you purchase $250 in gift cards you will get a $20 bonus. Gift cards are valid for all 22 Ivanhoe Cambridge shopping centres across Canada.


Luxembourg-based Wijet Holding said recently that "it is giving up its British airline operator certificate [AOC], previously obtained through the October 2016 acquisition of Blink UK." Wijet operates a fleet of Citation Mustangs and in February announced an order for 16 HA-420 HondaJets.
Wijet's Blink division has stopped flying in the UK, according to a recent press release, but Wijet plans to transfer ground and air operations to "partner operators" in continental Europe and secure its own AOC in a European country. Wijet will keep three to five Mustangs, then add the HondaJets when deliveries begin. The Mustangs are more suited to shorter runways, said the company.
Even expert lawyers can't make sense of the complex ramifications of the UK's impending departure from the European Union.
The Wijet fleet included 15 Mustangs. Last year, Wijet projected growth to 50 aircraft by 2020, to be funded by a new round of financing projected at €15 million ($16.5 million). At the time, the company expected that Brexit would not pose insurmountable problems, predicting that U.K. AOC holders would be allowed to operate intra-EU flights after the U.K. exits the E.U. If that weren't possible, then Wijet anticipated establishing a new AOC in an E.U. country.


There is a long list of domestic cat breeds that exist today, but in ancient times things were a little different. In ancient Egypt cats were known as the mau and played an important part in society.
The two breeds of cat that are native to Egypt are the Jungle Cat and the African Wildcat. The wildcat proved to be friendlier with people and contributed more to domestication. However both cats were interbred & eventually fused to create a new breed, the animal we call the Egyptian Mau.
Not actually a breed, the Mau was what Egyptians called all cats, regardless of what type of feline they were.
Initially they were found valuable for ridding crops of vermin (including cobras) and soon a symbiotic relationship formed between feline & humans.
The Egyptians came to appreciate their cats on another level, & it wasn't long before they became a symbol of grace & poise. From popular symbols the feline was catapulted into Godlike status as they were associated with the goddess Bast.
The Egyptian Mau is the only naturally occurring spotted breed of domestic cat. However their best feature is their eyes, they are large with a slight slant and come in the most arresting shades of green.
Althought the Egyptian Mau is an ancient cat, it isn't the oldest. In the coming weeks we will meet other ancient cat breeds and learn more about where your domesticated cat comes from.


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University achieves 11th place in Young University Rankings
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The University of Luxembourg improved its position in the 2017 issue of the Times Higher Education (THE) Young University Rankings reaching the eleventh place worldwide. The results were announced during the THE Young Universities Summit taking place at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia.
Ranking page of the University of Luxembourg (11th)
The Young University Rankings, previously known as the THE 150 Under 50 Rankings, globally evaluates universities that are less than 50 years old. In comparison to 2016, when it achieved rank 14, the University of Luxembourg climbed up three positions. Among the universities established after 2001, the University of Luxembourg ranked second behind the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and ahead of the University of Antwerp.
Improving also in "Teaching" and "Research", the University of Luxembourg did especially well in the area "Citations". This category indicates how often the work of researchers of a university was quoted by scholars globally, using data drawn from 23,000 academic journals. "This confirms again the good work and international reputation of our researchers and that we are well on the way to establish the University internationally as a leading research institution," comments Prof Ludwig Neyses, vice-president for research at the University of Luxembourg. "We are very happy with the results. Founded only in 2003, we are still young, even in comparison with our peers in this ranking. So, we certainly have the potential to further improve and hopefully make it into the top 10 of young universities in the coming years."
The Young Universities Rankings apply the same performance indicators as the overall THE World University Rankings, in which the University of Luxembourg reached the 178th place in 2016/2017. However, the methodology has been recalibrated to reflect the special characteristics of younger universities. The young universities are measured on their performance in teaching, research, citations, international outlook and industry income. In 2017, the rankings were extended to include 200 institutions, up from 150 in the previous years.
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Later Editions: 1. Karnataka Kadambari Sangraha, Ed. T.S.Venkannaiah, Kannada Publication Series, 1933, Mysore University, Mysore. 2. Karnataka Kadambari, Ed. N.Anantharangachar, 1973, Usha Sahitya Male, Mysore 3. 'Karnataka Kadamabri' (With a rendering in prose) Narayana Shastry, Kannada Sahitya Parishath, Bangalore 4. Karnataka Kadambari Ed. C.P.Krishnakumar, Directorate of Kannada and Culture, Bangalore.
'Karnataka Kadambari' is a Kannada rendition of the Sanskrit prose classic 'Kadambari' of Banabhatta. However the Kannada work is in Champu style which is a combination of prose and poetry. This choice was perhaps motivated by the fact that Kannada was not suitable to recreate Sanskrit prose with its preponderance of compounded words. Nagavarma did not really venture a verbatim translation. On the contrary he adapted the modus operandi suggested by his predecessors such as Pampa and Ranna. He did not hesitate to abridge, expand or develop the thematic contents of the original as directed by his poetic genius. Most of his decisions are well taken. Of course he shows a clear evidence of deep erudition in Sanskrit. His work is suffused with Sanskrit words as was common in the court poetry of those days. 'Kadambari' is a mirror held to the cultural panorama of those days. It's a saga of idealistic love that transcends death. Many characters arrive at their heart's desire only after going through the trauma of separation spread over a few lives. Characters such as Mahashwetha, Kadambari and Chandrapeeda have lingered long in the hearts of the lovers of Kannada literature. This is a prose romance that delineates the love story of Mahashwetha and Pundareeka as well as Chandrapeeda and Kadambari. The story moves between the lofty snow laden peaks of the Himalayas and the royal courts of kings. Nagavarma is capable of doing justice to both these locales. His descriptions of Himalayas are breathtakingly beautiful. Another noteworthy feature of this work is the importance given to women protagonists. Actually men play a second fiddle to their consorts. As a consequence of all these features, Karnataka Kadambari has become one of the enduring classics of Kannada literature.
18. References: 1. Ondaneya Nagavarma, Kannada Kavi Kavya Parampare, Ed. V.Seetharamaiah, 1976, I.B.H. Prakashana, Bangalore.
2. Nagavarmana Karnataka Kadamabari (Ondu taulanika mattu vimarshatmaka adhyayana) C.P.Krishnakumar, 1976, Mysore.
b. Kadambari Mahashvetaa Krishnmurthy K.
c. Kadambari Mahashvetaa Punekar S.M.
d. The prose rendering of 'Kadambari' by Madivaleshvara Gangadhara Turamuri in the early decades of the twentieth century is very popular.


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Krugman way off base on Alec Yasinsac
This morning, Paul Krugman has an Op-Ed in the New York Times titled When Votes Disappear. Normally I would be very pleased to read such an op-ed, and I was today as well, until I got two thirds of the way down and saw this:
"Although state officials have certified Mr. Buchanan as the victor, they've promised an audit of the voting machines. But don't get your hopes up: as in 2000, state election officials aren't even trying to look impartial. To oversee the audit, the state has chosen as its "independent" expert Prof. Alec Yasinsac of Florida State University — a Republican partisan who made an appearance on the steps of the Florida Supreme Court during the 2000 recount battle wearing a 'Bush Won' sign."
I almost fell out of my chair when I read that. Now, I was one of the first people to criticize the use partisan officials to administer elections, such as Ken Blackwell who while he was the secretary of state of Ohio was also co-chair of President Bush's reelection campaign in that state. But, what a different perspective it gives when you know the full story, as I do with Alec Yasinsac.
The Security and Assurance in Information Technology Laboratory (SAIT) at Florida State is the best security research group in the state of Florida if not the Southeast. I'm quite familiar with their research. The professors there include Breno de Medeiros, a recent Ph.D. alumnus of our program at Johns Hopkins, Mike Bermester, a famous Cryptographer, and of course Alec Yasinsac. I have known Alec for about 12 years. He is an extremely talented researcher and well respected security expert. The state of Florida contacted SAIT because they are the top computer security research group in the state. As soon as they were contacted, Alec Yasinsac called me with several other members of their lab on the phone because he was concerned that his Republican affiliation was being blown out of proportion by the local press. I understood his concern, but also noted that he is part of a whole group there, and that I believed they should perform this security audit. I also know that this group has recruited outside help from notables such as David Jefferson and Princeton Professor Ed Felten, who I believe are both involved in the audit, and are completely nonpartisan in their work.
I know very well that the SAIT group, including Alec, are only interested in finding out the truth and discovering what happened with the voting machines, if it is at all possible to do so. Hearing a high profile columnist such as Krugman refer to my friend Alec Yasinsac as a partisan hack really stings, and it causes me to now question every time I see someone painted with such a brush in the media. Furthermore, Krugman writes his pieces as though Alec would be performing the audit alone. What a difference it makes to actually know the people involved very well. Krugman would have done well to interview some computer scientists about Alec and SAIT before dismissing this audit out of hand. Sadly, I think this incident illustrates that this columnist is willing to embrace whatever circumstances and appearances serve his message with no regard for whether they are legitimate.
A Worst Case Scenario for a midterm election?
In several recent elections, the eyes of the country fell on one particular jurisdiction that came under the microscope and affected the entire nation. In 2000, it was Florida and hanging chads. In 2004 it was Ohio and long lines, and in 2006 it is shaping up to be Virginia and a single race that will determine which party controls the senate. Every article I have read today states that the race is going to come down to a recount.
Virginia uses a plethora of different voting technologies. Just about every major vendor is represented. Most of votes in that state were cast on paperless DREs. There are no ballots to recount. A meaningful recount in Virginia is not possible.
The DRE vendors like to pretend that they can perform recounts. They take the vote totals on the machines and print corresponding ballots, and then count them by hand. Let me give an analogy to demonstrate how silly that is. It would be comical if vendors weren't actually doing it and convincing people that they were performing a recount.
Imagine if you had a word document on your computer, and the document stated some fact. You were not sure if the fact was true. So, to verify the fact, you print the word document, and then you read it out loud and say, "Ah, if that's what it says, then it must be true because I'm looking at a printout." What the vendors are doing is printing out the questionable results and then counting them. Of course they are going to match what was on the machine, but they do not provide an independent count. The so-called recounts of DREs are really just print and count, not RE-count. It is a waste of time.
Now, we hear that in Sarasota County, there were 18,000 undervotes in the race for the 13th congressional seat. The race is expected to be decided by fewer than 400 votes. If paper ballots had been used, the huge number of undervotes could be investigated. Without them, there is no recourse - no way to figure out why this happened. I have several theories. Perhaps that many people just did not care about that race. Unlikely in my opinion. Most likely is that the human interface, that is, candidate placement on the ballot caused many people to miss that race. The next possibility is that a software glitch caused votes in that race not to be counted. Finally, it is possible that someone actually did something to cause this. The problem with paperless voting is that we'll never know, and there will never be any way to find out.
It is unbelievable that the control of the US senate is coming down to a close race that cannot be recounted, and for which there are no physical ballots. The vendors may come out with their "emperor's clothes" recounts, but the public should understand that these are not really recounts, they are just print and count.
My Day at the Polls - Maryland General Election 2006
I woke up at 4:30 this morning, although the alarm was set for 5:15. I guess I had a lot of adrenalin pumping about the election. Would it be a total meltdown? Would the e-poll books work? Would the voting machines boot up playing cartoon videos on the screen, or would they appear to work fine? Last night, I went into the precinct after work to help set up the voting machines. We spent about an hour and a half figuring out the best way to configure them and the best way to process the voters, assuming we had long lines like we did in the primary. That saved us a lot of time, and I believe is the only reason we were able to open the polls on time this morning. But, I think that getting started the night before is what triggered the adrenalin rush that caused me to get so little sleep. I am pretty certain that the machines stayed in the synagogue great room unattended overnight.
For the most part things went fine in our precinct. Turnout was extremely high, and we had long lines at times, but I don't believe anybody left without voting due to that. We averted several problems that could have been serious due to the diligence and foresight of our excellent chief judges and the rest of the poll workers. For example, one of our chief judges discovered during the day that we were short two tamper tape seals, which would have caused us to be unable to properly seal two of the voting machines when we closed the polls. She discovered this because she was checking and double checking everything throughout the day. She placed a call to the board of elections, and they sent us the missing tamper seals. Here's another example: When voters check in, there is a voter authority card printed that has the voter's name and party affiliation on it, and which the voters sign. This paper is then put in an envelope on the machine that the voter uses. We we running out of paper, and when one of the printers could not print anymore, we shut down that poll book temporarily, and one of our judges rushed off to another precinct to get some paper for the e-poll book printer. Then, we were able to reopen that e-poll book. We laughed when we discovered 4 extra rolls of paper in one of our boxes at the end of the election. We had just missed them earlier.
The judge who went to the other precinct to get the paper reported that the other precinct had only two voting machines there, and that one of them had died after around 75 votes had been cast on it. That machine was taken out of service and sent to the nearby town of Towson, where presumably the internal flash of the machine would be used to recover those votes. Meanwhile, another voting machine was supposed to be delivered to replace it. I never found out if that happened.
In the early goings, about the most dramatic thing that happened in our precinct was that a woman thought she dropped her hearing aid into one of the machines and insisted that we take it apart to try to recover it. Luckily, it was found nearby on the floor. As to our technical support, once again, as in the primary, our technician was a representative from Diebold who had been hired the day before, and who was servicing three precincts. I saw her from time to time during the day, but as far as I could tell, she really did not have much to do. She was not allowed to touch the machines.
I was impressed with the performance of the e-poll books that failed so miserably in our primary. In our precinct, they worked flawlessly. I observed them very carefully. One test I did was when a couple split up and the husband checked in on my e-poll book, while his wife checked in on the one at another table. The instant that the wife was checked in, she appeared as having voted on my e-poll book. I repeated this test several times. We ran three e-poll books, and I watched them in many different situations throughout the day, and I did not find a single problem. In fact, as a poll worker, I can say that they were quite handy, especially when people came in who were in the wrong precinct, and we were able to tell them where to go because we had the whole state's database on each e-poll book. I still feel that I would prefer a paper card check in system because of fear of how stuck we would be if the power went out, or if the machines failed in an unexpected way. But, with a simple augmentation to our procedures, I would be happy to use these poll books. The modification I would make would be for the check in judges to also have a printed booklet of all the registered voters, sorted in alphabetical order. It would only have to have names, and say, birth dates (to make duplicates unlikely). The judges would have to place a check mark next to each voter's name as they voted. Thus, if the e-poll books worked fine, the burden would be rather small. If they failed in the middle of the election, we would have 3 booklets with sorted lists of who had voted, and we could continue checking in voters with the booklets, making sure nobody checked in more than once. It would be enough of a backup system to make me happy, and under those circumstances, I would support using the e-poll books. (The privacy issues about whether it is a good idea to have so many electronic copies of this database out there is another story. It's important, but I will not address it here because I'm exhausted, and I have a lot of other things to say about our election today.)
I was on a media black out while at the polls, and I just returned home a few minutes ago, so I have no idea what happened in the rest of the country, or in the rest of Maryland today. I can say that in my precinct we only had one serious event with the Diebold voting machines. It happened after we had already closed the polls, and the last few voters who were in line when we closed the doors at 8 pm were voting. This occurrence underscored my biggest concerns and fears about these machines. Before I describe this problem, let me talk about one aspect of my day at the polls. After the primary in September, I wrote a blog entry like this one about my day at the polls. Many of my fellow judges that day eventually read that blog entry, and between that day and today, I have been in the local media in Baltimore quite a bit, appearing on radio shows almost daily, and several times on many days, and appearing on local television a few times a week. By the time our election came around today, my position on e-voting was pretty well known to my fellow judges and to many of the voters who came into the precinct today. As a result, several of the other judges, and quite a few voters commented to me that they were going to read my blog entry tonight; it was a given that I would blog about it. Knowing that I was going to write this, and that many people were going to read it, made people pretty careful to include me in every discussion about issues that came up, and to make sure every single aspect of our election was by the book, which I don't think is the way the majority of precincts are run, based on emails I've received from many election judges in other precincts after the last several elections.
So, while we were watching the last handful of voters cast their ballots (oops, I should say "touch their candidates names on a screen" because we don't use ballots in Maryland, except for absentee and provisional), one of the chief judges came up to me and said that there was a "situation". I was called over where a voter was explaining to one of the judges what had happened, and he repeated his story to me. The voter had made his selections and pressed the "cast ballot" button on the machine. The machine spit out his smartcard, as it is supposed to do, but his summary screen remained, and it did not appear that his vote had been cast. So, he pushed the smartcard back in, and it came out saying that he had already voted. But, he was still in the screen that showed he was in the process of voting. The voter then pressed the "cast ballot" again, and an error message appeared on the screen that said that he needs to call a judge for assistance. The voter was very patient, but was clearly taking this very seriously, as one would expect. After discussing the details about what happened with him very carefully, I believed that there was a glitch with his machine, and that it was in an unexpected state after it spit out the smartcard. The question we had to figure out was whether or not his vote had been recorded. The machine said that there had been 145 votes cast. So, I suggested that we count the voter authority cards in the envelope attached to the machine. Since we were grouping them into bundles of 25 throughout the day, that was pretty easy, and we found that there were 146 authority cards. So, this meant that either his vote had not been counted, or that the count was off for some other reason. Considering that the count on that machine had been perfect all day, I thought that the most likely thing is that this glitch had caused his vote not to count. Unfortunately, because while this was going on, all the other voters had left, other election judges had taken down and put away the e-poll books, and we had no way to encode a smartcard for him. We were left with the possibility of having the voter vote on a provisional ballot, which is what he did. He was gracious, and understood our predicament.
The thing is, that I don't know for sure now if this voter's vote will be counted once or twice (or not at all if the board of election rejects his provisional ballot). In fact, the purpose of counting the voter authority cards is to check the counts on the machines hourly. What we had done was to use the number of cards to conclude something about whether a particular voter had voted, and that is not information that these cards can provide. Unfortunately, I believe there are an unimaginable number of problems that could crop up with these machines where we would not know for sure if a voter's vote had been recorded, and the machines provide no way to check on such questions. If we had paper ballots that were counted by optical scanners, this kind of situation could never occur.
Some conclusions now before I go off to bed. I believe that with proper care, diligent following of procedures, and no unexpected computer or power glitches, there is the possibility that an election in Maryland can run smoothly in a given precinct. We will never know if the results produced by the machines are an accurate tally of the votes that were cast. Did we get it right today in my precinct? It's very possible. The results were consistent with the expected outcome based on our demographics. The only surprise was that Republican Governor Ehrlich beat out Democratic Mayor O'Malley in the governor's race by about 14% of the vote. This was surprising because our precinct voted 2-1 or more for Democrats in all other races, and the precinct is known for having that ratio. Still, I think that the governor's race results are not unrealistic given conversations I've had with democrats who were going to vote for him. But here's the rub. We cannot audit our election. We cannot perform a recount. We cannot see how the votes were really counted. We had election observers in our precinct, and they had nothing to observe, except to write down the final tallies when the outcome was computed.
So, the election is finally over. In the morning, we'll probably have many results across the country and some places where the races are too close to call. In Maryland there are still over 180,000 absentee ballots that need to be counted. All around America, poll workers such as myself are going to sleep now, exhausted after working at least 16 hours as volunteers, putting in this day so that we can continue to enjoy the benefits of democracy. Now its time for partisans to put aside their differences and to figure out how to design better voting systems that can be independently audited, that are not too vulnerable to failures and human error, and that are completely transparent to voters in every way. In Maryland, the pendulum has swung far away from such systems, and I am hopeful and optimistic that we will switch to a precinct-count optical scan paper ballot system with random spot audits before the elections in 2008.
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Advice to Voters on November 7
Well, tomorrow is Election Day, and 39% of voters will be casting their votes on electronic voting machines, and the vast majority of votes in the US will be counted by electronic equipment. While I do not believe that there is any reason to have confidence in the fully electronic paperless voting machines used in Maryland and in many other places, I still think that the only way to make sure your vote is not counted is not to vote. So, I suggest that everybody who is registered to vote, get out and vote! Here are my suggestions to voters:
Check your voter registration card and sample ballot that you hopefully received in the mail to make sure you know where your polling place is. You would be surprised at how many people go to the wrong precinct. Show up during the non-rush hours if you can. The slowest times are probably between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.
Check your summary screens carefully. There have been reports in Florida and Texas of summary screens presenting different candidates from the ones chosen by the voters. Furthermore, there have been reports of certain races not appearing at all in the summary screens, despite voters casting votes. Finally, there are reports of e-voting machines in Virginia truncating the names of candidates on the summary screen. If you find any discrepancy, report it immediately to the poll workers and don't leave the polls without getting to a summary screen that represents exactly how you want to vote.
Consider yourself to be a poll watcher during you time at the polls. Be vigilant of the behavior of other voters and the poll workers. Make sure nobody is loitering around any of the equipment. Feel free to ask the poll workers about security procedures. If you see any suspicious activity, report it immediately to the chief judge in the precinct and call the local board of elections.
Sign up for Verified Voting's Election Transparency Project. They provide a toolkit for election observation.
Read up on the equipment used in your precinct before you vote. There is an excellent resource for that on the EFF web site.
If you experience any problem at the polls, call the Election Protection Hotline at (866) OUR-VOTE.
Let's hope that this election runs as smoothly as possible. Hopefully, in 2008, the momentum will shift away from paperless voting, and we'll be able to verify the outcomes of our future elections.
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Rafael Nadal Announces Date of Return on ATP Tour
by Vishal Gajaria | Posted on Wednesday, November 19th, 2014 | 0
World No.3 Rafael Nadal is all set to return to professional circuit in January. The former top-ranked Spaniard divulged that he will be participating at the Mubadala World Tennis Championship in January, which is scheduled to be held from January 1-3.
"I will play in Abu Dhabi in January, and after that I will play my first official tournament in Doha," ESPN quoted a statement from Nadal, who had pulled out of the year-ending ATP World Tour Finals in London due to appendicitis surgery.
"It's unfortunate that I had to miss the end of this season, but the time off will allow me to become even more focused on what I want to accomplish in 2015," Nadal was quoted as saying by The National.
"I have missed a couple of opportunities to play big, competitive matches now so playing in Abu Dhabi in January for me is really important," added Nadal, who also has a bad back.
The 2014 season was full of ups and downs for the Spaniard. Although no one could take away the French Open crown from Nadal, he failed to make a mark in most of the tournaments thereafter, winding up the season with a win-loss ratio of 49-11.
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A. Wigderson and D. Xiao. "A Randomness-Efficient Sampler for Matrix-valued Functions and Applications." In FOCS 2005.
I was just about to post the same paper which David Molnar mentioned :) In fact, I calculated the spotlight factor for Avi Wigderson for this paper, and it works out to *(Wigderson) = 0.0183. This beats the record of Kaklamanis from the Kaklamanis et al paper mentioned in Martin Tompa's article by a handsome margin. Very noteworthy..
I hope you guys emailed Martin Tompa about this :). Clearly he needs to do a part III.
Excellent - thank you, Luca, for pointing that out! Now we just need the two Davids to collaborate.


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Questions about specific movies, TV shows and more
These are questions relating to specific titles. General questions for movies and TV shows are here. Members get e-mailed when any of their questions are answered.
Unanswered general questions
Answered general questions
Murder by Numbers (2002)
Question: Could someone please explain what the title means and what numbers have to do with anything? I'm not a native English speaker and I don't get it.
Answer: It's like a paint-by-numbers, where a picture is outlined on a board, and each little piece of it has a number corresponding to a different color of paint. You paint in the spaces based on what the numbers tell you. Murder by numbers refers to the boys following all the "rules" about how to create the perfect murder: choosing a victim at random, etc. They're murdering based on what they've been told is the right way to do it.
Never Die Alone (2004)
Question: How do they draw blood from a vein with a syringe, or inject a liquid into somebody's arm or neck? It doesn't appear that the needle is retractable, and you can see the liquid/blood being injected or drawn. If it's a closeup, it could be a fake arm, but many times you can see the person as this is being done. This appears in many movies. Anyone actually know?
ZipWin
Chosen answer: I used to have a "magic trick" syringe - the syringe has a double wall so that there is a tiny space around the outside that actually fills up with fluid from a reservoir in the syringe, the middle of the syringe (majority of the volume) remains empty, but it looks full.
Myridon
Children of the Corn (1984)
Question: All of Isaac's followers in this film are young people, no older than about their mid 20's. So why in the opening scene during the Cafe slaughter, is there a elderly lady helping them do their dirty work (the worker who poisons the coffees). This makes no sense at all considering it's the older people they were killing.
Gavin Jackson
Chosen answer: Who knows? Maybe they blackmailed her, because she works there, and the children wouldn't get caught poisoning the coffee, or maybe she isn't as old as you think, she could well be in her mid 20's, it's hard to tell, you only see her briefly.
She is obviously in her late teens, early 20s.
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Question: When Will and Jack climb aboard the Dauntless, Jack says, "everyone remain calm we are taking over the ship". What does Will say after him and what does it mean?
Answer: Will said, "Aye! Avast!" Aye means yes. Avast means stop or cease. Jack turned and gave Will the eyeball because Will sounded silly, and Will looked at Jack and gave him a look back as if he wondered in his own mind, "What? What did I do/say that's so bad?"
Super Grover
Question: I don't know where I can find the music track that was played right after Theoden said "And Rohan will answer", until the moment the Rohirrim left Edoras. It's a Rohan theme and it seems that it is not in the soundtrack.
Answer: Well, the movie is roughly three hours long and the soundtrack is around 80 minutes. Almost half of the music is not on the soundtrack. You'll have to wait until they release the complete soundtrack which runs almost as long as the film itself.
Question: Is this the only Bond film that features any references to Tracy Bond (other than the given "On Her Majesty's...")?
Answer: It's mentioned he was married in The Spy Who Loved Me and Licence to Kill.
Grumpy Scot
Answer: It is also vaguely alluded to in The World is Not Enough. When Electra asks Bond, "tell me, Mr. Bond, ha- have you ever lost a loved one." And it's written all over his face, so to speak.
Alan Keddie
Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)
Question: This question is for the Australian release of the DVD. On the cover, it says in the Special Features menu that there is an easter egg. Since there are no easter eggs listed for this movie, does anyone know what it is?
Answer: To access the Cheaper by the Dozen easter egg, go to the special features menu, highlight the bottom option on the list, not the back option, and press right. The easter egg is a Tommymax commercial.
hannisen
Question: When Lolita enters Humbert's room for the very first time, she asks him if she's getting a zit. According to Google, zit was used to define a pimple circa 1966. The movie takes place in 1947. Was the slang used back then?
Answer: It could have been. Lolita might have used a relatively new term, and also how can one really pinpoint the first time a term was used? Maybe it was more mainstream in 1966, but kids could have been using the expression for several years.
Question: According to the IMDB, Colin Farrell's sister, Claudine, appears in the bar scene when we first meet Bullseye. Having never seen her before, I was just curious: which one is she?
Answer: She's at the bar, standing next to the guy who Bullseye's playing against (and ultimately kills), wearing a blue and yellow sleeveless top.
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Question: There's a few things I didn't understand in this film: 1) What's the deal with Jill? Did she really love Mr. McBain or did she just marry for money etc? 2) After she sees the McBain's bodies, why does Jill search the house? Is she checking to see whether anything was stolen? 3) When Jill meets Harmonica in the barn, why does he rip her dress? 4) What's whole thing with Jill and Frank near the end? What exactly happens?
Answer: 1) Jill is a prostitute from New Orleans. She seeks out a new life out West. Love is irrelevant here. 2) She was promised a country living, a family, and wealth. That's why she is looking not only for money or gold but also for the reason her family was killed. 3) So Leone can show her beautiful body. 4) She's saving her life. She's a prostitute and I guess she knows how to fake it. Remember: "There's nothing that can't washed off by a hot bath".
Answer: "Leone fools us into thinking that Harmonica is a criminal and sexual predator in the scene in Jill's barn in which Harmonica rips off the white lace beneath the bodice of Jill's dress. This act, that seems to betoken sexual aggression and to anticipate rape, is actually one of protection. Harmonica represents no more of a sexual threat than Cheyenne does. What Harmonica realises, and Jill does not, is that Frank's sharpshooters wait for her in the hills above her house and that the white of her dress makes her an easy target. He might have explained this situation more carefully to her, of course, but Leone's characters seem to almost thrive on, or to court, ill opinion. Moreover, when Harmonica's shots ring out at the well and Jill realises he is actually intent on protecting rather than brutalizing her, the effect is all the more dramatic for his having given her no hint of his intentions. Leone's heroes do not like to wear their morality on their sleeves." (John Fawell).
La Confidential (1997)
Question: About 3/4 of the way through the film, Vincennes finds the body of the actor he arrested early in the movie, with his throat slit. Who killed him and why?
Answer: Reynolds has been sent by Sid Hudgens to sleep with Loew, the District Attorney. Dudley Smith and Pearce Patchett, who are trying to take over everything, have been threatening Loew, who initially refused to play along. They set Loew up, probably in much the same way that Hudgens tried to, with the intention of blackmailing him with photos so that he couldn't prosecute them. According to Loew, who spills the details while Bud's dangling him out of the window, Reynolds overheard all this - presumably Smith and/or Patchett followed Loew to the motel room to do the blackmailing - so they killed him.
Question: What does "Here's Johnny" mean? Torrance says this as he chops down the bathroom door.
Answer: "Here's Johnny" is a classic line used on the Tonight Show when Johnny Carson hosted. Anytime Johnny would enter the stage at the beginning of the show, Ed McMahon would shout "Here's Johnny" as his introduction. Jack Nicholson ad-libbed the line.
T Poston
Question: In the Warg battle, Aragorn accidentally falls over a cliff and doesn't return to Helm's Deep until much later, when everyone believes he is dead. This doesn't occur in the book (in fact, neither does the Warg battle, but I can see why the battle was added, to spruce up an otherwise boring scene). Can anyone explain what benefit Aragorn's accident had to the storyline?
Answer: This was done to add to the tension; in part for the audience, but in larger part for the characters. As Peter Jackson said, when asked about this issue, those who have read the books know what happens to Aragorn throughout the story, and will not think for a second that he truly has perished in the river, but for some viewers coming new to the whole thing, this adds some tension for them... more importantly, though, we see the reactions of the characters; they grieve for Aragorn as if they will not see him again, and even though we know otherwise - perhaps, in part, beCAUSE we know otherwise - we are sympathetic to that. It also serves to highlight the friendship, the true fellowship, that existed amongst them. Finally, PJ also said that he didn't want the whole journey to seem too easy; the heroes just wading through every battle felling enemies and not getting a scratch themselves; he wanted to show that they were vulnerable.
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Question: What's the name of the song , and who is/are the artist[s] who performed it, when we first see Peter leading a normal life after he quits as Spider-man?
Answer: Pretty sure the song you are talking about is "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" performed by B.J. Thomas.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Question: When the Fat Lady is gone out of the portrait, Harry is carrying something in his hand. Someone told me it was a gift that Ron gave to Harry when he was in Hogsmeade. Does anyone know what it is?
Answer: It's supposed to be the Sneakoscope that in the book is given to him by Ron at the very beginning of the book.
wolfchild
Question: As with the other two films, did Viggo Mortensen have to grow in his facial hair? To me, it looked just full enough to be natural.
Answer: It is Viggo's own facial hair that appears in all three films.
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Question: What happened to Kelly's genius friend Arby who, in the book, went with her to the island?
Answer: Like with most adaptations from book to film, some characters weren't needed and therefore not included in the movie script.
Question: Can anyone tell me why some of the subtitles change font, such as during one of Legolas' lines while the Rohirrim are being gathered?
Answer: It is in one font when they are just speaking (those are the ones you can turn on and off) and a different, fancier font when they are speaking Elvish.
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
Question: Maybe I missed a major plot point, but why exactly does Tom kill his lover at the very end?
Chosen answer: Tom & his lover are travelling on a boat. The rich girl, who knows Tom as Dickie is also on the boat. If they were to meet, Tom's false identity would have been revealed, and the lover would have been able to figure out that Tom actually murdered Dickie.
marfbody
Band of Brothers (2001)
Question: BoB is virtually free from major script "errors" like in Saving Private Ryan. I am referring to strongly questionable military tactical behavior, which bother me a lot with SVP. (Miller making his own interpretation of military priorities, the strange assault on the machine gun nest etc.). To which extent did the BoB crew consider the script "errors" of SPR when they made BoB? Or is it a mere coincidence that the feeling of military amateurism one gets from watching SPR, is completely gone with BoB?
Airborne Ranger
Chosen answer: The makers of Band of Brothers were very particular about getting things right. It helped immeasurably that BoB was initially based on the book by the military historian Stephen Ambrose, who based it entirely on interviews with the real individuals. Scripts for the episodes were shown to some of the surviving members of Easy Company, and their suggestions were incorporated into the show, as, indeed, were they. It's not so much that they actively considered the 'errors' of SPR - it's more that the source material (the recollections of those who were really there) that was available to them was so accurate that none of these types of errors ever entered the equation.


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156 Years Later, Ulysses S. Grant Could Get One Last Promotion
General Ulysses S. Grant at Cold Harbor (Edgar Guy Fowx photo courtesy of Library of Congress/Wikimedia Commons)
Military.com | By Patricia Kime
A soldier with broken time as a result of his love of bourbon whiskey could soon become the third man to hold the rank of General of the Armies.
The proposed fiscal 2023 James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act would let President Joe Biden posthumously promote Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, who retired with the rank of General of the Army, to General of the Armies -- a rank only held by Gen. George Washington, posthumously, and Gen. John "Black Jack" Pershing of World War I fame.
Grant became the country's first four-star general in 1866. For the past year, members of Congress have worked to promote the general to mark the 200th anniversary of his birth on April 27, 1822.
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On the House side, Rep. Ann Wagner, R-Mo., led a bipartisan effort to promote the former president, while on the Senate side, Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, led the charge.
The lawmakers wrote Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in April asking that he review Grant's military record and report to Congress his thoughts on the merits of a posthumous promotion.
"Ulysses S. Grant was an incredible leader who proved himself to be one of the most influential military commanders America has ever seen," Wagner said in an April press release marking Grant's birthday this year. "His leadership held our nation together at a perilous time in history."
An Ohio native, Grant, whose ancestors fought in the French and Indian War and the American Revolution, received a nomination to West Point in 1839 and graduated in 1843 as a second lieutenant, assigned to the infantry. He first saw combat in 1846 against Mexico near what is now Brownsville, Texas, and excelled throughout the Mexican-American War as a quartermaster and in combat.
Promoted to captain in 1853, Grant was assigned to California, where, away from his family, he began to drink -- reportedly favoring Old Crow bourbon -- and was reprimanded on several occasions, leading to his eventual resignation.
After the first shots of the Civil War were fired on April 12, 1861, however, Grant requested to be recommissioned. He served as a military aide to the governor of Illinois and established 10 regiments in the Illinois militia, earning a promotion to colonel and a command. The rest is history: the first major Union victory in Cape Girardeau, Missouri; wins at Shiloh, Chattanooga and Vicksburg; but also disastrous losses at Cold Harbor and Petersburg, Virginia.
After accepting Confederate Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, Virginia, Grant remained in the Army, eventually entering politics and ascending to the presidency in 1869. While his administration had its share of scandals, and he made a series of poor choices in domestic and foreign policy, Grant also was known for instituting laws that provided rights for Black Americans, as well as policies that sought to destroy groups including the Ku Klux Klan.
After two terms, plagued by dissent and opposition, Grant elected not to run for a third term, although he later would try again. He died of cancer at age 63 in 1885.
Grant traditionally has ranked as one of the worst American presidents, but his reputation has improved in the past several decades in part due to a reexamination by biographers that cast new light on his military leadership style and victories, accomplishments as a leader and his abilities to settle disputes.
UCLA Professor Emeritus Joan Waugh is among the historians who has delved into Grant's personality and legacy. Her book, "U.S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth," is considered one of the top retrospectives of Grant's life.
"I am hoping that [the bill] passes," Waugh said in an email to Military.com. "I agree with Prof. Anne Marshall's [executive director of the Grant Presidential Library] assessment of this delayed promotion as not only recognizing his generalship but also his leadership in trying to secure civil rights for the freed people during Reconstruction."
The House passed the defense policy bill Thursday, and the Senate is expected to approve the measure in the coming weeks. It will be up to Biden to determine whether to grant Grant a new rank.
It took Washington 195 years to be promoted posthumously to the rank of General of the Armies; his promotion was formalized on March 13, 1978, and backdated to July 4, 1976, to commemorate the Bicentennial.
If Grant is promoted, he will have beat the nation's first military leader and president by nearly 40 years.
"Grant's exemplary leadership on the battlefield could only be overshadowed by his commitment to a more just nation for all Americans during the Reconstruction Era. I'm proud to recognize President Grant's many accomplishments with this resolution as we plan a bicentennial celebration honoring his service 200 years after his birth in Point Pleasant, Ohio," Brown said in a press release in September introducing the legislation.
-- Patricia Kime can be reached at Patricia.Kime@Military.com. Follow her on Twitter @patriciakime.
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Q: session.BeginTransaction() and transaction.Commit() I am new to Nhibernate, so my query may seem trivial to you.
We generally embed data operation code inside
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  {
    using (var transaction = session.BeginTransaction())
    {
       ...Code for CRUD operations
       transaction.Commit();
    }
  }

Because we generally BeginTransaction/Commit/Rollback for saving/updating/deleting data,
I wonder if BeginTransaction() and Commit() are required even if I am retriving data using
session.Get<T>(id); or
session.CreateCriteria<T>().List();
Please guide.
Thank you!

A: No, you can't do data retrieval without transaction; all NH operations are transaction-centric.
Read this article by Ayende Rahien.

A: You should always use transactions in queries. Not only for the performance but also for concurrency reasons, and Ayende says about it.
His Hibernate profiler shows and alert if you use queries not in transaction scope.

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A free HTML5 based content type allowing creatives to create true/false questions. All you need is this content type and the H5P plugin for WordPress, Moodle or Drupal to start creating.
True/False Question is a simple and straightforward content type that can work by itself or combined into other content types such as Course Presentation. A more complex question can be created by adding an image or a video.
Yup, under 'Text Overrides and Translations'.
never mind, the "question set" type allowed me to add questions and select true/false as a question type.
"Column" will also allow you to add multiple true/false content types!
This pluging is absolutely amazing... thank you so much H5P team!!
Is "Column" a choice in the content types on wordpress also? sorry for the newb question ;-) Don't know where to find it. Double Thanks for the great new type.
Should be, if not you can get it from the column page, bottom left corner under the example content there is a small download button. Download the h5p file and upload it to your site.
Sorry for my poor english and want to be sure of the explanation.
I have to type "question set" to be allowed to add questions true/false a question type.
When I add an H5P activity in my Moodle course I have to fill a parameter page. Do you know exactly where I should type "question set"?
Please add a new forum topic here and post your question. This is so that you can attach a screenshot of the issue. Furthermore if you are missing the true/false question type in Question set I would suggest that you create a "test" content here in H5P.org with all the question types in it;. Download it in your local drive and upload it in Moodle. This is to make sure that all contents that are included in Question Set is installed in Moodle.
Always 1 of 1 point ?
Like: You have 5 questions in the column page. So answering 2 question correct is 2 of 5 points ?
Hi, you can not set the specific amount of points that each question gets, they get the native amount of points that the question has. So a true/false library will always yield 1 point, while a multiple choice with 3 correct answers may yield 3 points. To get this feature you would have to create a feature request or a pull request for it.
To further assist you with the "Behavioural Settings" issue we would need additional information.
I would like to do some test of translation in french. Is it possible to do this test in this area?
Unfortunately it's not possible to test different languages on h5p.org. You'll have to install one of the plugins (Drupal, Moodle or Wordpress) and change the language there.
Para conseguir colocar mais de uma questão utilize primeiro o plugin "coluna" e dentro da "coluna" o "verdadeiro e falso". Se você preferir pode coloca em exibição "apresentação".
Thank you for the input. You can also use the Quiz (Question Set) for this.
Is it possible to use this without having a correct answer? Or even better, the answer coming at a later date?
So we want to award a point simply for answering, regardless of what they answer.
How to add multiple true/false questions on Moodle?
This is great! But, How to add multiple true/false questions on Moodle? The H5P is already installed on my Moodle page.
You can use Quiz (Question Set) for this. It not only lets you add multiple T/F questions it also include different question types.
Another question. If I created on my Moodle many question sets. Then each set will be graded seprately (each set will have it own grade total). Is there a way to link all the sets together, so that I can have a total grade of all of the sets? (if this makes sense to you).
The Moodle gradebook may have a way to do this although I am not sure. The focus of H5P is on creating the contents it is up to the LRS on how the scores will be presented.
I'm afraid the H5P contents are not saved in the question bank. Although to help create contents more efficiently there is a feature in H5P to copy/paste questions/contents.
T/F disappeared as an option in my new question sets. Has anyone seen this before?
The best way to resolve this is to download a sample Quiz (Question Set) from H5P.org with a True/False question within it. Luckily I have one that I use for this specific purpose, you can download it here.
How many question can I add.
How many questions can I add for true/false question?
If you are going to use a standalone true/false question you can only create one at a time. However you can use Quiz (Question Set) to create multiple T/F question.
How to jump automatically to the next question?
Hi. I wanted to make a simple True/False quest with multiple questions (with images) and automatic jump to the next question after each of the answers. But I can't find those functions here. How can I do it?
You can use Quiz (Question Set) for this purpose.
I've used Quiz, I've made a new quiz, but I can't veiw the questions. How I have to do?
Could you please elaborate on the issue.
2. Are you seeing an error message?
WCAG 2.0 guidelines suggests that for error prevention there should be a mechanism for reviewing, confirming and correcting information before finalizing the submission. If this option is enabled the content will not have those 3 I mentioned.


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Exposing the QAnon phenomenon
"I'm going to make the below thread to explain to you exactly why it is an intelligence agency-backed psyop, what techniques are being used, and why you need to stop people falling for it."
Here is a thread of tweets from Suzie Dawson illustrating why the Qanon phenomenon is a psychological operation.
If I have to choose I will go with Suzie and with Wikileaks any day. Tragically, we have been deprived of Julian Assange's voice.
The game was given away when Dr.Jerome Corsi put out the message that American special forces had rescued Julian and that he was safe in Switzerland. Later on, that Edwarde Snowden was in China.
Why Qanon is an intelligence agency-backed psyop
Suzie Dawson @Suzi3D
FollowingFollowing @Suzi3D
THREAD: After more than 6 months of watching people get scammed by the #QAnon phenomena, I'm going to make the below thread to explain to you exactly why it is an intelligence agency-backed psyop, what techniques are being used, and why you need to stop people falling for it.
5:04 AM - 26 May 2018
Suzie Dawson @Suzi3D 7h7 hours ago
1. I referred to #QAnon today as a 'Pied Piper' operation. What I meant by this, is that the operation exists to round up people that are otherwise dangerous to the Deep State (because they are genuinely opposed to it) usurp time & attention, & trick them into serving its aims.
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2. To achieve this, the operation moves through three phases. PHASE 1: ESTABLISH CREDIBILITY. It does this by appearing to leak insider information to the #QAnon audience. Making them feel that they are getting access to information that they otherwise wouldn't be privy to
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2a. This has several effects. Firstly, it establishes Q's reputation as a government source. A whistleblower, or a leaker. More importantly, it begins to shape him/her/them as an authority figure. Someone to be looked up to. Someone who is different from the crowd. The Pied Piper
2b. The information "leaked" to establish credibility is not internal NSA documents like Snowden, or publishing evidence of war crimes like Assange, but is simply "heads-up' style reference points about what will be in the news or internal political machinations in Washington.
2c. In other words, it is not information that is in any way a meaningful threat to the supremacy of the intelligence agencies of the United States. It will not cause them to lose any sleep at night. They are not launching public manhunts for Q like they did for Assange & Snowden
2d. Q employs gamification. This is a technique frequently used by big data companies/corporates, surveillance companies, and intelligence agencies. It's not enough for Q to simply tell you stuff outright. So it has to become a quiz. It has to be a puzzle. It has to become fun.
2e. Q professes to share the values and priorities of his/her/their target audience. This creates a natural affinity between audience and Pied Piper. It creates a promise that if they follow Q, they will be led towards achieving the perfect outcomes that they hope and dream of.
2f. Of course the only place the Pied Piper will lead them is exactly where the Pied Piper wants to take them. Not where the audience wants to go. But every time these grand promises don't pan out, he tells them, be patient! Wait! Have faith! We want the same thing. We'll get it!
3. Phase Two: MAKING IT SPIRITUAL To build a truly evangelical following, the audience must become DEVOTED. Devotion is incredibly powerful. A devoted following is loyal and compliant, willing to silence their Devil's Advocate inner tendencies, willing to extend their faith.
3a. Concept of a global awakening was discussed by @davidicke in print in the 90s. Was written about in James Redfield's Celestine Prophecy series in the '00s. I suspect the concept dates back centuries. The information age has accelerated awareness, yes. DS seeks to control it.
3b. Q/Q followers cross-pollinate the concept of a global awakening with a spiritual awakening, and funnel that energy straight back into the conventional two-party political paradigm. A paradigm which is fundamentally opposed to the empowerment of individuals & spiritual growth.
3c. I have no doubt that the human brain & consciousness is capable of far more than what legacy science has suggested. But the mix of spirituality with politics, & spiritual devotion to a man who rubs shoulders with Kissinger, appoints Pompeo, Bolton & Haspel, is ridiculous.
4. Phase Three: Shifting The Targets & Unleashing The Audience These ops are not simply just like the day-to-day info ops where they want to make the audience believe false things. In order to unleash their full power, they have to shift focus & direct the audience to action.
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4a. Slowly and subtly, the Pied Piper starts to shift the direction. Where Q started out focusing on the int agencies/Deep-State-Will-Be-Drained promises, he begins to start drawing other figures into his narratives. Edward Snowden. Julian Assange. Targets of the Deep State.
4b. This is where Q's stated motives begin to fall apart. We don't even have to ask who benefits. We can just start asking some other really basic questions. Who does the Deep State want dead or in jail, more than anyone else? Edward Snowden, Julian Assange & Kim Dotcom.
4c. Therefore, what is the most subversive thing that an opponent of the Deep State can do? Clue: not reading #QAnon all day every day on the internet. Taking action in support of Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and Kim Dotcom. THAT is what the Deep State don't want you to do.
4d. The reason I am mentioning Kim Dotcom is not because of Q, but because Ed, Julian and Kim are all being prosecuted in the Eastern District Court of Virginia. The home of the CIA. All three are being targeted by massive operations undertaken by the same intelligence agencies
4e. The Snowden file revelations (not the revelations in the MSM, but in the actual documents which @ElizabethleaVos & I have extensively studied) reveal way more than mass surveillance. They reveal the total subversion of every facet of human society by the intelligence agencies
4f. Those files reveal, in the NSA's own words, that they are seeking to build a "global network" that gives them "100% coverage" of every inch of the planet. The wars aren't just for oil. They are for global supremacy. The globalists intend to dominate every country on earth.
4g. We know this thanks to sacrifices of real whistleblowers. Not whistleblowers who showed us what Trump will tweet, or where he will be visiting next, or what will be in the news tomorrow. Whistleblowers that exposed the innermost secrets of the most powerful agencies on earth
4h. So when Q started telling people to look into Snowden and his family, I smelled a rat instantly. The only people who want you digging dirt on Snowden are the people who want him dead or in jail. And those people ARE THE DEEP STATE.
5. A lot of you are asking me questions "what about this" "what about that" - I will address the common themes shortly. But first I want to explain why the Q methodologies of building trust, gamification & then subverting the original intent & purpose is so transparent to me.
5a. The answer is because this is how intelligence agency and private security companies target activists. These methodologies have been in use for years. They are the techniques of "handlers". What is different about Q is they they are now handling people on a massive scale.
5b. They make you feel special. They make you feel clever. They make you feel lucky. They otherise you. According to them, you are different. You can do more, be more, achieve more. All these things are true of everyone. But their intent is to build trust so they can shape you.
5c. I think Q - which is more likely to be an operation than a person - is the first instance of a "mass handler". Same techniques and methodologies, same training, same net results. End goal same as #JTRIG: "to use online influence ops to make targets take real world actions"
5d. JTRIG is a psychological warfare doctrine from GCHQ (UK's NSA) but is employed across the Five Eyes at minimum and more broadly the principles are utilised against targets by every intelligence agency on the planet. Study it. It is one of the many gems gifted to us by Snowden
5e. And what is the name of the NSA group tasked with hunting down Snowden for having leaked such powerful information to the world? The Q Group. As revealed in June 2013, the week of Snowden's first disclosures:
6. Now I'm going to cover off a few common sense indicators that the Q operation is tolerated at best, or helped to grow at worst, by the same forces that it supposedly stands in opposition to. Then I will address the common themes of the questions I'm being asked in replies
6a. If the NSA having a "Q group" hunting down Snowden wasn't enough, just stop and think about how the Deep State usually reacts to anyone who meaningfully builds a large movement to ostensibly challenge their authority. Then ask yourself why that isn't used against #QAnon.
6b. The #QAnon movement has swelled to an audience of 100s of 1000s, arguably millions around the world are watching/following in some capacity. That is definitely large enough to get the full-blown state-led-smear, corporate-censorship, intel agency-manhunt treatment. But hasn't
6c. When the Pentagon manhunt for Julian Assange was launched in 2010, ditto with the Snowden manhunt in 2013, we saw the heads of the intelligence agencies warning that they were grave threats to national security. Smears were abundant. Supporters were individually targeted.
6d. The first step of the Deep State is to ridicule the support base, to a mainstream audience. The typical playbook would be for NYT, WaPo, CNN etc to be telling everyone that #QAnon supporters are unwashed kids-in-moms-basement dirty hippies like Occupy etc. Hasn't happened.
6e. Notable individuals who support and circulate #QAnon would be publicly named and shamed, or worse, subject to grand jury proceedings and indictments for being party to the leaking of classified information. Targeted by all of the mechanisms of the state. Also hasn't happened.
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After carrying out my undergraduate psychology degree here at Staffordshire University, I completed the MSc in Health Psychology at Staffordshire in 2010. I carried out my PhD alongside part time teaching at the university, as well as working on other research projects such as a body image dance intervention and a smoking . I finished my PhD in June 2013.
My expertise is in health psychology and body image related research. I have expertise in both qualitative and quantitative methods.
I am interested in health promotion, and particularly the use of appearance-focussed interventions designed to encourage people to take up healthier lifestyle choices.
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