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How To Write Undergraduate Application Personal Statements
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A Marketing Approach to Writing the AMCAS Personal Statement
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By Diane Spivak
As you prepare for the personal comments section of the AMCAS application, it's helpful to remember an important point: it's not actually an essay. It's really a sales pitch. Here's a crude way to explain this concept: Imagine that you, the applicant, are a roll of toilet paper and the Admissions Officer is one of those thirty-something moms seen in TV ads, agonizing over which brand to purchase. How does she choose? Consumers goods companies spend millions of dollars on this very question. Their goal is to get people to see differences in products that are actually quite similar. You need to have the same objective, because on paper you're just like hundreds of other medical school applicants, with high marks, good MCAT scores and great extra-curriculars.
Admissions officers spend only a few minutes reading your statement. Therefore, you want to find a way to make them remember you, and to make your accomplishments and individuality stand out. One method to help you determine how to do this is to take a marketer's approach. Consider yourself as a roll of toilet paper that needs a brand identity and you just might find a sharper focus for the interesting story of you that that those 5300 characters must tell.
You don't need a marketing degree or a working knowledge of Mad Men, although it doesn't hurt to search out and read a few articles about how businesses develop brand identity. One thing they do is spend time reflecting on the attributes and values of the brand, to help them consider how it is perceived in the marketplace. There are many standard exercises that companies they use as a starting point to this process.
Applying these exercises to a person may seem a bit silly, but they force you to think about what's important to your identity, how others see you and how you want to be perceived. You have already been told that you should "be yourself" in your essay and in interviews. What you really want to be is your "best self," someone who is mature enough to understand who s/he is, has thought deeply about what's important to them, and has considered how their life experience has led them to a career in medicine. These exercises can be a step forward in that direction.
Exercise #1: Create a list of adjectives that describe your personality.
To help generate this, try searching word lists for adjectives that describe personal qualities. Or, think of the adjectives in terms of opposites. Are you outgoing or reserved? Pragmatic or impulsive? Logical or whimsical? Try to find at least ten adjectives that apply to you.
Exercise #2: List your strengths and weaknesses.
This is for your eyes only, so be honest and don't judge yourself too harshly. Remember that the point of this is only to help find a focus for your personal statement, not to detail a list of your faults.
Exercise #3: What kind of car, type of animal, brand of cell phone are you?
Keep a lighthearted approach to this exercise but also take the time to reflect on the values you think your answers have. Ask your close friends for their opinions and note any important discrepancies. If you think of yourself a lion, but all your friends imagine you as a golden retriever, it's worthwhile to spend some time considering why that may be and how you can ensure your essay reflects the image you want to portray.
Exercise #4: Develop a three or four word description for your life story thus far.
You're in Hollywood, pitching a script of your movie bio to a producer. You're writing a blurb as a bio for your highly anticipated memoirs. What would you say about yourself? This may be the toughest of all the exercises, but having a list of adjectives that describe you should make the process a little bit easier.
How to Apply This to your Personal Statement
The ultimate goal of the personal statement is to convince admissions officers that you have the motivation, focus, energy and sincerity needed to be a good medical student and a good doctor. Use the insights you've gained by doing these exercises to help create a more interesting story about your life experience.
The essay will be most persuasive when it's the most authentic. If the exercises reveal that you are quiet, dependable and somewhat intense, a tortoise that can turn into mule, a Honda Civic who doesn't need to flash your solid structure and fuel efficiency, then use that knowledge to your advantage. As you are writing, show examples of your focus, your long-term motivation and your determination to succeed as a doctor.
It's also important that you don't try to be something you are not. Mark was a pre-med student who also happened to play guitar and sing in a local band. The first draft of his essay hardly mentioned this fact, because Mark decided that it would be seen as frivolous. He felt the best way to persuade schools that he was a qualified candidate was to write about his work as a research assistant to a pediatric cardiologist. Mark's MCAT scores were high, but in his first two years of university he was considering a future in music and his marks were less than stellar. When he switched from arts into sciences they drastically improved, but a slight discrepancy remained in his transcripts.
Mark struggled with his personal statement because it seemed quite boring. When he spent some time in contemplation of his personal 'brand,' he realized that that the creative side of him was crucial to his identity and too important to exclude. Once he made that decision, Mark had a story to tell and in his final draft, the first line of his personal statement went something like this: "I wasn't always sure I wanted to be a doctor, because when I was younger, I dreamed of being a rock musician."
The essay went on to explain what led Mark to change his focus. He found space to include some of the standard biographical features that are in most personal statements, including his experiences with patient care as a research assistant. He acknowledged his early lack of focus and spoke frankly about developing the discipline needed to achieve better marks. He was also able to discuss how his research work helped him understanding the creative element in medicine and how this experience cemented his excitement about his potential future as a doctor.
Mark's understanding about what was important to him gave him the tools to tell a compelling story about his ordinary life. The content of his essay wasn't much different from what other candidates might say. But his refreshing honesty showed maturity and allowed him to showcase his dedication and his eagerness to make a real contribution. He received several interviews and ultimately got into the school of his choice.
Sometimes, in order to create a brand identity, consumer goods companies invent differences in products where none really exist. That's not advisable for you to do, but neither is it necessary. You aren't a roll of toilet paper. You already are a unique individual with your own story to tell. Spending time thinking of you as a brand that needs to be sold to the world may feel a little bit uncomfortable. However, if it pushes you to write a more genuinely persuasive personal statement, it will be worth the effort.
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Discord Sets Sights on Steam, Adds Free Games, Launches Online Store (EXCLUSIVE)
By Brian Crecente
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Discord, the online chat and video service used by 150 million gamers, drops into the video game sales business Thursday with the launch of a beta program that includes both free games for paid membership and a more traditional digital retail store.
The company is also adding a new universal game-launching tab, which can launch any game on a user's computer from Discord without having to search for the game or its own launching program.
The move into game sales is designed to extend the reach of the service and find another avenue of revenue.
"We've actually been mulling the idea for a long time," Discord chief marketing officer Eros Resmini, told Variety via email. "We wanted to build an amazing platform that people wanted to use every day and we wanted to grow that platform before focusing too much on monetization. We now have 150 million users, so timing felt right. We knew we didn't want to sell ads or user data, so we had two options left: cosmetics or content. Nitro was our attempt at cosmetics, now we're adding games to that subscription and building a retail store too."
The beta for game sales rolls out in Canada on Thursday to 50,000 randomly selected customers. Those selected will see an upgraded version of Discord Nitro that has access to a curated selection of games along with the current subscription perks. They'll also see a new tab in the home screen, the Discord Store, with individual games for purchase. Initially, only Windows PC users will be supported by the program.
Discord hasn't yet determined how long the beta test will run in Canada, but Resmini said the plan is to slowly roll the new storefront out over time and make decisions based on user feedback. Plans to extend outside Canada are similar.
"We hope to slowly expand the beta to test different markets, currencies, prior to full launch later this year," he said.
The retail store will be a curated selection of titles that will also eventually include "First on Discord" titles. These are indie games that Discord says it has "helped bring to life." They will usually remain as Discord exclusives for the first 90 days and then can be sold anywhere, according to the company.
The beta launch line-up of titles doesn't include any First on Discord titles. Starting Thursday, Nitro subscribers will have free access to 10 titles: "Saints Row: The Third," "Metro: Last Light Redux," "Darksiders: Warmastered Edition," "De Blob," "Tormentor X Punisher," "Dandara," "Kathy Rain," "GoNNER," "Kingdom: New Lands," "System Shock Enhanced Edition," and "Super Meat Boy."
The retail store will initially sell the following games: "Dead Cells," "Frostpunk," "Omensight," "Into the Breach," "SpellForce 3," "The Banner Saga 3," "Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire," "Hollow Knight," "Moonlighter," "This is the Police 2," and "Starbound."
Resmini said games will be selected by a curation team powered by the more than 100 people who work at Discord.
"We generally focus on newer titles for the Retail store and 'games you may have missed' for the Nitro subscription," he said.
Discord will also be rolling out a system for developers to submit their games for consideration in the stores, he added. The company takes 30 percent of sales from games that end up in the store, matching what Valve's massive online game store Steam takes from developers.
That's likely not a coincidence. Resmini said that Discord is absolutely to take on major digital stores like Steam.
"Let me put it this way," he added. "If we could build a fraction of what Steam has built, we would be very proud."
In April of 2016, Steam reported that it had about 125 million users, compared to Discord's 150 million as of Thursday, and more than 18,000 games for sale. In 2017, 7,600 games were released on Steam and total sales were an estimated $4.3 billion, according to Steam Spy. Steam recently announced plans to expand into China, teaming up with Tencent for that store. Steam also recently rolled out a Discord-like chat service.
While both services seem to be meeting in some middle ground — with Steam coming from the side of sales and Discord from the side of chat — Discord's service is growing at an incredibly high rate. In May 2017, the service had just 45 million users, more than tripling that number in about a year. In May, Discord reported it had 19 million daily users. Steam recently reported that it had 43 million daily active users in April.
Just last month, analyst group SuperData noted that Discord could become a threat to Steam if it entered the game sales business.
"Previously, Steam was invaluable not only because of its storefront but because it facilitated social connections between players," SuperData research manager Carter Rogers told Variety at the time. "In 2011, Electronic Arts got flak after breaking away from Steam to form its own storefront, Origin. At the time, players feared a slippery slope of multiple companies leaving Steam, resulting in the need to maintain friends lists across a wide range of platforms. Now, Discord is where gamers' main friends' lists live, not Steam."
Even with the launch of the store, Discord seems very aware of the importance of its chat service and becoming a one-stop-shop for gaming.
Thursday's addition of a universal library tab on the Discord home screen is a big sign of that.
If users elect to, Discord can scan their computer for games and then make it possible to launch any of them through Discord, even if they require another launch. To do that, Discord will simply boot the other launcher and game.
And in announcing the new services, Discord was quick to stress that chat remains a top priority for the company.
Voice, text and video chat remain a primary focus for the company, it says. That means staying focused on maintaining a quality user experience and app performance and continuing to build out new features and even making sure non-chat services, like the store, don't get in the way of chatting with friends. (The store design is meant to stay in the background until you want it.)
This also means a focus on chat performance, using things like code splitting and dynamic loading to keep the service from becoming bloated or slow because of new features.
It's a reminder that the team behind Discord initially developed an iPad MOBA game six years ago and then, listening to their audience and weighing their own judgment of what they created, decided to break off the communication tech from the game and invest fully in that instead.
Now six years later, Discord has a 150 million registered users and remains, it says, community and communication focused. And that, Resmini told Variety is what will separate Discord from all of the other online game storefronts.
"Discord has become a home for many gamers who use it to connect with friends multiple times a day, some people seem to live on discord," he said. "With now 150 million registered users that's a lot of building friendships while talking about and playing games together. That's how we think we 'll fit in differently than other stores out there, ours will be driven mostly by friendships and playing together. Who better to help you find a game than your friends?"
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Cats lack the ability to speak with words, but rest assured, they are communicating with you constantly. They talk with a vocabulary of body language and noises. The purr is one way that your cat speaks to you, just like the position of a cat's tail, her meow, and her eye movements. Her purr just happens to be one of her most common — and meaningful — ways to let you know how she's feeling.
Here are a few of the reasons your cat purrs.
One of the big reasons cats purr is because they're happy. If you hear that familiar low, sweet rumbling from your kitty, it likely means that she's content — all is well in her world. Have you ever given your cat a treat and heard her purr as she ate it? She's purring because she's happy and genuinely thankful for the gift.
Cats first start purring as kittens. When they're just a couple of days old, kittens purr to let their moms know they're OK. Tiny kittens' purrs help them bond with their mom. So if you hear your beloved pet purring, it may be because he's building a parent-child bond with you. How sweet!
There's nothing quite like having the unconditional love and trust of a warm, fuzzy feline. When your cat is lying in your lap purring up a storm, it often means she knows she's safe and secure from predators. You won't let anything get to her, and she knows it. In fact, some experts believe purring evolved because it was a difficult sound for predators to hear!
Did you know that purrs can heal? It's true: the low vibrations of a purr can actually promote healing. Domestic cats purr at a frequency that promotes tissue regeneration. This is one of the reasons cats sometimes purr when they're scared or sick. Some people even think the vibration of a purr can be healing to humans too! In fact, some purr-like vibration devices are patented to help astronauts with bone density problems.
Purrs can also be your cat's way to get your attention. Some scientists call these "soliciting purrs." For example, if she rubs against you and purrs, she may be trying to convince you to play. Or if she jumps into bed with you and starts to knead and purr, she may be trying to get you to stay in bed and take a little cat nap.
What is your cat telling you when she purrs? Tell us in the comments below. If you want to hear even more purrs from your kitty, try giving her treats every night, like Meow Mix Irresistibles® Treats.


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IPL 2021 | We'll ensure you reach home seamlessly once event ends: BCCI assures foreign players amid COVID-19 scare
BCCI COO Hemang Amin lauded the players for carrying on with the IPL amid the second wave of COVID-19 cases in India.
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The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on April 27 said it would do everything to ensure that foreign players competing in the Indian Premier League (IPL) reach their respective countries seamlessly once the tournament ends, a day after three Australians quit the event amid an upsurge of COVID-19 cases in India.
Andrew Tye (Rajasthan Royals) and the duo of Kane Richardson and Adam Zampa (both Royal Challengers Bangalore) withdrew as apprehension set in after a couple of weeks went by smoothly for the league held in front of empty stands across six venues.
"We understand that many of you are apprehensive about how you will get back home once the tournament concludes… We want to apprise you that you have nothing to worry about," BCCI COO Hemang Amin said in a letter addressed to the players. "The BCCI will do everything to ensure that you reach your respective destinations seamlessly. The BCCI is monitoring the situation very closely and is working with the government authorities to make arrangements to get you home once the tournament concludes."
"Be rest assured that the tournament is not over for BCCI till each one of you has reached your home, safe and sound," he added.
India is recording over 3 lakh daily cases for the past few days and the health infrastructure is struggling to handle the rise with shortage of oxygen and some crucial medicines adding to the crisis.
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Australia on April 26 suspended all direct passenger flights from India with immediate effect until May 15 due to the "very significant" spike in COVID-19 cases.
Kolkata Knight Riders mentor David Hussey acknowledged that Australians in the IPL are a "bit nervous" about getting back home in the wake of the situation.
Amin lauded the players for carrying on. "As some of you have said, 'if we can help distract people from all the troubles of recent times, even if it is for a short while, we have done a great job'. When you all walk out onto the field, you are bringing hope to millions of people who have tuned in."
"If, even for a minute, you can bring a smile on someone's face, then you have done well. While you are professionals and will play to win, this time you are also playing for something much more important," he concluded.
Several England and New Zealand players are also competing in the event but haven't yet spoken about their concerns.
The IPL final is scheduled to be held on May 30 in Ahmedabad.
Read | COVID-19 scare: List of players who have withdrawn, opted out of IPL 2021 so far
As many as 14 Australian players remain in the event, including stars such as Steve Smith (DC), David Warner (Sunrisers Hyderabad) and Pat Cummins (Kolkata Knight Riders), as well as coaches Ricky Ponting (DC) and Simon Katich (RCB).
Commentators Matthew Hayden, Brett Lee, Michael Slater and Lisa Sthalekar are also among the Australians involved with the league right now.
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Stip: Imagine Bobby Roode wins the men's money in the bank and get's crowned as Mr. MITB. Showcase that, use fonts and adapt the work to his gimmick.
Stip: Imagine the New Day member wins the men's money in the bank and get's crowned as Mr. MITB. Showcase that, use fonts and adapt the work to his gimmick. *NOTE:* You must wait after the PPV when you actually see who the new day member is.
Stip: Imagine Ember Moon wins the women's money in the bank and get's crowned as Ms. MITB. Showcase that, use fonts and adapt the work to her gimmick.
Stip: Imagine Alexa Bliss wins the women's money in the bank and get's crowned as Ms. MITB. Showcase that, use fonts and adapt the work to her gimmick.
Havoc vs Kanzler vs DerpRollins: If Havoc wins he gets an underground title opportunity next week. Same for Derp. If Kanzler wins he picks the SSS for his match at Cash In The Case.
Stip: At NXT Chicago Aleister Black squares off against Lars Sullivan. A total destruction is expected, especially with the NXT title included. Make a poster for the PPV featuring them. Use logos, slogans, taglines, dates and anything you think it needs.
Stip: The Big Dog vs The Modern Day Maharaja. The match has been made official, at MITB the two big guys will face eachother in a match that's surely going to be an interesting one. Make a piece about this match, feature the MITB logo, slogans, taglines, dates and anything you want.
Stip: Imagine Finn Balor wins the men's money in the bank and get's crowned as Mr. MITB. Showcase that, use fonts and adapt the work to his gimmick.
Stip: At MITB the Kingslayer Seth Rollins faces Elias for the Intercontinental Championship. This match will surely be one of the most interesting matches of the night. Make a poster featuring the MITB logo, slogans, date and whatever you feel it needs. Make it proffesional and do your best, we expect a lot from this match.


There are basicly 3 major pieces of software that have been recovered for the IBM 1410/7010, two operating systems and a diagnostics tape. Recovery of these are thanks to Paul Pierce.
Better documented of the two operating systems. This is a tape version, and includes support for 1301 disk, 7750 communications controller. Languages include Autocoder, Fortran, Cobol, IOCS and Sort. Unfortunatly we seem to be lacking a disk master tape so we can't at the moment generate a disk resident system.
The system tape comes from the Master PR-155 from Paul Pierces site tape adc00036, but I fixed it to clean up some parity errors in the data. So use this master tape: PR155 master. The master tape is not ment to be used to process data, only to sysgen for specific system. The following job will generate what is called a System Generation File (or SGF). Gensgf job, sim configuration file, listing. This system is set for a IBM7010 with 100K of memory, one 1301 disk on channel 1, tapes on channels 1, 2 and 3, unit devices on channels 1 and 2. Next step is to generate a systems operating file (or SOF), from the SGF with the packages wanted in best order for running. The jobs are gensof, sim init files, and resulting tape SOF tape. If you just want to play with PR155 use the SOF tape. It includes AUTOCODER, FORTRAN, COBOL, UTILITIES and SORT.
For some example jobs to run: (using sim init file).
The following manuals may be helpfull in using PR155: (All manuals are stored at bitsavers) (Please use local mirror when downloading).
Note there are some other PR155 documents on bitsavers, but these cover all the features, the others are older or updates to older manuals.
Very little documentation exists for PR108. I have been able to run a simple autocoder job and compile a fortran program, but can't get it to run. The tape includes Autocode, IOCS, 2 Fortran compilers, Cobol and RPG. If you can generate sample jobs for this system please email them to be and I will add them here. I had to do a modification to get the system tape to run Fortran, I believe it might have been disabled in the original tape image. This is not a master tape, but a working system tape.
Documents that may be related to PR108 (All linkes point to bitsavers).
Diagnostics for the 1410 and 7010 and most of the peripherals. Mount tape on A0 and issue "boot mta0" to start. At OPTIONS? prompt enter the diagnostic name you with to run. If you enter only part of a name all diagnostics matching start of name will be run.
Listing of files on tape.


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Ukraine and the New Al Qaeda
Originally published at The Last American Vagabond.
As the conflict between Ukraine and Russia continues to escalate and dominate the world's attention, the increasing evidence that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is and has been working to create and arm an insurgency in the country has received considerably little attention considering its likely consequences.
This is particularly true given that former CIA officials and a former Secretary of State are now openly saying that the CIA is following the "models" of past CIA-backed insurgencies in Afghanistan and Syria for its plans in Ukraine. Given that those countries have been ravaged by war as a direct result of those insurgencies, this bodes poorly for Ukraine.
Yet, this insurgency is poised to have consequences that reach far beyond Ukraine. It increasingly appears that the CIA sees the insurgency it is creating as more than an opportunity to take its hybrid war against Russia ever closer to its borders. As this report will show, it appears the CIA is determined to manifest a prophecy propagated by its own ranks over the past two years.
This prediction from former and current intelligence officials dates from at least early 2020 and holds that a "transnational white supremacist network" with alleged ties to the Ukraine conflict will be the next global catastrophe to befall the world as the threat of Covid-19 recedes.
Per these "predictions", this global network of white supremacists – allegedly with a group linked to the conflict in the Donbas region of Ukraine at its core – is to become the new Islamic State-style threat and will undoubtedly be used as the pretext to launch the still-dormant infrastructure set up last year by the US government under President Biden for an Orwellian "War on Domestic Terror."
Given that this CIA-driven effort to build an insurgency in Ukraine began as far back as 2015 and that the groups it has trained (and continues to train) include those with overt Neo-Nazi connections, it seems that this "coming Ukrainian insurgency," as it has been recently called, is already here.
In that context, we are left with the unnerving possibility that this latest escalation of the Ukraine-Russia conflict has merely served as the opening act for the newest iteration of the seemingly endless "War on Terror."
Insurgency Rising
Soon after Russia began military operations in Ukraine, Foreign Affairs – the media arm of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) – published an article entitled "The Coming Ukrainian Insurgency."
The piece was authored by Douglas London, a self-described "retired Russian-speaking CIA operations officer who served in Central Asia and managed agency counterinsurgency operations." He asserted in the article that "Putin will face a long, bloody insurgency that will spread across multiple borders" with the potential to create "widening unrest that could destabilize other countries in Russia's orbit."
Other notable statements made by London include his assertion that "the United States will invariably be a major and essential source of backing for a Ukrainian insurgency."
He also states that "As the United States learned in Vietnam and Afghanistan, an insurgency that has reliable supply lines, ample reserves of fighters, and sanctuary over the border can sustain itself indefinitely, sap an occupying army's will to fight, and exhaust political support for the occupation at home."
London explicitly refers to models for this apparently imminent Ukrainian insurgency as the CIA-backed insurgencies in Afghanistan in the 1980s and the "moderate rebels" in Syria from 2011 to the present.
London isn't alone in promoting these past CIA-backed insurgencies as a model for "covert" US aid to Ukraine. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose State Department helped to create the "moderate rebel" insurgency in Syria and oversaw the US and NATO-backed destruction of Libya, appeared on MSNBC on February 28th to say essentially the same.
In her interview, Clinton cited the CIA-backed insurgency in Afghanistan as "the model that people [in the US government] are now looking toward" with respect to the situation in Ukraine. She also references the insurgency in Syria in similar fashion in the same interview. It is worth noting that Clinton's former deputy chief of staff when she was Secretary of State, Jake Sullivan, is now Biden's National Security Adviser.
The Afghanistan insurgency, initially backed by the US and CIA beginning in the late 1970s under the name Operation Cyclone, subsequently spawned the US empire's supposedly mortal enemies – the Taliban and Al Qaeda – who would go on to fuel the post-9/11 "War on Terror."
The US' campaign against the descendants of the insurgency it had once backed resulted in horrific destruction in Afghanistan and a litany of dead and war crimes, as well as the longest (and thus most expensive) war and occupation in American military history. It also resulted in the bombings and destruction of several other countries along with the whittling down of civil liberties domestically.
Similarly, in Syria, the US and CIA's backing of "moderate rebels" was and remains incredibly destructive to the country it supposedly wants to merely "liberate" from the rule of Bashar al-Assad. The US military continues to occupy critical areas of that country.
With these openly touted as "models" for the "coming Ukraine insurgency," what is to become of Ukraine, then? If the history of CIA-backed insurgencies is any indicator, it heralds significantly more destruction and more suffering for its people than the current Russian military campaign.
Ukraine will become a failed state and a killing field. Those in the West cheering on their governments' support for the Ukrainian side of the conflict would do well to realize this, particularly in the United States, as it will only lead to the escalation of yet another deadly proxy war.
However, in addition to the above, we must also consider the very unsettling reality that this Ukrainian insurgency began to be formed by the CIA at least several months, if not several years, prior to Russia's currently ongoing military campaign in Ukraine. Yahoo! News reported in January that the CIA has been overseeing a covert training program for Ukrainian intelligence operatives and special ops forces since 2015.
Their report explicitly quotes one former CIA official with knowledge of the program as saying that the CIA has been "training an insurgency" and has been conducting this training at an undisclosed US military base. This training of Ukrainian "insurgents" was supported by the Obama, Trump, and now Biden administrations, with the latter two expanding its operations.
While the CIA denied to Yahoo! that it was training an insurgency, a New York Times report also published in January stated that the US is considering support for an insurgency in Ukraine if Russia invades.
Given that the CIA, at that time and prior to this year, has been warning of an imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine up until the current escalation of hostilities took place, it is worth asking if the US government and the CIA helped "pull the trigger" by intentionally crossing Russia's "red lines" with respect to NATO encroachment in Ukraine and post-2014 Ukraine's acquisition of nuclear weapons when it became clear that the CIA's repeated predictions about an "imminent" invasion failed to materialize.
Russia's red lines with Ukraine have been stated clearly – and violated repeatedly by the US – for years. Notably, the US' efforts to provide lethal aid to Ukraine have coincided with the winding down of its lethal support to Syrian "rebels", suggesting that the US war and intelligence apparatus has long seen Ukraine as the "next" on its list of proxy wars.
However, more recently, the CIA's warnings of an imminent invasion of Ukraine were scoffed at, not only by many American analysts, but also apparently by both the Russian and Ukrainian governments themselves.
It is alleged that this all changed, at least from the Russian perspective, following Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's claim at the Munich Security Conference that his government would seek to make Ukraine a nuclear power in violation of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum. Surely, Zelensky and his supporters in Washington DC and Langley, Virginia would have known that such an extreme claim from Zelensky would elicit a response from Russia.
One need only consider the reverberations that follow any country announcing its intentions to become a nuclear power on the world stage. Russian leadership has since made the case that they felt compelled to act militarily after Ukraine, which has been regularly attacking separatists along its border with Russia with embedded paramilitary units that have called for the "extermination" of ethnic Russians who live in those regions, announced plans to acquire nukes.
In addition, given Ukraine's growing ties to NATO and its desire to integrate itself into that alliance, these theoretical nuclear weapons would be NATO-controlled nukes on Russia's border. Zelensky, the US, and their other allied parties surely knew that this intention, particularly its admission in public, would push an already tense situation to the next level.
Of course, this statement from Zelensky followed a US-led airlift of weapons to Ukraine early last month, weeks before the current Russian military campaign. US lethal aid to Ukraine has previously been described as being tantamount to a "declaration of war" on Russia by the US, per members of Russia's Ministry of Defense as far back as 2017.
It is worth considering that these red lines and the potential to cross them was discussed by Zelensky and representatives of Ukraine's intelligence services when they met with the head of the CIA, William Burns, in January. The CIA, at that time, was already claiming a Russian invasion of Ukraine was imminent. Given the events described above, could it be possible that the CIA wanted to bring about the insurgency they have been preparing for, potentially since 2015?
Would they have done so by pushing their allies in Ukraine's government to manifest the conditions necessary to begin that insurgency, i.e. prompting them to cross Russia's "red lines" to elicit the reaction needed to launch a pre-planned insurgency? With the CIA also training Ukraine's intelligence operatives for nearly seven years, the possibility is certainly one to consider.
If this theory is more than plausible and close to the truth of how we got here, we are left with more questions, mainly – Why would the CIA look to launch this insurgency in Ukraine and why now? The apparent answer may surprise you.
Manufacturing the Narrative and the Threat
In May 2020, Politico published an article entitled "Experts Knew a Pandemic Was Coming. Here's What They're Worried About Next."
The article was written by Garrett Graff, former editor of Politico, a professor at Georgetown's Journalism and Public Relations program, and director of cyber initiatives at The Aspen Institute – a "non-partisan" think tank funded largely by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Carnegie Corporation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Graff's introduction to the piece states the following:
"Every year, the intelligence community releases the Worldwide Threat Assessment — a distillation of worrisome global trends, risks, problem spots and emerging perils.
But this year, the public hearing on the assessment, usually held in January or February, was canceled, evidently because intelligence leaders, who usually testify in a rare open hearing together, were worried their comments would aggravate President Donald Trump. And the government has not yet publicly released a 2020 threat report."
In 2020, the CIA did not release a "worldwide" threat assessment for the first time since it first began annually releasing them decades ago. This article published by Politico was intended by Graff to serve as a "Domestic Threat Assessment" in the absence of the CIA's Worldwide Threat Assessment and is styled as a "list of the most significant events that might impact the United States" in the short, medium and long terms.
Graff created this Threat Assessment document after interviewing "more than a dozen thought leaders," many of whom were "current and former national security and intelligence officials." A few months later, the Department of Homeland Security, for the first time since its creation in 2003, would publish its own "Homeland" Threat Assessment in October of that year.
As I noted at the time, this signalled a major shift within the US national security/intelligence apparatus away from "foreign terror", its ostensible focus since 9/11, to "domestic terror."
Just months after this Homeland Threat Assessment was published, the war on domestic terror would be launched in the wake of the events of January 6th, which itself was apparently foreseen by then-DHS official Elizabeth Neumann.
In early 2020, Neumann had presciently stated: "It feels like we are at the doorstep of another 9/11 — maybe not something that catastrophic in terms of the visual or the numbers — but that we can see it building, and we don't quite know how to stop it."
Indeed, when January 6th took place, no real effort was made by Capitol Police or other law enforcement officials present to stop the so-called "riot", with plenty of footage from the event instead showing law enforcement waving the supposed "insurrectionists" into the Capitol building.
This, however, did not stop top politicians and national security officials from labelling January 6th as the "another 9/11" that Neumann had apparently predicted. Notably, the DHS' first-ever Homeland Threat Assessment, Neumann's warning, and the subsequent official narrative regarding the events of January 6th were all heavily focused on the threat of "white supremacist terror attacks" on the US homeland.
Returning to the May 2020 Politico article – Graff notes that many supposed pandemic "experts", which – per Graff – includes Bill Gates and US intelligence officials James Clapper and Dan Coats, had "projected the spread of a novel virus and the economic impacts it would bring" as well as "details about the specific challenges" the US would face during the initial phase of the Covid-19 crisis. Graff then asks "What other catastrophes are coming that we aren't planning for?"
According to the "thought leaders" he consulted for this piece, which included several current and former intelligence officials, the most immediate "near-term threat" likely to disrupt life in the US and beyond following Covid was "the Globalization of White Supremacy." In discussing this imminent threat, Graff wrote:
"'Terrorism' today conjures images of ISIS fighters and suicide bombers. But if you ask national security officials about the top near-term terrorism threat on their radar, they almost universally point to the rising problem of white nationalist violence and the insidious way that groups that formerly existed locally have been knitting themselves together into a global web of white supremacism.
In recent weeks, the State Department — for the first time — formally designated a white supremacist organization, the Russian Imperial Movement, as a terrorist organization, in part because it's trying to train and seed adherents around the globe, inspiring them to carry out terror attacks …" (emphasis added)
Graff then adds that "There are serious — and explicit — warnings about this coming from U.S. government and foreign officials that eerily echo the warnings that came about for al Qaeda before 9/11." He then quotes FBI Director Christopher Wray as stating:
"It's not just the ease and the speed with which these attacks can happen, but the connectivity that the attacks generate. One unstable, disaffected actor hunkered down, alone, in his mom's basement in one corner of the country, getting further fired up by similar people half a world away. That increases the complexity of domestic terrorism cases we have in a way that is really challenging."
This quote from Wray was first published in a piece Graff had written a month prior to publishing his Politico piece. The focus of that interview centered around domestic terrorism in the US, with extensive discussion about the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the Russian Imperial Movement.
In that article, published in Wired, the State Department's coordinator for counterterrorism, Nathan Sales, characterized that movement as "a terrorist group that provides paramilitary-style training to neo-Nazis and white supremacists, and it plays a prominent role in trying to rally like-minded Europeans and Americans into a common front against their perceived enemies."
This Russian Imperial Movement, or RIM, advocates for the re-establishment of the pre-1917 Russian empire, which would exert influence over all territory inhabited by ethnic Russians. Their ideology is described as white supremacist, monarchist, ultra-nationalist, pro-Russian Orthodox, and anti-Semitic. They are not considered neo-Nazi, but have worked to build ties with other, far-right groups with neo-Nazi connections.
RIM was allegedly responsible for training a bomber whose acts resulted in no deaths in Sweden from 2016-2017. The bomber, Victor Melin, was not an active RIM member but was reportedly trained by them, and he conducted 2 of his 3 bombings with an individual completely unaffiliated with RIM. Melin was, however, a member of the Nordic Resistance Movement at the time.
A few years later, in April 2020, RIM became the first "white supremacist" group to be labeled a Specially Designated Global Terrorist Entity (SDGT) by the US, despite not being tied to an act of terror since 2017 and despite those previous acts resulting in no deaths. The acts of terror cited as justification by then Secretary of State Mike Pompeo were those perpetrated by Melin.
However, the Nordic Resistance Movement, of which Melin was an active member at the time of the bombings, did not receive the SDGT label, even though it is significantly larger in terms of membership and reach than RIM. The decision to label RIM this way was considered "unprecedented" at the time.
It has since been claimed that the group now numbers in the "several thousand" worldwide, though little publicly available evidence exists to support this statistic and that statistic notably only emerged roughly a month after the US terror designation and originated from a US-based institute. There are also no statistics available on the number of individuals they have allegedly trained via their paramilitary arm, known as the Imperial Legion.
Per the US government, RIM's reach is global and extends to the US. However, its US ties are based on dubious allegations of a relationship with Atomwaffen Division's Russian affiliate and a "personal relationship" with the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally organizer Matthew Heimbach. However, this again is based on the allegations (not direct evidence) that Heimbach received funds from RIM.
Heimbach's group, the Traditionalist Workers' Party, has been inactive since 2018, two years before the US SDGT designation for RIM. It is also alleged that RIM offered to train other "Unite the Right" figures, though RIM and the "white supremacists" who supposedly received this offer deny the reports. Furthermore, there remains no evidence of any US citizen ever participating in paramilitary training with RIM.
This contradicts Nathan Sales' April 2020 claim that RIM plays "a prominent role in trying to rally like-minded Europeans and Americans into a common front against their perceived enemies." Despite the lack of evidence left-leaning, non-partisan, and right-leaning think tanks have continued to use RIM as proof of a "large, interconnected, transnational network" of violent white supremacists.
It seems odd that a group that is apparently small and very limited in terms of its presence in the US and that is responsible for no deadly terror attacks would earn the honor of becoming the first US-designed, white supremacist Specially Designated Global Terrorist Entity. This is especially true when the acts cited as justification for the SDGT designation were committed by a member of a different, larger group, a group that did not receive this designation at the time or in the years since.
However, in the context of current events in Ukraine, the 2020 designation of RIM begins to make more sense, at least from the US national security perspective.
RIM is alleged to support separatists in Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk regions since 2014 and has been described by the US as "anti-Ukrainian." These regions are at the center of the current conflict and its most recent escalation last month.
The US government and pro-Western think tanks list RIM's "first attack" as its involvement in the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
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maybe you can help me. I consider myself a pantheist Witch as well. I have been debating what is sacred. what i mean by this is that I have always said that nature is sacred and all is interconnected and therefore also sacred but I am wondering if maybe that is just what has been drilled into me from childhood and not so much what I really believe?
people are another matter, while i could see that maybe people are inherently sacred because they exist and are part of nature, i do not look at people as sacred, in fact, i see people as something to be used and abused (not do not judge me for this, i am simply being honest) i am a wolf among sheep so to speak.
I love the ocean, rivers, the forests, i love the rain but I hate the desert, i hate the snow, i am wondering if i really do consider nature sacred or could it be that i only find parts of it aesthetically pleasing?
Thank you for visiting my site and for leaving this comment! I believe you have brought up some interesting points that cross many peoples minds at some time or another.
The word Sacred itself is used in many ways and can denote something that is held in great personal regard or it can also indicate something pertaining to religious experience. It is a word that is not synonymous with any one religion but rather seems to be the way humans have come to describe that essence or spirit or energy that they regard as divine, whether or not they personify that divinity.
In regards to what I myself consider Sacred, I can only answer to that based on my own experiences, and I do so respectfully and without any attempt to convert anyone to my way of thinking and without judgement. As a pantheist I firmly believe that all things are interconnected and that all things are indeed Sacred. Yes that includes things that I myself don't find particularly pleasing. I for one, prefer a cool autumn or winter night and bright full moon over a hot summery day where the sun is blazing brightly. Just because I do not particularly like summer, does not mean it is any less Sacred. To another human or creature out there, Summer is the best time of the year.
To my mind, dislike of certain things in existence does not make those things less sacred it merely means you don't like them as much as other aspects of your experience. Such as someone elses dislike of winter does not make winter any less special to me. Personal preference does not define sacredness.
As for animals, if you have read my blogs at all you will know that I am Vegan. I am not perfect at being Vegan but I do my best and my primary reason for being vegan is because of my love for all animals. I see no reason why a cat or dog should be held at a higher esteem over pigs and cattle or chickens. Why do we eat one over the other? Why do some get a free pass to live out their lives simply because they are deemed 'more cuddly' than the western worlds idea of what is tastiest. I also have a severe dislike for contemporary farming practices. They are not good for the animals, the environment or the human beings who eat them.
Now, as much as I feel this way, I do realize that there are locations on this planet where living a vegan lifestyle is quite nearly impossible, such as those frozen areas in the extreme northern regions of our planet. I do however feel that there is quite a difference between contemporary factory farming and respectfully hunting for food, paying respect to the living creature which has lost its life so that a human may continue its own life. All things being equal, as long as I am in a part of the world where I can live without animal products it is my choice to do so to the best of my ability.
As for insects that you name as a creature you kill when you find them in your house. I doubt many of us are any different. I look at it like this: If the bug is something harmless I leave it be, if it is poisonous I tend not to care if I kill it as I do not wish for my family to be harmed by it.
That sort of leads us to people. If a human being attempts to harm me or mine I believe it is absolutely my right and even more importantly my responsibility as a Mother, to defend (to the death if need be, although hopefully not! ) my/our right to be unharmed. That being said I have to say I disagree with you on the idea that people are to be 'used and abused.' All of the tragedies in our human history have occurred, in my opinion, because some human or group of humans decided for whatever reason to use and abuse another person or people.
I believe with all my heart that we are all equal irrespective of who we are. I truly believe that we should be striving to work together for the betterment of humankind and the planet and for that matter all existence.
Now all of this being said, I also believe in our free will and that we are all each on a different path. It is not for me to discern what another should or should not do. I do fully believe that we should each strive to not harm each other. I do not in any way mean that we should let others harm us without defending ourselves, but I DO mean that we should not be the ones to cause harm. Set your boundaries and guard them, but also don't encroach on another persons boundaries.
Yes I have very strong opinions on many things in this life of mine as I am certain most everyone does. I quite literally ache at the harmful things people do to each other and shake my head at what others seem to think we should all believe. However, the problems arise when one tries to force another to believe and do what they think should be done. This is where I tend to get into trouble. I have little tolerance for religious or political fundamentalism. I can be very vocal against those who do their very best to enforce their idea of what is right on me. I don't care how someone else wants to live their lives as long as they do no harm and leave me alone to live my life as I see fit. What riles me up is when others don't extend the same courtesy to me or anyone else for that matter.. There is a saying that goes, "There is no truth only perception." Really we all live in our own little worlds. These worlds are made of what we have chosen to surround ourselves with and include in our lives. We have to live with these choices whatever they are.
The beauty of free will and choice is that we can change our minds and take a different path when we need to. The only way to live in our own worlds among other people who are also living in their own worlds is to do so WITHOUT harm where possible. Strive for joy and harmony. Strive to be better than we were the day before. We should do our best to see what is good around us and stop focusing on the negativity and the past hurts that have befallen us in our lives.
Aside from all of this, acknowledging our own intrinsic sacredness also imparts a responsibility to honor that which is Sacred and to live in a respectful manner. Again, these are just my ideas and opinions and I thank you very much for opening such a dialog!


As I walked back into my place in Providence, I was flooded with expectation of how to bring what i just saw, felt, tasted and touched back with me to the world I know here.
As i lay in the tub, bathing off the dirt and dust of the city, I realized I'm already doing it. I was simply doing it by being there. By being here. By being.
When i first got wind of the growing occupy wall street movement, I felt excitement for what this could mean. I began to feel something in my bones reawaken. Something that has been a bit afraid to surface since I began walking down the Buddhist path several years ago.
Before i had a practice steeped and infused in this tradition of compassion and kindness, I was an angry activist. A very angry activist with a very specific agenda.
I was angry and I didn't know how to funnel my anger towards something healthy, towards something inclusive, towards something fertile.
The toxins of separation was the value system i nourished then.
In my world, i was either going to die or end up in prison for my beliefs.
not only that, but anyone who stood outside of those commitments were not 'real' activists, they were not truly committed to revolution.
Flash forward three years, two cities and a stint at zen center later, and there you'd find me: meditating, in lower Manhattan at zuccotti park, with the same folks i would have been calling on, just a few short years before, to join us in our misdirected anger towards the police.
As i sat there, at occupy wall street, in front of an altar with the offerings of those who came before me, tears streaming down my face, goose bumps occupying my body like they long to do, i felt more productive than i ever had at any of the protests from my past.
As I bowed to the myriad deities sitting on that alter, moving into walking meditation as i made my way thru the crowds, i discovered that the American dream is not the only one one waking up.
I stumbled upon the truth that we don't need to smash burger king windows to dismantle the system of oppression.
I opened to that anger i felt in my past and saw it was simply an energy that longed for liberation.
whether in our minds, or in our streets.
I saw that there really is no separation – That his story is connected to her story is connected to their story is connected to the whole. i realized there is no story…there is just this. and us.


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Environmental Groups Sue EPA over Gulf of Mexico "Dead Zone"
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by Charley Cameron
The Oil Industry isn't the only culprit in the slow destruction of the Gulf of Mexico — environmental groups claim that an area the size of Massachusetts is now a "dead zone due to Mississippi River pollution. A dead zone is an area with such low levels of oxygen that the waters are unable to support marine life – and a number of environmental groups, including the Gulf Restoration Network and the Natural Resources Defense Council are suing the Environmental Protection Agency for its failure to implement more stringent water quality standard and stronger regulations for wastewater treatment.
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The environmental groups have filed lawsuits in New Orleans and New York which "seek action from the [EPA] on nitrogen and phosphorus pollution, which stimulates excessive growth of algae, kick-starting a biological process that severely depletes oxygen levels in aquatic ecosystems and chokes marine life," according to the Gulf Restoration Network.
With 41% of the U.S.'s wastewater running into the Mississippi, huge quantities of fertilizers and other chemicals from farms and cities across the nation are carried into the Gulf of Mexico. Each summer, as the water heats up, the growth of these microscopic organisms surges, perpetuating the Gulf's dead zone.
While the Gulf's "dead zone" represents a sizable effect of the Mississippi's pollution, GRN highlights that the pollution also poses significant water quality concerns upriver: "seasonally the Raccoon and the Des Moines Rivers in Iowa carry excessive levels of nitrates, requiring special treatment before the water is safe enough for Des Moines-area residents to drink."
Matthew Rota, director of Science and Water Policy at the Gulf Restoration Network described to the AP that "The Mississippi and the Gulf have been the nation's sewer for decades and it's well past the time for EPA to take these first steps… We need that first step to make the changes that need to happen."
In 2008 the groups petitioned the EPA to become more active in managing Mississippi River pollution, but their petition was denied, with the EPA claiming that comprehensive water quality standards "would not be the most effective way to address the "significant water quality problems facing our nation."" These recent lawsuits challenge the EPA's denial of the previous water quality standards petition. The EPA has yet to respond.
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Environmental Groups Sue EPA over Gulf of Mexico "Dead Zone"
The Oil Industry isn't the only culprit in the slow destruction of the Gulf of Mexico — environmental groups claim that an area the size of Massachusetts is now a "dead zone due to Mississippi River pollution. A dead zone is an area with such low levels of oxygen that the waters are unable to support marine life - and a number of environmental groups, including the Gulf Restoration Network and the Natural Resources Defense Council are suing the Environmental Protection Agency for its failure to implement more stringent water quality standard and stronger regulations for wastewater treatment.


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Private Education Facilities a Rising Investment Target in Asia
Commercial News » Hong Kong Edition | By Michael Gerrity | November 8, 2018 8:09 AM ET
According to JLL, the private education market in Asia Pacific is a rising property investment sector, a trend driven by the region's demand for high-quality international schools focusing on English study. Asia Pacific's private education market is estimated to be worth $370 billion.
"With a burgeoning local middle class, shrinking family sizes and more double-income households, parents are now seeking first-rate academic options, taught in English to give their children a leg-up in an increasingly globalized society," says Noeleen Goh, Director of Alternatives, Capital Markets, JLL Asia Pacific.
In Hong Kong (China), the number of English-medium international schools increased from 92 in 2000 to 177 in 2017, and the number of students more than doubled during this period. In countries without adequate national English curriculum - such as mainland China, Vietnam, Thailand and Japan, English-language teaching institutions have also seen a spike in popularity among parents.
Raymond Fung, Regional Director of Capital Market, JLL Hong Kong, said, "The scarcity of suitable sites, combined with increasing demand for international school places from local wealthy families, means that most schools in Hong Kong are operating at, or close to, full capacity, and there are long waiting lists at virtually all of the leading schools. The major challenge of investing the city's education sector is lack of suitable sites for development."
Rising Investor Interest
Investment is on the rise among companies that build and run international schools, which have backing from institutional investors, private equity firms and pension funds.
In the private education sector, it's common for operators to separate the real estate from the operating company - this gives investors the option to sink their capital into either the education operations or the real estate assets. The former can channel their funds to invest in the core business of educational services. Real estate investors, on the other hand, can maximize the asset value by either leasing the school facility back to an established long-term education operator or building a bespoke campus with rents to hedge against inflation.
"With yields set to be at a premium above traditional asset class, many are keen to delve into this sector as it offers high-growth and is fairly recession-resistant due to its long-dated leases, making it less prone to market volatility compared to the more traditional property assets," explains Goh.
International Education Enjoys Bright Prospects in China
In mainland China, the number of wealthy local parents willing to spend a significant portion of the household income on high-quality education has increased.
"At the macroeconomic level, China is far ahead of other nations in terms of both GDP and the per-capita disposable income growth, and the nation's economy is developing rapidly to support the market space for international education for a long time to come. At the same time, the acceleration of urbanization and the transformation of the main market consumers will undoubtedly continue to boost the robust demand for international education," says Steven Xing, Head of Alternative Investment, JLL Greater China.
However, international schools are also facing challenges when entering the mainland China market because of restrictions on nine-year compulsory education and foreign-fund ownership. "Typically, foreign investors enter the market by forming joint ventures or partnerships with local players, as they (sic) offer a good understanding of the local competitive and regulatory landscape," says Xing.
The report also notes that international education will show several noticeable trends in the Chinese market. First, with the rise of education technology, the online teaching platform and the new technology model will become more and more popular. Second, private education investment shows a high growth trend. Third, the market will be more segmented than ever before as investment in education increases.
China's Fast Growing Tech Industry Driving Shenzhen Office Market
Based on JLL's latest whitepaper Shenzhen's Tech Prosperity Drives Office Demand, technology companies are spurring global demand for office space, and this phenomenon is particularly pronounced in Shenzhen, China.
World's Most Expensive Office Markets Revealed
According to Knight Frank's latest Global Outlook Report, Hong Kong will retain its title as the world's most expensive office market despite rents being forecast to decrease in 2019.
Macau Housing Market Impacted by Gaming Industry, China-US Trade and Brexit
Shadowed by the various regulatory measures on the property market and the external economic uncertainty, Macau's property market softened and saw a slowdown in investment sentiment.
Co-working Operators Main Driver of Hong Kong Office Leasing Activity
According to JLL's latest Hong Kong Property Market Monitor report, despite lingering uncertainty surrounding the global economy and a slumping local stock market, co-working operators remained a major source of demand in the office leasing market in December last year.
Global Home Price Growth Slows to 2-Year Low Pace in Q3
According to International property consultant Knight Frank, the average value of residential property across 57 countries and territories worldwide increased by 4.9% in the year to September 2018, the index's lowest annual rate of growth for two years.
Hong Kong is World's Most Expensive Office Market, Again
According to a new report from global real estate consultant JLL, Hong Kong's Central District has the world's most expensive rent for premium offices for the fourth year running.
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Acadian Ambulance of Texas is the official ground transport provider in Houston for LifeGift and Houston Methodist Transplant Center organ transplant cases.
Typically, organs are transported in a specialized cooler. But with the adoption of the new Transmedics Organ Care System in Texas, transports will be done using state-of-the-art devices.
This past April, Acadian Ambulance, serving under LifeGift, participated in the very first liver and breathing lung transplant using the Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion (EVLP) procedure with the TransMedics Organ Care System Lung (OCS Lung) technology. In addition, Acadian provides specialized vehicles designed to safely transport the device, organ and transplant team together.
The OCS Lung System, which was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in March, is designed to keep donor lungs functioning and "breathing" in human-like conditions from the time of the donor procedure all the way to transplant surgery.
The organs Acadian transported were delivered to Baylor St. Luke Medical Center where patient Silviano Trino received the organs Acadian transported and underwent a successful double-lung transplant. The procedure was life-changing for Trino and groundbreaking for the lung transplantation process, where organ rejection rates are high, according to cardiothoracic surgeon Gabriel Loor, who led the transplant operations. Dr. Loor is the surgical director of the lung transplant program at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center and director of lung transplantation in the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine.
Acadian transported the lungs from the Midwest to the Texas Medical Center and kept in the OCS Lung machine for 11 hours. Prior to coming to Baylor St. Luke's, the Trinos, who live in Miami, had gone to four other medical centers that perform a high volume of lung transplants, but were turned away due to Silviano's health.
"I am very proud of our Acadian Ambulance team. This is healthcare collaboration at its best—healthcare professionals thinking outside the box to find better solutions, then working together to positively impact human life! Acadian Ambulance Texas is honored to be part of medical history and to help set new transport standards," said Acadian Greater Houston Area Manager Eric Stricklin.
Read more on Silviano's successful lung transplant from Baylor St. Luke's.


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Top 10 Modern Cafe Racer
LOOKING FOR MODERN CAFE RACER MOTORCYCLES? here are the TOP 10
Without a doubt, Cafe racers are more than just aesthetics. They are an odd phenomenon! Uniquely crafted clean lines are beautiful and desirable. They represent a paradigm shift engendering freedom to explore inventions and possibilities in the engineering industry only limited to the power of our imaginations.
Cafe racers inspire endless shed-built special, media, and even dedicated websites. Perhaps it's their 'custom made' nature that triggers an undeniable desire to own one. Or perhaps it is the obvious recipe of customizing them by adding in further mods to unlock their performance potential.
Well, whatever the reason, whatever the inspiration, lets agree that it is a fact that the days of mods and rockers may be over but the café racer market is thriving. Well, it's alive, anyway.
Despite the unmistakable love for the café racer, there are surprisingly thin options on the ground when it comes to the option of strolling into a showroom and buying one.
Every tiny displacement bike out there aspires to becoming a beautiful modern cafe racer motorcycle. That's its aspirations. On the other hand, every bike enthusiast dreams of doing the ton. It is a sage fact of life. There are a myriad ways to achieving this goal.
However, limiting ourselves to spanking new, factory-fresh, ride-away café racers, here's our run-down of the TOP 10, the very best cafe racer bikes on the market right now.
10)Royal Enfield Continental GT
The Royal Enfield Continental GT café racer was launched into the markets in the middle of 2013 globally having been first unveiled at the 2012 Delhi Auto Expo.
This retro-looking has been assembled from the ground-up. As opposed to the traditional single down tube chassis in the Royal Enfield, the Royal Enfield Continental GT café racer has a double down tube chassis.
The Classic 500 provides the Continental GT with the UCE engine which by virtue of being re-bored has an increased capacity of 535cc. With Brembo disc brake in the front and another bybre disc at the rear, this 535cc motorcycle has more than enough stopping power.
Additionally, the Royal Enfield Continental GT machine gets a remapped ECU and Paioli suspension.
It comes in two color options GT Red and GT Yellow.
On the downside, you will have to dig deeper into your pockets to acquire one. Nevertheless, it is a Machine worth trying.
What more can a modern café race offer anyway?
9)Guzzi V7 Racer
Tradition can be so thrilling sometimes. The Moto Guzzi V7 captures the designs and models of the café racer motorcycles of the 1950s and 1960s.
This machine combines modern features of an Italian-engineered motorcycle while still remaining loyal to the ancient designs.
This V7 racer blends classic style and craftsmanship to suit every racer. It has the following features: A new and more powerful, 750cc, six split-spoke aluminum wheels, 90-degree V-Twin motor, and new lightweight.
The re-engineered 750cc engine still uses the engineering technology and design that made the Moto Guzzi V50 a success among riders in 1977.
It is the same genial layout introduced by the Italian engineer Lino Tonti in the 70s that has continuously undergone positive transformation while staying true to the eminent tradition of the Moto Guzzi, that touring on a motorcycle at its most pure should be nothing but enjoyable.
8)Norton Commando 961
Commando 961 SE is a 'feel-good' bike par excellence.
This revived Norton machine gives riding and owning pleasure by the skip-load. Without a doubt, it is more ornament than transport.
You can bet it is a machine that you can park up in the garage and spend hours staring at it with admiration. Despite trading at £16K, the cost is arguably irreverent seeing that this version has finally sold out.
This bike augurs well for the future cheaper modern Cafe Racer and Sport. Moreover, there is no other bike in existence that fulfills both roles so well.
Despite not being so trendy with equipment, (it is a straightforward, old-style roadster) The Norton Commando 961 SE has state of art brakes, wheels, suspension, and switchgear made of top-notch instruments as best as there is.
7)Ducati Scrambler
Bikes need to be fun. Well, they don't have to overpowered enablers of natural selection or obscenely styled. They need not be over styled and overpriced.
Oh! who says every other bike needs to be midlife crisis machines or vapidly retro fashion trinkets?
At some point, the entire café racing industry forgot that bikes just need to be fun. But this was before the new Ducati Scrambler. Yes!
The new Ducati Scrambler nailed it!
Do you know how some bikes feel right when you swing a leg over, sit down, and flick up the kickstand? This is what the new Ducati Scrambler was designed for.
Its design is unmatched. With the mildly squishy seat just 31 inches off the ground, anyone on the Scrambler with an average inseam is flat-footed when stopped.
You need not worry about posture anymore. The handlebars are tall and wide, providing that upright, confident riding position that's been all but lost on most bikes.
6)Kawasaki W800
This is yet another bike that blends top-notch technology with heritage in a unique way.
The Kawasaki W800 has a unique way of making sound, simple sense in this intricate motorcycle world.
Despite having ancient designs and styles, the materials used, engineering, and finishing styles are totally up to today's high demands.
This is a bike that has a keen eye for details. From top to tail, it oozes character. This attention to detail extends to every part used in the design.
Talking of parts, the air-cooled engine has been carefully sculptured with all the metal parts either being chrome, luster polished, or clear coated. With a bore and stroke of 77.0 mm x 83.0 mm, it is no wonder that the air-cooled 4-stroke Vertical Twin displaces 773 cm³.
The W800 has a fuel injection that offers precise fuel delivery clean emissions and easy starting. With its rich engine character and strong low-mid range torque, the max torque arrives at 2,000 rpm.
5)Honda CB1100
The Honda CB100 is a great bike that riders love to ride.
Despite drawing its inspiration from Honda's long life of reliable, capable and fun bikes, this modern cafe bike embraces the past while still looking forward. It comes with its 1140cc; fuel-injected inline four which is powerful and smooth.
With a completely agile and responsive Chassis and suspension, this modern caferacer is fun and confortable to ride around town on a weekend.
4) BMW R NineT
Every biker out there can affirm the fact that biking has always been a fun and passionate pastime.
90 years on, BMW Motorrad has upheld this tradition by ensuring that it remains the same both now and in the future. BMW R nineT is a modern cafe racer that ensures that you get it pure and absolutely original.
It features purist designs while still ensuring that you can customize it to suit your individual taste.
The BMW family ensures this by combining the feeling with a casually cool look which, in spite of all the details, is unmistakably a member of the BMW family. This bike lets you modify, ride, and have fun.
The nineT combines unmistakably unique details with a casual look which lays the foundation for an independent, authentic lifestyle.
Design your motorcycle, design your life.
One name, one purist lifestyle: BMW R nineT.
3) Ducati Sport 1000
When you think of a modern cafe racer that hustles; think of The Ducati Sport 1000.
Light weight, sharp steering and more than adequate brakes and suspension make a bike that hustles and The Ducati Sport 1000 has never disappointed. The higher ST3 bars are a common mod.
While taking the best styling components of a classic and putting them into a modern chassis that works, The Ducati Sport 1000 represents exactly what a modern retro bike should be.
It might not be the most comfortable bike around, as a matter of fact, it is expensive and uncomfortable. Nevertheless, it ensures that whoever rides it feels and looks a million dollars.
2) Triumph Thruxton
Though not the fastest, lightest, or the most technical bike out there, the Triumph Thruxton is one of the coolest bikes around.
This bike is credited for helping usher in a resurgence of the modern cafe racer in America.
Perhaps it's the resurgence of the modern cafe racer that helped propel Thruxton sales.
It's the age-old "chicken or the egg" dilemma but either way, it's the coolest bike in the showrooms today.
1) Build your own!
If you ca dream it, you can build it!
This is the ultimate cafe racer bike that tops our list. YES, your machine, you got it right!
It involves building your own cafe racer custom bike from scratch.
There's not much joy other than riding a bike that you have sculptured to your preferred shape.
It's a bike that identifies with you we are talking about here. Or perhaps it is one that you identify with.
A custom made bike has a personality that is best known to the owner. And this is what differentiates custom made café racers from those bought from showrooms somewhere in the city. Uniqueness demands one to get dirty, sometimes even oily in order to get your bike that suits your individual needs uniquely.
This is the perfect option especially if you are operating on a tight budget.
And it should not bother you how to build your modern cafe racer. There are seasoned professionals to your aid.
All you need is to have a deep desire to own a bike customized just for you. Then the rest will follow suit.


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After being viciously ousted from The Investment, Pat Schisk will team up with the intense Elias to take on the latest additions to The Investment; Mr Burns & Joel Clementson!
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