Thanks for correcting the WVU reference so quickly!
West (By Gawd!) Virginia University is erroneously listed as the "University of West Virginia" under Da'Sean Butler's school for the 2010 All America team. Sorry, there is no such school Please correct this on behalf of WVU alumni everywhere. Let's Go Mountaineers!
Grayson Allen-Duke can-NOT be the award winner due to his repeated tripping of opponents, which would cause Mr. Wooden to roll over in his grave. What a shameful performance that unfortunately, reinforces to a young person that there aren't consequences for bad deeds.
I got on here to vote, as as shown on ESPN, and the 2016 nominees are not on here.
Cat Barber STILL isn't on the list of candidates? Really? To repeat what Lefty Driesell once said about Len Bias, if Cat Barber ain't the player of the world, then there ain't no players. Of course that year the Wooden Award didn't go to Len Bias either. SERIOUS QUESTION: Do the people that decide this award and the nominees even watch college basketball?
Hello. I am a reporter at Scout.com covering Indiana. Is it possible to add a candidate that was not on the midseason watch list? I am talking specifically about Yogi Ferrell, who is playing as well as anybody in the nation.


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Harry Groome
Giant of the Valley and The Witness
Celebrity Cast
The Best of Families
THE GIRL WHO FISHED WITH A WORM
Thirty Below
WING WALKING
FRESH FICTION FOR FRESH WATER FISHING
TALES FOR THE TRAIL
Wing Walking opens the door to the corporate boardroom and provides a look at the well-hidden personal motives that shape executive decisions at the highest levels. In this suspense filled novel, egos and ambition, power and betrayal, love and longing weave together an engaging cast of characters in a tale that starts with the FDA recalling a blockbuster drug. With billions of dollars at stake, what follows is at times tragic, at times hopeful: a son tries to wrestle his family business from his father; a socially ambitious Englishman battles with his wife's embarrassing past; a Vietnam POW desperately seeks to become the industry's leader while trying to control his growing affection for one of his colleagues. Eventually all three become entangled in an acquisitive struggle in which it's difficult to tell the winners from the losers. Using his extensive experience as a business executive and corporate director, Harry Groome lets his readers in on the very real-and very human-conflicts and consequences of multinational corporate deal-making.
"Harry Groome's Wing Walking is an elegantly taut page-turner, an intelligent tale of suspense and corporate double-dealing that gives us a chilling glimpse into the inner sanctum of the business world in a time when mega-corporations are suddenly revealed to be a bigger part of our daily lives than ever we imagined."
New York Times bestselling author Bret Lott
"Wing Walking does what so many great books have done for me, which is to make a world I'd otherwise have little interest in suddenly burn not only with urgency on the level of storytelling but even with a kind of startling relevance personal to me, as though it now turns out that I, too, had spent my adult life in the land of high-stakes business dealings, and that the outcome of this saga will mark the last chime of my own family history. Gifted writers can turn this trick-to make the alien intimate."
Christopher Noel author of In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing and A Frail House
"Harry Groome does for business what John Grisham does for the law."
North Country Public Radio
"This absorbing tale displays the full range of human foibles, tragedies and triumphs magnified and clearly delineated in the high-pressure atmosphere of corporate boardrooms and family dynasties. Harry Groome writes cleanly, clearly and with a sweeping pace that grips the reader throughout. Wing Walking is so alarmingly close to reality that it should not be classified as fiction."
Henry Wendt former Chairman, SmithKline Beecham, author of Global Embrace
"Wing Walking is that rare thing nowadays-a corporate thriller of the first order that captures the high drama of the international boardroom. A thoroughly good read."
Sir David John, KCMG, Chairman, Balfour Beatty Plc
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THE National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) Mr Adams Oshiomhole on Friday in Kano expressed happiness over the defection of the former governor of Kano state, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau from PDP to APC.
Oshiomhole made the remark when he paid a visit to the former governor at his personal residence at Mundubawa quarters in Kano metropolis.
Shekarau was a founding member of APC, but left when the party was handed over to Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, who was then the governor. Kwankwaso has gone back to PDP, with Shekarau also going back to APC.
"We have come to reunite with a friend, Comrade and a real Progressive in order to move our party forward," he said.
"I am the happiest person in the state because the dream has come true as we have always been good friends and brothers," Ganduje said.


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Hozier and Saoirse Ronan join forces to highlight the issue of domestic violence
Hozier is making his song 'Cherry Wine' a call to discuss the horror of domestic violence and the Valentine's Day premiere of his powerful new video will address the issue head on.
Hozier, Columbia Records, Island Records and Sony/ATV Music Publishing will all donate their respective proceeds from downloads of this special single to a series of international domestic abuse charity organisations which provide support to victims and survivors of domestic abuse while also engaging in advocacy and community outreach.
The compelling video stars two time Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan in a moving portrayal of a woman dealing with a physically abusive relationship. The clip also stars actor Moe Dunford (Vikings, Game Of Thrones) and is directed by Emmy winning Irish director Dearbhla Walsh.
Cherry Wine was written by Hozier from the male perspective of an abuse sufferer. The song's lyrics offer a unique insight into an abusive relationship, shining a light on the cycle of 'justification' often perpetuated in domestic violence incidents; that public health experts say controls the abused, shames the victim, and shifts responsibility for the abuser's violent behavior.
Speaking of his decision to lead this charity campaign Hozier said:
"Domestic violence is an ongoing issue in our society, the statistics of which are shocking and the effects of which damage whole families, communities and span generations. With the song Cherry Wine, I tried to get across the difficulty of coming to terms with and facing up to domestic violence and the dynamic of an abusive relationship. I'm honoured to be joined by Saoirse Ronan, Dearbhla Walsh and Moe Dunford in spreading awareness on this issue."
Saoirse Ronan added, "I am equally honoured to join Hozier to create awareness for the #FaceUpToDomesticViolence campaign with the release of "Cherry Wine" as a charity single. The song has always been one of my favourite tracks on his album. I hope through the video and song we can shine light on the issue and complexity of domestic abuse and in doing so help those caught up in the cycle of domestic violence".
Sharon O'Halloran, the CEO of Safe Ireland, the designated Irish charity in this campaign, expressed her thanks to both Hozier and all involved in highlighting this issue in Ireland.
"In the words of French poet Victor Hugo 'Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.' On behalf of all of the women and children that our SAFE Ireland members work with, we say thank you to Hozier and all involved in releasing Cherry Wine. The video featuring Saoirse Ronan captures the complexity of domestic violence and gives us insight into the justifications that can keep people trapped in soul destroying violence. It is only when this is exposed that we can really begin to address the control that is at the heart of abusive relationships. Leadership on this issue, like that expressed by Hozier, can help us all to face up to the daily realities of domestic violence so that together we can make Ireland the safest place in the world for women, men and children."
Safe Ireland is the national social change agency for domestic abuse in Ireland with a particular focus on male violence against women and children. According to a recent Safe Ireland report into domestic violence:
● 1 in 4 women experience physical and sexual violence from a male partner = 440,000 women living in Ireland
● 79% of women in Ireland never disclosed serious Physical or Sexual violence by a partner to anyone = 347,000 women living in Ireland
● 1 in 3 women experience severe psychological violence from a male partner = 580,000 women living in Ireland
*Source: European Union Agency for fundamental Rights (2014). Violence against women: an EU-wide survey. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.
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RUSSIAN FEDERATION SITREP 25 JULY 2019
On July 25, 2019 By Patrick ArmstrongIn RF SITREP
STALIN. The Presidential Council on Civil Society and Human Rights condemns efforts to erect statues to Stalin: "civil servants of all levels should be clearly aware of the inadmissibility of the use of state or municipal land and buildings for this purpose. Such actions contradict not only morality, respect for our departed, innocently injured ancestors, but also official state policy". Ah well, mere facts should never get in the way of shrieking from the usual sources: (Guardian in July; WaPo in June).
DEMOS IN MOSCOW. There have been substantial protests in Moscow over the disqualification of opposition candidates for council elections. (Video). Candidates are required to get signatures from voters – these are easily faked and equally easily declared fake. If the establishment is trying to nobble Navalniy & Co, it's wasting its time and doing itself a disservice: they have little support and it's better to let them run. Moscow Times gets excited: no, it's not a "pre-revolutionary situation".
RUSSIA/CHINA. Joint Russia-China air patrol. The first of many, no doubt. The NYT (yesterday's news today) clutches its pearls. "That means President Trump is correct to try to establish a sounder relationship with Russia and peel it away from China. But his approach has been ham-handed and at times even counter to American interests and values." Now that's chutzpah!
AMERICA-HYSTERICA. We're not saying that they started the Great Hawaiian Pizza War, but them pesky Rooskies sure would like to. Satire is impossible.
NEW NWO. JP Morgan asks: "Is the dollar's 'exorbitant privilege' coming to an end?"
EUROPEANS ARE REVOLTING. Ankara defied Washington, the S-400s arrived, Washington cancelled its participation in the F-35 program. Why did Ankara insist? I believe the principal reason is insurance against becoming Washington's former friend: much more dangerous than being its enemy.
MH17. I have always thought the JIT "investigation" was rotten – see this (port engine intake – BIG clue as to direction of missile). We now have a documentary that reiterates Malaysia was excluded, a secret mission to get the black box first, the intercepts are fakes, more people report seeing fighter planes, the radars were not down for repair. But including Ukraine in the JIT and excluding Malaysia were enough clues that the investigation would be a fix. I'm sceptical that it was a BUK (too few fragments); I think the fighter plane sighting reports should be looked at. I think the Ukrainian side shot it down but I don't know whether by accident (wouldn't be the first time) or whether there was government involvement (but those faked up intercepts were out pretty quickly, weren't they?) Helmer discusses; the documentary.
UKRAINE 1. Not only was Poroshenko beaten by Anybody at All but the latter's instant support party won a majority on Sunday. In second place an eastern party; the Galicians, nazis and former Big Wheels were left in the dust. The only conclusion is that the voters of Ukraine are sick and tired of the last five years; the West's project in Ukraine has failed. And for the second time: Yushchenko was also scornfully rejected. Now what? The so-called NGOs (Washington puppets all) have given President Zelensky "red lines" – an obvious threat that there will be another "spontaneous" revolt if he tries to make peace and have a normal relationship with Russia. He is in office, without a tail and with only the support of the population and how many guns do they have? Three reasons for cautious optimism 1) Washington allowed the elections to happen without interfering 2) Trump shows little interest in Ukraine 3) the EU has its own problems. So maybe… if Zelensky does want to change course, if he moves quickly and decisively, if he can get backing from some power agency, if the West keeps out, if the rebels in the east want to be in some new Ukraine, if the nazis hold off… Probably too many ifs; Ukraine's nightmare is not over. I still think the end state will be a rump Ukraine with the other bits eaten by its neighbours. Post 1991 Ukraine has been pretty miserable for its unfortunate inhabitants; who really wants a re-do?
UKRAINE 2. A couple of weeks ago Zelensky proposed a bill to remove high-ranking officials who held their posts during the Poroshenko period – Poroshenko having lustrated the Yanukovych period. In short, he's proposing that nobody who's held high office in Ukraine before can hold it again. Which is a very interesting proposal indeed; even a reasonable one given their dismal performance. He now has the parliamentary majority to make it law. But again, there are questions: nobody knows who the newly elected members of his party really are and there are the suspicions that he's just Kolomoisky's creature and all that has happened is that a new batch of robbers has arrived in Kiev to steal what's left. I hate to fall back on the feeble analyst's conclusion but time will tell.
BIDEN AND START II
On July 14, 2019 July 14, 2019 By Patrick ArmstrongIn HISTORY, THE WORLD IS CHANGING, WORLD POWER RELATIONSHIPS
(Answer to Sputnik about my thoughts about Biden endorsing a renewal of START II.)
(Pretty hypothetical questions. I don't think Biden will be chosen and I am confident Trump will be re-elected.)
Biden is running as Obama's heir, therefore it's not surprising that he would support START 2; he will probably claim he had a lot to do with it.
The Cold War left four important arms treaties. The ABM Treaty (1972) forbade anti ballistic missiles, the INF Treaty (1987) forbade intermediate range nuclear weapons, the CFE Treaty (1990 and modified) limited conventional weapons and the START Treaty (1991 and renewed) limited nuclear weapons. Washington (Bush II) abrogated the ABM Treaty in 2002; NATO never ratified the modified CFE Treaty and invented so many new conditions that Russia, which had ratified it, pulled out in 2015 (Obama); Washington has just pulled out of the INF Treaty (Trump). All that remains is the New START Treaty of 2011 (Obama) which Trump has said he doesn't like and. So if he's POTUS in 2021, that's probably gone too.
So it looks as if the entire arms control regime inherited from the Cold War will be gone in a few years: in all cases the initiative has come from Washington although Moscow has (of course) been blamed.
It's a good question whether anyone in the Democratic base is even aware of this reality or much interested. Maybe Biden can awaken people to the danger. Or is the Democratic Party too far down the rabbit hole of Trump conspiracies, PC obsessions and social justice warriors to notice important things?
THOUGHTS FROM URBAN'S SKRIPAL BOOK
On July 12, 2019 July 14, 2019 By Patrick ArmstrongIn ACCUSATIONS, WAR ON RUSSIA
Just finished (very) quickly skim reading Mark Urban's book on Skripal.
I learn four things (the first two of which Rob Slane had already told me).
Skripal was still doing work with the SIS and his house had been bought for him by it. Slane covers the deductions from that here.
Skripal spent a lot of time watching Russian TV and did not believe Russia had invaded Ukraine (Urban has a minor case of the fantods about that, obviously can't believe that anyone would doubt the Beeb). This supports the possibility that he was ready to go back to Russia (plus his aged mother was quite sick and he wanted to be with her) and that he was still a "Russian".
The other two are
The Russians had been watching Skripal for several years and it's possible that they were feeding him fake information. Which leads to the interesting speculation, when he's being interrogated by the Russians, that he's told that although he didn't know it, he was actually working for them all along. And, upon release, he still could be.
The "NGO" Igor Sutyagin was giving information to did have a connection to SIS. (Urban idiotically says this was a case where Russian "paranoia" was justified.) So another big brouhaha in the Western media turns out to be wrong. Is it really going to turn out that Russia has told the truth every single time and the West has lied every single time?
Apart from that, everything in the book is what you would expect to see (although I do love his mention that an Army nurse was one of the first responders – try Colonel Alison McCourt, Chief Nursing Officer of the British Army! Quite a coincidence, eh?)
But these nuggets are worth the hour of skimming.
I don't see anything to harm Michael Anthony's theory (Urban does raise the possibility of Skripal having something to do with the Dossier but airily dismisses it.)
THE HEARTLAND. The problem with Mackinder's "heartland" is that moving around in it is so difficult: there are too many mountains, too many deserts and too much distance. Consequently, for 500 years sea travel has been both easier and, most of the time, faster; this reality has been a decisive power advantage for Mackinder's "islands". But China's working hard at overcoming that. Another link in the OBOR is starting – Russia has begun work on a highway on its section of the Shanghai-Hamburg route. High-speed rail in China is about a decade old: 29 thousand kms now. (California has several dozen kms. Remember when the West, especially the USA, did everything first?) The sea will probably maintain its advantage for high-volume items but OBOR will change everything else.
LIBERALISM. Putin's interview has stimulated some (more) silliness among people who probably haven't read it. "What is happening in the West? What is the reason for the Trump phenomenon, as you said, in the United States? What is happening in Europe as well? The ruling elites have broken away from the people. The obvious problem is the gap between the interests of the elites and the overwhelming majority of the people… Our Western partners have admitted that some elements of the liberal idea, such as multiculturalism, are no longer tenable… [the liberal idea] has come into conflict with the interests of the overwhelming majority of the population." Well, what's incorrect? Putin has a better understanding than all the op-eds about populism. Western elites respond with a barrage of clichés.
CORRUPTION. "Nearly one in six Russian mayors have faced criminal prosecution over the past decade". Is that a lot of corruption or a lot of corruption detection and punishment?
SUBMARINE FIRE. A fire in, we are told, the battery compartment killed a number of rather high-ranking sailors. Speculation that it was a very deep diving submarine. Back to the cutting cables scare.
RUSSIA INC. Only last month the NYT told us that Russia's "economy suffers from flat growth and shrinking incomes", now Russia has "The World's Top Stock Market". Hard to keep up, it is.
NEW NWO. The head of Rosobornexport says that Moscow has stopped using SWIFT or USD in arms transactions. So that's the number three export taken out of Washington's control, I don't know about the other two but I would be surprised in Russia weren't moving away from those as much as possible. India and Russia are talking about moving their trade to their own currencies.
DOUMA. How the OPCW's investigation of the Douma incident was nobbled.
AMERICA-HYSTERICA I. The Myth of Russian Media Influence by Larry C Johnson. More below.
AMERICA-HYSTERIA II. To Mueller's surprise, the IRA actually showed up in court. A judge has just ruled that Mueller's indictment "does not link the defendants to the Russian government". Once again, Moon of Alabama was far ahead of the mighty MSM: eighteen months ago, he said it was a click-bait operation; nothing to do with the Russian government or election interference.
S500. Being manufactured – adds an outer space defence capability to the family.
WESTERN VALUES™. British media freedom conference bans RT and Sputnik but is held conveniently near Assange's prison. So he could attend. If he could.
PESKY RUSSIANS. Another whiny official document about how those nasty Russians are dissing the USA's impeccable position of respect in the world. (Usual pseudo-psychiatry: "Russia exhibits a deep-seated sense of geopolitical insecurity" and a whole new meme to accompany the "hybrid war" projectionism: "gray zone".) Here's the paper itself. I guess it must be that malign Russian influence that makes a fifth of the world regard the USA as a force for bad in the world.
EUROPEANS ARE REVOLTING. The EU mechanism for trade with Iran (INSTEX) is now declared operational. Too little, too late? We'll see. Berlin and Amsterdam reject Washington's request to send ground troops to Syria but London and Paris do not.
UKRAINE. Definitely some rumblings in Year Six of the Revolution of Dignity. First we have money movement revelations: Kolomoisky and IMF money; the Bidens, father and son. A documentary including Katchanovski's findings that the "heavenly hundred" were murdered by their own side wins a prize, but will it be quietly disappeared and never be seen? More Israelis notice: Israelis protesting arms sales to the nazi groups. Helmer discusses two interesting polls that show that Zelensky's party is way in front, and the Galicians way behind, in the parliamentary elections ten days away and that the population is sick of the civil war and wants settlement. US poll in May, Dutch poll in June.
D-DAY MORE DIFFICULT THAN YOU THINK
On July 6, 2019 July 11, 2019 By Patrick ArmstrongIn HISTORY
First published Strategic Culture Foundation. (SCF's first illustration was of one of the US beaches; at my request they changed it to a still from this film of the actual moment when A Company, North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment landed on Juno Beach.)
Before I begin. No, D-Day was not the largest military operation of all times. No, D-Day was not the decisive battle of the war. No, the Western Allies did not defeat Hitlerism with minor help from the USSR. The largest military operation of all time was surely Operation Bagration which was planned in coordination with D-Day. The decisive battle – much argument there, so my personal opinion – was the Battle of Moscow in 1941 although David Glantz has persuasively argued that the German victory at Smolensk sealed their defeat. Either way, the only path to German victory was a quick one and that hope was gone by the end of 1941. (Hitler's rant to Mannerheim is instructive.) 80% of nazi military casualties were on the Eastern front, the rest of us did for the other 20%. But D-Day was important. And much more difficult than my Russian interlocutors think it was. And it had to succeed the first time.
I sympathise with Russians (and the other former USSR nations) when they hear the puffing of D-Day and hyperbole calling it the decisive moment and so forth. It is true that the Soviet part of the war has been downplayed in Western popular thought. (But not always: vide this excellent and balanced piece, The month of two D-Days.) One reason is, of course, that each country plays up its own part (Canada being a conspicuous exception). Soviet accounts of the war were not much available in Western languages in the 1950s and 1960s. So we grew up reading about our guys and what they did and a host of German accounts which tended to promulgate what Dr Jonathon House has called the Three Alibis: Hitler didn't listen to his generals, who knew Russia was so cold? the Soviets outnumbered us. My personal journey to understanding the 80-20 split began with Panzer Battles in which the author describes victory after victory, but always one river closer to Germany: clearly he's leaving out something important. An account of a panzer-grenadier division which mentioned that only about one-tenth the trains that moved it in were needed to move it out a year later made me realise that German infantry casualties were ferocious. Chuikov's book taught me that Stalingrad was just not a slog but that there was serious operational thinking behind it. Bit by bit I came to understand the size and complexity of Soviet operations: surely the largest and most complicated ever carried out. David Glantz taught me much. But most Westerners – who aren't that interested – remain where I was at the age of 16 or so, Battle of Britain, Sink the Bismarck, Dambusters, D-Day, Battle of the Atlantic and the American equivalents. (Canadians have an almost boastful ignorance of what Canada did.)
Understandable, really. But irritating for Russians who feel their part is ignored. But their reaction can go too far in the other direction: D-Day was not some minor river crossing deferred until it was clear that the Germans were beaten. It was a very difficult and complicated operation, requiring an enormous amount of preparation and could not have been done sooner. The point of this essay is to explain all this.
I start by pointing out that the Western Allies did open several "Second Fronts" before June 1944.
North Africa. Fighting began here in 1940 and continued until the surrender of 270,000 Axis troops in 1943.
Italy. American, British and Canadian soldiers invaded Sicily in 1943, crossed onto the mainland and, joined by other nations, fought their way up Italy until the eventual German surrender in 1945.
Bombing. The Western Allies carried out an extensive bombing campaign over Germany. Very controversial in its effects but it certainly reduced German war production and tied up large resources in air defence.
Resistance in Occupied Europe, greatly assisted, armed and to a large extent directed by the Western Allies.
So, it is not true that the Western Allies did nothing before June 1944. (Again, I emphasise that all this is part of the 20%).
But, obviously, the invasion of France would be the main event. This essay discusses the planning process which began in earnest in March 1943. Here are some of the problems the planners had to take into account.
The English Channel. It is not a big river, it's the Ocean. That means that it is accessible to submarines, aircraft carriers, battleships and other major combat ships. It has tides and serious storms. Rivers, even big ones, do not.
Atlantic Wall. The Germans knew that sooner or later the Western Allies would have to invade and, beginning in 1942, enormous efforts were made to create bunkers, obstacles, gun positions, beach obstacles and everything else human ingenuity could come up with. Defences were built even in Norway and I have seen bunkers in the very tip of Denmark. Previous Western Allied seaborne invasions – North Africa, Sicily and Italy – had been against almost undefended beaches. Attacking the Atlantic Wall was a different proposition.
The Funnies. When the infantry got ashore they would have to assault powerful defences with only the weapons they could carry. To give them more punch a family of specialised armoured vehicles was created. In particular, if tanks could landed first, the infantry would be greatly helped. This idea produced the DD tank: floating Sherman tanks. While in no beach they were the first things ashore, on four beaches they were a help: at Omaha Beach they were launched too far out and most foundered. Other specialised armoured vehicles were generally effective on the day; the AVREs and Sherman Crabs especially.
Harbour. The chosen site had no harbours. But the Allies had to put as many soldiers ashore on the first day as they could and follow them up with thousands more every day together with vehicles, ammunition, fuel and food in a continuous stream. Impossible over open beaches with small landing craft shuttling back and forth from the bigger ships offshore. A secure harbour was the sine qua non for an invasion. The disastrous Dieppe Raid of 1942 had shown that capturing an intact port was impossible. So here's the dilemma: you can't do it without a harbour but you can't get a harbour. The solution was to bring the harbour with you: the "Mulberry". This article describes them; note that it was only the autumn of 1943 that a prototype was successfully tested. The Mulberry harbour that survived the great storm of 19 June, "Port Winston", landed 2.5 million men, 500,000 vehicles, and 4 million tons of supplies over the ten months it was used. This fact, alone, refutes the charge that the Western Allies could have invaded earlier if they had wanted to. Not without Mulberry; Mulberry wasn't available until the winter of 1943; therefore no invasion before spring 1944. QED.
Resistance. French resistance activities had to be coordinated to the operation. This required much careful planning, supply and dangerous movement of people back and forth. Their activities played a significant part in isolating the landing areas.
Landing craft. D-Day involved nearly 4000 different kinds of landing craft. They were being built at the last moment: it was their shortage, once a five-division/five-beach assault had been agreed on, that forced the delay from the initial planning date of 1 May. The landing craft problem is another proof that the invasion could not have happened earlier.
Timing. The landing had to be early enough to allow activity in the fighting season. Therefore April, May or early June were the likely days. The attack could not be made as the tide was going out. The weather had to be acceptable. A full moon was desirable in order to help the air-dropped troops get to their blocking positions and take key bridges. The Germans could have figured this out which is why the deception plan was so important.
Deception. While the Atlantic Wall extended into Norway, no one seriously expected an invasion of Germany to start there. France, Belgium and the Netherlands was always the most likely. Again, the Germans knew that and that is where they put their strongest defences. Several locations were considered and the planners settled on Normandy because of its unconstrained space for the breakout. The Germans had to be convinced that the attack would come somewhere else and the planners hit on Calais, the closest place. A fake army under General Patton, whom the Germans respected as a hard-charger, was created. Lots of radio traffic, dummy guns and tanks to support the idea that Calais was the target and that any other attack was a diversion. For every bombing attack on a Normandy target, there were two on a Calais target. This deception tied down a number of German troops waiting for the "real" invasion. And, just to keep them guessing, other deceptions suggested Norway as a target and on the day, dummy paratroop assaults in other areas.
No failure possible. Failure could not happen: the blow to Allied morale and the lift to German morale of a Dieppe-style repulse would have been incalculable. If D-Day had failed, it would be at least another year before another attempt could be made and, in the meantime, the preferred invasion site would have been revealed to say nothing of much technology and deception. Stalin, feeling let down by the West again, might as he had done in 1939, make a separate deal with Hitler. There could be no second chance. And it was near-run enough: none of the first day objectives was taken and the advance was much slower than planned: German resistance in Normandy only collapsed in August when the Falaise Gap was closed by the First Canadian Army from the north and the US Third Army from the south.
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I hope I have convinced the reader, especially the Russian reader, that the D-Day operation was extraordinarily complicated. Not something to be thrown together on a whim. Many many problems had to be solved in order to deal with the multitude of difficulties of landing over 150,000 soldiers, 11,000 vehicles and 3000 guns on strongly defended beaches and then following up the first day with day after day of more landings of men and materiel. It had to succeed the first time.
It is not true that the Second Front was delayed until the Soviets were obviously winning or anything like that: it happened as soon as it could – any earlier attempt would have failed. Maybe it's been over-hyped but it was a remarkable event and one to be proud of.
As I wrote elsewhere:
In a word, The USSR, with significant help from the rest of us, defeated Hitler and changed the world away from that dark and horrible future. At enormous cost.
The Normandy Invasion and the campaign that followed were essential parts of that significant help.
I wish both sides would calm down and stop claiming either that D-Day won the war or that it was a very minor offstage event.
But that's probably too much to hope for today.


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Hand of Fate 2 - RPG game on Nintendo Switch
Sit down at the Dealer's table and get dealt into the "Game of Life and Death," where magical decks of collectable cards are shuffled and laid out into dungeons, ready to explore.
Each card offers perilous exploration, high-risk high-reward minigames, as well as Dungeons and Dragons-style storytelling and decision making. When a card calls for battle the tabletop board is left behind, bringing the cards to life in action-packed sequences that play out in third-person hack-and-slash combat.
The award-winning follow-up to the original Hand of Fate, which has been downloaded more than 2.5 million times since its release in 2015, introduces a number of enhancements. Alongside a new story, the sequel features invaluable companion characters that provide aide in and out of combat along with their own storylines, a much-improved combat system, new tabletop minigames, and an overworld map to explore the narrative in new and exciting ways.
The Nintendo Switch version comes packed with all the DLC released for its PC counterpart between the game's November 2018 launch and April 2019. More add-ons are on the way.
Hand of Fate 2 is also via PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Steam for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The game supports English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Korean, and Simplified Chinese language options.
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Florida judge tosses lawsuit seeking to close state's beaches
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Santa Rosa Beach lawyer Daniel Uhlfelder filed the lawsuit against DeSantis late last month, arguing that the governor's refusal to issue a statewide mandate shutting down beaches puts Floridians at risk of becoming infected with COVID-19. (Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty)
TALLAHASSEE — Saying he lacked the authority to second-guess Gov. Ron DeSantis, a circuit judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit seeking to force the governor to close beaches throughout Florida.
Santa Rosa Beach lawyer Daniel Uhlfelder filed the lawsuit against DeSantis late last month, arguing that the governor's refusal to issue a statewide mandate shutting down beaches puts Floridians at risk of becoming infected with COVID-19, the highly contagious respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
But, siding with DeSantis while expressing empathy for Uhlfelder, Leon Circuit Judge Kevin Carroll said the state Constitution gives the governor discretion about handling emergencies.
"I believe that what I'm being asked to do is substitute my judgment for that of the governor on how to respond to this COVID crisis, which has been somewhat of a moving target," Carroll said during a telephone hearing Tuesday afternoon. "There are 599 circuit judges in Florida at last count, and I don't think we need to have 599 governors-in-waiting."
Carroll said that "second-guessing" DeSantis' actions about beach closures and stay-at-home orders would violate separation-of-powers restrictions established by the Constitution.
But the judge also encouraged Uhlfelder to pursue an appeal in the case, "because I do think this is a matter of importance."
"If the 1st District (Court of Appeal) tells me that I'm wrong and I do have the authority, then I'm glad to address it and go from there. But I do not believe that I have the power to do what you're asking me to do, and I'm sorry to tell you that the answer is no," the judge said.
"We're not going to give up," Uhlfelder replied.
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This is my very first experience in planting sweet corn. Due to space limitation, i only planted 2 short rows with 6 seedlings but only 4 managed to survive.
31 December 2010 (15 days) Sweet corn and kailan as companion.
Tassels were developed after about 50 days.
5 February 2011 (51 days) Ears came 4-5 days later after the tassels were seen.
One of the stalks had multiple ears.
Mini-me demonstrating how to hand pollinate the corn.
The plants suddenly grew so tall, after tassels were out. They had already reached 8 feet when this pic was taken, compared to only 3-4 feet 2 days ago!
6 February 2011 (52 days) While the tassels were getting matured, the ears continued to grow bigger. Ooo i love the touch of the silk hehe.
18 February 2011 (64 days) After "laying by the corn" (the process of adding soil to the roots), i transplanted 3 bean plants (kacang buncis / 乌龟豆) to here. The corn stalks become the natural trellis for them.
Ears were getting bigger and silks were getting darker approaching to harverst.
The weird one, this plant with multiple ears had no silk! How come?! This bothered me a lot. Were they growing correctly? Were there kernels inside?
22 February 2011 (68 days) Another weird one here. Do you call this 1 ear? 3 ears? Or triplet?? The 2 little side ears came out late, when the middle big one was almost time to harverst. Is this normal??
So all together i only had these from the harvest. Duh... (don't laugh nah!) Haha.
The 2 baby corns went into my lunch, chow-mein (fried noodle). Delicious and crunchy.
The other 2 'normal' corns were steamed and eaten too. Never had i tasted such sweet and nice corn before! There honestly are no words to describe the sensation of eating corn that fresh. That was really a moment to remember!
Although i didn't have much harvest this round, but i will definitely love to plant more next time. It gave me deep satisfaction in watching them grow and come to fruition, and then eat the fruits of my labours. And my little assistant enjoys shaking the stalks a lot too! Haha. The only thing i must not forget is not to be stingy on fertilising the plants to give me big fat corns next time!
Wah you harvested your sweet corns already! How do you hand pollinate them by shaking the whole plant? Never mind its the first harvest, next time you will do better since you got the experience. So after harvesting them, do you pull the plant and start planting new one? The chow mein looks so delicious!
p3chandan: I saw you have corns in your garden too ^_^. You can polinate the corn by shaking the stalk and let the little brown thingies fall on the silk (do this preferrably in the morning). I let the stalks be there as trellis for my beans at the moment. Later if they are not in use anymore i'll bury the stalks- i read that they are good as fertilizer. Next round i will plant my corns in different bed, not in the same bed as this will bring the soil into bad condition. Speak like an expert but all info are from my previous readings, haha.
Nice corns, looks really good in your delicious noodles. I am not successful in growing corn, will have to try again in the future! How come I could not link to your post of komatsuna? At my side bar, shows your post as komatsuna, when I click on it, it leads me to your corn post!
Wakaka! You did expect me to laugh, didn't you?
I hand pollinate by physically transferring the pollens to the tassels with my fingers. I wanted to be sure the pollens reached the right places because my first corn only had 5 grains!
Wah! good harvest of corn for 1st timer! Mine taken by monkey in early ear stage!! really sakit hati!
kitchen flavours: Sorry about the post, i've deleted it.
One: After shaking the stalks i also transferred the pollen by hand to the silk. 99% sure is pollinated but how come only few grains? I don't understand.
Malar: Monkeys used to kacau in my parents house too, even took down the car side mirror and went into the house to berak everyday. My mum inject the fruits with 'sleeping pills' let them eat and mabuk and catch them successfully.
Look like you have so much fun with growing sweet corn;-).Boleh tahanlah with your first harvest very banyak and the inside almost full. Wow your sweet corn very tall. The one I currently growing baru sampai my peha already start to have tassle and ear don't understand why. Last year also like that just over 1 metre tall. Sweet corn is a very greedy feeder and thirsty plant. They need all of this to produce good cobs. LOL. Sleeping pill for the monkey. great idea but the one that been coming to my parents house don't eat the fruit they just break the plant. My mama also pening kepala.
Fun in seeing the growing though not too many. With kids involved, it's a parent-kid time. How precious and delicious !
I love how you are sharing your gardening experience with your daughter.
I love fresh corn from the garden. There is nothing like it.
Mini-me is soooo cute! Wow.. and your corn looks interesting! And sweet!
I am so excited to see your corn growing well and tall and you have even tasted the fruits of your harvest. Wow, makes my fingers itchy to grow corn in my garden too.
A great diary of the life of a sweetcorn plant! Almost like "Time-elapse photography".
Hahahahaaa... sorry I had to laugh... your account is so amusing, really... but some harvest is better than no harvest... congrats!
Fun post about your corn growing! And such a cute little mini-you. She is learning a lot from you, you are planting seeds of discovery!
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If there is one primary marker of the maturity of the cannabis industry, it is the rise of the mundane. Nevertheless, companies that take advantage of the day-to-day needs of the cannabis industry can still be exciting to investors.
Cannabis is not a utility – it is in the same realm as "vice stocks" like Constellation Brands, Inc. (NYSE: STZ) and tobacco giant Altria Group, Inc. (NYSE: MO), which recently completed a US $1.8 billion investment in Cronos Group Inc. (NASDAQ: CRON) (TSX: CRON).
Just as cannabis needs water and light like any other the plant, it also needs to be transported like any other physical product. Moreover, its movement needs to be controlled along strict lines by companies that need to stay on track legally as they do business in the rapidly expanding legal industry. Companies and investors that move beyond the novelty of cannabis stand to benefit big time from the rising tide of demand for logistics services generated by the legal cannabis strain.
TransCanna Holdings Inc. (CSE: TCAN) (FSE: TH8) is strictly focused on maintaining complete control of their ecosystem. This means that through the acquisition of their 196,000 sq ft vertically integrated facility that recently received a US$8 million renovation, they anticipate being able to control their nursery, grow, extraction, manufacturing, remediation, transportation and distribution. To accomplish this and reach their desired margins, the company over the next thirty-six months anticipates acquiring or developing up to fifteen premium brands for the California marketplace. The company is establishing a unified and integrated operation that, if successful, will control a large portion of the seed-to-sale supply chain.
In May 2019, the company is scheduled to lease a distribution facility for its own branded products in Adelanto, California. This will be its hub in that part of the state, which is densely populated and is strategically located close to key sales markets including Los Angeles and San Diego.
With that said, the company recently completed the acquisition of the 196,000 square-foot tri-level grow facility in Modesto, CA, which will arguably be the largest vertically integrated cannabis focused facility in California. The facility includes premium quality HVAC systems for healthy air to foster manufacturing, bottling, growing, nursery, transportation & distribution, and more. In terms of people, the facility also makes the best use of human resources, with one of the largest and most skilled agricultural labor pools in the state available locally.
TransCanna is extremely picky about the companies it considers for acquisition–it only pursues acquisitions with cannabis brands that are superior to peers and can benefit substantially from TransCanna's all-encompassing approach, which includes branding, distribution, marketing, and sales. The company has retained a top-tier M&A firm specializing in cannabis acquisitions, using a strict vetting process to make sure targets fit the company's exacting internal metrics and key performance indicators. Recent acquisitions bring 5.57 acres into TransCanna, and the company plans to build up to 400,000 square feet of completely indoor (not greenhouse) grow facility to grow its own biomass. That biomass will supply TransCanna's own brands as the company manufactures, bottles, and extracts at its own facility, transports with its own vehicles, and sells within its own sales team.
TransCanna doesn't have to go outside–its organic growth capabilities are immense, with the capability to internally create brands, promote them through the sales team, and make sure that decisions are made based on market intelligence and firm demand. TransCanna makes data-driven decisions at every link in the value chain.
Like all of the great modern companies that know how to move product, TransCanna is at the controls of its own data universe through proprietary software. The company just wrapped up phase I of 420 Global, its own software system that CEO James Pakulis expects to be the backbone of the entire company.
420 Global, built for Apple hardware, interfaces with METRC California's Cannabis Track‐and‐Trace (CCTT) so that it is fully compliant from a regulatory standpoint, and it is intrinsically linked with the company's warehouse management system for a fully configured and customized experience that will further boost the company's efficiency and value proposition.
TransCanna is trading at about a quarter of the outstanding shares as competitors such as Planet13Holdings Inc. (CSE: PLTH) (OTCQB:PLNHF), CannaRoyalty Corp. (CSE: OH) (OTCQX: ORHOF), and Nutritional High International Inc. (CSE:EAT) (OTCQB: SPLIF), and its future is bright when you consider its wide-ranging and well-orchestrated strategy to add value for a range of customers. TransCanna is in the driver's seat in moving the cannabis industry to maturity.
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Q: Text Editor with "run button" that does not have public account I am teaching 4th and 5th grade tech to some very bright students and I have found they show more interest in typing while coding as opposed to coding activities like code.org. I am looking for a text editor with a run button so they can see results quickly. I need one for free or one that's not very expensive, and it has to be private. I know repl.it is free, but it's not private, there for not safe for students. Does anyone know of a text editor we can put on chromebooks that hopefully has a run button or can eaily give us a preview of the code? We will be using HTML, CSS, and JS.

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Also, there are numerous other options, try to google for "javascript sandbox"

A: If you want to use web page, jsfiddle or codepen,
If you want to use desktop app, vscode with live server extension.

A: You can never go wrong with JSFiddle :)

It has a clean interface and a registration/sign in option to save your work.

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Baron Robertson of Oakridge, of Oakridge in the County of Gloucester, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 29 June 1961 for the military commander Sir Brian Robertson, 2nd Baronet. He had previously served as Military Governor of the British Zone in occupied Germany from 1947 to 1949. The Robertson baronetcy, of Welbourn in the County of Lincoln, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 4 October 1919 for his father, Field Marshal Sir William Robertson, Chief of the Imperial General Staff from 1915 to 1918.  the titles are held by the first Baron's grandson, the third Baron, who succeeded his father in 2009.

Robertson baronets, of Beaconsfield (1919)

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David Agus: inbred retard?
Discussing a recent study (Directional dominance on stature and cognition in diverse human populations) that found an effect for runs of homozygosity on height and IQ within populations, Greg Cochran notes:
Some retards (British papers) have been spinning this as saying that there are big benefits to mixed-race marriage. Untrue: to avoid lots of ROH (runs of homozygosity), just marry someone who isn't from the same isolated population as you. We're talking outside the valley or across the river : intercontinental travel is not necessary. Now there might be a degree of hybrid vigor in some distant crosses (currently unclear) – but likely not enough to compensate for someone coming from a group that has low trait values. Marry a Pygmy and your kids are going to be short. Marry someone from a population whose average IQ is below 90 (much of the world) and your kids will on average be less smart.
CBS medical contributor David Agus (who, wikipedia informs us, "graduated cum laude in molecular biology from Princeton University and received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1991") promotes this misinterpretation of the study in a segment on CBS This Morning:
Do kids from mixed genetic backgrounds have an advantage?
Additionally, although one would hope someone who majored in molecular biology at Princeton and co-founded a personal genomics company would know that any benefits from outcrossing will fully accrue in the first generation, Agus gleefully urges the viewer to imagine how much "taller and smarter" children will be if "people of different backgrounds" continue interbreeding generation after generation.
It's a pretty interesting study that tells us a lot because this is really the first couple generations where people of different backgrounds are having children and if this happens in one, one generation children are 1.2 cm shorter, think of if this continues to happen, so, taller and smarter.
Curiously, Agus, the grandson of a rabbi, married a pre-Connie Chung daughter of Maury Povich. That is, Agus chose to mate with a member of the same rather inbred narrow ethnic group as himself. But I'm sure now that he's aware of this study (confused though he may be about it) and excited about the eugenic prospects of racial mixing, he's urged his own children to marry Africans, with that same gleeful look in his eyes.
It's Sunday night, and Agus is at Jerusalem's Mamilla Hotel. He just arrived for the Global Forum, a gathering of 70 of the world's thinkers hosted by Israel's National Library, to discuss how the People of the Book can use their ancient lore for contemporary needs.
It was Shimon Peres, the honorary chairman of the event, who convinced Agus to attend. Agus and Peres are friends – though he's not the nonagenarian's doctor – and the two meet every six months or so. This time, Agus will be discussing Maimonides at the National Library, from the perspective of what he, Agus, believes.
But first he had to go back and read some of the good doctor's words. It's been a long time since Agus studied Maimonides at Philadelphia's Akiba Hebrew Academy. What he found resonated. [. . .]
Now Agus combines teaching, research and patient work, along with spending a lot of time at places like the World Economic Forum, the Aspen Ideas Festival and TEDMED – TED for the health field. He's also at the CBS studio at 4 a.m., several mornings per week.
"You get a passion to change things, and I decided I don't care if I'm uncomfortable on camera," said Agus, who calls himself an introvert by nature. "I need to be a role model and it's awkward, but you have to do it, over and over again. I get to talk to four million people every morning on CBS. I can just talk, I can call a spade a spade. I look at my patients losing their lives on a daily basis, so I've got nothing to lose."
[Steve Jobs' ex-doctor is in, and he's quoting Maimonides. http://www.timesofisrael.com/steve-jobs-ex-doctor-is-in-and-hes-quoting-maimonides/]
Labels: eugenics, IQ, Jewish ethnocentrism, Jews, race
RCB said...
Strictly speaking, outbreeding to different racial groups will reduce homozygosity more so than just marrying a non-relative of the same race. That's because some loci do show strong racial patterning: some mutation may only be at appreciable frequency in one group, or there may even be a substitution. Reproducing across races will ensure that your kid gets the two different alleles.
But we don't really care about this because most of the divergence will probably be either the result of divergent selection (hence, best to be homozygous for the local allele) or random drift of neutrals. Obviously selection will keep bad recessives relatively rare.
Still, insofar as your ethnic group has an unusually high recessive hereditary disorder (Ashkenazis?), it might help to consider exogamy. To be sure, it's a minor effect.
"Additionally, although one would hope someone who majored in molecular biology at Princeton and co-founded a personal genomics company would know that any benefits from outcrossing will fully accrue in the first generation, Agus gleefully urges the viewer to imagine how much "taller and smarter" children will be if "people of different backgrounds" continue interbreeding generation after generation."
Yeah, this is a real shame. It seems to me that there is a divide between the molecular geneticists and the population geneticists. I know the latter reasonably well, but not the former. This guy appears to be the opposite.
Steve Sailer said...
"Steve Jobs' ex-doctor"
Didn't G.B. Shaw say something about how a doctor's fame is related to the magnitude of the celebrities who have died under his care?
Bruce said...
As I read I tried to fight my inclination to assume that he was a Jew.
He says children will be "taller and smarter." So he's saying that intelligence is genetic. Funny how intelligence isn't genetic except when they're promoting miscegenation.
RCB,
Yes, it's not impossible some minor additional effect could show up in interracial crossings. It's also not impossible interracial crosses could show outbreeding depression.
The point is the actual study under discussion doesn't address the issue, and we already know (and have known for decades) that, empirically, black/white crosses average IQs intermediate between blacks and whites.
But results like that do not warm the hearts of people like David Agus or demand broadcast by them to a general audience. As noted by Bruce, in most other mass media contexts, genetic influences on intelligence (along with racial differences in IQ and even the utility of IQ tests) are denied.
Something that Harpending and Cochran failed to point out in the "Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence" is that since the genes for intelligence that emerged among the Ashkenazim were favorable heterozygous and virtually fatal homozygous, that would help explain why Jews define the virtue of "diversity" as mixing populations to the point of global homogenization, rather than allowing diversity of pure human ecologies, which is what you need for scientific control experiments and consent of the governed.
pnuadha said...
simple question: what do you guys think is the drive behind racial harmony efforts? It seems to largely be pushed by media and others in power rather than being the result of the common man deciding that racial favoritism is too problematic. It also seems like anti racism is more of a recent phenomena.
Ive had lots of ideas for why there are all these efforts, some of them being more noble than others... Is it because minorities are trying to help themselves and since there is a greater number of minorities living amongst majorities that their voice is becoming stronger? Is it because people hate seeing the violence that comes from racism. Is it because the elite corporate types and political types want more power and its easier for them to get more power if racial causes/favoritism is suppressed? Is it because a companies have more people to sell to if they don't have to worry about race. Just what do you guys think is big picture or the reason for suppressing racism (even when its a natural non hateful thing to do)?
(1) Majority-minority dynamics.
(2) Short-term profit maximization by business interests.
(3) Innate human drives on what Haidt labels the moral foundations of fairness and care/harm, plus virtue signalling in excess of whatever actual moral impulses are felt. (While these are natural tendencies, there's nothing inevitable about their expression taking the insane forms they do today. And in a healthy society, they would also be balanced by other of Haidt's moral foundations, which modern leftists are deficient in: Loyalty/betrayal, Authority/subversion, and Sanctity/degradation)
"Is it because minorities are trying to help themselves and since there is a greater number of minorities living amongst majorities that their voice is becoming stronger?"
Even where minorities are small in numbers, group identity will tend to be more salient for minorities, which can lead to higher levels of ethnic mobilization in minorities than majorities (and disproportionate levels of influence):
Minorities have an advantage in ethnic competition in being more mobilized than majorities. Mobilization is the willingness to make sacrifices for a cause, for example by donating money, time and work. Even a small group with limited resources can exercise disproportionate influence when its members are highly mobilized and its opponents, though superior in numbers and resources, are indifferent. A plausible explanation is that a group's influence is the multiple of its resources and its mobilization. 13 A precondition for group mobilization is group identity, and the minority experience alone makes ethnic identity more salient than for the majority. This follows from asymmetries in the experiences of minorities and majorities, in which the majority forms a much larger part of the minority environment than vice versa. 14 For example, consider a minority constituting one percent of the population that is distributed throughout society. Then a minority individual would encounter a member of the majority in 99 out of every 100 interactions, while a majority individual would encounter only one minority individual in every 100 interactions. Social identity theory 15 predicts that even in the absence of discriminatory behaviour, this asymmetry will have a powerful reinforcing effect on minority identity, so long as the group identities are detectable, for example through different dress, language, accent, or physical appearance. Heightened awareness of group identities alone leads to some mobilization, for example in the positive evaluation of the ingroup and negative evaluation of outgroups. In fact ethnic discrimination is a pervasive element of all multi-ethnic societies. Even when that discrimination takes slight forms, such as hesitancy in expressing interpersonal warmth, the result can be markedly unpleasant for the minority. That is one reason that minorities often congregate in occupational and residential areas. But for majorities the problem can barely exist; a one percent minority that looks slightly different might be noticed but unless its behaviour is overtly objectionable it is unlikely to be perceived as a threat to daily comfort.
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Since minorities are usually more mobilized than majorities, and keep this edge while they retain minority status, minority elites exercise disproportionate influence on state policy compared to their majority counterparts. Psychological experiments concur with Blalock's structural model by indicating that committed minorities exercise disproportionate influence over majority opinion, and often more so than in the reverse direction. 16 Minority influence is exercised unobtrusively, even in a milieu of overt discrimination against the minority. Latent minority influence is subconsciously incorporated into the majority's worldview. Therefore, without rapid assimilation even a low rate of immigration can produce disproportionate minority influence on ethnic policy. This is another reason for majorities who have succeeded in building an ethnic state to use the power of the state apparatus to: (1) keep minorities small by restricting immigration; (2) make assimilation a precondition for political, economic, or cultural engagement in society; (3) boost majority mobilization, for example through the education system and mass media; and (4) deny state support for minority efforts to mobilize their followers. The basic principle is to ensure the majority an ethnic group strategy in the form of the state, while denying this to minorities. This has been the approach of liberal nationalism in its emancipation of oppressed minorities, a well known example being the French revolutionary regime's attitude towards the Jews. Two months after revolutionaries stormed the Bastille in 1789, the Comte de Clermont-Tonnerre summed up the Enlightenment position thus: 'The Jews should be denied everything as a nation but granted everything as individuals.' 17
[Frank Kemp Salter. On Genetic Interests Family, Ethnicity, And Humanity In An Age Of Mass Migration.]
16 Minority influence is exercised unobtrusively, even in a milieu of overt discrimination against the minority. Latent minority influence is subconsciously incorporated into the majority's worldview. Therefore, without rapid assimilation even a low rate of immigration can produce disproportionate minority influence on ethnic policy.
Wow, thats kind of a scary thought. Basically, the majority becomes very complacent and the minority can insert some weird biased views. It would explain the whole "blame whitey" and the notion that in group bias among whites is evil (even though countries like Korea and Japan don't even let foreigners stay in their country).
But does this describe the situation with blacks? I don't know how many black elites have pushed the idea of afrocentrism but the ideas have certainly not taken hold in america. Most americans think egyptians where not black and blacks had been backwards as hell.
I think there is a lot of pity and maybe even some infantalizing towards blacks from non blacks.
Even when that discrimination takes slight forms, such as hesitancy in expressing interpersonal warmth, the result can be markedly unpleasant for the minority.
But for majorities the problem can barely exist; a one percent minority that looks slightly different might be noticed but unless its behaviour is overtly objectionable it is unlikely to be perceived as a threat to daily comfort.
I think this explains a lot, including the behavior of white people. As far as I can tell the biggest anti racist whites are the whites that don't actually live near non asian minorities. Its quite stupid when a hyper anti racist has a white/asian spouse and lives in a white/asian area. What would they know...
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Melina Schuh is a German molecular biologist. She is known for her work on meiosis in human egg cells, and for her studies on the mechanisms that lead to Down syndrome.

Early life and education
Schuh was born in 1980 in Germany and grew up in Bad Pyrmont. She received a diploma degree in biochemistry from the University of Bayreuth, Germany. She went on to do her PhD with Jan Ellenberg at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, where she used live cell imaging to study the organization of the spindle in mouse oocytes.

Career
In 2009, Schuh became a group leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK. Her work centers around the process of asymmetric oocyte division, in which oocytes mature into eggs by extruding half of their chromosomes in a small cell termed the polar body. This requires the spindle apparatus in these cells to be asymmetric. She discovered a role for proteins that control actin nucleation in the positioning of the spindle. In studying how actin helps position the spindle, she discovered that vesicles carrying specific signals can change the organization and density of actin networks.

Errors in oocyte division can lead to genetic disorders such as Down syndrome. Working with Bourn Hall Clinic, the clinic that first pioneered IVF, Schuh studied human oocyte divisions directly, instead of using mouse oocytes as a model system. She found that human oocytes have a surprisingly slow and error-prone mechanism for assembling the meiotic spindle, increasing the likelihood of segregation errors. She has also investigated the reasons why the children of older mothers have a higher rate of pregnancy loss and Down syndrome, finding that oocytes from older mothers have a higher frequency of errors in pairing between sister chromatids. Schuh has shown that actin filaments normally protect mammalian eggs against this type of error.

Awards
 2012 : EMBO Young Investigator
 2013 : ERC Starting Grant
 2014 : Lister Institute Research Prize
 2014 : Biochemical Society Early Career Award
 2015 : John Kendrew Young Scientist Award
 2018 : EMBO Gold Medal
 2019 : Colworth Medal, Biochemical Society
 2019 : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
 2019 : Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

References

21st-century German biologists
Living people
University of Bayreuth alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century German women scientists
German women biologists
Members of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Max Planck Institute directors


Beyond the Resource Curse focuses on the paradoxical relationship between natural wealth and economic security and examines the particular pitfalls and consistent problems facing oil and gas exporting states and contributes to a better comprehension of the perils of oil and gas export.
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Brenda Shaffer is Senior Lecturer in the School of Political Science at the University of Haifa. She is the author of many books, including Energy Politics, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Taleh Ziyadov is Research Fellow at the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy in Baku, Azerbaijan.


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Yahoo! CEO Yang Stepping Down
By Jeff Gamet
Nov 17th, 2008 3:00 PM EST
Yahoo! co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang is stepping down from his top dog position, ending speculation that he might surrender his title following what many see as a botched buyout deal with Microsoft. Mr. Yang will stay on with the company as Chief Yahoo! and as a member of the board once his successor has been found.
"When the Board asked me to become CEO and lead the transformation of the Company, I did so because it was important to re-envision the business for a different era to drive more effective growth," Mr. Yang said. "Having set Yahoo! on a new, more open path, the time is right for me to transition the CEO role and our global talent to a new leader."
Yahoo! Chairman Roy Bostock added that the board has been involved in discussions with Mr. Yang about transitioning to a new CEO for some time, adding "we all agree that now is the right time to make the transition to a new CEO who can take the company to the next level."
Microsoft presented Yahoo! with an unsolicited takeover bid at the beginning of the year in an effort to bolster its own position in the online search advertising market. Yahoo! rejected the deal, leading to a drawn out battle between the companies. Yahoo! later struck a tentative deal with its competitor Google, but that recently fell through, too, because Google wasnit interested in dealing with a pre-deal U.S. antitrust investigation.
Mr. Yang stepped into the CEO roll a little over a year ago in June 2007. He will assist in choosing his successor.
Jeff Gamet
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In Today's program Dr. Reminga, from Northern Foot Care Center, talks about what you can do to soothe and pamper our feet. The feet are often neglected and the last thing on the list to tend to. They're put through the paces each day and at some point the feet need some attention and TLC. Dr. Reminga even has a homemade foot scrub treatment to share. Taking care of your feet has many benefits. Tired, achy feet are all too common after a long day of placing demands on them. It's important to tend to your feet on a daily basis. There's a cosmetic benefit and a therapeutic benefit to taking care of our feet. You will also be able to detect any foot problems that may arise because you are looking at your feet more often. This will help you to determine what's normal and what may be problematic. As long as you don't have poor circulation, any open wounds, or other obvious problems, a foot care protocol can make you and your feet feel their best.
Mix them all together and seal in a glass jar. This will last for 6 months, always test a small spot on your skin first, and scrub with it once a week in a foot bath, not in the shower to prevent slipping. The peppermint and coconut oil both have antiseptic and antibacterial properties as well as a refreshing, soothing effect. Sounds good, right? Listen to today's program to find out more tips from Dr. Reminga about how to Soothe Your Soles.


In one of the least shocking research findings ever, flight comparison engine Kayak has discovered that low cost airlines are among the worst offenders for hiking up the price of snacks and drinks by more than 20 times the actual cost.
A comparison of six major budget airlines found huge price increases on basic refreshments, with most carriers charging around £2.60 for a tea and £1.80 for a 500ml bottle of water. As a huge surprise to no-one, Ryanair was found to be the most expensive when it came to on-board snacks, charging £2.34 for a bottle of water and £1.56 for a chocolate bar, as well as paying £1.96 for a 200ml can of cola, and £2.34 for a 160g bag of gummy sweets. compared with everyday prices, according to research that.
But it's not just Ryanair. The investigation found that 'bucket' airlines routinely charge triple the supermarket price for chocolate bars, and a cup-a-soup sachet that could be obtained for as little as 12p from a supermarket could cost passengers as much as £2.50. And alcoholic drinks were also extra-pricey. On Jet2 flights, a 330ml can of continental lager costs £4.20, while a 440ml can in a supermarket can cost less than a pound; a mark up of more than 500%.
The six airlines investigated were Ryanair, Easyjet, Jet2, FlyBe, Monarch and Thomas Cook.
I'm with them. You can't compare to a supermarket and they have to make something from it.
@ John Davies Easy Jet have also had to purchase 80 more cans, store and distribute them etc. I'm betting they make more money selling 20 than they would the 100 at your cheaper price.
20 cans nets £50 at £2.50p a go, but those cans will cost 20p each, add 5p for ice and the cup, so thats £45 profit. Sell 100 at a pound each and you make £75. Work 5x harder for 67% more. That makes no sense to most business people. When a paper shop can charge £1 for a can or small bottle with no waited service or captive audience, I do think the airlines have license to charge a bit more. If little or no margin was made on the drinks and snacks, you'd probably add £10-£20 to every budget airline ticket.


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Home/news/Netflix's Kanye West Documentary 'jeen-yuhs' Gets Release Date: Watch the New Trailer
Netflix's Kanye West Documentary 'jeen-yuhs' Gets Release Date: Watch the New Trailer
The much anticipated Kanye West documentary on Netflix, jeen-yuhs finally has a firm release date.
Act 1 of the documentary will get a nationwide theatrical release on February 10 with the Netflix premiere following on February 16.
jeen-yuhs has been in the making for 21 years, and was helmed by Clarence "Coodie" Simmons and Chike Ozah (aka Coodie & Chike), longtime collaborators of Kanye's. It will feature previously unreleased footage of the rap mogul. The film was set to premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival later this month but the in-person event has now been canceled due to rise of Omicron. It will now be held virtually.
"Filmmakers Coodie and Chike have created an extraordinary film and we're honored that they have trusted TIME Studios to produce jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy," TIME Studios President Ian Orefice said in a press release shared Monday. "We're excited to partner with Iconic Events Releasing to give the world a chance to first experience the once in a generation storytelling in theaters."
Netflix has also issued a new trailer for the documentary that you can watch below. An initial teaser was released back in September.
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Georges Marty, né à Paris le  et mort à Torcy le  est un artiste peintre français qui résidait à Torcy.

Biographie
Georges Marty est connu pour ses natures mortes et ses paysages champêtres. Il a exercé son art en marge de son activité professionnelle. Il était fabricant de caisses, sans doute pour la chocolaterie Menier de Noisiel.

Certaines de ses œuvres son conservées au musée Gatien-Bonnet à Lagny-sur-Marne.

Œuvres

 Autoportrait, conservé au musée Gatien-Bonnet.
 Intérieur aux sabots, huile sur carton, collection de Édouard Cortès.
 Persée et Andromède, 1939, huile sur panneau.

Bibliographie
 Face à face : portraits d'artistes dans les collections publiques d'Ile-de-France, 1998
 Autour des néo-impressionnistes : le groupe de Lagny de Noël Coret, 1999

Références

Peintre français du XXe siècle
Artiste de Torcy
Naissance en octobre 1875
Naissance à Paris
Décès en mars 1959
Décès en Seine-et-Marne
Décès à 83 ans


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Where to get help and assistance
People who suffer with depression and other mental health problems often try to hide the symptoms from close family and friends and it is vital to recognise the early signs. There are a wide variety of organisations that can help people people in mental distress, and as well as offering support to their family and friends.
Cameron Grant Memorial Trust (CGMT) can't provide advice about personal situations. However, if you, or anyone you know, is feeling depressed, it is most important that you seek professional help quickly. Below, we have provided some details of organisations which are able to provide help and support, and links to many others. Their services are intended to supplement and not replace professional advice through your GP and other services provided by the National Health Service.
Cameron Grant Memorial Trust (CGMT) doesn't recommend or endorse any particular organisation and can't guarantee that the organisation will have a solution to your particular problem; however, we do hope that they will be able to provide the right support for your situation.
Samaritans runs the largest UK based helpline. Samaritans can be called free any time, from any phone, on 116 123. Samaritans say:
We're here round the clock, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. If you need a response immediately, it's best to call us on the phone. This number is FREE to call. You don't have to be suicidal to call us.
Samaritans can also be reached by email on jo@samaritans.org, by mail and at their local branches. See their website for more information.
PAPYRUS runs HOPELINEUK – a specialist telephone service staffed by trained professionals who give non-judgemental support, practical advice and information: to Children, teenagers and young people up to the age of 35 who are worried about how they are feeling, and to anyone who is concerned about a young person. HOPELINEUK can be reached on free phone number 0800 068 41 41, by email at pat@papyrus-uk.org, or by text message at 07786 209697. HOPELineUK opening hours are 10am-10pm weekdays, 2pm-10pm weekends, and 2pm-5pm Bank Holidays. Check the HOPELINEUK website for the latest details.
CAM Crisis Messenger – Do you need help now? Our Crisis Messenger text service provides free, 24/7 crisis support across the UK. If you are experiencing a mental health crisis and need support, you can text CAM to 85258.
Here are links to some other webpages with details of organisations that can help:
The Matthew Elvidge Trust: Need Support?
The Alliance of Suicide Prevention Charities: Feeling Suicidal?
The Alliance of Suicide Prevention Charities: Worried About Someone?
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Nevada's COVID-19 infection rate is low, but deaths and cases are rising
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A key marker of COVID-19 infection rates in Nevada has fallen to new lows in the Las Vegas area, but the number of deaths and new cases reported statewide have begun rising above recent averages, state health officials reported Wednesday.
The 14-day positivity rate, tracking the percentage of people who found to be infected among those tested for COVID-19, dropped in Clark County to 4%. Statewide, the figure remained at 4.2%.
Both were below a World Health Organization goal of 5% for governments to relax pandemic prevention restrictions.
However, Nevada tallied 268 new cases on Wednesday and 10 more deaths.
Those numbers are up from recent 14-day averages of 200 new cases a day and three deaths.
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Inoculations for COVID-19 have increased in the Las Vegas area, where more than one in six people over the age of 16 has been fully vaccinated, health officials said.
But the average daily number of coronavirus tests in Clark County has decreased to about 5,300, after averaging more than 12,200 a day in January.
The Las Vegas-based Southern Nevada Health District has begun taking website pre-registration for drive-through COVID-19 testing April 7 at Allegiant Stadium near the Las Vegas Strip.
The effort will mark the first testing drive at the stadium built for the NFL Las Vegas Raiders.


The Simpsons brings the esports industry to pop culture in the most enlightening way possible through E My Sports.
Esports has a long-standing stigma among the general public who are not aware of how it works. But The Simpson, known for their dedication in introducing tropes to the public pulled off a stunt to set the record straight. In the latest episode of The Simpsons Season 30, the creators produced an episode featuring the esports or gaming industry. In the episode E My Sports, Bart sheds light how multifaceted the esports industry can be.
After Homer gets Bart a high-end gaming rig, Bart ends up playing a game called "Conflict of Enemies. Then he and his friends end up competing in "Conflict of Enemies" in hopes to get famous and, of course, win money. "Conflict of Enemies" is heavily influenced by the real MOBA game, League of Legends. According to the creators, they consulted Riot Games, developers of LoL to accurately the message they want. The episode touches multiple aspects of the esports, like misconceptions and informative bits, both positive and negative.
In the episode, Homer introduced "The Detonator", a 19-year-old gaming burnout that will tutor Bart and the Evergreen Terrors. He portrays a pro player turned coach who knows all the gaming slang and knowledge about the game. However, he decides that his career is over after his character dies in the game. He begins to the sentiment that at 19, that's the longest possible age your career can live. Which is a complete ironic attack to the beliefe because most players start their career at that age. The general public thinks that esports careers are short-lived, thus resulting in retirement at an early age. It's not entirely false because there are players who retire at an early age.
However, for today, some players are just starting at the age of 19. Let's take Anathan "ana" Pham as an example. ana started at the age of 15 participating in the competitive scene of Dota 2. He became one of the best carry players in the game up until today. Not only that, but he guided his teammates from OG to victory numerous times, as a Majors champion and as the TI8 champion last year. Even at the age of 19, he is still active and still participates in the competitive scene. Aside from ana, there are famous players who even play competitively even after having a family of getting married. Team Secret's Puppey and MidOne both have families now but are still dominating the ranks. Vitrus.pro's captain, Solo is in the same both with them. It just proves that age doesn't matter in the esports industry, as long as you have the knowledge, skills, and passion for it.
Sophie, the daughter of Krusty the Clown said that she will become the famous girl gamer, win or lose. This goes to show that there are issues about the gender of the player at play in the industry. A lot of female gamers experience flaming and sometimes sexual harassment from male players. Since the esports industry is male-dominated, female players or enthusiasts are treated in a lowly way. No matter how good or bad the player is, as long as she's female, there's always a possibility of that kind of treatment from the majority of players. Even companies like Riot have issues with the treatment of their female employees.
Overall, The Simpsons did a good job to introduce esports and the gaming culture to the general public. As a gamer myself, it could be informative in a quirky and funny way while staying true to the things about it. A big kudos to The Simpsons producers and team for presenting esports in the most possible "black-and-white" way.
What do you think of The Simpson episode E My Sports? Can you relate to Bart? Let us know on the comments down below. Or hit us up on our Facebook or Twitter @UDoUPh.


The past couple of weeks saw the announcements of the Microsoft-Salesforce partnership in the CRM space, SAP's Mobile 3 platform and Xamarin rolling out more features to enhance cross-platform mobile app development. Let's take a look at some other tech news from this past week.
Apple officially announced iOS 8 at its annual WWDC conference in San Francisco. This was in line with the annual tradition of showcasing the evolution of its software for the iPhone and iPad. Other major announcements include "widgets", Touch ID for third-party apps, a keyboard that learns on the fly and software for home automation. The Conference attendees got the iOS 8 beta on the same day, while everyone else will be able to get their hands on the new software in fall.
iOS 8 doesn't have any changes in terms of visual and design aspects. The flat icons have been retained. Instead of cosmetic upgrades and changes, iOS 8 focuses heavily on building out software enhancements across the board. Users of both iOS devices and Macs will see a lot more cross-device compatibility where information like text messages, photos, and even phone calls jumping seamlessly from one device to another.
Samsung has wanted to step away from its dependence on the Android platform. They did make a move in that direction, with the announcement of the first commercial smartphone Samsung Z, powered by the open source Tizen platform, instead of Google's Android OS.
The hardware specs of the Samsung Z do not offer a great deal of differentiation from the Galaxy range of Samsung. However it still does include a built-in fingerprint sensor which was a part of the flagship device Galaxy S5. Samsung Z runs on Tizen2.2.1, making it a device to watch out for. It's slated to ship in Q3, initially to Russia with a plan to expand it to other unnamed markets thereafter.
The Samsung Z will include access to a Tizen app store. This will undoubtedly be pointing at a few thousand native apps for the users. However the OpenMobile application compatibility layer will enable the handset to run Android apps too. This was probably expected given the superiority of Android's eco-system and the need for a line-in to the dominant platform for a chance of gaining some traction.
While Apple is reputed in the market for building some amazing hardware and powerful software, it has not found many fans with its forays into the cloud. However at WWDC, Apple aimed at changing that with the anouncements of iCloud Drive and more significantly, CloudKit.
CloudKit is an "effectively free" developer framework that enables app creators to tap into Apple's iCloud and as a result they can work on integrating cloud components into their mobile apps with relative ease. This comes as good news for developers as this problem had forced them to turn to third-party solutions like Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services.
By calling on different aspects of the CloudKit API, developers will be able to quickly drop in support for features like CloudKit authentication, search, and notification, things that previously would have required building on top of the aforementioned services from Apple's competitors.
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International Media Solutions continues to expand and grow in its fourth year. The Mojo Academic is finding its way into schools, media professionals are being trained throughout the globe in harnessing this amazing tool, while the other Mojo Kits continue to be used on the field, helping spur the next generation of storytellers.
We have always been committed to helping today's youth and that's why we're proud to announce this year that IMS is a core partner of the YouthPower: Implementation Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity Contract (IDIQ) that FHI 360 was awarded. IMS's role as a consortium partner will be to focus on youth engagement and training utilizing video and other IT solutions.
What are FHI 360 and YouthPower?
FHI 360 is a human development organization committed to helping deprived communities and have a long-lasting impact on today's youth through innovative solutions. They help people in more than 70 countries and all US states and territories. YouthPower is a USAID project to implement USAID's Youth in Development Policy that engages youth in development efforts, builds the capacity of youth-serving and youth-led organizations and builds cross-sectoral approaches to create positive youth outcomes.
We couldn't be more proud to be part of this amazing consortium that includes leading organizations from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. IMS will post updates on specific projects related to YouthPower as they are awarded.


The Assistant Strategist, Digital Activation, plays a key role executing digital buys. Ensuring that pacing, performance and the Digital Activation Process is activated correctly across the area of responsibility is the primary focus of this job.
A positive attitude and willingness to \"roll up your sleeves\" is also critical to get the job done. Experience working with across several media channels is preferred and a curiosity in emerging media platforms.


David DMP Moore and Babylon are making you an offer you can't refuse: come to the DMP Mafia Movie Marathon and see The Godfather Trilogy the way they were made to be seen, plus three other mafia classics.
(1972) - Digitally Remastered, OmU The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his empire to his reluctant son.
(1974) - Digitally Remastered, OmU The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.
(1990) - Digitally Remastered, OmU In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in New York City and Italy in 1979, aging Mafia Don Michael Corleone seeks to avow for his sins, while taking his nephew Vincent Mancini under his wing.
(1972) - - Digitally Remastered, OV The only comedy/spoof on the lineup for this event. SUPER RARE sexploitation/nunsploitation crime film that directly spoofs the Godfather.
(1942) - Digitally Remastered, OV A young man's father, who lives in the big city, dies and his business associates bring his son to the city to take over his father's business. What the young man doesn't know is that his father was one of the city's biggest racket bosses and that he's being placed in charge of the gang's profitable shakedown operations, disguised as an insurance agency.
(1942) - - Digitally Remastered, OV An actress gets mixed up with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery. Before she's sent to prison, she steals the money and hides it, intending to use it as a bargaining chip to win her release from prison. However, her former partners have other ideas.