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Boogaloo Dynamics
The Woke-Ass Solution to your Woke-Ass World
Boycott List
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Gun Free Zones
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"The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of men who just wanted to left alone. They try, so very hard, to mind their business and provide for themselves and those that they love. They resist every impulse to fight back knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it. They know the moment they fight back, their lives as they have lived them so far, are over.
The moment the men who wanted to be left alone are forced to fight back, it is a form of death. They are literally killing off who they used to be. Which is why when these men pick up arms, they fight with an unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives. They fight with raw hate and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play acting politics and terror. TRUE TERROR will arrive at the latter people's doors, and they will scream, cry, and beg for mercy… but it will fall upon deaf ears of the man who just wanted to be left alone."
–UNKNOWN AUTHOR, predicting what is to come if Leftists continue to assault freedom, the Constitution and the very moral fabric of America.
Federal and state governments have been infringing on civil rights for generations. State governments controlled by both Democrats and RINOs have focused on severely restricting the right to bear arms. They pass laws that blatantly conflict with the Constitution and 2nd Amendment, and rely on judge shopping to tie up court challenges for years. They strive to chip away at our rights, taking bigger and bigger "pieces of the pie".
Boogaloo Dynamics exists to provide Americans the tools to recognize and defend against such evils. Through lawsuits, lobbying, rallies, protests and kinetic actions, we can work to counter this abuse of power, and prevent further infringement on our rights. As the Supreme Court has repeatedly held, a law repugnant to the Constitution is no law at all, has no authority, and citizens are not bound to obey it. That applies to virtually all gun laws.
Our ultimate goal is to restore our Republic and our States to the Constitutional limitations within which they are meant to operate.
Boogaloo Dynamics lifted our name from a so-called research study titled "CYBER SWARMING, MEMETIC WARFARE AND VIRAL INSURGENCY" that may as well have been a satire, it was so full of bovine excrement. Honestly, it read like something from the Onion or Babylon Bee. The white paper displayed how little the Left understands humor, patriotic Americans, and the opposition to Democrat/Socialists' nanny state ideology.
The "researchers" looked at Boogaloo memes, jokes about a 2nd American Civil War that many feel is inevitable as a result of oppressive government overreach, and irrationally concluded that meme creators want a civil war, when what they actually want is for the government to respect the limits the Constitution places on government authority and power. If a civil war kicks off, it will be Left-wing radicals within our government waging war against American citizens, after violating their Constitutional rights and attempting to replace freedom with Socialist mandates.
An astute individual provided the following critique of the report: "Boogaloo memes don't attempt to solidify people under an ideology- socialism does that. The right wing perspective is individualist, not collectivist. Boogaloo memes aren't pushing the agenda, they are reactions to the agenda. They aren't "marketed" to people, they appeal to people, because they satire a kernel of truth. There isn't a monolithic group or core participants pushing leadership down to the masses. There's a giant patchwork of individuals who find a joke funny. The authors can't understand why 20,000 people could show up in the same spot and still be individuals; it's gotta be some kind of conspiracy. Because 20,000 liberals getting together means they are consolidating, not convening."
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Ichiryuu, Jirou, Midora join "ultimate gourmet food hunting" 3DS game
Namco Bandai Games began streaming a promotional video on Tuesday for the Toriko Ultimate Survival Nintendo 3DS game. The "ultimate gourmet food hunting" game is slated to ship on November 28. The "100 techniques" video showcases various moves players can use for the 14 playable characters featured in the video: Toriko, Starjun, Sunny, Zebra, Coco, Buranchi, Ootake, Teppei, Rin, Komatsu, Zonge, Ichiryuu, Jirou, and Midora.
The game takes place on an island called Shikijima, which features more than 200 species of wild animals. Toriko and his friends must work together to collect ingredients on this dangerous island. Tengu Buranchi will be available as a limited-edition character, and Tommyrod and Grinpatch will also be featured in the game.
The game will retail for 5,980 yen (about US$60).
Toriko Ultimate Survival is the latest game based on Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro 's Toriko manga. Namco Bandai Games has previously released these other Toriko games: Toriko Gourmet Survival and Toriko Gourmet Survival 2 for the PlayStation Portable, and Toriko Gourmet Monsters! and Toriko Gourmega Battle! for the Nintendo 3DS.
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Here at Green Dragon we're planning to build a British & European Wildlife Nature Reserve, to be opened in July 2018.
Many of these species are endangered and losing their natural habitats, and although these extraordinary animals originated from our regions, and can still live amongst us, many of us don't know about their behaviours and how we can help protect them so they can continue to thrive in our countryside.
Our new Wildlife Reserve will promote the conservation of these animals through education and interactive encounters. Our goal is to educate 250,000 children by 2023. We're doing this by building on our existing Children's Partnership Programme with schools and the national curriculum outdoor programme, with the Scouting and Girl Guide organisations, and by developing our existing network of children's charities designed to give some of the least advantaged children experiences of the outdoors that they would otherwise not have.
This project builds on our values of conservation, sustainability and healthier lifestyles, inspiring people to enjoy the great outdoors and the countryside through recreation and social play. Our Farm Park opened in 2014 and nestles in 45 acres of rolling Buckinghamshire countryside, just 40 miles outside London. We have large collections of rare-breed farm animals and pets, plus orchards and walled gardens where we grow the produce served in our cafes, and outdoor play facilities and activities.
The central building has been designed to enable indoor viewing and teaching space, with the enclosures and aviaries also viewable from outside. There will be an outdoor display lawn where demonstrations and flying displays can take place, encouraging the natural behaviours of the animals and enabling visitor participation. Interpretation boards will give information about each species, their link to UK native habitats and how conservation can help them in the wild.
Creating a dedicated British Wildlife Zone is a unique and ambitious new development for a British farm park, and we need your support to help make it happen. Three acres of the site will be given over to extra-large enclosures rarely seen in zoos or wildlife parks, where responsibly-sourced animals will be housed in naturalistic surroundings. It's our goal to promote the conservation of some amazing British wildlife, from birds of prey such as the barn owl, eagle owl and the golden eagle, to mammals including red foxes, red squirrels and species of deer and reindeer.
As well as the wildlife, we're investing in children – creating something that will benefit all our communities. We want to inspire future generations about our countryside and give them positive messages about what we can all do for conservation. We'd be so grateful if you can be part of it. Thank you.
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Rosa Parks grew up in Alabama, where she learned to stand up for herself at an early age. Rosa went on to become a civil rights activist. In 1955, she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Her courageous decision had a huge impact on civil rights, eventually leading to the end of segregation on public transport.
Meet Coco Chanel, the world famous fashion designer! Now available as a board book in the Little People, Big Dreams series, this inspiring and informative little biography follows the life of the iconic first lady of fashion, from her early life in an orphanage where she is a genius with needle and thread to her time as a cabaret singer, hat maker and, eventually, international fashion designer.
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Maya Angelou spent much of her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas. After a traumatic event at age eight, she stopped speaking for five years.
As a child, Ada had a big imagination and a talent for mathematics. She grew up in a noble household in England, where she dedicated herself to studying.
Audrey Hepburn grew up in Arnhem in the Netherlands. After living through the hardships of World War Two, she moved to study ballet in London.
Ella Fitzgerald grew up near Harlem, in New York, where she was surrounded by music and dance. After winning first prize in a talent competition at the Apollo Theater, she went on to tour the world with her pioneering voice.
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Assistant Professor, I&I - Inflammatory diseases
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204 shared research output
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10 Clinical methods and public health
Cancer Center Amsterdam
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Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences
Amsterdam Public Health
EMGO institute for health and care research
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Amsterdam Infection & Immunity
EMGO - Mental health
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ACS - Atherosclerosis & Ischemic Syndromes
05 Neurology and psychiatry
02 Surgical specialisms
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ICaR - Ischemia, repair, circulation and metabolism
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Radiology and nuclear medicine
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Amsterdam Movement Sciences
CCA - Innovative therapy
CCA - Evaluation of Cancer Care
CCA - Treatment and quality of life
ACS - Diabetes & Metabolism
ICaR - Ischemia and repair
APH - Quality of Care
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CCA - Clinical Therapy Development
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Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand Surgery
ICaR - Circulation and metabolism
AMS - Restoration and Development
Clinical pharmacology and pharmacy
CCA - Imaging
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APH - Mental Health
ACS - Microcirculation
MOVE Research Institute
Amsterdam Gasteroenterology & Metabolism
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Cardio-thoracic surgery
I&I - Cancer immunology
Hematology laboratory
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Amsterdam Neuroscience - Brain Mechanisms
AG&M - Re-generation and cancer of the digestive system
Amsterdam Neuroscience - Brain Imaging
EMGO - Musculoskeletal health
EMGO - Lifestyle, overweight and diabetes
Medical oncology laboratory
CCA - Disease profiling
ICaR - Heartfailure and pulmonary arterial hypertension
Amsterdam Neuroscience - Neurovascular Disorders
AMS - Ageing and Morbidity
CCA - Biomarkers
AG&M - Endocrinology, metabolism and nutrition
Medical psychology
ACS - Pulmonary Hypertension & Thrombosis
Amsterdam Neuroscience - Compulsivity, Impulsivity & Attention
CCA - Cancer immunology
APH - Personalized Medicine
Anatomy and neurosciences
CCA - Cancer biology
CCA - Oncogenesis
APH - Health Behaviours & Chronic Diseases
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Medical Microbiology and Infection Control
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Radboud University Nijmegen
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Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam and VU Medical Center
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Meander Medical Center
Department of Cardiology, Zwolle, Netherlands
Albert Schweitzer Ziekenhuis
Academic Medical Center
Drexel University College of Medicine
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Indiana University-Purdue
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Turku PET Centre and Division of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Kiinamyllynkatu 4-8, 20520, Turku, Finland.
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Northwest Clinics
Maastricht University Medical Center
Netherlands Cancer Institute
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Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Röpcke-Zweers hospital, Jan Weitkamplaan 4a, 7772 SE, Hardenberg, the Netherlands.
Department of Cardiology, Medisch Spectrum Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Zuyderland Medical Centre, Henri Dunantstraat 5, 6419 PC, Heerlen, the Netherlands.
Department of Cardiology, Barts Heart Centre, London, United Kingdom.
Departments of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Surgery, United States
Department of cardiology, Blaricum, Netherlands
Department of Cardiology, Tergooi Hospital, Rijksstraatweg 1, Blaricum, the Netherlands.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Geert Grooteplein Zuid 10, 6525 GA, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Reinier de Graaf hospital, Reinier de Graafweg 5, 2625 AD, Delft, the Netherlands.
Medical Center Haaglanden
Unit of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Aalborg University Hospital, Denmark (S.M.H.).
Royal Victoria Infirmary
Afdeling Farmaceutische Zaken
Bern University Hospital 'Inselspital'
Medisch Spectrum Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
Windesheim University of Applied Sciences
Department of Cardiology, Amphia Hospital, Molengracht 21, Breda, the Netherlands.
Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Amphia hospital, Langendijk 75, 4819 EV, Breda, the Netherlands.
Department of Anesthesiology, Alkmaar, Netherlands
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Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, Amsterdam Infection and Immunity Institute, VU University Medical Center Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Istanbul University
Wakayama Medical University
Department of Child Health and Pediatrics, Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Eldoret, Kenya.
Department of Cardiology, Hospital Clínico San Carlos El Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Hospital Clinic San Carlos and Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Catharina Hospital
Isala
CIBERONC (Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria San Carlos)
Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research (NIVEL)
University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Sint Franciscus hospital, Kleiweg 500, 3045 PM, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Institute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University, Birzeit, Palestine.
Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University Hospital, Denmark (K.E.).
Noordwest Ziekenhuisgroep, Alkmaar, Netherlands
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Canisius-Wilhelmina hospital, Weg door Jonkerbos 100, 6532 SZ, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
National Heart and Lung Institute, 2nd Floor B Block, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London W12 0HS, UK.
PHS Amsterdam
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Meander Medical Centre, PO Box 1502, 3800 BM Amersfoort, The Netherlands.
University Medical Center Utrecht
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Gelre hospital - location Apeldoorn, Albert Schweitzerlaan 31, 7334 DZ, Apeldoorn, the Netherlands.
Department of Obstetrics&Gynaecology of the Academic Medical Centre
Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Ambulance Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Intensive Care Medicine, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Minddistrict
Hospital of South West Jutland
locatie West Previously Sint Lucas Andreas Ziekenhuis
HeartFlow, Redwood City, United States
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, OLVG-oost, Oosterpark 9, 1091 AC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
St. Paul's Hospital
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Groene Hart hospital, Bleulandweg 10, 2803 HH, Gouda, the Netherlands.
Tergooi Hospital
Department of Molecular Cell Biology and Immunology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Division of Cardiology, Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC (D.J.F., I.K., S.M.H., K.E., R.J.K., B.D.A.).
Department of Cardiology, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Department of Radiology, St Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Department of Cardiology, LE Beverwijk, Netherlands
Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center St. Radboud, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Isala Hospital
Slotervaart Hospital
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, OLVG-west, Jan Tooropstraat 164, 1061 AE, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
ETZ Elisabeth - Tweesteden Ziekenhuis
Department of Surgery, 6716 RP Ede, Netherlands
Department of Cardiology, Emmen, Netherlands
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Albinusdreef 2, 2333 ZA, Leiden, the Netherlands.
Severance Hospital
Netherlands Heart Institute (NHI), Utrecht, Netherlands
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Jeroen Bosch hospital, Henri Dunantstraat 1, 5223 GZ, 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.
Trimbos Institute, Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction
Department of Cardiology, Medical Center Leeuwarden, Henri Dunantweg 2, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands.
Department of Pediatric Oncology-Hematology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Cardiology Centers of the Netherlands, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Department of Cardiology, Isala Heart Center, Dokter van Heesweg 2, Zwolle, the Netherlands.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Spaarne Gasthuis
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Catharina hospital, Michelangelolaan 2, 5623 EJ, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
Department of Cardiology, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom.
Departments of Cardiology, Groningen, Netherlands
Viecuri Medical Center, Venlo
Department of Surgery, Maxima Medical Centre, Veldhoven, Netherlands.
Haga Hospital, Groningen, Netherlands
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Deventer hospital, Deventer, the Netherlands.
Cardiovascular Center of Aalst
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hemato-Oncology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
School of Aging Studies, Land O'Lakes, United States
VU University Medical Hospital
Departments of Cardiology, Enschede, Netherlands
Ysbyty Gwynedd Hospital, Wales.
St. James' Hospital, Dublin, Ireland and.
Hospital Universitario de la Princesa
Department of Cardiology, Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (ACS) (A.Z., C.V., S.B., A.C.v.R., R.N., C.P.A.).
Isala Clinics
Haaglanden Medical Center
Albert Schweitzer Hospital
Vrije Universiteit Medical Center
University Hospital Basel
Inholland University of Applied Sciences
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Research school 'GROW', Maastricht University Medical Centre, P. Debyelaan 25, 6229 HX, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
Dimence, Mental Health Organisation
Martini Ziekenhuis
Radboud University Medical Center
Department of Surgery, Gelderse Vallei Hospital, Willy Brandtlaan 10, 6716 RP Ede, The Netherlands. Electronic address: BoschA1@zgv.nl.
Dept. Physics and Medical Technology
Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Schweitzer Hospital, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
Department of Radiology, Netherlands
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Haga hospital, Els-Borst-Eilersplein 275, 2545 AA, Den Haag, the Netherlands.
Department of Clinical Genetics, Institute for Cardiovascular Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Department of Health sciences, Faculty of Science, Research institute 'Amsterdam Public Health', Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Maasstad Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Leiden University Medical Centre
CIBER de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares (CIBERCV)
Ipswich Hospital
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University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust
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Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
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Dalio Institute of Cardiovascular Imaging, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Gelre hospital - location Zutphen, Den Elterweg 77, 7207 AE, Zutphen, the Netherlands.
Maxima Medical Center Veldhoven
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Máxima Medical Centre, De Run 4600, 5504 DB, Veldhoven, the Netherlands.
Groene Hart Hospital
Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand Surgery, Meander Medical Centre, Amersfoort, The Netherlands.


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Plenty of traders swear by their technical analysis strategy for trading opportunities, so much that many falls into the trap of thinking they can accurately predict the market. There's a lot to learn when it comes to employing successful technical analysis to your trades, but there are some common pitfalls you should avoid, too.
When you first begin learning how to perform technical analysis on a chart, the basics seem so obvious. If there's a security that's trending downward you should buy the dip to ride the next trade wave, right? The problem with that thinking is that everyone is looking at the gap and probably hoping to employ the same strategy you are. That drives up the price, leaving little opportunity for profit after broker's fees are calculated. Don't let yourself fall into the trap of making obvious plays that trading beginners are likely to play. Know the securities you're planning to trade so you can understand the reason for the gap and whether you think it will be trending in the direction you're trading, either long or short.
Since obvious plays usually aren't money-making opportunities unless you get in quick, beginner traders can fall victim to over-analyzing their data to the point of paralysis. While technical analysis is a useful tool in helping you play the market, it should be used to help you make moves instead of agonizing over them. Technical analysis is but one tool in a robust toolbox that should be used when you're trading. Use it to help you develop a system you trust and stick to that system. Set a suitable stop-loss buffer to help prevent losing your whole investment and take gains when you reach the percentages you settled on in your system.
Backtesting your strategy and running simulations will help you determine if it's one you should employ on the live market. Some brokers even have services that give you paper money accounts to test your trade theories using live market data. Use those tools to help develop a strategy and stop agonizing over the fine details.
When it comes to exploring opportunities to trade, you'll undoubtedly start looking at online trading communities to see what other traders have to say. There are no shortage of traders posting to Reddit and day trading forums about how they think a particular stock is the next big break out thing based on their analysis, which they'll happily share with you. There's nothing wrong with sharing this information with other traders, StockTwits is built around that concept. But traders often forget that technical analysis itself is a biased concept. It's not a proven money-making strategy because every analyst looks a data differently. You should always keep that in mind when you're looking at trading opportunities that are being presented online.
Do your own technical analysis according to your trading strategies to see if the forecast coincides with securities trades you feel comfortable making. This way your trades will really pay off in the end.
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The ECB give us exclusive access to England fast bowler Mark Wood as he explains what life on tour is like.
He's the England paceman who loves a bit of horseplay?
So who better to share his on-field and off-field experiences as England take on Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates than Mark Wood?
Throughout the tour Woody will be recording all manner of goings on as Alastair Cook's squad strive to build on their glorious Ashes summer.
In the fourth installment, which you can watch by clicking on the video at the top of the page, the seamer talks football on tour, respect for the referee, and his injury woes which kept him out of final Test.
Watch continued coverage of the second Test between Pakistan and England on Sky Sports 2.


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Compilation video captures drivers continuously plowing through same intersection
Clips are as old as May 2020 and as recent as December 2021
A compilation video of drivers plowing through a West Colfax intersection over the span of more than a year is getting a lot of attention online.
A compilation video of drivers plowing through a Denver, Colorado intersection over the span of more than a year is getting a lot of attention.
The clips show drivers clearly not paying attention as they speed past the stop signs at the intersection near the city's downtown.
"I think it's definitely unsafe," Adam Williams said.
Williams says he first started noticing the distracted and impatient drivers from his window when he began working from home during the pandemic. The compilation includes clips as old as May 2020 and as recent as Dec. 2021.
"High speeds, high accelerations. All sorts of different behavior," Williams said.
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He posted the video on Twitter recently to show the city why a protected bike lane is necessary. It got a lot of attention there and on Reddit, with people responding expressing how confused they were watching the video.
"I wish I knew the answer, I can only guess," Williams said. "But I'm not sure what's going through the minds of drivers."
The video was shared with Nancy Kuhn, the director of public information for Denver's Department of Transportation and Infrastructure (DOTI), and she was just as perplexed.
"Seems like people are impatient," said Kuhn. "They're passing each other, then missing the stop sign. They're not adhering to the stop sign at all. They're not taking their turns."
Authorities reviewed the intersection and determined there is nothing wrong with it. However, there are plans in place that may create a way to force drivers to pay more attention.
"We hope that in putting the bike lane in, we have a place that people on bikes feel comfortable riding, and then you are slowing down people in cars as they're seeing things happening," Kuhn said.
The bike lane, which should be installed later this year, won't be protected, as Williams had hoped. But, Kuhn is hoping it'll be reason enough for drivers to slow down and come to a stop.
This story was published by Pattrik Perez of KMGH in Denver, Colorado.


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Constraint is Design: Katherine Isbister and Nicole Lazzaro on Intimate Relations
In this exclusive Gamasutra interview, game scholars Katherine Isbister and Nicole Lazzaro expand on their GDC 2006 'Emotion Boot Camp' lecture, going into detail on the emotional effects of Half-Life 2, Façade, and the human intimacy potential of Nintendo's upcoming Wii.
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Katherine Isbister received her PhD from Stanford in 1998 on the topic of reading body language in onscreen characters. Nicole Lazzaro founded XEODesign, a contract firm that conducts player testing on games at an early stage to ensure a quality emotional experience – she has fifteen years experience in the industry.
Gamasutra already covered 'Emotion Boot Camp,' the tutorial they gave at GDC 2006, but also had an opportunity to talk with them in depth on character and interface design, and discuss ways to tap into a vast market of people who want more emotionally involving play.
Gamasutra: What problems do you both see afflicting the game industry?
Dr. Isbister: From a character standpoint it's a real opportunity time. Developers are feeling the pressure of new platforms and bigger budgets and yet are realizing that too many sequels and licenses are going to lose the interest of the broad audience they want. I've had mainstream developers that might have attended my talks a few years ago and seen it as a blue sky sort of thing and now they come to me and say "hey, we really want to do this stuff, lets talk about how to make it happen."
Katherine Isbister
I've also seen students put together portfolios and get jobs based on issues around character. It's a scary time, but there's an opportunity for developers and people bringing new ideas to the industry.
Lazzaro: The industry is in a real quagmire, the technical demands of next-gen hardware are increasing budget and team size at an exponential rate and risk, likewise, is increasing at that same rate. But we do need to innovate, even though it's becoming more difficult, so we need techniques that allow developers to tell early on what their design is going to play like. During prototyping the methodologies we use [XeoDesign] help developers detect early on what the experience is going to be like.
Nicole Lazzaro
The other thing is to create experiences that are innovative in new spaces, so I think the casual games space is a very interesting opportunity right now because the cost to get in is so low. There is something of a glut of content, but you do have the ability for a $100-150K budget and a five- to twelve-person team to go in there an make an experience that can do really well in that space.
They're saying by 2008 it'll be a billion dollar business, that's not too far away. If we keep chasing this curve of more and more polygons we're not going to get more emotional expression. The effectiveness of greater realism is hitting a plateau and the next phase is really about understanding what makes a compelling play experience and what goes on inside users' heads as they play and how to make that experience more emotional. Without emotion there is no game.
GS: Gestures and body language and tone of voice supposedly comprise 80% of communication, the actual text is only a fraction of the signal. What are your hopes for the gestural input, particularly with the Nintendo DS and the Wii remote?
KI: We're already seeing some amazing work being done, Nintendogs was a stellar example of the kinds of interactions you can have that are emotionally significant for some people. I think the trick is to get designers thinking in new ways to take advantage of that tactile interface, and that means understanding the social component of what's going on gesturally between people. It's like learning how to program, you need to understand what the routines and codes are happening between humans and how to use that as an instrument to get a really powerful game dynamic take place.
NL: Whenever you have a new platform with a new interface model you're forced to innovate, you longer have that one button mouse where you're clubbing everything in the world.
GS: Diablo.
NL: Yeah, basically that's it, one button mouse, that's all you're doing. The other side is a twelve-button controller you use with two hands, or a keyboard with all those keys, not that fun. We've done work with Electric Planet years ago as a precursor to Sony's EyeToy, and we did body language recognition to create "body games" for them as part of their R&D phase. With the Revolution the really great opportunity is that controller is so familiar looking, it looks like a remote control, so I know how to hold it already and that's a pretty easy hurdle for people to get started.
If games come out on that platform that are very simple one-button kind of casual experiences, that's going to make that platform very successful for that market. Not to say there won't be hardcore games on that platform, but the significant thing is tearing down this 100 foot wall that most games have where its like "until you climb this wall you can't have any fun in our playground," and that's ridiculous. Sure, you can ramp up later, you can add more controls and options, but just make the initial play experience more accessible.
That's what we do with a lot of our clients, we asses that first thirty minutes of play and let people who've never touched that device play it, and we identify the barriers to entry. The DS has the potential to make it easier for people, the ability to touch with the pen is a very unique thing that's different from clicking with a mouse or mashing buttons.
KI: Our lab just got a grant for a motion capture system to study interpersonal gestural dynamics and I'm really hoping we can feed that back into these sort of designs. I've got a lot of NSF grants going towards that kind of research. Once motion capture gets to an affordable level we're hoping we can have these dynamics boiled down to a computable level and literally create gestural interfaces.
NI: And I think Katherine, there's more you could say about the psychology of touch.
KI: Well it depends on what the touch is, holding hands can mean different things in different cultures, that's a really sensitive issue. We saw that in our workshop, we told everyone that a $100 bill was hidden on someone and people were afraid to touch each other because of the boundary we typically have between other people. It turned out it was in my back pocket. I think everyone has that hesitation, but if you can get people to do something a little risky they automatically bond and their intimacy level goes up.
GS: And really any kind of multiplayer game is about that.
KI: Yeah, what's so amazing about rhythm games is that getting in synchrony with people is typically what we're trying to do socially, and multiplayer rhythm games really allow you to do that. You step into this space and get in synch and instantly you're more intimate with that person because you've gotten your whole physical self in synch with them. You'll see that people who are close have the same gestures, it's just something that happens naturally.
GS: Nicole classifies fun into four types. There's "Hard Fun," like in a first-person shooter, where you frag all the monsters and have three health left, there's "Easy Fun," like Katamari [Damacy] where you've got that time limit but its pretty relaxed, there's "Serious Fun," which is like a rhythm game or a simulation, and then there's "People Fun." The examples you gave, Nicole, pointed at multiplayer games and guilds and so on, but I'm interested in interactive drama, making the mechanics be the characters and their social dynamics. I'd like to hear what you think about that, in terms of implementation.
KI: The guy I got my PhD under has a book called The Media Equation (right). He makes the argument, based on a series of studies, that you can't help but treat technology that acts social as if it were real people. I really believe that to be true. When you start creating these characters in a dramatic world, you're using the same social senses to interact with them as you would a person – that's the place we have to begin from.
It's a hard problem but not an unsolvable one, I don't think that there are "cyborgs" and "real people" and we're clearly labeling them in our brains. They're the same to the extend that we make that character.
GS: So you don't need human-level AI to do human-level interaction?
KI: I'm much more for that Hollywood approach; the back of the set doesn't look so great, it doesn't matter, its about controlling the unfolding of the experience. I think that is the hard part of designing interactive experiences, it's a question of "how do I make the reactivity of these characters feel authentic within the bounds of the experience I'm creating." That's a new part of the art form. It's kind of a trial and error, tricky thing, you can't see what you have until you prototype it. And you have to make the interface pretty enough that people perceive those characters as believable and are able to tell that what they're doing is effective.
On Half-Life 2
GS: Dr. Isbister, what's your assessment of Half-Life 2's characters?
I think Half-Life 2 is a great example of the tremendous advances that have been made, as well as the challenges. Many of my students commented on how amazingly lifelike the characters were in that game. But I noticed a pattern--the ones who thought so were already hard-core first-person shooter players. To them, knowing the limitations of the medium and the genre, the movement and facial expressions, and the ability to interact during cut scenes were really exciting and liberating.
But, I had everyone in my character design class play the demo version of the game and I noticed that students who were not already fans of this genre felt really frustrated interacting with the Half-Life 2 characters. They expected even more interactivity and lifelikeness from them because of how good they looked. And so they were disappointed.
With the power to create such lifelike models and increasingly engaging motion, we run up against the problem that the interaction paradigms that are in place may need to shift, to make the whole experience work for players, and especially for a broader, less hard-core audience. Which makes grounding design in the player's experience [rather than relying on tried and true genre expectations] essential.
One other point about Half-Life 2; I had a student write a whole paper on the G-Man, and how amazingly intriguing and engaging he was. This student tracked down everything he could on fan sites about G-Man, and really went above and beyond in his paper. Curiously, the minimal interventions and the ambiguity surrounding G-Man were more powerful for this student than all the fancy graphics and motion of the rest of the game.
I'm sure there's something to learn here about creating powerful emotional reactions--how it doesn't always boil down to higher powered techniques and technologies, but depends first and foremost on leveraging human nature in the most clever and efficient ways.
NL: Games are already tapping into social cues, and it's a symbolic thing like recognizing a picture or a cartoon, you don't need them to look like real people. As long as there's something about it that gives it an anthropomorphic quality, we react to it and we react with it. A game like Diner Dash really does a nice job of this, a lot of the emotions in the game come from the fact that we know it's a restaurant, so we have a situational narrative, we know the goal is she wants to build a restaurant and earn tips, and the characters have emotional states. They get angry, they get frustrated, they get, you know, kind of happy, depending on how good their service is. The game uses social cues to communicate that to the player, and this makes the player feel like they're serving customers. You don't literally feel like you're out in the real world being a waitress, with all the stress and everything else, but you feel like you're doing something similar.
A lot of games are simulations of real work, you're a zoo manager in Zoo Tycoon or a mayor in Sim City. In a sense we're already there, but not many people can do it yet. Or they go for the obvious stuff, like "lets model hair, lets model clothes, lets model the food they eat," – what do you want to model? Only the systems that are fun; you need to get these people in there as a basis for interesting choices, and you've got the makings of compelling gameplay. Katherine has a great example with Fight Night, where they eliminated the UI and mapped it onto their faces. When you're boxing you know how well you're doing based on what they look like, you don't need a health bar, you see it.
KI: I think in the development process you tend to silo off character by character by character, when its really the space between the characters where the social interaction happens that makes it meaningful for the player. Part of it is adapting the design and production process so that the whole team understands the effects you want to create emotionally.
On Façade
GS: Speaking of which, what do you think about Façade (below)? Obviously its good that it was made, lots of people I ask about it say "well it was interesting, but I wouldn't buy it." What flaws are in that design and how could that be improved?
KI: I don't know if I'm the target audience for Façade, I can't even watch suspense movies where good things are happening to bad people and its really stressful. The whole premise of Façade is these two difficult people that you're supposed to help and I just wanted to get out of there! [laughs]
I love Andrew and Michael and I think their work is great, but what's tricky is that your typical game has crystal clear affordances and feedback loops and they're trying to create a really flexible space. They lost clarity in the feedback and its hard to know where you are in the system, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. I think we can all learn as players to tolerate some ambiguity and enjoy that process, but I think that mechanism is going to need a lot of iteration to find the right way to put that in front of the player.
GS: What about the idea that because you're playing with social dynamics, you already have training? As in, you don't need to know that jumping on turtle shells causes them to slide all over, you know what social situations are about because those are the rules you've been dealing with your whole life growing up in society.
KI: Not necessarily, take Diner Dash for example. That's an unfamiliar game mechanics and the character expressions were a way of translating that to the player so they know how to game the system. I'm a big proponent of feedback.
NL: And the problem with Façade is that even though it's a social environment, there aren't enough constraints to really create a situation, you don't really know going in who the characters are. You need something to hang your hat on if you want hard fun, if its just easy fun, where you're exploring the space then you need to be able to explore those conversation trees in a way that is rewarding.
Façade works for some people, they find it interesting, what the characters are going to say next. If they're going to broaden their audience they need to have more variety in what comes out of character's mouths that gives the player a sense that they've had an effect. I got the feeling that I was just slipping through that space and I'm really sure how and why and what I'm doing. The central thing is, and this is what we help clients with a lot, is there's a real difference between a technology and a product. Façade feels to me like a very exciting feature that could be incorporated into a larger game. By doing that you would then create that driving scenario. If it's a Baby Shower for example, [laughs] or something else, you pull in all of people's expectations of a baby shower, and then you could have humor, where someone's inappropriate in that context or you can provide the stereotypical dramatic shock. It does cramp down the space but it creates gameplay.
KI: Constraint is design.
NL: Yes, constraint is design, I like that Katherine. The only way you're really going to get there is to bring in users and have them play and look at that experience and say "hey designer, is this what you intended?" A lot of designers, myself included, become fascinated by the systems that we create, and all the wonderful intricacies that we put into the code and artwork. But that's not enough on its own, it all amounts to an experience inside the head of the user.
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Q: QFile Dialog doesn't display on the Top I have several Dialogs with window Flags as WindowStaysonTopHint. When I open QFileDialog it displays at the bottom of these dialogs. How to set window Flag for QFileDialog. I use the following code to display the dialog at the top but it doesn't work.
> QFileDialog *dialog=new QFileDialog(this);
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> dialog->setWindowModality(Qt::ApplicationModal);
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> dialog->setModal(true);
> dialog->setWindowFlags(Qt::WindowStaysonTopHint);
> dialog->getExisitngDirectory(this,tr("Directory"),"\home",QFileDialog::ShowDirsOnly);

A: QFileDialog::getExistingDirectory() is a static function, this means it is not called on the instance dialog as your code makes it seem. This also means the functions you called on your dialog instance have no effect.
The documentation states "getExistingDirectory() is a convenience function..." So you can get the same effect by using an instance of QFileDialog. The source code of getExistingDirectory() looks more or less like this
QFileDialogArgs args;
args.parent = parent;
args.caption = caption;
args.directory = QFileDialogPrivate::workingDirectory(dir);
args.mode = (options & ShowDirsOnly ? DirectoryOnly : Directory);
args.options = options;
// create a qt dialog
QFileDialog dialog(args);
if (dialog.exec() == QDialog::Accepted) {
    return dialog.selectedFiles().value(0);
}
return QString();

So you have to do something similar and add your setting of WindowFlags. It could look like this (haven't tested it):
QFileDialog dialog(parent, caption, directory, filter);
dialog.setFileMode(DirectoryOnly);

dialog.setWindowModality(Qt::ApplicationModal);
dialog.setModal(true);
dialog.setWindowFlags(Qt::WindowStaysonTopHint);

if (dialog.exec() == QDialog::Accepted) {
    return dialog.selectedFiles().value(0);
}
return QString();

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[Reviewor] Watch_dogs by @JinkJones
B A C K S T O R Y
Me and this game didn't really see eye to eye when it was first announced back in 2012. I didn't see the hype about it and a lot of my friends were declaring they were gonna bend over backwards when it comes out. "You can hack the anything in the city, thats sick!" they said.. "This is gonna be better than GTA!" they said. Nah.. I didnt see it. It seemed like it was only me who could see that it was assassins creed with a hint of driver 3. But then In my luck on the escapade of life, a month before release I managed to get an early copy of the game to try out. This changed my whole opinion of the game.
F E A T U R E S
This game features A man called Aiden pearce. A failed robbery sees him being a victim to an attempted Hit which also fails to kill him, but causes a death of an unexpected victim, his niece. En-rage by the death of his niece he adopts a sort of Batman frame of mind. Set out for revenge he will go to any length to achieve it, But instead of batman's Utility belt he has his phone that can hack into basically anything that has electronics inside, for example, other phones, bank accounts, cars, trains, traffic lights, electricity grids, radios and even rocking ponies.
P R O s
Watch dogs has a rich storyline. I love it, and one of the best storylines i have experienced in a game since GTAV. The ending leaves you wanting more and the end of missions make you feel like you've achieved something. The hacking feels like you own the world.. well.. erm.. chicago. Like the whole of C-Town is in the palm of your hands. The mini games like chess, poker, space invaders, cup and ball, obstacle courses time trails, data trips and side missions are hella fun giving you tons of stuff to do. The game runs very smoothly and looks pretty good for a ubisoft game.
C O N s
The game feels very repetitive outside of the main missions, making it feel like once you've done one side mission you done them all. Nothing different to the side missions other than locations. The online SUCKS! I mean its amazing first time you play it but then after that the repetitiveness repeats. Free roam online doesn't allow us to do anything spectacular other then drive around the city killing people. Theres no mini-games to play together or any mission either. Just damn-right boring.
F I N A L V E R D I C T
The game is good for the first few days but becomes increasingly dull and boring. It had the potential to be a beautiful game but they didn't take enough time to make the everlasting component of it (The multiplayer) mean something and make friends and people come back for more. My friends who were talking about getting it from before have already sold it. so with that said I give this a..
REVIEWOR SCORE: 57/100
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my thoughts on this game, the build up to release was way to strong for what was to come, this game had alot to live up to with regards to competing with GTA a game that is still holding the top rank in my books for this type of third person free roaming game type. one thing i did like about the game was the hacking side which supplied a whole load of comical and depressing scenes and phone calls from many different people… they could of done a whole lot more with regards to funtionality assisting the hacking with the use of guns which could of been a much more deadly combination if they introduced disabling security cameras and robbing banks and disabling them hi-tech cars that run on computer based engines what im saying is the creators of the game have many ideas that they can use for a next version me personally i retuned the game after a week of having it as i got board of the repetitive nature of the missions i.e hacking the same dame things over and over again the only thing that changed was difficulty. my rating for this game 6/10


Amelia Hoover is a Crain's 20 in their 20s winner for 2016.
Amelia Hoover is unruffled by disasters. In fact, she finds handling them an opportunity to improve efficiency and productivity while helping people in need.
Hoover, 25, a disaster program specialist for the American Red Cross in Detroit, has the uncanny ability at a young age to look at a problem and figure out a way to help solve it. For example, after seeing there were more than 500 open caseloads of people displaced by residential fires in Detroit, she created a "virtual casework program," which allows for volunteers throughout the state to close cases. After being trained by Hoover, volunteers call clients and walk them through the process of getting help after a fire.
The result was getting the caseloads down to fewer than 150 in about 45 days.
"We have too few caseworkers and too many people in need," said Hoover, who grew up in Brooklyn but now lives in Detroit. She said the Detroit Red Cross responds to more single-family residential fires than any chapter in the country, and it has the highest rate of arson.
Hoover said her specialty is taking the lead on a family's long-term recovery plan — making sure it has food, clothing and shelter. She also recently completed a stint as assistant director of information and planning during the Flint water crisis, determining who needed water assistance.
With a degree in political science and international norms, security and cooperation from the University of Michigan, she started her career helping political candidates get elected and was in the Americorps program when she started at the Red Cross.
Ian Dyar, regional disaster officer for the Michigan region of the American Red Cross, called Hoover "hungry, inquisitive, thoughtful and compassionate.
"She's not afraid to go against 'the tyranny of precedent,' to quote Clara Barton," he said. "She embodies that. She looks to help or refer people to the right place. She wants to be a master of her craft."
"I see myself staying in direct relief, in disaster," Hoover said. "There is nothing like it that motivates me to be the best version of myself. People are having the worst day of their lives, and being able to help them is the most amazing feeling."


What is most interesting about this drastic decline is the year Ohio was ranked fifth, 2010, is the same year the state went on to adopt the Common Core State Standards Initiative. Furthermore, five of the eight states that have either rejected or not fully implemented Common Core scored above Ohio in the 2016 report. Two of those states, Minnesota and Virginia, are in the top 12. This simple fact suggests the education systems in nonconforming states outperform those who have been plagued by federal influence.
The Common Core State Standards Initiative began when the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Broad Foundation, the National Governors Association, the Council of Chief State School Officers, and Achieve Inc. all teamed up to push for nationally uniform education standards in 2007. These groups labeled students as "human capital" rather than valued individuals, and their end goal is high test scores rather than learning. The standards use international benchmarks to determine where American students should be in the subjects of English and mathematics to compete globally. They were published in 2009, and by 2010 the federal government had gone so far as to exploit cash-strapped states by linking funding with the adoption of Common Core through the Race to the Top grant program while maintaining the claim that states' freedom is intact.
Special interest groups – see textbook producers and standardized test developers – are strong proponents of the standards. These groups use their power and money to effectively bypass state autonomy in an effort to gain more power and money. Just this week, a video emerged with a senior Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt sales executive saying, "it's all about the money". Parents, teachers, and students – those most affected by the education system – oppose Common Core. In fact, a Columbus Dispatch poll found that 42% of Ohio voters do not want the standards in their state, with a mere 26% in favor of them.
Americans across the country need to join movements, like Ohio United Against Common Core, to advocate for both state autonomy and parental rights within their education systems. These groups campaign for state-level repeals of the standards. Education is a personal matter, and individuals should have the freedom to decide the details of their children's schooling. Stop letting Washington dictate how and what our children learn. Common Core began as an application of evidence-based research into education. Well new evidence is in, and Common Core is out.


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As a Mother, Recent Violence Strikes a Nerve. As an Immigrant, It's Déjà Vu
Katarina Lindley | Sep 30, 2020
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Americans are concerned about their personal security. Protests have turned violent in at least 18 cities across the country—destroying businesses, burning neighborhoods, and threatening bystanders. Most disturbing, the violence isn't limited to major urban areas. If it can happen in Kenosha, Wisconsin, it can happen anywhere.
As a mother, the spread of violence and lawlessness hits a nerve; I hate that my children are exposed to it. As an immigrant, it's déjà vu. The parallels between the current violence in the U.S. and where I grew-up in Yugoslavia are troubling.
Just before the Croatian War of Independence began, instances of mob violence broke-out in the region. My brother-in-law was stopped on a country road and harassed by activists. Although he was eventually set free, a similar incident occurred about a week later to another man, but he wasn't so fortunate. Unlike my brother-in-law, he was tortured.
That was the last straw for my family. A month later, I left the country for good. It may seem silly to compare an eastern European country on the brink of civil war with modern America, but there are more similarities than you think.
In addition to anecdotal examples of domestic rioting projected into living rooms during newscasts, the latest data show instances of violent crime in urban areas are on the rise. According to an analysis from The Wall Street Journal, 13 of the 15 largest cities in the country have experienced a jump in homicides thus far this year compared to the same timeframe in 2019. Austin, Texas and Chicago, Illinois murder rates have risen by more than 50 percent, while the homicide count in five other cities has increased by over a quarter.
The violence should not be tolerated. While President Trump has done what he can to decelerate chaos in the streets, state and local officials ultimately have the authority to address the situation. Unfortunately, too many of them have laid down like a dead dog and, in some cases, made the situation worse. At least 13 cities—including New York, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Baltimore—have either partially defunded or cut the number of police officers in the department.
Stripping law enforcement of resources is not a policy platform that's isolated to fringe groups and activist city councils.
Presidential candidate Joe Biden once remarked that some police funding should "absolutely" be redirected. Although the former vice president has since argued against defunding the police, the reversal should raise eyebrows. Meanwhile, President Trump has consistently and unequivocally expressed his support for law enforcement. No wonder the Fraternal Order of Police—the largest law enforcement labor organization in the U.S.—endorsed him.
I came to America with the hopes of a brighter future for myself and my family—a future characterized by safety and economic opportunity. Setting aside recent events, the U.S. has mostly lived up to those expectations. I just hope the current violence is temporary and is not encouraged by the man sitting in the oval office come January 2021.
Dr. Katarina Lindley is a practicing physician in Texas, a Yugoslavian immigrant and a partner of the Job Creators Network Foundation.
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Gustav Sturm, nemški častnik, vojaški pilot in letalski as, * 10. november 1921, Linz, † 20. januar 1973.

Življenjepis
Gustav Sturm je bil najprej dodeljen 2./JG 27, s katero je novembra 1942 služil v Severni Afriki. Svojo prvo zračno zmago je dosegel 15. novembra, ko je v bližini El Agheile sestrelil ameriški težki štirimotorni bombnik Consolidated B-24 Liberator. Kmalu za tem je bil s svojo enoto premeščen v Nemčijo, kjer se je na novo opremila.

Januarja 1943 je bila enota spet premeščena, tokrat v mesto Evreux v Franciji, kasneje pa je bilo teh premestitev še več. Sturm je svojo drugo zmago dosegel 12. avgusta 1943, ko je bila enota nastanjena v Nemčiji, v okrožju Münster-Handorf. Njegova druga žrtev je bil ameriški bombnik Boeing B-17 Fortress, ki ga je sestrelil nad Aachnom. 22. avgusta 1943 je bila 2./JG 27 spet premeščena. Tokrat je njen dom postalo letališče Fels am Wagram v Avstriji. Sturm je postal specialist v boju s težkimi bombniki, še posebej uspešen pa je bil proti ameriškim bombnikom, ki so napadali iz letalskih baz v Italiji.Tako je 23. februarja 1944 v bližini mesta Wels sestrelil dva bombnika B-24 in si tako zagotovil status letalskega asa. Dva dni kasneje je prav tako sestrelil dva ameriška bombnika, tokrat dve leteči trdnjavi, ki ju je sestrelil v bližini mesta St. Veit.

Svojo 10. zmago je Sturm dosegel 2. aprila, ko je v bližini Jüdenburga sestrelil ameriškega Liberatorja. Do takrat je imel že čin poročnika, avgusta pa je bil premeščen k 6./JG 3, ki je deloval iz letališč v Franciji. S to enoto je dosegel eno zračno zmago, ameriškega lovca North American P-51 Mustang.

26. avgusta 1944 je postal Staffelkapitän Stabsstaffla v JG 51. Med poveljevanjem tej enoti je dosegel vsaj eno zračno zmago. Potrjeno je 14. septembra namreč sestrelil lahki dvomotorni bombnik Douglas A-20 Havoc.

7. januarja 1945 je bil Sturm premeščen k 10./EJG 2, marca 1945 pa se je prešolal za letenje na novih reaktivnih lovcih Messerschmitt Me 262. Po prešolanju je bil dodeljen k III./JG 7. Z reaktivnim lovcem je Sturm dosegel vsaj pet zračnih zmag, vse pa je dosegel nad težkimi bombniki. Med njimi sta bila tudi dva bombnika britanske RAF, ki ju je sestrelil nad Hamburgom 31. marca 1945.

Kasneje je bila njegova enota premeščena na Češkoslovaško, v bazo Ruzyne. Tam je 25. aprila Sturm poskušal pomagati kolegu pilotu iz gorečega letala, ki ga je med zasilnim pristankom zajel ogenj. Pri tem je letalo eksplodiralo, Sturm pa je utrpel hude poškodbe v predelu prsnega koša. S tem se je njegova letalska kariera zaključila, Sturm pa je vojno preživel in je umrl 20. januarja 1973, star 51 let.

Gustav Sturm je v svoji karieri vojaškega pilota dosegel 22 zračnih zmag, od katerih jih je pet dosegel na reaktivnem lovcu. Med temi zmagami so bila štiri lovska letala, ostalo pa so bili bombniki.

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DANIELLE CORMIER GETS INTO THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT WITH"MERRIER WITH YOU"
Nashville, TN (December 3, 2021) - Americana singer/songwriter Danielle Cormierrecently released her new Christmas single called "Merrier With You." You can listen to the song HERE!
With festive lyrics like presents all wrapped up in a bow, sneak a kiss under the mistletoe, "Merrier With You" is sure to get listeners into the holiday spirit.
"Every year I release an original Christmas song," Danielle explains. "Originally, I had thought about recording a cover of a classic this year, but while I was looking, I became frustrated at my options and decided to write another one of my own. That's where the inspiration started! I asked my friend, Karlie Bartholomew, to help me write the song and Merrier With You was born! We took our personal experiences of how we celebrate with our respective partners and put those ideas into the song. But, this song isn't just for couples celebrating the holidays together...families, friends and roommates can all take something away from this. I hope that listeners can relate in finding those people who make the holiday season merrier."
About Danielle Cormier:
Danielle Cormier is a Nashville based singer/songwriter originally from Pinehurst, North Carolina. She moved to Nashville in 2016 after studying musical theatre at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City.
With honest songwriting and vocals that are similar to Norah Jones and Sara Bareilles, Danielle creates music that is both approachable and captivating. Accompanying her move to Music City, she released a six-song EP dubbed Casino Sessions. Since the launch, she has continued to write, play songwriters rounds and compile a collection of songs for the album Fire & Ice. Produced by Adam Lester (Peter Frampton, Jill Andrews, Backstreet Boys), Fire & Ice is Danielle's first full-length effort. Track two on the album, "Can't Quit You," features guitar legend Peter Frampton after Danielle's producer showed Peter the song while on tour with him.
Since the release of the album, Danielle performed with Vince Gill at his annual Vinny Invitational Golf Tournament and opened for Trace Adkins at Ft. Bragg's 4th of July Celebration. In November 2018, Danielle released an original Christmas song which was featured on Spotify's Christmas Hits playlist and the song itself reached over 3.1 million streams.
Danielle teamed up with Adam Lester once again in August 2021 to record her most recent project Réflexion at The Pilot Lounge in Fairview, TN. All of the songs on this project were written in 2020 and capture Danielle's experiences and emotions from the year, which was filled with love, loss, and the readiness to move on. For more information, visit www.daniellecormiermusic.com and follow Danielle on Instagram and Facebook.
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Huffington Post Writer Hid Bill Clinton's 2008 Affair to Protect Hillary
by Jim Hoft January 12, 2010
Mayhill Fowler is a Huffington Post writer who traveled with Hillary Clinton during her 2008 campaign. From June 2007 through November 2008, she covered the 2008 presidential election for Off the Bus at The Huffington Post. Today she admitted that she knew about Bill Clinton's affair during the 2008 campaign but chose not to write about it, via Free Republic.
Bill Clinton's Mistress: The Story That Never Was
In February, 2008, while I was covering the Texas Democratic primary for HuffPost's OffTheBus, I voluntarily passed on an opportunity to write about former president Bill Clinton's longtime mistress. With considerable amusement, therefore, I anticipate reading Game Change, Mark Halperin's and John Heilemann's salacious new book about the 2008 presidential race, which will be released tomorrow, because they apparently rush in where I feared to tread. "After some discreet fact-finding, the [Hillary campaign staff] concluded that [the rumors] were true: that Bill was indeed having an affair," H & H write. "For months, thereafter, the war room within a war room braced for the explosion, which her aides knew could come at any moment." That moment could have occurred during the Texas primary.
Here is an excerpt from my book Notes from a Clueless Journalist: Media, Bias and the Great Election of 2008, where I discuss my decision not to write the story. In part, Clueless is an account of the painful and arduous method of learning journalism by doing it. As a neophyte, I had presumed to think I could cover the presidential election with no bias or partisan agenda. But Texas taught me that any reporter, like the snail carrying her house, always brings to storytelling a certain amount of personal baggage. As an unpaid citizen journalist, on the other hand, I could make choices about which other reporters could only dream. In Texas, I discovered that this enormous power was a Faustian gift.
Sometimes I thought that years of travel had taught me only one thing: to distinguish between observation and conclusion. I know what I'm looking at, but what am I really seeing? Driving back to Houston from Victoria that evening, I knew I had witnessed something significant–but did not know what. Not until the week before the Pennsylvania primary, at a midnight rally with Bill Clinton in Puerto Rican Philadelphia, did I realize that what I had seen two months before in Texas had been the specific problem Bill posed, not Hillary's campaign itself. Managing former President Clinton must have been like trying to herd a rogue elephant. Huma Abedin, Hillary's long-suffering and loyal aide, looked frazzled as she walked through downtown Victoria. The day when Bill Clinton had been a stellar asset to his wife's campaign had come and gone. The autumn book-and-fundraising tour might as well have been years and not just a season ago…
At the time I covered the rally in Victoria, I had decided not to follow up on another story about Bill Clinton that had come my way–one involving his longtime mistress. I mention the nature of the Clinton story with some specificity now only because months later, after the Democratic primaries, the National Enquirer wrote about the relationship. In Texas, staring this story in the face, immediately I turned aside. If I know all about this woman, then surely every national reporter does and is as wary of the story as I am. Nevertheless, I was careful never to mention anything to anybody at OffTheBus.
Once again we find out that it was The National Enquirer who did the heavy lifting during the 2008 election uncovering not only John Edwards' affair but Bill Clinton's affair too.
Did you ever think you'd see the day when The National Enquirer became became the paper of record.
If the 2008 election taught us one thing, it's that the mainstream media is dead.


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Sardinia preserves an exceptional record of its Final Neolithic and Copper Age cultures, with a diverse crafts repertory, henges and dolmens, statue-menhirs, chamber tombs - and the only known ziggurat in Europe. The present study provides a synthesis in English for a scholarly readership interested in Mediterranean adaptations during this earliest period of metallurgy. As elsewhere, the infusion of metallurgy had profound implications, as island cultures underwent a series of transformations tied directly or indirectly to it. Spanning two millennia, these changes are studied in terms of material cultures known as Ozieri, Sub-Ozieri, Filigosa-Abealzu, Monte Claro and Bell Beaker. A more overarching finding from this review is the periodic engagement between these cultures and geographically distant ones. Such punctuations of the insular condition had long-lasting effects on local expression, and some thoughts on how this might contribute to understandings of concepts like identity formation are presented by way of a conclusion.
This book is a companion volume to The Sardinian Neolithic: An Archaeology of the 6th and 5th Millennia BCE by Gary Webster (2019).
Gary Webster is a doctor of anthropology (PhD from Penn State University) and a docent of archaeology (Umeå University). He has published widely on theoretical issues as well as on archaeological field work, especially related to Bronze Age Sardinia.Maud Webster holds an MA in classical archaeology and ancient history from Uppsala University. Her research interests include Sardinian pre- and protohistory, and she has also written widely on Italian history.
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Sex abuse victim learns of Pope's role
Editor's note: This story is drawn from CNN's one-hour special, "What the Pope Knew," which aired Sept. 25 and Sept. 26, at 8pm and 11pm ET.
By Brian Rokus
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MORRISONVILLE, Ill. – Matt McCormick was in the seventh grade when Father Alvin Campbell gave him a ride home from a baseball game. As they were driving along country roads, Campbell put his hand on McCormick's thigh and "just left it there."
It was the first time the priest had touched him. During the next three years, McCormick says, the abuse would go much further.
That was 25 years ago. Just three months ago, he learned that Pope Benedict XVI played a role in keeping his abuser in the church when CNN told him about a letter signed by the pontiff – then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger – refusing to defrock the pedophile priest.
Walking around the 1,000-person Illinois farming town where he grew up, McCormick pointed out where he was molested: inside the church school, inside the rectory, and inside the church itself.
Father Campbell was convicted in 1985 on multiple sexual assault charges. He served half of his 14-year sentence. He was released in 1992 and died 10 years later.
Before performing his duties as an altar server, McCormick and other boys were fondled by Campbell in a room just steps away from the altar.
"He thought it would be funny if we went out with erections under our gowns," McCormick said.
Still, like other young victims of molestation, McCormick didn't think of the priest as a monster.
"You don't see him as a predator – you see him as a friend," McCormick said, standing in the same church where he was abused. "You see him as somebody who supplies you with money, bicycles and games and trips ... His actions would be so slow and so subtle that by the time you realized what's going on, you're caught."
Campbell would also discuss sexual topics with McCormick in the confessional.
"He used the cloak of Christianity in his role as a priest to embed himself with children of parishioners and he would molest them," said Fred Nessler, an attorney who has represented hundreds of church sex abuse victims, including 10 who named Campbell as their abuser. "They groom children. First, luring them with the idea that they're going to be around a priest and their parents usually think that's a fine idea."
Matt McCormick, age 14, in a school photo from 8th grade.
When he was 16, McCormick tried to kill himself with a knife and with an overdose of pills. His father had to break down the door to his room to save his life.
"I felt like a victim and I felt ashamed," McCormick said. "So [it was] denial, denial, denial until I got to the point that I could move away and not have to deny anymore because people wouldn't ask."
As a teenager he also drank heavily and used marijuana.
"A lot of the times he would get us into that frame of mind where you're not quite yourself, where you're a little out of it and that's when the molestations would start," McCormick said.
McCormick, now 41, is happily married. He's received a settlement from the Catholic Church and has been one of only a handful of Campbell's victims to speak publicly about the abuse.
But until CNN contacted him in June, McCormick had no idea that the case of Father Campbell had gone far beyond his local parish.
The priest was convicted in 1985 on multiple charges of sexual assault and sentenced to a 14-year prison sentence. But Campbell's bishop, Daniel Ryan, was bothered by a disturbing fact: Despite his criminal conviction and prison sentence, Campbell was still a priest – and refused to quit.
Ryan brought the case to the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, headed by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who today is Pope Benedict XVI. Ryan asked Benedict to forcibly remove Campbell from the priesthood.
In a personally signed letter, Ratzinger, citing Canon law, said he couldn't defrock Campbell without Campbell's permission – and instead suggested a local church trial, which would have taken years. It would be three more years before Bishop Ryan could persuade Campbell to request his own defrocking.
The Logan Correctional Center in Lincoln, Illinois, where Campbell served his prison sentence.
McCormick was speechless when he read the letter that kept his abuser an ordained priest.
"I think common sense should supersede Canon law," McCormick said.
Video: Watch McCormick's reaction to the letter
Monsignor Charles Scicluna, the prosecutor for the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, says things have changed in the church.
"Today, Canon law has a different scenario," Scicluna said. "This thing would not happen under [today's] Canon Law."
After coming to terms with his own experience, McCormick now plans to start a foundation to support other survivors of sexual abuse.
"The children are the ones who will grow up to be the parishioners that fill the pews," he said. "They're the ones that need the protection. They're the ones that need the safety net and they need the supervision and it's not there."
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rationalfew
This pope needs to go. He's not the person to lead the church into this century.
Someone asked what would happen if this was done by a "cult" Well from past practices the federal govt. would have stormed the place, shot a bunch of people and then burned down the church, killing even more people. No, wait a minute, they never proved any abuse in that case, did they?
Lord Aiducan
I was an altar boy myself, and if a priest ever tried to do that to me, I would've defended myself and immediately told someone. I never could understand why these kids would just let it continue, maybe it just has something to do with their upbringing?
String the pope up along with the child molesters he empowers.
Mamanomia
The pope is an outdated figure head...when are people, the church included, going to get this...
Charlotte Crist
@ rs1201...We don't.
@defibman – good point.
@brian – it's not that the percentage of priests that are pedofiles that is the problem...it's the fact that the church has had such a history of cover up.
junglejim123
The church became rotten and filled with corruption. Thats one of the reasons why we are going to be severely punished by God soon enough. Taking Gods name off everything and sympathising with radicals and Islamic extremists will only hasten our punishment. Its bad enough that these priests molested young boys but to do it on church property shows that they are intrinsically evil and should have been thrown out of the church. Money and power rule the Catholic Church and God is becoming more and more angry with it.
Chris in NY
Here are a few facts that get lost in this type of biased and bigoted reported:
1. The priest is this story was removed from active ministry and put in jail.
2. The Church made sure that this priest was unable to work with children again.
3. The percentage of molesters amongst priests is far lower then amongst the general populations.
4. The Church has taken aggressive actions to prevent future incidents of child abuse.
No. 3 is false, a pseudo-statistic disseminated by the Catholic Church, and doesn't take into account the wide age range of victims as well as their gender. Sounds like you don't think this is such a big problem.
RoRo- No, #3 is right if you really look into it. Don't let your prejuice interfer with the truth. This is not to cover up the abuse. Just 1 incident is too many and should not have happended and most certainly should never happen again!
September 25, 2010 at 12:00 pm |
There are many priests who use the church as a way to acess young people. It is a way to gain trust of parents as well as children. In our parish we had four priests. two were pedifiles. What are the odds of that? One was caught and sent to another parish. the boy he molested took his own life. the other priest was in charge of the boy scouts in the parish as well as the CYO group. When I married and had children I joined a parish when we moved. The priest there was the same priest from my old parish. I was unaware he had been a pedifile. He molested my son. He is 40 and still is tortured by his experience. Nothing seems to help. I can only hope there is a support group of victims that could help one another. Most counselors and psychiatrists don't seem to have the answer. The church has much to answer for. Every day I dread the phone call that will tell me my son has ended his pain. The catholic church has not done enough to help these young men.
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chieatfetus
This is the reason why i don't go to church anymore: why should i go stand in front of a guy that molests children when I can just stay at home, pray in my head, and be just as heard as when i'm in church? And then you want to get married but they want $1200, an annulment for $500 that's not a guarantee you'll get it in 10-12 months in an economy like this. Screw the church-corrupt and hypocritical
This article is sensationalized, misleading and biased against the Pope. The Pope was unable to defrock the priest, but never said that he should not be punished. In fact, he said that he should be put on trial. Furthermore, this priest was removed from active ministry and put in jail where he could not hurt children. The article leads one to believe that the priest was allowed to continue in a position where he would be able to abuse children; this is completely misleading and merely an attempt to slander the Pope.
Never have I been more inspired to officially leave the church.
2 thessalonians 2:3,4. The return of Christ will not happen until the MAN OF SIN be revealed. Very shortly after the whole world learns the truth about the pope, which is shorty to take place, mankind will see the return of Jesus Christ and the end of the world as we know it.
Despite all this man has been through and survived, the Catholic Church was still able to violate him. Sadly, Mr. McCormick's story is not unique.
The media is always going after christians what about the hoffific crimes of jews.
Run4hilS
I am Christian. This Pope needs to step down if he knew and did nothing to stop the abuses.
So what does the pope have to say?
Maybe its time we reactivated the Inquisition to root out these perverts and heretics?
Robert nichols
And people wonder why the masses r loosing faith the church is just as crooked as politicians if there was a real god jesus or whom ever this kinda of stuff would not happen the meek hall never inherit the earth cause the powerful cover up the things that give the meek any kind of control
Too many wanna-be cynics here, not enough real talk.. You people aren't as clever as you assume..
CdnJim
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When a Door Closes, a Window Opens: A Lesson About Writing
By Andrew DeRoche August 31, 2016
After a year of research in Zambia funded by a Fulbright grant, my wife, Heather, and I returned to Colorado in 2006 and settled back into the routine of life in Longmont, raising our daughter, Ellen. While Heather stayed home and did the real work, I taught history as a faculty member at Front Range in Boulder County and supplemented this income as an adjunct lecturer at the University of Colorado.
I began organizing the documents I had photocopied at Zambian archives and drafting the first few chapters of a book manuscript about the history of relations between the United States and Zambia during the long presidency (27 years) of Kenneth Kaunda.
Book contract arrives
Having presented papers at conferences, publishing a few scholarly articles, and receiving positive early feedback, in late 2006 I sought a book contract. A university professor and academic editor for a university press enthusiastically welcomed my proposal. Soon a contract arrived for a book on USA/Zambia relations during the Kaunda era.
Illness is first setback
In the summer of 2007 the project stalled when a rare disease called Guillain-Barre threatened my life. Thanks to support from family and friends and the good doctors at Kaiser Permanente I was quickly back in the classroom with just a cane to show for my illness.
Writing the long story
Other obstacles appeared intermittently, but writing continued slowly and steadily as I worked my way through the long story of Kaunda's relations with the USA and his cooperation with diplomats such as Henry Kissinger and Andrew Young to facilitate settlements to the conflicts in Angola, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and Namibia.
I presented at conferences regularly and published a few more journal articles, encouraged by more positive comments from peers. As the original deadline of 2010 approached, the manuscript was over half done, and Kent State University Press seemed happy with my progress.
The birth of our son, Zeke, combined with a heavy teaching load, slowed down my writing progress, but the last chapter was finally drafted. The manuscript, at over 600 pages, went out to reviewers.
Never assume anything
With a long-standing contract and considerable positive feedback along the way, I assumed this was just a formality, but once again I learned that you should never assume anything. Just a few days before leaving for the holidays in Maine in December 2014, an email appeared from the university press notifying me that my contract had been nullified. It seemed that the Grinch has stolen Christmas.
Writing seminar restores outlook
Fortunately, during that fall 2014 semester I had participated in the Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) seminar taught by Michael Barber of the English faculty. He had been very successful in reminding me of the importance of embracing the process of writing for its own sake.
The goal of WAC was to improve how I used writing to teach college students (and it definitely did do that), but it also helped me respond positively to the cancellation of the book contract.
Rather than being discouraged by the turn of events, I decided it was an opportunity to revise my manuscript and find a new publisher.
New contract, better book
Sending out a new proposal for a more concise book quickly yielded good results, and eventually a new contract from Bloomsbury Press was in hand.
The revised manuscript focused much more narrowly on a portion of Kaunda's 27-year presidency, resulting in a book of just over 300 pages that is more clear and concise than the original manuscript.
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The lessons of this experience were many.
Like so many other FRCC faculty, I had succeeded to some degree in practicing what I preached. I took the challenge of one setback as an opportunity for improvement and more learning. We are all lifelong learners at FRCC, and this was just another example of that concept. When a door closes, a window opens. By embracing the process of writing in my own work, I hope I am now able to be a better instructor.
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