#Professor Atack

[msclaritea]

Andrew Gold had been on it for weeks. Professor Attack is fast becoming a very popular guest and he has his own video on SCIENTOLOGY, chock full of ongoing reading suggestions.

The Gay Mafias in Hollywood and Britain, the Solar Cult, all overlap, due to Satanism at the heart of COS. Alternative Sexualities is part and parcel of cult culture, due to the simulation of ancient dirtiest, cult activities, like orgies and the tenets of Sex Magick. I guess we can also throw in rogue intelligence operators, like Hunter and Birkin. It seems to have been forgotten that the Church of Scientology founder, Hubbard, also wanted to overthrow America.

And their fingerprints are all over the Cillian Murphy Oscar vehicle, Oppenheimer. Their fingerprints are actually on a number of Oscar bait vehicles, this season, but Op is just so in your face, blatant propaganda, both for the supposed seductive, heart pounding excitement of Nuclear War (minus having to look at the actual Hiroshima victims) but to basically dedicate the whole film to a One World Government FREAK, under the radar, calling him the most important person in the world, is just astounding. Just so much pure, unfiltered bullshit.

Now that Miscavige has been found and served, a lot of information is coming out about Scientology 🤔...

[prof-peach]

Hi professor! I have a dilema surrounding my zubat. he is very joyfull and loves battling, but he has expressed anxiousness about evolving into goldbat(i think he was atacked by One before i was is trainer). Ive been thinking about getting a few rare candies, as well as a soothing Bell, so i could imediatly evolve him into a Crobat, thus preventing him to BE a goldbat for longer than a few seconds. Would that be legetimate? or should i try looking for a everstone?

Well, seeing as you two get along so great from the sounds of it, I’d suggest first getting an all-over check up, make sure your little buddy is in tip-top condition, evolutions expends energy, and can be quite tiresome! We suggest if you are to speed-evolve anything, to at least leave one day in between doing so, with rest, and plenty of good food. After 24 hours AND REST, it’d be safe to evolve further without increased risk. A few seconds is just not adequate for the health of your Pokemon, evolution is quite consuming, puts stress in the body, and uses up stored fats and energy pools, leaving Pokemon in a bit of a lull in energy for a day or two afterwards. There are exceptions to this rule of course, but in this instance I’d just give it at least the day, to be safe.

The friendship based evolutions are quite different to level or stone based evolution, in that they take energy from us the trainers too. It’s that bond, that relationship, that can aid the safe and healthy evolution, and so long as you two are real close at the zubat stage, then there should be no issue. You will both be tired after the final evo, so eat well, take water if you go out to do this, and rest up afterwards, both of you.

You could just not evolve them of course, there’s nothing wrong with zubat, they’re super cute, handy in a multitude of situations, and quite frankly they get a bad reputation for some reason. This is a conversation you need to have with your buddy though, they’ll have preferences, and you two discussing options and trying to de-stress any decisions is key. No rush, so take the time you two need to figure it out. Both options are entirely fine.

[ninaelhino]

Morgaine 17 - MUDANDO A ROTINA

O professor finalmente tinha terminado de explicar a matéria e pediu que fizessem os exercícios do capítulo.

Não demorou muito e Morgaine já estava entediada novamente. Não conseguia se concentrar para fazer a tarefa. Tentou rever o capítulo para ver se conseguia responder mas a leitura não rendia.

Ao seu lado, Hisagi parecia concentrado…

“O que você respondeu na quinta questão?” - Morgaine perguntou à Hisagi.

Hisagi estava tão concentrado que se assusta com a abordagem repentina de Morgaine.

"Morgaine! Não faz isso! E se eu fosse cardíaco? Teria tido um infarto e a culpa seria sua!"

"Ai, nossa! Como você é exagerado..." - e ela se segura para não rir dele.

Enquanto eles discutiam, o professor se aproxima deles vagarosamente.

"Por acaso a minha aula está atrapalhando a conversa de vocês?"

"Desculpe, professor Amir..." - Hisagi diz se encolhendo.

Morgaine vira para o outro lado e finge demência.

O professor pede a eles que continuem a fazer a tarefa sem conversas paralelas antes de se afastar.

A aula de literatura termina e então Morgaine e Hisagi seguem separadamente para suas respectivas aulas (a grade de aulas deles eram diferentes). Morgaine tinha Educação Física e treino das líderes de torcida nesse dia e por isso levou uma roupa extra.

As aulas terminaram e Morgaine estava indo para casa. Ela ouve alguém chamar seu nome e se vira para ver quem era.

"Espera! Preciso falar com você..." - Hisagi diz a alcançando e segurando em seu braço.

"O que foi, Hisagi?"

Ele faz uma pausa constrangedora, tentando encontrar as palavras...

"Er... Você quer ir estudar lá em casa hoje?"

ReShade preset Dove 2.0 @kindlespice

Poses @ssiat, @madebycoffee, @radioactivedotcom, @a-luckyday, @sosa-cc

Previous / Prologue / Next

ENGLISH VERSION AFTER THE CUT

CHANGING THE ROUTINE

The teacher had finally finished the explanation and asked them to do the exercise.

It didn't take long and Morgaine was bored again. She couldn't concentrate to do the task. She tried to review the chapter to see if she could answer but the reading didn't pay off.

Alongside her, Hisagi appeared focused…

“What did you answer in the fifth question?” - Morgaine asked Hisagi.

Hisagi was so focused that he was startled by Morgaine's sudden approach.

"Morgaine! Don't do that! What if I had a heart atack? And it would be your fault!"

"Oh, jeez! Sensitive much, huh...?" - and she tries not to laugh at him.

As they argued, the teacher approached them slowly.

"Is my class interfering with your conversation?"

"Sorry, Professor Amir..." - Hisagi says cringing.

Morgaine turn her face the other way....

The teacher asks them to continue doing the task without talking before walking away.

Literature class ends and then Morgaine and Hisagi go separately to their respective classes (their class schedule was different). Morgaine had gym and cheerleading training that day, so she’s brought an extra outfit.

Classes were over and Morgaine was on her way home. She hears someone call her name and turns to see who called her.

"Wait! I need to talk to you..."-Hisagi says reaching out and holds her arm.

"What is it, Hisagi?"

He pauses awkwardly, trying to find the words...

"Er... Do you want to go to my house to study today?"

[thekeigospichula]

AU where Midoriya lost his arm and Bakugou his hearing, they are fine and mock each other about it.

*All might and Aizawa talking in the professor room drinking coffee *

All might: Today is a good d-

Aizawa: Shhhh, don't say it

All might: What?, That today is a goo-

Aizawa: Shhhh, yeah, that

All might: Why?

Aizawa: I dunno why, but always, when I'm relaxed, having a good day, and thinking about it, the trouble duo do some shit

All might: I think that you are so stressed, it's just a superstition, you need rela-

Midoriya: KACCHAN, GIVE ME MY FREAKING ARM OR I GONNA HURT YOU

Bakugou: HAHAHAHAH, TAKE IT FUCKING NERD

*Midoriya and Bakugou running outside screaming*

All might: What?

*Aizawa run to the window*

Aizawa: I told yo- BAKUGOU, GIVE HIM HIS-

Midoriya: DETROIT

Aizawa: MIDORIYA, STOP, DON'T DAR-

Bakugou: DO YOU THINK THAT YOU CAN STOP ME WHIT YOUR SHITTY ATACK?

*Bakugou shove the mechanic arm into his shirt and use his explosions to go faster*

Aizawa: SHUT UP BAKUGOU, MIDOR-

Midoriya: SMASH

*Midoriya beat the shit out of Bakugou*

[hello-robin-goodfellow]

A REHEARSAL DAY.

A fanfic requested by: @rawyld

A fanfic to: @rawyld @thedyingtimelady @anne-white-star @detective-jasminesa

Two man, with masks and white fencing uniforms, walked slow turns, trying to surround one another. 

Then, one man tryed to give a prick in the waistcoat of its adversary with the foil.

But the adversary blocked him with it’s own foil.

Some jumps from both fencers followed. They tried atack one another, while deflecting themselves from the pricks by the foils at same time.

Them the adversary made a move like it was to cut the head of it’s opponent, who bent his back down and turned its head around, deviating from the foil.

-Good! Now you are ready for record you character.

Sayed the adiversary, who them puted its foil in the sheath and removed its mask, revealling a man between its 50 or 60s years of age, with spiky white hair.

-I have to thank you, Mr Smith.

Sayed the other man, who revealed a face that apeared to be 50 years old, with short and plain dark gray hair.

-Thank me by join me for some coffy, and them remember of my itineraries.

They sited at a small table and shared some cups of coffy, cocoa and snacks of sweet biscuits, scones anc crumpets.

-So... is it true that your colleague, Peter Capaldi, accepted to star in Doctor Who?

-Yes, it is.

-I’m curious. Why didn’t they offered you the role?

-Actually, they offered once.

-And?

-I refused.

-But why?

-Well... i don’t think i have that right to touch a role in wich my father constructed, you know?

They kept silence for some seconds. Them Mr. Smith sayed:

-I think you could make a great Doctor, Mr. Pertwee.

-Thank’s Mr Smith. But... What about we lived this subject and returned to fencing? After all, is for The Musketeers that i must be prepared.

-Just wait until i finish to wash those dishes.

Sayed Mr. Smith, rising from its chair.

-I help you Mr. Smith.

While they walked to the kitchen, Mr. Pertwee couldn’t avoid to think that its fencing professor reminded him of his late father.

‘How funny is this world... Maybe i should recomend him to teach fencing to Peter’...

[protoslacker]

One day maybe I’ll wise up

Martin Gelin did a good job reporting about studies which connect views about the environment and climate change with particular narratives about masculinity. Gelin proceeds to connect the results of these studies with coordinated atacks by rightwing actors. Gelin provides solid evidence for the rightwing connections, but my sense is these narratives of gender are so pervasive that focusing just to the right gives a very incomplete picture.

I think that a key to food security is robust seed production capacity. A patent regime is part of a market system for seed production. A market system builds upon efficiency which is at odds with the need for seed production to be robust.

With my interest in food and in people living better--not starving--I've read a lot of threads about food production online. Something that's really stuck out is how vociferous the proponents of GMOs are. And, yes, the really hardcore does seem to be white men. But it's not just rightwingers.

The last time I got into an argument online was at a liberal website and a liberal college professor author about Monsanto versus Vandana Shiva played out with The New Yorker organization.

Ideologies are systems of ideas and it seems rather useful to place ideologies on a spectrum of right and left. Nevertheless ideas can be  part of ideologies all along the spectrum, so, for example eco-fascism is a thing.

Cultivating good ideas takes patience and persistence. I lean left, but I ought to become more aware of how that orientation creates blind spots. I can point fingers, and ought to remember more often the old saw: When you point your finger at someone there are three fingers pointing back to you.

[piink-u]

no one cares enough so I’ll just scream into the void here. please ignore.

this semester my uni just went out and destroyed me, I am completely and utterly exhausted. I just want to sleep forever after I end my ugly sobs. I-  I don’t really love what I study to begin with. I don’t care what I study, I’m almost 22 and haven’t found a single thing I wanna do in my life, so I just went with my dad’s choice. easy. easy way out. not really, but I live with my parents so yeah; well, it’s normal to live with parents at my age where I live but I still feel like I own them something. but yeah, its my 4º semester; end of my second year in uni. I survived till now and I don’t even know how. I don’t mind studying things I don’t care about to it wasn’t hard... I always tried to be a good student, i think at least. I barely went to uni cause of the rona and had online classes for basicaly all my lessons; I feel like im only good at staring at a computer now. even so, I was so happy cause I survived another semester - wasnt a good one, even if i managed to keep high scores on most of my grades I slipped here and there - but i was happy. and then came my friday class.  this professor - I hate his guts, he said it out loud that the way he teaches is shit and he knows it for at least 30 years, and haven’t raised a single finger to change it; so yeah, i hate him and i don’t feel guilty about it - anyway, this professor postponed everything. he didn’t give a single test for the entire semester and now he wants to do everything in a week. i just wanted to rest for a second and now i’ll have to terrorise myself for an entire week cause of his lapse of judgement or simply idioticy; he doesnt care abou his students at all. this is not new, i had very bad teachers in my life but i never felt this utter disregard. I am too tired for this at this point. the next semester will start 2 weeks after this one ends. 2 weeks to rest and 2 weeks only - and he wants us to see his late classes on these. late cause of his incompetence and his alone. 3 tests and 12 late classes. in a week. and he wants the last test to be a face to face one, in person. I’ve been home for 2 years. i cant- i dont know; i cant people anymore, you know? i- i am tired. i had a panic atack and now i have scratch marks on my arms cause my mom din’t come to help stop me when i screamed cause she was busy watching dramas on netflix and they are  hurting. and my eyes ache cause i cant stop crying. and and i am so fucking tired. tired of family that barely cares tired of professors that dont like to teach tired of my stupidity and inability to just do shit tired of me i am tired.

and you are probably tired of reading my dumb meltdown, i’m sorry.

[howwelldoyouknowyourmoon]

Cults recruiting on campus – Alexandra Stein

Joining Ian Howarth ... is Birkbeck lecturer and former cult member Dr Alexandra Stein, an expert on the social psychology of ideological extremism and other dangerous social relationships.

As a 26-year-old she was ‘captured and held’ (as she puts it) in a Marxist-Leninist group, in which she was told what to wear, when she could marry and whether she could have children.

She was put to work in a rather odd mixture of making bread and writing business computer programs with the promise of creating a utopian world.

After eight years, she escaped and penned a memoir of her time, Inside Out. She describes her book as ‘a cautionary tale for those not yet tempted by such a fate to beware of isolating groups with persuasive ideologies and threatening bass notes.’

As a former cult member, she is well versed in the recruitment methods of these groups. ‘You meet someone who invites you to yoga and they say “to really get the best of this you need to come at least three times a week”,’ she explained.

‘And then slowly it’s ramped up, “you need to come to a ten day retreat”, “you need to not hang out with those friends anymore”.

‘That’s the key. The starting to move you away from your friends and family.’

Dr Stein is desperate to see universities do more to protect students, who she says are in a vulnerable time of their lives.

‘I very, very strongly believe that the way to protect people is through education,’ she told me.

‘I would like to see programmes about what cultic relationships look like and how to keep yourself safe from them and there certainly isn’t anything like that.

‘I have tried to bend the ear of various officials and departments and not had a lot of response.

‘What I’d like to see is university courses that teach the stuff in depth. Generally this is not taught and it’s not rocket science, it’s not that hard to explain to people.

‘If I was the [head] of a university I would introduce this education on multiple levels.

‘I would have an introduction, some basic stuff. There are a list of warning signs all over the internet but we’re not using them at universities.

‘I would have courses at all levels – because it’s really interesting apart from anything else, it’s gripping stuff – that should be taught as full courses in psychology, sociology or political science.

‘And then you can also, if you train your professors, bring this into all kinds of other courses and you can also – in student services – train up some people to understand this and give talks or do film series.

‘If you took it seriously as an administration there’s many ways to begin sharing this information so it’s in the public domain.’

Dr Stein is also very clear students are at a sensitive time in their development. They are in a time of experimenting, pushing boundaries and accepting new friends and groups into their lives – that’s what university is about, right?

She said: ‘[Universities] have an obligation [to protect students] because, first of all, the stereotype of cult membership is weak, needy people who are vulnerable and want someone to tell them what to do, but that’s not borne out by reality.

‘People who are vulnerable are people who are in a normal life transition like leaving home or going to university.

‘That’s why students are vulnerable, because they’re in a new environment.

‘They’re quite rightly trying different things – we want people to try different things at that stage of life – but if you are unlucky enough during that period to bump into a clever and seductive recruiter you could be in trouble.

‘Instead of focussing on the false stereotype of a cult member, we need to focus on what the cults look like, what do the recruits looks like? What do their methods look like? ‘Because that we do know – because it’s a predictable phenomena – and then teach people about that so they can protect themselves.’

She added: ‘We don’t know the prevalence but we do know there’s a lot of [recruitment on campus].

‘There are a load of cults and a load of people affected but it’s very hard, no one’s doing that research and it would be hard to do anyway because a lot of these groups are secret. Every time I speak to anyone about cults, within 15 minutes they’re like “oh yeh, funnily enough I once went to a meeting of such and such” or “yeh, my sister joined” or “yeh, my uncle was in some weird Christian thing”.

‘Everybody knows somebody who’s been affected by this but we don’t talk about it because we don’t have a language because we’re not educated about it.’

So how do we tackle the issue?

‘It’s a question of activism and politics,’ Dr Stein said. ‘Look at the history of domestic violence awareness. When I was in my 20s no one really talked about that.

‘Now, forty years later, The Archers BBC radio show talks about it and if you’re a woman and you go to your doctor they ask you if you feel safe at home. It’s become, through activism and public health efforts, a normal part of our discourse. I think in a way we are in the cult awareness field where the domestic violence field was forty years ago.

‘We need to keep on pushing and pushing. Eventually it’s going to become, I hope, understood as being a public health problem that needs to be addressed.’

This is part two. Part One is here.

http://www.unipaper.co.uk/article/cults-target-university-students

Alex Stein’s “Terror, Love and Brainwashing” – A Review by Jon Atack

http://www.alexandrastein.com/

Cult Indoctrination Process by Means of Psychological Manipulation

“Socialization techniques through which the UC members were able to influence” – Geri-Ann Galanti, Ph.D.

Open Minds Foundation resources

[luizdornelas]

Debate - Mostra Metal em Minas III

Debate – Mostra Metal em Minas III

Torture Squad – Foto Raphael Castejon

Debate com as bandas participantes do Festival Monsters of Metal 2019 MEDIADOR: Casito Luz – baixista e vocalista da banda belo-horizontina Witchhammer (fundada em 1986), professor, escritor e curador da Mostra Metal em Minas, idealizador e produtor do Festival de Música Monster of Metal).

Bandas 2019:

Torture Squad (SP)

Witchhammer (MG)

Atack…

[pharmaphorumuk]

UK health innovations get £23m funding

The UK government’s Biomedical Catalyst (BMC) programme has announced £23 million of funding for cutting edge health projects, including new software which enables radiologists to diagnose breast cancer more effectively, gene therapy to combat kidney disease and several AI technologies.

Commenting on the funding, life sciences minister Lord Henley, said: “The Biomedical Catalyst programme demonstrates our modern Industrial Strategy in action; supporting businesses to develop innovative products and creating the high-skilled jobs of the future whilst improving the lives of people throughout the country.”

“Increasingly, new technologies and treatments are able to address debilitating and chronic conditions that are hard to treat,” added Dr Kath Mackay, interim director, Ageing Society, Health & Nutrition at Innovate UK. “By continuing to invest in innovation through programmes such as the Biomedical Catalyst, we can continue to transform outcomes for patients and support and grow the UK’s world-leading health sector.”

Nine early stage projects have received total funding of almost £7.5 million.

Among them is Mammo, a Mammography breast cancer screening software from Kheiron Medical Technologies, which helps radiologists in the early detection of breast cancer. The software assists breast units to deliver an enhanced breast-screening service (faster, reduced unnecessary recalls/biopsies and lower anxiety).  

TRUEinvivo also received funding to develop its 3D cavity dosimeter and image analysis software that can accurately measure the radiation delivered to the tumour in radiotherapy along with surrounding organs, making the process safer for patients and helping clinical decision making.

On the pharma side, the BMC funded development of Freeline Therapeutics’ advanced gene therapy product to treat a rare kidney disease, potentially the first ever effective therapy for this specific condition.

Meanwhile, fifteen feasibility projects have received total funding of just over £2 million.

These include the Toxicity Alert Biosensor from Altair Medical – a smartphone monitor for patients taking opioids, in which the sensor is analysed by artificial intelligence to monitor drug use and advises on safe timing of doses, tailored to each individual patient, reducing the risk of overdose. Should this fail, it detects overdose and alerts first responders to administer naloxone, the powerful opioid antidote.

Cohesion Medical’s Cancer Early Detection And Risk (CEDAR) System also received a boost from the fund. The system uses big data and AI to provide a digital early-warning system for cancer diagnosis and cancer treatment toxicity. This will enable the generation of individualised cancer risk profiles, suggestions for changes to patient behaviour and the prediction of adverse toxicity reactions for individual patients.

BMC projects

In the latest round of awards, the MRC committed almost £13.5 million to BMC projects – including the University of Nottingham’s Dr Weng Chan’s research into a new, pathogen-specific antibiotic to treat and prevent recurrent Clostridium difficile infection.

The University of Cardiff’s Professor John Atack received funding for a new drug that may offer the effects of “valium without sedation”, and could transform the treatment of anxiety disorders.

Meanwhile, Professor Waseem Qasim from University College London received funding for research into genome-edited immune cells, which may offer additional treatment options for children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia that fails to respond to current therapy. Creation of ‘off the shelf’ cell banks may overcome issues associated with having to make individual treatments and improve access to therapy.

The BMC is jointly run by the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK and the Medical Research Council (MRC), both part of UK Research and Innovation.

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[ununquadius]

Harry, James, Albus, Lily and Scorpius: Hahahahahaha

Draco *smiles*: What’s so funny?

Lily: Is it true that a professor turned you into a ferret?

Draco *glares*:

James: Is it true that an hippogriff atacked you because you insulted it?

Draco *glares*:

Albus: Is it true that dad and his friends turned you into a slug?

Draco *glares*:

Scorpius: Is it true that you desguised yourself as a dementor to scare dad?

Draco *glares*:

Harry *smiles innocently*:

Draco *smirks*: Did you know that Harry was attacked by a tree?

Lily: It was the Whompping Willow, Daddy, he could have died!

[kenny-6441-19t2]

[Wk9] Case Study Prep

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

Preparation

Inadequate fire control discipline by soldiers. Questionable whether an order to fire was given.

Response

Risked violent escalation. Geology professor and faculty marshal Glenn Frank pleaded with students to leave and not escalate.

https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/man-jailed-for-trying-to-kill-donald-trump-reveals-why-he-did-it/news-story/746ec263cdeefbc4817fb402dbc40db1

Summary

Mentally ill person had visions that he needed to kill Trump.

Approached a police officer for an “autograph”

Tried to get his gun from the holster. Apprehended.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Ronald_Reagan

Preparation

The Secret Service had required him to wear a bulletproof vest for some events, but Reagan was not wearing one for the speech, because his only public exposure would be the 30 feet (9 m) between the hotel and his limousine,[20] and the agency did not require vests for its agents that day

Secret service was on a lookout for people behaving suspiciously.

Allowed an unscreened group to stand within 15 ft (4.6 m) of him, behind a rope line

Immediate response

Alfred Antenucci hit Hinckley in the head, pulling the shooter down to the ground.

Upon hearing the shots, Special Agent in Charge Jerry Parr quickly pushed Reagan into the limousine.

As a result of Antenucci spoiling Hickley's aim and Parr pushing the President, the third bullet overshot the president, narrowly missing his head and hitting the window of a building across the street.

Secret Service agent Tim McCarthy put himself in the line of fire and spread his body in front of Reagan to make himself a target.

President was hit by a ricochet bullet

Response

Within two seconds agent Dennis McCarthy (no relation to agent Timothy McCarthy) dove onto Hinckley as others threw him to the ground; intent on protecting Hinckley, and to avoid what happened to Lee Harvey Oswald,

Another agent got an automatic weapon out to deter a group attack

Although Parr had requested a stretcher,[41] none were ready at the hospital, and it did not normally keep a stretcher at the emergency department's entrance

Nuclear codes was part of the items confiscated for evidence

Bush’s discussion with the White House from Air Force Two was intercepted as it was not over a secure channel

Extensive discussion on location of nuclear footballs, nuclear codes, number of Russian submarines, who would be in charge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre

Summary

Harris and Klebold - anger towards society

Did a juvenile diversionary program for felony theft

Ease of obtaining weapons

Criticism of slow police response

https://www2.ed.gov/admins/lead/safety/preventingattacksreport.pdf

Findings

There is no accurate or useful "profile" of students who engaged in targeted school violence

Many attackers felt bullied, persecuted or injured by others prior to the attack

A history of having been subject of a mental health evaluation, diagnosed with a mental health disorder or involved in substance abuse did not appear to be prevalent among attackers. however, most attackers showed some history of suicidal attempts or thoughts or a history of feeling extreme depression or desparation.

Over half the attackers demonstrated some interest in violence through movies, video games, books and other media. (59%, n=24)

Most attackers were known to have had difficulty coping with significant losses or personal failures. Moreover, many had considered or attempted suicide

Incidents of targeted violence at school rarely are sudden, impulsive attacks

Prior to most incidents, other people knew about the attacker's idea and/or plan to atack

Most attackers did not threaten their targets directly prior to advancing the attack

Most attackers engaged in some behaviour prior to the incident that caused others concern or indicated a need for help

In many cases other students were involved in the attack to some capacity.

Most attackers had access to and had used weapons prior to the attack

Despite prompt law enforcement response, most attacks were stopped by means other than law enforcement intervention (school administrators, educators, students, suicide). Incidents often very brief

[robertawilliams]

As Britain Stumbles Over Brexit, Support Grows for 2nd Vote

As Britain Stumbles Over Brexit, Support Grows for 2nd Vote

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Protesters waving European Union flags gathered in Cardiff, Wales, last month at a site where a pro-Brexit event was supposed to take place.CreditJim Wood/SOPA Images, via Getty Images

FFORESTFACH, Wales — In a 2016 referendum, Stephanie Holtom voted to leave the European Union, worried about immigration and convinced that other countries were telling the British government what to do.

But outside a supermarket recently in a large, suburban strip mall not far from the Welsh city of Swansea, Ms. Holtom conceded she might have been wrong.

“I agreed to come out of Europe, but I am beginning to have second thoughts. I think it’s a mess, and I’m sick to death of it,” said Ms. Holtom, who is retired, as she collected her shopping cart. She added that, if there were a second referendum, “people would vote to stay.”

Since a majority of Britons voted narrowly to leave the bloc more than 18 months ago, most politicians have treated a withdrawal, known as Brexit, as inviolable. Even amid signs of a slowing economy, few saw signs of a shift in public opinion.

London may be almost 200 miles away, but people here in Wales have noticed that Prime Minister Theresa May is struggling to negotiate Britain’s departure from the bloc, and to control her bitterly divided cabinet. “I think Theresa May is absolutely hopeless,” Ms. Holtom said.

As the political stalemate drags on, and with business leaders issuing ever more urgent alarms about the threats to the economy, growing public doubts are beginning to register in some opinion polls. And opponents of Brexit are quietly cultivating what they see as that rising sentiment in their campaign to soften, if not reverse, the whole process.

They even picked up support from an unexpected quarter when Nigel Farage, the former U.K. Independence Party leader and the leading proponent of Brexit, recently suggested that there might be a second referendum.

Prominent “leavers,” as supporters of Brexit are known, dismiss that possibility out of hand, but it may not be as far-fetched as they would have people believe.

Some time later this year Parliament is likely to face a fateful vote on the actual terms of any agreement Mrs. May can reach with the European Union on Britain’s withdrawal. A defeat in Parliament would prompt a political crisis, very likely topple Mrs. May and possibly prompt a general election. Potentially, that could open the way to a rethink, to new Brexit options, or to a second referendum.

That is what people like the local Swansea lawmaker, Geraint Davies, from the opposition Labour Party, are banking on. He believes the tide is turning against Brexit in Wales, where a majority opted to quit, although Wales is a big recipient of European development aid, and has several industries that might lose from Brexit.

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Prime Minister Theresa May is struggling to negotiate Britain’s departure from the European Union.CreditPaul Ellis/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

“What I am sensing is that people who voted Brexit in good faith are now saying, ‘Hold on, that’s not what I voted for, and I want a final say,’” Mr. Davies said, listing promises made during the 2016 referendum, including one — later ruled misleading by the country’s statistics authority — that quitting would free up 350 million pounds a week, or about $486 million, for health spending.

“You should have the right to look again, and say: ‘You ordered a steak and you ended up with a bit of chewed up bacon. Do you want to accept that?’” Mr. Davies added, arguing that Britain faces higher inflation and slower growth, and that, far from getting money back, it has offered around 39 billion pounds, or about $54 billion, in divorce payments to the European Union.

Mr. Davies and others have also pounced on recent reports that the areas in Wales and central and northern England that voted most strongly for Brexit are set to suffer the greatest economic harm from the rupture.

Experts say they have detected a subtle shift, in Wales and elsewhere. Though few people admit to changing their views, there is growing support for a vote on the terms of any Brexit deal, according to Roger Awan-Scully, a professor of political science in the Wales Governance Center at Cardiff University.

“There is some change on whether there should be another referendum on the issue,” he said. “We have seen a move towards the idea of the public having a greater say.”

Hard-line supporters (and opponents) of Brexit remain steadfast in their views, but many of the less committed have yet to fully focus on what it will mean and have been turned off by the stream of complex, sometimes contradictory, reports emerging from the tortuous negotiations. “It’s a bit like the O.J. Simpson trial: It keeps going on and on and people tune out of it,” Mr. Awan-Scully added.

And with signs that public opinion is volatile and could be shifting, the political ice is starting to crack.

When Tony Blair, a former prime minister, called last month for another plebiscite, Brexit supporters derided him as a pillar of a failed, elitist, pro-European establishment.

But it was hard to say the same when Mr. Farage suggested there should be another vote. Though Mr. Farage appeared later to retreat on the idea, Arron Banks, a big financial supporter of one of the Leave campaigns, endorsed it as well. For hard-line leave supporters, a referendum is a chance to once and for all kill off the argument to stay, and precipitate a clean break with the bloc.

Pro-Europeans, by contrast, would like a plebiscite on the specific terms of any deal negotiated by Mrs. May’s government, with the option to remain in the bloc if voters prefer.

Nigel Farage, center, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party and a leading proponent of Brexit, recently suggested that there might be a second referendum.CreditAdam Ferguson for The New York Times

Several things would have to happen to make that a reality, including a change of government policy and, almost certainly, of prime minister.

Some say it is too late to rethink the withdrawal, given that Britain has invoked its two-year exit clause. Others say that to date the shift in British public opinion, if any, is simply not big enough, and that Brexit support remains strong outside the big cities and in many working-class communities.

But the logic of having a second referendum is compelling. The 2016 vote was a choice between leave and remain, yet was silent on the path that Britain should take thereafter.

At the two extremes, these are starkly different prospects. A so-called soft Brexit could keep Britain integrated within the European Union’s economic model and part of its single market and customs union, accepting all its rules, albeit without having a say over them.

A hard Brexit might cut most of those ties, and take the country toward a low regulation, low tax economy — “Europe’s Singapore” — for example.

The problem is that there is no specific democratic mandate for either option, or even for Mrs. May’s preferred (though probably unobtainable) idea of something in between. So any outcome is likely to be contested for years to come.

Within Mrs. May’s government, the implications of Brexit are causing concern, even as hard-line Brexit supporters step up their campaign for a clean break from the bloc.

Following the leak of a government analysis that predicted the British economy would suffer under all of the most likely scenarios, one minister, Phillip Lee, wrote on Twitter that, if the figures were anywhere near right, “there would be a serious question over whether a government could legitimately lead a country along a path that the evidence and rational consideration indicate would be damaging.”

One obstacle to another referendum is the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, a lifelong Euroskeptic, who currently rejects the idea — despite arguing that, unlike Mrs. May, he would negotiate a withdrawal that would protect British jobs.

Yet, if Mrs. May reaches a Brexit deal that takes Britain out of the bloc’s economic structures, Mr. Corbyn would face overwhelming pressure to oppose it, a move that, if successful, could bring down the government.

A view of Swansea. The city voted in favor of Brexit but one of its Labour lawmakers, Geraint Davies, believes opinion has since shifted.CreditAlex Atack for The New York Times

Mr. Davies argues that the Labour Party’s large number of youthful members — the bedrock of Mr. Corbyn’s support — are strongly pro-European and want a second referendum.

Calls for a reconsideration of Brexit have come not only from Labour’s centrist lawmakers, but from some of Mr. Corbyn’s allies on the left, like Paul Flynn, a leading Labour member of Parliament from Wales.

“Isn’t it time to rethink this whole nonsense and plan for a second referendum where the nation comes to its senses?” Mr. Flynn recently asked at a parliamentary committee hearing.

Len McCluskey, a union leader and a close ally of Mr. Corbyn, wants Labour to oppose any Brexit deal that Mrs. May puts to Parliament, and has not ruled out supporting another referendum.

Of course, even if there were a second vote, it is far from clear that it would reverse the original verdict. Taking a break in central Swansea, Robert Hughes, a bus driver, said that as far as the Brexit talks are concerned, the public are “like mushrooms — we are kept in the dark.”

But he still supports Brexit. “We had a vote, it’s not best of three. Once it’s run, it’s run,” he said.

Back at the mall in Fforestfach, a spirited debate was going on in the coffee shop between two people whose views encapsulate some of Britain’s divisions.

Gerard Turley, director of an investment company and a Conservative Party voter, felt the pull of Brexit but concluded that the economic price would be too high.

“With my heart I wanted to go, but my head said stay,” he said, adding that he feels his decision to remain had been vindicated.

His wife, Christine Turley, a housewife, said that she voted to quit to stop “people in Brussels making our laws,” though she believes that, in fact, it was “too complicated a subject” for a straight yes or no vote.

“Now I’m not sure I made the right decision,” she added. “There is so much doom and gloom about how badly off we will be.”

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/10/world/europe/uk-brexit-second-referndum.html

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Millennial men commit more mass murder than any other US group — and it could be because their brains aren't fully developed

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A 26-year-old former airman for the US Air Force killed at least 26 people and injured several more in a church shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas, on Sunday.

Over the last 10 years, men in their mid- to late 20s and early 30s have committed the majority of US terrorist attacks and mass shootings.

Psychiatrists say the issue could be partly developmental, as brain regions governing risky behavior aren't fully formed until age 25.

Social forces that build over time could also help explain why men are more likely than women to be suspects or perpetrators.

On November 5, a 26-year-old killed at least 26 people in a mass shooting that took place in a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. After a brief chase, the shooter was found dead by gunshot wound and later identified as Devin Patrick Kelley, a former airman in the US Air Force.

The events took place less than a week after a man in a Home Depot pickup truck named Sayfullo Saipov veered into a New York City bike lane, killing eight people and injuring a dozen more. It was the city's deadliest terror attack since September 11, 2001.

Over the past decade, the demographic profile of terrorists like Kelley and Saipov have begun to come into focus. Men between 20 and 30 years old are overwhelmingly more likely to commit mass shootings, attacks, and acts of terrorism than any other gender or age group in the US, the evidence suggests.

Psychiatrists and social scientists believe the trend can be explained by a mix of factors, including a lack of neurological development, the need for belonging, and an evolving trend of past attacks that make future ones seem less horrific to perpetrators, and perhaps even noble.

A 10-year trend is coming into focus

Consider the following chart, which plots every major US terrorist attack, mass shooting, and otherwise politically motivated or premeditated attack over the last 10 years. The full data set can be viewed here.

Andy Kiersz/Business InsiderFrom the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007, carried out by 23-year-old Seung-Hi Cho, to the most recent attack in Texas, the trend gradually begins to cluster around men in their mid-20s and early 30s.

The most infamous events include James Holmes, 24, killing 12 and injuring 58 in the Aurora, Colorado movie theater killing spree; Adam Lanza, 20, fatally shooting 28 people (many of them children) at Newtown Elementary School; 20- and 26-year-old Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev of the Boston Marathon Bombings in 2013; and Dylann Roof, 21, who killed nine churchgoers in South Carolina in June 2015.

A lack of development in the brain could explain why

Dr. Howard Forman, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, believes underdevelopment in the brain's frontal lobes, the areas responsible for controlling impulses and risky behavior, could play a role. In humans, the frontal lobes keep growing until approximately age 25.

"The preponderance of young men engaging in these deadly, evil, and stupid acts of violence may be a result of brains that have yet to fully developed," Forman told Business Insider.

Wikimedia CommonsSince many of the men are older than 25, Forman also suggested the desire for community could be attracting people on the margins. Forman called this "the allure of evil," and it seems to be consistent with terrorists often showing allegiance to groups like ISIS or other ideological causes.

"Joining a movement of evil, whether fascist, supremacist, or terrorist oftentimes allows an individual to go from feelings of being a nobody to being a somebody," Forman said. "And not just a somebody, but even a leader."

The theory of "thresholds" singles out men

The fact that men, not women, tend to commit terrorist acts makes things more complicated. After all, women's frontal lobes also keep developing until 25, so it's not just a matter of development.

To explain that difference, some social scientists have come to rely on the theory of "thresholds," or the idea that each person has a different standard for which they'll engage in certain acts. The theory was developed by sociologist Mark Granovetter in the 1970s.

In his 2015 New Yorker piece "How School Shootings Happen," journalist Malcolm Gladwell unpacks Granovetter's research. He explains that someone who riots by throwing a brick through a store window has a threshold of zero. They can act alone. But someone else in that riot might need to see that first brick go through the glass to pick one up themselves, so they have a threshold of one. And so on. Even if your threshold is 1,000 or 10,000, Granovetter's research suggests that everyone has their threshold to riot.

The same could be happening with mass shootings, Gladwell argues. Ever since Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold committed the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School, young men have had a kind of playbook to carry out mass murder. Young men can point to specific predecessors who paved the way with past attacks, ultimately turning them into idols.

In effect, these attacks have become "a slow-motion, ever-evolving riot," Gladwell wrote, "in which each new participant's action makes sense in reaction to and in combination with those who came before."

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The US looks toward the future

Whether the trend abates could depend on how well communities, in addition to local and federal governments, address the psychological and cultural issues affecting men in this age bracket.

Forman's explanation suggests that millennial men who feel ostracized need more productive ways to become part of a group. Criminal psychologist James Garbarino, who has spent 20 years interviewing convicted murderers, has found the majority of men have unresolved trauma in their lives.

Granovetter's research also suggests the federal government has a role to play in destroying the ideological networks that link so many killers together, in order to stop the threshold effect.

Less than 24 hours after the New York City atack, President Trump declared that the US needed to "step up our already Extreme Vetting Program." (Uzbekistan, Saipov's home country, is not included on Trump's initial list of banned countries.)

In the meantime, the trend of past attacks, the current political climate, and the sheer size of the millennial population all suggest tensions are unlikely to cool anytime soon.

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Torture Squad (SP)

Witchhammer (MG)

Atack Epiléptico (MG)

BHell (MG)

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