#Raw MAY 23 2011

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CM Punk tries to get referee Bret Hart's attention by copying his moveset and then he gets it.

Bonus:

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2 years ago I decided I should watch at least two movies I’d never seen before a week. That year I managed 278 films. This year I have 346 first-watch-films, and so many more still to see. These are ones that stood out, in no particular order other than the order in which I saw them. Movies are magic, history and humanity, and how lucky are we to have them.

2022 FIRST WATCHES – STANDOUTS

January

Career Girls (dir. Mike Leigh, 1997), 4 January

Titane (dir. Julia Ducournau, 2021), 8 January at Prince Charles Cinema

La Chienne (dir. Jean Renoir, 1931), 18 January

Panique (dir. Julien Duvivier, 1946), 20 January

Undine (dir. Christian Petzold, 2020), 21 January

An Angel at my Table (dir. Jane Campion, 1990), 23 January

Drive My Car (dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2021), 29 January at Prince Charles Cinema

February

Parallel Mothers (dir. Pedro Almodóvar, 2021), 7 February at Rich Mix

Life is Sweet (dir. Mike Leigh, 1990), 18 February

March

Accattone (dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1961), 5 March

In the Cut (dir. Jane Campion, 2003), 6 March

Phoenix (dir. Christian Petzold, 2014), 10 March

Outer Space (dir. Peter Tscherkassky, 1999), 16 March

Cleopatra (dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1963), 20 March

Inside (dir. Bo Burnham, 2020), 31 March

April

Scenes with Beans (dir. Ottó Foky, 1975), 5 April

High and Low (dir. Akira Kurosawa, 1963), 9 April

Una Mujer Fantastica (dir. Sebastian Leilo, 2017), 13 April

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (dir. Pedro Almodóvar, 1988), 19 April

May

Chungking Express (dir. Wong Kar Wai, 1994), 2 May

Zazie dans le metro (dir. Louis Malle, 1960), 5 May

Three Colours: Blue (dir. Krzysztov Kieślowski, 1993), 11 May

La 317e Section (dir. Pierre Schoendoerffer, 1965), 28 May at Christine 21

La Collectionneuse (dir. Eric Rohmer, 1967), 30 May

June

Remorques (dir. Jean Grémillon, 1941), 1 June

Orphée (dir. Jean Cocteau, 1950), 17 June

Les plages d’Agnès (dir. Agnès Varda, 2008), 20 June

La belle et la bête (dir. Jean Cocteau, 1946), 21 June

Moonage Daydream (dir. Brett Morgen, 2022), 25 June at Showroom, Sheffield

July

Endless Summer (dir. Bruce Brown, 1966), 2 July

L’une chante, l’autre pas (dir. Agnès Varda, 1977), 12 July

Junior (dir. Julia Ducournau, 2011), 17 July

The Big City (dir. Satyajit Ray, 1963), 23 July at BFI Southbank

Andrei Rublev (dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966), 24 July at Prince Charles Cinema 35mm

Flee (dir. Jonas Poher Rasmussen, 2021), 24 July

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975), 30 July at Prince Charles Cinema 35mm

August

Blood and Black Lace (dir. Mario Bava, 1964), 4 August

Happening (dir. Audrey Diwan, 2021), 9 August

Nope (dir. Jordan Peele, 2022), 15 August at Castle Cinema, 29 August at Vue Islington

Brute Force (dir. Jules Dassin, 1947), 16 August

Naked City (dir. Jules Dassin, 1948), 30 August

September

Gaslight (dir. George Cukor, 1944), 1 September

The Red Balloon (dir. Albert Lamorisse, 1956), 5 September

A Valparaíso (dir. Joris Ivens, 1963), 8 September

Raw Deal (dir. Anthony Mann, 1948), 10 September

Little Dieter Needs to Fly (dir. Werner Herzog, 1997), 25 September

October

The Killers (dir. Robert Siodmak, 1946), 8 October

Foolish Wives (dir. Erich von Stroheim, 1922), 9 October at BFI Southbank (London Film Festival)

One Fine Morning (dir. Mia Hansen Løve, 2022) at Odeon Luxe West End (London Film Festival), 14 October

Orlando (dir. Sally Potter, 1992), 19 October

7 Days in May (dir. John Schlesinger, 1964), 22 October

Seconds (dir. John Schlesinger, 1966), 28 October

November

The Rider (dir. Chloe Zhao, 2017), 1 November

Los Huesos (dir. Cristóbal León, Joaquin Cociña, 2021), 10 November

Fire of Love (dir. Sara Dosa, 2022), 13 November

Aftersun (dir. Charlotte Wells, 2022) 19 November at Castle Cinema

The Draughtsman’s Contract (dir. Peter Greenaway, 1982) 26 November at BFI Southbank

December

Sullivan’s Travels (dir. Preston Sturges, 1941), 3 December

Victim (dir. Basil Dearden, 1961), 8 December

Le Pupille (dir. Alice Rohrwacher, 2022), 16 December

The Queen of Spades (dir. Thorold Dickinson, 1949) at BFI Southbank, 30 December

Honourable mentions

Barry Lyndon (dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1975) at la Filmotheque du Quartier Latin, 8 May. I don’t like Kubrick but I think I liked this. Titane at the Cinematheque Francaise in Paris with Ducournau Q&A, 16 May. Top Gun Maverick at the Vue Leicester Square, 6 June, with my best friends. Jane (2017) at Sheffield DocFest, introduced by Brett Morgen. I had literally had 10 minutes sleep the night before. 26 June at Showroom, Sheffield

Moonage Daydream at BFI IMAX, while the Queue was ongoing. 17 September. Mrs Harris Goes to Paris (Anthony Fabian, 2022) at 11am on a Sunday at the Vue Islington. 29 October. Glass Onion (Rian Johnson, 2022) at the Rio Cinema in Dalston on a very uncomfortable date. 25 November

And rewatching The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949) for the first time since I wrote my dissertation on it, six years ago.

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WWE OC (FANFIC/AU)

Real Name: Cassandra Alice Brown

Ring Name(s): Cassie (formerly; 2008-2010), Cassie Brown (currently; 2010-present)

Nickname(s): Cass (real life), The Mess, The Bad Bitch (formerly), The Bitch Queen (formerly), Miss Brown, Mrs Boxer

Born: April 16th, 1989 (age 34)

Hometown: Wichita, Kansas

Billed From: Wichita, Kansas

Height/Weight: 5’4/130 lbs

Eye Color: Blue

Hair Color: Dark Brown

Family:

Wendy Brown (mother)

Felix Brown (father)

Dolores Colón (maternal cousin)

Hunter Matthews (cousin; Dolores’ son)

Mr & Mrs. Colón (aunt & uncle) *Her aunt is her father’s sister*

Sexuality: Pansexual

Romantic Interest(s): Mike Boxer (husband; married June 2016), Cody Rhodes (on screen/tv only; 2012-2013)

Children: Gwendolyn Eve Brown (daughter; born August 18th, 2018; 6 years old), Parker Jay Brown (son; born July 11, 2022; 2 years old)

Companies/Promotions: ECW (July 8, 2008-February 7, 2010), WWE: Raw (February 8, 2010-May 13, 2012), WWE (May 14, 2012-January 1, 2014), WWE: Raw (January 6, 2014-February 7, 2016), WWE: Smackdown (February 8, 2016-November 13, 2017), WWE: Raw (October 29, 2018-October 9, 2020), WWE: Smackdown (October 16, 2020-July 2, 2021), WWE: Raw (July 5, 2021-present)

Face/Heel Turns: Face (July 8, 2008-February 13, 2011), Heel (February 14, 2011-July 14, 2013), Face (July 15, 2013-February 1, 2015), Heel (February 2, 2015-February 5, 2017), Face (February 6, 2017-December 1, 2019), Heel (December 2, 2019-April 23, 2023), Face (April 24, 2023-present)

Theme Songs:

First Theme: (ECW; 2008-2010)

Second Theme: (2010-2012)

Third Theme: (2012-2016)

Fourth Theme: (2016-2019)

Fifth Theme: (2019-2023)

Starts at 35 seconds into video

Sixth Theme: (2023-present)

Starts at 40 seconds into video

Theme when with The Hashtag Squad: (2011-2020)

Tag Teams/Stables: Messy Rhodes (with Cody Rhodes; 2012-2013), The Hashtag Squad (with Kelly Kelly and Megan Foster; 2011-2012), The Hashtag Squad (with Megan Foster; 2012-2020), Dark Angels (with Liv Morgan; 2021-2022), The Gold Stars (with Rosalie; 2023-2024)

Finisher Moves:

Messysault (Diving Corkscrew Moonsault)

Tangled Lock (Armbar & Leg Lock Combo)

Feast Your Eyes (at ringside/sometimes in ring)

Signature Moves:

The Messy Ending (Fairy Tale Ending)

Cass Kick (Superkick)

Spinning Cass Kick (Spin Kick)

The Mess Attack (Rack Attack 2.0)

Submission Moves: The Messy Arch (Kneeling Cloverleaf), Sleeper Hold, Cattle Mutilation, Cobra Clutch, Muta Lock

Titles Won:

Divas Championship: (Raw 12/3/12 from Eve after hitting her with a Moonsault and pinning her) Held for: 43 days (lost to Kaitlyn at Raw January 14, 2013 after Kaitlyn hit her with a spear and pinned her) *1st reign*

Divas Championship: (Hell In A Cell October 26, 2014 against AJ Lee and Paige; won by making AJ submit to Tangled Lock) Held for: 29 days (lost to Nikki Bella at Survivor Series 11/23/14 when Nikki hit her with the Rack Attack and pinned her) *2nd reign*

Universal Women’s Championship: (Wrestlemania April 5, 2020 against Tasha Marie; won after hitting Tasha with a chair given to her by Megan and hitting her with the Messysault before pinning her) Held for: 106 days (lost to Stella Venus at Extreme Rules July 19, 2020 in a triple threat match against Venus & Kairi Sane; Stella hits the Hot Mess Attack on her and pins her winning the title) *1st reign*

Universal Women’s Championship: (Hell In A Cell October 25, 2020 against Lana & Carmella; won when she made both Lana and Carmella tap to the Tangled Lock) Held for: 120 days (lost to Charlotte Flair at Elimination Chamber February 21, 2021 when Charlotte made her tap to the Figure 8) *2nd reign*

Universal Women’s Championship: (Extreme Rules September 26, 2021 after cashing in her MITB contract on Alexa Bliss and hitting the Messysault pinning Bliss) Held for: 37 days (relinquished title due to 2nd pregnancy on November 1, 2021) *3rd reign*

Universal Women’s Championship: (Wrestlemania 39 April 2, 2023 against Tasha Marie; she was able to hit Tasha with the Messysault after stopping Tasha from hitting her with a chair. She then pinned Tasha and won the title) Held for 372 days (lost to Rosalie at Wrestlemania 40: April 7, 2024 after being hit with the Rose Bomb three times and getting pinned) *4th reign*

Other Accomplishments:

2013 Slammy Award - Diva of the Year

WWE Tag Team of The Year (2015 with Megan Foster)

WWE Ms. Money In The Bank (2021)

Medical Conditions/Injuries:

Head Concussion (two times in her career)

Broken Nose

Fractured Knee

Whiplash

Busted Lip

Managers: Kelly Kelly, Megan Foster, Rosalie

Has Managed: Kelly Kelly, Megan Foster, Cody Rhodes, Rosalie, Liv Morgan

Friends:

Megan Foster

Liv Morgan

Barbie Blank/Kelly Kelly

Cody Rhodes

Becky Lynch (off screen)

Tasha Marie (off screen)

Stella Venus (off screen)

Rosalie

Randy Orton (off screen)

CM Punk (off screen)

AJ Lee (off screen)

Paige/Saraya (off screen)

Roman Reigns (off screen)

Seth Rollins (off screen)

Jon Moxley/Dean Ambrose (off screen)

Triple H

Stephanie McMahon

Shane McMahon (off screen)

Shawn Michaels

Rhea Ripley (off screen)

Finn Bálor (off screen)

Dominik Mysterio (off screen)

Damien Priest (off screen)

JD McDonagh (off screen)

Jey Uso

Jimmy Uso (off screen)

Nikki Bella

Brie Bella

Naomi/Trinity

Alicia Fox

John Cena

The Rock/Dwayne Johnson

Bayley (off screen)

Dakota Kai (off screen)

Iyo Sky (off screen)

Kairi Sane (off screen)

Asuka (off screen)

Austin Theory (off screen)

Trained By:

Matt Bloom

Shawn Michaels

Triple H

Beth Phoenix

Lita

WWE Idol(s):

Chyna

Rey Mysterio

Lita

Trish Stratus

Eddie Guerrero

Edge

Victoria

Ivory

Facts:

Cassie is really good friends with Bebe Rexha and her “The Mess” and “The Bad Bitch” gimmicks are based on Bebe’s songs

Bebe Rexha let Cassie used the I’m A Mess song as her theme two years before the song actually came out

Cassie grew up watching WWE with her father and met her favorite wrestler and idol Lita when she was 13. She also met Victoria, Edge, Rey Mysterio, and Eddie Guerrero when she was young

Her signature colors are purple, black, and white. She also always wears a flower or flower crown on her head during her entrances. The flower is usually purple or black and she sometimes gives someone in the audience her flower (like how Cody Rhodes gives his weight belt to someone)

She always has a big Wrestlemania entrance every year

She has wrestled both men and women in her career

She was in gymnastics and karate when she was young. She also was in cheerleading in high school

Her and her husband Mike owned a golden retriever named Nala who died in April of 2024 (she was 10 years old). They also own a 5 year old german shepherd named Bear as well many farm animals such as chickens, chicks, goats, cows, horses, and a pig

Social Medias: cassiebrownwwe (Instagram), thecassiebrown (Twitter), misscassiebrown (TikTok), Cassie and Mike (YouTube) *These aren’t real so don’t look for them*

*Note: Tasha, Stella, Dolores, Megan, Mike, and Rosalie are OCs as well. I will make an info card for them soon as well*

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50 movies about animal rights

Animal Rights Documentaries

(Please note: there are distressing images in movies under animal rights)

1) Earthlings (2005)

2) Speciesism: The Movie (2013)

3) Blackfish (2013)

4) The Ghosts In Our Machine (2013)

5) Dominion (2018)

6) Lucent (2014)

7) Farm To Fridge (2011)

8) Meet Your Meat (2002)

9) The Animals Film (1981)

10) Facing Animals (2012)

11) Land of Hope and Glory (2017)

12) A Fall From Freedom (2011)

13) The Cove (2009)

14) Shadow Trade (2016)

15) Death on a Factory Farm (2009)

16) Forks Over Knives (2011)

Health & Food Industry Related Documentaries

17) What The Health (2017)

18) Plantpure Nation (2015)

19) Food Choices (2016)

20) Planeat (2010)

21) Crazy Sexy Cancer (2007)

22) Swine (2016)

23) Food Matters (2008)

24) Hungry For Change (2012)

25) Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead (2010)

26) Super Size Me (2004)

27) Eating You Alive (2018)

28) Fillet Oh Fish

29) Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes In 30 Days (2009)

30) Food Inc (2008)

Documentaries about Environment & Species Extinction

31) Cowspiracy (2014)

32) More Than Honey (2012)

33) Racing Extinction (2015)

34) Sharkwater (2006)

35) Virunga (2014)

36) Before The Flood (2016)

37) The Ivory Game (2016)

38) H.O.P.E What You Eat Matters (2016)

39) Meat The Truth (2007)

Documentaries for Athletes & Bodybuilders

40) The Game Changers (2018)

41) From The Ground Up (2017)

Inspirational Vegan Documentaries

42) Called To Rescue (2016)

43) Vegucated (2011)

44) Live and Let Live (2013)

45) Vegan: Everyday Stories

46) Peaceable Kingdom: The Journey Home (2009)

47) Unity (2015)

48) The Witness: Tribe Of Heart (2000)

49) May I Be Frank (2010)

50) Vegan 2017

Image: Freepik

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Understanding Lenegres Disease: An Emerging Threat To Global Businesses

Lenegres Disease is caused by Listeria monocytogenes bacteria commonly found in soil and water. The bacteria can contaminate foods and enter the human body through ingestion of contaminated foods. Raw vegetables, soft cheese made from unpasteurized milk, deli meats, and smoked seafood have often been linked to Listeria outbreaks. Those at higher risk include pregnant women, newborns, older adults, and people with weakened immune systems. Pregnant women are about 20 times more likely than other healthy adults to get infected. The risk is further increased for pregnant Hispanic women and pregnant women over 30 years of age.

Symptoms And Diagnosis

For healthy individuals, Listeria infection may cause short-term symptoms like fever, muscle aches, nausea and diarrhoea. However, in at-risk groups it can cause more serious conditions like sepsis, meningitis (infection of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord) and even death. Pregnant women typically experience only flu-like symptoms but the bacteria can pass to the fetus resulting in stillbirth, premature delivery or life-threatening infection of the newborn. Diagnosis is done through laboratory tests of blood or cerebrospinal fluid to detect Listeria bacteria or nucleic acid.

Financial Impact On Businesses

Listeriosis outbreaks have serious financial implications for food businesses. A multi-state outbreak in 2018 linked to contaminated packaged salads from Bickford Foods Inc. led to hospitalization of 23 people across 11 states and 4 fatalities. The company incurred huge costs in product recalls and legal settlements with victims. Listeria outbreaks damage company reputation and brands. For example, Cantaloupe-associated outbreak in 2011 killed 33 people across 28 states and cost Jensen Farms millions of dollars in lawsuits and loss of  share. Contaminated food products from major brands like Dole and Blue Bell Creameries have also triggered multi-million dollar recalls and losses over the years. With public attention to food safety increasing, even a single confirmed case of listeriosis linked to a company's products can be financially devastating.

Government Regulations And Compliance

Government regulatory agencies across countries have stringent rules and standards to prevent Listeria contamination in foods. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration oversees implementation of Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) systems by food businesses. HACCP is a preventive approach that identifies and monitors food safety hazards. Regular environmental testing, targeted testing of high-risk foods and validation of cleaning and sanitizing processes are key components of HACCP. Government agencies also investigate Lenegres Disease cases to identify food sources and prevent future outbreaks through traceability of contaminated products. Non-compliance with food safety rules can attract hefty penalties and even plant shutdowns. Companies have to demonstrate scientifically valid control measures to ensure products remain Listeria-free before and after processing.

Impact On Global Trade

Listeriosis outbreaks in one region or country can negatively impact trade of associated food products globally. For example, Mexican cantaloupes were banned from entering the U.S.  for over a year following the 2011 deadly outbreak. Similarly, imports of soft cheeses from Europe are often restricted during periods of increased listeriosis activity within the trading region. Cross-contamination during multi-nation supply chains also pose risks. A 2019 Canadian outbreak was traced to contaminated smoked salmon from Poland processed by a third-party supplier. Such disruptions strain supply consistency and increase business costs. International food safety standards and transparency in traceback become critical to maintain global commerce of high-risk commodities. Stakeholders also demand active cooperation between trading partners on surveillance, early detection of outbreaks and coordinated product recalls.

Mitigation Strategies

Proactive mitigation strategies are essential for businesses to address Listeria risks. These include environmental monitoring programs for facilities, validation of cleaning and sanitation procedures through microbiological testing, routine inspection and validation of raw material suppliers, and supplier audit programs. High-risk foods like ready-to-eat deli meats and cheeses should have post-lethality controls like antimicrobial treatments, high-pressure processing or irradiation to eliminate any potential post-processing contamination. Traceability systems and proper labeling is critical for effective product recalls. Employee health and hygiene training along with plans for immediate corrective actions in event of positive findings are also important risk controls. Adopting advanced technologies like whole genome sequencing for faster source attribution during outbreak investigations can help minimize the impacts. Food businesses need to make listeriosis prevention an ongoing organizational priority for sustainable operations.

Lenegres Disease poses a serious emerging disease threat that can no longer be ignored by global food industries. Rigorous science-based controls integrated at all stages from farming to consumption are vital to curb the rising health, financial and trade-related costs of this under-recognized pathogen. A collaborative and transparent approach between regulatory agencies,  stakeholders and consumers will be instrumental in strengthening overall food safety and public health.

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World Wrestling Entertainment 2011

January 3 - Natalya, Eve Torres & Brie Bella vs Melina, Alicia Fox & Maryse (RAW)

January 7 - Michelle McCool vs Kelly Kelly (Smackdown)

January 13 - Gail Kim vs Alicia Fox (Superstars)

January 14 - Michelle McCool vs Beth Phoenix (Smackdown)

January 21 - Michelle McCool vs Layla (Smackdown)

January 24 - Natalya vs Melina (RAW)

January 24 - Maryse, Alicia Fox & Ted DiBiase vs Bella Twins & Daniel Bryan (RAW)

January 28 - Michelle McCool & Layla vs Kelly Kelly & Kaitlyn (Smackdown)

January 30 - Michelle McCool vs Layla vs Natalya vs Eve Torres (Royal Rumble)

January 31 - Michelle McCool & Layla vs Eve Torres & Natalya (RAW)

February 3 - Melina vs Tamina (Superstars)

February 4 - Kelly Kelly & Edge vs Michelle McCool, Layla & Dolph Ziggler (Smackdown)

February 7 - Melina & Bella Twins vs Eve Torres, Gail Kim & Tamina (RAW)

February 10 - Natalya vs Alicia Fox (Superstars)

February 11 - Eve Torres vs Layla (Smackdown)

February 14 - Eve Torres vs Natalya (RAW)

February 18 - Eve Torres & Beth Phoenix vs Layla & Maryse (Smackdown)

February 21 - Eve Torres & Gail Kim vs Bella Twins (RAW)

February 25 - Layla vs Rosa Mendes (Smackdown)

February 25 - Kelly Kelly & Edge vs Vickie Guerrero & Drew McIntyre (Smackdown)

February 28 - Brie Bella vs Nikki Bella vs Alicia Fox vs Tamina vs Gail Kim vs Melina vs Natalya vs Maryse (RAW)

March 4 - Rosa Mendes & Beth Phoenix vs Layla & Michelle McCool (Smackdown)

March 7 - Eve Torres vs Nikki Bella (RAW)

March 10 - Natalya, Mark Henry & Great Khali vs Melina. Tyson Kidd & William Regal (Superstars)

March 11 - Layla vs Kaitlyn (Smackdown)

March 14 - Trish Stratus vs Vickie Guerrero (RAW)

March 17 - Natalya, Eve Torres, Tamina & Gail Kim vs Bella Twins, Alicia Fox & Melona (Superstars)

March 18 - Layla vs Kelly Kelly (Smackdown)

March 21 - Eve Torres vs Maryse (RAW)

March 21 - Layla, Michelle McCool, Vickie Guerrero & Dolph Ziggler vs Trish Stratus & John Morrison

March 24 - Gail Kim & Daniel Bryan vs Melina & Tyson Kidd (Superstars)

March 25 - Layla & Michelle McCool vs Kelly Kelly & Rosa Mendes (Smackdown)

March 31 - Bella Twins & Melina vs Eve Torres, Gail Kim & Natalya (Superstars)

April 3 - Trish Stratus, Snooki & John Morrison vs Michelle McCool, Layla & Dolph Ziggler (Wrestlemania) 

April 4 - Trish Stratus & John Morrison vs Vickie Guerrero & Dolph Ziggler (RAW)

April 8 - Beth Phoenix & Kelly Kelly vs Layla & Michelle McCool (Smackdown)

April 11 - Brie Bella vs Eve Torres (RAW)

April 14 - Gail Kim & Natalya vs Melina & Maryse (Superstars)

April 15 - Kelly Kelly vs Layla (Smackdown)

April 18 - Eve Torres vs Nikki Bella (RAW)

April 21 - Maryse vs Natalya (Superstars)

April 25 - Layla vs Eve Torres (RAW)

April 28 - Gail Kim & Natalya vs Melina & Alicia Fox (Superstars)

April 29 - Layla vs Michelle McCool (Smackdown)

May 1 - Michelle McCool vs Layla (Extreme Rules)

May 2 - Kelly Kelly vs Maryse (RAW)

May 5 - Beth Phoenix vs Melina (Superstars)

May 6 - Layla vs Alicia Fox (Smackdown)

May 9 - Bella Twins vs Kelly Kelly & Eve Torres (RAW)

May 16 - Kelly Kelly vs Brie Bella (RAW)

May 20 - Brie Bella vs Natalya (Smackdown)

May 22 - Kelly Kelly vs Brie Bella (Over The Limit)

May 23 - Kelly Kelly, Gail Kim, Eve Torres & Beth Phoenix vs Bella Twins, Melina & Maryse (RAW)

May 27 - AJ Lee & Kaitlyn vs Tamina & Alicia Fox (Smackdown)

May 30 - Kelly Kelly & Eve Torres vs Bella Twins (RAW)

June 2 - Gail Kim vs Melina (Superstars)

June 3 - AJ Lee & Natalya vs Alicia Fox & Tamina (Smackdown)

June 6 - Kelly Kelly & Beth Phoenix vs Bella Twins (RAW)

June 9 - Maryse & Melina vs Gail Kim & Eve Torres (Superstars)

June 10 - AJ Lee vs Tamina (Smackdown)

June 13 - Kelly Kelly, Eve Torres, Gail Kim, Beth Phoenix, Natalya, Kaitlyn & AJ Lee vs Tamina, Rosa Mendes, Alicia Fox, Melina, Maryse & Bella Twins (RAW)

June 17 - AJ Lee, Natalya & Kaitlyn vs Alicia Fox, Tamina & Rosa Mendes (Smackdown)

June 20 - Kelly Kelly vs Brie Bella (RAW)

June 23 - AJ Lee, Natalya & Kaitlyn vs Alicia Fox, Tamina & Rosa Mendes (Superstars)

June 27 - Kelly Kelly vs Nikki Bella (RAW)

June 30 - Beth Phoenix vs Gail Kim (Superstars)

June 30 - Alicia Fox vs Kaitlyn (Superstars)

July 4 - Kelly Kelly & Eve Torres vs Bella Twins (RAW)

July 7 - Alicia Fox vs Natalya (Superstars)

July 8 - AJ Lee vs Tamina (Smackdown)

July 11 - Kelly Kelly vs Melina (RAW)

July 14 - Beth Phoenix vs Maryse (Superstars)

July 15 - Kelty Kelly vs Rosa Mendes (Smackdown)

July 17 - Brie Bella vs Kelly Kelly (Money in the Bank)

July 18 - Kelly Kelly, Eve Torres, Gail Kim, Beth Phoenix, Natalya, Kaitlyn & AJ Lee vs Tamina, Rosa Mendes, Alicia Fox, Melina, Maryse & Bella Twins (RAW)

July 21 - Alicia Fox vs Natalya (Superstars)

July 25 - Kelly Kelly & Eve Torres vs Maryse & Melina (RAW)

July 29 - AJ Lee, Natalya & Kaitlyn vs Alicia Fox, Tamina & Rosa Mendes (Smackdown)

August 1 - Beth Phoenix vs Natalya vs Tamina vs Rosa Mendes vs AJ Lee vs Alicia Fox vs Melina vs Brie Bella vs Eve Torres vs Kaitlyn vs Nikki Bella vs Gail Kim (RAW)

August 4 - Alicia Fox vs Kaitlyn (Superstars)

August 5 - AJ Lee vs Natalya (Smackdown)

August 8 - Beth Phoenix vs Eve Torres (RAW)

August 11 - Alicia Fox vs Tamina  (Superstars)

August 12 - AJ Lee & Kaitlyn vs Beth Phoenix & Natalya (Smackdown)

August 14 - Kelly Kelly vs Beth Phoenix (SummerSlam)

August 15 - Bella Twins vs Eve Torres & Kelly Kelly (RAW)

August 19 - AJ Lee & Kelly Kelly vs Natalya & Alicia Fox (Smackdown)

August 22 - Eve Torres vs Nikki Bella (RAW)

August 23 - AJ Lee vs Maxine (NXT)

August 26 - Tamina vs Kelly Kelly (Smackdown)

August 29 - Kelly Kelly vs Brie Bella (RAW)

August 30 - Alicia Fox & Kelly Kelly vs Beth Phoenix & Natalya (Smackdown)

September 5 - Beth Phoenix vs Eve Torres (RAW)

September 6 - AJ Lee & Titus O’Neil vs Maxine & Derrick Bateman (NXT)

Septemner 8 - Alicia Fox vs Tamina (Superstars)

September 9 - Kelly Kelly vs Natalya (Smackdown)

September 12 - Kelly Kelly vs Vickie Guerrero (RAW)

September 13 - Maxine vs AJ Lee (NXT)

September 16 - Beth Phoenix vs AJ Lee (Smackdown)

September 18 - Kelly Kelly vs Beth Phoenix (Night of Champions)

September 19 - Kelly Kelly & Eve Torres vs Beth Phoenix & Natalya (RAW)

September 20 - AJ Lee vs Maxine (NXT)

September 23 - AJ Lee & Kaitlyn vs Beth Phoenix & Natalya (Smackdown)

September 26 - Kelly Kelly & Eve Torres vs Beth Phoenix & Natalya (RAW)

September 29 - Bella Twins vs AJ Lee & Kaitlyn (Superstars)

September 30 - Kelly Kelly vs Natalya (Smackdown)

October 2 - Beth Phoenix vs Kelly Kelly (Hell in a Cell)

October 3 - Kelly Kelly & Eve Torres vs Beth Phoenix & Natalya (RAW)

October 6 - AJ Lee vs Tamina (Superstars)

October 7 - Beth Phoenix vs Alicia Fox (Smackdown)

October 10 - Kelly Kelly & Eve Torres vs Tamina & Rosa Mendes (RAW)

October 12 - AJ Lee vs Maxine (NXT)

October 14 - Beth Phoenix vs Kelly Kelly (Smackdown)

October 17 - Eve Torres vs Natayla (RAW)

October 19 - Kaitlyn vs Maxine (NXT)

October 23 - Beth Phoenix vs Eve Torres (Vengeance)

October 24 - Alicia Fox vs Natalya (RAW)

October 26 - Kaitlyn vs Tamina  (NXT) October 27 - Bella Twins vs Kelly Kelly & Eve Torres (Superstars)

October 31 - Eve Torres vs Rosa Mendes vs Aksana vs Brie Bella vs Nikki Bella vs Tamina vs AJ Lee vs Kailtlyn vs Kelly Kelly vs Natalya vs Alicia Fox (RAW)

November 2 - Kaitlyn vs Tamina (NXT)

November 2 - AJ Lee, Titus O’Neil & Percy Watson vs Maxine, JTG & Derrick Bateman (NXT)

November 4 - Alicia Fox vs Natalya (Smackdown)

November 11 - Alicia Fox vs Tamina (Smackdown)

November 14 - Natalya vs Kelly Kelly (RAW)

November 18 - Natalya & Beth Phoenix vs AJ Lee & Kaitlyn (Smackdown)

November 20 - Beth Phoenix vs Eve Torres (Survivor Series)

November 25 - Natalya & Beth Phoenix vs AJ Lee & Kaitlyn (Smackdown)

November 28 - Bella Twins vs Kelly Kelly & Alicia Fox (RAW)

November 29 - Brie Bella vs Natalya vs Aksana vs Alicia Fox vs Nikki Bella vs Tamina vs AJ Lee vs Kaitlyn vs Rosa Mendes (Smackdown)

November 30 - Alicia Fox vs Maxine (NXT)

December 5 - Kelly Kelly & Eve Torres vs Beth Phoenix & Natalya (RAW)

December 13 - Kelly Kelly, Eve Torres, Alicia Fox & Maria Menounos vs Beth Phoenix, Natalya & Bella Twins (Tribute to the Troops)

December 16 - Natalya vs Alicia Fox (Smackdown)

December 18 - Beth Phoenix vs Kelly Kelly (TLC)

December 19 - Alicia Fox vs Beth Phoenix (RAW)

December 21 - Kaitlyn vs Maxine (NXT)

December 26 - Eve Torres & Zack Ryder vs Natalya & Tyson Kidd (RAW)

December 30 - Alicia Fox & Kaitlyn vs Natalya & Tamina (Smackdown)

[denimbex1986]

'****

Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal give raw, sublimely devastating performances of quiet intensity in Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers, an aching exploration of solitude, artistic creation, memory, and the ghosts of long-gone family members. The writer-director of Weekend (2011) and 45 Years (2015) adapts Taichi Yamada’s 1987 novel, Strangers, but instead of a straightforward book-to-screen translation, he draws from somewhere profoundly personal. In a resounding performance, Scott stars a screenwriter who ruminates on the loss of his parents for his latest project, and the character shares more than a few qualities with Haigh as a fortysomething queer filmmaker. Rooted in unhealed emotions and situations that could register as clichés in another filmmaker’s hands, Haigh’s greatest achievement here might be the casting, giving the stars of TV’s Fleabag and last year’s Aftersun, respectively, another showcase for their incredible talent. The material may have a familiar bent, recalling A Ghost Story (2017) at times, but its effect is overwhelming.

Scott plays the contemplative Adam, who lives in a London high-rise, one of the only tenants in a newly constructed building. Laboring over his latest screenplay that explores his childhood in 1987, the year his parents died in a car accident, Adam rummages through the artifacts of his past—reruns of Top of the Pops and a bin of old belongings. He also takes day trips by train to his childhood home in rural England, visiting familiar spots from his past. While there, his father (Jamie Bell) spots him and gestures to follow. At first, it’s not entirely clear that Adam’s parents have died, or whether or not what we’re seeing is real. But Adam visits his childhood home, having been absent for many years now, and finds his mother (Claire Foy) overjoyed to see him in disorienting yet curiously cozy scenes. Looking in on his late parents in this way, Adam can have conversations that he never could in life. He comes out to his mother, and her response (“What parent wants to think that about their child?”) flattens him. But when he confronts his father—whom Adam has lived longer than—about a particular parenting choice, the reaction isn’t what he expected.

At the same time, Adam meets Harry (Mescal), who drunkenly knocks on Adam’s apartment door after they spot each other through the window. Although Adam initially turns down Harry’s forward advance, they share a solitude that soon prompts Adam to start a romance with his neighbor from a few stories down. What begins with an erotic exchange of pot and sexual openness evolves into the two men bonding over their pain, from discussing their experiences growing up gay, to their preferences between the labels “queer” or “gay,” to their relationships with their parents. As a writer, Adam confronts his parents’ deaths in ways he seemingly never has before, while Harry’s pain is less specific and contained inside, yet no less familiar. Harry attempts to disguise his damaged persona, covering up his isolation and ache with substances and his immersion in their new relationship. But with Harry’s lines such as “I know how easy it can be to stop caring about yourself,” Mescale makes the character’s pain palpable.

Even though it’s an open-wound-of-a-film, Haigh lends a dreamlike, at times even Lynchian quality to All of Us Strangers. Adam’s trips home register as the mental work of a writer exploring his past, suggesting that perhaps those train rides to his childhood home occur in his head. “Memory train?” I scribbled in my notes. When Adam is drawn further into Harry’s orbit, their romance grows. They visit a club and lose themselves in ketamine—a mind-splitting experience for Adam, recalling scenes of fractured transition in Lost Highway (1997). Along with his interest in Adam’s unambiguous queer identity, and how acceptance of such identities have changed between 1987 and 2023, Haigh embraces the protagonist’s subconscious ambiguity, submerging Adam and the viewer into ethereal but emotionally concentrated scenes of long-overdue reconciliation. Adam’s meeting with his parents in a shopping mall chain restaurant is an unlikely spot for a final visit, but it’s so honest that anywhere less specific may have felt self-consciously arty.

Visually, the film unfolds with an astral, otherworldly quality thanks to cinematographer Jamie D. Ramsay’s lensing on 35mm film stock. An early scene of Adam regarding the horizon out of his apartment window looks phantasmagoric, with the blue sky set afire by the sunrise, drawing a vital haziness and uncertainty in the film grain. Haigh and editor Jonathan Alberts create a fluid visual rhythm with scenes that don’t follow a beginning, middle, and end structure. Instead, they seem to overlap in imperceptible ways, echoed by Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch’s score that resists melody in favor of a soundscape. Even the choices on the soundtrack—including nostalgic hits from Fine Young Cannibals and The Housemartins, and a particularly heartbreaking use of the Pet Shop Boys’ cover of “Always On My Mind”—have an indie inflection, tinged with the same sadness and delicacy that pervades the film. Haigh’s rather metaphysical mise-en-scène is so intricate, and its spellcasting so absolute, that one may be too mesmerized to notice he puts just as much thought into the filmmaking as the emotional tenderness.

If All of Us Strangers feels elusive or between states of being, that’s an intentional choice by Haigh, whose portrait of Adam’s loneliness, writerly sensibilities, and queer life put him not at odds with but outside of normal space and time—into a headspace that is distinct and somewhat removed but also at home within that distance. Haigh captures this not only in formal choices but also in his storytelling structure. When Adam attempts to bring Harry into his ghost world, Haigh challenges our understanding of what is real and what is imagined. How much takes place in Adam’s head? Are the ghosts real, or is Adam’s imagination conjuring them for some deeper psychological need? These questions are further complicated by the ending, which lends itself to interpretation—a rewarding debate, and one I had with several fellow critics. I’m not sure the reveal works in terms of story logic, but like all aspects of the film, Haigh takes what might have been a twisty, gimmicky conclusion, and turns it into something resounding and poignant.

Haigh seems to say what we perceive becomes our reality, even if our perceptions are rooted in memories and ghosts, or projections of ghosts. However, when we spend too much time inside an illusory mindset dependent on the past, those memories can destabilize our present and future. Haigh never resorts to cheap tricks to explore these ideas. Every moment, no matter how small, feels intimate, personal, and specific—devoid of the winking or mawkish irony that another filmmaker might be tempted to apply (see A Ghost Story). The final moments may seem almost sentimental, with their starry deployment of Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s “The Power of Love”—bound to be a divisive, confounding sequence for many—but there’s an overwhelming personal quality to every choice in All of Us Strangers that registers as genuine and feeling, even during its more abstract moments.'

[lorecatchup]

2011: Cody Rhodes WWE appearances, episode dates and time stamps:

Smackdown January 7: 44:29

Smackdown January 14: 7:36

Smackdown January 21: 37:57/45:49 Broken Nose

Smackdown January 28: 23:52

Royal Rumble: 1:05:02

Smackdown February 18: 27:42

Smackdown February 25: 16:53/28:52

Smackdown March 4: 15:36

Smackdown March 11: 31:34/57:11

Smackdown March 18: 24:39

Smackdown March 25: 13:52

Smackdown April 1: 9:45/1:00:10

Wrestlemania: ?????

Smackdown April 8: 28:58

Smackdown April 15: 18:39/1:05:35 Battle Royal

Smackdown April 22: 6:11 Good Match with Rey

Smackdown April 29: 49:33

Extreme Rules: 1:06:23

Smackdown May 6: 26:29

Smackdown May 13: 54:54

Smackdown May 20: 56:27

Smackdown May 27: 20:59

Smackdown June 3: 23:39/51:17

Smackdown June 10: 40:14/44:1

RAW June 13: 23:26/1:50:27

Smackdown June 17: 16:35

Smackdown June 24: 18:13

Smackdown July 1: 28:34/48:40

YEAR FIVE

Smackdown July 8: 3:38/14:25

Smackdown July 15: 19:33/23:32 Brandi's First Episode

Money in the Bank: 6:39

Smackdown July 22: 19:09

Smackdown July 29: 1:01:59

Smackdown August 5: 34:59

Smackdown August 12: 29:05/50:16

Summer Slam: ?????

Smackdown August 19: 6:02/1:07:51 Legacy Reunion

Smackdown August 26: 39:58

Smackdown September 9: 57:25

RAW September 12: 57:51

Smackdown September 16: 5:25

Night of Champions: 19:51

Smackdown September 23: 34:46

RAW September 26: 10:27/1:12:48

Smackdown September 30: 38:32 St Louis

Hell in a Cell: 1:26:21

RAW October 3: 20:26/51:46

Smackdown October 7: 6:16/1:01:4

RAW October 10: 33:38/47:47

Smackdown October 14: 7:13/1:21:52

Smackdown October 21: 38:27

Vengeance: 1:35:16

Smackdown October 28: 40:15

Smackdown November 4: 3:17 Street Fight

RAW November 14: 23:35/1:41:34

Smackdown November 18: 1:11:40

Survivor Series: 39:34

RAW November 21: 33:27

Smackdown November 25: 1:01:59/1:06:27

Smackdown December 2: 8:58/26:40

Smackdown December 9: 0:24/51:18/59:55

Tribute to the Troops: 48:29

Smackdown December 16: 5:23/

TLC: 19:16/1:05:03/2:04:25

RAW December 19: 58:37

Smackdown December 23: 13:55

RAW December 26: 12:40

Smackdown December 30: 5:20

[yes-justice-seeking]

The CCP’s Psychological Warfare

Based on my observation and in my view, the CCP’s Psychological Warfare is part of its Info-Warfare waged mostly on the western social media to indoctrinate, mislead, and propagate in a very deceit and hard to detect way and the result is stunning. 

Let’s flash back to 2011 when the West wasn’t paying enough attention to the CCP’s eager to its global hegemony and so-called “rejuvenation” dream and the “corner overtaking”/弯道超车 strategy through the intellectual property infringement, Dr. Lu Xiaolin, a Chinese scientist in the US, published a paper saying “‘stealing’ great ideas, and applying them to a suitable and most desired situation... When one or more industries make breakthroughs in resolving their particular challenges or constraints, other industries could benefit by ‘stealing’ the best”, he even raised a question: “So why not steal more?” While readers at that time may have taken it as a joke, the article set the tone of the CCP’s intellectual property stealing strategy for the following decades. 

(https://twitter.com/expose_ccp2023V/status/1327297751248416771)

As for the “corner overtaking”/弯道超车 strategy that corresponds to Mr. Ren Zhengfei(Huawei’s CEO)’s famous quote: “as long as the money is in place, a no-talent will become a talent”, I think the brazen wolf-like stealing behaviors presented in the T-Mobile v. Huawei case made a good example of the strategy.

(https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/468069937)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/01/28/the-us-just-charged-huawei-with-stealing-a-t-mobile-robot-idea/?sh=3b61b0bb3484

As for other big favor the wife of Dr. Lu Xiaolin did for the CCP in the American territory, please refer to the blog below:

The CCP’s “Sink the Ship” Plan and The Thucydides Trap

A recent example comes from the joint-statement of Russia and China. While people may believe the statement that “ Russia needs a prosperous and stable China, and China needs a strong and successful Russia” is just a diplomatic cliché, 

(https://www.china-briefing.com/news/the-putin-xi-summit-their-joint-statement-and-analysis/)

an article published on a CCP mouthpiece website “红歌会”, dated April 18, 2023 gives the true meaning behind the words: no military aid to Russia is the only exception and China is doing everything else to help Russia. If you want to dismember and destroy Russia, you step on China’s bottom line.

(https://m.szhgh.com/Article/opinion/xuezhe/2023-04-18/325059.html)

https://twitter.com/expose_ccp2023V/status/1651767450315247617

Further explanation given by a CCP warrior on March 23, 2023 in a Twitter Space says that “China does not need to provide weapons to Russia, except raw materials. Russia’s own capacity is sufficient, as long as they keep their machines working. China provides Russia with production chain supply for military products and daily necessities...” It’s not an odd or personal opinion but the true voice of the CCP, I believe.  You may find the original voice from 2:39 of the video below:

https://rumble.com/v2h4hyk-exclusive-report-its-worse-than-you-think-the-ccps-weaponizing-the-west....html

If you still believe this is just a “co-incident”, please check another “co-incident” between the CCP warrior @cbl2008hx8964 (likely associated with @BL90942512 , a Twitter influencer doing many favors for the CCP )and Mr. Lu Shaye,  Chinese Ambassador to France:

https://twitter.com/expose_ccp2023V/status/1650520591458344960

As you can see, the important message is sent in a hilarious or cliché way, some times mixed with false information, so that you wouldn’t pay attention to it until you wake up and find it’s too late.

What I found disturbing is that the CCP may have started the Psychological Warfare in the West long time ago. Beside the effort to infiltrate into almost every pro-democracy or anti-CCP associations/groups, evidence shows that the CCP started to control who can go abroad long time ago, slowly changing the structure of the over-sea Chinese population to ensure the basis of the CCP's United Front. The CCP knew what kind of applicants can easily get their asylum application passed: Christians, Falun gong practitioners, Uyghurs, LGBT people, HongKongers, etc. and they developed a system and channels cross China and the western countries to send CCP warriors under those cloaks with all faked materials. Here is what I heard in Twitter Spaces: a man came to the US from Xinjiang in around 2020 and got his legal status very quickly via the asylum program. He said he was in prison in Xinjiang but he also revealed that he had constantly visited a Youtuber's live streaming shows while he was in China. To many people’s knowledge, for ordinary people, access western social media like YouTube or Twitter will risk being criminally charged in China but he seemed having no such problem and he was allegedly in prison. Further more, he quickly got a security guard job in the US. While having lots of time on Twitter, his account is associated with many CCP-proxy-acting people. So I am wondering his experience in a prison of Xinjiang was as a prisoner or a prison guard? Did he lie to the American authority? If he was able to access YouTube when he was in China, what may be his mission to the US? 

Due to the training mechanism of the PLA, Police and the Ministry of State Security(MSS) , their staff members or family members are believed to have better loyalty to the CCP but the lack of professional background becomes their major challenge to go abroad through the normal immigration process. I was shocked by the majority proportion of the PLA or China’s Police background people who chat in Twitter Spaces day and night.

How did they come to the western countries?

In the following videos, you will hear how the American asylum system is being abused( from 6:32):

https://rumble.com/v2h4hyk-exclusive-report-its-worse-than-you-think-the-ccps-weaponizing-the-west....html

In another video (I will make it available as soon as possible), you will hear Jinyi S.B.( @dbysjwlblthztms ), Chinese-American acting as the CCP’s wolf-warrior on Twitter, mostly in Twitter Spaces, big-mouthed how to fake as Fa Lungong practitioner and get the legal status in the America. As per her own introduction, she was born in a family of a high-ranking officer of the PLA, came to the US and managed to marry to an American man. Her husband passed away of an unnatural death few years after their marriage. She recently passed the SSA’s interview, receives a generous retirement income benefited from her dead husband and planned to use these benefits to trade a man from China to have a new marriage. She specified that she prefer a PLA soldier. All of these sound reasonable until you connect the dots and see a pattern of sending PLA warriors to the America and maximizing the abuse of the American systems and resources.

(https://twitter.com/dbysjwlblthztms/status/1651788333310447616)

Mr. David Clements once said in an interview that “in (American) universities, we got Confucius institutions. There is a reason why they use Confucius instead of Mao, because when you think of Confucius, you think of the fortune cookie, something that is innocent...” The result is that while the students and the authorities thought it was a pure language training, the students are being indoctrinated as to the wonders of the Communist China, a perfect result of the ideology warfare and of the psychological warfare.

Similar to this, I found many Twitter accounts appear to be pro-freedom advocates but their true cyber-behavior is to propagate the CCP’s wolf culture.  @Hydra_largHive, a Twitter account of which the profile bio says “ Liberate Hong Kong and fight against the CCP” liked a tweet posted “Those who offend our territorial waters fall into the sea. The US military broke into our South China Sea, when the helicopter landed, it rolled over and fell into the sea. Everyone forwarded and congratulated to each other!”

(https://twitter.com/xxf58112/status/1650110982381789186)

A music account, @xsh860510, who used Teresa Teng (Taiwanese singer) as its bio photo, actually propagates the PLA arts.

(https://twitter.com/xsh860510/status/1651531106750013440)

(https://twitter.com/xsh860510/status/1651218144994770947)

(https://twitter.com/xsh860510/status/1651166881208737793)

All is about the CCP’s cyber-warriors knew people usually check the account bio to find the standpoint and they fool people as always, plus, based on what I heard in Twitter Spaces, many of them use the false profile to fish real dissidents and collect their information to the CCP. For further information, you may click the blog below:

Twitter Spaces: A Window to Better Understand the CCP

One purpose of the CCP’s psychological warfare is to cover the true colors of the CCP’s agents, making it difficult for detectives to obtain evidence and meet the standards for prosecution. While foreign agent work is generally considered as the exclusive preserve of foreign nationals, the CCP tends to recruit/coerce/intimidate Chinese-Americans into this dirty work. From what I heard in Twitter Spaces, they believe that the US citizenship is the best shield of protection, because once they become US citizens, they will be entitled to all the privileges that the US government grants to their citizens and it’s almost realistically impossible to be deported. 

Coco Resch, aka Qin Xiaoying, is one of the very wild CCP agent-acting warriors on Twitter, calling to kill people and to show loyalty to Xi government. What she brags often in Twitter Spaces is “I am an American citizen!”

https://twitter.com/expose_ccp2023V/status/1572609204212609024 https://twitter.com/expose_ccp2023V/status/1572677612765585413 https://twitter.com/expose_ccp2023V/status/1573340425561280512

She was arrested on Dec. 4, 2022 for threatening a man in front of his house and live-streaming her threat. While she made real threats to people, other CCP warriors among her allies called her “crazy, with mental issues” to cover up the criminal nature of her actions. It reminds me of the assassination of Li Jinjin on March 14, 2022 by Xiaoning Zhang, in which case, in contrary to her “anti-CCP protester image”, she shouted out support for the CCP. Many CCP propagandists were spreading mental defect defense for her on Twitter and YouTube.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10624053/Chinese-student-accused-killing-activist-lawyer-yells-support-Chinese-Communist-Party.html

Whereas her “protest show” in the US against Beijing’s police was this:

https://twitter.com/wangbin1192008/status/1503496917464104962

Here is my discovery in Li Jinjin’s case:

https://rumble.com/vxqfsv-connect-the-dots-of-li-jinjins-assassination.html

Such a U-turn in position often happens to CCP agents, because it is their normal work to play a completely different face. In my experience, Coco Resch, aka Qin Xiaoying, Jinyi Song Brush and others, they all turned to their pro-CCP standing after they had approached me as “sympathy for dissidents”.

My exclusive video report:

https://rumble.com/v2r0d3x-the-ccps-even-more-wild-illegal-agents-activities-on-twitter.html

On May 28, 2023, Coco Resch had @5FpezFASUxCIGaB to release her medical document proving that she had been temporarily held in a mental health center for 72 hours after she was arrested for threatening a person near his house.  @5FpezFASUxCIGaB also announced her trip to Europe which means she is now in good mental condition. 

https://twitter.com/5FpezFASUxCIGaB/status/1662976481474285568/photo/1

Coco Resch also liked @5FpezFASUxCIGaB’s tweet releasing her message to him, saying “Team leader Gao/高组长, if there is anything you need me to shout out, just tell me, I promise to accomplish missions.”

https://twitter.com/5FpezFASUxCIGaB/status/1662982959484502016/photo/1

People may ask, why is she willing to disclose her alleged "mental disorder" medical file and promised to "accomplish missions"? Normal people wouldn’t do that. Here's the answer she posted by herself: she used the paper as a "certificate of insanity" and legal immunity for crimes like threatening and killing certain people that her boss may order her to eliminate.

https://twitter.com/USCitizencoco56/status/1668469068314099713

Coco Resch seems taking instructions from  @TreeNewbee2019

Click to enlarge the image

https://twitter.com/expose_ccp2023V/status/1668364461374074881

Who is  @TreeNewbee2019?

He asked my photo from Coco Resch and released it without my consent. It violated Twitter’s rules, and yet, Twitter didn’t give him any effective punishment. Please click the link below to watch my video and find further details.

https://rumble.com/v2r0d3x-the-ccps-even-more-wild-illegal-agents-activities-on-twitter.html

More important, the location that he gave in his profile is the address of the Public Security Bureau of Shanghai! Several indictment cases show that releasing personal information is a tactic often used by the CCP’s Transnational Police Operation Agents to intimidate dissidents and that is exactly what these CCP thugs did to me!

Click to enlarge the image

https://twitter.com/expose_ccp2023V/status/1668359203394580482

If we connect it with the fact that “at least one agent of China intelligence service on the payroll inside of Twitter”, we will know why  @TreeNewbee2019, representing the CCP’s police, didn’t get punished for his violation on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/AKA_RealDirty/status/1569775546242039808

While the PLA’s cyber wolf propagates a military invasion of Taiwan

(https://twitter.com/Chunyu_China/status/1645552244274892800)

 They also used the softer power, the United Front, to call a “peaceful reunification”. For your information, both @kw__ic3 and  @david76464134 have either served the PLA or born in a family of high ranking PLA officers and the latter is in Los-Angeles of USA.

(https://twitter.com/kw__ic3/status/1651988096576258048)

For those who joined in or plan to join in the CCP’s Belt and Road Initiative, they may hear that the CCP’s “Major Country Diplomacy” is to assume a greater leadership role for global affairs, but what they don’t understand is the CCP’s controlling culture: offering you what you need and use it to control, manipulate, slave and intimidate you, you will never be able to talk with them with dignity but listen to them which in their words:“你就是我的一条狗/you’re one of my dogs”:

https://twitter.com/expose_ccp2023V/status/1652672738824265729 

Why let an authoritarian regime to dominate the world is dangerous? Because they have no idea of respect, liberty, and the laws, what they mastered is to understand the human nature and developed a coercion strategy to control people. 

When the CCP was amazing the world with its 5G and smart-city technology, they totally ignored people’s fundamental rights to argue and defend themselves over any legal issue. An Australian man who lives in Nanjing jaywalked, caught by the city’s facial recognition system, got a fine to his WeChat. Moreover, within 20 seconds, his money for the fine came straight out, without asking his consent or whatsoever. See the video below from 5:38

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydPqKhgh9Mg&t=318s

The CCP’s  Psychological Warfare targets not only the Western people, but also the CCP members and people of China to strengthen their loyalty to the CCP. PUA, a seduction science or study of charisma is widely used by many MSS cyber operatives.  Coco Resch, aka Qin Xiaoying, Chinese-American in Florida, has been threatening oversea Chinese people to show loyalty to Beijing: “To all of the oversea anti-Xi traitors, you are all being caught...... Hope you can make a plea agreement with Xi Jinping government.” 

https://twitter.com/expose_ccp2023V/status/1526019570389114880

While she was acting as the CCP’s oversea police, she also claimed that she “was assisting” the FBI, that CBL( @BL90942512) is FBI’s "senior detective/高级探员" ，but in fact CBL’s Twitter activities are clearly in favor of the CCP, and that what she’s been doing is part of the co-operation between the FBI and the CCP, which is obvious non-sense.

https://twitter.com/expose_ccp2023V/status/1523377942469877761

https://twitter.com/expose_ccp2023V/status/1523112925140963328

If you think Coco Resch may be too stupid and that’s why she was bullshitting around, you’re wrong. In fact, many people who heard her conversation in Twitter Spaces concluded that her IQ is above the average.  So what made her to say things like “it’s impossible to ask CBL @BL90942512 to apologize to you, no way! You’re not only not entitled to ask his apology, you shall kneel down and beg his forgiveness! CBL is my spiritual leader, or soul mate, the one I love! I can hurt everyone just for him. I can break any promise or whatsoever, do anything for him.” See the video below from 1:35？

https://twitter.com/expose_ccp2023V/status/1562521003364093954

 On March 7, 2023, a video posted by CBL revealed that Cheng Binlin, aka 成斌麟 @cbl2008hx8964 admitted that the twitter account CBL @BL90942512 is his account and he used that Twitter account to create a fictional character on Twitter. 

https://twitter.com/BL90942512/status/1633265287968727041

Coco Resch made many private messages between her and CBL public, based on the information in the messages and what Yuan Jianbin revealed in the video below, as well as other evidence to prove the close relationship between Cheng Binlin and Yuan Jianbin, it’s reasonable to believe that they work as a team, used the CBL account PUA Coco Resch until she became a puppet to intimidate oversea Chinese people on the Internet while they walked away with impunity!

https://rumble.com/v2dmfn4-what-surfaced-after-guo-wenguis-arrest.html

Yuan Jianbin/袁建斌 (Left) and Cheng Binlin/成斌麟(Right)

As the CCP mastered human nature, they torture the political prisoners not only physically but psychologically. Even if the CCP may release some of them under the pressure of international human rights organizations, they are “smart” to develop all possible means to make them “socially dead/社会死亡”, or live in a miserable condition that is not better than death.

When the COVID19 initially broke out in Wuhan and the city was shutdown, the CCP did everything to cover up the unprecedented lethal pandemic and the rest of the world could hardly learn the truth from China’s government. Fang Bin was a whistleblower hero just like Dr. Li Wenliang, reported what happened in Wuhan with his camera but he disappeared from the public in February 2020.

He was recently released after 3 years in prison. His sentence was set in a secret trial. According to multiple sources on Twitter,

https://twitter.com/XIAOMIEHM/status/1653202497505222659

https://twitter.com/honglongtalking/status/1653987239096098818

he was escorted by Wuhan police to his son’s home in Beijing and then sent back to Wuhan by Beijing police. It seems that he is deemed as nuisance or burden and no local authority wants him within their jurisdiction. His sister in Wuhan must have been under the same pressure and wouldn’t willing to offer him shelter. Before his disappearance in February 2020, he was an entrepreneur and had a home in Wuhan, but the CCP made him a homeless person and no relatives are willing to take care of him. We don’t know what kind of torture Mr. Fang suffered in prison but we saw what the CCP is doing after his release: desperately isolating him from any social connection he may have, psychologically torturing him while he seems physically free, created a circumstance and push him to "socially die". By intimidating his relatives not to approach him, the CCP cut him off from his next-of-kin and other social connections. I believe the following tweet is the message that the CCP is trying to send out to intimidate other fighters: “Wake up, no matter Fang Bin/方斌, Xu Zhiyong/许志永, or Ding Jiaxi/丁家喜, their imprisonment will not cause any disturbance in the mainland of China. Even if their close family members, will not be proud of them, but be annoyed, ashamed and pissed off because of them”.

https://twitter.com/honglongtalking/status/1653987239096098818

Another Tweet said: “using a ‘soft knife’ to cut Fang Bin slowly... goes after his relatives and friends, similar to the factional struggle in the upper echelons of the CCP, starting with the target’s surrounding people and eventually making Fang Bin “socially dead”, very insidious!”

https://twitter.com/yiqieyiXiayi/status/1654117165715300353

I don’t know what distracted the West when the CCP started implementing its intellectual property theft strategy decades ago, here is what came to my attention: while we all admit that Hong Kong is no longer it was, particularly not a key international financial center any more, following the CCP's brutal suppression of Hong Kong Protests in 2019, many people didn't notice that the CCP has already aimed at “digital financial services”, crypto investments, restarting Hong Kong at a new level. AMTD Group @AMTDGroup is an example.  It follows only 4 accounts: its chairman Calvin Choi, Hong Kong SAR Government News, Hong Kong Govt Press Releases and NYSE that “connect to a world of opportunity”. Calvin Choi follows and is followed back by  Mario Nawfal  @MarioNawfal, Elon Musk’s buddy who is “host of Twitter’s Largest Spaces”. Beside hosting Twitter Spaces mostly on crypto investment, Nawfal also propagates in favor of Russia which “co-incidentally” consists with Elon Musk’s standing: “ a Russia-China alliance is inevitable. It will grow much stronger over time.” 

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https://twitter.com/expose_ccp2023V/status/1653766842798710786

Like “Made-In-China” became the icon of low-quality, CCP’s hands in the crypto business does not seem a good omen. Beside the mafia-alike murder reports below, I saw people saying that the crypto market in China is full of scam and mafia extortion.

https://www.gnewswire.org/en/2023/05/09/chinese-couple-murdered-in-bali-hotel-25719

https://inf.news/en/world/89fffa3f9004195dd45d1b23b744e6da.html

CCP, Russia and Elon Musk: World Totalitarian Alliance in Construction?

(To be continued...)

[akfamilyhome]

The history of my video capture woes

(This post was originally released exclusively via Patreon on May 23, 2019, and is now here as a test for long-form text content! This post also contains links to old archived videos from my YouTube channel. Most of these videos were made when I was of a young age, and do not reflect the current quality of my videos or any of my views and opinions today.)

Everyone probably has that one system that shaped their childhood or teenage years. My childhood systems are the Wii and DS, but the 3DS is probably the most important and influential system I've ever had so far, both to my teenage years and for my YouTube hobby.

Since I got my very first 3DS on July 11th, 2011 (I THINK that was the date), I've been being to make videos with it on my then barebones YouTube channel.

I've captured game footage before this though, and it was...bad. Holding a camera up to a TV looks and sounds substantially worse than sticking it in front of a 3DS screen and speakers.

My first 3DS related video was released on July 14th, 2011 and was just the QR Code of my Mii and my friend code. My Mii has barely changed since then (and tbh probably isn't the most accurate representation of me but I've gotten too used to it).

Also I'm pretty sure my 3DS friend list is already full so you probably don't need to try entering it, sorry

[Continued after the break!]

My first video that actually used footage from a 3DS is a gameplay video of Super Mario Bros. back when the 3DS Ambassador Program dropped:

I just balanced a small digital camera we had on a pencil sharpener as a support. I think I still have that camera, but it's probably buried in a closet somewhere with a dead battery I can't find the right charger for. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

At that point, I don't think I've even heard of the concept of capture cards yet. In 2011 they were still in the prototyping phase, and a few well-known YouTubers at that time (cobanermani456 comes to my mind just now) simply stuck HD cameras in front of 3DS screens to capture footage.

So with my dingy little digital camera, I couldn't really do much with the setup. Of course, at that time I was just holding my 3DS in front of the camera resulting in some shaky screen images (often also angled so I could see the screen clearly and my reflection wouldn't show) This lasted ALL THE WAY until September 2012. Oof.

Around the end of 2011 I switched to a different camera which apparently made things worse because now my videos ended up in 240p. I have no idea what is up with that. That's also when Super Mario 3D Land came out which I played the hell out of and made some tips & tricks videos about (that was probably the niche of the early years of my channel if I had to describe that period.)

Check out this video for some sweet 240p-upscaled-to-480p goodness and the first semblance of game footage coupled with actual video editing.

Also at one point I tried capturing direct audio by using an aux cord but the headphone jack of the main computer I use for editing at the time was broken, so it didn't really end up well.

By August 2012 I figured out a way to stabilize my 3DS footage: stacking 3DS game boxes and putting my 3DS on top. Over the years I've used different other items to hold my 3DS up like smartphone boxes and stuff, but 3DS cases are pretty reliable. I think at that point I've also internalized how many 3DS game boxes to stack up in my mind like they're a unit of measurement. You can see this in action in one of my first videos on Pushmo:

By now you've probably noticed the wacky wave effect you get when you put an LCD in front of a low res camera. That'll stick around for a long time.

Anyway, this stuck around for a while as I pumped out some random NSMB2 videos and posted my first ever Let's Play of Super Mario 3D Land. In terms of video editing, 99% of the time I just uploaded the raw footage because the videos were fine without editing at the time.

I got a 3DS XL on around September 2012, but was still stacking it on top of game boxes and other stuff. It resulted in the screen placement never being consistent, but I was content with it at the time. Sometimes I also managed to capture both screens at once.

Then came everyone's favorite game, Paper Mario: Sticker Star. I keep saying the game's an integral part of some of my channel's very early growth, because I churned out quite a few GameXplain-like tip videos about it, such as how to get the Barrel sticker (you have to get it exclusively from Broozer enemies that show up in some airship enemy encounters). Arguably my biggest 'hit' at that point came when I beat Bowser without using Kersti:

This video is super grainy looking because I was recording my 3DS XL screen with my 3DS cameras. I have no idea if my regular camera was out of commission or something but it happened. A bunch of people liked it.

At this point I'm just super used to this method of recording 3DS footage now. It was certainly a lot easier to set up, record and post videos more regularly, but looking back, it didn't really make my channel stand out too much. There isn't really any incentive to watch a guy stick a small camera in front of a 3DS for video guides over a professional Let's Player using capture cards.

On March 28th 2013 I posted this video of some Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon footage in 1080p! I believe this footage was recorded with a smartphone that belonged to my parents at that time. The high quality was able to get rid of the wavy patterns on-screen but I never adopted it, either because it was too much a hassle to set up or I wouldn't always get access to it that easily.

I went back to my tried-and-true regular method and a bunch of people were asking me what I used to record footage. So I recorded this video with my 3DS:

Yeah I set my camera (a PowerShot S95) on an iPhone box and my 3DS XL on a dictionary. Those were the items that just happened to have the perfect height. Sometimes in life you gotta improvise.

In May 2013 I uploaded some stereoscopic 3D videos of 3DS games. This required...yes, putting the 3DS XL in front of a 3DS with the 3D effect on. (It wasn't the other way around because the 3DS screen was smaller and more suitable for recording purposes). It sorta worked, but y'know, low quality and everything. It was a neat idea though seeing as not a lot of stereoscopic 3D videos of 3DS games existed at that time.

I also tried direct audio recording again with another video!

I have no idea how I managed to get this to work, seeing as I record footage in my own room then edit the footage on the home computer in my living room outside, but I guess the method was to record the direct audio through a notebook computer situated next to me, then taking that audio and combining it through the camera footage on my home computer. It was probably too much work for me at that time.

Alright, it's fast-forward time, you've seen me do this recording setup for far too long now. 3 years to be exact.

In 2014, after watching Chuggaaconroy's Let's Play of Kid Icarus: Uprising, I picked up the game and it included a 3DS stand! I then tried to incorporate it into my recording setup so I would no longer have to memorize what specific combination of everyday household items I can use to prop my 3DS up. Here's the first video using it:

And then that's just what I basically used for the next 3 years as well. If it ain't broke (?), don't fix it.

Small interlude: We got a new camera during 2014, which is actually the one camera I still use today in core videos! [2022 editor's note: I've switched to a smartphone camera since.] In October, during a small event I did called Sakurai Month, I gave it a whirl in recording 3DS footage with a Kid Icarus: Uprising video.

And it looked REALLY good! The downside is I had to use a tripod to stand the camera up, which took away a lot of space for me to sit and see the screen properly, plus I wasn't able to record the bottom screen due to size constraints, and (I'm not 100% sure if this was done for the KIU video, but) the audio recording on that camera is a bit crappy, so I had to use my regular digital camera alongside it just so I can get the best audio. Even now in my core videos, the voices for the off-screen footage is recorded with my smartphone voice recorder.

Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.

But other than that, I've just used the ol' trusty PowerShot S95 for the rest of my 3DS videos. Occasionally I do some editing to get both screens at a decent size such as for my Smash 3DS videos, but that's about it.

And yeah, I used this method all the way up to early 2017. By that time, I was finishing up my high school finals, and did some reorganization in the apartment. I've also started covering topics other than 3DS games, such as other Nintendo hardware like the Game Boy systems (and the Switch was on the horizon as well!) so I felt that the quality of those videos clashed a bit with videos where I stick a camera in front of a 3DS screen.

Still, I had a running LP series at the time (Rhythm Heaven Megamix), and I tried using the new camera I got to record some footage as well, but it just wasn't cutting it for me. I felt that using these high quality cameras to do more comprehensive videos like filming hardware shots and the like was a better idea than using it to just do what I did for the past 6 years.

And thus the idea of the core videos were born!

I also got a used Elgato Capture Card on October 2017, allowing me to grab footage from the Switch and even some older systems. But to think I was done covering the 3DS would be dead wrong, as there was still a lot of potential topics I wanted to cover for the 3DS, just in a more sophisticated manner instead of just pointing a camera at a screen.

This gave birth to ideas for videos such as 'How Super Mario 3D Land Saved The 3DS', but to make those videos a reality, I would either have to nab footage by other people from the Internet (which I generally try to avoid unless absolutely necessary), or use a homebrew-enabled New 3DS which had a method of recording gameplay footage to a PC application over Wi-Fi.

While that sounded reasonable, it wasn't the best solution, as the video was often very choppy and had a few visual artifacts depending on your connection speed. The best videos I could get out of it were around the 20-30fps range. You can see a sample of homebrew 3DS capturing in this tweet:

But still, it was better than off-screen footage in my opinion, so I did my footage recording with homebrew and went on my merry way...

Then I learned that Katsukity, the sole provider of 3DS capture cards at that time (since Loopy had stopped orders) had a price drop.

I took the hit and grabbed a 2DS from their store with a capture card pre-installed for 300 USD. Compared to using homebrew, using capture cards allowed for me to capture both a higher resolution and framerate, as well as allowing for capturing DS games (which isn't possible with homebrew). To sort of alleviate the cost, I sold the 2DS I had at the time to a real life friend who coincidentally didn't have a 3DS and wanted to get into its game library.

And since then, I think it's served me really well! Of course, as of this post there's really only like two core videos that are DS/3DS-focused, but there are still plenty of topics I want to talk about. The recent Photo Dojo video is also possibly the first ever non-Nintendo YouTube video about Photo Dojo in which footage was recorded with a capture card!

It has its downsides, such as the direct audio capturing being a little wonky unless you use an audio cable (which would be a bit of a hassle with my current setup), but I feel like it will still be serving me for quite a few years to come. [2022 editor's note: still going strong!]

Since then, Katsukity has gone bankrupt (sadly unsurprising given the REALLY niche market of their products), and there isn't really a new source of 3DS capture cards at this time. Hopefully the resale values for them won't skyrocket like crazy, but if you're dead set on getting one no matter the cost, aside from second-hand listings, Merki (the European distributor for 3DS capture cards) still have old 3DS XL capture cards in stock, but you'll have to ship your system to them, so the shipping costs might add up.

But for creators who are starting out, if you want to make content using the 3DS, you can either go the homebrew capture route (if your 3DS is of the "New" variety) or just use a smartphone camera, since most can do at least 1080p nowadays. I mean, I got by with using a crappy camera for 6 years. :]

But anyway, hope this gave you a fun little insight into my history of struggling with capturing handheld footage! I think it's a nice example of equipment quality not being the most important thing for creators, even with simple tools and software, you can still make content that's pretty dang good. Even now, my setup is still evolving, and your support means I will be able to improve it through things such as better tripods and microphones, as well as more things of interest to cover, so I must thank you all once again!

If you have any further questions about footage capturing, don't hesitate to ask me. :)

[dilf-in-peril]

CM Punk annoys referee Bret Hart, using his moves until Bret has had it.

[didanawisgi]

Thursday, 23 September 2021

A comparison of age adjusted all-cause mortality rates in England between vaccinated and unvaccinated

Norman Fenton and Martin Neil

The UK Government's own data does not support the claims made for vaccine effectiveness/safety.  

In a previous post we argued that the most reliable long-term measure of Covid-19 vaccine effectiveness/safety is the age adjusted all-cause mortality rate. If, over a reasonably prolonged period, fewer vaccinated people die, from whatever cause, including Covid-19, than unvaccinated people then we could conclude that the benefits of the vaccine outweigh the risks. We also pointed out that, to avoid the confounding effect of age, it is critical that data for each age category is available, rather than the aggregated data because, clearly, aggregated data might exaggerate vaccine mortality rates if more older people, with shorter expected mortality, are included. The UK roll out of the vaccine was executed in descending age order, from older to younger, except very early on in the vaccination programme when the vulnerable young were vaccinated along with the very elderly. As the programme progressed those vaccinated were, on average, older than those who remained unvaccinated and as the roll out proceeded a progressively higher proportion of the residual unvaccinated population are younger.

The latest Office for National Statistics report on mortality rates by Covid vaccination status provides data on all deaths – Covid related and non-Covid related for the period Jan-July 2021 for the unvaccinated and the different categories of vaccinated ('within 21 days of first dose', '21 days or more after first dose', 'second dose'). The ONS data for Covid-19 mortality, is given in Table 4 of the ONS spreadsheet and the ONS data for all-cause mortality excluding Covid-19, is given in Table 5 of the same spreadsheet. Both tables are reproduced at the bottom of this post.

We believe there are severe weaknesses and possible errors in the ONS data (see foonote**). But importantly, while it does not provide the raw age categorized data, it does provide "age standardized" mortality rates***. This means the ONS have calculated the overall mortality rate in a way which (they believe) adjusts for the confounding effect of age, and this is ‘baked into’ the mortality rates they have published.  However, while they report this age adjusted mortality rate for each of the three separate categories of vaccinated people they do not report it for the combined set of vaccinated people. In our analysis, and in the absence of the actual age stratified data, we compute a population weighted age adjusted all-cause mortality rate by using the ONS’s published population sizes for each of the three categories of vaccinated. This is not ideal because the ONS age adjusted rates are so opaque and are not 'abolute numbers'. However, in the absence of detailed data this should provide a reasonable estimate of what the ONS age adjusted all-cause mortality rate would be for all unvaccinated if they had bothered to report it. We will call this the ‘weighted vaccinated mortality rate’. The data table derived from the ONS data and used to compute this rate is given at the end of this post.

It turns out that, even using this age adjusted mortality rate, the death rate is currently higher among the vaccinated than the unvaccinated.  

The age adjusted mortality rates for vaccinated against unvaccinated for weeks 1 to 26 of 2021 are charted below. Overall, the chart shows that, over time, the weighted mortality rate for the vaccinated has steadily increased and by week 16 (23 April 2021), surpassed that for the unvaccinated.

Week 1 ends 6 Jan 2021, Week 26 ends 2 July 2021

The chart suggests a normal seasonal mortality trend for the unvaccinated, with a winter peak on week 6, 12 February 2021, and a steady decline toward summer. In contrast, the pattern for the vaccinated is completely different. From week 24 onwards the mortality rates for the vaccinated and unvaccinated appear to be converging as summer begins.

As the ONS data breaks down the data over time for the three categories of vaccinated (those within 21 days of first dose, those 21 days after first dose, and those after two doses), we can also plot mortality charts for each of these categories. The mortality rate, for week 26, up to 2 July, for the unvaccinated is around 25 deaths per 100,000. But there are big differences between the mortality rates for the different categories of vaccinated deaths. For example, for those after 21 days of first dose, the comparable mortality is around 89 deaths per 100,000 people (a number which has drastically increased since January), while for those vaccinated with two doses there were approximately 15 deaths per 100,000 in the same July period.

The trends for the different vaccination categories are also concerning. In contrast to the unvaccinated, the mortality rates for the vaccinated have initially increased from very low initial values, but then have increased, whilst that for the unvaccinated has decreased. The charts below show these patterns.

Since 19 March the double dose vaccination mortality rate has increased week-on-week more or less consistently. The mortality rate for those more than 21 days after first dose increased drastically in the spring (at week 14) and remained high thereafter. Mortality within 21 days of vaccination initially increased but looks to have stabilised, albeit with some noise. We will leave it to clinical colleagues to explain why there are such different patterns.

Because of the limitations and possible errors in the ONS data**, there are many caveats that need to be applied to our crude analysis (including some which are covered in the previous post). But we can conclude that the ONS's own data does not support the claims made for vaccine effectiveness/safety.  

It is also important to note that the population of vaccinated people is becoming sufficiently large and representative that the criticality of age adjustment becomes much diminished. We will be doing a follow-up analysis that takes account of this.

**Potential limitations and errors in the ONS data (with thanks to Clare Craig for identifying some of these)

Does not provide the raw age categorized data.

The age standardized score used by ONS relies on the 2011 census data to determine the population proportions in each age category. These proportions have changed since 2011 and, as we noted in this article, these differences can significantly change the results.

There are inconsistencies in vaccination numbers between the ONS data and the National Immunisation Management Service (NIMS) data.  For example, by week 26 NIMS has 28.1 million people over 18 who have had second does, but ONS has only 23.3 million.

The ONS total population is 16.6 million short of the whole population. Only 12.6 million are under 18 so the remaining 4 million are omitted for some other reason.

The rates in the unvaccinated on 8th Jan are lower than the double vaccinated in summer. Also, on 8th January only 12% of over 65 year olds had been vaccinated, so the unvaccinated population should have had a death rate very similar to background levels.

The wildly increasing weekly age adjusted mortality rates (for non-Covid related deaths) for the 38 million unvaccinated population in January are totally inconsistent with weekly changes in previous years. Although this population excludes the under 18s and the 1.2 million (mainly over 65s) who had by then recieved their first dose, we would not expect the mortality rate for this population to be drastically different to the mortality rate for England seen in recent years as reported in a different ONS report.

Ultimately we need to exclude unnatual deaths such as murders, accidents and suicides since these may introduce bias between the cohorts, especially in the young age categories where the overall death numbers are small.

Here is Table 4 data the raw data, for Covid-19 deaths, as provided by the ONS:

  Here is Table 5 data the raw data, for all-cause deaths except for Covid-19, as provided by the ONS:

Finally, here is the data we used to calculate combined all-cause age adjusted mortality rates and the weighted vaccinated mortality rate.

***

The ONS definition of age-standardised mortality rates (click to enlarge)

[teacupballerina]

Tagged by @chillableu Thank you bro. I am flattered to be one of the few you chose to follow.

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@ladykeane @cherrycreamfairy @ej-cappy-universe anybody else can do it tho pls just say i tagged you no one will know

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Regulations About Defiling Skin Diseases

1 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 2 “When anyone has a swelling or a rash or a shiny spot on their skin that may be a defiling skin disease, they must be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons who is a priest. 3 The priest is to examine the sore on the skin, and if the hair in the sore has turned white and the sore appears to be more than skin deep, it is a defiling skin disease. When the priest examines that person, he shall pronounce them ceremonially unclean. 4 If the shiny spot on the skin is white but does not appear to be more than skin deep and the hair in it has not turned white, the priest is to isolate the affected person for seven days. 5 On the seventh day the priest is to examine them, and if he sees that the sore is unchanged and has not spread in the skin, he is to isolate them for another seven days. 6 On the seventh day the priest is to examine them again, and if the sore has faded and has not spread in the skin, the priest shall pronounce them clean; it is only a rash. They must wash their clothes, and they will be clean. 7 But if the rash does spread in their skin after they have shown themselves to the priest to be pronounced clean, they must appear before the priest again. 8 The priest is to examine that person, and if the rash has spread in the skin, he shall pronounce them unclean; it is a defiling skin disease.

9 “When anyone has a defiling skin disease, they must be brought to the priest. 10 The priest is to examine them, and if there is a white swelling in the skin that has turned the hair white and if there is raw flesh in the swelling, 11 it is a chronic skin disease and the priest shall pronounce them unclean. He is not to isolate them, because they are already unclean.

12 “If the disease breaks out all over their skin and, so far as the priest can see, it covers all the skin of the affected person from head to foot, 13 the priest is to examine them, and if the disease has covered their whole body, he shall pronounce them clean. Since it has all turned white, they are clean. 14 But whenever raw flesh appears on them, they will be unclean. 15 When the priest sees the raw flesh, he shall pronounce them unclean. The raw flesh is unclean; they have a defiling disease. 16 If the raw flesh changes and turns white, they must go to the priest. 17 The priest is to examine them, and if the sores have turned white, the priest shall pronounce the affected person clean; then they will be clean.

18 “When someone has a boil on their skin and it heals, 19 and in the place where the boil was, a white swelling or reddish-white spot appears, they must present themselves to the priest. 20 The priest is to examine it, and if it appears to be more than skin deep and the hair in it has turned white, the priest shall pronounce that person unclean. It is a defiling skin disease that has broken out where the boil was. 21 But if, when the priest examines it, there is no white hair in it and it is not more than skin deep and has faded, then the priest is to isolate them for seven days. 22 If it is spreading in the skin, the priest shall pronounce them unclean; it is a defiling disease. 23 But if the spot is unchanged and has not spread, it is only a scar from the boil, and the priest shall pronounce them clean.

24 “When someone has a burn on their skin and a reddish-white or white spot appears in the raw flesh of the burn, 25 the priest is to examine the spot, and if the hair in it has turned white, and it appears to be more than skin deep, it is a defiling disease that has broken out in the burn. The priest shall pronounce them unclean; it is a defiling skin disease. 26 But if the priest examines it and there is no white hair in the spot and if it is not more than skin deep and has faded, then the priest is to isolate them for seven days. 27 On the seventh day the priest is to examine that person, and if it is spreading in the skin, the priest shall pronounce them unclean; it is a defiling skin disease. 28 If, however, the spot is unchanged and has not spread in the skin but has faded, it is a swelling from the burn, and the priest shall pronounce them clean; it is only a scar from the burn.

29 “If a man or woman has a sore on their head or chin, 30 the priest is to examine the sore, and if it appears to be more than skin deep and the hair in it is yellow and thin, the priest shall pronounce them unclean; it is a defiling skin disease on the head or chin. 31 But if, when the priest examines the sore, it does not seem to be more than skin deep and there is no black hair in it, then the priest is to isolate the affected person for seven days. 32 On the seventh day the priest is to examine the sore, and if it has not spread and there is no yellow hair in it and it does not appear to be more than skin deep, 33 then the man or woman must shave themselves, except for the affected area, and the priest is to keep them isolated another seven days. 34 On the seventh day the priest is to examine the sore, and if it has not spread in the skin and appears to be no more than skin deep, the priest shall pronounce them clean. They must wash their clothes, and they will be clean. 35 But if the sore does spread in the skin after they are pronounced clean, 36 the priest is to examine them, and if he finds that the sore has spread in the skin, he does not need to look for yellow hair; they are unclean. 37 If, however, the sore is unchanged so far as the priest can see, and if black hair has grown in it, the affected person is healed. They are clean, and the priest shall pronounce them clean. — Leviticus 13:1-37 | New International Version (NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® All rights reserved worldwide. Cross References: Exodus 4:6; Leviticus 11:25; Leviticus 12:8; Leviticus 13:38; Leviticus 13:42-43; Leviticus 14:54; Leviticus 14:56; Numbers 5:2; Numbers 12:10; 2 Kings 5:27; 2 Chronicles 26:19-20; Ezekiel 5:1; Luke 5:12

[cinemavariety]

Cinema Variety’s Top 25 Favorite Films of the Decade

This past decade has been a monumental ten years for the state of cinema. To think that there were actually still video rental stores all around the country, to almost becoming nonexistent, is statement enough to show how vastly audiences have changed the way they consume media. Through much thought and careful deliberation, the following 25 films are my personal favorites of the decade and are what I think best represent all that indie, international and arthouse cinema had to offer over the past ten years. Honorable Mentions: Shame Green Room A Ghost Story The Lost City of Z Knight of Cups 20th Century Women Jackie Blade Runner 2049 The Lighthouse Ingrid Goes West A Hidden Life

#25 - Suspiria (2018) Dir. Luca Guadagnino

“It’s only hours afterward that Guadagnino’s film will cohere for you and yield its buried treasures: the bonds of secret sorority, the strength of a line of dancers moving like a single organism, the present rippling with the muscle memory of the past. It’s so good, it’s scary.”

#24 - Call Me By Your Name (2017) Dir. Luca Guadagnino

“The final beats of Guadagnino’s adaptation galvanize two hours of simmering uncertainty into a gut-wrenchingly wistful portrait of two people trying to find themselves before it’s too late.”

#23 - American Honey (2016) Dir. Andrea Arnold

“Part dreamy millennial picaresque, part distorted tapestry of Americana and part exquisitely illustrated iTunes musical, “Honey” daringly commits only to the loosest of narratives across its luxurious 162-minute running time. Yet it’s constantly, engrossingly active, spinning and sparking and exploding in cycles like a Fourth of July Catherine wheel.”

#22 - Post Tenebras Lux (2013) Dir. Carlos Reygadas

“Some metaphors score and some miss, but this is leap-of-faith cinema: the rewards entail some risks.”

#21 - The Revenant (2015) Dir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu

“Pushing both brutal realism and extravagant visual poetry to the edges of what one customarily finds in mainstream American filmmaking, director/co-writer Alejandro G. Inarritu, cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki and a vast team of visual effects wizards have created a sensationally vivid and visceral portrait of human endurance under very nearly intolerable conditions.”

#20 - Her (2013) Dir. Spike Jonze

“What begins like an arrested adolescent dream soon blossoms into Jonze’s richest and most emotionally mature work to date, burrowing deep into the give and take of relationships, the dawning of middle-aged ennui, and that eternal dilemma shared by both man and machine: the struggle to know one’s own true self.”

#19 - Annihilation (2018) Dir. Alex Garland

“A shimmering example of what Hollywood sci-fi can achieve when the aim is high, Annihilation is a gripping, mystifying adventure and proof that a transportive experience is more rewarding than a story with clean-cut resolutions.”

#18 - The Neon Demon (2016) Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn

“Spectacular, gross and delicious (so unsavory it’s almost sweet), the film is more proof of Refn’s mastery of his trash aesthetic and more fun than anything this indulgent and empty-headed has any right to be.”

#17 - Waves (2019) DIr. Trey Edward Shults

“Propelled by color, energy, electronic music and a quartet of career-making performances, here is that rare sort of cinematic achievement that innovates at every turn, while teaching audiences how to make intuitive sense of the way it pushes the medium.”

#16 - Mother! (2017) Dir. Darren Aronofsky

“Mother! is something truly magnificent, the kind of visceral trash-arthouse experience that comes along very rarely, means as much or as little as you decide it does, and spits you out into the daylight dazzled, queasy, delirious, and knock-kneed as a newborn calf.”

#15 - Melancholia (2011) Dir. Lars Von Trier

“The vision is as hateful as it is hate-filled, but the fusion of form and content is so perfect that it borders on the sublime. Melancholia is a remarkable mood piece with visuals to die for (excuse the pun), and a performance from Dunst that runs the color spectrum of emotions.”

#14 - Song to Song (2017) Dir. Terrence Malick

“Any number of sequences find feelings both externalized and hidden intermingling within the same shot, continuing in a subsequent image that carries the impression, the feeling, without replicating the exact tenor of what has just been seen. They exist simultaneously as certain backstories and what motivations they may inspire delicately unfold. Malick has found a way to translate how a familiar song has the ability to transport you back to a particular time and conjure a specific set of emotions. Whatever he’s been exploring over the past few years pays off here.”

#13 - If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) Dir. Barry Jenkins

“What Jenkins gets most right—what astonishes me the most about this film—is Baldwin’s vast affection for the broad varieties of black life. It’s one of the signature lessons of Baldwin’s work that blackness contains multitudes. In some ways Beale feels less like a movie than a well-staged, meticulously shot play; a period piece that floats beyond its specific time and place and into the realm of allegory.”

#12 - Samsara (2012) Dir. Ron Fricke

“Simply put, Samsara tells the story of our world, but onscreen, it is so much more than that. A darker and more ambitious meditation on impermanence, Samsara relies on blunt force and unforgettable imagery, overcoming the hazy logic of Fricke's editing to earn your awe.”

#11 - It’s Such a Beautiful Day (2012) Dir. Don Hertzfeldt

“A highly original and utterly enthralling film that touches on staggeringly expansive themes - more typically expected in the work of master auteur and persistent award-winner Terrence Malick, than from animations. An existential flipbook and a heartbreaking black joke: stickmen have never looked so alive.”

#10 - Upstream Color (2013) Dir. Shane Carruth

“You may not be able to figure it out, but that's part of the point of this sensually-directed, sensory-laden experiential (and experimental) piece of art that washes over you like a sonorous bath of beguiling visuals, ambient sounds and corporeal textures.”

#9 - Hereditary (2018) Dir. Ari Aster

“It’s a supremely effective gauntlet of supernatural horror that’s also, at blackened heart, a grueling domestic drama about how trauma, resentment, and guilt can seep into the roots of a family tree, rotting it from the inside out.”

#8 - Spring Breakers (2013) Dir. Harmony Korine

“Spring Breakers seems to be holding a funhouse mirror up to the face of youth-driven pop culture, leaving us uncertain whether to laugh, recoil in horror, or marvel at its strange beauty. Full credit to Korine, who sustains this act of creative vandalism right through to the finish. Spring Breakers unfolds as a fever dream of teenage kicks, a high-concept heist movie with mescal in the fuel tank.”

#7 - The Master (2012) Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

“Two things stand out: the extraordinary command of cinematic technique, which alone is nearly enough to keep a connoisseur on the edge of his seat the entire time, and the tremendous portrayals by Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman of two entirely antithetical men. Written, directed, acted, shot, edited and scored with a bracing vibrancy that restores your faith in film as an art form, The Master is nirvana for movie lovers. Anderson mixes sounds and images into a dark, dazzling music that is all his own.”

#6 - Interstellar (2014) Dir. Christopher Nolan

“It’s a bold, beautiful cosmic adventure story with a touch of the surreal and the dreamlike, and yet it always feels grounded in its own deadly serious reality. An exhilarating slalom through the wormholes of Christopher Nolan’s vast imagination that is at once a science-geek fever dream and a formidable consideration of what makes us human.”

#5 - The Place Beyond the Pines (2013) Dir. Derek Cianfrance

“A brilliant, towering picture, The Place Beyond The Pines is a cinematic accomplishment of extraordinary grace and insight. The movie succeeds both as a high-stakes crime thriller as well as a far quieter and empathetic study of angry, solitary men proves that Cianfrance has a penchant for bold storytelling and an eye for performances to carry it through.”

#4 - Black Swan (2010) Dir. Darren Aronofsky

“A full-bore melodrama, told with passionate intensity, gloriously and darkly absurd. It centers on a performance by Natalie Portman that is nothing short of heroic. This is, no doubt about it, a tour de force, a work that fully lives up to its director's ambitions.”

#3 - Drive (2011) Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn

“From the beginning, it's clear this is not a standard-order action film. It takes its characters as seriously as its chases, shootouts, and fights. Drive dynamically merges a terrific film noir plot with a cool retro look. It's an unapologetically commercial picture that defies all the current trends in mainstream action filmmaking.”

#2 - Blue Valentine (2010) Dir. Derek Cianfrance

“Cianfrance and his actors, Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling, have not made a cold or schematic film. They aim instead for raw emotional experience, one that's full of insight into the ways a relationship can go astray, but mostly feels like a slow-motion punch to the gut.”

#1 - The Tree of Life (2011) Dir. Terrence Malick

"The Tree of Life is a film of vast ambition and deep humility, attempting no less than to encompass all of existence and view it through the prism of a few infinitesimal lives. I wrote earlier about the many ways this film evoked my own memories of such time and place. About wide lawns. About a town that somehow, in memory, is always seen with a wide-angle lens. About houses that are never locked. About mothers looking out windows to check on their children. About the summer heat and ennui of church services, and the unpredictable theater of the dinner table, and the troubling sounds of an argument between parents, half-heard through an open window.”

[martinnecas]

Quick Guide | Carolina Hurricanes: Meet The Team - Opening Night 2019-20

New season means a new quick guide to the roster 

2018-19 season

This took me a couple of days to put together so please appreciate it

Want to know how to pronounce a players name? 

Click this link!

*All gifs made by me* 

Forwards: 

☞ Sebastian Aho™️ #20

Yes there is another “Sebastian Aho” from Sweden but he’s usually in the AHL (Bridgeport/Islanders)

Born: July 26, 1997 (22 years old/Leo) from Rauma, Finland

6′0, Centre, 35th overall CAR 2015

Nicknames: Fishy, Seabass, Sepe, Sebu

He’s the face of this franchise and the only player on this team that the Canadian media knows about

Is being held against his will in Raleigh because he wants to play for Montreal if you don’t know the actual story MTL sent him an offer sheet that he signed because he wanted the money and knew Carolina could pay it, but you know how Habs twitter can be.

Possibly the messiest Hurricane 

Who’s my daddy?! 

Spirit animal is a lion, hear him roar

Avid coffee drinker

Baby face

Painted a picture of his cat one time

☞ Ryan Dzingel #18 

Born: March 9, 1992 (27 years old/Pisces) from Wheaton, Illinois

6′0, Centre, 204th overall OTT 2011

Nicknames: Zinger, Dizzy, Dzingel Bells, D-pingel

Played with the Ohio State Buckeyes for 3 seasons, recorded the first hat trick in Big Ten history against Xichigan

Traded to CBJ Feb ‘19, signed with CAR as a free agent summer ‘19 

Might need glasses, he squints like that ^ a lot 

Golfs... A L O T 

Wants to produce for the team so he can stay here in Raleigh and make it his home ♥︎

Jeep guy 

Looks uncomfortably similar to Tripp Tracy 

UNC fan 

☞ Warren Foegele #13

Born: April 1, 1996 (23 years old/Aries) from Markham, Ontario 

6′2, Left Wing, 67th overall CAR 2014

Nicknames: Foegs, Foegdaddy 

Best friends with Andrei Svechnikov and Dougie Hamilton

Duke fan 

Accidentally broke Osh*e’s collarbone but TJ and C*p fans will claim he tried to murder him

Spirit animal is a tiger, also hear him roar

Very easily scared 

Duke fan

☞ Erik Haula #56

Born: March 23, 1991(28 years old/Aries) from Pori, Finland

6′0, Left Wing, 181st overall 2009 MIN

Nicknames: Hauls, Haulsy  

Moved to Minnesota in 2008 to play hockey in boarding school

Played for the University Of Minnesota Gophers for 3 seasons

Signed with MIN in 2013, was picked up by the VGK in 2017 as a free agent in the Expansion Draft, then traded to CAR summer of 2019 (for Nic Roy & draft pick)

Suffered a pretty bad knee injury in the 2018-19 season 

CAKE 

Got married this past summer ♥︎

Currently living in Calvin de Haan’s old house 

☞ Jordan Martinook (A) #48

Born: July 25, 1992 (27 years old/Leo) from Brandon, Manitoba

6′0, Left Wing, 58th overall 2012 PHX

Nicknames: Marty, Marty Man, Marty Party 

Signed with PHX/ARI in 2012, traded to CAR in 2018 (for Krüger)

Raw chaotic dad energy 

Doesn’t like corndogs and has a very high pitched scream

His wife gave birth to their first son last season before he got his downstairs fixed in the offseason

LETS GO SVECH

Spirit animal is a dolphin because he has a great impression 

There is so much more I want to put on here but you should really just follow his Twitter 

☞ Brock McGinn #23

Born: February 2, 1994 (25 years old/Aquarius) from Fergus, Ontario

6′0, Left Wing, 47th overall 2012 CAR

Nicknames: Ginner, Brock McWinn, McPing, the new Mr. Game Seven (that one is kind of a joke though), Big Cock Brock 

Single handedly defeated evil not only once but twice on April 24th, 2019, earning him the nicknames “Brock McWinn” and the new “Mr. Game Seven”

Has two brothers who also play professionally; Jamie (NHL) and Tye (AHL) McGinn

Co Owner of the Roanoke Rail Road Dawgs with his brothers and father

His daddy is Bob

Has a high probability of burning his whole house down 

Used to be a fighter, but he didn’t fight anyone last season 

Thor

Was 3rd in the league with most MsS Post (10) in the 2017-18 season earning him the nickname Brock McPing 

☞ Martin Nečas #88

Born: January 15, 1999 (20 years old/Capricorn) from Nove Mesto na Morave, Czech Rebublic

6′2, 12th overall 2017 CAR, “He plays, like, Centre”

Nicknames: Neči, Marty, Nacho, Marto 

Your 2019-20 ****** ****** winner 

He’s here to fix out PP units, quote me on that

Little hockey stick chain ^ 

Is known for falling while scoring 

Is it avocado or avocaydo?

Hidden talent: Belly dancing 

Almost killed the entire team with a golf club last season  

Don’t mess with him

Just won the Calder Cup with the Checkers :) 

☞ Nino Niederreiter #21

Born: September 8, 1992 (27 years old/Virgo) from Chur, Switzerland

6′0, Right Wing, 5th overall 2010 NYI

Nicknames: El Nino

Was the highest drafted Swizz born player until Hischer in 2017 

Signed to the Islanders in 2010, traded to Minnesota in 2013, then traded to Carolina in January 2019 (for Rask)

Was about to take a nap when he was traded

Just when canes fans almost lost hope, Nino showed up and saved our season

When he came to Carolina, someone gave him sweet tea and he really liked it

Was voted best dressed by a couple teammates

Loves the surge

Supports women’s hockey

☞ Jordan Staal (C) #11

Born: September 10, 1988 (31 years ago/Virgo) from Thunder Bay, Ontario

6′4, Centre, 2nd overall 2006 PIT

Nicknames: Stallsy, Jordad, Gronk

Arrested at his brother’s bachelor party

Won the Stanley Cup with the Penguins in 2009 

Jordan is the youngest out of the other brothers (Eric, Marc) in the league (NHL) 3rd brother is the youngest and is now a coach 

Signed with PIT in 2006, traded to CAR in 2012 (for 8th overall pick, Brandon Sutter and Brian Dumoulin)

Named Captain in the 2017-18 season, became Alternative Captain in 2018-19, is now Captain again in 2019-20 

Great at dad jokes 

☞ Andrei Svechnikov #37

Born: March 26, 2000 (19 years old/Aries) from Barnaul, Russia

6′2, Right Wing, 2nd overall 2018 CAR

Nicknames: Svech, Mother Russia 

Svech is ready

“Just win every game” 

Wears #37 because that’s what his brother, Evgeny Svechnikov (DET), wears

Russia = Cold, Raleigh = Hot

Apparently his biggest talent outside of hockey is… magic? 

Best friends with Warren Foegele and Dougie Hamilton

Likes to shovel the ice during practice 

Me?

Terrible at golf..

.. I mean like really bad  

☞ Teuvo Teräväinen #86

Born: September 11, 1994 (25 years old/Virgo) from Helsinki, Finland

5′11, Left Wing, 18th overall 2012 CHI 

Nicknames: Turbo, Teukka

Shortest Hurricane 

Began with CHI in 2014, traded to CAR in 2016 (along with Bickell for 2nd round pick)

Won the cup with CHI in 2015 (Along with van Riemsdyk)

Has the worst sense of smell ever

I mean come on.. pumpkin? toothpaste? 

I could keep going with this I don't know what’s wrong with his nose

Most likely the messiest Hurricane 

Would dump Sebastian on the side of the road after 100km 

Gets scared REALLY easily

His sisters plays hockey over in Finland (and is pretty good at it too) 

☞ Lucas Wallmark #71

Born: September 5, 1995 (24 years old/Virgo) from Umea, Sweden

6′0, Centre, 97th overall 2014 CAR

Nicknames: Wally

My daddy!?

His spirit animal is… a horse? 

^ He enjoys watching horse racing

*Straight face* “Snacks!? Candy!?” 

Deal with it

Showed up to a U12 and U18 team practice to work on skills with kids 

Owns a pug named Lovis

Defense 

☞ Joel Edmundson #6

Born: June 28, 1993 (26 years old/Cancer) Brandon, Manitoba

6′4, 46th overall 2011 STL

Nicknames: Crop Top King, Eddy

Won the cup in 2019 with STL and partied in a crop top 

True Canadian, ate poutine out of the cup

Traded in September 2019 to CAR (along with Bokk for Faulk and draft pick)

Going to strengthen our PK I promise 

Finally, an enforcer 

Forgot to take his skate guards off during his CAR preseason debut in front of 18,000 people 

Is a barbie girl, living in a barbie world 

☞ Haydn Fleury #4

Born: July 8, 1996 (23 years old/Cancer) from Carlyle, Saskatchewan 

6′3, 7th overall 2014 CAR

Nicknames: Fleurs 

Beat his little brother Cale (MTL) during his NHL debut 

Best friends with Trevor van Riemsdyk

Has the cutest dog named Kobe

Won the Calder Cup along with Nečas :)

If you want to giggle watch this 

Has the worst witch cackle you will ever hear 

Apparently the best golfer on the team

Big Duke fan

☞ Jake Gardiner #51

Born: July 4, 1990 (29 years old/Cancer) from Minnetonka, Minnesota 

6′2, 17th overall 2008 ANA

Nicknames: Gards 

Played for the University of Wisconsin for 3 seasons 

Traded to TOR in 2011, signed as a free agent to CAR in summer 2019

Has the cutest baby 

Denied several offers from other teams mtl to play with us instead 

Hands down had the best Halloween costume two years ago

☞ Dougie Hamilton #19

Born: June 17, 1993 (26 years old/Gemini) from Toronto, Ontario

6′6, 9th overall 2011 BOS

Nicknames: D-Ham, Doug the Thug, well his real name is Douglas so I guess Dougie is technically a nickname

Tallest Hurricane 

Both of his parents are Olympians, brother also plays professional hockey 

Started with BOS in 2012, traded to CGY in 2015, then traded to CAR in 2018 (Last remaining player from the huge Hamilton, Ferland & Fox for Lindholm and Hanifin trade)

Best friends with Andrei Svechnikov and Warren Foegele 

Porche guy 

Grew out a mullet because his hair salon couldn’t take him as a walk in

Jack Edwards complained that he was wearing a number retired from the Whalers so he taped a 6 over the 1 in 19 to make 69

Goes to children's hospitals dressed as woman characters 

Lowkey shootout king

Floss

Another Duke fan

Wears the same blazer to every road game

☞ Brett Pesce #22

Born: November 15, 1994 (24 years old/Scorpio) from Tarrytown, New York

6′3, 66th overall 2013 CAR

Nicknames: Pesh 

“I play defense bro”

Played for the University of New Hampshire for 3 seasons (2 of those seasons with van Riemsdyk)

Pretty ^

Wears 22 for his dad 

He’ll break your ankles

Fortnite squad

Brought his wonderful brother on the mentors trip

Allergic to cats

☞ Jaccob Slavin (A) #74

Born: May 1, 1994 (25 years old/Taurus) from Denver, Colorado

6′3, 120th overall 2012 CAR

Nicknames: Slav-o

The second ‘c’ stands for captain

Faith and family

Played for Colorado College for two seasons 

Adopted a beautiful baby girl with his beautiful wife

Has an instagram for his two dogs

His daddy is “Robert” 

Not afraid of snakes at all 

☞ Trevor van Riemsdyk #57

Born: July 24, 1991 (28 years old/Leo) from Middletown, New Jersey

6′2, Undrafted 

Nicknames: TVR, Riems

Agreed to terms with CHI in 2014 

Won the cup with CHI in 2015 (along with Teräväinen)

Was picked up by the VGK in the 2017 expansion draft 

The next day traded to CAR (for 2nd round pick)

James van Riemsdyk (PHI) is his older brother 

Played with the University of New Hampshire for 3 seasons (2 of those seasons with Pesce) 

He’s too tired to be scared 

March Madness

Best friends with Haydn Fleury 

Pride representative for the team 

Goalies 

☞ Petr Mrázek #34

Born: February 14, 1992 (27 years old/Aquarius) from Ostrava, Czech Republic

6′1, 141st overall 2010 DET

Nicknames: Mrazzle Dazzle, St. Petr

Moved to Ottawa at age 17 

Signed with DET in 2014

Was HUGE for them during the 2015 playoff run

Traded to PHI in Feb ‘18, signed as a free agent with CAR in July ‘18

Stylish 

He had custom hats made for every player on the team

Always has Peter Griffin in his helmet design 

Signature move: Poke Check  

☞ James Reimer #47

Born: March 15, 1988 (31 years old/Pisces) from Morweena, Manitoba

6′2, 99th overall 2006 TOR

Nicknames: Optimus Reim, The Statue, Reims

Debuted with TOR in 2010, traded to SJS Feb ‘16

Signed with FLA as a free agent summer ‘16, traded to CAR summer ‘19 (for Darling and a 2020 6th round pick)

Has two kids 

Really good swimmer

You may recognize this famous goalie meme, that’s right, that's him

Optimus Reim helmet art

He looks so much like Weston from Love Island USA 

Honorable Mention

☞ Julien Gauthier #44

I’m including him because everyone expected him to make the team as he did phenomenal in the preseason (playing all 6 games) but due to cap space (and our horrid pp units), he was sent back down.

Born: October 15, 1997 (turning 22/Libra) from Pointe-aux-Trembles, Quebec

6′4, Right Wing, 21st overall 2016 CAR

Nicknames: Goat, Gauths, Jules

Big boy

Bilingual (French/English)

Cute accent

His uncle played 554 games in the NHL (Denis Gauthier) 

Both his father and grandfather were professional bodybuilders

That explains his muscles

The best thighs in the league (not up for debate) 

Also won the Calder Cup this past season with Haydn Fleury and Martin Nečas

Head Coach

☞ Rod Brind’Amour #17

Roderick Jean Brind’Amour

Born: August 9, 1970 (age 49 years/Leo) from Ottawa, Canada

6′1, Centre, 9th overall 1988 STL

Nicknames: Rod the Bod, RBA 

Played with Michigan State for one season

Started with STL in the playoffs of ‘88, traded to PHI in ‘91, traded to CAR in 2000

Captain of the 2006 CAR Stanley Cup winning team

Played 20 seasons, 1,484(GP) 452(G) 732(A) 1,184(P)

Became head coach for the 2018-19 season

First year as HC broke the team’s 9 year playoff drought and brought them all the way to the ECF

Is known for his extreme workouts

Still in better shape than 98% of the league

Could very well still lace up and play better than 80% of the league 

Lives rent free in W*lson’s and Reirden’s heads

Gives the best post-game speeches

President & General Manager

☞ Don Waddell

I really just wanted an excuse to put this gif in here 

Coached the 1998 DET Stanley Cup winning team 

Named Pres. & GM of CAR in May ‘18

Owner

☞ Tom Dundon 

Lives rent free is Habs fans minds

Estimated net worth is $1.1 billion?

Majority owner of TopGolf (55%)

Chairman of the Alliance of American Football

Purchased 52% of CAR in January 2018 for $420million

Likes to hang around team/fan events 

Stays in the same hotel as me lol