#and i have a vested interested in global mental health.

[onereallygoodlambonastick]

i think people forget the whole world is made up of people. including the toddlers in power

[creepingsharia]

Wyoming: Bill to ban female genital mutilation (FGM) passes despite pushback by radical trans activists

We repeat: this is an immigration problem. If we didn’t import people from third world countries who mutilate women, we wouldn’t need laws to protect against them.

A Wyoming bill to ban Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) was nearly defeated by fierce opposition from trans activists, on the grounds that it would outlaw genital surgery on minors for the purposes of so-called "gender reassignment."

House Bill 127 – Prohibition of female genital mutilation was brought by conservative Representative Dan Laursen. It criminalizes the cultural practice of FGM, which affects some refugees and immigrants from Africa and the Middle East imported to the United States, as aggravated assault and battery.

The bill defines FGM as the partial or complete removal of the clitoris, sewing the vaginal opening to be permanently closed, and other harmful procedures. According to the World Health Organization, over 200 million women globally have been made to suffer from this human rights violation.

In addition to the criminal provisions, the bill allows victims to bring civil claims against their mutilators for years after the commission of the crime. It also instigates a state-wide education campaign. This protects an estimated 400-600 girls in Wyoming by law, and who now have a remedy for this barbarism.

It's so frustrating that we are literally put a side for others.

— hibo wardere (@HiboWardere) June 9, 2020

Hibo Wardere, anti-FGM campaigner and survivor, had a message for the trans activists who would have stopped the bill, leaving girls in Wyoming at risk of this deeply traumatic form of violence. She said trans activists who conflate FGM with so-called gender reassignment surgery were "disrespecting our trauma, taking over our trauma, which you shouldn't be."

"FGM is about a child being held down, against their will, and their genitals are mutilated... Stop diluting these two issues."

Initially, the bill to criminalize this atrocity against girls soared through the Wyoming house. The cause of protecting girls and women from FGM has widespread bipartisan backing among lawmakers. Ethically, it is a no-brainer, an easy issue for everyone to unite against. More than 30 states have already outlawed FGM.

This didn't deter the trans activists, however, who are hardly known for their compassion or strong moral compass. With the tunnel-vision and moral selfishness so characteristic of their movement, they are happy to support and sustain the most extreme form of discrimination against girls—with extreme lifelong physical and mental health consequences–in order to retain plastic surgeons' entitlement to profit from removing children's healthy reproductive organs, and homophobic parents' option to have a potentially lesbian girl's body altered to make her look more like a straight boy.

With so many vested interests, and with the gender lobby having such deep pockets thanks to billionaires with inherited wealth, legislating with regard to transgender medical "care" is a highly contested issue. The exemption clause in the bill dealing with "gender reassignment surgery" drove a wedge between various political groups that otherwise agree on wanting to end the violation of women's rights that is FGM.

The contested exemption clause specified that a medical procedure would not be caught by the criminal law “if the person on whom it is performed is over eighteen (18) years of age and requests and consents to the procedure.” Adult male transexuals could continue to have their bodies surgically altered if they wish. What the trans activists objected to was the fact that such surgeries would be considered FGM if performed upon a girl—a human female—under the age of 18.

Although Hibo Wardere rightly objects to the conflation of African and Middle Eastern FGM with American and European gender reassignment surgery for adults of both sexes, there are undoubtedly parallels between the two cultural practices which might make separate legislation challenging to parse in practice, when the physical outcomes can be indistinguishable.

There are, of course, differences. One is a brutal assault, the other a highly managed process involving medical technology. One is performed in a non-sterile room with crude instruments of torture and no anesthetic, the other in an operating theatre under anesthetic. In one, the assault is sprung upon the unknowing girl, and is only possible if the violators restrain the child by force. In the other, well-meaning adults manufacture consent to the procedure by way of a medical pathway.  In one, the woman ends up with severe lifelong health problems requiring medical intervention, greatly aggravated if a man makes her pregnant. In the other, the woman will be unable to have a baby because her sexual organs have been re-sculpted, or removed entirely.

One is criminalized in many countries, e.g. in the UK, where it was outlawed in 1985 but only successfully prosecuted for the first time in 2019. The other is criminalized in some countries, e.g. Thailand, which was a GRS tourist destination for sixteen year olds like the male child of the founder of pediatric transitioning lobby group Mermaids, before that country imposed a ban. The mother engaged in acts which would be criminal, had she been an African or Middle Eastern woman taking her child abroad for FGM.

In one, there is no pretense of consent. The atrocity is inflicted on a completely unwilling, terrified girl who is tortured and made to suffer appallingly. In the other, the adults who supposedly care for her collude in the manufacturing of informed consent to lifelong sterilization, bone loss, heart problems and cognitive deficits. The atrocity is inflicted on her in a medical setting, while she believes they are acting in her long-term best interests.

Yes, the two phenomena are different by degrees, and should not be conflated. But, from a legal perspective, how do you ban one without doing a grave disservice to the girls who are left with no recourse when they realize what has been done to them?

One of the bill's sponsors, Senator Affie Ellis (R-Cheyenne), said she would withdraw her name if trans 'rights' were up for debate as part of the process. “For that very narrow reason [of ending FGM] I signed on to this bill,” she said. Ellis did finally vote in favour of the bill.

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Note: an earlier version of this article said that the bill had not passed, but it has passed the Wyoming legislature and will be enacted July 1, 2020.

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PS: Wyoming you say, but there are no Muslims in Wyoming.

Wrong, they are invading Wyoming just as they are every other state in America. Here are just a few of our Wyoming posts in recent years before the sharia police went into action.

[smcculloughashgov]

CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES

SUPREME COURT CASE

What is the name of the case?                                            Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

The term it was decided?                                                                       It was decided in Robert’s Court on Apr 2, 2007.

Briefly summarize the facts of the case.                                    Multiple states including Massachusetts petitioned the EPA asking for them to regulate emissions of CO2and other gases from new vehicles that are contributing to the warming of the planet. Massachusetts argued that the EPA was required to regulate greenhouse gases, citing that the Clean Air Act which says that congress has to regulate "any air pollutant" which may "reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare." The EPA rejected their petitions claiming that the Clean Air Act did not give the agency authority to regulate the emissions of greenhouse gases and saying they had the right to wait to decide until more research was done on climate change.

What is the constitutional question the justices were deciding?      Two questions were being addressed in the court case one being, Can the EPA decline based on the fact that it is not enumerated in the Clean Air Act and the other being does the EPA have the authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases? It involved whether the federal government, in this case, the EPA being petitioned for a redress of grievance essentially by the states.

Which constitutional provisions or amendments are in question? The cases were a question of power/responsibility of the executive branch as the EPA is an agency regulated by the executive and its power to enforce laws. In Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution states: “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America" and because the president is “the principal officer in each of the executive departments" the executive branch must enforce laws and manage departs. The state of Massachusetts sued the EPA for not fulfilling its duty.

What was the decision?                                                                       By a 5-4 vote, the Court ruled that Massachusetts, due to its "stake in protecting its quasi-sovereign interests", was allowed to sue the EPA over potential damage caused by global warming. The Court said that the Clean Air Act was meant to refer to carbon emissions and that it meant that EPA had the authority to regulate it. SCOTUS also decided that delay in the EPA was unjustified based on policy considerations.

What precedent does this decision establish?                            The case established that the EPA had the responsibility to regulate CO2 based on the Clean Air Act.

Do you agree or disagree with the court’s decision? Explain.           I agree that is is the EPA responsible as an executive agency to protect the country against climate change and one of its leading causes CO2. Enforcing laws and regulations involving the environment is the EPAs role and Cleans AIr act says that they are responsible for regulating "any air pollutant" that may "reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare." Because of the large impact on the warming of the paint has, it is a CO2 danger to both public health and welfare. 

ARTICLE SACAPS—

'A SIGNAL FROM CLIMATE CHANGE': EUROPE HAS BECOME MUCH HOTTER THAN PREDICTED OVER THE LAST 70 YEARS

https://www.newsweek.com/signal-climate-change-europe-70-years-1456810?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=NewsweekTwitter&utm_source=Twitter

SACAPS—

What is the subject of the article?                                                                    This article's subject is the rising temperatures in Europe that have led to an increased number of extremely hot days in the summer and to decrease in the number of extremely cold days.

Who is the author?                                                                                            The author is Aristos Georgiou, he is a science writer and reporter for Newsweek. He covers environmental issues, psychology, mental health, and ancient civilizations.

What is the context?                                                                                        The article was published on August 19 of this year, meaning it was written in the midst of/ at the end of Europe's summer.

Who is the intended audience?                                                                        The intended audience is people interested in understanding the effects of climate change and people new to the causes and effects of climate change on the global.

What is the bias and perspective of the author?                                      The article is left-leaning, mostly because it tastes that climate change is a real thing. Overall the bias in this article appears to be minimal.

What is the significance of the article?                                                           The article is significant as it states and provides evidence of climate change. It details events that are occurring in our everyday life and how they have been affected by the warming of the planet. 

Do you agree with it? Why or why not?                                                          I do agree with it, iIthink it offers scientific evidence that backs up its claims.

[scripttorture]

Are people in the CIA or others hired specifically to torture people ‘professional’? Are they in any way better at torturing people? I’ve seen them called professional torturers before so I wondered what that was about and what professional means here. If I did write about the CIA, would the torturers be any different than usual?

Ithink it does really depend on what someone means by ‘professional’.

Ifthey mean someone who goes into work every day does a 7-8 hour shiftand gets paid for what they do then- yes torturers in organisationslike the CIA are ‘professional’, even though they weren’t hiredto torture.

Ifon the other hand they mean some kind of qualification or specialexpertise then… Not so much.

Veryvery few organisations now openly hire people to torture. I would saythere are exceptions but even organisations where torture isincredibly entrenched and obvious rarely have official on the bookstorturers.

Theprofessions most torturers officially belong to are things likesecurity, policing, teaching and the military.

Withoutknowing the source you’re talking about I can’t really guess whatthat source means by ‘professional’. But there’s a decentchance that the person who wrote it didn’t know very much abouttorture and assumed that anyone who has tortured people for a longtime has developed special skills.

That’sa common assumption and it’s completely untrue.

Thereisn’t any skill in torture. It’s too functionally simple to beskilled.

Hittingsomeone doesn’t take any unusual skill or intelligence. Neitherdoes depriving them of food, or holding their head under water.

That’sthe level of complexity torture is at. Even the nasty lookinghistorical devices aren’t really complicated.

Asan example of what I mean by that picture a thumbscrew for a moment.You can probably imagine more or less how it’s put together and howit functions just by looking at it. Now picture a Song dynasty junktype ship and try to imagine putting a working example together basedon the picture.

Tortureisn’t complicated. It isn’t clever. It’s often physicallydemanding for short bursts of time but generally lazier then the tasktorturers were actually hired to do.

Torturerswill often claim thattorture is ‘skilled’. They’ll also often claim that they havespecial insight into the human condition, can tell whenever someoneis lying and that every victim has told them the complete truth.

Theyare often reported to have said this sort of thing by victims whorefused to talk or lied to them and were believed.

Andwhether they believe this or not torturers have a vested interest inpersuading other people that they are necessary and have specialskills. Without that belief torturers are out of a job- notnecessarily on a global level but an individual one. Organisationsthat are willing to tolerate torture (despite the many negativeeffects it has on organisations) replace torturers extremely rapidly.They would probably get through them even faster if they thoughtanybody could be an effective torturer.

Thequestion of whether any one can be ‘better’ at torturing is- wellit’s a perfectly reasonable question to ask but like the idea of‘professional’ it’s so broad and nebulous in this context thatit’s a little meaningless.

Statisticallyspeaking we’re all awful at telling when other people are lying. Noamount of individual ‘skill’ is going to re-wire the humannervous in a way that makes torture a plausible way of gettingaccurate information.

Similarlybeing able to judge just how much pain a random stranger is inaccurately isn’t- really how we work.

Noamount of knowledge or ability in any field will prevent a torturerdeveloping serious mental health problems if they keep torturingpeople.

Andthe way torture effects people, the way it functions, leads to toxic,splintering effects on organisations that allow it. These effects gobeyond individual torturers, so again, I don’t think individualfactors could be expected to have an impact.

WhichI suppose leaves the question of whether someone can be ‘better’at inflicting pain without killing someone.

I’mnot sure they can.

Painis a very individual experience- which is the sort of statement Ireally need to unpack a bit.

Firstoff we don’t process pain as one sensation. We feel different kindsof pain as different sensations. And that means we don’t reallyhave one pain threshold, we all have multiplethresholds for different sorts of pain.

Andthese are all pretty random. There’s no way to look at someone andjudge what their pain thresholds are like. You also can’t guesswhat one pain threshold is like based on another. Knowing your friendlikes the hottest curry on the menu doesn’t tell you how well theydeal with a headache.

Whatthis means in the context of torture is that torturers are guessing.They are presented with a random person and they guess at what wouldbe most painful for that person. Then they keep changing technique inan effort to either overwhelmthe victim’s pain thresholds or find something that is ‘worse’for them.

Torturersare also guessing at a victim’s rough medical history.

Theyaren’t special. They can’t tell at a glance whether someone hasheart problems or is prone to seizures or is especially vulnerable tothe cold or how tough their kidneys are.

Theyguess. And then peopledie.

There’snothing skilled about this. It’s- taking random people off thestreet and assuming that they must have the ‘average’ body, the‘average’ physical ability and health, the ‘average’ responseto particular types of pain.

WhatI’m driving at here is that I don’t think torturers canget ‘better’ at inflicting pain without killing because they arealways acting without the kind of information that would help themkeep victims alive.

Honestly?I can’t see any metric you could use to describe any torturer as‘better’ at torture then any other.

Which-probably feeds into the really toxic competitive environment theybuild up among themselves.

Theupshot of all this is- treat the CIA torturers you’re writing thesame way you would any other torturers. Assume they’re lazy, crueland have accurate information about what’s going on. Assume theylie to their boss and each other. Assume that they’re damagingtheir organisation, their mission and each other.

Youmight find this ask useful, it talks about the effect torturers haveon organisations a fair bit.

AndI think I’m going to leave it there. If you’ve got any furtherquestions please send them in when the ask box reopens. :)

Availableon Wordpress.

Disclaimer

Edit: I’ll take the point @skeerbs and try to come up with a better metaphor in the future. :) 

[renee00124]

*LET THE DIABOLICAL DECEPTION BEGIN...* Concern of ACCURATE, ongoing exposure, the unified COINTELPRO effort are putting together yet another strategy to silence me. After trying twice to have me committed to a psych ward, for revealing this MONSTROUS program, in books, blogs, website, etc., they obviously feel that the third time will be a charm as the wheels turn.   Instead of coming to my door with allegations, they don't want in a courtroom, they continue manipulating the community. The Standard Operation Procedure remains the same. The neighbor's around targets and everyone that I have given out business cards to with links to this program will show saying I am severely mentally ill and they are scared of me.   When I am outside mostly in the backyard, the houses behind used by military and police call me derogatore names. When I respond, silly me, saying "Kiss my A**!* It is recorded by them who, as many report, will then band together and say, she is dangerous. This is how it works. The mental illness tag has been this program's ace in the hole to coverup human experimentation for DECADES.   I proudly join many across the USA and globally who say "We will not be silenced" and embark on positive activism.   Key with me is the community, silenced by National Security Orders. This is because they witness official personnel using the mind invasive, psychophysical technology at compliant locations, and who believe the high-tech corrupt of this program, then strategically become an arm of this program using mobilized community groups. There are many today, Community Oriented Policing, Neighborhood Watch, FBI Infragard, and Citizen Volunteers. After 16 years of this, I remain grounded in the truth and will not waiver and frankly, Hollywood could not write a better script as the the diabolical team of bullies seek to deceive by any means necessary including mind controlled puppets on the payroll.   My Admin reveals the blogs they hope to use against me below: They will used the recorded voicemail in the Myron May blog, a stranger, who contacted me and many others six days before he went postal, calling me paranoid. They likely will I pretend I either motivated his sole decision, influenced, or contributed to his and his only, tragic decision to harm people.   I am and always have been about using knowledge and awareness to save lives and not to destroy them! That's their department! Yes, I have also agitated Psychiatrists when they show up with the mental illness tag trying label high-tech targeting as mental illness.  The fact is they have a vested interest in a one sided view.  My hope is simply and sincerely to save lives with awareness of PATENTED mind control technology and heinous use today. 

I am and always have been about using knowledge and awareness to save lives! https://youarenotmybigbrother.blog/2019/05/24/delusion-disorder-truth-the-weapon/ https://youarenotmybigbrother.blog/2014/11/23/myron-may-my-connection-and-feelings-on-the-fsu-shooting-after-the-dust-settled/ https://youarenotmybigbrother.blog/2019/03/25/the-mental-health-warrant-a-useful-tool-and-effective-strategic-stigma-used-by-official-corruption/ https://youarenotmybigbrother.blog/2016/03/18/unawareness-of-satellite-surveillance-covertly-by-police-in-todays-society/ https://youarenotmybigbrother.blog/2021/04/01/usaf-kill-orders-x-marks-the-spot/ I rest assured that God is so much bigger than this!   USA AND GLOBAL ALLIANCE https://studio.youtube.com/video/zsW_dytM6aY/edit If a lot of people are saying the same thing, LISTEN!

[thefablednib]

Seeking a Friend for the Apocalypse

When I think about messaging strangers on the Internet, red flags wave frantically inside my head. As a child, my parents taught me that I shouldn’t talk to strangers online because they would find where I live and kidnap me. As a result, a chance encounter full of philosophy, poetry, and sincerity that changes my life unexpectedly is far-removed from what I’d expect from an online chat. But that’s exactly what happened to me over the course of three serendipitous weeks in July of last year.

Like most people, quarantine left me detached from the world, and I was utterly craving for human interaction. Being sequestered inside our house for more than five months, I was scrambling to find ways to connect with my friends, but to no avail. They wouldn’t return my video calls, reply to my messages, or even react to the memes I sent them. Despite the loneliness that we were all feeling, it became difficult reaching out to each other.

However, my desperate attempts at conversation led me to the forum app Reddit. In there, a subreddit (which is equivalent to a Facebook group) called “r/penpals” caught my attention. It was like the classified ads section of a newspaper where people from all over the world who are also tormented by quarantine cast about for pen pals. To me, writing to a pen pal seemed like a perfect arrangement to message people while remaining concealed by the mystique of the Internet. I found that it’s easier to confide to a complete stranger about the crevices of my life than a friend who comes with strings attached.

Thereupon, I mustered up enough nerve to post an ad, even if it’s a shot in the dark. So I wrote, “Seeking a Friend for the Apocalypse… Let’s talk about philosophy and music and life before the coronavirus wipes out humanity…” Then, I further epitomized the essence of my personality and poured it into that Reddit ad. I listed all of my hobbies, interests, hopes, and dreams in that post. Being a lover of poetry, I even wrote “Tonight I can write the saddest line” by Pablo Neruda in my profile bio, hinting at my quarantine loneliness. The only exception was my name. Instead of my actual name, I put “Jacinto” as my “real” name as a nod to my being gay and my interest in Greek mythology. In a way, I was completely exposing myself while hiding at the same time.

When I tapped the “Post” button with shivering fingers, I didn’t expect anyone to reply. No one did for a while. I refreshed the page a hundred times with clammy hands and a drumming heart. Then, a notification popped up. It said, “Calcirium has sent you a message.” I swear my whole room shook as I leaped off the bed in a flash, all in agonizing anxiety. As I read the message, I paced around my room relentlessly, already scripting my reply.

In the message, “Calcirium” told me that my post made him chuckle and that I seemed like a fun chatterbox. This stranger also noticed the Neruda line in my profile bio and even translated it to its original language and offered some interesting insight. Then, he introduced himself as Julio, a 19-year-old Spanish guy who is studying astrophysics in London. At that point, those red flags waved inside my head. He was too good to be true like the kind of boys I used to read about in John Green novels. But upon further reading, there was a part where he said that he didn’t understand poetry until he fell in love with a guy through the letters that they sent each other. The candidness of this line sold me hook, line, and sinker. He concluded with a Carl Sagan quote that said: “The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”

It shocked me, how easily Julio divulged a lot of deeply personal details to me, a stranger to him. The candidness of his words made me flustered as if I was looking at the nakedness of this honest person. Julio is unlike the people around me whose laughs conceal emotional walls around them. His willingness to be sincere scared me, to be completely honest. Despite this (or maybe because of this), his fascinating words compelled me to write back and ask for his email.

In our emails, Julio and I hit it off right away as if we were two friends catching up. The poetry of his words reached out of the screen and tugged my heart. I guess he enjoyed my responses too, as he always replied to me before sleeping. In our emails, we debated about how far human progress can go, talked about Plato’s and Schopenhauer’s philosophies, babbled on about our favorite songs, and so many more topics.

As we went deeper into each other’s minds, his stories became even more personal. He confessed to me his fear of death, his insecurities, and his feeling small compared to the vast expanse of the universe. Then, he started talking about how he found the boy he likes through Reddit as well. He told me about how he fell for that boy before even seeing his face. Once, he wrote, “I’m sure one day, very soon, I’ll be sleeping by his side and I’ll tell him: ‘What will I dream of now that I’m so happy awake?’”

On the other hand, my emails included a surplus of “Oh, wow!”, “That’s great!”, and “Good for you!” The stories I told him about my life were only asymptotes, always approaching real-life details but not quite touching on it completely. They were only hints of a life that I’ve kept hidden by a façade of a personality. Instead of genuinely opening up to him, I resorted to haphazard jokes that were devoid of any sincerity. I told him generic stories about imminent college applications and difficult online classes (which, I realize, were excuses that I had gotten good at telling).

Soon, after Julio and I wrote pages upon pages of emails, a nagging feeling drove me to doubt his stories. I thought that he couldn’t have been real. At that point, I already memorized every corner of Julio’s psyche. But doubt has a way of tricking hollow fools like me. So I typed his email on the Facebook search bar, debating with my conscience about whether I should do it. Then, I pressed “Enter.”

When the page loaded, my heart dropped to my stomach because there he was. In front of an old, castle-like building stood a lanky guy with pale skin, chocolate-brown hair, thick eyebrows, sleepy eyes, and a sharp European nose. He wore a brown tartan vest over maroon long-sleeves, and he held a black blazer over his arm. But one thing stood out about him: his smile. His smile was not a stretched-out beam but more of a quiet, shy smile that is almost indiscernible. It looked as friendly as the words in the emails that he sent me. It’s Julio smiling right at me.

I would be lying if I said that I didn’t get any butterflies in my stomach. Julio was attractive in his photo, exactly like how I imagined the boys from John Green novels would look like. But finally, he was a whole, real person in my eyes, not just an abstract idea or a fictional character.

However, in my following emails, I didn’t mention to Julio what I had done. I felt guilty that I’ve seen him, but he hasn’t seen me yet. To me, this was a red flag. I felt like I was a catfish, even though everything I told him about me was truthful. My duplicity to Julio almost felt like voyeurism, like I was taking illicit peeks at his naked body. As he poured himself into his candid emails, I remained hidden behind a mask, behind a pseudonym. And I loathed that feeling.

Eventually, the guilt became far too heavy to carry, and it curbed my motivation to reply to Julio. But because I couldn’t let go of him, I knew I had to do something to revive this motivation. I knew coming clean was the right thing to do. So I revealed what I had done and told Julio to call me “Alfred” instead. I explained that “Jacinto” was only a pseudonym, but everything else I told him was true. When I told him that he might want to look me up on Facebook, he refused. Being the wholesome person he is, he said that he didn’t care.

Our conversations continued for ten more emails or so. Then, he disappeared like a momentary daydream, and that left me crushed into a million glittering pieces. There are people whose hearts are so big and sincere that they dent your own. Julio was one of these people. Now, my chest was left with an indentation in the shape of Julio’s heart. I have only his emails to fill this dent.

Nevertheless, Julio’s sincerity and willingness to bare his soul revealed a fatal flaw of my generation: a hesitance to sincerity. The quarantine period only strengthened that hesitance as people struggle to reach out to one another. It widened that gap between people because now, they feel more distant emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. Like how I hid behind a mask when I spoke to Julio, my friends and I were only hollow masks that spoke to one another.

Despite this hesitance to sincerity, quarantine proved that human connection can be found anywhere, just as Julio and I found each other serendipitously. The power of human connection reveals itself more potently in times of hardships if only we are steadfast enough to harness it.

Just like the Carl Sagan quote Julio sent me, perhaps the universe is trying to know itself. Maybe I am the universe, and he is the universe too. I am he. He is I. For all I know, Julio might be my way of trying to make sense of life amid the global health crisis. There were a lot of truths that Julio instilled in me, but the one that I could never forget was the truth of understanding and loving people. I melted off my bed when I read this simple question in one of his emails: “How could I not love your body when it’s your body?” Such simple words. But it holds a world of meaning to me.

When I think about messaging strangers on the Internet, red flags still wave frantically inside my head. But now, I also think of Julio and how I was changed forever after him. Even though I haven’t met him personally, I will miss him and my nightly readings of his emails. I sincerely hope that he finally sleeps in the arms of the boy he likes. I hope that this boy soothes his fears, listens to him intently, and worships him as Julio does to him. I hope he also knows that he had touched my life in profound ways.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ll go and try messaging my friends once again…

written by Alfred

[olko71]

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New Post has been published on http://yaroreviews.info/2021/06/forget-going-back-to-the-office-people-are-just-quitting-instead

Forget Going Back to the Office---People Are Just Quitting Instead

More Americans are quitting their jobs than at any other time in at least two decades, adding to the struggle many companies face trying to keep up with the economic recovery.

The wave of resignations marks a sharp turn from the darkest days of the pandemic, when many workers craved job security while weathering a national health and economic crisis. In April, the share of U.S. workers leaving jobs was 2.7%, according to the Labor Department, a jump from 1.6% a year earlier to the highest level since at least 2000.

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The shift by Americans into new jobs and careers is prompting employers to raise wages and offer promotions to keep hold of talent. The appetite for change by employees indicates many professionals are feeling confident about jumping ship for better prospects, despite elevated unemployment rates.

While a high quit rate stings employers with greater turnover costs, and in some cases, business disruptions, labor economists say churn typically signals a healthy labor market as individuals gravitate to jobs more suited to their skills, interests and personal lives.

In March 2020, Edward Moses was hired as an information-technology specialist at a software company, believing he would be part of a team supporting colleagues in four U.S. offices. Instead, after a round of layoffs, he found the team had one member, and he was it. “It was effectively me against the help-desk queue,” the 37-year-old says.

Melanie Chavez recently started a job that calls on her networking skills and her passion for diversity and inclusion. ‘I really feel like I’m going to shine.’

Photo: Kamara Swaby

The days were stressful, he says, and there were few opportunities for promotion. A 5% raise after a strong performance evaluation didn’t quell his frustration. This spring, Mr. Moses gave notice and started a new job—and career path—as a technical writer at electronic-signature company DocuSign.

“It feels wonderful to take my staunch love for proper grammar and make it into a job,” says Mr. Moses, who has a master’s degree in education.

Several factors are driving the job turnover. Many people are spurning a return to business as usual, preferring the flexibility of remote work or reluctant to be in an office before the virus is vanquished. Others are burned out from extra pandemic workloads and stress, while some are looking for higher pay to make up for a spouse’s job loss or used the past year to reconsider their career path and shift gears.

Altogether, human-resource executives and labor experts see a wave of resignations. In a March survey of 2,000 workers by Prudential Financial Inc., one-quarter said they plan to soon look for a role with a different employer.

“People are seeing the world differently,” says Steve Cadigan, a talent consultant who led human resources at LinkedIn during its early years. “It’s going to take time for people to think through, ‘How do I unattach where I’m at and reattach to something new?’ We’re going to see a massive shift in the next few years.”

Before the pandemic, Jenica Draney was an administrator at Utah Global, a public-private partnership at the University of Utah providing services to international students. But when the pandemic moved classes online, she took on “kind of a product manager role” for Utah Global, she says, overseeing the shift to virtual coursework.

“I really enjoyed finding and identifying bottlenecks, and figuring out workflows and processes for solving those bottlenecks. That’s not work I had ever done before,” the 33-year-old says.

That kernel of excitement solidified into a new career plan after the university asked administrative staff to return to campus. Ms. Draney was reluctant; remote work suited her better and she was still concerned about the virus. She paid for a course to get certified in scrum master techniques, which help software development teams communicate and meet goals, and quickly got a job as a solutions architect with Pluralsight, a provider of technology-education software.

“The job availability in tech is unreal. So I think I’ve pivoted into a world of opportunity,” she says.

Ian Crawford, left, with his new colleague Larry Garvin. Mr. Crawford’s new job offered a higher base salary than he had requested plus a quarterly incentive bonus.

Photo: Sam Martin

For many workers who want a change, there appear to be plenty of options. Some sectors, such as manufacturing and leisure and hospitality, are getting a boost from government stimulus packages and enthusiastic consumer spending. Employers are on the lookout for workers, eager to snap up promising candidates.

“The job market in Kentucky has just been taking off,” says Ian Crawford, a program manager who left his job with a large industrial company in April to work for Fabricated Metals, a manufacturer in Louisville.

Mr. Crawford was getting restless at his former company when, unexpectedly, he learned about an internal opening. He dusted off his résumé, updated it and applied. While waiting for a response, LinkedIn sent him an alert for an opening at a company he had been monitoring.

“I don’t believe in fate or destiny, but the job description lined up to my résumé almost exactly,” he says. With a click, he applied. Within days, the 33-year-old had an offer with a higher base salary than he had requested plus a quarterly incentive bonus.

Employers are trying to head off the loss of talent. At Schneider Electric North America, 65% of the employees identified as high potential received promotions or new roles in 2020, said Mai Lan Nguyen, the industrial company’s senior vice president for human resources. “We’re all on our toes. The best talent out there have many options,” she says.

One trend some employers are seeing: high turnover among the newest employees, many of whom started remotely and have never met co-workers in person.

Jenica Draney pivoted into a new position after paying for a project management course. ‘The job availability in tech is unreal.’

Photo: Kaleb Fergin

During the pandemic, Detroit-based Ally Financial Services took on around 2,000 employees “that have never stepped foot within our organization,” and turnover is highest among that group, says Kathie Patterson, the lender’s chief human-resources officer. “It’s easier to sustain a relationship right now than to build a relationship,” she says.

Remote work also has expanded the recruiting pool for rival companies and technology firms, making employees with digital skills ripe for poaching by employers nationwide, Ms. Patterson says. The company hopes Ally’s Own It program, which was initiated in 2019 and grants 100 shares of stock to every employee, will breed loyalty and “an owner’s mentality” among workers, she says. The shares vest after three years.

Mr. Cadigan sees longer-term trends at work in the job-switching data. “Safety used to be stationary, and now job security and safety is movement. The more I move, the more I’m known, the bigger my network is, the closer I get to sampling the buffet table of careers to see what I’m really good at and what the market will pay me,” the talent consultant says.

Melanie Chavez, who calls herself a master networker, has had two job changes since the pandemic began. The first was involuntary; she was laid off last June. Her next job wasn’t a perfect fit, the 28-year-old says.

Then out of the blue, an executive search firm messaged her on LinkedIn. Ms. Chavez started there this spring as a research associate, helping to source diverse slates of executives for nonprofit clients. The job calls on her networking skills and her passion for diversity and inclusion.

“I really love this job,” she says. “I really feel like I’m going to shine.”

Edward Moses is pleased with his new job as a technical writer. ‘It feels wonderful to take my staunch love for proper grammar and make it into a job.’

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 Our Strategy on WINE AND COCKTAILS is formidable but not only formidable, its Intellectually built and is designed to facilitate a process of always being your best self and the authority on Intellect and earthquake proof.  It is a bit of an understatement to say we have time to lose.  Many of you were given a very restricted and impoverished vision of the future, I am here to let you know that we are not part of that party, this Global structure is tipping over financially and the transition to payroll will be imminent. Riding High.  I’m pleased that as a result of this process, provisions will be made for regions in this world who credited me for putting them on the map. I’m looking forward to my private working stint before Intellectual Carnival as I prepare to take the reigns of an important global Position in addition to my duties with the Global structure.  I’m very pleased to know preparation is underway.  In case you overlooked the unmissable the Global Structure and me and our Global Monetary Footprints and Mandate  has become the surprise star of the Global Sector and those emerging Sectors and the Foundation Sector. We do not have time to lose, and although this process is more resilient than previously, I’m pleased that that the imminent meetings of progress with my CEOs, General Counsels, long time Financial Institution and my Investors Council and Advisers are on scheduled.   The scale of the challenge facing them is now clear, and the scale of the Global Structure saturation is also now clear.  Their activities are three fold :

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Five New Year’s Resolutions to Improve Your Crypto Life in 2019

How was 2018 for you? Think you can tweak your life to make 2019 better? We here at Bitsonline are no self-help gurus — you won’t find any fitness tips, diet or relationship wisdom, or coke-induced affirmations here. But we can throw out a few suggested new year’s resolutions for 2019; tidbits of useful advice on how to improve your bitcoin and crypto-holding existence over the coming year, and further into the future.

Also read: The Three Watershed Moments in Crypto in 2018–And No, They’re Not What You Might Think

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Argh, New Year’s Resolutions Are Stupid!

Yep, it’s that time when we use some arbitrary number on a calendar to reflect on the year that’s ending and make grand plans for the next, most of which we’ll never keep. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t — a year is still one complete Earth rotation around the sun, and most people get fewer than 80 of those. Arbitrary number or not, we can still put that cultural signpost to good use by looking at the bigger picture.

So here we go — five new year’s resolutions you can make for better living through cryptocurrency. We’re not saying they’ll make you rich or more attractive (hey, same thing) but you’ll probably end 2019 closer to crypto-nirvana than you started.

Guess which one of these three is watching price charts all day?

1. I Won’t Lose Sleep Over Daily Price Movements

This one’s an old chestnut, isn’t it? And also the resolution we’re most likely to break. Sure you could profit on daily (or hourly) price fluctuations — if you knew exactly when they’d happen. But no-one ever does, and you can easily lose big by panicking, overreacting, or being hasty.

Even not trading on the latest price movements can be anxiety-inducing, especially if you feel you’re missing opportunities. Our advice is to leave 24/7 chart-watching to the pros (many of whom will also blow up at some point) and keep a more casual eye on price movements. You may not cash out at every high or dodge every train wreck, but you’ll probably live longer to enjoy what you have.

This lifestyle choice is sometimes called “Hold and Forget”. That doesn’t mean forget completely though, so read on…

2. I’ll Keep a Better Eye on Projects I’m Invested in

“Hold and Forget” is good advice if you want to reduce your daily stress levels, but warehousing your stash with no maintenance at all can be costly too. At times we’ve bought into a blockchain project with a promising vision and talented team, only to find out too late that its price has imploded. Some fatal flaw in the concept revealed itself; that talented team splintered in a hellstorm of differing visions and social media attacks; a new regulation squashed most of its use-cases; something better came along with better marketing or technology, etc.

So it certainly helps to monitor current developments in any project you have a stake in. Keep an eye on the crypto news, look through your project’s Twitter feeds or hashtags, find out where the most relevant discussion on the project is happening. It could be Telegram, Twitter, Reddit, Slack, or even IRC. Also remember that you can miss good news just as easily as bad ��� missing an opportunity to capitalize on a sudden price jump.

On a similar note…

3. I’ll Be More Rational About the Coins I Buy

This one’s common sense, but who really has as much of that as they think? Mr. Spock was pure rationality, but he was also only half-human. So remember, every time you’re getting excited about buying into a particular blockchain project, that you’re not Spock and probably don’t want to be. You’re a human who’s going to make irrational choices without realizing it at the time.

One prudent resolution would be to become more aware of common hype signs. Does a new coin have a charismatic celebrity promoting it? Do articles on it use the word “revolutionize” a little too much for comfort? Do its promises rely too heavily on dislodging powerful behemoths, or on gaining mass appeal before working at all? (Building a better Facebook is easy, but getting billions of regular people to use it is less so.)

Be aware of your own limitations too. What seems like a hot new idea could simply be an old investment scam, with blockchain. If you’re not an experienced investor, one version of this resolution could be to study it more. In 2019 you’ll have a whole decade of cryptocurrency news to read — and some of it is gold. We recommend looking back through those years of everything from Ponzi schemes to real expert predictions, if you want a laugh at others’ expense.

4. I’ll Stop Listening to Mainstream Media About Crypto

OK, we’ll admit a bias here. And we’ll also caution that even “independent” and specialist media sources aren’t inherently free from hyperbole or vested interests. But how many times have you seen some mainstream media report proclaiming some coin as a “bitcoin killer“, gushing over yet another teenager who became a multi-millionaire thanks to bitcoin, or warning you that cryptocurrencies are doomed to fail because they have no intrinsic value (whatever that is) or are only useful to criminals? (If something’s useful to criminals, it’s probably useful to others as well.)

After all these years, 99bitcoins’ “Bitcoin Obituaries” is now an institution in the community. Compiling mainstream media pessimism about Bitcoin and crypto, it reports in December 2018 that Bitcoin has now “died 337 times”. Notably, 2017 saw the most obits — proof the media loves to peddle fear and drama, even in the middle of a mega bull-run.

The “MSM” doesn’t always cover complicated topics in enough depth. Its global, mass-produced message must satisfy corporate backers, politicians and advertisers — whose interests often run counter to the anti-government, anti-central-banking spirit that created Bitcoin in the first place. While there are definitely some insightful commentators who happen to work for large news outlets, they often take a back seat to the more drama-prone hype/crash producers, who only care about how many people are watching.

5. I Won’t Sit Too Hard on Any Fork Prongs

Uh, sorry… what?

Let us explain: say your favorite cryptocurrency has just hard-forked. Contentiously. There are now two versions of the coin competing for market value (congratulations) and attention. As a fan, the temptation is to pick a side, take up a pitchfork, and fight for what you believe is the worthier version. Oftentimes, this will involve attacking people who chose the other side, whether they be its corrupt leaders or clueless fans on social media. By showing them to be the morons they are, your side will win. Right?

Don’t be one of those people. Not only are you unlikely to convert others, you’re likely to drive away curious outsiders who want to learn more about cryptocurrency but find only bickering and trolling over points they don’t understand. They’ll walk away or choose some other crypto-item of value, reducing the value of both fork “prongs” in the longer run. Rather than look like noble warriors, you’ll end up looking like the proverbial two bald men fighting over a comb.

Flame wars, like twitch-trading, will also likely impact your mental and physical health over time. Just as literally sitting on a fork will cause much butthurt and little pleasure, so will fighting too fiercely for your favorite blockchain. Prefer one fork prong over another? Better to vote quietly with your money — if you’re right, you’ll still win.

Do you agree with our new year’s resolutions, or do you have some better ones of your own? Let’s hear about them in the comments. 

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There’s a famous scene in the fashion-insider tell-all The Devil Wears Prada, in which Miranda Priestly, the Anna Wintour avatar played with icy hauteur by Meryl Streep, explains to jejune fashion assistant Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway), a wannabe serious journalist, about the trickle-down effect of high fashion.

After Andy scoffs about what she considers frivolous fashion choices, Miranda informs Andy that the frumpy blue sweater she’s wearing isn’t simply blue, it’s cerulean. Furthermore, Miranda says, her wearing that sweater is the result of a long series of fashion decisions — from an Oscar de la Renta collection featuring cerulean, to that of lower-end designers, to “some tragic ‘casual corner’ where [Andy], no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin.” High fashion, she implies, starts with luxury brands, then those trends work their way down to the mainstream.

The same process is happening with wellness.

Traditionally, the kind of luxury “wellness” product associated with lifestyle brands was a thoroughly high-end affair. There’s Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop, with its $66 jade eggs (designed to be placed in the vagina, for dubious medical benefit). There’s SuperShe, a Finnish island resort devoted to wellness and women’s empowerment that runs $4,600 a week. Last year’s pop-up at Saks Fifth Avenue, The Wellery, was a high-end, 20-stall “wellness mall” where you could, among other things, pay $25 for a 10-minute slot to breathe in high-end Himalayan salts.

Now there’s WW, which was, until September, Weight Watchers. The affordable weight loss organization is in the process of rebranding itself as a wellness hub (the company says WW now stands for “wellness that works”). According to a press release, WW will now focus less on shedding pounds, and more on its “overall approach to health and wellbeing of inspiring powerful habits rooted in science.”

WW will keep some of the markers of the traditional Weight Watchers experience, including the points system, by which different foods “cost” a pre-determined amount of a consumer’s daily budget. But it’s also shifting its focus away from weight loss as a primary goal.

WW will partner with Headspace, the $250 million meditation app, to provide consumers with guided meditations in multiple languages to help transform their relationship with food and their body overall. It will offer dozens of themed Connect Groups, allowing customers to interact with one another socially. The rebranding of Weight Watchers into WW, and the company’s new focus on mental well-being is, in part, the reflection of the health and wellness industry’s increasing discomfort with the language of “dieting” and deprivation, as Taffy Brodesser-Akner wrote for the New York Times last year. But it also represents the democratization of the luxury-wellness aesthetic: mindfulness gone mainstream.

The most notable wellness brands on the market have always been aspirational, not necessarily accessible. The aesthetic of wellness is one that, in many ways, is defined by its opposition to mass-market identity. Farm-to-table restaurants, hand-crafted goods, bespoke immersive “experiences” — none of these things is easily scalable.

As the movement’s leading acolyte, Paltrow, told Brodesser-Akner in a different New York Times feature, “It’s crucial to me that we remain aspirational. … Our stuff is beautiful. The ingredients are beautiful. You can’t get that at a lower price point. You can’t make these things mass-market.”

The philosophical underpinnings of wellness culture — that we need to disconnect from our phones and laptop screens, that we need to eat seasonal and organic food grown within a three-block radius of our apartments, that we should fly to a remote Scandinavian island for a week to get in touch with our primal feminine identity — are incompatible with the kind of mechanization and reproduction that make products affordable.

It’s also not quite clear what, exactly, wellness is. The Global Wellness Institute includes a variety of experiences and products, from fitness classes to spa experiences to beauty supplies, within its wellness metric. But the concept itself is a nebulous one. It includes specific, physical transformations — getting better skin, getting more toned, losing weight — but is not synonymous with it. The rhetoric of wellness is as much about spiritual purification — you’re healing yourself of the innate toxicity of a hyper-connected, capitalist existence — as about any measurable physiological goals.

Still, the wellness behemoth continues to grow. According to the Institute, the wellness industry grew 11 percent between 2011 and 2013 to a $3.7 trillion market. The industry is expected to grow by another 17 percent by 2020. And, increasingly, wellness is becoming less aspirational than essential, as expected as free wifi in hotels. Brands that fail to find a way to sell their products as providing consumers wellness fall behind. Earlier this year, Kraft, Nestle, and Heinz — brands associated with unhealthy or at least health-neutral products — all cited the rise of the “health conscious” consumer as a major factor hindering company growth.

Likewise, consumers increasingly see wellness as a moral necessity, not an aspirational luxury. As Brigid Delaney, author of Wellmania: Misadventures in the Search for Wellness, told Vox, “Wellness was once the preserve of an elite. It was people who could afford $3,000 spiritual retreats, or $30 Barre classes or $150 Lululemon yoga pants. It was an aspirational ideal that that flashed past you as you scrolled through Instagram … but out of reach for most people who were too busy and/or too poor to spend the money on things that weren’t seen as necessities.”

She added: “The movement has trickled down to more affordable options — as wellness is seen as not just for the rich, but something you should do for yourself. Almost like a responsibility.”

As Beth McGroarty, a spokesperson for the Global Wellness Institute, told Vox that according to the Institute’s trends report: “There is a proliferation of lower-cost wellness products and services: from a new generation of affordable healthy grocery stores to low-cost spa chains. … We expect to see greater shifts from wellness as a luxury product to an attainable goal that’s packaged and sold by more affordable outlets.”

In other words, wellness is entering the economy class. Sometimes literally. Earlier this year, several airlines — including British Airways and Virgin Atlantic — partnered with Headspace in order to give passengers access to in-flight guided meditations, ostensibly to make the experience of traveling in economy a little less hellish. Wellness, in other words, is now being treated as a necessary corporate amenity, even for those passengers for whom $3,000 retreats or $30 barre classes would break the bank.

Within that paradigm, WW’s transformation makes perfect sense. Wellness culture is no longer about luxury or uniqueness. Rather, it’s about making perceived “lifestyle changes” accessible by promising to transform a consumer’s way of thinking from the inside of an app.

In a phone interview with Vox, WW’s Chief Science Officer, Gary Fisher, stressed the importance of mental transformation in overall wellness. WW’s partnership with Headspace, he said, is rooted in the fact that “half of the work of doing [a weight loss] journey” is mental. “We want to leverage the power of positive psychology,” he said. A WW customer can work in a guided meditation during a stressful commute, or a quick break in the workday.

In other words, you don’t need to fly to a $4,500-a-week Scandinavian island resort anymore to “get away” from the daily capitalist grind. The distinction, however illusory, between “work” and “wellness” has collapsed.

It’s possible to be cynical about WW’s rebranding. Erika Nicole Kendall said in an opinion piece for NBC News that the company’s press release was a “word salad with terrible fat-free dressing,” arguing that WW is just disguising its fundamental weight loss ethos with a feel-good, saleable veneer of wellness.

Of course, encouraging people to think about health as something broader and more nuanced than a number on a scale is by and large a good thing.

But WW’s transformation raises wider questions about what wellness, as a concept, really is — and why we want to buy it in the first place. A staggering percentage of diets fail. (Even Weight Watchers’ own internal studies, through which the company has a vested interest in being optimistic, suggest that people lose, on average, just 5 percent of their body weight in six months, and regain two-thirds of that within two years).

So, if diets don’t work, why do we do them? If Weight Watchers — and now WW — doesn’t actually help you lose weight, what exactly is the product people keep buying?

From Goop to WW, wellness has been as much about marketing emotions — the feeling of change — as it is about marketing actual physiological transformations. Put a jade egg in your vagina, or sign up for WW after a holiday-season binge, and you’re transforming not your body but how you feel about yourself. Aspirational and accessible brands alike offer a sense of identity — “I am the sort of person who is getting my life on track” — far more potent than a pound lost or a pore opened.

Critics like Kendall accuse WW, fairly, of being a weight-loss organization masquerading as a wellness brand. But it’s worth asking the reverse: To what extent was the original Weight Watchers a purveyor of feelings masquerading as a weight loss program? After all, if dieting doesn’t work, what exactly are you paying for?

Wellness may have morphed, culturally, from a luxury into a responsibility. And companies who sell that sense of responsibility also sell a sense of accomplishment. The idea that you are taking care of yourself, that your weight — even if it’s not where you want it to be — is something that you’re working on, is as integral to WW’s brand identity as its famous points system.

It’s telling that Delaney frames the democratization of wellness culture as the transformation of wellness from a dream into an obligation. WW’s new ethos, with its focus on the kind of meditations and wellness-centered activities you can do during a work break, or on a commute, reflects precisely that sense of obligation. Whereas a $4,500-a-week resort presents itself as an escape from work, a fantasy of purification, a $3-a-week app presents itself as something you should integrate into your daily life.

American culture has long been influenced by what has traditionally been called the Protestant work ethic: the idea that hard work, self-sacrifice, and moral purity are inextricable from one another. The increasing framing of wellness as a personal obligation, a necessity for both companies to provide and consumers to purchase, reflects that. The more accessible and affordable self-care becomes, the more it becomes an obligation. After all, it’s one thing to scroll past Instagram posts of $150 leggings you can’t afford without clicking. It’s another thing entirely to fail to make time to use a meditation app on your morning commute.

In this way, the inevitable “trickle-down” nature of wellness culture has transformed its moral character. The fantasy Goop sells is that of privilege and leisure — to be the sort of person who has the time (let alone the money) to indulge in lengthy experimental spa treatments, or buy one-of-a-kind hand-crafted objects.

Conversely, the identity WW is selling, is that of being someone in control of one’s own life. Someone who can do it all. Someone who is willing to put in the work to get physical and mental results. It’s a compelling emotion, particularly in our hyper-capitalist culture. And that feeling of being a person in control may well be worth $3 or $6 a week.

But WW’s new identity, like all brand identities, is more about the fantasy it conveys than about the results it provides. Maybe that’s okay.

Original Source -> The rebranded Weight Watchers is bringing wellness to the masses

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[darylelockhart]

Inspired, magical, connected: How virtual reality can make you well

by Denise Quesnel

Individuals wearing virtual reality headsets often look isolated. But research shows they can experience profound emotions such as awe, which enhance their feelings of social connection and wellbeing. (Shutterstock)

“Everyone needs to experience this. Especially if they are going through a rough spot.”

The study participant removed her headset. She still had goose bumps on her arms — even though the room was a toasty 25℃. She had just spent 10 minutes inside our immersive virtual reality (VR) environment.

It was like a surreal dream, and unlike many VR experiences, it wasn’t a game, and the goal was not to entertain or make money. It was research — investigating the potential of awe-inspiring VR experiences to create social connectivity and improve individual wellness.

“I felt more connected to the universe, and that my problems were going to be OK, and going to work out somehow.” She laughed and wondered if this was a bizarre thing to say. As our interview wrapped up, she paused at the door.

“Would it be OK if I can come back and try this again? You know, if I need to?”

Extending our reality

I design virtual reality environments, interfaces and experiences. Under the direction of Dr. Bernhard Riecke, in Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts & Technology’s iSpace Lab my colleagues and I study how people interact with the technology. We also research how to design these experiences, at a time when few frameworks exist.

Many people today are familiar with immersive virtual reality. This is a multi-sensory, often highly interactive, platform that enables people to be “present” in the virtual environment — to the extent that their body and mind believe what is happening is real.

It draws on multiple senses — using visuals, audio, touch and even scent — to help the participant become emotionally invested.

Loneliness is on the rise, globally, and virtual reality can be an antidote - offering magical and socially connecting experiences. (Shutterstock)

Each of our senses influences our perception and cognition, and the brain uses these senses to form a reliable model in which we guide our decisions, emotions and behaviour. In an immersive VR environment, we are effectively constructing a real extension to our own reality and how we see the world.

People may look down from a great height virtually and their heart starts racing.

They might physically jump when something unexpected happens in their perceived virtual space.

I’ve seen people cry, hug, dance and meditate in immersive virtual environments. And we find that these VR experiences can be profoundly positive. Our research shows that they can inspire a sense of awe and that this can be socially connecting.

Other research has shown that VR can help foster pro-social attitudes and behaviours as well pro-environmentalist behaviours. It can help medical students understand the lived experience of their patients. And it can facilitate perspective shifts. Viewers of the virtual reality film Across the Line in the United States, for example, showed an increase in empathy towards women having abortions after the experience.

Despite the image of VR as an isolating or goofy solo activity, it can actually bring people together, irrespective of where on the planet they are. And VR can transcend other boundaries, like bias: you don’t know the other participants’ age, gender or appearance.

Perhaps, the most compelling thing VR can do is invisible, and deep within our psyche?

An empathy machine?

My first VR experience was in 2002, when I then entered “Osmose,” created by Canadian artist Char Davies.

The emotional intensity I felt was memorable. As I breathed in and out, a respiration sensor in a physical vest translated my breath into environment variables. It allowed me to rise and fall in a gentle, weightless manner inside the virtual environment.

Inside the headset, I was united with a virtual tree and glowing particles floated around me like fireflies. The experience was profound, and showed me that VR could assist in subtle communication using the body’s own cues. Words weren’t needed, nor was an arcing storyline.

This was important for me as a young adult with a painful inflammatory arthritis condition. For a while, my body and mind felt relieved through a feeling of weightlessness and desire to share the experience with others.

A participant demos our Project Awe VR environment, which we brought to a downtown Vancouver office. (Denise Quesnel), Author provided

The capacity of VR to expand our mental models is similar to that of generating empathetic understanding — towards others, the planet and even ourselves.

Does this mean VR can “make” a person more empathetic?

Not quite. It could help expand the lens in which you see the world and others. But it is not an “empathy machine” that can automatically create empathy with a button push. When designed with specific experiences and emotions in mind though, like awe, the VR experience can demonstrate great potential to assist us in empathetic understanding and pro-sociality.

Generating awe

On the transformative index of emotions, awe is important. It is one of the few experiences that allows people to transcend themselves and to feel part of a greater collective.

We understand this happens through perceived “vastness or scale,” where a person experiences something huge, and “accommodation,” a process that modifies our existing cognitive schema to include new information.

By ‘co-creating’ virtual environments with research participants, the team at iSpace Lab hopes to create more socially connecting experiences. (Shutterstock)

This doesn’t mean that people always need to see something physically massive. Many people experience awe by watching an inspiring public speaker, by attending a concert or seeing artwork. Regardless, awe is relatively rare for most of us, as our busy everyday lives often don’t include weekly concerts, solar eclipses and visits to natural wonders.

Flying the earth

Virtual reality is a young medium and we are still learning how to design an awe-inspiring or emotionally-moving experience.

Our approach uses research and “co-creation” in collaboration with research participants — to develop design ideas. We design an initial prototype based on what research tells us works, then we try it with people. Based on their experiences, we go back and iterate the design. We repeat the process until we get some consistency of response.

For example, a study we ran in 2016 revealed participants feel a sense of awe when touring the planet in Google Earth VR, and we had some interesting initial findings on pro-sociality. Google Earth VR uses street view and aerial data of our planet that appears life size in the virtual environment; a person can fly anywhere in the world and explore.

This video introduces the research project at iSpace Lab to measure awe in a virtual reality environment.

Among the participants who reported the highest ratings of awe, nearly half experienced “frisson” — chills and a physical goose bump reaction to awe-inspiring events. And when we dug deeper into the data, these participants also reported a strong social connection during the VR experience.

In our study, one participant suddenly started speaking aloud while in the environment. “The fence is still there, the house looks the same,” he stated. “I remember this place.” He had just visited a childhood home he hadn’t seen in more than 20 years.

An interview afterwards revealed he hadn’t been to his country of birth in seven years, due to a tight budget. He also rarely connected with his immediate family, due to time zone differences. A few days later, he booked a flight. “It’s a milk run, like four stopovers, but it was cheap and I’m doing it!” he said.

An antidote to loneliness

Loneliness is on the rise. In a country where one-person households are the most common type, people are reporting increasing feelings of disconnection. And this is a global trend bringing negative social and health consequences.

VR environments may be an antidote. They may increase feelings of social connection. They may be beneficial for people going through a rough spot.

With the support of Simon Fraser University, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and through collaboration with The Centre for Digital Media, our team is bringing VR environments into workplaces and homes.

If we can inspire people with diverse backgrounds and skill sets to build their own VR experiences, great things could happen. We’ve just seen a taste through awe-inspiring environments.

The realities we can embody are vast, and the potential to expand our lens on life is magical.

Denise Quesnel is a PhD student in iSpace Lab at Simon Fraser University

This article was originally published on The Conversation.

[garyh2628]

Yes development darling intellect darling

Yes I am happy to be associated with those descriptions. We are on the cusp of doing some great things and the commitments continue to roll in and rol in and all those who ran and abandoned those flats and those houses should be ashamed of themselves. This is how far mediocrity has stooped. Squatting in upmarket properties. The good news is though that we are getting a handle on this. I am the Chairman and CEO and I am the legal authority for all those estates worldwide and I look forward to our private meetings and our working business lunch as we pour over those papers and get to work. I must say a big shout out to my family in New York and New Jersey who have been working tirelessly in making sure those gigantic corporations and estates remain firmly in my grip and I’m delighted that you have pulled together that team quick Ad you did because there is so much and we have those with vested interest across the globe trying to create facades for mediocrity. Well I am slwAys confident that we would have pulled through with no stone left unturned. We have those who is gaining nothing but yet trying to create bragging rights to me that is mental health at its best. Yes I’m their darling and everyone was briefed of the false environment. Our narrative neither have chaos or furore attaches to it. Those mental health gimmicks that were being floated about are recognised for just that mental health. Our plans will remain firmly classified and the direction will be from me and me only and it will not be local. I’m looking forward to perusing the details and specifications of the various offices as we apply our research and analysis and statistics in making the best choice in order to accommodate all the brilliant experts who will be occupying those offices. Chairman and CEO Global Legal Authority Quasi Judicial

[garyh2628]

QUASI- JUDICIAL OFFICIAL, REGION AND PRIVATE

ELECTED LEADER

CHIEF OF STAFF (VETO)

PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL

Chairman and Managing Operational CEO (Global Legal Authority Quasi-Judicial)

(Finance, planning, industry and foreign trade portfolios) Private

Head of Human Resources Finance and People and Global Head of Corporate Responsibility

 Investments/Contracts/Superior/Technically Competent and Right-Hand Men

NGO - (Finance, planning, industry and foreign trade portfolios) Private

 To my Pharma Hubs, Technology Hubs, Social Creative/Personal Hub, My Private Hubs, My Financial Hubs and my Health and Wellbeing/Scientific Hubs, Legal and Innovation Hubs, Hinterland Hub and to my Eastern Caribbean Hub, Linguistic/Psychology Hub, to my beloved additions and to my Institutions and Partners and Team, Pool of Potential Personal Assistants and Private Secretaries and Business Managers and also to my Fitness Hub which is an extension of my Health and Wellbeing Hub and not to forget my beloved Brooklyn Hub and my Wine/Adviser Hub, Influential Legal Cashier, Strategic Partnerships, STATEMENT OF INTENT, MY WEALTH FUND AND PERSONAL ATTORNEY and PROPERTY EXPERT GUY and THE ATTACHMENT AND MY PERSONAL BOARDROOM AND MY CHIEF STRATEGY AND INNOVATION OFFICER. The core founding support regions of this Network and Global Structure. MY FAVOURITE CEO.

  All Options remain on the Table applying the finishing touches to our Genius and my Genius and the Network and this Global Structure Genius. DRAFT

 The Network, Strategic Partnerships and Global Structure is hot–but watch the margins

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL INTELLECTS IN THE WORLD

THIS GLOBAL STRUCTURE AND INTELLECT SHARE MANY OF THE SAME QUALITIES, INDESTRUCTIBLE, PURE AND BEAUTIFUL TO BEHOLD

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU EXPERIENCE SOMETHING SO BEAUTIFUL, IT CHANGED HOW YOU SAW THE WORLD

DELIVERING ALL OF THE PREPARATORY PARTICYULARS MAKING WAY FOR PRIVACY AND FOR WORK TO BEGIN BY ME AND ALSO TO DELIVER THAT WE DO NOT SUBSCRIBE TO POVERTY AND WE ARE THE AUTHORITY ON INTELLECT- WE WILL DELIVER ON ALL OF THOSE PARTICULARS USING THE URGENCY OF NOW

And to deliver those official portfolios to me in its entirety with there Global Legal Restrictions.

AND TO MY COMMITTED SUITE OF PHARMA HUBS  and INDUSTRY AND INNOVATION HUB and STRASBOURG INTELLECTUAL FAMILY–

 THE YEAR OF THE SCIENTIST, ATTACHMENT and PRIVACY

  Aligning our funds with Gary and the Global Structure Goals ‘Stepping into world pre-eminence’ Delivering the full suite of Monetary Global Footprints’

 DO NOT PLAY ALONG WITH THEM AND THEIR QUEST FOR MEDIOCRITY-WE ARE NOT HERE TO HELP OUT- OUR INTELLECTUAL CAPACITY IS NOT FOR MEDIOCRITY AND THOSE THINGS OF GROSS FAILURE

 ALL SUPPLEMENTARY PAYROLL MUST WAIT UNTIL THE FULL DELIVERIES ARE MADE TO ME PRIOR PREPARATORY GLOBALLY AND UNTIL I’M BRIEFED AND HAVE MY PRIVATE MEETINGS AND SSUED THE RELEVANT AUTHORITY.

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This Network will not be forced to into unveiling drastic action to tackle with situations created on false environments or forced to invest into anything that doesn’t have an entry point into our Intellectual Fingerprint Globally.  Those sectors that are facing declining numbers as a result of their actions and behaviour and are seeing declining investment will not be relying on this Network to prop you up.  We will not be forced into creating profit centres to foster loyalty. The announcement that it can create a needed “fundamental shift” in their favour will not work.  That fundamental shift will now be to speed up the process in making sure the full suite of deliveries is made for planning and for work to begin and for privacy in order for my personal Wealth Fund and human Resources can be focused can get my undivided attention.   As a result of my missing leadership as this void was created it has struggled to set itself apart in a viciously competitive market. I’m delighted that we are in the process of correcting those by delivering the particulars and tool kits for planning to begin and further for the full suite of deliveries and to make way for privacy and forensic and other audits.  This is the year of privacy and Intellect.  I’[m also happy that while we are sequestered we will also be working on the restructuring plans Globally in order for the environment to be of such that ordinary people can be in control of their destiny and further lead tis Generation and the future one into intellect and their journey of living the their life. I’m aware that some of you are impatient not for very much longer, what we have to realise is that there was a lot of vested interest, a lot of intellectual hijacking but as most of you are thankful for, is that I hold all the major position of authority and legal ownership thus preventing any such from happening with our Monetary Footprints.

 Despite a rise in investment Globally nothing has changed.  Instead what we saw in my latent capacity, is a lot of waste and spin. “We’ve been missing out on opportunities,” one chief executive admitted.  Since Gary has taken over and the approach and application of the Foundation Family intellectual Fingerprint become an urgency, we are now seeing progress.  This happen while this saga was happening.  It was a real Global fight, the monies are rightfully Gary’s and the Global Fund is rightfully his, there isn’t any furore surrounding that, but it was an intellectual fight and a fight he relishes thus we passed it in those direction, because e wiped the floor with them.  Now we are making real progress like we have never seen previously, but this alone is not enough to deal with years of mediocrity and on a Global scale, no one can be put down, Gary is the Chief of Staff Globally Gary is the Head of the Global Fund and that is mental health (that narrative they are peddling).  Maybe you are talking about deliberate regentrification. We now are pushing to deliver the stack of particulars that require his attention for perusal and planning, and for work to begin.  We made real progress because it activated restructuring, it activated the classified strategy and it remove some people from their positions and foster and bring to our attention relationship that can augur well for our mandate and more.  It strengthens the Chief of Staff Office and it strengthen my CEOs who are working on my behalf to put their feet down on the peddle for the deliveries to be made to me. It also highlights for my attention when I travel into Arkansas the real work that needs my attention.  And I saw your fingerprints the other day and I said, o no, you didn’t.  Real progress must be made.  The work that we must do is global, and I couldn’t be at fault, and you back me up on this for choosing my roll out partners.  A lot of people are trying to frame a personal argument but their again, Intellect cannot apportion blame, we have a further responsibility to the environment. Everyone seems to want to smother me and that’s when I saw your fingerprint beginning to appear.  There are serious problems to address but for so long we operate with a deliberate void, tat closing those voids now is throwing up all sorts of childishness. My analysis is scientifically correct at full capacity.  We are indeed facing a bankruptcy epidemic and a mediocrity and lack of education Global Epidemic.  Waste and spin.

 The Intellectual Community is indeed passionate about me and the Global Structure is passionate about me and the broad mandate and they understand the classified strategy and yes in all circumstances I am he.  The real mess they have created and are ashamed as it begins to unravel is nothing to be sniffed at.  So many careers got destroyed in the process and people are now speaking up.  I could not be at fault for choosing where my main offices will be, and he was correct in cutting al ties with you guys.  You have real systemic problems.  What you were told is “Don’t expect blind loyalty from us,” he said. Another said the financial hit was “a shock and very disappointing — there won’t have been a recovery, until I took over and we begin to prepare and see the barebone of a plan that will become fruitful bonce delivering are done”.   All road is leading to those regions that I choose, all road.  That is where the real 21st Century will happen and I couldn’t be at fault for wanting to be on the ticket, so to speak, because there is no other alternative in those context, it’s a fools game to think otherwise and it would be an enemy to economics.  I’m telling you I’m marrying him. Another recommended from the foundation sector said: premium commentary: I am so delighted and relieved that finally Gary will be taking up his seats on these boards and he has taken full ownership and responsibility to the Network now , this isn’t new, these were all along being planned, we couldn’t understand why those had they waited, would have played an important role in this Global process, but instead they embarked on mediocrity and that is the strongest way to define their behaviour “ they have to take responsibility for their action and not shift the burdens or create scape goat, yes he’s altogether perfect, they couldn’t come to us his caretaker with no other narrative. It is not the first time they have let us down.

 We now have a new Chairman and Head of People Human Resources and Finance Globally. They now cannot excuse themselves from mistake made as it relates to the Finance Policy, we read the glowing commentary someone from an International Institution wrote about Gary and he went on to say, how can an International Finance Standard be a trap?  What we are dealing with ere on the surface is systemic mediocrity and after flicking through the file, deep seated inferiority and race not on anyone part, but within the few that are making the most noise.  They are so accustomed to allowing the void to set their approach to policy, but he’s delighted Gary have decided to focus and pushback.  Further it’s our Monetary Footprint so he still couldn’t understand the furore, but he now sussed it out.  Any negative sentiments or embarrassment to themselves are instigated and funded by them for their own financial and prestigious outcome.  They cannot excuse themselves from this.

  “The result has been the longest favourable run the Industry and Sector and Region and Statement of Intent and private region is forecasted to have the whole Global Structure, my recent Strategic Partner have worked his way to becoming my main partner in this process and that isn’t personal or even strategic, it’s his vertebrae,” it said. He backed me up when I say I’m marrying him; I couldn’t be at fault.  Linguistic Philosophy.  What I have skilful done and Intellectuals knew this was coming because I am the Chief of Staff, is to show that intellect cannot be polarised, and it transcend mediocrity and those nonsense.  We begin to get a real gage of what and how intellect is to factor into allowing you to live your best life and the experts begin to work out how it will qualify the Financial environment for the sector.  Real light bulb moments.  These are the reasons we are going wild as a result of those and their nonsense.  When I issue a directive as Chief of Staff its superior to anything you can ever issue because of the make up of my travelling boardroom thus our Monetary Footprints will always be protected.  You must operate at full capacity; you must have your own responsibility to your children future or the ability to love yourself and your intellect. Let me nudge your intellectual cleverness.  The Foundation family the real money people will be revealed to you very soon.  The authority on Intellect.  Those of you that are advocating change, for your information this is Gary through and through but my values are not in the court of public opinion or is it to be used as a compass or guiding blight for others because we have a real love affair with the environment and humanity living their best life.  Thus, our personal lives are lived privately.

 The Network and the Global Structure and my Strategic Partners and Statement of Intent have won a landmark ruling which saw those who were using their Offices and positions for favours were stripped of their authority and stripped of their legal authority.  These people were being used to try to prevent the delivery of the particulars to myself and also the delivery of the Offices Globally and the creation of the Financial Districts and further my strategic Partnerships and the progression of the Statement of Intent.  The resources of the Community of Companies, Team, Institutions and Partnerships that I own will not be outsourced as a favour to anyone.

[garyh2628]

QUASI- JUDICIAL OFFICIAL, REGION AND PRIVATE

ELECTED LEADER

CHIEF OF STAFF (VETO)

PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL

Chairman and Managing Operational CEO (Global Legal Authority Quasi-Judicial)

(Finance, planning, industry and foreign trade portfolios) Private

Head of Human Resources Finance and People and Global Head of Corporate Responsibility

 Investments/Contracts/Superior/Technically Competent and Right-Hand Men

NGO - (Finance, planning, industry and foreign trade portfolios) Private

 To my Pharma Hubs, Technology Hubs, Social Creative/Personal Hub, My Private Hubs, My Financial Hubs and my Health and Wellbeing/Scientific Hubs, Legal and Innovation Hubs, Hinterland Hub and to my Eastern Caribbean Hub, Linguistic/Psychology Hub, to my beloved additions and to my Institutions and Partners and Team, Pool of Potential Personal Assistants and Private Secretaries and Business Managers and also to my Fitness Hub which is an extension of my Health and Wellbeing Hub and not to forget my beloved Brooklyn Hub and my Wine/Adviser Hub, Influential Legal Cashier, Strategic Partnerships, STATEMENT OF INTENT, MY WEALTH FUND AND PERSONAL ATTORNEY and PROPERTY EXPERT GUY and THE ATTACHMENT AND MY PERSONAL BOARDROOM AND MY CHIEF STRATEGY AND INNOVATION OFFICER. The core founding support regions of this Network and Global Structure. MY FAVOURITE CEO.

  All Options remain on the Table applying the finishing touches to our Genius and my Genius and the Network and this Global Structure Genius. DRAFT

 The Network, Strategic Partnerships and Global Structure is hot–but watch the margins

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL INTELLECTS IN THE WORLD

THIS GLOBAL STRUCTURE AND INTELLECT SHARE MANY OF THE SAME QUALITIES, INDESTRUCTIBLE, PURE AND BEAUTIFUL TO BEHOLD

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU EXPERIENCE SOMETHING SO BEAUTIFUL, IT CHANGED HOW YOU SAW THE WORLD

DELIVERING ALL OF THE PREPARATORY PARTICYULARS MAKING WAY FOR PRIVACY AND FOR WORK TO BEGIN BY ME AND ALSO TO DELIVER THAT WE DO NOT SUBSCRIBE TO POVERTY AND WE ARE THE AUTHORITY ON INTELLECT- WE WILL DELIVER ON ALL OF THOSE PARTICULARS USING THE URGENCY OF NOW

And to deliver those official portfolios to me in its entirety with there Global Legal Restrictions.

AND TO MY COMMITTED SUITE OF PHARMA HUBS  and INDUSTRY AND INNOVATION HUB and STRASBOURG INTELLECTUAL FAMILY–

 THE YEAR OF THE SCIENTIST, ATTACHMENT and PRIVACY

  Aligning our funds with Gary and the Global Structure Goals ‘Stepping into world pre-eminence’ Delivering the full suite of Monetary Global Footprints’

 DO NOT PLAY ALONG WITH THEM AND THEIR QUEST FOR MEDIOCRITY-WE ARE NOT HERE TO HELP OUT- OUR INTELLECTUAL CAPACITY IS NOT FOR MEDIOCRITY AND THOSE THINGS OF GROSS FAILURE

 ALL SUPPLEMENTARY PAYROLL MUST WAIT UNTIL THE FULL DELIVERIES ARE MADE TO ME PRIOR PREPARATORY GLOBALLY AND UNTIL I’M BRIEFED AND HAVE MY PRIVATE MEETINGS AND SSUED THE RELEVANT AUTHORITY.

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Wow you have taken the initiative and we are making progress on those fronts, so I’m scheduled to be receiving those volumes with all the names and profile.  We are progressing nicely and we also making progress on the communication front.  I’m comforted to know that the full suiter of deliveries will be done to me for work to begin and prior for planning to get underway by me.  What we are dealing here he said, is a fake news mechanism to distort the work that I am mandated to do, and this is deliberate and further to distort the good relationships and this also is deliberate.  I’m correct across the board but I’m supposed to be correct.  The full sets of Global Monetary Footprints will get delivered to me in full and the full set of inheritance details and tool kits and for anyone to believe that my Global legal Authority can be undermined, or those details can somehow not reach me, must have mental health problems. All to believe that those classified capacities are not in full force, again it is mental health, to believe that. I was correct we were dealing with a real threat because it is Global and there was a lot of vested interest and people and I’m correct, for so long exhibits learned behaviour, the go to lengths to develop duplicity.  Their Intellect for many years and I was correct in my analysis, their intellect is independent, I’m also correct in the latent intellectual capacity.  Fear because their prestige was built on a manufactured foundation.  We are also dealing with a vast well-planned fake news network, to undermine legitimate information for monetary value and prestige, so I’m not incorrect in my analysis.  I touched on the correct subject, this Generation will be taken into intellect and I cannot be at fault by resisting the ned and it was deliberate to be forced into living the Network and the Economic Community which is real and the Global Structure details in public.  I was also correct to say this is the year of privacy.  I couldn’t be at fault these are real issues but the deliveries for planning and for work to begin will get done.  Fear of my work ethic, fear of my principles, fear because when the audit was completed, those are the results.  Fear of Intellect, Fear of the Strict Stance and fear of the issues I raised that got everyone amending and correcting their application and approach Globally.  Fear because there is so much that I legally own and fear of not really change but Intellectual Impendence, what is it going to mean for me?  Am I the next Steve jobs in those context probably yes.  I am also correct with the foundation sector, and the support in the Intellectual Community is exponential and there lies the problem, jealous, intellectually envious, and those are the facts that were laid bare.  Gary’s mandate is both domestic, but it is more so International and at full capacity, there was a real fight because there are so many people that want to be represented through my Office that throws up all sorts of childishness and time waste.  Those are the facts.  My focus is to the Network and the attachment and the Global Structure which includes all sorts of businesses and names.  Those names are extension of me because of my classical intellectual capacity and in some cases I inherited them, I am the son and tats our classified strategy, that isn’t a fight, everyone is aware of those reality, but it is a need for prestige and in all cases,  it is legally full proof.  I am more than the son, weren’t you stripped, because that is exactly what I was going to do. I cannot lose anything, you have lost the Intellectual fight, further as a result of some people knowing, value began to be added as a reality of me.  Your fight about brand development will not be fought through this Network, try ya best.  Let the truth be known, it’s a minute few who are behaving like this and that fight in the Statement of Intent we won, should never have taken place.  You are not allowed to know which of those major organisations I work for or affiliated to.  You like Gary, you’re selfish and when you can’t get the best, you throw your toys out of the pram, childish.  Do you see the support. Well, people don’t like me anymore, some of them thins its divine we be together, they love me. That region will neither falter or fail. Those strategic private regions also would neither falter or fail this Network has just arrived at prominence and this classified strategy will never falter and will never fail. I am marrying him, I’m telling you so.

 “I believe in the 21st century we have to be ready not only to fight in kinetic wars, but in information wars, too,” Shame and embarrassment. The Big Read Fake News Fake news: while all along you’re trying to create an administrative office. All along you’re trying to carve out a career at the expense of the Network and Global Structure.  Those organisations that I choose to give an opportunity are seeing as a result of me, experiencing a good favourable run, those who are involved in this nonsense are now finding themselves in all sorts of nonsense.  He was correct in confirming me in that position, he couldn’t be at fault.  In addition to my current Official Portfolio, he was shocked to find out why haven’t they delivered all this for work to begin, he’s correct to wait, because this wat is happening here, will qualify those details, you can’t win.  I am the Head of the Foundation Sector, I hold the veto I sit on those boards, news flash.  All of it will get completed to me, all this nonsense that is being allowed to happen will not get a hearing when I take office.  You’re scared, fear.  To some one of the biggest dreads, is my work ethic and principles. Weren’t you stripped? This Network only know to win once I took the reigns, also remember that, it’s in my DNA, those are the reasons I love them in cages. Well, he’s in his position, and you can’t twist, and you can’t turn (I am in my position).  All the deliveries will get to me for work to begin. Speak the truth, you want all things Gary, you want to absorb him and probably you can’t be at fault, but I do not delegate.  There is only one boss and that me.

I’m not waiting on you and I’m not here to prop you up.