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theanticool · 6 years ago

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I used to be more into UFC as a follower, but I've got my disagreements with them and I was wondering: where else can I watch MMA fights? What other leagues exist for MMA?

For sure. There are all types of organizations out there that collectively serve as good alternatives to the UFC. But before I list them, I only feel it is fair to say that the fight game is run by some of the sketchiest people in sports. Don’t trust promoters/promotions to be decent. Even the ones I’m about to list.

First off, if you live somewhere with local MMA scene I’d suggest showing them some support. You can search for regional promotions using Tapology’s Fightcenter or Sherdog’s Fight Finder. Go to shows, buy their iPPVs or tune in on their YouTube streams or whatever they have going on.

1) Bellator MMA - The #2 promotion in the United States, and arguably the world. Tons of really great fighters like Patricio Pitbull, Michael Chandler, Ilima-Lei MacFarlane, Rory MacDonald, Douglas Lima, Gegard Mousasi, Ryan Bader, Vitaly Minakov, Andrey Koreshkov, Emmanuel Sanchez, Henry Corrales, Darrion Caldwell, AJ McKee Jr, Juliana Velasquez, Eduardo Dantas, Vadim Nemkov, and a bunch of really good young guys working their way. They have also thrown an honest effort into growing the women’s 145lb division, unlike the UFC. They put on dud cards everyone once in a while though. If you avoid their heavyweight bouts though, you should be good. You can catch them on TV on Paramount or the CMT depending on where you live. If you feel like throwing down $10 a month, you can catch them on the streaming service DAZN.

2) Rizin FF - If you liked PRIDE back in the day, Rizin is for you. Pure JMMA, the good stuff (& some of the bad). It’s in a ring instead of a cage. You get a good mix of legit high quality talent and weird freakshow fights you didn’t know you wanted to see. On the quality side, they got talent like Kyoji Horiguchi, Tenshin Nasukawa, Kanna Asakura, Jiri Prochazka, Ayaka Hamasaki, Yuki Motoya, Ulka Sasaki, Kanako Murata, and a few familiar faces like Diego Brandao, Daron Cruickshank, Justin Scoggins, Takenori Gomi, Satoru Kitaoka and Tatsuya Kawajiri. They’re cards tend to be a lot of fun. They have around 6 cards a year and you can watch them for $20 on Fite TV.

3) ONE Championship - A Southeast Asian promotion based in Singapore. They do a mix of MMA, kickboxing, muay thai, and the occasional boxing match. They had a huge 2018 news wise as they signed former UFC champions Demetrious Johnson and Eddie Alvarez, as well as charismatic Ken Doll Sage Northcut. The promotion is also home to a bunch of really fun, really interesting notable fighters on roster: Angela Lee, Bibiano Fernandes, Shinya Aoki, Aung La Nsang, Xiong Jing Nan, Eduard Folayang, Amir Khan, Timofey Nastyukhin, Lowen Tynanes, Martin Nguyen, Marat Gafurov, Kevin Belingon, and many more. They also recently signed a US TV/streaming deal with TNT and Bleacher Report. They air their fights live for a fee (don’t know off the top of my head) and replay the card in for like an hour later that night.

4) KSW - Speaking of freakshow bouts, if you want to watch big men swing on one another I’d suggest looking into KSW. The Polish MMA promotion was built off the strength of former World Strongest Man Mariusz Pudzianowski who’s persistence with MMA has been fantastic to watch. Especially against Polish Gangster rapper Popek Monster. The promotion will also be bringing us a match up between two other strongmen, 6′8 280lb behemoth Martin Fyord and a man nicknamed the Iranian Hulk. Before you ask, is this promotion all big musclemen swanging on one another, the answer is no. There are actually quite a few really good Polish and eastern European talent in the promotion: Tomasz Narkun and Mateusz Gamrot are quite the talent. You can catch KSW on the streaming service DAZN.

5) PFL (Formerly WSOF) - PFL is complicated. It’s different than most other, it’s a tournament formatted promotion that places heavy emphasis on acquiring finishes as quickly as possible. These are tournaments where fighters fight for $1 million. It also might not be around in 2019 because there’s very little likelihood that they are making the money they need to turn a profit. We also don’t when when season 2 (they have seasons) will start as their president just left to go join a professional tennis league. They have their fair share of really good talent including 2x Olympic judo gold medalist Kayla Harrison, Louis Talylor, Ray Cooper III, Magomed Magomedkerimov, Abubakar Nurmagomedov, Natan Schulte, Steven Siler, Lance Palmer, and Philipe Lins. While their business model may be dubious, they’re product is quality. When they were called WSOF, the promotion was responsible for jump starting the careers of current and former UFC talent like Marlon Moraes, Justin Gaethje, Andrei Arlovski, Dave Branch, and Anthony “Rumble” Johnson. When they do air, you can find them on the NBC Sports Network.

6) LFA - Everybody has to start somewhere. This used to be 2 separate promotions called Legacy FC and RFA before they fused a couple years ago. It’s been home to a whole host of future UFC fighters. Everyone from Holly Holm and Derrick Lewis to Eryk Anders and Ray Borg. Basically becoming the champion here is the closest thing to a guarantee that you will be in the UFC in the near future. You can watch LFA on AXS TV, if you have it.

There are a whole bunch of other promotions out there: Combate Americas, Road FC, Pancrase, Invicta FC, KOTC, Cage Warriors, BAMMA, M-1, Shooto, Fight Nights, etc.

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saieras · 6 years ago

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I’m proud of you, kid

Summary: On the 1-year anniversary after the Snap, Tony, Pepper, and May deal with their losses and remember who and what they are fighting for.

Genre: Angst, Hurt/Comfort

Rating: T

Notes: This fic is based on an incredible piece of fan-art I saw the other day, about Tony and Pepper having a baby, and giving him a Spider-Man doll to play with.

Art is by 茗牌耳钉 on Weibo.

EDIT: he/she has Twitter as well!

Also on FF & AO3.

I hope you enjoy the read~

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April. The first sneak peek of spring, the first month of slush-free roads. Central Park, turning green.

Tony Stark hovered over the city, his helmet open. The wind was brisk at this height, so he had a little trouble keeping his eyes open, but he wanted to see the colors with his own eyes. It was a lovely Saturday, and millions milled about the streets and avenues below. Madison Square was packed to the brim.

He flew a short distance over to Washington Square Park. It was similarly filled. He was at roughly the same altitude as the Empire State building, so doubtless the throngs pulsing below could see him well and clear. Without the suit's visual feed, Tony couldn't make out the individual faces as they peered up at him.

He imagined they must be cursing him.

Nonetheless, his vantage point afforded Tony a veil of sorts, a barrier vast enough to block out the sounds below. It was peaceful and good — this was his city, and he was her protector, standing high and mighty in the clouds.

… Hiding, low and broken, behind his worthless armor, suffocating under an avalanche of shame.

“Boss,” FRIDAY said, “you're going to be late if you don't start heading — ”

“I know,” Tony said. He closed his eyes. The nanobots obeyed his thoughts, reforming the helmet over his head, and a second later Tony breathed in the familiar filtered air. It used to make him feel invincible, this clean, sterile smell. Now every breath was a reminder.

“I know,” he said again. He took one last look at the restored Washington Square Arch beneath him. “Let's go.”

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It was a nice and quiet place with impressive views of the city's skyline. Not many of the residents were new, so there were relatively few visitors. Tony landed in an out-of-the-way little garden, making sure he wasn't seen. The armor disintegrated and rolled itself back into his chest.

He took a deep breath. It smelled like flowers. Oh, he'd forgotten to bring flowers.

He donned his shades, as if they protected him from the scrutinizing stares as he walked the short distance over. He had only been here once, but he knew the place well — he'd visited, after all, more times than he could count, in BARF and in his dreams.

Three people were already there; a girl, a boy, a woman. The grass beneath his feet rustled to herald his arrival. Tony willed himself to not flinch as they looked up.

“Mr. Stark,” May Parker said. There was not an ounce of surprise in her tone… in fact, there was not an ounce of anything in her tone. Tony wished there was. He wished she would curse, scream, cry, seethe. Anything.

“May —“ he began.

“Please call me Mrs. Parker,” the woman said.

“Right,” Tony muttered. He was a fool. He couldn't do this. He stared up at the blue sky, and wanted nothing more than to materialize the suit and fly away.

“Mr. Stark?” piped a timid voice. Tony looked over to see the boy in the group, a chubby Asian holding a Lego Millennium Falcon, stealing a glance at him. As their gazes met, the boy averted his eyes — bloodshot and rimmed with red, Tony noticed.

All the same, the boy shuffled aside.

“Are you going to… uh, join us?” he asked, voice even smaller than before.

“Ah,” Tony said. He squeezed out a smile. “Yes. Thank you, Ned.”

The boy looked astounded that he'd remembered his name. Tony stepped up a little, and gave a brief nod to the girl now beside him.

“And you must be… Michelle, right?”

Michelle blinked and shrugged. “Mmhmm,” she said, obviously every bit as surprised as Ned, though rather better at feigning nonchalance.

Tony hated how he had to act as if he was asking — as if he wouldn't know the names of the kid's best friends.

As if he didn't know the names of every member of the Midtown Tech Decathlon team.

As if he hadn't memorized the names of every person who bothered to show up to the service. Not that there were many — the kid hadn't exactly been popular in school.

Nothing else was said after that. May Parker had closed her eyes, and Ned was muttering something under his breath, clutching his Lego piece. Michelle was looking over towards Manhattan, her jaws tight.

Tony fought the urge to look up again at the sky. Two point three six billion lightyears away, there was a decaying planet called Titan, in a whole other galaxy still undiscovered by NASA… at least that was what the blue-green android woman had told him.

He clenched his hands into fists. Breathe in, breathe out. He repeated this ten times before finally, with a light jerk of his head, his gaze settled on the stenciled letters.

Peter Benjamin Parker, 2001-2018

A loving nephew, a best friend, and always our hero

Mr. Stark? I don't feel so good…

I don't want to go…

Sorry.

The sound that escaped his throat was something Tony did not expect. Suddenly, all he could see in front of him was dust, and dust, and more dust, blowing on the brown and tattered landscape. It wasn't until he heard Ned's surprised shouts that he noticed the helmet forming around his head.

Tony allowed himself a second of respite inside cocoon of filtered air, where the world could not see him break — where the world only saw the red and gold mask, forever strong.

Then he willed the nanobots to disassemble.

All three of them were staring at him when his skin once again touched the free air. Tony tried to speak, tried to crack a joke — he had to take a call from the company — always at the worst time, am I right?

But then May Parker said, “It's okay. I'm here with you.”

And Tony simply collapsed in front of the headstone, his fingers gliding over the smooth surface, etching out each letter. Behind him, May put her hand on his shoulder, and Tony was glad she was there, glad because she too understood what it felt like to have your soul ground and pulverized until it was a colossal vacuum that could never be filled, not by all the happiness in the universe.

When he screamed, he took what little comfort in knowing she was beside him, walking every step of this hell with him. Her fingers on his shoulder tightened, and for a moment they were linked through that eternal pain; that void of a parent losing a child.

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May had brought a plate of her signature walnut date loafs, and a few other new recipes she'd wanted for Peter to try. Ned had brought the Lego, naturally. Michelle had brought a sketchbook. Tony noticed how thin it looked; more than half the pages had been ripped out, and the cover looked splattered. For a moment Tony imagined the skinny girl, sitting alone in her room, the drip-drip-drip of her tears soaking through her sketches.

Tony wished he'd remembered to bring flowers. He wished he'd remembered to bring something. Hastily he downloaded a model of a flower, and ported it to the nano-assembly algorithms. Soon a miniature white rose grew out of the palm of his hand, glinting in its metallic sheen. The display had been enough to captivate Ned, who seemed to have temporarily forgotten his grief.

Looking at the boy's face was like a gut punch. That same wonder, that same curiosity. That same fascination and youthful enthusiasm. Peter made that face often, pretty much whenever Tony allowed him inside the lab or workshop.

What Tony wouldn't give to see that face again, just one more time.

Gently he laid the flower down in front of the headstone, next to the others' gifts. It landed with a small clink.

“Do you have a place to be?” May asked. Her voice seemed hoarse, but somehow softened.

He did. He had other memorial events to attend. He planned to make a visit to Happy's family, as well as Sam's. He had a meeting with Hank Pym and the rest of the Avengers.

He needed to get back to Pepper and their boy.

“No,” he said. “I've got a while.”

“Eat with us,” she said. “We — we were going to Peter's favorite Thai place.”

“That sounds fantastic.”

“I'll tell you where it is, and you can meet us —“

“No. I'll ride with you guys.”

May nodded. She lingered a few seconds more, before bending down and kissing the headstone. Ned gave it a squeeze, hard enough his stubby fingers turned white. Michelle… Michelle didn't do anything. But Tony knew if she touched that stone, she would shatter.

“Are you coming, Mr. Stark?” May asked.

“Yeah,” he said. “Just — give me a minute.”

He waved them ahead. When he was sure they were out of sight, he knelt down and hugged the headstone tight.

“I miss you, kid,” he said. “You know that? I really — really miss you.”

He choked down the lump in his throat.

“I'm so proud of you, Pete,” he whispered, and for this small moment, he allowed himself to crumble.

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The Thai food was very good, but Tony was forced to cut their lunch out a bit short. He thanked May, and Ned and Michelle, for allowing him to intrude. It surprised them, and himself too, because that was so very unlike him.

But then May had given him a smile — a small smile, but a genuine one.

“Peter would've wanted you here,” she said simply.

Tony turned and pretended to watch the TV.

“I heard you had a baby,” May remarked when their table fell silent.

“Ah, yes,” Tony mused, not knowing why she changed the topic, but grateful to pivot. “Not my best creation, to be honest — all he can do at the moment is cry and poop and eat. Even Dum-E is a little better in —“

“Thank you,” May said.

Tony paused.

“Yes, the world often does,” he said finally, chuckling awkwardly. “But I've gotta admit, I don't know why you are —“

Tentatively, May squeezed his hands. Tony flinched at the touch, but didn't pull away.

“Tony,” she said. “Thank you.”

She knows, he thought. He hadn't intended her to know. He worried that she might think of it as an affront. He thought maybe she'd think he didn't deserve it; didn't have the right to use that name. But here she was, thanking him.

“Yeah,” he said, not trusting his face. “I guess I have the paparazzi to thank. Honestly, you'd think they have more important things to report on — Anyway, I got to go, there's —“

“Wait!“ May's grip on his hand tightened a little. She rummaged around in her purse before pulling out a tangle of red and blue fabric. “I — I was making — I was making this, and I…“ She trailed off, and just put the thing on the table between them.

It was a spider-man doll. Coarsely made at first glance, but Tony picked out the little scabs on May's fingers, dots of dark red. Suddenly, he recalled Peter mentioning once how she couldn't sew or knit to save her life.

'And other people were like, aren't aunts supposed to sew you stuff? And I'm like, not May!'

'Kid, could we save the topic for when you're not literally being sewn up?'

'It distracts me from the pain, Mr. Stark. Ow. Are you really sure I can't use anesthetics?'

The memory brought a bittersweet smile to Tony's lips. He picked up the small doll.

“Thank you for making this for him,” he said, his voice solemn.

“I meant it as a gift to celebrate him finishing junior year,” May said softly. “But I never seemed to get around to it, and then… last year, when that… I just stopped working on it.”

Tony's mouth felt dry. “So why did you finish it now, after all this time?”

May shrugged.

“Because we're still here,” she said. “Because we're the only ones who remember Peter as spider-man. Because we owe it to him to pass it on.” She paused, before giving Tony a brief smile. “That's why it's not for our Peter.”

Tony frowned. “Our Peter?” but then he got it.

It was for his Peter.

Tony took the doll and lowered his head, so neither May nor the two kids could see his eyes. Then he stood up, and let the suit spread over his skin. He ignored the gasps and cries of surprise from the other customers. He made sure to keep the doll in a safe compartment.

“Thank you,” he said. With the suit, he could be sure his voice didn't sound too-tight. “Thank you, May.”

She smiled again. “Say hello to him for me.”

He nodded, stepped out of the restaurant, and took off.

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“What's up, Mr. Stark?” Peter called out as he bounded into the lab. “What are you working on?”

Tony, being Tony, didn't answer. Instead he gave a vague wave of his hand and dumped the current design blueprints onto Peter's Starkphone. Peter was used to this, so he happily hopped onto a Hulkbuster model, and began swiping through the information.

“Woah,” he said, grasping the gist in barely a minute — brilliant, as usual. “You're trying to create a nano-arc reactor with vibranium at its core! That's so cool!“

“Trying is the key word, kid,” Tony said fondly. “Don't think it'll happen in the near future, not unless I can convince Wakanda to share some of its technologies and resources.”

“I'd like to go to Wakanda sometime,” Peter said wistfully.

“You and me both, kid. I even hear they have a Princess your age. Come on, get down from there, Hulkbuster's not something to play on.”

“Hmm,” Peter said, reading further into the file and ignoring Tony's admonishment. “Mr. Stark, do you think the vibranium could work as an alloy or does it have to be pure?”

“We'll have to try to make do with an alloy, otherwise it'll never be feasible. I swear, it's more expensive than that thing from what's-that-film, the one with the blue people —“

“Avatar,” Peter said. “And it was called unobtainium. But they could've come up with a better name, at least!“ the teen plopped down on the Hulkbuster's head, draping himself over the eyes. “Hey FRIDAY, can I get something to drink? I'm so parched.”

“Sure thing, Mr. Parker. Milk or OJ? Or perhaps beer? We have whiskey, too.”

“FRIDAY,” Tony warned.

“Sorry, Boss.”

“OJ, please,” Peter said, too engrossed in the data to notice the banter. Tony smiled and shook his head.

“By the way, kid,” he added. “Tell me when you're finished reading that. I've got a project for ya.”

“Really?” the teen said, looking up — looking down — at Tony, at once bubbling with excitement. “I'm done reading! What's the project ab—“

The boy's voice stopped. Slowly, the lab faded away. Tony stood up from where he had been watching and looked around, somewhat disoriented. A second later he spotted Pepper at the door, arms crossed.

“You have a meeting tonight,” she said.

“Yes,” he said, blinking away the bright lights. “Very astute, Mrs. Stark.”

“You told me you were taking a nap.”

“I woke up.”

“You said you weren't going to use BARF anymore.”

“I wasn't. FRIDAY must have forced it on me.”

“Boss…“

“Leave her out of this,” Pepper snapped. “Tony, you can't keep doing this. Especially not today. You promised.”

“Stark promises aren't worth very much,” Tony said, chuckling. “Runs in the family.”

Pepper strode over and yanked him to her. Then she kissed him.

“Come on; if you aren't going to sleep, and it doesn't appear you are, let's go check on little Mo. He's gonna wake up soon.”

Mr. Stark knew there was no use in arguing with Mrs. Stark at the moment, so he sighed and allowed her to grab his hand. She guided him over to their room, where a high-tech crib stood in the corner, monitoring everything from vitals to blood sugar to the state of the diapers.

Tony peered down at his sleeping son. “Morgan,” he whispered softly. “Morgan. Morgan Peter Stark.”

The full name alone sent him to the edge. Pepper patted his back, as if she could soothe his tensed muscles back down.

“The best Stark there ever was,” she joked. Tony kissed her.

“I met May Parker today,” he said, not wanting to leave the warmth of her lips. “She… she knows of Mo.”

“Well, the entire world knows we had a baby,” Pepper said, smiling.

“No, Pepper.” Tony said. “She knew his name… she knew his middle name.”

“Oh,” Pepper said. Her hands stopped caressing his back. “There must have been a leak. Damn it, they've been digging for the baby's name for months — those press people will never let go once they sniff out a story. Tony, I'm so sorry, I know you didn't want her to know, I'll get someone to check where it got out —“

“She thanked me,” Tony said, cutting her off. “I — I named my son after Pete, without telling her, and she thanked me. Jesus, Pepper, what did I do to deserve to be — I killed him. I killed him, and she thanked me.”

“You didn't kill him,” she said.

“I couldn't — I tried to protect him —“

“Tony…“ Pepper said.

“I put everything I could think of into that suit,” Tony continued. “I tried, Pepper, I thought I was ready — I couldn't —“

“Tony, please —“

Tony turned away from the crib, feeling like he couldn't breathe. “I couldn't,” he croaked out. “I couldn't protect him. I watched him disa—“

“Anthony Stark!“ Pepper shouted. “Stop that right now! You didn't kill him, you hear me? You did not kill him.”

Tony was trembling all over. He knew she would kiss him, so he let the kiss happen. Pepper's fingers dug into his palm.

“Breathe,” she said. “That's it, Tony. Breathe in. Breathe out.”

Gradually Tony was able to gather himself, like grasping the shards of a glass house and putting it back together… piece by painstaking piece. Pepper combed his hair, pressing him to her, whispering encouragements all the while. Finally Tony gave a low chuckle, exhausted.

“Thanks,” he whispered.

“We're always here for you,” she replied. “Mo and I.”

Tony kissed her. He looked down at his sleeping son. “Mo wouldn't be here without him, you know.”

“I know,” Pepper said, resting her head on his shoulder. “I know.”

They stood by the crib for several minutes, just listening to the steady quiet breathing. Tony reached down to nuzzle the baby's rosy cheeks.

It wasn't long before Mo began to stir. Tony withdrew his hand, abashed, but Pepper laughed.

“It's okay,” she said. “He should be waking up around now anyway.” She reached down to tickle the little tummy, and the baby's dark eyes popped open. “Hey Mo!“ Pepper said. “Look who's here? Daddy's here.”

Mo's plump little face beamed at Pepper upon hearing her voice. Then he turned his head towards Tony, and chortled.

“Hey Mo,” Tony said. “Hey.”

We owe it to him to pass it on, May had said.

For our Peter. For my Peter.

Tony closed his eyes, and reached into his coat pocket to pull out the spider-man doll.

“Tony?” Pepper said. “Tony, what's that?”

“May Parker made it,” Tony replied wearily. “She wanted Mo to have it.”

“Wow! That's adorable!“ Pepper took the doll from him, and moved the arms as if she were controlling a marionette. She made the doll wave. “Hi, Mo!“ she said as she peered down at the baby. “I'm spider-man! And I hear you're a very brave boy.”

Mo let out an incoherent noise of interest, and reached up for the doll. Pepper let his tiny hands grab the doll's arm, and Mo's grip tightened instantly, as if making introductions. Pepper laughed and tickled the baby a bit more.

Tony watched them play together. He tried to ingrain the moment in his memory, but all he could think was, I wish you were here, kid.

I wish you were here, Pete.

Once again, credit to the artist ~

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coombayayaya · 6 years ago

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Crush 10/3/2018

“You love me” “Shut up...”

Go to Lunch, respective smiles, Bible, he goes straight to her, go home, type what happened, do homework, go to sleep, rinse, repeat. I don’t know what I’m expecting. Last night, I got the answer I asked for, but was it what I wanted? Was it what I needed? I don’t know... All I know is that he doesn’t care about me at all. Well at least the logical side of my brain is kicking back in... I know he doesn’t like me like that anymore- or at least if he does, then he’s hiding it really well, but somehow I’m not pleased with the answer that he doesn’t like me like that. He doesn’t like that I lie... “No duh Crystal, no one likes a lier”, but it’s like he doesn’t want anything to do with me because of that. Shifting gears a bit, he’s also been acting weird since last week... Of course, he seemed really cheesed off last Thursday which is probably why Light’s action was his snapping point, but this week he hasn’t seemed like himself... Granted, I haven’t really talked to him all that much, but it’s just from his actions... According to my friend, he put his head down in math class, and he NEVER does that... I don’t know... I’m just worried for him which isn’t good. It makes it easier for him to use me... (Not like THAT you perves... Geez...) For example, in Bible today, he got hungry so he asked me if I had any food, and I said no, because I’m a good child and I don’t eat in classrooms, but he insisted that I did because I don’t buy lunch at school, which is true. You see, this is feeding into his idea of me being a lier. “Well yeah, I have food, but not ON me, it’s in my locker”. “Could you run to your locker and get it?” The thoughts that ran through my mind were that this could lead to him using me more to get stuff, which is important. PLEASE remember that for later. I ran off to my locker, got the bag of popcorn that I never eat and run back. I hide it in my pocket and bring a water bottle with me so that I could say that I had another reason to go to my locker. As I enter the room, he turns and smiles at me and I toss it over to him. “You love me” “Shut up” OF COURSE I DO!!! Now you might be wondering, “Crystal, even after that you STILL love him?!” and my answer would be yes, I still love him. I love him not because I want to. Heck, if you asked me if I wanted to love him, I’d say no. I don’t want to love him because quite honestly that would mean that it would be easier for him to manipulate me, but I do. It’s his laugh, his eyes- oh gosh if you saw his eyes, you’d fall in love with them too... He’s just overall an interesting person that I just want to get to know more... I digress. Later we’re just chilling since we finished the reading but the others didn’t, and once our teacher says to get back into our groups, we did the thing. Eye contact. I point to behind him which is where my group was, and of course he asks if I’m sure, and I say yes. “Yes, I don’t lie ALL the time you know” “Really?” and we go to the same group. A little bit of time later, he asks me if I have any water. Now you might be thinking that I gave it to him even though I’m a massive germaphobe (fun fact lol), but you’ll be surprised to know that I said NO!!! WOAH I KNOW RIGHT?! I LEARNED HOW TO SAY NO!!! He was visibly slightly upset, but you know it’s all good. A few minutes pass, and- okay... So this kid is a video game player, as most guys are, and he spends money on them, as most guys do... Well... He asked if I had a credit card. Okay first off, even if I did, I wouldn’t give it to you, because yes, I love you, but I don’t want to be in debt before I’m 21 alright?! Secondly, STOP SPENDING MONEY ON GAMES BRO!!! YOU’RE LITERALLY *insert age*!!! FFS!!! Anywho, I said no I don’t have a credit card, and he said that I did, and I think I do?... I don’t even know to be honest, but I told him that my parents won’t allow me to use it. “Ugh you have f*cking Asian parents” “Yeah I know, and they’re overprotective, you know this” Needless to say, I still have my money... Thankfully... I’m just really concerned... Not for his money spending, gosh he can spend whatever he wants on whatever as long as it’s not illegal or immoral, but I’m worried for his wellbeing... I don’t know how well my friend is doing with him, but I just came to the conclusion that if she exists, than he’ll be fine because with him, it seems like she’s his world... It also might mean that he’s broken up with his girlfriend?... I don’t know, it’s confusing, as I said, and it’s really weird... It’s been about, what, three weeks now and I’m STILL confused and afraid?... I don’t know... I just... I want him to be honest with me... Yeah yeah I know it’s ironic, but I really do. Everything that I say to him regarding feelings and thoughts are true. I figure that if I’ve already laid myself out on the table, I might as well add garnish to it, and these little details are the garnish... I believe we’ll be on call again tonight, so I hope that goes well... Wish me luck!!! Byeee!!!

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ad360com · 5 years ago

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Wyatt answers a question (Part1)

Telling me not to so something makes me want to do it even more, DJ. Why Israel? Because when I joined this movement, I notice everyone talks about every other country but no serious discussion on Israel. No one is safe from criticism imo. So how about we do that, DJ? Shall we? Let's have honest discussion, DJ. Because truth is coming. It is obvious that elite 1% hide behind good jewish people to commit atrocities and profit on top of them. Much like America. I have no problem admitting that. We are great, but we are also monsters to much of the world. The elite 1% have created the jewish vehicle and manipulate good Americans and good Israelis, they do not care about the Jews. At. All. They hide behind them. In fact, Honest Jews should be most vocal. This common knowledge outside the schizophrenic propaganda bubble in America. Oh trust me, DJ, they don't care if you Jewish or Moslem or Christian. They have plans for each of you. They will use you. Tarnish your name. They will ride you like vehicle, & when you crash, they will use other vehicle. HRC=vehicle. Jews=vehicle. Christian's are vehicles. It's all pretty simple if you put emotions aside and think from perspective of psychotic king. Tbh, all of this new to me, I've only started looking into this topic since 2018. How the good jewish people aren't outraged is beyond me. I really don't get it. It'll be hard, ofc. It's funny. Some Q people follow like no one's biz and have malfunction when Israel brought up even tho Q says "saving Israel last." People afraid to RT etc but my views way up, so obv ppl curious & reading. Massive redpills incoming. Bend over and say ah. One side note. I like Gorka, but he gets foolish and smeared low follower acct I follow not long ago because he asked legitimate Q about Holocaust. Q everything? Gorka called him "denier." That is what I mean. No hate ever, we want honest discussion & curious why the deflections Also I dont always have opinion on the stuff I write about, just sayin. So if you say anything to me like dumb cuck, I'll laugh. I'm just typing what I see. Even from multiple perspectives sometimes But the Q was about the Holocaust numbers. Fair question. So I looked into it. The outright denial is chidish imo and not serious person. People definitely died, and there were labor camps, but numbers get questionable. Yes, yes they do. You can find examples everywhere. There was a single witness who supposedly was in two concentration camps and is the primary source for about 1/3 of Holocaust deaths. It's a nasty rabbit hole, but you figure out that a lot is stack of exaggerations. One of the most obvious is the fact that the Nazi's crematoriums would have had to burn a body about 10x faster than a modern one and be running 24/7 for years with literal zero downtime. There's a reason why they specifically say "Historians agree that 6 million died" because it's just an agreement, not an actual number based on facts. Have you ever seen the Treblinka Holocaust Memorial? It looks pretty strange for a "memorial". Looks like they just Holocaust historians claim that during WW2 almost 900,000 people were killed and buried at Treblinka. And they claim that later the Germans dug up and burned the bodies in order to destroy the evidence. In 1999 a team of experts used an $80,000 Ground Penetration Radar (GPR) device to check for evidence that the soil had ever been disturbed as . They found no evidence of any soil disturbance. They covered the field with 17,000 boulders/stones and called it a memorial.Now you can't run any more Ground Penetration Radar tests - not without moving 17,000 boulders (which are set into concrete). Of course, doing this would be disturbing a sacred Holocaust "memorial" - which would land you in jail. Mission Accomplished. The whole Holocaust thing and the way the elite 1% use as a vehicle is very strange and fascinating at same time. Are you not at all curious as to why this is the only genocide event that needs legal protection by throwing "deniers" into jail? Or do you just happily overdose on the forced narratives? Surely the elite would never lie to you. They aren't psychopaths or anything. Trust us. Genuine Question. Why do we hear about the Holocaust over and over in movies, TV shows, documentaries, newspapers, books, etc. but almost never hear about the HUNDREDS of other historical genocides? It seems very weird until you figure out the real purpose of all this. Ask yourself one simple question, How in the world does Israel get away with their mass murder, ethnic cleansing and brutal oppression - if we're going to be honest. I have criticism for both sides of that conflict, don't get me wrong. I'm staying on outside looking in though. Why are we very allowed to discuss the idea of white privilege, but forbidden from discussion of the hypothesis of Jewish privilege? Foolish if you don't think it applies the other way too. In three words... Guilt/elites/vehicles. Guilt over Holocaust. Sick, but brilliant, no? The ultimate Guilt trip enables the ultimate in psychological manipulation. You see, Holocaust means that they entitled to special rights - the right to forbid people from discussing their disproportionate wealth & political influence. THE PERFECT VEHICLE. How do you not see? A found that the number one reason Jewish Americans give as the source of their identity as Jews is not race or religion. Instead when asked "What does it mean to be Jewish?", the number one reason given (73%) was "Remembering the Holocaust". Hm. Some people think of it as a secular pseudo-religion called Holocaust-ianity or some shit (combining the words "holocaust" and "Christianity"). Laws in many U.S. states, known as , mandate teaching to all school children. Vedddy weird folks, no? This indoctrinates kids with the belief that the Jewish people are "unique" in their historical victim-hood. This puts Jews at the very top of the victim hierarchy. This was the goal from beginning, since widely believed victim narrative gives you political power, being top of victim hierarchy give you the most political power. That's why holocaust-ianity causes people to believe that Jews deserve special rights that no one else has. They mean well, but man are they slow. For example, holocaust-ianity means wealthy inbred morons can manipulate Israel and somehow hold ethical exemption to create type of racist country, whether citizens realize or not. Laughable. Israel is diverse. I know 4 that live in Haifa and they travel all over. Lefties, righties, buncha groups. If Mr.Trump just stomped out the major criminal networks we wouldn't even be dealing with any of this bullschiff. Regular citizens always the ones who suffer. It's pathetic. Normal chill citizens there can easily do what we are doing. What I'm saying is I condemn both sides of region but also support both sides for defending themselves. Innocent people always caught up in the middle. What I'm really saying is that Israel needs to flush their toilet. Not hard to separate elite agenda from normal people on planet. Some idiots will follow like lefties here. Man made systems. Can be infiltrated and can be used as vehicles to manipulate the masses of genuine good people out there. Also dont forget the horrific stuff Japanese did. And then you have them working with China and selling sensitive information and testing out traitorous surveillance tech. Like Hillary. Who is Rothschild pet. God forbid we should ever cut off their billions and cut aid entirely for now - they might really stab us in the back. Holocaust-ianity gives right to violate principle free speech, so people can be censored etc. Use Dan Cringeshaw, but never trust Dan Cringeshaw. He said it best. Said you're allowed to question everything and criticize every govt except for one lucky winner. Hint: not USA Currently no other vehicle at time has this special political right to protect the victim-hood narrative against people who might use their free speech rights to question the narrative. Also why Obama talked schmack but still agreed to send billions. Elites are manipulating you. The political power engendered by Holocaust-ianity is so powerful that it must be protected at all costs from the blasphemers, otherwise known as holocaust "deniers." Pathetic boring game by 1%. Make no mistake. Creating J victimhood and using as vehicle is nothing new at all. If you start seriously questioning the narratives, some will malfunction and start melting and end up blocking you or telling me "why they are going to block me now" lolol. It's so childish and weird. All we're doing is talking, asking questions, normal stuff. So scary ... ffs. Literally only thing I remember learning in Highschool was Holocaust and Rwandan genocide only because chill mf teacher put on movie Hotel Rwanda (really really good btw) about Rwandan genocide. We were taught as if Holocaust was the only genocide. Others not brought up. Why? I got indoctrinated by bs and became bored and 100% distanced from all this. When I saw a lot of the truth and became fascinated and interested in our history and cemented love of country and realized there are shit load of atrocities - feels clown like to treat anyone special. I wish more would sit down and look at things more honestly. Even if you dont know answer. I openly talk about all these topics with whites, blacks, hispanics, asians, my best friend Filipino (Dodi), or other best friend Sikh (Deepak), 99% understand none of this is our fault. That's why the state of Israel denies the Armenian Holocaust. That's also why the state of Israel denies the Polish Holocaust. And that's why the state of Israel agrees Ukrainian Holocaust must be downplayed. Even ADL on video bullied Ukraine into There can be only one **top** victim narrative. We can't even trade positions for like a day. Boring! And that position must belong to the "most oppressed people in history" - the "chosen people". *barf* The clip showing ADL's triggered bullying is from a documentary called "Defamation". Created by an Israeli Jew. Jews aren't a race, they are a religion Jewish supremacists in some top universities teach that Judaism is only a religion and that Jews are really just white people. Of course, it's not true and they know it. America's Most Famous Rabbi (as well as Israeli scientists) admitted that Jews are a Race, not a Religion. So why do they teach the "Judaism is only a religion" fallacy? They do this so that they can promote the idea of "White Supremacy" imo. If Judaism is nothing but a religion, that means the concept of ["White Supremacy" can be used as camouflage to cover up the fact that we actually live in a System of Jewish Supremacy. Also you do NOT have to be "Jewish." It's a game. Many people like myself are very new to breaking out of the mind control propaganda. They've had an almost total lock on the information for many decades. The internet is allowing a break out of the 'forbidden' information. The Jewish Supremacists are clearly freaking out and trying their best to bring censorship to the internet under the cover of "hate speech" laws. Hopefully enough people can be de-programmed in time to prevent the censoring of more internet. The axis of power in the world is doing tilts and Israel has to start wiggling itself into good position with China. As for the US, state of Israel doesn't give two schiffs about US or its people, you are tax farm and buncha fools who will jump to defense when they tell you to. It's going to be interesting to see how they will attempt to wiggle w Chinese, they are less easily manipulated than the Americans. If you step on toes once they will not forget. Not like US which has gaping whole for ass of the huge arse f'ng it has been getting for years now. You should really talk to some Israelis or read what they write online. A few good websites out there. Israel is more critical of Israel than the US is of Israel. It is hysterical to me. Some Americans think Israel is some hivemind and each person is connected with a string. US "ally" Israel routinely caught sending American troops in to do the fighting they should be doing themselves. Israel is not the home of the chosen people. There are no chosen people. What a strange ridiculous idea. Some conservatives get creepy about it. I see in my replies. Israelis have own interest in mind, always have. We may think they are our allies, but if somebody else gives them a better deal, they will sell us. That's just a fact. We have no real allies. Doesn't mean we end trade or anything. But we should know where everyone's coming from. It's just weird how the influence is all up in media. Hollywood. Basically 40% of all billionaires. Supreme court. Hell, 2% of population, but 80% of peach mints. Those witnesses were.... you'll never guess. Why would people not question this or at least have honest discussion. This was a brief duckduckgo search that took no more than 7 mins. I was reading article on how Tyler perry owns the movie studio in Atlanta, and how it’s bigger than paramount and dream works and other studios combined. So I started thinking about other influences in Hollyweird. Hollywood, I didn’t know this, made up of more than one movie studio. I’m ignoramus to this stuff. So I duckduck the owners of all the major studios in Hollywood. Boy oh boy, they’re all yeah you guessed it. To me, it's more interesting than anything. I'm just naturally curious. And it wasn’t till 2018 that I was exposed to this how Jewish Supremacists manipulate normal Israelis and normal Americans, and that would explain why America is Israel’s ho. Even that tho, the America is Israel’s biatch thing, I still don’t fully understand the foreign policy we have with them but I hear that phrase thrown out a lot by people who are known as "no bs" people. The inconsistency in the Jewish proportion of heavy hitter business people is fascinating. It really is. I’m still a shit and still learning when it comes to this and our ties with Israel. Over last few weeks I’ve been thinking about religions and how there’s really only three major ones, all with some things in common in their stories but with one major commonality, the holy land: I don’t think any of the religions got it right, something could have happened x amount of years ago in my opinion and the religions are essentially people’s versions of the story, most inconsistencies with a few similarities. How would we know. We wouldn't. Could very well be like a game of telephone. I could be wrong though, it could be something else but as I get older my belief in God grows, and idek how to pray to it or what to read about because I don’t think anyone’s got it right. And I'm a Catholic and believe in God. When your team runs the award-giving committee, you tend to win a lot of awards. That said, I have a lot of respect and admiration for the Jewish team. They've got an 'us-against'-the-world' thing going that encourages them work together and achieve some pretty cool things. Unfortunately, 'Us-against-the-world' also implies you can treat everyone who isn't on your team as an enemy combatant. It's this embattled attitude that generates a kind of ruthless, unsympathetic attitude toward players on the other team. And they are FIRST to call out any other group that adopts same strategy. It blows my mind how many people fail to understand this is a MACRO evolutionary strategy for them and they wish to slowly breed out and exile out races they don't like etc. Using Jewish label as a front. Yep, they even gave the White Helmets a Nobel Peace Prize. That shows the level of propaganda they are able to perpetuate against the American people through their mass media apparatus. Tons of Overwhelming Evidence That Israel Supports !slamic Terrorist Groups in Syria. You never hear about the regular, everyday Jews and it's shameful. I obviously know and talk to poor Jewish peeps, but it’s a thing, it’s such a thing to the point that it’s a stereotype. While stereotypes can be offensive or seem irrational because they cast a wide generalization on a large group of people, they exist for a reason and stick around for the same, so they must be true on some level. Not all catholic priests diddle. I went to 2 years of communion classes as boy at a catholic church with other kids and the priests were awesome. That doesn’t take away from the fact that a shitload of kids did get touched and molested by priests on such a large scale that the Vatican was aware. And I have no problem admitting Catholic Church one of most corrupt organizations in world and is used to manipulate masses. Not all Jews are bad or are out to take out America or care to gain influence through high ranking positions. It's all just a game. But we're the ones that suffer and get manipulated. Literally every Jewish person I've befriended, are normal, ethical people who care about living life through what their religion seems just. But that doesn’t take away from the fact that Jewish people, both male and female hold lots of highly influential and esteem positions in America, a country mostly made up of Christians when it comes to religious demographic, and these positions are dominated by Jewish people at an alarming inconsistent rate. Try reversing role and doing that shite in Israel. They'll kick you out so fast your head will be spinning. I watched interview one time with David Ben Gurion and the interviewer asked the former prime minister about Israel's nuclear program. (Israel has never admitted to having nukes, though there's lot of anecdotal evidence saying they do have nukes...but no country has inspected Israel's program since JFK. JFK was very suspect of state of Israel. So interviewer asks DBG if Israel has nukes and he replies, "We have enemies". So that's the situation. If you see the rest of the world as an enemy, you can do anything, because, it's for your survival. The truth is simply pointing out facts made from observations in data causes lots of childish triggering and weird deflection on this subject because of the deep history. Pointing out the inconsistency in that blacks make up 13-15% of the US population but over 70% of the prison population shouldn’t cause uproar or anger but rather curiosity and request of answers. Most videos of police officers will have you believe most cops use excessive force and that there is war going on between inner city black people and white pool ice officers. Total nonsense. Obviously not all blacks are criminals, but something’s fishy there. For a fact a lot of black people in prison did something wrong that led directly to their incarceration but the numbers simply hint at some sort of fuckery afoot, that leads to people asking questions. Doesn’t take a five minute duckduckgo search to realize how many blacks are doing hard time for ridiculous non violent drug offenses. Same thing goes for the cops. One of most stressful jobs ever, all day people are lying to you, when you show up to a situation it typically doesn’t mean something great is happening, pulling people over to give them tickets must feel like a shitty thing to do when a quota is set by dept. most are good at their job. It’s the few who we see in videos that show a lack of training and or skill under stressful situations. And same goes for this except when these observations are made immediate malfunction cognitive dissonance ensues. The difference with the outrage is they have a decent influence on so many sectors of this country, you can literally be black balled for life from anything. The collective identity makes sure that you think in terms of Group first and prior to anything else. On top of this, Judaism actively teaches infiltration of positions of power, politics, msm, and so on simply in order to better their chances at survival by group based nepotism. Imo the narratives have been twisted by the winners. This where the whole “history is written by the winners” phrase comes in. You have a full understanding of just how powerful the influence is when it comes to people just simply speaking about, or asking genuine questions etc.

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METAMORPHOSIS ISSUE 49

Human Resources strengthens #SupportLocal Program

The pandemic affected the country in a thousand ways but it also taught the people to be innovative and skillful in terms of resourcefulness. The online world debuted in the time of COVID because it is one way to keep everyone safe from contracting the virus. Asian Hospital and Medical Center ‘s (AHMC) Human Resources Department and Tatak Asian Pusong Asian Team (TAPAT) devised ways on how employees may gain extra income and augment their financial literacy.

Last May 18, 2021, members of TAPAT and HR launchedthe TAPAT Local Market Facebook (FB) page so that Asian employees may have a platform where they can freely post the products they are selling aside from the original Everyday Employee Engagement group.

Various financial literacy and skill building programs were made available to these employees to help equip them on their business plans. The two-part webinar organized by ELITE titled, “How to start and grow your Investment?” facilitated by BDO last April 16 and 23 where the employees learnt about equity, index, and other types of funds. The webinar was attended by close to fifty employees.

As part of their plans, TAPAT is planning to provide a Puhunan package for those employees who want to start their business. Opening the TAPAT Local Market FB group and a weekend market to external customers are also in the list of the future plans. They also wish to collaborate with government or NGO that will provide free trainings and/or seminars for the employees.

In terms of providing employees an area where they may sell their products in the hospital, the opening of the TAPAT Local Friday or Weekend Market at the alfresco dining area is on its way.

Supporting local products and financial wellness began in 2012 for the Asian Hospital community when the Employee Bazaar happened during AHMC’s anniversary and Christmas weeklong celebration. The AHMC Multi-Purpose Cooperative (Coop) enabled employees to manage their finances by setting aside a portion of their salaries and saving it thru the help of Coop.

As part of the Financial Literacy Program in 2014, Manu Life and BDO were chosen to be the hospital’s partners for insurance and payroll accounts. In 2018, a free skill building session was accessible to all employess as there was a photography and videography learning session along with a livelihood program.

For the years 2019 and 2020, an Employee Business Directory posting, Online Employee Business Directory, Personal Financial Management Learning Sessions, and an Online Bazaar was made possible amidst the pandemic. Through teamwork and cooperation, these programs are designed to help the employees boost their fullest potential in local business and financial wellness.

Health Declaration Commitment:

A tool to ensure healthcare workers are in good condition

Asian Hospital’s Human Resources (HR) Department promotes and ensures a safe working environment alongside health and protocol guidelines, the complete accomplishment and submission of Health Declaration survey will help the institution to properly monitor and ensure everyone’s safety.

This health declaration survey covers the physical and mental well-being of all the employees. One way to reward compliant employees is a recognition during the Asian Hospital’s anniversary for all units and departments who have 100% compliance rate in accomplishing the health declaration survey.

HR provides a weekly Health Declaration report for every department to help monitor staff’s well-being. Employees, who have indicators that need assessment by the Employee Health Services, are being monitored and validated once they have visited EHS for their consultation.

The health declaration screening form is based on the guidelines released by the Department of Health to identify those that have signs and symptoms of COVID. When an employee clicks the ELITE button, a member of ELITE will get in touch with him/her for their private conversation regarding the matter he/she wishes to confide with. The employee is assured that all matters discussed are confidential.

As part of their plans, upgrading the system to a mobile application or accessible through QR code scans while retaining the questionnaire content for it to be able to secure all healthcare workers and patients of the hospital.

HR Trainings adapt to New Normal; Blended Learning Experience.

Trainings are essential and are part of an organization. It is with great pride that Asian Hospital’s Human Resources (HR) Training and Development arm has arranged various trainings appropriate for each employee in the new normal.

This includes the CORE programs where the employee is oriented and engaged on valuable information about AHMC and its culture. A Basic Competency Program designed for Non-Clinical employees to have basic knowledge and skills in email writing and advanced knowledge in basic office applications like Microsoft Office.

Some of the specialized programs are “Leadership Toolkit: Fundamentals of Leadership for Line Managers and Supervisors” where they learn about management and supervision, “Keeping it Natural: An E-Stress Management Workshop” promoting work-life balance and a healthy lifestyle, “Fundamentals for Outdoors” where hospital orientation, Customer Experience, and Facilities Management and Safety orientation for all outsourced staff.

A Leadership Learning Series occurs every after an HR update meeting with all the managers and supervisors where it will equip the attendees with management and leadership during this pandemic. Past speakers include Dr. Shirard Leonardo Adiviso, Ms. Serely Alcaraz, Mr. Ed Novillas, Ms. Socorro Yulo Tuvilla-Sevilla, Ms. Abbygale Arenas-De Leon, Mr. Tyne Dignadice, Jr. and many more.

The Leadership Learning Series delved into these points of learning--New and Creative Ways on Employee Engagement, A Key in Leadership Influence: Professional Online Presence, Keeping a Motivated Workforce thru Online Coaching, Performance Measures in the New Norm, Humanizing Technology, Virtual Talent Development, Servant Leadership, Agile Leadership, among others aligned to the new normal.

The Nursing Services Group prepared these trainings—PPE Training, Lactation Midwife Training, Ambulance Training, Cross Training, Peritoneal Dialysis, and Basic Specialty Training. Through resilience and innovation, the Asian Hospital and Medical Center’s Nursing Virtual Platform (NVP) aims to bridge the gap between books, classroom discussions, and how these are translated to actual nursing practice in a tertiary private hospital accredited by the Joint Commission International (JCI).

“Our goal is to continuously provide equipped and knowledgeable employees who are globally competitive and a big help to provide care to all our customers and be our company’s asset.”

Dr. De Jesus drops by CNN Philippines’ Med Talk Health Talk

Everyone grows old and changes are inevitable, that includes menopause in women. While symptoms may be uncomfortable for some women, some find it liberating. Asian Hospital’s Chair of Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dr. Corazon De Jesus talked about menopause and how it affects our physical and mental health and how best to manage it last May 28.

This CNN Philippines’ Med Talk Health Talk episode is available anytime at Asian Hospital’s Facebook page - facebook.com/AsianHospitalPH and on CNN Philippines’ YouTube page- https://www.youtube.com/cnnphilippines and Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/CNNPhilippines

Simply Maternal’s 1stVirtual Lay Forum

Last May 29, Asian Hospital’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, and Maternal Child Unit had their Online Lay Forum for Expectant Moms titled, “Simply Maternal”.

The said Lay Forum promoted awareness and guidance to the new and soon-to-be Mommies. The first series were the topics of Caring for the Expectant Moms, Pre-natal Care during Pandemic, Pre-natal Counselling, and Shared Decision-Making between you and you OBGYN doctor were all presented by Dr. Martha B. Aquino of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and she answered the LIVE questions of the participants.

The Virtual Simply Maternal Series are set to happen on the ff. dates: June 26, July 31, August 28, September 25, and on October 30 all happening at 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM. There is an available digital tour of the hospital’s facilities and the Genesis Center that may be viewed on the AHMC’s FB page.

Pregnant women patients may avail of the Maternity Package that are available in 1st, 2nd, and 3rdtrimester all for a reasonable and affordable price. They may also sign up for eConsults to schedule an online consultation with an Obstetric Gynecologist. For inquiries, they may contact the Genesis Center at (02) 8-771-9000 locals 8391 and 5791.

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Packaging Machinery Market Size, Share & Forecast To 2025

A significant degree of competition has been witnessed in the global packaging machinery market owing to the presence of several major and small players who are actively working to expand their portfolio and increase geographical presence across countries. As per the International Trade Administration (ITA), in the US, most packaging machinery producers are quite small with nearly 20 numbers of employees. The manufacturers of consumer-packaged goods that buys most packaging machinery have their supply chain for manufacturing inputs as well as materials and machinery, they utilize to package. In the US, the packaging machine manufacturers are facing an increasing tension in terms of meeting the customers’ demand for highly flexible, productive equipment and their own requirements to retain their reputation and standards for quality and profit margin. Several advanced packaging machinery OEMs in the US are following business practices based on sustainability and the practice seems to considerably increase their competitiveness.

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In February 2019, at China International Disposable Paper Expo (CIDPEX), the company has showcased a comprehensive portfolio for baby and adult diapers. These machines named OPTIMA LUCK and OPTIMA MIDNIGHT are primarily designed as per the exact needs of the Asian market. The OPTIMA LUCK can draw up to 800 baby diapers into the infeed and manufacture up to 50 packs. For adult diapers, the OPTIMA MIDNIGHT is the entry-level model with the corresponding size range. With every minute that passes, up to 250 products are taken into the infeed and processed into 40 packages. All machine types are classified by flexible automation solutions, stable processes and the superior high quality of the packaging.

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Acquisition of Dongguan K&H Machinery Co. Ltd. - BW Papersystems

In June 2018, BW Papersystems expands the corrugated line with the acquisition of Dongguan K&H Machinery Co. Ltd. Over the decades, BW Papersystems and K&H have usually worked together on solution-driven projects for customers in all over China. As a result of this acquisition, these two companies will combine efforts to better serve the industry and enhance their global market share and presence. K&H equipment along with the technology of MarquipWardUnited brand will meet the emerging demand for automation in Asia. This, in turn, will support to increase the company’s growth opportunities in the Asian packaging machinery market.

PowerPak PLUS Thermoforming Packaging Machine – GEA Group

In February 2019, the company launched its PowerPak PLUS thermoforming packaging machine. The bottom film infeed and sealing station of the PowerPak PLUS thermoformer were fully intended to encourage process traceability and transparency which may contribute to achieving higher sustainability of packaging processes in the food industry. Since 2018, this packaging machine has been in use for packaging bacon products at Handl Tyrol GmbH.

Omega Partners with Mactec to Offer Unit Dose / Blister Packaging

In October 2017, Omega design signed a manufacturing agreement with MACTEC Packaging Technologies to offer a highly engineered unit dose packaging solutions to its customers. MACTEC Packaging Technologies offers advanced blister machines for small format production of health and beauty aid and pharmaceutical products, such as clinical trial and R&D applications.

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Personal Care

Pharmaceutical

Chemical

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The US

Canada

Europe

Germany

France

Spain

Italy

Rest of Europe

Asia-Pacific

China

Japan

India

Rest of Asia-Pacific

Rest of the World

Middle East & Africa

Latin America

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Authored by Steve H. Hanke of the Johns Hopkins University. Follow him on Twitter @Steve_Hanke.Reporting of the historic Singapore Summit between President Donald J. Trump and Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un has been fascinating. The lead story in Pyongyang has been on the Supreme Leader’s Singapore walk around, and his desire to learn about economic development from the Singapore Strategy. In the western press, however, Pyongyang’s lead story is nowhere to be found.Kim Jong-un is clearly onto something. As anyone watching telecasts from Singapore during the past few days could observe, Singapore appears to be very prosperous. And it is. Measured by per capita income, Singaporeans are some of the richest people in the world. The economy is capitalist, and capitalist on steroids. That’s why Singapore has shot up from the depths of the Third World, at its founding, to the upper reaches of the First World, today.Singapore gained its independence in 1965, when it was, in effect, thrown out of Malaysia. At that time, Singapore was backward and poor — a barren speck on the map in a dangerous part of the world. If that wasn’t enough, it was experiencing race riots, which came close to igniting a civil war. Singapore’s per-capita income in 1965, adjusted for inflation, was roughly equivalent to that of poor countries like Albania, Angola, Armenia, Guyana, Kosovo, and Mongolia, today.But, at its founding, Singapore had a leader, Lee Kuan Yew. He had clear ideas about how to modernize the country — a strategy which I have dubbed the “Singapore Strategy.” This strategy contained the following elements:The first element was stable money. Singapore started with a currency board system — a simple, transparent, rule-driven monetary regime. Currency boards operate on autopilot, with automatic adjustments keeping the system in balance. Accordingly, currency boards deliver discipline to the spheres of money, banking, and fiscal affairs. For Singapore, the currency board provided stable prices and free convertibility of the Singaporean dollar, which was fully backed by foreign reserves and gold, at a fixed exchange rate. This established confidence and attracted foreign investment.The second element was that Lee Kuan Yew ruled out passing the begging bowl. Singapore refused to accept foreign aid of any kind. This is a far cry from many developing countries, where, when you pick up the paper, all you see are politicians and bureaucrats trying to secure foreign aid from someone, be it an NGO, a foreign government, or an international financial institution, like the World Bank. By contrast, signs reading “no foreign aid” were hung figuratively outside every government office in Singapore.The third element was that Singapore strived to have first-world, competitive private enterprises. This was accomplished via light taxation and light regulation, coupled with completely open and free trade — in short, policies that enabled Singapore to become one of the Asian Tigers.The fourth element in the Singapore Strategy was an emphasis on personal security, public order, and the protection of private property.The fifth, and final, element in the Singapore Strategy was a “small,” transparent government — a minimalist government that avoided complexity and “red tape”.To execute the strategy with precision, Singapore appoints only first-class civil servants and pays them first-class wages. Today, for example, the Singaporean Finance Minister’s annual salary is 1.3 million dollars (USD). In exchange for these high salaries, the Singapore Strategy demands that the government runs a tight ship, with no waste or corruption. By embracing Lee Kuan Yew’s Singapore Strategy of stable money, no foreign aid, first-world competition, law and order, and a government that is free of waste and corruption, Singapore has transformed itself from a poor, barren speck to a global financial center.It should come as no surprise that Singapore today is one of the freest, most flexible, and prosperous economies in the world. Kim Jong-un clearly has his eye on a winning strategy. Maybe the Supreme Leader is a bit more clever than most western observers give him credit for.This piece was originally published on Forbes.com

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peddling-fiction

Tue, 07/10/2018 - 14:35

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Socialists take note. Chuckle.

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peddling-fiction

Tue, 07/10/2018 - 15:41

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I visited Singapore about a year ago.

It absolutely hums.

Busses are full of commuters at 6:30 am.

Streets are clean.

Restaurants operating and full.

Nice, warm evenings to walk around in and we felt really safe.

A very nice place to visit.

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Tue, 07/10/2018 - 20:40

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I've been to Singapore probably 2 or 3 times a year for the past six years. I love the food there, particularly in the hawker centers. My wife has relatives there, so we are able to see quite a bit of everyday life, as opposed to staying on the tourist circuit.

A lot of what Lee Kwan Yew accomplished is slowly being dismantled by the current Prime Minister, who happens to be LKY's son. Little Lee embarked on a growth at all costs platform and brought in quite a large number of foreign workers, displacing Singaporeans in the process (sound familiar?) and courted mainland China money to such an extent that a great many PRC's (as the locals now call mainland Chinese) came to the country. The locals hate them and they hate the, mostly, Indian laborers that were brought in on major projects.

I first went to Sing in 2010 and I was greatly impressed by how happy the people were, in general. As the years have passed, I am seeing fewer and fewer people with smiles on their faces and I'm seeing little cracks in the LKY legacy. People are cutting lines. The maintenance on the MRT system has gotten pretty bad, with frequent breakdowns on the older lines. And where you would never hear any complaints from the old time locals, now the complaints are more than just whispers.

Don't get me wrong. I still love going to Singapore. But I'm afraid it is going to turn into just another one of the cleaner dirty shirts of the world. It's fast getting far too crowded for its own good and that is going to be Little Lee's legacy.

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Tue, 07/10/2018 - 21:13

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Been there a 3 times since 2010 and yeah - the big change is people want OUT - Australia is a big draw and many people I talked to were slaving to earn their way into leaving S'pore

Too many im'grants driving down wages and people with options are exercising them

Spent the last week with a S'porean expatriate and she has no plans to go back voluntarily. It's a pressure cooker where the citizens have been sold the fuck out by the devil government - sound familiar?

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Wed, 07/11/2018 - 00:26

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Sounds sad.

To take something so good and drive it into the ground is inexcusable.

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Wed, 07/11/2018 - 00:50

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singapore is a idiosyncratic mix of capitalist, socialist, authoritarian, monarchical elements, none of them necessarily bad. It is always nonsense to compare city states with large national states. In a city state it is absolutely obvious if a ruling clan/figure/oligarchy with dual citizenships messes things up. That's why they usually behave. Now compare this to the Ukraine or US.

I found that expats are usually not a good source of infomation as they mostly live in a parallel universe with little or only superficial knowledge of how local people live.

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Wed, 07/11/2018 - 01:06

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There's "meritocracy" for you: soon it turns into nepotism, cronyism, greediness, kleptocracy and despotism and debt indenture. Nothing new or surprising, but there's a sucker born every minute...

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Wed, 07/11/2018 - 01:39

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US did the same with CA, precisely as you describe it.

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RafterManFMJ

Wed, 07/11/2018 - 01:33

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I’m unclear as to why so many foreigners believe that “my gold is safely stored in Singapore,” when the US military maintains a base there, and warships of the US Navy are a regular sight.

http://east-usa.com/us-military-bases-in-singapore.html

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Wed, 07/11/2018 - 04:46

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So, Singapore let (((Them))) in?

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Wed, 07/11/2018 - 01:19

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How can you handle that flight? LAX/HKG just kicks my ass.

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Wed, 07/11/2018 - 06:00

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- -and hideously expensive! Like A$12 can of beer.

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Tue, 07/10/2018 - 20:59

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US Dems take note. Weep while another Deplorable One chuckles right along with peddling-fiction. Even Huey Long agrees, all the way from his grave, ffs! Now grow a pair, spit on your hands and take up with some HONEST work, y'bumz!

{Teehee!} Tol' y'so. Y'Demz all pelted Yours Truly with tinfoil in return. Ergo Trump and no turning back. And that is all. 0{;-)o[

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Tue, 07/10/2018 - 14:38

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It's difficult to imagine North Korea going from extreme totalitarian regime that controls every aspect of it's citizen's lives and restricts, controls and monitors all communication to the extreme, moving to "light taxation and light regulation, coupled with completely open and free trade". You can't even own a computer without permission from the state, so how exactly are citizens going to transform themselves into modern free-market entrepreneurs with those kinds of road-blocks?

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Tue, 07/10/2018 - 15:55

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A single generation.

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Tue, 07/10/2018 - 17:52

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The public caning will find common ground.

Law and order.

Maybe some westerners need a good caning as well.

Chuckle.

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Tue, 07/10/2018 - 18:01

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Asians adapt fast, look at China.

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Tue, 07/10/2018 - 19:19

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We adapted some folks.

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Wed, 07/11/2018 - 02:44

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And then nine more back to mediocrity.

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Tue, 07/10/2018 - 16:51

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You underestimate Kim Jong Un, he'll get it done! Trump can help him, and perhaps, long after they're both gone, candles and incense will be lit for their souls....

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Scipio Africanuz

Tue, 07/10/2018 - 19:02

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wait, where are all the liberal pussies complaining about Singapore's stifling conformity and how all that neatness and law & order and them parks and businesses prospering and kicking ass and low taxes makes it a cultural and artistic backwater?

whyyyy, Singapore will never become a world-class city like san francisco THAT way!

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Tue, 07/10/2018 - 21:38

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The real question is are the bathrooms gender neutral?

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Tue, 07/10/2018 - 17:53

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Pinochet saved Chile from the exact same fate, got it done quick with a few helicopters.

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Tue, 07/10/2018 - 22:27

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A lot of Americans would consider Singapore extreme. Vandalism of public or private property is punished by flogging. This is a severe beating administered by a wooden stick that removes skin and flesh from your back. Chewing gum and a lot of other common Western practices are illegal. Chewing gum is seized at customs. Crime is almost non-existent because it is punished by extreme measures, even for small offenses. This does not meet most Westerners definition of "small and light government." Libertarians would freak out.

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Wed, 07/11/2018 - 00:16

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flogging taggers? sign me up for that.

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Wed, 07/11/2018 - 01:22

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Singapore is often touted as “how to make multiculturalism, work.”

Curiously absent from any discussion, however, is the amount of State force that is required to keep such a society, running.

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Wed, 07/11/2018 - 04:50

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Bath House Barry would enjoy the caning part.

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Tue, 07/10/2018 - 14:41

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Yep. And to add, considered one of the safest cities in the world. How are they doing with diversity and importing MENA refugees?

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Tue, 07/10/2018 - 15:08

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there is a big difference between asian diversity (singapore is very diverse including religious diversity) and western diversity among a bunch of barbarians.

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Tue, 07/10/2018 - 15:50

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Singapore keeps its diversity in check by rejecting identity politics, to the point of equating it with sedition. There are no laws or internal policies that favor one group over another, though it's predictable that many people think this is itself unfair.

The West suffers because it's elevated identity politics to a moral imperative, which invites people to strive to regulate every aspect of life according to some racial, ethnic, religious, sexual, etc. scheme.

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Wed, 07/11/2018 - 01:35

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Not sharing an open border with Latin America surely helps.

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Tue, 07/10/2018 - 17:03

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Diworsity above all else. After all that's what really counts

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Tue, 07/10/2018 - 17:11

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Someone can read /s. Sometimes I think I need to /s tag everything for the literalists here.

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Tue, 07/10/2018 - 14:52

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Well if NK can get the US to buy all their nukes, they would have the monies to start a new world order.....LOL

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Tue, 07/10/2018 - 15:04

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NK will always be an American dog exploiting their citizens for our cheap products of amusement - like X-mas decorations.

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Tue, 07/10/2018 - 15:30

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Kim went to school in Switzerland. He's seen cities outside Korea and China.

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Tue, 07/10/2018 - 15:34

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Some Singapore laws would give SanFran libtards

nightmares. No spitting on sidewalks, no gum chewing,

no graffiti (that one will get you caned), no public

urination and horror of horrors, no homosexual relations.

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Tue, 07/10/2018 - 17:13

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Caning is the answer to a lot of societal problems.

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Wed, 07/11/2018 - 01:24

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Yep.

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ALANBEEKMAN

Tue, 07/10/2018 - 17:37

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You left out pooping on the sidewalk - "Pooparoni, the San Francisco treat" - aka Sidewalk Surprise. Also San Franciscans love to smash car windows, enabling them to access any valuables within. The resulting shower of tempered glass on the pavement gives the city an almost fairyland-like look. Especially around sunset.

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Tue, 07/10/2018 - 19:46

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We (expats) used to joke that if you liked Nazi Germany you would love Singapore.

That was back in the late 60's.

Had an apartment in S'pore early 70's. Just a great place to live and play. I imagine still is.

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Tue, 07/10/2018 - 21:16

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Wait - can I not shit on the sidewalk in Singapore? As an Indian H1b it is my cultural heritage

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Wed, 07/11/2018 - 00:48

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You can still shit in the bathroom sink and wash your face in the private porcelain bowl.

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Tue, 07/10/2018 - 17:30

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Deng Xiaoping noted that as well and we all know what happened next in China.

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Tue, 07/10/2018 - 18:03

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America would do well to follow Singapore's lead. I have been there 7 times to know how well off they are, compared to the U.S.,. It's really like the difference between day and night. But, the U.S. has always dragged ass at adopting anything, just like health care. Its been 106 years since Teddy Roosevelt had introduced Universal Health care to America, and America still don't have it yet. Singapore does! Or like 100 years after the civil war to institute civil rights, or takes 30 years to get legislation for an 8 hour work day, or 129 years before women got the right to vote. For America to adopt a model government and economy, like what Singapore has, would take them at least 200 years, if ever.

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Tue, 07/10/2018 - 19:04

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well, ya gotta understand Singapore is blessed by not having to work around a bunch of indians on welfare - 29 year old grandparents, etc - sitting around their reservations and whining about what happened 2 centuries ago - before getting shit-faced hammered by noon

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Tue, 07/10/2018 - 21:19

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Spent three weeks there in Jan 2017 ... Know what? In three weeks I saw cop cars exactly twice, and saw another cop patrol at the airport - 2 cops and a dog that I presume was sniffing for narcotics or a real boss chili oil.

Asked some locals - where are all the cops?

Basically they sit in their station until called, or until you stop by for a complaint

Imagine that

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Tue, 07/10/2018 - 22:37

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China is the same way. You usually only see cops at the large intersections directing traffic at the rush hours. They don't walk beats. They don't patrol neighborhoods. They don't carry guns. They don't even drive fast. If you call them, they will come out from the station, and most things cops do in America are not even police issues in China. There are twice as many cops per capita in America as in China.

The first thing I notice when I visit America is the overwhelming presence of police. American have gotten used to the police running their country.

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Wed, 07/11/2018 - 00:55

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One of my cousins came for a visit about 20 years ago. He said the US looked like a police state to him.

The other thing was all the wooden telephone poles.

He said that it's like a 19th century throwback.

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Asian shares rattled by rising U.S. yields, cost worries

TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian shares fell on Wednesday as a rise in U.S. bond yields above 3 percent and warnings from bellwether U.S. companies of higher costs drove fears that a boom in corporate earnings may be near its peak.

Market prices are reflected in a glass window at the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) in Tokyo, Japan, February 6, 2018. REUTERS/Toru Hanai

MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS dropped 0.3 percent, hitting their weakest in almost three weeks, with tech-heavy Taiwan shares .TWII slipping to two-month lows on worries about slowing semi-conductor demand. Japan’s Nikkei .N225 dropped 0.2 percent.

European shares are expected to fall, with spread-betters calling a 0.7 to 0.9 percent drop in Britain’s FTSE .FTSE, Germany’s Dax .GDAXI and France’s Cac .FCHI.

S&P E-mini futures ESc1 slipped 0.2 percent. Wall Street shares skidded overnight, with the S&P 500 .SPX slumping 1.34 percent, the most in two-and-a-half weeks.

Industrial heavyweight Caterpillar (CAT.N) beat earnings estimates due to strong global demand but its shares tumbled 6.2 percent after management said first-quarter earnings would be the “high water mark” for the year and warned of increasing steel prices.

“We’ve seen quite a lot of companies announcing above-estimate earnings and their shares falling sharply,” said Norihiro Fujito, senior investment strategist at Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities.

Fujito noted major financial shares such as Goldman Sachs (GS.N) and Citigroup (C.N) as well as Google parent Alphabet GOOG.N, the first major tech firm to report earnings, have followed a similar pattern.

Corporate earnings are in solid shape, with analysts estimating 21.1 percent growth in the Jan-March quarter among U.S. S&P500 firms, according to Thomson Reuters data. A similar trend is expected globally.

(For a graphic on global corporate earnings click reut.rs/2FeyaIU)

“If shares are falling when corporate earnings are rising 20 percent and the economy is growing at 3 percent, the market is in trouble. The market reaction so far feels as if we are starting to see an end of its long rally since 2009. Investors could be thinking that the best time will be soon behind us,” he said.

Creeping gains in U.S. Treasury yields are fuelling fears that portfolio managers may move money into safer fixed-income securities at the expense of riskier assets like stocks and emerging markets.

The 10-year yield, a benchmark for global borrowing costs, has been driven steadily higher by a combination of concerns over inflation, growing debt supply, and rising Federal Reserve borrowing costs.

The 10-year U.S. Treasuries yield US10YT=RR rose to as high as 3.009 percent. A break of its January 2014 high of 3.041 percent could turn investors even more bearish.

Fed Funds rate futures prices <0#FF:> have been constantly falling this month, pricing in a considerable chance of three more rate hikes by the end of this year.

The impact is already reverberating in many emerging markets, with JPMorgan’s emerging market bond index .JPMEPR hitting a two-month low.

In Indonesia, a market with one of the largest exposures to foreign portfolio holdings, the authorities have been intervening heavily to put a floor under the rupiah IDR=, which has been flirted with two-year lows.

The Indian rupee hit a 13-month low INR=IN.

“Higher yields are no doubt having a negative impact on emerging markets. We are likely to see outflows from emerging market bonds,” said Takahiko Sasaki, market economist at Mizuho Bank.

The dollar also gained a tad against major currencies.

The euro stood at $1.2226 EUR=, not far from Tuesday’s low of $1.2182, a low last seen on March 1.

The dollar traded at 108.87 yen JPY= after having jumped to a 2-1/2-month high of 109.20 yen on Tuesday.

The Australian dollar fell 0.4 percent to a four-month low of $0.7572 AUD=D4.

Against a basket of major currencies, the dollar index .DXY edged up 0.2 percent.

Oil prices were stable, but were below the more than three-year highs reached the previous session as rising U.S. fuel inventories and production weighed on an otherwise bullish market.

Brent LCOc1 fetched $73.86 a barrel, little changed on the day. On Tuesday it rose to $75.47, its highest since November 2014. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude CLc1 traded flat at $67.68.

Reorting by Hideyuki Sano; Editing by Kim Coghill & Shri Navaratnam

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