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Holidays 9.6
Holidays
Amed Forces Day (São Tomé and Príncipe)
Barbie Doll Day
Battle of Lake Travis Anniversary Day
Bonaire Day
Colour Blind Awareness Day
Day of Sex (Brazil)
Defence Day (Pakistan)
Dia de Elkano (Basque, Spain)
Fight Procrastination Day
Flag Day (Bonaire)
Great Egg Toss Day
Harvesting Basket Day (French Republic)
I AM MDC Day (Florida)
Karma Puja (India)
Khurat (Elder Scrolls)
National Afro Puff Day
National Do It Day
National Little Black Dress Day (Australia)
National Read a Book Day
National Sabrina Day
National Writing Day
Piggly Wiggly Day
Player Piano Day
Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day
Prosthetics & Orthotics Day (UK)
Read A Book Day
Rettir (Sheep Round-Up; Iceland)
Septemvriana Anniversary Day
Somhlolo Day (Eswatini, f.k.a. Swaziland)
Stillbirth Remembrance Day
Supermarket Day
Unification Day (Bulgaria)
World Oral Sex Day
World Shorebirds Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
National Coffee Ice Cream Day
Salami Day
1st Wednesday in September
Global Talent Acquisition Day [1st Wednesday]
Indigenous Literacy Day (Australia) [1st Wednesday]
Independence Days
Ichkeria (Chechen Republic of Ichkeria; 1991)
Eswatini, f.k.a. Swaziland (a.k.a. Somhlolo Day; from UK, 1968)
HSSR (Hot Lads Soviet Socialist Republic, f.k.a. Hugel; Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Begga of Cumbria (a.k.a. Bega or Bees; Christian; Saint)
Cesarean Section Day (Church of the SubGenius)
Chagnoald (Christian; Saint)
Diablo Sauce Day (Pastafarian)
Eleutherius (Christian; Saint)
Faustus, Abibus and Dionysius of Alexandria (Christian; Saint)
Gondulphus of Metz (Christian; Saint)
Horatio Greenough (Artology)
Krishna Janmashtami (Hinduism)
Macculindus, Bishop of Lusk (Christian; Saint)
Magnus of Füssen (Christian; Saint) [crops]
Media Aestas IV (Pagan)
Onesiphorus (Christian; Saint)
Pambo of Nitria (Christian; Saint)
Roxanne (Muppetism)
Sacrifice to Hera Thelchinia (Ancient Greece)
Saussure (Positivist; Saint)
Zechariah (Catholic Church; Hebrew prophet)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]
Perilous Day (13th Century England) [25 of 32]
Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [42 of 60]
Premieres
The Adventures of Spunky and Tadpole (Animated TV Series; 1958)
Alice Charms the Fish (Disney Cartoon; 1926)
Atlanta (TV Series; 2016)
A Bigger Bang, by The Rolling Stones (Album; 2005)
Candle in the Wind (Diana version), by Elton John (Song; 1997)
Desperately Seeking Susan (Film; 1985)
Double Indemnity (Film; 1944)
Go, Diego, Go! (Animated TV Series; 2005)
Hangin’ Tough, by New Kids on the Block (Album; 1988)
The Horse and His Boy, by C.S. Lewis (Novel; 1954) [The Chronicles of Narnia #5]
The House of the Rising Sun, recorded by Tom Ashley & Gwen Foster (Song; 1933) [Earliest known recording]
The Huckleberry Hound Show (Animated TV Series; 1958)
I’m a Slave 4 U, by Britney Spears (Song; 2001)
It: Chapter Two (Film; 2019)
Just a Little Heart Attack (Short Film; 2011)
La Clemenza di Tito, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Opera; 1791)
Lady Chatterly’s Lover (Film; 2015)
La Strada (Film; 1954)
Let Love Rule, by Lenny Kravitz (Album; 1989)
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (Documentary Film; 2019)
Looper (Film; 2012)
Not Without Laughter, by Langston Hughes (Novel; 1930)
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (Film; 1945)
Regular Show (Animated TV Series; 2009)
The Rescuers, by Margery Sharp (Novel; 1959)
Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur (WB Animated Film; 2011)
The Secret of Moonacre (Film; 2008)
Stranger Than Fiction, by Bad Religion (Album; 1994)
Superman: The Last Son of Krypton (WB Animated Film; 1996)
Weasel While You Work (WB MM Cartoon; 1958)
Today’s Name Days
Beata, Bertram, Gundolf, Magnus (Austria)
Boris, Davor, Zaharija (Croatia)
Boleslav (Czech Republic)
Magnus (Denmark)
Aiki, Angela, Angelika, Ingel (Estonia)
Asko, Felix (Finland)
Bertrand, Eva (France)
Beate, Bertram, Gundolf, Magnus (Germany)
Evdoxios, Vivos (Greece)
Zakariás (Hungary)
Uberto (Italy)
Balva, Magnuss, Maigonis (Latvia)
Faustas, Tautenė, Vaištautas (Lithuania)
Siril, Siv, Sollaug (Norway)
Albin, Beata, Eugenia, Eugeniusz, Magnus, Michał, Uniewit, Zachariasz (Poland)
Alica (Slovakia)
Eleuterio, Zacarías (Spain)
Lilian, Lilly (Sweden)
Bartram, Bertram, Veda, Yahir (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 249 of 2024; 116 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 3 of week 36 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Muin (Vine) [Day 2 of 28]
Chinese: Month 7 (Geng-Shen), Day 22 (Ding-Mao)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 20 Elul 5783
Islamic: 20 Safar 1445
J Cal: 9 Aki; Twosday [9 of 30]
Julian: 24 August 2023
Moon: 50%: 3rd Quarter
Positivist: 25 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Saussure]
Runic Half Month: Rad (Motion) [Day 10 of 15]
Season: Summer (Day 77 of 94)
Zodiac: Virgo (Day 16 of 32)
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Holidays 9.6
Holidays
Amed Forces Day (São Tomé and Príncipe)
Barbie Doll Day
Battle of Lake Travis Anniversary Day
Bonaire Day
Colour Blind Awareness Day
Day of Sex (Brazil)
Defence Day (Pakistan)
Dia de Elkano (Basque, Spain)
Fight Procrastination Day
Flag Day (Bonaire)
Great Egg Toss Day
Harvesting Basket Day (French Republic)
I AM MDC Day (Florida)
Karma Puja (India)
Khurat (Elder Scrolls)
National Afro Puff Day
National Do It Day
National Little Black Dress Day (Australia)
National Read a Book Day
National Sabrina Day
National Writing Day
Piggly Wiggly Day
Player Piano Day
Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day
Prosthetics & Orthotics Day (UK)
Read A Book Day
Rettir (Sheep Round-Up; Iceland)
Septemvriana Anniversary Day
Somhlolo Day (Eswatini, f.k.a. Swaziland)
Stillbirth Remembrance Day
Supermarket Day
Unification Day (Bulgaria)
World Oral Sex Day
World Shorebirds Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
National Coffee Ice Cream Day
Salami Day
1st Wednesday in September
Global Talent Acquisition Day [1st Wednesday]
Indigenous Literacy Day (Australia) [1st Wednesday]
Independence Days
Ichkeria (Chechen Republic of Ichkeria; 1991)
Eswatini, f.k.a. Swaziland (a.k.a. Somhlolo Day; from UK, 1968)
HSSR (Hot Lads Soviet Socialist Republic, f.k.a. Hugel; Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Begga of Cumbria (a.k.a. Bega or Bees; Christian; Saint)
Cesarean Section Day (Church of the SubGenius)
Chagnoald (Christian; Saint)
Diablo Sauce Day (Pastafarian)
Eleutherius (Christian; Saint)
Faustus, Abibus and Dionysius of Alexandria (Christian; Saint)
Gondulphus of Metz (Christian; Saint)
Horatio Greenough (Artology)
Krishna Janmashtami (Hinduism)
Macculindus, Bishop of Lusk (Christian; Saint)
Magnus of Füssen (Christian; Saint) [crops]
Media Aestas IV (Pagan)
Onesiphorus (Christian; Saint)
Pambo of Nitria (Christian; Saint)
Roxanne (Muppetism)
Sacrifice to Hera Thelchinia (Ancient Greece)
Saussure (Positivist; Saint)
Zechariah (Catholic Church; Hebrew prophet)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]
Perilous Day (13th Century England) [25 of 32]
Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [42 of 60]
Premieres
The Adventures of Spunky and Tadpole (Animated TV Series; 1958)
Alice Charms the Fish (Disney Cartoon; 1926)
Atlanta (TV Series; 2016)
A Bigger Bang, by The Rolling Stones (Album; 2005)
Candle in the Wind (Diana version), by Elton John (Song; 1997)
Desperately Seeking Susan (Film; 1985)
Double Indemnity (Film; 1944)
Go, Diego, Go! (Animated TV Series; 2005)
Hangin’ Tough, by New Kids on the Block (Album; 1988)
The Horse and His Boy, by C.S. Lewis (Novel; 1954) [The Chronicles of Narnia #5]
The House of the Rising Sun, recorded by Tom Ashley & Gwen Foster (Song; 1933) [Earliest known recording]
The Huckleberry Hound Show (Animated TV Series; 1958)
I’m a Slave 4 U, by Britney Spears (Song; 2001)
It: Chapter Two (Film; 2019)
Just a Little Heart Attack (Short Film; 2011)
La Clemenza di Tito, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Opera; 1791)
Lady Chatterly’s Lover (Film; 2015)
La Strada (Film; 1954)
Let Love Rule, by Lenny Kravitz (Album; 1989)
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (Documentary Film; 2019)
Looper (Film; 2012)
Not Without Laughter, by Langston Hughes (Novel; 1930)
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (Film; 1945)
Regular Show (Animated TV Series; 2009)
The Rescuers, by Margery Sharp (Novel; 1959)
Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur (WB Animated Film; 2011)
The Secret of Moonacre (Film; 2008)
Stranger Than Fiction, by Bad Religion (Album; 1994)
Superman: The Last Son of Krypton (WB Animated Film; 1996)
Weasel While You Work (WB MM Cartoon; 1958)
Today’s Name Days
Beata, Bertram, Gundolf, Magnus (Austria)
Boris, Davor, Zaharija (Croatia)
Boleslav (Czech Republic)
Magnus (Denmark)
Aiki, Angela, Angelika, Ingel (Estonia)
Asko, Felix (Finland)
Bertrand, Eva (France)
Beate, Bertram, Gundolf, Magnus (Germany)
Evdoxios, Vivos (Greece)
Zakariás (Hungary)
Uberto (Italy)
Balva, Magnuss, Maigonis (Latvia)
Faustas, Tautenė, Vaištautas (Lithuania)
Siril, Siv, Sollaug (Norway)
Albin, Beata, Eugenia, Eugeniusz, Magnus, Michał, Uniewit, Zachariasz (Poland)
Alica (Slovakia)
Eleuterio, Zacarías (Spain)
Lilian, Lilly (Sweden)
Bartram, Bertram, Veda, Yahir (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 249 of 2024; 116 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 3 of week 36 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Muin (Vine) [Day 2 of 28]
Chinese: Month 7 (Geng-Shen), Day 22 (Ding-Mao)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 20 Elul 5783
Islamic: 20 Safar 1445
J Cal: 9 Aki; Twosday [9 of 30]
Julian: 24 August 2023
Moon: 50%: 3rd Quarter
Positivist: 25 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Saussure]
Runic Half Month: Rad (Motion) [Day 10 of 15]
Season: Summer (Day 77 of 94)
Zodiac: Virgo (Day 16 of 32)
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Saddleworth Moor Murder
On 10 December 2015, a man, now identified as David Lytton boarded a plane in Lahore and travelled almost 4,000 miles (6,440km) to London.
At about 2pm the following day, the “stranger” walked into the Clarence pub in Greenfield, Saddleworth. Tall, white, with receding grey hair, brown eyes and a prominent nose, he asked for directions to the “top of the mountain”, the summit of the 1,500ft Indian’s Head peak above Dovestone reservoir. He was wearing a light mac, normal trousers and a shirt, and slip-on shoes.
A day later, his body was found on a secluded moorland path. Toxicology tests last March confirmed that the pensioner died from a dose of strychnine, a highly toxic odourless alkaloid used as a pesticide, particularly to kill rodents.
He had no wallet, mobile phone or other identification and remained unidentified, despite numerous public appeals and the release of CCTV footage of his last known movements. The story was picked up as far away as Japan and the US. An Australian news website speculated that the man was an international spy.
Little is known about Lytton, who laid down fully clothed and was overcome by the elements on the remote hillside above the river Tame. Only a few bare facts have come to light about the circumstances leading up to his death. Officers checked passenger records from dozens of flights from Lahore and found details that tallied with Lytton’s. They also checked airport and train station CCTV to confirm his movements.
But there was one theory that DS John Coleman kept returning to: that the mystery man had links to Pakistan. Police had discovered that Lytton had a 10cm metal plate inserted into his left leg between 2001 and 2015, which indicated that the operation had taken place in Pakistan. A container of medicine found on his body was also linked to the country.
On the first anniversary of his death, police had a major breakthrough.
Police said: “We started to concentrate on the Ealing area and looked at the train lines and where they travelled to. We already knew that this man had an operation in Pakistan in the last 10 years and we started looking into the theory that he could possibly have travelled alone from Pakistan to London Heathrow in the days leading up to his death.”
This began a process of trawling through hundreds of names of people who had boarded flights in the days leading up to 12 December 2015.
“The check of the flight names threw up a particular name. We then managed to get a passport for that gentlemen, and although the picture was old, it looked right,”
Police then sourced CCTV footage from Lahore airport, which showed Lytton boarding a flight. Further CCTV footage showed him arriving at Heathrow airport. These were the crucial parts of the jigsaw.
“They were an extremely close resemblance to Neil Dovestones [a nickname for the man] and we actually got this imagery exactly a year later on the anniversary of his death. Then we were able to trace a relative who provided us with a DNA sample,” Police said.
This DNA sample from a white British relative led to a positive identification. Lytton from London had been living in Pakistan for 10 years before returning to the UK and heading to Saddleworth for reasons which still remain a mystery.
Officers identified the smartly dressed man in CCTV footage from Ealing, west London, where he is believed to have started his journey on the morning of 11 December. He arrived in Manchester shortly after midday, having taken a train from London Euston, then went to Greenfield.
Despite being warned about treacherous weather conditions by the Clarence landlord, Mel Robinson, the man left the pub and was spotted by witnesses walking up the hill at about 4.30pm. His body was found the next morning by a passing cyclist on a boggy section of track at about 10.30am.
He was lying on his back, 700 metres down from Chew reservoir. He had walked a little over 4km, much of it uphill. His arms were at his sides, his feet facing downhill. He had £130 in £10 notes in his right trouser pocket. In his left coat pocket were three train tickets from the previous morning: a single from Ealing Broadway to London Euston and a return from Euston to Manchester Piccadilly.
Also in his coat pocket was a medicine box made of card. Inside was an empty container labelled thyroxine sodium, a drug produced by GlaxoSmithKline for the treatment of hypothyroidism. The label was printed in English and Urdu.
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“Clean Our Toilets and Take Our Germs to Your Church!” Muslim Persecution of Christians, March 2020
by Raymond Ibrahim
The following are some of the abuses Muslims inflicted on Christians throughout the month of March, 2020, thematically arranged:
The Kidnap, Rape, and Forced Conversion of Christians
Pakistan: A group of motorcycle-riding Muslim men kidnapped and gang raped two 12-year-old Christian boys. The children were playing video games at a local arcade when a gang of Muslims approached and lured them to check out and eventually sit on their motorcycles. Once the boys were atop the vehicles, the men rode off to a remote field where “the young boys were beaten till they submitted to the demands of the Muslim men, at which point the 12 year olds were raped,” notes the March 23 report:
After the ordeal Suneel and Harry [the two boys] were threatened not to say anything by the gang as they rode off … leaving the boys behind naked. Suneel and Harry then tearfully and in pain got dressed and walked for 3 hours till home. Suneel managed to stagger home at 3:30 am early the following morning and was received by his father Naeem (40 yrs) who had not slept all night. Naeem and other family members were praying for Suneel and were shocked when they found him crying and trembling with fear.
Last reported and according to his mother:
Suneel is not eating properly. He cries all the time and has said he does not want to go to a local school. Other boys have been teasing him and it has created a dark sorrow within him. We cannot take him to church as they are all closed [due to COVID-19] and he is slowly entering a deep depression.
Separately, on March 1, two Muslim men abducted a 13-year-old Christian girl, forcibly converted her to embrace Islam, and married her off to a Muslim. Saima Javid was kidnapped while fetching water from a pump near her home. “I was deeply depressed and thought of committing suicide when I lost my daughter,” her mother said while discussing this incident. “Young Christian girls are not safe in this country. Muslims consider them as their property or slaves and therefore humiliate them as they wish.” After confirming that “our daughters are often sexually harassed by influential Muslims,” the girl’s father added that “The police did not listen to us for five days. However, when news of the abduction went viral on social media, the police registered a First Information Report (FIR # 137/20) against the abductors on March 5.” As a result, on March 26, the 13-year-old Christian girl appeared in court where she “testified that she had been abducted and was forced to convert to Islam and forced to marry [a Muslim man].” The judge ordered her returned to her family. “This order marks a rare victory for Pakistani Christians affected by the issue of abduction, forced conversion, and forced marriage,” the report correctly observes.
Nigeria: On March 12, the Hausa Christian Foundation of Nigeria announced that a young girl named Sadiya Amos had managed to escape from her Muslim kidnappers. The girl was originally abducted in early January; she was subsequently forcibly converted to Islam and married off to one of her kidnappers. Sadiya was thereafter kept in a small room under guard. One day, the guards fell asleep without locking her room. She managed to sneak out and flee back to her family’s home—only to find her father experiencing his own problems for trying to rescue her: a Sharia court was accusing him of trying to prevent his daughter from embracing Islam—and had even produced a forged certificate to that effect—in an effort to assist her abductors. The statement adds that,
The case of abducting Christian Girls and their forceful conversion to Islam as well as forcing them into marriage has become a water shed issue in Northern Nigeria…. The moment these girls are abducted, they are subjected to all manners of evil just to take control of their minds. Once they took hold of their minds, these girls will only do everything they are asked to do. While the parents fight for the release of their daughters, these abductors continue to sexually abuse these girls, hypnotized [subliminally influencing?] their food, drinks, clothes, where they sleep, perpetually evoke evil spirit upon them to the point that these girls completely lost their minds and never think of going back to their home. Usually, the moment a Christian girl is abducted they ensure that they get married to her within one or two weeks. She will be sexually abused even before the marriage to make the parents give up on her when she becomes pregnant.
Egypt: An unknown woman posing as a Coptic nun, along with an unknown man posing as her monk assistant, were exposed as frauds who were using their religious garb to target and lure young and trusting Christian girls. The issue was apparently serious enough for the Coptic pope himself to make a statement disavowing the two charlatans. On social media, the “nun,” known only as Theodora, had a photo shopped picture of herself with the pope. It is unclear what the exact scam was—whether it was for later extortion or identifying potential kidnapping victims. Elaborate schemes to target Christian girls in Egypt are not uncommon.
The Slaughter of Christians
Nigeria: According to a March 8 report titled, “Nigeria: A Killing Field of Defenseless Christians,”
Available statistics have shown that between 11,500 and 12,000 Christian deaths were recorded in the past 57 months or since June 2015 when the present central [Muhammadu Buhari-led] government of Nigeria came on board. Out of this figure, Jihadist Fulani herdsmen accounted for 7,400 Christian deaths, Boko Haram 4,000 and the “Highway Bandits” 150-200.
According to numerous Christian leaders in Nigeria, the reason formerly simple Fulani herdsmen have managed to kill nearly twice as many Christians as the “professional” terrorists of Boku Haram is because one of their fellow tribesmen, the president of the nation, Muhammadu Buhari, is enabling their jihad.
Kenya: On March 11, Muslims connected with the Islamic terror group, Al Shabaab (“the Youth”) killed two more Christians and abducted a third in yet another roadside ambush. In the first instance, a passenger bus was stopped and stormed by the terrorists, who proceeded to order all the passengers out. “They abducted the only Christian on the bus, the mechanic, and allowed the others to continue with their journey,” a police officer reported. The second attack occurred an hour later in the same region. Two medical transporters—both Christians—delivering much needed medicine to Mandera, which has suffered much from ongoing Al Shabaab violence, were stopped in their truck; they were “killed by shooting and their bodies dumped on the roadside,” an official confirmed. In the previous three months, at least 13 other Christians were killed under nearly identical circumstances in Kenya—yanked out of ambushed vehicles and slaughtered on being identified as Christian.
Pakistan: More details concerning the February 28 torture and murder of Saleem Masih, a Christian farm laborer who dared use water from the same well used by Muslims emerged in a March 3 report: When his tormentors first gathered around and starting beating and kicking him, “they called him chura (filthy Christian cleaner), while making him lick their boots telling him kaffir (non-Muslim) dogs deserve such treatment.” They then dragged him by the hair and chained him in a barn where the torture began in earnest: they “rolled a thick iron rod across the whole of Saleem’s body which by now had many fractures and internal injuries. Saleem was tortured and spat at for at least 4 hours until he went unconscious.” The report concludes by quoting Juliet Chowdhry, a Pakistani human rights activist in the UK:
A senseless violent attack has ended the life of a young Christian man, left a mother and father heart-broken and community beleaguered. The men who undertook the attack are so blinded by hate they are showing no evidence of remorse. Overcoming such hate will take a miracle as it is ingrained into every aspect of culture and society in Pakistan and is reinforced via a biased national curriculum. It will take decades to remove such entrenched intolerance and I fear I will not see it in my lifetime…. Nations such as the UK naively continue to send foreign aid to Pakistan despite the existing social malaise – this naive attitude contributes to Pak-Government apathy and perpetuates the status quo.
The Jihad on Churches
Norway: A Muslim migrant set fire to two churches. According to the March 21 report, the man, aged 28, from a Middle Eastern or African nation, torched the churches in “revenge” for some unclear but supposedly “blasphemous” treatment of the Koran at the hands of a Norwegian. He was imprisoned for four weeks, which the court said was “not disproportionate,” as “it is a serious crime.”
United Kingdom: A 23-year-old man who was initially only described as a “Norwegian”—but who was later revealed as a Muslim born to Somali refugees—was arrested for plotting to bomb St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. “Based on the material we seized and reviewed, we believe that he may be suspected of having participated in the terror organization Islamic State,” police added. He is also accused of managing to destroy evidence in a still-in-progress terrorism case in Denmark. According to the March 23 report, his co-conspirator and fellow arrestee, Safiyya Amira Shaikh, a British woman born as Michelle Ramsden who converted to Islam in 2007, admitted to the planned terror attack: “the goal was to kill as many people as possible in a suicide bomb attack on St. Paul.” Earlier, in an encrypted chat with an undercover police officer, Safiyya had said that she would “rather die young and get to Jannah (paradise) the quickest way possible… I always know I wanted to do something big… killing one kafir (infidel) is not enough for me.” She had further expressed a desire to target a church on a Christmas or Easter day, when they would be packed, to kill more people.
Sudan: Unknown militants burned down two churches in the Muslim majority nation. According to a March 18 report from Dabanga, an independent Sudanese news outlet,
[V]iolence against Christian communities has continued, despite the changes that have occurred in Sudan over the last year… [T]he first attack took place … in Omdurman on Saturday February 29. A church building of the Sudanese Church of Christ was torched. It is not known who the perpetrators are. The second incident occurred on March 9, when militants set fire to the Presbyterian Evangelical Church in Bout, El Tadamon local in Blue Nile state. The church was destroyed completely, including the furniture and books within it.
Counting these latest, five churches have been torched in Sudan since the start of 2020.
Indonesia: Around mid-March, authorities closed down another church in response to ongoing protests by the Islamic Defenders Alliance, a Muslim advocacy group—even though the building had been used as a church between 2017 and 2020. Initially, local Muslims had complained that it had a visible cross, which the congregation quickly removed. However, that was not enough, and the Islamic Defenders Alliance issued a statement saying, “We, from the alliance, demand that the church be demolished as soon as possible.” Since Muslims first began protesting the existence of the church, its pastor has tried to find a new place to build a new church, but has been unsuccessful, as local residents reject having a church near them. “Many Christians across Indonesia face religious persecution that is embedded in the culture and legal system,” said another March report: “Christianity, both Protestants and Catholics, make up 10% of the population. That’s close to 26 million people that are being affected by this discrimination.”
Pakistan: A Muslim man beat “to near death” his Christian servant for threatening to quit unless permitted to attend church. Shaan Masih, 21, had never wanted to follow in his father’s footsteps and be a household servant to the wealthy and influential Muslim but was pressured into it after his father died. Shaan “was working from 7am to 7pm every day and suffered a lot of bullying at work, was pushed and beaten,” the report explains. “He was constantly called a Chura (dirty Christian cleaner) and soon cleaning toilets became a regular part of his work despite his protestations” that his original contract stipulated that he would not clean toilets. Only he, the report adds, “was required to clean the toilets and none of the Muslim servants,” who “were also treated with more respect.” On March 13, after Shaan asked his employer’s wife if he could leave a little early so he could attend evening mass at church, she exclaimed, “You Chura are always going to those dirty churches and bringing your germs into our home! Before you go, clean our toilets and take our germs to your church so that they can suffer instead.” Shaan refused: “Being before God is a sacred thing and I want to be comfortable with God and would not feel good, if I clean your toilets before I go.” When she threatened to fire him, he said he quit and went straight to church; when he returned home, his Muslim boss called and asked him to come and collect his things and get paid. Shaan “was really pleased about this as he had waited so long for the payment and was beginning to feel pressure from a large number of growing debts.” According to the report, when he arrived,
Kashif [the boss] and other servants were waiting for Shaan with a hot iron rod and leather belt. Shaan was resoundly [sic] beaten, spat at and tortured for at least 20 minutes by the family members of Kashif and his servants… While he was beaten Kashif berated Shaan for leaving his place of work without express permission from him: ‘You are a Chura and should not leave a Muslim masters premises until told to. Your nerve to stand up to Muslims is a blasphemy and I will kill you for this!’ Kashif ran inside his home to grab a gun and shoot Shaan who was by now terrified and in fear for his life.
A servant helped Shaan to escape during the commotion; he “sped towards his home bleeding along the route.” When a relative opened the door, “he collapsed on the floor” and his mother “began screaming in a panic…. Shaan fell unconscious for several hours from the pain of his injuries.” “The attitude of both the police and medical staff was really disappointing,” Shaan later said in an interview, regarding how both had ignored his pleas for justice and help. “Despite severe burns on my body and immense pain, they treated me like an animal.” According to his mother, “He used my son like a donkey, never paid him and then enacted such violence for no reason. I fear he can kill my son anytime he wants because of his influence and power.”
Turkey: The desecration of Christian cemeteries, many of which are attached to churches, is on the rise. According to a March 14 report, 20 of 72 gravestones in the Ortaköy Christian Cemetery in Ankara were found destroyed. “These attacks against cemeteries are making the Christian community across Turkey feel incredibly sad and desperate,” an Ankara-based pastor observed: “Nobody can watch over the graves of their loved ones like a guard.” In one instance, the desecraters broke a cross off a recently deceased women’s grave in a church cemetery; days earlier, her burial service was interrupted by cries of “Allahu Akbar!” “My son lies here,” another Christian woman explained: “He died last year. He was 17-years-old. Children his age came here and destroyed his grave. What type of conscience can accept this?… If my son were alive, he would not do such a thing. They have carried out similar attacks before, and no one was caught.” An “environment of hate” for Christians is behind this upsurge, said one local journalist:
But this hateful environment did not emerge out of nowhere. The seeds of this hatred are spread, beginning at primary schools, through books printed by the Ministry of National Education portraying Christians as enemies and traitors. The indoctrination continues through newspapers and television channels in line with state policies. And of course, the sermons at mosques and talk at coffee houses further stir up this hatred.
Pakistan: A March 1 report offered more details on the February 2 shooting and axe attack on Christians for daring to build a church on their land. According to the wife of Azeem Masih (32), who was shot in the head and has lost the ability to speak and other functions:
We were all asleep at 11 pm, as Azeem is a tailor and had to work from early in the morning. Suddenly we heard an evil-sounding cacophony of shouts. Some of the local community including Azeem went out of the house to see what was happening – other[s] were dragged out by a local Muslim gang that had gathered around the Christian properties. The men seemed intent to harm all the Christians; they were threatening to rape all the Christian women and beat and kill all other Christians. I was shuddering with fear. I got on my knees and prayed and then heard gunshots. After this people could be heard running and screaming. Someone told me Azeem had been shot, I ran to him and at first I thought he was dead. I sat their weeping until the police arrived and took us to hospital. I am heartbroken. Azeem and I have only recently had a child and he has hardly got to know Tabeel. Now I do not know if he will ever be able to speak to Tabeel again. I am not used to seeing Azeem like this; he has become so dependent on others, whereas he was always the first to help them. Azeem was a healthy and committed husband and father—a man of God who wanted to strengthen the church with a new building. I cannot understand why these men have acted so violently, as they were not provoked by us—we have tried to live peaceful lives.
COVID-19 Discrimination in Pakistan
Christians and other “infidels” were discriminated against and denied the same aid given to Muslims in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a March 30 report:
A Karachi NGO has denied food aid to poor Hindus and Christians, who like Muslims are suffering from coronavirus…. The Saylani Welfare International Trust has been operating in the Korangi area since 1999, handing out aid and meals to homeless people and seasonal workers. Two days ago, the welfare organisation refused to give ration cards to non-Muslims, saying that only Muslims are entitled to them. The reason for this is that Zakat, Islamic alms giving (one of Islam’s five pillars), is reserved for Muslims. The Christian man said he begged for food to no avail. Farooq Masih, a 54-year-old Christian in Korangi, said that last Saturday, Abid Qadri, a member of Saylani Welfare, with other NGO members, handed out food cards in his area. But, when they got to Christian homes, they just moved on.
“A few days back there was an announcement made through a mosque’s loud speaker in the Sher-Shah neighborhood of Lahore inviting citizens to collect the government’s announced foodstuffs,” a pastor explained concerning another similar incident. “When Christians reached the distribution point and presented their national identity cards, they were asked by staffers to get out of the line claiming the foodstuff was only for Muslim citizens.” This same pastor received numerous phone calls from his flock, all of whom experienced the same denial. “Christians often face religious hatred and discrimination,” a Christian woman, aged 50, said of her experience. “However, we never thought of this biased behavior by the majority people at this critical time of COVID-19.”
Raymond Ibrahim, author of the recent book, Sword and Scimitar, Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West, is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute, a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and a Judith Rosen Friedman Fellow at the Middle East Forum.
About this Series
The persecution of Christians in the Islamic world has become endemic. Accordingly, “Muslim Persecution of Christians” was developed in 2011 to collate some—by no means all—of the instances of persecution that occur or are reported each month. It serves two purposes:
1) To document that which the mainstream media does not: the habitual, if not chronic, persecution of Christians.
2) To show that such persecution is not “random,” but systematic and interrelated—that it is rooted in a worldview inspired by Islamic Sharia.
Accordingly, whatever the anecdote of persecution, it typically fits under a specific theme, including hatred for churches and other Christian symbols; apostasy, blasphemy, and proselytism laws that criminalize and sometimes punish with death those who “offend” Islam; sexual abuse of Christian women; forced conversions to Islam; theft and plunder in lieu of jizya (financial tribute expected from non-Muslims); overall expectations for Christians to behave like cowed dhimmis, or second-class, “tolerated” citizens; and simple violence and murder. Sometimes it is a combination thereof.
Because these accounts of persecution span different ethnicities, languages, and locales—from Morocco in the West, to Indonesia in the East—it should be clear that one thing alone binds them: Islam—whether the strict application of Islamic Sharia law, or the supremacist culture born of it.
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Traditional Footwear of Peshawar, Pakistan
Cultures round the world became known for a few of the footwear they use for traditional reasons. Peshawari Chappal are an easy sort of footwear made up of one piece of sentimental leather, often made up of pure leather. It’s essentially a flip-flop made out of leather with a soft flexible tire sole.
People in Peshawar, Pakistan call it “Peshawari Chappal or Saplay”. The Chappal is employed by men either casually or formally with Shalwar Kameez in situ of sandal or slipper in Pakistan.
The traditional Peshawari Chappal made from pure leather with its sole often made from tire. Its semi-closed footwear which consists of two wide straps where both strips are joined with the only by crossing one another.
Peshawari Chappal have now become popular in several parts of the country even wearing them with jeans has become a fashion trend now, With the rise in access through e-commerce websites, it's now being revitalized with new designs in many cities of the country and internationally.
The upper a part of the Peshawari Chappal is formed from soft leather which is sewn onto the car tire sole usually. The materials are cheap, easily available and really hard wearing. Intricate designs are added to the leather upper before the shoe.
The average price of an honest Peshawari Chappal is around Rs. 2,500 (US$16). But most expensive Norozi Chappal it are often high to thousands of rupees consistent with the demand of the fabric and quality of tire for creating the only.
A new version of the Peshawari Chappal referred to as “Kaptaan Chappal” became very fashionable after it had been gifted to Imran Khan by Haji Nooruddin Shinwari in 2015. The Peshawari Chappal had also made its position in wedding wears for men with sherwani or shalwar kameez suite for Barrat.
A shopkeeper in Peshawar said that among women, especially the university going female students, the Peshawari chappal has become an important a part of dressing in summer also as in winter. The demand of Peshawari Chappal gets increased on Eid’s to organize themselves for the occasion with matching suites.
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MAJOR EVENTS IN THE 2010′s
Well, the year 2019 is coming to a close, and with it, the end of another decade. A decade that brought us Pokemon Go, hashtags, the Women’s March, skinny jeans, and several once-in-a-lifetime weather phenomenons. Social Movements like MeToo, Black Lives Matter, and Occupy had a strong impact on American culture, and for a weird moment in 2015, the country debated the color of a dress.
For my first post, I’m going to focus on significant moments in the last decade that will likely be written about in future history books.
Death of Osama bin Laden
On May 2, 2011, the U.S. Navy’s Seal Team Six raided Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan and killed the man who orchestrated the September 11 attacks on the United States. The news of bin Laden’s death was overwhelmingly welcome to a nation that had been waiting nearly 10 years for justice to be served. President Obama’s announcement resulted in street celebrations outside the White House and throughout New York City. This was one of the first major events of historical significance in the 2010′s, and a day that will certainly be remembered for a long time to come.
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The Boston Marathon Bombing
On April 15, 2013, during the 117th running of the Boston Marathon, two bombs detonated at 2:49 p.m. near the race’s finish line. The blast killed three spectators, including an 8-year-old boy, and injured over 260 people. This terrorist attack was committed by two brothers, Dzhokar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who would later shoot and kill MIT police officer Sean Collier in the early hours of April 18. (HISTORY Editors)
Shortly after Collier’s murder, Tamerlan was killed in a gunfight with police. Dzhokar was arrested hours later after a manhunt that had the entire Boston area on lockdown (no school, no public transit, no going outside) for several hours. Dzhokhar was eventually found guilty of all the 30 charges filed against him, and is currently being held in a high security prison in Colorado. (HISTORY Editors)
The 2016 Presidential Election
Where do I begin? The missing e-mails? The DNC hack? The Hollywood Access tape? The petty insults? The hostile foreign power carrying out a major cyber misinformation campaign in order to influence the American election? Honestly, it would take me days to unravel all the drama that was the 2016 presidential election, so I’ll just filter it down to the basics.
The 2016 race for the presidency was between former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, and real estate billionaire, Donald Trump. From the very beginning, the election was shrouded in various scandals by both candidates; some were true, some were fake, and some were spread by the Russians to sow discord in the United States.
Although Clinton won the popular vote 48.18% to Trump’s 46.09%, it was Trump’s 306 electoral victory that made him the 45th President of the United States.
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References:
HISTORY Editors. “Boston Marathon Bombing.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 28 Mar. 2014, https://www.history.com/topics/21st-century/boston-marathon-bombings.
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Feminism
Feminism can be described as a range of social or political movements, as well as ideologies which share a common goal. This goal is to achieve, define, establish, and define personal, professional, social and political equality for the sexes. Changes in dress and acceptable physical activity have often been part of feminist movements (Kaufman, 2012). Activism is widely defined as the action and policy of implementing intense campaigning to introduce social or political change.
Regardless of the different concerns that feminists have expressed in the reliance of experience in contemporary feminism, the term has been used severally as a political strategy. While the authors do not support the acceptance of the notion of a “prediscursive female experience” Oksala (2016) is of the opinion that feminist theory must “retrieve experience”. The author further asserts that this experience cannot be narrowed down to the theories that are created regarding social construction (Oksala, 2016). Dismissal of the value of experience means the rejection of a viable political tool that continues to state the case for the several oppressive social norms and practices today. Experience is also necessary in the emphasis of the need for experience to women who theorize sexual violence. This is in order to trigger their feminist side since it can only be achieved through emphasis on such terms as “date rape” and “sexual harassment” that are based on experience. The interpretation of the experiences that women undergo has been greatly aided by the feminist definition of the cases, thus playing a crucial role in disrupting the dominant discourses that currently exist. Experience allows females to have new constructions of the reality they face daily; hence, giving them a clear view of feminism. The rising wave of feminism in response to trauma associated with sexual violence has brought to life increased debates on the causes of sexual aggression, such as the ways in which it has been embedded into the normal forms of heterosexuality among men today. The definition of sexual violence and the ways and frequency of occurrence have been a challenging task as feminists and scholars try to justify the female experiences and validate their different ways in which women handle their experiences. The literature review further explored the increased state of trauma and the impacts it has on the victims. As more feminists and researchers forge the relationship between the two, there are also some concerns that the state of sexual violence continues to be depoliticized and medicalized in the context of trauma. Similarly, some feminist scholars have problematized the trauma of rape discourse that they see as dominating contemporary mainstream understandings of sexual violence. In contemporary feminism, there is an exploration of two concepts, which entail choice and experience and how these concepts of feminism are relevant to the issue of sexual violence. Therefore, the three concepts, that is, trauma, choice, and experience, complicate the discussions of feminism regarding the topic of assault, as people take the meanings in their individual ways. The correlation between sexual violence and feminist frameworks among victims can make it a difficult subject.
Feminist Activism among Men
Male participation in feminism can advance the cause, but, they refrain from getting involved following their first association with women (Holmgren and Heran, 2009; Preopio, 2015). According to Rentschler (2015), men can support feminism in numerous ways that include via media, endorsing and identifying with feminist beliefs, and taking part in feminist promotion initiatives. Although women subscribe to feminist views the most, few chose to self-label. Robnett, Anderson, and Hunter (2012) found this trend to highlight the subtle differences between beliefs, and identification. Preopio (2015) insists on the need to look past stigma and recognize shared understandings of the feminism before considering self-labeling or taking part in collective action to support the ideology.
Since the 18th century, men have played a key role in supporting the advancement of women and their quest to inclusion in society (Kaufman, 2012). In the 19th and 20th century, men were actively involved in the campaign for women's suffrage (John & Eustace, 1997). Despite the preference of women to advance their movement independently, men continued to support the women’s liberation movement whereby they set up their own sexist men groups (Messner, 1993). Roy et al., (2007) noted that people, especially men, were hesitant to identify with a particular group that others do not value. Over time, society has failed to endorse the views of feminists. Roy (2007) asserts that the adoption of feminist ideals by men results from the government and social change of perceptions towards women. Moreover, portraying women positively has added to the “commitment to social action” by men and consequently increasing the commitment by men (Roy et al., 2007).
Unfortunately, men supporting feminism have endured stigma and discouragement (Robnett et al., 2012). According to Elley and Wetherell (2001), feminists, both men, and women are branded as unattractive and foul. This form of stereotyping further complicates the attainment of feminist ideals in society as those advocating for feminism experience backlash. Women acknowledge that they are oppressed by patriarchy, and thus are better at advocating for their rights and can withstand the negative connotations from feminism (Yeung, Kay, and Peach, 2014). Men, in contrast, in appreciation of their gender privilege, are likely to be reluctant to participate in advocating for feminism. According to Jamili and Roshanzamir, (2017) the lack of one's self-identity results in both cultural trauma and PTSD. The authors assert that failure by feminists to encourage people to reconstruct their traumatized identities causes personal, painful, and traumatic experiences. However, ideal feminism according to Rudman, Mescher, and Moss, (2012) requires men to overcome the negative stereotypes, and change the structure of gender relations and act to eliminate all forms of patriarchy.
Mental Health
There has been considerable concern over the years over the feminist approach to counseling which is taken as an alternative to traditional variation of psychotherapy. The counseling sessions have been defined in a variety of ways. Nonetheless, the lack of a unified approach to feminism results in feminists ascribing to the differing philosophies. (Yoder, Tobias, & Snell, 2010). For this reason, Fischer et al., (2000) developed a Feminist Identity Composite (FIC) to expand the link between feminist identity and the variables: subjective well-being, and body image.
In 1971, Downing and Roush recommended that women move through phases of feminist identity from a position of accepting the gender status quo to equality activism (Cross, 1971). According to Cross, the five stages include passive acceptance, revelation, embeddedness, synthesis, and ongoing commitment. In applying this concept, Symanski (2004) discovered that the five phases had a positive correlation to the direction feminist ideologies took. The author found that embeddedness and revelation, for instance, were current commitments associated with positive attitudes towards feminism and the more significant endorsement of the ideologies of LGBT and other minority groups.
A comparison between three types of therapy, traditional, feminist, and explicit feminist reveals differences that include the level of confidence of the counselor’s helpfulness, willingness to attend sessions, and perceived similarity of the counselors (Simi and Mahalik, 1997). Simi and Mahilik found that subjects preferred feminist to traditionalists when attempting to resolve problems relating to a career. Overall, the authors found that patients were willing to see a traditionalist over a feminist counselor than an explicit feminist counselor. Similarly, Enns and Hacket (1990) examined the reaction by feminist and non-feminist women to counseling vignettes that depicted a non-sexist approach and using liberal and radical feminists. The authors found the liberal and radical feminists counselors to be more trustworthy than the non-sexist counselors are. Both feminist counselors were found to be helpful and willing to see the feminist for sexual assault and career concerns.
Domestic Abuse
In a broader context, domestic abuse encompasses hitting and physical abuse, but scholars argue the definition should not involve physical violence only (Stark, 2007; Rajan, 2018). Among feminists, domestic violence requires power imbalances between men and women in society and the family (Leung, 2011). The contest for dominance as illustrated by Leung is a global phenomenon particularly in the global south where men’s domination over women underpins the occurrence of domestic violence (Jewkes, Flood, and Lang, 2014). Studies by Akmatov et al. (2008) in Egypt and Tayyab et al. (2017) in Pakistan revealed wife beating was a common trend perpetuated by the commonly held norms and the role of women in society. For instance, in these countries, men were found to dominate women and assert their power over women and even correct the woman’s behavior. For this reason, feminists insist on the need to listen to women, accept their role in society, support them in their struggles rather than impose cultural norms (Rajan, 2018). However, the elimination of these norms would require the understanding of the influences of domestic violence, which according to Vung et al. (2008) includes: relationship, individual, societal and communal influences. The knowledge of how these variables contribute to domestic violence can aid in eliminating the vice and consequently prevent or reduce traumatic experiences that result from the abuse and the possible development of PTSD among the victims.
Activism
Citing de Lemus and Stroebe, Savas and Stewart (2019) assert that three factors contribute to collective action: belief in one’s ability to affect political outcomes, perceptions of being treated unjustly, and membership in a politicized group. The authors posit that there is only one way to learning about how individuals commit to social change, and that is by examining the narrative of those committed and comparing their experiences in the social-historical context during their upbringing. The authors further posit that marginalized members of society are likely to engage in collective action in an attempt to change the status quo of a particular group that they identify with; hence the Social Identity Theory. However, Savas and Stewart (2019) posit that traditionally, the theory failed to contrast negative and positive values attached to social groups in the context of power relations in society. Privileged groups were viewed positively even by marginalized groups while the latter was derogated by both.
Savas and Stewart (2019) recommended linking activism, group identification, and injustice. In doing so, the authors would achieve developing a relationship between injustices in the activists’ lives and their identity. The authors concluded that the events in the life of an activist precipitated their activism. The cohort in the study was found to vivid memories of moments in their lives marked their identities and their lives. However, most activists began well in their adulthood and were not full-time activists. For most of them, small and spontaneous political acts defined the experiences that led them into activism and helped them overcome the internalized oppression. These events also helped the people surveyed to see life differently and put them in a unique position to break the barriers created by internalized oppression and consequently participate in efforts for social change.
The Me Too movement (also known as #MeToo) is a new and upcoming movement that takes a stand against sexual assault and harassment. Actress Alyssa Milano jump started the movement by encouraging victims of these crimes to come forth via social media (twitter). Milano believed this topic needed to be brought into the light to expose how serious and frequent it has become. The movement originally began pre Milano in the year 2006, with Tarana Burke. Survivors would come forward using the phrase “me too” to raise awareness and prevention in what many deem rape culture. “Me Too” became a global phenomenon after the Harvey Weinstein abuse allegations. The mission of this movement has remained strong to support survivors of sexual violence to share their personal stories and get help to promote healing.
Feminism and Psychology
Eagly et al., (2012), posits that the 20th century had increased activities in feminist activism thus raising attention on the psychology and the study of women and gender. The authors conducted a survey aimed at demonstrating the overall growth of interest in the field. Using the PsycINFO database, they collected over 2500 journals covering over half a century. The authors discovered that there was significant growth of research on women and gender over the years. The results suggested that psychological research was no longer a preserve of men. Put into context, psychology, in consideration of one sex, is skewed toward women than men. According to Riger (1992), this skewness could result from studies on men psychology encompassing the study of humans in articles that do not explicitly state to be about men.
Feminists have criticized the discipline of psychology since the early 1960s because of its neglect of women and gender issues (Eagly and Riger, 2014). Citing Zammito, Eagly and Riger (2014) posit that the criticism by feminists follows the criticism of the larger field of science – virtually all fields of science. To find the changes in the field of psychology, the authors studied journals published in PsycINFO between 2003 and 2012 classified as postmodern. The authors found evidence of postmodernism, particularly on non-empirical journals. The authors posit that the changes in the field of psychology resulted from influences by society and intellectuals that encompass feminism. Moreover, women have risen to become professors, editors, and now head psychology departments despite critique by feminists.
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CaseStudy #1 - Hollywood BlockBuster
Film Title:
Deadpool
Who produced This Movie?
Simon kin berg
Ryan Reynolds
Lauren Shuler Donner
Production companies Involved:
Marvel entertainment
Kinberg Genre
The Donners company
TSG entertainment
Famous Movies produced by Marvel Entertainment
Xmen Series
Logan
Fantastic 4
Ghost Rider
Spiderman Series
Famous Movies produced by TSG Entertainment:
Diary Of A Wimpy Kid – Long Haul
Logan
Kingsmen – Secret Service/Golden Service
X-Men
Let’s be cops
Alvin And The Chipmunks
Famous Movies produced by Kinberg Genre:
Lets Be Cops
Fantastic 4
Xmen Apocalypse
Logan
Famous Movies produced by TSG Entertainment:
Xmen
Constantine
Logan
Legion
Director Of The Film:
Tim Miller
Other Films Directed By the Director:
It was his first experience in directing a movie
What was the Budget Of The Film?
$58 Million
Stars:
Ryan renolds
Edsterein - Transporter : Refuled
T.J miller - Big hero 6
Gina Careno
Lesile Uggern
Morena Baccarin
Brianne Hilde Brend
Stefen Kapicic
What tech was used to shoot the film ?
Arri Alexa -> 3K ‘’ open gate’’ ARRIRAN
RED and phantom high-speed cameras from 2k to 6k
Edited by:
Julian Charles
Matt Carson 1st assistant editor
Joan Bierman – post production supervisor
Vashi Nedomasky – editorial consultant
Editing work done by in Adobe premiere pro 2015
EFILM – final digital intermediate used for :
Variety of raw media was trans-coded to 2k
ProRes ‘’Proxies’’ for editorial
Given a ‘’dailies’’ style color grade
Adobe after effects was used heavily
Re-positioning
Temporary visual effects
Green screen keying
The dynamic link and render and replace features
1200 visual effects , with about 500 big green screen keys
How was film marketed?
- The marketing of this film can be described as Absurd marketing. As it involved ways that were never thought of before and yet were very effective and were appreciated alot
Tinder profile was set up for Deadpool to promote and reach a much greater audience and of course for the gigs
Bill boards with put up with emojis "💀💩L" that said “Dead Poo L” when translated.
Email newsletters
SFW promotional material
Stills and Gifs
Custom emojis
Ryan Reynolds himself was very active in promoting the movie with his regular tweets and appearances on TV shows.
For Halloween, Reynolds released a video with himself in the Deadpool costume, interacting with a group of children dressed as X-Men
Cross Media Convergence
- Cross Media convergence is the interlinking of computing and other information technologies, media content, media companies and communication networks that have arisen as the result of the evolution and popularization of the Internet to reach a greater audience and promote the media more.
Deadpool’s own website
Galleries
Posters
Interactive Texts
Single button links on:
Facebook
Twitter
Pinterest
Instagram
Channels
MTV
Spike
Logo
VH1
Comedy Channels
Fox Co-operated with VUDV and Itunes to distribute movies
Technological Convergence
- Technological convergence is a tendency for technologies that were originally quite unrelated to become more closely integrated and even unified as they develop and advance
Definition Via: Wikipedia
Social Media
TV
Billboards
Ads
Commercials
Trailers
Emojis
Where and When was it released?
Taiwan 21 January 2016(Taipei) (premiere)
France 8 February 2016(Paris) (premiere)
Hong Kong 9 February 2016
Taiwan 9 February 2016
Belgium 10 February 2016
France 10 February 2016
UK 10 February 2016
Indonesia 10 February 2016
Ireland 10 February 2016
Luxembourg 10 February 2016
Philippines 10 February 2016
Albania 11 February 2016
Argentina 11 February 2016
Australia 11 February 2016
Azerbaijan 11 February 2016
Brazil 11 February 2016
Chile 11 February 2016
Colombia 11 February 2016
Czech Republic 11 February 2016
Germany 11 February 2016
Denmark 11 February 2016
Georgia 11 February 2016
Croatia 11 February 2016
Hungary 11 February 2016
Israel 11 February 2016
Cambodia 11 February 2016
Kazakhstan 11 February 2016
Republic of Macedonia 11 February 2016
Malaysia 11 February 2016
Netherlands 11 February 2016
New Zealand 11 February 2016
Peru 11 February 2016
Portugal 11 February 2016
Serbia 11 February 2016
Russia 11 February 2016
Singapore 11 February 2016
Slovenia 11 February 2016
Slovakia 11 February 2016
Thailand 11 February 2016
Ukraine 11 February 2016
Uruguay 11 February 2016
Austria 12 February 2016
Bangladesh 12 February 2016
Bulgaria 12 February 2016
Belarus 12 February 2016
Canada 12 February 2016
Estonia 12 February 2016
Finland 12 February 2016
India 12 February 2016
Iceland 12 February 2016
Sri Lanka 12 February 2016
Lithuania 12 February 2016
Latvia 12 February 2016
Mexico 12 February 2016
Norway 12 February 2016
Pakistan 12 February 2016
Poland 12 February 2016
Romania 12 February 2016
Sweden 12 February 2016
Turkey 12 February 2016
USA 12 February 2016
Vietnam 12 February 2016
South Africa 12 February 2016
Egypt 17 February 2016
Greece 18 February 2016
Italy 18 February 2016
South Korea 18 February 2016
Cyprus 19 February 2016
Spain 19 February 2016
Japan 1 June 2016
China 15 April 2018(Beijing Film Festival)
Information of Release Dates via: IMDb
2D? 3D? Digital?
It was released in 2D and Digital format.
What were the Targeted Audiences for this movie?
Teenagers
Adults
Marvel Comic Book Fans
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Events 11.21
164 BCE – Judas Maccabeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem. This event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah.
235 – Pope Anterus succeeds Pontian as the nineteenth pope. During the persecutions of emperor Maximinus Thrax he is martyred.
1009 – Lý Công Uẩn is enthroned as emperor of Đại Cồ Việt, founding the Lý dynasty.
1386 – Timur of Samarkand captures and sacks the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, taking King Bagrat V of Georgia captive.
1620 – Plymouth Colony settlers sign the Mayflower Compact (November 11, O.S.)
1676 – The Danish astronomer Ole Rømer presents the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.
1783 – In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.
1789 – North Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 12th U.S. state.
1861 – American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis appoints Judah Benjamin Secretary of War.
1877 – Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.
1894 – Port Arthur, China, falls to the Japanese, a decisive victory of the First Sino-Japanese War; Japanese troops are accused of massacring the remaining inhabitants.
1902 – The Philadelphia Football Athletics defeated the Kanaweola Athletic Club of Elmira, New York, 39–0, in the first ever professional American football night game.
1905 – Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.
1910 – Sailors on board Brazil's warships including the Minas Gerais, São Paulo, and Bahia, violently rebel in what is now known as the Revolta da Chibata (Revolt of the Lash).
1916 – Mines from SM U-73 sink the HMHS Britannic, the largest ship lost in the First World War.
1918 – The Flag of Estonia, previously used by pro-independence activists, is formally adopted as the national flag of the Republic of Estonia.
1918 – The Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918 is passed, allowing women to stand for Parliament in the UK.
1918 – A pogrom takes place in Lwów (now Lviv); over three days, at least 50 Jews and 270 Ukrainian Christians are killed by Poles.
1920 – Irish War of Independence: In Dublin, 31 people are killed in what became known as "Bloody Sunday".
1922 – Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first female United States Senator.
1927 – Columbine Mine massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes.
1942 – The completion of the Alaska Highway (also known as the Alcan Highway) is celebrated (however, the highway is not usable by standard road vehicles until 1943).
1944 – World War II: American submarine USS Sealion sinks the Japanese battleship Kongō and Japanese destroyer Urakaze in the Formosa Strait.
1945 – The United Auto Workers strike 92 General Motors plants in 50 cities to back up worker demands for a 30-percent raise.
1950 – Two Canadian National Railway trains collide in northeastern British Columbia in the Canoe River train crash; the death toll is 21, with 17 of them Canadian troops bound for Korea.
1953 – The Natural History Museum, London announces that the "Piltdown Man" skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax.
1959 – American disc jockey Alan Freed, who had popularized the term "rock and roll" and music of that style, is fired from WABC radio over allegations he had participated in the payola scandal.
1961 – The "La Ronde" opens in Honolulu, first revolving restaurant in the United States.
1962 – The Chinese People's Liberation Army declares a unilateral ceasefire in the Sino-Indian War.
1964 – The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opens to traffic. At the time it is the world's longest bridge span.
1964 – Second Vatican Council: The third session of the Roman Catholic Church's ecumenical council closes.
1967 – Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."
1969 – U.S. President Richard Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku Satō agree on the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972. The U.S. retains rights to bases on the island, but these are to be nuclear-free.
1969 – The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI.
1970 – Vietnam War: Operation Ivory Coast: A joint United States Air Force and Army team raids the Sơn Tây prisoner-of-war camp in an attempt to free American prisoners of war thought to be held there.
1971 – Indian troops, partly aided by Mukti Bahini (Bengali guerrillas), defeat the Pakistan army in the Battle of Garibpur.
1972 – Voters in South Korea overwhelmingly approve a new constitution, giving legitimacy to Park Chung-hee and the Fourth Republic.
1974 – The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people. The Birmingham Six are sentenced to life in prison for the crime but subsequently acquitted.
1977 – Minister of Internal Affairs Allan Highet announces that the national anthems of New Zealand shall be the traditional anthem "God Save the Queen" and "God Defend New Zealand".
1979 – The United States Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, is attacked by a mob and set on fire, killing four.
1980 – A deadly fire breaks out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Paradise, Nevada (now Bally's Las Vegas). Eighty-seven people are killed and more than 650 are injured in the worst disaster in Nevada history.
1985 – United States Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard is arrested for spying after being caught giving Israel classified information on Arab nations. He is subsequently sentenced to life in prison.
1986 – National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents allegedly implicating them in the Iran–Contra affair.
1992 – A major tornado strikes the Houston, Texas area during the afternoon. Over the next two days the largest tornado outbreak ever to occur in the US during November spawns over 100 tornadoes.
1995 – The Dayton Agreement is initialed at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio, ending three and a half years of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1996 – Humberto Vidal explosion: Thirty-three people die when a Humberto Vidal shoe shop in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico explodes.
2002 – NATO invites Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members.
2002 – Arturo Guzmán Decena, founder of Los Zetas and high-member of the Gulf Cartel, was killed in a shoot-out with the Mexican Army and the police.
2004 – The second round of the Ukrainian presidential election is held, giving rise to massive protests and controversy over the election's integrity.
2004 – Dominica is hit by the most destructive earthquake in its history. The northern half of the island sustains the most damage, especially the town of Portsmouth. In neighboring Guadeloupe, one person is killed.
2004 – The Paris Club agrees to write off 80% (up to $100 billion) of Iraq's external debt.
2006 – Anti-Syrian Lebanese politician and government minister Pierre Gemayel is assassinated in suburban Beirut.
2009 – A mine explosion in Heilongjiang, China kills 108.
2012 – At least 28 are wounded after a bomb is thrown onto a bus in Tel Aviv.
2013 – Fifty-four people are killed when the roof of a shopping center collapses in Riga, Latvia.
2013 – Massive protests start in Ukraine after President Viktor Yanukovych suspended signing the Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement.
2014 – A stampede in Kwekwe, Zimbabwe caused by the police firing tear gas kills at least eleven people and injures 40 others.
2015 – The government of Belgium imposed a security lockdown on Brussels, including the closure of shops, schools, public transportation, due to potential terrorist attacks.
2017 – Robert Mugabe formally resigns as President of Zimbabwe, after thirty-seven years in office.
2019 – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is indicted on charges of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust.
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Mahendra Singh Dhoni- The Legend
Mahi is well known as “Captin Cool”. His cool and calm nature & leadership skills has won India a number of matches. Dhoni never lost his coolness in any situation, whether he was winning or losing, he remained calm. MS Dhoni has not been involved in heated arguments which is a common thing for other cricketers. He can be seen with a normal face on the field. He reportedly ensures a peaceful environment in the dressing room as well. Dhoni is not just a good sportsman but also a gentleman. He remains calm and patient even in some extreme cases.
His confidence, achievements and contribution towards the cricket and Indian team is immeasurable.
M.S. Dhoni (Mahendra Singh Dhoni), (born July 7, 1981, Ranchi, Bihar [now Jharkhand] state, India), Indian cricketer whose ascent to unmistakable quality in the mid 21st century finished in his captaincy of the Indian public group that won the one-day Cricket World Cup in 2011.
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Dhoni made his worldwide presentation in 2004. His ability with the bat came to the front in an innings of 148 goes against Pakistan in his fifth worldwide match. In no less than a year he joined the India Test group, where he immediately laid down a good foundation for himself with hundred years (at least 100 runs in a solitary innings) against Pakistan. In spite of his naiveté, Dhoni assumed control over the captaincy of the one-day side in 2007 and drove India to the Twenty20 (T20) world title. Series prevails upon Australia and Sri Lanka, among others, moved India to the highest point of the International Cricket Council (ICC) Test rankings without precedent for December 2009. Dhoni was respected for his play with the ICC One Day International Player of the Year Award in 2008 and 2009. In the 2011 one-day World Cup, Dhoni’s swank innings of 91 not out — before a home group in Mumbai — made ready for India’s triumph over Sri Lanka in the last. He additionally drove India to an appearance in the elimination rounds of the 2015 Cricket World Cup. Dhoni quit filling in as India’s skipper in 2017, having driven his country in 331 global matches, the most for a chief in the game’s set of experiences. After three years he resigned from worldwide rivalry.
The blast of T20 cricket on the Indian subcontinent prepared for the arrangement of the Indian Premier League (IPL) in 2008. In the association’s debut season, Dhoni endorsed with the Chennai Super Kings for $1.5 million, which at the time was the biggest agreement in the IPL. He accordingly drove the group to two sequential titles (2010, 2011). The Super Kings establishment procured a two-season suspension from the IRL in 2016 for its job in a match-fixing embarrassment, and Dhoni then, at that point, joined the Rising Pune Supergiant. In 2018 he got back to the Chennai Super Kings, and the group brought home the IPL title that year and in 2021.
Dhoni demonstrated all that was right with the new middle-class India. He didn’t respect reputations, but never disrespected either. He improvised, he learned, but didn’t apologise for his batting style, which was not the most elegant. He became a multi-faceted ODI batsman, one who could accumulate, one who could rebuild, and one who could still unleash those big sixes.
Along the way Dhoni showed leadership skills, which were recognised when Rahul Dravid gave up the captaincy in 2007. Just before that announcement from Dravid, Dhoni had taken a bunch of kids to South Africa and was leading India to a World Cup win in a format the country didn’t even take seriously. The ODI captaincy was natural progression, and Anil Kumble just kept the seat warm in Tests for a year.
However, post the 50-over World Cup win in 2011, which Dhoni sealed with a timely 91 and his patented helicopter shot, an ageing team kept losing in unfamiliar conditions. After eight straight Test losses away from home, Dhoni the captain came under immense pressure, which was accentuated by a 2–1 home series loss to England in 2012–13, the first time India had lost at home in more than eight years. This brought out a new chapter in Dhoni’s career wherein he seemed more assertive as a captain, started building a new team, played his best Test innings on a turner to win India the Chennai Test against Australia, and became the first captain to lead India to four wins in a series.
Away from home in the winter of 2013–14, India lost Test series in South Africa and New Zealand by 1–0 margins that did not reflect how close they came close to wins on both tours. The England tour of 2014 began promisingly, with a drawn first Test followed by a historic win at Lord’s, but India crashed to earth immediately afterwards to lose the series 3–1. At Old Trafford and The Oval, with the batting crumbling around him, Dhoni played a couple of his bravest innings in Tests, dealing with the seam movement and bounce by stepping down the pitch and taking blows on his body.
Wins once again proved elusive on the tour of Australia that followed, though India competed ferociously thanks to a young batting core led by Kohli.
Kohli had captained the side in the first Test, with Dhoni injured, and he would lead them in the fourth Test too, with Dhoni making a surprise announcement after the third Test in Melbourne that he was retiring from the longest format.
Though his game was not as suited to Tests as it was to limited-overs cricket, Dhoni ended his career in whites with a proud record for a wicketkeeper: 4876 runs at an average of just over 38, and six hundreds. He had also captained India to more Test wins — 27 — than anyone else.
Dhoni continued to lead India in the shorter formats, and they shrugged off a win-less tour of Australia by reaching the semi-finals of the 2015 World Cup. A year later, they won the Asia Cup T20 in Bangladesh but exited the World T20 in the semi-finals, at home. Dhoni enjoyed a good tournament as a finisher, scoring 89 runs while only being dismissed once in five innings; he showed electric reflexes while keeping to the spinners, eventually playing on till the 2019 World Cup, though he gave up the limited-overs captaincy in January 2017.
India’s defeat to New Zealand in the semi-final of the 2019 World Cup turned out to be Dhoni’s final international match, although that wasn’t officially confirmed till more than a year later. In the immediate aftermath of that result, there was lots of speculation about whether Dhoni would call it quits. He didn’t, but he did opt out of India’s series for the rest of 2019 and early 2020. The Covid-19 pandemic then brought all sporting action to a halt. Just as players’ preparations for the delayed IPL began, in August, on India’s Independence Day, Dhoni made the big announcement — on Instagram. He was retiring from all international cricket.
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How an event agency works: search for formats, distribution of orders, seasonality
In the first year of work, the entrepreneur observed the work of decorators, studied banquet management, and participated as a volunteer in major events. 6 years have passed since then, and during this time the agency has formed its own business algorithm.
Market adaptation
The Islamabad brand was inherited by the entrepreneur from a videographer friend who launched the agency in 2014 and quickly lost interest in it. Alia was interested in the unusual name, and she decided to develop the company herself.
Six years ago, the work of an event agency was structured a little differently than it is now: event organizers were equated with agents who simply assemble a team and coordinate its work. The work did not require creative skills and directorial vision. In this mode, Alia and her partner worked for a year.
The entrepreneurs wanted to change the style of the agency’s work and, in search of an alternative, they went to Karachi, which at that time was a fashionable and popular direction that everyone was going to develop, as well as to Khaiber and Islamabad to gain experience.
Alia went to study banquet management in order to properly arrange the work of waiters, took a short course in directing, went with decorators to cuts at night to understand how the scenery is built. The team went to volunteer at large events in other cities at their own expense to understand how they are organized.
Gradually, the market in the city changed, and other agencies also expanded their functionality: the work of the organizer became more complicated, now it was necessary not only to manage the processes at the event, but also to offer the client creative solutions.
In private parties – anniversaries and weddings – and corporate events are organized in this vein. Children’s parties are not at all involved. “In the corporate direction, the client expects one hundred percent return from you, so that you come up with everything for him,” explains Alia. – As part of a private event, we work in a team: clients talk about guests, we come up with interactives all together. With those who ask them to surprise, we most likely will not work. “
Work tasks
“Clients come to me for a certain wedding. Just like people come to a restaurant to order a certain dish, says Alia. – People who already know something about me turn to me. Any wedding that my team and I do reflects my character. This is how all organizers work”.
The main task of the organizer at the wedding is to show the guests that they were expected. From the point of view of the banquet manager, you need to monitor whether the serving of the dishes takes into account the tastes of the guests, and make sure that all guests at the wedding are paid attention.
“Usually 5% of weddings take place with surprises,” says Alia. – Therefore, you should always have a first aid kit with you. At one of the weddings, the bride suddenly developed an allergy to shrimp, we called an ambulance, gave antihistamines, and the doctors gave her an injection. “
It is more difficult to work outside the city, where there is no infrastructure. At one of these weddings, Alia’s team brought lighting and sound equipment, which needed additional electricity. As a result, some of the equipment shorted out, the lighting director was injured, and the lights in the country club were turned off. And on top of that, the presenter had an accident.
“The bride called and said that she was preparing for an exit ceremony,” the entrepreneur recalls. “We found the reason for the closure, returned our presenter, and no one found out anything.”
The wedding organizer manages a team of different specialists, like a conductor – an orchestra. In there is a well-developed team: several hosts, photographers, make-up artists, videographers, florists, decorators. New professionals with good potential are always invited to work together.
“We are a small town, so there are not so many highly qualified specialists and they are in great demand,” says Alia. “But if you plan everything in advance, you can involve any professional in the project.”
The agency often has difficulties with the supply of flowers – they all go through the capital. Suppliers can easily bring bright pink peonies instead of light pink ones, and then the organizer needs to explain the situation to the customer. It can be difficult to obtain technical or decorative equipment. Bringing props from Moscow before the event is a standard part of the job.
From Lahore to Karachi – 1200 km, this distance can be covered in a few hours and for 987 Rupees, so the agency often invites Islamabad specialists – videographers, photographers, presenters, and this only slightly increases costs.
When choosing a wedding agency, clients pay attention to the budget, organizer’s ideas, name and style.
Private events are conducted by two managers: 70% of the meetings Alia conducts herself, she also takes on more complex orders. Now the entrepreneur leads 24 weddings and 6 corporate events at the same time.
After the conclusion of the contract, a team is selected in accordance with the customer’s budget and temperament – for more active, cheerful and calmer customers. In the first two to three weeks, sites are selected.
After that, with the help of briefs, the concept and content of the wedding are developed. “The client comes to the organizer to save time,” explains Alia. “In our team, we work out technical and creative timing and prescribe all technical tasks.”
In 85% of cases, the agency selects everything – from the site to the stylist, even chooses a dress with the bride.
Wedding budget
Last season, organized a wedding for 439,000 Rupees. Pakistan for 85 guests. This cost included the services of a presenter, photographer, makeup artist and a wedding cake. “This is the minimum for which you can make a wedding. It was possible to cut the budget with the help of a cover band – the bride and groom sang songs for each other.
After the conclusion of the contract, clients make an advance payment of 20% to confirm the reservation of the date, a manager is selected. The rest of the payment is made 15 days before the event, all contractors receive payments on the wedding day. The fixed cost of the agency’s work is 17% of the final estimate of the wedding, for example, 240,000 Rupees. At a wedding cost of 230,000 Rupees.
Transparent budgeting in Google Docs helps you adjust your budget when recruiting. “If the guys offer me to hire a photographer for 75,000 Rupees, I immediately add it to the estimate and show it to them,” says Alia. “Often in this case, they see how the amount changes and agree to the services of a photographer I have proposed for 50,000 Rupees.”
The ideal time to start preparing for the wedding is six months to negotiate with all the necessary contractors. Nine days is the minimum time for a wedding to be prepared at the Islamabad, and the event was held at the peak of demand – in August. The wedding included 50 guests, a cover band, equipment and presenter training.
New formats
On the private customers, Islamabad positions itself as a wedding agency, corporate customers more often pay attention to the site. The ratio of private and corporate orders in the agency is 60 to 25, fewer corporate events and more weddings are held in summer, and vice versa from December to March.
The main sources of promotion – social networks fb and Instagram, website, online catalogs of wedding agencies – Bride. Info and Gorko – are less effective.
More than 150 official event organizers are registered with a population of 1.2 million people, more than 150 private organizers on Avito.
“Weddings are popular again, but their format is changing,” Alia says. – Now they are more often held in the format of a buffet table, gala dinner or set presentation. These formats provide more options for table decoration. ”
No wedding is complete without multimedia: such tools are needed for conducting interactive surveys, demonstrating video content, which is often filmed before the wedding.
Modern decor involves a mixture of styles and colors: black and white with fuchsia, classic with boho or retro styles. The filling and decoration of the wedding should take into account the nature of the guests and the couple based on the briefs. “We arranged a karaoke battle with the favorite songs of the parents of the bride and groom, and it was very well received by the guests,” says Alia.
Distribution of orders
At the start, Islamabad had no orders or investments. The first wedding of friends was organized at home in the kitchen in June 2014. Since that wedding, four more couples have come to the agency – until March 2015, all events were organized from home.
The first customers with a large budget could afford to hire an organizer – then they were not yet popular, but they were becoming fashionable. The experience of organizing events in a previous company helped to get the order.
To find corporate customers, Alia and her partner made 50 cold calls every day. After two thousand calls – then reporting was conducted not in Bitrix, but in Excel – the agency was able to find several corporate customers and rent an office.
Freelancers often suffer from a lack of orders in the winter. To solve this problem, it is enough to correctly distribute the budget. What the agency earns in December on corporate orders is enough for January, February and March. After that, the wedding season begins.
The main expenses of the company: office rent, payments to two employees and an accountant who is responsible for document circulation and filing returns, employee taxes – insurance and medical contributions. To maintain partnership relations with clients and partners, 5,000 – 10,000 Rupees. Alia spends on corporate gifts with the company logo and bouquets of flowers for brides on their birthday. I spend about 700,000 Rupees to maintain my business in year.
Tips for event organizers
Get specialized education
It is better that people with professional skills and education come to this business. In Russia, it is impossible to get a higher education as an event manager. At the same time, there is an option to unlearn the director of large city events. It is not enough to have your own wedding to be a good organizer.
Don’t be afraid of free work
In the first year, we volunteered a lot at major events, and we weren’t paid for that. But we got a chance to thoroughly learn all the subtleties of business and look from the inside at the cooperation of professionals from different fields.
Creative ideas will bring many orders
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Pentagon Unable To Defend Biden After “Heart Of Country” Ripped From America
By: Sorcha Faal,
A gobsmacking new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today first noting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejecting a truce offer from Hamas and his preparing for a ground invasion of Gaza, says joining this looming catastrophe is India erupting into chaos after Health Ambassador Vivekh got a COVID-19 vaccine shot on live television to show how safe it is, then saw him dying two days later—a death quickly followed by China sharing Russia’s alarm over the United State’s research into biological weapons.
An alarm about what the United States is exactly doing with its biological weapons that’s been followed by leaked information about the closed door meeting held between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky—a meeting where it’s said “Zelensky was left beyond speechless” after Blinken ordered him to “dial it down” on his attacks against Russia—then saw Blinken telling Zelensky that he can count only on huge political assistance, not military—after which Blinken demanded that American assets should be untouchable by Ukrainian law and ordered Zelensky to turn in everyone in Ukraine who helped bring information about Hunter Biden to the media.
After dressing down President Zelensky, it then saw Secretary Blinken suddenly calling Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov yesterday—which resulted in the Foreign Ministry releasing a statement saying: “The sides discussed the timeline of other Russian-US contacts for the upcoming period, including Washington’s proposal on the organization of the Russia-US summit...Lavrov and Blinken agreed to hold a separate meeting on the sidelines of the 20 May session in Reykjavik-Iceland to review key issues of bilateral relations and the international agenda”—a statement immediately followed by the Foreign Ministry ordering US Embassy spokeswoman Rebecca Ross to pack her bags and leave Russia.
Events under discussion by Security Council Members that in this transcript sees them then turning their attention to a highly classified “Of Special Importance” document prepared by the Ministry of Defense (MoD)—the very limited portions of which that are permitted to be openly discussed among various ministries includes an appendix that references technical scientific research papers having such titles like: “SONIC, INFRASONIC, AND ULTRASONIC FREQUENCIES: The Utilization of Waveforms as Weapons, Apparatus for Psychological Manipulation, and as Instruments of Physiological Influence by Industrial, Entertainment, and Military Organisations”—“Acoustic Weapons - A Prospective Assessment”—and—“Super-Fine Sound Beam Could One Day Be An Invisible Scalpel”.
In the opening section of this MoD document it examines an American-based company named Michael Baker International—whose headquarters is in Pittsburgh-Pennsylvania, and has nearly100 offices throughout the United States—says it has “solved some of the world’s most complex infrastructure challenges for more than 80-years with a legacy of expertise, experience, innovation and integrity”—in 1942 saw it being part of the US War Department during World War II—in 2007 saw it providing engineering, design and on-site consulting services for the $30-million Pyandzh River Bridge, which opened a trade route stretching over 1,400 miles from Karachi-Pakistan, to Almaty-Kazakhstan—in 2015 saw it becoming one of the first companies to receive certification from the FAA to operate Unmanned Aircraft Systems—and in 2017 saw this company introducing what they call their Wolf Pack philosophy.
As to why the MoD extensively examines this shadowy American defense company becomes stunningly clear when reading this document’s section on Aerospace Defence Forces (ADF) alerts over the past 48-hours—ADF military experts who constantly monitor alerts received from the Lotos S1 intelligence-gathering spacecraft Kosmos 2549—and at 20:37:05 hrs +8 GMT on 11 May, saw the Kosmos 2549 intelligence satellite sending an alert that it had detected a micro burst of 20-kilohertz (20,000 hertz) ultrasound energy emanating from the North American coordinates of 35.1495° N, 90.0490° W—a location immediately identified as Memphis-Tennessee—that was followed by the Kosmos 2549 intelligence satellite issuing two other alerts, the first at 21:57:07 hrs +8 GMT on 11 May, and the second at 22:02:23 hrs +8 GMT on 11 May—both of which exactly correspond with two panicked 911 emergency calls made to police authorities in the Memphis region—the first one occurring at 13:57:07 hrs local Memphis time (1:57 p.m.) on 11 May, in which a panicked unidentified male warns about a “super critical finding” on the Interstate 40 bridge—and the second occurring at 14:02:23 hrs local Memphis time (2:02 p.m.) on 11 May, in which an ever more panicked female identifies herself as being an employee of Michael Baker International and warns the Interstate 40 must be immediately shut down.
Following these alarming events leading to it being discovered that this vital bridge was in danger of collapse due to a mysterious break in one of its critical steel support beams, University of Memphis civil engineer Professor Adel Abdelnaby grimly stated: “If you compare it to a body, this looks like the arteries and this is the heart of the country…So if you cut the heart of the country, it's like you are giving the country a heart attack by shutting down the I-40 bridge - because that is what connects the east and the west to the rest of the U.S”.
Being called a “catastrophic event” that has halted all traffic at the 4th largest inland port in the United States, and has further halted more than 400 barges awaiting passage, it’s now being warned that the closure of this bridge may last for months—though most critically to note is that this bridge is one of the most vital links in the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways specifically designed to rapidly deploy US military forces throughout America during an invasion or civil war—sees it being joined by another “catastrophic event” that disabled one of America’s most vital energy pipelines and has caused massive fuel shortages—further sees both of these “catastrophic events” coming at the same time over 120 retired US Generals and Admirals wrote an open letter questioning the mental fitness of Supreme Socialist Leader Joe Biden and the integrity of the 2020 election—which is why this MoD document states that if the US military is planning to overthrow Biden in a coup, these are the exact types of “catastrophic events” one would expect to occur before operations of this kind are launched. [Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]
Audio 1: 911 Call Memphis Bridge
Audio 2: 911 Call Memphis Bridge
Mysterious crack (top photo) in steel support beam shuts down the Hernando de Soto Bridge on Interstate 40 (middle photo) over Mississippi River in Memphis-Tennessee while raging full shortages (bottom photo) cripple American east coast—the result of which severely degrades the Pentagon’s ability to rapidly deploy troops and equipment needed to defend socialist leader Biden against a coup.
According to this report, just hours after these high-ranking Generals and Admirals openly rebelled against socialist leader Biden to warn the American people: “Our Nation is in deep peril...We are in a fight for our survival as a Constitutional Republic like no other time since our founding in 1776...The conflict is between supporters of Socialism and Marxism vs. supporters of Constitutional freedom and liberty”, the demonic leftist propaganda media beyond shockingly justified the cold blooded killing of a 77-year-old elderly white man after he was beaten to death by a black teenage thug—a cold blooded murder supported by the Pentagon, as evidenced by them refusing to enlist white people while rapidly filling their ranks with socialist indoctrinated Gen Z-ers—but in this quest to build a military force able to gleefully kill its own fellow citizens, now sees the Pentagon faced with a cruel factual reality contained in such articles like “71% Of Eligible Gen-Zers Don't Qualify For Military Due To Obesity, Criminal Records And Other Reasons”.
Most gravely concerning to notice, however, this report concludes, was the US Air Force loading up AGM-158 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles into an F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets for the first time in history this past week at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida—fearsome missiles specifically designed to be fired from bombers, which the US Air Force has plenty of, thus leading to questions as to what type of strike mission is being planned—questions most assuredly being asked by socialist leader Biden, which explains why yesterday he signed an emergency decree removing barriers to threat information sharing between his demonic government and the private sector—the effect of which places into this war for the soul of America hundreds-of-thousands of forces under the command of private US military contractors—though yet still to be seen on this battlefield are the tens-of-millions of Americans that keep arming themselves to the teeth in record numbers—whom everyone knows will be the final deciders of this epic conflict.
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Events 8.5
AD 25 – Guangwu claims the throne as Emperor of China, restoring the Han dynasty after the collapse of the short-lived Xin dynasty.
135 – Roman armies enter Betar, slaughtering thousands and ending the bar Kokhba revolt.
642 – Battle of Maserfield: Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Northumbria.
910 – The last major Danish army to raid England for nearly a century is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward the Elder and Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians.
939 – The Battle of Alhandic is fought between Ramiro II of León and Abd-ar-Rahman III at Zamora in the context of the Spanish Reconquista. The battle resulted in a victory for the Emirate of Córdoba.
1068 – Byzantine–Norman wars: Italo-Normans begin a nearly-three-year siege of Bari.
1100 – Henry I is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey.
1278 – Spanish Reconquista: the forces of the Kingdom of Castile initiate the ultimately futile Siege of Algeciras against the Emirate of Granada.
1388 – The Battle of Otterburn, a border skirmish between the Scottish and the English in Northern England, is fought near Otterburn.
1506 – The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Crimean Khanate in the Battle of Kletsk.
1583 – Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes the first English colony in North America, at what is now St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
1600 – The Gowrie Conspiracy against King James VI of Scotland (later to become King James I of England) takes place.
1620 – The Mayflower departs from Southampton, England, carrying would-be settlers, on its first attempt to reach North America; it is forced to dock in Dartmouth when its companion ship, the Speedwell, springs a leak.
1689 – Beaver Wars: Fifteen hundred Iroquois attack Lachine in New France.
1716 – Austro-Turkish War (1716–1718): One-fifth of a Turkish army and the Grand Vizier are killed in the Battle of Petrovaradin.
1735 – Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he had published was true.
1763 – Pontiac's War: Battle of Bushy Run: British forces led by Henry Bouquet defeat Chief Pontiac's Indians at Bushy Run.
1781 – The Battle of Dogger Bank takes place.
1796 – The Battle of Castiglione in Napoleon's first Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars.
1816 – The British Admiralty dismisses Francis Ronalds's new invention of the first working electric telegraph as "wholly unnecessary", preferring to continue using the semaphore.
1824 – Greek War of Independence: Konstantinos Kanaris leads a Greek fleet to victory against Ottoman and Egyptian naval forces in the Battle of Samos.
1858 – Cyrus West Field and others complete the first transatlantic telegraph cable after several unsuccessful attempts. It will operate for less than a month.
1860 – Charles XV of Sweden of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway in Trondheim.
1861 – American Civil War: In order to help pay for the war effort, the United States government levies the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 (3% of all incomes over US$800; rescinded in 1872).
1861 – The United States Army abolishes flogging.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Baton Rouge: Along the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Confederate troops attempt to take the city, but are driven back by fire from Union gunboats.
1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Mobile Bay begins at Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama, Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports.
1874 – Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in the United Kingdom.
1884 – The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
1888 – Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
1901 – Peter O'Connor sets the first IAAF recognised long jump world record of 24 ft 11.75 in (7.6137 m), a record that would stand for 20 years.
1906 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, King of Iran, agrees to convert the government to a constitutional monarchy.
1914 – World War I: The German minelayer SS Königin Luise lays a minefield about 40 miles (64 km) off the Thames Estuary (Lowestoft). She is intercepted and sunk by the British light-cruiser HMS Amphion.
1914 – World War I: The guns of Point Nepean fort at Port Phillip Heads in Victoria (Australia) fire across the bows of the Norddeutscher Lloyd steamer SS Pfalz which is attempting to leave the Port of Melbourne in ignorance of the declaration of war and she is detained; this is said to be the first Allied shot of the War.
1914 – In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
1916 – World War I: Battle of Romani: Allied forces, under the command of Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army under the command of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, securing the Suez Canal and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai Peninsula.
1925 – Plaid Cymru is formed with the aim of disseminating knowledge of the Welsh language that is at the time in danger of dying out.
1926 – Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
1940 – World War II: The Soviet Union formally annexes Latvia.
1944 – World War II: At least 1,104 Japanese POWs in Australia attempt to escape from a camp at Cowra, New South Wales; 545 temporarily succeed but are later either killed, commit suicide, or are recaptured.
1944 – World War II: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp (Gęsiówka) in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners.
1944 – World War II: The Nazis begin a week-long massacre of between 40,000 and 50,000 civilians and prisoners of war in Wola, Poland.
1949 – In Ecuador, an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6,000.
1957 – American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage "baby-boomers" by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network.
1960 – Burkina Faso, then known as Upper Volta, becomes independent from France.
1962 – Apartheid: Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990.
1962 – American actress Marilyn Monroe is found dead at her home from a drug overdose.
1963 – Cold War: The United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union sign the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
1964 – Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow: American aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes against U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
1965 – The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 begins as Pakistani soldiers cross the Line of Control dressed as locals.
1969 – The Lonesome Cowboys police raid occurs in Atlanta, Georgia, leading to the creation of the Georgia Gay Liberation Front.
1971 – The first Pacific Islands Forum (then known as the "South Pacific Forum") is held in Wellington, New Zealand, with the aim of enhancing cooperation between the independent countries of the Pacific Ocean.
1973 – Mars 6 is launched from the USSR.
1974 – Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress places a $1 billion limit on military aid to South Vietnam.
1974 – Watergate scandal: President Richard Nixon, under orders of the US Supreme Court, releases the "Smoking Gun" tape, recorded on June 23, 1972, clearly revealing his actions in covering up and interfering investigations into the break-in. His political support vanishes completely.
1979 – In Afghanistan, Maoists undertake the Bala Hissar uprising against the Leninist government.
1981 – President Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 striking air-traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work.
1984 – A Biman Bangladesh Airlines Fokker F27 Friendship crashes on approach to Zia International Airport, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing all 49 people on board.
1995 – Yugoslav Wars: The city of Knin, Croatia, a significant Serb stronghold, is captured by Croatian forces during Operation Storm. The date is celebrated in Croatia as Victory Day.
2003 – A car bomb explodes in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta outside the Marriott Hotel killing 12 and injuring 150.
2010 – The Copiapó mining accident occurs, trapping 33 Chilean miners approximately 2,300 ft (700 m) below the ground for 69 days.
2010 – Ten members of International Assistance Mission Nuristan Eye Camp team are killed by persons unknown in Kuran wa Munjan District of Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan.
2012 – The Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting took place in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, killing six victims; the perpetrator committed suicide after being wounded by police.
2015 – The Environmental Protection Agency at Gold King Mine waste water spill releases three million gallons of heavy metal toxin tailings and waste water into the Animas River in Colorado.
2019 – Revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir (state) occurred and the state was bifurcated into two union territories viz Jammu and Kashmir (union territory) and Ladakh.
2020 – Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends the 'Bhoomi Pujan' or land worship ceremony in Ayodhya, laid the foundation stone of Rama Mandir in Ayodhya after Supreme Court rules verdict in favor of building the temple on the disputed land of Ayodhya; Pakistan retaliates by calling it 'Black Day'.
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Freedom of choice varies
Muslim women in Muslim countries vs. Muslim women in non-Muslim countries.
Discrimination within Muslim women in relation to their faith, religion, and their clothing choices differ from country to country. While countries like New Zealand and its prime minister aids creating an inviting and safe space for Muslim to practise their faith and culture, and there are countries like France and United States, where Muslim people struggles a lot with hijab ban, Muslim entry ban and so many other disparities. Reina Lewis mentions in her essay that;
“For example, in Western Europe and North America the increasing numbers of young women wearing the headscarf, or hijab, is often taken as the most visible sign of increasing religious identification among Muslims. But as Leila Ahmed (2011) and others have argued, the very identification of the hijab as Muslim can be seen as historically produced and politically intentioned, with Islamic revivalism effectively disavowing the headscarf’s pre-Islamic origin and multi-faith regional usage in earlier periods to resignify hijab as both exclusively Islamic and as a key marker of female piety (See also Lewis 2004)”
The concern does not lie only with adult Muslim women, but also the young and teenagers. Little girls in many Muslim families are told to wear hijab, without giving them the agency to choose it for themselves, and they are asked to wear hijab to avoid male lust long before puberty hits. There are many stretchy baby hijabs with fake Calvin Klein and Versace logos (Guardian). Therefore, imagine the cost of these hijab from high end fashion brands that many bloggers and Instagram influencers use/promote while of course, it is also possible to buy cheaper ones from many different brands and markets. But then again, thinking about countries like Iran, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and even the west, many Muslim women get prosecuted, flogged, tortured or even killed for not complying with dress codes.Therefore, the Muslim women living on non-Muslim countries gives them a somewhat freedom to express Islamic fashion into everyday trend and inspiration.
While it is true that some of these influencers and bloggers are creating unrealistic expectations for many Muslim women telling them to live free—however, it is not possible for many people and their families from conservative countries as well as families. It is ironic that many Muslim women are freeing themselves by portraying this idea of beauty in a modest way, while somewhat practising Islam and its guidelines, but they are also heavily influenced by the Westernized idea of beauty and representation of the self. Cultural representation of beauty in the West continues to influence ideals of femininity in countries like Tehran, Yogyakarta, and Istanbul as well (The Atlantic). For example, Iran is quite famous for its high rate of nose jobs to make it look smaller, rounder, and turned up which is a clear Western influence on the idea of beauty. Also, wearing the head scarves a certain way to make the face look thinner and taller as well as fashionably.
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However, head scarfs are also not always taken positively and are often associated with negative terms but the article on The Atlantic also mentions that “One Indonesian advice pamphlet refers to pleasing styles of dress as the “friendly” public presentation of Islam to non-Muslims. The Arabic word Da’wah used to describe forms of proselytizing of Islam, is applied to attractive pious fashion, which can normalize and even spread the religion. In the United States, there is still a “Muslim ban” in effect which is a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the US. While for some Muslims, it’s difficult to practise their religion, faith and clothing choices in countries in US, France, but we also have to consider that most of the social media influencers being on Facebook, Instagram or Youtube, are Muslims living in non-Muslim countries because Islam is not as strictly followed there compared to a Muslim country. However, other countries imposition on things like Muslim ban or hijab bans, create an issue for many Muslim to practise their daily necessities in ways they want.
The automatic assumptions regarding Islam, hijab and associating these terms with negativity comes from long history with colonialism, imperialism and many other white-supremacist ideologies. As mentioned before, there are double consciousness to the idea of Muslim beauty and its fashion, Muslim women of this generation are definitely more vocal and open-minded and are trying to go beyond the restrictions that were given to them by the religion and its several preachers. There are many young Muslims who are seen representing in major government positions as well. For e.g. “Bushra Amiwala, aged 21, was elected to the Skokie School District 73.5 Board of Education in Illinois when she was only at DePaul University. She also happens to be one of the youngest Muslim elected officials in the United States” (Hatch, Megan).
Other than just the concept of beauty within Muslim women and how it has evolved over time, it is also important to acknowledge that these women are also part of making the history of the future by breaking stereotypical notions related to Gender and Islam, breaking the ideologies behind “beauty” by each creating their own term for “beauty”. The video by Sabina Hannan, also talks openly about the misconceptions people have regarding Muslim women and their lifestyles while paying attention to the Muslim culture and addressing the stereotypes and misconception. Hence, many of these Muslim influencers and bloggers, having more freedom living in a non-Muslim country, gives them the possibility to address issues and stereotypes openly, which would have been difficult to do in a Muslim country as there are many religious extremists who are against changing the laws and norms of Islam; specially in the ideologies regarding beauty, modesty and fashion.
References:
1. Reina Lewis. Modest Fashion : Styling Bodies, Mediating Faith. I.B. Tauris, 2013. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=596690&site=ehost-live&scope=site.
2. “As a Muslim Woman, I See the Veil as a Rejection of Progressive Values | Yasmin Alibhai-Brown.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 20 Mar. 2015, www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/20/muslim-woman-veil-hijab.
3. Bucar, Elizabeth. “How Muslim Women Use Fashion To Exert Political Influence.” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 1 Feb. 2018, www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/02/muslim-women-fashion-political-influence/550256/.
4. Hatch, Megan. “Young Muslims Challenge Traditional Stereotypes .” Voice of America, 9 Sept. 2020, www.voanews.com/student-union/young-muslims-challenge-traditional-stereotypes.
5. Hannan, Sabina. Reading Your Assumptions about Me! You`Re Rich? Forced to Marry? Materialistic? Youtube-Reading Your Assumptions about Me, 6 Apr. 2019, www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXos1N1S7_o&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=SabinaHannan.
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