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World Hunger Games: 17th Hunger Games: Bloodbath + Day 1
2023.05.28 17:13 Mortimer_Whimsiwick World Hunger Games: 17th Hunger Games: Bloodbath + Day 1
This year’s arena was known as the Everglades. It was a swamp environment spanning four kilometers, making this slightly smaller than the vast savannah of the previous games. The arena was littered with tall mossy trees thin enough for tributes to climb. The high density of the trees along with the thick canopy of foliage above trapped a lot of heat within. There was some debate regarding the amount of water to be pumped in the arena. Due to Head Gamemaker’s preconceived ideas on the mutts and arena events, the crystal-clear swamp water that encompassed 80% of the arena was 15ft at its deepest. There were patches of raised grassland scattered throughout the arena, giving tributes a few areas of relief from the deep waters. The cornucopia stood in the center of a small clearing with the podiums in a semicircle near the southern perimeter. The depth of the water was ankle height, the gamemakers not wanting to hinder the tribute’s movements for the bloodbath. There were a decent number of supplies, however all food and non-weaponous supplies were stored in dark green waterproof bags floating in the puddles. Traditional Hunger Games weapons were also seen floating in the puddles and propped inside the small cornucopia structure.
When the podiums rose out of the arena, tributes felt the humid heat weigh down on them. A few tributes were relieved by the aquatic setting, especially the District 4 tributes. Pearl was wedged between Laurel (7) and Logan (11). She felt intimidated by Laurel’s muscles and decided to ignore her in favour of scanning for escape routes. After pinpointing two routes with more tree cover, she scanned the lineup for Mortimer. She spotted him between Wren (5) and Jack. He noticed Jack and gave him a greeting. Jack asked if it was true Tobias Stephens was dead, him nodding in response. Mortimer said “If it’s all the same to you, I’ll leave you alone for now. Just out of respect for Tobias and for helping deliver the weed to me.” Jack thanked him before searching for Cat. Cat was found standing between Nikita (2) and Neutron (12). Nikita tried to intimidate her, but she brushed it aside. She spotted Mortimer and Jack conversing, pleased it wasn’t confrontational. Mortimer spotted her and she waved to him. He stared at her for a moment before turning his eyes to the cornucopia. She looked at the cornucopia as well, aiming her sights on one of the bigger waterproof bags.
When the gong sounded, Cat sprinted forward towards the bag she set her eyes on. Nikita attempted to tackle her to the ground, but Cat was quick enough to somersault out of the way. She frantically searched for a way out, choosing to run northwest away from the careers. However, she spotted Pearl fighting Mishti (10) for a bag. Mishti was successful at obtaining the bag and pushed Pearl to the ground before grabbing a knife nearby. Cat bolted towards the two girls, hopping over the fallen Burlap (8)’s body. Before Mishti could strike Pearl with her knife, Cat tackled her to the ground. Cat pushed Mishti’s face under the ankle high water and used her knee to keep her head down. She wrenched the knife and pushed the blade into the back of her skull. She looked up to see Pearl already gone. She turned to see a sword propped against the cornucopia wall and decided to risk it.
Meanwhile, Jack hopped off his podium but was swept off his feet by the slippery mud. He frantically pulled himself up, but was relieved that all the nearby tributes were completely ignoring him. He witnessed the first death of the games when Andrei (2) stomped on Terry (5)’s neck, snapping it in an odd angle. He ran alongside the podiums to steer clear of the ongoing chaos all the while searching for Cat. He managed to spot her closing in on a sword. He ran towards her, unaware of an arrow courtesy of Jassy (12) narrowly missing his head. As he neared Cat, he noticed Logan (11) creeping closer to her with a heavy axe in hand. He yelled at Cat to look out, but she didn’t hear. Logan raised his axe at the unaware Cat. Jack jumped forward and pushed Cat out of the line of fire. The axe lodged itself into Jack’s head, sending him falling to the ground. Cat was horrified upon seeing her partner brutally killed in front of her. She decided she let his sacrifice not be in vain and retreated from the clearing with a bag and sword in hand.
Mortimer was one of the first to reach the cornucopia. He snatched a trident from the back of the cornucopia structure. He turned to exit the building only to come face to face with Laurel (7). She had an axe in her hand and voiced her intentions of killing him for her partner Wolvthorne (7). Mortimer warned her to get out of his way, but she charged forwards. Mortimer used his trident to catch her first swipe, pushing her backwards. He swung the trident, cutting Laurel’s face. She was unperturbed and tried striking him. This time, he dodged and thrust the end of his trident in her ribs. He used her brief moment of painful staggering to stab her in the head. He flung her body to the side like a ragdoll and ran back outside. He noticed two bags close together and decided to risk grabbing them. He scooped up both bags with his trident, with one hanging on each side before retreating. He fell to the ground after tripping over the corpse of Shoya (3). As he pulled himself up, he noticed Pearl hiding behind a tree beckoning him to follow her. As he ran, he heard Wolvthorne’s roars of anger after discovering his partner dead. So angry in fact that he managed to disembowel and kill Nikita (2) before escaping east.
When the bloodbath was over, Artemis and Luther followed the order of events. Artemis enjoyed this bloodbath as not only did they have a couple gory kills, but some rare moments of honor. Luther listed Terry (5) as the first death at the hands of Andrei (2), comparing it to the first kill of the 12th Hunger Games when Sparta (D2 female tribute) curb stomped Fleming (D6 male tribute). Cameras then spotted Burlap (8) stabbed in the eye by Olivine (1), making him the second death. On the opposite side was Shoya (3), whose throat was slit by Lionel (1). The next chronological death was Mishti (10), with Artemis wondering why Cat saved Pearl. Luther speculated that they were probably in an alliance. The fifth death was Laurel (7). Artemis felt bummed out to not see more of her as she seemed like victor material. The sixth and seventh deaths took place almost simultaneously. Number six was Neutron (12) after he was stabbed numerous times by Andrei (2). Two seconds afterwards was the death of Jack. Artemis declared his death as honorable and as a redemption from his disastrous interview. The last two kills of this year’s bloodbath were Ryetta (9) and Nikita (2). Ryetta was killed by Lionel when she jumped on his back and tried to gouge his eyes out. Lionel wrenched her off by the hair and bashed her head into the cornucopia structure. Artemis then moved to Nikita’s death and described Wolvthorne as savage. Luther wrapped the bloodbath analysis up and announced nine bloodbath kills, two more than the previous year.
Cat continued to create distance from the clearing. She followed as much grassland as possible, having to wade through the water at a few points. Suddenly, she came across a wide expanse of water with no land in sight. She slipped on a loose twig and fell to the ground at the edge of this lake. Her backpack spilled its contents upon impact, its contents consisting of a sandwich, four fruit packs, a pocket knife, a bottle of water, string, and a small medkit. The thoughts of losing the items she fought so hard for sent her in a panic. She reached out and tried to gather as much as she could. However, she failed to save the sandwich, the knife, and three of the fruit packets as they all sank below its depths.
After saving the rest of her items, she realized her hyperventilating continued. She crossed her legs and put her supplies to the side. The confused viewers in Maximus Square watched as she took deep methodical breaths while moving her arms up and down. They began to realize she was meditating in order to compose herself. Viewers watched as the gamemakers displayed her heart rate and the number slowly decrease. Soon, Cat was able to compose herself. She decided to inspect her remaining supplies, keeping her sword by her side. She opened the medkit and was disappointed by the lack of quantity. It consisted of one roll of medical tape, two bandages, and strangely a wax bottle of clear liquid. She inspected the label, which revealed the contents to be hydrogen peroxide. She took note of this and pocketed the medkit, string, and the one fruit pack.
Cat lastly picked up the water bottle and realized it to be empty. She internally debated collecting water from the lake in front of her. She cautiously dipped a couple fingers in the lake and then tasted the droplets on her fingertips. Tasting nothing out of sorts, she picked up her water bottle. She was interrupted by the mandatory cannons, signaling the end of the bloodbath. Cat quickly scanned her surroundings while carefully listening for tributes. After hearing nothing, she turned back to the water and felt her heart drop. The once clear water had now become cloudy and murky. Cat became dejected, knowing she couldn’t trust the water anymore. She let tears fall from her eyes for a few moments, mourning her dreadful situation. Artemis was about to tease her crying, when she was interrupted by Cat slapping herself in the face. Cat told herself aloud that she had to get it together and plan her next move. She continued to scan the lake and her surroundings. She noticed a near consistent path of grassland heading west around the lake. She decided to head that direction, whispering to herself that “sailor boy” was sure to head that direction. She packed her things and started her journey west along the lake’s borders, with her sword at the ready.
Back in the commentator’s booth, Artemis noted her determination to find the District 4 tributes, speculating whether she had a crush on Mortimer. Luther diverted the topic to the lake. He educated the audience on the layout of the lake, showing through schematics that it spanned at least 35% of the entire arena. At the end of the lake was a thick accumulation of trees and brush the cameras refused to go past. When he and Artemis questioned Head Gamemaker Grimstone, he told them there was a hidden surprise on the possibility a tribute figures out a way across.
The two hosts began checking tabs on the surviving tributes. Olivine and Lionel (1) had split from the clearing and were in the south eastern sector. They watched from the safety of a couple trees as Andrei (2) and Wolvthorne (7) gathered supplies at the cornucopia. Surprisingly, Andrei was indifferent to his new ally having killed Nikita. The two debated their next move, Wolvthorne desiring to find Mortimer for revenge. Andrei admitted that while he was their biggest threat, he would have to put his grievances aside for them to survive the arena. Cameras diverted their attention to Carnelia and Logan (11) as they neared the southeastern perimeter. In close proximity was Horace (10) who was stalking them, using the trees and small mud banks as cover. Vista (3) had climbed up a tree and rested there. Wren (5) had struck up an alliance with Jassy (12) when the two crossed paths in the centre of the arena. Peggy (8) reached the northern perimeter and planted roots at the shore of the lake. John (9) had retreated west and was camouflaging himself with mud. He was nearly seen by Cat minutes into her trek west, but decided against confronting her upon seeing her sword. Artemis urged Luther to point the cameras to the District 4 tributes, which he obliged.
Mortimer had successfully distanced himself from the cornucopia. Cameras captured him diverting the supplies from one of his two backpacks into the other, discarding the empty one in the mud. It was around this time when the cannons sounded. The combined supplies included an empty water bottle, three fruit packs, a sandwich, a bundle of sturdy rope, a sleeping bag, and a small cooking pot. He was half a kilometre away from the lake’s southwest shore when he stopped walking. He turned around and asked the forest if hiding from him was really necessary. Pearl stepped out from behind a tree, asking how he knew she was there. He claimed that he spotted her dirty blonde hair poking out. He asked why she was hiding from him. Pearl asked if he was going to kill her. Mortimer was confused by this and questioned why he would kill her. Pearl defended herself by pointing out how much he hated accepting help from others and thought he would go lone wolf. Mortimer rolled his eyes, muttering “This again” under his breath. He put his right hand up and solemnly swore he wouldn’t kill her, for Gill’s sake. Pearl cautiously stepped out and thanked him. He asked what she had in her bag. She showed her contents, seeing a rain poncho, a water bottle, two apples, and a flint and steel.
Mortimer revealed his contents as well, noting the emptiness of the bottles. He suggested they continue going west, but Pearl pointed at a tall tree nearby. She said she would climb it and get a good vantage point. Mortimer didn’t object as she marched over to the tree and began climbing. While she was climbing higher, cameras noticed how antsy Mortimer was. In the commentator’s booth, Artemis said it appeared as if he was tempted to ditch her. Luther agreed with her observation, but didn’t believe he would just yet. Pearl reached seven metres in height and began surveying the arena. She reported to Mortimer that everything looked the same until she looked northwest and spotted the lake. Mortimer declared they would go there. She agreed and the two began their journey.
Out of nowhere, Pearl asked if he had anything against her father Alexander Riverstone. Mortimer claimed he didn’t and thought he was an honest working man. She retorted by asking for his reason to not accept his or anyone else’s help. Mortimer became annoyed by hearing this question for the umpteenth time, but Pearl insisted he explain. She already heard the story from Gill and wanted to hear his perspective, explaining, “After years of waitressing and hearing all the gossip, I’ve learned there is always another side.” Mortimer sighed and admitted he should’ve accepted his and Gill’s help as they had no gain in doublecrossing him. He cited his mother’s abandonment and the resulting playground bullying as the cornerstone reasons for him not trusting others. Pearl asked how old his mother was when she left, him answering six. Viewers weren’t aware of this detail and felt bad for him.
Before Pearl could press for more, the two had arrived at the lake. They noticed the murkiness of the water and surmised that it was unsafe to drink. Mortimer wondered how it was murky when it was crystal clear earlier. Pearl said she noticed the water became cloudy the second the cannons sounded, deducing that the water will become much more unsafe to drink as the death toll increases. The commentators and gamemakers were impressed with her accurate deduction but pointed out it was Jassy (12) who discovered it first though in a joking manner. Pearl however was more curious about the smell, comparing it to the sewage port at the Cardiff Cliffs. Mortimer agreed and pondered over what to do next.
Pearl climbed up another tree and spotted the stretching shoreline. Mortimer hypothesised how due to the unnatural shape and location of the lake, along with recent Hunger Games trends, there could be something in the northwestern sector on the other side. Pearl sarcastically commented, “Add a boat to the list of things we desperately need.” Mortimer’s eyes lit up and said, “Why not make our own?”, pointing out how they could construct a raft out of the sturdier trees and tie them together with rope, adding that being on the lake would keep them far from other tributes. Pearl admitted it was a good plan, but considered water as the utmost priority. When asked to test the water, Pearl gagged on the taste. Mortimer pulled out his pot and gave it to Pearl, telling her to start a fire.
Around the time Mortimer started his raft project, Cat was taking a break from all the trudging through the damp grassland. She held her only fruit pack in her fingertips and stared at it for several minutes. Viewers could tell she was speculating on whether or not to eat it. She decided against it and put it back in her backpack. She watched the still lake while licking her cracked lips to keep them moist. She dipped two of her fingers into the cloudy water and tasted the droplets. She instantly gagged and spit them out, using her sleeve to wipe her mouth. She then broke off a button from the backpack and stuck it in her mouth. Luther seemed impressed by this, educating the audience on this unique practice of preventing dry mouth.
Cat decided her break was over and stood up with supplies in tow. Suddenly, she heard voices coming from behind her. She listened carefully and recognized the voice of Olivine and Lionel (1). Cameras showed the two bypassing Andrei (2) and Wolvthorne (7) after the two journeyed north to hunt for tributes. While raiding the cornucopia, Olivine played with a pair of binoculars and spotted Pearl in the tree. The two decided to go after her. Cat frantically searched for a place to hide. There were no nearby upright trees and she didn’t have enough time to camouflage herself in the mud. So, in desperation, she burrowed her backpack in the mudbank and waded herself into the lake. Cat ducked her head underwater just in time for Olivine and Lionel to reveal themselves. Many viewers in Maximus Square were at the edge of their seats as the two careers initially began walking past Cat’s location. The situation was filled with more tension when the two stopped before moving out of sight. The two discussed their plan of confronting Pearl, knowing Mortimer is most likely with her. Lionel assured her that the two could take him together. Underwater cameras captured Cat’s face as she struggled to hold her breath. Based on the quality of the cameras’ footage, it appeared that Cat was able to overhear their conversation. Just when it looked like Cat was about to give up, the two careers finally resumed their journey west.
Cat thrust herself out of the water, taking in deep breaths. Supporters of Cat in Maximus Square breathed out in relief as well. Cat dragged herself to shore and flipped herself on her back. She laid there for a few moments catching her breath and wiping the mud off her face. When she held her arm up, she noticed a black spot on her forearm. She grabbed it, pulled it off, and turned it towards her. She instantly recognized it from its sucker and rows of teeth, straight from her studies in the fauna sector in the aquatic station. It was a black worm leech, a relatively new species introduced to the world through the crossbreeding of the European medicinal leech and the terrestrial leech. Cat’s face morphed into one of pure disgust and fright. It took all her inner strength not to scream when she looked down and counted eleven leeches on her legs and forearms. She shakily ripped the leeches off her body one by one, lip quivering as she did so. She tossed the leeches aside and crab-walked away from the shore.
Cat sat on a log for almost an hour, traumatized by the experience. After composing herself, she grabbed her backpack and was about to leave when she recalled Olivine and Lionel’s plan. Realizing Pearl and Mortimer were in danger, she pulled out her empty water bottle. Capital viewers were confused at first, expecting her to “run for the hills”. Their confusion turned to interest as Cat scooped up the leeches and put them inside her bottle along with some of the lakewater. In the commentator’s booth, Artemis was holding herself, cringing at the sight of the leeches. She wondered why Cat would pick them back up. Luther guessed she would use them either to help her allies or food, noting that the leeches were edible. Artemis squealed at the thought. As Cat was about to start moving again, a cannon sounded. It was revealed to be Vista (3) after she climbed down from her tree and decided to bathe in the river. She was also overtaken by leeches and screamed very loudly at the sight of them. Andrei (2) and Wolvthorne (7) heard her screams and found her writhing on the ground swiping at the leeches on her body. Andrei ended her suffering by plunging his sword into her head.
Two hours passed by without incident. Capital viewers still had some nuggets of tribute activity to entertain them. Carnelia and Logan (11) had successfully captured a handful of leeches and were attempting to cook them. Their stalker Horace (10) watched from nearby. The biggest area of interest was with the District 4 tributes and the approaching careers increasing the suspense in Maximus Square. While Mortimer was beginning the construction of the raft, Pearl boiled some water in the pot. She noticed her partner testing his rope on the logs he acquired and showing disappointment with it not being enough to secure the full measurements.
While the water boiled, Pearl gathered the moss growing off the trees and weaved some twine together. She tossed the twine to Mortimer and told him to test it out. She rolled her eyes at the look of skepticism on his face. She challenged him by asking why he was skeptical over some twine. Mortimer claimed he wasn’t suspicious of any malintent but was wondering why she would make it for him. Pearl simply stated, “We’re partners aren’t we?” Mortimer thanked her and tested the twine. He was satisfied with its durability and asked if she could make more. Pearl beckoned him to come to the fire. He walked over and was perplexed by the sight before him. The water still resembled the murky lake water. Pearl claimed she left the water to boil for ten minutes. Mortimer stuck his fingers taste tested it and spat it out in disgust. He said it wasn’t as bad tasting as the lakewater, but was still unsafe to drink. Frustrated, he went back to his raft while Pearl resumed making twine.
The two were unaware that Olivine and Lionel (1) were very close by and were able to pinpoint their location after hearing them talking. Lionel stepped forward and peeked his head behind a tree, ready to approach the unsuspecting Pearl. Pearl lifted her head to wipe the sweat off her face and was horrified to see him towering over her. She screamed at the top of her lungs and sprinted off not a second later. Lionel chased after her and swung his sword down toward her. Pearl shut her eyes preparing for the end, but only heard a single metallic thud. She opened her eyes to see the sword blocked by Mortimer’s trident.
Mortimer barked at Pearl to get behind him and she obeyed. Olivine made herself known brandishing a sword as well, having failed to secure a bow in the bloodbath. The arena and Maximus Square were quiet as the tributes slowly circled each other, Mortimer and Pearl taking measures to not be surrounded by their adversaries. Mortimer tried to make Olivine the closer enemy, knowing she was not nearly as experienced with a sword as Lionel. What he didn't know was she still had decent skills with the sword due to it being her "secondary weapon" that she decided to hide during training. Lionel swung first once again, his blade being caught by the trident. Olivine stepped in to strike while Mortimer was distracted. However, he spotted her and smacked her across the face with the back of the handle. She fell back into the water but before he could take advantage, Lionel went back on the offence.
The next three minutes kept the Capital at the edge of their seat. The two were evenly matched and trapped in a cycle of attack, block, and retaliation all while Pearl watched on, frozen to her spot. Lionel got his sword caught in the trident for the eighth time, but surprised everyone by twisting the blade downwards, pushing the prongs down and exposing Mortimer’s head. Lionel kept twisting in hopes Mortimer would drop his weapon, but he persisted. Just when it seemed like Mortimer was about to give up, he headbutted Lionel, dazing him long enough to free his weapon. Then in a swift motion, Mortimer thrust his trident up Lionel’s chin into his brain, sounding his cannon instantly.
Mortimer couldn’t celebrate for long as he heard Olivine charging towards him. She sliced at him in a frenzy, managing to cut his right eyebrow. She used this distraction to punch him in the face. Mortimer stumbled back a few inches, surprised by the power in her punch. Olivine brought her sword up high, ready to strike him down. Mortimer gave her a powerful uppercut, sending Olivine back three feet. The punch caused her to bite through her tongue, it falling to the ground. Olivine moaned in muffled agony at the sight of it on the floor as her mouth filled with blood. Mortimer thrust the trident in her chest. Suddenly, someone came rushing into the small clearing. It was Cat, having finally arrived to help Mortimer. She paused at the carnage laid before her and put her sword down. She said, “Guess you didn’t need help then.” Olivine’s cannon sounded seconds later.
The viewers in Maximus Square went crazy, cheering for Mortimer’s triumphant victory. In the commentator’s booth, Artemis and Luther were buzzing as well, the latter declaring this as one of the greatest fight sequences in the history of the Hunger Games. Historic documents reflected that sentiment as well. The cheering quickly died down, waiting to see his reaction to Cat’s sudden arrival. Mortimer furrowed his brows and backed her into a tree, saying, “You! You’ve been following us?!” Cat put her hands up and apologized for scaring him. She asked to at least explain herself. Pearl came to her defense and pleaded with him to hear her out. Mortimer relented and told her to spill.
Cat regaled her experiences so far, revealing the leeches’ existence and how she found them. Pearl rummaged through her things and pulled out the water bottle, but Cat warned her about the leeches inside. Pearl looked inside and identified the species, revealing they were edible. She walked towards the fire with the bottle. Cat turned back to Mortimer and told him, “I know you are reluctant to trust me, especially considering where we are. But seeing that I helped you with your training score and have something valuable to share, I think you need me as an ally.” Back in the Capital, Artemis said she admired Cat’s guts while Luther expressed interest in the dynamic they’re about to see, confident Mortimer would say yes. Mortimer looked back at Pearl inspecting the leeches, then the open backpack. He relented and accepted her invitation into the group, but warned he would end her if she did anything remotely bad.
Mortimer invited her to sit down by the campsite and go over what they learned. The small fire burnt out and Pearl was trying and failing to reignite it. Cat finally picked up on the rotten egg smell emanating throughout the arena. Mortimer noticed as well, claiming it was worse than before. Pearl asked if they noticed how it became worse the minute the careers died. The two were silent and realised she was right. Pearl speculated that not only will the water be rendered more undrinkable each death, but the smell will get worse. Cat compared the smell to the piles of feces left in Willard Alleyway by warmweed addicts and alcoholics. Mortimer suddenly had an epiphany. He realized that the rotten egg smell meant traces of flammable sulphur were present. Cat suggested they search for the source of the smell before it gets dark. The three fanned out. The search for the rotten smell garnered some moments of comedy. Viewers were laughing at the tributes picking up random objects and bringing them to their faces, left in tears at their disgusted facial expressions. It was ultimately Pearl who discovered the source, having explored the lake shore and found the source to be green algae barely touching the surface. She held her breath while collecting some and handing it to Mortimer. He wringed it off as much water as possible before shooting sparks at it with the flint and steel. After several tries, the algae ignited.
A fire was successfully crafted, and the trio resumed boiling the water. Cat speculated why boiling it wasn’t enough, recalling how it worked for Corpse Beckford in the 10th Hunger Games. Pearl suddenly squealed and stood up. One of the leeches escaped the bottle and began squirming on the ground. Mortimer picked it up and examined the creature. He noticed how sticky his fingertips were, his facing morphing into what Artemis coined as the “thinking face”. Mortimer used the tip of his trident to scrape some of the slime and thrust it into the pot. Cat was about to protest, but Mortimer recalled the species of leech and that it resided in the Rocky Shores neighborhood. He explained how the poorer citizens of District 4 would use the slime of discarded leeches to better purify dirty water. Cat commended him for noticing this and offered to ration the food for dinner. Pearl continued to create twine for the raft, but cameras noticed her constantly watching the nearby trees.
The sun was nearly out of sight and the water was still not fully purified. Mortimer was frustrated that the slime wasn’t enough. Cat told him to calm down and assured him they would figure it out. Pearl was still making twine for the raft when she cut herself with a tiny splinter entangled in the moss. Cat grabbed the first aid kit to bandage the wound before it became infected. Mortimer commented how he wasn’t aware therapists needed to know first aid. Cat responded, “Well, in a district full of addicts, you get a lot of practice.” Pearl asked her why she wanted to be a therapist like Phoebe. Cat explained how she used to be one of the young “zombies” hanging out in Willard Alleyway experimenting with new batches of warmweed. One day when she was thirteen, she had a respiratory attack. Her supposed friends were indifferent to her predicament and fled when Phoebe and peacekeeper escorts walked by. Phoebe spotted her, brought her to the hospital, and took care of her. In the commentator’s booth, Artemis was curious as to why she was dredging up traumatic experiences so nonchalantly. Luther guessed she truly moved past it and told her to keep listening. Cat further described a long conversation she had with Phoebe and how much it changed her life. After that, Cat strongly desired to get clean and was successful after nine arduous months. This was the part where Cat began to feel emotional. Cat explained that she wanted to help others get clean the same way she did, so no more kids are left to die in alleyways. She then revealed that when her mother died of an overdose, it was enough to convince her brother to get clean as well after years of begging. After years of dealing with erratic addicts, she claimed that no one scared her anymore, not even Mortimer. Mortimer apologised for being cross with her before, receiving an accepting smile in return.
While Cat bandaged Pearl’s wound, Mortimer noticed the small bottle of hydrogen peroxide. He examined it and put some droplets in the water. Suddenly, the cloudy substance in the water completely cleared. The three stared in amazement. Pearl asked who would test it first. Mortimer looked at Cat, who annoyedly said, “Fine I’ll do it.” She took a sip and said it tasted like water. After a few moments of no effect, Cat congratulated Mortimer for successfully purifying the water. Mortimer seemed really proud of himself. Suddenly, two sponsor gifts fell from the sky, one with a 4 and one with a 6. The D4 gift contained a mini chemistry kit with droppers, tiny bowls, and vials. A note attached read “I told you friends are the best - G”. The D6 bag contained a picnic of sandwiches and fruit. Pearl was ready to dig in, but Cat insisted they rest as the sun had fully set. Mortimer appeared disappointed, but admitted she was right. He volunteered to take first watch, blushing when Cat claimed he did so just to play with his new set. The two rested while Mortimer got to work purifying more water with his new kit. The portraits of the fallen were presented in the sky. The fallen included Olivine and Lionel (1), Nikita (2), Vista and Shoya (3), Terry (5), Jack (6), Laurel (7), Burlap (8), Ryetta (9), Mishti (10), and Neutron (12). This left 12 tributes remaining.
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When the podiums rose out of the arena, tributes felt the humid heat weigh down on them. A few tributes were relieved by the aquatic setting, especially the District 4 tributes. Pearl was wedged between Laurel (7) and Logan (11). She felt intimidated by Laurel’s muscles and decided to ignore her in favour of scanning for escape routes. After pinpointing two routes with more tree cover, she scanned the lineup for Mortimer. She spotted him between Wren (5) and Jack. He noticed Jack and gave him a greeting. Jack asked if it was true Tobias Stephens was dead, him nodding in response. Mortimer said “If it’s all the same to you, I’ll leave you alone for now. Just out of respect for Tobias and for helping deliver the weed to me.” Jack thanked him before searching for Cat. Cat was found standing between Nikita (2) and Neutron (12). Nikita tried to intimidate her, but she brushed it aside. She spotted Mortimer and Jack conversing, pleased it wasn’t confrontational. Mortimer spotted her and she waved to him. He stared at her for a moment before turning his eyes to the cornucopia. She looked at the cornucopia as well, aiming her sights on one of the bigger waterproof bags.
When the gong sounded, Cat sprinted forward towards the bag she set her eyes on. Nikita attempted to tackle her to the ground, but Cat was quick enough to somersault out of the way. She frantically searched for a way out, choosing to run northwest away from the careers. However, she spotted Pearl fighting Mishti (10) for a bag. Mishti was successful at obtaining the bag and pushed Pearl to the ground before grabbing a knife nearby. Cat bolted towards the two girls, hopping over the fallen Burlap (8)’s body. Before Mishti could strike Pearl with her knife, Cat tackled her to the ground. Cat pushed Mishti’s face under the ankle high water and used her knee to keep her head down. She wrenched the knife and pushed the blade into the back of her skull. She looked up to see Pearl already gone. She turned to see a sword propped against the cornucopia wall and decided to risk it.
Meanwhile, Jack hopped off his podium but was swept off his feet by the slippery mud. He frantically pulled himself up, but was relieved that all the nearby tributes were completely ignoring him. He witnessed the first death of the games when Andrei (2) stomped on Terry (5)’s neck, snapping it in an odd angle. He ran alongside the podiums to steer clear of the ongoing chaos all the while searching for Cat. He managed to spot her closing in on a sword. He ran towards her, unaware of an arrow courtesy of Jassy (12) narrowly missing his head. As he neared Cat, he noticed Logan (11) creeping closer to her with a heavy axe in hand. He yelled at Cat to look out, but she didn’t hear. Logan raised his axe at the unaware Cat. Jack jumped forward and pushed Cat out of the line of fire. The axe lodged itself into Jack’s head, sending him falling to the ground. Cat was horrified upon seeing her partner brutally killed in front of her. She decided she let his sacrifice not be in vain and retreated from the clearing with a bag and sword in hand.
Mortimer was one of the first to reach the cornucopia. He snatched a trident from the back of the cornucopia structure. He turned to exit the building only to come face to face with Laurel (7). She had an axe in her hand and voiced her intentions of killing him for her partner Wolvthorne (7). Mortimer warned her to get out of his way, but she charged forwards. Mortimer used his trident to catch her first swipe, pushing her backwards. He swung the trident, cutting Laurel’s face. She was unperturbed and tried striking him. This time, he dodged and thrust the end of his trident in her ribs. He used her brief moment of painful staggering to stab her in the head. He flung her body to the side like a ragdoll and ran back outside. He noticed two bags close together and decided to risk grabbing them. He scooped up both bags with his trident, with one hanging on each side before retreating. He fell to the ground after tripping over the corpse of Shoya (3). As he pulled himself up, he noticed Pearl hiding behind a tree beckoning him to follow her. As he ran, he heard Wolvthorne’s roars of anger after discovering his partner dead. So angry in fact that he managed to disembowel and kill Nikita (2) before escaping east.
When the bloodbath was over, Artemis and Luther followed the order of events. Artemis enjoyed this bloodbath as not only did they have a couple gory kills, but some rare moments of honor. Luther listed Terry (5) as the first death at the hands of Andrei (2), comparing it to the first kill of the 12th Hunger Games when Sparta (D2 female tribute) curb stomped Fleming (D6 male tribute). Cameras then spotted Burlap (8) stabbed in the eye by Olivine (1), making him the second death. On the opposite side was Shoya (3), whose throat was slit by Lionel (1). The next chronological death was Mishti (10), with Artemis wondering why Cat saved Pearl. Luther speculated that they were probably in an alliance. The fifth death was Laurel (7). Artemis felt bummed out to not see more of her as she seemed like victor material. The sixth and seventh deaths took place almost simultaneously. Number six was Neutron (12) after he was stabbed numerous times by Andrei (2). Two seconds afterwards was the death of Jack. Artemis declared his death as honorable and as a redemption from his disastrous interview. The last two kills of this year’s bloodbath were Ryetta (9) and Nikita (2). Ryetta was killed by Lionel when she jumped on his back and tried to gouge his eyes out. Lionel wrenched her off by the hair and bashed her head into the cornucopia structure. Artemis then moved to Nikita’s death and described Wolvthorne as savage. Luther wrapped the bloodbath analysis up and announced nine bloodbath kills, two more than the previous year.
Cat continued to create distance from the clearing. She followed as much grassland as possible, having to wade through the water at a few points. Suddenly, she came across a wide expanse of water with no land in sight. She slipped on a loose twig and fell to the ground at the edge of this lake. Her backpack spilled its contents upon impact, its contents consisting of a sandwich, four fruit packs, a pocket knife, a bottle of water, string, and a small medkit. The thoughts of losing the items she fought so hard for sent her in a panic. She reached out and tried to gather as much as she could. However, she failed to save the sandwich, the knife, and three of the fruit packets as they all sank below its depths.
After saving the rest of her items, she realized her hyperventilating continued. She crossed her legs and put her supplies to the side. The confused viewers in Maximus Square watched as she took deep methodical breaths while moving her arms up and down. They began to realize she was meditating in order to compose herself. Viewers watched as the gamemakers displayed her heart rate and the number slowly decrease. Soon, Cat was able to compose herself. She decided to inspect her remaining supplies, keeping her sword by her side. She opened the medkit and was disappointed by the lack of quantity. It consisted of one roll of medical tape, two bandages, and strangely a wax bottle of clear liquid. She inspected the label, which revealed the contents to be hydrogen peroxide. She took note of this and pocketed the medkit, string, and the one fruit pack.
Cat lastly picked up the water bottle and realized it to be empty. She internally debated collecting water from the lake in front of her. She cautiously dipped a couple fingers in the lake and then tasted the droplets on her fingertips. Tasting nothing out of sorts, she picked up her water bottle. She was interrupted by the mandatory cannons, signaling the end of the bloodbath. Cat quickly scanned her surroundings while carefully listening for tributes. After hearing nothing, she turned back to the water and felt her heart drop. The once clear water had now become cloudy and murky. Cat became dejected, knowing she couldn’t trust the water anymore. She let tears fall from her eyes for a few moments, mourning her dreadful situation. Artemis was about to tease her crying, when she was interrupted by Cat slapping herself in the face. Cat told herself aloud that she had to get it together and plan her next move. She continued to scan the lake and her surroundings. She noticed a near consistent path of grassland heading west around the lake. She decided to head that direction, whispering to herself that “sailor boy” was sure to head that direction. She packed her things and started her journey west along the lake’s borders, with her sword at the ready.
Back in the commentator’s booth, Artemis noted her determination to find the District 4 tributes, speculating whether she had a crush on Mortimer. Luther diverted the topic to the lake. He educated the audience on the layout of the lake, showing through schematics that it spanned at least 35% of the entire arena. At the end of the lake was a thick accumulation of trees and brush the cameras refused to go past. When he and Artemis questioned Head Gamemaker Grimstone, he told them there was a hidden surprise on the possibility a tribute figures out a way across.
The two hosts began checking tabs on the surviving tributes. Olivine and Lionel (1) had split from the clearing and were in the south eastern sector. They watched from the safety of a couple trees as Andrei (2) and Wolvthorne (7) gathered supplies at the cornucopia. Surprisingly, Andrei was indifferent to his new ally having killed Nikita. The two debated their next move, Wolvthorne desiring to find Mortimer for revenge. Andrei admitted that while he was their biggest threat, he would have to put his grievances aside for them to survive the arena. Cameras diverted their attention to Carnelia and Logan (11) as they neared the southeastern perimeter. In close proximity was Horace (10) who was stalking them, using the trees and small mud banks as cover. Vista (3) had climbed up a tree and rested there. Wren (5) had struck up an alliance with Jassy (12) when the two crossed paths in the centre of the arena. Peggy (8) reached the northern perimeter and planted roots at the shore of the lake. John (9) had retreated west and was camouflaging himself with mud. He was nearly seen by Cat minutes into her trek west, but decided against confronting her upon seeing her sword. Artemis urged Luther to point the cameras to the District 4 tributes, which he obliged.
Mortimer had successfully distanced himself from the cornucopia. Cameras captured him diverting the supplies from one of his two backpacks into the other, discarding the empty one in the mud. It was around this time when the cannons sounded. The combined supplies included an empty water bottle, three fruit packs, a sandwich, a bundle of sturdy rope, a sleeping bag, and a small cooking pot. He was half a kilometre away from the lake’s southwest shore when he stopped walking. He turned around and asked the forest if hiding from him was really necessary. Pearl stepped out from behind a tree, asking how he knew she was there. He claimed that he spotted her dirty blonde hair poking out. He asked why she was hiding from him. Pearl asked if he was going to kill her. Mortimer was confused by this and questioned why he would kill her. Pearl defended herself by pointing out how much he hated accepting help from others and thought he would go lone wolf. Mortimer rolled his eyes, muttering “This again” under his breath. He put his right hand up and solemnly swore he wouldn’t kill her, for Gill’s sake. Pearl cautiously stepped out and thanked him. He asked what she had in her bag. She showed her contents, seeing a rain poncho, a water bottle, two apples, and a flint and steel.
Mortimer revealed his contents as well, noting the emptiness of the bottles. He suggested they continue going west, but Pearl pointed at a tall tree nearby. She said she would climb it and get a good vantage point. Mortimer didn’t object as she marched over to the tree and began climbing. While she was climbing higher, cameras noticed how antsy Mortimer was. In the commentator’s booth, Artemis said it appeared as if he was tempted to ditch her. Luther agreed with her observation, but didn’t believe he would just yet. Pearl reached seven metres in height and began surveying the arena. She reported to Mortimer that everything looked the same until she looked northwest and spotted the lake. Mortimer declared they would go there. She agreed and the two began their journey.
Out of nowhere, Pearl asked if he had anything against her father Alexander Riverstone. Mortimer claimed he didn’t and thought he was an honest working man. She retorted by asking for his reason to not accept his or anyone else’s help. Mortimer became annoyed by hearing this question for the umpteenth time, but Pearl insisted he explain. She already heard the story from Gill and wanted to hear his perspective, explaining, “After years of waitressing and hearing all the gossip, I’ve learned there is always another side.” Mortimer sighed and admitted he should’ve accepted his and Gill’s help as they had no gain in doublecrossing him. He cited his mother’s abandonment and the resulting playground bullying as the cornerstone reasons for him not trusting others. Pearl asked how old his mother was when she left, him answering six. Viewers weren’t aware of this detail and felt bad for him.
Before Pearl could press for more, the two had arrived at the lake. They noticed the murkiness of the water and surmised that it was unsafe to drink. Mortimer wondered how it was murky when it was crystal clear earlier. Pearl said she noticed the water became cloudy the second the cannons sounded, deducing that the water will become much more unsafe to drink as the death toll increases. The commentators and gamemakers were impressed with her accurate deduction but pointed out it was Jassy (12) who discovered it first though in a joking manner. Pearl however was more curious about the smell, comparing it to the sewage port at the Cardiff Cliffs. Mortimer agreed and pondered over what to do next.
Pearl climbed up another tree and spotted the stretching shoreline. Mortimer hypothesised how due to the unnatural shape and location of the lake, along with recent Hunger Games trends, there could be something in the northwestern sector on the other side. Pearl sarcastically commented, “Add a boat to the list of things we desperately need.” Mortimer’s eyes lit up and said, “Why not make our own?”, pointing out how they could construct a raft out of the sturdier trees and tie them together with rope, adding that being on the lake would keep them far from other tributes. Pearl admitted it was a good plan, but considered water as the utmost priority. When asked to test the water, Pearl gagged on the taste. Mortimer pulled out his pot and gave it to Pearl, telling her to start a fire.
Around the time Mortimer started his raft project, Cat was taking a break from all the trudging through the damp grassland. She held her only fruit pack in her fingertips and stared at it for several minutes. Viewers could tell she was speculating on whether or not to eat it. She decided against it and put it back in her backpack. She watched the still lake while licking her cracked lips to keep them moist. She dipped two of her fingers into the cloudy water and tasted the droplets. She instantly gagged and spit them out, using her sleeve to wipe her mouth. She then broke off a button from the backpack and stuck it in her mouth. Luther seemed impressed by this, educating the audience on this unique practice of preventing dry mouth.
Cat decided her break was over and stood up with supplies in tow. Suddenly, she heard voices coming from behind her. She listened carefully and recognized the voice of Olivine and Lionel (1). Cameras showed the two bypassing Andrei (2) and Wolvthorne (7) after the two journeyed north to hunt for tributes. While raiding the cornucopia, Olivine played with a pair of binoculars and spotted Pearl in the tree. The two decided to go after her. Cat frantically searched for a place to hide. There were no nearby upright trees and she didn’t have enough time to camouflage herself in the mud. So, in desperation, she burrowed her backpack in the mudbank and waded herself into the lake. Cat ducked her head underwater just in time for Olivine and Lionel to reveal themselves. Many viewers in Maximus Square were at the edge of their seats as the two careers initially began walking past Cat’s location. The situation was filled with more tension when the two stopped before moving out of sight. The two discussed their plan of confronting Pearl, knowing Mortimer is most likely with her. Lionel assured her that the two could take him together. Underwater cameras captured Cat’s face as she struggled to hold her breath. Based on the quality of the cameras’ footage, it appeared that Cat was able to overhear their conversation. Just when it looked like Cat was about to give up, the two careers finally resumed their journey west.
Cat thrust herself out of the water, taking in deep breaths. Supporters of Cat in Maximus Square breathed out in relief as well. Cat dragged herself to shore and flipped herself on her back. She laid there for a few moments catching her breath and wiping the mud off her face. When she held her arm up, she noticed a black spot on her forearm. She grabbed it, pulled it off, and turned it towards her. She instantly recognized it from its sucker and rows of teeth, straight from her studies in the fauna sector in the aquatic station. It was a black worm leech, a relatively new species introduced to the world through the crossbreeding of the European medicinal leech and the terrestrial leech. Cat’s face morphed into one of pure disgust and fright. It took all her inner strength not to scream when she looked down and counted eleven leeches on her legs and forearms. She shakily ripped the leeches off her body one by one, lip quivering as she did so. She tossed the leeches aside and crab-walked away from the shore.
Cat sat on a log for almost an hour, traumatized by the experience. After composing herself, she grabbed her backpack and was about to leave when she recalled Olivine and Lionel’s plan. Realizing Pearl and Mortimer were in danger, she pulled out her empty water bottle. Capital viewers were confused at first, expecting her to “run for the hills”. Their confusion turned to interest as Cat scooped up the leeches and put them inside her bottle along with some of the lakewater. In the commentator’s booth, Artemis was holding herself, cringing at the sight of the leeches. She wondered why Cat would pick them back up. Luther guessed she would use them either to help her allies or food, noting that the leeches were edible. Artemis squealed at the thought. As Cat was about to start moving again, a cannon sounded. It was revealed to be Vista (3) after she climbed down from her tree and decided to bathe in the river. She was also overtaken by leeches and screamed very loudly at the sight of them. Andrei (2) and Wolvthorne (7) heard her screams and found her writhing on the ground swiping at the leeches on her body. Andrei ended her suffering by plunging his sword into her head.
Two hours passed by without incident. Capital viewers still had some nuggets of tribute activity to entertain them. Carnelia and Logan (11) had successfully captured a handful of leeches and were attempting to cook them. Their stalker Horace (10) watched from nearby. The biggest area of interest was with the District 4 tributes and the approaching careers increasing the suspense in Maximus Square. While Mortimer was beginning the construction of the raft, Pearl boiled some water in the pot. She noticed her partner testing his rope on the logs he acquired and showing disappointment with it not being enough to secure the full measurements.
While the water boiled, Pearl gathered the moss growing off the trees and weaved some twine together. She tossed the twine to Mortimer and told him to test it out. She rolled her eyes at the look of skepticism on his face. She challenged him by asking why he was skeptical over some twine. Mortimer claimed he wasn’t suspicious of any malintent but was wondering why she would make it for him. Pearl simply stated, “We’re partners aren’t we?” Mortimer thanked her and tested the twine. He was satisfied with its durability and asked if she could make more. Pearl beckoned him to come to the fire. He walked over and was perplexed by the sight before him. The water still resembled the murky lake water. Pearl claimed she left the water to boil for ten minutes. Mortimer stuck his fingers taste tested it and spat it out in disgust. He said it wasn’t as bad tasting as the lakewater, but was still unsafe to drink. Frustrated, he went back to his raft while Pearl resumed making twine.
The two were unaware that Olivine and Lionel (1) were very close by and were able to pinpoint their location after hearing them talking. Lionel stepped forward and peeked his head behind a tree, ready to approach the unsuspecting Pearl. Pearl lifted her head to wipe the sweat off her face and was horrified to see him towering over her. She screamed at the top of her lungs and sprinted off not a second later. Lionel chased after her and swung his sword down toward her. Pearl shut her eyes preparing for the end, but only heard a single metallic thud. She opened her eyes to see the sword blocked by Mortimer’s trident.
Mortimer barked at Pearl to get behind him and she obeyed. Olivine made herself known brandishing a sword as well, having failed to secure a bow in the bloodbath. The arena and Maximus Square were quiet as the tributes slowly circled each other, Mortimer and Pearl taking measures to not be surrounded by their adversaries. Mortimer tried to make Olivine the closer enemy, knowing she was not nearly as experienced with a sword as Lionel. What he didn't know was she still had decent skills with the sword due to it being her "secondary weapon" that she decided to hide during training. Lionel swung first once again, his blade being caught by the trident. Olivine stepped in to strike while Mortimer was distracted. However, he spotted her and smacked her across the face with the back of the handle. She fell back into the water but before he could take advantage, Lionel went back on the offence.
The next three minutes kept the Capital at the edge of their seat. The two were evenly matched and trapped in a cycle of attack, block, and retaliation all while Pearl watched on, frozen to her spot. Lionel got his sword caught in the trident for the eighth time, but surprised everyone by twisting the blade downwards, pushing the prongs down and exposing Mortimer’s head. Lionel kept twisting in hopes Mortimer would drop his weapon, but he persisted. Just when it seemed like Mortimer was about to give up, he headbutted Lionel, dazing him long enough to free his weapon. Then in a swift motion, Mortimer thrust his trident up Lionel’s chin into his brain, sounding his cannon instantly.
Mortimer couldn’t celebrate for long as he heard Olivine charging towards him. She sliced at him in a frenzy, managing to cut his right eyebrow. She used this distraction to punch him in the face. Mortimer stumbled back a few inches, surprised by the power in her punch. Olivine brought her sword up high, ready to strike him down. Mortimer gave her a powerful uppercut, sending Olivine back three feet. The punch caused her to bite through her tongue, it falling to the ground. Olivine moaned in muffled agony at the sight of it on the floor as her mouth filled with blood. Mortimer thrust the trident in her chest. Suddenly, someone came rushing into the small clearing. It was Cat, having finally arrived to help Mortimer. She paused at the carnage laid before her and put her sword down. She said, “Guess you didn’t need help then.” Olivine’s cannon sounded seconds later.
The viewers in Maximus Square went crazy, cheering for Mortimer’s triumphant victory. In the commentator’s booth, Artemis and Luther were buzzing as well, the latter declaring this as one of the greatest fight sequences in the history of the Hunger Games. Historic documents reflected that sentiment as well. The cheering quickly died down, waiting to see his reaction to Cat’s sudden arrival. Mortimer furrowed his brows and backed her into a tree, saying, “You! You’ve been following us?!” Cat put her hands up and apologized for scaring him. She asked to at least explain herself. Pearl came to her defense and pleaded with him to hear her out. Mortimer relented and told her to spill.
Cat regaled her experiences so far, revealing the leeches’ existence and how she found them. Pearl rummaged through her things and pulled out the water bottle, but Cat warned her about the leeches inside. Pearl looked inside and identified the species, revealing they were edible. She walked towards the fire with the bottle. Cat turned back to Mortimer and told him, “I know you are reluctant to trust me, especially considering where we are. But seeing that I helped you with your training score and have something valuable to share, I think you need me as an ally.” Back in the Capital, Artemis said she admired Cat’s guts while Luther expressed interest in the dynamic they’re about to see, confident Mortimer would say yes. Mortimer looked back at Pearl inspecting the leeches, then the open backpack. He relented and accepted her invitation into the group, but warned he would end her if she did anything remotely bad.
Mortimer invited her to sit down by the campsite and go over what they learned. The small fire burnt out and Pearl was trying and failing to reignite it. Cat finally picked up on the rotten egg smell emanating throughout the arena. Mortimer noticed as well, claiming it was worse than before. Pearl asked if they noticed how it became worse the minute the careers died. The two were silent and realised she was right. Pearl speculated that not only will the water be rendered more undrinkable each death, but the smell will get worse. Cat compared the smell to the piles of feces left in Willard Alleyway by warmweed addicts and alcoholics. Mortimer suddenly had an epiphany. He realized that the rotten egg smell meant traces of flammable sulphur were present. Cat suggested they search for the source of the smell before it gets dark. The three fanned out. The search for the rotten smell garnered some moments of comedy. Viewers were laughing at the tributes picking up random objects and bringing them to their faces, left in tears at their disgusted facial expressions. It was ultimately Pearl who discovered the source, having explored the lake shore and found the source to be green algae barely touching the surface. She held her breath while collecting some and handing it to Mortimer. He wringed it off as much water as possible before shooting sparks at it with the flint and steel. After several tries, the algae ignited.
A fire was successfully crafted, and the trio resumed boiling the water. Cat speculated why boiling it wasn’t enough, recalling how it worked for Corpse Beckford in the 10th Hunger Games. Pearl suddenly squealed and stood up. One of the leeches escaped the bottle and began squirming on the ground. Mortimer picked it up and examined the creature. He noticed how sticky his fingertips were, his facing morphing into what Artemis coined as the “thinking face”. Mortimer used the tip of his trident to scrape some of the slime and thrust it into the pot. Cat was about to protest, but Mortimer recalled the species of leech and that it resided in the Rocky Shores neighborhood. He explained how the poorer citizens of District 4 would use the slime of discarded leeches to better purify dirty water. Cat commended him for noticing this and offered to ration the food for dinner. Pearl continued to create twine for the raft, but cameras noticed her constantly watching the nearby trees.
The sun was nearly out of sight and the water was still not fully purified. Mortimer was frustrated that the slime wasn’t enough. Cat told him to calm down and assured him they would figure it out. Pearl was still making twine for the raft when she cut herself with a tiny splinter entangled in the moss. Cat grabbed the first aid kit to bandage the wound before it became infected. Mortimer commented how he wasn’t aware therapists needed to know first aid. Cat responded, “Well, in a district full of addicts, you get a lot of practice.” Pearl asked her why she wanted to be a therapist like Phoebe. Cat explained how she used to be one of the young “zombies” hanging out in Willard Alleyway experimenting with new batches of warmweed. One day when she was thirteen, she had a respiratory attack. Her supposed friends were indifferent to her predicament and fled when Phoebe and peacekeeper escorts walked by. Phoebe spotted her, brought her to the hospital, and took care of her. In the commentator’s booth, Artemis was curious as to why she was dredging up traumatic experiences so nonchalantly. Luther guessed she truly moved past it and told her to keep listening. Cat further described a long conversation she had with Phoebe and how much it changed her life. After that, Cat strongly desired to get clean and was successful after nine arduous months. This was the part where Cat began to feel emotional. Cat explained that she wanted to help others get clean the same way she did, so no more kids are left to die in alleyways. She then revealed that when her mother died of an overdose, it was enough to convince her brother to get clean as well after years of begging. After years of dealing with erratic addicts, she claimed that no one scared her anymore, not even Mortimer. Mortimer apologised for being cross with her before, receiving an accepting smile in return.
While Cat bandaged Pearl’s wound, Mortimer noticed the small bottle of hydrogen peroxide. He examined it and put some droplets in the water. Suddenly, the cloudy substance in the water completely cleared. The three stared in amazement. Pearl asked who would test it first. Mortimer looked at Cat, who annoyedly said, “Fine I’ll do it.” She took a sip and said it tasted like water. After a few moments of no effect, Cat congratulated Mortimer for successfully purifying the water. Mortimer seemed really proud of himself. Suddenly, two sponsor gifts fell from the sky, one with a 4 and one with a 6. The D4 gift contained a mini chemistry kit with droppers, tiny bowls, and vials. A note attached read “I told you friends are the best - G”. The D6 bag contained a picnic of sandwiches and fruit. Pearl was ready to dig in, but Cat insisted they rest as the sun had fully set. Mortimer appeared disappointed, but admitted she was right. He volunteered to take first watch, blushing when Cat claimed he did so just to play with his new set. The two rested while Mortimer got to work purifying more water with his new kit. The portraits of the fallen were presented in the sky. The fallen included Olivine and Lionel (1), Nikita (2), Vista and Shoya (3), Terry (5), Jack (6), Laurel (7), Burlap (8), Ryetta (9), Mishti (10), and Neutron (12). This left 12 tributes remaining.
2023.05.28 16:41 No-Cheesecake-8472 The Telegraph------ The ‘ruthless’ axeman carving out a new future for Rolls-Royce ----------- Howard Mustoe Sun, May 28, 2023 at 2:00 AM PDT
Long before green energy became de rigueur, Rolls-Royce was exploring how to generate clean power.
The engineering giant said it had reached a “significant milestone” in 2011 after successfully generating electricity from the tides. Rolls-Royce had installed a huge turbine 100ft beneath the sea near Orkney that would harness tidal power to feed the Scottish grid.
Yet shortly after the trial, the project was abandoned. It is one of many ideas that Britain’s premier engineer has tried and dropped over the years in a search for the next big thing that could transform its fortunes.
This era of experimentation now looks like it’s over. New chief executive Tufan Erginbilgic has been far more interested in shutting things down than starting them up since taking charge in January.
He has vowed to shut the company’s R2 Factory, which was set up to sell Rolls-Royce’s in-house artificial intelligence software. A Rolls-Royce direct air carbon capture project, which aimed to remove existing CO2 from the atmosphere, will also be wound down.
Rolls-Royce’s direct air carbon capture project, which aimed to remove existing CO2 from the atmosphere, will also be wound down.
Erginbilgic, who spent 20 years at BP before taking charge of Rolls-Royce, has been alarmed at the state of the business.
He called Rolls-Royce a “burning platform” when he took over, telling employees: “Every investment we make, we destroy value.”
In a recent interview with the Financial Times, Erginbilgic said Rolls-Royce’s power business, which makes diesel-burning engines for ships and generators, had been “grossly mismanaged”.
A full strategy update is expected later in the year, with more cuts expected.
Erginbilgic argues he is giving the company the tough medicine needed to turn around the business.
“Rolls-Royce has not been performing for a long, long time, it has nothing to do with Covid, let’s be very clear,” he told staff shortly after taking charge. “Given everything I know talking to investors, this is our last chance.”
Yet some believe the axeman at Rolls-Royce is going too far too fast. Erginbilgic was forced to defend his comments about the business at the company’s recent shareholder meeting, amid accusations he was making “extremely destabilising” remarks.
“That probably would not be my choice of language,” former Rolls-Royce chief Warren East says of the “burning platform” comments.
Rolls-Royce is synonymous with victorious British engineering, conjuring visions of the Merlin engines that powered Spitfire fighter planes and Lancaster bombers during the Second World War.
Today, its largest business is making large jet engines for civil aircraft. It also makes diesel engines for ships and generators, engines for warplanes, and nuclear power plants for submarines.
It is developing electric powertrains for air taxis and other light aircraft as it prepares for the shift to net zero.
The company is one of three Western manufacturers of large engines for passenger jets, the others being US engineers General Electric and Pratt & Whitney.
However, it is far smaller than its rivals. GE, which makes everything from wind turbines to nuclear power plants, is worth $110bn (£90bn). Pratt & Whitney is owned by missile and satellite maker Raytheon, which is worth $135bn. Rolls-Royce is worth just £12bn.
The British company is best understood as a challenger, argues East.
A former microchip executive who took the helm at Rolls-Royce in 2015, East spent much of his time in charge fighting fires.
During his tenure he had to deal with: production problems dogging the company’s Trent 1000 engine, which powers the Boeing Dreamliner jet; a settlement with the Serious Fraud Office over historic bribery and corruption allegations; and the pandemic, which cost the company £8bn.
Covid-19 dealt a huge blow to the company as planes using its engines were grounded. Rolls-Royce was forced to cut 9,000 jobs in 2020 and raised £5bn to shore up its balance sheet.
The succession of crises meant East had little time to address more fundamental issues.
East is sanguine about his successor’s strategy. Erginbilgic is “doing stuff, which, frankly, I would probably be doing if I was still running Rolls-Royce”, he says.
“He’s carving out his own agenda,” East says, adding: “You have to be a little bit ruthless about these things.”
Unlike its rivals, Rolls-Royce only makes the largest engines for long-haul travel rather than the smaller engines that power the short-haul workhorse planes that fly around Europe or within North America.
This has left the company struggling to recover from the impact of the pandemic. Short-haul trips have rebounded much more quickly than long-haul.
Rolls-Royce lost £1.5bn last year, though it eked out a small operating profit.
Erginbilgic argues his cuts are part of a very long process of making the company a sustainably profitable enterprise.
Nick Cunningham, an aviation analyst at Agency Partners, says: “Rolls’s core business is making Aero Engines and diesels, that's what it does.
“You don't want to be doing anything which detracts from that – attempts at pure diversification almost never work.”
While some investors have been disgruntled with Erginbilgic’s communication style, few are arguing with the new chief’s results.
Shares are up almost 50pc so far this year, including a 24pc one-day jump in February after Rolls-Royce unveiled its better-than-expected annual results.
The next business that could face the chop could be Rolls-Royce’s Small Modular Reactor (SMR) business, speculates Cunningham.
The company is racing to develop an electricity generating reactor that can be factory-made but it is up against more than a dozen competitors.
Rolls-Royce has repeatedly said it is reliant on the state to place the first SMR order to kick-start the business. However, the UK government has so far dragged its feet and recently opened an international tender process.
“Frankly, it's going to take a decade or more to get a working nuclear power station, if it gets funded and ordered,” says Cunningham, “and it will inevitably get more expensive than you expected, they always do. And meanwhile, renewables are still getting cheaper.”
Rolls could choose to license the technology out instead. The margins would be smaller but this strategy would free up more resources for the bigger challenge of decarbonising its engines.
Erginbilgic’s “priority number one” must be the nuts and bolts of Rolls-Royce’s business, says Cunningham. Namely: selling jet engines and developing clean propulsion. That means costly side bets must be abandoned.
The tidal power project is a prime example of the type of experiment that Rolls-Royce will no longer indulge. It was shut down before East joined Rolls-Royce, but his team did briefly revisit the idea, he says.
Ultimately, they concluded that the product “just didn't make economic sense”.
“It’d be lovely if lots of these things did but you know, it's a business,” he says.
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The engineering giant said it had reached a “significant milestone” in 2011 after successfully generating electricity from the tides. Rolls-Royce had installed a huge turbine 100ft beneath the sea near Orkney that would harness tidal power to feed the Scottish grid.
Yet shortly after the trial, the project was abandoned. It is one of many ideas that Britain’s premier engineer has tried and dropped over the years in a search for the next big thing that could transform its fortunes.
This era of experimentation now looks like it’s over. New chief executive Tufan Erginbilgic has been far more interested in shutting things down than starting them up since taking charge in January.
He has vowed to shut the company’s R2 Factory, which was set up to sell Rolls-Royce’s in-house artificial intelligence software. A Rolls-Royce direct air carbon capture project, which aimed to remove existing CO2 from the atmosphere, will also be wound down.
Rolls-Royce’s direct air carbon capture project, which aimed to remove existing CO2 from the atmosphere, will also be wound down.
Erginbilgic, who spent 20 years at BP before taking charge of Rolls-Royce, has been alarmed at the state of the business.
He called Rolls-Royce a “burning platform” when he took over, telling employees: “Every investment we make, we destroy value.”
In a recent interview with the Financial Times, Erginbilgic said Rolls-Royce’s power business, which makes diesel-burning engines for ships and generators, had been “grossly mismanaged”.
A full strategy update is expected later in the year, with more cuts expected.
Erginbilgic argues he is giving the company the tough medicine needed to turn around the business.
“Rolls-Royce has not been performing for a long, long time, it has nothing to do with Covid, let’s be very clear,” he told staff shortly after taking charge. “Given everything I know talking to investors, this is our last chance.”
Yet some believe the axeman at Rolls-Royce is going too far too fast. Erginbilgic was forced to defend his comments about the business at the company’s recent shareholder meeting, amid accusations he was making “extremely destabilising” remarks.
“That probably would not be my choice of language,” former Rolls-Royce chief Warren East says of the “burning platform” comments.
Rolls-Royce is synonymous with victorious British engineering, conjuring visions of the Merlin engines that powered Spitfire fighter planes and Lancaster bombers during the Second World War.
Today, its largest business is making large jet engines for civil aircraft. It also makes diesel engines for ships and generators, engines for warplanes, and nuclear power plants for submarines.
It is developing electric powertrains for air taxis and other light aircraft as it prepares for the shift to net zero.
The company is one of three Western manufacturers of large engines for passenger jets, the others being US engineers General Electric and Pratt & Whitney.
However, it is far smaller than its rivals. GE, which makes everything from wind turbines to nuclear power plants, is worth $110bn (£90bn). Pratt & Whitney is owned by missile and satellite maker Raytheon, which is worth $135bn. Rolls-Royce is worth just £12bn.
The British company is best understood as a challenger, argues East.
A former microchip executive who took the helm at Rolls-Royce in 2015, East spent much of his time in charge fighting fires.
During his tenure he had to deal with: production problems dogging the company’s Trent 1000 engine, which powers the Boeing Dreamliner jet; a settlement with the Serious Fraud Office over historic bribery and corruption allegations; and the pandemic, which cost the company £8bn.
Covid-19 dealt a huge blow to the company as planes using its engines were grounded. Rolls-Royce was forced to cut 9,000 jobs in 2020 and raised £5bn to shore up its balance sheet.
The succession of crises meant East had little time to address more fundamental issues.
East is sanguine about his successor’s strategy. Erginbilgic is “doing stuff, which, frankly, I would probably be doing if I was still running Rolls-Royce”, he says.
“He’s carving out his own agenda,” East says, adding: “You have to be a little bit ruthless about these things.”
Unlike its rivals, Rolls-Royce only makes the largest engines for long-haul travel rather than the smaller engines that power the short-haul workhorse planes that fly around Europe or within North America.
This has left the company struggling to recover from the impact of the pandemic. Short-haul trips have rebounded much more quickly than long-haul.
Rolls-Royce lost £1.5bn last year, though it eked out a small operating profit.
Erginbilgic argues his cuts are part of a very long process of making the company a sustainably profitable enterprise.
Nick Cunningham, an aviation analyst at Agency Partners, says: “Rolls’s core business is making Aero Engines and diesels, that's what it does.
“You don't want to be doing anything which detracts from that – attempts at pure diversification almost never work.”
While some investors have been disgruntled with Erginbilgic’s communication style, few are arguing with the new chief’s results.
Shares are up almost 50pc so far this year, including a 24pc one-day jump in February after Rolls-Royce unveiled its better-than-expected annual results.
The next business that could face the chop could be Rolls-Royce’s Small Modular Reactor (SMR) business, speculates Cunningham.
The company is racing to develop an electricity generating reactor that can be factory-made but it is up against more than a dozen competitors.
Rolls-Royce has repeatedly said it is reliant on the state to place the first SMR order to kick-start the business. However, the UK government has so far dragged its feet and recently opened an international tender process.
“Frankly, it's going to take a decade or more to get a working nuclear power station, if it gets funded and ordered,” says Cunningham, “and it will inevitably get more expensive than you expected, they always do. And meanwhile, renewables are still getting cheaper.”
Rolls could choose to license the technology out instead. The margins would be smaller but this strategy would free up more resources for the bigger challenge of decarbonising its engines.
Erginbilgic’s “priority number one” must be the nuts and bolts of Rolls-Royce’s business, says Cunningham. Namely: selling jet engines and developing clean propulsion. That means costly side bets must be abandoned.
The tidal power project is a prime example of the type of experiment that Rolls-Royce will no longer indulge. It was shut down before East joined Rolls-Royce, but his team did briefly revisit the idea, he says.
Ultimately, they concluded that the product “just didn't make economic sense”.
“It’d be lovely if lots of these things did but you know, it's a business,” he says.
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Me: Dominant/Top, White, Straight, DDF, Veteran, 6' Tall, and much stronger than you. I'm single, live alone, and my kids are grown. I enjoy new people, and risky adventures, so if you have a crazy idea, we might be able to make it happen as long as it only involves consenting adults.
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2023.05.27 13:08 kittehgoesmeow What A Day: The Mock-Us Caucus by Julia Claire & Crooked Media (05/26/23)
"You know, I wasn't exactly a pale pastel. I've been bold colors." - Charisma machine Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) on Newsmax
Editor's note: We will be off on Monday for Memorial Day - see you back here on Tuesday!
Moving between Houston, Athens, and Baku, Mobility explores themes of class, power, politics, and desire through the life of one unforgettable character, Bunny Glenn. Both an entertaining coming-of-age story and an indictment of capitalism, Mobility uses fiction’s power to illuminate the way a life is shaped by its context.
We know you will love this book, so pre-order your copy of Mobility today at the link below OR wherever books are sold—and be among the first to read when it’s released on August 1.
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The Nixon Administration’s former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger will turn 100 years old this weekend. 150,000 Cambodians will not. He is the last surviving member of Richard Nixon’s cabinet.
A Russian missile hit a psychiatric clinic and a veterinary clinic in eastern Ukraine on Friday, killing two people and wounding 30.
The British Cycling Federation has barred transgender women from competing in the women’s category, and the “open” category will allow male athletes, transgender women and men, and non-binary cyclists.
President of Microsoft Brad Smith said that his biggest concern regarding artificial intelligence is deep fakes, or realistic but false content, particularly videos.
A South Carolina circuit court judge temporarily halted the state’s six-week abortion ban from going into effect until it is reviewed by the state Supreme Court.
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Jessica Watkins, a member of the far-right Oath Keepers, was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison on Friday for her role in the January 6 insurrection.
Another member of the Oath Keepers, Kenneth Harrelson, was sentenced to four years in prison today. At least all of his buddies will be there with him!
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Ceiling Sick
What is left to say about the debt ceiling? Unfortunately, too much!- Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told lawmakers in a letter on Friday that the U.S. government will run out of money on June 5 if Congress does not raise the debt ceiling. This is an update on the projections Yellen had previously given Congress, which were at the time “as soon as” June 1. But the Treasury’s new estimates provide more specificity and more urgency for GOP House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to stop fucking around with the global economy.
- President Biden and McCarthy have reported “progress” in the past few days on a deal to lift the debt ceiling, but as of this afternoon, no agreement has been reached, and the two sides seem to still be far apart. Why? Because Republicans refuse to do a clean debt ceiling raise (something they agreed to many times under disgraced former President Trump) without cuts to “discretionary spending.” Medicare and Social Security are off the table, as are cuts to defense spending (come on) which leaves a wide swath of necessary government services that disproportionately aid financially-disadvantaged Americans that Republicans want to hack away at.
- We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Republicans do not actually care about reducing the federal deficit. They famously want to make the Trump tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations permanent, which would add trillions of dollars to the deficit year over year. It’s the same “socialism for the rich, and rugged individualism for the poor,” that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke about so many decades ago.
- The tentative agreement in the works would raise the debt ceiling for two years (a key White House priority), freeze government spending on domestic programs, but slightly increase(!) military spending, according to sources close to the negotiations. The deal will likely rescind some of the new funding for the IRS (which by the way, was extremely successful and allowed the agency to function properly after years of austerity, which is why conservatives hate it) but House conservatives are split on their support for the deal. House Democrats, by contrast, have been remarkably united in their approach to the deal, maintaining the position that the Biden administration started with, which is that it would not negotiate with economic terrorists.
- The clown car that is the far-right House Freedom Caucus seems to be upset with the deal too, calling it “watered-down” because I guess it doesn’t hurt poor people to the extent they wish to see. Even as avaricious as McCarthy’s current deal seems to be, divided support in his caucus could ultimately cost him the Speakership, which, you may recall, he only achieved after a record 15 votes.
Look No Further Than Crooked Media
A reminder that Crooked Media Read’s first book Mobility by Lydia Kiesling is now available for pre-sale!!Moving between Houston, Athens, and Baku, Mobility explores themes of class, power, politics, and desire through the life of one unforgettable character, Bunny Glenn. Both an entertaining coming-of-age story and an indictment of capitalism, Mobility uses fiction’s power to illuminate the way a life is shaped by its context.
We know you will love this book, so pre-order your copy of Mobility today at the link below OR wherever books are sold—and be among the first to read when it’s released on August 1.
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Under The Radar
On Thursday night, the Indiana state Medical Licensing Board voted to reprimand Indianapolis physician Dr. Caitlin Bernard for “violating a patient’s privacy” when she told a reporter last year that she performed an abortion on a 10-year-old rape victim from neighboring Ohio, where the state’s laws prohibited the girl from getting an abortion in the wake of the Dobbs decision. However, the board rejected accusations from Indiana’s Republican Attorney General Todd Rokita that Dr. Bernard violated state law by not reporting the child abuse to Indiana authorities, nor did they agree to Rokita’s request to suspend her medical license. Dr. Bernard has been consistent in the defense of her actions, and she told the board that she did indeed follow Indiana’s reporting requirements and hospital policy by reporting the child abuse to the hospital social workers. The girl’s rape was already being investigated by Ohio authorities. Conservative news outlets and Republican politicians falsely accused Bernard of fabricating the story, until a 27-year-old man in Columbus, OH was charged with the rape. Dr. Bernard’s attorneys maintained that she gave no identifying information about the girl that would have violated privacy laws. Thursday’s hearing lasted for 13 hours, and Bernard rejected the claim that her public discussion of a case (in which she included no identifying information) led to the misconduct allegations, saying, “I think if the attorney general, Todd Rokita, had not chosen to make this his political stunt we wouldn’t be here today.”What Else?
A GOP-led committee in the Texas House of Representatives recommended that state attorney general and fellow Republican Ken Paxton be impeached on Thursday for a wide range of abuses of office. Paxton denounced the proceedings as “political theater” and invited his supporters to protest at the state Capitol tomorrow. January 6: Texas edition!The Nixon Administration’s former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger will turn 100 years old this weekend. 150,000 Cambodians will not. He is the last surviving member of Richard Nixon’s cabinet.
A Russian missile hit a psychiatric clinic and a veterinary clinic in eastern Ukraine on Friday, killing two people and wounding 30.
The British Cycling Federation has barred transgender women from competing in the women’s category, and the “open” category will allow male athletes, transgender women and men, and non-binary cyclists.
President of Microsoft Brad Smith said that his biggest concern regarding artificial intelligence is deep fakes, or realistic but false content, particularly videos.
A South Carolina circuit court judge temporarily halted the state’s six-week abortion ban from going into effect until it is reviewed by the state Supreme Court.
What In The World?
In the West Bank, more than three million Palestinians live under Israeli military occupation, where deadly raids have long been carried out with regularity. But now, under the most right-wing government in Israeli history, incursions have increasingly been executed during the day and in densely-populated urban areas. According to the United Nations, 108 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank and East Jerusalem as of May 15, twice as many as at the same point last year, and at least 19 were children. One of the most shocking recent attacks occurred on March 16, just days before the start of the holy month of Ramadan in the city of Jenin. That day, undercover Israeli forces carried out an operation targeting two Palestinian militants, but also killed 14-year-old Omar Awadin, who was one of at least 16 Palestinian civilians in the area, none of whom were armed. After The Washington Post viewed footage from multiple area security cameras, the raid appears to violate the international ban on extrajudicial killings. The Post shared its findings with international law experts, all of whom said the raid qualifies as a violation of extrajudicial killing prohibitions.What A Sponsor
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Light At The End Of The Email
On Friday, the United States Drug Enforcement Administration stripped Morris & Dickinson Co.—one of the country’s largest drug distributors—of its license to sell highly-addictive painkillers after an investigation determined that the company chose not to flag thousands of suspicious orders when the opioid crisis was ravaging swaths of America.Jessica Watkins, a member of the far-right Oath Keepers, was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison on Friday for her role in the January 6 insurrection.
Another member of the Oath Keepers, Kenneth Harrelson, was sentenced to four years in prison today. At least all of his buddies will be there with him!
Enjoy
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2023.05.27 10:32 travellingwings east coast vacation spots
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Introduction: Are you planning a vacation on the East Coast of the United States? Look no further! Travelling Wings is your ultimate guide to discovering the top East Coast vacation spots. With over 42 fantastic destinations covered, you'll find everything you need to plan a memorable trip. Whether you're seeking stunning beaches, historic landmarks, vibrant cities, or breathtaking natural wonders, Travelling Wings has got you covered. Get ready to embark on an unforgettable journey along the mesmerizing East Coast!
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- Natural Beauty at Acadia National Park, Maine: For nature enthusiasts, Acadia National Park in Maine is an absolute must-visit. Marvel at the rugged coastline, hike along scenic trails, and enjoy breathtaking views from the summit of Cadillac Mountain, the highest peak on the East Coast. With its diverse wildlife and pristine landscapes, Acadia is a paradise for outdoor enthusiasts and photographers alike.
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Finally, you were violently beaten offline by people wearing Marxian headgear because of the violent theory, and indignantly withdrew from the network to return to your family, but after a year, you couldn't resist again.
You are now a famous v in the forensic circle, into the group with its own traffic, go out with its own aura, can speak eloquently about all international politics, will play a full game of chess in foreign conflicts, will believe in the state every time, will think that democracy is not Coca-Cola, every country is the same, and then attract countless people flock, you are convinced that it must be the quality of many people is not in place to cause the people's wisdom is not yet open, although in you saw the city police smashed some old people The stall has a touch of surprise, but you think about it and understand that this is a necessary initiative to create a civilized city, you persistently fight in the bluebird and Ab and hate the country party, each time with a different expression bag to show your patriotic enthusiasm. But you return home to see your parents are packing their bags, saying that they lost the political struggle so the embezzlement of workers' severance pay years ago was exposed, the east window called you to go together, you only panicked to pack your bags ready to fly to San Francisco, but you drove to the airport to find more than a dozen people in your once the car came around, you just completely become an accelerationist postmodern deconstructionist structuralist post-structuralist post Marxism positive horse progressive egalitarianism to pseudo-motherly dictatorship Stella Seibei Ichikai into the customs study extreme militarism Cincinnatus spirit of the Finnish White Guard military government Franco's legacy of the Spanish National Labour Corpsism Sorrelite neo-paganism Aryan Nations Great Revival One Drop of Blood principle of human purification theory geocentric Nazi supporters (2 years old) Finally you are planning to withdraw from the network. Now full of mouth is to build political circle of black words, real life friends and family take you as imbecile, the most basic ideology morphological impulse The most basic awareness of the shape of the conflict can not be done. You originally thought that the construction of the political are similar to their own, did not expect to be the system of the noble school. Now you spend all day except reading scriptures to the book is in the group Bianjing, day and night qq group Zhihu b station back and forth high intensity Bianjing, home out of what big things do not care but care about the great cause of those Bianjing. Chatting with girls is not more than five sentences but reciting the scriptures endlessly. Dress up are not, usually go out are a dress, wallpaper song list all Kang Mi, every day in the posting bar NetEase cloud high intensity patrol to see who is "capitalist". You've gone off the deep end, and if you don't move towards "reality", you'll become the Mr. Tree in the eyes of your relatives and friends. Religious ideological fervor can indeed compensate for your absence, but not for long, you intend to alabaster, good death good death (14 years old)
You are reincarnated as a virtual Napoleon, conquering the four corners of Cyberspace, only for the truth of that impossible existence of the individual. You exhausted your mind, but fell into the dead end of agnosticism, self-proclaimed rationalist but is nothing more than a pan-dog of consumerism, sad and pathetic
After reading the philosophical brain upgrade, you become a cyber hippie, but feel less than in quantum capitalism to combat like in the premise of the dissolution of the grand narrative to discover micro-politics + post-Marxism + cultural Marx + feminist Marxism + Marx of development theory + late Lukács + Frankfurt School + Habermas + ecological Marxism + everyday critique of life in urban society + exclusion metaphysics + theistic Marxism + Gutierrez's liberation theology + the hippies of semitone Marxism + the emergence of the momentary consciousness of construalism + Eastern European neo-Marxism + structuralist Marxist methodology + post-Hegelian vulgar ideologists + the dissolution of subjectivity landscapeism consumerist culture finds itself in relations of reproduction irrationalism and a priori self and self and self as of being Marx and subjectivity and being is perceived left-wing ideology and culture of the young family thug with a girlfriend of the left man of the anti-Rogers centrism of the difference of the nothing of the being of the fickle little king ideologists born and your favorite girlfriend of the modern school of socialist eastern Marxism, you of course want to see the skyscrapers with your girlfriend, after all that is the holy writ of communism.
But so what, you surf the Internet, addicted to consumerism does not intervene, however you can still be a monk dictatorship military state Comey a mutual aid swarmism post-modern critical view of Lacan Zizek Sigma / positive horse researcher doubling as a Hoxhaism Stalinist supporters but endorsed the constant revolutionary theory of the Committee Communism doubling as anarchist warriors and support social democratic reformism fraternity humane free trade plus a degree of authoritarian The political fact is that we still feel that the imperial system of the bull and support the country as a whole great Miles of State Fascist supporters also serve as the authentic Hisodian national community racial purification theory Burgundian monism original sin theory pure Christianity Great Patriarch Lightning Return hopefuls secretly transmitted spicy imperial state religion faith ideas faithful believers.
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Finally, you were violently beaten offline by people wearing Marxian headgear because of the violent theory, and indignantly withdrew from the network to return to your family, but after a year, you couldn't resist again.
You are now a famous v in the forensic circle, into the group with its own traffic, go out with its own aura, can speak eloquently about all international politics, will play a full game of chess in foreign conflicts, will believe in the state every time, will think that democracy is not Coca-Cola, every country is the same, and then attract countless people flock, you are convinced that it must be the quality of many people is not in place to cause the people's wisdom is not yet open, although in you saw the city police smashed some old people The stall has a touch of surprise, but you think about it and understand that this is a necessary initiative to create a civilized city, you persistently fight in the bluebird and Ab and hate the country party, each time with a different expression bag to show your patriotic enthusiasm. But you return home to see your parents are packing their bags, saying that they lost the political struggle so the embezzlement of workers' severance pay years ago was exposed, the east window called you to go together, you only panicked to pack your bags ready to fly to San Francisco, but you drove to the airport to find more than a dozen people in your once the car came around, you just completely become an accelerationist postmodern deconstructionist structuralist post-structuralist post Marxism positive horse progressive egalitarianism to pseudo-motherly dictatorship Stella Seibei Ichikai into the customs study extreme militarism Cincinnatus spirit of the Finnish White Guard military government Franco's legacy of the Spanish National Labour Corpsism Sorrelite neo-paganism Aryan Nations Great Revival One Drop of Blood principle of human purification theory geocentric Nazi supporters (2 years old) Finally you are planning to withdraw from the network. Now full of mouth is to build political circle of black words, real life friends and family take you as imbecile, the most basic ideology morphological impulse The most basic awareness of the shape of the conflict can not be done. You originally thought that the construction of the political are similar to their own, did not expect to be the system of the noble school. Now you spend all day except reading scriptures to the book is in the group Bianjing, day and night qq group Zhihu b station back and forth high intensity Bianjing, home out of what big things do not care but care about the great cause of those Bianjing. Chatting with girls is not more than five sentences but reciting the scriptures endlessly. Dress up are not, usually go out are a dress, wallpaper song list all Kang Mi, every day in the posting bar NetEase cloud high intensity patrol to see who is "capitalist". You've gone off the deep end, and if you don't move towards "reality", you'll become the Mr. Tree in the eyes of your relatives and friends. Religious ideological fervor can indeed compensate for your absence, but not for long, you intend to alabaster, good death good death (14 years old)
You are reincarnated as a virtual Napoleon, conquering the four corners of Cyberspace, only for the truth of that impossible existence of the individual. You exhausted your mind, but fell into the dead end of agnosticism, self-proclaimed rationalist but is nothing more than a pan-dog of consumerism, sad and pathetic
After reading the philosophical brain upgrade, you become a cyber hippie, but feel less than in quantum capitalism to combat like in the premise of the dissolution of the grand narrative to discover micro-politics + post-Marxism + cultural Marx + feminist Marxism + Marx of development theory + late Lukács + Frankfurt School + Habermas + ecological Marxism + everyday critique of life in urban society + exclusion metaphysics + theistic Marxism + Gutierrez's liberation theology + the hippies of semitone Marxism + the emergence of the momentary consciousness of construalism + Eastern European neo-Marxism + structuralist Marxist methodology + post-Hegelian vulgar ideologists + the dissolution of subjectivity landscapeism consumerist culture finds itself in relations of reproduction irrationalism and a priori self and self and self as of being Marx and subjectivity and being is perceived left-wing ideology and culture of the young family thug with a girlfriend of the left man of the anti-Rogers centrism of the difference of the nothing of the being of the fickle little king ideologists born and your favorite girlfriend of the modern school of socialist eastern Marxism, you of course want to see the skyscrapers with your girlfriend, after all that is the holy writ of communism.
But so what, you surf the Internet, addicted to consumerism does not intervene, however you can still be a monk dictatorship military state Comey a mutual aid swarmism post-modern critical view of Lacan Zizek Sigma / positive horse researcher doubling as a Hoxhaism Stalinist supporters but endorsed the constant revolutionary theory of the Committee Communism doubling as anarchist warriors and support social democratic reformism fraternity humane free trade plus a degree of authoritarian The political fact is that we still feel that the imperial system of the bull and support the country as a whole great Miles of State Fascist supporters also serve as the authentic Hisodian national community racial purification theory Burgundian monism original sin theory pure Christianity Great Patriarch Lightning Return hopefuls secretly transmitted spicy imperial state religion faith ideas faithful believers.
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2023.05.27 00:27 Reddit-and-gettit What do these percentages mean?
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2023.05.26 21:49 ASRandASR Speculation on potential Slowly new stamps for July + Statistics about June
A new June 2023 slowly stamps batch has just been released, and we can start counting the results of the post I made the last month.
How are the results going?
Not too good, we only got 22 new stamps, even less than May batch, which was a huge step back.
How many ideas became stamps?
In the post I considered 7 categories:- Flags: 1 out of 14, 7% ↗
- Events and festivals: 13 out of 68, 19% ↗ (note: one event was not on the site so the correct result would be 14 out of 69, 20% ↗). Actually I considered also the stamp of the last 4 days of May in the total amount, but they added the Luxembourg's stamp which will come out on May, so the counting could be correct, but that's an even higher increasing.
- Location stamps: 0 out of 43, 0% ＝
- European castles: 3 out of 15, 20% ↗ (note: one was not proposed on the feedback site).
- Global international stamps: 1 out of 11, 9% ＝ (remember they aren't really considering these proposals, as they already said).
- Single stamps: 0 out of 9, 0% (I don't count the single stamps not under review or in progress).
- Premium sets: 0 out of 20, 0% (I don't count the premium sets not under review or in progress).
So the total is: 19 out of 152, 12% ↗
The feedback site includes also more premium stamp ideas, but there are so many ideas that I can't make a statistic about them. Even though it's important to remember the Slowly team released 3 premium stamps.
Is this a good result or not?
Well, I proposed 8 of these 22 stamps, so I'm quite satisfied. Even though the results are still very low, there have been a huge increase in proposal of new events and this explains why most of the new stamps are from this category. The categories we considered above mostly increased and non decreased, so the Slowly team is probably starting to take the ideas more into consideration though.The total of ideas is still huge, they won't make 152 stamps each month of course, also because the ideas we make are not all good ones. But in my opinion I expected lots of more stamps. I'm happy for some great new stamps, but some of the best ideas weren't chosen unfortunately.
What's the best time to propose a stamp?
Let's see again this statistic!
5 stamps were proposed in 2022, 12 more were posted in of April (4 of them after my post on Reddit).
Obviously I only considered stamps specifically for June. What the best time to add such suggestions? Well, surprisingly this time was around April 25, exactly one month before the batch release.
What can we do now?
Let's wait for the next month!I tried to arrange a list for the potential new entries, this is merely speculation, but some of these will become new stamps in July. So keep an eye on this subreddit if you would love to see one of the followings! The lists are subject to changes, feel free to comment or send me a DM if you find anything more.
Note: clicking on the links will brought you on the feedback site, to know more about those proposals!
Flags:
- French Polynesia 🇵🇫 - 29 June
- Seychelles 🇸🇨 – 29 June
- Burundi 🇧🇮 – 1 July
- Madeira - July 1
- British Virgin Islands 🇻🇬 - 3 July
- Comoros 🇰🇲 – 6 July
- Solomon Islands 🇸🇧 – 7 July
- Cook Islands 🇨🇰 - 7 July
- Kiribati 🇰🇮 – 12 July
- São Tomé and Príncipe 🇸🇹 – 12 July
- French Southern and Antarctic Lands 🇹🇫 - 14 July
- Saint-Pierre and Miquelon 🇵🇲 - 14 July
- Saint Martin 🇫🇷 - 14 July
- Abkhazia - July 23
- Esperanto - July 26
- Wallis and Futuna 🇼🇫 - 29 July
- Vanuatu 🇻🇺 – 30 July
- Hawaii - July 31
Commemorative free Regional possible releases:
- 26 June Aimé Césaire Day, Martinique 🇲🇶
- 26 June National Canoe Day, Canada 🇨🇦
- 26 June-1 July Hajj Season, Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 or more countries
- 27 June Hellen Keller Day, USA 🇺🇸
- 28 Vidovdan, Serbia 🇷🇸
- 28 June-2 July Východná Folklore Festival, Slovakia 🇸🇰
- 29 June Saints Peter and Paul, Vatican City 🇻🇦
- 30 June Lovers’ Day, Azerbaijan 🇦🇿
- 30 June General Prayer Day, Central African Republic 🇨🇫
- 30 June-11 July Vincy Mas, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 🇻🇨
- End of June-Early July Heilala Festival, Tonga 🇹🇴
- 1 National Doctor’s Day, India 🇮🇳
- 1 Dostoevsky Day, Russia 🇷🇺
- 1 Ketikoti, Netherlands 🇳🇱
- 1 Neerosh, Somalia 🇸🇴
- 1 RONPhos Handover Day, Nauru 🇳🇷
- 1 Sir Seretse Khama Day, Botswana 🇧🇼
- 1-15 Heiva i Tahiti, French Polynesia 🇵🇫
- 2 Pedro Paulet, Peru 🇵🇪
- 3 Heroes' Day, Zambia 🇿🇲
- 3 Days of Mowing in Kupres, Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦
- 3 Caricom Day, Antigua and Barbuda 🇦🇬, Bahamas 🇧🇸, Barbados 🇧🇧, Belize 🇧🇿, Dominica 🇩🇲, Jamaica 🇯🇲, Grenada 🇬🇩, Guyana 🇬🇾, Haiti 🇭🇹, Montserrat 🇲🇸, Saint Kitts and Nevis 🇰🇳, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 🇻🇨, Saint Lucia 🇱🇨, Suriname 🇸🇷, Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹 and maybe more.
- 4 Vierdaagse, Netherlands 🇳🇱
- 4 Tirgan Festival, Iran 🇮🇷
- 4 Henrietta Swan Leavitt, USA 🇺🇸
- 5 Saints Cyril and Methodius Day, Czechia 🇨🇿
- 6 Jan Hus Day, Czechia 🇨🇿
- 7 Fishermen’s Day, Marshall Islands 🇲🇭
- 7 Eid al-Ghadir, Muslim countries
- 7 Saba Saba Day, Tanzania 🇹🇿
- 7 Ra o te Ui Ariki, Cook Islands 🇨🇰
- 7 Batakari Day, Ghana 🇬🇭
- 7-16 Calgary Stampede, Canada 🇨🇦
- 8 Zvejnieksvētki, Latvia 🇱🇻
- 10 National Day of Nikola Tesla - Day of Science, Technology and Innovation/the Day of Science, Croatia 🇭🇷 and Serbia 🇷🇸
- 10-16 Te Taetae ni Kiribati, Kiribati 🇰🇮
- 10-19 La Fiesta de La Tirana, feast of La Virgen del Carmen, Chile 🇨🇱
- 10-19 Sebiba, Algeria 🇩🇿
- 11 National Culture and Senior Citizens Day, Kiribati 🇰🇮
- 11 Día del Bandoneón, Argentina 🇦🇷
- 11-14 Rebetiko Festival, Greece 🇬🇷
- 12 Favaloro's Bypass Surgery method, Argentina 🇦🇷
- 12 Malala Day, Pakistan 🇵🇰
- 15-1 August Tobago Heritage Festival, Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹
- 16 National Ice Cream Day, USA 🇺🇸
- 16 Galla Bayramy, Turkmenistan 🇹🇲
- 16 Gergetoba, Georgia 🇬🇪
- 17 Día del Pollo a la Brasa, Peru 🇵🇪
- 19 Hijri New Year, Muslim countries
- 19 National Football Day, Brazil 🇧🇷
- 20 Lempira Day, Honduras 🇭🇳
- 21 Gungu Festival, Democratic Republic of Congo 🇨🇩
- 21 Fête Victor Schœlcher, Martinique 🇲🇶
- 21-23 Pflasterspektakel Linz, Austria 🇦🇹
- 22 Ratcatcher's Day/Pied Piper Day, Germany 🇩🇪
- 24 Simon Bolivar Day, Venezuela 🇻🇪
- 24 National Amelia Earhart Day, USA 🇺🇸
- 26 Eva Perón (Evita), Argentina 🇦🇷
- 27 José Celso Barbosa Day, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
- 28-5 August Te Maeva Nui, Cook Islands 🇨🇰
- 28-6 August Jerash Festival, Jordan 🇯🇴
- 29 Ólavsøka, Faroe Islands 🇫🇴
- 30-7 August Summer Festival, Anguilla 🇦🇮
- End of July Bula Festival, Fiji 🇫🇯
Global, international day potential releases:
(feedback site doesn’t accept this kind of requests, but Slowly team is still releasing these stamps)- 1 Free Hugs Day
- 4 Alice in Wonderland Day
- 6 Kiss Day
- 7 Chocolate Day
- 7 Save the Vaquita Day
- 9 I Purple You/Army Day
- 14 Non-Binary People's Day
- 14 Shark Awareness Day
- 16 Guinea Pig Appreciation Day
- 16 Artificial Intelligence Appreciation Day
- 21 Dog Day
- 25 IVF Day
- 26 Esperanto Day
- 27 Stray Dog Day
- 29 Tiger Day
Locations stamps proposals for countries that currently have 0 stamps
(may come out in the future), you can also vote for them to make the Slowly team consider more these ideas:- Andorra 🇦🇩
- Antarctica 🇦🇶
- Antigua and Barbuda 🇦🇬
- Burundi 🇧🇮
- Cape Verde 🇨🇻
- Central African Republic 🇨🇫
- Chad 🇹🇩
- Comoros 🇰🇲
- Congo 🇨🇬
- Djibouti 🇩🇯
- Dominica 🇩🇲
- Equatorial Guinea 🇬🇶
- Eritrea 🇪🇷
- Gabon 🇬🇦
- Guinea-Bissau 🇬🇼
- Kiribati 🇰🇮
- Laos 🇱🇦
- Lesotho 🇱🇸
- Liberia 🇱🇷
- Malawi 🇲🇼
- Marshall Islands 🇲🇭
- Mauritania 🇲🇷
- Micronesia 🇫🇲
- Monaco 🇲🇨
- Mozambique 🇲🇿
- Nauru 🇳🇷
- Niger 🇳🇪
- Palau 🇵🇼
- Rwanda 🇷🇼
- Sahrawi
- Saint Lucia 🇱🇨
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 🇻🇨
- Samoa 🇼🇸
- San Marino 🇸🇲
- São Tomé and Principe 🇸🇹
- Seychelles 🇸🇨
- Solomon Islands 🇸🇧
- Somalia 🇸🇴
- Somaliland
- South Sudan 🇸🇸
- Tajikistan 🇹🇯
- Tuvalu 🇹🇻
- Vanuatu 🇻🇺
We could also see more European Castles, they could include:
- Aland Islands 🇦🇽 (Kastleholm Castle)
- Andorra 🇦🇩 (Castell de Sant Vicenç)
- Canary Islands 🇮🇨 (Castillo de San Jose)
- Ceuta and Melilla 🇪🇦 (La Vieja)
- Faroe Islands 🇫🇴 (Skansin)
- Guernsey 🇬🇬 (Castle Cornet)
- Iceland 🇮🇸 (Borgarvirki Fortress)
- Isle of Man 🇮🇲 (Peel Castle)
- Jersey 🇯🇪 (Elizabeth Castle or Mount Orgueil Castle)
- Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 (Turkestan City Fortress)
- Monaco 🇲🇨 (Prince’s Palace)
- Russia 🇷🇺 (Novgorod Kremlin)
Premium single stamps and achievements currently under review and in progress:
- Badminton, global
- Golem, Czechia 🇨🇿
- Marie Salomea Skłodowska–Curie, France 🇫🇷/Poland 🇵🇱
- Penny Black, global or United Kingdom 🇬🇧
- Royal Bengal Tiger, Nepal 🇳🇵, Bhutan 🇧🇹 and India 🇮🇳
- Stamp Achievement for Long term pen pals
- Stamp Achievement for 1,000 stamps collected
- Stamp Achievement for completing one year, two years, three years and so on
- Wayang, Indonesia 🇮🇩
Premium sets under review and in progress:
- 7 wonders, global
- Alhambra of Granada, Sagrada Familia, Aqueduct of Segovia, Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, Roman Theatre (Mérida), Giralda of Seville, Spain 🇪🇸
- Alice In Wonderland, global
- Argentine sayings, Argentina 🇦🇷
- Art Movements, global
- Arthurian Legends, United Kingdom 🇬🇧
- Boba Teas, global
- Brazilian Desserts, Brazil 🇧🇷
- Brazilian Folklore, Brazil 🇧🇷
- Celtic symbols, Ireland 🇮🇪
- Cheese Set, global
- Constellations, global or according to hemisphere
- Cryptids (Cryptozoology), global
- Flower Whispers Vol.3, global
- Greek Gods, Greece 🇬🇷
- LGBTQ+ / Know your pride!, global
- Origami, global
- Russian Fairy Tales, Russia 🇷🇺
- Tales from 1001 Nights (Arabian Nights), global
- Works of Jules Verne, France 🇫🇷
2023.05.26 04:21 Ok-Sell8596 Well, what do we think? Is medicine in Canada still a go or no? Long read, but one of a kind! :)
Hi everyone,
I have been perusing the reddit premedcanada page for quite some time now. I'm rooting for all of you! And now it's my turn to share my unfortunate academic story in hopes of receiving some very critical and insightful feedback. Please be nice! But I will accept harsh criticism, I need to gain an outsider's perspective on my situation. I appreciate all your input! :)
The situation: In short, I have had undiagnosed combined type ADHD since January 2023. With this, I had immense academic struggles throughout high school (failing classes, lack of motivation, depression, anxiety, familial concerns..etc.) that led me to retain those habits through my early years of university. I managed to graduate high school (2017) with an average grade. I entered my home province's university for general science that fall and instantly fell back into the trap of ADHD tendencies on top of persistent depression and anxiety that I was in denial about. I'm talking, failed classes, withdrawals from classes, academic probation, you name it, the scariest letters you could find on your transcript, I had them! It came to a point where I received a letter of mandatory withdrawal because I couldn't manage to raise my average after being on probation. for an extended period of time. This occurred in November-December 2019. Needless to say, I was extremely distraught but I wasn't surprised, I knew that there was something incredibly wrong with me despite my willingness and undeniable urge to learn, but I simply didn't know where to begin, I had it engrained in my head since high school that I was not destined to learn, it wasn't in me and there is no hope in sight for my academic future (this was also heavily pressed upon my parents, there was not a chance that their daughter was suffering silently, she was just stupid for a lack of better words..). I had the chance to take a recovery program at the school or leave and come back later during the year but I wanted nothing to do with this university anymore, I wanted a fresh slate. And in comes the beginning of a very harrowing road. This is going to be a long one!!
With COVID falling through shortly after the withdrawal, I was soul-searching for alternatives. I have siblings in the UK who completed medical studies and have stayed there ever since graduating. I knew I wanted to pursue a degree closely related to medicine so I ultimately went for an honours program in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Buckingham. The catch? It's an accelerated two-year program. Seems appealing right? No, it was the worst two years of my life. Needless to say, the first year was decent because it was online (minus the 2am start times), and the second year I had to physically be present in the UK. In a few words, because I may consider starting another thread on this subject alone, the program was new, they wanted international money, they failed us consistently, there were 10 of us remaining, they kept failing us, and we were down to 5 and then I left because of the circumstances and then only 2 graduated. That should be enough information to derive an opinion on this "institution".. All in all, it was a scam. Somehow, according to WES, I managed to attain B+'s in all of my courses taken there leaving me with a 3.33 GPA. Once I processed the trauma, I was urged by my family to go down to SGU in the Caribbean. As a side note, my mother became a physician at 22 back in Eastern Europe back in the day and she simply cannot bear to look at her almost 24-year-old daughter not being a doctor as well so naturally her instinct is to push me to finish everything as soon as possible, leading me to my next global adventure!!
In August 2022, I went to SGU to enter their 5yr MD program. The first year is still considered pre-med and after completing the preliminary year, you are able to matriculate into the first year of the 4yr MD program. To preface, I absolutely knew what I was getting myself into when I agreed to go to the Caribbean.. and I faced the consequences. I'll tell you this though, I never took Ochem or any proper chemistry courses and I managed to get an 80% in Biochemistry at SGU so there's my little ounce of pride. Regardless, everything else was a gong show. I never spent so much time sweating and sweating more from anxiety-induced reasons. It was not enjoyable. Although, I genuinely admired some of my professors and the curriculum was very thorough, but unfortunately, I could not meet their 80% minimum passing grade at the end of the term and I was also dismissed.. I had a 75% because of a poor final score that set me back overall. I had the option of staying to complete the courses but after what I went through on the island, and having to pay another three down payments on a home for non-guaranteed success, I decided enough is enough. It is time for me to finally finish my degree.
After a period of enlightenment and some more inner work, I came to the consensus to finish my degree at a recognized (keyword) and reputable (another very important word) university in Canada. I applied to a number of universities across the country and eventually settled on one out East. As I had time off from January to May, I studied (loosely) for the MCAT that I am scheduled to sit this August. Every class I took to date except physics has prepared me for the exam and I would like to sit it for the first round this summer so I will still have plenty of time to prepare for another round next year. At this lovely new school that I am so thrilled to be a part of, I have decided to study Ocean Sciences! It is very far off from what I have been studying but I truly don't think I would have the heart to do any more Biochemical/Human Bioscience in an undergraduate degree. Plus, I am right in the ocean, what better place to study the sea than here! And I know that if worse comes to worst, I will be content with pursuing this career further if need be.
I mention self-work and awareness quite a bit, and I am very proud of the successes I have earned in the last two years compared to where I was prior. I put in a load of effort into completing my courses, but most notably, I finally got diagnosed with ADHD earlier this year. It has been both a relief, a learning curve and anger. I imagine how much more stronger and resilient I could have been throughout high school and university, and in turn I wouldn't have created this mess I am in. Nonetheless, all is in the past and I must keep putting one foot in front of the other!
So, back to my original question: Is applying to medicine in Canada still a possibility? Well, if I manage to stay on top of my timeline, I should be set to graduate in the Winter or Spring of 2025 (I transferred into the second year). Naturally, I have a few concerns and I will list them below:
1) The biggest one, my academic past. Failures if you will.. Do you reckon these will be calculated into my total GPA by the committees? I know that the schools vary, but regardless they will see these scores and possibly add them into consideration.
2) My home province is Saskatchewan so it is my hope that being a resident might give me the upper hand - what are the chances for OOP if I manage to attain a high GPA and MCAT score?
3) Will the universities frown upon me for having attended four universities and taking many years to complete my degree?
Here are my statistics to date:
University #1 GPA: somewhere between 2 and 2.3 I believe. It was around 57 percent. Yikes.
University #2 GPA: 3.33 (USA version)
University #3 GPA: 2.45 (USA version)
University #4 GPA: not yet available but a 3.7-8 looks promising as of now!
ECs:
- plenty of volunteering in all areas (medicine, non-medicine, arts, Red Cross, SJA, hospitals..)
- one research publication for Obstetrics and Gynecology via USask Med from 2019-2020.
- observership and assistance in rural medicine in Ukraine
- shadowing for Family Medicine and Gastroenterology
- worked at a medical clinic since 2016
- TA for a science class
- Kinesiology women's BBall trainer
- competitive Latin dance
- classical piano/opera trained
- Biomed student rep
- Surgical Society rep
- some new clubs and societies
I think there are some more things but that is basically the bulk of it, I loved/love taking part in activities and hobbies outside of my daily scope of learning so I am always searching for more ECs to boost my interest!
I believe that covers just about everything about my academic life. It's a treacherous one.. I fall into miserable sulking traps sometimes because of it. It's hard to see myself as that person once before and how horribly she has messed up her potential for success in the future. I am open to international options such as Ireland or the UK (not the Caribbean, please don't even say the word) but I would of course much prefer to stay in-province or in Canada for that matter due to financial concerns.
Thank you for interacting with this post! It would mean so much to me to hear other people's advice and thoughts. My situation is unique (I think) and I haven't been able to receive any form of true guidance that caters to my scenario. I hope that in a few years' time, I can come back to this post with a positive update! Whether that's being an accepted medical student somewhere in the world or pursuing an alternative career path that also brings me joy.
Lots of love :)
TL;DR: I screwed up my early years of school and university due to undiagnosed ADHD, attended four different universities, and I want to apply to Canadian medical schools eventually.
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I have been perusing the reddit premedcanada page for quite some time now. I'm rooting for all of you! And now it's my turn to share my unfortunate academic story in hopes of receiving some very critical and insightful feedback. Please be nice! But I will accept harsh criticism, I need to gain an outsider's perspective on my situation. I appreciate all your input! :)
The situation: In short, I have had undiagnosed combined type ADHD since January 2023. With this, I had immense academic struggles throughout high school (failing classes, lack of motivation, depression, anxiety, familial concerns..etc.) that led me to retain those habits through my early years of university. I managed to graduate high school (2017) with an average grade. I entered my home province's university for general science that fall and instantly fell back into the trap of ADHD tendencies on top of persistent depression and anxiety that I was in denial about. I'm talking, failed classes, withdrawals from classes, academic probation, you name it, the scariest letters you could find on your transcript, I had them! It came to a point where I received a letter of mandatory withdrawal because I couldn't manage to raise my average after being on probation. for an extended period of time. This occurred in November-December 2019. Needless to say, I was extremely distraught but I wasn't surprised, I knew that there was something incredibly wrong with me despite my willingness and undeniable urge to learn, but I simply didn't know where to begin, I had it engrained in my head since high school that I was not destined to learn, it wasn't in me and there is no hope in sight for my academic future (this was also heavily pressed upon my parents, there was not a chance that their daughter was suffering silently, she was just stupid for a lack of better words..). I had the chance to take a recovery program at the school or leave and come back later during the year but I wanted nothing to do with this university anymore, I wanted a fresh slate. And in comes the beginning of a very harrowing road. This is going to be a long one!!
With COVID falling through shortly after the withdrawal, I was soul-searching for alternatives. I have siblings in the UK who completed medical studies and have stayed there ever since graduating. I knew I wanted to pursue a degree closely related to medicine so I ultimately went for an honours program in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Buckingham. The catch? It's an accelerated two-year program. Seems appealing right? No, it was the worst two years of my life. Needless to say, the first year was decent because it was online (minus the 2am start times), and the second year I had to physically be present in the UK. In a few words, because I may consider starting another thread on this subject alone, the program was new, they wanted international money, they failed us consistently, there were 10 of us remaining, they kept failing us, and we were down to 5 and then I left because of the circumstances and then only 2 graduated. That should be enough information to derive an opinion on this "institution".. All in all, it was a scam. Somehow, according to WES, I managed to attain B+'s in all of my courses taken there leaving me with a 3.33 GPA. Once I processed the trauma, I was urged by my family to go down to SGU in the Caribbean. As a side note, my mother became a physician at 22 back in Eastern Europe back in the day and she simply cannot bear to look at her almost 24-year-old daughter not being a doctor as well so naturally her instinct is to push me to finish everything as soon as possible, leading me to my next global adventure!!
In August 2022, I went to SGU to enter their 5yr MD program. The first year is still considered pre-med and after completing the preliminary year, you are able to matriculate into the first year of the 4yr MD program. To preface, I absolutely knew what I was getting myself into when I agreed to go to the Caribbean.. and I faced the consequences. I'll tell you this though, I never took Ochem or any proper chemistry courses and I managed to get an 80% in Biochemistry at SGU so there's my little ounce of pride. Regardless, everything else was a gong show. I never spent so much time sweating and sweating more from anxiety-induced reasons. It was not enjoyable. Although, I genuinely admired some of my professors and the curriculum was very thorough, but unfortunately, I could not meet their 80% minimum passing grade at the end of the term and I was also dismissed.. I had a 75% because of a poor final score that set me back overall. I had the option of staying to complete the courses but after what I went through on the island, and having to pay another three down payments on a home for non-guaranteed success, I decided enough is enough. It is time for me to finally finish my degree.
After a period of enlightenment and some more inner work, I came to the consensus to finish my degree at a recognized (keyword) and reputable (another very important word) university in Canada. I applied to a number of universities across the country and eventually settled on one out East. As I had time off from January to May, I studied (loosely) for the MCAT that I am scheduled to sit this August. Every class I took to date except physics has prepared me for the exam and I would like to sit it for the first round this summer so I will still have plenty of time to prepare for another round next year. At this lovely new school that I am so thrilled to be a part of, I have decided to study Ocean Sciences! It is very far off from what I have been studying but I truly don't think I would have the heart to do any more Biochemical/Human Bioscience in an undergraduate degree. Plus, I am right in the ocean, what better place to study the sea than here! And I know that if worse comes to worst, I will be content with pursuing this career further if need be.
I mention self-work and awareness quite a bit, and I am very proud of the successes I have earned in the last two years compared to where I was prior. I put in a load of effort into completing my courses, but most notably, I finally got diagnosed with ADHD earlier this year. It has been both a relief, a learning curve and anger. I imagine how much more stronger and resilient I could have been throughout high school and university, and in turn I wouldn't have created this mess I am in. Nonetheless, all is in the past and I must keep putting one foot in front of the other!
So, back to my original question: Is applying to medicine in Canada still a possibility? Well, if I manage to stay on top of my timeline, I should be set to graduate in the Winter or Spring of 2025 (I transferred into the second year). Naturally, I have a few concerns and I will list them below:
1) The biggest one, my academic past. Failures if you will.. Do you reckon these will be calculated into my total GPA by the committees? I know that the schools vary, but regardless they will see these scores and possibly add them into consideration.
2) My home province is Saskatchewan so it is my hope that being a resident might give me the upper hand - what are the chances for OOP if I manage to attain a high GPA and MCAT score?
3) Will the universities frown upon me for having attended four universities and taking many years to complete my degree?
Here are my statistics to date:
University #1 GPA: somewhere between 2 and 2.3 I believe. It was around 57 percent. Yikes.
University #2 GPA: 3.33 (USA version)
University #3 GPA: 2.45 (USA version)
University #4 GPA: not yet available but a 3.7-8 looks promising as of now!
ECs:
- plenty of volunteering in all areas (medicine, non-medicine, arts, Red Cross, SJA, hospitals..)
- one research publication for Obstetrics and Gynecology via USask Med from 2019-2020.
- observership and assistance in rural medicine in Ukraine
- shadowing for Family Medicine and Gastroenterology
- worked at a medical clinic since 2016
- TA for a science class
- Kinesiology women's BBall trainer
- competitive Latin dance
- classical piano/opera trained
- Biomed student rep
- Surgical Society rep
- some new clubs and societies
I think there are some more things but that is basically the bulk of it, I loved/love taking part in activities and hobbies outside of my daily scope of learning so I am always searching for more ECs to boost my interest!
I believe that covers just about everything about my academic life. It's a treacherous one.. I fall into miserable sulking traps sometimes because of it. It's hard to see myself as that person once before and how horribly she has messed up her potential for success in the future. I am open to international options such as Ireland or the UK (not the Caribbean, please don't even say the word) but I would of course much prefer to stay in-province or in Canada for that matter due to financial concerns.
Thank you for interacting with this post! It would mean so much to me to hear other people's advice and thoughts. My situation is unique (I think) and I haven't been able to receive any form of true guidance that caters to my scenario. I hope that in a few years' time, I can come back to this post with a positive update! Whether that's being an accepted medical student somewhere in the world or pursuing an alternative career path that also brings me joy.
Lots of love :)
TL;DR: I screwed up my early years of school and university due to undiagnosed ADHD, attended four different universities, and I want to apply to Canadian medical schools eventually.
2023.05.25 20:18 DiscoverDurham Things to Do in Durham this Weekend (May 25-28)
Check out our full Durham events calendar.
If you'd like to add an event to our calendar, submit an event here. Please check with the event organizers to see if events change due to weather. Have a great weekend!
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If you'd like to add an event to our calendar, submit an event here. Please check with the event organizers to see if events change due to weather. Have a great weekend!
Venue Weekend Schedules
Events at The Pinhook- Thu, May 25 at 8:00 p.m. - The Cook Up
- Sat, May 27 at 7:30 p.m. - Narrow Head / Graham Hunt / Fake Eyes
- Sat, May 27 at 10:00 p.m. - The Gemini Bash Feat: Ver / Black As The Cosmos / Gemynii / Femi Th Femme
- Sun, May 28 at 8:00 p.m. - Summer In Tha Carolinas Preshow
- Thu, May 25 at 9:00 p.m. - Below Decks: Jermainia / DJ Bosslady / DJ Eleven12
- Fri, May 26 at 9:00 p.m. - Undrgrnd Presents: Criso / Analog Future / Craeons / Apah
- Sat, May 27 at 8:00 p.m. - HAC The System Dance Party
- Sun, May 28 at 7:30 p.m. - Zelda
- Fri, May 26 at 6:00 p.m. - Jess Klein Trio (filling in for The Duke Street Dogs)
- Fri, May 26 at 9:15 p.m. - Sayer McShane
- Sat, May 27 at 7:30 p.m. - The Mighty Messengers of Soul
- Thursdays - Free Board Games
- Thu, May 25 at 7:00 p.m. - Trivia
- Fri, May 26 at 8:00 p.m. - 4th Friday Blues Night with Live Music! (lesson at 7:30 p.m.)
- Sat, May 27 at 8:00 p.m. - CoLab On Fire
- Sun, May 21 at 6:30 p.m. - Moon Dog Open Mic
- Fri, May 26 at 8:00 p.m. - Lovell Bradford Quartet
- Sat, May 27 at 8:00 p.m. - Geoff Clapp Trio
- $27.55
- Thu, May 25 -The Deneckes and Tarot with Virginia
- Fri, May 26 - Ben Lassiter Trio and Tarot with Rene
- Sat, May 27 - Patrick McGrew Trio and Tarot with Joy
- Sun, May 28 - Eric Lee Hardt and friends feat. Adriana Walsh and Tarot with Rene
- Thu, May 26 at 7:30 p.m. - XOXOK
- Thu, May 26 at 10:00 p.m. - Gay Agenda Presents: Last Friday
- Fri, May 27 at 9:00 p.m. - Blind Tigers Live Band Karaoke: 80s Mix
- Sat, May 28 at 8:00 p.m. - Slow Teeth with 1970s Film Stock
- Thu, May 25
- 5:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. - Food Truck: El Jefecito
- 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. - Thursday Trivia with Nick
- Fri, May 26
- 5:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. - Food Truck: Tacos Paradise
- 8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. - Open Mic Stand-up Comedy
- Sat, May 27
- 5:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. - Food Truck: Tacos Mama Chava
- 4:00 p.m - 8:00 p.m. - The Blood Connection
- Sun, May 28
- 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. - Hammered Trivia with Thor
- Thu, May 25 at 7:30 p.m. Bulldog Ensemble Theater presents: Single Black Female - A fast and funny look at the lives of single Black women, as they navigate love, success, and stereotypes.
- Fri, May 26 at 7:30 p.m. Bulldog Ensemble Theater presents: Single Black Female
- Fri, May 26 at 9:00 p.m. Well Seasoned
- Sat, May 27 at 2:00 p.m. Bulldog Ensemble Theater presents: Single Black Female
- Sat, May 27 at 7:30 p.m. Bulldog Ensemble Theater presents: Single Black Female
- Sat, May 27 at 9:00 p.m. Golden Age
- Sun, May 28 at 2:00 p.m. Bulldog Ensemble Theater presents: Single Black Female
- Thu, May 25 from 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. - Live Music: Shrub(b)
- Fri, May 26 from 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. - Friday Night Live: Still Rise
- Sat, May 27 from 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 p.m. - Fitness Pop-Up: TITLE Boxing Club
- Sat, May 27 from 11:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. - Saturdaze: DJ Damu
- Sat, May 27 from 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. - Live DJ: Selector B Steady
- Thu, May 25 from 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. - Beer Garden Jam Sessions
- Every Friday from 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. - RTP Food Truck Fridays
- Sat, May 27 from 3:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. - Team On Draft Bike MS Fundraiser Night
- Sat, May 27 from 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. - Beer Garden Jam Sessions
- Thu, May 25 from 7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. - Live Music in the Taproom
- May 26-28 from 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. - Weekend Food Trucks
Multi-Day Event
Memorial Day Remembrance Event at Bennett Place State Historic Site- Following the American Civil War, a “Decoration Day” began in communities across America remembering soldiers who gave the ultimate sacrifice. Senator John A. Logan, a former Union officer on staff with Major General William T. Sherman, was instrumental in making this a formal national day honoring our fallen soldiers, which became Memorial Day. Join military historians representing the American soldier of all time periods throughout our nation's history.
- Sat, May 27 from 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
- Sun, May 28 from 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
- $3 for adults, $2 for children 5-16
- Children under 5, veterans and active service personnel are free
Local Sports
ACC Baseball Tournament at Durham Bulls Athletic Park- The 2023 ACC Baseball Championship will again feature 12 teams in a pool play format leading into a four-team, single-elimination bracket to determine the league champion.
- Today - May 28
- vs Houston Havoc
- Fri, May 26 at 7:00 p.m.
- $12 (free age 12 and under)
Thursday, May 25
Durham Night Market at American Tobacco Campus- Featuring 40+ vendors, entertainment, interactive stations to celebrate the spring season, games, a bar provided by Mellow Mushroom, and surrounding eateries within the American Tobacco Campus!
- 5:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
- Free admission
- Each month Dashi's Thirsty Thursday drink specials revolve around a monthly theme – spirits, cocktails, special ingredients, brand, location, etc. – with new sips every Thursday. Learn more about upcoming themes on their website or visit them in person – there's always something new to try from their expansive bar!
- 5:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
- Our natural environment provides us with many of the resources we need to live and thrive, but for many people, access to healthy outdoor spaces is limited. Join attorney and conservation professional Mavis Gragg, Farm Aid program director Shorlette Ammons, Ebony Anglers founder Gia Peebles and artist Stacy Lynn Waddell for a conversation about accessibility, ownership and our relationship with the natural world. This event is inspired by the exhibition Spirit in the Land.
- 5:45 p.m. - lecture hall doors open
- 6:00 p.m. - panel discussion
- 7:30 p.m. - cash bar and reception
- Free admission
- Enjoy fresh vibes on the patio with DJ Deckades. Bring your own vinyl to share or just listen to what the DJ is spinning.
- 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
- Free admission
- Show up and climb at TRC Durham, then head over to Hi-Wire for some brews. Don't worry if it's your first time or haven't bouldered before; everyone's welcome.
- Your first visit to the gym with the Meetup includes free admission and gear rental, and subsequent visits with the meetup are $15 and include harness rental (outside of meetups, day pass rates of $19 apply and do not include rentals).
- 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
- Join Clouds Durham for Big Slow Tom's Trivia Night, every Thursday. Win some prizes, drink some beer, and show your smarts.
- Enjoy $4 select draft and $5 rotating bartender's choice all night.
- 7:30 p.m.
- Free admission
Friday, May 26
Tasting at Ten at Counter Culture Coffee- Every Friday morning at 10 am, Counter Culture Coffee opens their Training Centers to coffee lovers who want to learn more about Counter Culture Coffee’s high-quality, sustainably sourced menu.
- 10:00 a.m.
- Free, but donations accepted
- What's better than the cello suites of J.S. Bach? The cello suites accompanied by a laser show. Join Mallarme Music as cellist Bonnie Thron and marimbist Juan Alamo perform Suites 1 and 2 with lasers provided by Salty Robot Productions.
- 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
- $10-30
Saturday, May 27
Durham Farmers’ Market at Durham Central Park- The Durham Farmers’ Market offers locally grown fruits and vegetables, meats, eggs, cut flowers, artisanal cheeses and breads, home-baked pies, honey, handmade chocolates, preserves, local wines, handmade soaps, fresh pasta, and artwork of all sorts!
- 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
- Free admission
- The market strives to support new and growing farms and vendors in the greater Durham area, and they are also home to some of the most iconic Durham brands around.
- 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
- Free admission
- A free, fun, and friendly weekly 5k community event. Walk, jog, run, volunteer, or spectate. It's up to you!
- 8:00 a.m.
- Free admission
- APS heads back to Duke’s East Campus for their annual Walk for the Animals, a 1.5-mile charity walk around Duke University’s East Campus to raise money and awareness for homeless and neglected pets throughout the Durham community.
- More than 500 Triangle residents participate in the Walk for the Animals each year. Proceeds raised at the Walk will benefit APS of Durham and its work care for more than 5,000 animals who rely on the organization’s services yearly. Participants can register as individuals or as a team – recruiting friends, family, and coworkers to join. Registration is available online through our Walk webpage.
- 10:00 a.m.
- $40 adults, $15 kids
- Live music, apple pie eating contest, bouncy house, yard games, slip 'n slide, splash pad for kids, and food trucks.
- 12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
- Veterans and active service members admitted free with ID. Guests under 21 get in free.
- $20, $10 in advance (includes first cocktail)
- Free pint with purchase of craft box. Choose from a variety of craft packages available for all ages.
- 12:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
- Seafood, Mexican, BBQ, Jamaican, Dominican, pineapple smoothies, italian ice, and more delicious goodness.
- 3:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
- Free admission
Sunday, May 28
Al Strong Presents Jazz Brunch at Alley Twenty Six- Al Strong, the Grammy-nominated jazz trumpeter, composer and recording artist, will bring a rotating lineup of musicians to perform during Sunday brunch at Durham's Alley Twenty Six. Weather permitting the band will perform in the bar’s namesake alley.
- Brunch from 10:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
- Music 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
- Learn about the history, architecture, and life of Duke Chapel in this tour, which is free and open to the public. The tour begins at 12:15 p.m., or immediately following the conclusion of the Sunday morning service, and lasts approximately forty-five minutes.
- No reservation is required but if you plan to bring a large group please notify us in advance. Meet the docent on the front steps of the Chapel.
- Paid parking is available on a first come, first served basis in the Bryan Center Parking Lot at 125 Science Drive. ADA parking is available in the Bryan Center Surface Lot at the same address.
- 12:15 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
- Hosted by the Triangle’s Trivia team, Hammered Trivia, gather your team and post up to compete for prizes and enjoy an afternoon of great drinks, great friends, and great games.
- 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
- Free admission
Running Art Exhibits
In Ecstasy, I Call Your Name So I Won’t Forget By Kennedi Carter at Pop Box Gallery- A visual archive of Black women in pin up.
- Wed-Sat from 12:00 p.m - 6:00 p.m.
- Runs through May 27
- Whitney Stanley: We Just Be in the Vault Gallery
- Runs through May 2023
- Truth or Dare: A Reality Show
- Runs through March 2024
- Open 24 hours
- Free admission
- This exhibit highlights several NC-based artists that, on the surface, use colors that are “extra” (which is where their commonality ends) to evoke their intent through a combination of this color with forms and imagery as well as the concepts embedded in color’s many identities. Artists Jane Cheek, Jerstin Crosby, Zach Storm, Tonya Solley Thornton and Leif Zikade all require color to play a primary role in their work and their relationship to an audience.
- Mon–Sat from 9:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. and Sun from 1:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
- Runs through June 4
- Free admission
- 5 Points Gallery in downtown Durham introduces a new exhibit featuring the work of our member artist, Donna Stubbs. Donna uses an archaeological approach to painting, as she lovingly photographs her surroundings and unearths discarded items in thrift stores to create abstract mixed media works.
- Free admission
- An exhibition featuring both abstract and figurative works by two artists with international backgrounds. The SEQUENTIAL exhibition invites the observer on a visual journey, generating an organic relationship between the artworks and the gallery's visitors. Through the dynamics of color, form, ideas, and narratives, Chieko Murasugi and Renzo Ortega seek to generate a dialogue and the experience of art appreciation with the audience.
- Sat, May 20 at 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. - opening reception
- Runs through July 8
- Spirit in the Land is a contemporary art exhibition that examines today’s urgent ecological concerns from a cultural perspective, demonstrating how intricately our identities and natural environments are intertwined. Through their artwork, 30 artists show us how rooted in the earth our most cherished cultural traditions are, how our relationship to land and water shapes us as individuals and communities
- Tue-Fri from 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Sun from 12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
- Runs through Jul 9
- Free admission
- Andy Warhol: You Look Good in Pictures explores the breadth of the artist’s relationship with photography through several distinct bodies of work including screenprints of celebrities, all of which were taken from photographs, a group of Polaroids and black and white snapshots illustrating his social circles, and an early silent film of the curator Henry Geldzahler from 1964.
- Tue-Fri from 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Sun from 12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
- Runs through Aug 27
- Free admission
- This gallery features ceramics, textiles, metalwork and carvings produced by ancient cultures across what is known as present-day Peru.
- Tue-Fri from 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Sun from 12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
- Runs through Dec 2
- Free admission
2023.05.25 16:21 autotldr One of Rwanda's most wanted genocide suspects arrested in South Africa after 22 years on run
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa - One of the most wanted suspects in Rwanda's genocide, a man suspected of orchestrating the killing of more than 2,000 people, has been arrested in South Africa after 22 years on the run, a special tribunal set up by the United Nations said Thursday.
The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals said Fulgence Kayishema was arrested Wednesday in Paarl, a small town in a wine-making region about 30 miles east of Cape Town.
He was captured in a joint operation by the tribunal's fugitive tracking team and South African authorities, the tribunal said.
More than 800,000 people were killed in Rwanda's genocide, which took place over the course of three months in 1994 when ethnic Hutus turned on the minority Tutsis, slaughtering them and moderate Hutus who tried to protect them.
Kayishema was indicted by the U.N.'s International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in 2001 and charged with genocide, complicity in genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide and crimes against humanity for killings and other crimes.
The tribunal said he is alleged to have organized the killings of more than 2,000 ethnic Tutsi refugees - men, women and children - at a Catholic church during the genocide.
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2023.05.25 12:09 Suspicious-Desk-711 Illicium Verum Market Set to Witness Explosive Growth by 2033
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- Mother Herbs
- VLC Spices
- Shrih Trading Company Private Limited
- Kore International
- Nice Spices
- VIET D.E.L.T.A INDUSTRIAL
- THANH HIEN PRIVATE ENTERPRISE
- GMEX.JSC
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2023-2033
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Market Segmentation: By Type
- Scarlet Star Anise
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2023.05.25 02:18 Vaibhav2247 Chance me for around 20 colleges (description)
Note: A current graduating junior, application is for next year. Some stats are predictions
Demographics: Indian Male
Origin: RDU, North Carolina
Intended Major: Geography/GIS, aiming to switch to CS, Statistics, or Economics (for schools that allow switch)
GPA: 3.8/4 and 4.65/5
Class Rank: Around the top 50 of a class with 600 people
SAT/ACT: 1530/34
AP Exams: (all above 4)- AP World History- AP US Gov/Politics- AP Compsci Principles- AP Psychology- AP Macroeconomics (self-study)- AP Microeconomics (self-study)- AP Human Geography (self-study)- AP Environmental Science- AP US History- AP Statistics- AP Language- AP Computer Science A- AP European History (self-study)- AP Comparative Gov (self-study)- AP Physics 2: Algebra-Based- AP Physics C: Mechanics- AP Calculus AB/BC- AP Physics 1: Algebra-Based- AP Physics C: E&M (self-study)
ECS:
- Several coding internships
- 2 paid GIS Internships
- Research Intern at NC State and UNC Chapel Hill
- Team USA for several international geography competitions
- National geography bee champion in Junior Varsity and Varsity Divisions
- Nationals in NAQT and History Bowl
- Over 22k in scholarships from winning competitions in geography, quizbowl, history bowl, and CS
- Started a large nonprofit in the area aimed at improving living standards
- State and national competitive violin player, on the board for several music nonprofits
- Director of a geography nonprofit organization
- Educational content creator on Youtube, Spotify, Instagram, and TikTok
- Self-taught nearly 20 programming languages, fluent in about half of them
- Competed in USACO and several hackathons
- Published research in geography and economics
- Over 200+ volunteering hours throughout high school
- Several computer science and GIS certifications/degrees on MOOC (Coursera, EDX)
- Play varsity tennis and state ranked in chess (1850 ELO)
- Involved in many cultural events in the area
- Math, social studies, and coding tutoteacher
- Founder of school Geography/History Club and Philosophy Club
- Leadership in Model UN, Speech and Debate, History Bowl, Quizbowl, South Asian, TedEd, Computing
Applied to:
APPALACHIAN, EAST CAROLINA, UNC CHARLOTTE, UPENN, UCHICAGO, DUKE, JOHNS HOPKINS, NORTHWESTERN, UCLA, USC, DARTMOUTH (ED), UC BERKELEY, TORONTO, NC STATE, UNC CHAPEL HILL, PENN STATE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WASHINGTON, WISCONSIN
Setbacks:
- Didn't get good grades over freshman and sophomore year (a couple of B's and one C)
- Have since made up for those grades with dual enrollment classes at a local community college as much as I could, but my GPA and class rank could have been much higher
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Demographics: Indian Male
Origin: RDU, North Carolina
Intended Major: Geography/GIS, aiming to switch to CS, Statistics, or Economics (for schools that allow switch)
GPA: 3.8/4 and 4.65/5
Class Rank: Around the top 50 of a class with 600 people
SAT/ACT: 1530/34
AP Exams: (all above 4)- AP World History- AP US Gov/Politics- AP Compsci Principles- AP Psychology- AP Macroeconomics (self-study)- AP Microeconomics (self-study)- AP Human Geography (self-study)- AP Environmental Science- AP US History- AP Statistics- AP Language- AP Computer Science A- AP European History (self-study)- AP Comparative Gov (self-study)- AP Physics 2: Algebra-Based- AP Physics C: Mechanics- AP Calculus AB/BC- AP Physics 1: Algebra-Based- AP Physics C: E&M (self-study)
ECS:
- Several coding internships
- 2 paid GIS Internships
- Research Intern at NC State and UNC Chapel Hill
- Team USA for several international geography competitions
- National geography bee champion in Junior Varsity and Varsity Divisions
- Nationals in NAQT and History Bowl
- Over 22k in scholarships from winning competitions in geography, quizbowl, history bowl, and CS
- Started a large nonprofit in the area aimed at improving living standards
- State and national competitive violin player, on the board for several music nonprofits
- Director of a geography nonprofit organization
- Educational content creator on Youtube, Spotify, Instagram, and TikTok
- Self-taught nearly 20 programming languages, fluent in about half of them
- Competed in USACO and several hackathons
- Published research in geography and economics
- Over 200+ volunteering hours throughout high school
- Several computer science and GIS certifications/degrees on MOOC (Coursera, EDX)
- Play varsity tennis and state ranked in chess (1850 ELO)
- Involved in many cultural events in the area
- Math, social studies, and coding tutoteacher
- Founder of school Geography/History Club and Philosophy Club
- Leadership in Model UN, Speech and Debate, History Bowl, Quizbowl, South Asian, TedEd, Computing
Applied to:
APPALACHIAN, EAST CAROLINA, UNC CHARLOTTE, UPENN, UCHICAGO, DUKE, JOHNS HOPKINS, NORTHWESTERN, UCLA, USC, DARTMOUTH (ED), UC BERKELEY, TORONTO, NC STATE, UNC CHAPEL HILL, PENN STATE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WASHINGTON, WISCONSIN
Setbacks:
- Didn't get good grades over freshman and sophomore year (a couple of B's and one C)
- Have since made up for those grades with dual enrollment classes at a local community college as much as I could, but my GPA and class rank could have been much higher
2023.05.24 19:06 Jacques_Ellul ‘Terror can rule absolutely only over men who are isolated. Isolation and impotence (the fundamental inability to act at all) have always been characteristic of tyrannies. Isolation is pre-totalitarian.’
Excerpts from 3 related works that have been on my mind lately. That much of this remains unknown combined with how closely aspects of the description trace to the present profoundly disturb me.
‘Hitler's American Model,’ James Whitman
‘Education [in the concentration camps] consists of discipline, never of any kind of instruction on an ideological basis, for the prisoners have for the most part, slave like souls.’ -Henrick Himler
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‘Hitler's American Model,’ James Whitman
In 1952 the Austrian police chief in Salzburg asked the American Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) )whether it still sought Adolf Eichmann’s arrest. …An Israeli intelligence operative, was hunting Eichmann and was offering a large reward. In a memo to Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2, the CIC noted that its mission no longer included the apprehension of war criminals, and “it is also believed that the prosecution of war criminals is no longer considered of primary interest to U.S. Authorities.” On these grounds, the Army should advise the Salzburg police that Eichmann was no longer sought. But in view of Eichmann’s reputation and the interest of other countries [Israel] in apprehending him, it might be a mistake to show lack of interest. So the CIC recommended confirming continuing U.S. interest in Eichmann.‘Propaganda and Free Thought,’ Bertrand Russell
A ruthless program of eugenics, designed to build a “healthy” society, free of hereditary defects, was central to Nazi ambitions in the 1930s. Soon after taking power, the regime passed a Law to Prevent the Birth of the Offspring with Hereditary Defects, and by the end of the decade a program of systematic euthanasia that prefigured the Holocaust, including the use of gassing, was under way. We now know that in the background of this horror lay a sustained engagement with America’s eugenics movement. In his 1994 book, historian Stefan Kühl created a sensation by demonstrating that there was an active back-and-forth traffic between American and Nazi eugenicists until the late 1930s, indeed that Nazis even looked to the United States as a “model.”
During the interwar period the United States was not just a global leader in assembly-line manufacturing and Hollywood popular culture. It was also a global leader in “scientific” eugenics, led by figures like the historian Lothrop Stoddard and the lawyer Madison Grant, author of the 1916 racist best-seller ‘The Passing of the Great Race’; or, ‘The Racial Basis of European History.’ These were men who promoted the sterilization of the mentally defective and the exclusion of immigrants who were supposedly genetically inferior. Their teachings filtered into immigration law not only in the United States but also in other Anglophone countries: Britain, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand all began to screen immigrants for their hereditary fitness. Kühl demonstrated that the impact of American eugenics was also strongly felt in Nazi Germany, where the works of Grant, Stoddard, and other American eugenicists were standard citations.
To be sure, there are, here again, ways we may try to minimize the significance of the eugenics story. American eugenicists, repellant though they were, did not advocate mass euthanasia, and the period when the Nazis moved in their most radically murderous direction, at the very end of the 1930s, was also the period when their direct links with American eugenics frayed. In any case, eugenics, which was widely regarded as quite respectable at the time, was an international movement, whose reach extended beyond the borders of both the United States and Nazi Germany.
The global history of eugenics cannot be told as an exclusively German–American tale. But the story of Nazi interest in the American example does not end with the eugenics of the early 1930s; historians have carried it into the nightmare years of the Holocaust in the early 1940s as well. It is here that some of the most unsettling evidence has been assembled, as historians have shown that Nazi expansion eastward was accompanied by invocations of the American conquest of the West, with its accompanying wars on Native Americans. This tale, by contrast with the tale of eugenics, is a much more exclusively German–American one.
The Nazis were consumed by the felt imperative to acquire Lebensraum, “living space,” for an expanding Germany that would engulf the territories to its east, and “[f]or generations of German imperialists, and for Hitler himself, the exemplary land empire was the United States of America.” In Nazi eyes, the United States ranked alongside the British, “to be respected as racial kindred and builders of a great empire”: both were “Nordic” polities that had undertaken epic programs of conquest.
Indeed as early as 1928 Hitler was speechifying admiringly about the way Americans had “gunned down the millions of Redskins to a few hundred thousand, and now keep the modest remnant under observation in a cage”; and during the years of genocide in the early 1940s Nazi leaders made repeated reference to the American conquest of the West when speaking of their own murderous conquests to their east. Historians have compiled many quotes, from Hitler and others, comparing Germany’s conquests, and its program of extermination, with America’s winning of the West. They are quotes that make for chilling reading, and there are historians who try to deny their significance. But the majority of scholars find the evidence too weighty to reject: “The United States policy of westward expansion,” as Norman Rich forcefully concludes, for example, “in the course of which the white men ruthlessly thrust aside the ‘inferior’ indigenous populations, served as the model for Hitler’s entire conception of Lebensraum.”
“Teaching, more even than most other professions, has been transformed during the last hundred years from a small, highly skilled profession concerned with a minority of the population, to a large important branch of the public service. …any teacher in the modern world…is made sharply aware that it is not his function to teach what he thinks, but to instill such beliefs and prejudices as are thought useful by his employers.‘The Origins of Totalitarianism,’ Hannah Arendth
In former days a teacher was expected to be a man of exceptional knowledge or wisdom, to whose words men would do well to attend. In antiquity, teachers were not an organized profession, and no control was exercised over what they taught. It is true that they were often punished afterwards for their subversive doctrines. Socrates was put to death and Plato is said to have been thrown into prison…[A teacher’s function is] to instill what he can of knowledge and reasonableness into the process of forming public opinion. In antiquity he performed this function unhampered except by occasional spasmodic and ineffective interventions of tyrants or mobs. In the middle ages teaching became the exclusive prerogative of the Church, with the result that there was little progress either intellectual or social. With the Renaissance, the general respect for learning brought back a very considerable measure of freedom to the teacher. …Institutions such as universities largely remained in the grip of the dogmatists, with the result that most of the best intellectual work was done by independent men of learning. In England, especially, until near the end of the 19th century, hardly any men of first-rate eminence except Newton were connected with universities. But the social system was such that this interfered little with their activities or their usefulness.
In our more highly organized world we face a new problem. Something called education is given to everybody, usually by the State, but sometimes by the Churches. The teacher has thus become, in the vast majority of cases, a civil servant obliged to carry out the behest of men who have not his learning, who have no experience of dealing with the young, and whose only attitude towards education is that of the propagandist. …Where these evils prevail no man can teach unless he subscribes to a dogmatic creed which few people of free intelligence are unlikely to accept sincerely. …He must carefully abstain from speaking his mind on current events. So long as he is teaching only the alphabet and the multiplication table, as to which no controversies arise…official dogmas do not necessarily warp his instruction; but even while he is teaching these elements he is expected, in totalitarian countries, not to employ the methods which he thinks most likely to achieve the scholastic result, but to instill fear, subservience and blind obedience by demanding unquestioned submission to his authority. And as soon as he passes beyond the bare element, he is obliged to take the official view on all controversial questions. The result is that the young in Nazi Germany became, and Russia became, fanatical bigots, ignorant of the world outside their own country, totally unaccustomed to free discussion, and not aware that their opinions can be questioned without wickedness.
This state of affairs, as bad as it is, would be less disastrous than it is if the dogmas instilled were, as in medieval Catholicism, universal and international; but the whole conception of an international culture is denied by the modern dogmatists, who preached one creed in Germany, another in Italy, another in Russia and yet another in Japan. In each of these countries fanatical nationalism was what was most emphasized in the teaching of the young, with the result that the men of one country have no common ground with the men of another, and that no conception of a common civilisation stands in the way of warlike ferocity. …There is a widespread belief that nations are made strong by uniformity of opinion and by the suppression of liberty. One hears it said over and over again that democracy weakens a country in war…It is obvious that organized party spirit is one of the greatest dangers of our time. In the form of nationalism it leads to wars between nations, and in other forms it leads to civil war.
…Teachers are more than any other class the guardians of civilization. …The thing above all, that a teacher should endeavor to produce in his pupils if democracy is to survive, is the kind of tolerance that springs from an endeavor to understand those who are different from ourselves. It is perhaps a natural impulse to view with horror and disgust all manners and customs different from those to which we are used. Ants and savages put strangers to death. And those who have never traveled either physically or mentally find it difficult to tolerate the queer ways and outlandish beliefs of other nations and other times, other sects and other political parties. …in every country nationalistic feeling is encouraged, and school children are taught, what they are only too ready to believe, that the inhabitants of other countries are morally and intellectually inferior to those of the country in which the school children happen to reside. Collective hysteria is encouraged instead of being discouraged, and the young are encouraged to believe what they hear frequently said rather than what there is some rational ground for believing. No one would consent in our day to subject the medical men to the control of non medical authorities as to how they should treat their patients, except of course where they depart criminally from the purpose of medicine, which is to cure the patient. The teacher is a kind of medical man whose purpose is to cure the patient of childishness, but he is not allowed to decide for himself on the basis of experience what methods are most suitable to this end.
‘Education [in the concentration camps] consists of discipline, never of any kind of instruction on an ideological basis, for the prisoners have for the most part, slave like souls.’ -Henrick Himler
Totalitarian propaganda perfects the techniques of mass propaganda, but it neither invents them nor originates their themes. These were prepared for them by fifty years of the rise of imperialism and disintegration of the nation state, when the mob entered the science of european politics. Like the earlier mob leaders, the spokesman for totalitarian movements possessed an unerring instinct for anything that ordinary party propaganda or public opinion did not care for or dare to touch. Everything hidden, everything passed over in silence, because of major significance, regardless of its own intrinsic importance. The mob really believed that ruth was whatever respectable society had hypocritical passed over, or covered up with corruption.
Mysteriousness as such became the first criterion for the choice of topics…since the middle 1930s, one mysterious world conspiracy has followed another…The effectiveness of this kind of propaganda demonstrates one of the chief characteristics of modern masses. They do not believe in anything visible, in the reality of their own experience; they do not trust their eyes and ears but only their imaginations, which may be caught by anything that is at once universal and consistent in itself. What convinces masses are not facts, and not even invented facts, but only the consistency of the system of which they presumably apart.
When a man is faced with the alternative of betraying and thus murdering his friends or of sending his wife and children, for, whom he is in every sense responsible, to their death; when even suicide would mean the immediate murder of his own family–how is he to decide? The alternative is no longer between good and evil, but between murder and murder. Who could solve the moral dilemma of the Greek mother, who was allowed by the Nazis to choose which of her three children should be killed?
Through the creation of condition under which conscience ceases to be adequate and to do good becomes utterly impossible, the consciously organized complicity of all men in the crimes of totalitarian regimes is extended to the victims and thus made really total. Camp inmates were made responsible for a large part of the administration, thus confronting them with the hopeless dilemma whether to send their friends to their death, or to help murder other men who happened to be strangers…forcing them to behave like murderers. The point is not only that hatred is diverted from those who are guilty but that the distinguishing line between persecutor and persecuted, between the murderer and his victim, is constantly blurred.
Once the moral person has been killed, the one thing that still prevents men from being made into a living corpse is the differentiation of the individual, his unique identity. …this part of the human person, precisely because it depends so essentially on nature and on forces that cannot be controlled by the will, is the hardest to destroy. The methods of dealing with this uniqueness of the human person are numerous. They begin with the monstrous conditions in the transports to the camps, when hundreds of human beings are packed into a cattle car stark naked, glued to each other, and shunted back and forth over the countryside for days on end; they continue upon arrival at the camp, the well-organized shock of the first hours, the shaving of the head, the grotesque camp clothing; and they end in the utterly unimaginable tortures so gauged as not to kill the body, at any event not quickly. The aim of all these methods, in ay case, is to manipulate the human body–with its infinite possibilities of suffering–in such a way as to make it destroy the human person as inexorably as do certain mental diseases of organic origin.
It is here that the utter lunacy of the entire process becomes most apparent. When the SS took over the camp the old bestiality gave way to an absolutely cold and systematic destruction of human bodies, calculated to destroy human dignity; death was avoided or postponed indefinitely. The camps were no longer amusement parks for beasts in human form. That is, for men who really belonged in mental institutions and prisons; the reverse became true: they were turned into “drill grounds” on which perfectly normal men were trained to be full-fledged members of the SS.
After murder of the moral person and annihilation of the judicial person, the destruction of the individuality is almost always successful...and those condemned to death very seldom attempted to take one of their executioners with them, that there were scarcely any serious revolts, and that even in the moment of liberation there were very few spontaneous massacres of SS men. For to destroy individuality is to destroy spontaneity, man’s power to begin something new out of his own resources, something that cannot be explained on the basis of reactions to environment and events. Nothing that remains but ghastly marionettes with human faces, which all behave like the dog in Pavlov’s experiments, which all react with perfect reliability even when going to their own death, and which do nothing but react. This is the real triumph of the system: “The triumph of the SS demands that the tortured victim allow himself to be led to the noose without protesting, that he renounce and abandon himself to the point of ceasing to affirm his identity. They know that the system which succeeds in destroying its victim before he mounts the scaffold is incomparably the best for keeping a whole people in slavery. In submission. Nothing is more terrible than these processions of human beings going like dummies to their death.” [‘scarcely more than .05% of the deaths could be traced to suicide]
If we take totalitarian aspirations seriously and refuse to be misled by the common-sense assertion that they are utopian and unrealizable, it develops that the society of the dying established in the camps is the only form of society in which it is possible to dominate man entirely…Pavlov’s dog, the hyman specimen reduced to the most elementary reactions, the bundle of reactions that can always be liquidated and replaced by other bundles of reactions that behave in exactly the same way, is the model “citizen” of a totalitarian state.
Totalitarianism strives not toward despotic rule over men, but toward a system in which men are superfluous. Until now the totalitarian belief that everything is possible seems to have proved only that everything can be destroyed. Yet, in their effort to prove that everything is possible, totalitarian regimes have discovered without knowing it that there are crimes which men can neither punish nor forgive. When the impossible was made possible it became the unpunishable, unforgivable absolute evil which could no longer be understood and explained by the evil motives of self-interest, greed, covetousness, resentment, lust for power, and cowardice; and which therefore anger could not revenge, love could not endure, friendship could not forgive. Just as the victims in the death factories or the holes of oblivion are no longer “human” in the eyes of their executioners, so this newest species of criminals is beyond the pale even of solidarity in human sinfulness.
We actually have nothing to fall back on in order to understand a phenomenon that nevertheless confronts us with its overpowering reality and breaks down all standards we know. There is only one thing that seems to be discernible: we may say that radical evil has emerged in connection with a system in which all men have become equally superfluous. The danger of the corpse factories and holes of oblivion is that today, with populations and homelessness everywhere on the increase, masses of people are continuously rendered superfluous if we continue to think of our world in utilitarian terms. Political, social, and economic events everywhere are in a silent conspiracy with totalitarian instruments devised for making men superfluous. …The Nazis and the Bolsheviks can be sure that their factories of annihilation which demonstrate the swiftest solution to the problem of overpopulation, of economically superfluous and socially rootless human masses, are as much of an attraction as a warning. Totalitarian solutions may well survive the fall of totalitarian regimes in the form of strong temptations which will come up whenever it seems impossible to alleviate political, social, or economic misery in a manner worthy of man.
Ideologies–isms which to the satisfaction of their adherents can explain everything and every occurrence by deducing it from a single premise–are a very recent phenomenon and, for many decades, played a negligible role in political life. Not before Hitler and Stalin were the great political potentialities of the ideologies discovered.
Terror can rule absolutely only over men who are isolated against each other and that, therefore, one of the primary concerns of all tyrannical government is to bring this isolation about. Isolation may be the beginning of terror; it certainly is its most fertile ground; it always is its result. This isolation is pre-totalitarian; its hallmark is impotence insofar as power always comes from men acting together, “acting in concert” (Burke); isolated men are powerless by definition. Isolation and impotence, that is, the fundamental inability to act at all, have always been characteristic of tyrannies.
What we call isolation in the political sphere, is called loneliness in the sphere of social intercourse. Isolation (a situation in which I cannot act, because there is nobody who will act with me) and loneliness (a situation in which I feel myself deserted by all human companionship) are not the same. Isolation is that impasse into which men are driven when the political sphere of their lives, where they act together in the pursuit of a common concern is destroyed…where man remains in contact with the world as the human artifice; only when the most elementary form of human creativity which is the capacity to add something of one’s own to the common world, is destroyed, isolation becomes altogether unbearable. This can happen in a world whose chief values are dictated by labor, that is where all human activities have been transformed into laboring. Under such conditions, only the sheer effort of labor which is the effort to keep alive is left and the relationship with the world as a human artifice is broken.
Isolated man who lost his place in the political realm of action is deserted by the world of things as well, if he is no longer recognized as ‘man the maker’ but treated as an ‘animal laborans’ whose necessary “metabolism with nature” is of concern to no one. Isolation then becomes loneliness. Tyranny based on isolation generally leaves the productive capacities of man intact; a tyranny over “laborers,” however, as for instance the rule over slaves in antiquity, would automatically be a rule over lonely, not only isolated, men and tend to be totalitarian.
The crisis of our time and its central experience have brought forth an entirely new form of government which as a potentiality and an ever-present danger is only too likely to stay with us from now on, just as other forms of government which came about at different historical moments and rested on different fundamental experiences have stayed with mankind regardless of temporary defeats–monarchies, republics, tyrannies, dictatorships and despotism.
But there remains also the truth that every end in history necessarily contains a new beginning; this beginning is the promise, the only “message” which the end can ever produce. Beginning, before it becomes a historical event, is the supreme capacity of man; politically, it is identical with man’s freedom. ‘Initium ut esset homo creatus est–‘that a beginning be made man was created’ said Augustine. This beginning is guaranteed by each new birth; it is indeed every man.
2023.05.24 19:04 Jacques_Ellul ‘Terror can rule absolutely only over men who are isolated. Isolation and impotence (the fundamental inability to act at all) have always been characteristic of tyrannies. Isolation is pre-totalitarian.’
Excerpts from 3 related works that have been on my mind lately. That much of this remains unknown combined with how closely aspects of the description trace to the present profoundly disturb me.
‘Hitler's American Model,’ James Whitman
‘Education [in the concentration camps] consists of discipline, never of any kind of instruction on an ideological basis, for the prisoners have for the most part, slave like souls.’ -Henrick Himler
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‘Hitler's American Model,’ James Whitman
In 1952 the Austrian police chief in Salzburg asked the American Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) )whether it still sought Adolf Eichmann’s arrest. …An Israeli intelligence operative, was hunting Eichmann and was offering a large reward. In a memo to Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2, the CIC noted that its mission no longer included the apprehension of war criminals, and “it is also believed that the prosecution of war criminals is no longer considered of primary interest to U.S. Authorities.” On these grounds, the Army should advise the Salzburg police that Eichmann was no longer sought. But in view of Eichmann’s reputation and the interest of other countries [Israel] in apprehending him, it might be a mistake to show lack of interest. So the CIC recommended confirming continuing U.S. interest in Eichmann.‘Propaganda and Free Thought,’ Bertrand Russell
A ruthless program of eugenics, designed to build a “healthy” society, free of hereditary defects, was central to Nazi ambitions in the 1930s. Soon after taking power, the regime passed a Law to Prevent the Birth of the Offspring with Hereditary Defects, and by the end of the decade a program of systematic euthanasia that prefigured the Holocaust, including the use of gassing, was under way. We now know that in the background of this horror lay a sustained engagement with America’s eugenics movement. In his 1994 book, historian Stefan Kühl created a sensation by demonstrating that there was an active back-and-forth traffic between American and Nazi eugenicists until the late 1930s, indeed that Nazis even looked to the United States as a “model.”
During the interwar period the United States was not just a global leader in assembly-line manufacturing and Hollywood popular culture. It was also a global leader in “scientific” eugenics, led by figures like the historian Lothrop Stoddard and the lawyer Madison Grant, author of the 1916 racist best-seller ‘The Passing of the Great Race’; or, ‘The Racial Basis of European History.’ These were men who promoted the sterilization of the mentally defective and the exclusion of immigrants who were supposedly genetically inferior. Their teachings filtered into immigration law not only in the United States but also in other Anglophone countries: Britain, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand all began to screen immigrants for their hereditary fitness. Kühl demonstrated that the impact of American eugenics was also strongly felt in Nazi Germany, where the works of Grant, Stoddard, and other American eugenicists were standard citations.
To be sure, there are, here again, ways we may try to minimize the significance of the eugenics story. American eugenicists, repellant though they were, did not advocate mass euthanasia, and the period when the Nazis moved in their most radically murderous direction, at the very end of the 1930s, was also the period when their direct links with American eugenics frayed. In any case, eugenics, which was widely regarded as quite respectable at the time, was an international movement, whose reach extended beyond the borders of both the United States and Nazi Germany.
The global history of eugenics cannot be told as an exclusively German–American tale. But the story of Nazi interest in the American example does not end with the eugenics of the early 1930s; historians have carried it into the nightmare years of the Holocaust in the early 1940s as well. It is here that some of the most unsettling evidence has been assembled, as historians have shown that Nazi expansion eastward was accompanied by invocations of the American conquest of the West, with its accompanying wars on Native Americans. This tale, by contrast with the tale of eugenics, is a much more exclusively German–American one.
The Nazis were consumed by the felt imperative to acquire Lebensraum, “living space,” for an expanding Germany that would engulf the territories to its east, and “[f]or generations of German imperialists, and for Hitler himself, the exemplary land empire was the United States of America.” In Nazi eyes, the United States ranked alongside the British, “to be respected as racial kindred and builders of a great empire”: both were “Nordic” polities that had undertaken epic programs of conquest.
Indeed as early as 1928 Hitler was speechifying admiringly about the way Americans had “gunned down the millions of Redskins to a few hundred thousand, and now keep the modest remnant under observation in a cage”; and during the years of genocide in the early 1940s Nazi leaders made repeated reference to the American conquest of the West when speaking of their own murderous conquests to their east. Historians have compiled many quotes, from Hitler and others, comparing Germany’s conquests, and its program of extermination, with America’s winning of the West. They are quotes that make for chilling reading, and there are historians who try to deny their significance. But the majority of scholars find the evidence too weighty to reject: “The United States policy of westward expansion,” as Norman Rich forcefully concludes, for example, “in the course of which the white men ruthlessly thrust aside the ‘inferior’ indigenous populations, served as the model for Hitler’s entire conception of Lebensraum.”
“Teaching, more even than most other professions, has been transformed during the last hundred years from a small, highly skilled profession concerned with a minority of the population, to a large important branch of the public service. …any teacher in the modern world…is made sharply aware that it is not his function to teach what he thinks, but to instill such beliefs and prejudices as are thought useful by his employers.‘The Origins of Totalitarianism,’ Hannah Arendth
In former days a teacher was expected to be a man of exceptional knowledge or wisdom, to whose words men would do well to attend. In antiquity, teachers were not an organized profession, and no control was exercised over what they taught. It is true that they were often punished afterwards for their subversive doctrines. Socrates was put to death and Plato is said to have been thrown into prison…[A teacher’s function is] to instill what he can of knowledge and reasonableness into the process of forming public opinion. In antiquity he performed this function unhampered except by occasional spasmodic and ineffective interventions of tyrants or mobs. In the middle ages teaching became the exclusive prerogative of the Church, with the result that there was little progress either intellectual or social. With the Renaissance, the general respect for learning brought back a very considerable measure of freedom to the teacher. …Institutions such as universities largely remained in the grip of the dogmatists, with the result that most of the best intellectual work was done by independent men of learning. In England, especially, until near the end of the 19th century, hardly any men of first-rate eminence except Newton were connected with universities. But the social system was such that this interfered little with their activities or their usefulness.
In our more highly organized world we face a new problem. Something called education is given to everybody, usually by the State, but sometimes by the Churches. The teacher has thus become, in the vast majority of cases, a civil servant obliged to carry out the behest of men who have not his learning, who have no experience of dealing with the young, and whose only attitude towards education is that of the propagandist. …Where these evils prevail no man can teach unless he subscribes to a dogmatic creed which few people of free intelligence are unlikely to accept sincerely. …He must carefully abstain from speaking his mind on current events. So long as he is teaching only the alphabet and the multiplication table, as to which no controversies arise…official dogmas do not necessarily warp his instruction; but even while he is teaching these elements he is expected, in totalitarian countries, not to employ the methods which he thinks most likely to achieve the scholastic result, but to instill fear, subservience and blind obedience by demanding unquestioned submission to his authority. And as soon as he passes beyond the bare element, he is obliged to take the official view on all controversial questions. The result is that the young in Nazi Germany became, and Russia became, fanatical bigots, ignorant of the world outside their own country, totally unaccustomed to free discussion, and not aware that their opinions can be questioned without wickedness.
This state of affairs, as bad as it is, would be less disastrous than it is if the dogmas instilled were, as in medieval Catholicism, universal and international; but the whole conception of an international culture is denied by the modern dogmatists, who preached one creed in Germany, another in Italy, another in Russia and yet another in Japan. In each of these countries fanatical nationalism was what was most emphasized in the teaching of the young, with the result that the men of one country have no common ground with the men of another, and that no conception of a common civilisation stands in the way of warlike ferocity. …There is a widespread belief that nations are made strong by uniformity of opinion and by the suppression of liberty. One hears it said over and over again that democracy weakens a country in war…It is obvious that organized party spirit is one of the greatest dangers of our time. In the form of nationalism it leads to wars between nations, and in other forms it leads to civil war.
…Teachers are more than any other class the guardians of civilization. …The thing above all, that a teacher should endeavor to produce in his pupils if democracy is to survive, is the kind of tolerance that springs from an endeavor to understand those who are different from ourselves. It is perhaps a natural impulse to view with horror and disgust all manners and customs different from those to which we are used. Ants and savages put strangers to death. And those who have never traveled either physically or mentally find it difficult to tolerate the queer ways and outlandish beliefs of other nations and other times, other sects and other political parties. …in every country nationalistic feeling is encouraged, and school children are taught, what they are only too ready to believe, that the inhabitants of other countries are morally and intellectually inferior to those of the country in which the school children happen to reside. Collective hysteria is encouraged instead of being discouraged, and the young are encouraged to believe what they hear frequently said rather than what there is some rational ground for believing. No one would consent in our day to subject the medical men to the control of non medical authorities as to how they should treat their patients, except of course where they depart criminally from the purpose of medicine, which is to cure the patient. The teacher is a kind of medical man whose purpose is to cure the patient of childishness, but he is not allowed to decide for himself on the basis of experience what methods are most suitable to this end.
‘Education [in the concentration camps] consists of discipline, never of any kind of instruction on an ideological basis, for the prisoners have for the most part, slave like souls.’ -Henrick Himler
Totalitarian propaganda perfects the techniques of mass propaganda, but it neither invents them nor originates their themes. These were prepared for them by fifty years of the rise of imperialism and disintegration of the nation state, when the mob entered the science of european politics. Like the earlier mob leaders, the spokesman for totalitarian movements possessed an unerring instinct for anything that ordinary party propaganda or public opinion did not care for or dare to touch. Everything hidden, everything passed over in silence, because of major significance, regardless of its own intrinsic importance. The mob really believed that ruth was whatever respectable society had hypocritical passed over, or covered up with corruption.
Mysteriousness as such became the first criterion for the choice of topics…since the middle 1930s, one mysterious world conspiracy has followed another…The effectiveness of this kind of propaganda demonstrates one of the chief characteristics of modern masses. They do not believe in anything visible, in the reality of their own experience; they do not trust their eyes and ears but only their imaginations, which may be caught by anything that is at once universal and consistent in itself. What convinces masses are not facts, and not even invented facts, but only the consistency of the system of which they presumably apart.
When a man is faced with the alternative of betraying and thus murdering his friends or of sending his wife and children, for, whom he is in every sense responsible, to their death; when even suicide would mean the immediate murder of his own family–how is he to decide? The alternative is no longer between good and evil, but between murder and murder. Who could solve the moral dilemma of the Greek mother, who was allowed by the Nazis to choose which of her three children should be killed?
Through the creation of condition under which conscience ceases to be adequate and to do good becomes utterly impossible, the consciously organized complicity of all men in the crimes of totalitarian regimes is extended to the victims and thus made really total. Camp inmates were made responsible for a large part of the administration, thus confronting them with the hopeless dilemma whether to send their friends to their death, or to help murder other men who happened to be strangers…forcing them to behave like murderers. The point is not only that hatred is diverted from those who are guilty but that the distinguishing line between persecutor and persecuted, between the murderer and his victim, is constantly blurred.
Once the moral person has been killed, the one thing that still prevents men from being made into a living corpse is the differentiation of the individual, his unique identity. …this part of the human person, precisely because it depends so essentially on nature and on forces that cannot be controlled by the will, is the hardest to destroy. The methods of dealing with this uniqueness of the human person are numerous. They begin with the monstrous conditions in the transports to the camps, when hundreds of human beings are packed into a cattle car stark naked, glued to each other, and shunted back and forth over the countryside for days on end; they continue upon arrival at the camp, the well-organized shock of the first hours, the shaving of the head, the grotesque camp clothing; and they end in the utterly unimaginable tortures so gauged as not to kill the body, at any event not quickly. The aim of all these methods, in ay case, is to manipulate the human body–with its infinite possibilities of suffering–in such a way as to make it destroy the human person as inexorably as do certain mental diseases of organic origin.
It is here that the utter lunacy of the entire process becomes most apparent. When the SS took over the camp the old bestiality gave way to an absolutely cold and systematic destruction of human bodies, calculated to destroy human dignity; death was avoided or postponed indefinitely. The camps were no longer amusement parks for beasts in human form. That is, for men who really belonged in mental institutions and prisons; the reverse became true: they were turned into “drill grounds” on which perfectly normal men were trained to be full-fledged members of the SS.
After murder of the moral person and annihilation of the judicial person, the destruction of the individuality is almost always successful...and those condemned to death very seldom attempted to take one of their executioners with them, that there were scarcely any serious revolts, and that even in the moment of liberation there were very few spontaneous massacres of SS men. For to destroy individuality is to destroy spontaneity, man’s power to begin something new out of his own resources, something that cannot be explained on the basis of reactions to environment and events. Nothing that remains but ghastly marionettes with human faces, which all behave like the dog in Pavlov’s experiments, which all react with perfect reliability even when going to their own death, and which do nothing but react. This is the real triumph of the system: “The triumph of the SS demands that the tortured victim allow himself to be led to the noose without protesting, that he renounce and abandon himself to the point of ceasing to affirm his identity. They know that the system which succeeds in destroying its victim before he mounts the scaffold is incomparably the best for keeping a whole people in slavery. In submission. Nothing is more terrible than these processions of human beings going like dummies to their death.” [‘scarcely more than .05% of the deaths could be traced to suicide]
If we take totalitarian aspirations seriously and refuse to be misled by the common-sense assertion that they are utopian and unrealizable, it develops that the society of the dying established in the camps is the only form of society in which it is possible to dominate man entirely…Pavlov’s dog, the hyman specimen reduced to the most elementary reactions, the bundle of reactions that can always be liquidated and replaced by other bundles of reactions that behave in exactly the same way, is the model “citizen” of a totalitarian state.
Totalitarianism strives not toward despotic rule over men, but toward a system in which men are superfluous. Until now the totalitarian belief that everything is possible seems to have proved only that everything can be destroyed. Yet, in their effort to prove that everything is possible, totalitarian regimes have discovered without knowing it that there are crimes which men can neither punish nor forgive. When the impossible was made possible it became the unpunishable, unforgivable absolute evil which could no longer be understood and explained by the evil motives of self-interest, greed, covetousness, resentment, lust for power, and cowardice; and which therefore anger could not revenge, love could not endure, friendship could not forgive. Just as the victims in the death factories or the holes of oblivion are no longer “human” in the eyes of their executioners, so this newest species of criminals is beyond the pale even of solidarity in human sinfulness.
We actually have nothing to fall back on in order to understand a phenomenon that nevertheless confronts us with its overpowering reality and breaks down all standards we know. There is only one thing that seems to be discernible: we may say that radical evil has emerged in connection with a system in which all men have become equally superfluous. The danger of the corpse factories and holes of oblivion is that today, with populations and homelessness everywhere on the increase, masses of people are continuously rendered superfluous if we continue to think of our world in utilitarian terms. Political, social, and economic events everywhere are in a silent conspiracy with totalitarian instruments devised for making men superfluous. …The Nazis and the Bolsheviks can be sure that their factories of annihilation which demonstrate the swiftest solution to the problem of overpopulation, of economically superfluous and socially rootless human masses, are as much of an attraction as a warning. Totalitarian solutions may well survive the fall of totalitarian regimes in the form of strong temptations which will come up whenever it seems impossible to alleviate political, social, or economic misery in a manner worthy of man.
Ideologies–isms which to the satisfaction of their adherents can explain everything and every occurrence by deducing it from a single premise–are a very recent phenomenon and, for many decades, played a negligible role in political life. Not before Hitler and Stalin were the great political potentialities of the ideologies discovered.
Terror can rule absolutely only over men who are isolated against each other and that, therefore, one of the primary concerns of all tyrannical government is to bring this isolation about. Isolation may be the beginning of terror; it certainly is its most fertile ground; it always is its result. This isolation is pre-totalitarian; its hallmark is impotence insofar as power always comes from men acting together, “acting in concert” (Burke); isolated men are powerless by definition. Isolation and impotence, that is, the fundamental inability to act at all, have always been characteristic of tyrannies.
What we call isolation in the political sphere, is called loneliness in the sphere of social intercourse. Isolation (a situation in which I cannot act, because there is nobody who will act with me) and loneliness (a situation in which I feel myself deserted by all human companionship) are not the same. Isolation is that impasse into which men are driven when the political sphere of their lives, where they act together in the pursuit of a common concern is destroyed…where man remains in contact with the world as the human artifice; only when the most elementary form of human creativity which is the capacity to add something of one’s own to the common world, is destroyed, isolation becomes altogether unbearable. This can happen in a world whose chief values are dictated by labor, that is where all human activities have been transformed into laboring. Under such conditions, only the sheer effort of labor which is the effort to keep alive is left and the relationship with the world as a human artifice is broken.
Isolated man who lost his place in the political realm of action is deserted by the world of things as well, if he is no longer recognized as ‘man the maker’ but treated as an ‘animal laborans’ whose necessary “metabolism with nature” is of concern to no one. Isolation then becomes loneliness. Tyranny based on isolation generally leaves the productive capacities of man intact; a tyranny over “laborers,” however, as for instance the rule over slaves in antiquity, would automatically be a rule over lonely, not only isolated, men and tend to be totalitarian.
The crisis of our time and its central experience have brought forth an entirely new form of government which as a potentiality and an ever-present danger is only too likely to stay with us from now on, just as other forms of government which came about at different historical moments and rested on different fundamental experiences have stayed with mankind regardless of temporary defeats–monarchies, republics, tyrannies, dictatorships and despotism.
But there remains also the truth that every end in history necessarily contains a new beginning; this beginning is the promise, the only “message” which the end can ever produce. Beginning, before it becomes a historical event, is the supreme capacity of man; politically, it is identical with man’s freedom. ‘Initium ut esset homo creatus est–‘that a beginning be made man was created’ said Augustine. This beginning is guaranteed by each new birth; it is indeed every man.
2023.05.24 11:45 No_Dig1868 Top 10 Doctors Around The World
Health is our greatest treasure and with incredible specialists. We all know that there is a better chance for a healthier population.
The government has established a massive number of health institutes or health caring centers in their countries so that people should not compromise when it comes to health.
Also Read: Top 10 Countries That Produce the Most Doctors
List Of Top 10 Doctors Around The World
Here is a list of the 10 best doctors in the world:
Dr. Abdu got his accreditation in 1985 from Tufts University. He is a pioneer in the study and treatment of spine-related conditions. He hones surgery of the Spine, including Cervical, Thoracic and Lumbar Disorders, Disk Herniation, Spinal Stenosis, Spondylolisthesis, Spondylotic Myelopathy, Spinal Cord Injury, and Spine Trauma. Also, he had discovered many new techniques for spine treatment.
Dr. Myles currently practices at East Bay Pediatric & Medical Group and is affiliated with Alta Bates Summit Medical Center Alta Bates Campus and Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland.
Dr. Abbas graduated from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1986. Currently, he is affiliated with Medstar Harbor Hospital and Sinai Hospital Of Baltimore.
Dr. Khalid obtained his bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana in 1993. He continued his education in the same University and received his Doctor of Medicine degree with Honors in 1999. Currently, he is working at Yale as a Director of the Spine Surgery Department. Many consider him the best doctor in the world.
Dr. Naresh was also the founder, executive director, and chief cardiovascular surgeon of Escorts Heart Institute and Research Center (EHIRC), New Delhi, India. At present, he is serving as a Chairman and Managing Director and Chief Cardiac Surgeon of MedantaTM-The Medicity, one of the largest multi-specialty hospitals at Gurgaon, Haryana.
Dr. Reese got her accreditation from The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. She is also an expert on mood disorders and anxiety. Currently, she is working as a Professor of Psychiatry at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She is also affiliated with Mount Sinai Services Elmhurst Hospital Center and New York Medical College at present.
In 2001, Dr. Anderson became the director of the program for Pediatric Pain Medicine in the Department of Anesthesiology at Seattle Children’s Hospital. He is also a professor of anesthesiology and associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine.
Dr. Aaron got his accreditation from the Duke University School of Medicine in 1992. Currently, he is affiliated with River Park Hospital, Saint Thomas West Hospital, and Henry County Medical Center.
Before entering into the practice world, Dr. Sudhansu served as a full-time Professor for Cardiothoracic surgery at Sheth G.S. Medical College & K.E.M. Hospital. At present, he is affiliated with Bombay Hospital And Medical Research Center, Breach Candy Hospital, Mumbai, and Lilavati Hospital & Research Center, Mumbai.
10. Dr.Mona.M.Abaza, M.D.
Dr. Abaza is a specialized doctor in ENT Otolaryngologist, Adenoidectomy, esophagoscopy, Nasal airway surgery, and tracheostomy. She is a world-famous ENT Doctor and treats problems of the ear, head, nose, throat, and neck.
Dr. Abaza graduated from the Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1991. She is affiliated with Children’s Hospital Colorado At Memorial Hospital Central and the University Of Colorado Hospital.
Conclusion
Since the dawn of time, the profession of a doctor is one of the most appreciated jobs in the world. Being a doctor implies a great responsibility, as almost every day the nature of somebody’s life (or the life itself) is in their hands. Since the medical field is a vast and ever-expanding field, there is no direct answer to who is the best doctor in the world. Doctors are specialized and trained in different field
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The government has established a massive number of health institutes or health caring centers in their countries so that people should not compromise when it comes to health.
Also Read: Top 10 Countries That Produce the Most Doctors
List Of Top 10 Doctors Around The World
Here is a list of the 10 best doctors in the world:
- Dr. William A. Abdu, M.D, M.S.
Dr. Abdu got his accreditation in 1985 from Tufts University. He is a pioneer in the study and treatment of spine-related conditions. He hones surgery of the Spine, including Cervical, Thoracic and Lumbar Disorders, Disk Herniation, Spinal Stenosis, Spondylolisthesis, Spondylotic Myelopathy, Spinal Cord Injury, and Spine Trauma. Also, he had discovered many new techniques for spine treatment.
- Dr. Myles. B. Abbott, M.D.
Dr. Myles currently practices at East Bay Pediatric & Medical Group and is affiliated with Alta Bates Summit Medical Center Alta Bates Campus and Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland.
- Dr. Fouad. M. Abbas, M.D.
Dr. Abbas graduated from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1986. Currently, he is affiliated with Medstar Harbor Hospital and Sinai Hospital Of Baltimore.
- Dr. Khalid Abbed, M.D.
Dr. Khalid obtained his bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana in 1993. He continued his education in the same University and received his Doctor of Medicine degree with Honors in 1999. Currently, he is working at Yale as a Director of the Spine Surgery Department. Many consider him the best doctor in the world.
- Dr. Naresh Trehan
Dr. Naresh was also the founder, executive director, and chief cardiovascular surgeon of Escorts Heart Institute and Research Center (EHIRC), New Delhi, India. At present, he is serving as a Chairman and Managing Director and Chief Cardiac Surgeon of MedantaTM-The Medicity, one of the largest multi-specialty hospitals at Gurgaon, Haryana.
- Dr. Arthur Reese Abright, M.D.
Dr. Reese got her accreditation from The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. She is also an expert on mood disorders and anxiety. Currently, she is working as a Professor of Psychiatry at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She is also affiliated with Mount Sinai Services Elmhurst Hospital Center and New York Medical College at present.
- Dr. Corrie T.M Anderson, M.D.
In 2001, Dr. Anderson became the director of the program for Pediatric Pain Medicine in the Department of Anesthesiology at Seattle Children’s Hospital. He is also a professor of anesthesiology and associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine.
- Dr. Mark. F. Aaron, M.D.
Dr. Aaron got his accreditation from the Duke University School of Medicine in 1992. Currently, he is affiliated with River Park Hospital, Saint Thomas West Hospital, and Henry County Medical Center.
- Dr. Sudhansu Bhattacharyya, MBBS, MS, MCH
Before entering into the practice world, Dr. Sudhansu served as a full-time Professor for Cardiothoracic surgery at Sheth G.S. Medical College & K.E.M. Hospital. At present, he is affiliated with Bombay Hospital And Medical Research Center, Breach Candy Hospital, Mumbai, and Lilavati Hospital & Research Center, Mumbai.
10. Dr.Mona.M.Abaza, M.D.
Dr. Abaza is a specialized doctor in ENT Otolaryngologist, Adenoidectomy, esophagoscopy, Nasal airway surgery, and tracheostomy. She is a world-famous ENT Doctor and treats problems of the ear, head, nose, throat, and neck.
Dr. Abaza graduated from the Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1991. She is affiliated with Children’s Hospital Colorado At Memorial Hospital Central and the University Of Colorado Hospital.
Conclusion
Since the dawn of time, the profession of a doctor is one of the most appreciated jobs in the world. Being a doctor implies a great responsibility, as almost every day the nature of somebody’s life (or the life itself) is in their hands. Since the medical field is a vast and ever-expanding field, there is no direct answer to who is the best doctor in the world. Doctors are specialized and trained in different field
2023.05.24 03:59 localfyi The Happenings Around Town!
Hey y'all, a good friend of mine and I have always had a hard time finding cool stuff to do around Raleigh so we started making a list of all the fun things we find for our friends. They ended up loving it so much they said we should start sharing it online. We've sorted everything happening by categories to make it easier to find what you enjoy. Let us know if you find any other cool things to do that we can add on!!! :)
See & Do
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See & Do
- Thriving Thursdays: Free Fitness Class at Fenton at Fenton, Cary - Thursday at 6:00PM
- Beer Garden Jam Sessions at The Glass Jug Beer Lab, RTP - Thursday at 5:00PM
- Plant Walk with Root 2 Rise Wellness -- learn about edible and medicinal plants around Hillsborough at River Park, Hillsborough - Friday at 5:00PM
- Strawberry Day at Holly Springs Farmers Market at Holly Springs Farmers Market - Saturday at 8:00AM
- Live Music at Bombshell Beer Company, Holly Springs - Friday at 7:00PM
- NC Mario Kart Friday Night Races at Bad Machines, Durham - Friday at 8:00PM
- Wine Down Wednesday -- live music, plus wine specials at La Vita Dolce at Southern Village - Wednesday at 6:00PM
- Live music at Gizmo Brew Works, Raleigh - Saturday at 2:00PM
- Jazz Jam Open Mic at Bond Brothers Eastside, Cary - Thursday at 8:00PM
- Comedy Show at Nickelpoint Brewing Co., Raleigh - Friday at 8:00PM
- Sunday Night Live Music at Southern Village, Chapel Hill - Sunday at 7:00PM
- Music at Mill Bridge at Mill Bridge Nature Park Ampitheatre, Wake Forest - Saturday at 6:00PM
- First Fruits Farm Memorial Balloon Festival (check back soon for times and prices) at First Fruits Farm, Louisburg - Sunday at 3:30PM
- Live Music in the Taproom at The Glass Jug Beer Lab, RTP - Thursday at 7:00PM
- Mindfulness at the Museum: Tai Chi in the Garden with Imari Colón of East Cloud Kungfu at Gregg Museum, Raleigh - Thursday at 10:00AM
- The Hunky Dory Sessions: 2dreamagain ∞ Lex Nell at Hunky Dory in Durham - Friday at 8:00PM
- Trivia at the Airstream at Raleigh Beer Garden at Raleigh Beer Garden - Wednesday at 7:00PM
- First Friday Movie Series at Moore Square: Mamma Mia! at Moore Square, Raleigh - Friday at 5:00PM
- Trail talk with Hillsborough Mayor Jenn Weaver and T at River Park, Hillsborough - Friday at 6:00PM
- Durham Craft Market at Durham Central Park - Saturday at 8:00AM
- "Pay What You Can" for tickets to Corpus Christi by Terrence McNally, presented by St. John's Metropolitan Community Church at St. John’s Metropolitan Community Church, Raleigh - Thursday at 7:00PM
- Memorial Day Observance in Cary at Veterans Freedom Park, Cary - Monday at 2:30PM
- Stargazing from the Willard Rooftop at The Willard Rooftop Lounge, Raleigh - Wednesday at 8:00PM
- Last Fridays Art Walk in Hillsborough at River Park, Hillsborough - Friday at 6:00PM
- Durham Disc Golf Putting League at The Glass Jug Beer Lab, RTP - Monday at 6:00PM
- Freight Train Blues: Faith & Harmony and Mangum & Co. Gospel Brass Choir at Carrboro Town Commons - Friday at 6:30PM
- Fridays on the Front Porch -- live music and food trucks at Carolina Inn, Chapel Hill - Friday at 5:00PM
- Free Zumba Class at E. Carroll Joyner Park, Wake Forest - Thursday at 6:30PM
2023.05.23 22:34 stemcellgirlie Reapp review-- WAMC??
Hi Everyone!
I applied last cycle (2022-2023) and had 2 II -> 2 waitlists. I sent 3-4 update/continued interest letters to both schools, and letters of intent to one of them, but still haven't heard back.. So trying to gear up to reapply with the 2023-2024 cycle opening soon. I would really appreciate anyones feedback, I am a very research heavy applicant with very little non-clinical volunteering.
State/Country of Residence: California
Ties to other States/Regions: Aunts/Uncles on East Coast (MA, CT, and MD), Grandparent in Florida, Sister in Kansas
URM? (Y/N): Yes
Year in School: Graduated in 2021
Undergraduate Major(s)/Minor(s): Biology from a state school
Cumulative GPA: 3.59 (w aggressive upward trend, 4.0 last 4 semesters)
Science GPA: 3.57
MCAT Score(s): 513 (129/125/129/130), CARS destroyed me sigh
Research Experience: 5,420hr total-- 2720hr from an internship at a T5 during undergrad, the rest from my current job as a technician in a lab at said T5. 2000hr anticipated. all is stem cell research :D
Publications/Abstracts/Posters (include how you were credited e.g. first author, second author, etc.): 4th author on a paper in a high impact journal (CNS), mid level author on 3 other papers. 3 poster presentations (received an award for one of these as best presentation hehe) and have attended 5 research conferences
Clinical Experience (paid or volunteer): 1326hr-- EMT in a hospital during undergrad, this was A LOT of direct patient care; 150hr (80hr anticipated)-- volunteering at a local blood center
Physician Shadowing: Combined 200+ hrs of shadowing in the following fields: General Surgery, Intensive care/ICU, Pediatric Nephrology, ENT, Thoracic Surgery.
Non-Clinical Volunteering: 25hr volunteering with a local food bank. I know this area is obvi a weakness, but between everything else I never had the time :/
Other Extracurricular Activities: rode horses competitively for ~16 years (lol I included this on my app and it was brought up in one of my interviews!!)
Other Employment History: 540hr as a tutor during undergrad (paid job), this was for a cell & molecular biology class
Immediate family members in medicine? (Y/N): N
Specialty of Interest (if applicable): no clue
Interest in Primary Care (Y/N): N
Interest in Rural Health (Y/N): N
Schools I applied to last yr: Florida Atlantic University, Tulane, California University of Science and Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Hackensack Meridian, Temple, UC Davis, Creighton University, Florida International Univ., Virginia Tech Carillion SOM, Duke, Kaiser, Loyola Chicago Stritch SOM, Thomas Jefferson University, Wayne State, Emory, Albert Einstein, Cooper Medical School of Rowan Univ, Drexel, George Washington, Georgetown, USC, NYU Long Island, Northwestern, Stony Brook, Stanford, Tufts, UCSD, UCLA, Virginia Commonwealth, OHSU
Schools I want to reapply to (will add to this list, can also yell at me if you think one of these is a waste of $): Florida Atlantic Univ, Tulane, Thomas Jefferson, Drexel, Georgetown, George Washington, Stanford, UC Davis, UCSD, Temple
Changes since last app: I have the (very few) non clinical/medical volunteering hours, and I have the publications (last year I had them on my app as 'in preparation for submission'). I also have a lot more research hours (+2700) and shadowing hours (+100) bc thats pretty much all I have been doing .. did not think i was gonna have to reapply so thats why i wasnt doing more to improve my app :/
I do not want to apply to as many as I did last year (bc poor) so I would appreciate any feedback on which I might have a better chance at/which as just a waste of money!! Also want to apply to a few DO schools, but hesitant bc havent shadowed a DO and also not looking forward to double boards. Thanks in advance!! ◡̈
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I applied last cycle (2022-2023) and had 2 II -> 2 waitlists. I sent 3-4 update/continued interest letters to both schools, and letters of intent to one of them, but still haven't heard back.. So trying to gear up to reapply with the 2023-2024 cycle opening soon. I would really appreciate anyones feedback, I am a very research heavy applicant with very little non-clinical volunteering.
State/Country of Residence: California
Ties to other States/Regions: Aunts/Uncles on East Coast (MA, CT, and MD), Grandparent in Florida, Sister in Kansas
URM? (Y/N): Yes
Year in School: Graduated in 2021
Undergraduate Major(s)/Minor(s): Biology from a state school
Cumulative GPA: 3.59 (w aggressive upward trend, 4.0 last 4 semesters)
Science GPA: 3.57
MCAT Score(s): 513 (129/125/129/130), CARS destroyed me sigh
Research Experience: 5,420hr total-- 2720hr from an internship at a T5 during undergrad, the rest from my current job as a technician in a lab at said T5. 2000hr anticipated. all is stem cell research :D
Publications/Abstracts/Posters (include how you were credited e.g. first author, second author, etc.): 4th author on a paper in a high impact journal (CNS), mid level author on 3 other papers. 3 poster presentations (received an award for one of these as best presentation hehe) and have attended 5 research conferences
Clinical Experience (paid or volunteer): 1326hr-- EMT in a hospital during undergrad, this was A LOT of direct patient care; 150hr (80hr anticipated)-- volunteering at a local blood center
Physician Shadowing: Combined 200+ hrs of shadowing in the following fields: General Surgery, Intensive care/ICU, Pediatric Nephrology, ENT, Thoracic Surgery.
Non-Clinical Volunteering: 25hr volunteering with a local food bank. I know this area is obvi a weakness, but between everything else I never had the time :/
Other Extracurricular Activities: rode horses competitively for ~16 years (lol I included this on my app and it was brought up in one of my interviews!!)
Other Employment History: 540hr as a tutor during undergrad (paid job), this was for a cell & molecular biology class
Immediate family members in medicine? (Y/N): N
Specialty of Interest (if applicable): no clue
Interest in Primary Care (Y/N): N
Interest in Rural Health (Y/N): N
Schools I applied to last yr: Florida Atlantic University, Tulane, California University of Science and Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Hackensack Meridian, Temple, UC Davis, Creighton University, Florida International Univ., Virginia Tech Carillion SOM, Duke, Kaiser, Loyola Chicago Stritch SOM, Thomas Jefferson University, Wayne State, Emory, Albert Einstein, Cooper Medical School of Rowan Univ, Drexel, George Washington, Georgetown, USC, NYU Long Island, Northwestern, Stony Brook, Stanford, Tufts, UCSD, UCLA, Virginia Commonwealth, OHSU
Schools I want to reapply to (will add to this list, can also yell at me if you think one of these is a waste of $): Florida Atlantic Univ, Tulane, Thomas Jefferson, Drexel, Georgetown, George Washington, Stanford, UC Davis, UCSD, Temple
Changes since last app: I have the (very few) non clinical/medical volunteering hours, and I have the publications (last year I had them on my app as 'in preparation for submission'). I also have a lot more research hours (+2700) and shadowing hours (+100) bc thats pretty much all I have been doing .. did not think i was gonna have to reapply so thats why i wasnt doing more to improve my app :/
I do not want to apply to as many as I did last year (bc poor) so I would appreciate any feedback on which I might have a better chance at/which as just a waste of money!! Also want to apply to a few DO schools, but hesitant bc havent shadowed a DO and also not looking forward to double boards. Thanks in advance!! ◡̈
2023.05.22 13:47 Fair_Boot_3376 QuidelOrtho Announces the Formation of the International QuidelOrtho Women’s Leadership Network (QWLN)
The integration of Quidel Corporation and Ortho Clinical Diagnostics joined two powerhouse networks providing leadership insights, professional development and mentoring to QWLN members around the globe
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--QuidelOrtho Corporation (Nasdaq: QDEL) (“QuidelOrtho”), a global provider of innovative in vitro diagnostic technologies designed for point-of-care settings, clinical labs and transfusion medicine, celebrates Women’s History Month by announcing that the QuidelOrtho Women’s Leadership Network (QWLN) has been formed, creating an enhanced network with 14 global leaders supporting 16 chapters around the world.
In 2022, Quidel Corporation and Ortho Clinical Diagnostics united as QuidelOrtho. Leaders from both companies’ women’s leadership networks came together to form QWLN, a global women-led organization amplifying the mentoring, empowerment, achievement and visibility of women. Because Women’s History Month was created to highlight the achievements women have made throughout history, it is the perfect time to share information about this expanding network. QWLN encourages and inspires members to stretch beyond their primary functions and learn about other areas of interest by serving on various committees.
“It is with great pleasure that we announce the launch of the QuidelOrtho Women’s Leadership Network, a global community built around the spirit of both professional and personal development and sharing insights on modern issues our leaders face every day,” said Douglas Bryant, President and Chief Executive Officer of QuidelOrtho. “At QuidelOrtho, we aspire to lead by example in becoming a truly transformational global diagnostics company with a vibrant workplace.”
Setting the stage for many more company opportunities, the QWLN brings educational content, recognition, research and thought leadership in support of professional women at all levels of the organization. Today, QWLN has successfully launched 16 worldwide chapters representing employees from various regions within North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
QWLN programming is designed to bring members together to exchange ideas and education through speaking engagements, training programs, book clubs, topic-specific events, luncheons, community activities and so much more.
About QuidelOrtho Corporation
QuidelOrtho Corporation (Nasdaq: QDEL) unites the power of Quidel Corporation and Ortho Clinical Diagnostics behind a shared mission of developing and manufacturing innovative technologies that raise the performance of diagnostic testing and create better patient outcomes across the entire healthcare continuum.
Ranked among the world’s largest in vitro diagnostics (IVD) providers with more than 120 years of collective experience, we combine industry-leading expertise in immunoassay and molecular testing with a global footprint in clinical labs and transfusion medicine.
Our company’s comprehensive product portfolio delivers accuracy, speed, automation and access, providing critical information when and where it is needed most. Inspired by a spirit of service, QuidelOrtho is committed to enhancing the well-being of people worldwide and happy in the knowledge we are making a difference. For more information, please visit www.quidelortho.com.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230328005266/en/QuidelOrtho-Announces-the-Formation-of-the-International-QuidelOrtho-Women%E2%80%99s-Leadership-Network-QWLN
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SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--QuidelOrtho Corporation (Nasdaq: QDEL) (“QuidelOrtho”), a global provider of innovative in vitro diagnostic technologies designed for point-of-care settings, clinical labs and transfusion medicine, celebrates Women’s History Month by announcing that the QuidelOrtho Women’s Leadership Network (QWLN) has been formed, creating an enhanced network with 14 global leaders supporting 16 chapters around the world.
In 2022, Quidel Corporation and Ortho Clinical Diagnostics united as QuidelOrtho. Leaders from both companies’ women’s leadership networks came together to form QWLN, a global women-led organization amplifying the mentoring, empowerment, achievement and visibility of women. Because Women’s History Month was created to highlight the achievements women have made throughout history, it is the perfect time to share information about this expanding network. QWLN encourages and inspires members to stretch beyond their primary functions and learn about other areas of interest by serving on various committees.
“It is with great pleasure that we announce the launch of the QuidelOrtho Women’s Leadership Network, a global community built around the spirit of both professional and personal development and sharing insights on modern issues our leaders face every day,” said Douglas Bryant, President and Chief Executive Officer of QuidelOrtho. “At QuidelOrtho, we aspire to lead by example in becoming a truly transformational global diagnostics company with a vibrant workplace.”
Setting the stage for many more company opportunities, the QWLN brings educational content, recognition, research and thought leadership in support of professional women at all levels of the organization. Today, QWLN has successfully launched 16 worldwide chapters representing employees from various regions within North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
QWLN programming is designed to bring members together to exchange ideas and education through speaking engagements, training programs, book clubs, topic-specific events, luncheons, community activities and so much more.
About QuidelOrtho Corporation
QuidelOrtho Corporation (Nasdaq: QDEL) unites the power of Quidel Corporation and Ortho Clinical Diagnostics behind a shared mission of developing and manufacturing innovative technologies that raise the performance of diagnostic testing and create better patient outcomes across the entire healthcare continuum.
Ranked among the world’s largest in vitro diagnostics (IVD) providers with more than 120 years of collective experience, we combine industry-leading expertise in immunoassay and molecular testing with a global footprint in clinical labs and transfusion medicine.
Our company’s comprehensive product portfolio delivers accuracy, speed, automation and access, providing critical information when and where it is needed most. Inspired by a spirit of service, QuidelOrtho is committed to enhancing the well-being of people worldwide and happy in the knowledge we are making a difference. For more information, please visit www.quidelortho.com.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230328005266/en/QuidelOrtho-Announces-the-Formation-of-the-International-QuidelOrtho-Women%E2%80%99s-Leadership-Network-QWLN
2023.05.22 11:09 StreetwiseHercules07 41 [M4F] #Jacksonville, NC. Looking for a younger woman interested in CNC.
Looking for a young woman with an unfulfilled [email protected] Kink who is interested in IRL play.
Me: Dominant/Top, White, Straight, DDF, Veteran, 6' Tall, and much stronger than you. I'm single, live alone, and my kids are grown. I enjoy new people, and risky adventures, so if you have a crazy idea, we might be able to make it happen as long as it only involves consenting adults.
Chat me if you are enthusiastically curious. Please include your age and City/State in your first message if it's not obvious from your profile. If you send a pic, send one with clothes on. If I want to see you naked, I'll undress you myself.
The Safeword Is "Red".
1st Date Ideas. 🌹You're out way too late, you would worry about being robbed, but you're sure you don't have anything anyone would want to take. 🌹You take a wrong turn trail running, and now your lost, but it looks like someone might be living in this part of the park. 🌹You're stuck on the side of the road, no cell phone service, and no one to help you.
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Me: Dominant/Top, White, Straight, DDF, Veteran, 6' Tall, and much stronger than you. I'm single, live alone, and my kids are grown. I enjoy new people, and risky adventures, so if you have a crazy idea, we might be able to make it happen as long as it only involves consenting adults.
Chat me if you are enthusiastically curious. Please include your age and City/State in your first message if it's not obvious from your profile. If you send a pic, send one with clothes on. If I want to see you naked, I'll undress you myself.
The Safeword Is "Red".
1st Date Ideas. 🌹You're out way too late, you would worry about being robbed, but you're sure you don't have anything anyone would want to take. 🌹You take a wrong turn trail running, and now your lost, but it looks like someone might be living in this part of the park. 🌹You're stuck on the side of the road, no cell phone service, and no one to help you.
Kinks: ● 1950s Household ● Abduction ● Accomplice ● AgePlay ● Anonymous Sex ● Asphyxia Play ● BDSM ● Being Your Father's Age ● Blowing Your Husbands Boss To Get Him A Raise ● Bondage ● Breath Play ● Bruises ● CNC ● Coercion ● Creampie ● Crying ● Daddy/Daughter Roleplay ● DD/LG ● Degradation ● Domestic Abuse ● DubCon ● Exhibitionism ● Face Slapping ● Forced Orgasms ● Free Use ● Groping ●Orgasm Control ● Pain ● PainKink ● Physical Abuse ● Public Play ● Public Orgasms ● Rape Play ● RapeKink ● Rape Kink ● Remote Control Vibrators In Public ● Sexual Slavery ● Stuffing You Into A Duffel Bag ●
Cities In/Near Eastern North Carolina: ■ Albertson ■ Atlantic Beach ■ Beaufort ■ Bell Fork ■ Beulaville ■ Bogue ■ Bridgeton ■ Calypso ■ Camp Lejeune ■ Cape Carteret ■ Charlotte ■ Cherry Point ■ Clayton ■ Coastal Carolina Community College ■ Dover ■ Dunn ■ Durham ■ Emerald Isle ■ Fayetteville ■ Garner ■ Georgetown ■ Goldsboro ■ Greensboro ■ Greenville ■ Hampstead ■ Havelock ■ Holly Ridge ■ Hope Mills ■ Hubert ■ Jacksonville ■ Kenansville ■ Kings Grant ■ Kinston ■ Knightdale ■ Leland ■ Lumberton ■ Magnolia ■ Maysville ■ Midway Park ■ Morehead City ■ Murrysville ■ New Bern ■ New River ■ Newport ■ North Topsail Beach ■ Ocean View ■ Pelletier ■ Piney Green ■ Pink Hill ■ Pollocksville ■ Raleigh ■ Richlands ■ Rocky Mount ■ Rocky Point ■ Rose Hill ■ Salter Path ■ Smithfield ■ Snead's Ferry ■ Spring Lake ■ Stella ■ Surf City ■Swansboro ■ Tarboro ■ Trenton ■ University Of North Carolina at Wilmington ■ Vanceboro ■ Wallace ■ Warsaw ■ Washington ■ Watha ■ Whitakers ■ Wilmington ■ Wilson ■ Winston-Salem ■
2023.05.21 19:12 LastWeekInCollapse Last Week in Collapse: May 14-20, 2023
Wildfires, temperature thresholds and records being surpassed, pollution, War, and disasters. We have written a cheque that we can’t possibly cash.
Last Week in Collapse: May 14-20, 2023
This is Last Week in Collapse, a weekly newsletter bringing together some of the most important, timely, useful, depressing, ironic, amazing, or otherwise must-see moments in Collapse.
This is the 73rd newsletter. You can find the May 7-13 edition here if you missed it last week. These newsletters are also on Substack if you want them sent to your email inbox, or if you want to doompill your colleagues…
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Canada’s heat dome is worsening wildfires across the continent. A Heat Dome is when hot air is trapped in a region, pushed down by earth’s atmosphere. The resulting compression heats the air even more, and it can linger for days—or more.
Singapore tied its all-time temperature record: 37 °C (98.6 °F) last week, while many of its neighbors set new records. China saw similar temps, India recorded 46 °C in some places (115 °F), Canada’s far north is warm, and forecasters believe this year will see many records broken, with the help of El Niño, which is going to be dangerous. In Antarctica, snow is melting.
Myanmar has been impacted by Cyclone Mocha, a Category 5 Cyclone with wind speeds exceeding 280 km/hr (175 mi/hr). Hundreds are believed dead, but the full count is far away.
Some Spanish reservoirs are below 25% full ahead of another season of drought. The Sahara is spreading. Northern Italy, which was/is facing serious drought, suffered severe flooding that displaced 20,000+ people and killed several. It was reportedly the worst flooding in Italy in 100 years.
World crab populations are shrinking—and not just because of unsustainable fishing practices & marine heat waves. Ocean acidification is interfering with their sense of smell, and their ability to eat & reproduce, based on a recent study. Maybe they’re just going anti-natalist…
A rare ancient freshwater fish species is one marine heat wave away from extinction, say scientists in Tasmania. A number of animal and plant species in southern Spain are at risk of near-term extinction once the wetlands fullydry die out.
A study from World Weather Attribution determined that climate change is responsible for Asia’s blistering April heat waves, which set all-time record temperatures in Laos and Thailand. Several people died from heat stroke in India as well. The “solutions” recommended in the study were basically to develop early-warning systems and prepare personal heat protection methods.
Hundreds of thousands of people in Malawi are malnourished and displaced by recent Cyclone Freddy. Myanmar likewise is struggling to recover from Cyclone Mocha. In Somalia, over 200,000 people have been displaced by flooding, with nothing but what they can carry with them.
A Berkely study concluded that last April was, overall, the 4th hottest April on record. The 11th hottest on land and the hottest in the ocean, averaging out to be the 4th hottest April globally.
An 88-page report on global plastic pollution was released by the UN. I didn’t have the energy to do more than skim it, but the report offers unrealistic pathways to recycle plastic en masse. They claim that plastic pollution could be cut 80% by 2040. It may come as no surprise that many voices from the Global South will be excluded from the UN talks on plastic pollution from May 29 to June 2.
Heat waves in India, and in Southeast Asia, and in East Asia, and in Canada, and in Antarctica, and in the Caribbean, and in Oman. Wildfires in Mexico.
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The WHO released its 2023 Health Statistics Report and it’s 130 pages of world health data, of questionable reliability. Most of the report does not focus on COVID, instead dedicating space to obesity, smoking rates, STDs, malaria, birth healthcare, global immunizations, life expectancy, etc. Despite COVID and the seeming Collapse of healthcare systems worldwide, many health metrics are reportedly improving. But considering that this report claims fewer than 200,000 people in Africa died from COVID in 3+ years, I’m taking their data alongside a massive cup of skepticism. Estimates of the actual number of COVID deaths are about 15 million, compared to the official global count of almost 7M. You can consult the mid-term report of the WHO’s budget here if you want; it’s just 8 pages.
A Nature study concluded that genetics play a huge role in the severity of COVID cases for people. 49 different DNA sequences were identified as playing an important role in health outcomes, mostly relating to inflammation and immune system processes. Another study concluded that the overdose drug naltrexone can help with Long COVID symptoms.
One in six Americans has depression, or is taking depression medication, with women almost twice outnumbering men. Meanwhile, drug shortages grow in the United States, causing rationing of cancer drugs and other medicine.
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A tent camp for homeless refugees in Ireland was set on fire last weekend by anti-immigration protestors. Similar sentiment forced a mayor out of a small French town. Italy meanwhile declared a state of emergency over uncontrollable levels of migrants, and pushed through tougher regulations on acquiring special protection.
Neo-Nazis in Melbourne clashed with police at a protest opposing immigration. Meanwhile, Erdogan’s electoral rival has claimed that, if he wins, he will expel all Türkiye’s refugees. The final round of the election will be May 28.
Gender-based violence in eastern DRC is up 37% in the first 3 months of the year. The ceasefire failed to stop violence between M23 militants and the Congolese army.
Famine is expected to peak in July in the Horn of Africa, with someone dying every 28 seconds.
South Africa has committed to keeping its coal power plants running. Vietnam has pledged not to build any new coal power plants…starting in 2030. 16 people were killed in a tribal battle over a coal mine in Pakistan. While some nations struggle to keep electricity flowing, China’s electrical growth continues, supported by coal, solar, hydro, and other sources. And Indonesia increased coal consumption by 33% in 2022 alone.
Although the price of oil has been down recently, experts estimate that demand will rise in the second half of the year and boost prices again. The U.S. is going to buy 3M barrels to replenish its emergency supply, and Russian oil exports have hit a post-invasion high, driven largely by Indian and Chinese demand. Apparently it’s not that easy to “Just Stop Oil.”
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Tunisia’s opposition leader—himself the parliamentary speaker in 2021 before parliament was suspended—was sentenced in absentia to one year in prison. The move comes in a long string of measures by Tunisia’s leader, Kais Saïed, to consolidate power and quell efforts to oppose his rule.
Türkiye’s President Recep Erdogan overperformed expectations in state elections, though no candidate won enough votes to avoid a runoff, scheduled for May 28. Experts are saying the recent Turkish earthquakes unleashed poisons that may be more dangerous than the quakes themselves, which killed over 50,000 and caused billions of dollars in damages. Asbestos, lead, mercury, and other toxins were scattered into the air by collapsing buildings, or seeped into the soil afterwards. The rubble was deposited in landfills that will leak the chemicals into rivers, where they are carried downstream. One expert said, “With an optimistic estimate, I would say that 3 million people will be sick.”
A 68-page report on the global 1% and other high-powered investors came out last week… Optimism is relatively high among investors for wealth growth. Investors reportedly are most invested in equities, property, and bonds, and are most considering investing in healthcare, logistics, and offices. Art markets are surging, residential property is considered the safest asset, and Dubai’s luxury real estate market prices have increased by 44% since last year, with Aspen, Riyadh, Tokyo, and Miami in 2nd-5th places, respectively, with price growth around 24%. While the world burns, the super-rich take shelter in luxury condos.
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Syria is slowly being re-normalized within the Arab League, 12+ years after its Civil War disrupted the region—and Europe—with an exodus of almost 7M refugees.
Some observers are worried that Pakistan’s upcoming Collapse may spill into India, with militants, refugees, and political/economic fallout for the region.
El Salvador’s strict crackdown on (suspected) gangsters has yielded incredible results, if you believe the reports. Yet others fear that many innocents have been imprisoned among the 66,000 individuals imprisoned earlier this year.
A few hours after Ecuador’s President began his impeachment (on embezzlement charges) trial, he dissolved parliament, and now rules by decree for up to 6 months. Unrest will likely follow.
While the G7 meets in Hiroshima, Japan considers re-arming and abandoning its old pacifism ahead of a potential conflict with China.
Sudan’s old political stalemate has been broken by five weeks of War. The insurgent RSF forces allegedly comprise 70,000-150,000 soldiers, in comparison with the traditional army’s 200,000. Khartoum continues to be an urban battlefield, a struggle not for the legitimacy and support of the people but for military objectives and resources. About 1.1M people have been displaced so far (75%+ internally, with ~250k internationally), while others are pinned down in their city homes. A 7-day ceasefire was signed on Saturday; we’ll see if it lasts.
The Ukraine War is escalating too. Bakhmut has allegedly fallen to Russia, though Ukrainians hold positions on the outskirts. The ruins of Bakhmut may prove to be a salient for Russia. Although the US will not yet supply fighter jets, it has greenlit other allied nations to provide them to Ukraine, which is believed to be almost ready to launch its summer counteroffensive. The world is still watching—and waiting.
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Select comments/threads from the subreddit last week suggest:
-Bye bye lakes. Overuse and climate change is decimating lakes—and the ecosystems they support. I like this comment for the use of an interesting term: “slow violence,” a kind of composite effect from the convergence of many factors: greed, ignorance, agriculture, politics, warfare, ignored science, etc.
-We are going to rocket past 1.5 °C. Compare how collapse users discuss this inevitability compared with how worldnews users discuss the same article. Maybe the reason this subreddit has been quiet lately is because Collapse has infiltrated most subreddits, and therefore there is less of a need for one dedicated Collapse community. When a niche concept becomes universalized, the old home gets abandoned…
-Sudan is falling into terror, based on this account in preppers from someone presumably in Khartoum. Insurgents raiding houses at gunpoint, airport bombing, and the realization that death may be close at hand.
-Alberta is on fire, and it’s only May. The out of control blazes are reported by this weekly observation from a fire-watch tower. People are being evacuated, but the wildlife is going up in smoke. A second observation from central Canada adds to the fear.
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Last Week in Collapse: May 14-20, 2023
This is Last Week in Collapse, a weekly newsletter bringing together some of the most important, timely, useful, depressing, ironic, amazing, or otherwise must-see moments in Collapse.
This is the 73rd newsletter. You can find the May 7-13 edition here if you missed it last week. These newsletters are also on Substack if you want them sent to your email inbox, or if you want to doompill your colleagues…
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Canada’s heat dome is worsening wildfires across the continent. A Heat Dome is when hot air is trapped in a region, pushed down by earth’s atmosphere. The resulting compression heats the air even more, and it can linger for days—or more.
Singapore tied its all-time temperature record: 37 °C (98.6 °F) last week, while many of its neighbors set new records. China saw similar temps, India recorded 46 °C in some places (115 °F), Canada’s far north is warm, and forecasters believe this year will see many records broken, with the help of El Niño, which is going to be dangerous. In Antarctica, snow is melting.
Myanmar has been impacted by Cyclone Mocha, a Category 5 Cyclone with wind speeds exceeding 280 km/hr (175 mi/hr). Hundreds are believed dead, but the full count is far away.
Some Spanish reservoirs are below 25% full ahead of another season of drought. The Sahara is spreading. Northern Italy, which was/is facing serious drought, suffered severe flooding that displaced 20,000+ people and killed several. It was reportedly the worst flooding in Italy in 100 years.
World crab populations are shrinking—and not just because of unsustainable fishing practices & marine heat waves. Ocean acidification is interfering with their sense of smell, and their ability to eat & reproduce, based on a recent study. Maybe they’re just going anti-natalist…
A rare ancient freshwater fish species is one marine heat wave away from extinction, say scientists in Tasmania. A number of animal and plant species in southern Spain are at risk of near-term extinction once the wetlands fully
A study from World Weather Attribution determined that climate change is responsible for Asia’s blistering April heat waves, which set all-time record temperatures in Laos and Thailand. Several people died from heat stroke in India as well. The “solutions” recommended in the study were basically to develop early-warning systems and prepare personal heat protection methods.
Hundreds of thousands of people in Malawi are malnourished and displaced by recent Cyclone Freddy. Myanmar likewise is struggling to recover from Cyclone Mocha. In Somalia, over 200,000 people have been displaced by flooding, with nothing but what they can carry with them.
A Berkely study concluded that last April was, overall, the 4th hottest April on record. The 11th hottest on land and the hottest in the ocean, averaging out to be the 4th hottest April globally.
An 88-page report on global plastic pollution was released by the UN. I didn’t have the energy to do more than skim it, but the report offers unrealistic pathways to recycle plastic en masse. They claim that plastic pollution could be cut 80% by 2040. It may come as no surprise that many voices from the Global South will be excluded from the UN talks on plastic pollution from May 29 to June 2.
Heat waves in India, and in Southeast Asia, and in East Asia, and in Canada, and in Antarctica, and in the Caribbean, and in Oman. Wildfires in Mexico.
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The WHO released its 2023 Health Statistics Report and it’s 130 pages of world health data, of questionable reliability. Most of the report does not focus on COVID, instead dedicating space to obesity, smoking rates, STDs, malaria, birth healthcare, global immunizations, life expectancy, etc. Despite COVID and the seeming Collapse of healthcare systems worldwide, many health metrics are reportedly improving. But considering that this report claims fewer than 200,000 people in Africa died from COVID in 3+ years, I’m taking their data alongside a massive cup of skepticism. Estimates of the actual number of COVID deaths are about 15 million, compared to the official global count of almost 7M. You can consult the mid-term report of the WHO’s budget here if you want; it’s just 8 pages.
A Nature study concluded that genetics play a huge role in the severity of COVID cases for people. 49 different DNA sequences were identified as playing an important role in health outcomes, mostly relating to inflammation and immune system processes. Another study concluded that the overdose drug naltrexone can help with Long COVID symptoms.
One in six Americans has depression, or is taking depression medication, with women almost twice outnumbering men. Meanwhile, drug shortages grow in the United States, causing rationing of cancer drugs and other medicine.
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A tent camp for homeless refugees in Ireland was set on fire last weekend by anti-immigration protestors. Similar sentiment forced a mayor out of a small French town. Italy meanwhile declared a state of emergency over uncontrollable levels of migrants, and pushed through tougher regulations on acquiring special protection.
Neo-Nazis in Melbourne clashed with police at a protest opposing immigration. Meanwhile, Erdogan’s electoral rival has claimed that, if he wins, he will expel all Türkiye’s refugees. The final round of the election will be May 28.
Gender-based violence in eastern DRC is up 37% in the first 3 months of the year. The ceasefire failed to stop violence between M23 militants and the Congolese army.
Famine is expected to peak in July in the Horn of Africa, with someone dying every 28 seconds.
South Africa has committed to keeping its coal power plants running. Vietnam has pledged not to build any new coal power plants…starting in 2030. 16 people were killed in a tribal battle over a coal mine in Pakistan. While some nations struggle to keep electricity flowing, China’s electrical growth continues, supported by coal, solar, hydro, and other sources. And Indonesia increased coal consumption by 33% in 2022 alone.
Although the price of oil has been down recently, experts estimate that demand will rise in the second half of the year and boost prices again. The U.S. is going to buy 3M barrels to replenish its emergency supply, and Russian oil exports have hit a post-invasion high, driven largely by Indian and Chinese demand. Apparently it’s not that easy to “Just Stop Oil.”
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Tunisia’s opposition leader—himself the parliamentary speaker in 2021 before parliament was suspended—was sentenced in absentia to one year in prison. The move comes in a long string of measures by Tunisia’s leader, Kais Saïed, to consolidate power and quell efforts to oppose his rule.
Türkiye’s President Recep Erdogan overperformed expectations in state elections, though no candidate won enough votes to avoid a runoff, scheduled for May 28. Experts are saying the recent Turkish earthquakes unleashed poisons that may be more dangerous than the quakes themselves, which killed over 50,000 and caused billions of dollars in damages. Asbestos, lead, mercury, and other toxins were scattered into the air by collapsing buildings, or seeped into the soil afterwards. The rubble was deposited in landfills that will leak the chemicals into rivers, where they are carried downstream. One expert said, “With an optimistic estimate, I would say that 3 million people will be sick.”
A 68-page report on the global 1% and other high-powered investors came out last week… Optimism is relatively high among investors for wealth growth. Investors reportedly are most invested in equities, property, and bonds, and are most considering investing in healthcare, logistics, and offices. Art markets are surging, residential property is considered the safest asset, and Dubai’s luxury real estate market prices have increased by 44% since last year, with Aspen, Riyadh, Tokyo, and Miami in 2nd-5th places, respectively, with price growth around 24%. While the world burns, the super-rich take shelter in luxury condos.
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Syria is slowly being re-normalized within the Arab League, 12+ years after its Civil War disrupted the region—and Europe—with an exodus of almost 7M refugees.
Some observers are worried that Pakistan’s upcoming Collapse may spill into India, with militants, refugees, and political/economic fallout for the region.
El Salvador’s strict crackdown on (suspected) gangsters has yielded incredible results, if you believe the reports. Yet others fear that many innocents have been imprisoned among the 66,000 individuals imprisoned earlier this year.
A few hours after Ecuador’s President began his impeachment (on embezzlement charges) trial, he dissolved parliament, and now rules by decree for up to 6 months. Unrest will likely follow.
While the G7 meets in Hiroshima, Japan considers re-arming and abandoning its old pacifism ahead of a potential conflict with China.
Sudan’s old political stalemate has been broken by five weeks of War. The insurgent RSF forces allegedly comprise 70,000-150,000 soldiers, in comparison with the traditional army’s 200,000. Khartoum continues to be an urban battlefield, a struggle not for the legitimacy and support of the people but for military objectives and resources. About 1.1M people have been displaced so far (75%+ internally, with ~250k internationally), while others are pinned down in their city homes. A 7-day ceasefire was signed on Saturday; we’ll see if it lasts.
The Ukraine War is escalating too. Bakhmut has allegedly fallen to Russia, though Ukrainians hold positions on the outskirts. The ruins of Bakhmut may prove to be a salient for Russia. Although the US will not yet supply fighter jets, it has greenlit other allied nations to provide them to Ukraine, which is believed to be almost ready to launch its summer counteroffensive. The world is still watching—and waiting.
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Select comments/threads from the subreddit last week suggest:
-Bye bye lakes. Overuse and climate change is decimating lakes—and the ecosystems they support. I like this comment for the use of an interesting term: “slow violence,” a kind of composite effect from the convergence of many factors: greed, ignorance, agriculture, politics, warfare, ignored science, etc.
-We are going to rocket past 1.5 °C. Compare how collapse users discuss this inevitability compared with how worldnews users discuss the same article. Maybe the reason this subreddit has been quiet lately is because Collapse has infiltrated most subreddits, and therefore there is less of a need for one dedicated Collapse community. When a niche concept becomes universalized, the old home gets abandoned…
-Sudan is falling into terror, based on this account in preppers from someone presumably in Khartoum. Insurgents raiding houses at gunpoint, airport bombing, and the realization that death may be close at hand.
-Alberta is on fire, and it’s only May. The out of control blazes are reported by this weekly observation from a fire-watch tower. People are being evacuated, but the wildlife is going up in smoke. A second observation from central Canada adds to the fear.
Have any feedback, questions, comments, resources, bug-out advice, free solar rigs, SAS manuals, hate mail, drug prescriptions, etc.? Consider joining the Last Week in Collapse SubStack if you don’t want to check collapse every Sunday, you can get this newsletter sent to your email inbox every weekend. I always forget something... What did I miss this week?