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Laughing dove
|Laughing dove
|S. s. cambayensis
At Zighy Bay in the Musandam Peninsula, Oman
|Call of S. s. cambayensis
|Scientific classification
S. senegalensis
|Binomial name
|Spilopelia senegalensis
(Linnaeus, 1766)
The laughing dove (Spilopelia senegalensis) is a small pigeon that is a resident breeder in Africa, the Middle East and the Indian Subcontinent. This small long-tailed dove is found in dry scrub and semi-desert habitats where pairs can often be seen feeding on the ground. A rufous and black chequered necklace gives it a distinctive pattern and is also easily distinguished from other doves by its call. Other names include laughing turtle dove, palm dove and Senegal dove while in India the name of the little brown dove is often used. It was introduced in Western Australia and has established itself in the wild around Perth and Fremantle.
The laughing dove is a long-tailed, slim pigeon, typically 25 cm (9.8 in) in length. It is pinkish brown on the underside with a lilac tinged head and neck. The head and underparts are pinkish, shading to buff on the lower abdomen. A chequered rufous and grey patch is found on the sides of the neck and are made up of split feathers. The upper parts are brownish with a bluish-grey band along the wing. The back is uniform and dull brown in the Indian population. The African populations senegalensis and phoenicophila have a bluish grey rump and upper tail coverts but differ in the shades of the neck and wing feathers while aegyptiaca is larger and the head and nape are vinous and upper wing coverts are rufous.[2] The tail is graduated and the outer feathers are tipped in white. The sexes are indistinguishable in the field. Young birds lack the chequered neck markings. The legs are red. The populations vary slightly in plumage with those from more arid zones being paler.[3] Abnormal leucistic plumages have been noted.[4]
The chuckling call is a low rolling croo-doo-doo-doo-doo with a rising and falling amplitude.[5]
feral S. s. senegalensis, Rottnest Island, Western Australia
female S. s. senegalensis, Gambia
Distribution and habitat[edit]
It is a common and widespread species in scrub, dry farmland, and in areas of human habitation, often becoming very tame. Its range includes much of Sub-Saharan Africa, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. It is also found in Cyprus, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, the UAE, and Turkey (these populations may be derived from human introductions). They are mostly sedentary but some populations may make movements. Birds ringed in Gujarat have been recovered 200 km north in Pakistan and exhausted birds have been recorded landing on ships in the Arabian Sea.[3][6] The species (thought to belong to the nominate population) was introduced to Perth in 1889 and has become established around Western Australia.[7] Birds that land on ships may be introduced to new regions.[8]
Systematics and taxonomy[edit]
This species was described by Linnaeus who placed it in the genus Columba along with other pigeons. It was later placed in the genus Streptopelia but studies of molecular phylogeny indicated that this and the spotted dove stood out from the remainder of the Streptopelia species[9] leading to the use of an older genus name that has been used for the species by Carl Sundevall. Unfortunately Sundevall used the name Stigmatopelia senegalensis and Spilopelia for the spotted dove (he used the genus for chinensis as well as for suratensis and tigrina, which are now subspecies) on the same page of his 1872 book.[10] Some authors have argued that Stigmatopelia is the valid name as it has priority due to appearing in an earlier line on the page[11] but Schodde and Mason in their zoological catalogue of Australian birds chose Spilopelia citing clause 24(b) of the ICZN Code which supports the decision of the first reviser.[12]
Several populations with minute plumage and size differences have been given the status of subspecies and these include:[13]
- S. s. phoenicophila (Hartert, 1916) : Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia
- S. s. aegyptiaca (Latham, 1790) : Nile valley
- S. s. senegalensis (Linnaeus, 1766) : Senegal and Nigeria including aequatorialis (Erlanger, 1904)
- S. s. cambayensis (Gmelin, 1789) : India, South and East Arabia
- S. s. ermanni (Bonaparte, 1856) : Afghanistan and Turkestan
- S. s. sokotrae (Grant, 1914) : Socotra Island
- S. s. dakhlae (Meinertzhagen, 1928) : Dakhla oasis, Libya (usually included in phoenicophila)
- S. s. thome (Bannerman, 1931) : Sao Thome Island (but may possibly be an introduced population)
Behaviour and ecology[edit]
The species is usually seen in pairs or small parties and only rarely in larger groups. Larger groups are formed especially when drinking at waterholes in arid regions. Small numbers assemble on trees near waterholes before flying to the water's edge where they are able to suck up water like other members of the pigeon family.[14] Laughing doves eat the fallen seeds, mainly of grasses, other vegetable matter and small ground insects such as termites and beetles.[15][16] They are fairly terrestrial, foraging on the ground in grasslands and cultivation. Their flight is quick and direct with the regular beats and an occasional sharp flick of the wings which are characteristic of pigeons in general.[3]
The male in courtship display follows the female with head bobbing displays while cooing. The male pecks its folded wings in "displacement-preening" to solicit copulation from the female. A female accepts by crouching and begging for food. The male may indulge in courtship feeding before mounting and copulating. Pairs may preen each other.[17] Males may also launch into the air with wing clapping sounds and then glide down in a gentle arc when displaying. The species has a spread out breeding season in Africa. Almost year-round in Malawi and Turkey;[18] and mainly May to November in Zimbabwe, February to June in Egypt and Tunisia. In Australia the main breeding season is September to November.[7] The nest is a very flimsy platform of twigs built in a low bush and sometimes in crevices or under the eaves of houses. Both parents build the nest with males bringing the twigs which are then placed by the female. Two eggs are laid within an interval of a day between them and both parents take part in building the nest, incubating and feeding the young. Males spend more time incubating the nest during the day.[19] The eggs are incubated after the second egg is laid and the eggs hatch after about 13 to 15 days.[3][20] Nesting adults may feign injury to distract and draw predators away from the nest.[21] Multiple broods may be raised by the same pair in the same nest. Seven broods by the same pair have been noted in Turkey.[17] The young fledge and leave the nest after about 14 to 16 days.[22][23] The Jacobin cuckoo sometimes lays its egg in the nests of the laughing dove in Africa.[24]
Feral populations in Australia are sometimes infected by a virus that causes symptoms similar to that produced in parrots by psittacine beak and feather disease.[25] Several ectoparasitic bird lice have been found on the species and include those in the genera Coloceras, Columbicola, Bonomiella and Hohorstiella.[26] A blood parasite Trypanosoma hannae has been recorded in the species.[27] Southern grey shrike have been observed preying on an adult laughing dove in northwestern India while the lizard buzzard is a predator of the species in Africa.[28][29] There is also a reported case of a Eurasian sparrowhawk killing and eating a laughing dove while wintering (January) in northern Jordan.[30] South African birds sometimes show a beak deformity in which the upper mandible overgrowth occurs.[31]
- ^ BirdLife International (2015). "Spilopelia senegalensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2015.4. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved February 4, 2010.
- ^ Hartert, E (1916). "Notes on pigeons". Novitates Zoologicae. 23: 78–88.
- ^ a b c d Ali, S.; S.D. Ripley (1981). Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan. Volume 3 (2nd ed.). New Delhi: Oxford University Press. pp. 155–157.
- ^ Javed, S (1992). "Albinism in little brown dove". Newsletter for Birdwatchers. 32 (3&4): 12.
- ^ Whistler, Hugh (1949). Popular handbook of Indian birds (4th ed.). London: Gurney and Jackson. pp. 397–398.
- ^ Ticehurst, CB (1923). "The Birds of Sind. (Part V.)". Ibis. 65 (3): 438–473. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1923.tb08108.x.
- ^ a b Frith, HJ; JL McKean; LW Braithwaite (1976). "Sexual cycles and food of the doves Streptopelia chinensis and S. senegalensis in Australia". Emu. 76: 15–24. doi:10.1071/MU9760015.
- ^ Kumar, Ashoke (1977). "Assisted migration of birds by ships". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 74 (3): 531–533.
- ^ Johnson KP, De Kort S, Dinwoodey K, Mateman AC, Ten Cate C, Lessells CM, Clayton DH (2001). "A molecular phylogeny of the dove genera Streptopelia and Columba" (PDF). Auk. 118 (4): 874–887. doi:10.1642/0004-8038(2001)118[0874:AMPOTD]2.0.CO;2.
- ^ Sundevall, Carl (1872). Methodi naturalis avium disponendarum tentamen. p. 100.
- ^ Cheke, Anthony S (2005). "Naming segregates from the Columba-Streptopelia pigeons following DNA studies on phylogeny". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 125 (4): 293–295.
- ^ Schodde R; I J Mason (1997). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Aves (Columbidae to Coraciidae). Volume 37.2. CSIRO publishing. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-643-06037-1.
- ^ Peters, JL (1937). Check-list of birds of the World. Volume 3. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. pp. 98–100.
- ^ Siegfried WR; LG Underhill (1975). "Flocking as an anti-predator strategy in doves". Animal Behaviour. 23 (3): 504–508. doi:10.1016/0003-3472(75)90126-8.
- ^ Satheesan SM; Prakash Rao; H Datye (1990). "Biometrics and food of some doves of the genus Streptopelia". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 87 (3): 452–453.
- ^ Adang, KL; Ezealor AU; Abdu PA; Yoriyo KP (2008). "Food habits of four sympatric columbids (Aves:Columbidae) in Zaria, Nigeria". Continental Journal of Biological Sciences. 1: 1–9.
- ^ a b Biricik, Murat; Ahmet Kılıç; Rüştü Şahin (1989). "Fortpflanzungsverhalten der Palmtaube (Streptopelia senegalensis): Paarbildung bis Eiablage". Journal für Ornithologie. 130 (2): 217–228. doi:10.1007/BF01649756.
- ^ Biricik, Murat (1997). "Winterbrut freilebender Palmtauben Streptopelia senegalensis". Journal für Ornithologie. 138 (3): 335–336. doi:10.1007/BF01651560.
- ^ Biricik, Murat; Ahmet Kılıç; Rüştü Şahin (1993). "Brutablösung bei freilebenden Palmtauben (Streptopelia senegalensis)". Journal für Ornithologie. 134 (3): 348–351. doi:10.1007/BF01640432.
- ^ Nene, RV (1979). "Incubation and incubation period in the Indian Little Brown Dove Streptopelia senegalensis". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 76 (2): 362–363.
- ^ Manakadan, Ranjit (1995). "Distraction display in the Little Brown Dove Streptopelia senegalensis (Linn.)". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 92 (2): 265.
- ^ George, M John (2000). "Multiple brooding of the Little Brown Dove Streptopelia senegalensis". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 97 (2): 280–283.
- ^ Kumar, CR Ajith; Ramachandran, NK (1990). "Incubation period of Indian Little Brown Dove Streptopelia senegalensis (Linn.)". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 87 (2): 299–300.
- ^ Friedmann, H (1964). "Evolutionary trends in the genus Clamator". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 164 (4): 1–106.
- ^ Raidal, SR; PA Riddoch (1997). "A feather disease in Senegal doves (Streptopelia senegalensis) morphologically similar to psittacine beak and feather disease". Avian Pathology. 26 (4): 829–836. doi:10.1080/03079459708419256. PMID 18483948.
- ^ Ledger, JA (1969). "Ectoparasite load in a laughing dove with a deformed mandible" (PDF). Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology. 41 (3): 191–194. doi:10.1080/00306525.1970.9634364.
- ^ Bennett GF, Earlé RA, Squires-Parsons D (1994). "Trypanosomes of some sub-Saharan birds". The Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research. 61 (3): 263–271. PMID 7596580.
- ^ Sharma, Ashok Kumar (1994). "A Grey Shrike Lanius excubitor Linnaeus killing a full grown Little Brown Dove Streptopelia senegalensis (Linnaeus)". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 91 (1): 142–143.
- ^ Howland, N; S. Howland (1987). "Lizard Buzzard taking Laughing Dove". Honeyguide. 33: 100–101.
- ^ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/4882203
- ^ Markus, MB (1962). "Laughing Dove Streptopelia senegalensis (Linnaeus) with a deformed upper mandible". Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology. 33: 37. doi:10.1080/00306525.1962.9633457.
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X-wing: Starfighters of Adumar is the ninth installment in the X-Wing series of novels, published in 1999 by Bantam Spectra, written by Aaron Allston. Narration for the audio version was performed by Anthony Heald.
- ISBN 0553574183 and ISBN 0553581252; August 3, 1999, Bantam Spectra, 291-page paperback
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- ISBN 0553812718; August 3, 1999, Transworld Publishers, 320-page UK paperback
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Publisher's summaryEdit
The X-wing fighter pilots have earned their reputation as the Rebel Alliance's ultimate strike force by overwhelming enemies with their rapid-fire assaults. But now they are about to embark on a diplomatic mission that will prove to be even more hazardous than all-out combat...
The neutral world of Adumar has decided to pick a side in the war to control the galaxy. Delegates from both the New Republic and the Empire have been invited to Adumar, and each camp will be given a chance to plead its government's case. But there is one small catch: since the Adumari prize military skill above all else, they insist that both delegations be composed exclusively of fighter pilots. For pilot Wedge Antilles and his company, it's an unfamiliar exercise in diplomacy - and one that's filled with unexpected peril. For once they arrive, the X-wing pilots are challenged by Adumar's fierce warriors and attacked by Imperial assassins bent on eliminating all competition. But these challenges pale in comparison to the threat posed by a rogue Republic agent...one who is determined to win Adumar's allegiance once and for all - even if it costs the X-wing pilots their lives.
Plot SummaryEdit
The planet Adumar is an anomaly, settled by anonymous colonists during the early years of the Old Republic and isolated for centuries before being rediscovered. Because the Adumari hold starfighter pilots in the highest regard, Wedge Antilles, the New Republic's best pilot, is dispatched as a diplomat, taking with him Tycho Celchu, Derek "Hobbie" Klivian and Wes Janson. They are aided by native guide and blastsword fighting champion Cheriss ke Hanadi, New Republic diplomat and former Y-wing pilot Tomer Darpen, and New Republic documentarian Hallis Saper, who wears the head of a 3PO droid as a camera.
Wedge assumes that he will somehow hammer out a treaty and bring the planet of Adumar into the New Republic, but it becomes quickly apparent that all is not as it seems. First, the Empire's best pilot, Turr Phennir is also on Adumar, and like Wedge is accompanied by three other pilots. Second, Adumar is not a united planet, and Wedge is only talking to its largest nation, Cartann. Third, the people of Cartan seem to like nothing better than killing others for bragging rights, and Wedge is expected to participate in this. Fourth, Iella Wessiri is on Adumar as a New Republic Intelligence operative and has been so for the past six months, although Adumar was supposedly discovered only a few weeks before. Wedge must somehow make his way through Adumar's bizarre culture while not offending his or their sensibilities, bring Adumar into the New Republic, and maybe try to get the girl as well.
Red Squadron spends its time learning to fly the native Blade-32 fighters, absorbing Adumari (or at least Cartannese) culture, and contemplating their largest diplomatic problem: the fact that Adumar is not united under a world government, and cannot enter the New Republic. The Empire, on the other hand, would have absolutely no problem simply conquering it and imposing a government. Thus, Wedge is delighted when Cartann's leader, Perator Pekaelic ke Teldan, announces the formation of a world government. Unfortunately, Pekaelic intends to create it via conquest. He also wants the Empire's and New Republic's diplomats to assist in the war effort. Phennir agrees, but Wedge, unwilling to compromise the New Republic's ideals, refuses. Between this and Darpen's willingness to sacrifice Wedge to preserve relations with Cartann, Wedge and his wingmen are forced to run "the gauntlet", braving mobs of citizens and pilots eager to kill them for honor, in order to escape with their lives.
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In one scene Hobbie says: "Everyone calls me Hobbie. And I'll get back to you on my last name. Lots of people misspell it." This may be an allusion made by Allston to the fact that throughout the X-Wing comic, Hobbie's name was incorrectly spelled "Klivan".
In the Hand of Thrawn duology, Wedge was implied to be married to Iella Wessiri, whereas in other novels (most often the ones penned by Kevin J. Anderson) he was paired with Qwi Xux. This novel neatly resolves that apparent contradiction, beginning with Wedge and Qwi's breakup and ending with Wedge and Iella's engagement.
The novel is celebrated in the Star Wars fandom for author Aaron Allston's use of humor, which is frequent and often genuinely funny. Allston often characterizes the four pilots through their joking styles: Tycho with occasional and devastating one-liners, Hobbie with pessimistic backtalk, Janson with constant irreverences, and Wedge as the smirking straight man[source?].
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Adumarian society may also be a reference to George Lucas' film THX 1138, as it is a highly rigid society with droves of poor and oppressed living underground, often never seeing daylight. Also, like the title character's job as a nuclear munitions worker in THX 1138, Adumar's primary industry is munitions, manufactured in underground factories.
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Now that internship placements for 2011-12 have been made, the Contextual Learning staff will welcome new supervisors to Luther's campus May 10-11. During the event we will learn both about the art and mechanics of supervising an intern.
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The teen obliged onstage, right down to the somber opening and the petulant belt she built into. Adam praised the way she opened the song up, and CeeLo admitted he'd gotten lost in the experience of enjoying the music.
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Team Adam's Jamaican no-longer-just-a-backup-singer powerhouse Tessanne Chin was up next, covering a song Adam was confident she could imbue with a depth of emotion to match her vocal chops: Emeli Sande's "My Kind of Love."
She fulfilled her coach's expectations onstage, and even the tough-to-impress Christina remarked that Tessanne hadn't held back any emotion and seemed able to do anything.
The final singer of the night was Team Christina's own powerhouse Matthew Schuler, an indie singer tasked with singing the often-overdone Leonard Cohen staple "Hallelujah." Striking the right balance on the tender but vocally demanding song would be tough for Matthew, given his predilection for driving indie rock, but Christina was confident he could handle it coming off of his impressive demolish of Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball" last week.
He could, as it turned out. Matthew departed from both the familiar Cohen and Jeff Buckley versions of the tune, and with his emotive rendition, he won over even Adam, who admitted he was very defensive of the song, and Blake, who said Matthew seemed Team Christina's strongest member this week.
Next came Team Blake's other bearded gravelly-voiced team member, Cole Vosbury, who tackled an unlikely number: Miguel's R&B hit "Adorn." It was a tall order, but it was the one the coaches praised widely. Not that Cole's ability to tackle a range of genres was any surprise to them -- he had auditioned with a cover of the theme song from "The Jeffersons."
Closing out the night was Will Champlin, whom Adam assigned to sing Dragons' "Demons" in the hopes of preventing the mild-mannered indie-rock pianist -- perhaps the show's comeback kid, given his two steals (to and from Team Adam) and his save last week from the bottom three -- from potentially getting eliminated Tuesday.
Will approached the song with candor and warmth, and they showed through in his confident, passionate, high-stakes performance, praised by the coaches.
Whether the cover will prove enough to keep him around on "The Voice" for another week, though, will be determined Tuesday at the live eliminations.
"The Voice" airs Mondays at 8/7c and Tuesdays at 9/8c on NBC.


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New Study Finds Psilocybin To Be A Therapeutic Powerhouse For Advanced Cancer Patients
In the 1950s and '60s, hallucinogenic drugs like psilocybin, which is found naturally in certain mushrooms, were often used in U.S. biomedical research and in psychotherapy practices. In 1966, however, the U.S. government declared the drugs illegal, halting American research into their potential therapeutic benefits.
But recent years have seen the the conversation stirred up in a less taboo way once again, with American researchers arguing that the prohibition is preventing them from discovering and taking advantage of treatments for psychiatric problems like depression, addiction, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Two recently published studies revealed that a single moderate-to-large dose of psilocybin has the ability to provide significant and long-lasting relief from overwhelming distress. In fact, of 29 cancer patients who received psilocybin in a trial conducted at New York University's Langone Medical Center, 20 rated it as "among the most meaningful" events of their life.
"This drug saved my life and changed my life," explained Dinah Bazer, who was given a single dose of psilocybin at a New York treatment center in 2011.
Dr. George Greer, medical director of the Heffter Research Institute, the nonprofit organization that funded the two trials, called the results "groundbreaking."
The trials noted that psilocybin's side effects were pretty tame, with only about 15% of subjects experiencing nausea or vomiting as a result of being administered a high dose of the drug, while roughly 1 in 3 of the subjects experienced impermanent psychological discomfort.
Octavian Mihai is another success story when it comes to psilocybin's medicinal value. In 2013, after having just finished treatment for Stage 3 Hodgkin's lymphoma, he participated in a study looking at whether the drug can reduce anxiety and depression in cancer patients.
A New York Times article reported on his journey:
On a summer morning in 2013, Octavian Mihai entered a softly lit room furnished with a small statue of Buddha, a box of tissues and a single red rose. From an earthenware chalice, he swallowed a capsule of psilocybin, an ingredient found in hallucinogenic mushrooms.
Then he put on an eye mask and headphones and lay down on a couch. Soon, images flew by like shooting stars: a spinning world that looked like a blue-green chessboard; himself on a stretcher in front of a hospital; his parents, gazing at him with aching sadness as he reached out to them, suffused with childlike love.
Cancer-related psychological distress affects up to 40% of patients, and can be resistant to conventional therapy. Mihai's anxiety arose after doctors told him he was finally in remission. He would continually touch the nodules on his neck where the cancer had been, and found himself afraid of traveling, as it would put him too far away from his oncologists. He ultimately turned to alcohol, drinking hard daily, which in turn jeopardized his already tender state of wellbeing.
Doctors suggested the psilocybin study. The Times reported:
He took the capsule and began tripping. After seeing himself on a hospital stretcher, he recalled: "I had an epiphany."
"Why are you letting yourself be terrorized by cancer coming back? This is dumb. It's in your power to get rid of the fear," he told himself. "That's when I saw black smoke rising from my body. And it felt great."
Three years later, Mr. Mihai, now 25 and a physician assistant in Las Vegas, said, "I'm not anxious about cancer anymore. I'm not anxious about dying." The session, he added, "has made my life richer."
Between the astounding results of the two trials, and stories like Mihai's, it's hard to ignore the necessity for fewer research restrictions. There is far too much potential for new scientific insights and clinical applications, and it's being bogged down by government control that has been driven by unfounded fear.
Currently, psilocybin trials are underway in the United States and Europe for alcoholism, tobacco addiction, and treatment-resistant depression, and other hallucinogens are being studied for clinical application as well. In fact, recently the Food and Drug Administration granted a large-scale trial investigating MDMA for post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Joe Rogan May Take Down The Original Criticism Of "The Game Changers" Documentary
In Brief
- The Facts:
Joe Rogan recently had James Wilks, the maker of "The Game Changers" documentary on to discuss the benefits of a plant base diet and to refute a previous episode where Chris Kresser debunked it.
- Reflect On:
When it comes to health, it's important sometimes to suspend what we believe and have been made to believe, and simply look at the information from a neutral perspective.
Joe Rogan has long 'criticized' vegans in various ways, and has also emphasized his belief that one cannot be optimally healthy on a vegan diet. He's done this a number of times, which was hard for some onlookers to watch and listen to who have educated themselves on plant-based diets. Until recently, Rogan mainly focused on guests that were geared towards promoting meat-eating as optimal, and there's nothing wrong with that, but a balance of understanding and information can go a long way to educating people.
One of the most recent examples of Joe Rogan and his guest '"debunking" a plant-based diet came from a critique of a recent documentary that is now airing on Netflix, called "The Game Changers," made by filmmaker, James Wilks – a retired English mixed martial artist. The film was executively produced by James Cameron, and features interviews with the top scientists and doctors in their field who present an abundance of research and publications showing the benefits of a plant-based diet.
Not long ago, health coach and author Chris Kresser came on the "Joe Rogan Experience" after the documentary received a lot of attention, and the title of the podcast was titled: "Chris Kresser Debunks 'The Game Changers Documentary.'
For someone like my self who has done a lot of research into the topic, it was frustrating to listen to it given the fact that it was quite clear, for me and others who had actually done thorough research from a neutral standpoint, that Kresser wasn't really addressing all the facts, and was simply a big believer in what he was saying without even examining the information on the other side.
The challenge is, Rogan's podcast was listened to by millions of people, and many came away actually believing the information that was said in the original debunking episode – information we later find out was completely incorrect. These types of episodes that massively mislead people are not just an issue with people who have large followings discussing vegan diets and health, but it's a big issue with many other topics. This is why it was great that Rogan decided to have James Wilks on for a chance to defend his documentary, and the truth is he absolutely destroyed Kresser's claims that were presented as facts in the previous podcast with Rogan. The best part was Kresser was on the show as well so he had a chance to truly make sure everyone was on the same page.
Wilks addressed every single criticism made by Kresser in the previous episode, from topics such as B12, protein amount, and protein quality, among many others. He also brought up the fact that we shouldn't be listening to people like Kresser on such topics, but should be relying on properly published peer reviewed research that's repeatable, non-industry conflicting research, as well as information that comes from the world's leading scientists in the field of biology and nutrition, many of whom were presented in the Game Changers documentary. Or, people like Wilks, who have throughout done their research. This episode really exposes how Kresser is not accurate or factual in his position on this topic, an important note for his followers.
It's important to keep in mind that not everything Kresser said previously had time to be addressed in this podcast, but it could have been. 100 percent of Kresser's criticisms that were addressed were 100 percent completely debunked by Wilks, so much so that this is what Joe Rogan had to say via an Instagram post:
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Vegans, you're gonna LOVE this one! @lightningwilks, one of the producers of "the game changers" came on to challenge some of the criticism that Chris Kresser presented about the movie, and to say he did well would be a tremendous understatement. James knocked it our of the park, and defended himself and the film quite spectacularly. So much so that I'm actually considering taking the original breakdown of the film offline. This podcast will be up today at noon PT.
If interested, you can watch The Game Changers documentary on Netflix, and check out the podcast in question below.
Some Quotes From The Game Changers Documentary
One of these experts is Dr. Christina Warinner, who earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2010 and received her postdoctoral training at the University of Zurich (2010-2012) and the University of Oklahoma (2012-2014). She became a Presidential Research Professor and Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma in 2014, and is currently a Leader in Microbiome Sciences at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Her work has led to some very interesting findings and conclusions:
"Humans do not have any specialized genetic anatomical or physiological adaptations to meat consumption. By contrast, we have many adaptations to plant consumption." (The Game Changers documentary)
She goes deeper in her presentation at the 2016 International Conference on Nutrition in Medicine, and in this TEDX talk she gave a number of years ago.
Gradual increases in brain sizes of early humans have also been attributed to meat, but research is showing that "because there is not a very strong match between meat consumption and gradual increases in brain size, scientists have looked to other options. And given that plant foods are such an important part of modern humans that hunt and gather foods, the money is on plant foods and shift in the kinds of plant foods as being the major driving factor in increasing brain size." – Nathaniel J. Dominy
"We have a brain, that just is desperate for glucose. It's such a fussy organ, that's the only thing it really takes in for energy. Well, meat is not a very good source of glucose, to have a big brain like this you need to eat something different. And the most efficient way to get glucose is to eat carbohydrates." – Dr. Mark Thomas, geneticist, University College, London (The Game Changers documentary)
With overwhelming scientific evidence to many of the most common deadly diseases, I discovered that the meat, egg, and dairy industries have been engaged in a covert response, funding studies that deny this evidence while burying their involvement in the fine print. One of the hired guns paid to conduct these studies is Exponent, INC. A company whose research was used by the Tobacco industry to deny the connection between second hand smoke and cancer. For more than 50 years, Exponent has generated studies that challenge the health-risks of everything from asbestos, arsenic and and mercury, to animal foods." – James Wilks, "The Game Changers" documentary
"The formula, works beautifully for people selling food, it works beautifully for people selling drugs to treat the diseases that bad food causes, and it works beautifully for the media, which can give us a new story about diet, everyday. But despite the appearance in our media of confusion, there's massive global consensus about the fundamentals of a health-promoting, and it's a diet that every time… In every population, every kind of research, it's a plant food predominant diet, every time." – Dr. David Katz, Founding Director of Yale University Prevention Research Center (The Game Changers documentary)
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The Real Agenda Behind The Paris Climate Accord – Besides The Actual Climate
In Brief
- The Facts:
The efforts to ratify the Paris Climate Accord of 2015 and put a Carbon Tax/Carbon Credits scheme in place continue, amidst growing resistance.
- Reflect On:
If we were to clearly understand that the greatest beneficiaries of the Paris Climate Accords would be a small global elite, would we start to question this "solution" to Climate Change and even question the legitimacy of the Climate Change movement?
Greta Thunberg is quite upset. Yes, even more than she normally is. The reason? Because the wave of climate change school strikes over the past year has "achieved nothing" since greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, apparently by 4% since the Paris Climate Accord was signed four year ago. And here is why she thinks this has happened:
People want everything to continue like now and they are afraid of change. And change is what we young people are bringing and that is why they want to silence us and that is just a proof that we are having an impact that our voices are being heard that they try so desperately to silence us. (source)
The notion that the global political establishment is trying desperately to 'silence' Greta Thunberg and her young friends verges on the absurd. If anything, the global political establishment has done everything in its power to give voice to her ongoing strikes, marches, and protestations, and the global media has been fully accommodating by keeping her and her demands on the nations of the world in a bright spotlight.
While we have seen a physical maturation in Greta Thunberg before our eyes, her message has not grown accordingly and is getting stale. It's not just the monotonous timbre of her outrage. Her unquestioning advocacy for the only establishment "solution" to climate change–mapped out by the controversial Paris Climate Accords of 2015–is starting to make people ask questions. As a girl growing in intelligence and discernment, would she not at any point challenge the 'official' solution handed to her on climate change, and wonder if some of the problems are actually contained therein? Would she not give at least a cursory glance to other solutions that have been proposed that might be more palatable to nation states?
How About Hemp?
Solutions like, for example, growing large amounts of hemp all over the planet. Hemp is a super-strong and fast-growing crop that pulls carbon out of our atmosphere like nothing else:
Hemp begins sequestering carbon the moment it is seeded; conservatively, hemp cultivation yields a sequestration ratio of about 1.5 units of sequestration per unit produced. In Layman's terms, one ton of harvested hemp fiber should sequester 1.62 tons of CO2. Hemp can also sequester carbon back into the soil through a process called, biosequestration. In this process, hemp captures carbon emissions from the atmosphere. (source)
If we took this efficiency rate and calculated the cost of using a worldwide hemp-planting initiative to meet IPCC carbon-reduction guidelines, we would find not only that the cost to nation-states would be a fraction of what is being proposed by the Paris Climate Accord, but if this was done wisely and efficiently then countries would probably be able to actually profit from the enterprise by harvesting the hemp for its many uses.
Still skeptical? Longtime hemp activist Jack Herer is offering $100,000 to anyone who can disprove his hypothesis that hemp is a silver bullet for climate change. Here's what he says at the end of his challenge, which was put up on his website in 2002:
No one has taken the $100,000 challenge to prove me wrong. Why? Because I am right. The U.S. government has been lying to us since the early 1900s. Do economic interests have more to say than the people about the future of our planet?
So to be clear–I am not even broaching the subject as to whether or not Carbon emissions are causing global warming, or if the planet is even warming, both matters that are also deserved of serious investigation and analysis. All I am saying in this article is that an examination of the only solution to 'Climate Change' being proposed by the global establishment–and parroted by activists like Greta Thunberg–will help us discern whether or not the goal here is actually to improve conditions on the planet for humanity.
The Paris Climate Accord Explained
I have come across a video put together by health freedom advocate Dr. V. A. Shiva, who ran for the Senate in Massachusetts, in which he gives a clear and concise explanation of what would happen if the Paris Climate Accord was fully implemented today, and why it was a good thing that the U.S. pulled out of the accords. Here is a basic summary of his points:
- Today, one of the basic mechanisms of our economy is that manufacturers take raw materials and turn them into products, which we pay for as consumers.
- Those manufacturers are cumulatively emitting a certain amount of Carbon Dioxide into the atmosphere as a result of the manufacturing process.
- By 2030, the total amount of Carbon Dioxide emitted into the atmosphere will have INCREASED based on the regulations of the accord (e.g. China will be allowed to double their carbon emissions without penalty).
- The only change is that manufacturers will have to pay money to the "IPCC" (a global elite "science" group that includes Al Gore, the Bushes, and others) in exchange for 'carbon credits' that this group somehow magically 'owns' and can therefore sell. 2030 will be the big payday for them as China will have to start buying credits.
- Naturally, these payments for carbon credits will ultimately be felt by consumers who will have to buy their consumer goods at a proportionately increased cost.
- In addition, the "IPCC" will allow these carbon credits to be bought and sold on a commodities market, which will actually enable the "IPCC," current 'owners' of most of the carbon credits, to make TRILLIONS since the mechanisms in place will make the finite credits infinitely more valuable over time.
- As part of the agreement the U.S. had to agree to create a $100 Billion "Green Fund" which was actually being used to pay off (bribe) top "influencers" in each of the 190 signatory countries in order to get them to persuade their country's leaders to sign on to the accord.
In effect, When the U.S. pulled out of the Paris Accord, the "Green Fund" payouts were withdrawn and a wrench was thrown into these plans. Many countries, especially developing nations, are now hesitant to become involved in a scam to enrich the global elite to the detriment of their own economy.
Vladamir Putin's line to Greta Thunberg sums up the current hesitation by some signatories of the Paris Accord:
No one has explained to Greta that the modern world is complex and different and…people in Africa or in many Asian countries want to live at the same wealth level as in Sweden. Go and explain to developing countries why they should continue living in poverty and not be like Sweden.
Greta Thunberg is dead wrong in saying that the problem is that people, or countries, are 'afraid of change.' The majority of humanity is aching for change. But the most important change for us to make first is to take back our power, and recognize which so-called 'movements' are designed to once again enrich a small elite at the expense of humanity.
The Takeaway
Our ability to move forward and make positive changes for the benefit of humanity is contingent on our discernment of the activities of the global elite, especially those activities which pretend to be in service of humanity. We have to stop giving away our power to carefully orchestrated movements that seem appealing but, when looked into more closely, turn out to be vehicles of our continued enslavement.
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Research Suggests Many Diagnosed With ADHD May Not Actually Have A "Disorder"
In Brief
- The Facts:
The fact that ADHD is diagnosed strictly on behavioural characteristics and not brain imaging or other science means that many who have this label don't formally have a neurodevelopmental disorder.
- Reflect On:
Why is medication the only resort to combating the symptoms of ADHD? Why are other interventions, like meditation, dietary changes, a change in lifestyle/environment never really discussed or emphasized?
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, commonly known as ADHD, has become an epidemic. According to the Centres for Disease Control (CDC), ADHD is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders of childhood. It is usually first diagnosed in childhood and often lasts into adulthood. Children with ADHD may have trouble paying attention, controlling impulsive behaviours (may act without thinking about what the result will be), or be overly active.
They go on to state that it's normal for children to have trouble focusing and behaving at one time or another. "However, children with ADHD do not just grow out of these behaviours. The symptoms continue, can be severe, and can cause difficulty at school, at home, or with friends."
The CDC claims that children with ADHD might daydream a lot, forget or lose things a lot, squirm or fidget, talk too much, have a hard time resisting temptation, have trouble taking turns, and make carless mistakes or take unnecessary risks. But are these really symptoms of a serious "neurodevelopmental disorder?"
Is This Science-Based?
It's not as if children are taken into the lab and have their brains scanned to determine if serious brain abnormalities exist. ADHD is diagnosed purely off of behaviour, and there may be something very wrong with diagnosing someone with neurological abnormalities simply baed on observation, instead of actual science. Who is to say that the behaviours listed above are not those of a normal child, or even a normal adult, especially within a school or work environment that does not seem to be foster a human being's natural state? Perhaps the person or child in question doesn't actually have neurodevelopmental problems, but is simply responding appropriately to the environmental that they find themselves in?
There is hardly any evidence suggesting that there is a neurological problem, as is often expressed by the medical industry. There are studies, however, that do show differences. For example, one of the largest imaging studies of ADHD to date recently identified differences in five regions of the brain, with the greatest differences seen in children rather than adults.
It's important to note here the the brain of a child is still developing, and that the structure is not permanent and continues to develop until early adulthood. More than 3,000 people diagnosed with ADHD had an MRI compared to controls, to measure the volume and the size of seven regions of the brain that were thought to be linked to ADHD–the pallidum, thalamus, caudate nucleus, putamen, nucleus accumbens, amygdala, and hippocampus. The study found that overall brain volume and five of the regional volumes were smaller in people with ADHD — the caudate nucleus, putamen, nucleus accumbens, amygdala and hippocampus.
"These differences are very small — in the range of a few percent — so the unprecedented size of our study was crucial to help identify these. Similar differences in brain volume are also seen in other psychiatric disorders, especially major depressive disorders."–Dr Martine Hoogman, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.(source)
Smaller brain regions do not equate to a neurodevelopmental disorder or a lack of brain functioning though. This is simply an assumption. As with depression, where 6 decades of research that serotonin (or norepinephrine, or dopamine) deficiency is the cause of depression and anxiety, scientific credibility has not been achieved. This is well known. A New England Journal of Medicine review on major depression stated:
" … numerous studies of norepinephrine and serotonin metabolites in plasma, urine, and cerebrospinal fluid as well as postmortem studies of the brains of patients with depression, have yet to identify the purported deficiency reliably."
Despite this fact, drugs are being prescribed that alter brain chemistry based on the prevailing unsubstantiated 'theories' regarding several 'mental disorders.' Here is an eye opening quote regarding the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders:
"[DSM-V] is a wholesale imperial medicalization of normality that will trivialize mental disorder and lead to a deluge of unneeded medication treatment – a bonanza for the pharmaceutical industry but at a huge cost to the new false positive patients caught in the excessively wide DSM-V net."–Allen Frances, DSMIV Taskforce Chair (source)
Financial Ties With Big Pharma
Speaking of the DSM, American psychologist Lisa Cosgrove and researchers have investigated financial ties between the DSM panel members and the pharmaceutical industry. She published her research in the journal Plos One. The study found that, of the 170 DSM members who sat on panels of 'mood disorders,' 'schizophrenia' and other psychotic disorders, most of them had financial ties to drug companies. The connections were especially strong in those diagnostic areas where drugs are the first line of treatment for mental disorders:
The revised Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), scheduled for publication in May 2013 by the American Psychiatric Association (APA), has created a firestorm of controversy because of questions about undue industry influence. Some have questioned whether the inclusion of new disorders (e.g., Attenuated Psychotic Risk Syndrome) and widening of the boundaries of current disorders (e.g., Adjustment Disorder Related to Bereavement) reflects corporate interests. These concerns have been raised because the nomenclature, criteria, and standardization of psychiatric disorders codified in the DSM have a large public impact in a diverse set of areas ranging from insurance claims to jurisprudence. Moreover, through its relationship to the International Classification of Diseases, the system used for classification by many countries around the world, the DSM has a global reach.
Psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Carlat has said:
"And where there is a scientific vacuum, drug companies are happy to insert a marketing message and call it science. As a result, psychiatry has become a proving ground for outrageous manipulations of science in the service of profit."
Questioning The System
Dr. Marcia Angell, a physician and longtime Editor-in-Chief of the New England Medical Journal (NEMJ), also considered one of the most prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals in the world, said the following:
It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine. (source)
Here is another great quote:
"The medical profession is being bought by the pharmaceutical industry, not only in terms of the practice of medicine, but also in terms of teaching and research. The academic institutions of this country are allowing themselves to be the paid agents of the pharmaceutical industry. I think it's disgraceful."–Arnold Seymour Relman (1923-2014), Harvard professor of medicine and former Editor-in-Chief of The New England Medical Journal (source)
A very interesting and uncharacteristic article in the New York times titled The Selling of Attention Deficit Disorder raised awareness about this issue in 2013. The article discusses efforts to expose the manufacturing of a "profit driven machine into which our children are being fed."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that the diagnosis had been made in 15 percent of high school-age children, and that the number of children on medication for the disorder had soared to 3.5 million from 600,000 in 1990.
Behind that growth has been drug company marketing that has stretched the image of classic A.D.H.D. to include relatively normal behavior like carelessness and impatience, and has often overstated the pills' benefits.
According to Kelly Brogan, MD, psychiatrist:
Psychiatric studies funded by pharma are 4x more likely to be published if they are positive, and only 18% of psychiatrists disclose their conflicts of interests when they publish data.
Psychiatry is particularly susceptible to industry corruption because of the highly subjective, non-biological, impressionistic nature of diagnostic criteria. With our "governing body" the American Psychiatric Association heavily funded by pharmaceutical companies, the temptation is all too great to open the diagnostic umbrella to encompass behavioral criteria like "makes careless mistakes" or "often has difficulty waiting his or her turn."
Looking At ADHD Differently
What about other aspects of 'ADHD' that are never really emphasized? Recent work in cognitive neuroscience shows that people with an ADHD diagnosis and creative thinkers have difficulty suppressing brain activity that comes from the "Imagination Network." This suggests people with ADHD might have differences in parts of the brain that actually makes them 'superior' in many ways, but it's information that pharmaceutical companies can't make a profit off of.
Currently, there are no school assessments to evaluate creativity and imagination. The fact remains, people who show characteristics of ADHD are more likely to reach higher levels of creative thought and achievement compared to those who don't show these characteristics.
"By automatically treating ADHD characteristics as a disability– as we so often do in an educational context– we are unnecessarily letting too many competent and creative kids fall through the cracks."–Scott Barry Kaufman, Scientific Director of The Imagination Institute in the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania. (source)
Scrutinizing ADHD Treatment
A longitudinal NIMH study, the only one of its kind, demonstrated that after an initial decrease in ADHD symptoms, at three years, there was deterioration in the medicated group, and by six, worse attentional and behavioral symptoms than unmedicated controls, and increased functional impairment. Despite claims that stimulant side effects are "generally mild," data accumulated by psychiatrist Dr. Peter Breggin has demonstrated quite the opposite. He cites studies that demonstrate concerning risks for:
- Motor and vocal tics
- Addiction, withdrawal and rebound
- Growth suppression
- Adverse cardiovascular effects
- Mania, suicidality, psychosis
A study by Nasrallah et al in which more than 50% of young adults treated with ADHD medication experienced PET-confirmed brain atrophy, concluding "cortical atrophy may be a long-term adverse effect of this treatment." In rhesus monkeys, Wagner et al demonstrated long-term changes to dopamine levels and receptor density, related to compensatory changes the brain undergoes in the setting of chronic intoxication. Subjects abstinent from stimulants for three years were found to have persistent dopamine-related brain changes on PET scans, related to Parkinsonian pathology.
That being said, many people have reported success with medications, but could this be placebo?
Dr. Kelly Brogan sees pharmaceutical intervention for symptoms of ADHD as very harmful for a child's development:
When we interfere with behavior and brain growth, when we force children to conform to our needs as busy, distracted, and often chronically ill adults, we may be fundamentally compromising their expression of self, as Breggin cites Greenough et al.
Spontaneous or self-generated activities–play, mastery, exploration, novelty seeking, curiosity, and zestful socialization-are central to the growth and development of animals and humans and necessary for the full elaboration of CNS synaptic connections. (source)
She looks at other ways to treat these symptoms, and feels the first line of defense is dietary solutions.
Some studies have, indeed, emerged that show a link between a gluten/casein free diet and improvement in autistic symptoms, and some parents have already seen the benefits of implementing this research.
The Mayo Clinic claims that certain food preservatives and colourings could increase hyperactive behaviour in some children. It would be best to avoid these, regardless of whether they are linked to ADHD or not.
It has also been suggested that EEG biofeedback (electroencephalographic) could help. It's a type of neurotherapy that measures brainwaves. You can read more about that here.
In 2003, a study published in the journal Adolescence looked at how regular massages for 20 minutes twice a week could improve behaviour in the classroom. This is interesting because studies have also suggested that tai chi and yoga may also help improve ADHD symptoms. According to the studies, children with ADHD that practiced tai chi became less anxious or hyperactive. (source)
Other safe interventions are out there, you just have to look for them.
The Takeaway
I hope this article provides insight for people as well as parents who are considering using medications if their child is labeled as having 'ADHD'. This article is not meant ignore symptoms of ADHD, but the idea of administering drugs so someone can better fit into a regimented environment should be questioned.
A challenge to convention like this can often be vilified, and that's ok. We are going through a period of time where it's best to keep an open mind, as new information is emerging in various areas that challenge our long-held belief systems.
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Sudden Death, Round One: The 'American Idol' recap
American Idol made its first round of Sudden Death cuts Wednesday, and at least two of the five women who survived are probably headed for the finals.
Massachusetts teens Angela Miller and Kree Harrison impressed both the judges and, for the first time, a live audience, as 10 women from the Top 40 sang on the stage of The Mirage in Las Vegas. They joined Idol's first Alaskan contestant, Adriana Latonio; returning teen Amber Holcomb; and former Camp Maria attendee Tenna Torres as the first singers named to the Season 12 semifinals.
Miller, who performed an original song last week, sang a rendition of Jessie J's Nobody's Perfect that had Randy Jackson gushing: "I think America is witnessing the building of a superstar."
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Latonio, who had been little seen to this point in the season, made a strong impression by singing the Aretha Franklin hit Ain't No Way. She got a standing ovation from the audience and an "A+" from Mariah Carey.
Holcomb was cut in Las Vegas last season but learned her lessons well. She reinterpreted My Funny Valentine as a sultry R&B ballad, earning enthusiastic praise from judges who had panned another singer, Isabelle, for singing an old-fashioned standard just moments before.
"I think you know how brilliant that performance was," Carey told her. "I wanted to smack you."
Torres, who's in her last year of eligibility, reminded Minaj of an '80s R&B singer as she performed Natasha Bedingfield's Incompatible. "You had control of the whole song," Minaj said before adding a piece of advice: "Lose the hair."
Other singers didn't fare so well. Isabelle gave a solid performance of God Bless the Child, but her stock arrangement didn't win her any style points. Backup singer Kamaria Ousley picked a song — Kelly Clarkson's Mr. Know It All — that didn't show any of her strengths. Country singers Brandy Hotard and Jenny Beth Willis couldn't connect with their material the way Harrison did. And New York teen Shubha Vedula showed tons of promise, doing Middle Eastern runs over the melody of Lady Gaga's Born This Way, but she tried to pack so much performance and so many styles into such a short amount of time that she ended up confusing the judges.
Ten men will perform on Thursday. Next week, another 20 singers will perform. After that, the judges will hand over the decisions to the voting audience. And audience that already seems to be favoring Miller and Harrison.


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The Yetties are one of England's most popular folk groups. They take their name from the Dorset village of Yetminster which was their child-hood home. Their obvious love of the West Country, its songs, stories and humour wins them friends wherever they go. Since turning professional in 1967 their music and their enthusiasm has taken them far beyond the villages of Dorset. They have travelled extensively in Europe and, under the auspices of the British Council, have performed successfully in many countries including Thailand, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Pakistan, Sudan, India, Bangladesh, The Maldives, The Philippines, Ethiopia and Canada. It is easy to chart The Yetties material success, radio and television series, records, concerts and festivals but they are more than just a folk group. Their success stems from their genuine feeling for life in the country- side - Saturday night socials in the village hall, the skittles team in the pub, the flower show, the fete, the harvest supper and the village band. They still live in the little town of Sherborne, not far from Yetminster, and they draw on their personal experiences of country life past and present for their concert programme, including traditional folk, musical hall and community songs, story telling, dance and unusual instruments. This recording is a fair cross section of their material and hopefully, if you are in the market for a bit of sunshine, this will provide it.
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Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of Falcon Quinn and the Black Mirror, joins us this week on io9's Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast to talk about literal and metaphorical monsters, and growing up transgender.
Falcon Quinn book cover illustration by Brandon Dorman.
The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy is hosted by John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley.
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0:00 Introduction
Interview: Jennifer Finney Boylan
1:24 Interview begins
1:30 Playing Girl Planet as a child
2:38 Space Travel and Space Exploration as a National Obsession and a venue to allowing Boylan to explore herself as a child
3:28 A character in The Planets who secretly dresses up as a wizard
6:28 Was Boylan ever afraid of giving away her secrets when writing and publishing as a man?
9:27 Richard Russo's character: Professor Phineas "Finny" Coomb
11:15 Being a character on Saturday Night Live
13:20 Having a powerful emotional reaction to The Fellowship of the Ring movie
16:18 Boylan's contribution to It Gets Better
18:47 Boylan's I'm Looking Through You, a memoir about growing up in a haunted house
21:40 Falcon Quinn and the Black Mirror, Boylan's most recent novel
25:32 What's wrong with a Wereturtle?
27:29 The Halloween readings at Colby College with Professor Bassett
29:58 The strange anti-gravity stone on Colby College campus
31:46 The sequel to Falcon Quinn and the Black Mirror and Boylan's other future projects
33:31 End of interview
Dave and John talk about monsters
34:24 Wicked by Gregory McGuire and the difference between monsters and villains
35:54 Dave meets Gregory McGuire and the cast of the stage adaptation of Wicked
37:07 Incorporating music in novels and reading
38:08 The Lord of the Rings, sympathetic monsters and Senator Bilbo (Podcastle Episode 32, featuring Senator Bilbo by Andy Duncan)
40:05 Was The Lord of the Rings unfair to the Orcs?
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42:22 Throne of Bones by Brian McNaughton
42:57 Orcs by Stan Nicholls
44:15 Dungeon Keeper
45:17 Mail Order Monsters
45:51 Inspired by a quote, Dave creates a monster creation simulator and the limits of human creativity and imagination
48:55 Dave has a pop-quiz for John! This time: the Monsters of Dungeons & Dragons
58:49 Hoard
59:23 Want some sympathetic monsters? Monsters Inc. delivers.
59:58 John Milton's Paradise Lost and the allure of a villainous character
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Beginning 1913, Certain Suburbs Are Included. Source: Statistiches Landesamt, Statistiches Jahrbuch, 1890, P.87; 1920, Pp. 131-2; 1925, P. 114; 1935/36, P. 70.
This NBER data series a02081e appears on the NBER website in Chapter 2 at http://www.nber.org/databases/macrohistory/contents/chapter02.html.
NBER Indicator: a02081e
National Bureau of Economic Research, Number of Nonresidential Buildings Constructed for Hamburg, Germany [A0281EDE00HAMA470NNBR], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A0281EDE00HAMA470NNBR, December 14, 2019.


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Made by Apilco, France's leading producer of restaurant-quality porcelain products, this five-piece serving set is the perfect complement to classic dinnerware, whether casual or formal. Salt and pepper shakers and a lidded mustard pot with matching spoon sit on a tidy square tray.
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