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LBU Off-Season Training!!!🚨🚨🚨 Pass Covergae Day!🔥 - 45/45 angle drops, break straight down - Shuffle straight back, break 45 - Stay low, in a good base the whole way through - Drop straight back, break 90 - Back pedal, break 45 off of reaction - Sprint, back pedal, sprint...

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Peter Flaherty III

34,299 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

🚨 ISLAMIZATION OF AMERICAN SCHOOL CHILDREN YOUR KIDS GOT EXTRA CREDIT AT AN ILLINOIS MOSQUE RUN BY ICNA’S CONVERSION ARM A "world religion" class was taken to a Chicago-area mosque with their teacher, Emily. The man in front of them was not a museum guide. He was Dr. Sabeel Ahmed of GainPeace - the official dawah / outreach project of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA). Speakers. Open houses. Free Qurans. Follow-up for new Muslims. That is ICNA’s public conversion apparatus. ICNA is not a bake sale. Investigators have documented its Jamaat-e-Islami roots. The 1991 Muslim Brotherhood memo - entered as evidence in the Holy Land Foundation trial - listed ICNA among “our organizations and the organizations of our friends.” Before the tour even started, he asked Aaron what class it was. World religion. Had they already covered the Islam chapter? Yes. Then he said it was “fair game” to quiz them. On tape: “Extra grade, right? Extra credit, perhaps. Some of you need some extra credits.” Hands went up. He ran them through the pillars like Sunday school. Daily prayer. Hajj once in a lifetime. Ramadan. He asked how many Muslims were in the class. Aaron. Amir. Yusuf. Emily asked when kids start fasting. He said obligation starts at puberty - then bragged that his son fasted the entire month at age seven. He bragged on film about how his little daughter puts on hijab automatically when she leaves the house. A student asked how you convert. No baptism. No pool in the basement. Understand the six beliefs and five pillars, then say: There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is His messenger. That sentence makes you a Muslim. Then you are expected to live by it. Another student asked the question every parent should hear: What happens if you follow another faith? This is where the game begins. He quoted Quran 2:256: no compulsion in religion. No force. Peaceful education. Your choice. Then he flipped it. Islam is the faith God ordained for humanity. Islam means submitting to the Creator. If you hear that and consciously reject it, there are consequences. Life is a classroom. God is the teacher. At the end comes the exam. Paradise if you submit. Hellfire if you die having rejected Islam. He never told them what “no compulsion” leaves out. The same chapter tells Muslims to fight until religion is for Allah. Muhammad said he was ordered to fight people until they declare there is no god but Allah. Leave Islam after entering it, and classical law is not a debate club. The hadith is: kill him. Apostasy has been punished that way for 1,400 years. A top cleric later admitted that without the apostasy punishment, Islam would not exist today. None of that made the field trip. He also told Christian students there are no statues, no images, no mediator. You pray straight to God. That is not a décor note. That is a denial of Christ as mediator, delivered to kids sitting on a mosque floor for class credit. Women and girls pray upstairs. Men downstairs. His “logical” reason on tape: a boy standing shoulder to shoulder, touching a pretty girl, might think about her instead of God. Prostration in mixed rows would not be “decent.” Friday prayer: men must leave school and work. He said the place holds maybe 300 on a normal day and 2,000 on Friday - gym, basement, classrooms, two services. Kids from the full-time Islamic school break class and file in. He called it the second-largest Islamic school in the United States. Emily did not push back. She sold it. “Very inclusive.” “You got their brains stirring.” Shoes off - “immersive.” Come back during prayer and watch them pray, if the school allows it. “Way better to see it than read it in a book.” She even showed the class One Day in the Haram on Amazon - a Mecca film about spreading Islam on social media. This was not interfaith. This was ICNA GainPeace dawah with a public-school teacher, extra credit, and a camera. Illinois parents: who signed the slip? Who called this extra credit? Who partnered a classroom with a Brotherhood-listed network’s missionary wing and called it education? SEE THE FULL REPORT HERE:
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🚨 ISLAMIZATION OF AMERICAN SCHOOL CHILDREN YOUR KIDS GOT EXTRA CREDIT AT AN ILLINOIS MOSQUE RUN BY ICNA’S CONVERSION ARM A "world religion" class was taken to a Chicago-area mosque with their teacher, Emily. The man in front of them was not a museum guide. He was Dr. Sabeel Ahmed of GainPeace - the official dawah / outreach project of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA). Speakers. Open houses. Free Qurans. Follow-up for new Muslims. That is ICNA’s public conversion apparatus. ICNA is not a bake sale. Investigators have documented its Jamaat-e-Islami roots. The 1991 Muslim Brotherhood memo - entered as evidence in the Holy Land Foundation trial - listed ICNA among “our organizations and the organizations of our friends.” Before the tour even started, he asked Aaron what class it was. World religion. Had they already covered the Islam chapter? Yes. Then he said it was “fair game” to quiz them. On tape: “Extra grade, right? Extra credit, perhaps. Some of you need some extra credits.” Hands went up. He ran them through the pillars like Sunday school. Daily prayer. Hajj once in a lifetime. Ramadan. He asked how many Muslims were in the class. Aaron. Amir. Yusuf. Emily asked when kids start fasting. He said obligation starts at puberty - then bragged that his son fasted the entire month at age seven. He bragged on film about how his little daughter puts on hijab automatically when she leaves the house. A student asked how you convert. No baptism. No pool in the basement. Understand the six beliefs and five pillars, then say: There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is His messenger. That sentence makes you a Muslim. Then you are expected to live by it. Another student asked the question every parent should hear: What happens if you follow another faith? This is where the game begins. He quoted Quran 2:256: no compulsion in religion. No force. Peaceful education. Your choice. Then he flipped it. Islam is the faith God ordained for humanity. Islam means submitting to the Creator. If you hear that and consciously reject it, there are consequences. Life is a classroom. God is the teacher. At the end comes the exam. Paradise if you submit. Hellfire if you die having rejected Islam. He never told them what “no compulsion” leaves out. The same chapter tells Muslims to fight until religion is for Allah. Muhammad said he was ordered to fight people until they declare there is no god but Allah. Leave Islam after entering it, and classical law is not a debate club. The hadith is: kill him. Apostasy has been punished that way for 1,400 years. A top cleric later admitted that without the apostasy punishment, Islam would not exist today. None of that made the field trip. He also told Christian students there are no statues, no images, no mediator. You pray straight to God. That is not a décor note. That is a denial of Christ as mediator, delivered to kids sitting on a mosque floor for class credit. Women and girls pray upstairs. Men downstairs. His “logical” reason on tape: a boy standing shoulder to shoulder, touching a pretty girl, might think about her instead of God. Prostration in mixed rows would not be “decent.” Friday prayer: men must leave school and work. He said the place holds maybe 300 on a normal day and 2,000 on Friday - gym, basement, classrooms, two services. Kids from the full-time Islamic school break class and file in. He called it the second-largest Islamic school in the United States. Emily did not push back. She sold it. “Very inclusive.” “You got their brains stirring.” Shoes off - “immersive.” Come back during prayer and watch them pray, if the school allows it. “Way better to see it than read it in a book.” She even showed the class One Day in the Haram on Amazon - a Mecca film about spreading Islam on social media. This was not interfaith. This was ICNA GainPeace dawah with a public-school teacher, extra credit, and a camera. Illinois parents: who signed the slip? Who called this extra credit? Who partnered a classroom with a Brotherhood-listed network’s missionary wing and called it education? SEE THE FULL REPORT HERE:

Amy Mek

38,603 Aufrufe • vor 22 Tagen

Carlos Estévez on why Shohei Ohtani is an Android built on discipline and raw talent; (Written and translated by Master Flip) He’s a robot. Straight up, that guy’s a robot. He’s in a league of his own. His routine, the way he prepares from the moment he steps on the field, the discipline it takes to be ready for a 2 p.m. first pitch, it’s not easy. But that discipline is incredible. And it’s where the whole talent vs. hard work debate gets real. I’m a firm believer in hard work. I’m the kind of guy who was made through grind, I don’t have natural gifts like that. I’ve always said hard work beats talent when talent slacks off. But Ohtani? He’s the rare combination of both. That’s how you end up with an Android. As a hitter, he barely needs BP on the field. He heads straight to the cage, does a drill going the other way, and that’s it. Hitting is hard, everyone knows it, but this guy does minimal tuning and still turns into a beast at the plate. Pitching, though? That’s where he puts in the real work. He comes out, throws weighted balls, drills his mechanics, grinds on every detail. Maybe it’s because pitching is the side where he’s humanely made, but he’s naturally a hitter, that’s the way I see it. Either way, his ability is unreal. One time, he made an out against Michael King’s sinker and immediately asked, “What was that? A sinker? How do you grip it?” The very next day in the bullpen, he’s out there throwing sinkers. The day before he pitches, he’ll throw maybe 10–15 pitches in the pen. Then, three pitches into his start the next day, boom, a sinker! I’m sitting there thinking, How?! I’ve spent a thousand years trying to perfect a nasty slider, and he just picks up something new and drops it in game like it’s nothing. The lifestyle that level of player lives is tough. Guys like Trout are the same way, they have to stay low key because everyone knows them. At the ’23 All-Star Game, I flew with Ohtani, hung out with him the whole time until we got to the hotel. Once we arrived, it was straight to the back entrance for him, different access. I just said, goodbye Charlie, I’ll see you later, and went off with the regular mortals. But we bonded over the little things. I play video games, watch anime and read manga, he does too. That’s how we became close. This year at the All Star Game, he was repping the NL and I was on the AL side. He waited for me. My oldest daughter yelled “Ohtani!” and he recognized her right away, so he held up just to talk to me. That’s who he is, he’s a superstar among superstars. All the other MLB stars want pics with him. He’s the only one on that level. I’m not exaggerating. There’s that famous video from the ’23 All Star Game where he was about to take a selfie and the phone almost dropped. It was with me, he was coming over to snap a pic, but I yanked him out of the swarm. Everyone was crowding him with, “Let’s take a pic! Let’s take a pic!” I yelled, “Ohtani, let’s take a pic!” and he ran straight to me. He took the selfie, the phone nearly slipped, that’s the clip that went viral. When we got inside, he looked at me and said, “Thank you.” He noticed right away. He’s not gonna call anyone out or act rude, he just handles it with class.” 🎥 Abriendo Sports
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Carlos Estévez on why Shohei Ohtani is an Android built on discipline and raw talent; (Written and translated by Master Flip) He’s a robot. Straight up, that guy’s a robot. He’s in a league of his own. His routine, the way he prepares from the moment he steps on the field, the discipline it takes to be ready for a 2 p.m. first pitch, it’s not easy. But that discipline is incredible. And it’s where the whole talent vs. hard work debate gets real. I’m a firm believer in hard work. I’m the kind of guy who was made through grind, I don’t have natural gifts like that. I’ve always said hard work beats talent when talent slacks off. But Ohtani? He’s the rare combination of both. That’s how you end up with an Android. As a hitter, he barely needs BP on the field. He heads straight to the cage, does a drill going the other way, and that’s it. Hitting is hard, everyone knows it, but this guy does minimal tuning and still turns into a beast at the plate. Pitching, though? That’s where he puts in the real work. He comes out, throws weighted balls, drills his mechanics, grinds on every detail. Maybe it’s because pitching is the side where he’s humanely made, but he’s naturally a hitter, that’s the way I see it. Either way, his ability is unreal. One time, he made an out against Michael King’s sinker and immediately asked, “What was that? A sinker? How do you grip it?” The very next day in the bullpen, he’s out there throwing sinkers. The day before he pitches, he’ll throw maybe 10–15 pitches in the pen. Then, three pitches into his start the next day, boom, a sinker! I’m sitting there thinking, How?! I’ve spent a thousand years trying to perfect a nasty slider, and he just picks up something new and drops it in game like it’s nothing. The lifestyle that level of player lives is tough. Guys like Trout are the same way, they have to stay low key because everyone knows them. At the ’23 All-Star Game, I flew with Ohtani, hung out with him the whole time until we got to the hotel. Once we arrived, it was straight to the back entrance for him, different access. I just said, goodbye Charlie, I’ll see you later, and went off with the regular mortals. But we bonded over the little things. I play video games, watch anime and read manga, he does too. That’s how we became close. This year at the All Star Game, he was repping the NL and I was on the AL side. He waited for me. My oldest daughter yelled “Ohtani!” and he recognized her right away, so he held up just to talk to me. That’s who he is, he’s a superstar among superstars. All the other MLB stars want pics with him. He’s the only one on that level. I’m not exaggerating. There’s that famous video from the ’23 All Star Game where he was about to take a selfie and the phone almost dropped. It was with me, he was coming over to snap a pic, but I yanked him out of the swarm. Everyone was crowding him with, “Let’s take a pic! Let’s take a pic!” I yelled, “Ohtani, let’s take a pic!” and he ran straight to me. He took the selfie, the phone nearly slipped, that’s the clip that went viral. When we got inside, he looked at me and said, “Thank you.” He noticed right away. He’s not gonna call anyone out or act rude, he just handles it with class.” 🎥 Abriendo Sports

Master Flip 🇩🇴

104,086 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten

What I do have is … a 6’8 3&D forward. High motor. Unselfish. Excellent touch (38% 3PT, 84% FT). I stopped making highlight tapes and am more focused on Game clips that tell more of the story. This is for real basketball heads with vision and eye for development. But he’s ready to help a program NOW. 19 years old. All conference Potential as a defender. Notice in these clips how discipline he is staying in the ground vs. pump fakes… even with a FORTY-SIX inch vertical. No exaggeration. He is excellent in help rotations. Truly defends 1-5. But isn’t just a dumb athlete jumping all over the place. Gives 100% effort to run back in transition to alter shots. Will be the most athletic player on the team as a freshman. Speed and vertical Is an excellent cutter off the ball. 45 cutter and corner Lob threat. There’s no defense for a paint touch and throwing the ball over the square. If you have good guards he can account for 5 assists a game. His shooting is what’s most impressive to me. Has ability to be 40% 3pt shooter because of great shot selection.. mechanics and touch. Strong rebounder offensively and defensively. Also what makes him special is his ability to Guard other teams scoring point guards. He will win the matchup. I’ve seen him Shut down 4/5 stars all year Coaches interested in still taking freshman you won’t find one much better than him as far as adding him on to a good culture team and being able to count on him right away. 6’8 195lb with a frame To hold 205-210 next year. Casey Williams ElitePrepLeague Rashad Phillips Cory Underwood 🎓🤓🏀 x 🏀🧠📈 Dave's Joint Again.. these clips are from 1 game vs. a top 15 team in a 30pt win. Impact Player
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What I do have is … a 6’8 3&D forward. High motor. Unselfish. Excellent touch (38% 3PT, 84% FT). I stopped making highlight tapes and am more focused on Game clips that tell more of the story. This is for real basketball heads with vision and eye for development. But he’s ready to help a program NOW. 19 years old. All conference Potential as a defender. Notice in these clips how discipline he is staying in the ground vs. pump fakes… even with a FORTY-SIX inch vertical. No exaggeration. He is excellent in help rotations. Truly defends 1-5. But isn’t just a dumb athlete jumping all over the place. Gives 100% effort to run back in transition to alter shots. Will be the most athletic player on the team as a freshman. Speed and vertical Is an excellent cutter off the ball. 45 cutter and corner Lob threat. There’s no defense for a paint touch and throwing the ball over the square. If you have good guards he can account for 5 assists a game. His shooting is what’s most impressive to me. Has ability to be 40% 3pt shooter because of great shot selection.. mechanics and touch. Strong rebounder offensively and defensively. Also what makes him special is his ability to Guard other teams scoring point guards. He will win the matchup. I’ve seen him Shut down 4/5 stars all year Coaches interested in still taking freshman you won’t find one much better than him as far as adding him on to a good culture team and being able to count on him right away. 6’8 195lb with a frame To hold 205-210 next year. Casey Williams ElitePrepLeague Rashad Phillips Cory Underwood 🎓🤓🏀 x 🏀🧠📈 Dave's Joint Again.. these clips are from 1 game vs. a top 15 team in a 30pt win. Impact Player

@coachrobjohnson

14,651 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

1B Tanner Thach (UNCW Baseball) is another college bat to keep close tabs on this season. Thach was drafted by the Giants in the 18th round of the 2022 draft but decided to honor his commitment to the Seahawks. Thach made a significant impact in his first year on campus and posted a .290/.356/.544 slash line with 11 2B, 15 HR—a UNCW single-season freshman record—and 68 RBIs. He outdid himself in 2024 and hit .324/.406/.700 with 11 2B, a UNCW single-season record 27 HR and 75 RBIs in 61 games. Thach’s production didn’t end there, though, as he was named a Cape League all-star, hitting .275/.367/.493 with 6 doubles, 8 HR and 25 RBIs. Thach has a strong, physical build at 6’4” and 220-lbs. He has a crouched stance in the box with an open front side and a medium-high handset. It’s a bit of a noisy load in which he drops and drifts his hands, but Thach does possess plenty of bat speed. He has a steep, uphill swing path, and it’s a violent operation that is geared towards getting the ball up in the air and doing damage. However, it can get long at times. Thach’s carrying tool is undoubtedly his immense power. He has established a now-lengthy track record of power production with both metal and wood, and he has zero issue tapping into it on a game-to-game basis. Thach has home run power to all fields, though his highest quality of contact comes to the pull side. He gets the ball up in the air on a consistent basis, and when he catches the baseball on the sweet spot, it flies. Thach posted maximum exit velocities during the spring and summer of 113.5 mph and 103.1 mph, respectively. At the start of the summer, he would sometimes unnecessarily sell out to get to his power which caused him to top-spin line drives to the pull side, but as the season progressed he was able to break that habit. Thach has plus in-game power to all fields. The biggest key going forward for Thach is for him to continue to make enough contact to get to his power on a regular basis. His bat-to-ball skills are fringy, though he did post a 90% in-zone contact rate against all fastballs. Like a lot of hitters, the root of Thach’s contact struggles are secondary offerings. He’ll have difficulty at times picking up spin out of the hand which leads to both miss and chase. Thach will also tend to whiff and chase against heaters that are either elevated or on the outer-half of the plate. However, he does handle velocity well and last season he hit .533/.588/1.033 against all fastballs 92+. While Thach feasts on righthanded pitching, he hit just .246/.321/.551 last season against lefties. Thach’s power is tremendous, but he’ll need to add a coat or two of polish to his hit-ability as he transitions into professional baseball. First base isn’t the flashiest defensive profile, but Thach moves well around the bag and is a strong athlete at the position. He’s not afraid to range into the four-hole and he is a reassuring anchor on the right side of the infield. Thach has an advanced baseball sense, a trait that shines on a game-to-game basis. While he won’t pitch professionally, expect Thach to log some innings this spring for UNCW. His fastball tops out in the low 90s and flashes some hop in the top of the zone, but he’ll also mix in a mid-70s curveball and a low-80s changeup. The cherry on top with Thach is his makeup, both on and off the field. It’s impossible to stick a grade on it because it’s a 90 on the 20-80 scale. Would have him as a 2nd-early 3rd round type this July. (🎥: UNCW Baseball, Cotuit Kettleers)
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1B Tanner Thach (UNCW Baseball) is another college bat to keep close tabs on this season. Thach was drafted by the Giants in the 18th round of the 2022 draft but decided to honor his commitment to the Seahawks. Thach made a significant impact in his first year on campus and posted a .290/.356/.544 slash line with 11 2B, 15 HR—a UNCW single-season freshman record—and 68 RBIs. He outdid himself in 2024 and hit .324/.406/.700 with 11 2B, a UNCW single-season record 27 HR and 75 RBIs in 61 games. Thach’s production didn’t end there, though, as he was named a Cape League all-star, hitting .275/.367/.493 with 6 doubles, 8 HR and 25 RBIs. Thach has a strong, physical build at 6’4” and 220-lbs. He has a crouched stance in the box with an open front side and a medium-high handset. It’s a bit of a noisy load in which he drops and drifts his hands, but Thach does possess plenty of bat speed. He has a steep, uphill swing path, and it’s a violent operation that is geared towards getting the ball up in the air and doing damage. However, it can get long at times. Thach’s carrying tool is undoubtedly his immense power. He has established a now-lengthy track record of power production with both metal and wood, and he has zero issue tapping into it on a game-to-game basis. Thach has home run power to all fields, though his highest quality of contact comes to the pull side. He gets the ball up in the air on a consistent basis, and when he catches the baseball on the sweet spot, it flies. Thach posted maximum exit velocities during the spring and summer of 113.5 mph and 103.1 mph, respectively. At the start of the summer, he would sometimes unnecessarily sell out to get to his power which caused him to top-spin line drives to the pull side, but as the season progressed he was able to break that habit. Thach has plus in-game power to all fields. The biggest key going forward for Thach is for him to continue to make enough contact to get to his power on a regular basis. His bat-to-ball skills are fringy, though he did post a 90% in-zone contact rate against all fastballs. Like a lot of hitters, the root of Thach’s contact struggles are secondary offerings. He’ll have difficulty at times picking up spin out of the hand which leads to both miss and chase. Thach will also tend to whiff and chase against heaters that are either elevated or on the outer-half of the plate. However, he does handle velocity well and last season he hit .533/.588/1.033 against all fastballs 92+. While Thach feasts on righthanded pitching, he hit just .246/.321/.551 last season against lefties. Thach’s power is tremendous, but he’ll need to add a coat or two of polish to his hit-ability as he transitions into professional baseball. First base isn’t the flashiest defensive profile, but Thach moves well around the bag and is a strong athlete at the position. He’s not afraid to range into the four-hole and he is a reassuring anchor on the right side of the infield. Thach has an advanced baseball sense, a trait that shines on a game-to-game basis. While he won’t pitch professionally, expect Thach to log some innings this spring for UNCW. His fastball tops out in the low 90s and flashes some hop in the top of the zone, but he’ll also mix in a mid-70s curveball and a low-80s changeup. The cherry on top with Thach is his makeup, both on and off the field. It’s impossible to stick a grade on it because it’s a 90 on the 20-80 scale. Would have him as a 2nd-early 3rd round type this July. (🎥: UNCW Baseball, Cotuit Kettleers)

Peter Flaherty III

42,659 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

We are very sad to share the loss of a member of our NFRSA family. RPD Alfie - ‘Alf’ for short, and who served for an astonishing ten years with WMP Dog Unit and West Midlands Police, slipped away with his tennis ball in his mouth last week and Darryl, his handler, shared his wonderful story. “Alf was gifted to West Midlands Police when he was just 10 months old. The reason given by his then owner (who was in tears) “he was so destructive we can’t do a thing with him. He’s a pain in the arse.” What should’ve been a 6 week course was completed in 4 weeks. Turns out he just needed a job.! Alfie went on to work for 10 years during which time he found numerous amounts of drugs, cash and firearms. On one occasion we arrived for our first early shift of the week. A shooting had occurred during the night in a particularly nice part of Birmingham and Alfie and I were tasked with searching for the outstanding firearm. Arriving at the scene I spoke with the Sgt in charge of the search team. “It’s a massive area full of all kinds of s**t. Could you just run Alf over it to see if he shows any interest anywhere. I’ll be in the van, give us a shout.” In typical Alfie fashion, off he went like a stabbed rat, clambering over all manner of junk only to freeze. He’d found it.!! The Sgt hadn’t even taken the froth off his coffee. No matter what time of day or night, no matter what the weather or search conditions Alfie gave his all. With his wonky front foot to his long whippy tail, he made me laugh everyday, he was a real little character. This was summed up on one particular occasion. Monday morning, refresher training. The instructor “We’ve been asked to give a demo at HQ for some VIPs.” Me “No, I don't do media” Later in the day we found ourselves at HQ in front of 100 or so VIPs, all sat in a lecture theatre waiting to be amazed by one of West Mids finest.! The instructor “I’ve hidden the gear (Drugs) in the electrical socket underneath the main screen so everyone can see him work.” In we go and Alfie goes to work, gradually getting closer & closer to the drugs. Standing on his back legs,front feet on the wall. I’m looking on like a proud Dad. Alfies almost on top of the drugs when all of a sudden he drops what he’s doing and shoots towards the audience, running between legs beneath the chairs towards the buffet..!! Oh dear, I thought.! Alfie, having helped himself to a Somosa came running back whilst struggling to swallow the thing. He then went straight back to the drugs giving a perfect “freeze” indication which got a round of applause from the now hysterical audience..!! I reluctantly gave a “click” for a job well done and he come flying over for his ball. As if things couldn’t get any worse and just for good measure Alfie started rolling around on his back all happy with himself and revealed his “pink lipstick”..!! That was Alfie.🥰🐾 Following retirement Alfie went to many a shoot with my wife Jane and our daughter Milly, retrieving & flushing game birds. He was a natural. He passed with a tennis ball in his mouth just the way he wanted. It was an absolute pleasure and honour to have worked Alfie. He put a smile on my face every single day. RIP Little man❤️” What a little star he was - thank you for your service Alfie. Sweet dreams.
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We are very sad to share the loss of a member of our NFRSA family. RPD Alfie - ‘Alf’ for short, and who served for an astonishing ten years with WMP Dog Unit and West Midlands Police, slipped away with his tennis ball in his mouth last week and Darryl, his handler, shared his wonderful story. “Alf was gifted to West Midlands Police when he was just 10 months old. The reason given by his then owner (who was in tears) “he was so destructive we can’t do a thing with him. He’s a pain in the arse.” What should’ve been a 6 week course was completed in 4 weeks. Turns out he just needed a job.! Alfie went on to work for 10 years during which time he found numerous amounts of drugs, cash and firearms. On one occasion we arrived for our first early shift of the week. A shooting had occurred during the night in a particularly nice part of Birmingham and Alfie and I were tasked with searching for the outstanding firearm. Arriving at the scene I spoke with the Sgt in charge of the search team. “It’s a massive area full of all kinds of s**t. Could you just run Alf over it to see if he shows any interest anywhere. I’ll be in the van, give us a shout.” In typical Alfie fashion, off he went like a stabbed rat, clambering over all manner of junk only to freeze. He’d found it.!! The Sgt hadn’t even taken the froth off his coffee. No matter what time of day or night, no matter what the weather or search conditions Alfie gave his all. With his wonky front foot to his long whippy tail, he made me laugh everyday, he was a real little character. This was summed up on one particular occasion. Monday morning, refresher training. The instructor “We’ve been asked to give a demo at HQ for some VIPs.” Me “No, I don't do media” Later in the day we found ourselves at HQ in front of 100 or so VIPs, all sat in a lecture theatre waiting to be amazed by one of West Mids finest.! The instructor “I’ve hidden the gear (Drugs) in the electrical socket underneath the main screen so everyone can see him work.” In we go and Alfie goes to work, gradually getting closer & closer to the drugs. Standing on his back legs,front feet on the wall. I’m looking on like a proud Dad. Alfies almost on top of the drugs when all of a sudden he drops what he’s doing and shoots towards the audience, running between legs beneath the chairs towards the buffet..!! Oh dear, I thought.! Alfie, having helped himself to a Somosa came running back whilst struggling to swallow the thing. He then went straight back to the drugs giving a perfect “freeze” indication which got a round of applause from the now hysterical audience..!! I reluctantly gave a “click” for a job well done and he come flying over for his ball. As if things couldn’t get any worse and just for good measure Alfie started rolling around on his back all happy with himself and revealed his “pink lipstick”..!! That was Alfie.🥰🐾 Following retirement Alfie went to many a shoot with my wife Jane and our daughter Milly, retrieving & flushing game birds. He was a natural. He passed with a tennis ball in his mouth just the way he wanted. It was an absolute pleasure and honour to have worked Alfie. He put a smile on my face every single day. RIP Little man❤️” What a little star he was - thank you for your service Alfie. Sweet dreams.

NFRSA

15,328 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten

🚨 Ghana’s Viral Scandal: Russian Dude Yaytseslav Picking Up & Posting Ghanaian Ladies Like It’s a Game! 😱🇬🇭 Accra streets are buzzing—and not in a good way! A self-proclaimed Russian guy named Yaytseslav has gone mega-viral for approaching random Ghanaian women at spots like Accra Mall, charming them with quick convos, convincing them to head back to his place… and then sharing explicit videos of their encounters online on TikTok, YouTube, and Telegram! From the clips circulating: He meets ladies shopping or chilling. Within minutes to an hour, they’re exchanging numbers or following him home. Post-hookup? Towel pics, private moments leaked, and he brags about it all—claiming he’s “chopped” over 100 Ghanaian women (including some married or taken ones, according to reports). Outrage is exploding online: “Shameful!” screams one headline. “These same girls wey dey claim high class?” fans are roasting. Many calling it exploitation, lack of consent in sharing, and straight-up predatory behavior targeting locals with “foreigner appeal.” Is this just content creation gone wrong, or something darker? Privacy invasion, revenge porn vibes, and questions about consent are flying everywhere. Ghanaian women and men are divided—some blaming the ladies for “falling easy,” others slamming the Russian for exploiting and humiliating. Y’all in Accra, stay woke out there! Has this guy crossed a line, or is it all hype? Drop your honest takes below—no filter! 🔥 #YaytseslavDrama #AccraMall #GhanaViral #BroniPɛtɛ #ProtectOurSisters
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🚨 Ghana’s Viral Scandal: Russian Dude Yaytseslav Picking Up & Posting Ghanaian Ladies Like It’s a Game! 😱🇬🇭 Accra streets are buzzing—and not in a good way! A self-proclaimed Russian guy named Yaytseslav has gone mega-viral for approaching random Ghanaian women at spots like Accra Mall, charming them with quick convos, convincing them to head back to his place… and then sharing explicit videos of their encounters online on TikTok, YouTube, and Telegram! From the clips circulating: He meets ladies shopping or chilling. Within minutes to an hour, they’re exchanging numbers or following him home. Post-hookup? Towel pics, private moments leaked, and he brags about it all—claiming he’s “chopped” over 100 Ghanaian women (including some married or taken ones, according to reports). Outrage is exploding online: “Shameful!” screams one headline. “These same girls wey dey claim high class?” fans are roasting. Many calling it exploitation, lack of consent in sharing, and straight-up predatory behavior targeting locals with “foreigner appeal.” Is this just content creation gone wrong, or something darker? Privacy invasion, revenge porn vibes, and questions about consent are flying everywhere. Ghanaian women and men are divided—some blaming the ladies for “falling easy,” others slamming the Russian for exploiting and humiliating. Y’all in Accra, stay woke out there! Has this guy crossed a line, or is it all hype? Drop your honest takes below—no filter! 🔥 #YaytseslavDrama #AccraMall #GhanaViral #BroniPɛtɛ #ProtectOurSisters

X Mayor ✡️

107,329 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten

This video would break anyone’s heart if they have one; it shows a young Zimbabwean woman being subjected to a vicious xenophobic attack in South Africa at Kalafong Hospital. She was shouted at like a communal dog. This is what Zimbabweans have been subjected and reduced to by Emmerson Mnangagwa’s corrupt regime. This is the direct result of Mnangagwa’s looting of public funds! Setting aside the ugly xenophobic attack, I have always said that 2,500 Zimbabwean women die annually giving birth inside Zimbabwe. 300 babies died this year in January alone during childbirth in Zimbabwe, these are official hospital figures which don’t include those who died at home. The biggest hospital in Zimbabwe, Sally Mugabe Hospital, only has one maternity theatre, built in 1977 by Ian Smith. The ZANUPF government has never built a single maternity theatre at the country’s biggest hospital in the 45 years it has been in power, nothing, yet it costs only US$37,000 to build one. The healthcare crisis in Zimbabwe is caused by a thieving president who doesn’t care one bit about how the people he is ruling (not leading) are living. He steals the money meant to build and maintain hospitals so that his people don’t die unnecessarily. This woman in the video represents thousands of women who, out of fear of dying, are crossing the border to give birth in South Africa. According to South Africa’s health minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, 70% of women giving birth at Limpopo’s Musina Hospital are Zimbabwean. Yet for a few Landcruisers, Zimbabwe could remove this embarrassment and build maternity theatres for itself. Shamelessly, South Africa’s ruling party, the ANC, supports and publicly declares its undying solidarity with ZANUPF and corrupt Mnangagwa, the very people who have authored the illegal migrant crisis that is bedevilling South Africa today. We know of this incident because it was video-recorded, but there are thousands more happening without a cell phone recording them, thousands more Zimbabwean women being degraded and publicly humiliated like this simply because of a corrupt president back in Harare! This level of indignity and lack of respect is brought to us by ZANUPF and Mnangagwa’s insatiable appetite for stealing public funds, and he does it brazenly, without any sense of shame! For how long shall Zimbabweans continue being humiliated like this? For how long shall the ANC continue giving solidarity to a retrogressive party like ZANUPF? For how long shall President Ramaphosa continue watching while Mnangagwa keeps piling problems on his doorstep? Until Zimbabweans realise that this corrosive abuse is sponsored by Mnangagwa’s well known and recorded thieving, we are damned!
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This video would break anyone’s heart if they have one; it shows a young Zimbabwean woman being subjected to a vicious xenophobic attack in South Africa at Kalafong Hospital. She was shouted at like a communal dog. This is what Zimbabweans have been subjected and reduced to by Emmerson Mnangagwa’s corrupt regime. This is the direct result of Mnangagwa’s looting of public funds! Setting aside the ugly xenophobic attack, I have always said that 2,500 Zimbabwean women die annually giving birth inside Zimbabwe. 300 babies died this year in January alone during childbirth in Zimbabwe, these are official hospital figures which don’t include those who died at home. The biggest hospital in Zimbabwe, Sally Mugabe Hospital, only has one maternity theatre, built in 1977 by Ian Smith. The ZANUPF government has never built a single maternity theatre at the country’s biggest hospital in the 45 years it has been in power, nothing, yet it costs only US$37,000 to build one. The healthcare crisis in Zimbabwe is caused by a thieving president who doesn’t care one bit about how the people he is ruling (not leading) are living. He steals the money meant to build and maintain hospitals so that his people don’t die unnecessarily. This woman in the video represents thousands of women who, out of fear of dying, are crossing the border to give birth in South Africa. According to South Africa’s health minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, 70% of women giving birth at Limpopo’s Musina Hospital are Zimbabwean. Yet for a few Landcruisers, Zimbabwe could remove this embarrassment and build maternity theatres for itself. Shamelessly, South Africa’s ruling party, the ANC, supports and publicly declares its undying solidarity with ZANUPF and corrupt Mnangagwa, the very people who have authored the illegal migrant crisis that is bedevilling South Africa today. We know of this incident because it was video-recorded, but there are thousands more happening without a cell phone recording them, thousands more Zimbabwean women being degraded and publicly humiliated like this simply because of a corrupt president back in Harare! This level of indignity and lack of respect is brought to us by ZANUPF and Mnangagwa’s insatiable appetite for stealing public funds, and he does it brazenly, without any sense of shame! For how long shall Zimbabweans continue being humiliated like this? For how long shall the ANC continue giving solidarity to a retrogressive party like ZANUPF? For how long shall President Ramaphosa continue watching while Mnangagwa keeps piling problems on his doorstep? Until Zimbabweans realise that this corrosive abuse is sponsored by Mnangagwa’s well known and recorded thieving, we are damned!

Hopewell Chin’ono

115,657 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

🚨CORRUPTION IN SMITH COUNTY, TEXAS - PART TWO - NO WITNESSES. NO TESTIMONY. JUST A POWERPOINT: 🚨 INSIDE THE SMITH COUNTY GRAND JURY THAT NO-BILLED THE DEPUTY WHO KILLED JONATHAN LAYTON A SECOND THREAD - ALL PARTS WILL ENRAGE YOU 🧵 Ten days after Jonathan Layton was shot, Deputies Braylon Barnes and Raj Baran were interviewed by the Texas Rangers. They interviews were not under oath, and with their attorneys were present. Comparing the interviews to the body-camera footage reveals stark contradictions. Despite the body-camera video contradicting Deputy Barnes’ unsworn account, the Texas Rangers and Smith County District Attorney did not call Deputy Barnes, Deputy Baran or any members of the Layton family present to testify under oath. The video clearly shows that Jonathan came to the front door of the home he shared with his mother and brother with a handgun. Every citizen has the right to bear arms in their home. The video shows Jonathan held the gun in his left hand when he came through the door, and transitioned it to his right, dominant hand once he was in the threshold. The video indicates that Jonathan used his right hand to open the door his brother Freddy had closed to keep the dogs inside. As he came out, he transitioned the gun from his left to his right hand, but never placed his finger on the trigger and never used his thumb to grip the pistol. At all times in the video, the gun is pointed straight down Jonathan’s right side with his finger off the trigger, outside the trigger guard and extended down the barrel of the gun. Deputy Baran saw the gun first. He drew his weapon and ordered Jonathan to “drop the gun.” Barnes appears not to react to the gun at all. His hands are resting on his utility belt, his shoulders are relaxed and his feet are positioned parallel to the doorway. After Baran gives the command to “drop the gun,” two seconds pass before Barnes draws his weapon, ejects a live round from the chamber and then fires four bullets in less than a second. Although Barnes in his statement claims he only fired twice, the video shows four rounds being fired. Three struck Jonathan, including one in his back. Deputy Baran never fired. Barnes would later tell the Texas Rangers that during those two seconds (1) he noticed a blank stare, apparently looking closely at Jonathan’s eyes; (2) he saw Jonathan’s finger move inside the trigger guard; (3) that Jonathan bladed toward him; (4) Jonathan squared up to him; and (5) that he saw Jonathan’s gun hand start to come up into a firing position. The video supports none of Barnes’ account. Deputy Barnes Texas Rangers’ statement describes Jonathan as positioning himself to shoot. Blading is when a person turns to the side in an attack position, similar to what a boxer does before they throw a jab. But for a person to blade toward an officer to shoot them, they would turn so their gun was on the same side as the officer. The video shows Jonathan turning to his right, with his gun still in his right hand, placing his body between the officers and the gun. Jonathan’s trigger finger is not visible, and neither is the gun. Next Barnes describes Jonathan as squaring up toward him. When a person squares up, they turn to face the person. Jonathan never turned to face either deputy. Barnes next states that Jonathan started to raise his gun. The video shows the only arm that Jonathan raised was his left arm to grasp the doorknob to go back inside. When he was shot, the still video shows Jonathan turning away from Barnes placing his body between Barnes and the gun, looking down at the doorknob and grasping it with his left hand. The lawsuit alleges that Jonathan never pointed the gun at either deputy, never lunged toward them and never turned toward Barnes. The allegations in the lawsuit appear consistent with the video. (In this video, you will see bodycam footage, and a clip of the interview between Barnes and the Texas Rangers)
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🚨CORRUPTION IN SMITH COUNTY, TEXAS - PART TWO - NO WITNESSES. NO TESTIMONY. JUST A POWERPOINT: 🚨 INSIDE THE SMITH COUNTY GRAND JURY THAT NO-BILLED THE DEPUTY WHO KILLED JONATHAN LAYTON A SECOND THREAD - ALL PARTS WILL ENRAGE YOU 🧵 Ten days after Jonathan Layton was shot, Deputies Braylon Barnes and Raj Baran were interviewed by the Texas Rangers. They interviews were not under oath, and with their attorneys were present. Comparing the interviews to the body-camera footage reveals stark contradictions. Despite the body-camera video contradicting Deputy Barnes’ unsworn account, the Texas Rangers and Smith County District Attorney did not call Deputy Barnes, Deputy Baran or any members of the Layton family present to testify under oath. The video clearly shows that Jonathan came to the front door of the home he shared with his mother and brother with a handgun. Every citizen has the right to bear arms in their home. The video shows Jonathan held the gun in his left hand when he came through the door, and transitioned it to his right, dominant hand once he was in the threshold. The video indicates that Jonathan used his right hand to open the door his brother Freddy had closed to keep the dogs inside. As he came out, he transitioned the gun from his left to his right hand, but never placed his finger on the trigger and never used his thumb to grip the pistol. At all times in the video, the gun is pointed straight down Jonathan’s right side with his finger off the trigger, outside the trigger guard and extended down the barrel of the gun. Deputy Baran saw the gun first. He drew his weapon and ordered Jonathan to “drop the gun.” Barnes appears not to react to the gun at all. His hands are resting on his utility belt, his shoulders are relaxed and his feet are positioned parallel to the doorway. After Baran gives the command to “drop the gun,” two seconds pass before Barnes draws his weapon, ejects a live round from the chamber and then fires four bullets in less than a second. Although Barnes in his statement claims he only fired twice, the video shows four rounds being fired. Three struck Jonathan, including one in his back. Deputy Baran never fired. Barnes would later tell the Texas Rangers that during those two seconds (1) he noticed a blank stare, apparently looking closely at Jonathan’s eyes; (2) he saw Jonathan’s finger move inside the trigger guard; (3) that Jonathan bladed toward him; (4) Jonathan squared up to him; and (5) that he saw Jonathan’s gun hand start to come up into a firing position. The video supports none of Barnes’ account. Deputy Barnes Texas Rangers’ statement describes Jonathan as positioning himself to shoot. Blading is when a person turns to the side in an attack position, similar to what a boxer does before they throw a jab. But for a person to blade toward an officer to shoot them, they would turn so their gun was on the same side as the officer. The video shows Jonathan turning to his right, with his gun still in his right hand, placing his body between the officers and the gun. Jonathan’s trigger finger is not visible, and neither is the gun. Next Barnes describes Jonathan as squaring up toward him. When a person squares up, they turn to face the person. Jonathan never turned to face either deputy. Barnes next states that Jonathan started to raise his gun. The video shows the only arm that Jonathan raised was his left arm to grasp the doorknob to go back inside. When he was shot, the still video shows Jonathan turning away from Barnes placing his body between Barnes and the gun, looking down at the doorknob and grasping it with his left hand. The lawsuit alleges that Jonathan never pointed the gun at either deputy, never lunged toward them and never turned toward Barnes. The allegations in the lawsuit appear consistent with the video. (In this video, you will see bodycam footage, and a clip of the interview between Barnes and the Texas Rangers)

Sarah Fields

30,005 Aufrufe • vor 8 Tagen

China has come up with a strange solution to gaming addiction: force the kid to play more. Parents send their kids to esports camps that grind the dream out of them. Take one middle schooler named Xiao Dan. By five in the afternoon on his first day, his right index finger was twitching on its own, and it would not stop. He is a junior high student in Fuzhou who told his father he was going to turn pro. So his father, Zhang Feng, drove more than 300 kilometers to an esports club in Shijiazhuang and let the boy live the pro life he kept putting off school for. The father had no doubts: "I've taken him to the arcade. I already think I'm terrible, and he's worse than me." The club charges several thousand yuan for 7 days (a few hundred dollars), and over 10,000 yuan for 22 days (more than $1,480). Training runs 9am to midnight, with breaks only for meals and a run. After every match the kids write a review of how they played, and going in, he figured that was better than school: "As long as it isn't problem sets and online classes, I'll write as many match reviews as you want." Then he actually had to do it, for 15 hours a day. By days two, three, and four, he was miserable at the end of every session. Su Chenhao, who founded the club in 2018, says kids are crying to go home by day two. Asked why this works so well, Su says: "Once anything becomes a KPI assessment, it becomes extremely boring." The game becomes a job, and a 14-year-old quits a job without being asked twice. Nearly 4,000 children have been through since 2018, and the club says 85% were never prospects, just kids avoiding school. On the way out, the club tells the boy he can train again in the holidays, which lands less like a reward than a warning: stay in school, or you will be right back here. So for a few hundred dollars, the parents buy 7 days of the thing their son loved most, turned into a job, until he quits on his own.
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China has come up with a strange solution to gaming addiction: force the kid to play more. Parents send their kids to esports camps that grind the dream out of them. Take one middle schooler named Xiao Dan. By five in the afternoon on his first day, his right index finger was twitching on its own, and it would not stop. He is a junior high student in Fuzhou who told his father he was going to turn pro. So his father, Zhang Feng, drove more than 300 kilometers to an esports club in Shijiazhuang and let the boy live the pro life he kept putting off school for. The father had no doubts: "I've taken him to the arcade. I already think I'm terrible, and he's worse than me." The club charges several thousand yuan for 7 days (a few hundred dollars), and over 10,000 yuan for 22 days (more than $1,480). Training runs 9am to midnight, with breaks only for meals and a run. After every match the kids write a review of how they played, and going in, he figured that was better than school: "As long as it isn't problem sets and online classes, I'll write as many match reviews as you want." Then he actually had to do it, for 15 hours a day. By days two, three, and four, he was miserable at the end of every session. Su Chenhao, who founded the club in 2018, says kids are crying to go home by day two. Asked why this works so well, Su says: "Once anything becomes a KPI assessment, it becomes extremely boring." The game becomes a job, and a 14-year-old quits a job without being asked twice. Nearly 4,000 children have been through since 2018, and the club says 85% were never prospects, just kids avoiding school. On the way out, the club tells the boy he can train again in the holidays, which lands less like a reward than a warning: stay in school, or you will be right back here. So for a few hundred dollars, the parents buy 7 days of the thing their son loved most, turned into a job, until he quits on his own.

Sam Szuchan

23,758 Aufrufe • vor 16 Tagen