Hey Everyone! It’s your favorite NBC’s The Voice Contestant, Shana Halligan!

I’m so excited to be chatting with the Reddit family,  so ask away!

You may remember me from Bitter:Sweet!

Or from my last solo album, Back To Me

Love Thievery Corporation? Me too! I was even featured on their recent track, "Depth of My Soul!"

Got a question about my latest single, Hurricane?

How about my one-on-one battle with Christiana Danielle when we sang King of Leon’s “Use Somebody?"

I bet you didn't know I was the voice of Barbie and the orgasm girl in the Herbal Essence commercial! 📷

More than anything, I love to talk about my amazing family and being a mom!

Let's have a chat!

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What are the Pandora Papers ?

"The Pandora Papers is a leak of almost 12 million documents that reveals hidden wealth, tax avoidance and, in some cases, money laundering by some of the world's rich and powerful.

More than 600 journalists in 117 countries have been trawling through the files from 14 sources for months, finding stories that are being published this week.

The data was obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) in Washington DC, which has been working with more than 140 media organisations on its biggest ever global investigation.

What has been uncovered?

The Pandora Papers leak includes 6.4 million documents, almost three million images, more than a million emails and almost half-a-million spreadsheets.

Stories revealed so far include:

• the owners of more than 1,500 UK properties bought using offshore firms, including individuals accused of corruption
• the Qatari ruling family who avoided £18.5m tax on a London super-mansion
• Sir Philip and Lady Green went on a property spree after off-loading the BHS retail chain which went on to collapse
• the prominent Tory donor who was involved in one of Europe's biggest corruption scandals
• the King of Jordan's £70m spending spree on properties in the UK and US through secretly-owned companies
• Azerbaijan's leading family's hidden involvement in property deals in the UK worth more than £400m
• the Czech prime minister's failure to declare an offshore investment company used to purchase two French villas for £12m
• how the family of Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta's secretly owned a network of offshore companies for decades

The files expose how some of the most powerful people in the world - including more than 330 politicians from 90 countries - use secret offshore companies to hide their wealth."

(Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-58780561)

"The leak shows that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, singer Shakira and many other familiar faces engaged in, at best, aggressive tax avoidance that was accomplished by hiding assets in extremely complex corporate legal entities. Though in some cases hidden funds seem linked to outright corruption, much of this activity is nominally legal – but the very existence of such structures almost guarantees they’re being used for deeply harmful ends well beyond dodging taxes.

For those in the crypto world, it is tem

Death Battle is easily the single most popular YouTube show in all of Vs Debating, but one doesn't get to the top without breaking a few eggs. (That is totally a saying, shut up). Just like with any popular thing, for every fan of Death Battle, you will also find several detractors and people who are critical of the show. The most common issues I hear that people have with Death Battle boil down to a few recurring points that I would like to discuss and also give my own thoughts on what meaningful improvement might look like. By the end of this, I hope to make a case for why Death Battle is a show that is deserving of respect, even if it has certain pain points that could use some work. These points are:

1. The Research
2. The Analysis & Delivery/Execution
3. Animations/Matchups

The Research
Depending on who you talk to, Death Battle is either problematic for low-balling characters into oblivion or wanking them into ridiculousness. Many of these criticisms are lumped under the umbrella of "bad research", but I believe that the criticism is actually trying to say a few different things. When someone criticizes research, they generally are talking about:
a) Missing important feats/Getting things wrong
b) Poor calculations on feats
c) Flawed assumptions behind the calculations
d) Disagreement on the matchup's victor.

While these each seem similar, lumping them all into the same criticism of "research" is a disservice to a solid argument of what should change, and it doesn't actually say what the issue is. Let's start with that first point,
—Missing important feats/getting things wrong.
Ultimately, this is one of the biggest turnoffs to me in a Vs Battle. It seems like the solution is simple, just "double-check everything", but in reality, reliable feat gathering is much more complicated than that. The first step involves determining canon, which is a whole mess itself. Everyone seems to have a different definition of what counts as canon. Some people may view it as "the official continuation of a character's storyline", whereas other places (such as my own show, Smash Bracket) simplify Vs Battle canon as "any official representations of a character". Even once that is established though, the issue is still more complicated than you may think. What if a game is made by another company but has heavy involvement and endorsement from the original company? For example, one of the series I am most informed about—StarFox—has a crossover

The beginning

It all began back in 2003, so yes, 18 years ago a company named Norlight Telecommunications firmed FIBER OPTIC EXCHANGE AGREEMENT AND GRANT OF IRU with our friends from SEC.

Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1359898/000119312506178560/dex108.htm

Do you remember the dark fiber suspension back in May? Right after the suspension we had a massive price action and run up that resulted in a peak back in June? Keep this in mind.

https://preview.redd.it/sjgmh7iq3f781.png?width=740&format=png&auto=webp&s=e1e147be5d0e03af76125d12d1b9d3307ba49abf

Chapter II

The year is 2007, Q-Comm Corp announces the acquisition of Norlight Telecommunications, our Chimera born.

Source: https://www.ibj.com/articles/7816-q-comm-closes-norlight-telecommunications-acquisition

Chapter III

After 3 years, in 2010 Windstream Communications acquires Q-Comm Corp

Source: https://www.telecompetitor.com/windstream-acquisition-engine-continues-buys-q-comm/

The forced takeover plan

Now the year is 2015 Windstream Communications begins to suffer from short attacks, how do I know this? Volume my friends! Volume tells you a history, look at the chart below:

https://preview.redd.it/iod6fko34f781.png?width=735&format=png&auto=webp&s=e2fa2011eba245a269166b10e8e4f2ab08ad520c

Can you see that all of sudden the red volume bars are growing? This is the anatomy of a short attack. Now take a look that they began back in 2015 and finished their job in 2019.

There is another factor to take into consideration, the company tried to scape the predators by issuing 2 stock splits.

Now you may ask me why do a stock split during a short attack?

Let Nasdaq answer this for you.

https://preview.redd.it/w1bn1tng4f781.png?width=738&format=png&auto=webp&s=d0847a69a392735d957ab259a2416dbb198e94fa

Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-is-a-stock-split-and-how-does-it-affect-your-portfolio-11598616477

Did you understand? They tried to bring the price up which is bad for short sellers but in vain, the Hedge Funds doubled their attacks.

**The path

The bad history

A widely spread meme shows a picture of the 1930s cartoon character Betty Boop, and a photo of a woman looking very similar. There are several forms of this meme.

• Here
• Here
• Here

The meme typically claims the woman in the photo is Esther Jones, a famous black performer whose image was apparently unethically exploited when cartoonist Max Fleischer invented the cartoon character Betty Boop, based on Jones' image and singing style. The meme claims Esther Jones spent years unsuccessfully trying to win back her legal rights to the image. Another case of a talented black woman exploited by the white entertainment industry.

Various videos and websites make the same claim, sometimes with different photos.

• Esther Jones: The Original Black Betty Boop!
• Baby Esther Jones the Original Betty Boop
• Hidden Figures: Esther Jones (Baby Esther)

For a five minute video version of this post, go here.

But this isn't true

Firstly, the woman in the photo at right is not Esther Jones. It's a photo of Ukranian model Model Oyla (Модель Оля), in 2008, dressed as Betty Boop. [1] Secondly, Esther Jones never claimed she was the original inspiration for the Betty Boop character, and never showed any interest in claiming any rights to it. Thirdly, the Betty Boop character was originally based on a French poodle not on Jones. The character first appeared as a white woman with a long poodle like face, and drooping ears, and only later developing into a normal looking woman. [2]

But there's a twist

It was not Esther Jones, but a white woman, Helen Kane, who sued Fleischer and his studio for US$250,000 for copying her visual appearance, including hair style, dress, makeup, and voice, as well as the "boop a doop" catchphrase she used while singing. [3] However, Fleischer completely denied the Betty Boop character had been based on Kane.

But there's another twist

At trial, Fleischer's lawyer claimed Kane herself had taken the phrase "boop a doop" and her sin

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

hi all

since my exams are over and i submitted all my papers, i've had some free time and put together a new timeline for us here on duggarsnark, it includes everything i could think about, to the best of my knowledge. with that in mind, i am prefacing this with the knowledge that i will have made mistakes in it, please feel free to correct me in the comments if you find an error. so much has happened with so much being revealed, i couldn't get it straight, so here you go. i hope this helps any new snarkers with the basic history of the duggars. if i also have failed to include something lemme know and i'll add it in. in thanks, i want to thank this sub, and the posts on here which helped in putting this together, especially /nuggetsofchicken who helped with the legal breakdowns for the trial timeline, and the faqs which helped with the more mythic aspects of this, i also utilised the fundiewiki a great deal so shout out to them.

The Duggars - The Ultimate History Master Doc

• If ‘*’ this means this information could be fabricated.

1965

• Robert ‘Jim Bob’ Duggar is born on 18/07/1965, in Springdale, Arkansas, to Jimmy Lee "JL" Duggar and Mary Lester. He was the couple's second child. Link

1966

• Michelle Evelyn Ruark was born on September 13th, 1966, to Garrett Floyde Ruark and Ethel Marie Hardin. She was the couple's seventh and final child. Link

1982

• Michelle attended Springdale High School and was a cheerleader. During this time, she struggled with self-worth and was bulimic.
• Michelle is saved.
• Jim-Bob and Michele first meet, he and his friend are going door to door, and his friend recommends they go and see Michele, who has recently been saved. For Jim-Bob it is love/lust at first sight, Michele admits not remembering this meeting.

1983

• Michelle begins working in Jim Bob’s mothers frozen yoghurt shop, Jim Bob admits to recommending her to his mother because he liked her so much. He invites Michele to his senior banquet at his high school, Michelle accepts and they go on their first date.
• On the 24/12/1983 Jim Bob proposes to Michelle and she accepts.

1984

• Michelle graduates high school.
• Robert ‘Jim Bob’ Duggar married Michelle Annette Ruark on 21/07/1984, Michelle baked her own wedding cake and wore the dress of her mother-in-law. They then went their honeymoon to Mount Nebo and Lak

Decided to dig deeper after seeing a post about tech and finance being better career paths than medicine. In terms of lifetime career earnings, I feel medicine strikes a great balance between high wages and interpersonal impact. Though the grass may be greener during medical school, we'll catch up eventually. (Although this doesn't account for stock options and bonuses that certain professions may have)

I just feel that this material way of life is killing the souls of so many people...including mine. They say the love of money is the root of all evil. I am really starting to realize this to a whole new extent.

Nowadays society sees something beautiful, like a beautiful voice and says "You can make a lot of money as a singer", or "You have a great body and face, you can make a lot of money as (xyz)". Or "You write great poetry, you should try for an advertising agency, or a ghost writer".

We put an earthly value to something God-given and divine, and we just want to monetize, monetize, monetize...get more lucrative...funny word, lucrative, sounds like Lucifer...

How about our moral fibre? How about our conscience? Everybody looking for the promoter that can hook em up to sell their soul to the Devil, while rationalizing "Well, I can do a lot of charity with all that money"...buying indulgencies, hoping for a place in Heaven.

I am just so tired. Tired of chasing paper that banks create out of thin air and laugh at us all. Tired of double-faced political talk, "corporate culture" and "values"...all this smoke and mirrors. We humans are like different species based on money and status. We hate it, but we keep coming back for more, cause we hate the uncertainty, and prefer chasing money, status...and false security, while wasting our lives.

I am sick of this propaganda, controling our choices in life, making us feel miserable, while we keep running and running and running after the almighty dollar while wasting our lives away. I am sick of feeling trapped in this matrix, this mass mind control.

We are all human beings with equal worth in front of God. Yet, all that matters is the net worth...I just want a simple, honest life...honest relationships...honest people...honest media...honest work...honest money. And most of all - I just want to remember how to enjoy life again.

Hi all,

I'm looking for a local guitarist / singer to perform at a corporate ribbon cutting ceremony. Does anyone have any recs?

A little more about the gig: it would be on a Thursday in March (likely March 12) from 4:00 - 6:00 pm. As for genre, I'm hoping for some modern country, Americana, covers of classics. Open to anything really!

Thanks!

Happy New Masked!

Welcome to the most complex series of Celeb Fursuit Karaoke yet, with twists and turns at every corner and twelve celebrities, some of which that certain users on this sub will SCREAM at. My phone is charged if you want me to call 999.

Also you'll be seeing one of my tweets (this is the group I know nothing about) but that won't compare to seeing actual, corporeal me in the audience tomorrow. To watch Doctor Who or Bake Off today will probably be a mistake.

Again, I'll be posting a recap every Episode Discussion, if you care about hearing my thoughts.

As always, please obey reddiquette when posting and avoid links to torrents or any illegal streams for the show. You can watch episodes on-demand via ITV Hub within the United Kingdom or stream it live via ITV Hub or TVPlayer, both of which are, again, only for Britons. All episodes will be also available to stream via BritBox soon.

To set your flair and rep your favourite(s), a guide can be found here.

If you love the series then be sure to check out our international friends! We have /r/TheMaskedSinger for a ton of tierlists and infighting, and /r/TheMaskedSingerAU for discussion of the Australian version.

Thanks for taking the time to hang out with us here at /r/TheMaskedSingerUK and enjoy the show!

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

TL;DR: GME & meme stock holders were happy some time back that law firm Labaton Sucharow was helping them in arbitration against Robinhood. Turns out SAVA called them out in an SEC filing for representing anonymous clients that were "short" SAVA. Labaton also asked the FDA to rescind SAVA's drug designation citing clinical data manipulation, to which the Journal of Neuroscience openly called out as bullshit.

https://preview.redd.it/d4tert7fj3c81.png?width=2614&format=png&auto=webp&s=9c1e3cf0231b8bd2ba1cd950863d4042c2f0b7ea

A few days ago, ComplianceWeek (CW) wrote about the Department of Justice’s probe into short selling schemes by Anson Fund, Muddy Waters (like the singer?) Research, & Citron ($20, wE UnDeRsTaNd ShOrT iNtErEsT bEtTeR tHaN YoU).

An honest to God text between fuckers from SHF Anson Fund. Courtesy of DOJ. Thanks to for the find.

Featuring the BAMF Wes Christian & his endless rabbit hat of on-point metaphors for crime (“I believe [illegal short selling] is the largest commercial fraud in U.S. history. It makes the Bernie Madoff scheme look like a gnat on an elephant’s behind…”), the CW reporter seemed to agree that naked short selling has been “a massive embezzlement scheme” that’s gone ignored for years. A scheme that chief compliance officers and in-house counsel (like the ones who read ComplianceWeek) shouldn’t ignore.

For the legal arms of public companies digging into abusive short selling, apart from a standard toolkit–-tracking false market rumors (how about that NFT marketplace “announcement” from WedBush’s research into GME…and al Qaeda?), social media (pump and dumps on W Ess Bee?)--they were reminded to pursue any and all legal options. One such example was Farmland Partner’s lawsuit against Quinton Mathews. Quinton got paid $100K by hedge fund Sabrepoint Capital to shit talk Farmland in 2018 on SeekingAlpha under the name “Rita Fortunae”, helping to drive down their stock ~40% soon after he clicked “Publish”.

Another example? SAVA.

https://preview.redd.it/alw7n011k3c81.png?width=2304&format=png&auto=webp&s=a296c29e5aec249baa822c08603e7fc6b2fdcbb0

Cassava Sciences (SAVA) was a biopharm company that squeezed up a few days after the meme stock sneeze in January. Michael Burry (from “The Big Short”) has commented often on SAVA’s overlap between its

When I wanted to edit this post, reddit wouldn't let me.. At least not on pc. When I tried to do it on mobile, it worked but at the price of every embedded image turning into a link. 🙄 I can't revert this.

2012 Konami President asked Kojima to develop the next Silent Hill.

https://preview.redd.it/o6mde2ujtaa81.jpg?width=350&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6e297a1c1787cf3aa8342d95d9e0f0a6857ff2cd

In September of 2012 Hideo Kojima first talked about how his newly build "Foxengine" might also be used for other Konami properties like "Silent Hill"...

"Kojima said that the engine, though unfinished, is already at a level that his company can start making a game with it. He teased the possibility of another Konami property, Silent Hill, taking advantage of the engine, but until Saturday, the content of Kojima's game was unknown. "

https://www.polygon.com/gaming/2012/9/2/3287079/hideo-kojima-foregoes-stealth-to-tell-all-in-pax-panel

https://preview.redd.it/ea9w08aotaa81.jpg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ec0439c35ff4f1ffb605778c9e217bfad0630ca8

Later that month Kojima personally confirmed that the then president of Konami "Tomoyuki Tsuboi" personally asked him to develop the next entry in the "Silent Hill" franchise.

"In the past I've mentioned Silent Hill in interviews, and as a result of that the president of Konami rung me up and said he'd like me to make the next Silent Hill"

https://www.polygon.com/gaming/2012/9/27/3419450/konami-wants-hideo-kojima-to-make-a-silent-hill-game

2013 Kojima meets with Junji Ito.

https://preview.redd.it/19ow3qbxtaa81.jpg?width=266&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ceec9cff139b86e8679b7946c67f282d67cea9e8

In June 2013 Kojima tweeted that he had dinner with Junji Ito (first hinting at a possible collaboration).

https://twitter.com/hideo_kojima_en/status/350503478285705217

2014 P.T. the greatest demo ever made.

https://preview.redd.it/dgxot112uaa81.jpg?width=421&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c23ace600f4c863c9bbd37f7f557501bb8ef9086

In august of 2014 during "Gamescom" P.T. was announced alongside a short trailer of the game

A new horror game developed by "7780's Studio"

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Nothing, he was gladiator.

For a five minute video version of this post, go here.

The bad history

A widely spread meme shows a picture of the 1930s cartoon character Betty Boop, and a photo of a woman looking very similar. There are several forms of this meme.

• Here
• Here
• Here

The meme typically claims the woman in the photo is Esther Jones, a famous black performer whose image was apparently unethically exploited when cartoonist Max Fleischer invented the cartoon character Betty Boop, based on Jones' image and singing style. The meme claims Esther Jones spent years unsuccessfully trying to win back her legal rights to the image. Another case of a talented black woman exploited by the white entertainment industry.

Various videos and websites make the same claim, sometimes with different photos.

• Esther Jones: The Original Black Betty Boop!
• Baby Esther Jones the Original Betty Boop
• Hidden Figures: Esther Jones (Baby Esther)

But this isn't true

Firstly, the woman in the photo at right is not Esther Jones. It's a photo of Ukranian model Model Oyla (Модель Оля), in 2008, dressed as Betty Boop. [1] Secondly, Esther Jones never claimed she was the original inspiration for the Betty Boop character, and never showed any interest in claiming any rights to it. Thirdly, the Betty Boop character was originally based on a French poodle not on Jones. The character first appeared as a white woman with a long poodle like face, and drooping ears, and only later developing into a normal looking woman. [2]

But there's a twist

It was not Esther Jones, but a white woman, Helen Kane, who sued Fleischer and his studio for US$250,000 for copying her visual appearance, including hair style, dress, makeup, and voice, as well as the "boop a doop" catchphrase she used while singing. [3] However, Fleischer completely denied the Betty Boop character had been based on Kane.

But there's another twist

At trial, Fleischer's lawyer claimed Kane herself had taken the phrase "boop a doop" and her sin

first off, thank you all for your help in editing this, i have dyscalculia and so dates are tricky for me sometimes so your eyes were so helpful in spotting mistakes. i have taken all your edits and popped them in. if the mods would like to add this to the side bar, i would be honoured. thanks again everyone xx

The Duggars - The Ultimate History Master Doc

- If ‘*’ this means this information could be fabricated.

1965

- James Robert ‘Jim Bob’ Duggar is born on 18/07/1965, in Springdale, Arkansas, to Jimmy Lee "JL" Duggar and Mary Lester. He was the couple's second child. Link

1966

- Michelle Annette Ruark was born on September 13th, 1966, to Garrett Floyde Ruark and Ethel Marie Hardin. She was the couple's seventh and final child. Link

1982

- Michelle attended Springdale High School and was a cheerleader. During this time, she struggled with self-worth and was bulimic.

- Michelle is saved.

- Jim-Bob and Michelle first meet, he and his friend are going door to door, and his friend recommends they go and see Michelle, who has recently been saved. For Jim-Bob it is love/lust at first sight, Michelle admits not remembering this meeting.

1983

- Michelle begins working in Jim Bob’s mothers frozen yoghurt shop, Jim Bob admits to recommending her to his mother because he liked her so much. He invites Michelle to his senior banquet at his high school, Michelle accepts and they go on their first date.

- In May of this year, Jim Bob graduated from Shiloh Christian High School.

- On the 24/12/1983 Jim Bob proposes to Michelle and she accepts.

1984

- Michelle graduates high school.

- Robert ‘Jim Bob’ Duggar married Michelle Annette Ruark on 21/07/1984, Michelle baked her own wedding cake and wore the dress of her mother-in-law. They then went their honeymoon to Mount Nebo and Lake Fort Smith in Arkansas, but cut their trip short to begin work on their new home.

- Michelle begins using birth control

1988

Births

- Joshua James Duggar is born on the 03/03/1988

Life Events

- Michelle continues taking the birth control pill

1989

Births

- Michelle miscarries Caleb Ryan on the 23/01/1989

Life Events

- Michelle and Jim Bob believe that birth control contributes to the miscarriage, and stop using all forms of birth control.

1990

Births

- Jana Marie and John David Duggar are born on the 12/01/1990

1991

Births

- Jill Michelle Duggar is born on the 17/05/1991

1992

Births

- Jessa Lauren Duggar is born on the 04/11/1992

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