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Monday, September 23, 2013
Disaster relief donations track number of people killed, not number of survivors
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People pay more attention to the number of people killed in a natural disaster than to the number of survivors when deciding how much money to donate to disaster relief efforts, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The donation bias can be reversed, however, with a simple change in terminology.
"While fatalities have a severe impact on the afflicted community or country, disaster aid should be allocated to people affected by the disaster those who are injured, homeless, or hungry," says lead researcher Ioannis Evangelidis of Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) in the Netherlands. "Our research shows that donors tend not to consider who really receives the aid."
This discrepancy leads to a "humanitarian disaster," say Evangelidis and colleague Bram Van den Bergh, where money is given disproportionately toward the natural disasters with the most deaths, instead of the ones with the most people in desperate need of help.
The researchers began by examining humanitarian relief data for natural disasters occurring between 2000 and 2010. As they expected, they found that the number of fatalities predicted the probability of donation, as well as the amount donated, by private donors in various disasters. Their model estimated that about $9,300 was donated per person killed in a given disaster. The number of people affected in the disasters, on the other hand, appeared to have no influence on the amount donated to relief efforts.
Evangelidis and Van den Bergh believe that donors are more likely to pay attention to a death toll when deciding how much to give because the term "affected" is ambiguous. In many cases, though, fatalities don't correlate with the number of actual people in need.
To find a way to combat this donation bias, the researchers brought participants into the laboratory and presented them with several scenarios, involving various types of disasters and different numbers of people killed and affected.
Overall, participants allocated more money when a disaster resulted in a high death toll even when the number of people affected was low mirroring the data from the real natural disasters.
The bias was reversed, however, when participants had to compare two earthquakes one that killed 4,500 and affected 7,500 versus one that claimed 7,500 and affected 4,500 before allocating funds.
The act of comparing the two disasters seems to have forced the participants to think critically about which group actually needed the aid more. Notably, the effect carried over when the participants were asked to allocate funds for a third disaster
But the easiest, and most realistic, way to reduce the donation bias may involve a simple change in terminology. When the researchers swapped the term "affected" with the much less ambiguous term "homeless," participants believed that money should be allocated according to the number of homeless people following a disaster.
"Above all, attention should be diverted from the number of fatalities to the number of survivors in need," Evangelidis and Van den Bergh conclude. "We are optimistic that these insights will enhance aid to victims of future disasters."
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For more information about this study, please contact: Ioannis Evangelidis at ievangelidis@rsm.nl.
The article abstract is available online: http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/09/19/0956797613490748.abstract
This work was supported by the Department of Marketing Management at Rotterdam School of Management and by the Erasmus Research Institute of Management.
The APS journal Psychological Science is the highest ranked empirical journal in psychology. For a copy of the article "The Number of Fatalities Drives Disaster Aid: Increasing Sensitivity to People in Need" and access to other Psychological Scienceresearch findings, please contact Anna Mikulak at 202-293-9300 or amikulak@psychologicalscience.org.
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People pay more attention to the number of people killed in a natural disaster than to the number of survivors when deciding how much money to donate to disaster relief efforts, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The donation bias can be reversed, however, with a simple change in terminology.
"While fatalities have a severe impact on the afflicted community or country, disaster aid should be allocated to people affected by the disaster those who are injured, homeless, or hungry," says lead researcher Ioannis Evangelidis of Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) in the Netherlands. "Our research shows that donors tend not to consider who really receives the aid."
This discrepancy leads to a "humanitarian disaster," say Evangelidis and colleague Bram Van den Bergh, where money is given disproportionately toward the natural disasters with the most deaths, instead of the ones with the most people in desperate need of help.
The researchers began by examining humanitarian relief data for natural disasters occurring between 2000 and 2010. As they expected, they found that the number of fatalities predicted the probability of donation, as well as the amount donated, by private donors in various disasters. Their model estimated that about $9,300 was donated per person killed in a given disaster. The number of people affected in the disasters, on the other hand, appeared to have no influence on the amount donated to relief efforts.
Evangelidis and Van den Bergh believe that donors are more likely to pay attention to a death toll when deciding how much to give because the term "affected" is ambiguous. In many cases, though, fatalities don't correlate with the number of actual people in need.
To find a way to combat this donation bias, the researchers brought participants into the laboratory and presented them with several scenarios, involving various types of disasters and different numbers of people killed and affected.
Overall, participants allocated more money when a disaster resulted in a high death toll even when the number of people affected was low mirroring the data from the real natural disasters.
The bias was reversed, however, when participants had to compare two earthquakes one that killed 4,500 and affected 7,500 versus one that claimed 7,500 and affected 4,500 before allocating funds.
The act of comparing the two disasters seems to have forced the participants to think critically about which group actually needed the aid more. Notably, the effect carried over when the participants were asked to allocate funds for a third disaster
But the easiest, and most realistic, way to reduce the donation bias may involve a simple change in terminology. When the researchers swapped the term "affected" with the much less ambiguous term "homeless," participants believed that money should be allocated according to the number of homeless people following a disaster.
"Above all, attention should be diverted from the number of fatalities to the number of survivors in need," Evangelidis and Van den Bergh conclude. "We are optimistic that these insights will enhance aid to victims of future disasters."
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For more information about this study, please contact: Ioannis Evangelidis at ievangelidis@rsm.nl.
The article abstract is available online: http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/09/19/0956797613490748.abstract
This work was supported by the Department of Marketing Management at Rotterdam School of Management and by the Erasmus Research Institute of Management.
The APS journal Psychological Science is the highest ranked empirical journal in psychology. For a copy of the article "The Number of Fatalities Drives Disaster Aid: Increasing Sensitivity to People in Need" and access to other Psychological Scienceresearch findings, please contact Anna Mikulak at 202-293-9300 or amikulak@psychologicalscience.org.
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Friday, September 20, 2013
6 Sexist Video Game Problems Even Bigger Than the Breasts ...
Some video games are more obviously focused on women's genitals than a gynecologist exam. In games like TERA, a woman's armor is a map of her erogenous zones, defending her from only the most technical definition of nudity. Dead or Alive uses more computer power to model Kasumi's breasts than NASA had for the moon landings. That's actually not a joke.
And the results deal with similar levels of gravitational attraction.
But there are even more sexist structures in video games than the armor. Even though that armor often looks like someone trying to lasso twin zeppelins.
One self-exam and she'll explode.
The physical character design can obviously be sexist -- in fact, that's usually its entire job -- but often it's the narrative structures that wrap the player in a matrix of sexism, and these are six of the most common.
#6. Daddy Issues
Some recent games have featured independent, well-developed characters with amazing powers, intriguing pasts, and mental off-switches activated by ball sweat. It's like the player has kryptonite testicles. BioShock Infinite's Elizabeth was born with the ability to tear portals in time and space, then learned to pick locks anyway, then sat patiently in prison until a penis arrived to save her. Ellie from The Last of Us is immune to an apocalyptic virus, learns new weapons faster than Neo, and has stabbed more enemies to death than Wolverine. But as soon as the guy turns up, she dissolves into tears and nursing. She could be machetifying a rapist cannibal into sashimi, but if the hero arrives she'll instantly collapse into helpless tears, safe in his arms. Because that's exactly what happens.
"There there ... it's OK, Y chromosome is here."
The protagonists, on the other hand, are such anonymous manly men that we're not even going to bother with their names. You already know they're white, stubbly, grizzled, dark-haired gun platforms. Their only advantages are the magic balls that fix them as the center of any narrative universe. And they've already lost their own girl earlier, because why on Earth would a man care about a woman without prior cause? The woman's struggle becomes a stand-in for the man's loss, her entire narrative is just a piece of his, and he scribbles "Daddy makes it all better" all over her ending.
"I love you, dad ex machina."
There are father-daughter relationships that work because the daughters in questions are actually children. For example, Clementine is not equipped to cope with the horrors of the zombie apocalypse in The Walking Dead. The Little Sisters of BioShock 2 need a literal Big Daddy to protect them from rampaging splicers. But if the woman can already rip holes in reality and/or enemy sternums, maybe they should have a character dynamic other than "Save me!"
#5. The Damsel
The damsel in distress has been thoroughly covered in Anita Sarkeesian's infamous Tropes vs. Women videos, but in case you missed those, the damsel is the character captured just so the dude can save her. The bad guy bursts into her life, destroying everything he sees and carrying her away, then he abuses and tortures her just so some dude can put his courage to the test to come save her, often in an attempt to reclaim her as some sort of love prize or symbolic victory. This often involves the same kind of "smash everything and carry the woman" technique utilized by the villain in the first place, but it's OK, because it's your turn this time! The woman is passed back and forth like a football and you're trying to get into the end zone.
Figurative end zone.
A character is a damsel if she can be replaced by an inanimate object without any changes to the plot. Mario could just as easily have been trying to grab a golden pipe wrench, or find a gas mask so that he doesn't hallucinate so badly when clearing blocked sewage lines in the pharmaceutical animal-testing lab. The reason they're problematic (note: that's the classy, grown-up way of saying "fucked up") is because this trope is technically about the capture of a woman, but evolves to be about the man, and the woman becomes a plot device to get him through a glory-filled narrative.
In over a dozen Zelda games, Zelda has only helped Link save her a couple of times. The games are named after her, but she might as well be a key card in a dress, something he needs to grab to win. Except key cards perform a function in the game.
"I wish he'd hurry up. I'm running out of House episodes to replay in my head."
There's nothing wrong with a hero-rescue tale, but it doesn't always have to be boy saves girl. The days when superior physical strength defined who did what ended the instant we created virtual worlds disconnected from reality. If you can teleport by playing the ocarina, you don't need testosterone to swing a sword.
An alternative view is presented in Hope: The Other Side of Adventure. This free mobile game takes five minutes each day to make you the captured princess awaiting the arrival of her prince. It's short, shocking, heartbreaking, and most importantly annoying. The entire time I wanted to shake her so that she could find a way to pay her own bills and say her own name, and that's the point. The damsel in distress is a frustrating gendered trope that needs 100 ccs of Destiny's Child, stat.
"I depend on ... me?"
#4. The Dominant Turns Submissive
Growing up I had two ass-kicking female role models I wanted to be: Samus Aran and Lara Croft. (Sorry, Eleanor Roosevelt, but you should have killed a zombie or something if you wanted to leave an impact on me.) Lara Croft and Samus Aran were the queens of gaming. Lara might have moved every ounce of her body fat into her breasts, but she was still an intellectually and physically capable character bringing twin handguns to every ass-kicking. Samus Aran was a tank that could somersault and explode everything underneath before she landed. The fact that her gender surprised so many people at the end of the first Metroid should have started us on the road to fixing these gender problems over 20 years ago.
"Master who?"
Instead, recent reboots have treated them like unsaved files: wiping out everything people spent ages developing, replacing them with blank templates, and filling us with rage. The Tomb Raider reboot reduced Lara to a puddle of tears. Every time she cried, missed a jump (and then cried), or killed a person in self-defense (followed by crying), I wanted Laura Mulvey to spoon me and tell me everything was going to be all right. I get that it's an "origin" story, before Lara became badass, but when we saw young Indiana Jones at the start of the Last Crusade, it wasn't extended shots of him weeping and trying to wipe a snotty nose on his leather coat.
The developers said they wanted the players to care for Lara and protect her. Horseshit. I didn't want to protect her, I wanted to smack her and tell her to get her shit together. Also, imagine applying that to Halo's Master Chief. Or nursing teenage Duke Nukem through his crippling insecurities. Why can't we celebrate her as a competent professional tested by unexpected situations? You know, like every male character ever?
We never see the scene where Duke realizes his chauvinism is due to high school bullying.
Other M replaced Samus, the most badass bounty hunter in gaming, with doe eyes and daddy issues. She's single-handedly exterminated invasive species and exploded entire planets, but now she'll stand in lava and burn to death before switching on her own shields without permission from Commander Fatherfigure, who calls her "lady." The story was so staggeringly sexist that even Team Ninja, the group behind the Dead or Alive sports game where women with breasts larger than their volleyballs go on dates with you for voyeur photography, announced "Woah, that wasn't us!"
"Tee-hee."
What's even more infuriating in Other M is Samus responding to a distress signal from an infant Metroid that she calls The Baby. She has guilt over The Baby. She believes The Baby was crying for her. She feels that The Baby enhanced her abilities. The Baby. The Baby. The Baby. The Fucking Baby.
Because that's how all women think, right? Early Metroid games had a maternal aspect, with a hatchling Metroid saving Samus' life, but that was subtle. To picture how badly Other M ruins it, replace all of Ellen Ripley's dialogue in Alien with constant rape whistle.
Source: http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-sexist-video-game-problems-even-bigger-than-breasts/
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Eagle Ford player GreenHunter raises $3.2 million for expansion
GreenHunter Resources Inc., a provider of water and waste-management services in the Eagle Ford Shale, says it has raised almost $3.2 million in a private securities placement.
The Grapevine, Texas-based company will use funds to expand its oilfield infrastructure, including mobile water-treatment systems, disposal facilities and storage tanks, according to a press statement.
GreenHunter placed 181,786 units consisting of an aggregate of 181,786 shares of its 10 percent Series C Cumulative Preferred Stock and 282,778 common stock purchase warrants.
Context Capital Management LLC, Forward Management LLC, Crow Point Partners and New Salem Investment Capital LLC purchased the units, according to GreenHunter officials.
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Thursday, September 19, 2013
Iran, Israel, and the US re-balance
In the wake of the Syria compromise and news that President Obama has exchanged conciliatory letters with Iranian president Hassan Rouhani, which may lead to talks on Iran's nuclear program, I have been interested to see two articles that look at the wider proliferation picture in the Middle East and draw attention to Israel's nuclear arsenal. Andrew Sullivan asks:
...if we are also about to go head-to-head with Iran over its nuclear program, how bizarre is it that Israel?s arsenal of nuclear warheads be completely ignored as well? After all, one of Iran?s strongest arguments for developing nuclear weapons is deterrence against Israel. If we could insist on Israel?s decommissioning of its nukes, wouldn?t our case be much, much stronger with Iran? And wouldn?t a successful outcome render Israel?s multiple nukes redundant?
?And on James Fallows' blog, former senior State Department official William Polk writes:
...when Israel moved to acquire WMD in the 1960s, its conventional forces were already stronger than those of its Arab neighbors, but, in the Israeli calculus, only marginally so.? Today they are very much stronger and, with American assistance, ?getting technically more advanced.? But at least some of the Arab countries and Iran are moving toward sufficient technological skill and manufacturing capability to manufacture nuclear weapons. Others, like Saudi Arabia and some of the Gulf states may, potentially, be able to buy what they cannot now build.? So, while possession of WMD once gave Israel security, sooner or later emphasis on WMD could be a source of insecurity.? Feeling threatened by Israeli power, other states may accelerate their move to match it.? And the only feasible or proximate means to do so is by acquiring WMD. In short, more countries could acquire the capacity to destroy Israel. ??So, while it maintains its overwhelming conventional military power, Israel would be wise to begin to consider some alternative to WMD, just as we have done vis-?-vis Russia.
Regular readers will recall that I have rehearsed similar arguments here on The Interpreter, and the last time we debated this topic, I came to the conclusion that, while nuclear disarmament was in Israel's interests, it won't be contemplated until Iran can be denuclearised (and in truth, probably not even then).
I tend to think (contra Sullivan) that Iran's motivation for moving towards nuclear weapons does not involve Israel (why now, when it hasn't been seen as necessary since Israel developed its arsenal in the 1960s?). But Tehran probably would like the ability to deter the US, which is understandable given the way America has used its power in the Middle East in the last ten years.
In that sense, the Obama Administration's Asia Pacific pivot is probably good news for Middle East nuclear disarmament. If Tehran can be convinced that the Obama Administration really has downgraded the Middle East as a foreign policy priority and that the US is pivoting towards the Asia Pacific, that should reduce Iranian anxieties and create better conditions for Iranian denuclearisation. In turn, that might encourage Israel to think again about its arsenal.
Photo courtesy of REUTERS.
Source: http://www.lowyinterpreter.org/post/2013/09/18/Iran-Israel-and-the-US-re-balance.aspx
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AT&T flips the switch on four new LTE markets
To 400 markets, and beyond
AT&T passed its 400th LTE market going live last week, and despite the milestone it is going to keep pushing along onto new markets. Starting today customers in the following four markets should see their devices connecting consistently to LTE, assuming they have the proper provisioning on their account:
If you live in or frequently travel to one of these markets, keep your eyes peeled for those improved data speeds.
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Weather affects crop yield, especially hot days
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Oklahoma St Hires Former NCAA Official To Investigate Program
The school announced on Monday that Charles Smrt will lead the effort. Smrt is an 18-year veteran of the NCAA?s enforcement staff and currently runs a consulting firm specializing in compliance audits.
OSU president Burns Hargis made it clear he is taking the charges very seriously:
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Monday, September 16, 2013
Saturday, September 14, 2013
Twitter tweets it'll go public
NEW YORK (AP) ? Twitter finally has decided to go public, but it's taking a route that will keep most of the details about its business private for a while longer.
The company aptly used its own news-making short messaging service Thursday afternoon to announce that it has filed documents for an initial public offering of stock.
But the information filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is sealed because Twitter is taking advantage of federal legislation passed last year that allows companies with less than $1 billion in revenue in its last fiscal year to avoid submitting public IPO documents.
The secrecy will likely help Twitter minimize the public hoopla and intense scrutiny that surrounded the initial public offerings of other high-profile social networking companies, including Facebook Inc., which went public in May 2012.
The 7-year-old company posted on its official Twitter account that it has "confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO." A subsequent tweet said simply: "Now, back to work." It's accompanied by a blurry photo of people working in the company's San Francisco headquarters.
Under the law, Twitter's financial statements and other sensitive information contained in the IPO filing must become publicly available at least 21 days before company's executives begin traveling around the country to meet with potential investors ? a process known as a "road show."
Those presentations will be orchestrated by Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, a former stand-up comedian who will now get an opportunity to take his act to Wall Street.
Twitter's IPO has been long expected. The company has been ramping up its advertising products and working to boost ad revenue in preparation. But it is still tiny compared with Facebook, which saw its hotly anticipated IPO implode last year amid worries about its ability to grow mobile ad revenue.
Since it was founded within another startup and named after the sound of chirping birds in 2006, Twitter has established itself as a cultural touchstone while growing from a few thousand geeky users to more than 200 million today. Its users include heads of state, celebrities, revolutionaries and journalists. Unlike Facebook, which insists that its users go by their real names, Twitter leaves room for parody and anonymity. As such, there are accounts for Jesus Christ and Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter's mortal enemy.
Twitter's main appeal is in its simplicity and its ability to distribute information quickly. Users can send short messages ? either public or private ? that consist of up to 140 characters. Anyone can "follow" anyone else, but the relationship doesn't have to be reciprocal. This has made the service especially appealing for celebrities and companies that use it to communicate directly with customers.
Most of Twitter's revenue comes from advertising. Research firm eMarketer estimates that Twitter will generate $582.8 million in worldwide ad revenue this year, up from $288.3 million in 2012. By comparison, Facebook had ad revenue of $1.6 billion in the April-June quarter of this year. By 2015, Twitter's annual ad revenue is expected to hit $1.33 billion.
Twitter's moneymaking potential has minted the company with an estimated market value of $10 billion, based on the appraisals of venture capitalists and other early investors who have been helping to fund the business so far. PrivCo analyst Sam Hamadeh said he expects Twitter to aim for a market value of about $15 billion when it prices its IPO.
The public offering comes at a time of heightened investor interest in the IPO market. There have been 131 IPOs that have priced so far this year, according to IPO tracking firm Renaissance Capital. That's a 44 percent increase from the same period the year before. If the momentum continues, 2013 will have the most IPO pricings since 2007 ? a year before the financial crisis.
The law that allowed Twitter to file its initial IPO documents confidentially is called the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, or JOBS. President Barack Obama signed the law in 2012. It is designed to make it easier for small businesses and startups to grow and create jobs.
The law includes a provision that allows a company with revenue below $1 billion to file its registration statement for an initial public offering of stock with the Securities and Exchange Commission confidentially. This allows the paperwork to remain private until 21 days before the company starts marketing the deal to investors.
Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter believes Twitter's decision to tweet about the confidential filing signals the company's intention to complete the IPO fairly quickly. "The market is hot and the end of the year is usually is a good time to go public," Pachter said. "I think we will get to see the documents by Halloween and the IPO will be done by Thanksgiving."
SEC regulators ultimately dictate the timing of IPOs because they must sign off on all the documents before the stock can be sold.
Twitter was founded by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Evan Williams while they were working at a podcasting service called Odeo that never gained traction. Dorsey went on to found Square, a mobile payments company, and serves as Twitter's chairman. Williams, who previously sold a blogging service to Google, stepped down as Twitter's CEO in 2010 and is now working on a publishing platform called Medium. Stone left Twitter in 2011. His latest startup, announced in May, is called Jelly Industries.
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Associated Press Writer Ken Sweet contributed to this story. Liedtke reported from San Francisco.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/twitter-tweets-itll-public-215502277--finance.html
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Thursday, September 12, 2013
Tornado warning issued in southern Ontario
Tornado warnings for parts of southern Ontario have been lifted as a storm system tracks across the province.
Just before 6:30 p.m. ET, Environment Canada lifted the warnings that had been in place for Woodstock and Tillsonburg in Oxford County, along with Brantford, Simcoe, Delhi and Norfolk.
Meteorologists had been tracking a dangerous thunderstorm that they said was likely to produce a tornado. Large hail and torrential downpours were also associated with the storm that moved eastward at 60 km/h.
Environment Canada called it a "a dangerous and potentially life-threatening situation."
Many watches and warnings for severe thunderstorms were issued Wednesday across southern and eastern parts of the province, which has seen two days of hot, humid conditions.
Forecasters said thunderstorms could bring up to 50 millimetres of rain in a hour, and produce winds of 90 km/h.
People are advised take cover immediately if threatening weather approaches, Emergency Management Ontario recommends.
Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2013/09/11/ontario-storm-tornado.html
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Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Teen Exorcists Say Harry Potter's Magic Comes From Satan as They Take on London's Hotbed of Evil in New BBC Documentary
September 9, 2013|2:10 pm
Three demon chasing teenage girls, who say London's reputation as a hotbed of witchcraft peaked with the rage over Harry Potter, and their reverend mentor, who claims to have cast out 15,000 demons over his career, will be the stars of a new BBC documentary this week.
In a promotional clip?from the documentary, which will debut on BBC on September 12, Brynne Larson, 18, and sisters Tess and Savannah Scherkenback, aged 18 and 21, respectively, who have vowed never to read the Harry Potter novels according to an Express report, dismissed the notion that the magic highlighted in the books could be anything but pure evil.
"I think it's been centuries in the making. But I believe it all kind of came to a pinnacle, a peak with, well Harry Potter books that have come out and the Harry Potter rage that swept across England," said Savannah in the clip discussing the popular books in the back of a London taxi.
"The spells and things that you are reading in Harry Potter books, those aren't just some things that are made up. Those are actual spells, those are things that came from witchcraft books," added Tess.
A list of the dangerous spells, charms, curses and jinxes culled from the Harry Potter books are posted on the website pojo.com.
They include, Conjunctivitis, a curse that damages your opponent's eyesight; Riddikulus, when combined with a laugh it can defeat a boggart; Avada Kedavra, an unforgivable curse which murders opponents and Engorgio, a charm that enlarges items.
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The girls, who came to London armed with crucifixes and Bibles after casting out evil spirits in the Ukraine, told the Express that they want to stop British teenagers from inviting the devil in through the spells and satanic Harry Potter magic.
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Eighteen-year-old Brynne explained why the popular J.K. Rowling fantasy books should never be embraced as something good in the BBC clip.
"Harry is using this magic for good. So here we have this dangerous idea that you can use this magic for good or bad when in reality all magic is bad because they are getting their power from satan," she said.
After years of training with Brynne's father, the Reverend Bob Larson, the teenage exorcists, who all have black belts in karate, say they wage a physical as well as a spiritual battle every day.
According to Brynne, promiscuity is also causing demonic possessions in people who are catching "sexually transmitted demons" according to the Express.
With the teenagers' made-for-tv looks and management, however, the exorcists' trainer, Rev. Larson, has been accused of manipulating his meetings to make money. He told the Express, however, that it was a ridiculous accusation.
"I'm not 'curing' anyone, it's God's power that is delivering them from the demon. I am just an instrument to help make that happen," he said. "Money and motives. Every time someone is in God's work it always comes up.
"People pay thousands to go to drug rehab or for a psychiatrist but there is this idea that spirituality should be free. It is not uncommon for a pastor in America to make up to a million dollars a year. I can assure you that we are nowhere near that," noted Reverend Larson.
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