1. The Devil's Advocate

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* Meeting Your Match* Professionally, Physically, Emotionally, etc.* It’s healthy to realistically understand where you stand in contrast to others with your skill sets* If competition is to be had, going up against your equal is the true test of your mettle* It can be encouraging to realize that you are not alone in your current place/state* It is humbling to be defeated or to have to dig as deep as you can to overcome odds* It is attractive to be with someone as strong as you are.* Merlin : Remember, there's always something cleverer than yourself.

2. Infernal Informant

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* Atlanta spa attacks shine a light on anti-Asian hate crimes around the world* https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/21/world/anti-asian-hate-crime-intl/index.html* The outpouring of grief and anger over the news that six Asian women were among those killed in the shootings at three Atlanta area massage parlors has drawn attention to the rise of anti-Asian violence in the US.* And it's not just an American problem. From the UK to Australia, reports of anti-East and anti-Southeast Asian hate crimes have increased in Western countries as the pandemic took hold this past year. At least 11 people of East and Southeast Asian descent CNN spoke to described racist and xenophobic incidents, such as people moving away from them on the train, verbal abuse and even physical assault.* The past year has seen some Western politicians repeatedly stress China's connection to the Covid-19 outbreak, as well as raise the rhetoric against the Asian superpower. Within this environment, advocates say people of East Asian and Southeast Asian heritage have increasingly become a target for racism.* But many European countries, including France, Germany and Belgium, do not collect demographic data on ethnicity for historical reasons, making it difficult to take an accurate measure of the scale of the problem.* Hate crime statistics are recorded in the UK. Figures from the London Metropolitan Police show more than 200 incidents of hate crime against people of East Asian appearance happened between June and September 2020 -- a 96% increase compared to the same period a year ago.* Peng Wang, a lecturer at Southampton University in southern England, says he was physically assaulted by a group of four men while jogging near his home one cold afternoon.* The men yelled racial slurs at the 37-year-old, including "Chinese virus," he told CNN. They got out of the car after Wang yelled back at them, punching him in the face and kicking him to the ground. He suffered minor facial injuries and a nose bleed, but the trauma of the event made him worry about leaving his home, his future in the UK and the safety of his young son, he told CNN.* "What they did was not civil, it should not happen in today's society. They just treated me like an animal," he said. Police have since arrested two men on suspicion of racially aggravated assault, according to two statements sent to CNN.* "When Donald Trump was the [US] President, and he said the 'China virus' -- that was absolutely wrong," Wang added.* Polling done in June found that three-quarters of people of Chinese ethnicity in the UK had experienced being called a racial slur.* During an October debate on racism against the Chinese and East Asian community in Parliament,