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Florida once again broke its record for new coronavirus cases, reaching at least 11,445 reported on Saturday morning.
Thursday was the last time Florida set a new record for single-day COVID-19 cases at 10,109.
Only New York has reported more than 10,000 new cases in a day, with the Empire State passing its peak back in April.
The 13% jump in Florida from the last record now leaves the Sunshine State at more than 190,000 positive cases and 3,803 reported deaths.
Florida reported a record number of single-day coronavirus cases Saturday morning, with 11,445 people testing positive on Friday.
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That’s a 13% jump from the last time the record was broken on Thursday.
Eighteen deaths were also reported Saturday.
New York is the only other state that has seen more than 10,000 new cases in a day, but their peak passed in April, and new cases have stayed in the hundreds for almost a month.
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Out of the 65,271 tests administered in Florida on Friday, more than 14% tested positive, according to the Herald.
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The Nikhil Hogan Show
95: John Mortensen
The #1 music interview podcast, hosted by Nikhil Hogan, dedicated to serious discussions of music with masters on the study of composition and improvisation. Past guests have included Grammy, Emmy, Academy, Tony, CMA, and many other award-winning artists.
My guest today is Professor John Mortensen, a leading performer, scholar and teacher in classical or historic improvisation, Steinway Artist, Fulbright Scholar, and is a professor of Music at Cedarville University.
His new book is “The Pianist’s guide to Historic Improvisation”, published by Oxford University Press.
Kate Boyd, Professor of Music at Butler University reviewed the book by saying,
"This book fills an important niche in the world of piano and keyboard pedagogy. In each of the chapters Mortensen encourages the reader's creativity, simultaneously exposing the musical building blocks used by some of the great composers and allowing the reader to apply those same compositional techniques to improvising in a stylistically-appropriate way.”
Noam Sivan, Professor of Piano Improvisation, Hochschule of Music and Performing Arts, Stuttgart reviewed the book saying,
"Any language study based solely on reading without speaking, would be incomplete. Similarly, the study of improvisation is indispensable for learning music. In this important book John Mortensen wonderfully demystifies the creative process and presents a clear and gradual method for learning to speak the language of J. S. Bach and his contemporaries. Highly recommended!”
It debuted at #1 on Amazon’s Piano and Music Instruction category.
1:41 What was the landscape for books on classical improvisation before the publishing of his book
3:35 How long did it take you to write the book, and did you have to revise the book as new information kept coming out?
4:22 Who is the book written for?
5:37 Does the book lean Italian or German in it’s approach?
7:12 What prerequisites do you need to create a figuration prelude?
8:12 What harmonies do you need to know to start your figuration prelude?
10:01 How do you break up the chord and how many types of figurations that you can come up with?
10:46 The effectiveness of figuration preludes in getting newcomers to creating music right away
11:29 Why is Toccata chapter 2?
12:56 What’s the amount of harmonic knowledge you need to improvise Toccatas?
13:37 Do you teach cadences in the book?
13:57 The Rule of the Octave and how important it is?
16:08 Which version of the Rule of the Octave do you want students to start with?
17:50 CPE Bach’s multitude of Rule of Octave versions
18:51 Diminutions
21:19 What about 16th notes?
22:14 How do you avoid contrapuntal mistakes in improvisation?
23:37 Do you encourage students look at the piano literature and steal ideas?
24:23 Variations
27:48 What’s the way to develop melodic lyricism?
31:42 How do I finger all these examples in the book?
32:36 Friedrich Erhard Niedt and the suite
35:52 Imitation
38:30 Counterpoint
39:57 Is Counterpoint not being taught correctly?
40:57 Partimento
42:27 The benefits of partimento with regular music students
45:09 The overwhelming positive feedback to classical improvisation
46:00 How does the scene compare to 10 years ago?
48:17 Schemata
50:00 Interest in traditional Irish music?
50:51 The parallels between Celtic improvisation and Classical improvisation
52:28 On being denied visiting a University because the top professor could not improvise
53:44 Is a classical improvisation renaissance happening?
54:20 Publishing with Oxford University Press?
55:52 What are your thoughts on hexachordal solfeggio practiced by the Neapolitans as researched by Nicholas Baragwanath?
58:57 Wrapping Up
The #1 Music Interview Show! Great conversations with GRAMMY artists, Emmy Artists, Tony Award winners, Country Music Association artists, Pulitzer Prize recipients, Fulbright Scholars and many more!
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Home Blogs Food and Nutrition Keto diet could reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease
Keto diet could reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease
By NS Desk | Food and Nutrition | Posted on : 21-Sep-2020
Hyderabad, Eating healthy, low calorie food could help fight the fungi in the gut and thus reduce the risk of dementia among senior citizens, doctors said, citing a new study done in the US that revealed that the diet has a direct connection with Alzheimer's disease.
The findings of the recent study by scientists at the Wake Forest School of Medicine are significant as health experts are looking at possible therapies to address the grave problem.
The Alzheimer's Association, a global body for dementia, reported that mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is witnessed among at least 15-20 per cent people aged over 65 years, which impacts the ability to think and can lead to Alzheimer's disease.
The new research suggests that ketogenic diet alters the bacterial communities in the human gut and helps reduce biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease among those suffering from MCI.
"In our conservative society, dementia often impacts social and family relations, including reduction in work hours, loss of employment, relationships ending, and even the need to relocate or change living arrangements arises. It is often noticed that such problems lead victims to becoming unwanted in the family and social setting. Possible solutions to prevent this problem are being researched for decades, and this new study provides a glimpse of hope," said Dr Simanchal Mishra, Senior Consultant Neuro Physician, Medicover Hospitals.
There is now a possible preventive mechanism through which the risk of Alzheimer's can be reduced to a great extent, and the suggested solution appears to be an easily manageable one, he added.
"Alzheimer's is an irreversible dementia. There are many other causes of dementia which are preventable or reversible. Early diagnosis and treatment of dementia can help make the disease reversible. Literacy/ knowledge of the ailment is one of the most important factors in preventing Alzheimer's disease," said Dr M.K. Singh, Senior Consultant Neurologist, Continental Hospitals.
"While quitting smoking and alcohol, eating healthy diet, exercising for at least 150 minutes a week are suggested as steps to prevent Alzheimer's disease, the new research reveals that lower calories food forces a human body to conserve energy, and this leads to drop in body temperature, and this too helps in preventing dementia. Additionally, reading, writing, learning new languages and/or musical instruments, maintaining an active social life are highly recommended to ensure Alzheimer's is kept at bay," he said.
Conditions like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes, which are known to increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases, also increase the risk of developing Alzheimer's among ageing population. Hence, in addition to leading an active life, cutting down on calories in food is surely a great way to stay happy and remember everything till the end of life.
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Home Blogs Health News Yogi govt to restart Arogya Mela from Jan 10
Yogi govt to restart Arogya Mela from Jan 10
By NS Desk| Health News| posted on : 30-Dec-2020
Lucknow, The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has decided to revive the Arogya Mela that was suspended due to the outbreak of Covid pandemic in March.
Sanjay Prasad, the principal secretary to the Chief Minister, said the state government had directed the health and family welfare department as well as the districts to start preparation for the Arogya Mela that will be held from January 10 onwards.
A massive health campaign will be launched across the state during the Mela.
The health department will launch an awareness campaign along with vaccination drive, medical camps and distribution of cards to Ayushman Bharat beneficiaries.
Principal secretary, health and family welfare, Alok Kumar said though Covid cases were on the decline in the state but the government was not taking any chances and testing, tracking and treatment would continue at an aggressive pace.
"The state has achieved another landmark as now above 50 per cent of the sample test are RT-PCR tests. With the development of the infrastructure facilities, Uttar Pradesh has increased RT-PCR tests. Earlier, the majority of the sample tests were through rapid antigen," he said.
The state health department is tracking those who have returned from the UK as well as their close contacts for sample tests. (IANS)
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Virtual forum held to call for Medicaid expansion
A coalition of advocacy groups held a virtual forum to call for Medicaid expansion. North Carolina is one of fewer than a dozen states yet to expand Medicaid.
Source: Asheville Citizen-Times
Advocates from organizations across North Carolina joined for a virtual forum calling for Medicaid expansion in North Carolina. The need is particularly acute given the loss of health care and employment in recent months, advocates say.
Care4Carolina, a group advocating for affordable health care in North Carolina, says that “tens of thousands” fall into the coverage gap: making too much money to qualify for Medicaid but too little to afford private insurance.
According to some estimates, more than half a million North Carolinians stand to gain coverage if North Carolina expands Medicaid. Care4Carolina estimates 178,000 additional residents are in the coverage gap in the months since COVID-19 arrived, the Asheville Citizen-Times reports.
“With the devastation of this pandemic, it has really starkly highlighted for us the shortcomings of what an employment-based health insurance system that we have does for us,” Dr. Richard Hudspeth, CEO of Blue Ridge Health, said.
Medicaid expansion would also be a boon to the state’s economy, with a recent study pointing to nearly 40,000 jobs and billions of dollars in growth in gross county product.
“Even if the numbers aren’t perfect, they’re significant enough that even if we take a more conservative approach, it’s still a big impact, especially now when our counties are really hurting for revenue,” Jason Gray, senior fellow for research and policy at the NC Rural Center, told the paper.
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Boy Meets World’s Will Friedle to voice Star-Lord in animated Guardians series
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After teasing the world with a clip, progress rolls on with the animated Guardians Of The Galaxy show. The Hollywood Reporter announces that Will Friedle will voice Star-Lord, the sarcastic rogue with a Walkman of gold. Friedle is probably best known as his role as the older brother in Boy Meets World (and the uncle in Girl Meets World). But he has extensive background with voice acting, most significantly lending his pipes to the lead characters of Batman Beyond and the Thundercats reboot. Friedle will be joined by Kevin Michael Richardson as Groot and Trevor Devall as Rocket, the raccoon that fires big guns while wearing people clothes. The show is set to debut sometime later this year on Disney XD as part of a new Marvel Universe block. No word on which ’70s pop hits will be revitalized by inclusion in the new animated world, but here’s to hoping for KISS’s “New York Groove.”
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New UK Project on Greener Structural Composites
The UK is on its way to developing structural composite products manufactured from plant products, thanks to a new collaborative research and development project being led by NetComposites. The UK Department of Trade and Industry is providing £278,000 funding towards the £777,000 Combine project to develop bio-derived composites with the properties needed for products in sectors such as automotive, marine and medical devices.
Whereas most currently available natural fibre composites have random fibres, the Combine project is concentrating on developing flax-reinforced products with aligned, woven fibres to give far higher mechanical performance than has previously been achieved. The work will pair these fibres with both conventional (oil-derived) resins such as polypropylene, as well as plant-derived resins such as PLA.
Announcing the project, Minister for Science and Innovation, Malcolm Wicks said: “The plastics being created in this project will be strong and lightweight, but will be made from plants, which means they’ll eventually be composted into harmless plant products.
“Lots of hard work has been done to create greener engines for cars, this takes us the next step by creating environmentally friendly plastics for cars, boats and even baby capsules used to protect our toddlers in medical emergencies.”
“That’s not even mentioning the competitive advantage this kind of technology could have for the UK economy. Through the DTI-led Technology Programme, we’re working with business to develop the products and services we’ll need in the future.”
Gordon Bishop, Managing Director of NetComposites said: “The Combine project aims to develop high performance plant-derived plastics for structural parts like car doors by using innovative combinations of natural fibres and bio-plastics. It also aims to create products which are biodegradable, for the first time creating structural materials and products from renewable resources.”
NetComposites will be working with Springdale Crop Synergies, Fairline Boats, John Brierley, Sam Weller and Sons, E&F Composites, Ecocats, Lightweight Medical and Queen Mary University of London.
NetComposites is also leading a second consortium, called FuturePlas, to develop the next generation of stronger, light-weight self-reinforced plastics, using high-strength polymer fibres inside polymer matrices to give significantly enhanced properties over conventional unreinforced plastics. This project will manufacture and test an industrial safety helmet and prototype a car front-end, as lighter bodies for cars increase performance, while reducing fuel consumption. This is also being part funded with a Technology Programme grant from the DTI.
A spin-off company, Aptiform, has already been created to supply components from these new types of plastic materials.
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Demonstrators walks past the U.S. Capitol during a protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline in Washington, D.C., in 2017.
Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
Dakota Access Should Keep Permit Despite Legal Flaws, Feds Say
By Ellen M. Gilmer
Judge required additional environmental review
Army Corps says it’s correcting ‘procedural error’
Federal officials are likely to re-approve the Dakota Access oil pipeline after a court-ordered environmental review, so there’s no reason to halt operations in the meantime, the Trump administration said Wednesday.
In a legal brief, the Army Corps of Engineers urged the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to keep the project’s permits in effect while the agency corrects a “procedural error.”
“Given the amount of analysis that has occurred thus far and the specific easement conditions imposed, it is highly likely that the Corps will ultimately be able to substantiate its existing property management decision after correcting the procedural error identified by the Court,” the agency said.
The plea comes after the district court in March ruled that the Army Corps’ latest analysis for Dakota Access fell short of the National Environmental Policy Act.
The landmark ruling said the agency didn’t adequately grapple with expert disagreement over the risk of an oil spill in waters that serve the Standing Rock Sioux and other tribes. The Army Corps said it is aiming to finish a more detailed review of the pipeline’s impacts by the middle of next year.
The pipeline, backed by Energy Transfer Partners LP, went into service almost three years ago to transport crude from North Dakota shale fields to an oil hub in Illinois.
‘Long-Lasting Consequences’
Dakota Access made its own case to the court Wednesday, arguing that scrapping the key pipeline permit in the case would cause “severe, immediate, and long-lasting consequences for many parties.”
Among those affected parties, the brief argues, are the pipeline company; North Dakota oil and gas companies; downstream customers; and state, local, and tribal governments that receive “several billion dollars” annually from oil and gas taxes and royalty revenue.
Invalidating the pipeline’s easement across the federally managed Lake Oahe in North Dakota would mean the project was encroaching on federal land, requiring the Army Corps to take “corrective measures,” including removal, Army Corps lawyers said.
“Disruptions from removal could include, among other things, creating the ‘extreme waste’ of dismantling and rebuilding the Pipeline,” the agency said.
Legal precedent allows, but doesn’t require, judges to consider disruptive effects and other factors when deciding whether to nix a permit issued in violation of federal law.
Judge James E. Boasberg, who is handling the case, previously allowed Dakota Access to keep its permits despite other violations of the National Environmental Policy Act.
Tribes opposed to the pipeline have until May 20 to file their own briefs. The district court is expected to rule by early summer on whether to nix the pipeline’s permits.
The case is Standing Rock Sioux Tribe v. Army Corps of Engineers, D.D.C., No. 1:16-cv-01534, briefs filed 4/29/20.
To contact the reporter on this story: Ellen M. Gilmer in Washington at egilmer@bloombergenvironment.com
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Gregory Henderson at ghenderson@bloombergenvironment.com; Anna Yukhananov at ayukhananov@bloombergenvironment.com
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Five Blockchain-Based Social Media Platforms To Watch In 2020
Posted on May 29, 2020 by Crypto
Mainstream social media platforms have sparked controversy in recent years. Major platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube have the power to censor users and content, even against the wishes of their userbase. They can also demonetize content and control the flow of revenue single-handedly.
Blockchain technology provides a solution to these problems. Social media projects can prevent censorship by storing user content on a blockchain’s immutable ledger. Additionally, they can give users control over rewards and reputation points by handling that data through unstoppable crypto transactions.
Below are this year’s most significant blockchain-powered social media platforms.
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1. Society2 on IOTA
2. Voice on EOS
3. Hive and Peakd
4. Blue Sky and Twitter
5. Reddit’s Ethereum Points
6. Other Platforms
Society2 on IOTA
Society2 is an upcoming social media platform based on the IOTA blockchain and its IOTA Streams framework. Users will benefit from greater control over their data and greater privacy, and they will also be able to earn free IOTA tokens by viewing ads. Developers can build new platforms on top of Society2 as well.
Society2 announced its plans on May 5, 2020, and asserted its goal of becoming one of the first decentralized social media platforms with mainstream appeal. The development team plans to deliver an early prototype by Q3 2020, but they have not yet announced a final release date for the platform.
Voice on EOS
Voice is an upcoming social media platform that will distribute crypto rewards to content creators and put a focus on transparency. It is being developed by Block.one, the company behind the EOS blockchain. Voice was first announced in June 2019, and Block.one opened the service to beta users this February.
Voice has been widely criticized due to the fact that transparency, not privacy, is its ultimate goal. The platform plans to stop fake news, bots, and dishonest promotional practices by keeping every part of the platform accountable―and to do so, Voice users will need to verify themselves and make their identity public.
Hive and Peakd
Hive is a new blockchain that originated as a fork of Steem. In February, TRON acquired Steemit, Inc., which allowed it to gain control over Steem. In response, several Steem nodes and users created Hive, introducing a new governance model that is designed to prevent anyone from gaining control over the blockchain.
Despite those differences, Hive’s social media functions are very similar to those of Steemit. Users can post content on Hive’s social blogging platform (Peakd) and make use of Hive’s other blockchain apps. Users also receive HIVE crypto tokens for posting content and commenting on that content, just like they would on Steemit.
Blue Sky and Twitter
In December, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced a social media project called Blue Sky, which will be tasked with building a decentralized social media standard. Though Blue Sky has not directly mentioned blockchain in its plans, Dorsey’s past interest in crypto means that blockchain is probably involved in some way.
However, very little is known about Blue Sky apart from the fact that it is surveying existing standards. Some critics have noted that Twitter’s intentions could actually be sinister: in theory, the company could join an existing decentralized project such as ActivityPub, then use its influence to bend the standard to its will.
Reddit’s Ethereum Points
In April, Reddit began to experiment with an Ethereum-based system called “community points.” Though Reddit already has an existing points system called “karma,” a blockchain-based reward system would ensure that Reddit does not have the power to take points away from users. Ethereum points would also be spendable.
Unfortunately, there is no guarantee that this will become a permanent fixture of Reddit, and some users say that the feature was removed from Reddit shortly after its first appearance. In fact, something similar has happened before: Reddit briefly hired a Bitcoin engineer in 2014, but nothing ever came of that decision.
These social media platforms are primarily up-and-coming projects. So far, only Hive is available to the general public, and Voice is only available to select beta testers. Society2 and BlueSky do not have any usable products at the moment, and Reddit’s Ethereum-based points system appears to be offline for the time being.
In the meantime, there are plenty of other social media platforms that are already active. Those platforms include Steem, Memo.cash, Peepeth, DTube, and Minds. Often, these platforms do not require users to own any cryptocurrency―meaning that they are easy to access despite the niche appeal of blockchain technology.
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U.S. attorney’s office opens probe into deaths of Capitol Police officer and protester. – The New York Times
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The U.S. attorney’s office in Washington is leading investigations into the deaths of a woman who entered the Capitol building with a crowd of rioters on Jan. 6 and an officer who was killed while trying to police the violent mob, according to Michael Sherwin, the office’s top prosecutor.
Prosecutors in the office’s Civil Rights division have opened a formal, federal excessive force case into the shooting death of Ashli Babbitt, who was shot by a Capitol Police officer as she and a group of President Trump’s supporters swarmed the building.
The investigation into Ms. Babbitt’s shooting is “routine, standard procedure whenever an officer deploys lethal force,” a Justice Department spokeswoman said.
The U.S. attorney’s office has also opened a federal homicide investigation into the death of Brian D. Sicknick, a Capitol Hill police officer who died after pro-Trump rioters struck him with a fire extinguisher. Mr. Sicknick died on Thursday from injuries sustained “while physically engaging” with pro-Trump rioters who descended on the U.S. Capitol the day before.
Both investigations are being led by detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department.
A total of five people died in the wake of the rampage on Jan. 6, including three other individuals who died after experiencing what were believed to be medical emergencies in the area around the Capitol.
The investigations into the deaths of Ms. Babbitt and Officer Sicknick will focus on different types of crimes.
Ms. Babbitt was fatally shot by a Capitol Police officer inside the building as she climbed through a broken window leading to the Speaker’s Lobby. The U.S. attorney’s office is investigating whether “excessive force” was used against her.
The Capitol Police said Officer Sicknick “passed away due to injuries sustained while on duty.” At some point in the chaos — with the mob rampaging through the halls of Congress while lawmakers were forced to hide under their desks — Officer Sicknick was struck with a fire extinguisher, according to two law enforcement officials.
He was rushed to the hospital and placed on life support, and died later on Thursday evening.
Officer Sicknick was only the fourth member of the force to be killed in the line of duty since its founding two centuries ago.
Senior Pentagon officials said on Saturday they would likely approve a request for Officer Sicknick, an Air National Guard veteran, to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery with special posthumous honors.
The recognition came after Representative Elissa Slotkin, a Michigan Democrat and former Pentagon official, said in a Twitter message that she had contacted top military officials, including Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy and Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to request the honors.
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Work begins on new pontoon at Victoria Point
Redland City Council has started work on a new pontoon to replace the previous one that broke away from the Victoria Point Boat Ramp during the cyclonic winds recently experienced in the Redlands.
Mayor Karen Williams said the boat ramp had remained open (without the pontoon) for recreational boating, and that when possible, one lane of the two lanes will still be accessible during the construction period.
“Preparations are now being made for the installation of four new piles to secure the new pontoon,” Cr Williams said.
“Two piles can be reached by land when tides allow, but the two seaward piles will need to be put in place by a piling barge when the weather clears.
“We expect this to take place early next week, weather permitting.”
The exact measurements needed to build the new pontoons will only be known when the piles are in place.
Cr Williams said many Redland residents and visitors would be keen to get out on the water come Easter time, so Council was aiming to have the new pontoon built and installed for the long weekend.
“But this is a very exposed site when there are high winds and waves in the bay, so the weather will dictate our progress. Safety is our first priority,” she said.
Changes to the accessibility of the Victoria Point Boat Ramp during the construction period will be updated on the signage already at the ramp, and via Council’s Facebook account and online at www.redland.qld.gov.au.
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How to Better Meet Your Customer’s Needs
April 3, 2019 by Derek Klobucher
The stars probably aren’t going to align before your next digital transformation, but it’s always the right time to get ahead of customer needs.
“I don’t think there’s ever an easy time to do anything and I always tell people: Once you can obviously see it, then it’s too late,” Kroger Chairman and CEO Rodney McMullen said onstage at NRF 2019. “So they’d better be predicting and anticipating where their customer is going.”
That means acting fast. No more forming teams to identifying problems, then vetting and selecting vendors, and finally contracting and implementing in order to solve those problems. Existing technology lets users create their own applications using special easy-to-use tools.
Solving Your Problems Faster In House
“Solve them in house by making [your] own applications and deploy them more quickly,” SAP’s Roger Roney said during a demonstration at NRF 2019. “I have added capability because I’m using SAP Cloud Platform, to not just capture and deliver information but to do something as well.”
In Roney’s example, an internal app for in-store associates uses image recognition technology to identify products on the shelf and the associate can view relevant information, change the price, or order more. For external/customer use, an in-house app could rely on SAP Leonardo and other technology to create a virtual shopping list, which renders the items on a virtual store shelf, showing the current price of each item, and the total cost of the entire order.
“Our customers can create their own innovations [and] fill their own gaps without having to come to a vendor like SAP,” Roney said. “They can do it on their own.”
Keeping up with How the Joneses Shop
A retailer’s in-house app could use SAP Leonardo and other technology to create a virtual shopping list (see the video above)
“People will always eat, [but] the way people eat will always change,” Kroger’s McMullen said. As a result, organizations must use data to constantly evaluate how they can better help their customers, whether they’re shopping online, in stores, or both, according to McMullen.
“Customers want anything they want, anytime they want, anywhere they want,” McMullen said. So organizations “really have to understand: Where is it you’re trying to go? What are the things that you’re better off doing on your own? And what are the things you need to partner with others?”
Creating your own apps is something you might be better off doing on your own, but it could require you to disrupt someone unexpected.
Winning at Your Own Game
“You have to be willing to disrupt yourselves,” Target Chairman and CEO Brian Cornell said onstage at NRF 2019. “You have to be willing to reinvest: in stores, in digital, in technology, in fulfillment, and in your teams.”
Target was at a crossroads a few years ago, according to Cornell. It could try to beat the likes of Amazon head on; that would have required building a gargantuan distribution network at break-neck speed. Instead, Target decided to win at its own game.
“We already had a coast-to-coast network — more than 1,800 potential distribution points — [but] we’d only thought about them as stores,” Cornell said. “Today we consider our stores our single biggest competitive advantage; they function as service centers, fulfillment hubs, and they’re incredible showrooms for inspiration.”
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What Fear Feels Like and What Organizations Can Do About It
June 2, 2020 by Judith Williams
A friend posted on Facebook this weekend: “Black men — how old were you the first time you had a gun pulled on you by a police officer?” He very quickly received hundreds of comments, and the post was shared a few hundred times.
What was striking about the flood of comments was that most of the men — and some women too — shared these experiences from when they were children or teens. Here are just a few:
I was 17 and had been pulled over for suspicion of speeding on the way home from Wednesday night bible study. —Jeff Livingston, CEO, EdSolutions
14 – walking alone in my mother’s working-class black neighborhood at 10:00 a.m. on a drizzly Saturday morning. Never told her for fear she’d never let me walk anywhere but to the bus for school again. —Jim Shelton, Chief Investment and Impact Officer, Blue Meridian Partners
14-years-old on my way to school in Chicago. The officer was black. —Chris Rabb, State Representative, Pennsylvania General Assembly
15… First time cuffed and illegally searched too. My crime was giving a white coworker a ride home.
20, in my own house. The police broke in at 4:00 a.m. [in the] summer of 1986, two blocks from UPenn’s campus where I was a student. —Gordon Brown
First year of teaching in Oakland. On my way home from school. I was wearing a suit and had a box full of papers to grade. They said I fit the description. —CJ Crowder, Managing Director, Alumni Leadership Development, Harvard University
Reading these posts has forced me to reflect on my own interactions with law enforcement.
I have been fortunate to have never had a gun drawn at me; however, I recall quite clearly a time in my senior year of college in Cambridge, MA. I was walking on a clear, brisk night in February alongside my roommates and two members of the Duke University basketball team. We were looking for a party to celebrate their win and our defeat in the basketball game earlier that evening. We attracted the notice of a Cambridge City police officer. He followed us slowly and creeped ever closer as we walked. So close that he entered our conversation uninvited. He said, “Everything is closed. Where do you folks think you are going?” The women in our group instinctively put ourselves between the men and the officer. We told him that we were heading back to our dorm and that we were students and would be on our way. We used our IDs to enter a building, where we called a cab and went to the hotel where the Duke team stayed.
I remember thinking to myself, “If we can just stay calm, we can talk our way out of this.”
What are we teaching our black youth about the opportunities that lie ahead when this happens? What have older black adults already learned? Every black person in America has likely had interactions like these and they make every black parent afraid that their children might not come home at night.
What does this mean for organizations like SAP, which have employees and customers in communities that have been directly impacted by the events of the past few weeks, and have goals to increase diversity in their workforce?
It means that when we ask our employees to bring their best selves to work, we must acknowledge that many of them are dealing with the fear, the grief, and the anger that this current environment brings. We must provide them with the resources that they need to address these emotions, but we must also address them organizationally. We need to lead with compassion and recognize that the social unrest we are witnessing in the U.S. is not just about one incident or one ethnic group, it’s about everybody and it impacts all of us globally.
We must come together to solve problems like this, and diversity and inclusion leaders need to work side by side with the leaders of their organizations to do so as a top priority.
I am so proud that our leaders at SAP have not been silent in the face of our employees’ pain and our society’s failures.
SAP North America President DJ Paoni sent a heartfelt message and will join me at a town hall for employees who want or need to come together to address these issues.
Our global leaders are speaking out as well. SAP Executive Board Member and Head of Customer Success Adaire Fox-Martin shared her experience as an Irish person of a certain generation who lived through “troubling times,” along with a quote from Nelson Mandela: “What counts in life is not the mere fact that we’ve lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.”
And SAP CEO Christian Klein noted, “This is a time for all of us to speak up and make our voice heard. We cannot allow hatred and racism in any form divide us along ethnic lines.”
In this moment, as a first step, leaders need to address the pain and grief with empathy and compassion. Longer term, we need to come together and accept the challenge that lies ahead to fix societal issues and create a world with equal opportunities for all. We need to act within our organizations and have a plan and a strategy to increase diversity within our ranks and ensure that people of color have access to development opportunities. Employees need to know that we don’t just talk, that we also take action to fix the very institutions that are in place to protect us.
We will continue this conversation by bringing in experts who can contextualize the experiences of people of color — starting with a three-part series, “Stress and Communities of Color in the time of Pandemic.”
We will also work alongside our leaders to identify how we can deploy SAP technology to help solve these complex problems.
Most importantly, we will maintain hope that if we can work together and focus on the strength that our diversity brings us, we will move forward. We will make progress.
Judith Williams is head of People Sustainability, senior vice president, and chief diversity and inclusion officer of SAP SE.
Top image via Unsplash/@clay.banks
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Uganda: At least 37 dead as protests rage over arrest of pop star turned presidential candidate Bobi Wine
Police and soldiers have been using live bullets, water cannons and tear gas to disperse the protests.
Image: A supporter of Bobi Wine is carried away by riot police in Luuka district
The number of people killed in protests over the arrest of Ugandan presidential candidate Bobi Wine has risen to 37, according to Ugandan police.
Mr Wine - a pop star whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi - was detained on Wednesday in the eastern town of Luuka after being accused of violating anti-coronavirus measures by holding mass rallies.
Youths have been burning tyres and blockading streets in the capital, Kampala, and in other areas, demanding Mr Wine's release.
Image: Hundreds of people have been arrested
Police and soldiers have been using live bullets, water cannons and tear gas to disperse the protests. Troops have been seen carrying AK-47 assault rifles.
The protesters are accused of damaging vehicles, looting properties and throwing stones at security personnel in Uganda's worst unrest in a decade.
The death toll is likely to rise, according to Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesman Patrick Onyango, who added that 350 people had been arrested and detained in the city.
Army spokeswoman Brigadier Flavia Byekwaso said the military had got involved because it was a "war-like situation" which the police could not handle on their own.
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"You can see what is going on - people are being stoned, people are being killed, vehicles are being vandalised, tyres everywhere," she said.
"These things are spontaneous on all streets, so police cannot handle such a situation."
More than 24 hours after his brutal arrest & detention in Nalufenya, Bobi Wine has been denied access to his lawyers & his medical team! Only army & police officers have access to him. The violation of his rights with impunity must be condemned by all persons of good conscience.
— BOBI WINE (@HEBobiwine) November 19, 2020
A tweet from Mr Wine's account described his detention as "brutal" and claimed he was being "denied access to his lawyers and his medical team".
It added: "Only army and police officers have access to him. The violation of his rights with impunity must be condemned by all persons of good conscience."
Mr Wine is campaigning to unseat President Yoweri Museveni - who has been in office for 34 years - in January's election.
Mr Museveni, 76, is seeking a sixth term in office.
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Tuatara Are Weird… Even For Prehistoric Lizards
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The tuatara is not your average lizard. Sure, it definitely looks like one, but these reptiles are old–really, really old. They’re actually the last survivors of an order of reptiles called Sphenodontia, which has been around for 200 million years. Meaning: they walked the earth with dinosaurs and outlived them.
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Tuatara are native to New Zealand and are the region’s largest reptile, measuring between 12 and 30 inches and weighing up to three pounds.
The spines that run from their necks down their back lend themselves to their name–”tuatara” comes from the Maori language and means “peaks on the back.” In addition to making them look super cool, the spines also serve as a sort of courtship display for males who can fan them out to attract a potential mate.
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Not only have these lizards, as a species, been around for a very long time, individuals also have a very long life span. They’re known to live for up to 100 years in the wild!
If you’re still not impressed by these prehistoric creatures, perhaps you’ll have a little respect for the fact that tuatara young are forced to be surprisingly resilient.
For any new newborn animal, the world can be a tough place. They have to adjust to a brand new environment and learn how to survive with potential predators at every turn. Luckily, they have adults to show them the ropes.
The same can not be said for tuatara. For the little critters in the video below the world is a significantly harsher place. After 16 months, the tuatara babies are ready to hatch. Once they do, they’ll be on their own, as their mothers immediately abandoned her eggs after laying them.
Despite being faced with probable abandonment issues, they must set their emotions aside to quickly learn to fend for themselves.
In addition to learning how to hunt, these babies must figure out how to avoid becoming another animal’s next meal.
Oh, and did I mention that includes adult tuatara!? That’s right. Mature tuatara are known to be cannibals and aren’t afraid to eat their own young if the opportunity presents itself.
Take a look at how these tiny tuatara learn to survive in an exceedingly dangerous world!
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by Britt Faulstick April 24, 20153:40 pm July 17, 2015
Could Recycling Wastewater Solve California’s Water Problem?
California is currently in the midst of a four-year drought. And after record-low snowfalls over the winter, Gov. Jerry Brown imposed water use restrictions for the first time in the state’s history. His plan to conserve water includes the imposition of a 25-percent reduction on local water-supplying agencies. This means residents will have to adjust their water consumption during everything from showering to watering lawns and washing cars.
Charles Haas, PhD, a professor in Drexel’s College of Engineering and head of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, has been part of a National Water Resources Institute committee that, for the last two years, has been monitoring California’s water use problems and looking at the feasibility of reusing wastewater as a possible solution.
When people talk about water reuse, what does that actually mean in terms of how the treated wastewater is used?
One thing to understand is that when we look at water reuse, the vast majority would not be the water you drink and cook with.
Right now, in a conventional system, we distribute about 100 gallons per person per day. Of this only about one gallon is used for direct consumption and preparation of foods. Another 10-20 gallons is used for showering and bathing. So most of the water we use is not actually for direct ingestion or contact.
It is entirely possible to replace common uses such as toilet flushing, lawn and garden watering, and car washing with recycled wastewater that is not treated as extensively.
Some water could be given higher levels of treatment and with that, we can produce water that meets acceptable quality levels for human consumption. But most of the reused water would not be for this purpose.
What sorts of upgrades must happen to make water reuse feasible? What kinds of treatment must wastewater undergo to make it useable again?
To do some combination of these strategies—treating water for both general use and for drinking/cooking—frequently a dual pipe plumbing system is needed in individual buildings and throughout the community. One pipe is for water treated to lesser standards, the other is for water treated as needed for direct consumption. So it would require running a new line of pipe from the treatment plant to the reservoirs and individual buildings. Obviously this is easier to do for new developments rather than retrofits.
At the treatment plant-level, the process of treating water to be reused for consumption includes several stages of membranes (including reverse osmosis) and likely activated carbon, chemical oxidation and disinfection. Often there is also an intermediate period of storage either below the ground or in a surface reservoir. These processes go beyond what is usual for conventional treatment.
Have systems like this worked in other areas?
Yes, actually.
Planned non-potable reuse in the United States goes back to the 1920s in Arizona. Larger systems and potable (water for drinking and cooking) reuse systems started appearing in the 1970s, in California, Texas, Arizona and Florida.
Recently, Singapore completed a very large potable reuse plant that meets 30 percent of the national water demand. There is a long track record, therefore, of success, with little evidence of problems resulting.
How much water could feasibly be reclaimed and treated for reuse?
The Singapore situation is probably the most extreme to date, at 30 percent of the requirements. However there is no fundamental reason that this cannot be made even greater. It becomes a question of economics
How long might it take to implement a treatment system for water reuse and at what cost?
If one needed to design and build such a plant from scratch, assuming no political objections were raised, it could be finished in perhaps five years.
What risks are inherent to essentially ‘speeding up’ nature’s hydrological cycle?
Without natural barriers interposed, there needs to be much more careful monitoring and control of the operations of the system, and detailed planning for actions to be taken when something malfunctions – typically a high level of redundancy is also designed into the system.
Do you see this as a last-resort scenario? Or something that needs to happen, regardless of other changes, for California to sustain its current population going forward?
Drought-resistent lawns are just a small part of Californians’ effort to minimize water use.
Of course, rigorous conservation is needed, but reused wastewater can be a reliable and acceptable source beyond that supplied by conventional supplies.
Something interesting to note is that unplanned reuse of wastewater has been happening for a long time. Right here in Philadelphia we take water from the Delaware and Schuylkill River at times, and neither would be considered pristine sources.
Frequently reuse, including to levels needed for potable supply, is a more inexpensive, environmentally sustainable and less energy-intensive alternative than ocean desalination. So I definitely wouldn’t categorize it as a “last resort.” It is already happening and it will be happening more in the future.
Members of the news media who are interested in speaking with Charles Haas, should contact Britt Faulstick, news officer, 215.895.2617 or bef29@drexel.edu
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The Great Game raged through the wilds of Central Asia during the nineteenth century, as Imperial Russia and Great Britain jostled for power. Tsarist armies gobbled up large tracts of Turkestan, advancing inexorably towards their ultimate prize, India. These rivals understood well that the first need of an army in a strange land is a reliable map, prompting desperate efforts to explore and chart out uncharted regions. Two distinct groups would rise to this challenge: a band of army officers, who would become the classic Great Game players; and an obscure group of natives employed by the Survey of India, known as the Pundits.
While 'the game' played out, a self-educated cartographer named William Lambton began mapping the Great Arc, attempting to measure the actual shape of the Indian subcontinent. It was completed four decades later by a fellow officer working for the Survey of India, George Everest, who would have a special mountain named in his honour. The Great Arc would then lauded as 'one of the most stupendous works in the whole history of science'. Meanwhile, the Pundits, travelling entirely on foot and with meagre resources, would be among the first to enter Tibet and reveal the mysteries of its forbidden capital, Lhasa.
Featuring forgotten, enthralling episodes of derring-do combined, and of the most sincere efforts to map India's boundaries, Mapping the Great Game is the thrilling story of espionage and cartography which shrouded the Great Game and helped map a large part of Asia as we know it today.
Riaz Dean has travelled much of the area described in this book, including the two halves of what was once Turkestan, and on the Roof of the World that divides them. He collects old maps and books about the exploration of this region, and has written of the ancient Silk Road and its mapping. Born and raised in the Fiji Islands, he subsequently lived on three continents before settling in New Zealand. Here, after four years of research and writing he completed this, his first book.
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Offering the Best in Funeral Service
Carolyn Elizabeth Crawford
Date of Death: June 19, 2019
Memorial contributions may be made to:
Blue Ridge Hospice
333 W. Cork Street
Winchester, Virginia 22601
Carolyn Elizabeth Crawford, 87, of Frederick County, Virginia passed away Wednesday, June 19, 2019 at her residence, residing with her caregiver, Teresa and Jeff Hill.
Mrs. Crawford was born in 1932 in Clearwater, Florida, the daughter of the late Rosa and Madison Bass, Sr. During her employment years Mrs. Crawford was a CNA and a home caregiver in Winchester, Virginia. She enjoyed crocheting, reading, puzzles, playing computer games, and telling stories of her life and family. Mrs. Crawford attended Winchester Church of God.
Her husband, Harold Crawford, whom she married on February 18, 1956 in Dunedin, Florida preceded her in death in 2018.
Surviving are her grandchildren, Zach Crawford (Lauren), Christopher Crawford (Sable), Heidi Botkin (Deryk), Kenny Peregory, Cassandra Kingsburg (Jim, Jr.) and Anthea Gavet (Milford); great-grandchildren, Henry, Raylin, Olivia, Isaiah, Josiah, Micah, HeavenLey, Hunter, Valicity, and Colten; many nieces and nephews; and her faithful caregiver, Teresa Hill.
Along with her parents and husband, Mrs. Crawford was preceded in death by a daughter, Teresa Carol Peregory; sons, David Eugene Crawford and Sampson “Sam” Harold Crawford; sisters, Josephine Bass and Minnie Sassion; brother, Madison Garvin Bass, Jr.; and grandson, Robert Crawford.
All services will be private. Arrangements are being handled by Omps Funeral Home, Amherst Chapel.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made in Carolyn and Harold’s memory to Blue Ridge Hospice, 333 W. Cork Street, Suite 405, Winchester, Virginia 22601.
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Saint-Saens – Symphony No. 3 (“Organ”) / Fremaux
For the first time in three years, one of Saint-Saens’ greatest masterpieces returns to Better Records with truly superb nearly Triple Plus (A++ to A+++) sound on both sides – just shy of our Shootout Winner – exceptionally QUIET vinyl too, the quietest copy to ever hit the site
Clear and transparent and natural – your ability to suspend disbelief requires practically no effort at all
What this copy did better than practically any other was show us just how rich, smooth and Tubey Magical 1973 EMI sound could be
“The whole work is a magnificent and fantastical symphonic machine that’s an apotheosis of the orchestral technology of the late 19th century.”
These Nearly White Hot Stamper pressings have top-quality sound that’s often surprisingly close to our White Hots, but they sell at substantial discounts to our Shootout Winners, making them a relative bargain in the world of Hot Stampers (“relative” being relative considering the prices we charge). We feel you get what you pay for here at Better Records, and if ever you don’t agree, please feel free to return the record for a full refund, no questions asked.
The legendary Stuart Eltham engineered this recording for EMI in 1973. You may know his work better from a longtime audiophile TAS List favorite, Massenet’s Le Cid (1971), again with Fremaux conducting the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
I had the opportunity to hear the work performed by a university orchestra (California Lutheran Symphony) years back and enjoyed it immensely. I was sitting about ten feet from the woodwind section; it’s a glorious sound from that close, I can tell you that.
Of course no pair of stereo speakers can hope to compete with a full scale pipe organ. The sound was, in a word, immense.
I’d like to think that this record affords the listener something close to that sound, but who am I kidding? No recording can even come close to capturing the sound of a live orchestra. The sound of this very record may be immersive and completely involving, allowing you to forget you’re even listening to a record at all, but the live event is an experience on another level. For rock and jazz, not so much. For orchestral music there is simply no comparison.
What the best sides of this classical masterpiece have to offer is not hard to hear
The biggest, most immediate staging in the largest acoustic space
The most Tubey Magic, without which you have almost nothing. CDs give you clean and clear. Only the best vintage vinyl pressings offer the kind of Tubey Magic that was on the tapes in 1973
Tight, note-like, rich, full-bodied bass, with the correct amount of weight down low
Natural tonality in the midrange — with all the instruments having the correct timbre
Transparency and resolution, critical to hearing into the three-dimensional studio space
No doubt there’s more but we hope that should do for now. Playing the record is the only way to hear all of the qualities we discuss above, and playing the best pressings against a pile of other copies under rigorously controlled conditions is the only way to find a pressing that sounds as good as this one does.
Rich, rosiny, Tubey Magical strings. The copies that did the best in our shootout always had the best string tone, the most richness and the highest resolution.
Deep bass for the organ is key. Many copies were a bit bass-shy and that cost them a lot of points.
Transparency, depth and space are essential to the recreation of that “you are there” feeling, and the best copies had plenty of all three.
One of the qualities that we don’t talk about on the site nearly enough is the SIZE of the record’s presentation. Some copies of the album just sound small — they don’t extend all the way to the outside edges of the speakers, and they don’t seem to take up all the space from the floor to the ceiling. In addition, the sound can often be recessed, with a lack of presence and immediacy in the center.
Other copies — my notes for these copies often read “BIG and BOLD” — create a huge soundfield, with the music positively jumping out of the speakers. They’re not brighter, they’re not more aggressive, they’re not hyped-up in any way, they’re just bigger and clearer.
And most of the time those very special pressings just plain rock harder. When you hear a copy that does all that, it’s an entirely different listening experience.
1st Movement:
Allegro Moderato
Poco Adagio
2nd Movement:
Maestoso
Excerpts from a review by Tom Service on the 50 Greatest Symphonies
“I gave everything to it I was able to give. What I have here accomplished, I will never achieve again.”
Thus spake Camille Saint-Saëns about his C minor Symphony, “avec orgue” (with organ), the third and last of his symphonies, and one of the crowning glories of his prodigious life in music. This week, I make a plea that we take the Organ Symphony seriously as one of the late 19th century’s most significant and technically sophisticated orchestral works.
And also of course that we enjoy its remarkable concatenation of tunes, colours, and kaleidoscopic thematic invention that have made the symphony so popular ever since its premiere in London’s St James’s Hall in 1886, when Saint-Saëns himself conducted the orchestra of the Royal Philharmonic Society, who had commissioned the piece.
It’s all too easy to think of the Organ Symphony as a perennial symphonic pot-boiler, one of those knackered ex-thoroughbred warhorses of the repertoire whose every appearance on concert programmes is another stage in its consignment to the orchestral glue-factory. It doesn’t help that the Big Tune of the last movement is one of the most used and abused motifs of classical music history, in everything from Disney’s Babe movies to it being adopted as the national anthem of the micro-nation of Atlantium, a postage-stamp-sized potential principality in Eastern Australia.
Its over-familiarity means it’s hard to recognise the real achievement of this symphony which fused what were genuinely cutting-edge innovations with Saint-Saëns’s inherently classical, conventional (with a small “c”) instincts. So forget what you might think you know about this symphony, and prepare to re-hear the rafinesse, joie de vivre, and technical coup-d’orchestre of arguably Saint-Saëns’s greatest single composition.
I have the image, at the end of the symphony, of the concert hall being miraculously lifted off the ground and held aloft by the combined efforts of all those pipes and all that air; all that counterpoint and all that time-stretching speeding up and slowing down; all that scraping and blowing, and all those keyboards.
The whole work is a magnificent and fantastical symphonic machine that’s an apotheosis of the orchestral technology of the late 19th century. In other words: the Organ Symphony is the definitive steampunk symphony.
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Civil status
Cambodia has one of the youngest and fastest-growing populations in Southeast Asia, with a population of approximately 16 million in 2019.1 According to the World Bank, the country’s birth rate per 1,000 people decreased slightly, from 25.5 in 2010 to 22.4 in 2018.2 With economic growth and improvements in people’s livelihoods and health, the life expectancy of the population is increasing, meaning people live longer than they did in the early period of the post-civil war.
Civil documents include certificates of birth, marriage and death. As the authority in their locality, commune/Sangkat councils are in charge of civil status documentation. All Khmer citizens have duties to request registration of their civil status in civil status books.
Those providing false information or requesting multiple registrations in the same place or in many different places may face fines and punishment under the law.
Birth record and certificate
When there is a new birth, parents have a duty to report to the local authority in the area of their permanent residence for registration of the birth in the birth registration book within 30 days. In other circumstances, parents are also able to make a petition for birth records and attestation of their children at commune/sangkat. Birth certificate and birth attestation are issued to the baby for free.3
Even where babies are born to illegitimate parents, they remain entitled to registration in the civil status book of birth. Parents of the newly born babies may present their children before commune/sangkat chiefs for the civil registration. If the babies are born to legitimate marriage parents, marriage certificates have to presented as proof of parenthood.
The documents that you need to bring to commune/sangkat offices for the registration include:
A letter certifying the birth: a certification letter of birth can come from a hospital or village chief
Family books or residence books with the names of the baby’s parents
Copies of the marriage certificate of the parents.
The babies can be named by fathers, mothers or guardians. The baby’s family name may be taken from:
the family names of their ancestral grandparents; or
the paternal grandfather’s name; or
the name of baby’s father.
Marriage record and certificate
A man and a woman who are willing to get marriage shall submit the application request to the civil registrar of the commune/sangkat in the woman’s residence. Both parties must be at least 18 years old. If one of them is 16 or 17 years old, they cannot get married unless there is consent from parents or guardians of the minor. Same sex marriage, marriage with somebody mentally ill or marriage between close relatives are all banned. Marriage between Cambodians and foreigners is governed by separate laws and regulations (There is a sub-decree on marriage between Cambodians and foreigners).
To request marriage registration, the intending bride and groom bring before the civil status officer the following documents:
Certified copies of their birth certificates
A certification letter of their single status, or widow/widower status, from commune/Sangkat chiefs of their residence. In the latter case, a judgment by the court of law or certified copy of the death certificate is also required
Family book or residence book with their names
National identity cards.
Once the documents are received, the civil status officer of the commune/Sangkat thoroughly considers and checks the application before issuing a marriage announcement. 5 copies of the marriage announcements will be produced for posting and depositing at residences and commune/sangkat halls of the bride-to-be and groom-to-be. If there is no objection to their marriage within 10 days after the public announcement, both parties may request their marriage be registered in the civil status book and the certificate of marriage issued.
To request official registration of the marriage and the certificate of marriage, the bride and groom-to-be bring before the civil status officer two witnesses of marriageable age with their National identity cards, or family books, or residence books.
Death record and certificate
The most senior family member, relative, neighbor or colleague of someone who has died reports the death to a civil registrar at the commune or sangkat of the deceased person’s permanent residence. In general, the death registration and certificate is done free of charge during 15 days after the death. In the case more than 15 days, the family member or relative must make a petition to a commune/sangkat chief of the deceased person’s permanent residence. The petition for the death record and registration incurs a fee is for free.4 A regional death certificate and a copy of the death certificate, upon request, shall be issued to a reporter or petitioner of the death.
The civil registrar considers two circumstances: the suspicious or non-suspicious death.5 If a person died of ordinary illness, senility, natural disaster or other accidents with no suspicion of the crime of murder, the civil registrar shall issue a permission letter for cremation or burying the corpse. If the death is caused by a contagious disease that may put society in danger, the responsible officer shall report immediately to (public) hospitals or sanatorium to prevent a disease outbreak (Article 35 of the sub-decree). If a person’s death caused by a motive suspicious of a crime as murder, the registrar officer or a person concerned shall report the issue immediately to the competent authorities in the deceased person’s locality for investigation (Article 36).
To register a death in the civil death registrar book, a person who reports the case shall bring necessary documents before the civil registrar officer:
An identification document of the deceased person such as national ID card, birth certificate, family book, or residence book;
Notification letter of the death issued by:
a village chief (if the person dies in their residence);
a civil registrar of other commune/sangkat (if the person dies outsides of their locality);
a hospital or health center (if the person dies at the hospital or health center);
a competent authority and expert (if the death is relative to a murder);
a responsible person of the ministry, institution (if the person dies in their location).
Other related documents: passport and visa for foreigners.
Video of civil status services at Sangkat administration
https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Civil_Status_Video_2020_InterNews_ISAC_FHI360_ODC.mp4
The Importance of civil status registration
“Civil status is a joint relation which attaches nationality to the State and specific status of a person in his/her family line, in society and creates his/her rights and obligations.6”
The registration certificate of each civil status may serve not only for the purposes of establishing each person’s relationship with a particular country or the family but also as means of recognising their socio-economic and political rights and duties. Under the 1993 Constitution of the Kingdom of Cambodia, these rights include: rights to vote or stand as candidates for an election, rights to education and to work with equal pay for the same work, rights to justice and fair trial, and rights to ownership. National identity cards7 and passports,8 the most important means of identification for the implementation of these rights, are established from the registration and documentation of civil status.
1. UNICEF, “Cambodia country programme 2019–2023“, August 2019. Accessed on 03 December 2020.
2. World Bank, “Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people): Cambodia”, 2020. Accessed on 03 December 2020.
3. Inter-Ministerial Prakas No.14342 the Provision of Administrative Services at Sub-National Level, dated on 29 December 2016.
5. Sub-Decree No.103 on Civil Registration and Records, dated on 29 December 2000. Sub-Decree No.60 and No.17, dated on 24 June 2002 and 14 June 2004 respectively, on Amendments of the Sub-Decree 103.
6. Ibid, Article 2, paragraph 1.
7. Prakas No.6375 on Procedure and Conditions for Requesting, Issuing and Using Khmer Identity Cards, dated on 29 July 2015. Prakas No.65 on Amendment to Article 3 of Prakas No.6375 dated on 29 July 2015, on Procedure and Conditions for Requesting, Issuing and Using Khmer Identity Cards, dated on 13 January 2016.
8. Prakas No.1461 on Formality of Issuing Regular Passports, dated on 28 April 2014. Inter-Ministerial Proclamation (Prakas) No. 2574 on Procedure and Formality of Issuing Regular Passports to Cambodian Migrant Workers to Work Overseas Legally, dated on 14 July 2014.
Ministry revises safe village-commune policy
Ministries to establish more medical facilities in Kingdom
Minister: Transparency vital in identifying poor households
Crackdown on IDPoor eligibility
Sar Kheng urged to look into NSSF graft claims
Related annoucements
Announcement on the launch of public services related to employment and vocational training through automation system
Press release on the introduction of a new model of Khmer identity card with special security symbol (Hologram)
News release: $29 million ADB loan to help improve public service delivery in Cambodia
USAID One window for citizen project launches civic tech tools connecting citizens to information on one window services
Notification on the postponement of payment of back pay seniority indemnity before 2019 and new seniority indemnity in 2020
Related laws and regulations
Prakas of Inter-Ministerial No. 0149 on the implementation of additional guidelines on technical guidelines on the preparation and establishment of 3-year rolling program in capital, provincial, municipal, district, khan and commune
Instruction No.045 on the continuous provision of correction and cancellation of civil status data
Water treatment plant of Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority
List of contact numbers for answering questions on obtaining Cambodian national ID card residence book and family book in Phnom Penh
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Mary-Kate Olsen officially files for divorce from Olivier Sarkozy as courts reopen
By Priscilla DeGregory
May 25, 2020 | 11:42am
Mary-Kate Olsen signed a summons and complaint for divorce from French banker Pierre Olivier Sárközy on April 17 after five years of marriage. With New York's Supreme Court closed during the initial phase of the pandemic, Olsen asked permission to file an emergency divorce petition, claiming that Sárközy terminated the lease for their NYC residence in the middle of the COVID-19 outbreak. According to court papers, their marriage started crumbling even before the pandemic. Getty Images
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Mary-Kate Olsen officially filed for divorce from French banker Pierre Olivier Sarkozy as New York courts reopened Monday to new cases following coronavirus closures.
The 33-year-old “Full House” star had previously attempted to split from Sarkozy — the half brother of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy — but was shot down because courts hadn’t been accepting new non-emergency cases amid the pandemic.
Courts on Monday began accepting new cases electronically.
Olsen’s contested divorce filing in Manhattan Supreme Court was among over a hundred cases, including lawsuits, filed by early Monday.
She sought an emergency divorce earlier this month, claiming in court papers that her 50-year-old husband of five years ended the lease on their $29,000 per month Gramercy Park pad, leaving her to look for a new place amid the health crisis.
Olsen’s lawyer declined to comment. Sarkozy’s lawyer did not immediately return a request for comment.
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Pajarito Powder to Exhibit at Hannover Messe
Pajarito Powder, LLC announced it is part of the largest-ever U.S. delegation to Hannover Messe, the world’s foremost trade fair for industrial technology, taking place April 25-29, in Hannover, Germany. For the first time in the fair’s history the United States will be a Partner Country.
Pajarito Powder invites its customers and partners to meet at the HYDROGEN+ FUEL CELL+BATTERIES Group Exhibit, in Hall 27, C66 at booth D31. A map of the hall is available here.
Pajarito Powder engineers and manufactures catalysts and advanced Engineered Carbon Supports (ECS), dramatically reducing or eliminating the need for precious metals in catalysts. The Pajarito Powder team will be on-site, hosting meetings with customers and partners in the fuel cell industry. The primary focus is on customers and partners attending the event, which begins on April 25 and runs until April 29.
Pajarito Powder will present at the Technical Forum, Tuesday April 26, at 13:20 on
“Engineered Carbon Supports for low precious-metal-content catalysts,” as well as at the Public Forum, on Thursday April 28, at 14:20, on the “True value proposition of low-platinum catalysts.”
Pajarito Powder is exhibiting two flagship products, PHC-3000, the company’s new Engineered Carbon Support (ECS) – being launched at the show – for ultra-low platinum catalysts designed for high-power applications where durability and performance are uncompromising, and NPC-2000, a precious-metal-free catalyst that substantially reduces the cost of catalysts for lower power applications. .
Chairman and CEO Thomas J. Stephenson stated, “The Hannover Messe is the premier industrial show in the world and provides Pajarito Powder with an enviable opportunity to showcase our innovative products to not only our European customers, but the entire world.”
This is the third year that Pajarito Powder exhibits at the Hannover Messe, thanks in part to assistance from a United States Trade Administration program, managed by the New Mexico Economic Development Department, that partially offsets the cost of trade shows for advanced technology New Mexico companies.
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Leandro Lima
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) - Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease
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Genome-Wide Analyses Identify KIF5A as a Novel ALS Gene
Aude Nicolas, Kevin P. Kenna, Alan E. Renton, Nicola Ticozzi, Faraz Faghri, Ruth Chia, Janice A. Dominov, Brendan J. Kenna, Mike A. Nalls, Pamela Keagle, Alberto M. Rivera, Wouter van Rheenen, Natalie A. Murphy, Joke J.F.A. van Vugt, Joshua T. Geiger, Rick A. Van der Spek, Hannah A. Pliner, Bradley N. Smith, Giuseppe Marangi, Simon D. Topp, Yevgeniya Abramzon, Athina Soragia Gkazi, John D. Eicher, Aoife Kenna, ITALSGEN Consortium, Gabriele Mora, Andrea Calvo, Letizia Mazzini, Nilo Riva, Jessica Mandrioli, Claudia Caponnetto, Stefania Battistini, Paolo Volanti, Vincenzo La Bella, Francesca L. Conforti, Giuseppe Borghero, Sonia Messina, Isabella L. Simone, Francesca Trojsi, Fabrizio Salvi, Francesco O. Logullo, Sandra D’Alfonso, Lucia Corrado, Margherita Capasso, Luigi Ferrucci, Genomic Translation for ALS Care (GTAC) Consortium, Cristiane de Araujo Martins Moreno, Sitharthan Kamalakaran, David B. Goldstein, The ALS Sequencing Consortium, Aaron D. Gitler, Tim Harris, Richard M. Myers, NYGC ALS Consortium, Hemali Phatnani, Rajeeva Lochan Musunuri, Uday Shankar Evani, Avinash Abhyankar, Michael Charles Zody, Answer ALS Foundation, Julia Kaye, Steven Finkbeiner, Stacia Wyman, Alex Lenail, Leandro Lima, Ernest Fraenkel, Clive N. Svendsen, Leslie M. Thompson, Jennifer E. Van Eyk, James D. Berry, Timothy M. Miller, Stephen J. Kolb, Merit Cudkowicz, Emily Baxi, Clinical Research in ALS and Related Disorders for Therapeutic Development (CReATe) Consortium, Michael Benatar, J. Paul Taylor, Evadnie Rampersaud, Gang Wu, Joanne Wuu, SLAGEN Consortium, Giuseppe Lauria, Federico Verde, Isabella Fogh, Cinzia Tiloca, Giacomo P. Comi, Gianni Sorarù, Cristina Cereda, French ALS Consortium, Philippe Corcia, Hannu Laaksovirta, Liisa Myllykangas, Lilja Jansson, Miko Valori, John Ealing, Hesham Hamdallah, Sara Rollinson, Stuart Pickering-Brown, Richard W. Orrell, Katie C. Sidle, Andrea Malaspina, John Hardy, Andrew B. Singleton, Janel O. Johnson, Sampath Arepalli, Peter C. Sapp, Diane McKenna-Yasek, Meraida Polak, Seneshaw Asress, Safa Al-Sarraj, Andrew King, Claire Troakes, Caroline Vance, Jacqueline de Belleroche, Frank Baas, Anneloor LMA ten Asbroek, José Luis Muñoz-Blanco, Dena G. Hernandez, Jinhui Ding, J. Raphael Gibbs, Sonja W. Scholz, Mary Kay Floeter, Roy H. Campbell, Francesco Landi, Stefan M. Pulst, John M. Ravits, Daniel J. L. MacGowan, Janine Kirby, Erik Pioro, Roger Pamphlett, James Broach, Glenn Gerhard, Travis L. Dunckley, Christopher B. Brady, Neil W. Kowall, Juan Troncoso, Isabelle Le Ber, Kevin Mouzat, Serge Lumbroso, Terry D. Heiman-Patterson, Freya Kamel, Ludo Van Den Bosch, Robert H. Baloh, Tim M. Strom, Thomas Meitinger, Aleksey Shatunov, Kristel R. Van Eijk, Mamede de Carvalho, Maarten Kooyman, Bas Middelkoop, Matthieu Moisse, Russell L. McLaughlin, Michael A. Van Es, Markus Weber, Kevin B. Boylan, Marka Van Blitterswijk, Rosa Rademakers, Karen E. Morrison, A. Nazli Basak, Jesús S. Mora, Vivian E. Drory, Pamela J. Shaw, Martin R. Turner, Kevin Talbot, Orla Hardiman, Kelly L. Williams, Jennifer A. Fifita, Garth A. Nicholson, Ian P. Blair, Guy A. Rouleau, Jesús Esteban-Pérez, Alberto García-Redondo, Ammar Al-Chalabi, Project MinE ALS Sequencing Consortium, Ekaterina Rogaeva, Lorne Zinman, Lyle Ostrow, Nicholas J. Maragakis, Jeffrey D. Rothstein, Zachary Simmons, Johnathan Cooper-Knock, Alexis Brice, Stephen A. Goutman, Eva L. Feldman, Summer B. Gibson, Franco Taroni, Antonia Ratti, Cinzia Gellera, Philip Van Damme, Wim Robberecht, Pietro Fratta, Mario Sabatelli, Christian Lunetta, Albert C. Ludolph, Peter M. Andersen, Jochen H. Weishaupt, William Camu, John Q. Trojanowski, Vivianna M. Van Deerlin, Robert H. Brown, Leonard H. van den Berg, Jan H. Veldink, Matthew B. Harms, Jonathan D. Glass, David J. Stone, Pentti Tienari, Vincenzo Silani, Adriano Chiò, Christopher E. Shaw, Bryan J. Traynor and John E. Landers
Government of the United States of America - Neuromuscular Diseases Research Section, University of Massachusetts Worcester - Department of Neurology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai - Nash Department of Neuroscience, University of Milan - Department of Neurology and Laboratory of Neuroscience, National Institutes of Health - Molecular Genetics Section, National Institutes of Health - Neuromuscular Diseases Research Section, University of Massachusetts Worcester - Department of Neurology, University of Massachusetts Worcester - Department of Neurology, National Institutes of Health - Molecular Genetics Section, University of Massachusetts Worcester - Department of Neurology, Government of the United States of America - Neuromuscular Diseases Research Section, Utrecht University - Department of Neurology, Government of the United States of America - Neuromuscular Diseases Research Section, Utrecht University - Department of Neurology, Government of the United States of America - Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Unit, Utrecht University - Department of Neurology, National Institutes of Health - Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Unit, United Kingdom Dementia Research Institute Centre, Government of the United States of America - Neuromuscular Diseases Research Section, United Kingdom Dementia Research Institute Centre, National Institutes of Health - Neuromuscular Diseases Research Section, United Kingdom Dementia Research Institute Centre, Merck & Co., Inc. - Genetics and Pharmacogenomics, University of Massachusetts Worcester - Department of Neurology, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Maggiore della Carità - ALS Center, University of Turin - Department of Neurosciences, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Maggiore della Carità - ALS Center, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele - Department of Neurology, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria di Modena - Department of Neuroscience, Institute of Hospitalization and Care with a Scientific Character (IRCCS) - Ophthalmology, Genetics, Rehabilitation, Maternal and Child Health, University of Siena - Department of Medical, Surgical and Neurological Sciences, Salvatore Maugeri Foundation IRCCS - ALS Center, University of Palermo - ALS Clinical Research Center, University of Palermo - ALS Clinical Research Center, Universita di Cagliari - Department of Neurology, University of Messina - Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro” (UNIBA) - Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Neurosciences and Sense Organs, Università degli Studi della Campania - Department of Medical, Surgical, Neurological, Metabolic and Aging Sciences, IRCCS Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna (ISNB) - Il Bene Center for Immunological and Rare Neurological Diseases, Polytechnic University of Marche - Neurological Clinic, University of Eastern Piedmont - Department of Health Sciences, University of Eastern Piedmont - Department of Health Sciences, 'Gabriele d'Annunzio' University of Chieti-Pescara - Department of Neurology, Government of the United States of America - Longitudinal Studies Section, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Columbia University Medical Center, Department of Neurology, Columbia University Medical Center, Department of Neurology, Columbia University - Institute for Genomic Medicine, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Stanford University - Department of Genetics, Bioverativ, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, affiliation not provided to SSRN, New York Genome Center - Center for Genomics of Neurodegenerative Diseases (CGND), New York Genome Center - Computational Biology, New York Genome Center - Computational Biology, New York Genome Center - Computational Biology, New York Genome Center - Computational Biology, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) - Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) - Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) - 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Mondino’ National Institute of Neurology Foundation - Experimental Neurobiology Laboratory, affiliation not provided to SSRN, François Rabelais University - ALS Center, University of Helsinki - Molecular Neurology Programme, University of Helsinki - Department of Pathology, University of Helsinki - Molecular Neurology Programme, University of Helsinki - Department of Neurology, Government of the United Kingdom - Department of Neurology, Government of the United Kingdom - Department of Neurology, University of Manchester - Faculty of Human and Medical Sciences, University of Manchester - Faculty of Human and Medical Sciences, University College London - Department of Clinical Neuroscience, University College London - Department of Molecular Neuroscience, Queen Mary University of London, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Blizard Institute, Wingate Institute of Neurogastroenterology, Centre for Neuroscience and Trauma, University College London - Department of Molecular Neuroscience, Government of the United States of America - Laboratory of Neurogenetics, Government of the United States of America - Neuromuscular Diseases Research Section, Government of the United States of America - Genomics Technology Group, University of Massachusetts Worcester - Department of Neurology, University of Massachusetts Worcester - Department of Neurology, Emory University - Department of Neurology, Emory University - Department of Neurology, United Kingdom Dementia Research Institute Centre, United Kingdom Dementia Research Institute Centre, United Kingdom Dementia Research Institute Centre, United Kingdom Dementia Research Institute Centre, Imperial College London - Division of Brain Sciences, University of Amsterdam - Department of Genome analysis and Neurogenetics, University of Amsterdam - Department of Neurogenetics and Neurology, Gregorio Marañón Hospital - Unidad de ELA, Government of the United States of America - Genomics Technology Group, National Institutes of Health - Computational Biology Core, National Institutes of Health - 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Department of Pathology, Sorbonne University - University Hospitals Pitié Salpêtrière - Charles Foix, UNIMES - Université de Nîmes - Department of Biochemistry, UNIMES - Université de Nîmes - Department of Biochemistry, Temple University - Department of Neurology, Government of the United States of America - Epidemiology Branch, KU Leuven - Division of Experimental Neurology, Cedars Sinai Medical Center - Department of Neurology, Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres - Institute of Human Genetics, Technische Universität München (TUM) - Institute of Human Genetics, University of London - Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Utrecht University - Department of Neurology, University of Lisbon - Institute of Physiology, SURFsara, Utrecht University - Department of Neurology, KU Leuven - Division of Experimental Neurology, Trinity College (Dublin) - Population Genetics Laboratory, Utrecht University - Department of Neurology, Kantonsspital St. Gallen - Neuromuscular Diseases Unit/ALS Clinic, Mayo Clinic - 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Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Toronto - Tanz Centre for Research of Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto - Division of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University - Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University - Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University - Brain Science Institute, Pennsylvania State University - Department of Neurology, University of Sheffield - Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN), Sorbonne University - University Hospitals Pitié Salpêtrière - Charles Foix, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Neurology, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Neurology, University of Utah - Department of Neurology, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico ‘Carlo Besta’ - Unit of Genetics of Neurodegenerative and Metabolic Diseases, University of Milan - Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico ‘Carlo Besta’ - Unit of Genetics of Neurodegenerative and Metabolic Diseases, KU Leuven - Laboratory of Neurobiology, KU Leuven - Laboratory of Neurobiology, University College London - Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, Catholic University of Rome - Institute of Neurology, Centro Clinico NeMO, Serena Foundation Onlus - Clinical Center NEMO (NEuroMuscular Omnicenter), University of Ulm - Department of Neurology, University of Umea - Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Neuroscience, University of Ulm - Department of Neurology, University of Montpellier - ALS Center, University of Pennsylvania - Department of Pathology and Lab Medicine, University of Pennsylvania - Department of Pathology and Lab Medicine, University of Massachusetts Worcester - Department of Neurology, Utrecht University - Department of Neurology, Utrecht University - Department of Neurology, Columbia University Medical Center, Department of Neurology, Emory University - Department of Neurology, University of Massachusetts Worcester - 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Commentary on off-payroll working rules new guidance
Homepage > Blog > Commentary on off-payroll working rules new guidance
14th January 2020author: admin
On Monday the 13th January the government produced a new factsheet on the changes to IR35, this time aimed at contractors. The guidance up to now has focussed on the end hirers, perhaps understandably as they will bear new responsibilities from April 2020*, whereas contractors engaged by medium or large end hirers will have responsibility shifted away from them.
The factsheet confirms who is affected by the changes and what is changing in April 2020*, substantiating once again that you may pay additional income tax and NIC’s come April 2020* if you have not applied IR35 correctly.
‘HMRC will not use information resulting from these changes to open a new enquiry into earlier years unless there is reason to suspect fraud or criminal behaviour’.
Whilst the factsheet validates that you do not need to take action before April - if your contract is likely to extend beyond April 2020*, you should engage with your end hirer now to understand how they will be managing the changes. This may require rate negotiations or adjustments to contracts and working practices. Remember the work you complete in March will likely be impacted by the reforms if payment will be made post 6th April 2020*.
The guidance reiterates that the reforms are under review at present, however it is very unlikely that there will be any significant changes or delays. It has been confirmed previously and is referenced in the factsheet that this is a review of the implementation rather than the reforms themselves.
Whilst there is nothing new contained in the document, it is good to see HMRC starting to provide guidance to contractors directly.
*Update: at the time this article was written, the off-payroll (IR35) reforms were due to be implemented on the 6th April 2020. On the 17th March 2020, the UK government announced that it would be deferring the reforms to the 6th April 2021 to help businesses and individuals during the COVID-19 crisis.
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Ethnic groups and American foreign policy project : oral history, 1974-1980 [CCOH]
...Ethnic groups and American foreign policy project : oral history, 1974-1980 Transcripts 2637 pages Sound recordings 74 reels Sound recordings 2 sound cassettes This collection of interviews...
Oral history interview with Morris Amitay, 1979 [CCOH]
Project: Ethnic groups and American foreign policy project.
... cassette Forms part of: Ethnic groups and American foreign policy project Interviewed by Judith Goldstein on April 2, 1979 Underwritten by private contributors Access: Closed until the earlier...
Oral history interview with Morris Berthold Abram, 1979 [CCOH]
... (literary works) aat Interviews. aat Goldstein, Judith, interviewer. nnpc Ethnic groups and American foreign policy project. (NNC)4072695 Also available as digital recording: Oral history interview...
Oral history interview with George Wildman Ball, 1978 [CCOH]
... recording: 2 reels Forms part of: Ethnic groups and American foreign policy project Public official; interviewee b. 1909; d. 1994 Interviewed by Judith Goldstein on May 21, 1976 and June 14, 1978 Access: Open...
Oral history interview with Hyman Harry Bookbinder, 1979 [CCOH]
... Ethnic groups and American foreign policy project. (NNC)4072695 Also available as digital recording: Oral history interview with Hyman Harry Bookbinder, 1979 (NNC)7093205 AUTH MARS ...
Oral history interview with Benjamin S. Rosenthal, 1975 [CCOH]
... Interviews. aat Goldstein, Judith, interviewer. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91121459 nnpc Ethnic groups and American foreign policy project. (NNC)4072695 Also available as digital recording: Oral...
Oral history interview with Eugene Telemachus Rossides, 1977 [CCOH]
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Oral history interview with Alexander M. Schindler, 1977 [CCOH]
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Oral history interview with Mark Siegel, 1979 [CCOH]
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Oral history interview with Clifford Philip Case, 1979 [CCOH]
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Oral history interview with Terence Smith, 1977 [CCOH]
...: 2 reels Forms part of: Ethnic groups and American foreign policy project Journalist Interviewed by Judith Goldstein Underwritten by private contributors Access: Closed Terence Smith, Gift 1977 Name...
Reminiscences of Norman Podhoretz, 1978 [CCOH]
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Oral history interview with Sol Myron Linowitz, 1976 [CCOH]
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Oral history interview with Kenneth Wollack, 1979 [CCOH]
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Oral history interview with Jonathan B. Bingham, 1975 [CCOH]
..., Judith, interviewer. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91121459 nnpc Ethnic groups and American foreign policy project. (NNC)4072695 Also available as digital recording: Oral history interview...
Oral history interview with Richard Norman Perle, 1977 [CCOH]
...: 115 pages Sound recording: 3 reels Forms part of: Ethnic groups and American foreign policy project Legislative assistant Interviewed by Judith Goldstein on February 7 and October 23, 1975 and December...
Oral history interview with Israel Miller, 1975 [CCOH]
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Oral history interview with Laurence Tisch, 1977 [CCOH]
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Oral history interview with Robert Jerome Lipshutz, 1978 [CCOH]
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Oral history interview with Harriet M. Zimmerman, 1977 [CCOH]
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Listen to – Christy – Homegrown
Rising Star Christy Unveils His Debut EP ‘Homegrown‘ Bringing 5 Track EP
Bringing together songs of emotional frankness, delicately composed on piano and acoustic guitar, the EP is a remarkable introduction to an artist who has kept artistic integrity at the heart of everything. Speaking of the EP Christy said: “These songs are everything I have been through in the last few years…My first release needed to be real, genuine – either people like it or they don’t, but at least I have been 100% myself and I’m not sacrificing anything to be a popstar. They are sad songs but I wanted them to sound beautiful.”
Previous singles ‘On My Mind’, ‘Remember Me Well’, and ‘Pictures’ each capture a different element to Christy’s eclectic flavour of songwriting, getting bigger and bolder with each release, culminating to the strength and bravery of Christy’s last single ‘Dancing With Air’, and eventually finding a release in pressure with the new title track ‘Homegrown’, an upbeat pop number that brings the EP to a close on a high, a moment you can imagine Christy closing future festival performances with. “I can write music in any genre but this particular EP is about love and loss. For my next, I’ve got a big house song that is going to be a belter!”
The EP was recorded at Urchin Studios in London Fields, and tracks were co-written with the talented York singer-songwriter Benjamin Francis Leftwich (“We wrote without ego – it was completely honest and open”) and producer Matt Ingram, known for his work with Laura Marling. It features strings from Tom Hobden (Mumford and Sons) and jazz musician Nick Pini (Laura Marling), a high calibre of musicians whom O’Donnell says “saw his vision”.
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At twenty-four, Christy O’Donnell has already lived out several unlikely dreams. He’s busked the streets of Glasgow making £400 a day. He’s been in a boy band, acted in a Disney TV series, and even climbed Arthur’s Seat with Rufus Wainwright… But beneath the young Glaswegian’s many incarnations is a serious musician about to unleash his first EP. Though intensely personal, this is not simple, singer-songwriter territory: the effervescent O’Donnell counts Ray Charles, John Martyn and Chet Baker as among his biggest musical influences.
O’Donnell explains that he found his voice as a busker on Glasgow’s famous Buchanan Street as a teenager. He’d always wanted to sound like Jeff Buckley, imitating him in the shower as a child, but in front of the crowds of onlookers as a street musician, he learned to let his feelings run wild. “Singing is basically letting out your emotions in a weird wail,” he laughs. “And after all the busking, I know a good wail from a bad one.”
From age fourteen, he was writing songs on his phone using Garageband: his first was inspired by the death of a man in his local community and set up the signature sensitivity to be heard in his songwriting, which broadens experience out beyond the personal to explore the power of love and the way it lingers in the mind.
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Outside the Box: How the ‘new normal’ for work is challenging what it means to be a socially responsible company
Focus on employee morale and access to advanced technology will define ESG investing. Read More...
The coronavirus pandemic is shaping the future of work. Flexible schedules, working from home, gig economy jobs and digital transformation might not have needed special prodding from a ruthless virus, but COVID-19 has accelerated and, arguably, concretized certain trends, namely:
The new essential: The global pandemic and subsequent lockdowns have increased investors’ focus on the role of companies in society, most notably around the treatment of their customers, suppliers and employees. Many workers who are on precarious contracts and/or receive hourly or low wages and few, if any, benefits, have come to be lauded as heroes — essential to the functioning of society and economic systems.
Digital transformation: If you’re reading this article on a laptop or smartphone, if you’re about to hop on a Zoom work conference or Webex, if your school-aged child is struggling through the challenges of remote learning, this item will be familiar. While change related to digitization — specifically in areas such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), and semiconductors — was already rapidly occurring, the pandemic has only accelerated this further, with internet connectivity helping to shift the nature of work and the workplace in ways that would not have been possible even a decade ago. With this seismic change comes an urgent need for companies to adapt and embrace digital technology.
Flexible work arrangements: The lockdown also appears to have accelerated a number of pre-existing trends such as the shift to automation, reshoring of supply chains, and embracing more flexible working arrangements. Emerging from lockdown, a new business reality will likely be that in order to attract top talent, companies will have to offer attractive, flexible work practices. This could have numerous long-term implications, such as a shift in the demand and pricing of commercial office space, increased appeal of suburban living, greater spending on home offices and entertainment, and less spending on business travel.
Increased education and skills training: The pandemic also has underscored certain population and demographic-based themes, many of which are intertwined with the future of work. This aging population has implications for the workforce, government spending, and pensions and retirement savings. Many forms of education could be affected and the specific skills required may change rapidly owing to the other, interlocking themes above, and the means of delivering education may shift towards an online model.
These pandemic-related factors and responses will change how we conduct business — and how we live our lives. With great change comes both financial risks and opportunities, which companies will need to balance against their societal obligations. If we begin with the premise that the lasting value of an investment is ultimately driven by the relationship between and among stakeholders — including directors, investors, customers, suppliers, the environment, society, regulators and of course, employees — the long-term viability of an investment requires decision-makers to understand and balance the needs of these diverse groups.
Seen through this lens, employee considerations become a vital input when it comes to Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG). Applications related to ESG integration include avoiding companies that have such poor relations with employees that they are unproductive (or even strike), resulting in material reduction in revenues and increased costs. More holistically, it means gaining a sense of which companies view their employees as assets rather than budget line-items. Which businesses are providing training to equip staff for the future of work, paying a living wage that ensures adequate living standards, and being mindful of company culture and work-life balance considerations?
Though the focus on these issues appears to have intensified during the pandemic, these social factors tend to be less well-understood by investors due to the lack of access to transparent, high-quality data or disclosures around these issues. As economies emerge from COVID-19, it will also be important to consider the altered macroeconomic backdrop, including increased levels of government spending and debt and associated opportunities for the structural reform of national labor markets — all of which will be instrumental in shaping our working lives.
That said, active engagement with companies can go a long way toward better understanding and/or influencing corporate culture and identifying areas where a business’s future of work lags behind the times. The recent growth of ESG and sustainable assets has been accompanied by a rise in active engagement, perhaps most notably in the form of proxy voting, with investors increasingly voting against management.
Change is inevitable. One’s partners, clients, staff, future employees and shareholders demand businesses to embrace it. Given the arrival of effective vaccines, as we ultimately emerge from the pandemic, companies and sectors that rigidly adhere to the old ways of working will do so at their peril. Our lived experience tells us daily: The future of work is here. It’s an essential part of the “S” in ESG, and the investment implications of ignoring this new reality are not small.
Andrew Parry is head of sustainable investment at Newton Investment Management
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We Ask Successful Investors: Which Stock Was Your Biggest Winner in 2020?
Companies in more than a few sectors suddenly had to contend with stay-at-home orders and mandatory business closures, a challenging set of circumstances for which few were prepared. Here, three Motley Fool contributors reveal which of their portfolio holdings did the best in a very trying year -- namely Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), StoneCo (NASDAQ: STNE) and Innovative Industrial Properties (NYSE: IIPR). Eric Volkman (Facebook): Far and away, my No. 1 was that old social media standby, Facebook, which as of mid-December had risen 39% year to date. Read More...
3 Stocks Flashing Signs of Strong Insider Buying
Sometimes, following a leader makes the best investment strategy. And corporate insiders have long been popular leaders to follow. Their combination of responsibility to their stockholders and access to ‘under the hood’ information on their companies gives their personal investment choices an air of authority.The most important thing about these insiders is that whatever else they do, they are expected to shepherd their companies to profitability. Shareholders want a return on investment, Boards of Directors want accountability, and company officers are held to both standards. So, when they start buying up their own company’s stock, it’s a sign that investors should investigate further.Government regulators, in an effort to level the informational playing field, have required that insiders regularly publish their stock transactions, making it a simple matter for investors to follow them. Even better, TipRanks collates the information in the Insiders’ Hot Stocks page, and provide tools and data filters to easily browse through raw data. We’ve picked three stocks with recent informative buys to show how the data works for you.Del Taco Restaurants (TACO)We’ll start with the popular Del Taco, the California-based taco chain. Del Taco boasts a $344 million market cap, over 600 restaurants, and a loyal fan base, giving it a solid foundation in the fast-food franchise market. Most of the company’s locations are west of the Mississippi, but the company has been making inroads to the eastern US.Like many brick-and-mortar, traffic-dependent businesses, Del Taco has had a hard year. The coronavirus crisis had dampened traffic, social and economic lockdown policies have reduced income streams. The company has started to recover, however. After heavy net losses early in the year, EPS has returned to positive numbers, and revenue in Q3, $120 million, was up more than 15% sequentially. The share price, which fell by two-thirds at the height of the economic crisis last winter, has regained its losses. TACO is now trading up 17% for the year.The insiders are bullish on the stock. The most recent purchase, helping tip the sentiment needle into positive territory, is from Board member Eileen Aptman, who bought up 88,952 shares, shelling out over $650,000. Wedbush analyst Nick Setyan covers Del Taco, and he rates the shares an Outperform (i.e. Buy). His $13 shows the extent of his confidence, indicating room for 40% upside growth. (To watch Setyan’s track record click here)Backing his stance, Setyan wrote, “We believe TACO’s current valuation is predicated on an overly pessimistic assessment of its medium- to long-term fundamentals in a post-COVID QSR environment… Even with what we believe are conservative comp, unit growth, and margin assumptions through 2022, we estimate 12% EPS growth in 2022. We estimate 1% of incremental comp would equate to $0.04-0.06 in incremental EPS and every 10 bps of incremental margin equates to $0.01 in incremental EPS in our model.”Overall, there is little action on the Street heading Del Taco’s way right now, with only one other analyst chiming in with a view on the stock. An additional Hold rating means TACO qualifies as a Moderate Buy. The average price target is $11, and implies a potential upside of ~19%. (See TACO stock analysis on TipRanks)CuriosityStream (CURI)Next up is CuriosityStream, an online video streaming channel in the educational segment. CuriosityStream specializes in factual video content, and offers services by subscription. The channel claims over 13 million subscribers globally. Its founder, John Hendricks, first gained fame creating the Discovery Channel, a similarly themed cable TV channel, in 1985.CuriosityStream is new to the public markets, having IPO’d earlier this year through a merger with Software Acquisition, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) formed as a ‘blank check’ company to make the deal. It’s no surprise to see insiders make large purchases in new stocks, but the moves on CuriosityStream deserve note. John Hendricks made three large purchases earlier this month, buying up blocs of 15,473 shares, 26,000 shares, and 11,684 shares over a four-day period. Hendricks paid $473,561 for the new shares.Covering the stock for B. Riley, analyst Zack Silver wrote, “We see CURI as well positioned to capitalize on the burgeoning global streaming market by establishing itself as the go-to factual programmer for the post pay TV era. CURI’s subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service is differentiated not only by the sheer volume of curated factual titles available on the platform but also by its compelling price point… we expect that CURI’s strategy of monetizing its content through multiple revenue streams will enable a more efficient path to scale…”Silver rates the stock a Buy, and his $16 price target implies a 40% one-year upside. (To watch Silver’s track record, click here)CURI has a Moderate Buy analyst consensus rating based on 2 recent Buy reviews. The average price target is $14, suggesting this stock has room to grow ~23% from the current trading price of $11.50. (See CURI stock analysis on TipRanks)Allegheny Technologies (ATI)Last but not least is Allegheny Technologies, a metallurgy company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Allegheny has two business segments: High Performance Materials & Components, which specializes in titanium-based and nickel-based alloys, and Advanced Alloys & Solutions, which includes stainless and specialty steels, electrical steels, duplex alloys, and zirconium, hafnium, and niobium alloys. The company’s metal technology is used in the electrical industry, automotive sector, aerospace, and in oil & gas production.Allegheny’s revenues and shares are down this year, as the company has been buffeted by the corona crisis. Disruptions in supply chains, distributions networks, and customer orders have all had a negative impact, as have social and economic shutdown policies. Quarterly revenues have fallen by 37%, from $955 million in Q1 to $598 million in the third quarter. Shares are down 21% year-to-date.All of this would seem to make ATI a poor stock choice, but the company has used the time to retrench wisely, and reorient its production models.Benchmark analyst Josh Sullivan pointed this out when he bumped his stance earlier this month from Neutral to Buy. He wrote, “We are upgrading ATI to Buy from Hold following the Company’s planned exit from commodity stainless. This move alters ATI’s historical risk profile by removing the most volatile vertical… Parting with ATI’s heritage in stainless has been a long sought-after investor goal; exiting now also allows ATI to avoid maintenance and a potential inventory overbuild during the recovery phase.”In addition, Sullivan notes that business in the aerospace sector will likely recover soon, providing a boon for Allegheny: “with the 737-MAX return to service, Airbus A320 production upward pressure, and vaccines at hand the more focused aerospace ATI core will directly correlate to an aero recovery.”Sullivan’s Buy rating comes with a $21 price target that implies room for 27% growth over the coming 12 months. (To watch Sullivan’s track record, click here)Turning to the insider trades, we find that the company’s CFO and SVP, Donald Newman, purchased 12,500 shares this month, paying over $210K for the bloc. His total holding is now 80,042 shares, valued at $1.3 million.All in all, Allegheny gets a Moderate Buy consensus rating, based on an even split among 4 reviews, of 2 Buys and 2 Holds. The shares are priced at $16.32 and the $18.25 average price target implies ~12% upside potential.(See ATI stock analysis on TipRanks)To find good ideas for stocks trading at attractive valuations, visit TipRanks’ Best Stocks to Buy, a newly launched tool that unites all of TipRanks’ equity insights.Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the featured analysts. The content is intended to be used for informational purposes only. It is very important to do your own analysis before making any investment.
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Getting a Single Product with the "where" Condition (4:30)
Fetching Admin Products (1:25)
Updating Products (5:18)
Deleting Products (2:48)
Creating a User Model (2:48)
Adding a One-To-Many Relationship (5:54)
Creating & Managing a Dummy User (6:01)
Using Magic Association Methods (3:42)
Fetching Related Products (2:46)
One-To-Many & Many-To-Many Relations (6:03)
Creating & Fetching a Cart (5:45)
Adding New Products to the Cart (6:42)
Adding Existing Products & Retrieving Cart Items (4:55)
Deleting Related Items & Deleting Cart Products (2:24)
Adding an Order Model (4:19)
Storing Cartitems as Orderitems (8:19)
Resetting the Cart & Fetching and Outputting Orders (9:53)
Working with NoSQL & Using MongoDB
What is MongoDB? (3:57)
Relations in NoSQL (3:58)
Setting Up MongoDB (4:48)
Installing the MongoDB Driver (7:01)
Creating the Database Connection (3:25)
Finishing the Database Connection (4:21)
Using the Database Connection (5:14)
Creating Products (2:08)
Understanding the MongoDB Compass (2:38)
Fetching All Products (4:34)
Fetching a Single Product (7:45)
Making the "Edit" & "Delete" Buttons Work Again (2:21)
Working on the Product Model to Edit our Product (7:14)
Finishing the "Update Product" Code (3:57)
One Note About Updating Products (1:46)
Fixing the "Add Product" Functionality (1:28)
Creating New Users (7:00)
Storing the User in our Database (5:40)
Working on Cart Items & Orders (7:13)
Adding the "Add to Cart" Functionality (6:14)
Storing Multiple Products in the Cart (7:01)
Displaying the Cart Items (9:20)
Fixing a Bug (1:02)
Adding an Order (4:36)
Adding Relational Order Data (6:21)
Getting Orders (3:20)
Removing Deleted Items From the Cart (2:58)
Working with Mongoose
What is Mongoose? (2:04)
Connecting to the MongoDB Server with Mongoose (4:47)
Creating the Product Schema (6:01)
Saving Data Through Mongoose (6:10)
Adding and Using a User Model (6:36)
Using Relations in Mongoose (3:44)
One Important Thing About Fetching Relations (3:53)
Working on the Shopping Cart (5:25)
Loading the Cart (5:12)
Creating & Getting Orders (9:56)
Storing All Order Related Data (1:52)
Clearing the Cart After Storing an Order (1:59)
Getting & Displaying the Orders (3:40)
Sessions & Cookies
What is a Cookie? (1:58)
The Current Project Status (2:18)
Optional: Creating the Login Form (6:22)
Adding the Request Driven Login Solution (7:40)
Setting a Cookie (5:55)
Manipulating Cookies (1:58)
Configuring Cookies (5:43)
What is a Session? (2:58)
Initializing the Session Middleware (2:43)
Using the Session Middleware (4:14)
Using MongoDB to Store Sessions (5:59)
Sessions & Cookies - A Short Summary (1:53)
Assignment - Sessions & Cookies (Problem) (1:37)
Assignment - Sessions & Cookies (Solution) (7:24)
Deleting a Cookie (4:35)
Fixing Some Minor Bugs (4:27)
Making "Add to Cart" Work Again (6:45)
Two Tiny Improvements (3:11)
Adding Authentication
What is Authentication? (2:25)
How is Authentication Implemented? (2:05)
Our Updated Project Status (2:25)
Implementing an Authentication Flow (7:34)
Encrypting Passwords (4:36)
Adding a Tiny Code Improvement (1:21)
Adding the Signin Functionality (6:21)
Working on Route Protection (2:12)
Using Middleware to Protect Routes (4:38)
Understanding CSRF Attacks (3:23)
Using a CSRF Token (6:56)
Adding CSRF Protection (4:23)
Fixing the Order Button (1:16)
Providing User Feedback (7:10)
Optional: Styling Error Messages (3:32)
Finishing the Flash Messages (2:20)
Adding Additional Flash Messages (2:20)
Sending Emails
How Does Sending Emails Work? (1:33)
Using SendGrid (1:24)
Using Nodemailer to Send an Email (5:09)
Potential Limitation for Large Scale Apps (1:29)
Advanced Authentication
Resetting Passwords (3:03)
Implementing the Token Logic (7:41)
Creating the Token (1:27)
Creating the Reset Password Form (5:27)
Adding Logic to Update the Password (6:35)
Why we Need Authorization (1:58)
Adding Authorization (2:07)
Adding Protection to Post Actions (3:43)
Why Editing Fails (1:06)
Understanding Validation
Why Should We Use Validation? (2:28)
How to Validate Input? (4:04)
Setup & Basic Validation (10:44)
Using Validation Error Messages (2:11)
Built-In & Custom Validators (3:55)
More Validators (4:26)
Checking For Field Equality (3:14)
Adding Async Validation (4:46)
Assignment - Validation (Problem) (1:18)
Assignment - Validation (Solution) (4:45)
Keeping User Input (4:11)
Adding Conditional CSS Classes (5:29)
Adding Validation to Login (5:36)
Sanitizing Data (3:41)
Validating Product Addition (11:40)
Validating Product Editing (6:57)
Types of Errors & Error Handling (5:14)
Analyzing the Error Handling in the Current Project (2:22)
Errors - Some Theory (6:43)
Throwing Errors in Code (2:42)
Returning Error Pages (6:54)
Using the Express.js Error Handling Middleware (5:47)
Updating the App (3:09)
Using the Error Handling Middleware Correctly (4:54)
Status Codes (5:57)
File Upload & Download
Adding a File Picker to the Frontend (3:06)
Handling Multipart Form Data (5:15)
Handling File Uploads with Multer (4:51)
Configuring Multer to Adjust Filename & Filepath (4:29)
Filtering Files by Mimetype (2:28)
Storing File Data in the Database (7:42)
Serving Images Statically (4:25)
Downloading Files with Authentication (7:33)
Setting File Type Headers (2:35)
Restricting File Access (3:19)
Streaming Data vs Preloading Data (3:20)
Using PDFKit for .pdf Generation (5:32)
Generating .pdf Files with Order Data (6:50)
Deleting Files (5:57)
Fixing Invoice Links (0:35)
Adding Pagination
Adding Pagination Links (4:08)
Retrieving a Chunk of Data (3:47)
Preparing Pagination Data on the Server (3:52)
Adding Dynamic Pagination Buttons (8:07)
Re-Using the Pagination Logic & Controls (3:41)
Understanding Async Requests
What are Async Requests? (2:07)
Adding Client Side JS Code (7:24)
Sending & Handling Background Requests (9:26)
Manipulating the DOM (3:01)
How Payments Work (2:04)
Adding a Checkout Page (6:00)
Using Stripe in Your App (19:23)
Working with REST APIs - The Basics
What are REST APIs and why do we use Them? (7:01)
Accessing Data with REST APIs (5:41)
Understanding Routing & HTTP Methods (5:25)
REST APIs - The Core Principles (4:09)
Creating our REST API Project & Implementing the Route Setup (6:41)
Sending Requests & Responses and Working with Postman (13:28)
REST APIs, Clients & CORS Errors (10:33)
Sending POST Requests (6:32)
Working with REST APIs - The Practical Application
REST APIs & The Rest Of The Course (3:59)
Understanding the Frontend Setup (4:18)
Planning the API (3:02)
Fetching Lists of Posts (6:19)
Adding a Create Post Endpoint (7:36)
Adding Server Side Validation (6:19)
Setting Up a Post Model (5:14)
Storing Posts in the Database (3:32)
Static Images & Error Handling (6:53)
Fetching a Single Post (7:48)
Uploading Images (8:56)
Updating Posts (14:02)
Deleting Posts (4:17)
Adding Pagination (6:20)
Adding a User Model (4:08)
Adding User Signup Validation (6:29)
Signing Users Up (7:24)
How Does Authentication Work? (3:10)
Starting with User Login (3:51)
Logging In & Creating JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) (7:53)
Using & Validating the Token (9:43)
Adding Auth Middleware to All Routes (1:52)
Connecting Posts & Users (6:13)
Adding Authorization Checks (3:50)
Clearing Post-User Relations (2:54)
Assignment - REST API (Problem) (0:59)
Assignment - REST API (Solution) (8:16)
Understanding Async Await in Node.js
What is Async Await All About? (4:08)
Transforming "Then Catch" to "Async Await" (4:26)
Assignment - Async Await (Problem) (0:39)
Assignment - Async Await (Solution) (9:56)
Understanding Websockets & Socket.io
What Are Websockets & Why Would You Use Them? (4:17)
Websocket Solutions - An Overview (1:35)
Setting Up Socket.io on the Server (3:56)
Establishing a Connection From the Client (2:27)
Identifying Realtime Potential (2:42)
Sharing the IO Instance Across Files (2:46)
Synchronizing POST Additions (7:14)
Fixing a Bug - The Missing Username (1:44)
Updating Posts On All Connected Clients (3:58)
Sorting Correctly (0:59)
Deleting Posts Across Clients (2:31)
Working with GraphQL
What is GraphQL? (9:17)
Understanding the Setup & Writing our First Query (11:15)
Defining a Mutation Schema (5:42)
Adding a Mutation Resolver & GraphiQL (9:42)
Adding Input Validation (4:19)
Handling Errors (3:45)
Connecting the Frontend to the GraphQL API (6:49)
Adding a Login Query & a Resolver (6:20)
Adding Login Functionality (4:57)
Adding a Create Post Mutation (7:23)
Extracting User Data From the Auth Token (5:48)
Sending the "Create Post" Query (4:46)
Fixing a Bug & Adding New Posts Correctly (2:53)
Adding a "Get Post" Query & Resolver (4:53)
Sending "Create Post" and "Get Post" Queries (5:13)
Uploading Images (10:26)
Viewing a Single Post (6:07)
Updating Posts (9:32)
Managing the User Status (9:17)
Using Variables (16:06)
Fixing a Pagination Bug (2:48)
Deploying our App
Deploying Different Kinds of Apps (1:39)
Deployment Preparations (4:52)
Using Environment Variables (11:12)
Using Production API Keys (1:19)
Setting Secure Response Headers with Helmet (2:40)
Compressing Assets (2:33)
Setting Up Request Logging (3:34)
Setting Up a SSL Server (9:55)
Using a Hosting Provider (4:25)
Understanding the Project & the Git Setup (4:03)
A Deployment Example with Heroku (10:26)
Deploying APIs (2:52)
Testing Node.js Applications
What is Testing? (2:42)
Why & How? (3:25)
Setup and Writing a First Test (9:40)
Testing the Auth Middleware (12:33)
Organizing Multiple Tests (4:12)
What Not To Test! (8:02)
Using Stubs (8:38)
Testing Controllers (8:03)
Testing Asynchronous Code (5:53)
Setting up a Testing Database (6:33)
Testing Code With An Active Database (6:33)
Cleaning Up (3:29)
Hooks (4:34)
Testing Code That Requires Authentication (12:37)
Wrap Up & Mastering Tests (4:22)
New Lecture
Node.js as a Build Tool & Using npm
npm & Node.js (1:42)
Using npm (7:52)
What is a Build Tool? (5:01)
Using Node.js in Build Processes (5:50)
Modern JavaScript & NodeJS
What is this Module About? (2:19)
Using ES Modules (9:32)
More on ES Modules (6:26)
Node Core Modules & Promises (5:18)
Bonus: Node & TypeScript
TypeScript: What & Why (6:02)
TypeScript Setup (4:09)
Assigning Types (3:29)
Type Inference & Type Casting (6:10)
Configuring TypeScript (5:01)
Working with Union Types (4:23)
Using Object and Array Types (6:17)
Type Aliases & Interfaces (3:22)
Understanding Generic Types (5:09)
TypeScript: A Summary (0:34)
TypeScript & Node: Setup (2:14)
Getting Started with TypeScript & Node (9:31)
Writing TypeScript Express.js Code (3:59)
Adding REST Routes with TS (6:42)
Finishing the REST Routes (5:53)
Testing the API (4:52)
Using Type Casting (4:21)
Moving to a Better Project Structure (3:44)
DenoJS - An Introduction
What is Deno? (3:09)
Why Deno? (1:55)
Deno Setup (5:50)
Writing First Deno Code (4:18)
The Deno Runtime (Namespace) API (3:13)
Using the Runtime API (5:26)
Working with Deno Permissions (4:31)
Repeating the Example with Node (4:16)
How Deno Features Are Organized (4:28)
Using the Standard Library Modules (8:30)
Creating a Webserver (2:54)
Using the Oak Framework with Deno (9:48)
More on Module URLs
Creating an Example Node REST API (12:15)
Re-building the REST API with Deno (16:18)
Should You Switch From Node To Deno? (5:05)
Deno & MongoDB
App Setup (4:06)
Deno & CORS (7:16)
Establishing a MongoDB Connection (8:05)
Using the Mongo Module (10:34)
Finishing the CRUD Operations (5:29)
Course Roundup (2:40)
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Tag Archives: Conservation
Power of Parks
December 29, 2020 pbcparks Leave a comment
Welcome to Power of Parks, a podcast produced by the Palm Beach County Parks and Recreation Department, where we share inspiring stories from people who have benefited from nature, parks and recreation. Episode 11 features Emily Briceno, Jemma Currie, and Marina Barto. They’re students who lead a group called Surface 71, a non-profit organization that helps keep our oceans and communities clean by raising awareness of plastic pollution, hosting and participating in cleanup events in parks and beaches, and working to get other students involved in their efforts.
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Animal Encounters, Video
December 4, 2020 pbcparks Leave a comment
Do you know how Kingsnakes find their food using their tongue? Daggerwing Nature Center Manager, Sean Mallee tells you how – as well as other interesting facts about the Kingsnake, an Animal Ambassador at Daggerwing Nature Center.
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What's that Plant
What’s that Plant? Mimosa
October 20, 2020 pbcparks Leave a comment
As Daggerwing Nature Center Naturalist Lila Varel shows us, Mimosa is a very unique plant that goes by a few different names! Watch this video to learn about this native plant, including ways you can easily grow it.
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PBC Parks Participates in ‘Parks for Pollinators Bioblitz’
Bluemink, captured by Bobby Seals
Dicots, captured by Bobby Seals
Gaudy Sphinx, captured by Bobby Seals
Genus Jatropha, captured by Bobby Seals
Gumbo Limbo, captured by Bobby Seals
Metallic Flea Beetle, captured by Lila Varel Capra
Phasey Bean, captured by Bobby Seals
Atala Butterfly, captured by Bobby Seals
The Palm Beach County Parks and Recreation Department (PBC Parks) participated in the national Parks for Pollinators campaign, which was aimed at raising public awareness of the importance of pollinators and positioning parks as national leaders in advancing pollinator health. Organized by the National Recreation and Parks Association (NRPA) and The Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation, the Parks for Pollinators BioBlitz event was held during the month of September.
PBC Parks created a project – named Parks for Pollinators 2020: Palm Beach County Parks and Recreation – in the iNaturalist app, which was shared with NRPA and added to the national campaign. Participants used the iNaturalist app and website to record and identify observations of various plant and animal pollinators found in parks, natural areas, backyards, and other locations throughout the county.
The PBC Parks project recorded about 1,000 observations, more than 370 species, more than 100 identifiers, and nearly 150 observers on the iNaturalist app.
“Participating in the NRPA Parks for Pollinators BioBlitz was a really fun way to engage our community to support pollinators and to draw attention to the importance of our park system’s wildlife habitat,” said Jennifer Cirillo, PBC Parks’ Assistant Director.
Parks play a key role in protecting and preserving pollinators and their habitats, and BioBlitz events are designed to create a literal snapshot of plants, insects and animals to see what wildlife is present in local parks. The activity not only let participants safely explore their local parks and learn more about the species through the iNaturalist mobile app, the information gathered also provided specific data on the species located in the parks — which can help park and recreation professionals manage those spaces for biological diversity and build ecological resilience.
In addition to featuring the project and link on the PBC Parks website, additional BioBlitz activities were included, in order to provide the community with more ways to understand the importance of pollinators and their impact on the environment.
The PBC Parks project can be found here: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/parks-for-pollinators-2020-palm-beach-county-parks-and-recreation
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Animal Encounters: Native & Non-Native Apple Snails
September 29, 2020 pbcparks Leave a comment
Do you know the differences between Native and Non-Native Apple Snails? Daggerwing Nature Center Manager, Sean Mallee tells you how to spot the differences between the two, as well as the benefits of Native Florida Apple Snails on the Florida ecosystem!
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Energy-Efficient LED Lighting installed at pbcParks
August 25, 2020 pbcparks Leave a comment
LED lighting is installed at a ballfield located inside Juno Park, as well as at 44 other facilities throughout pbcParks. (Photo Credit: Musco Lighting)
$15 Million in Infrastructure Surtax funding was allocated over a seven-year period towards the conversion of sports field lighting from traditional metal halide bulbs to LEDs at 45 facilities managed by Palm Beach County.
LED lighting is more energy efficient, requires less maintenance and lasts longer than standard bulb lighting. The Musco LED fixtures utilized by the County provide a focused beam on the playing surface that, through additional shielding, eliminates much of the spillover light that can negatively impact surrounding homes and businesses. LED lights also provide the additional benefit of being activated immediately, eliminating the long warm-up time currently needed for traditional bulb lighting.
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What’s that Plant? Firebush!
Do you know how to spot the difference between native and non-native Firebush plants? Daggerwing Nature Center Manager, Sean Mallee shows you how – and takes you through some other cool facts about this “fiery” plant.
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Animal Encounters: Eastern Lubber Grasshoppers
Do you know why these flightless Grasshoppers are called “Lubbers?” Watch this episode of Animal Encounters to learn this and other cool facts about the Eastern Lubber Grasshopper from Daggerwing Nature Center staff!
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Grant award provides an opportunity for artistic expression at Okeeheelee Nature Center
Okeeheelee Nature Center, through the Friends of ONC, was recently honored to receive a grant from the Gopher Tortoise Council. The Donna J. Heinrich Environmental Education Grant was established to support organizations committed to developing educational projects about the gopher tortoise and the fascinating world in which it lives. Gopher tortoises are protected in Florida, and are considered a keystone species because the burrows they dig provide shelter to many other animals. Over 350 commensal species have been recorded in gopher tortoise burrows, especially during the periodic wildfires that are part of life in gopher tortoise habitats.
Protecting gopher tortoises, and teaching visitors about them, has always been an important part of ONC’s educational mission. Gopher tortoises have been living at Okeeheelee Nature Center since 1985, when 83 tortoises were relocated to the nature center’s pine flatwood forest from a retail construction site. Today, there are 90 to 100 gopher tortoises living in ONC’s preserve, including many of the original tortoises from the 1980s. They are commonly encountered by hikers and other nature center visitors, so education is key to ensuring that the tortoises and their habitat are respected.
Alex Melligon has been an Assistant Naturalist at Okeeheelee Nature Center since February of 2019. Her regular duties include animal care, teaching school and public programs, creating educational content, and interacting with visitors. When asked what she likes best about her job, Alex said, “I like that we can follow our curiosity. If we have an idea for a program or project, we are able to use our talents and creativity to explore, incorporate our interests and reach new audiences.” Since COVID-19 has put ONC’s in-person programming on hiatus and closed the nature center building, special project work has become the focus.
As luck would have it, the proposal for the Gopher Tortoise Council grant included two projects that were planned with Alex’s special talents in mind. You see, in addition to her skills as a naturalist, Alex is also a gifted artist! Since childhood, she has been interested in arts and crafts, including drawing, jewelry making, ceramics, and textiles. Alex explained, “To me, art is a fun way to express myself, and it’s a good feeling to create something with my hands, especially if it’s something useful.”
The first grant-funded project Alex took on was to design an educational gopher tortoise booklet for children. The ONC team helped brainstorm ideas for activities and content, and then Alex researched tortoise facts, wrote the text and drew all of the pages by hand. Through puzzles, games, reading, and coloring, the booklet helps children learn about the importance of gopher tortoises and how they can help protect them.
When asked what aspect of the project she was most proud of, Alex said, “I think the best part of the activity book is that it gives simple, concrete things for people to do to help tortoises, while also providing the whys behind it, and still being fun and engaging for kids.” The activity book will be available to children visiting the nature center and participating in any special programs that focus on gopher tortoises.
Alex’s second artistic endeavor took her a bit further out of her comfort zone. Another component of the grant was to create a 10 x 4.5 foot mural depicting life inside a gopher tortoise burrow. Alex said it was a challenge because, although she has always loved doing art, “I didn’t really consider myself a painter, and I had certainly never attempted a large mural.” However, she still remembers being fascinated by the beautiful ecosystem murals at her local nature center while growing up in New Jersey, so she was hopeful that she could create art that would have a similar lasting impact on Okeeheelee’s visitors.
Looking at how well the project turned out, no one would ever guess that this was her first attempt at a large scale painting! The mural features a tortoise at the entrance of a burrow that is opened in cross-section to show the burrow structure. It also highlights key features of tortoise habitat, including beneficial native plant species, and shows several commensal animal species that can be found inside tortoise burrows.
The mural provides a unique glimpse into the underground life of a gopher tortoise and the ecosystem it helps support. Since it is a visual education piece, it will spark curiosity and convey information to all ages and all types of learners. It will be displayed in ONC’s Children’s Discovery Zone, but it will also be mobile so it can be featured during programs and special events.
Alex explains that, “Teaching children about nature is important to me because I believe it is our best chance to keep our environment safe and maybe even make it better in the future.” She hopes these gopher tortoise projects inspire the next generation of young artists and conservationists in the same way she was inspired by the murals she saw as a child. Alex brings so much passion for the environment to Okeeheelee Nature Center, whether she is teaching, caring for animals, supporting operations, or contributing through her artistic talents.
All of her coworkers and volunteers feel very fortunate to have her as part of the ONC team!
Submitted by: Heather Moody, Okeeheelee Nature Center Manager
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From Mild Pressure to Brute Force: Forced, Coerced, and Voluntary Labour of Dutch Citizens for the Third Reich, 1937–1945
Ralf Futselaar
NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide studies
Papers from the December 2015 conference "Regimenting Unfree Labour in Europe During the Second World War / Die Ordnung unfreier Arbeit im Europa des Zweiten Weltkrieges"
Elizabeth Harvey, Kim Christian Priemel
Working Papers of the Independent Commission of Historians Investigating the History of the Reich Ministry of Labour (Reichsarbeitsministerium) in the National Socialist Period
https://www.historikerkommission-reichsarbeitsministerium.de/PublikationenLicence: Unspecified
Futselaar, R. (2018). From Mild Pressure to Brute Force: Forced, Coerced, and Voluntary Labour of Dutch Citizens for the Third Reich, 1937–1945. In E. Harvey, & K. C. Priemel (Eds.), Papers from the December 2015 conference "Regimenting Unfree Labour in Europe During the Second World War / Die Ordnung unfreier Arbeit im Europa des Zweiten Weltkrieges" (Working Papers of the Independent Commission of Historians Investigating the History of the Reich Ministry of Labour (Reichsarbeitsministerium) in the National Socialist Period; Vol. Series A, No. No. 15). https://www.historikerkommission-reichsarbeitsministerium.de/Publikationen
Futselaar, Ralf. / From Mild Pressure to Brute Force : Forced, Coerced, and Voluntary Labour of Dutch Citizens for the Third Reich, 1937–1945. Papers from the December 2015 conference "Regimenting Unfree Labour in Europe During the Second World War / Die Ordnung unfreier Arbeit im Europa des Zweiten Weltkrieges". editor / Elizabeth Harvey ; Kim Christian Priemel. 2018. (Working Papers of the Independent Commission of Historians Investigating the History of the Reich Ministry of Labour (Reichsarbeitsministerium) in the National Socialist Period; No. 15).
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From Mild Pressure to Brute Force : Forced, Coerced, and Voluntary Labour of Dutch Citizens for the Third Reich, 1937–1945. / Futselaar, Ralf.
Papers from the December 2015 conference "Regimenting Unfree Labour in Europe During the Second World War / Die Ordnung unfreier Arbeit im Europa des Zweiten Weltkrieges". ed. / Elizabeth Harvey; Kim Christian Priemel. 2018. (Working Papers of the Independent Commission of Historians Investigating the History of the Reich Ministry of Labour (Reichsarbeitsministerium) in the National Socialist Period; Vol. Series A, No. No. 15).
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Futselaar R. From Mild Pressure to Brute Force: Forced, Coerced, and Voluntary Labour of Dutch Citizens for the Third Reich, 1937–1945. In Harvey E, Priemel KC, editors, Papers from the December 2015 conference "Regimenting Unfree Labour in Europe During the Second World War / Die Ordnung unfreier Arbeit im Europa des Zweiten Weltkrieges". 2018. (Working Papers of the Independent Commission of Historians Investigating the History of the Reich Ministry of Labour (Reichsarbeitsministerium) in the National Socialist Period; No. 15).
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Equity Risk Monitors — January 11, 2021
Equity Risk Monitor Highlights | Week Ended January 7, 2020
US stocks continue to rally in 2021; Growth keeps outperforming; Brazil—one of the hardest hit emerging markets
US stocks continue to rally in 2021
After major US indices closed at record highs in the last week of 2020, US stocks continued their rally into the new year, boosted by vaccine rollouts and expectations of new stimulus packages—political unrest notwithstanding. Small-cap stocks saw a much larger jump than their larger counterparts, with the Russell 2000 recording a 6% gain over the past four business days, while the STOXX USA 900 rose only 1.5% in the same period. Short-horizon risk ticked up for both indices, with the risk spread between small- and large-cap stocks widening. By Thursday, the Russell 2000 risk of 25% was 7 percentage points higher than that of the STOXX USA 900, as measured by Axioma’s US Small Cap and US All Cap short-horizon fundamental models, respectively.
See graph from the US Small Cap Risk Monitor as of 7 January 2021:
Growth keeps outperforming
Growth finished 2020 with outsized[1] positive annual returns in most geographies Axioma models track closely, and it carried that strength into 2021. Growth performed best in the US and China, with last year’s returns reaching 5.5% and 6.5%, respectively. In addition, Growth’s return over the past 12 months ending Thursday exceeded that of all other fundamental style factors in each region and it was also among the least volatile style factors in each model.
See graph from the Global Developed Markets Equity Risk Monitor as of 7 January 2021:
Brazil—one of the hardest hit emerging markets
Emerging markets in Europe and Latin America were among the hardest hit last year. STOXX Emerging Markets 1500 in aggregate posted gains of about 11% for 2020—lifted by stocks in Asian countries, particularly China, which not only had one of the best performances, but also dominated the index. Brazil, Colombia and Greece saw the largest losses—about 20%—over the past 12 months ending last Thursday. In contrast, South Korea, Taiwan, and China each saw gains of over 30% in the same period. The three largest losers were also among the riskiest emerging markets, with volatilities of around 35%. Oman and Malaysia started 2021 as the least risky emerging countries, as measured by Axioma’s Worldwide short-horizon fundamental model.
See graph from the Equity Risk Monitors as of 7 January 2021:
[1] We define an outsized return as one that is more than two standard deviations, based on the predicted volatility at the beginning of the period.
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Lake Simcoe Protection Plan Review Starts
Groups worry lake on thin ice unless Plan is Protected
Simcoe County, Ontario – Environmental Coalitions around Lake Simcoe have been waiting for the Province of Ontario to start the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan review since 2019, and just as the winter holidays began, so did the review.
Lake Simcoe Watch, Simcoe County Greenbelt Coalition and the Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition and their member groups have been campaigning together under the banners of Protect Our Plan and Lake Simcoe Watch to educate and engage the public in this significant policy review.
At this point in time the groups are concerned with the absence of information upon which to justify changes to the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan. Changes to targets and policies need to be justified using evidence that policies or practices either are working or are not working, they maintain.
“We know that residents, cottagers, fishermen, and the politicians that represent us, love and value Lake Simcoe, the watershed’s forests, trails and natural areas. But we remain concerned that the protection of water quality, Lake Simcoe shorelines, and natural areas is not being managed well enough,” says Margaret Prophet, Executive Director of Simcoe County Greenbelt Coalition.
The retention of long term, stable, and local jobs is more important than ever. The Lake Simcoe watershed supports a $420 million / year sustainable recreation sector. Without a healthy lake, much of that economy is on thin ice.
In early January the Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition sent a letter to Minister of Environment, Conservation and Parks, Jeff Yurek, asking for answers by mid-January to questions about what information is available, to who, and when, such as:
Is the Ministry planning to release any other reporting data about Lake Simcoe? How should people be answering questions about policy and implementation in the absence of comprehensive analysis and information about the results of actions to date and the effectiveness of current approaches?
“The public fought hard to get Canada’s best watershed-based legislation. We don’t think it’s time to change it, we think it’s time improve implementation the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan,” says Claire Malcolmson, Executive Director of the Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition.
Ontario’s Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks has released a public survey, is offering to make presentations to municipalities, is hosting town halls and a science forum. But almost one month into the review no further details have been provided. In the absence of data that supports changes, the groups have asked the province to “Protect Our Plan”; not change it, but rather focus on implementation. To date 2800 people have signed petitions in support of the Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition and Lake Simcoe Watch’s position and priorities.
The Lake Simcoe groups have been articulating their priorities for the review of the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan (LSPP) to the Province since 2018. They are:
Bringing down phosphorus loads to the lake to achieve or beat the targets of the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan, to reduce algae and weed growth and increase water quality
Increasing protections for natural heritage features like forests, wetlands and shorelines to help support biodiversity, and to address phosphorus loading, warming water temperatures, and climate change.
Members of the public or media want to know more about the issue, the groups’ positions and research, and sign their petitions, see:
Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition research and factsheets & What is the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan explainer video: www.rescuelakesimcoe.org
Lake Simcoe Protection Plan
Cleaning Up Lake Simcoe report by Lake Simcoe Watch
About: The Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition is a lake-wide member-based organization that provides leadership and inspires people to take action to protect Lake Simcoe. www.rescuelakesimcoe.org
For media inquiries please contact: Claire Malcolmson, Executive Director
647-267-7572 rescuelakesimcoecoalition@gmail.com
About the Simcoe County Greenbelt Coalition www.simcoecountygreenbelt.ca: The Simcoe County Greenbelt Coalition is a diverse coalition of 35 organizations from across Simcoe County and the province calling on local and provincial leaders to better protect our water resources, green spaces and farmland through smart growth and sustainable policies including expansion of the Greenbelt into Simcoe County.
For media inquiries please contact: Margaret Prophet, Executive Director, SCGC 705-718-1383 margaret@simcoecountygreenbelt.ca
Using Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge in the fight to protect our environment
From Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition and Cambium Indigenous Professional Services (CIPS)
It used to be that Provincially Significant Wetlands were protected from site alteration and development, full stop. No more is that the case as the Province of Ontario breaks its own rules, and breaks with logic too, by approving development on highly protected areas, many of which are protected because they flood and buffer us from the impacts of flooding. We need to fight this abuse of power wielded by the Province.
Those of us on the outside are fed up with the Province’s disregard for the environment. And that puts us in the same place as some of our First Nations neighbours who have, over centuries, been separated from family and traditional territories, and are frustrated. What can we do?
Today the Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition and Cambium Indigenous Professional Services (CIPS) Kerry-Ann Charles-Norris are releasing a report called Advancing Traditional Ecological Knowledge in the Lake Simcoe Watershed: Perspectives on protecting what matters to our land. The report, written mostly by Georgina Island First Nations member Kerry-Ann Charles-Norris, describes what Traditional Ecological Knowledge is and how it is used by Indigenous Peoples to identify areas that are important to them.
Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) is oral knowledge that is embedded within Indigenous ways of knowing, is culturally based, place specific, collective, holistic and also includes long periods of observation.
The report details who’s who at Lake Simcoe, why “consultation” is so often disappointing, and how one goes about doing a Traditional Ecological Knowledge assessment. At Lake Simcoe there is an opportunity to reach the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan’s Natural Heritage targets by focusing TEK analyses at first on areas that would be better protected if they were bigger, or if other values, such as those that rise to the surface in a TEK analysis, were considered in the protection of natural areas. We need all the help we can get, and the Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition very much appreciates working with local First Nations on our shared objectives.
Orbit MZO, Yes or No?
Residents to stand up for environment and democratic planning principles at County Council meeting
Lake Simcoe, Ontario – On Tuesday November 24th Simcoe County Council will hear a request from the Town of Innisfil to support, or not, the use of a Minister’s Zoning Order to fast track the development of the Orbit. Founder of Council Accountability Group – Innisfil, Leslie Pollak; principal of Kirshenblatt Urban Architecture Inc.,Steven Kirshenblatt; and the Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition’s Executive Director, Claire Malcolmson, will do their best to convince County Council that using an MZO for the Orbit is not in the interest of the County in their delegations to Council next week.
Using an MZO to approve development applications before they have all the details in place is a current favourite of the Province of Ontario. More than 30 MZOs have been issued by the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing in the past two years. This far exceeds the use of this obscure tool in the past ten years under previous Provincial governments.
The delegations will centre on three main issues:
Using an MZO is risky for everyone but the developer. MZOs are issued by the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing. Once issued there is no chance of appeal by municipalities, citizens or environmental groups. The stated reason for using an MZO is to get a GO train station built as soon as possible but there is absolutely no guarantee that the station build would begin by 2022. Because an MZO is considered to be in conformity with provincial policy, there is also no guarantee that the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan would be followed. Adequate protection of Lake Simcoe and natural heritage was residents’ top concern in Innisfil’s consultations.
Greenlighting a plan that starts a new city of up to 150,000 people is no small matter. At this scale the Orbit would become an urban growth node, a decision that has not been made by the County or the Province. And if Simcoe County Council approves the use of an MZO for the Orbit, Councillors must acknowledge that they are doing so blind, as there are no realistic architectural plans or drawings or site plans, nor is there market research that supports the design pitched. Typically, a development of this scale would go through an Official Plan Amendment and be considered alongside other County municipalities’ requests for settlement area boundary expansions in a Municipal Comprehensive Review. Using this approach would be far more transparent, and guarantee that applicable policies were followed.
Innisfil has mischaracterized public support for the proposed use of an MZO. Of the 62 public comments on Innisfil’s Get Involved page, one supports the use of an MZO. There are worrying irregularities in the introduction of the motion that Council approved, to use an MZO, just 7 days after the first MZO draft was made public. Cynically, Council voted to use an MZO immediately after they had voted to extend the public input period, ignoring the fact that most public comments were objecting to the use of an MZO.
The Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition is asking the interested public to call their Mayors, Deputy Mayors, and the County Warden to tell them if they think that using an MZO for the Orbit is a good idea or not. The Simcoe County Greenbelt Coalition has written a backgrounder on MZOs and is asking local groups to sign on and share it with their Councils to help educate Councils about the pitfalls and risks associated with using an MZO rather than going through normal planning channels.
Council agenda for Tuesday Nov 24:
https://simcoe.civicweb.net/Portal/MeetingInformation.aspx?Org=Cal&Id=546
About: The Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition is a lake-wide member-based organization, representing 26 member groups in the watershed, that provides leadership and inspires people to take action to protect Lake Simcoe. www.rescuelakesimcoe.org
For media inquiries please contact:
Claire Malcolmson, Executive Director, Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition
rescuelakesimcoecoalition@gmail.com
Margaret Prophet, Executive Director, Simcoe County Greenbelt Coalition
margaret@simcoecountygreenbelt.ca
Changes to Conservation Authorities Act are irresponsible and unjustified
Ford government eviscerates CA powers putting environment and property at risk
Lake Simcoe, Ontario – Last week the province of Ontario snuck changes to Conservation Authorities’ (CAs) powers into their budget bill, which could be passed without consultation as early as next week. The proposed changes are widely regarded by the environmental community as a vindictive stab at the environment and CAs led by the Premier’s Office. Critics argue that these changes will undermine the effectiveness of CAs. Additionally these changes will add costs and “red tape” for both the CAs and those seeking development permits in lands now regulated by CAs.
The proposed changes include:
Creating a mechanism for the Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry to use his/her “opinion” to override the science-based decisions of Conservation Authorities regarding the protection of wetlands, woodlands, endangered species habitats and flood protection
Forcing Conservation Authority Board members to “generally act on behalf of their respective municipalities” instead of the goals and objectives of the Conservation Authority and the watershed health it was entrusted to protect; and
Tangle up permitting processes while providing appeal rights for developers, and adding red tape and costs for all involved.
Conservation Authorities have professionally trained staff, including ecologists and hydrologists, who are best qualified to understand the impacts of development on key environmental features. By taking over control to authorize or deny development permits, the Ontario government will help the development industry continue to destroy key forests, wetlands, and recreational areas across the province. This will allow, for example, the province to ensure the destruction of the coastal wetland in Lower Duffins Creek to proceed despite the objection of the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, the Town of Ajax and thousands of citizens’ objections.
The Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition’s Executive Director, Claire Malcolmson, was invited to participate in the province’s public consultation on Conservation Authorities, and did not hear an overwhelming call for the radical changes advanced by the Province. The Province has not released details on how they made the CA Act change proposal in relation to the comments received in their public consultation process. This is where an independent Environmental Commissioner of Ontario would have been helpful, but eliminating the independence of that position was one of the first attacks on the environment completed by this provincial administration.
“Despite promises in the Made in Ontario Environment Plan, these changes will have negative effects on water quality, natural area protection, and will make us more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change including heavy rain and flooding events. The proposed changes put downstream homeowners at greater risk of flooding, as the permitting and oversight powers of CA’s in the planning process have been gutted,” says Malcolmson.
The Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority (LSRCA) has developed leading-edge policies and programs that help to minimize the significant impacts of development on water quality, which were enabled by the Lake Simcoe Protection Act, but not acted on by the Province. Developers are for the most part doing their part to participate and are thereby reducing harm to Lake Simcoe as compared to a pre-Lake Simcoe Protection Plan scenario. The LSRCA has also developed an exceptional Natural Heritage and Restoration Strategy, a key tool in achieving the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan’s natural heritage protection targets. If the LSRCA is changed in the ways proposed by the Province, no regulator will be taking care of Lake Simcoe.
Claire Malcolmson, Executive Director
Innisfil Community Mapping Report Supports Forest and Wetland Protections in Advance of Planned Development
Innisfil, ON – Innisfil residents at a community mapping event, hosted by the Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition, articulated a strong desire to protect what attracts people to Innisfil: clean beaches, fish-bearing streams, Lake Simcoe, and the proximity of nature and trails.
Innisfil resident Texas Constantine said of the event, “I was inspired to see people from different areas come together and share their concern for the areas in Innisfil that are in desperate need of strong protection.”
One of the problems affecting the Lake Simcoe watershed is the ability to protect an adequate amount of natural heritage – mostly forests and wetlands – to protect Lake Simcoe from development and climate change impacts. Although this is a watershed-wide issue, the solutions and progressive plans are made at the community level.
The Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition and professional cartographers worked with residents and officials in Innisfil, to understand the extent to which natural features in the Innisfil area of the Lake Simcoe watershed are protected, through a community participatory mapping session. Today the Coalition released the report, maps, and recommendations that came out of that community mapping event.
Participants’ comments, desires for the future, and suggestions were collected; protecting Innisfil’s wetlands is of particular importance. Innisfil’s forest and wetland cover are well below the watershed average and below ecological targets for watershed health:
The Lake Simcoe watershed’s wetland cover currently stands at 18%, slightly less than the watershed wetland target of 20% or more. But Innisfil’s wetland cover stands at just over 10%. It is imperative, say the event participants and the Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition, that all remaining wetlands are studied immediately to determine whether they qualify for policy protection. Those that qualify must be protected as soon as possible.
Woodland cover stands at 28% of Innisfil’s portion of the Lake Simcoe watershed. The Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority’s watershed-wide woodland target is 40%, and the existing woodland cover across the watershed is 34%. In order to achieve either the province’s Lake Simcoe Protection Plan High Quality Natural Cover target or the Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority’s woodland cover target, Innisfil has work to do.
This ought to be done in advance of the possible development of the Orbit Plan, which aspires to house at least 30,000 residents and / or jobs on what is currently farmland and natural heritage features. This project alone would nearly double the municipality’s current population.
The Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition acknowledges and appreciates that Innisfil Council endorsed a staff report on the Orbit Plan, which includes the following: That Staff engage with residents, businesses and other community stakeholders during the policy development process that will create the regulatory framework for the fulfilment of the Innisfil Mobility Orbit Vision, which will protect and preserve the agricultural and environmental fabric of Innisfil and Lake Simcoe.
The Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition is pleased to have worked with residents and elected officials on this event and its recommendations and looks forward to further encouraging and facilitating public participation in realizing the vision of sustainable growth in the Lake Simcoe watershed.
Results of the Innisfil Community Mapping Event report: https://rescuelakesimcoe.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Innisfil_Community_Mapping_Report_final.pdf
What is the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan explainer video: www.rescuelakesimcoe.org
Lake Simcoe Protection Plan, 2009 https://rescuelaketempdomain.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/merged-pdf.io_.pdf
Statement on Province’s Lake Simcoe announcement
Simcoe County, Ontario – Environmental coalitions around Lake Simcoe have been waiting for the Province of Ontario to start the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan review for many months, and today Barrie-Innisfil MPP Andrea Khanjin announced that the Ministry will initiate the statutory review of the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan in the fall of 2020 to determine if the Plan needs to be changed.
The Ontario Minister of Environment, Conservation and Parks released the Minister’s Ten Year Report on Lake Simcoe and a backgrounder explaining some funding announcements.
Lake Simcoe Watch, Simcoe County Greenbelt Coalition and the Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition and their member groups have been campaigning together to engage the public in this significant policy review.
“The province’s timeline on the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan policy review allows interested members of the public to analyze the province’s reports, and to collaborate in order to provide the best advice possible about the LSPP review. We appreciate that. It also gives the province time to hear the expert advice of two provincial Lake Simcoe multi-stakeholder committees which have not met since 2018,” says Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition Executive Director Claire Malcolmson.
Lake Simcoe’s health is still struggling and it cannot afford any weakening of its protection policies, the groups maintain. In addition to the protections in place in the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan, this policy review now planned for the fall affords the province a chance to further strengthen the Plan by:
– Bringing down phosphorus loads to the lake to achieve or beat the targets of the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan through a renewed Phosphorus Reduction Strategy;
– Increasing protections for natural heritage features like forests, wetlands and shorelines to help support biodiversity, and to address phosphorus loading, warming water temperatures, and climate change.
“We are pleased that the province is spending money on research and monitoring in areas that we agree are important to the lake’s health,” says the Simcoe County Greenbelt Coalition’s Executive Director Margaret Prophet. “Sound science, evidence and climate change projections need to form the basis of improvements to the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan. It is a science-based plan; it needs to stay that way.”
Members of the public or media want to know more about the issue, the groups’ positions, and research, see:
Cleaning Up Lake Simcoe, a Discussion Paper by Lake Simcoe Watch: https://lakesimcoewatch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Simcoe-Book-final.pdf
For media inquiries please contact: Claire Malcolmson, Executive Director 647-267-7572 rescuelakesimcoecoalition@gmail.com
About: www.LakeSimcoeWatch.ca is a joint initiative of the following organizations: AWARE Simcoe, the Innisfil District Association, South Lake Simcoe Naturalists, North Gwillimbury Forest Alliance, Lake Simcoe Association, STORM Coalition and the West Oro Ratepayers Association (WORA).
For media inquiries please contact: Jack Gibbons, Chair, Lake Simcoe Watch 905-476-4016 jack@lakesimcoewatch.ca
Lake Simcoe group wants someone to make a big decision
Decisions, Decisions, by local artist Charles Pachter to be auctioned for charity
In support of the Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition, one of Canada’s leading contemporary artists, Charles Pachter, has generously donated his most popular work, signed and framed for auction.
Pachter playfully presents the Queen in a moment of contemplation, pondering which hat to choose, or rather, which role to assume.
16”W 11”H (work); 24”W 20”H (framed); signed & numbered by the artist.
The DECISION is easy! Join our on-line auction. Bidding starts Saturday July 18th, 2020 and ends Monday August 3rd, 2020
“As the Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition works to protect Lake Simcoe, we are delighted to have a friend and champion in Charlie Pachter,” says Executive Director Claire Malcolmson.
About the Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition
The Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition and its 26 member groups advocate for a healthy future for Lake Simcoe. The Coalition initiated the campaign which resulted in the Lake Simcoe Protection Act in 2008 and Plan in 2009. This best-in-class legislation is up for review by the Ontario government, and the Coalition is here to defend the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan. Proceeds of the auction will support outreach and communications so the Coalition can continue to help people who care connect with the governments we elect to make sure they protect our lake.
The Coalition is very concerned that Lake Simcoe is at a tipping point and will not get healthier without a concerted effort from all levels of government to reduce phosphorus loads, limit the impacts of development, and protect forests and wetlands. Get involved or make a charitable donation at www.rescuelakesimcoe.org.
About Charles Pachter and Lake Simcoe
Charles Pachter speaks about MY ONTARIO: “Not surprisingly, my Ontario is about Lake Simcoe where I painted in a shoreline studio converted from an ice storage depot for twelve magnificent summers. From my diary:
July 20 Twilight. I just came out of the lake after a second swim. Water so pleasant, soothing, swirling waves lapping noisily on the shore. I waded into the water for comfort and peaceful solitary pleasure. Dove in, eyes wide open, went straight down through the clear amber water to within a foot of the pebbles, stones, rocks at the bottom, surfaced near a loon who hollered before plunging down deep. I surveyed my domain with great glee. I lay on my back, watching clouds float by over the swaying treetops. The sounds were mesmerising – a faint roar, an echoing ebb and flow. Then a palette of whitecaps, moving, roiling, then calm and still. At the shoreline gorgeous daisies swayed in the wind alongside tall grasses, raspberry bushes, mulleins, and monarch butterflies. I was feeling blissful, At Home In My Lake.”
Charles Pachter is a painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer, historian, and lecturer. Pachter’s contributions to Canadian culture have been recognized with honorary doctorates from Brock University, OCAD University, the University of Toronto, and Lakehead University. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada, a member of the Order of Ontario, a Chevalier of France’s Order of Arts and Letters and a recipient of the Queen’s Golden and Diamond Jubilee medals. Visit: www.cpachter.com
Strong and strategic natural areas protections needed in the Lake Simcoe watershed
Aurora, Ontario – A coalition of environmental groups is calling on the province to improve, monitor and implement policies to protect natural habitat in the Lake Simcoe watershed following the completion of a new regional analysis. The Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition is releasing a report today that reveals how well protected, or not, are the watershed landscape’s natural features. Results of the report will be discussed with Simcoe County Councillors and staff at an event hosted by Simcoe County Greenbelt Coalition today and later in the evening at a public event in Sharon.
“The Lake Simcoe Protection Plan review provides an opportunity to “get it right” by protecting the natural cover that the ecosystem needs to be healthy for the long term. But it will not happen all by itself. The Province needs to put some muscle behind this and match the efforts of conservation organizations and municipalities,” says the Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition’s Executive Director, Claire Malcolmson, who also authored the report.
The research and mapping were conducted to inform the Province’s review of the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan, which is anticipated to start by the end of 2019.
The Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition worked with cartographers from the University of Guelph to map the current policy protections that apply to natural areas in the watershed. They found that despite having a great deal of natural cover in the watershed, only 21 percent of the watershed’s land is protected by policies strong enough to provide assurance that those natural features will be well-protected from land use changes and development. Even in the areas included in the report’s “Best Environmental Policy Protection” category, lands can be developed if aggregate, (stone, sand and gravel) exist on the site, or for some infrastructure projects, such as the pending highway 400 – 404 connector.
In order to protect watershed health, and water quality, scientists recommend natural cover in the neighbourhood of 50 – 60 percent of a watershed. The Coalition’s report points out that achieving 50 percent natural cover in the future, including the 40 percent high quality natural cover target of the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan, requires that a plan be made to secure those protections for the long term. There are numbers of ways to work towards this as the report outlines. There are places for all levels of government to pitch in.
The project researchers analysed the strengths of the policies applied to natural features across the landscape, and made a distinction between places where land use changes would not be allowed, and where they would be allowed subject to specific criteria and conditions. The latter are included in the report’s “Moderate Environmental Policy Protection” category, which makes up 41 percent of the watershed. The report points out that those protections are weak. When challenged by landowners they can be overturned. This happens often enough that the authors point out that these areas are subject to a death by a thousand cuts, and are not necessarily protected for the long term.
Fully implementing the policies of the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan is important, but policies are not the only solution. Permanent protection of ecologically sensitive lands through Land Trusts is an essential piece of the puzzle. Local land trusts, Couchiching Conservancy and Oak Ridges Moraine Land Trust hone in on important natural features that they could purchase or protect, and particularly those next to areas that are well protected by policies.
The Couchiching Conservancy protects 14 properties, around 4, 406 acres, in or touching the Lake Simcoe watershed; the Nature Conservancy of Canada protects 3586 acres, and the Oak Ridges Moraine Land Trust currently protects 1531.5 acres in the Lake Simcoe Watershed. They recently expanded their land protection work into Simcoe County.
The Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority also protects some properties and is encouraging municipalities to adopt their Natural Heritage System and Restoration Strategy. This would help achieve the goals discussed here and restore important linkages between protected features in the watershed.
The Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition’s report is available for download at www.rescuelakesimcoe.org and https://www.simcoecountygreenbelt.ca/greenlands_report.
Media and members of the public are invited to join the Coalition and the Oak Ridges Moraine Land Trust at a free public event on November 28th, from 7 – 9 pm in the Temperance Hall at the Sharon Temple, in Sharon. The two organizations will share strategies and mapping research for protecting natural areas in the Lake Simcoe watershed and nearby Oak Ridges Moraine and Greenbelt areas, through policy and non-policy initiatives.
Event information is available on the Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition and the Oak Ridges Moraine Land Trust Facebook pages and at https://www.facebook.com/events/1190918194435644/.
Teamwork at play for natural areas protection in the Lake Simcoe watershed
Strong and strategic protections needed in the Lake Simcoe watershed
Aurora, Ontario – Next week, two conservation organizations share their strategies and mapping research for protecting natural areas in the Lake Simcoe watershed and nearby Oak Ridges Moraine and Greenbelt areas. The free event is on November 28th, from 7 – 9 pm in the Temperance Hall at the Sharon Temple in Sharon.
The Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition will unveil the results of their policy mapping report developed to inform the review of the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan, which is anticipated to start by the end of 2019. The Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition worked with cartographers from the University of Guelph to map the current policy protections that are applicable to natural areas in the watershed. They found that despite having great deal of natural cover in the watershed, only 21% of the watershed is protected by policies strong enough to provide assurance that they will be well-protected from land use changes and development.
“The Lake Simcoe Protection Plan provides an opportunity to “get it right” by protecting the natural cover that the ecosystem needs to be healthy for the long term,” says the Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition’s Executive Director, Claire Malcolmson, who also authored the report. “Fully implementing the policies of the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan is important, but so is permanent protection of ecologically sensitive lands through Land Trusts.”
Land Trusts are part of the solution, because the properties they protect are protected for ever. The Oak Ridges Moraine Land Trust permanently protects land of healthy ecosystems and natural environments that thrive forever, on and near the Oak Ridges Moraine. In 2018, the Oak Ridges Moraine Land Trust expanded their land protection work into Simcoe County. To date, the Oak Ridges Moraine Land Trust permanently protects 4,408 acres of ecologically sensitive lands on 59 properties.
Event information is available on the Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition and the Oak Ridges Moraine Land Trust Facebook pages and at https://www.facebook.com/events/1190918194435644/
About: The Oak Ridges Moraine Land Trust is a not for profit environmental organization dedicated to protecting the natural features and ecologically sensitive lands on and near the Oak Ridges Moraine, Greenbelt and Simcoe County. www.oakridgesmoraine.org
Susan Walmer, Chief Executive Officer
swalmer@oakridgesmoraine.org
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14% protected natural areas is not enough
Stronger, strategic protections needed in Simcoe County, report shows
Innisfil, Ontario – The Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition released a report and maps over the long weekend which show that only 14% of Simcoe County’s natural lands are well protected. And even the strictest land protection policies allow for aggregate activity, which has the potential to remove some of the best protected lands. Ultimately the report concludes that Simcoe County does not meet Federal habitat protection guidelines, and that much more substantial protections for natural features and linkages are needed.
Anyone can see that forests and wetlands are being lost in Simcoe County. The report asks, are our current policies protecting enough forests and wetlands to buffer the area’s water and ecosystems from the impacts of development, climate change, and fragmentation of the natural heritage system? The research indicates, the answer is no.
Simcoe County’s Natural Heritage System looks big, but 58% of the County’s land is covered by policies that allow for a ‘death by a thousand cuts’. Development applications often result in the removal of Simcoe County’s Environmental Protection designation. The result is the loss of linkages between well protected natural features. This is not helpful for animals on the move, or general ecosystem health.
The silver lining is that same 58% category. Simcoe County and its municipalities are in a position to increase the level of protection for a greater portion of the County by implementing Conservation Authorities’ Natural Heritage Systems and strategies, setting ecologically based, local targets, and by getting all wetlands evaluated and protected.
“We are not out to denigrate any agency or actor involved in making land use applications or decisions. But we need to point out that today’s policy regime is inadequate at protecting an appropriate amount of greenlands for the long term. If we don’t set a higher bar for protecting natural features we will continue to experience a loss of water quality, species, and ecosystem health,” says Claire Malcolmson, long time Lake Simcoe advocate and Executive Director of the Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition. “That is not a legacy we will be proud to leave for our kids. Last I checked, kids did not love algae-strewn beaches.”
How well protected are greenlands in Simcoe County?
Simcoe County total land area, excluding water:
14% Best Protected, level 1
58% Somewhat Protected, level 2
28% Not Protected, level 3
To see the full report, go to bit.ly/greenlandsreport.
The Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition’s greenlands mapping project seeks to identify how well protected Simcoe County forests, wetlands and shorelines are by analyzing the strength of the policies applied to the features that make up area greenlands, and mapping the results. University of Guelph cartographers created four maps for this research, showing the land use mix in Simcoe County, the breakdown of the levels of protection, the locations of aggregate resources that could eat into the best protected greenlands, and the features identified in the RLSC report’s “Best Protected” category.
What should we have?
50% forest cover or more at the watershed scale equates to a low-risk approach that is likely to support most of the potential species, and healthy aquatic systems.
Simcoe County has 22%, but is losing forest cover.
The greater of (a) 10% of each major watershed and 6% of each subwatershed, or (b) 40% of the historic watershed wetland coverage, should be protected and restored, and no net loss of wetlands.
Simcoe County has 14% wetland cover based on our analysis, and approximately half of its historic wetland cover. Simcoe County is losing wetlands.
Margaret Prophet, Executive Director of the Simcoe County Greenbelt Coalition was involved in the development of the report. She says, “This research verifies what we at the Simcoe County Greenbelt Coalition have been saying for over 3 years – our green spaces and waters are not adequately protected or respected. Each day that goes by that we dig and pave, we threaten our water, our climate, our biodiversity and our very survival. We hope that political leaders recognize the opportunity and need to permanently protect and steward our environment. We can no longer afford dithering and delays.”
Simcoe County’s land use mix does not meet ideal greenlands protection targets, but it is possible to get it right in Simcoe County, and permanently protect an effective Natural Heritage System to buffer the local waters and ecosystem from the impacts of climate change and development, the report concludes.
Municipalities and the County should implement the Growth Plan’s Natural Heritage System for the Greater Golden Horseshoe and related policies as soon as possible to better protect linkages between the best protected natural features;
Ensure First Nations’ perspectives and Traditional Ecological Knowledge are incorporated into provincial policies that protect natural heritage;
To achieve “no net loss”, all wetlands should be formally evaluated, identified and protected in the County’s Natural Heritage System;
Permanently protect “high quality natural cover” in the review of the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan;
Expand the Greenbelt into Simcoe County;
Build denser communities to reduce the need to build on greenlands.
Protect Our Water, Protect Our Plan
Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition launches campaign to improve the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan
Sutton, ON – What better time to shine a light on Lake Simcoe than Water Week? The Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition and many volunteers hosted an event on Saturday, in cooperation with members of the Georgina Island First Nation, to get more people involved in the Coalition’s campaign to “Protect Our Plan”.
Becky Big Canoe, local Water Protector from Georgina Island First Nation, and a Board member of the Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition, says, “My Elders’ directive is to do everything I can to protect the water, and that’s what I’m doing. For us at Georgina Island, Lake Simcoe’s health is a daily concern.” Ms. Big Canoe closed the formal presentations with a blessing of the water.
The event featured live banner painting of iconic water protector stencils, to be offered to municipal Councils around the lake. Versions of this First Nations artwork was available for sale and for kids to paint, too. Other activities included a speakers’ corner, ‘I love Lake Simcoe’ photo booth, kids’ nature-based activities and crafts, a “wish wall”, information about the lake’s health, and Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition member groups’ information tables. About 80 people came out to learn, play, socialize and support the Coalition.
“In order to build a community of environmental leaders, we need to involve future leaders in the community organizing work we do. Kids have an important place in this work. They make us happy, and they are the future,” says the Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition’s Executive Director, Claire Malcolmson.
The event was the campaign launch for “Protect Our Plan” (POP!). The Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition is raising awareness about what the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan does, and how it could be improved during its legislated statutory review this year on its tenth anniversary. The Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition spearheaded “Campaign Lake Simcoe” in 2005, a partnership with Environmental Defence and Ontario Nature to get the Lake Simcoe Protection Act (2008) and Plan (2009). The Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition was reinvigorated late in 2018 by Malcolmson and a new Board of Directors, so that a well-organized citizens group could focus on the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan Review.
The Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition is asking the Province to release the Lake Simcoe 10-year comprehensive monitoring report as soon as possible so that future management decisions are based on the latest science. The group is also asking that the Lake Simcoe Coordinating Committee and Science Committee be engaged now in preparing for the LSPP Review.
The Lake Simcoe Protection Act says that the Province must review the LSPP every 10 years, and in so doing, must consult with Lake Simcoe Coordinating Committee and Science Committee, municipalities in the watershed, the Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority, and public bodies that could be affected. Members of the public must also be given an opportunity to participate in the review.
The Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition’s priorities for the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan review are:
Develop sector-specific interim targets to achieve the 44 tonnes per year phosphorus loading target of the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan. Measure, monitor and adapt through an improved Phosphorus Reduction Strategy;
Protect 40% of the watershed’s greenspace, using a variety of tools, to achieve the high-quality natural cover target of the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan;
Add the Lake Simcoe Climate Change Adaptation Strategy policies to the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan in order to reduce phosphorus loads, mitigate the impacts of climate change, and increase natural cover;
Maintain nutrient load caps on Sewage Treatment Plants;
Promote partnership with First Nations in implementing the LSPP by funding a position under the direction of Lake Simcoe’s First Nations, to identify LSPP policies that require more thorough First Nations involvement, input, and/or Traditional Ecological Knowledge.
“Along with our member groups and supporters, the Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition looks forward to working with the Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks on setting a course for Lake Simcoe that recognizes and addresses the threats to the lake’s health,” Malcolmson said.
About: The Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition is a lake-wide member–based organization that provides leadership and inspires people to take action to protect Lake Simcoe. www.rescuelakesimcoe.org
Statement on Province’s Decision about Schedule 10 of Bill 66
Steve Clarke, Minister for Municipal Affairs and Housing, announced Wednesday afternoon that the government will not be pursuing Schedule 10 of Bill 66.
The Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition and allies across the region and province have strongly opposed Schedule 10, which would have allowed for fast tracking certain development related to employment by overriding long-standing environmental protections, such as those contained in the Clean Water Act, the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan, and the Greenbelt Act.
We are pleased that the government listened to concerns expressed by countless citizens, as well as community and environmental organizations, farmers’ federations, municipalities, labour representatives and planning associations, among others. We saw a groundswell of support for protecting Ontario’s water, farmland, communities and environment.
The message to the government is clear: our water and environment is a shared heritage and should not be sacrificed to benefit a few; water is core to Ontarians’ identity; and good planning must be accountable to the public.
We want to thank all of the municipal politicians that showed leadership on this issue, including in the Lake Simcoe watershed, the Councils of Bradford West Gwillimbury, Brock, Georgina, Aurora, and the Mayor of Barrie, Jeff Lehman. We’d also like to thank MPPs Andrea Khanjin, Caroline Mulroney, Jill Dunlop and Doug Downey for meeting with us and listening to our concerns. Most especially, we want to thank the countless supporters who stood up when it counted and lifted their voice with ours.
We look forward to continuing to build a better Simcoe County, Lake Simcoe watershed, and a better Ontario.
About: The Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition is a lake-wide member based organization that provides leadership and inspires people to take action to protect Lake Simcoe. www.rescuelakesimcoe.org
For media inquiries please contact: Margaret Prophet, Executive Director, SCGC
705-718-1383 margaret@simcoecountygreenbelt.ca
Local Coalitions call on municipalities to reject Bill 66 and stand up for water, smart growth
Barrie – Local groups concerned about the future health of Lake Simcoe, Georgian Bay and protection of our drinking water are now calling on municipalities within Simcoe County and the Lake Simcoe watershed to take a stand against Bill 66, Restoring Ontario’s Competitiveness Act. An open letter was sent to all municipal councils urging them to “…reassure…citizens that their water and green spaces won’t be sacrificed,” by passing a Council resolution declaring that they will not use the powers provided in Bill 66, should the bill become law.
Several mayors across the GTA and Barrie’s Jeff Lehman have made public statements to that end. Recently, Aurora council was the first to pass a resolution that declared they would not use Bill 66 due to its threat to the Greenbelt, its water and collective vision for their community.
Says Executive Director of the Simcoe County Greenbelt Coalition, Margaret Prophet, “We know that municipalities within Simcoe County and around Lake Simcoe have worked hard to put source water protection plans in place, implement the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan, and ensure that their official plans best reflect their community’s vision and needs. All we’re asking them to do now is uphold their values and their community’s best interest by rejecting this bill publicly. Citizens need reassurance that local councils want to maintain transparency and protect our water.”
The bill is intended to give municipalities powers to expedite employment development applications, but at the cost of stripping away policies that protect our drinking water, the Lake Simcoe and Great Lakes watersheds, and the Greenbelt. Further, it would allow municipalities to pass an Open for Business Bylaw without informing or consulting the public, treaty holders or potentially affected landowners such as farmers or neighbours.
“It would be more productive if the province dealt with the issue they have identified directly, which is ensuring Ontario has the best environment possible for good paying and meaningful jobs far into the future. The province can eliminate duplicative policies and regulations without cancelling or rendering meaningless those that protect public health and well-being,” says Claire Malcolmson, Executive Director of the Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition.
The public and municipalities can provide their comments about Bill 66 until January 20. That means that if councils do not move quickly on this item, they will lose the opportunity to provide feedback on within the formal consultation period of this bill.
For more information about the policies that Bill 66 targets, you can review the Canadian Environmental Law Association’s briefing or more in depth policy review.
About the Simcoe County Greenbelt Coalition: www.simcoecountygreenbelt.ca: The Simcoe County Greenbelt Coalition is a diverse coalition of 35 organizations from across Simcoe County and the province calling on local and provincial leaders to better protect our water resources, green spaces and farmland through smart growth and sustainable policies including expansion of the Greenbelt into Simcoe County.
For media inquiries please contact: Margaret Prophet, co-chair, SCGC
705-718-1383 email: margaret@simcoecountygreenbelt.ca
Ontario’s “Open For Business” Bill Endangers Simcoe County’s Water and Green Spaces
Joint press release regarding the perils of Ontario’s “Open for Business” Bill 66 from Simcoe County Greenbelt Coalition, Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition and Ontario Headwaters Institute
Barrie, ON – On Thursday, December 6, the provincial government tabled legislation known as the “Open for Business Bill”, or Bill 66. This bill provides municipalities with powers that endanger the clean water, healthy environment, and vibrant farming communities that make Ontario the best place in the world to live, play, and work. Bill 66 will allow developers access to formerly protected areas within the Greenbelt, Oak Ridges Moraine, Source Water Protection Areas, and the Lake Simcoe Watershed.
Bill 66 allows municipalities to get Ministerial approval for “Open for Business planning bylaws”, without notifying the public. Those bylaws are intended to fast track development proposals that are primarily (but not limited to) employment uses. But the bar is low. A development application needs only to provide for 50 jobs, in order quality for the use of this bylaw in most of the province. Having provided for jobs, the development application can then include residential, industrial and commercial uses. And since development applications approved under the “Open for Business bylaw” sidestep public consultation and all of the environmental regulations listed above, it could lead to land uses that contaminate our water and destroy our protected green spaces.
Let’s not forget that the 2000 Walkerton tragedy, in which seven people died, can be traced back in part to a Red Tape Commission launched in 1995 by then premier Mike Harris, which also aimed to open Ontario for business after years of “provincial red-tape fatigue.” Some of the policies that could potentially be subverted under Bill 66 were created following the Walkerton tragedy.
Margaret Prophet, Executive Director of the Simcoe County Greenbelt Coalition, says, “Our drinking water is already under threat considering the number of private wells and vulnerable aquifers in Simcoe County that don’t receive fulsome protection from contamination or over-extraction. Now this proposed bill adds municipal wells to the list of water sources under threat. Why would we even consider putting people’s water at risk? Who does this benefit?”
This Bill also ignores the reality that some planning is best done at a regional level, to ensure region-wide systems, such as watersheds, continue to function properly. Local knowledge and sound science play a central role in regional planning documents such as the Greenbelt Plan and Lake Simcoe Protection Plan. “Without these regional planning documents we put the public interest at risk,” argues Prophet.
For Lake Simcoe, this bill is bad news for a body of water already under threat. Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition Executive Director, Claire Malcolmson, says, “Bill 66 is completely inconsistent with the Province’s recent “Made in Ontario Environment Plan”, which stated that the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan would continue to be implemented. The targets and protections in the Lake Simcoe Protection Plan are based on extensive scientific research. Allowing any development to sidestep these protections is a threat to the Lake, the quality of life of its residents, and to the local tourism industry which depends on Lake Simcoe’s health. If this goes ahead, we may as well start planning Lake Simcoe’s funeral.”
The Ontario Headwaters Institute (OHI) for its part is concerned about how the new bill will impact both water and nature. According to Executive Director, Andrew McCammon, “Over the last year, the OHI conducted numerous workshops to craft common visions for a sustainable Ontario. In Simcoe, as elsewhere, it was clear that communities want more protection for our water and our natural areas, not less. We shared those results with the province and rather than extending such protections, the Ford government appears intent on curtailing them. We need sound government policies that balance development and environmental protection, not unaccountable growth that threatens Ontario’s ecology. “
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LSA bicentennial theme semesters to examine U-M’s past, present and future
To celebrate the university’s 200th birthday, LSA will dedicate its winter and fall 2017 semesters to exploring the history and future of U-M through its people and their impact on the world.
Bicentennial merchandise proceeds to support student scholarships
Maize-and-blue merchandise that promotes U-M’s first 200 years will help support students enrolled in Michigan’s third century of teaching and research.
Bicentennial resources
Learn more about the U-M bicentennial and the history of the university.
Bicentennial finale planned at Third Century Expo
The Third Century Expo will be U-M’s bicentennial finale, blanketing the heart of Central Campus during the UMich200 Fall Festival.
UMich200 Fall Festival
Schedule of events.
UMich200 Spring Festival
Summer festival to celebrate university staff
The longtime contributions of U-M staff will be the focus of the UMich200 Summer Festival, complemented by the long-running Ann Arbor Summer Festival and its eclectic programming.
Special alumni award helps highlight U-M’s past, herald its future
The university is creating a special Bicentennial Alumni Award for its 200th year, honoring 20 people who embody the breadth and excellence of its more recent alumni.
True Blue! tribute to highlight distinguished alumni
James Earl Jones, Darren Criss and Cecilia Muñoz are among the distinguished alumni who will join U-M students and faculty in “True Blue! A Tribute to Michigan,” a live multimedia celebration.
Bicentennial exhibits
Groups across the campus are planning bicentennial events of all styles and formats, from dance and art to photo exhibitions, scholarly colloquia and national conferences.
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Exchange 2010 Licensing, Features Unveiled
By Kurt Mackie
Microsoft on Tuesday provided a few more details about Exchange 2010, the company's newest e-mail server, which is fast approaching final product release.
The server was released to manufacturing earlier this month and Microsoft is expected to announce general product availability of Exchange 2010 around Nov. 9, which is the start of Microsoft's Tech-Ed Europe 2009 event.
Microsoft is now describing Exchange 2010 as a "multi-workload communications backbone," according to a blog post by Julia White, Microsoft's director of Exchange marketing. It's also sometimes lumped into the unified communications category by Microsoft's marketing.
"With Exchange 2010, you've got a full e-mail, calendar and contacts solution, built-in information protection, built-in mobile e-mail and mobile device management, a full voicemail replacement, and a brand-new archiving, retention and discovery solution," White explained in the blog.
Mobile access will be enabled through Outlook Mobile as well as the Outlook Web App, which will integrate with instant messaging and presence functionalities. White suggested that mobile e-mail access with Exchange 2010 won't cost extra.
"You don't have to pay anything more since it's all 'in the box,'" she wrote.
Exchange 2010 will also support voicemail through Outlook. It will have a new text preview feature that lets users quickly check the importance of voicemails. However, it appears that enterprise licensing will be required to get the integrated voicemail in Outlook feature.
White said that licensing for Exchange 2010 will be similar to that of Exchange Server 2007, with a Standard Client Access License (CAL) and an Exchange Enterprise CAL.
"Standard CAL [for Exchange 2010] includes all e-mail, calendar and contacts capabilities, mobile messaging with Exchange ActiveSync, plus the new over-the-air updates of Outlook Mobile on Windows Mobile 6.1+, and Outlook Web App," White wrote. "The Exchange Enterprise CAL adds e-mail archiving, discovery and retention functionality, integrated voicemail (i.e., unified messaging) and Forefront Protection for Exchange."
In addition, the Exchange Enterprise CAL will support "up to 100 databases per server," White wrote.
The licensing cost for the Exchange Standard CAL will be about $55; Exchange Enterprise CAL will cost about $35. Servers will cost $550 for the Standard Server and $3,200 for the Enterprise Server.
The blog cautions that the costs ultimately depend on the licensing types subscribed to, and whether the Software Assurance option was selected beforehand. The Exchange Enterprise CAL may be a so-called "additive CAL." For instance, under the current Exchange Server 2007 licensing, purchasers of the Enterprise CAL also have to purchase the Standard CAL, according to this Microsoft description.
Microsoft also announced this week that it plans to open up the documentation of its .PST file format for developers. This file format is used by Outlook and Exchange Server for storage. The move will let developers interoperate with the data using the "programming language and platform of their choice," according to a Microsoft blog.
Oddly, Microsoft is opening up the .PST documentation even as the company moves away from that document format in Exchange 2010. Microsoft will have a new storage feature in Exchange 2010 called the "Exchange archive" that supposedly will replace .PST storage.
The new archive plus input/output improvements in Exchange 2010 may help support mailboxes with large storage sizes. White suggested in the blog that "even 10 gigs+ becomes very affordable and supportable."
Kurt Mackie is senior news producer for 1105 Media's Converge360 group.
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The Schwartz Cloud Report
OpenStack Gains Ground
NASA and Rackspace Hosting last week commemorated the six-month anniversary of their open-source cloud effort by announcing it has more than 40 partners on board. One of those partners, Internap Network Services, said it is building a cloud storage platform based on OpenStack.
Rackspace chairman Graham Weston believes OpenStack will become a key factor in open-source cloud computing. The goal is to provide portability among cloud providers who build their infrastructures on OpenStack. "At Rackspace we think OpenStack is the next Linux," Weston said in a company-produced video posted on the OpenStack Web site.
OpenStack is a cloud operating system freely available under the Apache 2.0 license. Rackspace decided to open source the code behind two of its cloud services: CloudServers and CloudFiles, compute and storage offerings, respectively. Through the process of open sourcing those, Rackspace learned that NASA was working on some similar technology and was interested in open sourcing its effort. As a result, in July both combined efforts and launched OpenStack.
Currently OpenStack consists of two core efforts: OpenStack Compute and OpenStack Object Storage. OpenStack Compute is software designed to deploy and manage large clusters of virtual private servers, while OpenStack Object Storage is designed to scale terabytes and petabytes of data.
From the outset, the OpenStack consortium launched with 25 partners. Now it has more than 40 including Citrix, Dell, Intel, as well as smaller companies like Internap, CloudKick, Cloudscaling, Limelight Networks, RightScale and Gigaspaces.
"If they can spread this platform, it gives them a better way to compete," said Redmonk analyst Michael Cote. "There's been a huge amount of interest." Outside of NASA and Rackspace, Internap is the first cloud provider to implement it in a product.
For its part, Internap said it has released to beta Internap XIPCloud Storage, a public cloud storage service aimed at complimenting its managed hosting service. The company is building its elastic cloud storage service using OpenStack, said Scott Hrastar, senior vice president of technology at Internap.
While Hrastar admits OpenStack's availability was good timing, he told me "we're a big proponent of the open-source community aspect of the project and just saw it as a natural way for us to build on top of an interesting and differentiated solution."
A new version of OpenStack, code-named "Bexar," is slated for release early next month. Bexar represents a stabilization of the code base, said Jonathan Bryce, chairman of the OpenStack Project Oversight Committee and co-founder of the Rackspace Cloud.
"It's been a lot of fun to see it grow and see it really pick up momentum and see the software improving," he said.
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Safety Protocols Change (but Don’t Stop) RHS Fall Athletics Season
October 22, 2020 By Julianna Cimillo
Article written by Julianna Cimillo and Logan Tridel
COVID-19 has impacted all aspects of life since March. Now that school and sports are starting to open up, it is obviously effecting students and their day-to-day lives. While fall sport seasons may not look like they have in the past, athletes are making the most with the opportunities they have been given by being allowed a season at all. Julie Cimillo and Logan Tridel took it upon themselves to get a general consensus of how athletes from various sports feel about the fall athletic season as well as its limitations.
Looking into soccer, an outdoor but nonetheless contact sport, several restrictions have be put in place to keep the students of Rutherford safe. Soccer players have to wear masks on buses and the bench and must socially distance at all times.
Practicing is more drill-based and the distancing unfortunately prevents players from bonding and being able to talk with each other. Despite these protocols, the Rutherford Soccer Team is staying positive and remains thankful for getting the opportunity to have a season, regardless of the restrictions. Varsity Soccer Captain, Gavin Siengsanaoh, explained –when asked about how the restrictions have affected the team’s morale– that the team still has high hopes as long as they can be on the field.
The team is also grateful for fans coming to the games to cheer them on, despite them being socially distanced and masks. Regardless of the minor protocols the Rutherford Varsity Soccer team faces, the chance to get their soccer season in this year means more then wearing a mask or having to distance themselves.
”We will have a successful season as long as we are following the right protocol”
Gavin Siengsanaoh Caption of the Rutherford Varsity Soccer Team
Both cheering and football have very similar protocols to soccer when it comes to remaining safe in these uncertain times. The cheerleaders are required to wear masks the entirety of practices, along with following social distancing guidelines. These rules hold true for football players as well. As many in the school are already aware, the football games are nowhere near as large of an “event,” as compared to previous years. Cheerleaders are not allowed to travel to away games with the players, and each player only receives two tickets per game.
Even at home games, attendance is restricted. Each player, cheerleader, and marching band member receives two tickets. Social distancing and mask wearing is enforced in the stands, therefore, the infamous “dog pound,” will not be taking place this season. While it is easy to dwell on the negative, all fall athletes have so much to be grateful for.
Many say they find it difficult to find joy when comparing this season to years prior, however all are grateful for the opportunity to even play. Many schools and districts all around the country have not been able to successfully implement safe COVID-19 protocols. Luckily for RHS athletes, Rutherford has done an impeccable job of maintaining both athletics and safety for the 2020 season.
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The State Of Hate: Democrat Run Areas Sure Seem Hateful
10 Jul, 2017 by William Teach
According to the USA Today, hate crimes seems to be growing
The state of hate in America
It feels like nearly every week, America is rattled by a new incident of hate.
In June, a white man in a Chicago Starbucks was filmed calling a black man a slave, and a white woman in a New Jersey Sears was videotaped making bigoted comments against a family she believed was Indian (they were not). In May, two men on a Portland train were stabbed to death trying to stop a white supremacist’s anti-Muslim tirade against two teenagers.
Hate symbols are showing up around the country: nooses in the nation’s capital, racist graffiti on the front gate of LeBron James’ Los Angeles home, a banner with an anti-Semitic slur over a Holocaust memorial in Lakewood, N.J. On Saturday, the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan rallied in Charlottesville, Va., less than two months after white supremacist Richard Spencer — who coined the term “alt-right” — led a similar protest in the city against the removal of a Confederate monument. Several white nationalist groups are planning another rally for Aug. 12.
In all but one, these incidents occurred in places that vote Democrat. And are run by Democrats. The KKK rally occurred in a state that voted for Hillary, in a county (Albermarle) that went for Hillary 59-34%. Lakewood, NJ, is in Monmouth county, which went for Trump.
Let’s not forget that the KKK was essentially an organ of the Democratic Party. They invented it. They stoked it. They were members. But, then, Democrats decided there was a better way to deal with Blacks, namely, keeping them down and in poverty in urban slums, entirely beholden to government and voting against their best interests.
One has to wonder why so many incidents of hate occur in Democratic Party voting areas.
While the FBI’s data typically show 5,000 to 6,000 hate crimes a year, the Department of Justice’s estimates are much higher. A report out this month from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, based on data from the National Crime Victimization Survey, show Americans experienced an average of 250,000 hate crime victimizations each year from 2004 to 2015. About a quarter of hate crime victims who didn’t report said they feared police wouldn’t be able to help them.
Well, that’s interesting. Two-thirds of that time had Mr. Obama, the Great Healer, the guy who was going to bring us all together, in office. Let’s face it, though: they aren’t crimes. They are simply people being big jerks. You know, like has always happened. I’ve been called many nasty words, both in the real world and on-line, been insulted because I’m white, and I don’t think that’s a crime. Just people being jerks. I move on.
The article offers up two tweets as examples
My physical therapist is a natural born US Muslim. Just told me his 12-yo daughter was crying last night because she's scared of Trump. Wow.
— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) February 13, 2017
How is that linked to being victimized? Other than the PT abusing the daughter by making her scared.
I haven't been able to go to a gay bar in 8 months without wondering whether I'm about to be part of a massacre. https://t.co/JPKy9j9zTb
— Anthony Oliveira (@meakoopa) March 22, 2017
Can someone point out that the person who committed the Pulse nightclub massacre was a Muslim going all jihad because gays are icky in Islam? You want hate? How about gays being thrown off buildings in extremist Islam areas?
Of course, this “news” article (it was front page on the Android app, front on Internet, and it is in the news section) attempts to blame Trump and people who voted for him, failing to note how often these incidents occur in Democratic Party areas, and further fails to mention all the hateful rhetoric and actions by Hillary voters.
Nor does it mention that simply being a jerk is not a crime. The disgusting anti-Semetic banner in Lakewood? Total jerks (to put it mildly). But, not a crime.
But, hey, if Democrats are so worried, maybe they should reign themselves in.
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2002 - 1997 = 5
Apple had a ready and rock solid OS to release in 1997 but they didn't release it. Instead they started tearing it apart only to build it up again and release it five years later. What did Apple do in those years - the five most crucial market years in the history of personal computing - that could ever justify not releasing their OS sooner?
It's not a particularly well guarded secret that Avie Tevanian, head of software at NeXT and Apple, voted against Apple releasing Rhapsody, voting instead for creating an entirely new operating system.
OS X was created instead - not a new system but a mixture of Rhapsody and new and old ideas thrown back in.
Why couldn't Apple release Rhapsody in 1997 - and beat Microsoft to the punch? Beat Microsoft's Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, and Windows XP? What was so important Apple sacrificed the chance for major market share for five full years?
Apple fans like to think they're always ahead of Microsoft but it's most often the other way around. When it comes to secure 32-bit computing Redmond beat Cupertino by a full ten years. But Apple had a chance to halve that down to five years in 1997 - before Microsoft had full control of the market - and yet they didn't take it.
The ink dried on the Apple NeXT 'merger' in December 1996 and by January 1997 300 NeXT engineers - including Jon Rubinstein and Avie Tevanian - had made their way from Redwood City to Cupertino. By 1997 OpenStep was a force to be reckoned with. Steve Jobs himself walked in the door with OpenStep on an Intel laptop. OpenStep was the only OS capable of giving Bill Gates a run for his money.
OpenStep/Rhapsody was running on everyone's hardware. On Sun's Solaris, on Hewlett Packard's HP-UX, on its own FreeBSD - and even on Windows NT. It was a given winner. And NeXT had finally turned things around and were looking at steady profits for the first time in their corporate history.
And Steve Jobs had more or less prophesied the outcome years earlier when he speculated that NeXT would either be the last company capable of maintaining a hardware lock-in or the first company to fail at it. And in failing - and changing their name from NeXT Computer to NeXT Software - they'd finally found their niche.
They had the new gorilla of the personal computer OS market.
Everybody wanted OpenStep - and for good reason. IBM had been a scratch mark away from shipping it instead of OS/2. They'd also invested heavily in its development as had many corporations. And the investments were finally paying off.
And then NeXT packed up and moved to Cupertino. But the operating system survived the grueling journey and was still market ready. Why wait another five years?
Barring an intelligent answer to that question: what did Apple do for all of those five years? Those five years in which Bill Gates and Microsoft consolidated their stranglehold on the personal computer market for the foreseeable future?
Those five years in which Microsoft released a total of five major updates to their two branches of the Windows operating system - Windows 98, Windows 98SE, Windows Me, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. In those five years Apple did nothing.
Nothing in the OS marketplace at least: they let Microsoft win by default. They gave the game away to Microsoft.
Was this part of some big strategy so secret to this day even the media pundits can't figure it out? Was there a clever tactic in letting one's already precarious market share slip even more? Is there a way no corporate strategist yet knows about to win back an entire market by first losing it completely?
What exactly were Apple doing between 1997 and 2002? More precisely: what were they doing with OS X?
And what were Apple's shareholders doing?
Apple did release new products in the period 1997 - 2002 but nothing on the scale of the system they already had in house. They released updates to the irrelevant and increasingly wobbly MacOS and the first iMac which sold a few million units. But the new OS everybody needed was nowhere to be seen.
Microsoft went to secure 32-bit computing in 1992 with 'Windows NT'. They had interfaces to all the big Unix database server applications. NeXT had them as well. But Apple were still crashing with their cooperative multitasking system and would still be crashing five years later. And yet now they had OpenStep and the 'rock solid foundation of Unix' - something Microsoft couldn't beat. Didn't Apple want the market back? Didn't they want the profits?
Didn't their shareholders want them?
So what were Apple doing with OpenStep - what later would be called OS X?
The Apple HFS file system had to be adapted to OpenStep. This was in practice an impossible task but they made a go of it. In particular OpenStep (Unix) file system APIs had to be wired into HFS which had to be ready with Unix answers to Unix questions.
The Unix hard link feature was a particular quandary that was never solved. The partial solution they arrived at means that today OS X has a secret directory in its file system that almost no one can get at or see.
The extremely user friendly cascading menus used in OpenStep were replaced with the more familiar but far inferior Apple Mac menu bar.
The extremely sophisticated OpenStep dock (replete with tabs) was replaced with something simple - some would say 'too simple'.
OpenStep's submenus were detachable: they could be 'ripped off' and moved anywhere on screen. This code embedded in the OpenStep frameworks had to be ferreted out and removed.
The OpenStep document controller - the spider running the object oriented OS X desktop - had to be rewired to understand Apple's HFS file system.
The OpenStep frameworks themselves had to be rewired to allow for 'toll free bridging' for legacy Apple Mac applications that wanted to run on the new platform. This meant taking code comfortably embedded in the object oriented frameworks and creating procedural APIs from it - code the frameworks would be calling in the future. These new APIs had to be designed in such a way even legacy code could grapple with them.
In effect where OpenStep had a single API OS X was to have two: the one from OpenStep (albeit surgically altered) and a new API for non-native code.
Adobe had come out with an 'update' to EPS called PDF which was an even better choice for vector graphics. Apple rewired the OS to use PDF instead.
A new look was necessary from a commercial standpoint. This look would be called 'Aqua' and it would be extremely successful.
Scroll bars had to be moved from the left to the right. Voices who insisted this be a configurable user setting were drowned out by Steve Jobs who - after years of using scroll bars on the left with OpenStep - suddenly proclaimed that scroll bars must be on the right and only on the right.
Drawers and sheets were invented - two cool new UI window types.
A somewhat new application architecture had to be invented to accommodate legacy Apple Mac code.
Some Unix command line tools had to be modified to accommodate Apple's legacy HFS file system.
The developer tools had to be augmented to accommodate Apple's legacy HFS file system.
Project Builder had to be modified to accommodate legacy Apple Mac projects.
Interface Builder had to be modified to accommodate legacy Apple Mac windows and controls.
Transition tools had to be created to help legacy ISVs take the step up.
The OpenStep file manager had to be gutted because no one at Apple liked it. It was dropped in favour of an update to Apple's old Mac Finder which essentially made it identical with OpenStep's file manager.
And so on. Many of these changes were inevitable and would have occurred no matter where the work was being done, be it Redwood City or Cupertino. Many of the changes were however not inevitable, could only occur in Cupertino, and are the sole reason the OS could not be released until 2002 - despite its being more than ready in 1997.
Of course this glosses over thousands upon thousands of small changes made throughout the system - changes that would have been unnecessary and even undesirable if Apple had simply taken OpenStep/Rhapsody anno 1997 and thrown it out the door.
Another way of finding the answer to the unanswerable question would be to ask Apple or anyone totally in love with Apple or Steve Jobs exactly what Apple added to the mix between 1997 and 2002 that NeXT wouldn't have added a lot sooner. Follow up that question by asking what Apple removed from the mix.
For OS X users, OS X developers, and Apple shareholders those are important questions to ask.
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The Walking Dead’s Dawn and Machiavelli’s Prince
(Spoilers for The Walking Dead: Coda)
I majored in political science and history in college. I sleep with a copy of Machiavelli’s Prince next to my bed. I’ve learned a lot from that little tome of wisdom from the Renaissance. And when I heard Dawn telling Beth about how you have to have respect in order to maintain control, I heard Machiavelli in her words.
Niccolo Machiavelli wrote The Prince during the Renaissance as a guidebook for the ruling Medici Family in a time when Florence needed strong leadership. In the book, he describes different types of leaders and how they are either successful or failures, depending on how they choose to rule their realms. For example, the nice Prince who lets his people do what they want will be perceived as weak, but a iron-fisted Prince who establishes rules will be seen as strong, and should he bestow occasional rewards to his people, he will be respected and loved.
Dawn was in a precarious situation from the very first moment we met her. She had assumed control of Grady Hospital after killing her friend and mentor, Hanson. He cracked under pressure, and people died. Dawn created a world within the walls of Grady where she was in control, and her control depended upon the relationship between her police and the wards. After the midseason finale, we learned that she was well aware of the good cops and the bad cops. She was paying attention. But as she told Beth, she had to maintain their respect in order to maintain control. You can’t allow the inmates to run the asylum, as they say.
Dawn’s fatal flaw was her request to Rick for Noah’s return. She thought she had to make that request in front of her people. She thought it would be best to show that she was in control of the situation, but making that request is what began the chain of events that led to Beth’s death, and ultimately her own.
I don’t think Dawn was a villain. She was never as ruthless as The Governor, nor was she as frenetic and volatile as Gareth. In her mind, she was doing the right thing in the only way she knew how.
The internet has been buzzing with speculation about whether or not Dawn killed Beth on purpose. I’m of the opinion that she didn’t mean to pull the trigger. (Unless, of course, she was looking for a way out) The shocked look on Dawn’s face was enough to make me think that she had no intention of killing Beth. Dawn respected Beth. Beth’s death, and Dawn’s subsequent departure, were unintended consequences of an unintentional action. (Which is to say that Beth stabbed Dawn, Dawn’s finger slipped on the trigger, Beth died, and Daryl shot Dawn) It would have been interesting to see what life in The Walking Dead world would have been like with Beth and Dawn in it. At least, for a little while longer.
In sum, I believe that Machiavelli would approve of Dawn’s system at Grady. Dawn ruled with a heavy hand, but as we saw with Beth, she also knew how to play nice when the time called for it. Of course, everything Dawn did was incredibly calculated, so even when she was “nice” (as in giving Beth the key to the medicine cabinet) she had ulterior motives. However, this is something that Machiavelli would see as a favorable trait in a leader.
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The Walking Dead Recap S5E7: Crossed
The Walking Dead S5E7: Crossed
Original Airdate: November 23, 2014
Recap by Sarabeth Pollock
It’s that time of year, fellow Walkers. As we approach the midseason finale, the action is heating up.
Sasha is breaking pews in the church. Tyreese is dismantling the organ, handing the pipes to Daryl. Father Gabriel asks Daryl if they’re taking the cross as well. Only if they need it, he replies. Rick tells Michonne that Carl wants to go to Atlanta but he can’t. She says that she’ll go so he can stay, where he belongs. Rick holds Judith one last time before handing her back to Michonne, and then he hugs Carl. The group leaves, with Michonne, Judith, Carl and Gabriel in the church. Judith cries as the door closes. Once it’s closed, Michonne and Carl board up the doors. Gabriel stares at the dried blood on the floor from the Gareth Party Massacre. He scratches at it, then scrubs with his hands. He’s sweaty. I think he’s having a breakdown.
The truck barrels down the road. Tyreese and Sasha sit in the back talking. He tells her he understands how she feels about Bob. When he continues, she tells him to stop. She doesn’t want to hear it.
In Atlanta, Beth does her chores but she takes a moment to check on Carol. Dr. Edwards comes in to check on her progress.
We return to the road, where Abraham’s group ponders the sea of Walkers gathered on the farm. Glen has his gun at the ready. “Buckle up” the sign behind him advises. Tara has used the last of the water. She has dubbed the group “Greatm”, which represents their initials. Eugene is still out cold. Glen ponders taking him back to the church. Rosita offers water to Abraham, who refuses it and then slaps it away. He’s in a daze. He stands and stares at Rosita, and Maggie aims her gun at him. She orders him to sit down or be put down. Eventually he listens.
Rick wants to retain the upper hand in their siege upon the hospital. Everything has to be quiet and fast. No guns. Rick divides the areas up. He is going to take down Dawn. Noah assures them that the wards will help them if it means they will be free. Tyreese wants to know what happens if his plan doesn’t work. He proposes keeping two of the cops as prisoners. Daryl agrees that using the cops as leverage will be a good idea. Everyone goes home.
At the church, Gabriel is still scrubbing. Carl tells him to choose a weapon. He needs to learn to defend himself. Gabriel doesn’t think he deserves to be protected. Carl tells him that he’s lucky the church has lasted so long, and they can’t stay in one place anymore. Gabriel chooses a machete, but he doesn’t hold it properly. Carl tries to tell him how to do it, but Gabriel doesn’t want to learn. He needs to lie down.
Beth scrubs the floor while Dawn talks to an officer, who is arguing that they’re wasting resources on Carol. Beth interrupts, telling them that the officer is wasting their electricity charging his DVD player every day. Dawn tells her to switch off the life support, and the officer leaves, satisfied. Dawn tells Beth that they have a fragile balance at the hospital, and that she just killed the patient. However, Dawn gives Beth the key to the drug locker and tells her that she will be able to save her. She doesn’t trust anyone with the key, not even Edwards. A call comes in on the radio about a gunshot about a mile from the hospital. She dispatches some officers. Beth wants to know why she is doing this. Dawn says she thought Beth was weak, but Beth proved her wrong.
Glen says they will need more water before moving. Maggie volunteers to stay behind while Glen, Tara and Rosita go to the creek. Tara cracks jokes about their situation, but she misses Eugene. She doesn’t blame him for using his intelligence to save his life. Back at the truck, Maggie grabs a ladder while Abraham stares in the distance. She uses it to form a little shade tent for Eugene. She goes to Abraham and says that he needs to get over himself. He isn’t the only one who lost something, and things aren’t going to get any better.
Beth knocks on Edwards’ door. She asks to come inside. She wants to know what medicine to give Carol. Edwards says that if Dawn gave her the key then she did it for a reason. He says he had been trying to save his life before, but he isn’t sure that he was better off staying alive. He tells Beth to use epinephrine, and that she’ll wake up after a while. He wishes her luck.
The creek is muddy. Tara wonders if they should go upstream, but Rosita has a solution. She built a water filter with a water bottle, and while it’s slow, they can boil it. Tara asks if Rosita was with Abraham before. She had been in Dallas, and then Abraham pulled up in his big truck with Eugene. He saw her skills and asked her to help. But now she wonders if he was lying too.
The cops drive into a cluster of buildings. They find Noah limping away, and they catch him. He goes quietly, which eventually leads one of the officers to wonder what he was shooting at. Behind them, Rick and his gang are there waiting for them. Rick takes over, telling them to put their guns down. Rick says they need to talk. He offers them water and food. Officer Lanson wonders if Rick is a cop too. Noah says he was one of the only good cops. But before they can talk, the blue car returns and rescues the officers, but not before Sasha shoots out the tire. The officers scatter in a burned out courtyard filled with badly burned Walkers. Rick gives chase. One of the officers tackles Daryl, and Daryl uses the head of one of the Walkers to get the officer off of him. Rick shows up and aims the gun at the officer’s head, but Daryl reminds him that three hostages are better than one.
The group leads their hostages into the warehouse. The female officer says that they can help them make the plan work. They have wanted to get rid of Dawn for a while now and if they are released they can take care of her and free their friends. Lanson tells her to be quiet, realizing that Sasha, Daryl and Tyreese are listening to them, as in actually listening to them. And Lanson isn’t interested in anything other than peaceful resolution. He wants to help them.
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Quote of the Day: Eddie Murphy: Raw
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[Bill Cosby has called Eddie to complain about bad language in Eddie’s act]
Eddie Murphy: Now I can’t have no ‘curse’ show, I mean I gotta throw in a few jokes in between the curses, I can’t come out and go “Hello! Filth flar’n filth, motherfucker, dick, pussy, snot, and shit. Good night! Suck my dick!”
Eddie Murphy: Raw was released in theaters on this day 32 years ago (December 18, 1987)
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Remember That Song – 11/8/19
November 8, 2019 Paul Stroessner Leave a comment
Can you name the artist and song:
I can’t tell ya baby what went wrong
I can’t make you feel what you felt so long ago
I’ll let it show
I can’t give you back what’s been hurt
Last Song: “Party All The Time” by Eddie Murphy from the album How Could It Be (1985)
Great job Adora (@Adora2000) and Richard (@RichardAnsara)!!!
Girl, I can’t understand it why you want to hurt me
After all the things I’ve done for you
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Quote of the Day: Eddie Murphy: Delirious
August 30, 2018 Paul Stroessner Leave a comment
Eddie Murphy: Ice Cream man always drove extra blocks away. And I know he’s seen us and shit, but I think he just be in the car with his friends and say:
Eddie Murphy: [imitating the ice cream man] Watch me how fast I make these motherfuckers run.
35 years ago today (August 30, 1983), Eddie Murphy: Delirious premiered on HBO.
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Top 40 Songs This Week – April 5, 1986: Songs 30-21
April 3, 2018 Paul Stroessner Leave a comment
Welcome back as we continue the countdown! If you missed the previous songs, you can go back and check out songs 40-31. This has been a good countdown so far. So let’s Return to the week ending April 5, 1986, and continue the countdown.
30. “Overjoyed” by Stevie Wonder
I prefer Stevie Wonder’s music from the ’70s, but this is a pretty song. Love his voice!
29. “American Storm” by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
This is one of my favorite Bob Seger songs. This is one of those misunderstood songs. It is not a patriotic song. It is about cocaine abuse. In an interview with the New York Times, Seger said, “I wrote it after reading ‘Wired,’ Bob Woodward’s biography of John Belushi. That was two and a half years ago, when there was a lot of publicity about cocaine abuse in show business. At the time, I thought that it was just a trend that would quickly die out and that the song would be out of date when it came time to record. But the situation has gotten worse. Maybe cocaine isn’t quite as fashionable on the East and West Coasts these days, but the plague has spread into the heartland — into the Middle West and the South. The key line in ‘American Storm’ is ‘You never feel the need.’ You never feel anything when you’re on drugs. You’re numb. You’re afraid to feel for one reason or another, and that’s why you turn to drugs. I want to see people not do that.”
28. “No Easy Way Out” by Robert Tepper
A great song from one of my favorite soundtracks – Rocky IV. And you know it’s good because it was featured in a Rocky training montage in the film.
27. “So Far Away” by Dire Straits
I’m not the biggest Dire Straits fan, so I wouldn’t mind if this song moved so far away from me.
26. “How Will I Know” by Whitney Houston
On the other hand, I loved Whitney. She could do no wrong with me in the ’80s. I wish that she did know that crack is indeed wack. One of our great artists gone way too soon.
25. “Kyrie” by Mr. Mister
Mr. Mister’s follow-up to the smash hit, “Broken Wings”, was another #1 smash hit. They did have two other U.S. top 40 hits after this, but nobody remembers those.
24. “I Think It’s Love” by Jermaine Jackson
I don’t remember this song. Not one of my favorite Jermaine tunes, but it’s OK.
23. “Your Love” by The Outfield
The Outfield has other great songs that rarely get played. However, despite the fact that I’ve heard this song a few million times in my life, I still love it.
22. “Sanctify Yourself” by Simple Minds
If only this song was also featured in a John Hughes film like their other hit song.
21. “What Have You Done For Me Lately” by Janet Jackson
I loved Janet Jackson. But, whenever I hear this song, this is the first thing that comes to mind [keep in mind that this is Eddie Murphy. So if you’re listening at work, make sure your headphones don’t pop out]:
That wraps up today’s list of songs. I’m really liking this countdown so far! What do you think. Do you have any favorite songs so far. Any surprises you forgot about? Come back tomorrow as we continue the countdown!
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Quote of the Day: Eddie Murphy – ‘Delirious’ and ‘Raw’
Delirious
There’s something about the ice cream truck that makes kids lose it. And they can hear that shit from ten blocks away. They don’t hear their mothers calling but they hear that motherfucking ice cream truck.
[After Bill Cosby called Eddie to complain about bad language in Eddie’s act]
Richard [Pryor] said, “The next time the motherfucker call, tell him I said, “Suck *my* dick.” I don’t give a fuck. Whatever the fuck make the people laugh, say that shit. Do the people laugh when you say what you say?” I said, “Yes.” He said, “Do you get paid?” I said, “Yes.” He said, “Well, tell Bill I said have a Coke and a smile and shut the fuck up. Jello pudding-eating motherfucker.”
Happy 57th birthday to Eddie Murphy!!!
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Quote of the Day: Coming to America
Lisa McDowell: [Lisa and Akeem are about to kiss] What about Patrice?
Prince Akeem: I am not interested in Patrice.
Lisa McDowell: What about Darryl?
Prince Akeem: [dryly] I am not interested in Darryl either.
Happy 56th Birthday Eddie Murphy!!!
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One Hit Wonders: Eddie Murphy
March 22, 2016 Paul Stroessner Leave a comment
Party All the Time by Eddie Murphy
by Robert Mishou
For the each of the first two weeks of this One Hit Wonder series I have one actor who turned singer and I can see no reason to deviate from this, so here is this week’s actor. Growing up – and even today – I LOVE EDDIE MURPHY! Way back when my best friends and I were allowed to watch his stand up Delirious and quickly moved through 48 Hours and all of his other films, I have diligently studied his work. Oh, ok, you got me – no studying, just laughing my butt off. Yes, it was very strange for him to record a music album – and Rick James’ presence may be even stranger, but this catchy song absolutely deserves a place in the all time great One Hit Wonder of the ‘80s. The song reached #2 on the AT 40 and finished at #7 for the entire year of 1986. This song, written by Rick James, was kept out of the top spot on the charts by Lionel Richie’s “Say You Say Me” – so close, but a worthy song denied the peak spot. Lyrically, this song is the ultimate in simplicity. A guy is ga-ga over a girl and is trying to give things that she likes:
After all the things I’ve done for you.
I buy you champagne and roses and diamonds on your finger –
Diamonds on your finger –
Still you hang out all night
The source of his frustration lies in the catchy-as-hell chorus, “My girl wants to party all the time.” She does not seem to be taking his efforts seriously. By song’s end, it does not seem that the situation will come to a satisfying conclusion for him, “You never come home at night because you’re out romancing / I wish you bring some of your love home to me.” The song is light, but I love it! Murphy’s ‘80s musical career did not last long, although he will release another album So Happy, in 1989 but he would have no more hit singles.
Quote of the Day: Beverly Hills Cop
January 19, 2016 Paul Stroessner Leave a comment
Axel Foley: Did you see that shit? I can describe all of em.
Beverly Hills Cop #1: Please move to the side of the car, and put your hands on the hood!
Axel Foley: Why, what’s with you guys?
Beverly Hills Cop #2: You heard what he said, sir. Do it right now, please!
Axel Foley: What kind of shit is this, man? Hold up, wait a second! You guys are arresting me for getting thrown out of a fucking window? I got thrown out of a window, man!
Beverly Hills Cop #1: Gun, partner!
Beverly Hills Cop #1: Sir, you are under arrest; you are to remain silent, anything you say CAN and will be against you in a court of law! You have a right to have an attorney present during questioning…
Axel Foley: Yeah, I understand, I understand the rights! I know this is bullshit, man… I got thrown out of a fucking window!
Beverly Hills Cop #2: Please get in the car, sir!
Axel Foley: Tell me, sir, what’s the charge?
Beverly Hills Cop #2: Possession of concealed weapons, and disturbing the peace!
Axel Foley: Disturbing the peace? I got thrown out of a window! What’s the fucking charge for getting pushed out of a moving car, huh? Jaywalking? This is bullshit!
This is my favorite part of Beverly Hills Cop. Just them mention of this movie instantly reminds me of Glenn Frey’s “The Heat is On”. R.I.P. Glenn Frey
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Serge: I see you look at this piece.
Axel Foley: Yeah. I was wondering how much something like this went for.
Serge: One hundred and thirty thousand dollar.
Axel Foley: Get the fuck out of here!
Serge: No, I cannot! It’s serious! Because it’s very important piece.
Axel Foley: Have you ever sold one of these?
Serge: Sell it yesterday to a collector.
Serge: No! I’m serious! I sell it myself!
Happy 56th Birthday to Bronson Pinchot!!!
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or the statement below, write the claim as a mathematical statement. State the null and alternative hypotheses and identify which represents the claim. The standard deviation of the base price of a certain type of all-terrain vehicle is equal to $305.
Home or the statement below, write the claim as a mathematical statement. State the null and alternative hypotheses and identify which represents the claim. The standard deviation of the base price of a certain type of all-terrain vehicle is equal to $305.
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Part A is just stating the the claim numberically with is u =305.
Part B = Ho is the null hypothesis which u =305. Ha is part u ||= 305.
Part c= the answer is part A
see excel spreadsheet. This your answer
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In a survey of 641 males ages 18-64, 394 say they have gone to the dentist in the past year. Construct 90% and 95% confidence intervals for the population proportion. Interpret the results and compare the widths of the confidence intervals. If convenient, use technology to construct the confidence intervals. The 90% confidence interval for the population proportion p is The 95% confidence interval for the population proportion p is Interpret your results of both confidence intervals. Which interval is wider?
In a random sample of 25 people, the mean commute time to work was 30.4 minutes and the standard deviation was 7.3 minutes. Assume the population is normally distributed and use a t-distribution to construct a 99 confidence interval for the population mean muμ. What is the margin of error of muμ? Interpret the results.
Construct the indicated confidence interval for the population mean muμ using the t-distribution. Assume the population is normally distributed. c equals=0.99 x over bar x equals=12.7 s equals=2.0 n equals=7
A soccer ball manufacturer wants to estimate the mean circumference of soccer balls within 0.05 in. (a) Determine the minimum sample size required to construct a 90% confidence interval for the population mean. Assume the population standard deviation is 0.20 in. (b) Repeat part (a) using a population standard deviation of 0.40 in. Which standard deviation requires a larger sample size? Explain.
Construct the confidence interval for the population mean u.
c = 0.95. x = 9.2. a = 0.4. and n = 59 A 95% confidence interval for p...
Determine whether the claim stated below represents the null hypothesis or the alternative hypothesis. If a hypothesis test is performed, how should you interpret a decision that (a) rejects the null hypothesis or (b) fails to reject the null hypothesis? A scientist claims that the mean incubation period for the eggs of a species of bird is less than 57 days.
Determine whether to reject or fail to reject Upper H 0 at the level of significance of a) alpha equals 0.02 and b) alpha equals0.09.
Upper H H0: mu μ equals=109 Upper H Subscript aHa: mu μ not equals≠109 and P =0.02080.0208. see excel spreadsheet. This your answer
Find the margin of error for the given values of c, sigma, and n.
c = 0.95. a = 2.1, n = 36 Answer 0.686
For the statement below, write the claim as a mathematical statement. State the null and alternative hypotheses and identify which represents the claim. A laptop manufacturer claims that the mean life of the battery for a certain model of laptop is more than 5 hoursDetermine whether the claim stated below represents the null hypothesis or the alternative hypothesis. If a hypothesis test is performed, how should you interpret a decision that (a) rejects the null hypothesis or (b) fails to reject the null hypothesis? A scientist claims that the mean incubation period for the eggs of a species of bird is less than 57 days.
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Last November I posted a link to a site where there are Davey Wavey nude photos. Today I’d like to post about how Davey Wavey has reacted to those photos, and how he’s not making any apologies to anyone. I actually didn’t know whether or not he’d posted them himself or someone had discovered them. He explains it all here.
Do I need to say anything else? I think it’s a good example of owning your decisions, taking a positive stand, and never letting anyone else intimidate you for something you’ve done previously. I’ve always thought that was important, even for authors. I once wrote about a burping penis in a parody gay romance loosely based on the TV show American Idol. And it was interpreted as serious literature by one dumb, but vicious, blogger. I have no regrets. I might even do it again.
Fuck with me: it’s the best attitude sometimes. We should all take it more seriously 🙂
Here’s the youtube link, where you can watch many other Davey Wavey videos on all kinds of gay topics.
Speaking of parody and comic relief, I’ve been working on edits for a new book in the Chase series, Chase of a Holy Ghost, and I needed something that would make the storyline a little lighter. Actually, I needed a few things because the book can be emotional at times. So I wrote a scene where a ridiculous webcaster spoke about anal hygiene and referred to it as anal douchery. You should have seen the comments I received from the editor I hired.
On a more serious note, the fact is that there are certain things gay men should know about anal hygiene. As far as I know, I have never heard once of a parent explaining THIS to a gay teen when talking about the facts of life. In fact, I often wonder how younger gay men now learn about the facts of life with everything becoming more open nowadays. Do parents talk about these things with gay teens? Or do gay teens still get their information about the facts of life everywhere but at home?
In any event, once again, here’s Davey Wavey talking about anal douching. I won’t get into details here, but I often mention it in books just in case younger gay people are reading. It is important information every gay man should know…or at least almost every gay man.
For two men to have anal sex with each other, a certain routine of cleansing must take place. Perhaps, during your first sexual encounter, neither you nor your partner realized this. And then things got disgusting and you never, ever wanted to be a gay man again. And then you found out about cleaning one’s bottom — and how it’s an activity that’s best silently acknowledged, but never spoken about, because: ew. Take it away, Davey.
Here’s a link to a video where Davey explains it in detail.
Larry Kramer’s Male Full Frontal Nudity
I’ve posted about Larry Kramer and The Normal Heart, many times. I don’t always agree with Kramer and his beliefs, but this article to which I’m linking shows how difficult it was for him when he first started out. I have no doubts about that. It’s still difficult for all gays, but it must have been torture way, way back then. He produced a film, Women in Love, and it became famous for the biggest taboo of all time: male full frontal nudity.
As Kramer recalled, adapting Women in Love to the screen was the easy part. Getting it produced was much more difficult because it involved the arduous task of negotiating a final approved cut of the movie with the British Board of Film Censors. Even before production began, Kramer sent a copy of his script to the board’s chief, a man named Lord John Trevelyan, who liked to brag, “We’re paid to have dirty minds.” Trevelyan didn’t hold out much hope for Kramer’s project and told him he doubted Women in Love could be filmed at all. “The wrestling scene,” as it was soon to be dubbed, and its male frontal nudity sent immediate shock waves through the BBFC.
If you follow my posts on male full frontal nudity in films, you’ll see not all that much has changed since Kramer used it in his film. I think the most recent full frontal male scene that I’ve noticed was with Bobby Cannavale in Boardwalk Empire, which I posted about here. That was in 2012. I’m sure there might be one or two I’ve missed. But the point is you don’t see it often.
Here’s an excerpt from my still-being-edited (and formatted for digital) WIP. It’s titled, Chase of a Holy Ghost, and will be released sometime at the end of this month.
On Saturday mornings, Jim usually went for a long ride on his favorite horse way out beyond the back pasture. He’d always been big on routine. He wore his favorite old cowboy boots that morning, jeans so old they were torn at the knees, and one of Len’s old cowboy hats because he liked the way it felt. When he reached the creek he stopped and smiled for a moment. He’d scattered Cain’s ashes there, and then Carol Greene’s ashes because there hasn’t been anyone else willing to give Carol a funeral service. Her roots went back to Amish culture and she’d been shunned for being gay and a transgender. He would have climbed off the horse and sat on a rock for a while to pay his respects. It was one of those bright mornings with a slight breeze, perfect for daydreaming. But he had to get back to the house before his mother-in-law, Doris Branson, arrived.
A few hours later, Jim jogged down the back stairs and heard voices in the main hallway. Clinger was barking and Jim couldn’t make out what they were saying, so he smoothed out his jeans, took a quick look in a mirror next to the back staircase, and then headed to the front of the house to see what was happening.
When he reached the hallway, he stopped and took a deep breath. He held it for a moment and exhaled slowly. Doris was hugging Len, and Jim’s mom and dad were standing on the sidelines waiting to greet her. Jim’s mom caught a glimpse of him in the doorway and she rolled her eyes. Jim shrugged and smiled, and then stepped into the hallway braced for battle.
As Jim walked up beside Len, Doris turned from Len and looked down at Culum. “And how are you, young man,” Doris said, with her deep raspy voice. “Are you happy to see grand-ma-ma?”
Culum blinked and took a step back toward Clinger. He called Jim’s mom grandma and he’d told Jim he didn’t like calling Doris grand-ma-ma, with the accent on the last syllable. Jim sent Culum a look, letting him know he wanted him to behave. No one appreciated Doris referring to herself as grand-ma-ma. COAL Ranch wasn’t Downton Abbey. It was Chatsworth, California in the twenty-first century. But in order to keep the peace, so to speak, Jim had warned everyone to humor Doris Branson’s pretentious quirks and make her feel at home for as long as she was there. If that meant calling her Your Royal Highness Jim would have done it.
Doris’s head jerked to the side. “What’s wrong? Aren’t you happy to see grand-ma-ma?” Her voice grew deeper and Jim had to wonder if she had a single nurturing bone in her body. Then he dismissed the thought, feeling guilty because he didn’t know her all that well yet.
Culum looked at Jim one more time, and then he nodded and said, “Yes, I’m happy to see you.” He refused to say grand-ma-maunless it was the last resort. He usually referred to Doris with pronouns.
Jim covered his smile with his palm. Culum had stubborn tendencies that often amused him.
Then Radcliff reached out to shake Doris’s hand. “It’s good to see you again, Doris. It’s been a while. You’re looking well, indeed.” Jim sometimes had a feeling his dad flirted with Doris, which tended to make Helen’s lips turn down.
Doris looked Jim’s dad up and down and said, “Yes, too long, darling. It’s good to see you again, Randolph.” She ran her long French-tipped fingernails down his sleeve and batted her eyelashes. Doris often flirted back, within reason, which also tended to make Helen’s eyebrows arch.
Helen rolled her eyes.
Radcliff didn’t bother to correct her about his name. He seemed to know it would be a waste of time.
Helen reached out to hug Doris, but Doris took a step back and reached for Helen’s hand instead. “Hello, dear, good to see you again.” Doris never used Helen’s name. She didn’t even bother to mispronounce it. She always referred to her as dear or hon. She turned to Len and said, “I hope my visit isn’t a bother. I didn’t know Jim’s parents would be here, too. I can stay at a hotel.”
Jim thought he had mentioned this to Doris. There had been so many things happening he could have forgotten.
Helen smiled and said, “If that would make you feel more comfortable. I’m sure there are a few fine hotels nearby, dear.”
Doris glared at Helen for a moment, and then laughed. “I love your sense of humor, hon.”
Helen smiled. “And I love yours even more, darling.”
Len smiled and looked up at the ceiling.
Jim shot his mom a look for the bitchy hotel remark she’d made. He wanted to laugh, but knew it would only get him into trouble. Jim actually had a better relationship with Doris than her own son. It had been that way from the first day they’d met. It wasn’t that Doris thought of Jim as her own son. In this case it was more that she felt close to Jim and thought they were a lot alike in many ways. Doris had always thought of herself as a victim living among the strong controlling Branson men and she’d learned how to survive with them by not backing down. She considered Len, her own son, just as vicious as all the other Branson men, and often sided with Jim as if he were an ally. Although Len could be aggressive and controlling, Jim humored her. He’d never considered himself a victim.
So Jim stepped up and broke into the conversation before Doris could reply to Helen’s catty remark with one of her own and said, “I just finished getting the guest suite on the third floor ready and I don’t want to hear anything about a hotel.” He put his arms around Doris, hugged her, and said, “You’re staying right here with us and that’s that. And why didn’t you let me know you were here so I could drive out to get you myself? I thought you would call.”
For the first time since she’d arrived she smiled and said, “Thank you so much. I prefer my own driver from Branson Communications. We pay him enough.” She looked at everyone else in the room, including poor little Culum who was just standing there observing on the sidelines, and said, “Now that Jim’s here everything will be fine. He clearly knows how to make an older, lonely widow feel at home.”
While Doris sent Len a fierce look, Jim winked at Helen and said, “I’ll help Doris get settled.”
Helen took the hint and said, “We were just leaving. We’re taking Culum to the zoo this afternoon. Would you like to join us, Doris? We don’t mind waiting.”
Doris made a face and said, “I think not, dear.” She glanced at Culum and frowned. “Grand-ma-ma will schedule something cultural for you while she’s here if there’s time.” That could have meant anything from the symphony to a trip on her private jet up to wine country where Doris had an established relationship with a Catholic bishop. Being a strict Catholic with a great deal of money, she had established relationships with priests, nuns, and bishops all over the world. In fact, she’d met two Popes in person. She collected priests and nuns the same way other people collect stamps. Back east, she often traveled with them. But the one in wine country, she claimed, gave her special blessings and she usually flew up to visit him while on the west coast.
With a blank expression, Culum nodded. The last time she’d been there and she’d taken him to a cultural event they’d wound up touring a convent where the nuns weren’t allowed to speak. The poor kid spotted a life-sized crucifix on a wall in the dark convent, screamed at the sight of a dead man hanging with blood dripping from his hands and feet, and had nightmares for one solid week. Although Jim had been raised Episcopal, and Len Catholic, they weren’t part of any organized religion anymore and they’d decided to raise Culum knowing both faiths. Of course Doris thought Culum should be raised Catholic, and Radcliff and Helen thought he should be Episcopal. But Jim and Len had made it clear they wanted to raise Culum their own way and he could one day make his own choice on religion. And until organized religion fully accepted gay couples and gay marriage, they didn’t want to expose him to hate.
Jim reached for Culum’s backpack on a chair in the hallway and handed it to Helen. “I packed a few things for him.” Then he handed Helen a box and said, “And this is for you to put in your purse.” He didn’t like to make a big thing about this. The box contained an epi-pen just in case Culum needed it. He’d experienced multiple bee stings once and developed a deadly allergy to bees as a result. Jim lived in constant fear of this. There was nothing he could do but watch and be prepared. If Culum had had an allergy to shell fish or nuts Jim could have made a conscious effort to avoid those things in a more relaxed manner, but bees were everywhere and you couldn’t trust them.
After they all walked Helen, Radcliff, and Culum out to the Tahoe and saw them off, Len turned toward the long black limo that had brought Doris there from the airport and said, “I’ll get your luggage, mother.” He called her mother all the time, not mom; she expected it and Len preferred it.
Doris waved her hand and said, “Just get your man to do it. I’m going upstairs with Jim.”
“We don’t have a man, mother,” Len said. “You know that. We do things around here on our own. It’s very casual. We’re just normal folks.”
Doris glanced around the property with a disapproving look. Even though COAL Ranch was one of the finest and most elegant ranches in Chatsworth, compared to her estate in Connecticut it was a small time affair. She frowned and said, “I see that.” She patted Jim’s back and said, “Poor thing. We need to have a long talk soon.”
Jim looked at Len and said, “Len will be more than happy to bring your things upstairs. It’s no trouble at all, Doris.”
Doris looped her arm through Jim’s and they headed back toward the house. “I don’t know how you do it, you poor thing. No full time help here at all, working full time yourself, and raising a child. You really do have to be more assertive, Jim. I don’t care if Len changed his name to Mayfield, my maiden name after my father. Len is still a Branson. These goddam Branson men will eat you alive if you’re not assertive. You should demand full time domestic help, at least a housekeeper. I learned a long time ago that you have to stand up to the Branson men or they will step all over you, trust me.” She clenched both fists and said, “You have to be tough, three steps ahead of them at all times, and never back down. That’s why I’m still here and Len’s father isn’t. He wasn’t going to kill me first.” She sounded proud of the fact that she’d outlived her husband as if they’d been racing to the finish.
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Savannah Classical Academy Appoints Director as State Renews Charter for Five Years
SCA News
By: Lesley Francis Public Relations
SAVANNAH, GA – March 28, 2019 – Today, the Board of Directors at Savannah Classical Academy (SCA) announced the appointment of Barry Lollis to the permanent position of Director. This announcement coincides with confirmation from the Georgia Department of Education that SCA’s charter has been renewed for five years – a clear endorsement for the school’s current leadership.
Scott McGhie, Chair of the Board of Directors at SCA said “We went through a stringent process of reviewing applications and interviewing for this position and our board unanimously voted to remove the interim part from Barry Lollis’ title and appoint him as our school’s Director. His commitment to the charter school model combined with his extensive experience in education and keen focus on student achievement, financial and operational successes has resulted in significant achievements for the school in the fields of academic success and staying true to the values, vision and mission of SCA.” The charter school’s core values encompass compassion, perseverance, courage, respect, responsibility, diligence, temperance and integrity.
Lollis first joined SCA in 2017 as Director of Curriculum and Instruction to assist in the charter school’s removal from the Turnaround Eligible Schools list and moratorium on registration. In Summer 2018, Lollis became Interim Director of SCA; milestone data released by the State of Georgia at this time demonstrated that the percentage of students scoring at or above State Performance Target (SPT) levels had increased significantly in all grades at SCA over the 2017-18 academic year and the moratorium was lifted. In addition, SCA outperformed or was close to every Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools (SCCPSS) average score for all grades and in all of the areas measured. In the 2018 Georgia Kindergarten Inventory of Developing Skills (GKIDS) assessment for 2018, SCA ranked number five among the 34 Kindergarten programs in SCCPSS and also ranked as the highest performing charter school in the district. SCA went on to report outstanding results in the Georgia Department of Education’s 2018 College and Career Ready Performance Index (CCRPI) scores as the school significantly outperformed both the District and State in these respected progress measurement tools.
A former high school Principal at Windsor Forest, Lollis came to SCA in 2017 and clearly has the right experience and expertise to build on these successes. A graduate of Georgia Southern University and Piedmont College with a Specialist Degree in Education, Lollis is an innovative educator who has worked in the Savannah Chatham County Public School System (SCCPSS)
since 2001, starting his career working in a charter school. He was recently appointed by the Lieutenant Governor of Georgia to serve on the Georgia Department of Education Charter Advisory Committee as the only charter school leader currently sitting on this state appointed educational committee.
Scott McGhie concludes, “We are delighted that the State of Georgia has confirmed SCA’s charter renewal for the next five years and that Barry Lollis has accepted the permanent position of Director. The board is confident that under his leadership, our school will continue to offer an excellent education as it grows and becomes a K-12 school in August of this year.”
– ENDS-
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Nobel laureate offers hope, and a warning
"The British Empire got its standard of living by consuming half the world's resources. How many planets will it take for India to do the same?"
Nobel Laureate R.K. Pachauri
Thus did R.K. Pachauri, last year's Nobel Peace Prize co-Laureate, quote his most famous countryman, Gandhi. And so did he underscore how the problem of Gandhi's time has gotten much, much bigger and more immediate.
Pachauri delivered the keynote address to the Society of Environmental Journalists' Annual Conference in Roanoke, Virginia, last week. WIth nearly all the world's governments, relevant science organizations, and a torrent of peer-reviewed research converging on a picture of climate change already taking hold, Pachauri delivered a mixed message of alarm and hope.
There's still time, he said, but not much. The whirlwind of financial news - nearly all of it bad - in the past few weeks could mean a sharp turn away from the potential investments needed to alter our energy economy, he said. Even a two-year stall in reversing greenhouse emissions could threaten our ability to pull the world out of a worsening greenhouse situation within the next decade - the critical time for action, he said.
Pachauri welcomed the U.S. presidential candidates' attention to climate. John McCain was one of the first U.S. Senators, along with Joe Lieberman, to introduce legislation to cap greenhouse gas emissions (the legislation never passed, however). McCain has called for a 60% cut in U.S. greenhouse emissions by mid-century; Barack Obama has set a target of 80% by 2050.
With a diplomatic phrase and a bit of a smirk, Pachauri insisted that he didn't "want to name countries" that had slowed progress in reaching global climate agreements, but it was clear to all in the room that he was fingering the U.S. and the Bush Administration. He acknowledged that even if the Developed World made strides in reining in greenhouse emissions, the aspirations of China, India, and much of the Developing World could more than offset the gains as those countries increase their standard of living via a fossil fuel economy.
Pachauri also offered a glimpse of his day job as Director General of the Energy and Resources Institute in New Delhi. It's a non-profit dedicated to bringing solar and other non-fossil forms of energy to some of the hundreds of millions of Indians desperate to improve their standard of living without impacting their - and our - climate further.
–Peter Dykstra Executive Producer, CNN Science, Tech & Weather
Larian LeQuella October 20th, 2008 1:12 pm ET
I find it ironic that a gathering of scientists trying to effect policy met in the US. The US has turned into about as backwater a scientific wasteland, and home to anti-intellectualism as you can, and still retain indoor plumbing and electricity. Okay, that may be overstating it a bit, but unless we take an understanding of the world around us more seriously, we are pretty much doomed as a species.
Alex October 20th, 2008 1:41 pm ET
If the new president really carried through on energy independence within the first 100 days, with an emphasis on wind and solar... oh who am I kidding? Get ready to bake, world!
Franko October 20th, 2008 2:09 pm ET
Bad drives out the good.
Al Gore the Nobel Climatist; What next ?
Nobel Prize for IPCC's Pachauri ??
NASA Climate Dogma Deparment, Hansen, also in line ?
Then come those, who propose 50% population extermination.
Knock on your door, middle of the night,
Climatist, with a Nobel sharpened knife.
Derek October 20th, 2008 2:45 pm ET
Larian, I don't think you're overstating it much. Intellectuals are hard to come by these days, especially where I live. This is not to insult anyone, but to be honest, if I try to have a conversation with someone on a particular academic topic, they quickly bore and then accuse me of "having no life." What a laughable statement! I'm sorry, I did not know that my interest in our economic policies meant I had no life. I shall refrain to talking merely about superficial things such as, "that ridiculously huge eight-pointer buck you killed last hunting season with your muzzleloader."
Derek, where do you live? I'm in the Panhandle of Florida. My wife and I were discussing the "intellectual wasteland" that the AF placed us in. Don't get me wrong, the beaches here are beautiful, and the protected wildlife lands are amazing, and I enjoy that tremendously, but in finding someone to have a conversation with... Well, I feel your pain. Type in my name as a URL dot com and say hello. 🙂
"Energy Choices For A Carbon Constrained World"
Carbon, CO2 are not dangerous greenhouse poisions.
Reduce CO2, plants suffer, people starve and die.
Nobel Peace Prize fo Osama next, After all, Arafat got one.
Route to Peace is Death. A quiet, peaceful, Nobel Prize approved grave yard.
Wisdom October 20th, 2008 3:57 pm ET
1950... Nuclear Holocaust
1960... Food runs out by 1984
1970... Global Cooling
1980... HIV will end mankind
1990... The Ozone
2000... Global Warming (guess we fixed the problem on the 70s)
2010... You pick... the next end of life is up for grabs...
I can't believe I've lived through so much doom... must be a lucky man
NotSmartEnoughToLiveWithLarianLeQuell October 20th, 2008 6:05 pm ET
You know what really scares the hell out of me, a free society trying to operate without a free press.
Press organizations with political, environmental or religious tinges are the beginning of the end. We must act quickly before it’s too late!! Please, please, stop talking to environmental journalists. They have been found to cause the majority of greenhouse gas emissions….
I'm sick and tired of being at deaths door, someone please drive their SUV those last few miles to put us past the point of no return.
PLEASE!!!!!!!!
For the love of the planet please make the pain of listening to these guys stop....
Dear Journalists of the Green Cult
I have prepared as instructed. I have purchased those Nike sneakers and I'm awaiting delivery by thos aliens in the comet.
I havent opened that container of CoolAid you sent me when I signed up. I'm awaiting just the right time to quench my thirst.
S Callahan October 20th, 2008 8:17 pm ET
I have faith in man to help this planet....perhaps engaging in conversation with others on the topic may stimulate 'intellect' or even inform those 'that don't know'.
I also know that if O'b'ama is elected that the USA will be pro energy efficency, and his adminstration will be an advocate of the land, water, and science programs (yeah for NASA! ).
I think the next few years are going to be more considerate of this planet.....the earth demands it.. I side with HOPE.
Franko October 20th, 2008 11:09 pm ET
Significance of Global Warming (CO2 doubling is only 0.24°C)
http://landshape.org/enm/significance-of-global-warming/
Mirage of coming catasrophe; Gone with the wind; Swept away by convection
Cannot cook a pizza pie, when the oven door is open, convecting (T^4)
But now, a Nobel Prize, for an IPCC bogyman, never even a pizza chef.
Erin October 21st, 2008 12:33 am ET
Perhaps he needs to be a little more forthright with uncomfortable facts for the developing world, like the fact that China ADDS France's TOTAL CO2 output to China's total each and every year. If this is not addressed, then it doesn't matter. Why should the USA or anybody else transfer wealth to the developing world when global warming will happen anyway, due to this inconvenient truth I mentioned.
John, Virginia October 21st, 2008 7:50 am ET
But all of the current scientific evidence depicts global cooling (related to sunspots or lack there of), so climate change can go either way. It is too bad when our scientists prostitute themselves for fame (and research money) rather than dealing with evidence and the scientific method. Academic integrity has replaced military intelligence as the oxymoron of our time.
Franko October 21st, 2008 9:54 am ET
"Aristotle was ordered to drink hemlock"
Things have improved through the ages;
Feel the cold, Disagree with the warm Godma, and get your rice bowl broken
Luboš Motl; "I would answer that it is a big scale organized crime."
Alan J Goldstein October 21st, 2008 10:07 am ET
It's a fiction that global cooling was predicted in the 70s.
7 articles predicting cooling
44 predicting warming
20 that were neutral
In other words, during the 1970s, when some would have you believe scientists were predicting a coming ice age, they were doing no such thing. The dominant view, even then, was that increasing levels of greenhouse gases were likely to dominate any changes we might see in climate on human time scales.
Daniel M October 21st, 2008 10:27 am ET
It amazes me how many foolish people feel that learning to conserve and respect the environment is a challenge to their "freedom" and feel that scientists are lying to them. I have a simple experiment you can do to understand what we are being warned about and for. Take a cup of coffee, tea, what ever you like to drink, let it get moldy, and then a the mold uses up all of the material that it can for food, its waste gradually polutes the base and it dies off. This is a small version of a closed ecosystem. 6 bilion people, only so much water and coastline. How many closed beaches and toxified lakes and rivers do you need to wake up?
James in Nebraska October 21st, 2008 12:56 pm ET
I have to agree with Daniel. There are those that really lash out when "green" is mentioned. It don't take much for someone to help out either. If all you do is recycle your common items, or use a few less plastic bags, or whatever, it makes a big difference. And it really isn't that hard to do. Unless you don't have a recycling center nearby.
Some might think that it's to small of a thing to help. But, what if 1 million people used 1 less plastic bag a day, or an additional 1 million households recycled there milk jugs, plastic bottles? I don't know, maybe it isn't much, but it seems like a big help to me.
Rick October 21st, 2008 1:16 pm ET
Some very interesting thought in here, good to see there are still some thinkers on this rock, except for Franko.
Franko October 21st, 2008 5:55 pm ET
"Czech prez: Environmentalism is new communism"
This guy may be just a solar panel peddler, for now – given a chance ?
Hiltler seemed insignificant, got elected, then killed by the millions.
But the champion Eco Exterminator was a commie -*- Stalin -*-
Militant environmentalists, trying to keep quiet .– But an occasional slip
Joyce Y October 22nd, 2008 9:59 am ET
It's astounds me how so many can ignore and even critique climate change as a joke when so many facts pointing to the truth. Scientists devote their lives into finding a solution to this crisis – how could you think it's a lie? "Even a two-year stall in reversing greenhouse emissions could threaten our ability to pull the world out of a worsening greenhouse situation within the next decade". We have to act now. It's because of these people who refuse to face the truth that result in our slow response to this crisis.
It doesn't take a lot to be "greener". How hard is it to walk a little farther to a recycling center? How difficult is it to carpool to get to work instead of having each person driving a car for an average 16 miles? If everyone was willing to face the truth and take just a tiny step, it may be possible that we can turn away from the devastating doom we've created for ourselves.
People turn to turn away from the truth because it's often painful and uncomfortable. Face the light now.
Wisdom October 22nd, 2008 11:03 am ET
James in Nebraska
I remember changing to plastic to save the trees... you can't win for losing sometimes... although it's great to see so many blue bins out on Tuesdays in my neighborhood... years ago you didn't see people trying to recycle... it's pretty common now which it a great thing.
Alan J Goldstein
The articles may be true... however I remember the 70's and don't ever recall global warming... just cooling... Carl Sagen saying that and how wonderful Venus must be... just like Earth... we live and learn. Although I should note that cooling could be a result of warming should enough surface be covered with water... reflecting sunlight, etc... so I would guess that both answers are correct given that possibility... my mind is open on the subject... even to the point of naturual cycles as we've experienced mass climate change on the planet prior to mans ability to impact it. However... I agree that our impact isn't a positive one... no matter the degree.
Franko October 22nd, 2008 11:32 am ET
"I agree that our impact isn’t a positive one… no matter the degree"
Plus or minus, Fahrenheit or Kelvin, Pint or slug, by any other measure
Guilty are US, for being alive ?
Our Wisdom, our only hope, also broken down by the EcoPropaganda ?
Gaia, not just a theory, but skill and wisdom in adaptation !
World revolves around US,
Not a seaquake deafened Whale in the wrong Shipping Lane.
Wisdom October 22nd, 2008 1:40 pm ET
Franko...
Can't say I disagree on a lot of that...
Guilty are US, for being alive?... in some eyes sadly true... not in mine
SS October 22nd, 2008 2:55 pm ET
Alan J Goldstein-
How do you know the exact number of those articles? Where did you get that information? Can you provide a RELIABLE source?
When stating such information you should also give the source.
"Guilty are US, for being alive ?"
What a great question!!
Relativist October 22nd, 2008 10:21 pm ET
You puny humans are but a blink of an eye on the planetary clock, so stop worrying so much and enjoy the ride, however brief it may be.
dontcare October 23rd, 2008 3:54 am ET
Honestly, we deserve what we get. Considering how spiteful, greedy, and dishonest most of the world is, it's probably good that we get kicked in the pants. We'll either learn from it or die.
Anyone ever considered human population as the cause of increased global warming? After all, we're just walking gas exchangers.
Franko October 23rd, 2008 10:19 pm ET
"cause of increased global warming? "
Ken Gregory; "Significance of Global Warming"
http://landshape.org/enm/significance-of-global-warming/#comment-173229
Basic physics, new equations and calculations.
Human Global Footprint, not found ?
The smoggy heat island of the city,
Temperature swept away, gone with the convection.
James Tracy October 28th, 2008 6:46 am ET
Purepowercorp.com can cut all emissions, and more. Please look and consider the possibilities.
Franko October 30th, 2008 3:41 am ET
"Pure Power Inc. is looking for partners to build the Oxygen Scrubbing technology. There is a $1 million buyin,"
The oxygen really needs a good scrubbing, not only to the molecule, but also to each atom; to purify. O16 is preferred by the Nepharin, coming on Planet Niburu 2012
The Nepharin ran out of Live Human Sushi, drooling, salivating, If you buy in at the minimum $10^6 - Pure Power Inc will issue a genuine, Do Not Eat Me Tshirt. Save the Earth, Save Yourself. Be a friend to the extinction threatened Nepharin.
As a sign of things to come; Wall street had a Dead Nepharin Bounce
kim October 30th, 2008 4:35 am ET
Franko, for God's sake, get some help! Some of these responders are posturing in defense of their own fragile pseudo-intellectualism by agreeing with you. Or, maybe they really just don't realize how disturbed you really are because you sound kind of smart. Either way, they are not helping your psychosis by supplying you with positive feedback. Darlin', you need to turn off the computer and walk around the block in some cold, fresh air. Since we are all doomed anyway, try to smell some roses or pet a furry animal while you are out there. Also, you might have a vitamin deficiency. Check it out and get better. I'm pulling for you. Go, green!
"Franko, for God’s sake, get some help! "
You are very perceptive; I took your advice - 2 multivitamin tablets with minerals. Found a bottle of long forgotten Chromium GTF, 500mcg tablets; took 2. Now my brain cells are stronger than Tony Starks'
Just cannot afford to scrub my O2;
"Oxygen Scrubbing technology. There is a $1 million buyin"
So, I will just keep developing my Chromium Man suit !
Nepharin choke, throw up, not salivate, at the thought of Chromium
winie Spencer November 6th, 2008 9:33 am ET
Its awsom that an African American slated to become PRESIDENT of the United States of America. I believe this is by DEVINE INTERVENTION.
Another thing that perhaps you can look forward seeing accomplished by DEVINE INTERVENTION is this:
A Person of Colour DISCOVERS the
1. The CURE for the Common cold, and/or the CURE for the FLU
November 6th, 2008 9:33 am ET
Its awsom that an African American BORAK OBAMA, is selected to become PRESIDENT of the United States of America. I believe this is by DEVINE INTERVENTION.
Other things that perhaps you can look forward seeing accomplished by DEVINE INTERVENTION are these:
A Person of Colour DISCOVERS at least one of the following
VIRUS (within 6 months to one year)
2. A CURE for ASTHMA (within 6 months to one year)
4. A CURE for ALCOHOL INTOXICATION-
i.e. the IMMEDIATE REVERSAL OF ALCOHOL INTOXICATION,
so that there may be no more such thing as 'Drinking and driving" and so there will be a significantly decrease in drunk driving, and fatal traffic accidents, since after people have consumed as much alcohol as they want to, they would then be able to purchase this concoction either in the form of a tablet, a candy, an herbal drink, a capsule, etc, and immediately, and consume it, and immediately after, the ALL or MOST of the alcohol will be METABOLIZED from the blood stream including being metabolized from the blood vessels in the brain cells. (no bulls)
3. A CURE for CANCER (no bulls)
and finally................
4. A CURE for the HIV virus and the AIDS disease (about 1 to 2 years down the road)
Franko November 9th, 2008 7:14 am ET
winie Spencer
"1. The CURE for the Common cold,...
2. A CURE for ASTHMA ...
4. A CURE for ALCOHOL INTOXICATION-...
3. A CURE for CANCER (no bulls)...
4. A CURE for the HIV virus and the AIDS "
How will the Greenie Fascist Killers gonna keep up ?
So many need to be culled, to cure Earth from the disease, Humanity
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First Look: Colnago’s New C64
Ernesto Colnago re-imagines his bike that made history
By: Zap
Over the course of three decades since the first model appeared, Ernesto Colnago’s C-series of carbon bikes have remained among the most prestigious of all high-end Italian bikes for two reasons. It’s not because they are the lightest. It’s not because they’ve won the most races. It’s not because they’re the most expensive. It’s because of the name on the downtube and where they are made. Simply put, both Ernesto Colnago and the carbon bikes made at his factory are the greatest living testament to the way things used to be.
Where it all began…the venerable C series of carbon bikes started in 1994 when the C40 was rolled-out.
Recently a handful of journos were invited out to Tucson, Arizona for a quick intro of a new Colnago. Could it be a gravel bike? Nope. It was the latest incarnation of the vaunted C series of carbon bike that are still individually handmade in the small factory which resides in the basement of la casa Colnago in Cambiago, Italy.
THE NEW C64
No, this is not a ground-up re-design of the C60, but a revised version to pay tribute the brand’s glorious past – Ernesto’s 64 years in the business – as well as current trends like wheel clearance for bigger (albeit only 28mm) tires. Signature aspects like the star-shaped lugs accompany tips to modernity like the aero influenced seatpost from their V2r aero bike.
The name says it all…priced around $6000, the C64 is one of the rare bikes that can be seen less as an expenditure and more of an investment .
The rim brake version of the C64 will be dedicated to dual-mount brakes. The disc brake model to come will be dedicated to flat mount brakes.
The fork length was increased by 5mm to accommodate larger 28mm tires, yet it still has a hollow upper structure to lower the weight while maintaining the same stiffness and performance of the C60 fork.
Both the rim brake and disc brake models still run a seatstay bridge.
Colnago has long defied the industry-wide move to stocking fewer frame sizes. The C64 will be available in nine different sloping sizes with five different “high-stack” headtube lengths. (Yes, the days of riding a Colnago with a horizontal top tube are over).
It’s never a bad day to be “stuck” riding a homegrown Colnago outfitted with a full Campagnolo Super Record drivetrain and Bora tubular wheels.
Although the frame looks similar to the C60, it has lost upwards of 200 grams by virtue of re-engineered tubes and lugs. The seattube and and BB are now one piece.
The C64 has lost the traditional round seatpost and now uses one that shares the aero shape from the V1-r. The standard post has 15mm of setback with 0mm and 30mm options.
We only got to ride the C64 for just over 50 miles so I won’t pretend to offer any all-encompassing critique of the ride. Yes, at just under 15 pounds and rolling on Vittoria tubulars, it was a sweet ride with all the handling traits you’d imagine a bike designed by Ernesto Colnago to exhibit, but we’re looking forward to getting test bike for our own roads before passing judgement.
For more info: Colnago Bicycles
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Outrunning COVID-19 twice
Editor’s note: Our writer Rita’s journey from China to the U.S. and back again was planned months before the coronavirus pandemic descended on the world. That descent ended up turning a simple trip home into a kind of epic journey. The changes in her location — which we reference, but do not dwell on, to help anchor the story — gave her a unique perspective on the changing landscape — and outlook — of the world as COVID-19 infections spread. We’re publishing a diary of that period here in part to relay some of that first-person perspective to you, our readers. It goes without saying, but the tech angles run throughout, as they are running throughout all of our lives right now (whether or not we “work” in tech). Apps connect us more than ever at a time when we can’t physically be together, and they are now a critical lever in getting things done. Governments scramble to use tech to track what’s happening — although surprisingly even what we think of as the most totalitarian efforts fall short in a crisis. And at the end of the day, the internet is where all our information is coming from. (IL)
On the night of March 13, before my flight from Philadelphia back to China, my Airbnb host stopped by my room to say goodbye. I was squeezing a stack of masks and a few bottles of hand sanitizer into my suitcase. They were the remaining stock of coronavirus protective items that I panic-bought in early February as soon as I landed in the U.S. As China’s production picked up speed, I gave away most of my supplies — which I had planned to bring back to my family in China — to friends and relatives in the U.S.
I had also asked my host, a slender, high-spirited botanist in her early fifties, whether she needed any supplies when I arrived at her house in early March. She gave a relaxed smile and said she wasn’t worried. There had barely been any cases in Philly, so there was no need. Plus, she had never worn a mask.
“People think you’re sick if you wear one,” she refused politely. “Why do people in Asia wear them?”
I explained that there’s a big debate on whether masks were necessary for the public. The consensus was that they were effective at preventing the transmission of COVID-19. Health officials in the West had for long recommended them only for patients or someone in contact with those who were sick, though the U.S. has recently moved to suggest mask-wearing for everyone in public.
In Asia, however, mask-wearing was a cultural norm even before the COVID-19 outbreak. Given the disease’s incubation period could be as long as 27 days, which meant many people could be unwitting carriers, wearing masks became an act of solidarity to protect others. Chinese cities had early on mandated mask-wearing in public. For me, they worked both as a placebo and a reminder not to touch my face.
Within a week’s time, the disease had advanced rapidly across the U.S., adding dozens of new cases in Philadelphia. All large events were suspended, and my host suffered from a handful of canceled stays.
I decided to ask her again whether she wanted any protective products. “Yes, that’d be great. I don’t have any sanitizers with me. No masks, either.” Her eyes lit up this time. “But how do you wear one?”
I handed her the items and realized that I was about to flee coronavirus for the second time. When I planned my visit to the U.S. a few months back, I had not the faintest idea it would spiral into two great escapes: first leaving China where the disease just began to spread, and later leaving the U.S., where a similar crisis was taking form.
Weeks 1-2: Fears in parallel worlds
I was getting restless when I left for the U.S. some 50 days ago. Objectively speaking, my chances of contracting COVID-19 were slim. I was previously in lightly-hit cities like Taipei (which was an early mover in putting effective controls in place). And 99% of the passengers on my flight departing Hong Kong had masks on. But the sum of uncertain events triggered by the epidemic — from abrupt changes in border controls to canceled flights without notice — elevated my anxiety.
Things felt uncannily normal in Texas when I arrived. It was three weeks before the U.S. reported its first community transmission in late February. None of the screening I anticipated was present at immigration: no temperature checks or even questioning if I had been in Wuhan, the Chinese city where the first coronavirus case appeared. I felt relieved and immediately chucked the mask I had worn on the plane. “It’s safe here,” I thought to myself, seeking solace in the sight of the bare-faced crowd, even though I knew my decision was largely prompted by the prejudice against masks in this part of the world.
My relaxation was short-lived. In fact, I would live the next eight weeks swinging between reason and paranoia.
The relatives and friends with whom I had planned to stay could no longer host me. Their employers, both of Asian descent, had introduced a new 14-day self-quarantine rule on staff who came into contact with visitors from China, even though Texas had no such regulation.
Cleaning supplies at a Costco in Plano, Texas, were out of stock in early March when the entire state had just one COVID-19 case. The area has a sizable Asian population. / Photo: TechCrunch
Technically, I could roam free, but fears among the local Chinese community were too visible. The digital tools that kept the diaspora emotionally close to home also distanced them from their physical reality abroad. Consuming a flood of fearmongering posts on WeChat, many Chinese expatriates began hoarding household products long before the U.S. saw an outbreak. Chinatowns became ghost towns. My mother was shocked to learn only Asians were wearing masks and messaged me daily saying I should wear one and avoid crowds.
I followed only the latter advice — avoiding crowds — and voluntarily opted for 14-day social distancing, not because I was scared of getting infected but because I was paranoid about passing it onto others asymptomatically. My compulsive information seeking in hopes of better understanding the epidemic only reinforced my angst. No silence I had dealt with felt as unbearable as the isolation amid the immense uncertainties that coronavirus brought to all of humanity.
Weeks 2-5: Coming to terms
When I finally allowed myself to resume socializing two weeks later, I would, out of courtesy, disclose to people that I had recently been in China. The reactions I received were a mixed bag.
Most of my American friends expressed sympathy for China’s situation and were pleased I was in a safer place. A local dentist refused to see me until 21 days later — then the longest time for a patient to display COVID-19 symptoms — because he lived with someone who was frail. Some Chinese friends living in the U.S. jokingly congratulated me on my escape from the plague, which wasn’t my intention, but I admitted I was lucky. A fifty-something Chinese acquaintance avoided shaking my hand and gingerly asked how long I had been in the U.S.
I tried not to be bothered by people’s hint of mistrust. After all, their response was driven by the human instinct to survive. Trust had also eroded with the spread of the epidemic in China, where neighbors avoided conversations and a person’s sneeze in the elevator would make others cringe. Though understandable, these small shifts in behavior could take a toll on social interaction and people’s mental health in the long run.
By then, I knew I probably had a clean bill of health. It helped that Texas was run on wheels and I could easily practice social distancing walking on empty, tree-lined streets. As my mind restored to peace, and I moved to Philadelphia for the second part of my U.S. trip, I began to devour the expanding trove of Chinese-language writings on the disease; they were perhaps one silver lining behind the dark virus cloud.
Trapped indoors, Chinese people were forced to contemplate difficult questions — though sometimes leading to unintended consequences, like a rise in divorce cases. The unusual level of civic engagement and discussion sparked by the crisis provided some consolation. Stories of ordinary people fighting illness were vividly told by institutional and citizen journalists. The death of whistleblower Li Wenliang set off an unprecedented amount of anger on the internet. Another enthralling moment came when internet users rushed to preserve a censored interview using coded text.
The unusual, collective outcry against Chinese authorities soon gave way to a fragmented digital world. As China’s heavy-handed lockdown began to bear meaningful results, online users rushed to trumpet the country’s contingency plan. Others submerged in the more mindless activities of mobile gaming and video streaming to pass time. Meanwhile, schools and businesses moved to resume digitally with IT support touted by private tech firms.
Food delivery staff of China’s Meituan worked through the COVID-19 crisis to sustain society’s lifeblood. / Photo: Meituan
The offline world in China was also inching back to normalcy. Physical shops were allowed to reopen and restrictions on movement were being eased nationwide. People increasingly ventured out of their homes, taking masks off to sneak sips of fresh air when guards were out of sight.
For others, the daily routine hadn’t changed much, though life had become more precarious. While it was easy for high-earning professionals to attend virtual meetings and celebrate the remote working boom, those working in services, manufacturing and logistics had not been able to stay home but worked round the clock to sustain society’s lifeblood. They were also unlikely to have paid leave and many lacked employer-provided health insurance. As it turned out, this is just one manifestation of disparity exposed by the health crisis.
Week 6: The price of seeking safety
I knew China was on the horizon as soon as I arrived at my flight’s departure gate. The crowd was uniformly wearing some kind of a face protector. I hadn’t put one on yet. I had been adjusted to a maskless environment for weeks by then and it didn’t seem necessary to wear one during the layover in Chicago, where I cautiously kept a distance from others. There were barely any masked travelers at the airport other than the passengers en route to Hong Kong and Mainland China.
I put on one nonetheless in the spirit of solidarity. But others’ ammunition of protective equipment immediately put me to shame. Many donned surgical gloves, some in lab goggles and even plastic rain ponchos, disinfecting any surface their bodies touched. Drinking water with my mask dangling off one ear now felt transgressive, not to mention I broke a taboo by having in-flight meals.
More than impressed by people’s precautions, I was intrigued by the discrepancy in their access to masks. Paying exorbitant prices could secure the robust but scant N95 respirators. Most had the less expensive surgical masks, but even those became hard to find without connections to a supplier. A few wore the dubious varieties like the sponge mask, the washable cartoon cloth mask (I wore a Hello Kitty one to my elementary school during the 2002 SARS epidemic) and even DIY ones like a fashionable shawl.
Flights also became a microcosm of the disparity in protection: first-class cabin passengers were seated at a supposedly safe distance from one another, while the elbow-to-elbow economy travelers fretted the risk of flying amid an outbreak would outweigh the benefit of returning to what they perceived as a safer country.
Even getting a seat on the plane was a privilege. While airlines were suffering overall due to travel bans, demand could surge temporarily around major policy shifts. Following the WHO’s declaration that COVID-19 was a global pandemic, schools around the world moved classes online and shut dorms, prompting international students to go home. Flight tickets skyrocketed. Those who wanted to go home but couldn’t afford the price were stranded.
Week 7: Battling uncertainties
Health checks at a border checkpoint in China to prevent COVID-19 being brought back to the country. / Photo: TechCrunch
While our plane was traveling across the globe, my home city of Shenzhen announced expanded compulsory quarantine for arrivals from four to eight countries — adding the U.S. to the list — in an effort to contain imported cases as the epicenter of COVID-19 shifted overseas.
At 8 PM, the Shenzhen customs checkpoint resembled a hospital waiting room with a barely moving queue a few hundred meters long. Screenings were underway to detect coronavirus cases. The updated policy had not been officially announced, and many travelers were still expecting their family on the other side of the border. Impatience and confusion filled a hall that was lit by nauseating fluorescent lights. Will everyone be tested for the virus at the border or later at a quarantine base? Will foreigners receive the test for free? Will people have to pay for the quarantine?
Even the immigration staffers had few details. China’s containment measures were in flux just like the spread of the virus. The flood of inbound returnees was quickly squeezing the country’s medical resources and filling budget hotels repurposed as quarantine facilities.
At 1 AM, I was finally called upon for a temperature check. I filled out a dozen forms asking similar questions about my travel history and health condition, each going to a different government agency. I wondered why, with China’s alleged technological prowess, this grunt work hadn’t been digitized or streamlined. Are resources for public monitoring going into other areas the government prioritizes?
I felt exhausted, but not more than the customs officer examining me, who had been toiling away for more than 12 hours. Despite having full-body protection, he was unaware his mask had slid beneath his nose.
“When do you get to go home?” I asked. “Who knows? There are so many of you coming back. China can’t afford another outbreak. We have no choice but to work,” he said nonchalantly.
Once my paperwork was sorted, I proceeded to cross the border. China immediately welcomed me with a text message, reminding me to register with the public security bureau as location data from my telecoms carrier showed I had recently been in “epidemic-stricken” America. The virus outbreak was giving Beijing more reason to monitor individuals. The question was why, given the government already commanded abundant citizen data, it seemed to have struggled in their early efforts to track people traveling from Wuhan.
As @thisboyuan reminds me, that the gov’t is scrambling to track people’s movement during the epidemic shows what Beijing has put in place for a national surveillance system still has considerable limitations
— Rita Liao (@ritacyliao) February 12, 2020
I was placed in a group of 20 travelers, most of whom were overseas Chinese students, to wait for the shuttle that would take us to the quarantine hotel. We bonded quickly by grumbling about the surreal eight-hour border crossing, but no one was actually angry. Instead, there was an outpouring of genuine gratitude for front-line health and immigration workers.
Famished, one of us volunteered to put everyone in a WeChat group so we could order food delivery together. The WeChat group, aptly named “3.14 Quarantine”, turned out to be useful for trading information and supporting each other through the erratic quarantine period. A street-sweeping truck was humming at a distance. The clock struck 4 AM as our bus pulled up in front of the hotel.
Travelers arrived at a hotel in Shenzhen that had been repurposed as a quarantine base. / Photo: TechCrunch
Week 8: Embracing chaos
Adjusting to the Chinese time zone became virtually impossible as my day confined to the hotel room was punctuated by a string of sporadic events: temperature checks, meal deliveries, nucleic acid tests, phone calls from various government agencies and transfers to new quarantine locations. One night, we were given half an hour to pack up and get on a bus that took us to the edge of Shenzhen. There we underwent a virus-detecting test, only to be transported back eight hours later, at 3 a.m., to another hotel in the same area we had previously stayed.
My quarantine peers were growing impatient with the unpredictable circumstances and began calling any relevant phone number they could find. As we shared in our WeChat group snippets of information we had collected from hotel staff, local officials, relatives and friends, something became clear: The quarantine system was the result of mass mobilization and complex coordination between public and private organizations, ranging from health workers and the Communist Party’s base-level administrative organ (called neighborhood committees) through to government-subsidized hotels and residential complexes.
When policymakers imposed frequent changes, the players implementing them on the ground often ended up scrambling, leading to miscommunication and such counterproductive measures as shuffling us around in crowded buses. They were briefed only on their part of the job rather than the entire process, which remained opaque, so getting close to policymaking power was critical. Calling a relative who worked in the disease control department was probably more useful than asking a hotel staffer. Personal ties seemed to matter even more in China when one sought control in times of uncertainty.
Some of us with insider information learned how to game the system. Before being dispatched to quarantine bases, we had to self-report our household address, for each district government was in charge of quarantining its own returning residents. The more deep-pocketed district normally provided higher-standard lodging and food, a piece of information precious to desperate individuals fighting for marginally better treatment.
I fall into the camp of people embracing chaos, as trying to stay informed and in control over continually updated guidance from above could quickly make me cross the line into anxiety.
There is already an abundance of self-care tips floating around, but having outrun the coronavirus twice, I could at least attest to their efficacy: Pare down your information sources to one or two trustworthy outlets; stay physically active; call people; keep a sense of humor; take deep breaths and perhaps spare some time for a mindfulness talk. It’s better to reserve grit for any long-term changes caused by COVID-19, which are looking increasingly likely.
On the afternoon of March 29, staff from my neighborhood committee came knocking on my door. Clad in blue hazmat suits, they gave me a final temperature check and granted me a piece of paper declaring my completion of the quarantine. I immediately put on a mask and went downstairs.
Things seemed intact at first glance, but a closer look revealed subtle but long-lasting changes since I had left two months prior.
Everyone was wearing a mask — even drivers alone in their cars. Premises had temperature checks and sanitizers at the entrances. Many small restaurants looked deserted; the ones back in business had more food deliverymen waiting about than people dining in. War-like propaganda posters dotted the street, reminding people that the battle against the plague wasn’t over. The world would never be quite the same.
#COVID-19 #Asia #China #TC #Coronavirus
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Utah Humanities Council (Salt Lake City, UT 84103-1108)
Cynthia Buckingham (Project Director: May 2009 to January 2014)
We the People in Utah
Funding will support grant projects that explore significant historical themes and events in American history; history topics of the Council's speakers bureau; the participation of historians in the annual book festival; Utah's National History Day; a collaboration with the Utah Division of State History for expansion of the community history initiative, including a website; weekly public radio broadcasts; and a statewide museum interpretation initiative for interpretive exhibits.
UHC proposes a diverse array of We the People activities to serve the entire state of Utah, including: 1) a Request For Proposals for regrant projects exploring significant historical themes and events; 2) history topics for UHC's Public Square speakers bureau; 3) historians presenting at the fall 2009 Utah Humanities Book Festival; 4) Utah History Fair for 4th-12th grade students during the 2009-2010 school year; 5) a collaborative community history initiative with the Utah Division of State History; 6) "Beehive Archive" weekly statewide public radio broadcast; 7) a collaborative Museum Interpretation Initiative with the Office of Museum Services and Utah Museums Association for interpretive exhibits. All of these activities are designed to explore significant events and themes in American history and culture and/or to advance knowledge of the principles that define America.
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Optimizing OPC connections with the DataHub
In 2005 the Sultanate of Oman issued a Royal Decree to develop the giant Mukhaizna oil field covering a vast expanse of desert in the center and south of the country. A major worldwide producer of oil, natural gas, and chemicals was given responsibility for developing the Mukhaizna field, and from 2005 to 2008 oil recovery rates were increased by more than 600% through the use of a steam-assisted gravity drainage process. As each year goes by, the company makes every effort to continuously upgrade technology and improve productivity of the field.
Eight separate production facilities in the Mukhaizna oil field are using Rockwell PLCs, linked to Iconics HMI/SCADA systems for data visualization and operator control. This data collection and distribution mechanism worked well when first implemented, but as the number of data points increased over time it became clear to the project engineers that they needed a way to improve performance. So they began to look for a way to streamline the data flow. The solution they found not only performed well, but it created other, significant opportunities for real-time data integration.
At each of the eight locations, Rockwell PLCs are connected to an Iconics Genesis32 HMI through an OPC server. The TOP Server OPC server from Software Toolbox (Cogent’s Sales and Technical Partner) gathers data from as many as 20 PLCs, and feeds that to the HMI. As new equipment was brought online, the number of tags in the system approached 30,000, which is normally not a problem for TOP Server. But something was clearly different with this system and it became apparent that some sort of optimization was necessary.
The problem was that the HMI was forcing the TOP Server to make device reads, which bypassed TOP Server’s optimization at the device level. Device reads by an OPC client are intended to cause the OPC server to get the information and reply back to the OPC client before doing anything else. While these types of calls are useful in critical situations, all communication optimization has to be done through full system design. The HMI was also requesting updates on groups of OPC tags as it needed them, but these groups were often in a different logical order than how the data points were represented on the PLC. The combined effect was forcing the TOP Server to make more requests for smaller amounts of data, slowing the data-gathering process.
“The OPC server seemed to be dying under the load,” said Juan Munoz, Project Manager for the Mukhaizna oil field project. “Even at rates as low as once per second, it was difficult to scan 30,000 tags, and get the critical data changes that we needed.” Based on his experience with the TOP Server in other projects, Mr. Munoz knew the server itself was not the issue, so he searched the Software Toolbox website for a solution and found the Cogent DataHub®.
The DataHub, developed by Cogent Real-Time Systems (a subsidiary of Skkynet), is a highly optimized data integration tool. It is a memory resident real-time database that provides quick, reliable and secure access to valuable process data and makes it available to other production and management systems, database archives, and remote clients.
Once he started configuring the DataHub, Mr. Munoz soon realized how it could solve his data flow problem. Acting as an OPC client to TOP Server, the DataHub can request data based on tag value changes (referred to as “asynchronous advise”). This means that instead of 30,000 tags per second, TOP Server only sends data for a tag when it changes value. It is free to poll the devices in the most efficient way, always keeping the DataHub up to date with the latest data values. The DataHub keeps all the latest tag values in memory, and can efficiently send them to the HMI on each poll.
“The DataHub effectively decouples the OPC server from the client,” said Mr. Munoz. “All the load is on the DataHub’s shoulders now, and the performance is much better.” The TOP Server is now free to optimize the communications to the device while the DataHub protects it from device reads. This has relieved the company from having to redesign their HMI and PLC configurations from the ground up, saving them tens of thousands of dollars in engineering and development work.
When he was satisfied with the results at the first location, Mr. Munoz began installing the DataHub at the seven other facilities. He experienced a similar performance boost, and at the same time created a new data integration opportunity. He now had most of the pieces in place to bring all of the live production data to a central location, using OPC tunnelling.
OPC tunnelling
OPC tunnelling is a reliable and secure way to connect OPC servers and clients over a network. OPC DA uses DCOM for networking, which is difficult to configure, does not respond well to network breaks, and can pose significant security risks. The DataHub mirrors data from OPC servers and clients over TCP, which is a more robust protocol for networking.
To implement OPC tunnelling, Mr. Munoz installed another DataHub on a Windows server at the Mukhaizna oil field central office. After configuring tunnelling connections between that DataHub and the remote DataHubs, he was able to access the data from all eight field locations as a single, common data set, without putting any more load on his control system. This data could now be logged and shared at the management level of the company.
Using the DataHub’s database interface, Mr. Munoz configured connections to OSIsoft PI and SQL Server databases, to record production data at the remote sites and at the central office. Historical records and reports are now available through standard tools such as SQL and Crystal Reports. Mr. Munoz also configured an OPC connection from the central DataHub to an Iconics Web HMI to give managers access to the live data from all of the eight field sites. Operators, on the other hand, continue to control the processes from the HMIs running at the remote locations.
Among the critical information that operators and management need to monitor is the available memory and status of programs running at each field location. The company was able to achieve this by configuring the DataHub’s System Monitor feature, which allowed Mr. Munoz to add points that monitor the available computer memory and status of the OPC server running at each remote location. This data is accessed locally by operators, and is also tunnelled back to the central DataHub, so it can be viewed by users of the Web HMI on the management network.
“The DataHub is very easy to use,” said Mr. Munoz. “In fact, at a recent training session we showed some other people at the company what we are doing, and they are very impressed.”
The most recent project that Mr. Munoz has decided to tackle with the DataHub is to implement redundancy. To provide increased availability, the company has installed an additional OPC server at some locations. Working with Win Worrall, Product Support Engineer and Developer at Software Toolbox, Mr. Munoz has implemented redundancy in the DataHub to monitor the quality of the data coming from the local OPC server.
If the quality of an indicator changes to “Bad” or “Not Connected” on the primary OPC server, DataHub immediately switches to the redundant OPC server and continues collecting data from there. Although this is currently undergoing testing before being implemented in the production facility, Mr. Munoz reports that there is no data loss during the switchover, and that the performance is very reliable.
To gain maximum value from the DataHub, Mr. Munoz has developed a working knowledge of the DataHub Scripting feature. “The scripting language did take a little time to learn, but it is very useful for the types of scripts we need to use. We can develop scripts quickly now, because the language is object oriented.”
Starting with a demo script from the DataHub archive, Mr. Munoz has been able to access data from a legacy UNIX system and make it available through OPC. To access the data, Mr. Munoz wrote a DataHub script to read a CSV file every minute and write the values to points in the DataHub. Because the DataHub is also an OPC server, this allows points from the UNIX system to be presented as OPC tags to the HMI system.
“I am impressed with how quickly Juan has picked up the scripting,” said Mr. Worrall. “In fact, he’s pretty good at getting the most out of the DataHub in just about every way.” “We are very grateful to Win and the overall support from Software Toolbox on this project,” said Mr. Munoz. “We haven’t found many problems. In all aspects, the DataHub is performing very well.”
Software Toolbox and TOP Server are trademarks of Software Toolbox, Inc. Other product names, brand names and company names mentioned in this publication may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Tags: DataHub, OPC, Redundancy, Scripting, Tunnelling
Case Study: Minera San Cristobal, Bolivia – 1 Focusing on the Edge of the Industrial IoT
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Why I Hate Men Part 3: There Seems to Be A Pattern Here
Posted on September 17, 2013 September 17, 2013 by Nine Deuce
I’ve been away for awhile, and I’m a little surprised at what has been going on in my absence. People are still using porn? Seriously? Get with the program, dorks. And what’s up with all this pro-rape nonsense? Men are reacting to the proliferation of feminist discourse in popular culture by proving feminists right? Good job, idiots. Am I to understand that men’s failure to come to grips with reality and their verbally and physically violent reactions to women’s assertions of their own humanity mean that men are unfit for membership in civilized society? Surely we don’t want to go there.
As valuable as I find the recent spate of female-supremacist tracts making their way around my circle of political acquaintances (an example can be found here) in shifting the discursive framework away from the baseline assumption of male superiority, I’m not ready to release my grip on the hope that my dearly-held theory is correct: gender isn’t real, there’s no such thing as “female” or “male” behavior, social conditioning rather than biology dictates the structure of social hierarchies and ensures the perpetuation of male supremacy. But lately it’s REAL hard to avoid coming to the conclusion that there is just something wrong with men.
You see, though I’ve been absent from the ol’ blogosphere, I haven’t managed to avoid learning of the more egregious instances of recent local and international male behavior.
In the space of the past week or so, a 40-year-old man in Yemen married an eight-year-old child against her will and then raped her to death on their “wedding night;” a man in India raped a four-year-old on a bus; as many as FIFTY men in Lahore, Pakistan raped a five-year-old girl and left her in the hospital for going on six days now; and a UN study emerged that claims that one in four men in the Asia-Pacific region admits to having raped a woman or child (and lord knows how many of them have done so but would not admit to it). Forty percent of those who admit having raped claim to have done so because they “wanted to punish the victim.” Half expressed no remorse. I could go on.
But lest we fall into the trap of exoticizing sexual abuse — i.e. allowing the men in our midst to deflect attention from their own behavior by invoking the caricatured image of the depraved “Oriental” savage who sexually enslaves his women as a foil to the purported relatively gentlemanly deportment of the Western male* — let us have a look at what men have been up to closer to home. A man in Raleigh, North Carolina raped a twelve-year-old girl the other day. A New Jersey man raped a ten-year-old girl several times over the course of the last few months, threatening to murder her family if she told anyone what he had done to her. A new report indicates that the number of women in the US Navy who have been raped by men in the US Navy has increased by 50 percent in the past year. At least ten boys cheered as one of their friends recently raped a woman in Wilmington, Delaware and injured another woman with a knife. I could go on.
In recent weeks, a teacher in Laredo was busted for spreading child pornography, an Air Force master sergeant in Maryland was arrested for sexually assaulting a seven-year-old girl and a six-month-old BABY in the making of child porn, a school photographer in Florida (Florida — of course) was charged with raping a fifteen-year-old “escort” and distributing child pornography, a Virginia elementary school art teacher was arrested for possessing and distributing child pornography. I could go on.
George Zimmerman, high on impunity (which he apparently still enjoys), recently threatened his wife and her father, claiming to have a weapon. Shellie Zimmerman, after the incident, stated through her lawyer that she would like to “end her marriage with a whimper and not a bang,” likely a reference to the fact that domestic homicide (read: the murder of women by men in their own homes) can be predicted based on the kinds of behavior Zimmerman has habitually exhibited. In Connecticut alone, at least six men have killed their wives or girlfriends since the beginning of this year, the most recent being Gregory Pawloski, a man who had spent ten years terrorizing his wife before he eventually shot her. A man in San Jose, California stabbed his female partner to death last weekend. A man in Granite Hills, Minnesota shot his girlfriend to death a few days before that. I could go on.
Speaking of guns, has anyone other than me nearly lost count of the mass murders that men have committed in recent memory? In case you were wondering, the average in the US has been one mass murder for every two weeks since 2006, and men have committed mass murders claiming the lives of four or more victims TWENTY TIMES since the beginning of this year. A man shot and killed at least thirteen people just yesterday morning, for fuck’s sake. I could go on.
I’m not digging very deep here. These are cases that made the news within the last few weeks. A few other things made the news recently. “Bestiality brothels” are all the rage these days in Germany (Germany — of course), where raping animals is now being described as a “lifestyle choice” by the men who frequent them. There is — I swear to god — an organization in Germany called ZETA that plans to protect men’s “right” to rape animals should the Bundesrepublik choose to outlaw doing so. In related news, a man in Shropshire, Great Britain made a video of himself having sex with a horse and two dogs. The night before his court hearing on bestiality charges, he was looking for work online as a stablehand. An elderly man in Australia recently shoved a fork handle four inches into his urethra for “autoerotic” purposes. I could go on.
What in the hell is the matter with these people? I mean, really.
Clearly, we have a problem. MRAs and male supremacy apologists seem fond of the pseudo-sciences of evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology as explanations for sociopathic male behavior. I’ll admit that it’s tempting to simply acquiesce and grant that they’re correct: men are simply constitutionally unsuited to civilized society. Few men are prepared to eschew aggression in the face of challenges to their sense of entitlement. Few are capable of allowing anything to stand in the way of their sexual urges, no matter what the consequences (usually to others, naturally). Few seem willing to take anyone’s humanity other than their own into account. The number who are capable of recognizing — let alone remedying — the existence of male privilege and its daily social manifestations is downright infinitesimal. Could it be possible that men are just fucked?
Maybe I’m less of a misandrist than the average MRA, because I’m still not ready to give up on the possibility that men can behave like decent human beings. Men aren’t biologically destined to become rapists, they’re not hardwired to be destructive perverts, they don’t have to derive their lifeforce from the suffering of women, children, and other men. Men aren’t all ineluctably doomed to witlessly wander the Earth, oblivious to the effects of their behavior on others’ lives and on the planet. When they do so, it’s a choice. It’s a choice that appears predetermined, but it’s a choice.
The choice men face in their everyday lives is whether to participate in the cult of masculinity in the face of evidence that to do so is destructive. Each of the examples above of sociopathic male behavior began in a moment in which a man had to choose between sating his own (however warped) desires and behaving like a civilized member of society. In all but one case (ol’ fork-dick), the key personality trait these men seem to be missing is empathy. It’s quite likely that empathy inheres in all human beings and is beaten out of little boys (while society encourages women to exercise empathy to the ouster of consideration of their own needs). These men were probably all aware that to fulfill their own desires would cause negative consequences for the people they used, damaged, or killed in the process, but that awareness was not enough to limit their behavior because it was purely abstract, unattached to a feeling that could approach the intensity of the emotions or desires that catalyzed their actions. In other words, they lack a well-developed sense of empathy.
Abandoning ingrained behaviors and the social benefits that derive from them makes life difficult for men in the current milieu, but it’s probably a lot easier than confronting the fallout of the continued effects of masculinity on the world will be. The question remains, however, whether it will be possible — before it’s simply too late — to force men to not only realize that aggressive masculinity is the root of war, environmental degradation, and the destruction of women’s and children’s lives and bodies the world over, but to also take on the task of reclaiming a sense of empathy and exercising it.
(I should really change the name of the series to “Why I Hate Masculinity,” but MRAs really seem to like the current title.)
* See Philippa Levine, Gender and Empire.
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291 thoughts on “Why I Hate Men Part 3: There Seems to Be A Pattern Here”
Leah Sweeney says:
Welcome back! You might take solace in noting that the internalization of pornography has finally gotten ridiculous enough that even it’s greatest cheerleaders are starting to feel compelled to comment. Nina Hartley was recently quoted (by the pseudo-champion of social justice, the Huffington Post, no less) as saying that pornography is “not meant to be a rulebook” for sex. This coming from the same woman who, a few years ago when composing a retort to Dr. Chyng Sun’s “The Price of Pleasure”, had the gall to insist that porn had no effect on people because they “know” it’s just fantasy. Just like women “know” models eat tissues to stay that thin and a BMI of 16 isn’t sustainable, so no woman even suffers a loss of self-esteem by comparing herself to the women in magazines. I mean, shit, it’s obviously the consumer’s fault if they believe what your product is selling them, right? Women don’t experience self-loathing because they live in a world that is relentless in telling them they don’t measure up somehow- it’s actually their own fault for successfully internalizing that socialization.
Nick Nakorn says:
Another great article. I don’t think men should, or can logically, hide behind the ‘nature/nurture’ debate because being human means we can override ‘urges’ with socialised and civilised behaviours if they are taught and encouraged. Sentience can and should be used to temper and eradicate any unsocial behaviour yet our society still rewards those red in tooth and claw. I was lucky enough to be brought up largely by my grandmother, mother and older sister and male culture was a massive shock to me when I encountered it at school. I am in no doubt that many male predilections for power and domination (regardless of actual benefit to the individuals concerned, I might add) might be hard-wired as much as they are socialised but, as thinking entities with a large degree of self determination of action, there is no reason why we have to follow our hormonal instructors; if it turns out that it’s all nurture – so much the easier – but I’m under no illusion as to how difficult a transformation to a more civilised culture will be.
They say that the root of all evil is money. I don’t agree with that. Money can be used to fund a homeless shelter, help a sick uninsured person who can’t afford medicine.
The root of evil is a lack of empathy. The inability to feel for others. That is what causes people to do things that they would not want done to themselves. They fail to follow the golden rule.
Males are programmed with an entitlement attitude and that causes many problems. The attitude is placed there by society. We teach boys to be aggressive. We excuse male behavior at a young age, and then wonder why men engage in more serious violence later in life.
Are males born aggressive. Well there must be some kind of nature involved because males have 9 to 10 times the testosterone levels when they become teenagers compared to women and we testosterone increases aggression (although the science behind that is more complex than I wish to get into here).
My conclusion is that men are indeed born with more aggression biologically. But, society is to blame for “opening the door” by teaching men to behave in a rough-and-tumble manner, and not control themselves. Men CAN learn to control themselves regardless of biology. If we continue to teach men that they aren’t capable of controlling themselves, than we are inviting disaster.
Lucas Prassas says:
If biology was that significant, the ratio of male-perpetrated violence to female-perpetrated violence probably wouldn’t be anywhere near as disproportionate as it is. Overstating the role of hormones ultimately implies that violent men are somewhat less at fault than violent women. Also, caring about such conclusions is one thing, but taking offense (in general; you obviously did not) is another; if you’re a man, and you’re not violent, but all other men are, why should you be insulted by someone pointing that out, unless you’re secretly ashamed of being the only nonviolent one? I see men try to defend their “nice guy” honor for all other men surprisingly often, not realizing that they are defeating many of their own assertions. Collectivist influence is extremely difficult to avoid, but it is almost always desirable to try doing so, IMO.
Lucas Prassas:
My position is that men are more aggressive and violent for two reasons (1) Society raises men to be more aggressive and (2) males are biologically driven to be aggressive.
Studies show that testosterone injections increase aggressiveness. I cannot ignore the science. Men are born with more of the hormone. I make no excuses for male misbehavior.
My opinion is that men are perfectly capable of controlling themselves, but some choose not to.
So I feel that its both nature and nurture. Not just one or the other. -If a person argues that it’s only biology, than that may be construed as a justification for male aggression, and one could arrive at the conclusion that men cannot be trained to be better by society.
Too many parts of our society glorify male aggression. One solution is to stop such glorification.
I am shocked that society does so little to change the way boys are raised. I hope we do something about that very soon.
yeah increased testosterone is obviously tantamount to increased aggression, but women still have the same/similar stuff, just less of it; it seems like, if biology could come anywhere close to competing with socialization, most women would probably be pretty freaking violent too, but women who initiate violence seem almost anomalous, especially for constituents of the most oppressed group of people ever. IMO, even the best of us are shitty, stupid animals, regardless, until the Singularity happens, if it does. also, i post here because i want something to be done, as well, not just “petitioned”, but if we’re talking groundbreaking, hypothetical legislation, as many posts suggest, why bother with stupid crap like censorship (which might increase violence, IMO), and not just try stuff like constant, mandatory surveillance/escorts, female-only authorities and government (would probably reduce pointless violence toward both men and women, by at least a little), leaving everything that actually merits enjoyment alone? It doesn’t seem like it would be any less feasible than totally enforcing a porn ban, anyway, what with the technologies we have now/will have in the future; would it?
Horses Not Zebras says:
Sorry, my first comment was @Justin.
@Lucas Prassas: I think you underestimate how much higher testosterone levels are in men as compared to women. Yes, women have testosterone but far, far less of it. So much less of it that it could easily account for the differences in violence between the sexes.
RB says:
There isn’t really strong proven evidence that more testosterone causes men’s violence, and there are scientists that have debunked this,but there are also androgynous societies like Tahiti and Malaysia where the sexes are encouraged and rewarded for being more alike than different in their personalities,interests and behaviors and the men don’t dominate and aren’t violent there.
Anthropologist Peggy Reeves Sanday studied 95 band and tribal found 47% of societies that were free of rape.Obviously men don’t have much less testosterone than men everywhere else and they still have their Y chromosomes too.
https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/rape-culture-yea-or-nay
Chapter by Peggy Reeves Sanday,Rapre Free vs Rape Prone How Culture Makes A Difference in the book,Evolution,Gender And Rape by Cheryl Brown Travis
https://books.google.com/books?id=a2TTPKFUXgkC&pg=PA337&lpg=PA337&dq=rape-prone+cultures+Sanday&source=bl&ots=noGKQqq9eS&sig=s95VWV3cXm75OM8TRLhu1aDauY4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=C7sYVfjqD8aWgwTN7IKwCw&ved=0CDwQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=rape-prone%20cultures%20Sanday&f=false
Silent says:
Society in many ways profit from male agression. Think about The imperialist wars a Nation Will be part of. A Nation needs millions of order following and agressive males. Think about The way The nazi’s used to put young males in The ring to beat each other to death, to produce strong arien males. Our nation states still got This narrative in its DNA. Also The conditions of capitalism are about fighting each other in general, fighting is the root of this society. Mentally in The middel class. Physically in The ghetto. Working together is called socialism, which is the collective taboo. As ” a nation” we are supposed to be one, but in the private sphere we are enemies. Oud nation must Be one, so we can be enemies in the private sphere.Compassion is weakness, fighting inside The borders of The system is The mantra of capitalism. A sort of perpetual economic civil war. Boys got The ghetto narrative of killing each other, and raping females, from MTV. They get The message they should murder for their country, their gang, their pride. Hen they for beaten op, they are pussy, although only one can Be the winner, all males act like The current winner. Its The way they are socialised by MTV, by society, by silly Shit. The thing about nurture nature is that The two interact with each other, their is no dualism in The two. Think about The wat genes change in a lifespan. Nurture can shape nature.
rjjspesh says:
Agreed. If we know that testosterone makes people pissy, then why do we start out by giving little boys toy guns and the WWE when they are teenagers. Why do we as a culture have to set fire to the fuel?
I think even most of us that recognize how pointlessly barbaric culture is are more enslaved by it than vice-versa; the delusional manpride of ancient times may not be a universally accepted virtue anymore (at least, not officially), but the basis of our entire sociopolitical reality is derived from it. That’s why I say the only way to even significantly mitigate it is either the Singularity (would take the human” out of humans) or completely erasing and replacing the patriarchy with anti-patriarchy in EVERY aspect of our lives (thereby reducing violence, and making whiny proponents of pointless, barbarian manpride much more easy to identify, isolate, and suppress, which would save me a lot of knuckle injuries, as it would for most other slightly-less-insane-than-manbro people).
Herein lies the problem with any argument based on socialization:
If society is to blame for indoctrinating little boys to be aggressive, then who is society? Men ARE society. Society IS men. It’s males who make the rules for other males.
So why do men socialize each other this way? They could stop at any time. No one forces them to do it.
The answer can only be that there is something innate in men that seeks to be aggressive, to want to dominate and destroy. I believe that “something” is testosterone. But whatever it is, it seems clear to me that it is inborn.
Michael Moran says:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=strange-but-true-testosterone-alone-doesnt-cause-violence
CPB says:
An opinion piece cobbled together by gun-toting, biased, conservative wankers obsessed with evo-psych BS is so NOT ‘food for thought’. More like a pointless, smelly dump.
Try sticking to peer reviewed articles with clinical trials and quantifiable data that at least have an off-chance of being objective.
Actual ‘food for thought’, you condescending doofus.
Don’t have time to post at length, but must say thank you, thank you. Your intelligence, anger and humour is a refuge. I feel as if you have allowed me exhale for the first time in months!
Yes! YES! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!
Not only is there a new 9D post, but it’s fucking awesome. Will share this like crazy
wow that first link is eye opening. I always felt that women are beautiful and complete and powerful and males were just sort of stunted and lacking in comparison and that is basically a scientific confirmation I guess. girls and boys are different. well by that I mean when I was a child I always felt that *I* was way smarter and better and superior than most of the children around me and by most of the children around me I mean male children. the only other children I felt urges to connect or share or felt drawn to were other female children. in particular the more physically active or strong ones. to this day I feel some drawing towards big tall women. I don’t think in sexual way. I’m pretty sure I am not a lesbian. does this mean heterosexuality is also a thing the Y chromosome did to ensure it doesn’t die out immediately?
it’s interesting these feelings that I had as a child that sort of got buried are coming back to me in a clearer way. through science! is someone going to dispute the science? because of this I’m going to pay way more attention to my feelings from now on because they are probably right. is this what women’s intuition is?
my immediate feelings when I read about the rapes listed in the post, I wish rapists would just die. I don’t really care how, I hope they just die. I think a world with no rape (no rape as in no one being raped ever, in case that was unclear) is an absolute necessity. ABSOLUTE as defined on http://www.merriam-webster.com:
ab·so·lute
adjective \ˈab-sə-ˌlüt, ˌab-sə-ˈ\
: complete and total
: not limited in any way
: having unlimited power
NECESSITY as defined on the same site:
ne·ces·si·ty
noun \ni-ˈse-sə-tē, -ˈses-tē\
: something that you must have or do : something that is necessary
: the quality of being necessary
NECESSARY as defined on the same site:
1nec·es·sary
adjective \ˈne-sə-ˌser-ē\
: so important that you must do it or have it : absolutely needed
: unable to be changed or avoided
so worded differently I guess that would mean that rapists cannot exist. how do you make rapists not exist?
I hope the whole ‘I wish rapists would die’ thing doesn’t get me into any trouble. remember these are just feelings! also I just know someone is going to have problems where I say that I felt superior to male children when I was younger. but listen, the definition of SUPERIOR as found on the very same site: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/superior
1su·pe·ri·or
adjective \su̇-ˈpir-ē-ər\
: of high quality : high or higher in quality
: great or greater in amount, number, or degree
: better than other people
(‘other people’ as in human males, in this case)
that is an accurate description of how I felt! I am just being honest.
I am really glad you wrote this post your writing is so good to read.
Nereida Filomena says:
Some RFs believe that heterosexuality is a social construct and I am one of them. You have the power to chose lesbianism. Feeling sexual attraction to men is unnatural and 100 percent eroticized torture and trauma bonding. Here is an article you may find helpful that is critical of heterosexuality but believes it could work without patriarchy. It is great to be exposed to criticism of this type: http://shehasthepower.wordpress.com/2013/04/28/heterosexuality-nature-nurture-or-disorder/
Here is a video on what trauma bonding is if you are not familiar with the concept: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTgAtEcmbgA
“All women’s “attraction” to men is 100% eroticised trauma bonding / stockholm syndrome. There is no other form of attraction to men possible than that. None. Any woman “sexually” or “sentimentally” attached to a man is ONLY trauma-bonded to him. This is a universal rule under patriarchy.” The author is 100 percent right. http://witchwind.wordpress.com/2013/08/08/grooming-pimping-into-heterosexuality-politics-of-love-pt-ii/
One chromosome cannot create a complete oppressive social institution that is heterosexuality.
Don’t apologize for wanting rapists to die. Don’t apologize for feeling suprior to males as a child. You were and you still are. One female life is worthless thousands if not millions of men. Men are genetic shit, they contribute extremely little to the taxing process that is pregnancy and childbirth and then demand to be called “fathers” for jacking off in a woman’s body, using her body as a sex toy.
We are not simply chattel to men. That does not acknowledge the scope of male violence. Objects owned are not fucked/tortured but womyn are. Animal husbandry is a worthy comparison though hence men in this article raping animals.
Yes you are feeling womyn’s intuition and it is absolutely heart touching that memories from your childhood you forgot were recovered by reading that post. One of the ways men separate us from ourselves and make us dissociate is by traumatizing us so much we forget what it was like to be girl children. You cannot know how happy it made me to read what you wrote about remembering again.
Rape definitely exists. Part of radical feminism is reclaiming language that suits womyn because it is often used against us. Rape is heterosexual intercourse. Hetness and rape through a radical lense is virtually indistinguishable. PIV (penis in vagina sex) is rape. The concept of “rape rape” is anti feminist and anti woman. If you have been fucked by a man you have been raped. I realize e even some RFs reject this notion and I understand why arguments such as “takes away the violence of REAL rape” obstructs womyn’s reality and perspective. It is a form of male mental colonization and it makes me sad for them.
If womyn do not get sad for each other, who will?
Surely not men.
I could wait forever for men to have empathy.
But I refuse.
obviously disagree with the all sex is rape argument, but i have no real evidence for it, and can’t do anything about it if true, but i will address an implied point you made that surprised me: you seem to think (expedited) death is a punishment; it isn’t. fear of death is as patently irrational as the religions that sensationalize it and all other patriarchal concepts. anyone one who is appalled when you say you think rapists should die (as opposed to being subjected to commensurate rape and/or other torture, which is more amoral than immoral, though usually not worth the time, money, or effort spent, IMO) is bluffing to sound politically correct, a rapist/wannabe rapist, or both. I would have loved to have the option of dying most of the times I was incarcerated, and I’m a person of maximal demographical privilege who has never come close to getting tortured at all, let alone raped.
Shut up scum you don’t have the experience of being female to know anything about receiving male violence into our internal organs. Mansplaining genetic shit.
blah blah i know i’m supposed to pretend i don’t know you’re trolling to impugn sex-negativism for any number of reasons.
@Lucas Prassas: There is nothing whatsoever wrong or inconsistent about a woman feeling negative toward sex in the way it’s currently practiced in heterosexual relationships. Nothing at all.
>”One female life is worthless thousands if not millions of men.”
>”We are not simply chattel to men.”
>”PIV (penis in vagina sex) is rape.”
I am concerned that if we call all heterosexual sex to be rape, than it could cause some people to arrive at the absurd conclusion that rape is acceptable, since we all know that PIV sex is necessary for carrying on life. It’s a stretch, I know, but we don’t want anybody thinking that rape has some ounce of justification.
My concern is that the statement could actually be misused for rape apologetics.
I understand where you’re coming from. Many women in relationships with men are pressured to have sex when they aren’t in the mood just because he selfishly wants it. We should fight that kind of pressure because that is part of patriarchy and how society trains men to expect women to just do what ever they want.
@Justin: Er, no. We don’t “all know that PIV sex is necessary for carrying on life.” Ever heard of in vitro fertilization?
If a woman WANTS to have PIV for the purpose of procreation, I suppose that’s fine if that’s what she wants to do. But that’s PIV with the intention of conceiving. There’s absolutely no reason to have PIV at any other time. Its costs to women are far higher than its very limited benefits.
If that’s the case why do lesbians who use strap ons exist? Sorry to be so crude but I want to know your response.
I don’t speak for anyone but myself, but here’s my answer anyway:
Lesbians do not want ‘penis’ in the traditional sense. A dildo is not a dick; it just happens to be shaped like one because, duh, it fits. You conveniently ignore the fact that the vast majority of lesbians seeking orgasm do so using a variety of other methods barring dick or dick shaped implements. And what the fuck do lesbians have to do with the risks associated with heterosexual PIV anyway (STDs, pregnancy, etc)? Nice derail, Michael Moron.
I’m far more concerned that this idiotic idea that all sex is rape will trivialiseactual rape. Imagine going up to someone who had genuinely been raped then saying you could relate because you had had PIV one time
Yeah, right. Your actual concern is that if more women stopped to consider the consequences of their actions, then fewer women would be willing to fuck you. Self-preservation is always a man’s #1 priority even when a woman’s life is at stake. Running a cost-benefit analysis of PIV sex and then determining that the reward does not outweigh the risks is called ‘logic’. Nothing trivial about that….
Gowan says:
This is not an “idiotic idea.” Go educate yourself.
You may not agree with it (neither do I, not completely at least, but it is food for thought and very interesting, and not “idiotic”. Also, no one said that “all sex is rape.” PIV is not “sex”.
BloodEagle says:
since I cant reply to your main posts because you use censorship. I will reply to this.
What happened to you to make you hate men so much? (sorry if anything did)
Why do you generalize all of us, when you should make it a case by case basis?
Seriously, your outlook is the same type of thinking Hitler had..
Sugarpuss says:
What makes men hate women so much? Why do so many men kill & rape women? Why do men advocate rape & sex trafficking by watching porn? It’s not “just a few”, you fucking sorry piece of shit. Go crawl back to the sewer from which you came.
Oh, and Lulz @ yet another Hitler reference. Hitler was a MAN. In fact, ALL of humanity’s most atrocious crimes were committed by MEN. Coincidence? I think not.
Oh, and look at that name. BloodEagle?
Yeah, that has peaceful, non-violent, law-abiding citizen written all over it. *smirk*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_eagle
Typical male savagery. And they try to call Feminists “Hitler” for opposing their rotten ways. Welcome to the non-logic of men.
Well we live in a patriarchy so the chances of a female leader coming to power at all were pretty slim, perhaps if there was actually a chance for a female fascist to come to power we might see whether this is true. Society has never allowed the condition where in a Josephine Stalin or a Juliet Caesar may arise so to speak. I mean look at Margaret Thatcher, she was cold and hard in her rulership as much as any man.
There is really an awful lot of biological determinist comments on here.
Here is my important blog,
Debunking Common Sexist Myths Of Gender with tons of psychological research studies by all different psychologists from decades that shows the sexes are psychologically more alike than different and that mostly small average differences are found with most of the large differences are individual people differences. And I also include a lot of great information on how parent development psychologists have done experiential research studies that have found that female and male newborns are actually born biologically more alike than different with very few differences,yet they are still perceived and treated systematically very differently by parents and other care givers from birth on.
https://alotofresearchstudiesotherimportantinformationdebunkingcommonse.wordpress.com/
This is an Excellent book by psychology professor Vicki Helgeson The Psychology of Gender 4th edition shows sexes more alike than different which tons of decades worth of psychological studies by all different psychologists has found.She also very rightfully points out that transgendering children stems from gender stereotypes that change over time and vary in different cultures,she discusses the androgynous societies like Tahiti and a few others,where the sexes are encouraged to be and are more alike in personality and behaviors.
She says she hates the color pink and dislikes dresses and her daughter born in 1998 went through a phase of loving pink at age 4,but then hated it.
https://sangu.ge/images/Psychology1.pdf
Hey Deuce! I am really happy to see you writing again! You are the one who woke me up for sugar sweet, pomo, sex pozzie feminism and your series against porn particularly is amazing and debunks anything that is argued in favour of porn.
Now however I am more trust your perceptions, witchwind, femonade, lucky nickel and she has the power than just gender critical.
I think reforming men is a waste of time. Their actions speak of their hatred of females and however unwittingly by well meaning feminists arguments about socialization are often used against mothers who are often forced to give birth. I have chose to reject PIV and relationships with men entirely and have chose to be a lesbian.
I am a grateful I found radical feminism and you helped me in that awakening. I think the gender critical is also great at showing us all the data showing just how deep socialization can run and that is good but there comes a time when one must confront that men are not victims of patriarchy because they benefit from it. They created it for themselves and really I think patriarchy is just the fertilizer to the seed that is male violence. It nourishes and feeds it but it is not the cause, not the root.
Just because the enemy (men) use science as a weapon of misogyny does not mean that we should not be critical of men’s genetics, biology and neurological make up. Logic is not solely the domain of men and I think the witch burnings in history were men’s way of killing women who were in the know of healing and claiming that domain for itself. Men know how much women would change if we could use science for the good of our own.
You know the Lorde quote about master’s tool? I keep that central to my thoughts. Men are useless to life, to think of, to try to reform. Don’t give birth to them, don’t fuck them, don’t give them the energy (gynergy) they crave and you are well on your way to their downfall.. I agree with those who say they are born fucked. This is not a justification or and excuse for their violence ever and they chose to rape but even gay men you may have noticed are invasive and misogynistic.
Even in supposed matriarchal societies there was rape. In time and place men have raped. They stick their dicks into anything even corpses. You are only going to disappoint yourself believing in their humanity. They are only half humyn at best. Men rape because they love it and they are jealous of us. They have womb envy. You see it often with trannies. Maybe in the future men will murder women for their wombs and stick them inside their own bodies. Luckily this is impossible now because the male body rejects it and anti rejection drugs only work for so long.
Save you hope for women- the handmaidens who try their best to bring other women down. For all those loving to survive.
Sorry I meant “from” libfem not for.
9D I think you should stop letting men particularly trolls comment on your blog is this is to be a female friendly space. Just my 2 cents.
*if* this is to be a female friendly space. Just a note to the male scum who replied I do not read comments by or respond to doods. Waste of gynergy.
You know critique of porn supporters and in favour of anti-porn could be endless couldn’t it? If you’re up for it I would love to see more of your anti porn series! You rock!
A robust sex difference in the splenium of the corpus callosum, reflecting greater interhemispheric connectivity in women, was observed on magnetic resonance images from 114 individuals. In addition, bulbosity of the corpus callosum correlated with better cognitive performance in women but not in men
Cell numbers: men have 4% more brain cells than women, and about 100 grams more of brain tissue. Men need more brain tissue in order to get the same things done.
Cellular connections: even though a man seems to have more brain cells, it is reported that women have more dendritic connections between brain cells.
Corpus collosum size: it is reported that a woman’s brain has a larger corpus collusum, which means women can transfer data between the right and left hemisphere faster than men. Men tend to be more left brained, while women have greater access to both sides.
Limbic size: current research has demonstrated that females, on average, have a larger deep limbic system than males.
Important information from October 2015 by neuroscientist Dr.Lise Elliott about how new large research shows the sexes brains are much more alike than different! Three major areas in the brain that were claimed to be different were found to not be different using over 6,000 women and men including the myth that the corpus callosum is more connected in women.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-10/rfuo-mbd102915.php
Male/female brain differences? Big data says not so much …
http://www.eurekalert.org
A research study at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science has debunked the widely-held belief that the hippocampus, a crucial part of the brain that consolidates new memories and helps connect emotions to the senses, is larger in females than in males.
Medical Research.com interviews Dr.Lise Eliot Sexes more alike in brain & behavior
http://medicalresearch.com/radiology/brains-of-men-and-women-more-similar-than-different/18923/
Here is a January 2017 extensive brain study by neuroscientist Dr.Lise Elliot and her colleagues did of 30 years worth of brain scans of women and men and girls and boys in the area of the brain called the amygdala which past studies based on much smaller samples claimed to have significant differences between the sexes.
The findings show that despite the impression that men and women are profoundly different large analyses of brain measures are finding far more similarity than difference,there is no categorically ”male” brain or ”female” brain and much more overlap than difference for nearly all brain measures.The article says this area of the brain is a key structure involving all types of emotion and social behaviors such as aggression and sexual arousal.
Dr.Lise Eliot said,It mentions implications for understanding transgenderism in this new article too.
Mounting challenge to brain sex differences — ScienceDaily
http://www.sciencedaily.com
Mounting challenge to brain sex differences Date: January 17, 2017 Source: Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science Summary: A meta-analysis of human …
This isn’t really true.
Here is a very good December 2016 article by British neuroscientist Dr.Gina Rippon in which she debunks these common sexist gender stereotypes and brain sex claims and points out that there is a lot of evidence for the plasticity of the human brain,and how different life experiences and different environments can change the structure and function of even adults brains,but that a lot of scientists conveniently don’t recognize this when it comes to claims about brain sex differences.
The Trouble With Girls?
https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-29/december-2016/trouble-girls
Here is a very good 2013 article about this by Dr.Gina Rippon,Dr.Cordelia Fine,Dr.Rebecca Jordan-Young and Anelis Kaisern Plasticity,Plasticity,Plasticity ,The Rigid problem Of Sex
http://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/pdf/S1364-6613(13)00201-5.pdf
And here is a great 2016 presentation by neuroscientist Dr.Lise Eliot, The Myth of Brain Sex
I wrote Dr.Eliot an email about my concerns about these claims months back and she wrote me back a nice note and said that most of these differences in women and men’s brains are small and that there is a large overlap between them.
Moses Seenarine says:
ecofeminists have placed male sexual insecurity and evolutionary insignificance as the basis of male desire to transcend women and animals for the past 10,000 years
It’s nice to hear some men participating intelligently in the discussion. The role of testosterone on the human psyche, however, is less than empirically proven. There is a rather sizeable difference between drawing a correlation between a hormone and a behavior,and proving a causality between the two. We have fairly clear evidence on the role of testosterone in the development of anatomical structures during fetal development, but everything else is a lot of supposition. There are a lot of “what ifs” with regards to postulating what women might be like if we interacted differently with the environment. For example, male and female children have no real differences in size until about puberty. I have a 10 year old boy, and he is no taller (and on average, quite a bit scrawnier) than his female contemporaries. Puberty, wondrously enough, is the age at which males and females are most motivated to look and act in accordance with their gender. It’s generally the age at which females start to realize how “fat” we all are and diet. What if malnutrition plays a central role in the average size disparity between adult males and females? Did you know that juvenile female rats show a measurable increase in testosterone production if their genitals are stimulated to mimic maternal grooming (mother rats normally spend more time grooming the genitals of their male offspring than the females)? Hormone levels aren’t innate- they change based on environmental factors. Remember, science is subject to operator bias and a lot of data gets interpreted to support the theory that the researcher has set out to prove.
Sexism runs deep in men even scientists who claim to be unbiased. We must draw our own conclusions because they sure as well won’t. I am well aware of biases by researchers and all of them are sexist. All men are sexist. Men have downplayed the differences that makes females better than males or framed it as if it it somehow advantages males. Trust me you do not have to worry about pro female biases in male dominated science.
> “Hormone levels aren’t innate- they change based on environmental factors.”
Hormone levels do differ by gender genetically. But my point is it’s NO excuse for male violence, patriarchy, domestic violence etc..
What I believe is that hormone levels differ between males and females, yet men are perfectly capable of behaving. Some men seem like hopeless cases, but I believe that they have the capacity to make the decision to act appropriately.
What I call the “Dude Culture” encourages men to follow patriarchy’s expectations (act aggressive, expect sex from a woman anytime, think porn is cool, expect women to do all the chores etc). The way I understand this to work is men tell each other that they should act a certain way/view women a certain way. This in turn programs men into becoming the scum that most of them really are.
Men can select to go along with the Dude Culture, or resist and fight it.
If we are, indeed, talking about practicality of shifting society away from the barbarism (especially manifestations unique to the ruling demographic), I think straightforward resistance may be an unnecessarily arduous route. Even sex positivism is incredibly unpopular, and it goes out of its way to not directly challenge the only remotely rational contributor to patriarchy (libertarian approach to sex). The vast majority of humans are driven to the heights of delusion by patriarchy, whether it benefits them or not (how many women do you REALLY think would be any more willing to listen than almost all men, if someone to explain radical feminism to them?). Fighting isn’t smart with lunatics; I live in one of the most ignorant places I know of, and deal almost exclusively with these kind of people. They can rarely even fight worth shit; they’re just way more determined to make you suffer, often so they feel a bit better about their own suffering. Let’s face it; social reform is a non-moron’s game, and almost everyone is the worst kind of moron (I’m close enough to this, IMO, but almost everyone I know in real life thinks I’m a fucking genius), regardless of their apparent disposition. There are extremely effective ways to convince most people of pretty much anything that aren’t even that difficult, and none of them involve a shred of honesty or sincerity. Religion, corporations, politicians, and hell, patriarchs in general, didn’t get where they are by offering quality information, or quality anything, for that matter. Even if you argue that those were all made by (almost always) white men, for (almost always) white men, since they were, it still doesn’t matter, because they aren’t rationally desirable goals. It’s pretty clearly established that patriarchy isn’t good for men; they just think it is.The only way to appeal to that kind of idiocy is more idiocy. No remotely dignified person does this, AFAIK, even if they pretend to be a vehement moralist, but marketing rhetoric is too valuable of a tool to be inherently evil, IMO. There’s no need to even change the content of whatever idea you’re trying to promote; just advertise it well enough, and it’ll sell/succeed, no matter what anyone says, including the hordes of mantrash. If patriarchy can sell blatant, offensive caricatures of “feminism” on fucking TV, and cause a probable majority of self-proclaimed feminists consider it a huge step forward, I highly doubt it’d be that infeasible to replicate the effect on the world’s dumbest group of people. It would probably still take multiple generations, but that’s better than non-whitemen being grudgingly considered citizens of the nicest countries, by most of the population (in misogyny’s case, most people don’t even seem ashamed to admit that they don’t like or respect women/consider them actual equals, whereas even the most hideously racist dogs won’t say the N-word). Okay, I sounded a bit pompous, that was a shit post, and I’m not a real expert on anything, but for real; is this really that implausible? I’ve never heard much of an explanation as to why not, and I’d hate to think it is dismissed by respectable activists for the wrong reasons, if it truly is as unheard of as I suspect.
**:”most of the population (parenthetical segment)… after over a century/maybe longer of honest protest.”
**”in misogyny’s case, most men (not people; AWFUL typo, bet I’m gonna get fucking trolled, even though I want a serious answer this time. FUCK; stupid fucking MRAs all over the goddamn place)
okay i’m kind of mad at myself for doubting this long enough to participate as much as i have, but this is pretty obviously an MRA-run site. i’m sure there are some people out there who genuinely believe they’re feminists with similar attitudes, but come on. this is a calculated effort, with a calculated agenda. aca demy does the same thing (in reverse) on their own damn forums, ffs. this is by far the most clever mra scheme i’ve seen yet, but still a blatant caricature of the mrm’s patented “feminist”. if it wasn’t for the regularly commenting “fans” with a style supiciously similar to the author’s, i may have written it off as a stylistic gimmick, as the writing appears professional, but no. this blog even appears to be the only one of kind, and i’ve been around enough to know that even the dreaded “tumblr feminists” (not to be confused with feminists that actually post on tumblr) are pretty much all MRA-hype. honestly, i respect the veritable troll genius that went into this, but this a bit too politically weighted (in a malicious way) for me to keep playing along. This will be deleted, obviously; I’m just here to let you know that I have multiple backed up copies, hard copies, and access to several acquaintances’ computers/connections, in case any of you (probably one guy) decides to hack my shitty comp, if it turns out many other people on the net are dumb enough to believe this shit, and i have to explain it to them.
^^^Clueless douchebag.
This isn’t an MRA site, you bumbling moron. I’m sitting here, as I type this, with a tampon parked in my bloody vaginal cavity. Not exactly “manosphere” material, if ya know what I mean.
Any person who has raised children of both genders can see a stark difference in behavior. Puberty acts as a catalyst for exacerbating these behavioral differences, but the differentiation exists long before pubescence and, yes, testosterone is proven to correlate highly with aggression and violence. At some point – I’d say when about 97% of violent crime is attributable to a single gender – there is a case to be made for a genetic component.
“There are a lot of “what ifs” with regards to postulating what women might be like if we interacted differently with the environment.”
This sounds like apologist BS. You can’t honestly be suggesting that women would have an equal chance of being sociopathic war mongers if only the *environment* changed, especially given the biological differences in brain structure, size, and strength. Give me a break. Dismissing genetics, which proves structural differences in the brain occur due to testosterone, while simultaneously cleaving to nebulous environmental factors is nonsensical. These structural differences in the brain take place *solely* due to testosterone. Men and boys would have brains entirely identical to women if not for the testosterone surge that takes place on the SRY gene of the Y chromosome in-utero (six weeks to be exact). This lends credence to the theory that bad male behavior is largely rooted in biology rather than the result of social conditioning which just acts as a catalyst that encourages and allows male violent behavior. Lax laws concerning rape and other violent crimes against women are a perfect example of how environment can encourage their shitty behavior in the worst way, but the drive to victimize doesn’t exist in a vacuum.
“Hormone levels aren’t innate- they change based on environmental factors.”
Correction: Hormone levels *are* innate *and* subject to change based on environmental factors. Malnutrition can effect one’s size, but all other things being equal, men on average are faster, stronger, and – yes – taller than women due to genetics. The entire female gender is not malnourished. Sorry to disappoint, but this is not up for debate.
Overall, conflating genetics, puberty, and social conditioning really makes it sound like you are suggesting the disproportionate amount of women experiencing eating disorders is genetic, but size and strength is not? Am I missing something here? Teenage girls in general become more cognizant of their appearance because they are transitioning from childhood to fuck-doll-with-a-pulse-hood (otherwise known as female ‘adulthood’). The media and men in the vicinity are constantly reminding them of this: fathers, brothers, classmates, co-workers, even the dip-shits they walk past on the street shout out their approval – or god forbid – disapproval. Men of every heinous stripe wouldn’t want young women to forget for a single second that their self-worth is entirely rooted in their appearance. This ensures her constant attention to vanity which oftentimes leads to eating disorders and other derivations of body dysmorphia. So, it would seem that the fuckability mandate is a purely social construct (aka environmental) especially when you consider the media’s fluidity concerning attractiveness (e.g., full figured just decades ago and now ‘thin is in’; media tired of the Pamela Anderson look and now Angelina Jolie is the gold standard, etc.).
“Remember, science is subject to operator bias and a lot of data gets interpreted to support the theory that the researcher has set out to prove.”
Why are you having such a hard time remembering the fact that nine times out of ten women are subject to the *male* interpretation of data since the scientific and academic communities are largely male? Not to mention that much of the time men desire to ‘prove’ their ridiculous notions about the supposed superiority of men and inferiority of women correct. Additionally, women are socialized away from scientific and mathematical pursuits as it tends to get in the way of learning how to apply makeup and eat dicks. Ugh.
PS Women are never seen as full-fledged human beings at any stage of our lives and are often infantilized well past puberty so your ‘concern’ regarding bias towards women (and against the ills of testosterone) is laughable at best.
I think Angelina Jolie is so beautiful I remember being mesmerized when I saw her in a movie when I was a teenager
it was that movie about women in a mental institution I forget the title right now
Awesome response! Such thoughtful analysis. Thank you.
[…] bad male behavior is largely rooted in biology rather than the result of social conditioning which just acts as a catalyst that encourages and allows male violent behavior.
Yes. Exactly. You took the words right outta my keyboard! Most men are pretty much fucked in the head from the get-go; our misogynistic culture just fans the flames a bit.
So, for anybody who thinks Little Peter acts like a little monster because he watched one too many episodes of Robot Chicken, I’ve got two words for ya: Ancient Rome /a>.
I fucked up that tag. :(
I forgot to mention, testosterone levels were found to be significantly higher among violent crime offenders than drug abusers and property crimes. Even female prisoners who were more aggressive and violent had higher levels of testosterone. Environment and situations overall can certainly play a role, but the *base* levels of testosterone for these prisoners were higher. They were no longer among the general population where they could be subjected to a variety of different social situations that could influence behavior and their testosterone levels were *still* higher than average. No ‘what if’s’ required.
Alternatively, I’ve seen these studies you’re referring to where the conclusions about testosterone’s effects on behavior were inconclusive. In those cases, T hormones were administered in relatively small doses for a very short time period (around one week) and the data was collected almost entirely by self-report surveys. Anecdotal evidence is largely useless, since we rarely consider our own behavior aberrant, offensive, or – in this case – aggressive. When the men who had received testosterone were observed objectively (by researchers and participants) their behavior was noticeably different.
In other words, some studies are certainly biased in a desperate bid to convince the public that testosterone is a neutral hormone and men do not posses an innate tendency to rape/abuse/etc, but at the end of the day, there is far more evidence to suggest that T is a catalyst for violence and aggressive behavior; especially considering women are dwelling in the same god damned environment except under much more turbulent, unpleasant, oppressive circumstances thanks to – you guessed it – men.
Men also dictate these socially conditioned circumstances that you are constantly referencing in your bid to convince someone out there that testosterone is not an innately aggressive hormone. It would appear that men are just fine with their sociopathic lack of empathy and expressing emotions of any kind – barring anger, of course – since they’ve given themselves and their ilk the OK regarding victimization. No matter how you slice it, men are responsible for dictating and perpetuating the current misogynistic, violent sociopolitical climate and that has been my – and presumably 9D’s – point all along.
tryin too hard to seem legit dude/female employee. ur obviously pro, but you could have at least waited a little longer after last post. this site is too obviously mra(-funded, probably, due to professionalism, but who knows?), anyway, but have fun i guess. i only almost fell for it cuz im not nearly as smart as i sometimes sound. i wish yall would give real sex-negatives a chance, tho, since google yields like zero such sites besides this one and maybe a few other “crazy” troll sites.
Nine Deuce says:
Hey, crazy guy, what the fuck are you talking about?
oh yeah right like it’s soooo crazy that the entire purpose of this site is to recycle old, but real sex-negative arguments and fill them with cuss words and stereotypical MRA-style “misandry/female supremacy”/ other names for a thing that basically doesn’t exist in real life. even if you weren’t, no one that reads would be dumb enough to make their already absurd unpopularity worse. real feminism is politics, asshole; quit treating like a stupid game, if you’re that concerned with clinging to your audience’s suspension of disbelief. i have a copies of this, as well, in case i decide to go make more people notice your shenanigans.
You got me. I’ve spent six years and written 250 posts satirizing feminism in order to prove MRAs right. And thanks for the lesson on what feminism is. You can rest easy in the knowledge that you see through all the bullshit and go back to smoking meth now.
I’m sure you’re laughing all the way the bank. You bore me; I’m gonna go find something else to do.
Oh, good. My private jet is about to take off for Malta anyway.
oh whatever. whatever your motives, you’re obviously not interested in anything other than upsetting pretty much everyone who stumbles upon this site, or you would have blocked all of the insulting/shocking comments, including most of mine. have fun being the closest thing to an MRA that isn’t one, if you really aren’t.
andemilybites says:
What is this total fool on about?
Welcome back ND!
For the love of BUDDHA find something else to do with your time.
yeah she must be making bank with this free blog. Your comments make so little sense I actually laughed out loud.
You retard, I added to my first reply by posting a second time. God forbid someone know what the fuck they are talking about when they get on the internet. The gibberish you’ve been spouting here is pretty embarrassing.
Adroit way of reminding you find me how fucking entertaining you find me. Also, I’m sure whoever else you think is watching is so much more convinced by your credibility, now that you jumped on the totally sincere asshole bandwagon, and cussed out the only (unwelcome) troll on your website that’s even trying to reason with you. I’m sure it’s more worth it for you, though, as long as you get to abuse your credentials in order to do as much social damage to feminism as one thankfully obscure group of moderately diligent bloggers and/or comment authors (depending on which accounts are actually other people, and not just various personas of one person) can plausibly be presumed to do.
blah i’ve been typing stupidly for too long… anyway, I obviously can’t KNOW anything about any of you, but I’m those of you heavily involved in this site’s feedback are aware how calculated your words sound to guests that are inclined to think about what you people are actually accomplishing. if y’all were actually bad at this, I wouldn’t bother trying to indicate to whatever traffic you normally get that this is pretty much as unlike any credible/mildly respectable, non-satirical politics-related site one will find anywhere else on the net. Obviously, serious visitors seem to be either ignoring everything other than their own debate, or just not posting, but I do worry that some people (that aren’t quite incorrigibly ignorant) may assume that this is feminism (I know the author has stated/alluded to this not being the case, but only uncommonly non-stupid people can override connotation with denotation), or remotely representative of any comparably acceptable ideology, and I happen to be the only person with literally nothing better to do than attempt to prevent that from happening. The author has been prudently playing it cool and not deleting my posts, for a while now, so I may take the hint and discuss this elsewhere, if I find a worthwhile community that will even my dignify my acknowledgment of your existence (not that I blame most serious forums for not doing this, but I refuse to ignore, give up on the moronic majority, since there are nowhere near enough intelligent people to get anywhere without them). copied, in case you decide I’m no longer worth the showmanship.
Because men crashing into a feminist blog and dictating to women what feminism is all about is not being an asshole? Got it. You’re pissed off because I debunked the pretentious, libertarian, self-serving garbage you’ve been crapping out complete with Illuminati-esque conspiracy theories.
Because we aren’t all kissing your feet and calling you our almighty savior we must be part of the MRA. Because I make cogent points rooted in facts that fly in the face of your bullshit, I must be one of 9D’s evil secret agents. ‘Desperate for attention’ does not even begin to describe you, troll.
PS The world doesn’t revolve around you or your dick. Seek help and learn to type.
still tryin, huh? also “feminism” lol, you know better than to call it that at this point (even the author has addressed this, as i mentioned). annnd there’s your arguments, which i’ve already mentioned are mostly valid, established ones, just recycled with satirical amounts of cussing and insults. obviously you’re having at least as much fun as i am, though, so here’s to even more of your epic disregard for your own verisimilitude (intentional, I’m sure; you’ll keep your male privilege as easily as I, regardless of your ultimate success or failure at being convincing).
I’m not a man, idiot.
PS Swearing is for adults.
Dude you’re paranoid lay off the meth.
^This.
lol this comment was hilarious.
Regaining some verisimilitude, now, but the fact that this is one of the few places left on the internet that where almost everyone isn’t completely ignoring my comments (or responses thereto) still doesn’t seem too likely to help with your side’s collective appearance of legitimacy. Honestly, the only reason I’m even telling you that, at this point, is because the fact that I’ve apparently lost that much efficacy (using my real name, anyway, but that’s part of the novelty) is starting to make me sadder than it does anything else. You’re generally one of the more MRA-ish seeming ones anyway, so feel free to cuss me out some more if you run out of different angles to play, or just prefer to, but you know how the internet works, and I’m not even trolling decently anymore.
Does anybody have any idea what this Lucas Prassas character is prattling on about? All I see is a giant wall of garbled word salad. He might as well be typing in wingdings.
Oh, look; you bolded the “ass” in my name, hahaha. You’re obviously not trying to sabotage the credibility of anyone other than me!
You’re obviously not trying to sabotage the credibility of anyone other than me!
Uh, what?
92: I realize that every village must have it’s idiot, but must the idiot of this village be….Lucas?
I don’t know, maybe you find his bizarre meanderings amusing (it’s your blog after all), but I fail to see his entertainment value. I’ve gotten bigger kicks from heat rash.
I’m just trying to figure out his train of thought (I like the idea of getting rich writing a radical feminist blog on behalf of MRAs).
I’m just trying to figure out his train of thought[…]
Oh come on. He never left the depot.
While I’m probably not the most consistently entertaining troll out there, that really seems like a bit of a stretch, coming from you. Now, some of the people on here seem gifted enough with other styles of disingenuous rhetoric that I am quite sure they could do much more entertaining than I’ve ever been, if they cared to but you are pretty clearly the lowest-tier troll that’s posted here more than once or twice, despite being decent enough, in general. I’m the first (probably the only, since this seems to be a longer-term intellectual investment for you and the other central participants/possibly personae) to totally break character in this one, which I know to be a lazy habit, but this comes up pretty high on Google, IIRC (query being “sex negative”, I think? I’ll check again in a minute), so I consider it justifiable to provide a less dramatized explanation of how perfidious many elements of this site appear to be, for a purportedly non-MRA, feminism-related blog.
lizor says:
Thanks Leah Sweeny. I don’t buy the “masculinity-because-of-testosterone” bullshit either. If testosterone is truly the culprit behind all of this criminal behaviour then FFS get on a patch already.
So you believe that male and female behaviors are, in fact, biologically dictated and therefore gender is not a social construct? That is the BIGGEST apologist argument ever- men can’t help but be violent and aggressive because they’re “hard wired” to be that way. “It’s the testosterone!! The testosterone made me do it!! The testosterone makes me view all women as an interchangeable set of wet holes!!” In which case, why even bother? Just arm yourself and find as remote a location as possible to hide away from the scourge that is the human male. And I am totally suggesting that science has a male-based bias which absolutely feeds a biologically-rooted gender specific behavior theory. I’m not quite sure how my comment was interpreted to suggest that science has a bias in favor of women. Yes, males and females have differences in size, strength, agility and the ability to make a fucking sandwich. But the book has not been written with regards to how pronounced these differences would be if both sexes were socialized in roughly the same manner. There are no test subjects which have not been exposed to gender specific socializing influences. We do know that increased muscle mass increases production of testosterone. Therefore, women who are more athletic have higher testosterone levels than their waifish counterparts. And they don’t appear to be any more inclined to randomly beat the stuffing out of anyone nor assault weaker people’s genitals. Granted, even a female who benches 250 may not have testosterone levels which quite approach that of the “average” male. But the fact that women with higher testosterone levels don’t generally transform into sociopaths gives greater credence to the theory that their socialization plays a key role in how they behave towards others. It is precisely because they are not raised to feel entitled to bully the weaker, that they are encouraged to exhibit “nurturing” and “caring” behaviors, that they often feel the need to “compensate” for being stronger by “showing a soft side” that puts them in a position to resist the impulse to behave more violently. And I agree, the tendency towards anorexia and other such forms of psychological pathology are the result of women being groomed to become a thing to be used in the pleasuring of men. Again, not sure how my comments were construed otherwise.
> “We do know that increased muscle mass increases production of testosterone.”
It works both ways. Testosterone allows more muscle growth, of course. When men lift heavy weights (6 reps or less) the body releases a little bit more testosterone to help deal with the micro fibers that are torn in the muscle. This in turn allows for increases in strength.
Heavy weight lifting also boosts sex drive in men.
Whereas size growth tends to come from fatigue (exhausting the muscle with lots of reps), rather than heavy weights.
Muscles release testosterone, but testosterone allows the original building of larger muscles. Both are true, but a chicken and egg scenario results. As boys enter teen years to mid 20s, the increase in testosterone allows for greater muscle growth. Prior to roughly age 12, male and female muscularity are similar.
Many women in the gym refuse to touch the weights in fear of “getting big.” The truth is that it takes a lot of work for men to get big muscles, and women don’t have the hormone profile to do it. The super-muscular female body builders of course have taken steroids and testosterone injections.
So, with more muscle on the body, the heavy lifting causes the male body to release more testosterone to repair the micro-fiber tears.
Thus, testosterone is the initial and primary origin of muscle growth.
Did you even read what I wrote? My argument is that testosterone acts as the *catalyst* for violent/aggressive behavior and that social conditioning perpetuates and encourages these base aggressive desires. You know what I love even more than repeating myself endlessly?
“Yes, males and females have differences in size, strength, agility and the ability to make a fucking sandwich.”
…outing male trolls. The desperate desire to prove that the disproportionately male aggression and violence does not stem from a hormone that has proven to elicit aggression many times over is getting dire. Read what I wrote and then read it again and again until you and your detachable cock ‘get it’.
“But the book has not been written with regards to how pronounced these differences would be if both sexes were socialized in roughly the same manner.”
No shit. Because the world over you can’t find a single place where women are socialized to believe that we are superior and men are inferior. You steep you entire argument in a sea of ‘what ifs’ and completely ignore actual scientific facts. THAT is the problem.
PS I already explained how your ‘point’ was so easily misconstrued.
“In which case, why even bother? Just arm yourself and find as remote a location as possible to hide away from the scourge that is the human male.”
Yes, exactly. That’s just what women should do. You said it yourself. The trouble is that you thought you were being sarcastic. That you and others like you find the idea so incomprehensible.
“How could women live without the mennnnz?!”
How can we possibly live *with* them?
My point was simply that testosterone is not the boogeyman. My point is that men are not inherently irascible, killing and raping machines (which is not to say that they don’t frequently seem as though they are doing their best to prove me wrong). My point is that women aren’t biologically incapable of atrocity. My point is that there are more biological similarities between the sexes than differences. In fact, there are more differences between two individuals of the same sex than there are between “all males” and “all females”. My point is that everything is “up for debate”. The only people who benefit from this whole “Men are from Mars” manner of thought are the jackasses who sell books trying to convince people that the only way they can relate to someone whose genitals differ from their own is by buying a shitty book. I don’t see how this whole testosterone focus leads us down a path which is any different from biological determinism. My point was precisely that we need to question what we think we know “scientifically” about what differentiates the sexes. Obviously, we are not biologically identical. But I don’t see how you can argue that there’s an innate tendency in man towards aggression (whether testosterone-based or because of differences in the size of the amygdala, etc., etc.) without concluding that women are “by design” more submissive and docile. Even if we argue that women are “naturally” more peaceful and egalitarian, how is that any less sexist? Once upon a time, the goal of feminism was to present women as fully formed human beings- with flaws and strengths. Capable of a wide range of thoughts and feelings and emotions and abilities that are not dictated or limited by hormones or differences in brain size.
And my apologies to Nine D- I imagine having to read all this “intellectual ping pong” in the process of moderating gets a bit tedious.
“My point is that women aren’t biologically incapable of atrocity.”
That you honestly believe the striking disparity of violence between the genders is entirely due to social conditioning in the face of so much documented science is inconceivable to me.
“My point is that there are more biological similarities between the sexes than differences.”
Biology states that women and men are different based purely on physicality, no social conditioning there. We all bleed the same color blood and have a four chambered heart…well…duh. However, it’s nonsensical to have a discussion about disproportionately gendered violence and only attend to innocuous similarities in the face of evidence that high T levels predisposes one to violence.
“My point is that everything is “up for debate”.”
Unfortunately, no, certain things are not up for debate. Increased testosterone really does beget aggression and violence that is not dependent on social conditioning or circumstances. Studies have proven this to be true many times over and I could have sworn I explained this in detail. Biological differences are stone cold facts and not up for debate either, sorry.
“I don’t see how this whole testosterone focus leads us down a path which is any different from biological determinism.”
Really? Because I explained that it was patriarchal society encouraging men to behave *in accordance with* their biology. That chest-beating-neanderthal-bullshit-posturing-picture-of-masculinity doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Where do you think this obsession men have with violence and aggression stems? It’s biology. Obviously, we all have free will and are capable of making our own choices. Just because men don’t go around raping and killing everything they see does not mean that testosterone does not predispose them to violence in a way that far outreaches women; it does and this disparity is very well documented. Women are not “more docile” by design, we are less aggressive by design, greater communicators by design, and make easy targets for men by design because we are physically weaker. Why is that so difficult for men and male apologists to comprehend?
“Once upon a time, the goal of feminism was to present women as fully formed human beings- with flaws and strengths. Capable of a wide range of thoughts and feelings and emotions and abilities that are not dictated or limited by hormones or differences in brain size.”
Ugh, can the melodramatic bullshit. Ignoring the male propensity for violence and stark biological differentiation with baseless red herrings will get you nowhere.
PS Read what I wrote next time, ‘bruh’.
Also, docility/submissiveness is entirely the result of social conditioning. Who should submit to whom, when, how, and why has never been dictated by biology, whereas size and strength always will. The fact that men have never had any qualms about using violence or threats (thanks to their biology) is what has placed women in this unfortunate, patriarchal predicament in the first place. I believe differentiating between biological fact and sociological myths that have been forced upon women for thousands of years is the key to change. Men resist the ‘testosterone is an issue’ argument because then the issue lies solely* with them and they won’t be able to slough all responsibility for bad male behavior onto women any longer.
Anyway, conflating biology with environmental social conditioning is what’s undermining your arguments. Hopefully I’ve finally made myself 100% crystal clear here.
* – T is 9 to 10 times more prevalent in men so, yes, male violence and aggression will always lie solely with men despite the fact that women posses the ounce of T required to fuck these mongoloids against all logic.
ooooh look, you used the work “mongoloid”… guess you ain’t playin’, if you’re willing to act like other kinds of bigot to “enhance” your point, since this is the internet, and no one can prove that the absurd, blatant discrepancy between your writing level and your writing style are anything other than a coincidence, huh?
WORD*, not work, lol guess you can always default to arguing with my typing skills, failing other things.
Well, I guess men really do have a monopoly on aggression.
Because when women are aggressive they make cogent points. When men are aggressive they rape, murder, assault, stalk, and commit genocide.
Not to mention the fact that the MRA are obsessed with the argument that mothers (single or otherwise) and their inability to provide a precious utopian ‘environment’ for their sons results in violent, gang-banging, sexist, racist, drug-addicted convicts. Ah, the great ‘nurture’ rhetoric. Thanks, but no thanks.
Forcing men to acknowledge their issues with aggression and violence including where these issues originate, and teaching young men how to curtail this behavior, is far less damaging than willful ignorance.
Oh, and you can cram that oh-so-subtle attempt to shame me for proving you wrong where the sun don’t shine.
You’re wasting your time on this idiot.
She has a boy child, and is, therefore, personally invested in denouncing certain biological realities. She has squeezed out a potential rapist from her loins, and is probably feeling rather desperate to defend her little monster. Mothers of sons are the worst! They will defend their rotten sprogs to the death, and they are always the first ones to make bullshit claims like “women can be as bad as men”. And anybody who doesn’t live under a rock knows that’s the biggest lie ever.
To be honest I don’t think mothers of sons can be radical feminists and if they do its a harsh reality that little boys and girls are not equal- one has a high capacity for violence. Ted Bundy’s mom supported him to the end.
golden boy phenomenon says:
I agree with this about the mothers of boys (in general, of course). When my sister had her “golden penis” child two years ago, she became obnoxiously sexist. She went from talking about how her daughter in positive terms, to bitching that her dolls were “slutty” and totally shafted the poor kid in favor of the “golden boy”. Now the pre-teen daughter is framed as causing ALL the problems in the family, while the male child is kowtowed to like a little tyrant.
I quit speaking to her when she started allowing the toddling male child to interrupt our conversations and allowing him to quote “correct” us. I told my sister that as an adult woman I was offended that she expected me to defer to a fucking toddler because he is male. It was absurd, but she really thinks that encouraging him to “act like a boy” which means teaching him that he has the right to interrupt adult women and that women should defer to him at all times.
I really feel that my sister is raising a future date rapist and it makes me sad. Her boy child is encouraged to be loud, destructive and obnoxious while the girl is snapped at for every minor infraction. I really think that my sister is transferring her views about her husband onto her son. I have seen what can happen to men who are “mother-enmeshed” and treated as mom’s surrogate spouse(usually because the father is a cheater or emotionally unavailable) and it ain’t pretty.
I don’t know what the solution is, but I just wanted to share my experience that sometimes women reinforce the sexist stereotypes when raising boys, too.
Yuck. I’ve seen a lot of what you describe too. Thanks for sharing the gory details!
Thanks sp. I’m sad that this is happening with my niece and nephew, but I won’t tolerate being around that kind of bs anymore. The worst example I have ever seen was from a woman who wrote books about abstinence. I was raised in a christian cult and this woman wrote a book for teen girls about “purity” and asked me to read the manuscript. I was already skeptical about religion at that point but what she wrote really blew my mind.
In the opening paragraph she relates a story about being in a bank and a woman in front of her is wearing a miniskirt. Her boy child(maybe six or seven years old) says something to the effect of “we know what kind of lady THAT is!” and his idiot mother PRAISES him for it and spends the next few paragraphs talking about how her precious boy won’t be sullied by sluts like the lady at the bank. Talk about setting the kid up to be a serial killer! I was so pissed off by that statement that I destroyed the manuscript and didn’t respond to the ladies requests after that.
She still works at a Christian gulag in Texas called Teen Mania where she teaches girls to hate themselves and that they are responsible for the bad behavior of men. You might Google them (click on the recovering alumni link-my teen mania experience) if you want to see how sick it is. I know of people who are working to expose the abuse at that place, but it is an uphill battle.
Anyhow, women as mothers have a responsibility to teach boys respect and self control but too often instead treat them like little dictators who are not responsible for their actions and are entitled to be demanding judgmental assholes. *sigh*
In the opening paragraph she relates a story about being in a bank and a woman in front of her is wearing a miniskirt. Her boy child(maybe six or seven years old) says something to the effect of “we know what kind of lady THAT is!” and his idiot mother PRAISES him for it and spends the next few paragraphs talking about how her precious boy won’t be sullied by sluts like the lady at the bank.
She might want to inform her bratty son that the woman wearing the miniskirt is doing so because that is what mainstream American society expects from women. Being modest is practically a crime, these days. The “Be fuckable or die” mentality is very pervasive. Then, oddly, when women obey, like the above example, that is also a crime worthy of punishment. Men have created an interesting little catch 22 for us, so that nothing is ever right, and we’re always in the wrong, no matter what we do.
Some of the biggest fucking asshole males I’ve ever known were really major mama’s boys. You would think that it would be the opposite, but no. They emit an especially unique brand of misogyny; very passive aggressive and self-righteous. I knew a dude who lived with his mother, taking care of her because she was seriously ill, and he was a real piece of work. it was very important to him to be seen as a “nice guy”, so when called on his fucking arrogant attitude, he would insist that he was “none of those things” and just generally treated me as if I was imagining things. Two words come to mind: closet asshole. But that is how it usually works; the worst people usually have the best reputations. They fool a lot of people. Bundy, Gacey, etc, are perfect examples of that sort of thing.
deedee82 says:
I feel really depressed when I read your articles but at the same time I’m happy to know that someone else cares.
I feel really depressed when I read your articles but at the same time I’m happy that someone cares.
Let me preface by saying I have no delusions that anything I say will alter your trajectory. I understand that you’ve given this a lot of thought and are firm in your convictions. Do know, that in spite of your many assertions that I am too addled to even construct a logical argument, I have also given the debate many years of consideration.
I also understand that it is impossible at this point for me to say anything “right”. Obviously, we aren’t gonna bond and wind up brushing each other’s hair and buying matching BFF necklaces. I’m good with that. But while I’m not going to pretend to know anything about “who you are”, I will say that your style of argument feels more like bullying than an earnest desire to make someone else understand your point of view.
Endlessly declaring how tiresome it is to repeat yourself is not tantamount to elucidation. If someone does not appear to be smelling what you’re cooking, just saying it again and again may not make it any clearer. It’s like raising your voice when you are trying to speak to someone who doesn’t understand English. (If it makes you feel good, you can reframe that scenario so that I’m the “stoopid” foreigner who doesn’t understand what you’re saying. I have a feeling that would give you a lot of satisfaction so that’s my gift to you.)
Also, accusing anyone who doesn’t parrot your ideas of having a dong does not mean “you win”. I will concede that “dude” is a state of mind and I may well fit your definition to a T (see what I did there, I said “T” like in testosterone but it’s also a common phrase so it really brings the whole thing full circle). But it doesn’t mean I’m a man. I tend to choose my phrases carefully, so using the action of making “a fucking sandwich” was deliberate. Because the same scientific school of thought that tells us testosterone correlates with action and a “git ‘er done” attitude (which are often euphemisms for aggression) also tells us that estrogen correlates with emotional lability. So you don’t want to give a women too complex a task, like science, because she’s going to get all hysterical and weepy when things get too difficult. She’s way better suited to housework so the stakes aren’t too high when she gets all flustered.
Furthermore, since estrogen levels in women tend to fluctuate all through the month, it’s pretty much a given that women are going to be all over the map with their feelings all the time (says the traditionally schooled behavioral psychologist). Really, it’s no wonder there are so many “malcontented feminist types” out there- it’s our biological nature to be dissatisfied with men’s behavior no matter what they do.
Your prisoner scenario is an example of abnormal testosterone levels, at any rate. And it holds true for female prisoners as well as males. So if you’re suggesting that we sharpen our pitchforks and go after anyone with a unibrow, I’ll take it under consideration.
Finally, testosterone levels in male and female neonates show a fairly wide gap. By about 6 months, they’re nearly identical and remain so until about the age of 9. So the stark behavioral differences you have noted in children before puberty will have to be blamed on some other biological factor. Or even socialization.
Because we do actually start socializing our children on the day they are born. By the time they can make any sense out of language, they have been labelled “boy” or “girl” countless times. I invite you to read Cordelia Fine’s “Delusions of Gender” for an amusing account of a charming hippy couple who underwent fantastically elaborate measures to raise their children in a “gender neutral” environment. They were ultimately unsuccessful, as they could not isolate their children from the socializing influences of other people.
And socialization is brilliant, because it does not require constant consideration to make it happen. We all do it. Men and women. All the time. Women shave off their daughters’ clitorises with bits of broken glass in Africa and it’s not because they hate them. And it doesn’t require engineering by a committee of men who meet regularly to discuss how these behaviors should be reinforced. I’m not saying that it doesn’t ultimately “benefit” the men of these communities and that the origins are not the direct product of their distant male ancestors. I’m just saying that it happens on autopilot at this point.
Regardless, I am honestly not trying to engage in the verbal equivalent of pinwheeling at the bike racks after school with you. But I do plan on continuing to come to this site as long as the author continues to post. And I do plan on commenting when inspiration strikes, as long as I am allowed to do so.
obviously i mostly agree, but two nitpick, if you don’t mind; “emotional liability” caused by estrogen sounds very dubious to me, considering that testosterone has a much stronger effect on negative emotions/manifestations thereof, as far as i know (not any kind of expert, though, as i’ve said). I think the majority of stereotypes can be classified as follows: denial of negative traits (men being much more abrasively truculent/predisposed toward hollow, unjustified verbal “bitchiness”, and pretending that such behavior is “feminine”, due to its perceived implication of a insecure fear of “proper” aggression) and exaggeration of positive traits (men having substantially greater muscle mass, and pretending it ultimately gives them more than an unrealistically immoderate/insurmountable physical advantage in most strength-intensive situations.)
Second, ritual mutilation of the clitoris is obviously a social construct, or every culture probably be much more likely to do similarly, and with similar frequency, but I generally think such cultures are much more ubiquitously and viciously hateful than cultures that don’t regularly sanction these things. Similarly, I’d surmise that the vast majority of, say, males in Muslim theocracies unambivalently hate all women with profound, obsessive intensity, whereas the vast majority of first-world males have a more subtle, partially restrained contempt for them, almost entirely due to socialization.
Get lost, troll.
And take your friend Leah with you.
oh wow as if telling any troll to “get lost” tells anyone anything other than “Haha, that was a funny post. I want to see more!” You really seem to be quite a bit worse at the deceit aspect of this than anyone else on this site, which wouldn’t be intended to offend, if you weren’t the initial reason I suspect this to be a candidate for MRA site (not a half-bad one, overall, especially if it really is the whole site, which admittedly seems less likely than a significant portion of the comment authors being the only actual MRAtards, what with their vaguely patronizing emulation of the blog’s general stylization, and the fact that regular MRAs seem to moderate everything but inane, assenting hate speech out of their sites very promptly. However, if the stories are true about that demmian guy that runs reddit’s “Feminism” sub being an MRA, I’d say he takes the cake). Honestly, if it wasn’t for the crass, hyperbolic silliness of some of it being so remniscent of textbook MRAs, I’d have guessed this was a sex-positive feminist site trying to discredit sex-negativism, since that would seem more appropriate for the amount of effort and intelligent reasoning that has to have went into most of the assenting posts (even the “crazy” ones; I think some work could be done on this aspect of it, as a person with a legitimate diagnosis that knows many others), but I think at least a few of y’all just have to be straight-up MRAs. If I didn’t do a lot of Web searching, I may have believed in the existence age-old “straw feminist” myth having a real-life version SOMEWHERE on the net, but there’s usually a pretty clear difference between sincere ignorance (like, say, a fundamentalist sermon) and satirical ignorance (like most of you guys, and probably quite a few “official” internet MRAs, though most of these are just exaggerating their real misogyny to be more of a deterrent nuisance when they need to be, IMO, given the inherently idiotic, but nonetheless prevalent nature of bigotry).
^This!
Sorry that was meant for Sugarpuss’s comment.
Well, you’re right about one thing; the male trolls posing as ‘feminists’ can be rather hard to spot sometimes (and there are many who frequent this site). Even when a tired, misogynistic brand of humor is parroted ironically in the context of a feminist blog, it’s not a tremendous leap to assume you were a male troll since that shit is dropped here, in all seriousness, so very often. I take a no-holds-barred approach to discussing why I hate men so you’ll have to pardon the abrasiveness. I guess the social conditioning failed. By the way, you blatantly stated you felt I was unclear so I reiterated *and* expounded upon my points. I couldn’t tell if you were being glib or not since you continuously railed against certain things that I had already addressed in great detail as if you had not read (or carelessly dismissed) what I wrote. There’s a big difference between lax reading comprehension and confirmation bias…just putting that out there.
“The same scientific school of thought that tells us testosterone correlates with action and a “git ‘er done” attitude (which are often euphemisms for aggression) also tells us that estrogen correlates with emotional lability.”
Actually, *that* scientific school of thought does differentiate between actual physical/verbal abuse and assertiveness/confidence. The general consensus is that assertiveness and confidence are not ‘aggressive’ nor are they considered biologically gendered traits due to lack of evidence. The (biological) studies I referred to, and every argument made thereafter, solely concerned the ramifications of testosterone evoking hostile, abusive behaviors (physical and verbal). These results were gleaned from empirical testing and not just statistics. Hormones indeed have an effect on the brain and, yes, estrogen effects the brain as well (more prone to tears – yes, this is empirically factual). That men choose to *interpret* estrogen’s effect on the brain as ‘inferior’ and then proceed to associate anything they find loathsome with ‘femininity’ is social conditioning. The key difference being that there is no proof estrogen’s effects hamper our ability to lead while there is much evidence to suggest that testosterone is a potential menace to society if left unchecked. In other words, the male and female brain *is* structurally different yet misogynistic interpretations of female behavior have no basis in reality due to lack of empirical evidence. Testosterone and its role in violence and aggression, on the other hand, is absolutely rooted in scientific fact. By the way, you are the one who is invoking “traditional behavioral psychology” (Freud, among others, has been discredited and proven wrong by actual science, just FYI) in a desperate attempt to purposefully misconstrue my points. Cut that shit out and I might be able to take you seriously.
Quit being glib. Violent criminals have higher rates of testosterone compared with the general population and the rest of the non-violent criminal population. The point being that the ills of testosterone rear their ugly head when they make an abnormally high appearance in women as well, even when those women had been subjected to a lifetime of the exact same socialization process. In this instance biology beat socialization. My actual “suggestion” is this: “What if” (your favorite phrase) women in the general population had T levels comparable to those violent female criminals (or men in general)? Would the amount of women committing violent crimes rise to a rate comparable to men? Coupled with the corroborating evidence gleaned from additional studies, my hypothesis would be “Yes, indeed”.
Testosterone shapes the anatomical structures of the brain in-utero; puberty is not required for these permanent and irreversible changes to occur. These stark differences in subcortical structures are even visible in an ultrasound. We know (empirically via MRI mapping) that the amygdala (primitive seat of emotion; larger in males), various parts of the cerebral cortex (language, communication, ‘higher thinking’; too many differences to list), and that more connections between hemispheres (corpus callosum) occur in women. Gendered behavior congruent with the functions of the aforementioned structures can be observed as early as two to three and, in some instances, even infancy: female infants talk sooner and more often, and that male infants/toddlers display more verbal/physical aggression (rooted in amygdala) whereas girls display more relational aggression (damage relationships/self-esteem/status; rooted in communication). On the other hand, exactly when, how, and to what extent social conditioning has the ability to affect behavior is entirely reliant upon interpretation by researchers. For instance, if biology always takes a backseat to social conditioning then why does homosexual behavior exist? Surely the world’s population should be 100% heterosexual given the fervent myths about the ills/dangers of homosexuality and yet here it is: observable in animals, cross-culturally in humans, and even the brain differs structurally between straight/gay individuals of the same gender.
Nevertheless, my arguments have never been steeped in black or white thinking and *both* biology and social conditioning work in tandem to create the monstrous male behavior women have been forced to contend with the world over. Your insistence that testosterone and associated biology has little/nothing to do with the current (disproportionately male) violent sociopolitical climate is my dilemma. When feminists ignore that there are marked differences in biology proven to effect cognition and behavior in multiple ways we end up looking more than a bit silly.
“Socialization is brilliant, because it does not require constant consideration to make it happen.”
Finally, for the record, misogynistic socialization is intoned by both women and men because men insist on *consciously* perpetuating their rhetoric. Socialization is never a passive process at any stage and, like a flame, needs constant fuel (or consideration about whether these myths should be perpetuated) to survive. If men suddenly ceased spreading myths about their superiority and our inferiority, then (predictably) gendered social conditioning would not retain its power over public perception to such a sizable degree. Unfortunately, preachers, politicians, academics, military officials, teachers, authors, screenwriters, etc. make a choice to actively oppress women rather than actively debunk/refute these superiority myths which would imply that their privilege is not some god-given right or deserved in any way. I believe, deep down, men know this is true and to stave off that insecurity they consciously, fervently, continue to perpetuate the illusion.
Chaz Dean makes me want to puke. Yup, he’s back on QVC, hocking his wildly over-priced shampoos & little vials of witchdoctor hair serum. Another fine example of maleness. Lolz. Profiting off the insecurities of women. I hope that muppet-faced dickbag slips on a loofah sponge in the shower.
I hate men with foot fetishes. That has to be the most ridiculous thing ever. It’s so creepy how men expect women to be perfect, right down to their fucking toes! Feet are designed for transportation, not the object of some pervert’s abnormal wank fantasies. I also find this particular obsession to be highly classist; only a rich woman has “pretty” feet. Who else has the time and/or money to sit around rubbing lotion into their feet all day & getting pedicures? I have never heard of any woman obsessing over a guy’s feet…yet men LIE and claim they are as much victims of unreasonable beauty standards as women are! HA!
Take a good, long look at those in power. All men. All nerds. And all UGLY. Certainly not the oppressed class they try to make themselves out to be. Quite the opposite.
Yes I have never seen an attractive man.
Malavi Sengupta says:
I agree completely, except for 2 points:
1. Evolutionary Psychology is not a pseudoscience. Some of the research in that field is flawed because of confirmation bias, etc. (That’s where the “women are evolutionary primed for monogamy while men like to spread the stuff around” bs came from) but if done right, you can learn a lot.
2. Gender is not purely a social construct, there is a biological aspect in it. It is not a binary, and it is certainly more complicated than XX –> woman, XY –> man.
So, you disagree completely.
You’ll delete this, I’m sure, but the frequency of “normal”-looking users popping up (full names and all) is also looking a bit suspicious, after you start to look into it, even if said suspicion doesn’t come from one with my (blatantly exaggerated, but diagnostically appropriate) tendency toward paranoia. I respect the level of art that went into this, if it is as fake/satire, (based on the less dramatized reasons I mentioned, like response rates, consistency/abrupt discrepancies thereof, writing levels, and verbal stylization) of sex negativism (or of MRAs mocking it; never thought about that, but I’d be much more comfortable with that, despite it having a similar probable effect on average readers, IMO), as most known/suspected serious MRA fakes (like demmian, as I mentioned) are hardly so entertaining. I get the impression the entertainment value IS worth it for you, though, else I’m sure you’d go the more seamless, politically correct route. Still, the most confusingly convoluted back-and-forth tends to be the best part, IMO, so maybe switch it up again for more rad conspiracy types?
My understanding of the Confirmation Bias is that it occurs when the scientist finds that the conclusions meet his or her expectation, the scientist declares causation, when perhaps the correlation was not actually the cause.
Confirmation Bias, as an attack against any scientific study, would thus be an inapplicable form of criticism when the critic is really trying to say that the conclusion of the study was wrong altogether (eg, to say that the scientist made an error when they declared that testosterone indeed affects aggression and personality).
It is one thing to say that the chap who conducted the study made an error in his conclusive findings; it is quite another to say that the results produced the correct conclusion, but that the reason for the conclusions was distorted by Confirmation Bias.
Thus, criticizing the scientist with the accusation of Confirmation Bias when they concluded that males are inherently different, is an baseless criticism. What you are really trying to say is that the overall conclusions of the study were wrong, which is not Confirmation Bias.
not too hard to beat this one, dude/not dude/fake person, sorry. i never said i was doing science, and i did say there is no proof to be had here, which clearly contradicts science’s requirements, and confirmation bias’s applicability as a remote concern. i know i won’t win here, anyway, but thank yall for being considerate about further explicating your intentions to ME, by bringing this account back, out of nowhere, and switching it’s side. pretty deft. also, i don’t mind you cherry-picking my posts to be kept; i don’t think this site is big enough to be the big issue i made of it, even though assuming disingenuous play of some kind is sound enough to conclude, based on apparent verbal patterns alone.
“not a remote concern” is an exaggeration; nothing posted thus far is even sourced, so no substantively unbiased science is necessarily present at all, but the resulting, far from refutably biased accusation of bias (on my part) tends to eliminate the potential for any bias as a standalone refutation to either argument.
Certainly an eye-opening read. As a male, I have lived every day of my life for as long as I can remember with male stereotypes and society’s “expectations” of males being slammed into my head and it seemed to be rubbing off on others as well. To be a “real man”, one has to hide his emotions, be a disgusting raging misogynist, and give in to unnecessary norms and any one who doesn’t is a “fa**ot” or a “wuss”. Being around other males who have unfortunately fallen victim to this idea of “masculinity” or “male superiority” has ruined my life and is responsible for most of my depressive symptoms for the past many years.
Until we can learn to do something about the male attitude, and start treating women with respect (as us men would like to be treated), society will continue on its downward spiral. Thank you for writing this blog; I no longer feel alone concerning my opinions on other males.
Boo-hoo.
You don’t know what it means to have a “ruined life” till you’ve lived in this shithole world as a female, so please stop whining. Selfish prick.
I personally do not see how such a comment I made warrants such a reaction, but of course, I am not one to judge another’s initial response as I don’t know what’s going through anyone else’s mind. I’m not whining, I am speaking my mind and supporting this blog and its general idea. I want to be supportive and to help people, but it seems as though that’s out of the question here. I am young, after all. I don’t know much but I really do try.
I’m really sorry if my comment offended you, which clearly it did. I will stay out of this discussion now as I don’t want to trigger anything further.
theoreticalgrrrl says:
Joseph, there’s a lot you can do to help change society. Challenge the men you come across with these toxic attitudes. Be a good example for younger men. Coming to a feminist space and saying you feel bad is not enough, and to many women who are survivors of domestic violence and sexual abuse, it’s can be seen as “poor me” and putting the attention back on men. You have the ability to reach men that we don’t, because men generally don’t think a woman’s opinion is worth much.
Joseph, stay with us! Your comments, ideas and intellect should be expanded – not cut down.
My first impression of you is that you seem to be a kind and thoughtful person. I for one would never discourage such a person from expressing themselves.
Your thoughts are more valuable than you realize.
Fuck off, Justin.
92, have fun with your new male friends. I’m outta here.
Hey Sugarpuss msg me on facebook my name is Nereida Filomena
gracemargaret says:
Testosterone does not “cause” violent behavior http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091208132241.htm
Testosterone causes more lean muscle mass. More lean muscle mass means generally being able to successfully beat up people with less lean muscle mass.
Also, suppressing emotions can cause a build up of anger and leads to violent outbursts. MANY men think it’s unmanly to express any feelings other than anger. It’s not that hard to see the outcome of this.
You’re not a victim of your biology, if you are violent, take fucking responsibility for it and stop making excuses.
Men don’t even have to try to analyze their behavior because we live in a male supremacist world where everything men feel and do is natural and the norm (and where male scientists use their biased views to confirm their belief in female “inferiority” ALL THE TIME). Even narcissistic and sociopathic behavior in men, when directed towards women at least, is considered guys just being guys, even the definition of a Real Man. But women’s natural, healthy rebellion against oppression and abuse is constantly pathologized, labelled as “crazy” and hysterical, even fascistic (“feminazI” anyone?).
Amazing how they confined that study to non-violent, innocuous communication in a desperate bid to convince the public that “the sexual hormone with the poor reputation” is not reprehensible.
“A study at the Universities of Zurich and Royal Holloway London with more than 120 experimental subjects has shown that the sexual hormone with the poor reputation can encourage fair behaviors IF this serves to ensure one’s own status.”
…and only ‘if’. How well do controlled environments reflect reality, anyway?
“The study clearly demonstrates the influence of both social as well as biological factors on human behavior.”
Exactly what I’ve been saying all along anyway, although it’s interesting that they totally ignore the biological aspect of their conclusion. Can’t imagine why! Carry on.
PS Just .5mg in a single trial? The average body builder has something usually off the charts whereas the mildest cycle I’ve come across on forums in somewhere in the neighborhood of 1-1.5g/week for several months at a time. Call some of those guys in a few weeks time and see if they behave/converse exactly the same.
Can you link to the full source for this, please? I always thought the study/related studies cited in gracemargaret’s post sounded like an unnecessarily polarized abuse of the fact that “correlation does not imply causation”, even though I disagree with most of what you say about biology (especially about verbal aggression and physical aggression typically being anything resembling a dichotomy, as well), but I see no reason to let my bias get in the way of having a better argument against something that I feel serves little to no purpose for anything other than apologizing for groups of people that I only comprise one constituent of, and perfunctorily hate even more than I perfunctorily hate the rest of humanity (with very limited individual exceptions).
Rididill says:
Lucas I was going to reply to your comment but then it disappeared, so I guess ‘the author’ (aka Nine Deuce, u can always call her that u know) probably echoes my sentiments. In the beginning it was actually quite hilarious but now your nonsensical paranoid gibbering is getting LONG.
Suppressing emotions is unhealthy, that’s true. My position is that men must take responsibility for their actions despite biological differences.
Men are expected to be strong and tough, and not show negative emotions. Indeed, they may choose to take out their emotions in the form of violence, and that’s obviously harmful.
I applaud people when they criticize the negative aspects of masculinity as harmful; we need more of such criticism. But it is unhealthy to say that ALL men are all evil. That is not a statement that rational minded citizens will take seriously.
Don’t forget that male strength is generally celebrated as positive in our society. You want a strong man to save you from a burning building, hostage situation or rescue you from a flood channel by helicopter. Positive male strength is considered a premium by mainstream society.
My point is that it is good to criticize male violence, misogyny and their obsession with sports. Men should learn to take out emotions in constructive ways… However, I cannot accept demonizing ALL aspects of male toughness since we all benefit from it. You want men to be tough on the battlefield to protect your country. What would happen if the men at Normandy weren’t tough enough to fight the Nazis and liberate Europe?
Male strength, when directed in positive channels is beneficial to society.
To clarify,
Hating the negative aspects of masculinity is fine. But literally hating all men without knowing them personally is unjust.
A hatred of literally all blacks or all Jews would be indefensible. When it comes to gender, we must follow suit with the same ethical standards of judging other people.
Here’s the difference:
As a practical matter, hating men may be more rational than hating women. But as an abstract concept, hating all men and hating all women are morally equal in their wrongness.
Which post were you referring, the one at 3:13 or 3:22 ?
The one positing the moral equivalence of hating all men and hating all men.
yeah, this is actual a pretty terrible one for you, man. “Morally equal”? Let’s not push it. It’s not NICE to hate anyone, but who even hates all men, anyway? S/he even put some substantial apologetics in this one, saying ALMOST all and contradicting the biological essential parts in places. Annd why would hating all blacks or Jews not be indefensible? or even specifying the race of a person you hate for no reason? I didn’t say it, before, but you ARE one of the more suspicious-looking ones, when you get lazy. No offense, though, because I think I’d rather be a hated suspect of many horrible things than actually be them.
Clarification: the sheer rarity/possible non-existence of actual “man-hating”, besides the more flagrantly MRA-patented kind is a HUGE reason for my initial/still somewhat persistent suspicions, epsciley whn not wrded liek thszomg.
What would have happened if the men in Nazi Germany weren’t tough enough to kill the Jews and start a world war?
Are you suggesting that women (collectively) aren’t TOUGH enough to start wars!? Why not just go with the vast majority of women not being completely incorrigible shit (compared to the vast majority of men, and generally a lot closer to being factual, IMO)? If you think training isn’t what 95% of what seperates a fighter from a huge asshole that thinks he/she is immune to having his/her skull shattered on the ground before he or she finished his or her first motherfucking taunt, please stop watching so much TV. Enough muscle mass is a pretty huge advantage, but only if it doesn’t slow you down (in which case it’s a disadvantage, a la most UFC heavyweights that aren’t tall and skinny as fuck).
also, maybe the fact that men are much, much less likely to get raped to death (until the end of the war, at which point the killing part would be postponed indefinitely, I’m sure) by the masses, if they happen to be part of an army or culture that loses a war, is a factor??
BTW, I specified collectively, because if you don’t think that there are individual women out there capable of topping pretty much any competitive ranking out there EXCEPT UFC (and equivalents), then you’re a lost cause.
In reply to the Nazi Germany thing.
Way to miss the point. I was responding to Justin’s assertion that because men defended us from the Nazis then masculinity is a-ok sometimes and something to be celebrated.
Unfortunately i can’t remember the quote exactly or who said it but my point is this:
who says we need men to protect us? without men, what would we need protection from?
It’s a protection racket, is what it is.
ok yeah nvm i see that now. still, that’s not necessarily a terribly unpopular type of assertion coming from people claiming to be feminists (typically armchair philosophers that consider themselves above application, like Justin, but not always), and the alignment of comments on this blog seem random (?), so I didn’t even know that was a reply to Justin, and didn’t scroll up further to check. Not that I would’ve been able to tell for sure anyway, but fuck this pretentious debate. I hope he doesn’t come back with another fucking. nevermind
yeah I tried to reply to his post but for some reason it came up at the bottom not sure what happened there.
Among radfems it is not a popular assertion. This is a radfem site.
yeah, i know, that’s why it surprised me; not that i fault, say, female kindasorta activists with no academic backgrounds in feminism or other sociological theories for perpetuating this, since at least they’re trying, and it’s not like almost all of society isn’t trying to prevent them from figuring that out.
not male because they don’t have to deal with the consequences of being wrong about it, whether or not they think they’re feminists. i don’t a fuck what gender you are, i still almost certainly hate you. also academic background because the general populace needs it pretty fucking bad if they think I’M some kinda fuckin genius, equally regardless of how hardcore feminist/poorer choice of activist type/sane/sober they think they are.
sorry if I am commenting twice again it keeps going funny. I tried to reply directly with that Nazi comment but for some reason it came up at the bottom.
It is not a common assertion among radfems. This is a radfem site.
Yeah the conversation has become pretty derailed, which obviously I have played a big part in. Sorry ND.
@Justin: No, I don’t want a man to save me from a hostage situation or be tough on the battlefield to protect my country. I want men to stop taking hostages and stop attacking other people’s countries in the first place. But they’re never going to stop. Know why? ‘Cause they’re men, and that’s what men do. (And, btw, women can pull other women from burning buildings and fly helicopters, too.)
OH HELL I thought I could only see those because they were cached, and I never clear my history (or anything like it). LOL. for real, though, I know I’m even more dramatic than everyone else, but a large portion of the content on this site IS pretty suspicious/MRA-ish (even though I know I botched my arguments for that pretty hard) besides Nine Deuce’s, generally CPB’s, and some of the less trolly moderates/indirect dissenters. Also, unless you know any of the people on here, it’s not like ANY of it couldn’t technically be faked (for whatever reason). The demmian fiasco on Reddit was a real thing, and it was almost seamless, IMO, until close to the end. Proof ain’t gonna happen, but MRA behavior is practically defined by elaborate deceit, and it’s usually either utterly pathetic or unrecognizably innocuous-looking, which I think is ultimately one of the best arguments for this site NOT being a sham. thanks for the heads up, though; I thought most blogs required pre-approved access, so I tried to see how crazy I could get with my posts numerous times. lololol
What I’m saying is that as a de facto matter, it is understandable why people don’t like the male gender. Men have caused most of the harms in the world, and to dislike them for it is something that is at least rooted in facts and figures.
But as an abstract concept, hating all men and hating all women are the same. That is because the blanket hatred of all members of a group is objectively wrong. Otherwise, why would racists be any different than a hatred of all males? The difference is not there.
One cannot simply say “but men have caused so much damage, therefore hating all members of a group is acceptable.” The issue is not whether men have generally been harmful (they certainly do cause most violence and war). The issue is whether a Nazi’s hatred of all blacks and Jews is morally equal to hating all men.
Using a right wing/left wing paradigm clarifier will not suffice. The left right issue is not a justification for hating all members of a group.
Nine Deuce, you know where I have always stood. I know that men as a gender need reform. I just don’t believe in true and literal hatred of all members of a group.
Why, in your opinion, do you disagree with my statement regarding the difference between practical vs abstract moral nature of hating entire groups?
So you’re REALLY trying to seperate the “abstract” elements of hatred from its inherently socialized, omnifaceted, psychological causes and effects? Hating anyone is very hard to justify with rational argument, but we’re not debating the internal implications of hatred, since internal anything can’t do harm to anyone but the person harboring it, without some kind of outlet. In the case of bigotry, a white man’s outlet is most of society, whereas any woman’s “bigoted”, semantic equivalent is basically the thirty people on earth (yeah, I went there; most women don’t accept socially unsupported hatred; be real) that don’t mutter “pfft, silly cunt, trying to act equal and be superior at the same time” when a woman says she HATES all/almost all men, period (even though there isn’t necessarily even an attempt to present it as anything other than a factually unsupported sentiment). No matter how much seething, violent intent you choose to extrapolate, the very notion that men are getting randomly attacked, battered, raped, tortured, etc. because some KRRRRAAAZY biotches are going around doing this to them indiscriminately, or that the results of the most debaucherous misandry you can make up are remotely morally comparable to those of misogyny is quite frankly MRA-talk, and nothing more.
Fuck it, a MAN’s outlet is all of society but lighter-skinned men. Whatever; I really hope you’re next argument isn’t as annoying.
isme says:
As an abstract, totally devoid of any question? What does it matter then?
In anything like the real world, you cannot compare hatred of a minority by those in power to the hared of those in power by a minority.
Unless you mean to say that the Nazi German hatred of “lesser” peoples is the same as those people’s hatred of those who fit the Aryan ideal. Amongst other things, the latter is a response to the former.
> “In anything like the real world, you cannot compare hatred of a minority by those in power to the hared of those in power by a minority.”
If you’re talking about the level of harm that is inflicted by one group upon the other, you’re spot on.
However, as an issue of right and wrong, hatred of an entire group is wrong, regardless of whether they are a minority or in power.
The actual harm that a minority suffers by a majority oppressor is certainly more conspicuous, palpable, and much broader in scope. Everybody knows that, and that was not my point.
If you’re trying to say that men hurt women more than women hurt men, we’re not on the same page, since that is a fact which I have never denied.
Hatred of an entire class is morally wrong and must be distinguished from levying criticism against a group of bad-doers who are worthy of criticism or reprimand.
A minority hating a majority for specific harms is perhaps more understandable than a majority hating a minority, but hatred of an entire group is antithetical to our society’s values.
The wrongfullness of the complete hatred of an entire group is not measured by the size of the group targeted by the hater. That would be the fallacy of confusing statistics about a targeted group (eg, men cause more violence) with the general principle to avoid broadform hatred (eg, the principle that one should never hate everybody in a group).
In conclusion, hating all members of either gender is morally repugnant and morally equal.
A moral opposition to the a hypothetical, amorphous concept of hatred is just as irrational as such hatred itself, IMO. Morality, without an applied context is, at best, a preponderant social pattern. Furthermore, equating it to actual suffering is dangerously close to the kind of obfuscation that people much more devious than MRAs thrive on.
> “Morality, without an applied context is, at best, a preponderant social pattern.””
I certainly don’t agree with that. Morality is objective, not subjective.
If morality were based upon popularity, we’d be committing the fallacy of appeal to popularity.
Objective morality has never existed without some kind of established context, even though it technically could, IMO. Utilitarian-style morality (the only kind that ultimately matters, though it is typically portrayed as antithetical to relative types of morality, which it almost never actually turns out to be, due to most sources of suffering being interrelated, admittedly) would probably still be touted exclusively by religion, had scientific inquiry failed to identify the objective reality of the relationship between belief and manifest adversity via observation of real events. Not that your attempt to define morality based on purely abstract implications was wrong, or what I mainly took issue with, but I am very disinclined to believe that such philosophies would have necessarily even come into existence, as an explanation non-barbarians seem to be comfortable with, had it not been for applied analyses of the detriments of conventionally accepted “good”.
Also, even having a factually corroborated type of autonomous morality (which we don’t) still wouldn’t mean we should be the comparing its worst applications to its nebulous essence, because that’s still (EXTREMELY grating) politician-esque pretense.
Morality is objective. If it were subjective, it would be based upon popularity or personal opinion. For instance, whether a piece of art is beautiful is a subjective opinion. Whether it’s a particular color is objective.
The great danger that the political left takes when it declares morality to be subjective is that it is a self-destructive position.
If morality is subjective, than rape and domestic violence are morally acceptable if a majority of people in a particular culture believe it to be so. Subjectivism taken to the extreme could even insinuate that if one particular person believes such acts are defensible, than it is right FOR that particular person (morally).
I believe it hurts feminism to even hint that morality is subjectively based. Morality cannot be merely what one person thinks, otherwise how would you suppose to declare rape to be wrong? Remember, you can’t just say “I believe that it’s harmful.” Some men think it’s a man’s “right” to do what he wants to women. Is his subjective opinion on ethics equal to your opinion on that matter? If not, than why? Is it an indeed an objective question of ethics instead of subjective? Certainly.
Some say “it is wrong to tell others what is right and wrong.” Do you see the self-defeating contradiction in that statement?
My point is that feminism should not take that route when it comes to answering the question of how one arrives at determining what is truly right and wrong. It is a logical contradiction.
“hating all members of either gender is morally repugnant and morally equal.”
Being angry is not the same as hating. All I see here is women who are fed up and angry over the fact that we have to *constantly* fight and fight and fight and beat our heads against the wall in hopes that men will somehow understand that we are human beings. It’s exhausting and after a while you do start to wonder if there might be something seriously wrong with men, because they can’t seem to feel even the most basic form of human empathy for women.
We have to fight for something so basic that you, as a man, never even have to think about.
@Justin: Hahaha! “Hatred of an entire group is antithetical to our society’s values.”
Our society? You mean the society of men. Society IS men.
@Justin: Do you “hate” Neo-Nazis and white supremacist types? No? Because you think it would be wrong to hate, so you don’t hate anyone, right? Ok. But I’ll bet you can at least say that you want Neo-Nazis and white supremacists to stay far away from you, right?
Well, I don’t “hate” men. I just want them to stay far away from me and all women.
“I thought most blogs required pre-approved access”
are you new to the internet by any chance?
“Morality is objective, not subjective.”
hahahahha no. Morality is about the most subjective thing there is, what are you on? And popularity? Weren’t you the one who was JUST going on about ‘our society’s values’ when talking about why hatred of an entire class was wrong, rather than giving any actual argument? Who the fuck cares about ‘our (patriarchal) society’?
“A moral opposition to the a hypothetical, amorphous concept of hatred is just as irrational as such hatred itself, IMO”
Most sensible thing you’ve said here Lucas.
Well, my last comments came thru a little slowly so now there is more to answer to.
Justin, you seem to be confusing universality with objectivity.
Anything defined by humans is by definition subjective. Morality is a human construct. It cannot be objective.
You also seem to be confusing subjective with relativist also.
These are not the same thing. One can argue for a universal morality based on certain principles, but this is not objectivity. The objective world is a world that exists outside of human interpretation. If morality is objective, where does it come from? The rocks, the grass, the sky? God?
I’d say morality probably CAN, and definitely should be held to a humanly attainable standard of approximate objectivity; however, even the epitome of established (relevant) science has yet to create an internally unequivocal OR universally applicable definition for it, especially in the abstract, so Justin’s carefully articulated neglect to address the necessity of external consistency in legitimately contesting this.
**…this speaks for itself.
sadly, no. I’ve always struggled with retaining remotely technical information.
My position is that subjective morality is relativism. They are really the same thing. If not, how are they different in your opinion?
As for the source of morality, again it can’t be mere opinion. That would lead us down the dangerous path of justifying virtually any act.
> “The objective world is a world that exists outside of human interpretation.”
I mostly agree with that statement. But I would say that humans can discover objective truth about the universe by using the scientific method. Logic and the gift of human reason allow us to arrive at certain conclusions that cannot be refuted by rational minds. For instance, that oil floats on water, or that the earth revolves around the sun.
That is to say, objective conclusions may be determined accurately by using observation, control groups, re-testing, considering all possible alternative explanations, and of course keeping the scientist’s mind open if greater evidence later emerges that disproves the original theory.
If a person walks in and says ‘morality is relative or subjective,’ I would play the Devil’s advocate and argue that rape, and murder are morally acceptable -because, gee, morals are relative and subjective to individual interpretation and some people don’t think its wrong to do those acts. At which point, the relativist would be left in the uncomfortable position of trying to explain why morals are still nothing more than mere subjective opinions that ethics have no higher source, but that somehow their view of ethics is correct, thus contradicting their very thesis.
I believe that normal humans are born with an inherent understanding of right and wrong, at least in a basic sense. Children know that it is wrong to steal. One could argue that the idea that stealing is wrong is merely ‘cultural programming.’ I would take issue with such a theory because the human rational mind can make basic moral conclusions by our nature, except where the brain has been damaged or did not develop properly (eg, mental illness).
If we cannot make objective conclusions, than how can we diagnose mental illness? Who is to say what is normal? The psychopath would be in a morally equal position to diagnose the rest of the world as insane, and himself as normal. Again, we have natural tools at our disposal – like human reason.
We can abstractly declare that objective truths exist outside of human interpretation, but as a practical matter, we humans certainly have the ability to determine truth by observation and human reason.
You’re the one trying to turn subjectivity and objectivity into a dichotomy, not me. Many beliefs are influenced to some degree by observations that tend to be interpersonally consistent, and vice versa. That alone doesn’t confirm the scientific validity of those beliefs.
Nor does it attest to the complete independence of thought from reason, I should add.
Where something would lead us has very little to do with whether it is true or not. If this is the basis by which you judge facts, I understand why you are confused by the concept of objectivity as you basically decide what is true according to the moral conclusions you would like to draw. That is what you are saying here – that morality must be objective because the alternative would be too morally abhorrent to you. Which is of course, ridiculously subjective.
One can say that morality is subjective without agreeing that one’s personal morality has to accept other moralities. Relativism implies you have to respect it when someone has a different opinion than you. I don’t think saying morality is subjective means you have to respect someone else’s morality, particularly when it includes rape and murder.
It is simply not possible for morality to come from anything other than humans.
children know it is wrong to steal? That is ridiculously untrue. And what about societies that don’t have private property?
“If we cannot make objective conclusions, than how can we diagnose mental illness?”
We can’t. Duh.
If the human brain is so good at naturally being moral, then why does the world look as it does? This is clearly bullshit.
Besides, I don’t see what ‘human reason’ has to do with objectivity. With empiricism we can get closer to objectivity. Science is about empiricism more than it is about reason, though of course they are linked. But pure reason has nothing to do with science.
Lucas can you give an example of a scientific methodology that would get us closer to an objective morality?
A person who believes that morals are subjective or relative, will likely believe that their version of ethics is correct.
I have never met a person who believes that morality is subjective and believes that their own moral views are incorrect.
In any event, it seems that what relativists/subjectivists are saying about morality is this: “Morality is subjective/relative to our culture, but it’s just plain wrong to rape and kill. That’s crossing the line”
– What such a statement is really saying is that there is a line to be drawn (murder is wrong since “everyone agrees.”) And that prior to arriving at that line, all else is open to opinion, in which nobody’s opinion is more valid than the next.
The problem is how does one draw such a line? Who is to say that the “line” should be drawn at rape? Maybe the line should be drawn where one rapes more than 10 people. Or perhaps the “line” should be drawn at 500 people.
If morality is subjective/relative, you can’t draw such a line ANYWHERE.
Morals are either objective or they are not.
What I am opposed to is when people indicate that morality is nothing more than society’s opinions, and then turn around and say: “domestic violence is wrong!” But not everyone in society believes that. Not all societies ban it.
Here’s my question to you: Regarding the domestic violence debate (whether it’s right or wrong to beat one’s wife) Which side is right?
You? …. Why exactly?
ugh ok i should really quit now, but goddammit this is like a fucking addiction. also, i have no real education, but I guess trying to experimentally prove a reductionist concept of a universal/near-universal detriment (not necessarily predisposed) to the quantitative definitions of living standards (and yes, with demographical considerations, because I’m fucking sorry, but all of the whites/men in a country yielding statistically favorable results does not mean the rest of the population would even look like an acceptably stereotypical first-world nation, on paper, with them removed from the equation) would be a considerable improvement on this particular issue, because he, a cut above the typical pseudo-moralistic, academic, “authority” attempted to almost directly justify initiative violence (the least equivocal component of an ecumenically undesirable principle/”morality”/whatever), by placing it on the same level as… literally nothing, and saying that the meaningless concept he equated it to was bad (as if that concept was the problem, and not all the one-sided suffering it causes); since the prevailing pedagogical interpretations would probably classify HIM as a “fringe misandrist” (using pretentious corporate euphemisms, of course), I think that’s about as close to objectivity as it’s reasonable to expect, at least until the current, de facto world government/sociopolitical paradigm is COMPLETELY eradicated (which it hasn’t been since, like, the dawn of humanity), and a funded alternative has an actual chance of happening. argh fuck i told you i can’t do it i’m a moron at science ytf do i keep trying so hard!!??
**:… standards WE CURRENTLY USE.
also correlatively, not experimentally, since that would be secondary analysis, AFAIK.
My understanding of the divide between Marxism and western capitalism is as follows. The left sees the world as an oppressive society. Whereas non-Marxists generally feel content with the way things are.
Both sides of the aisle will admit that injustices occur in our society, here-and-there as incidents. (eg, an employer refuses to pay his employees their wages) The division seems to be centered on whether society’s way of functioning is oppressive, systematically.
The Marxist would likely argue that the very nature of our society is in need of serious liberation, rather than saying that the courts can hammer out specific acts of injustice on a case by case basis. Marxists are unlikely to be impressed with such an approach, as would be taken by our established western school of thought.
When a leftist feels that they are oppressed by a society-wide apparatus of injustice, a superfluous set of complaints and arguments are generally emitted thereafter.
The Marxist is a rather disgruntled character, never satisfied with western ideals of self determination, private accumulations of assets, or business.
The Marxist is a believer that equality should be society’s highest virtue (or at least one the most important virtues). The error that the Marxist commits is the assumption that equality will bring justice and happiness.
Justin & Lucas, doing what men do best; taking over. There really is no space, anywhere, online or off, that’s just for women.
I’m sick of these selfish bastards. I hope you all fucking DIE.
In other words, the Marxist is very proud of himself/herself for having been among the few who have awoken to some sort of boogey-man.
An idea’s value must be measured by its practical abilities.
My god. Sugarpuss you are so right. I’m so sorry I encouraged them.
Justin, you seem to be incapable of reading what I wrote. And why the fuck are you talking about Marxism? NO ONE CARES ABOUT MARXISM. THIS IS A RADICAL FEMINIST SITE. Are you stupid or deliberately obtuse? Don’t answer, these were rhetorical questions.
Lucas, that was totally incomprehensible with a bunch of pretentious words thrown in.
The radical feminist lesson here (which has immeasurable practical value) is that engaging with men is a complete waste of time and energy, and only serves to divert us from more important issues.
Hecate says:
Yep, that’s what controlling types excel at – denying anyone space to breathe. It’s only truly enlightened folk who seem to understand the concept of ‘live and let live.’ And I don’t even like the word ‘let,’ as it implies an authority that doesn’t exist in the first place.
I’ve known women who are controllers though. Mostly in the form of my relatives, unfortunately. My sister always talks about what she’ll ‘allow’ others to get away with, as though she were some sort of moral authority. I honestly get along better with my sisters here ;)
Melanie Hamilton says:
Yeah, chica!! If they’re so superior, why do they even care what we poor little weaklings think? What a bunch of ass clowns. I hate ’em too!
I too hope they die painful deaths, They are male entitled scumbags.
Bless you for stating so well all that I’ve been thinking for YEARS! I live in the COMMON-wealth of Kentucky where in the last couple of months the state legislature has come under tremendous fire for the mishandling of sexual harassment complaints. The hit just keep on coming as the scandal is exposed with more vigor. One old fart representative (Arnold) from some freakass little town finally got the message and resigned thinking, I guess, the mess would just go away. It hasn’t and it won’t. It would all be hilarious if it weren’t really happening. It’s like watching the Keystone Kops in action. The Good Ole Boy Network is alive and well in this land of idiocy (KY has, after all, sent two egregious ass wipes to the senate – Mitch McConnell and Rand(om) Paul).
I’ve always wondered why men feel they have to dominate. WTF!!! Why? Why does every single interaction have to be a contest? I’ve had it up to the top of my skull with these morons. I’ve gotten so I ignore them across the board and/or treat them in a very offhand manner. I truly understand where you’re coming from. I need to get to the point where I can despise masculine behavior as you mentioned you have. Right now I’m still in the state of feeling profound hatred for men in general. Politicians and jocks are at the top of my list at present. I think politicians are doomed to stay there.
austin pls answer properly i’m not here to bother you. i’ve been an asshole to you quite consistently, and i meant what i said.
emilybites says:
I wish Lucas and Justin would fuck off.
Guys, if you have created a wall of text under a blog post completely off-topic, you should just swap emails and have a private chat. I didn’t even read a third of the incomprehensible shit you wrote. Here are half a dozen women, asking you to fuck off out of their space. Can you even do that?
If not, ND, would you consider banning these two, please? For ejaculating all over the thread and NEVER. SHUTTING. UP.
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redbluegreen4066 says:
I’ve thought this for a very long time, but this is the first time I’ve read a blog post about it. There have been some studies done (don’t know the link off the top of my head) on the connection between power and lack of empathy which you may find interesting.
Guess what dickbag is on the cover of Rolling Stone?
Was in-line at the convenience store, glanced over at the magazine stand… lo and behold… I saw woman-hater Eminem staring back at me. Some shithead behind me saw it too and ran over to grab a copy. He seemed so fascinated and intrigued.
So, if the “bad men” are just a minority and “most men” are “good”, then how come Eminem is still rich, famous and ADMIRED???
All men hate women. They prove it with their actions. But, don’t forget; it’s not permissible for us to hate them back in return. That type of behavior will earn any woman a “man-hating bitch” label. Such is the hypocrisy of men.
Eminem is an artist and a “lyrical genius,” but Miley Cyrus is the devil incarnate. Hatred and violence against women doesn’t hurt your career (hello Terrence Howard, Mel Gibson, Charlie Sheen, R. Kelly) but an adult female showing some skin and dancing sexay makes the entire country lose their shit and wonder “where did we go wrong as a society??”
Miley Cyrus is acting like a FunFem (sorta like you). Nothing good can come from yet another female “showing a little skin”. That is exactly what men want! Sure, they may point a judgmental finger with one hand, but they are jacking off with the other. Like many girls Miley’s age, she thinks she’s being “rebellious” or “edgy” by exposing herself for pervy male entertainment. She also gives off nothing but attitude when older women (like Sinead O’Connor) try to give her some very sensible advice. I have no sympathy for that handmaiden in training.
nereidafilomena says:
I really did not appreciate Sinead saying she is ‘prostituted’ by the music industry. She has more choice than a prostituted woman. She is not a poverty class sex trafficking victim. Those are the only women who are prostituted. Certainly not a millionaire.
Women of every class can be prostituted, whether you believe it or not. A wise Radfem once said “a gilded cage is still a cage”. I tend to agree with that. For any female-bodied person, money is of little value. Freedom cannot be bought.
wellll…. some freedom can be bought. Like freedom from hunger, homelessness, even freedom from violence to some degree (violence that comes from the outside world, rather than violence which comes from inviting men into your home). And it is freedom from having to trade your physical body for survival. It is true that a gilded cage is still a cage, but that does not mean that money is of little value. It can’t solve everything by any means, but let’s not pretend it does nothing.
I don’t need to be schooled on what it’s like to be a low-income female…since I AM ONE. So go FUCK yourself! I’m just not so damn self-pitying that I can’t see how other women might suffer in different ways from me. I may be poor, but I’m not a young, vulnerable girl in the spotlight around a bunch of pervy assholes.
What the fuck is your problem? I say that money can help some things and you tell me to go fuck myself? I’m not trying to ‘school’ you on what it’s like to be a low income female, I’m not saying rich women can’t suffer in other ways. I just disagree with what you said about money being of ‘little value’. What is there in that that deserves you telling me to go fuck myself exactly?
I told you to fuck off for, what should be, a very obvious reason. Telling somebody like me how bad things are for poor women is a direct slap in my face.
I’m saying NO WOMAN, ANYWHERE, at ANY time, can buy themselves out of a misogynist world. A woman’s money is worth about 1/18 of a man’s. So, by that standard, Miley Cyruss is not a millionaire. In fact, her fucking low-life, hillbilly, one-hit-wonder dad probably gets most of that money. I can’t fucking stand her attitude, but that doesn’t change the fact that she is also a victim of patriarchy.
I have noticed famous women’s abusive family members have almost complete control on their money. However a rich woman can get a good human rights lawyer to defend herself and once she gets the right to her money can live anonymously. Sex trade victims who live in the many states where being prostituted is a crime would need a ton of money to ever get those records expunged. Rich women can still be horrifically abused. I think it is AWESOME you are against intersectionality because it is a bullshit 3rd wave concept that tries to obscure the reality of global female oppression. But I believe RF should be allies of sex trade survivors. If you never heard of Jacqueline S Homan yet she has a wordpress blog called godless feminist and while she is an interectional feminist she offers very solid critique and personal experience of being trafficked on what it takes to stop anyone from being treated like her. She has been in poverty ever since she escaped trafficking and has authored non fiction books too you can help her out by buying. She has a house from a man she married, they collected scrap metal together and he left it for her. What she needs is the ability to have medical care, clothing, food and basic human dignity. She also has lots of friends of facebook and will gladly add you if you are on there. She is also on twitter. She shares some EXCELLENT statuses I keep telling her she needs to post to her blog.
http://godlessfeminist.wordpress.com/
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/without-apology-jacqueline-s-homan/1114891180?ean=9780981567952
Right. and I was supposed to magically know your socioeconomic status somehow…?
Saying I disagree with you about the difference money makes is not the same thing as telling you what it’s like to be a low income woman. I am a middle class woman and I know for a fact that having money has made my life a LOT easier.
So stop trying to ‘SCHOOL’ me on what it’s like to be a middle class woman, and how about you get off your fucking high horse and quit the misogynist insults?
It doesn’t guarantee freedom from male violence, it doesn’t exempt you from patriarchy. But once you’ve realized the reality of patriarchy, it’s a hell of a lot easier to actually act on that if you have enough money to live independently, or have sufficient education to GET enough money to live independently. You can EVEN, as Nereidafilomena says, use that money to help other women.
Sure having money won’t protect you from growing up being raped every night by your male relatives, that’s just luck. But, it’s one less constraint on escaping.
Okay, clearly, Riddick has been smoking a bowl. Misogynist insults? Really? You’re accusing ME of that?
Get back to when you stop hallucinating. Go take a ride in that Caddy. Get some fresh air in those lungs.
I like how a middle class gal is trying to, simultaneously, shit on me and convince me of her privilege.
Fucking crazy much?
I wonder if Rid is disrespecting me because she thinks I’m not poor enough? Do I need to be living in a cardboard box & pissing in a mason jar to qualify?
Asshat breezes in here about every six months and acts like she owns the fucking place. I smell a ding-dong cloaked in nylon.
I have had some disagreements with RFs that make me want to say that but someone told me we should not some words bc they are sexist and even though women do not have the institutionalized power to oppress like men do so it is totally different when a man says a slur, (its always a threat) than when a woman does it we still should try our best not to say them. Being fucked is a form of male violence. At the same time I do not support liberal political correctness. I believe the concept of white privilege is totally idiotic when applied to women and have been called racist for that but the reality is that our patriarchal roles are fuckholes and breeders and fuckholes have no privilege to oppress the other ones. That is some really insidious intersectionality politics creeping into RF, and its goal is to draw attention away from global female oppression.
\The term “fuck you” is not an insult for nothing, men know why – it’s the worst thing you can do to a human being. It is in itself an extremely physically invasive act, very often painful, generally at the beginning before the pain may be cut off by the genital arousal; causes all sorts of tears, bruises, swelling, discomfort, STDs, vaginal infections, urinary infections, genital warts, HIV and death. Not to forget the additional sado-gynecological interventions/ costs of PIV-maintenance, and all the secondary physical mutiliation and financial costs that go with our duty to make ourselves look decorative for male sexual consumption – such as hair removal, make-up, starvation or forced feeding, torturous limb deforming or cutting up, etc.’
http://witchwind.wordpress.com/2013/12/15/piv-is-always-rape-ok/
Yup that is not why I would go as far to use the word prostituted only sex trade workers are prostitued. Women of ALL classes under patriarchy, of every race anything are still oppressed on the basis of being female and ALL men no matter how disprivileged he may be in some ways still have male privilege.
It does matter that he has it because he is still getting better treatment than a woman in the same situation and will never have to deal with the bio terrorism of forced pregnancy ever that even rich women deal with and RFs do believe our oppression is due to the abuse of our biology by men.
Miley has tons of money and could use to it give direct help to women less fortunate, use her famousnes fto bring attention or serious women’s issues like victim blaming, advocating for the Nordic Model of sex trafficking, the harm of gender identity laws, reproductive coercion and tal shows due to her famousness would likely let her talk and spread awareness to lots of Stockholomed women.
She could even choose to leave that industry with the money she’s made and be much more free of men than poverty class sex trafficking victims ever have the hope to be.
This why I believe in advocating for the Nordic Model bc in 46 states survivors of the sex trade are considered criminals by the state and no matter what they do, if they go to university they cannot get a decent job and hope to survive even the sex trafficking orgs will not hire them, somewhere they should be getting genuine help.
We need women have a quality of life that allows them to ponder radicalism but a lot of leftie activism is toxic and should be avoided.
ON sex sex trafficking rather.
How did I even manage to type that twice? You get the point though.
I agree. I would prefer to use a term other than prostituted though like exploited, so I don’t minimize women who are gang raped everyday so they pimps can get money.
This is what I’m saying:
I grew up in an economically disadvantaged household. I’m talking below working class. It’s really nobody’s fucking business, and I hate to bring it up on here, but my mother often traded sexual favors for food or money. She was raped a couple of times. So, when I say I DON’T NEED TO BE TOLD WHAT LIFE IS LIKE FOR POOR WOMEN, YOU CAN TAKE IT TO THE FUCKING BANK.
As for upper middle class females, when I was 16, at an inpatient adolescent behavioral health center, I met a girl who was a child model. She was living with an adopted family because her agent (AKA her father) and her brother would gang rape her every fucking night. That girl was so messed up, she took up to 6 showers a day. She was even afraid to get out of bed at night to use the bathroom because, when she lived with her crap family, her dad & brother would wake up and start messing with her.
While some women may be in worse situations than others because of race, class or whatever, there is NO ESCAPE from The P. All women are prostituted, in many different ways. And I’m telling you MONEY IS WORTHLESS to a woman. Men are the source of it; and what master gives, he can take away. Miley isn’t exactly sitting pretty. She has to expose herself regularly to earn her keep. A lot of women get confused and think it’s a “privilege” to be desired by shithead pervert males. It is not…and I sure as hell wouldn’t trade my simple little life for her’s. All of that money would evaporate in a millisecond if she stopped doing what she does and, say, converted to Radical Feminism. She plays the role, like so many women do. They know what will happen if they stop acting and start getting real; instant death.
I agree saying a female under patriarchy is privileged in any way is being ignorant of female reality under patriarchy and used to divide women. Its actually very misogynist. Intersectionality is liberal male loving poison and its not RF at all. Horrific things have always happened to all women regardless of their social class. Class, race etc only matters for men.
nereidafilomena,
Sexist white males frequently use intersectionality to divide women, saying the feminist movement is just a bunch of white, middle-class women, therefore it’s not to be taken seriously. But their only goal is to dismiss and trash the entire feminist movement, they couldn’t care less about any solutions for inclusiveness of women of color and working class/poor women in the feminist movement.
But that doesn’t mean intersectionality itself isn’t important. If women of color keep telling you that they feel marginalized within the feminist movement, we really really NEED to take that seriously and do everything possible to change that.
I can’t speak for nereidafilomena, but I think only a complete fucking idiot doesn’t recognize the unique challenges facing WoC (black women in particular, who are at the absolute bottom of the privilege ladder, as far as I’m concerned). Not sure where that strawman argument came from.
Just when I thought men couldn’t sink any lower… http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/04/tech/innovation/microsoft-smart-bra/
And this is also a perfect example of how nerdy men are the biggest misogynists of all. Scope the comments for all the usual filth. I really wish all men were dead. That would make my fucking day.
92, you forgot to approve my other comment!
And here is yet another example of how it is impossible for me to find a place to socialize without being forced to deal with some shithead male throwing his weight around.
So, I’ve been posting on a forum that is comprised of mostly female people. There are a few token males (of course) who lurch about, but I’ve been lucky enough to avoid contact with them until now. Apparently, something I said offended one of the whiny little bastards, and he felt the need to comment about it on my profile. He accused me of being (Har Har!) “sexist”! And this is coming from someone whose forum signature reads “If you don’t like what I say, don’t read it. I wont censor myself for anybody”.
This is male hypocrisy at it’s finest. This is what makes me so fucking angry I can’t see straight.
Just tell him you don’t believe in political correctness and won’t censor yourself for anybody. (I hate the term “political correctness” because men use it all the time as a euphemism for misogynistic, hateful shit. I’d love to see it turned around on them for once.)
Oh, I love doing that. Turning men’s shit right back on them. I sent him a private message, basically reminding him of his signature, and how I wont censor myself either. He replied, and let me know that he “didn’t mind” me “being sexist” (if he did “mind”, then what, I wonder?), but he was just “chipping in”. I didn’t bother to respond. I just deleted his message and blocked his ass.
Situations like this are difficult to handle. It can get sticky really fast because, at any time, a dude can invoke his male privilege and send a hoard of handmaidens to attack and/or speak with the mod to get the “evil feminazi” banned. It’s like walking a tightrope, really. I’ve been kicked out of more forums than I care to count, because I failed to bow to the resident rooster.
Once when a co-worker tried to dismiss something I was saying as “political correctness,” I asked, wide-eyed and innocent, “what does “politically correct” mean? I don’t know what that means.” I was waiting patiently and he just stood there speechless, his face started turning red. He had no answer.
It was awesome. :)
I’m a loose cannon with a two-inch fuse, so that type of passive-aggressiveness is difficult for me. That’s why I isolate myself from society; I just can’t deal with the crap. Better to not interact with the scumbags at all, or I’ll end up earning myself a cot in the county jail. :)
At the forum I mentioned, the sad-sack who was complaining about how hard it is to be a man infuriated me even more than the previously discussed asshat. It is taking an internal strength of She-Ra proportions to prevent myself from sending him a private message encased in a fireball of Radical Rage. It’s probably only a matter of time before I blow up….
I have a tumblr where I’ve been posting screencaps that I’ve collected. It’s called The Shit Men Say. Every time some dude runs his mouth about this blog or how bad & wrong women are for hating on men, I’m going to post a link to it.
I’ll be FUCKED!!!!
Just saw a fucking dude complaining about how hard it is to be a man because……*drumroll*….. he’s not allowed to shave his legs, carry a purse, or wear long hair without being laughed at. *cricket chirp*
What is this shit? Can these damn assclowns be for real?! Will somebody please drop a greasy iron skillet on my fucking head? I really can’t take this shit much longer. It’s just….I have no fucking words.
Goddamn mush-mouthed Brits! I’m struggling to transcribe a horrible bit of audio in which the speaker sounds like fucking Jamie Oliver with a cock in his mouth.
/random rant
Nine. Deuce-I’m a huge fan of yours, and love your straightforward, raw, and non apologetic writing style. Thank you for exposing the evil that men do..its never ending. When the try and talk to people about men and murder statistics, their lame response is something like “well women murder too!” women are so brainwashed by the patriarchy.that they’ll defend men until the end of time. I am appalled about Germany’s fucking bestiality brothels!! It made me cry to think of those poor animals and what they must be going though!! I have German ancestry, and an fucking disgusted by my own people. This horrible reality is made because men are so goddamned sick and perverted and can’t keep their disgusting dicks in their pants. They are essentially payiing some fucker to rape an animal!!! And all for money…Once again men prove how degenerate they really are. I’m so glad I am a lesbian, and somewhat of a separatist. I am into female supremacy as well. Isn’t it obvious why? *laughing* How can people think that men are inherently good? I agree with your theory that men do have a choice to hurt people, but. I also think testosterone is a big factor in their psychotic behavior. So many people are in denial about how shitty guys really are. They want to think positively, but the truth is in their face. I read the daily news everyday, and is a pure horror show. I live in NYC, so I want to know what I am up against. I never invite guys into my apartment, never date them, and I always keep my distance. Good way to live if I do say so myself! I am a radical feminist lesbian, and I am proud of it! I have way less stress in my life now that I don’t go out of my way to interact with males. Much love to all of my sisters, and never doubt your feelings! Always be true to yourselves!!
The MRAs claim that in the past couple decades women have gained too much power or they claim that men have lost rights. But one commenter I read said that the MRAs’ grievances are suspect in light of the boom in pornography in the last 15 years. That was a good point.
How can there be “too much female power” or “too much respect for women” if porn has boomed?? That’s the point she was making.
Furthermore, my own feminist beliefs are not a product of “a liberal/feminist college education” since I instinctively viewed women and girls as better than boys since elementary school. My own understanding that men cause most of the world’s problems was obvious to me early on as I had assumed it would be obvious to most people.
So what happens along the way? Well, society programs us to worship malehood and ignore the negative aspects of males. Both men and women are taught to bow to male authority. Feminism needs to focus on resisting that indoctrination.
Wow, bestiality brothels? I’ve never heard of them. How in the FUCK can that even be legal?!
And with that in mind, I would like to offer the following bit, straight from some fucking ignorant handmaiden’s mouth:
I’m surprised most men aren’t gay, because of how women behave
This same piece of shit had previously commented on how she wouldn’t mind “fucking” another woman. A lot of these handmaidens are really into the creepy bisexual-cause-its-trendy thing; they love to objectify women in the same way that men do.
I’ve been spending a bit of time in virtual worlds, semi-passively observing & interacting with the unwashed masses. All I can say is that I’m really disgusted by what I’ve seen and heard. Complete blindness to misogyny, yet utter willingness to fall all over one’s self to point out perceived “wrongs” committed against men. In fact, in a virtual nightclub, the “disgraceful” situation of “not enough clothing for male avatars” was discussed in-depth, whilst a song about raping a 13 year old girl played in the background.
I hate this world. And I hate men.
mapaxn says:
Hi Nine Deuce,
Have you ever researched epigenetics? It’s the study of how human experience affects us on a molecular level in our DNA. If you google “Ghost in your genes” on youtube, there’s a documentary about how traumatic experiences makes genes switch off and on. These genetic changes can last for generations. There’s also emerging studies that show that child abuse causes mutations in DNA that has lasting consequences over a lifetime.
https://www.genome.gov/27554258
I think that the more epigenetics is studied, the more we’ll see how oppression affects people on a physical level, and how far gone we are as a species.
I, too, think gender is a bunch of bullshit. It’s a social construct, and a destructive one at that. It destroys the capacity for genuine, organic identity in individuals; and the capacity for empathy and personal connection on a social level. I postulate that epigenetics can bridge the argument between agency and essentialism – we are living in a profoundly damaged global community, and that damage was caused by male supremacy. Century after century of the abuse, trafficking, rape, and murder of women is bound to have social consequences that are deleterious to global society as a whole. Even to this day, women who wish to discontinue the cycle of abuse are murdered – at least three per day in America. No doubt more elsewhere in the world.
I think people really should sit down and think long and hard about how this is affecting our society. I’m tired of hearing criticism of women’s choices when our choices are limited to how well we are able to continue surviving and existing. We have been stripped of almost all our humanity, to deny us the last instinct – self preservation – is beyond a cruel and unusual punishment that the Constitution would not allow.
I don’t know if humanity can be saved, because the extent to which we have been permanently damaged has not been studied – and certainly not from a feminist angle which would be helpful in instituting policies to preserve what’s left of women’s rights. If people had the slightest understanding of how women’s rights help society as a whole, there would be riots in the streets for the latest legislative rape of women via unborn fetuses. Now, in Texas, a woman won’t be taken off life support even if she has a living will if there is a fetus inside her. The IRS is going to audit rape victims who have abortions.
What I do know for sure, is that we are living a collective nightmare. Only in recent years has this nightmare come to light – like a punch in the face after the normalization of verbal abuse. Patriarchy isn’t just a political concept, it is a horror story beyond all horror stories to have ever existed. We, as a species, have been completely and profoundly damaged by it – most people don’t even know when they are perpetrators or enablers of abuse, or to the extent of consequences that behavior holds for us all.
How to end the nightmare? Since most people are unwilling to hold men accountable for their behavior, or at the very least quit enabling their abusive behavior – I don’t have much hope.
Excellent points, mapaxn.
The epigenetics question is very concerning to me too. But I think people are scared to really find the answers as to how oppression damages on a physical level. Part of that may be our denial of the mind-body connection.
The other issue is our fear of the word ‘victim.’ No one wants to be seen as a victim and obviously abusers don’t want them labeled as such. If there are no victims, there can be no crimes, clearly. But we desperately need to research what happens to victims of trauma. Otherwise healing can never take place.
I saw a poster that read: “Men don’t rape, people rape. Let’s focus on the problem and stop fighting each other”
Because focusing on the problem means ignoring the bloody obvious. Women are no longer allowed to even name the perps. We have to play this game and pretend that female-bodied people are doing the same shit men are doing. All in the name of “humanism”.
Humanism is the belief that Radical Feminism isn’t humanist if it isn’t “inclusive” of men because women aren’t really human.
Quote me elsewhere! :D
What I hate more than anything is when men see this evidence of how women have been/still are raped and beaten horrifically and SO much more than men , and how most rapists are men themselves – they come out and say “B-but men get raped TOOOOOO!”
Oh gawd yes. I’m so fucking sick of that shit.
And, in other news,I had a convo with a haindmaiden, which produced this lovely gem:
Sexist jokes don’t bother me because I’m secure in my womanhood
Because…. I AM insecure for calling some shithead out on his BS, apparently….in the land of puuuuuure imagination!
Nobody says this to ANY other group besides women. Nobody says “that jewish dude must be really insecure because he called out some bigot on his antisemitism” or “that gay guy must be really insecure because he called out some homophobe on his bigotry”.
Only women are expected to eat the shit sandwiches that our oppressors serve to us…and SMILE.
Aidey says:
http://www.missingpersonsofamerica.com/2013/12/lucas-prassas-missing-from-arkansas.html
I remember that name (Lucas Prassas) from this website. Let’s hope he’s just hiding from debt collectors or something and that he’s ok. God.
Redpeach says:
Excellent reading for the third time.
Terhi says:
Here in Finland 60-70% of the sexual abuse experienced by boys calling on boys’ help line is perpetrated by female offenders. I do not know the stats for female victims.
A natural question follows: What is wrong with women when they need to rape boys? Why have we started paying attention to this endemic problem only very recently? Could it be because of feminists who harbour and protect these women?
Probably not. The problem is likely that that’s bullshit.
My mother sexually abused me as a child. So did my grandfather. No one in their right mind would ‘harbor and protect’ such a monster, regardless of sex. If female sexual predators are not prosecuted, I would say it’s more to do with mothers being put up on a pedestal by society in general. True feminists want nothing to do with those women who further patriarchal controls and behaviors.
Sorry this posted twice!
Klaire21 says:
The time of making excuses for the purposely degenerate is over. If someone shows you their true colors, believe them. If a whole gender is unable to control their “biological” depravity it’s time to lock them away from female civilization. Children should be protected from these monsters who don’t think twice about ruining an innocent life.
Men don’t deserve the empathy the world (women) musters up for them again and again. They will never be satisfied or say no to anything a woman does for them but -oh no- they feel so threatened when that privilege starts to cease.
There is a debate on whether men are capable of controlling their sexual urges. My opinion is that men are raised to believe that they need constant sexual relief and that they are entitled to it. This allows for an excuse for male misbehavior. It’s a free pass created by patriarchy. The key to genuinely make men more civilized is to teach them that they do not “need” sex.
Teaching men that they can’t control their urges is dangerous, it opens the doorway to making excuses. Thus, I believe it’s harmful to spread that notion. It’s patriarchy that teaches that men are entitled to sexual use of women because they can’t control themselves.
Instead, boys must be raised to understand that they CAN exercise self control. Patriarchy teaches males that they are entitled to women’s bodies; this needs to change through implementation of stronger feminist principals. Boys need to be raised to look up to women as the better gender. Obviously patriarchy isn’t doing that.
Instead of men rooting each other to use women’s bodies or porn, let’s create a society where men are made to feel deeply ashamed for their lack of self control. Men are presently raised to be dick-focused instead of being compassionate, loving and nurturing people. Let’s stop shaming men for being nurturing – and start shaming men who don’t control their themselves.
Men need to understand that women are much more civilized than men and that men should seek to be more like women. If men understand that women are the superior gender, they’ll be more likely want to be (more civilized) like women so long as men understand why hard masculinity is wrong. Men should want to be more like the superior gender; this can be taught once patriarchy is crushed. Imagine how much more peaceful the world will be if we can accomplish that! That’s a world I dream of making into a reality.
“But lest we fall into the trap of exoticizing sexual abuse — i.e. allowing the men in our midst to deflect attention from their own behavior by invoking the caricatured image of the depraved “Oriental” savage who sexually enslaves his women as a foil to the purported relatively gentlemanly deportment of the Western male*”
You wrote “his women” – I think that is interesting. I guess you did it on purpose, but I see that term used very often, in most cases completely unreflected … the men are people, the women merely their property, the treatment of which determines the men’s claims on civilisation.
And, just because I’m curious: Why did you mention fork handle guy? Looks like “Arson, murder and jaywalking” to me – he may have caused some financial damage to the women who are going to have to pay for his surgery to have the fork handle removed, but if more men explored their male sexuality by sticking things into their urethra instead of sticking their dicks into prostituted women, the world would be a better place.
I definitely did use “his women” on purpose as indicative of the mindset of imperialist men, which is organized around nested hierarchies modeled on male supremacy.
I mentioned fork-dick because his behavior is representative of the total insanity that results when men are given free reign to “explore” their sexuality in a social environment that has been actively warping it since birth. That being said, I don’t disagree that we’d be better off with more fork-dicks and fewer men who abuse women, and I may start a campaign to urge men to give it a shot.
I used to be completely closed off to the idea, but now I’m increasingly entertaining the possibility that this twisted behavior coded ‘masculine’ has some basis in the defective Y chromosome and expresses itself as a form of extreme autism in males.
We do still hold the key to one thing – reproduction. I think going forward it should be the goal of women to make available by any means (even when illegal) abortion services and encourage women to think whether birthing Y-Chromos is a tenable position for a feminist.
There’s absolutely no reason we should NEED to sustain a male population beyond what is absolutely necessary, at least until biotechnological methods allow women to reproduce from purely woman-centric relationships.
Let the males fend for themselves and see how far they get without wombs.
I’m not intending to spam by posting all of this information but I need to debunk so many of the biological determinist gender myths posted on here.
Below is a presentation by Eastern College Christian and Gender Scholar psychology professor Dr.Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen which talks about how much abundant consistent psychological research studies find few gender differences,and much more overlap similarities between them.
Trinity 2007
Opposite Sexes or Neighboring Sexes?
C.S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, and
the Psychology of Gender
Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen
Gender and Modern Social Science
C. S. Lewis was no fan of the emerging social sciences. He saw practitioners of the social sciences mainly as lackeys of technologically-minded natural scientists, bent on reducing individual freedom and moral accountability to mere epiphenomena of natural processes (See Lewis 1943 and 1970 b). And not surprisingly (given his passion for gender-essentialist archetypes), aside from a qualified appreciation of some aspects of Freudian psychoanalysis (See Lewis 1952 (Book III, Chapter 4) and 1969). “Carl Jung was the only philosopher [sic] of the Viennese school for whose work [Lewis] had much respect” (Sayer 102).
But the social sciences concerned with the psychology of gender have since shown that Sayers was right, and Lewis and Jung were wrong: women and men are not opposite sexes but neighboring sexes—and very close neighbors indeed. There are, it turns out, virtually no large, consistent sex differences in any psychological traits and behaviors, even when we consider the usual stereotypical suspects: that men are more aggressive, or just, or rational than women, and women are more empathic, verbal, or nurturing than men.
When differences are found, they are always average—not absolute—differences. And in virtually all cases the small, average—and often decreasing—difference between the sexes is greatly exceeded by the amount of variability on that trait within members of each sex. Most of the “bell curves” for women and men (showing the distribution of a given psychological trait or behavior) overlap almost completely. So it is naïve at best (and deceptive at worst) to make even average—let alone absolute—pronouncements about essential archetypes in either sex when there is much more variability within than between the sexes on all the trait and behavior measures for which we have abundant data.
This criticism applies as much to C. S. Lewis and Carl Jung as it does to their currently most visible descendent, John Gray, who continues to claim (with no systematic empirical warrant) that men are from Mars and women are from Venus (Gray 1992).
And what about Lewis’s claims about the overriding masculinity of God? Even the late Carl Henry (a theologian with impeccable credentials as a conservative evangelical) noted a quarter of a century ago that:Masculine and feminine elements are excluded from both the Old Testament and New Testament doctrine of deity. The God of the Bible is a sexless God. When Scripture speaks of God as “he” the pronoun is primarily personal (generic) rather than masculine (specific); it emphasizes God’s personal nature—and, in turn, that of the Father, Son and Spirit as Trinitarian distinctions in contrast to impersonal entities… Biblical religion is quite uninterested in any discussion of God’s masculinity or femininity… Scripture does not depict God either as ontologically masculine or feminine. (Henry 1982, 159–60)
However well-intentioned, attempts to read a kind of mystical gendering into God—whether stereotypically masculine, feminine, or both—reflect not so much careful biblical theology as “the long arm of Paganism” (Martin 11). For it is pagan worldviews, the Jewish commentator Nahum Sarna reminds us, that are “unable to conceive of any primal creative force other than in terms of sex… [In Paganism] the sex element existed before the cosmos came into being and all the gods themselves were creatures of sex. On the other hand, the Creator in Genesis is uniquely without any female counterpart, and the very association of sex with God is utterly alien to the religion of the Bible” (Sarna 76).
And if the God of creation does not privilege maleness or stereotypical masculinity, neither did the Lord of redemption. Sayers’s response to the cultural assumption that women were human-not-quite-human has become rightly famous:Perhaps it is no wonder that women were first at the Cradle and last at the Cross. They had never known a man like this Man—there never has been such another.
A prophet and teacher who never nagged at them, never flattered or coaxed or patronised; who never made arch jokes about them, never treated them either as “The women, God help us!” or “The ladies, God bless them!; who rebuked without querulousness and praised without condescension; who took their questions and arguments seriously; who never mapped out their sphere for them, never urged them to be feminine or jeered at them for being female; who had no axe to grind or no uneasy male dignity to defend; who took them as he found them and was completely unself-conscious.
There is not act, no sermon, no parable in the whole Gospel which borrows its pungency from female perversity; nobody could possibly guess from the words and deeds of Jesus that there was anything “funny” about women’s nature. (Sayers 1975, 46)
It is quite likely that Lewis’s changing views on gender owed something to the intellectual and Christian ties that he forged with Dorothy L. Sayers. And indeed, in 1955—two years before her death, Lewis confessed to Sayers that he had only “dimly realised that the old-fashioned way… of talking to all young women was v[ery] like an adult way of talking to young boys. It explains,” he wrote, “not only why some women grew up vapid, but also why others grew up (if we may coin the word) viricidal [i.e., wanting to kill men]” (Lewis 2007, 676; Lewis’s emphasis).
The Lewis who in his younger years so adamantly had defended the doctrine of gender essentialism was beginning to acknowledge the extent to which gendered behavior is socially conditioned. In another letter that same year, he expressed a concern to Sayers that some of the first illustrations for the Narnia Chronicles were a bit too effeminate. “I don’t like either the ultra feminine or the ultra masculine,” he added. “I prefer people” (Lewis 2007, 639; Lewis’s emphasis).
Dorothy Sayers surely must have rejoiced to read this declaration. Many of Lewis’s later readers, including myself, wish that his shift on this issue had occurred earlier and found its way into his better-selling apologetic works and his novels for children and adults. But better late than never. And it would be better still if those who keep trying to turn C. S. Lewis into an icon for traditionalist views on gender essentialism and gender hierarchy would stop mining his earlier works for isolated proof-texts and instead read what he wrote at every stage of his life.
Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen is Professor of Psychology and Philosophy at Eastern University, St. Davids, Pennsylvania.
This essay originally was presented as the Tenth Annual Warren Rubel Lecture on Christianity and Higher Learning at Valparaiso University on 1 February 2007.
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Christian psychology professor Dr.Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen’s college course presentation Beyond Malacandra and Perelandra:Men are From Earth,Women Are From Earth where she demonstrates what a large amount of psychological research studies shows,that most of the psychological sex differences are really small and there is a large overlap between the sexes.
Beyond Malacandra and Perelandra: Men are from Earth, Women are from Earth
March 16, 2012 Eagle Great Room, Eastern University Dr. Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen presents a lecture based on her book, A Sword Between the Sexes? C.S. Lewis and the …
A Sword between the Sexes?: C. S. Lewis and the Gender Debates
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1441212671
Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen – 2010 – Religion
C. S. Lewis and the Gender Debates Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen … indicates that women and men, boys and girls, are overwhelmingly more alike than different.
Dr.Janet Shibley Hyde in this 2005 major meta-analysis of hundreds of studies by all different psychologists from decades that was written in American psychologist,the journal of The American Psychological Association,found that the sexes are more alike than different in almost all personality traits,abilities,etc.
http://www.apa.org/research/action/difference.aspx
Men and Women: No Big Difference
http://www.apa.org
Mars-Venus sex differences appear to be as mythical as the Man in the Moon. A 2005 analysis of 46 meta-analyses that were conducted during the last two decades of the 20th century underscores that men and women are basically alike in terms of personality, cognitive ability and leadership …
In these extensive studies by psychologist Dr. Janet Shibley Hyde and others that is still on the American Psychological Association’s web site since 2006 and that was published in American psychologist the journal of The American Psychological Association,Think Again:Men and women Share Cognitive Skills.
It’s reported that Psychologists have gathered solid evidence that boys or girls or men and women differ in very few significant ways– differences that would matter in school or at work–in how,and how well they think.
http://www.apa.org/research/action/share.aspx
Think Again: Men and Women Share Cognitive Skills
Psychologists have gathered solid evidence that boys and girls or men and women differ in very few significant ways — differences that would matter in school or at work — in how, and how well, they think.
In 2014 Psychologist Dr.Janet Shibley Hyde updated her 2005 major meta analysis that found that the sexes are more alike than different in 80% of their psychological traits,behaviors and abilities including personality.
In this 2014 article by Curt Rice he says that by the end of her article Gender Similarities and Differences,she has you convinced that the sexes are more similar in almost every way and he says that she she says this is not surprising since the sexes share 23 of the same chromosomes and only one of them is different.
http://curt-rice.com/2014/03/04/2-ways-men-and-women-arent-different-and-1-way-they-are/
2 ways men and women aren’t different — and 1 way they are …
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Are men and women basically the same, or are they fundamentally different? Stand-up comedians love this topic, and researchers do, too. The Annual Review of Psychology has just published a significant summary of the research that asks this question. The article is called Gender similarities and …
Pub. Date: February 1999
Publisher: MIT Press
Why So Slow?: The Advancement of Women
by Virginia Valian
Why do so few women occupy positions of power and prestige? Virginia Valian uses concepts and data from psychology, sociology, economics, and biology to explain the disparity in the professional advancement of men and women. According to Valian, men and women alike have implicit hypotheses about gender differences — gender schemas — that create small sex differences in characteristics, behaviors, perceptions, and evaluations of men and women.
Those small imbalances accumulate to advantage men and disadvantage women. The most important consequence of gender schemas for professional life is that men tend to be overrated and women underrated. Valian’s goal is to make the invisible factors that retard women’s progress visible, so that fair treatment of men and women will be possible. The book makes its case with experimental and observational data from laboratory and field studies of children and adults, and with statistical documentation on men and women in the professions. The many anecdotal examples throughout provide a lively counterpoint.
Social psychologist Valian thinks that the Western world has gotten gender all wrong. “As social beings we tend to perceive the genders as alternatives to each other, as occupying opposite and contrasting ends of a continuum,” she writes, “even though the sexes are not opposite but are much more alike than they are different.” Indeed, despite nearly three decades of feminism, “gender schema”the assumption that masculine and feminine characteristics determine personality and ability continue to influence the expectations and thinking of most Americans.
Just about everyone, Valian writes, assumes that men are independent, task-oriented and assertive, while women are tagged as expressive and nurturing. As such, women lag behind in many professions and continue to do the lion’s share of housework and child-rearing. Girls remain less attentive in math and science, while even women who attend medical school tend to steer themselves into “gender appropriate” slots such as family practice or pediatrics. Valian bases her findings on research conducted by social scientists in fields as disparate as psychology, education, sociology and economics, and the result is a work that is both scholarly and anecdotally rich.
But it also posits concrete suggestions for changing the way we view the sexes, from stepped-up affirmative action programs, to timetables for rectifying gender-based valuations. Accessible and lively, Why So Slow? is a breakthrough in the discourse on gender and has great potential to move the women’s movement to a new, more productive phase. (Jan.)
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A Note on Method and Scope
1 Gender Schemas at Work 1
2 Gender Begins – and Continues – at Home 23
3 Learning About Gender 47
4 Biology and Behavior 67
5 Biology and Cognition 81
6 Schemas That Explain Behavior 103
7 Evaluating Women and Men 125
8 Effects on the Self 145
9 Interpreting Success and Failure 167
10 Women in the Professions 187
11 Women in Academia 217
12 Professional Performance and Human Values 251
13 Affirmative Action and the Law 277
14 Remedies 303
References 353
Subject Index 393
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In her very good important 1998 book,Why So Slow? The Advancement Of women, psychologist Virginia Valian says for parents who recognize and actively oppose the limitations of gender schemas matters are more complex she demonstrates clearly that many studies have shown that even parents who say they are egalitarian and who do encourage their children especially girls to consider a wide range of possible occupations and that encouragement influences the children’s aspirations.She then says but without realizing it on the other hand,they are affected by gender schemas,dressing their children in ways appropriate to their gender.
She then says that their egalitarian beliefs prevent such parents from perceiving that they do encourage gender-specific patterns and from seeing how closely their children conform to the norm.She then says that gender schemas are powerful cultural forces and that adults cannot simply abandon them especially when they are unaware that they hold them and they too conform to them in such matters of dress.
On another page she says that everyone,it appears is likely to be affected deeply and nonconsciously by their culture’s view of what it means to be male and female.Then she says that even people who consciously espouse egalitarian beliefs do not realize how profoundly they have internalized the culture’s norms and applied them to their children.
She then says that there is wide implicit consensus across income level,education,and sex about the core features of gender schemas and for these features parents are much more alike than they are different.She then says regardless of demographic variables,most subscribe to basic gender norms ,dress gender stereotypically themselves,and unwittingly treat their children gender-stereotypically.
Then she says parents who actively endorse gender schemas or are unaware of the impact of gender schemas on their perceptions and interpretations,perceive children as gendered from birth and treat them accordingly.
She also says that studies show that even parents who deliberately try to rear their children nonstereotypically are subject to the influence of gender schemas.She says a study of six year olds for example compared children whose mothers explicitly tried to bring them up in gender-neutral ways with children whose mothers had conventional attitudes about gender roles.
And that when independent observers who were unaware of the parents beliefs rated the children’s clothes as masculine or feminine the ratings showed that the boys and girls in both types of families were dressed according to gender norms.She explains that the mothers who were committed to gender equality however saw their children’s clothes as less gender-stereotypical even though they were not.
She shows how parents perceive and treat their daughters and sons so differently from the moment they are born and she says in chapter 1 called Gender Schemas At work that gender schemas oversimplify and that masculine and feminine traits are not opposites of each other and they are not contradictory and that everyone has both to some degree and expresses different traits in different situations.She then says that differences exist, but the sexes are more alike than they are different and she says it is easy to lose sight of that reality,even though most differences between the sexes are small.
here is an excellent online article that I printed out around 2002,by Jungian psychologist Dr.Gary S.Toub,called,Jung and Gender:Masculine and Feminine Revisited. On his site it now only has part of this article and it says you have to register to read the full article. I emailed Dr.Toub years ago and he wrote me back several nice emails,in one he said he really liked my letter,and that it was filled to the brim with excellent points and references.
In this article he talks about what parts of Jungian thought he finds useful and what he finds problematic. The first thing he says he finds useful is, In the course of Jungian analysis, he often assists female clients to discover traditionally,masculine qualities in their psyche and that he likewise frequently assist male clients to recognize traditionally feminine qualities in their psyche.
He says this process frees each gender from the straight-jacket of stereotyped sex roles and expands his clients identities. He then said that the process also mirrors and furthers the breakdown of male-female polarization in our culture,and the cultural shifts towards androgyny.
He also says that most importantly, his practice of Jungian analysis places the greatest emphasis on facilitating his clients individuation process. He says this means that he tries to assist clients,male or female,to search for their authentic self-definition,distinct from society’s gender expectations.He also says that many Jungian definitions of masculine and feminine are narrow,outdated and sexist.
He also says that he has found that generalizing about what is masculine and what is feminine is dangerous,often perpetuating gender myths that are discriminatory and damaging.He says while there is some research supporting biological roots to personality differences,the majority of studies suggest that much of what is considered masculine or feminine is culture determined.
He also says that viewing masculine and feminine as complementary opposites,while useful at times,is problematic. He then says as his gay,lesbian, and transsexual clients have taught him,gender is more accurately viewed as encompassing a wide-ranging continuum. He then says that likewise,the more people he sees in his practice,the more he is impressed at the great diversity in human nature. He says he has seen men of all types and varieties,and women of all kinds.
He then says,he is hard-pressed to come up with very many generalizations based on gender.He says he knows that there are some statistical patterns,but how useful are they when he works with individuals and in a rapidly changing society? He says if each person is unique,no statistical norm or average will be able to define who my client is.
He then says,from a psychological perspective,men and women are not, in fact,opposite. He says his clinical experience is that they are much more psychologically alike than different,and the differences that exist are not necessarily opposing.
January 2015 major study of over 100 meta analysis and of 12 million people by two male,lead researcher is psychology professor Dr.Zlatan Krizan and one female psychology professor found what many other psychologists over decades have found,that the sexes are more alike than different in most areas psychologically including personality.It is published in American psychologist the journal of The American psychological Association
http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2015/01/29/genderdifferences
Gender roles: Men and women are not so different after all …
http://www.news.iastate.edu
AMES, Iowa – Gender is a large part of our identity that is often defined by our psychological differences as men and women. Not surprisingly, those differences are reflected in many gender stereotypes – men rarely share their feelings, while women are more emotional – but an Iowa State …
Very good radio interview with psychology professor Dr.Zlatan Krizan of Iowa State University and cultural anthropology professor Emily Wentzell( who rightfully points out how clothes and toys for the sexes are much more gender stereotyped than they were 30 years ago) discuss the findings of the recent extensive gender study that found the sexes are 80% more alike than different.
http://iowapublicradio.org/post/isu-professor-men-and-women-not-so-different-after-all#stream/0
ISU Professor: Men and Women Not So Different After All …
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The book “Men are From Mars, Women are from Venus” popularized the idea that men and women are as different as night and day. But Iowa State University
Below is an email I wrote to Oxford University Gender communication professor Deborah Cameron author of the great important book,The Myth Of Mars and Venus Do Men and women Really Speak Different Languages?.
I recently read your great important book, The Myth Of Mars & Venus. I read a bad review of the book, The Female Brain on Amazon.com US by psychologist David H.Perterzell he called it junk science.
I also thought you would want to know that John Gray got his “Ph.D” from Columbia Pacific University which was closed down in March 2001 by the California Attorney General’s Office because he called it a diploma mill and a phony operation offering totally worthless degrees!
Also there is a Christian gender and psychology scholar and author psychology professor Dr. Mary Stewart Van Leewuen who teaches the psychology and Philosophy of Gender at the Christian College Eastern College in Pa. She has several online presentations that were done at different colleges from 2005- the present debunking the Mars & Venus myth.
One is called , Opposite Sexes Or Neighboring Sexes and sometimes adds, Beyond The Mars/Venus Rhetoric in which she explains that all of the large amount of research evidence from the social and behavorial sciences shows that the sexes are very close neighbors and that there are only small average differences between them many of which have gotten even smaller over the last several decades and in her great even longer article that isn’t online anymore called,What Do We Mean By “Male-Female Complentarity”? A Review Of Ronald W.Pierce,Rebecca M.Groothuis,and Gordon D.Fee,eds Discovering Biblical Equality:Complentarity Without Hierarchy, which she says happened after 1973 when gender roles were less rigid and that genetic differences can’t shrink like this and in such a short period of time, and that most large differences that are found are between individual people and that for almost every trait and behavior there is a large overlap between them and she said so it is naive at best and deceptive at worst to make claims about natural sex differences. etc.
She says he claims Men are From Mars & Women are From Venus with no empirical warrant and that his claim gets virtually no support from the large amount of psychological and behavioral sciences and that in keeping in line with the Christian Ethic and with what a bumper sticker she saw said and evidence from the behavioral and social sciences is , Men Are From,Earth ,Women Are From Earth Get Used To It. Comedian George Carlin said this too.
She also said that such dichotomous views of the sexes are apparently popular because people like simple answers to complex issues including relationships between men and women. She should have said especially relationships between them.She also said when I spoke wit her in 1998 and 1999 that human beings don’t have sex fixed in the brain,she said human beings adapt to their environments,and they develop certain characteristics in response to those environments but they are not fixed and unchangeable.
Dr.Van Leeuwen also said that I’m correct that the human female and male brain is more alike than different and she said the brain is plastic and easily molded and shaped throughout life by different life experiences and environments.She said humans have a unique highly developed cerebral cortex which animals don’t and this enables people to learn things and make choices that animals can’t.
Sociologist Dr.Michael Kimmel writes and talks about this also including in his Media Education Foundation educational video. And he explains that all of the evidence from the psychological and behavioral sciences indicates that women and men are far more alike than different. He also demonstrated with a lot of research studies and evidence from the behavioral and social sciences that the sexes are more alike than different in his very good 2000 book,The Gendered Society which he updated several times in more extensive academic volumes called,The Gendered Society Reader.
Dr.Mary Stewart Van Leewuen says that there are no consistent large psychological sex differences found.
I have an excellent book from 1979 written by 2 parent child development psychologists Dr. Wendy Schemp Matthews and award winning psychologist from Columbia University, Dr.Jeane Brooks-Gunn, called He & She How Children Develop Their Sex Role Identity.
They thoroughly demonstrate with tons of great studies and experiments by parent child psychologists that girl and boy babies are actually born more alike than different with very few differences but they are still perceived and treated systematically very different from the moment of birth on by parents and other adult care givers. They go up to the teen years.
I once spoke with Dr.Brooks-Gunn in 1994 and I asked her how she could explain all of these great studies that show that girl and boy babies are actually born more alike with few differences but are still perceived and treated so differently anyway, and she said that’s due to socialization and she said there is no question, that socialization plays a very big part.
I know that many scientists(the good responsible ones) know that the brain is plastic and can be shaped and changed by different life experiences and different life time environments.
Also there are 2 great online rebuttals of the Mars & Venus myth by Susan Hamson called, The Rebuttal From Uranus and Out Of The Cave: Exploring Gray’s Anatomy by Kathleen Trigiani.
Also have you read the excellent book by social psychologist Dr.Gary Wood at The University of Birmingham called, Sex Lies & Stereotypes:Challenging Views Of Women, Men & Relationships? He clearly demonstrates with all of the research studies from psychology what Dr.Mary Stewart Van Leewuen does, and he debunks The Mars & Venus myth and shows that the sexes are biologically and psychologically more alike than different and how gender roles and differences are mostly socially created and how they are very limiting and emotionally damaging to both sexes mental and physical health and don’t only allow are encourage them to become more than only a half of a person instead of a whole human person with all of our shared*human* qualities!
Anyway, if you could write back when you have a chance I would
really appreciate it.
I have an excellent book from 1979 written by 2 parent child development psychologists Dr. Wendy Schemp Matthews and award winning psychologist from Columbia University, Dr.Jeane Brooks-Gunn, called He & She How Children Develop Their Sex Role Identity. They thoroughly demonstrate with tons of great studies and experiments by parent child psychologists that girl and boy babies are actually born more alike than different with very few differences but they are still perceived and treated systematically very different from the moment of birth on by parents and other adult care givers. They go up to the teen years.
They also show that surveys show that boys are overwhelmingly preferred over girls,(sadly nothing has changed and sexist woman-hating,girl-hating Tee shirts that say( I’m Too Pretty For Homework So I Let My Brother Do It For Me) (and other sexist anti-female ads,pornography,etc do too) like these both reflect and contribute to this injustice.They also explain that when people guess if a pregnant woman is having a girl or a boy,and they list a whole bunch of false unproven sexist, gender myth,gender stereotyped,old wives tales,that assign all negative characteristics to a woman if they think she’s having a girl,and the imagined girls or given all of the negative characteristics.
For example they say that author Elana Belotti(1977) explained these examples, The man and woman each take hold of one end of a wishbone and pull it apart.If the longest part comes away in the man’s hand,the baby will be a boy. If you suddenly ask a pregnant woman what she has in her hand and she looks at her right hand first ,she will have a boy;if she looks at her left hand it will be a girl.
If the mother’s belly is bigger on the right-hand side a boy will be born,and also if her right breast is bigger than her left,or if her right foot is more restless. If a woman is placid during pregnancy she will have a boy,but if she is bad-tempered or cries a lot,she will have a girl.If her complexion is rosy she’s going to have a son;if she is pale a daughter. If her looks improve,she’s expecting a boy;if they worsen,a girl.If the fetal heartbeat is fast,it is a boy;if it is slow it is a girl.If the fetus has started to move by the fortieth day it will be a boy and the birth will be easy,but if it doesn’t move until the ninetieth day it will be a girl.( Belotti 1977,pp.22-23)
Dr.Brooks-Gunn and Wendy Schempp Matthews then say, now rate each of the characteristics above as positive or negative. A woman expecting a girl is pale,her looks deteriorate,she is cross and ill-tempered,and she gets the short end of the wishbone,all negative characteristics. They then say,furthermore ,a girl is symbolized by the left-the left hand,the left side of the belly,the left foot,the left breast. They say,left connotes evil,a bad omen,or sinister,again the girls have all of the negative characteristics.
They then say,that sex-role stereotypes about activity also characterize Belotti’s recipes:boys are believed to be active from the very beginning and girls have slower heartbeats and begin to move around later.They then say,the message although contradictory(girls cause more trouble even though they are more passive) is clear in that it reflects the sex-role stereotype that boys “do” while girls “are” and the belief that boys are more desirable than girls. They also say that parents have gender stereotyped reasons for wanting a girl or a boy,obviously if they didn’t it wouldn’t matter if it’s a girl or boy.
When my first cousin was pregnant with her first of two girls people even strangers said such false ridiculous things to her,that they were sure she was going to have a boy because she was carrying low or how stomach looked. I once spoke with Dr.Brooks-Gunn in 1994 and I asked her how she could explain all of these great studies that show that girl and boy babies are actually born more alike with few differences but are still perceived and treated so differently anyway, and she said that’s due to socialization and she said there is no question, that socialization plays a very big part.
I know that many scientists know that the brain is plastic and can be shaped and changed by different life experiences and different environments too and Eastern College gender and Christian psychology professor Dr.Mary Stewart Van Leewuen told this to me too when I spoke to her 15 years ago. Dr.Van Leeuwen also said that human beings don’t have sex fixed in the brain and she told me that humans have a unique highly developed cerebral cortex that allows us to make choices in our behaviors and we can learn things that animals can’t. There was another case in Canada that I read about online some years ago about another case in which a normal genetic male baby’s penis was destroyed when hewas an infant and in this case he was raised as a girl from the much younger age of only 7 months old,not as late as 21 months as was David Reimer,and research shows that the core gender identity is learned by as early as 18 months old.
http://www.noharmm.org/canadianboy.htm
In this other case,it was reported in 1998 he was still living as a woman in his 20’s but a bisexual woman. With David Reimer they raised him as a girl too late after he learned most of his gender identity as a boy from the moment he was born and put into blue clothes, treated totally differently, given gender stereotyped toys, perceived and treated totally differently than girls are in every way(in the great book,He and She:How Children Develop Their Sex Role Identity it explains that a lot of research studies and tests by parent child psychologists found that they give 3 month old babies gender stereotyped toys long before they are able to develop these kinds of preferences or ask for these toys.
They also found that when adults interacted with the same exact baby they didn’t know was a girl or boy who was dressed in gender neutral clothes,they decided if they *believed* it was a girl or boy. And those adults who thought the baby was a boy,always handed the baby a toy foot ball ,but never a doll and they never gave an infant they perceived to be a girl a toy football, were asked what made them think it was a girl or boy and they said they used characteristics of the baby to make the judgement . Those who thought the baby was a boy described characteristics such as strength,those who thought the baby was a girl described the baby as having softness and fragility,and as the Dr.Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Wendy Schempp Mathews explain,Again remember that the same infant was being characterized as strong or soft,the actual distinction by sex characteristics being only in the minds of the adults.
They also explain that in the toy preference studies,girl toddlers often show an initial interest in the trucks,but eventually abandon them for a more familiar type of toy. Also check out Kate Bornstein’s books,Gender Outlaw and My Gender Workbook,and recently a co-written book,Gender Outlaws. Kate used to be a heterosexual married man who fathered a daughter and then had a sex change and became a lesbian woman who now doesn’t identity as a man or a woman.I heard Kate interview in 1998 on a local NPR show and she totally debunks gender myths,and rejects the “feminine” and “masculine” categories as the mostly socially constructed categories that they really are.She even said,what does it mean to feel or think like a woman(or man) she said what does that really mean.
Great recent study, Backlash Against Gender Stereotype Violating Preschool Children
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324368513_Backlash_against_gender_stereotype-violating_preschool_children
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233209996_Gender_Messages_in_Parenting_Magazines
These researchers videotaped mothers and their little daughters and sons.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286382145_Mother-child_conversations_about_gender_Understanding_the_acquisition_of_essentialist_beliefs
Before world war two,people used to dress baby girls in blue because it was described as a delicate ”feminine” color,and boys were dressed in pink because it was described as a light red strong ”masculine” color and then they totally reversed this,which just further demonstrates how totally artificially socially constructed most all of this gender bullsh*t really is!
And in Scotland men wear kilt skirts,and there was a time centuries ago when women were ridiculously not allowed to wear pants. And in the beginning of time there were no clothes at all,everybody was nude as they were born,make up,high heels,dresses,skirts,pants suits and ties didn’t fall from the sky or grow on trees,nature didn’t create them *people* did! And in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s many women including famous model Twiggy and beautiful actress Mia Farrow wore their hair very short,and many heterosexual men who were hippies wore their hair really long
https://www.google.com/search?q=Twiggy+with+very+short+hair&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiVmsrOn9HYAhXiYd8KHUD4AHUQ_AUICigB&biw=1155&bih=599
https://www.google.com/search?q=Mia+Farrow+with+very+short+hair&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj9u_6EoNHYAhVNMd8KHUABC0oQ7AkIPA&biw=1155&bih=599&dpr=1.25
Here is beautiful olympic winning skater Dorothy Hamill in a 1970’s Clairol Short and Sassy shampoo commercial.
I commented that today Dorothy would ludicrously be considered to be a transgender and that she looked beautiful with her short hair cut,I got 2 likes so far for saying this. And a guy Paul Kersey posted before me,that in 1976 90% of girls in America had the Dorothy Hamill short and sassy hairdo.So a poster super blue said,absolutely,90% of girls had this cut.
STUDY FINDS FEMALE BABIES CRIES ARE DISCOUNTED PROVING GENDER STEREOTYPING STARTS FROM DAY 1
https://www.romper.com/p/female-babies-cries-are-discounted-more-proving-gender-stereotyping-starts-from-day-1-9819
Female Babies’ Cries Are Discounted More, Proving Gender …
http://www.romper.com
Gender stereotyping happens every day, and I’m sick of it. Between people telling a person to smile on the streets or the cat calls I hear from windows daily, it isn’t fun and it isn’t fair.
http://bmcpsychology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40359-016-0123-6
Article by Charlie Sorrel When Female Babies Cry,Men Discount Their Distress he says at the end,now if only parents would stop dressing their boys in blue & their girls in pink.
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3059328/when-female-babies-cry-men-discount-their-distress
PBS TV college course program Discovering Psychology ,Sex And Gender episode explains research has found that the sexes are more alike than different and that most gender differences are learned not inborn hosted by award winning Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo
http://www.cuny.tv/show/discoveringpsychology/PR1003477
Discovering Psychology – Sex and Gender – CUNY TV
http://www.cuny.tv
This program explores the distinction between sex and gender, and the ways gender stereotypes channel behavior in animals as well as in humans. It also examines some …
Here is a Great sociology book with a lot of great research studies and other information debunking common gender myths,The Marriage & Family Experience Intimate relationships In A Changing Society that debunks common sexist gender myths and how the sexes are actually biologically and psychologically more alike than different and how the very sexist,artificially gender divided,gender stereotyped,male dominated society,that is totally obsessed and oriented to making the sexes into these false ”opposite” ”feminine” and ”masculine” categories.
https://books.google.com/books?id=9Cb4Tl9SgLAC&pg=PA119&lpg=PA119&dq=Michael+Kimmel+men+and+women+are+more+alike&source=bl&ots=f5DuKDd00F&sig=84VtNt6eq5j5aMarYwsA8W4fpyU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjq_K6UoazQAhVqBsAKHd4lBTYQ6AEIITAB#v=onepage&q&f=false
It really isn’t surprising at all that the sexes brains are more alike than different,( although given the fact that there is a lot of evidence from neuroscience that human brains are plastic and easily molded and shaped by different life experiences and different conditioning,and environments, and the fact that the sexes are born biologically more alike than different with very few differences but are still perceived and treated very differently systematically in every way by parents and other adult care givers, from the moment it’s learned they are a girl or a boy, before they are born it’s amazing that our brains are still more alike than different,and that we are psychologically more alike than different to despite all of this!) the clitoris and penis are very similar because they come from the same exact tissue, so does the male scrotum, the female vulva and even the ovaries and testicles.
And men even have the same breast tissue that is responsive to estrogen and they can even develop full breasts ready for a bra right away if for some reason their testosterone level goes down,the small amount of estrogen(they also have progesterone which is necessary for healthy bone development,intelligence,healthy thyroid function,an anti-depressant, in both sexes and other things for health
http://www.livestrong.com/article/290192-is-progesterone-produced-by-men/)
Is Progesterone Produced by Men?
http://www.livestrong.com
Progesterone is commonly associated with many processes occurring in the female body. But just as testosterone and estrogen–each a male and female hormone, respectively–are present in both men and women, progesterone can also be found naturally in men, and it has some significant roles in male health, particularly reproductive vitality.
that is normally in their bodies,causes this it’s a condition called gynecomastia. But of course none of all of these similarities are even recognized much less emphasized because we still all live in a very sexist,artificially gender divided,gender stereotyped,male dominated society that is totally obsessed and oriented to making the sexes into opposite artificial ”feminine” and ”masculine”categories.
Men and Women are The Same Species!
By anthropology and zoology professor Agustin Fuentes who explains how the sexes bodies actually have more biological similarities than differences, including our brains and how our external genitals come from the same tissue in the womb,and so does the ovaries and testicles and how they remain really similar etc
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/busting-myths-about-human-nature/201205/men-and-women-are-the-same-species
Interview with long time feminist Letty Cottin Pogrebin about her teaching and raising her two twin daughters and her son with non-sexist non-gender roles and gender stereotypes.
http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/activist/transcripts/Pogrebin.pdf
Feminist Letty Cottin Pogrebin’s son didn’t reject playing with dolls and tea sets, just as her identical twin daughters didn’t reject the non-gender stereotyped toys and behaviors she encouraged them to have. And her son didn’t grow up gay or transgendered he’s married and I think has children,but he didn’t grow up to be a macho football player either,as Letty said he’s a chef and loves to cook.
And there is a lot wrong with sexist very limiting gender roles,gender myths and gender stereotypes that are mostly artificially created by the very sexist,gender divided,gender stereotyped,woman-hating male dominated family and society we all live in,which makes both sexes,into only half of a person,instead of full human people able to develop and express their full shared *human* traits,abilities,and behaviors etc. And then these artificial gender differences continue to reinforce gender inequalities,male dominance and men’s violence against women,children and even each other.
There is a great 2005 book,Sex Lies And Stereotypes Challenging Views Of Women,Men and Relationships by social and cognitive British psychologist Dr.Gary Wood.He too shows plenty of great important research studies done over decades by many different psychologists that finds small average sex differences,and the sexes are much more similar than different.He also thoroughly demonstrates that gender roles,gender myths and gender stereotypes which are mostly socially and culturally constructed,harm both sexes because they are very liming,cause conflicts and misunderstands between women and men,and only allow each of them to become half of a person which can cause mental and physical conditions and diseases.
Psychologist Dr.Gary Wood’s description of his great important gender myth debunking book,Sex Lies And Stereotypes:Challenging Views Of Women,Men And Relationships
It says it even offers free non-surgical gender reassignment for every reader and this book first came out back in March 2005 before the transgender explosion and transgendering of children became so disturbingly common.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sex-Lies-Stereotypes-Challenging-Relationships/dp/1843308940/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1494826861&sr=1-1-fkmr0&keywords=Dr.Gary+wood+Sex%2CLies+And+Stereotypes
And here are the great customer 5 reviews of this great important book,mine is one of them from March 2006.
Have you ever read any of the excellent books by acclaimed radical feminist psychologist Phyllis Chesler? When I wrote to Gloria Steinem when I was 22 she wrote me back a great response and suggested I read Women And Madness by Phyllis Chesler and that I would find that it made me feel less alone.
I was very little when that book came out and I had never heard of her, so I read it and it’s great powerful information as are her other books that I went on to also read, her great book About Men, which came out in 1978, and (Gloria also gave a great review on the cover) and I read it about 15 years ago for the first time. She interviewed 100’s of men and many of them were married.
In her chapter called Wombless Men, she has pictures of sculptures and paintings by famous male artists like Salvador Dali, and Michaelangelo etc and she demonstrates and talks a lot about men’s subconscious fear and envy of the womb and men’s (crazy!) hatred of women. 1 of her references in her extensive bibliography is psychiatrist Wolfgang Lederer’s 1968 book, The Fear Of Women in he which explained the same things. She also has a chapter called Phallic Sexuality and in the beginning of it she has a little boy interviewed by a Dr.Richard Green about Sexual Identity Conflict in Children and Adults and he was asked if he ever wished he had been born a girl, and he said yes. Dr.Green asks him why does he wish that, and the little boy says, girls they don’t have to have a penis. The doctor says they don’t have to have a penis? The little boy then says they can have babies. The doctor then says to him why do you think girls don’t have to have a penis?
And the little boy says Cause they have to have babies … and babies can’t come out of a penis… babies come out of a vagina… The doctor then says to him , your penis gives you a nice feeling doesn’t it? You’re not scared of it when it gets big and stiff are you ? The boy says no. The doctor says good ! It’s supposed to do that when you tickle it. That’s one big advantage for being a boy cause girls can’t do that you know. The boy says Um hum. The doctor then says to him, sure they can have babies but only boys can have a penis stand up like that.
In the beginning of her chapter Wombless Men she has woman hater Freud interviewing a 5 year old boy patient and Freud says to him, But only women have children. Hans the little boy says he’s going to have a little girl. Freud says you’d like to have a little girl.Hans says yes next year I’m going to have one. Freud says to him but you can’t have a little girl. Hans says, Oh yes boys have girls and girls have boys. Freud says, boys don’t have children only women ,only Mummies have children. Hans says, but why shouldn’t I ? She also has a chapter on Pornography and Other Male Sexual Fantasies. And she says in the chapter Wombless Men that it is no accident that books of pornographic or erotic art are also the source of many expressions of womb envy.
In Dr.Chesler’s great 1994 book, Patriarchy Notes Of An Expert Witness she explains that both wife beaters and serial killers of women were addicted to pornography. She also explains that serial killers are mainly white male drifters obsessed with pornography and woman-hatred who sexually use their victims, either before or after killing them and who were themselves *paternally* abused children, and as adults they scapegoat not fathers but mainly women , sometimes children , sometimes male homosexuals who are seen as “feminine” or vulnerable. She then says that serial killers may be responsible for the daily and permanent , disappearance of 1000’s of prostituted and non-prostituted women each and every year all across the US.
She also talks a lot about how sadly, women have been taught to hate themselves and each other because of the crazy male dominated woman hating society! She has many good reviews for her book, Woman’s Inhumanity To Woman which I also want to read.
Also in 1997 ( I also wrote to Dr. Chesler at this time and she wrote back a note and sent me some articles she had written) I spoke with her secretary who was in her 50’s or early 60’s and she told me that she read several chapters in one of Dr. Chesler’s books, and that it was very interesting.
I told her that I read several of her whole books. I said to her how unreal and crazy it is that men hate women for *no* rational reasons and that they are born and nurtured by *women* that their mothers are *women* and that most women have been kind to their sons, husbands and to men in general even though they have hated and discriminated against us, and have been doing all of these horrible injustices to women for 1000’s of years ! And she said, it’s crazy and unreal but it’s true!
Also when I was 21,many years ago,my father who is a retired lawyer read out loud to me several paragraphs written in a book by two male psychologists who also explained that many men have always been threatened and envious of women’s power to be pregnant,having a womb,and giving birth.And back in 1991 I spoke to a man at a university who counseled people with drug and alcohol problems,but he also ran a group with men dealing with how men are socialized into ”masculinity”,woman-hatred,violence against women,sexist inequality etc.
I asked him why do most men hate women,it’s so irrational and incomprehensible,men are born from and nurtured by *women*,and most women have been kind to men even after all of the horrible injustices they do to women and hating us for 1,000’s of years,and he asked me if I ever read the book,The Fear Of Women by psychiatrist Wolfgang Lederer called The Fear Of Women and then he said men have always been very jealous and frightened of women’s power of the womb,pregnancy and ability to give birth.
The Gender Police A Diary By A Mother & Father of A Girl & A Boy On How Girls & Boys Are Treated so Differently From Birth & How Gender Stereotyped Our Society Is
They now have a new version out called,The gender Agenda: a First Hand Account Of How Girls And Boys are Treated Differently
The Gender Police: A Diary Let Toys Be Toys
lettoysbetoys UK
Through their Twitter account Gender Diary Ros Ball and her partner James have been cataloguing the drip-drip-drip of gendered messages their children receive.
http://lettoysbetoys.org.uk/the-gender-police-a-diary/
Through their Twitter account @GenderDiary Ros Ball and her partner James have been cataloguing the drip-drip-drip of gendered messages their children receive.
Great new important book,Yes You Can! by Cheryl Rickman is all about children being allowed to wear any colors,clothes,and play with any toys they want and be anything they want and getting rid of harmful limiting,sexist gender roles and gender stereotypes.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/522351957/yes-you-can-childrens-book-to-combat-gender-stereo
YES YOU CAN! Children’s Book to Combat Gender Stereotypes
YES YOU CAN shows kids that all toys, colours & hobbies are for ALL children and explains gender stereotypes in a child-friendly way.
John Lennon is a great example of people can change and are not fixed to be a certain way as a man or a woman.Yoko changed John into a much better person as a pro-feminist man and the feminist changes *are* for the better, and many pro-feminist men have recognized this too! They say it has freed them and allowed them to develop and express more of all of the shared common *human* traits,emotions,behaviors,abilities and reduce and prevent male violence against women and children etc. Definitions of “masculine” and “feminine” differ across time periods, and in different societies.
John Lennon is a great example of how feminism changing limited artificial gender definitions and roles,changed him for the much better. John as a child and teenager had a lot of traumas that permanently psychologically damaged him,but because of his and Yoko’s beautiful loving relationship,and as he said she was a feminist before he met her,(and he said that because she was a feminist before he met her,they were going to have to have a 50/50 equal relationship which he never had before) he went in to primal scream therapy and Yoko went with him and he dealt with all of his pain and anger for the very first time at age 29. When John was a young guy,he was often drunk getting into fist fights with men,hitting women,and womanizing including cheating on his girlfriends and then his first wife Cynthia.
Of course Paul,George and Ringo did the same with all of the groupies all 4 of them had while touring from 1963-1966. I hadn’t watched these Mike Douglas shows in years until December 2010 when it was the 30th anniversary of John’s tragic crazy murder by the crazy horrible piece of sh*t that had been a huge Beatles fan since he was 11,and John had been his favorite Beatle and gave him an autograph on his new album for him only a few hours before he shot John 5 times and killed John right in front of Yoko .
Out of the 5 Mike Douglas shows that John and Yoko co-hosted for a week that was taped in January 1972 and aired in February,a young criminal lawyer Rena Uviller(she went on to become a Supreme Court Judge) who worked with juveniles was on, and she,Mike Douglas,John and Yoko were discussing the then very recent women’s liberation movement. George Carlin was on too. Rena said,she agrees with Yoko,that the idea of Women’s lib is to liberate all of us,and she said ,I mean we could talk hours on the way men really suffer under the sex role definitions.Yoko agreed with what she said too.
Rena said that men don’t really realize they have only to gain from Women’s Lib,and that she thinks that maybe with a little more propaganda we can convince them. John then said,yeah there is a lot to gain from it,just the fact that you can relax and not have to play that male role,he said we can do that,and he said that I can be weak,( but notice how then in a male dominated gender divided,gender stereotyped,sexist society,and even unfortunately still now in a lot of ways,the “female”role was defined as the weak one,and the male role as the strong one) I don’t have to protect her all the time and play you know that super hero, I don’t have to play that,she allows me to be weak sometimes and for me to cry,and for her to be the strong one,and for me to be the weak one. John then said,and it really is a great relief,after 28 years of trying to be tough,you know trying to show them,I don’t give a da*n and I’m this and I’m that,to be able to relax.and just be able to say,OK I’m no tough guy forget it.
Rena then said,I think in some funny way,I think girls even as children,have a greater lattitude because a little girl can be sort of frilly and feminine or she can be a tomboy and it’s acceptable,but a little boy if he’s not tossing that football,there’s a lot of pressure on him.John said,there’s a lot of pressure,not to show emotion,and he said that there was a lot of pressure on me not to be an artist,to be a chemist and he said he discussed this on another Mike Douglas episode.
Rena said that unfortunately some of the leaders in the Women’s Liberation movement fall victim to being spokesmen,for Women’s Lib, and yet at least in public personality they seem to really have a certain amount of contempt for the hair curled housewife and there is a kind of sneering contempt,and she said I think it’s a measure of their own lack of liberation.And Yoko said it’s snobbery,and Rena said yeah,they really don’t like other women,but I’m sympathetic,and Mike Douglas then said a sexist woman-hating statement,saying,well women don’t like other women period. Rena said,no see that’s very unliberated and Yoko said, in response to what Mike Douglas said,that’s not true,that’s not true.And John said,you see they are brought up to compete with men.
Yoko said that even though in Japan they say they don’t have much of a woman problem and women already had some liberation,there is still a long way to go that she really agrees with Rena that so many female liberation movement people basically hate women,and we have to first start to understand women and love them whether they are housewives or not,and she said that snobbery is very bad and we have to somehow find out a way to co-existing with men,and she asked Rena don’t you think so and she said most definitely. George Carlin said,that actually many successful women are acting out male roles just like a lot of blacks think they escaped are acting out white roles.John also said that he thinks that women have to try twice as hard as to make it as men,and he said you know they have to be on their toes much more than a man.
On another Mike Douglas episode from the same week,former actress and acclaimed film maker Barbara Loden was on and Yoko had requested her as a guest.John asked her ,Did you have any problems working with the men,you know like giving them instructions and things like that and Barbara said,I did, but I think it was because I was afraid that they would not accept what I said,and I wasn’t quite that authoritative in my own self.John said it’s certainly a brave thing to do,and Yoko said it is.
Mike Douglas asked Yoko if John’s attitude had changed much towards her since The Female Liberation Movement,and at first Yoko says John’s attitude from the beginning was the same,and that they met on that level.John then says,twice, I was a male chauvinist and Yoko says,yes he was a male chauvinist but,and then John says,Can I say how you taught me,and Yoko says yes.John says,How I did it in my head was,would I ask Paul or George,or would I treat them the way I would treat a woman? John then said,it’s a very simple thing maybe it’s fetch that or do that ,and I started thinking if I said that to them,they’d say come on get it yourself,and if you put your wife or your girlfriend in the position of your best friend,and say now would I say that to him,then you know when you’re treading on some delicate feelings.
Mike Douglas said years later that after this week of John and Yoko co-hosting his show,many young people who had never watched his show before,(and his main audience was middle America and people older than their 20’s and even mostly their 30’s) told him they loved the show,and that it was great and his ratings went up high for those shows.
Even if John didn’t always live up to his feminist ideals and beliefs in his personal life,(although he did with Yoko because of her and this why and how he emotionally evolved into a caring,nurturing,house husband and father to Yoko and Sean),just the fact that he spoke out as a man in support of the feminist movement on a popular TV show back in early 1972 when most of the sexist male dominated woman-hating society looked down at it and considered it crazy which in some ways it’s still unfortunately wrongly misunderstood(and it’s really the male dominated,sexist,woman-hating society that has always been so wrong and crazy!),and the fact that John was (and still is) greatly admired and influential to many young people male and female,he did *a lot* to legitimize it and show it was rational,reasonable,needed and right!
A few months later he was performing Woman Is The Ni**er Of The World on The Dick Cavett Show and then months after that live in Madison Square Garden. In his very last radio interview done by Dave Sholin etc from RKO Radio just hours before he was tragically shot and killed, John said I’m more feminist now than I was when I sang Woman Is The N**ger,I was intellectually feminist then but now I feel as though at least I’ve put not my own money,but my body where my mouth is and I’m living up to my own preachings as it were.
He also said what is this BS men are this way, women are that way,we’re all human.He had also said that he comes from the macho school of pretense of course *all* men really are they are just too conditioned all of their lives to realize and admit it.And he said that men are trained to be like they are in the army,and that it’s more like that in England but he knows it’s this way over here too,he said that they are taught as boys and men don’t react,don’t feel,don’t cry,and he said he thinks that’s what screwed us all up and that he thinks it’s time for a change.
John also said in his last radio interview,isn’t about time that we destroyed the macho ethic? And he then said where has it gotten us all of these thousands of years? Are we still going to have to be clubbing each other to death? He then asked,do i have to arm wrestle you to have a relationship with you as another male? Can we not have a relationship on some other level?
https://www.thenation.com/article/lennons-last-interview-sixties-showed-us-possibility/
Barbara Graystark of Newsweek interviewed John September 1980 and part of what she said to John is,You’ve come a long way from the man who wrote at 23,”Women should be obscene rather than heard.” And she asks John how did this happen? And John said that he was a working-class macho guy who was used to being served and Yoko didn’t buy that. John then said that from the day he met Yoko,she demanded equal time,equal space,equal rights. He said that he said to Yoko then,don’t expect him to change in any way and don’t impinge on his space. John said that Yoko said to him then she can’t be here because there’s no space where you are everything revolves around him and that she can’t breath in that atmosphere. John then says in this interview that he’s thankful to her for the ( meaning feminist education.)
http://www.beatlesinterviews.org/db1980.0929.beatles.html
Mike Douglas also said to John and Yoko, You’re both so different, you had such different childhoods. John said, it’s incredible isn’t it? Yoko said, Yes! Mike asked, What do you think has attracted you to each other? Yoko said, We’re very similar. John then said, She came from a Japanese upper-middle class family. Her parents were bankers and all that jazz,very straight. He said they were trying to get her off with an ambassador when she was 18.You know, now is the time you marry the ambassador and we get all settled. I come from a an upper-working class family in Liverpool, the other end of the world. John then said, we met but our minds are so similar, and our ideas are so similar. It was incredible that we could be so alike from different environments, and I don’t know what it is, but we’re very similar in our heads. And we look alike too!
Mike also asked John about his painful childhood,and how his father left him when he was 5,and John said how he only came back into his life when he was successful and famous(20 years later!),and John said he knew that I was living all those years in the same house with my auntie,but he never visited him.He said when he came back into his life all those years later,he looked after his father for the same amount of time he looked after him,about 4 years.
He also talked about how his beloved mother Julia,who encouraged his music by teaching him to play the banjo,got hit and killed by a car driven by an off duty drunk cop when John was only 17 and just getting to have a relationship with her after she had given him away to be raised by her older sister Mimi when he was 5. And John also said,And in spite of all that,I still don’t have a hate-the-pigs attitude or hate-cops attitude.He then said, I think everybody’s human you know,but it was very hard for me at that time,and I really had a chip on my shoulder,and it still comes out now and then,because it’s a strange life to lead .He then said,But in general ah,I’ve got my own family now …I got Yoko and she made up for all that pain.
John’s psychologist Dr. Arthur Janov told Mojo Magazine in 2000( parts of this interview is on a great UK John Lennon fan site,You Are The Plastic Ono Band) that John had as much pain as he had ever seen in his life,and he was a psychologist for at least 18 years when John and Yoko saw him in 1970! He said John was a very dedicated patient.
He also said that John left therapy too early though and that they opened him up,but didn’t get a chance to put him back together again and Dr. Janov told John he need to finish the therapy,he said because of the immigration services and he thought Nixon was after him,he said we have to get out of the country.John asked if he could send a therapist to Mexico with him,and Dr. Janov told him we can’t do that because they had too many patients to take care of,and he said they cut the therapy off just as it started really,and we were just getting going.
http://urthepob.byethost24.com/pob/pob00.html?ckattempt=1
Also this great article by long time anti-sexist,anti-men’s violence,anti-pornography former all star high school football player and author of the great,important 2006 book,The Macho Paradox:How Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help, Jackson Katz.John Lennon on Fatherhood,Feminism,and Phony Tough Guy Posturing
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jackson-katz/john-lennon-on-fatherhood_b_800333.html
Also Cynthia Lennon is quoted in the great John Lennon biography Lennon,by award winning music journalist and former editor of The Melody Maker Magazine and good friend of John’s for 18 years,Ray Coleman as saying somethings like she knew as soon as she saw John and Yoko together she knew that she lost him,and that it was a meeting of the minds and that she knew that they were right for each other.
She also said that she told John before he started his relationship with Yoko that she sees and incredible similarity between him and Yoko and said to him that there is something about her that is just like you.She told him that he may say that she’s this crazy avant garde artist and that he’s not interested in her,but that she can see more into John’s future with Yoko then he can.Cynthia also said she was never on John’s mental wavelength,but of course she didn’t say and admit any of this in her biased book.
John Lennon on Fatherhood, Feminism, and Phony Tough Guy …
http://www.huffingtonpost.com
Three decades after his tragic death in New York City at age forty, John Lennon retains quite a grip on our cultural imagination. He has been the subject …
One of the very common,deep rooted gender myths is that women are nicer,kinder people than men.Even though most women are taught from the time they are born,to be kinder and caring to other people’s feelings,and they are rewarded and encouraged to be sensitive,and to cry and express emotions,and are given dolls to play with as little girls to practice to become nurturing mothers,and most men are totally taught to be the opposite and are punished and discouraged from being this way and are taught to be nothing like girls and women,and see them as nothing like themselves from the moment they are born, I can testify that a lot of women’s gender training didn’t stick.
I have met so many nasty,and or cold and detached women everywhere, I had 2 nasty women doctors, I have had many nasty or cold detached nurses and medial assistants who have no business being in these professions that are supposed to be caring,cold unfeeling women on crisis lines including one who was a director, 3 nasty women apartment managers working at different times,and nasty women working in drug stores and super markets and several nast women hair dressers.
I met quite a few physically and mentally abusive little girls who bullied me and other children at a day camp,and at elementary school. I have had more than a few male doctors who were very nice warm people,and 2 male dentists like this,and a male nurse who was bald and very muscular who was very nice and friendly,he even made me laugh when he gave me a tetanus shot and he was so gentle I didn’t even feel it at all.At least when men are nasty and rotten they have an explanation because they were harshly trained into ”masculinity” their whole lives,but women don’t have that explanation to fall back on,because they have been harshly trained into ”femininity” all of their lives which involves being taught and rewarded for being caring and empathetic to people.People will still believe all of the gender myths even with all of the evidence to the contrary that they experience!
One of the reasons there are so many nasty women around is because of the woman-hating male dominated sick society we live in,and like many Jews in Nazi Germany,and many Black people in the white racist society were taught to unjustly hate themselves and each other,many women have been unjustly taught to hate themselves and each other too.Also because the truth is women are not that different from men by nature and ”nicer”,and also because 1,000’s of decades worth of psychological research studies by all different psychologists has found that the sexes are much more alike than different in almost all of their psychological traits,personality and behaviors and that they find small average differences between the sexes,many of which have gotten even smaller over decades, and most of the major differences are between*people* including empathy.
In this January 1971 interview with Red Mole John says that Yoko was well into liberation before he met her and that she had to fight,herway through a man’s world and he said the art world is completely dominated by men and said so Yoko was full of revolutionary zeal when they met. Then John said there was never any question about it that they had to have a 50-50 relationship or there was no relationship and he said he was quick to learn and he said that Yoko did an article in Nova more than two years back in which she said Woman is the Ni**er of the world.A year later he co-wrote with Yoko the song Woman Is The N*gger of The World,and bravely performed it live on The Dick Cavett show and at Madison Square Garden in 1972 and the song was banned off a lot of radio stations.
John also says in this same interview that it’s very subtle how you’re taught male superiority.
John Lennon Interview: Red Mole 1/21/1971 – Beatles …
http://www.beatlesinterviews.org
ABOUT THIS INTERVIEW: On January 21st 1971, John Lennon and Yoko Ono sat down for an exclusive interview with Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn. The conversation would be …
Great chapter from a 2016 book,Concerning Consequences:Studies In art,Destruction And Trauma by Kristine Stiles discusses how John Lennon became a feminist because of Yoko Ono and how he changed the way he was socially conditioned into gender definitions and they both went against gender roles and stereotypes and he doesn’t really get credit for this,and Yoko doesn’t get credit in John’s feminism and liberation.
https://books.google.com/books?id=VthwCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA153&dq=Concerning+Consequences+Stereotypes+about+men+and+women+John+Lennon+househusband&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwixrY2mwPvaAhUOr1kKHaV_BGIQ6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=Concerning%20Consequences%20Stereotypes%20about%20men%20and%20women%20John%20Lennon%20househusband&f=false
Yoko Ono is quoted in this same book from a different book from 1986,that John Lennon was a sensitive sweet person,who wasn’t really macho but was conditioned by the society and she said it did a lot of good for him to understand feminism and that he was a real feminist and read a lot of books about it.
https://books.google.com/books?id=MdhwCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA138&lpg=PA138&dq=Yoko+said+John+was+a+sweet+sensitive+person+Concerning+Consequences&source=bl&ots=7m2AADgauN&sig=TTzGmI3GOPR046h9ARw_2ZlgfoM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiO1Ymun5jbAhUixVkKHfISDxEQ6AEIOjAC#v=onepage&q=Yoko%20said%20John%20was%20a%20sweet%20sensitive%20person%20Concerning%20Consequences&f=false
And John Lennon became a feminist at only age 29, he became a nurturing house husband and father at only age 35, and sadly was tragically shot and killed at only age 40,he still had much more testosterone than women and still had his y chromosome yet he was able to change a 180% for the better!
It’s so incomprehensible is that men have irrationally hated women for 1,000’s of years and men are born from and nurtured by women! And most women have been kind to their sons,fathers,brothers,male friends and to men in general even though most men and the whole sick male dominated society hates them for no rational reasons and has been discriminating against and brutalizing women for 1,000’s of years,women have every rational reason to hate most men back just like black people had a justified right to hate most white racists back,and Jews had a justified right to hate Nazis back.And women never did anything to deserve to be hated by men!
And women are the only hated,discriminated against group that actually gives birth to their haters and discriminators,black people don’t give birth to white racist Klu Klux klan members,and Jews don’t give birth to Nazis,nor are they expected to have romantic and sexual relationships with them,it’s only strangely unique to women.
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The World of “Witchcraft”
After the revolution, everything is gonna be so dank.
A Processing of What “Due Process” Means Is Due
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the bundi-kotah school of miniature painting in kotah’s garh palace
Posted on October 9, 2017 by Rama Arya
Me: Kotah Palace jaanaa hai. [I want to go to Kotah Palace.]
Auto rickshaw driver: Palace hotel?
Me: Nahin. Sirf palace. Jahaan rajah maharajah rehtey they. [No. Just palace. Where the kings used to live.]
Auto rickshaw driver (confused): Par vahaan toh koi Indian nahin jaataa! Sirf gorey log jaatey hai! [But Indians don’t go there! Only white people do.]
Me: Haan, vahin jaana hai, jahaan gorey log jaatey hai. [My deep gratitude to Caucasians at this point for appreciating the treasures hidden in India’s midst.]
Auto rickshaw driver (laughing): Chalo, aaj yeh bhi dekh letey hai. [Sure, let me see this place too, today.]
It’s chaotic and crowded. I had just got off a rickety bus from Bundi. My train to Delhi, deep into the night, was a good few hours away. The plan was to spend the time in-between devouring the miniature painting frescoes of the Kotah Garh Palace.
Kotah Garh Palace and its collection of miniature paintings
I was not expecting much when I walked into the palace. I had been brainwashed enough in Bundi of Kotah’s lesser role in the scheme of things. “Bundi is the parent city.” “Bundi’s frescoes are the original masterpieces.” All of Kotah was dismissed as a poor copy by the veterans in Bundi’s narrow alleys.
The fact that the palace’s majestic stone walls were “whitewashed” as I walked through the monumental gateways further went against its favour. I almost cringed out aloud in disappointment. But my gloom was short-lived. Down a few corridors, up a string of stone steps, Kotah’s walls assured me “why” it still charmed travellers from far and wide across the globe.
Like Bundi, the walls are covered with frescoes in the miniature style. But the anomaly here is that many appear “framed” and, thus, closer to the format commonly associated with miniature painting. The colours are brighter. The hunting scenes more vivid. The facial expressions more emotive. To top it off, shards of glass and mirror create a 3-dimensional collage effect befitting royal living.
As I wandered around in the silence, I lifted curtains to find doors behind them, opening into pictorial vistas crammed into their four walls. Some were dilapidated. Some still stunning. And before I knew it, a woman guard came to me and gently tapped my shoulder. “Paanch bajney waale hai. Neechey aur hai. Who bhi dekhna. Museum bhi zaroor jaanaa.” [It’s going to be 5 pm. There is more downstairs. Do see them. And do visit the museum too.]
[Note: Click on any of the below images and it will display the set in a gallery with captions. Use the arrows to navigate through the images.]
The [now white-washed] corridors of Kotah’s piece-de-resistance: the 17th Century Kotah Garh Palace.
Looking down over centuries’ old roofs and lanes inside the palace complex.
I love the framing of this composition with its blue wooden doors.
Two women paying homage to a yakshini or nature spirit.
Krishna is one of the most popular themes in the Bundi-Kotah School of Miniature Painting.
A dancing girl performs a mujra for the Maharao.
Bedecked in jewels and hennaed fingers, a Rajput woman gently holds her gossamer thin veil in one hand and a peacock feathered fan in the other.
The men in the royal family worshipping Krishna in an alcove painting.
Krishna with Radha, surrounded by gopis in the Ras Lila, a traditional story of Krishna described in Hindu scriptures and literature.
Bundi-Kotah School of Miniature Painting
Indian miniature painting originated in Persia and the imported miniature painting workshops of Mughal rule. The Hada Chauhan Rajputs, along with other princely states across the sub-continent, were quick to absorb this artistic style into their own aesthetics, each adding their own distinctive personalities to their mix. And thus, took birth the Deccani [in the south], Rajasthani [in the west], and Pahari [in the hills of the north] schools of miniature painting.
Often clubbed together with the Bundi School of Miniature Painting which bloomed on the walls of Bundi’s royal private rooms, the Bundi-Kotah School of Miniature Painting found expression in Kotah. Together, they formed a branch of the Rajasthani school.
There is enough similarity between the two to warrant the conjunction—they both use extremely fine fluid brush strokes and rich colouring to portray multifaceted complex emotions and the vibrancy of nature. Their trademark—hunting scenes against a backdrop of dense forests, flowing rivers, and green fields—are painted using local mineral and vegetable colours. Almost serendipity, wouldn’t you say. 🙂
Kotah: The story of Bundi’s offshoot
Bundi’s offshoot, Kota [christened Kotah] on the opposite bank of the Chambal river was created way back in 1579. Its primary purpose, together with the lands around it, was to serve as a realm for the king’s eldest son. The practice, however, came to a halt in 1624 when Rao Raja Ratan Singh’s second son, Rao Madho Singh and the 1st Rao of Kotah (1631 – 1648), asserted his autonomous rule over it.
Kotah’s fate as an independent state was further sealed in 1631 when Shah Jahan, the 5th Mughal emperor, issued his proclamation recognising its sovereignty. The gesture was the emperor’s way of saying thank you to Rao Madho Singh for his military services to the Mughal empire.
Built in the first half of the 17th Century, Kotah’s crowning glory was, as was the norm back then, its Garh Palace. Every ruler of Kotah, thereafter, added to the edifice right up to the time it was absorbed into free India post-independence. Whether it be the Hathian Pol Gateway or the painted zenanas, concepts were transferred from Bundi’s palace to the newer, bigger, brasher palace in Kotah.
Paradoxically, whilst Bundi, the parent city, remained a small, exquisite, rural town over the ensuing centuries, Kotah, younger, cruder and rougher around the edges, grew to become a large, prosperous, and industrial hub.
But “art” is always authentic, timeless, and pure. Whether it be from Bundi or Kotah in the Bundi-Kotah School of Miniature Painting. As I learnt one summer afternoon in Kotah, despite prejudices. ❤
Chhattra Mahal, perched atop the Garh Palace is sumptuously decorated with frescoes and elaborate mirror work. That’s me in the background—a kind of self-portrait.
Deep in thought. Is that a paan you are about to eat, dear woman?
A subject, seated on the floor, disarmed, folds his hands in abeyance to the Maharao in an alcove painting.
Beauty rituals remain unchanged over the centuries in India.
Tigers and bison in the dense jungles around Kotah glance furtively at the royal entourage out on a hunting expedition.
Maharao Ummed Singh-I of Kotah; miniature painting on paper; Maharao Madho Singh Museum.
Sadhu enjoying drinks; miniature painting on paper; Maharao Madho Singh Museum.
Chhattries and domed roofs as seen from the palace’s terraces.
Kotah’s Garh Palace retained a domestic ambience throughout its use despite its grandeur. This was in keeping with the bond the ruling family shared with its vassals and their religious bent which prescribed service within family.
Timings: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm.
Ticket: Rs. 100 for Indians; Rs. 500 for foreigners; Photography charges: Rs. 50.
The Palace’s Maharao Madho Singh Museum [ground floor] has a collection of miniature paintings [on paper], arms and armoury, royal regalia and modes of transport, stuffed animals, and old photographs.
Getting to Kotah: I took the train from Delhi to Kotah.
This entry was posted in Art and Me, Exploring India, Rajasthan and tagged Bundi School of Miniature Painting, Hada Rajputs, Kotah Garh Palace, Maharao Madho Singh Museum, Rajasthan Tourism, Things to do in Bundi by Rama Arya. Bookmark the permalink.
17 thoughts on “the bundi-kotah school of miniature painting in kotah’s garh palace”
vinay25blog on October 9, 2017 at 2:14 pm said:
Thanks, for nice blog.. we had read these different styles of painting and school in our 12 th standard ..those were limited …
Rama Arya on October 9, 2017 at 9:25 pm said:
Hello Vinay, thank you for stopping by. Lovely to know that my post has helped you in understanding the Bundi-Kotah school a little better. 🙂
Prateek tripathi on October 9, 2017 at 9:28 pm said:
Nice blog i like it
Rama Arya on October 9, 2017 at 10:45 pm said:
Thank you, Prateek. 🙂 Happy to know you enjoyed the post.
arv! on October 9, 2017 at 11:10 pm said:
Never knew about this. Thanks for the post, Rama
Rama Arya on October 10, 2017 at 10:50 am said:
My pleasure. I was wonderfully surprised here. Hope you are able to visit it one day. 🙂
arv! on October 10, 2017 at 5:19 pm said:
Let’s hope so. Luck hasn’t been too kind with me of late as far as travel is concerned, Rama
Durga Prasad Dash on October 12, 2017 at 7:26 am said:
Miniature style painting is a unique style of painting. Of course it has become a challenge for the artists to maintain the ‘purity’ of the tradition in the digital age.
Rama Arya on October 23, 2017 at 4:14 pm said:
True. Well observed, Durga Prasad. It is indeed a challenge keeping the style true to its authentic self in today’s digitalised art context and mediums. A challenge I hope time succeeds in keeping alive.
imuskanbhojwani on October 17, 2017 at 8:31 pm said:
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Thank you, Muskan. 🙂
abhibishnu on October 21, 2017 at 10:42 pm said:
Beautiful pictures. Looks like natural (vegetable) colour paintings. Rajasthan is a land of beauty.
Yes, they are painted with mineral and vegetable colours. Thank you for stopping by and I am glad you liked the images. 🙂
olala123 on October 28, 2017 at 2:29 pm said:
How beautiful, hope to see it someday ❤
I hope you do too. 🙂 You will love them.
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Rama Arya on November 6, 2017 at 10:46 am said:
Thank you for stopping by, all the way from Indonesia. 🙂 Glad to know you enjoyed the read.
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A new early Miocene Muracypraea woodring, 1957 (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae) from the Pisco Basin of southern Peru
Thomas J. DeVries, Lindsey T. Groves, Mario Urbina
The cypraeid gastropod, Muracypraea ormenoi new species, is described from lower to middle Miocene beds of the upper-most Oligocene to middle Miocene Chilcatay Formation, Pisco Basin, southern Peru. It is the first cypraeid reported from southern Peru and represents the southernmost occurrence of this genus. Muracypraea is normally a warm-water gastropod and its occurrence in the study area indicates dispersal by means of coastal countercurrents into waters possibly cooled by coastal upwelling. The new species shares a neritic habitat with endemic molluscan taxa and with taxa ranging northward from the Navidad Basin of central Chile.
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DeVries, T. J., Groves, L. T., & Urbina, M. (2006). A new early Miocene Muracypraea woodring, 1957 (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae) from the Pisco Basin of southern Peru. Nautilus, 120(3), 101-105.
DeVries, Thomas J. ; Groves, Lindsey T. ; Urbina, Mario. / A new early Miocene Muracypraea woodring, 1957 (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae) from the Pisco Basin of southern Peru. In: Nautilus. 2006 ; Vol. 120, No. 3. pp. 101-105.
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12/31/2020 News & Commentary – Korea
News & commentary by Dave Maxwell. Edited and published by Daniel Riggs.
1. Expect Missile Testing and Probing From North Korea, Not a Cry For Attention or Help
2. UN Agencies Appeal to China Not to Repatriate Five North Korean Refugees
3. North Korea declares start of "special security period" in Sino-North Korean border region
4. Joint military drill may emerge as hot-button issue for allies (Korea)
5. S. Korea to decide level of virus curbs this week amid no letup in virus resurgence
6. Ex-U.N. chief Ban calls for rectification of ban on sending anti-N. Korea leaflets
7. Unification ministry to scale up financial support for N. Korea aid groups
8. Over 26 pct of N. Korean defectors sent money back home this year: poll
9. Kim Jong Un faces a new year’s moment of truth
10. Local trade official arrested for defying order to earn foreign currency
11. South Korea completes plans for light-aircraft carrier, vertical landing jets
12. North Korean stamps website appears
13. North Korea Claims to Have No Coronavirus. The CDC Disagrees.
14. N. Korea's rare party congress appears imminent as delegates arrive in Pyongyang
15. North Korea military parade spells out HUGE message seen from space ahead of key event
16. North Korean defector chases acting dream in South, finds role as unification advocate
The National Interest · by Markus V. Garlauskas · December 30, 2020
From the former NIO for Korea. I certainly concur that Kim Jong-un will be probing and testing and trying to figure out how to get concessions (e.g., sanctions relief) from the new administration. The default course of action that is in the DNA of the regime is blackmail diplomacy. We must expect Kim to use provocations and increased tensions to try to gain political and economic concessions. If that happens we will not be surprised. If it does not happen we will be pleasantly surprised (though I fear if he does not practice blackmail diplomacy immediate surrounding the transition he will eventually revert to it when he does not get what he wants - and the other lesson we should learn is that if we give concessions Kim will deem that a success and continue to double down on blackmail diplomacy. Concessions will not change Kim's behavior in a positive way.
Conclusion: "Whether or not Kim Jong-un orders a major weapons test early in the Biden Administration’s tenure, North Korea will nevertheless be probing and testing, and probably seeking the right conditions to escalate to testing an ICBM at acceptable risk. It will not be a simple matter to organize international responses that dissuade Pyongyang from escalating further—particularly with all the other urgent issues the new Administration will be facing—but how the Biden Administration responds to North Korea’s probes will likely be crucial to shaping North Korea’s behavior in the next four years."
rfa.org· by Jeongeun Ji and Albert Hong
Again, and we cannot say this enough, China is complicit in north Korean human rights abuses and crimes against humanity.
dailynk.com· by Lee Sang Yong · December 30, 2020
It seems that the populations and resources control measures are more severe and restrictive than at any time in the history of the regime. I would like to read some analysis from escapees who have experienced border operations. I fear blow back is coming for the regime. We need to be on our toes.
4. Joint military drill may emerge as hot-button issue for allies
The Korea Times· by Kang Seung-woo · December 31, 2020
"To send an untrained army to war is to throw them away." - Confucius.
We have worked diligently to support diplomacy and the nuclear negotiations by adjusting ROK/US CFC training using the commander's "four dials." We have ended the "named exercises" and emphasized alliance training as Combined Command Post Training (CCPT). The ROK signed the Comprehensive Military Agreement which consisted of confidence building measures that the ROK faithfully implemented with virtually no reciprocity save for changes in the JSA and the removal of a number of guard posts. During all this time the nKPA remains forward deployed postured for offensive operations, has continued more than 20 short range ballistic and cruise missile and rocket launches and has sustained a military modernization program at the expense of the welfare of the Korean people in the north. On October 10th the regime showed off what may be a new ICBM and new SLBM along with the wide range of modernized conventional military equipment. And teh ROK has also allowed encouragement on training areas which has prevented sufficient live fire training by US forces in Korea. Given the north Korean threat and its continued hostile posture toward South Korea and the ROK/US Alliance along with the necessity to continue the OPCON transition process which requires, in part, combined training to reach FOC and then FMC, we must have a renewed emphasis on combined training at the theater level to ensure the readiness of the ROK/US CFC. Failure to do so will be throwing the ROK/US CFC away.
en.yna.co.kr · by 최경애 · December 31, 2020
I fear tough times are ahead for Korea.
en.yna.co.kr · by 송상호 · December 31, 2020
To borrow an adage from the LBJ era: "If you have lost Ban Ki-moon you have lost the country."
We should all remember these words from Secretary General Ban: "Human rights are not an internal affair but a universal value of humankind. The law has invited criticism from the international community that it is an 'anti-human rights act' that succumbed to North Korea's demands," Ban said in the speech. "I cannot help but feel miserable that our country is facing criticism from home and abroad due to the human rights issue. (South Korea) should rectify it with the right measures," he added, stressing his stint at the U.N. helm from 2007-2016 had focused on promoting human rights around the world."
en.yna.co.kr · by 이원주 · December 31, 2020
Yes, this is a good and important step forward but I fear it is too little and too late and will not offset the criticism of the anti-leaflet/anti-human rights Kim Yo Jong law.
If they can get money to their relatives in the north we should be able to exploit that. Imagine if we could funnel money to "key communicators" in the north and to the right business people operating the markets. We could get enough money into north Korea and to the right people to really capitalize on the corruption by the regime. This would be an important line of effort for anyone considering a political warfare /unconventional warfare campaign in the north.
asiatimes.com · by Daniel Sneider · December 30, 2020
And it is bad for Kim it could have catastrophic consequences for those around him. We had best be closely observing for the indications and warnings for regime instability.
I worry about Kim 's interpretation of how to "show big leadership."
dailynk.com· by Jong So Yong · December 31, 2020
How do you earn foreign currency domestically when the regime is cracking down on all the use of all foreign currency? Perhaps the regime is demanding officials go out and find the currency among the civilian population.
Excerpt: "According to the source, he went to the provinces but did nothing, returning empty-handed after staying at a relative’s home. All the while, he complained, “How are we supposed to earn foreign currency domestically?” and “What kind of means do we have?” The authorities were not amused, however, and he was dragged off by the Ministry of State Security."
upi.com · by Elizabeth Shim
This should be a very important capability. But the ROK also has to invest in the fundamentals for OPCON transition. Every dollar spent on these advanced capabilities is a dollar not spent on the necessary C4I, counter fire, and missile defense, capabilities necessary for OPCON transition.
North Korea Tech · by Martyn William · December 31, 2020
For all my friends who may be philatelists (I do not know who you are!)
The National Interest · by Stephen Silver · December 30, 2020
Logic says they should have cases. But the regime has done a good job of controlling the information.
Express · by Edward Browne · December 31, 2020
This is the demand from the regime for all Korean people in the north: ‘결사옹위’ – “which means to defend with one’s life.” It is all about defending Kim Jong-un and the regime with one's life.
entertainment.inquirer.net · by TJ Burgonio · December 29, 2020
"The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little."
“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”
“To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no use to attempt to influence the constitution of the government by acting on opinion, is to forget that opinion is itself one of the greatest active social forces. One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.”
- John Stuart Mill, Considerations on Representative Government
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What is a Trequartista in Football?
December 9, 2020 December 11, 2020 by Matthew Chandler
No, it’s not a made-up term on Football Manager, as I initially assumed when I discovered while trying to lead my beloved Everton to virtual glory in the carefree days of my childhood.
The trequartista is, in fact, a real position – if slightly more obscure one – in football. So, where is it? Who plays trequartista? And who have been the best trequartistas throughout history?
We’ll discover all of this and more below:
The Trequartista Role
Essentially, a trequartista is a playmaker who operates behind the front line but in front of the midfield. Literally translated from Italian, it means ‘three quarters’.
A typical trequartista will possess great creativity and agility, as well as boasting an envious passing range, ball control and eye for goal. They will look to carve open the final third and dictate attacks, with defending pretty much going out of the window.
That said, it’s a demanding role in that it varies from game to game, based on how the opposition attempt to nullify you (e.g. man-to-man or zonal marking). And make no mistake – a good return of goals and assists are expected of the trequartista, too.
Not every attacking midfielder is a trequartista, though, because trequartistas usually play closer to the striker(s) than the archetypal ‘number ten’. They are the focal point in any side for creativity, as both their primary playmaker and an additional scoring threat.
“The magic of the number ten comes from the trequartista’s feet; the player of inventiveness, the one who is capable of wrong-footing everyone with a piece of skill perhaps even he is not fully aware of.”
In some ways, then a trequartista is everything and nothing; essential, but not an outright striker, nor an outright playmaker.
Rather, they drift somewhere between these two lines, as they so often do on the pitch, too.
What is a Trequartista in Football Manager?
If, like me, you first become accustomed to the term through this rather addictive computer game, you might be keen to know more about what to expect from a trequartista on FM itself.
Basically, if you set your team up to gegenpress, with high pressing and intensity the cornerstone of your game plan Jurgen Klopp coined ‘heavy metal football’, don’t use a trequartista.
It’s not that they’re lazy necessarily, they just might not possess the requisite work rate levels and are very much a luxury player that these systems don’t really allow for.
You can select either an attacking midfielder or a striker to play in the trequartista role on the game, which will see your player take on far less defensive responsbility than he otherwise would. Instead, when your team is out of possession, he is more likely to drift around, making space for himself.
But when going the other way, what a return a trequartista can provide your team when on song. Deploy runners around him and give him free rein and you should create a shedload of chance.
Is Messi Trequartista?
You’re loathe to pigeon-hole Lionel Messi to one specific role, given how multi-faceted one of the best footballers in history’s game is, but he certainly can play, and has played, the trequartista superbly.
Often in Barcelona’s attack, Messi has acted as Barcelona’s trequartista, dropping deep to receive the ball before playing in the mere mortals he calls team-mates. Think David Villa and Pedro in particular, when Pep Guardiola’s early-2010s Catalan giants wrote themselves into history as one of the most shimmering and accomplished sides of all-time.
Though, when Barcelona have been out of possession, the Argentinian has tended to contribute more to the pressing effort than your typical trequartista probably would. There has long been a misconception that Messi is ‘lazy’ or doesn’t run enough – perhaps it’s he’s just that good, he barely needs to break stride.
Messi’s performance in Barcelona’s 3-2 win at Real Madrid in April 2017, during which he netted his 500th goal for the club, felt one of the leading examples of all the good a trequartista can offer. And not just because he scored the winner in injury time.
His 72 touches at the Bernabeu that night were bettered by only Sergi Roberto, Sergio Busquets and Andres Iniesta, with Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane eventually withdrawing midfielder Casemiro due to him persistently tripping up Messi, thus running the risk of a red card.
That exact fate befell Sergio Ramos moments later, as he lunged in on Messi, who was on the receiving end of a game-high six fouls, including an elbow to the face from Marcelo.
And while Messi has perhaps garnered more of a reputation for cutting in from the right before causing untold damage, here he dominated from the middle.
Starting and ending attacks, complementing Luis Suarez and Paco Alcacer in attack, bringing the midfield into play, scoring twice, including an added-time winner – not a bad night’s work for a supposedly lazy footballer.
Trequartista Examples
The 1980s and 1990s feels the golden age of the trequartista, with the likes of Michel Platini and Diego Maradona exemplifying what the position demands with devastating prowess, before passing that baton on to players such as Roberto Baggio.
More recently, we’ve seen trequartistas perhaps drop deeper than they used to – Messi in the above example, for instance. Yet what makes Messi’s mastery at the Bernabeu that night so perplexing is that the opposition manager – Zidane – also hit the gold standard of trequartistas in his playing career at Juventus.
Who’s filled that void lately besides Messi? Mostly players in Italian sides, unsurprisingly. Francesco Totti excelled in a similar role for Roma, as did Kaka, particularly in Carlo Ancelotti’s supreme mid-2000s AC Milan side.
Otherwise, though, genuine trequartistas seem to becoming more of a collector’s item in the modern game. Maybe it’s time to truly resurrect them on your next Football Manager save.
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How a Non-recruiter Learned to Improve Candidate Experience
By Devon Miller September 5, 2017 August 21, 2017
As an employment marketing writer, I spend a lot of time working closely with recruiters and hiring managers. I am fascinated by their experiences — from the entertaining to the disappointing to the bizarre. But the best stories are the ones that create an impactful change.
Below are some of my favorite success stories that drove process improvements, enhanced communication, and engaging marketing tools. Of course all of them started with a problem …
Out of control nerves. A recruiter once told me they have candidates tear up during interviews constantly. “I’m fully aware that interviews are the last place most people want to be,” she shared. “Believe it or not, recruiters empathize that interviewing is hard. I think people sometimes forget we are interviewing you because we think you may be a good fit for a job, not because we want to humiliate you. Poor past experiences and social media horror stories are making people more nervous than they needed to be.”
What they changed: This recruiter decided to rebrand themselves and their company as welcoming and supportive. Changes such as smiling more, offering a bottle of water or snacks, and calling the candidate to prep them before the interview all made a difference. In addition, the hiring team made their interview process more conversational and less interrogational. The recruiter immediately noticed an increased rate of offer accepts and more successful candidates.
Waiting for the candidate who’s 100 percent qualified. Some job descriptions are written as if the candidate must have significant experience in absolutely every task — which is often untrue. Of course, an applicant may not get a data analytics role with no knowledge of statistics, but it’s not always necessary to be greatly experienced in everything. An IT manager shares, “We had someone who was technically great, but didn’t have experience presenting to senior leaders. He got hired because he was honest about his presentation experience, and shared that he was taking courses and practicing on a small scale.”
What they changed: They took a red pen to their job descriptions, cut out less frequent tasks, and divided qualifications into “must have,” and “nice to have.” They even posted the above story on their career site blog to demonstrate how a new hire was making strides to obtain the “nice to have” qualifications. Within a week, they had 10 quality candidates.
Rejection disguised as a compliment. I once met a hiring manager at a conference who chuckled when he told me about a rather odd phone call. “It was from a candidate we sent a rejection letter,” he said. “He told me he appreciated all the compliments and he “got the message.” He actually thought we were encouraging him to apply again. Doesn’t he get that we send that letter to everyone?” In the candidate’s defense, standard rejection letters can be really bad. They’re usually vague and, especially with rejections, too soft. This candidate’s drastic misinterpretation made the team realize they needed a change.
What they changed: They banned the form letter. Well, sort of. Because most of us don’t have time to craft a personalized letter to every declined candidate, the team created a broader category of letters, instead of sending the same letter to everyone. A few examples are — Never Hire, Needs More Experience, and Doesn’t Meet Minimum Requirements. The recruiting team also personally edited letters for unique situations — like offering suggestions for someone who was incredibly close to getting hired. As a result, they maintained a relationship with higher-quality candidates (who they wanted to apply again), while also clearly, but politely, rejecting others.
The right combination. One team was struggling to fill a role that required a distinct combination of skills: the individual had to be thick-skinned for demanding clients, but also do well in a supportive and collaborative team environment. One hiring manager shared a lesson learned about a candidate who seemed like a good fit at first, but after they were hired, clearly intended to take over. “She was great with clients, but her personality didn’t fit in with the team. Unfortunately, she was resistant to change and only lasted a few weeks.” The recruiters felt they had focused too much on the client side and wanted to ensure their selections were balanced.
What they changed: Two major changes helped — first, they decided that client-relationship skills could be taught, whereas working styles were more ingrained. In addition, during the interview, the recruiters would share details on a current project and ask the candidate their opinion. The hiring manager was surprised at the results, “It was eye-opening how many candidates offered suggestions for us to improve, instead of sharing how they would contribute to the project. We found a great hire by choosing someone who wanted to serve both clients and the team.”
An out-of-date process. Your hiring process may seem fine on the surface, but if it’s been a while since you’ve upgraded, it’s probably time to reassess. For one group, they wanted to get a sense of what was lacking in their candidate’s experiences, but didn’t have a good method to get feedback. They discussed surveying recent hires, but felt they may be hesitant to give criticism immediately after joining a company.
What they changed: The entire recruiting team went through the application process — and it was enlightening. For one thing, they found letters that didn’t make any sense — people who applied, but weren’t interviewed, received rejection letters that started, “Thank you for interviewing with us.” In addition, the technology wasn’t seamless — in some cases it took almost an hour to fill out the online application, when most of the information could be found in the candidate’s resume. After making improvements, they saw not only better candidate pools, but also gained efficiencies for the recruiters (no more walking candidates through a clunky process!)
Devon Miller
Devon Miller is a writer specializing in branding and marketing topics that create authenticity and engagement via social media channels. Working closely with recruiters, marketing specialists, and business areas, she creates concepts and copy that attract and educate candidates on job opportunities. By identifying trends in perception to inform social recruiting content strategies, she can help uncover opportunities for digital engagement and social recruiting initiatives, especially in difficult to reach talent pools.
5 Comments on “How a Non-recruiter Learned to Improve Candidate Experience”
Robin Ram says:
Love all the process improvements and best practices shared here which highlights the importance of continually monitoring the quality of candidate experience. There’s so much talk these days about bettering it. Going beyond that, so good to see from the above examples of how things are actually being done to better the candidate journey!
I love the way this article is laid out! You present a problem and immediately offer a solution. I especially like the story about the candidate that “got the message” but misinterpreted it. Employers don’t communicate enough with candidates, in general, and when they do, it’s likely a mass email. Most candidates can tell! The best way to get around this is to do what you suggested – tweak email templates (like these: http://bit.ly/2j0TUSX) a bit to fit the unique situation. Thanks for sharing!
Keith Halperin says:
Thank you, Devon. I work as a contract contract recruiter, so I am oftenn a candidate: overall my CE is terrible to fair/Ok, rarely good, virtually never exceptional except for MS in 2008.
I wrote the following in EREon 4/16/2013, and the only thing that’s changed is that there are now more many morelow-cost, solutions which employers DON’T use:
Employers Don’t Care
The great majority of employers don’t care about the candidate experience. They don’t have to care. If they’re not an “employer of choice” and looking for the “fabulous 5 percent,” then they can treat people any old way they please, and the people will line up for more. Employers of choice are particularly known for this sort of thing, because they can treat almost everybody badly and still get the pick of the litter.
I said this a couple of months ago (n 2013-kh):
I’m putting out a challenge to the staffing managers, directors, and VPs out there reading this: if you’re sincerely interested in fixing your candidate care, let me know off line. If you’re not a manager, etc. but you think your manager, etc. would be interested in really doing something: forward this on to them, I’ll let people know in my column what I’ve found about who “walks their talk.”
Not one responded; not even the winners of the “Candidate Experience Awards” wanted to follow up here on ERE and elaborate for the rest of us. So, folks: I’d like to proclaim this a dead issue, and would appreciate no more “Isn’t the Candidate Experience Bad?” articles, or “I treat all my candidates well” statements. We’re years past that being relevant or useful. You want to talk about the “c-words”? Well then: tell us what you’ve done or are doing to make bad candidate care decent, decent candidate care good, or good care great. Extra points for how you overcame the apathy or resistance of the arrogant and privileged folks at the top of the corporate food chain. Show me that YOU care.”
WalterLee says:
Nice article! The recruitment process is difficult for both the employers and the candidates. Thank you for sharing; this will help ease the process and make it less stressful.
Frem Joller says:
Very good article, thank you for sharing these practices. Working at an IT recruitment firm myself, I know that it is sometimes very challenging to find the right candidate to fill a position, but high quality interviews and good candidate experience should always be provided for everyone no matter the circumstances.
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Sheffield flood defences hold during city’s wettest November day on record
Following yesterday’s severe weather conditions which saw 64mm of rainfall, Sheffield is now recovering, with all affected roads now open in the city.
It was the third wettest day for South Yorkshire and Sheffield’s wettest November day on record.
Sheffield City Council has been working with their partners, Amey, South Yorkshire Police, South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service, Yorkshire Ambulance service, South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive and The Environment Agency through the night to make sure everyone was safe.
The Environment Agency confirmed that water levels were equivalent to those in 2007. Services were in place for anyone who needed to relocate, but no evacuations were necessary or are expected.
Councillor Mark Jones, Cabinet Member for Environment, Streetscene and Climate Change at Sheffield City Council, said: “Following a really wet October and with yesterday being Sheffield’s wettest November day on record it’s not surprising that water levels reached the equivalent of the 2007 floods.
“Although there was significant travel disruption, no compulsory evacuations were necessary.
“There was some ‘overtopping’ of the flood defences at the Lower Don Valley but they were not breached. Without these defences the impact would have been significantly worse.
“We are now working hard to clear remaining surface water on the roads and to assess the damage that may have been caused to properties and businesses.
“I would like to thank the hundreds of people who worked tirelessly through the night to keep everyone safe in the city.”
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Chandler Busby | Haiti Design Co.
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John Montesi
What is the Haiti Design Co. story? Can you tell us what inspired the creation of Haiti Design Co.?
It began as a pursuit of a more intentional, purposeful life. I was tired of purchasing products where I had no connection to their source and no clue about the person behind them. As a designer myself, I know the heart and soul that goes into producing well-made clothing and accessories. I wanted to create an opportunity for customers to connect directly with the makers of their products as well.
I first came to Haiti in college and was immediately hooked. I quickly saw that Haiti did not need any more aid or pity, it needed job skill training and reliable work. I was heartbroken at learning about the all-too-common “economic orphan” that filled the orphanages on so many corners in Haiti. I wanted to focus on creating jobs for mothers and fathers where they made products they were proud of, products that represented their country in a positive light, and most importantly, products that allowed them to raise their children.
What led you to Haiti?
My husband, Josh, and I graduated from school, got married, and moved to Haiti 3 weeks later. From there our passion grew and evolved into a focus on artisan leadership training. An old Haitian man taught Josh leatherwork and then Josh started teaching men in our community. Next thing we knew the program took off. Josh and I run the business together—I can’t imagine trying to do it all alone. We are planting seeds for generations to come, and making things we love (and hope you love!) along the way.
Can you tell us a story about some of the people behind HDC?
Jerry joined our team about 3 years ago with no prior experience. He is the oldest of 5 children and his entire family depends on him for support. His family lives in harsh conditions and day-to-day necessities do not come easily, let alone tuition for school. Jerry learned leatherwork and truly lit up. He became a talented designer and used his income to not only provide for his family and send his siblings to school, but also put himself through English school on nights and weekends. He now leads tours around our workshop and shares our vision in Haiti with visitors. He also fell in love with our head jewelry manager, Guerdy, and they got married last October! They had a beautiful wedding and basically all of our team was there. His wife Guerdy is also the president of our in-house community development committee called “HDC in Action”
Can you walk us through the production process?
The leather first comes from a local family owned tannery here in Haiti. It is full-grain, vegetable tanned cowhide, which means it will age naturally and last a lifetime. We use the larger pieces of the hides on our bags, such as the Classic Tote or Juliette Tote, then we save our remnant pieces to create accessories such as the tassel keychain. We use the phrase “waste not, want not” a lot and try to make the most of everything we have. The pieces are cut, sanded, and beveled by hand. They are then stamped with our logo, the hardware is added, and a final touch of leather conditioner is applied. The fabric bags that enclose the keychains are sewn in-house by our team of seamstresses.
Tell us about the impact you witness in your community.
This is the most exciting part of what we do! In 2016 over 138 people were employed through Haiti Design Co, and those 138 people used their income to support 189 more people in their families or communities. 18 of our employees used their income to start new businesses. And we currently have 5 teams that are a part of our Artisan Incubator Program, which exist to support business training, design support, and access to market for emerging artisan leaders.
What excites you the most about Haiti Design Co.?
Haiti Design Co is a story of redemption. We do not believe in focusing on the negative, but on creating the good we want to see in the world. HDC represents the power of fashion for good, putting people above profit, transforming people’s perspectives of Haiti, and creating opportunities of hope for families and generations to come. We need everyone—our customers, our partners, our staff, our community. We all have a role to play. This is why our workshop motto is an old Haitian proverb, “Men Anpil Chay Pa Lou”, which means, “Many Hands Make the Load Light.”
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Scent memory.
March 27, 2011 at 10:04 am (Sex) (Reflections)
I remember, many years ago, coming home from work one afternoon and discovering the distinctive scent of my current lover in my bed. I hadn’t seen him for more than a week, so it was very unlikely that his scent had lingered that long and remained that strong. He did have a key to my apartment, so the logical assumption was that he’d been there at some point during the day and had been in my bed. I didn’t care why – it was a turn-on to smell him without his actual physical presence.
Scent has always carried strong memories and emotional associations for me. I keep certain fragrances around specifically to evoke particular sensual memories. Crabtree & Evelyn had a (now discontinued) fragrance called Spring Rain, and my very first lover burned the incense version in her bedroom the night she seduced me. It brings me back to a small attic bedroom with a mattress on the floor, and a lusciously curvy girl removing her clothes while firmly yet kindly informing a very naive me of what was about to happen. I have two remaining incense cones of the same fragrance that I will never burn.
I also have a small bottle of bubble bath in a unique clove & rose scent that I’ve never found anywhere else. It was a hotel product, saved from the room I shared for three days in Portland with the man who collared me. (I’ve never been able to call him my master. More on that some other time.) I uncork that tiny bottle and I’m back in a two-seat jacuzzi bathtub, slipping underwater while he fucked me, again, after swearing he was done with me for that day.
Alice blogs again.
March 24, 2011 at 7:57 pm (Random) (Real life)
I blogged using my own domain from 2003 to 2006. It was a rambling, unfocused blog, really not much more than a journal I chose to make public. I didn’t build a following or get a lot of reader comments. I didn’t really care. I wrote about anything, but in particular I enjoyed writing about sex. And for me, those were sexually interesting times.
Then some unusual nonsense happened. Mainly, my apartment was broken in to and my laptop was stolen. As a result, I changed all my passwords, but I forgot the most important one – the one that allowed me into the MovableType installation on my server. I tried everything I could to recover it, but it was no use because of the way I’d configured the application. I’d lost everything.
At the same time, the relationship I was in was turning serious and, for the moment at least, monogamous. And I have a tendency of spending less time on introspection, and thus writing about my thoughts, when I’m in a relationship. I gave up blogging entirely. That relationship led to marriage, and ultimately led to where I am today:
I’m a 39 year old corporate drone with a pretty average, domesticated lifestyle, on the surface. I’ve also been in an open relationship since 2007. Admittedly, I haven’t taken advantage of our arrangement as much as my husband has, but I have my reasons. And it has been a very good thing, in a lot of ways.
Lately I’ve been feeling very restless. I’ve also been playing with Twitter and enjoyed the challenge of titillating in 140 characters or less, exercising my erotic imagination on a small but appreciative audience. But there are stories I’d like to tell that could never fit Twitter’s structure, so I’ve decided to start blogging again. There won’t be a lot of posts. And one thing I’ve decided is that I won’t make a distinction between stories and adventures that have happened recently vs. those I’m recounting from the past. That isn’t the point, really – I just want to tell some sexy stories, and have a place for some rambling thoughts on swinging, polyamory, and the direction my life is taking.
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Millions of oppressed fled Syria. Most were fleeing death and misery. Many though were embedded with extremism, a brand of Islam bereft of tolerance, hence “believe like me or die”. Once the doors were thrown open in the EU, many European members were forced to yield, and in many forms of Islam there is no leeway for getting along with “freedom of speech”. Thus, like in Communist China, or Cuba, or Venezuela, or North Korea, or Russia, or a variety of dictatorships in Africa, or in Asian Islam, like in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, or for the likes of Hamas, Hezbollah, PLO, Iran, and others, free exchange of ideas is anathema to them, and even the slightest disagreement with their dogma inspires horror and murder, as we saw recently in Paris and Nice. Macron’s response is justified, but it is too little too late, and he was weak for too long in recognizing the inevitable influence the influx would have on European sensibilities and customs. The seeds of this destruction are now already planted in Europe, and every country that opened its doors to this particular endless immigration has introduced social conflict that is in many respects incompatible with the traditional freedoms inherent in Western culture. The result unfortunately has repeated itself in London, in Paris, and throughout the EU. It is not going away.
We see some of this in Ilan Omar, her intolerance and ideology, her palpable hatred of America, and Jews in particular. We see it also in a host of others who fled somewhere to bring this intolerance to our shores, in some cases itching for a fight. There is no place for it in our culture. There are hundreds of millions who can and do get along in the world. But for the rest it is like throwing a match into a barrel of oil.
There are those ready to appease the intolerance of those of Omar’s ilk, yield to their demands of “believe like me or die”, and the current thread of appeasement which runs through the Left’s eagerness to embrace those who despise our freedom and our nation leaves me in fear of our future, with the likes of Tlaib, Omar, Ellison and others manipulating our open system to their advantage, and injecting insidious dogma into those they influence (like the rabid Antisemitism and hatred of Israel spreading like wildfire in the BLM/Antifa movement and the Democratic Party).
We should use Macron’s initial fecklessness as an example of what not to do, and a cautionary tale to impel us to adopt the vigilance we need to keep the incompatible hatred and violence from infecting our nation. We welcome legal immigrants and refugees to our shores, but they are welcome only if they abide by our long, long history and traditions of freedom, tolerance and acceptance, and “believe like me or die” is not acceptable dogma in our collective American DNA. It most certainly is not.
Author leelonghwaPosted on November 1, 2020 Categories EU, Free speech, Islamic extremism, Israel, terrorismTags Islamic extremismLeave a comment on Macron is right, but it is too little too late
Well, a dozen Democratic Party congresspeople in the US (including two Jews), have decided to try to censure Israel, never having done so to Hamas for murdering Jews, because Israel refused to allow a visit by Oman and Tlaib, two supporters of Palestinians and BDS. They are two of the most vitriolic, brazen and unrepentant Antisemites in the US Congress, issuing daily criticism of Jews and Israel with the same old centuries old tropes which preceded the Holocaust, have never died down in Europe, and are daily fare in Iran, the West Bank and Gaza. Oman and Tlaib set up Israel with a fake trip designed to attack Israel, support BDS (which is against Israeli law) and rather than meet with any Israeli government representatives for a dialogue, was designed to visit only Palestinians. Consequently, they were barred by Israel.
Barring these Antisemitic reprobates was more than fully justified. Their vitriol and hatred of Israel knows no measures, their constant diatribes against Israel have betrayed their rabid racism against Jews, and they have no place in Congress. They should have been censured themselves, and strongly. Where are the investigations into their antisemitic activities? Their contacts with known terrorist organizations?
What’s worse, their positions have been adopted by some of the Democratic Party candidates for President who have vowed to cut off all aid and military support of our primary ally in the Middle East, Israel, and have sworn to support the terrorists running the Palestinian government.
Could the Democratic Party be any more bizarre and disturbed than it is? A blatantly Antisemitic political party which complains about “white supremacy” and constantly accuses the President of being a racist? Is there any greater hypocrisy? What is wrong with this party? The further to the left it has drifted, driven there by President Obama, the more fascist it has begun to look, and now we are seeing signs of the racism and hatred of Jews which has characterized many previous fascist movements.
It is essential these congresspeople get a grip on themselves and realize what idiocy they are speaking. They are adamantly supporting two Holocaust deniers who have been barred from entering Israel for violating Israeli law barring anyone who support BDS from entering Israel. If the Democratic Party wants to get elected, it should be seriously worried about being seen as supporting Iran, Hamas, the PLO, China, Venezuela and other US enemies, as well as some of the other hateful positions put forth by AOC and her “squad” of racists.
Author leelonghwaPosted on August 19, 2019 Categories Democracy, Islamic extremism, Israel, terrorism, UncategorizedTags Democracy, Islamic extremism, Israel, terrorismLeave a comment on The New Antisemitic Democratic Party – It is the Hypocrisy Party now.
Don’t look for the words Hamas, PLO or Abbas in the latest anti-Israel editorial offered by Bloomberg in the August 21, 2018 edition of the Taipei Times on P.9 entitled “The Palestinians cannot keep living under Israeli apartheid” penned by Hussein Ibish.
How is it possible to write a 3 page article about the “Palestinians'” misery and not mention the word “Hamas” or the term “PLO” or the name “Abbas”, lingering President of the PLO since 2005 (is there an election in sight)? The “Palestinians” are under the heel of those organizations and that man, not Israel. Israel affords more rights to its Arab citizens than most other Arab countries afford their own citizens. Tens of billions of dollars of aid to the Palestinians are wasted each year on terrorism, bombs, tunnels, brainwashing and corruption, and not to schools, hospitals, education and the betterment of the “Palestinian” people. Hamas and the PLO are dedicated to keeping the “Palestinian” people poor and wretched so that someone can write an article like this. In Bloomberg no less. What a travesty.
Golda Meir, President of Israel said 60 years ago “Peace? We will have no peace with the Arabs until they love their children more than they hate us.” Until they educate their children to be better and stop teaching them to hate Jews, the ultimate racism and Antisemitism in the world, there will be no solution. Israel’s motto is Never Again and it means Never. Ever. Surrounding nations should look to Israel as an example of how to have a successful democratic country in the midst of a sea of tyranny. Israel took a desert and turned it into an oasis. The Palestinians took an oasis and turned it into a desert, and now weep for living in a desert – like a child who murdered his parents and throws himself on the mercy of the Court as an orphan, seeking sympathy. The path to peace runs through Gaza and the PLO, not through Jerusalem. There is no negotiating peace with people who do not want peace, only genocide against the Jews once more. Israel, like Taiwan, is a unique nation, in Israel’s case fighting alone against a sea of racism, and in the case of Taiwan, against international greed and addiction for Chinese lucre. Great people and great ideas persist in the midst of adversity. Israel and Taiwan will prevail.
The fact Mr. Ibish’s article argues for Israel to be prevented from being a Jewish state (among a surrounding and nearby 24 nations which are Islamic states or Arab states where Jews are not welcome) is telling. This is another stab at destroying Israel, with immigration if necessary. The problem of the “Palestinians” is not Israel, it is Hamas and the PLO, both corrupt, both happiest when the people are the most pathetic, their “governments” are oppressive, there are no human rights, no women’s rights, no freedom, no due process (due process in Gaza means summary execution at the pleasure and fiat of Hamas leadership) and no accountability (and oddly no mention of either of them in this 3 page article). Abbas was “elected” in 2005 and he is still in power after 13 years and the people have not benefited one single bit in all that time. When the PLO and Hamas are thrown out of governing the people, there will be hope for a future. As long as the world, the U.N. especially, and anyone who wishes to destroy the notion of a Jewish state continue to support the “Palestinians” as cannon fodder, there will be no peace. Israel is a tiny Jewish state in its historical homeland of more than 3,000 years, the one place in the world Jews can be safe. That will never change again. Never. Ever.
Author leelonghwaPosted on August 21, 2018 December 13, 2018 Categories Democracy, Human rights, Islamic extremism, Israel, Taiwan, terrorism, UncategorizedTags Democracy, Human rights, Islamic extremism, Israel, Taiwan, terrorismLeave a comment on Bloomberg’s latest anti-Israel editorial is not only surprising, it is inane – Bloomberg says Israel is 100% responsible for the plight of Palestinians, not Hamas, not the PLO, not Abbas
NATO has blatantly given the green light to Iran to attack Israel – the NATO chief says alliance won’t protect Israel if Iran attacks, never mind maintaining even the illusion of a semblance of spine or morality – with friends like the EU, who needs enemies?
NATO has given the green light to Iran to attack Israel. It should come as no surprise that when put on the spot, the EU will follow its standard military response – Run away. Is it possible? Can humans be that completely feckless and pathetic? Perhaps it is time for the US to leave NATO and see how the EU likes facing Russia and China, ISIS, Al Qaeda, North Korea and all of the other enemies of democracy themselves. They can do “deals” because that is all they know, how to appease. The EU learned absolutely nothing from Hitler and Chamberlain. I’m tired of spending so many American lives, and billions and billions of dollars saving those lilly-livered appeasing jackasses over and over and over again. Why should we help them at all if this is their policy? Let them figure out how to get by protecting themselves from evil by spending a handful of Euros on defense.
Fuck the EU. It is 1939 all over again, and Europe is at war against the Jews. Despicable, pathetic, moronic, hypocritical, disgusting and so weak. By saying they will not help Israel, Europe is saying they are helping Iran…Iran!! The enemy to everything democratic and peaceful. There is NO NEUTRAL here. Could anyone be more chickenhearted? What is wrong with the EU? NATO? NATO? Without the US, NATO is a gun club, a picnic group, a coffee clutch. Good luck. Oh, by the way. If Russia decides to waltz into Paris or Berlin or Rome or Madrid we’re busy defending Israel, sorry. Oh. Did I send a signal to Russia that they have a clear path to roll over you guys? Good luck. I give you three days and then you can genuflect to Tzar Putin, as opposed to kneeling before the Emperor Xi or the Ayatollah. Seems you make your bed, you sleep in it.
Author leelonghwaPosted on June 3, 2018 Categories Democracy, EU, Global politics, Israel, UncategorizedTags EU, Islamic extremism, IsraelLeave a comment on NATO has blatantly given the green light to Iran to attack Israel – the NATO chief says alliance won’t protect Israel if Iran attacks, never mind maintaining even the illusion of a semblance of spine or morality – with friends like the EU, who needs enemies?
Will Hutton of the Observer – Complaining about how Strong the US President is…really!
Pardon the enormous amount of sarcasm and utter loathing below concerning Will Hutton’s article entitled “The world struggles to deal with Trump’s erratic and capricious ways” republished in the Taipei Times on 5/29/18 on page 9.
Will, Will, Will – you’ve been a fool for at least the past 16 years, as long as I’ve been writing in the Taipei Times. Of course you despise Trump, he is a blunt tool to Obama’s feckless, weak and impossibly hesitant administration. “Both see yet more opportunities spinning out of Trump’s incredible stupidity in deliberately destabilizing the very system from which the US benefits” – uh, excuse me. It was Obama who threw every ally under the bus, and embraced our enemies as brothers – which had the effect of allowing China and Russia to soar to new heights, empowered Iran, Syria, the Palestinians, especially Hamas, and North Korea built bombs and missiles, and Europe waffled and waffled and waffled – France was suddenly important because the US withdrew from its position under Obama. Will, Will, Will…are you kidding me?
“Has a bigger fool ever occupied the White House?” Of course – Obama, preceded by Jimmy Carter, both enshrined in the Idiot Weak Presidents Hall of Fame. Do you not understand that Obama came in on a campaign of “Change”, only the change he had in mind was de-fanging and castrating the US, and allowing its enemies a golden period of growth and hegemony? Red lines followed by terminal hesitation. Obama left the planet in FLAMES and CHAOS. Flames and chaos. Has there ever been a worse president? (I used to think Carter was the worst, but geez, it is a close race between Obama and Carter as to who is the bigger fool). Of course you like this American weakness better than a strong, unpredictable blunt tool – you hated Reagan too, but he helped bring down the Soviet Union. Europe has more clout when the US is weak. Will, Will, Will…
“Give no quarter, look for the other side’s weakness and brutally cut the deal to walk away taller and prouder yourself.” Are you kidding me? You actually reject this strategy for winning against the likes of Russia, Communist China, North Korea, Iran, and so on and so on? Are you joking? Of course you’re not joking. All we need to do is open the European Manual for Negotiation and see that the chapter on tough negotiating is 3 pages long, and the chapters on Appeasement, and Compromise are each 57 pages long, including the 7 page footnote on the greatness of the Chamberlain School of Diplomacy. Sigh. Will, Will, Will, when will you ever learn?
“NATO is tolerated because members are increasing defense spending as demanded. ” Are you suggesting the US owes it to the EU to defend it, protect it, go to war for it without the EU lifting a finger? Is there a single conflict in the Universe that the world would feel safe having the EU military defend against? Any? How could it? The non-US NATO guidebook on military conflict has a chapter on The Art of War which is 2 pages long, and there is a 77 page chapter entitled “Run Away!!” Will, Will, Will….what are you thinking?
“North Korea must overtly bend to US will if there is to be a summit.” Will, Will, Will…are you out of your mind? Is there anything wrong with bringing North Korea to heel? Are you kidding me? Are you actually in favor of appeasing it, giving N.Korea leeway, giving Kim a ….well you know? Are you insane? You think it is bad that the US President can be tough with N. Korea in a very real way, and bring about peace? It is yahoos like you and the rest of the EU that encourage evil to be brave and intransigent, because they know the EU will blink, blink, blink. Sigh. Will, Will, Will…what the hell are you thinking? Just stand back and let us do our work. Watch and learn. Or else, if you can’t look, like perhaps you watch scary movies through your fingers or from behind your popcorn, just close your eyes, and mumble to yourself. “Yada, yada, yada, yada, yada….is it over yet?”
“Foreign policy has become a series of zero-sum games: The US has to win each one.” DUH!! Is there something tragically wrong with you? Do you actually think we should LOSE a conflict? You think we need to be fair with evil such as Russia or China or Iran or North Korea? God, how can you be so stupid?? The hits just keep coming and coming. Now I understand fully why the situation in Israel has never been solved, because Europe is so feckless, so appeasing, so worried, so weak, so pathetic, we have to do it ourselves…God, you are so pathetic. So you understand that in twenty years Europe will be the Middle East? So vacuous. Will, Will, Will….what will you be writing twenty years hence, and in what language?
“Furthermore, it fragments the entire alliance network — and legitimizes Russia and China. Thus Russia and the Europeans are acting in concert to sustain the Iranian denuclearization deal.” We legitimize Russia and China??? We? By opposing a ridiculous deal that allows Iran to hide its program at military sites, and develop weapons and missiles in a mere ten years?!! You idiots. YOU are legitimizing these evil regimes by deviating from your already meager senses, and scrambling according to Macron to save the deal so the EU can keep its business deals with Iran…and WE are wrong??? The EU crawled into bed with the Mullahs, the Russian Tzar Putin and the Emperor Xi to oppose the U.S….YOU GUYS DID THAT. Idiots! Will, Will, Will…what the hell is wrong with you?
“The best response is to show no weakness and stand up to him”. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Will, Will, Will…do you even realize how stupid you sound?? You are advocating standing up to Trump to punish him for standing up to the world’s worst regimes… How stupid is that? Idiots. Sure, throw your ally under the bus, that is the European way, isn’t it? With friends like you, who needs enemies, right? Will, Will, Will….What the hell is wrong with you?!
“However, Macron and Merkel have the power of the EU behind them, itself now the world’s best and most powerful custodian of a rules-based international system. *** Britain is a weakened onlooker — a flyblown lion unable to muster more than a whimper. Our capacity is reduced by Brexit, just as we — and the world — need so much more.” Oh God. Will, Will, Will…you think that is going to bring evil to heel? You really think “the power of the EU” is scary to anyone except some poor EU worker who earns a Euro and has to contemplate paying 80% of it to the EU government for taxes? Power of the EU??? In what universe are you dreaming, Will? You think Xi, Putin, Kim, the Ayatollah, Assad all go to sleep at night thinking, thinking, thinking how to deal with the big bad EU? Or so you think they think of the EU, see dollar signs, smile in their sleep, and dream of visions of sugarplums dancing in their heads? God, you are so dumb. How is it even possible? Will, Will, Will….and you wrote this and published it…in the Observer…for all to see? That should give you nightmares. What the hell were you thinking??!!!
Author leelonghwaPosted on May 29, 2018 Categories China, Chinese Communist Party, EU, Global politics, Israel, North Korea, Uncategorized, Xi JinpingTags China, EU, Israel, North KoreaLeave a comment on Will Hutton of the Observer – Complaining about how Strong the US President is…really!
Palestinians – a society based on self-inflicted misery on women and children in order to seek destruction of Israel
The coverage in US major media of the US Embassy opened in Jerusalem yesterday has been minimal or non-existent, while coverage of the latest “protests in Gaza” designed to attract attention away from the momentous occasion of the founding of Israel and opening the Embassy has been huge. Of course. Europe and the left wing in the US has appeasement sickness again, believing the Palestinians must be appeased in order to secure peace. Like Chamberlain with Hitler. And President Obama with everyone. This is misguided strategy and diplomacy. Moving the Embassy took guts, and has taken a significant obstacle to peace off the table. There are hopefully more to follow opening a path to a solution.
Palestinians, instead of bettering themselves and their society, have spent 50 years sacrificing their women and children to kill Jews and Israel. What can be said of a society that is represented only by the misery they have brought upon themselves to eschew peace and try to get sympathy for the destruction of their neighbors? Israel built its nation with plows, hard work, education, technology and innovation, turning a desert into an oasis. The Palestinians took many many billions of dollars of aid, and perfected bomb-assembly and tunnel digging, little else. Until a giant mirror is erected for these self-immolated people to see their totalitarian leaders are feckless and horrid, misguided and cruel they will wander in this misery forever. Palestinians would be better served learning from Israel’s successes than casting stones, and learning to live together with their neighbors instead of crushing a people who have no intention of ever being crushed again.
Author leelonghwaPosted on May 16, 2018 Categories EU, Global politics, Islamic extremism, Israel, UncategorizedTags EU, Islamic extremism, Israel, terrorismLeave a comment on Palestinians – a society based on self-inflicted misery on women and children in order to seek destruction of Israel
Project Syndicate Adores China (and seems to Despise Israel) – Read Project Syndicate with Great Care, it is NOT Our Friend
I am writing with regard to the article published by Project Syndicate, and republished in the Taipei Times on May 1, 2018 on p. 8 entitled China Should Follow WTO Rules written by Martin Feldstein.
While not bashing Israel, Project Syndicate seems to make great efforts to glorify Communist China and the new Emperor Xi. This is another Project Syndicate “hail China” article. Is it any surprise? What is wrong with these people? George Soros continues to seek a revolution with totalitarian flavor in the world (a “World with Chinese Characteristics” – he would really love that, it seems). Truthfully, this article and Martin Feldstein, disgusted me from the very first line: “I am a great admirer of China and its ability to adjust its economic policies to maintain rapid growth, but now that it has risen to the top of the global economy…” WHAT ABOUT ITS TOTALITARIAN DICTATORSHIP AND CRUSHING OPPRESSION OF ITS PEOPLE? Not one word. Not one.
Professor Feldstein recounts how he traveled to China in 1982, and how poor it was, and governed by a communist regime. Even then he makes no reference to the nature of the regime – and that is the point – very little has changed since 1982 aside from having beguiled the world into sending trillions of dollars into building up the world’s biggest threat to freedom. I think as an economist, Martin looks at the Chinese economic experiment and marvels at it, sort of like a biologist might examine anthrax or the plague and marvel at the complexity and efficiency at killing. At least the biologist recognizes the threat to humanity. Here, well….only marveling. This kind of appeasement of China is one of the most dangerous aspects of this platform, filling heads around the world with glowing praise for China, a silent killer adept at its own propaganda and blackmail.
Where does Project Syndicate find these pro-China hacks with stellar resumes? You would think that as a member of the Reagan and Bush administrations, Feldstein might have developed a healthy perspective on China’s menace to the world. Perhaps he was brainwashed and turned sappy when he served in the Obama administration and then the Council on Foreign Relations.
Here is an example of another Harvard economist overwhelmed with admiration by the ease with which a totalitarian government can manipulate its economy to become whatever it wishes on the backs of over a billion peasants. Amazing what killing 80 million of its own people, and oppressing billions, strictly controlling every aspect of society and foreign competition at will, and stealing every single item of technology within its sticky, greedy hands, and elevating industrial espionage to a national duty can do for your economy.
Remarkably, Feldstein focuses only on China’s compliance with WTO requirements to admit China into the world as an international leader, and nothing else. He already puts their economy at the top. However, not one time, not one word, not a whisper is devoted to China’s horrendous treatment of its people, the complete absence of any freedom, rights, justice, free will, license, democracy, free enterprise, its aggression towards the South China Sea, its neighbors and in particular its obsession with destroying Taiwan’s democracy, a threat to China’s malignant one-party dictatorship. How is it possible that Feldstein, a member of three Presidential administrations, a supposedly world class economist cannot even recognize China’s hegemonic intentions (e.g. his glowing view of One Belt One Road, ignoring its threat to the world) and complete domination of its people, or that its economic “success” is done with blood on the Emperor’s hands?
This is why we are in danger. People like this, like Feldstein, with long resumes, appointments at the best universities (Harvard in his case), a large platform and absolutely no brains whatsoever in their empty Project Syndicate heads (empty aside from some economic guidelines, formulae and statistics, devoid of morality apparently). In my opinion, Mr. Feldstein is a brilliant economist and a complete idiot (something I feel he has in common with Joseph Stiglitz).
Author leelonghwaPosted on May 1, 2018 May 4, 2018 Categories China, Chinese Communist Party, Democracy, Global politics, Human rights, Israel, Uncategorized, Xi JinpingTags China, Chinese Characteristics, Chinese Communist Party, Human rights, Israel, One Belt One Road2 Comments on Project Syndicate Adores China (and seems to Despise Israel) – Read Project Syndicate with Great Care, it is NOT Our Friend
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Stats by Will
Offense Series
Show Me My Opponent, 2020-21: Arkansas
January 6, 2021 January 6, 2021 by Will Warren, posted in Tennessee Basketball
Arkansas offense
Pretty nerve-racking that Tennessee just played something very similar to this
It’s not quite 40 Minutes of Hell, but it’s a fun enough system. Hopefully you weren’t terrified by Tennessee’s performance against Alabama on Saturday, where all five members of Alabama’s on-court lineup could shoot a three or drive to the basket. Don’t fret, and maybe skip the part where I tell you that Arkansas does pretty much the exact same thing.
…okay, it’s not the exact same thing, to be fair. Eric Musselman’s system is still 5-out heavy with a lower emphasis on ball screens and a greater push towards off-ball movement. Arkansas isn’t quite as frank about taking threes as Alabama is, but they’ll still get their fair share (about 42% of all shot attempts). Similarly, Arkansas doesn’t get quite as many attempts at the rim, but it’s still a pretty big chunk of their offense. Essentially, I guess I’m saying this is like playing Diet Alabama, but with better athletes. Probably not ideal!
That might not be fair, but I’ll explore that more in the Tennessee section. For now, I’d like to explore Musselman’s past and how he got to Arkansas. Musselman’s run most of the same stuff since he started at Arkansas. Over the course of four years, he built a roster stuffed with high-quality transfers and excellent athletes that generally ran roughshod over the Mountain West. They were elite at turnover prevention, took a lot of threes, and generally got fantastic looks from both two:
And downtown:
Musselman did this to the tune of 86 wins in his final three seasons at Nevada, a Sweet Sixteen appearance, and his final three offenses ranking 36th, 7th, and 26th on KenPom. It was pretty amazing to watch, because mid-major offenses don’t often look as polished as Nevada’s did.
Through 1.25 seasons at Arkansas, Musselman has yet to find the same level of shotmaking he had at Nevada, but it simply takes time and patience. Tennessee went through the same struggles during the first three years of Rick Barnes’ tenure and finally struck gold in year four; the same could very well happen for Musselman, possibly even sooner.
The main driver of offense is…their sixth man?
For what it’s worth, the quality of the shots Musselman’s offense gets is fantastic. A large amount of it runs through junior J.D. Notae, who’s happy to get to the rim and draw lots of attention as the sixth-man getting starter’s minutes:
Which, in turn, frees up the rest of the floor for an open shot.
The best way to limit Arkansas’s efficiency, strangely, appears to be forcing the quicker shots. Arkansas ranks just 256th nationally in transition eFG%, a pretty shockingly bad rate for a team predicated on playing fast. It’s like Gonzaga if Gonzaga didn’t hit their open shots – totally counterintuitive, obviously, but it’s what’s holding Arkansas back from being a top 25 offense right now.
The Arkansas half-court offense looks much more efficient relative to the rest of the nation, though. They’ve been particularly good at scoring out of the less-frequent ball-screen looks, especially when it’s Notae driving the action. He’s pretty happy to pull up off of a screen from downtown anytime:
Moses Moody is scary
To focus here is to lose the plot of the rest of this scary rotation, though. Moses Moody, a 6’6” wing, is merely one of the most efficient scorers in America. Arkansas guards love kicking it out to him for a three:
For his size, Moody’s also a bit of a monster on the boards. He’s Arkansas’s second-best offensive rebounder behind small-ball 5 Justin Smith, and putbacks have been his third-highest means of scoring, per Synergy:
For my money, slowing down Moody is the key to a Tennessee victory. The only game Arkansas has lost this year featured Moody going 0-for-7 on two-pointers (though 4-for-8 on threes).
Missouri didn’t force bad looks as much as Arkansas just missed good ones
Again, it’s worth forcing Arkansas to take the most guarded threes possible; they’re at a 46/54 Guarded/Unguarded split this season, which suggests that they may be due for some positive 3PT% regression. Against Missouri, the Tigers at least got this ratio to 50/50. Arkansas still got off plenty of good looks, but in an unfortunate twist of fate, only 2 of the Hogs’ 11 wide-open threes fell.
(Ask Tennessee how that feels.) Tennessee can’t count on that same run of bad luck happening again, and they’ve got to do a better, stronger job of guarding these threes than they did against Alabama, when 8 of 15 catch-and-shoot threes went unguarded. To be honest, there’s few more embarrassing things that can happen in this season of SEC basketball than letting the Hogs’ 7’3” center make another three on you.
Plus, in that Missouri game, Arkansas got pretty fantastic shots inside the perimeter. 38 of the Hogs’ 71 (!!!!) shots came in the paint, and on a national-average shooting night, they would’ve hit 20 of these 38 attempts. They hit 11 and had a truly wretched stretch of shooting luck:
It just kind of is what it is on these nights, which, again, is something Tennessee fans can hopefully grasp after Saturday’s unfortunate loss. With the shots Arkansas got (all 71 of them!), an average shooting performance would have produced 71 points from these shots, and that’s before you add in the 23 points Arkansas got from free throws. The Arkansas offense is nowhere near as bad as it looked against Missouri, and I’m sure Tennessee’s staff is preparing for an all-out assault, particularly from three.
Here’s a scout of the full Arkansas rotation. The first five are the projected starters; everything after that is in order of minutes played so far.
#11 Jalen Tate (scoring PG). Of Arkansas’s main five, it’s the point guard that’s the least likely to shoot a three. Tate prefers getting to the rim or, just as frequently, pulling up for a short jumper. The best passer they have, but also quite turnover-prone.
#3 Desi Sills (combo G). 37.5% from three, 56.4% from two. Sills is primarily a spot-up shooter, both in half-court and in transition, but he’s very good at getting to the rim and converting. Rarely takes a bad shot, rarely turns it over. Pretty ideal for a third banana.
#4 Davonte Davis (wing G). Musselman started Davis in the last game and his minutes have consistently gone up over the last month. Why? Well, he looks to be the best perimeter defender on the roster. Few players in the SEC have a better steal rate. Not a serious threat from three, but pretty good at getting to the paint and converting at an acceptable rate.
#5 Moses Moody (wing G). The best player Arkansas has. Moody is making 42% of his threes, gets six free throw attempts a game, and can score from anywhere on the court. I’d like to see him improve at finishing near the rim, but Tennessee has to slow him down however possible.
#23 Connor Vanover (PF/C). 7’3” galoot that owns two of the four best shooting seasons ever from 3PT by a player 7’2” or taller. Vanover is a very strange player that takes over half of his shots from three and doesn’t score nearly as often at the rim as you’d guess. Fun fact: 16-for-16 on free throws this year.
#1 JD Notae (combo G). Jacksonville transfer and the driver of the Arkansas offense when on the court. The closest comparison I can think of is if Lamonte Turner were somehow more aggressive in finding his own shot. Why doesn’t he start? It might be that he commits 4 fouls per 40 minutes.
#2 Vance Jackson (stretch 4). Jackson is 9-for-31 from three on the season, which comes after three very consistent seasons at New Mexico where he made 48, 54, and 50 threes. I imagine he’ll get better, so don’t get too upset if he makes one.
#10 Jaylin Williams (PF/C). True freshman from Arkansas who got erased from the rotation entirely until the Missouri game, when he played 17 minutes and seemed to be a bit more comfortable in the post.
#12 Khalen Robinson (combo G). Rarely shoots the ball, but is 5-for-12 on threes this year, I guess.
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Research ArticleIon Channels
Transmembrane helix connectivity in Orai1 controls two gates for calcium-dependent transcription
View ORCID ProfileIrene Frischauf1,
Monika Litviňuková1,2,*,
Romana Schober1,*,
Vasilina Zayats3,4,
Barbora Svobodová5,
View ORCID ProfileDaniel Bonhenry3,
Victoria Lunz1,
Sabrina Cappello6,7,
View ORCID ProfileLaura Tociu3,8,
David Reha3,9,
Amrutha Stallinger10,
Anna Hochreiter11,
Teresa Pammer1,
View ORCID ProfileCarmen Butorac1,
View ORCID ProfileMartin Muik1,
Klaus Groschner5,
Ivan Bogeski6,
View ORCID ProfileRüdiger H. Ettrich3,9,
View ORCID ProfileChristoph Romanin1, and
View ORCID ProfileRainer Schindl5,†
1Institute of Biophysics, JKU Life Science Center, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz A-4020, Austria.
2Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Cardiovascular and Metabolic Sciences, Berlin D-13125, Germany.
3Center for Nanobiology and Structural Biology, Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Nové Hrady CZ-373 33, Czech Republic.
4Center of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, Warsaw 02-097, Poland.
5Institute for Biophysics, Medical University of Graz, Graz A-8010, Austria.
6Molecular Physiology, Institute of Cardiovascular Physiology, University Medical Center, Georg August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Niedersachsen 37073, Germany.
7Department of Biophysics, Center for Integrative Physiology and Molecular Medicine, Medical Faculty, Saarland University, Homburg D-66421, Germany.
8University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
9Faculty of Sciences, University of South Bohemia, Nové Hrady CZ-373 33, Czech Republic.
10Institute for Molecular Biosciences, Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Graz A-8010, Austria.
11Institute for Experimental and Clinical Cell Therapy, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg A-5020, Austria.
↵†Corresponding author. Email: rainer.schindl{at}medunigraz.at
Science Signaling 28 Nov 2017:
Vol. 10, Issue 507, eaao0358
DOI: 10.1126/scisignal.aao0358
Irene Frischauf
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Monika Litviňuková
Romana Schober
Vasilina Zayats
Barbora Svobodová
Daniel Bonhenry
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Victoria Lunz
Sabrina Cappello
Laura Tociu
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David Reha
Amrutha Stallinger
Anna Hochreiter
Teresa Pammer
Carmen Butorac
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Martin Muik
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Klaus Groschner
Ivan Bogeski
Rüdiger H. Ettrich
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Christoph Romanin
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Rainer Schindl
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For correspondence: rainer.schindl@medunigraz.at
Characterizing cancer-associated Ca2+ channels
Orai1 enables Ca2+ influx into cells in response to ER Ca2+ depletion, resulting in various Ca2+-dependent signaling events, including the stimulation of transcription factors such as NFAT. Frischauf et al. (see also the Focus by Muallem et al.) characterized various Orai1 mutants that they identified from cancer databases using cBioPortal and an Orai1 mutant associated with myopathy. The constitutively active mutants not only activated NFA but also stimulated mitophagy and autophagy, processes that can contribute to tumor progression. A combination of biochemical, electrophysiological, and structural analyses revealed how Orai1 is gated, how this Ca2+ channel can be in a partially active state, and how constitutively activating mutations result in increased Ca2+ influx. Because Orai1 is found in diverse cell types, these results have broad implications for Orai1-mediated Ca2+ signaling in homeostasis and disease.
The channel Orai1 requires Ca2+ store depletion in the endoplasmic reticulum and an interaction with the Ca2+ sensor STIM1 to mediate Ca2+ signaling. Alterations in Orai1-mediated Ca2+ influx have been linked to several pathological conditions including immunodeficiency, tubular myopathy, and cancer. We screened large-scale cancer genomics data sets for dysfunctional Orai1 mutants. Five of the identified Orai1 mutations resulted in constitutively active gating and transcriptional activation. Our analysis showed that certain Orai1 mutations were clustered in the transmembrane 2 helix surrounding the pore, which is a trigger site for Orai1 channel gating. Analysis of the constitutively open Orai1 mutant channels revealed two fundamental gates that enabled Ca2+ influx: Arginine side chains were displaced so they no longer blocked the pore, and a chain of water molecules formed in the hydrophobic pore region. Together, these results enabled us to identify a cluster of Orai1 mutations that trigger Ca2+ permeation associated with gene transcription and provide a gating mechanism for Orai1.
Classical store-operated Ca2+ (SOC) channels are distributed nearly ubiquitously and mainly consist of a two-component system, STIM1 and Orai1, which are critical for physiological functions in immune cells such as T cell activation and gene regulation (1, 2). SOC channels are activated by cell surface receptors that deplete endoplasmic reticulum (ER) Ca2+ stores through the soluble second messenger IP3 (inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate) (3). STIM1 directly senses a drop in the ER Ca2+ concentration (4, 5) and subsequently binds to the Orai1 channel at sites of close contact between the ER and the plasma membrane (6–10). The STIM1/Orai1 complex generates a highly Ca2+-selective current that triggers many Ca2+-dependent signaling events, including activation of the transcription factor NFAT (nuclear factor of activated T cells) (11, 12).
In humans, the heavily suppressed SOC entry displayed by nonfunctional or nonexpressing STIM1 and Orai1 mutants causes immunodeficiency, ectodermal dysplasia, and muscular hypotonia (1, 13, 14). Conversely, constitutively active STIM1 or Orai1 mutants bypass the requirement for ER-dependent store depletion, which results in thrombocytopenia, bleeding diathesis, miosis, and tubular myopathy (14). Altered STIM1 and Orai1 abundance has been correlated to different stages of cancer progression, including proliferation (15), migration and metastasis (16, 17), and tumor growth (18, 19), as well as apoptosis resistance (15). However, researchers have not yet determined whether cancer-associated mutagenesis within the almost ubiquitously distributed STIM1/Orai1 channel complex can alter cellular functions and contribute to pathogenesis (20). Moreover, it is still unknown precisely how Orai1 mutations that result in disease induce channel gating.
The atomic structure of Drosophila melanogaster Orai (dOrai) depicts a closed-channel conformation with a central ion pore formed by six transmembrane 1 (TM1) helices and surrounded by two rings, one of TM2/TM3 and one of TM4 helices (21). Crystallographic studies and functional experiments of the pore have provided insight into its structure, revealing the presence of two major sites that control Ca2+ permeation. The first site is a hydrophobic gate that spans the gap between the pore-lining residues Phe99 to Val102 and has been reported to require a pore helix rotation for activation (22, 23). Point mutations of these residues have resulted in the formation of constitutively active but nonselective channels (22, 23), and coexpression of STIM1 restores the Ca2+ selectivity of the Orai1-V102A mutant (22). The second site, which is made up of positively charged TM1 residues including Arg91, may form an internal electrostatic gate (21, 24, 25). A hydrophobic R91W mutation that causes severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) fully occludes the channel pore and entirely abolishes Ca2+ entry (21, 24, 25). It is not known whether both gating sites are required to open the Orai1 channel and how the gating is controlled. Here, we characterized several Orai1 mutants derived from human tumors. These mutants had constitutive Ca2+ influx and induced transcription factor activation independently of physiological stimuli. We propose a gating mechanism for constitutively active Orai1 channels and show how the membrane connectivity controls two gates.
Several Orai1 mutations retrieved from cancer databases result in constitutive Ca2+ influx and NFAT-driven gene expression independently of physiological stimuli
Altered STIM1 and/or Orai channel abundance has frequently been linked to different stages of cancer progression (20, 26). The Web resource cBioPortal (http://cbioportal.org) allows investigation of a large data set comprising more than 30 types of cancer from 11,000 patients analyzed using next-generation sequencing in combination with advanced bioinformatics data processing (27). By using cBioPortal, we sought to find gain-of-function Orai1 point mutations, which potentially alter Ca2+ cell signaling. Cancer-derived Orai1 single-point mutants affected 37 different amino acids in different patients. These tumors contained several mutations in other proteins as well. Of the Orai1 mutations, 14 mutants were selected because they occurred at residues that are conserved among species (Fig. 1A). Each of these Orai1 mutations occurred in a tumor of an individual patient. These Orai1 mutants were overexpressed and monitored for constitutively active Ca2+ signals by using an approach based on fluorescence and measuring NFAT-dependent gene expression (1). NFAT requires enhanced Ca2+ concentrations mediated by Orai1 or voltage-gated Ca2+ channels and calmodulin to activate the phosphatase calcineurin, which dephosphorylates NFAT, resulting in the translocation of NFAT into the nucleus to promote gene regulation (28–30). An NFAT reporter in which the expression of a red fluorescent protein (RFP) was under the control of an NFAT promoter served as a readout for yellow fluorescent protein (YFP)–labeled Orai1-dependent NFAT signaling. The constitutively active Orai1-L138F mutation, which causes myopathy (31), and Orai1-V102A (22) served as positive controls. Heterologously expressed Orai1-V102A and Orai1-L138F in RBL mast cells resulted in ~30 to 40% RFP-positive cells in a medium containing 2 mM Ca2+. Overexpression of wild-type Orai1, which served as a negative control, yielded ~5% RFP-positive cells (Fig. 1, B and C), because wild-type Orai1 requires store depletion and STIM1 coexpression for NFAT stimulation. Of the 14 Orai1 mutants investigated, 5 were identified as gain of function in our screen because they significantly enhanced constitutive NFAT activation. These were Orai1-A137V from a patient with colorectal adenocarcinoma (32), Orai1-M139V from a stomach carcinoma (33), Orai1-S159L from a uterine carcinoma (34), A177D from the cancer cell line NCI-60, and G247S from a neck carcinoma (35). When heterologously expressed in human embryonic kidney (HEK) cells, all five of these Orai1 mutants yielded significantly enhanced cytosolic Ca2+ concentrations at resting conditions compared to wild-type Orai1 (Fig. 1D), confirming that their constitutive Ca2+ entry drives NFAT signaling. Readdition of extracellular Ca2+ yielded robust Ca2+ entry in Orai1-A137V–expressing cells but not in wild-type Orai1-expressing cells (fig. S1A). One of the Orai1 mutants studied, Orai1-G183D from a glioblastoma patient, was incorrectly integrated into the plasma membrane. Several other engineered Orai1-Gly183 mutants were also incorrectly localized, which would be expected to result in loss of function (fig. S1D).
Fig. 1 Constitutively active Orai1 Ca2+ signals and NFAT activation induced by mutations detected through cancer database screening.
(A) Model of the human Orai1 protein structure, with Orai1 single-point mutants found in human tumors in conserved positions highlighted, as determined from large-scale cancer genomics data sets. (B) Percentage of RBL cells that express nuclear factor of activated T cells (NFAT)–driven red fluorescent protein (RFP) (average + SEM), measured 24 hours after cotransfection of the NFAT reporter and cancer-associated Orai1 mutants from (A), wild-type (WT) Orai1, or constitutively active Orai1-V102A and Orai1-L138F mutants. Significantly increased number of RBL cells expressing NFAT-driven RFP (P < 0.05 by t test) is indicated by the red bars and a star. Analogous experiments were performed in a nominally Ca2+-free bath solution for coexpression of NFAT reporter and WT Orai1 or Orai1-L138F, indicated by blue bars (n = 3 to 8 cell images, from at least three separate transfections). (C) Representative images of the coexpression of two cancer-associated Orai1 mutants (Orai1-A137V and Orai1-G247S) and WT Orai1 with the NFAT reporter in RBL mast cells. Scale bars, 10 μm. (D) Resting cytosolic Ca2+ concentrations in Fura-2–loaded human embryonic kidney (HEK) cells overexpressing WT Orai1 or cancer-associated Orai1 mutants (n = 31 to 70 cells, from 3 to 4 individual transfections). Significantly increased Ca2+ concentrations (P < 0.05 by t test) are indicated by red bars and a star. (E) Time course of whole-cell patch-clamp experiment in HEK cells coexpressing STIM1 and Orai1 (black), Orai1-A137V (blue), or Orai1-A137V alone (red) in a 10 mM extracellular Ca2+ (n = 7 to 10 cells, from at least two individual transfections). Store-operated currents were activated by 20 mM EGTA in patch pipette. (F to H) Representative current-voltage relationships for STIM1- and Orai1-expressing cells (F), Orai1-A137V (G), or STIM1 and Orai1-A137V (H) in a 10 mM Ca2+ (black) or Na+-based, divalent-free (Na-DVF, red) solution.
We selected an Orai1-A137V mutant that had been identified in a colorectal tumor and an Orai1-L138F myopathy mutant for further analysis in live-cell experiments. As in HEK cells, Orai1-A137V yielded significantly enhanced Ca2+ concentrations at resting conditions in colorectal carcinoma HCT-116 cells (fig. S1, B and C). The store-operated activation of the Orai1-A137V mutant, which was induced by the SERCA inhibitor thapsigargin, generated Ca2+ peaks that were similar to those seen in mock-transfected cells (fig. S1, B and C). In addition, we carried out patch-clamp measurements in HEK cells to examine the current activation of Orai1-A137V mutants in the presence of 10 mM Ca2+ in the cell bath, either with or without coexpressed STIM1. Store-dependent activation was induced by buffering cytosolic Ca2+ with 20 mM EGTA. Coexpression of STIM1 and Orai1 resulted in store-operated, Ca2+-selective currents (Fig. 1, E and F). Expression of Orai1-A137V alone resulted in the production of a small, constitutively active current (Fig. 1E), and coexpression with STIM1 enhanced the activation of the store-operated currents (Fig. 1E). In addition, both the constitutive Orai1-A137V currents and the store-operated currents that were produced upon STIM1 coexpression exhibited Na+ permeation in a divalent-free (DVF) bath solution (Fig. 1, G and H). However, these currents were less selective than those of wild-type Orai1 (Fig. 1F and table S1), suggesting that the mutation affected not only the activation state but also the selectivity of the channel. In analogous experiments, the Orai1-L138F myopathy mutant yielded small constitutive currents that were further enhanced by STIM1 coexpression upon store depletion (fig. S1, E to G, and table S1). Hence, these two Orai1 mutants, which are located close together in the protein, switch the channel into an active state, which activates NFAT-dependent transcription in the absence of store depletion.
A central TM2 segment is connected to the pore helix by hydrogen bonds
Three constitutively active Orai1 mutations (Ala137, Leu138, and Met139), two of which were obtained from the cancer database and one of which is related to myopathy, are clustered within the central TM2 segment (Fig. 2A). Because this TM2 helix segment is near the side chains of neighboring TM1 and TM3 helices, we examined whether these three mutations could potentially interfere with side-chain interactions occurring in these TM helices. We conducted molecular dynamics simulations of the human Orai1 (12) embedded into a lipid bilayer to detect potential TM2 residue interactions with the neighboring TM helices. Frequent electrostatic interactions were observed between His134 in TM2 and either Ser93 (Fig. 2, A and B) or Ser97 (Fig. 2, C and D, and fig. S2A) in the TM1 pore helix. We attempted to disrupt the hydrogen bond experimentally with an engineered Orai1-H134A mutation (Fig. 2E). Overexpression of this mutant resulted in greater NFAT-driven gene expression (Fig. 2F) compared to the other Orai1 mutants (Fig. 1B). To examine this critical His134 residue in detail, we used the NFAT reporter to analyze several Orai1-His134 point mutations. Mutations of His134 to Cys, Glu, Gly, Met, Gln, Val, and Trp resulted in a significantly increased number of RFP-positive cells (Fig. 2F), indicating that substitutions of amino acids with mainly small, negatively polarized, or negatively charged side chains at His134 resulted in greater constitutive NFAT-driven gene expression. To determine how the connectivity between TM2 and the pore helix was altered by constitutively active mutations, we used molecular dynamics simulations for the constitutively active Orai1-H134A mutation, which increased NFAT signaling (Fig. 2E), the Orai1-L138F mutation related to myopathy (Fig. 2G), and the colorectal Orai1-A137V mutation (Fig. 2H). Mutating His134 to Ala disrupted the hydrogen bond with the pore helix. The mutated, larger side chains of Phe138 and Val137 exhibited increased numbers of hydrophobic contacts (Fig. 2, G and H) with the pore helix (TM1) compared to wild-type Orai1 (Fig. 2D), but hydrogen bonds still formed between His134 and Ser93 and Ser97 in the pore (fig. S2, B and C). The results of these experiments provide evidence of the regulatory effect of TM connectivity, which is formed by specific hydrogen bonds between the pore and the surrounding TM2 helices. Disruptions of these hydrogen bonds (as in Orai1-H134A) or the induction of hydrophobic contacts (as in Orai1-A137V and Orai1-L138F) are expected to turn Orai1 into a constitutively active channel that fully or partially stimulates NFAT signaling.
Fig. 2 Interaction between a central TM2 segment and the pore helix controls Orai1 channel gating.
(A) Details of the central transmembrane 2 (TM2) segment in Orai1 mutants, including pathophysiological and cancer-associated mutations (A137V, L138F, and M139V), near TM1 and TM3 (Gly183). A hydrogen bond is observed between His134 and Ser93. (B and C) Number of hydrogen bonds between (B) Ser93 and His134 and (C) Ser97 and His134 in WT Orai1 as determined by molecular dynamics simulations. (D) Top view of a representative image of molecular dynamics simulations of the WT Orai1 pore, with the side chains of Arg91, His134, and Leu138 highlighted. (E, G, and H) Similar snapshots are shown for molecular dynamics simulations of Orai1-H134A (E), Orai1-L138F (G), and Orai1-A137V (H). (F) Percentage of RBL cells that express NFAT-driven RFP (average + SEM), measured 24 hours after cotransfection of the NFAT reporter and various Orai1-His134 mutants or WT Orai1. Cells were in a bath solution containing 2 mM Ca2+. Significantly increased numbers of cells (P < 0.05 by t test) positive for NFAT-driven RFP are indicated by a red bar and a star. Analogous experiments were performed in a nominally Ca2+-free bath solution to detect the coexpression of the NFAT reporter and WT Orai1 or Orai1-H134A, indicated by blue bars (n = 3 to 5 cell images, each from a separate transfection).
Distinct mutations of His134 induce constitutively active, store-operated, or mainly inactive Orai1 currents
To evaluate the role of the hydrogen bonds between His134 and the pore helix more directly, we conducted patch-clamp experiments with Orai1-His134 mutants overexpressed in HEK cells. Orai1-H134A–expressing cells yielded large, constitutive, inward currents immediately after whole-cell break-in (Fig. 3A). The maximum currents measured for Orai1-H134A did not increase further when STIM1 was coexpressed and were comparable to those of wild-type STIM1/Orai1-mediated channel activity (Fig. 3B). Electrophysiological analysis indicated that the Orai1-His134 point mutants were either constitutively active, store-dependent, or mainly inactive. Similar to the mutants assessed with the NFAT reporter (Fig. 2F), the first group of constitutively active Orai1-His134 mutants (with substitutions of Ala, Cys, Glu, Gly, Met, or Val) was not further activated upon STIM1 coexpression and store depletion (Fig. 3B). However, Orai1-H134E currents were additionally enhanced by this store-operated protocol (Fig. 3B). The second group of store-dependent Orai1-His134 mutants consisted of Orai1-H134N and Orai1-H134Q. Orai1-H134Q exhibited mild constitutive activation, and both Orai1-H134N and Orai1-H134Q exhibited enhanced store-dependent activation (Fig. 3C). The third group of mutants with strongly reduced, store-dependent activation mainly had large, hydrophobic side-chain substitution at His134 (Phe, Trp, Tyr, and Leu) (Fig. 3D). Orai1-H134W showed reduced binding affinity to an ORAI1-activating small fragment (OASF) from the C terminus of STIM1, which is sufficient for Orai1 activation (Fig. 3, E and F, and fig. S3A) (7, 36), implying that the Trp134 mutation induced larger structural rearrangements than other mutations. Apart from the drastic effect of the Orai1-H134A mutation on gating, the current of this mutant remained Ca2+-selective (Vrev ~ +40 mV; Fig. 3G and table S1). Of all the constitutively active Orai1-His134 mutants, Orai1-H134V mediated the lowest amount of Ca2+-selective current (Vrev ~ +10 mV). Compared to the Ca2+-selective, constitutively active Orai1-H134A mutant described here, the Orai1-V102C and Orai1-G98D mutants that have been previously reported are less selective [~+20 mV (22) and ~0 mV (25), respectively]. In the presence of STIM1, the Ca2+ selectivity of constitutively active Orai1-His134 mutants was increased (table S1 and fig. S3, B and C) in a similar, but less pronounced, manner as for Orai1-V102A (22). Orai1-His134 mutants that remained STIM1- and store-dependent exhibited Ca2+ selectivity (Vrev ~ +60 mV) similar to that exhibited by wild-type Orai1 (table S1). In addition, we investigated whether the constitutively active Orai1-L138F mutant related to myopathy could be reversed into an inactive state upon mutating Ala138. Orai1-L138A was targeted to the plasma membrane (fig. S3D) but lacked current activation upon STIM1 coexpression and store depletion (fig. S1E). Thus, we identified the His134 residue in TM2 as a hydrogen bond–dependent trigger that gates Orai1 channels and stimulates Ca2+-dependent gene transcription.
Fig. 3 His134 mutations switch Orai1 between generating constitutively active, store-dependent, or suppressed currents.
(A) Time course of whole-cell patch-clamp recordings of HEK cells overexpressing Orai1-His134 (Ala, Cys, Glu, Gly, Met, and Val) mutants. These mutants show constitutive activity (n = 7 to 14 cells, from at least two individual transfections). (B) Analogous experiments to those conducted on Orai1-His134 mutants as in (A) or WT Orai1 coexpressed with STIM1 (n = 7 to 14 cells, from at least two individual transfections). (C and D) Time courses for store-dependent activation for Orai1-His134 (Gln and Asn) mutants or WT Orai1 coexpressed with STIM1 (D) or reduced currents generated by Orai1-His134 (Phe, Trp, Tyr, and Leu) coexpressed with STIM1 (n = 6 to 14 cells, from at least two individual transfections). All currents were recorded at −86 mV in a 10 mM Ca2+-containing bath solution, and store depletion was induced by 20 mM EGTA in the pipette. (E) Representative images of cyan fluorescent protein (CFP)–ORAI1-activating small fragment (OASF) and yellow fluorescent protein (YFP)–Orai1 WT (top) and Orai1-H134W mutant (bottom). Scale bars, 10 μm. (F) Intensity plots for regions close to the plasma membrane measured at the dashed lines for individual cells (E) (n = 4 to 16 cells, from at least two individual transfections). (G) Representative current-voltage relationships for maximum currents of Orai1-His134 mutants of (A).
Constitutively active Orai1 mutants identified from the cancer database activate the Ca2+-dependent transcription factor MITF, and the open Orai1-H134A channel also induces autophagy
The constitutive Ca2+ entry mediated by the Orai1 mutants would be expected to have broad-ranging effects on Ca2+-dependent gene regulation, in addition to NFAT signaling. High cytosolic Ca2+ concentrations are toxic to cells; however, overexpression of the constitutively active Orai1 mutants identified through the cancer database screen, the myopathy mutant, or the H134A mutant did not significantly enhance cytotoxicity (fig. S4A). The phosphatase calcineurin activates not only NFAT but also the transcription factor EB (TFEB) (37). TFEB and the closely related MITF (microphthalmia-associated transcription factor) translocate from the cytosol into the nucleus upon cell starvation (fig. S4B) to activate genes involved in autophagy and mitophagy (37, 38). The constitutive nuclear localization and dysfunctional gene regulation of MITF and TFEB serve as oncogenic drivers for pancreatic cancer metabolism (39, 40). For these reasons, we asked whether either the constitutively active Orai1 mutants activated other calcium-regulated transcription factors in addition to NFAT. In HEK cells coexpressing STIM1 and Orai1 in a bath solution containing 2 mM Ca2+, thapsigargin treatment to trigger store-operated Ca2+ entry induced complete nuclear translocation of cyan fluorescent protein (CFP)–tagged NFAT (12) and varying degrees of nuclear translocation of CFP-TFEB and CFP-MITF (Fig. 4A). Next, nuclear translocation of MITF (Fig. 4, B to D) and TFEB (Fig. 4, E to G) was evaluated in HEK cells overexpressing the constitutively active Orai1 mutants in the presence or absence of external Ca2+. The bath solution containing 2 mM Ca2+ did not increase MITF nuclear translocation in cells expressing wild-type Orai1 (negative control) but induced MITF nuclear localization in almost half of the cells that expressed Orai1-L138F and Orai1-H134A (Fig. 4D). In the presence of external Ca2+, cells expressing the constitutively active Orai1 cancer database mutants or the Orai1-L138F myopathy mutant showed significantly increased nuclear MITF localization but not TFEB nuclear translocation even after 24 hours. Cells expressing Orai1-H134A alone showed TFEB nuclear translocation after only 4 hours after exposure to Ca2+-containing media. TFEB is a master regulator of autophagy (41) and starvation-induced clear autophagosome formation, as determined by the phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate (PIP3) reporter green fluorescence protein (GFP)–2xFYVE (Fig. 4, H and I). Of the constitutively active Orai1 mutations tested, only the overexpression of Orai1-H134A induced autophagosome formation in a Ca2+-dependent manner (Fig. 4, H and I). These results show that the Ca2+ signals induced by several Orai1 mutants identified through cancer database screening are uncoupled from physiological stimuli and activate MITF and NFAT transcription.
Fig. 4 Activation of autophagy and mitophagy transcription factor by Orai1 mutants identified via cancer database screening and myopathy mutants.
(A) Time course of transcription factor activation by thapsigargin (TG) treatment (1 μM, 5 min) as measured by cytosol-to-nuclear translocation for NFAT (red), transcription factor EB (TFEB) (blue), and microphthalmia-associated transcription factor (MITF) (black) in STIM1 and Orai1 coexpressing HEK cells (n = 6 to 8 cell images, each from three separate transfections). (B and C) Representative images of HEK cells coexpressing YFP-tagged Orai1-A137V (B) or YFP-tagged Orai1-H134A (C) and CFP-MITF in the absence or presence of 2 mM extracellular Ca2+. Scale bars, 10 μm. (D) Average number of HEK cells exhibiting nuclear MITF localization upon coexpression with cancer-associated Orai1 mutants, a myopathy-associated Orai1-L138F mutant, or the Orai1-H134A mutant determined after 24 hours with or without 2 mM Ca2+ in the media (n = 6 to 8 cell images, each from three to five separate transfections). Additional bar indicates similar experiments, in which cells were exposed to Ca2+-containing media for 4 hours (n = 6 to 8 cell images, each from three separate experiments). Significantly increased (P < 0.05 by t test) nuclear localization of MITF induced by Orai1 mutants with respect to Ca2+ in the media is indicated by a star. (E and F) Representative images of HEK cells coexpressing YFP-tagged Orai1-A137V (E) or Orai1-H134A (F) and CFP-TFEB in the absence or presence of 2 mM extracellular Ca2+. (G) Average number of HEK cells exhibiting nuclear TFEB localization upon coexpression with WT Orai1, Orai1-L138F, Orai1-A137V, or Orai1-H134A determined after 24 hours with or without 2 mM Ca2+ in the media (n = 3 to 5 cell images, each of individual transfection). Additional bar indicates similar experiments in which cells were exposed to Ca2+-containing media for 4 hours (n = 6 to 8 cell images, each from three separate transfections). Significantly increased nuclear localization (P < 0.05 by t test) of TFEB induced by Orai1 mutants with respect to Ca2+ in the media is indicated by a star. (H) Autophagosomes were visualized by green fluorescence protein (GFP)–2xFYVE in HEK cells expressing YFP-tagged WT Orai1, Orai1-H134A, or Orai1-A137V. Scale bars, 10 μm. (I) Quantification of the average number of GFP-2xFYVE clusters in the presence or absence of 2 mM Ca2+ in the bath (n = 70 to 90 cells, from three individual transfections). Significantly increased (P < 0.05 by t test) autophagosome formation is indicated by a star.
The constitutively active Orai1-H134A mutant shows locally increased pore size
To understand how TM2 mutations mechanistically induce Orai1 channel gating, we initially focused on Orai1-H134A, because this mutant exhibits both substantial Ca2+ selectivity and high constitutive activity. Furthermore, pharmacological characterization revealed that application of the potent Orai1 channel blocker, 2-aminoethoxydiphenyl borate (42), also inhibited Orai1-H134A currents (fig. S5A). Moreover, in the presence of STIM1, Orai1-H134A showed fast inactivation to a similar extent (fig. S5B) as wild-type Orai1. However, Orai1-H134A currents lacked fast inactivation in the absence of coexpressed STIM1, further highlighting the key role played by STIM1 in fast inactivation (fig. S5B) (43–45).
Molecular dynamics simulations of wild-type Orai1 (Fig. 5, A and B) (12) and Orai1-H134A (Fig. 5, B and C) in a lipid bilayer were performed to visualize structural changes that occurred upon gating. Two gating sites have been identified in the pore (21, 22, 46): a hydrophobic gate mainly formed by Val102 and Phe99 and a basic gate predominantly formed by Arg91. Homology modeling revealed that human wild-type Orai1 had a similar pore profile to that of the dOrai1 channel (fig. S6, A to C). In the 200-ns molecular dynamics simulations performed for the human wild-type Orai1, the obtained pore structure remained unaltered. Molecular dynamics simulations for Orai1-H134A showed that the pore for the mutant had small but essential configuration changes within the pore. The selectivity filter formed by the pore-lining Glu106 residues of both mutants was maintained (Fig. 5, A to C) with a bound Ca2+ ion. However, the pore helical segment that includes the selectivity filter was more rigid in Orai1-H134A simulations, based on backbone flexibility measurements (Fig. 5D). The central hydrophobic pore segment formed a narrow part of the wild-type Orai1 pore and was slightly widened in the Orai1-H134A simulation (Fig. 5, A to C). In wild-type Orai1 simulations, the most rigid segment of the pore helix (Fig. 5D) was composed of Arg91 side chains. These arginine residues were oriented toward the center of the pore and formed the narrowest part of the pore surface (Fig. 5, A and B). This rigid structure (Fig. 5D) forced the Arg91 side chains to face inward into the pore and overcame their electrostatic repulsion. Unlike wild-type Orai1, the basic pore segment of the Orai1-H134A channel exhibited increased flexibility (Fig. 5D). This increased backbone flexibility had important consequences in that it extended the radius of the basic pore segment by 1 to 2 Å. The more cytosolic portion of the pore segment had a radius similar to that of wild-type Orai1 (Fig. 5B), which showed a local displacement of Arg91 without an additional overall pore extension. These simulations provided evidence that Arg91 functions as a gate in the Orai1 channel. Mutations in Arg91 have been proposed to be pathophysiologically relevant because patients carrying the Orai1-R91W mutation suffer from SCID symptoms (1). Trp91 side chains project into the pore and extend the hydrophobic barrier in Orai1 to completely block Ca2+ permeation (21). Instead, an Orai1-G98D-R91W double mutant shows constitutive Ca2+ influx. Hence, the G98D mutation induces a greatly extended pore that overcomes the hydrophobic barrier of Trp91. Patch-clamp experiments revealed that an engineered Orai1-H134A-R91W double mutant did not generate Ca2+ currents (fig. S7A), similar to a previously studied Orai1-V102A-R91W mutant (22). Hence, the opened Orai1-H134A pore is not as greatly altered as the Orai1-G98D pore and remains more Ca2+-selective than the Orai1-V102A pore.
Fig. 5 Increased pore size in the open conformation of Orai1-H134A channels.
(A and C) Representative snapshot (time point at 192 ns) of the equilibrated part of 200-ns-long molecular dynamics simulations for WT Orai1 (A) or Orai1-H134A (C) showing the pore-forming TM1 helices (four of six TM1 helices shown in red) and pore-lining residues from Glu106 to Trp76. The pore surface is shown in blue (radius > 1.15 Å) and in green (radius: 0.6 to 1.15 Å). (B) Average pore radius of WT Orai1 (red and magenta) and Orai1-H134A (blue) for a 2-ns bin corresponding to the time points shown in (A) and (C). (D) Fluctuations of individual TM1 residues of (black) WT Orai1 and (red) Orai1-H134A are measured as the root mean square (RMS) deviation of Cα atom for the last 50 ns of the 200-ns-long molecular dynamics simulations. (E) Representative Western blot of a cross-linking experiment overexpressing Orai1-R91C and Orai1-H134A-R91C showing monomer and dimer formation. (F and G) Dimerization efficiency in % of cysteine cross-linking for engineered cysteines (R83C to E106C) in the (F) WT Orai1 or (G) Orai1-H134A TM1 pore segment. A cysteine-free Orai1 background was used. For each cysteine position, parallel experiments (n = 5 to 8 individual transfections for each cysteine position) with WT Orai1 and Orai1-H134A background were performed on the same day, and significant differences (P < 0.05 by t test) are indicated by a star.
To experimentally evaluate the differences in the pores of the wild-type Orai1 and Orai1-H134A channels, we used a systematic cysteine scanning approach with wild-type Orai1 and Orai1-H134A. Efficient cross-linking between cysteines at specific residues in TM1 provides evidence for their close proximity in the channel pore (12, 47). We engineered single cysteine substitutions within the Orai1 pore–forming TM1 helix (Arg83 to Glu106) in a cysteine-free Orai1/Orai1-H134A background and determined the degree of dimerization. In the presence of Cu2+ phenanthroline to induce cysteine cross-linking, the cysteine-free Orai1 or Orai1-H134A remained monomers, whereas single cysteine substitutions resulted in both monomeric and dimeric bands, dependent on their position in the channel (Fig. 5, E to G). We found that the highest degree of dimerization of pore-lining Orai1 residues occurred at positions Glu106, Val105, Val102, Leu95, Arg91, and Ser90, which are separated by stretches of residues that show less reactive cysteine cross-linking (Fig. 5F). These findings suggest a pore-facing position of these residues, in agreement with results from our Orai1 molecular dynamics simulations, the crystal structure of the dOrai pore, and previous results (21, 47, 48). Furthermore, analysis of the atomic dOrai structure (21) allowed the identification of Phe99 as an additional constriction site, whereas the results from previous studies and our cysteine scanning approaches suggested that Gly98 is located closer to the center of the pore (Fig. 5F) (47, 48). Next, taking an analogous cysteine scanning approach, we determined the channel conformation of the constitutively active Orai1-H134A mutant. As in wild-type Orai1, efficient cysteine cross-linking (Glu106 and Val105) included the selectivity filter, as well as Leu95. Cross-linking of V105C and V102C (Fig. 5G) was significantly reduced compared to that in wild-type Orai1 with identical mutations. As in our molecular dynamics simulations, a decrease in the side-chain flexibility of these cysteines would interfere with cross-linking efficiency (Fig. 5D). The middle segment of the Orai1-H134A pore (Phe99 to Ser93) exhibited overall enhanced amounts of cross-linking (Fig. 5G, which was significant for F99C, G98C, A94C, and S93C) that agreed with the enhanced flexibility observed within the open pore in molecular dynamics simulations (Fig. 5D). The largest difference in cross-linking was observed for R91C and F99C. R91C cross-linked in wild-type Orai1 but not in the Orai1-H134A mutant (Fig. 5, E to G). Instead, F99C dimerized only in the Orai1-H134A mutant. The altered flexibility of the side chains is presumably not the only factor contributing to the difference observed for R91C. Instead, these results suggest that the R91C side chains are differently oriented in the open-channel conformation. Molecular dynamics simulations of Orai1-H134A also showed an increased pore size at Arg91 (Fig. 5B) and an increased distance between the side chains compared to wild-type Orai1 (fig. S7B). Overall, these results indicate that wild-type Orai1 and Orai1-H134A have similar pores with two local, but essential, conformational changes: increased pore diameters in the hydrophobic segment and the segment near Arg91. Such small changes upon Orai1 gating are expected to retain some structural restrictions within the pore and explain the extraordinarily low femtosiemens conductance of Ca2+ ions in Orai1.
Gating in the Orai1-H134A channel is mediated by a switch in the position of Arg91 side chains
Closer inspection of the Arg91 residue in the wild-type Orai1 simulations revealed that three side chains were constantly positioned in the center of the pore (Fig. 6A and fig. S8A). In contrast, in the Orai1-H134A simulations, all Arg91 side chains were twisted toward the outside of the pore (Fig. 6B and fig. S7B) to form hydrogen bonds with the backbone or side chain of Ser90. These hydrogen bonds were rare in wild-type Orai1 (Fig. 6, A and B) but occurred frequently in Orai1-H134A channels, with almost all Arg91 side chains bound to Ser90 in the simulations (Fig. 6, C and D). Furthermore, we used steered molecular dynamics to assess how the Arg91 side chains were affected when a single Ca2+ ion was pulled through the pore of either wild-type Orai1 (fig. S8, A and C, and movie S1) or Orai1-H134A (fig. S8, B and D). In wild-type Orai1, the Arg91 side chains switched their position, moving out of the pore center when Ca2+ crossed (fig. S8C) and creating a larger pore surface (Fig. 6E). This conformation is strikingly similar to that in the Orai1-H134A pore (Fig. 6, E and F). When Ca2+ was pulled through the Orai1-H134A pore, the position of the Arg91 side chains was largely unaffected, because this channel had already adopted a Ca2+-permeable configuration (Fig. 6F and fig. S8, B and D). The force that was required to pull a Ca2+ ion through Arg91 was also higher for the wild-type Orai1 as compared to the Orai1-H134A pore (fig. S8E). Hence, the results of these experiments indicate that the large positive charge of Arg91 side chains contributes to hindered permeation in wild-type Orai1, and that a gating trigger site located at TM2 opens the Arg91 gate.
Fig. 6 Side-chain twist of the Arg91 gate induced by constitutively active Orai1-H134A channels.
(A and B) Representative snapshot of the equilibrated part of the 200-ns-long molecular dynamics simulations for WT Orai1 (A) and Orai1-H134A (B) showing the position of Arg91 residues and Ser90 in the TM1 helices, which are surrounded by TM2 helices (His134 or Ala134 respectively shown) from a top view. (C and D) Hydrogen bonds between Arg91 and Ser90 in WT Orai1 (C) and the Orai1-H134A simulations (D) in a time course (150 to 200 ns). (E and F) Comparison of pore surfaces of WT Orai1 (E) and Orai1-H134A (F) before and after Ca2+ is pulled through the pore. The pore surface is shown in blue (radius > 1.15 Å) and green (radius: 0.6 to 1.15 Å). (G and H) Representative snapshots of the start and end of 200-ns-long molecular dynamics simulations for WT Orai1 (G) and Orai1-H134A (H) illustrate the position of Phe99 residues in the pore helix.
Formation of a water molecule chain in the constitutively active Orai1-H134A decreases hydrophobic gating barriers
Is the Arg91 side chain switch alone responsible for Orai1 channel gating? A helix turn that mainly affects the hydrophobic pore segment of the Orai1 channel has been reported as a main mechanism for STIM1-dependent channel gating (23). However, in all our simulations of various human wild-type Orai1 and mutants, the pore helix orientation was unaltered (Fig. 6, G and H, and fig. S9A). To further address this question, we focused on the effects of substituting a small glycine at Arg91. This Orai1-R91G mutant lacks constitutively active Ca2+ permeation even with a small side-chain substitution of the Arg91 gate (24, 46). To compare the roles of Arg91 and the hydrophobic side chains in gating, the wild-type Orai1 (Fig. 7, A to D), Orai1-R91G mutant (Fig. 7, E to H), and Orai1-H134A (Fig. 7, I to L) were examined in molecular dynamics simulations. The pore size around the Arg91 position was more extended in Orai1-R91G channels than in Orai1-H134A, indicating that the increased space around Arg91 was not enough to exclusively gate Orai1 channels. In the hydrophobic pore segment, Orai1-R91G exhibited a similar arrangement of pore-lining residues (Fig. 7E) as wild-type Orai1 (Fig. 7A). The hydrophobic pore segment of the Orai1 mutant and wild-type channels completely lacked any ions (Fig. 7, B, F, and J, and fig. S9, B to D). In the wild-type and mutant Orai1 channels, Ca2+ and Na+ ions were present close to the selectivity filter and the extracellular calcium-accumulating region (CAR) (12), and several Cl− ions were present within the basic pore segment. In wild-type Orai1, water molecules were absent from the hydrophobic pore segment during most of the simulation time (Fig. 7, B and C), and only single water molecules were observed within the Orai1-R91G channel (Fig. 7, F and G). In contrast, the slight pore size increase observed in Orai1-H134A channels resulted in the presence of a double chain of water molecules along the length of the channel (Fig. 7, J and K). The presence of this water chain within the hydrophobic Orai1-H134A pore segment yielded a highly ordered dipole moment (Fig. 7L), with hydrogen groups facing the selectivity filter of the channel. The enhanced presence of water in a constitutively active Orai1-V102A mutant has previously been calculated to reduce the energetic barrier for cation permeation (49). Our results indicate a chain of water molecules exclusively in the constitutively active Orai1-H134A channels, which favors the concept of Ca2+ permeation by way of water in Orai1 channels.
Fig. 7 Formation of a chain of water molecules in the hydrophobic pore segment of Orai1-H134A.
(A, E, and I) Representative snapshots of the equilibrated part of 200-ns-long molecular dynamics simulations for WT Orai1 (A), Orai1-R91G (E), and Orai1-H134A (I) showing the pore-forming TM1 helices (four of six TM1 helices shown in red) and pore-lining residues from Glu106 to Lys87. The pore surface is shown in blue (radius > 1.15 Å) and green (radius: 0.6 to 1.15 Å). (B, F, and J) Similar snapshots for WT Orai1 (B), Orai1-R91G (F), and Orai1-H134A (I) showing the water molecules, Ca2+ (yellow ball), Na+ (orange ball), and Cl− (green ball) in the pore. Acidic residues, nonpolar residues, basic residues, and polar residues are depicted in red, orange, blue, and green, respectively. (C, G, and K) Average number and SD (shaded area) of water molecules (over the last 100 ns of respective simulations) inside the pores of WT Orai1 (C), Orai1-R91G (G), and Orai1-H134A (K) channels are calculated. (D, H, L) Water orientation inside the pores of WT Orai1 (D), Orai1-R91G (H), and Orai1-H134A (L) channels is determined as defined by the angle between the dipole vector of the water molecule and the z axis. Water molecules that locally are similarly oriented within the respective pores are depicted in brighter colors.
Partially active Orai1 mutants display similar but less pronounced gating conformation
The concept of two gating sites, a hydrophobic and an Arg91 gate, was further investigated in the pathophysiologically relevant Orai1-L138F mutant and in Orai1-A137V because they showed limited Ca2+ permeation. Molecular dynamics simulations of Orai1-L138F and Orai1-A137V indicated that the pore-lining residues were conserved as in wild-type Orai1 (Fig. 8A). Still, the surface constriction of the hydrophobic part was shortened in Orai1-L138F, and the pore surface increased around Arg91 in both mutants (Fig. 8A). No pore helix rotations were observed in these mutants. The backbone flexibility was decreased in the hydrophobic part of both Orai1 mutants, and the flexibility of the basic segment increased in Orai1-L138F, in a similar manner as to that previously observed in Orai1-H134A (Fig. 8B).
Fig. 8 Pore rearrangements in Orai1 mutants related to myopathy and identified by cancer database screening.
(A) Representative snapshots of the equilibrated part of 200-ns-long molecular dynamics simulations for WT Orai1, Orai1-R91G, and Orai1-H134A showing the pore-forming TM1 helices (four of six TM1 helices shown in red) and pore-lining residues from Glu106 to Lys87. The pore surface is shown in blue (radius > 1.15 Å) and green (radius: 0.6 to 1.15 Å). (B) Differences among individual TM1 residues for WT Orai1, Orai1-A137V, and Orai1-L138F are measured as RMS deviation of Cα atom for the last 50 ns of 200-ns-long molecular dynamics simulations. (C and D) Dimerization efficiency (%) of cysteine cross-linking for engineered cysteines (S90C to E106C) in the WT Orai1 (C) and Orai1-L138F (D) TM1 pore segment. For each cysteine position, WT Orai1 and Orai1-L138F mutations were performed on the same day (n = 5 to 8 transfections for each cysteine position), and significant differences (P < 0.05 by t test) are indicated by a star. (E) Cross-linking results of Orai1-H134A, Orai1-L138F, Orai1-V102A, and Orai1-A137V as compared to WT Orai1. “+” and green, significantly increased cross-linking. “−” and yellow, significantly decreased cross-linking. (F and G) The time course depicts the number of hydrogen bonds formed between residues Arg91 and Ser90 for the last 50 ns of the Orai1-L138F (F) and Orai1-A137V (G) simulations.
To experimentally address these alterations, we carried out cysteine scanning experiments on Orai1-L138F (Fig. 8, C and D), Orai1-A137V (fig. S10A), and the constitutively active pore mutant Orai1-V102A (fig. S10B). All three Orai1 mutants (L138F, A137V, and V102A) exhibited similar cross-linking profiles as wild-type Orai1, experimentally supporting the hypothesis that pore-lining residues are conserved. These results, as well as those of the molecular dynamics simulations, provide support for our hypothesis that local rather than global rearrangements affect Orai1 channel gating in the constitutively active mutants. Moreover, fewer cysteine positions resulted in significantly altered cross-linking compared to those of Orai1-H134A, a result that agrees with the partial activity of these Orai1 mutants. Significantly increased dimerization of residues mainly occurred in the hydrophobic segment between Val102 and Gly98 (Fig. 8E and fig. S10, A and B). Instead, cross-linking of Arg91 was unaltered in all three Orai1 mutants. Still, Orai1-L138F (Fig. 8F) and Orai1-A137V (Fig. 8G) exhibited increased binding between Arg91 and Ser90 compared to wild-type Orai1 but reduced binding compared to Orai1-H134A, suggesting the presence of a partially active Arg91 gate.
The hydrophobic pore gating site was evaluated by visualizing the chain of water molecules and its orientation in wild-type Orai1 (Fig. 9, A to C), Orai1-L138F (Fig. 9, D to F), and Orai1-A137V (Fig. 9, G to I). A single chain of water molecules was visualized in the hydrophobic part in the Orai1-L138F channel (Fig. 9, D and E), whereas water molecules formed a double chain in the Orai1-A137V channel (Fig. 9, G and H), similar to the Orai1-H134A channel (Fig. 6F). The water molecules showed dipole orientation within the hydrophobic part of the pore (Fig. 9, C, F, and I). The dynamic movement of water molecules within the wild-type Orai1 and mutants (Orai1-H134A, Orai1-L138F, Orai1-A137V, and Orai1-R91G) was determined by measuring the water survival probability in restricted segments of the selectivity filter and the hydrophobic and basic parts of these channels (fig. S11). In simulations for all channels, water molecules left the hydrophobic part quickly (fig. S11). In contrast, water molecules remained longest near the basic segment, presumably because of orientation of Cl− ions and positively charged side chains. The absence of Arg91 side chains accelerated the water mobility in the Orai1-R91G channel (fig. S11). Thus, two gates control the channel activity in the constitutively active Orai1 mutants. The open-channel configuration is less pronounced in the partially active Orai1 channels. Hence, these experiments provide evidence for a TM2-located gating trigger that controls Ca2+ permeation of Orai1 channels by two distinct gates.
Fig. 9 Water permeation in Orai1 mutants related to myopathy and identified through cancer database screening.
(A, D, and G) Representative snapshots of the equilibrated part of 200-ns-long molecular dynamics simulations for WT Orai1 (A), Orai1-L138F (D), and Orai1-A137V (G) illustrate the pore-forming TM1 helices (four of six TM1 helices) and pore-lining residues from Glu106 to Phe76. Water molecules, Ca2+ (yellow ball), Na+ (orange ball), and Cl− (green ball) are shown in the respective pores. (B, E, and H) Average number and SD (shaded area) of water molecules (over the last 100 ns of respective simulations) lining the pores of WT Orai1 (B), Orai1-L138F (E), and Orai1-A137V (H) are calculated. (C, F, and I) Water orientation lining the pores of WT Orai1 (C), Orai1-L138F (F), and Orai1-A137V (I) is determined as defined by the angle between the dipole vector of the water molecule and the z axis. Water molecules that are locally oriented in a similar manner within the respective pores are indicated by brighter colors.
Systematic analysis of Orai1 large-scale cancer genomics data identified five constitutively active Orai1 mutants, derived from various human cancers. The increased cytosolic Ca2+ concentrations caused by these Orai1 mutations resulted in activation of NFAT and MITF without requiring physiological stimuli. The transcription factors MITF and TFEB remain in the cytosol because of phosphorylation by MTOR and translocate into the nucleus upon starvation or other stimuli (39). Although Ca2+ efflux from lysosomes activates these transcription factors under physiological conditions (37), constitutively active Orai1 mutants can bypass this signaling cascade due to overall enhanced cytosolic Ca2+ concentrations. Our work on the Orai1 channel may serve as a template for investigating cancer-associated mutations in many Ca2+ signaling proteins. Hence, the mutations in a Ca2+ channel characterized here could serve as an additional point of investigation in addition to assessing the abundance of Ca2+ channels and downstream signaling proteins in cancer biology.
The localization of three Orai1 mutations derived from the cancer database or associated with myopathy (A137V, L138F, and M139V) within the TM2 helix directly pointed to a structural site that controls Orai1 channel gating. In particular, His134 was identified to frequently interact with the pore helix residues Ser93 and Ser97. Omission of one His134-related hydrogen bond per Orai1 subunit initiated gating by switching the channel to an open conformation. Conversely, large hydrophobic substitutions of His134 locked the channel in its closed conformation, and STIM1 overexpression and store depletion were largely insufficient to induce Ca2+ permeation. Hence, the presence and absence of His134 hydrogen bonds are critical for the transition between closed- and open-channel conformations. Substitutions of A137V and L138F increased the hydrophobic contacts between the regulatory TM2 site and the pore helices, thereby switching the Orai1 channel in a partially active conformation. Therefore, our experiments show that the constitutively active Orai1 mutations (H134A, A137V, and L138F) are part of a trigger site that resides in TM2 and gates Orai1. The His134 trigger is likely mandatory for STIM1-induced Orai1 gating as well, because the closed conformation induced by large hydrophobic His134 substitutions was not altered by STIM1. Coupling of STIM1 to the Orai1 channel might alter the TM connectivity by directly binding to the N terminus and/or C terminus of the channel (50–53), transmitting a force to the Orai1 channel that could destabilize the TM2–pore helix interactions and switch the channel to an open conformation. Binding of STIM1 to the N terminus could be a direct way to induce such a conformational change (8, 50–52). In contrast, an interaction of STIM1 to the C terminus may require a cascade of local conformational changes, including uncoupling of the TM3 helix from the nexus region, a loop connecting TM4, and the C terminus (53). Mutations within the nexus region result in constitutive Orai1 channel activity. In addition, any mutation of Pro245 within TM4 results in constitutive Orai1 Ca2+ entry (54). This proline controls the orientation of the TM4 helix and might mimic uncoupling of the nexus region. The close connection of Gly183 with His134 might direct this conformational step further. Accordingly, mutations in Gly183 also affect Orai1 channel gating (55). Hence, these residues may provide a network to signal the docking of STIM1 to the C terminus to the central pore.
Compared to previously investigated constitutively active pore mutants (22, 47), the Orai1 TM2 mutants allowed us to directly monitor the sequential regulation of gating sites in the pore. Moreover, the constitutively active Orai1-H134A mutant substantially retained Ca2+ selectivity even in the absence of STIM1. Gating was initiated by increased flexibility of the cytosolic pore segment, whereas the selectivity filter segment became more rigid. Pore helix flexibility was altered by disrupting hydrogen bonds through an H134A mutation or by enhanced hydrophobic contacts through A137V or L138F mutations. The slight increase in hydrophobic pore size induced by these TM2 mutations caused a chain of water molecules to form in the pore. In contrast, the closed pore of wild-type Orai1 was free of any water molecules. Within the hydrophobic segment, Val102 and Phe99 have been previously characterized as a hydrophobic gate because mutation of these residues results in constitutive channel activity (22, 23). On the basis of earlier molecular dynamics simulations, the open conformation has been reported to require a rotation of the pore helix that would switch Phe99 out of the pore center (23). These molecular dynamics simulations differ from ours with respect to the force field used and solvent and membrane composition, which apparently lead to differences in the stability of the closed wild-type Orai1 channel conformation, because we did not observe any rotation of the pore helix in our molecular dynamics simulations in the absence of an external stimuli or trigger. The wild-type Orai1 channel remained in the closed conformation as represented by the crystallized Orai channel (21).
STIM1 triggers conformational changes in Val102 and the selectivity filter (46) and restores Ca2+ selectivity in Orai1-V102A mutants (22). Simulations on an equivalent V102A mutation in the dOrai channel suggest that the energetic barrier of the hydrophobic segment is largely attenuated (49). Here, we showed that Orai1 mutations that confer constitutive activation induced the formation of chain of water molecules that would be expected to lower the energetic barrier for Ca2+ permeation. Hence, our results demonstrate that the hydrophobic gate is regulated by TM connectivity.
In the closed conformation of the wild-type Orai1 pore, the highly positively charged cluster is the most rigid segment, which forces the positively charged Arg91 side chains to face the center. Consequently, Ca2+ ions are efficiently repelled by this positive charge. The crystal structure of the dOrai channel shows a negatively charged iron-hexachloride plug interacting with Arg91 and side chains of a positively charged cluster of residues located deeper in the pore. Cl− ions might also help to stabilize the closed conformation of the pore (21). The increased flexibility of the positively charged pore segment in constitutively active Orai1 mutants allows Arg91 to form hydrogen bonds with the neighboring Ser90 residue and twist out of the pore center. A similar twist involving Arg91 side chains occurs when a Ca2+ ion is pulled through the wild-type Orai1 channel. This essential Arg91 gating rearrangement widens the local constriction site by 1 to 2 Å and thus reduces the positively charged barrier. A decrease in the cross-linking of Arg91 has also been observed for an Orai1-G98P mutant that yields constitutively active but nonselective channels (25).
The hydrophobic and Arg91 gates require minimal energetic effort to switch in the open-channel conformation but retain some constriction during Ca2+ permeation. This gating mechanism therefore is expected to allow only slow Ca2+ permeation, which is a hallmark of SOC channels (56). Although a single gate in many ion channels is sufficient to control permeation, others have more than one gate (57). A comparison of Orai1 pore mutants that lack one of the two gates, such as Orai1-V102A and Orai1-R91G channels, indicates that the hydrophobic gate is predominant, because only the Orai1-V102A channels are constitutively active (24, 46). However, the V102A substitution lowered the energetic barrier of not only the hydrophobic gate but also the Arg91 gate to some extent (49).
In conclusion, our screen of the cancer database for Orai1 mutations revealed that a TM2 segment functions as a trigger site for Orai1 channel gating. Our results described a sequential process for Orai1 channel gating. The connectivity of the TM helices directly regulated the hydrophobic and Arg91 gates. Analysis of this gating mechanism provided important insights into STIM1-induced Orai1 gating as well as Ca2+ permeation; namely, that even minute structural manipulations open the channel gate. We showed that the resulting Ca2+ signals activated the transcription factors NFAT and MITF. Hence, the results of these studies have allowed us to structurally link a trigger site in cancer- and myopathy-associated Orai1 mutations with channel gating and Ca2+-dependent gene transcription.
N-terminally tagged Orai1 constructs (accession number NM_032790.3) were cloned into the Sal I and Sma I restriction sites of pECFP-C1 and pEYFP-C1 expression vectors (Clontech). GFP-TFEB and GFP-MITF were purchased from Addgene and subcloned into peCFP vectors. hOrai1 Δ1-64, N223A, and cysteine-free (C126V, C143V, and C195V) constructs were used for cross-linking, as described in (12). Point mutations in Orai1 constructs were introduced using the QuikChange Site-Directed Mutagenesis Kit (Stratagene). The integrity of all resulting mutants was confirmed by sequence analysis (Eurofins Genomics).
Transfections
HEK293T cells were transfected with TransFectin (Bio-Rad) with 0.5 μg of Orai1 constructs or mutants and 1 μg of STIM1. RBL cells were electroporated with 6 μg of STIM1, 6 μg of Orai1 or mutants, and 12 μg of pNFAT-TA-mRFP. Cells were regularly tested for mycoplasm contamination.
Membrane preparation
HEK293T cells cultured in 12-cm dishes were transfected with 15 μg of plasmid using TransFectin (Bio-Rad) following the manufacturer’s instructions. Twenty-four hours after transfection, cells were harvested and washed twice in a Hank’s balanced salt solution buffer containing 1 mM EDTA. After centrifugation (1000g for 2 min), cell pellets were resuspended in homogenization buffer [25 mM tris-HCl (pH 7.4), 50 mM NaCl, protease inhibitor (Roche)] and incubated on ice for 15 min. Lysed cells were passed 10 times through a 27-gauge half-inch needle and centrifuged at 1000g for 15 min at 4°C to pellet debris. Twenty-one microliters of the supernatant was analyzed by 12% SDS–polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) either without or after the addition of 1 mM CuP (copper-phenanthroline) or 5 mM bis(2-mercaptoethyl)sulfone.
Disulfide cross-linking
Supernatants (21 μl) were mixed with 1 mM CuSO4/1.3 mM o-phenanthroline (final concentration) (Sigma) and incubated for 10 min on ice. Reactions were stopped by the addition of an equal volume of quenching solution [50 mM tris-HCl, 20 mM N-ethylmaleimide, 20 mM EDTA (pH 7.4)]. Samples were mixed with nonreducing Laemmli’s buffer, heated for 15 min at 55°C, and subjected to a 12% SDS-PAGE. Separated proteins were transferred to a nitrocellulose membrane and immunoblotted with an antibody recognizing Orai1 (Sigma). Each experiment was performed at least five independent times. The quantification of percentage of cross-linking was calculated with the program ImageJ (National Institute of Mental Health).
Electrophysiological recordings
HEK293T cells were transfected (TransFectin, Bio-Rad) with 1 μg of mCherry-STIM1 and 0.5-μg DNA of eYFP-Orai1 constructs. Electrophysiological experiments were performed 24 to 34 hours after transfection, using the patch-clamp technique in whole-cell recording configurations at 21° to 25°C. An Ag/AgCl electrode was used as the reference electrode. Voltage ramps were applied every 5 s from a holding potential of 0 mV, covering a range of −90 to 90 mV over 1 s. For passive store depletion, the internal pipette solution included 145 mM Cs methanesulfonate, 20 mM EGTA, 10 mM Hepes, 8 mM NaCl, and 3.5 mM MgCl2 (pH 7.2). Standard extracellular solution consisted of 145 mM NaCl, 10 mM Hepes, 10 mM CaCl2, 10 mM glucose, 5 mM CsCl, and 1 mM MgCl2 (pH 7.4). Na-DVF solution included 150 mM NaCl, 10 mM Hepes, 10 mM glucose, and 10 mM EDTA. A liquid junction potential correction of +12 mV was applied, resulting from a Cl−-based bath solution and a sulfonate-based pipette solution. All currents were leak-corrected by subtracting the initial voltage ramps obtained shortly after break-in with no visible current activation from the measured currents or at the end of the experiment using La3+ (10 μM).
Fluorescence-based Ca2+ imaging
HCT-116 cells were loaded with 1 μM Fura-2 AM (in RPMI + 10% fetal calf serum + 10 mM Hepes), and measurements were performed in Ringer solution containing 155 mM NaCl, 4.5 mM KCl, 10 mM glucose, 5 mM Hepes, and 2 mM MgCl2 + 1 mM CaCl2 for 1 mM Ca2+; 3 mM MgCl2 + 1 mM EGTA for 0 mM Ca2+. Store-operated calcium entry (SOCE) was triggered using 1 μM thapsigargin in Ringer solution.
For CFP/YFP-labeled constructs, a QLC100 real-time confocal system (VisiTech International) connected to two Photometrics CoolSNAPHQ monochrome cameras (Roper Scientific) and a dual port adapter (dichroic, 505lp; cyan emission filter, 485/30; yellow emission filter, 535/50; Chroma Technology Corp.) were used for recording fluorescence images. This system was attached to an Axiovert 200M microscope (Zeiss) in conjunction with two diode lasers (445 and 515 nm; Visitron Systems). Image acquisition and control of the confocal system were performed with Visiview 2.1.1 software (Visitron Systems). For YFP/RFP experiments, an Axiovert 100 TV microscopy was used and fluorescence was recorded from individual cells with excitation of 514 and 565 nm, respectively. Extracellular solution was identical as for fluorescence microscopy.
Molecular dynamics simulations
A structural model of human Orai1 channel was obtained using homology modeling procedure, as described previously by Frischauf et al. (12). Orai1 mutants were created by in silico point mutation in YASARA (58). Proteins were inserted into a preequilibrated palmitoyloleoylphosphatidylcholine (POPC) bilayer using the InflateGRO method. The initial (closed) protein conformation was maintained in the presence of cholesterol and POPC. Molecular dynamics simulations were performed in GROMACS 4.6.5 using all-atom optimized potentials for liquid simulations (OPLS-AA) force field, as previously described by Frischauf et al. (12). Molecular dynamics simulations were run for 200 ns. The program HOLE was used for the pore dimensions analysis (59). GROMACS analysis tools (g_hbond, g_rms, and g_dist) were used to calculate the number of hydrogen bonds, root mean square (RMS) fluctuations, and distances. VMD was used to visualize trajectories and for figure preparation (60). For water molecule analysis, only the water molecules contained within a cylinder of 8 Å around the center of the pore of the Orai channel were considered. The trajectories were analyzed using MDAnalysis (61) and the water analysis module (62). The Cα z position of W76 is taken for the zero reference. Mean z positions for the Cα residues lining the pore are given on the right of the water orientation graphs.
Because cholesterol-depleted membranes lead to an open conformation of Orai1 (63), cholesterol was included in the simulated system. Cholesterol parameters (64, 65) for the OPLS-AA force field were used. AutoDock Vina (66, 67) implemented in YASARA was used to place the cholesterol molecules in close proximity to the Orai1 channel, using docking in which the protein was kept rigid and the ligand was flexible, and was performed to identify potential cholesterol binding sites across the whole hexameric structure. Docked poses with an RMS deviation for the heavy atoms of <5 Å were clustered together. The three highest ranked poses were selected from the most populated clusters, and the resulting complex was embedded into a preequilibrated POPC bilayer. Throughout all molecular dynamics simulations, the wild-type Orai1/cholesterol/POPC system maintains its initial conformation (as measured by RMS fluctuations and secondary structure over time), and the pore profile stays similar to the one observed in the initial structure and the Drosophila crystal structure, making it a suitable system for introducing point mutations that would alter the pore profile.
Steered molecular dynamics, as implemented in GROMACS pull code, was used to pull calcium ion through the wild-type Orai1 and H134A mutant structures. Calcium ion in the CAR was selected as the starting point for pulling along z axis through the central pore toward the intracellular side. Pulling method umbrella was used, where pulling group (calcium ion) is harmonically attached to the reference particle. By applying force, the reference particle is moved with constant pulling rate. The pulling group (calcium) harmonically attached to the reference particle is moved according to the equation F = k (vt − x), where F is the force, k is the spring constant, v is the pulling rate (velocity), t is the time, and x is the displacement of the pulled group. Pulling rate was −0.00055 nm/ps (minus is required to pull in negative z direction), and spring constant was 1000 kJ mol−1 nm−2.
The HOLE program was used to calculate pore dimensions. The starting point, approximately at the center of the channel, and a vector are required for the initiation of the search. The vector was defined along the z axis of the channel. After the initial point and vector are defined, a sphere is put at the initial point without overlapping with protein atoms. Monte Carlo simulated annealing procedure is applied to maximize the sphere radius in all three dimensions until the largest radius is reached at the current position. Then, a new point is assigned at a distance of 0.2 Å in the z direction. This procedure is repeated to find the maximum radius along the whole pore. VMD tool was used to visualize the final output of HOLE run.
The survival probability gives the probability for a group of particles to remain in a certain region. This probability is computed by using the following formula:P(τ)=1T∑i=1TN(t,t+τ)N(t)(1)where T corresponds to the simulation time length, τ is the time lag, and N(t) is the number of particles at time t. This function is evaluated for different regions at constant interval along the z axis, axis normal to the membrane. Only the water molecules present in the cylinder defining the pore are taken into account. A steep decrease of P(τ) would indicate a fast exchange rate of water molecules in a given area or molecules with a short permanence time. Conversely, a slow decay of the survival probability would describe an area where molecules have slower dynamics.
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Fig. S1. Constitutive activity and cellular localization of cancer database and myopathy Orai1 mutants.
Fig. S2. Interaction between TM2 and pore helix residues.
Fig. S3. STIM1 and Orai1-His134 mutants mediate Ca2+-selective currents.
Fig. S4. Starvation induces nuclear translocation of the transcription factors MITF and TFEB.
Fig. S5. Pharmacological regulation and fast inactivation of the Orai1-H134A mutant.
Fig. S6. Pore profile of human and Drosophila Orai.
Fig. S7. Regulation of the Arg91 gate in closed and constitutively open Orai1.
Fig. S8. Pulled Ca2+ ion through the Orai1 pore extends the Arg91 gate.
Fig. S9. The hydrophobic gate forms a barrier for water molecules in Orai1 channels.
Fig. S10. Cysteine cross-linking of constitutively active Orai1 mutants.
Fig. S11. Dynamics of water molecules in closed and constitutively active Orai1 channels.
Table S1. Selectivity of Orai1 mutants.
Movie S1. Ca2+ permeation through the Orai1 channel.
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News came out of Mozilla that was of zero surprise to me, and many others, but did upset and surprise a great number of people. Mozilla, long time champion of a free and open web, is backing down on their stance to never incorporate the new DRM mechanisms in HTML5 into Firefox. Firefox will officially support blackbox DRM’ed content played back exclusively through closed source components. The new DRM support in HTML5 has been inevitable for some time. It is not inevitable because DRM is a good thing (it is not) or because the media companies are too powerful to fight (they are not). The inevitability of this beachhead was all due to two names on the draft authorship list: a developer from Google (the company that brings you the Chrome browser) and a developer from Microsoft (of Internet Explorer). When this DRM spec was first proposed it was obviously inevitable because it did not come from outside, but from within, and with a foothold in two of the most popular browsers in the wo
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You’re forgiven if you thought Yammer — Microsoft’s proto-Slack, not quite real-time chat application — was dead. It’s actually still alive (and well) — and still serves a purpose as a slower-moving social network-like channel for company and team-wide announcements. Today, Microsoft announced that, among other updates, it will offer a Yammer integration in Teams, its Slack competitor. Yammer in Teams will live in the left-hand sidebar.
With this, Microsoft’s two main enterprise communications platforms are finally growing together and will give users the option to use Teams for fast-moving chats and Yammer as their enterprise social network in the same way Facebook messenger and its news feed complement each other.
Oh, and Yammer itself has been redesigned, too, using Microsoft’s Fluent Design System across all platforms. And Microsoft is also building it into Outlook, too, to let you respond to messages right from your inbox. This new Yammer will roll out as a private preview in December.
With this update, Teams is getting a number of other new features, too. These include secure private channels, multi-window chats and meetings, pinned channels and task integration with Microsoft To Do and Planner (because having one to-do app is never enough). Microsoft is also making a number of enhancements to Teams Rooms, with upcoming support for Cisco WebEx and Zoom meetings, the Teams Phone System, which is getting emergency calling, and the IT management features that help admins keep Teams secure.
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by Tracey Xiang Nov 22, 2013 Jun 7, 2020
It is estimated that up to 5 billion yuan (more than $800 mn) will go to third-party developers by the end of this year, Peter Zheng, vice president of Tencent, disclosed on stage at TechCrunch Shanghai. He claims the open platform Tencent operates is the largest in China that has over 400,000 registered apps and 800, 000 developers on the platform. 90% of paying apps have received revenues.
Tencent has been notorious for copying Internet products or features. The company broke silence not very long ago and started touting innovations the company had created. According to Mr. Zheng, Tencent has filed over 7500 patents in China and has been granted some 1250 patents outside the country.
QQ Farm, a game developed by Tencent in 2009, was a clone of Happy Farm which was developed by a Shanghai-based team in 2008. But Tencent did it differently that, instead of following the original which was for users to mange virtual farms, changed it into a social game with features for users to interact with their QQ IM contacts; for instance, your QQ friends could steal fruits in your farm when you didn’t manage to harvest them in time. The mechanism largely boosted user activity that the game had 320 million monthly active users at peak. By leverage the high user activity, the company made tons of money from virtual item sales. Whilst Happy Farm gradually lost traction. Renren, the Chinese social network known as a Facebook clone, decided to remove it earlier this year.
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Rolling Stones in Sydenham
Friendly chat, questions, reviews, find old friends or relatives. Not limited to Sydenham only issues but keep it civil!
Bovine Juice
Location: Penge
Re: Rolling Stones in Sydenham
Post by Bovine Juice » 26 May 2019 09:15
lukekelly wrote: ↑12 Jul 2012 14:00 According to this month's Mojo magazine article about Brian Jones and the Stones' earliest period, a schoolboy Mick Jagger spent a year rehearsing with his very first band in a house in Alexandra Road!
I can't find anything about this on the web. Anybody know anything more about the Alexandra Road connection? Seems extremely dubious that a Dartford schoolboy would be travelling to Penge/Sydenham for a year.
Post by stuart » 26 May 2019 11:07
Bill Wyman was brought up by his aunt in Penge. His autobiography makes much of the formation of the group and the bonding (or otherwise) between members. If he was aware of a Penge connection with Mick I would have thought he would have mentioned it. But I don't remember any mention. Mind you its been a few years since I read it.
stuart wrote: ↑26 May 2019 11:07 Bill Wyman was brought up by his aunt in Penge. His autobiography makes much of the formation of the group and the bonding (or otherwise) between members. If he was aware of a Penge connection with Mick I would have thought he would have mentioned it. But I don't remember any mention. Mind you its been a few years since I read it.
I read it more recently. I think his family moved to Lower Sydenham some time after the Stones were formed but by then he was an adult and not home much. In fact he was a bit of a snob and not proud of his working class roots so has a habit of referring to "going back to Beckenham" even though he was actually referring to Penge.
davetheeagle
Location: Blackheath
Post by davetheeagle » 18 Aug 2019 14:28
I posted some years ago that Bill Wyman lived at 18 Miall Road. His actual name is William George Perks.
According to the 1939 Register taken on the outbreak of war his father William G Perks and mother Kathleen Mary Jeffery (known as Molly according to Wikipedia) lived at no.38. His grandparents Alfred Henry Perks and Alice C Roberts lived at no.16. As Bill Wyman is still alive his name has been redacted from the record. However, given his age (under 3) and the fact that his mother was living at home it is unlikely that he had been evacuated at that time as many kids were.
terryp
Post by terryp » 24 Nov 2020 16:33
Wow this is a good find. I was born in 1948 and from the age of 12 lived in Priestfield Rd so St Miichaels youth club was just down the road and in my middle to late teens a regular haunt. I remember every thing about it that other people have posted including the Rolling Stones gig. I used to hang out with a guy called Mo Ball who was Bill Wymans cousin so didn't have to pay the 7/6 entrance fee which was two gallons of petrol!! Also used to hang out with Brian Jacks who taught us judo moves and went on to win gold medals. His dad ran a car hire company and he used one of his dads Rolls Royces and we were once pulled by the old bill who couldn't believe a bunch of snotty teens were riding around in a roller. I can add some more on the Mod/Rocker debate. For some reason, I think girl related, a gang of rockers decided to descend on St Michaels for a punch up. We knew they were coming so were tooled up and ready for them. The vicar of St Michaels at the time was an Australian and a bit of a hard nut and I can still see him in his frock standing on the balcony above the entrance with some other blokes holding a wooden roof ladder which was dropped on the gang as they burst through the door. The fighting was only stopped by the arrival of the old bill and "tools" were quickly thrown out of the side door. As has been said this club was a mix of mods and rockers with good natured rivalry between scooter and motorbike riders. I had a Lambretta scooter and Mo Ball had a Triumph T100 and after he convinced me to take a ride on the back whereupon he took the bend at Bell Green with sparks coming of the footrests I was converted to riding motorbikes which I have done for the rest of my life. Many good memories of St Michaels!!
Michael Viner
Joined: 2 Jul 2007 18:37
Post by Michael Viner » 29 Nov 2020 14:04
Thanks so much for sharing those great memories,Terry-they inspired me to dig out an old cutting from the Lewisham Journal, December 6th 1963 re. the grand,torchlight opening (by the Bishop of Woolwich) of the new,revamped St.Michael's Youth Centre,with large,illuminated 'St Michael's Club' sign over the entrance,state- of -the- art Coffee Bar ,renovated dance floor etc. As you rightly recall the vicar of St Michaels then was an Australian,Rev.A Methven.The youth leader in charge of the club was Liverpudlian Mike Lacey of Newlands Park,who had recently come to Sydenham. I'll quote some of the article,I hope it brings back some memories:
"The big hall..-now painted 'snow print' white with red flecks (with) a 'harvest yellow' ceiling and bright yellow exit doors..two shiny blue columns support an impressive balcony where members can chat..the balcony leads into a well-lit room suitable for table tennis and other games..The coffee bar itself is the star feature..large round lights inset over the bar give a bright West End effect.The floor is of red,greeny- blue and yellow vinyl tiles and the end wall is in glowing Toreador red. The dance floor of maple-strip has been preserved and renovated. Membership cost is 1s 6d a week (that's about 7p to younger readers) plus 1s 6d for the Wednesday dance."In the Spring (1964) we hope to have a big 'do' with one or two big pop stars coming along" the Rev.Methven said"
Sounds great!! Wish I had been old enough to go.Shame it did'nt last.Was it the hall just past the Bell pub and the old Bath House,which was demolished 10/15 years ago for housing,or was it on the same side as the gasworks ? An old family friend Christine Franks (now Griffiths) was a member of the old club-which only had 50 members according to the article- in 1959/60.
I expect Sydenham's own 60's beat group Kenny Bernard & the Wranglers were regulars at the club,as Kenny lived just across the road in Holmshaw Rd.! Kenny made some good and now sought after Soul 45's in the mid-60's as well as a fine Psychedelic single with his late 60's group,'The Cats Pyjamas'!
Re. Bill Wyman,whose aunt lived opposite me on Sydenham Hill Estate when I was growing up-in the 60's he produced a great,rare Psychedelic LP 'Introspection' by the End and also 3 really nice but sadly unsuccessful 45's on Decca by local Forest Hill singer Bobbie Miller (real name Audrey Welleans (1942-2018)) Not sure whereabouts in Forest Hill she lived,but a Oct.1965 Lewisham Borough News article (with a photo of Bobbie and Bill Wyman together) mentions this.
Post by terryp » 2 Dec 2020 19:52
It was the hall next door to the bath house and there was a big do and the big band was the Rolling Stones.
Post by Michael Viner » 3 Dec 2020 01:15
Thanks for that,Terry,yes,I thought it was the hall next to the Bath House. In the early 1980's when the hall was called the Bell Green Centre,I used to go to Jumble Sales there and it was very plain and ordinary inside I seem to remember-the coffee bar and everything else from the Youth Club was gone,I'm pretty sure;it was used as a social club for the elderly at the time.It was demolished around 2005,somewhere around then.
It's nice that today's Lower Sydenham teenagers have a slightly similar place to go-the former London City Mission Hall in what was Relinque Rd. next to Home Park is now a dance studio and performing arts centre for local young people.I walked past there the other day.
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Tennessee House of Representatives. (Photo: Tennessee General Assembly)
Sexton balks at masks, but Legislature to take other COVID-19 precautions
Sam Stockard
House Speaker Cameron Sexton told lawmakers Tuesday masks won’t be required during 2021 sessions because their effectiveness is disputable, yet both the House and Senate are taking other steps to stem COVID-19 as the 112th General Assembly convenes.
Among the new measures, an antibacterial mist will be sprayed in the Senate and House chambers in an effort to quell the virus, according to lawmakers briefed by Sexton. It is expected to have a chlorine-type smell.
Speaker of the House Cameron Sexton, R-Crossville (Photo: Tennessee General Assembly)
In addition, Plexiglas barriers between members’ desks will be extended in the House, and those who enter the chamber will have their temperature checked and scanned into a computer rather than taken with a handheld thermometer as used in the past. Also, Days on the Hill are being canceled, legislative receptions are expected to be stopped, and the number of interns will be cut in half, limiting them only to those required by statute, according to legislators who sat in on the call with Sexton. Visits to legislators’ offices in the Cordell Hull Building will have to be scheduled as well.
Sexton’s office did not respond to questions about his statement on masks or increased precautions. The Senate Speaker’s Office also declined to confirm extra steps such as the antibacterial mist.
But Democratic lawmakers confirmed Tuesday that Sexton made the statement in discussing the House’s COVID-19 policies and protocols for the coming session, which starts Jan. 12 followed by a special session on education starting Jan. 19.
Some legislatures nationwide are meeting remotely while most are set to start this month without mask mandates, even though about 250 legislators nationally have caught the virus and seven have died, according to an Associated Press report.
Legislators who sat in on the Tuesday call with Sexton said he told them members won’t be mandated to wear masks because there’s not enough scientific proof showing they help stop the spread of the virus.
“It was an odd statement. It was more that there’s still evidence out there that can dispute whether they’re effective or not,” said state Rep. Darren Jernigan, an Old Hickory Democrat.
State Rep. Darren Jernigan, D-Old Hickory (Photo: Tennessee General Assembly)
Jernigan, who is confined to a wheelchair and wary of the virus, said he doesn’t agree with Sexton’s assessment, noting if two people wearing masks come into contact, the chance of spreading the virus goes down dramatically.
Jernigan said of Sexton, “Let’s be frank. His politics, his side of the aisle, they’re not going to go for that anyway. He knows that.”
He noted, however, that Sexton believes more Republican members of the Legislature will be wearing masks during this session, because one, Rep. David Byrd of Waynesboro, has been hospitalized for a month and on a ventilator while struggling with COVID-19. Byrd came down with the illness after holding a gathering for the House Republican Caucus this fall.
Yet another caucus member, Republican Rep. Mike Carter of Ooltewah, was hospitalized with double pneumonia and was on a ventilator in late summer. Carter could not be reached for comment Tuesday.
Let's be frank. His politics, his side of the aisle, they're not going to go for that anyway. He knows that. – Rep. Darren Jernigan, D-Old Hickory, of Speaker of the House Cameron Sexton disputing the effectiveness of masks
Other members of the Legislature, including Republican Rep. Kent Calfee of Kingston, Democratic Rep. Bill Beck of Nashville and House Minority Leader Karen Camper of Memphis caught the virus in 2020 and recovered.
Camper’s office said Tuesday she is worried the session could be “a super spreader event” as members travel back and forth from their home districts. Even though the Legislature is taking precautions such as adding Plexiglas and limiting visitors, Camper, who still feels the effects of the virus, believes a mask requirement is needed.
“Masks reduce the spread of the virus, and until everyone can receive vaccines they will be an important part of opening up our businesses, our schools, our government and our society,” Camper’s office said in a statement.
Gov. Bill Lee has declined to issue a statewide mask mandate but has given county mayors authority to make county requirements. He contends about 70% of the state is under a mask mandate. First Lady Maria Lee contracted the virus, too, but the governor has tested negative and been quarantining.
Tennessee Reps. Mike Carter, R-Ooltewah, Kent Calfee, R-Kingston, Karen Camper, D-Memphis, David Byrd, R-Waynesboro and Bill Beck, D-Nashville tested positive for COVID-19 in 2020. The Associate Press reports 250 legislators nationally have had the coronavirus and seven have died.
Although some state legislators doubt the effectiveness of masks, the World Health Organization says masks used in concert with social distancing and hand washing are effective in helping stop the viral spread.
A study by the National Center for Biotechnology Information through the National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health suggests that masks worn by people who are not sick could be beneficial, especially since COVID-19 can be transmitted before symptoms show. Masks also can be beneficial in universal and healthcare settings, the study found.
Even though Democratic lawmakers described the new precautions to be taken, Sexton spokesman Doug Kufner said the same protocols and procedures the House used last year will remain.
“We will continue to be flexible as we monitor new information and data related to the pandemic,” Kufner said in a statement.
The House allowed limited numbers of the general public and lobbyists to attend its committee meetings and floor sessions during three separate periods in 2020 after new pandemic restrictions were put in place. The Senate, on the other hand, refused to allow the public to attend its meetings and floor sessions.
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No decision has been made on public access in the Senate for the 112th General Assembly, according to Adam Kleinheider, spokesman for Lt. Gov. Randy McNally.
“The Senate chamber was reconfigured last year to ensure members are seated six feet apart. That will continue,” Kleinheider said in a statement. “As has been the case since the beginning of the pandemic, Lt. Gov. McNally will take appropriate steps to ensure a safe working environment for staff and members based on current conditions and guidance.”
Some Democratic senators such as Sara Kyle of Memphis and Brenda Gilmore of Nashville have worn plastic masks along with cloth masks during floor sessions since the pandemic started.
State Rep. Bo Mitchell of Davidson County contends masks should be worn by all lawmakers. So far, legislators have not been eligible for vaccinations unless they are a healthcare worker or fall into another priority category.
“Everyone has to respect one another and care for one another in this most dangerous time period of the pandemic. We have an over 20% positivity rate in the state of Tennessee right now,” Mitchell said. “We’ve had more deaths than World War I and World War II combined in this state, and I think it’s time to do everything we can to be safe until we can get vaccines in people’s arms.”
Some 300,250 doses of the vaccine have been distributed to Tennessee, but only 152,516 have been administered. Even so, Tennessee is among the leading states nationally in vaccinations.
Tennessee is reporting 617,649 cases since March with 3,246 current hospitalizations and 7,267 deaths. More than 5.68 million tests have been conducted, with a 20.85% positivity rate, according to the Tennessee Department of Health.
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Portmagee is a small picturesque fishing village of brightly painted houses at the south west tip of Valentia Harbour. The area was once a haven for smugglers and pirates who preyed on the trade ships from the Continent and North America. It's a little bit more peaceful today.
The village is named after one of the most notorious smugglers of the 18th Century, Captain Theobald Magee. Having served in the army of King James as an Officer, Magee 'retired' to a life of merchant shipping between France, Portugal and Ireland. Thanks to the intricately chiseled coast around the South West, his trade in contraband spirits, textiles and tea and tobacco, was extremely hard to police and therefore extremely profitable. He married Mrs. Bridget Morgell, the widow of a rich Dingle merchant and also the daughter of the then MP for County Kerry, Mr. Thomas Crosby. Being related to the best smuggler in Ireland can't have sat too easily on Crosby's shoulders and there is some suspicion that Magee's death in a Lisbon monastery in 1724 was due to some exile imposed by the powerful MP. After his death, his wife, and his sons are believed to have carried on the family business.
Don't miss visiting The Skellig Experience vistors centre if you can't spare the time to visit the Skellig Islands themselves. Also not to be missed is Valentia Island for very special vistas and hikes.
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When these tracks were made this part of the world was south of the equator and joined to North America!
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Book Review: Winnie The Pooh
By Aruna Bewtra
One of my favorite gifts my daughter received on her first birthday was a boxed collection of the original Winnie The Pooh stories by A. A. Milne. Everyone in the house loved these books, because they are more than just stories for kids. They are clever lessons disguised as entertaining vignettes, teaching children everything from critical thinking to the perils of poor spelling, without ever tipping kids off.
In the first story, Winnie rolls around in mud and floats up in the sky using a big blue balloon in the hopes that he looks enough like a small grey cloud floating in the sky to fool the bees and steal their honey. While this is amusing to both parents and children, it can also be used to prompt a conversation on whether this was a good idea, and why. Another book has Christopher Robin leaving a note as he goes to school saying, “Bak Sun” (back soon). The animals of the Hundred Acre Woods take this to mean that a Baksun is loose in the woods and has captured Christopher Robin.
The different personalities of the animals in the original format can also help to spur conversations about feelings and problem solving. Piglet is timid, but can be brave. Owl thinks he knows everything, but really just makes things up. Tigger is fun and happy, but sometimes too excited for his own good. Parents can use these examples as references for their children (“Are we having a gloomy day, like Eeyore?”).
The Winnie the Pooh stories are small enough to get through in one bedtime reading with slightly older children (3-4 years old), or you could break up each book for younger ones (2-3 years old). There are 20 original stories in the set, so you will definitely be getting your money’s worth. The original illustrations by E. H. Shepard are sweet, endearing, and almost always one to a page, which helps keep children engaged.
As my daughter became more of an independent reader, these were some of the first books she sat down and read through on her own. She knew the plot and characters, so the challenge was less intimidating, and the illustrations kept her motivated. Strongly consider this collection if you are looking for a gift for a young child or parent-to-be that will stand the test of time and be a useful addition to the nursery library.
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Emmalie Herd, Guest Reporter
The whirring of drills and a car engine starting were the dominant sounds of the custodial office located in a desolate part of the school. In the background, the sound of electronic voices streaming in through the walkie-talkies and the clicking of wrenches hitting metal filled the air. The car parked in the center of the large garage rumbled quietly before pulling out onto the driveway.
According to head custodian Laura Olsen, a teacher at Bellevue West hit a curb earlier that morning. When she got to the school she discovered that her tire had been pierced and lost all pressure. The custodians fixed her tire for her.
“This doesn’t usually happen,” Olsen said. “You never know what’s gonna happen around here.”
Every custodian focused on their designated tasks. Some cleaned the tables in the cafeteria and some fixed sinks in the school restrooms. There was even laundry to be done. The washing machines swooshed and swirled as their contents tumbled around the large metal basin.
Because of COVID-19, the custodians have been busier. The custodians only have a 5 minute interval between lunch passings to disinfect each of the areas where students eat. Whereas in other years they would go around and only clean up messes that were made.
Olsen said that a lot more tasks have been put on the night shift. With the new safety precautions that have been put in place because of COVID-19 the night shift’s workload has doubled.
“They don’t give us any extra hours,” night shift leader Nelly Carlson said. “They give us the same hours to do all the work plus the disinfecting. We cannot cut corners because we still have to make sure everything is clean.”
Each night, after the students have left, night shift custodians come in and disinfect the school. Each desk and table is thoroughly wiped down and the entire room is then coated in a mist-like fog. This ensures that each surface is being cleaned without having to wipe down every individual item in the classroom.
Night shift custodians are only given eight hours to clean, disinfect and clean-up after any activities.
“We are trying to do so much and we get a little more stressed and have to work a little faster and try to still get everything done,” Olsen said.
Head custodian Laura Olsen explains how the fogger machine is used to disinfect classrooms.
The students at Bellevue West may not realize exactly how much the custodians do for the school. Many have probably seen them wiping down tables or vacuuming after school, but this barely scratches the surface of what they do.
The custodians take care of everything from electrical and plumbing to air conditioning to welding wobbly tables.
“We don’t like when people call us janitors,” Olsen said. “When I think of a custodian you’re a caregiver. Like a custodial parent, we are the custodians of the building. We take care of the building, and we take care of the contents of the building: the kids and the teachers and the staff.”
COVID-19 has added more to the workload of the custodians, but they are using it to their advantage. They are working together to create an even safer environment for the students and staff. While the custodians may work at different times in the day, they still help each other out by completing tasks that may have traditionally been done by the other staff.
“With everybody pitching in, I think having teamwork is really a good thing,” Carlson said. “That helps and makes everybody’s job easier when we work as a team.”
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Violinist Itzhak Perlman Cancels Florida Tour
Itzhak Perlman has withdrawn from a 4-date concert tour in Florida this week - after undergoing an unplanned medical procedure
It has been announced that violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman has withdrawn from a 4-date concert tour in Florida this week - after undergoing an unplanned medical procedure.
“Mr Perlman regretfully had to cancel his appearances in Florida this week due to an unscheduled medical procedure …” his manager, Charlotte Lee, President and Founder of Primo Artists, has told The Violin Channel.
“He is doing well and plans to attend the theatrical release of the new film ‘Itzhak’ next week … he sends his thanks for everyone’s well-wishes,” she has said.
Mr Perlman was unable to join the 13-member ‘In the Fiddler’s House’ ensemble for Saturday evening’s Klezmer performance at the Festival of the Arts BOCA.
His recitals in Miami on the 25th of February and West Palm Beach on the 26th of February with Pinchas Zukerman and Rohan De Silva have both been cancelled, along with a recital with De Silva in Fort Meyers on the 27th of February.
Plans are in discussions, his management has indicated, to reschedule Mr Perlman's appearances in these cities during the 2018/2019 season.
We wish Mr Perlman a speedy recovery.
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Gringo Senator wants to build and run Texas prisons in Mexico
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By Steve Taylor
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AUSTIN – A lawmaker from north Texas has filed legislation that would allow the Texas Board of Criminal Justice to contract with private vendors to build and run prisons in Mexico.
SB 185, authored by Sen. Craig Estes, R-Wichita Falls , would allow the TBCJ to waive any legal requirements that would be inapplicable in Mexico.
Estes told the Guardian that the prisons would only house non-violent Mexican nationals serving time in Texas ’s correctional facilities.
“The prisons would be built to Texas standards but we could save money on both the construction costs and the staffing costs,” Estes said.
“I think the country of Mexico could look at it as economic development. It is very humane for the prisoners because they are going to be closer to their families and they would be in a Spanish-speaking environment.”
Estes said he came up with idea after hearing that the state of Arizona was studying a similar idea. He filed similar legislation late in the 79th Legislature but did not get a hearing.
Estes’s proposal was supposed to be studied in the interim by the Senate Criminal Justice committee but the panel, chaired by Sen. John Whitmire, D-Houston, had to cancel one of its hearings and no testimony was ever taken.
According to the TBCJ, around 10,000 of the 153,000 inmates in Texas prisons are foreign nationals. Of these 10,000 around 75 percent are Mexican nationals. Estes said his office was still researching how many of the Mexican nationals currently locked up are classified as non-violent.
“I think this is an idea worth studying,” Estes added. “We are always looking for ways, if we do build more prisons, to make sure the costs are kept low for the taxpayers.”
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Jewel Introduces Fans to Lost Art of Yodeling
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During her opening slot on Brad Paisley's Paisley Party tour, Jewel has been surprising fans with her gift for the "little-ole-lady-who." Yodeling, which the singer first learned as a youngster in Alaska, is a form of musical expression which was common in early country music.
"My dad is a cowboy and he taught himself how to yodel by listening to Jimmie Rodgers records," says Jewel. "When I was six, my parents sang at dinner shows for tourists in hotels, and part of the act was me getting up and yodeling."
Learning the fine art of yodeling took some practice, which Jewel recalls, "sure didn't make me very popular in first grade . . . Hearing someone learn to yodel is NOT pretty!"
But practice makes perfect, and Jewel's yodeling skills have made for a perfect finish to her live shows. Fans at Jewel's live shows can even add a 'Got Yodel?' t-shirt to their wardrobe.
"I'm always happy when audiences respond enthusiastically, and it sure makes up for all those years I was laughed at," says the singer, whose first country album, 'Perfectly Clear,' recently debuted at the top of the country albums chart.
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Militant Kill Seven Soldiers in Attacks In The Southwest Pakistan
Militants killed seven Pakistani troopers in two assaults in the nation’s mineral-rich southwestern area of Balochistan, the military stated on Tuesday. Balochistan is at the focal point of the $60 billion China Pakistan Economic Corridor, some portion of Beijing’s monstrous Belt and Road framework venture. Be that as it may, nonconformist, Islamist and ethnic brutality harrow the devastated region, fuelling worry about the security of tasks, for example, an arranged vitality connect from western China to Pakistan’s southern port of Gwadar.
Six of the officers were killed by an ad-libbed unstable gadget as they were returning late on Monday night from a standard watch to their camp in Pir Ghaib in the Mach area of Balochistan, the military’s media wing said in an announcement. Another warrior was executed during a trade of fire with activists in the Mand region of Kech locale, it said. No gathering has guaranteed an obligation regarding the assaults in Balochistan, which fringes both Iran and Afghanistan.
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They may look similar, but online trolls act differently. Daren Woodward/Shutterstock.com
Propaganda-spewing Russian trolls act differently online from regular people
September 5, 2018 6.36am EDT
Savvas Zannettou, Technological University of Cyprus, Jeremy Blackburn, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Savvas Zannettou
Ph.D. Student in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Informatics, Technological University of Cyprus
Jeremy Blackburn
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Savvas Zannettou receives funding from EU project "ENCASE" Grant Agreement number 691025.
Jeremy Blackburn does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
As information warfare becomes more common, agents of various governments are manipulating social media – and therefore people’s thinking, political actions and democracy. Regular people need to know a lot more about what information warriors are doing and how they exert their influence.
One group, a Russian government-sponsored troll farm called the Internet Research Agency, was the subject of a federal indictment issued in February, stemming from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian activities aimed at influencing the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Our recent study of that group’s activities reveals that there are some behaviors that might help identify propaganda-spewing trolls and tell them apart from regular internet users.
Targeted tweeting
We looked at 27,291 tweets posted by 1,024 Twitter accounts controlled by the Internet Research Agency, based on a list released by congressional investigators. We found that these Russian government troll farms were focused on tweeting about specific world events like the Charlottesville protests, specific organizations like ISIS and political topics related to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
That finding fits with other research showing that Internet Research Agency trolls infiltrated and exerted influence in online communities with both left- and right-leaning political views. That helped them muddy the waters on both sides, stirring discord across the political spectrum.
Distinctive behavior
We also found that these troll-farm accounts behaved differently from regular people online. For example, when declaring their locations, they listed a country, but not any particular city in that country. That’s unusual: Most Twitter users tend to be more specific, listing a state or town, as we found when we sampled 1,024 Twitter accounts at random. The most common location designation for Russian troll accounts was “U.S.,” followed by “Moscow,” “St. Petersburg,” and “Russia.”
In addition, the troll accounts were more likely to tweet using Twitter’s own website on a desktop computer – labeled in tweets as “Twitter Web Client.” By contrast, we found regular Twitter users are much more likely to use Twitter’s mobile apps for iPhone or Android, or specialized apps for managing social media, like TweetDeck.
Working many angles
Looking at the Internet Research Agency accounts over 21 months, between January 2016 and September 2017, we found that they frequently reset their online personas by changing account information like their name and description and by mass-deleting past tweets. In this way, the same account – still retaining its followers – could be repurposed to advocate a different position or target a different demographic of users.
For instance, on May 15, 2016, the troll account with the Twitter ID number 4224912857 was calling itself “Pen_Air” with a profile description reading “National American news.” This particular troll account tweeted 326 times, while its followers rose from 1,296 to 4,308 between May 15, 2016, and July 22, 2016.
But as the U.S. presidential elections approached, it changed: On September 8, 2016, the account changed its name to “Blacks4DTrump” and its profile description to “African-Americans stand with Trump to make America Great Again!” Over the next 11 months, it tweeted nearly 600 times – far more often than its previous identity had. This activity no doubt helped increase the account’s follower count to nearly 9,000.
The activity didn’t stop after the election. Around August 18, 2017, the account was repurposed again. Almost all of its previous tweets were deleted – leaving just 35. And its name became “southlonestar2,” with a description as “Proud American and TEXAN patriot! Stop ISLAM and PC. Don’t mess with Texas.”
In all three incarnations the account’s tweets focused on right-wing political topics, using hashtags like #NObama and #NeverHillary and retweeting other troll accounts, like TEN_GOP and tpartynews.
These troll accounts also often tweeted links to posts from Russian government-sponsored organizations purporting to be news.
Fighting trolling
Though our research focused on Twitter, the Internet Research Agency didn’t. It even expanded beyond Facebook: In early 2018, Reddit announced that Russian trolls had likely operated on its site as well. That report highlights the fact that the companies hosting social media and online discussion sites are the best informed about what’s happening on their systems. As a result, in our view, the platforms’ companies should provide technical solutions, analyzing activity and taking action to safeguard users from secret influence campaigns from government agents.
Yet even if the large platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit were somehow able to completely eradicate trolling by professional government agents, there are many smaller communities online that may remain vulnerable. Some of our previous work has shown how ideas that first emerge on fringe sites like 4chan can rapidly make it to mainstream discussions online and in the real world. Russian trolls could take advantage of that tendency to infiltrate these smaller sites, like Gab or Minds, influencing real people who also use those systems – and getting them to spread propaganda and disinformation more widely.
It’s clear to us that technological solutions on their own cannot solve the problem of government-sponsored trolling online. The trolls’ efforts take advantage of weaknesses in society; the only fix for that is for people as individuals and collectively to think more critically about online information, especially before sharing it.
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Formula One season to open in Bahrain after Australian and Chinese GP postponed
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Romain Grosjean leaves Bahrain hospital after fireball F1 crash
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Michael Schumacher's son, Mick, to race for Haas F1 in 2021
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The 'halo' that saved F1 driver Romain Grosjean's life
On Sunday, F1 witnessed its worst accident in a long time in terms of just how spine chilling the crash was. But the credit for Romain Grosjean having survived the horrific crash is being given to the halo system, which was made mandatory by the FIA from the 2018 season onwards as part of their efforts to protect the driver's head in the event of a crash and from flying debris.
Watch: F1 safety systems praised as Romain Grosjean survives fireball in 'miracle'
Race officials and drivers praised the modern safety systems developed for F1 on Sunday after Romain Grosjean said he was "okay" after surviving a high-speed crash and fireball blaze on the opening lap of the Bahrain GP. The Frenchman's car rammed into the barriers as he braked hard from around 250 km/h (155 mph) during the opening lap, the front part hammering into the steel guardrails which buckled.
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Vaccine vote, hunger warning, Israeli abduction: Everything you need to know to start your Wednesday
Here’s what happened yesterday and what to expect today, Wednesday, January 13, 2021
L'Orient Today / 13 January 2021 08:26
Shoppers crowd a supermarket Tuesday to stock up before Lebanon enters total lockdown on Thursday. (Credit: Joseph Eid/AFP)
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Parliament’s health committee votes today on a bill authorizing the use of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. The pharma giant had reportedly said that it would not sign a deal to deliver the vaccines unless Lebanon waives liability, a requirement under current law. After the committee hashes out the legislation, it will head to the full Parliament, which must be convened “with no room for delays,” committee chair Assem Araji told L’Orient Today.
Save the Children’s Lebanon director warned that half of Lebanese could face hunger during the total lockdown, which starts tomorrow. Jennifer Moorehead said almost half the population “can’t afford to buy sufficient food to last them through the supermarket closures,” questioning delivery capacity as supermarkets are ordered to close for in-person shopping. With Lebanese reeling under the burden of a financial crisis exasperated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Bank announced yesterday that it had approved a $246 million loan agreement with the Finance Ministry for the Lebanon Emergency Crisis and COVID-19 Response Social Safety Net Project, which aims to aid vulnerable populations and provide emergency relief. The loan must be approved by Parliament before funds are disbursed.
The Association of Lebanese Industrialists urged officials to amend lockdown measures to allow the manufacturing of items integral to the production of medical and food supplies. Despite exempting producers of medical and food supplies, the lockdown decision bars factories that are “vital in the production cycle” such as printing and packaging, the association said in a statement. It blasted the decision as “illogical,” warning that it would lead to the paralysis of crucial sectors and cause shortages of essential products.
Michel Aoun and Saad Hariri renewed their feud over government formation. On Monday, the president was caught by TV cameras accusing the premier-designate of lying about presenting him with a cabinet lineup, a day after his son-in-law, Free Patriotic Movement leader Gebran Bassil, launched a scathing attack on Hariri, labeling him untrustworthy and a culprit in Lebanon’s financial demise. In response, Hariri took to Twitter, quoting a Bible verse touching on “cheating and cunning.” Aoun and Hariri had returned to the halls of power in 2016 through partnering with each other.
An Israeli patrol abducted a Lebanese shepherd yesterday near the border between Lebanon and occupied Palestine. The Lebanese army announced that at 3:40 p.m., an Israeli patrol kidnapped Hassan Qassem Zahra, who was attending to his flock outside Kfar Shuba, and forcibly moved him across the border. The incident prompted the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon to intervene and initiate contact with Israel to ensure Zahra’s safe return. Israel, for its part, said the “suspicious shepherd” had been transferred for questioning, claiming he had crossed the Blue Line demarcation with Lebanon.
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Read 'Em And Weep: The Rise Of Dystopian Fiction
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Turnbull & Asser's Artist and Architect AW16 collection tells of an alternative past in the fictional land of Mundania, a place where all forms of individual expression are closely monitored and conformity is seen as the key element to maintaining law and order. In keeping with the season's relationship with dystopia, George Pendle explores where apocalyptic literature first began.
Fictional posters for T&A's AW16 collection, 'The Artist and the Architect', depicting the make-believe land of Mundania.
In 1516, Sir Thomas More published a book entitled Utopia. It told the story of a perfect imaginary island on which there is no crime or poverty. Such an island was not meant to be believable - the book's Latin title literally means 'no place' - but, exactly 500 years later, such utopias are rarely found in literature - let alone in real life. By contrast, their opposites - dystopias - seem to be everywhere.
Besant’s The Revolt of Man told of the disastrous consequences should women ever rule over men… it was written when the suffragettes were fighting for women's right to vote.
Dystopian tales began to appear in magazines at the end of the 19th century, when writers such as Jules Verne and H.G. Wells countered their popular visions of man's scientific accomplishments - trips to the moon, aerial flight - with darker, more ambiguous tales. It was an era of great technological and social upheaval, and the first dystopian stories often dealt with very specific fears. One of the first dystopias ever created was in The Revolt of Man by Walter Besant in 1882. It told of the disastrous consequences should women ever rule over men. It was no coincidence that the book was written at the same time that suffragettes were fighting for women's right to vote.
The trend continued. Worries about overpopulation led to a surge of stories about cannibalism, such as in Well’s novel, The Time Machine. This depicted a future in which humanity split into two groups: the refined and weak Eloi, and the subterranean race of Morlocks who prey on them. Fears of pollution and environmental collapse inspired stories about ruined and deserted cities such as Richard Jeffries 1885 classic, After London, one of the earliest examples of post-apocalyptic fiction, in which nature has reclaimed the empty Victorian metropolis. The rise of divorce led to stories foretelling the eradication of the family unit, with Wells again leading the way with The Sleeper Awakes, in which he tells of a society in which adults are hooked to “babble machines” and children are raised apart from them in giant soulless institutions.
Dystopian fiction still acts as a warning, reflecting and magnifying present worries and drawing them out to their logical, or illogical, conclusions.
However it was the rise of fascism and communism in the early 20th century that saw dystopian fiction soar in popularity. Stories such as Aldous Huxley's Brave New World told of the oppression of the majority by a ruling elite and the suffocating regimentation of society. The defeat of the Axis powers in the Second World War didn't reverse this trend - in fact it seemed to spur on a new special strain of dystopian story, books such as Philip K Dick's The Man in the High Castle that asked 'What if Hitler had won?' But it was George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four that most perfectly distilled the essence of dystopian fiction as it exists to this day: a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, public manipulation and the persecution of independent thinking.
Why do we like to torture ourselves with these images of the world gone wrong? Why do we like to see the world tipped upside down so that, as in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, firemen do not put out fires but set fire to books? In some ways, dystopian fiction still acts as a warning, reflecting and magnifying present worries and drawing them out to their logical, or illogical, conclusions. Yet there is always a kernel of hope in these stories. No matter how grim a dystopia appears to be, it is never so bad that a rebellion cannot be attempted. And while these rebellions may be only partially successful - as in The Hunger Games- or fail miserably - as in Nineteen Eighty-Four - they suggest that, even in extremis, the human spirit will always strive to be free.
George Pendle - Writer for the Economist
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In Cape Town in South Africa one shack after the other lines the way. The township of Kayamandi is a relict of Apartheid, but also the home of a real prince.
Nkosana likes tourists. He finds them interesting. Why else would the four-year-old accompany them step by step down the dusty roads? Kayamandi is in the province of Western Cape, South Africa. If you want to come here, you must travel 50km east from Cape Town to Stellenbosch, the centre of the South African wine-growing region, and then go 10 more minutes to the township of Kayamandi.
Go through the interlaced alley and right into the centre of the settlement, and you’re sure to encounter little Nkosana. Kayamandi, like many townships, can be identified from afar. The shacks are lined up the hillside like tetris blocks, each tin hut more colourful than the last. Some flaunt the Coca-Cola logo, others are made entirely from shipping containers. You might think that they were put together out of pieces of corrugated iron only temporarily, yet what is makeshift and what is not becomes clear to the viewer only on second glance. You might think of the word “poverty”, but when you look closer it becomes clear that this is an unfitting description. If you want to know more, you have to speak with the locals – like Thembi Koli. The South African has been offering tours since 2004 and is passionate about it right down to the tips of her curly hair. She grew up here and knows the area like the back of her hand. No wonder she loves earning money from giving her personal perspective of Kayamandi – her “nice home”, as it is translated from the Xhosa language. Those who have signed up for the tour are led through Thembi’s home. She is a cheerful person, which you notice straightaway by her handshake and wide grin on her kind face. “Have you ever been in a township before?” she asks in a loud, powerful voice, reminiscent of Whoopi Goldberg in Sister Act. She overpowers the hesitant answers with a jolly “Alright, let’s go!”. We pass kiosks, whose owners give us friendly nods, then a row of apartment buildings that slightly resemble idyllic American suburbs, only with small cars instead of pick-up trucks and SUVs in the driveway. “Hi, meza,” a man in his mid 40s calls to us. Meza means “neighbour”, we are told. Thembi waves back cheerfully. She seems to know everybody in this village, giving a greeting here, a wave there.
From the other side of the street, an acquaintance asks whether she is coming to church later. The answer is laughter, but nobody really seems to know why.
“This is South Africa,” Thembi says, an explanation that seems to always fit here. “The sun is shining, it’s just a beautiful day.” And she is right. She doesn’t know yet whether she’s coming to church later. “Let’s see what happens today first.”
Next, we encounter a little surprise – more precisely, one about a metre tall. The little boy has been following and eyeballing us for a while. Now he is suddenly standing next to us, looking at us with his giant, dark eyes. Curiosity is practically pouring out of him. If he is scared or shy, he doesn’t show it. “His name is Nkosana,” says Thembi, leading us into the little shop of her friend, Portia Mpangawa. The boy follows us in.
Handmade art at the township
Under a corrugated iron roof, the young woman presents a wide selection of colourful armbands, pearl necklaces and earrings. All of them are made in her own bedroom, she tells us proudly.
However, the lighting of the improvised shop is rather sparse, meaning we can’t get the full effect of the home-made accessories in the shady hut. Nkosana still has an enthusiastic look about him. Re-exposed to the glistening daylight, we go off into the labyrinth of tin huts. You barely need to turn off from the street before finding yourself lost in a maze of narrow alleys and yards. The further we get into the centre of the village, the tighter and dark the alleys get between the shacks. Everything here seems simpler and dirtier than on the main streets. Kayamandi is revealing its other face.
This place came into being in the early 1950s during Apartheid, our guide explains, as we go along a rough path, hopping over rubbish and puddles. Back then, working black people were accepted as guest labourers in the cities, but lived in townships on the outskirts. They were segregated, which the locals do not like to hear.
“But it’s a beautiful place,” says Thembi, and you have to admit she’s right. Yet Kayamandi is mostly regarded as a no-go zone by foreign visitors; a hidden fringe area that it’s best to avoid. This should change, though, thanks to people like Thembi. She welcomes tourists from all over the world into her township. And what do the inhabitants think of to the visitors? Well, they react with uniform sincerity. And although many South Africans still regard it as a place of poverty, many parts are showing signs of hope. It has its own kindergarten, a primary school and even a high school. Some inhabitants work on the world-famous wine farms around Stellenbosch and in other parts of the city.
As Thembi lets her facts and opinions flow, we caan barely get a word in edgeways. Nkosana is still following us, following every English sentence with an expressive smile, as if he understands everything. Our tour continues. Something unexpected awaits us on every corner. An old woman hangs her washing out on a line suspended between two huts. A man slaughters a chicken in front of his house and the blood slowly oozes down the street.
In a backyard, children play football, screaming and cheering as if it was the Africa Cup of Nations final. A container has been transformed into a hairdressing salon with open doors and a milled window.
“Gcigci Hair Salon” is its name and inside a bald man is putting extensions into a young woman’s hair. For church, perhaps? A few streets on, we meet an unruly group of men drinking in a backyard. They are of mixed ages and seem to have the day off.
Homesick for the township of Kayamandi
Why else would they be drinking locally brewed beer at midday? The atmosphere is relaxed and so are the tongues of the men. Thembi calls to at the top of her voice, to be met with laughter. She knowledgeably goes in, waves with a casual hand gesture and disappears behind the next corner. We do the same. Only Nkosana is lost in the hustle and bustle of the situation.
Themi explains she does not want to miss this; if she is not here, she gets homesick, “for the noise, the colours, the silly sayings”. We stop at a small kiosk. The assistant greets us from far away. The little girl in front of the shop is barely 12 years old. She knows Thembi, though, and has a little joke ready for her. Both smile afterwards. Thembi gives the girl an ice-cold Fanta as she says goodbye, which she probably earnt through her joke. We continue walking up to the church, where the first congregation members are beginning to gather. They clean up well in suits or smart dresses. We haven’t found out if Thembi is going. She answers with a grin, as we have come to expect, which slowly widens as she considers her decision. “Of course I’m going to church,” she says, “but I need to get home as quickly as possibly to get my Sunday dress out of the cupboard.” We hug tightly, as people do here, promising to see each other again. Thembi speeds off down the street. “What does Nkosana mean, anyway?” I call after her. “Prince,” she echoes back, disappearing at the next crossroads. Well, take care, little prince. Wherever you are right now.
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An ERP system is designed to connect data from all major functional areas and improve an organization’s reporting capabilities. The goal is faster, better decision making by senior management aided by a current and accurate picture of the organization’s performance.
To achieve this goal, an organization must first decide what information it needs out of the system. Because many configuration parameters cannot be changed after system integration has begun, it is important to identify critical reporting requirements at the outset of an ERP implementation.
While there is no one-size-fits-all reporting model, there are a few considerations that will make or break the usefulness of your final reports:
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With a new ERP, many companies are able to increase expense categories from three to 15, allowing for a much more granular view of profitability. This allows an E&P company to parse out smaller expense classifications at each well site, like how much money is spent on vehicles.
Similarly, legacy systems often limit the definitions of cost centers to units, wells, and leases. A new system can expand these categorizations, giving management a comprehensive view of balance sheet activity. A completion can be recorded as such rather than as a well. A unit can be recorded as a legal land unit instead of a grouping of wells used for accruals.
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The hierarchy in which you book and report your revenue, production, and expenses should be consistent with the level you want to budget. Even if budgets are managed outside of the primary ERP system, actuals and basis for comparison will always be housed in the ERP.
Operations and accounting constantly struggle over reporting needs. Operations may want to view billable versus unbillable LOE, or operated versus non-operated status at a field or well level, but accounting wants to see information at a higher, aggregated level in the hierarchy. With careful planning, the hierarchy can be set up to accommodate operations’ reporting needs as well as internal and external financial reporting within the same structure.
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Ensure the ERP is set up to support growth by cleansing data before go-live. Clean master data sets a solid foundation that can sustain the burden of additional data in the event of an acquisition.
Consider the amount of history needed for reporting. Unused or excess accounts in the Chart of Accounts (COA), properties that have been sold, or wells that have been plugged and abandoned for more than five years should not be set up in the new system.
While thinking about the future might seem like a no-brainer, companies often become so consumed with supporting current requirements that future considerations and long-term growth plans are not taken into consideration. A certain level of reporting may not be needed today, but will it be needed in the future?
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Apple Touch ID Flaw Could Have Let Attackers Hijack iCloud Accounts
August 05, 2020Ravie Lakshmanan
Apple earlier this year fixed a security vulnerability in iOS and macOS that could have potentially allowed an attacker to gain unauthorized access to a user's iCloud account.
Uncovered in February by Thijs Alkemade, a security specialist at IT security firm Computest, the flaw resided in Apple's implementation of TouchID (or FaceID) biometric feature that authenticated users to log in to websites on Safari, specifically those that use Apple ID logins.
After the issue was reported to Apple through their responsible disclosure program, the iPhone maker addressed the vulnerability in a server-side update.
An Authentication Flaw
The central premise of the flaw is as follows. When users try to sign in to a website that requires an Apple ID, a prompt is displayed to authenticate the login using Touch ID. Doing so skips the two-factor authentication step since it already leverages a combination of factors for identification, such as the device (something you have) and the biometric information (something you are).
Contrast this during logins to Apple domains (e.g. "icloud.com") the usual way with an ID and password, wherein the website embeds an iframe pointing to Apple's login validation server ("https://idmsa.apple.com"), which handles the authentication process.
As shown in the video demonstration, the iframe URL also contains two other parameters — a "client_id" identifying the service (e.g., iCloud) and a "redirect_uri" that has the URL to be redirected to after successful verification.
But in the case where a user is validated using TouchID, the iframe is handled differently in that it communicates with the AuthKit daemon (akd) to handle the biometric authentication and subsequently retrieve a token ("grant_code") that's used by the icloud.com page to continue the login process.
To do this, the daemon communicates with an API on "gsa.apple.com," to which it sends the details of the request and from which it receives the token.
The security flaw discovered by Computest resides in the aforementioned gsa.apple.com API, which made it theoretically possible to abuse those domains to verify a client ID without authentication.
"Even though the client_id and redirect_uri were included in the data submitted to it by akd, it did not check that the redirect URI matches the client ID," Alkemade noted. "Instead, there was only a whitelist applied by AKAppSSOExtension on the domains. All domains ending with apple.com, icloud.com and icloud.com.cn were allowed."
This means that an attacker could exploit a cross-site scripting vulnerability on any one of Apple's subdomains to run a malicious snippet of JavaScript code that can trigger a login prompt using the iCloud client ID, and use the grant token to obtain a session on icloud.com.
Setting Up Fake Hotspots to Take Over iCloud Accounts
In a separate scenario, the attack could be executed by embedding JavaScript on the web page that's displayed when connecting to a Wi-Fi network for the first time (via "captive.apple.com"), thus allowing an attacker access to a user's account by just accepting a TouchID prompt from that page.
"A malicious Wi-Fi network could respond with a page with JavaScript which initiates OAuth as iCloud," Alkemade said. "The user receives a TouchID prompt, but it's very unclear what it implies. If the user authenticates on that prompt, their session token will be sent to the malicious site, giving the attacker a session for their account on iCloud."
"By setting up a fake hotspot in a location where users expect to receive a captive portal (for example at an airport, hotel or train station), it would have been possible to gain access to a significant number of iCloud accounts, which would have allowed access to backups of pictures, location of the phone, files and much more," he added.
This is not the first time security issues have been found in Apple's authentication infrastructure. In May, Apple patched a flaw impacting its "Sign in with Apple" system that could have made it possible for remote attackers to bypass authentication and take over targeted users' accounts on third-party services and apps that have been registered using Apple's sign-in option.
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Guardian columnist asks if men should be allowed to drink booze
The first truly horrific think piece of 2020 comes courtesy of feminist columnist Moira Donegan who asks “Should men, really, be allowed to drink alcohol?”
Libby Emmons and Barrett Wilson Montreal, QC
January 3, 2020 9:00 PM 4 mins reading
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2020 is here, but the idiocy of 2019 is lingering in the pages of everyone’s favourite think piece rag, The Guardian. The first truly horrific take comes courtesy of feminist columnist Moira Donegan who asks the questions: “What is the price that women pay in enduring sexual violence, sexual harassment and domestic violence, for men’s good time? Is all this female suffering worth it to us for the male privilege to drink? Should men, really, be allowed to drink alcohol?
The answer, for Donegan, is of course, probably not.
Her defence of temperance goes back to the origins of the movement, which in the U.S. resulted in prohibition. This led to the creation of organized crime syndicates, incredible violence, cottage moonshine operations, a methodical black market that had deep roots in many communities, the prevalence of police bribery, and the rise of illicit, illegal clubs.
The Christian temperance movement aimed to bring men away from the sin of alcohol consumption, which had been a scourge in many communities. The Women’s Christian Temperance Movement was involved in advocacy for fair labour laws, prison reform, and obtaining women’s right to vote, as well as temperance. It was a valiant effort at social reforms toward equality. What Donegan is proposing is not a cohesive movement, but a prohibition one-off, where removing the liquor elixir will solve the problem of male violence against women.
She writes: “Rather than a regressive movement consumed with moralist disdain for alcohol use, many of its most ardent supporters wanted alcohol banned for a much more practical reason: women’s safety.” But no, they were Christian. The women who pushed for prohibition were doing it because they thought it was the right thing to do before God and everyone.
In fact, Donegan would do well to remember that until our recent wash in the toxic hormones of atheism, morality and religious belief were inextricably linked. There was no morality without religion. Many would say that this is still true, we’re just blind to it, that our society is much like Wile E. Coyote who has run off the cliff of morality and can’t yet see that there’s nothing holding us aloft, but without religious underpinnings of morality, we will plummet. Much like Donegan has. Morality is not something that can be constructed out of thin air.
Donegan actually blames liquor for male violence. However, as anyone who has lived with drunken male violence against women can tell you, liquor is a symptom, not a cause. Women who leave alcoholic men, children of alcoholic men and women, men who leave alcoholic women, can all tell you this. Alcohol may fuel the fire of rage, but the anger is there, simmering beneath the surface, all the time. Donegan’s trolly “let’s bring back temperance because drunk men are mean take” is wholly designed for clicks, not an attempt at useful discourse.
“Acknowledging this connection between alcohol and sexual violence is usually the province of moralizing misogynists, who use it as an excuse to chastise women not to drink. This was the tack taken by the contrarian writer Emily Yoffe, who in 2013 wrote in Slate of warning her college-age daughter not to drink lest men take advantage of her drunkenness to sexually assault her. But the fact remains that, although alcoholism and binge drinking are on the rise among women, they are still not nearly as prevalent among women as they are among men—nor are they linked to an attendant increase in violence by women. In short, it is by and large men, not women, who get violent when they are drunk.” Donegan writes
The Atlantic, Salon, HuffPo, Jezebel and The Daily Mail all wrote deeply angry missives about how Yoffe was off her rocker to suggest that girls should not drink just because they might get raped. The pushback against women protecting themselves by not losing their heads was that men are to blame for rape, not women, and that women shouldn’t have to adjust their behaviour just so they are not preyed upon by drunken predators. Now Donegan is basically saying that rape isn’t men’s fault; it’s alcohol’s fault. That pesky bastard alcohol, who comes from nowhere and plants seeds of rape in men’s heads.
She asks: “What if we took women’s safety as seriously as we took men’s pleasure? What would such a commitment obligate us to do?” In fact, this is what society used to do! They had super great ways of taking women’s safety as seriously as men’s pleasure, and as usual, women paid the price. There were curfews for women, women couldn’t sit at the same bars, women had separate entrances, chastity belts, chaperones, male escorts, restrictions on where they could be, who they could talk to, and when. Why? Because women’s safety was everyone’s concern, and it was everyone’s job to protect those of the weaker sex from all that could befall them.
What Donegan is really advocating for is less freedom. It’s a regressive gesture, an attempt to take safety culture to its logical end. In a sense, though, Donegan unwittingly does us all a favour. She reveals exactly how social justice maniacs think. Temperance and other anti-freedom measures are where all of this nonsense leads. Choosing to not drink may be the right choice for many men and women, but enforcement because “men are bad” is not the answer. Extreme safety requires extreme limitations on freedom, usually women’s freedom.
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West Vancouver's Pride crosswalk vandalized
Rainbow crosswalk now has a black tire skid mark running through it
West Vancouver's rainbow crosswalk now has a black tire skid mark running through it. Photo by West Vancouver police
West Vancouver police are investigating the defacement of the community’s rainbow crosswalk, which was installed last week in celebration of LGBTQ pride.
The crosswalk, located just outside the West Vancouver police station at 16th Street and Esquimalt Avenue, now has a tire skid mark running through it.
Staff inside the police station reported hearing a loud and sustained tire squealing at around 4 p.m. Tuesday.
Police say an older (1999-2004) Ford Mustang with two occupants sped from the area and has not been located.
West Vancouver police believe the driver of this Ford Mustang defaced the city’s rainbow crosswalk. Photo by West Vancouver police handout
“This is very upsetting,” says West Vancouver police Const. Kevin Goodmurphy. “For whatever reason, this person has chosen to leave a gesture of hate on a crosswalk that stands for the exact opposite.”
Police have released images of the vehicle, which was black with red racing stripes, in hopes that someone will recognize it and charges of mischief can be laid against the occupants.
“We have had nothing but support from community members following the installation of the crosswalk, and we know that those people represent the majority,” says Goodmurphy.
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7 JRPGs That Need to Be Ported to Nintendo Switch ASAP
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JRPGs That Need to Be on Switch ASAP
Ni No Kuni II is a gorgeous game, done in a cel-shaded style that evokes a Studio Ghibli movie, and it’s easily one of the best JRPG of the current generation.
It feels like a game that would be perfect on the Switch, with its base-building mechanics, fast-paced action combat, and gorgeous aesthetic.
The game follows King Evan Pettiwhisker Tildrum, after he’s wrongfully ousted from his throne at Ding Dong Dell. Evan has to team up with a mysterious stranger from another world named Roland and a handful of allies to take his throne back.
Ni No Kuni II’s story and characters are whimsical and fun, something that’d make them feel right at home on a Nintendo console.
The combat system is heavily reminiscent of something like a Tales game, and it could even benefit from some added Joy-Con rumble features to make everything more immersive.
Even more reason to bring the game to Switch is that it’s developed by Level-5, the company that has a long-running history with Nintendo on games like Professor Layton and Yo-Kai Watch. In fact, why isn’t Ni No Kuni II already there?
Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition marked the first time the franchise has been on Nintendo Switch, and honestly the game feels so at home on the system that Bandai Namco might as well port more Tales games over.
Having a console-quality Tales game on the go is a great experience, especially being able to stop and start as you’re playing through dungeons or grinding.
Tales of Berseria would be the perfect next title to come to Switch, and it’s one of the very best Tales games we’ve gotten in years.
Berseria has a surprisingly dark and violent story that ends up being a refreshing change from the usual “friendship beats all” stories in Tales games.
Add on a fantastic cast of characters and complex battle system and you have one of the most underappreciated JRPGs of the last few years. While Berseria would be our first choice, honestly, any Tales game coming to Switch is a welcome addition.
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel I & II
Trails of Cold Steel I & II are finally making their way to PS4 with new remastered versions that add on a ton more English voiceover, and also provide Japanese and English language options.
While it’s great we’re getting these two fantastic JRPGs on PS4, it’s unfortunate that we can’t also get them on the Nintendo Switch as well.
Trails of Cold Steel takes place within the Legend of Heroes universe, specifically the same world featured in the Trails in the Sky subseries.
You play as Rean Schwarzer, a new student at the Thors Military Academy who ends up joining the elite Class VII, a sociopolitical experiment that places commoners and royalty in the same class.
Trails of Cold Steel uses many of the same elements as Trails in the Sky, but also loops in some new mechanics inspired by games like Persona.
While playing through the main story you’ll get to explore Thors and interact with your classmates, choosing who you want to spend time with and building bonds that can benefit you in battle.
Both games are fantastic JRPGs that deserve to be played by as many people as possible, and hopefully, a Switch port is in the cards someday.
Tokyo Xanadu eX+
Another JRPG from Falcom, the makers of Ys and Trails of Cold Steel, Tokyo Xanadu is an action-RPG set in modern day Tokyo. The game heavily draws inspiration from the likes of Persona, casting you as a high schooler named Kou Tokisaka.
Kou’s life is forever changed when he tries to save a classmate named Asuka one night and ends up finding out about a horrific alternate reality called the Eclipse.
Tokyo Xanadu’s action-focused combat has you traveling through different Eclipse dungeons, swapping between multiple characters on the fly.
It may seem simple at first, but the game’s combat actually proves to be incredibly fun with a huge emphasis on dodging and timing your attacks.
The main story may not do anything incredibly surprising, but the heart of Tokyo Xanadu lies in its cast of characters, who each undergo interesting growth and development.
The main cast truly ends up feeling like a group of friends, and despite the dire world-ending straights of the story, there manages to be a ton of fun interactions.
Just like other Falcom games, Tokyo Xanadu is an underappreciated gem, and the fact that the game originally released on a handheld, PS Vita, makes it perfect for the Switch.
The eX+ version adds on a ton of new story content and features, making it a huge, robust JRPG that Switch owners could sink their teeth into for hours on end.
God Eater Series
Monster Hunter World has helped popularize the hunting genre like never before, but the series has always enjoyed enduring popularity on Nintendo systems.
This means that God Eater would likely be an instant hit on Nintendo, as it’s probably the biggest non-Monster Hunter hunting game.
God Eater is certainly more inspired than the latter, taking place in a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by deadly creatures known as Aragami. God Eaters are the only thing that can fight back against Aragami, and they have access to a range of deadly weapons in order to do so.
The recently released God Eater 3 is a great hunting experience mixed with some fast-paced action, and it’d be the perfect place for the series to start on Switch, considering you don’t need to play the rest of the series to jump in.
The misson-based structure of God Eater makes it perfect for the Switch’s pick-up-and-play handheld mode, and it’d be an easy game to play on train rides or out and about.
Bravely Default & Bravely Second
Nintendo has a wealth of their own exclusive JRPGs, and the Nintendo 3DS, in particular, was a fantastic system for the genre. While there are plenty of titles that could make the jump to Switch, none are more deserving than Bravely Default and Bravely Second.
These two JRPGs are essentially spiritual successors to classic Final Fantasy, sporting a phenomenal job system that has you building each of your party members with a mish-mash of skills and attacks from different jobs.
A system known as “Brave” and “Default” makes turn-based combat even more interesting, letting you stack up moves to use during a turn.
The story also revolves around awakening four elemental crystals that keep the world safe, but there are some great twists that keep things interesting.
Bravely Default and Second were developed by the same team behind Octopath Traveler, and there are some obvious similarities between the two.
Considering Octopath’s success it seems like a Bravely Default remaster would be a no brainer. It’s one of the very best Nintendo-exclusive JRPGs around, and deserves a spot on the Switch.
Yes yes, we’ve all heard the rumors about Persona 5 coming to Switch, and with Joker in Smash Bros. it seems like a given at some point. There are other Persona games out there though that would be perfect on Switch, namely Persona 4 Golden.
Persona 4 is easily one of the best JRPGs ever made, and sadly its best version is exclusively available on PS Vita, a system that quickly died out with little fanfare in the west.
It’s practically a crime that there’s no other way to play Golden, which adds on new social links, story content, music, and much more.
Considering the game is on Vita it pretty much goes without saying that the Switch’s handheld features would be perfect for the game, but it’d be equally fantastic to see Persona 4 get a visual upgrade and be able to play it in full HD on your TV.
Persona has become one of the most beloved JRPG franchises of all time, and putting Persona 4 Golden on Switch would be a sure golden ticket for Sega & Atlus.
Related Topics:God Eater, jrpgs, MultiPost, need, need to happen, nintendo switch, port, trails of cold steel
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Toronto BBQ restaurant owner facing new charges for again defying COVID-19 lockdown rules
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Published Thursday, November 26, 2020 8:20AM EST Last Updated Friday, November 27, 2020 12:05AM EST
TORONTO -- Two men are now facing criminal charges and the city has completely seized a building following a raucous three day-long dispute between police and city officials and a restauranteur who brazenly declared that he would open up to serve customers despite lockdown orders in effect to contain a deadly pandemic.
Adam Skelly, the owner of the Adamson Barbecue restaurant in Etobicoke, was arrested by Toronto police officers Thursday afternoon after a crowd of supporters allegedly broke through a cordoned-off section of the building by smashing down drywall in an effort to reopen the shuttered restaurant.
Speaking with reporters Thursday afternoon, Supt. Domenic Sinopoli said police allowed Skelly into a section of the building “in good faith” because they didn’t believe that it fell under a closure order from Toronto Public Health. However a crowd of supporters then tried to smash through the walls to reopen the facility.
“At that time, and in good faith, we believed that that rear compartment was not captured by the order itself.” Sinopoli said. “The individual was allowed access to the rear compartment. During the process of him entering, they broke through the drywall and entered the restaurant proper and then from the inside, broke out and damaged the locks that were put in place by the city.”
Sinopoli said Skelly, 33, now faces one count of attempting to obstruct police, one count of mischief under, one count of failing to comply with a continued order under the Reopening Ontario Act, and one count of failing to leave when directed under the Trespass to Property Act.
Video captured at the scene Thursday showed a loud and angry scene and Sinopoli said police were spit at and assaulted as they tried to enforce the public health orders at the restaurant.
He said 27-year-old Michael Belito Arana of Markham is now facing a slew of charges, including one count of obstructing police, six counts of assaulting a police officer, two counts of uttering a death threat, and one count of failing to comply with a continued order under the Reopening Ontario Act.
Both men are expected to appear in court via video link tomorrow morning for a bail hearing.
Toronto Public Health has now taken occupancy of the entire premises and police will be posting trespassing signs prohibiting people from entering the building or the adjacent parking lot, Sinopoli said.
“We fully intend on enforcing the regulations in the Reopening Ontario Act, the section 22 order issued by Dr. de Villa, as well as the Trespass to Property Act,” Sinopoli said.
He said many of the officers were wearing body-worn cameras and the footage will form part of the evidence to support the charges that were laid.
City spokesperson Brad Ross told reporters that workers will be boarding up the building and changing the locks tonight to prevent re-entry.
“This is an integrated and coordinated effort, I can assure you, with the City of Toronto, Municipal Licensing and Standards, Toronto Public Health and the Toronto Police Service to protect the public,” Ross said. “We are in a pandemic, this is a health emergency.”
Crowds gather for a third day
At around 6 a.m. Thursday, police returned to the restaurant for a third day in a row to change the locks under an overnight order made by Toronto Public Health.
Skelly was seen first arriving at the premises shortly before 8 a.m. He asked the media to stay off the property and was seen talking with police officers.
Shortly after, he entered a portion of the building where there is no access to the restaurant, through a back door to obtain personal belongings.
Adamson Barbecue posted an Instagram story on their account Thursday morning saying “need locksmith & other hands at Etobicoke asap.”
A crowd of people surrounded the establishment in support of Skelly, who vowed to continue reopening his business despite provincial COVID-19 lockdown rules in Toronto and Peel Region that prohibit indoor dining to curb the spread of the virus.
Crowds formed around the premises throughout the morning and many people were seen without masks or face coverings.
At around 12:30 p.m., Skelly and another man were taken away from the premises in handcuffs by police officers.
Dozens of anti-lockdown protesters then moved to Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s home in Etobicoke Thursday afternoon.
In a statement, the premier’s office said his family and his neighbours should not be subjected to harassment and intimidation.
“The gathering outside the Premier’s home today goes beyond acceptable political protests,” the premier’s office said.
“These protests have been ongoing for several weeks. We are pleading with them to leave those who have nothing to do with our government’s policies alone.”
Non-criminal charges laid a day earlier
Police laid nine non-criminal charges against Skelly on Wednesday after he opened the business for a second straight day despite Toronto Public Health formally ordering its closure.
On Wednesday, dozens of patrons were seen inside the restaurant, many of them without face coverings, in a repeat scenario from the previous day. However, the patrons left the premises shortly before noon and police were seen blocking the entrance so that nobody else could go inside.
Police confirmed on Wednesday that both Skelly and the corporation that the restaurant is registered to are facing a combined eight charges under the Reopening Ontario Act as well as one additional charge for operating in contravention of the Toronto Public Health order.
The charges under the Reopening Ontario Act are for hosting an illegal gathering on both Tuesday and Wednesday and for offering dine-in service on both days as well. Each individual charge can result in a fine of up to $10,000 for individuals and $100,000 for corporations.
The City of Toronto says Skelly is also facing two municipal bylaw charges for operating a business without a licence.
-With files from CP24.com staff
Adam Skelly, centre, owner of Adamson Barbecue, escorts a photographer from his property after defying provincial lockdown orders to shut down indoor and outdoor dining during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto on Wednesday, November 25, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
Charges laid after Toronto BBQ restaurant openly defies lockdown rules for second straight day
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Atlantic Street Capital Acquires Uniguest Inc.
STAMFORD, Conn., Dec. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Atlantic Street Capital, a private equity firm targeting entrepreneurial businesses poised for the next level of growth, announced today the acquisition of Uniguest Inc., a leading provider of end‐to‐end information delivery solutions for the hospitality industry from the company’s founder, Mark Oldham, and other shareholders.
Headquartered in Nashville, Uniguest provides an integrated package of hardware, software, content and support to help hoteliers deliver a consistent connectivity experience. The company serves as a leading provider of business centers, electronic displays and other customer facing technology within hotels, and also provides in‐room guest directories and other ancillary printing needs. The company today has an installed base of over 12,000 devices across nearly 7,000 properties representing 50 leading hospitality brands stretching across the globe in 35 countries. In addition, the company is leveraging its unique end-to-end technology management capabilities and software solutions to manage consumer facing technology in other end markets including retail, healthcare and real estate.
Peter Shabecoff, Managing Partner at Atlantic Street Capital, said, “Uniguest has become a market leader with a strong business and a proprietary technology-driven platform. The company has built lasting relationships with many of the leading hospitality brands across the globe and we believe we can work as partners with Uniguest’s strong management team to develop those relationships and further accelerate the company’s growth. Customer-facing technology continues to receive greater focus from hotels and other end markets and given the industry’s positive dynamics there are a number of exciting opportunities to expand the breadth of the company’s relationships and product offerings, as well as to accelerate existing initiatives that transcend beyond the core hospitality sector.”
John Bearden, CEO of Uniguest who will continue in that position, said, “Guests have come to expect business centers and related technology services as part of the guest experience and hotels will continue to expand their technology offerings. We expect to benefit from our strong relationships with many of the industry’s leading hotel chains and we look forward to working with Atlantic Street to leverage Uniguest’s hardware products and services, and software in addition to further growing our developing relationships in other attractive industries.”
Resource Capital Solutions provided debt financing to support the transaction. Harpeth Capital, LLC served as financial advisors to the selling shareholders.
About Atlantic Street Capital
Atlantic Street Capital is a private equity firm that invests in middle market companies with between $25 and $150 million in revenue. The firm invests in fundamentally sound companies that will benefit from capital investment and value-adding strategic and operational initiatives. Atlantic Street Capital’s partners are hands-on investors who work closely with management to unlock their business’ underlying value and help them succeed. The firm is currently investing from Atlantic Street Capital Partners, L.P. II. For more information, visit www.atlanticstreetcapital.com.
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Hotel du Globe Aix en Provence
74 Cours Sextius, 13100 Aix-en-Provence, France Aix-En-Provence Provence - Alpes - Cote d'Azur France - 13100
**Property Location**.Located in Aix-en-Provence (Couronne Urbaine), Hotel du Globe is within a 10-minute walk of Saint-Sauveur Cathedral and Cours Mirabeau. This hotel is 0.4 mi (0.6 km) from Aix-en-Provence Tourism Office and 0.5 mi (0.9 km) from Hôtel de Caumont - Centre d'Art. Distances are displayed to the nearest 0.1 mile and kilometer. .Pavillon de Vendome - 0.3 km / 0.2 mi Place d'Hotel de Ville - 0.4 km / 0.2 mi Aix-en-Provence City Hall - 0.4 km / 0.2 mi Les Allees Provencales - 0.4 km / 0.3 mi Saint-Sauveur Cathedral - 0.5 km / 0.3 mi Cours Mirabeau - 0.5 km / 0.3 mi La Rotonde - Place General Charles De Gaulle \- 0.6 km / 0.3 mi Statue of Paul Cezanne - 0.6 km / 0.4 mi Grand Theater of Provence - 0.6 km / 0.4 mi Aix-en-Provence Tourism Office - 0.7 km / 0.4 mi Pavillon Noir - 0.7 km / 0.4 mi Place des Precheurs - 0.7 km / 0.4 mi Eglise de la Madeleine - 0.8 km / 0.5 mi Fontaine Moussue - 0.8 km / 0.5 mi Hôtel de Caumont - Centre d'Art - 0.8 km / 0.5 mi .The preferred airport for Hotel du Globe is Marseille - Provence Airport (MRS) - 27 km / 16.8 mi. **Rooms**.Stay in one of 45 guestrooms featuring flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and satellite programming is available for your entertainment. Bathrooms have bathtubs or showers and hair dryers. Conveniences include phones, as well as safes and desks.**Dining**.Buffet breakfasts are available daily from 7 AM to 9:30 AM for a fee.**Business, Other Amenities**.Featured amenities include complimentary newspapers in the lobby, a 24-hour front desk, and multilingual staff.
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140 Venita Dr, O'Fallon, IL 62269, USA Illinois United States - 62269
**Property Location**.With a stay at Sleep Inn in O'Fallon, you'll be within a 10-minute drive of Scott Air Force Base and O'Fallon Family Sports Park. This hotel is 1.2 mi (1.9 km) from Clayton Valet and 1.3 mi (2 km) from HSHS St. Elizabeth's Hospital. Distances are displayed to the nearest 0.1 mile and kilometer. .O'Fallon Family Sports Park - 0.1 km / 0.1 mi Clayton Valet - 1.8 km / 1.1 mi HSHS St. Elizabeth's Hospital - 1.9 km / 1.2 mi St. Clair Bowl - 3.8 km / 2.4 mi St. Claire Square Mall - 4.5 km / 2.8 mi Far Oaks Golf Course - 5.8 km / 3.6 mi Stonewolf Golf Course - 6.6 km / 4.1 mi Pleasant Ridge Park - 8.7 km / 5.4 mi World's Largest Catsup Bottle - 11.6 km / 7.2 mi Scott Air Force Base - 12.1 km / 7.5 mi St. Clair County Historical Society - 12.4 km / 7.7 mi McKendree University - 12.7 km / 7.9 mi Memorial Hospital Belleville - 13.5 km / 8.4 mi Labor and Industry Museum - 14.6 km / 9.1 mi Memorial Hospital - 15.2 km / 9.4 mi .The preferred airport for Sleep Inn is Lambert-St. Louis Intl. Airport (STL) - 45.4 km / 28.2 mi. **Rooms**.Make yourself at home in one of the 71 guestrooms featuring refrigerators and LCD televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming is available for your entertainment. Bathrooms have complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include desks and complimentary weekday newspapers, as well as phones with free local calls.**Dining**.At Sleep Inn, enjoy a satisfying meal at the restaurant. A complimentary buffet breakfast is included.**Business, Other Amenities**.Featured amenities include a 24-hour business center, complimentary newspapers in the lobby, and dry cleaning/laundry services. Free self parking is available onsite.
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