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Was Jesus a Republican? Nope.
Sen. Sessions needs some schooling on assault
In nearly every instance, I'm committed to nonviolence, but that doesn't mean I can't think about what I would like to see happen to a man who thinks grabbing a woman's genitals isn't sexual assault.
I would like to see someone grab him by the genitals and twist until they come off.
I would like to see him attacked as he walks to his car at night and then told it was his fault because his tie was too sexy or he shouldn't have been alone in the parking garage at night or he looked suggestively at his attacker during Congressional testimony that afternoon. And then I would like to tell him myself that he should just get over it.
I would like to see him sent to a re-education camp staffed entirely by women who have survived sexual violence.
Would I actually do these things? No. But I can dream.
I am a survivor, and I am so deeply offended by the potential appointment of this miscreant to the office of Attorney General of the United States that all I can do is think about what I would like to see happen to him.
For me, the sexual violence began when I was just 3.
That's right, I was still a toddler.
I have never known a time when my body was my own to do with as I pleased. I didn't know what it was to say no to sexual advances, even as a little girl. My body belonged to my assailant until I was 11 and I finally found the courage to say no.
I later was raped as an adult, and I believe part of the reason was that I still wasn't convinced my body really belonged to me. I have since decided it does, and that I will defend it.
So, I have some expertise in this area, and I have a few words for Mr. Sessions:
Until you have been objectified and grabbed because some man thinks he has a right to your body, you don't have any idea what sexual assault does to a woman.
And, yes, grabbing a woman by the "pussy" is assault.
In nonviolence training, we're taught that even touching someone can be classed as assault, so if I can be charged with assault for putting my hand on your shoulder, you certainly are guilty if you grab my lady parts — any of my lady parts.
You are not superior to me, nor do you have any rights over my body. You may think you do, but I'm telling you the only time I am even tempted to do violence to another human being is when a man thinks he has dominion over my body.
This means I will believe any woman who tells me she has been assaulted because even though there are cases of women lying, those cases are rare.
My body is mine and mine alone and neither you or any other man will tell me what I can or can not do with it. You will not touch me without my express permission. You will not tell me I can't have birth control. You will not tell me I can't choose to terminate a pregnancy.
These are my choices.
Women's bodies are not pleasure palaces for your penis, Mr. Sessions. My "pussy" is mine, not yours or any other man's. I will decide who can touch me and who can not. I will decide what happens with my body because I claim dominion over it.
We are not going back to the days when you could claim us as chattel. We are going to determine our own destinies.
We will decide when and if we want you to touch us in any way.
We will decide whether we want to bear children, and when.
We will have control over our lives and we will shun despicable characters such as you, Mr. Sessions.
It's time to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment
"Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex."
–The Equal Rights Amendment
Did you know that women have no protections guaranteed to them by the US Constitution?
It's true.
In fact, the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia explained it very simply:
Interviewer: In 1868, when the 39th Congress was debating and ultimately proposing the 14th Amendment, I don't think anybody would have thought that equal protection applied to sex discrimination, or certainly not to sexual orientation. So does that mean that we've gone off in error by applying the 14th Amendment to both?
Justice Scalia: Yes, yes. Sorry, to tell you that. … But, you know, if indeed the current society has come to different views, that's fine. You do not need the Constitution to reflect the wishes of the current society. Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex. The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesn't. Nobody ever thought that that's what it meant. Nobody ever voted for that. If the current society wants to outlaw discrimination by sex, hey we have things called legislatures, and they enact things called laws. You don't need a constitution to keep things up-to-date. All you need is a legislature and a ballot box.
That means discrimination based on race is held to a different, higher standard than discrimination against women. In a case involving sex discrimination, a woman has to prove not just harm, but also deliberate intent.
In our society, women are not valued as highly as men. We are paid less for the same work, promoted less often, even when we are as competent — or even more so — as any man we compete with.
We are prosecuted unequally — women who kill their abusive intimate partners are far, far more likely to be sentenced to life in prison than abusive partners are when they kill the women in their lives.
Studies show that orders of protection against intimate partners are either ignored by many local law enforcement agencies, or complaints of violations are responded to more slowly than are other calls. So, if you are a woman whose ex-boyfriend is banging down your door, call 9-1-1 and tell them someone is using drugs in your front yard. You'll get a better response in many cases.
In cases of rape, the successful conviction rate is just 2 percent. Do you really believe 98 percent of women are lying? I don't. But crimes against women are held to a higher standard of proof.
Instead of seeing the criminal as being at fault, women are grilled about what they were wearing, where they were walking, why they went on a date with someone who they didn't know would rape them …
I have been very open in recent weeks about the abuse that has happened to me. But last night, following a screening of the new film, "Equal Means Equal," I stood and asked the 75 or so people in attendance how many of them had been molested, raped, sexually assaulted or abused by an intimate partner. Almost every woman there raised her hand.
Think about that for a moment. In a room full of women gathered to see a documentary about the Equal Rights Amendment, almost every one of them has suffered a form of physical abuse at the hands of a man (or men).
And I didn't ask about harassment at work, unequal pay, lack of access to reproductive health services or other forms of discrimination against women.
I didn't ask about women who want to breast feed their babies being told they're somehow dirty and should take the baby into a bathroom stall. I responded to that once by inviting the person making the suggestion to bring her lunch in and eat it while sitting on the toilet. She thought that sounded absurd, and she was right. It is.
I didn't ask about women who can't afford to take unpaid family leave when their children are born, or about how they manage to afford the average $1,700 a month in child care costs.
More women live in poverty than men. More women are single head of household than men.
Women are not equal to men in this society, and it's time we stood up and demanded that equality be put into the Constitution.
Only three more states are needed to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. We almost got it done in the 1970s, but we fell short because of arguments against men and women being "forced" to use the same bathrooms.
In 1974, when my then-husband railed against the ERA and used the bathroom argument, I reminded him that we were living in a one-bathroom apartment and that didn't seem to bother him. He retorted, "That's different!"
Right now, it looks like our best chances for ratification are in North Carolina, Illinois and Virginia. If you live one one of these states, you need to start talking to legislators about getting it done.
Giving women equal rights as human beings is not some left-wing, radical, militant feminist idea; it is something we should have done long, long ago.
Let's get it done.
To learn more about the documentary, "Equal Means Equal," visit www.equalmeansequal.com.
Trump's words were not just idle chatter
As an increasing number of women come out and say Donald Trump assaulted them, some of his supporters still snort and say he's innocent of such things.
But let me tell you, I believe the women. The former writer for People Magazine painted a picture so real I felt like I was watching a video clip.
I have been a woman in the workplace and I know what unwelcome advances are like.
There was the supervisor who turned down the heat in the office so he could see women's erect nipples. When one of us overheard him bragging about it, we all started wearing loose sweatshirts at our desks.
Then there was Bob, a man at a small newspaper who pursued me every damn day for weeks, even taking to calling me at home with lewd suggestions. When I reported him to the publisher, the man said, "Oh, that's just Bob."
So, I went back to my desk, and within a few minutes, Bob was there, suggesting we take a couple hours away from the office.
I asked for his home phone number, and, leering, he gave it to me. I stood up.
"Attention, everyone," I said. "I need witnesses to this."
I turned to Bob.
"If you ever utter another word to me that isn't work-related, I will call your wife. I will tell her what hell you have put me through here at work, and I'll bet I can find other women to back me up."
Bob skulked away and behaved himself after that, but I found another job as quickly as I could because I didn't want to be in the same town as Bob anymore.
Another time, while I was on a sales call, a man cornered me and started groping and trying to kiss me. I managed to get away and he made some remark about how he understood why I was divorced because I was a "frigid bitch."
My boss found out about it and went to visit the offender, offering to take a baseball bat to the creep if he ever made a move on a person in his employ again. I didn't need my boss to do that, but it was nice to know a man in a position of authority had respect for me.
There was the company president who didn't hire me because he didn't like having women work for him because of their "monthly unreliability."
I was fired once because the boss thought my shoes were "slutty."
I have been paid less than men doing the same work because of my gender.
I have been called Baby and Honey and Sweetie.
I have been talked over and interrupted as though my professional opinion meant nothing.
I have been groped and pinched.
I have been molested.
I have been raped.
Women don't make this shit up, and when a man admits he can kiss a woman without permission, that he can grab her genitalia, simply because he wants to and he can get away with it because he's rich and/or famous, that doesn't come from thin air.
Yes, men talk smack and exaggerate, but when women start coming forward with stories as detailed as these women, when first one, then another, and then another come forward with credible, creepy stories, I tend to believe them.
Don't start talking to me about Bill Clinton or Bill Cosby as though I somehow defended their behavior because I never have. I have only said that Clinton's Oval Office blow job was consensual, which it was.
If Trump were running for dogcatcher, perhaps his utter disrespect for women wouldn't make a difference, although he still wouldn't get my vote.
But he is running for President of the United States, and he actually has millions of supporters — or at least millions who think he's somehow a better choice than his opponent.
This is just another example of the rape culture that is so pervasive in American society now. We believe men who make comments like this and then say they were "only kidding," but we either refuse to believe women who say they have been assaulted or we blame them.
We tell them they were wearing the wrong thing or we were in the wrong place (alone with a male colleague in his office, for example). We shouldn't have accepted that invitation to talk about an ad campaign over dinner or to work on a project after hours so we could make a deadline.
Or in the case of the People reporter, we interview a man for a story. As a former reporter, I can attest to the fear we sometimes feel when we land alone with someone we think might be a predator. I made it a practice to do interviews in a public place or with people nearby who could hear me if I screamed. I never let story subjects buy me a meal.
Still, there were plenty of men who made suggestive remarks (although there were fewer as I got older) when they thought no one could hear.
So, why don't we say something then and there?
Because he's more powerful than we are and he could ruin us, and to defend himself, he probably will. Because we know we'll catch the blame for the incident in the end.
If you want to support Trump, that's your choice. If you believe he's innocent of all charges, fine. Believe what you want. It's your vote.
However, if you come onto one of my posts on social media and start telling me I have no right to be creeped out by this monster, I will block you.
If you troll on another woman's post in the same manner, I will block you. Because if you have so little respect for women that you can't understand why we find him abhorrent in what he says and does, I have nothing in common with you.
My experience with men like Trump is real and I will not allow anyone to invalidate it.
The Equal Rights Amendment is back
I rejoined the National Organization for Women when the US Supreme Court decided employers could deny women access to contraception, as well as abortion.
Obviously, they want women at home, bearing baby after baby after baby because a few religious extremists think that's the way life should be for everyone, and if they're denied their "religious freedom," they will scream that they're being persecuted.
It seems we're all supposed to be the family from 19 Kids and Counting, even though most of us could never support that size family and God knows these same people who pushed for this Supreme Court decision don't care a bit about our children after they're born.
I was appalled at the walking back of our right to control our own bodies and reproduction.
The thing is, we never actually had that right. In fact, the only right women are granted in the Constitution is the right to vote. All our other "rights" are granted at the pleasure of the men for whom the Constitution was written.
I believed it back in the 1970s and I believe it now; we need the Equal Rights Amendment to have the same rights in all other things as men now enjoy.
They are free to pass laws governing our bodies and our ability to plan our families and careers unless we are granted equal rights under the Constitution, and you know they're not going to be fair to women when they won't even let us in on the discussion.
Monday night in Raleigh, state Rep. Carla Cunningham announced at a gathering of NC Women United she would introduce the Equal Rights Amendment into the NC House, most likely next week. Sen Terry Van Duyn said she would be one of the primary sponsors in the state Senate.
The Equal Rights Amendment was written by suffragist Alice Paul and introduced into the US Congress in 1923. It passed in 1972 and sent to the states for ratification. Only three more states need to ratify the amendment, although there is one more hurdle: Congress must vote to remove the five-year time limit that was set in 1972.
I know the atmosphere in this country is decidedly anti-woman right now, but we women can change that. There are more of us than there are men, and we tend to vote in larger numbers.
So, what we need is a coordinated effort to oust those who would send us back to the 19th century. We need to educate all girls and women about the importance of voting, and we need to get them registered and to the polls.
If you are anti-abortion, that's fine. But if you think it's OK to tell a woman she has no right to prevent pregnancy and then say rape can be a beautiful thing or that a woman won't get pregnant from rape unless she enjoys it, I think we should part ways right here and now.
It's time to give women the same guarantees as men to the rights granted by the Constitution. It won't mean we have to share bathrooms (one of the more common arguments against the ERA in the 1970s) or showers at the gym. It won't mean men have fewer rights; it only means women will have equal rights.
So, it's back. Let's work together to get it passed.
You bet I'm angry
I had a pretty lengthy rant going on Local Edge Radio the other day. I started with the arrogance and mean-spiritedness of Justice Antonin Scalia, making light of the Affordable Care Act, complaining it was too long to read and saying it was OK to let people die.
It was NOT OK to let my son die, or any other American whose life could be saved by appropriate medical treatment. A study released this week placed the United States 19th out of 19 industrialized nations in health care outcomes. Dead last (pun intended). It also estimated 101,000 Americans die each year because they lack access to appropriate treatment.
Someone commented to me that we can't afford to treat everyone — just look at all the problems the Euro-nations are having.
Well, first of all, the economic mess comes from the power of Wall Street and the big banks to do whatever they please, rob the economy blind, take us to the brink of world economic disaster and suffer no punishment for it. Secondly, every one of those countries pays far, far less than we do for health care because it costs far, far less to care for people before they become critically ill. It costs far, far less to treat mental illnesses in a clinic than it does in a jail, which is where some 60 percent of people with chronic and persistent mental illnesses get treatment nowadays.
And we're just talking about the financial cost, not the human cost of allowing people to suffer needlessly.
Regulation is important, not just for health insurance companies, but for banks, Wall Street, utilities — every industry. Without it, you get economic meltdown as the 1 percent steals ever more from the working class.
Without regulation, there is less safety in the workplace — the reason my son has had third-degree burns three times where he works.
The Right would have us believe government can do nothing right. They point to schools, which have been defunded at historic rates. When schools were funded, American children had the best education system in the world. That hasn't been true since the 1980s. In fact, we have been slipping badly.
Now they're defunding highways and transportation, claiming that the market will build and maintain roads where they're needed. Yes I have heard that claim many times; I'm not making it up.
But you still can turn on your tap and get water. You still have libraries and police and fire departments you can call when you need them — at least until the Right privatizes them or eliminates them entirely by defunding them. Already, we're seeing concerted efforts to reduce their power to negotiate and reduce their salaries and benefits.
Workers' salaries aren't keeping pace with inflation. In every city in the country, it takes more than twice the minimum wage to pay for even the most basic needs (housing, groceries, utilities, transportation, child care). Those basic needs do not include cable TV, any meals out, including McDonald's, or Internet service.
Why do you suppose that's true? Well, we've villified the American worker and killed the unions.
This sustained attack on working Americans has reduced our salaries and increased our debt — it hearkens back to the Guilded Age when factories put people up in company-owned housing and paid them in company scrip which could only be spent at the company store. Prices at the store were high enough to keep workers in debt so they couldn't leave.
If you think that's not where we're headed, think again.
And now they attack women, forcing us to have transvaginal sonograms — against our and our doctors' wills — before we can have a perfectly legal surgical procedure. They call us whores because we want to be the ones to decide when and if we will bear children, as though we can't be trusted to control our own bodies.
I lived through the changing of those laws. I thought we had changed attitudes too, but apparently, we weren't as successful as we thought.
We are engaged in endless wars, killing and maiming our soldiers while asking nothing of any of the rest of us. The military-industrial complex is making billions off of these wars while soldiers and their families suffer with not enough pay and not enough care, not to mention the misery we inflict on the populations of people we attack. But if we demand an end to war, we're told we're not supporting the troops. That's bullshit, pure and simple.
I'm tired of the attacks on the American people and I'm furious about the lies they perpetrate on us.
The Affordable Care Act will not result in rationed care; that's being done already by Big Insurance. It will not mean people over 75 will be refused treatment for cancer, not like my 30-year-old son was refused care because he didn't have insurance. These things are deliberate lies.
You bet I'm angry.


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it's not surprising for more and more networks to follow the crowd and put some of their more popular shows on itunes for download. apple created an incredible new revenue stream for networks that only a couple of years ago was unimaginable. networks got a taste by offering shows through dvds, but now find that offering per show purchases through itunes is also a great way to increase the return rate on their programming investment.
read more from the showtime press release.
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|they started (9:10am est thu feb 09 2006)
offering shows through itunes last week! – by geez
|it amazes me (10:15am est thu feb 09 2006)
when a simple idea is executed perfectly into a viable business model – apple's successes are neat to follow. – by topher's a tard
|overpriced as usual (12:43pm est thu feb 09 2006)
$1.99 per episode? i'd say wait and buy the dvd for the whole season for probably less than half the price per episode. this mirrors the horrible $.99 per song price for music. buying entertainment a la carte online is simply very, very expensive.
i guess if people are willing to pay these prices, then apple and others will keep charging them (making money hand over fist). – by jrink
|er? (2:03pm est thu feb 09 2006)
"$1.99 per episode? i'd say wait and buy the dvd for the whole season for probably less than half the price per episode."
considering that most showtime and hbo seasons are 13-15 episodes, that equates to only $26-$30 per season.
considering that amazon.com is offering the first season of the l word for $46.99, your comment doesn't make much sense. – by rocketpig
|jrink (2:51pm est thu feb 09 2006)
"$1.99 per episode? i'd say wait and buy the dvd for the whole season for probably less than half the price per episode… buying entertainment a la carte online is simply very, very expensive."
then the time factor: going to a movie in the theatre is more expensive, a lot more expensive, than waiting for release on dvd, because you get to see it sooner (and you can see it at the cheap theater some months later).
in time, old episodes will become cheaper downloads, but the demand is very high for these episodes now, because this is a new medium. when older episode demand wanes, the price for them will drop, keeping the $1.99 range for new, high-demand programming.
this is actually finally going to be an alternative to cable/satellite holdouts like me who don't want to pay for channels we don't watch. it will take a while to become more price competitive, but that's the direction its heading.
obviously, too, as technology progresses, the resolution of the video will increase, bandwidth will become less of an issue, and overall prices will drop. – by rotgut
|weeds (3:14pm est thu feb 09 2006)
is a funny show. i watched the whole season three days before it was on itunes. the theme song is crazy as well. – by money makin mac man
|you gets what you pays for (5:07pm est thu feb 09 2006)
sorry, guys, but i still think $1.99 for a single episode of a tv program is a bit steep. same with $.99 for one song. in either case, you are paying more for the ability to pick and choose. if you're willing to pay that price, then that's ok.
rocketpig, i don't subscribe to any of the 'premium' tv services, so i was not aware that there were so few episodes per season. if they are charging that much for the dvd, then i say they are sticking it to you two ways instead of one.
rotgut, you did open my eyes to some things i had not considered, the time factor and convenience. that convenience comes with a cost, just like paying $1 more for milk at the gas station instead of the grocery store.
i doubt we'll see any prices going down for old content. go to a music store and look at the price for something like "tatto you" by the rolling stones. i'll bet the price tag is within 10% of a new cd. i haven't seen many stories about online music stores offering lower prices for older music, either. if there's a demand, they'll chage full price. if there's not demand, they'll pull it from the shelves. – by jrink
|you get what you want… (6:32pm est thu feb 09 2006)
instead of wanting what you can't get!
i personally have not purchased a single itune, nor itvshow, because it is not my thing, i don't make much time for tv, never sports, because i have a lot going on. but, there are people i know who work all day, and relax hard all evening in front of the tube, and they pay a lot of money for their video equipment, tivo, and satellite or digital cable. and i know more and more people riding the bus and rail to work with gas prices fluctuating. combine the two, and a bit of disposable income, and you have a demographic i can understand, but not relate to.
you may be right that older content won't go down in price, but i think there will be "specials" and "mix bundles" offered, say 10 oldies for $6.99 or some such. the old retail conditions do not apply…
"if there's not demand, they'll pull it from the shelves."
trust me, every old cd you see selling for close to the price of a new one sells enough for the merchant to: #1 keep it in stock, and #2 allow it to take up space on the shelves that something else which has a higher demand could occupy. there are other issues, too, such as the cost to the retailer of old vs. new, etc., but that's the basic economics of it.
i am quite sure that pricing schemes will become more complex, but price per unit digital music will dominate the subscription model for years to come, with high school/college age preferring the subscriptions and older folks preferring to buy what they want and then be able to keep it.
regards, – by rotgut


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When Samsung announced the Galaxy S III back at the start of May, it revealed a wireless charging dock for the phone. Earlier, we had heard rumors that it might feature a new-such charging technology, greatly increasing the range over which the phone could be delivered power. While Samsung didn't end up making the kind of claims we heard rumored (charging from one-to-two meters away), it did mention that the GS3's wireless charging would be unique, calling it the "first wireless resonant charger".
We're still waiting to see Samsung's charger released, and if its resonant technology is really able to differentiate itself from earlier inductive chargers. Some rumors say we'll have to wait until September before it's ready to launch; in the interim, other manufacturers are jumping at the chance to bring wireless charging to the GS3, and ZENS looks like it will be the first.
The company makes inductive chargers for the iPhone, and is now expanding that lineup to include the Galaxy S III. As per usual, taking advantage of this kind of feature means swapping-out the phone's rear cover for one with the requisite inductive antenna. ZENS has models in both of the GS3's color options, though you'll have to live with losing Samsung's logo on the phone's rear in favor of that of ZENS.
It may not be the solution we were anticipating, but until Samsung comes through with its official charger, this should do in a pinch.
Update: ZENS isn't the only game in town, and Verizon has its own wireless charging solution for the GS3.


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Ijoy Limitless LUX 215W Box Mod – $60.59
Once again, Ijoy has teamed up with Limitless to produce an awesome device – the Ijoy Limitless LUX Box Mod. Like the Limitless Plus RDTA, the Limitless Lux Mod has beautiful aesthetics… along with a fully customizable chassis and loads of power! Choose from a variety of interchangeable sleeves, and run the LUX with either dual 18650 or 26650 batteries, providing up to 215W of output with variable temperature control (Ni, Ti, SS). It's firmware upgradeable and offers a full suite of safety protections, with the OLED display and adjustment buttons located on top to give it a clean and uncluttered look.
Although it's definitely not a cheap device, the Ijoy Limitless LUX Mod is a beautiful looking setup with tons of power and loads of advanced features. Prices have actually dropped since it was first released a few months ago, and you can get a great price at Chinese supplier Efun.Top for only $60.59. Or, if you'd prefer a US vendor MFS has them available for $80.05 w/ coupon "cigbuyer10" →
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Ijoy Limitless LUX Mod features:
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- Temperature control: 300F – 600F / 150C – 315C
- Output voltage: 0.5 – 8V
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- Resistance range: 0.06 – 3 ohm (VW)
- Compatible with Ni, Ti and SS wire
- Firmware upgradeable
- Zinc alloy chassis with interchangeable sleeves
- Top-mounted 0.66″ OLED screen
- Malfunction indication and various safety protections
- Huge heating vent holes
- Micro-USB port (for firmware upgrading only)
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I have no idea when my addiction to highlighters started, and it is rapidly growing day by day as and when I see a new highlighter or illuminator or a strobing palette newly launched. This is one such product. In this review post, I'll be talking about the new MUA LUXE OMBRE SHIMMER STICK. Continue reading


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The Creation of Flowing Forms in Water and Air
Theodor Schwenk
Preface by Jacques Cousteau
Sensitive Chaos presents one of the most enthralling, marvelous, even sensuous journeys into life on Earth. The destination? Nothing less than eye-to-eye contact with the conjunction of living creation with the matter of our Earth and beyond. Theodor Schwenk's groundbreaking work stands as vivid testimony to the interconnectedness of all life and to the living heartbeat of the Earth itself. This is a wonderful book – one I have turned to many times over the 20 years since I first found it. Please do give yourself the same opportunity. Beyond outstanding!


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Lisa and Nick had been planning an outdoor ceremony on the front lawn for over a year. I met up with them in April to carry out their engagement photography and we talked about how mixed the weather had been, but laughed about how much better it would be in July. Wrong!! On the day of the wedding, 7th July 2012, the rain was absolutely battering the South West, which was issued with a severe flood warning... the ceremony was moved indoors... but the amazing thing was, it just didn't matter. Despite all the outdoor dreams, the indoor spaces at Maunsel House created a perfect backdrop for the day and it was just fantastic! The ceremony was absolutely stunning in the Ballroom, and the guests all enjoyed relaxing on the leather sofas in the library, grabbing a quick pint (or two) in the bar and exploring the incredible spaces around the house.
The rain was just about easing off as everyone moved outside for the hog roast under the pergola at 9pm, but by then it didn't matter at all. Lisa said that the rain had actually made the day better, as all the guests had come together in the inside spaces in a way that they may not have done otherwise. I loved having the opportunity to use the unusual and quirky interior spaces in the house for Lisa and Nick's photography. It was a really special day and I look forward to returning to Maunsel House again next year!
I hope you enjoy these images from Lisa and Nick's wedding day - please do leave a comment and let me know what you think. If you are interested, you can also 'like' my facebook page here to stay updated with previews and other examples of my work.
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Zesty Bacon Potato Salad
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Prep: 15 min. • Cook: 15 min. • Serves: 4-6
- 24 oz. Tasteful Selections potatoes, halved
- 1 tsp. salt
- 3 cloves garlic, smashed
- 4 slices bacon, cut into chunks
- ½ medium red onion, diced
- 3 ribs celery, diced
- ¼ c. red wine vinegar
- Salt and pepper, to taste
- ¾ c. mayonnaise
- ¼ c. Dijon mustard
Place potatoes in a large pot with the garlic and salt. Cover with water; bring to a boil and simmer until the potatoes are fork tender, about 13-15 minutes.
While the potatoes are cooking, put bacon in a frying pan and cook over medium-high heat, until bacon is crispy. Remove from heat and add the onions, celery and vinegar. Season with salt and pepper, to taste.
In a small bowl, combine the mayonnaise and mustard.
When the potatoes are fork tender, drain and discard the garlic. Transfer to a large mixing bowl and stir in bacon mixture while the potatoes are still hot. Fold in the mayonnaise dressing. Season with salt and pepper, if desired. Serve hot or at room temperature.


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Paris has a new, state-of-the-art concert hall, something the French have been waiting for since they dispatched Louis XVI in 1793, thus making possible government- funded arts venues for the people.Read More →
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No matter how far removed we might be in time and technological distance from, say, Homer or Thucydides, Shakespeare, Holbein, or Beethoven, they speak to us of a human condition we recognize.Read More →
In 1989, during his tenure as music director of the Louisville Orchestra, Lawrence Leighton Smith wrote an essay stating his personal view concerning the link between the number of players and quality of sound in orchestras. Smith's "Serenade for Sixty Strings," published in the March/April 1989 issue of Symphony, the magazine of the American SymphonyRead More →
Go for it. What would you say has been the most important invention over the past five hundred years or so? The automobile? Nuclear power? The microchip? Sliced bread? My vote…(drum roll)…the elevator! You scoff, but think about it. Before the elevator, cities could only expand as far as their geographical limits, hoist themselves fourRead More →
It's not surprising that a recent article by Philip Kennicott in the New Republic by the title of "America's Orchestras are in Crisis" got some favorable play in the musician community. The writer, who is Art and Architecture critic for the Washington Post, focused very heavily on what he believed was the League of AmericanRead More →
Jeffrey Johnson is Professor of Music and Director of the Music Program at the University of Bridgeport, and the author of several books. He also serves as the classical music critic for the Hartford Courant and the Stamford Advocate. He recently sent Polyphonic this thoughtful post. - Ann Drinan, Senior Editor Instances of extended 5/4Read More →
ICSOM (the International Conference of Symphony and Opera Musicians, which represents over 4,000 musicians from 51 major symphony orchestras throughout the United States) recently released a documentary titled "ICSOM: The First Fifty Years." Filmed during the 50th anniversary conference in Chicago, the 38-minute film contains numerous interviews on the founding of ICSOM, telling the fascinatingRead More →
My Editor's Choice for this go-round is from 1997—sixteen years ago. Here's a little background just to put it in context. Our website, Polyphonic.org is part of the Orchestra Musician Forum, that was created in 2004 when Paul R. Judy made a gift of the financial and intellectual assets of the Symphony Orchestra Institute toRead More →
Milwaukee is not quite equidistant from Madison and Detroit, but it does sit precisely on the line between them that a crow (or a Boeing) would fly. So it's fitting that events in Detroit and Madison resonate so loudly with this member of the Milwaukee Symphony - an orchestra in the Rust Belt that's hadRead More →
In a front-page article in the Detroit News, Michael H. Hodges is pessimistic about the future of the DSO: …outsiders warn that suspending the season involves a leap into the unknown, one that not only threatens the orchestra's current hold on audiences and donors, but could put the 2011-2012 season and the orchestra's entire futureRead More →
Norman thinks that Mahler invented the American symphony orchestra. He makes a good case: Mahler split the Carnegie season into four subscription blocs, each with a thematic base, something no conductor had tried before. As well as a Regular Series, he put in a Beethoven cycle "for the education of lovers of classical music, forRead More →


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Ahhh Springtime
It's sunshine for the heart and mind. We ventured out with the short people and stuck them in some xericaping and clicked away. Photoshoots are basically like herding chickens for an hour while asking them to smile- but man o man- we have some pretty cute chickens. There's a lot of winking, drama poses, posing next to cowboy and Indian plaques, grass eating, bug fears, etc. Ya know, all the good things that make us smile. Enjoy 🙂


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At present there are 3 regional centres:
- FIT Europe
FIT Europe is a regional branch of the International Federation of Translators. It currently represents 52 European associations of translators and interpreters.
- FIT Latin America
FIT LatAm was organized in 2003 under the name Regional Centre Latin America (CRAL) to serve the interests of FIT members and to facilitate, promote and support the aims and efforts of FIT as a whole, pursuant to the Mission Statement for the establishment of FIT Regional Centres and for FIT Regional Centre activities, as adopted by the FIT Executive Committee in Brussels (January 1998) and ratified by the FIT Council in Geneva (April 1998).
- FIT LatAm's Member Directory
FIT LATAM member directory
- Upcoming Events
FIT LATAM events
- Board of FIT LatAm
The following representatives, elected at the General Meeting of FIT LatAm, held in October 2015 in Lima, Peru, will lead the Regional Centre during the 2015 - 2018 period
- FIT LatAm's Member Directory
- FIT North America / FIT Amérique du Nord
The new Regional Center FIT North America has been launched on December 12th 2012.
The principle of subsidiarity, as applied to the Regional Centres in accordance with Article 38 of the FIT Bylaws, is explained in this memo adopted by the FIT Council:
The Principle of Subsidiarity in the FIT Context: Memo approved by the FIT Council in Ottawa on 18 March 2017


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Intermodal Metals (CMI Logistics LLC): Load and Roll Pallet
The heart of our industry-leading intermodal distribution business is our Load and Roll Pallet (LRP), which provides metals shippers the maximum flexibility available from an intermodal metals-transportation solution, and sets the standard for service utilized by many North American railroads.
The LRP permits safe, reliable and damage-free transportation of your goods in a closed ocean container. Those containers are moved by consistent and regularly scheduled stack trains, offering unparalleled transit times in the intermodal marketplace.
The LRP is the competitive advantage CMI has in providing unparalleled intermodal service to our metals industry customers. The LRP enables us to transload material from a flatbed truck into a closed ocean container quickly and with minimal handling. Since its initial design 25 years ago, the LRP has undergone several improvements and modifications to better meet the needs of our customers.
Today, the LRP can be used to move:
- Master coils
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- Plate
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- Any other product form, all inside a closed ocean container
As confirmation of the LRP's design and functionality, many North American railroads, including the Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF), the Union Pacific (UP) and the Norfolk Southern (NS) use the LRP specifications as the basis for the loading guidelines for metal products in closed ocean containers. In addition, the LRP specifications also meet the guidelines established by the American Association of Railroads for the loading, blocking and bracing of metal products in closed trailers and containers.
Within minutes of an inbound truck arriving at one of our transload centers, 52,000-pound-capacity fork trucks unload the trailer and move the material directly onto one of our staged LRPs. There, transload workers begin to block, brace and strap the material securely to the LRP. Once their job is complete, the LRP is moved by a fork truck to our loading area where it is rolled into the container. Transload facility employees then block and brace the LRP inside the container.
The entire operation takes place within a matter of 20 minutes or less, with minimal material handling and inside a weatherproof area.
The LRP Advantage:
The LRP allows CMI to provide:
- Protection of our customers' product inside the closed ocean container
- Unparalleled method for product securement
- Weight distribution across the container floor to preserve the structural integrity of the container, as well as prevent cargo shift


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Hello readers,
This is Lindsay writing as Courtney is on her way up to Corbett as I type this. Getting back into the swing of hoes and the prying of broad forks after about two months of lazing around my mom's house in Spokane (and elsewhere, overwintering), drinking dollar beers and too much coffee, has been a slow process. My body seemed to reject the physical work, refusing to rise from bed with the 7:00 am alarm I set, but I think it's coming around.
I spent the week weeding and prepping the hoop house for extra early flowers. Originally, Courtney and I were only planning on growing flowers and herbs in the field, reserving the hoop houses for our summer vegetables, but the more I study, the more I realize the hoop house will be our ally in making the flower farming business financially successful. The added protection of the hoop house will allow us to offer sweet peas, stock, snapdragons, sunflowers, and other foliage a month earlier in spring and later in fall. With enough frost protection, we can grow day neutral flowers any time of the year. These are flowers that bloom at maturity, with no requirements for day length. Examples include Bachelor Button and Sunflowers.
I've met some really nice folks in Corbett. Everyone has been incredibly supportive of our venture and forthcoming with advice. A local farmer and former tenant to our land, Katie, let me borrow her broad fork to work the greenhouse. Corbett is a lush place, receiving 40-60 inches of rain per year. With all of the magnificent forests and waterfalls (we are 9 miles from Multonomah falls), come the grasses and lots of them. In fact, I believe this region is the grass seed capitol of the country. Thankfully, I've ordered a sharp hoe and am feeling pretty fearless, but I may soon change my tune. I'll say it now: I've been warned by the populace (over and over again).
It's been interesting navigating a business of our own. At 11:00 pm, Wednesday night, I realized I had ordered the wrong snapdragon seed. This mistake was undoubtedly due to the fact that I was exhausted. I would've just trialed it anyway, except that the variety I was intending to order was specific to hoop house growing with diminished light. Germania is an efficient company, often shipping out the same day the order is received. Neurotic as I am, I set my alarm to 5:00 am so that I would be able to call the office in Chicago when they opened at 7:00. I probably sounded like a crazy person, and the seeds had already been shipped, but I was able to order the correct variety and go back to sleep.
I'm thinking I need to up my daily dosage of coffee, perhaps get an IV drip of caffeine, or make really good friends with a local roaster who loves mixed bouquets. Overall, things are good and soon seeds will sprout. It certainly feels like spring is in the air here.


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9 Nov 2016
Receivable Management in ASEAN Markets
As the Belt and Road Initiative unfolds, businesses generally agree that they must follow its development and the opportunities that emerge. An earlier survey by HKTDC on manufacturing enterprises in the Pearl River Delta region indicated that 66% of the respondents would consider tapping business opportunities in countries along the Belt and Road, especially the ASEAN markets, in the next one to three years. Receivable Management Services (HK), or RMS, which has been in the receivable management business in Hong Kong for 35 years, recorded a significant increase in risk enquiry and collection consignment in ASEAN markets from international clients in the past year, with Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos registering staggering three-digit increases. This reflects the growing interest of businesses to open up the ASEAN emerging markets, but it also underscores the risks of bad debt. In order not to forego the chance of opening up the ASEAN markets because of the entailing risks, a company must properly carry out risk management and draw up business contracts in the light of the credibility of different companies.
In an interview with Pansy Yau, HKTDC Deputy Director of Research, Deborah Ho, Managing Director of RMS, and Norris Chan, Vice President for Business Development, share tips on how to do a good job of bad debt management and matters that merit special attention in opening up the ASEAN markets.
Yau: How do you assess the bad debt risks of a new client?
Ho: There are several reasons why a client chooses to defer payments. This may be due to poor management or financial difficulties. Another possible reason for deliberately deferring payment is to take suppliers as a source of free fund raising. Repayment may also be affected by economic cycles. Deferment may be no more than a habitual trick to seek discounts in payment so as to reduce cost.
For this reason, a company must find out some important facts about its counterparty, such as its background and financial situation, before doing business with it. There are many companies that can provide basic company search service, but as an international receivable management company, we would advise our clients to pay attention to the size of this company, its past experience and who its shareholders and upstream and downstream clients are. What is most important is to know whether or not this company is having legal disputes or records of not making payments on time with other people or companies, or had such records in the past.
Yau: Through which channels can we find out about such information?
Chan: Company data, including records of legal proceedings, are available to the public in some countries and regions, such as Hong Kong. However, in some regions, such as some ASEAN countries, this kind of information is not available to the public and can only be obtained through local law firms. If a company had never been sued, the only way to find out whether the company and its shareholders and office-bearers have bad records of being chased for overdue receivables is through large multinational receivable management companies. Compared with local receivable management firms that only have records of local companies being chased for overdue receivables, multinational companies can provide records of overdue receivables in countries around the world. After obtaining the information, we can sort out and analyse the facts and build up our credibility archive and risk monitoring system, and carry out receivable management when signals of bad debt risks occur.
Yau: What is receivable management? How should we establish a risk monitoring system to reduce bad debts?
Ho: In Europe, North America and other developed economies, companies would generally take receivable management measures at the end of the 30-day accounts receivable collection period by starting their own debt collection procedures or commissioning the task to receivable management companies. They may need to resort to legal consultancy and insolvency services at the critical stage. In China or the Southeast Asian countries, companies would not normally begin collection procedures until half a year or 3-4 months after the accounts receivable is overdue, which increases the difficulty of collection and the chances of bad debt. Many big companies would outsource these jobs to receivable management companies because the latter have a large database and can effectively grasp and analyse the repayment capability of debtors. Familiarity with the legal culture of the place where the accounts receivable occurs makes it possible for them to choose the most effective arrangements to pursue debts or negotiate with the debtors, narrow the differences between the two sides and pressurise the debtors into making repayment. Some people may have a bad impression of "debt collection companies", but normal receivable management companies, that is, companies approved by the government for this purpose, would not begin by making phone calls to demand repayment. Rather, they would try to understand the reasons for the deferment of payment by downloading the financial information of the debtors from their own database for analysis before deciding on the appropriate collection tactics the way lawyers handle such matters.
Chan: In the early stage, accounts receivables may be dealt with according to normal accounting methods, but since cash receipts from receivables may decrease with time, it is necessary to take receivable management measures when noteworthy signals of danger occur, such as slow repayment, breach of promise to pay, financial consolidation, change in banking details, selling at abnormally low prices or a sudden and unexplainable increase in purchase orders. If a company prefers to handle debt collection matters itself, it must draw up the necessary credit policies and procedures, train staff members in the handling of receivables, recognise the situation in the place where the accounts receivables occur, check the repayment capability of its clients, and suspend trading when problems arise.
Companies must be mindful of the fact that legal action must ultimately be taken when debt collection measures proved of no avail. The laws and the limitation periods for legal actions differ from one ASEAN country to another and there is no way to take action after the limitation periods. I have seen many clients losing their cases due to a lack of understanding of the relevant laws.
Yau: How should we go about choosing our receivable management company and what are the charges?
Ho: We can find many receivable management companies or agencies online, but their service standards can vary greatly. Some collection companies of poor standards may resort to undesirable practices to pursue payment. There are even cases where collection companies closed down after pocketing the money collected. In order to avoid these troubles, care should be taken to select companies with a long history, good size (number of workers), good track record, management experience, international networks and word-of-mouth, because a company's database is built upon years of practical experience, and manpower is needed to handle huge amounts of data and documents. Other objective references include whether a receivable management company has many big clients, the duration of its relationships with clients, and whether it is regularly invited to speak at reputable open forums.
Charges depend on how complicated the cases are. Generally speaking, the older the debts, that is, the longer they are overdue, the higher the charges. Charges are calculated as a percentage of successful collection.
Yau: What are the risks we should watch out for when opening up ASEAN markets? Do you have any special collection tactics and management suggestions to offer?
Chan: Generally speaking, prudent collection tactics and management should include the following:
- Regularly review the records of legal proceedings of one's trading partners;
- Regularly review the presence or otherwise of bad records of debt collection on the part of the trading partner and its shareholders or office-bearers;
- Regularly review whether or not the trading partner has frequent changes in its shareholder structure;
- Regularly review the credibility of the trading partner in the business;
- Strengthen the day-to-day management of receivables;
- Shorten the debt collection period;
- Resolve arguments/disputes as quickly as possible;
- Closely monitor the account receivable turnover days;
- Strengthen and improve the receivable management policy according to the market climate.
As far as ASEAN markets are concerned, companies should take special note of the fact that it may be difficult to obtain basic information such as company background in some emerging markets, such as Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos. Even in Vietnam, it is not until recently that company search service becomes available, and whether the information obtained is complete and accurate remains to be proven. Companies can only check the background and financial information of their clients through lawyers or credit rating agencies. The 10 ASEAN countries all have their own laws. Companies must find out about the limitation periods of different countries and the documents and procedures required to file legal proceedings.
Individual ASEAN countries are more susceptible to political interference and some investment projects in these countries may be overturned or delayed due to changes in the political climate.


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Everyone who yearns for more Half-Life content might take solace (or find frustration) in the fact that more has been created. However, it's also been scrapped. And, at least some of it had the intent of introducing a new tool to go right alongside the revered Gravity Gun.
This information comes from Warren Spector, who did an AMA on reddit today. Spector, who's most well-known for his work on Deus Ex and Epic Mickey, said that when his studio ran into financial troubles, Valve contracted his team to work on an episode of Half-Life. He says that it was to be set in a part of the universe that "hadn't been explored deeply."
While Valve didn't specifically request it, Spector states that his studio developed something called a magnet gun. How it differentiates from the Gravity Gun was left unstated, but Spector comments that "[it] was entirely different than the Gravity Gun. The two would have been super complementary."
Ultimately, the project never came to fruition. Valve went another direction and left the episode -- however complete it may have been -- behind. But, Spector says he'd like the magnet gun to be implemented someday. "I wish [Valve] would do something with the magnet gun. It was fun," he remarked. "We came up with some cool stuff to do with [it]."
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April 20, 2016—Gila Regional Medical Center Multi-Specialty Clinic Network (GMSN) is growing, and as a result, we are adding locations. "Due to the increasing demand from the wonderful community we serve, the Gila Family Medicine practice will be moving just around the corner to its new location at 3185 North Leslie Road come early-May," said Tamera Ahner, Senior Director of the GMSN. Liana Ryan, Assistant Vice President of Administration added, "This new building will accommodate both Dr. John Stanley and Cindy Moreno's practices while allowing for growth with additional providers and services. We are eager to deliver the same great patient care and better meet patient demand to improve the overall patient experience."
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In China, art in public space is hardly known besides the display of history related objects, patriotic sculptures and monuments. Contemporary art rarely leaves galleries or museums whereas, in the West, art in public space is a common form of expression. We claim the right for the artist to place art into public spaces that are dominated by architects and advertisers.Deadline: 28th of February 2013. Selected artists will be informed by the end of March 2013.
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UPDATED Washington: The Army has pushed its iconic Humvee combat truck as far as it can go and needs to press ahead with the Joint Tactical Light Vehicle.
The Army cannot load any more armor, communications equipment or other next-generation gear onto the Humvee, according to Lt. Gen Robert Lennox, chief of the Army office in charge of funding service programs.
The service is pursuing multimillion-dollar effort to revamp the Humvee. But some have argued the Army can save millions if they just used upgraded Humvees to do the job of the JLTV. "I do not think we can," Lennox told me yesterday when I asked if the Army could use the Humvee to replace the JLTV.
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That said, the Army must press ahead with its plan to build the new JLTV, the three-star general added. Testifying before the House Armed Services tactical air and land subpanel yesterday, Lennox and the Army's deputy acquisition chief Lt. Gen Bill Phillips dismissed the notion of upgraded Humvees replacing JLTVs.
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Trimming key features from the JLTV has made the vehicle virtually indistinguishable from the upgraded Humvee, Loren Thompson, defense analyst with the Lexington Institute and member of Breaking Defense's Board of Contributors, claims.
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At his death, composer, writer and visual artist John Cage left the complete text of a radio play titled "James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet."
A collage of quotations and inventions, it imagines conversations among 15 major figures in modern culture, including Joyce, Duchamp, Satie and Buckminster Fuller.
Tonight Cal Performances will present the first-ever realization of "An Alphabet" as a stage play at the University of California's Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley.
The event, rescheduled from the date originally announced, takes place one night only.
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PHOTOGRAPHER MONKS: In 1999 Fort Bragg photographer Joe Mickey documented Tibetan Buddhist monks making a sand mandala and ended up introducing them to the camera as a tool of activism.
After his encounter with the visiting mandala-makers, Mickey began corresponding with Jam Yang Norbu, a Tibetan monk in exile in India, and soon sent him a disposable camera -- the first of many -- suggesting that he use it to record his own views of Buddhist monastic life in India.
The photos Mickey got in return document a way of life threatened with disappearance, owing to China's extirpation of the indigenous religious culture since its annexation of Tibet in 1949.
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Mickey has scheduled a slide presentation of the images at Mendocino College in Ukiah and is looking into selling prints to benefit Tibetan causes. .
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At 7 p.m. next Tuesday, Salgado will introduce a screening of his film "The Spectre of Hope" in Wheeler Auditorium. Tickets: (510) 642-5249; information, www.bampfa.berkeley.edu.
ADVERTISING -- ART OF THE FUTURE?: Andy Warhol (1928-1987) became famous for dissolving the boundary between art and advertising, but transactions between them go way back.
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