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Who is Avishai Cohen?
Avishai Cohen–the bassist, not the trumpeter who is also named Avishai Cohen–is an Israeli jazz musician and composer. He frequently employs uncommon time signatures, exotic-sounding scales and chords, lyrics sung in multiple languages, and incredibly-talented supporting musicians playing a variety of instruments.
What makes Avishai Cohen Weird?
Avishai's music blends influences from blues, rock, middle-eastern, electronic, free-form jazz, minimalism, and many other genres. His lyrics span several languages because he feels that the sound of each language suits songs differently. He has a wonderful sense of harmony and makes heavy use of harmonic major and harmonic minor scales. In traditional jazz instrumentation, this kind of music has a very unique flavor.
Where you should start
Andy West played a song for me called Chutzpan from Cohen's 2008 release, Gently Disturbed. There were so many musical elements hitting me simultaneously as I listened for the first time: an uncountable time signature, virtuosic bass ostinatos, complex chord substitutions, improvisation, energetic performances, and atypical melodies and harmonies. I soon purchased the album and found it full of joy, oddity, and beauty. So much of Cohen's music captures these exciting elements.
Each of his albums is unique and captures a different mood. Some of my favorite songs are:
- How Long and Lyla from Lyla
- El Hatzipor, Aurora, and Leolam from Aurora
- One for Mark and Smash from Continuo
- Seattle, Chutzpan, La Baiom Velo Balyla, and The Ever Evolving Etude from Gently Disturbed
- Dreaming, Seven Seas, and Halah from Seven Seas
His Approach
In an interview with Oregon Music News, he talked about the song Dreaming:
[There's] this one tune in 13/8 that's very challenging to play, to improvise on. Opening it up is another thing. I have no one to study that from. I don't know anybody who really does it so I have to invent my own ways, and my piano player has to invent his own ways of learning a whole new way of improvising fluently on 13/8 with the movement of chords and everything. It's not easy. That's a new challenge.
This quote highlights one of my favorite aspects of weird music: As you learn it, you're exploring uncharted territory. Chances are that very few people have done anything similar and there's no mentor to guide you through the learning process. You have to persevere through practice, experimentation, and self-exploration. Dreaming and Chutzpan are songs unlike many others and require a different way of thinking for the composer and the performer.
Weird music doesn't have to sound "weird"
The weirdest aspect of Avishai's music, however, is how accessible many of his compositions are despite the abundant experimentation with and utilization of song structure, harmony, rhythm, and mood. It's the kind of music I can enjoy and be creatively and intellectually stimulated while my wife and children can also listen and enjoy. The music doesn't sound particularly weird until one begins to dissect it. It's clearly infused with international influences that rests within the jazz genre, but at times it can be electronic, progressive, polyrhythmic, hypnotic, aggressive, tender, or dizzying.
One thing it isn't, though: boring.


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This is getting very annoying... I've now done 3 upgrades of iOS on my iPhone 5 since I purchased it. First from 6.1 to 6.1.1, then 6.1.2, and just now to 6.1.3. Everytime after making the update, my phone can no longer make calls or use data (basically the phone number I was bound to is lost it appears). The first 2 times, at some point (tho not sure what may have restored it), the service/number did get restored, but this time it's now been a few hours and have tried about everything and still nothing!...
Here are some of the things I've tried (some multiple times):
* Reset Network Settings
* Called "##873283#" - each time I get "Service Update Failed"
* Rebooted the phone (and repeated the above)
* Have tried turning off my Airave (without which I get very poor service) - in case this could be causing issues..
* Did a hard reset of the Airave and resynced the phone with this.
Could someone please tell me what the "fix" is for the current problem, and hopefully fix what's wrong with the Sprint system to make sure this doesn't happen every time?
Thank you,
- Rick
Yikes, that's not good you can't pick up service after the update. Can you connect to wi-fi and then try the ##UPDATE# Call process, this may force re-registration onto the network. I'm not sure what causes this registration issue, but I've come across this before. Hopefully the update over wi-fi kicks it into gear. Keep me updated.
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rick- just updated my iphone 5 with 6.1.3 and have no cellular service, like the phone has no number now... did you find any fix for this- traveling for work without personal computer and i tunes- only the broken phone and ipad right now.... thanks
darryl- any help how to fix this no cellular service after 6.1.3 update- im in boonies and screwd if i cant figure out wth happened- i just did the update and now phone has no cellular service.....
FYI, I didn't get a chance to try Darryl's suggestion. But, I was finally able to reconnect after I left my home - not sure, but maybe becaused I moved to an area with a stronger signal (tho with the Airave I showed a full signal at home). I just called ##UPDATE# (##873283#) from the new area, and then the service update worked fine and service/number was restored.
I'll be sure to try Darry's suggestion (connecting to wi-fi) if this happened again next time and update here with the outcome.
At the area you are at, is there wi-fi available? If so try ##UPDATE# when connected to wi-fi. RickS33 was able to register once in a different area where he picked up signal; Where is it that you're located, provide cross streets & zipcode, I'll determine the nearest service tower where you can try to re-register onto the network
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You have to remember, after each update, "Roaming" is set to ON. Sprint cannot use Roaming for the local service, so you have to shut that off. Once you do, your Bars will come back pretty fast.
RickS33, my wife has been having the same issue with her iPhone 5 on every update. Tried the solution you provided and it worked! Thanks so much!! Someone should tag this as the solution. The Sprint rep suggested only doing the updates through iTunes instead of over the air. Something about losing bits of data, yada yada yada. Whatever....
I believe i found the solution to this no service or searching problem. First you should try ##873283#. If that doesnt work try turning airplane mode on and off. Still not work? try rebooting your phone. Now if that doesnt work reseting the network. If it still doesnt work try all this step by step. I am not sure if this will erase everything on your phone so back up your phone before you start.
usb cable
computer or laptop with your itunes on it.
1: have your usb cable ready to plug into the phone or computer with itunes opened.
2: Now hold down the power and home button at the same time until a black screen or apple logo shows.
3: Let go of the power button but continue to hold down the home button until it says to restore your phone connecting itunes.
4: Connect your phone to the usb and let it restore.
5: once its done restoring it should work fine.
Thank you for this comment!!! My husband has been on the phone with Sprint multiple times in the last few days and even went to the Sprint store for a "repair" where they told him he needed a new phone. His phone is 3 months old! I turned off his roaming after reading this and instantly got service back. Thanks again!
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Redwood City Señors Softball ClubMinutes for October 8, 2015 Board of Directors Meeting The October 2015 meeting was called to order at 7:10 by Dennis Logie, President. Other Board members present: Steve Bowerman, Pat Michael, Bill Picht, Dave Reck, Angelo Rizzato, Hiro Tarumi and Rob Weiss. Absent: Pete Lewis AGENDA ITEMS COVERED: 1. The September 2015 Board Meeting Minutes were approved as written. Minutes are sent to all Directors, posted to the official Club website, and sent to Donna O'Farrell for historical recording. 2. The September 2015 Treasurer's Report was approved as submitted by Treasurer, Angelo Rizzato. The report reflected the expenses and income from the 1 Pitch Labor Day Tournament, a transfer of $500 from the Money Market account, and a fund balance 40% lower than last year. 3. Summer Night League – The season ended on Aug 18. 4. Fall Night League - The new Fall/Winter season began on Sept 14 at Hawes Park. For the 4 Mondays so far, attendance has averaged 26 players allowing the league to have a 3 team format with one game at 7 PM. If more players join the Night League, it can go to a 4 team format with games at 7 and 8:15 PM. 5. Fall Saturday League – Hiro and Bruce Barnes have agreed to be co-directors for the Saturday League scheduled to begin on November 14. Dennis will contact Eric Newby to make sure Hawes Park is available through February 13 or 20. The plan is to have 2 divisions divided by age and skill, with 3 teams in the younger division and 4 in the older division. 6. Labor Day One-Pitch – In spite of some problems with the BBQ and activities running too late in the day, the tournament was an overall success. Club volunteers improvised to get the BBQ operating and worked hard to make sure the hamburgers and hot dogs were prepared in time for the players and guests as the games completed. The Club will look into remedies on how to make the games shorter and will consider keeping the tournament on Labor Day next year. Congratulations to Chet Lane and the volunteers who made every effort to make this event the best 1 Pitch ever. 7. Logo Ad at RWC entrances - Steve is in contact with a council group that oversees the City roadside monuments, called the Inter Service Club. Steve was informed that they will convert our logo to a 14 inch medallion to be attached on City entrances at 2 locations. Cost to the Club: $10 a year! 8. Hats – The Club has sold all the hats they ordered. Angelo will order a fresh supply of 10 black, 10 grey, and 5 blue. Cost to members will be the Club cost, i.e. $16 each. 9. Snack Shack – The new refrigerator is in at a cost of $925 plus $95 for the service call. The RWC 49ers have partnered with us on the refrigerator and gave us $500 for their share. 10. 2016 RWC Tournament – Bill will notify NCSSA that June 23-26 are the dates of our 2016 tournament. SSUSA is interested in the same dates for their Western Regional Tournament. 11. Hayward Tournaments – Carl Woodruff has provided Dennis the financials for the March and May tournaments earlier this year. He has invited the Club to take over these tournaments. There are several questions the Club needs answers for before committing. Bill will call the NCSSA president to get the discussion started. 12. Day Play Fields – The City is on schedule to returf the Red Morton fields beginning November 1. Dennis talked to Eric Newby, RWC Recreation Manager, and Eric has offered Marlin Park in Redwood Shores for Day Play games. A better option will be the Highlands Fields in San Carlos with whom we have a long standing relationship. Dennis expects an answer from the San Carlos Field Director within a few days. 13. Holiday Party – Pat reports the party schedule is moving along with a party date of December 5. Invitations will be delivered starting next week. There is still a need for auction items. 14. Round Table – There was a discussion on the decreasing fund balance of the Club and steps the Club can take to ensure its solvency. Meeting was adjourned at 9:20 PM. Next Board meeting will be Thursday, November 5, 2015. Respectfully submitted by Pat Michael, Club Secretary


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Paris climate accord ratified, to start next month: UN
[OSLO] A global agreement on climate change meant to shift the world economy from fossil fuels will come into force next month after passing a required threshold for ratification on Wednesday with backing from European nations, a UN website showed.
Support for the Paris Agreement has widened to nations representing 56.75 per cent of world greenhouse gas emissions, above the 55 per cent needed for entry into force, it showed. The deal will formally start in 30 days.
European nations led by Germany and France helped tip the agreement over the 55 per cent after approval by the European Parliament. It already has support from other major emitters led by China, the United States and India.
In total, 72 countries have ratified the agreement, according to the UN website.
Several nations hailed the rapid ratification of an agreement meant to cut global greenhouse gas emissions, mainly from burning fossil fuels, to limit floods, droughts, more powerful storms and rising ocean levels.
It took eight years for the previous UN climate deal, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol which obliged only rich nations to cut emissions, to gain enough backing to enter into force.
Entry into force "demonstrates unprecedented political momentum for climate action and bodes well for us moving forward," said Thoriq Ibrahim, Environment Minister for the Maldives and Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States.
The Paris Agreement will enter into force just before the US presidential election on Nov 8.
Republican Donald Trump opposes the Paris Agreement while Democrat Hillary Clinton is a strong supporter.


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Viktor Savinykh, the hundredth cosmonaut of the Earth and twice Hero of the Soviet Union, presented the Children Space Center in Kirov with the robot Promobot. The center has not yet been opened, but the robot has already met with the Kirov people at Tsiolkovsky Readings – it told about the center and the exhibits. The robot will perform the function of the guide in the center: communicate with visitors, answer their questions, talk about the exhibits and attractions of the center, the achievements of the world space industry.
The creation of this center is also the initiative of Viktor Savinykh. The Center calls its goals patriotic, scientific aesthetic education and upbringing, orienting them toward the profession of the most advanced branches of science and technology.
"For five years we have been building this center, and finally, its opening will take place. All the most innovative exhibits will be collected here, which should awaken children's interest in space, science, technology, explains Victor Savinykh.
"Robots are also an innovation, they are the future. After getting to know Aleksei Iuzhakov, co-founder of Promobot, it became clear to me that a Promobot is necessary for the center. Here it will communicate with the kids, answer their questions, talk about the center and the exhibits. "


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Since my Soul Oracle Cards have long sold out and are no longer being produced, I have received countless requests for some sort of do-it-yourself version ie) ones that you could cut out and use like a regular deck This is the long-awaited solution! It was delayed only because previously I had no time for this project. In retrospect, it was a long-time in coming, since I've always wanted to get these cards into the hands of as many people as possible: the therapist, psychologist, esoterically-inclined folk; the person already practicing divination as well as the neophyte, keen on developing their Higher Consciousness and Intuition. In short, these cards are for everyone, from the skeptic wanting to just have fun, to the metaphysician, seeking out Higher meaning and self-knowledge, for the purpose of helping others to help themselves. https://www.amazon.com/dp/197820910X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1513967584&sr=8-1&keywords=the+complete+do-it-yourself+soul+oracle+cards
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Commentary: Mary Kutulas, 2017; "After Aquarius Dawned: How the Revolutions of the Sixties Became the Popular Culture of the Seventies"
Here's my first reading-with-commentary book for the holidays. If you have JSTOR access, you can get PDFs of each chapter from here: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469632926_kutulas
I'll be posting each chapter's commentary unlisted so as not to clutter the TL, and hopefully tomorrow I'll have found an open-access copy for those with no JSTOR access.
Commentary: Kutulas, 2017; "After Aquarius Dawned"
The author lived during the 70s, and was at college so should have a good enough memory of it. And has personal connections to a major event - no spoilers!
She's using some of Daniel Yankelovich's work on the assimilation of ideas from the radical to the mainstream, which I hope she'll explain further. And, she's also going to look at countercurrents, which is good - a lot of writing on radical or progressive histories and ideas doesn't closely examine backlash, which is a mistake. It's valuable to know how an idea was objected to or fought against, and what was said about it. (And, if it's discernible, why.)
Interestingly, Kutulas cites Yankleovich's claim that the whole reasoning for the 60s counterculture was numeric - the baby boomers reached the most 'change-sensitive' period of their lives right as the civil rights movement and many others were going into high gear. In all the questioning that these radical movements created, baby boomers learned that their parents' cultures and values were not unassailable. Basically, it was an accident of a lot of radical change meeting a lot of young adults, during a time when those young people felt secure in exploring these radical ideas thanks to ongoing economic prosperity. I want to be skeptical, but it makes sense.
And then, apparently, everyone turned inwards in the 70s. It's interesting, I've never heard a lot about 70s cultures. 60s, yes - that was hippies, surfer bums, Nimbin and Byron Bay and driving around in Kombi vans. (It's surprising what my parents do share, even though Mum was effectively housebound with a chronically-ill toddler and herself chronically ill as well at the time. Dad...doesn't share much, but I gather he would have done his National Service in 1971-72, and he joined the military after a few years of unemployment but had to fight for it. I...suspect he did more than couch-surfing and shop jobs, but I doubt he'd ever tell.)
Kutulas points out though that this 'me-decade' stereotype ignores quite a bit. The most famous cause, the anti-war movement, petered out because it more or less achieved its goals - the draft ended in 1971, and the US withdew from Vietnam in 1973. But, Kutulas cites Michael Foley and points out that much of the progress achieved by the gay liberation movement and feminist movement was in the 70s.
Kutulas prefers to consider that the 70s were a transitional period, and that there were political and economic reasons that the 60s radicals lost ground. She points to inflation caused by the spending on the Vietnam War, the loss of political power in the Rust Belt as the (white) working class faced new competitors, and the rise of the Southern conservatives. She adds a really nice broad literature analysis here; I hope she'll get into more detail later.
But, above all, Kutulas disagrees vehemently that 'nothing happened' in the 70s, or that the American public was largely passive or apathetic. She finds those assessments incongruous with actual events and her own experiences.
And, an interesting quote: "We lost any consensus about how people ought to live their lives somewhere in the 1960s, and ever since, most of us do not seem to wat to get it back. In the 1990s, we fought 'culture wars' in the hope of recapturing a postwar 'normalcy' almost no one had actually lived."
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So, to summarize, Kutulas is going to draw on existing scholarship as well as primary sources to examine more subtle aspects, looking for themes of personal agency and change in value systems over the decade. But, Kutulas is also well aware that culture doesn't happen in a vaccuum, and that in a capitalist society it's manipulated to sell.
Here's another quote: "Sixties activisim made Americans more cognizant of the need to reconcile values and lifestyle. It did not make them narcissistic."
Kutulas is also pointing to the post-modern shift, and to the 'Establishment's' loss of legitimacy (partially driven by political scandal and the economic situation). Even conservatves used the term as a pejorative. And the attitudinal shifts involved in the rise of 'hip capitalism' are going to be brought up later.
So, the book is structured around specific areas of culture, and looking at the paths of mainstream assimilation they took (or didn't). It's not a full-on cultural history, more the use of these specific areas to illustrate the broader theme.
That's it for the introduction. I'll see what I can do about an open-access copy soon, I swear! But, it's nearly midnight and I need to sleep, so that will happen tomorrow.
Commentary: Kutulas, 2017; "After Aquarius Dawned"
Kutulas explores much of this subject through the lens of the media, particularly through music. For convenience's sake, the musicians she refers to are: Carly Simon, Joni Mitchell, Carole King; she also extensively brings up James Taylor, and mentions Paul Simon, Jim Croce and Jackson Browne as well.
I'm not really familiar with any of them, so I can't comment much on any of their music. I recognise a few of the songs mentioned, but I've never heard any of them in full. The general themes and tropes however are pretty recognisable. Heck, this is where a lot of them started.
It might seem kind of odd to look at this subject through this lens, but there's a good reason for that. Kutulas holds that at the time, music was one of the prime mediums for communicating culture - it was quick to produce (she quotes a producer of the time claiming a two-week turnaround on records), it was far less regulated than other media in terms of what types of relationships (and what aspects of them) could be shown, and through radio play it became a shared experience.
There had also been a major shift in listener culture, primarily via the Beatles: "Unlike most previous artists, the Beatles wrote their own songs...The Beatles took control over the rest of the creative process as well, by imagining orchestrations and album cover art...Fans learned to "expect meaning and significance" from their music and lives, according to Goldstein. By 1967's Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, thoughtful listeners interrogated lyrics, discerned musical influences, formed aesthetic opinions, and identified with performers' intentions and values. To discuss music knowledgeably and make informed musical choices required familiarity with performers' backstories, a rock music vocabulary, and awareness of the critical reception of songs....Complexity made rock music personal."
And so, musicians became public figures and role models: "By the 1970s, musicians had become celebrities young people followed. Many could recite not only their discographies, but also the names of their lovers or children...Magazines and newspapers eager to gain baby boomers as readers showcased musicians' lifestyles, and professional critics served up authoritative opinions about the relative value of different singers and songs." Kutulas points to Rolling Stone and Village Voice as two major examples, and goes on to talk a bit about market segmentation of music fans.
(The music media establishment becomes important at several points.)
Rock and roll had already "undermined authority, loosened inhibitions, and dramatized peer experiences", and was associated with a rebellious culture that emphasized looking to your peers for what was 'cool' rather than obeying parental authority. Rock had fallen out of favour by the 60s, but the Beatles revived its authenticity and established music as a generational peer rite.
And then the Beatles broke up in 1969. Since their fans were big spenders, record companies needed a replacement. James Taylor was one attempt at this - his first album wasn't well-received by critics, but he found a niche with the college-age demographic while also embodying the counterculture of the 60s. But, he lacked rock authenticity.
Kutulas holds that *male* rebellion was what defined rock authenticity. Male consumers mattered more to rock; the tastemakers in rock were mostly young white (cishet, probably) men, who believed their opinions to be objective. The record industry assumed that women chose their music based on the performer's attractiveness, not the quality of their songs. How little that has changed...
So, to maintain authenticity, rock music could never become too popular. Singer-songwriters were disproportionately female, and mainly enjoyed by the college demographic. Commercially, they were valuable too - but, they were not authentic to rock fans. Critics claimed that the rise of singer-songwriters signalled the end of rock music altogether.
Does this sound familiar? "Their [singer-songwriter's] music lacked social commentary; it was far too focused on performers' autobiographical details. The rock establishment used words like "'wimpy,' 'navel- gazing,' 'narcissistic,' and worse" to describe performers like Taylor, as one critic later noted. Even a feminist critic like Ellen Willis called them "upper- class brats," performers lacking street cred. But they spoke to middle- class youth "creeping out of post- adolescence toward some kind of proto- adulthood" and, as a Saturday Review writer opined, hungry for "artists who personify themselves."
Rebellion was the motivator for young people in the 60s; by the 70s, they were trying to build modern lives and differentiate themselves from their parents at once. Chuck Klosterman described this as a 'Carly Simon Principle', and held that singer-songwriters, through comforting music, helped the middle-class youth reconcile their lived experiences with the 60s.
Kutulas points to the Carly Simon Principle particularly around romantic narratives in music, which singer-songwriters effectively 'modernized'. The Hollywood Production Code of the 1930s forbade any real depiction of sexuality onscreen, and I'd imagine that premarital sex or cohabitation was definitely off the cards too. The dating>marriage>sex narrative was still part of commercial music well into the 60s, but it was quickly becoming outdated.
Commentary: Kutulas, 2017; "After Aquarius Dawned"; discussions of relationships, heterosexuality, (cis)gender politics
(Oh, also, I should add here - the author's name is *Judy* Kutulas. I just checked my citation post. I think I got a bit mixed up there.
I also want to add here that while there is a later chapter on the experiences of LGBTQ people, this chapter seems to be largely about the experiences of cishet men and women. So if it seems a little off, that's why.)
Let's rewind a little.
Young people had started to move away from the 1950s conception of date>go steady>get married>sex. Since the 60s, most spaces were a lot less gender-segregated, and so the date wasn't as necessary as a means for people to interact and scope out one another. Add in the invention of hormonal contraceptives (that by the 70s were easily available to young, single women) ending the fear of pregnancy and the old etiquette seemed outdated. That seems very much the case now - dating is still a way of scoping someone out, but more in a sense of long-term prospects than simply getting to know one another.
College campuses were the main place that the writers Kutulas cites were looking for their evidence; I do wonder if increasing rates of attendance (especially among women) might have been a partial driver as well. And if there were still obvious divides.
Kutulas also makes a good point about the impact of Playboy and later Cosmopolitan, and how 60s and 70s youth found them problematic. Aside from increasing rates of premarital sex and unmarried cohabiting, there was also a lot of normalization in the language and discussion, especially around women's sexuality. But, this entire discussion was still situated within a discourse of individuality and freedom.
Back to music. Carly Simon's 'That's the Way I Always Heard It Should Be' is pointed out as a groundbreaking moment. It brought an epiphany for one reviewer - Robert Christgau - who had the epiphany that, contrary to stereotypes, young women were afraid of being 'tied down' by marriage too. The song challenged listeners to think about what they had been taught in marriage, and particularly consider that attraction could wane over time.
Goffin & King's 'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?' is pointed to as embodying one of women's fears around premarital sex (which Carol King certainly knew about - she was married to Goffin at 17 and pregnant on her wedding day, which wasn't at all unusual at the time) but by the 70s, it was relatively easy for young, single women attending college to obtain The Pill and most did.
Naturally, there was backlash from popular culture. Sixties rock music didn't care, but its vision of sexuality didn't really mesh with lived realities - by the end of the 60s, rock had become largely defined by men, and thus its vision of sexuality was largely defined by (presumably cishet) men. While for young people generally, rock music's visions were out of step with their lives, this was particularly so for women.
I'm happy that Kutulas (briefly) interrogates the nature of the 'free love' phenomenon and how counterculture treated women and women's sexuality. Feminists of the time were right to point out that 'free love' was never really free in a world where men still had so much more power. Kutulas points to the stereotype of the 'hippie chick' as a less inhibited, playful character who rebelled against her parents, pleased men, and expected little more. And the 'hippie chick' became the 'groupie'...we all know how that ended for so many. The overall ethos of the sexual revolution, combined with the easy availability of contraception, had a dark side - Kutulas claims that they took control away from women. Dating had an implicit social contract that allowed women to set the level of intimacy; with the end of that, "young women discovered they had either to comply with male sexual expectations or gain a reputation as sexually repressed." And that has never really been resolved either.
(With that being said, I'm loath to put too much blame on The Pill. But I may be biased for personal reasons. Plus, given what I've heard of the experiences of women prior to the 60s (through geneaology and historical feminist works) I'm not really convinced that dating or the expectation of marriage was much of a defense. I'd put it that it's fairer to say that The Pill and the change in the social narrative failed to make any difference there, and perhaps made the situation worse in some ways. I just don't buy that anything was significantly better before, and I have reasons for my skepticism.)
Anyway, back to music. Kutulas holds that singer-songwriters helped to bridge this divide. They were much more relateable in appearance and writing, and their musical style emphasized lyrics, which made this music to listen to alone and think about. White middle-class youth found in the singer-songwriter a peer guide to life, romance, and sex - and this was especially so for women, who had previously never really been included in that way.
Commentary: Kutulas, 2017; "After Aquarius Dawned"; discussions of relationships, heterosexuality, (cis)gender politics
Kutulas points to Carole King's Tapestry (1971), and 'I Feel The Earth Move' as a pivotal moment here. I'm gathering that by this point, King had divorced; she wrote the entire song herself, which gave her a good deal more freedom. King connected with young women, and she didn't fit into rock's stereotypes; she was instead described as a sort of 'earth mother', with articles describing the recording of the album and the cover photographed in her own home, suggesting a life similar to that of her fans. King's personal story and changing style resonated too - and apparently, even forty years later women still approach her with stories about how Tapestry inspired them. Oh, and it took in four Grammies.
The industry was forced to reassess its image of women's musical tastes and consumption in the wake of Tapestry's success, and and companies scrambled to aim their marketing towards women. An ad for Joni Mitchell's 'Ladies of the Canyon' featured a (fictional) story of a fan listening to the album after a breakup and extolling Mitchell as 'someone else...who really knew' - a familiar experience to fans. Carly Simon's producer distributed copies of 'That's the Way I Always Heard it Should Be' among receptionists and secretaries at radio stations to build demand. Kutulas holds that Mitchell, Simon, and Carol King became cultural touchstones for young women in the early 70s through a combination of marketing efforts and word-of-mouth.
And, importantly, this music also helped to shift the narrative around women's relationships and sexuality. Women in these songs were the subject for once, and brought their perspectives to the romance narrative - providing "meaningful snippets of sexual expression for young women who had few other compelling female perspectives on modern love".
But, the contradictions were still present. Female performers' biographies, and the way they were spoken and written about by the music establishment, were still an issue. But this also provided some impromptu consciousness-raising - the common experience of objectification helped to bond female fans with female performers. The music industry in this time was almost exclusively male at the top, as were the critics - so they had no issue commenting more about a woman's looks and love life than her chart performances or musical career. Kutulas includes quotes from Joni Mitchell and Carly Simon, about their experiences with the music media of the time - Mitchell was irritated by Rolling Stone's repeat charting of her previous relationships, and Carly Simon was offended by the behavior of several interviewers, as well as disliking the photograph used for the cover of Playing Possum.
Joni Mitchell: "There was no free love...It came with great strings attached. It was free for men, but not for women, same as it ever was." And same as it still is in some ways.
Polls from the era concur with Mitchell's assessment. Women were overall far more cautious about their sexuality, and this may well have contributed to how so many women connected with female singer-songwriters too. A Harris poll conducted in 1971 also noted something else - a lot of women unhappy with the way they were treated by men, with many agreeing with the statement 'men find it necessary for their egos to keep women down' and half agreeing that 'most men are more interested in their own sexual satisfaction than a woman's'. These 'ordinary women', Kutulas holds, reshaped sexual politics by holding their partners to higher standards around intimacy and autonomy.
And this is where the term 'relationship' originated. 'Dating' was too formal as a term, 'going steady' was a TV line - so 'relationship' seemed to best convey the romantic and sexual arrangements of unmarried adults. By 1977, about a quarter of all US college students had cohabited at some point, and about half saw no problem with a couple cohabiting before or without being married.
These three prominent female singer-songwriters presented portraits of modern relationships through both their songs and their lives, and that were largely consistent with the experiences of their listeners. Loraine Alterman, for example, suggested that Joni Mitchell's work had "a special meaning to all women who are caught in the basic dilemma of knowing they must realize their own potential at the same time they still want to find...love." Through this music, as well as following the performer's personal lives, young women saw peers who constructed attainable and satisfying versions of modern romance.
(I'll note as well that, as explained in the introduction, Kutulas isn't sticking to a particular chronology here; she tends to go back and forth a bit in the chapter.)
Kutulas holds as well that this 'new woman' was distinct from feminists, which provided enhanced status for women who wanted more freedom but were wary of association with what was a contentious movement at the time. Alterman felt that the feminist movement of the 70s was excessively pedantic and zealous, which put young women off. King, Simon and Mitchell were all heterosexual, but they challenged norms without being too socially transgressive. They embodied independence, self-reliance and sexual confidence, but still found room for romance. (Needless to say, they were not popular with feminists of the time.)
Their music also recognized women's changing aspirations. Prior to equal pay, affirmative action, or other reforms largely won by feminism, a lack of economic opportunity and stability pushed most women into marriage. But for the increasing numbers of college-educated women, a husband was no longer needed for economic stability. By 1980, more women were receiving bachelor's degrees than men in US colleges, more than half of all adult women were working, and two-thirds of unmarried 25yo women lived out of home. And as these young women moved out of home - to live on their own, with roommates, or with partners - and earned their own money, they engaged in much more material and self-expression. Their chosen singer-songwriters helped to provide cultural cues to their lifestyles.
So, the 70s saw the growth of a woman-centered culture, shaped by a mainstreamed version of feminism as well as by demographic realities. Single, college-educated working women were an emergent market segment, and one both unprepared for independent living and culturally conditioned into insecurity. This culture offered them realizable visions of freedom. The struggling-to-be-liberated woman became a popular culture figure in sitcoms like The Mary Tyler Moore Show (also discussed later), on Carly Simon's No Secrets cover, or in Joni Mitchell's Blue. Simon, Mitchell and King expressed in autobiographical songs how modern women could balance feminism and the sexual revolution, how to balance romance, independence, and desire.
But this failed to reach men. This was the era of the 'cock rocker'. Angela Carter observed in 1980 that 'liberated' had come to be a euphemism for 'promiscuous'; while women incorporated parts of feminism into their worldview that helped to open up their lives, middle-class men would at best pay some lip service to feminism while hiding the anxiety it provoked in its threats to their privilege. As women moved from object to subject outside of rock culture, the men within rock culture solidifier their hold. The only commonality was the shift in lyrical style around romance.
Female singer-songwriters were permitted to coexist alongside rock, but male singer-songwriters were not. While James Taylor's female fans saw him as an example of the 'new man' (discussed later), and he had a reputation to go with it, the hard rockers hated him. The gentlest criticism levelled at him came from Robert Christgau - yes, the same one who found Simon a revelation - who conceded that Taylor was intelligent, liberal and good, but leading a retreat from rock music and from masculinity. Taylor's music and presentation resonated with women - thus undermining the fantasies of the more hedonistic male rock fans.
While Kutulas holds that Taylor attracted the most vitriol, Paul Simon and other male singer-songwriters were equally panned by rock media. The male singer-songwriters that Kutulas mentions - James Taylor, Paul Simon, Jim Croce and Jackson Browne - were all married, writing songs to their children, keeping concerts simple, and were criticized as leading 'quiet middle-class lives'. As such, their public personae undermined the image of the rockstar.
But the truth always comes out. Kutulas holds that the lives of the male singer-songwriters were not models of romantic equality. They too expressed unease at the 'new woman', and the impact of her sexuality. Although they were less crude than the rockstars, their common theme was still often the victimization of men by female sexuality. Browne even managed to refashion the real-life story of meeting his wife into such a tale. The temptress became a recurring figure in male singer-songwriter's music, as a symbol of how assertive womanhood threatened the male fantasy of 'free love'.
Male singer-songwriters were ultimately in a genre dominated by women and regarded as feminized by critics, so they struggled to maintain their public status as Real Men(TM). Particularly, in interviews they often dropped stories of sexual exploits or substance abuse, and took on symbols of rebelliousness; Taylor was particularly nasty towards Carly Simon in an interview shortly after they were married, and I don't feel too positive about reading into the rest of their marriage. Most critics failed to notice these attempts to reassert masculinity, instead focusing on what male singer-songwriters had in common with the female colleagues - self-absorption.
(Sound familiar?)
Commentary: Kutulas, 2017; "After Aquarius Dawned"; discussions of relationships, heterosexuality, (cis)gender politics
Critics also saw singer-songwriter's music as devoid of political consciousness; singer-songwriters exposed themselves as people of privileged status, with the time and money to 'find themselves' - which Kutulas writes of as the ultimate countercultural luxury. Being middle-class was what made them cultural forerunners (as early adopters were in tech, and as holds in many other fields). But, this also distinguished their relationships from traditional marriage - me-ness rather than we-ness. The relationships imagined by singer-songwriters emphasized the enhancement of the individual and meeting their needs - discouraging permanence.
And, most of their works emphasized the transience of relationships. While later films embellished the idea that love did not need to last forever to be meaningful, singer-songwriters were the first to justify the impermanence of love. And notably, it was done more or less non-judgmentally. Earlier breakup songs tended to clearly distinguish bad dating situations from good, and apportion blame - but to singer-songwriters, there were no perfect matches, and romance was simply unpredictable.
This built a vision of breakups being reasonable, ending the cultural stigma of breakups as a failure at romance. No-fault divorce probably contributed to this too. The new breakup songs soothes and reassured, providing affirmation of the decision to break up that was unlikely to be found from young people's parents, or other authority figures. They downplayed blame and judgement, instead emphasizing the capacity for rebirth and encouraging listeners to learn from their mistakes and try again. Kutulas: "It was a romantic arc both modern and traditional, focused on the self but maintaining distinctive gendered roles. It was the counterculture's version of love projected into a real world where men and women still were not equal."
Kutulas goes further, to hold that singer-songwriter works about relationships still confirmed a very traditional view of gender roles. Relationships were women's domain, a feminist-inspired version of commitment intended to give women more romantic control. But this new agency undermined men's sexual freedom, thus leading to conflict. Pop psychology books reinforced this narrative of a disjoint between women's expectations and what men were prepared to deliver, assuming that men were unwilling to commit to one partner and needed to 'find themselves', while women wanted more 'personal' relationships and simply had to work around this. Singer-songwriters confirmed that women still had more to lose and gain in relationships, even without legal commitment. Women remained culturally positioned as the nurturers of men and relationships, and even with the development and normalisation of 'relationships', men retained most of their privilege and social power. Women gained some freedom and autonomy, but it remained "an unequal compromise".
Still, what singer-songwriters taught 'liberated' women was how to recover from breakups stronger and without guilt, reversing pop's narrative of women as helpless victims and instead creating a vision of assertiveness. Carly Simon's (infamous) 'You're So Vain' was a brief anthem - not a song of longing or passivity, but an open taunt at men's egos. (Fun fact: Simon has told a small number of people who the song is about - it's actually about three different men. One was Warren Beatty, but the other two remain unknown for now. Taylor Swift and a couple of other people know.)
This echoed a trend of 1970s self-help, assertiveness training - which was particularly aimed at women. Assertiveness training was meant to teach women how to articulate their needs and feelings, negotiating the gendered reality that did not intrinsically benefit them and accomodate the stalled feminist revolution that put the onus for liberation on them. Unfortunately, this brief upturn ended, as many female singer-songwriters' careers began to decline. Carly Simon, particularly, had a difficult time - her highly-publicized life and openness about sexuality resulted in objectification, and as for many of her colleagues survival in the (then) male-dominated industry was difficult and exhausting.
Meanwhile, male singer-songwriters helped to artistically reclaim the male fantasy, though with a complicated view of women's assertiveness and sexuality. Breakup songs were still a staple of 1970s singer-songerwriters, but among male artists older stereotypes of women persisted. Bob Dylan, particularly, was called out by Anna Quindlen over the content of 'Blood on the Tracks' (1975) as embodying the "self- pitying cry of a wounded male chauvinist" - not that it stopped anything. Another writer for Ms magazine likened it to film plots in which unmarried men were to be pitied for bearing the personal costs of modern feminism.
Kutulas goes on to discuss the changes in 'liberation' around sex specifically. Feminist sex researchers of the 1970s made efforts to force the mainstream to acknowledge women's pleasure and sexuality, while mainstream researchers noticed that as women became more assertive in the bedroom, more and more men experienced sexual problems. As women gained sexual experience and came to expect pleasure, men began to feel threatened and inadequate. But, despite feminist discourses about mutuality, men still held cultural dominance - so, by the close of the 70s, excess prevailed over sensitivity and the female singer-songwriters were overtaken by the disco movement's female artists, who I gather took a very, *very* different view of things.
Overly-assertive female sexuality didn't just disturb those men already feeling insecure - it also deeply disturbed conservatives, who saw it as threatening to the family unit. 'Marriage enhancement movements' proscribed a submissive role to women with the promise that it would protect their marriages. And the media blamed women's sexual liberation for increasing male violence (including date rape); a profile of the Son-of-Sam killer focused particularly on his masculinity and views of women, suggesting that this was what drove him to murder. Experts condemned predatory male behavior, but laws and customs changed slowly or not at all - women were still often the ones blamed for it all, because they had disrupted sexual and gender dynamics (which presumably were felt to have been absolutely fine by those who had absolutely no idea of the realities).
The feminist version of liberation was further overtaken by a male-defined version. While women were happy to embrace legal and economic equality, romantic equality and the other issues within home life seemed unattainable. Male singer-songwriters helped to establish a stereotype that persists today of pleasure-seeking men who never quite grow up, but overall singer-songwriters lost their popularity to disco, punk, arena rock and heavy metal as the 70s went on.
Commentary: Kutulas, 2017; "After Aquarius Dawned"; discussions of relationships, heterosexuality, (cis)gender politics
Kutulas holds that the late 70s had no predominant musical genre. Singer-songwriters weren't well-suited to the larger venues that other successful acts moved to, to capitalise on their (again, mainly middle-class) listeners' disposable income. Disco was commercially successful, but the style tended to appeal to the more marginalised (particularly to African-America, Latinx, and LGBTQ people) and so failed to gain the respect of the establishment. Some middle-class youth still dabbled in disco, and some working-class men railed against it.
Overall, Kutulas holds, male critics continued to define authenticity according to their class, racial and gender biases. Bruce Springsteen is here criticized as fusing the singer-songwriter relationship tropes with more traditionally masculine themes, with songs focusing on declining male privilege while relegating women to symbols of domesticity. Springsteen illustrated how the bleaker late-70s economy constrained.
As these cultural messages of gender and sexual revolution spread, the musical tastes of some baby boomers mattered less and less - but it was still true that at least some of the interpersonal and sexual values modeled by earlier singer-songwriters were incorporated into cultural and musical discourse. Yankelovich's dispersion of new views had occurred. By he late 70s, the push for self-fulfiment had, in his opinion, spread to "virtually the entire US population" while Macklin, a psychologist, observed that by the end of the 70s even older people were adopting these views and values on cohabitation, divorce and sex outside of marriage.
And, these norms still predominate today. Two-thirds of Americans find premarital sex morally acceptable, and a third do not consider it important that a couple should marry if they want to spend their lives together. Peggy Orenstein (a feminist novelist) considers that popular culture is still helping American youth define sexual norms, though she finds that the medium is now pornography rather than music (with all the issues that brings). Orenstein agrees that a shift happened through the 60s and 70s that saw the decline of traditional authorities' ability to police young adults' sexuality, replaced by the 'super-peer' of the media. But, Orenstein argues, it was an illusion of liberation rather than any real liberation. The promises of romantic and sexual equality were never realised, and now young people have the Internet to contend with.
I guess the overall take-away here is that for all that we may think everything changed in terms of sexual politics for heterosexual people, they didn't change much at all. There were substantive changes in the law that enabled greater economic equality and meant that (cis) women no longer had to rely on a husband for financial stability - but the interpersonal side of things really didn't change much at all.
I've heard of a few books that go deeper into the co-option of this watered-down 'liberation', but I never did get to reading any of them. And I definitely feel that a big part of the battle(s) between sex positivity and modern feminism could be resolved if more figures in those movements read into the history from these times - because heck, it seems like a lot of the fundamental points of contention have their origins in this era, and like a lot of the other issues they remain unresolved. You can't come to a conclusion if you can't remember how the argument started.
But overall, it's a pretty heavy opening chapter, that's left me with a lot to think about.
Commentary: Kutulas, 2017; "After Aquarius Dawned"
As a preview, it looks like the next chapter, "The Look I Want To Know Better" is about masculinity and the male experience of the decade(s), particularly in terms of class and consumption and discussing the impact of marketing as well as wider social and economic trends.
There's also plenty of 'oh this sounds familiar' lines, so expect a bit of snark in the commentary.
Going to be an interesting read as well.
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On June 26, 2017, the Supreme Court ruled to lift part of the stay on some portions of the Trump Administration's travel ban. The Executive Order (EO-2) had banned entry of nationals of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen from the United States for at least 90 days and suspends the admission of all refugees for 120 days.
The Supreme Court did not fully reinstate the ban, but rather stated that it would not apply to foreign nationals who have a "credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States." These relationships must have been established before the issuance of this order. The same bar will be applied to refugees, unless they can establish some connection to the United States.
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DUBAI — When Glowork.net, a recruitment site for women in Saudi Arabia, started up last year, its founder, Khalid al-Khudairi, was hit with a deluge of threatening e-mail and phone calls warning him to shut down because he was violating cultural norms.
Now the Saudi Ministry of Labor has asked him to help encourage women to find work. The government turned to the start-up because many of those seeking jobs in the kingdom are women.
The government has even announced plans to form a "woman friendly" city in the eastern province of Hofuf next year, aiming to bolster employment opportunities for women without transgressing religious boundaries.
"Saudi women are educated, willing to work and tired of waiting," said Mr. Khudairi, who is 29. "It could have accelerated from the Arab Spring, but women in the region have been speaking out more, demanding equal rights and good positions for years. And now we're seeing real change in Saudi."
As part of an effort to reduce the 2.4 billion Saudi riyals, or $640 million, spent on unemployment benefits last year alone, the ministry gave Glowork access to all its unemployment data, including 1.6 million résumés, 1.2 million of them from women. Glowork will be paid a fee for every candidate who finds a job.
Reaching out to Glowork is one of several changes affecting women in the Saudi workplace.
Adel Fakieh, the Saudi labor minister, appointed in August 2010, has pushed through a "feminization" program that has included replacing the men who work in sales at lingerie stores with women.
That may seem humorous, but it was important for gender equality in a country where religious conservatives deem it inappropriate for women to work outside the home.
Jewelry stores are following suit, and stores that sell abayas, the coverings women are required to wear, will be feminized next year.
The minister initially met with resistance not only from conservatives but also from business owners. They doubted whether they would find enough Saudi women to hire.
Saudis also expect to earn double the monthly salary of 1,500 riyals paid to an experienced expatriate worker, typically a South Asian.
"Introducing women into the Gulf private sector work force will not be easy, and there is a risk of moving too fast, as you cannot simply replace one skilled expat worker with a national woman," said Leila Hoteit, a consultant at Booz & Co. in the United Arab Emirates. "In the longer term, this change is inevitable; attitudes in the region are changing, and many companies are actively defining their vision to help women play a more central role in the region's labor market."
Of Saudi Arabia's population of 28 million, 45 percent are women. About 57 percent of Saudi women have university degrees, according to a recent study by Oxford Strategic Consulting.
Yet women make up only 15 percent of the labor force. Roughly 60 percent of women with Ph.D. degrees are not working, according to a recent study by Booz.
Limited participation by women in the work force is ingrained in Gulf culture despite recent efforts to encourage them to work. Oxford Strategic Consulting says an expectation in the region to put family and childcare first is the main barrier to women seeking work, followed by inappropriate work conditions, poor training and a male-dominated culture.
For those women who want to work, finding a job is still not easy. The process of recruiting by companies taken for granted elsewhere is not well developed in the kingdom.
Some women give up trying. Aia al-Khudairi, the sister of Glowork's founder, gave up after a year of asking her driver to shuttle her from bank to bank, dropping résumés off with security guards. Now 22, Ms. Khudairi is completing a master's degree in Canada.
Amal al-Rashed, 25, was unemployed for two years after graduation from King Saud University in her hometown, Riyadh. It used to be that the only way to get a job in Saudi Arabia — even at international companies — was through a connection. That is how she landed at an events management company that she did not really like.
"Our university had no career guidance; they didn't teach us anything about working, never ever," Ms. Rashed said. "I really struggled to find a job after graduating even though I had good grades, but I kept at it until finally, like most people, a friend eventually got me in the door at her company."
A year into her job, she received a text message about Glowork and decided to upload her résumé and apply for positions online — even though she had no faith in recruiting procedures.
To her surprise, in 10 days, she received a phone call offering an interview. Shortly after, she was hired at Brandbuzz, a marketing agency in Saudi Arabia. She has been working there for a year.
Within six months of its start, Glowork.net, which cost $450,000 in self-financed capital, grew to a network of 2,200 companies that want to hire women.
Glowork charges $700 to employers for each candidate, from initial screening to mentoring, and $300 a month to give companies access to candidates' résumés via Glowork. Members now include multinationals like Microsoft, Pepsi and General Electric as well as smaller local firms.
A major difficulty in employing women in Saudi is that separate offices must be set up for them.
"If they hire women to work, they need another office, with electricity, a dedicated security guard, computers," Mr. Khudairi said. "This is a major cost, especially for small, local companies.
"So we came up with a solution that also gives companies the choice of hiring women to work out of home."
Through cloud computing technology, women at home are given work stations that have systems to allow their employers to monitor closely what they are doing, including their phone calls and every computer click. An employer can monitor someone directly from an iPhone.
Aside from saving on transportation costs, this technology helps make it easier for women in rural areas to work. It also helps those with disabilities or with children. All that is needed is an Internet connection.
Glowork also finds women to work in more conventional settings. Aramex, a global logistics firm, has built the staff of its women's call center in Jeddah up to 51 through Glowork. The building where they work is a separate office for women only. Cameras monitor the hallways.
"It was a challenge for me to find attractive résumés at a time when our business in Saudi was expanding," Ehtesham Hanif, the head of human resources at Aramex in Jeddah, said by telephone. "There are difficulties in Saudi when it comes to hiring women because of the separate environments. I had to answers questions like: Will our manager be male? Will we sit beside male staff?"
Glowork now wants to expand into the rest of the Gulf, starting in Oman and Qatar.
Mr. Khudairi notes that 140,000 Saudi students are now studying abroad on government scholarships and that the kingdom now has a major new women's university — Princess Nora University.
"Why do we educate our women and then expect them to just sit at home?" he asked.


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If conditions necessitate having to trailer your own sleds more than 15-miles from our lodge and you wish to cancel, all monies will be refunded. If the trails leading out of the lodge are not passable, but we determine there are rideable trails within 15-miles of the lodge no refunds will be given. You may still come and trailer your sleds or we will offer a rain check for the remainder of the season.
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This protection entitles each participant to a full refund in the event of forced cancellation resulting from personal illness, injury, or death of an immediate family member, or military deployment. Documentary proof of loss from a competent authority is required to support claims. The cancellation insurance fee is 7% of your total reservation. Protection extends to one traveling companion, and the minor children of the participant.
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- $15 per night (plus lodging tax) charge per pet.
- $100 extra cleaning charge may be charged if it is determined by Northern Outdoors staff that the pets have been on the furniture, excessive animal hair found on the carpets, relieved themselves inside the accommodations, etc.
- Any additional damage and related costs will be charged against the credit card left as a security deposit.
- We expect that pets be crated inside the accommodations if left for more than an hour. No housekeeping make ups will occur UNLESS the pets are crated.
- All animals must be on a leash and UNDER CONTROL outside.
- No pets are allowed inside any of the public areas including the restaurant deck.
- Please pick up poop and dispose of it in outside trash cans (plastic bags provided).
- If the pet is disruptive to other guests (excessive barking, intimidating behavior) you will be asked to leave as soon as possible. No refunds will be given under these circumstances.
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