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text: WATCH: Aisha Hinds Discusses America in 2017 And How We Can Learn From Harriet Tubman Tonja Stidhum May 9, 2017 TV, Video Another Contenders Emmys clip was released via Deadline and this time Aisha Hinds is the star! The video featured clips from Hinds' now-infamous solo episode of WGN America's Underground ("Minty") as they discussed humanizing Harriet Tubman. She was joined by co-creators Misha Green and Joe Pokaski, fellow cast member Alano Miller, and director/executive producer Anthony Hemingway. Co-creator Joe Pokaski described it as unveiling the "Clark Kent" of Tubman while still revealing her "Superman." Hinds went on to discuss the relevance of Harriet Tubman today. "We're living in a country that was built on the backs of the enslaved and has shaped the souls of our humanity, and so we need to sort of revisit Harriet Tubman and her story," Hinds noted at the packed DGA Theatre last month. "I think that we would do well to take a page out of her book and include may people outside of ourselves and our families as we take care of this country," she continued. Green reiterated the impact of Tubman as well noting, "First season we made up fictional people put together from real enslaved stories, but Harriet Tubman was out there actually doing the work, and I think it inspires me and all of us to do more." The season finale recently aired and there's no word on a third season yet, but we hope this dramatic-theatrical series can continue to tell such significant stories! Comments comments

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Telematic Registry and Identification ServiceSet up a button on your website and begin to identify customers with the highest guarantee and a fully managed service
The Telematic Registry and Identification Service (STRI) is a trust service whose mission is to accelerate the process of identifying people in the online channel in industries that require maximum guarantees. With STRI you may delegate the liability on the identification of people in a Trust Services Provider.
The outcome of the service is to provide the value of a person identified with high reliability. Within seconds, we offer this value and the certified credentials of the client and the electronic evidences collected during the process.
The STRI Service provides a button which, when embedded in your website, lets you trigger a fully digital process of the identification of your customer by remote video, verify his identity and electronically sign a document with the same legal validity as the onsite identitiy verification process and the manual signature.
STRI offers all the technological services required to perform the service (remote video identification, certified e-mail, SMS message sending and email sending of electronic signature and the issuing of an electronic certificate if applicable) and record along time all the evidences of the process.
The registration process is done through a new browser based technology called Video ID. Video ID is an identification method by remote video that simulates the physical on-site verification act in front of a Registration Authority or business office, but in the online channel. Once the video is recorded in the registration process it is verified by a qualified member of the Registration Authority.
Would you like to try it yourself online?
It can be done from your home or office. You will need a device (PC, mobile phone or tablet) with camera connected to the internet, have your identity card handy, provide an e-mail addess (where we will send you a link to the dummy document to sign) and a mobile phone number (where we will send you a code to sign the document).
Request a demo and we send to you the credentials to test it.
About Privacy: The personal data collected in the registration process are used for the sole purpose of the demonstration. As soon as the process is complete the data will be deleted permanently from our systems.


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Wicker furniture is one of the most widely used styles of outdoor decor. It is pleasant to look at and can be quite comfortable. Unfortunately, it can also get very dirty and worn. Keeping wicker furniture clean should be a part of your outdoor maintenance routine.Following these instructions will bring help bring your outdoor wicker furniture back to life.
Step 1
Remove all cushions from your wicker chairs and sofas. Using a garden hose, wash down the tops of all pieces. Turn the pieces over and wash down their undersides. Remove as much paint as possible.
Step 2
Go over the entire piece with a scrub brush. Using a toothbrush, scrub in between any reeds of cane that are exceptionally dirty. Do this on both the tops and bottoms of the furniture. Hose down each piece again.
Step 3
Check each piece for signs of mold. If any are apparrent, spray on a bleach-and-water formula and scrub with a toothbrush. Again, hose down each piece thoroughly. Allow to dry for 24 hours.
Step 4
When all pieces are dry, check for broken reeds. Using wood glue, glue any broken pieces back into place and allow to dry.
Step 5
Lay a painter's drop cloth on the ground and place each wicker piece on it. Spray-paint primer on the top of each piece. When dry, turn each piece over and spray-paint the primer underneath. Allow this to dry.
Step 6
Using the desired color of paint, spray-paint each piece of furniture, top and bottom. Allow to dry for at least 24 hours. If necessary, repeat by spraying a light second coat of paint.
Step 7
Finally, using a clear sealer, spray-paint each piece (top and bottom). Allow to dry for 24 hours before replacing cushions for use.


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Mount Evans has been the subject of many of my postings, today I would like to show you views of the other large peak visible on a clear day from Denver: Longs Peak.
Lying more to the North/NorthWest of Denver, its one of Colorado's Fourteeners
It is named after Major Stephen Long, who explored the area in the 1820s. Longs Peak is one of the most prominent mountains in Colorado. More here on wikipedia.
Popular with mountain climbers and hikers, it's not climbable by motor vehicle that I know of. You get great views of it when riding the Peak to Peak Highway on the way to Estes Park and the Rocky Mountain National Park.
Today, I was in Northglenn picking up a Harmonizer Carburetor Balancer tool from my friend Darrell S, a fellow Uralista. He sold it to me as he's trading in/selling both his 2006 URAL Patrol sidecar rigs in order to finance the purchase of a 2014 Ural Patrol, the one with fuel-injection and many other modern improvements. I can't wait, for him to get it, so I can get a first hand look at one of these rigs!
Anyways, I was north of the Metro Area, the weather was pretty clear, and the views I'd seen of Longs Peak while going to Darrell's house had set my pictorial objective of the day.
I rode NW from Darrell's house, ending up on 160th Street heading west till it junctions with Sheridan Parkway. From there it was a dirt road to a nearby construction area which unobstructed views of Longs Peak.
Above and below pictures taken with my Nikon AW110 camera.
Above and below pictures taken with my old and mostly
non-working Panasonic Lumix ZS8. I use it for long focal length shots
as its optical zoom is greater than the Nikon's for such shots.
What do you think of the clarity of the last two pictures? I think it's "acceptable" after some tweaking with ribbett.com's online tools. The Panasonic never did recover from the big rains we had weeks ago, that led to the big floods which made the national news.
Hope you're getting some riding in this new year.
Update: Just noticed that URAL's Facebook page is sporting one of my pictures! :)


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Wall Slide Doors
A beautiful way to hide your laundry area, set aside a place to store your movie, music, and game collection, or simply accentuate an otherwise blah doorway is by installing Wall slide doors. A perfectly placed wall slide door can also make the most of a space in your home by creating pockets of storage or appealing division of space.
Our wall slide doors can help meet any unique or challenging home design need with style and sophistication. Wall sliding doors are always a creative option that lend an eye-catching, sophisticated display to your living areas or make your rooms and bedrooms feel more spacious. We offer glass sliding wall doors in designs that range from traditional to contemporary to find the perfect style that makes you the happiest. Contact one of us representative to learn about the wall slide doors and other innovative sliding glass door and wall solutions.
We offer several frame finishes, glass typesincluding milky, laminated, frosted, smoked frosted, linen, combo glass, clear, smoked clear, and blackand our frame designs run the gamut of style. Combine the many options of glass, frames, and finishes to create the precise style you desire to enliven your living space. Contact us to learn more about customizing our sliding doors for your closets to express your style and enhance your decor. Browse our gallery online, or visit a showroom to see our product line in greater detail


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He gives the appearance of a strikingly laid-back victor, this presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
On the day before the night he made history, Barack Obama shot hoops at the East Bank Club in Chicago, and called the odd superdelegate or two. Then he and his wife, Michelle, kissed their daughters goodnight and, with a half dozen of their best friends, rode to Midway Airport to catch a flight to St. Paul to claim his prize. He sat on the plane, legs crossed, chuckling, chatting, giving little hint of what roiled within.
Mr. Obama has written of his "spooky good fortune" in politics, and vaulting ambition and self-possession define his rise.
He turned down a prestigious federal appellate court clerkship while at Harvard to work as a community organizer. He wrote an autobiography at the age of 33, and another 11 years later. He brushed aside a liberal mentor who stood in his way in Illinois. After just two years in the United States Senate, he announced that he would run for the presidency and then upended a Democratic Party powerhouse.
On the cusp of becoming the first African-American to capture a major party nomination, Mr. Obama remains a protean political figure, inspiring devotion in supporters who see him as a transformative leader even as he remains inscrutable to critics.
He has the gift of making people see themselves in him and offers an enigmatic smile when asked about his multiracial appeal.
"I am like a Rorschach test," he said in an interview with The New York Times. "Even if people find me disappointing ultimately, they might gain something."
He is a liberal who favors regulating Wall Street and stanching housing foreclosures, negotiating with foreign enemies and disengaging from the war in Iraq. He speaks eloquently about America's divisions of race and class, and says the old rhetoric of racial grievance has exhausted itself.
But his insistence that he can bridge the nation's ideological chasms without resorting to partisan warfare leaves some with the nagging sense that he makes it sound too easy, and that his full measure as a politician has yet to be taken.
He has stumbled and fumbled more than once. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton confounded him, pushing him back on his heels, his irritation too apparent. He falls in love with his words and perhaps his celebrity, acknowledging after Texas that he had become too dependent on arena politics and too aloof in smaller settings.
He is a deliberative fellow in a manic game. When his now-retired pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., offered incendiary views on race and politics, Mr. Obama was slow to recognize how quickly Mr. Wright's words inflamed voters' doubts about him.
Michelle Obama, who is also a Harvard-trained lawyer and whose fires often burn hotter than those of her husband, pointedly advises Mr. Obama to forswear the cerebral and embrace the visceral. As Republicans attack him as unknown and untested, Mr. Obama could recall her advice in the months to come.
He was raised literally and metaphorically offshore, in Indonesia by his white mother and in Hawaii by his white grandparents. He is very much an American but tends to view the incongruities of politics with the distancing eye of an outsider.
A Life Examined
One of the curiosities about Mr. Obama is his professed lack of interest in the writers who pore over that life, trying to deconstruct his fractured family and geography. He claims not to read profiles that pile high in his plane.
"It just encourages the narcissism that is already a congenital defect for a politician," he says. "I find these essays more revealing about the author than about me."
The same might be said of Mr. Obama's autobiography, which is less a straightforward chronicle than a carefully framed coming-of-age narrative. He describes himself as a young man adrift, although few friends recall thinking him so lost. And he just might have overstated his youthful experimentation with marijuana.
(Last November, an Iowa voter asked if he, unlike Bill Clinton, had inhaled. Mr. Obama looked puzzled. "I never understood that line," he said. "The point was to inhale.")
He carries a reputation as a Natural, and insists on calm. He did not interview each prospective campaign aide, but he laid down a rule: No drama kings or queens welcome. He confides in only a handful of advisers, particularly David Axelrod, the campaign guru with the appreciation for Chicago-style politics, and rarely displays public agitation about the measuring stick of his profession, electoral wins and losses. Told in February that he had won the caucuses in Maine, an overwhelmingly white state that he had expected to lose, he nodded, mumbled "That's great," and turned back to a phone call.
He jokes with his Secret Service agents and carries his own bags off planes and buses. (In this fishbowl world, a candidate knows he is being studied; carrying your own bags can be good manners, good politics, or both.) He jogs to the stage with the cocky ease of a jock.
He favors moderate tastes, preferring organic tea to a tumbler of gin, salmon to steak, a fruit plate to fries. He jokes about tossing back a beer, but his tippling amounts to a swig or two, most often to try to prove to television cameras that he is a "regular guy."
But his greenness as a candidate also shows. His debate performances tend toward the erratic, authoritative one moment, defensive and diffident the next. He waxes incandescent at rallies, but in the 18-hour days leading up to primaries, he can sound aloof and querulous before smaller audiences. Condescension can creep in. He suggested, for example, that his youthful travels to Asia and Europe had left him more knowledgeable than Mrs. Clinton or Mr. McCain about foreign affairs.
"When I speak about having lived in Indonesia, having family that is impoverished in Africa, knowing the leaders is not important," he told a crowd. "What I know is the people."
At a fund-raiser in San Francisco, he speculated unhelpfully about the psychic hold that guns and religion had on the white working class.
His ache for time lost with his daughters feels palpable. On his plane recently, he described the nightly calls home. Malia, 9, is loquacious, rattling off every detail of her day. Six-year-old Sasha, whom he has nicknamed Cool Breeze, goes monosyllabic.
How was your day? "Fiiiine," Mr. Obama mimics her uninterested voice.
But the campaign has allowed this ambitious man just 10 days home last year.
So the contradictions pile up. He is a watcher and a wanderer who found a home in Chicago where he fashioned his adult identity, not least as a black man. He is an idealist who pursues the national spotlight with the intensity of a bloodhound and finds the top prize almost within grasp. Yet he holds tight to the belief that he can draw a curtain of normalcy about his family.
For months, he tried to keep his old e-mail address and cellphone number until friends convinced him he was nuts. "We were like, 'Barack! Give it up!' " said Cassandra Q. Butts, a senior vice president at the Center for American Progress and a former Harvard classmate. "He asks: 'Why don't you call?'
"I tell him, 'Hey, Barack, you've got a few things going on, right?' "
Making His Way
Friends talk of his sixth sense for career timing as if there were a Barack-the-immaculate-pol quality to his rise. But he is no accidental political tourist.
He studies his chosen world like a Talmudist, charting trends and noting which rivals are strong and which weak. His politics are liberal but his instincts are accommodationist; he cultivates older, powerful mentors, Democratic and Republican, and he made his peace with the Chicago Democratic machine.
"You don't go from being a community organizer to running for president in 15 years unless you have a lot of ambition," said Paula Wolff, a Chicago Republican and a mentor. "He likes to listen carefully, and naturally you assume that's very smart of him."
If there is an art to seeking advice, Mr. Obama holds a master's degree. He favors a hand on the shoulder, a whisper in the ear. In 1996, when he pondered a race for the Illinois Legislature, Jean Rudd, a mentor in the foundation world, took him to lunch with a prominent lobbyist. The appetizers had no sooner arrived than the lobbyist framed the question: Why would a Harvard-educated lawyer want to step into a hellhole like that? You'll leave your wife behind, you'll be in the minority party, you'll be treated like dirt. Mr. Obama chuckled and asked questions. The lobbyist later became an adviser.
Abner J. Mikva, the former judge, asked Mr. Obama, fresh out of Harvard, to apply as his clerk. Mr. Obama declined, preferring to labor as a community organizer. But, characteristically, he later befriended the older man.
The judge recognized his talents, but oh that speaking style. Too many ers and uhs, too Harvard and not enough South Side. Mr. Obama did not argue the point; he began paying attention in church.
"He listened to patterns of speech, how to take people up the ladders," recalls Mr. Mikva, now 81. "It's almost a Baptist tradition to make someone faint, and, by God, he's doing it now."
When he gained election to the Springfield statehouse, Mr. Obama taught himself poker; politics happened around card tables. Then he took up golf. He hit one shank after another. "He was no Tiger Woods," said State Senator Terry Link, an older white Democrat. Eventually Mr. Obama learned to drive and putt — and found a new place to conduct politics.
All of which sounds disarming, but there is a glint of steel. With his eyes on the State Senate in 1996, Mr. Obama told a former mentor that he would not stand down and let her reclaim her seat. And he used technicalities to bump rivals off the ballot until he ran unopposed. His operatives slapped down attempts to rerun primaries in Michigan and Florida; a recent party compromise on counting delegates from those states worked to his advantage.
An old Chicago hand notes that Mr. Obama seems to have read his Niccolò Machiavelli.
An 11-Year Path
Once, months ago, Mr. Obama preferred novels, meaty chews by John le Carré, E. L. Doctorow and Philip Roth that transported him far from the cacophonous here and now.
"Fiction kind of took me out of myself and what we were doing every day," he noted as he sat in his campaign plane, waiting to fly to another rally at a far-too-early hour.
And lately?
He motions at the platoons of Secret Service agents and staff members taking their seats. "I'm lucky if I get through a chapter of anything," he says. "I have come to realize the secret to sleeping on the road is to get very, very, tired."
He returns to Chicago and his Hyde Park home as a celebrity. Neighbors cross the street to shake his hand and point from afar. Mr. Obama rolls his eyes.
"Look, I don't want to sound too noble: The first time you're on the cover of Time magazine and the crowds are cheering, that's not bad, right?" he says on the airplane. "But one thing I've learned about myself is that the surface glitter, the vanity element of this campaign, becomes less satisfying as I go along."
That sounds too easy. He does not evince Bill Clinton's animal need to work a rope line until every sweaty hand is shaken. But he has taken just 11 years to run the course from state senator to the first black presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party, and holds thousands spellbound, and that suggests an ambition that runs swift and powerful. As a banker who plays basketball with Mr. Obama notes, he starts off quietly but he is known for talking a little smack if his shots are falling in.
It is not easy to sort out. The Obamas' friends are black and white, upper-middle class to wealthy, University of Chicago law professors and historians and lawyers and foundation types. When the news media calls, they put the shovel only so deep in the ground of revelation.
You return to that question again: You really don't read profiles of yourself?
Mr. Obama was sitting on his campaign plane a few months ago as it began the rumble down yet another runway to yet another campaign stop. He shakes his head but it sounds hard to believe; this introspective candidate ignores all those words? A reporter reads aloud from the novelist Darryl Pinckney's essay in The New York Review of Books. Mr. Obama, the novelist writes, "comes across as someone who stored away for future consideration practically everything that was ever said to him, and who had a talent for watchfulness, part of the extraordinary armor he developed at an early age."
Mr. Obama nods. That's intriguing. But he prefers his own riff, which not incidentally trains the eye not on him but on his crowds. "I love when I'm shaking hands on a rope line and"— he mimes the motion, hand over hand — "I see little old white ladies and big burly black guys and Latino girls and all their hands are entwining. They're feeding on each other as much as on me."
He shrugs; it's that distancing eye of the author.
"It's like I'm just the excuse."


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Fire safety regulations for all non-domestic premises, including places of worship, are demanding. Please note your responsibilities under this legislation.All groups using the building (church groups and hire groups) are responsible for appointing their own trained Fire Marshals to act as the Responsible Person(s) for Fire Safety, and for carrying out their own Fire Risk Assessments specifically for their own events. This is required for one-off events as well as regular bookings.It is the church's responsibility to make building-specific Fire, Health and Safety Inductions available to Fire Marshals (it's quite quick!) and carry out its own Fire Risk Assessment(s) for the building, but it is your responsibility to:
We also request that you report any significant general findings back to us if they may affect other users of the building.If needed, more in-depth Fire Marshal training is available through our County Council and/or Slade Fire Station in Headington, Oxford.If other events are happening while you are in the building, you will need to coordinate with their Fire Marshal(s), as a sweep of all rooms is required during an evacuation of the building; not just the room your group or event have formally hired. See the induction material below for more details.The documents which form the backbone of the inductions are:
Please make sure you familiarise yourself with these documents now.
A Fire, Health and Safety Induction to the building is usually given at the time you pick up the key. You can have more than one nominated Fire Marshall trained if you wish.If you are arranging the event and collecting the key, but you wish to nominate someone else as the Fire Marshal, you will need to receive the Induction/training as normal, and then pass this information on to the nominated person once they have been elected. (It's okay to have more than one nominee!).
Fire Marshals for regular lettings or church groups need to receive inductions at least once per year. The induction runs at 10am on the first Monday in June and December every year. The induction conducted by the Administrator, who is also the church's Fire Officer. You will be e-mailed before the event to confirm that it is going ahead. The induction covers:
A register is kept of who has acknowledged receipt of the induction material (below), who has attended Fire, Health and Safety inductions, and when that last was, and who has reported findings back to us from their own fire risk assessments.
These induction notes (PDF), together with an appendix (PDF), can be downloaded.
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Brazil Map v5.0 by Fabiano Teixeira
Description about Brazil Map v5.0 by Fabiano Teixeira
Version v5.0:
- Conversion to version 1.21 of Euro Truck Simulator 2
- 29 new cities (Marilia, Bauru, Sheets Paulista, Botucatu, Birigui, Araçatuba, Catanduva, São Carlos, Araraquara, Rio Claro, Matão, Araras,
Pirassununga, Leme, Itapetininga, Itapeva, Cajati, Itaquaquecetuba, Mogi das Cruzes, Sprout, Ituverava, Batatais, France, Atibaia, Avare, Assisi,
Cruise, Cunha Oliveira, Pardons)
- Bug Fix
- Several new roads, as Washington Luis, Castelo Branco, Marechal Rondon and others, totaling more than 2,000 kilometers of new roads).
- New saws, Araras, Paraty-Cunha (dirt road), remade mountains of Petropolis, redone Serra da Cantareira.
- Several new bus stops
- Volvo's test track in the city of Juazeiro.
Version v4.4:
Essential updating the map to work on version 1.20 of the game (just works in Version 1.20)
– Correction of Errors,
– 4 New Cities
– Open file, released for editing
Version 4.3:
- 43 New cities (total 369 cities)
- South Region completely remodeled
- Breaking added springs (CAUTION, REAL WORK THEM SLOWLY PASS)
- More than 5000 kilometers of new roads and compiled roads.
- Several cities in ARGENTINA to CHILE Capital.
- Sierra de Los Carecoles (one of the most dangerous in the world) added.
- Several new stops by bus and truck on several roads.
- Found Correcting errors reported by map travelers.
- Raised over 3000 KM of New roads, made from scratch, as follows:
- Built Highway Dom Pedro (Campinas - Jacarei)
- Built Highway SP-340/344 (Campinas - Mogi Mirim - Aguas da Prata - Pocos de Caldas)
- Built BR-101 Rio-Santos highway
- Built Tamoios Highway (Caraguatatuba-San Jose)
- Built Highway Oswaldo Cruz (Ubatuba-Taubaté)
- Built BR-381 and 262 (BH-Valadares and BH-Win)
- Built BR-356 linking (BH - Ouro Preto - Mariana)
- Built PR-444 (Londrina - Maringa)
- Built BR-495 (Serra Teresópolis - Petrópolis)
- Created a "new" BR-020 between Brasilia and Luiz Eduardo Magalhães, to increase the distance and give more realism
- Built BR-262 from Araxa to Belo Horizonte
- Built BR-101 between Rio de Janeiro and Cabo Frio (with insertion of Niterói and Rio-Niteroi Bridge)
- Built-BR 135/251 Among Curvelo / Montes Claros and Rio-Bahia (BR-116)
- Created Ferry (Ferry) between São Sebastião Ilhabela, with the creation of the island.
- Built BR-116 Turning Porto Alegre to Pelotas, Rio Grande, Jaguarão.
- Built BR-290 Turning Porto Alegre to Uruguaiana and early access to Argentina
- Designed Dozens of new cities being several of them functional.
- Added the Serra do Rio do Rastro
- Built Highway in São Paulo.
- Remade the entire MG-050 which connects Ribeirão Preto to Belo Horizonte, now fully in single lane
- Rebooked entire BR-040 between Brasilia and Belo Horizonte
- Rebooked entire BR-070 between Cuiabá and Barra do Herons (with creation of new road)
- Rebooked entire BR-364/060 between Cuiaba and Goiania (single lane until Jatai and Duplicate to Brasilia (with creation of new road)
- BR-153 redone between São José do Rio Preto and Goiânia (with creation of new road from Morrinhos)
- Rebuilt and repositioned the cities of Goiania and Anapolis, seeking greater realism
- Rebooked the BR-364 highway from Cuiaba to Cáceres, now is Single Track
- Highway between Parati and Volta Redonda now of land.
- The map now totals 304 cities in MAP BRAZIL TOTAL
- Amended the acronym of the roads on the map and GPS to Brazilian roads, according to the reality of where they go.
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Every Creature Singing, Canadian Edition:
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The Canadian Edition of MCCN's creation care curriculum, Every Creature Singing, is free and downloadable.
Every Creature Singing grew out of a resolution that Mennonite Creation Care Network presented to the delegates at the 2013 Mennonite Church USA Convention in Phoenix, Arizona. The resolution called members of Mennonite churches "to commit to growing in their dedication to care for God's creation as an essential part of the good news of Jesus Christ." It also proposed a series of twelve questions for study and discernment. This curriculum follows the questions in the resolution and is intended to help congregations act on the resolution. As partners of MCCN, Mennonite Church Canada requested permission to adapt the curriculum for a Canadian context.
This curriculum has four components:
- A biblical emphasis, using a method of interpretation that we are calling an ecological lens.
- A focus on your local community using questions we call circle questions.
- Suggested spiritual practices.
- Suggested household practice.
(12 sessions)
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|Adults, Leaders
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Boy, European movies sure are depressing
This post contains spoilers about a movie you probably never want to watch anyway because it will make you want to stab yourself, and all of humanity.
A couple weeks ago, Mr. B and I watched I Girasoli (The Sunflowers), a 1970 Italian movie featuring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni.
We've had great success watching other Loren-Mastroianni combinations. They're electric on screen together. What's astounding is that they played opposite each other for close to 20 years and they never once played the same characters. They're that good.
Our favorite so far has been Leri Oggi Domani, a comedy with three scenarios about men and women, including a woman in Naples who keeps having babies so she doesn't have to go to jail, a Milanese socialite bored by her husband, and a prostitute who urges the local priest to commit comedic sins.
So, I decided this one also would be great, especially since it was directed by the same guy who did most of their movies.
The thing you have to understand about why watching this movie is important is that Mr. B and I have diametrically opposing tastes. I like to watch movies that teach me something about humanity, make me think about myself, and show me places I've never been before. Mr. B likes watching Pacific Rim.
So, the wheedling has to start a couple days beforehand. First, I curate the movies available to watch by going through them, one by one. Then, I watch the first five mintues of about six movies a piece to see if it could ostensibly interest him. Then, I have to bring it up casually over dinner, usually via guilt trip.
"We don't do anything after work together anymore," I'll cry into my stir-fry. "Ok," he'll say. "What do you want to do?"
"Let's watch a movie," I'll say, brightening. "I have a couple picked out."
"Ok," he'll sigh.
But that's not the end. Because he has to be interested in the movie. So the first five minutes are critical. Otherwise, the whole exercise goes down the drain.
So, I Girasoli being a Loren-Mastroianni collaboration, I thought we were golden.
We start watching. A field of sunflowers. Ok, great! Nice, light-hearted movie! About Italy! And Sophia. All is well. I had also made popcorn for this viewing, so we started eating.
The sunflowers and the opening credits end, and we see a woman, late 30s, dressed all in black, at an Italian train station or post office, begging for information about her husband, who is a prisoner of war in Russia. She is struggling to hold herself together. (But she has great eyebrows)
That's cool, I thought, still eating the popcorn. She's going to be classy and widowed until the middle of the movie, when her and Marcello reunite and have tasteful European sex. Go ahead and cry. It's going to be ok.
Sophia goes to another, stooped, elderly woman, also in black. This is Marcello's mother. "I'll find him," Sophia says with resolve, and the camera pans out to a wall full of photos of Italian soldiers, lost forever in the Soviet Union as sad music plays. That's fine, I thought, but I could already feel Mr. B tensing up beside me.
"Hey, so, how did the Italians even get to Russia," I asked him as Sophia was going home, to her lonely house, her lonely, uninhabited marriage bed, a broken woman, broken by years of war and years of promises, and the elderly mother shuffles along. "Didn't they fight for, like, three days?"
"They fought?" Mr. B asked, grabbing a handful of popcorn. We were still at the sarcastic jokes portion of the film.
But then, oh crap, Sophia looks at the picture of her husband in uniform, and it's time for a flashback. Of how they were young and stupid, of how they were carefree, of how they met and got married in a week so Marcello wouldn't have to go the army, of how they made love and honestly, quite a large amount of pasta in a small, romantic hut somewhere in the Italian imagination. Of how the war exploded around their regular human lives and seeped into the cracks of their existence like misery.
Oh God, it was starting. I put down the popcorn. Mr. B tried to move away on the couch, feeling that this movie was about real human emotions. He was already plotting his escape.
And then, after two weeks like this in limbo, their nerves strung out with love and fear, Marcello went back to the army, to the front. This, apparently, was not a lighthearted Italian comedy.
And then the Eastern Front. Jesus Christ. I mean, I know I'm ready to do Stalingrad, but not like this.
You can't eat popcorn when people are losing toes right and left.
Ok, so Marcello somehow makes it through the winter and survives that. So, happy ending, right?
Sophia lives a lonely and isolated life for YEARS. She has no word of him. He never returns. She goes to this office and that office and meanwhile lives in the cold embers of their two weeks of love. And then guess what she does? Guess?
Yeah, she goes to the Soviet Union to look for him.
She goes through every nook and cranny.
This was in the 50s. And guess what? She finds him! Except guess what, he's fully integrated into Soviet society and he married a Russian woman! The look as she sees him embrace his new wife and his !daughter! and she boards the train:
Do you want to die yet?
But there's more. Because she goes back to Italy and tries to lead a normal life. But guess what she can't because holy crap she found her dead husband after nine years and he's someone else's husband and father now and what's worse is that that someone doesn't even know how to eat a nice prosciutto or cook pasta al dente, mainly because there is no pasta in the Soviet Union. That's the real tragedy.
Anyway, so guess what happens next? Nothing. She lives her life alone. But then! Somehow, he gets out of the Soviet Union (in the late 50s!!!) and goes to Italy and now he's in Milan and now he's in a hotel and now he's picking up the phone, dialing her apartment and it's ringing and pick up Sophia, goddamnit, pick up, for the sake of all that's good and holy, pick up and reunite with your husband, make it right, heal the wounds, do it, and oh she's picking up the phone now but she's completely quiet…speak, Sophia, ciao, ciao, say it, say it, and she says pronto and he says pronto and then there is a silence…I'm coming over he says and then you are SO happy because this movie is so CRUEL to your emotions and you are dying inside then he's in the taxi and it starts to rain and he runs to her dark apartment, up the stairs, she puts on makeup in the mirror in the dark, go, go, go you say, nine years will be nothing once you're together again and happy, and now, hurry open the door Sophia, for him, do it, and all of a sudden they are together and they kiss passionately, and yes! it's a happy ending, but wait, noooo, they break and it's awkward, because the baby-the baby??? starts crying in the next room, goddamnit Sophia, and everything is broken now between them, they are different people, they have separate lives, and he leaves and goes back to the Soviet Union on the train and that's the end of the movie.
What a horrible, horrible, beautiful film.
Long story short, I'm sorry Mr. B. I'll watch The Walking Dead with you next time.


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Thursday, January 29, 2015
Rescuing the Nation from Death
by Richard Koenigsberg
"There is a profound connection between the idea of one's nation and the idea of an enemy. The enemy is the Siamese twin of one's nation—what must be destroyed if one's nation is to survive. Nationalism revolves around rescuing one's nation—saving the country from death. The enemy is the source of death. For Hitler and the Nazis, Jews were the enemy par excellence."
Writing about the Final Solution, Hannah Arendt explained that anti-Semitism "explains everything and therefore nothing." To say Hitler and the Nazis hated and wanted to eliminate the Jews because they were anti-Semitic is equivalent to saying, "Hitler and the Nazis hated and wanted to eliminate the Jews because they hated and wanted to eliminate the Jews." Recalling freshman philosophy, I believe this is what is called a tautology.
The question is: what did anti-Semitism mean to people like Hitler, Himmler and Goebbels? Why did the idea of "the Jew" arouse such a passionate, hysterical response? Why did Nazi leaders—and many other Germans—feel it was necessary to destroy or eliminate the Jews, conceiving of the Final Solution as a moral imperative?
Hitler said, "We may be inhumane, but if we rescue Germany, we have performed the greatest deed in the world." Hitler's ideology grew out of a rescue fantasy. He wanted to "save the nation." This is not an unusual motive. Much of politics grows out of this idea that one must act to "save" one's nation—from external and internal enemies.
Indeed, this motive—the desire to "save one's nation"—is so ordinary that we barely reflect upon it. What is it that individuals wish to save? What is the nature and meaning of these threats to one's nation—that often evoke such radical, violent forms of action?
There is a profound connection between the idea of one's nation and the idea of an enemy. The enemy is the Siamese twin of one's nation, that which must be destroyed if one's nation is to survive. Nationalism revolves around rescuing one's nation—saving the country from death. The enemy is the source of death. For Hitler and the Nazis, Jews were the enemy par excellence.
In a previous essay, I hypothesized that "identification with one's country" is equivalent to equating one's actual body with a body politic. This is why threats to one's nation evoke such passion. The idea of an attack upon the nation is experienced as if an attack upon the self—upon one's own body.
Thus, "national defense" can be understood as a form of paranoia. The enemy is imagined to be violating the boundaries of one's body. Likewise, the struggle against "internal enemies" (foreign "cells") may be experienced as if a "disease within the body of one's people." In either case, the enemy is experienced as a threat to one's body.
Hitler identified deeply with the Germany body politic: "Hitler is Germany, just as Germany is Hitler," as Rudolf Hess put it. Hitler experienced threats to Germany as a threat to his body. Politics was deeply personal for Hitler. There was little separation between the ideology he put forth and his experience as a human being.
When he spoke to the German people, he conveyed this experience—through words and gestures. It's not as if Hitler invented his ideology for an ulterior purpose. His ideology grew out of his bodily experience. Hitler transformed his deeply emotional experience into an ideology and plan of action.
Hitler understood Jews in terms of a force of disintegration that threatened to destroy the German body politic. He called the Jew a "ferment of decomposition among peoples," the "demon of disintegration," symbol of the "unceasing destruction" of a people's life. As he rose to power, Hitler believed the German nation was in the midst of a "process of dissolution."
Hitler called communists the "international disintegrators of a people." Jews "destroyed the state organization." Bolshevism sought to "tear the world asunder." Democracy acted continually to "disintegrate the European states." Hitler looked out into the world, and saw the "increasingly rapid falling to pieces of the organic structure of the nation."
Hitler's anti-Semitism was not separate from his attachment to Germany. His response to the Jews was based on his belief that they were acting to bring about Germany's demise. What did Hitler's life amount to, after all the history books have been written? His struggle to "save Germany from death" by destroying Jews.
Hitler declared that Germany would not capitulate: he would act to prevent the "threatening dissolution" of Germany's political life in order to ban the "spread of the process of disintegration." It was necessary to establish a "clear separation" between the two races. A new body politic would be formed that could overcome the "ferments of decomposition."
The Final Solution grew out of Hitler's experience of German disintegration. Because he identified so deeply with his nation, he experienced threats to Germany as a threat to his body. Hitler imagined that if Germany disintegrated, he would too.
The Final Solution revolved around removing the "force of disintegration" from within Germany, Europe and the world. Hitler's ideology was rooted in paranoia, or hysteria. "The Jew" was experienced by Hitler as a painful entity within his body. There was no separation between Hitler's inner world and the policies he enacted.
When it comes to Hitler, there are no secrets: what he said was what he was. This is why the German people loved him. He embraced German nationalism hook, line and sinker. When he spoke, he spoke for the German people.
The Jew was the cause of Germany's pain, and therefore had to be removed from the body politic. Germany's suffering was Hitler's suffering. He experienced the pain of the German people (the Jew) within his own body.
The Final Solution was undertaken to "save the nation" by removing the force of disintegration operating within the body politic. When thinking about eliminating the Jews, Hitler said, it was necessary to "act radically." When one pulls out a tooth, one does it with a "single tug," and the pain goes away quickly. In order to eliminate the malady, the Jew had to "clear out of Europe."
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American business co-operation with Nazis (early Beta)
IBM 'dealt directly with Holocaust organisers'ReplyDelete
Author says US firm had control of Polish subsidiary
The paperback provides the first evidence that the company's dealings with the Nazis were controlled from its New York headquarters throughout the second world war. Mr Black quotes Leon Krzemieniecki, the last surviving per son involved in the Polish administration of the rail transportation to Auschwitz and Treblinka, as saying that he "knew they were not German machines... The labels were in English...


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When it comes to keeping the whole family busy for a day in St. Augustine, the Alligator Farm is the place to be. This gigantic zoological park is full of fascinating critters, including some of the largest alligators, you will ever see up close and personal. Here are a few of the things you'll find at the St. Augustine Alligator Farm.
Getting to Know the Gators
The St. Augustine Alligator Farm is one of the only places in the world that you can see every known living member of the crocodilian family. With exhibits spread throughout the park, you can meet a wide range of different gators and crocodiles, including some of our longest living celebrity gators. Many of these alligators will put on a show for our guests during the day, so you can appreciate their power and strength.
Other Animals
While the Alligator Farm is best known for their crocodilians, they actually provide homes for dozens of other unique animals as well. You can explore a variety of saltwater reptiles and amphibians, check out some tropical birds, and explore a whole exhibit dedicated to Florida's natural wildlife. If you're really brave, you can enter the Python cave and discover some of the world's most dangerous reptiles.
The Zipline
If you're feeling really adventurous, you can try out one of the Alligator Farm's two zip line courses. They have an easy and a hard level, with the harder level lasting up to 90 minutes as you fly over the park. These courses are challenging, but they will give you a birds-eye view of the entire park like you've never seen before.
Daily Shows
In addition to all of the great exhibits at the Alligator Farm, the expert staff also put on a handful of incredible wildlife shows throughout the day. Enjoy the intensity of the Alligator Feeding show as the gators jump out of the water to catch their lunch, or sit back and watch the Rainforest Review full of brightly colored birds and other interesting animals. There are even child-friendly shows where the kids can pet some of the animals after they perform.
The Alligator Farm in St. Augustine is truly a marvel of science and exploration. If you want to learn everything there is to know about these magnificent creatures, the Alligator Farm is the place to go. You and the kids can explore, learn, and even pet the animals in some demonstrations. The best part is, the St. Augustine Alligator Farm is located just 8 miles away from Beacher's Lodge so you can make the most of your stay!


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Why it makes the grade
The Red Lion has been in the same family for nigh on a century and occupies an isolated spot beneath the big skies of Romney Marsh. Three shady rooms, one sporting a marble-topped bar, offer cooling respite from the sun. Sit and listen to the ticking of the ancient clock, and you'll soon be transported back to an idealised 1940s. The garden to the side is a delicious suntrap complete with chickens and other fowl.
Signature fare
There is a regular choice of four gravity-dispensed local ales (around £2.70 a pint), plus several thirst-cracking ciders (£2.80 a pint). Lager comes in bottles only and the menu comprises crisps and, of course, pickled eggs. For authentic cuisine, drop your egg in a bag of plain crisps.
We love the landlady because …
Doris Jemison, who recently celebrated her 80th birthday, and daughter Kate keep a truly traditional English public house, complete with games such as nine men's morris, toad in the hole, dominoes and darts. The authentic decor documents Doris's role in the women's land army.
Meet the locals
Habitues include local marsh folk and lovers of tradition and good ales who have travelled from further afield. Expect conversation.
Pub trivia
Paul McCartney and Lol Creme are in the visitors' book.
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Doctors for Global Health – El Salvador
Dora Aydee is a 6 year old girl who developed an intense headache accompanied by seizures last Christmas. She was rushed by the CAIPES (Center for Integrated Care, Prevention and Education in Health) staff to the hospital, where an infection was ruled out and the seizures were controlled with medication. The physicians wanted to perform a CT scan, but the family was unable to pay the $100 cost. Several weeks later, she arrived in the CAIPES clinic with several swollen, non-tender lymph nodes. At this point, all physicians involved were very concerned about cancer. (Brain cancer is much more common in children and often presents with new seizures.) Using funds from CAIPES and CDH (Campesinos para el Desarrollo Humano), an appointment for CT scan was arranged. Dora was accompanied to the appointment with a community health worker, and fortunately, the exam was negative for any sort of mass. While Dora is still on medication for a new onset seizure disorder, her family and doctors are relieved to know that she does not have cancer.
Erlinda, a woman who came to Estancia because her sons could no longer take care of her in San Salvador (the capital city.) A woman in her 50's, Erlinda has severe Parkinson's disease. At her first appointment (which was a home visit) she could not move her arms and legs due to rigidity, had an incessant tremor, and had lost control of her bowels and bladder. She was completely dependent on her sister for her everyday activities. Parkinson's treatment is very expensive. However, using part of our referrals fund, we were able to obtain the medication for her. This medication, combined with physical therapy, is allowing Erlinda to renew her independence. She can now move her arms and legs voluntarily and without rigidity. (Smoothing her hair is a big accomplishment, she says.) Her tremor is less noticeable, and she feels better about herself. In small doses, she is regaining her humanity.
Gregoria was an active woman in her 30's – taking care of her children, making hammocks, and helping her husband in the cornfield. While waiting for the bus one day, though, she was hit by a car. In efforts to save her life, both her legs were amputated at the mid-thigh. Her life was completed changed. She could no longer accomplish the tasks she had before and was completely reliant on her husband and young sons. Understandably, she was greatly distressed and quickly became sullen and depressed. CAIPES contacted their volunteer physical therapist, who started Gregoria on a rehabilitation program to rebuild muscle and confidence. Through contacts at the hospital, she was also able to obtain a wheelchair, and eventually, leg prosthesis. Gregoria can now support her weight and take several steps with the prosthesis, allowing her to care for her family and be independent. She has literally been given new legs. More importantly, though, she is now smiling again.


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Merry belated Christmas and Happy New Year everyone! I hope your holidays were fantastic - mine were really awesome, thanks to watching my daughter's wide-eyed wonder as she took everything in. It made the season almost more magical than it used to be when I was a little tyke myself! Something about this season, … Continue reading Two Questions to Ask Yourself Before Making Resolutions This Year
At the moment…
Married LifeI am blown away at all of the blessings of married life. Staying up late reading together in bed to oldies on Pandora, making a huge mess in the kitchen as we prepare adventurous meals, impromptu waltzing in the living room when our favorite songs come on the radio, curling up on the couch with a … Continue reading At the moment…
Just Say "Thanks"
I just got back from vacation. It was a whirlwind in every sense of the word. We were going full-speed from dawn till dark every day, trying to pack in as many things as we could into seven short days. Even though the entire vacation was designed for pure fun and relaxation, I actually had a … Continue reading Just Say "Thanks"
Oh, That Old Time Religion!
Have you ever noticed how many older books mention God? From Sherlock Holmes to Jane Eyre, it seems that many books written before the 20th century seem to include a copious amount of Christianity. In contrast, the majority of modern Christian stories are now sharply divided from secular stories. The secular books generally leave every trace … Continue reading Oh, That Old Time Religion!
Well, Hi There!
Remember me? 🙂 My apologies for neglecting this blog for so long. A lot has been going on in my life lately. I had a little run-in with a friend while playing football, and have spent the last month recovering slowly from a concussion. Then I had school to deal with - as of last Wednesday, … Continue reading Well, Hi There!
A Literary Birthday Party
Recently, I had a birthday, and let me tell you, it was nothing short of fabulous! Any day that combines books, the color blue, beautiful weather, a Benedict Cumberbatch movie, dear friends and church football is bound to be fantastic. Add birthday cake and candles into the mix, and it's just about perfect. If I … Continue reading A Literary Birthday Party
A Little Bit of Everything
Today is a happy day - it's the beginning of a two-week holiday for my family! The next fortnight will be filled with traveling, visiting with family and friends, lots of laughter and no school. I'm already getting super excited about the socks I'm going to knit, the books I'm going to read and … Continue reading A Little Bit of Everything
No More Mr. Nice Guy
The other day, I was talking to someone about Captain America. I said how much I admired Steve Rogers's character. "I've never really cared for him," the other person said. "He's just too nice." It's not a new sentiment - objecting to characters because they're too good. It's an objection that I've heard many times, … Continue reading No More Mr. Nice Guy
Top O' The Mornin' To Ya!
Happy St. Patrick's Day!! This holiday has always been kind of a big deal in my family. Green streamers get taped up all over the house, we enjoy neon-green pistachio muffins from the local grocery store, and sing "Be Thou My Vision" during family devotions. Perhaps it's because we've spent weeks in Ireland in the … Continue reading Top O' The Mornin' To Ya!
Thomas Jefferson Defends Fiction
As a writer and reader of fiction, I am always excited to defend the genre of fiction against those who consider it to be useless. I know, personally, how extremely important the lessons, examples and friendships in fictional stories can be to readers. Little did I know that Thomas Jefferson believed this as well! … Continue reading Thomas Jefferson Defends Fiction


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As the Dancing Stars of Atlanta event on June 2 draws closer, the Alzheimer's Association, Georgia Chapter also announced its newest panel of celebrity judges, which include:
- WSB-TV Channel 2 Action News anchor John Bachman
- Atlanta TV Journalist Kimberly Kennedy
- WXIA 11Alive News anchor Brenda Wood
- The 10 local celebrities competing at the event will have the chance to wow the judges with their moves on the dance floor and earn points for their efforts.
The 2012 cast includes:
Mitchell Barnes
- , Partner, Carter Barnes Salons
Rodney Cook
- , President, National Monuments Foundation
Sandra Fryhofer, M.D.
- , General Internist & Clinical Associate Professor, Emory School of Medicine
Duvall Fuqua
- , Philanthropist, Founder/Owner, Sister Act Couture Clothing
John Grant
- , CEO, 100 Black Men of Atlanta
Valerie Jackson
- , First Lady to the late Maynard Jackson; Partner, Jackmont Hospitality, Inc., and Atlanta Restaurant Partners; Host,
WABE's Between the Lines
Amanda Brown Olmstead
- , One of Atlanta's Leading PR Magnates
Michele Swann
- , General Manager/CEO, Cobb Galleria Centre, Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre
Steve Welsh
- , Executive Creative Director, A Legendary Event
Chuck Wolf
- , Founder, Wolf Camera; Founder, Wolfbone Marketing
To purchase tickets to this fun event and to vote for your favorite dancer, visit www.dancingstarsofatlanta.com
For more information about upcoming events, make sure to visit Best Self's event calendar!


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August 9, 2016 – The Chevy Suburban road trip came to an end after 1,857 miles of driving. The next week of travel for Francis will be by air. But he has certainly seen the country from a unique perspective as we toured the southwest. We wrapped the road trip up in Las Vegas and took a short flight to San Francisco. Seeing the country through Francis's eyes gives this outside observer a refreshing perspective as to the enormity of our country.
We spent a relaxing Sunday playing tourists in San Francisco, from the Golden Gate Bridge to Fisherman's Wharf. The oppressive heat of the southwest deserts gave way to the gentle breezes of the Pacific. What a country! Watching Francis have lunch with the one of a kind Barry Barkan was a sight in and of itself. It was like hanging out with Martin Luther King and Bob Dylan. Francis was dropped off to stay overnight at Sunnyview (a Front Porch community) in northern California. The residents greeted him with warmth and affection. Bill Penrod and Sally Plank choreographed a marvelous evening and overnight stay for him.
The next day was all about Sunnyview. Two months ago, Bill and Sally had arranged a Skype session on the iN2L system with the Sunnyview residents talking to the elders from Cameroon. According to Francis, these people had never seen a computer before, nor spoken to anyone in the US. That exchange led to another as well as a fundraising project was born (separate from the GOATT project). Roberta Jacobsen, president of Front Porch, presented Francis with two checks totaling $11,000. It was a fascinating experience to watch Francis pay homage and respect to the elders at Front Porch in a spiritual way that transcended the dollars. Everyone in attendance was uplifted.
On the way to the San Francisco airport we stopped by the corporate headquarters of Apple and Google. Francis was numbed seeing the enormity of these operations. Our next stop is Colorado – Francis is coming to spread his cheer to the home of iN2L.
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Anyone else get a little overwhelmed come monthly favorites time picking their favorites? I always have so many products that I've been using and loving that I have to really focus on what to include! After months off the beauty YouTube train I'm back on again with a video for my favorites instead of just a post! Enjoy!
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Saturday, 30 January 2010
The consequences of QQT
Doubtless Bindel will use this in another article in the Guardian or Standpoint to crap on trans people (even though it was not only trans people who have a problem with her). This is her stock-in-trade, she cannot win the argument so she provokes... classic tactics used by the morally dubious, from Goebbells to Palin, claiming to be the victim of bullying when she is the one with access to national media.
So what happens next? Let us be clear, we are at war. This is not just about an evil individual using her power over one of the most disenfranchised and downtrodden communities, in an attempt to define us in the way she would like to. It goes a whole lot further than that. Last night I spoke to one of the representatives of the sex worker community and he described how she had been instrumental in having the law changed to make life more difficult for sex workers. Life for these people is now apparently measurably worse.
This is about Julie Bindel's campaign to have Gender Reassignment Surgery removed from NHS funding. This was the purpose of the incredibly badly written and distorted article in Standpoint Magazine, a hard-right wing organ apparently established to influence an incoming Tory government, which, despite the veneer and airbrushing, is going to be as nasty and right-wing as Thatcher's. This article was clearly intended to establish her credentials as an anti-trans journalist, who would be able to assist the Tories with making "cost savings" to the NHS budget by getting rid of GRS. It is worth noting that the Taxpayers Alliance, the Tory Party's alter ego, has been publishing costs of GRS in various NHS areas around the country.
Cometh the hour cometh the Bindel. Assisting the Tories to achieve these cost savings (at the cost of lives) will be just the boost her career needs. This woman clearly has ambitions along the lines of Melanie Phillips, yet she has one attribute which Mel P does not; she is a lesbian and as such will be seen as someone who can write about us with credibility. The value to the Tories of Julie Bindel in this situation will be immense. Trying to remove GRS from the NHS will generate a lot of negative publicity and some Tory MPs will come under pressure from constituents affected by the changes. Being able to find someone who, however dubiously, can give them some kind of justification for doing this will be God's gift to Cameron.
Julie Bindel's next career move is planned, her positioning ready to take advantage of a Tory government, the sky is the limit, she will achieve greatness over the dead bodies of transgender people.
Our reaction? This is something which needs to be set in train very quickly. We need a united national organisation which can speak for all, or pretty much all, transgender people, and their supporters. PfC has been very successful up to now in improving things for trans people, but they have achieved this success with a Labour government not a reactionary Tory one. What is required now is not a fight for more but a defence of what we have and that is going to be achieved not merely through rational considered argument and political lobbying, which PfC and others have done very well, we need a bigger voice, we need to be able to shout as loud as Bindel, so that when her campaign (no doubt coordinated with the Taxpayers Alliance and Central Office) to have GRS removed from the NHS starts in earnest we can make our voices heard.
We need a national organisation not merely because then we will have much better opportunities to get our voices heard in the media, but also will be able to show unity in the face of the inevitable provocation which Bindel will engage in. As a community we will need to be disciplined and well organised.
Back in November, I was at a conference in Sweden about trans issues and there I met a group of people from Ireland who had formed a national trans organisation there. In a country with a much greater degree of hostility to us than the UK they have been able to achieve much greater progress for trans people than anyone could have expected. A national trans organisation has also resulted in them being able to bid for funds from the EU which has helped their cause immensely and resulted in a greater unity amongst all trans people in Ireland. It is time we did the same. We need to establish a similar organisation in the UK, bid for funds and start to employ people to deal with the media and to put our points across more forcefully, countering Bindel's lies, provocations and disingenuous distortions. We will need a properly established constitution and democratic elections to an executive, but there are constitutions of other national organisations which we can borrow and adapt. We have people in our community who have experience in running trans organisations on a smaller scale, we need their expertise and experience to turn to something larger.
If the opinion polls are correct we could be operating in a much more hostile political environment soon, the brick wall we hit with the Equality Bill is just a small foretaste of what is to come. Make no mistake, over the next few years trans people will be under attack from all sides. Now is the time to get organised and make a fight of it.
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
The Pied Piper of Male Domination
So let us examine someone who speaks for two of these groups; a lesbian feminist.
"There is a false power which masculine society offers to a few women who "think like men" on condition that they use it to maintain things as they are. This is the meaning of female tokenism: that power withheld from the vast majority of women is offered to a few…"
...said Adrienne Rich in 1979. She might have been describing the sad life story of the Lesbian Feminist Separatist of the 21st century, reduced to the status of hired assasin. With calculated duplicity, she decides that being able to bring to the attention of broadsheet-readers the problems of rape and domestic violence is worth the sacrifice of the lives of transgender people. Access to the media, to write about the ultimate act of violent masculine hegemony, the violation of women's bodies, is worth the sacrifice of the lives of transgender people. If I join with the oppressors, show my colours, demonstrate to them that I am one of them, that I am willing to exercise the same power of hegemony as a cisgendered member of the gender binary, they will permit me to write about those within their ranks who take male hegemony a step too far (and in doing so undermine the cause of male dominance).
It was her decision, yet it was not a decision which was hers to make.
She will make a healthy career from pretending to speak for the subaltern, but they can be sure she is one of them, as Margaret Thatcher would say. In the final analysis she will maintain the order of things, their order. She will shit on those below her just as they shit on her, and this can be used against her, if she ever tries to cross the line, to really challenge their dominance, just as the dictator forces those around him to commit crimes from which there is no way back. As Spivak said;
"The putative center welcomes selective inhabitants of the margin in order better to exclude the margin."
The real enemy are those who would threaten the very atoms of male domination by removing its foundations at a molecular level, if men can become women and women men and other genders, our naturally assumed power is but a chimera, a trick of history. But who can take on this threat, who can rid us of these troublesome trannies? By criticising them we become open to easy accusations of gayness, which would never do!
Up to the mark steps The Lesbian Feminist Separatist. The doer of men's dirty work. The men watch silently and smile, the foundations of their castle safe from disintegration, the power of the Phallic maintained and defended at two removes, they don't even need to fire a shot.
But what will this Pied Piper of masculine domination want in return? The rapists, the pervs, the scumbags they would rather do without anyway, throw to the lions this sacrifice, a punishment for humiliating us by raping our sisters, wives, daughters or mothers. Payback time.
The calculation by her? Much simpler. I hate rapists. If I do your dirty work and take on the trannies, will you let me crush the rapists, pervs and associated male scumbags? After all these trannies' lives must be so miserable that they are happier dead anyway…
Deal, a calculated betrayal, an esprit fasciste and a token woman and lesbian is admitted to the inner circle at once defending it and legitimising it. A win-win situation. For some.
But who pays and who wins? The transgendered pay, the male hegemonists win, and they don't even have to play. Feminism's soul is sold and it becomes protector of that which it once sought to change. As the trans people seek to explain their apparently complex lives to those who take rigid gender assignations as given as gravity or the air that we breathe, the defender of the status quo, the protector of the hegemony drowns out their voices with loud, shrill, distorted one liners and externally imposed misdescriptions of who we are, located in Daily Mail "commonsense" and expounded Jan Moir style with innuendo in place of fact and insinuation in place of understanding. She does her duty well.
To explain oneself is to exist, to be-in-the-world, to deny a people the possibility of explaining themselves is to deny their existence, to nullify and vaporise, a cultural genocide which threatens to become a real genocide.
Saturday, 9 January 2010
The Most Dishonest Politician
To be given the title "Most Dishonest Politician" is quite a feat these days; there is a lot of serious competition out there, however sometimes a particular politician rises to the occasion with levels of dishonesty which would shame Geoffrey Archer.


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Tucked among rolling green hills and tree-lined avenues, Cheviot Hills is a bedroom community with the Westside at its doorstep. Below the hub of Fox Studios and Century City, it is about a mile from Beverly Hills. With distinctive homes ranging from Aiken cottages to stunning estates, Cheviot Hills is also a residential development from a bygone era.
The basics
Modern-day Cheviot Hills is a collection of five tracts that began construction in the early 1920s, each with a separate identity and developer, according to Jonathan Weiss, Cheviot Hills history buff.
The Cheviot Hills Homeowners Assn. represents 1,450 households, covering most of the area defined by the original tracts. The association recently added signs that say, "Now entering Cheviot Hills."
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Named for a region bordering Scotland and England, Cheviot Hills is true to its namesake in architecture, landscaping and such street names such Troon Avenue, Wigtown Road and Bannockburn Drive. Homes with angled roofs, classic brickwork and lush gardens reminiscent of England are noteworthy, especially those created by shipbuilder Edmond Aiken. McConnell and Forrester avenues feature grand estates, some on quarter-acre lots.
Large lot size has opened the door to new construction and renovation. Stunning homes in the million-dollar range flank Motor Avenue.
Celebrities have long enjoyed the charm and privacy of the area, including stars from nearby Twentieth Century Fox studios.
Comedian Stanley Laurel, who lived on Glenbarr Avenue in Cheviot Hills, filmed several Laurel and Hardy films in his neighborhood.
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Cheviot Hills is about 1 1/2 square miles yet abundant in recreational choices. To the north on Motor Avenue, the Cheviot Hills Recreation Center features swimming, tennis, an indoor gym, basketball, children's playground plus weekend sports league activities. Classes are available year-round. Rancho Park Golf Course shares the park with extensive golf and recreational choices. On the other end of Motor Avenue is the Beverly Hills Country Club, established by Merv Griffin's late uncle, Elmer Griffin, in 1926. Early club members included Humphrey Bogart, Errol Flynn and Jack Lemmon.
Good news, bad news
Longtime residents can sell their homes and retire on the equity, but high prices have driven out many potential first-time buyers and young families. Nearby growth has also increased pass-through traffic in Cheviot Hills, but speed bumps and additional stop signs have eased the problem.
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The schools are part of the Los Angeles Unified School District. Scores on the 2002 Academic Performance Index at the two elementary schools were 739 and 810 out of a possible score of 1,000. Palms Middle School scored 732 and Hamilton High scored 616.
In the works
Because of increasing traffic noise along the 10 Freeway, sound wall construction is pending. Airplane traffic to and from Santa Monica Airport is steadily increasing, with airport officials working on plans to lessen noise and traffic. Graffiti, an ongoing problem under the 405 Freeway, has been painted over for 15 years by longtime resident Tom Mitchell.
On the market
Homes vary as much in style as they do in price — from $659,000 for a home on Esther Avenue to a Club Drive listing for $2,195,000 that has more than 6,000 square feet of living space, according to the multiple listing service. About 16 homes are on the market in the Cheviot Hills area.
Historical valuesSingle-family detached resales:
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Met Ball 2011: The Must-See Beauty Looks
Last night a Very Important Event took place. No, I'm not talking about the Canadian federal election—I'm talking about the annual Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Let's call it the "Met Ball" for short.
Forget the Oscars, because THIS is the most exciting red carpet occasion on any Very Important Person's social calendar. And on beauty editors' calendars as well, because while most of the awards nights through January and February tend to... how do I put it?... encourage a certain conservatism with hair and makeup choices, the Met Ball is where you can REALLY go all out. There is high fashion! There are celebrities! And you know what that means? A whole bunch of fun new beauty looks for us to pass judgement on. Whee!
Just quickly: the trend appears to be very much a retro, Old Hollywood sort of look, which we haven't seen for a little while... and I'm loving it. Now, go grab yourself a tea and a blankie and settle in, because I have a whole whack of photos to show you. Let's begin!
Biggest surprise of the night for me. When did Diane grow her hair this long? And wear red lipstick? It's so nice to see her with such a radically different look for a change. If I wanted to be nit-picky, I'd say that the curls are a tad too separated and needs to be brushed together a bit more, as per Kevin Murphy's wise words in this vid. But that would REALLY be nit-picking.
And here is Gisele, who is not only better-looking than you but also a better mother. Of course, she looks amazing—maybe the best of the night, although it's not really fair for actresses to have to compete with models. I'm much happier with her colour here versus the last time we saw it. And this is a great way to do the retro look—the hair has the structure but not the stiffness, and then the face is quite bare.
Roberts, like Stone, always looks gorgeous. Especially loving this hairstyle because like Gisele's, it's not too stiff or old-fashioned. Not sure what's going on with the colour though... let's hope it's just the lighting, because she doesn't suit the blonde.
Even Pene got into the wavy hair action, although I see she couldn't give up her signature eye makeup for a bold lip. See how there are lots of ways to interpret this look in a modern way? I just would've liked to see more hair across her forehead.
Well, well, well. We get to have another peek at Blake's new hair colour... and I'm afraid it's not improving. I can't even properly evaluate the makeup, it's so distracting. Like Penelope, I wish her hair fell more over the forehead.
I hate to say this, but Lea Michele is looking better and better. I was a big fan of the bangs as I thought they really softened her features—but who knew how great she could look with this deep side part? She didn't go for the waves, and rightly so, I think—the sleekness of this style suits her best.
Okay, the cosmetic work scares me a bit, and I think an event like the Met Ball is more than worthy of touching up your roots—but otherwise, this look is classic Madge. Great hairstyle, great brows, great lips.
I don't know how I feel about this one. I adore Amy Adams, beauty-wise, and applaud her for taking the risk, but does that braid really belong there? Or is it the makeup that's impairing my judgement? I do like the sultry eyes with the berry lips—just not sure all the elements are harmonizing together.
Taylor's go-to look is suddenly all the rage, do you see? She's no longer the only one doing the lashes, lips and waves, so I guess I'll have to zip my lips re: having seen this a billion times before. One positive change: she pulled her hair OFF the forehead, where she usually wears it. Baby steps.
This thin hairband is probably the best hair accessory of the night. Makeup's fantastic too. Lucy does not age.
Okay, so this is a different kind of retro, but it's retro nonetheless. Gosh, Eva is posing hard here isn't she?
This could've been cute if her hair didn't resemble Nicole Richie's circa season one of The Simple Life. Because I DO like the idea of using sparkly clips in your hair... just not hair that is ratty, multi-coloured extensions. Even just brushing it out would've been an improvement.
MUCH better. Maybe a bit princess-y still, but it gets a pass from me. (Aside: that pregnancy glow is no myth. Her skin is ridiculously flawless.)
And here's my current favourite beauty crush surprising and delighting us again with this fluoro lip—VERY Diane von Furstenberg spring/summer '11, don't you know? With the flicky eyeliner, zillion-dollar earrings and texturey updo, it is perfection. As usual.
This is a really different look for Jenny from the Block—her skin is much less tanned than we've seen it, and then there is the big red lip, of course. I can't help but wonder if there is shadow of too-dark lip liner happening at the outer circumference, but perhaps that's a lighting thing. Overall, I think she looks pretty fabulous, and shows that you really CAN wear 17 different shades of red on your person.
Does Gwyneth have rosacea? I'm serious—not snarking. Her skin is looking so red lately and maybe it's nothing to do with laser resurfacing. I do like her makeup here, otherwise. We rarely get to see a bright lip on her, and if you look closely, it's been paired with some really cool shimmery silver eyeshadow. Oh, and she has extensions now. I love long-haired Gwyn.
Say what you will about K-Stew's surliness on the red carpet, but she really does employ a magnificent makeup artist to do her eyes.
Yay! This is the most exciting eye makeup of the night. And how wonderfully creative is the focus on the INNER, not the outer corners of the eyes? That's something we took note of at Giorgio Armani last year. I definitely prefer it in the turquoise though... and with the necklace, it is matchy-matchy in just the right amount.
A really low-key look for Zo Zo, but it works.
Awww... my girl Leighton went for liquid liner in a BIG way. Too bad I feel like of meh about it. Don't get me wrong, she made the right choice by keeping the rest of her face bare, and hair up—but since the latter is hands-down her best feature, I feel like she should always play it up, you know?
Typical J-Huds gorgeouness. We've seen this hairstyle before, and probably the eye makeup as well, but I wholeheartedly approve.
Best hair in the biz. (Okay, Leighton too.) Blake Lively, are you seeing this? Anyway... Isla really lets her hair BE the story here. The contrast against that blue dress is out of this world, and so she doesn't need much other than the subtly-emphasized eyes.
How is it possible to look this good with an inch or so of roots and your hair in a low bun? Not fair, Beyoncé. The makeup is a triumph of golds and browns.
This doe-eyed look kinda sorta reminds me of another Chloé—the fashion brand, whose fall eye makeup I fell head over heels in love with. I think it needs the long hair to go with... or something. I'm not feeling this helmet-like 'do.
Clearly, SJP didn't take my hint the other day about the eyeshadow. I've written about it before, too—when your eyelids are starting to go crepey, you absolutely do not want to draw attention to the area with shimmer. Matte shadow would've been a far superior choice. And maybe an eyelash comb, unless she's channeling the new chunky mascara trend.
I love me some Dakota Fanning. She's 17 and looks like it. (Same school of thought as Hailee Steinfeld, obvs.) I kind of feel like a traitor to my trade by saying this—because I DO love all of that colourful makeup that everyone else is wearing—but I'm really feeling this fresh face all of a sudden. Like we saw above, Gisele did a grown-up version of it. And the entire concept of doing a dressy dress with a bare-ish face is a Kate Moss signature move.
So maybe I'm going to spend more time on my hair now, and less with my bright lipstick collection.
What about you?
Which Met Ball look is your fave?
Who disappoints you the most?
How do you feel about this whole Old Hollywood beauty revival?