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by MOLLY LAMBERT
"Men infantilize women and women tear each other down" - Tina Fey, 30 Rock
"I think you're overthinking this" - common response to my post on Boys' Clubs
Not all groups of men are Boys' Clubs. Boys' Clubs are groups of men that are misogynist and function in misogynist ways. Misogyny is hatred of women. Anything that depicts women as lesser (and strangely, sometimes as greater). Active misogyny involves denigrating women as a group through speech and practice, sexual harassment of all kinds, and contempt/overidealization of "Women" as an idea.
Passive misogyny (emosogyny) is underestimating and/or stereotyping women based on deeply ingrained cultural stereotypes and ignorance, and then getting defensive when you are called out because you do not consider yourself sexist and you do not like being wrong. The refusal to accept that you might ever be wrong is a big part of "Masculinity." It is called sticking to your guns, and it is what got us George W. Bush.
Janeane Garofalo in the film in the Sopranos episode "D-Girl" where Chris goes to LA
Not all men are misogynists. Not all women are feminists. Men can be the biggest feminists (Alex Carnevale) and women can be the worst misogynists. The culture hates women (Hall Pass) because plenty of men do hate women. They hate women because they don't understand them. They don't understand women because they think they are different. "Good" women are untouchable and "Bad" women are disposable. They often hate women because they are fixated on the idea of women rejecting them sexually, and they project this perceived rejection onto every woman they meet. They think women and men are separate categories of human being. Separate is never equal. Misogynists run most of Hollywood. No lie. I'm not making this shit up. I wish I were!
One of the best running jokes on The Sopranos was that every time Christopher Moltisanti went to Hollywood he would be horrified by how much worse it was than the Mafia. For some reason, he thought it would be different in a different Boys' Club (lol Chris, so did we). Hollywood, Wall Street, the music business. It's all pretty fucked.
Christopher was always the most sympathetic member of the crew, because he was aware of how sensitive he actually was (although he was constantly trying to repress this awareness). He attempted to channel this sensitivity into writing screenplays, which infuriated Tony because expressing your feelings is a betrayal of Omertà.
Because of the culture he grew up in Christopher never considered that he didn't actually have to join the Mafia at all. He believed he had no choice. He found it hard to kill somebody for the first time in the first season because everybody finds it hard to kill somebody the first time. It only becomes easier through repetition, and even then it never gets completely easy to murder other people, unless you are a sociopath.
Most people are not sociopaths, but "Masculinity" involves aspiring to be one. But most men are not gangsters. Not all men are capable of murder (and sometimes women are). Everyone has violent impulses, which is why women who have Postpartum often describe intense negative fantasies about hurting or killing their newborn babies.
"Excuse me, I'm a vice president! You fucking asshole!" - future Joan Holloway D-Girl
It is not a tremendous reach to imagine that the kind of corrosive misogyny that dominates the Hollywood studio and agency Boys' Club atmospheres would reproduce itself in other extremely male-dominated corporate climates, particularly ones that run testosterone heavy. I respect aggression on the court, but not off the court (I respect Ron Artest much more than Kobe Bryant). Women are taught and told to suppress their anger and drive. Men are taught to rely too much on it. Intelligent women learn to channel that anger and drive (to do the black swan). Intelligent men learn to channel their anger into their work and leave it out of their relationship with/to women.
Men who buy "Masculinity" believe there's a connection between channeling anger into your work and channeling it into the rest of your life. They don't understand compartmentalization. Jack Nicholson got trapped in being "Jack Nicholson" all the time and is having serious regrets at age 73. Robert DeNiro is by all accounts a very mild-mannered guy who channels his libido into his acting, into "Robert DeNiro."
Kanye West is dealing with this on the public stage. All artists do, but now so does everyone who "exists" on the internet. You create/project the idealized image you want to see onscreen. Other people believe in this image, and you may start to believe that you are the same person offscreen. But make no mistake, it is different onscreen. Men who want to be Don Draper are buying the big lie that there is a Don Draper (that there is a James Bond). There is no Don Draper. There is only Dick Whitman.
We all turn into Kirk Douglas at the Oscars eventually. That's the way love goes. :(
Let's use The Oscars as a microcosm of other rooms: The Kodak Theater auditorium was filled with a predominately white audience. White privilege is invisible, as is whiteness. White people tend to look at the room without immediately noticing that it is predominately white. They do not notice that it is white because a predominately white room seems "normal." Minorities appeared onscreen a few times, extremely briefly. An auditorium that accurately reflected the racial makeup of Los Angeles, the city where the Oscars take place, would be at least half Hispanic and also much more Asian and Black. That would seem "weird" in the context of the Oscars auditorium as we are used to it looking as of now, but it seems way fucking weirder that the room is still so incredibly white in 2011 particularly given the actual racial diversity of LA.
On November 16, 1972 Alfred Hitchcock was invited to a luncheon honoring Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel at director George Cukor's house. From left, standing: Robert Mulligan, William Wyler, Cukor, Robert Wise, unknown, and Louis Malle. Seated: Billy Wilder, George Stevens, Buñuel, Hitchcock and Rouben Mamoulian.
The Best Director category was all men. Last year when Kathryn Bigelow was nominated and won, the other four nominees were still men. If there were two women nominated for Best Director, it would seem unusual. If there were three women and two men nominated, it would seem more unusual still. If there were five women nominated for Best Director, I don't know, the world would tip off its axis and spin into outer space.
Auteur Theory: all film directors must be Caucasian boy geniuses with father issues
That five white male directors is still automatically accepted as "normal" by both men and women is an example of how cultural stereotypes lead us to believe that unfair things must actually be fair, simply by virtue of tradition and continued existence.
one of these guys has a serious drug problem but all five have a serious hair problem
"What if white men are just the best directors?" (- a troll) I am not saying those five guys are not all great directors, because I think they all are. I'm just saying the idea that five heterosexual white men in any room with a closed door, is suspicious in 2011. You can extend it to any field, to any room, to any socially exclusive club or profession. The Supreme Court. The Friars Club. The New York Times Book Review.
and you girls get the big important job of copying things on the new xerox machine!
"What if straight white men just happen to be the best directors/ surgeons/ judges/ chefs/ CEOs/ programmers/ musicians/ comedians/ DJs/ authors?" Sure there will always be some who are supernaturally talented, but always? All the time? Girl PLEASE. Most straight white men would not like to think too much about their privilege, because they would not like to think that they didn't deserve anything they have achieved, and they bring up their own weaknesses as proof. That is privilege denying. Unfortunately they are still in charge of a lot of shit that the rest of us want to do.
the world loves a tall handsome white guy but it also hates absolutely anything else
Straight white men have a special status in our culture that no other group has. And everyone else belongs to one of those other groups, and you're damn right we're aware of the privileges straight white men automatically receive in our society. The best straight white guys: Kurt Cobain, John Lennon, James Franco, use this privilege as a platform to ask why we are listening to them more than we listen to anyone else.
Chris & Ade, a rare accurate depiction of the friendship between two people in love
Privilege is the absence of equality. The mainstream misogynist culture attacked Yoko Ono because John Lennon dared to suggest that she was an artist on the same level as himself, equally as important as he was in the world. That her ideas were just as if not more valuable than his. That his consciousness and practice were being expanded through collaborating with her, similar to (and building on) the way it had been expanded through his songwriting and friendship with Paul McCartney. Mainstream culture privileges bromance over romance because it privileges men over women.
from the video for Bad Girl, part of David Fincher's indomitable Madonna trilogy
In the "Men Can Be Feminists" department, the films that were nominated this year were unusually feminist except perhaps Incpetion. Christopher Nolan cannot write women but also can't write human beings realistically. We can't discount Nolan entirely because of Ellen Page. In the "Hollywood Is Still Super Misogynist" department, despite making an incredibly high grossing film (Twilight) Catherine Hardwicke was not allowed a look at The Fighter script. She was told a man needed to direct it.
Black Swan was an aggressively feminist mainstream artwork (much like MIA's MAYA). "Women" and "Mainstream" are seen as incompatible by the misogynists that run Hollywood because the culture of "Women" is not mainstream, it is always secondary to the mainstream culture which is geared towards "Men." Television seems slightly more accepting of women than film because TV is the woman to film's man. The internet is accepting of women because the internet is a great space for queering media.
Judd Apatow, after getting over his defensive anger at being accused of sexism, did the best thing possible by hiring Kristen Wiig to write Bridesmaids and producing a TV show with Lena Dunham. The next Woody Allen will not look anything like Woody Allen. She will probably look like Lena Dunham or Mindy Kaling or Liz Meriwether.
Black Swan got denigrated most often as Camp because Camp, like Women and Ballet movies, is not something to be taken as seriously as men and Westerns. That's why it's great that the Coen Brothers made True Grit a feminist Western, as if to demonstrate that the concepts of Feminist and Western are no more incompatible than the ideas of Feminism and Men. Raising Arizona is a feminist Western about fatherhood.
The idea that any two ideas must be incompatible is the whole problem. That any dichotomy must be "vs." rather than "and." Binary oppositions are straw men. They are rarely actually in opposition. "I am large, I contain multitudes." Men AND Women. Good AND Bad. Virgin AND Whore. Loud AND Quiet. Peace AND Violence. Logic AND Feeling. Serious AND Funny. Eastern AND Western. High AND Low. New York AND Los Angeles.
Molly Lambert is the Vice President of This Recording. Get your own goddamn coffee. She last wrote in these pages about Taylor Swift and Ernest Hemingway. You can find How To Be A Woman In Any Boys Club here and Speak Now here. She tumbls here and twitters here.
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A winner was selected from 32 designs submitted by 13 freelance designers.
A website design for a free online lotto
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Four Stocks Likely To Grow Within 1-2 Years
Jack Hough of Barron's picks four stocks likely to grow during the next one to two years. Photo: Getty
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Election Section
Full Election Coverage
Are you confused about the upcoming election? Below you'll be able to find all the articles about the November 2012 election that have appeared to date in the Planet, in reverse chronological order, except that Planet editorials are at the top on the front page so they're easier to find.
Also on the front page are links to a couple of excellent videos on YouTube which will make it possible for you to see the candidates both in a full debate and in sound bites.
Editorials:Berkeley Heats Up For the Fall Election Season 08-29-2012
ENDORSEMENT SPECIAL: Yes on Berkeley Measures U, V, N, O. No on Berkeley Measure M. 09-28-2012
ENDORSEMENT SPECIAL: Measure T is a Trojan Horse 09-21-2012
ENDORSEMENT SPECIAL: Sitting Down Should not be Banned in Berkeley 09-14-2012
ENDORSEMENT SPECIAL: Berkeley Mayor and City Council 09-05-2012
ENDORSEMENT SPECIAL: Avoid R, and the Rest of the Story 10-04-2012
Following the Money Behind Berkeley Ballot Measures 10-12-2012
Myth-Busting 101: Street-Sitting Ban Does NOT Work for Santa Cruz Either 10-12-2012
Videos:Watch Candidates for Berkeley's Mayor Discuss the Issues Video by Paul Kealoha Blake 10-04-2012
Berkeley Candidates' "Stump Speeches" on YouTube From the League of Women Voters 10-09-2012
View Competitive Sitting Here, Now! 10-05-2012
Odd Bodkins: Eisenhower (Cartoon) By Dan O'Neill 10-12-2012
Measure M: Investing in Streets and Green infrastructure - Providing Multiple Benefits Now and Saving Money in the Future By Larry Henry, Past Chairperson and current Vice-Chairperson of the Berkeley Public Works Commission 10-12-2012
Can We Elect A President Who Will Help Us All? By Romila Knanna 10-12-2012 By J. Muir 10-12-2012
Creative Protests Blanket Berkeley By Carol Denney 10-12-2012
A Curmudgeonly Potpourri by The Occasional Curmudgeon 10-12-2012
Mayoral & District 3 Candidates' Night Sponsored by LeConte & Williard Neighborhood Associations 10-12-2012
New: Yes,the Fiscal Sky May Be Falling: Moody's is Examining Berkeley for a Rating Downgrade By Barbara Gilbert 10-09-2012
Quakers Oppose Berkeley Measure S By Berkeley Society of Friends 10-04-2012
Vote Yes on A1 By Dr. Joel Parrott, Veterinarian and Executive Director, Oakland Zoo 10-04-2012
New: Who's Spending on Berkeley Ballot Measures? The First Filing of Expenditures, and More By Thomas Lord 10-09-2012
New: Santa Monica has a Plan for Growth and It's Better than Berkeley's (News Analysis) By Toni Mester 10-06-2012
Hometown Online Resources for Berkeley Voters
from The Berkeley Almanac By Thomas Lord 10-04-2012
Election Stories in Back Issues of the Planet 10-05-2012
SENIOR POWER: A Senior Moment By Helen Rippier Wheeler 10-04-2012
NEBA Holds Two Berkeley Election Fairs and Forums 10-05-2012
Berkeley's Measure U: $1 million for sunshine? That's a stretch! And it would still be a bargain! By Richard Knee 09-28-2012
Measure R: The Name of the Game is POWER by Former Berkeley Mayor Shirley Dean 09-28-2012
No on Berkeley Measure T By Sam Greyson 09-28-2012
Is Three-Term Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates Vulnerable? By Ted Friedman 09-28-2012
Ranked Choice Voting Comes to Berkeley: How It Works, How to Do It By Lydia Gans 09-28-2012
Press Release: Cal Berkeley Democrats Endorse 2012 Local Candidates Worthington, Anderson, and Progressive Rent Board Candidates From Sofie Karasek 09-28-2012
Press Release: Berkeley No on S Campaign Grabs Three Democratic Club Endorsements "Clean Sweep" of 3 Berkeley Democratic Clubs Marks Growing No on S Momentum
By Christopher Cook, No on S coalition 09-28-2012
Berkeley Mayor and Council Candidates Debate on Sundays From Nigel Guest 09-28-2012
CENA Candidates' Night is Monday 09-28-2012
Berkeley For All Candidates' Forum
McGee Avenue Baptist Church in Berkeley, Thursday 09-28-2012
Measure S is a Hate Crime By Carol Denney 09-21-2012
New: Grey Panthers Host Berkeley Mayor Candidates in Forum By Helen Rippier Wheeler 09-26-2012
New: Vote No on Alameda County Measure A1 (Opinion) By Laura Baker,East Bay Chapter of the California Native Plant Society 09-26-2012
Press Release: Bookmark and Share Curb-Sit and Kiss-In Protest Against Anti-Sitting Law-- Re-Creation Of Barack And Michelle Obama's First Kiss While Sitting On The Sidewalk By B Sofer 09-26-2012
Press Release: Celebratory "Sitting Olympics" To Highlight Measure S Concerns
Berkeley celebs headline Sept. 30 "Starry Plough Olympiad 2012" From Christopher Cook 09-26-2012
Election Information 09-21-2012
MapLight's Voter's Edge: A Graphic Guide to Election Information 09-24-2012
THE PUBLIC EYE:Campaign 2012: Playing the Israel Card By Bob Burnett 09-21-2012
But of Course, It Could Never Happen in Berkeley--or Could It? By Osha Neumann 09-14-2012
Letter to Berkeley Mayor and City Council Regarding Brown Act Violations in Placing Measure S on the November Ballot By Michael T. Risher, Staff Attorney, ACLU of Northern California 09-13-2012
Romney Follows His Own Rules By Bruce Joffee 09-14-2012
"The Fight for Berkeley's Soul" Sunday Downtown By Ted Friedman 09-17-2012
Walk will Reveal Problems of Berkeley's Aquatic Park By Toni Mester 09-14-2012
Press Release: Berkeley Standing Up Coalition Kicks Off Campaign to Defeat "Sit-Lie" Measure S From Christopher Cook 09-16-2012
Community Campaign Center Opening 09-14-2012
Election Information 09-14-2012
Press Release: BCA Endorsement Meeting Results From Linda Godzi 09-16-2012
THE PUBLIC EYE: Welcome to Romneyland By Bob Burnett 09-14-2012
ECLECTIC RANT: Making it Harder For Some to Vote: Restrictive Voting Laws By Ralph E. Stone 09-14-2012
Odd Bodkins: The Terrorist (Cartoon) By Dan O'Neill 09-08-2012
Whatever Happened To "Republican Women for Choice"? By Ron Lowe 09-08-2012
An Open Letter to Jacquelyn McCormick and Adolpho Cabral; By Norma J F Harrison 09-08-2012
Where in the World is West Berkeley? (News Analysis) By Toni Mester 09-07-2012
New: Unfunded Liabilities And The New Berkeley Police Contract (News Analysis) By Shannon Brown 09-08-2012
Planning Commission Special Workshop On MUP Community Benefits to Be Held on Wednesday From WEBAIC 09-07-2012
Election Update 09-07-2012
THE PUBLIC EYE:Obama vs. Romney: The Popularity Contest By Bob Burnett 09-07-2012
Odd Bodkins: Fred for Prez (Cartoon) By Dan O'Neill 08-28-2012
Romney's Vision for the Future: An Uninhabitable Earth By Jack Bragen 08-29-2012
Press Release: Bates and Berkeley Council Violated Brown Act in Measure S Process, Says ACLU in Letter From Bob Offer-Westort, Berkeley Standing Up for the Right to Sit Down; Michael T. Risher, Staff Attorney, ACLU of Northern California: 415 621 2493 09-06-2012
There's Something About Tom Bates (News Analysis) By Ted Friedman 09-01-2012
Got Free Speech in Berkeley's Constitution Square? (First Person) By Carol Denney 08-29-2012
New: Berkeley Election News in Other Media 09-04-2012
Profiles of the Candidates for Berkeley Office in the November Election From the Berkeley City Clerk 08-28-2012
Election Information: 2012 Berkeley Ballot Measures 08-29-2012
Berkeley's General Election Calendar From the Berkeley City Clerk 08-29-2012
Jacquelyn McCormick for Mayor (Opinion) By Martha Nicoloff 08-29-2012
THE PUBLIC EYE: Mitt Romney: The Great White Hope 08-31-2012
AGAINST FORGETTING: Voter Suppression: The "Schurick Doctrine" and the Unravelling of American Democracy By Ruth Rosen 08-29-2012
ECLECTIC RANT: The GOP and the John Galt Factor By Ralph E. Stone 08-29-2012


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Monday, March 9, 2009
Genetic profiling
The Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center has recently opened a new Translational Research Laboratory that will uncover the genetic codes and gene mutations from almost all of its cancer patients. Previously only a sampling of patients had their tumors analyzed in such a comprehensive fashion.
By embarking on such an ambitious approach, Cancer Center pathologists and oncologists hope to gather specific information about tumor properties that will lead to targeted therapies and better personalized treatments. Mass General will be the first and only cancer center to conduct molecular profiling of positive biopsies and tumors from all patients as part of basic patient care.
Scientists and researchers have already identified over 110 genetic mutations responsible for causing tumor growth, many of which are involved in several different types of cancers. Codirectors of the Transplational Research Laboratory, Leif Ellisen, MD, PhD, and A. John Iafrate, MD, PhD, have equipped the lab with state-of-the-art robotic technology, which will make it possible to quickly genotype tumor specimens within a short period of time.
"This new and improved classification of cancers that we are doing is intended to give our oncologists more information about a individual patient's cancer, so they can treat it in a very specific way, thereby significantly increasing the odds of success," says Iafrate.
Several new cancer drugs that are currently available or in development are able to block some of the mutations and pathways that cause tumor cells to proliferate. By targeting tumor gene mutations with these smart drugs, doctors may be able to eradicate malignant cells without using traditional treatments like chemotherapy and radiation, which have significant side effects.
The lab's new tumor genotyping initiative should also expedite the time it takes to find the right drug for the right patient. According to Ellisen, "If we are able to identify a mutation in, say, a case of lung cancer, and we know that a particular drug has been successful in treating colon cancer patients with the same mutation, then we have good reason to believe that drug will work turning off the cancer-causing mutation in the lung cancer patient as well."
The lab will start with the genotyping of Mass General's lung cancer patients and phase in different disease groups over the next few weeks. It is anticipated that the profiling of all possible patient tumors will occur gradually over the coming months.
Learn more about research at the Cancer Center
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This post was written by Javed Cheema
Thursday 5/22 was an interesting day. Niraj and Katie had already left the day before and it was my last night with the gang as I was leaving the next afternoon. It had been the desire of several of us to check out a Korean restaurant that had come highly recommended to us. After Ale and I came back from the Red Terror Museum, we really wanted to share a cup of coffee with our driver, Tikelun and Madame Mebrat. Protocol was such that all of our previous attempts at invitations had failed. Tikelun was the hardest to crack. This time, we asked him 3 times but then gave them no choice as we opened the driver's door and forced the invitation. We were so happy to share the warm sips of coffee with our hosts and knew we made a connection when the driver refused the hotel-made pastry and accepted to partake from Danny's stash of kollo – the genuine local article!
We set out a little after 5 for dinner and so began a 2.5 hour search for the Korean restaurant Rainbow. Earlier Carla had pulled out a rough sketch from Google maps and our hosts had politely informed us that they knew what the map was pointing to. Either the map was outdated, or way out of scale, or our hosts misjudged. Either way, thus began an interesting and somewhat comical search for Rainbow. We must have stopped in 3 different neighborhoods and taken several u-turns. We stopped policemen, people on the street, and even rival restaurants for directions. Each one was wrong and we almost gave up the search were it not for the finding of another Korean restaurant and discovering that the same owners owned Rainbow as well. We finally reached the address only to find a closed gated with inside lights turned off! Hoping against hope, Danielle got out and rung the doorbell. A person off the street confirmed what we suspected by now.
What a treat this turned out to be! We had spotted the Armenian restaurant, Aladdin, a few turns back and knowing it was recommended in the guidebook, set out for it.
Food was great. No question one of the best meals we had in Ethiopia. But even greater was what happened during the meal; we really broke the ice with the former soldier in Tikelun. We found out that he was really into action movies – especially Rambo and other Stallone/Schwarzenegger flicks. Just then a familiar tune hit my ears and a few moments later, a startled me started telling the group that this was a pop song from Pakistan – the 1st one to introduce the genre to that country! Mebrat told me that it (Nazia Hasan's "aap jaisa koi") was still a popular song in Ethiopia. An obscure song from the 1970s from a country thousands of miles away… what are the chances of that?? Thus began a sharing of commonalities. We asked our hosts of what music they listened to and the movies they liked. A group of us broke into choruses to several songs that they would hint at and we would get nods of approval if the mark was right. The song "Jolene" and other country westerns were definitely in. Michael Jackson was a veritable African son whose death was mourned greatly in Ethiopia. We were the only table singing, clapping and laughing ourselves silly with abandon.
What a way to end the trip!


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Since SFMV was launched two years ago, we've enjoyed great food and conviviality, and we've done it on a budget accessible to everyone. Many events, like our Strawberry Celebration last Saturday, have been free, as well as informative and delicious.
Our June event is a splurge: a trip to Revolver Restaurant in Findlay. We're privileged to have such a restaurant right in our backyard, and I'm sure that the splurge will be worth it. I've just spoken with chef/owner Michael Bulkowski, and he's planning a great meal for us including Lake Erie perch or walleye, chicken from Dickman Farms, local strawberries, and local vegetables like heirloom beans, spring peas, and carrots. In addition to great food, we will hear from Michael about his restaurant, and we'll meet one of his suppliers - Russ Chester of Garden Spirit Farm in Mt Blanchard.
The cost for this event is $75 for SFMV members; $100 for non-members. As always, become a member here. Reservations a must: RSVP to email@example.com
Thursday June 25th
arrive 6:30 - 7 PM
Revolver Restaurant
110 East Sandusky Street
Findlay, Ohio 45840


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te don't change the world simply da looking at it. te change it da living in it. A scientist and a balloon pilot take to the skies and push discovery to new heights in The Aeronauts, an adventure film inspired da true events. Travel into the unknown with a new trailer, added da Makeupdiva! The Aeronauts arrives November 6.
The Aeronauts stars Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones, and premieres November 6.
Can te solve the mystery? After an accident, a man rushes his wife and daughter to the hospital. They go in for testing... and never come out. Watch a desperate father scramble to uncover the truth in the trailer for Fractured, added da rakshasa! Fractured, starring Sam Worthington, premieres October 11 on Netflix.
@Netflix - Fractured stars Sam Worthington and Lily Rabe, and premieres October 11 on Netflix.
If te could find out exactly when you're going to die, would te want to know? A young nurse who downloads a popolare app is surprised to learn that she only has three days left to live in Countdown. See her race to change her fate – o die trying – in the trailer, added da jlhfan624! Countdown premieres October 25.
A young nurse who downloads an app that claims to predict exactly when a person is going to die. It tells her she only has three days to live, and she also feels a mysterious figure haunting her.
If it's war he wants, it's war he shall have. Witness a new conflict arise in the Peaky Blinders season 5 trailer, added da Makeupdiva! Peaky Blinders returns to Netflix on October 4.
As the Shelbys grapple with the 1929 stock market crash, Tommy confronts new threats to his power from younger family members and fascist rivals. Peaky Blinders returns, October 4th.
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She's got nothing left to lose. A woman whose family was killed in an attack seeks revenge against those who orchestrated the event in The Rhythm Section, an action-drama starring Blake Lively, Jude Law and Sterling K. Brown. Here's the trailer, added da rakshasa! The Rhythm Section premieres in January 2020.
@Rapid Trailer - The Rhythm Section stars Blake Lively, Jude Law and Sterling K. Brown, and premieres in January 2020.
Man, they're getting good at this. Reunite with the stars of Zombieland and meet the new guys in a Zombieland: Double Tap featurette, added da DarkSarcasm! The sequel stars Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin, Rosario Dawson, Zoey Deutch and Luke Wilson, and premieres October 18.
Man, they're getting good at this. Take a ride with the cast into #Zombieland: Double Tap, from the director of Venom and writers of Deadpool, in theaters October 18.
A new arrival at a boarding school meets a group of Friends who will change everything in Looking for Alaska, based on the John Green novel. Here's the trailer, added da DarkSarcasm! Looking for Alaska stars Charlie Plummer, Kristine Froseth, Denny Love, ghiandaia, jay Lee and Uriah Shelton, and arrives October 18 on Hulu.
Teenagers think they're invincible. They don't know how right they are. Looking for Alaska premieres October 18, only on Hulu.
Time to go off-script. A web mostra that claims to broadcast live exorcisms has really only been an elaborate hoax... until now. See what happens when the crew encounters a real possession in the trailer for Shudder's The Cleansing Hour, added da jlhfan624! The Cleansing ora will arrive soon.
A live-stream exorcism goes viral in this bold, modern take on demonic possession.
Investigate a thrilling murder mystery in a new trailer for Rian Johnson's Knives Out, added da rakshasa! Knives Out stars Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tony Collette, Don Johnson, Michael Shannon, LaKeith Stanfield, Katherine Langford and Christopher Plummer, and premieres November 27.
@Lionsgate Film -Knives Out—In theaters November 27, 2019.
There's something special about this kid. Meet a young boy struggling to control his newfound powers and the loving single mother trying to keep him sicuro, cassetta di sicurezza in a trailer for Netflix's Raising Dion, added da rakshasa! Raising Dion stars Ja'Siah Young, Alisha Wainwright and Michael B. Jordan, and premieres October 4 on Netflix.
@Netflix -A young boy struggling to control his newfound powers. A single mom fighting the odds to keep her son safe. Secrets, conspiracies, mysteries, all dangerously swarming around one family... Raising Dion launches October 4th, only on Netflix.
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They started this. He's going to end it. Celebrate Rambo giorno with a relentlessly savage red band teaser for Rambo: Last Blood, added da lilyZ! Rambo: Last Blood stars Sylvester Stallone, Paz Vega, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Adriana Barraza and Yvette Monreal, and hits theaters this Friday.
Watch John Rambo do what he does best: Turn tough guys into mincemeat.
Are te ready for a killer summer at Camp Redwood? Pack your bags and check out a supercut of all the American Horror Story: 1984 teasers in one terrifying video, added da rakshasa! American Horror Story: 1984 begins tonight on FX.
@FX Network -Prepare for your stay at Camp Redwood. Watch every teaser from AHS 1984. Premieres Wed at 10p on FX.
Some places have a mind of their own. See what evil lurks In the Tall erba in a trailer for the new horror film based on Stephen King and Joe Hill's novella, added da rakshasa! In the Tall erba stars Patrick Wilson, Rachel Wilson, Laysla De Oliveira, Harrison Gilbertson and Will Buie Jr., and premieres October 4 on Netflix.
@Netflix -"Some places have a mind of their own. -Based on the novella da Stephen King and Joe collina
This is the story of an orphan girl from a faraway land, who discovered something magical near the mysterious manor in which she was sent to live. Unlock your imagination in The Secret Garden's trailer, added da Makeupdiva! The Secret Garden stars Dixie Egerickx, Julie Walters and Colin Firth, and premieres in April 2020.
The Secret Garden stars Dixie Egerickx, Amir Wilson, Julie Walters and Colin Firth, and premieres in April 2020.
te have no idea what's coming. A police officer obsessed with a serial killer begins to come undone when the killer resurfaces in Netflix's In the Shadow of the Moon. Here's the trailer, added da rakshasa! The thriller stars Boyd Holbrook, Cleopatra Coleman and Michael C. Hall, and premieres September 27 on Netflix.
@Netflix - IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON is a genre-blending psychological thriller that examines the power of time, and how its passing can either bring us together o tear us apart.
Thank te for this journey, no matter how it ends. Two strangers form an unbreakable bond after killing a man in self-defense and running away together in Queen & Slim, a drama starring Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith. Ride o die in the latest trailer, added da rakshasa! Queen & Slim premieres November 27.
@Universal Pictures -Queen & Slim - In Theaters November
What is the world like, now that dinosauri live among us? Visit Big Rock National Park with a family on a camping trip and see for yourself in Colin Trevorrow's Jurassic World: Battle at Big Rock, a short film added da DarkSarcasm! Battle at Big Rock stars André Holland and Natalie Martinez.
Takes place one anno after the events of the last Jurassic World film, in Big Rock National Park, where dinosauri are now living in our world, and follows a family whose encounter with these wild animali becomes a terrifying fight for survival.
How can te be sure that te are you? An unhappy man signs up for a spa treatment that promises to change his life in Living With Yourself – and it does. See what happens when two people try to live one life in the trailer, added da rakshasa! Living With Yourself stars Paul Rudd and premieres October 18 on Netflix.
@Netflix -Living with Yourself premieres October 18 on Netflix
The più things change, the più they stay insane. See what's going on with the Gallaghers in a Shameless season 10 trailer, added da rakshasa! Shameless returns to Showtime on November 3.
@TV Promos -Shameless Season 10 premieres November 3rd on Showtime
Law & Order: SVU is più than just a TV show. Go behind the scenes with the cast of TV's longest-running scripted drama to learn più about the lasting impact of the mostra in an emotional featurette, added da DarkSarcasm! Law & Order: SVU's record-breaking 21st season begins September 26 on NBC.
Mariska Hargitay, Kelli Giddish, Peter Scanavino, Ice T and mostra creator Dick lupo give te a first look at Season 21 of Law & Order: SVU, premiering Thursday, September 26 at 10/9c on NBC.
If her science doesn't speak for itself, then te have gravely misunderstood it. unisciti two pioneers on a quest to change the world in the trailer for Radioactive, a story about Marie and Pierre Curie, added da rakshasa! Radioactive stars Rosamund Pike, Sam Riley and Anya Taylor-Joy, and arrives in 2020.
@StudiocanalUK - Radioactive stars Rosamund Pike, Sam Riley, Anya Taylor-Joy, Aneurin Barnard and Simon Russell Beale, and arrives in 2020.
They Amore nothing. They fear nothing. They are free. Embrace the end of the world with the Whisperers in a new teaser for The Walking Dead's tenth season, added da Bibi69! The Walking Dead returns to AMC on October 6.
The Whisperers are on the move. Will the survivors be ready? The Walking Dead returns Sunday, October 6 at 9/8c on AMC.
Sam and Dean Winchester vs. every soul in hell? Those are pretty good odds. Gear up for the end in a new season 15 promo, added da Makeupdiva! Supernatural's fifteenth and final season begins October 10 on The CW.
Supernatural's fifteenth and final season begins October 10 on The CW.
If te can choose, te don't understand. A young artist hired to paint a wedding portrait without her subject's knowledge grows close to the reluctant bride-to-be in French film Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Here's the trailer, added da DarkSarcasm! The film stars Noémie Merlant and Adèle Haenel, and premieres December 6.
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman. Starring Noémie Merlant and Adèle Haenel.
Enter a world on the brink of war, where masked vigilantes are treated as outlaws, in a new Watchmen trailer added da rakshasa! Watchmen stars Regina King, Don Johnson, Adelaide Clemens, Tim Blake Belson, Louis Gossett Jr., Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jean Smart and Jeremy Irons, and premieres October 20 on HBO.
@HBO -Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Everything begins 10/20.
We're all afraid of something. What are te afraid of? Face your fears in a new trailer for Nickelodeon's Are te Afraid of the Dark revival, added da Makeupdiva! The limited series event begins October 11 on Nickelodeon.
The limited series event begins October 11 on Nickelodeon.
Are te ready to open your heart? See what Amore is all about in a new trailer for Amazon's anthology series Modern Love, added da rakshasa! Modern Amore stars Tina Fey, Andy Garcia, Anne Hathaway, Catherine Keener, Dev Patel, Olivia Cooke and John Slattery, and premieres October 18 on Prime Video.
@Amazon Prime Video -The open, honest, painful and sometimes messy cerca for Amore is what makes it so real. Open your cuore to the full story of Amore with Modern Amore on October 18th, 2019.
In 2014, a video of a clown in a child's bedroom went viral, and the internet became obsessed with finding Wrinkles the Clown. Who was this clown for hire? Why was he willing to strike terror into the hearts of misbehaving children? Discover the truth behind the mask in the trailer, added da lilyZ! Wrinkles the Clown arrives October 4.
Wrinkles the Clown arrives October 4.
When a powerful corporation takes advantage of two best Friends and the small business they've built together, the two will stop at nothing to get revenge in Like A Boss. Check out the comedy's trailer, added da DarkSarcasm! Like A Boss stars Tiffany Haddish, Rose Byrne and and Salma Hayek, and premieres January 10.
The world of beauty is about to get ugly. Watch the official trailer for Like A Boss, starring Tiffany Haddish, Rose Byrne, and Salma Hayek. In theatres January 10th.
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Annie Wilkes has arrived in castello Rock. Return to the world of Stephen King in a chilling teaser for the horror anthology's new season, added da DarkSarcasm! castello Rock's secondo season stars Lizzy Caplan, Tim Robbins, Paul Sparks, Elsie Fisher, Barkhad Abdi and Matthew Alan, and premieres October 23 on Hulu.
In Season 2, a feud between warring clans comes to a boil when budding psychopath Annie Wilkes (Lizzy Caplan), Stephen King's nurse from hell, gets waylaid in castello Rock. Misery arrives October 23 on hulu.
A voodoo curse won't let them live... o die. A sadistic family plagued da an ancient curse preys on Mardi Gras party-goers in Gothic Harvest, a horrifying film starring Lin Shaye, Sofia Mattson and Bill Moseley. Here's the trailer, added da jlhfan624! Gothic Harvest premieres digitally on October 15, and arrives on DVD on November 5.
Four co-eds head to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. When one of them disappears, her Friends race to find her before she falls victim to a sadistic Southern family plagued da a centuries-old voodoo curse.
What do te remember about Jesse Pinkman? Look back on the incredible journey of the Breaking Bad character in a video from Netflix, added da rakshasa! Jesse will return in El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, a film continuation of Breaking Bad, which premieres October 11 on Netflix.
A cynical woman working as one of Santa's elves meets a man who inspires her to look at life differently in Last Christmas, a romantic comedy inspired da the songs of George Michael. Check out a new trailer, added da Makeupdiva! Last Natale stars Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding, and premieres November 8.
Last Natale stars Emilia Clarke, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh and Emma Thompson, and premieres November 8.
The courage of a few Ribelle - The Brave men will change the fate of the world in Midway, a WWII drama directed da Roland Emmerich. Prepare for battle in a new trailer, added da DarkSarcasm! Midway stars Ed Skrein, Patrick Wilson, Luke Evans, Aaron Eckhart, Nick Jonas, Mandy Moore and Woody Harrelson, and premieres November 8.
The story of the Battle of Midway, told da the leaders and the sailors who fought it.
In just nine months, life as they know it will be over. Raise your glass to dark secrets, strange days, and senior moments in Riverdale's season 4 trailer, added da laurik2007! Riverdale returns to The CW on October 9.
Riverdale returns to The CW on October 9.
Beware the chair. A piece of furniture falls for a human and begins committing gruesome crimes of passion in Killer Sofa, a horror comedy from Bernie Rao. Take a seat, if te dare, and check out the trailer added da jlhfan624! Killer Sofa stars Jed Brophy, Sarah Munn, Stacy King and Harley Neville, and arrives on VOD this October.
Killer Sofa stars Jed Brophy, Sarah Munn, Stacy King and Harley Neville, and arrives on VOD this October.
In a distant dystopian future, all humans have Lost the ability to see. What will happen to a society that has adapted to living blindly when the power of sight returns? Witness the beginning of a new era in the trailer for Apple's See, added da rakshasa! See, starring Jason Momoa, premieres November 1 on mela, apple TV+.
@TV Promos - See stars Jason Momoa, Alfre Woodard, Christian Camargo, Nesta Cooper, Yadira Guevara-Prop, Hera Hilmar and Sylvia Hoeks, and premieres November 1 on mela, apple TV+.
Enter a world where everyone hides behind a mask and learn più about the genre-bending Watchmen series in a new featurette, added da rakshasa! Watchmen stars Regina King, Don Johnson, Adelaide Clemens, Tim Blake Nelson, Andrew Howard, Jean Smart and Jeremy Irons, and premieres October 20 on HBO.
@HBO -The wicked ride starts 10/20. Watchmen examines how we as a society feel about heroes, most notably people who wear masks and fight crime.
What happens on Purge Night stays on Purge Night... o does it? Witness the new reality of the world in a trailer for The Purge's secondo seaason, added da Makeupdiva! The Purge returns to USA Network on October 15.
The Purge returns to USA Network on October 15.
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The Walking Dead has a lot of surprises in store for season 10. unisciti Samantha Morton (Alpha) for a preview, added da DarkSarcasm! The Walking Dead's tenth season premieres October 6 on AMC.
The Walking Dead's Samantha Morton (Alpha) reveals what to expect from Season 10.


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When Adobe said they wouldn't be developing Flash Player for Android to work with any new versions, they also promised to keep the current version up-to-date with critical fixes and security patches. Once again, they show us that they really mean what they say, and there's another update for Flash in the Android Market. The fixes include events for handling a crash would could lead to code execution, which means potential is there for someone to hijack your system. Adobe is usually pretty good about patching these things before the get exploited, and there are no known instances in the wild of attackers using these methods to compromise Android devices.
To learn more about what was fixed, have a look at the Adobe Security Bulletin dated March 5. You'll find the Market link after the break.


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PAX 2011: The Future of DRAGON AGE Panel
What the future may hold for the Dragon Age franchise was the topic of conversation in the late night but still packed Unicorn Theater at the Penny Arcade Expo 2011 in Seattle Saturday night. BioWare Lead Designer Mike Laidlaw hosted the panel, and he was joined by a long list of Dragon Age staffers including Executive Producer Mark Darrah, Art Director Marr Goldman, Lead Writer David Gaider, Senior Producer Alain Baxter and the creator of the Dragon Age pen and paper role playing game: Chris Pramas.
Laidlaw began with a respectful note to the audience that he and the panel can't go too deep into the future of the franchise which is still in development, but instead will discuss the themes of the series and where they as designers are looking to go. Using a PowerPoint style sideshow Laidlaw discussed four key points that are being examined by the developers for potential changes.
The first was combat, and Laidlaw recognized concern among fans about where the fighting system in the game was headed and advised that they are not going the Devil May Cry route and instead likened combat evolving to something similar to a drawn up play in professional football. He reported that combat in Dragon Age is about "Preparation, Positioning and Teamwork." Meaning what is important is making yourself ready for battle, organizing yourself when combat begins and having party members complement each other's skills in battle with "flair."
The second point was the scope of the game, and to illustrate that he used slides portraying the amount of the Dragon Age world that the events of the first game took place in and compared it to the relatively minuscule portion that comprised the whole of Dragon Age 2. He then teased another highlighted map with added comment that showed a playable map area north of Kirkwall that was at least four times the size of the play area of Dragon Age: Origins with no overlap with that game.
Next was customization, and Laidlaw's slides showed that they don't want characters that are all look-alike "Stormtroopers" and instead want more customizations, teasing a new companion inventory screen that depicted the ability to customize a companion's armor load-out and explicitly told the audience that: "follower armor is coming back."
Finally, after calling up and complementing the dozen or so Dragon Age cosplayers in the audience, the last topic was "Action and Consequence." Laidlaw explained that the true ill of the world of Dragon Age is not monsters but human fallibility. He describes the future of Dragon Age to be: exotic locations, making friends, making enemies and dealing with the consequences of one's actions. The final slide representing those consequences was of a hooded women with a long staff walking away from a burning home or farmhouse and it drew a chorus of "ooooohs" from the appreciative audience.
The floor was then opened to questions. The first was a fan asking if "the Warden" and Hawke will ever meet, and the panel came to a consensuses that it all depends on if one of them will be the player character again, and if it is neither, that would make it more likely, they also added that the story of the hero of Dragon Age: Origins was done, but Hawke's was not.
The next question was on the scale world map, and the asking fan claimed that it could only be represented by an MMO-style title, and doubted that a future Dragon Age game could handle it. In reply the panel implied it could be done in a real game, that they could show the breadth of the world without having to show every little detail.
Laidlaw then suddenly closed the floor to questions and began to speak about how the Dragon Age franchise is expanding beyond the video games: into the pen and paper RPG and even an animated project being worked on with Funimation. After name checking internet and television star Felicia Day and her involvement in the upcoming Dragon Age: Redemption web series, Day herself appeared and made her way to the front to great applause. Day brought with her a premier trailer for Dragon Age: Redemption and screened it exclusively for the live audience. Little details of the plot of the web series were apparent, but there was plenty of action with an elfin Day and a small band of allies doing (gory) battle with foes, some arboreal chases, magic, shape changing, castles, dungeons and witty dialog. After the trailer, Day described her sixteen month work on the project, writing it in close consultation with the Dragon Age producers to make sure it was something everyone could enjoy and getting the over 100 effects shots done.
Back to questions, and on a request for a behind the scenes art book, Laidlaw described how they were working with a lot of external partners, so an art book is a possibility.
On the Qunari and the possibility that they are a parallel to a real world group of people, Laidlaw said Dragon Age is about holding a mirror to the human condition and understanding other people's points of view, and that the more you learn about people the more you understand them.
One fan asked, referencing the Dragon Age prose novels, how many kids Merrill has. Gaider responded with a laugh that Merrill has at least two.
On Anders' personality change between the two games, Laidlaw replied that Dragon Age is about that world, and its changes. That people change and evolve, and each character has their own story, they might not change the way you wished they did.
When asked if Dragon Age will become the new standard that all fantasy will someday be measured against, over the works of Tolkien, Laidlaw expressed that that is the goal, and that they are working to expand the world in other media and they hope to compete with works like Tolkien and the Harry Potter franchise on their level.
A game mechanics question was about the rerun of passive bonuses for having certain allies in your active group, and it was confirmed by the panel that that feature will indeed return.
Peals of laughter erupted in the hall when one gamer's question about why they couldn't have sex with Varric and how that fact broke their heart was phrased as "Why did you Hawke-block me with Varric?". The panel laughed too, chiming in that a fan's broken heart brings pleaser to Mike Laidlaw, before confirming that players will 'see more' of Varric.
On customization, a fan asked for a mage knight class, and Laidlaw said it was a possibility, the idea of a close range mage casting spells in melee is appealing to them.
A gamer suggested Dragon Age adopt co-op play, but Laidlaw said the engine is not designed for it. It's appealing, but they are not focusing on making that happen.
Finally, the last question was if combat in the next game will be more like Dragon Age: Origins or Dragon Age 2? Laidlaw doesn't see the two game's systems in opposition and wants to make sure that they are not designing fights, but instead designing encounters. As fans left, questioners and cosplayers were awarded signed & numbered Dragon Age lithographs.Related Stories
- Finding Your Role in DRAGON AGE With Writer David Gaider
- Dark Horse Promises MASS EFFECT 3 Secrets in New Art Book


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Cornelius David Krieghoff
Canadian (born in Netherlands), 1815–1872
Bilking the Toll, 1860
oil on canvas
43.7 x 64 cm
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Gift of W.F. Alloway through The Winnipeg Foundation
Painting, Canadian Historical (1800-1910)
Cornelius Krieghoff painted defining images of common people engaging in everyday activities. Between 1840 and 1860, the Dutch-born artist depicted the rural French-speaking population of Canada East (present-day Quebec). The jovial but impetuous habitants depicted in the WAG painting were often generalized by the artist. Krieghoff's paintings often reflect the tastes and values of his most reliable patrons: British military recruits and Anglophone businessmen. At the same time, they often demonstrate the perceptive acuity of an allophone. Underlying its quaint humour, Bilking the Toll hints at a darker social tension between the English colonial government, which established a toll booth system, and the local French population on whom the tax was levied.
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Hungry For More
Hungry for More
Re-Engaging Religious Teachings on Consumption
In his book God's Politics, evangelical minister Jim Wallis describes an episode from his seminary days when a fellow student took scissors and snipped out of an old Bible every verse that focused on poverty and wealth. The remaining text was tattered and fragile, reports Wallis; these economic themes occur in the Hebrew scriptures more often than any topic except idolatry, and in the Gospels account for as many as one in seven verses. The eviscerated Bible was an effective prop for his sermons. "I'd hold it up high above American congregations and say 'Brothers and sisters, this is our American Bible; it is full of holes,'" the empty spaces constituting the mute teachings that favor the poor and outline the economic obligations of the wealthy.
Recovering the lost economic teachings—not just of the Jewish and Christian traditions, but of many of the world's faiths—could be enormously valuable to a global economy faced with unprecedented ethical challenges. Mass consumerism in wealthy countries has already broken the ecological bank, with a crippled climate, extinct species, scalped forests, and drained or polluted rivers standing as red ink. Now billions of citizens of China and India demand a piece of the global consumption pie. How can the legitimate aspirations of emerging nations be met without further damaging the planet—while safeguarding opportunities for the world's poorest, especially in Africa, to stake their consumption claims?
Consumption is linked, of course, to both poverty and wealth: the poor underconsume, by definition, and the prosperous typically consume more than needed, often wastefully. Thus religious wisdom on poverty and wealth can be helpful in tackling the emerging ethical dilemma of global consumption. Restoring the forgotten wisdom buried in the sacred texts of the world's faith traditions could help to sketch out the principles for a new economics—principles that addresses the challenges of consumption and poverty simultaneously.
Indeed, the power of inspirational and challenging religious messages to mobilize believers is at work on the consumption question in pockets around the world, from Sri Lanka and Alabama to the finance ministries of major creditor nations. In each case, religious teachings (see sidebar, for example) are awakening adherents to the moral dimension of consumption (and its offspring, debt and inequality), in some cases with measurable impact. They are a reminder of the power inherent in the founding visions of many of the world's faiths.
Neither Poverty nor WealthConsider, for example, the power of "Buddhist economics" to turn western notions of consumption on their heads. From its starting position—the purpose of an economy—the Buddhist approach is distinctive.As explained in E.F. Schumacher's classic, Small Is Beautiful, whereas market economies are designed to produce the highest possible levels of production and consumption, Buddhist economics supports a different aim: to achieve enlightenment. This spiritual goal, in turn, requires freedom from desire, the source of all suffering, according to the Buddha. This is a tall order in societies of mass consumption, where advertisers conflate needs and desires and where acquisitiveness is a cultural norm. Thus the very attitude toward material goods is one of detachment, a sharp contrast to the frenzied grasping for stuff that often characterizes non-Buddhist societies.
Indeed, from the perspective of Buddhist economics, having and consuming makes sense only as a means to a well-rounded sense of well-being, in which material needs are met in moderation, and in which cultural, psychological, and spiritual needs are also addressed. Consumption as an end—chasing the most prestigious house or the latest cell phone—is irrational. In fact, in Buddhist thought the rational person aims to achieve the highest level of well-being with the least consumption, since consumption is merely a means to this higher end.
In this view, collecting ever-greater quantities of stuff, generating mountains of refuse, and designing goods to wear out (all normal in consumerist economies) are absurd inefficiencies. The waste is huge, not just in terms of garbage generated, but because the outsized material dimension of a consumer's life does not deliver any greater degree of wellbeing. Indeed, evidence from high-consumption societies like the United States make it clear that when people overconsume food or sedentary leisure time, health is likely to suffer. And overwork in support of a high consumption lifestyle can leave little time for strong relationships, another necessary ingredient of well-being.
The consumption ethic of Buddhist economics appears to
have taken strong root in Sri Lanka in a village-based development
movement known as Sarvodaya Shramadana, now
present in more than half of the country's 24,000 villages.
Consumption in the Sarvodayan experience is shaped by the
Sarvodayan vision of development, which is summarized in
a list of 10 major human needs:
• a clean and beautiful environment
• a clean and adequate supply of water
• basic clothing
• a balanced diet
• a simple house to live in
• basic health care
• simple communications facilities
• basic energy requirements
• well-rounded education
• cultural and spiritual sustenance
The list yields a moderate but broadly based approach to consumption. Commodities are "basic," "simple," and "adequate," strongly communicating an ethic of sufficiency. And nonmaterial assets such as a clean environment,well-rounded education, and cultural and spiritual sustenance are on par with material ones, suggesting that material and spiritual dimensions are both necessary for full development. In short, the list produces a materially narrower but spiritually broader understanding of healthy consumption than is found in societies of mass consumerism.
The list also implicitly suggests where to draw the line on consumption. If meeting the 10 needs essentially provides for a decent life, pursuit of desires from beyond the list is necessarily evidence of "greed, sloth, or ignorance," in the words of one Sarvodaya observer. Acceding to those desires would simply be a waste of resources.
The Sarvodayan consumption goals also open up development opportunities more broadly across society. Modest consumption saves resources for use by others, thereby extending the reach of potential development efforts. Indirectly, the list serves as a quick and easy way to identify the individuals or groups most in need of further development assistance. This assessment would be much more difficult task if the list were a long and virtually endless list of wants rather than a limited set of needs. The result is fulfillment of the Sarvodayan goal of "no poverty, no affluence."
Selected Religious Perspectives on Consumption:
HINDUISM: In case of obtaining anything in excess, one should not hoard it. One should abstain from acquisitiveness. Acarangasutra 2.114-19
CONFUCIANISM: Excess and deficiency are equally at fault. Confucius, XI.15
JUDAISM: Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Isaiah 55:2
CHRISTIANITY: How does God's love abide in anyone who has the world's goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses to help? 1 John 3:17
ISLAM: Eat and drink, but waste not by excess: He loves not the excessive. Quran 7.31
Keep the SabbathIn the Jewish and Christian traditions, consumption issues are rooted in the broader question of a person or society's obligations to the poor. "Sabbath economics" traces biblical economic thought back to the evolving understanding of the Sabbath in the Hebrew sacred texts. The analysis, radical by today's economic standards, has challenging implications for modern notions of consumption.
Theologians of Sabbath economics note that the biblical admonition to "keep the Sabbath"was more than a weekly religious observance for the ancient Israelites; it also signified their commitment to economic justice and ecological stewardship. Consider the story of the Israelites wandering in the desert after their liberation from slavery in Egypt. They are hungry, and complain to God about their plight. God responds by sending a daily shower of manna from heaven, an act of compassion that came with special instructions: the people were to gather only what they needed, no less and no more. Those who hoarded found that their stocks spoiled, while those who gathered only what they needed found that they, and the entire community, were adequately fed. On the Sabbath day, they were to rest, remember God's generosity to them, and reflect on the abundance that exists when people practice moderation.
Gradually the Sabbath concept took on more layers of economic meaning. In the books of Exodus and Deuteronomy, for example, the "Sabbath year" was introduced, when debts were to be forgiven, prisoners set free, and cropland allowed to lie fallow, offering the poor and the exhausted land a fresh start. Next, the Scriptures add the Jubilee year, which occurs every seventh Sabbath year, or every 49 years (seven being a symbol of perfection in the Jewish and Christian scriptures). This "super-Sabbath" year entails all of the liberation and fallowing obligations of previous Sabbath years, but adds the requirement that land, the source of people's livelihoods, be returned to its original owners of 50 years earlier. In this way the economic slate was wiped clean, ensuring that nobody remained perpetually on the economic margins.
In sum, explains religious activist and author Ched Myers, the Sabbath teachings in the Hebrew Scriptures contain a clear set of economic principles that are as valuable today as when first set down. The first principle is that extremes of consumption, whether too much or too little, should be avoided. Sufficient consumption, say analysts of Sabbath economics, can be surmised from the interplay between abundance and restraint that runs through the Sabbath stories: the abundance of manna being coupled with the injunction not to hoard, for example, or the provision of productive land being linked to a mandate to redistribute it periodically. God created a cornucopian world, the stories stress; combine this gift with moderation of appetites and the result is a world of plenty for everyone, rather than the resource scarcity that is a basic axiom of modern economics.
The second principle of Sabbath economics is that surplus wealth should circulate, not concentrate, and that mechanisms of redistribution are needed to ensure that any skewing of wealth does not become extreme or entrenched.Central to this principle is the notion that concentrated surpluses are inevitably linked to oppression. The Israelites themselves understood that their own enslavement in Egypt helped to produce the concentrated wealth of the pharaoh. Today, note proponents of Sabbath economics, economic oppression takes the form of sweatshops, sub-adequate wages, child labor, and other labor abuses. On these are built the concentrated wealth of many individuals, corporations, and nations.
The third principle is that believers should rest regularly, thank God for their blessings, and remember the first two principles through the rituals of community worship.
The Power To InspireIt is easy to dismiss these teachings as quaint artifacts of the Jewish and Christian traditions.After all, it is probably safe to assume that only a tiny minority of practicing Jews and Christians read the various stories of Sabbath obligations as treatises in economics. But these texts are clearly not merely utopian visions: they were the operating ethical base of the Hebrew economy thousands of years ago. There is no reason, in principle,why the same ethical imagination could not be resurrected today.Moreover, the principles of Sabbath economics have in recent years revealed their power to energize important publics on debt and taxation issues, cousins to consumption because the way they are addressed can raise the consumption levels of the poorest and curb the consumption of the wealthiest.
Perhaps the finest example of the motivational power of these texts is the Jubilee 2000 movement, an effort to reduce developing country debt whose very name evokes the most radical of the Sabbath economics-based practices.The debt crisis was in large part created by a recession in industrial countries in the early 1980s that increased borrower country payments while decreasing their capacity to export and generate the foreign exchange needed to pay down their debt. Borrowers' indebtedness soon increased to the point that it was virtually impossible to pay off.What was needed, it seemed, was a strategy to wipe clean the economic slate and offer countries a fresh start.
The strategic matching of the year 2000 with the powerful religious story of the Jubilee had the effect of firing the imagination of many religious rank and file, who became heavily involved in starting the Jubilee 2000 movement in 1996.Meanwhile, the Religious Working Group on the World Bank & IMF (RWG) was formed to look at debt, structural adjustment, and other economic issues facing developing countries. By 1997, RWG had begun to collaborate closely with the British Jubilee 2000 campaign and had announced the formation of Jubilee 2000/USA.
RWG targeted for action the annual Group of Seven (G7) meetings of leaders of the world's wealthiest nations, organizing some 70,000 demonstrators at the 1998 G7 summit in Birmingham, for example, to form a ring around the meeting site, and presenting a petition at the 1999 Cologne summit demanding debt forgiveness. The petition was signed by 12 million people. The result was the first real reductions in debt since the debt crisis began in 1980 (previous efforts had largely only changed the terms of payment).Will Hutton, a British economic commentator, wrote in the Observer that without the "moral imagination of religion" and the leadership of the religious community, "there would be no Jubilee 2000, no debt campaign, and no international public pressure" to reduce developing country debt.
Another noteworthy example of the power that can emerge from a serious reading of sacred texts comes from the politically conservative U.S. state of Alabama. In 2001, law professor and theology student Susan Pace Hamill was dumbfounded to learn how regressive Alabama's tax code was, with state taxation kicking in at an annual income of only $4,600, the lowest in the nation and far below the official poverty level of $17,000. Meanwhile, timber interests, which own 71 percent of the state's land area, accounted for only two percent of the state's property tax. Hamill used her thesis work to analyze the state tax code from the perspective of Jewish and Christian scriptural teachings, publishing "An Argument for Tax Reform based on Judeo-Christian Ethics" in the Alabama Law Review in 2002.
Her work caught the attention of the conservative Republican governor, Bob Riley, a practicing Christian, who spearheaded an effort to raise the income level at which state taxation kicks in to above the U.S. official poverty level. In the process, he mobilized the religious community, gathering endorsements from the five largest Christian denominations in the state, including the Alabama Baptist Convention, which represents 3,100 of the state's 8,000 churches. Unfortunately, the effort failed at the polls, largely because of the well-funded opposition from the timber and agricultural interests whose taxes would have been raised to offset the loss of revenues from the state's poorest. But the fact that a conservative sector of a conservative state was able to persuade a conservative governor to make a serious stab at an issue of economic justice, based on a religious argument, is an impressive testament to the power of a spiritual appeal to change hearts and minds.
Ideas Whose Time Has Come—Again?Whatever the success of the Sarvodayan and Jubilee movements, they represent but a tiny fraction of religious activity in the world today. And it seems safe to assume that the vast majority of religious people do not make a connection between their faith and consumption, beyond the (admittedly significant) understanding of the need to make charitable contributions.Meanwhile, the consumption juggernaut rolls on globally, with wealthy nations continuing to consume at ever-higher levels and large chunks of the developing world as attracted to the consumption promise as any other nation. Is a religiously led, globally effective movement to promote healthier and more just models of consumption little more than a quixotic dream?
There are reasons to believe that the potential for change continues to be significant. For starters,Americans and Europeans appear to be awakening to the realization that consumption beyond a moderate level can actually be harmful to individuals, as the surge in obesity, depression, and indebtedness suggest.Churches and synagogues concerned about the well-being of their own faithful have growing reason to take action to help free their followers from the debilitating addiction of consumption. Indeed, the 12-step groups operating in church and synagogue basements for decades, often as an outreach service, may now need to tackle the consumption addiction of entire congregations.
The international context is different as well,with the rise of China, India, and other rapidly developing countries raising moral questions about environmental impact and equitable access to consumption opportunities. How will the global community make room for the legitimate material aspirations of these nations? In short, previously dormant moral questions surrounding consumption may now have new power, power that might awaken the interest of faith communities.
Religions may also be prepared to take seriously the prospect that consumerism is a serious competitor for the allegiance of millions of people. The fact that societies of high consumption tend to be highly secular is not likely an accident. As more people turn to markets and shopping malls for fulfillment (however temporary and unsatisfying that fulfillment might be) religions are challenged to respond.
Competition from consumerism may be the most significant incentive for religions to become involved, but it is likely also the most challenging.Could it be that faith communities have had so little impact on consumption trends, despite thousands of years of durable teachings on the topic, because they are as bound to the consumer culture as the rest of society? Or because they fear that challenging their congregants on consumption would quickly empty their pews? Questioning consumption seriously, after all, is to challenge a host of societal interests and to anger a broad swath of the public.
What is clear from the Jubilee and Sarvodaya examples is that religious vision has tremendous power to induce societal change. Religions that re-embrace the original vision—that take seriously once again the sentiments expressed in those snipped passages from Scripture—could help to make the world anew.Wishful thinking perhaps, but theologian Douglas John Hall notes that religion becomes relevant in desperate times, that churches get creative precisely when the culture becomes disillusioned. In a world in economic and ecological crisis early in the 21st century, these teachings may be religions' best kept secrets.
Gary Gardner is Worldwatch's Director of Research. For more information about issues raised in this story, visit www.worldwatch.org/ww/religions/.


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Here's a deepwater home at Folly Beach that presents a great value & opportunity! This home needs some updating/TLC, but the combination of waterfront & proximity to downtown makes it a gem! The floorplan features a large eat-in kitchen that opens to a huge great room. From there, you can access the full-sized screen porch overlooking beautiful Folly River & surrounding saltmarsh estuaries. The main level ''split-plan'' has the dual master-suites on each side of the living areas, affording privacy for each. Downstairs you'll find 2 additional bedrooms(or office, media/game room). The dock itself may just be the ''best seat in the house''. Here you'll enjoy all of the splendors of the Lowcountry. Fresh crabs, fish, & shrimp are available daily, and Dolphins & Ospreys are now your neighbors! ~$3250 credit available toward buyer's closing costs and pre-paids with acceptable offer and use of preferred lender.
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The National Association of Realtors has released their 2012 Year End Statistics for existing home sales.
In 2012 existing home sales increased by 9.2% from 2011. This is the highest increase since 2007.
The National average home price increased from December 2011 to 2012 by 11.5% to $180,800. This was a 10 month year over year increase.
The national average median price increased by 6.3% to $176,600. This is the largest increase since 2005.
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I am a theoretical nuclear physicist working on dense nuclear matter in the laboratory and in astrophysics. Some of my publications are listed on SPIRES
Conferences I have co-organized in Nuclear Physics, Astrophysics, and Fundamental Symmetries.
Research topics:
The Equation of State (pressure versus density) of dense and or neutron rich nuclear matter.
Supernovae are giant stellar explosions. I am interested in how supernovae depend on neutrino interactions and the properties of dense matter.
Neutron stars are collapsed stars that are the densest macroscopic objects this side of black holes.
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Measuring the neutron radius of the heavy nucleus 208Pb via parity violating electron scattering. This is the Pb Radius Experiment (PREX) at Jefferson lab.
A Sciencemag web article by Adrian Cho highlights our recent paper: A large atomic nucleus is like a chocolate truffle with a gooey interior and a harder shell. Inside, the nucleus contains a mixture of protons and neutrons. Outside, it's covered with a nearly pure layer of neutrons—the "neutron skin." Now, for the first time, nuclear physicists have measured the thickness of that skin in a fairly direct way. More-precise future measurements could transform the study of all nuclei and even of neutron stars. (Illustration is target vessel for PREX experiment at JLAB from R. Michaels) See Measurement of the Neutron Radius of 208Pb Through Parity-Violation in Electron Scattering by Abrahamyan et al., Phys. Rev.Lett. 108, 112502 (2012).
A NewScientist Web article by Rachel Courtland highlights our recent paper:
The crust of neutron stars is 10 billion times stronger than steel, according to our large scale computer simulations. That makes the surface of these ultra-dense stars tough enough to support long-lived bulges that could produce gravitational waves detectable by experiments on Earth. Neutron stars are the cores left behind when relatively massive stars explode in supernovae. They are incredibly dense, packing about as much mass as the sun into a sphere just 20 kilometres or so across, and some rotate hundreds of times per second. Because of their extreme gravity and rotational speed, neutron stars could potentially make large ripples in the fabric of space but only if their surfaces contain bumps or other imperfections that would make them asymmetrical. (Illustration: Casey Reed/Penn State University.)
See The breaking strain of neutron star crust and gravitational waves by C. J. Horowitz, and Kai Kadau, Phys Rev. Letters 102, 191102 (2009).
A NewScientist Web article by David Shiga highlights our recent paper on phase separation in neutron star crusts. We find, based on large scale molecular dynamics simulations, that when material falls on a neutron star and freezes, the lighter Z elements tend to remain behind in a liquid ocean. This chemical separation may change many properties of neutron stars and could explain how carbon is concentrated until it can ignite in a great thermonuclear explosion known as a superburst. It could also lead to a layered structure for neutron stars with larger bumps that may efficiently radiate gravitational waves.
See Astro-ph/0703062 Phase separation in the crust of accreting neutron stars by C. J. Horowitz, D. K. Berry, E. F. Brown, Phys Rev. E 75, 066101, 2007.
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|Bloggers are reading and loving this.
In fact it would seem that book bloggers have revived interest in little-known classics, out-of-print books, and reprints. We read Stefan Zweig after reading A Common Reader, Elizabeth Taylor's Collected Short Stories after reading Dovegreyreader, and Mrs. Oliphant's Hester after reading Ellen and Jim Have a Blog, Too.
It is a pleasure to read intelligent short pieces about lost books ignored by the "mainstream" newspaper criticism/journalism cartel, whose focus is naturally on new books. Bloggers live in an alternate world, where they can rave about the old as well as the new. Recently the influential Stuck-in-a-Book created a craze for Diana Tutton's out-of-print novel, Guard Your Daughters, after he compared it to Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle.
If you google Guard Your Daughters, you will see at least six other bloggers have read this novel since Stuck-in-a-Book's recommendation, and who knows how many dozens of readers have enjoyed it? Bravo, Stuck-in-a-Book!
I finished this charming novel yesterday. Stuck-in-a-Book is right about the influence of I Capture the Castle. The Harvey sisters in Guard Your Daughters are very much like the Mortmains in Smith's I Capture the Castle and the Bennets in Austen's Pride and Prejudice: the girls know no men, live in isolation in the country, and what on earth are they going to do with themselves? But in Guard Your Daughters, the narrator, Morgan Harvey, and her sisters, Thisbe, Cressida, and Teresa have an even harder time than their Smith/Austen counteparts: their mad mother wants them to stay home and practically has a mini-breakdown at the thought of any of them marrying, or at Thisbe's going to London to visit their only married sister, Pandora. Their self-absorbed father, a successful mystery writer, is so devoted to their mother that he ignores their interests. So this is I Capture the Castle and Pride and Prejudice with a dark side.
Here is the bad news, insofar as it is bad news. I am not enthusiastic about Guard Your Daughers. I think it reads like a good children's book based on I Capture the Castle. Not that it is a bad thing to be a good children's boook. Tutton's style is blunter than Smith's, and her narrator, Morgan, lacks Cassandra's gift for witty dialogue, shaping dramatic scenes, and portraying believable eccentric characters. But Tuttle obviously has a great time turning Smith's material upside down. For instance, in both books, the fathers are writers: Morgan's father is a successful mystery writer, and Cassandra's is a blocked literary writer who reads mysteries all day. And it is for Tutton's fun that we read this.
Guard Your Daughters is an entertaining novel. It enlightens us about trends in women's novels in the '40s and '50s, so it is an excellent thing that Stuck-in-a-Book discovered it for posterity. You can even see the threads connecting it back to Little Women.
And, honestly, most people seem to have loved it. I liked it, just not as much.
THE MORAL COWARDICE OF CRITICS. Surely newspaper critics are not serious when they say book bloggers have ruined Literary Criticism and The Book? Most have stopped fulminating about it--it was a thing of the moment perhaps-- but Robert McCrum in The Guardian/Observer may have mentioned bloggers in an unfavorable light again the other day. I can't say for sure, because I immediately left the website.
I must say that I think it moral cowardice for critics to blame powerless bloggers for the end of criticism when in fact the corporations that employ them are to blame for cutting back the number of pages for reviews. Of course if critics blame their employers, they will get fired. But why dink around attacking bloggers?
The two conglomerates that own Random House and Penguin are merging to form Random Penguin House, or is it Ranguin Pendom? According to NPR, Marjorie Scardino, chief executive of Pearson (one of the conglomerates), said the merger will allow the companies "to invest more for their author and reader constituencies and to be more adventurous in trying new models in this exciting, fast-moving world of digital books and digital readers," she said.
That's gobbledygook.
Can't blame that on bloggers.
It is not the first time this kind of publishing caper has been plotted--wasn't this going on all the time in the late '90s?--but it is something to be very concerned about. We need more people in publishing making different decisions, not fewer making the same.
What can be done?