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Postgraduate research students
Alex Basford
"Improving live feeds for larval rearing in aquaculture"
Supervisors: Professor Symon Dworjanyn and Dr Benjamin Mos
My research focuses on developing new or better live feeds for marine larvae. This will hopefully improve the larval rearing of crustaceans and finfish in aquaculture. My work also has a strong focus on fish species found in the marine aquarium trade.
Dylan Brown
"Wetland soil carbon sequestration"
Supervisors: Associate Professor Christian Sanders and Prof Isaac Santos
Peter Butcherine
"The sublethal impacts of neonicotinoid insecticide exposure on aquaculture produced shrimp and prawns"
Supervisors: Associate Professor Kirsten Benkendorff, Associate Professor Bronwyn Barkla, Professor Brendan Kelaher
Research: My research is aiming to identify biomarkers for insecticide exposure in prawns. This involves optimising and validating analysis methods and determining how these impact prawn production and nutritional quality. My aims are to improve insecticide management and remediation systems for shrimp and prawn aquaculture.
Kerry Cameron
"Restoration of corals on reefs using enhanced larval supply"
Supervisors: Professor Peter Harrison and Dr Danny Bucher
Coral reefs are in decline around the world and new methods to support and restore these important ecosystems are needed. Through SCU's Marine Ecology Research Centre, I am working on refinements to restoring coral reefs through larval reseeding, where we capture coral spawn, rear them into millions of coral larvae, then contain these larvae during their settlement phase over areas of degraded reef that need new coral recruits. Most of our team's work has been conducted in the Philippines and the southern Great Barrier Reef.
Andrew Colefax
"Drones can increasingly provide non-destructive shark management and beach safety"
Supervisors: Professor Brendan Kelaher, Adjunct Professor Paul Butcher (NSW DPI)
There is a growing public demand for shark management along many coastal beaches that has minimal impact on marine life. As part of the NSW Government's Shark Management Strategy, and through the NSW Department of Primary Industries and Southern Cross University, I am developing the use of drones to perform shark surveillance and beach safety. This includes testing the current efficacy of drone-based surveillance with appropriate flight parameters, and researching ways to improve detection reliability and risk management. Although drone-based surveillance is proving effective, investigating the use of advanced sensors and software, combined with shark behaviour will further enhance its reliability.
Rogger E Correa
"Groundwater discharge modelling"
Professor Isaac Santos, Associate Professor Christian Sanders, Dr Nils Moosdorf (Freie Univeristy)
Hydrologist, working on estimation of Submarine Groundwater Discharge (SGD) to the Southern Pacific through simulation and isotopic tracers. My interests range from GIS, applied computational science, to in-situ water quality assessment.
Kay Davis
"Short and long-term drivers of coral reef ecosystem metabolism"
Supervisors: Professor Isaac Santos and Professor Brendan Kelaher
My research investigates the water chemistry in coral reefs to determine rates of calcification and photosynthesis occurring within the ecosystem. Investigating differences in metabolic rates over both time and space may provide insight on how coral reefs vary as a function of environmental parameters. I hope the information gathered by these studies leads to an increased understanding of how changing water conditions may influence the biogeochemistry of these ecosystems.
Nicola Fraser
"Sea anemones in the marine aquarium trade"
Supervisors: Dr Anna Scott, Dr Sangeeta Mangubhai (WCS Fiji) and Dr Karina Hall (NSW DPI)
The majority of sea anemones in the marine aquarium trade are wild-captured. I'm investigating both sexual and asexual reproduction of sea anemones that host anemonefishes. My long-term goal is to develop mariculture methods for host anemones, thereby reducing collection pressures on wild populations, providing stock to re-populate denuded habitats and the potential for sustainable livelihoods in developing nations.
Corinne Lawson
"The effect of climate change on the behaviour of larval Crown of Thorns Starfish (Acanthaster planci)."
Supervisor: Professor Symon Dworjanyn
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Rebecca Lipscombe
"Habitat use and post-release mortality of tiger sharks off the east coast of Australia"
Supervisors: Dr Anna Scott, Adjunct Professor Paul Butcher (NSW DPI)
My research involves the use of satellite tagging technology to quantify the vertical and horizontal movement of tiger sharks and identify the parameters that influence the use of habitat. In addition to this, determining post-release mortality rates and identifying stress indicators resulting from capture.
Sebastian Litchfield
"The influence of ocean climate change and single-use plastics on estuarine ecosystem processes"
Supervisors: Professor Brendan Kelaher and Dr Kai Schulz
My research aims to assess whether ocean warming, acidification, single-use plastics, and their interactions, have an impact on estuarine ecosystem processes. Particularly, I'm investigating the impacts these have on seagrass decomposition and microphytobenthic activity which are key components of the trophic structure and nutrient cycle in estuaries. Evaluating the responses to these factors may assist in the development of future management strategies for maintaining these key processes in estuaries.
Lea Mamo
"Maximising positive outcomes for threatened species from coastal infrastructure upgrades"
Supervisors: Professor Brendan Kelaher, Adjunct Professor Melinda Coleman (NSW DPI) and Professor Stephen Smith
My research focuses on ecosystem impacts of hard coastal protection structures and investigates potential mitigation strategies. The Coffs Harbour breakwater upgrade serves as a case study, with special attention to the critically endangered brown alga Nereia lophocladia, as this area is the only place globally where it occurs. To maximise Nereia's conservation success, a combination of ecological engineering measures and the evaluation of the species' biology and ecology that inform management decisions will be explored.
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Duan March
"Health assessments for green sea turtles"
Supervisor: Professor Brendan Kelaher
Matt Nimbs
"Taxonomy and systematics of the Australian Aplysiidae"
Supervisors: Professor Steve Smith
Matt Nimbs is a PhD candidate in the field of invertebrate taxonomy and systematics with a focus on heterobranch gastropods, specifically the Australian Aplysiidae, the sea-hares. In preparation for his PhD studies he completed a Bachelor of Science with Honours (First Class) at Southern Cross University in June 2016 with research focusing on the temporal ecology and biogeography of sea slugs. Matt is the membership secretary of the Malacological Society of Australasia and is also a member of the Australian Marine Science Association (AMSA), Unitas Malacologica (World Malacological Body), the Solitary Islands Underwater Research Group and The Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales.
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Euan Provost
"The utility of drones for coastal management data collection"
Supervisors: Professor Brendan Kelaher, Adjunct Professor Paul Butcher (NSW DPI) and Adjunct Professor Melinda Coleman (NSW DPI)
My research looks at the possible applications of drone technologies for data collection in support of coastal management. Coastal areas are at risk from unsustainable use and require management in order to protect these areas. Knowing how these areas are used assisting managers to make informed decisions, and drone technology have the potential to collect data in a cost-effective and safe manner. My project investigates the potential applications of drones, determining the utility of drone based technology.
Sophie Pryor
"Anemonefish and their host sea anemones in a changing climate"
Supervisors: Dr Anna Scott and Professor Brendan Kelaher
I am researching marine fish distribution and persistence, habitat impacts and symbiotic relationship breakdowns as the oceans warm using iconic anemonefishes and their host sea anemones. Via a combination of mensurative field and manipulative laboratory experiments, my PhD studies add to our knowledge of climate change impacts on marine life.
James Tucker
"Whale carcass management on beaches: groundwater contamination, flow to ocean and shark attraction"
Supervisors: Professor Isaac Santos and Adjunct Professor Paul Butcher (NSW DPI)
I am investigating the decomposition of whale carcasses buried on beaches and their potential to attract sharks to the near shore area. The purpose of my research is to determine if burying whale carcasses on a beach is a safe disposal option with the hopes of reducing the impacts of whale carcass disposals and potentially reducing negative interactions between people and sharks.
Praktan Wadnerkar
"Influence of land-use on estuarine water quality and modelling for understanding relation between pollutant fluxes from various sources to estuarine water"
Supervisors: Professor Isaac Santos and Associate Professor Christian Sanders
An estuary is a vital natural resource, providing immense value from ecological, social and economic perspective. Changes in estuaries can occur in response to variety of natural and anthropogenic causes, including catchment disturbance, hydrological modification and land use. Estuaries act as a pathway for solutes to enter the coastal ocean. They are a significant source of greenhouse gases, nutrients and dissolved carbon to ocean. Here, I am investing how land-use alters estuarine water quality and modelling relation between pollutant fluxes from various source to estuarine water.
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Shane White
"Nitrogen sources and management in streams with diverse land uses"
Supervisors: Professor Isaac Santos and Associate Professor Symon Dworjanyn
The biogeochemical and ecohydraulic states of waterways are heavily influenced by the surrounding land use in a catchment. My research will investigate phase shifts, nutrient cycling and greenhouse gas emissions in impacted waterways as a result of rainfall runoff and groundwater seepage in fertiliser intensive land use catchments. Along with this, I will explore possible ways to capture pollutants on farm. This could reduce the possibility of eutrophication, algal blooms and greenhouse gas emissions in impacted creeks, streams and estuaries.


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Second-wave feminism: the late 20th century
What is sometimes termed 'second-wave' feminism emerged, after the Second World War, in several countries. In 1947, a Commission on the Status of Women was established by the United Nations, and two years later it issued a Declaration of Human Rights, which both acknowledged that men and women had 'equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution', as well as women's entitlement to 'special care and assistance' in their role as mothers. Between 1975 and 1985, the UN called three international conferences on women's issues, in Mexico City, Copenhagen, and Nairobi, where it was acknowledged that feminism
constitutes the political expression of the concerns and interests of women from different regions, classes, nationalities, and ethnic backgrounds… There is and must be a diversity of feminisms, responsive to the different needs and concerns of different women, and defined by them for themselves.
African women offered a salutary reminder that
women are also members of classes and countries that dominate others… Contrary to the best intentions of 'sisterhood', not all women share identical interests.
A remarkable variety of Western women picked up their pens. One
of the most influential was, and remains, the French writer Simone de Beauvoir. Her writings – including four volumes of autobiography and several novels – add up to a remarkable exploration of one woman's experience; women from many other countries responded, saying that Beauvoir's The Second Sex (1949) had helped them to see their personal frustrations in terms of the general condition of women. All through history, Beauvoir argues, woman has been denied full humanity, denied the human right to create, to invent, to go beyond mere living to find a meaning for life in projects of ever-widening scope. Man 'remodels the face of the earth, he creates new instruments, he invents, he shapes the future'; woman, on the other hand, is always and archetypally Other. She is seen by and for men, always the object and never the subject.
Through chapters that range over the girl child, the wife, the mother, the prostitute, the narcissist, the lesbian, and the woman in love, Beauvoir explores different aspects of her central argument: it is male activity that in creating values has made of existence itself a value; this activity has prevailed over the confused forces of life; 'it has subdued Nature and Woman'. Woman, she argues, has come to stand for Nature, Mystery, the non-human; what she represents is more important than what she is, what she herself experiences.
But 'one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman', Beauvoir insists; and she can change her condition. Most women, mistakenly, look for salvation in love. But Beauvoir's own alternative is perhaps too simple: she conjures up an image of the 'the independent woman' who
… wants to be active, a taker, and refuses the passivity man means to impose on her. The modern woman accepts masculine values; she prides herself on thinking, taking action, working, creating on the same terms as man.
That is not really an attractive image of our possible future. But, she
adds rightly, too many women cling to the privileges of femininity; while too many men are comfortable with the limitations it imposes on women. Today, women are torn between the past and a possible, but difficult and as yet unexplored, future.
Beauvoir was always opposed to any feminism that championed women's special virtues or values, firmly rejecting any idealization of specifically 'feminine' traits. To support that kind of feminism, she argued, would imply agreement with
a myth invented by men to confine women to their oppressed state.
For women it is not a question of asserting themselves as women, but of becoming full-scale human beings.
But though Beauvoir was and remained critical of some forms of traditional feminism, she was impressed by the emerging Mouvement de Liberation des Femmes (MLF), admitting in a 1972 interview that she recognized that
it is necessary, before the socialism we dream of arrives, to struggle for the actual position of women… Even in socialist countries, this equality has not been obtained. Women must therefore take their destiny into their own hands.
Beauvoir was one of the women who signed a 1971 manifesto published in the Nouvel Observateur, drawn up by an MLF group, who were campaigning to legalize abortion; 343 women signed it, proclaiming 'I have had an abortion and I demand this right for all women.' However, she always insisted (not wholly convincingly) that she herself had no personal experience of women's 'wrongs', that she had escaped the oppression that she analyses so brilliantly in The Second Sex.
Far from suffering from my femininity, I have, on the contrary, from the age of twenty on, accumulated the advantages of both sexes… those around me treated me both as a writer, their peer in the
masculine world, and as a woman… I was encouraged to write The Second Sex precisely because of this privileged position. It allowed me to express myself in all serenity.
11. Perhaps the most influential of all 20th-century Western feminists, Simone de Beauvoir remains important still, for her autobiographies and novels as well as for her great piece of feminist theory, The Second Sex.
But Beauvoir's four autobiographical volumes – Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, The Prime of Life, The Force of Circumstance, and All Said and Done – as well as the 1964 book about her mother, ironically entitled A Very Easy Death, take us on a uniquely detailed, remarkably frank, and often very moving journey through her own experiences. She never suggests that she is a model for others; but she evokes her own life as a successful example of how one girl escaped the feminine role of 'object, Other'. She is almost apologetic about concentrating on women's issues when 'some of us have never had to sense in our femininity an inconvenience or an obstacle'. But she admitted that a woman who takes up the pen inevitably provides
a stick to be beaten with… if you are a young woman they indulge you with an amused wink. If you are old, they bow to you respectfully. But lose that bloom of youth and dare to speak before acquiring the respectable patina of age: the whole pack is at your heels.
And her autobiographies, as well as her novels, are all the more moving, and certainly speak more directly to women readers, because, perhaps against Beauvoir's conscious intentions, they evoke her own – inevitable – frustrations and uncertainties, whether about Jean-Paul Sartre's infidelities during their long relationship, about her own affairs with the American writer Nelson Algren and with Claude Lanzmann, or about her own childlessness.
But to the end, Beauvoir remained open to new experiences. In 1955, after she and Sartre visited China, she wrote The Long March, acknowledging that it had 'upset my whole idea of our planet', as she came to understand 'that our Western comfort [is] merely a limited privilege'. Her last major theoretical work, Old Age (1970), in which she struggles to maintain her cool rationality in the face of the ultimate, the inevitable, defeat, is perhaps her most moving book.
Betty Friedan's 1963 book The Feminine Mystique exploded the myth of the happy housewife in the affluent, white, American suburbs; 'the problem that has no name', she wrote, "burst like a boil through the image of the happy American Mystique'. The idea for the book began with a magazine article she wrote after she had attended a class reunion, and asked other women there, 'what do you wish you had done differently?' Their answers alerted her to a vague but pervasive discontent. She has been criticized, correctly, for being narrowly middle class; for a simplistic argument that urges suburban women to plan their lives ahead so that they can move from family duties to work outside the home, while ignoring the numbers of less fortunate women already desperately juggling housework with outside jobs, usually poorly paid. For poorer Americans, the black feminist bell hooks argued:
liberation means the freedom of a mother finally to quit her job – to live the life of a capitalist stay at home, as it were… To be able to work and to have to work are two very different matters.
But Friedan's book was a well-researched, sharply written, even passionate indictment of the fact that even affluent middle-class women lead restricted lives, and too often lapse into a depressed acceptance of that restriction. She insisted that each woman must at least ask what she truly wants. Then she may indeed realize that 'neither her husband nor her children nor the things in her house, nor sex, nor being like all the other women, can give her a self'.
Friedan's own background had been in radical politics, and her earlier writings, particularly, display a keen awareness of social inequalities. Moreover, with a group of other women, some from the Union of the Automobile Workers, she went on to become one of the founder members of NOW, the National Organization of Women, which set out 'to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of American society, now, assuming all the privileges and responsibilities thereof in truly equal partnership with men'.
12. Betty Friedan in New York, 1970.
Friedan, like some of the older women in the movement, was concerned that the new feminist rhetoric 'rigidified in reaction against the past, harping on the same old problems in the same old way1, instead of moving forward. In The Second Stage (1981) she admits both how much has changed for women – and how little. Despite arduous and prolonged attempts to get the Equal Rights Amendment passed, some states still reject it. Perhaps inevitably, there was a widening gap between Friedan and the new generation of feminists, though it is hardly fair to accuse her of going along with a 'backlash'. She approvingly quotes a Toronto journalist:
I don't want to be stuck today with a feminist label anymore than I would want to be known as a 'dumb blonde' in the fifties. The libber label limits and short-changes those who are tagged with it. And the irony is that it emerged from a philosophy that set out to destroy the notion of female tagging.
Her criticism may be unfair, but it cannot be dismissed out of hand.
Within Western feminism – or Women's Liberation as it soon came to be called – there was initially, at least, great variety, and an energy that sprang in part from anger at having been excluded in existing leftist groups, in part from fruitful disagreements within the emerging movement itself. Many younger women – in the student movement, amongst anti-Vietnam protesters and New Left activists – had felt they were being sidelined by their male comrades. Women among the American Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) announced in 1965 that, having learned 'to think radically about the personal worth and abilities of people whose role in society had gone unchallenged before', a lot of women in the movement 'have begun trying to apply those lessons to their relations with men'. Two years later, SDS women insisted that their 'brothers … recognize that they must deal with their own problems of male chauvinism'. Some women issued a news-sheet called 'Voice of the Women's Liberation Movement', along with a manifesto from New Left activists who found themselves sidelined by male
comrades, and who were infuriated by Stokely Carmichael's infamous remark that 'the place of women in the movement is prone'.
bell hooks, in her Feminist Theory: From Margin to Centre (1984), was sharply critical of the whole movement, arguing that the women 'who are most victimized by sexist oppression… who are powerless to change their condition in life' have never been allowed to speak out for themselves. Current feminism, she insists, is racist, and has left many women bitterly disillusioned. Movement women have consistently ignored the deeply intertwined issues of race and class; the emphasis on the common 'oppression' of women has in fact ignored terribly real inequalities within American society. White women behaved as if the movement belonged to them, hooks insists; they ignored the fact that women are divided by all kinds of prejudice, 'by sexist attitudes, racism, class privilege'. hooks recalls her own experience in feminist groups: 'I found that white women adopted a condescending attitude towards me and other non white participants.' Black feminists rightly argue that 'every problem raised by white feminists has a disproportionately heavy impact on blacks'.
In America, expressions of feminism ranged from Gloria Steinem's accessible and glossy Ms magazine, first published in 1970, to the Sisterhood of Black Single Mothers. In her book Sexual Politics (1970), Kate Millett set out to analyse 'patriarchy as a political institution'. Politics, she insists, refers to all 'power structured relationships', and the one between the sexes is a 'relationship of dominance and subordinance' which has been largely unexamined. Women are simultaneously idolized and patronized, she argued, backing up her thesis with a scathing analysis of the patriarchal attitudes of writers from different periods and cultures: Freud, D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, and Jean Genet. She saw little immediate hope for women; 'it may be that we shall. . . be able to retire sex from the harsh realities of politics', she concluded, 'but not until we
have created a world we can bear out of the desert we inhabit'. Other political statements included the American Shulamith Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex (1970), which argued that the basic division, the most profound oppression, in society was not class but sex; she hoped for a true 'feminist revolution', but argued that revolution would demand
an analysis of the dynamics of sex war as comprehensive as the Marx-Engels analysis of class antagonism was for the economic revolution. More comprehensive, for we are dealing with a larger problem, with an oppression that goes back beyond recorded history to the animal kingdom itself.
In England, the Australian-born Germaine Greer's lively and provocative The Female Eunuch (1970) challenged the 'sense of inferiority or natural dependence' which women have too often accepted placidly, passively, allowing it to distort and impoverish their lives. There are chapters on the middle-class myth of love and marriage; on why being 'an object of male fantasy' actually desexualizes women, and on the way 'cooking, clothes, beauty and housekeeping' can become compulsive, anxiety-producing activities.
Sheila Rowbotham's Liberation and the New Politics (1970) and Juliet Mitchell's Woman's Estate (1971) were both written in response to the emerging Women's Liberation movement in England. Though that movement, Mitchell argued, was international 'in its identification and shared goals', and was for the most part 'professedly, if variously, revolutionary'. Her book cites, briefly, women's movements in Europe (Holland, Sweden, and France) and in the United States. Everywhere, she argues, women are 'the most fundamentally oppressed people and hence potentially the most revolutionary', and she goes on to examine four areas of their lives that must be transformed: production, reproduction, sexuality, and the socialization of children.
Protests at the Miss America contest in Atlantic City in November 1968 and in 1969, when feminists mockingly crowned a sheep, gave the emerging movement high visibility. Protesters argued that the beauty contest was a symbol of the way women in general are objectified, diminished, and judged primarily on appearance. 'Every day in a woman's life is a walking Miss World Contest', one feminist remarked wearily.
In London, women had been meeting in small groups since 1969: some had been involved in protesting against the war in Vietnam, and helping American deserters; other women emerged from traditional left-wing groups, from student movements, or from the radically experimental Anti-University. Hackney women began producing a news-sheet called Shrew, and later issues were put out by other London groups. By the end of 1971, Shrew listed 56 groups – plus one men's group. A conference had been called in February 1970 in Oxford; so many women and children (and a few men) turned up that the venue was shifted from Ruskin College to the Oxford Union. Above all, the meetings offered women the opportunity to talk: about loneliness, about equal rights at work, about childcare, about housework, about men, about revolution. The emerging movement, rather optimistically perhaps, defined its demands: equal pay, equal education and opportunity, 24-hour nurseries, and free contraception and abortion on demand. A big march through London was organized, with banners announcing 'we're not beautiful, we're not ugly, we're angry'.
It remained a mainly middle-class movement, though there were many attempts to communicate with working-class women: feminists offered their support to a night cleaners' campaign for better pay and conditions, and to a strike by women machinists at the Ford Dagenham plant.
Perhaps the most distinctive element in the new movement was its organization: women met in small groups, some locally based, others – later – formed to discuss particular issues, or work for
14. Women's Liberation groups marching through London, 1971.
divided them. The overall aim was to begin to understand private fears and discontents in a wider context, to discover, through 'sharing, recognizing, naming' their political implications. As Juliet Mitchell remarked, 'women come into the movement from the unspecific frustration of their own private lives, find what they thought was an individual dilemma is a social predicament'.
Consciousness-raising, Mitchell has suggested, was a matter of 'speaking the unspoken: the opposite, in fact, of ''nattering together'''. Women who cannot deal with the peculiar forms oppression takes in their private lives are 'highly suspect when they begin to talk about forms of oppression that afflict other women… If we cannot face our own problems we have no right to claim that we have answers to other people's problems.' Men were excluded, not, for the most part, out of hostility, but out of a recognition that women have the habit of deferring to men, 'intellectually and/or flirtatiously', at least in public.
Consciousness-raising was never intended – as its detractors sometimes claimed – merely as 'group therapy'. At meetings, women would speak in turn about their problems and frustrations; not simply as an outlet for individual grievances, but, hopefully, as a step towards understanding that these may not simply be a result of their personal situations. It was to be a way of discovering what they had in common as women, whatever their differences of class or race or personal experience. (They were mostly, if not wholly, younger women, so differences of age were rarely addressed.)
As one American feminist remarked, 'consciousness-raising is a way of forming a political analysis on information we can trust is true. That information is our experience.' Another American, Shulamith Firestone, argued that 'agitation for specific freedoms is worthless without the preliminary raising of consciousness necessary to utilize these freedoms in full'. Other women were less certain about it all. Some complained that consciousness-raising was particularly suited to the educated women of the middle and upper classes, and
15. As this banner suggests, the early movement, in America as in Britain, quickly learned to make its arguments dramatically and wittily.
that these women were able to gain ascendancy over groups through their articulacy, their proficiency in this central activity. In fact, at the time, most women had little experience of group dynamics. Because the play of feelings within a group can be so unpredictable, even explosive, one or other member of a group might easily feel she was being unfairly criticized, made a scapegoat, or even excluded. Some meetings proved unexpectedly, and unhelpfully, painful. Sisterhood may be powerful; it was sometimes forgotten that the relationship between sisters may prove a troubled one. There were, inevitably, splits and disagreements. In England, one early conference was split – improbable as may sound – by a bitter quarrel between lesbian feminists and Maoist feminists. At another weekend conference, held in a building that was shared by a large group of coal miners, some women, who obviously had little clue about working-class men or about how to deflect their teasing aggression, began shouting that 'sisters are being brutalized by the miners'.
But (real) male violence was a problem that urgently needed to be raised. Some feminists, particularly in America., disappointed by the failure to ensure passage of the Equal Rights Amendment and by threats to welfare and abortion rights, seized on this issue as a symbol of woman's second-class status and her vulnerability. In 1975, the American Susan Brownmiller published a long, scholarly, and ground-breaking study of rape, Against Our Will, which deconstructed the centuries-old male 'myth of the heroic rapist', and coined a slogan that was rapidly picked up by other feminists: 'pornography is the theory and rape the practice'. (One of those feminists was Susan Griffin, who made an effective attack on the easy and commonplace way people justify pornography, by claiming that is it 'liberating' for women as well as for men. In Pornography and Silence (1981), she argued that, far from freeing erotic energy, as its defenders claimed, pornography expresses 'fear of bodily knowledge and a desire to silence eros'.) Brownmiller went on to argue that rape is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation used against all women by all men. She is not
sentimental about women; her later book, Femininity, deconstructs, disconcertingly and wittily, the games girls learn almost from the cradle: the tricks and techniques for charming men and competing with other women. Femininity, as we know it, is romantic nonsense, something that has to be carefully contrived and preserved. It is the product of 'a nostalgic tradition of imposed limitation'. But Against Our Will mocks, bitterly and effectively, the way crimes of violence against women are so often dismissed with crude commonplaces: 'No woman can be raped against her will'; 'she was asking for it'; 'if you're going to be raped, you might as well relax and enjoy it'. She quotes, to telling effect, a (female) character in Rabbit Redux, a novel by the highly respected John Updike, who remarks dismissively, 'You know what a rape usually is? It's a woman who changed her mind afterward.'
Unfortunately, this legitimate, urgently necessary insistence that rape is, indeed, a serious and violent crime, was distorted by some later feminists. For another American, Catherine McKinnon, woman is always, indeed almost by definition, a victim. 'To be about to be raped is to be gender female in the process of going about life as usual', she insists.
You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs. When you are older, your husband ties you to a bed and drips hot wax on your nipples and brings in other men to watch and makes you suck his penis. . . In this thousand years of silence, the camera is invented and pictures are made of you while these things are being done. . .
Her friend Andrea Dworkin argued that 'pornography is the law for women', and flatly, without any qualification, equated rape and sexual intercourse. As, indeed, did McKinnon, who from the opening paragraph of Only Words (1995) offers a terrible paradigm of what she sees as female experience: a primal paternal rape that freezes us in a state of permanent terror. She constantly evokes the
image of a once-violated child who can never grow up, who, she insists, lives on in most women, even those who claim to enjoy consensual sex: 'the aggressor gets an erection; the victim screams and struggles and bleeds and blisters and becomes five years old'. This is melodrama masquerading as feminism.
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The fund now estimates America's economy will grow at 2.2% over 2016, down from the 2.4% it predicted in April.
IMF managing director Christine Lagarde said overall the US is in good shape but "four forces" – the high poverty rate, polarised incomes, declining productivity and a weak labour market – threaten to "corrode growth".
She highlighted latest data, which shows 15% of Americans, or 46.7 million people, are living in poverty, creating "significant social strains", eating in to labour force participation and undermining the "ability to invest in education and improve health outcomes".
"With such a large share of the population living below the poverty line, this undoubtedly is an important macroeconomic issue," she stressed.
The increasingly polarised distribution of income and wealth is also a "double-edged sword", she continued, representing a rise in living standards for some but economic insecurity, flat real incomes, and stagnating or declining living standards for others.
"Our calculations suggest that since 1999, this polarisation of the income distribution has knocked around 3.5% off badly needed consumer demand. That is around one year's consumption over a period of 15 years," she said.
She warned that participation in the workforce – the "backbone of the US economy" – is declining as the population ages, and productivity has fallen from 1.7% before the financial crisis to 0.4% in the past five years.
"Our assessment is that, if left unchecked, these four forces will corrode the underpinnings of growth (both potential and actual) and hold back gains in US living standards," she stressed.
The fund warned that an ageing population, combined with rising interest rates, will mean growing fiscal imbalances. Government debt will begin rising in 2019 and exceed 80% of GDP by 2020, it warned, noting that "regrettably" the US lacks a detailed plan for the medium term.
It recommended a number of steps to work towards healthier future public finances, including "comprehensive reform" of the tax system, "fundamental reform" of the pension system, containing the cost from healthcare and measures "to avoid self-inflicted wounds" caused by future disagreements on fiscal policy between parties.
Lagarde also urged the US to tackle the "four forces". Policies to help lower income households – in particular a higher federal minimum wage, more generous income tax credit and upgraded welfare programmes for the non-working poor – are needed, she said.
She noted that the US is the only advanced economy without paid maternity leave and that American women are still not active enough in the labour market. Paid family leave to care for a child or parent, childcare assistance and better disability insurance would also encourage participation.
"Sensible skills-based immigration reform could also raise labour supply and boost productivity," she added.
The latter is "another policy imperative", she continued, stating that a "better tax system, efforts towards more trade integration, better infrastructure, a stronger and more vocationally orientated education system" would all support productivity growth.
"By countering the 'four forces' I have described, I am confident the US can remain on the frontier of innovation and opportunity."


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1. Rocket League Rules and Format
1.1. Player Eligibility
All players participating in Rocket League competitions must enter their Rocket League Nickname (America). The gameaccount is needed to invite players into a custom match and to check if the correct player is playing. In order to participate in tournaments by ESL, you must meet the following requirements:
You must have an active Rocket League Nickname in good standing and add it to your profile.
If you do not not meet these requirements, you will be deemed ineligible.
1.2. Team and Player Names
ESL reserves the right to edit Nicknames and/or URL aliases. Team or player names that are too similar to that of another team or player are subject to be changed by ESL. For more information on team and player names, please refer to the ESL Global Ruleset section 3.1.2. "Nicknames, Team Names and URL Aliases." If a team name has been wrongly seized, please file a support ticket with proof of ownership of the name. Team and player information will not be allowed to change once a cup has begun. This includes gameaccounts and team names.
Only registered team members are allowed to play for a team. Playing in any matches with a ringer is prohibited. (See "Ringing/Faking" in the ESL Global Rules) Players and teams must compete under their officially registered Rocket League team names and Nicknames during all official matches.
1.3. Roster
Team rosters must consist of exactly 3 players to participate in a cup. Teams are only allowed to play with players on their roster with a registered gameaccount. All roster changes must be made prior to the start of a cup. Playing with different players and/or illegal ringers will result in punishment. A team may have up to 5 players on their roster. The 5 players that will be on the roster will need to be determined by 5:00 pm Pacific Time on October 13th, 2018.
Teams are not allowed to sell spots in their team or switch accounts in order to obtain ESL Titles in-game. Any title-trading will result in an indefinite ban on ESL Play on grounds of breaking the TOS and will be subject to losing their titles.
1.4. Game version
All players must install the newest version of the game in order to participate in ESL tournaments. Updates must be installed before the tournament starts, so delays will be at a minimum.
1.5. Technical Issues
Teams are responsible for their own technical issues (hardware/internet). Matches will not be rescheduled because of technical issues and matches will be played nevertheless. If the maximum pause time is exceeded, the game goes on, even if the issue is not solved yet.
1.6. Disqualification
To keep tournaments as efficient as possible, ESL reserves the right to disqualify teams. This will only be done in cases where a team purposefully stalls or attempts to block another team. In some scenarios both teams may be affected. Any team found to be using a known exploit will forfeit their game upon the first occurrence of the exploit. If the team is found to use another known exploit for a second time and it is determined to have been done on purpose they will be removed from the event and barred from any future events. Betting during any ESL event (by a player, team, or on behalf of anyone associated with the team) is off limits. Those partaking will be disqualified from the event in question and will receive a minimum of 6 months ban.
2. Go4RocketLeague Cup Rules
2.1. Go4RocketLeague Tournament Format
2.1.1. Match Settings
Tournament Format:
Best of 5
Game Mode: Private match
Team Size: 3v3
Match Time: 5 Minutes
Default Arena: DFH Stadium (Teams can mutually agree on a different arena)
Server: North America (US-East)
2.2. Schools
Only teams representing one of the eligible Big East schools can compete in this tournament.
Butler University
DePaul University
Marquette University
Providence College
St. John's University
Seton Hall University
Xavier University
2.3. Game preparations
Please resolve any problems that might occur before a match starts. Connection or hardware problems during a match could lead to a disqualification by ESL admins. Agreements between the teams/players have to be posted as match comments. The match must be played with the right settings. Make sure all players are eligible to play. In team games, all players must be registered for their corresponding team.
2.4. Roster Changes
To change to change your roster, the admin team must be notified of the change at least 72 hours before your next match is scheduled to start and it must be approved by an admin. Emergency subs may be permitted at any time so long as it has been approved by an admin.
2.5. No show
If a participant is not ready to play 15 minutes after both teams are matched, please submit a protest ticket. This is the fastest way to get your match checked to move on to the next round.
2.6. Disconnects
In the case that a player(s) disconnects, the team is allowed to continue to play the match at a disadvantage. Additionally, if the disconnect occurs before the first kickoff of a game, that game will be remade.
2.7. Forfeit
Participants can choose to forfeit a match if they wish. Forfeiting will result in loss of the match.
2.8. Protests
If a match was incorrectly reported by your opponents, your team has 10 minutes to protest the match. Match protests must include media evidence clearly showing the results of the match/series. Teams are responsible for providing proof of match results in case of disputes.
3. Match rules
3.1. Arenas
"DFH Stadium" will be the default arena for every round. Teams can choose to play a different arena as long as both teams mutually agree. Results will not be overturned because of map selection after a match has already been played, unless map has a known bug.
3.2. Private Match Create/Join Procedure
The higher seeded team (the team on the left of the match-up on the "Results" tab) will host the first private match. The hosting team will alternate between each game.
Host selects "Play Online" ⇒ select "Create Private Match".
Make sure "Joinable By" option is set to "Name/Password".
Host creates a Name & Password (keep it simple) for players to enter.
Host's teammates and opposing team select "Play Online" ⇒ select "Join Private Match".
Players enter the Name & Password communicated by the host through ESL match chat.
All players must be in the private match lobby before selecting teams.
Team on the left of the Match Info Page will choose Orange Team, team on the right of Match Info Page will choose Blue Team.
The match will then begin.
Still having trouble? Check out this detailed tutorial! - Private Match Create/Join Procedure Article
3.3. Re-host
A rehost can only be played with prior admin approval. Please contact an admin via support ticket to receive approval. In a re-hosted game each participant must choose the same vehicle as they picked at the start of the the original match. Disconnects and lag issues will only qualify for a re-host if the issue occurs the within the first 30 seconds of the game, and no goals have been scored. Matches will not be re-hosted because of map or team color selection after it has already been played, less map has a known bug.
3.4. Observers
Observers are allowed only if both teams agree. Exceptions to this rule are, ESL admins and people that are given permission by an admin (e.g. shoutcasters or streamer). Under no conditions are teams allowed to play with referees other than ESL referees.
4. Results
Both participants are responsible to enter the correct result. Results must be submitted after all games have been played. If anything is unclear, participants should have screenshots and the required replay files available to verify the result and file a protest.
5. Communication & Support
Please use matchchat, located on the bottom right hand side of your screen or submit a support ticket for any assistance during the cup. ESL Wire is the main communication tool for admins to communicate to players through matchchat during a cup.
5.1. Admins
All participants must adhere to the decisions and rules of the tournament organizers, admins, and referees. All decisions are final, except in cases where the option to appeal is clearly stated. Conversations, either verbal or written, between organizers, admins, or referees, and participants are confidential. Publicly posting or sharing these conversations with outside parties is strictly forbidden unless permission is obtained.
6. Match Media
All match media (screenshots, demos, etc) must be kept for at least 14 days. In general, you should upload the match media from a match to the match info page as soon as possible. Faking or manipulating match media is forbidden and will result in severe penalties. Match media should be named clearly based on what it is. It is not possible to file a protest or write a support ticket to complain about bad match media naming. However, if an admin is hindered in their work because of bad match media names then it can be punished.
7. Casting and Streaming
Casting an ESL match is only allowed with an ESL admin agreement. To get an agreement please contact the admin team either by Discord or Support ticket. If your match is being casted by ESL, please follow instructions given by an admin in Cup Chat prior to match start. These will include:
Your lobby name and password, that will also be shared with the casters
Team colors, which will remain the same for all games in the match
Allowing replays to play out instead of being skipped, for casting purposes
8. Ties
In a situation where more than two teams are tied the deciding order is as follows:
Match W/L record among the tied teams against only the tied teams (cumulatively).
Game W/L record among the tied teams against only the tied teams (cumulatively).
If more than two teams still remain tied, then another round of the round robin will be played between the remaining tied teams.
In the event that the tie remains, this process will restart.
In a situation where only two teams are tied the deciding order is as follows:
Match W/L among the two teams against only the two teams (cumulatively).
Game W/L among the two teams against only the two teams (cumulatively).
A deciding best of five match will be played.


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For Montana's largest industry, the current court battle over the Beef Check-off is a big deal. The Montana Beef Council is organized to protect and increase demand for beef and beef products through state, national, and international consumer marketing programs. R-Calf is suing to try to change the process that previously sent 50% of the funds to be directed by the Montana Beef Council.
Kristin Larson of Sidney was a recent guest on the Voices of Montana to discuss the importance of the Montana Beef Council. She serves on the federation of state beef councils and represents the 45 councils that collect the $1 per head beef check-off. Have a listen: Voices of Montana w/Jon Arneson feat. Kristin Larson


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PGA Tour Golfer Matt Every Suspended Over Medical Cannabis Use
A statement released on Friday confirms that Matt Every has a 3-month suspension for violating the Tour's conduct policy on drugs of abuse.
The PGA has confirmed that professional golfer, Matt Every, has been suspended for 12 weeks, due to a violation of its Conduct Policy on drugs of abuse, effective from Friday, October 19.
Every will be eligible to return January 7 and will miss only three tournaments for which he would have been eligible — the Bermuda Championship, the Mayakoba Classic in Mexico and the RSM Classic at Sea Island.
In a statement sent to GolfChannel.com, Every confirmed he has tested positive for cannabis, but it was a legal prescription — prescribed in Florida, where he resides — to treat his mental health.
"I have been prescribed cannabis for a mental health condition by my physician whom has managed my medical care for 30 years," Every said. "It has been determined that I am neither an acceptable candidate to use prescription "Z" class drugs nor benzodiazepines.
"Additionally, these classes of drugs can be highly addictive and harmful to the human body and mind. For me, cannabis has proven to be, by far, the safest and most effective treatment."
Being aware of the Tour's policy before he violated it, the 35-year-old said he has "no choice but to accept this suspension and move on."
"I knew what WADA's [World Anti-Doping Agency] policy was and I violated it," Every said. "I don't agree with it for many reasons, mainly for my overall well-being, but I'm excited for what lies ahead in my life and career. Over the last few years I have made massive strides and I know my best is still in front of me. I can't wait to come back better than ever in January."
The two-times Tour winner is now the seventh player to be suspended under the Tour's policy against drugs of abuse that was implemented in 2008. It follows the three-month ban of Robert Garrigus in March of this year.
Despite being medically and recreationally legal in many states, cannabis is still listed as a banned substance under the Tour's anti-doping policy.
The Tour said it would have no further comment on the suspension.
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CBD Sponsorship of Professional Motocross Takes Another Step Forward
CBD sponsorship is making moves in professional motocross and supercross, once again, after progress stalled in early 2019.
For those living under a rock, CBD aka cannabidiol is one of over a hundred cannabinoids found in cannabis plants. But, unlike tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), CBD doesn't offer a high. The latter's strengths are helping to treat serious conditions such as epilepsy, to controlling anxiety, helping manage pain, aid in muscle recovery, better sleep and overall wellness.
Certain attributes — such as recovery, sleep and overall wellness — has seen professional athletes add CBD to training programs. That has seen the rise of cannabis advocates in a wide scope of sports, whether stick-and-ball (like hockey, football and baseball), through to action sports that sit out of the mainstream (like MMA and motocross).
It has also seen an influx of cannabis advocates, like MMA's Bas Rutten and motocross stars Carey Hart and Chad Reed, all using that 'legend' status in each sport to help educate fans and followers about the benefits of CBD.
While the likes of Hart and Reed continue to share their belief in CBD on social media, it only goes so far in motocross, with its use and marketing leading to controversy in the pro motocross racing scene.
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There was no problem with racers being sponsored and supported by CBD companies until February 2019, which was when supported athletes were censored during broadcasts of Monster Energy AMA Supercross. The ban prohibited the logos of CBD companies, enforced by the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) after it was brought to the attention of Feld Motor Sports, the promoter of the series.
The problem was not the use of CBD by the athletes, but the two logos of CBD brands — Ignite and cbdMD — visible on bikes and riders during broadcasts on NBC. The first to be censored was Dean Wilson, who was told to cover the Ignite logos, followed by Chad Reed being forced to censor the cbdMD logos on his helmet.
There were inconsistencies with the ban and censorship, depending on where the racing took place (such as Texas, where CBD is still not legal). To add more confusion, both the AMA and The Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM) allows racers to use CBD since it is not on the prohibited list of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
But There Has Been Progress
The AMA posted a bulletin that outlines how CBD will be handled in 2020 and beyond.
Again, these steps are related to the displaying of logos at the races, whether in the pits, on the bike or the gear (especially if seen during television broadcasts).
Due to recent changes in state laws, limited hemp-based cannabidiol "CBD" product sponsorships at certain onsite event locations during the upcoming 2020 Supercross season will be allowed subject to the following requirements and restrictions contained herein.
But there are requirements to the eligibility, with the "CBD products must be derived from hemp and contain less than .3% THC," and "any logos or signage that include or relate to cannabis are prohibited." Of course, "CBD product sponsorships are void in whole or in part wherever prohibited by law."
That means signage or promotional displays for CBD related products are to be permitted in the pit areas of the 2020 series. But the distribution or sale of any CBD related products or samples would be strictly prohibited.
The broadcast restrictions are still uncertain. For now, the AMA states that "no rider, team or sponsor should assume that any promotional displays of CBD product on the track that may be captured by the broadcast will be allowed until further notice." That means riders will run the risk of the being censored or removed from competition.
These policies will remain in effect until further notice. But the AMA has stated the policies are "not intended to be all-inclusive and may be amended, appended, or rescinded in whole or in part at any time for any reason without advance notice."
The real question is should professional athletes making more from sponsorship than purse money have further censorship due to prior restraint?
Former Patriots Star Rob Gronkowski Enters CBD Game
If there's one thing football fans know for sure, it's that former New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski is always up to something.
Whether it's partying on a boat, dominating on the gridiron or appearing in another commercial, the guy sure knows how to keep busy.
Now, after the five-time Pro Bowler and three-time Super Bowl winner retired at the age of 30 last offseason, he's back in the public spotlight. This time, he's getting into the CBD business.
Gronk signed on with Rhode Island-based Abacus Health Products, giving him a stake in the company and making him the face of a line of products set to be revealed in early 2020.
While there's surely a business component to this partnership, Gronk insists he decided to get involved with CBD products after personally seeing the impact they can have on pain, telling the press he was "blown away with how well it worked. I am pain-free, and that is a big deal."
"[The injuries] took an absolute beating on my mind and my soul. I was hurt both mentally and physically, day in and day out," Gronk said. "I decided to walk away from the game for one reason: I had to recover."
Recovery was a prime concern for Gronk after his retirement. After dealing with near-constant injuries nine surgeries during his illustrious pro football career, Gronk talked about the need to rest, recharge and help his body recover from the beating it takes during games.
"I'm advocating for CBD to be acceptable for all players for recovery," Gronk said during a press conference. "You can just call me Mr. Recovery. You know you like that name. Mr. Recovery, baby."
Gronk recalled a stretch in time after a Super Bowl victory where despite playing a great game and winning a championship, it paid a tremendous toll on his body.
"I was in tears in my bed after a Super Bowl victory. It didn't make much sense to me," said Gronkowski. "I couldn't sleep for more than 20 minutes a night, after a Super Bowl win. And I was like damn, this sucks. It didn't feel right."
While Gronk didn't completely close the door on his NFL career, teasing fans with the possibility of a comeback depending on how his body feels, he made it clear he wouldn't come back unless the NFL changed its tune on CBD for athlete recovery.
"To come back, they're going to have to legalize CBD in the NFL," he said. "No matter what I say, people are still going to say I'm coming back —so, I'm coming back, but I'm not."
While the NFL has yet to lift its rigid ban on CBD products, as the UFC has, the science is on the athlete's side. CBD has a proven impact on pain management and athlete recovery that simply can't be denied at this point. With the recent trend of elite NFL athletes like Gronk and former Colts quarterback Andrew Luck hanging up their cleats early due to countless injuries and never-ending rehab, the NFL might want to consider natural pain-management solutions like CBD.
Mike Tyson Is Newest Fan-Controlled Football League Owner
When it comes to rebrands, there are few more complete and monumental than that of Mike Tyson.
It's hard to believe that the former heavyweight champ of a brutally violent sport like boxing, sporting facial tattoos before it was a common hip-hop trend and most known for biting off his opponent's ears and knocking people out in 12 seconds is now a touring entertainer, pigeon trainer and best part of hit comedy film "The Hangover."
It's fair to say that Tyson's change from one of the most feared, baddest men on the planet to entrepreneur and entertainer has been an on-going story of feel-good redemption.
More recently, Tyson made the leap into the cannabis space with his ultra-extravagant, 40-acres cannabis resort Tyson Ranch set to be ready in 2020 and has a hit on his hands with his HotBoxin podcast where he talks with superstars like Vic Mensa, Wiz Khalifa and Snoop Dogg while smoking up. Plus his soon to be released line of cannabis strains and CBD wellness products.
Now the former heavyweight champ has announced his partnership with the Fan-Controlled Football League (FCFL) as an owner.
The FCFL is the first-ever real-world sports league where the fans are fully in charge, calling in plays via an app and relayed directly into the quarterback's helmet. Fans will be able to pick every aspect of the team from their name, to their logos, coaches and even players.
On top of that, the league is partnered with Twitch to stream exclusively, letting fans watch live and get in on the action from any Twitch-compatible device.
Tyson joins the likes of both current and former pro athletes like Marshawn Lynch, Richard Sherman and Chad Ochocinco as a team's owner along with entertainers like singer and songwriter Prince Royce, radio personality Bobby Bones and YouTube gaming comedy group Kinda Funny.
When asked why he wanted to get involved with the FCFL, Tyson was clear about his intentions to make his team a force for years to come.
"I'm pleased to come on board as the owner of the newest Fan-Controlled Football League team. I'm excited to work with the fans to create the Baddest League on the Planet. My team is looking forward to demolishing our 'competition.'" Tyson said.
Tyson elaborated further on his goals for the team in a brief video message to his fans, saying he's looking for players who are elite both on the intellectual and physical perspective.
After all, when it comes to winning championships and dominating a sport, there are few finer role models than Iron Mike himself.
The FCFL is thrilled to have Tyson on board in the owner's box.
"We are reinventing the sport of football for the digital age and a cultural phenomenon like Iron Mike could not be a better fit for this league," said co-founder and Chief Gaming Officer Patrick Dees. "We are impossibly excited for him to bring his unparalleled energy, legendary smack talk, and unrivaled will to win to the FCFL. The man is a total badass and there is zero doubt in my mind that Team Tyson is going to be a force to be reckoned with in our first season. And I for one, CAN NOT WAIT to watch him stream his games on Twitch."
With a literal heavyweight like Tyson on board, the Fan-Controlled Football League is bound to be as exciting as one of Iron Mike's legendary bouts.
Let's hope the games last longer than those fights, however.
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The video clip below shows a net made from Polydron. You can change the net using the drop down menu on the right hand side. When you press play, you will see the attempt to assemble the net into a solid 3D shape. Sometimes they will succeed, sometimes they will fail.
Before watching each video clip, consider these questions:
- Can you imagine folding the net up into a solid shape?
- Do you think that the net will fold into a shape with all sides clicked together?
- Can you imagine the shape of the final solid if the net does indeed correctly fold together?
Record your predictions and discuss with a partner before watching the the video for each net.
- Were you correct? Was the result a surprise in any way?
- Try again to imagine how the shape folded together.
Draw an accurate drawing of the net in your book. Can you see which sides joined together? Can you indicate this clearly on your diagram? Can you prove your net works?
What did you find out today?
What questions do you still have?


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Organised and supported by villagers to raise funds for upkeep of the local church and our Village Hall this event offers a unique opportunity to visit this very special Cotswold village. During the afternoon you can amble through a selection of beautiful private gardens. You can browse the stalls enjoy cream teas, homemade cakes or ice creams, see a miniature Atkinson Steam Lorry, play garden games and enjoy a tractor ride through farmland with sensational views
The church is known for its unusual dovecote above the chancel and its quite exceptional Norman arches in the chancel and sanctuary. The chancel arches, and those leading to the altar, are among the best in Gloucestershire, if not in Britain. The church is also the highest in Gloucestershire, and boasts a wonderful Norman tympanum above the south door. It is said by those who know that it is well worth taking a detour to explore the church and its striking collection of Norman arches and decorative features. On this special afternoon you cannot only soak up the atmosphere, made more special with glorious flower displays but you can also hear the bells and visit the bell tower. A very special feature this year are the new ecological initiatives including a Coronation Wildflower Meadow and Eco-loo


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Every itinerary ought to embrace Amangalla. Galle Fort, built by the Dutch East India Firm in 1694, was initially home to the Dutch commander and his officers. Amangalla friends have the chance to stay in this centuries-old UNESCO heritage site. It's a straightforward stroll from the resort to the Previous Dutch Church, space warehouses, lighthouse, and Courtroom Square. You can even visit Yatagala Temple (pictured above), a 2300 year previous Buddist temple about five miles from Amangalla.
In Bayeux itself the center piece of the group is with out-a-doubt the magnificent Cathedral Notre-Dame de Bayeux. Bishop Odo of Conteville consecrated this Norman-Romanesque-Gothic shrine in July of 1077 with his half-brother and King of England, William the Conqueror current. The cathedral has survived for over 900 years together with countless wars and conflicts and was at one time the house of the world famous Bayeux Tapestry. With its towering central spire that peaks at 95 meters the cathedral is visible from wherever in town and is an imposing structure. Remember to check out the gargoyles staring down at you on the exterior.


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by Ted Hickman
I had nothing really do with the new stop signs now standing at State Highway 113 and Midway Road.… Neither did Solano County supervisors John Vazquez or Skip Thompson or former Mayor Jack Bachelor or current Mayor Thom Bogue… or the CHP or the Solano County Transportation Authority, or any state legislator. None really had anything to do with the safety enhancement just put in place this past Saturday at one of the most dangerous intersections in Solano County… They/we all did!
During my four elected terms on the city council (16 years total) getting that intersection (and Pitt School and Porter roads, too!) somehow safer was always a priority. It came to a head last summer when a young man lost his life (see photo) and my wife and I happened upon the scene before the dust settled; literally; (and before the body was covered).
As fire and police arrived I (as a reporter) held an impromptu conference with CHP officers gathered at the scene – including their new area commander to whom I explained my long call for something to be done about that intersection. I told him I had written about it for years and made it a constant item at city council meetings. He said it was bad and he would help where he could. I explained it was all up to Cal Trans and he said he felt a traffic light would be appropriate.
He said he would do what he could at his level and asked me to continue my long quest and asked that to again involve everyone I could at city, county and state levels… I kept my word and did my part so following that road/death side meeting I again asked the city council to petition and ask the STA through Mayor Thom Bogue, and supervisors Vasquez and Thompson and our state legislators for help prioritizing this issue using the death as a catalyst and citing numerous serious accidents and the growing population in the South-west area increasing the 24/7 traffic.
After rattling the sabers again this time someone at Cal Trans took notice and prioritized a "minor project" saying it was now a higher priority and an enhancement would becoming "soon." It was actually done in warp speed for Cal Trans with all of the statewide projects they have on the table. In only a few months suddenly the new signs appear, sans any warning light (as of yet, but they're coming.) Supervisors Vasquez and Thompson are working on the county putting up flashing warning lights on Midway and both sides of 113. Vasquez has the east side and Thompson has the west in their districts… Long story shortened… Finally a dicey solution has been found and enacted to help lessen the danger for a problem I've been working on for over 50 years (which existed decades before that) both as a journalist and an elected official.
When something like this finally gets done you can only sigh and hope you've prevented multiple deaths and injuries; but we'll never know… Some will still run both stop signs and some will get hurt and some will die… Just make sure it isn't any of you or yours.
It's even more important than in the city when doing a "California stop"… in our rural areas not stopping can kill you… Like the poor young man who left for work to come to the Dixon area early one morning and never came home that night because his car was broadsided by a big rig apparently traveling within permitted speeds. He pulled out on to 113 from Midway for whatever reason either didn't see or have time to react to being in the path of a huge multi-ton machine.
Always be cautious at each intersection on all rural roads. If you drive them enough you see stupid things and things beyond belief. Always assume an approaching car WILL run a stop sign. Drive smart; live long and prosper!


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An Epic battle to see who is the best brothers team! I get the Brothers Leandros from Rob Thurman's Cal Leandros books and the Winchester Brothers from Supernatural and have them fight it out, while trying to fight off baddies at the same time. Action and humor and lots of eyecandy! It's Perfect!
What is your favorite spooky book (i.e. mystery/suspense, thriller, ghost story, etc.)?
Earlier this year I read a very spooky ghost book. The Restorer by Amanda Stevens, setting alone was very haunting with it's southern touch and the ghost that happen to go by you as you enjoy the sweet breeze in the air. Very spooky...*shivers*


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By E. Edward Bittar and David R. Colman (Eds.)
One prerequisite for the evolution of multicellular organisms was once the discovery of mechanisms through which cells may possibly adhere to each other. sooner or later in our historical past, dividing cells now not went their separate protozoic methods within the primordial oceans, yet as an alternative discovered that through preserving an organization, through sticking jointly yet now not fusing, a number of evolutionary merits turned attainable. the next improvement of specialised tissues and organs trusted the elaboration of quite subtle, regulatable cell-to-cell adhesion mechanisms that are recognized to function in organic methods as varied because the progress of the embryo, the immune reaction, the institution of connections among nerve cells, and arteriosclerosis, to call quite a few. even though we will in simple terms wager on the ancestral mechanisms that fostered the 1st primitive intercellular unions, a few one thousand million years in the past, we now realize modern molecular "themes" with most likely historic origins that mediate cell-cell interactions. The chapters during this booklet function invaluable, thought-provoking, yet no longer exhaustive, commentaries on modern subject matters in the extensive box of phone adhesion. If the reader detects a mild tilt towards these adhesion molecules that functionality within the fearful procedure, this can be basically a mirrored image of this editor's pursuits, biases, and naturally, obstacles.
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Zero Absolution is being shot entirely on location in the cities of Milwaukee and Green Bay,
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Vacation – 4 June 2012
Well, we are on vacation back at Osage Hills State Park.
Last time we were here for our son's birthday, I said I would try to blog a little, but it just didn't happen. So, instead of saying I going to blog this time, I think I will just let things happen, and we'll see what happens.
So we get settled in for the night after making a quick trip to Wally World to stock up on a few basic needs like milk, cereal, bread, English muffins, etc. and now it is storming outside.
Wife was going to take a bubble bath, but with the threat of lightening, she isn't going to so I think I will wrap this up and hit the sack.


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Light-weight means efficient: The newly developed uvex JAKK+ ski helmet is the first, remarkably light-weight, hard shell helmet for freeriders that does not compromise safety and stability. It flies by any of its competition with some ingenious special extras. The newly designed interior with the patented octo+ adaptation system attaches itself firmly to your head and adapts automatically. A new ventilation solution between the helmet and goggle, ensures clear vision all day. Special ventilation channels draw fresh air into the helmet over the custom-made uvex goggles, making fogging up impossible.
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by Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
I have always loved Langston Hughes' Dreams poems. They speak to anyone who has longing in their heart for something, someone, someplace.
The photo above reminds me of this poem. Yesterday I walked along the San Gabriel River Pathway with my kids. I am sure up in the San Gabriel mountains the river is wild and free, beautiful and green. By the time it reaches us, almost to the sea, it is confined to a concrete channel, gray and uninspiring. I couldn't help but feel a little depressed as I looked at the graffiti, the shopping cart lying in the water, the paper cup floating by. How ugly it all was.
But then, we saw the birds. Ducks, a Blue Heron and the Snowy Egret. In the middle of the ugliness, there is still beauty to be found. If we don't look for it, we've lost our ability to dream, and "life is a barren filed."
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Project 366
For 10 days in December, I invite you to visit my Georgetown studio and experience a vast exhibition of 366 miniature paintings I created in 2016. This year long project of a painting-a-day was an epic of challenge and growth that led me to a deeper understanding of my creative process and source of inspiration. Each of these detailed tiny paintings are pieces of a large whole. When they are together, they reveal a journey of exploration and tell a story of my artistic growth.


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Set in Kövenig, Ferienanlage - Am Moselufer offers accommodation with access to a garden. The holiday home offers a barbecue. Guests at Ferienanlage - Am Moselufer can enjoy table tennis on site, or go hiking or cycling in the surroundings. Bernkastel-Kues is 21 km from the accommodation, while Cochem is 40 km away. The nearest airport is Frankfurt-Hahn Airport, 25 km from Ferienanlage - Am Moselufer.
We speak your language! Native language: DE. Ferienanlage - Am Moselufer has been welcoming guests since January 07, 2020 at TodayTourism.com hotel booking website.
GPS coordinates: 49.98119, 7.11976. You can easily find us with the GPS navigation device by entering our GPS coordinates. Simply type in the coordinates in Decimal degrees, separating the latitude and longitude with a comma or space.Plan Your Route to the Holiday homes with Google Maps
The most expensive accommodation in this neighborhood is: Ferienanlage - Am Moselufer ( 618€ = 700 US$). The cheapest accommodation in this neighborhood is: Ferienanlage - Am Moselufer (354€ = 401 US$)
Average hotel price in that region is: (354€ = 401 US$)
A credit card is NOT needed for the reservation! payment for your stay is required at check-in! Need a room for today or tomorrow? Check availability & Book Now!
You can write a special request after your booking is complete! Special requests cannot be guaranteed - but the Ferienanlage - Am Moselufer will do its best to meet your needs.
|Free public parking is possible at a location nearby (reservation is not needed).
|Pets are allowed on request. Charges may be applicable.
|Children and Extra Bed Policy
|All children are welcome. All children under 4 years are charged EUR 5 per person per night for children's cots/cribs. All children from 3 to 12 years are charged EUR 15 per person per night when using existing beds. All children from 13 to 17 years are charged EUR 20 per person per night when using existing beds. The maximum number of children's cots/cribs in a room is 3. There is no capacity for extra beds in the room.
|WiFi is available in all areas and costs EUR 10 per 24 hours.
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A security deposit of EUR 100 is required upon arrival for incidentals. This deposit is fully refundable upon check-out and subject to a damage inspection of the accommodation. Payment before arrival via bank transfer is required. The property will contact you after you book to provide instructions. This property will not accommodate hen, stag or similar parties.
There are a variety of shops and restaurants near our accommodation - Ferienanlage - Am Moselufer. During your stay, you and your family or group can enjoy a short walk to these nearby destinations. Whether you like pizza, sandwiches, steaks or a little of everything. And, if you want to pick up some souvenirs or gifts in Kövenig, you'll find everything you need in the town's little boutiques and shops.Find nearby restaurants