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karenarp wrote:Shandeh wrote:Good work!
You are like me....you do a tight cast-off.
I'm still trying to cast off more loosely....it's really hard to make it just right.
Now, all you have left to do is seam it together, and add buttons.
I will work on mine some more today, so I can do videos on the K2together and YO for making the buttonhole.
Then, I will do a cast off video. And finally, a video on seaming.
How do you cast looser? Do you need to switch to a larger hook?
If you switch your working needle to another one or two sizes bigger, your cast-off will become looser! I've even used one three-four sizes bigger when it said "really loose."

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Foreverskim Photo Issue:
Says it is smack dab in the middle of SoCal and 30 minutes north of Laguna. Looked for pics of jetties like that but came up clear. Is it around Sunset Beach?
Sorry for small pic.
Foreverskim Photo Issue:
Says it is smack dab in the middle of SoCal and 30 minutes north of Laguna. Looked for pics of jetties like that but came up clear. Is it around Sunset Beach?
Sorry for small pic.
might be slabby seal? theres a jetty there but i dunno if its 30 mins.
W4a|e Hunter
I'd say that is Seal Beach... except it's a little more than 30 minutes north of Laguna. Closer to an hour actually.
Gator Skim
that sure is hell doesnt look like seal to me and i skim there on often occasion.... seal is not an hour north of laguna is thirty min
i run with the amish mafia, think twice before you speak
Well there's two separate jetties and the one the waves are breaking off has a fence on top of it.
It Seals. Look at jetties in both pics.
It looks like it is.
SiCky LOllaa???? mOtORolLa???
Originally Posted by Csmoke
Meat grinders are for meat silly. You coudn't put a board in there silly. Jeeze u r silly.
Micah Cooper
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that is sealOriginally Posted by drewgen
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it is whale beach... it is on the north tip of huntington
No this is in Ca..Whale beach is Aus right?Originally Posted by kyleskim6
i am guessing whale bch is a local name.
Purple Snakes
yea it is a local secret spot...it only gets like that every so often
Hopefully Derek will confirm the name
You just had four people that live there tell you where it is.
Purple Snakes
the man likes to be sure, leave him alone
Didn't see the last post. And even if I had only 1 person said it was Whale beach. It's in Fsm so I just assumed if Derek read it he could post. Sorry
fck off. Michael and I have business to attend to.Originally Posted by ZapBulletRider
Purple Snakes
Anyways, Kyle does the sider for off that well?
it is seal, there are no beaches in california that I know of named whale beach
seal fooooor sure
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there are no siders, there are kind of siders that will cross up the whole beach making more of an A Frame type wave, the beach is epic boogy and the shorebrake gets insane. It is fun.
Originally Posted by kyleskim6Originally Posted by kyleskim6
Purple Snakes
i was telling a lie...
Crazy. Looks fun at the right time
hahaha......ok.Originally Posted by kyleskim6
Purple Snakes
there IS a sider sometimess heeeeeeehheee shhhhhhhhhh
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Originally Posted by amerikanexile
it was actually working when i went a couple weeks ago during that nw swell... just so many damn people...
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yah that beach sucks never go
What is a jetty?
wow.Originally Posted by Nick
How does this thing work?
Nick, that routine is so old, and you are so not funny.
Purple Snakes
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Design Article
Microwatt charge pump boosts 1V to 1.8V at 90% efficiency
Martin Tomasz, Sageloop Designs
Boosting the output voltage of common alkaline button-cells to at least 1.8V, as needed by microcontrollers, provides an "always on" standby power source sufficient for low-power oscillator interrupt/sleep state operation.
In this design, two ultra-low-power op amps are used in a charge pump configuration to double an input voltage, creating an output voltage of approximately 2× the input voltage. Output currents up to 100μA are available at 90% efficiency; even load currents as low as 10μA achieve 80% efficiency, beating commercially available charge-pump ICs and inductor-based boost regulators.
When the microcontroller wakes, primary power may be fed in at diode-OR point at C4 from a separate power supply capable of providing the full on-state power. In a typical scenario, an interrupt causing the microcontroller to wake also enables the primary supply, which may be an inductor-based boost regulator. This primary supply remains on as long as the microcontroller requires full power, and shuts down when the microcontroller goes to sleep, allowing the micropower charge pump to take over providing low power at high efficiency.
In very-low duty-cycle systems, where the microcontroller spends the majority of its life sleeping, while waking only rarely to make measurements or respond to a stimulus, the low-power sleep-state current draw largely defines the battery life. Thus, the efficiency of the micropower boost regulator becomes critically important.
Referring to Figure 1, op amp U1 is configured as a relaxation oscillator, serving as the master charge-pump clock. Capacitor C2 charges and discharges primarily through resistor R4 to set the frequency, and U1's output directly drives the bottom of flying capacitor C3 between IN and GND voltages.
Click on image to enlarge.
Figure 1: A microwatt charge-pump boost converterfrom two ultra-low-power op amps
Amplifier U1, the 0.8V/0.6µA TS1001 op amp from Touchstone Semiconductor, is particularly well-suited to the task, as it has the unusual combination of sub-microamp supply current, sub-1V operation, and reasonable output drive capability to charge C3.
Amplifier U2 is configured as a comparator slaved to the timing cycle established by U1, ensuring proper turn-on and turn-off timing for T1. T1, a low-threshold P-channel MOSFET, turns on when U1's output is low, allowing C3 to charge to the voltage at IN; however, this timing is phased to ensure a clean break-before-make (T1 turns off before U1's output goes high, and doesn't turn on before U1's output is already low).
This is accomplished by U2 switching based on the voltage of C2 at a different threshold than U1, set by R5, R6. NPN transistor T2 inverts the U2's output to drive the gate of T1, and isolates U2's output from the output voltage (U2's maximum supply voltage is 2.5V).
Flying capacitor C3 is dimensioned to shuttle charge between IN and OUT with a minimum voltage discharge even at slow charge pump frequencies to maximize efficiency. Similarly, output capacitor C4 must hold charge between cycles with the maximum load. At these low currents, leakage currents must be controlled because they directly affect efficiency, so compact surface-mount ceramic (not tantalum) capacitors should be used.
Schottky diode D1 exhibits a 1μA reverse leakage; so the 1N5817 may be substituted with a lower-leakage, higher forward-drop diode such as the BAT68 which doubles the forward drop but reduces leakage by an order of magnitude.
Button-cell battery terminal voltage is typically 1V-1.5V, which would yield approximately 1.85V to 2.85V at the charge pump circuit's output (assuming D1 voltage drop is 150mV). This voltage level matches well the operating-voltage range of typical microcontrollers (the Freescale MC9S08 series, for example, operates over a 1.8V – 3.6V range).
Further, note that the typical terminal voltage of the button cell for the majority of its life is 1.2V, yielding 2.25V output from the charge-pump circuit, thus accounting for the efficiency loss of dropping 2.25V to 1.8V still yields a net efficiency of 1.8V / 2.25V × 90% = 72%, beating most existing commercial solutions. Figure 2 shows the efficiency versus load current for this design.
Figure 2: The ultra-low-power, op amp-based charge-pump boost converter
exhibits 90% efficiency over a wide range of load currents.
In previous generations of discrete, charge-pump-based boost converters, conventional and low-power logic ICs have been used to create the charge-pump clock. While many of these logic chips are designed for high speed, they exhibit substantial crossover currents at switchover times. While a few tens of microamps expended in such circuits may be acceptable in most circuits, in this slow charge-pump circuit, every microamp matters. Op amps, in contrast to logic gates and comparators, use linear output stages: slow, but no shoot-through supply-current spikes.
About the author
Martin Tomasz is principal of Sageloop Designs, an engineering consulting company offering expertise in circuit and systems design. Mr. Tomasz is a seasoned analog and mixed signal engineer with 22 years experience in circuit and systems design. Past experience includes 12 years at Maxim Integrated Circuits where he was Senior Scientist, and Quantance, where he was VP Product Architecture. He currently holds 12 patents.
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Tom Van Breussegem
It seems that you made an error in calculating the efficiency.
The maximum theoretical efficiency of a voltage doubler turning 1V into 1.8V is allready 90%. So the additional losses of the peripheral circuitry degrades this even more.
You're right Tom- but efficiency approaches 90% asymptotically for 1.8V out, and the 1.8V is minimum V at max load (higher at lighter loads). General point trying to make is that it seems one can build a reasonable simple pump oscillator with these sub-uA op amps. Thanks.
(.. continuing).. the calcs are right, the overhead losses are very low and the output voltage is higher than 1.8V at light loads (1.8V is min). - Martin
Tom Van Breussegem
OK, thanks for clarifying this, indeed nice design considering the low output power.


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Palace Square
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Orientation in the city is further divided by sites north and south of Nevsky. To the north you'll find many bars, cafés and restaurants, as well as a host of less frequented sites and museums. Stop by the area's Russian Museum, which has the world's largest collection of Russian art, or the Tauride Palace and Gardens, the original site of the first Russian parliament, the Imperial State Duma. In the area around Taurida, you'll find many reasonably priced hotels.
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Be very careful when crossing roads, as drivers don't always yield to pedestrians here. Use crosswalks and only cross when vehicles have come to a complete stop.
- The city's water-system is not ideal because of a number of old pipes and as a result does not provide 100% clean water. Some locals boil or also filter tap water before use; you might want to buy it bottled if water quality affects you." -- Wikitravel
The best way to get around St. Petersburg is public transportation; otherwise, you can walk around Nevsky Prospekt, the main thoroughfare. There's an extensive bus and metro system with lines that run throughout the center and into the city's outskirts. Tram or trolley is best for short journeys through downtown. For trips to the suburbs, try the metro system. Rental cars are available at the Pulkovo Airport (LED), but acquiring the proper driving documents can be a hassle. Taxis are also a prevalent (though at times, unsafe) way to move around.
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on Jun 5, 2010, 4:22pm
It's the morning of June 5 where I am.
Today marks the anniversary of the flight of the first hot air balloon, although using this date is pretty arbitrary.
Today is World Environment Day. It's hard to read that without thinking about the destruction of the Gulf Coast of the US.
It is
Richard Scarry
's birthday, someone many
of us loved as children, as did our children.
Tomorrow marks the 66th anniversary of D-Day.
Various other landmarks are coming up in June, although it's hard to think what could possibly top June 10, celebrated as Ball Point Pen Day.
Posted by paristraveler on Jun 5, 2010, 6:02pm
Thank you for that article on ballooning, bixa, you know how to press my buttons!!
Here is me way back in 1980, doing my very first inflation of a hot air balloon...
(Sorry about the size, I couldn't get the larger one from flickr to post and I'm in too much discomfort today to mess with it!
Posted by
on Jun 5, 2010, 6:18pm
I was hoping that would pull you in!
Interesting to see that even waaaay back in 1980, the balloons weren't blown up by mouth.
Come back one day when you're feeling perkier and expound on balloons, please. Floating along in one has got to be the most incredible sensation. It would be interesting to know about all the technical parts, too.
Posted by paristraveler on Jun 5, 2010, 7:35pm
Already done that!! Dear bixa, feel free to order my book, "Let's go for a Balloon Ride" from amazon.com
It's kind of a children's story, but it does get into some of the details of how it all works, so it's more for kids a little older. I would love for you to read it and tell me what you think!
Posted by
on Jun 5, 2010, 8:20pm
There is a tethered hot air balloon in the Parc André Citroën in Paris, and I keep telling myself I have to go up in it some day. It rises to about the level of the top of the Eiffel Tower on cables and then it is slowly pulled back down.
Posted by paristraveler on Jun 6, 2010, 2:52pm
Hey, k2 I'd love to see a picture of that.
That's actually how I learned to fly a balloon. My ex would take the paying passengers on their hour-long flight cross country, I would follow in the chase van, then when he landed he would stabilize the balloon so that I could jump into the basket and he would let the passengers out, then we would put the neighborhood kids/people into the basket and I would take them up about about tree-top level and hang there for awhile. We used two or three very long rolls of seat-belt material as tether lines. I would do this for an hour or so till the propane tanks were empty, then we would pack it up and go home.
My glory days...every flight was a celebration.
Posted by
on Jun 6, 2010, 7:30pm
Isn't it D-Day today?
Posted by
on Jun 7, 2010, 3:28pm
Yes, June 6 was D-Day. It was mentioned in the OP, but the mention of the the impending Ball Point Pen Day probably dazzled everyone too much to notice it.
June 7 isn't anything official, although there are some interesting birthdays today -- Prince, Tom Jones, and Louise Erdrich, among others.
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on Jun 7, 2010, 6:27pm
Even though D-Day was one of the turning points in the War, I think too many people (civilians as well as troops) were killed that day for it to really be "celebrated", it was always more "commemorated"; a lot of us will remember the important commemoration of the 50th anniversary.
I was correcting an essay in English by an Italian historian friend who also speaks French and German fluently, but not much English at the time. One of the worst bloopers was something about "celebrations of the Holocaust". Of course he meant commemorations - I had to explain to him that only neo-Nazis would "celebrate" such a thing.
I was thinking of the 66th of D-Day (Jour J in French) and ruefully musing that the 65th was probably the last commemoration of any size, like the 65th of VE-Day this year, because few remain who were participants and actually remember it. I have a friend who was in the Resistance in Normandy, but of couse he is very old now. He was very, very young back then as of course some of the troops were too.
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Well, June 8 is a celebration which will be painful this year: World Oceans Day.
updated 5:45 p.m. CT, Mon., June 7, 2010
Conservation groups, schools, businesses and governments across the globe are planning events and activities Tuesday to celebrate the worlds oceans, a day of tribute tinged by worry over the impact of a devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The United Nations recognizes June 8 as World Oceans Day. The holiday was officially celebrated for the first time last year, though the concept of a day to pay homage to the worlds oceans was first proposed in 1992 by Canada at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
This year, the Deep Horizon spill that has been gushing millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf has raised concerns over how human activity can imperil the waters that people live and feed off. The Gulf of Mexico, the worlds 11th-largest body of water, connects to the Atlantic Ocean, the second-largest ocean that covers roughly one-fifth of the Earth's surface. Scientists and environmentalists fear the spill could affect the marine food chain for years, if not decades.
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June 12 is
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Independence Day
in the Philippines
Dia dos Namorados (Valentine's Day) in Brazil
from Wikipedia
In Brazil, the Dia dos Namorados (lit. "Day of the Enamored", or "Boyfriends'/Girlfriends' Day") is celebrated on June 12, when couples exchange gifts, chocolates, cards and flower bouquets. This day was chosen probably because it is the day before the Festa junina (Saint Anthony's day), known there as the marriage saint, when traditionally many single women perform popular rituals, called simpatias, in order to find a good husband or boyfriend. The February 14's Valentine's Day is not celebrated at all, mainly for cultural and commercial reasons, since it usually falls too little before or after Carnival, a major floating holiday in Brazil long regarded as a holiday of sex and debauchery by many in the country[41] that can fall anywhere from early February to early March.
Russia Day
Today is also Crowded Nest Awareness Day.
Some of you here recently had offspring leaving the nest, and may be feeling sad about that, rather than celebrating an uncrowded nest.
But for people stressed out because of a house bulging with aging parents, too many roommates, returning offspring, etc., this is your day.
Posted by
on Jun 12, 2010, 10:57pm
Or fussy Polish guests.
Posted by
on Jun 15, 2010, 3:04pm
Yesterday was Flag Day in the US, something I understandably spaced out.
On June 15, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed a bill establishing the Boy Scouts of America.
Today is also Nature Photography Day. I think AnyPorters know the right way to celebrate that!
June is, among other things, Perennial Gardening Month and Gay and Lesbian Pride Month. Visit the
What's in Bloom
thread in Putting Down Roots to observe and share perennial beauty. And you can go to South America to see an amazing turnout for the Gay Pride Parade in
São Paulo
Posted by
on Jun 17, 2010, 8:31am
On 17 June 1885, the kit for assembling the Statue of Liberty arrived in New York in 214 crates. The statue was finally inaugurated on 28 October 1886 by President Cleveland.
Posted by
on Jun 20, 2010, 1:07pm
When I was a young teenager there was an article in the Sunday
magazine about the statue, the sculptor, and the model, who was still alive at the time. The article made a great impression on me. I knew the statue was a gift from France and had even seen it, but I don't think until that time I'd realized its hugeness nor the logistics of its delivery and assembly.
The earliest record of
Fathers Day
was found in the ruins of Babylon. A young boy named Elmesu carved a Fathers Day message on a card made out of clay nearly 4,000 years ago. He wished his Babylonian father good health and a long life.
Fathers Day is not celebrated on the same date throughout the world, but happy fathers day to all to whom it's pertinent today, or even if it's not.
Argentina - the third Sunday in June
Australia - the first Sunday in September
Belgium - St. Joseph's Day & the second Sunday in June
Brazil - the second Sunday in August
Bulgaria - June 20
Canada - the third Sunday in June
Chile - the third Sunday in June
Denmark - the second Sunday in November
Finland - the second Sunday in November
France - the third Sunday in June
Germany - Ascension Thursday (40 days after Easter)
Japan - the third Sunday in June
Lithuania - the first Sunday in June
Netherlands - the third Sunday in June
New Zealand - the first Sunday in September
Norway - the second Sunday in November
Portugal - St. Joseph's Day March 19
Spain - St. Joseph's Day March 19
Sweden - the second Sunday in November
Taiwan - August 8 ( in the Mandarin dialect of the Chinese language which many people speak in Taiwan, the numbers for this date 8/8 make the sound "ba ba"...and that is the same sound as the word father!)
Thailand - December 5 (This is the birthday of King Bhumibol Adulyadej)
United Kingdom - the third Sunday in June
United States - the third Sunday in June
Posted by
on Jul 14, 2010, 5:21pm
Isn't today
Bastille Day
? Well
appy Bastille Day
if that's the appropriate salute,to all that it applies. !!!!
Posted by
on Jul 14, 2010, 5:26pm
Check out the
Firemen's Ball
thread. Apparently we've been using the wrong term our whole lives!
Nevertheless, bright wishes for a happy national holiday to all for whom it applies!
Posted by
on Jul 14, 2010, 5:27pm
Will do,wasn't able to earlier because of computer glitch!!
Posted by
on Jul 14, 2010, 5:42pm
Fête Nationale
(often just called 'le quatorze juillet') commemorates the Fête de la Fédération which was held exactly one year after the storming of the Bastille -- on 14 July 1790. It celebrated the creation of the constitutional monarchy and even Louis XVI was a happy participant.
After the end of the official celebration, the day ended in a huge popular feast. It was also a symbol of the reunification of the Three Estates, after the heated Estates-General of 1789, with the Bishop (First Estate) and the King (Second Estate) blessing the people (Third Estate).
In the gardens of the Château de La Muette, a meal was offered to 22,000, before balls took place. People drank, danced, sang and toasted. The organisation went up to deciding of the price of the filles du Palais-Royal (prostitutes). The feast ended on the 18 July.
In Germany and Italy, the French Revolution was rather well considered by urban bourgeoisie, impregnated with the ideas of the Lumières of the Enlightenment: Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu, D'Alembert and others.
In Britain, the movement was welcomed by Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger (possibly because it was weakening his hereditary foe). His opponent, Liberal Charles Fox said before the Parliament of Westminster: "Never before was made such a great step toward freeing Humanity."
Unfortunately, things degenerated a bit in the subsequent years, and the Reign of Terror began.
Fête Nationale
, commemorating the Fête de la Fédération was created by a parliamentary vote on 6 July 1880, and has absolutely nothing to do with the Bastille.
Posted by
on Jul 14, 2010, 9:36pm
Thanks for this. I guess the calendar people in the US need an update...they all say Bastille Day,at least mine do,and what we were taught. But,considering all the other crap in the history books they told us...
Posted by
on Jul 18, 2010, 3:34pm
July 18
- Britain introduced the concept of voting by secret ballot
- the Spanish Civil War began as Gen. Francisco Franco led an uprising of army troops based in North Africa. (full
of NYTimes article)
Nelson Mandela
is 92 years old today.
Posted by
on Sept 1, 2010, 6:05pm
September 1st in history:
1752 - The Liberty Bell arrives in Philadelphia.
1894 - Great Hinckley Fire.
1939 - Germany invades Poland.
1951 - The ANZUS Treaty is signed.
1983 - Korean airliner shot down.
1985 - A joint American-French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic.
1997 - Diana driver was drunk and speeding.
1969 - Bloodless coup in Libya.
1991 - The Super Nintendo Entertainment System is released in North America.
2004 - The Beslan school hostage crisis begins.
Posted by
on Sept 1, 2010, 7:28pm
I'm reading a non-fiction book about Poland during WWII. It's almost unimaginable that WWII began 71 years ago. Its history continues to resonate through the lives of at least my generation, the children of the people alive during that time.
Re: the Titanic, 25 years later -- A little over a week ago, a scientific expedition set off with the intention of "virtually" raising the Titanic.
Posted by
on Sept 2, 2010, 5:20am
September 2, 1838 -- November 11, 1917
Queen Liliuokalani, last monarch &
only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawai'i
Posted by
on Sept 11, 2010, 4:28pm
Well,certainly no one is celebrating,but,most assuredly remembering today's date, here in NY.
Posted by
on Sept 11, 2010, 6:13pm
I just hope that people do not forget the other September 11th in 1973, which caused the death of just as many people.
Posted by
on Sept 11, 2010, 6:55pm
Posted by
on Sept 12, 2010, 7:11pm
That is lovely. In the 1970's, Paris was like a South American city with all of the refugees from Chile, Brazil and Argentina, among other countries. Since Franco and Salazar's successors were still in power in Spain and Portugal, those countries were not an option for the South Americans. In the 1980's, most of them were able to return home. I miss them, but I am happy that they did not have to spend their entire lives in exile like some other countries.
Posted by
on Sept 12, 2010, 9:31pm
Wonderful reminiscence, Kerouac. What must it have been like for them to return those many years later?
On Sept. 12, 1977, South African black student leader Steven Biko died while in police custody.
Posted by
on Sept 15, 2010, 10:24pm
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Are you a Perth woman? Did you make it to the last makeover & photoshoot work shop, held at the gorgeous Pure Bar in Subiaco last month? If not, do not fret – there are plenty of exciting workshops planned, …
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Natural beauty on the go: Top travelling tips
Whether you're flying across the globe or hopping in the car and crossing the continent, it's difficult to keep your gorgeous on. As if the stuffy air conditioning and cramped, unmoved muscles weren't enough, travelling is pretty rough on your complexion, too – and it's hard not to end up a looking a little worse-for-wear once you reach your destination.
There are, however, a few things you CAN do to avoid that moment of terror as you gaze into the airport toilet mirror and realise you left your makeup in your packed luggage.
Here they are!
1. Take every mini cup of fluid that's offered to you - and at least every second drink, go for the water!
Dehydrated skin is difficult to avoid whilst travelling, particularly if you're flying – so work at prevention rather than cure, and keep your body hydrated on the inside. This one's easy!
2. Avoid makeup.
Okay, we know this one is hard. But even if this means saying goodbye to the man of your dreams before pulling out the baby wipes, then doing the reverse when you reach the other end, it's worth doing. If you have to wear makeup at either your origin or your destination, at least take it off when you get on the flight. Dehydrated skin is not a good look – but dehydrated skin that can't breathe is an even worse one. Trust us, or you'll find out when you finally remove the layers!
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Hate Crimes
In the BCCEC report, "From the Curb" Sex workers who participated listed the following acts as violence;
- Physically being beaten, raped or assaulted by dates, pimps and drugs dealers
- Being ignored, belittled, humiliated, sworn at, shunned by police and public for being a "dirty ho, crack whore, or slut"
- Having items thrown at them from vehicles- (very common)
Sex workers commented that even children threw garbage at them. People in cars throw beer bottles, pennies, pop and hot coffee. One respondent lost part of her ear due to an assault by a non sex working woman in which the woman threw a beer bottle at her while she was working on the street. Sex workers in our consultation described the pain of being "beaten down by words". Experiences of robbery were also very prevalent amongst respondents. Workers felt they were more at risk after they had made some money.
Their words;
- "Any type of mistreatment is violence because people don't care what happens to our kind."
- "Being looked at like you're less"
- "Saying no to allowing us use of their phone or washroom- it leaves us depending on dates and other people who like to harm us."
- "Being mistreated by the public"
- "People laugh at me"
- It's like they take this beautiful thing we have... the ability to give love, and they destroy it."
- "Johns demean you like you are merely flesh that doesn't deserve respect like anyone else"
- "It's dangerous out there, especially recently with incidents of getting stripped, ripped off, pushed out of the car naked and hit."
Sex workers described violence as activities ranging from public humiliation and social exclusion to more extreme incidents of beatings, sodomy, rape, extreme violence and the abduction and murder of their friends.
Overwhelmingly sex workers agreed that violence against our community should be considered a hate crime. They also noted that doing so puts their violent experiences into a deeper context. They expressed that violence against our population is done with "specific intent to cause harm" due their social identity and compounded by their sheer accessibility.
The Sex Industry Community as a distinct culture
Currently violence against sex workers is not considered a hate crime. Although most can agree that there's not much difference between a truck full of good 'ol boys in white hoods jumping in the truck to drive downtown and find some to lynch and a bunch of teenagers jumping in their car to go downtown and throw things at "crack whores". The most disturbing aspect of this is that most of our community members reported the majority of attacks of this nature were being committed by women.
When we delve into history a bit we find references to the sex industry all through out recorded time; Always kept separate, always a distinct and secretive culture. A difficult revelation about recent history is that women in fact are responsible for a lot of the stigma sex industry community member live with today. In 1917 when women received the vote in the War Time Election Act one of the first actions influenced by their vote was the implementation of prohibition. Drugs, alcohol, gambling and sex were all made illegal. Unfortunately for sex industry workers that made us as people illegal.
During this time sex workers were put into asylums under the guise that they were somehow mentally ill thus their immoral behavior. This attack on sex workers in particular female sex workers by other women resulted in great pain and in some cases death for the workers affected. These women went as far as to create an ad campaign depicting sex workers as evil and as the vectors of disease. Their campaign of speeches, posters and radio spots was so broad and far reaching that this stigma exists to this day. We can see in the high numbers of women reportedly attacking sex industry community members and in the way feminist abolitionist groups still promote sex industry workers as victims, helpless and unable to defend or look after our selves. This latest campaign of hatred has gone on for 100 years some of us refer to it as the prohibition war. Since the beginning of this war human rights have come to the fore front and now the sex industry community is seeking recognition as a distinct culture deserving of protection under the charter. We hope to end the campaign to "end sex work" and have our rights to choose employment, be protected from hate propaganda against us, and to be protected from discrimination based on who we are.
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Article 20
- any propaganda for war shall be prohibited by law
- Any advocacy or national, racial, cultural or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence shall be prohibited by law.
Article 26
- 1. all persons are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to the equal protection of the law. In this respect, the law shall prohibit any discrimination and guarantee to all persons equal and effective protection against discrimination on any ground such as race, color, sex, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.
International Declaration of Human Rights
Article 1.All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Article 2.Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.
Article 3.Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person
Part III
Article 6
- 2. The states parties to the present Covenant recognize the right to work, which includes the right of everyone to the opportunity to gain his living by work which he freely chooses or accepts, and will take appropriate steps to safe guard this right.
- 3. The steps to be taken by a state party to the present Covenant to achieve the full realization of this right shall include technical and vocational guidance and training programs, policies and techniques to achieve stead economic, social and cultural development and full and productive employment under conditions safe guarding fundamental political and economic freedoms to the individual.
If I am not mistaken, the BCCEC site is to be found here. While perhaps an admirable group, I fail to see any connection with anti-racism work, other than the possibility that First Nations people and people of colour are disproportionately represented among those most vulnerable to assault and harassment. It seems to me that conflating prejudice and hatred of sex workers as a 'distinct culture' with racism is problematic, and may be worthy of discussion. If this topic takes on an anti-racism angle, I'll leave it here, otherwise I'll slide it over to the 'activism' forum.
This project reflects the diversity of the sex working community as it includes women, men and trans-individuals as well as those from different 'classes' and varying capacities and abilities. More specifically, sex workers engaged are multi-literate and culturally diverse. First Nations, Asian, Caucasian, Black workers and those of mixed race are currently invested.
Welcome to babble, susan. Great to have you here!
Let me run something past you, if you don't mind. A few months ago I spent some time looking into the *theoretical* possibility of workers' compensation benefits for injured sex workers. The main obstacles that I could see were (1) declared income, and (2) a regular -- or regular enough -- employment relationship (ie with an employer, not with clients, or otherwise as a self-employed person who pays for their own workers' comp coverage). Those factors would be a problem for a lot of sex worker claims, but not all. I can also think of some potential ways around both issues. One other issue that might be a problem in some claims is the legality of some of this kind of work, but that again could be addressed on a case-by-case basis.
Anyone who qualifies under the Act as a "worker" should be covered for many of the kinds of injuries you are referring to here, if they were working at the time of the injury. In some cases there could also be entitlement for injuries that are due to the nature of the work and which occur outside of working hours.
I forwarded this question to a legal clinic in Vancouver that seems to do a lot of work with your community. They had someone look into it, but I never managed to get them to send me their legal opinion.
We also had a discussion about this on babble. Some people thought that extending workers' comp to sex workers would be the wrong way to go, because it would legitimize a trade that they feel is inherently demeaning to women. As I understand this perspective, they think that at the end of the day, the only thing that will really help is to criminalize the act of puchasing sex.
Would you have any comments on any of that?
i beleive workers compensation does inculde escorts and exotic dancers in the way you described.we discovered this during our project Trade Secrets- to design occupational health and safety training for the sex industry. in my opinion a lack of awareness aabout services offered by worksafe amongst sex industry workers is the reason for lack of participation in the program. information about this and other government programs for workers are inculded in the guide/ training.
many workers are very smart business people and i'm sure would take part in worksafe as a way to be sure of support during an injury. falling off your stillettos and twisting your ankle for instance seems fairly straight forward as a claim but contracting an STI would be more difficult. it may be a way to enourage people to move more towards mandatory condom use like in new zealand...it is certainly alot to think about and negotiate as a community. we are planning a sex industry/ academics conference here in vancouver next spring for us to work on some of this.
we are dealing with enforcement actions all over the country however and somethings are unfortunatley moved down the list of priorities...dang it!!
EA 761021 Massage Parlour,Steam Bath,Escort Srv 2003 base rate-0.84 2004 base rate-0.89percent change 6.0% agencies/firms taking part 22
also, criminalizing consumers will just make workers more desperate. they will still jump into cars too quickly in order to avoid law enforcement and we will continue to see the violence increase. it has been a disaster for swedish sex workers.
we are working to form a national system of self governance for our industry like logging or car manufacturing. a transparent system that respects the mainstream community's values (no youth or trafficking) and ensures workers
have access to resources and the tools to make safe decisions about their work.
The following actions and recommendations emerged as common themes from dialogue with all stake holders including consumers, business owners and workers.i have explained here more specifically the relevance of each recommendation to each stakeholder group
"Establish a consortium of sex industry stakeholders to develop an Industry Association and negotiate where there are areas of commonality. ie. violence, consumer theft, health and safety, and industry stability."
Sex Industry Workers
Stability for the sex industry means jobs and safe places to work. If the industry bands together behind some basic minimum standards, the greater community will no longer be able to attack business owners arbitrarily. This will mean fewer closures of these businesses and more places to work. The systematic vilifying of business owners has lead to the loss of most safe work options for sex industry workers and pushed some workers to chose work options beyond their personal physical boundaries (20 show lounges have closed in the last couple of years and forced some exotic dancers to chose other forms of sex work such as escorting) The minimum standards aspect will mean that workers can distinguish which businesses are good to work for and which may not be. The Industry Association will provide a tool for sex industry workers to make safe decisions about their work.
Sex Industry Business Owners
Stability for the sex industry means a business owner's lively hood and hard work will no longer be subject to uninformed scrutiny by police, license inspectors, and so called "good will" groups promoting the abolition of the sex industry.) History has shown us how the greater community has targeted business owners and cast them as pimps, abusers, traffickers and "organized crime". An Industry Association could de-mystify our industry and advocate on behalf of longstanding businesses that have provided safe and stabile work environments distinguishing them from those who may be of a less honorable cast. New business owners could also be educated on the minimum required standards and insure a level playing field for all.
Sex Industry Consumers
Stability for the sex industry means that consumers will be able to engage sex workers use a business's services secure in the knowledge that they will be treated with dignity and respect and be able to engage in these activities safely. Also, a consumer would be able to support ethical business practices and the businesses that uphold them.
Greater Community outside of Sex Industry
Stability for the sex industry means that the greater community will no longer have to wonder about conditions within the industry or be forced to impose uninformed actions against it. Through development of minimum standards and occupational health and safety training the greater community can be comfortable in the knowledge that sex industry workers are being given the tools to make safe decisions and have safe places to work.
This will remove the burden of sex industry governance from people whose actions have historically (for more than 100 years) had disastrous effects for the safety and quality of life of Vancouver's sex industry workers.
The greater communities concerns are generally centered on the street level sex trade. The public sex acts, violence, unwanted advances from consumers and condom mess reflect the lack of safer indoor jobs in the sex industry. The systematic removal of these safer indoor environments must be halted to stem the number of workers entering the dangerous street level trade. It is hoped that through education and industry stabilization the numbers of sex industry workers working in harmful conditions will dramatically decrease.
"Develop Standardized Health and Safety Training for Sex Industry Workers and consumers in partnership with ALL stakeholders including business owners."
Sex Industry Workers
Standardized Health and Safety Training will give sex industry workers clear and concise information about their work. It will give them the tools to make safe decisions about engaging business owners, engaging consumers, safe sex, their emotional health, and about finding support should they need it.
Sex Industry Business Owners
Standardized health and safety training would mean business owners could prove they had provided their employees with the information necessary to work safely. Most business owners do provide training for employees and are very conscious of the safety of their workers. However, they have never been able to demonstrate their attention to this most important aspect of the sex industry. Through a standardized training system developed in partnership with ALL stakeholders (including business owners) these ethical, safe and healthy business practices could be recognized and supported.
Sex Industry Consumers
Standardized health and safety training will also include information for consumers. Because of criminalization, consumers have been cast as somehow dysfunctional, rapists, and perverts. This makes it difficult for them to ask for information about their sexual health and the risks involved with engaging in the sex industry. This will provide consumers the tools to make safe decisions when purchasing sex industry services. Also, consumers engaging sex industry workers or businesses who are members of the industry association can be assured that the workers are well versed in safe and healthy sex work practices.
Greater Community outside of Sex Industry
Standardized health and safety training will allow the greater community to be confident that all sex industry stakeholders have been given the tools they need to protect their health (including exiting and support services), safety and stability while engaging in the sex industry.
"Develop and implement a certification process in partnership with all stakeholders to stabilize and promote sex industry businesses (inclusive of independent workers as businesses). Design an industry association seal or brand to distinguish those businesses that support and have received certification for the negotiated health and safety standards and training."
Sex Industry Workers
Developing a certification process in partnership with all stakeholders will allow sex industry workers to insure their concerns and insight are addressed and included. An industry association seal will allow workers to distinguish which businesses support safe work environments and support the minimum negotiated standards.
Sex Industry Business Owners
Developing a certification process in partnership with all stakeholders will allow business owners to insure their concerns and experience are included, that the process is accessible and within reason as far as the operation of sex industry businesses. An industry association seal would allow businesses to distinguish themselves in the market for consumers and potential employees as businesses who support safe work environments and the minimum negotiated standards.
Sex Industry Consumers
The industry association seal will allow consumers to make ethical choices in the sex industry businesses they choose to support.
Greater community outside of Sex Industry
The industry association certification process and industry association seal will allow the greater community to make informed decisions about any actions taken against the sex industry. Blanket assumptions about our industry and the businesses engaged in it from the past have had disastrous results for our industry. The certification and seal will protect those businesses who do support health and safety from being targeted and allow the greater community to support actions in relation to the sex industry from a better informed perspective.
"Design a complaints process and penalty system in partnership with all stakeholders to provide a system of self governance and enforcement for the sex industry."
Sex Industry Workers
Sex workers have never had a way to report unethical business owners or dangerous business practices. A balanced system of investigation and penalty would begin to stabilize the health and safety of sex industry workers and eliminate the increasing number of dangerous working environments emerging as a result of our industry being pushed further and further underground.
Sex Industry Business Owners
Sex Industry business owners have also never had a way to complain about industry workers who take advantage of their good business practices or steal clients. This would allow these problems to also face due process and protect business owners from these types of behaviors.
Business owners would also be able to protect themselves from industry workers making false allegations about their business practices.
A process of self governance and enforcement would take these issues out of the hands of the greater community and prevent decisions being made by an outside party with no understanding of our history and traditions. This would mean the police, license inspectors and "end the sex industry" groups would no longer have the power to completely disrupt our lively hoods and jeopardize our safety.
Sex Industry Consumers
Sex industry consumers have never been able to lodge complaints about bad service or business practices except in the on-line forums where "service providers" are reviewed. Offences like being robbed or noticing a worker appears to be too young are difficult to report due to the stigma and close scrutiny an investigation can bring on the consumer himself.
A community based process which ensures the confidentiality of complainants will allow this process to work without harming peoples personal lives and stability.
Greater Community outside of Sex Industry
The greater community has always felt the need to carry the burden of policing our industry. Through this confidential, community based process this will no longer be necessary. Businesses that go beyond what is reasonable (marketing youth, trafficking persons) can be identified and prosecuted without causing widespread de-stabilization of the entire industry.
"Support the formation of craft unions or trade guilds for all aspects or jobs within the sex industry."
The Sex Industry is as diverse as the people who engage in it and encompasses more that actual one on one physical contact sex work. There are many job choices within actual sex work and there are also all of the support positions. This is an Industry and all employees' health, safety, and job security are important. Once the industry is stabilized and self governing different craft or trade guilds could form to support issues specific to different sex industry workers and businesses.
Sex Work Diversity - some of the identified genres of sex work include: Exotic Dancing, Web Cam work, pornography, massage, escorts, male hustlers, phone sex, and on street sex work.
Sex Industry Support Staff - some examples of support staff are: booking girls, djs, waitresses, bartenders, bouncers, camera people, make up people, producers, film editors, computer experts, security guys, drivers, and costume makers.
These work specific guilds could allow dialogue between more experienced and less experienced workers and improve knowledge specific to their individual work. The sharing of knowledge would allow sex industry capacity to increase over all.
The Industry Association could act as a bridge between these craft unions should any issues arise between them and facilitate reasonable negotiation between all sides.
"Establish a system of communications between the sex industry and those agencies who have traditionally had the role of policing or monitoring the industry such as the police, license inspectors and social work/ support agencies to prevent misunderstandings about safety issues within the industry."
These agencies have taken action against the sex industry with disastrous effects in the past. A system through which these actions can be vetted by or scrutinized by the industry itself is necessary to prevent these problems repeating themselves in the future. The lived experiences of sex industry workers, consumers and business owners are key to actions that will have meaningful and sustainable impacts on the safety of the entire community.
anti trafficking campaings by abolitionist groups in vancouver made the police raid massage parlours, where VPD entered guns drawn everyone on the floor... scaring the workers to death ( is this how we treat victims of trafficking?)and took no supports or interpreters for any of the victims of trafficking found. many workers spoke very little english and then when it was discovered the workers weren't trafficked.....they were deported.
so now, they won't call police when they are robbed or assaulted because police intimidate them and they don't want to be deported.
we knew it would cause harm but we had no idea how bad it would get....
first the asian massage parlour worker killed in burnaby. then tony(security guy) killed in yaletown defending the lives of 2 women during a robbery, now an asian massage parlour worker is found in the trunk of her car...dead? i wonder how the abolitionist movement feelabout all the harm they've caused with their anti trafficking campaign and subsequent raids/ deportations and lack of trust for police generated amongst these workers...
also, it seems like even more workers are migrating here as a result of anti trafficking campaign claims of "big money" for the sex industry during the games (which has been proven untrue-it will be a bit of an economic crash -if you want the report message me or go to PIVOT we site)
it's seems they are causing the very thing they tried to prevent......
they lobbied vancouver and BC governments and police to enforce bawdy house laws to "save" the victims of trafficking with no consideration for the safety or stability of adult consentual sex workers ....and look at the outcome....
i just wonder if they have any conscience at all about all the sex workers they have harmed.......
i am not victim!!!!i am strong and chose sex work....i am not on drugs or sexually abused ....i come from a good familyand my parents are good people.
Attacks on sex workers in particular female sex workers by other women result in great pain and in some cases death for the workers affected. In the past women went as far as to create an ad campaign depicting sex workers as evil and as the vectors of disease. I have even seen a poster depicting hitler, the emperor of japan and a sex worker all arm in arm and the caption reads "the worst of the three".Their campaign of speeches, posters and radio spots was so broad and far reaching that this stigma exists to this day.
We can see in the high numbers of women reportedly attacking sex industry community members and in the way feminist abolitionist groups still promote sex industry workers as victims, helpless, easy targets, on drugs and unable to defend or look after our selves.
This latest campaign of hatred has gone on for 100 years some of us refer to it as the prohibition war. Since the beginning of this war human rights have come to the fore front and now the sex industry community is seeking recognition as a distinct culture deserving of protection under the charter. We hope to end the campaign to "end sex work" and have our rights to choose employment, be protected from hate propaganda against us, and to be protected from discrimination based on who we are.
abolitionists promote hatred of sex workers and cause wide spread harm with their arogance....attacking me personally when i try to speak publically and sending uniformed children to disrupt events that could impact our safety and create change.
i challenge people to justify this abolitionist stance and the subsequent raids and the harms/deaths it has caused.my friends are dead and i for one will fight any attempt by non sex workers to govern sex workers or impose what they think is right...
Hear, hear, thank you for taking the time to give us this first-hand info.
The WorkSafeBC Employer Classification Manual rate group policy that you link to is one of the same pieces of information that I sent to the Vancouver clinic for their review. There is a similar policy under our Ontario worker's comp system. These policies support that some sex workers' claims should be allowable. Despite that however, in probably 5,000 claims I have personally handled, I have never seen a single claim by a sex worker, whether an escort, masseuse, video store attendant, dancer, phone sex worker -- nothing. No one I work with has ever heard of such a claim, the people I know at the Board have never seen a claim like this, and I was unable to find a single such case ever reported in Canada. I'm sure there must have been some, but they are few and far between.
Under those circumstances it might not be as straightforward as we might hope, to get such a claim filed and allowed. However neither should it be impossible, depending on the case.
As you probably know, the benefits in workers compensation claims can be very substantial, not infrequently reaching into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Depending on the nature of the injury, this can include health care benefits such as physiotherapy, medication, psychotherapy and many other types of treatment; income replacement; retraining into another job if necessary; retirement pensions; and survivors' benefits for the families of those whose work-related injuries result in death.
Please feel free to PM me, now or in future, if I could be of any informal help to you or your association in coming to terms with some of the barriers that might apply in sex workers' claims. (Please don't give me any identifying information, and I won't be able to tell you my name either.)
interesting.....i was slandered by feminist abolitionists. i have proof. how is telling the truth slander?
can you justify the deaths of 4 sex industry community members as a result of mis information, inflated fears around trafficking and reactionary enforcement actions ?
incidentally i consider myself a feminist and am a member of FIRST- feminists for decriminalization.
i am an empowered woman and like my job.i know you do not believe in sex work as a choice but yet here i am. you do not have to be an abolitionist to be a feminist....
i did not slander feminists, just abolitionists with no lived exprience who use their power, positions and privilege to perpetuate the myths about sex work that cast us as victim's, abused, un able to take care of ourselves, disposable, dirty....
all people are entitled to have their own view on this issue but i am no longer willing to be silent and allow more workers to be harmed by uninformed actions based on morality....where is the morality in attacking sex workers in the ways described i my previous posts...what kind of person throws a bottle at an impoverished woman on the street?
the same kind of person who ignores the voice of the workers affected behind claims of workers lacking the mental and emotional capacity to have a voice as a result of ALL being on drugs, abused, bad families, products of incest....
this is why we are considered disposable, unsaveable...
susan davis asked: what kind of person throws a bottle at an impoverished woman on the street?
Certainly not the feminists who acknowledge and work to end the violence in and around prostitution, women whom you are grossly slandering by associating them with assaulters. What a cheap tactic!It must be part of the new services based economy neoliberal ideologues were on about since the 1980's, except sex precluded the supreme stupidity of the ideologues. I think I'd sooner pleasure another human being for cash than do some of those stupid low wage jobs in the newer service economy. Some of those US-based and other retail and service industry jobs, and the low pay, are an insult to human beings everywhere. I'm offended by that. Sex industry workers need treating with dignity and respect and protection of the law like any other human being. Capitalism is a monumental failure.
thankyou for your opinion....did you call me cheap?please try to be civil....
i am on 15 committees such as;
Living in Community- BCCEC members have been a part of the LIC Steering Committee for over 4 years. Living in Community was city-wide project whose goal was to develop an integrated approach in relation to the impacts of sex work on neighborhoods throughout Vancouver. The 27 point action plan created during this project includes initiatives like this and is supported by the committee. A letter of support for this project is attached.
Sex Industry Safety Action Group in partnership with VPD-BCCEC members contributed to the formation of this action group and have been active participants in defining the direction of the group for over 2 years.
and am a member of a cohort of sex workers known as the BCCEC
The lived experiences of BCCEC members within the sex industry and our strong commitment to the safety of our community and communities impacted by sex work are the foundation of everything we do. We actively maintain contact with our communities and have the network to ensure inclusion of the sex industry perspective. This will allow the strategies created greater success in the long run. The BCCEC and its membership have coordinated the following projects and research during the history of our organization;
- BCCEW - Developing Capacity for Change: Co-operative Development Exploration Report - Feb. 2007
- The BCCEW Newsletter entitled Got Game (2nd edition);
- The BCCEW Working Conditions research entitled In the Here and Now
- The BCCEW Media Review document
- The BCCEW Research document entitled From the Curb, Sex Worker's Perspectives on Violence and Domestic Trafficking
- The BCCEW report on Policy Issues for Sex Workers in Prince George BC
- Research Ethics: A Guide for Community Organizations
- Tips for Individuals Participating in Community Based Research
- Bad Date Reporting and Response: Experiences and Insights from Sex Workers
- Labor on the Margins- Exploring union development, industry association models and how labor standards and occupational health and safety training could impact the health and safety of sex industry workers.
- Leading the Way- strategic planning for sex worker co-operative development and sex industry stabilization
- The History of sex work Project- museum exhibit, multi media installation and book
- Building Choices for the Future-cooperative consulting enterprise development
- Trade Secrets- Occupational health and safety training for the sex industry.
considering most of this work is done in kind i don't see how you could call me cheap.....i work my ass off for free on these issues...
It must be part of the new services based economy neoliberal ideologues were on about since the 1980's, except sex precluded the supreme stupidity of the ideologues. I think I'd sooner pleasure another human being for cash than do some of those stupid low wage jobs in the newer service economy. Some of those US-based and other retail and service industry jobs, and the low pay, are an insult to human beings everywhere. I'm offended by that. Sex industry workers need treating with dignity and respect and protection of the law like any other human being. Capitalism is a monumental failure.
...did you call me cheap?
Of course not.
But attributing violence against prostituted women to those feminists who have worked long and hard to make such violence visible over and above the rosy pictures of denial painted by the sex industry is a cheap tactic indeed.
Fidel sneered: I think I'd sooner pleasure another human being for cash than do some of those stupid low wage jobs in the newer service economy.
Luckily, I take it you have the benefit of a third option, one that allows you to dump haughtily on low wage earners.
what about when those same women you hold in such high regard violate the rights of a sex worker by lying and defaming their character? what about the massage parlour workers who died as a result of skewed eveidence and numbers around trafficking?
how much protection is too much?
what would you call that? an expensive tactic?....costing lives....?
Fidel sneered: I think I'd sooner pleasure another human being for cash than do some of those stupid low wage jobs in the newer service economy.
Luckily, I take it you have the benefit of a third option, one that allows you to dump haughtily on low wage earners.
Spoken like a true Aristotlean. It's their personal right to earn low wages! If there was less hate and more love in the world, it would be a good thing. Hate and low wage philanthropy should be outlawed for all time.
Ya gotta be better than someone, I suppose. Cops with attitudes, nuns and priests, the pious ones, cranky spinsters who havnt been laid since prom night, ladies/men's auxiliary types, pillars of the community etc on down to the abusive pimps and those exploiting women and children by human trafficking, Clinton and Albright's pal Thaci in Kosovo - theyre the ultimate capitalists. It's a class thing and pecking order in the bourgeois capitalist setup.
martin, you need to dial it back and be respectful to susan, a new poster who's offering a perspective not generally heard on babble. Who, in this thread, has not defamed anyone.
takeitslowly, do not bait martin or anyone else.
And martin and Fidel your bickering needs to stop. It will not derail this thread.
susan I hope you have a long stay here, as your perspective and voice have been missing from babble debates about issues regarding sex work and sex workers.


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- Reed AM, Husain SZ, Thrower E, Alexandre M, Shah A, Gorelick FS, Nathanson MH. Low extracellular pH modulates calcium signaling in the pancreatic acinar cell. J. Biological Chemistry 2011 286(3):1919-26 PMC330423
- Bhoomagoud M, Jung T, Atladottir J, Kolodecik TR, Shugrue C, Chaudhuri A, Thrower EC, Gorelick FS Reducing Extracellular pH Sensitizes the Acinar Cell to Secretagogue-Induced Pancreatitis Responses in Rats. Gastroenterology. 137: 1083-1092, 2009
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1. Feist – First of all, I just have to say I love this lil' Canadian woman with a powerful voice. I found out about her years ago with that catchy tune "1, 2, 3, 4″. But since, had not invested much time into checking out her work more. Today I heard a song by Feist that I am in love with called "The Water". It is deep, dark, and soulful. (three of my favorite things). The piano is beautifully played and shows just how talented she is. Check it out, here's a live version.
2. Jessie J – I'll have to admit, when I saw her last year on the MTV Music Awards, I was not sold. Until…one day I heard her song "Who You Are". This song is passionate and full of inspiration. Not to mention it's one of my favorite songs to sing in the shower
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6. We Are The Fallen – Often compared to Evanescence, similar in sound but good in their own right. I really like the stage presence the lead singer has. Check out "Bury Me Alive"
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