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Queer historians need to widen the definition of 'homosexuality' so as to encompass queer culture rather than just queer sex and the laws against it, and then to engage in the task of verifying the authentic features of queer culture. Many features of our heritage have been misinterpreted or unjustifiably rejected as being alien. Queer theorists have made a mistake in subjecting all of queer history to the 'postcolonial' analysis. Queers can be trapped by a historical straitjacket unless we appreciate that not all of the forms of our past behaviour are products of colonization, but that some are part of a genuine authentic self or core. Admittedly some of the costumes in the closet of gay history are uniforms handed out by our prison guards, and some are disguises that we donned for protection, but others are our very own clothes which we have allowed to fall into rags. Determining which is which is a central problem for the queer historian. If we focus entirely on the history of the oppression of queers, we will not find the threads necessary to reweave the suit of clothes most proper to us.
Queer history should be the history of queer culture. It should not be the history of specific sexual acts, nor should it be a history of social attitudes towards homosexuality. Queer history is still too much part of the 'history of sexuality' which can lead, for example, to pointless digressions on bestiality because that was prohibited by 'sodomy' and 'buggery' statutes (cf. Monter 1974, Oaks 1978) and needs to be resituated within the history of non-sexual culture and ethnic customs. Similarly, although it is important to recognize the (often hostile) environment in which queers fashion their culture, a history of heterosexual prejudice is not central to a history of homosexuality. Queer history should be centred upon queer people, not upon people who hate queers. Queer history is about queer experience, not about straight attitudes. Queer history is about love amongst queers, not about laws against queers. Queer history relies more on information from queers than information about queers. Personal authentic testimony from a queer during a trial for sodomy is worth more than any statistical analysis of executions for sodomy during a given century, and worth far more than the opinions of jurists. The testimony of the oppressed must always be granted primacy.
Social constructionism has its roots in literary criticism associated with linguistic theory (structuralism and post-structuralism), which emphasizes that the meaning of a text is dependent upon those who interpret it. It is felt that nothing can be known about what precedes the text (such as an author's intention), but whoever reads it will interpret it in their own way in the light of their own prejudices. The professional body that interprets the text establishes the 'discourse' within whose terms the text is discussed. There is of course some truth in this, especially when applied to literature, and especially when applied to the body of interpretation applied to it. Because of this bias, social constructionists (who work mostly in what used to be called English Departments) do not look at phenomena which precede the text and which are not part of the discourse hence the view that homosexuality did not exist until it was created in the discourse about it. But the social constructionists and queer theorists are wrong: queer culture is not simply a text and is not fully enveloped by the discourse about homosexuality.
Within the medical and legal discourses insufficient attention has been given to the testimony of queer witnesses, either as defence evidence given in court or as case studies provided by the queers themselves in their own words. Homophobic discourse may well give an overriding shape to this testimony, but very often we hear authentic testimony that does not directly answer the question and which therefore provides information about the reality that lay outside the discourse, or testimony that refutes the conclusions drawn by the discourse. Deconstruction of the discourse is not enough: recovery of what lay outside the discourse must also be an important part of the political critique. Queer people's understanding of themselves is shaped by many things outside the psychiatrists' and sexologists' counselling rooms and lecture halls.
Events come wrapped in meanings, so we cannot separate action from interpretation or strip history down to pure events. But it does not follow that events are construed exclusively through philosophic discourse or that ordinary people depend on philosophers to find meaning in their lives. The making of public opinion takes place in markets and taverns as well as in sociétés de pensée. To understand how publics made sense of events, one must extend the inquiry beyond the works of philosophers and into the communication networks of everyday life. (Darnton 1996)
The life of the eighteenth-century molly butcher John Cooper, for example, was lived outside of this discourse, and only came to the attention of the courts because in 1732 he unwisely decided to bring charges against an unemployed servant who had robbed him and stolen his clothes. This servant in his defence claimed that Cooper had wanted to sodomize him, for which purpose he had removed his clothes, and defence witnesses were called who revealed that Cooper was what we now call a drag queen who earned money by delivering messages between sodomites. As the landlady of his favourite pub revealed, 'he's one of them as you call Molly Culls, he gets his Bread that way; to my certain Knowledge he has got many a Crown under some Gentlemen, for going of sodomiting Errands'. A washerwoman who had overheard Cooper demanding his clothes back from the servant ended her testimony with the startling revelation that John Cooper was commonly known in the district as the Princess Seraphina. The judge was so taken aback by this turn of events that he required the witness to repeat what she had just said. Her story was confirmed by Mary Poplet, the keeper of the Two Sugar Loaves public house in Drury Lane, who astonished the court with her testimony:
I have known her Highness a pretty while, she us'd to come to my House from Mr. Tull, to enquire after some Gentlemen of no very good Character; I have seen her several times in Women's Cloaths, she commonly us'd to wear a white Gown, and a scarlet Cloak, with her Hair frizzled and curl'd all round her Forehead; and then she would so flutter her Fan, and make such fine Curt'sies, that you would not have known her from a Woman: She takes great Delight in Balls and Masquerades, and always chuses to appear at them in a Female Dress, that she may have the Satisfaction of dancing with fine Gentlemen. . . . I never heard that she had any other Name than the Princess Seraphina.
Additional testimony revealed that Princess Seraphina was widely known and liked by all the women in her neighbourhood, some of whom loaned their clothes to her to attend masquerade balls, and that nearly everyone referred to the butcher unself-consciously as 'her' even when 'she' was not wearing women's clothes. This trial for robbery not only lies outside 'the homosexual discourse', but would not even figure in any statistical analysis of prosecutions for sodomy. Nevertheless, it describes a cultural reality that will later be characterized as a homophobic stereotype.
Most historians of homosexuality fail to distinguish adequately between homosexuality and homophobia. Rather than studying queer experience, they take the easier route of studying laws against queers, thus shifting the focus from queers to queerbashers. This may be a useful political strategy rather than a proper historical endeavour. Theories about queer identity or homophobia in the general populace cannot be founded upon a study of legislation, which as an approach to queer history should be relegated to a minor niche or even abandoned. Although Duberman (1986, 1991) feels it is important to document the history of repression, he wryly acknowledges that 'The initial determination of historians to document repression has sometimes led them to obscure the actual gay/lesbian experience being repressed.' Duberman rightly feels it is more important in this area to study the history of resistance to oppression, in order to 'begin to restore the historical agency of gay men and lesbians themselves'.
Attitudes to homosexuality should not be altogether ignored, but in most of the literature they are given a disproportionate amount of space. Such histories amount to little more than a history of homophobia in the heterosexual population. Often they do not even differentiate between attitudes in general and the attitudes of queers towards themselves. The latter is by far the more interesting of the two.
Far too often homosexuality and homophobia are discussed in the same breath, which either fails to note that they are separate entities or all too easily assumes that there is a direct and inevitable link between the two. 'The homosexual cannot exist without homophobia' is one of the mistaken dogmas of queer theory. In fact the searchlight has to be focused in two opposite directions in order to illuminate these two subjects adequately. Homophobia has a direct link to heterosexual needs, fears, and ideology. Social constructionists have quite properly turned their searchlight upon this subject, and have concluded that the image of the homosexual that is projected by homophobia is a silhouette originating in heterosexual ideology. The deconstruction of this spotlight has proved so interesting, and so useful for undermining heterosexual hegemony, that they have not proceeded to turn the searchlight around to the other direction. They have simply posited the nonexistence of homosexuals as an independent entity. This is not a sound conclusion.
Greenberg in his introduction to The Construction of Homosexuality (1988) acknowledges that 'the scope of our project . . . is to understand perceptions of homosexuality, not homosexuality itself', but throughout the book he conflates the two phenomena, as he has done in his title, which has been repeated in a dozen other titles by social constructionists. For some writers the equation of homophobia with homosexuality is part of a political strategy, but the fact that homosexuality has become totally subsumed within the field of homophobia rather than a separate entity unto itself is also partly the result of an accident arising from the way that the history of homosexuality has been structured. Most historians of homosexuality have been gay men who wanted to reform the law that repressed them. Their lines of research and their findings were determined by this goal. Thus the focus has been upon persecution/legal prosecution.
The Gay Past, a 1980/81 collection of essays written in the late 1970s, edited by Licata and Petersen, is introduced with the statement that 'the history of homosexuality is largely a chronicle of how society has made the homosexual option unbelievably difficult and dangerous for those who exercised it'.
But the view that anti-homosexual legislation has a significant impact upon queers and that it reflects commonly held views are unfounded assumptions. The deterrent effect of the law is often a subject of argument. It is well known that in cases involving actions inspired by instinct rather than conscious choice such laws serve merely to punish rather than to deter. Andrew Hallidie Smith, secretary of the Reform Society in the 1960s, corresponded with several hundred homosexuals and 'not one has admitted to be deterred by the law' (Spencer 1995). A strange outcome if homosexuality is, as claimed, socially constructed! The long 'history of homosexuality' under Licata and Petersen's definition is a history of anti-gay laws that were not rigorously enforced. In fact they were enforced so rarely that we may well doubt that they had any influence upon behaviour at all for several centuries. This is patently not a 'history of homosexuality'. To study queers and queer sexual and social behaviour is one thing; to study straight people's attitudes to queers is something quite different. If the only 'evidence' we have for a certain period comes from anti-gay laws and satires then I say that we know virtually nothing at all about queer history for the period in question.
The paucity of evidence concerning homosexuals is partly why historians have taken the easier option of studying laws against homosexuality. The social constructionists, being interested in mechanisms of social control, naturally focus upon laws designed to control sexuality. A study of law easily supports their pet theories: thus Weeks (1977) says that 'the central point [of the Act of Henry VIII of 1533 outlawing buggery] was that the law was directed against a series of sexual acts, not a particular type of person. There was no concept of the homosexual in law.' But a focus upon acts is characteristic of all legal capital statutes: acts are invariably regulated rather than persons. All laws cite capital crimes rather than capital criminals. Felonies rather than felons are always the subject of legislation. The only practicable way to control people is to control their actions. It is the business of law to define categories of acts rather than categories of persons. This commonplace has been absurdly elevated into an ideology. Foucault in his history of sexuality regularly makes the mistake of treating legalistic definitions as if they were exactly equivalent to social definitions. Of course the ancient and canonical codes deal with sodomy as a category of forbidden acts: legal texts are always scrupulous to identify acts because only acts can be regulated. This in itself is neither surprising nor significant, but really just a trite truth. In no sense does it provide evidence that types of persons susceptible to crime were not recognized in society. Indeed society, lacking the fine discrimination of ecclesiastics and lawyers and queer theorists, quite regularly refers to criminal types of persons. Virtually all ancient and medieval satires were invariably aimed against sodomites and catamites as persons rather than sodomy and anal intercourse per se.
(Copyright Rictor Norton. All rights reserved. Reproduction for sale or profit prohibited. This critique may not be archived, republished or redistributed without the permission of the author.)
CITATION: Rictor Norton, A Critique of Social Constructionism and Postmodern Queer Theory, "Queer Culture vs. Homophobic Discourse," 2 August 2002, updated 19 June 2008 <http://www.rictornorton.co.uk/social24.htm>


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I love when plans that pop up at the last minute work like a charm.
Case in point: a food tour we did in Tucson the day after Christmas.
The origins of this idea go back to December 23, a Wednesday. I was still looking for ideas on what to see and do in the Southern Arizona area. My husband and I had to work till the 24th. Therefore, we decided to drive to Tucson on the 25th and stay in the area for five days.
I remember seeing a food tour ad in the visitor's guide. My love for food made me check the tour's website. The price was right. The food descriptions were right. Even the reviews were right!
But, I knew they were probably not operating tours because of the season. I clicked on the reservations link anyway. My jaw dropped when I saw 4 available spots for the 26th (the only day we kind of had free). I reserved without thinking about it twice.
Let's now fast forward to that beautiful Saturday morning when we met with the tour guide and the rest of the group behind the Congress Hotel. It was chilly but things started right since we were standing next to a bacon smoker. I felt like everybody was ready to eat up the town.
Tucson turned out to be one of those food paradises you never want to leave. Like many people, I was expecting a wide array of Mexican delicacies. And, do not get me wrong, I got plenty of those. The surprising thing is that the city has a considerable number of restaurants specializing in Italian, Asian, New American and International cuisine. All of them are done well. Plus, you wallet is not going to suffer as it would be in big cities.
Our guide, Brad, surely passed his love for Tucson to all of the tour participants. He has worked in the service industry for more than 15 years and he seems to know everybody in town. What I liked the most was his contagious passion for food. Yes, he gave us insight into Tucson's past. He also talked about the current food scene. However, my favorite moments were when he was describing what he likes to eat at each of the restaurant we visited. He described everything from where he takes his out of town guests to how the cuts his favorite burrito.
If you ever stop by Tucson (and you should if you love food), consider taking this tour. I do not think your will be able to try as many places if you do not go on an activity like this. If you are not able to go on the tour, please, make sure to stop by one of the establishments described below.
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The Hub Ice Cream Factory
Tucson's favorite ice cream debuted in the dessert menu of The Hub Restaurant. The frozen treats gained such notoriety that an establishment devoted only to ice cream and handmade sweets was opened across the restaurant.
The menu is composed of 300 rotating flavors with 24 available at a time. We tried the Bourbon Almond Brittle and the Pistachio flavors. They were creamy, intense and balanced. Nobody seemed to care that it was 50 degrees outside.
In addition, the store is gorgeous. I can see my office decorated like it.
Empire Pizza
This place serves New York Style pizza at rock bottom prices. I loved the garlic taste in their tomato sauce. Check out their weekend specials.
This restaurant offers modern Italian food in a casual urban setting. The menu features artisan hand-made pizzas, sandwiches and hand-made pastas.
We tried the prosciutto with fresh burrata, balsamic vinegar and pears. It was served with bread made in house.
In addition, we tried the Brussels sprouts prepared with hot sauce, sherry vinegar and pecan brittle crumb. That was the single best thing I ate in the entire trip.
We walked around town before hitting our next stop.
La Cocina & Old Town Artisan Shops
Since the name of this restaurant is in Spanish, it gives the impression that it serves only Mexican and other Latin food. In fact, the menu reads like a spin around the world in 80 dishes.
We had the quinoa served with roasted vegetables and Thai peanut sauce. We were so pleased with the dish that we bought two bottles of the sauce as a souvenir (it is bottled in house).
I also had the caramel hot cider I needed something to warm up.
The venue is surrounded by stores housed in an area constructed in the 1850's. There is a huge selection of colorful, local crafts. Watch your wallet because there are a lot of cute things in here.
El Charro Café
A visit to Tucson would not be complete if you do not stop to eat at El Charro. This is the oldest family operated Mexican restaurant in the United States.
There are many locations around the city but the original one in Downtown is the most atmospheric. Our group occupied a room known as "The Library." We were surrounded by bookcases and all sorts of Mexican memorabilia.
In there we tried four types of tamales. All were delicious. Pardon my frankness but I just wanted to lick the remaining sauces from the serving plate.
I am still banging my head against the wall since we didn't have time to go back to El Charro. They have the best machaca (dry meat that is reconstituted at the moment of cooking) in town.
We did another short walk before making it to our final stop.
The Hub Restaurant & Creamery
This restaurant serves classic American cuisine. We had the house-made pastrami and corned beef. I devoured the samples and I do not even like pastrami. We also had a bit of the fried cheese curds.
What do you think of Tucson's food scene?
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Lac La Hache, BC. Mr. John Brown, Chairman, GWR Resources Inc. (the "Company" or "GWR") (TSX Venture: GWQ) is pleased to report that Mr. David H. Brett has been appointed President, CEO and a Director of GWR, effective immediately.
David Brett brings 30 years of experience in the mining industry and public company management to GWR. David is the former President & CEO of Toronto Stock Exchange listed Cusac Gold Mines Ltd, a BC gold producer and explorer that completed a merger in 2008, the current CEO of TSX Venture listed explorer Pacific Bay Minerals Ltd., and the current CEO of Inovent Capital Inc., a Capital Pool Company in the process of a Qualifying Transaction with airline startup Canada Jetlines Ltd. Mr. Brett, MBA (SFU), BA (UBC), also founded enterprise software company Knexa Solutions Ltd. in 1999, teaches venture finance at the MBA level, and is senior advisor to environmental communications firm Greenspirit Strategies Ltd.
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Vending machines are special types of objects in Fortnite Battle Royale.
Vending Machines can be found throughout the map.
They let you trade in spare materials for extra gear.
The vending machine shows which gear/weapons they offer and the cost in resources. Cost depends on the rarity of the item.
How it works[edit]
- Vending Machines can be found in various locations around the map.
- Each will randomly select a rarity.
- All items sold in that vending machine will match that rarity.
- Prices are as follow:
|Materials Cost
|Common (White)
|Uncommon (Green)
|Rare (Blue)
|Epic (Purple)
|Legendary (Gold)
- Each Vending Machine will sell three items, one for each material type (Wood, Stone, Metal).
- It will cycle through each of the three items on a short timer. To switch items faster, hit the Vending Machine with your Pickaxe.
Vending Machine Rarities[edit]
Vending Machine Locations[edit]
Note: The map below shows positions in which the Vending Machines can spawn, but just like Chests, they will not always spawn in a certain spot. Rarity is random too and you might find a Rare Vending Machine at some spot but in the next game there will be a Legendary Vending Machine in that same spot (or no Vending Machine at all)


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According to JCB a new chapter in the Fastrac success story begins this autumn when production of the all-new Fastrac 4000 Series tractors gets underway.
Set to enter a highly-competitive sector with class-leading features and specification, the Fastrac 4000 promises to raise the bar for productivity, utilisation and driver appeal.
"Our engineers have worked long and hard to develop this new Fastrac, which stays true to the original concept in layout and versatility but moves the game on as far as performance and capabilities are concerned," said Richard Fox-Marrs, Managing Director, JCB Agriculture. "Compared with the outgoing 2000 Series, the new tractors are more powerful but more economical, stronger but more nimble, and more versatile yet easier to operate."
The all-new Fastrac 4000 Series draws on 25 years of experience and expertise in the design, development and manufacture of the world's most versatile and comfortable tractor, according to the company.
It goes on to say that it builds on core Fastrac features such as multiple implement mounting points, sophisticated all-round suspension for fast operational speeds, and a high-specification braking system for safety, stability and comfort.
Four-wheel steering is available again but with a tighter turning circle and selectable steering ratio, and bigger tyres improve flotation and traction.
A more sophisticated suspension system can provide side-to-side self-levelling as well as front and rear, and the ability to 'squat' under demountable equipment for quicker and easier implement change-over.
The hydraulics system is new as well, delivering higher oil flows in a more efficient manner to handle demanding implements, and with electronic spool valves providing finger-tip control and both timer and flow functions adjustable from within the cab.
There is also more power, of up to 235hp (max) from the range-leading Fastrac 4220 and with a new means of transmitting it to the wheels. The CVT transmission provides seamless acceleration and deceleration, the finest possible speed adjustment, and selectable modes that help the operator optimise performance and fuel economy.


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If yes, your account can be censored, suspended and is subject to prosecution for promoting or spreading the fake news through social media platforms.
On July 16, the Egyptian parliament approved a new law that classifies a personal social media account, blog or website with more than 5,000 followers as media outlets, allowing the state to block social media accounts and penalize journalists for publishing fake news.
Social media networks are no doubt a quick and powerful way to share information and ideas, but not everything shared on Facebook or Twitter is true.
Fake news is all around us, and every country is finding its own new ways to tackle this issue.
Over the past the year, fake news or misinformation has emerged as a primary issue on social media platforms, seeking to influence millions of people with wrong propaganda and falsehoods.
Egypt Passes New Fake News Law
Egypt's media regulator 'Supreme Council for the Administration of the Media' will supervise the new press and media law and take action against those publishing "fake news or incitement to illegal actions, violence or hate," Reuters report.
While spreading the fake news is already considered as a crime in Egypt, the new bill just expands the existing crackdown with the inclusion of social media accounts, allowing the state to target internet users more aggressively for statements criticizing the regime.
Article 29 had previously stated that journalists could be jailed (more than 30 are currently behind bars) if they're found guilty of inciting hatred, violence, or discrimination through their writings.
However, the new law reads that "no penalty shall be imposed for offences committed through publication or publicity except" in cases of incitement, ensuring that journalists wouldn't be indiscriminately arrested by the authorities unless a crime is proven.
The new bill will also prohibit the establishment of sites without obtaining a license from the Supreme Council and will allow the council to suspend or block existing websites, or impose fines on editors.
Anti-Fake News Law or Censorship
The law, passed on Sunday by two-thirds of MPs, will take effect after it is ratified by Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, and it is highly likely to be passed as such laws are often inspired by his government.
Since Sisi came to power in 2014, Egyptian authorities have jailed tens of thousands of journalists, prominent bloggers, and activists, for protesting against his rule.
The authorities have even censored hundreds of websites, including independent media like Mada Masr and rights groups like Human Rights Watch, claiming such sites supported "terrorism" or reported "false news."
Critics say the new law will increase the Egyptian authorities' ability to crack down on freedom of speech and disagreement.
When it comes to freedom of expression, Egypt ranks 161st out of 180 countries on the World Press Freedom Index compiled by Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
Besides Egypt, Malaysia also passed an Anti-Fake News Act, earlier this year, that criminalizes the spread of fake news with a fine of up to 500,000 ringgit ($123,000) and a prison sentence of up to six years.
After less than three weeks of the law in action, Malaysia even charged an individual for violating the law by spreading fake news and fined 10,000 ringgit (approximately $2,550) or one-month jail sentence instead.
Just recently, WhatsApp has also said it will limit message forwarding to curb the spread of false information on its platform, following a spate of mob violence and lynchings in India caused by messages containing misinformation circulated on WhatsApp groups.
While the company launched "a test to limit forwarding that will apply to everyone using WhatsApp," the forwarding option for Indian users will be limited even further—a single user would be able to forward one message only five times.


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The Universal Consent was developed by the UCLA CTSI's Embedded Clinical Research and Innovation Unit (ECRI) to ensure that all UCLA Health patients have an opportunity to tell us whether they want blood from leftover lab tests used for research. It is important for patients to let us know how they want their de-identified (no identifying information) biological samples (blood, saliva, skin, leftover specimens) and clinical data used for a variety of research purposes. UCLA is also using the Universal Consent as the primary recruitment engine for the UCLA ATLAS Community Health Initiative. Before signing the consent, our participants view a short video outlining the goal of the initiative and document their choice.
You can be a part of this exciting research effort by allowing UCLA to use some of your left-over biological samples (blood, saliva) from some of your lab tests. In some cases when you have an IV placed, we may ask whether we can collect an extra tube of blood or saliva. Together, these will provide researchers with the information they need to advance science and the field of precision medicine. As part of this process you will have an opportunity to also opt-in to receive results from future genetic testing.
The results that are returned are only those that could impact your care and for which there are treatments available (actionable).
Research can take months or even years to make discoveries that can impact your care. The Institute for Precision Health will be returning results back from their UCLA ATLAS Community Health Initiative over the next several years. If we find something and you wanted us to let you know, we will have a genetic counselor reach out to you to discuss this further. The researchers will not know who you are so our Honest Broker will work with the genetic counselor to reach out to you.
Participating is a one-time, fast, free, and safe process! UCLA Patients who have not already completed the Universal Consent may receive a participation link on their mobile device when notified of their upcoming appointment. You may also receive an invitation to complete the process on your MyUCLAHealth Portal prior to an upcoming visit. In addition, patients who visit any of our participating locations can complete the Universal Consent on an iPad offered upon check-in.
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Once a year, we upgrade all the desktop systems to the latest version of Fedora, our Linux desktop operating system.
Local links:
python will continue to invoke python2 so all your own scripts should not be affected. Command
python3 will now invoke version 3.7 in stead of 3.6, so some differences may be present.
d4x (download utility, no longer maintained)
mypaint: its library and functionality is now merged with
gimp, so there is no need for the stand-alone paint utility
gnome-tweaks is the new name for
gracegtk is the successor of
hexchat replaces
psfig, which has been obsolete for a long time, has now almost completely stopped working. Converting documents to newer packages such as
graphics or
graphicx is recommended, and is usually easy.
.spyder2 and
.spyder3 directories in your home before starting the new version.
topicons plus extension: open
gnome-tweaks, and go to
extensions to do that. After that, the icons such as status icons of dropbox, skype etc, will be in your top panel.
pmount can be used to mount removable media (cdrom,dvd,usb-disks) from the commandline. E.g.:
pmount /dev/cdrom mounts the cd/dvd as /media/cdrom.
(setq select-active-regions nil) (setq mouse-drag-copy-region t) (setq x-select-enable-primary t) (setq x-select-enable-clipboard nil) (global-set-key [mouse-2] 'mouse-yank-at-click)
module load intel. However, for most code, the GNU compilers are better than these old Intel compiler versions. (if you read that the Intel compiler has speed benefits, this probably refers to the very expensive current version, which we cannot install on a system-wide basis, or you are reading an obsolete webpage; the GNU compilers have gained significant speed of the last couple of years).


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Roller city sailing north to Santa Rosalia
Thursday June 14th
Hurricane Bud has been our main attention. Today we wait up 45 miles north of Loreto near Punta Pulpito a bit further from the path of now tropical storm Bud. It feels good to be clear although we have some of the biggest rollers (wave sets) I've seen in the Sea of Cortez. Our anchoarge in Bahia San Nicolas was not effected by the rollers but had 20kt winds off Baja over night. The winds were a blessing making for a cool night forcing me to close my hatch due to the cool breeze. We're headed to Santa Rosalia today which should get us well out of the influence of Bud.
So now that drama is over let's back up a little and cover a few more details on the journey north. Steve without Cindy picked us up at the airport and took us to town for provision. Steve suggested we try the michladas which turned out to be quite the production and tasty as well.
Doug proudly displays his introductory Baja drink.
You gota love the Puerto Escondido marina. They had Gato Loco's bottom cleaned and moved her to the dock from the mooring field. No time at all we had our provisions and bags stowed and hatches open to let her cool down while we go to the restaurant for dinner.
The crews heading north. Jeffrey and Doug and the Miss Grace crew Laurence, Mat and skipper Mark.
Readying to depart on Wednesday the bat rays were active near us in the marina. In the photo right you see a lady photographing a ray that has jumped 6' in the air just in front of her. I did fly the drone over them and hopefully got some action shots.
Wednesday after catching all the weather news we made way 10:30 heading 44 miles north to an anchorage north of Pulpito. Winds were light but from the southwest forcing us to motor sail, occasionally giving us a good push arriving 2 hours before sunset. We were 3 boats with Miss Grace and a Canadian boat Shala following us since this was their first time in the Sea of Cortez. The sea swell grew to 4' as we neared the anchorage and luckily did not reach the anchorage well protected from the SE seas.
Sunset from our anchorage Bahia San Nicolos with Miss Grace at a distance
Fantastic dinner over night with some leftovers for tomorrow.
Back to Thursday
Overnight winds off Baja kept things cool but a bit noisy. The anchorage is calm as we depart 8ish for our 65 mile day to Santa Rosalia. Wind forecast is for 20kts out of the SE by early afternoon. This could be fun!
Jeffrey and Doug proudly pose for the morning brunch serving.
As predicted winds are up 11ish. The rollers have grown to 8' at times with Pacific like spacing. Autohelm can't handle steering with the big seas so we're hand steering. Doug soon takes the helm is loving the experience so much I can't get the wheel back from him. He ends up hand steering nearly all the way to Santa Rosalia. As you can see in the photos below the seas are large enough to hide Miss Grace behind us.
Awesome, Awesome day of sailing. By far the best day this season. We're in to Santa Rosalia 2 hours earlier than the 6kt average prediction as we were hitting 10+ kts surfing down the big rollers.
We're now completely out of harms way.
Friday morning… It started raining 3 am and continues. This is a special event in Santa Rosalia as it rarely rains here unless it a tropical situation. Our plan is to head north tomorrow. Weather forecasts are favorable and we hope the rain is done. Stay tuned.
All good on Gato Loco
Until the next Update.
3 thoughts on "Roller city sailing north to Santa Rosalia"
Great pics of the size of the waves!!! Looks like a sleigh ride North!!
Looks like great food and sailing.
Have fun in Santa Rosalia. Don't forgot the gingerbread pigs.


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Beauty DIY: Elle Sees' Sea Salt Spray for Beachy Waves
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Such a great and easy looking 'recipe' :) I've been using the Toni&Guy Sea Salt Texturerising spray and love it!ReplyDelete
lol, that was my dog upside-down and rolling a pillow :)ReplyDelete
anyhow, how long since you last cut your hair??
great recipe! i always wondered if those store bought sprays worked, but this is a great alternative...thanks!ReplyDelete
Love this post girl, I love beach waves and your hair looks absolutely gorgeous! I'll have to try this. Hope you had a nice weekend!ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness, how adorable do you look! I love that style on you :)ReplyDelete
Very nice. I just bought a jar of coconut oil and can't wait to start using itReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2012 at 8:44 AM
I'm afraid that when I used it I didn't turn out as pretty as you, I looked like a cracked desert floor, oh wait.....was I supposed to put it on my face???ReplyDelete
NEED to try this! My bottle is almost empty. Thanks!ReplyDelete
YAY! Thanks for sharing again, Elle:) Great sub for the B&B surf spray!ReplyDelete
I so love beach hair and that's really all I sport in the summer since I spend so much time at the beach. There's really no fighting it. I wash and blow my hair while I'm there and within minutes voila it appears. Good thing I like the look or else I'd be mad. LOL.ReplyDelete
Love this to recreate the look in the city. Without that surf and sand it's hard to get in the city.
I love it! after-beach hair is the best!ReplyDelete
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Huh. I've never thought about manually creating waves like that, but that totally makes sense. (:ReplyDelete
You are officially a hair genius. How fabulous. And what beautiful hair you have.ReplyDelete
Great idea adding the salt in there for the beachy look.ReplyDelete
I use a spray bottle on my hair as well, just to keep it moisturized. I use different combinations of water, conditioner, coconut oil and carrot oil.
What a great diy!ReplyDelete
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You are literally the Einstein of hair.ReplyDelete
sooo sooo pretty and feminine. i'll have to get a little brave and try this. i always worry about my hair frizzing... lol.ReplyDelete
have a lovely week!
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Elle...your hair and smile are nice to see on a daily basis!ReplyDelete
Scrunching with a T-shirt! I swear I learn something new every time I look at your blog! :)ReplyDelete
and that is why you have awesome hair! loving the beach mental trip Elle! exactly what i need this week. wish i could get to a real one. have a great week girl.ReplyDelete
Gorgeous waves! And how can you tell when people have been pinning from your blog!?!ReplyDelete
I love this look!!!ReplyDelete
You look beautiful hun! Great , fun and easy fix for the beach! -xxReplyDelete
I totally need to try this!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2012 at 6:15 PM
Great DIY! i am a huge fan of beach hair!!!ReplyDelete
Nice DIY, you look niceReplyDelete
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So easy and fun!ReplyDelete
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I always look forward to your DIYs, you come up with the best ideas!ReplyDelete
Fab! Going to make this and use it on me and *bonus* my girl too!ReplyDelete
Oh, I've heard about the sea salt. You say it really works? I'm going to try that!!ReplyDelete
Love this look! I will definitely have to make some of this spray up myself! xoReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 10, 2012 at 6:12 PM
Do you have to use hair gel?ReplyDelete
Anon: Yes, the hair gel provides hold to the waves. A very small amount is needed.ReplyDelete
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Recently, researchers at Rutgers, the state university of New Jersey, released the results of a six-month behavioral study on the health effects of flowers. The study demonstrates that flowers ease depression, inspire social networking, and refresh memory as we age.
"The results are significant because as we get older and life becomes more stressful, we look for easy and natural ways to enhance our lives," said Dr. Jeannette Haviland-Jones, professor of psychology and director of the Human Development Lab at Rutgers. Now, one simple answer is right under our noses."
This research follows a study conducted in 2000 which links flowers to greater happiness in life satisfaction and women. In 2001, Rutgers set out to explore the effects flowers could have on senior citizens, who experience different living situations and greater life changes.
More than 100 seniors participated in the Rutgers research study, in which some received flowers and others did not. The results shed new light on nature's support systems help seniors cope with the challenges of aging. The results are as follows:
- Flowers decreased depression. Study participant showed a significant increase in happiness and positive moods when flowers were present.
- Flowers refresh recent memory. Participant preformed high on everyday memory tasks and experienced enriched personal memories in the presence of flowers.
- Flowers encourage companionship. Participants who received flowers re-engage with members of their communities and enlarged their social contact to include more neighbors, religious support, and even medical personnel
"Instinct tells us that flowers lift our spirits, but their effects on seniors are especially profound, if not surprising," said Haviland-Jones.
Specifically, 81% of participants in the study reported a reduction in depression following the receipt of flowers. 40% reported broadening their social contacts beyond their normal social circle of family and close friends. And 72% of those who receive flowers scored very high on memory test in comparison with those who did not receive flowers
"Happier people live longer, healthier lives and are more open to change," said Haviland-Jones. "Our research shows that a small dose of nature, like flowers, can do a world of wonder for our well-being as we age."
Originally from PRO Pulse September-October 2009
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James Madison women's basketball scored the game's first 21 points and held Towson without a basket until the 8:53 mark of the first half on its way to a dominating 82-40 win at the JMU Convocation Center Sunday afternoon.
JMU won its ninth-straight to improve to 19-4 overall and 9-0 in the Colonial Athletic Association. Towson saw its two-game winning streak halted and fell to 11-12 overall and 5-5 in the league.
Junior forward Toia Giggetts (Norfolk, Va./Lake Taylor) poured in a career-high 26 points on 11-for-17 shooting from the field. She added nine rebounds, a block and a steal in 27 minutes of action. Senior guard Kirby Burkholder (Bridgewater, Va./Turner Ashby) had a double-double with 16 points and 12 rebounds to go with four assists, three steals and a block while redshirt sophomore guard Jazmon Gwathmey (Bealeton, Va./Liberty) had 14 points, five rebounds and three steals.
Towson was paced by guard Tanisha McTiller with 19 points and five rebounds, but the senior also turned the ball over nine times. Forward LaTorri Hines-Allen contributed 11 points and six rebounds and Alaysia Mitchell chipped in four points and six boards.
The Dukes opened the game on a 21-0 run and scored 25 of the game's first 26 points. Towson's first point came on a free throw by McTiller with 12 minutes remaining in the half. McTiller added the team's first basket at the 8:53 mark to cut the JMU lead to 25-3. The Dukes' lead never shrunk below 21 points the remainder of the game as they followed TU's first made basket with another 15-2 run. The Tigers did not reach double digits until the 1:01 mark of the opening period on a layup by Mitchell.
Madison played suffocating first-half defense, holding Towson to 15-percent shooting (4-for-26). The Dukes forced their opponent into 12 turnovers and blocked five shots.
With her 16 points, Burkholder moved into 10th on JMU's all-time scoring list with 1,421 points. She passed Sydney Beasley's (1983-85, 86-88) mark of 1,412 points. Gwathmey moved into 10th on the program's block list with her 77th while redshirt senior forward Nikki Newman (Harrisonburg, Va./Turner Ashby) passed Dawn Evans (2007-11) for 10th on the all-time steals list.
Newman finished the game with six points, seven assists, four rebounds, two blocks and a steal. She was part of a crew that forced Towson into 22 turnovers while Madison committed seven. The Dukes outscored the Tigers 27-4 off turnovers and 34-22 in the paint. They also outrebounded their opponent 48-42, including a 17-13 edge on the offensive end, leading to a 15-7 lead in second-chance points.
For the game, JMU shot 40.3-percent from the field and held TU to 28.6-percent. Towson did not make a three-point attempt against the CAA's top defense against the 3-point shot, going 0-for-6 from the field. The Dukes hit on seven of their 21 attempts from downtown and were good for 17 of 22 (77.3-percent) free throws.
Sunday's win was Head Coach Kenny Brooks' 150th career win at the Convocation Center as he improved to 150-28 (.843) there all-time. The game was played in front of a season-high 4,589 fans.
JMU concludes its three-game home stand next Thursday, as it welcomes UNCW to the Convocation Center for a 7 p.m.contest.


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During the production phase of the game, Wwise produces SoundBanks and streamed files. The File Packager is used with the Default file assignment to have all SoundBanks and streamed files packaged into a single package, although they can be split by language or in streamed files, loose media, and SoundBanks.
When the game is released, however, the content used in the main release stops being packaged using the Default file assignment. All content is manually inserted into the packages:
Main packages are created manually
All content is dragged to the main packages
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For each DLC, a File Packager package is manually created.
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The user drags the new content into the manually created package (for DLC):
Then, the content present in the main release can be modified. When an existing SoundBank or streamed file is modified, it must be repackaged into a new package. The game will then load both the main release package(s) and the new (DLC) package(s) by making sure they are loaded in chronological order. In loading different versions of the same object, Wwise gives priority to the most recent one.
SoundBankA was included in the main release and packaged into Package #1.
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Bluetooth is a wireless module which transfers data from dongle to blue tooth modem and modem to Bluetooth dongle. This module enables you to transmit & receive wireless data in serial format. It is an advanced technology which can is widely used now-a-days in mobile data sharing and within network communications like modem to printer, etc.. Allowing transparent two way data communication. In our project we can simply use it for transmitting wireless serial data to establish connection between MCU or embedded project and PC.
Our project is designed to control home appliances remotely through Bluetooth wireless data transfer. Many home appliances (Fan, A.C, T.v ………..etc.,) work on A.C power supply. Microcontroller cannot directly drive A.C loads, so we are using a relay drive for A.C control. Here we control relays through micro controller which inturn gets input from PC hyper terminal or .net c# application. Bluetooth modem is connected to microcontroller serially with 9600 baud rate. The range of Bluetooth modem is 10 meters with frequency 2.4 GHz. Blue tooth Transmit power is 4dBm and sensitivity is 84 dBm. Here in our project Bluetooth modem acts as receiver and Bluetooth dongle acts as transmitter which is connected to USB port of the PC. In this way we can control home appliances from PC using Bluetooth interface. However we can also communicate with the Bluetooth modem through a mobile phone, the mobile phones needs a special application designed for it, and which may or may not be compatible with the modems available. Instead we go for Bluetooth modems and dongle in our project
Here we use an 8051 microcontroller with 5V DC Power supply. Serial (UART) protocol is primary concern here. The heart of this project is Bluetooth modem which works on serial (UART) protocol. Micro controller is interfaced with relays which are triggered through transistor switching.


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Did you know Tiger Woods is ranked 61st on the PGA tour when it comes to chipping from the sand? His entire short game for that matter is "middle of the pack", in sharp contrast to his #1 status. So, if you were Tiger, practicing with your coach five to six hours a day, what element of your game would you be working on? Counterintuitively, Tiger's practice regime is focused almost entirely on his already world class driving and putting. Why?
Authors Marcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton, armed with data from interviews with over 1.8 million successful individuals, explain.
The Big Idea
Play to Your Strengths
"We want to help you do the same – to capitalize on your strengths, whatever they may be, and manage around your weaknesses, whatever they may be."
Now, Discover Your Strengths, page 27
Bestseller Now, Discover Your Strengths, offers this one, fundamental piece of insight; while most of the world is focused on identifying and repairing flaws and weaknesses, the truly successful among us are doing virtually the opposite. Regardless of age, sex or nationality, successful people from all walks of life are focused on capitalizing on their strengths and managing their weaknesses.
Focusing on your strengths sounds like an obvious strategy when stated so bluntly. Yet in innumerable cases in society, we do just the opposite. Your child brings home a report card; 3 A's, a B and a C-. Which grade do you focus most of your energy on? Certainly, the C- needs to be addressed. Buckingham and Clifton humbly suggest that greatness comes from focusing on the strengths however, not the weakness.
There are sixty other, better, short game golfers than Tiger Woods, but I doubt that fact keeps him awake at night. He's got the best drive in the game, and he's working every day to make it that much better.
Top athletes, entrepreneurs, artists and executives understand that true excellence is the result of spending as much time doing what you are naturally inclined to do, while minimizing your time and energy spent on everything else. The expression "Jack of all trades, master of none" has never been more true; excellence comes from a laser focus on developing your strengths. Nothing but mediocrity comes from becoming "well rounded".
Insight #1
Identify: The First Step
If you've ever witnessed someone do something with almost magic like ease, and wondered in awe, "How does he do that?" (Tiger, on the 18th tee-box, comes to mind) then you've witnessed someone living their strengths. As Buckingham and Clifton explain, a "strength" is the combination of three elements; talent, knowledge and skill. They define each term as such:
"Talents are your natural recurring patterns of thought, feeling, or behavior.
Knowledge consists of the facts and lessons learned.
Skills are the steps of an activity."
Now, Discover Your Strengths, page 29
Knowledge and skills can be taught. It's talent that's the tricky one, and virtually unique to each of us.
As it turns out, by your sixteenth birthday, your "recurring patterns of thought, feeling, or behavior" are locked; from that point forward you are destined to have the same dominant personality traits in everything you do. By learning and acknowledging those traits, you can then choose the activities (professional, recreational, community, etc.) that best utilize and showcase your dominate characteristics. Doing so will fill your days with purposeful fulfillment, make you more productive, and allow you to live aspects of your life with such a sense of ease that people will marvel, "How does she do that?".
So how do you identify them, these "dominant talents"? The authors suggest keeping aware of "yearnings, rapid learning, and satisfactions" (pg. 69) as key indicators that you're utilizing your natural talents. More tangibly, however, each copy of the book comes with a code to access an online, 20 minute test that will identify your five dominant traits. You do have to buy your own copy (there's only one, unique code per book), but I can say with absolute certainty that it is the best $30 I have ever spent on personal development. Based on extensive interviews with over 1.8 million participants, the survey is easy, thorough, and incredibly insightful. I'd highly recommend it.
Insight #2
Run Damage Control Sparingly
"confess that you lost the battle with your unfixable weakness, and you may well win the trust and respect of those around you."
Now, Discover Your Strengths, page 158
We all have weaknesses. We don't need to dwell on them, but from time to time we do need to manage them. Even a 400 yard drive couldn't save Tiger if he didn't have at least an average short game. So he worked on it, brought it up to a satisfactory level, and then focused his time and energy on his strengths. "Get a little better at it" is just one of the five methods that Buckingham and Clifton suggest for managing your weaknesses.
Perhaps one of the reasons that we, as a society, are so focused on "areas of opportunity" rather than capitalizing on strengths is because of our fear of admitting our weaknesses. And yet… we all have them. Plenty of them. Which is probably why we respond positively when someone admits a weakness to us. By saying "I acknowledge this weakness, and here's my plan for managing it", those around us show strength of character, and we usually respect that. The key word is "manage", not "fix". Your time is much, much better spent honing your strengths.
Discover your strengths and acknowledge your weaknesses. Run damage control when necessary. Pursue brilliance regularly.
Now, Discover Your Strengths offers brilliant insight in easily digestible terms. Full of rich examples from contemporary figures we can almost all relate to, this book is a must have for all managers as well as anyone who feels they may not yet be living the life they were meant to lead.


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Arrest made in kidnapping and murder of 13-year-old Hania Aguilar
12/09/2018 6:47 pm PST
UPDATE December 10, 2018:
The man accused of kidnapping and killing 13-year-old Hania Aguilar appeared in court Monday morning, WGHP reports.
After a short appearance, the judge revoked bond for 34-year-old Michael McLellan. The judge also said McLellan could face the death penalty in the case
December 9, 2017
ROBESON COUNTY, N.C. -- (WGHP) -- The Lumberton Police Department and the FBI have arrested 34-year-old Michael Ray McLellan in connection with the kidnapping and murder of 13-year-old Hania Noelia Aguilar.
McLellan was being held at the time of his arrest in law enforcement custody on charges unrelated to this case — possession of stolen firearms, kidnapping and probation violation.
Now, the Lumberton Police Department has also charged McLellan with 10 felonies on the following state charges in connection with Hania's death: first-degree murder, first-degree forcible rape, statutory rape of a person under 15 years of age, first-degree sexual offense, statutory sex offense with a person 15 years or younger, first-degree kidnapping, felony larceny, felony restraint, abduction of child, and concealment of a death.
Hania was forced into a family member's idling SUV and kidnapped from her driveway in the Rosewood Mobile Home Park in Lumberton on Nov. 5.
The FBI's Lab at Quantico conducted a forensic exam of the stolen SUV, recovered on Nov. 8. The North Carolina State Crime Lab provided preliminary test results on Hania's body, located on Nov. 27. The results of those tests, including some received on Dec. 7, and a thorough criminal investigation resulted in the current charges.
McLellan stood before a state magistrate at the Robeson County Detention Center in the early morning hours Saturday morning, Dec. 8.
McLellan is currently being held in the Robeson County Detention Center with no bond. He will have his first court appearance at the Robeson County Courthouse on Monday at 9 a.m.
The investigation is ongoing, additional charges could be filed as the case continues.
FULL STORY: Arrest made in kidnapping and murder of 13-year-old Hania Aguilar - WGHP


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Book Reviews
Duty and Love: Individualism and collectivism in 1950s Israel
. Chaim Weizmann Institute for the Study of the History of Zionism and Israel at Tel Aviv University and Am-Oved press, 2008
Shapiro Best Book Award, Association for Israel Studies, 2009
Reviews: Israeli Sociology 12(2) 2011; Zmanim 107 (2009); Makor Rishon June 2 2009; Maariv 10 October 2008; Israel Studies Forum 25 (2) 2010
The Rise of the Individual in 1950s Israel
: A Challenge to Collectivism. Brandeis University/University Press of New England (2011).
H-Net Discussion Networks October 2012
Choice, July 2012
A Home for all Jews: citizenship, rights and national identity in the young Israeli
University/University Press of New England
, forthcoming 2016.
Finalist, Jordan Schnitzer Award, Association for Jewish Studies, 2018
New Rambler
2016 ;
Jewish Book Council
Israel Studies Review
Studies in Contemporary Jewry
Law and Emotions, (co-edited with Yoram Shachar), forthcoming
"In the Shadow of Syria's Guns: Frontier Kibbutzim and the Israeli Emotional Regime",
Iyunim Betkumat Israel 26 (2016)
Coping with Fear: Frontier Kibbutzes and the Syrian-Israeli Border War
"The Struggle over Austerity Policy: Israeli Housewives and the Government,"
Israel 1 (2002): 81-118 (Hebrew)
"Terms of Aversion – Hygiene and Parenthood of New Immigrants from Muslim Countries as viewed by Veteran Israelis in the 1950s,"
Iyunim Betkumat Israel 12 (2002): 195-238 (Download is not the final version) (Hebrew)
"Austerity times: Food, Femininity and Nation-Building"
, in Aviad Kleinberg (editor), A Full Belly, Rethinking Food and Society in Israel, Jerusalem 2005 (Tel Aviv University Press): 155-204 (Hebrew)
"Women Meeting Women: The role of Veteran Israeli Women in the Absorption of New Immigrants in 19950s Israel: History and Theory,"
Iyunim Betkumat Israel (thematic series), Avi Bareli, Daniel Gutwein and Tuvia Frilling (eds), Society and Economy in Israel: Historical and Contemporary Perspective, Israel 2005: 645-670 (Hebrew)
"The Austerity Policy and the Rule of Law: Relations between Government and Public in Fledgling Israel," Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 4 (3) (November 2005): 273-290
"`The People's Voice`: Portrait of a Struggle,"
in Michael D. Birhack (editor), Be Quiet, someone is speaking, Tel Aviv University: Ramot (part of the series: Law, Society, Culture edited by Asher Maoz) 2006: 71-128 (Hebrew)
"Food, Identity and Nation-Building in Israel's Formative Years,"
Israel Studies Forum 21 (1), (2006): 52-80
"The Statesman, the Editor and the Newspaper: David Ben-Gurion, Gershom Schocken and Ha'aretz,"
Israel 10 (2006): 3-42 (Hebrew)
"Forming a Collective Identity: The Debate over the Proposed Constitution, 1948-1950,"
The Journal of Israeli History 26 (2), (2007): 251-272
"Israel and the Right to Travel Abroad 1948 – 1961"
Israel Studies 15 (1), 2010.
Physicians as Elite Specialists: The Role of the Israel Medical Association in the 1950s and the 2000s
(co-authored by Nadav Davidovitch, Ben-Gurion University) Iyunim Be-tkumat Israel , 19, 2009. 56-92.
"Womanhood and Nation-Building in Israeli Propaganda films in the 1950s"
, Teuda 24, 2011.
"Negotiating the right to exit the country in 1950s Israel: Voice, Loyalty and Citizenship"
, Journal of Israeli History, vol. 30 (1), 2011.
"Austerity Tel-Aviv: Everyday life, Supervision, Compliance and Respectability,"
in Maoz Azaryahu and S. Ilan Troen (editors), Tel –Aviv: The First Century; Visions, Designs and Actualities, Bloomington: Indiana University Press 2011.
Meat Consumption, Austerity and Collective Identity in 1950s Israel
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, 128, 2014, 70-83.
"Infiltration and the making of Israel's
emotional regime in the State's early years"
Middle Eastern Studies
52 (3), May 2016, 448-472.
"Craving Meat During Israel's Austerity Period 1947-1953"
Studies in Contemporary Jewry
, 28 2015, pp., 65-88.
O. Rozin, "Fear in the Shadow of Syrian Artillery",
Iyunim Bitkumat Israel
26, 2016, pp. 81-109. [Hebrew]
O. Rozin, "State and Society Building in Early Israel," in Reuven Y. Hazan, Alan Dowty and Menachem Hofnung and Gideon Rahat(editors)
The Oxford Handbook of Israeli Politics and Society
O. Rozin, "Israeli Legal History - A Methodological Analysis,"
Cathedra 168
, 2018, pp. 155-168.
O. Rozin, "The In-Between Time from the Rabin Assassination to the 1996 Elections-On Emotions and Their Impact on the Public Sphere,"
Israel Studies
23 (3), 2018, pp. 30-41
Coping with Fear: Border Kibbutzes and the Syrian-Israeli Border War,
21 (2), 2019
Between the polio and the corona pandemics,
27 June 2020
Continuities and Ruptures in Time,
The Journal of Israeli History
38, 2020
And now, with emotion (with Yoram Shachar) ,
Law Society and Culture
3, 2020.
A Melancholic Tale: Three Literary Critiques on Jews and Power,
Hebrew Studies
, 61, 2020.
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The characteristics of Australia's population (such as its size and composition) influence, and in turn are influenced by, many aspects of progress. Population factors such as births and migration result from individual and government choices, made in a social and economic context.
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Changes in patterns of mortality, fertility and migration lead to changes in the age distribution of the population. This in turn contributes to changes in the demand for health and other services. As an example, the current aging of the population partly reflects an increase in life expectancy, whilst simultaneously contributing to an increasing demand for aged care services.
The population's geographic and age distribution, as well as migration patterns, influence the labour market. In turn, changes in the labour market can influence the geographic distribution of the population, by encouraging people to move to where they can find employment.
Where people live also has important effects on the environment. The concentration of people in the coastal areas of south-eastern Australia has resulted in relatively high rates of land clearing for urban development, and increased demand for water, sewerage facilities and landfill sites. This urban expansion tends to occur in Australia's more fertile areas leaving less land available for preservation or agriculture.
Australia's democratic system of government is directly linked to population, as the size and distribution of the population are determined to ensure equal representation in the House of Representatives. As the population changes, parliamentary boundaries are redrawn, affecting the number of seats allocated to each Australian state and territory.
The idea of governance goes beyond the functions of government to include broader participation in decision making by Australians, as well as such things as informed public debate and people's rights and responsibilities. The size, distribution and composition of the Australian populations underpins all these functions.
Population size and progress
The relationship between population size and progress is a contentious issue amongst Australians. Some Australians believe the population should grow quickly to reach substantially higher levels by the end of this century. These people point to the economic and social benefits of a larger and faster growing population, including increasing and maintaining Australia's national security (Sheridan, 2010).
Other Australians believe that a large population would inhibit progress, as our environment cannot sustain a significantly larger population with a resultant higher level of consumption (Sustainable Population Australia, 2010).
There are strong arguments and counter-arguments on both sides of the debate, which is made more complex when geographic distribution of Australia's population, and compositional factors such as age and sex are considered, and so population size cannot be used as an objective measure of progress.
Footnote(s): ;;(a) Total fertility rate represents the number of children a female would bear during her lifetime if she experienced current age-specific fertility rates at each age of her reproductive life. See Glossary.;(a) Estimates for September quarter 2006 onwards use an improved methodology. Caution should be exercised when comparing estimates over time.
Source(s): ABS Australian Demographic Statistics December 2012 (cat no. 3101.0); ABS Australian Historical Population Statistics (cat. no. 3105.0.65.001) ; ABS Australian Demographic Statistics December 2012 (cat no. 3101.0); ABS Australian Historical Population Statistics (cat. no. 3105.0.65.001) ; ABS Australian Demographic Statistics December 2012 (cat no. 3101.0); ABS Australian Historical Population Statistics (cat. no. 3105.0.65.001) ; ABS Australian Demographic Statistics December 2012 (cat no. 3101.0); ABS Australian Historical Population Statistics (cat. no. 3105.0.65.001)
Source(s): ABS Estimates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, June 2011 (cat. no. 3238.0.55.001)
Footnote(s): ;(a) Estimates for 2011 are preliminary.
Source(s): OECD 2013, 'International Migration', in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Factbook 2013: Economic, Environmental and Social Statistics, viewed 1 May 2013; ABS Migration, Australia 2010-11 (cat. no. 3412.0)
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