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[Added May 5, 2014. As Jim noted yesterday, if this is your topic you should see: "TV: Another idiot for the idiot box" and "The award for best self-created drama goes to Mia Farrow (Ava and C.I.)" and "Dylan whines to Maureen Orth who passes it on to Janet Malcolm." The first one listed, when Ava and I wrote that it pretty much shut down the nonsense from Camp Mia because it served as a reminder of what I know and how I haven't said even half of what I could say. A casual reference/teaser in that piece especially alarmed Mama Mia.]
I've known Mia Farrow for years, I try to be kind here. During the Bully Boy Bush years when she was screaming for war on Darfur, I tried to draw the same line I'd drawn with her on abortion: We can disagree.
Mia, for those who don't know, is hugely, vastly anti-choice. To the point that she's honestly become a bigot on the subject. But I look the other way.
I'm tired of looking the other way.
'The flower child' never was. Flower children weren't married to elderly millionaires the way Mia was to Frank.
Watching Husbands and Wives, the last film Mia made with Woody Allen, was very hard to do. Not just because Judy Davis walked away with the movie and what scenes she didn't steal Sydney Pollack did. Mia was a drab little mouse. Who somehow, someway, got all the men in the world to leave whomever for her.
In other words, with Husbands and Wives, Woody finally wrote about the real Mia.
Realizing that wasn't the most uncomfortable thing.
Watching the film and realizing that Mia was so desperate that she would play this true but insulting version of herself made me very uncomfortable.
This is a woman who was obviously desperate to hang on to a relationship that was ending.
Watch the film and you'll see it all there -- and I've only seen the film once, it was too difficult to sit through that one time.
They were supposed to make Manhattan Murder Mystery together, Woody and Mia.
They didn't.
Though she was willing to make the film, Woody didn't want to make it with her. She had discovered his affair with Soon Yi-Previn. And Woody was moving on.
Woody and Mia had --
I don't know how to write this. This is why I'm writing it. Mia's being a fraud and a fake and I just don't have the time.
Woody and Mia are the parents of Satchel Farrow who now calls himself Ronan. (He was named after some baseball player -- I'm not a sports buff but Mia was more than fine with going along with Woody on the name.) Then there's Dylan who's also been Eliza and Malone and who knows what name she'll take next -- we'll just call her Dylan for this piece. Dylan and Moses were adopted. Mia wanted Woody to be the legal father of the two.
Then it was a nightmare when she found out Woody and Soon-Yi were a couple.
At this point, suddenly comes an announcement that Dylan's been molested by Woody.
Maybe she was.
But molesters aren't usually a one-time thing.
Iraq War supporter Nicholas Kristof has posted Dylan's letter at the New York Times.
What's your favorite Woody Allen movie? Before you answer, you should
know: when I was seven years old, Woody Allen took me by the hand and
led me into a dim, closet-like attic on the second floor of our house.
He told me to lay on my stomach and play with my brother's electric
train set. Then he sexually assaulted me. He talked to me while he did
it, whispering that I was a good girl, that this was our secret,
promising that we'd go to Paris and I'd be a star in his movies. I
remember staring at that toy train, focusing on it as it traveled in its
circle around the attic. To this day, I find it difficult to look at
toy trains.
Here's the thing, when Dylan was a child and her story never made sense? I didn't doubt it. I stopped seeing Woody's films. I had a number of them on VHS -- remember those days? -- and I'd still pop in Broadway Danny Rose or Sleeper or Love and Death. But I didn't question Dylan, I didn't question the narrative.
I was Mia's friend.
But here's the thing, Dylan. Your story makes no sense.
It doesn't in your letter and it hasn't over the years and, frankly, I'm bored to death with it.
Here's another little detail: I was sexually molested as a child.
He stuck his finger in me and that hurt and didn't apparently please him so he focused on his penis from then on. I was made to touch his penis, he smeared it against my face and pulled my hair until I opened my mouth and sucked him off. He was sleepy then, after he came. I used that moment to grab the dinner knife and stab him like a stuck pig -- repeatedly -- before fleeing the motel room, attempting to figure out where he had taken me and how I was going to get home.
People respond differently to abuse.
But why is it that in all the years she's told her tale, I've never believed it?
Especially the statement (which sounds like Mia, not like a 7-year-old) that Woody told her he would take her to Paris and make her a movie star?
Maybe he said it but he's never said that to women he's wooed so why the hell would he say it to a seven-year-old child?
Wouldn't he be more likely to offer toys or ice cream?
Who thinks like that besides Mia who always dreamed of Paris as a child. Woops. Did we all forget that detail?
Why is that she doesn't speak in any of the many ways that survivors of abuse speak?
She's had therapy.
But even now, she's designing some story, she's creating some acting 'moment' and it never rings true and the wrong things are detailed, the wrong things are emphasized.
Now maybe Dylan was molested -- maybe by her Uncle John.
That's Mia's brother who is now behind bars for sexually molesting several children.
I must have missed Mia's Tweet on that.
Or Dylan's wordy narrative about that.
He's serving a ten year sentence for sexual molestation of children -- plural.
I'm going to repeat what I said earlier, sexual molestation is a pattern. It's not a one-time thing.
Maybe Uncle John was the molester?
If anything happened.
I've been online nine years and never felt the need (or had the desire) to note at this site that I was molested as a child.
I long ago learned not to share it because I learned how many other people were sexually molested as children. And I can't help everyone, I'm sorry.
Right before Dylan's alleged assault, was the last time I ever spoke of it in a semi-public setting. I was at a friend's home overlooking the ocean, at a table with a friend who wanted me to share to a mutual friend because she'd just found out her boyfriend had sexually molested her child. The woman felt tremendous guilt and much more but she was mainly concerned with what that meant for her daughter. So I opened up a vein and talked about it. Noting. for example, that you can live through it, you can put it semi-behind you, it does effect you in other ways, some good, some bad. Blah blah blah. (Sorry, I'm not in the mood to open a vein tonight.) So we finish up that conversation and I'm thinking great, hopefully it helped her, I'm going to go shopping and find books and music and other things to distract me for the rest of the day.
Then ______ calls my mobile phone (that's what we had before cell phones). We know each other loosely. At the time, he's an up and coming actor on a top twenty TV show. We had nodded to one another at the party but I was, obviously, focused on other things and hadn't exchanged any words. He wants to meet up to talk. I'm headed home. Great, can he come over?
He stays for a month and a half.
I'm not insulting him in any way with these comments.
As soon as he sits down he starts shaking and explaining that he heard the discussion at the party and he was -- and he was -- and he was --
He's crying and gulping -- not gasping -- for air.
By your mother?
He can only nod to what I'm asking.
I can always tell who was molested by a parent -- and which parent -- and who was molested by a relative, who was molested by a trusted non-family figure and who was molested by a stranger.
Elaine loves to tell -- I believe she's blogged on this twice at her site -- about when she was dating Dr. ____ who was a clinical director at a youth residential treatment center and she was asked to consult on something at the last minute and does she dump her friend in from out of town or does she leave her boyfriend in a fix? I tell her I'll tag along and busy myself in some way while she takes all the time she needs to do the consultation.
And then I'm waiting and some man (I didn't know these people, it was a doctor) starts talking to me and at some point wants me to look at a piece of artwork by a teenager. It's a pencil and paper sketch.
I look at it and start to hand it back saying it's interesting but then I start picking apart the details, whoever drew identifies with the person in the sketch, they're on the roof, they're closer to the edge of the roof, there's something they've said that they regret, a they're hiding something, they're hiding something from their parents, it's a boy, a boy drew this, he's -- he's gay and he's in the closet., he's gay and he's in the closet and he's got a boyfriend but he's saying the boyfriend raped him, he's saying that because of the parents and because of --
And I went on like that about the drawing for about 8 minutes.
And the concern that man had?
I didn't know it when I was evaluating the drawing but the boy who drew that picture was saying that his male roommate raped him. Turns out, they had consensual sex. It was easier to say rape for that young male than to say, "I'm gay."
That was all in the drawing, it was in the heavy pencil marks, it was in the light pencil marks, it was in the shading and the position and the point of view. All the signs were there if you knew how to see them.
I'm often accused of being psychic but I'm not. I just know the signs.
And whenever I speak of being molested, to a woman's group or a group of friends, someone always comes forward. They've sat on it for years and now they want to talk and now they want help. And they also want me as a sounding board or mentor or shoulder to lean on. Maybe because my message is that it didn't destroy me?
For four weeks, I went to the set with the TV friend every morning. I helped him find a doctor who could address his issues. (This should be obvious, but maybe just to those of us who have been molested, the six weeks he was living in my home, he had his own bedroom, we did not have a sexual relationship.) After the four weeks, he worked a little at transitioning back to his own place. When, months later, he and his doctor were planning the session where he was going to confront his mother, he moved back into a guest room and probably stayed a week before the confrontation and at least two weeks after.
I'm not a nice person, I don't claim to be. I'm not a saint. I need my sleep when I can get it. (I got three hours of sleep early Friday morning and haven't been to sleep since. I can't take the nightmares right now -- of Iraq and all the violence -- that video of the military just standing there while the Sunni man was being burned alive . . .)
Talking about the subject can help others. I know that. If I feel the calling, if I feel someone needs me to bring it up, I will. But my life is very full and I don't have time to try to help everyone. Again, I'm not a nice person, I don't pretend to be.
As I have many times in the many years I've lived, I helped someone who needed help on this issue -- in part because who knows how much my own sharing -- whether to them or overheard -- acted as a catalyst. And as a result -- again, I'm no saint -- I try to be very careful around this topic. It is not something that everyone who knows me knows because I don't make it a point of daily conversation. Jim, for example, is going to read this and think, "We're best friends. Dona and I lived with her for several years and I never knew this." And Jim and I have been friends now for a decade and shared many stories of our lives -- good and bad -- but there's never been a reason to bring this up.
Along with not having time today to 'mentor' or whatever people like my TV friend, it's also true that I love drama on the screen, I love on drama on the stage, but I don't care for drama in my home. It bores me real damn quick.
And now we have Dylan providing us with drama.
When I see drama, if it's from someone who's been molested or raped, I can be understanding -- even me. But I can do that because I can see the trigger.
It happened to you at ____ so ___ reminds you of it. He/Her name was ____ so the fact that you are now working with someone named ____ is bringing up those issues. The incident occurred in ____ and it's now that time of the year.
I'm sorry, what's the triggering incident for Dylan that's caused these two or so months of drama.
It's not the season or the month because the alleged events didn't happen in winter.
So what is it?
Some might say it's him being honored but he's been honored for the last decades.
So what's the trigger?
It's not Uncle John getting convicted of child molestation because that was month's ago. Sentencing was months ago too.
Here's the reality, I don't believe it anymore. I'm not going to pretend I do. The need to turn this into a public spectacle, an embarrassing piece of trash -- I'm referring to all the events, not just Dylan?
I don't believe it. I think more people are starting to disbelieve as well.
Dylan may have been molested.
She may even have been molested by Woody.
But I don't believe it anymore.
I don't know what happened and I'm not going to take the word of someone who is clearly being dishonest -- I mean Dylan. I think she's being dishonest but I don't know why.
And thing is, I don't give a damn why.
I've had quite enough of this trashy spectacle.
Mia embarrasses herself, her dead parents and a widow by claiming that Ronan might be Frank Sinatra's child.
Might he be?
If so, Mia's lied to friends for years and years.
And she also lied to Woody.
I don't like Barbara Sinatra. I'm friends with Nancy and I think it's known the two don't get along (and didn't when Frank Sinatra was alive).
But Barbara is his widow.
And I don't know why you would toss out that someone's dead husband might be the father of your adult child.
How the f**k does that become a topic of conversation for an interview?
How damn trashy are you now, Mia?
How desperate for attention are you?
As I noted, it was hard to watch Husbands and Wives because Woody had captured, in the character he wrote for her, every negative aspect people had ever noted of Mia. The manipulation, the home wrecking, all of it was there. And she was willing to play it.
Dylan thinks she can throw out an appeal, "I was wronged! Believe me!"
What have you done to be truthful?
You're supposed to be a victim of molestation.
Well, here's one thing a victim might do: Talk about abusers -- especially ones in their own family that just got convicted and sentenced.
Let me be really clear, I know John Farrow. Didn't think highly of him or lowly of him. But when he admitted (2013) to sexually molesting children, I felt intense rage towards him. I immediately called up people I knew whose children might have been around him to make sure they knew what had happened in case they needed to address any issues with their children or now adult children.
Dylan grew up around him.
If she was a victim of molestation at the hands of Woody, I don't understand why she wouldn't be expressing something with regards to her Uncle John right now. Why she wouldn't be offering, for example, an open letter about how the adult males in her life -- plural, not just Woody -- had betrayed her, one who sexually molested her and one who sexually molested other children (plural)?
At her age and with all the years that have passed, she surely should feel the need to look out for others. But she's still self-obsessed.
Like many who were molested as children, I have low self esteem.
I can advocate on behalf of anyone but you will never find me advocating on behalf of myself (unless Elaine's scolded me over the phone about it). .
Yet Dylan who doesn't speak of the alleged assault in terms one would expect for a victim and for a victim who has had years of therapy is perfectly comfortable making demands -- personal demands -- on others.
There is no set response to molestation.
But what the letter does is crystalize the problems I've always had with this story.
Again, I no longer believe it. I don't know what happened.
As such, it's not my job to shun Woody Allen or to think that he did what Dylan's accusing him of and what the New York City judicial system didn't find suspicion of -- forget guilt, it didn't even rise to the level of suspicion.
How sexually inappropriate is or was Mia?
Questioning your child's paternity in a magazine interview?
How desperate for publicity is she?
She's clearly not desperate for the truth. Nancy could provide DNA in an instant that would determine whether or not Ronan was Sinatra's son.
If you want to know the answer, that's what you do. (Tina Sinatra would also provide DNA. I would assume Frank Jr. would but I really don't know him.)
If, however, your stalled career needs publicity, might you instead just raise it in a magazine interview in a desperate attempt to get attention?
Not unlike when you cut your hair off because Frank wouldn't take you to the party -- a reality you lied about in What Falls Away?
These are harsh words, I don't deny it.
And without all this self-created drama and nonsense, I probably would be silent right now.
But the drama's not what made me write this.
Reading Dylan's self-righteous babble, I had to grab the Vanity Fair story (well written by Maureen Orth as usual) that I had ignored because I was humiliated for Mia.
And there was the known victim.
I don't know what happened to Dylan and honestly I find her presentation so off putting that I'm no longer interested.
Who I feel sorry for is who I felt sorry for in the beginning.
Mia hasn't raised a family, she's raised a mob.
Soon-Yi's mistake was falling in love with Woody Allen.
Why couldn't they be together?
Because Mia and Woody were a couple?
Well, according to Mia in Vanity Fair, she was f**king Frank Sinatra throughout her relationship with Woody.
So Mia can cheat on him but he can't cheat on her?
Mia can lie to Woody that Ronan's his son when she thinks it might be Frank?
Soon-Yi was Mia's daughter. She wasn't Woody's daughter.
Mia pushed him to do things with her. Soon-Yi was a shy young woman.
Who does that?
The affair comes out -- I don't remember, I'm going to guess it was on or around January 13, 1992 -- when Mia finds photos of Soon-Yi.
And everyone turns on Soon-Yi.
Sorry to break it to you, that's not a family. That's a mob.
And Mia, head of the mob, wasn't acting like a concerned mother.
Mia slapped Soon-Yi, Mia told the others to tell Soon-Yi she loved her. After she hit her. After she announced she couldn't be around her daughter.
Instead of addressing the issue -- Mia who's so comfortable with professional analysis -- sends Soon-Yi off to a summer camp?
The whole family is attacking her, they have turned against her, her mother has slapped her and cursed her and then makes it clear that she doesn't want to be around her.
Mia claims now that she was f**king Sinatra during this, so why the hell does it matter if Soon-Yi is having an affair with Woody? It's not like Mia's playing exclusive.
But she's attacking her daughter and, worse, she's making public statements basically saying that Soon-Yi's brain doesn't function 'normally,' that she's challenged.
Be Soon-Yi for just one damn minute.
You're a young woman, inexperienced, who falls for a man who takes you seriously. Who among us hasn't been there? The man's involved with your mother. But he was also supposedly sleeping with Dianne Weist in the 80s and Mia looked the other way on that. And that alleged affair, for those who missed it, is why Dylan didn't include Dianne Weist in the names of people she's trying to shame into supporting her. Dylan knows that and the children who were teenagers at the time of the alleged affair knew it as well.
Mia didn't end it with Woody over the affair that she's sure happened.
Soon-Yi may have thought this would be a brief affair.
Mia has a hissy, to this day, that Soon-Yi was getting calls from Woody at the camp and that Soon-Yi left with Woody.
I'm sorry, what young woman wouldn't?
You're family has rejected you.
Mia handled Soon-Yi all wrong.
She attacked her physically, she then put up walls to prevent any reconciliation, she's then sent her off. Exiled.
What it really reminds me of was how Mia used similar manipulation tactics to isolate Dory Previn after cozying up to her but before stealing her husband Andre Previn.
Which is why I'm writing this.
"She does not exist."
That's what the 84-year-old Andre Previn tells Maureen Orth about Soon-Yi.
He adopted her in 1978 and discarded her in 1992.
Today he says "she does not exist."
It would appear to me that he was unfit to adopt.
Nothing Soon-Yi did with Woody Allen had a damn thing to do with Andre Previn.
He's supposed to be her father. Considering that he cheated on Dory with Mia and then cheated on Mia when he was on tour and Mia was home in England, it's really amazing that he wants to disown his daughter over an affair.
Who the hell is he to judge?
A child was entrusted to Mia and Andre. They legally adopted her. He adopted her and because she had an affair, he wants to disown her.
Soon-Yi may have had an affair that wasn't an affair that started under the best conditions. But she and Woody have been together longer than Mia was with Woody -- and longer than Mia was with Andre -- and longer than Mia was with Frank -- and way longer than Mia was with John Phillips -- the affair she lied to Frank about and part of the reason they broke up.
It's funny -- unless you grasp her personality -- how nothing's ever Mia's fault. It was because she wouldn't do The Detective with him that Frank divorced her.. (Really? And not because of the affair in NYC with ____ while shooting Rosemary's Baby?)
Considering the messed up life Mia openly lived -- I'm referring to the men in and out the door and I'm talking about men other than the names noted here, I'm talking about the cinematographer, for example -- and considering that she brought children into one scandal after another -- such as when she thought Woody was screwing her sister Tisa -- yeah, get the kids upset about their aunt -- and then later, when Woody wrote Hannah & Her Sisters, insisting this was proof that Tisa and Woody slept together?
Here's the deal, Mia. Your life where adopted children are real children, where you're sleeping with everyone but Anthony Perkins (but mainly there because the two of you hate each other the whole time you're doing Romantic Comedy on Broadway) and the children see this, where (like Joan Crawford) you try to make every boyfriend part of the family?
Live and let live, Mia.
Until you stop practicing what you've presented as core values.
If an adopted child is a real child, a true member of the family (I happen to believe they are), then anger over being replaced by a younger woman doesn't give Mia the right to cut out Soon-Yi.
She's not cancer, she's Mia's daughter.
If Mia ever loved her, Mia would either attempt to reach out for real (not, "Let me slap you, then isolate you, then exile you") or Mia would love her enough, even now, to stop the petty insults of her and let Soon-Yi live in a peace with the only family who accepts her. .
Soon-Yi has made a life, a family and a home with Woody Allen. They've been together over two decades now, they have two children.
Two adopted children.
Somewhere inside of Soon-Yi, she believes that adopted children are real children.
She learned that from Mia who could talk the talk. Mia just couldn't walk the talk.
What it looks like today is that the accusations that Mia adopted children to make herself look better are true. It looks like Mia continues to manipulate. She looks bitter and stupid because she can't shut up about Soon-Yi.
If she ever loved her daughter, you'd think she'd at least be glad Soon-Yi made a life for herself -- something she was forced to do when her family tossed her aside.
Why do things always end so badly with Mia?
Whether she's destroying an ashram in Rishikesh or a marriage, it's never her fault.
If my brother was a convicted child molester, I'm not really sure I would be accusing others. But if I were, you can be damn sure I'd be talking about my brother's actions as well.
And if my daughter was actually sexually molested, I don't think I'd be advocating for Roman Polanski.
Roman's a great director. When I knew him, I cut him slack like everyone else (because of Sharon Tate's violent murder). But when you give a young girl drugs and alcohol and then force yourself on her? There's not an excuse for that. As a victim of molestation, I will never, ever defend Roman on that.
But Mia does. She defends him and makes excuses.
Yet she wants us to believe that her daughter was molested. And she wants us to grab torches and go storming through the village or at least Central Park West.
It doesn't add up.
Mia turns 69 in a matter of days. At what point does she plan to take responsibility for her actions?
And how much more mud does she intend to drag her family name through?
At this point, they're making the Loud family look reticent.
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Have you ever come across an icicle formed on the edge of a building that looks so beautiful and crisp, you were tempted to eat it like a popsicle?
Well, you may want to resist this urge. According to meteorologist Kate Nickolaou, making a snack of an icicle formed from your roof is not a great idea. After seeing videos on TikTok of people grabbing and eating icicles that had formed on their roofs, Nickolaou realized she had to let them know the truth.
In her own now-viral TikTok video, she explains why you shouldn't eat icicles:
@weather_katie Don't eat icicles! Please respect the fact that I edited out the original woman in the video (I have her permission) #IciclePoop
"When icicles form, it's from water that runs off your roof and runs down the side of a building," she explains. "Well, here's the thing. You know what else is on your roof? Bird poop. A lot of it."
Yikes! I wasn't expecting that.
"And that water picks it up, and freezes it in the ice," she continues. "You're eating poop," she says in no uncertain terms.
Who knew?! Her video now has more 3 million likes, and more than 53,000 comments.
Nickolaou is a meteorologist with KMEG in Sioux City, Iowa. She's always been interested in the weather, and she's surprised that her little-known factoid would make her so popular.
"Honestly it was mostly to amuse myself, I never thought it would go viral," she told BuzzFeed News. "I just think it's because so many people have eaten icicles. It's just one of those shocking things."
While there is some health risk to humans associated with inhaling or ingesting bird poop, if you think about the volume of icicles humans have eaten from their homes without falling ill — chances are this is an activity you may want to avoid more for the "ick" factor rather than one that will put you in grave danger.
It's also important to note is that falling icicles can pose a danger to those standing underneath them. So if you truly want to put safety first, you may want to avoid those icicles dangling from your home altogether — tempting as they may be.
For more of this cheeky's meteorologist's interesting weather tidbits, follow her on TikTok.
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Neo 1973 and Windows
From Openmoko
Note -- The guidelines on this page work for the Neo FreeRunner too -- at least they do if you have a recent kernel installed. (See notes below on bluescreen of death before proceeding.)
This page tries to collect some information on how to use your Neo1973 together with a computer running a Microsoft(R) Windows(TM) series operating system.
Please note that this is not really supported, and that the Openmoko developers themselves only use Linux for testing.
Also note that Windows appears to not recognize and communicate with the neo as a USB device unless you install the .inf file below, and hence you will always have to force fast charge to recharge using a usb connection to a Windows machine unless you install that .inf.
Contents |
Connecting to the phone
Bluetooth connection
How to connect to Windows XP via Bluetooth is described here: Manually_using_Bluetooth#Bluetooth_networking_with_a_Windows_XP_system
USB Ethernet emulation
NOTE: With some recent versions of FSO or SHR with kernel 2.6.28 and Windows XP, you might get a Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD) as soon as you connect your Freerunner. ( https://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/2211 ) |
NOTE: For Windows XP USB RNDIS networking finally works as of Kernel 184.108.40.206-moko11 using the procedure described below. |
NOTE: For Vista this procedure works with the 2.6.24 kernel that ships with the Neo FreeRunner. The initial SSH connection seems a little slow however. |
- Download (Listing of NeoRndis.inf) to somewhere convenient on your Windows machine. If the file is not reachable, you can download another working inf file here: http://users.informatik.uni-halle.de/~rabe/neo/Neo1973.inf (Listing of Neo1973.inf). If you have Windows Vista x64 try this one: http://openmoko.kamillo.pl/neo_vista_x64.inf (this also works with Windows 7 x64 RC). If you have Windows 2000 download this: http://minucci.net/file/FreeRndis.zip For Windows 7 32 bit and QTMoko v35 the following guide has been helpful: [1]
- Power up your Neo1973, let it boot into Openmoko, and then connect its USB port to the Windows machine, using a standard USB-A to USB-mini-B cable. Note that if you connect the cable before powering the phone on, Windows will detect a device presented by the boot loader. This probably isn't what you want. Let the phone power up first.
- Assuming the new drivers are downloaded and accessible as above, Windows should detect the Neo1973 and prompt you for a driver for a "RNDIS/Ethernet Gadget". Select to specify your own driver, and then choose the NeoRndis.inf file you downloaded earlier. This file tells Windows XP to use its own built-in RNDIS driver for the device.
- Windows may complain of "reduced network connectivity". This is because it expects to be able to get an address automatically from the Neo1973 and it doesn't provide one in the default setup. To fix this, see the next step.
- Go into the Windows network configuration for the new USB networking adapter and set the IP address of the interface to 192.168.0.200.
If you have trouble using the Windows tools to set the IP address (on XP it would not allow me to type in the full ip address!), use a command line. List all available interfaces to get the adapter name to use:
$ netsh interface ip show config ...lots of stuff here not shown, at the bottom I see my USB interface... Configuration for interface "Local Area Connection 11" DHCP enabled: Yes InterfaceMetric: 0 DNS servers configured through DHCP: None WINS servers configured through DHCP: None Register with which suffix: Primary only
Now that you know the name of the ethernet adapter, use the command to configure it.
$ netsh interface ip set address name="Local Area Connection 11" static 192.168.0.200 255.255.255.0 Ok.
You should now be able to connect to your smart phone on 192.168.0.202 via ssh (e.g. putty). The distribution you have might not have an ssh server running on it but if you still have a command line window open, you can ping the phone to make sure it's connected.
$ ping 192.168.0.202 Pinging 192.168.0.202 with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 192.168.0.202: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=64 etc... good news!
Getting a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) in windows XP? Some extra drivers are automatically installed with new devices (e.g. "SecureRemoteMiniPort"). Try disabling them in the device manager while the Neo is not connected. You need to select "Show hidden devices" in the view menu to see them. Then reconnect the Neo.
Troubles getting connected? If you're having issues getting things to work, you can always try again from scratch using:
$ netsh interface ip reset
This will reset the IP configuration of the interface.
Connection to the Internet
If you want to connect to the internet from your Neo via Windows XP, e.g. for doing ipkg update/upgrade, you need to set up IP forwarding and routing properly.
Option 1, using Windows ICS
An easy way to do this is to use Windows Internet Connection Sharing.
First tell Windows to share the WAN connection (i.e. the network interface which connects your Windows system to the internet) with the USB Ethernet connection.
Then you manually set the IP address of the USB to 192.168.0.200
After you have done all this, the Neo will be able to route through the Windows machine out to the internet. DNS queries will also be proxied by the Windows machine. Of course, /etc/resolv.conf on the Neo needs to be set to your local DNS or a free DNS.
New When you have LAN with network address 192.168.0.0 you have to do some hacking. 1. Edit /etc/network/interfaces and set for usb0 address 192.168.2.202
netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.2.0 gateway 192.168.2.1
On Windows go to Network settings, pull out LAN cable (so there's no connection with local DHCP server which conflicts with IP 192.168.0.1), enable connection sharing for Neo-USB cable. Then edit Neo-usb interface settings and change it's IP address to 192.168.2.1 and set gateway for yours 192.168.0.x (other which you have). Apply changes with OK. Put in net cable. Enjoy net on NEO.
Example: Setup for wifi only internet connection (windows xp and Neo FreeRunner)
- Once the Network Connections window shows both "Wireless Network Connection Status:Connected" and "openmoko Status:Connected" Right click on Wireless Network Connection and goto Properties. Select Advanced tab, and turn on Internet Connection sharing. Choose the openmoko network.
- If you get the error: the ip address is already in use. Change your wireless router address away from 192.168.0.2, to something like 192.168.1.2
- Windows will change the ip address of openmoko network to 192.168.0.1 and the Network Connections window will show "Wireless Internet Connection Status: connected,shared"
- Right click on openmoko network and goto Properties. Change the ip address of openmoko network to 192.168.0.200
- Login to openmoko using Putty (ssh client for windows) 192.168.0.202
Option 1.5, using a Network Bridge
If your PC is on 192.168.0 (or you want to give the Neo an address in the PC's subnet), you can just bridge the USB and Ethernet networks together (Win XP).
To do this, you need to create a network bridge which contains the usb connection to the Neo and your normal Ethernet (or WiFi) connection (the one you use to go on the internets).
Then you set up the bridge like your Ethernet was (DHCP or static IP, e.g. 192.168.0.foo) and the Neo to be in the same subnet as the bridge (192.168.0.bar)
After you have done all this, the Neo will be able to route through the Windows machine out to the internet. DNS queries will also be proxied by the Windows machine. Of course, /etc/resolv.conf on the Neo needs to be set to your local DNS or a free DNS.
Option 2, using AnalogX
AnalogX is a lightweight, free network proxy for Windows. It can proxy HTTP, FTP, SMTP and other protocols. It's very easy to set up and works with any software on the phone that supports proxies (eg. opkg).
- Download and install AnalogX onto your Windows PC (http://www.analogx.com) (http://www.analogx.com/files/proxyi.exe) This is the actual program used.
- Run AnalogX. The default configuration should be ok: open mode, all protocols on.
- Connect your phone using the USB cable as normal.
- Configure opkg to use the proxy by editing /etc/opkg.conf. There's 2 lines to uncomment and change.
- option http_proxy http://192.168.0.200:6588
- option ftp_proxy http://192.168.0.200:21
- opkg should now work via the proxy.
Other apps like Minimo can also be configured to use a proxy. Use the HTTP proxy URL as above.
Option 3, using IP Forwarding and extra routing
An alternative way is to do it manually:
In the Windows registry, go to:
and set
REG_DWORD: "IPEnableRouter" to "1"
Be aware that IP Forwarding can be a security risk.
Then, if there is a router between your Windows XP system and the internet, you also need to tell the router how to get back to your Neo, so you need to set a route on it for 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 to your Windows XP LAN interface IP address. Windows will then forward the packets to the Neo.
Option 4, using HTTP proxy at work with Putty SSH tunneling
If your PC is running Windows and Internet connection goes through proxy, you can simply use PuTTY: A Free Telnet/SSH Client. In Connection->SSH->Tunnels you can add tunnel to your proxy server. For example, if proxy address is "10.0.0.1:8080": Source port: 8080 Destination: 10.0.0.1 Radio button: "Remote" Then you will only need to set http_proxy address at your 1973/Freerunner:
# export http_proxy=http://localhost:8080
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Hormone Pellet Therapy for Weight Loss in Indian Rocks Beach, FL
As men and women move into middle age, they may find that they feel sluggish and have packed on some pounds, especially around the midsection. This feeling of low energy accompanied by weight gain can be a sign of hormone imbalance.
Proper levels of testosterone help keep men and women energized and promote the building of lean muscle mass. Although testosterone levels are naturally higher in males, the hormone is still vital to women.
Correct levels of testosterone are associated with having higher energy levels. Those who have low testosterone levels tend to have more sedentary lifestyles and poor eating habits, both of which can contribute to weight gain.
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I am just getting around to showing you the latest awesome addition to our formal(ish) living room – – the couch and chair of fabulousness!
let me tell you all about how this came to be…
We were hosting a New Year's Eve party and cleaning up when I caught view of the "mom" scrawled across the arms of our old couch and surveyed it's sad condition. We had purchased it when we moved into our house and it had 3 living areas – our old house only had 2. So I found it at a garage sale, a couch, loveseat, and chair for $50 – obviously not in the greatest condition, but it was better than sitting on the floor. Well with people coming over I thought the time was NOW to get a new set – – Trevor agreed, looks at his watch and is all "you think we have time to go shopping right now??" um, it was already afternoon. So shopping that day was a no-go…but it sure got me thinking….
So then I get onto Overstock and browse and see this New Year's Day deal on this couch for super cheap. But I can't pull the trigger on big purchases and wasn't sure I wanted it – – until of course it sold out, and then I realized I desperately needed it. I got on their waitlist and snagged it when it came back in stock. And while that was in my cart, I added the ultimate chair that I found randomly browsing their site – it's so me! I couldn't NOT get it.
Love that it all came delivered right to our door – – fun to get a load of boxes!
Obviously furniture that comes in pieces that you assemble yourself isn't the greatest quality, but I'm good with that. It's our front room, not our living room, so it doesn't get used all that often. And so it's okay if the quality isn't great or if the couch isn't comfy – cause it just doesn't matter.
Trevor blogged about the fun of furniture assembly – he loves this sort of thing (only not).
I was so excited that I forgot to take a "before" picture – – but I found one over on my Gallery Wall Post. The new couch is the same size as the old couch, but it just gives the illusion of so much more space!
To fill the space, I think a pallet coffee table would be awesome…we'll see if I can win on that one…


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What is a Directory Traversal attack?
Properly controlling access to web content is crucial for running a secure web server. Directory traversal or Path Traversal is an HTTP attack that allows attackers to access restricted directories and execute commands outside of the web server's root directory.
Web servers provide two main levels of security mechanisms
- Access Control Lists (ACLs)
- Root directory
An Access Control List is used in the authorization process. It is a list which the web server's administrator uses to indicate which users or groups are able to access, modify or execute particular files on the server, as well as other access rights.
The root directory is a specific directory on the server file system in which the users are confined. Users are not able to access anything above this root.
For example: the default root directory of IIS on Windows is C:\Inetpub\wwwroot and with this setup, a user does not have access to C:\Windows but has access to C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\news and any other directories and files under the root directory (provided that the user is authenticated via the ACLs).
The root directory prevents users from accessing any files on the server such as C:\WINDOWS/system32/win.ini on Windows platforms and the /etc/passwd file on Linux/UNIX platforms.
This vulnerability can exist either in the web server software itself or in the web application code.
In order to perform a directory traversal attack, all an attacker needs is a web browser and some knowledge on where to blindly find any default files and directories on the system.
What an attacker can do if your website is vulnerable
With a system vulnerable to directory traversal, an attacker can make use of this vulnerability to step out of the root directory and access other parts of the file system. This might give the attacker the ability to view restricted files, which could provide the attacker with more information required to further compromise the system.
Depending on how the website access is set up, the attacker will execute commands by impersonating himself as the user which is associated with "the website". Therefore it all depends on what the website user has been given access to in the system.
Example of a Directory Traversal attack via web application code
In web applications with dynamic pages, input is usually received from browsers through GET or POST request methods. Here is an example of an HTTP GET request URL
GET http://test.webarticles.com/show.asp?view=oldarchive.html HTTP/1.1 Host: test.webarticles.com
With this URL, the browser requests the dynamic page show.asp from the server and with it also sends the parameter view with the value of oldarchive.html. When this request is executed on the web server, show.asp retrieves the file oldarchive.html from the server's file system, renders it and then sends it back to the browser which displays it to the user. The attacker would assume that show.asp can retrieve files from the file system and sends the following custom URL.
GET http://test.webarticles.com/show.asp?view=../../../../../Windows/system.ini HTTP/1.1 Host: test.webarticles.com
This will cause the dynamic page to retrieve the file system.ini from the file system and display it to the user. The expression ../ instructs the system to go one directory up which is commonly used as an operating system directive. The attacker has to guess how many directories he has to go up to find the Windows folder on the system, but this is easily done by trial and error.
Example of a Directory Traversal attack via web server
Apart from vulnerabilities in the code, even the web server itself can be open to directory traversal attacks. The problem can either be incorporated into the web server software or inside some sample script files left available on the server.
The vulnerability has been fixed in the latest versions of web server software, but there are web servers online which are still using older versions of IIS and Apache which might be open to directory traversal attacks. Even though you might be using a web server software version that has fixed this vulnerability, you might still have some sensitive default script directories exposed which are well known to hackers.
For example, a URL request which makes use of the scripts directory of IIS to traverse directories and execute a command can be
GET http://server.com/scripts/..%5c../Windows/System32/cmd.exe?/c+dir+c:\ HTTP/1.1 Host: server.com
The request would return to the user a list of all files in the C:\ directory by executing the cmd.exe command shell file and run the command dir c:\ in the shell. The %5c expression that is in the URL request is a web server escape code which is used to represent normal characters. In this case %5c represents the character \.
Newer versions of modern web server software check for these escape codes and do not let them through. Some older versions however, do not filter out these codes in the root directory enforcer and will let the attackers execute such commands.
How to check for Directory Traversal vulnerabilities
The best way to check whether your website and web applications are vulnerable to directory traversal attacks is by using a Web Vulnerability Scanner. A Web Vulnerability Scanner crawls your entire website and automatically checks for directory traversal vulnerabilities. It will report the vulnerability and how to easily fix it. Besides directory traversal vulnerabilities a web application scanner will also check for SQL injection, Cross-site Scripting and other web vulnerabilities.
Acunetix scans for SQL Injection, Cross Site Scripting, Google Hacking and many more vulnerabilities.
Preventing Directory Traversal attacks
First of all, ensure you have installed the latest version of your web server software, and sure that all patches have been applied.
Secondly, effectively filter any user input. Ideally remove everything but the known good data and filter meta characters from the user input. This will ensure that only what should be entered in the field will be submitted to the server.
Check if your website is vulnerable to attack with Acunetix
Acunetix ensures website security by automatically checking for SQL Injection, Cross-site Scripting, Directory Traversal and other vulnerabilities. It checks password strength on authentication pages and automatically audits shopping carts, forms, dynamic content and other web applications. As the scan is being completed, the software produces detailed reports that pinpoint where vulnerabilities exist.
Frequently asked questions
Directory traversal (path traversal) happens when the attacker is able to read files on the web server outside of the directory of the website. Directory traversal is only possible if the website developer makes mistakes.
An attacker may use directory traversal to download server configuration files, which contain sensitive information and potentially expose more server vulnerabilities. Ultimately, the attacker may access confidential information or even get full control of the server.
Directory traversal is becoming more common – read about it in our latest report.
The only way to effectively detect directory traversal vulnerabilities is by using a web vulnerability scanner. A professional vulnerability scanner like Acunetix will give you detailed reports, advice on how to get rid of the vulnerability, and much more.
The only way to effectively defend against directory traversal attacks is to carefully write the code of the website or web application and use user input sanitization libraries. Note that web application firewalls (WAF) do not eliminate directory traversal issues, just make it harder for the attacker to exploit vulnerabilities.


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Intel PC Business Down, Data Center Up In Q4
The world's largest chip maker reported fourth-quarter revenue of $13.5 billion, slightly below analysts' projections. Intel's earnings, meanwhile, fell 26 percent year-over-year to $2.5 billion or 48 cents a share. For the full year, Intel reported revenue of $53.3 billion and earnings of 11 billion or $2.13 per share, which mark a 15 percent drop from 2011.
Beyond the lackluster revenue and earnings, the quarter's financials further reflected Intel shifted from its longtime cash cow of Windows PCs to the data center and newer areas for Intel such as smartphones and tablets. Intel's PC Client Group revenue continued to fall, decreasing 6 percent year-over-year in the fourth quarter to 8.5 billion and falling 3 percent for the full year to $34.3 billion.
[Related: Intel, Dell And WestSummit Capital Bet $10M On Mirantis OpenStack Cloud ]
The Data Center Group, meanwhile, increased sales 4 percent to $2.8 billion for the fourth quarter and 6 percent for 2012, reaching $10.7 billion.
"We made tremendous progress across the business in 2012 as we entered the market for smartphones and tablets, worked with our partners to reinvent the PC, and drove continued innovation and growth in the data center," said Intel CEO Paul Otellini in a press statement. "As we enter 2013, our strong product pipeline has us well positioned to bring a new wave of Intel innovations across the spectrum of computing."
Intel had been hoping its new Ultrabook designs, coupled with the release of Windows 8, would help jump-start PC sales this year. But Ultrabooks haven't quite met the lofty expectations set by both Intel and PC manufacturers, and sales for Microsoft's new operating system have been sluggish. In addition, tablet growth put a dent in the company's PC sales, according to Intel CFO Stacy Smith.
"Worldwide GDP growth was significantly less than we had thought entering the year, and the PC market segment was impacted by the growth of tablets," Smith said.
During the conference call Q&A, many questions revolved around Intel's PC business. Smith took exception with one analyst's remark about the PC business declining even more in 2013, arguing that Intel's PC Client Group growth will be generated from "a wider range of devices" than just desktops and notebooks, including Intel-based smartphones, tablets and tablet-laptop hybrid devices.
Smith also said the company expects the Data Center Group to return to double-digit revenue growth this year, which will be driven by growth in cloud computing and more Intel chips in networking and storage hardware.
As for Intel's foundry business, Otellini said Intel doesn't want to be a general-purposed chip manufacturer and will be very selective in choosing customers. According to report from Bloomberg today, Intel will begin manufacturing Cisco-designed chips for the networking giant's switches and routers.
Intel said it expects 2013 revenue growth to be in the low single digits, while first quarter revenue is projected to be around $12.7 billion.


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Flowers Represented In Art History
Flowers and plants peppered Medieval art pieces. What's more, each flower and plant had a specific meaning. Most people alive during this period of history were illiterate, so artists used plants and flowers in their works of arts to communicate with their audience. Floral motifs, which mark this period of art history, are rich in symbolism. www.segmation.com


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The Navajo Sugar Monster
Long ago the Holy People predicted that a monster would take over the Navajos.
Our mothers and fathers would change…No longer were man and woman together.
One after another this monster ate away their faces.
It gnawed away Navajo identity….Everything turned from light to dark….Words ceased to exist.
The Holy People begin to cry.
The Navajo language meets its end…Mouths would soon close entirely.
X marked the spot….Over the eyes and mouths of the people.
The Navajo were not human anymore.
They were beings who craved only one thing
It was not water or food…Nor prayer or traditions…Nor love or family.
The Holy People were right.
Sugar is our monster.
A killer claiming Navajo lives…With a craving that could never be satisfied
Who are these monsters?
Mom? Dad? Where are the elders? Where is my family? Who will save us?
It's going to claim the next generation if things don't change…
We must stand and make a change…Stand up and fight against this monster
For you…For your family,
Your mother, Your father, Your children
For your Nation."
by Chantelle Yazzie (A neo-traditional story published on Wellbound Storytellers.)
Native Peoples have higher rates of death by alcoholism (552%), diabetes (182%) and unintentional injuries (138%) than other Americans. The story above is a neo-traditional story addressing the impact diabetes is having on the Navajo nation. Neo-traditional stories are creations of today's Native Americans; attempts at merging the old ways and addressing today's problems.
Native American's believe in the power of the story to heal. Traditional healing stories are unique to particular nations and certain individuals, specifically elders and healers are the only ones who can tell these stories.
According to Teresa Lamsam, of Wellbound Storytellers, specific individuals have a responsibility for traditional healing stories. "Most of the stories that would be relevant [to healing] are considered to have healing within the telling of them — which is what creates the responsibility for the person who carries the story [the healer]. The person who receives the story [patient] also has responsibility. Usually, a ceremony must accompany the story."
Do you have a story to share about your experience with diabetes? Can you create a healing story?
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In this digital world, remember that you can make connections from, well, virtually anywhere! Expand your reach and discover the new opportunities and endless possibilities that come your way.
When it comes to maintaining your business's blog, it's a great idea to have some help to keep your content fresh and add new perspectives.
While you still have time to prepare for the holidays, there is no need to wait until the turkey has been cut to get in on the holiday marketing madness.
Get out there and frighten your potential customers with how much they're going to love you.
Did you know that the average person checks their email inbox 15 times a day? That's why it's a no-brainer to start an email marketing campaign.
Your business's website is the perfect launching pad for enticing potential customers through the power of your own voice—with blogging.
While in-person conferences may seem like a thing of the distant past, event sponsorship is still a great option to help your small business in a virtual world.
Testimonials are the best way to garner trust with your potential customers without actually having to say anything yourself. Start with reviews you already have, and make additional asks from there.
Don't let your potential customers be the ones who got away. Take the time to invest in a website that works
There are billions of people out there searching social media sites every day. Make sure your business is ready to go fishing in that deep social media sea for potential customers.
Content helps small businesses establish authority and expertise in an industry, as well as garners leads that may not have existed. So, what are you waiting for?
In the midst of a global pandemic, opportunity could be in your favor when it comes to email marketing.
Your business can meet with potential customers where they are, while generating leads and saving you money.
When it comes to marketing your small business, social media is a free, easy and engaging way to make direct contact with your current and potential customers. And what is the number one social networking platform? Facebook.
If you're in a leadership position or hoping to be one day, try implementing humor into more of your interactions. Even if you're not the funniest person in the world, you may discover a witty side that's able to put people at ease and make people chuckle.
When it comes to marketing your small business, let social media do some heavy lifting by taking advantage of hashtags to promote your products and services.
Marketing is a key part of your small business plan, so make sure to carefully consider the do's and don'ts in order to create a plan that works well and grows your business.
Your company culture is your saving grace even during these unusual circumstances, but when your culture thrives, so will your business.
Ready to get social? Let's chat about some effective tips on how to use social media platforms to your advantage and market your business.
Your goal is for viewers to take that extra step and become active. What better way to do just that than a strong call to action?
With the right audience and the right business, direct mail marketing can have a powerful presence in any brand marketing strategy.
When it comes to a business's online presence, carefully-crafted calls to action are vitally important. A CTA that draws visitors in and generates constructive leads will result in higher engagement and increased customer sales.
There's no doubt about it—the future of marketing lies in videos. Which means, if a business wants to stay current on the latest marketing trends, it should have a comprehensive video strategy.
When you know how to best represent your brand, you have the flexibility to share that brand with others, while representing the company in a professional light.
If you're struggling to create an effective landing page for your business, check out these top 10 tips.


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While the word "safari" usually conjures up images of dusty tents and meager meals, that couldn't be further from the truth at Ngorongoro. Despite its secluded locale, the lodge is decked out with grand halls, opulent suites, chandelier–lit bathrooms and glamorous decor. And come dinnertime, you won't be roasting your morsels over a campfire. Hungry guests are served at white tablecloth-lined tables with a carpet of rose petals under foot.
During the day, though, get ready to get your hands dirty. The crater, whose walls are approximately 2,000 feet tall, is home to more than 25,000 animals and a bevy of gorgeous plants. Professional Tanzanian rangers are available to take you around to see everything from rhinos to zebra to wildebeest and even lions.
After experiencing the beauty of the crater, you may be wondering what the lodge is doing to make sure all of it stays that way. Some of the sustainable measures the resort takes include energy saving bulbs, laundry dried by the sun and the wind, water flow meters to monitor monthly usage and reduce consumption levels and sending all used glass garbage to the Shanga River House to be melted and re-shaped into beads for jewelry and other goods. In addition, kitchen wet waste is collected by Catholic nuns for a piggery project which keeps their pigs happy and well-fed while also giving the lodge a great way to dispose of their garbage. Not the most conventional reuse project but effective nonetheless!
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Writer and lecturer, photography and art
A COUPLE OF REVIEWS Of MY WRITING:
".... using the skills that have made her one of the great modern critics of the photography scene, Goldberg applies a subtle lyricism to the life and work of Bruce Davidson--some subjective editorial and emotional "overlay" whose brilliance is heightened by its being hidden behind the objective facts and photographs."
-- Joseph Klein on Amazon
LIGHT MATTERS (collected essays): Regarding an essay on Joseph Koudelka: "This is gorgeous writing. Not just succinct, it is profound. In half a paragraph, Ms. Goldberg has explained one of the most difficult issues critics must deal with, and it is necessary to note in savoring it that there is no learned jargon, no platitudinous cant: She can make this complex thought clear to her readers because it is clear to her, and because she is confident they can get it." - The New York Sun
"Few writers on photography can match the wit and authority of Vicki Goldberg. LIGHT MATTERS, a collection that brings together 25 years of essays and reviews, is full of sparkling tidbits: 'Photography's invention was peculiarly timely, occurring as it did just as the human life span was expanding and the prospect of an afterlife shrinking.'" - V & A Magazine (Victoria & Albert Museum)
There is a kind of heroism in staring straight at the vexed meanings of landscape, the complexities of family, memory and life itself, as well as the face of death and the carnage of history. There may be nothing heroic about an obsession with death, but when it produces high-caliber art the issue is effectively closed. After all, death is obsessed with us, and it will have the last word.
Cig Harvey's world has a tendency to veer about twenty degrees north of expectations. It's barely possible that an imp hides in her camera – it might even be an imp that moonlights as a mystery writer – and what do you know, it steals out now and then to put its stamp on her photographs. How else to explain a girl quite pleased with a huge leaf of cabbage on her head, or a woman in a dress standing on a buoy in the middle of the ocean? Oh bother, trying to answer questions like these would be rather like trying to explain a piano concerto, or, for that matter, love. I'd gladly settle for the influence of an imp. However they came about, pictures that pose such entertaining and unanswerable questions map out a decidedly individual and delightfully off-compass realm.
Which brings up the question of whether explanations are a suitable answer to photographs. Some things are meant to be experienced, not parsed. It's true that certain photographs cry out for elucidation (or at least captions). If they're news photographs, it's useful to know whether you're seeing friend or foe, Cambodia or Afghanistan.. If the images are from unfamiliar cultures with myths and politics beyond our ken, we need help. But abstract photographs like Francis Bruguiere's cut-paper abstractions in the 1920s or Shinichi Maruyama's recent photographs of jets of paint flung into mid air? We know how they were made, but the real response lies out beyond the facts.
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Bruce Davidson (a biography), (Prestel, 2016)
The White House: The President's Home in Photographs and History (Little Brown, 2011) - in cooperation with the White House Historical Association -
250 photographs from the 1840s to 2010 of the White House, the presidents, their wives, children, staffs, guests, pets,kitchens, bathrooms, etc., plus relations with the media and involvement with technology
The Christian Science Monitor had it on their holiday list, Vanity Fair had it in Hot Type, Newsday had it in its New Design Book section. I spoke about it at the National Archives and various other places, including Wellesley College and Dartmouth. A week before the election, American Profile magazine did a cover story on it.
Light Matters, a selection of my essays (Aperture, 2005)
Co-Author, American Photography: A Century of Images (Chronicle, 1999), book accompanying the PBS documentary of the same name
The Power of Photography: How Photographs Changed Our Lives (Abbeville Press, 1991)
American Library Association list, best academic books of year
New York Times, Boston Globe, and Chicago Tribune lists of the year's best books on photography
Margaret Bourke-White: A Biography (Harper & Row, 1986; Addison-Wesley, 1987)
American Library Association list, best books of the year
New York Times and New York magazine lists of best biographies of the year
The Frank Luther Mott - Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award
Honorable mention, Kraszna-Krausz Award (biennial, international award for best book on photography)
Honors, Maine Photographic Workshop
Editor, Photography in Print: Writings from 1816 to the Present (University of New Mexico Press, 1988)
October, 2006, Wall Street Journal names this one of the five best books ever on photography
Regular articles on photography for the New York Times for 13 years, articles on art and photography for Vanity Fair, Smithsonian, American Photo, Aperture, Art in America, ArtNews, Focus, Paris Photo, Foto and Video (Russia) etc.
Most recently: Arno Rafael Minkinnen, Minkinnen, (Kehrer Verlag), 2019, Cig Harvey, "You an Orchestra, You a Bomb", Sarah C. Butler, "Frozen in Time" (Glitterati), Barry Fellman, "Hurricane", William Meyers, "Outer Boroughs" (Damiani), 2015; Annu P. Matthews, "Memories of India" 2015; Bohnchang Koo, "White Porcelains" 2015; Alejandro Almaraz, brochure and wall text for "Portraits of Power," Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C., 2013; Cig Harvey, catalog for "Gardening at Night", Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME, 2013; Serge Assier, Quatre rives & un regard (Promotion de la Photographie de Presse en Region PACA), 2013; Cig Harvey, You Look At Me Like An Emergency (Schilt, 2012), Susan Paulsen, Sarah Rhymes With Clara (Steidl, 2011); Maria Antonietta Mameli, Free Compositons (Mousse Publishing, 2011, catalog for a show in Milan and New York); George Zimbel, A Book of Readers (Editions du Passage, 2011); Sophie Delaporte, Nudes (SousLesEtoiles Gallery, 2011).
Forthcoming: Yolanda Del Amo, Archipelago Fall, 2020
Contributing editor, American Photographer, 1978 –
Contributing editor, Aperture magazine, 2004 -
Face to Face, Rey Center, Waterville Valley, 2010
Points of Entry: American Immigration, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, 1995, two year tour -- also: catalogue essay
Bourke-White: A Retrospective, International Center of Photography, 1988-90, two year tour of U. S. and Japan -- also: catalogue essay
Rhode Island School of Design, 2002 - 2008
Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, 2002
Institute of Fine Art, New York, 1997
Frequent lectures in U.S. and abroad, including Singapore Photography Museum, 2017, Universita di Bellas Artes, Rome, 2014; The Arts Arena, Paris, 2013; China Photographers Association, Beijing, 2013; Universidade de Belas Artes, Lisbon, Portugal, 2011; keynote address, World Press Photo 2004 and keynote address, Pingyao International Photography Festival, China, 2006 and 2007; Dalian University, China, 2007, University of Art and Architecture, Xi'An, China, 2009; Preus Museum, Norway, 2007; Ellipse Foundation, Lisbon, 2007
Singapore, 2017
Lucelia Art Awards, 2003; The Eisies, 2000; Kraszna-Krausz Awards, 1998 and 2000; W. Eugene Smith Grants, 1998; McDowell Colony, 1993-95; others
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Grant for Research, to study violence in the mass visual media, 19th and 20th century, 1994 -- renewed, 1995
Honorary Doctorate, Lesley University, Boston, May, 2011
Long Chen Cup Award ("for excellent achievement in promoting photography in the world"), China, 2006
Dudley Johnston Award, The Royal Photographic Society, 1999
International Center of Photography, Infinity Award for Writing, 1997
Photographic Administrators, Inc., Award for Writing, 1997
Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism, School of Journalism, University of Missouri at Columbia, 1995 (previously given only to photographers)
Arts Arena, 2009 -
Architectural League of New York, 2000 - 2010
Visiting Committee, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2004-2006 (the committee was discontinued)
Senior consultant, "American Photography: A Century of Images," three-hour PBS documentary, October, 1999
Consultant and on-camera commentator, "Decisive Moments," six-part BBC series, 1997


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In now-infamous comments on Friday, President Barack Obama informed America that "the private sector is doing fine." This, of course, was news to the 12.7 million people who are out of work and the millions more who are struggling with the part-time jobs they can find, or have simply given up looking.
While the President's comment is astoundingly out of touch with the public—and economic reality—perhaps even more distressing is that this wasn't a passing verbal gaffe. This is actually a consistent talking point of the President and Democratic leadership that goes largely unchallenged by the media.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D–NV) made the same case last fall when he was pushing a $35 billion bailout for state and local governments. "It's very clear that private-sector jobs have been doing just fine," Reid argued. "It's the public-sector jobs where we've lost huge numbers, and that's what this legislation is all about."
This is the President's and the Majority Leader's solution to the jobs crisis: more so-called stimulus and more government employees.
As Heritage's James Sherk has explained, this thinking is completely backwards: "If the recession has barely touched one sector of the economy, it is government."
If anyone is "doing fine," it's government employees. This goes beyond the far more generous pension and health benefits they enjoy. While the private sector lost 4.6 million jobs (a 3.9 percent drop) since the recession began, government payrolls have only fallen by 240,000 jobs (a 1.1 percent drop). Federal employment has actually grown nearly 12 percent since the end of 2007, and while the country suffers from 8.2 percent unemployment, the unemployment rate for government employees is just 4.2 percent.
In any case, the federal government borrowing more money to transfer to state and local governments is not a job-creation policy, and it is outside the scope of the federal government. It's merely a ploy to please union bosses, who are always eager to draw more federal dollars.
This government-boosting strategy also ignores the fact that it has been tried before and found wanting. President Obama's first trillion-dollar stimulus plan was a failure (and a waste). And Europe is in the shape it is because of years of government largesse. Ironically President Obama sought to focus the media's attention on Europe on Friday in an attempt to divert it from his own economic mismanagement.
We cannot avoid a European-style fiscal crisis by emulating Europe's philosophy of government-centered economies and overspending.
But the President doesn't understand the function of the private sector—creating and producing—so he is compelled to separate it from the rest of his reality. The private sector is indeed a bit of an alien place to this president , according to his accounting. He wrote in his autobiography Dreams from My Father about finding "conventional work" to pay the bills until he could land his dream job of community organizer. He was determined to remain in the private sector only briefly: "Like a spy behind enemy lines, I arrived every day at my mid-Manhattan office and sat at my computer terminal."
Following a flurry of outrage over his Friday comment, the President backtracked, saying what he meant was that "we've actually seen some good momentum in the private sector. That has not been the biggest drag on the economy."
Moving from 8.1 percent unemployment to 8.2 percent can only be considered "good momentum" in this White House. However, he's correct about one thing: The biggest drag on the economy isn't the private sector, but Washington.
Job creators in the private sector are paralyzed, suffering from overregulation and waiting for Taxmageddon to hit in January. The longer Congress waits to prevent Taxmageddon, the more uncertainty there will be for businesses.
Of course, if the President's goal is to add more government employees, then he wouldn't be as worried about the impact of these taxes and regulations on the private sector, which is "doing fine."
In Dreams from My Father, Obama excused his temporary need to make money from a private-sector job while seeking his destiny as a community organizer: "I would need the money later, I told myself. Organizers didn't make any money; their poverty was proof of their integrity."
If poverty is proof of integrity, then the President seems determined to make saints of us all.
Quick Hits:
- U.S. Secretary of Commerce John Bryson was cited for felony hit-and-run and found unconscious in his vehicle over the weekend in San Gabriel Valley, California.
- Spain is getting a loan: up to 100 billion euros from its eurozone colleagues. This makes it "the fourth country to seek assistance since Europe's debt crisis began," according to Reuters.
- "The independence and speed of two veteran prosecutors named by the Justice Department to investigate leaks of national security information could determine whether the controversy settles quickly or blossoms into an election-year problem for President Barack Obama," reports The Washington Post.
- After the State Department announced rewards for information leading to the capture of members of al-Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab, the terrorist group countered with an offer of camels to those who would lead them to President Obama and chickens for information about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
- HHS recently held a health care town hall to educate women about Obamacare. The effects of decreased choice, higher premiums, and violations of religious freedom were among the Top 5 Things the Administration Forgot to Tell Women.


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When a player correctly guesses a catch phrase then they can have a turn at the Bonus Catch Phrase Round. This is a really neat card with 9 removable windows that reveal the full photo slowly after each correct answer just as in the TV show.
Each card answered correctly earns you £100, and the bonus round earns you £300. When you have exposed all of the picture in the bonus round or it has been guessed then play moves on to round 2.
Round 2 is the Rapid Fire Round. The host places a card on the Mr Chips stand and all players can shout out as many guesses as they like until the timer runs out. 5 cards are played and every one answered correctly within the time limit earns £200.
Round 3 is the Super Catch Phrase Round. This uses special one-sided cards placed randomly on a board with 6 spaces. One question from each row in turn must be answered correctly as in the rapid fire round, winning £300, £400 and £500 respectively. Then the next player has a turn to host and we start again at Round 1. After every player has hosted, money is counted and the winner declared.
My one complaint about catch phrase is that the Super Catch Phrase cards didn't really work. They have the 'answer' written on them and it's meant to be invisible without the special red film, but at certain angles you could easily read it, so we ended up having to obscure it anyway.
I really enjoyed this game. With 6 of us gameplay was a bit long, but it was great fun. There are plenty of 'ooooh' and 'aaaaagh' moments, and lots of laughs.
Catch Phrase The Board Game retails at around £19.99 and I think that's a great price for a game such as this. Replay is a little limited as there are only 30 bonus catch phrase cards, 2 of which are visible when you open the box, and I think after a few plays through you would learn them all, but it still offers excellent value for money.
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