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PFOX (parents and friends of ex-gays) has been running a claim that "Identical Twins Prove No One Born Gay". To this end they put up a billboard in Virginia showing what was claimed to be two identical twins, one gay, one not. However it was found out that both photographs were of the same South African model, Kyle Roux, who is gay and not a twin, and understandably objected to his image being used in this way. However even if they had featured a real gay-straight twin couple
a) their argument is as lacking in logic as those who argue that DNA does oblige homosexuality or transgender
b) if it were a choice, it is a perfectly legitimate choice
c) PFOX is associated with churches, and there is something very wrong with religion if it is something inherited and not chosen.
Best of luck to the trans-cast film Happy Birthday Marsha. It does seem like sour grapes to point out that Marsha's birthday was 24 August, not late June.
There have been a lot of trans actors getting parts recently and there is a feel that change is about to happen, and that cis-cast trans roles as in Stonewall (2015), The Danish Girl, About Ray, Transparent, will soon be artifacts of the past. Here is a list of recent trans actors, with apologies to others that I have missed in quickly putting this together:
Mimi Juareza, Rebecca Root, Lavern Cox, Pooya Mohseni, Solange Dymenzstein, Mya Taylor, Eve Lindley, Bethany Black, Jamie Clayton, Kitana Kiki, Yasmin Lee, Rüzgar Erkoçlar, Aleksa Lundberg, Lee Si-yeon, Marlo Bernier, Riley Millington, Annie Wallace, Erika Ervin.
And here is a partial list of trans actors in earlier decades
Pascale Ourbih, Holly Woodlawn, Alessandra di Sanzo, Maria Clara Spinelli, Sandra Day, Michelle De Ville, Jacqie Sarduy, Candis Cayne, Giorgia O'Brien, Kin August, Bobbi Cameron, Jin Xing, Antonia San Juan, Elizabeth Coffey, Bülent Ersoy, Bobby Darling, Romy Haag, Bibi Andersen, Minette, Eva Robin's, Lazlo Pearlman, Candy Darling.
Click here for trans actors in the movies whom I have already featured in my encyclopedia:
A few comments on Stonewall (2015):
a) Stonewall (1995) included two actual transsexuals: Candis Cayne and Allyson Allanta, as well as drag performer Sherry Vine. In this respect the new film went backwards.b) even the major gay male roles were played by straight actors.
c) the plot was so similar to the 1995 film as to give the impression that there is only one story to be told about Stonewall. It is sad that the producers thought that.
A few comments on The Danish Girl.
a) A cis actor in the main trans part and Rebecca Root in a small role as 'the nurse' where the character does not even get a name. If we go back to 1987 we find La ley del deseo/Law of Desire by Pedro Almodóvar with cis actress Carmen Maura playing the lead trans role, Tina Quintera, and trans actress Bibí Andersen (now known as Bibíana Manuela Fernández Chica) played a smaller cis role, Ada. So have we moved forward at all?b) It has been suggested that Rebecca Root was unsuitable for the part in that the character is male for the first part of the film. I couldn't find a clear statement on this. Of course any trans actor playing a trans character in transition would be expected to play the before and after. Laverne Cox is fortunate in having a twin brother to play the before scenes. We of course expect a trans actor to be an actor first and foremost and to be able to play both genders just as much as cis actors do.
c) It has been said that no trans actor has the reputation to attract the necessary investment. Somehow when a film is about a child, they cast a relatively unknown actor as the child and do not run into that particular problem.
Fame is often fleeting
Mikki Nicholson, 36, Carlisle, UK national Scrabble champion 2010, subsequently suffered frequent abuse, and has committed suicide.Diana Sacayán (1975 – 2015) Argentinian activist, was given the first revised ID card by President Cristina de Kirchner in 2012, but has now been murdered.


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The Darkmoon Faire is now welcoming visitors to Darkmoon Island for fun and mayhem. While still under the management of Silas Darkmoon, the Faire is no longer the washed out carnival of the past. It has been radically revamped – including a lead in quest, teleport to the staging post, a whole new area, more games, mounts, companion pets, achievements, quests & dailies. During the weeklong celebration of the Faire at the start of each month, Darkmoon Faire Mystic Mages in the factional capitals offer the lead-in quest (The Darkmoon Faire). They will also – for a small fee – teleport you to the staging area of the Faire in Goldshire, Elywyn Forest (Alliance) or near the base of Thunderbuff, Mulgore (Horde). A portal at the staging area transports you the Darkmoon Faire Isle shrouded in mist and mystery somewhere in the Great Sea.
On arrival, take the path (marked by arrow) down through the dark woods (watched by the flashing eyes in the bushes reminiscent of Duskwood), until you come to the carnival area. Like Shattrath, Dalaran and the Argent Tournament, the path through the woods and Faire are Sanctuary areas with fighting between factions forbidden. This, however, is not true of other parts of the Island. At the south end of the carnival area on the Boardwalk are two portals back to Alliance and Horde staging areas.
The Faire now offers new attractions, monthly quests, dailies, achievements, reputation and vendors of rare and mysterious objects. Moreover, the Tauren Chieftains currently play at the Faire regularly. The Exposition, South, West and East Pavilions are still under construction – no doubt new experiences and rewards await us once they are completed.
From their different booths or carts, Darkmoon vendors offer (in exchange for Darkmoon Faire Prize Tickets though sometimes for gold) diverse wares such as special food, drink, epic and heirloom gear, Darkmoon game tokens, balloons, novelty items, speciality fireworks, companion pets and mounts (including a Dancing Bear). The Darkmoon tickets (placed in your currency page) are earned by doing the monthly quests or the dailies and replace the now old tattered and useless tickets earned before 2012.
The games and attractions have been expanded from the old faire and have a midway or sideshow alley feel about them.
The Games
Each of the games requires a Game Token. They can be purchased in a pouch (5 tokens) or sack (20 tokens) from Zina Sharpworth at the north entrance of the Faire grounds, Sazz Coincatcher next to the Shooting Gallery or Trixi Sharpworth closer to the Boardwalk in the south. Dismount (if mounted) and speak to the appropriate vendor when ready to play. A special tool bar will appear for one minute. Additional tokens will give additional minutes of play. Each game is associated with a daily which awards a prize ticket and reputation (see below).
- Tonk Battle Blast targets with your steam tonk while avoiding damage by enemy zeppelins and tonks. Use the nitrous boost if you are marked by the enemy tonk to shake them off. (In the separate arena you can battle against tonks of other players though this does not award a ticket.)
- Cannon Launch yourself from the 5000 Blastenheimer Ultra Cannon operated by Maxima Blastenheimer. Once launched you can float with your wings, or shed the wings to land on or near one of the targets in the sea. Landing nearby gets you 1 point, within the ring gives you 3 points and a bulls eye gets 5 points. You can speak to Fozlebub, who is fishing on the shore, to port you back to the canon for a small fee.
- Whack-a-Gnoll While Sayge doesn't really approve, this is a fun filled game in which the aim is to whack gnolls. Speak to Mola to play the game. Three types of gnolls pop out of the barrels – aim to hit the regular (give 1 point), Hogger (give 3 points) and avoid the babies which will stun if you hit them. After one minute players are stunned and transported out of the ring.
- Ring Toss – the aim of this game is to toss rings on to a pole on the back of a slow moving turtle. Make sure you are standing close to the counter and then place the targeting circle on the turtle and click. This is by far the easiest game and should only need one game token to complete the corresponding daily.
- Shooting Gallery – shoot targets at Rinling's booth. Make sure you are standing against the counter (not on it or back from it) and shoot at the target with the green arrow over it. Hitting the target within a second of the arrow appearing awards quick shot.
Other Attractions
- Fortune Teller- the Gnoll Sayge will give you an hour buff (e.g. Damage, Intelligence, Armor) once you have answered a series of questions. He will also supply written fortune cookie style sayings on request.
- Zoo & Petting Zoo – a large display of exotic animals plus a small area where you can ride a Darkmoon pony (for I Was Promised a Pony achievement) or ram.
- Darkmoon Deathmatch – Korgal Crushskull places a chest full of goodies at the centre of the fighting pit to be claimed by the quick, the strong and the brave every 3 hours from midnight. Winning the bout awards a trinket and Darkmoon Duelist achievement.
- The Tauren Chieftains – the Chieftains are currently playing hourly on the stage at the south end of the Carnival. If you haven't experienced this show, it's well worth experiencing the show.
Monthly Quests
There a couple of general quests (available from level 5).
- The Darkmoon Faire – Lead in quest obtained from Darkmoon Faire Mystic Mages in the factional cities – often near either auction houses (eg Ironforge, Stormwind City) or the gryphon or windrider handlers (eg Orgrimmar, Darnasuss & in a way at Thunderbluff,). On handing the free voucher to Gelvas Grimgate, he will give you Darkmoon Adventure Journal & 5 prize tickets.
- Test Your Strength – the Strong woman Kerri wants you to collect 250 grisly trophies to show you strength. These drop from creatures that award honour or experience as long as you have the Adventure Guide. Awards 10 Prize Tokens.
The majority of the monthly quests linked to professions become available at Level 10 (& are not available to lower level toons even if they have trained in one or several professions.)
Quests connected to secondary professions
- Fun for the Little Ones – Collect 15 fossil fragments from Archaeology for Professor Thaddeus Paleo to bury in the sandpit for the children. Handing in the quest gives +5 in Archaeology skill, a Game Token, 3 Prize Tokens and Darkmoon Faire Rep. The fossil fragments will be used up.
- Spoiling for the Salty Sea Dogs - Stamp Thunderhorn asks you to catch 5 Herring in the ocean around Darkmoon Island. Awards +5 fishing skill, 1 game token, 3 prize tokens, experience and reputation.
- Putting the Crunch in the Frog – Stamp Thunderhorn asks you to flour and cook 5 plump frogs, using the cauldron at the back of his stall. You will need simple flour from a trade goods vendor (for Alliance – Tharynn Bouden stands near the staging area at Goldshire). Awards +5 cooking skill, 1 game token, 3 prize tokens, experience and reputation.
- Putting the Carnies Back Together Again – Heal 4 injured Carnies with the bandages supplied by Chronos. Awards 5 points in First Aid, 1 game token, 3 prize tokens, experience and reputation.
Primary professional skills
Most of the professional quests can be completed without leaving the faire grounds, except perhaps when common trade goods like coarse thread, blue dye or simple flour are needed. There are either collecting or crafting quests, for instance:
- Tan My Hide – Scrap 4 skins staked out around the carnival Grounds. Awards +5 Skinning Skill, 1 game token, 4 prize tokens, experience and reputation.
- Rearm, Reuse, Recycle – Ringling asks you to collect 6 Tonk metal scraps around the Faire grounds. Awards +5 Mining Skill, 1 game token, 4 prize tokens, experience and reputation.
- Eyes on the Prize – Ringling (at the Shooter's Gallery) asks you to use the Darkmoon construction kit and some common vendor items (shiny baubles available from the Fishing Vendor in a booth on the Board Walk, blue dye, coarse thread) to construct 5 Darkmoon Prizes. Awards +5 Leatherworking Skill, 1 game token, 4 prize tokens, experience and reputation.
- Keep the Faire Sparkling – cut 5 sparkling gemstones from bits of glass found about the Faire grounds. Awards +5 Jewell crafting Skill, 1 game token, 4 prize tokens, experience and reputation
There are also specific quests for inscription, blacksmithing, enchanting and tailoring.
Dailies require a specified number of points or hits within the different games of the Faire. The scores can be accumulated over a number of game sessions (not just within the minute). It's Hammer Time (Whack-a-Gnoll) requires 30 points; Tonk Commander requires hitting 30 targets, He Shoots , He scores! (Shooting Gallery) requires 25 of hits, Target: Turtle! requires landing 3 rings while A Human Cannonball needs 5 points (a bulls eye or some combination of points). Each daily rewards one Darkmoon Prize Ticket.
There are a range of new achievements (look under World Events: Darkmoon Faire) from the dead easy (e.g. Come One! Come All! – attend a Darkmoon Faire), to the relatively easy (e.g. Step Right Up – play all 5 of the Faire games or Faire Favours – complete at least 6 profession-based DM Monthly quests) to the more difficult (Darkmoon Duelist – win the Darkmoon Deathmatch and receive the pit fighter trinket)! At this stage at least, there is no meta-achievement or title for completing a number of these achievements.
Monthly quests and dailies all award Darkmoon Faire reputation. Darkmoon Cards can still be collected and can be handed in to Professor Thaddeus Paleo in exchange for a trinket and reputation with the Faire.
All in all, the Darkmoon Faire now offers many more incentives to visit. Now visitors will surely include – not only those who wish to build Darkmoon Rep for the Insane in the Membrane Achievement or to hand in the Darkmoon cards for quickly surpassed Trinket– but anyone who would like to level their professions, get some cool new companion pets or mounts, or some classic armor to use as a model on which to transmogrify their current set or just for a change of scenery or some pvp fun in the pit.
With a name like Darkmoon, it is little wonder that the Faire has a dark and mysterious atmosphere accentuated by the perpetual misty twilight of Darkmoon Island – from stormy sky, to the twisting path hemmed in by dark twisted trees leading downwards with its enticing verse*, the bodiless red eyes winking in the dark bushes, the almost deserted woods surrounding the faire grounds and, over the entrance, the large staring fiery eye – so reminiscent of Tolkien's Eye of Sauron –gazing at all who approach and enter in the Faire grounds. So far the amusements of the faire seem mostly innocuous. As the official promo says,
"Mist-shrouded Darkmoon Island is a conundrum wrapped in an enigma. It's a place of mystery and wonder, and you wouldn't believe the deals we made to get it… or who we made 'em with. But never mind that, just follow me right through here and I'll show you what the Darkmoon Faire is all about."
Do I detect just a hint of intrigue here? What deals have been made and with whom? Sometimes, a path that seems enticing and innocuous can lead one into darkness, distress, danger and despair. What harm can seeking one's future fortune do? Caveat emptor Let the buyer beware!
*Ahead of You, Down the Path A Majestic, Magical Faire! Ignore the Darkened, Eerie Woods Ignore the Eyes That Blink and Stare Fun & Games & Wondrous Sights! Music & Fireworks to Light Up the Night! Do Not Stop! You're Nearly There! Behold, My Friend: THE DARKMOON FAIRE!-The signs on the Darkmoon Path leading to the Faire


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The snow floats down upon us, mingled with rain . . .
It eddies around pale lilac lamps, and falls
Down golden-windowed walls.
We were all born of flesh, in a flare of pain,
We do not remember the red roots whence we rose,
But we know that we rose and walked, that after a while
We shall lie down again.
The snow floats down upon us, we turn, we turn,
Through gorges filled with light we sound and flow . . .
One is struck down and hurt, we crowd about him,
We bear him away, gaze after his listless body;
But whether he lives or dies we do not know.
One of us sings in the street, and we listen to him;
The words ring over us like vague bells of sorrow.
He sings of a house he lived in long ago.
It is strange; this house of dust was the house I lived in;
The house you lived in, the house that all of us know.
And coiling slowly about him, and laughing at him,
And throwing him pennies, we bear away
A mournful echo of other times and places,
And follow a dream . . . a dream that will not stay.
Down long broad flights of lamplit stairs we flow;
Noisy, in scattered waves, crowding and shouting;
In broken slow cascades.
The gardens extend before us . . . We spread out swiftly;
Trees are above us, and darkness. The canyon fades . . .
And we recall, with a gleaming stab of sadness,
Vaguely and incoherently, some dream
Of a world we came from, a world of sun-blue hills . . .
A black wood whispers around us, green eyes gleam;
Someone cries in the forest, and someone kills.
We flow to the east, to the white-lined shivering sea;
We reach to the west, where the whirling sun went down;
We close our eyes to music in bright cafees.
We diverge from clamorous streets to streets that are silent.
We loaf where the wind-spilled fountain plays.
And, growing tired, we turn aside at last,
Remember our secret selves, seek out our towers,
Lay weary hands on the banisters, and climb;
Climbing, each, to his little four-square dream
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Ottokar Cadek
Violinist, conductor, and teacher Ottokar Čadek (1897-1956) contributed significantly to promoting the importance of classical music in Alabama. Between 1933 to 1956, he was a performer with the Birmingham Civic Symphony Orchestra and a distinguished member of the music department at the University of Alabama. He was from a long-established musical family whose members continue to hold prominent positions in the classical music world.
Ottokar Cadek Čadek (pronounced Chá-dek) was born on February 20, 1897, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the second of four children of Marguerite Guirard and Joseph Čadek, of Swiss and Bohemian heritage, respectively. Joseph Čadek (1868-1927), a prominent European violinist, emigrated from Bohemia's capital of Prague (now in the Czech Republic) and settled in Chattanooga in 1892. There, he founded the Čadek Conservatory of Music at the University of Chattanooga (now the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga) in 1904; it remains well-known today. Ottokar Čadek began studying violin with his father, and at age 15 he and his older sister Lillian were sent to the Zurich Conservatory. During this time, he gained attention by winning a number of European competitions. He did the same after returning to Chattanooga, winning American competitions, most notably in 1917 in Chicago, where he was hailed as a young Bohemian violinist. Čadek, however, countered that description by expressing his desire to be considered an American.
When Ralph Pulitzer, the son of St. Louis newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer, and his wife Frederica decided to sponsor a new American string quartet, they expressly wanted four like-minded musicians and in this case, four Bohemian string players. Their friend Ludvik Schwab, a pianist, violist, and composer, helped them found the New York String Quartet in 1919. The 22-year-old Čadek was selected as first violinist. In addition to being among the youngest musicians to play in such a group, he was also one of the first American-born members of a major string quartet in the United States. He played a 1718 Stradivarius violin loaned to him by John Frothingham, a New York businessman, and in 1948, Frothingham's family gave him the instrument in recognition of his contributions to classical music in the South.
From 1919 to 1933, the New York String Quartet brought chamber music to audiences all over the United States. During its first three years, the group was supported financially exclusively by the Pulitzers as their private quartet, playing frequently for them at their private residences. The New York String Quartet made its professional debut in 1922 in New York City and became known for championing new, especially Czech, music in addition to the standard repertoire. The group was joined frequently by eminent musical colleagues to perform chamber music, including pianists Percy Grainger (1882-1961), Ethel Leginska (1886-1970), and mezzo-soprano Clara Clemens (1874-1962), daughter of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain).
Čadek married Nashville native Sara Hitchcock in 1924, and in 1930 their daughter Marie was born. During the Great Depression, the quartet's performance schedule slowed, and Čadek was faced with difficulties in supporting his family. He left the quartet in 1933, after a final performance in Birmingham, and later that year, he joined the Birmingham Civic Symphony Orchestra (present-day Alabama Symphony Orchestra) first as its concertmaster and then as conductor. He used his connections to bring numerous notable musicians to perform with the orchestra, thus providing Alabama music lovers access to leading figures in the field of classical music. He insisted that program notes for each performance be printed in the Birmingham press before the performances in his efforts to educate the public, and for several years before World War II, he instituted chamber music festivals.
Ottokar Cadek with the Cadek Quartet in 1950 After the war broke out, the orchestra shut down, and in 1943, Čadek and his family moved to Tuscaloosa. The following year, he took up his duties developing the string program at the University of Alabama. In 1946, he founded the Čadek String Quartet, one of a few university string quartets-in-residence in America at the time and a major contribution to the music department. Čadek was the quartet's first violinist, Emily Searcy the second violinist, Henry Barrett the violist, and Margaret Christy the cellist. Čadek also taught at the National Music Camp in Interlochen, Michigan, every summer beginning in 1946 and headed its string program. In 1955, the recital hall at the University of Alabama's newly built Music and Speech Building (now Rowand-Johnson Hall) was named Čadek Hall.
As a revered teacher, he was affectionately called "Papa Čadek" by his many violin students, who cherished his mentorship and spread his musical values nationally. For example, during his high-school years, John Dalley, second violinist with the renowned Guarneri String Quartet, lived in Tuscaloosa for three years with the Čadek family. Dalley was with the Guarneri Quartet from its founding in 1964 until its disbanding in 2009.
On July 25, 1956, Čadek was a member of a quartet performing one of Johannes Brahms's quartets when he collapsed on stage and died of a heart attack. He was buried in Nashville's Mount Olivet Cemetery. Čadek's daughter Marie Guirard "Jerrie" Čadek Lucktenberg (1930-2009) followed in her father's footsteps in teaching the violin at Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. Čadek's granddaughter, Kathryn Lucktenberg, today continues the family tradition, performing and teaching as a violin professor at the University of Oregon.
Additional Resources
Ottokar Čadek Family Collection, W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Benser, Caroline Cepin. "Bohemia in America: Ottokar Čadek and the New York String Quartet." Alabama Heritage 14 (Fall 1989): 2-17.
Siskovsky, Jaroslav. Fiddler on the Hoof: The Odyssey of a Concert Violinist. Philadelphia: Dorrance and Co., 1975.
Steinhardt, Arnold. Indivisible by Four: A String Quartet in Pursuit of Harmony. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1998.


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- Top Ten Muskrat Flavored Social Media Popsicles
- 27 Must Have Twitter Followers in the California Penal System
- Three Key Techniques for Spamming Anonymous Strangers in the Vain Hope of Getting More Facebook Fans
- Four Absolutely Critical Hello Kitty iPhone Accessories
The other popular way to write a blog these days is the "How to" or "Where do I find" types
- How Do I Get Hot Girls to Follow Me on Twitter? (Now available in seven easy installments of $199 each!)
- How Can I Get To Be Mayor Of Yankee Stadium When I Don't Leave The House?
- Which Social Media Network is Best for the Buying and Selling of Monkeys?
- How Do I Grow Revenue at My Failing Business Using Social Media but With No Budget, Time, Effort or Creativity?
Anyway! Here are some of the really good articles I read this week:
5 Huge Trends in Social Media Right Now (Mashable)
They are:
1. Social Scanning
2. QA and Intelligent Information Discovery
3. Group Buying
4. Mobile Meets Loyalty
5. Checking-In to Entertainment
Questioning the Prominence of B2B Search (Strategic Guy)
Is SEO really that important to B2B marketers?
A good friend and long-standing client pointed me to a BtoB Magazine article about a recent survey entitled "The Impact of Social Media on Search." The nearly 500 marketers queried reported their most important goals for social media marketing as the following:Maybe not...
-Building brand awareness (81%)
-Increasing traffic to a Web site (77%)
-Generating leads (67%)
-Providing deeper engagement with customers (66%)
-Improving search results (57%)
Lastly ReadWriteWeb has a cool flowchart on How to Evaluate New Twitter Followers


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- Waking trees and occasionally rampaging in Balrog form!
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Anwar al-Awlaki: ACLU wants militant cleric taken off US 'kill list'
Two US civil rights groups are asking a federal judge to halt an alleged Obama administration plan to kill an American citizen believed to be allied with Al Qaeda and hiding in Yemen.
The Center for Constitutional Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed the lawsuit Monday in Washington. It asks US District Judge John Bates to order the government not to carry out the alleged plot to conduct a targeted killing of Anwar al-Awlaki.
Mr. Awlaki is a militant Islamic lecturer who used the Internet to spread the ideology of Al Qaeda. Born in the US and educated at American colleges, Awlaki has provided a bridge between militants overseas and some radical Muslims based in the US.
He is reported to have encouraged Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan. He allegedly helped train Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who has been charged with attempting to blow up an airliner on Christmas Day, and is said to have inspired would-be Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad.
According to the lawsuit, US officials placed Awlaki's name on a "kill list" in early 2010. The suit says that American officials are using secret criteria to determine who goes on the list.
It says the killings are carried out by the Central Intelligence Agency or the military's Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC).
"The right to life is the most fundamental of all rights," says ACLU lawyer Arthur Spitzer in the complaint.
"US citizens have a right to know what conduct may subject them to execution at the hands of their own government," Mr. Spitzer writes. "Due process requires, at a minimum, that citizens be put on notice of what may cause them to be put to death by the state."
The complaint adds: "Both the Constitution and international law prohibit targeted killing except as a last resort to protect against concrete, specific, and imminent threats."
Government officials have defended the program, saying that after the 9/11 attacks Congress granted the executive branch wide latitude to take action to protect the country from Al Qaeda.
"The US is careful to ensure that all its operations used to prosecute the armed conflict against those forces, including lethal operations, comply with all applicable laws, including the laws of war," Justice Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement.
"This administration is using every legal measure available to defeat Al Qaeda, and we will continue to do so as long as its forces pose a threat to this nation," he said.
President Obama, CIA Director Leon Panetta, and Defense Secretary Robert Gates are named as defendants in the suit.
The same two civil rights groups filed a lawsuit on Aug. 3 challenging the legality of Treasury Department regulations that require lawyers in the case to obtain a government-issued license before they could file a lawsuit on behalf of someone on the government's terrorism list. That suit asked a judge to declare the licensing requirement illegal and unconstitutional.
Both lawsuits were filed in the name of Awlaki's father, Nasser al-Awlaki. The arrangement was necessary, according to the complaint, because his son, Anwar, is in hiding in Yemen and cannot gain access to lawyers or the courts to assert his constitutional rights without risking imminent death.
The elder Awlaki was a Fulbright scholar from Yemen studying in the US in the 1960s. He married a US citizen and they had a son, Anwar, who is also a US citizen because he was born in the US. The family returned to Yemen in 1978.
Anwar returned and lived in the US from 1991 to 2003. He studied at Colorado State University, San Diego State University, and George Washington University. He is married with three children.
"Upon information and belief," the suit says, "Anwar [Al-Awlaki] is now subject to a standing order that permits the CIA and JSOC to kill him."
The suit alleges that the targeted-killing program violates Awlaki's Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable seizure and his Fifth Amendment right not to be deprived of life without due process.


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A team of security researchers and academics has broken a core piece of internet technology. They made their work public at the 25th Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin today. The team was able to create a rogue certificate authority and use it to issue valid SSL certificates for any site they want. The user would have no indication that their HTTPS connection was being monitored/modified.
This attack is possible because of a flaw in MD5. MD5 is a hashing algorithm; each unique file has a unique hash. In 2004, a team of Chinese researchers demonstrated creating two different files that had the same MD5 hash. In 2007, another team showed theoretical attacks that took advantage of these collisions. The team focused on SSL certificates signed with MD5 for their exploit.
The first step was doing some broad scans to see what certificate authorities (CA) were issuing MD5 signed certs. They collected 30K certs from Firefox trusted CAs. 9K of them were MD5 signed. 97% of those came from RapidSSL.
Having selected their target, the team needed to generate their rogue certificate to transfer the signature to. They employed the processing power of 200 Playstation 3s to get the job done. For this task, it's the equivalent of 8000 standard CPU cores or $20K of Amazon EC2 time. The task takes ~1-2 days to calculate. The tricky part was knowing the content of the certificate that would be issued by RapidSSL. They needed to predict two variables: the serial number and the timestamp. RapidSSL's serial numbers were all sequential. From testing, they knew that RapidSSL would always sign six seconds after the order was acknowledged. Knowing these two facts they were able to generate a certificate in advance and then purchase the exact certificate they wanted. They'd purchase certificates to advance the serial number and then buy on the exact time they calculated.
The cert was issued to their particular domain, but since they controlled the content, they changed the flags to make themselves an intermediate certificate authority. That gave them authority to issue any certificate they wanted. All of these 'valid' certs were signed using SHA-1.
If you set your clock back to before August 2004, you can try out their live demo site. This time is just a security measure for the example and this would work identically with a certificate that hasn't expired. There's a project site and a much more detailed writeup than this.
To fix this vulnerability, all CAs are now using SHA-1 for signing and Microsoft and Firefox will be blacklisting the team's rogue CA in their browser products.


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Grover Cleveland: Domestic Affairs
When Grover Cleveland became President in 1885, he was the first Democrat to occupy the White House since James Buchanan was elected just prior to the Civil War. For most of his first term, Cleveland was more concerned with preventing Congress from granting privileges to special interests than with pursuing his own legislative agenda. He did not see himself as an activist President. Beyond making speeches, he did not send much legislation to Congress or demonstrate much leadership. Instead, he focused on making the federal government more efficient by appointing officials based on merit. Cleveland's management style was to name qualified cabinet members, delegate authority to them, and use them for advice and counsel.
Legislative Impact
Cleveland did push two legislative initiatives, during his first term, however: the repeal of the Bland-Allison Silver Purchase Act of 1878 and tariff reduction. His efforts, however, were ineffective and poorly presented. Always a hard-currency advocate (he thought that paper money should be backed by gold), Cleveland believed that inflating the money supply through the purchase and coinage of silver undermined confidence in the American dollar and punished creditors by paying them money less valuable than the dollars they had originally loaned. On this issue Cleveland stood apart from his constituency, especially in the South and West. The Bland-Allison Act remained law until the Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890 replaced it. Tariff reduction, on the other hand, had the support of many Democrats. However, Cleveland's ineffective leadership generated little change in the tariff structure.
Consistent with his actions as governor of New York, Cleveland was not shy about using his veto power. For example, he turned away hundreds of veterans' pension bills because he thought they were fraudulent. He also vetoed a bill to provide drought relief to farmers in the West owing to his belief that such assistance was not the province of national government.
In one area, however, Cleveland exhibited tact and effective energy. Almost as soon as he assumed office, Cleveland's congressional opponents attempted to limit his power to remove Republican-appointed federal officials. They argued that the Tenure of Office Act of 1867 required congressional consent for the dismissal of executive branch office-holders. Cleveland refused to accept this interpretation, made speeches in opposition, and forced the Republicans to back down. His decisive action in this matter stands as the exception rather than the rule when it came to his leadership of Congress.
Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
Although a reformer, Cleveland used patronage and party organization to win elections. He stood with his party in opposition to temperance, thus winning the support of others who opposed it—including the Irish, Germans, and East Europeans who had migrated to the United States by the tens of thousands in the 1880s. On the issue of race, he agreed with white southerners in their reluctance to treat African Americans as social and political equals, and made special efforts to reach out to Democrats and former Confederates in the South to assure them that they had a friend in the White House. He also opposed integrated schools in New York and saw African Americans as essentially inferior. In believing that government should not interfere with what he regarded as a social problem, he opposed efforts to protect the suffrage of African Americans.
In his first term as President, Cleveland condemned the "outrages" being committed against the Chinese on the nation's west coast. He soon concluded, however, that prejudice towards the Chinese in the region was so deep and their culture so alien that America could not absorb this immigrant group. Thereafter, he worked to limit Chinese immigration and to prohibit those who had left the United States to visit relatives in China from returning. The principal difference between Chinese and European immigrants, he believed, was the unwillingness of the former to assimilate into American society.
When Cleveland took office, 204,000 Native Americans were scattered among 171 reservations on 135 million acres of land. In Cleveland's view, the Native Americans were wards of the nation, like wayward but promising children in need of a guardian. Regarding himself as an Indian reformer, Cleveland sought to persuade Native Americans to forego their old tribal ways. He sought to be assimilate them into white society by means of education, private land ownership, and parental guidance from the federal government. Though he did not campaign for the bill, he eagerly supported and signed into law the Dawes Act of 1887, which empowered the President to allot land within the reservations to individual Indians—with all surplus land reverting to the public domain. It was a disastrous policy that robbed Native Americans of much of their land and did little to improve their way of life.
Women's Rights
Cleveland was mostly silent on the issue of women's suffrage. He understood the value of women's clubs and political organizations in drumming up the vote of husbands and fathers, and was careful not to alienate either group by speaking out against female suffrage. Neither, however, did he speak in favor of it. His one stance in support of women's rights was to criticize polygamy.
Economic Crisis
Cleveland's second administration began in 1893, just as the nation entered the most severe depression in its history. By 1894, nearly 18 percent of the nation's workers were unemployed. One-third of the wage earners in manufacturing and 25 percent of urban workers stood idle and hungry. Confidence in the economy was low, as one out of ten banks had shut their doors to depositors. Railroad construction had fallen by 50 percent, and the market for steel rails fell by one-third, forcing dozens of steel companies into bankruptcy. Charities and relief societies were unable to cope with the overwhelming demand for aid.
One response to the depression came by way of Ohioan Jacob Coxey, who organized unemployed workers from the Midwest to march to Washington, D.C., and appeal to the government for provide public works projects and relief. Known as Coxey's Army, thousands of workers tramped across the nation to its capital, though only 500 actually arrived. The press gave the march wide coverage. Ultimately, however, Coxey's efforts were unsuccessful. Cleveland did not believe that the government should sponsor work projects to relieve the depression, and the march did nothing to change his mind.
Labor unrest continued to haunt Cleveland during his second term. In 1894, 150,000 railroad workers from all over the nation struck in support of the Pullman Car workers' walk-off at a company town outside of Chicago. Even though the governor of Illinois, John Altgeld, did not want Cleveland to use federal troops to break the strike, the President did so anyway. Many observers wondered whether the nation was on the brink of either anarchy or presidential tyranny. Cleveland's handling of the strike alienated many Northern workers from the Democratic Party.
Cleveland's most forceful response to the depression was to blame the Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890, passed during the Harrison administration, for the nation's economic troubles. This law required the Treasury to purchase 4.5 million ounces of silver a month to be coined as silver dollars. As a result, the production of silver increased while the supply of gold fell, making gold more expensive. By 1893, the gold value of the silver dollar fell to 60 cents.
In successfully calling for repeal of the Purchase Act, Cleveland split the Democratic Party down the middle. He lost the support of western and southern Democrats, who thereafter looked upon Cleveland as more Republican than the Republicans. Upon repeal of the act, holders of U.S. government bonds (and the silver certificates the government once used to purchase silver) began cashing them in for gold. By 1892, the nation's gold reserves dipped below $100 million. Between 1894 and 1896, Cleveland authorized four new government bonds to raise enough gold to prevent the government from defaulting on its international obligations. He was forced to turn to investment banker J. P. Morgan to support the bonds. In relying on Morgan, Cleveland was derided for allying with powerful Wall Street interests instead of helping the average American. The President, however, felt that he had no choice but to replenish the country's gold reserves.
In the congressional elections of 1894, Cleveland's failure to deal with the depression instigated the greatest realignment of voters since the Civil War. The Democrats lost everywhere but in the Deep South. One Missouri Democrat said that the election was "the greatest slaughter of innocents since Herod," referring to the King of Judea under the Roman regime who was infamous for his tyranny, violence, and wickedness. Cleveland felt besieged, surrounded by enemies, and beset by hecklers at every turn. He left the White House in 1897 as an embittered but arrogant man, convinced that he had been betrayed by the "agrarian radicals" and "Silverites" within his own party.


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Have you been out of sorts physically and/or mentally lately? Have you found your relationships and people in general more difficult to tolerate and cope with? Have you found yourself or hear others say: "What the heck is going on with the world?" "It sure seems crazy and it's messing with me."
A New Era is Unfolding – Creating a Wave of Change and Unease
Well, here are some interesting insights to those questions. Be open to entertain the possibilities as you read on. For the openness to possibilities is what allows us to change and grow. This article is all about the wave of change and more importantly, opportunities for growth awaiting us all.
A Shift in Consciousness
Humanity, individually and collectively, is currently going through a major yet, predicable change and transition. A shift is occurring in human consciousness with a higher way of being and living here on earth.
It is predicable, because over the course of human evolution there has been a rise and fall of human consciousness. It's a cosmic event, because we are ultimately connected to the energy and cycles of the universe.
There is a 26,000 year cycle in our universe called the Precession of the Equinoxes, otherwise known as the earth's movement with the sun and the earth's wobble through the constellations of the zodiac. This cycle has substantial effects on individual and collective rise or fall of human consciousness and behaviors. As shown in this Sine Wave Diagram of long term history.
Age of Pieces and its Consciousness
For the past 10,000 years the consciousness on earth has been rather dark and destructive. For the past 2000 years the earth has been in the constellation and age of Pisces. The consciousness of this Piscean age on our planet has been about fear, control, manipulation, and power-over. It's been about us vs. them; divide and conquer; exclusion; "the have" and "have not's" and masculine dominated.
It's been about greed. Another way to understand greed is my definition: Greed is Power without Love and Wisdom. It's been an energy and consciousness that has been more selfish and destructive than selfless and constructive to humanity and the planet.
However, over the past fifty years there has been a gradual shift on the planet. The earth's wobble has been gradually moving out of the constellation and consciousness of Pisces; into the constellation and Age of Aquarius.
Entering the Aquarian Consciousness
The Aquarian age and its consciousness encompass love, acceptance, compassion, cooperation, collaboration and power-with. It's about inclusion, unity, fellowship, peace, integrity, intuition, and wisdom. It's the re-emergence of the feminine energy and striking a balance of the masculine and feminine energies within us and on the planet.
The energy and consciousness of Pisces is losing its grip on humanity. However, we humans struggle with change or losing control. Individuals and systems in power around the world (i.e. governments, religious systems, corporations, even family and personal relationships) are struggling with losing their power and control. In fear, many are hanging on tighter now to maintain their way with people, for their own benefit.
Part of the Struggle is Dealing with Our Shadow
As this shift is unfolding, it's impacting all of us. We are being asked (and driven) to do shadow and inner soul work toward removing what blocks the love, worthiness and light that we actually are. The ego is our internal police officer, it serves and protects us from perceived physical and especially emotional danger and pain. Its partner, the shadow is what we repress, deny or project on to others, in order to protect and defend ourselves.
Those who resist doing their inner work are having a difficult time navigating and coping with this current shift in energy and consciousness. Those with a strong and resistant ego and shadow are experiencing an increase in mental or emotional and physical difficulties and this is making it even harder to regulate and navigate themselves in constructive ways.
Reconciling the ego and its shadow is vital on both individual and collective levels. For this impacts the functioning of relationships, governments, corporations, education and healthcare systems, religious systems, etc.
Many Systems are in Disarray
Much of the current disarray (in people and systems) is the result of the individual and collective egos with their shadows becoming more fearful and out of control. We see this manifest with dysfunctional decisions and behaviors, which produce less effective results. These people and systems are operating under the old energies and ways. Thus this new age, with its higher vibration and consciousness is not supporting their older way of being.
The current United States President, with his behaviors (way of being) is exposing his ego and shadow aspects in many profound ways. You see the dysfunction and negative effects it creates for him, this nation and the world around us.
I believe Mr. Trump won this presidential election on the spiritual level, not only to expose his own ego and shadow, but more importantly, to call attention to all of us, to look at our own ego and shadow for healing and transcending.
The increase in conflict between super power nations, i.e. United States, Russia and China, are also being heightened now as the shadow aspects of the need for control and power-over creates more chaos and tension now.
Both powerful and "wanna be" powerful countries are showing their political and military might with words and actions. Understandably this creates much uncertainty, worry and anxiety for many of us as we witness what's happening on the world stage.
However, the consciousness of many is waking up to the fact that you never win a war with war. And focusing on war and terror, does just that, creates more war and terror.
Law of Attraction
The law of attraction in simple terms means: what we think about we bring about. This is true on both individual and collective levels. Individuals, big corporations and countries keep feeding their insanity called ego, by feeding their greed (i.e. money and war machines) at the expense of true peace and harmony.
Many countries have recently (or will in the near future) conduct crucial government elections that have implications for the particular countries direction for years to come. In the United States, we see the heightened clash between Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals, the right and left.
There is also a heightened exposure of, and focus on our differences. This causes increased exposure and conflict between whites vs. people of color, male vs. female, CEO's/stock holders vs. employees, Christian vs. Muslim, West vs. East, Religion vs. Spirituality.
In other systems as well, such as healthcare, conventional medicine vs. complimentary/alternative. In education, public education vs. charter schools. In business, do we take care of the environment (planet) vs. keeping the stock holders happy?
The old consciousness and paradigm of focus on the differences (us vs. them; driven by fear, ignorance, conflict and dis-harmony) is ego mentality that creates the struggle for power, and need to control.
All of this adds up to much unease and discord both individually and collectively. Can you relate?
The Ways of the Ego
When things are changing, the human ego with its shadow needs to defend, to resist, project and blame. Out of self-preservation, it struggles to hold on tightly to what it fears will be lost or taken away
In order to protect oneself from the change, we do whatever we can to resist and prevent the change.
With the energy and perception of fear, we want our sense of control and power back. Consequently, many make unconsciousness choices and exhibit behaviors that are destructive or violent to others and themselves. This inner chaos with its acting out is becoming more heightened and extreme now.
However, the energy, vibration and ways of fear, struggle with uncertainty, need for control and manipulation will no longer work in this new energy and age.
The degree of uncertainty you can tolerate during this shift will determine the quality of your life. Patience and tolerance will be more useful to you as you move through this change and transition.
The Time for Unity
The current shift is about accepting and honoring our differences, while focusing more on our similarities ‒ finding the common ground.
One way to realize this is to consider this quote by Yogiraj Siddhanath:
"Our soul cry. If earth is to herald the dawn of the new age, let us all realize.
Humanity is our uniting religion
Breath our unity prayer
Consciousness our uniting God."
How would life on earth be, if we all could adhere to this quote? This is the opportunity and shift before us. But we must make the choice to shift our perception, focus, belief, attitude, and our choices.
We Are Being Called to Move from Fear to Love
In these times of change and uncertainty it is love, understanding, acceptance, patience and compassion that will more effectively help you ride this wave of change and transition. The energy of love, acceptance, patience and compassion will offer you a different perceptive, attitude and choices as you move through this shift.
This is the paradigm shift of the ages; moving from the consciousness and behaviors of Fear to the consciousness and behaviors of Love.
It's all About Cycles
This great shift of the ages and its consciousness is happening, and cannot be stopped. It's part of a cycle that the planet and humanity have experienced before. For the earth has gone through many cycles and transitions to get to its current state, and humanity (modern homo sapiens) have also gone through many cycles and transitions over its 200,000 years of existence.
Currently we are experiencing rapid change on many fronts. From advances in technology, information, globalization, change in climate and weather patterns, etc. These changes and their transition process have been predicted by people like the famous 20th century psychic, Eager Casey and ancient cultures like the Mayan's.
The Mayan's development and use of a calendar of 7 days and 6 nights, and the 9 levels or cycles of time, with stages/levels of human consciousness. Each level is marked by a turning point in human evolution, such as: higher reason, struggle and movement toward more constructive use of power, and higher ethics/integrity (See pyramid chart below).
Each level/cycle of time gets progressively smaller and shorter in duration of time. Therefore, time and by virtue, life goes faster and changes are more accelerated and intense. This is where we are currently at and experiencing.
For the Mayan and many other ancient cultures, it wasn't so much about following time, but rather following the cycle and flow of the universe. As December 21, 2012 neared, many had predicted that the end date of the Mayan calendar was going to be the end of the world or at the very least; we would experience very drastic earth changes.
The end of the world or drastic change never happen. It was later discovered after December 21, 2012, that a more accurate end date of the calendar was October 28, 2011 was the end of the 9th and final level of the Mayan calendar.
Regardless of the actual end date, the end of the calendar was not the end of time or the world. Instead, it was the end of an age‒the end of a cycle. Moving from Pisces to the Age of Aquarius. This change through the 9 levels has been gradual from the divine eternal perspective, however, as we've reached each level time and changes accelerate. By the end of the final 9th level and going forward (where we are now); the vibration on the planet increases, time and changes accelerate more rapidly.
We were ending one cycle or age and have moved into a new cycle and age. Which seems to create greater speed and intensity of change. Can you relate to this? Consider that the term "New Age" means: "A Span of Time." Things come and they go, the pendulum swings from one end to the other end. This is the nature of things. Ways of healing and living that were popular thousands of years ago are now being re-invented and used today.
With this shift in consciousness and behaviors, four things are happening:
- Souls are leaving the planet not wanting to be part of the shift (Many people of all ages are dying, some in interesting ways).
- People are contracting difficult physical and/or mental symptoms of discomfort or disorders. That conventional medical wisdom is having difficulty knowing how to treat.
- Some are losing their minds, committing crazy, greedy or horrifying acts toward others and/or themselves.
- While others are waking up, becoming more accepting, loving, helpful and peaceful.
You choose which part of this dynamic you want to be a part of. Yes, we choose consciously or unconsciously.
All is Right on Schedule and in Perfect Cosmic Order
Everything of Piscean energy and value is now being exposed and challenged. The old ways are being dismantled, and in time will fall away. Its vibration and ways of fear, control and greed cannot be sustained with the new and heightened energies coming from the earth and the cosmos, especially our sun.
This impacts all of us, as we are being rebooted from our DNA outward. This shift is offering us the opportunity to live with greater love, integrity and cooperation.
More of the individual and collective human shadows of denial, avoidance, greed, judgment and corruption are being exposed, true? As fear is the absence of love, judgment is the withholding of love. This can no longer sustain us. This all is part of the process of ascension, what's unfolding at present. It's calling us to rise as love and goodness, because Love is who we are.
Shadows disappear, when you remove what blocks the light.
Those dwelling in energies and lower vibrations of victim-hood, or the aggressor, of shame, fear, anger, guilt, or greed‒ create a hell on earth. They will find it increasingly more difficult to sustain themselves in the 4th and soon 5th dimensional energies and vibrations of intuition, willingness, acceptance, love, compassion, joy and peace ‒ creates heaven on earth.
Here Comes the Sun
Part of our awakening to the new consciousness is that the sun is heating up and its solar flares and winds are sending high and intense energy to earth, weakening the earth's magnetic field. The earth itself is moving to a higher vibrational state known as the Schumann Resonance. A great youtube video on this concept is suggested: "The Schumann Resonance Bursts and Affects on Human Consciousness", youtube.com/watch?v=RLczNzWBbpE.
This resonance or frequency is rapidly increasing on earth, this along with the sun's increased solar activity, is taking us all for a wild ride, physically, mentally emotionally, socially and spiritually.
Due to the intensity of these energies and light coming from the sun/cosmos and the earth many people are feeling the effects of this on the physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual level. Feeling what's called "Symptoms of Ascension" such as: lack of focus and concentration, increased frustration/anger, and increased fatigue, changes in sleeping and/or eating patterns.
See this link: more signs and symptoms of Ascension for more information, or you can Google for yourself: ascension signs and symptoms.
The sun, earth and our higher soul self, are assisting us in this process of Ascension.
Ascension means: to move spiritually, to higher states of consciousness, love, wisdom and peace. We only need to be open, willing and receptive to answer and work the call to ascend ‒ rise as love, innocence and goodness.
I believe "The 2nd coming", is not about Christ coming down again. It's humanity (you and I), moving up, rising in higher consciousness and love, to meet our beloved. We rise as love and kindness. This is the 2nd coming – "Coming of Age in Spiritual Maturity". Make sense?
Within the ascension process, for several years I've been intrigued by three songs written by two of the Beatles and one by a group called the 5th Dimension. Two of these songs make reference to the sun.
These songs speak to this new cycle and age. The 5th Dimension in 1969 released a song entitled: The Age of Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine In. It was referring to the sun and earth's movement into the constellation and consciousness of Aquarius.
The song first speaks of Astrology; one of the oldest sciences that we have forgotten, but is slowing gaining more attention.
When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars.
The song than points to us moving to the consciousness of Aquarius
Harmony and understanding
Sympathy and trust abounding
No more falsehoods or derisions.
Golden living dreams of visions
Mystic crystal revelation
And the mind's true liberation.
I take the words of this song to mean: being more compassionate, dissolving greed, living through our heart, our intuition, and transcending the ego mind, i.e. "true liberation."
The groups name 5th Dimension, speaks of us moving to the higher more loving 5th dimension, as we shed the density, heaviness and destruction of the 3rd dimensional ways.
Let the sun Shine In, was about allowing the "sun" which is often referred to as the Christ consciousness, to shine in, take hold within us. Raise our consciousness; be more responsible and accountable to ourselves and each other.
The Beatles, George Harrison wrote Here Comes the Sun, released in 1969. Which speaks to the power of the sun; how the sun's energy is changing the climate and consciousness of the planet.
Little darling, it's been a long cold winter.
Little darling, it feels like years since its been here.
My interpretation: We've been asleep, in the cold and darkness of winter, unconscious, for several thousand of years now.
Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting.
Little darling, it seems like years since its been clear.
My meaning: The ice caps are melting, the climate, the planet is changing. The fear, coldness and ignorance of humanity is melting into love, kindness and integrity. Humanity is gaining more clarity, higher awareness, waking up from the falsehoods and illusion.
Lastly, John Lennon in 1971 released Imagine, which speaks of inclusion, unity and peace.
Imagine there's no countries
it isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
and no religion, too.
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people sharing all the world.
Lennon's words powerfully echo the consciousness of Aquarius I mention earlier. The writers of each of these lyrics, nearly 50 years ago, were offering us a message of an upcoming shift of the ages.
What the world could be if we moved from fear and hate, to love and acceptance, from doubt to higher knowing/intuition, from greed and despair to wisdom and sharing?
Creation and renewal, always happens from the darkness. Stronger light, greater love and insight, comes from the struggle, chaos, and the unknown. This is the nature of life.
Helpful Tips for Riding this Wave of Change:
- Within the current unfolding cycle, realize it's a process.
- So stay focused on the process of being the love you are, and getting your own emotional and spiritual house in order. Now is the time to stay grounded through activities such as, connecting with nature, meditation and other mindful practices.
- Take time to understand this unfolding change and its intended purpose. Learn to ride its wave, rather than resist or be consumed by it.
- Do your inner work to reconcile core emotional wounds and negative self beliefs and behavior patterns. This helps raise your consciousness and vibration.
- Trust in and sharpen your institution.
- Connect with others in personal, face to face ways. Love and know your neighbor as you first love and know yourself. See this present time as the teacher and opportunity, not the threat or enemy.
- Choose openness, awareness and love; refrain from fear, ignorance or resistance. The first choice will assist you in this shift, the second choice will create more struggle for you.
- Yes, stand your ground/speak your truth with love, words and actions of peace. It's important to "not to lose yourself" in this transition and ascension process. The intent of this process, is for you "to remember your true and loving self".
- When you stay in your process, the outcome will take care of itself. Your eternal soul is about the process; your self-created ego is about the outcome.
- Know that uncertainty is just the result of change, fear of the unknown, and the transition through it. Learn self-control and self-discipline within the uncertainty. This is changing and controlling the only thing/person you can ‒ the self.
- Focus on the positive, not so much the negative. Look for what's good and uplifting,
- Just be love, acceptance and kindness, to stay in the light. This will help you weather the storm and ride this wave toward a new age and way of being.
- Understand and accept the cycles of the universe and life. Accept that life is impermanent ‒ things change.
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It's the social trend, even a sub culture, that the sociologists have yet to acknowledge: the rise of Polish White Boots Girrrl.
I don't know which web site you click to first thing – your favourite news site, game site, social networking site, porn site, horoscope site, gambling site, the beatroot...but me – I click to the site that is not just a sartorial chronicle, but an observer of social trends in Poland.
The site tracks photographically (mostly on dodgy mobile phone cameras) a spectacle that stalks, almost literally, our not so green and pleasant Polish land.
You know and love blondynka, the dumb Polish dyed blond equivalent of Essex Girl in the UK – and how we laughed at all those jokes. 'What do you call an Essex Girl with half a brain? Gifted!'
How we did. Indeed. Chuckle
Well now let me introduce you to White Boots Girl.
She can appear anywhere – but her favourite place is at the shopping mall. White Boots Girl can be spotted, of course, because of her conspicuous white boots and her conspicuous love of consumption. The boots are usually accompanied by the same, chemical looking orange skin - the result, maybe, of either a daily roasting at the solarium, or, perhaps, from the leftover bottles of blonde hair dye...
Since I found this site I notice White Boots Girl everywhere. When I see a pair walking down the street the sound track I hear in my head is usually by Disco Polo Queen Shazza.
Soon, as her numbers grow, we will hear the same jokes about White Boot Girl as we used to endure about Blondynka, or Essex Girl.
What unites Essex Girl, Blondynka and White Boots Girl is that they are usually not the best educated, but have a little money – and man, are they going to show you they spend it.
And I think that's good. It means money is starting to liberate poorer Poles. The reason why we laugh at White Boots Girl is because we want to maintain our superiority over them. Those working class oiks, chavs, rednecks, who dare to dangle their cash in front of our faces.
How uncouth.
But to me that is just another reason to lerve White Boots Girl. See the site (updated daily) of which I speak here. It will change your surfing habits forever.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
White Boots Poland
Posted by beatroot at 3/19/2008
44 comments:
Where's the website for the ol' Polish purple hair lady?
- 9:39 pm
- michael farris said...
The picture on top (in purple) looks like it wasn't taken in Poland but in Czech or Slovakia (the accent over the a gives it away).
- 11:03 pm
- michael farris said...
And taking the cue for blonde jokes, I'll just mention the punchlines of some (assuming those will remind readers of the rest of the joke):
She peels donuts.
"Move over girls, I've gotta gargle."
"Oh no, not the breathalyser again!"
She wanted to make more ice cream than Algida. (loses something in the translation)
"Thanks for the refill."
The same way minks do.
(bow, bow) Thank you, thank you, you've been a wonderful audience. - 11:09 pm
- beatroot said...
The picture on top (in purple) looks like it wasn't taken in Poland but in Czech or Slovakia (the accent over the a gives it away).
It's an international movement. There are some phtos taken in the UK too. But it is a POlish site, set up by a guy in Warsaw. - 11:52 pm
- michael farris said...
Fair enough. I hadn't noticed this particular phenomenon and all things considered I look back on that innocent state with a certain amoung of nostalgia.
- 12:31 am
Polish purple hair lady.
I found the first photo of no doubt many to follow:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/star_gazer_32/2124201072/ - 1:38 am
- Aaron Fowles said...
When I lived in Czestochowa the rage was white trousers.
- 7:20 am
- Unknown said...
They're called "fuck-me-boots" and if they're white it's white fuck-me-boots ;)
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fuck+me+boots - 8:11 am
- Unknown said...
- 8:12 am
hmmm... Nice discovery!
- 10:20 am
In the seventies, the fashion in the US polka scene was white belts and white shoes, too.
And that was the guys.
For real. - 12:10 pm
- beatroot said...
There is an Amy Winehouse song (on first album, Frank) called Fuck Me Pumps...is this a related phenomenumumumum?
Geez - maybe I should start up Purple Haired Babcia web page? - 12:12 pm
I know I'd favorite it if'n you did. There's gotta be a ton of 'em in Warsaw, no? The most I ever saw was in Zakopane a few years back. It was like a convention of 'em. I was amazed. What's the deal? Don't they notice it's that color? Do they think it's silver grey or something?
Looking for white belt/shoe photos, I came across the following really, really cool album covers webpage. Was disco polo early enuff to have album covers or was it mostly a cassette phenonemon?
for album covers click here - 1:12 pm
- beatroot said...
Cassettes. Exclusive, I think.
Gorgeous covers though, and now you have made me nostalgic. How can you have an album cover with an MP3? How do hippies roll joints on an MP3? Eh? Eh? - 3:37 pm
- Unknown said...
If my memory serves me right, "fuck-me-shoes" became a vernacular in the late seventies/early eighties with the advent of 5-inch stiletto heels.
- 5:36 pm
Album covers-wise, make sure you check out the category on the website titled "Crazy Xtians." I split a gut laughing.
- 6:01 pm
- michael farris said...
With no classes and an errand to run on the other side of town I did a rare thing for me, I stopped in two separate shopping centers (plaza and pestka in poznan).
Happily, no white boots in sight. On the streetcar home I did see a woman in her 20's who wouldn't have looked out of place in Chicago in 1933. Pseudo-pseude jacket with fakefure trim, brown knee high boots and a floopy hat pulled down to her ears. But that's one of these perpetal never quite in (or out of) fashion "looks" in Poznan (along with the gypsy skirt, boots, scarf and long split endz hair) or in the winter a big fur coat and a perpetual look somewhere between disdain and rigor mortis (reserved for women over 50). - 6:10 pm
I don't see how white fuck me boots are indicative of "liberation." Seems closer to enslavement to materialism to me.
- 10:18 pm
- michael farris said...
I must say that 'fuck me boots' represent a horrible degradation of the language:
The correct term is 'fuck me heels'. And refers to any female footware with a high enough heel.
High heels create a look that mimics sexual excitement in females (as did footbinding in China, from the front bound feet and high heels are indistinguishable). Flat or low heeled boots are not the same thing at all. - 12:04 am
- beatroot said...
High heels create a look that mimics sexual excitement in females
Now you completly lost me....????
And 'fuck me pumps' is the correct expression.
And Geez, 'liberation' means that they have greater disposal income, a prerequisite to liberation of all kinds... - 12:43 pm
Oh, so liberation boils down to having enough money to piss it away on crappy fashion even though the money could be better and more responsibly spent.
Liberation entails values transcending those that are merely monentary (and momentary). - 2:47 pm
- michael farris said...
Don't they teach people anything in school anymore?
"Extreme high heels can be an object of sexual desire in themselves. They change the posture of the wearer and lengthen the legs, emphasising the calf muscles. ... Feet point during orgasm, and high heels mimic this .... the entire body is restricted in such high heels, meaning that the wearer can be considered to be in the power of her partner, as running away is impossible."
"Stilettos require constant balance from the upper leg, causing the muscles of the backside to tense and appear pert and ready for mating" from the movie 'Kinky boots'. - 2:48 pm
Gee, and I thought it was because they thrust the pelvic area forward (in addition to tightening the asscheeks).
- 4:21 pm
- beatroot said...
Blimey! Is this the reason for heel fetish? Never thought about this...until now...
White boots, to go back to the other point, are a sign of surplus in the economy and real people's living standards improving. I know the western middle class have become so degenerate that they forget these things, but material basis of society is vital to developing countries such as this one. And being freed from poverty is a liberation. A great liberation.
I drink to white boots and their fetish connotations! Salute and happy easter! - 5:00 pm
People in poverty still spend money on things they are led to believe they need but don't and actually contribute to keeping them impoverished. And I recall seeing more than a few fuck me heels of all varieties being worn on the streets in cities in Communist Poland, prolly even more so than in the US. Liberation from poverty just doesn't have all that much to do with fashion.
- 5:54 pm
- beatroot said...
I'm talkin semiotics.
:-) - 6:05 pm
In the intertextual or intersexual sense?
In any event, consider Umberto Eco's definition of semiotics built upon our capacity to represent the world in any way we desire through signs, even in misleading and deceitful ways.
I stole that stuff from somewhere off some webpage. - 6:19 pm
- michael farris said...
One more thing about the sexual signalling of high heels.
A similar aesthetic was probably responsible for foot binding in China
Apparently these 'lotus feet' were perceived as being extremely erotic by Chinese men (while they were in their lotus shoes the actual naked bound foot was a major turn off. - 9:29 pm
Maybe it started as an aesthetic in China -- but was it continued as such or did it become more so another means of making women even more dependent upon and subservient to men?
In any event, it was only a practice among the upper classes. Peasant women needed working feet so theirs were never bound.
According to the wiki article, "the erotic effect was a function of the lotus gait, the tiny steps and swaying walk of a woman whose feet had been bound makes the men think that the women are sexy. The very fact that the bound foot was concealed from men's eyes was, in and of itself, sexually suggestive." - 10:50 pm
- michael farris said...
According to the anthropologist Francis LK Hsu (author of chinese and americans, among other cool books) the persistence of foot binding was more cultural inertia than anything else. There's actually a fair amount of evidence that many people didn't like the look of bound feet (clad or not) but that people continued to do it because ... they always had.
On the other hand, when I saw a documentary on the last remaining women (now all elderly) with bound feet I was struck at the similarity between the side profile of the foot and high heels. - 11:34 pm
- michael farris said...
Also notice the extreme toe point of "lotus shoes" and the extreme points of womens shoes in recent years ... what's _that_ about????
- 11:36 pm
- beatroot said...
- 11:39 pm
I actually had the Hsu book (still have it) as required reading for a Chinese history course waaaay back when.
But I dunno if his explanation is altogether correct. Certainly there was a lot of inertia in a tradition bound Confucian society. But there were for sure other underpinnings that kept the practice static. A combination of liking women who waddle just so and that making 'em dependent and subservient.
And I remember for a short time back in the late sixties that guys wore pointy shoes, too. At least the N'orks did (New Yorkers -- hoods -- fancy shirts and high collars, black leather jackets-- antithesis of hippie clothes). Those shoes had some kinda nickname about killing some kinda bugs in corners but I can't recall. - 12:14 am
- michael farris said...
My favorite Hsu story was of watching a Hollywood movie in China in the 40's and how Chinese people could interpret the story completely differently than the moviemakers intended.
It's even online at:
http://servercc.oakton.edu/~billtong/chinaclass/hsu.htm - 9:22 am
A matter of "refashioning" commercialism to meet their own needs...
Again, way back when, I read an incredibly insightful book by historian Lizabeth Cohen. Now the internet even has notes on such books (I'm amazed and a bit freaked coz I recall how I used to spend hours and hours prodigiously taking notes on the books I read).
The book: Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939.
Here's a bit from it and it feeds into the overall discussion here:
"In 1919, Chicago's workers relied upon their ethnic neighborhoods for both entertainment and sustenance - they read ethnic-language newspapers, shopped at the corner store, and, when hard times befell them, went to small ethnic-owned banks, neighborhood mutual benefit societies, or possibly the Catholic Church for aid. And at first, the rise of consumerism and mass culture served to strengthen these ethnic ties. Workers listened to Old World music on their radios and phonographs, saw films at small theaters in their own neighborhoods, and obtained credit from their local grocer. In sum, "whether they were were ethnic workers who eased into mass culture through the local store, neighborhood theater, and ethnic radio program or black and young workers who refashioned commercialism to their own needs," Cohen notes (against the standard interpretation of an all-homogenizing consumerism), "mass culture would not make them feel any less Polish, Jewish, or black or any less of a worker."
It is interesting to note in passing the unique position of black workers to the encroachment of mass culture. "Because assimilation into the mainstream was possible for white ethics," writes Cohen, "they used mass culture to stave it off by keeping their own culture alive. Ethnic records, like stores, theaters, and radio programs, set out to reinforce traditional culture in the face of threatening alternatives. Racial discrimination, on the other hand, kept blacks from the same opportunities, and pressures, to assimilate. Given that very different context, black jazz recordings, or black employment in chain stores, became a vehicle for making a claim on mainstream society that racism had otherwise denied. Mass culture, which offered ethnics a conservative retreat, became in the hands of blacks a way of turning blacks' vulnerability and dependence on mainstream society into a demand for respect." (156) Cohen returns to this intriguing relationship between consumerism and civil rights in her second book, A Consumers' Republic.
READING NOTES HERE - 10:57 am
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- 7:58 pm
- beatroot said...
To bring it up to today: look at hip-hop. Now the sartorial bling that that goes along with rappers - the jewelry, the massive SUVs, the constant referencing in the lyrics about expensive brandies etc....that is an interesting relationship between mass culture and ethnic blah blah.
I think that mass culture - and all the many different ways it can be used, is a good thing and nothing to be scared of. The problem is, the intellectuals and liberal middle classes have a problem with 'mass' in general, these days. It was the same in Orwell's day. Bless him but he did go on about tinned food being the end of civilization as we know it.
It wasn't George...it's the same with Super Size Me....et al... - 8:00 pm
The Papaya craze has made its way to the US. Look at Yahoo and ABC News. Neither mentions Urszula, though.
Problems with Mass?
At Eastertime? - 10:01 pm
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[with] the revelation that Malcolm Fraser has quit the party for which he won three elections because of its rightward lean, it's not a good time for Liberal moderates.
The bad news is that they're soon to get another blow, when two of their flag carriers, Petro Georgiou and Judith Troeth, leave parliament ... That will leave the small "l" liberals very thin on the ground.
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I have stressed the commitment of the Government to liberal principles and values. Precisely because of that commitment it is also concerned to conserve and protect those principles and values.
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