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Prof. Saba Dashtyari, Icon for the Baloch Freedom Struggle, honoured at a Toronto Gathering – By Imtiaz Baloch
Toronto, July 10, 2011
Baloch Human Rights Council (Canada) and the International Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (IVBMP) held a joint memorial reference event for Prof. Saba Dashtyari who was murdered in cold blood on June 1, 2011 by the Pakistani military death squad in Quetta, Balochistan. A diverse group of people attended the event at the North York Civic Centre from communities including Baloch, Sindhis, Kashmiris, Ahwazi Arabs, and Turkoman to pay their respects to the revolutionary scholar, Prof. Dashtyari.
The memorial event began with a moment of silence to respect and contemplate on the struggle and the ultimate price Prof. Dashtyari willingly paid for the freedom of his people from occupation and repression. Secretary General, BHRC (Canada), Mohammad Ali Baloch presented the audience with patriotic Balochi poetry and conducted the deliberations for the evening. Speakers praised Prof. Dashtyari for his life-long contributions in promoting Balochi language, culture, and heritage, and saluted the fallen hero for his unwavering commitment to the cause of his nation's freedom from the yolk of slavery.
In his opening speech, Zaffar Baloch, President, BHRC (Canada) shed light on the life, struggles of Prof. Saba Dashtyari, and informed the audience about the ongoing dire situation in Balochistan that played a pivotal role in shaping the martyred scholars political perspective. (Click here to see the full text).
Humaira Rahman of the Toronto-based Sindh Resource Centre lauded Prof. Dashtyari for his courage and intellectual depth in educating Baloch youth on the importance of their nation's history, culture, and language. She emphasized that the conflict between the centralist policies of Islamabad and the Baloch people is rooted in the exploitative nature of the state, its multi-billion dollar military business empire, and undemocratic means to control the natural resources in Balochistan. She stated that the target killing of the learned scholar is reminiscent of the massacre of Bengali intelligentsia on the eve of the nation's independence from Pakistan. Ms. Rahman also informed the audience about the disappearances and target killings of Sindhi nationalists by the same I.S.I. responsible for the serious human rights violations and the killing and dumping of the youth in Balochistan.
Mumtaz Khan, President, International Centre for Peace and Democracy, and representative of the Canadian Kashmiri Diaspora expressed his solidarity with the Baloch liberation struggle and praised Prof. Dashtyari for developing freedom-consciousness among the youth of Balochistan. Mr. Khan stated that the very foundation of the state of Pakistan since its inception is based on a fanatic jihadist culture that Kashmiris experienced when a hoard of Pashtun tribal lashkar, headed by a Pakistan Army Major, invaded our scenic valley in 1947. Mr. Khan said, "This in fact was the earliest face of Taliban with strong links to Pakistan's military institution, now engaged in fighting proxy wars in the neighbouring countries." He concluded that a year later, in 1948, the same army attacked the sovereignty of Kalat and annexed Balochistan on gunpoint. He remarked that independence of Balochistan is a just cause for which Baloch masses are paying a heavy price because they are aware of the value of freedom learned by generations under occupation and repression.
Representatives of Al-Ahwaz Democratic Popular Front and Turkoman movement, Mr. Taufeeq Ahwazi and Mr. Chaharyar, respectively, paid rich tribute to Prof. Saba Dashtyari for sacrificing his life for the freedom of his people and future generations. They said that although he did not live to see the day when his nation would regain its sovereignty but he will be remembered as a national hero who paved the path with his own blood. Mr. Ahwazi delivered his speech in English and his mother tongue, Arabic. Leader of the Al-Ahwaz Democratic Popular Front, Mr. Abu Sharif was also present at the memorial gathering. Mr. Chaharyar, representative of the Turkoman movement, indicated that in Pakistani occupied Balochistan they have murdered Prof. Dashtyari and in the Iranian occupied Balochistan they hanged Yaqoob Mehernehad – and one day this artificial boundary will disappear and a united free Balochistan shall re-emerge on the map of the world.
Secretary Press and Information, BHRC (Canada), Imtiaz Baloch had the honour to read the following messages to the audience at the memorial event:
Mehran Baluch, the Baloch national representative at the U.N. Human Rights Council.
Tarek Fatah, a prominent Canadian critique, author, and a great friend of the Baloch people who served sentence at the infamous Mach jail in the 1970s for his activism as a member of NAP.
Wendy Johnson, a New Yorker, publisher of the blog – Crisis Balochistan, and a passionate supporter of the Baloch cause. (Click for the full text of the message).
Baluchistan Peoples Party, a Europe-based political party that represents Balochistan under Iranian occupation. Secretary General, BHRC (Canada),
Mohammad Ali Baloch had the honour to present a message from BPP in Balochi. The message conveyed praise for Prof. Saba Dashtyari in his endeavour to promote the Balochi language, literature, and heritage to the younger generation of the Baloch nation. In addition, the message stated that artificial boundaries and demarcations could not separate us from our brethren under Pakistani occupation. Our struggles and goals are one, tied with history and blood of our people.
Mir Hyrbyair Marri, leader of the Baloch liberation struggle. President, BHRC (Canada), Zaffar Baloch had the honour of presenting the audience with the message from the leader of the Balochistan freedom struggle, Mir Hyrbyair Marri, which also was the concluding note of the evening in remembrance of Prof. Saba Dashtyari.
Zaffar Baloch,
President, BHRC (Canada)
International Voice for Baloch Missing Persons


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Revision as of 10:29, 31 March 2018
- Recent changes
- All pages
- Wiki tutorial
- Purge (this page)
all characters are at least 18
- Player Housing
- Minor Residences
- White Town
- Necropolis
- Quarter of the Bull
- Serpentine Quarter
- Quarter of the Outcasts
- Border of the Fogs
- Slaver
- Slaves
- Alchemy
- Combat
- Energy
- Events
- Items
- Difficulty & Cheats
- Tips & FAQ
- 1 Acquiring Slaves
- 2 Stats
- 3 Aura
- 4 Traits
- 5 Mood
- 6 Ranks
- 7 Pregnancy
- 8 Charm
- 9 Sanity and Broken Spirit
- 10 Rewards - What the Heck is "Promise a Promotion/Reward"?
Acquiring Slaves
Slave Market
- The easiest way to get a slave is to head to the Slave Market located in the Trade square of the White town. There you'll be able to bid for slaves.
Contract work
- Head into the White town and enter The slavers guild. There you'll be offered a girl and an objective (e.g. rank D nurse). They'll give you a small advance to cover some of the costs of training, and pay based on quality and swiftness.
- Pro:Free slave.
- Con:Requires Combat
- Pro:Free slave.
- Not recommended, specially for new players. Head into the Border of the Fogs and then Patrol border of Fogs. You'll most likely encounter a battle and be offered a chance to join it. Should you succeed you'll capture a slave. There is a high chance the slave will be pregnant with a fiend
- Warning: You die if you fail. For more information See Combat
Order a slave
- Pro:Customizeable slave.
- Con:Expensive, Takes a long time to deliver.
- Pro:Customizeable slave.
- Head into the White town and enter The slavers guild then Talk to expert and Order slave selection. You get to choose how young you want her and many of her stats. Slaves with high stats take longer to be delivered and are more expensive. Prices vary between $400 and $1300.
- Pro:somewhat Customizable. Immediate delivery.
- Con:extremely expensive, decreases your brand
- Head into the Border of the Fogs and then the Smuggler's rendezvous. There you'll able to purchase a slave for $2000, but you'll be able to choose between a mature, young or immature one. You'll always get a C rank slave.
- Pro:somewhat Customizable. Immediate delivery.
The maid - Maid
Assistant - Secretary
Gladiator - Gladiatrix
Enchantress - Alchemy
Actress - Dance , Sing or Musican
Concubine - Total sex skills above 9 . To increase the rank of concubine at the same time need to keep sex skills at ordinary skills.
Before a slave can be sold anywhere other than the Slave Market it must be branded.
- There are 3 options to brand a slave
- Casting Adverto Servili, which requires a Magic Rank of A/Magister, costing $25.
- Uncle Bo in the Quarter of the Outcasts will tattoo a brand for $10
- If you have a dungeon rented you can use a branding iron at no cost, but will hurt the slave and decrease mood
- To Hot-iron brand the slave, click on "No Brand" on the slave's anatomy page
- maximum rank of the slave (superseded by Fame)
Increased by:
- Neoplasty
Decreased by:
- Amount of Energy gained overnight and the arousal.
Affected by:
- Living conditions (sleeping in a bed vs. sleeping on the floor), amount of stars left before ending day (1 star is optimal)
Increased by:
- Supplements
- Martial arts
- Fitness training
- Dance lesson
- Pet training
- Pony training
- Harness training
- Enema training
- Entertain me: Acrobatics
- Clothes: Athletic Leotard and Sneakers
Decreased by:
- Beatings
- Torture
- Behave:Deny Toileting
- Behave:urinal
- Behave:toilet
- Scatology
- Augmentation surgery
- Pregnancy
- Disease
- How much the slave will be affected by physical and psychological influences
Increased by:
- Force Silence
- Successfully suppressing an orgasm (Deny Orgasm rule)
- Vaginal vibe
- Dance lessons
- Entertain me: Concert, Acrobatics, Striptease, Erotic Show, Lesbian Show,
- Reward->Free time:Garden of Gethsemane
- Reward->Free time:Hot Springs
- Reward->Free time:Golden Cage
- Reward:Sensual message
- Reward->Sweet treat: Vesturian Ambrosia
Decreased by:
- Gladiatrix fights in the Colosseum (but not sparring)
- Mating with a horse, spider, or sea tentacle (but not at F rank)
- Beatings and torture
- Arousal and likelyhood to obey orders
Increased by:
- Jack-HF 1.6.1+: All the performances (Acrobat, Concert, Striptease, Erotic Show, Lesbian Show, etc.), Train: Escort, Acting, Singing, Gladiatrix(?), Pet, Horse, Sparring practice, Going on dates (Beach, Theater, Restaurant), etc. Basically the activities that allow the slave to express herself.
- Reward->Free time:"Golden cage"
- Winning a fight
- Winning a race
- Orgasm during active sex
Decreased by:
- Behave: Force silence
- Behave: Pet
- Rape
- Blindfold during active sex
- Speed of learning
- Quality of accounting
Increased by:
- Nurse training, Clerical work, Alchemy, Slave - Accountant (Jack HF: Enchanter training and Music training also)
Decreased by:
- Elysian Datura - very slowly, unless the random number generator hates you.
- Value and obedience
Increased by:
- Reward->Free time:"Golden cage"
- Victory at sparring match for slave
- Victory at put gladiatrix
- Matrial Arts
- Failure to Cast Domini Dictum
- Not following imposed rules
- Supervise Slave (Assistant)
- Jack HF only: Gladiatrix training, Garden of Gethsemane, Ambrosia (has magical properties)
Decreased by:
- Depression/Despair
- Anal Tail
- Being in a cell
- Psychological Pressure
- Behave:pet
- Rape
- At the lowest rank the slave is broken and her rating is set to F-. it is very hard to raise Nature so be careful.
- Obedience
Increased by:
- Not following Rules, Sparring for Slave, Put Gladiatrix
Decreased by:
- Behave: Force silence
- Behave: Force humility
- Behave: Deny toileting
- Behave: Pet
- Behave: Alarm
- Behave: Vaginal vibe
- Behave: Urinal
- Behave: Toilet
- Golden Shower
- Scatology
- Rape
- Certain clothing: leather collar, steel collar, pony plume, anal tail, pony harness
- Enema training
- Humiliation training
- Deep throat training
- Rimming training
- Anal sex training
- Self harm training
- Golden shower training
- Scat training
- Shaming punishment: Naked walk
- Shaming punishment: Shameful podium
- Punishment
Can see the formula on the Anatomy page of the slave:
- Exoticism = natural exoticism + tattoos + piercings + clothes
- Evaluation
Increased by:
- Body modifications
- BDSM paraphernalia
- Animal paraphernalia
- Fetish paraphernalia
- Cat ears
- Exotic clothes
- Exotic wig
- Jewelry - gem earrings
- Ornamented Collar
- Tattoos (at Uncle Bo's: Start Tattoo->Continue Tattoo->Finish Tattoo has largest bonuses)
Decreased by:
- Absence of the aforementioned items
- Evaluation
For information on how to change Physique see:Diet
Formula on anatomy page (anyone got the exact formula from the code?):
|Style = clothes + makeup + hair + makeup(2) + hygiene + grace
Grace is a trait found on a few slaves. Makeup is listed twice and they have different values:
- The first value seems to be facial makeup
- Improved by the "Visage and manicure" option at "Elven Laid" Salon increases it to B/Blue once applied but only lasts a day. It also increases the second value slightly.
- A more expensive, but permanent option is Uncle Bo's offer of permanent makeup tattoos that set it at S+/Green.
- Second value seems to be overall body
- Salon treatment: Visage and Manicure
- Salon treatment: Waxing
- (these two combined raise it to B/Blue, suggesting an incomplete list)
- Evaluation
Affected by:
- Hygiene
Increased by:
- Apparel
- Jewelry
- Fashionable hairstyle
- Waxing
- Visage and manicure
- Perfume
Decreased by:
- Absence of the aforementioned items
- Rank
Increased by:
- Spread rumors (Gentleman's club and Central forum)
- Winning fights
- Winning races
Decreased by:
- Nothing
- Section is work in progress
In order to see a slave's aura you need to first cast Auspex (2 sparks) or be wearing the Raven Crown
Increased by:
- Obeying Orders
Decreased by:
- Denying Orders`
Note: Higher = Better.
Sexual arousal
Increased by:
- Deny orgasm
- Vaginal beads
- Erotic rewards
- Aphrodisiac potion
- Certain clothing: lace underwear, exotic outfit, leather corset, anal tail, tongue barbell, nipple chain, belly ring, boots
Decreased by:
- Allowing orgasm
- Delikacia
Increased by:
- Punishments that slave is afraid of. Trait dependent (eg. Shy, Pyromaniac)
- Tremendio spell
- Threaten
Decreased by:
- Not punishing while guilty
- Reward: Garden of Gethsmane
- Reward: Spend time Together
- Reward: Erotic Reward
Note: High Fear can Break the Slave. High fear will Depress the Slave.
Increased by:
- Punishing slave more than guilt
- Forcing slave to follow rules she wouldn't otherwise follow
- Ending the day with positive merit while slave has 2 or less devotion
- Negative mood at the end of the day (slowly)
Decreased by:
- Reward: Garden of Gethsemane
- Reward: Golden Cage
- Reward: Fun
- Reward: Hot Springs
- Reward: Gentle Hug
- Reward: Sensual Massage, Petting, Vibes, Cunnilingus
- Positive mood at the end of the day, sped up by increasing Devotion, Taming, Awareness, and Habit
Note: Better don't increase it - it make the Slave depressive and slowly lowers psychic stats.
Increased by:
- Itself over time
- Explain her Position
- Punishment of all kind (as long the Punishment is equal to her guilt)
- Ending the day with positive merit (but this has negative effects on despair if devotion < 3 and on mood)
- Nipple chain, spiked collar, and ornamental collar
Decreased by:
- None
Note: Awareness is the ability to understand that she is a slave and has no right to Disobey. Increase Faster if the Slave has high intellect.
Increased by:
- Physical Punishment
- Rape
- Sententia Veritas
- Delikacia
- Rules (Force Humility, Deny Orgasm)
- Most BDSM/fetish gear
- Itself
Decrease by:
- None
Note: Increase Faster with Stronger Aura of the Slaver.
Increased by:
- Most BDSM/fetish gear
Decreased by:
Increased by:
- Giving out rewards before they are earned (normal rewards plus - Sleep in my bed or boudoir, Fresh Food, Eat my leftovers)
- Rewarding your slave too many times per day (twice on hard mode, thrice on normal, no limit on easy)
- Giving your slave rewards that are above her virtue earned. So, if your slave has earned a level 3 (virtue) reward and you give her a level 5 reward, it will cause spoil
- Ending the day with sin (punishment) and you don't punish her. It will cause an increase in pride and spoil
- Not assigning enough rules to your slave (three on hard, two on normal, no limit on easy). There are 15 rules to choose from and all 15 count. Slaves won't respect a master who doesn't expect them to follow any rules or make them work.
Decreased by:
- Not rewarding slave when she deserves it
- Put in Place talk option
- Sleep in Cell or on the Floor
Note:This aural stat increases very fast so be careful.
Increased by:
- Positive mood while keeping Awareness/Taming/Habit up increases it slowly. (Despair must be reduced first).
- Philter potion (only one use per slave)
- Wedding dress slightly speeds up devotion growth.
Decreased by:
- None
Note: Fear and Despair reduce the amount of Devotion that you obtain
Slaves can have various traits, some visible from the start, some you'll only find out after certain actions or training sessions.
- Arena Champion - Received in the Arena "Gladiatrix Contest" after 5 wins. Opens new options (fight Champion, Group fight and Fiend fight) during Colosseum fights.
- Arena Grand Champion - Received in the Arena after 9 wins.
- Bruise - Decreases Beauty of a Slave. Rating from "D" to "S+" Decrease over time depending on the Slaver/ Assistants Medical Talent.
- Charming Voice - Slave start with Singing rating "S+"
- Clumsy - Make it harder to train Physical common skill's (Housekeeping , Martial Arts, ect.)
- Graceful - Make it easier to train Dancer skill
- Hoarse Voice - The Slave be cannot trained as a Singer.
- Immature - Always(?) on lolis. Cannot get Pregnant. Some Clients will not buy her. Slower during races in Colosseum but cannot be beheaded by String Trap.
- Not Branded - If your slave is branded and wearing a collar, she'll (usually?) be found after trying to run away. Branding is a good idea.
- Racing Champion - Received in the Arena after winning 4 races.
- Racing Grand Champion - Received in the Arena after winning 7 races.
- Recovery - Slave recently underwent a procedure in Medical Center and needs time to recover before performing another procedure.
- Sanity - When this trait shows up in pink text, it's a warning that the slave is close to being mindbroken. Sanity is the sum of Nature, Temperament, and Pride. This sum needs to stay above 2, each stat being on a scale of 0-5. When the slave is mindbroken, this trait shows up in red.
- Scars - Decrease the Beauty of an Slave. Small Scars increase Exoticism. Can be Removed in the Medical Center. Range "Small Scars" to "Ugly Scars"
- Trace of beatings(+ ,++) - Greatly Reduce the Beauty of an Slave. Decrease over time.
- Virgin - Nothing Special if Broken can be Restored in Medical Center.
- Wounds - Picked up in Gladiatrix fights or through punishment. Can be healed in Medical Center. Endurance penalty?
- Accustomed to pain - Able to endure pain. More resistant to pain based threats. Can be obtained by repeated punishing, Horse Mating, Fisting, Anal Fisting, Masochism and Self-Torture training.
- Afraid of pain - Physical punishments more effective
- Arachnophilia - Reduces the effectiveness of certain kinds of torture.
- Arachnophobia - Increases the effectiveness of certain kinds of torture.
- Ascetic - Indifferent to luxury. Dresses or Ornaments as rewards have no effect.
- Ballerina - Affinity to Dancer skill
- Bisexual - Willing to have sex with Male and Female. Threesome will be easy to learn. (More ?)
- Bloodthirsty - Loves to see blood, makes some tortures less effective.
- Brave - Punishments are less effective. Also helpful for horse races.
- Brony - Affinity for Horse skill
- Claustrophobia - Increases the effectiveness of certain kinds of torture.
- Conceited - Increases the effectiveness of dates (Reward: Spend time together)
- Coward - Punishments are much more effective. Bad for horse races
- Darkness Child - Reduces effectiveness of deprivation punishments. (increases effectiveness of blindfold during active sex?)
- Disciplined - Easier to train. Also helpful for horse races
- Dislikes Sweets - Giving sweets as a reward has no effect.
- Enchantress - Affinity for Enchantress skill
- Exhibitionist - Makes some lessons go easier (Exhibitionism, Seduction, Gang bang, Enema ?any others?)
- Exotic Dancer - Affinity for Dancing skill (and also Nymphomaniac or Perverted)
- Expert Maid - Affinity for Maid skill
- Expert Nurse - Affinity for Nurse skill
- Frigid - Indifferent to sex.
- Gladiatrix - Affinity for Gladiatrix skill
- Good Metabolism - Easier to lose weight/harder to gain weight
- Gourmet Chef - Affinity for Cook skill
- Guilt Complex - Slave can be punished with more severe punishments for an offense.
- Hemophobia - Afraid of blood, makes some tortures more effective
- Hikikomori - Reduces the effectiveness of dates (Reward: Spend time together)
- Homophobic - Slave is incapable to be aroused by a sex with another woman (Discovered on Threesome training).
- Hydrophobia - Increases the effectiveness of certain kinds of torture.
- Hyperactive - Does not like to sit still. Free time rewards will not have a positive effect on mood.
- Hysteric - Enjoys praise. Verbal encouragement is more effective.
- Lazy - Opposite of Hyperactive
- Lesbian - Rewarding with Erotic or date will have no affect and Sex skills with Male counterpart will be harder.
- Loves Helplessness - Reduces the effectiveness of certain kinds of torture.
- Love Luxury - Opposite of Ascetic
- Masochist - Enjoys pain.
- Megalomania - Can't spoil.
- Merciful - When you have a prisoner in the dungeon, you can use Punishment: Example of punishment to torture her while your slave watches. It's extra effective if your slave is Merciful.
- Moronic - Extremely brave. Also helpful for horse races.
- Musician - Affinity for Music skill
- Nyctophobia - Increases effectiveness of deprivation punishments
- Nymphomaniac - Enjoys sex.
- Orator - Affinity for Escort skill
- Pervert - Makes some lessons go easier (Rimming, Enema, Scatology, Golden Shower, all Xenophilia). Eating Fiend Cum will give positive mood.
- Pet Prodigy - Affinity for Pet skill
- Powerful Metabolism - Much easier to lose weight/harder to gain weight
- Psi-masochist - Enjoys psychological pressure. Verbal rewards less effective.
- Purist - Makes perverted skills harder.
- Pyromania - Reduces the effectiveness of certain kinds of torture.
- Pyrophobia - Increases the effectiveness of certain kinds of torture.
- Sadist - When you have a prisoner in the dungeon, you can use Punishment: Example of punishment to torture her while your slave watches. It's ineffective if your slave is a Sadist.
- Secretary - Affinity for Secretary skill
- Shy - Makes exhibitionist lessons harder
- Singer - Affinity for Singing skill
- Sportive - Physical exercises are more fun and associated skills increase faster.
- Sweet-tooth - Increases the effectiveness of sweets as a reward
- Torpid - Physical exercises are less fun and associated skills increase slower.
- Water Child - Reduces the effectiveness of certain kinds of torture.
- Wayward - Harder to train. Bad for horse races
- Weakened Metabolism - Easier to gain weight/harder to lose weight
- Weak Meatabolism - Much easier to gain weight/harder to lose weight
Mood decide how well the Slave will learn skills. Bad Mood such as "Depressive" let the Slave learn slowly. Good Mood like "Happy" make it faster. To find out what's affecting her mood ask "How are you feeling?" and she'll list off the positive and negative effects she's under. The effects of rewards will last for a while so to maximize happiness it's important to use a variety of rewards and combine their affects.
Mood levels from highest to lowest:
- Estatic
- Happy
- Pleased
- Optimistic
- Cheerful
- Calm (neutral)
- Unhappy
- Pessimistic
- Melancholic
- Depressed
- Severely Depressed
Improved by:
- Encourage
- Rewards
- Enough to Eat
- Your Leftovers
- Clean House
- Good Hygiene
- Comfortable clothes (like the sundress)
- Sleep in the Slavers bed (note: Slave need high Obedience)
- Sleep in boudoir
- Letting her orgasm
- Use her Talent (Trait Talent: ???)
- Free time (ending the day with positive energy)
- Take Drug - Chug (strong alcohol, drink two and she passes out)
- Drink potion - Bacchic nectar (doesn't stack with alcohol and can only be used once, but won't pass out with repeated attempts, cheaper and easier to just drink the alcohol, though)
- Not punishing her when she's guilty
Decreased by:
- Explain her position (Note: as long as she have not accept to be a slave)
- Threaten
- Starving
- Overworking her (red energy levels)
- Dehydrated food
- Fiend's cum (Unless the slave has the perverted trait, in which case it raises mood)
- Dirty House
- Bad Hygiene
- Sleep in the cell
- Sleep on the floor
- Sleep on a Bedroll
- Walk around Naked
- Built up sexual desire
- any Rules (on low Obedience)
- Raping
- Pregnacy with a fog fiend
- Having Rotphilis (treatable STD)
- Certain BDSM/fetish gear
Being on her period will have a slight negative effect on her mood that you can't control. "I have these days...stomach ache. So the mood is not very much."
To see what the requirements are for the next rank, click on your slave's portrait, then the rank letter in the left panel. For example in rank B you may see:
- Further improve this slave's sexual skills
- Further improve this slave's common skills
- This slave should master a common skill
- Encourage this slave's sense of loyalty
Basic Attributes Add up the total of these stats (red = 0, green =5, i.e. an apathetic slave has 0 temperament, while reactive has 3, and passionate has 5) and subtract off pride to get your total.
- Endurance
- Empathy
- Temperament
- Intellect
- Nature
- -Pride (lowering pride increases the attributes)
Sexual skills refers to Categories, not individual skills.
Lowest Rank. only the Slave market will buy the slaves for low price.
Recommend Sell Price:500$
- Stats (ie Basic Attributes) >= 8 point
- General Skills (ie Common Skills) >= 5
- Well-known fame or Plain beauty
Recommend Sell Price:1000$
- Stats (ie Basic Attributes) >= 12 point
- General Skills (ie Common Skills) >= 10
- Sexual Stats >= 5
- Celebrity fame or Cute beauty
Recommend Sell Price:2500$
Requires :
- Stats (ie Basic Attributes) >= 14 point
- General Skills (ie Common Skills) >= 15
- Sexual Stats >= 12
- One green skill (whether common or sexual).
- Illustrious fame or Pretty beauty
Recommend Sell Price:5000$
- Stats (ie Basic Attributes) >= 16 point
- General Skills (ie Common Skills) >= 20
- Sexual Stats >= 15
- One green Sexual skill, and one green Common skill.
- Superstar fame or Beautiful beauty
- Devotion at least 1 (Aura)
Recommend Sell Price:10000$
- Stats (ie Basic Attributes) >= 18 point
- General Skills (ie Common Skills) >= 30
- Sexual Stats >= 25
- Three green skills.
- Legend of Rome fame or Exquisite beauty
- Devotion at least 4 (Aura)
A Slave might get pregnant. There are two possible pregnancies.
- Regular Pregnancy
Regular pregnancy will cause your slave to be taken away by the autorities until after childbirth once pregnancy becomes apparent. You will be warned beforehand that the slave might be pregnant.
- Fiend Pregnancy
This pregnancy occurs rapidly and will create an event in the morning where the fiend bursts out of the slaves stomach, killing the slave in the process. if you have a fiend pen you can capture it. See fiend for details.
Both types can be aborted at the Medical Center. There is also the option of making your slave sterile to prevent the risk of pregnancy from ever occurring in the first place. Sterilization is reversible.
A derived stat that will affect who's willing to buy your slave (if you meet the list listed requirements but the buyer turns her down for a vague reason, odds are she didn't meet the charm test) The formula for Charm is as follows:
|charm = style*3 + exotic + devotion + brand_reputation + fame*2 - relative_fat - despair - spoil - scars - (bruises+1)/2
relative_fat describes how far the slave is from ideal weight, and is calculated as follows:
|Slave Weight
|Healthy Weight
The most straightforward approach is to simply raise Style (since it has an x3 modifier). Buy her some nice clothes and jewely, remember to EQUIP the new items on her, take her to the Salon and get a full makeover. Most of the Salon boosts will disappear at end-of-day, so it's important to visit the NPC promptly. Also remember style includes hygiene, so have slave bathe/wash you/hot springs *before* visiting the Salon, as those activities wash off perfume and possibly hairstyle/makeup. Oddly, none of the Salon treatments improve hygiene.
If the client has already refused due to lack of charm, you can sway them by asking them 10 times to buy your slave. Otherwise, you can train your slave a bit more and sell her to someone else.
Sanity and Broken Spirit
Another hidden derived stat which is:
|Temperament + Nature + Pride
As pride goes from Arrogant to Unashamed, sanity goes down. This is an important stat to know, because if it drops below 3 the slave's spirit will be broken and she'll be Rank F- forever and difficult to sell. To avoid this situation you need to keep Temperament and Nature high and avoid decreasing her pride too far. See sections on Nature, Temperament and Pride for help increasing/decreasing them.
More info and discussion here.
Rewards - What the Heck is "Promise a Promotion/Reward"?
[Jack Original]
The puzzlingly named "Promise her a promotion/reward" is satisfied by the following:
- Spend Time Together: Stroll on roof (if successful enough)
- Spend Time Together: Walk in city (if successful enough)
- Spend Time Together: Go to beach (if successful enough)
- Spend Time Together: Go to theater (if successful enough)
- Spend Time Together: Go to a restaurant (always)
- Give Free Time: Rest til evening
- Give Free Time: Fun til evening
- Give Free Time: Garden of Gethsemene
- Give Free Time: Hot Springs
- Give Free Time: Golden cage

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7 books on every fashion student's reading list
Studying on a fashion course is an individual experience. There are so many university courses that have been around for years and first years are often bombarded with advice from teachers, lecturers or even parents providing a wealth of knowledge that has been passed down for generations.
Sadly, fashion is not one of those courses. It's only in the last 20 years that fashion courses have become prevalent in the creative industries, meaning that it can be tricky finding the right information about different fashion careers. If you are thinking of studying fashion or are already studying fashion and just want to find out more about the industry as well as the history behind your chosen field then you might find some of these books useful.
How to prepare for a career in fashion – Stephanie Finnan
From The Fashion Careers Clinic, this handy little book gives advice on different careers within fashion such as styling, fashion journalism, fashion PR, fashion buying and visual merchandising. Each section also has tips on how to get work experience and what courses are available at Universities to help you progress within each area of fashion.
Writing for the fashion business – Kristen K Swanson, Judith C Everett
Something for the bloggers, journalists and the in-between fashion writer. This book covers so many different aspects of fashion writing that any fashion student will find it useful.
The TeenVOGUE Handbook
A fun read that helps take the pressure off. Aimed towards a slightly younger audience so perfect for people who are still deciding what course to do. Covers designers, editors, models, beauty, stylists and photographers but doesn't go into specifics. Coming from an American publishing house it's interesting to read the interviews with various members of TeenVOGUE as well as key members of the creative industries.
Icons Of Fashion
Discovering the people who made fashion what it is today is always going to be essential for anyone who is interested in working in the creative industry. The history speaks for itself and as fashion students it's knowledge you can't really live without.
Uncovering Fashion – Fashion Communications Across The Media – Marian Frances Wolbers
A fashion communications textbook which explores the business aspect of how fashion is communicated to us. Media and fashion work so closely together that understanding how and when and through which mediums makes this book a key text for anyone on a fashion communications or PR course as well as a marketing course.
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
One of the most influential and inspiring designers ever, this exhibition was huge. From it's time at the MET to when it came to the V&A it was an incredible experience that broke records in terms of attendance. The book explores the collections that made up the exhibition and as a fashion phenomenon, this book is a source of inspiration for people in the creative industry everywhere.
Fashion Promotion In Practice – Jon Cope and Dennis Maloneyl
A brand new title that has only been published this year, this book focuses on how fashion is promoted. Using case studies that are relevant and contemporary, they offer exercises and practices to aid fashion students in developing a deeper understanding of how different avenues such as advertising, use of celebrity, fashion collaborations etc all help to create a fashion brand.
There is no doubt that studying fashion is one of the most exciting courses you can do and when you really enjoy your course even spending all your spare time reading about your subject doesn't really feel like work.
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The best kind of culture is a Culture of Accountability™ where people demonstrate high levels of ownership to think and act in the manner necessary to achieve organizational results. The defining characteristic of this kind of culture is that people voluntarily assume their own accountability. Rather than having accountability forced upon them, they enthusiastically take it upon themselves. That's right, they are neither commanded to be accountable nor kept under surveillance until "called to account" for their actions. In a Culture of Accountability, people at every level of the organization are personally committed to achieving key results targeted by the team or organization, and they never wait to be asked for a progress report or a follow-up plan. Instead, they report proactively and follow-up constantly, diligently measuring their own progress because they have internalized their commitment to achieving results. Their mantra—"What else can I do to achieve the desired results?"—leads them to continually find answers, develop solutions, overcome obstacles, and triumph over any trouble that might come along. And, as you would expect, everyone holds everyone accountable for results.
Creating a Culture of Accountability will have a powerful impact on results, because people consistently produce organizational success, human fulfillment and the creation of real value. But getting there represents more of an ongoing journey than an actual destination. Leaders, together with everyone else in the organization, must work continually to create and maintain such a culture. Consider this example from one of our clients about their journey toward building a Culture of Accountability. Every year the "Women's Boutique," a nationally branded chain, conducted a women's suit contest, a sales event that lasted four weeks and included a companywide competition. Susan's district, ten retail stores in Nevada, had always come in dead last in the contest because neither she nor her people believed they could sell suits in Nevada, especially in this economy. When a new regional manager told her that district managers fell into two groups—"owners" and "renters"—and that she was a "renter," Susan finally woke up. She realized that her failure to fulfill expectations had stemmed from an inability and unwillingness to get the people in her region to take accountability for achieving the desired results. With a commitment toward greater personal accountability, she persuaded her store managers that their collective excuses were preventing them from achieving better results. Together, they committed themselves to embracing and living the Steps to Accountability: to See It, Own It, Solve It, and Do It.
Targeting the annual women's suit contest as a sales event they all needed to own, Susan and her store managers became relentless in asking, "What else can I do to get the result?" Susan visited each store to provide coaching and assistance as store managers hosted VIP parties to get their people and preferred customers excited about the contest. They installed "Think Boxes" in every store, giving people a way to share their ideas about what else could be done to increase sales. People throughout the district quickly became engaged in thinking up new ways to draw more customers into the excitement, coming up with ideas such as offering customers the opportunity to win a Fossil Watch or a second suit for a penny. As Susan continued to meet one-on-one with her store managers, they became more accountable for results. Four weeks later, when the suit contest ended, Susan's district finished in first place. Her regional manager congratulated her on making the move from an entrenched "renter" to a solid "owner" of the business. She was even invited her to speak at a companywide conference about the transformation she had engineered in her district, "A lot of you know me. I've been with the company for twelve years and I have never been the number one district in anything before. What changed for me this year was I applied what I learned about how to help people take accountability, and it totally changed my life." During the next three years, Susan's district rose from the bottom 20% of the company's 90 districts to the top 20%–further evidence that a Culture of Accountability is the best kind of culture for creating sustained results.
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We, anxious citizens of the affluent global North have some rather conflicted attitudes to futuring. In the broad realm of culture, "futures" have never been more popular. In the realm of politics, it is widely believed that those who engage in utopian speculations, are "out to lunch or out to kill[1]."
If you look at the highest grossing movies of the last decade –
Avatar, The Hunger Games, the endless Marvel Comics spins offs, science fiction dominates the box office. The most bone-headed Hollywood movie can conjure up CGI visuals and glimpses of future civilizations unthinkable a generation ago. The visual skills of mainstream cinema may have reached new heights, as the narrative quality has never been lower.
But, if you can work your way through the paper-thin-multi-market-tested-lowest-common-denominator quality of so much popular sci-fi, and tread carefully around the latest zombie/vampire dystopia, you still find creative works that pose sociological and philosophical questions of real substance.
Thoughtful reflections on widening inequality, class struggle, climate crisis, human-animal-machine relations, trans-humanism, the future of sexuality, surveillance and militarism can all be found in all manner of places. Consider Ronald Moore's
Battlestar Galactica, the sci-fi novels of Ursula LeGuin, the Mars trilogy of Kim Stanley Robinson, films such as District 9, Gattica, Elysium or Snowpiercer, the graphic novels of Alan Moore or Hayao Miyazaki's stunning retro-futurist animations. All these currents – and many others – have used futures as a narrative backdrop to open up debate about worlds we might wish to inhabit or avoid.
In the "real world" of contemporary politics, no such breadth of discussion can be tolerated.
"Futures" once played a very significant role in Western political discourse. Western political theory: from Plato onwards can reasonably be read as an argument about optimal forms of institutional configuring.
For much of the twentieth century, different capitalisms confronted different vision of communism, socialism, anarchism, feminism, black liberation, fascism. Rich discussions equally took place as to the possible merits of blended systems: from the mixed economy and the welfare state to "market socialism", mutualism to populism, associationalism to corporatism. Since the end of the Cold War, it would be hardly controversial to observe that the range of debate about political futures that can occur in liberal democracies has dramatically narrowed.
Of course, it would be quite wrong to believe that utopianism has gone away in the contemporary United States.
Pax Americana, The Rapture, or a vision of the good life spent pursuing private utopias centered around the consumption-travel-hedonism nexus celebrated by "reality TV" is all alive and well.
All manner of further media tell us social problems can be dealt with on an individual basis. It is seen as the hallmark of intelligence to embrace
Wired Magazine digi-topian tech-fix thinking. Do we really need to solve poverty when we could simply program our google glasses so that we just stop seeing those grubby moochers!
But the idea that there are social, technological, ecological or political issues that might require collective solutions, new forms of institutional innovation, democratic experimentalism or perhaps transformations of our social relations is often met with complete incomprehension by the smart people. That there are pressing public issues that might require public debate about public futures or that political debate might draw its vitality from clashing visions of different futures has faded fast in our post-political and perhaps even post-democratic era.
Social Futuring
If a serious discussion of material political futures has been largely foreclosed in the world of politics, it is interesting how talk about futures and even utopias is stirring in some radical parts of design and in some emerging quarters of critical theory, critical sociology and the critical social sciences. Let's take one snatch of this conversation – my home discipline of social theory and sociology.
It was a figure no less than H.G. Wells (novelist, futurist and serious contender for the first chair in Sociology at the London School of Economics), who argued in 1906 that "the creation of Utopias – and their exhaustive criticism – is the proper and distinctive method of sociology.
[2]" Now, even if it has to be acknowledged that mainstream sociology has never been particularly comfortable with fulfilling this charge, the "return of the repressed" has occurred time and again in sociology and social theory.
Futurist speculation runs through the writings of all the founding fathers of sociology. Marx's vision of an egalitarian future that would be governed by the maxim "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs" needs little introduction. No less compelling though is Max Weber's icy dystopian fear, that an increasing bureaucratic modernity could give rise to an "iron cage of rationality." For Weber, there was every likelihood that we could end up with a technocratic future governed by "specialists without spirit; sensualists without heart."
Less well known is Emile Durkheim hope, that the dislocations of "industrial societies" might be somehow stitched back together through some kind of associational corporatism. Durkheim hoped that isolated individuals might be brought back into social life through engagement with civic institutions, professional groups, trade unions and the like. He further suggested that if these forms of sectional representation were given formal standing, in a reconfigured polity, we could envisage a new kind of associational democracy that represented individuals and groups.
The writing of Patrick Geddes anticipates the substantive concerns of much last twentieth century green politics. In Cities in Evolution (1915) Geddes advocated an ecologically and socially sensitive form of civic planning that could give rise to a new vision of urban democracy situated in a critical regionalism. These future discussions may well have been disregarded in mid-20th century sociology but they were never fully blocked. They leaked out in all manner of ways: from conventional discussions of scenario planning and systems thinking (that draws so much from organizational sociology) to the outright utopian longings of critical theory.
Moreover, it is striking how leading contemporary figures in the critical social sciences: from Erik Olin Wright to David Harvey, Roberto Unger to Ruth Levitas, have insisted we must place not just futures, but serious concrete material proposals for reconfiguring our social and political relations back on the agenda [3].
If the question of utopia for sociologists has often been treated like everyone's favorite, drunk Uncle at Christmas …..not to be engaged with too much but Christmas wouldn't be the same without him…..the world of design has frequently embraced the drunk uncle or found itself to be the drunk uncle!
Design Futuring
Design is important for thinking about futures simply because it is one of the few remaining spaces in the academy that is completely untroubled by its devotion to futures. Prototyping, prefiguring, speculative thinking, doing things differently, failing… and then starting all over again are all core component of design education. This is perhaps why Jan Michl observed that a kind of dream of functional perfectionism
[4] has haunted all matter of design practice and design manifestos in the twentieth century.
Now, of course, futurism and design have come together with very mixed results in the Twentieth Century. Early modernist architecture, industrial design and utopianism were almost indivisible. From Russian and Italian Futurism to Le Corbusier and the Bauhaus, utopian idealism ruled. Design utopias have acted as powerful historical forces, sometimes to stimulate change and sometimes to recoil from it.
.[5] The easy link that was once made between utopia, design and "emancipation" was decisively challenged by the Holocaust and the subsequent disasters of authoritarian modernism – from Robert Moses to Pruitt-Igoe.
There are certain forms of authoritarian design utopian thinking about the future that are dead and need to stay dead. However, the matter does not end there. There are design utopias and there are design utopias. And as a growing body of radical designers and architects have suggested, design utopianism by bayonets and bulldozer is not the same as embarking on modes of design futurism as a materialized invitation to political debate.
Evoking the possible virtues of design futurism will, of course, immediately generate alarm bells for all good humanists trained with their critical superpower to root out and instantly squash modes of technological determinism and instrumental rationality with the force of a revolutionary key stroke. It will send shivers down the spine of that army of grad school radicals who learned in Post Structuralism 101, that to be radical is to resist "cookbooks for the future" and "blueprints"; keep everything open; propose nothing and critique everything. Such suspicions are not to be disregarded. Alan Lie was not entirely off base when he declared, "design is how we can be dominated by instrumental rationality, and love it, too"[6].
However, perhaps it needs to be recognized that the last twenty years of keeping everything open, proclaiming for radical democracy! Cosmopolitics! "The Event" hasn't exactly worked out so well either. Perhaps "thinking politically" does require thinking about futures and thinking seriously about transformations of social relations and material relations.
Perhaps we were wrong to think that politics is foreclosed by making material propositions. Perhaps the reverse is true: material propositions provide the basis for doing politics. For without concrete material propositions for doing things differently, do we really have anything much to debate in the radical democracy?
Perhaps doing "good futuring" requires engagement with design because social relations are not sui generis, as Durkheim was wont to claim, or primarily textual as Derrida occasionally asserted. If Haraway and Latour are correct, that we live in entangled social, material, hybrid worlds[7]; if we are beset by a whole series of socio-ecological and socio-technological problems, perhaps we need to think about forms of politics that propose socio-ecological and socio-technological solutions? Design utopianism is not a replacement for social critique, but design could potentially add much needed material content to social critique.
But how should we future?
Critical Design, Speculative Design, Architectural Utopianism, Re-directive Practices….
"Utopian thought is the only way of speculating concretely about a projective connection between architecture and politics. To design utopias is to enter the laboratory of politics and space, to conduct experiments in their reciprocity. This laboratory – unlike the city itself – is a place in which variables can be selectively and freely controlled. At the point of application of the concrete, utopia ceases to exist". [8]
Moreover, if we think of the utopian imaginary as
disposition, as opposed to the blueprint, we might well get a little further in our speculations. Sorkin makes a plausible case for the centrality of a utopian, ecological and political architecture of the future as a kind of materialized political ecology. His intervention can also remind us that hostility to design utopianism or any discussion of embarking on "big moves" in urban planning, public housing, alternative energy provision and the like, can itself function as a kind of "anti-politics". It can merely re-enforce the status quo, ensuring that nothing of substance is ever discussed in the political arena.
A very different view of design futuring can be found in the writings and work of Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby. For Dunne and Raby critical or speculative design should hover somewhere between conceptual art and agit prop, using design to "pose questions" to a critical public [9].
Tony Fry makes some rather different arguments for why design has to be central to any serious future politics. Fry has observed that our contemporary hybrid worlds are thoroughly designed socio-ecological worlds. And these designed worlds are full of social relations, institutional forms, political economies, infrastructures, and designed items that are literally
de-futuring the planet through their reckless social and ecological impacts. In no uncertain terms Fry argues conventional design has been central to the current defuturing project. Designers have failed to fully understand the disaster of a hyper-consumer economy. There is a failure in design education to recognize that design objects take on a life of their own. As Fry notes
"designed things go on designing (be they designed to do so or not)". [10]
An inability to think structurally also ensures that design is mostly unable to see that unsustainability or defuturing is ontologically structured into the very 'habitus' we occupy. Fry argues, then, that we need to embrace a form of social design futuring which is interactive and on-going. Fry argues that a critical design futurism has to involve the continued, relentless search for re-directive practices at multiple spatial scales. This will involve systematically retrofitting and redirecting our personal habitus, our homes, our cities and our broader socio-ecological systems to reclaim the future. This will involve a search for 'the quality economy' and new modes of service design. But it will also ensure that in the future design needs to involve not just making, but unmaking. We will need eliminative design.
From a very different angle, Erik Olin Wright and his colleagues have, for nearly two decades now, argued that the critical social sciences should take the exploration and empirical examination of real world utopias seriously. Wright, here, is not talking about setting up Fourier's phalanstère, but "empirically examining cases of institutional innovations" that exist in the here and now, and that potentially "embody in one way or another emancipatory alternatives to the dominant forms of social organization.
[11]" Wright advocates a form of critical sociology that has little to do with the ungrounded speculative metaphysics that defines so much contemporary critical theory. Rather, he suggests revolutionary work involves deploying a kind of critical, but practical and pre-figurative analysis of "hard-nosed proposals for pragmatically improving our lives." We need to honestly appraise the strengths and weaknesses of concrete proposals that exist now: from unconditional basic income, to appraisals of the Mondragon Co-operative movement, participatory city budgeting to different kinds of associational governance.
Whilst Wright never actually uses the word
design to describe what he is up to in his writings, his demand for concrete programmatic thinking resonates with John Dryzek's call for a critical political science concerned with producing and evaluating discursive institutional designs.
Further points of convergence between design and the critical social sciences open up when we recognize that design is not reducible to the activities of professional designers. As thinkers from Herbert Simon, to Colin Ward have argued, if we see design as a much more generalizable human capacity to act in the world, prefigure and then materialize, the reach and potential of future orientated forms of social design for material politics can be read in much more interesting and expansive ways.
The writings of Colin Ward and Delores Hayden can be fruitfully engaged with here for the manner in which both of these critical figures have drawn productive links between design histories of vernacular architectures and the social histories of self built housing, infrastructure and leisure facilities. Both demonstrate that there is nothing particularly new about the current interest in making, hacking or sharing. There are many "hidden histories" of working men and women embarking on forms of self-management, building co-operative enterprises and networks of mutual aid. In doing so they have turned themselves into designers of their own workplaces, communities and lives
[12]. Such experiments in what we might call "worker centred design" continue to resonate. Attempts by trade unionists to define new modes of ownership with socially useful production (as represented by the Lucas plan), and the recent spate of factory takeovers in Argentina, all indicate that workers can be designers[13].
All manner of interesting potential convergences between critical design, futurism and social critique can additionally be found in the many experimental forms that contemporary urban-ecological activism has given rise to. Consider experiments in urban food growing, forms of tactical or pop-up urbanism, guerrilla gardening and open streets, attempts to experiment in solidarity economies, experiments with urban retrofitting or distributed energy systems or experiments with part finished public housing (that can be customized by their residents). All these currents have the potential to draw design activism and design-oriented social movements into direct engagement with critical theory, political economy and the critical social sciences.
Let us conclude then, that perhaps we do live in worlds where utopias have had their day. If we understand utopias to be static, a-historical projections of "the good society" that have already been grounded, prefigured and preordained in "Nature", "History," "science", then we are probably done with that discourse. If we value democracy, if we want to live in a world marked by a vibrant public sphere that can generate the possibilities of hope and human betterment, then we need futures.
Without futures, and without serious propositional clashes between different materialized futures, we have no politics, and we have no democracy. We merely have millimetric policy disputes that end up as the technocratic attending to marginally different versions of the status quo.
We can sense these dangers at the moment when we look at the state of our increasingly illiberal democracies. The problems mount: from climate change to spiraling inequality; from crumbling infrastructure to a surveillance state that has no bounds. Yet, our political culture is fixed and frozen. As such, we find ourselves in a culture that can happily spend $250 million dollars per Hollywood movie to create the next sci-fi fantasy but finds it is beyond its imaginative capacities to design superb, sustainable, public housing. We can build fabulously elaborate multiplayer online fantasy games, where gamer avatars can have sex with their elf girlfriends, but providing web platforms that give working people more democratic control over their workplace is a fantasy too far. The potential of self-driving cars or the rise of Artificial Intelligence can be endlessly debated. But the idea that we might be able to regulate our financial institutions is presented as a process as mysterious, dangerous and futile as the attempt to locate Lord Voldermort's horcruxes.
Yes, there are future visions still engaged with in mainstream political debate. But what are they: The endless continuation of the neo-liberal present; apocalyptic modes of environmentalism; dystopian fears of the return of the caliphate.
We can do much better than that. Can't we?
I have tentatively tried to suggest in this post that one productive route towards generating multiple visions of futures could be cultivated through an alliance between critical forms of design, critical theory and the critical social sciences. To develop this discussion will not be easy. Through engagement
both may have to become something quite different.
We need the capacity, which critical forms of design have, for flights of fantasy, for saying the unsayable, for proposing absurdities. Yet we also need critical social sciences that can engage seriously with design as an equal partner. Design is integral for thinking about futures because design has to propose, prefigure, speculate, protype, anticipate, fail, revise, fail and sometimes succeed. But design can't do it alone. Broader forms of reconstructive political economy, reconstructive institutional analysis, reconstructive anthropology, geography, philosophy, psychology, history, aesthetics and cultural interventions alongside design will all be required to move us forward. This alliance will be difficult to broker at an institutional level but it will also be difficult to broker at the level of the imagination, For it can only emerge if we find ways of being alert to the reconstructive possibilities and potentialities that may exist in the present.
As Hannu Rajaniemi has observed: "Things will appear the same – unless you know how to look


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From ancient festivals in the Slieve Bloom Mountains to modern day merry-making, Laois has enjoyed a party more than most for thousands of years. With over 60 events happening each month , you are most definitely invited to celebrate with us.
And from major international music weekends to local fiestas covering everything from scarecrows and storytelling, to drama and literature, you're sure to find your tribe. For the outdoor enthusiast there's weekly guided walks, runs and cycles. Come join us as we celebrate the length and breadth of the county – morning, noon, and night…
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Indulge yourself in a mini-retreat at Blackhill Woods.
This is a monthly special event hosted by Simon, offering a deep dive into Yin Yoga and all of the relaxing benefits it provides for you in body, mind and spirit. If the weather is good there will also be time for some forest bathing in our own woodland. We start at 10.30 and serve lunch at 12.30 followed by coffee and cake.
Please bring your own mat, pillow and blanket and wear, warm comfy layers.
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This site is all about blogging, especially as the activity relates to elderly people, who may be relatively new to social media and/or computers in general. The pages here and the blog posts you'll find on this site are about how to get started, how to choose a good place to host your journal entries (known as blog posts), and how to use this activity as a regular exercise for working your brain.
You'll notice that the blog posts here are arranged from newest to oldest, something like the order of an inbox. This may not be the best arrangement for a first time viewer. So, at the bottom of this page you'll find the list in chronological order, as reading the first post first is probably more advantageous to a new reader. Since each new post may reference material from earlier posts, it makes more sense to see things in this order.
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Sub-Mission (Sub 1)
How far would you go to save the one you love?
Pierce Hollister is a down-to-earth businessman. Most of the time. His romantic side has him secretly dreaming of Mr Right, a family and a happy ever after.
Noah Conway is a single father who doesn't believe in happy families any more. When his daughter's life is at stake, he would sell his soul to save her but as a sadistic Dom takes an interest in him, he sells his body instead.
A shared session at a BDSM club leaves Pierce intrigued and soon he finds himself willing to do anything in his power to heal the wounds that life has left on Noah's soul. When he realises that the very thing Noah dreads the most might just be what he needs, Pierce sets out on a mission—but maybe it's just not in his power to save Noah.
Will Noah be able to battle the demons that haunt him and find the happy ever after Pierce has dreamed up for them?
Reader advisory: Contains a scene of dubious consent and references to violence in one MC's past.
While this book can be read as a standalone novel, it is best enjoyed as part of the series in order of release (Sub-Mission, Re-Submission, Sub-Culture, Sub-Dominant).
This edition is a revised re-release.
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I am always on the look out for something new and exciting to write about on my blog. Not only does it keep it fresh and interesting for you to read, it makes it fun for me to write. Today I read Julia's Place latest post on her blog called "Gold" – her contribution to Alphabe – Thursday a meme I had not come across before. The letter this Thursday is "G".
I came up with lots of ideas on what to write for "G" and visited Jenny Matlock's blog Off on my Tangent to read the rules and instructions. A number of my ideas have already been posted, nevertheless, not one to be deterred, I have decided to present a gathering of my "G"s over the last year, even if it does create a little duplication.
The first one is G for GARLIC IN GUERNSEY.
I visit the island regularly for short stays with my father, but in April 2011 (when he was away) I went with a friend for the whole week and took in the sights as a visitor. We were lucky with the weather, which was sublime although the warmth of the sun did cause the aroma of wild Garlic to waft around somewhat, which was not to everyone's pleasure as you can imagine.
It may be 'wild' and 'stinky' but is a very pretty flower
G for GREENFLY IN THE GARDEN
I love my garden and am only to pleased to share it with others; this is one of the reasons I blog. Unfortunately, there are others who like to share my garden, which are not such welcome visitors. Greenfly are a prime example, they have a particular penchant for my roses. I would have shown photos of slugs and snails too, but they will have to wait until we get to "S".
Greenfly on my rose buds
G is GATES AND GRAVEYARDS
The subject of graveyards has already been covered by Kyetra Belton on her blog, but as she likes graves, I hope she forgives me for duplicating things and enjoys the photo.
These graves I found, when the Weekly Photo Challenge prompt was "Hidden". I took a walk down to the wrought iron gates I see on my way to work, never knowing what was hidden behind them. It was a lovely old, and somewhat overgrown, Victorian graveyard.
G is GRANNY'S BONNET
I am an avid collector of Aquilegia (or more commonly known as Granny's Bonnet). There are so many different varieties and they pay dividends because they are self-seeders – excellent news if you are a budget gardener. This does mean that a treasured and loved plant one year doesn't always come true the next year but most do. They pop up all over the garden, which is just what you want when trying to cultivate a slightly rambling country garden. The particular species in the photo below is Norah Barlow and generally does grow true each year.
There you are, just a few of my posts in 2011 that are relevant to "G", I hope you enjoyed them and perhaps if you have time you can linger a little longer to read the posts in which these photos appear:-
- Glorious Guernsey
- Worry is like a Rocking Chair
- Weekly Photo Challenge : Hidden
- Granny's Bonnet is Growing in my Garden
Now all I have to do is link up and read at least 10 of the other posts for Alphabe – Thursday.
That's me sorted for the rest of the evening!Advertisement


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A Delhi court on Friday sent Gopal Krishna Madhav, the officer on special duty (OSD) to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Manish Sisodia, to 14-day judicial custody in a bribery case. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had arrested Madhav a few days before the assembly elections, on February 5. He was nabbed for accepting a bribe of Rs 2 lakh.
Following this, he was sent to the agency's custody which was again extended till February 14. He was produced before Special Judge Santosh Snehi Mann at Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court on Friday after his remand period ended. Sisodia demanded a strict punishment to be given to the arrested officer. "The CBI should ensure strict punishment for him. I have caught many such corrupt officials in the last five years," he said.
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Monthly Archives: June 2010
GOProud Denounces Gay Boycott of Arizona
Posted on June 30, 2010 by lesbianoutsider
Another sane voice is raised in outrageous perplexity over the progressive gay leadership of Gay, Inc. jumping onto the Left-wing Latino Toady Express at the bidding of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Jimmy LaSalvia, Executive Director of GOProud, sent out this announcement today to protest the dismal leadership of the ludicrous Lefties of Gay, Inc: Continue reading →
Posted in Lesbian/Gay, Political/Social | Tagged Arizona, boycott, gay, Gay Inc., GOProud, Jimmy LaSalvia, SEIU, unions | 1 Comment
The Kowtow Rodeo: Gays and the Arizona Boycott
Posted on June 30, 2010 by lesbianoutsider
You might ask just what gay and lesbian rights have to do with the political battle over illegal immigration in the state of Arizona and that would indeed be a very intelligent and perceptive question on your part. Continue reading →
Posted in Lesbian/Gay, Political/Social | Tagged Arizona, boycott, Greater Phoenix Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, Human Rights Campaign, illegal immigrants, Joseph Gesullo, Latino, Left-wing, Mexican border, National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, progressive, SB 1070, SEIU, Service Employees International Union | 1 Comment
Gay Marriage Not A Right, Declares European Court
Posted on June 25, 2010 by lesbianoutsider
The progressive policies that run rampant throughout Western Europe apparently don't extend to the issue of gay marriage. In its unanimous ruling today, the European Court of Human Rights affirmed that the rights of a gay couple were not violated by Austria's refusal to allow them to legally marry. Continue reading →
Posted in Lesbian/Gay, Political/Social | Tagged Austria, backlash, Council of Europe, European Court of Human Rights, gay marriage, machismo, multicultural, muslim, orthodoxy, Third World, Western Europe | 3 Comments
Decoy Jews: Amsterdam's Answer to Anti-Semitism
Posted on June 23, 2010 by lesbianoutsider
Anti-Semitic attacks against Jews in Amsterdam have gotten so out of hand, that the mayor of this supposedly so, so progressive city has initiated a decoy Jew program to snag these hate crime hooligans. Continue reading →
Posted in Political/Social | Tagged amsterdam, Anne Frank, anti-semitism, decoy jews, hate crime, Joodse Omroep | 2 Comments
Saffron Park: G K Chesterton on Progressivism
Posted on June 22, 2010 by lesbianoutsider
Although best known today as the author of the Father Brown mysteries and The Man Who Was Thursday, G. K. Chesterton was also a philosopher, journalist, religious apologist, poet, play write, and public debater. He was the master of the paradox and used it ofter to skewer the sloppy thinking of the so-called great minds of his day. Continue reading →
Posted in Books, Political/Social | Tagged G K Chesteron, George Bernard Shaw, H G Wells, Heretics, Man Who Was Thursday, Oscar Wilde, progressivism, Saffron Park | 1 Comment
Pony Up for Palestine: The Gay Gullibility Factor
Posted on June 19, 2010 by lesbianoutsider
Israel, Palestine, and Gays written by Paul Varnell, originally appeared in the Chicago Free Press back in 2002 and was published again at the Independent Gay Forum. In this article, Mr. Varnell contrasts the daily realities for gay men living in the West Bank and Gaza with the world of gay men living in Israel. Continue reading →
Posted in Lesbian/Gay, Political/Social | Tagged Chicago Free Press, don't ask don't tell, gay, gay gullibility, gay marriage, Hamas, Independent Gay Forum, israel, L Word, lesbian, Palestine, Paul Varnell, PLO, Pony Up for Palestine, pride parade, Show Time, trick | Leave a comment
Elton John Performs in Israel: The Left Fumes
Posted on June 18, 2010 by lesbianoutsider
Elton John performed at the Ramat Gan Stadium in Tel Aviv on Thursday evening, playing to an audience of over 50,000 screaming fans. Defying the Left-wing entertainment industry's call to boycott Israel, John defiantly pumped his fist in protest, proclaiming: Ain't nothing gonna stop us from coming, baby! Continue reading →
Posted in Lesbian/Gay, Media/Arts/Entertainment, Political/Social | Tagged Aaron Hicklin, boycott, concert, Elton John, gay, Hamas, israel, lesbian, Out, palestinians, Philadelphia Freedom, Progressive Politburo, Queer Quislings, Tel Aviv | 3 Comments
The Oil Spill Speech: Obama Gets The Hook
Posted on June 16, 2010 by lesbianoutsider
The Obama speech last night from the Oval Office was the Reality TV flop of the season. When Mr. O, as President of the United States of America, barfed up all those big empty words of phony competence and courage, the American public recognized his stream of vacuous vomit for the oily gobbledygook it really was. Continue reading →
Posted in Political/Social | Tagged Gulf of Mexico, obama, oil spill, oval office, speech | Leave a comment
Obama's Approval Rating: Circling the Drain
Posted on June 15, 2010 by lesbianoutsider
Do we see a trend here in Obama's approval ratings? Yes, indeed we do. Rasmussen's poll depicting the grading graph for our Activist-in-Chief is spiraling down, down, down. Continue reading →
Posted in Political/Social | Tagged approval, obama, poll, rasmussen | Leave a comment
Gone Sailing!
Posted on June 10, 2010 by lesbianoutsider
Gone Sailing on the Chesapeake! Continue reading →
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Sexually Mutilating Girls: A Medical Multicultural Happening!
Posted on June 7, 2010 by lesbianoutsider
A nick nick here, a nick nick there, here a nick, there a nick, everywhere a nick nick….So what's in a nick anyway? Well, you need not worry your unenlightened little heads about this small relatively insignificant 'medical' procedure that would have been performed by our great white-coated professionals, who of course, have the world's multicultural interests at heart. Continue reading →
Brits Fedup with Blame Game for BP Oil Spill
Posted on June 5, 2010 by lesbianoutsider
Our British cousins are getting hot under the collar at Obama's characterization of the BP oil spill as somehow connected to the UK government and the British people. The Business Secretary, Vince Cable, condemned 'the extreme and unhelpful anti-British rhetoric' coming from the White House over the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Continue reading →
Posted in Political/Social | Tagged BP, British Petrolium, Gulf of Mexico, obama, oil spill, Tory, Uk, Vince Cable | Leave a comment
GOProud Endorses Carly Fiorina
Posted on June 3, 2010 by lesbianoutsider
GOProud announced today that they are endorsing Carly Fiorina for US Senate in the California Republican primary to be held Tuesday, June 8th. Continue reading →
Posted in Lesbian/Gay, Political/Social | Tagged California, Carly Fiorina, endorsement, GOProud, primary, republican, US Senate | Leave a comment
Gays in the Military: Dissension in the Ranks
Posted on June 2, 2010 by lesbianoutsider
Admiral Mike Mullen, the Joint Chiefs Chairman, may be enthusiastic about lifting the Don't Ask, Don't Tell ban, but he's not backed up by the four Joint Chiefs of Staff. All four leaders sent letters to Congress urging members not to vote on lifting the ban until the Pentagon completed its study. Continue reading →
Posted in Lesbian/Gay, Political/Social | Tagged Admiral Mullen, ban, Benjamin Mixon, congress, don't ask don't tell, gays, Joint Chiefs, military, Stars and Stripes | 2 Comments


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Shooting at French Jewish School Leaves 3 Dead
(Update -- the count is now four dead)
Not that much is known yet:
PARIS -- A man opened fire outside a Jewish school in Toulouse, in southwest France, on Monday morning, according to local police and news agencies. Witnesses and officials said three people were killed, two of them children, and two were wounded.
The minister of the interior, Claude Guéant, issued an order to the police, especially in the southwest of France, to intensify security around Jewish schools, according to a press spokesman. The spokesman, Pierre-Henri Brandet, told French news agencies that the shootings occurred outside the Jewish school Ozar Hatora, and that a teacher and two children had been killed. Two other children were wounded, he said.
France has Europe's largest Jewish population. When I was in Israel last week, I heard stories of a wave of real estate purchases by French Jews in various cities. This has been going on for some time, but it seem to have intensified lately. It will probably intensify more now.


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Today's devotion comes from Acts 9:26-31.
"When many days had elapsed, the Jews plotted together to do away with him, but their plot became known to Saul. They were also watching the gates day and night so that they might put him to death; but his disciples took him by night and let him down through an opening in the wall, lowering him in a large basket.
When he came to Jerusalem, he was trying to associate with the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple. But Barnabas took hold of him and brought him to the apostles and described to them how he had seen the Lord on the road, and that He had talked to him, and how at Damascus he had spoken out boldly in the name of Jesus. And he was with them, moving about freely in Jerusalem, speaking out boldly in the name of the Lord. And he was talking and arguing with the Hellenistic Jews; but they were attempting to put him to death. But when the brethren learned of it, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him away to Tarsus.
So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria enjoyed peace, being built up; and going on in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it continued to increase." Acts 9:26-31.
At first reading, this last verse, verse 31, seems out of place, a non sequitur. After we read about all the plots, persecution, distrust, and sending away of Saul, it does not logically follow: "So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria enjoyed peace, being built up; and going on in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it continued to increase." Verse 31.
But, our Sovereign Triune God is at work!
God the Father causes us to fear Him.
"So they will fear the name of the LORD from the west …" Isaiah 59:19.
God the Son builds His church.
"… I will build My church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it." Matthew 16:18.
God the Son gives us peace.
"Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful." John 14:27.
God the Spirit is our Comforter.
"I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; " John 14:16.
Likewise, our lives may be filled with trials, troubles, and tribulations, but we also can experience and enjoy "peace, being built up; and going on in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit".
Reformed Doctrine preaches and teaches that God provides all that we need for salvation from beginning to end: from the beginning of "Unconditional Election" through "Limited Atonement" through "Irresistible Grace" to the end of "Preservation of the Saints", the "U", "L", "I", and "P" of "TULIP", the Five Points of Calvinism, the Reformed Doctrine of Salvation, as more fully set forth in the Canons of Dordt.
Reformed Doctrine provides comfort.
Q. 1. What is thy only comfort in life and death?
A. That I with body and soul, both in life and death, am not my own, but belong unto my faithful Savior Jesus Christ; who, with His precious blood, hath fully satisfied for all my sins, and delivered me from all the power of the devil; and so preserves me that without the will of my heavenly Father, not a hair can fall from my head; yea, that all things must be subservient to my salvation, and therefore, by His Holy Spirit, He also assures me of eternal life, and makes me sincerely willing and ready, henceforth, to live unto Him. Heidelberg Catechism.
Reformed Doctrine preaches and teaches how great God is and how great are His works.
"3 Great is the LORD, and highly to be praised,
And His greatness is unsearchable.
4 One generation shall praise Your works to another,
And shall declare Your mighty acts.
5 On the glorious splendor of Your majesty
And on Your wonderful works, I will meditate.
6 Men shall speak of the power of Your awesome acts,
And I will tell of Your greatness.
7 They shall eagerly utter the memory of Your abundant goodness
And will shout joyfully of Your righteousness." Psalm 145:3-7.


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If the court agrees, such data could be released to anyone as part of the state's public records process. Such a decision would represent a sea change in how automated license plate reader (ALPR, or LPR) data is shared with and scrutinized by the public.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Southern California originally brought their case against the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department in an attempt to obtain one week's worth of all LPR data. When the agencies refused, the organizations filed suit and lost at both the local and appellate levels.
The lower courts found that the LPR data can be withheld as it does constitute an investigatory file. But the EFF and the ACLU argue:
At present, nearly all state law enforcement agencies have denied the release of such records—whether personalized to one person or generalized to all records of a certain period of time—citing Section 6252(f) of the California Public Records Act. However, some groups like the City of Oakland have decided to release the data.
The Court of Appeal is incorrect: the vast data collection possible with ALPRs is fundamentally different from license plate checks by human officers, and that difference cannot be ignored. Human officers cannot possibly check as many plates per minute as an ALPR system, let alone check the license plate of every car that passes on the streets of Los Angeles. For this reason, an officer manually checking license plates must choose one vehicle to check over others—even if just on the basis of mere suspicion or a hunch. But because ALPRs lack these human limitations, they can collect, check, and store data on every plate that comes into view. ALPRs are untargeted, indiscriminate and comprehensive in a way that human officers can never be. When this Court addressed the investigatory records exemption in Williams and Haynie, it could not have contemplated an application of § 6254(f) that would cover such a vast collection of data.
That provision allows state law enforcement to specifically withhold: "any investigatory or security files compiled by any other state or local police agency." The EFF and the ACLU don't buy this argument.
"That argument is tantamount to saying all drivers in Los Angeles are under criminal investigation at all times," EFF Attorney Jennifer Lynch said in a statement. "The ruling sets a troubling standard that would not just allow these agencies to keep ALPR data from the public but could also allow the police to keep data and footage from other surveillance technologies—from body cameras to drones to face recognition—from ever being scrutinized."


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ISAPS-LEAP Humanitarian Program – Overview and Next Steps
- Posted on: Oct 30 2013
The launch of the ISAPS-LEAP Surgical Relief Teams© program at the 21st Biennial Congress of the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS) in Geneva was received with great enthusiasm. Over 70 plastic surgeons from 15 nations registered to receive more information as the program develops. During a general information session held during the Congress, discussion of the scope and importance of this new initiative led to a change in the proposed name from ISAPS-LEAP Surgical Strike Force to ISAPS-LEAP Surgical Relief Teams© (SRT).
Over the past year, since ISAPS and LEAP agreed to collaborate to prepare ISAPS member volunteers for global rapid response, we have sought to develop strong partnerships to strengthen the platform for shared logistical preparedness.
Co-founder, Dr. Tunc Tiryaki (Turkey) and I briefed the national secretaries and responded to their questions during their day-long meeting held prior to the Congress. Our first open session in Geneva brought together surgeons from Turkey, Georgia, Switzerland and the US as well as representatives from Relief International, Médecins Sans Frontières and the World Health Organization. All of these large humanitarian and medically-focused organizations continued to express what we experienced in Haiti: autonomous plastic surgical teams are crucial in the first week following a major casualty incident. As we move the program forward, we are putting in place the resources to connect, train, equip and deploy ISAPS plastic surgeons throughout the world in times of crisis.
Connect – Our goal is to provide an interactive and informative on-line resource for the surgical teams. This phase has already begun with several pages on the LEAP website www. leap-foundation.org/disaster-relief. A secure, password-protected page, rich with resources, is available for registered SRT surgeons. In early October, we were an invited participant in a global conference to learn about and help develop collaborative software for NGOs to share information. Our goal is for the SRT to connect surgical teams to the areas and organizations that need them most, and we believe being on the forefront of software and online resources will enable that connection.
Train – Our partnership with Relief International opens the opportunity for the SRT to customize and organize training sessions throughout the world. We are also pursuing opportunities with other training organizations. Our first ISAPS member-volunteers attended a training course in Portland, Oregon in the Pacific Northwest of the United States in mid-October and we hope to have a mobile training course at several ISAPS meetings throughout the year.
Equip – A unique opportunity presented itself at the Congress for vendors and suppliers to become founding sponsors of this sought-after initiative. Within the next year we hope to have several "Surgical Go Kits" throughout the world ready for the teams when they need them. As we experienced in Haiti, a surgeon without equipment cannot be fully effective.
Deploy – As we develop the network of ISAPS member volunteers and other supporting organizations, we can develop a clear avenue for deployment. The equipment, training, and connection pieces are key to smooth activation in times of crisis.
We have made great strides, but need continued support from ISAPS members, sponsors, and suppliers as we develop this global program. Progress reports will be a regular feature in ISAPS News. Members who wish to be considered for team involvement can contact the ISAPS Executive Office for more information.
Craig Hobar, MD – United states
LEAP Founder and Surgical Relief Teams Co-Founder
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