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Anne C. McAfee, October 15, 1930 – July 13, 2013. Obituary for my mother.
Austin lost one of her staunchest progressive activists on Saturday, July 13, 2013. Anne McAfee, a lifelong Austinite who had been actively involved in state and local politics for the better part of seven decades, died peacefully at home surrounded by her family. Anne suffered from complications following a stroke that occurred while she was …View full post
Preserving a healthy democratic and free society
A cornerstone of democracy and liberty rests on the free flow of information. I became increasingly troubled that factual reporting was taking a back seat to spin, the proliferation of news channels meant that we-the-people were losing our shared information and facts, and much of the news was carefully managed propaganda. The harsh tone prevalent …View full post
Overwhelmed by the flood of stereotypes
Raised in a liberal family (mom was a political activist, dad was a union organizer turned businessman) in the nineteen sixties, there was much in both my family and in the culture at large to shape my world view. My parents were passionate about social justice and civil rights issues. We watched and discussed all …View full post
Two kinds of Christians?
I recently discovered a gem of an author, Os Guinness. Guinness, a Christian born to missionary parents in China and a descendant of the Irish brewer whose beer shares the family name, came to visit friends in the U.S. about 25 years ago and fell in love with the country. He has made his home …View full post
Advertising's dark side
The dark arts of illusion, seduction, and manipulation are at the heart of the advertising industry. The Faustian bargain of the media is to provide their news, drama, and entertainment to the viewer, listener, or reader at a deep discount and exchange their integrity for advertising dollars to subsidize that discount. The advertisers get the …View full post
Oct 31 2013
Open Letter to Republican Members of Congress
Oct 15 2013
Ahead of her time
My mom, Anne McAfee, would have been 83 years old today. If you read the obituary I posted earlier, you know a bit about how remarkable she was.
These last few days, we had a family reunion of her kids, our spouses, and Dad at Galveston, renting a house right on the beach. Galveston was synonymous with vacation while we were growing up and our time there was blessed.
During our reminiscences, the words a nephew shared at Mom's funeral came up. They weren't his own words, they were the words of his partner. Jack couldn't be there, but he'd asked Emerson to read his message for him.
It was 6 years ago and I decided to surprise Emerson (whom I had met just the week before) in Austin, on his winter break. I figured at some point on the trip I would be meeting his family. Not knowing a whole lot about his family, I questioned how Texans from an older generation would react when they met me: the first gay boyfriend Emerson has ever introduced them to, and a guy who was 12 years older than Emerson (who was only 20 at the time). On paper those things didn't read so good.All of these things plagued me on my trip. And how did Anne McAfee, Emerson's Grandmother, react? By throwing a brunch in my honor the next day that some of the extended family would attend.And Anne's first question for me? When would I be moving to Austin?These two first impressions did just that: impressed me. I learned two major things about her that day: 1) she was fiercely democratic, open-minded and inclusive. There was not one moment in which I felt awkward or out of place, and she made sure of that. 2) She was fiercely loyal to Austin and to her family and wanted them all together in the place she loved and fought for. I think it would have been easier for her to live somewhere that more closely fit with her vision of democracy and fairness, but Anne was a fighting spirit who would rather stay in the place she loved and fight from the inside to make it a better place. And she most definitely did.She did this in very public ways, as she protested and fought for all the movements she believed in. But she more profoundly did it in a quiet way by instilling her beliefs, gumption and fortitude in the large lineage of her family. Her children and grandchildren embody these ideals. I see it every day in Emerson and his siblings, and I see it in the generation above him. It's almost trite to say that when one passes their spirit lives on in those they touched. But in the case of Anne, this is palpable and remarkable.Rest in peace to a woman I respected from day one, and whose legacy will live on in tremendous ways.
Emerson told us that Mom's generous acceptance and inclusion especially moved Jack because his own parents had been far less accepting of Jack's sexual orientation, and that Jack was taking Mom's death very hard.
If I've done the math correctly, Mom would have been 76 when she first met Jack. As people go through life they often become broader and more inclusive, just from learning to know people and finding prejudices falling away. Apparently that's not how it was with Mom though.
Dad told us that when Mom was in high school (at the old Austin High School), there were two boys she knew who were largely shunned for being different, queer. Mom befriended them and was not at all concerned that hanging out with them cost her friends and acceptance.
In a day when homosexuality was considered a perversion and a disease by many Americans, my mom's instinct for justice, fair treatment, inclusion, and kindness were already deeply rooted in her character.
Jesus taught the Golden Rule: "Do to others that which you would have them do to you." Notice how active that command is. It's not merely abstaining from doing bad to someone so they won't do tit for tat. Instead it is all about actively doing good to others.
Mom lived by that principle. Her life work was to work each day on making our common life together a life with justice, equal value and rights, and decent treatment for all.
Aug 24 2013
Two kinds of Christians?
I recently discovered a gem of an author, Os Guinness. Guinness, a Christian born to missionary parents in China and a descendant of the Irish brewer whose beer shares the family name, came to visit friends in the U.S. about 25 years ago and fell in love with the country. He has made his home here ever since.
He is a "man of letters," someone who writes thoughtfully and with beauty. Now that I have discovered his writing (I've just finished his The Case for Civility), I am looking forward to reading many more books he has written. His explication of the genius of the First Amendment on religion should be widely read by all those who love the ideals on which this country was founded.
I'm going to be mulling over – and rereading – Guinness's rather urgent book. But today I want to mention just one point he made.
"The Christian church over the centuries has carried its universal message in two entirely contradictory ways – the way of Jesus of Nazareth and the way of the Roman emperor Constantine…The way of Jesus was the way of a servant, emptying himself of legitimate power, and being prepared to suffer and die in carrying out his task. The way of Constantine, on the other hand, was the way of a conqueror able to impose his will on the world despite all resistance."
For years I've been baffled by those claiming to be Christian who don't take Jesus as their pattern or try to do as He did. Guinness put his finger on the source of my consternation.
The emperor Constantine. Constantine co-opted Christianity in the 4th century, and claimed to become a Christian. But in reality he redefined Christianity and transformed it – not for the better.
He gave the power of the state to the Church and the power of the Church to the state – and led generations of those who think they are Christians astray.
C.S. Lewis would consider it one of Satan's most clever seductions.
The Constantine-Christians fail to read and comprehend Jesus's life and ministry.
He warned those who heard him, "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven." (Matthew 7:21)
Elsewhere He said, "'Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.'" Matthew 25:45.
How frustrating it is to those of us who pattern our lives on Jesus and consider it our moral charge to care for those He cared for to have the Constantine-type "Christians" be the ones who are constantly heard from, who seem to be the only representation of Christ many Americans ever see, thanks to a media obsessed with controversy and power.
But those so-called Christians actually misrepresent Christ; they defame Him. They raise a stench that repulses and turns away those Jesus would reach and save. In my book, that makes them enemies of God.
My anger at their defamation turns into sadness when I remember how they fool themselves into thinking they are Christians. They long for God but have been led astray. So sad. But is it too late?
Never. Not for the God of infinite second chances.
Jul 25 2013
Comfort from Canada
My cousin, Frank Faulk, lives in Canada. Among an outpouring of love and sympathy upon the death of my mother, Frank's words stood out.
My heart goes out to all my McAfee kin in Texas at this very sad time. I am so glad that I had the opportunity share some of my thoughts with my cousin Anne before she died. I told her how thankful I was for her gift as the family archivist, and that she had been given a strong sense of my Texas roots. I remember Anne sending me a picture of my great grandfather Layfyette Faulk, dressed in buckskins and holding a musket rifle. It was then that I began to realize that my story was part of a much larger story. I did not feel so alone.
I realize now that Anne's passion for social justice was not just driven by her political beliefs but I think a deeply spiritual quality that sought to remind each of us that our stories are part of a much bigger story, one that is about inclusiveness, compassion, and righteousness. And whether one believes in God or not, there is something intrinsically holy about giving your life to that.
After I got off the phone with Anne I realized that there was so much more I wanted to say. If I had more time I would have told Anne that as she continues her journey through eternity, to keep following the light as she has done in her life time. I would tell her that we are thankful to her for reminding us of that light in our own lives, and that it only continues to shine because people like Anne refuse to let darkness have the final word.
Much love to all,
Frank Faulk
"It is right, it should be so, man was made for joy and woe.
And when this we rightly know, through the world we safely go.
Joy and woe are woven fine, a clothing for the soul divine.
Under every grief and pine, runs a joy with silken twine."
~ William Blake
Jul 21 2013
Anne C. McAfee, October 15, 1930 – July 13, 2013. Obituary for my mother.
Austin lost one of her staunchest progressive activists on Saturday, July 13, 2013.
Anne McAfee, a lifelong Austinite who had been actively involved in state and local politics for the better part of seven decades, died peacefully at home surrounded by her family. Anne suffered from complications following a stroke that occurred while she was attending and supporting the recent filibuster on women's rights at the Texas State Capitol. She was 82.
Born Anne Elizabeth Castleberry, Anne grew up in her Faulk grandparents' 1890s home on a small farm in what was then semi-rural South Austin. As a teenager her chores included carrying in wood for the stoves and milking the family's cows each morning before going off to school.
In addition to her grandparents and her mother – English teacher Martha Faulk Castleberry – Anne grew up in the large farm home with aunts, uncles and numerous cousins, as well as other relatives and friends who might drop in just for a visit but end up "staying a spell." Her aunt, Mary Faulk Koock, established Green Pastures Restaurant in this lovely home in 1946.
The family home was a place where no topic was too sacred for discussion— where politics, religion, education and child-rearing were regular topics around the dinner table or while gathered out on the front porch. The Faulk home had been the location for numerous meetings of the local Women's Suffrage movement in the decade before Anne was born and her grandmother and others talked often of those efforts and of advancing women's rights further. Grace Methodist Church was the center of the family's social lives and the basis for their social justice activities.
In the Faulk home Anne developed a profound love of America and its founding ideals and developed a deep commitment to principles of justice and inclusion for all. Helping America live up to those principles and become that "more perfect union" guided her life and her activism.
Anne got hooked on politics as a 13-year-old volunteer in the 1944 Minnie Fisher Cunningham for Governor campaign. Twenty-five years earlier "Minnie Fish" had been president of the Texas Women's Suffrage Association and Anne liked to point out that Texas got the right to vote for women two years before it became law nationally.
Anne graduated from old Austin High in 1948 and attended UT as a history major until 1952 when she married Bill McAfee, who had come to Austin from Corsicana to attend the University of Texas. Having five children in quick succession, Anne was a homemaker for a good many years, active in teaching swimming lessons, the PTA, carpooling, etc.
After the children were older, Anne edited their weekly newspaper, The Austin Times, a monthly magazine, Go Austin!, and helped Bill in all of their other business ventures. A serious student of history and public affairs, she devoured information, subscribing to The Congressional Record as well as numerous other political publications. Historians as well as local, state, and even national political candidates often turned to her for her in-depth knowledge of legislative affairs and Texas and national politics.
Throughout her life Anne was deeply involved in numerous campaigns from the courthouse to the White House. At age 17, she attended the Progressive Party Convention in Philadelphia and supported Henry Wallace for President. Although she loved riding horses, she sold her treasured saddle to get the money for the trip.
Among others, she worked to elect Ralph Yarborough to the U.S. Senate; campaigned for Henry B. Gonzalez for Governor; was a statewide coordinator for George McGovern for President; and served as campaign treasurer for John Courage and for Maria Canchola.
Anne was also one of the original founders of the Save Barton Creek Association, served for many years as an officer and newsletter editor for the Austin League of Women Voters and the Travis County Democratic Women's Committee, and represented their senatorial district as committeewoman on the State Democratic Executive Committee. She and Bill were part of the original group of Yeller Dawg Democrats who have been meeting each Saturday for more than 20 years.
Besides working for progressive candidates, Anne worked tirelessly to help create an America that offered liberty, justice, and opportunity for all. She worked for causes that included ending nuclear proliferation, ending war, protecting the environment, promoting civil rights for minorities and farm workers, protecting women's rights, and providing health care for all.
Anne worked for years on compiling the history of the seven generations of her family in Austin and had nearly finished her book at the time of her death. She took pride in her deep Texas roots as a member of one of the families who received a land grant from Stephen F. Austin. She loved her large extended family deeply, and imparted a legacy of political engagement to be passed on to future generations.
Anne is survived by her husband of 61 years, Bill McAfee; children Susan Raybuck, Mark McAfee, Karen Kate McAfee, Laura O'Neill, and Nancy Dyer; sons-in-law Perry Raybuck and Allan Dyer; grandchildren David Raybuck, Abigail Daigle, Sean Raybuck, Adrienne O'Neill, Amanda Adele McAfee, Kaela Dyer Luna, Kevin Deckard McAfee, Emerson McAfee, Garrett Dyer, Kenny O'Neill, Jeff McAfee Deckard, and Sarah O'Neill; and great-grandchildren Sydney, Perry, Harper, and Everlee.
The family would like to thank the extraordinary staff at Brackenridge Hospital and at Hospice Austin, as well as Tad Davis, M.D. who stepped forward to help Anne at the Capitol immediately following her stroke and who accompanied her from the Capitol to Brackenridge.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to The Anne McAfee Fund at Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas (PPGT), 201 East Ben White Blvd., Bldg B, Austin 78704; Capitol Area Food Bank of Texas, 8201 South Congress Ave, Austin 78745; or SafePlace, P.O. Box 19454, Austin 78760. Funeral services occurred early Saturday for her large extended family.
A celebration of her life for family, friends, and acquaintances was held on Saturday, July 20th at 2 p.m. at Green Pastures, 811 W. Live Oak Street, Anne's childhood home.
Mar 27 2013
Reflections on war, Eurocentrism, and racism
I've been cogitating all week on the connection between war and the lust for land and the way we perceive people of other races and ethnicities.
What do governments or peoples do when they prepare to go to war against another nation or people? They try to make it seem justified, just like humans always do when they want their own way.
The drumbeat of war starts, with stories showing the negatives about the other side. Stories of how vicious, brutal, depraved, treacherous, uncivilized, and different the other is become part of the propaganda. The process of distorting the humanity of the other cranks up.
"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."
George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States
To make it possible for soldiers to kill another human being takes that process. They cannot be seen as human, with families who love them, as people capable of humor, kindness, generosity, nobility, or love. Likewise, taking the land of another and exploiting them also requires dehumanizing them. So the names come. Chink. Gook. Jap. Wop. Dago. Nigger. Greaser. Raghead. And the labels: lazy, savage, greedy, shifty, scrawny, tricky, dirty.
Prosperity and success get equated with being superior. Poverty and being a victim are marks of inferiority in such a world view.
Repeating the names and slurs, having them reinforced by friends and colleagues, build a deep contempt for the other and a sense of their own superiority, a superiority that gives them a sense of entitlement, that imposing their will on others is justified. Many of the soldiers then are able to shoot another human being and kill or enslave them, and sometimes, too often, to commit atrocities in the process.
Post-traumatic stress disorder in soldiers and suicidal tendencies have been linked in many circumstances to the guilt of killing others, especially when victims are innocent civilians or when soldiers bear guilt over their own brutality.
The continents and peoples most victimized by European conquest were on the receiving end of the names and slurs. The peoples of Africa, North and South America, China, and India were some targeted for conquest. The legacy of that history is that those same groups continue to a greater or lesser extent to have been saddled with the derogatory labels into perpetuity.
Literature and art certainly perpetuated the stereotypes. But with the advent of film and television, the stereotypes in the Eurocentrism that is so prevalent seem to have been invested with an even greater dark power.
As Robert Stam and Ella Shohat point out in a chapter written for Multiculturalism: A Critical Reader (edited by D.T. Goldberg, 1994),
"Eurocentrism minimizes the West's oppressive practices by regarding them as contingent, accidental, exceptional. Western colonialism, slave trading, and imperialism are not seen as fundamental causes of the West's disproportionate power…Eurocentrism sanitizes Western history while patronizing and even demonizing the non-West; it thinks of itself in terms of its noblest achievements – science, progress, humanism – but of the non-West in terms of its deficiencies, real or imagined."
Racism is the bitter legacy of the sins of our fathers, it appears. It won't go away anytime soon. Not as long as we associate light and white with purity and goodness and darkness with sin and evil.
Even as I write this conclusion, my eyes land on my own words above and see that I actually used the words dark power to refer to evil. It makes me aware again of how being washed from birth to the present in this "cultural stew" creeps into our unconscious minds and permeates our thinking, even when we try to confront it.
It is so hard to recognize the truth of our own evil, so easy for us to justify and excuse ourselves – all the while judging the sins of others. We don't want to see our own actions or that of our government (or a President) as evil.
I have the conviction that the only way to ever free oneself from the racism, sexism, and other stereotypes of our society requires such focused awareness and such intense concentrated attention to guarding against the least trace.of bigotry that I despair of being able to fully achieve it. All I can do will be to try to catch my failures, repudiate them, and hope for help in rooting them out of my life.
I wish it were possible to be the person I want to be. But if I could, I wouldn't need redemption and I wouldn't have the blessing of experiencing unconditional love and forgiveness. After Maundy Thursday, there is Easter!
Mar 21 2013
Overwhelmed by the flood of stereotypes
Raised in a liberal family (mom was a political activist, dad was a union organizer turned businessman) in the nineteen sixties, there was much in both my family and in the culture at large to shape my world view.
My parents were passionate about social justice and civil rights issues. We watched and discussed all the news about Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement. So, as much as one could while awash in a society in which racial stereotyping and prejudice is pervasive, I was raised to see Black Americans as real people.
That is despite the fact that my family had black maids to help with the cooking and cleaning for our large family. They were treated with dignity and respect, although not really as a part of the family. Class seemed a bit of a barrier more than did race – except that in America no one is ever free of having that as a part of the equation in any mixed race groups I suppose.
Issues of race and justice, prejudice and discrimination, were often topics around the dinner table and in the car. We were actively taught to treat people of other races well. The only time I ever was spanked for using a bad word was when I came home from a neighborhood friend's house talking about her new doll, her "nigger baby." I'm not sure I had a clue when I used the term that she called the doll that because it was black, and I just used the term because she had. I must have been around four or five years old at the time.
Nevertheless…my brother and I played cowboys and Indians with other kids in the neighborhood every Saturday morning after the Lone Ranger show ended. Commonly used phrases about Chinese fire drills seeped into our vocabulary. We absorbed parental teachings about the danger of ever dating a black person each time my mom read about a lynching anywhere in the country.
The Mexican-American children in my classes wore clothes that were older and their body language (in my mind, anyway) seemed to separate us. I couldn't name it at the time, but I think class, and maybe living in a culture as full of prejudice as ours, colored my attitude to thinking of them as not quite equal.
A book on prejudice that I read as a teenager made me realize it was very unlikely that I would be able to escape absorbing the prejudice in our culture. Sadly, I have not. But I've been on the lookout for those ideas and tried to root them out and ask forgiveness (in my heart, since the thoughts – fortunately – were never spoken aloud).
But as I read the chapter on racial stereotyping and prejudice and was reminded just how deep and wide the sea of negative images are in our culture, I realized that I've glossed over and failed to catch the many times I unthinkingly said or thought something that was a stereotype. The sad thing is that I never stopped to consider the cumulative impact of all the many stereotypes on those who are black or Latino, Asian or Native American. I never let it come up into my consciousness.
When I'm very sleep deprived, I've caught myself making Chinese laundry jokes or some such. Seems sort of funny and harmless – but the chapter has me thinking. I realize that I seem to have been captured by the culture to a far greater extent than I was previously aware. Shame on me.
I begin to see how very hard it is to stay free of that stuff. It involves paying attention – and we are a distracted, busy society for the most part. Intentionality plus vigilance, setting a guard on myself in essence. A big job to catch and stop my participation in the culture when it spreads negative stereotypes and racism to some degree to just about all of us.
Whew! I wonder if I can keep that focus and root it out. I'm one of those excessively busy, distracted workaholics. But maybe with a little attention and practice, that will improve bit by bit. It'll take practice to make it into a habit.
Mar 06 2013
Seventeen magazine and teen angst
Some forty-five years ago, I was a fairly typical adolescent girl growing up in a white, middle class household in Austin. The messages from mass media that I encountered then were not very different from many of those detailed in the research we've read so far this semester.
Growing up, Mom would not buy any of her four girls a Barbie, no matter how much we begged or whined. My best friend had Barbie, Ken, and Midge and I had unrequited envy for their sophisticated-seeming persona – so grown up after other dolls. Mom wasn't much on dolls at all, now that I think of it, but she particularly despised Barbie. I sensed that my mother hated the stereotypes Barbie represented.
Mom was bright, college-educated, and had volunteered in her first political campaign – for a female candidate for governor – at the age of thirteen. She was, and still is, a lifelong political activist and a fount of knowledge about American politics and history.
Seventeen magazine was a gift subscription from someone in the family. Mom? Surely not. My conservative grandfather and his wife? My grandmother and he had divorced when my mother was quite young. He was a Son of the American Revolution with John Birch Society leanings, who had kidnapped my mother not once but twice in the years following the divorce. Mom was always very stiff when they came for a visit.
I was a socially awkward child, painfully shy outside of my family and neighborhood, with my nose in a book much of the time. After we moved out of our neighborhood to a suburban home big enough for the seven of us, books became my refuge. I didn't need to notice my lack of friends or figure out how to strike up a conversation with kids at my new school.
Through Seventeen, with its emphasis on fashion, make-up, and dating, I became more aware than ever of everything I lacked. No real friends, no popularity, unathletic, unstylish, unskilled in applying nail polish or makeup – and quickly frustrated and bored with my few attempts to do so, which seemed to take an inordinate amount of time for pretty unattractive results.
I think Seventeen more than anything else gave me expectations about what I should be and do – none of which I was capable of at the time.
More than four decades have passed since I was a teen, but I well remember the self-doubt and depression of that time period. I couldn't imagine how anyone would ever find me interesting to have as a friend, that I had no talents and would never be able to get a job, and that no man would ever love me because I was no different from anyone else.
Little did I realize that I was internalizing the messages of what was attractive to men, in what theorists call the social theory of learning.
In actuality, I simply had no real life kinds of experiences to have any idea of any talents or gifts I might have. As a reader, I had interest in the world and knowledge of many things even through the fiction I mostly read at the time. I also had my mom and dad's interest in social justice issues and making the world a better place through activism. (Even shy people can wave a sign and march.) So instead of the nonentity I thought of myself, I was a not untypical shy teen with a very undifferentiated sense of self.
Luckily, college – and a little judicious meddling from my mom, who signed me up for a session on building trust, hoping to help me overcome the painful shyness – got me through the depression of high school where I never fit in and was the proverbial wall flower. College was interesting and I bloomed there – especially through some friends I made with several bright, funny, interesting feminists.
I was still a voracious reader, and much of it was still fiction, so I never read all the feminist literature of the time. But through the influence of my friends, who started a women's consciousness raising group and asked me to join them, I learned of the feminist movement. I learned skills of talking in a group as well as attitudes of equality that have stood me in good stead all my life. The shyness receded. The "rap" group experience freed me to a large extent from stereotypes of what women were supposed to look like, be, and do.
Sometime I need to look Angalene, Barbara, Nancy Jane, Colleen, and Elaine up and tell them how grateful I am – and how much I miss them and our time together. The lessons were priceless and I treasure the memories.
Feb 27 2013
Advertising's dark side
The dark arts of illusion, seduction, and manipulation are at the heart of the advertising industry. The Faustian bargain of the media is to provide their news, drama, and entertainment to the viewer, listener, or reader at a deep discount and exchange their integrity for advertising dollars to subsidize that discount. The advertisers get the medium's audience delivered to it with content they get to shape in substantial ways to maximize the size of the audience.
One saw the result in the Great Recession where governmental, business, and media elites continued to overwhelmingly dominate all discussions of the economic crisis, and very few stories revealed the depth of the impact on real Americans' lives. Millions lost jobs, but in this 'brave new world' they remained faceless, voiceless numbers.
We almost never heard their stories in their own voices as their lives came apart. First millions endured layoffs, then the frantic search for more work while bills began to pile up, then the house goes into foreclosure or they are evicted, then moving. Where? Who knows? In with friends or family, moving from couch to couch, uprooted and moving on in search of work?
Those stories had to remain untold, undoubtedly because they would make advertisers' audience angry or afraid, or decide to give their time and money to try to help others rather than continue to spend it on mindless consumerism.
Through a rapidly changing society following the onset of the Civil Rights Movement, advertisers stayed in their ruts, focused on materialistic values, and only reluctantly changed from the stereotyping of people of color one group at a time, only when pushed.
Ms. magazine tried hard to find a new advertising sustained model that suited the interests of their readers and the content of their magazine. But the stereotypes of the advertisers were often an insurmountable barrier to convincing many of them to try a fresh approach that would appeal to the Ms. reader – even though a new, desirable audience was being offered to advertisers. Had they embraced the opportunity they may well have won vast numbers of loyal customers, but the intelligent woman seemed to be a market that they didn't really want.
"…the ads sell a great deal more than products. They sell values, images and concepts of success and worth, love and sexuality, popularity and normalcy. They tell us who we are and who we should be. Sometimes they sell addictions." -Jean Kilbourne
The most appalling of the three articles for me was Jean Kilbourne's "Beauty and the Beast of Advertising." The images of impossibly thin, beautiful, perfect people and the way ads so often link the product being sold with a supernatural ability to make the consumer the envy of everyone, more sociable, confident, popular. Vulnerable people are induced to measure themselves against those phony images and find themselves wanting – all so they can be manipulated into buying the product being sold. As inexperienced consumers, adolescents are highly desirable targets for the advertising industry and especially vulnerable to those messages, more easily preyed upon so that they develop brand loyalty.
How much culpability does the advertising industry bear, I wonder, for the increase in depression, alienation, addiction, and perhaps even suicide among our youth? And what can be done to give our young people tools with which to arm themselves so that they can resist the dark side of advertising?
Feb 21 2013
Feminine upward mobility a la the Cosmo Girl
"Inventing the Cosmo Girl" hit me viscerally – and then reading much of Cosmopolitan for Latinas right after finishing the article, I confess that the most accurate description of my reaction is appalled. I am trying to tease out some of my thoughts from the midst of all the feelings.
One thought is how stultifying it would be to spend all of one's time and energy trying to transform oneself to create an illusion of beauty and to use one's sexuality to elicit gifts from dates, to always be on the lookout for a man from a higher class to "land." The very opposite of women's liberation, despite the sexual liberation (if one can call it that) in Helen Gurly Brown's message.
As a self-described materialist, Brown had a transactional view of male-female relationships, it seems to me. Become eye-candy, create illusion, improve one's techniques, one's body, one's attitude, and attempt to exchange the "beautiful phoniness" for "marrying up." Even advice on jettisoning the wrong man (working class) and going after men even if they are married in the pursuit of their goals for economic advancement..
Brown's version of feminine upward mobility advised shortcuts. Personal agency and hard work, sure, to exercise and diet, to purchase various cosmetics, clothes, shoes, to become invaluable to male employers with the idea of making that more than just a working relationship. But rather than use education to gain skills to gain a high-paying job, through Cosmopolitan's articles she promoted the idea that women should go to technical school just to get somewhat middle class service jobs (secretary, stenographer) so that they could have access to more men.
How is that different from prostitution, exactly?
It seems to me that it allowed women the mental distance to deny to themselves that that's what they were doing.
It would be fascinating to read research that investigated how women who had bought into the Cosmo Girl approach to betterment in the 1970s and 1980s feel about their choices, their mates, and their lives in hindsight, and to find out divorce statistics for that group, measures of satisfaction and happiness now, and to compare the results for those with readers of Ms.
By advising women to focus on appearance in themselves and material gains, it seems to me that Brown pushed women to find mates obsessed with appearance. Were such mates more likely to dump them as they aged and their looks were no longer so sexy? More likely to cheat? More likely to discover they'd been manipulated into marriage and to develop resentment for the woman they married? Were those marriages less stable?
Phoniness is not a sound basis for work relationships, marriage relationships, or friendships. It paves the way to ever lower self-esteem. For Helen Gurley Brown to seduce millions of readers into following such a path, and taking advantage of their insecurity to gain riches and fame without any regard for the long-term consequences of her advice on those readers strikes me as immoral and revolting.
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Rotisserie chicken can be the centerpiece of an instant dinner, but it can also be transformed into something more complex (don't forget to save the skin and bones for a flavorful chicken stock). This is a cross-cultural pairing of Vietnamese and Japanese cuisines -- chicken satay and soba noodles, the latter a nutritious and nutty tasting noodle native to Japan. Peanut butter, a pantry staple (at least in my house) is the base for this sauce and with the aid of food processor, can be made in minutes.
- 1 rotisserie chicken (1 1/2 to 1 3/4 pounds)
- 1 garlic clove
- 1 one-inch piece fresh peeled ginger
- 1/2 cup smooth peanut butter (not all-natural)
- 2/3 cup warm water
- 1 1/2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon Asian sesame oil
- 1 tablespoon red wine or cider vinegar
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1/2 1 teaspoon red chile flakes (to taste)
- 1 8-ounce package soba noodles (Japanese Buckwheat noodles)
- 1 10-ounce package sugar snap peas
- 4 scallions, thinly sliced
- Remove chicken from bones and slice or shred. Set aside.
- With motor running, drop garlic and ginger in the bowl of a food processor until finely chopped. Add peanut butter, water, soy sauce, sesame oil, vinegar, sugar, and chile flakes and process until smooth.
- Drop noodles in a 5- to 6-quart pot of boiling water seasoned with 2 teaspoons salt. Two minutes before package directions say they are done, add sugar snap peas to pot and cook 2 minutes longer. Drain and rinse under running water briefly (noodles and snap peas should still be warm) and drain well.
- Serve chicken on top of noodles and snap peas. Pour sauce over and sprinkle with scallions.


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Easter is almost here, and that means there are plenty of Easter egg hunts happening around the area.
Lifebridge Church held a huge hunt at Grayson Stadium in Daffin Park on Saturday. Lots of folks turned out for the free event, which also included live music by local band "Tell Scarlet," inflatables, and a visit from both the Easter Bunny and Nate the Gnat.
"We just wanted to do an event for the community where they could come out and have some fun, we just think it is really important for the church to be out in the community, and to be outside the four walls, so this is something that we can do to serve our community," said Chris Hunt, Pastor, Lifebridge Church.
This is the second year Lifebridge Church has held this event, but it is the first time they have held it at Grayson Stadium.
Also, the rain did not stop people from getting out and enjoying the Easter events in Glennville and Reidsville on Saturday. There was an Easter egg hunt at the Glennville Recreation Center.
They had a pretty good turnout despite the conditions.
Reidsville had their Easter egg event at the Reidsville Middle School, where people drove up in their cars to receive "goody" bags, because of the weather. They handed out over 135,000 eggs this year.
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I always equates time frames with what I was listening to at the time and back then I was huge into Soundgarden's "Badmotorfinger" which I still consider to be track for track one of the absolute best albums of the '90's.
So to honour the Oilers latest run to a conference final I decided to dedicate each of that disc's songs to a particular series storyline. Some of these just wound up writing themselves.
Rusty Cage - This one's for Ryan Smyth who wasn't showing up nearly enough on the scoresheet until G4 when he put up two goals and two assists. Like most of the Oilers he wasn't all that impressive in the series' first two games in SJ and really didn't make an impact until Pronger's clearing attempt made an impact with his lower jaw teeth. He went on to assist on Horcoff's G3 OT goal and then had his breakout game in G5. You had a feeling he couldn't be kept down for long but it worried me a little just the same.
Outshined - Horcoff vs Thornton. One guy doesn't look like dumbo and the other guy's moving onto the next round. In the SJ games Ron Wilson did everything he could to avoid matching Joe T vs Horc and if you watched closely this season you'd see that lots of other coaches would've employed the same methods. In G3-4 MacT would sometimes put Hemsky with Smyth-Horcoff and give them soft mintues against the Goc line but MacTavish changed his philosphy for G6 and went power vs power and matched Horcoff against Thornton basically every chance he had. That resulted in both goals for the Oilers and in what was supposed to be another chance for Thornton to shake his playoff reputation Shawn Horcoff stole the spotlight and did it in front of a national audience.
Slaves and Bulldozers - The Sharks came out like gangbusters in G1 and though their hit total was bloated by a hometown hand there's still no debating they took it to the Oilers in the physicality department. By series end the roles had reversed and guys like McLaren and Hannan were skating like Brad March and Harold Snepts. The lesson learned was that it's a marathon and not a sprint and if you'd better have a few races behind you if you want take on Heartbreak Hill.
Jesus Christ Pose - His tenure as an Oiler has lay dormant for periods longer than two days but Mike Peca looked like a guy brought back to life in G6. He just about won the game for the Oilers before the end of the first period.
Face Pollution - How's your eye today, Milan Michalek? Isn't it funny how the tandem of Staios-Smith put up better +/- numbers once this young Czech was lifted into the air and thus out of the lineup by a Torres hit in G2. Ron Wilson called it the turning point of the series and I don't know if I agree with him 100% but I will say it was easier to match lines once the Marleau-Bernier tandem lost their steam amidst an audition of supplementry wingers. Of course Michalek would return for G5-6 and though his eye was puffy his chest was certainly less prominent.
Somewhere - For the diehard fans who lived through the Tommy Salo era and hoped that somewhere somehow a Dwayne Roloson would emerge. I don't mean the causual fans who only pay rapt attention to the playoffs, I'm talking the guys who watched him play great in the '99 playoffs and then lived through his decline. So I'm not saying that Roloson is Patrick Roy but I am saying that he makes teams work to beat him.
Searching With My Good Eye Closed - This one goes out to the San Jose powerplay which needed five full games before they realized they had to move the puck a heckuva lot quicker in order to get scoring chances. The Oilers did a good job for most of the series but by the end of last night they were running on luck. Two pipes by the Sharks is evidence that they'd finally made the correct adjustments but what took them so long?
Room A Thousand Years Wide - No it hasn't been that since the Oilers played into the month of June but sometimes it feels like it. Times like when you look back at the "bounty" received for Doug Weight and how the whole Mike Comrie dream scnario eventually turned sour. Then you look at the Oilers current depth down the middle and how the failed experiements of Oates and Dopita kicked you in the nuts repeatedly. Now we can finally let this all go and hope that Horcoff and Stoll just remain healthy.
Mind Riot - For Ron Wilson the man who's most likely supplanted Roger Neilson as the NHL's most analytical coach. Be it pure arrogance, naivety or simple gamesmanship there was hardly ever a crack in his facade in this series.
Drawing Flies - Just a little something for the carcass of the '06 Sharks. There is a lot to like about this team heading into the future. I personally think Michalek is a Radek Dvorak clone but guys like Bernier, Marleau, Georges and Carle should only get better. Even a guy like Cheechoo could round into all around better player. Toskola was great in G6 when the Sharks tanked and gave up a bevy of odd man rushes. And hell a guy like Thornton will always be regular season money and will at the very least afford you a good playoff seeding;) But will it happen next year or will they have to keep waiting? This team's awfully young in some areas and it could be awhile before it grows up. There's no guarentee that grit will eventually befriend skill.
Holy Water - I'm not an overly religious man but how else do we explain Todd Harvey charging out of a mothball cocoon to take more than a few shifts on a top line that was matching against SJ's top unit? Not to mention the fact that he closed the lid on their coffin with a super shift midway through the third period. It's easy for a team to look blessed when the netminding's solid, the bounces are going their way and they're getting contributions from just about everyone.
New Damage - All of the remaining teams in the playoffs didn't make the '04 playoffs. That's the only example needed to show that the new league truly does promote parity. Fans in Anaheim and Carolina saw long runs in '03 and '02 respectively and even Buffalo made the finals in '99. For Oilers fans it's hopefully it's the beginning of a 3-5 year window where they're no worst than a coin flip away from winning a couple of rounds. If that isn't the case at least they'll have the memories of '06 to keep them warm.


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drjonesac2 said...
Neat math! So if I open 30 supplies I have an approx 96% chance to get one?
no. your drop rate is still at 10%. Could it be 96%? of course, if you are lucky enough.
the easiest example to understand this (which is already in the post) is "flip a coin". Each time you flip it, you will always get 50% of chance for either the heads or the tail.
If you read his question as "If I open 30 SSO Supplies do I have a roughly 96% chance of getting one or more badges from that batch?" then he is correct.
To use your analogy, on the 4th flip of a coin, you're 50/50 to get heads. However, in 4 flips of a coin you've got a ~94% chance that one of the slips will have been heads.
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Ray Emery has got one thing right – the Ottawa Senators' poor playoff performance wasn't his fault.
I mean, the last time he started a game was Feb. 28, a loss in Philadelphia.
And anyone who would lay the whole mess that this season has been in Ottawa solely on the temperamental netminder's doorstep is naïve to think the Sens' issues begin and end with Emery.
That said, he must go.
The Senators' margin for error is gone. After the debacle that this season evolved into, the last thing GM Bryan Murray can do now is take a chance that Emery could remain in Ottawa, re-gain his form and be the team's No. 1 goalie again. Because even if Emery did all that, history suggests there are still likely to be issues, the same sort of issues – missing a flight in the playoffs last year, for example – that were tolerated when the team was a veritable juggernaut.
The tolerance level, after this season though, is zero. So go Emery must.
It doesn't matter that there are going to be questions asked about a potential tandem of Marty Gerber and unproven Brian Elliott or that the crop of free-agent goalies this summer is less than stellar.
Doesn't matter.
Ottawa has unsuccessfully tried to trade Emery and it's doubtful there's a market now, but you never know until you try – again.
And that obviously is what Murray will do.
Failing that, though, it seems pretty obvious a buyout is the way to go.
Because Emery doesn't turn 26 until Sept. 28, the Senators catch a huge break. They are only obliged to pay him one-third of his remaining salary, not the two-thirds amount that is paid out to players who are 26 or older at the time of the buyout.
And that one-third figure helps soften the blow against the salary cap.
The CBA stipulates that the salary cap hit on a buyout is spread out over twice the remaining term on the contract. Emery is contracted to make $3.25 million next season and $3.50 million the year after that. The actual calculations on what is owed him get a little complicated for CBA non-experts like us, but suffice to say the number will come out at around $2 million, which can be applied against the cap over the next four seasons. The annual cap hit fluctuates from year to year – again it's far too complicated to explain here – but the bottom line is that the Senators would be responsible for a cap hit of around $500,000 for the first year, around $250,000 for the second year and between $500,000 and $600,000 in each of the third and fourth years.
The point is, it's not an onerous amount of cap space to eat up.
As for timing, if the Sens are going to buy out Emery, the first window opens June 15 or 48 hours after the conclusion of the Stanley Cup finals and that window closes on June 30. For teams that have salary arbitration cases, there's a second window that opens after the last salary arbitration award, later in the summer.
The Sens have a lot on their plate. They need a new coach. They need a puck-moving defenceman and some defensive depth. They need secondary scoring and – cue the cliché – they need their best players to be their best players.
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This morning I musta' had rocks in my head when I decided to do Insanity Asylum Speed & Agility....for the first time EVER! Holy cr@p! What a work out! I'm still tired from it! Loved it though! I think I am going to start a modified Asylum rotation....NOW!
Well I was supposed to go to the gym for 11am tmrw to intern again but the weather might put a monkey wrench in my plans. Bummer. Time will tell though...
Diana:: Maybe you need to do an upper body only work out and give those poor legs of yours a break soon! I wish someone would pay ME $35 to clean the house!
Lori:: How are you still doing super long work outs now that you are back to work f/t? I can't go over an hour or I run late! My certification requires 30 hours of interning but I'll probably do more. The one gym I am interning at is willing to do whatever it takes to get me to where I am ready to actually start selling and training...assuming I am going to work THERE after I'm done ofcourse! Oh so glad that you get to move out of that crazy living situation you are in! I would have had a melt-down by now if I were you!
Guess that's all for now. BBL or ITAM!
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Let's see how this works. I'm not use to checking in on my phone. It seems rather slow! So I'll just make it quick.
I'm here kind of alone. They've left me at the desk with nothing to do :s. An hour is long when you have nothing to do.
So my life keeps getting better. When we got up this morning we noticed another pair of boots. The guy who owns the house slept downstairs last night....like seriously!? Are you FK me!? You rent your home out and then you figure you can sleep there too when your gf throws your sorry ass out? I was thinking we would move into the new spot at the end of the month cause we did pay a months rent after all but at this rate we may move ASAP. AND this "dude" is sleeping next to the laundry room where I workout. If he thinks I'm going to be quiet tomorrow morning he has another thing coming. I usually take the boys to the basement with me while I do weights and then put the baby down for his nap before cardio and I will be doing the same thing tomorrow morning...moron!
Wendy** I'm working out in the evenings, that's how I'm getting these workouts in. If I had to do it in the a.m I'd have to get up to early! I'm like you, I need coffee first, I can't just workout. In order to do all of that, I'd have to get up at 4 and that's not happening. So when the baby goes to bed I workout. Tonight I may even have a little longer cause dh is working and I won't feel like I have to spend time with him! Lol. The weather has been nice here the last few days so if it's nice tomorrow I might run when he wakes up. That's good about your internship. Do you feel like your being pulled in all different directions??
Diana** yep...you better start running . I'd like to do something. Mostly cause I feel like my running is going downhill these days. I'll look for any excuse to get off of the tm for a sec. Might be cause I need a towel, or I want to change the show I'm watching! Ha! That's awesome about jerod. DD does really well too. She has done really well with this move. I've probably had the hardest time out of anyone but atleast now my parents can come visit...or anyone for that matter!!
I'll bbl!!!
BEEN BUSY BEE today .. yowza - well ystdy - COMBAT 60 - I put in the live 60 and changed it .. wasnt sure if the "live crowd" woudl distract or irritate me .. so I popped it out .. I LOVE that workout .. but Wendy has assured me that LIVE 60 is even better .. so I will be trying it tmrw or SUN .. for sure!! Between WED uber UB and heavy weights workouts and combat 60 my back adn arms were fried . . so naturally I decided to try Combat upper body blowout oh ya .. thinking it was gonna be a good lunch choice .. ummmm should have known better .. it was tuff .. combat style .. ripped my upperbody and core and left me sweaty! oh well .. DONE .. and on to countdown to 5 oclock and DATE NIGHT woot woot!
Lori - OK first of all the meat thing is DISGUSTING ..unless it is sitting in the ton of snow outside in the freezing cold ... throw it out .. I wouldnt even want it in same fridge as my food - second -GO FOR THE HOUSING .. that sounds like a good deal and your best bet my friend!!! YIKES!!!!!! How do you keep your sanity????? Now the owner is there ????? holy crap!!!!
DI - ya for Jerods grades .. and ya for him cleaning .. even tho you kinda threaten him .. oh wait .. I mean gave him an INCENTIVE to clean!! LOLOLOL .. re: biggest looser - my girls are fired up .. right now they are in third and fourth place in the race .. woot woot!!!!
Wendy - was that your FIRST time doing S&A???? my FAV workout ever???? and you did it in the MORNING??? crazy girl!!! and aren't you having like a blizzard or soemthing????? geesh ... I dont think I could move that fast that early in the morning .. but it was FUN wasnt it????????
OK .. better run .. helping the boss on a "fitness" project .. .. been working my butt off today!! have a great one .. I will touch base tmrw -
So yeah, I know no one is dying here but seriously...cut me some slack already. Looked down at my new ring tonight and one of the diamonds are gone. Like seriously!!! I've had the ring for 5 days...didn't put my hands in water, wear it to bed or working out and now there is a diamond missing and this ring wasn't cheap. I'm so rotted right now. Laura thought her head did spins last week...well mines about to explode!
I'll come back for personals. I'm to irritated to talk!
Good Morning
I feel a bit better this morning. My friend just text me and asked how I was feeling and I said fine for now...that's until the coffee is gone, the strangers in the basement wake and I look at my ring again! The baby slept well. I guess whatever was bothering him, for the most part, seems to be subsided! Which is good. He didn't wake until almost 7. I think he's teething.
I'm gonna get a good workout in today. Sucks to be the f'in landlord. Maybe next week this time we will be moving! And all of his crap that I had to put in boxes in the garage, I shall not be bringing back in. A-hole.
I thought I'd get out for a long run today cause the weather as been pretty nice but it looks like we had a layer of snow over night. I'll wait it out. I'm likely to go on to the basement anyway. I'd like to do some UB stuff and then a run mixed in with LB.
Laura** your really enjoying your new workouts. You know how I enjoy ordering new stuff but t takes so friggin long to get it here! I thought we lived at the end of the world before. We are located In a better area but things take a little longer to arrive. I wouldn't mind some new workouts but I know I won't do them...just cause I'm a cathe snob and all
I'll bbl to report my workout!
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We finally have sunshine here.. cold but the sun is out!
Lori..is this your wedding.ring???? Omg i would.be sick too..or any diamond or gem..that it sickening..yup my head would have exploded too. Sounds like you need a good stress releif workout today..maybe yall can get the housing thing going and be outta there soon.
Well either Combat live 60 or AB or SC is on tap for today..but if sil dont show..i may try a long run it is too pretty out to miss it...although the roads are gonna be muddy tmrw wld be better for a run..maybe a little dryer...
Ok..better run have a great one..i will try to bbl to see what everyone is up to.
Hi Ladies,
My body is sore this morning so I'm heading down for a Cathe cardio sweatfest to work out all this soreness!
Lori-OMG, can't believe a diamond has fallen out of your new ring already. Did you even have time to get insurance on it? At the very least the warranty should cover it. Yes, I think the sooner you are out of that living situation the better. Any updates on how the showings went? Nothing wrong with being a Cathe snob. I do love my Shaun T. though.
Laura-We are to have snow this weekend. This cold, snow and darkness is putting a damper on my HM training. Enjoy your workout today!
I've procastinated long enough, time to w/o.
Hey ladies!
Checking in from phone so forgive typos! :-)
Thurs and Fri had my fab headaches so no workouts yet. On the way to a hockey game, will be going to dinner after then "plan" is to hit a workout when I get home. Cardio if I'm mot too stuffed, weights if I'm still full.
Gonna read the past couple days while we're driving and will catch up on personals later or tomorrow.
Enjoy the weekend now that everyone is working again! :-P
Good Afternoon Ladies.
So I am going to be venturing on to a new rotation come Monday morning (before finishing Combat) that I hope I don't regret. The Asylum 1 and 2 hybrid!!!
Today I will do A2's leg work out b/c I want to work legs anyway and this way I can try it out. I was told A1 is a harder series then A2. (Would you agree with that assessment, Di and Laura?) That intrigues me and I want to see if I agree so the hybrid rotation is a great way to find out...if it doesn't kill me first, that is!!!
This morning when we returned from DH's cousin's house, the boys went sledding and I cleaned the house, did some laundry, ate lunch and promptly passed out. I was sooo tired from not getting enough sleep last night. I ended up sleeping too long though so now I'm chugging coffee so I can get my arse in gear for my work out!
Lori:: So what ring did you get that you lost a diamond out of already? Can you post a pic? Is it symbolic of anything or something you bought simply coz you liked it? Yeah, I am definitely feeling a little pulled in different directions but after sitting idol for 9 months at home and sitting idol for 2 years at my last job, I am actually enjoying being busy! The only way I can describe it is that it's making me feel really "alive" if that makes any sense. Also makes me feel better about myself because I feel "useful" again. Thank goodness! You really need to lose the "Cathe snob" thing! You don't know what you are missing! I love Cathe but there are definitely other awesome workouts out there and I just love the variety that other instructors with different styles bring to my exercise routine!
Laura:: So didja try Combat Live?? What did you think?? Yup, I sure did do S&A at 5:30 in the morning, dear! LOL How was date night?
Diana:: Hope you had a good work out! Now it's my turn!
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Hi ladies,
I finally updated my cathe calendar with last weeks workouts after my morning sweatfest! What did I do you ask....Cardio Fusion Mix & Max 80 minute sweatfest. I used to love this doing this long w/o occasionally but it took me 3 discs to find the premix I wanted. Then I did 1 round of Zuzana's ab workout. I was wiped out after that cardio session.
The snow has started to fly. We are expecting 3-5 inches, not 3 feet or so that Wendy may have to deal with.
I need to go grocery shopping, balance checkbook, find a couple more tax documents etc. I'm missing some interest deduction documents. I think I can get the student loan interest and perhaps the home loan interest. I want to file my taxes tomorrow.
Wendy-TBH, I can't recall Asylum Legs. A2 legs, yeah I definitely remember that one. I was planning on doing legs followed by a cardio w/o....not necessary with A2 Legs as it has plenty of cardio in it also.
Jacque-too bad about the headaches. Laura has them too. Do you know what causes them or do you have any medication for when they hit? Workout when you can, you still have to live your life. Squeezing all those hockey games into a short season will make it tough to get everything in right now.
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HOT COFFEE premieres tomorrow night
Editing, re-reporting, brief comment by Carolyn Bennett
I don't watch television but this documentary seems a must-see for people who watch television or who might ferret out a copy for home viewing.
HOT COFFEE reveals what really happened to Stella Liebeck, the Albuquerque woman who spilled coffee on herself and sued. The documentary explores "how and why the case garnered so much media attention, who funded the effort and to what end. After seeing this film, [the audience] will decide who really profited from spilling hot coffee."
Stella Liebeck (age 79) suffered severe third-degree burns, years of expensive medical treatment, and a lawsuit that soon had the whole country — spreading false information and commentary.
"Seinfeld mocked [her]. Late-night comic Letterman ranked [the incident] in his top ten list." Its infamy has seemed unstoppable. "Everyone knows the McDonald's coffee case… routinely cited as an example of how citizens have taken advantage of America's legal system; but have the facts been fairly rendered?"
Liebeck was a passenger not a driver in a parked not a moving car. She had ordered a cup of coffee from a McDonald's restaurant drive-through window in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She proceeded to add cream and sugar to her coffee, spilled the entire cup of scalding hot coffee on her lap and suffered third-degree burns.
In HOT COFFEE, Stella Liebeck's personal legal battle over a spilled cup of coffee serves as a springboard into understanding our civil justice system.
Also among the documentary's cast
Jamie Leigh Jones — sexually assaulted (raped) by her co-workers when working in Iraq as a private contractor for KBR/Halliburton. When criminal charges could not be filed, she sought to hold Halliburton accountable for their misconduct, but a forced arbitration clause buried in her employment agreement meant she lost her right to a jury trial. While documenting Jamie Leigh Jones's story, the film follows Senator Al Franken's first bill, prohibiting in government contracts mandatory arbitration clauses for sexual assault, passed in the U.S. Senate.
The film shows the success of the 'tort reform movement' and its impact on average people in the form of mandatory arbitration contracts.
Colin Gourley — born with cerebral palsy because of medical malpractice at birth who received a $5.65 million award at trial to cover his medical expenses but, because of a Nebraska state-mandated cap on damages, he could only collect $1.25 million, an amount that will not cover a lifetime of care. The film shows how the lawsuit cap has affected Colin Gourley and his family, as well as how dramatically different his life is compared to that of his identical twin brother, Connor.
When state Supreme Courts were holding caps on damages unconstitutional, Karl Rove and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce masterminded a national campaign to unseat judges who stood in the way of 'tort reform.'
[Tort: a wrongful act other than a breach of contract for which relief may be obtained in the form of damages or an injunction]
[Tort: a wrongful act other than a breach of contract for which relief may be obtained in the form of damages or an injunction]
Oliver Diaz — a former Mississippi Supreme Court Justice big business interests, despite their millions spent in advertising, could not beat in his re-election to the Mississippi Supreme Court "found a way to have him criminally prosecuted on false charges, tainting his reputation and causing political hardship for years to come." Diaz's life was fictionalized in John Grisham's book, The Appeal.
HOT COFFEE'S makers
SUSAN SALADOFF (Producer, Director) spent twenty-five years practicing law in the civil justice system, representing injured victims of individual and corporate negligence. She stopped practicing law in 2009 to make the documentary HOT COFFEE, her first feature-length film. Susan Saladoff lectures often and widely on the importance of the civil justice system.
CINDY LEE (Editor) has feature editing credits to include No End In Sight (Oscar nominee 2007, New York Film Critics Circle 2007 Best Documentary, Sundance Special Jury Prize 2006), Hotel Gramercy Park (Tribeca Film Festival 2008), and Manhattan, Kansas (SXSW Film Festival 2006).
CARLY HUGO (Producer) is a founding partner of The Group Entertainment, an NYC film production and talent management company; and producer of Beautiful Darling (Berlin & ND/NF '10), Beware the Gonzo (Tribeca '10), Peter and Vandy (Sundance '09), Bass Ackwards (Sundance '10), and Loggerheads (Sundance '05).
ALAN OXMAN (Producer) is winner of two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Documentary Editing on the PBS series 'City Life'; co-producer of the Oscar-nominated documentary film Children Underground and co-producer and supervising editor of the Al-Jazeera documentary Control Room (Grand Jury Prize, Full Frame Film Festival).
MARTINA RADWAN (Director of Photography) recently completed the documentaries William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe (premiered at Sundance 2009, was picked up by Arthouse Films for a mid-2009 theatrical release); and documentary projects including Through a Lens Darkly (director Thomas Allan Harris) and Poetry of Resilience and Skywalkers (Nomine Katja Esson).
MICHAEL MOLLURA (Composer, musical score featuring piano, orchestral, guitar, electronica, clarinet and cello solos) scored the "haunting" for the feature film Climate Refugees (premiered at 2010 Sundance Film Festival). His recent work also includes a feature length score for the drama Reconciliation (2010).
BRIAN OAKES (Motion Graphics Designer) designed the graphic visuals for the film Wordplay (2006 documentary) and will have two other documentary films premiering at the Sundance Film Festival this year: HBO's Bobby Fischer Against The World and These Amazing Shadows (Gravitas Films).
ERIN CRUMPACKER (Associate Producer) is a TV and documentary film producer based in New York City.
BETSY RATE (Associate Producer) is a freelance TV news and documentary producer based in New York City.
PRUDENCE ARNDT (Archive Producer) with more than 25 years as visual media researcher and documentary producer found archival film and photos on award-winning films and TV shows: I Knew It Was You: Remembering John Cazale (HBO); Why We Fight (BBC/Charlotte Films); Still Bill; African-American Lives Series 1; Looking For Answers; Bigger, Stronger, Faster: The Side Effects of Being American; Inside Deep Throat (HBO); and The Endurance (White Mountain Films/Nova)
RENIQUA ALLEN (Archive Producer) is a journalist based in the New York City area who produces Make It Plain on Sirius XM Radio and has written and produced for several media outlets including Congressional Quarterly, Black Enterprise, PBS.
REBECCA SALADOFF (Co-Producer, Assistant Editor) was production intern on 'East Fifth Bliss'; a key intern leading up to and during the 2010 Independent Feature Project (IFP) Film Week; operations intern at the largest outdoor summer-long music festival in Southern Oregon Britt Music Festival (Jacksonville, OR).
HOT COFFEE premieres on HBO Monday June 27 as part of the Summer Documentary Series
Sources and notes
"Is Justice Being Served?" http://hotcoffeethemovie.com/
"Full Frame Comes Full Circle: Doc Fest Reconnects with Duke University
Online Articles" (Ron Sutton), May 2011, http://www.documentary.org/magazine/full-frame-comes-full-circle-doc-fest-reconnects-duke-university
This week on CounterSpin — "Susan Saladoff on Hot Coffee, Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky on Battle for Brooklyn," June 24-30, 2011), http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=4325
Tort \'tȯrt\ n (1586): a wrongful act other than a breach of contract for which relief may be obtained in the form of damages or an injunction
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In the sky this week...
> Mars still dominates the southern sky during the night.
> Saturn rises about 7 p.m. and Jupiter and Venus rise, fairly close together, around 6 a.m.
> The Moon will be New on February 6.
How many times have we heard people say or write that astronauts float around while orbiting the Earth because in space there is no gravity pulling at them? Of course that is absolute rubbish. There is gravity everywhere in the universe. Imagine the gravitational forces holding the Moon in its orbit around the Earth, or our Earth in its orbit around the Sun. For that matter, consider the forces holding our galaxy together. OK then, how can astronauts orbiting the Earth in the shuttle or space station float around as though they have no weight?
Imagine we could build a tower 1,000 kilometres high. You go to the top and then jump off. What would happen? The answer is that the same thing would happen as would take place if you leaped off the Eiffel Tower. It would just take you a bit longer to get to the ground. Now imagine this tower is strong enough for you to take a nice big cannon to the top. You load it with gunpowder and a cannonball, point the gun horizontally, and fire. The cannonball will start off moving horizontally, and then because of the Earth's gravity, start to curve downwards until it eventually hits the ground. Load the gun again. This time put in a lot more gunpowder. Now fire. The cannonball will fly a lot further before it curves down to hit the ground. As we load up with more and more powder, the cannonball goes further and further before it hits the ground.
However, remember that the Earth is not flat; it is a sphere, so we could load enough powder in the gun to give the cannonball a trajectory that never hits the ground. As the cannonball's path curves, the Earth curves away beneath it, so that it never hits the ground. Your cannonball is falling around the Earth. It is in orbit.
Since we cannot make a gun that powerful, and we do not have a tower 1,000 kilometres high, we use rockets instead. The rocket does two things: it lifts the spacecraft up above the atmosphere, and then gives it enough horizontal speed for the curvature of its path to take it around the Earth. The reason the astronauts can float around is that they and their spacecraft, or space station, are all falling together. In fact, the best way to describe an orbiting spacecraft or weightless astronauts is that they are in "free fall". Similarly, the Moon is falling around the Earth, and the Earth is falling around the Sun, and so on. Getting from one planet to another consists of putting yourself in the right trajectory and then falling all the way there.
One of the items in the news at the moment is that an American spy satellite is about to re-enter our atmosphere and burn up. That satellite is orbiting the Earth at a low altitude, where there is still some atmosphere. As the satellite moves through the air at several kilometres a second, pushing the air out of the way exerts a small drag. This eats away at the satellite's kinetic energy. Gradually, the satellite drifts lower and lower, into denser and denser atmosphere, until it burns up and falls to Earth. Falling satellite debris is obviously a problem, but all the junk orbiting higher up, so that it can remain orbiting the Earth for centuries, is a bigger one.
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