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The Voice – Results Video – Top 6 – 12/04/2012
Here are the results for The Voice Top 6 on December 4, 2012.
It's another double elimination! Rickey.org readers pick Melanie Martinez and Trevin Hunte to leave. Will you guys be correct this week?
Ne-Yo performs with Amanda Brown! OMG I LOVE THIS SONG!!!
"Feel Again" with Trevin Hunte and Terry McDermott
Terry McDermott is safe!
Amanda Brown and Cassadee Pope sing "Breakaway" by Kelly Clarkson
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Trevin Hunte is safe!
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amanda was the best singer in the competition... terry was so unoriginal and did nothing with those last 2 songs ,,, trevyn is so over the top and many times strays from the melody, cassidee is meh ,,, nicolas is good but amanda was better.. was a ]]mess...
It would be interesting to see how much of an impact having the "extra points" for being in the Top 10 on itunes made. From an eariler post, the top 4 seemed to be the top sellers.
Finally Melanie was eliminated. She was so boring
I can't believe Amanda Brown was eliminated. I would have thought Terri and Melanie - but hey what do I know. I cheered for Cody and Dez, and we all know what happen to them. Oh well. At least I have Adam and Blake :)
the real stars of these shows are the judges. the contestants are just supporting acts. lol
I don't know- there aren't too many rock stars like Amanda. I think she's AWESOME, and I'll buy anything she puts out, but I wonder at how much support she'll really get. I knew Melanie was in trouble last night, and I do *not* think she has a future ahead of her. At all. We only really need 1 Fiona Apple...
why there always a contestant i cant stand .. and always do good??? people like TREVIN and CHRISTOPHER from x factor..:(
My wish came true! Team Adam eliminated. Now Xtina doesn't have to feel so bad. Melanie will have a career niche being a quirky indie singer. She's appealing if not a little too dark for her age. But I like her fine. I don't think "The Voice" is something she could have won anyway.
As for Amanda, I never really like her, despite her vocal range. There's something rehearsed and inauthentic about her "rocker" act. She was more convincing when she sang "Stars" than any of her "I'm gonna rock this thang" performances.
Moreover, I'm happy that Trevin outlasted her which speaks volumes for Cee Lo's instinct. Almost everyone here thinks he's a fool for preferring Trevin. Ha! Who's laughing now?
Boo. America sucks at picking vocalists.
I guess America chose the one they think needs it more. Both Amanda and Melanie have a future ahead of them. I will buy their stuff. I like Nicholas David and admit I was torn with these six as they were good. My ears tell me Trevin will win.
LOls another sausage fest on the Voice. Will Cassadee take down all the guys and win? She is probably the only one with a chance now.
Watching Amanda I thought she was technically proficient and probably the best singer but hard to connect with on an emotional level. I still don't know who she is musically except for being extremely talented. I'm not surprised she was in the bottom but I did think Nick and Melanie were going to go before she did. I think Nick's fans felt more of a heart connection to him and pulled him up into the final four. Surprised Terry has so many fans he's kinda boring.
With this new format, it's possible the only one judge could be left with his/her own contestants going against each other. Weird.
Good Grief, the worst contestants (besides Nick) are in the top 4. Sure they are good singers...for a choir or karaoke; otherwise, not so much. Whomever voted for Cassadee, Trevin or Terry really are tone deaf and dumber than rocks.
Adam Levine is OUT of the game! Shame.
I am so disappointed. How can anyone think ND is better than AB? Come on America.... open your ears. I hope Adam will help AB get a chance to make some real music for her fans to enjoy.
Words cannot express how disgusted I am with America.
So, I drift in and out on The Voice from season to season, but given precedent, is there any way Trevin doesn't win this thing?
I'm shocked
She looks absolutely devastated. Oh well..at least we got to hear tons more performances from everyone this year compared to the first 2 seasons.
you're kidding!!!!!!!!!!!! Amanda went home?????????
@IdleTime Trevin still can't sing. His voice is far too weak for the songs he chooses, and people only like him because he sounds like he manages to hit big notes. He's a vocal gymnast that would have McKayla Maroney giving him "that" look. Very few singers from these realty competitions manage to have any career, and you know why? They are hardly marketable for anything outside of the realty competition world, and because once they get out into the industry people realize how they pale in comparison to current singers/entertainers (the latter being the more important in today's current music scene). He's okay at his best, and dismal any other time. Nick has a better understanding of music, but he isn't everyone's cup of tea - even he has some stylistic choices in his phrasing and melody that leaves me dumbfounded.
The too long, don't read version: He can't singer either; most contestants on these shows don't have the talent to make it as a recording artist.
*grabs popcorn*
@ArchieSue Too bad she's the one I dislike the most.
@digitalpunkdiva Who gives a flip about 'who she is muscially?' What does that even mean and why does that even matter, Xtina, Jr.??
@LinBrand I like it though. It adds an element that will force judges to stop trying to use horrible strategies and actually pick good contestants with good talents; taking away that guarantee they used to have,. I think/hope next season we see much less fodder since they won't be able to only rely on one contestant. Christina openly stated many times she was passing up good singers because of her "strategy" and look where it got her. Haha.
@Penni Fields Amanda is like every other cookie cutter diva out there. And even if Nicholas isn't your taste, he's at least DIFFERENT from what we normally see, andin a good way. He connects with the audience in a way that Amanda couldn't. Nicholas seems like a MUSICIAN. Amanda seems like a poser. There's no denying that she can sing, but her stage presence is too calculated and fake (especially those "sexy" side glances) and it detracts from her voice.
The final four may not be the best singers of the bunch, but when they sing it's not just about hitting the notes. It's about the emotional connection to the song and the audience. You can see it in their eyes.
Amanda, however, always looks like someone who has spent too much time practicing in front of the mirror.
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Poor Adam!
"Trevin still can't sing".
Everyone's entitled to an opinion. But that one I have to scratch my head. He might not be the most formed and experienced singer. He's only 18. But to say he can't sing? Grabs popcorn indeed.
@Klope62 @ArchieSue Yeah but I think the show really wants her to win since she is doing extremely well on itunes. Plus she seem to be the most current of the 4 left but weird shit has happen on this show. I thought Juliet was going to win last season and look what happened. lols.
@ArchieSue Oh wait, no. My mind hasn't rationalized that Trevin is still there yet.
@lkim65 @digitalpunkdiva Simply put for you she did not develop a large enough fanbase with an emotional connection to pull her up over less talented performers. Who she is musically determines marketability, direction and opportunity. She is always going to be able to work in the industry but to break out she has to have fans that will pay to see her.
@Mikhail XO @NickRoman1 He fits the mold of non-descript, non-threatening, inspirational soul/R&B singers who win and proceed to do...well, not much.
@Mikhail XO @NickRoman1 I think Cass will
@Izikiel @IdleTime Once again, I didn't accuse anyone of being a racist. The word I used was "prejudice". One can be prejudiced against Trevin for multiple reasons other than him being Black. One can dislike him for being overweight, effeminate (in manner or in singing tone), a foreigner with some developing country's accent, or for his melismatic singing, and on and on.
All of these can be labeled as prejudices. If you insist that when I said "prejudice" I mean, and only mean, racist, then you have an issue that I can't help you with. As if Trevin's only attribute is that he is black?
Secondly, I wouldn't care to reply if someone says "I hope Trevin get eliminated because I can't stand a fat, homely, melismatic, gay black singer". That is their prerogative. But saying that "he can't sing" or exhibiting irrational hate on a seemingly sweet and shy singing contestant is suspect to me. Even so, I only posed it as a question not an accusation or insinuation. For instance, I accept some people do not care for high pitch singing, labeling it as "screechy". It's deafening to their ear. Okay fine. But criticizing Trevin for his "screechiness" then lauding Amanda for her kettle whistling last note on "Dream On" is I don't think being honest about what it is really about Trevin that they don't like.
And that was my one and only point and I'm done explaining.
@IdleTime This will be my last comment on this thread. I never said that any other contestant could fill a role in today's industry, thank you very much. In fact, I don't vote - I merely surf back and forth for some entertainment.
"That's a crock of doo doo." Because, you know, you know exactly how people vote and can say so with such assurance. Now that, my friend, is "doo doo."
For the rest of my comments, refer to @KavitTuralSumud and @Mikhail XO (Thank you both)
Edit: I did mean to say Ad hominem, and I made some other grammar mistakes. Sorry >_<
@IdleTime Don't play coy, you are quite aware of what you did because you followed the same pattern twice. You mention the race of both contestants and then cutely mention at the end 'oh but see I obliterated your argument, so now what's left for you to disagree with me except for x attributes I ascribed to the contestants?' you are such a troll.
lol. when did I ever use the "R" word? as if racism is the only form of prejudice? but hey if the shoes fit.
@IdleTime I flagged your comment because its pretty brazen of you to come here and insinuate multiple times that people who don't support your screechy contestant are being racist by showing their 'true prejudices' or their 'root biases' (cleverly worded ad hominem attacks against other posters).
First, which contestant on this show has a "role to be filled that isn't already taken"? What 18 y.o. powerhouse R&B singer on the horizon in the industry do you know of? Secondly, are you voting and rooting for contestants on these shows due to what is needed in the market? Really? Seriously? That's a crock of doo doo if you ask me. Viewers root for performers that they are connected with. And I personally don't care who or what anyone prefers: a big overweight black male R&B belter or a white girl-next-door who tells stories in a more intimate way. We all have our tastes and biases. But to criticize Trevin on the basis that "he can't sing" is to camouflage what the root biases are.
@IdleTime @Izikiel I suppose my comment did not post. These are my main points: Trevin doesn't have a role to be filled that isn't already taken. The market is too saturated with R&B and Soul singers that do what he does much, but much better. P and J&J are different artists in terms of genre, and so I don't compare them on singing alone. I don't care for the undertone of that last comment of yours, it's a petty ad-hoc in the guise of a commentary on voter preference.
@Izikiel @IdleTime Becoming a star apparently has very little to do with singing ability. Joshua Ledet and Jessica Sanchez vs. Phillip Phillips. Most would say that J & J can sing circles around P. Who's proven to be most likely the star now? I'm wary of ppl picking on Trevin -- apparently for his singing ability -- when singers like Dez are getting passes. What are their true prejudices here?
@IdleTime You're right. He can sing. Everyone can technically sing, but not everyone does it well. He's consistently mediocre. Yes it's my opinion, but seeing as many of these so-called artists don't tend to survive the brutal process of becoming a "star" I believe that it's an opinion shared by many if not most.
@ArchieSue @Klope62 Juliet should have won last season and Amanda should have won this season.
@Mikhail XO @KavitTuralSumud @Klope62 @ArchieSue @LinBrand Oye, we are such agreement this season :). She was pimped out once and she took advantage of it but then decided to follow it up with a Florence song which didn't help her at all. She gave him a pretty good indicator of where she could go and then tried to shove her into 'generic black diva' territory. For all the people whining about her 'inauthenticity' out front in a crowd, I didn't see it---what I saw was a contestant stymied by her previous years as a backup singer. Cassadee Poop (I love that nickname) apparently ftw.
@Klope62 @Mikhail XO @ArchieSue @LinBrand I really think she thought Dimples would carry her through. Adam Levine is really the one to blame for Amanda Brown. He really should have honed her in a specific genre and gave her a musical identity in the way that Dia Frampton did.
@Mikhail XO @ArchieSue @Klope62 @LinBrand Yes, Deb was amazing.
@NickRoman1 @Mikhail XO Not mention learn to play the guitar. pronto. BBWG for the third season in a row!
@Mikhail XO @NickRoman1 If he knows what's good for him, he'll find a razor and go to town. The fade top wasn't working anyway.


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I have a couple dozen three or four line separate reg files...is there a way to "auto-combine" these separate reg files into one complete reg file containing all the keys, etc...so I don't have to import each reg file separately into the main registry ?
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Sure. All the .reg files start with Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00, a blank line and then the data.
Start a new AllInOne.reg file in notepad.
Copy and paste the first one completely.
Copy and paste each of the other .reg files below that, skipping the Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 line.
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I did this on my Win 7 Pro X64 system and it's 311,538KB in size.
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We've read Westword over and over throughout the years. Worked with a number of their editors, writers and staff, too. Even tried to convince their medical marijuana critic to partake in a pot and wine pairing column (offer still stands, Mr. Breathes). Love the publication in general. So we are super honored to make the final four of Denver booze writers in its annual #WebAwards.
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everybody has a ghost
everybody has a ghost who sings like you do
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it's alright but keep it up
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it's all the same to the world dreamer
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he trades some ether for a chance
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flat on his back
cryin' where did I go wrong?
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Illinois State's Hancock Stadium now sparkles after a $25 million renovation and has a top team to go with it.
One national Football Championship Subdivision poll has the Redbirds as high as 13th, but in the Missouri Valley Football Conference they're projected no better than fourth behind defending league and national champion North Dakota State.
Despite having several holes to fill on defense, the Redbirds still figure to be competitive under fifth year coach Brock Spack, the former Purdue defensive coordinator who's had four straight winning seasons. The Redbirds (9-4, 5-3) were third in the MVFC last year and went two deep in the FCS playoffs before falling to Eastern Washington.
"I think this team is very, very focused and mature for a young team," Spack said. "This team is going to be together for a while. We have some very good seniors, but we (also) have some good young players."
The revamped stadium should serve as perfect backdrop for defensive end Colton Underwood.
Underwood led the conference in sacks and lost yardage in 2012 and is among nominees for the Buck Buchanan Award, giving annually to FCS' top defensive player.
But Spack needs to find replacements for six other defensive starters, including most of the front line.
On offense, Iowa State transfer Jared Barnett won a three-man battle as starting quarterback. He started 10 games over two seasons with the Cyclones before switching to Illinois State last spring. The Redbirds open Aug. 29 at Ball State.
Other Illinois teams to watch:
EASTERN ILLINOIS: Head coach Dino Babers guided the Panthers (7-5, 6-1) to an Ohio Valley title in his first season and the Panthers are favored for another. Ranked as high as 19th in national FCS polls, Eastern Illinois returns one of the nation's leading offensive combos in quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo and receiver Eric Lora. Garoppolo was 331-of-540 for 31 touchdowns and a OVC single-season record of 3,823 yards. Lora, OVC offensive player of the year and consensus All-America, set a single-season FCS record with 136 catches and 1,664 yards, the fourth highest in FCS history. But only three other starters are back on offense. The defense features seven returning starters, including defensive back Pat Wertz and safety Nick Beard. Both were all-OVC selections. The Panthers kick off Aug. 31 at San Diego State.
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS: The Salukis (6-5, 5-3) have only seven players with extensive experience back from a team that finished third in the MVFC. Ten more had some stating time. Junior tight end MyCole Pruitt had 49 receptions for 577 yards and four touchdowns and earned second team All-America honors. Quarterback Kory Faulkner returns after piling up 1,865 passing yards -- the 12th highest in school history. Southern Illinois, picked for seventh in the 10-team MVFC, opens Aug. 31 at Illinois.
WESTERN ILLINOIS: First-year coach Bob Nielson hopes to rebuild a Leatherneck program that reached the NCAA playoffs as recently as 2010. Nielson, former Minnesota-Duluth head coach, has 15 returning starters from a team that went 3-8 overall, 1-7 in the MVFC. Two were all-MFVC: sophomore linebacker J.J. Raffelson (105 tackles) and senior offensive lineman Jimmy Holtschlag. Also back is running back Nikko Watson, who rushed for 1,145 yards and four touchdowns, and wide receiver Fredson Salomon (374 yards, two touchdowns). The Leathernecks kick off Aug. 29 at home against Hampton. The schedule includes a Sept. 14 non-conference game at Minnesota.


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Boulder cabin near Euroa, Australia.
Cabin in Strathbogie Ranges, Australia. Constructed with gum wood and corrugated iron.
Contributred by Virginia Dowzer.
A-frame near Hobart, Australia.
Rural home in Victoria, Australia. Designed by Wolveridge.
Rohan's completed log smokehouse in Victoria, Australia.
Watch the story of the build.
Hunter/grower/gather/blogger Rohan Anderson built a log smokehouse from timber on his property in Victoria, Australia.
The beautifully shot film is a collaboration with Smith Journal and a full account of the story can be found in their most recent issue.
View a time-lapse gif of the build here.
O'Brien's Hut in Mount Kosciusko National Park, Australia built around 1890.
Submitted by Kate Walsh.
Hut built over 5 years with salvaged materials, overlooking Lake Bonney in the southeast of South Australia. Submitted by Hugh Altschwager.
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bunch-of-misfits said: …who I feel sorry for you >_>;
Kurou looked at the new arrival, "Ah… Hey miss. If you ever wanted anyone who would listen to anything you told him to do I'm your man." He sighed. "Go at me, use me as a carpet, use me as a chair. I can be a nice lil' fuck toy. The only issue is I am bound in chains… Well yeah. But if those come off I'll do whatever I can without them on too."
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It was the most
attention-grabbing slideshow presentation anyone in the room had ever seen. In
the basement of the Museum of Sex, which sits in the shadow of the Empire State
Building, a motley group of people were staring wide-eyed and clutching cans of
PBR. At the helm of the slideshow, demurely sipping a red wine and guiding the
dumbstruck audience through the photos she took of her own sexploits, was
photographer Liz Earls. The
confidence with which she stood—not to mention her sexy, form-fitting black dress—made
it immediately apparent why she is the most famous (and probably most active)
cougar of all time, a title she wears with pride and distinction.
"Let's face it," Earls said
with a quizzical smile, "I'm the slut with the camera!"
"Yeah!" a twenty-something
guy yelled, shyly raising a PBR in honor of Earls' sex-goddess status.
Earlier, I had spoken with
Earls about her new book of photos, Days of the Cougar, as we were surrounded by the sex museum's dildos and
pocket-vibrators that were silently guarded by a sign warning, "Please do not
touch, lick, stroke or mount the exhibits." We shook hands and spoke for 15 glorious minutes.
"This whole thing really all
started when I had a guy's balls in my mouth and he said, 'Quick! Grab a
camera!'" she admitted.
A pack of hungry boys that
didn't look a day over 19 spilled into the room, and Earls jerked her head
around to acknowledge the new meat. They looked as though they had just
traveled to the promised land and finally laid eyes on their prophet.
"You know," she said, while
running her hands through her finely coiffed hair, "I don't so much go after
younger men as they come to me." And she wasn't kidding. She told me a story
about how she picked up a gorgeous, young Australian man in an elevator at a
hotel. "We just looked at each other and immediately knew we were going to fuck
each other hard," she said. "And we did."
Later, as Earls' editor, Dian
Hansen, introduced Earls and her new book of photography
aptly titled Days of the Cougar,
a legion of young suitors stared at Earls with the reverence I've seen in the
eyes of those admiring the Pope. Earls held some mystical power over them; they
spoke quietly amongst themselves as she spoke.
"We'll never be in one of
those," said one sadly, gesturing to the pictures on display.
"Never say never," said
"How far do you think she
could get that microphone in her mouth?"
"I think I should be taking
I had had my fill of Earls'
vagina for the evening, so I headed out. As I left the building amongst the
clatter of people flipping through erotic books while commenting, "She does
legs, too!" "Uh huh, and butts," I realized exactly what it meant to have
shaken her hand. I reached slowly for my pocket-sized Purell as I headed to the
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Product Certifications: Clear As Mud
Product certifications have been around for decades providing third party audits and verifications. They ought to make the designer's work easier by establishing standards and guidelines that certify compliance with codes and laws and contribute to making the development, manufacturing and supply of products and services safer and more reliable. A terrific example with which almost everyone is familiar is Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL), an independent, not-for-profit product safety testing and certification organization whose labels can be found on our electrical products. UL describes itself not only as a household name in the United States, but as "one of the most recognized, reputable conformity assessment providers in the world."Few would argue with its success. Seventeen billion UL marks have appeared on products since its founding in 1894. Most of us think we know what the UL mark means; we depend on it to verify product safety and don't question its value. However, not all product certifications are as easy to trust. They haven't been around as long, do not as yet have widespread acceptance and their authenticity may be challenged by others. However, independent, technically expert evaluations by a third party without a financial interest in the product are enormously important, and we should be encouraged by their development. Reviewed below are two of the product certifications that have been developed especially for the fledgling environmental materials and services market. Both come with their share of controversy due, in large part, to conflicting opinions as to their legitimacy or effectiveness. These differing opinions, while helping to shape the questions, do make it difficult for the designer to sort out the issues. Knowing who to trust in this era of greenwash is a huge challenge; sorting out the science is difficult for those of us not schooled in technical matters. Even so, these standards are immensely useful as they assist us in making informed, environmentally sound decisions.Forests, including rainforests, are being destroyed globally at an astounding rate for a number of reasons, most of which involve alternative uses for the land on which they're grown—mining, cattle ranching, oil exploration, farming and especially for commercial logging. As a result, hardwoods such as mahogany that are prized for their beauty are becoming endangered. Clear-cutting practices have increased, stripping mountains of their erosion protections. The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) has addressed the urgent need to protect our woodlands by writing standards that define "environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial and economically viable management of the world's forests." Founded in 1995, FSC is a membership organization with nearly 300 members from over 40 countries. Products with the FSC label have come from a forest that has been responsibly managed under strict FSC principles and criteria that include respecting indigenous rights, maintaining community well being, protecting biological diversity and other ecological, social and economic aspects. The need to save our forests is widely acknowledged, and the FSC in the U.S. has been endorsed by major environmental groups such as the Nature Conservancy, World Wildlife Fund, Sierra Club and others, and by major businesses including Home Depot, Lowes and Anderson Windows. However, its standards have been challenged by other forest certification programs, namely the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) and the Canadian Standards Association (CSA)—and this is where it all becomes either interesting or confusing or both. Each accuses the others of being either too restrictive or too lenient, depending on your point of view. Recently the Rainforest Foundation entered the debate by issuing a critical report charging that "there are serious flaws in certifications being carried out in FSC's name, to the extent that the public cannot be assured that a wood or paper product carrying FSC's logo actually comes from a well-managed forest." Yet, the LEED™ Green Building Rating System has chosen FSC as its referenced standard in its certified wood credit, thereby adding credibility. What's a concerned designer to do while this debate is being sorted out? In an article in Environmental Building News, Nadav Malin and Alex Wilson put it this way: "In a world where radical points of view all too often dominate public debates and polarize issues, something remarkable has been taking place. The Forest Stewardship Council, a dedicated and tenacious group of nongovernmental organizations and progressive companies, has created a climate in which third party certification of forestry practices is accepted as a matter of course. While only a small minority of operations are certified to FSC standards, the alternative certification programs are becoming similar enough to FSC that it might not matter much which system is used." The point is: the bar is being raised and the green design community is becoming aware of the urgency of the issues. "Regardless of how these issues are resolved in terms of publicly accepted certification schemes, enormous gains have already been achieved," say Malin and Wilson.Equally controversial is the Greenguard Certification Program that seeks to establish acceptable standards for indoor products and testing protocols. Again, no one can disagree with the need to rid indoor environments from irritating contaminants that can have serious effects on occupants' health, productivity and quality of life. In addition, debilitating allergies and respiratory disease such as asthma cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars in lost productivity, absenteeism and increased medical costs. Poor indoor air quality is often attributed to volatile chemical emissions from building materials, interior furnishings and cleaning products and processes. Since Americans spend 90 percent of their time indoors and indoor air can be as much as 100 times more polluted than outdoor air, this issue must be taken seriously by designers. It is incumbent upon them to specify paints, coatings, sealants, adhesives, flooring materials, furniture, wallcoverings, textiles—indeed, all interior finishes and furnishings—that are low-emitters of formaldehyde and all the other volatile organic compounds that contribute to poor indoor air. Air Quality Sciences, a leading and very well-respected authority on indoor air quality, has for many years been testing interior products in its technologically advanced chamber labs (over 23,000 products to date) and, in 2001, created Greenguard, an independent, non-profit organization as the world's first voluntary nationally certified labeling program. Using protocols established by the EPA and the State of Washington, products are tested to simulate their use in a typical commercial indoor environment in controlled environmental chambers. Emissions data is then provided to the product manufacturers who can in turn use the test results to market to environmentally conscious designers. In addition, the Greenguard Product Guide identifies these manufacturers with their specific products that have been tested. So what's the problem? Here, seemingly, is a solution to one of the many dilemmas confronting the green designer, and an easy one at that. Simply specify products listed in the Greenguard Product Guide and you've swept away your poor IAQ concerns. However, until very recently there were few products listed in the product guide. Testing is expensive and can be a hassle, one that the commercial furniture industry didn't need to add to its plate in the recent poor economic climate. Thus, designers and specifiers were left without many alternatives. Then, in July of 2002 the USGBC released its pilot version of the LEED Green Building Rating System for Commercial Interiors (LEED-CI), which included a new credit for low-emitting furniture and furnishings and referenced Greenguard as its standard. (In the interest of full disclosure I must divulge that I am the chair of the LEED-CI Steering Committee as well as a member of the Greenguard Advisory Board, a group that was formed after the development of the draft of LEED-CI.) Almost immediately manufacturers began to scramble, recognizing that designers, eager to capture every possible point in their quest for LEED certification for their projects, would begin looking for low-emitting furniture and furnishings that met the Greenguard criteria. Today, as I write this, three major furniture manufacturers—Knoll, Teknion and Herman Miller—have certified up to 90 percent of their product lines and others have begun the testing process. Other product categories have followed suit and it probably is now possible to completely furnish a commercial interior with products from the Greenguard Product Guide.But, happy endings are not that easy to come by in the product certifications business. Almost as quickly as the manufacturers began their scramble, others began to challenge Greenguard's validity and LEED-CI's inclusion of it. BIFMA, the trade association for the commercial furniture industry, and the State of California Department of Health Services have both accused Greenguard of either being too expensive, too cumbersome or not stringent enough to protect human health. Both have also put forth their own alternative standards that are likely to come under the same sort of attacks that have been levied against Greenguard. This subject is receiving a lot of attention from the USGBC and the debate is expected to continue for some time. It is apparent that the controversy surrounding certified wood and low-emitting materials has raised awareness, not only of the complexity of the issues, but also of how difficult it is to define green design. The already overburdened designer is being asked to make decisions based on facts that are being debated by some of the best minds in the industry. 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Are you a Kitteh? or are you a Bloomer?
Which blog do you follow?
So earlier today I was scrolling through Facebook trying to just pass the time not take too much energy to really just be and I stumbled upon something that made my blood just boil. Now, normally, I would just ignore links that I happen to see, but this one, this one really just happened to catch my eye. And for those of you who see the pictures, you might be able to take a guess as to what this is gonna be about, but please, let me continue.
Above are pictures of myself. I put them in black and white to high light the shadows for one purpose and one purpose only- too highlight the shadows. I can classify as barely 5'3 and I weigh over 140 pounds (I think, It has been a while since I have stepped on a scale). Now, some people say that's not too bad. I can say the same because I remember a time when I was small enough I could slide into size zero jeans and wish to be smaller. Let me reiterate something: SMALLER. Thinner. tinier. Why oh why some of you might ask? Because I saw some things and felt fat. I saw some things, and I felt obese. I saw things on every day Television, Magazines, and Internet that made me feel absolutely disgusted with myself. I hated the person I saw in the mirror, because I didn't see a person. I saw a thing covered in fat, when I really wasn't. I went days without eating breakfast, or lunch, just one meal a day. Dinner. And even then I tried not to eat much. It was ridiculous. I remember going shopping as time passed and wanting to cry because my size zero turned into a two, then a four, then a six. I would cringe as I would shop getting scrutinizing looks from girls who were less than half my size as I pulled a medium off the rack. I wasn't beautiful. I was disgusting.
Now looking back, I see what I had fallen into. A trap posed by modern media to produce more girls that bought into their propaganda. Beauty was only skin deep to them. Well, it still is to the modern media. So now I'm here, typing to all of you and expressing my deepest concern, and utmost revulsion to what utter bullshit fills magazine pages and plagues television and internet sites. Cosmo recently released a picture of a model, a teaser to what bathing suits are to come (Or possibly passed, I'm not sure at this point). That's perfectly fine. The girl was beautiful, drop dead gorgeous. She, unlike some modern Hollywood famers, looked Healthy. I think that was what originally caught my appeal to the picture. Then Cosmo's comment destroyed my faith and belief in near everything as to what the Fashion World stands for. This young woman, who was one hundred percent beautiful, was now considered a plus size. Sorry folks, looks like she and I could wear the same size easily. So tell me, does that me a plus size now too?
I have a friend, she is beautiful and has made it her goal to become a plus size model. She's beautiful. She works her ass off too, just like many plus size models today. So when I hear people say that being a "Plus Size" is easy, it takes every fiber of my being to not punch them in the face. Tyra Banks, a world renown model, has even said that she has even tried working out with some of her plus sized coworkers and they work harder than she does. I find myself going back and thinking about getting back into modeling, but today, the fashion industry tends to frown on girls eating anything other than salads and dietary pills attached to that miracle water (which did nothing more than make me have to urinate more). I look in the mirror and see a girl, a human being, that struggles still with her self image because she has a little pooch that just won't go away. She see stretch marks and the scars of a hard life. She sees the bags under her eyes. She sees the fat. She sees everything that's ugly when everyone around her sees the beautiful. Yep. That's me. And even though I try to hide it, I do sometimes struggle with the fact that I'm not back in a size two. (Two months with no Mcdonalds and I'll be there, but dollar burgers seem to be a best friend to a girl who gets tired of ramen noodles.)
So girls, if you're reading this. I want you to know you are beautiful. We are all beautiful. Those bags under your eyes cause you're pulling grave yard shifts to support your family. They're beautiful. Those scars that mar your skin, they're proof that you run deeper than your own skin, and so does your beauty. The stretch marks you got cause you're a little "chubby" or you had a baby, girl they are BEAUTIFUL. Do not, I beg of you, feel unpretty or not beautiful by any means because some ass hole of a writer decided to "redefine" plus size. If a man can't handle your curves honey, kick his ass to the curb and love a man that can and will love you for all that you are. If society can handle your curves, tell them to hit the highway because they can't seem to appreciate the scenic route. We are beautiful. No shortcuts, no lies, no photo shop. We are all beautiful. So keep that in mind next time you don't want to go shopping. Keep that in mind as you scroll pass advertisements for clothing shops that don't offer your size. Keep that in mind the next time some insensitive jerk calls you a fat ass or tells you you need to lose weight. Keep that in mind, because I think your beautiful. I think you're fucking perfect.
Oh and below are links to Huffington Post's review over what H&M said was "Plus Size" and then a link to some of the hottest plus size models out there today, because Plus is NEVER a bad thing.
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Claire Denis' Beau Travail; Looking Back at Indie Film; An Iranian Movie Tugs the Heartstrings
Beau Travail
directed by Claire
Do you ever
wonder about the roots of oppression? Claire Denis has and dramatizes it in
Beau Travail, her adaptation of Herman Melville's Billy Budd.
But it isn't the angelic sailor Billy Budd who gets her attention; Denis
concentrates on the Claggert figure Sergeant Galoup–a model of neocolonialist
dislocation and terror. Denis Lavant (acrobatic star of Leos Carax's first
three films) gives Galoup the embittered appearance of a man whose natural exuberance
has imploded.
Beau Travail
Melville memorably described
Claggert as "a nut not to be cracked by the tap of a lady's fan."
Reworking Melville in a contemporary tone, Denis expands the notion of homosexuality
without villainizing it but using same-sex simplicity to demonstrate the model
of brotherhood and man's potential inhumanity to man. She also explores
the homoerotic possibilities in her subject: shirtless legionnaires in the sun,
in thigh-hugging fatigues, in casual yet vibrant close-contact drills. Denis'
recent collaborator, cinematographer Agnes Godard, lights these bodies to appreciate
family-of-man, light-to-dark internationalism. Their ethnic diversities are
one with the varied African settings of sunlight, sand, bright blue skies and
deep blue waters. It's very much a study in natural harmony, then unnatural
(social) tension.
Beau Travail recalls
the meditative, formal style of Denis' 1989 debut feature Chocolat.
Her more recent films I Can't Sleep and No Fear No Die (shown
as part of the American Museum of the Moving Image's recent Denis retrospective)
have a naturalistic urban pulse. But Beau Travail's Frantz Fanon-meets-Antonioni
rigor is alive with thought. Denis' political impulses remain a part of
her artistry. Beau Travail (which translates as "good work"
in the sense of the Army recruitment slogans that sucker society's otherwise
disenfranchised) concerns both Galoup and Sentain as displaced social figures.
(Remember that Camus' The Stranger was originally published in France
as The Outsider.) Even Bruno Forestier, the major whose manhood they
idealize, comes from the same exploitative system. This trio–showing how
envy inspires retaliatory, fascistic action–makes a psychological portrait
of how oppression and competition are indoctrinated.
I state Denis' imperative
plainly so that it isn't lost in appreciation of the film's visual
beauty and elliptical narrative. (Denis' stunning vistas are not for travelogue
delectation like Out of Africa or The English Patient.) She practices
her artistry with a purpose. As critic David Sterritt pointed out, Michel Subor,
who first played Forestier in Godard's long-suppressed 1960 Algerian war
film Le Petit Soldat, now portrays Forestier the patriarchal legionnaire
as sly reference to the history of politicized art films. Denis politicizes
the Melville story to answer France's post-Algerian anxiety the way American
movies used to address the divisions of our post-Vietnam anxiety. But Denis'
colonialist awareness isn't narrow; also like Godard she critiques the
role women play in occupied territories. From its opening image of African prostitutes
miming a kissy-poo song for soldiers in a disco, Beau Travail depicts
Third World women's exploitation as another aspect of oppression.
Denis does honor to Melville's
morally conscious art perhaps more than Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd
opera (she even dares recreate the passage that equates Billy Budd's sanctity
to a mysterious African sailor). With Leos Carax's remarkable Pola X
(based on Pierre, or The Ambiguities) now scheduled for release, this
year's mini Melville renaissance promises better art than all the recent
Jane Austen movies put together. Less Anglophilia and much less class snobbery.
Intentionally so.
To Mars directed
by Brian De Palma
small step for man, one giant leap backwards for film culture. That describes
the fate of Mission to Mars. Readers have asked for a fuller accounting
of Mission to Mars' pleasures following last week's decrying
of its critical mishandling, so let's start with De Palma's opening–an
elegant visual joke in which a rocket launch turns out to be a firecracker.
It satirizes mankind's ambitions. It recalls a poignant trope in the stage
musical Titanic: adults sing about technological wonders, human aspiration,
then a child runs downstage holding high a toy sailboat, the symbol of his own
dreams that puts everything in perspective.
De Palma isn't gaga
over space exploration; like Robert Altman in Countdown, he sticks to
the human story of competition and obligation. His opening barbecue scene encapsulates
the life habits of astronaut families; the single, flowing steadicam shot implies
that every one of them, potentially in a moment of separation or death, is being
viewed by an omniscient, pitiless eye. The sequence ends as Gary Sinise, one
of the astronauts left behind, ruefully observes his own footprint in the backyard
dirt. Neil Armstrong manque. De Palma cuts to the surface of Mars–NASA's
giant leap kept in perspective as a small cosmic step. Then the film's
fateful view of all human effort begins.
These simple images are
rich, but critics (and deluded viewers) aren't reading them. They look
right past their beauty and meaning. Viewer idiocy hasn't been this maddening
since The Lost World and there, too, the filmmakers' daring to center
a dangerous expedition around a black person (a girl child in The Lost World,
Don Cheadle here) goes unappreciated by mainstream critics. Along with his visual
sophistication, De Palma nonchalantly makes a cultural advance. When people
complain, "The dialogue was bad," it only means they weren't
really listening (because it's quite good); in fact, they're just
remembering dialogue from similar movies rather than actually looking at this
film's imagery.
Mission to Mars is
easily misunderstood by Hollywood-trained audiences wanting a big-screen cartoon
like Star Wars or Independence Day. It has the misfortune of opening
in an era so degraded by marketing that audiences can no longer see movies clearly.
Films get interpreted through promotional hype and the familiar formula of previous
hits. But De Palma seeks viewers' personal responses, fresh responses.
He demands independent viewers, not those who want Armageddon or else
feel nothing is happening on the screen.
The ideal way to see
Mission to Mars is not to have seen any other movie remotely like it–or
better yet: to recognize how it is a precise, poetic expression of your private
feelings about family, society, existence. Mission to Mars turns otherworldly
dazzlement into philosophy. It finds surprising means to our deepest feelings.
De Palma has made a truly radical movie, even though its form seems most routine.
Mission to Mars boldly meditates on the sci-fi propositions that film
geeks prefer trivialized. By eerily familiarizing Mars' landscape De Palma
makes space exploration pertinent.
Why should a 60-year-old
man make a pow-zowie space movie? We ought to benefit from what this artist
knows is important in life and that's what the fantasy of Mission of
Mars expresses. De Palma was always above genre glibness. His thrillers
are basically confrontations with death. It's simply that his talent (mastering
tropes from Hitchcock and Welles and Godard) was inseparable from youthful impudence.
Contemplating a NASA team's mission as a humanitarian effort, he claims
moral gravity in place of genre parody.
Like that other early postmodernist
Stanley Kubrick, De Palma examines basic human feelings in extraordinary circumstances–taking
the space movie seriously the way his previous thrillers probed sexual and moral
essence. Those not used to thinking of De Palma this way will draw a shallow
connection to Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. But here's the
connection that really matters: In 1968 Kubrick received a telegram from Federico
Fellini congratulating him on his unorthodox foray into outer space. The Fellinigram
read simply: "You made me dream eyes open."
Dreaminess is De Palma's
mode. Zero gravity gives the effect of constant slo-mo so that the plot (Gary
Sinise and Tim Robbins in the year 2020 embarking on a mission to rescue fellow
astronaut Don Cheadle from a catastrophic Mars exploration) gets a consistently
stylized treatment. This turns pulp into art. Indulging his love of steadicam
long-takes, De Palma gives lyricism to almost every action in the story, starting
with a backyard barbecue (in essence, a home video, a genre painting) on through
a life-and-death struggle in the void.
De Palma never had a more
mellifluous camera than Stephen H. Burum's here. His stalwart editor Paul
Hirsch never cut more gracefully. Sheer poetry of movement results. Most people
are indifferent to a film's visual rhythm; they only think in terms of
plot–though try telling that to Cezanne or Debussy or James Brown. No one
working in film today touches De Palma's visual wizardry. What Kubrick
wanted to do in Dr. Strangelove's opening scene of copulating jets,
De Palma does in excelsis, luxuriating in the calm, fluid movement of a spaceship's
centrifuge, of bodies rising in air. (And he hasn't lost his impudence.
When a husband and wife astronaut team are summoned mid-nuzzle, the amorous
wife answers, "This is the cockpit.")
In the CGI era, we are so
used to seeing the fantastic made graphic we've lost amazement. De Palma
counters visual cynicism with mesmerizing slo-mo. Accept his plot and watch
action as momentous as in the films of Matthew Barney (the self-proclaimed artiste
celebrated in Harper's and in the Times). De Palma has surely
seen Barney's Cremaster films–meditations on sensuality, spirituality,
inner and outer space–and he does Barney's esoteric erotica proud.
The floating blood and Dr Pepper scenes here are spellbindingly sensual (ingeniously
underscored by Ennio Morricone's organ music plus guitar pluck and synth
buzz). It's a poetic assertion of biological wonder, sci-fi agape–and
isn't that, after all, the point of genre seriousness?
Trekkies and Star Warriors
don't know what it means to have a major artist play out their sci-fi concerns.
Mission to Mars takes mankind's space endeavors–the quest for
the essence of life–to heart. Its midpoint NASA-and-death image is more
shocking than anything in The Abyss, going all the way to tragedy, whereas
James Cameron's bathoscope sequence was simply bathetic. De Palma's
smooth, legato tempo ennobles the mournful, superbly orchestrated suspense.
Yes, it has Kubrickian grandeur (minus The Blue Danube Waltz), but it
also has Tarkovskian elegance, silent-movie profundity. Note the way video transmissions
and control panel graphics are compacted, images within images, all in blissful,
seductive rhythm. Unfortunately, De Palma's naysayers–comfortable
with the triteness of sci-fi actioners like The Matrix or Armageddon–won't
see how this magnificent technique conveys a vision of life akin to De Palma's
Casualties of War.
De Palma singlehandedly
matures the genre. Mission to Mars' message–"They're
us, we're them"–refutes the silly us-vs.-them warfare of Independence
Day and Star Wars. His anthropological embrace includes the discovery
of a Martian edifice with African lines much like Cheadle's physiognomy;
and Sinise's intense almond-eyes are uncannily alienish. We see the primordial-looking
black man (Cheadle at one point recalls Richard Pryor's Mudbone) as different,
but he's us; just as Sinise seems to intuit his own relation to an evolved
species. We all are, visibly, related. One of the astronauts testifies, "The
universe isn't chaos, it's connection…life reaching out to us."
She expresses faith. (That's also where Walter Hill's Supernova
was headed.) And De Palma confirms her beliefs by Mission's circular
demonstration of life's regenerative cycle.


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A viral promotion campaign, in which youngsters use curse words to complain about society's continuing sexism, has caused a storm of reactions on the internet and been pulled from YouTube
We love anything that questions gender stereotypes and confronts sexism, including the latest viral campaign from FCKH8.com – the non-profit T-shirt company that uses slogans and images to campaign against homophobia, racism and sexism.
Its latest viral video is entitled 'F-Bombs for Feminism', and features a selection of young girls, aged 6-13, using what some would say was decidedly un-lady like language to address notions of gender stereotypes.
Representatives of the Government of Sri Lanka have admitted to the United Nations Human Rights Committee that LGBTI people are protected under its constitution – though they maintain their country's anti-sodomy law is not discriminatory
The Sri Lankan Government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa has admitted for the first time this month that its constitution protects people from discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity.
Representatives of the government made the admission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee after being questioned on the issue.
Bam Aquino says the number of LGBTI murders will continue to rise if harsher punishments are not introduced
Philippine Senator Bam Aquino has called for harsher punishments for hate crimes against LGBTI people in the wake of the murder of transgender woman Jennifer Laude.
'We should impose heavier penalties so that these discriminatory and inhumane acts will be eradicated,' Aquino said in a press statement.
Citing data from the Philippine LGBT Hate Crime Watch, he there were 164 cases of LGBTI murders in the country between 1996 and June 2012.
Government agencies, private offices and commercial establishments are required to have 'all gender' toilets
All government agencies, private offices and commercial establishments in Quezon City are required to have gender-neutral restrooms under the municipality's new LGBTI anti-discrimination law.
All public buildings in the Philippines' largest city must have restrooms labelled 'All Gender CR', an acronym for comfort room.
The provision falls under the citywide Gender Fair Ordinance, which was passed unanimously last week.
The Minnesota Star Tribune – the most widely-read newspaper in the state – has been widely criticized by users of social media for publishing a full-page advert on Sunday that many readers consider to be anti-transgender
The full-page advert was placed by the Minnesota Child Protection League. The advert encourages parents to contact Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) officials and ask them to oppose a transgender student policy.
The advert, which many feel plays on trans bigotry and prejudice, depicts the tiled wall of a changing room shower facility. Written over the image, it says, 'A male wants to shower beside your 14-year-old daughter. Are you OK with that?'
Cast and show's creator hope groundbreaking TV series will help public acceptance of trans people
Jeffrey Tambor feels like he's landed the part of a lifetime.
The actor, best known for his roles on Arrested Development and The Larry Sanders Show, is now starring in Transparent as a father with three grown children who is transitioning from male to female.
To play transgender female Maura Pfefferman in the dramedy, which premieres tonight on Amazon Prime, Tambor did his homework.
Report finds transgender women face systemic abuse and discrimination in one of the few countries to criminalize them
Malaysian transgender women are routinely arrested and abused by religious officials and police in one of the few countries to criminalize them, according to a new report.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) interviewed 45 transgender people for the report, which was released today.
One of the interviewees, Victoria, said she was arrested in 2011 by religious officials who stripped and sexually assaulted her.
She said, 'They were rough. One of them squeezed my breasts. I was completely humiliated.
More than 60 senators and congress members have signed a letter demanding change following the case of a deceased gay teen whose eyes were rejected for donation
A group of Democrat lawmakers have written to the Obama administration demanding that it update its policies with regard to allowing gay men to donate blood, tissue and organs.
The move comes following the widely reported story of a US teenager whose eyes were rejected for donation following his death simply because he was gay.
A Conservative MP will attempt to pass a parliamentary motion calling for blood donation equality, saying the 12 month celibacy rule is archaic
A British lawmaker will reignite the debate over the gay blood ban in the UK, calling for sexually active men who have sex with men to be allowed to give blood.
Currently, gay and bisexual men can only give blood after not having sex with another guy for a year.
Michael Fabricant, a Conservative MP for Lichfield, will speak on the issue in the House of Commons next month.
Earlier this year, he has warned the UK could face a blood shortage crisis unless the 'outdated, illogical and unequal' rules are reformed.
Arsenal's Olivier Giroud, Theo Walcott and Mikel Arteta are among the footballers participating in Stonewall's 2014 rainbow laces initiative
Soccer stars have stripped down and laced up for a new gay rights campaign.
Arsenal footballers Theo Walcott, Mikel Arteta, Santi Cazorla and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain poke fun at themselves in the Stonewall advert.
The gay rights charity have paired up with Paddy Power to raise awareness of homophobia in sport.
Vincent Piket, head of the EU Office to Hong Kong and Macao, says opponents of LGBTI rights should not invoke any cultural, traditional or religious values to justify any form of discrimination, including discrimination against LGBTI persons
LGBTI rights experts and some 200 participants from the academia and legal profession, private and public sectors, religious groups and NGOs attended the first international symposium on LGBTI rights to be held at the Chinese University of Hong Kong on Friday.
'Islan's death was not an isolated incident'
A year ago today, 17 August 2013, Islan Nettles was walking the streets of New York City with her transgender friends.
The group encountered another. Words were exchanged, including transphobic epithets, and a suspect allegedly punched Nettles.
The trans woman fell to the ground, and the suspect continued the attack.
Four days later, the 21-year-old was removed from life support and died.
The piece, entitled 'Transphobia is Perfectly Natural', has been described by many as one of the most transphobic articles ever written
Gavin McInnes, co-founder of advert company Rooster, has been asked to take an indefinite leave of absence from his job as chief creative officer following a transphobic article published on Thought Catalogue.
McInnes, who also co-founded online magazine Vice, wrote a piece entitled 'Transphobia is Perfectly Natural', in which he justifies bigotry against the trans community by claiming tolerance is 'sexist, misandrist, homophobic, and further damages the lives of the mentally ill.'
Are employers discriminating against those who say they belong to gay groups on their resumes?
If you are open about your sexuality or gender identity from the start, you could be denied a job that is rightfully yours.
According to a new study, people who are proud of supporting LGBT causes and state this on their resume are less likely to get a job.
Researchers sent out four fake job applications, two for each sex, to six different job sites in Cyprus.
The vacancies covered a range of work environments – offices, industry, cafes, restaurants and shops – and a total of 9,062 applications were sent out.
Human rights groups are calling on Malaysia's National Unity Consultative Council to stand strong in the face of criticism after it included sexuality and gender identity among protected groups in a draft new anti-discrimination bill
Malaysian human rights groups Diversity and Penang Freedom to Love are asking their country's National Unity Consultative Council (NUCC) to stand firm via a new online petition campaign after it released a draft bill of a proposed new anti-discrimination law.
The current draft of National Harmony and Reconciliation Bill would prohibit unfair discrimination on the grounds of gender and sexuality by the government or any person.
Order bans federal government and federal contractors from discriminating against emplyees based on sexual orientation or gender identity
US President Barack Obama signed an Executive Order today that protects employees of the federal government and of federal contractors from being discriminated based on their sexual orientation or gender identity.
Will protect employees of federal contractors from discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity
US President Barack Obama has chosen Monday (21 July) as the day he will make good on his promise to sign an executive order to prohibit discrimination against LGBTI employees.
The order will apply to an estimated 28 million people - one-fifth of the US workforce - who work for federal contractors and the federal government.
'Sexual orientation is not in itself a risk' - Gay rights activists are calling for all lifelong bans on gay and bisexual men donating blood to be lifted
Being a gay or bisexual man should not mean a lifelong ban from giving blood in many European countries, according to the Court of Justice.
Paulo Mengozzi, one of the Advocate Generals, gave his opinion that refusing blood donated by a man who has had sex with another man is discriminatory, unnecessary and should be stopped.
Geoffrey Léger, a Frenchman, went to a doctor in 2009 to give blood at the Établissement Français Du Sang (French Blood Agency).
Refused for being gay, Léger fought back against the decision.
Lesbian couple's stunning display tells a story about breaking down ignorance at Hampton Court Palace Flower Show
A green-fingered lesbian couple have won a prestigious Gold prize for their Stonewall Garden at the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show.
The annual celebration in south-west London is the largest flower show in the world.
But it's the first time Britain's leading gay campaign organization Stonewall has had a garden created in their honor.
It was created by garden designer Amanda Miller and her partner Emma Harvey.
Miller was inspired by the difficulties she faced growing up as a lesbian in a small country town.
ACLU, Lambda Legal and Transgender Law Center among the groups to say 'inclusion of this provision is no longer tenable'
The Employment Non-Discrimination Act has lost the support of several leading LGBTI legal groups on Tuesday (8 July) because religious groups would be exempt from the long-stalled legislation.
The American Civil Liberties Union; Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders; Lambda Legal; National Center for Lesbian Rights; and Transgender Law Center issued a joint statement saying the current version of ENDA allows religious organizations to discriminate based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
World's soccer governing body has been criticized for failing to tackle homophobia at the current World Cup being held in Brazil
FIFA has admitted Russia is so homophobic, the world soccer governing body will need a 'special task force' to deal with it at the next World Cup.
Jeffrey Webb, FIFA's anti-discrimination chief, has said the organization will need to deploy staff specifically trained to tackle homophobic abuse the next time the world comes together to play football.
LGBTI fans have condemned the body for failing to tackle homophobic and racist abuse properly at the World Cup in Brazil.
Makes surprise announcement during White House Pride reception
At a White House reception celebrating LGBTI pride, US President Barack Obama surprised attendees when he announced plans to sign an executive order protecting all federal workers from gender identity discrimination.
This is in addition to the executive order he plans to sign to protect employees of federal contractors from anti-LGBTI discrimination.
Obama's action is taking place as the US House of Representatives continues to stall the Employment Non-Discrimination Act already passed by the US Senate.
A new poll has found that a large majority of Americans wrongly believe that it is already illegal to fire someone over their sexuality under federal law despite the Employment Non-Discrimination Act stalling in Congress
A new YouGov/Huffington Post survey has found that 69% of Americans wrongly believe it is already illegal to fire someone for being gay or lesbian under US federal law – while another 18% were unsure.
Only 13% of Americans surveyed in the poll knew that gays and lesbians are not protected from discrimination in employment under federal law when asked.
The Government of Mongolia is proposing to pass new laws protecting LGBTIs and ethnic minorities from hate crimes after a wave of attacks by neo-Nazis against vulnerable groups in recent years
LGBTI people and ethnic minorities will be protected from being subjected to hate crimes in Mongolia if a government proposal goes forward.
Homosexuality has been legal in Mongolia since 1961 but homophobic views are pervasive throughout society and LGBTI rights were only discussed in parliament for the first time in April of last year.
LGBTI people have been subjected to a number of severe violent attacks in recent years, as have ethnic minorities, as there has been an up swell in neo-Nazi inspired nationalist groups in the country.
'In the United States of America, who you are and who you love shouldn't be a fireable offense'
The day before speaking at a Democratic National Committee LGBT fundraiser in New York City Tuesday (17 June), President Barack Obama had already let it be known that he was taking action on a long-simmering issue.
As the Republican-controlled House of Representatives continues to ignore the Senate-passed Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), Obama has finally agreed to sign an executive order that would offer some of the protections as that long-delayed legislation.
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'Second class citizens': gay marriage supporters march through Sydney
Sarah Whyte "Gays, straight, left, right: marriage is a civil right," was chanted throughout Sydney's CBD today as close to 1000 people marched for same sex marriage in Australia.


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Re:Battletoad? (197 comments)
I wrote in Battletoad, but I was also quite relieved to see that Serenity was winning.
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Just tell them you'll be having friends call periodically posing as potential employers. Let them know that if they say anything untoward about you while providing a reference, you'll see them in court.
For bonus points, mention that suing their asses for something as petty as that will likely be more profitable and less work than having whatever job they're trying to torpedo out from under you.
Le sigh. (577 comments)
This guy's got a serious disconnect somewhere. I've got a CS degree from a nice 4-year school. Most who know me who would swear that stands for Counter-Strike, though, not Computer Science.
Even with my four years of advanced tactical training, I'm pretty sure I couldn't realistically (and more importantly, -shouldn't-) expect to sit on a rooftop somewhere and headshot a terror suspect with a pistol from 15 stories up. Likewise, having invested more hours than I care to think about in World of Warcraft, I don't expect to be able to walk outside, turn into a bear, and tank a core hound that just happens to be wandering down my street. It's just not going to happen.
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Vince Carter's Game-Winning Three Point Shot Against San Antonio Spurs
Vince Carter scored 11 points on the day, but none were bigger than his final three. With 1.7 seconds remaining in Game 3 against the San Antonio Spurs, Carter nailed a game-winning shot from the corner. Half man, half amazing.
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HAMMOND | Civil War re-enactors are scheduled to answer questions about the region soldier's life during America's bloodiest war and provide living history demonstrations from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. today at the Indiana Welcome Center.
The 20th Indiana Infantry Company B re-enactment group is doing the demonstrations as part of the Region United, Nation Divided: Civil War in the South Shore exhibit organized by the South Shore Civil War Memorial Trail.
The free exhibit, open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily through June 30, uses hundreds of photos, narrative text, authentic artifacts and battle flag reproductions to tell the story of Northwest Indiana's role in the 1861-65 war.
About 3,500 people have visited the exhibit at the Welcome Center, 7770 Corinne Drive, Hammond, since its April 6 opening, tourism officials said. The Welcome Center is just off Interstate 80/94 at the South Kennedy Avenue exit.