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Weak trial witnesses hinder a more aggressive SEC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission seeks to become a more formidable force in the courtroom, a string of trial defeats in the past six months has exposed a weak spot: witness testimony.
In four of the five trials that the securities regulator recently lost, the jury or judge were not convinced by the witnesses brought in by SEC litigators, according to court transcripts, rulings and interviews with defense lawyers.
While there were also other factors influencing the verdicts, some legal experts said the issues with witness credibility were significant and reflect the need for SEC litigators to better vet and prepare their witnesses - or drop cases where they aren't strong enough.
One trial the SEC lost in December involved the chief financial officer of website management company NIC Inc (EGOV.O), who was accused of helping to hide $1.18 million in alleged personal expenses incurred by the CEO at the time.
The SEC summoned accountant Steven Henning as an expert witness and he testified that he had gone through NIC's records and found almost no receipts for more than 5,000 expenses logged by the CEO, ranging from flights to jewelry purchases to $5,250 worth of gift certificates from Kansas City Steak Company.
Defense lawyer Nicole Rabner, who represented NIC CFO Stephen Kovzan, poked holes in Henning's review by pointing to what appeared to be legitimate reasons for some of the items. Some of the flight bills, for instance, matched up with business trips. A company ledger confirmed the CEO had reimbursed NIC for a jewelry purchase. And a letter to the Kansas City Steak Company showed the gift certificates were meant as holiday gifts for employees, according to a trial transcript.
U.S. District Judge John Lungstrum said he was "a little troubled" by Henning's methodology and considered tossing out his testimony. An SEC lawyer defended Henning, telling the judge that he had "scoured the record in this case trying to find a business purpose" for the expenses.
Lungstrum ultimately decided to let the testimony stand.
The jury cleared Kovzan of all charges. It is difficult to know for certain what factors determined the verdict, but Kovzan's defense team viewed Henning's cross-examination as one of the critical reasons.
Henning, a partner with the accounting firm Marks Paneth & Shron LLP, stands by his testimony. "As a CFO, a person is responsible for maintaining adequate books and records," he said. "Irrespective of the verdict, that is still true."
Kovzan declined to comment through an NIC spokeswoman.
Without commenting specifically on individual cases, the SEC said it was not concerned about recent trial losses, which reflect the regulator's efforts to pursue challenging cases.
"I'm very confident in our trial unit," SEC Chair Mary Jo White told Reuters on the sidelines of a conference last month.
"Trials are not always predictable or easy. You can't win every case," said White, who was known to be a hard-nosed Manhattan federal prosecutor before she moved into private practice and then joined the SEC in April last year.
The agency scored a high-profile win last summer, when a jury found former Goldman Sachs (GS.N) Vice President Fabrice "Fabulous Fab" Tourre liable for fraud in connection with a failed mortgage deal.
But the SEC's trial win rate has fallen to 58 percent since the start of its current fiscal year on October 1, compared with 76 percent to 84 percent in recent years, according to SEC data.
Of the 12 cases that the SEC has received verdicts or rulings on since the fall, it suffered a full defeat in five and clearly won three. In four other trials, the agency was dealt mixed verdicts that found the SEC did not prove its case on all of the allegations it put forth. (See factbox <ID: L1N0LW2M0>)
Whether the losses represent a minor blip or a broader trend remains to be seen. The cases were all green lighted before White's arrival, but the losses come at a crucial time as she has pledged to extract more admissions of wrongdoing - which means the SEC is prepared to take more cases to court, rather than settle them at negotiating tables.
The problems are particularly acute in insider trading cases, which are often based on circumstantial evidence and witness testimony. Of the five cases the SEC recently lost, three involved insider-trading allegations.
One of those losses was against Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who was acquitted of insider-trading charges in October. He is a vocal critic of how the SEC handles its cases, and has been buying transcripts of SEC trials and publishing snippets on his blog, Blog Maverick. (For a video of Cuban's comments, go to reut.rs/1mhILV4)
In another insider trading case, a judge in January cleared retired engineer Larry Schvacho of charges that he traded on inside information about the sale of staffing company Comsys IT Partners Inc to rival ManpowerGroup Inc (MAN.N) in early 2010.
Schvacho was close friends with Larry Enterline, then CEO of Comsys. They had dinner the day Manpower first expressed interest in Comsys and, as Comsys was considering the merger, the two called each other almost daily and went on a sailing trip together, according to the facts established at trial.
Schvacho, who had long traded in Comsys stock, bought more than $750,000 worth between November 2009 and February 2010, and sold around half his holdings the day the merger was announced.
In documents filed before trial, the SEC said Enterline had denied providing Schvacho any information "knowingly," but the agency said it believed he did reveal news about the merger because he trusted his best friend not to trade on it.
At trial, Enterline testified that he had never provided Schvacho with any inside information, and that he did not discuss Comsys business matters with people outside the company.
"The SEC's interpretation of the evidence is contradicted, convincingly, by the testimony of Enterline," U.S. District Judge William Duffey in Atlanta wrote in his ruling. "There is, at most, scant, unconvincing circumstantial evidence."
A lawyer for Schvacho, former SEC attorney Ross Albert, said, "The SEC was looking for a smoking gun, but wound up with a leaky water pistol."
The SEC defended its decision to pursue insider trading cases like the one against Schvacho, and said that even if such cases are not suitable for criminal prosecution, civil actions would still be appropriate.
"We're proud of our long record of success at trial in difficult cases," said Andrew Ceresney, the SEC's enforcement director and a former federal prosecutor. "We will continue to bring aggressive cases to protect investors and hold wrongdoers accountable."
About seven months ago, the SEC made structural changes to try to up its game by pairing investigators and trial attorneys earlier in the process. The agency has also sought help from a jury consulting service to help determine the effectiveness of its arguments, and in recent years built a team of economists with a strong background in litigation support services.
Some legal experts say the SEC is outspent by the defense bar when it comes to litigating cases, though at times the agency has shown it is able to pay substantial amounts for trial support. Henning, for instance, received $600,000 for his work on the NIC case.
Getting partners from top accounting and consulting firms to be expert witnesses for the SEC can also be a problem because they work for major U.S. companies and either cannot testify against them due to conflicts of interest or do not want to because they see them as potential clients.
"I think they have an expert witness problem," said Michael Perlis, a partner at Locke Lord LLP, who handles SEC litigation and previously worked in its enforcement division. "Most of the ... major experts are people that won't testify for them."
Last year, the SEC pursued two former executives of Basin Water Inc, who were accused of improperly recognizing revenue to disguise the water treatment equipment maker's financial performance. In a 44-page ruling in December, U.S. District Judge Manuel Real found fault with four of the eight witnesses the SEC called.
Real wrote that he "places little weight on the substance" of some of the witnesses' testimony, and that he was not convinced by the SEC's expert witness, whose methodology he called "unreliable." He rejected the securities fraud case. The SEC is currently appealing the ruling.
Matt Solomon, head of the SEC's trial unit, said expert witnesses on both sides are routinely challenged in court. "As every experienced trial lawyer knows, there are nits you can point to in any trial. There is no such thing as a perfect trial for either side."
(Reporting by Aruna Viswanatha and Sarah N. Lynch; Editing by Karey Van Hall and Tiffany Wu)
Tourre defrauded investors of more an $1,000,000,000 while working at GS.
According to the Columbia Business Law Review:
"Monday, February 10th, 2014 at 10:25 am, by Camille Ranadive
Fabrice "Fabulous Fab" Tourre is facing a large fine from the SEC due to his involvement in the now-infamous deal known as Abacus 2007-AC1. On December 16, 2013, the SEC requested that Judge Katherine Forrest order Tourre to pay $910,000 in penalties and return $175,463 in gains plus interest. In papers filed January 21, 2014, Tourre responded to regulators' request for what amounts to about $1.15 million, asking instead that the fines not exceed $65,000."
If Tourre had committed fraud by writing a bad check in Minnesota:
(1) to imprisonment for not more than 20 years or to payment of a fine of not more than $100,000, or both, if the forged check or checks are used to obtain or in an attempt to obtain, property or services of more than $35,000 or the aggregate amount of the forged check or checks is more than $35,000″
Judge Katherine Forrest intended to sentence Tourre in early March of 2014. If she has, the legal community is too ashamed of her verdict to publish it.
Is justice served if a millionaire who bilks investors out of more than a billion USD pays a modest fine spends no time in prison and pays a modest fine? I think not. Whatever sentence Judge Forrest comes up with will have no deterrent value in a sentence like that.
MBA students are watching what is happening.
Allen Stanford defrauded investors of only 7 billion USD and he is serving a sentence of 110 years in prison.
The SEC clearly had no fear of Stanford and they are terrified of GS. The SEC doesn't have the courage or integrity to prosecute crimes of fraud on a large scale.
When fraud is committed within state lines, it should be prosecuted by state criminal courts. When the fraud crosses state lines it should be prosecuted in Federal Court under RICO whenever possible.
That might actually clean things up a bit.
So those will the money will still get out of their troubles, and those without money will be the ones that go to jail.
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Before booking this hotel I read several reviews and found that the majority of them were positive and only a few were negative reviews. After staying at the Grand I found the negative reviews to be wrong and the positive reviews were quite accurate. We liked the Grand very much and I think you will to."
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I stayed here for a total of 11 days, and was very pleased. The sleep-number bed was great. The room Had modern and updated fixtures. The balcony was nice for getting some fresh air. And the shower had great water pressure. I will stay here again next time I am in Chicago."
You have to pay for parking at this hotel. The hotel is older and could use improvement on the outside and lobby. The rooms and bed was excellent and very clean."
I faced towards Powell it was noisey in the morning need more soundproofing on winodws"
It was comfortable. The building is old and does show need for repair and is what you can expect from a hotel built in 1906 or thereabout."
I traveled to SF for a half-marathon. I have been in the city several times so I was not shocked by the prices or the "add-ons" like parking fees, etc. I was disappointed int he lack of an airport shuttle (expect to pay $20 pp for that, and a good hour to 90 minutes drive once all the drop offs are made). However, I was pleasantly surprised by the nice decor of the entrance and lobby area. the staff was friendly and accommodating upon our arrival and had us situated quickly. The hallways are a bit dreary and out of date, but the rooms themselves were clean (minus a cup sized stain on the couch). Everything else was clean, modern, and really just fine. When our room was serviced by housekeeping they would turn off the air conditioning completely so when we arrived back later in the day it was hot. This was not appreciated. I was also woken up one night by our neighbors upstairs. I could hear every squeek of the bed for a good 30-40 minutes, but thankfully no dialogue. We could also hear nice in the hallway and from the streets, but it is a city hotel, so I was not bothered too much by it. I enjoyed the area and would stay here again. Plenty of great places to eat close by, or within a short walk or uber ride. It was a nice 30 minute walk to Pier 39."
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The Carmel Valley Skatepark will remain unsupervised after all. Council President Ben Hueso's proposal to restore supervision at all five city skateparks was not included in the city's 2009-2010 fiscal year budget, approved Monday afternoon by the City Council.
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Girder bridge
|It has been suggested that beam bridge be merged into this article. (Discuss) Proposed since April 2013.
Two different girder bridges. The top is a plate girder bridge, while the bottom is a concrete girder bridge.
|Beam bridge
|Trestle, truss bridge, moon bridge
|Box girder bridge, Plate girder bridge
|Pedestrians, automobiles, trucks, light rail, heavy rail
|Span range
|Short, Medium
|Iron, steel, concrete
|Design effort
|Falsework required
A girder bridge, in general, is a bridge built of girders placed on bridge abutments and foundation piers.[1] In turn, a bridge deck is built on top of the girders in order to carry traffic. A girder bridge is very likely the most commonly built and utilized bridge in the world. Its basic design can be compared to a log ranging from one side to the other across a river or creek when at its most simplified form. In modern girder steel bridges, the two most common girders are I-beam girders and box-girders. A girder bridge only requires a rigid horizontal structure, also known as a beam, and two supports at each end to rest upon it. These components are what allows the downward weight of the bridge and any traffic to travel across it.
A girder bridge is often referred to as a beam bridge.[2][3][4][5] However, some authors define beam bridges slightly differently from girder bridges.[6]
Many girder bridges utilize concrete or steel beams to fortify the structure and properly handle the load. Both the size and height of the beam controls the distance that the beam can span. By increasing the height of the beam, the beam has more material and thus more easily able to dissipate any tension exerted on the foundation.
Engineers and architects will often add something known as "truss" to the beam of the bridge. This is intended to increase its ability to dissipate the tension and compression to the existing beam, however will aid the bridge to a certain distance before the strain becomes too large.There are several different subtypes of girder bridges:
- A rolled steel girder bridge is made of I-beams that are rolled into that shape at a steel mill. These are useful for spans between 10 metres and 29.5 metres (33 feet to 100 feet). Rolled steel girders are practically available with a web height of up to one metre (3 feet).
- A plate girder bridge is made out of (mostly) flat steel sections that are later welded or otherwise fabricated into an I-beam shape. Plate girders can have a greater height than rolled steel girders. Plate girder spans can be used for spans between 10 metres and more than 100 metres (33 feet to more than 330 feet). The web (vertical section) of a plate girder can be taller than that of a rolled steel girder, providing greater strength than a rolled steel girder. The thickness of the top and bottom flanges of a plate girder does not have to be constant; the thickness can be changed (typically at a field splice) to save on material costs. Stiffeners are occasionally welded between the compression flange and the web to increase the strength of the girder.
- A concrete girder bridge is made of concrete girders, again in an I-beam shape. The concrete girders can be either prestressed cast concrete or post-tensioned girders. Concrete girder bridges are best for spans between 10 metres and 50 metres (33 feet to 164 feet). Prestressed, precast concrete girders are readily available.
- A box girder bridge is built from girders in a rectangular box shape instead of an I-beam shape.
- An I-beam bridge is simple to design and build, and works well for straight spans. However, if the bridge needs to be curved, the beams are subject to twisting forces (torque). This can be alleviated by building several shorter, straight spans with a curved bridge deck, or by using box girders. Building metal box girders is more difficult, though, because the welding of the inner corners between the flanges and the webs has to be done either by a robot or a human, depending on which can fit inside.
In modern steel girder bridges, the most common girders are I-beam girders and box-girders. An I-beam girder is described by having the cross section of the girder taking the shape of the capital letter I. The vertical plate in the middle is known as the web, and the top and bottom plates are referred to as flanges. A box girder is much the same as an I-beam girder except that, obviously, it takes the shape of a box. The typical box girder has two webs and two flanges. [2]
Girder bridges have existed for millennia in a variety of forms depending on resources available. The oldest types of bridges are the beam, arch and swing bridges, and they are still built today. However, today we refer to the beam bridge as the girder bridge. These types of bridges have been built by human beings since ancient times, with the initial design being much simpler than what we enjoy today. As technology advanced the methods were improved and were based on the utilization and manipulation of rock, stone, mortar and other materials that would serve to be stronger and longer.
In Rome, the techniques for building bridges included the driving of wooden poles to serve as the bridge columns, and then filling the column space with various construction materials. The bridges constructed by Romans were at the time basic; however very dependable and strong while serving a very important purpose in everyday societal life.
As the industrial revolution came and went, new materials with improved physical properties would be utilized; and wrought iron was replaced with steel due to steel's greater strength and larger application potential.
- ^ "Girder Bridge". Argentina: National Institute of Industrial Technology (INTI). Retrieved 26 October 2012.
- ^ Design Technology. "Beam Bridges".
- ^ Nova. "Bridge the Gap", section "Beam Bridge".
- ^ Robert Lamb and Michael Morrissey. "How Bridges Work".
- ^ Ohio Department of Transportation. "Bridge Terms Definitions"
- ^ Leonardo Fernandez Troyano. "Bridge Engineering: A Global Perspective". 2003.
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I'll get straight to the point. All the software installed on my computer won't automatically update anymore unless it's manually run as administrator. Weird thing is that this didn't happen before and I can't recall doing anything that would be of particular relevance.
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1 Kings 11:4
As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father had been.
"He had it all!" For most people, that statement is an exaggeration. For Solomon, it's an understatement. When the Queen of Sheba says after seeing your kingdom, "not even half was told me; in wisdom and wealth you have far exceeded the report I heard," you know you have arrived. But then, having everything you want is not always the best thing for the heart.
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Virginia Supporters,
One of the most popular questions we are asked is can I travel abroad as an RSO?
The simple answer is, if you are an RSO and you are currently under Probation supervision you can not travel abroad without written permission from your Probation Officer. If you are an RSO and are NOT under Probation supervision then you can travel abroad.
Can you get a passport? The current answer is yes, there is no law preventing an RSO from acquiring a passport.
But there is pending legislation in Congress that could make it more difficult to do so.
HR2830- Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2011
HR3253- International Megan's Law of 2011
Until these bills pass the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate and then are signed by the President they are not a concern.
We've previously posted about RSO's going on vacation, http://www.rsolvirginia.org/news/bulletin-board/posting-348/
As a registered offender in Virginia if you do travel either in the continental U.S. or internationally you are required to tell the Virginia State Police if you are going to be away more than 14 days.
If your VSP Trooper comes by your home to do one of the two yearly checks and you are not there and you don't call them fast enough because you are gone for maybe 10 days, they may open an investigation into your residency. It could become a huge hassle and expense so we suggest advising your VSP Trooper in writing (e-mail) anytime you are traveling away from home simply to avoid an issue.
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The RSOL-VA has been advised by 5-8 RSO's that they have been held much longer, question more intently and searched more thoroughly than anyone else in their traveling party by both Customs and TSA when traveling abroad. So keep that in mind when setting your itinerary, give yourself plenty of time to get from point A to point B as a registered sex offender. You are most likely on a special list of travelers and they know you are coming through and will be giving you more attention than anyone else.
Now, the final Guidelines for SORNA did include travel for registered sex offenders, but as of today only 15 of 50 states are SORNA compliant and Virginia is not one of them. Below is the SMART Office's current information on registered offenders traveling internationally.
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When the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA, http://www.rsolvirginia.org/sorna-smart/ ) was enacted and its final guidelines—National Guidelines for Sex Offender Registration and Notification—were published, the U.S. Department of Justice was tasked with creating a tracking system for sex offenders who depart and reenter the United States. To that end, the SMART Office created the International Tracking of Sex Offenders Working Group in 2008—a multiagency initiative that enables appropriate information sharing about sex offenders who either intend to travel or are travelling internationally. The working group has developed a number of tools over the past year that will allow federal, State, tribal, and local law enforcement to more effectively supervise, monitor, and interdict offenders who travel internationally.
In January 2011, Supplemental Guidelines for Sex Offender Registration and Notification were announced. Among other matters that they address, the guidelines require that jurisdictions capture certain information about the international travel plans of registered sex offenders 21 days prior to that travel taking place. The SMART Office subsequently issued SORNA Implementation Document 15—Notice of International Travel—which includes a list of information that must be gathered and describes how jurisdictions can send that information to the National Sex Offender Targeting Center (NSOTC) of the U.S. Marshals Service.
NSOTC, working in conjunction with the SMART Office and the U.S. National Central Bureau of INTERPOL, has developed the Notification of International Travel of Sex Offender form to facilitate the transfer of this international travel information. See International Travel Form in this issue for more information.
In addition, the SMART Office submitted a proposal to the advisory policy board of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Criminal Justice Information Services Division to authorize the development of the automatic notification procedure described in the International Tracking of Sex Offenders Working Group: White Paper. In December 2011, the proposal was approved and as of Spring of 2012 is awaiting final approval from the director of the FBI. Once the proposal is implemented, local registering agencies and NSOTC will receive an automatic notification from the National Sex Offender Registry whenever a registered sex offender is screened by the Department of Homeland Security upon entering or departing the United States. These notifications will enable local and federal law enforcement officials to have real-time information, which will facilitate their overall sex offender monitoring strategies.
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In 1963, on this day President Adlai Stevenson asked Congress to revoke the honourary US citizenship of the recently disgraced former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
Bulldog's BiteThis totally unexpected and shocking outcome was caused by a chance discovery made in January by the CIA operative Miles Copeland. Based in Beirut, he had been investigating the British double agent Kim Philby. Transcripts dating from early 1945 were discovered which revealed that the British Government had ordered the assassination of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
By that time, London had a number of reasons to be dissatisfied. At the Yalta Conference, Churchill had told Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden that he was unable to insist Stalin honoured his promises because "I am no longer fully heard by him [Roosevelt]". From the lifting of the siege of Stalingrade, Roosevelt had begun to shrewdly re-evaluate his relationship with both allies, ultimately determining that the Soviets were a far more effective partner to fight a proxy war with Hitler. He sent far more resources to the Soviet Union than to Great Britain, and England was (according to a drunken slur from Churchill) "jilted".
A new story co-written by Ed & Scott PalterThese mispoken words were the equivalent of Henry VIII's unconsidered comment of "off with his head" that had doomed Thomas More. Apart from this soliloquy, the decision to eliminate Roosevelt was taken with Churchill's blessing, but in all probability, without his explicit approval as is the way of such things. As an amateur historian, with an American mother, Churchill might well have reflected upon the unexposed conspiracy to murder Abraham Lincoln. A well known actor called John Wilkes Booth had shot the President, jumped onto the stage where he had made his getaway from Washington on horseback (presumably, getting himself lost amongst the rebel soldiers flowing home after Lee's surrender).
But history would not repeat itself on this occasion. Because in the transcripts discovered by Copeland, Kim Philby had falsified intelligence reports that Roosevelt planned to use the strength of the dollar to hammer the pound sterling after the war. Already fearing that Roosevelt would use the United Nations to dismante European colonial empires, this new information forced the British Government's hand. Of course there was a typically British cover-up later on when it was discovered that not only was this information false, but worse Truman was "tight-fistedly" planning to reduce Britain's post-war aid. The result was counter-productive: a "deadly hiatus" between the two Presidencies, which could only profit the Soviet Union, and personally satisfy the traitorous intentions of Kim Philby.
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Grants received from the IMRAM Festival in Ireland, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Minnesota Theatre Federation (for the Minnesota Theatre Festival of Companies), the McKnight Foundation, the Tozer Foundation, the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council, the Duluth Summer Festival of the Arts, the Tweed Museum of Art, the Chisholm Museum, the Carr Trust, the Dungiven Trust, the Minnesota Historical Society, and the Arrowhead Regional Development Commission.
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"THE WAR REQUIEM" by Séamas Cain was presented on Sunday, 7 September 2014 as part of the series IN SEARCH OF PEACE at Southport Villa in the Gardens of Marsaxlokk on the Isle of Malta in the Mediterranean Sea. This series of presentations, co-organized by Paul Dalli and Gertrude Spiteri on Malta, and Hatto Fischer of POIEIN KAI PRATTEIN in Athens, Greece, included the works of 26 poets from around the world.
Scenes from "THE PRAIRIE GAELTACHT," a poetic drama by Séamas Cain, were performed on Wednesday, 11 July 2012, at International House on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley. This presentation was sponsored by the "IRELAND IN CRISIS" Conference, the 2012 International Conference of I.C.I.S., the International Congress of Irish Studies. (The play was based on stories and descriptions of three of Cain's grandparents, who were children in several Irish-speaking Utopian Colonies created in a desolate region of the western prairies of Minnesota in the 1870s-1880s.)
On Tuesday, 10 July 2012, Séamas Cain presented a Green Paper to the I.C.I.S. International Conference, titled "THE NEW WAVE OF INNOVATIVE WRITERS IN IRELAND."
"THE DISCONTINUUM OF PARADISE," a performance-script by Séamas Cain, was presented at the FLUXUS Festival of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Illinois, on Sunday, 20 February 2011.
IMRAM, a national literary festival in Ireland, in association with the Dublin City Arts Centre, presented "tríd an gcoill" by Séamas Cain and the Czech sound-artist Slávek Kwi. This Art Installation with recorded and/or live performances took place from Thursday, 23 September through Monday, 27 September 2010 at the Grapevine Space of CITY ARTS, 15 Bachelor's Walk, Dublin 1, Ireland.
While in Dublin, Cain spoke at the Mater Dei University Institute on his memories of the poet Allen Ginsberg, with Cain's own insights on the poem HOWL. That presentation, on Tuesday, 28 September 2010, as the John Devitt Poetry Seminar, was co-sponsored by the Dublin group Wurm im Apfel and the Mater Dei Institute.
IMRAM, a national literary festival in Ireland, in association with the Dublin City Arts Centre and TíAitreo Teoranta, presented the drama "THE PRAIRIE GAELTACHT" by Séamas Cain, in performances on Monday and Tuesday, 20 and 21 September 2010 at CITY ARTS in Dublin.
"THE WAR REQUIEM," a performance-work by Séamas Cain, was presented on Saturday, 11 September 2004 as WORLD SIMULTANEOUS ACTIONS by Mideo M. Cruz and the Ugat Lahi Artist Collective at Big Sky Mind, Cubao, Quezon City, the Philippines; the Katribu Artist Collective in Matina Park, Davao City, the Philippines; the Kedai Kebun Forum in Jogjakarta, Indonesia; Antonio Sassu and Gruppo Sinestetico in Torreglia (PG) Italy; Massimo Zanasi with Spazio Arka on Sardinia; Kanat Ibraghimov in Moscow, Russia; Carlos Pina in Barcelona, Spain; Alexander Del Re in Santiago de Chile; Leonardo Gonzalez Castillo in Valparaiso, Chile; Chaw Ei Thien in Rangoon, Burma; and Blackthorn Theater in Minneapolis and Duluth, Minnesota in the U.S.
"100 AÑOS DE SALVADOR DALÍ," a performance-poem of Séamas Cain, was presented on Tuesday, 11 May 2004 at the Galería de Arte in the Parque Avellaneda of the city of San Miguel de Tucumán in Argentina. The performance was organized by Mónica Vallejo.
"THE HORSE NETTLE", a performance-poem of Séamas Cain, was performed by Séamas Cain on Sunday, 23 November 2003 in Seneca Park at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Illinois.
"A SCOTTISH CASTLE," a performance-poem by Séamas Cain, was performed by Séamas Cain on Tuesday, 25 March 2003, at The Forest Arts Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland.
"RUINS," a performance-work of Séamas Cain, was presented in Gaelic on Tuesday, 25 March 2003, in the ruins of Holyrood Abbey at Edinburgh, Scotland. This language-centered multimedia event was sponsored by A' CHOMHAIRLE NA GÀIDHLIG.
"WAR," a performance-poem of Séamas Cain, was performed by Séamas Cain on Thursday, 20 March 2003, in the Courtyard of the British Library — at King's Cross, London, England.
"EL FIN DE LA GUERRA (THE END OF THE WAR)," a performance-work by Séamas Cain, was performed by Josué Donoso and Jonathan Vivanco, in conjunction with Alexander Del Re, at the Festival SENSORIAL on Saturday, 23 November 2002 in the barrio Miraflores, Viña del Mar, in Chile. SENSORIAL was organized by Leonardo González and Mauricio Morales at the Universidad Andrés Bello of Viña del Mar in Chile.
"CLOCKTOWER," a performance-work of Séamas Cain, was presented on Tuesday, November 2002 on the steps in front of the Clocktower on the campus of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. After the performance, Séamas Cain spoke to an audience in Special Collections at the Main Library of Colby College on "DISRUPTION AND INNOVATION IN THE ARTS: Bern Porter, Dick Higgins and the FLUXUS Movement."
"FREE PARKING," a performance script of Séamas Cain — sparked by a controversy in Bangkok, Thailand — was written for Varsha Nair and Savinee Buranasilapin for events at the Art Gallery of the Centre of Academic Resources at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, on Wednesday, 14 August through Saturday, 31 August 2002.
"THE DAFFODILS," a performance-poem by Séamas Cain, was performed by Séamas Cain at dawn on Monday, 19 August 2002 in the Sculpture Garden of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
"SEATURTLES," a performance script by Séamas Cain, was performed at dawn on Saturday, 10 August 2002 by Mary Roe O'Neill at the sea-level megalith of Creevykeel in County Sligo, Ireland.
Séamas Cain's play "GEOGRAPHY!" was performed in the ruins of Dungiven Priory, Dungiven, County Derry, Northern Ireland, on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 4, 5, and 6 March 1994.
"BOOM," Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 5, 6, and 7 March 1993. Performed by Blackthorn Theater at the ruins of Dungiven Priory in County Derry, Ireland.
"TOWER," Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 8, 9, and 10 March 1990. Performed at the Whitechapel Arts Centre in London, England.
"IBIS," December 26, 1983. Solo-performance on Sanibel Island in the gulf of Mexico.
"THE FOREST" (live performance with video) 4 August 1982. UCLA Video Center, Melnitz Hall, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.
"QUANTA," 17, 18, and 19 June 1982, at the Temple Opera House in Duluth, Minnesota. Performed by Blackthorn Theater.
"GEOGRAPHY," 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, and 27 June 1981. Commissioned by the Duluth Summer Festival of the Arts.
"TRISTAN," 26, 27, and 28 June 1980. Sponsored by the Duluth Summer Festival of the Arts.
"QUATERNITY, COOTS, AND MOORCOCKS," 16 September 1979. Performed at the Salmon Weir, Galway, Ireland.
"THE NATION OF ATLANTIS," 19, 20, and 21 July 1979. 3, 4, and 5 July 1980. Sponsored by the Duluth Art Institute.
"HELEN," 12 May 1979, at the Minnesota Theatre Festival of Companies. Sponsored by the Minnesota Theatre Federation, with performances at the Frey Theatre in St. Paul.
"DISINTEGRATING THROAT," 29 June 1978. Performed on the bridges over river Corrib, Galway, Ireland.
"ORPHEUS IN THE ICE," 5 May 1978, at the Tweed Museum of Art in Duluth. Commissioned for the Arts Leadership Conference, the state-convention of Alliance for the Arts in Education.
"LEGS," 13 June 1976. Performed in the Liberties in Dublin, Ireland.
"LA MORTE DI BOCCACCIO," 19, 20, 21, and 22 May 1976. Performances — directed by Séamas Cain as playwright — by the Teatro GARE in Rome, Italy. Cain was subsequently a participant in the "International Congress on the Liturgical Dimensions of Medieval Drama" in Viterbo, Italy.
"MEDIEVAL IRELAND," 14, 15, 16, and 17 January 1976. Sponsored by the Duluth Art Institute.
"CREEVYKEEL: (a performance-work)," 29, 30, and 31 January 1975. Sponsored by the Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth.
"THE COMEDY OF WILLFULNESS," 20, 21, and 22 November 1972. Sponsored by the Tweed Museum of Art.
Books, chapbooks, DVDs and CDs by Séamas Cain are included in THE AVANT WRITING COLLECTION at Ohio State University in Columbus. Rare Books and Special Collections at OSU holds the Archives for William S. Burroughs, Sheila E. Murphy, Alan Sondheim, Richard Kostelanetz, John M. Bennett, Peter Ganick, Scott MacLeod and other avant writers.
Books, chapbooks, DVDs and CDs by Séamas Cain are included in THE BERN PORTER COLLECTION in Special Collections at the Libraries of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Bern Porter, of Bern Porter Books, the first person to publish book-length work by Henry Miller, Philip Lamantia, Gregory Corso and other "beat" poets, collected these chapbooks himself. Porter, after a life-time of involvement in the visual and literary arts, placed his collection at Colby College. It includes first-edition works by James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, the "beats," and others.
Books and chapbooks by Séamas Cain are included in the archive collection of THE BANCROFT LIBRARY on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley. The Cain chapbooks were acquired by The Bancroft in a purchase "from the personal library of Philip Lamantia." The Bancroft also purchased "The Papers of Philip Lamantia," which contain correspondence from Séamas Cain.
Books, chapbooks, DVDs and CDs by Séamas Cain are included in THE POETRY COLLECTION at the University of Buffalo, SUNY at Buffalo, in the state of New York (it is the largest collection of modernist and post-modernist poetry in the world).
Books, chapbooks, DVDs and CDs by Séamas Cain are included in THE CELTIC COLLECTION of the Niedersächsische Staats und Universitätsbibliothek at Göttingen, Germany; THE CELTIC COLLECTION of the O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota; THE IRISH COLLECTION of the Walsh Library at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey; Special Collections and Rare Books at the National Library of Ireland; and Special Collections at Ussher Library of Trinity College Dublin.
Books, chapbooks, DVDs and CDs by Séamas Cain are included in THE CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE COLLECTION at Simon Fraser University of Burnaby, British Columbia in Canada.
Books, chapbooks, DVDs and CDs by Séamas Cain are included in the avantgarde JESSE GLASS COLLECTION of the Hornbake Library at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland.
Work and correspondence from Séamas Cain are included in "The Papers of Max Blechman" at the Tamiment Library of New York University (NYU). This Blechman Collection also contains letters from Paul Avrich, Cornelius Castoriadis, Diane Di Prima, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Pietro Ferrua, Jean-Luc Godard, Jackson MacLow, Judith Malina, Kenneth Rexroth, and Gary Snyder, among others.
Five chapbooks of poems by Séamas Cain are also included in THE AVANTGARDE POETRY COLLECTION at the University of California, Davis. Special Collections at Davis holds the Archives for the Living Theater and the Firehouse Theater (Séamas Cain was active with the members of both of these theater companies, and an influence on some of their earliest work).
"CREEVYKEEL: (a performance-work)." "HELEN: (a performance-work)." These two performance-art scripts by Séamas Cain were published in October of 2014 by The Otter Press at College Farm House, Mill Lane, Wellington, Shropshire, England, TF1 1PR.
"solas eile," an artist's book by Séamas Cain, written in Irish Gaelic, was published in October of 2014 by Wurm Press at Portarlington, County Laois, Ireland.
"THE DANGEROUS ISLANDS," a 240-page novel by Séamas Cain, was published in October of 2011 by The Red Jasper Press in Dublin, Ireland.
"TRÍD AN gCOILL," a DVD in Irish Gaelic of a recitation by Séamas Cain of a long postmodern forest poem, surrounded by Slávek Kwi with a stereo-mix of the sounds of nature from Dromore Woods in County Clare, was published in May of 2011 by the IMRAM Festival in Dublin, Ireland.
"TRÍD AN gCOILL," a CD in Irish Gaelic of a recitation by Séamas Cain of a long postmodern forest poem, surrounded by Slávek Kwi with a stereo-mix of the sounds of nature from Dromore Woods in County Clare, was published in September of 2010 by the IMRAM Festival in Dublin, Ireland.
"CASTLE BROUGHTY," written by Séamas Cain in English and Scottish Gaelic, a sequence of 100 minimal poems with counter-texts, was published in 2008 by The Gillyflower in Edinburgh, Scotland.
"TRÍD AN gCOILL," written by Séamas Cain in Irish Gaelic, a long postmodern forest poem, was published in 2008 by The Red Jasper in Dublin, Ireland.
"SPARULUS," an artist's book written by Séamas Cain in Old Celtic or Gaulish, a poem of birds, was published in 2008 for the Miche-Art-Universalis in Merksplas, Belgium.
"INCONGRUITIES" by Séamas Cain was published in 2005 by The Otter Press in Shropshire, England. INCONGRUITIES is a non-traditional collection of short stories, poems, essays, and performance-texts.
"MARANNAN," written by Séamas Cain in Scottish Gaelic, a long postmodern sea poem, was published in 2005 by The Forest Arts Centre, 3 Bristo Place, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH1 1EY.
"ORESTES : (a performance-work)." "MEDIEVAL IRELAND : (a performance-work)." These two performance-art scripts by Séamas Cain were published in 2004 by The Otter Press in Shropshire, England.
"THE PERISHERS OF PEARLS." "INDEX OF REFRACTION." These two chapbooks of poetry by Séamas Cain were published in 1986 and 1987 by the Silver Birch Press, 16 Ravensdene Park, Belfast, Northern Ireland, BT6 0DA.
"THE MAGIC OPAL." "THE EXHUMATION OF MOZART." "BIRD'S FOOT." These three chapbooks of poetry by Séamas Cain were published in 1980 and 1981 by the Duluth Art Institute, 506 West Michigan Street, Duluth, Minnesota, 55802.
"NAOSCA, an artist's book written by Séamas Cain in Irish Gaelic, a poem of birds, was published in 1974 by the Silva Gadelica Press in Ardagh, County Longford, Ireland.
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Thanks all for the replies.
I get overexcited at times about things. So sometimes I get overexcited about my 3D chemical structure modelling kit, or a textbook I'm reading etc. Sometimes I feel proud too, my IQ, and also my Dad's achievements (I really respect my Dad, he's my role model).
When I get overexcited, I talk about the topic in a very pressurised way. I lose my Social Protocol rules.
I wasn't aware that what I was doing could be construed as egotistical.
But I need something to feel good about myself, I suffer from chronic low self-esteem.
I have autism and communication difficulties. I also have schizophrenia, OCD and neurological problems (including visual processing disorder). I'm a Pharmacology student at University College London.
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Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 5:09 am
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SteelMaiden, I don't think you made a blunder. I think he did.
I think some people get unnecessarily offended over things like this, but it's more them than you.
For example, I see people talk about their physical abilities without much issue. IQ, however, is something that one apparently should not talk about.
It seems to me that people often talk about their successes without being shamed for it.
Most people don't even base their subjective judgments of intelligence on things that relate to intelligence. Often it's more "I agree with you, therefore you're smart" or "I disagree with you, therefore you aren't smart."
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Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 8:10 am
Post subject: Re: I made an embarrassing error.
Adamantium wrote:
rapidroy wrote:
SteelMaiden wrote:
I make social errors very often. I think it is part of my autism that makes what I'm saying come across as rude, inappropriate, impolite etc.
Tonight I texted a friend (as part of a series of texts we had sent to each other) saying that I thought it was cool that I qualified for the Triple Nine Society. I just felt happy about myself. He replied with "your IQ is not as high as your ego" and then said
"I don't think you have a very high IQ"
. My IQ is tested by a qualified Educational Psychologist as being 160.
I apologised to him twice but now he won't reply to my texts.
I didn't want to come across as boastful.
What can I do??
I bolded the part where I think you went wrong and insulted your friend, perhaps you should tell or remind your friend how this is one of very few things you have to be proud of to re-humanize yourself.
If thats how it went then I think she did nothing wrong.
The way I read it, the part you have bonded was a thing the friend said, not Steelmaiden.
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Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 6:18 pm
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perhaps its because it focuses on a IQ number as oposed to actual inteligences?
from an outsider view of it,it woud sound like someone cares to much about having something to show/appearances to hear them be joyful over a IQ number instead of being joyful over the actual skills/qualities have got that high inteligence gives?
more realisticaly it starts to make sense though,seeing as have got low self esteem,as its something can show people to encourage feedback which in turn encourages self pride.
try refer to the actual skills have got as a result of having that IQ instead of a number,and people may be less likely to see it as something bad/a threat.
take the hacking community for example,so many genuine hackers [not script kiddies or anons who get daddy to pay for a crappy dDoS program to do all the work] hate being refered to as hackers because of the hacker culture which has been watered down and hate the attention placed on them for their ability,many people with high IQs feel the same way.
society has become so obsessed with putting people on hierarchies of worth based on their IQ,it can be a sore point for some and pressure for others when they hear someone elses IQ.
plus IQ doesnt always determine actual smarts, it depends on how the person uses what they have;theres not much good having a IQ number of ... if it only gets put to ridiculous things like getting drunk/stoned/criminal activities for example.
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Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 6:29 pm
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I also think it would be great for you to look at other characteristics about yourself that you can feel good about that don't have anything to do with IQ or intelligence. By the way, I love that your dad is your role model, that is awesome. And that is a good one, you have a great relationship with your dad. Not everyone can say that. That is something you can feel really proud of and really good about. I am sure there are many things about you that you can feel great about that don't involve your IQ. You should be very proud of the fact that you are intelligent, not in an arrogant sort of pride but in a healthy kind. But you have many other things about yourself to be proud of also I am sure. I think when you discover these other things it will help because sharing those things with your friend will relieve some of that pressure she might be feeling and you may find things in common that you can talk about together. But sometimes if your IQ is very high, it can make others insecure because they feel like they can't measure up and that can make them feel hurt. But people have all kinds of great qualities and gifts and so do you, so if IQ is not the only standard by which we judge, then I think it makes things much better.
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Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 6:42 pm
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Life has taught me that if I show any kind of intellect people will think I'm being arrogant. Even the way I talk is thought arrogant by people and results in negative kinds of attention or thinking by others. Cannot work around it either as trying to sound casual comes off awkward at times. I think people would forgive all my quirks if not for that.
That's sadly reinforced by the way I think that is
(casually and without intent) arrogant. I can own that.
But maybe it's more an issue of bluntness / lack of social grace to mention IQ. Maybe it's easier to just make some joke about it so people can laugh about it and just not feel bad for not having high intellect.
Someone once suggested to me that using wit is a way around not being liked for intellect - ie only use that side of it publicly.
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Verdandi wrote:
I think some people get unnecessarily offended over things like this, but it's more them than you.
For example, I see people talk about their physical abilities without much issue. IQ, however, is something that one apparently should not talk about.
It seems to me that people often talk about their successes without being shamed for it.
Yes, that too. Also arrogance seems much more acceptable when it's for physical things, I guess people see that as well earned through hard effort (as if nobody ever worked for a high IQ!).
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I love a good sense of wit. It shows creativity as well as intelligence. Sometimes I am witty but it usually comes way after the fact like the next day! I guess I have slow wit! I find myself laughing wishing I had thought to say whatever it was sooner and in the moment. But it's all good!
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Hey Savvyindentity, I wrote a short post!! Haha!
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Hey Savvyindentity, I wrote a short post!! Haha!
Lol well done.
When I first got here a few weeks back I couldn't help but to write sermons every time, either that or keep it short. I prefer medium type posts now, guess I've just got less to say about it all
Also I think wit is an acquired taste, that or it's just my excuse for why I don't have it lol.
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Coming soon.. Live at the Garden with The Weight Of Whales
Recently did some work with Vianova at JSR studios. Video to the first episode here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYDBdc64de0
Watch here! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imGageDOJgA
Click the photo or link down below to view Vianova's debut promo featuring samples of 2 very well produced tracks! I have very high hopes for this band and expect the release of their first two singles (on Feb 25th, 2014) to go over well. Be on the lookout for it soon!
For this video project I was in charge of coordinating the production team, set design, and all post production.
Since early 2012 I've had the wonderful pleasure of creating over 20 online promotions for the Symphony's performances. Here's one of the first of 2014 for their Ravel & Bruckner show
Click the photo (or link down below) to view the music video! We're very happy to finally officially releaase Jericho's official music video for "Die Tonight" feat. District! I was responsible for this project's direction, lighting, and all post production. It was filmed in one day and finished within 2 weeks! Produced by Social Media Chapter. Special thanks to my production crew Joe, Rachel, & Neil. Be on the lookout for more Official Music Videos Soon!
We recently braved the bitter cold in Downtown Columbus to film a promotion for Vianova's debut album! A lot of time will be going into this project's post production and I'm very excited for the release! These guys are super talented and deserve lots of exposure. Video coming soon!
First Columbus Symphony Promo of the New Year is finished! It will be released tomorrow http://columbussymphony.com
Look what's finally ready to be released today!
Recently had the wonderful pleasure of Directing my first Official Music Video for Jericho's "Die Tonight". Be on the lookout for it's release in the next week!
As 2013 quickly winds down we're offering discounts for anyone that books a Wedding Package before December 31st! 2014 dates are now available and we're hoping they fill up quickly! Contact me today for more information!
Last month I filmed a music publishing documentary in Los Angeles with the Columbus Songwriters Association! As I work on post production I will be posting screen caps from the film. Here's one from our first interview of the trip with Stephen Finfer at his mansion in Beverly Hills!
Had the wonderful pleasure of capturing Worthington Jeweler's Fashion Week event recently!
Proud to be working with Opera Columbus for the first time ever! Video coming soon!
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TRUTH. Love this graphic from the Transcending Gender Project.
Normalize women with penises
Normalize men with vaginas
Normalize intersex people
Normalize singular neutral pronouns
Normalize diversity and crush stereotypes
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In my time being active in the nonbinary trans community I've received countless questions that were something along the lines of "does _______ mean that I'm not trans?" I feel like a lot of these insecurities come from the fact that people just don't know how common these feelings are among other…
Missive Journal, a new publication of original transfeminist thought, is calling for submissions for it's first issue! We're looking for essays, poetry, short fiction, visual art, and memoir written by trans women.
Most of the discourse surrounding trans women has almost nothing to do with our lived experiences, or is perpetually stuck in a state of Trans 101. The transfeminist writings which have most inspired us are ephemeral and scattered, situated as they are in various internet communities. And far too often, these conversations are derailed by an interloper almost as soon as they begin.
Our aim in starting Missive is to foster a different type of conversation about our bodies and our lives. It is a place to move beyond the politics of apologism; it is a place to collect and record transfeminist works.
We plan on distributing Missive as a digital file on a pay-what-you-can model, with proceeds split evenly amongst contributors.
Please send submissions to firstname.lastname@example.com by December 31st, 2013.
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do people actually do this
do they actually do this
1st binders can be pretty expensive and hard to get especially depending on your living situation
2nd clothing and hairstyles have no gender and applying genders to them is incredibly cissexist the clothing you wear does not define your gender
3rd not everyone has parents or family members who are accepting and physically transitioning can be stressful or even dangerous for them
4th there is no preset criteria for what level of masculinity or femininity you have to reach before you can be considered trans the only thing you need to be considered trans is identifying as trans
5th you use a troll face in your shitty strawman argument your point is instantly invalid
^ ^ ^ ^ ^
Let's talk a little more about why this is not only a shitty attitude to take, but also a very dangerous one as well. All the points noted above are completely true, so lets build on top of them (though in a slightly different order).
First, gender identity and gender expression are both incredibly personal and also highly public. Many transgender folk live in situations where their gender cannot be safely expressed in a public fashion. This does not invalidate their gender identity. Some live in highly controlling homes, some are dependent upon parents, guardians or others for various things needed for bodily survival, and some might work in jobs or careers where their ability to express their gender is limited by bigoted minds in power above them.
Though we tend to see the internet as a haven, online gender expression is not nearly as safe a space as you might think either, as many people (especially young ones) live in situations where their online activity may be monitored to some degree. Similarly, many jobs monitor their employees online behavior, and even rumors that an employee is not behaving "appropriately" online can cost them hours, promotions, or even their career. Over 90% of transgender individuals have experienced some form of harassment at work, and 26% have lost their jobs because of their identity. Not everyone can afford to lose their livelyhood because of their identity.
This means that even if they WANTED to express themselves in your outlined fashion, they might not be free to do so (and this is ignoring your highly problematic use of "girly", because totalmoetoolbag pretty much summed up the issue with that in item no. 2 on their list). Though it should be a right, having the freedom and safety to explore and express your gender in a free fashion is currently a privileged in our society, and many people live in situations where being trans would put them at risk for homelessness, abuse, violence, and possibly death.
Second, as stated above, binders are expensive. And considering that transgender people are four to five times more likely to live in poverty (DOUBLE the numbers in general population), basing someones gender expression on their ability to bind is classist. Just because you can afford a binder doesn't invalidate someones identity if they can't.
Third, 41% of the transgender population have attempted suicide. Let that sink in for a moment. If you had a room with 100 transgender people in it, forty-one would have attempted suicide at some point in their life. Research lists some of the contributing factors that lead to attempted suicide as discrimination, bullying, harassment, feelings of isolation, and the disapproval of family and friends. Do you know what you're doing when you tell people their gender identity is invalid because it doesn't meet your pre-set criteria? You are, however unintentionally, siding with the people that contribute to these stress factors. And yes, it is entirely possible to experience oppression while simultaneously being the oppressor in this situation; you can be harassed for being trans and still be contributing to the harassment of another transgender person.
If someone says they are trans, take them seriously. You do not have the right to make that call for them, no more than others have the right to make that call for you. Your experiences as trans do not invalidate another experience as trans just because it doesn't meet your idea of what being trans means. By continuing to perpetuate the idea that gender identity is dependent upon a specific means of gender expression, you are in fact continuing the very social model that continues to make your life as a trans person difficult at best, and deadly at worst. So stop it.
National Transgender Discrimination Survey
Live Science: High Suicide Risk, Prejudice Plague Transgender People
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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has affirmed that transgender people can deduct their hormone therapy and sex reassignment surgery expenses. This announcement indicates that the IRS will follow…
WOOOHOOOOO lol one day when i'm older i'll do this XDD
God, this is really good news for me.
awww shit….
For my trans followers.
Get your tax deductions yo!!!
i try not to get excited but this is amazing
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Question: So I was just wondering, this is specifically about Cosima and Felix and queer representation in the media. You kind of already got some positive feedback about Cosima, but I'm wondering like what other type of feedback you got and if the queer community is something you keep in mind when creating those characters.
Jordan: Yeah actually, that's a really interesting question. From the LGBT community, the reaction to Felix was brilliant. I did receive a couple of little things from the straight community, actually, where they felt he was a bit of an ugly stereotype, and he was a bit of a cliche, over the top, blah blah blah. And my response to that has always been this: you cannot collectively, as a society, decide that you are only going to represent one part of a minority. It's like saying you've represented black people on television because you air an episode of The Cosbys. That is not true. Just like you cannot put episode of Modern Family on and say that you're represented the LGBT community. That's unfair, it's exclusionary, and it's irresponsible. I just don't know when as a society in television and film it sort of only became okay to represent gay people in the traditional sense where they have a great job, and well adjusted parents, and maybe a surrogate or adopted child. When was that the only way you could represent gay people? And I also feel that it's a little bit unsavory that anyone from the straight community comments, this person's comments were, "If I was a gay man, I would be offended." That's just not fair because you're not a gay man. You don't understand that. That's so irresponsible as a journalist, as anyone who is writing on a public forum. Not good. so that was my reaction to that. And I love Felix to death. Clichés and not clichés and everything. And maybe that's a choice he makes consciously, a defense mechanism. There's a million reasons why. There are so many more interesting things to Felix than who he's sleeping with.
The D.C. Council on Wednesday gave final approval to a bill that supporters say will modernize and remove unnecessary hurdles in the process for transgender people to obtain a new birth certificate to reflect their gender.
Another day, another step forward.
Here's a comic I made a long time ago and never published. The text is from the introduction to A New Queer Agenda by Joseph N. DeFilippis.
This is really good and full of important, sad truths.
A Boys' Camp to Redefine Gender
Over the past three years, photographer Lindsay Morris has been documenting a four-day camp for gender nonconforming boys and their parents.
The camp, "You Are You" (the name has been changed to protect the privacy of the children and is also the name of Morris' series), is for "Parents who don't have a gender-confirming 3-year-old who wants to wear high heels and prefers to go down the pink aisle in K-Mart and not that nasty dark boys' aisle," Morris said with a laugh.
It is also a place for both parents and children to feel protected in an environment that encourages free expression.
"[The kids] don't have to look over their shoulders, and they can let down their guard. Those are four days when none of that matters, and they are surrounded by family members who support them," Morris said.
Morris has stated that her photographic goal for the project is "to represent the spirit of these boys as they shine." Some of the ways in which the kids shine is through the talent and fashion shows at camp that are popular and for which the campers come well-prepared.
"Some practice for the talent show all year, and others create their own gowns with their mothers or friends of the family," Morris said. "The focus and enthusiasm is really pretty incredible. Also, it can be very emotional for the parents, especially the families who are new to camp and are experiencing this kind of group acceptance for the very first time."
Although it is unknown if the kids at the camp will eventually identify as gay or transgender—or even if the way gender and sexuality are defined throughout society will evolve—the camp allows the kids to look at themselves in a completely different way.
"They get enough questioning in their daily lives, so it's a great place for them to express themselves as they feel. … I feel we hear so many of the sad stories and how LGBT kids are disproportionately affected by bullying, depression, and suicide, and it hangs a heavy cloud over them and kind of dooms them from the beginning. I'm saying this is a new story. This is not a tragedy."
Morris hopes to eventually publish a book of her work and also launch a large multimedia show that travels the country and the world to show a new face of LGBT youth. The children featured here and in Morris' project are photographed with the permission of the their parents. Her ultimate goal is to start a foundation that raises money to help underwrite the cost of camp for kids unable to attend. She also hopes to add even more dimension to the project, concentrating on producing more portraiture and documenting the transition the kids experience upon arrival to the camp.
"I would really love to follow the kids into adulthood and see what kind of relationships they develop," Morris said. "I want to witness the evolution, knowing from where they started and see how life is going to play out for them—hopefully happily—and I think they're going to have a better transition into adulthood than the generation proceeding them."
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Cathy Brennan, radical "feminist," has set her sights on a young black activist in Baltimore County, MD. Phylicia Sampson is being taken to court by Brennan, a notorious harasser of trans women and their supporters. Sampson is a recent college grad with few resources, no car and no way to fight back without your help.
As a community, we've suffered Brennan's assaults for a long time—her blog is the best known for outing trans women's personal information. She believes trans women are men who are infiltrating the feminist community and expends her resources fighting them. The idea that she is now taking her harassment to a legal venue is horrifying. That she has selected a young black woman with few resources to fight back is repugnant.
We can't let Cathy Brennan get away with this! Share Phylicia's campaign on Facebook, twitter, tumblr and instagram. Here are some things you can do TODAY to help:
- Tell your friends why it is important that they donate to this campaign.
- Donate what you can.
- Write to your favorite feminist blog and ask them to cover this campaignIt's pretty awesome to have allies and supporters.
Help my girl out, DONATE if you can and Signal Boost! If you're tired of Cathy Brennan attacking people for calling her out on her bullshit, support Phylicia in her defense!
omigod I am so sick of this monster of a woman PLEASE help a girl out
gOD she is the WORST
I feel like there is a lot of pressure to know exactly if and/or how you want to transition. People want us to be certain. We usually want to be certain ourselves. I hated being confused. Absolutely hated it. I also hated having people tell me to "stop being confused" and "to figure it out."
This isn't simple stuff. For some people it is but for a lot of us it's really confusing. I also think the older we get the harder it can be. Trying to figure out what we want and trying to wade through 20, 30, or more years of life and experiences is difficult.
It's not easy to know if you're experiencing gender dysphoria or if you're being influenced by other factors. It's scary and hard. That is okay.
I know I seem confident in my transition plans. Now I am pretty confident in the way I want to go. I was not always this confident or sure of myself. I was confused, I waffled back and forth, I tried on different labels/identities, and I was confused. This is okay.
I just wish less people put pressure on people to know exactly what they want to do relating to transition. You don't have to know today, you don't have to know tomorrow, or a week from now, or a year from now. You'll figure it out eventually - it's okay that it takes time.


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