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Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray on Monday threatened to forcibly occupy Mantralaya and ministers' bungalows if the state government fails to speed up the redevelopment of 56 Mhada (Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority) colonies.
"We will start the agitation if we do not get justice in the October 11 meeting [with Mhada]," said Thackeray while addressing partymen who had marched to Mhada headquarters in BKC demanding the authority repeal the rule for builders to compulsorily hand over flats to the housing body as compensation for undertaking the revamp of its colonies.
Earlier, builders could pay a premium on Mhada's share, instead of handing over the flats, which they could then sell in the open market. The Sena's contention is that this rule is making redevelopment unviable.
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Congress MP Sanjay Nirupam countered Sena, saying it was a veiled effort to prop up builders. "Sena leaders are backing developers and not residents [of old Mhada buildings]," Nirupam told reporters at Mantralaya, where Sena leaders met chief minister Chavan.
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Aerith gainsborough. . . . . . . Aerith has always been my favourite character and at college, youtube and forums she is my character. . . . . . I finally decided to cosplay her. . . . This cosplay is a great one to do if your short on Money. . . . Originally i wanted to cosplay aerith from advent children however i didn't have the money for her outfit so i though about cosplaying crisis core aerith instead . . . not to mention im the same age as crisis core aerith. . . . Crisis core aerith's outfit is simple to make if you have the patience. . . . For her top i used a tight fitted white vest top and the same for the pink one underneath. The blue bow is made of ribbon and was sewed on. the flowers were glued on with fabric glue ( make sure you buy proper fabric glue on construction glue for wood which says for fabric to because it does not work!) and the flowers on the straps were sewed on to make sure they didn't fall off. The skirt was a plain white skirt that i cut and sorted out because it was far to long. The i used bias binding tape to make the pattern on the skirt. Do not just get a piece of ribbon and stick it on the dress because thats wrong and people who think thats what aeriths dress is kinda annoy me lol. Wheb you do the 3 lines of bias binding tape just use fabric glue to stick them on. The shade of blue i used was Powder blue (Light) not dark powder blue. When doing this do the first line of her dress pattern on the bottom of your vest top. . . this easily gives it the exact same look as aeriths making the top and the skirt look like a dress. The shoes. . . . get a nice pair of summer platform shoes with a strap that goes over the foot just before the toes and get some lovely flowers and stick them on. If you want more advice feel free to pm for costume help or tips on aeriths hair and bow. This costume was made for the London mcm expo may 2009. It was amazing fun and i made so many friends. i went to the convention with my best friend who cosplayed Rinoa Heartilly For all the girl cosplayers out there who don't know what to do for a first costume, this one is a very good choice if you want something easy and from final fantasy. |
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awwww you make such a pretty Aerith!
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very cute indeed ^_^ bit surprised i didnt pump into you though T.T
Ahh i know =[ but one day i do plan to redo this cosplay =]
u look so sweet! O.< ur hair looks so much like hers as well O.O XD
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PH Heroes: BMW E28 M5
David Vivian looks back to one of BMW's greatest hits
The Nordschleife: 40 right-handers, 33 left-handers and one very, very long learning curve. Rather depressingly, given the length of time I've been doing this job, I've somehow managed to avoid racking up a manly number of close encounters with the legendary 12.9-mile circuit that winds its way through the forested Eifel valleys 90km southwest of Cologne and Jackie Stewart once encouragingly described as The Green Hell.
Until a few months ago, my tally of laps was a desperately pathetic two, posted way back in the early '90s. Then, last October, I was lucky enough to be invited to the BMW M5's 25th birthday bash. Based at the M division's long-established Nurburgring test centre a five-minute walk from the Nordschleife's pit lane, the idea was we'd get to fire pristine examples of all four M5 generations down the throat of The Green Hell.
An illuminating exercise it was, too. I got to spin-up my 'Ring track time by 200 per cent and made one interesting, but perhaps not altogether surprising, discovery. The best M5 for extracting maximum value from a far-from-mastered Nordschleife - and by that I don't mean the fastest and most accomplished but the most intriguing, absorbing, rewarding, playful and plain addictive - wasn't the 500bhp V10 E60 or the 400bhp V8 E39. It was the 286bhp 6-cylinder E28. The original M5.
As the E60 and screaming V10 power exit stage left to make way for the new twin-turbo V8 M5 in a few months' time, it seems only right to revisit the car that started it all back in 1984. And the first thing that strikes you as you walk up to it is how old and simple its design is. There was a complete step change in the way cars looked between the boxy, angular E28 and the softer, more rounded forms of the E34 5 series that followed it four years later. Which isn't to say the older way of doing things wasn't better.
Just look at that low waistline and the slim pillars. Step inside and, quite apart from the brilliant 360-degree visibility, the glassy cabin feels light, airy and voluminous in a way that more modern saloons hardly ever do. There's a startling clarity and absence of clutter to the design of the cabin as well. Maybe it's a little austere but it's also superbly practical, and the instrumentation - anchored by a huge and effortlessly readable speedo and rev counter - has yet to be equalled in a Five. The simple, intuitive switchgear is similarly satisfying to use.
Less impressive are the lofty driving position and stiff, sharply bolstered seats which, along with the thin steering wheel rim and mushroom-shaped gearknob, are rather more forceful reminders that this beautifully preserved, almost as-new, example is actually a quarter of a century old. The amount and quality of engine noise that enters the cabin is another giveaway. You sense that soundproofing wasn't top of the priority list when they made this one. The tappety clicks of the twin-cam valvetrain and whining cogs of the five-speed transmission are audible components in the soundtrack. But oh my, what a motor.
Derived from a racing engine designed by Paul Rosche intended specifically for the Motorsport division's first road car - the brilliant, Giugiaro-styled, mid-engined M1 - the 3.5-litre, 24-valve M88 straight-six got its first 'post-M1' try out in the M635 CSi. BMW Motorsport's CEO at the time, Jochen Neerspasch, reckoned the combination of coupe body and mighty engine would give Porsche's 911 Carrera a hard time. It did.
Meanwhile, the E28 5-series was being groomed for a similar insertion of supercar pace with the 'warm-up act' M535i - essentially a 535i with fancy wheels and modest spoilers and 'M Technik' branding - though getting the BMW board to agree to the marriage of the sober, sensible 5-series executive saloon and the mad, savage M1 engine proved trickier. The green light was eventually granted, but only on the strict understanding that the whole project was kept on the down-low.
Which is why the fastest and most powerful car on BMW's 1984 Amsterdam show stand was also the stealthiest. The cognoscenti clocked the lattice-pattern alloy wheels, the front splitter and the discreet 'M' badges. But there were no fanfares, no ballyhoo, no thrusting marketing campaign. The first M5 slipped into the world through the side door, just the way BMW wanted it. But this understated saloon had supercar-rivalling performance: 0-60mph in six seconds and a 151mph top speed.
All right, that's not so hot by today's supercar standards (you need an E60 M5 for that), but here on the Nordschleife it feels fast enough. The razor-sharp throttle response - achieved by having a separate throttle butterfly for each cylinder - hasn't been surpassed by any subsequent M5 and gives the car an eager, alert edge that urges you to press on. In that respect it seems very modern. But almost immediately you're reminded that it isn't.
The gearchange has a positive enough action but requires slow, deliberate handling. Then there's the body roll and comparatively modest grip. The 16-inch rims with their tall tyres, combined with soft suspension, give the chassis a distinctly unhurried, almost languid, demeanour. Everything feels cushioned, linear and progressive - almost as if you're forever 'taking up the slack' but in a very precise, measured way. Far from being a damper on enjoyment, it just seems to give you more thinking time.
Later in the day I'll drive the E60 M5 and that will seem almost supernaturally enabled by comparison, carrying tens more mph into bends and seemingly able to put down nearly all of its 500 bhp way before it would be wise unbridle the E28's 286. Yet in the E28 I feel much more intimately involved in the action. Yes, the limits are lower, but the rewards are that much more accessible and exploitable. All right, when it goes sideways - and if you're having fun on the Nordschleife it most certainly will - big armfuls of correction are needed. But it all happens so benignly and progressively it just puts a big grin on your face. Ease the pace a tad and you can balance it nicely on the throttle in a neutral attitude, just within the tyres' limits.
That the next M5 will be a hugely impressive machine, I have no doubt. But it won't offer the root-level rewards of the first one, a PH hero through and through.
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The system will allow users to connect to the web by using an internet-capable mobile phone. The car's iDrive display screen acting as the computer monitor, and the iDrive joystick operating as a mouse.
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Effect of an Intrauterine Contraceptive Device (IUD) in HIV Infected Women
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Oral contraceptives (OCs) are not a good option for some HIV infected women because of the potential for drug interactions between OCs and anti-HIV drugs; additionally, OCs may increase the risk of transmitting HIV to sexual partners. Levonorgestrel is commonly prescribed as part of a combination OC. An intrauterine device (IUD) is a device inserted in a woman's uterus to prevent pregnancy. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of a levonorgestrel-releasing IUD on the amount of HIV present in an HIV infected woman's cervix after 4 weeks of IUD use.
Study hypothesis: There will be no increase in genital tract HIV RNA and DNA after placement of the levonorgestrel IUD.
Condition | Intervention |
HIV Infections |
Device: Levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine device (IUD) |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Non-Randomized Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment Masking: Open Label Primary Purpose: Prevention |
Official Title: | A Pilot Study Evaluating the Effect of the Levonorgestrel-Releasing Intrauterine Device on Genital HIV Shedding in HIV-1-Infected Women |
- Sign and magnitude of difference in endocervical HIV viral load from baseline to Week 4 post-IUD insertion
- incidence of discontinuation of IUD use in the year following insertion
Estimated Enrollment: | 41 |
Study Completion Date: | September 2005 |
HIV infected women face the challenges of preventing both pregnancy and HIV transmission to their sexual partners. However, OCs may interact with antiretroviral therapy (ART), and data suggest that higher doses of OCs may increase cervical shedding of HIV-1, which may increase an HIV infected woman's infectiousness to her sexual partners. A physical barrier contraceptive would be useful to HIV infected women to circumvent the problems associated with concurrent use of OCs and ART. The levonorgestrel IUD has proved highly effective in preventing unwanted pregnancies in HIV uninfected women since its introduction in the United States in 1999. This study will evaluate the effect of the levonorgestrel IUD on HIV viral load in an HIV infected woman's cervix after 4 weeks of IUD use.
This study will last approximately 48 weeks; there will be 4 study visits. At screening, participants will undergo medical and medication history assessment; a complete physical exam; a pelvic exam, including genital tract sample collection; blood collection; sexually transmitted disease (STD) testing; and a Pap smear, if needed. The levonorgestrel IUD will be inserted into the participant's uterus at study entry. At study entry and at Weeks 4, 16, and 48, participants will undergo a targeted physical exam; a pelvic exam, including genital tract sample collection; and blood collection. Participants will be given a menstrual diary at the start of the study and at each study visit and will be asked to document all menstrual cycles they have for the duration of the study.
To be eligible for this study, participants may not have had ART within 90 days prior to study entry. However, after the Week 4 study visit, participants may reinitiate (if they were on ART more than 90 days prior to study entry) or initiate (if they are ART naive) ART, if deemed necessary to do so by their physicians.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | Female |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- HIV infected
- Willing and able to delay initiation or reinitiation of antiretroviral therapy until after Week 4 study visit
- Unlikely to develop a clinical indication to start antiretroviral therapy within 4 weeks of study entry
- CD4 count of 200 cells/mm3 or more
- Viral load of 10,000 copies/ml or more within 90 days prior to study entry
- Endocervical viral load of 2,500 copies/ml or more within 90 days prior to study entry
- History of prior pregnancy lasting at least 20 weeks
- Willing to continue any current use of hormonal contraceptives, except medroxyprogesterone acetate, until after Week 4 study visit
- Start of last menstrual period within 7 days prior to study entry
Exclusion Criteria:
- Antiretroviral medications within 90 days prior to study entry
- AIDS diagnosis, including CD4 count of less than 200 cells/mm3
- Cervicitis, bacterial vaginosis, trichomoniasis, or symptomatic vaginal candidiasis within 90 days prior to study entry. Participants with any of these infections within 90 days prior to study entry are not excluded if they have received appropriate treatment and have documented resolution of the infection.
- Acute or history of pelvic inflammatory disease, chlamydia, or gonorrhea in the year prior to study entry
- Abnormal Pap smear requiring treatment in the year prior to study entry
- History of ectopic pregnancy or a condition that would predispose the participant to ectopic pregnancy
- Known uterine anomaly, including fibroids
- Known or suspected breast cancer
- Acute liver disease or liver tumor
- Have previously inserted IUD that has not been removed
- Fungal infection in the genitals
- Genital bleeding of unknown cause
- Endometritis or infected abortion within 90 days of study entry
- Known allergy or hypersensitivity to any component of the IUD used in this study
- Current drug or alcohol abuse that, in the opinion of the investigator, may interfere with the study
- Serious infection or other serious medical illness that is potentially life threatening and requires systemic therapy or hospitalization within 14 days of study entry
- Use of etonogestrel and ethinyl estradiol vaginal ring (NuvaRing) within 30 days prior to study entry
- Medroxyprogesterone acetate within 90 days prior to study entry
- Pregnant or breastfeeding
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00096694
United States, California | |
UCLA CARE Center CRS | |
Los Angeles, California, United States, 77555-0435 | |
United States, Maryland | |
IHV Baltimore Treatment CRS | |
Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21201 | |
United States, Massachusetts | |
SSTAR, Family Healthcare Ctr. | |
Fall River, Massachusetts, United States, 02720 | |
United States, Missouri | |
Washington U CRS | |
St. Louis, Missouri, United States | |
United States, New York | |
Beth Israel Med. Ctr., ACTU | |
New York, New York, United States, 10003 | |
United States, North Carolina | |
Duke Univ. Med. Ctr. Adult CRS | |
Durham, North Carolina, United States | |
United States, Rhode Island | |
Rhode Island Hosp. | |
Providence, Rhode Island, United States, 02906 | |
The Miriam Hosp. ACTG CRS | |
Providence, Rhode Island, United States, 02906 | |
Puerto Rico | |
Puerto Rico-AIDS CRS | |
San Juan, Puerto Rico |
Study Chair: | E. Milu Kojic, MD | Department of Immunology/Infectious Disease, The Miriam Hospital |
Additional Information:
Responsible Party: | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00096694 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
A5205 10187 ( Registry Identifier: DAIDS ES ) ACTG A5205 |
Study First Received: | November 12, 2004 |
Last Updated: | May 17, 2012 |
Keywords provided by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID):
Intrauterine Device IUD Contraceptive Levonorgestrel |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections Lentivirus Infections Retroviridae Infections RNA Virus Infections Virus Diseases Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral Sexually Transmitted Diseases Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes |
Immune System Diseases Levonorgestrel Contraceptive Agents Contraceptive Agents, Female Reproductive Control Agents Physiological Effects of Drugs Contraceptives, Oral, Synthetic Contraceptives, Oral |
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the one on WOT sucked donkey....I hope this one isn't as gimped.
Looks nice!
Chun-wai M1A2, Tamiya Tiger 1, HL Pz3, HL Pershing, Hooben T-55, Tam Leo 1. Vs T-72, Vs M1A2.
The Real Heavy Metal.
Finally!.......an early war tank....praise the lord!
Now we're talking.
That's the best modeling news I've heard in a long time...
What, me worry?
Same problem exists with this as the Hetzer (Jagdpanzer 38t)... no viable tracks or hull to RC.
But hey, maybe next will be a Marder of some sort?!!! [X(]
~ Jeff
I think that the hull could certainly be reinforced, and depending on the quality of the plastic, some lights mods could get a reasonable suspension happening.
But this is one that is screaming out for aftermarket tracks and sprockets. I'm getting as soon as I can!
Actually, a close look at the built-up model appears to have black plastic pin-linked tracks a la Heng Long... If they've done that then they'll sell a boatload... Can't imagine that they'd offer this with one piece rubber or sectional tracks.
If you look at the exploded view, the tracks are indies with two pins. Depending on material: ABS vs styrene, it might be possible to drill out for full length metal pins.
The hard thing will be getting the sprockets driving, there's little room under that tranny cover roof. Perhaps a 1/35 TU could be installed or an external final drive like with Xion's Kettenkrad.
I put a feeler out to a friend in the business for more info if possible.
What, me worry?
One of the DAK peeps has been waiting for this for 7 years..... I see marders, wespes, and great hetzer mods coming in droves....
check out www.desertarmor.com for all our work.
Vary nice and one it is on the market where can we buy one, I am not familiar with this company.
I think a smart fellow could RC it up, maybe use a VS Tank drive gears.
The great Pan-Tiger
Very cool indeed.
When I hear folks speak of these smaller models being weak or flimsy.... well isn't that sort of in keeping with the type?
Some re-enforcing where prudent yes but I believe that scale operation within the limits of the design are called for.
I'll stay off my scale operation soap box but just this: stray off pavement and manicured dirt and pay the piper...
I'm one to talk as I took my Wusan T-34 to pieces and made a steel hull ( unfinished ) for it... cause it was too flimsy for a T-34
- http://tanks.linite.com/
A new Harvard study shows a direct link between clicking on yahoo stories and a lower IQ.
Panda make good second tier kits with a surge into top teat lately. Their plastic is soft and fit has been a bear in the past but I have noticed a steady improvement since their 1/32 Huey kits.
check out www.desertarmor.com for all our work.
One of the reason I couldn't get a Hetzer project off the ground was internal clearances for electronics, battery and TU's.
was well liked by it's German adopters because of it's manoeuvrability and reliabilityI think it was more down to the fact it actually had an anti-tank gun and the Panzer I and II didn't and the the Panzer III and IV were only just being churned out. They were famous for anti-crew construction.They were even favoured above the German Panzer I & II by their crews.
Looks a nice kit so far though.
So many tanks...So little time.
very cool
KT,T1, JPIV, Pnthr F, Stug III, JPntr, T34-85, SU85, SU76i, SU100, KV1, KV85, JT, JP-2, Elefant,T55, SU152, IS-2
Dang, that just might get me back into building 1:16 tanks again. [8D]
I like this tank. It was used in Poland and France. Very cool.
Tamiya Tiger I, Tiger II, Panther G, 3 HL Stug III G, 1 HL Panzer III M, 1 HL Jagdpanzer IV L/70, 1 R/C Armory 1/8 Tiger II
They also make 1/16 German nuts and bolts: http://shermantracks.com/catalog/german_nuts_bolts.html
If the tracks turn out to be usable, a merger of this kit with the Blue Star Hetzer is in order!
Wow, an SU-100 and a Hetzer. [X(] Things are looking up.
~ Jeff
Wonder if they ripped off the Juckenburg kit?
ORIGINAL: TheBennyB
Â*Wonder if they ripped off the Juckenburg kit?
The Panda is injection molded styrene, Juckenberg is resin.
What, me worry?
ORIGINAL: TheBennyB
Â*Wonder if they ripped off the Juckenburg kit?
I'm not familiar Panda's models but if they did they one-upped Juckenburg since Juckenburg's is
a resin kit and Panda is injection molded right? If I'm wrong about Panda I retract the statement.
I've worked enough with resin models over the years to know they don't interest me no matter how
unusual the subject. Juckenburg has some very interesting products but resin.
- http://tanks.linite.com/
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try the "Clark" electronics including the tamiya compatible battle unit. Another option is the Tamiaa 1:35 electronics. Does anyone know if the TBU's fro Tam's 1:35 are compatible with the 1:16th TBU? There are lots of gear-head motors and miter gear availability for building gear boxes. the old Mauri, VS tank, Academy 1:25th and Tamiya 1:25th size gear boxes available. (Toys East, Tamiya, etc.) Panther/Jagpanther tracks and drive sprockets (with mods) can be used. reinforcement for the hull could be a few layers of fiberglass with metal bits in key places or a simple brake formed sheet metal hull similar to what Panzerpaul had used in his Hetzer. Lots of opportunities. Hell plastic card stock can be used to replace the hull and be as strong as the previously mentioned 1:25th scale stuff. As a small lightweight tank operated judiciously, as Tanque mentioned, it should work well. Not real easy but not real hard for most folks. Some enterprising soul will come up with an aftermarket kit to help. Embrace the fact that detail parts are available now.
KT,T1, JPIV, Pnthr F, Stug III, JPntr, T34-85, SU85, SU76i, SU100, KV1, KV85, JT, JP-2, Elefant,T55, SU152, IS-2
Need to get the measurements from the 1/24th RC gearbox as they are sealed (and affordable too) and look like they were meant for this tank.
~ Jeff
NICE,[X(]. Maybe now we may just see other goodies showing up..like maybe Pz II, Valentine, M-3 Stuart [:-] Something like this, someone will get it geared up and rolling...
Can't be that hard to get someone to CAD some metal drive parts and CNC/Caste them.
Would open up a bunch of possibilities.
hi all
we are a different Panda. this is only our 3rd AFV kit
we just started this company 2 years ago.
our aircraft kits come under the brand name Kitty Hawk
we have not done any helo's YET!!!!!!!!!!!
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Mmmm…rolls. Not the kind you serve with turkey at Thanksgiving, but the Asian style wrap kind. The kind stuffed with tons of wonderful goodies. From ground pork to shrimp to veggies only. I'm talking about egg rolls, spring rolls, lumpia, summer rolls, salad rolls. Whatever you want to call it, I love them. You can get a variety of them in just about any Asian restaurant and I've even seen them popping up on many traditional American restaurant menus. Most of the time they are fried. Now don't get me wrong, they are delicious fried, but a recent trip to a Thai restaurant inspired me to try the non-fried version at home. They are cool and crisp and stuffed with a tangy mixture of shrimp, cucumbers, carrots, cilantro, green onions and sweet Thai chili sauce.
Summer rolls, as they are most often called, include various kinds of veggies and usually shrimp all wrapped up in rice paper. Rice paper can be a little hard to work with because it is so fragile. So although this recipe makes about 10 rolls you will want to have a few extra rice paper wraps in case one rips. You can pick some up at your local Asian market.
I love the nutty flavor that sesame seeds add to this dish. I chose to use black sesame seeds because I loved the color of the black with the pink prawns. If you can't find them feel free to substitute regular white sesame seeds that you can find in just about any grocery store.
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i couldn't play it as it was like they saw wizardry and put the name on it to attract people who enjoyed the old single player games.
I have played Vanguard on and off these years since it still had that rare oldschool feel. Too bad it will shut down because I've always thought it had so much potential...
Shame about Free Realms.
And yeah, this caught me off guard too.
Are you kidding me right now, Sony?
I absolutely loved Free Realms. What a bummer...
Hmm. I was planning on writing an article for Wizardry online's 1st anniversary. DizzyPW was even surprised it lasted so long and now we see that it is closing.
Some Stories Are Just Way Better In My Head!
Actually they're not, in fact the vast majority of games are NOT for children. It's a horrible parent that allows their child to play M rated games with no prior information about what's in the game, regardless of the fact that games have no link what so ever to any kind of violence. Your moronic statement is like saying The Sopranos is for children because Barney exists.
M Rating doesn't mean adults. The actual age is a recommended 17 but the general notion is that it's for mature gamers. Maturity isn't defined by age. Games are meant for children. Does that notion offend you somehow? Just because you're an adult who enjoys video games doesn't make you less of an adult.
There's an actual Adults Only rating that is very rarely used.
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That's besides the point, their's also an Adult rating for movies and shows, which is also rarely used, generally for pornographic pieces. Does that notion offend you somehow? Some games are made for children, that's true, just as some shows are made for children, yet here's Poeticas making the sweeping generalization that games are for children.
The, "its for mature gamers" is a more recent paradigm shift in the social dynamic. I don't see how you could get the " does that offend you somehow" from my post, save that it seems your projecting your own perspective to attempt to make a point, which you've failed miserably at.
My point, which anyone with eyes could easily see, is that not ALL games are for children, you're not going to give any of the God of War games to a six year old, regardless of their "Maturity". It's an incredible simple thing to comprehend, though i admit that i have the terrible tendency to over-estimate people. The comparison between the Sopranos and Barney should have made it as easily as a paint-by-colors book, yet it seems such a blatant and obvious comparison has gone over your head.
Let me make it easier, which is actually quiet difficult as it was already an easy point to understand.
You're not going to give a child who hasn't hit puberty Spec Ops: The Line, or you won't at least if you're a good parent (thus the comment about ESRB ratings and actually reading before giving people games), you'll most likely give them the new Rayman, Pokemon etc.
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To begin with ... games were designed for Children from the get go ... but its just that after years of development games became more violent and thus giving them age rating ... in which case is ignored (in most countries) here in germany you won't get Pegi 18 game without showing your ID ...
still it doesnt chant that most games out there are for kids to enjoy but i do not see why adult can't enjoy games for children ... its byassed thinking ...
and yes some games were created and targeted for older audience like you took God of war games but do tell me are there more games for children or are there more for mature audience ? ... i think they always try to make games in a safe age zone for more sales...
and to be fair i would never give any games to my children to play ... because i do not want my children to get addicted to gaming like i got.
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They're pushing people towards EQ Next and their "SWG inspired" MMO.
In regards to not giving your kids games... fair enough, getting them to play Board games with yourself and the wife/girlfriend is always a good time though :3 Love getting together with my folks and playing some Settlers of Kataan or Ticket to Ride, but i digress
Here's the information for what demographics play videogames, the average age of a gamer is 30.: http://www.theesa.com/facts/gameplayer.asp
That's from the ESA
Here's a word from the ESRB, the average age is 34: http://www.esrb.org/about/video-game...statistics.jsp
Here's statistics in regards to something which actually IS for children, which is to say it is marketed towards them and has children at the intended audience. Cartoon Networks statistics (which is to say bettwen 8AM till 9PM): http://www.retail-merchandiser.com/i...rk-enterprises
Their's a difference. If you look at the industry you'll see that the development companies aim their products squarely at people near the median age demographic of folks who play, which is between the mid 20s till early fouries, not children. If you want a physical representation of this, look at the newest consoles release titles, only two games could be considered directed at a younger demographic, Knack and Spark. Is their cross over for older audiences? Of course! Their's very little room for a smart-bomb when it comes to the market and a bit bleed over to unintended demographics is always welcome.


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Political blogging and the road trip
While I enjoy the thrill of political bloggery as much as the next person, and check in with Joshua Micah Marshall and the vain, young, trash-mouthed skank more commonly known as our beloved Wonkette regularly and with interest and pleasure, I've run across an interesting bit of work quite by accident (I was looking for information about super shrimpy atomic clocks, if you must know).
The Beeb online sent a couple of expat American reporters (Richard Green and Kevin Anderson) out on the road to blog and um, write stories "from the heartland." After reading a couple of Election Road Trip pieces that focused nicely and personally on matters such as healthcare and religion and politics and liking them, I found myself gravitating to Kevin's blogging. The stuff reminds me of how well you can tell The Big Story by telling stories about people.


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If you go there for the neverending breadsticks and salad thing, it's pretty good. The rest is pretty mediocre, IMHO.
Screw it. Here... As far as "Chains" go Chains, too numerous to ignore. Almost nothing is remotely similar in taste or preparation to what is served in Italy despite frequent usage of "authentic Italian" on menus and in promotions. The food is not only familiar and long-loved, but these restaurants also cultivate a festive environment or family friendly environment as differentiators in a crowded restaurant landscape. http://www.examiner.com/article/chains-too-numerous-to-ignore
Interesting article. I've never been to a Buca, or Carrabas, or Brio either! I'd like to go to Buca diBeppo sometime, though, b/c it looks like fun.
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Thankful Thursday - Find A Grave Volunteers
I hope you all check out www.findagrave.com if you haven't already. No, I'm not affiliated with it. In fact I have never posted to it. BUT, those great volunteers who do are to be thanked. And check back often. I just found photos of a couple of headstones and I didn't even know where my ancestors had died.
This is another great group of volunteers. I hope to become one of them in the near future (when I have nothing else to do?) Well, that will never happen, so I just need to have a little more time. Then you'll see my listings and photos there too.
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Kovy skates optional; Skoula eager for NYR
by Eric Marin / New Jersey DevilsKovalchuk skated in Wednesday's optional. |
Jersey's Team was set to face off against the Rangers at 7 p.m.
Jay Pandolfo, Andrew Peters, Anssi Salmela, Martin Skoula, and Vladimir Zharkov also skated, with Yann Danis handling duties in net.
"I like to skate in the morning, especially when we've got a couple of guys skating, too," Kovalchuk said. "Just break a little sweat, feel my sticks a little bit."
He added: "I woke up this morning and felt like I wanted to go work on my sticks a little bit. Hopefully that's going to help tonight."
On a personal note, Kovalchuk has settled into a new apartment and expected his car to arrive from Atlanta sometime Wednesday. Following Tuesday's team meeting to address their recent slump, he saw the Rangers matchup as pivotal.
"I think it's a huge game for us," said Kovalchuk, who has eight points in nine games as a Devil. "We had a good meeting and talked to each other, and that should bring a lot of energy for tonight's game, especially with the rivalry and that last game against them. That's huge. For them it's a big game too because they're right on the edge (of making) the playoffs, so it will be interesting."
This will be the second time he faces the Devils' cross-river rivals since the Feb. 4 trade that brought him from the Thrashers. Kovalchuk was held off the scoresheet in New Jersey's 3-1 loss at Madison Square Garden on Feb. 6.
The Devils (38-23-3) have dropped three of four and have gone 6-12-2 over their last 20 games. But they play nine of their next 13 at Prudential Center, where they're 20-9-1 this season.
"It's important to have a good schedule," Kovalchuk said. "You played a lot of road games earlier, and you can take advantage of the home games. I think we need it the most now because we were kind of shaky the last 20 games. We have to turn the season around and be ready for the playoffs."
Skoula expected to get his first taste of the Devils-Rangers rivalry on Wednesday. The 6-3, 225-lb. defenseman was acquired from Toronto at last week's trade deadline and said adjusting to a new environment can be a challenge when the team is struggling.
"It's not easy, but on the other hand, I guess you just try to help the team to get back and win some games," Skoula said. "I'm just trying to work hard and play my best. I don't want to say it doesn't matter what comes out of it, but just playing the right way and working hard, eventually you're going to get back on a winning track."
He sounded eager for his first taste of the Devils-Rangers rivalry.
"I just know it's a rivalry," said Skoula. "I haven't been a part of it. It's pretty nice game to start off with (in New Jersey). It'll be a fun and intense game."
Skoula, who logged 21:03 of ice time in his Devils debut Sunday in Edmonton, spent three years under Jacques Lemaire in Minnesota. That familiarity with Lemaire's system should help Skoula's transition over the final 18 games of the regular season.
"I know what to expect (from Lemaire) and what's expected of me," he said. "That makes it a little bit easier to adjust."


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Continental philosophy is a set of 19th- and 20th-century philosophical traditions from mainland Europe.[1][2] This sense of the term originated among English-speaking philosophers in the second half of the 20th century, who used it to refer to a range of thinkers and traditions outside the analytic movement. Continental philosophy includes the following movements: German idealism, phenomenology, existentialism (and its antecedents, such as the thought of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche), hermeneutics, structuralism, post-structuralism, French feminism, psychoanalytic theory, and the critical theory of the Frankfurt School and related branches of Western Marxism.[3]
It is difficult to identify non-trivial claims that would be common to all the preceding philosophical movements. The term "continental philosophy", like "analytic philosophy", lacks clear definition and may mark merely a family resemblance across disparate philosophical views. Simon Glendinning has suggested that the term was originally more pejorative than descriptive, functioning as a label for types of western philosophy rejected or disliked by analytic philosophers.[4] Babette Babich emphasizes the political basis of the distinction, still an issue when it comes to appointments and book contracts.[5] Nonetheless, Michael E. Rosen has ventured to identify common themes that typically characterize continental philosophy.[6]
- First, continental philosophers generally reject the view that the natural sciences are the only or most accurate way of understanding natural phenomena. This contrasts with many analytic philosophers who consider their inquiries as continuous with, or subordinate to, those of the natural sciences. Continental philosophers often argue that science depends upon a "pre-theoretical substrate of experience" (a version of Kantian conditions of possible experience or the phenomenological "lifeworld") and that scientific methods are inadequate to fully understand such conditions of intelligibility.[7]
- Second, continental philosophy usually considers these conditions of possible experience as variable: determined at least partly by factors such as context, space and time, language, culture, or history. Thus continental philosophy tends toward historicism. Where analytic philosophy tends to treat philosophy in terms of discrete problems, capable of being analyzed apart from their historical origins (much as scientists consider the history of science inessential to scientific inquiry), continental philosophy typically suggests that "philosophical argument cannot be divorced from the textual and contextual conditions of its historical emergence".[8]
- Third, continental philosophy typically holds that human agency can change these conditions of possible experience: "if human experience is a contingent creation, then it can be recreated in other ways".[9] Thus continental philosophers tend to take a strong interest in the unity of theory and practice, and often see their philosophical inquiries as closely related to personal, moral, or political transformation. This tendency is very clear in the Marxist tradition ("philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it"), but is also central in existentialism and post-structuralism.
- A final characteristic trait of continental philosophy is an emphasis on metaphilosophy. In the wake of the development and success of the natural sciences, continental philosophers have often sought to redefine the method and nature of philosophy.[10] In some cases (such as German idealism or phenomenology), this manifests as a renovation of the traditional view that philosophy is the first, foundational, a priori science. In other cases (such as hermeneutics, critical theory, or structuralism), it is held that philosophy investigates a domain that is irreducibly cultural or practical. And some continental philosophers (such as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, the later Heidegger, or Derrida) doubt whether any conception of philosophy can coherently achieve its stated goals.
Ultimately, the foregoing themes derive from a broadly Kantian thesis that knowledge, experience, and reality are bound and shaped by conditions best understood through philosophical reflection rather than exclusively empirical inquiry.[11]
- The term 1
- History 2
- Recent Anglo-American developments 3
- See also 4
- Notes 5
- References 6
- External links 7
The term
The term "continental philosophy," in the above sense, was first widely used by English-speaking philosophers to describe university courses in the 1970s, emerging as a collective name for the philosophies then widespread in France and Germany, such as phenomenology, existentialism, structuralism, and post-structuralism.[12]
However, the term (and its approximate sense) can be found at least as early as 1840, in John Stuart Mill's 1840 essay on Coleridge, where Mill contrasts the Kantian-influenced thought of "Continental philosophy" and "Continental philosophers" with the English empiricism of Bentham and the 18th century generally.[13] This notion gained prominence in the early 20th century as figures such as Bertrand Russell and G.E. Moore advanced a vision of philosophy closely allied with natural science, progressing through logical analysis. This tradition, which has come to be known broadly as "analytic philosophy", became dominant in Britain and America from roughly 1930 onward. Russell and Moore made a dismissal of Hegelianism and its philosophical relatives a distinctive part of their new movement.[14] Commenting on the history of the distinction in 1945, Russell distinguished "two schools of philosophy, which may be broadly distinguished as the Continental and the British respectively", a division he saw as operative "from the time of Locke".[15]
Since the 1970s, however, many philosophers in America and Britain have taken interest in continental philosophers since Kant, and the philosophical traditions in many European countries have similarly incorporated many aspects of the "analytic" movement. Self-described analytic philosophy flourishes in France, including philosophers such as Jules Vuillemin, Vincent Descombes, Gilles Gaston Granger, François Recanati, and Pascal Engel. Likewise, self-described "continental philosophers" can be found in philosophy departments in the United Kingdom, North America, and Australia,[16] and some well-known analytic philosophers claim to conduct better scholarship on continental philosophy than self-identified programs in continental philosophy, particularly at the level of graduate education.[17] "Continental philosophy" is thus defined in terms of a family of philosophical traditions and influences rather than a geographic distinction.
The history of continental philosophy (taken in its narrower sense) is usually thought to begin with German idealism.[18] Led by figures like Fichte, Schelling, and later Hegel, German idealism developed out of the work of Immanuel Kant in the 1780s and 1790s and was closely linked with romanticism and the revolutionary politics of the Enlightenment. Besides the central figures listed above, important contributors to German idealism also included Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Gottlob Ernst Schulze, Karl Leonhard Reinhold, and Friedrich Schleiermacher.
As the institutional roots of "continental philosophy" in many cases directly descend from those of phenomenology,[19] Edmund Husserl has always been a canonical figure in continental philosophy. Nonetheless, Husserl is also a respected subject of study in the analytic tradition.[20] Husserl's notion of a noema, the non-psychological content of thought, his correspondence with Gottlob Frege, and his investigations into the nature of logic continue to generate interest among analytic philosophers.
J.G. Merquior[21] argued that a distinction between analytic and continental philosophies can be first clearly identified with Henri Bergson (1859-1941), whose wariness of science and elevation of intuition paved the way for existentialism. Merquior wrote: "the most prestigious philosophizing in France took a very dissimilar path [from the Anglo-Germanic analytic schools]. One might say it all began with Henri Bergson."
An illustration of some important differences between "analytic" and "continental" styles of philosophy can be found in Rudolf Carnap's "Elimination of Metaphysics through Logical Analysis of Language" (Originally published in 1932 as "Überwindung der Metaphysik durch Logische Analyse der Sprache"), a paper some observers have described as particularly polemical. Carnap's paper argues that Heidegger's lecture "What Is Metaphysics?" violates logical syntax to create nonsensical pseudo-statements.[22] Moreover, Carnap claimed that many German metaphysicians of the era were similar to Heidegger in writing statements that were not merely false, but devoid of any meaning.
With the rise of Nazism, many of Germany's philosophers, especially those of Jewish descent or leftist or liberal political sympathies (such as many in the Vienna Circle and the Frankfurt School), fled to the English-speaking world. Those philosophers who remained—if they remained in academia at all—had to reconcile themselves to Nazi control of the universities. Others, such as Martin Heidegger, among the most prominent German philosophers to stay in Germany, embraced Nazism when it came to power.
Both before and after World War II there was a growth of interest in German philosophy in France. A new interest in communism translated into an interest in Marx and Hegel, who became for the first time studied extensively in the politically conservative French university system of the Third Republic. At the same time the phenomenological philosophy of Husserl and Heidegger became increasingly influential, perhaps owing to its resonances with those French philosophies which placed great stock in the first-person perspective (an idea found in divergent forms such as Cartesianism, spiritualism, and Bergsonism). Most important in this popularization of phenomenology was the author and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, who called his philosophy existentialism. (See 20th-century French philosophy.) Another major strain of continental thought is structuralism/post-structuralism. Influenced by the structural linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure, French anthropologists such as Claude Lévi-Strauss began to apply the structural paradigm to the humanities. In the 1960s and '70s, post-structuralists developed various critiques of structuralism. Post-structuralist thinkers include Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze.
Recent Anglo-American developments
From the early 20th century until the 1960s, continental philosophers were only intermittently discussed in British and American universities, despite an influx of continental philosophers, particularly German Jewish students of Nietzsche and Heidegger, to the United States on account of the persecution of the Jews and later World War II; Hannah Arendt, Leo Strauss, Theodor W. Adorno, and Walter Kaufmann are probably the most notable of this wave, arriving in the late 1930s and early 1940s. However, philosophy departments began offering courses in continental philosophy in the late 1960s and 1970s. With the rise of postmodernism in the 1970s and 1980s, some British and American philosophers became more vocally opposed to the methods and conclusions of continental philosophers. For example, John Searle[23] criticized Derrida's deconstruction for "obvious and manifest intellectual weaknesses." Later, Barry Smith and assorted signatories protested against the award of an honorary degree to Derrida by Cambridge University.[24]
American university departments in literature, the fine arts, film, sociology, and political theory have increasingly incorporated ideas and arguments from continental philosophers into their curricula and research. Continental Philosophy features prominently in a number of British and Irish Philosophy departments, for instance at the University of Essex, Warwick and Sussex, Manchester Metropolitan, Kingston University and University College Dublin, and in North American Philosophy departments, including the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Boston College, Stony Brook University (SUNY), Vanderbilt University, DePaul University, Villanova University, the University of Guelph, The New School, Pennsylvania State University, University of Oregon, Emory University, Duquesne University, the University of Memphis, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (known as SPEP[25]).
The rise of Alfred North Whitehead's process philosophy can be interpreted both as a prophylactic and a therapeutic movement: on the one hand, Whitehead's life and thought show that analytic rigor and speculative imagination can work together; on the other hand, Whiteheadian scholarship has sometimes provided bridges between these fields.[26]
See also
- ^ Leiter 2007, p. 2: "As a first approximation, we might say that philosophy in Continental Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is best understood as a connected weave of traditions, some of which overlap, but no one of which dominates all the others."
- ^ Critchley, Simon (1998), "Introduction: what is continental philosophy?", in Critchley, Simon; Schroder, William, A Companion to Continental Philosophy, Blackwell Companions to Philosophy, Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, p. 4.
- ^ The above list includes only those movements common to both lists compiled by Critchley 2001, p. 13 and Glendinning 2006, pp. 58–65
- ^ Glendinning 2006, p. 12.
- ^ Babich 2003.
- ^ The following list of four traits is adapted from Rosen, Michael, "Continental Philosophy from Hegel", in Grayling, A.C., Philosophy 2: Further through the Subject, p. 665
- ^ Critchley 2001, p. 115.
- ^ Critchley 2001, p. 57.
- ^ Critchley 2001, p. 64.
- ^ Leiter 2007, p. 4: "While forms of philosophical naturalism have been dominant in Anglophone philosophy, the vast majority of authors within the Continental traditions insist on the distinctiveness of philosophical methods and their priority to those of the natural sciences."
- ^ Continental philosophers usually identify such conditions with the transcendental subject or self: Solomon 1988, p. 6, "It is with Kant that philosophical claims about the self attain new and remarkable proportions. The self becomes not just the focus of attention but the entire subject-matter of philosophy. The self is not just another entity in the world, but in an important sense it creates the world, and the reflecting self does not just know itself, but in knowing itself knows all selves, and the structure of any and every possible self."
- ^ Critchley 2001, p. 38.
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- ^ B. Russell, A History of Western Philosophy, (Simon & Schuster, 1945), p. 643 and 641. Russell proposes the following broad points of distinction between Continental and British types of philosophy: (1) in method, deductive system-building vs. piecemeal induction; (2) in metaphysics, rationalist theology vs. metaphysical agnosticism; (3) in ethics, non-naturalist deontology vs. naturalist hedonism; and (4) in politics, authoritarianism vs. liberalism. Ibid., pp. 643-647.
- ^ See, e.g., Walter Brogan and James Risser (eds.), American Continental Philosophy: A Reader (Indiana University Press, 2000).
- ^ Brian Leiter is most commonly associated with such claims.
- ^ Critchley 2001 and Solomon 1988 date the origins of continental philosophy a generation earlier, to the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
- ^ E.g., the largest academic organization devoted to furthering the study of continental philosophy is the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy.
- ^ Kenny, Anthony (ed). The Oxford Illustrated History of Western Philosophy. ISBN 0-19-285440-2
- ^ Merquior, J.G. (1987). Foucault (Fontana Modern Masters series), University of California Press, ISBN 0-520-06062-8.
- ^ Gregory, Wanda T. Heidegger, Carnap and Quine at the Crossroads of Language, and Abraham D. Stone. Heidegger and Carnap on the Overcoming of Metaphysics
- ^ Searle, John R. "Word Turned Upside Down." New York Times Review of Books, Volume 30, Number 16 · October 27, 1983.
- ^ Barry Smith et al. Open letter against Derrida receiving an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University , The Times (London), Saturday 9 May 1992
- ^ Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
- ^ See Michel Weber, « Much Ado About Duckspeak », Balkan Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 3, Issue 1, 2011, pp. 135-142; « Whitehead's creative advance from formal to existential ontology », Logique et Analyse, 54/214, juin 2011, Special Issue on Whitehead's Early Work, pp. 127-133.
- Cutrofello, Andrew (2005). Continental Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction. Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy. New York; Abingdon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.
- Glendinning, Simon (2006). The idea of continental philosophy: a philosophical chronicle. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press Ltd.
- Leiter, Brian; Rosen, Michael, eds. (2007). The Oxford Handbook of Continental Philosophy. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press.
- Schrift, Alan D. (2010). The History of Continental Philosophy. Chicago; Illinois: University of Chicago Press Press.
- Kenny, Anthony (2007). A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume IV: Philosophy in the Modern World. New York: Oxford University Press.
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I learnt to 'whine" when I was three years old. For those of you who don't know what the word "whine" means, it means to gyrate while dancing. I was taught by my grand-mother, myself and all my other little cousins, boys included. When the sun went down, at that time in the deep country side of the Caribbean 1980's my grand-mother had neither running water, nor television, our entertainment consisted of crick-crack stories and a transitor radio. We would gather in a small circle on the linolium covered wooden floor and compete amongst ourselves with my grand-mother as judge, who could whine better. You cannot imagine the laughter…
This sort of dancing is African in it's origin and can be found all over the Caribbean and West African countries, Congo, Senegal, Ivory Coast ect. Nothing to be ashamed of on the contrary something that brings much joy. (A little side note, I immediately bonded with the Belgian artist Carsten Holler at a party at The Garage in Moscow when I saw him doing the Cogolese version of whining, nothing could have impressed me more.) Which brings me to the issue that caused me to think about this.
Rihanna at Carnival in Barbados.
Cultural Imperialism in conflict! No one's going to make me feel bad about this image.
On the contrary, I was just at home in St.Lucia having dinner with my cousins and some other female friends, and they are "SO PROUD OF RIHANNA" because of this exact same picture. Now these are very successful business women, one runs a chain of coffee shops in several islands, another owns an interior decorating business and another runs 12 miles every day training for the New York Marathon. Does it make them sluts that they also dance like this on carnival day, in clubs or at house parties? We've been doing it since we were children and taught by our mothers and grand-mothers. It's one of the reasons Rihanna's concerts don't bother me at all.
Western culture sells everything based on sex a fake sort of sexuality at that, one that leaves its consumers more handicapped. And when I say that I'm thinking that the women that I see at Carnival don't need liposuction or lip fillers to seduce a man, no sir not at all. They come in all shapes and sizes and dress just the same as Rihanna did in the above photo and there is NO SHAME, and there shouldn't be. Women dance with women, men with men and it means nothing at all except good ole fun. It's freedom at it's peak.
I mean, suppose I did the kutumba for you, which is a very forceful traditional dance that by Western standards would be seen as savage where you stick your butt far out then jerk it forward one leg raised in the air, it's come down from so many grand-mothers, and I'm supposed to be ashamed. Oh no, not me.
Here's one of my favourite Barbadian soca songs by Alison Hinds. When it was realeased my dancing abilities knew no bounds, listen
And to give a little more of a feel for it here's a video from 2008 Calypso Monarch performing for some children here.
Title photo: google images of various women from the islands of Trinidad, St.Lucia, St.Vincent, Barbados and also Brazil.
Great track!
I think the perfect track would be 'Roll It (Gal) by Alison Hinds. I saw this picture before, and I wasnt toooo shocked because Rihanna is already sexualised. Its part of her image…it sells records. Now, I had an argument with a mate and I do think it does orginate from Caribbean, but like everything….the roots are African.
'Wining' is sexual, I remember once saying to a woman its a dance and she corrected me saying its a 'sexual dance'
So what do you say?
I assume Caribbeans; Lucians and Bajans alike would be pleased by the image because she is celebrating her culture and is not afraid. She looks happy.
I gave the article the side-eye too when I read it on The Cut Blog. In Panama we have Carnival and was fun to be had by all. Wherever the African Diaspora is we celebrate what remnants we have passed down to us from former generations. Growing up we always had 'The Limbo' competitions to see who go the lowest. Maybe if they would stop following these celebrities for a change they would have a life.
Thank you for this perspective, Shala! One of the reasons I love Rihanna so much is for her civic pride: she does not hide her Caribbean roots, does not run from them, and preserves that adorable lilt in her voice, which comes out in her songs, interviews, and infamous quotes! It's amazing that this caused an uproar, but so many female artists who wear literally NOTHING for the sake of NOTHING are celebrated! Instead Rihanna was celebrating her culture and is in turn made into a whipping boy for our own Western hang-ups on sexuality. Talk about "cultural imperialism"…. Keep windin', ladypants! I will too!
I can not imagine you doing any of those things you described. That said, culture is beautiful and there is certainly nothing wrong with expression, sexuality…
Thank you so much for this post Shala! I am so glad you contextualized Rihanna's carnival dancing in the wider culture of the Caribbean. I know this is off-topic, but I studied African history at Michigan State University under Nwando Achebe, the daughter of the great African writer Chinua Achebe. I took a study abroad trip to Jamaica where I used the historical archives at the University of the West Indies to study Queen Nanny, the former Ashanti queen who led her enslaved people to freedom in the mountains. While there I learned all about Caribbean attitudes toward sexuality. I knew from studying African history that female sexuality is celebrated in most West African cultures – not "degraded" as it often is in Western European cultures. I think white women like myself are quick to see any female doing anything remotely sexual as being "exploited" or "degraded" because of the ideas and references they themselves bring to the conversation. Since Western European culture is patriarchal, white women often tend to project that experience onto other cultures. As you show in this post, point-of-view is critical because people will always see a single action from a variety of perspectives, but it's most important to consider the perspective of the person acting – in this case, Rihanna.
Side note: I love that you explore topics of culture, society, and politics on your blog. It's always nice to learn about the views and passions of other intellectual fashion lovers.
I did a big ole "sschupps" when I heard the comments. Rihanna is a West Indian woman, end of story. She (and the others of us who know how and when to "go on bad"and love it) needs neither explain nor justify, and certainly not apologise.
I couldn't agree with the above comments more. It is past the time for judging little understood traditions and cultural norms of the diaspora. Embracing life and the joie de vivre should be humanities single focus, everything will work out from there. Thx, for sharing a story from your younger years, I always like Grandma stories :)… because I was so close to mine and often refer to the influences she has had on me.
I am not even sure that Rhianna's winding needs an explanation. Sometimes I think it's OK for people who don't understand to comment in ways that misrepresent. This will always be a feature in a world which houses such a range of cultures. I think we may all even be guilty of this when we criticise things we don't fully understand. People may talk about Rhianna because of what they actually see. What people don't actually get, and probably will never get, is that she is not getting aroused by her dance. It's OK however, if you want to read it some other perverted way.
What upsets me is when our fellow West Indians, such as well-known St. Lucian media man, Rick Wayne, degrade our culture like it's the most despicable thing on the planet; in a way that begs a 'civilising mission' all over again. You can hear such people debate about winding as immoral, disgraceful and degrading EVERY year after carnival. Many other West Indian politicians do the same. Many may know of Sarah Flood who has precisely the same views in her dealings at the UN on behalf of St. Lucia. This is where my angst is, not with people who don't understand.
THANK YOU FOR POSTING….i am from the Bahamas and i love ever aspect of my culture and i embrace it fully. It helps me understand who i am. After this controversy i better understand the world. I thought people would understand that this is a cultural event and that it is unique to the islands. Although we do not have carnival here we have our festivals and i think it is one of the most beautiful expressions in the world. When i dance i "Whine"… i dare someone to tell me otherwise! :)
Thank you for reminding me a Faluma. Big choooon! Your comments on Rihanna at Carnival perfectly captured my thoughts watching the American press berate her for something they just don't understand.
Thank you so much for this. In Puerto Rico, dances like these are common and very enjoyable. It makes me miss my family and the fun we all have. Unfortunately, living in a conservative (by comparison) city like Chicago, a simple move of the hip on a dance floor is enough to get frowned upon. Shame on the media for frowning on her (and all of our) culture(s).
Yup! Couldn't agree more with you Shala. It's what we do and even though it may look extremely sexual to the outside world, it's nothing more than having a fabulous time
Straight up feeling your blog
I wrote a commentary article to the same effect, and a reader emailed me your comments – couldn't agree more! I'm from Trinidad (but I now live in the US) and I KNOW the other West Indian nationals would instantly feel the same way about this; there's nothing shameful, at all. I have some photos of myself and my husband wining at Trinidad Carnival three years ago that would put Rihanna's to shame. And to be truthful, we were probably the most conservative dancers in the Carnival band! Cultural imperialism conflicts, indeed… And about those at-home wining competitions – they used to be 'fierce'! Lol – love the new site, by the way!
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