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The institution of knighthood underwent a transformation during the Middle Ages, beginning as an upper class of mounted warriors in the service of feudal lords and kings to an order based on the virtues of chivalry and influenced by Christian ethics. The question is why did this occur, who was involved in this transformation, and what was the ideal Christian knight supposed to look like? What virtues did he possess and how was he supposed to live out his life within his vocation?
Chretien de Troyes, a 12th century French poet, wrote a number of romances dealing with the concepts of chivalry and knighthood, one of the most famous of which is Yvain: The Knight of the Lion. This epic poem concerns the nature of courtliness and chivalry, and one main event of the story describes a transformation that occurs within the character of Yvain as he eventually becomes the ideal knight. By looking at Yvain's transformation, we can see how a true knight is supposed to live his life, which is important because Chretien is arguing that a true knight should not be selfish but that he should live according to a higher calling that is selfless and virtuous, seeking to help others who cannot help themselves, and how it mirrors the transformation of the concept of knighthood itself.
Jaeger argues that Chretien was almost certainly a cleric whose romances attempted to influence the laity by putting forth a model of behavior that a knight should follow while chastising the worldly aspects of knighthood.[1] And after Chretien, poet-knights such as Hartmann von Au and Wolfram von Eschenbach would write their own romances in an attempt to influence their own class. These poets had a profound sense of the ideals of a more civilized knighthood, one with a spirit of courtliness that would restrain a warrior class that was given over to excesses. This new code of chivalry was now more of an inner law imposed on each knight individually, instead of some law enforced by legal courts, and the instruments of enforcement were within the psyche, not outside in the form of threatened punishment. Each knight was supposed to hold himself to these ethical laws, and to break them would punish himself by violating his own values, bringing psychological punishment, and loss of self-respect.[2] This very thing can be seen in Yvain when Yvain goes mad after he is rejected by Laudine for breaking his promise to her and is forced to live in the forest naked, almost as a form of penance for what he has done.[3] Other authors from the knightly class such as Henry of Lancaster and Geoffrey de Charny would later write about how the harsh lifestyle of the knight was itself a form of penance, meritorious suffering that was pleasing and acceptable in the eyes of God as satisfaction for sin, and in its own way was a form of imitating the suffering of Christ. For these authors, Christ himself was like a knight who fought in a tournament and won, securing life for humanity.[4]
After his miraculous healing by the magic ointment of the noblewoman, Yvain transforms into a more virtuous figure who sets out on one adventure after another, helping various characters along the way, including the noblewoman, the lion who will become his companion, Lunette (his wife's servant who helped him previously), and the woman who was trying to get her inheritance. In all of these scenarios, Yvain fights not for his own glory, but because he sees that these people are truly in need, and he seeks to help them because it is the virtuous thing to do. When he comes upon Lunette, who is sentenced to be burned at the stake unjustly, Yvain vows to rescue her though it may cost him his life by saying "Expect me tomorrow, ready to do what I can, offering my body for your freedom, as indeed I ought to do."[5]
Similar to the story of Yvain is that of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a knightly romance that places special emphasis on the Christian virtue of fortitude or courage. In the story the Green Knight is portrayed as having the perfection of fortitude, in that while Sir Gawain possesses the virtue when he is attacking a foe, the Green Knight possesses it in its true form, fortitude in the face of death or martyrdom.[6]
Eventually these knightly romances would take on a form that resembled hagiography, as many of Arthur's knights in the Grail stories perform miracles as a testament to God's favor in their vocations, and these Grail legends served to invest chivalry with a religious authority that was independent of the established religious hierarchy.[7] There developed an analogy between knighthood and the priesthood, for just as the priest received a special grace from God by means of the apostolic laying on of hands, so too did the knight receive a special grace from God by the means of knightly dubbing. Unlike Holy Orders, however, which is conferred regardless of the moral worth of the priest, Ramon Lull assumed that only a virtuous knight could confer this grace upon another knight, and that an unworthy knight could not confer the grace of knighthood to another.[8]
There is also a strong motif of justice that runs through the poem, as Yvain originally acted unjustly towards Laudine in the beginning, but after his "rebirth" he is concerned with righting the wrongs that he encounters on his adventures. He saves a young maiden from being taken by the giant, and he even says that God would not suffer the giant to have the maiden. He then takes it upon himself to defend not only her but the entire village as well, knowing that he may die in the process, taking it upon himself to ensure that justice is accomplished.[9] According to authors like Ramon Lull, all knights, from kings or the Holy Roman Emperor down to the most humble of knights were called upon to do justice in God's name by virtue of their office and their order.[10] Knighthood is thus seen as a type of religious vocation, with a higher calling towards the virtue of justice in the world. By the end of the poem, Yvain completes his adventures and is finally reconciled to Laudine, having been "born again" by his trials into the truly ideal knight who is selfless and keeps his word, though it may even cause his death. He thus displays courage and justice when he is defending those who cannot help themselves, and he puts the needs of others before himself.
[1] C. Stephen Jaeger, The Origins of Courtliness: Civilizing Trends and the Formation of Courtly Ideals, 939-1210 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985), 242.
[2] Ibid., 243.
[3] Chretien de Troyes, Yvain: the Knight of the Lion (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987), 88-89.
[4] Richard W. Kaeuper, Holy Warriors: the Religious Ideology of Chivalry (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014), 41.
[5] Chretien, Yvain, 112.
[6] David N. Beauregard "Moral Theology in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: The Pentangle, the Green Knight, and the Perfection of Virtue." Renascence 65, no. 3 (Spring 2013): 148-150.
[7] Nigel Saul, Chivalry in Medieval England (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011), 202-203.
[8] Beverly Kennedy, Knighthood in the Morte Darthur (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 1992),31.
[9] Chretien, Yvain, 124-125.
[10]Kennedy, Knighthood in the Morte Darthur, 14-15.


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Undoubtedly France's best-known soldier of its ill-fated colonial wars in Indochina and Algeria. And yet nothing, at the outset, suggested a distinguished military career for this bulldog of a man. After completing his military service in the army along the Maginot Line (1936–1938), reserve sergeant Bigeard returned to civilian life without much thought. World War II, however, changed all that. He was called back to arms in March 1939 and rejoined the 23ème Régiment d'infanterie de forteresse. He saw combat for the first time during the German invasion of France in May–June 1940. Though taken prisoner by the Germans during the French debacle, Bigeard finally escaped his captors on a third attempt in November 1941 and made his way to French West Africa (Vichy), where he joined the Régiment mixte d'infanterie coloniale. In October 1943, following the Allied liberation of North Africa about a year earlier, he moved to Morocco and volunteered for commando training under the British in Algiers in order to conduct clandestine missions into occupied France. He parachuted into France in August 1944 to run and train resistance networks as a specialist in military affairs. He served as an officer in the Forces françaises de l'intérieur (FFI). The end of World War II found Bigeard in Germany, a captain in the 23ème Régiment d'infanterie coloniale.
No sooner was World War II over than France's colonial one in Indochina began. In October 1945, Bigeard participated in the French reoccupation of southern Vietnam under the direction of General Philippe Leclerc, still in the 23ème Régiment d'infanterie coloniale (now Extrême-Orient). Bigeard led audacious operations into enemy territory, from which the "Bigeard legend" would spring. "Bruno" was his radio code name. He returned for two more tours of duty. In October 1948, back in France, he was one of a handful of special operations officers involved in creating the 3ème Battaillon colonial de commandos parachutistes (BCCP). He helped lead it on his second tour of duty in Indochina. He also commanded the 3ème Bataillon Tai and the Bataillon de marche indochinois. In July 1952, on his third tour, he led the 6ème Bataillon de Parachutistes Coloniaux (BPC) which he would command during the battle at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. He was named lieutenant colonel during the battle. Together with Pierre Langlais, Bigeard would become legendary for fighting with his men until they were taken prisoner at Dien Bien Phu in early May 1954. He and his men were marched hundreds of kilometers to internment camps where they were held in insalubrious and deadly health conditions until their liberation in 1955. Bigeard would serve again in Algeria at the head of his paratroopers during the battle of Algiers before taking up politics upon his retirement.
Marcel Bigeard published numerous books on politics and France's heroic soldiers of its colonial wars. However, Bigeard also recognized the valor of his Vietnamese adversary. Writing in 1975, as Saigon fell to Vietnamese communist forces, he recalled how he felt following the French colonial debacle at Dien Bien Phu 21 years earlier: "Here I am now a prisoner of these little Vietnamese whom we used to consider in our French army to be good only for working as nurses and drivers. While these men with an extraordinary morale started out with nothing in 1945 but an ideal, irregular armaments and a goal to get rid of the French, in nine years Giap had defeated without a doubt our Expeditionary Corps".
France's unlikely soldier was named brigadier general in August 1967. Bigeard remained strangely silent during the Boudarel affair. See also ALGERIAN WAR; ASSOCIATION NATIONALE DES ANCIENS ET AMIS DE L'INDOCHINE ET DU SOUVENIR INDOCHINOIS; ASSOCIATION NATIONALE DES ANCIENS PRISONNIERS ET INTERNÉS D'INDOCHINE; ASSOCIATION NATIONALE DES COMBATTANTS DE DIEN BIEN PHU; ERWAN BERGOT; EXPERIENCE OF WAR; JEAN-JACQUES BEUCLER; MYTH OF WAR.


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Morning Sunrise at 07:02 and Evening Sunset at 16:52. It's Dark
Rough GPS position Latitude. 35.2967°, Longitude. -91.1106° , Elevation. 64m
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Rough GPS position Latitude. 35.2967°, Longitude. -91.1106° , Elevation. 64m
Weather near Church of God Last report from Batesville, Batesville Regional Airport, AR 31.6km awayTemperature: -3°C / 27°F
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do point guards really win championships?
not since isiah has a dominant,argueably the best in the league at the time, pg has led a team all the way to the promise land. the point guard position is definitly reborn again through drose, cp3, and dwill but they have yet to do what the ones before them havent. nash, kidd, payton, stockton, iverson(part time), marbury, davis, all have been to all star games but none have any "hardware". they were all great at one ponit or another and at there best made finals appearences but have not gotten over the hup. while other ,lesser praised, pgs such as derek fisher, tony parker, chauncey billups and a few others have(of course with a great deal of help). the only two that make a decent case for carring there team are parker and billups who each managed to snag finals mvp for there perfomances and have mutiple apperances between them.
kong47272, You are wrong my friend, Heat championship squad was:
PG-Jayson Williams/Gary Payton
PF-A. Walker/Haslem
to tell you the truth the small forward postion wins championships the pg,sg,pf and center all have jobs to do the small foward is an exta man on the floor and play a role fills a differnt need on every team the small forward the last 5 years the teams with great sf went to the finals the best player in the league is a small forward who takes on the role of running smallforward,scoring gaurd and ball handler for his team a litte to much but teams with great small forwards win the celtics was in a dog fight with the lakers plus add the facts the refs cheated us out of 1 game they really did just like they cheated the sixers with a playoff berth the game they made them come back out in the play the cavs after they lready beat the cavs in was headed to the locker room but gettin back paul was a huge factor in the celtics winning look at denver also nice team carmello takes them to another height with his talent at the small fowrad postion.......I think if you have a nice small foward to go along with a great team your going to go far
houston even with yao out they gave lakers a run
lakers might have the best pf sf center rotation in the legue
sixers A.I
this is becoming a small forwards game
kevin durant mismatch he will soon be an all star
rudy gay
if you dont have a good sf you wont be able to compete
salmons is really a 2 gaurd that can play 3 postions
but look at what the truth did to him in the playoffs
its a small forwards game if you have a weak small forward teams will go at your small forward
lebron is 1 of the best players in the game and hes a small forward .....the reason for the season best record
and if you doubt my theory hoops daily made an article that breaks down win percentages with differnt type of small forwards small forwards


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Country: Haiti
Fiscal Year: 2011
Agency: USAID
Before the 2010 earthquake, the Government of Haiti's health systems were fragile and inefficient; after the earthquake, they became worse. The Ministry of Health (MOH) building was destroyed in the earthquake, as were buildings of the State University Medical School, and many government clinics and hospitals were critically damaged.
In its postquake strategy for health, family planning, and nutrition for Haiti, USAID has addressed plans for reconstruction and reform efforts concentrated on rebuilding human and financial resource management systems and on managerial coordination between the MOH central and provincial directors. USAID requested $40 million to meet health care needs that increased in rural areas because of the postquake relocation of affected populations.
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We are very happy to share that A Kiss for Gabriela is now available to watch online! If you'd like a copy of the DVD with all of the extras (many also available on our YouTube channel), please just send us an email.
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We are very happy to share that A Kiss for Gabriela is now available to watch online! If you'd like a copy of the DVD with all of the extras (many also available on our YouTube channel), please just send us an email.
Enjoy the film! <3
Puta Dei – Brazil's celebration of International Sex Workers' Rights Day started first in Belém de Pará by GEMPAC in 2012 and currently celebrated by sex worker rights organizations throughout Brazil – illuminated the #OccupaMincRJ on July 2, 2016.
#OccupaMincRJ is a cultural space of resistance against the coup and Temer government in Brazil. The evening, called, Fashion Rua (Street Fashion) was organized by Davida/Daspu, Transrevolução, the Prostitution Policy Watch and SlutWalk Rio featuring Daspu, Emporium by Almir França and models from the Casa Nem, a house, cultural and educational center of resistance for travesti and trans population in Rio de Janeiro. Sex workers, allies, and activists from a variety of social movements rocked the catwalk and fashion show that ended in a powerful speech by Indianara Siqueira, president of Transrevolução and the force behind the Casa Nem. Live the event a little bit though the photos and video here!
Production: Daspu Davida, Casa Nem , Empório Almir França and the Prostitution Policy Watch in partnership with #OcupaMincRJ and Marcha das Vadias Rio de Janeiro
Direction and Production: Guilherme Alef e Laura Murray
Creative Direction: Almir França | Elaine Bortolanza
Production Assistants: Roxana Rodriguez Mayen e Pedro Lopes
Technical Coordinator: Lourinelson Vladmir
Collection Zonas de promiscuidade: Daspu in partnership with Ale Marques and Marcita Amores, from the fashion line À dor amores
T-shirts: Daspu with designs from Laerte Coutinho
Empório Collection: Almir França
Collection Daspu em Exibição by Paula Villa Nova
Make-up: Denilson Vieira and Luanne Garcia
Hair: Anderson Ramalho Ramos
Soundtrack: Dj Dolores
Photos on this blog: Soraya S. Simões and#OcupaMincRJ /Mídia Ninja
These AMAZING kisses were sent to us from equally amazing Latin American sex worker activists at the 2014 PLAPERTS (Latin American Platform of Sex Workers) meeting that had as its theme, "Con los sueños de Gabriela" (With Gabriela's Dreams). The kisses were given to us at the Observatório da Prostituição's course, "A Particular Revolution: The History of the Sex Worker Movement in Brazil" in November of 2015 (more about this soon!), by Betania Santos, sex worker activist and president of the organization, Mulheres Guerreiras. There are some of the most beautiful kisses we've ever received – muchissimas gracias!!!
The human rights record of the United States will be reviewed next Monday May 11, 2015 as part of the United Nation's Universal Periodic Review (UPR). Derek Demeri and Monica Jones are reporting that their advocacy this week at the United Nations in Geneva is creating awareness amongst UN member states of the need to make a recommendation pertaining to sex worker rights during the UPR. "The issues that States are most interested in during our meetings are the impact of criminalization of sex work on HIV/AIDS and the ways that the laws affect both transgender people and sex workers," explained Derek who represents the New Jersey Red Umbrella Alliance, adding that, "there is a chance that a new recommendation will be made to the United States that will help us in defending the health and rights of sex workers in the long term."
Globally recognized transgender rights advocate Monica Jones has returned to the United Nations after her trip in March earlier this year to continue advocating with delegations. She is using her well-established social media network to rally advocates globally to assist US sex worker rights representatives at this crucial time. Addressing her colleagues in Australia and New Zealand on FB she wrote, "sex workers in the USA need your help! Please call your government and ask them to give the United States of America a recommendation to end the violence and stigmatization of sex workers. Sex work is work, we should have the same protection as anybody who has a job!"
The Universal Periodic Review of the United States will be livecast from the UN from 9 am to 12.30pm (CEST/GENEVA TIME) on Monday May 11. This is 12/midnight to 3 am Pacific Time in the United States and 3 am to 6 am Eastern. More information about the history of sex worker rights organizing during the UPR is available at the Best Practices Policy Project, highlighting the work of the Desiree Alliance, SWOP-NYC and the many other groups nationwide involved in this effort.
Rachel Aimee, co-founder and former editor of $pread magazine, took a pause from organizing the March 3rd release party for the forthcoming anthology $pread: The Best of the Magazine that Illuminated the Sex Industry and Started a Media Revolution to speak to A KISS FOR GABRIELA about the book and its history. Rachel Aimee is one of the editors of the new book along with Eliyanna Kaiser and Audacia Ray. We are looking forward to getting our copy, please stay tuned for our review.
A Kiss For Gabi: Congratulations on the new $pread Anthology. What is $pread and what does it stand for?
Rachel: Thank you! $pread was a magazine by and for sex workers and allies that was published quarterly between 2005 and 2011. We founded $pread because we were tired of seeing sex workers stereotyped and stigmatized in the media and we wanted to create a space for sex worker to speak for themselves. When we started $pread in 2005 most of the writing that was out there by sex workers was academic – we wanted to create something more accessible, which is why we decided on a magazine format. We were amazed by the outpouring of support from the sex worker community – in the form of submissions, subscriptions, and people showing up to our events – and it became clear to us how much sex workers needed a media platform and a sense of community. Although none of us had any publishing experience or funding we managed to launch the first issue in March 2005 and publish it four times a year for the next six years. To celebrate the ten-year anniversary of $pread's first issue we're releasing a best-of anthology, $pread: The Best of the Magazine that Illuminated the Sex Industry and Started a Media Revolution, published by Feminist Press.
A Kiss For Gabi: Can you tell us more about what readers will find in the publication?
Rachel: The book starts with an introduction telling, for the first time, the history of $pread magazine and contextualizing it within the sex worker rights movement at the time. As well as funny anecdotes about our misadventures in the world of independent publishing, we also talk about $pread's relationship with feminists, anarchists, and the LGBTQ community, as well as examining some of our challenges and failings, such as not making room in the magazine's leadership and pages for the voices of sex worker of color, transgender sex workers, men in the sex industry, street-based sex workers, and sex workers with kids. We also talk about $pread's role in contributing to the current media landscape in which sex workers are speaking out and creating their own media on a huge scale.
The pieces we selected to include in the anthology are divided into seven categories: Workplace, Labor, Family and Relationships, Clients, Violence, Resistance, and Media and Culture. Some of my favorite pieces are Mona Salim's 'Stripping While Brown,' which includes some hilarious and disturbing anecdotes about the ways that race impacts her interactions with customers and other dancers as one of the few South Asian women working in a strip club in New York; 'I Have Nothing to Say,' Lynne Tansey's raw and powerful story about the time she had to kill a client in self-defense; and 'Fucking the Movement,' an Indecent Proposal (a regular $pread column) by an escort named Eve Ryder's about a client who wanted her to dress as an anarchist protester, which includes the line "Bad protester, you smashed the Starbucks!"
Although $pread was made in New York, we tried to include as much international coverage as we could, and the book reflects that, including pieces about migrant sex workers in Mumbai, the impact of the 2005 Tsunami on sex workers in Thailand, and an interview with the founder of Casa Xochiquetzal, a retirement home for older sex workers in Mexico City.
A Kiss For Gabi: How was the publication produced and what lessons have you learned for others in the community wishing to publish and/or get their work out?
Rachel: Don't publish a print magazine! Magazines are expensive to print and heavy to cart around the city and up and down subway steps, they take up all the space in your office, and you will spend your whole life at the post office – or the bulk mail office, which is way worse than the post office, believe me!
These days sex workers are blogging, Tweeting, and creating community online, but back when $pread got started that wasn't the case. We got into publishing right on the cusp of the transition from print to online – we felt it was important to create a physical magazine that we could hand out in strip clubs and dungeons and at outreach organizations. And at that time it wasn't the case that everyone was online in the way that they are now. But looking back it would've been a lot easier if we'd decided to do an online magazine instead!
Also: I kind of love that we decided to start a magazine and just did it, despite the fact that we had no experience or money and really no idea what we were getting into. But I also think this contributed to the staff and magazine not really being representative of sex workers from a variety of backgrounds. The magazine was founded by three white, cisgender, college-educated women and we recruited staff in the way that was easiest for us, which meant mostly from our own social networks, so this perpetuated the bias in our staff and leadership.
Part of the problem was that we didn't really prioritize diversity in the magazine's staff and leadership, but another part was that, because we had no funding and couldn't pay our staff, the people who could afford to volunteer, especially in the extremely time-consuming leadership roles, were those with more privilege. It was like, 'if you have time to do this, you're doing it.' If we had planned a bit more before jumping into launching the magazine, we might have been able to get funding to pay staff, and I think that would have helped us to reach beyond the people we knew who had time to volunteer.
A Kiss For Gabi: How can people keep in touch with the work of $pread in the future?
Rachel: Come to our NYC launch party next Tuesday March 3! It's also the opening night of our art show, Spark to a Flame, which celebrates the artists of $pread, including Molly Crabapple, Fly, Hawk Kinkaid, and Cristy C. Road, as well as others inspired by the magazine. We'll be screening the film WHORELOGIC by PJ Starr and The Incredible Edible Akynos, as well as video art by Xandra Ibarra and Morgan Page. And some of the book's contributors will be reading and talking about their pieces in the anthology, including former $pread editor Brendan Michael Conner talking about youth in the sex trade, Marisa Brigati talking about Casa Xochiquetzal, a retirement home for older sex workers in Mexico City, and Syd V. reading her piece 'Hell's Kitchen' about growing up with a mother who was a sex worker. Tickets are $20 and include a free copy of the book.
Also, follow us on Facebook and Twitter to keep updated about launch events we have planned in other cities, including Baltimore, Chicago, Oakland, and possibly Brown University.
And if you miss the book launch and art show opening on Tuesday, the Spark to a Flame art show will be on display at Dixon Place through March 22 and you can find out more about the show on our Tumblr.
Writer, performer, philosopher and community organizer, The Incredible, Edible Akynos has long been challenging conservative views on sexuality and deconstructing racism and slut-shaming. We've attended some of her energetic programing at WOW cafe in New York City and had our minds blown. We want to share with the Kiss for Gabi community about these amazing new shows, and we want to shout all this from the rooftops too, but it is cold out there in New York City… snap up tickets to some of Akynos forthcoming shows so you can feel all warm inside.
A Kiss for Gabi: Recently you've begun a new series of performances at WOW Cafe, THICK and Dark, Nude Storytellers. What was the impetus for these new shows?
Akynos: These shows were needed in the community. Bigger body types feeling as if they are ostracized by the performance community because they don't fit beauty ideals. Not being given a chance to shine on stage because you are fat. Or not being allowed to show your talents because promoters, producers or venues think this is not what their audiences want to see. That's how THICK was formed. I don't have a flat stomach, but that doesn't mean I'm not talented or beautiful. Storytellers was important for me to start as my education in school and after graduating has taught me (now that I'm paying far more attention to Black history) that the stories of Black bodies and other people of color have been rewritten to suit the sadistic and narcissistic mentality of our conquerors. Western history books and things we see in the media will have us believing that we are just blips on this planet. No history, no involvement, just here taking up space. In fact our history is so strong, deep and great, and part of that history was through oral tradition. No one should write or tell our stories, only us. So if viewers want to hear history in all it's honesty, no fluff, learn from those who are living it, then they come to Dark. Nude. Storytellers.
A Kiss for Gabi: What can audiences expect when they come to the shows?
Akynos: Audiences can expect to be entertained. They can expect to see what they didn't think they wanted to see. And fill a void they didn't think they had.
A Kiss for Gabi: Have the shows been inspiring any media coverage of the issues you are concerned about? Or social media? Or new conversations?
Akynos: Storytellers, in particular, is often inspired by current media coverages on different issues, like the Bill Cosby fiasco, and then giving our thoughts and experiences on the matter. If you follow me on social media, you know I am no stranger to drama happening on my posts. This especially happens when my posts take a very aggressive stance on issues surrounding sexism, rape culture and racism. People always get bent out of shape about that. Then I say to myself let's put this in a reading, and we bring it to the stage. THICK is all about the talent. We showcase different acts every month, paying homage to the beauty style and talents of the size misfits. With these shows I am hoping to change the dialogue around race and size, because they intersect. I think, if even on a minor scale, people are talking about it. Unfortunately the buzz needs to pick up a little more pace.
A Kiss for Gabi: How else can people support your creative efforts?
Akynos: Come to the shows! All of them! And tell all your people about it. Support live entertainment. If it's not supported it won't be around for us to take advantage of. The next show I am producing is Darkie: Black Aesthetics and includes ripe and irreverent acts exploring the influence Black and Brown bodies have had on our culture. We will have three performances only at the WOW Cafe Theatre, Friday, February 27 at 8:30pm, Saturday, February 28 at 8:30pm and Sunday, March 1 at 3pm and we highly recommend getting advance tickets.
My other shows continue each month. The next Dark.Nude.Storytellers. is planned for the evening of Sunday March 1. Follow me on social media to find out more about the next THICK performance.
Today is December 17. Globally sex workers, allies of sex workers, and organizations of sex workers are calling for an end to violence. December 17 is the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. Today sex workers challenge the notion that the violence committed against them and their communities is acceptable. They also challenge notion that to engage in commercial sex is a form of violence in and of itself. They resist the imposition of simplistic frameworks and "victimization" of those who do not yet accept that sex work is work.
Heidi Hoefinger's "intimate" ethnographic study of "professional girlfriends" in Cambodia is the kind of book we need to read today in this spirit. Recently released in paperback edition in 2014, Sex, Love and Money in Cambodia is the author's meditation on the steps students and scholars can take to respectfully engage with "the other." (And who is more othered by American and European scholars/policy makers/pundits than South East Asian women engaging in what at first glance could be simplistically described as prostitution?) "I have adopted an ethical stance to take up [research] participants' concerns, problems, desires and expectations as seriously as I take my own," writes Hoefinger, who is also a member of the advocacy group SWOP-NYC and who has a long history of engaging in sex worker rights organizing, "to interrupt global discourse by channelling voices which are otherwise passed over and ignored." The global discourse she seeks to unsettle includes misguided "anti-trafficking measures" promulgated by New York Times' columnist Nicholas Kristoff who Hoefinger notes live tweeted a brothel raid in Cambodia with (now deposed) trafficking icon Somaly Mam. In the region sex worker organizations, such as EMPOWER Thailand, have made it clear that the "trafficking discourse" itself is a source of real harm and violence noting that, "there are more women in the Thai sex industry who are being abused by anti-trafficking practices than there are women being exploited by traffickers."
Hoefinger staunchly seeks ways for the "professional girlfriends" she befriends in Cambodia to tell their own stories and express their reality. These women are employed in the bars and clubs in touristy areas in the urban centers of the country. They do not see themselves as "sex workers." Rather they negotiate a spectrum of "transactional sex" relying on one or more relationships as a means of livelihood, performing intimacy "whereby the professed feeling of love and dedication lie somewhere on a continuum between genuine and feigned, and where the meaning of the term 'love,' itself ranges from sexual, passionate and/or romantic, to caring, respectful and appreciative." Hoefinger's observations ring true. This sounds like real life. Sex, Love and Money in Cambodia reminds (and/or awakens) the reader to the idea that sex work–whether we want to speak about that as engagement in the sex trade, transactional sex, professional girlfriending, GFE, and even plain old prostitution–is at its core also about human relationships and human sexuality. No wonder that so many sex workers also consider themselves counselors and express pride in what they do. No surprise that in order to create "perfect victimhood" amongst sex workers, overly controlling social workers, the police and the saviors want to reduce the unruly lives of people into the sex trade to repress these discussions of love and desire.
As filmmakers, storytellers, and anthropologists we were impressed and intrigued by Heidi Hoefinger's attempts to engage in new forms of ethnographic practice–the Global Girls Autobiography/E-literacy Project, brokering participation in an avant guard documentary–that were only partially successful, but enlightening all the same. Despite her reservations, the documentary film project (directed by an "eclectic French-Italian photographer), built trust and rapport. "In the end," Hoefinger found, "the film project clarified precisely the concept of 'intersubjective time' which is central to my methodology and the project as a whole… the women were happy to be paid to do something artistic, and the small compensation I earned from facilitating the interviews was used to fund the expense of the Global Girls Project."
Sex, Love and Money in Cambodia (Professional Girlfriends and Transactional Relationships) by Heidi Hoefinger is now available in paperback from Routledge. Signed copies available through www.heidihoefinger.com
Next SATURDAY, December 20th, A KISS FOR GABRIELA is thrilled to support a finishing funds party to support the documentary NO HUMAN INVOLVED at the Maysles Institute and Cinema in Harlem. This is an incredibly important film by amazing activist and film maker, PJ Starr, about why incarcerating people under harsh anti-prostitution policies must end. Please come, celebrate all that has been accomplished so far, have a glass of wine, enjoy music by DJ Bent and learn about learn about the issues in Arizona why Marcia Powell (the focus of the film) was left to die in a cage in Perryville prison.
There is a suggested donation of $20 per person to contribute to the film, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Guests who contribute to the film by RSVPing with donation of $20 or more will be given a limited edition postcard based on original art work from Arizona and 1 free raffle ticket. Since NO HUMAN INVOLVED is a project fiscally sponsored by Women Make Movies, so donations are also tax deductible.
MORE ABOUT THE DOCUMENTARY: In 2009 after she was sentenced to more than two years in prison for prostitution, Marcia Powell was locked in a metal cage in the desert sun at an Arizona prison. Four hours later she collapsed in the 107-degree heat, and by day's end she was dead after being removed from life support by the Department of Corrections. Even though an internal investigation revealed that guards had denied her water and ridiculed her when she pleaded for help, no one was ever charged. The documentary NO HUMAN INVOLVED investigates the circumstances of Marcia's death, exposing the system that has lead to the death of scores of others in facilities across Arizona, and documents a movement that has formed seeking justice in her name.
A KISS FOR GABRIELA is proud to support the following events on December 17 (the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers) and hopes to learn about more events coming up for that date. SWOP-Philly plans a screening for Wednesday December 17, 6.30 to 9 pm at the William Way Community Center. Entrance to the event is by sliding scale donation and includes a buffet catered by "Brother on a Budget/#Iamhuman".
SWOP MD will be showing a variety of films, including A KISS FOR GABRIELA and the trailer of NO HUMAN INVOLVED, on December 17 and the event will include a gallery of art work from around the country at the event location.


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We are deeply saddened by the passing of our judo Sensei Lance Iida. Sensei Lance passed away at Straub Hospital on Tuesday, July 24, 2012 at 2:19pm. He was born on July 6, 1970 and employed as a math teacher at Washington Middle School for the past 5 years. Lance is the math team coach and has won state competition titles for his school. He was a loving teacher, judo sensei, judo coach and a great friend to many. Lance is a sensei at Shobukan Judo Club and was involved in judo since the age of 12.
He spent most of his life dedicating his time at judo and helping our children. He has won many state judo championships during his twenty plus years as the McKinley judo coach and is well respected by other high school judo coaches. Originally an Engineer, he later changed careers by obtaining his teaching certificate in Mathematics in order to continue his enjoyment of coaching judo and math with the students. Lance enjoyed hunting, fishing, shooting at the range and going to Las Vegas to gamble.
Sensei Lance you will be truly missed by many and forever be in our hearts. We have many fond memories of you and know that you will look upon us with a smiling face and hearty laugh.
Services will be held on Saturday, August 11, 2012 at Nuuanu Mortuary.
Viewing 4:30-6:00pm and services to begin at 6:00pm
A Tribute to Sensei Leigh Nakamoto
written by Sensei Russell Ogata.
Note: Sensei Leighpassed away in his sleep from a heart attack on Saturday, February 11, 2012.
Sensei Leigh lived his life on his own terms. He rode through life on an express train filled with family, friends, students, and people who were drawn to this big man with an even bigger heart. Leigh could sit and regal everyone with stories and anecdotes about life experiences and teach lessons at the same time.
Sensei Leigh's accomplishments as one of the most successful Judokas in Hawaii Judo history still doesn't measure up to his achievements and influence after his competitive time on the mat. He was the youngest person ever to be promoted to 5 degree black belt. He was unstoppable as a competitor. He resurrected Leeward Judo Club into a Century Club before heading off to Kapolei to spread Judo further west. During his time as President of 50th State Judo, he and a dedicated band of Judo stalwarts gave Hawaii a High School Judo State Championship. His son Christian is one of the few High School Judokas with 4 State Championships. He headed up the corp of referees that serviced both the Association and the High School Judo competitions.
He was truly blessed to meet his wife Sharon and welcomed Darryl, Lori, Everett and Christian on board his express train through life. I'm sure we'll hear some stories and moments from others here. Leigh enjoyed his Sundays at Grandma Sugihara's as yet another wonderful moment at his banquet table of life. His hearty laugh lingered on longer than most of us because he sensed more than just the experience, he appreciated who he was experiencing it with and brought that out of those lucky enough to be around him.
When his health kept him out of the everyday operations of his beloved sport of Judo, he was still someone who Senseis and students came to for advice, leadership, and encouragement. With Sensei Leigh, no one walked away wanting and most walked away feeling relieved and blessed.
This final celebration with Sensei Leigh on his express train touches us because we will miss him. We are also remindedthat he will always be in our happy moments, our thoughtful moments and our significant moments because whoever he was to you, he was and will always be the big guy with the even bigger heart.


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Hi today I was on a rake making course and the side axe we used was made by Van How Tools, I have not herd of them before. The axe we used was about 1 1/2lbs, 14'', and not the more usual kent pattern but the american wedge type. Sadly I didnt get a picture
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I'm not a party person and most of the ones I've been to have ended up as All Night Catan sessions. I say this because the one I got back from several hours ago now was one of the other kind... you know, just standing around talking to a bunch of people you know (and maybe eventually ending up talking to someone you don't know, or several someones... which is better). This is a pretty enjoyable way of spending an evening (and, no, it does not need any chemical aids to be so). However, I mention this because it's really just a starting point to ground discussion of indigenous issues.
I'm not a big fan of identity politics. I see it as having cannibalised socio-economic inequality/privilege's place in politics and I blame an overt focus on that as one of the reasons why we muddle along under Teflon John. Now, this is not to say that I think the poor men of Brussels and Brighton are more similar to each other than they are to the rich men of their respective homes, because I quite seriously disagree with that. Think of it like this. One of the flag change rebuttals that was deployed against the "There's a whole lot of history in the current flag" argument/sentiment was, "Well, duh, this would also be true if the design was laser kiwi." I mention this because borders may well start off as being arbitrary (in the sense they have nothing to do with the man on the street) but they end up having meaning for people. That I live on this side and you live on that side has a wealth of meaning that is seen every single time there's a derby in soccer, by way of a simple and accessible example. The point is, that when you want to talk about Maori as an underprivileged group (in New Zealand, obviously) is that it's a blend of these two issues. I might think (and do think) that a great many things are better approached by taking a more "classical" approach and dealing with the socio-economic advantage but that does not mean that there aren't aspects to the issues which are better made sense of through identity politics. But back to the party.
I'm not sure how we ended up talking about it but at one point we were discussing whether or not Taiwan was a country. Someone then referenced the sudden political swing of the conversation and this reminded me of an earlier conversation where I had stumbled across many of the same people talking (probably) about Maori seats. (As an aside, do note that this anecdotes sustains the notion that politics is a central part of the human experience.) The conversation specifically ended up centring on Auckland University's targeted admission scheme for Maori doctors (it's actually got a different name and I can't be arsed checking all the facts here). Now, the point that one of my (Asian) friends raised was that there are 20 reserved places (which are probably for Maori and Pasifika) and this led into the classic "what if they're not good enough line"? Well, as far as I know, you've got to still be doing very well (like, I'd be surprised if you got in with a GPA like mine, which I've recently managed to get to 7.2-ish, maybe 7.1-ish... but that's from totally different courses). However, the tack that one of my other friends took was the sort of standard "indigenous rights" argument. I intervened after he'd finished to note that "Bicultural" New Zealand basically just ignores Pasifika (who, to my knowledge, rarely do better, i.e. lose harder, on all the stats that Maori do* so badly in... i.e. all the stats)... this was then added to (by someone) with the size of New Zealand's Asian population (I have more Asian friends than Pasifika or Maori, actually). We'll ignore the party now, because I don't remember anything else relevant.
When we were having this conversation, I could've brought up my grandfather's conversation with someone important at Grafton (where the med people are based). I don't know how he got in contact with said person or who it is, but my grandfather was very impressed with the scheme. And, why wouldn't he be? Okay, so, yeah, there are a lot of answers to that question. Most of them (the ones that aren't overtly racist, anyway) generally boil down to proportionality. That is, it wouldn't matter if "only" 15% of doctors are Maori (I don't know if this is true: read this) because that's roughly the proportion of New Zealand's population that are Maori (as far as I remember... more signs of this post's dodgy research). However, when talking about med students it is actually a bit more complicated. What base population is now the appropriate comparison? If we're talking about a university in Auckland, should we really be using national figures? But if we used Auckland region figures, then we ignore that students don't just come from Auckland. (We can discount the notion of global proportions because I clearly think that borders aren't arbitrary.) So, it seems to me, that we should probably use the applicants as the base population?
What we're talking about here is a position of merit: you have to earn it and you have to earn it at standard. We've assumed that no-one lets people below scratch in... just made it so that you don't have to be way off the charts (if you are Maori, Pasifika or from a rural area). But there's a problem. There are reasons to believe that your chances to be an applicant are skewed if you belong to certain groups. That is, the applicants should reflect some base population themselves (which is probably best approximated by weighting the Auckland demographics with the country demographics somehow) and that they don't because of all those stats we kinda referred to earlier. Now, a lot of those stats reflect socio-economic issues and should be addressed as such. But I talked about that Brussels and Brighton thing for a reason. It matters that people aren't visible because when you're not visible, you are invisible. And what does that say? Well, I don't know. I do know that it doesn't say, "Look, we're doctors too," whoever that "we" is. And this is, surely, psychologically the same as the opt-in... you have to actively decide, as a member of that we, to be a doctor in a way that's different to when you do see members of your we as doctors (opt out example). That, right there, is why proportionality is not the Holy Grail of the short-term... because you need to do something that brings something to the foreground.**
Note, if your response to this post is that we need to care about the long-term more I have two responses to you. Firstly, "in the long run we're all dead"*** and secondly that you only get to the long-term state from a short-term situation: they're path-dependent.
*This doesn't really reflect what's going on. For example, a country doesn't actively try and pursue (i.e. do), say, infant mortality... it's a description of something that happens in that country.
**Proportionality is, by definition, not noticeable... it's expectation. (And, note, if it turned out NZ European males are under-represented in the short-term it's okay... but if unaligned representations persist in the long-term and have nothing to do with policy distortions, it suggests there are some stats there working behind the scenes... and that's when you start considering policy, which isn't necessarily going to lead to any policy.)
***That is, what is happening now, to us, matters as well.


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currently sony has released hmm lollipop 5.0.2for its xperia z series the previous ones, and xperia z1 compact is one of these butif you don't want to just install a custom rom and only want to use stock rom, stocklollipop rom but want root access on it, then this video is for you. let me show you firstthat i am running lollipop, stock lollipop rom i want to show you that i have got rootaccess on it, so i go to the root checker and verify root. my device is rooted, so let'sget started. first what you need to do is download these two files. after that openup the flashtool. after then what you need to do is switch off your phone, then connectit in fastboot mode. press up the volume key, and then connect your usb cable, and thisblue sign indicates that your phone is connected
in fastboot mode. when your device is connectedin fastboot mode, click on this button and go to the fastboot mode. and after that, clickon this "select kernel to flash" and go to desktop(where you have saved the boot.img).firstly it will not show up because it only shows up the files with extension .sin, butour file extension is .img, so select this and then it will show up. here it is. nowwhat you need to do is right click on it and select it. after selecting, in few secondsthis kernel is flashed. !!!!one thing i forgot to mention is that, the second file you havedownloaded, the superuser beta version, first before flashing this kernel, you need to putthat file onto your sd card. power up the phone and keep pressing volume down key. herewe are. now after that what you need to do
is click on install and go to your folderwhere you have copied it. mine is is downloads and there you see it, beta supersu. clickon it and then swipe it. i have already done that, so i am not going to do this. here itis. supersu. your phone gets rooted. thanks for watching.


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Former Bush legal counsel John Yoo, best known for authoring memos to legally justify torture, said Thursday that President Barack Obama should have captured — rather than killed — Osama Bin Laden, so he could be interrogated for information.
"The best, most reliable information we can get is from interrogation, and I'm worried that this administration has closed off that flow of intelligence since President Obama took office," Yoo told CNN's Eliot Spitzer.
Yoo said killing the al Qaeda would have been justified if the Navy SEALS were attacked, but "if they were going in with no options other than to kill him, then that's a problem."
The UC-Berkeley professor argued — without evidence — that Obama didn't want to take bin Laden alive. "I do think that they don't want to capture high level al Qaeda leaders," he said. "They don't want to take anybody and send them to Guantanamo Bay."
Watch the video from CNN.
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Day #5 in the Calender of a Mad Woman.
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- Judy K10 October 2012 at 04:12
2nd blouse tooooo busy and colourful. Psychadelic mushrooms come to mind (thats how colourful the world would be if i was on magic mushrooms)ReplyDeleteReplies
HAHA! its just because you have not tried it! where is your boldness!!Delete
- Anonymous10 October 2012 at 05:16
Tres tres belle! The color looks great on you...glad you took the risk!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous10 October 2012 at 15:55
You're looking lovely ... I doubt I'm bold enough to wear a red skirt socially, but you're totally rocking it! :)ReplyDelete
Now on to TL - Funny I should read this when I have just put my copy of this month's edition down barely an hour ago! And I totally agree with you on the editorial! Lol! You've cracked me up!! Batman outfit -hehehe... Even Batman wouldn't buy it for 64k :) Carol's LBD is lovely but a tad bit overpriced, don't you think? 16k? How now??
Does SuzieBeauty stock matt foundation like the maybelline one? I can't deal with liquid, and the powder (loose or compact) I find simply taxing. I use maybelline but wouldn't mind promoting our very own Kenyan brand. :))
Wait, 30 bob for that blouse?!! Call me next time you go shopping!! - Carol. :)Replies
Carol, Sema, Suzie told me already to call her people and go check her products, now the moment I do that, you will be the first to know! 16K for Carol's Dress! how did I miss that?!! We are planning to go to Toi next sato, will buzz you if we are going, which all depends on the weather.Delete
You look lovely.. lol at the batman thingie.. I also wana tag along on your next toi expedition :)ReplyDeleteReplies
You know we are going on Kenyatta day right?
- Anonymous26 October 2012 at 02:13
Jesus Had not noticed all these in True Love. I wish Carol Mandi would read this and make some improvement... looks like you read using a toothpick hehe.ReplyDelete
30 bob for a top...I thought I was the only one. I've even bought one for as cheap as 15bob!! #shame???ReplyDelete


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Notoriously nightclub heavy, Red River buzzes with concert seekers milling the streets and that thick anticipatory energy that comes from waiting for the lights to dim and your favorite band to take the stage.
Live music spills nightly from some of the hottest stages here, surrounded by famed backyards and crave-worthy eats, all within a three-block radius.
Here's the lowdown on live music, bars/nightlife and restaurants you just have to check out in one of Austin's edgier neighborhoods.
Live Music
The Mohawk - Come here for music and multi-level views of the stage, stay for the stiff drinks and to be properly weirded out by events like the annual Quesoff where locals compete with their queso concoctions, spelling bees and even beard growing "face-off's." The come-as-you-are Mohawk is all about raw talent, emerging bands and local talent and they pride themselves on big pours and good old-fashioned service.
Stubb's Bar-B-Q - An outdoor stage that's built for bring-the-house-down performers, an indoor stage suited for a more intimate concert experience, and beloved brisket and signature BBQ sauce - Stubb's is an Austin institution. Come back on Sunday for their famous Gospel Brunch and get your fill of migas, grits, BBQ and the make-your-own Bloody Mary bar.
Beerland - A dive bar with a side of suds, this is where you'll tip back cheap beers, play a few arcade games and gear up for some loud live music. Live out your American Idol dreams every Monday night during Rock n' Roll Karaoke. Beerland has been known to win Austin Chronicle Best of Austin awards in categories like Best Bathroom Graffiti and Best Bar with Arcade.
Barbarella + Swan Dive - When it's time to dance, it's time to hit these two happening, LGBT hotspots. Wear your dancin' shoes and get ready to make some new friends on the spacious dance floors. Don't shake the antiques off the walls during a burlesque show at Swan Dive and bring your best disco moves to Barbarella for "grits n gravy" Thursday dance parties.
Empire Control Room & Garage - A watering hole with modern music on tap, the vibe here spans laid back to jump around, depending on the evening's tunes. The feel is independent Austin talent meets creative warehouse party without any pretentiousness.
Hoboken Pie - Say Salut! with a slice from this gourmet 'za shop. Sure, you can have your pepperoni here, but have you ever tried toppings like vegan tofu ricotta, caramelized shallots or smoked gouda? Grab a Jersey-style folding slice to eat as you walk Red River and fuel up for the night. Or come in late night - they serve their hand-tossed, stone-baked awesomeness 'til 2:30 a.m.
Pelons Tex-Mex Restaurant - If you consider salt around the rim a necessity for a night of fun, this is your hacienda. Housemade chile hatch queso, a patio tucked beneath a towering oak tree and an agave nectar tequila margarita will put you in your happy place. Try a homemade signature margarita and bring your pooch - they're dog-friendly.
Serrano's Café & Cantina - Tex-Mex classics shine on Serrano's locally loved menu. Texas brisket tacos, achiote-marinated pork tacos, chipotle brisket, sizzling fajitas...you can't go wrong here. Folks have been raving about their mesquite grilled fajitas for 20 years and their weekday happy hour is pretty great ($2.50 margs, $1.50 food specials, etc.)


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2 DuPont
4 FUXIER Chemical Co.,Ltd
5 Fahad Thanaya & Parters Co.
6 FangYou Chemical Co.,Ltd
7 Jining Hengfa Chemical Co., Ltd.
8 Linyi Zhenfeng Chemical Co., Ltd.
9 Shandong Moris Technology Co.,Ltd
10 Xusheng Chemical Co.,Ltd
11 Zhongyin Chemical Co., Ltd
12 Zibo Huixin Chemical Co.,Ltd
13 Zibo Zhangdian Fengshui Social Welfare Chemical Factory
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5 India
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The special website is graced by this really fabulous bit of artwork at right by someone called Jonathan Williams featuring a young Darwin (we like those) with his menagerie, including, apparently, a rare species of tweed-dwelling barnacle.
More about Nature's special section:
Darwin 200Bow of the sprit to the National Center for Science Education, fighting the good fight since 1981, you know, way back when intelligent design was still called creationism in public.
The 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Robert Darwin falls on 12 February 2009. Darwin was arguably the most influential scientist of modern times. No single researcher has since matched his collective impact on the natural and social sciences; on politics, religions, and philosophy; on art and cultural relations, and in ways that the man himself would never have imagined. This Nature news special will provide continuously updated news, research and analysis on Darwin's life, his science and his legacy, as well as news from the Darwin200 consortium of organizations celebrating this landmark event.


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Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE:HPQ): Brean Capital has upgraded HP to Buy from Hold with a $32 price target, citing the company's strengthened cash flow and cost-saving benefits.
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The Akwa Ibom contingent to the 18th National Sports Festival, "Eko 2012,'' on Friday lamented the poor state of facilities for the preparation of their athletes for the festival. The 14-day festival kicks off in Lagos on Nov. 27.
Some of the athletes, who pleaded anonymity, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Uyo that they were not excited at some of unfulfilled promises earlier made to them. They said that in spite of promises of new training equipment, none was purchased.
The athletes claimed that between now and the Games, the time was too short for the State government to be able to redeem all its promises, before the contingent left for Lagos. Some of the athletes also claimed that they had not been eating good food since their arrival in camp. "We are here because we want to showcase our talents to the world''.
However, the Commissioner for Youth and Sports, Mr Ita Udoh, in a reaction, pleaded with the athletes to manage whatever was made available to them at the training venue, noting that government would soon address some of their challenges. The commissioner later said that in spite of a few hiccups being experienced, the State would win more medals from the festival.
Udoh claimed that the athletes were set to put in more efforts in some sports where they had competitive edge, to make the State proud. Akwa Ibom placed eight on the overall medals table at the 17th edition of the festival, tagged "Garden City Games'' which was staged in Port Harcourt, the Rivers capital in 2011.
NAN also gathered that as part of plans to encourage the contingent, Gov. Godswill Akpabio will address the athletes before their scheduled departure to Lagos on Nov. 24.


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After releasing her first ever book "Staying Strong: 365 Days A Year" last year Demi has now worked on a follow up... well... kind of...
Demi posted the picture above along the explanation what the little blue book is... It's a journal for everyone to help stay strong and be inspired.
You can pre-order it at Barnes&Noble or amazon. But the release date in most countries is the 7th of October.
Do you'll have to show a little more patience :)
Well.. along creating a new feature of Staying Strong Demi also had to do the normal celebrity stuff..you know... sign cards...
But Demi wouldn't be Demi if she'd do that without any weird idea at some point... Well... you may have a look yourself what happened after the 100th autograph.
Last but not least Demi is finally on the cover of seventeen mag again for their August issue :)
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On March 20, 43 BC, Publius Ovidius Naso, better known to modern readers as Ovid, was born at Sulmo, 90 miles from Rome. Ovid's father, who was a respected member of the equestrian order, expected Ovid to become a lawyer and official and had him schooled extensively for that purpose. After working in various judicial posts, Ovid made the decision to dedicate himself to a life of poetry instead. Ovid's elegance, both in verse and comportment, made him a favorite among the moneyed class of Rome, and it was not long before Ovid was widely hailed as the most brilliant poet of his generation. His elegant verses on love appealed to a society being forced into a period of moral reformation by the emperor, Augustus. It may have been these same poems, namely those of his The Art of Love (3 BC), that caused Ovid to be exiled to the barren region of Tomi in AD 8.
The reason for Ovid's exile by Augustus is unknown. What is certain is that in AD 8 Ovid was sent to the bleak fishing-village of Tomi for what he describes as "a poem and a mistake", Ovid attempted on numerous occasions to find his way back into the good graces of Augustus, writing poems to the emperor and other influential friends. The poems, which were far less polished and elegant than his previous works, had little effect on Augustus, and Ovid remained in exile until his death in AD 17.
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Lawmakers Question Gas Prices In Latest Enstar Contract
Call on the RCA to Determine Whether High Rates Are Reasonable
May 14, 2010 - Five Southcentral lawmakers today called on the Regulatory Commission of Alaska to review whether gas prices contained in a proposed contract between Enstar Natural Gas and Marathon Alaska Production are "reasonable" for Southcentral consumers, as required by law.
The contract would provide Enstar with 14 billion cubic feet of gas in 2011 and 2012. The price for the first 9 million cubic feet consumed each day would be $6.85/Mcf. After that, it would rise to $9.59/Mcf. If even more gas were needed in a given day, the price could rise as high as the "equivalent price of heating oil," which at today's prices would be over $15/Mcf.
"These prices are far above what gas buyers in others parts of the country are paying," said Senator Bill Wielechowski, D-Anchorage. "Why is this? Southcentral consumers deserve to know."
Gas prices have been hovering around $4/Mcf at the internationally recognized gas sales center known as the Henry Hub. The federal government forecasts prices at the Hub will rise to $5.34 in 2011, far lower than the prices in the new contract.
"Under this contract, Alaskans will be paying almost twice as much in the winter for our Cook Inlet gas than Lower 48 buyers," said Senator Hollis French. "At the same time, the state is providing massive subsidies to Cook Inlet producers. What explains this discrepancy? Why are the prices being charged to Alaskans so high?"
The state currently pays about 45-65% of the cost of exploration in the Inlet, and new legislation offers even greater financial incentives. One provides a corporate income tax credit of 25% for new investment in the Inlet. The other provides a 40% tax credit against severance taxes for new exploration.
In addition, taxes on Cook Inlet production are minimal. Whereas the tax rate on North Slope gas is 25% of profits, Cook Inlet producers pay less than 5% on average.
"All we are asking for are fair and reasonable rates for Southcentral families and businesses," said Senator Bettye Davis, D- Anchorage. "It is the duty of the RCA to ensure that this is the case."
The lawmakers urged the Regulatory Commission to undertake a thorough, but expeditious, review of the contract as Enstar needs to ensure that it has sufficient gas under contract to meet local needs.
"We all support more development in the Cook Inlet and believe producers deserve a fair return on their investment," said Representative Berta Gardner. "We just want to make sure Alaskan consumers are getting a fair deal."
Representative Pete Petersen concurred, saying "The goal is to secure a reliable supply of gas at prices that are reasonable for both producers and consumers. The RCA needs to take a hard look at this contract to make sure it meets this goal. Prices at the consumer end look pretty steep."


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The International Game Developers Association is in the process of changing to meet the needs of its growing membership. Earlier this year, the IGDA's Board of Directors created a new committee system to focus on different facets of the organization. Each committee is overseen by a Board member, including Membership, Policy/Advocacy, Events/Sponsorship/Partners, Technology, Marketing/Communications, Special Interest Groups and Chapters. These committees allow a broad base of members to make a difference and push organization-wide initiatives forward.
The IGDA will also be searching for a new Executive Director during this reorganization. Joshua Caulfield, who has been in the position for just over a year, will be leaving to become the Executive Director for an architecture student association.


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Remarkably, Part 2 is not a completely horrible mess and I now have something to work with. Something I can edit, refine, rewrite and tinker with until it's not total crap. Then I go through it again and again and again until I start to hate it. At that point, I'll know it's time to stop and continue on with Part 3. I would not recommend my process to other people. Not to sane people, at least.
In garden related news, the duck that stares through the window has now taken to perching himself on top of a bench underneath the window so he can tap on the glass. A robin must have seen this and figured he'd do the same, so he also now comes to the window for food, sometimes perching on the ledge outside and chirping to get our attention. And how can you ignore something that cute? You can't! Feeding those bloody birds is costing us a small fortune in bread.


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As part of a family that's owned pizzerias over the years, I'm well acquainted with the notion that delivery is a necessary evil. Once the competition starts delivering, you're virtually required to as well or you'll lose business. But it's an added expense that comes with risk, including food quality, labor, and liability.
Burger King (UNKNOWN:BKW.DL), however, is boldly embracing those risks, and apparently profiting from it, as it's rolling out its delivery service to four new markets, bringing it to more than a dozen major metropolitan markets where customers can call and order a burger and have it brought to their door. As the program continues to expand nationally, we're likely going to see BK's competition forced to accept the challenge and offer a similar service themselves. In fact, McDonald's (NYSE:MCD) has said it may consider the option itself, though some local restaurants in New York City offer it already.
But Burger King has moved forward more broadly, and yesterday announced it was adding its BK Delivers program to Atlanta, Fresno, Kansas City, and Montgomery, Alabama,, joining markets in Boston, Chicago, New York, Miami, Phoenix, the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, and elsewhere that have already experienced and responded to the opportunity. Customers have to place a $10 minimum order between 11 a.m. and 10 p.m. for delivery to a physical address that falls within a participating restaurant's delivery zone. There's a $2 fee for delivery.
Burger King first began testing delivery in 2012 in Washington, D.C., and expanded to Miami and Houston. It followed that last year by rolling out in Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, but it first had to develop "proprietary thermal packaging technology" that allowed food to stay fresh and warm while being delivered.
While pizza delivery seems natural, as evidenced by national chains like Domino's Pizza and even Yum! Brands' Pizza Hut offering the service, and Chinese food from your local shop is virtually de rigueur, burger delivery is much more novel and provides a point of differentiation for Burger King.
Yet it's actually not such a foreign concept to the burger joint, which has offered delivery in a dozen countries or so internationally. The model it's using here in the U.S. is one it has honed around the globe.
Indeed, McDonald's also delivers in its international markets such as Mexico, Brazil, and China, but analysts at Euromonitor estimate that delivery accounts for as much as 5% of the fast-food segment in the Asia-Pacific region and in Latin America, despite the dining category having a much smaller footprint than here in the U.S., where delivery represents less than 1% of the total. It might be strange to think of a stateside 7-Eleven making deliveries, but in China and Japan it realized $98 million in delivery sales in 2012.
Even as the program expands for Burger King, it's still a nascent initiative and there are more than 7,400 locations in North America that could take up the service. There are no numbers attached to delivery yet, but it's notable that where rivals like McDonald's reported miserable first-quarter results with declining same-store sales supposedly because of a tough winter, Burger King actually enjoyed positive comps.
How much delivery played a part is anyone's guess, but as popular as it seems to be, we just might notice BK Delivers vehicles becoming as ubiquitous as your local pizza shop's car.
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Prior to attending law school, Chris earned a Master's Degree in Atmospheric Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked for a national environmental consulting firm.
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Sleep paralysis is something that I didn't know existed until a couple of months ago and it sounds terrifying.
One of my best friends described to me one of the nights he "got" (I don't really know how to word it) sleep paralysis and as he was talking I think I was getting scared for him. He eventually told me that he just "rides it out" and hopes it goes away.
The Nightmare, directed by Rodney Ascher (who also directed the doc. about The Shining, Room 237) comes out today (June 5th, 2015).
Check out the trailer below and let me know what you think. I personally hope it delves into why this happens, I'm really interested in the science behind it all.


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There is no known cause for scalp psoriasis, according to WebMD. At least half of all psoriasis patients have psoriasis on the scalp, states the National Psoriasis Foundation.
Psoriasis is a skin condition characterized by red, raised patches with scaly elements, according to WebMD. The condition may be mild, with just a little scaling, but in severe psoriasis cases, the entire scalp can be covered in thick plaque with a crust, according to the National Psoriasis Foundation. The scalp may bleed when these crusts are removed, notes the Mayo Clinic. Symptoms of psoriasis include itching and soreness.
Scalp psoriasis may be treated with special shampoos, or with corticosteroid or antifungal topical treatments, explains the Mayo Clinic. Over-the-counter treatments approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat psoriasis contain either salicylic acid or coal tar, states WebMD. In addition to these non-prescription medications, the FDA has approved antimicrobials, topical steroids and vitamin A and D derivatives to treat psoriasis. Treating psoriasis topically can take weeks. After completing treatment, patients often have to maintain their health by shampooing with a medicated product to stave off a recurrence of psoriasis.
For severe cases of psoriasis, drugs called biologics may be prescribed, according to WebMD. These drugs are intended to keep a patient's skin from overproducing new cells and may be given by intravenous infusion or injection. The biologics available to treat psoriasis include alefacept, efalizumab, etanercept and infliximab.


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Jones bill to protect Michigan manufacturing passes committee
Lansing— Legislation that would amend the Worker's Disability Compensation Act to specify that an employer would not have to reimburse for medical marijuana regardless of the requirements in Section 315 of that act passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, said sponsor state Sen. Rick Jones.
Under Section 315, an employer must furnish, or cause to be furnished, reasonable medical, surgical or hospital services and medicine, or other attendance or treatment that is legal under state law, to an employee who receives a personal injury arising out of and in the course of employment.
"This act was never intended to cover the costs of medical marijuana," said Jones, R-Grand Ledge. "We need to ensure that money being spent on worker's comp is being spent as efficiently as possible to protect all parties involved."


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What a beauty this little movie is! Great atmosphere! Done by Mechanical Apple for an Australian band, The Audreys.
What a beauty this little movie is! Great atmosphere! Done by Mechanical Apple for an Australian band, The Audreys.
These illustrations are made by an Italian illustrator, Marco Piunti.
Beautiful origami animals, made by Marc Fichou. In the paper you'll see the folds that are needed to make the animal.
We are always moving, even when we try to sit still. These portraits are made by Nerhol. They are made of several images shot during a period of 3 minutes. By combining the images to one portrait the 3 minutes are frozen.
At first when I saw these drawings small, I thought I was watching photographs. These realistic drawings were made by Heikki Leis, from Estonia. Who works as a freelancer since 2000.
Mark Powell only uses old envelopes and a Biro pen to make his drawings. Very nice!
Cover design for Yorokobu magazine done by Versatil. Making of:
Lovely book cover by Carlo Giovani aka Sen Hesse for the new brazilian edition of Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jules Verne.
Geeky photoshop plates, illustrated by a French illustrator, Todd Borka.
Very nice Super Hero vector illustrations done by Liam Brazier.
Great illustrations done by Michael Kutsche.
Inkling, a GREAT digital sketch pen from Wacom that captures your work while sketching. You can use any peace of paper up to A4 to capture your drawing. You can work with layers and it understands pen pressure. When finished you can export your sketches directly into photoshop or illustrator, as a bitmap file or(…)
For the handmade issue of Wallpaper* Kyle Bean made some very nice pencil shaving portrets.
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Over half of the average business landline call spend consists of land to mobile calls. The percentage of telephone calls made to mobile phones is escalating, because of ever-increasing mobile phone usage. Many of us nowadays call mobiles as our preferred choice of getting in touch. Our F2M Gateway can reduce the cost of calling mobiles by between 40% and 60% with no upfront cost.
A GSM gateway is a facility that turns expensive calls from your office to a mobile phone into calls from within the GSM network.
Since calls from a fixed line to a mobile phone are generally very expensive, resulting bills are high and costs only ever seem to increase. However, calls from within the GSM network are usually much cheaper – or even free – enabling you to save money.
Our F2M GSM gateway is an intelligent device which recognises a mobile phone call when the digits 075 or 077 – 079 are dialled from any desk handset. The call then routes via SIM bundles, with each SIM carrying the relevant amount of minutes needed for each client.
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Ofcom regulations show it has been legal to use a GSM gateway since 2005. This was then under constant review until 2010, when Ofcom stated that GSM gateway usage will remain legal furthermore.
Consultation Document – published by Ofcom on 29 June 2005:
Ofcom has recently clarified that it is entirely legal under UK law for end-users (whether businesses or ordinary consumers) to buy, install and use GSM gateways for their own use.
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Ofcom has been reviewing the current regulatory regime for authorisation of SIM gateways. In the course of doing so, Ofcom has engaged closely with relevant Government departments on the issues arising. As a result Ofcom no longer intends to consult on changes to the authorisation regime for SIM gateways. Therefore the current legislative framework for authorisation will continue.