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By Barbara Janelle M.A.
The Tellington TTouch Body Wrap seems to act like another layer of connective tissue, sending messages through the body. It helps animals to remain breathing in difficult situations, and it connects parts of the body increasing physical balance and coordination. I call it as "a giant hug!"
Tellington TTouch was developed originally as a way of training horses through the use of bodywork, ground exercises and riding procedures. Very quickly, it was seen to have an impact on health as well as behavior and performance. One of the early TTEAM tools was a body wrap with a rope to teach the animal about the connection between front and hind ends. This improved coordination and movement in dramatic ways.
When Tellington TTouch Practitioner Jan From began using elastic bandages instead of ropes, dramatic improvement in behavior as well as movement resulted. Similar improvement in behavior and movement was observed when the Body Wrap was used with dogs.
The elastic bandage may be put on in many different ways. A very simple wrap is a figure-8 around the chest, crossed over the back and around the hindend. Because dogs are so mobile and some have very slick coats, the bandage is generally secured by wrapping it comfortably around the hindlegs. The bandage is always checked to ensure that it is not too tight. In some cases, it may only be needed for a few minutes, while in others it may stay on for an hour or so.
A basic understanding in Tellington TTouch is that when an animal is afraid, it will hold its breath and go into an instinctive behavioral response. That may take one or more of the following forms – aggression, flight, freeze, faint, fooling around. If an animal stays breathing, it stays thinking and is able to cope with anything that comes its way.
The Tellington TTouch Body Wrap will keep an animal breathing and thus keep it thinking and confident. Some situations where it is helpful are:
- With dogs that are frightened of loud noises like thunder. A dog with the bandage on will continue to breathe and stay relaxed. In these cases, we add TTouch ear and bodywork to support overall relaxation and grounding.
- The Body Wrap builds confidence in dogs that are frightened of people, other animals or unfamiliar situations. We often find that wrapping an animal calms it for veterinary work (and blacksmithing too in the case of horses).
- Aggression is a fear response. When a bandage is put on an "aggressive" dog, the animal breathes and TTouch bodywork and ground work can then be done to teach it to cope with people, other animals, difficult situations and life in general.
- The Body Wrap helps overexcited dogs settle. One owner told me after I put the Body Wrap on her 4-year old Chocolate Lab that it was the first time the dog had ever sat quietly!
Another primary understanding in Tellington TTouch is that each cell in the physical body knows its job. Through TTouch, we can activate cellular memory and support the return of proper function. The Body Wrap has proven very helpful by providing connection between various parts of the body, acting almost like another layer of connective tissue.
The Body Wrap increases overall body awareness and improves movement, balance and coordination. Some examples where the Body Wrap has proven helpful are:
- Straightening movement, improving coordination and balance. It is also very helpful in supporting an animal's confidence as it learns to maneuver over difficult obstacles, like some of the more challenging agility obstacles, or even negotiating big city sidewalk gratings. Tellington TTouch and Ground Exercises are usually added too.
- Keeping the body balanced and coordinated in recovery from surgery. For example, dogs that have undergone cruciate ligament surgery benefit greatly from TTouch work to speed healing and support the use of the leg. Then the Body Wrap can be used to rebalance the animal and prevent possible damage to another leg caused by it carrying more than normal weight (mechanical unloading) during healing process.
- The Body Wrap has proven to be a tremendous help for dogs who have had a leg amputated. It brings an overall body awareness that builds the animal's confidence, balance and ability to move about easily once again. I will always remember the Saint Bernard in a Chicago workshop that had to be helped to stand and move. When TTouch work was done and the Wrap applied, the dog got up on its own and walked without help.
The Body Wrap is helpful in many more situations than just those listed here. While the Body Wrap is remarkable in its effects, it is also very helpful to combine Tellington TTouch and Ground Exercises with it in most situations.


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Almost everyone who owns a home has planned to improve it at some time. The difference between doing so successfully and failing to do so can be a matter of degrees when you do not know what you are doing. Take the time to read this article for help in preparing for a successful home renovation project.
When renovating, weigh carefully the value of personal touches against the return you will get when you sell your house. Home improvement is a matter of personal taste, but the more personalized your home becomes, the less likely you will be to find a buyer ready to pay a high price for your home.
Air filters are something you have to remember to change. Changing the air filters regularly will make your home environment much more healthy while also making your heating and cooling unit function properly. Many service calls are placed each year because of dirty filters.
Try keeping your building materials up between the ceiling rafters. Large materials and long items can be tucked away easily. You can easily hammer in furring strips across a couple of exposed rafters or floor joists and put in the material that needs to be stored.
Prior to starting any home improvement project, enlist the helps of family and friends. By waiting until the project is started, you may have difficulty finding the extra help you need. You may also have trouble finishing your project on time, adding extra stress to your work.
When you start a project, ensure you know the scope of the work involved. Making a list of all your expected tasks and requirements. Additionally, it is worth your time to line up a second opinion from a professional. A pro can determine whether or not your list is complete and feasible. It will provide you with a complete plan of what will be done and allow you to get a good idea of what it will look like upon completion.
Find out where the gas shut off is is you are going to do some work in a kitchen. You also need to use extreme caution during the project itself. If you don't heed our warning, a fire or injury will likely be the result.
Always focus on having the best lighting. A bright room feels warm and inviting. You can also brighten a room by having an additional light fixture installed. By brightening a dark room one will make the over all feel of the house improved.
For an elegant jewelry display, put up a wall-mounted coat rack with no curves. Keep more expensive pieces of jewelry safely locked in a jewelry box, while displaying costume jewelry. If you display your jewelry nicely, it keeps things organized and looks pretty too. Choose a few of your favorites that are worn often, and keep those accessible.
Drain Cleaners
Be mindful of which product you choose to help clean a nasty clog. Some drain cleaners are extremely harsh. Don't use drain cleaners that are crystallized since they stick to pipes, causing big damage. Also, be certain that the products you use are appropriate for a septic tank, if you have one.
Whenever your home improvement work requires the use of the street, inform your neighbors as far in advance as you can. If it involves a major renovation project, it could entail having part of the street blocked off from traffic in order to move equipment around and make deliveries. If you let your neighbors know about this, they will appreciate your consideration and won't mind the inconvenience so much.
As mentioned, a homeowner with little experience in home improvements may have a difficult time with any project. The difference between failure and success in a home improvement project can come down to having the right kind of help. Apply the tips that you have read to start and finish a home improvement project effectively.

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Man (43) says sodomised by 15-year-old
Sukulwenkosi Dube-Matutu, Gwanda Correspondent
A 43-YEAR-OLD Filabusi man has denied sodomising his 15-year-old neighbour at knife point saying it was instead the juvenile who sodomised him.
Esau Banda of Nkankezi area pleaded not guilty to aggravated indecent assault charges when he appeared before Gwanda regional magistrate, Mr Mark Dzira.
Mr Dzira ordered Banda to go for a medical examination to ascertain his claim of impotence. He was remanded in custody to May 23.
"I didn't sodomise the boy as I'm unable to have sexual intercourse with anyone. My penis doesn't work as I can't have an erection therefore the allegations laid against me are false. The juvenile is the one who sodomised me instead.
"He came to my homestead saying that he wanted to sleep there and I accommodated him. He went on to sodomise me but I remained quiet about the matter realising that he was a juvenile," said Banda in his defence.
Prosecuting, Mr Mncedisi Dube said Banda sodomised the juvenile who is a Form Three pupil at Nkankezi Secondary School on June 4 last year.
"On June 4 around 5PM Banda met the juvenile who was on his way home and invited him to his homestead for a meal and he agreed. Around 8PM the juvenile proceeded home and Banda later followed him.
"Banda invited the juvenile back to his homestead. Banda started fondling the juvenile and when he tried to resist Banda threatened to stab him with a knife," he said.
Mr Dube said Banda then pushed the juvenile onto his bed and sodomised him twice.
He said the matter came to light when the juvenile narrated what had happened to his classmate. His classmate urged him to report the matter resulting in Banda's arrest.


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Shortcuts make it possible to perform certain actions more efficiently then it would be done otherwise. The use of shortcuts will eventually increase your productivity and prevent repetitive strain injury. This page describes the use of shortcuts and a text insertion tool FlashPaste Lite (download: www.flashpaste.com). FlashPaste makes it possible to insert text easily, like your address, phone number and quickly answering your e-mail with default answers.
Windows already has many shortcuts by default. They are frequently forgotten and not everybody is aware of them. The most important are the key combinations CTRL-C (to copy), CTRL-X (to cut) and CTRL-V (to paste). They are available in almost all programs as part of the item File in the toolbar. They can be used to copy or move almost everything like text, files, folders, images..:
Other shortcuts to remember:
There are many more shortcuts, a more extensive overview can be found on the Microsoft website (support.microsoft.com/kb/301583/en-us).
The most irritating shortcut, is the one which changes the keyboard layout without knowing it because you pressed it accidentally: the left CTRL key in combination with the right SHIFT key. This key combination is pressed accidentally frequently, with the irritating consequence of changing the keyboard layout without knowing it. Key's are no longer where they are expeted to be, especially the characters above the numbers on your keyboard. Because your keys won't change position, it's a useless function in most cases. By pressing this key combination a second time you are able to switch back to your normal keyboard layout (if you know the key combination...) of by restarting Windows.
How to solve this problem? Simple! Make sure the current keyboard layout is as it should be. If this is not the case, you can change this setting in the Control panel (classic view), Regional and Language Settings, tab Languages, button Details. One of the keyboard layouts is in bold (the default keyboard layout). If this is right one, you can delete the others safely.
FlashPaste Lite (download: www.download.com) makes it possible to paste frequently used text quickly anywhere you like (like a Word document or an e-mail message). Think of text like your address, phone number and quickly answering your e-mail with default answers.
At the first start of FlashPaste you have to go through a configuration wizard. All questions can be answered positively by clicking Next. Then only option I would change is the specified shortcut to activate FlashPaste: my personal favorite is CTRL-ALT-S (S for shortcut) instead of CTRL-I (this option can be changed later on as well). By using the combination CTRL-ALT there is less chance of interfering with other shortcuts.
After installation of FlashPaste, a blue arrow appears in the system tray. Double clicking this icon to access the program settings. The commercial shortcuts which appear after installation can be deleted easily by changing the database location (File, Options, Databases). You will be asked whether you would like to keep the current shortcuts, which you deny (I advise moving the database to a data partition in case of creating a system image). The use of FlashPaste is simple, in the example below you can see my favorite shortcuts.
By clicking Add String you are able to add a shortcut to a frequently used text:
By pressing the shortcut to FlashPaste (CTRL-I if you didn't change it), you will see a list with the predetermined shortcuts. A click on one of them is enough to insert the text. You only need to remember one shortcut to access all available text shortcuts. As you can see below, you also have access to the clipboard history.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The head of Russia's public health and consumer rights watchdog Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova said on Wednesday that Russian specialists were ready to counter a possible swine flu outbreak.
Fourteen lethal swine flu cases have reportedly been registered in Russia since December 2015.
Swine flu (subtype H1N1 of influenza A virus) is common among pigs. Transmission of the virus from animals to humans is not common and does not always lead to human flu, often resulting instead in the production of antibodies only. However, when it does develop in humans, it carries a higher risk of fatality than the common flu.
According to the watchdog, 147 people in Moscow were confirmed as infected with the swine flu virus as of Wednesday.
There have been no registered incidents of influenza among those vaccinated against the virus in the current epidemic season.
In Kostroma, the only registered case was fatal.
Four people were diagnosed with swine flu in the westernmost Russian region of Kaliningrad, regional authorities announced on Thursday.
The number of people infected with the H1N1 (swine flu) virus in the Russian region of Crimea has increased to seven cases, Rospotrebnadzor said on Thursday.
As of 18 January, overall, Russia recorded 27 deaths from swine flu. In all the cases, the ifected people had not been vaccinated.
The measure will be applied to schools, some medical centers and community centers, and public events will be restricted as a precaution.
Georgia's accident and emergency departments were put on high alert on Wednesday after a surge in influenza and acute viral respiratory infection cases.
An outbreak of swine flu in Georgia, in the mountainous Caucasus region, has killed three people since the start of the year, local authorities said on Thursday.
According to Health Minister Armen Muradyan, as of January 20, the country recorded 18 deaths from complications of swine flu, who died while also suffering from other chronic diseases.
However, according to Muradyan, the spread of swine flu in Armenia is far from an epidemic outbreak.


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Georgina Adam asks the straight-forward question: how will Artnet, which has been losing money, finance its expansion into art world news?
[Artnet CEO Jacob] Pabst says: "I am asking myself the same question, but we have a business plan and I have found a good and safe way to do it; we expect to increase revenue through advertising and we can always inject cash."
Essentially, this means that [Hans] Neuendorf, who remains the main shareholder, will continue to prop up the company – in March this year he gave $641,000 to Artnet.
Sotheby's agrees to return 10th-century Cambodian statue (Financial Times)


text: Varnish is a data caching platform, which is sometimes referred to as an HTTP reverse proxy. It is a website accelerator tool that can improve the load speed of a website by up to 1000 percent, depending on the content itself. Anytime a visitor accesses any page on a site that uses Varnish, the platform caches the page and delivers it instead of the web server in case the visitor opens it again. In this way, the browser request from the visitor is not processed by the web server and the page will load considerably faster, since Varnish can serve data many times faster than any server software. The end result is a significantly faster loading site, which means a much-improved visitor experience. If any of the cached pages is updated on the actual site, the data that Varnish saves in its memory is updated as well, so the visitors will never see old data.


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Marriage may improve your sleep, and better sleep may improve your marriage, two new studies suggest.
Women who are married or who have stable partners appear to sleep better than women who have never married or lost a partner, according to research from an eight-year study presented at the Associated Professional Sleep Societies annual meeting. They also found that marital happiness lowers the risk of sleep problems, while marital strife heightens the risk.
Although married women overall slept more soundly than unmarried women, the researchers, from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, did identify a "newlywed" effect. Women who were single at the start of the study but gained a partner had more restless sleep than women who were already married. The researchers speculated that newly married women were less adjusted to sleeping with their partner than those who had been married longer.
The study included 360 middle-aged African-American, Caucasian and Chinese-American women who had taken part in the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation. Researchers used in-home sleep studies, activity monitors to track sleep-wake patterns and relationship histories to look at the effect stable marriages, unstable marriages and marital transitions, such as a divorce, had on sleep.
Another small study of 29 couples found that on a daily basis, the quality of a couple's relationship and the quality of their sleep are closely linked.
In that study, from the University of Arizona, 29 heterosexual couples who shared a bed and did not have children completed sleep and relationship diaries for a week. The results showed that when men get better sleep, they are more likely to feel positive about their relationship the next day. And for women, problems in the relationship were strongly associated with poor sleep for both themselves and their partner.
Brant Hasler, a clinical psychology doctoral candidate at the University of Arizona, said the data, although preliminary, suggest that couples experience a "vicious cycle" where sleep affects their relationship and the relationship then affects the subsequent night's sleep.
"Sleep research has focused nearly entirely on the individual, and this research underscores the importance of considering the effects of, and consequences on, the bed partner," he said. "These effects and consequences are particularly notable given that sleep is increasingly sacrificed in the modern world. This research provides preliminary evidence that our sleep not only influences our own psychological and physical health, but can also impact that of the ones we hold most dear."
The data from both studies suggest that sleep and relationship happiness are closely linked. The lesson for couples, especially those who are struggling with problems, is that paying attention to sleep habits may help solve other issues in the relationship. Dr. Hasler said couples should work to resolve problems before bedtime and avoid discussing difficult topics when one or both have not slept well.


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Paris: Alexis Gaudin, 1861. First edition. Folio, (ii), 96 pp. Bound in the nineteenth century with cloth-backed marbled paper over boards. 24 consecutive issues, published on the 15th and 30th of each month, each 4 pp. The complete production for 1861. Occasional stains or breaks, generally in a blank margin with the loss of a few letters in 4 instances; moderate toning; early folds from the mailing practice of the day. In all, very good. Includes the printed table of contents for the year. Item #51995
La Lumière was the journal of the world's first photographic society, the Société Héliographique, founded by Colonel B.R. de Montfort in January, 1851. The Société met in rooms at Col. de Montfort's home in central Paris; among its members were Baron Gros, the president, Édouard Baldus, Hippolyte Bayard, Henri Le Secq, Gustave Le Gray, Charles Nègre, Abel Niépce de Saint-Victor, Edmond Becquerel, Eugène Delacroix, Champfleury, Charles Chevalier, N.P. Lerebours, Comte L. de Laborde, Prince de Montléart, and Baron de Montesquieu.
La Lumière began publication on 9 February 1851, making it the third photographic journal to appear worldwide, and the first in Europe; the other two began a few months earlier. Initially, the journal was edited by F.A. Renard, and with the second volume beginning 16 November 1851, the ownership transferred from the Société Héliographique to Alexis Gaudin. Ernest Lucan became the editor on December of 1851 and continued in that position until he resigned in December of 1860. Marc Antoine Gaudin assumed the editorship for the final years of publication. This journal is invaluable for the artistic and well as the technical discussions and criticism.
OCLC locates only a few institutional holdings, of which 4 have only the first 9 or 10 years, and the others have microform reels.
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The Market Basket saga took another twist Thursday when ousted president Arthur T. Demoulas revealed he has offered to buy out the 50.5% of company owned by his rival cousin and his family.
Spokespeople for Arthur T. Demoulas did not provide detail beyond the following statement, issued early Thursday:
"The Arthur T. Demoulas side of the family has made an offer to buy the 50.5% of shares in Demoulas Market Basket Supermarkets we do not own. We believe that our offer is a very full and fair one and should meet or exceed a seller's expectations of the value of the company. We care deeply about Market Basket and all of our Associates and we want to work together to return the company to its successful model for serving our loyal customers. Those who received the offer need to consider the matter, so we are not in a position to comment further at this time."
Follow @SN_News for updates throughout the day.
Arthur T. Demoulas, the former president of Market Basket, was fired in June following a year of contentious relations with a board of directors and his rival Arthur S. Demoulas, whose family controls 50.5% of stock in the company. Over the last week, employees calling for his reinstatement have staged job actions including walkoffs that have compromised the company's ability to keep stores in stock demonstrations at stores and the its Tewksbury, Mass. headquarters and called for a customer boycott.
Spokespeople for the company weren't immediately available for comment. It was not immediately clear whether such an offer had been discussed before or whether the board would consider the offer at its scheduled meeting Friday.
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Posts Tagged As: Duck Dynasty
September 16th, 2014
Today I receive an odd Tweet directed at me.
@LATimothy you have had your pea brain washed in liberalism might as well jump off a tall building no hope for you
— Homer Jones (@jerb796) September 16, 2014
That seemed a bit odd. I really had no idea what Mr. Jones was going on about. But then I got another tweet and this one gave me a clue:
@LATimothy Is a dickhead! A ball-less dickhead! @TwitchyTeam
— Roberta M (@BertmcdRm) September 16, 2014
It turns out that they were in response to a tweet I sent out last night while watching Dancing with the Stars.
So if you want to be on Dancing With The Stars, just have a raging homophobic family member. Bristol Palin, Candace Cameron, Sadie Robertson
— Timothy Kincaid (@LATimothy) September 16, 2014
As I said on another post, DWTS is developing the bad habit of casting the progeny or close family member of someone who has made a name for anti-gay activism. Maybe that's getting the viewers they want, but I find it troubling.
Twitchy, Michelle Malkin's right-wing social media activism site decided to write a piece using my tweet as their leaping off point. And boy did they leap.
After half a dozen tweets praising the Robertson child's dancing, Twitchy picked back up with their indignation. And then they ran a bunch of comments from some mouthy teen – without mentioning that the first tweet and the string of abuse from the teen were not the same person. Not exactly admirable behavior.
And, fired up by the child's immature insults, off went the twitchers is a deluge of abusive tweets. Towards me.
Now I've not encountered the Twitchy mob before. But I do have to say that from what I can tell they are a pretty disgusting bunch who lack even rudimentary reading comprehension skills. But maybe I'm biased.
Several just took the quick-and-easy personal insult ruite.
@LATimothy Why, aren't you a nasty little man.
— Franci (@LadySandersfarm) September 16, 2014
@LATimothy Dude, you're a friggin' moron. Did that nasty skank ho you call mama have any children that lived?
— Kafir, The Infidel (@DWKafir) September 16, 2014
A few went with the gay insult – sadly they weren't very clever
@LATimothy You are such a sad little jealous girl. Please, cont to voice your ignorance so we can see just how pathetic you are.
— Jay Prater (@jaydakota76) September 16, 2014
@LATimothy awww did a gay man get his feelings hurt..toughen up and stop whining NO ONE FEARS HOMOS..we are just SICK of their whining
— IdealinFacts/Reality (@PITSdestroy) September 16, 2014
But that last fellow gets bonus points for using pink flowery wallpaper.
Some sought to give insights about hate
And if you want to be someone that contributes ABSOLUTELY nothing to society but hate, hang with @LATimothy…..
— Steve Gitmo Thompson (@Tammykillssquir) September 16, 2014
And quite a few assumed that they knew my party, ideology and faith and lectured me about tolerance
@LATimothy I do not know a single Republican, Conservative or a Christian as toxically bigoted as you.
— Conserve Truth (@ConserveTruth13) September 16, 2014
@LATimothy @show a little hate, why don't you? Tolerant, respectful attitude from you? Hypocrite is more like it. Crawl back in your hole
— George Roberson (@georgeroberson) September 16, 2014
And the "real" definition of homophobia
@LATimothy Perhaps you should look up the meaning of homophobe and then learn more about these people. I think you will find you are wrong.
— Chubney Kreel (@grouchyChub) September 16, 2014
But mostly they just demonstrated it for me
@LATimothy @LennyOnDaBass Hey intolerant left wing pig athesit NAMBLA member!Thank for exposing the liberal democrats war on women.LGBTFreak
— Bill Terror (@bill_terror) September 16, 2014
@LATimothy you do realize it's not homophobic to admit homosexuals are perverted freaks don't you. After all homos can't perpetuate the race
— LCMeâ"¢ (@LCMtapout24) September 16, 2014
September 16th, 2014
I enjoy watching ABC's Dancing With The Stars or, as I call it, Dancing With The Hasbeens. Sports figures join 1980's TV actors and the occasional political hack to learn new dance steps each week and earn votes from viewers. One of the more amusing aspects of the show is its effort to draw in as many diverse viewers as possible. Race car drivers (several, now), telenova stars, comedians, fashion designers, you name it, they appear as "stars".
Mostly it's harmless fun and at the end of a long day you can stare at the tube and watch the pretty people in colorful clothes move around to music without much mental strain.
But there are also a few things about the show which annoy me. Increasingly, each season, regular judge Bruno Tonioli has become more and more of a stereotype of a prancing, mincing, shrieking queen that fit better in a bad 70's movie. He purses his lips and flails his arms and makes coy suggestions to every male contestant – which is not only grating but a distraction from his legitimate purpose as a dance judge.
And then there's the gratuitous ploy for politically conservative viewers.
Now I have no problem with watching Tom Delay dance. It's actually kind of nice to see conservative folk in a setting other than one in which we disagree politically. It reminds us that we truly are mostly the same.
But in recent seasons, it seems that the show has decided that it has to provide a "balance" to Bruno's glitter parade by not merely including conservative figures, but looking for someone with a connection to true homophobia. Not necessarily the person most known for their anti-gay activism, but a close family member.
In Fall 2010, and back for Fall 2012, was Bristol Palin.
Bristol isn't exactly a sweet girl – or so her social media comments would suggest – but I don't have much objection to her. However, there is no category in which she is a "star". She was selected merely because of her mother. And one of her mother's (many) polarizing issues was her anti-gay activism.
Candace Cameron Bure, Spring 2014, was a bit more troubling. Candace is a "star" in her own right, and is known for playing DJ Tanner on Full House from 1987 to 1995. However, Bure is better known as being Kirk Cameron's sister. And currently Kirk Cameron is most visible as a conservative Christian activist whose most notable recent appearance was a guest spot on Piers Morgan's show where he called homosexuality unnatural and described same-sex marriage as "destructive to so many of the foundations of civilization".
And while that could be coincidental, Bure's weekly effort to work "faith" or "family" into her weekly on-screen moments could not be ignored as anything other than a way of letting the family values types know that they could vote for someone who shared their values.
And now Dancing With the Stars has pulled out all stops. The one person most associated with anti-gay statements and blatant homophobia in the country at present is likely Phil Robertson. The patriarch on the Duck Dynasty show has spouted such thoughtful contributions as the idea that sinful behavior starts with homosexuality and morphs to bestiality.
Last week he had this to say on Tony Perkin's talk show about his anti-gay rants:
You know if you just look at the physiological downside to immorality, I mean a great question to ask is, "Why is it that all these just ah, is it coincidental that viewing all of the immoral conduct that America's now participating in", I've asked a lot of people, "Do you think it's a coincidence that all of these debilitating and, belittley, it can cause death diseases follow that kind of conduct?"
God said, "one woman, one man" and then everybody said, "that's old hat, that's that old Bible stuff.", but I'm thinking, "Well, let's see now, But I'm thinking, well let's see now, a clean guy — a disease-free guy and a disease-free woman — they marry and they keep their sex between the two of them. Uh, they're not going to get chlamydia, and gonorrhea, and syphilis, and AIDS. It's, it's safe."
Well, to me, either it's the wildest coincidence ever that horrible diseases follow immoral conduct, or, it's God saying, "There's a penalty for that kind of conduct." I'm leaning towards there's a penalty toward it.
In keeping with their pattern, Dancing With The Stars decided to include Phil Robertson's granddaughter, Sadie Robertson, on the show.
Now, I'm not overly distraught over Duck Dynasty. And I have no idea as to Sadie's views or Sadie's activism. She may be a lovely young woman.
But from the few episodes I've seen of Duck Dynasty, Sadie is barely visible. Certainly not enough to become a viewership draw in her own right. Rather DWTS has included her due to her association with her family – one embroiled in controversy over a long and loud pattern of anti-gay obsession.
Individually, I have no objection to Bristol Palin, Candace Cameron Bure, or Sadie Robertson. But I am discomforted by the pattern that appears to be emerging. It would seem that if one wants to be on Dancing with the Stars, your chances are best when you have a highly visible, fiercely anti-gay, close family member.
February 5th, 2014
I haven't had much time to post lately (still don't), but I thought I'd share with you this little item I saw at the clearance shelf at Bed, Bath and Beyond. It looks like Duck Dynasty didn't realize that their core audience wouldn't appreciate a 'War on Christmas' cup.
January 16th, 2014
Much to my surprise (and probably that of the A&E executives), Duck Dynasty has not benefitted from weeks of defense by those who malign and demean gay people. (Entertainment Weekly)
Though Duck Dynasty was expected by some to return to its biggest ratings yet after its huge controversy last month, the Louisiana-based reality show returned to lower viewership than its previous two premieres.
Wednesday night's Duck Dynasty season 5 premiere had 8.5 million viewers. That's huge for a cable reality show, but down 28 percent from its record-setting fourth season debut in August (11.8 million). It's also slightly down from the show's third season premiere in February last year (8.6 million). A&E notes the number up slightly from the fourth season finale on Oct. 23 (though obviously it's standard to compare premieres to premieres).
What this means is difficult to discern. Perhaps there were more interesting things to distract the show's core audience. Perhaps the weather played some role.
Or, perhaps, we have reached the point where saying truly vile things about gay people will turn off even an audience that identifies as conservative and Christian. It is possible that there is some segment of Middle America that will not argue with the self-appointed spokesmen or talk to the papers, but for whom the rants of Phil Robertson left a bad taste in their mouths.
And, unless it was an anomaly, this drop in ratings does not bode well for A&E's revenues. Undoubtedly a number of viewers tuned in to see what the fuss was about and, if they have any taste at all, they won't stick around. It may be that the quackers have reached their zenith and that it's all downhill from here.
January 6th, 2014
I don't think we're learning the right lesson from the uproar over Phil Robertson, A&E's Duck Dynasty star and sex-with-minors advocate. The real lesson is this:
We know we're right and we know we can show it. Let's have the courage of that conviction.
I haven't blogged much the past few months so I missed the initial furor, but on December 18 I did post this on Facebook:
I thought what the Duck Dynasty guy said was reprehensible, but I'm not thrilled about A&E him suspending from his show for it. Obviously A&E has the right to do whatever they please within the parameters of the contracts they sign, but if we're going to silence stupid arguments, I'd rather do it by pointing out their flaws rather than punishing the speaker. Certainly, if this were turned around and someone hated what I was saying, I'd rather they engaged my statements instead of punishing me into shutting up.
One hundred and thirty-five comments later, I can say it's my most controversial status update ever. It wasn't deeply argued. It just focused on my gut reaction to A&E's suspension of Robertson. When I looked deeper, I found two sources of my misgiving.
One is simply that I tend to sympathize with the person over the corporation. A&E is not a person (Citizens United notwithstanding), and I want to give our corporate overlords as little control over our lives as possible. I understand they can restrict my speech in the workplace and on the job, but I'd like to feel as though the rest of my life is the rest of my life. I'd hate to be called into my boss's office and told, "You've written some pretty harsh things about opponents of same-sex marriage, so we're letting you go."
Of course, when it comes to Robertson, it's easy to argue against this position. For instance, your advocacy of certain views outside the workplace might ruin your effectiveness on the job. I thought it was perfectly reasonable for Bank of America to tell viciously anti-gay Frank Turek, You can't publish books and go on the radio maligning an entire segment of our workforce and then expect us to hire you to conduct trust-building exercises with them, for fuck's sake! (Not a direct quote.)
Similarly, A&E might decide Robertson is too damaging to the show's ratings or the network's brand. In that case, people aren't being fired for the content of their views, or for expressing them, but for making themselves bad at what they were hired to do. Also, given the presence of an A&E rep in the room during the interview, it's easy to argue that Robertson was actually at work and not speaking on his own time. Ultimately, I'd be happier if A&E fired or suspended Robertson for business reasons than because he said something I detest.
But another factor is this: I don't like attempts to silence people just because they say things that some find offensive.
Let me be clear. I'm not merely talking about the sort of hate speech laws they have in Europe against offense and insult, laws which I'm glad are unconstitutional here. No, I'm also worried by the sort of attitude that says: Let's create such an uproar that no person will dare say such things again in public, even if it's what they really believe.
That's at the root of my worry about the calls to fire Robertson. Instead of Shut him down, shut him down, shut him down!, I'll go with Thomas Jefferson, who said:
For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.
That's a great fundamental principle. It's the difference between showing why someone's beliefs are so wrong (so very wrong) instead of just shunning them into silence.
But the shunners do have a reply…
What about the harm done to gay kids who hear such damaging public speech?
I was one of those gay kids in western Pennsylvania in the 70s. And it did harm me. But the problem is that shunning homophobes into public silence won't protect gay kids. As long as these views are held privately, gay kids will still hear them. From classmates and family, in churches and schools — they'll hear them. What they won't hear is our reply, because we won't be there in those private spaces to give it. Those kids will grow up being told:
Everybody knows homosexuality is wrong — even the gays, in their corrupted hearts — but these days people can only say what's politically correct. All this pro-homosexual propaganda is just them trying to make Christianity illegal.
That's the persecution complex percolating through anti-gay websites. That's what they really believe.
If these beliefs show up only in anti-gay echo chambers, then we'll never have a chance to rebut them head on. It's not enough for gay kids to hear positive, affirming messages in the media. They need to know there are real answers, real replies, to the bigoted rhetoric they hear in private. The only way to do that is to keep the debate public. And this is where we need to have the courage of our convictions. Here are three ways we need to trust ourselves, three ways we can be confident victory belongs to our side.
1. The truth is with us.
I hope I don't have to convince anyone of this. The whole point of this site, its raison d'être, is to refute anti-gay lies and mythology — and not just for this blog, but for an army of blogs and commenters out there. Our best opportunities come from their most public statements. If we drive that bigotry underground it'll do nothing but fester, and it will fester in the minds of those gay kids. The best thing we can do for them is win the public debate. The worst thing would be to shut the public debate down before it's actually won.
2. The other side is its own best opponent.
People don't always respond to logic and debate. Research has shown how people make complex decisions: As Daniel Kahneman writes, "When faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution." Instead of asking, Why is or isn't it bad to be gay?, people will substitute Which side do I like/trust/feel more comfortable with?
Fortunately we've reached a point where the wishy-washy middle is uncomfortable with unadorned homophobic bigotry. The more vile the homophobia, the more vicious and disgusting — the more you and I wish it had never been said aloud — the more it will shift those people in the middle to support us. The more it will make them say, I certainly don't want to be associated with that. The more it will push even lesser homophobia into the fringe.
3. Bigotry runs broad and deep.
Bigotry a poisonous swamp. It's not a puddle with muck on top and clear water underneath. It just gets filthier as you diver deeper, and it taints everything around it. Look at Phil Robertson. First we heard about his quote paraphrasing the Bible.
Don't be deceived. Neither the adulterers, the idolaters, the male prostitutes, the homosexual offenders, the greedy, the drunkards, the slanderers, the swindlers—they won't inherit the kingdom of God.
After the calls for his firing, we learned about this:
They're full of murder, envy, strife, hatred. They are insolent, arrogant, God-haters. They are heartless, they are faithless, they are senseless, they are ruthless. They invent ways of doing evil.
People might shrug or nod at theological statements, but they'll back away from a direct and vicious attack on their friends. Then came this bit on marriage and young girls:
These boys are waiting 'til they get to be about 20 years old before they marry 'em. Look, you wait 'til they get to be 20 years old, the only picking that's going to take place is your pocket. You got to marry these girls when they are about 15 or 16. They'll pick your ducks.
And finally this:
That's why they run jet aircraft into buildings, because they're under control of the evil one, that's why they rob and kidnap and rape and pillage, because they're under control of the evil one. That's why they murder, from the Nazis, to the Shintoists, to the communists to this latest crop!…
Because all of them, those four groups, 80 years of history, they all want to conquer the world, they all rejected Jesus, and they're all famous for murder. Nazis, Shintoists, communists, and the Muhammadists. Every one of them, the same way.
("Shintoists," by the way, includes over 80% of the Japanese population.)
Again: the truth is with us, the other side is its own best opponent, and bigotry runs broad and deep. That means our first response to hateful rhetoric from a prominent figure should be to publicize it and then dig deeper. Then we can frame the issue as, Do you want to be part of this bigotry? Instead, with Robertson, his supporters successfully framed it as, Do you want to be fired for quoting the Bible? We'll lose that question.
Robertson gives us a great chance to show that homophobia isn't a principled moral stand, but generally comes bundled with a whole set of toxic views. That's not random chance; that's the corrupting nature of bigotry. Whenever we show that, we take a step forward.
One last thought: Our cause is winning because each year more straight people come to know us as friends, neighbors, family, and colleagues. They see first-hand that folks like Robertson are tragically wrong. Our opponents' only chance to defeat us is to keep us closeted, invisible, and silent. Our best chance to defeat them is to make sure everyone out there hears what they have to say. What a heartening moral truth that is.
December 28th, 2013
For weeks we've been subjected to the duck war.
On one side are those whose argument seems to me to be, "How dare Phil Robertson have vile homophobic opinions? He should not have access to the public airways with opinions like that!" And, yes, his opinions are homophobic. And also racist. And more than a little ignorant.
On the other are those who are screaming about censorship (it's not) about religious freedom (which does not include the unquestionable right to be on television) and about the horrible horrible homosexuals.
In a nation that values free speech, even odious speech has a right to compete in the marketplace of ideas (right up there with the "ideas" of Honey Boo Boo, Sarah Palin, and Perez Hilton). And in a capitalist economy, television producers can decide what ideas with which they want to be associated.
But this isn't really much about ideas. I suspect that most of those "supporting Phil" have no idea what he actually said or why it is that gay people are offended. They are just emotionally connecting a fear that in a rapidly changing world, their ability to practice their faith openly may be further curtailed.
And GLAAD and other gay supporters failed in articulating the concerns we had with his speech, missed that part of it was a paraphrase of a scripture, and lost the opportunity to distinguish between religious position and hate speech.
This is little more than a replay of the Chic-fil-A squabble. It's people supporting "their side".
The vast majority of pro-gay people really are not looking to silence and censor and ban all of those who are religious, even those who are conservatively religious and have beliefs which include the idea that homosexual acts are sinful. And the vast majority of religious people really do not think that gay people are like terrorists or that homosexuality and bestiality are in any way comparable. It's just the stupid pointless Culture War.
And now A&E has announced that taping of Duck Dynasty – including Phil Robertson – will resume this spring. And the quacking from 'family' activists has resumed with vigor.
But maybe now this whole thing will soon be over.
December 22nd, 2013
So if you ask the long-haired wild-bearded Southern hillbilly redneck biker-wannabe Jesus freak from the reality show about long-haired wild-bearded Southern hillbilly redneck biker-wannabe Jesus freaks about gays, it turns out he has long-haired wild-bearded Southern hillbilly redneck biker-wannabe Jesus freak opinions. Who'd a thunk it?
In the past week we've added two new equality states to the total, the Ugandan parliament has passed their odious Anti-Homosexuality Bill, and three world leaders have announced that they will not be attending Russia's Olympics due to its homophobic laws. Anyone care?
Not much. Instead the media and blogosphere is obsessed with Phil Robertson. Does he have free speech rights? Should A&E have fired him? What other things has he said? Will Cracker Barrel carry his merchandise?
I couldn't ducking care less!
But as this thing doesn't appear to be going away, here are my two cents. Don't spend them all at once.
For those of you who have blissfully missed the controversy, Phil Robertson is the patriarch of a family that operates a duck-call manufacturing business and which is the subject of a reality television show called Duck Dynasty. He was a hard drinking, pill popping, bar fighting kind of guy who found Jesus and settled down to hunt ducks and raise a family.
Duck Dynasty is the highest rated show on the A&E Channel.
This year the hype caught up to me so I recorded and watched a few episodes of the show. It's bilge, reality television at its worst.
Reality television, that genre in which artificially contrived plot lines and scripted scenarios are acted out by 'non-actors' who generally use their own names, is pretty light-weight entertainment to begin with. This show, however, takes artifice and banality to all new highs. Not only are the self-promoting family members (this is their third reality show after creating a youtube series) completely artificial roles, but the antics they get up to are absurdly unrealistic. Even their trademark beards used to be shaved after duck season; now they are part of the show's contract.
The program is supposed to be about Phil Robertson, his wife Miss Kay, three of his four sons Willie, Jase, and Jep, as they live a hunter's life and run a multi-million dollar business. But very little business appears to get done, or duck-calls made, and we are treated to the family drama of a family without drama. Basically Leave it to Beaver plotlines, but without the charm or the convincing acting.
In one of the episodes I watched, Jase wanted an office so he built one right off the outside door of Willie's office. In one afternoon. Without anyone noticing. And when Willie found out, he attached a rope to the office and drug it to Miss Kay's so it could be a goat shed. Supposedly down a public road. Without wheels. And it arrived intact.
In another, the family goes to Hawaii where the drama was whether the family would go along with Willie's itinerary. Oh, and will Phil sleep all day? I found that last question to be so inspiring that I turned it off, deleted all the episodes, and went to bed.
But the show has a huge following, and I think that is for a simple reason. Most television is designed to appeal to the largest television markets, urban centers. And those who live outside cities seldom find television shows that reflect their lives, issues, and interests.
And this is especially true when it comes to faith. More than 40% of Americans claim to attend church weekly (and at least half of them actually do), but almost no one on television goes. None of the big network lineups seem to have even a passing acquaintance with church attendance and certainly you don't see anyone praying. In fact, the only shows I can think of in which the family regularly attends church are animations.
So Duck Dynasty with it's praying, church going, rural living good ol' boys who spend a lot of time loving and caring for their family has an appeal to people who seem themselves as similar. And having sat through more than a few dreadful gay movies, I can see how something even as craptastic as Duck Dynasty could have the appeal of familiarity to a huge chunk of this country, even if it is an entirely fictitious presentation.
But now there's a huge huge big dramatic oh my god clutch your pearls controversy. In an interview with GQ Magazine, Phil decided to evangelize.
"We're Bible-thumpers who just happened to end up on television," he tells me. "You put in your article that the Robertson family really believes strongly that if the human race loved each other and they loved God, we would just be better off. We ought to just be repentant, turn to God, and let's get on with it, and everything will turn around."
What does repentance entail? Well, in Robertson's worldview, America was a country founded upon Christian values (Thou shalt not kill, etc.), and he believes that the gradual removal of Christian symbolism from public spaces has diluted those founding principles. (He and Si take turns going on about why the Ten Commandments ought to be displayed outside courthouses.) He sees the popularity of Duck Dynasty as a small corrective to all that we have lost.
"Everything is blurred on what's right and what's wrong," he says. "Sin becomes fine."
What, in your mind, is sinful?
"Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there. Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and those men," he says. Then he paraphrases Corinthians: "Don't be deceived. Neither the adulterers, the idolaters, the male prostitutes, the homosexual offenders, the greedy, the drunkards, the slanderers, the swindlers—they won't inherit the kingdom of God. Don't deceive yourself. It's not right."
And in case that wasn't enough, he later expounds on his religious conversion.
As far as Phil is concerned, he was literally born again. Old Phil—the guy with the booze and the pills—died a long time ago, and New Phil sees no need to apologize for him: "We never, ever judge someone on who's going to heaven, hell. That's the Almighty's job. We just love 'em, give 'em the good news about Jesus—whether they're homosexuals, drunks, terrorists. We let God sort 'em out later, you see what I'm saying?"
And he expounded a bit more on what seems to be a real concern of his
"It seems like, to me, a vagina—as a man—would be more desirable than a man's anus. That's just me. I'm just thinking: There's more there! She's got more to offer. I mean, come on, dudes! You know what I'm saying? But hey, sin: It's not logical, my man. It's just not logical."
The significant number of gay employees at A&E didn't much like being thrown in the same category as terrorist or goat aficionados. And that he threw his former drunk self in the mix wasn't much solace.
So A&E put him on "indefinite suspension". And the duck hit the fan.
People were furious that a good Christian man could be fired just for saying what the Bible says. Those little parts about terrorist and goat aficionados were irrelevant, this was an attack on free speech and religious freedom.
Conservatives and religious, family, and anti-gay groups squawked and quacked. NOM (having decided that anything anti-gay is now 'defending marriage') launched their most successful petition to date, demanding Robertson's reinstatement and getting more signatures in a few days than either their Dump Starbucks or Dump General Mills efforts did in months.
A&E is continuing to air episodes shot before the kerfuffle and it remains to be seen how long (or if) Robertson's shooting schedule will be limited to ducks. The family has announced that if he's banned, they won't perform.
So that's the story and now on to the questions.
Is Robertson a bigot?
Yeah, that's probably a good term. If you think that immorality starts with homosexuality and then spreads to bestiality and terrorism, you aren't really basing your views on logic, thoughtful discourse, or even the bible.
Is Robertson entitled to spout his nonsense?
Yep. Just like I'm entitled to call him an ignoramus.
Should he have been suspended by A&E?
That's really up to A&E. If they believed that he offended their employees or that sponsors would pull out or that he had poorly represented the network, then they are entitled to boot his vagina-loving ass.
But, we probably also should be aware that they had to know that the controversy would fire up the crazies and that their ratings are going to go through the roof.
And, as a bonus, now they have a new plotline to write about that isn't completely and entirely contrived.
Is the show going to downplay religion?
Nope. In fact, Alan Robertson, son number four, joined the cast for their fourth season. Before joining, Alan had been the pastor of a church for 20 years and he sees the show as a way to preach his beliefs.
And with all the new fine Christian people tuning in to see what it's all about, you can be sure that there will be a strong religious component to keep them coming back.
Is Robertson being attacked for his religious beliefs?
No, he's being attacked for being an ignorant idiot who thinks that the height of immorality is two people of the same sex falling in love. If your launching point to Jesus is always from the handful of Scripture that can be read to be anti-gay, your issue has little to do with Scripture or with Jesus.
But he would definitely think that is why he's being attacked.
Can we all just shut the duck up about this nonsense now?
Yes, please.
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Use Flagger with Linkerd to automate progressive deployments like canaries and other advanced deployment strategies for your Kubernetes workloads. Linkerd implements the Service Mesh Interface (SMI) Traffic Split API. This allows Flagger to control the traffic between two versions of the same application.
With the recent release of Linkerd 2.4, we are pleased to announce that you can now use Flagger with Linkerd to automate progressive deployments like canaries and other advanced deployment strategies for your Kubernetes workloads.
Linkerd implements the Service Mesh Interface (SMI) Traffic Split API. This allows Flagger to control the traffic between two versions of the same application. For apps running on the service mesh, you can configure Flagger with a custom resource to automate the analysis and control the promotion of a canary deployment.
When you deploy a new version of an app, Flagger gradually shifts traffic to the canary, and at the same time, measures the requests success rate as well as the average response duration. Based on an analysis of these Linkerd provided metrics, a canary deployment is either promoted or rolled back. With custom Prometheus metrics, you can extend this canary analysis by creating acceptance and load tests to further harden the validation process of your app release process.
Linkerd and Flagger provides a way to limit the blast radius of a failed deployment, automating a rollback, the moment a problem has been detected. The canary deployment pattern is not a new concept nor is traffic splitting. But what Kubernetes and service meshes do offer is a safer app delivery process though a declarative definition.
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Flagger adds a new kind to the Kubernetes API called Canary. How an application should be exposed on the mesh and how the canary analysis should be run and for how long is defined in a Kubernetes YAML.
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The above analysis, if it succeeds, will run for 25 minutes while validating the HTTP metrics every minute (success rate 99% and latency max 500ms).
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A tutorial on canary deployments with Linkerd and Flagger can be found at docs.flagger.app.
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As local leaders and citizens complain of FEMA and the Red Cross and general government absences in their own neighborhoods, independent and local volunteer relief organizations have sprung up in droves, organized almost entirely through word of mouth and extensive social media campaigns.
Last week, The Huffington Post spoke with many crowdfunding and philanthropy experts who warned of the traps of social media (a "retweet" is not the same as real action, suggested Robert Wolfe, the co-founder of social media funding platform Crowdrise). But now, almost week later, social media has largely been the key link between those looking to help and the tangible work to be done.
And Occupy Sandy, an off-shoot of Occupy Wall Street, has undoubtedly been a leader in spreading the word about local volunteer and donation efforts online, and thereby spurring real, tangible responses. Though certainly not a well-oiled machine by any means -- seamless organization is hardly expected, anyway, in a movement that sprang up so quickly -- the group's Twitter and Facebook accounts have posted up-to-date information about exactly what is needed and where. And while the Red Cross doesn't take donations of individual household items and certain bare necessities, these very same needs have become Occupy Sandy's primary focus.
Sample Occupy Sandy Tweets: "Red Hook Initiative needs bowls and paper plates for food"; "Sunset Park Volunteer Hub needs Ham Radios and Operators or VHF Marine Radios"; "If you have a car or truck and want to help transport donated goods & volunteers, link in by texting '@osdrivers' to 23559."
Occupy Sandy's #Medics hashtag on Twitter found doctors for their hubs in Brooklyn and Queens. Hot meals are being prepared every day and night, with volunteers setting up makeshift food kitchens in the Rockaways, Coney Island and Sunset Park. And the network has even set up a wedding registry, via Amazon, so anyone who wants to send blankets, flashlights, dry goods, mini-fridges, batteries and toiletries from anywhere in the United States or around the world can easily do so.
On Saturday, a Brooklyn-wide relief effort co-organized by environmental group 350.org drew hundreds to the Red Hook Initiative, a nonprofit center-turned-volunteer hub from which people fanned out into groups and dispensed supplies to buildings like the Gowanus Houses, the public housing complex that has been without power for seven days and counting.
"This whole hurricane has also shown how so many people in New York need so much help, regardless of the hurricane," said Lisa Sikorski, an organizing volunteer in Red Hook. "There's a lot of problems around here."
Justin Wedes, an Occupy Sandy organizer, said that ever since Occupy Wall Street was formally evicted from Zucotti Park, the Occupy network has been working on building communities and fostering relationships around the country, in neighborhoods like Red Hook and Sunset Park.
"We've been building neighborhood assemblies and community support networks," he said. "So this relief is a natural response for us, where communities band together to reach out and support each other."
In Sunset Park, a neighborhood in South Brooklyn of predominantly Mexican and Chinese residents, Occupy Sandy has created a virtual and literal hub at St. Jacobi's Church. On Sunday, generators, electrical supplies and dry goods were packed into volunteer's cars and shipped off to the Rockaways and Staten Island. Some organizers were getting fuel personally delivered from other activists as far away as Boston and filling up discreetly on the side of the road. Pounds of clothes were sorted and food was prepared. Hundreds of incoming volunteers from around the city were given quick orientations by Occupy volunteer leaders and then dispatched to locations around the city.
It's truly a 21st Century relief organization, suggested Joan Donovan, an organizer behind Inter-Occupy.net, the online network that helped organize Occupy Sandy.
"One of the things we do every night with the organizers is hold a conference call to get ready for the next day," Donovan said. "Everybody gives a report back on the day's events at their different locations. We coordinate in Google Groups, Facebook chat, through Twitter. I've got 20 different browser windows open with calls coming in."
Whereas the larger government organizations and nonprofits still need to fill out paperwork and trudge through various government red tape to get anything done, Donovan said, Occupy is able to act fast and quickly, without worrying about a lot of that same bureaucracy.
"Occupy can just call a church and say, 'Are you willing to be a donation center?' And then within four or five hours, you've got a donation center up and running," she said.
On Sunday, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the city was overwhelmed with volunteers and suggested people donate money, rather than show up at a volunteer site. But as Occupy Sandy's Twitter feed shows and organizers confirm, help is still needed in many forms.
Daiva Deupree is a volunteer working with Occupy Sandy and Recovers.org, the online hub that has helped organize Occupy and other, unaffiliated local relief efforts in badly hit areas. She said she's just been liking organizations of Facebook, following others on Twitter and finding numerous opportunities to help.
"I signed up for the [Occupy] email and text list, and they'll send things out that are so specific, like, 'Go to this address, there are people who need help,'" said Deupree. "It's really not easy, what they're doing."
She said the quick reaction time for these organizations has been remarkable, and Occupy's Donovan stressed that this kind of immediate connectivity is something at which they've excelled ever since they began communicating from camp to camp during the height of Occupy Wall Street. Now, instead of protest, they're offering relief.
"We've been able to mobilize very localized networks through inter-Occupy throughout the year," Donovan said. "So when it comes to a point when there's a lot of recovery that needs to happen, we know we can call on these networks of people and they'll put their normal lives aside to be part of this effort."
Certainly the larger organizations like FEMA and the Red Cross will be necessary as the city rebuilds and thousands of the displaced need resources, homes and myriad repairs, but in the immediate aftermath of the hurricane, Occupy Sandy has shown that collectively they can be a modern relief organization, both online and on the ground.
And whereas many may have dismissed the Occupy movement since the Zuccotti Park eviction and the months of protests, the same movement may have found a new and slightly redefined home in the public eye, as a community-building organization. On Sunday leading technology entrepreneur Anil Dash tweeted:
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