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Post subject: Father says killed daughter in Canadian hijab case
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A memorial for Aqsa Parvez is set up at Applewood Heights S.S. in Mississauga, in this undated handout photo. The Canadian teenager who was said to have clashed with her father about whether she should wear a traditional Muslim head scarf died of injuries late on Monday, and her father told police he had killed her. REUTERS/Handout/ Peel District School Board.
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Canadian Muslim Teen's Dad Charged in Her Murder; Friends Say They Clashed Over Head Scarf
TORONTO A Canadian man has been charged with murdering his own daughter, and her friends say the two clashed over her refusal to wear a Muslim head scarf. Police have not commented on a motive.
Aqsa Parvez, 16, of Mississauga, Ontario, was rushed to hospital in critical condition Monday after a man made an emergency call in which he claimed to have killed his daughter, police said. She died late Monday night.
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Aqsa Parvez argued with her family over wearing the hijab, friends say. (CANWEST NEWS SERVICE)
Was she killed over a hijab?
Father charged with teen's murder; friends say she refused to wear head scarf
The Canadian Press
A slain Muslim teen whose father has been charged with murder apparently chafed at the prospect of wearing traditional religious garb, but members of the Islamic community warn against anyone using the tragedy to vilify the head scarf known as the hijab.
Aqsa Parvez, 16, of Mississauga, Ont., was rushed to hospital Monday in critical condition after a man made a 911 call in which he claimed to have killed his daughter. Parvez died late Monday night in hospital.
Friends have said Parvez clashed with her family about her reluctance to wear the hijab, a traditional garment for some Muslim women.
Police have not commented on a possible motive in the case and experts caution against jumping to conclusions about the source of any conflict in the family.
"I don't want the public to think that this is really an Islamic issue or an immigrant issue," said Mohamed Elmasry of the Canadian Islamic Congress. "It is a teenager issue."
Schoolmates who learned of Parvez's death yesterday say she loved shopping for clothes and did not want to wear the hijab. They say it became a point of contention with her family.
"She didn't want to go home ... to the point where she actually wanted to go to shelters," classmate Ashley Garbutt, 16, told the Toronto Star.
Muhammad Parvez, 57, made a brief court appearance yesterday morning and was remanded in custody pending another court appearance today. Aqsa Parvez's brother, Waqas Parvez, 26, is facing a charge of obstructing police and remains in custody pending a hearing Friday.
Neither man has entered a plea.
Teenagers have for centuries been doing battle with their parents over a multitude of different issues, so to make differing views about the hijab a central issue of conflict is a mistake, said Atiya Ahsan with the Canadian Council of Muslim Women.
"(The hijab) has taken on proportions larger than life and that's misplaced," Ahsan said.
"When you come across parents who think that wearing that piece of fabric on their head somehow makes them more spiritual or more (of a) practising Muslim, I think that's a fallacy and it causes needless conflict in the family."
What's more important, said Ahsan, is that a young woman, or any Muslim, adheres to the core values of their faith and what the hijab represents: dignity, protection and grace.
What troubles Ahsan is girls who wear the hijab but also skin-tight or revealing clothing.
"To me, that is farther away from the Islamic concept of a hijab than a girl who is not wearing a scarf but wears looser clothing."
The word hijab has come to refer to the head covering some Muslim women wear, but has its origins as a term in the Qur'an, referring more to the concept of modesty.
"If you know that your girl is good and she practises her faith, she's not hopping around in what we consider lewd behaviour, then for heaven's sakes you know, let the girl have a chance," Ahsan said.
"If the parents become too strict, that's always a recipe for trouble."
Ausma Khan is the editor-in-chief of Muslim Girl, a magazine aimed at readers aged 18 to 24 but also popular with significantly younger girls. Khan said her readers are like teenage girls everywhere, just trying to fit in while figuring out their identity.
Most Muslim families are open to letting their children explore their faith in different ways, and if a girl is wearing a hijab, chances are she wants to, Khan said.
"It's something they see as very liberating and very empowering and something that expresses their commitment to God," she said.
Khan acknowledged there are some young Muslim women who feel pressure from their family and community to dress more traditionally.
Reuters wrote:
Father says killed daughter in Canadian hijab case
Tue Dec 11, 2007 1:50pm EST
Tue Dec 11, 2007 1:50pm EST
TORONTO (Reuters) - A Canadian teenager who was said to have clashed with her father about whether she should wear a traditional Muslim head scarf died of injuries late on Monday, and her father told police he had killed her.
Aqsa Parvez, 16, was found without a pulse in her home in the Toronto suburb of Mississauga earlier on Monday. She was resuscitated by paramedics, treated at two hospitals, and later succumbed to her injuries, police said on Tuesday.
Her father, 57-year-old Muhammad Parvez, has been charged with murder and was remanded back into custody after his first court appearance early on Tuesday.
"There was a 911 call placed by a man who indicated that he had just killed his daughter," Jodi Dawson, a constable with Peel Regional Police, told Reuters. "Everything else is evidentiary in nature and the investigation is in its preliminary stages at this point."
The victim's brother, Waqas Parvez, 26, was arrested and charged with obstructing police.
The story was on the front pages of Canadian newspapers on Tuesday. The newspapers quoted friends and schoolmates of the victim as saying she argued with her father over wearing a hijab, the traditional head scarf worn by Muslim females.
Photos of the teen retrieved from a social networking Web site show her in Western dress with her long dark hair loose.
"She was always scared of her dad, she was always scared of her brother," the Toronto Star quoted a classmate as saying.
Others were quoted as saying the girl wore traditional Muslim dress when leaving the house in the morning, but would change into other clothes in school washrooms.
Dawson said investigators will likely speak to the victim's schoolmates. The father will return for a bail hearing on Wednesday.
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Post subject: Twin car bombs kill 67 in Algiers By Lamine Chikhi
Al-Qaida claims bloody Algiers bombings ... United Nations offices in Algiers wrote:
A United Nations flag is seen at the site of a blast at U.N. offices in the Hydra district of Algiers December 11, 2007. At least forty-seven people were killed when two car bombs exploded in upscale districts of Algiers on Tuesday, a security source said, in the bloodiest attack since the 1990s on the capital of the OPEC member state.
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A bomb expert inspects the site of a blast at U.N. offices in the Hydra district of Algiers December 11, 2007. At least forty-seven people were killed when two car bombs exploded in upscale districts of Algiers on Tuesday, a security source said, in the bloodiest attack since the 1990s on the capital of the OPEC member state.
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Algerian bomb experts inspect the site of a blast near U.N. offices in the Hydra district of Algiers December 11,2007. At least forty-seven people were killed when two car bombs exploded in upscale districts of Algiers on Tuesday, a security source said, in the bloodiest attack since the 1990s on the capital of the OPEC member state.
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A damaged building and a wrecked care are seen in this image made from television following a car bomb explosion near Algeria's Constitutional Council, Algiers, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2007. United Nations offices in Algiers were heavily damaged by a powerful car bomb on Tuesday, and some U.N. staff were casualties, a spokesman said. A spokesman for the U.N. Development Program, whose offices were in one of the damaged buildings, said they had been unable to establish contact with any of their staff in the hours after the 9:30 a.m. (0830 GMT) explosion. Ron Redmond, chief spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, said he was unable to say whether there were any U.N. deaths in the main U.N. building or in the UNHCR building across the street.
(AP Photo/ENTV via AP Television News)
Al-Qaida claims bloody Algiers bombings
By HASSANE MEFTAHI and JOHN LEICESTER, Associated Press Writers
Two truck bombs set off in quick succession sheared off the fronts of U.N. offices and a government building in Algeria's capital Tuesday, killing at least 26 people and wounding nearly 200 in an attack claimed by an affiliate of al-Qaida.
Al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa, in a posting on a militant Web site, called the U.N. offices "the headquarters of the international infidels' den." A U.N. official said at least 11 of its employees died.
The bombs exploded 10 minutes apart around 9:30 a.m., devastating the U.N. refugee agency and other U.N. offices along a street in the upscale Hydra neighborhood, as well as Algeria's Constitutional Council, which rules on the constitutionality of laws and oversees elections.
The blasts, which came on the month's 11th day, a number rich in symbolism both for Algerians and for al-Qaida, drew swift international condemnation.
"It was horror," said Mohammed Faci, 23, whose arm was broken by the blast as he rode a bus.
The targeting of U.N. offices was a new development in the 15-year war between Algeria's secular government and Islamic insurgents, who previously focused their hate on symbols of the military-backed administration and civilians.
Al-Qaida's self-styled North African branch's Web posting said two suicide bombers attacked the buildings with trucks carrying 1,760 pounds of explosives each. Images were provided of the two "martyrs," identified as Ibrahim Abu Uthman and Abdul Rahman Abu Abdul Nasser Al-Aassemi.
"This is another successful conquest ... carried out by the Knights of the Faith with their blood in defense of the wounded nation of Islam," said the statement, which claimed that more than 110 "Crusaders and apostates" were killed.
Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni said the Algerian government was "certain" that al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa formerly known as the Salafist Group for Call and Combat "was behind the attack."
Counterterrorism officials in Algeria's former colonial ruler, France, say the group is drawing members from across North Africa.
Although it is thought to have only several hundred fighters, the al-Qaida affiliate has resisted security sweeps to organize suicide bombings and other attacks as it shifts its focus from trying to topple the government to waging holy war and fighting Western interests.
Al-Qaida has been urging attacks on French and Spanish interests in North Africa. In September, Osama bin Laden's chief deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, called for jihad in North Africa to "cleanse (it) of the children of France and Spain."
Al-Qaida has struck on the 11th in several countries, including the Sept. 11, 2001, attack in the U.S. Al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa claimed responsibility for attacks last April 11 that hit the Algerian prime minister's office and a police station, killing 33 people.
Dec. 11 itself has meaning for Algerians. On that date in 1960, pro-independence demonstrations were held against the French colonial rulers. The Constitutional Council is located on December 11, 1960 Boulevard.
Anne Giudicelli, a former French diplomat specializing in the Middle East who runs the Paris-based consulting firm Terrorisc, said Tuesday's attack bore the "clear signature" of al-Qaida-affiliated groups in the choice of targets and use of near simultaneous bombings.
"They attacked ... neighborhoods where there is plenty of security, which is a way to show their strength in the war with security services," she said.
Louis Caprioli, a former assistant director of France's DST counterintelligence agency who now works for the risk-management company Geos, said the attack may have been a reaction to the arrest last month of Bouderbala Fateh, a leading figure in Algeria's al-Qaida branch. The raid found three bombs, 1,760 pounds of explosives and a rocket launcher in the group's hide-out.
Algeria's militants "feel a need to fight back after many arrests, after (militants) turned themselves in or were killed," he said. "They needed to react to show their operational capacity."
After Tuesday's bombings, one damaged U.N. building stood with its insides spilling into a street littered with the soot-covered remains of parked cars crunched by the blast. The Constitutional Council lost chunks of its white facade, exposing red brick underneath, and a neck-deep crater was gouged in the road outside.
The attacks killed 26 people, an Interior Ministry statement said Tuesday evening. It said the dead included two U.N. staffers one Danish, the other Senegalese as well as three people from Asia whose nationalities were not given. Another 177 people were injured, of which 26 were hospitalized, the ministry said.
Other sources said the toll was higher. An official at the civil protection agency who spoke on condition of anonymity said 45 people were killed. A doctor at a hospital who said he was in contact with staff at other hospitals put the death toll at a minimum of 60.
Algerian Prime Minister Abdelaziz Belkhadem, quoted by the APS news agency, called the higher figures inflated and said the government had no reason to hide the real death toll.
"There are still a number of people unaccounted for, a number of people trapped under the rubbble, and the latest death toll that we have is 11," U.N. deputy spokeswoman Marie Okabe said.
Marie Heuze, a spokeswoman for the world body in Geneva, said that if all the missing were dead, it would be the deadliest assault on the United Nations since the 2003 attack on U.N. offices in Iraq that killed top U.N. envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello and 21 others. That attack was staged by Islamic extremists who later affiliated with al-Qaida.
World leaders roundly condemned the attack. President Bush extended condolences for those killed in "this horrible bombing," National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe said.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner condemned the attacks as "barbarity" and said that while Algeria had made great progress in fighting terrorism, "the sordid beast is not yet dead."
Algeria has been battling Islamic insurgents since the early 1990s, when the army canceled the second round of the country's first multiparty elections, stepping in to prevent a likely victory by an Islamic fundamentalist party.
Islamist armed groups then resorted to force in trying to overthrow the government, and up to 200,000 people have been killed in the ensuing violence.
Twin car bombs kill 67 in Algiers By Lamine Chikhi
Tue Dec 11, 9:44 AM ET
Sixty-seven people were killed when two car bombs exploded in upscale districts of Algiers on Tuesday, a health ministry source said, in the bloodiest attack since an undeclared civil war in the 1990s.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility but commentators said it appeared the work of al Qaeda's north Africa wing, which claimed a similar bombing in downtown Algiers in April and other blasts east of the capital over the summer that have worried foreign investors in the OPEC member state.
The White House, concerned by Islamist militancy in north Africa, described the attackers as "enemies of humanity."
A U.N. spokesman said one employee of the U.N. refugee agency was killed and another was missing. There was no information on whether the agency was a target.
One of Tuesday's blasts struck near the Constitutional Court building in Ben Aknoun district and the other close to the U.N. offices and a police station in Hydra, both areas where several Western companies have their offices, a source said.
Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni said a suicide attacker appeared to have detonated the Hydra bomb.
In Ben Aknoun people ran through the streets crying in panic and the wail of police sirens filled the air.
A body lay on the road covered with a white blanket, two buses were burning, debris from damaged cars was strewn across pavements while police struggled to hold back onlookers.
"I want to call my family, but it is impossible. The network is jammed. I know they are very concerned as I work near by the council," a veiled woman working at a perfume shop said.
"There was a massive blast," a U.N. worker wrote in an anonymous item for a BBC website.
"Everything shattered. Everything fell. I hid under a piece of furniture so I wouldn't be hit by the debris... One of my colleagues had a big wound in her neck, she was bleeding severely."
Several of the casualties in Ben Aknoun were students riding a school bus, the official APS news agency said. The security source said the final death toll could go as high as 60.
Algeria, a major gas supplier to Europe, is recovering from more than a decade of violence that began in 1992 when the then army-backed government scrapped elections a radical Islamic party was poised to win. Up to 200,000 people have been killed in the subsequent violence.
The violence has subsided since then but a string of attacks this year including the April 11 attack that killed 33 in Algiers has raised fears the country could slip back into the turmoil of the 1990s.
Some attacks or attempted attacks have occurred on the 11th of the month in what Algerians interpret as a form of homage to the September 11 attacks on the United States.
Western nations have expressed concern at militant islamist activity through the north African region and dependents of several western firms operating in Algeria have been repatriated over the past 12 months due to security worries.
Tuesday's attacks dented security forces' hopes that they had crushed the insurgency following the killing by the army of the ringleaders of the April 11 attacks.
French president Nicolas Sarkozy, who visited Algiers only last week, called the blasts "barbaric and profoundly cowardly acts." Washington condemned the attacks and said it would continue counter-terror collaboration with Algeria.
Anis Rahmani editor of Ennahar daily and a security specialist told Reuters: "Al Qaeda wanted to send a strong message that it is still capable despite the lost of several top leaders. Now the key problem is that social conditions are still offering chances for terrorists to hire new rebels.
"This is a problem that must be tackled if we want to defeat al Qaeda."
To date the authorities have said the only way to put an end to 16 years of bloodshed is to pursue "national reconciliation," a policy which grants amnesty to the al Qaeda-linked guerrillas in return for disarmament.
But commentators say the strategy takes no account of a bleak social background of unemployment and poverty that fuels discontent and aids recruitment of suicide bombers.
A deteriorating social climate marked by joblessness and abiding poverty posed a menace to stability, diplomats say, noting that unemployment among adults under 30 is 70 percent.
(Editing by Ralph Boulton)
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Born November 13, 1969 (1969-11-13) (age 3
Mogadishu, Somalia
Known for Submission
The Caged Virgin
Occupation politician, writer
Political party People's Party for Freedom and Democracy[1]
Religious stance Atheism
Ayaan Hirsi Ali (pronunciation (help·info); Somali: Ayaan Xirsi Cali; born Ayaan Hirsi Magan 13 November 1969 in Mogadishu, Somalia)[2] is a Dutch feminist and political writer, daughter of the Somali scholar, politician, and revolutionary opposition leader Hirsi Magan Isse. She is a prominent and controversial author, film maker, and critic of Islam. Her writings, especially her screenplay Submission, and her autobiography Infidel, led to death threats from numerous Muslim organizations and individuals, which have forced her to live under guard and in relative seclusion. She has received numerous awards for her human rights work, and in 2005, was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
When she was eight, her family left Somalia for Saudi Arabia, then Ethiopia, and eventually settled in Kenya. She sought and obtained political asylum in the Netherlands in 1992, under circumstances that later became the centre of a political controversy. She was a member of the Tweede Kamer (the Lower House of the States-General of the Netherlands) for the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) from January 30, 2003 until May 16, 2006. A political crisis surrounding the potential stripping of her Dutch citizenship led to her resignation from the parliament, and indirectly to the fall of the second Balkenende cabinet.
She is currently a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. As of October 2007 she has been working from a secret address in the Netherlands. Following the murder of Theo Van Gogh, the Dutch government had been financing round the clock security for her. However, it decided to stop paying for protection while she is living abroad. As a result, Hirsi Ali returned to the Netherlands until security arrangements are in place for her in the United States.[3][4]
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And it's happening. Slowly yet surely it's happening. This week Ms. Marvel, a comic book starring a Muslim teenage girl in New Jersey, reached it's sixth printing–something that rarely ever happens. The Hunger Games and Frozen are teaching Hollywood that women are a force to be reckoned with, both on and off the screen. But we can't stop there. We can't relent. Don't just talk about how interesting having a female Thor or a black Captain America would be. Buy the comics.**
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Let's not just be talkers. Let's put our money where our mouth is and actually support the kinds of stories we want to see.
Are there any books, movies, or comics that you love, which feature minority groups, and you wished got more support?
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Coming-of-age analogies are always great as they recount rights of passage (the first kiss, first love, first solo car drive, first million gained, first million lost…) and how one learns and improves upon their initial foray toward a particular practice or action.
Hedge funds are no exception, particularly in the eyes of institutional investors. According to SEI's annual global study in collaboration with Greenwich Associates, institutional investors are finally looking at hedge funds as having passed the maturity marker and worthy of more serious consideration.
The report, entitled "Institutional Hedge Fund Investing Comes of Age: A New Perspective on the Road Ahead" (click here to download a summary of the report; the complete report can also be downloaded after a brief survey), certainly indicates that the hedge fund industry collectively still has a lot of growing up to do.
That said, institutional investors seem to have collectively decided to give hedge funds another chance, who in their view have made amends with their unruly pre-financial-crisis antics and for the most part developed a more mature approach that jives with what institutions need and want: augmented returns with a better way to ensure that no parties are going on when the parents are out of town. As the report puts it,
"The practice of hedge fund investing has leaped in maturity, as investors and fund managers alike have learned they can take nothing for granted, including liquidity and absolute returns…Having survived the firestorm, investors still believe in the benefits of hedge funds, but are seeking a better handle on the complexities."
The numbers tell the story well: In 2009, less than 15% of investors polled by SEI had any interest in increasing their investments in hedge funds (click here for AllAboutAlpha.com's coverage of the 2009 report). In contrast, well over half of investors surveyed by SEI say they plan to increase their contributions to hedge funds in the next 12 months. (See chart below.)
The anticipated increase in allocations is sharpest among public retirement plans (22.5% vs. 6.4% in 2009) as they continue to seek catching up to allocation levels of endowments and foundations and remain underwater in terms of their funding gaps, which were hit hard in the 2008 crisis and never quite recovered.
Indeed, a big focus of investors according to SEI is gaining access to returns disconnected from broader market trends – something that hedge funds have always promised to do but in 2008 left many investors burned by not really living up to their end of the bargain.
To be sure, like a teenager with car keys finally in hand, confidence and freedom are very much conditional. And subject to constant evaluation of performance. That kind of conditional confidence is equally prevalent among institutional investors, with a full 75% deeming risk management infrastructure "very important."
"The study confirms what we have been seeing and hearing from our clients — that investors are committed to hedge funds, but managers must get and keep investors comfortable with their investment decision," says Phil Masterson, Managing Director for SEI's Investment Manager Services division.
And what do hedge funds need to tell their "parents" to put them at ease? Risk analytics, for starters, in addition to liquidity, regular disclosure ("I am driving to the mall, Mom, and picking up two friends") and the ability to clearly articulate their value proposition and sources of alpha, as well as demonstrate institutional-quality operations and risk management infrastructure.
Of course, not every coming-of-age story is a good one. Star performers are still "few and far between," the report notes, while the industry continues to suffer from shakeout, with only 130 net new funds introduced during the first three quarters of 2010, according to SEI.
Broader asset growth was also subdued, with assets rising a mere 10.5% during the first three quarters of the year, reaching $1.77 trillion (Figure 3), still short of the $1.93 trillion peak recorded in the second quarter of 2008 as well as the annual peak of nearly $1.87 trillion at the end of 2007.
Nonetheless, there is reason for cautious optimism, in that the industry's fortunes have improved over the course of 2010. The third quarter saw hedge funds gain a net $19 billion in new capital, the largest quarterly inflow since late 2007.
Another positive: Rumors of the demise of funds of hedge funds ("FoHF") has been greatly exaggerated, according to the report. While single-manager funds grew more popular in the last two years, nearly half of 2010 respondents say they invest exclusively in FoHFs (Figure 6).
Bottom line: Whether seemingly mature and ready to move forward in the world, no parent ever puts 100% faith in their kids' coming-of-age, lessons-learned, "I won't do it again" mistakes. But as institutions seem to be collectively figuring out, part of parenting is letting your kids grow – and hopefully reaping the rewards of their success.


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Earlier this week, the Movie Talk crew discussed Deadpool 2 director David Leitch's comments regarding whether or not Deadpool needed his movies to be rated-R, even after joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Naturally, that conversation led to the question, would Disney ever even entertain the idea of releasing an R-rated MCU movie at all? That being said, a new video from Corridor Crew caught my eye (via Screen Rant).
Corridor Crew is the team behind "VFX Artists React," a series where their personalities react to the best and worst VFX on the big screen. In this video, however, they're making some major changes to a very popular franchise. In "We Made Marvel R-Rated," they do just that; they take the opening battle scene in Captain America: Civil War and they push the boundaries of the violence with what might be more realistic results. For example, do you think someone would just get knocked out if they were hit by Cap's thrown shield? Absolutely not! The results would be far more gruesome and that's what Corridor Crew adds to the footage.
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When I first pushed play on the video and watched the beginnings of their alterations to the movie I thought, even though I do appreciate top-notch big screen gore, there's no need for it in the MCU. But then I hit the point when the Corridor Crew starts show off their finished product. Admittedly, this newfound enthusiasm might just come from seeing the guys work on something and then successfully seeing it through to completion, but I found the bloody Civil War sequence they cooked up to be kind of exhilarating. However, I'm still of the mind that blood and violence wouldn't really add anything of substance to the franchise and it'd also be a real shame to release installments a whole family of Marvel fans couldn't experience together. I suspect there's next to no chance Disney would embrace the R-rating quite like this anyway, but there is a thrill in seeing this spin put on the material, just for the creative fun of it.
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Step aerobics is a cardiovascular exercise routine that consists of choreographed moves centered around an elevated platform. The height of the platform or step can be adjusted by adding stacking risers underneath both ends of the step. A step aerobics class is often offered as a group exercise at gyms, though home workout videos are also available. Some gym-goers find that step aerobics classes are difficult at first because of the fast, demanding choreography. Finding the best class for you may seem daunting because of the sheer number of options available, but there are actions to take to help in making this decision.
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South Park Republicans was an often evoked idea throughout the 2000s. It signified the strain of libertarianism, or pseudo-libertarian thinking, that would transition to the Ron Paul side of Republicans in 2008. Now, South Park Republicans as a societal movement don't really exist anymore, due to the Ron Paul movement transitioning to the Tea Party movement, transitioning into the Donald Trump movement, and lapsing deeper and deeper into old fashioned authoritarian fascism.
There's a similar parallel on the liberal side, and that's Family Guy Democrats. There's a few reason this idea hasn't been written about though, and the connection is less explicitly clear to become a "thing". For one, the type of Democrats who embody the Family Guy political worldview are not the same people who usually watch Family Guy, and in fact, probably see the show as lowly trash culture. Another reason we don't think about Family Guy Democrats is because the way that the Family Guy political worldview manifests in practical politics doesn't resemble the way it manifests on the show.
South Park is didactic and wears its political approach with pride. It tells you its political message. Family Guy, on the other hand, makes obscene, misogynistic, gross, bawdy etc jokes that don't align with the respectability politics of Democrats. But, when we look at the orientation of Family Guy joke-telling, the angle from which it approaches humor, it aligns with the mainstream, neoliberal Democratic politic.
I would argue these are the three major characteristics of Family Guy Democrats:
- Snarky and performative ridicule of Republicans. A contemporary example would be criticizing Republican politicians with the "Orange covfefe Drumpf" strain of liberal twitter outrage. But more importantly, it involves ridiculing the "Republican base," which to the neoliberal, middle class plus Democrats amounts to ridiculing poor, stupid, and southern laborers.
- Being firmly entrenched in a centrist deviation of the American New Left. The New Left was the leftist movement that began in the 60s, as an alternative to the conventional Marxist left, which focused on labor and workers rights. Many New Leftists were still Marxists and radicals, like the Black Panthers. But for the most part, the angle of the New Left was to prioritize social issues over economic issues. As this strain of thought continued throughout the years, past the point where both Democrats and Republicans openly embraced neoliberal politics, this New Left derivation became so reductive that it only cares about social issues.
- Associating elements and traits of class with identity, instead of class itself. Examples would include associating poverty with being black, or being greedy with being Jewish. Of course, this is the modus operandi of the right, but it's also used by mainstream Democrats as well, but assuming race and ethnicity itself is the factor of poverty, rather than race and ethnicity being used as a dimension to enforce poverty.
Since neoliberalism is thrown around a lot, I do feel the need to define how I use it in this post. Neoliberalism, most simplistically, means pro-capitalism, unregulated. It's the stage of capitalism developed in the late 70s, after the Keynesian model. Neoliberal policy is in favor of big government, but not to regulate the market, but instead enable it (think the big bank bailout, and the numerous amount of semi-private, pseudo-government agencies). Neoliberals believe that "economic freedom", as in the freedom to accumulate capital, is a necessity to preserve "political freedom". Neoliberals believe market forces actually benefit marginalized identities.
This switch to believing the market actually empowers marginalized individuals in turn has cultural ramifications. For example, if all races are seen as equal before the market, then the ideology of "I don't see race" logically follows. Eventually, this mentality on race, which prevailed from about the 80s through the 00s, has to explain how class differences can exist. But under the neoliberal framework, something that isn't class has to explain the characteristics of class. This explanation has to be identities, whether be racial, ethnic, gender, etc.
For example, on Family Guy, Peter represents the working class and his father-in-law Carter represents the hyper wealthy. From a neoliberal perspective, rich and poor are merely identities that Carter and Peter belong to, rather than indicative of class. Peter is poor, Cleveland is black, and Joe is in a wheelchair, and Brian is a dog, and Carter is rich; in the neoliberal eye of Family Guy, all of these things are characteristics, but can be modulated, and are undifferentiated.
This can be seen in many of the show's narratives. In one episode, Peter goes from fat to fit. In another episode, Peter goes from white to black. Peter (and Chris) goes from stupid to smart. Joe goes from disabled to abled. Meg goes from ugly to hot. Lois goes from slutty to prudish. Identity swapping, like Shakespearean gender swapping on steroids, is the main narrative tool of the show.
These transformations could all be illuminating if they illustrated the economic and social impact of these transformations, or if the show had anything to say at all about it. Identity is at the basis of many Family Guy jokes, but only as an inventory. The show tells us "here are three jokes about the Identity A traits X, Y, and Z".
In season 12 episode 6, 'Life of Brian', the episode opens with Brian and Stewie in an alternate reality where native Americans control the United States. The show uses this as an opportunity to say Native Americans drive Jeeps, wear denim vests, and use shamanic ritual in hospitals…and nothing else. The reason the show can't say anything more than gesture towards a cluster of characteristics, is because neoliberalism doesn't acknowledge the superstructures that the free market creates.
One of the main points of contention is that Brian is clearly a liberal, and he makes his political views clear. He's often called out as the mouthpiece of Seth Macfarlane. However, it's hard to take any of Brian's liberal arguments seriously, because they're constantly undercut by the fact that Brian is extremely annoying, both to characters in the show and the viewer. Not only that, but he's a genuinely terrible person. And on top of all that, he doesn't have a differing worldview from his conservative counterparts. They see the world the same way, they just have different perspectives from the same view.
I think the most exemplary way to see this dynamic is in Family Guy's antisemitism. This may seem non sequitur to the 'typical liberal tone'. Or it may seem like self deprecation on the part of Jewish writers on the show. However, it exemplifies the problems that this identity and market-oriented thinking leads to. If you don't understand economics while considering class, then you will look for a different group to attribute economic suffering to. For example, if the writers of Family Guy were going to make a joke criticizing a group of people for being cheap, greedy, and parasitic, who would be the butt of the joke: billionaire Carter Pewterschmidt, or Jewish neighbor Mort Goldman? Since class doesn't matter, we are equal before the market, then clearly the rich people aren't greedy, they're #winning. So who can we attribute rampant greed to? Jews.
So that brings us to Democrats: so far, I've explained why Family Guy is written from a shared perspective of neoliberal politics. But, how, specifically does this link in to a dominant current of Democratic Party thought?
I will use a quintessential example from Clinton's 2016 campaign (I've referenced this quote on this blog before. I use it a lot because it exemplifies the Democratic party line):
"Not everything is about an economic theory, right? If we broke up the big banks tomorrow—and I will if they deserve it, if they pose a systemic risk, I will—would that end racism? Would that end sexism? Would that end discrimination against the LGBT community? Would that make people feel more welcoming to immigrants overnight?"
This perspective depends on neoliberal thinking: we are all equal before the market, and therefore, the only forms of oppression are neo-Nazi skinheads shouting the N word. I'm exaggerating, but Clinton certainly believes racism is exclusively perpetrated by people who prescribe to racist ideology. The right, who are so engrained in the same neoliberal ideology, which they believe themselves to be in opposition to, believe this too.
This is why there's pointless bickering between the center-left Democrats, who only know how to call out individuals for implicitly racist statements. and the right, who always replies with "oh, I'm a racist? Well then everyone's racist then". Neither of them see that the racist individual is perpetuating systemic oppression, so the liberal can only say "you are racist" and the racist can only say "no, I'm not".
I want to interject here and reiterate the connection between the perspective of Family Guy and the perspective of Hillary Clinton is much looser than the connection between, say, South Park and Ron Paul. This is mostly because, as mentioned earlier, South Park is much more didactic than Family Guy. Also, Family Guy is crude in a way Democrats are not.
But let's go back to the episode I mentioned earlier, where Brian witnesses an alternate reality where Natives control the US. A Marxist perspective on this reality would be focused on how history is different because of this, and how the economy would be different based on that historical perspective. From that basis, the show could make speculative jokes about how that economy would effect the culture.
On the contrary, the show does the liberal perspective. The liberal worldview has no past and future. It has no masters or slaves. The liberal worldview has no systems, it has inventories of characteristics. Native American people love denim vests, and other than that, and some other traits, they are the same as everyone else–they are free in the eyes of the market.


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• National home sales edged back by 0.4% from June to July.
• Actual (not seasonally adjusted) activity stood 3.4% above July 2014 levels.
• The number of newly listed homes edged up 0.2 per cent from June to July.
• The Canadian housing market remains balanced overall.
• The MLS® Home Price Index (HPI) rose 5.9% year-over-year in July.
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July sales were down from the previous month in about half of all local markets, led by declines in Hamilton-Burlington and in the Durham Region of the greater Toronto Area (GTA). The monthly decline in sales for these two markets represents a pullback from record levels in June and likely reflects an insufficient supply of listings. By contrast, sales in Newfoundland and Labrador were up most on a month-over-month basis, marking a rebound from a quiet month of June for the province.
"National sales activity remains solid, fuelled by strength in British Columbia and the Greater Toronto Area, where listings are in short supply or trending that way," said CREA President Pauline Aunger. "That said, markets elsewhere across Canada are largely well balanced and in some cases have an ample supply of listings. As always, all real estate is local and REALTORS® remain your best source for information about sales and listings where you live or might like to in the future."
"It's fair to say that the strength of national sales is still a story about two cities, but it's equally about how trends there are spreading out in their respective provinces," said Gregory Klump, CREA's Chief Economist. "Trends in British Columbia and Ontario have a big influence on the national figures, since they account for about 60 per cent of national housing activity. As a result, the national picture reflects how demand is running high for the short supply of single family homes in and around the GTA while the balance between supply and demand is tightening in B.C.'s Lower Mainland. These remain the only places in Canada where home prices are growing strongly."
Actual (not seasonally adjusted) activity in July 2015 came in 3.4 per cent ahead of the same month last year, and marked the second highest July sales figure on record after 2009. Activity stood 12.6 per cent above the 10-year average for July.
Actual (not seasonally adjusted) sales were up from year-ago levels in just over half of all local markets, led by the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia and the GTA. While Calgary continued to post the largest year-over-year declines in sales compared to last year's record levels, activity there is nonetheless running roughly in line with five and 10-year averages for sales during the month of July.
The number of newly listed homes was little changed (+0.2 per cent) in July compared to June, marking the fourth consecutive month in which new listings have held steady. New supply was up in a little more than half of all local markets, led by rebounds in Calgary and Edmonton which offset a small step down in the GTA.
The national sales-to-new listings ratio was 56.8 per cent in July, down slightly from 57.1 per cent in June. The measure has closely tracked the trend for sales this year as new supply has remained stable.
A sales-to-new listings ratio between 40 and 60 per cent is generally consistent with balanced housing market conditions, with readings above and below this range indicating sellers' and buyers' markets, respectively.
The ratio was within this range in about half of local housing markets in July. About one-third of all local markets breached the 60 per cent threshold in July, comprised mostly of markets in British Columbia together with those in and around the Greater Toronto Area.
The number of months of inventory is another important measure of the balance between housing supply and demand. It represents the number of months it would take to completely liquidate current inventories at the current rate of sales activity.
There were 5.6 months of inventory on a national basis at the end of July 2015, unchanged from the previous two months and a three-year low for the measure. The national balance between supply and demand has tightened since the beginning of the year as rising sales have drawn down on overall supply.
The Aggregate Composite MLS® HPI rose by 5.90 per cent on a year-over-year basis in July, accelerating from the 5.43 per cent year-over-year gain in June. Gains over the past year and a half had been holding steady within a range of about five and five and a half per cent.
Year-over-year price growth picked up in July for all Benchmark home types tracked by the index. Two-storey single family homes continued to post the biggest year-over-year price gains (+8.16 per cent), with comparatively more modest increases for one-storey single family homes
(+4.88 per cent), townhouse/row units (+4.49 per cent) and apartment units (+2.96 per cent).
Year-over-year price growth varied among housing markets tracked by the index. Greater Vancouver (+11.23 per cent) and Greater Toronto (+9.39 per cent) continue to post by far the biggest year-over-year price increases. By comparison, year-over-year price growth in the Fraser Valley accelerated to about six per cent, while Victoria and Vancouver Island prices continued to log year-over-year gains of about four per cent in July.
Price gains in Calgary continued to slow, with a year-over-year increase of just 0.14 per cent in July. This was the smallest gain in nearly four years, with July's reading down about 0.7% from the peak reached in November 2014 and up by about an equal percentage compared to the recent low point reached in April 2015. Prices continued running roughly even with year-ago levels in Saskatoon.
Elsewhere, home prices were up from July 2014 levels by just under two per cent in Greater Montreal and by just under one per cent in Ottawa. By comparison, prices fell by about three and a half per cent in Regina and by about one and a half per cent in Greater Moncton.
The MLS® Home Price Index (MLS® HPI) provides a better gauge of price trends than is possible using averages because it is not affected by changes in the mix of sales activity the way that average price is.
The actual (not seasonally adjusted) national average price for homes sold in July 2015 was $437,699, up 8.9 per cent on a year-over-year basis.
The national average home price continues to be upwardly distorted by sales activity in Greater Vancouver and Greater Toronto, which are among Canada's most active and expensive housing markets. If these two markets are excluded from calculations, the average is a more modest $341,438 and the year-over-year gain is reduced to 4.1 per cent.
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PLEASE NOTE: The information contained in this news release combines both major market and national sales information from MLS® Systems from the previous month.
CREA cautions that average price information can be useful in establishing trends over time, but does not indicate actual prices in centres comprised of widely divergent neighbourhoods or account for price differential between geographic areas. Statistical information contained in this report includes all housing types.
MLS® Systems are co-operative marketing systems used only by Canada's real estate Boards to ensure maximum exposure of properties listed for sale.
The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) is one of Canada's largest single-industry trade associations, representing more than 109,000 REALTORS® working through some 90 real estate Boards and Associations.
Further information can be found at http://crea.ca/statistics.
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Ottawa, ON, August 12, 2015 – The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA), on behalf of its 110,00 REALTOR® members across the country, welcomes today's announcement by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to increase the Home Buyers' Plan (HBP) withdrawal limit from $25,000 to $35,000.
Ottawa, ON, August 12, 2015 – The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA), on behalf of its 110,000 REALTOR® members across the country, welcomes today's announcement by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to increase the Home Buyers' Plan (HBP) withdrawal limit from $25,000 to $35,000.
"The Home Buyers' Plan has helped so many Canadian families realize their dream of home ownership," said CREA President Pauline Aunger. "Today's commitment to increase the withdrawal limit of the HBP will ensure that the dream stays within reach for today's young people."
The HBP was championed by REALTORS®, and introduced by government in 1992. Since its inception, over 2.8 million Canadian have used the HBP to help make home ownership more affordable. The program allows Canadians to borrow, on a repayable basis, from their own Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSPs) to purchase a home. The HBP is a unique program in that it provides first time home buyers a means to build home equity and save for retirement at the same time. However, the purchasing power of the HBP has been eroded by inflation.
"Maintaining the value of the HBP by increasing withdrawal limits is critical. In my own real estate business I have seen so many hard working families and first-time home buyers use this program to build a more secure financial future for themselves," Aunger stated. "By reducing or avoiding mortgage default insurance fees and building home equity sooner, Canadians can put their own money to work for them."
Home purchases involving the HBP generate spin-off spending and create jobs. In 2015, home purchases involving the use of the HBP are projected to result in over $2.8 billion in spin-off spending and more than 19,900 jobs.
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Ugly Christmas Sweaters for the Whole Family
Christmas time means so many parties to attend. There's the work party, the secret Santa party and my favorite, the ugly Christmas sweater party. Here is a handy list of ugly Christmas sweaters for the whole family that
Christmas kitties in Santa hats for the cat lovers. Meowy Christmas.
A beer pong ugly Christmas sweater for party animals.
Rudolph the red nosed reindeer ugly C
This ugly Christmas sweater would be great for the office party.
Santa riding on a unicorn, because unicorns are awesome!
A Hanukkah llama for the Hanukkah sweater party
Go Jesus, it's your birthday. Guaranteed to give you, and everyone around you an earworm.
Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree (sweater), why are you so ugly?
Mermaids are HUGE this year so why not a mermaid Santa
This one is my absolute favorite. Tinsel is fabulously tacky and it's a mom cardigan, times two!
This sweater is anything but ugly. It's adorable. Wear it and you might just get a snuggle under the mistletoe.
I actually have this one. It's my go-to sweater dress.
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I'm getting this math lover ugly Christmas sweater for my son who's a math genius.
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Grandma got run over by a T-Rex. Okay, that's not how the song goes but you know your kids are going to love this sweater.
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Raised Episcopalian and baptized in the same city he lifted weights in Friday, Konz started reading the Book of Mormon after taking a class on early Christianity at Wisconsin last fall.
Peter Konz took a middle seat in the exit row on his plane ride to the NFL combine Wednesday with a bit of unusual reading material on his lap.
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Jaeger Schnitzel
Total TimePrep/Total Time: 30 min.
Makes2 servings
- 1/2 pound pork tenderloin
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1/2 cup sliced mushrooms
- 1/2 medium onion, thinly sliced
- 2 tablespoons white wine, optional
- 1-1/2 cups prepared brown gravy
- 2 tablespoons sour cream
- Trim tenderloin, removing any visible fat. Cut in half lengthwise. Pound each half to 1/4-in. thickness. Dip into egg; coat with flour and shake off excess. In a skillet over medium heat, fry tenderloin in butter until no pink remains. Remove and keep warm.
- Add mushrooms and onion to skillet; cook until tender. Add wine if desired. Stir in the gravy and sour cream; mix well and heat through, but do not boil. Serve with the tenderloin.
Nutrition Facts3 ounce-weight: 503 calories, 32g fat (18g saturated fat), 225mg cholesterol, 1356mg sodium, 19g carbohydrate (4g sugars, 1g fiber), 26g protein.
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Jun 1, 2018
I am allergic to eggs so I used Soy Milk to dip the pork loin into, and I dipped the pork in the flour than back in milk and then in flour again, to make them very crunchy. Since I can't have sour cream, I added Soy Milk to the sauce. It was all delicious.
Jul 12, 2013
Super good. I breaded my pork chops with prepared flour/bread mix. Everything else I followed. We bought some regular white wine. This was so good. All the kids ate it and I was afraid they we not because of the mushrooms. Nope they enjoyed it and asked for seconds. Really good recipe and super easy!
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May 30, 2010
My husband lived in Germany for several years. He has a difficult time finding good German Restaurants where we live. I made this for him and my children and he couldn't stop raving about it. My children also loved it. It is quick and easy for this working mom.
Dec 25, 2009
My family loves this recipe. I make it every year for christmas dinner. Great with spaetzle.
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William & Mary's fast start sinks Coll of Charleston 78-70
WILLILAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — Omar Prewitt scored 26 points and grabbed eight rebounds to lead William & Mary to a 78-70 win over College of Charleston on Saturday.
Daniel Dixon added 12 points for the Tribe (9-4, 1-1 Colonial Athletic Conference) and Terry Tarpley became the first player in the program with 100 steals and 100 blocks.
Marquise Pointer had 23 points for the Cougars (9-4, 1-1), 17 in the second half. Canyon Barry, the leading scorer in the conference at 20.4, had 11, all in the first half.
Prewitt and Dixon combined for 21 points and the Tribe made 7 of 13 3-pointers and shot 61 percent from the field for a 44-25 lead at the half.
Prewitt's jumper, after back-to-back 3s from Greg Malinowski and Connor Burchfield, made it 21-9. Three 3s and Prewitt's two baskets pushed it to 40-18.
The Cougars did not get within single digits until the final four minutes.