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Piece in Morning Star on the incessant cap-doffing of our media and the origins of marriage traditions. https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/who-needs-marriage-anyway
Tag: Jo Bartosch
Dear John to Jeremy
Letter to Jeremy in Medium
Sexism at Work
Calling out sexism at work https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/thurs-taking-stand-and-calling-out-sexism-just-too-risky-most-women-and-employers-know
Trans Fiction in a Post Fact Age
Critical Sisters' co-founder Jo Bartosch discusses how social media drives social acceptance and law. https://medium.com/@josephinebartosch/trans-fiction-in-a-post-fact-age-b571062a8716
One of those parents
Critical Sisters Co-Founder Jo Bartosch writes about how Official Guidance lets gender non-conforming kids down.
Summers Sells Sexism
Critical Sisters' co-founder writes about the partnership between Pornhub and Ann Summers for the New Statesman.
Pre-edited version below:
Pre-packaged sexiness is about as appealing to me as a petrol station sandwich, and a bit like hen parties, I can't understand why erotic retailers like Ann Summers have persisted into the twenty-first century. It didn't surprise me to learn that the high-street chain was founded by the Gold brothers, not the Gold sisters – there has always been something unconvincing about the ph-balanced 'femwash' of the Ann Summers' brand. To be fair, the current CEO and around third of the board of directors are female, but shop fronts are still adorned with images of impossibly perfect young women in uncomfortable-looking underwear.
The store claims to be 'sexy, daring, provocative and naughty' and somewhat predictably it positions itself as empowering for women. As a feminist of the unfashionable type, I can't help but be suspicious of any form of sexual liberation that can be bought or sold.
Sneering aside, I'd never really thought of Ann Summers as particularly threatening to the rights of women, more just a faintly depressing reflection of heteronormativity. This changed when I saw they'd teamed-up with Pornhub. The video-sharing website is reputedly the largest purveyor of online pornography in the world. Pornhub guidelines state that content flagged as 'illegal, unlawful, harassing, harmful, offensive' will be removed. Nonetheless, the site still contains simulated incest, rape and paedophilia with of the more easily published film titles including 'Exploited Teen Asia' (236 million views) and 'How to sexually harass your secretary properly' (10.5 million views.) When campaigns such as #metoo and #timesup are sweeping social media, it seems bizarre that a high street brand would not consider Pornhub merchandise as toxic.
Society is still bound by taboos: in our hyper-sexual society glossy magazines like 'Teen Vogue' offer tips to girls on receiving anal sex, and yet advice to men about how to pleasure women is notably rare. As an unabashed wanker, I find it baffling that in the year largely female audiences queued to watch 'Fifty Shades Darker' a survey revealed a twenty percent of U.S. women have never masturbated. It is an odd truth, that in our apparently open society any criticism of pornography or sexual practices is shut down as illiberal.
Guardian-reading men who wring their hands about Fair Trade coffee will passionately defend the right to view women being abused on film. Conservative men who make claims about morals and marriage are aroused by images that in any other setting would be recognised as torture. Pornography is not only misogynist, the tropes and language are often also racist. In what other context would racist slurs and scenarios be acceptable? Classics like Agatha Christie's 'Ten Little Niggers' are widely censored and yet the use of the 'N-word' in pornography is protected as if it were a fundamental human right.
I have no doubt that some reading this will be burning to point out that feminist pornography exists. In name of course it does, but then Theresa May calls herself a feminist when it suits. Whether you believe feminist pornography is either possible or desirable, it is worth remembering that what is marketed as such comprises a tiny portion of the market. This won't make me popular, but feminism is not about celebrating every choice a woman makes – it is about analysing the social context in which 'choices' are made. Furthermore, that some women also watch porn is evidence of how patriarchy shapes our desire, not that pornography is woman-friendly.
Ann Summers parts the net curtains of nation's suburban bedrooms and offers a glimpse into our peccadillos and preferences. That a mainstream high street retailer blithely offers guidance on hair-pulling, whipping and clamps as well as a full range of Pornhub branded products is disturbing. This is not about women's empowerment or mutual sexual fulfilment, it is about eroticising women's pain.
We are living in a world saturated with images of women and girls suffering; to pretend that there is no connection between pornography and the four in ten teenage girls who say they have been coerced into sex acts is naive in the extreme. For too long the state claimed that violence in the home was a domestic matter. Women and girls are now facing an epidemic of sexual violence behind bedroom doors and it is not a private matter. We need to ask ourselves which matters more: the sexual rights of men or the human rights of women?
From Advocate to Adversary – Speech to Bristol Woman's Place UK Meeting
On 8th February 2018 Co-Director of Critical Sisters Jo Bartosch was asked to give a talk in Bristol about her 'peak trans' moment. The event was organised by the indefatigable, inimitable and generally awesome Woman's Place UK. A video can be found here.
Protesters from Sisters (and Siblings) Uncut had vowed to stop the event from taking place, but were unable to find the central Bristol venue…. Below is the transcript of the speech.
Three years ago I wouldn't have associated with someone who holds the views I have now, and standing here to warn about the threat to women's rights from trans activism would've seemed ludicrous. I've always been an activist and at about the time keyboard warriors Owen Jones and Laurie Penny were sitting the Oxford entrance exam I was camping in fields outside air bases in an attempt to try and stop the military industrial complex. It is a weird experience to find myself at the receiving end of abuse from people I would have previously thought of as fellow travellers and comrades.
This is a poster I made for a feminist fundraiser. In it you can see I have made a connection between Caitlyn Jenner and Christabel Pankhurst. I'm afraid I knew nothing of Jenner aside from being on the cover of Vogue, and this was a crass piece of virtue-signalling. A feminist friend had the courage to challenge me about this statement, and that's what first made me start to question the dominant narrative and what I thought I knew about the social and psychological phenomenon of transgenderism. She simply asked me what was it that made both me and Caitlyn women. Any answer to this question was buried by disgust that she would be so cruel about what I knew to be someone who must have suffered extreme prejudice from being 'trapped in the wrong body.' My reaction was so emotional and visceral, I didn't immediately stop to question either the lack of biological proof or the inherent sexism the underpins the 'wrong body' narrative. Looking back, I can see a certain irony in my defence of the authenticity of Jenner's womanhood, I was unaware of how I was acting in accordance with my socialisation as a 'nice girl.' Nonetheless, she sowed a 'nasty woman' seed.
I love this quote about the socialisation of females from Shirley Chisholm, I've added it here because I've noticed many of the most zealous defenders of trans rights are young women. I think this speaks volumes about what is expected of girls and women in this society; we are expected to look after the vulnerable. When we see trans people in the media the narrative is always that of a brave individual battling a hostile world. Indeed, perhaps at a deeper level it appeals because we recognise how hard it is to navigate a safe passage through man-made structures. Moreover, there is an undeniable connection between having poor mental health and identifying as the other sex, and because of our socialisation as care-givers, young women are particularly susceptible to the idea that they must protect and champion the rights of this special group.
- Sex is sexier than gender:
Before I get stuck in I think it is important to clarify terms. For feminists like me the terms 'sex' and 'gender' have very distinct meanings. The former refers to biology,(boobs and flaps) the latter to the sexist stereotypes. For example, I know that as a woman I feel more comfortable facing you all now wearing make-up. Covering-up my face to look prettier is conforming to my sex-stereotyped socialisation; or my 'gender.' In common usage these terms are conflated, which can make it difficult to distinguish between the sex stereotyped role of femininity from the material reality of being born female.
Transgender activists are fond of saying 'gender isn't between the legs, it's in the brain', feminists know this but ask the question – who put sex stereotypes in the brain? In a world where more than ever girls are taught that their value lies in being appealing to men and pornography normalises male aggression, gender is as inescapable as it is crushing for women and girls.
Transwomen are women?
When trans activists say 'I've always felt like a man/woman' what are they actually saying? To suggest that certain interests, ways of thinking or clothing preferences are inherently male or female is limiting and regressive. In a world without sexist stereotypes there would be no need to trans gender because regardless of what body one happens to be born in, people would understand their interests, clothing and behaviours to be expressions of personality – not evidence of being born 'in the wrong body.'
It should be remembered, that despite Theresa May's bold assertion to Pink News last year that 'being transgender is not a mental illness' no evidence exists to support the notion that it is possible to be born into the wrong body. No-one's body is 'wrong.'
When I am asked on questionnaires (as the LP are currently doing) whether I identify as a woman I am insulted. I do not identify as a woman, I simply am one. No woman 'identifies' into lower pay, into the daily experience of being belittled, harassed or spoken over by men. I do not identify into a one in five chance of being sexually assaulted. I do not identify into a one in five chance of being stalked, or a one in three chance of being in a relationship with a man where I experience domestic violence. To suggest any woman does should be recognised as the insult it is.
So when well-meaning fools spout nonsense like 'gender is a spectrum' they probably think they're being progressive. Gender is neither a spectrum nor an identity, it is a hierarchy with men at the top and women the bottom. Moreover, it is the eroticisation of female submission. I strongly suspect, that when those who have lived their lives benefitting from male privilege come out as 'transwomen' and declare that they want to live as women they don't mean taking on the burden of caring for family members, or indeed, enjoying a weekend of DIY like I do. For many it is about the accoutrements of femininity and men's perception of the sexual power that women apparently wield.
So how have we got here? There are a of course few people with a rare condition of gender dysphoria, but this does not apply to most of those who declare themselves to be transgender. In fact as of 2015, only 5% of trans-identifying people in the UK had sought medical treatment and only 20% plan to do so in the future.
I've chosen these slides here because I think they are quite revealing about male socialisation. Women have suffered a history of being silenced and shamed for speaking about our bodies. Here, two transwomen who have benefitted from a lifetime being socialised as male (one of whom was recently on Woman's Hour) have assumed the position of experts on womanhood. As with many transactivists, they are claiming that it is transphobic to equate women's bodies with womanhood – despite the fact that across the world women are raped, beaten by men, subjected to female genital mutilation, forcible veiling and honour based violence and countless thousands die in childbirth precisely because we inhabit female bodies. Some aren't even born before they are discriminated against on the basis of their female biology: in India there are an estimated 63 million missing females due to sex-selective abortion and the cultural preference for boys. Reducing that to an irrelevance to spare the feelings of those who find the performance of femininity to be liberating is grotesque conceit that can only be entertained by those with the privilege to do so.
Male Pattern Violence does not change with identities:
Regardless of the fact that I had begun to realise that those who claimed to be women might not be, I felt it was only polite to respect the identity of transgender people. I was aware of the statistics about high suicide rates and was worried that I would exacerbate the suffering of a vulnerable group if I didn't accept and validate the identities that trans people presented. What changed my mind was when I began to notice male crimes being reported as committed by females. It was at about this point that I noticed that my idea of what made someone transgender was out-of-date. The transgender umbrella, as promoted by the leading LGBT organisations in the UK, includes cross dressers with no distinction between those who dress in women's clothes for sexual arousal and those who suffer from dysphoria. As aforementioned, the overwhelming majority of transpeople have not and are not seeking medical treatment.
I have chosen these three pictures as these are all transwomen who are local to the South West. The first is the convicted rapist Davina Aryton, he (and I make no apologies for not respecting pronouns in this instance) was not sent to a female prison because he doesn't have a GRC. The second is Jasmine Hill, a paedophile who was found to have groomed boys online. This was recorded as a crime by a woman. The final is one you might recognise – that's Tara Hudson. There was a huge and well publicised campaign to have Tara moved to a women's prison, Tara is now suing the Home Office after claiming to have suffered harassment while in a male prison. What didn't make quite so many headlines is that Tara Hudson was a fully intact biological male, boasting in an advertisement for escort services of his 7 ½" penis. So, a biological male, a repeat offender who was convicted of a violent crime was moved to a woman's prison, where it is known that the vast majority of women in prison have suffered at the hands of men.
Just last week there was a slew of hand-wringing articles about Marie Dean, a transwoman without a GRC in a male prison. Dean currently is on hunger strike in protest at being imprisoned with men. This was reported in both The Observer and The Guardian, neither of which saw fit to reference that Dean had a history not just of burglary, but of breaking into the rooms of teenage girls in order to masturbate into their underwear. Dean also had 60 previous convictions including some relating to images of child abuse. There is already a petition circulating to have this poor, vulnerable transwoman moved.
These are not isolated incidents, statistics clearly demonstrate that male pattern violence does not change with identities. It is worth bearing in mind that those convicted are always a tiny fraction of the actual numbers committing crime. When you consider that many transwomen will seek out women-only space to validate their identities the scale of the problem begins to emerge.
This is particularly concerning with regard to prisons as the male estate comprises 95% of the prison population, so even if just a small number of men decided to identify as women this would have a huge impact on women's prisons. It was this realisation that really brought it home to me that gender identity is not just a matter on an individual's internal sense of self – it has real and lasting consequences for society, and in particular for those who are most vulnerable, the women who depend upon single sex services.
Deep down most of us know the truth, that transwomen are men, and transmen are women. In order to spare them discomfort it just seems polite to bury any misgivings and indeed to ignore material reality. Even if I have not convinced you with what I've shared this evening, what should make everyone of us here tonight fearful is the way debate is being stifled and censored. Going back to my opening comments, I am a left-wing, bisexual feminist – not a neo-nazi and yet the venue of the event could not be publicised until the very last minute.
A Stalinist group think is emerging across the left- As a Labour Party member, I know of women in the party who have been suspended for saying nothing more controversial than 'women do not have penises.' A friend of mine here tonight is being investigated by the police for making factual comments on twitter that offended a transgender lobby group. As a journalist, I have lost work and come under pressure to retrospectively change articles I've written so as not to offend. There is a long and shameful history of silencing women and to my mind the transgender movement is a new form of this age old oppression.
I am thankful to have had the opportunity to speak here tonight, and I hope in doing so I have encouraged some of you to have the courage to question and speak up – after that's what changed my mind. Finally I want to remind each of you, that we can't talk about the reality of our sexed bodies as women, sexism itself will become unmentionable.
Move over Men
Critical Sisters' co-founder writes about the need for affirmative action on the basis of sex, not gender ID.
Fighting Genderism in Politics
On the platform, Angela Eagle issued a rallying cry for women to support one another as a 'tribe.' She talked of the men in power who always have one another's back, and the fight we have as women to be heard in the Labour Party. A brave politician and proud lesbian who stands against sexism I have always looked up to Angela, weirdly I felt like I knew her. As she walked from the stage my friend handed her a card from the gender critical feminist group Woman's Place UK. Angela looked at us as if she'd just been handed a shit-stained parking ticket. My heart sank and the words she had powerfully spoken on stage instantly became meaningless. How can she claim to advocate for women, when to her 'womanhood' is nothing more than an identity?
Design courtesy of Angela C Wild
Throughout the day at the Labour Women's Network conference we heard from powerful and inspiring women in the Labour Party. We heard their frustration about how our concerns are minimised, their pain that the party they love makes it impossible to safely report assault by men, about their dismay that ninety years on from universal suffrage the Labour Party still looks and feels male.
It should have been a cathartic experience, listening and sharing the rage of rightfully angry women, but it wasn't. Each of the speeches of the panellists were peppered with references to 'transphobia,' always in same breath as racism and misogyny. Interestingly, there were few references to the struggles of the LGB part of the rainbow.
Sitting in a row of women mechanically clapping the statement 'because all women are women' had a disturbingly Stalinist feel. While we were in the hall listening to women's experience of sexism, in Rochester and Strood CLP a motion was proposed calling for the expulsion of anyone who fails to agree with the statements 'trans men are men' and 'transwomen are women'. This is effectively a witch-hunt of outspoken women. To combat 'transphobia' young men in the party have set-up a spreadsheet with the names of women who signed the petition started by long-standing Labour Activist Jennifer James in a bid to have them removed from the party.
Despite the inclusion of transwoman Emily Brown in a workshop on intersectionality, there was no discussion of the definition of 'woman' or 'man' or why this might matter, no analysis of how lesbians are increasingly pushed to accept transwomen as sexual partners, no acknowledgement that at a women's event to discuss sexism it is quite important to recognise 'sex' as the axis of oppression. A gender critical feminist group who tried to give out leaflets had them confiscated by the head of Labour Women's Network, Liv Bailey. At about the same time on Twitter, transactivist Munroe Bergdorf was instructing attendees of the women's march not to wear 'pussy hats' as they're transphobic (a powerful take-down of this raw male entitlement can be read here.)
In a moment of spectacular irony, the Cllr Anntoinette Bramble, Deputy Mayor of London complained of how middle class white men in the corridors of power have no understanding of the struggles of transgender people. I suspect she is blissfully unaware that a fair proportion of the middle aged white men currently passing laws probably spend a good portion of their weekends dressed 'as women.' For such men, identifying as female can be the height of sexual pleasure. The tiny proportion of transsexuals who suffer from gender dysphoria have had their suffering co-opted by a vocal and vicious group of men's rights activists who fetishize the accoutrements of femininity. This has left those of us who believe woman is a biological category, not a vague sexy feeling to identify into, politically homeless. It cut me to see a room full of well-meaning Labour women virtue-signalling away their own legal existence because they thought they were being supportive.
I can't blame them, in this time of 'safe spaces' and 'preferred pronouns' any dissent is quashed; most of the women there probably had no idea that a debate is raging at all. Just before proceedings closed a woman I feel proud to know made an excellent comment – standing tall she reminded a largely hostile room that one hundred years ago every single transwoman would be allowed to vote, because they are of course biologically male. There was some support, but not enough.
I should thank Labour Women's Network because I left the conference more determined than ever to make change – and not least because to fight for the rights of women, we need to define 'woman.'
Open Letter – Stella Creasy
Dear Stella,
After you were elected you said "You have to have the courage of your convictions and the courage to be able to get out there and debate and discuss and listen" and I was inspired.
As we both know, the Labour Party is riddled with brogressives who will occasionally make tick-box statements about equality with no real understanding. The reason I've stayed a member is because I have faith that feminists in positions of influence like you will make sure the needs of women are recognised and our rights protected.
As with you now, until three years ago I didn't see a contradiction between the rights of transgender people and those of women. I trotted out the phrase 'transwomen are women' and was confident I was on the 'right side of history.' I remember being proud of myself when I made the leaflet below comparing Christabel Pankhurst with Caitlyn Jenner- I was so 'woke' I would never have knowingly associated with someone smeared as transphobic.
Nonetheless, deep down I think I knew that there was a contradiction between my aim as a feminist to dismantle harmful gender stereotypes, and my belief that somehow transgender people had an understanding of their gender that existed independently of a sexist society. I pondered on what transwomen did differently when they made the decision to come out and 'live as authentic women.' The question of how one could be 'trapped in the wrong body' was like a persistent mind itch – surely people should be free not to conform without that being cited as evidence for being transgender? A mismatch between the sex of a brain and body presupposes the brains of women and men differ, but this has been largely disproven. I was scared to acknowledge it, not least because as a woman I am expected to be 'nice' and also because the media landscape is saturated with stories of courageous transgender people at the frontier of a civil rights' crusade. I understand why you reacted as you did at the weekend, transgender people are consistently presented as a vulnerable group and for those of us with a sense of social justice our instinctive reaction when challenged on this is to want to defend a minority. I will attempt to share with you some of what I have learnt since, and some of what changed my mind about the transgender community.
Male Pattern Violence & Identity
I wasn't particularly surprised when the news broke that Soham murderer Ian Huntley now identifies as 'Lian.' Patterns of offending do not change when identities do and as with men- rates of criminality amongst transwomen are are far higher than those of natal women. It is estimated that at present up to half of trans women in prison are sex offenders. It is often argued that these are not 'genuine' transgender people and that they are simply opportunist men who want to be transferred to the women's prison estate. This could be the case, though it poses the question, how can we tell? The leading LGBT organisations make no distinction between 'transsexual' and 'cross-dressing' people – both now shelter under the 'transgender umbrella.' I note you joined the outcry about Worboys, if tomorrow he identified as a woman would it be transphobic not to believe him?
How can we even record male violence accurately, when the crimes of paedophiles like Nicola Florida and Jasmine Hill are now frequently recorded as being committed by women? Categorising by a subjective sense of 'gender identity' rather than material reality renders the statistics that underpin policy meaningless and male pattern violence invisible.
Single-Sex facilities
Our foremothers fought for sex-segregated space so that we could take our rightful place in public life. We prefer not to acknowledge why this is necessary, it makes us feel vulnerable and sparks the familiar and defensive #notallmen outrage, outrage that is belied by the everyday #metoo experience of women. In many parts of the world women are still raped because they don't have access to safe, single sex facilities. Men in the UK are no different, no more 'civilized' and being able to challenge their presence in single-sex changing rooms, counselling sessions and hospital wards should be a fundamental and uncontroversial safeguard. Regardless of how an individual identifies, we should feel confident to say 'no' to male-bodied or male-socialised people in women-only spaces. To do otherwise is to put an individual's feelings above the safety of all women.
The standard response, when concerns about women's rights are raised in relation to gender identity, is that transwomen are disproportionately likely to be victims of violence. It should be noted that the oft quoted "one in twelve trans women are murdered" refers to prostituted transwomen of colour in South America, not white computer programmers in the home counties. In fact thankfully here in the UK transwomen are less likely to be murdered.
Young women & the pressure to transition
Often it is transwomen who bask in the glare of the media spotlight. The version of 'womanhood' as performed by transwomen like Lees and Faye doesn't resonate with me. Unlike 'new suffragette' Lees, I don't find street harassment a validation of my sexuality. Those who exist in the shadow of every Jenner, Cox and Willoughby are young transmen, the overwhelming majority of whom would otherwise grow up to be lesbian or bisexual. This is a matter close to my heart, as I fear that if I were growing to accept my sexuality in today's climate I would bear the scars of a double mastectomy, an atrophied vagina and the side-affects of testosterone. A new wave of detransitioned women in their early twenties add credence to this. In a porn-soaked society with rigid sex stereotypes and so few young lesbian role models, I fully understand why so many want to identify out of girlhood. Moreover, young lesbians are routinely advised by sites such as the somewhat ironically named 'Everyday Feminism' they are transphobic if they do not consider male bodied transwomen as sexual partners. Gender non-conforming girls are collateral in the battle to affirm the identities of adult and often late-transitioning transwomen.
The #metoo campaign of late 2017 sent shockwaves that were felt from the Houses of Parliament to the houses on every street. The backlash was brutal – shouts of 'witch hunt' drowned out the voices of victims and the year closed with calls to protect the anonymity of men accused of rape. As feminists we know that Hollywood stars wearing black will not stop two women in the UK each week being killed by the men they should be able to trust. That is why we look to women like you, women with the power to affect change.
I know you to be a woman of principle and I trust you to be open-minded enough to consider the points raised. I sincerely hope you will make the time to meet with us and other feminist groups who campaign to ensure that women's rights are not forgotten in the rush to seem supportive of transgender people. We look forward to your response.
In sisterhood and solidarity,
Critical Sisters


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Thanks for that generous introduction. It's a real honor to be here. I have a great deal of respect for the outdoor writers of America. Those of us who spend our careers in federal land management know you all to be an extremely knowledgeable group of people when it comes to outdoor issues on federal lands. These issues are complex, and it takes not only great skill at writing, but also perseverance in research to get the story right. As a group, you all do that better than anyone else.
It's a pleasure and privilege to be here together with Deputy Director Fran Cherry of BLM. It's fitting that we're here together, since the two of us go way back, some 20 years or so. Early in my career, I was with BLM, and I worked closely with Fran. But that's another story.
Getting the Story Right
I'm here today to talk about the story of how uses have changed on public land. It's a story that I think every American has a need and a right to know. That's where you come in. Most Americans get their information about environmental issues from stories in the media.1 You all can tell at least part of the story. So far, the story isn't being told well enough. We believe that the telling of that story is critical to the protection of our treasured resources in this country.
Let me tell you another story to illustrate what I mean. A few weeks ago, the Forest Service Chief, Dale Bosworth, and I were doing an interview with a reporter from a wire service. We were talking about last year's huge fire season. Four states had their biggest fires in history, and California came close with the McNally Fire.
Chief Bosworth mentioned to the reporter that we almost lost a grove of giant sequoia in the McNally Fire. I guess you know there are only a few dozen giant sequoia groves left in the world. Some are at risk from fire because vegetation is coming up underneath, particularly white fir. Due to exclusion of fire for so many years, the understory thickets are getting so dense-and the individual trees so big-that in a drought fire can climb into the sequoia canopy, killing the whole grove. By the way, white fir out-competes young sequoia, so over time it will replace the sequoia unless something is done.
So we've got an ecological problem, and Chief Bosworth said that we might need to remove some 14-inch white fir to protect the sequoia groves in the future. The next day, the headline in a major national newspaper read, "Forest Service Chief Favors Logging Bill." Even worse, Chief Bosworth was quoted as saying that we need to cut giant sequoia 14 feet thick for fire protection.
We challenged, but the reporter stuck by his story-until he checked his notes. He ultimately apologized, and the wire service ran a correction. But you can see the problem we face. Here we present the story about the ecological threat to one of our nation's most beloved ecosystems, the giant sequoia. But instead, we got a fictitious story about how the Forest Service wants to cut giant sequoia. What's so disturbing-why I tell you this story is not to complain about how misquoted or misunderstood we are-what's so disturbing to us is that anyone could think we would want to cut a 14-foot sequoia for any reason. If people can think us capable of that, it shows how really deep the divide is in this country. We've got a huge task ahead to bridge that divide.
This is a beautiful example of the two debates-the one we used to have, perpetuating the divide, and the one we should be having to bridge the divide. We talked to the reporter about how critical it is to protect ecosystems like giant sequoia from threats such as fire and fuels. But what the reporter heard was totally different. What that reporter heard was, the Forest Service will log whenever it can, or even, "The Forest Service is in bed with the timber industry." And that's the debate we used to have-the debate about logging, the debate that's so divisive today-and, more importantly, the debate that is diverting us from a dialogue about other critical issues facing us. More on those in a minute.
Changing Land Use
That gets me back to how public land use has changed. People have always used national forest land for many different things-water, wildlife, timber, forage, and recreation, to name a few. For decades, timber wasn't used much at all. That changed after World War II, when demand grew for national forest timber.
The use of national forests to meet that public demand was expressed through economic and political processes. Timber harvest levels were set in a bipartisan manner by Congress in each annual appropriations bill. The Forest Service was always concerned about keeping timber harvest sustainable, so we limited harvest levels, and we had some big battles with the timber industry and others over that.
Originally, we had a huge area we could harvest from-what we called the timber base-and we set allowable cut levels accordingly. But Americans increasingly wanted more than just timber. They wanted more land managed for recreation, wildlife, and wilderness. Tensions increased. Public pressure was coming for both more timber and more areas off-limits to timber harvest. Growing amounts of timber were wanted from a declining timber base.2
Something had to give, and it was ultimately timber. Today, timber harvest on national forest land is only about 13 percent of what it once was.3 Yet public demand for wood is still growing-just look at all the mansions popping up across every rural landscape.4 Most timber needs are met by state and private suppliers, but imports are growing. Let me read you a quote from a recent feature in the Sacramento Bee:
The logging never really stopped; it just moved to Canada. In throttling the harvest of wood from its own back yard, while continuing to devour forest products, California is not merely turning to America's largest trading partner, Canada, to fill the gap. It is buying wood from a nation where up to 90 percent is harvested through clear-cutting … and where two-thirds of the cutting occurs in old-growth stands.5
Out of sight, out of mind-and not just in California. The same could be said for the rest of America. I think that poses an ethical dilemma for our nation: If we are truly serious about ecosystem health, then we'd better take a hard look at the choices we are making, including our consumption choices.
What's At Risk?
With that said, our focus today in the Forest Service is no longer on logging and road-building. In the last 5 years, for example, we decommissioned 14 miles of road for every mile of road added to our forest road system. And where we do cut timber, it is usually a byproduct of forest health projects-like cutting 14-inch white fir to protect giant sequoia groves.
We have learned that what we leave on the land is more important than what we take away. Today, our focus is on forest and rangeland restoration and stewardship. Sometimes there is a way to capture some value from the materials we thin, especially as new technologies are found to use small-diameter wood. But often, we pay people to remove it. It's not about logging in the traditional sense.
Today, our focus is on community-based forestry. We sit down together with all interested stakeholders and decide on mutual goals-what we want the land to look like in 20 years or so. Then we work with partners to achieve the desired future condition.
That means overcoming the threats to long-term ecosystem health. And that's the critical story that isn't being told as well as it should. Today, the nation's forests and grasslands face four great threats that get lost in the debate over logging and road-building: These are fuel buildups and large fires, loss of open space, unwanted invasive species, and unmanaged outdoor recreation. Before closing, I'll say a little about each.
I've already touched on fire and fuels. Many of our fire-adapted forests have become overgrown and unhealthy. In a drought, the excess vegetation can fuel a big, dangerous wildfire. Think of it as an environmental debt, like a toxic dump. It will take decades of action to clean up.
Another threat comes from urbanization. Every day, we lose about 4,000 acres of open space to development-about 3 acres per minute. We are losing the large, relatively undisturbed forests that animals like marten, bear, and cougar need to survive. We're also losing rangeland that many plants and wildlife species need to survive. Well-watered ranchlands are ecologically tied to drier uplands under federal management. Species all across the landscape depend on both.
After habitat loss and degradation, invasive species are the greatest threat to the nation's biodiversity. America has thousands of plants, animals, and disease-causing microorganisms in places where they didn't evolve and where there are few or no environmental controls. Many are displacing or destroying our native species. We are losing our precious heritage-at a cost that is in the billions.
A fourth great threat is unmanaged outdoor recreation. Americans are playing outdoors in record numbers, and that's good. It gives them a stake in the land, and most care about the land a great deal and are careful to protect it. But a few are not, so we've got to manage that use.
Let me illustrate what I mean through the example of off-highway vehicles. This is a legitimate use of national forest land. Managed properly, it can provide great recreational opportunities for many people, and it's growing in popularity. Tens of millions of OHVs are now in use-far more than even 10 years ago. With all those millions of users, even a tiny percentage of problem use presents us with a big and growing problem. Each year, unmanaged OHV use leaves hundreds of miles of wildcat roads and trails, causing damage to meadows, streambeds, and other sensitive areas. We have got to better manage this use to protect our natural resources.
Each of these threats is growing, partly because of the demographic trends that Fran described earlier. Think about what a growing population in the West means for fire danger. Think about what it means for invasive species, loss of open space, and rising recreational pressures on the land. Time is not on our side.
Productive Debate
In closing, I think it's time we focused on what's really at risk. I'm not saying we have all the answers-we don't. In fact, we need an open, productive debate on what to do about each of these threats, and we must continue to be open to critique of everything we do. But beyond that, we've got to stop debating the past and start looking to the future. It's time to move on.
I really believe you can help us with this. You have a great responsibility in the work you do, as do federal land managers. As a group, you all do an excellent job, which helps us do ours. But we really could use your help in focusing attention and elevating the public dialogue on these very real threats facing our national forests and grasslands-and other lands as well.
These threats are scientifically and socially complex. They have multiple aspects. They affect both public and private lands. And they will take years to address. These are hardly the ingredients of an easy-to-write, attention-grabbing, "glitzy" story. But it is an important story, and it needs to be told by many voices.
Thanks for your attention and for all that you do.
1. According to the March 2003 Roper Green Gauge report by the National Environmental Education and Training Foundation, television is a major source of environmental information for 62 percent of Americans, newspapers for 57 percent, radio for 28 percent, magazines for 23 percent, and the Internet for 23 percent.
2. The timber base has fallen from 97 million acres in 1963 to 47 million acres today.
3. Timber harvest has fallen from a peak of 12.7 billion board feet in 1987 to 1.7 billion board feet in 2002.
4. Total wood consumption in the United States rose by 50 percent from 1965 to 1997. Per capita wood consumption rose by 16 percent from 1970 to 1997. Per capita, Americans consume almost three times more wood than the global average.
5. Tom Knudson, "State of Denial," Sacramento Bee, 27 April 2003.


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Joining Carle in the CCOP as affiliate institutions are Rush-Copley Cancer Center in Aurora, Illinois and Franciscan St. Anthony Health - Michigan City in Michigan City, Indiana. These locations offer many of the same clinical trials while allowing patients who live near these locations to be seen locally.
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A clinical trial is a research study intended to answer specific questions involving medications, medical devices or new ways of using known treatments. Carle conducts clinical trials to determine whether new drugs, devices or treatments are both safe and effective. All research conducted at Carle is reviewed and approved by an Institutional Review Board.
Most clinical trials provide short term treatments related to a designated illness or condition, but do not provide extended or complete primary health care. In addition, by having the patient's healthcare provider work with the research team, the patient can ensure that other medications or treatment will not conflict with the protocol.
Participants play a more active role in their own health care, can gain access to new research treatments before they are widely available and will help others by contributing to medical research. Consult your physician for advice on weighing the benefits and risks of participation.
All clinical trials have guidelines about who may or may not participate. These criteria are based on factors such as age, gender, the type and stage of a disease, previous treatment history, and other medical conditions. Before enrolling a clinical trial, a participant must qualify for the study. No one is ever enrolled in a clinical trial without previous knowledge and written consent.
Our clinical research team (doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals) assesses the health of the participant, provides detailed instructions for participant, monitors the participant carefully during the trial and stays in touch after the trial as needed. Occasionally, a trial may involve additional tests and doctor visits. While in a clinical trial, participants are seen regularly by the research staff to monitor their health and determine the safety and effectiveness of the treatment.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Office of Human Research Protection (OHRP) develop the policies and guidelines for all medical research. An Institutional Review Board reviews and approves all study-related documents, such as protocols, informed consent forms, physicians' credentials and eligibility and patient recruitment materials.
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Market Street Convergence is part of the 12th Annual Open Doors Studio Tour in Newark
An element of "Flame Tempered" by Phoenix Lindsey-Hall is on view at the Market Street Convergence show at 85 Market St. Lindsey-Hall is a resident artist at Gallery Aferro, one of the stops on Sunday's studio tour.
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Spend a minute with artist Phoenix Lindsey-Hall and it's clear why Sunday's open studio tour is the highlight of this weekend's Open Doors arts festival.
Lindsey-Hall's mini-solo show (now handing in the pop-up gallery at 85 Market St.) is dominated by "Flame Tempered," a hanging installation featuring 75 ceramic baseball bats suspended in a circular pattern that is as once beautiful and intimidating.
As the artist explains her process, her choices, her intent, the works of Slugger take on a new layer of intensity. All of the pieces work together to explore hate crimes against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people by focusing on the instruments of the attacks — a baseball bat, a hammer.
"The bats look like bones, that's why they're not glazed," Lindsey-Hall said Thursday night at the exhibition's opening reception. She removes the ceramics before they are fully set so she can manipulate them into shapes. "It represents the body and an act of violence."
Lindsey-Hall will be in her third-floor studio at Gallery Aferro Sunday afternoon, when shuttle buses and walking tour maps will help visitors navigate dozens of studios and galleries. Visitors will have the chance to investigate how these artists work, to see pieces in progress and to listen to them explain their visions. In some cases, the work in the studio can be compared to pieces hanging in galleries that are part of the Open Doors event.
Sunday's tour also features a several curated and juried exhibitions highlighting artists from Newark and surrounding areas. And it showcases available artists' space, encouraging others to join the vibrant community
Now in its 12th season, the Open Doors festival features more galleries and studios than ever. Shuttles will run from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and many spaces will features music, food or both. For a complete list of the studios, shuttle routes and schedules and four walking tours of the festival, visit the Newark Arts Council's website or 85 Market Street, the officials HQ of the event.


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Both Flipkart and Myntra, since their inception, have seen a growth that every startup aims to achieve in the eCommerce space. They have been successful in luring not just the investors, but also the Indian consumer, which is now getting confident in buying online.
A few experts of this nascent industry had some comments and views to share on this 'historic' deal, these are mentioned below.
1) Mukund Mohan, Director at Microsoft Ventures
I think the big story is that Flipkart and Myntra are taking a spin on offline retailing (unorganized) v/s online retailers like Amazon. That's the big market. Organized retail in India is about 6-8% of the total retail, and it has not grown profitably because of high costs of rent and labour (among other things). This will change the game dramatically.
Knowing Mukesh and Sachin well, I think the last thing on their mind will be Amazon. This is about being the biggest retail company in India. To fulfill what BigBazaar and Reliance Retail intended to do. I fully expect them to acquire a grocery retail business in the next 1-3 years.
This deal sets the course to make Flipkart the largest retailer in a few years, by a wide margin. Like Pantaloons and Big Bazaar have synergised under one company, Flipkart-Myntra to would scale heights by associating with brands that operate in the grocery space.
2) Swati Bhargava, Co-founder at Cashkaro.com
There is no doubt that the deal makes sense from the investors' perspective as there are many economies of scale to be driven. It readies an 'Indian answer' to the massive growth companies like Amazon could see in India if FDI in eCommerce is allowed. Such mergers are a global trend and India is likely to see a great eCommerce story in the next few years.
However, it remains to be seen whether the customer will ultimately benefit from this marriage of 2 of the 5 largest eCommerce brands in India. It could translate into lower prices for shoppers as joint logistics & associated costs could decrease. At the same time, early consolidation and lack of competition could even hurt our still evolving eCommerce economy.
3) Sandip Shah, Co-Founder and MD at ShopYourWorld
The Flipkart-Myntra merger has been on the cards for a while now and it doesn't take the retail world by surprise. In fact, this poses the biggest competition to other big players like SnapDeal and Amazon and makes the online market an even more dynamic place to be a part of!
While there have been many successful mergers that have made the eCommerce ecosystem a tougher and more competitive field, there have also been some mergers in the past, like the one between Urban Touch and Fashion and You, that have seen the dissolution of the the former. One needs to wait and watch how turbulent or beneficial this merger is going to prove to be!
4) Ravitej Yadalam, Founder & CEO at Pennyful Online Pvt Ltd
The announcement of the Flipkart-Myntra merger is not only good for the two companies, but for the ecosystem as a whole. It is an exciting time for the Indian eCommerce industry, and this has definitely set the tone for the future.
It is evident that homegrown players are joining forces to battle the e-giants like Amazon and eBay. Competition is driving the ecosystem and creating an unmatched customer experience is the key differentiator today. Ultimately there is going to be only one clear winner: The Consumer.
This merger also gives us a clear indication that fashion as an online shopping segment is blooming and becoming more popular among shoppers.
5) Rajesh Sawhney, Founder of GSF Accelerator and GSF Superangels
You are not supposed to examine Myntra deal from a consumer Point of view or b'ness pov but from a balance sheet pov. http://t.co/GxwweECngP
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Flipkart and Myntra come together in a bid to keep communal forces at bay.
— Ramesh Srivats (@rameshsrivats) May 22, 2014
The good thing about Flipkart and Myntra coming together is that now you'll have to delete only one promotional mail every day.
— Sapan Verma (@sapanv) May 22, 2014
Flipkart has acquired Myntra.Now the Myntra website will have hot models in bikinis holding books like 'Three mistakes of my life'.Nice.
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Well that is a mouthful! Positively Picturesque is the name of this month's Paper Pumpkin kit. Here's a look at what's in the kit. This month's kit had two Stampin' Squares, Soft Sky and Tranquil Tide.
The kit made eight cards, two each of four designs, with lined envelopes. The stamp set is one I know I will use again. And I always love it when Washi tape is included. Here are the cards.
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There was lots of Washi tape left over and of course, the stamps and ink. so, with just a little of my card stock, I made this card.
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I have discovered a new appreciation for beaders, bloggers and handmade sellers who carry on full time day jobs in addition to everything else! I used to think that there weren't enough hours in the day to get everything done, and now I'm just happy to get the important things out of the way while everything else piles up.
I have been away from the bookstore business for a few years now, and I'm delighted to be back, despite the drastic changes in my daily schedule. I have a lot of reading to catch up on, and loving that as well. I forgot how much I missed having my nose in a book at every opportunity, and I finally have a reason to make use of Goodreads.
I have also discovered that the less time there is for beading, the more reluctant I am to do it. It seems that beading only feels worthwhile if I can devote myself to it totally. I've never enjoyed doing something in fits and starts. Things are going to be a little quieter here on Inspirational Beading as the holidays approach, but I'm still determined to keep this challenge going. There are only a handful of weeks left, after all. I hope to see you at the finish line!
In any case, I had an extra day to get some work done last week, and I decided I would take the opportunity to make something different, something that wasn't a guaranteed success. I went through my list of bracelet ideas from the beginning of the challenge, but of the designs that have yet to be crossed off, I found nothing that appealed to me at the moment. I went through my accent beads, waiting for inspiration, and came away with nothing. What to do?
I decided to let color be my guide instead, and turned to one of the western inspired palettes I had created earlier this month. I really loved the look of jonquil and aqua cube beads with transparent ruby, and created a palette very similar to the original. The cube beads inspired a new bracelet shape, with a square stitch base and bands of right angle weave. I love the watch-like shape of the beadwork, and the simplicity of the three bold colors. It was a risky project, but turned out great!
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A visit to Takht Bhai offers the chance to explore ruins dating back to the time of Kanishka, a Kushan emperor, famous for his military, political and spiritual feats.
Buddhists offered prayers at the site and left statues to mark their gratitude once their wishes had been fulfilled, said Dr Shah Nazar Khan, from the Directorate of Archeology and Museums, K-P, while speaking to The Express Tribune. People visited the place in the final stages of life to meditate.
Since the site is situated on top of a hill, it escaped the devastation wrought by successive invasions and is still well preserved, according to historians.
The Buddhist remains in Takht Bhai are believed to have been constructed between the first and the fifth century BC. The town is situated about 80 kilometres from Peshawar.
Many statues of Buddha were discovered at the site, which have been housed in the Peshawar Museum.
In Sanskrit, Takht means "well" and Bhai means "on a high surface" so the word means "well on a high surface". The area was listed as a World Heritage Site by Unesco in 1980.
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa is rich in archaeological remains of the Ghandhara civilization, but unfortunately the timeless remains from our collective past have suffered from government neglect and vandalism.
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