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#45, oil at any cost
March 14, 2017
"We have a world that is deeply concerned about the fact that the United States is willing to go to any length to pursue its own agenda, including an agenda that is dominated by oil … The Trump administration is composed of people who have made their careers in pursuit of fossil fuels … You have Rex Tillerson, secretary of state, the former CEO of Exxon Mobile. We know that Exxon Mobile's climate scientists in the mid 1970s discovered the fact that burning fossil fuels harms the climate. Then Exxon Mobile led the climate denialist movement and took that science and put it into a deep, dark corner and instead put millions and millions of dollars into funding climate denialism." Antonia Juhasz
See More Fact about Big Oil:
- The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry—And What We Must Do to Stop It,
Antonia Juhasz
- Inside Climate News
- "Scale: Measuring Might in the Media Age," Alexandra Juhasz
- #100hardtruths-#fakenews: a primer on digital media literacy
#43, emotional+rational resonances needed
March 12, 2017
In my previous #100hardtruth (#42) I quoted from a recent piece by Farhad Manjoo, including this line: "You might even credit cameras — or blame them — for our more emotional, and less rational, politics."
I'd like to trouble or deepen Manjoo's observations, however, by noting that feminist/queer affect theory proposes that connections that are drawn through the body, in its lived spaces and encounters, and outside or alongside the merely cognitive, honor ways of knowing and being that are entirely necessary for both our well-being as humans and our most complete possibilities as viable social and political agents within communities and movements.
In our current world order—where the most powerful people are nothing but irrational, where deception underwrites a good deal of communication and the media systems that move it, and where hard facts tumble in the face of pulpy greed and corruption—it goes without saying that we must encourage and support systems (intellectual, artistic, economic, technological, political, communicative) that engage in and with the cogent. But reasoned thinking, speaking and representation need not be enjoyed at the diminishment of feeling, affect and other embodied forms of knowing. Not only is this not a zero sum game, but the most compelling truths are the ones made and received when the emotional and the rational co-exist to create an opening up to the "possibilities, gaps, overlaps, dissonances and resonances" where lie true beauty, meaning, and purpose.
"That's one of the things that "queer" can refer to: the open mesh of possibilities, gaps, overlaps, dissonances and resonances, lapses and excesses of meaning when the constituent elements of anyone's gender, of anyone's sexuality aren't made (or can't be made) to signify monolithically." ― Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Tendencies
See More:
- "We Have Come to Dance for our People," Antonia Juhasz
- The Affect Theory Reader, Melissa Gregg, Gregory J. Seigworth
- Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
- #100hardtruths-#fakenews: a primer on digital media literacy
Radical Links
October 12, 2011
Here are some links to radical media actions:
- feminist academic blogging: "The Three Things I Learned at the Purdue Conference for Pre-Tenure Women," by Kate Clancy
- dispatches from Occupy Wall Street by the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest
- my sister, Antonia, interviewed by Real News TV Network on Afghanistan's Energy Wars
- my own early-work on my new blog, FeministOnlineSpaces
- my graduate student, Timothy Mallone's video coverage of Occupy LA
The second pod of my interview with Toby Miller for his CulturalStudies podcast was just cast. This one ended up being pretty personal: about my family of lefty intellectuals, like my sister, Antonia, who is in London with her new book, Black Tide, and several Gulf Coast residents, all attempting to attend and testify at the BP Annual Shareholder Meeting (last year, she and several others were arrested when they attempted to speak at the Chevron Annual Shareholder's meeting).
One day later: things are heating up in London! A protester got arrested, my sister and others are all over the international press. Go sister, go!
Video Art: Does Access Matter?
November 4, 2009
"The promise held by video, that it could create 'personal media,' that normal people could control the production of video imagery and bypass the tightly controlled corporate structure of commercial media, seemed like a revolutionary and democratic advance. Video was seen as a potentially radical political tool that could subvert the relationship between dominant media structures and audience , eventually allowing artists and anyone else to directly address the public without the need of a support structure of broadcast television, museums, galleries, or other forms of distribution. -"Introduction: California Videos, Artists and Histories," Glenn Phillips
While a certain strand of video art was made with the distinct purpose of reaching an audience so as to express opinions, ideas, analyses, images, or ways of being unexpressed through dominant media, it seems important to note that only a small portion of this has since been posted onto YouTube, making use of this newly available tool to expand audience, using video and YouTube as a "radically political tool…to directly address the public," by using this (new) tool to allow for expanded exposure to these (old) radical ideas and images.
As a "video artist" myself who has often used the medium to expand the reach of my voice (or my community's: see my work on AIDS activist video, for example) in the name of a cause, I've only chosen to put one of my videos on YouTube (RELEASED: 5 Short Videos about Women and Prison; while SCALE, about my sister Antonia, was loaded by the corporation that distributes it against my better wishes). The reason(s) are clear: activist videos are made to be shown within organized settings, where context, dialogue, community, and continuing actions (see my sister Antonia Juhasz's recent "Marching on Chevron" organized with the screening of the Yes Men's new film) need to be as carefully engineered or constructed as is the video text itself. In fact, radical screenings are often understood to be as much a part of activist video (art) as is the video. Since this is impossible on YouTube, the lack of context and community trumps the power of access and old-school video activists choose to stay home (or march without help of YouTube).
Chicago SCALE Roundtable
November 5, 2007
Two weeks ago, we held a summit on the organizing and distribution possibilities of my documentary, SCALE, generously sponsored by a Chicago feminist media and arts organization and attended by a stellar group of hand-picked women activists, scholars, and organizers. I haven't been able to write about it until this late date because this was a difficult meeting for me. This is not to say that the participants were un-supportive; they were not. But it is clear that SCALE was, for this group at least, not the "activist film" I had imagined or they had desired. The women in the room expressed that they need from documentary just what my sister has wanted throughout this process (and what she has insisted "activists" would want as well): either an in-depth portrait of the activist, Antonia (how she got there, how she stays there, what she fights for, how she does it), or an illustrated version of her book: a film as easier-to-understand condensation of her critically important ideas, first articulated in words, now in images and with emotion. I will attest that this activist film, the one mine is not, is important, and needed, just not the one I set out to, or even am capable to make. This would be a film that would feed and sustain people who are already working against the war and the Bush Agenda and who need more information, already working and need a pep-talk, already activists and need to see more like themselves on the screen for self-sustaining purposes.
The women in the room were uncomfortable with, or uninterested in the film's sister-tension (the personal nature of the drama) and self-reflection (its focus on the media rather than Antonia's ideas as expressed through the media). My departures from Antonia's ideas were understood to be overly "theoretical," "abstract," or "obscure." Complicatedly, however, it is the documentary's self-reflexive quality about the state of the left, in relation to media, activism, organizing, and the relations between the personal and the political, which most seems to impress those who are moved by the film. This satisfied viewership understands the film as "activist" in how it allows us to see and talk about the left, activism, and the media with a new formal and verbal vocabulary (that of SCALE).
Which is all to say, that the workshop, although of course personally painful for me, was incredibly illuminating both about the film (how and for who it functions), and about a deep, abiding and defining split within the left about the best form and function of information, action, images and ideas in our media age. If you hate the film, you probably believe that direct action and organizing are what matters if we are ever going to make a change in this society; and if you love the film you are probably less convinced that such actions continue to matter, as you are also self-consciously debating where power lies in a society where individual action seems to have been subsumed by corporate control and media, and what that leaves as a possibility for you to do… Is the left best served by simply doing more stuff, louder, more effectively or does the left need to re-group, re-consider, and talk amongst ourselves about what has and has not worked, and what will and will not work as the conditions of power continue to change?
Are pep-talks, feeling good, and getting smarter the only way to inspire activism, or could activism come from self-scrutiny and uncertainty? Does navel-gazing waste our precious time? What do we gain and lose when we don't speak directly, supplying much-needed information, but rather talk about the state of information itself? What is the use for formal and intellectual complexity about our current state when the current state is itself so bad?
#1 SCALE screening
October 11, 2007
On Thursday, October 4, we had our first work-in-progress screening of SCALE fro a friendly audience at the Claremont Colleges, where I teach. Antonia made it, as did representatives of various local anti-war groups, who spoke about their efforts before the screening began.
The most interesting aspect of the Q and A at this screening mirrors a theme of the documentary: its interest in divisions within the left about the form and function of education or information in relation to social change. Many in the audience were there (understandably) to hear Antonia speak truth, facts, and analysis to power, something she does very well, and for which she has a following. While this does happen, in small parts, in the documentary, it is, in fact, not really a documentary about Antonia's book and its ideas, as much as it is about the concept of scale, and how Antonia's book, ideas, and experiences trying to sell and impart them demonstrate the contradictions of ramping up numbers, attention, and exposure. Thus, some in the audience were pleased to see a self-reflexive documentary raising questions of tactics, effectivity, organizing strategies, and the role of the media and celebrity in contemporary politics, just as Antonia's fans thought this was a diversion from the real stuff.
Discussion centered around whether the left should be educating itself with facts, or whether we have already heard these facts; or should we be navel-gazing, and re-thinking strategies, as well as our flaws and strengths?
Finally, the highly personal nature of the questions asked to Antonia and I (rather than political) threw Antonia, and it is seems good she has some practice before the show really goes on the road. People asked her questions she has never heard before: abo0ut her spiritual beliefs or our family. And afterwards, we talked together about how my feminism, and a commitment to the personal, is fundamentally different from her more straightforward commitment to the "political." This is really another vocabulary to think about the differences in knowledge production, and political strategy raised above, and I am certain that these tensions will define the life and reception of the film.


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Overwhelmed? Escape to a movie.
When things get overwhelming, I tend to go for the escape. Today I pulled on my wool socks, made a cup of tea and snuggled up with a movie. When I am tired, or tired of putting on a brave face, I sink deeply into a movie. Nothing better than a good sad film to pull up my tears and flush out emotional baggage. My current favorite is "Once". Simply put, it's brilliant. Any movie that leaves me crying in the seat as the credits roll, goes down in pen on my list of lifetime favorites. So if you, or someone you know, is holding back some tears, rent this one and pull up a blanket. Nothing like a good cry sometimes.


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I hope the articles will offer perspectives on how change in your relationship can happen. I would like you to know some things about what couple therapy tries to do and how it helps. Perhaps the articles will help you develop a sense of what you would like to accomplish in your couple therapy.
I'd like this website to be very helpful to you in thinking about your relationship and in thinking about how couple therapy can help.
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Performing Famine Memory:
Irish Theatre and the Great Hunger Symposium
National University of Ireland, Galway, February 12-13, 2015.
Date: Thursday February 12, 1-7pm. Friday February 13, 10am -12pm.
Venue: Hardiman Research Building, G010.
Conference Convener and Contact: Dr. Jason King (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Symposium Schedule Thursday Februrary 12:
1-2pm. Irish Famine Memory and Migration in Contemporary Theatre Productions:
Barry Houlihan (NUIG), Overview of Irish Theatre Archival Resources at NUI Galway.
Dr. Jason King (NUIG): "Performing the Green Pacific: Staging Female Youth Migration in Jaki
McCarrick's Belfast Girls (2012) and Fiona Quinn's The Voyage of the Orphans (2012)".
Dr. Charlotte McIvor (NUIG): 'The Cambria (2005) and How To Keep An Alien (2014): Famine Traces and the Palimpsestic Time of Irish Migration'
2-3pm. Staging Famine Memory: Theatre Practitioner Perspectives
Máiréad Ni Chroinin (NUIG and Moonfish Theatre): "Moonfish Theatre's production of Star of the Sea, based on the novel by Joseph O'Connor" (2014).
Caroilin Callery (Cultural Connections Theatre Group): Strokestown - Quebec Connection Youth Arts Project - 'The Language of Memory and Return'.
3-3:30pm coffee break
3:30-5pm. DruidMurphy and Early Twentieth-Century Representations of the Great Famine on Stage:
Professor Patrick Lonergan (NUIG): DruidMurphy (2012) and Abbey Productions of Tom Murphy's Famine.
Dr. Marguérite Corporaal (Radboud University Nijmegen): "Starvation in the Shadows: (Un)staging the Famine in Maud Gonne's Dawn (1904)".
Ruud Van Den Beuken (Radboud University Nijmegen): "'My blessing on the pistol and the powder and the ball!': Prospective Memories of Landlord Murders in the Earl of Longford's Ascendancy (1935)".
6pm. Keynote address: Professor Chris Morash (MRIA, Trinity College, Dublin):
"Re-placing Trauma: Yeats's The Dreaming of the Bones".
Symposium Schedule Friday February 13 (10am-12pm)
Venue: Hardiman Research Building, G010.
Plenary Workshop: Dr. Marguérite Corporaal, "Building Irish Famine Research Networks".
Deputy Thom Kluk from the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands will introduce keynote speaker Dr. Marguérite Corporaal (Radboud University Nijmegen). Dr. Corporaal will discuss her European Research Council funded project Relocated Remembrance: The Great Famine in Irish (Diaspora) Fiction, 1847-1921 (http://www.ru.nl/relocatedremembrance/) and her Dutch Research Council funded International Network of Irish Famine Studies (INIFS) (http://www.ru.nl/irishfaminenetwork/). She will consider the challenges of building international research networks and explore the opportunities and themes for research collaboration.


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The Old Woking players were also sad – they will miss Lloyd and his off spin (term is used loosely as, in order to spin, a ball should bounce).
Earlier in the day we had tried to play cricket - the weather was great and Old Woking looked at the pitch, realised what a track should look like and, having won the toss, elected to field. Recent criticism of his hiding from the good bowling has worked and Matt duly strolled out to open the innings. What a dramatic change – an opening partnership of 52. The team learnt that Usman is Urdu for opener as Uzi hit a glorious 67 off 75 balls. This was an excellent way to cement his place at the top of the order. Matt had hit a good 23 before getting bowled by a sharp delivery – not so easy up top! Player of this, and probably next, season Albert went in. He is not accustomed to hanging around waiting to bat these days, having been in during the 1st over all too often this season. Albie looked comfortable before hitting a long hop straight to a fielder for a well played 33. Billy hit a scratchy 24 before going and the rest of the innings petered out ending at 192 for 9. The Northern Rock had looked in good form before becoming yet another victim of impatience and holing out to a good catch. Clear highlight was Smithy running out Hamza after he'd hit it about 3 feet and forcing Peter to run 2 off the last ball. Smithy ended on a career high 2 not out and was still talking about his excellent innings at work on Tuesday.
Tea was taken and was really excellent – a great job by Stephanie and Charlie (the nice, non-grumpy one).
Old Woking began the chase in strange style giving wickets away against Albert's tight bowling. Albert's 10 overs earned him 4 wickets for just 20 runs. Young Jack Allen bowled a great, but unlucky spell. His 6 overs cost just 7 runs but, despite beating the bat on several occasions, he came out wicketless. Albie's spell had the vast crowd saying "Jerry Who?" until the aforementioned Mr Allan came on to bowl. The family double act worked again with Dad taking a sharp stumping opportunity. Jerry ended with 2 for 16 off 5 overs. Albert was taking sportsmanship to a new level trying to signal wides against his team mates and Peter got very grumpy when the umpire unreasonably gave byes to a ball that almost hit the practice nets. His cry of "that was a ….. wide" fell on deaf ears, especially those of the bowler. The (non)Spin twins bowled in tandem for the last time and Old Woking woke up. At 94 for 9 the number 11 started to accept Smithy and Lloyd's generous attempts to make a game of it – the full tosses were duly smashed to all parts and he ended up scoring 62 not out off 29 balls. Smithy ended with 1 for 39 off 4 overs and Lloyd 2 for 51 off 7. Lloyd did win this weeks diving contest when he leapt athletically over a ball in the slips. The attempted flick back to the keeper was about as successful as an honesty box in the House of Commons.
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Mortgage rules in Canada have been tightened up again, with the hope that the high prices of some markets will be reigned in. I keep seeing the media parroting the line "The changes affect properties that cost more than $500,000 — a small percentage of the overall market" I got to wondering if this really is a small percentage.
In Calgary, I already know that $500K buys you an average home in an average neighborhood. (I spend a lot of time looking at listings in my spare time). Toronto and Vancouver are worse – so, if we are already seeing exceptions in three of the biggest cities in the country, how many more houses are out there over $500K? Let's pull up the MLS listings on www.realtor.ca and see what's what:
I am going to round everything to the nearest thousand ($K) for this discussion. As of today, I am pulling up 210K residential listings. Of which, 43K are asking $500K and up. That is %20 of the listings – not exactly a "small percentage"!
Keep in mind that these numbers include every apartment, lot, and mobile home listed – you would expect even in this inflated market that the entry level for those will have lots under $500K. So, lets run this again with a sub set that represents the traditional Canadian ownership dream – my own house that I can do with as I please. In realtor search terms, this translates in to a freehold property (one that you own the land and building in perpetuity, there are no monthly fees being paid to another party that actually owns the land). I'm also going to stick with fully detached buildings, so no duplexes or townhouse style buildings. I'm using this sub set as being the step up that many people aspire to, you may start with an apartment or attached building, but what you really want is a house. Also, at least until recently in Canada, your own house you can do with as you please has been an attainable goal by people earning something least approaching an average salary in this country.
If you want to go run these numbers yourself read this paragraph, or skip ahead to the next one if you just want to trust my results :). Go and load www.realtor.ca search for any area of the country and then promptly ignore what it pulled up and just zoom out to see the whole country. In the search areas in the top, make sure you are searching residential properties. Your initial search will show you all the properties, my 210K properties number I pulled up today. Now set your price to '$500,000 – Unlimited' – that gets you to the 43K number I quoted above. Obviously, this is live data and your numbers will reflect the market at the time you pull the numbers. So, now we want to restrict down to just houses you can own outright – you need the "more options' section. Set the building type to 'house', and keep the style to detached, to keep the duplexes etc out. Set the Ownership/title section to 'Freehold' or you will end up pulling a bunch of cheaper options where you don't really own the property, eg "Condo". Just adjust the parameters to see different numbers, make sure you are zoomed out to see all of Canada to get country wide results! With me so far? Let's look at my results:
-Looking at detached freehold houses, I see the following interesting points-
– 20K total listing at >=500K,
– 48K total listings, so we have 42% of houses being listed at 500K and up!
– Top three markets, Vancouver 5.5K, Toronto area 5.1K, Calgary 2.8K.
– While rarer outside of these markets, there are still another 2.7K in the southern Ontario area, and even St. Johns Newfoundland has 177 houses listed over $500K.
Conclusion: These new rules really do affect a LARGE amount of the market, especially if you are looking for a house. However, the rules are at least targeting the hottest markets of southern Ontario, Vancouver, Calgary, and Edmonton.
That being said, I think the damping effects on price really will be felt more in the near Toronto area, and Vancouver. To see why, try searching the Vancouver and Toronto area for any house (same criteria as before) under $500K. I found nothing in Vancouver proper today, and just a smattering further out in the Greater Toronto area (crappy stuff as expected at the bottom end). Compare to Calgary/Edmonton, there are still a lot of decent houses available in different parts of the city. I tried searching 400-425K in Calgary, and pulled up houses in all but the near SW/West city, considered "desirable" in terms of location.
Now reverse your search and see what kind of properties come up looking for $1000K+, the million dollar house! Zooming out to see the whole country, I see:
-Houses listing for 1 million plus-
– Vancouver: 3.4K
– Toronto: 2.9K
– Calgary 0.7K
If you zoom into each city, you are going to quickly figure out that a million bucks buys you a nicer average house way out in the burbs of Vancouver, or a basic unimproved old house closer in. Pretty much an average house. The new rules of %10 down on amounts over $500K mean an extra $25k required just to meet the new minimums on a $1 million loan. I'd call a 50% increase a bit of a damper on a 1.075 million dollar home!
Toronto looks to be slightly cheaper version of Vancouver, perhaps 100K off on the unimproved older house closer in. At any rate, the prices are ridiculous, driven higher and higher on the wings of 3%ish mortgage rates.
I shudder to think of the people assuming 900K mortgages in the Toronto/Vancouver area – a quick calculator on Tangerine's web site gives me $4.3K monthly payments @3%. If rates ever go back up to "only" 5%, they are looking at $5.2K per month, $900 per month increase! But who can afford that kind of money – "how much I can borrow" calculator on Tangerine's site says I need to earn around $200K per year to even afford that million dollar "average" home. That would put me in the top %2 percent again the Maclean's rank your income scale in Canada. Even a married couple splitting that amount is still around the top 5%.
Is the current situation a bubble that will correct itself in time? Well, if interest rates ever go up significantly again, you bet that will result in a huge correction. Your guess is as good as mine on when or if that might happen.
Unfortunately I can't really say much about houses in Saskatchewan or Manitoba, as realtor.com doesn't have data for freehold lots in Sask., and nothing for detached style for either province. Removing those criteria does show me 241 >=$500K "house of any type" in Saskatoon, so it's 1/3 of Calgary's when you adjust for size. Winnipeg showed me only 271 properties >=$500K definitely a "bargain" city compared to Saskatoon or Calgary!
Also my 42% >=$500 K is inflated too as I don't include those cheaper provinces.
For all Houses of all types:
577/3229=17% Sask >=500K
335/3248=10% Man >=500K
Yeah, that would drag my average down a bit – 3% of the total market, so lets call it 40% of the houses in Canada over 500K, still a lot!


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Chris Matthews Claims He "Really Doesn't Like Negative Political Ads" - Video 4/22/10
Here is video of Chris Matthews yesterday saying he "really doesn't like negative political ads."
You've got to be kidding! Matthews' show is like one long negative ad against all things Conservative.
Or, maybe Matthews knows that the way Obama and the Democrats have behaved in office, there is a raft of negative ads coming this year that are well-deserved.


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Cookie Cutter Wreath
In preparation for our annual bake day at my bakery- owner- friend's house I made this little gift for her. I couldn't think of a better gift for a baker & cookie maker!
To Make You Need:
Spray paint, metal cookie cutters, metal adhesive & ribbon.
I got the cookie cutters at Hobby lobby for 1/2 price. (I have several left over to either use to make cookies, individual ornaments OR there were several mini cookie cutters that I thought I could make a "mini" wreath with as well! I'm leaning toward "rust" treating some to make ornaments for the small tree in my kitchen.) Ok…back to the project…one can spray paint color of your choice and an adhesive that works for metal. I wish I had a good suggestion. I tried what you see pictured as wasn't have the best luck. So, I tried my E-5000 glue and it seemed to help, but I'm convinced there's something better out there. My husband actually recommended JB weld.
Chose your cutters and lay them out and rearrange until you get a shape you're happy with.
Once arranged start gluing cutters together. I did a section at a time allowing 2 to bond together before attaching a 3rd. Once glued and dried time to spray a little paint! It only took me 2-3 coats to have a good coverage. Once the paint was dry I make up a bow, tied it on and wha-la! An adorable Cookie Cutter Holiday Wreath!
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Did you know that there are 4 different types of fat? Brown, white, subcutaneous and last but not least- visceral, or belly fat.
Briefly, brown fat has been the most recently discovered and found to burn more calories than the other three. We have more white fat than brown and the job of this type is to store energy and produce hormones. Subcutaneous fat is found directly under the skin and is usually measured using skin-fold calipers to estimate your total body fat percentage.
Visceral belly fat is deep within your abdominal cavity and wraps around those organs.
Doctors warn their patients that this visceral fat will increase your risk of heart disease and diabetes. That danger received more press after research was presented at the European Society of Cardiology in 2012 where their results showed that people with concentrated visceral fat were 50% more likely to die from all causes compared to those who were obese.(1)
Belly Fat Health Effects
The health effects of visceral fat can be complicated and numerous. This is because this type of fat is different from other types of fat in the body.
Doctors believe that it promotes insulin resistance and leads to diabetes. In fact, in a study published in the Endocrine Press, data suggests that fat stored in the legs and buttocks is healthier than that stored in the stomach.(2)
Interestingly, people who are within normal limits for their weight on the scale can also have higher risk when they are also carrying high amounts of visceral fat. You may feel less desire to make lifestyle changes when your weight is within normal limits, but making those changes can improve your risk profile for diseases and illnesses.
Dementia Risk
Records from a study of 6,500 people in Northern California found that those who had a high level of visceral fat also had a higher risk of dementia, even for people who were within normal limits for overall weight but were carrying extra visceral fat and larger bellies.
The scientists theorize that this is because the belly fat impacts hormones, such as leptin, that may have some adverse effect on the brain. Although leptin plays a role in appetite it is also important to learning and memory.(3)
Belly Fat and Back Pain
Back pain is a condition that affects people from around the world. Unfortunately, the pain and discomfort it causes can't be escaped by movement or splinting.
This means that if you suffer from back pain, you'll likely feel it if you are standing, sitting or lying down. Unlike a pulled muscle in your arm or leg, you can't use a sling or crutches to protect the area.
Instead, it's more important to get to the root cause of the back pain and eliminate that or reduce the effects as quickly as possible in order to improve the likelihood that it will heal quickly.
According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, most people with low back pain will experience the pain because of a muscle irritation, nerve irritation or bone lesions.(4)
According to the Mayo clinic, approximately 80% of people will experience low back pain at least once in their lives.(5) It's a common reason for loss of work time and for doctor visits.
Spinal Stress
One risk factor for the development of pain and degeneration is undue stress placed on the spine. That stress can be alleviated by improving the muscle development in the back and providing more stability for the spine.
That muscle development should be over the entire core – back and belly – to avoid over development of muscles in the back without the development of muscles that counteract the back muscles.
Conventional treatments for back pain include medications, heat or cold therapy, massage therapy, electrical stimulation, cognitive behavior therapy, injections and surgery.
However, with some weight loss to reduce the stress on your lower spine and muscle development to stabilize the region, you may be able to get away without medications and surgeries, to lead a pain free life.
Small Price to Pay
It's time to reduce the amount of belly fat you carry in the way of subcutaneous fat and belly fat, both of which increase the weight load your lower spine carries.
You can do this through a smart eating program and just 10 minutes of exercise every other day. This is a small price to pay for being able to get in and out of your car, walking through the grocery store or reading a book without experiencing constant pain in your back.
Paying attention to both your overall weight and where you are carrying that weight are important factors in your overall health. While this visceral fat is more dangerous to your health, there are things you can do to reduce the amount of belly fat you carry and improve your risk factors.
(1) European Society of cardiology
(3) Kaiser Permanente: Larger Abdomen in Midlife Increases Risk of Dementia
(4) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke: Low Back Pain Fact Sheet
(5) Medical news Today: What is Back Pain What Causes Back Pain
(6) Belly Fat Effect: The Real Secret About How Your Diet, Intestinal Health, and Gut Bacteria Help You Burn Fat
(7) Mercola: Confirmed: Belly Fat is Far More Dangerous than Having a Total BMI in Obese Range
(8) Spine Health: Lower Back Pain
(9) NY Times: Brown Fat, Triggered by Cold or Exercise
(10) Harvard: Abdominal Fat and What to do about it
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Lhasa Tashi Choten Hotel is featured by the traditional Tibetan culture in old streets. It is well located in the old town and the main sights can be reached easily by walking distance from the hotel.
It is a traditional Tibetan building enriched with Tibetan decoration. The first floor is a Tibetan Restaurant and the guest rooms are on the second to fourth floor. On the roof, there is a teahouse where you can overlook the city and view the great Jokhang Temple and Potala Palace in distance. Lhasa Tashi Choten Hotel is constructed from the old Tibetan houses so there is no facility like telephone or air-conditioner in the rooms at the moment.


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For brand's the ability to connect with their audience with as many senses as possible is becoming increasingly critical to their success. When looking at a food brand one needs to look beyond just the taste of the product itself. The meaning of the word flavour should take on a new dimension.
The Challenge
In 2015 we were approached by a longstanding client with a new idea. To bring the full range of grilled chicken and other traditional South African fast food to the township in a hip, high quality, urban street food style package.
The model was already unique with restaurants being conveniently situated right on the sidewalk in the township, offering customers quality fast food they would normally need to travel to larger malls for.
So the challenge was clear - we needed to correctly position this brand as high quality, affordable fast food with a flavour born out of the township itself.
The Objectives
- To convey the 'Kasi' (township street) flavour with a humorous feel.
- To create something young, vibrant, hip and urban with an African feel to it.
- Showcase the music, fashion, art and history of township culture.
- Branding needed to translate well to storefront and in-store design.
- Speak to customers on a deeper level than just 'hunger'.
The Approach
From the first conversation with the client, the idea of a whimsical chicken in a box character seemed to fit well with the brand. We then looked at font and colour as well as appropriate imagery to represent township culture.
We set about identifying key elements of township culture looking at elements of streetwear, cars and other items that have become synonymous with representing it. We then, along with the character, developed a series of vector illustrations and colloquial words and statements. These with the use of a vibrant and strong colour palette formed the basis of the visual language of the brand. Which can be applied to packaging, menu's, wall art, clothing etc.
The Result
The store and brand fitted seamlessly into the township setting from the get go, setting a mood and atmosphere which connected with customers right away. The launch of the first restaurant was extremely successful and has so far exceeded revenue expectations by more than 200%.


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Valentine's Day approaches and with it comes the dilemma of how to mark the most romantic day of the year.
Flowers are always a good bet for any flower-loving spouse or soon to be life partner. Who wouldn't like a new clothing accessory like a scarf or comfortable gloves to fend off the February cold?
Those who like to keep it simple will opt for a card containing a poetic verse with a personal note signed off with, "From your Valentine" at the bottom.
Some people like to give, and others like to get, unmentionable under-things.
People like Andre Nadeau with El Diablo Chocolate, Terri Braun at Xocolatl Chocolate Creations and Valerie Sicotte of Whistler Chocolate along with chain outlets like Rogers' Chocolates and Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory have their money on the king of the candy world this Valentine's Day.
Andre's chocolate venture is the newest in Whistler's growing chocolate industry. El Diablo launched in November with a product that includes lightly roasted almonds, cashews, filberts and pecans. El Diablo Chocolate is currently available at Burnt Stew Café in Function Junction, but expansion is underway for Andre's fair trade product.
"El Diablo Chocolate is a natural product and the best quality product I could find in the market and the combination is the product of a couple of years of searching and trying different things," says Andre.
According to Terri from Xocolatl, two of the biggest days of the year for her are Feb. 13 and 14.
"It is a two-day blitz," she says during a phone interview from her small store on Cleveland Avenue in Squamish with the buzz of chocolate production clearly audible in the background.
She starts preparing for Valentine's Day in January by building her inventory of solid chocolate products. Two weeks before the big day she and her staff start increasing the inventory of filled chocolate products.
Valerie says things are a little different for her company because of the nature of the operation. Whistler Chocolate produces organic chocolate bars for retail outlets across Canada and Internet customers around the world.
"Chocolate and Valentine's Day go together," Valerie says so she makes sure her retailers are well stocked leading up to Valentine's Day.
One of the Whistler Chocolate distributors is the Internet-based grocery delivery service called SPUD.ca. Last year, SPUD offered its customers a Valentine's special that included Whistler Chocolate along with a rose.
The chocolate entrepreneurs can thank the author Geoffrey Chaucer as he is the person commonly credited as the early architect of Saint Valentine's Day as we know it now. Chaucer's poem from 1382 called "Parlement of Foules" honouring the first anniversary of the engagement of King Richard II of England to Anne of Bohemia, a blushing 15 year-old at the time, is one of the first references to a day dedicated to lovers. The poem also suggests birds mate on Feb. 14 each year. Despite the fact that there's no way birds were mating in mid-February in the middle of jolly old England's winter of 1832, Chaucer's reference is said to have set up Feb. 14 as the day western civilization celebrates cupid, romantic love, marriage and courtship.
The sharp marketing minds in the intimacy industry took over where Chaucer left off.
Giving chocolate at Valentine's Day really works because anyone who gets it but doesn't like the sweet treat or opts out of eating it as a dietary choice should find it very easy to share with others.
Terri reports that last year, one of her customers wanted to take chocolate sharing to a whole new level by working with the shop to present an engagement ring to his girlfriend.
"We made a special container of chocolate and we put the ring inside," says Terri. "They are happily married and he's come in several times since."
Many believe that chocolate's combination of cocoa beans with cocoa butter and sugar has great health benefits when taken in moderation.
Valerie is sweetening the deal by wrapping all of her product in compostable packaging so those who want to express their love for another and their love for the earth at the same time can sleep easy knowing the packaging can go into a composting system for eventual return to the earth.
Terri and Valerie offer Valentine's Day shoppers a variety of different chocolates to choose from. There's milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate and variations on these with any number of things added.
Andre is offering one product at this point while her packaging and marketing is in development.
Love is in the air, romance is on the horizon and chocolate is on the tongue. Thank you Chaucer for giving us a reason to indulge in chocolate.


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I work at a public library. To say that the library attracts all kinds of patronage is an understatement. We attract everyone from the frugal upper-middle class (sometimes even the very wealthy, depending on what's going on during any given working day), to the homeless. Of course, this also includes everything from mildly religious people to an alarming number of people who see the Bible as the unfailing, perfect word of God. How do I know this, you ask? Simply by observing the books they check out and the attitude they display toward the secular material in the library. Of course, there is also a population of Mennonites that use the library and you can spot them at a glance because they dress like it's 1872 and the women wear those little caps on thier heads wherever they go (they make some hella-good baked goods and jams for our local farmers market, though - LOL).
What I observe is quite alarming. It makes me feel like there is no hope of this world ever being rid of the mental plague of religion; here's why: The religious people ONLY check out books and materials that do not, in any way, challenge their beliefs. They check out titles like 'Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back' (by Todd Burpo) and 'The Case for God' (by Karen Armstrong)... you get the idea; pretty much anything that is going to affirm their beliefs and not cause them to question anything. You almost never see them checking out any Sam Harris or Greg Epstein. This also applies to the fiction that they read. We have many authors, such as Karen Kingsbury, who write what I like to call "Christian Fluff". These are novels that are 'safe' for Christians to read. They are pre-filtered by the author of any violence, sex, or any other 'objectionable' material. As if ignoring reality will make it disappear. I realize that this is what their religion dictates they do - it's part of the reason that Christianity is self-propagating - but why is this not a red flag to these people? If I were in their shoes, I would want to know why I was not allowed to see certain materials, or why it is considered a sin to look at certain things. But, then, that's why I am an Atheist - I DID question religion. I DID research and came to my own conclusions. I know that a part of them is curious about the secular world, but they are so afraid that if they read materials that question their faith that they will lose faith all together. Well, if you are that afraid that a book or a movie is going to, in a sense, delete your belief in God, then isn't your faith a little shaky to begin with? If you are a TRUE believer and you are absolutely certain that there is a God, then how can a book or any other piece of media change that? And why can't they see this as a problem with the religion itself?
Of course, there is a certain number of them who are just appalled by anything secular and they are not going to give any of it a chance just due to their pure disgust of it. They see anything secular as against God and that automatically disqualifies that material in their mind. It's a loathing that I do not understand, but I see that it exsists non the less. It is a sad, narrow view of the world. I feel sorry for anyone who imposes such a limited world view upon themselves. Of course, most of them don't realize that they are free to chose not to believe this crap. They are too afraid to look any further than their religion dictates. Sad.
That all being said, I really have no problem with them checking out these useless items. I feel sorry for them, but if they want to waste their time and their lives reading and believing nonsense, then they can knock themselves out. I wish they wouldn't, because the more people that turn away from religion, the better our world will be, but to tell them this only makes them dig their heels in further and pray harder. I am not allowed to comment on the materials that our patrons check out, anyway - it is our policy to make everyone as comfortable as possible when using the library. So, they are free to check out their nonsense books without fear of criticism, and that would all be fine and dandy if they would leave the rest of the library (the secular part) alone; but do you think they can? Oh, no!
We cannot keep a nicely stocked section on Atheism, Wicca, Paganism, Islam, Hindu or any other religion/world view because the Christians keep stealing the materials! I am not kidding! At least once a week a patron approaches me regarding a world religion book that is supposed to be in stock - aka on the shelf - and it is simply gone. I wouldn't blame the Christains, specifically, except that we actually caught a man who is a PASTOR trying to exit our building with a stack of these books. He told us that he had checked them out, but upon checking his account we discovered that he did not. That's lying AND stealing - all so people who want to be well informed about the world cannot get their hands on these materials.... as if this is going to cause them to turn to Christianity because that was their only choice at the public lobrary. LOL. Riiiiiight... It also serves the purpose of creating a negative image around people of alternate religions - as if they are the ones stealing the books. That's not to say that this does not happen, but more often than not it's the Christians trying to 'protect' everyone else from something that they deem harmful.
Add to this the fact that there are just some patrons who cannot keep their mouths shut about secular materials. Just last fall I had this man, who was wearing a cross around his neck large enough to crucify a small child, approach my desk. It was around Halloween, so we had many book displays stocked with books about the holiday. This included a display of children's books that contained Halloween themed stories. One of these was called 'Tilly Witch'. This man had a HUGE problem with this book because he believed that it advocated Witchcraft (Wicca) and that it was trying to push it onto small children. Mind you, this is a child's book - I read the whole thing from cover to cover in about five minutes, and it was just a story about a witch who had lost her ability to be wicked and how she found it again. Basically it was about knowing who you are. The man, of course, would never read such a thing so he had no idea what it was about. He just saw the witch on the cover and started assuming things (how does that old saying go?). He gave me the riot act over this book. It did not matter to him how many different ways I tried to explain that this was a PUBLIC library and that we did not censor our materials based on religious or any other content. When that was not a good enough explanation he began trash-talking the Wiccan religion. This crossed the line for me. I am not a Wiccan, but I used to be, and several of my friends are still. This man was trying to convince me that ALL Wiccans/pagans were bad people. That they were liars, thieves, and just evil in general. At this point I explained to him that he was crossing my line of morality and that he had no right to speak of another religion in this manner. At that point he assumed that I was Wiccan and wanted to discuss the fate of my 'imortal soul'. I had no interest in this and I told him so. At this point I was so upset that I was shaking and I had to get away before I blew my top. I retreated into the back room and he walked out the front door. About 30 seconds later he was back. He approached my co-worker, who had seen the whole scene go down, and asked where I had gone. She explained to him that I was not available and that if he needed any help that she would help him. This is not what he wanted, so he got really pushy about it and just kept asking for me. At this point it was clear that he was not going to leave unless a) I came out of the office and confronted him or b) I called security on him. Not wanting it to come to throwing him out of the library (I know, I know... I am TOO nice to these people), I came out and looked him right in the eye. I told him that I was not interested in talking to him about God, Jesus, or my immortal soul. I told him that I was very well informed about the Christian religion and that I did not believe any of it. I told him that there was nothing he could do or say to change my mind. His response to all of this was something like: "You don't know what I wanted to talk to you about! That's part of being a witch! You think you can read people's thoughts! You are an evil witch!" (LOL) At that point I said "You don't know me and you have no right to speak to me that way. I am NOT Wiccan, that is just something that you ASSUMED about me. I am going to walk away now and I am not going to come back. If you persist in this venture, I am going to call security." and I left; so did he. What a wack-job!
My latest iritation comes just this week. I was getting a book called "Unchristian" (by David Kinnaman) ready to send out to another library on inter-library loan. I flipped through the book to look for any old check-out slips and such, and I instantly flipped to a spot where there was a half-sheet of paper tucked into the book. I took it out and -low and behold- it is some pro-Jesus flier that someone had tucked into the book. Now, this book inparticular is written by a Christian about the way that other Christians act and treat their fellow man. It was NOT an anti-Christian book in any way, just the title seemed that way. I hoped that this was an isolated incident and that a Christian reader had just left the paper behind by mistake - perhapse they were using it as a bookmark - but I had to go and check the other books on the shelf that appeared to be 'unchristian' in some way. You guessed it! There was one of these sheets tucked into every book title in the religion section that appeared to be non-Christian in nature. Every. Single. One. This pisses me off to no end. If I were to tuck pro-Atheist propaganda into all the Christian titles, there would be an uproar and an OUTRAGE over it!!! What, exactly, are they trying to accomplish here? Do they honestly think that if they cram this shit in our face enough times that we will beleive it? Most of us turned away from Christianity because of all the cramming-it-down-your-throat behavoir; it is certainly not going to turn anyone the other way!
These people frustrate me to no end. There is no gain to be had by this kind of behavior. All it does is confirm to me that they are all wasting their time studying, advocating, and worshiping something that is, quite simply, not there.
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It's like the library that I go to here, for college. Campus library is filled with just campus materials, so I don't get my books that aren't for class there. Instead, I go to a "family" library that is down the street from my aunt's house.
I took a look at the selection, and it's all JUST as pitiful and biased as my aunt herself. Christ. I'm going to attempt to order atheist books through them and hope I get some sort of reaction. Good, bad, I don't care, I just can't stand being stifled. (To look for something that didn't have God in the description I ran to the Teen Fiction section. Ah, harmless dragons...no swearing, but better than nothing. I guess they figure that the teenagers are old enough to know that dragons aren't real...)
They will only read anything that confirms their bias towards Christianity. Burn the rest!! I visit my local bookstore at least once a month. I always make a point of moving a few Dawkins (or similar) titles into the religion section. They actually house books on angels in the self-help section. I sometimes put a coloring book in there.
Just as I suspected! There really are losers who steal books they don't agree with from the library...can you imagine!? I can't tell you the number of times I look up a book related to lgbt issues, feminism (especially), or atheism to find it is just missing in action. I have very, er, progressive interests...all quite abhorrent to the traditional theist. I thought I had a problem with the Dewey decimal system, so I've become quite anal about writing call numbers down. All the while it's probably been these narrow minded pricks robbing me and my community of our intellectual pursuits. My library is just down the highway from The Creation Museum. Sigh.


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Thirteen-year-old Jane was known to the constables of Sydney as two mentions in the Police Gazette preceded her arrest under the Industrial Schools Act. In April 1870 a warrant was issued, probably at the instigation of her parents, because she was:
in the habit of wandering about in company with prostitutes. … generally in company with a girl named Pike who frequents the racecourse.5
Jane was arrested by constable HENEBERRY some days later and charged with being under the age of sixteen years and in the company of prostitutes.6 On 20 April she was sentenced to seven days in Darlinghurst Gaol and was described there as a 14-year-old Catholic who was a common prostitute who had been born in Sydney. In court Jane's unnamed parents stated that they had brought her to the police as they could not control her and had requested police assistance in arranging her arrest.7 They further stated that she was continually leaving home and associating with prostitutes. Her mother said that she had been searching for Jane for some weeks8 and her father stated that he was willing to pay two shillings and sixpence a week towards her support if she could be sent to the industrial school.9 The court decided to postpone any admission to allow the police time to ascertain the character of the girls with whom Jane was associating.
Nothing further was reported until October that same year when a further mention of her was made in the Police Gazette which named and described Jane as a suspect after the theft of two straw hats.10 Jane, now reported to be fifteen years old, was arrested by sergeant DWYER for stealing two hats from the children of John WRIGHT of Phillip Street, Sydney.11 She appeared in court on the 17 October 1870,12 and was charged under the Industrial Schools Act, with being under the age of sixteen years and in the habit of wandering about the streets in no lawful ostensible occupation. According to her parents she had left her home more than twelve months ago, and had been leading a very depraved life.13 The Police Gazette stated:
This offender is supposed to be identical with Jane Murphy of Malcolm's Lane14
It is unknown whether Malcolm's Lane was the residence of her parents or whether it was the location of the prostitutes with whom she was associating or the residence of the unidentified PIKE family. It is considered most likely that Malcolm's Lane was the location of the residence of her parents.
A James MURPHY of Malcolm's Lane was a nominator for the representative of Bourke Ward in November 1867, two years before Jane's arrest.15 He was also identified as John MURPHY in one report.16 No evidence of a family named MURPHY can be found in Malcolm's Lane in 1870 in either Sand's Directory or Sand's Street Index. A William MURPHY lived in the lane in 1861 but this particular lane was only mentioned in 1861 and 1880 in the index. Whether any of these men was Jane's father cannot be verified.
Jane was admitted to Newcastle on 20 October 1870.17 The section of the Entrance Book containing her admission details has not survived so no information about her education, family, religion or discharge can be confirmed from this source. Jane's name does not appear on the list of at risk girls compiled by the constables of Sydney in July 1867. It is also not possible to confirm Jane's actual name as the complete admission list complied by LUCAS in April 1872 transcribed her name as 'Jane Mary MURPHY'18 and the Biloela transfer lists recorded her name as Mary J. MURPHY. These transfer lists did confirm that she was a fifteen-year-old Catholic.19 Both lists were transcriptions from the original, now missing, record so it is unknown what admission information was provided in that record. LUCAS's admission list contained many transcription errors20 and although the transfer lists do not show the same, or as many, errors, it is considered likely but cannot be verified, that Mary Jane MURPHY was the name under which she was recorded when she was admitted to the school. It is conceivable that Mary Jane was known as Jane within her family and also in her day to day life within the school. This may then suggest that her mother was also Mary and the use of her second name occurred in the family to distinguish between the two.
Jane transferred with the school to Biloela on Cockatoo Island in May 1871 and was one of the eight girls arrested by constable DICK who were charged at the Water Police Court on 17 October 1871, with damaging and destroying Government property on the island.21
The conduct of the girls prior to their arrest was described by the police as outrageous. Stones and bricks were flying about in all directions, and about 100 panes of glass were destroyed. On being placed in the Water Police boat the prisoners commenced singing, and continued in the exercise of their vocal powers up to the Circular Quay.22
In court the girls pleaded guilty but also pleaded:
in extenuation that there were six girls placed in a dormitory with nothing but the bare flags to lie on.23
Each girl was ordered to pay a fine of thirty shillings, with an alternative of two months' imprisonment. Jane and her co-accused, Sarah BOURKE, were fined a further £3 each, with an alternative of two months' imprisonment for breaking a door – the property of the Government – valued at £3.24 The sentences were to be cumulative. Darlinghurst Gaol records for 1871, where the girls were recorded together thus verifying Jane's identification, document that Jane was a Catholic who had been born in Sydney in about 1853. Jane, Mary COUGHLAN and Sarah BOURKE were released from Darlinghurst by February 1872.25
On 6 June 1872, LUCAS wrote a letter requesting permission to apprentice Jane to Mr. HATHWAITE of Goulburn for a year at three shillings a week. No other letters were included in the correspondence but the notation 'approved' was recorded in the margin. LUCAS repeated Jane's admission date and made the surprising, and for LUCAS probably generic, statement that she had been conducting herself well.26 It is unknown whether Jane ever took up this apprenticeship because LUCAS, in his report of 9 December 1872, informed the Colonial Secretary that both Jane and Sarah BOURKE had been apprenticed to Pemberton Campbell PALMER of Queanbeyan27 thus sending two of the ringleaders of the attack on Biloela in September the previous year, together to an apprenticeship. By 12 December 1872, the pair had run off. They were recaptured and appeared in the Police Court in Queanbeyan
charged with having absconded from their employer. The girls, it appeared, having run away, a warrant was issued for their arrest, and resulted in their being brought in custody from Molonglo on Friday, and confined in the jail for the night. Upon the hearing of the case the fair prisoners wisely elected to return to their service instead of abiding the more unpleasant alternative.28
This return to the apprenticeship either didn't occur or PALMER sought to punish the girls as a report appeared in the Police Gazette early in 1873 noting that Jane had been arrested by the Water Police in Sydney.29 It may be that Jane or both girls absconded again but no report of this has been found. Both girls subsequently appeared in the Sydney courts on 14 January30 and were remanded until 21 January 1873.31 They were charged on warrant with absenting themselves from their indentured service and were ordered to pay £10 each or in default to be imprisoned for two months. The Empire stated that:
One of the girls asked the police magistrate whether they would be free at the expiration of their time of imprisonment, or whether they would be sent to the Biloela school again. His Worship informed her that they would be sent back to the school, and after they were discharged from there they could be compelled to complete their term of service with Mr. Palmer, the person from whom they had absconded.32
Sarah and Jane were sent to Darlinghurst Gaol and were subsequently returned to Biloela on the 20 March33 after their two month sentence was completed.34 Darlinghurst Gaol records for March 1873, match the admission numbers for two admissions for Jane but the record is unclear and may be a clerical error made at the time. The record indicated that Jane had been arrested for drunkenness and had appeared in the Central Police Court on 8 March.35 There are no reports concerning this appearance found in either the Sydney Morning Herald or the Empire. Sarah also appeared separately from Jane during the January and March periods.36 No explanation has been found as to why this was the case but the girls may have absconded separately from PALMER's employ, been arrested separately but appeared in court together and therefore served time separately – although the records do not indicate that this occurred. The descriptions of Jane are sketchy but she was recorded as both a twenty-year-old and a 17-year-old Catholic who had been born in Sydney.37
After Jane's return to Biloela she remained rebellious as she and Emma GREY, another Biloela girl, were 'confined for the day for misconduct while at prayers on Sunday'. On 15 September 1873, Jane and two Biloela girls, Mary Ann WILLIAMS and Elizabeth SHARKEY, were confined to Number 3 Dormitory for insolence to the Matron.38 On 9 October 1873, LUCAS recorded her name as Jane MURPHY alias Mary MURPHY, when he announced to the Colonial Secretary that she would turn eighteen 'on the 20th instant.'39 He requested advice as to what was to be done with her and the Colonial Secretary stated '[b]eing over eighteen years Mary Murphy may be discharged' and this was approved.40 LUCAS wrote in his report on 27 October 1873, that Jane alias Mary had been discharged to the care of her mother. Her mother wasn't named.41
The CSIL Index will be reviewed to ensure that all references to Jane aka Mary Jane aka Mary have been located as the reference to her mother strongly suggested that some communication from this unidentified woman might exist. It is considered very unlikely that LUCAS would have been so specific to the Colonial Secretary without any prior external correspondence occurring.
Distinguishing between the women named Jane MURPHY in Darlinghurst Gaol is difficult. Other than Jane's gaol admissions at the time of she was sent to Newcastle, no other appearances have been confirmed. After Jane's discharge from Newcastle it is thought that all Sydney newspaper reports and gaol admissions for a girl of her age and birth location refer to Jane. The Newcastle admission was identified in Darlinghurst records in 1870 as number 1223 where she was described as a common prostitute; in 1871, with the Biloela rioters as 3828 and in 1873, with Sarah BOURKE as number 79 and later, alone, as number 999. Admissions for another one or possibly two other women named Jane MURPHY appear in the Darlinghurst records but while the name is very common, and appearances from this time can't be proved, it is believed that all references to the girl born in Sydney refer to the girl who was sent to Newcastle. The Jane MURPHY who appeared often from the early 1860s till about 1869 in court and gaol for riotous behaviour, prostitution and obscene language, had been born in Ireland and had arrived on the Southwark in about 1849. This woman was definitely numbered in the 1871 Darlinghurst records as 1423, 2859 and 3577. Jane is unlikely to be either of the women admitted to Darlinghurst Gaol in 1871, number 1364 or in 1872, number 72.
The very first reference that almost certainly refers to Jane probably occurred in early 1868 before her arrest.42 Her parents had stated in October 1870 that Jane had left their home and been on the streets for at least a year.43 After leaving Biloela she was also almost certainly the 'girl'44 associated with thefts by Rose Ann DIVINE and Mary Ann WILSON45 in July 1874. Jane was eventually discharged as she was considered not to have been involved.46 Her name was recorded in the newspaper reports of these incidents as both Jane MURPHY and Mary Jane MURPHY,47 further supporting that these incidents referred to the Newcastle inmate, although it may be that reporting errors exist that may confuse her name with that of Mary WILSON.48
The age of the woman entering the Benevolent Asylum on 19 August 1874, and leaving on 19 September 1874, relatively closely matched Jane's age. It is possible that this visit was to deliver the child, Thomas, and this boy has been tentatively attributed to her. Unusually there is no corresponding entry, exit or death in the asylum records for him but the original record has not been viewed. Newspaper reports of court appearances for Jane MURPHY, with the exception of those outlined below, cease shortly after this date.
On the evening of 8 April 1875, Jane was almost certainly admitted to the infirmary after being found lying in a fit by constable JAYCOCK49 at the corner of King and Castlereagh streets50 and the following day she was charged with vagrancy.51 A month later Jane was again almost certainly the woman who needed treatment for lacerations caused by putting her arm through a window.52 She was sent to the Sydney Infirmary on Monday, 31 May 1875, after having been removed from the Central Police Station at 11 o'clock suffering from epileptic fits.53 Jane MURPHY died at the age of twenty54 shortly afterwards. An inquest was held by the Coroner, Henry SCHIELL, on Wednesday, 2 June 1875.55 The verdict was that she had died from 'natural causes accelerated by intemperance.'56 The NSW BDM Index recorded only her age which was confirmed in the newspaper report but also noted that she was a native of the colony. No further reports can be found for Jane MURPHY in the Police Gazette or the newspapers after this date, further supporting an early death.
Without further supporting evidence of other family names from other sources, Jane's family and ancestry cannot be positively identified. The family outlined below has been tentatively attributed to Jane but there is no verification that Jane was a child of this couple.
Jane's stated age in police and gaol records varied. These ages do not match well with the few industrial school admission details able to be located yet they are known to refer to the same girl. It must be considered firstly, that Jane's parents had not been completely honest at the time of her arrest and had lied to get her into the school and to a place of safety. Secondly, that for some reason Jane had lied about her age or finally, that Jane was uncertain about her actual age. All are valid reasons for age discrepancies at this time and in connection with the school. An exact date of birth for Jane had been provided to the Newcastle authorities. On 9 October 1873, LUCAS identified that Jane would turn eighteen on 20 October,57 and this calculated to a year of birth of 1855.58 Unfortunately little or no credence can be placed on this birth year or actual date. It is questionable whether the actual date provided by LUCAS was correct or close to either a birth or a baptism date as the coincidence of her birth date being exactly the same as Jane's admission date to Newcastle may suggest either carelessness on LUCAS's part, a story on Jane's or an ambiguity in the correspondence. Jane's name also cannot be verified. It does however, seem very likely that Jane was actually born as Mary Jane MURPHY and because she was Catholic it is possible that a baptism exists although none has been found. Gaol records consistently stated that Jane had been born in Sydney. Newspaper reports indicated that by October 1870, both Jane's parents were alive and her mother was still alive in October 1873. Most importantly, Jane's parents were accepted by the Sydney constables and the Sydney courts as a married couple. Neither has any indication been found suggesting that Jane was illegitimate although the only evidence for this was based on newspaper reports at the time.
The NSW BDM Index identified many girls named Jane MURPHY but few were named Mary Jane MURPHY. The one record for Mary Jane MURPHY indicated that Jane had been born on 10 March 1853, and had been baptised on 20 March 1853, by Rev. John MEAGHER.59 The parents on this record were Patrick MURPHY of Victoria Barracks, and his wife, Mary A. HUSBANDS. This baptism and these parents have tentatively been attributed to Jane but they are unverified. No evidence of any marriage or other children exists in NSW for this couple and no further trace of them has yet been found. Little more is yet known of this couple and military records have yet to been viewed.
Other possible siblings are also being investigated.
Ten years before Jane's arrest, on 23 April 1845, another Jane MURPHY was born. Her baptism by V. BOURGEOIS at St James' Catholic church, county Cumberland, on 4 May 1845, identified that her father was Patrick MURPHY of the 99th regiment, Victoria Barracks, and her mother was Mary QUINN.60
It is possible that the following incident refers to Jane's parents but as there are likely to be more than one couple with these names in Sydney at this time, this is uncertain. In 1868, Patrick MURPHY, was charged with assaulting his wife, Mary.61 Jane's association with 'a girl named Pike' may suggest that the Mrs MURPHY who assaulted George PIKE in June 1872, while Jane was still under the care of the government, may have been Jane's mother.62
The Michael MURPHY who was admitted to the Vernon on 21 July 1870, shortly before Jane's admission to Newcastle, was arrested in similar circumstances to that of Jane but is not thought to be connected to Jane. The newspaper account of his appearance stated:
Michael Murphy, 12, was charged with, and pleaded guilty to, having been found drunk in Dickson-street. He said that a man gave him some beer and some rum – he does not know what man. The apprehending constable gave him a very bad character. A woman came forward who claimed the boy as her son, and gave a very bad account of him – remaining away from home by night as well as by day, and keeping the company of thieves ; he is altogether beyond her control, and she wished that she could get him on board the Vernon. His Worship told the woman to lay the information under the Industrial Schools Act, directing the boy in the meantime to stand back. The information was laid, the boy was brought into custody under it, and, on his mother's evidence, was ordered to be sent on board the Vernon.63
The Vernon records confirmed that Michael MURPHY was a Catholic and that his parents were still alive. His mother was recorded as able to read. His father was identified as Patrick MURPHY, a carpenter of Smith Street, Surry Hills, who was unable to support him at the school.64 This boy had almost without any doubt been born in 1857 to Patrick and Mary MURPHY.65 This record confirmed that Michael had been the oldest child of the carpenter, Patrick MURPHY, and his wife, Mary HOGAN. They had married the previous year.66 Unless Patrick or Mary had a child from an earlier relationship that they brought to the marriage, this cannot be Jane's family.
The baptism of Jane MURPHY in 1854 is unlikely. Although the ages are very close to those of the Newcastle girl, this girl was probably slightly too young. The record was Catholic and indicated that Jane had been born on 15 November 1854, and had been baptised on 5 December 1854, at St James's Catholic Church, Sydney, by the Rev. Dennis McGINN. Her parents were identified as Henry MURPHY and Maryann THOMAS who had married in 1854.67 Online trees suggest that this Jane MURPHY married William Kennedy EVANS in 1877 in Victoria, and this likelihood is strengthened as no trace of the family can be found in NSW. The strong possibility of a Victorian marriage makes it far less likely that the girl admitted to Newcastle was the daughter of Henry and Mary MURPHY.
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Until this past week the tomato plants in my garden were still churning out tomatoes. Granted, we were getting handfuls as opposed to pints but the unusually warm weather in the Northeast United States has spoiled us. We just had our first hard frost and the tomato vines are, sadly, now withering back, but there are still some great tomatoes at the farmer's markets if you get there soon.
Here's a simple recipe to help you use up the last of this season's crop. This salsa is best with those remaining vine-ripened specimens but if all you can get are hothouse tomatoes you can use those as well. We've also got fresh cilantro and a ton of chili peppers just harvested from our CSA — jalapeños and Serranos and Habaneros — which, depending on your tolerance for heat, are excellent in this recipe.
We made up a batch on a recent Sunday and had it with quesadillas and sour cream as an easy supper. Or, whip up a double or triple batch and serve it with chips and guacamole at your next tailgate party.
This particular recipe is fresh and bright and beats the store-bought variety hands down. It took me less than 10 minutes to make and gets complements every time we serve it…mostly from adults, mind you, but the spice-loving kid would dig in as well. Our girls, unfortunately, prefer the guacamole over salsa. We're working on that! Maybe by the time next season's tomato plants really start producing we'll have some converts in the house. We'll see….
Fresh Tomato Salsa with Lime and Cilantro
Three large tomatoes, finely diced (I suggest you leave the skin and seeds intact unless they really bug you)
One scallion sliced into thin rings
Juice from 1/2 lime
2 tablespoons finely minced fresh cilantro
1/2 red or green jalapeño, finely diced (wear gloves while dicing). You can increase the amount of chili to 1 whole chili if you want a fiery salsa, or substitute a Habanero for the jalapeño.
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
In a medium bowl mix together the diced tomatoes, scallion rings, lime juice, cilantro, and jalapeño with a generous pinch of salt and grind of black pepper. Taste and correct for flavor — you may want more salt, pepper, lime, cilantro, or chili.
Allow flavors to meld for 15 or 20 minutes before serving, keeping salsa chilled (but don't refrigerate for too long…the tomatoes turn mushy if left in the refrigerator for any length of time).
Serve with chips and sour cream, or beside a big stack of cheese (or even chicken or shrimp) quesadillas. Excellent as part of an appetizer tray. And I'll have to post our recipe for guacamole sometime soon as well!
Serves: 4 – 6.
Parent rating: five stars. The lime and cilantro really brighten up this salsa and it has a fresh zing that you won't get from any store-bought variety…even the fresh-made ones. We love it. Great treat in the fall, or really any time of year. Best with fresh tomatoes but I'll probably make a big batch in January for the Super Bowl with whatever hothouse tomatoes I can find at the time. Nice that this is vegetarian and vegan as well.
Kid rating: I'm going to punt here – our kids won't try this version because of the chilis and the cilantro. But I bet that if I were to trick Daughter 2 into taking a bite she'd actually like it. And Daughter 1 actually likes helping me make this, which is sort-of like a short-lived victory. Many kids would give this four or five stars. Our girls aren't awarding stars, unfortunately. Won't stop me from serving it though!


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Bringing the Enjoyment Back into Writing
I'm a really passionate writing teacher — I love teaching writing — but I'm always looking for ways to improve because I was dissatisfied with my results and see it as a reflection of myself. What I was doing before was successful with some students, but there were so many I wasn't reaching.
I've got a dyslexic boy in my class who really struggles, and his dad came in a couple of weeks ago and he was struggling with the homework I set. There was a lot of writing involved and his dad just said, "I'm dyslexic too, and I struggle with doing your homework with my son. I really need a scaffold for him."
He said, "I've seen my son using Write that Essay, can we do WTE for homework instead of your homework?"
Instead of my weekly homework, his job is to do one piece of writing and it's all set out for him. I just thought it was great because dad really struggles as well and he said:
WTE is so great because I can see what my son is doing and I can see the plan and I can actually help him with the individual details. I wish I had this programme at school.
That is one end of the spectrum, and at the other end I have some really top writers in my extension class and they have just taken the WTE skills and run with them.
One girl in my class said, Mrs Bennett, "Why have I never seen this before? Why have I never been taught this before?"
We ask them attitude questions in some of their e-asTTle tests, about how they about writing and usually it's pretty much their worst subject and they don't really love doing it in their spare time. But now, the attitude towards it is so much more positive. They have confidence in themselves as writers.
As a teacher, everything in the programme is there for you. I would spend hours searching online—going to the resource room—trying to cobble together an amazing lesson plan. But the teacher activities are fantastic. In terms of my planning it is clear and sequential, and I find it a massive time saver. I enjoy teaching writing now. I really feel like I'm making a difference with my students: I can see it.
Case Study
|Tui Bennett, Literacy Leader
|Student engagement
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|Improving student confidence


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Not pleased with your pet pigeons? Well, you might not be raising them properly. See how to raise pigeons to enjoy their full benefits. Learn the best practices for keeping attractive birds at home.
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Quaker parrots are great pets and, with proper care, can live for many years. This article will give you advice on buying, bringing home, and caring for your bird.
Like other avians, lovebirds are prone to disease. This article discusses some ways in which you can help your sick pet. It also talks about my experience handling respiratory problems in my female lovebird, Lulu.
Discover what food to feed a budgie as well as a list of toxic foods to avoid. Here is how to easily feed your parakeet a healthy and balanced diet.
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Characteristics And Limitations Of Pc
In internet marketing, advertisers often use ad-networks to position a clickable advertisement on a publisher's web site. A user interested within the commercial clicks on it to get extra information. The advertiser then pays a predetermined amount of cash to the publisher by means of the advert-network. Any such promoting is also known as Pay Per Click on advertising or PPC advertising, as the cash as advertiser pays to the writer is directly associated to the variety of clicks generated from the web site of the publisher. Click on fraud is a sort of fraud where a fraudulent person himself or by utilizing some automated scripts imitates a official person and generates a number of clicks on an advertisement without having any actual interest in the advertisement. It is usually completed with the purpose of making the advertiser lose a number of money. In 1940s, Norbert Weiner, MIT professor and … Read More


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Self ImprovementPosted by Unknown at 9:00 AM
I played this US geography test from Metafilter and failed it the first four times I played it, but I've been doing it a couple times a day the past three days or so. I can now do them in alphabetical order without a mistake (rather than fill in the ones you know and then figure out the rest). Next I'll get them in any random order.
I thought it would be good to find something like this for the rest of the world, since I have a typical American's grasp of world geography and feel a little embarassed about it.
This quiz is pretty straightforward. I got 81 out of 111 on the Europe quiz (damn those Balkan States).
Syvum dot com has a vast array of tests I haven't really explored yet.
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- tracy said...October 1, 2004 at 10:29 AMI did all the lizardpoint quizzes and fared miserably. Except that I got a perfect score for the USA, thanks to recent practice.
I was surprised to do pretty well with Central America (40 / 42). Proximity to the US no doubt a factor.
I did well in Australia (22/24) thanks to the descriptive names of the territoritories.
Africa was the most dismal. 40 / 147.
The others I will spare you.
- Kai Carver said...October 1, 2004 at 11:12 AM110/111 on Europe (I mistook "Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" for Yugoslavia, i.e., Serbia and Montenegro, which goes to show I don't read more than three words in the name of a country, a heuristic that had served me well until now).
I was a bit freaked out that Turkey does not exist on the map.
Oh, for the Baltics, a cheating hint: alphabetical, top to bottom: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. It may also help to remember that Lithuania and Poland have historically overlapped.
Also, I wish you didn't have to press "Next Question" every time.
I fear such a detailed knowledge of European geography may disqualify me from voting in the US election...
- tracy said...October 2, 2004 at 2:10 AM2nd try on Europe:
90 of 111
- Glen Barnes said...October 2, 2004 at 5:37 AMHmm, I think I'll come back to that. I was having a few issues with europe. I looks so different when you are actaully on the ground ;-)
Maybe we should get Bush to take the test?
- tracy said...October 2, 2004 at 7:29 AMAfter drawing a map of Europe for myself:
109 of 111. Of course I may not remember them tomorrow.
- tracy said...October 3, 2004 at 12:45 PMI got 110 of 111 this morning without reviewing my map. I confused Slovenia and Slovakia. Now I'm pondering which part of the map to learn next. Africa, Asia, or the Middle East. Or should I learn all the capitals now?
Do I have too much time on my hands?
- Chris Marstall said...October 4, 2004 at 5:00 PM108/111 in Europe: I got Estonia/Lithania mixed up (twice) and Belarus/Ukraine backwards once
Middle East: 79/87 - problems with Djibouti Armenia Turkmenistan
- Anita said...October 13, 2004 at 8:04 PM101/111 on Europe: I want the Czech Republic to be everything: Austria, Hungary, the former Yugoslav Republic of Slobbovia. Tracy, time for you to come back for a visit.
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