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Korean media has been ripe with controversy in the past little while, with its first ever one-episode drama special dealing with lesbian identities, called "Club Daughters of Bilitis." This is the first show to feature lesbian identities, though there has been a drama series featuring gay men the first drama series that featured gay men. Aside from dealing with lesbian sexuality, the show also dealt with other taboo issues like premarital sex, abortion, and mental illness – all in one episode! The show's title came from an American lesbian rights association in the 50s.
The fact that this aired on a public channel – not cable – is pretty remarkable, (The L Word itself was a cable channel show). As you could imagine, backlash was pretty fierce and immediate, and the network was ordered to stop the scheduled re-run of the episode. Many viewers expressed discomfort and unfounded fear that teenagers watching the show would be influenced to become gay. Another concern was raised over the fact that the show dealt with lesbian identities, which are less public and discussed than the slowly-introduced male homosexuality. (source) Many parents' associations campaigned hard to prevent the one-episode show from re-airing.
The show focuses on the lives of 6 women – 2 friends in high school (Joo-yeon and Yeo-gyung), a couple in their 20s or early 30s (Han-na and Young-eun), and 2 middle-aged couple Myung-hee and Han-ja. The episode opens with Joo-yeon listening in to other girls gossiping about a possible lesbian existing in their classroom, and trying to keep a neutral face as they toss around accusations of the unknown lesbian being "too ugly to get a boyfriend." Thanks to her resourceful ally and friend Yeo-gyung, she finds a website for meetihg other lesbians, which leads her to Han-na, who's going through some relationship troubles and pressure at work from a nosy subordinate. Myung-hee and Han-ja run an underground lesbian bar called Club The Daughters of Bilitis, providing temporary relief from the heteronormative society.
I had a chance to watch it last night thanks to the power of the internet, and here are some thoughts I gathered from it:
I really liked how the show portrayed different generations of lesbians – from teenagers dodging rumours at school, to women in their 20s and 30s fighting familial pressure to marry men, and the middle-aged lesbians who either successfully evaded their family's demands and were left alone, or shattered their families after marrying and having children. It really sent the message home that lesbian identities are not a passing trend or something that is "new" due to Western influences. There's also a great generational moment when Han-na brings the high school student to the club for the first time, and she exclaims: "Oh, it looks so…normal. I thought it might be more…perverse."
The lesbians represented in the show are pretty feminine, as expected. The middle-aged ladies sport short-ish hair (but the kinds of haircuts that could go both ways), but the wardrobe definitely has a feminine bent, with dresses and skirts. The closest to hints of "androgyny" we get is with Han-na, the only woman in the show who is working in a "normal" office environment who wears oversized blazers and leggings. (which is to say, butchness or "true" androgyny doesn't exist on this show)
Sexuality itself wasn't on display very much. Despite some rumours that there might be some sexually explicit scenes, there was zero display of affection – a hug, a little hand on the face, but no kissing. There was a slightly bi-phobic comment as one of the storylines involved a woman who has a one-night stand during a conflict with her girlfriend, and gets pregnant as a consequence. When her partner learns of the pregnancy, she screams: "so it's like that? You just go back and forth?"
What also struck me was the radically different symbolism of "coming out" in the Korean context. Typically, in North America (and according to Dan Savage), coming out is considered a necessary and liberating step to be your "true" self. Sure, the family devastation is factored in, but it's usually mentioned as something temporary that will blow over, something that will not affect your overall safety and status in the world in general. In this show, the only woman who did come out was banned from seeing her children for 10 years, which leads her to say "I can't say I don't regret coming out, or telling my husband." The similar sentiment is echoed from a high school student's advice to a friend: "whatever happens, you can't get caught."
As someone who identifies as Korean and a straight ally to the LGBTQ community, I felt pretty proud watching this. It's still unbelievable to me that something like this got a pass from a story meeting. It gives me hope that maybe Korea can move towards being a more acceptable climate towards gay and lesbian identities and lifestyle – Furthermore, the show's focus on female friendships and mentorship in a way that many drama series do not (because they tend to focus mostly on heteronormative match-making) felt even more special. Other media outlets have expressed similar sentiments about the show's symbolic importance. It also demonstrates the power of media and culture that can really bring something into public consciousness and spark a debate about a largely ignored topic.
Thanks to the power of the internet, you too can watch "Club Daughters of Bilitis" with English subtitles (divided into 4 parts) here.
[stills from "Club Daughters of Bilitis" from here]
*The first drama series to deal with homosexuality, "Life is Beautiful" (which aired on SBS in 2010) resulted in anti-gay groups taking out ads to criticize the show, and the actors were asked to leave a chapel where they were filming a scene. Other independent films, like Antique, features a gay bakery chef's unlikely friendship with a straight bakery owner.


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I just noticed today my dogwood's have leaves they are still alive yeah
I just noticed today my dogwood's have leaves they are still alive yeah
Silly bitches, twitchy links are NOT for kids!-Mel
I have two weeping cherries that have never bloomed, but they're only about 3 years old. I have a 5 year-old lilac that produced its first blooms this season. I need to take pictures, heck it might be another 5 years.
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When we bought our first house (7 years ago) I bought a camelia tree (plant?) and planted it in my front yard and that thing never grew another inch. My hubby and I fertilized it to within an inch of its life, trimmed it, loved it, cared for it and nada, nothing. Year after year that damn thing stayed the same size and only had one measly, lonely little bloom.
We sold our house last year and it's only a few blocks from our new house and I drove by over the weekend and that damn thing has all of a sudden sprouted and is HUGE!!!! And I know those damn people have never done a thing with it. I could have cried I was so pissed.
I thought it would be a tad inappropriate, but I had serious thoughts of walking up into their lawn and pulling it out of the ground just out of spite. And spitting on it for good measure.
(I think I might have anger issues.)
roflllllllll i think you might too
Silly bitches, twitchy links are NOT for kids!-Mel
nwgirl you crack me up. I've had that same thing happen where you do everything right and it just sits there.
I have this beautiful prayer plant, but it wasn't always beautiful. Last year I moved away from the house I'd been living in for 2 years. I swear the room I kept it in had some really bad energy, because that plant would stay alive, but it wouldn't grow. I had moved it in there from another room where it was doing all right. It was in there fro about a year, and it just sat there, no growth, nothing changed at all.
8 months later (now) I'm living in this nice little place, and that plant has just taken off amazingly. It's huge now, and beautiful! I don't get it. Must have been the energy in that room. I do know that I never wanted to be in that room. Couldn't put my finger on why, though. I have this theory that the rocker dude that lived in it for eight years before I moved in to the house did some terrible kinky things in there lol
His bad mojo was funking the place up, eh?
I know what you mean though. I've never lived somewhere like that, but have had that experience at friends' homes. Something I can't quite put my finger on, but a room or spot in the room doesn't feel right. And when I've mentioned it, they've said they noticed it too.
This reminds me of a story I had happen to me (sad). I had a beautiful rose bush, huge, that produced lovely blooms. The house was sold in the divorce, and my ex wanted to move it to his new house. I said no, just leave it, it's so huge it might not make it
The people who bought our house were EVIL, really mean people. They cut the bush down to the ground the very day they took possession of the home.
That bush wouldn't have wanted to live in their yard anyway. They were mean ugly bastards who didn't deserve it, nor did they appreciate beauty in any form. My kids don't even want to drive by their childhood home anymore, they've screwed it up so much. effing people!
And speaking of roses, mine are doing great! I use Maxsea granular sea kelp fertilizer, it's made specially in small batches by some horticulturists in No. Calif. You have to order it online, they don't make huge batches. Really amazing stuff. Makes flowers bloom well into winter (not roses, other flowers )
I just planted tons of stuff I ordered online from 3 different nurserys.
Over spent as I am powerless when looking at flowers. Got them all out by yesterday morning. Took 2 days. Last night it poured-about 4 inches in an hour! Floods every which way. Sun is out now & I am afraid to go look at my babies! Crosses fingers!!
I didn't start out to collect diamonds, but somehow they just kept piling up.-Mae West
^^ohhh, I know the feeling. I forgot you're in Texas. We had the same thing last night, but yesterday was very pretty. I'm so damn sick of RAIN! Hope your babies are ok, I'm powerless against flowers too
I also love groundcovers that are made by Stepables
STEPABLES.COM - Plants that tolerate foot traffic.
There are so many different varities and a lot of them withstand heavy foot traffic. Perfect if you have dogs!
Very cool link, thanks BIAB! I need something like that. I wonder if it will grow in full sun in the summer. Sun is low in the winter but summers it gets really hot in my backyard.
Yes-thanks for that link! Now I'll have more to do, but worth it!
LOVE forsythia-my Aunt has tons & it just is SO beautiful. I have a pink honeysuckle. Slow growing, this is its 4th year & it is really looking great. That heavenly smell drifts all around.
All my plants survived the storms! Yea! Now they will be leaping up!
I didn't start out to collect diamonds, but somehow they just kept piling up.-Mae West
we had a great rain today so i'm hoping it makes my dogwoods happy lol i'm so proud they are still alive i'm known as a serial killer amongst plant life
Silly bitches, twitchy links are NOT for kids!-Mel
Not enough sun for regular grass, like Bermuda, but the intense afternoon sun burns up shade grass, like fescue. So it remains patchy & ugly, with about 10 varieties of weeds.
Separated a bunch of canna lily rhizomes today, but didn't get ruthless enough probably. Had fewer blooms in that patch last year, & I'm sure it was because they were too crowded. Funny, I started with 5 canna rhizomes, about 4 years ago, that I bought off ebay. Now I have HUNDREDS of cannas from those 5. They are starting to sprout, with many of them about 4 or 5 inches tall. Probably should have separated them a month ago, but OH WELL.
Hummingbirds like them (cannas), & I am a sucker for pleasing hummingbirds. I always look forward to the return of "my" regulars. Also have salvia, petunias, jasmine, butterfly bush, hibiscus, & a bed that's devoted to wildflowers. I strive to have a hummingbird paradise.
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We're three weeks into the season, which means we've been doing this long enough for the media buzzards to start circling around coaches they deem to be on their last legs.
First up: Notre Dame defensive coordinator Brian VanGorder.
The Irish were gashed in Saturday night's 36-28 loss to Michigan State, two weeks after dropping a 50-47 double overtime shootout at Texas.
Through three games of this young campaign, Notre Dame ranks 102nd nationally in yards per play allowed, tied for 94th in scoring defense, 103rd in pass efficiency defense and 99th in rushing defense. Still, head coach Brian Kelly said Sunday he still has the right scheme and leader on defense.
In addition to the trouble on the field — Michigan State converted 50 percent of its third downs, threw for 241 yards on 9.3 yards per attempt and rushed for 260 more on five yards a carry — VanGorder also had a rough night on social media. Including from Notre Dame's own staff, though Kelly noted it was an accident.
Notre Dame, unranked for the first time in 20 weeks, hosts Duke on Saturday.


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Former WEC batamweight champion, Miguel Torres and UK stand-out, Brad Pickett will throw down in a bantamweight war at UFC 130 in Las Vegas, Nevada on May 28th, 2011.
Torres is coming off a lackluster unaimous decision win over Antonio Banuelos at UFC 126 earlier this month, putting in the kind of performance that ensure he receives very little damage, but takes away the win even with the boos from the crowd.
Pickett rebounded from an earlier loss inside the WEC cage to Scott Jorgensen when he defeated Ivan Menjivar at WEC 53 in December via decision. The show marked the last one ever put on by the promotion.


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- Huw Hughes |
Lotherton museum in Leeds has announced that it will be introducing a new Fashion Forward exhibition showcasing a collection of brand new and bespoke garments from some of the most exciting designers in Britain, as well as work from final year students of the University of Leeds.
The exhibition will run from 1 March - 20 October 2019, and will shine a spotlight on a talented group of designers who are either from, have studied in, or are currently based in Yorkshire.
The latest pieces from bold design duo Cunnington & Sanderson, and a copper bodice from emerging British sculptural womenswear designer, Sadie Clayton, will be on display. Advocate of the slow fashion movement, Bo Carter, will bring her ethical fashion to the mix, with a selection of garments made from materials including rescue sheep wool, organic bamboo silk and roll-end fabric.
Faye Hindle will display a range of ready-to-wear garments, specialising in structured silhouettes, unusual textures and unconventional techniques, while experimental silicone designer, Jenny Llewellyn, will be producing a brand new piece for the exhibition, consisting of fun statement jewellery in a range of styles.
Natalie Raw, Curator of Dress and Textiles at Leeds Museums & Galleries said in a statement: "The exhibition brings together an inspiring range of contemporary designers who are forging their own path in fashion and breaking the boundaries of what fashion represents.
"From narrative led design to intricate detailing, ethical processes and small scale production, each designer featured has their own story to tell and this resonates with Lotherton's own story of a museum which has been 50 years in the making."


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Apple has unveiled the iPhone OS 3.1 update in the much-hyped It's Only Rock and Rollevent in San Francisco on 9 September. Apple iPhone OS 3.1 update is now available as a free download for iPhone and iPod Touch users.
Apple has incorporated GENIUSfunctionality to its App Store, which will recommend what apps, should the users could go for, on the basis apps that has been already installed on their device. This feature was first introduced in iTunes 8.
This could be useful for those who find it difficult to browse through a massive 75,000 apps to get the most useful applications. Apple has also managed to roll out Peer to Peer gaming, stero bluetooth and Spotlight Search.
In addition, the company announced that the iPhone users will now be able to download ringtones directly from its Apps store. Along the same line, Apple will make around 30,000 ringtones available at the time of launch, with each ringtone priced at $1.29.
New Features In Apple iPhone OS 3.1
- Improved syncing for music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, and photos
- iTunes U content organization
- Redeem iTunes Gift Cards, codes, and certificates in the App Store
- Display available iTunes account credits in the App Store and iTunes Store
- Save video from Mail and MMS into Camera Roll
- Option to "Save as new clip" when trimming a video on iPhone 3GS
- Better iPhone 3G Wi-Fi performance when Bluetooth is turned on
- Remotely lock iPhone with a passcode via MobileMe
- Use Voice Control on iPhone 3GS with Bluetooth headsets
- Paste phone numbers into the keypad
- Option to use Home button to turn on accessibility features on iPhone 3GS
- Antiphishing Warnings for fraudulent websites in Safari
- Improved Exchange calendar syncing and invitation handling
- Fixes issue that cause some app icons to display incorrectly
- Genius Recommendations for Apps
- Genius Mixes
- Download Ringtones Wirelessly
- Organize Apps in iTunes
- Improved syncing for music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, and photos
- Save video from Mail and MMS into Camera Roll
The iPod Touch owners who haven't updated their devices with iPhone 3.0 update can now buy it for $4.45 (Rs. 214 approx.), slashed down from the earlier $9.95 (Rs. 480 approx.). And after that, the iPhone OS 3.1.1 update can be downloaded for free.
You can download & then install the new OS 3.1 by clicking on Check For Updatebutton right from the iTunes software. Make sure you have the latest iTunes 9 installed in order to upgrade the OS to 3.1.


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Madonna is hoping not to see any devotional signage within a 10-block radius.
That's how far away from her Robert Linhart must stay, according to a judge who set the retired New York firefighter's bail at $20,000 for getting alarmingly close to the Material Girl while toting a pocket knife and a sign reading, "I need you."
Linton pleaded not guilty Friday to weapons possession and resisting arrest, both charges he incurred when he was arrested outside Madonna's apartment building on Sept. 21.
The alleged offender's lawyer has maintained that his client wasn't threatening the pop superstar, but merely communicating the affection of a longtime fan.


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I'm now getting behind as tonight I'm at one of my favorite spots in the Port of Sisuslaw in Florence Oregon and will meet up with a Lagotto family to have some Lagotto fun! This is the first time I've landed a spot right on the river… so nice and cool!
Here's my first post from several days back:
Yep, managed to get the LT back on the road, finally!
I left town very early morning on Fri of Memorial Day Weekend, kinda a crazy time to hit the road, but I figured not knowing how the LT would handle I might not mind going slow. It was actually a lovely drive, at least until Gilroy. I decided to take 101 rather than shooting over the Grapevine and getting blogged on I-5. After Gilroy the roads were a mess studded with accidents and gridlock. I actually burst out laughing seeing one of the hwy overhead signs that said SLOW TRAFFIC AHEAD… Really! The traffic had been moving at a whopping 5 to 17 mph for at least the prior 2 hours before that gracious message!
The LT did fine, not as smooth as I would have liked but nicely tolerable; the steering seemed to set in a bit as the miles past, no problem with the wind or drifting out of lane. A long way from perfect but I'm starting to believe that more miles as stated, may improve the ride.
I've had a great time visiting with Lee and her husband Craig… my bed here at their Placerville home is so comfy and I swear I've eaten better and more tasty food this last weekend than I have all year. It's a pleasure I take to heart to be welcomed and looked after by such an amazing friend! Olympia who has been visiting here in Placerville for several months has settled in with a lively routine of snuggling with her hosts, playing ball, doing her rounds on the property, going hiking and off on excursions even getting along with Zak. Lee and I took all 3 of my Lagotti to the Hangtown Cluster Dog Show at the Placerville Fairgrounds. Lee proved patient and steady with the disorganized and somewhat chaotic eye clinic but perfectly irate with what she explained to me is all too typical absurd manners of the local community. Not only confusing and time consuming it was hot and both I and my dogs were overly excited and flustered. All went well however, Dr. Lana Linton did the exam. I enjoyed talking to her esp hearing what a delight it was for an older dog to have cataract surgery . . . coming in stumbling and prancing out all sharp eyed and eager. Wish all dogs in need could have this surgery, but it's very expensive; in any case my 3 will not pass on any heritable eye disease, happy to say they are all healthy and normal.
We watched the American Eskimos go round the ring (in honor of Lee's dogs of course) only a few of them and some with odd haircuts, there was a real beauty in the group, and then the small party of Lagotti Romagnoli (mine were not entered so we just watched, chatted and cheered.) Did not like to see one of the entries with a poodle kinda look and possibly oversize. Let's keep the Lagotto Romagnolo true to its rustic sporting heritage, all curly and ready to work! Hummn…. judges may need more education.
There's a heat wave in India and one right here in Northern California and Oregon there's an early summer heat wave, one that will break records. Getting far too hot…. I'll post much more soon about the climate, it's so important.
Mosquitoes have ravaged the outdoors.. as the edge comes off the heat and I can finally go outdoors to play with the dogs, the mosquitoes attack. In 5 min I average 9 or 10 bites, most of them on my ball throwing arm. Cut lemon slices on the bites, stings badly but is a great improvement to prolonged swelling, sleepless tossing turning and itchy inflammation: follow this up with Aloe Vera and it really helps. Apparently I'm allergic, no I'm not trying to be the first to get a mosquito borne disease just want to go out and play with the pups in my friend's beautiful yard. It's sweltering in my guest room, too hot for me, so it's time, I'll be heading north hugging the coast and just see what happens.


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Hellraiser is a unique film for me because it is one of two films that I absolutely love and have seen a million times, but that also completely grosses me out still. Cronenberg's The Fly is the other one. That whole sequence of Frank growing out of the floor is fucking disgusting, you guys, and his evolution after that really doesn't get any better. I guess it's because both of those films showed me that humans really are nothing more than meat and bones, really, and that kinda sucks. That's what horror films do well. In Hellraiser, there is beauty in the horror, and logic in the fantastical, and intrigue in the deceit.
Although it does freak me out a bit when I read The Hellbound Heart because there she's just a family friend who has a crush on Larry, and in the movie she's Larry's daughter.
Hellraiser is a film that will probably forever remain on the list of my top horror films no matter how much any of the others change as the years go on. It is a timeless story, really, with characters and themes that will always be relevant, and villains that will always be icons in the genre. And now, be prepared to join me on the possibly treacherous journey through the sequels!


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BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix 2011-11-19 Joker
"Joker brings the bass to the Essential Mix!
Joker burst onto Bristol's dubstep scene in 2007, alongside artists like Pinch and Ginz. He runs the Kapsize label with Ginz and he's also released tracks on labels like Hyperdub and Tectonic. Joker's debut album was released on 4AD in October and features SBTRKT collaborator Jesse Ware."
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Comment from Jurkhands
Time November 24, 2011 at 10:19 am
Really disappointing mix, tbh. Was kinda hoping to hear more by the "old" Joker.
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Time December 14, 2011 at 10:41 am
Completely disagree with the above comment. This set is what music is meant to be.


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Testing Your Blood Sugar with Your iPhone
Can iPhones be used to test blood sugar for diabetics? Over 18 million Americans have diabetes, and they all live with the painful, often thrice-daily process of using needles to check blood sugar. The process is clunky and uncomfortable — and dangerous due to potential errors.** ****Sanofi-Aventis** just unveiled the **iBGStar**: a stand alone blood glucose monitor that can plug directly into your iPhone and iPod Touch. The device, which builds upon the existing diabetes-tracking technology WaveSense allow diabetics to test their blood sugar levels on the go, record notes, and send information to their healthcare providers via a free iPhone App. Could this be the beginning of mobile diabetes monitoring?
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This article from the OWN network's life class speaker, Rev TD Jakes. Check it out if you struggles with finding your purpose.
This article from the OWN network's life class speaker, Rev TD Jakes. Check it out if you struggles with finding your purpose.
First let me just say that I am a huge Tony Robbins follower. His words build and heal. He is truly worth a listen. He is not into cuddling you but he will challenge you and you will grow.
So, last night it was about fear and the story you tell yourself and how that story either empowers you or doesn't.
What's your story?
I'm Gail (very much like Gail). Gail was a mother of three who felt a void in her life because her failed business and career aspirations. She complained that although she loves her family, she is just not fulfilled. Tony basically told her to get over herself. Her issues is that she was trying to please her dad. Mine was trying to take care of myself because my daddy didn't. Same result: wanting a powerful career to prove a point and discounting everything else (wonderful kids, good friends, great relationship, etc,...)
Shocking but true. My career is very much still important to me but I had to refocus on my motive and my method.
What's your story? (You saga, excuses, etc,..)
What's your motive? (The reason why you want it)
What's your method? (The mental, physical and emotional ways you are attempting to get what you want)
We can get cloudy on out "search". Let's face that fact that it can get down right foggy. Your life changes and you don't know what is going on with you. Still, you want work that you love and that you are excited about. So, ask someone. One thing about being "inside" of you, you only know what you know so you will get the same answers to the same questions that you keep asking yourself.
You: Hey, what do you think I am good at?
Trusted individual: Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah and Stuff. Your great.
That is a sample conversation :)
Choose people who know you. It doesn't have to be family members but ask someone that knows you intimately: siblings, parents, your bff, your spouse, and coworkers. If you can get 3 people that is good, 5 would be great.
For bravehearts only: Ask only 3 or the most honest person/people what they think is holding you back in your success journey. The only reason why I say people who are honest because you need honesty, not a "YOU ARE PERFECT" party. That's very unproductive.
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What is Lent?
by Rev. Elizabeth
Beginning this Wednesday, March 6, we will begin one of the most ancient seasons of the church, Lent. In the wider culture of the United States, Lent is likely known as a time to give something up. Lots of people give up chocolate. Some people give up Facebook. Growing up in Cleveland, a very Catholic city, Lent was a time when you didn't eat meat on Fridays (which meant there were delicious fish fries everywhere on Friday for six weeks in late winter). Lent, however is so much more than that.
The Episcopal and Lutheran traditions are both Liturgical traditions. This means that we have a pattern to how we worship together (the Ordo), but it also means we have a pattern of how we live our lives together that is measured in a cycle of seasons that repeat each year and (for many) a pattern to our days. This idea of a pattern of life together is ancient, reaching back into time before Christianity, and into cultures across the globe. This Christian iteration of a pattern of life together, liturgy, has grown and evolved over time. A Lenten season of 40 days was commonly observed as early as the year 330 AD (while Christmas would not become a common practice until the 6th century!) . When we observe Lent, we are engaging in an ancient practice of the church, rooting ourselves into the Christian faith and Christian practice by engaging in a practice shared by some of the earliest Christians. In a time when it feels like everything is going SO FAST and changing all the time, there is incredible beauty, stillness, and transcendence of the cultural moment in engaging the ancient practice of Lent.
Lent is a 40 day period of examination of our lives, an attempt to re-orient ourselves towards what really matters, as we walk with Jesus towards his betrayal and arrest (Maundy Thursday), his death on the cross (Good Friday), his time with death (Holy Saturday), and his defeat of death as he was resurrected (Easter). For many communities historically and today, Lent is a time of preparation for baptism, during which baptismal candidates engage in activities such as study of scripture, repentance of sins, daily prayer and other forms of spiritual disciplines as they prepare to die to their old selves and to be born anew in Christ through the sacrament of Baptism.
Why 40 days? The number 40 appears prominently in the Bible, most notably as the number of years the people of Israel wandered in the desert after escaping slavery in Egypt before being led to the Holy Land and the number of days Jesus spent in the wilderness being tempted by the adversary after his baptism. Both of these are ways we can think about how we approach the season of Lent. Lent is a time to sit with difficult things.
During Lent we can sit with feelings of being lost, being lonely, feeling far from the presence of God, how we hold on to those fleeting moments when we are viscerally aware of God's presence while we wander through this life, and finding or engaging practices that nourish us for the journey of life. We can also spend time observing the things that call us away from God (be those things power, wealth, and glory or shame and self-doubt) and do what we need to do to turn back towards God. Lent is a season in which we are called to practice metanoia (the Greek word we usually translate as repentance). Metanoia is the changing of direction or transformation of ones heart. We generally talk about repentance as a process -- self-examination (we look inside and see where we have gone wrong), confession (stating what we have done wrong/apologizing), atonement (reparation or trying to make things right).
We begin Lent with Ash Wednesday, a day when we hear scripture readings of God's call for us to do justice in this world along side of readings reminding us to be humble. We are reminded as individuals and as a community that this is not permanent, that we will die, with the marking of a cross on our heads in oil and ashes while we are told, "From dust you came, to dust you shall return." The universal truth which all of us, no matter what we believe, understand to be true.
We move through Lent engaging our own personal and/or communal practices of penitence and/or discipline. On Maundy Thursday, we remember the final supper Jesus had with his friends, his grief as he prayed in the garden, and the denial and betrayal of his friends. On Good Friday, we spend time contemplating the death of Jesus, the death of God, on the cross; the violent, state-sanctioned death of an innocent man, and what it means that through that death we receive salvation. We keep vigil on Holy Saturday, watching for his promised resurrection. Late Saturday or early Sunday we celebrate the resurrection of Christ and the defeat of death.
So, you may be wondering, what should I do during Lent? I have some... strong opinions on this. Use Lent as a time for self examination. Take on a new spiritual practice (or try one each week!), try a new way of prayer, take up daily study of scripture, spend five minutes a say in wonder at the amazing gift that is you, or take up a practice of gratitude. With the prevalence of disordered eating in our society, I generally advise against practices that are really just diets disguised as spiritual practice or practices that reinforce the ideas that there is some kind of body appearance that will make one more worthy of love. Spiritual practices or disciplines can too easily be used to disguise the ways we punish, torment and shame ourselves, and Lent is a time it is very easy to engage these ways of being. Engage in practices that bring you closer to God, closer to yourself, closer to those around you.
Lent is a time for connecting to the ancient practices of the Christian faith, connecting to God and to ourselves. Find a practice that will do these things, that you might be transformed through the power of Christ.


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My approach to cultivating self-love
My approach to cultivating self-love
Throughout my time practicing radical self-love, exploring my sensuality and diving in to soulful practices, I have developed a range of approaches to this work. These four methods are the cornerstones of everything we do and underpin all of our classes, workshops, retreats, online courses and membership program.
I believe that there is so much power in movement and in moving our bodies from a place of self-love. Unlike the traditional fitness industry, which sends women messages about what is wrong with their bodies, thereby guilting us into 'exercising' – it is my firm belief that you are not to be fixed. I believe that movement can be a transformative tool for accessing a deep sense of self-love – without trying to change our external bodies. Sensual Yoga is a fusion of yoga, dance and exotic feminine movement which aims to get you out of your head and into your body.
To ritualise something is to make it sacred and carry it out with intention. I believe in the power of ritualising everyday tasks to make each day more magical by bringing intention and awareness to things that may have previously been on autopilot. Through sacred ritual, we cultivate mindfulness and can more easily access our sensuality and in turn, self-love. Through my weekly journal posts in THE RITUAL SERIES, I offer practical ways to incorporate rituals in to your daily life.
To bring our minds to stillness is the single most powerful act of self-love we can take. By purposely slowing down and observing our thoughts, we can cultivate a sense of calm and clarity in to our lives. I advocate many different practices of meditation, including mindfulness, guided visualisations and japa mala meditation.
Most women in the west are wholly disconnected to their bodies natural rhythms and cycles. This disconnection often comes from a lack of education and a culture of shame around all things feminine. It is my goal to help women to get in touch with their own cycles and to develop a relationship with their bodies that goes beyond the external. By understanding and respecting the way our bodies operate and our connection with the moon and the earth's natural cycles, we can begin to realise just how powerful we are.
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124 ENVIRONMENTALLY SIGNIFICANT CONSUMPTION 5 Strategies for Setting Research Priorities Paul C. Stern, Thomas Dietz, Vernon W. Ruttan, Robert H. Socolow, and James L. Sweeney The topic âenvironmental impacts of consumptionâ suggests a great variety of possible research directions, a few of which are illustrated in Chapters 3 and 4. Because of this variety and the persistent confusion about definitions of consumption (see Chapter 2), it is useful to apply an importance criterion in considering priorities for research on consump- tion. The highest-priority research questions should be those that con- cern aspects of consumption with major environmental effects. This chapter discusses three strategies for setting research priorities so as to direct attention to the most important links between consumption and the environmentâthat is, to the factors that account for the kinds of consumption that have major deleterious effects on the environment or that may have such effects in the future. It focuses especially on a re- search strategy that first considers the major environmental effects of consumption and then reasons from environmental effects to human causes. It also discusses two other strategies: one that proceeds from human causes to their environmental effects, and one that begins with possible policy interventions and considers their effects. ENVIRONMENT-FIRST STRATEGY FOR SETTING RESEARCH PRIORITIES Human activities that directly perturb key properties of the biophysi- cal environment are important research topics under an importance crite- rion. Such activities have been referred to as proximate causes of environ- 124
STRATEGIES FOR SETTING RESEARCH PRIORITIES 125 Sources of Change Within and Between Environmental Systems Environmental Systems Human Proximate Proximate Effects on What Causes Humans Value Human Systems Sources of Change Within and Between Human Systems FIGURE 5-1 Interactions between human and environmental systems. SOURCE: National Research Council (1992). mental change (see Figure 5-1), to distinguish them from other activities, called driving forces, that have environmental effects only through their influence on proximate causes (National Research Council, 1992). Hu- man beings proximately cause environmental change when they burn fuel and thus release combustion products into the atmosphere; when they irrigate land with river water, changing the composition of the water and the height of the water table; when they cut trees or otherwise alter land cover and the habitats of biota; and in countless other ways. The immediate purposes for which they do these things (travel, crop produc- tion, construction, etc.) and the deeper reasons behind those purposes (subsistence, financial gain, self-expression, status seeking, etc.) cause environmental change only indirectly. This line of thinking, from environmental effects to proximate causes to driving forces, suggests a promising and systematic strategy for select-
126 ENVIRONMENTALLY SIGNIFICANT CONSUMPTION ing research that is likely to have relatively large practical importance. The strategy begins by identifying the proximate causes of an environ- mental condition of concern (the human activities that have the greatest direct effect on it) and then addresses, in a more or less logical order, the following questions: Which actors are responsible for these activities? What driving forces govern their behavior and how do these forces affect each other? What are the trends in these activities and their driving forces over time? How might the activities be changed, if change is desired? The strategy has been described in detail in previous work on the causes of global environmental change (National Research Council, 1992) and is summarized here as it applies to questions of consumption. Identifying Proximate Causes of Environmental Change A logical first step in employing this strategy is to identify important environmental properties that human activity may be changing. For ex- ample, for climate change, the key environmental properties are atmo- spheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, and the albedo of the earth. Information on such properties comes from re- search in the relevant natural sciences, which helps set the agenda for research on human activity by directing attention to those human activi- ties that directly affect the important environmental systems. The proximate causes of changes in greenhouse gas concentrations are known to a good first approximation. The most important single one by far is the burning of fossil fuels which, by releasing carbon dioxide and methane, is currently responsible for about half of all anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Other important proximate causes include cattle raising, certain land use changes, such as clearing forests and creat- ing or eliminating wetlands, and the various activities that release chlo- rofluorocarbons. (Some land use changes also affect global climate by altering the earthâs albedo.) The uncertainties in estimates of the impor- tance of each of these causes can be reduced by further research on the relevant biophysical processes. Nevertheless, the broad picture can be summarized well enough for the purposes of setting initial priorities for research on human activities. The summary is graphically represented in Figure 5-2, which presents the proximate causes as the limbs of a tree, with their thicknesses indicating their relative contributions to climate change induced by greenhouse gas emissions. Greenhouse gas emissions provide a good illustration of the strategy of reasoning backward from environmental conditions to their causes. For many other major environmental changes, the relative impor- tance of various human activities as proximate causes is not as well un- derstood. For example, the proximate causes of species extinctions in-
STRATEGIES FOR SETTING RESEARCH PRIORITIES 127 Process Steam Motors Other Heat Power Refrigeration Aerosols Industrial Uses Appliances Industry Cooling .20 Heating Paddy Rice Cattle Nitrogen Buildings .03 .03 Fertilization Other .02 .14 Land Biomass Clearing Fuel Air Rail Transportation Landfills .01 .12 Truck Autos Other .05 Agriculture .08 Landfills Fossil Fuel CFCs Biomass Other Use .25 Burning .06 .46 .15 FIGURE 5-2 A representation of the relative contributions of human activities in the late 1980s to global emissions of greenhouse gases. NOTE: CFC = chloro- fluorocarbon. SOURCE: National Research Council (1992). clude a variety of human activities that directly reduce habitat for endan- gered species. Many scientists believe that clearing of moist tropical for- ests is the leading cause of species extinction because of the extent of deforestation and because that biome is home to the greatest number of species found nowhere else. But the global rate and distribution of extinc- tions are still highly uncertain, as is the relative importance of different kinds of land use changes. Still, the analytical strategy of reasoning back from environmental effects to proximate causes remains viable. It will be necessary to revise the research agenda, of course, as knowledge im- proves about precisely which human activities are the major proximate causes of particular environmental effects. Estimating the magnitude of the main proximate causes may require
128 ENVIRONMENTALLY SIGNIFICANT CONSUMPTION difficult conceptual, analytical, or empirical work. To estimate strato- spheric ozone depletion, we need information on the ozone-depleting potential of a fairly large number of chemical compounds and their by- products over periods of time, as well as their rates of release. The most important proximate causes are identified by conducting detailed calcula- tions: they are those activities that directly result in releases with the greatest total ozone-depleting potential for a time horizon of concern. Analysis of the proximate causes of loss of biodiversity is much more difficult. It requires developing acceptable definitions and measures of biodiversity (e.g., should it be defined only as extinctions of species or also in other ways, such as loss of ecological niches or of genetic diversity within species; if the other concepts are important, how can they be mea- sured?). This analysis also requires studies of the effects of particular kinds of human activities on each index of biodiversity. Classifying hu- man activities for this purpose is not straightforward. For example, land use conversion does not have a unitary effect on biodiversity. Its impact depends on the ecosystem in which the land is converted, the new uses to which it is put, and also on such factors as the size, shape, and geographic relationships among unchanged parcels and those that are put to new uses. Because of such complexities, it may be misleading or inappropriate to measure threats to biodiversity in terms of a hypothetical average hect- are of land conversion. Determining which human activities have major proximate effects on environmental systems can point social and behavioral researchers to the broad types of activity that are likely to be most important in terms of a particular environmental change. For example, once the ozone-depleting potentials and the rates of emission of the various ozone-depleting com- pounds were calculated, it became possible to calculate the overall impact of each gas on ozone depletion, to consider the human activities that release each gas, and thus to identify the most ozone-depleting activities. This kind of analysis is important for choosing which kinds of consump- tion to study. Without this sort of analysis, behavioral researchers have often expended their efforts on studying human activities that are plausi- bly environmentally relevant and that they could easily address with concepts from their disciplines, but that did not contribute greatly to the environmental problem at hand (Stern and Oskamp, 1987). An alternative procedure for identifying important proximate causes of environmental change is to focus first on major materials and energy transformations and to estimate the environmental impacts of each. This is the approach used by Wernick and Allen in their contributions to Chap- ter 3. This approach is useful for studying the human causes of environ- mental conditions that have been linked to particular transformations of materials or energy. For example, Allenâs approach can, in principle, be
STRATEGIES FOR SETTING RESEARCH PRIORITIES 129 used to examine any environmental effect that has been attributed to a class of chemical compounds by analyzing flows of the particular com- pounds most strongly implicated in producing the effect. The difficulty in practice is to identify all the compounds with important direct or indi- rect effects. Analysis of the human activities that result in production of the responsible chemicals may then identify the most important targets for reducing the environmental effect. For ecological affects, such analy- sis may need to look not just at the actions that introduce a chemical into the biosphere but more specifically at the actions that introduce it in bioavailable forms. For example, most of the lead that human activity in the United States introduces into the environment is contained in motor vehicle batteries, and the great majority of this is repeatedly recycled. The far smaller amounts of lead in paint, gasoline, and shot have had more serious impacts because of their bioavailability. Disaggregating the Proximate Causes When important proximate causes have been identified, the next ana- lytic step is to disaggregate them to reflect the relative contribution of the many actors and activities that are responsible. There may be many sen- sible ways to disaggregate a particular proximate cause. Fossil fuel burn- ing can be subdivided according to parts of the world (countries or re- gions), economic sectors (transportation, industrial, commercial, etc.), immediate purposes (space heating, moving people or freight, generating electricity, etc.), types of actor (households, firms, government), or in other ways, depending on the analytic purpose. For important proximate causes, it may be useful to disaggregate in more than one way, creating categories that involve several types of division (e.g., transportation to work, commercial lighting). An impact criterion can help guide decisions about how far to disaggregate. That is, it makes sense to use finer divi- sions for types of actions or actors associated with major environmental impacts. It follows that the appropriate disaggregation will depend on the society being examined. Disaggregation can be represented in a tree diagram, as Figure 5-2 shows for greenhouse gas emissions, or in a table. Table 5-1 disaggre- gates carbon dioxide emissions in the United States by economic sector and purpose within each sector. It shows why, from the standpoint of climate change, much more analytic attention is warranted for under- standing the purchase and use of automobiles and light trucks (i.e., per- sonal transportation) than for understanding the purchase and use of water heating systems for buildings. It can be useful to disaggregate certain activities even further than shown in the table, as a way to direct researchersâ attention. For example,
130 ENVIRONMENTALLY SIGNIFICANT CONSUMPTION TABLE 5-1 Disaggregation of Carbon Dioxide Emissions by Economic Sector and End Use (percentages, United States, 1987) Economic Sector (%) End Use Industrial Buildings Transportation Total (%) Steam power, motors, appliances 19 7 26 Personal transportation (automobiles, light trucks) 20 20 Space heating 1a 16 17 Freight transport (heavy truck, rail, ship, other) 7 7 Heating for industrial processes 6 6 Lighting 1a 5 6 Cooling 0a 5 5 Air transporting 5 5 Water heating 3 3 Other 5 5 Total 32 36 32 100 NOTE: U.S. data are unrepresentative of world energy use in various ways. However, the United States is responsible for approximately 20 percent of global CO2 emissions. aTwo percent in the single category of heating, ventilating, air conditioning, and lighting was allocated 1 percent each to heating and lighting. SOURCE: National Research Council (1992). psychological research on energy use in the late 1970s was mainly ad- dressed to the study of daily behavior in residences, such as turning off lights in unoccupied rooms and altering thermostat settings to save on heating and cooling. An analysis that disaggregated residential energy use according to the energy-saving potential of different household ac- tivities showed, however, that infrequent purchase decisions, such as of insulation, furnaces, and major appliances, had significantly greater in- fluence on household energy use than the parallel daily behaviors involv- ing thermostats and appliance use (Stern and Gardner, 1981). The analy- sis directed behavioral scientists toward the study of a major class of environmentally significant household behavior. Research to disaggregate the proximate causes has proceeded farthest in the area of energy consumption (the contribution of Schipper in Chap- ter 3 illustrates some of what can be learned). The strategy of disaggrega- tion can also be applied to other environmentally significant consump-
STRATEGIES FOR SETTING RESEARCH PRIORITIES 131 tion. For instance, in the study of ozone depletion, the use of a particular ozone-depleting gas, such as the chlorofluorocarbon CFC-12, can be dis- aggregated to reflect its major uses in aerosols, refrigerants, and foams, as well as across countries. If releases of all the ozone-depleting gases were disaggregated in the same way, it would be possible to determine the proportion of total ozone-depleting potential attributable to particular activities such as refrigeration. Identifying and Analyzing the Driving Forces The next analytic step is to examine the major classes of environmen- tally significant action to identify their driving forces. This kind of work is part of the normal province of social and behavioral science, as its aim is to understand the causes of human activity (in this instance, activities that proximately change the environment). These driving forces may be of many types, the main classes of which are human population growth, levels of economic activity, technologies used in actions that affect the environment, political and economic institutions affecting action, and in- dividualsâ attitudes and beliefs (National Research Council, 1992). In Chapter 4, Dietz and Rosa examine the first two of these and suggest that the study of what these do not explain may reveal the roles of the other driving forces. Understanding the driving forces of an environmentally important activity usually presents serious analytical challenges. One reason, as noted in Chapter 1, is that the driving forces act together, often in nonad- ditive and nonlinear ways. They can affect the proximate causes of envi- ronmental change directly and also indirectly by acting on other driving forces. For example, when new chlorofluorocarbon-based technology made air conditioning practical for small commercial and residential uses after 1930, the technological advance set numerous social processes in motion, including large-scale population migrations to hotter climates in the United States, which led to increased use of air conditioning in homes far beyond what would have occurred without the migration. In this way, migration multiplied the effect of technology. In addition, the mi- gration increased fossil fuel consumption for transportation, as the new settlements were less dense geographically than the ones from which people migrated and therefore increased the demand for motorized travel while making mass transit less feasible economically. The migration also shifted the balance of representation in the U.S. Congress in favor of regions more dependent on air conditioning and automobiles, a change that may have made it more difficult to get political support for policies to increase the cost of energy consumption (see National Research Council, 1992:54-60). Thus, the environmental effect of technology was both direct
132 ENVIRONMENTALLY SIGNIFICANT CONSUMPTION and indirect through such variables as population change and policy. This example illustrates how the driving forces can influence each other: any single factor that seems to explain anthropogenic environmental change is likely to be affected by various other driving forces as well. This is one reason it is difficult to disentangle the causation of environmentally significant consumption. A second analytic difficulty is that the forces that drive environmen- tal change also respond dynamically to that change. For instance, intensi- fied agricultural production can increase soil erosion or pest infestations, which reduce agricultural productivity until effective changes are made in managing the environmental changes that the agricultural practices created. A third difficulty is that the relationships among the driving forces generally vary between places and over time. Deforestation has had a different collection of causes in different countries and at different times (Williams, 1990). The long-term environmental effects of a technological development can be very different from the short-term effects. The use of chlorofluorocarbons for refrigeration, for example, was an environmental and public health benefit at first because it replaced ammonia and other toxic or explosive refrigerants. The negative effect on stratospheric ozone became detectable only over a longer time scale and after the level of use had greatly increased. Although the task of untangling the causality of social phenomena such as those of consumption is difficult, it is a familiar one to social scientists. Experience suggests that the relative importance of the driving forces is likely to be quite situation-specific, even for relatively well-un- derstood activities like those involved in fossil energy use within a single sector of a single economy. For example, the factors determining invest- ment in energy-efficient technologies for the U.S. residential sector are different for occupant-owned and rental housing, for lower- and upper- income households, and probably also for investments in wall insulation and in energy-efficient appliances (e.g., Socolow, 1978; Ruderman et al., 1987; Stern et al., 1986). Research that begins by building relatively nar- row areas of knowledge about particular temporal and spatial scales is a first step toward developing a body of contingent generalizations that can make sense of broader bodies of data. ENVIRONMENT-FIRST STRATEGY AND OTHER APPROACHES The above discussion and several of the contributions to Chapters 3 and 4 illustrate the value of an environment-first strategy for directing research. Because this strategy begins with important environmental
STRATEGIES FOR SETTING RESEARCH PRIORITIES 133 changes and only later ventures into the social phenomena that may pro- vide deeper explanations, following it has a high probability of yielding results that meet a criterion of environmental importance. The environ- ment-first strategy is also valuable because it can help direct social scien- tistsâ attention toward human activities and choices that, from an envi- ronmental standpoint, are particularly important to understand. As the contributions to Chapters 3 and 4 illustrate, there are two variants of this strategy. One works backward from transformations of materials and energy to their proximate causes in human activity and then to their driving forces. Wernickâs analysis (Chapter 3) of materials transforma- tions exemplifies this approach. The other begins with human activities, assesses their importance for particular environmental conditions, and if the activities are sufficiently important environmentally, proceeds to analysis of the proximate causes. The work of Schipper (Chapter 3) on travel and Lutzenhiser (Chapter 4) on home energy use are examples. Despite the strengths of the environment-first research strategy, other research strategies should also be pursued because they may be able to develop environmentally important knowledge that is not likely to emerge from environment-first research. One useful strategy is to begin with possible policy interventions. This strategy is exemplified by re- search on the effectiveness of price signals, information, and regulatory constraints for reducing consumer demand for environmentally damag- ing goods and services or for changing producersâ behavior so as to re- duce the environmental impact per unit of output. This strategy can have great practical value: for policy purposes, importance is not determined by which human activities do the most environmental damage but by the ones that can yield the greatest environmental improvement in response to practicable interventions. Research on intervention techniques helps determine what is practicable and cost-effective, identifies the possible secondary effects of interventions and the tradeoffs involved, and con- tributes to general knowledge about how environmentally significant human activities change. Because this strategy is most often employed to evaluate ways to change consumption, most of its applications are out- side the scope of this volume, and therefore no examples are included. Another alternative to looking at environment first, and one that is particularly relevant to the question of what drives environmentally im- portant consumption, is to focus first on social processes and then exam- ine their environmental effects. In Chapter 4, the reports by Wilk and by Kempton and Payne are examples. Wilk asks whether emulation of West- ern styles of consumption drives the styles adopted by people in develop- ing countries. Although the evidence so far is inconclusive, the question is environmentally important. Kempton and Payne consider the impacts of grand transformations in human history both on the environment and
134 ENVIRONMENTALLY SIGNIFICANT CONSUMPTION on the quality of human life. In doing this, they raise the question of what might be accomplished by future major social transformations. There are, of course, innumerable social processes that could be ex- amined for their environmental impacts. The social-process-first research strategy deserves special attention because it is the typical approach so- cial scientists take when they begin to work on environmental problems. Social researchers are likely first to try to understand anthropogenic envi- ronmental changes as resulting from the social processes they understand best. As the above examples suggest, this approach can identify some potentially important driving forces of environmental change that the environment-first strategy would be unlikely to uncover. However, the results from research following this strategy should be carefully judged against a criterion of environmental importance. Experience suggests that although the society-first research strategy can yield fresh insights, it is also likely to produce many findings of limited or uncertain environmental importance. One reason is that the environmental importance of a social phenomenon such as emulation, international trade, economic inequality, or slow transformations of basic social values cannot be estimated until careful analysis has been done. This analysis requires a long time series of multiple variables starting in the past and is likely to reveal that some of the driving forces have only limited environmental effects. Another reason is that it is difficult to evaluate the environmental significance of a single driving force indepen- dently of other driving forces. Because of the interactions of the driving forces and their interplay over time, it is inherently difficult to demon- strate the environmental importance of any indirect cause of environmen- tal change, particularly one acting over long time periods. Generally, it is easier to defend importance claims for driving forces that are linked to environmental effects by relatively short causal chains. For example, Schipper and his colleagues (1989) have argued that in- creases in female labor force participation in affluent countries increase fossil-energy consumption because they increase the proportion of women holding driversâ licenses, the number of automobiles owned per capita, and the distance traveled. He links changes in household size to residen- tial energy consumption through number of households and per capita volume of heated and cooled residential space. These are strongly plau- sible claims, but even these require careful analysis to support them. For example, the increased energy demand caused by the need to heat or cool more space is offset (though only to a small extent) by savings resulting from the space being unoccupied during working hours. Other claims about driving forces involve longer and more debatable causal chains. For instance, it has been claimed that increasing adoption of so-called postmaterialist values (Inglehart, 1990) and proenvironmental
STRATEGIES FOR SETTING RESEARCH PRIORITIES 135 worldviews (e.g., Dunlap and Scarce, 1991; Milbrath, 1984) are affecting and will continue to affect human activity in proenvironmental ways. This hypothesis depends on psychological links from values or world- views to attitudes and from attitudes to behavior, as well as on the pre- sumption that the specific behaviors that may flow from changed values or worldviews will significantly alter the proximate causes of environ- mental change. Each such link needs to be established to support the hypothesis of environmental importance; the evidence so far suggests that these relationships do exist, but that each of the links is loose (Gardner and Stern, 1996). Still longer chains of causation are implicit in hypotheses about the environmental importance of various global social changes, such as the globalization of mass media (see Wilkâs report in Chapter 4), increasing worldwide urbanization, the emergence of global markets and global communications, democratization, and the resurgence of expressions of cultural identity (see National Research Council, 1992:156-160). Some of these broad social changes may indeed be critically important to long- term environmental trends, but it is difficult to evaluate claims about their importance because the lines of causation are so indirect and, in many cases, because of the long time lags hypothesized between causes and effects. The first step in evaluating the environmental relevance of research into such claims is to make explicit the causal links and the proximate causes that the social process is hypothesized to influence. That done, it is useful to assess the plausibility and evidential base for each link. For example, the emulation of U.S. consumption patterns in developing countries that Wilk discusses, even if actually occurring, is environmentally important only to the extent that particular kinds of con- sumption that are environmentally destructive (e.g., home air condition- ing) are copied. The environment-first research strategy may converge with the soci- ety-first strategy, and such convergence is usually a sign of research progress. For example, Lutzenhiserâs data on energy use identify accul- turation of immigrants as a factor that affects energy use in a consistent way, even controlling for other factors. This finding suggests a way of improving energy-demand modeling by taking the effects of international migration into account. Similarly, Schipperâs findings on female labor force participation and household size suggest some refinements in en- ergy models. Lutzenhiser also finds racial and ethnic differences in con- sumption, other factors held constant. This finding suggests that a closer look at racial and ethnic subcultures of consumption might increase un- derstanding of the ways attitudes, beliefs, and patterns of living affect the links between affluence and environmental outcomes.
136 ENVIRONMENTALLY SIGNIFICANT CONSUMPTION CONCLUSIONS Research on the environmental impacts of consumption should in- clude a mixture of investigations using environment-first, policy-oriented, and society-first approaches. Because it is anchored to environmental outcome variables of obvious importance, the environment-first strategy is likely to lead to cumulative research that will, over time, continually refine knowledge about the causes of significant anthropogenic environ- mental changes. This strategy will also increasingly clarify the human choices, actions, and actors that provide important targets for policy in- tervention, and it will improve the ability of analysts to make projections of anthropogenic inputs into biophysical systems. The policy-oriented strategy is likely to result in a different sort of cumulative knowledge, leading to increased understanding of the poten- tial for shaping the forces that drive environmental change. It will im- prove understanding of the conditions under which various kinds and combinations of policy interventions are effective and the extent to which an intervention that works with one kind of behavior or in one social context may be transferable elsewhere. In addition, it is likely to increase basic knowledge about change in individuals and social systems and thus contribute to social science generally as well as to policy analysis. The society-first strategy is much less likely to generate cumulative research on environmental conditions, but it has compensating advan- tages. It will occasionally reveal unsuspected but important anthropo- genic influences on the environment, especially indirect and long-term ones. Emulation may turn out to be such an influence. Another may be an apparent trend in some wealthy countries toward occupying leisure time by shopping. Yet another, with the potential to alter the environ- mental impact of human activity, is a trend in the United States for the management of local resources such a parklands and riverbanks to de- volve from centralized institutions to local onesâa change that may shift management priorities. Identifying such indirect or unsuspected influences on environmen- tal quality may help researchers who are following the environment-first strategy to reconsider and improve their conceptual models. Society-first research may also identify possibilities for interventions that long-range planners can use and that may be more socially acceptable than short- term interventions that appear to some people as drastic action to avert a projected emergency that they doubt will ever arise. Changes in the rules governing resource-management institutions could be such an example. The society-first approach is also likely to lead to insights of great value for constructing scenarios and projections of future human-envi- ronment interactions. In addition, it may help interest more social scien-
STRATEGIES FOR SETTING RESEARCH PRIORITIES 137 tists in environmental issues by showing them clear connections between their normal research concerns and an important public policy issue. In- volvement by a greater variety of social scientists and collaboration with natural scientists can not only improve research on environment and con- sumption but also enrich the social science disciplines by bringing them into contact with new sets of phenomena. REFERENCES Dunlap, R.E., and R. Scarce 1991 The polls/poll trends: Environmental problems and protection. Public Opinion Quarterly 55:713-734. Gardner, G.T., and P.C. Stern 1996 Environmental Problems and Human Behavior. Needham Heights, Mass.: Allyn and Bacon. Inglehart, R. 1990 Culture Shift in Advanced Industrial Society. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. Milbrath, L. 1984 Environmentalists: Vanguard for a New Society. Albany: State University of New York Press. National Research Council 1992 Global Environmental Change: Understanding the Human Dimensions. P.C. Stern, O.R. Young, and D. Druckman, eds. Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change. Washington: National Academy Press. Ruderman, H., M.D. Levine, and J.E. McMahon 1987 The behavior of the market for energy efficiency in residential appliances includ- ing heating and cooling equipment. The Energy Journal 8:101-124. Schipper, L., S. Bartlett, D. Hawk, and E. Vine 1989 Linking life-styles and energy use: A matter of time? Annual Review of Energy 14:273-320. Socolow, R.H. 1978 The Twin Rivers program on energy conservation in housing: Highlights and conclusions. Energy and Buildings 1:313-324. Stern, P.C., E. Aronson, J.M. Darley, D.H. Hill, E. Hirst, W. Kempton, and T.J. Wilbanks 1986 The effectiveness of incentives for residential energy conservation. Evaluation Review 10:147-176. Stern, P.C., and G.T. Gardner 1981 Psychological research and energy policy. American Psychologist 36:329-342. Stern, P.C., and S. Oskamp 1987 Managing scarce environmental resources. Pp. 1043-1088 in I. Altman and D. Stokols, eds., Handbook of Environmental Psychology. New York: Wiley- Interscience. Williams, M. 1990 Forests. Pp. 179-201 in B.L. Turner II, W.C. Clark, R.W. Kates, J.F. Richards, J.T. Mathers, and W.B. Meyer, eds., The Earth as Transformed by Human Action. Cam- bridge, England: Cambridge University Press.


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Rina's grandson, Lisandro Sierra, a doctor from eastern Cuba, who enrolled her in the study, admitted he was very skeptical. That is until he saw his grandmother "move from darkness to the light. She became more aware of her surroundings, asked for water when she was thirsty, and went to the bathroom by herself," said Sierra. "It was like a touch of magic." Torres' dramatic improvement lasted until her death in 2012 at the age of 84.
Torres was far from the only Alzheimer's patient to benefit from APMC, made with aloe vera powder containing a minimum of 15 percent poly acetyl mannose (BiAloe®), according to John E. Lewis, Ph.D., associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, who led the team of Miller School and Miami Jewish Health Systems researchers.
"A female participant in her 90s was confined to a wheelchair and could not speak," said Lewis. "Within six months of taking the dietary supplement, she was walking and talking again, and called one of our clinical coordinators by name, much to his surprise."
An architect who had Alzheimer's for eight years was barely able to speak and required total care. Within a few months of taking the APMC supplement, he remembered his son's name and carried on a conversation with his wife. "She called me in tears to say that it felt like she got her husband back," Lewis said.
The study of 34 adults with moderate to severe Alzheimer's disease showed significant improvements in cognitive and immune functioning and stem cell proliferation after consuming four teaspoons of APMC per day for a 12-month period. The study, "The Effect of an Aloe Polymannose Multinutrient Complex on Cognitive and Immune Functioning in Alzheimer's Disease," was published in The Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. Miller School co-authors were David A. Loewenstein, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences; Dahlia Abreu, B.S., research assistant in psychiatry and behavioral sciences; Janet Konefal, Ph.D., M.P.H., associate professor of family medicine and community health; and Judi M. Woolger, M.D., assistant professor of medicine.
Lewis said that APMC supports cellular biochemistry, so it has virtually no side effects. All participants demonstrated some benefit, according to the coordinators, and 46 percent of the subjects showed clinically and statistically significant improvements in cognitive functioning and 23 percent maintained their cognitive functioning at the end of 12 months. "Although the study was small, it is significant because it is among the first to provide evidence that improved nutrition may be able to reverse brain deterioration in the 5.2 million Americans who suffer from Alzheimer's," Lewis said.
He added, "Aloe vera has been used for thousands of years as an approach to many health challenges, particularly for the skin. Additionally, APMC provides nutrients that are now documented to repair and regenerate cells, activate adult stem cells, and support activity in white blood cells and other immune system functions.
"Alzheimer's disease, the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S., exacts enormous emotional and financial costs on our already overburdened healthcare system. With no current cure or preventive measures in place, effective therapies to slow or lessen the effects of Alzheimer's disease are greatly needed," said Lewis.
"This was a pilot study, and more research is needed on the impact of dietary supplements on the progression of Alzheimer's disease," Lewis added. "Helping the body to heal itself would be an important step forward for patients. Improved nutrition is safe, effective, and feasible for patients and the nation."
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I wasn't sure if I wanted to include blasphemy in my rants for fear I might offend a lot of people. But then I realized that I've already written racist and homophobic things so why stop now. It's only fair for me to throw religion in the mix.
Being very depressed and lonely lately, I noticed that there's two types of loneliness. One where I want someone to talk to, and another where I don't even want to bother talking to people, which is what I'm feeling now. I don't know which is worse. The latter should be worse but considering I don't have anyone to talk to, the former is kind of worse for me. Either way, they both suck.
If God exists, why isn't Jesus keeping me company? Why is he playing hard to get? There have been times when I've tried really hard to find Jesus but I've never felt a thing with him so it just feels stupid to keep chasing something I'll never get. It feels even stupider than chasing girls. Even though I get nowhere with either things, at least I know the girls exist. Maybe I just haven't found the right girls. Maybe Jesus decided it's not the right time to meet me yet. Maybe I'm just terrible at chasing girls and deities.
About a half a year ago, a friend of a friend brought me to his church to try and help me because I was utterly depressed. He brought me to three different events and I saw no reason why he would think I would enjoy them. It's as if he planned to just bring me there and let God do the rest. Too bad God doesn't exist and no one did anything to me.


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Thank youFarbigeWelt wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2019 7:13 amHi Fox,
Very cool work. Looks like I have to get your latest code.
FarbigeWelt aka Quantenkristall
Here are all the changes i made, if you find something useful in there. Some things you may need to change, like screen refresh time that i have set at 30 sec in uiloop.cpp, (the ui was slow for me with high res rendering on CPU only).
Another thing the default render resolution, that ui starts up with in uiloop.cpp, i have it 6000 x 4500 pix.
And at what resolution ui window loads up with in uiloop.cpp, for my screen 3840x2160 with windows font dpi scale 250%, i use windowWidth = 3823 and windowHeight = 1920.
You may need to scale down font size in imgui_impl_glfw.cpp for smaller screen, it's at 42.
Here is fresh windows opencl build for test run, don't use it for production, i made some other changes for testing core features:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m75i1x ... sp=sharing


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Part 7 - How the CIA dramatically increased proliferation risks
In what is surely one of the most astounding intelligence own goals in living memory, the CIA structured its classification regime such that for the most market valuable part of "Vault 7" — the CIA's weaponized malware (implants + zero days), Listening Posts (LP), and Command and Control (C2) systems — the agency has little legal recourse.
The CIA made these systems unclassified.
Why the CIA chose to make its cyberarsenal unclassified reveals how concepts developed for military use do not easily crossover to the 'battlefield' of cyber 'war'.
To attack its targets, the CIA usually requires that its implants communicate with their control programs over the internet. If CIA implants, Command & Control and Listening Post software were classified, then CIA officers could be prosecuted or dismissed for violating rules that prohibit placing classified information onto the Internet. Consequently the CIA has secretly made most of its cyber spying/war code unclassified. The U.S. government is not able to assert copyright either, due to restrictions in the U.S. Constitution. This means that cyber 'arms' manufactures and computer hackers can freely "pirate" these 'weapons' if they are obtained. The CIA has primarily had to rely on obfuscation to protect its malware secrets.
Conventional weapons such as missiles may be fired at the enemy (i.e into an unsecured area). Proximity to or impact with the target detonates the ordnance including its classified parts. Hence military personnel do not violate classification rules by firing ordnance with classified parts. Ordnance will likely explode. If it does not, that is not the operator's intent.
Over the last decade U.S. hacking operations have been increasingly dressed up in military jargon to tap into Department of Defense funding streams. For instance, attempted "malware injections" (commercial jargon) or "implant drops" (NSA jargon) are being called "fires" as if a weapon was being fired. However the analogy is questionable.
Unlike bullets, bombs or missiles, most CIA malware is designed to live for days or even years after it has reached its 'target'. CIA malware does not "explode on impact" but rather permanently infests its target. In order to infect target's device, copies of the malware must be placed on the target's devices, giving physical possession of the malware to the target. To exfiltrate data back to the CIA or to await further instructions the malware must communicate with CIA Command & Control (C2) systems placed on internet connected servers. But such servers are typically not approved to hold classified information, so CIA command and control systems are also made unclassified.
A successful 'attack' on a target's computer system is more like a series of complex stock maneuvers in a hostile take-over bid or the careful planting of rumors in order to gain control over an organization's leadership rather than the firing of a weapons system. If there is a military analogy to be made, the infestation of a target is perhaps akin to the execution of a whole series of military maneuvers against the target's territory including observation, infiltration, occupation and exploitation.
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