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Forget My Husband
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Lucia Chapter 59 [part 2]
October 15, 2018 April 21, 2020 Miss Ruby
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Jerome and Dean followed a few steps behind Lucia as she came down from the carriage and headed towards Norman's house. Lucia knocked on the door. She expected to see Ms. Phil's plump face greeting her at the door but there was no reply.
She knocked a few more times but there was still no response.
'Did she go out? But Norman doesn't like going out. Why isn't Ms. Phil here?'
She felt sad to leave without even seeing Norman's face so she stood in front of the door for a long time.
Lucia heard a voice calling her name from afar. A pair of two, male and female, were some distance away and out of the pair, the woman excitedly ran towards Lucia, waving her hand. She was no longer the lean girl from Lucia's memory. The surprisingly plump Norman rushed towards Lucia quickly.
"Lucia, right?!"
"Norman."
Norman hugged her tightly.
"My goodness. It's been so long. Let me look at you. Aiyo, you've become prettier. Look how fair your face is."
Norman was crying while holding Lucia's face and turning it left and right. Jerome and Dean were uncomfortable seeing the precious body of the Duchess mishandled and turned away slightly.
Norman fussed over Lucia, checking her face, hands and repeatedly saying things like 'you look healthy, thank goodness' or 'fortunately, you're not hurt'.
"Let's go inside. Just where and what have you been doing all this time…"
"Ah, Norman. This is…"
Lucia was curious about the identity of the man standing beside Norman. He was walking alongside with Norman and after Norman ran off, he followed after her.
The man grinned as though grateful for Lucia's lack of knowledge and promptly clung to Norman. Norman fixed him a lovable glare and jogged him with her elbow. Lucia's eyes widened at the very intimate display.
"I almost forgot to introduce him. This is Thomas. My fiancé."
"Fiancé?"
Lucia's voice increased in surprise. Norman gave an embarrassed laugh then briefly introduced Lucia to Thomas and vice versa then she quickly chased him away.
It was obvious from Thomas' gaze that he wanted to go into the house together and stick his head in their conversation but Norman pretended not to notice.
The man who turned around without concealing his regret gave off a nice and gentle impression. Norman linked arms with Lucia and tugged at her, showing her interest in the two attractive men behind Lucia.
"Who are those men? By any chance, you too?"
Norman sent Lucia a strange gaze. Which one is it? It was such a gaze. Lucia quickly resolved the misunderstanding. If Hugo were to hear this, it would be a disaster.
"No. They are my escorts."
"Escort? Wow. Lucia. What happened to you? I think we have a lot to talk about. But the people that came with you…"
"We are fine, you do not have to be worried."
Hearing Jerome's reply, Norman's eyes widened in surprise. From his attire, she thought he was just a regular person but his tone and attitude showed etiquette and grace. It seemed he was not an ordinary person working under another.
Even though she knew it was rude, Norman kept glancing at the two men until she and Lucia entered the house and closed the door. As soon as the door was closed, the thoroughly maintained indoors of the small two-story house came into view.
As Lucia was seeing Norman's house again after a long time, she looked around in appreciation. The plainly formal atmosphere of the living room was unchanged.
Norman brought out some tea and sat on the couch facing Lucia.
"Where did Ms. Phil go?" (Lucia)
"She quit because of back pains. Plus I will be leaving soon anyways."
"Leaving?"
"You know, my fiancé you saw earlier. I decided to go to his hometown and get married."
"Norman, congratulations! When are you going?"
"The day after tomorrow."
"The day after tomorrow? You leave in two days?"
"Yes. We nearly missed each other. I didn't know you were coming so I was going to put this house up for rent. I was planning to have them contact me if you were to ever come."
Lucia felt deep regret. Norman was her first friend and her family. She was able to arrange a dress and meet Hugo with the money that Norman gave her, and she went to visit the ducal residence with the courage gained from Norman's advice.
If not for Norman, Lucia would not have been able to marry him. On the other hand, perhaps it was for the best. Lucia had experienced the life of a commoner and a noble.
So she knew how nobles looked at commoners. For the common people, the world of the nobility was an insurmountable wall, akin to heaven and earth and it could not be mixed with the world they lived in.
Most commoners would never see a high-ranking noble like a Duke in their entire lifetime. Lucia believed that Norman was not a person to change according to the status of another. But if she knew Lucia's real identity, she wouldn't be able to help feeling some distance in her heart.
The gap between the maid Lucia and the formerly princess but now Duchess Vivian was too big. It was hard to keep hiding this fact from Norman and Lucia was always worried that if she were to tell Norman, their relationship would become estranged.
She wanted to send Norman off as the Lucia that Norman knew. She wanted Norman to live a calm life, and perhaps if Norman didn't know, she could live carefreely.
"Actually, I am married too."
"What? Really?"
"I couldn't contact you because I got married and had to go far away with my husband in a hurry. I'm sorry."
"I see now. And no. I am getting married too so I know there are a lot of things to prepare and a lot to worry about. So I understand. Then, is it also your husband that placed those escorts?"
When Lucia nodded, Norman remarked, 'they did seem hired…' and exclaimed in admiration. Lucia was intimated by the questions of, how old, what kind of man, where does he live, where did you meet, that poured out non-stop from Norman.
Noticing that Lucia had difficulty answering, Norman did not push for an answer.
'In any case, I don't think the man Lucia is married to is an ordinary man.'
Norman recalled the men that followed Lucia as her escorts.
'Maybe she married a rich merchant or a noble. She did come with a valuable carriage from who knows where. Ah. A marriage with a noble. That is really what is called romance.'
"Is your husband good to you?"
"Yes, he's affectionate."
"Does he earn well?"
Lucia burst into laughter.
"Yes, he earns very well."
"Oh, Norman!"
"What? Don't act so innocent about marital affairs. You've already done it all."
Norman giggled as she looked at Lucia who was bright red. She teased Lucia about if she had any advice to share on a couple's night to her junior since Lucia was a senior in marriage. Lucia blushed fiercely, not saying anything and seeing that, Norman began to giggle again.
"You know, I thought of sending you a letter to ask if you were okay but honestly, I was a little worried about the medium. Something strange happened, you see." (Norman)
"Something strange?"
"Some woman came to me saying she was a fan of my novel. I couldn't find out who she was but to my senses, she felt like a noble. Even if one doesn't want to be exposed, whether it is from their tone or their actions. Something is different."
"A noble can be a fan though."
"That is true. But she was looking for you."
"…Looking for me?"
"She came to find me a few times, mentioned your features and asked what you guaranteed when you made a bank account. When I asked why she was looking for you, she said she was looking for news as you were someone she knew. I just said you were a dongsaeng I knew. She wasn't interrogative but I pretended not to notice that she was quietly guiding me to talk about you. She isn't someone you know, right?"
"I don't know. I can't…get a sense of who it is at all."
Who could it be? Lucia was appalled by the fact that someone had come after Norman to ask about her. Someone was investigating her without her knowledge.
'Maybe they were aiming for him, not me.'
While there was no reason for anyone to go after her, his political opponents could still try to take advantage of her to get to him.
"Does the lady still come?"
"No. She suddenly stopped coming. It's already been several months. I haven't seen her ever since."
Lucia listened to Norman's detailed description of the woman's features and saved it in her mind. Since the woman tried to investigate, she would surely try to approach Lucia someday.
Norman had been staring at Lucia for a while now, so Lucia had to ask.
"It feels like you've changed a little."
"It has been a while after all."
"No. It's different from that."
Being the Duchess for more than a year, Lucia handled people under her and the leisure and skillfulness with which she dealt with the ladies of the northern high society flowed out of her unawares. Norman caught this with her sharp eyes. But Norman did not know exactly why or what was different so she just thought that something was different.
"Because you weren't here, I got to learn precisely how great of a storyteller you are. I paid someone to get news of the noble circles a few times but it wasn't as funny and informative as when you tell it."
"Was there any interesting story?"
"The most memorable one…was news about the Duke of Taran."
Lucia almost choked on the tea she was drinking.
"Apparently, the Duke of Taran got married. Do you happen to know anything?"
"I-I'm not sure."
"Well indeed. People like us don't quibble over which noble marries whom. But the rumors about the Duke of Taran's marriage are interesting. They say, there was no wedding, and as soon as the secret marriage was over, he kidnapped the bride and dragged her to his estate."
"Pk!"
Lucia ended up spitting out the tea in her mouth.
"What's wrong? Is the tea too hot?"
"N-No."
Norman handed her a handkerchief and Lucia wiped off the spilled tea on her skirt.
"Oh no. I don't think the stain will come off completely."
"It's okay."
"What was I talking ab…Ah, right. The Duke of Taran. Anyway, they say the Duke lost it and did that because the woman who became the Duchess is a woman of incomparable beauty, beautiful enough to ruin a country."
Lucia now had cold sweat forming on her back. That 'incomparable beauty' was none other than herself who was in front of Norman.
"At home, the Duke confines the Duchess…"
"Nor…Norman. Will you keep writing novels after you leave?"
Lucia couldn't listen any longer so she quickly changed the topic.
"It is uncertain. If not in the capital, my novels might not sell well so I don't know if it will be profitable. But I have the money I've made so far so I'm not worried. My fiancé runs a shop that has been in the family for generations so I think income will be okay."
"How did this ever happen? Norman used to not believe in love."
"That's why life is fun. Hahaha."
The afternoon went by as Lucia spent several hours listening to Normans' love story. As Lucia listened, it was a very typical and romantic encounter, compared to the romance novels Norman wrote, but Norman told the story with her eyes shining as if she were talking about the masterpiece of the century.
She really seemed like the one of the heroines in her novels that had fallen in love.
"What of you? Are you happy?"
Norman asked at an interval and Lucia replied with, 'yes, I'm happy.' The happiness in her smiling face was not a lie. Lucia was truly happy with her days with him. Her sincerity was fully conveyed to Norman. Norman made an expression of happiness and relief.
"Well, this can work as your wedding gift. This house. I transferred it to you."
"This house?"
"Your account was still open in the bank so I left it to the bank manager to process it. I've processed all the paperwork and taxes so all that's left is for you to receive it."
"Norman, this is the first house you bought, isn't it? A house with such precious memories…"
"And that is why I would like for you to accept it. The memories in this house are memories built with you. I don't want to sell it, but I do not know when I will be back to the capital."
Nolan stood up from the other couch and came to sit beside Lucia then gave her a firm hug.
"Lucia, I always worry about you because you are much younger than me. You have to be happy. You will know where I live, so come to me if your husband makes you unhappy."
"Norman, thank you. If it wasn't for Norman, I…"
Lucia was all choked up and couldn't speak. They hugged each other and cried, sharing the joy of reunion and the sorrow of parting.
Lucia dissuaded Norman from seeing her off. She declined saying that Norman would be busy all day tomorrow preparing and the day after tomorrow, Norman would have to depart in the morning so there was no need to see her off.
Norman didn't want to inconvenience Lucia who wasn't free to go around without an escort. Even though the two of them said their lenghty goodbyes inside, they stood in front of the door unable to let go of their regret.
"Please take good care of her. She is someone I think of as a younger sister."
Norman requested this of Jerome.
"Do not worry. We will serve with our utmost sincerity."
Norman watched as Jerome carefully escorted Lucia to the carriage and she thought:
'He seems like a really good man. I will be relieved if Lucia's husband is such a man. Ai. Lucia is already married. My small dream is gone.'
Norman had planned to introduce Lucia to the younger brother of her fiancé for marriage, when they got back in touch with each other. That way, she and Lucia would move westward and live close to each other forever. She was worried that the young Lucia wouldn't know a good man.
'I hope you aren't being held up by some strange guy and suffering.'
But still, she was relieved that the lonely Lucia was no longer alone. Even though the carriage was no longer in sight, Norman remained standing outside for a long while.
Translator's Corner:
1) Dongsaeng means: someone younger that you. Usually a close term. Can be used to refer to male or female. Direct translation is younger sister/child…
*We are getting to the point where we might need a term glossary.
*If someone can teach me footnotes, I'll do em lol.
*This chapter is the longest we've had I think. Phew.
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27 thoughts on "Lucia Chapter 59 [part 2]"
SanitaryCockroach says:
First! (Forgive me) And thank you!
Miss Ruby says:
F_J says:
Well, Norman wanted to become Lucia's sister by law. A pity… Lol, but the reunion was nice. And teh rumors about the Duke. Hahahaha XD
Phour says:
The interaction between her and Norman is so sweet! I also am so shocked Lucia could keep her bacon together while hearing gossip about herself and the Duke. Lol
Pineapple says:
It was good to see Norman again! I wonder how Hugh will feel when he finds out Lucia mysteriously has acquired a house.
sarcena says:
Lol, it should set off all sorts of paranoia inside him. He's already terrified he has no hold on her to keep her with him hehehe
squicci says:
I wonder if she will apply the tips Norman gave her about bedroom matters hehe the duke might die of shock
Nina🥀 says:
Checking for new chapters has became a daily event, very often more than once.
Already feel as if i personally know these characters.
Thanks Ruby.
fan63 says:
Great reunion. But. I am curious how Norman met her fiance` . Think about it. She rarely went out. in less than one year she's moving and selling her home. I hope this is genuine for Norman's sake.
Yes, I'm worried about that to, I hope he's not a spy or anything…
mentalcorrosion says:
Please please please have Thomas be a good man.
Part of me hopes his hometown is in the north so they can be close together. Part of me hopes that it's not so they're not directly in a hierarchical relationship.
And part of me is still really skeptical, because the man was curious. Justifiably, but in a well-written novel like this details are generally only mentioned for a reason….
Snow says:
Here is how to make footnotes. The easiest way is to use plugin but plugin only available if you have business account. So here is the way to do it manually. You have to edit them in HTML text editor. https://santoki.wordpress.com/2007/02/12/footnotes-the-long-way/
If you want to use superscript, yoy know that smaller text that is kind floating. You can use text/number and remove the space.
Okay, so the html code for superscript is swallowed. Well, I guess you have to google it. Thanks for the chappie! (sorry that I forgot to say this in the first place >.<)
Lynnsgard says:
Thanks for this, More pls~
I hope thomas is not a foxman,.
kalmaegi says:
I'm not sure I can trust Norman's husband. She already admitted she was lonely with Lucia and Mrs Phil gone so it's obvious that guy swooped in. Will Lucia meet that conartist from her past life? The only thing she dreads is seeing the woman that was supposed to be Hugh's wife and his former lovers. I wonder what is in store in the Capital. She isn't untouchable in this place unlike the North where her husband guards her fiercely like a dragon with its precious hoard.
lucialv says:
Norman is really a good friend for Lucia! It's a chapter full of warm feelings. Thank you so much, dear Ruby!
FableCat says:
I caught up. Ahhhhh… happinesss reading stacked chapters.
Crystal Aris says:
1) PK = Player Kill
2) Forshadowing 😩 I'm worried!!!!!! 😱😱😱😱
Damn u Phillip!!!!!!! 🤬😡🤬
Potahtoe says:
Its very heartwarming u see
Mitsuki000 says:
Oh, I adore Norman! She is really like an older sister to Lucia and I'm sure she was the turning point to a better outcome from Lucia's past live :')
Awwwww, this chapter was so sweet. I love it thank you ms Ruby!! ;—;
Cmsyu says:
Close friends? She doesnt even trust her enough to tell her who she is .
Footnotes and afterwords are fine, but I prefer when you just stick translator notes into the text. It's simple and even if I already knew the info, it's not annoying.
Icxi says:
Man, if this is the last we see of Norman, I'll be sad.
tix says:
I am tearing up.. I hope I can find a friend like Norman..
Wolfhart says:
When I first read name Norman I some how thought it was a man. Cause in my country it is kind of a man's name. It took me a while to accept it as woman's name. And it still a bit strange to regard it so.
Though I like the character.
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require 'spec_helper'

describe 'Dynamic::Record has_many association' do
  before(:each) do
    @schema = Dynamic::Schema::Base.create!(name: 'earth')

    @Person = @schema.klasses.create!(name: 'Person')
    @Person.attrs.create!(name: 'last_name', type: 'Dynamic::Schema::Attribute::String')

    @Document = @schema.klasses.create!(name: 'Document')
    @Document.attrs.create!(name: 'title', type: 'Dynamic::Schema::Attribute::String')

    @belongs_to = @Document.associations.create!(name: 'owner', type: 'Dynamic::Schema::Association::BelongsTo', target_klass: @Person, schema: @schema)
    @has_many = @Person.associations.create!(name: 'documents', type: 'Dynamic::Schema::Association::HasMany', target_klass: @Document, inverse_of: @belongs_to, schema: @schema)
    @belongs_to.update_attribute(:inverse_of, @has_many)

    @schema.load
  end

  context 'create through an association' do
    before(:each) do
      @a = D::Earth::Person.create(last_name: 'A')
      expect(@a).to respond_to(:documents)
    end

    it 'should create a dynamic_association' do
      expect {
        @a.documents.create!(title: 'CV')
        @a.dynamic_associations.reload # TODO improve in order to prevent reload
      }.to change {
        @a.dynamic_associations.length
      }.by(1)
    end
  end

  context 'create a DynamicAssociation' do
    before(:each) do
      @a = D::Earth::Person.create(last_name: 'A')
      @d = D::Earth::Document.create(title: 'CV')
    end

    it 'should change dynamic_associations' do
      expect {
        D::Earth::DynamicAssociation.create!(association_owner: @a, association_target: @d, schema_association: @has_many)
        @a.dynamic_associations.reload
      }.to change {
        @a.dynamic_associations.length
      }.by(1)
    end

    it 'should change association' do
      expect {
        c = D::Earth::DynamicAssociation.create!(association_owner: @a, association_target: @d, schema_association: @has_many)
        @a.documents.reload
      }.to change {
        @a.documents.map(&:id)
      }.to([@d.id])
    end

  end

  context 'with inverse of' do

    context 'create a DynamicAssociation' do
      before(:each) do
        @a = D::Earth::Person.create(last_name: 'A')
        @d = D::Earth::Document.create(title: 'CV')
      end

      it 'should create an inverse DynamicAssociation' do
        expect {
          D::Earth::DynamicAssociation.create!(association_owner: @a, association_target: @d, schema_association: @has_many)
          @a.dynamic_associations_as_target.reload
        }.to change {
          @a.dynamic_associations_as_target.length
        }.by(1)
      end

      it 'should change inverse association' do
        expect {
          c = D::Earth::DynamicAssociation.create!(association_owner: @a, association_target: @d, schema_association: @has_many)
          @a.documents.reload
        }.to change {
          @a.documents.map(&:owner_id)
        }.to([@a.id])
      end

    end

    context 'create throuth an assocation' do
      before(:each) do
        @a = D::Earth::Person.create(last_name: 'A')
        @d = @a.documents.create!(title: 'CV')
      end

      it 'should set inverse association' do
        expect(@a.documents.first.owner).to eq(@a)
      end

      context 'destroy' do
        before(:each) do
          @a.documents.destroy(@d)
        end

        it 'should destroy inverse association' do
          expect(@d.owner).to be_nil
        end
      end
    end

    context 'load/reload association' do
      before(:each) do
        @a = D::Earth::Person.create(last_name: 'A')
        @d = @a.documents.create!(title: 'CV')
        @a.documents.reload
      end

      it 'should set inverse association in order to prevent additional queries' do
        expect{@a.documents[0].owner}.to_not exceed_query_limit(0)
      end
    end

  end

end

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Immigrants Set to Demonstrate What Life Would be Like Without Them
James Deweese, Press of Atlantic City, Feb. 14, 2006
Nancy Matias hopes her shuttered shop will serve as a poignant reminder of the local contributions made by immigrant workers, business owners and residents.
Matias, a Mexican immigrant who's lived in Bridgeton for 16 years, won't open her year-old Commerce Street restaurant, Mexico Lindo, today.
Instead, she and her family will join an estimated 1,500 Spanish-speaking immigrants from Cumberland County at a Philadelphia rally to protest a proposed federal law that would criminalize illegal immigrants' presence in the county and expand the definition of alien smuggling to include agencies that help them.
The rally, scheduled for noon at the Liberty Bell at Fifth and Market streets, complements what a loose coalition of Hispanic community organizations across New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania have termed "A Day Without Immigrants."
"If there weren't immigrants, there would be no business for me or others here and there'd be no one to work the fields," Matias said Monday as she stood behind the counter of her Mexican buffet restaurant inside Bridgeton's commercial core. "I'm closing tomorrow and we're going to show our support for others."
Rally organizers have called on Spanish-speaking immigrants of all nationalities and legal statuses to stay home from work today and avoid spending money during the "Paro" or "stoppage." Their hope is to underscore the role immigrants play in the economic and social fabric of the country.
"It will be as if everyone really left the country," Matias said.
Topics: Hispanic Immigrants
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Layoffs Hit Kohl's as Retailer Hires Key Exec
Who Should Really Be the Focus of 'New You' in 2023?
By Catherine Salfino
Catherine Salfino
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Retail: Here's How Holiday Performed & What to Expect from Shoppers in '23
How Small Businesses are Capturing the Spirit (and Sales) of the Season
The holidays are over, so of course headlines are screaming "New Year, New You," with everything from the latest paleo diet book to fitness plans being foisted upon the public. But perhaps it's not consumers who need to change. Some would argue it's industries like fashion that need to be more body positive and inclusive, both with their selection and presentation, to appeal to today's shopper.
"Consumers are adopting a 'New Year, Be You' mentality," says Danny Goldstein, women's wear strategist for Fashion Snoops (FS), a leading trend forecaster, in an interview with Lifestyle Monitor™. "They're seeking brands that embrace inclusivity and allow them to feel accepted in their own skin. In order to appeal to these consumers, brands are expanding size ranges by consulting with body acceptance advocates and diverse fit models to create products that are comfortable and flattering."
The market for extended size women's apparel grew 21 percent to $34.3 billion in 2021, and was expected to increase 7.6 percent in 2022, as Axios detailed with a report from Coresight Research.
But stores and brands still aren't meeting customer demands. Currently, more than 8 in 10 consumers (83 percent) say they would like apparel brands and retailers to offer additional fits and sizes, according to the 2019 Cotton Incorporated Lifestyle Monitor™ Survey. And 70 percent would like the fashion industry to be more inclusive in their advertising and product offerings.
Cotton Data
Monthly Economic Letter: January 2023
Retail: Here's How Holiday Performed & What to Expect from Shoppers in '23
Gita Omri, a size-inclusive designer, says inclusive sizing is not synonymous with plus-size—it is synonymous with women's wear.
"I have three slim sisters. That was always a bit of a pain point growing up," said Omri, who admits she spent her life struggling with her body size. At her Spring 2023 New York Fashion Week show, Omri sent size 20 models down the catwalk side-by-side with size 4 models, both wearing the same outfit, in a nod to body positivity and size acceptance. In the interview with Lifestyle Monitor™, she added, "The message is, it's possible. I won't lie, it's a harder process. It's more expensive, but it's very possible. And I think the consumer would really appreciate and want it."
Valid point, considering the average American woman wears sizes 16 and 18, according to Neelam Vashi, MD, assistant professor of dermatology at Boston University School of Medicine. One report says this is up from an average size 14 two decades ago.
There are meaningful steps the fashion industry can take toward being more inclusive and body positive.
"Making size-inclusive products readily available and accessible is key," Goldstein says. "This can be achieved through prominent displays on retail floors with visible signage, or by offering size and fit guides on e-commerce platforms so customers can find the best fit for their body. Brands should also use inclusive imagery and language in their marketing efforts to show consumers that they are represented and valued. Consider sharing relatable stories from real people in advertising campaigns that promote body diversity."
Brands also need to keep in mind the needs and wants of this customer. Among women size 15+, comfort (96 percent) is the most important factor in their clothing purchase decision, according to the Monitor™ research. That's followed by fit (95 percent), quality (92 percent), and price (92 percent).
And when it comes to quality, the majority of consumers size 15+ (72 percent) says better quality apparel is made from all natural fibers such as cotton, according to the Monitor™ research. Further, 66 percent of them say they would rather buy clothes that are higher in quality than more fashionable. That compares to 55 percent of women size 0 to 14 who place quality over style.
Of note, the most sought-after categories for inclusive sizes differ among generations. Gen Z is looking mostly for denim jeans in extended sizes (31 percent), followed by activewear (29 percent) and, less significantly, dress clothing (27 percent), according to the Monitor™ research. Millennials are more evenly seeking denim jeans (36 percent), activewear (32 percent), and dress apparel (31 percent). Gen X is also pretty even in its search for denim (29 percent), and activewear and dress clothes (both 27 percent). Boomers, meanwhile, are mostly seeking expanded sizes for activewear (30 percent), followed by dress clothes (16 percent), and then denim (15 percent).
"There really should be no category that is off-limits for inclusive fashion," says FS's Melissa Moylan, vice president, women's wear. "After all, larger bodies have the same occasions to dress for as anyone else, and ASOS Plus Size assortments prove that trends are very much in-demand by bodies of all shapes and sizes."
But that doesn't mean simply adding inclusive sizes to one's assortment will bring the size 15+ customer.
"Compared to brands like Universal Standard, which has always been size inclusive, it's more of a challenge for straight-sized brands and retailers to attract the plus-size customer because they may feel as though they've been ignored for some time," Moylan says. "It becomes somewhat of a Catch-22 for existing straight-size brands, in that true size inclusivity cannot be fully realized without all sizes being offered in all styles."
Moylan points to Old Navy as a bellwether for the inclusivity model. It launched inclusive sizes in August 2021 but had to scale back the initiative by May 2022.
"What Old Navy got right was bringing expanded size ranges to every single women's style with no price difference," Moylan says. "In essence, they very much democratized shopping in the value sector. However, what didn't work was the roll-out to each and every brick-and-mortar store." Currently, Old Navy maintains their size inclusivity online, while stores have scaled back expanded sizing.
"What we could learn from that is traditionally straight-sized retailers should proceed with caution when deciding what product and how much of each size is needed at individual locations. Online sales of extended sizes should be leveraged as a key indicator of physical locations, in which a retailer may want to offer more sizes," Moylan advises. On the other hand, she says, "New brands have the opportunity of providing size inclusivity from the start, which may fare better for consumer loyalty in the long run."
The Cotton Incorporated Lifestyle Monitor™ Survey is an ongoing research program that measures consumer attitudes and behaviors relating to apparel, shopping, fashion, sustainability, and more.
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Thank you. 2016 has been one hell of a year for all of us; and one hell of a year to start a new chapter in life as a business partner. It has been a rollercoaster journey, but one where the continual support of the CIO and innovation leadership community, both user and supply-side has been incredible and I thank you all so much.
Horizon began its life back in June 2015. A series of meetings, both with the community and others revealed a fantastic opportunity in the market and one I had to seize right there and then. Work began for the remainder of that year and then in January of this year it was time to put the ideas into action. Icon Business Media (publishers of the Horizon podcasts, events and website) was born as not only a significant chapter for me personally, but also for Icon Photomedia, a highly successful photography and imagery organisation, as it grew into new areas.
Becoming a business partner is a learning curve that rivals an ascent of the Mont Ventoux and one I am still very much on. Fortunately I have been on one of the most advanced courses you can ask for; eight years of spending time both professionally and at leisure with the UK's best business technology leaders teaches you a great deal about commerce and the ways of dealing with the challenges that you face day in and day out. Though none of us could have predicted just how damaging Brexit would be and when a significant customer goes under in your first half of trading it is an experience you are unlikely to forget in a hurry. But the insights shared by you in the community over lunch, a coffee and even a bike ride gave me the necessary tools of the trade.
Another massive winning card in my pack was business partner Matt Gore. Having been at the helm as founder and leader of one of the UK's most successful photography services business, Matt has known how to navigate the tricky waters of 2016. As with all of us whose formative careers were through the 90s and into this century, Matt has a wealth of editorial and creative skills honed from adaptability. Anyone in business, media and technology from 1995 onwards has lived through some of the most dramatic periods of change and as a result has a skill set that is as wide as it is deep. That creativity and adaptability is what brought us together as a business partnership and has been at the core of our outputs in 2016. Alongside my amazing wife, my greatest thanks goes to Matt Gore.
Probably the most significant moment of the year for me was the Innovation Leadership Summit in September. Having hosted more major conferences than is really good for your health, it was very different to produce, moderate and co-own an event, especially when you have a very important sponsor commitment in a deal you brokered. A special thank you to partner eSynergy Solutions who we will continue to work with in 2017. To see so many CIOs register and then attend the event will be something that will live with me forever. Thank you all so much, the sight of that room, full of so many leading CIOs was almost overwhelming.
I must also say a huge thank you to some stalwart supporters who have been generously sharing advice and time with me for a number of years, but whose support this year made a substantial difference. A particular thank you must go to Mike Altendorf, Ian Cohen, Catherine Stagg-Macey, David Tebbutt, Ian Cox, Tony Westbrook, Richard Sykes, Richard Corbridge, Chris King and Jerry Fishenden.
Throughout the year CIOs, innovators and suppliers have said to me time and again "how can we support your business?" Support us you have and thank you. 2017 looks set to be as exciting a rollercoaster ride as year one; the reception of our new podcast programme has been incredible, our first event for 2017 is already booked in and we promise to continue to be just a bit disruptive, producers of quality journalism whether written, spoken or live, we have some great ideas to revise old formats and most importantly to support you in the community.


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Q: Select values in a table conditional to an external table I'd like to select the first N values of each variables (columns) in a data set, where N varies by column and row and are given in an other table. An example below with the iris data:
data(iris)
head(iris)
Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species
1          5.1         3.5          1.4         0.2  setosa
2          4.9         3.0          1.4         0.2  setosa
3          4.7         3.2          1.3         0.2  setosa
4          4.6         3.1          1.5         0.2  setosa
5          5.0         3.6          1.4         0.2  setosa
6          5.4         3.9          1.7         0.4  setosa

## Create a fake external table
ext.tab <- data.table(species=c("setosa","versicolor", "virginica" ),N1=c(1:3),N2=c(3:5),N3=c(5:7),N4=c(7:9))
head(ext.tab)

      species N1 N2 N3 N4
1:     setosa  1  3  5  7
2: versicolor  2  4  6  8
3:  virginica  3  5  7  9

Now for Iris setosa, I'd like to get the first maximum value (N1 in ext.tab) of column 1 ('sepal.length' in iris data), then the three max values (N2 in ext.tab) for column 2 (sepal.width), then the five max values (N3) for column 3 (petal.length) and so forth. Then moving to the Iris versicolor and do the same.
The result can be either a table or a list for each species with the values themselves or row indices for each variable (column). Any idea of a fast way to implement that?

A: Here is a tidyverse approach using a custom function. The function takes the variable and group names as character scalar and number of maximum values as numeric. Inside the function is a dplyr pipeline using .data pronoun. Then, I reshaped ext.tab to long form and applied get_maximum() row-wise.
library(tidyverse)

get_maximum <- \(.x, .group, .n_max, .dat) {
  .dat %>%
    filter(Species == .group) %>%
    arrange(desc(.data[[.x]])) %>%
    slice(seq_len(.n_max)) %>%
    pull(.data[[.x]])
}

dat <- as_tibble(ext.tab) %>%
  pivot_longer(-species) %>%
  mutate(name = recode(
    name,
    N1 = "Sepal.Length",
    N2 = "Sepal.Width",
    N3 = "Petal.Length",
    N4 = "Petal.Width"
  )) %>%
  rowwise() %>%
  mutate(max_num = list(
    get_maximum(name, species, value, iris)
  )) %>%
  ungroup()

If you need the unique maximum values, you can add distinct() inside the custom function.
get_maximum_unique <- \(.x, .group, .n_max, .dat) {
  .dat %>%
    filter(Species == .group) %>%
    distinct(.data[[.x]]) %>%
    arrange(desc(.data[[.x]])) %>%
    slice(seq_len(.n_max)) %>%
    pull(.data[[.x]])
}

A: Here is an option using data.table. I have taken the liberty of renaming the column names.
cols <- setdiff(names(ext.tab), "Species")
iris[ext.tab, on=.(Species), by=.EACHI,
    .(.(mapply(function(x, n) -head(sort(-x, partial=n), n),
        x=mget(cols), n=mget(paste0("i.", cols)), SIMPLIFY=FALSE)))]$V1

data:
library(data.table)
iris <- as.data.table(iris)
ext.tab <- data.table(Species=c("setosa", "versicolor", "virginica"),
    Sepal.Length=c(1:3),
    Sepal.Width=c(3:5),
    Petal.Length=c(5:7),
    Petal.Width=c(7:9))

output:
[[1]]
[[1]]$Sepal.Length
[1] 5.8

[[1]]$Sepal.Width
[1] 4.4 4.2 4.1

[[1]]$Petal.Length
[1] 1.9 1.9 1.7 1.7 1.7

[[1]]$Petal.Width
[1] 0.4 0.4 0.6 0.4 0.5 0.4 0.4

[[2]]
[[2]]$Sepal.Length
[1] 7.0 6.9

[[2]]$Sepal.Width
[1] 3.4 3.3 3.2 3.2

[[2]]$Petal.Length
[1] 5.1 4.8 4.9 5.0 4.9 4.8

[[2]]$Petal.Width
[1] 1.7 1.6 1.6 1.8 1.5 1.5 1.6 1.5

[[3]]
[[3]]$Sepal.Length
[1] 7.7 7.9 7.7

[[3]]$Sepal.Width
[1] 3.8 3.8 3.6 3.4 3.4

[[3]]$Petal.Length
[1] 6.4 6.3 6.7 6.9 6.7 6.6 6.1

[[3]]$Petal.Width
[1] 2.5 2.5 2.4 2.5 2.4 2.4 2.3 2.3 2.3

Short explanation:

*

*Perform a left join iris[ext.tab, on=.(Species),

*by=.EACHI means for each row of ext.tab

*x=mget(cols) gets the columns in iris

*mget(paste0("i.", cols)) gets the number of values required for each column

*-head(sort(-x, partial=n), n) performs a partial sort and extract the first n values

*SIMPLIFY=FALSE and .(.( )) are simply required to return the results as a list

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Clock activities as well as electric motors are the genuine intestines of wrist watches. Clock motions and motors run mechanically or digitally, figuring out anytime in time the angle subtended by each private hand. These fascinating devices are our emphasis in this short article.
Clock motors and also movements are interchangeable terms that describe the very same point, one term probably favored by laypersons and the other by tradespersons. The earliest ones operated strictly mechanically, transforming a flywheel based upon the force coming from a hanging weight or snugly wound spring. A pendulum, in tandem with an escapement, worked as the regulator for the standard interval of timing (generally the second).
The modern-day clock activity is digital instead of mechanical. Its heart is a quartz crystal that vibrates (reverberates) at a precise regularity derived from the crystal geometry. A set of numerical registers subdivides the natural frequency into ideal timekeeping values.
Therefore the clock electric motor reveals the time by rotating one pin (affixed to the previously owned) a full turn every minute, one more spindle (minute hand) a full turn every hr, and also a 3rd pin entirely every 12 hours or 24 hours. These hands naturally point to icons or figures published on the clock face.
To attain independent rotation of all the hands, their respective spindles (or shafts) have to be concentric. Clocks utilize gears with the number of teeth in meticulously calculated ratios to get the proper cycles. Thus, the "seconds" gear sets off a tick of the "mins" gear after 60 of its own ticks, and also in a similar way the "minutes" gear triggers the "hours" gear.
Therefore standard timekeeping is accomplished, with the longest cycle being 12 hrs. However, there are other frameworks as well as time expansions that use 24-hour cycles or even longer ones compared to that.
Within these structures are variants, occasionally refined, that are incorporated right into the movement. For example, one is usually provided the option in between useds that tick audibly and also those that turn with a silent, continuous sweep. The tick is a carry-over from the custom of pendulum and escapement movement (not required yet commonly in demand), while the sweep pre-owned is a common modern-day choice.
Some clock electric motors feature grand cycles that are month-to-month or regular. To execute them needs a 4th hand that points to the date for a 31-day calendar month or to the day of the week. In these situations the chain of setting off up the cycle power structure is a lot more complex.
An additional thing to think about is whether the clock will automatically adapt to daylight conserving time or otherwise. Some movements, especially those for digital clocks, can integrate to the atomic clock standard. This saves needing to by hand reset the watch as well as prevents a semi-permanent mis-synchronization ought to Congress change the daytime cost savings dates.
Some clock activities are capable of presenting climate info instead of, or along with, revealing the time. Usual data are temperature, barometric pressure, and also humidity, which are acquired from sensors instead of calculated according to a cycle. Nonetheless, weather movements revealing tidal information (i.e., trend level) track both lunar as well as solar cycles, as well as they additionally incorporate influences based upon local problems.
Revealing climate data requires at the very least an extra hand or hands, and it may additionally call for specifically calibrated dials. Making tidal displays precise, one also needs to adjust the motor itself.
We have considered the major objectives of motors; now we wish to talk about the additional or additional attributes that they supply. These are either built into the tool itself or are offered as add-ons with their own switches.
To start with, typical clock activities equip enough torque to revolve small- or medium-sized hands a cycle. (This means that the size of the minute hand, from pivot point to tip, is at many six inches.) Exactly what about huge clocks?
As clock hands grow they additionally obtain much heavier. Standard activities are no more strong enough to transform them. In these situations, the clockmaker ought to seek a high torque version with the exact same collection of attributes as the conventional version.
We currently dedicate a word or 2 concerning power. Mechanical clocks drove the workings with weights or springs, as well as these obviously needed to be reset to their optimal potential power states regularly. Nowadays electricity is the driving pressure, calling for power cables linkeded into wall surface electrical outlets or batteries (e.g., C or AA cells).
Batteries need to be replaced every so often, and electrical energy ceases to flow when the power goes out. This is seldom an essential concern, though keeping exact time is necessary in some circumstances. A nice option is to equip the clock with both a power cable as well as a battery.
In this manner, one type of power could take control of when the various other is stopping working. A variant on this style is the uninterruptible power supply (UPS). One more idea, particularly beneficial for outdoors, is to make use of solar clocks the rechargeable batteries for which get juiced through solar energy.
To have Westminster (or various other formed) chimes play in the home, think about using chiming clock movements. To have the novelty of oscillating pendulums attached to your clocks, order this feature (as many activities give it). And that is all there is to know about clock activities and electric motors.
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Meet "Blue Lives Mickey": What the worst t-shirt in the world says about America
A Disneyland trip devolved into a descent into right-wing t-shirt hell — the nadir of which is "Blue Lives Mickey"
Keith A. Spencer
I had been in the Magic Kingdom for all of 15 minutes when I saw it out of the corner of my eye: the shirt. The worst shirt in the world, likely.
But before I tell you about the shirt, let me explain why, at age 32, I was visiting Disneyland in the first place. I had never been to any Disney property (or any other entertainment industry theme park), and had arrived under the auspices of writing an essay on what it would be like to visit the Happiest Place on Earth for the very first time as a childless thirtysomething.
Hence, by that point, everything I knew about Disneyland I learned secondhand: from watching movies or TV, mostly, that took place there. There was a 1993 "Full House" episode that my sister recorded on VHS, in which the Tanner family visits the Magic Kingdom, that informed my expectations. And of course, I had third-party knowledge of the Happiest Place on Earth from my elementary schoolmates' reports on their vacations. (That's how I knew what Space Mountain was.)
Beyond those data points, everything else I gleaned from pastiche. One formative Disneyland cultural reference that weighed on my mind was an old "Simpsons" episode in which the family visits Itchy & Scratchy Land, a Disneyland parody, only to find a surveillance state engineered to leech money from visitors. Upon entering, Homer purchases something called "Itchy & Scratchy Dollars." "It's like regular money, but — uh — fun," the cashier tells Homer, who accedes and buys $1,100 worth — only to find that nowhere in the park takes Itchy & Scratchy Dollars.
Hence, I entered Itchy & Scr — er, Disneyland — expecting the deepest pit of consumer hell. Because I had never been there as a child, I was a good candidate, I thought, to write about it as an adult — unencumbered by nostalgia. The rides, the food, the environs and the cheap souvenirs were entirely new to me.
But what I had not understood was that Disneyland wasn't merely a consumer spectacle; it was also a culture. Every city has its own fashion subcultures; Disneyland, and I presume Walt Disney World and the other Disney parks around the globe, apparently have their own rules of dress that apply only within the confines of the property. Hence, people visiting wear things there that they do not wear anywhere else. I did not realize this prior.
Often, "Disneyland style" takes the form of cheesy custom-printed t-shirts donned by families. There's a practicality to this, I suppose — if the whole clan is wearing the same pink shirt, it's a lot harder to lose each other in the crowd. These shirts say things like "Gonzales Family Disneyland Trip 2018," and then will usually be accompanied by a relevant graphic, like the outline of Mickey Mouse's head. The homemade, print-on-demand nature of these shirts guaranteed that they were not actually licensed by the Walt Disney corporation. (Indeed, on Etsy one can find hundreds of t-shirt printers that offer custom Disneyland family vacation t-shirts, all of them skirting copyright law.)
But there were also many guests — often adults without children — sporting hoodies or t-shirts that just read "Disneyland," or had a picture of Goofy or Mickey. It was very much like attending a sporting event in that regard: I pull my orange Giants shirt out of the closet when I go to see a San Francisco Giants game, as do many fans. Similarly, Disneyland attendees pull out their Disney shirt to go to Disneyland. The sports fandom and the theme park fandoms parallel each other, evidently.
It is curious that this doesn't apply to other realms beyond sports and Disneyland. When I eat fast food, for instance, I don't wear a themed t-shirt that says "Wendy's burgers"; when I go to walk my dog, I don't wear a special dog-themed outfit (though perhaps I should). If only we applied Disneyland fashion logic when dressing for all of life's happenings.
But Disneyland fashion is not merely t-shirts and hoodies. There's also the far more elaborate culture of Minnie skirts (as in Mickey's love interest). Many women — probably men too, although I didn't see any this visit — arrive at Disneyland engaged in a mild form of cosplay, clad in Minnie Mouse–inspired attire: a red skirt with white polka dots, a black cardigan, and a matching polka dot bow on their heads, generally.
There is something unusually quaint about this distinct Disneyland custom. I can think of no other fashion culture that transcends state lines so fluidly. An Alaskan, a New Yorker and a Montanan — all of different political stripes, and with little in common culturally — might all converge in Anaheim, donning similar "Family Disney Trip!" shirts or sporting the Minnie Mouse aesthetic.
Ten minutes after entering the park, I was taking this all in, when I saw a man with his family sitting on a bench. He was white, probably ten years older than me, with two young children and wife. His t-shirt featured the outline of Mickey Mouse's head. But rather than the mouse's face inside, there was an image of the Blue Lives Matter flag. I did a triple-take to make sure I had seen what I thought I had seen.
Why? What could possibly compel this shirt to exist? As I attempted to enjoy the train ride around the park, these questions turned over in my head.
The incongruity at the heart of the t-shirt is this: The Blue Lives Matter flag is a symbol of authoritarian obedience. It expresses opposition and denial of the notion that there is a systematic racialized bias in the way police treat African Americans, something that is empirically provable. The ideology of the Blue Lives Matter pseudo-movement is aligned with white supremacy and authoritarianism, in that it suggests that our increasingly militarized police force occupies some sacred place in America, immune to scrutiny.
So you have that; and then you have Mickey Mouse, a giggling, shirtless cartoon rodent.
To quote one of Mickey's avian coevals: One of these things is not like the other.
I saw four more of these shirts as I walked through the park that day. That meant it wasn't merely an anomaly. And indeed, when I got home, I searched on Etsy. There are dozens of sellers of this shirt. It goes by many names, including "Thin Blue Line Mickey," "Mickey Blue Lives Matter," and — most pithily — "Blue Lives Mickey."
My day at Disneyland ended, but questions over the shirt persisted. What were its wearers trying to convey? And what did this say about the state of American culture? I spent months turning over these questions in my head.
The transposition of logos and imagery from fiction onto political causes is not a new phenomenon. The Punisher skull, the logo of the Marvel Comics vigilante with questionable morals, has struck a chord among both troops and police. As David Masciotra noted in Salon last year, some police departments attempted to get the logo incorporated into their squad car decals — ironic, given that the character is, as Masciotra writes, a "fictional character who [r]outinely violates the U.S. Constitution, and appoints himself judge, jury and executioner when dealing with anyone under suspicion of illegal activity."
Mickey Mouse is not like The Punisher, surely. He doesn't enact vigilante justice and routinely violate the U.S. Constitution — as least, as far as I can remember from the cartoons I watched as a child. I consulted with my friend Jess, who accompanied me on my trip. What did they make of this? "Don't think of it as literally Mickey Mouse," Jess told me. Instead, Jess said, consider Mickey Mouse's head as a general symbol of Disneyland — of the kind of controlled, imaginary fantasy world that the theme park creates. Postmodern philosopher Jean Baudrillard observed this of Disneyland too. He called the surreality of Disneyland, and the image it projects, the "Disneyland Imaginary". As he wrote:
Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real, when in fact all of Los Angeles and the America surrounding it are no longer real, but of the order of the hyperreal and of simulation. ... The Disneyland imaginary is neither true nor false: it is a deterrence machine set up in order to rejuvenate in reverse the fiction of the real. Whence the debility, the infantile degeneration of this imaginary. It is meant to be an infantile world, in order to make us believe that the adults are elsewhere, in the "real" world, and to conceal the fact that real childishness is everywhere, particularly among those adults who go there to act the child in order to foster illusions of their real childishness.
Suddenly, everything clicked. The "imagineers" who build the world of Disneyland; the imagined idea of America that fuels violent right-wing fantasies about empire — these converge to form the heart of Blue Lives Mickey.
The contemporary American right is motivated by a fantasy of America, an idea of an idyllic past that never really existed. The maxim "Make America Great Again" encapsulates this. When was America great, and why? It is doubtful that many of us, accustomed to 21st century comforts, would actually enjoy the 1950s if we were to time-travel and live back then; and besides, the things from that era that made us prosperous — namely, the union movement, the post-New Deal welfare state, and the comparatively low cost of higher education — existed because of the left, not the right. Those who pine for an imaginary 1950s pine for something they saw on television, the stable, peaceable version of the midcentury that was depicted on film and in sitcoms from that eras. But those visions are not real: those are fantasy versions of America dreamed up by screenwriters. Yet they propel the right's idea of the "real" America.
In the same vein, Disneyland is a fantasy version of America, and particularly California. There are main streets, a simulated version of a national park, a faux-1950s era gas station, a 1950s diner. But these are all weak stand-ins for the real versions of these things, quite different from the real versions. Most tellingly, they all function as glorified souvenir shops: Disney takes the real markers of American civilization and history and makes fake versions whose main function is to document, through souvenirs, that one has been to the fake version. The real version of these things is uninteresting to Disney. There's no gas at Oswald's gas station, because there are no cars that can drive in that area; it's just a celebration of an imitation.
This incongruity really came to a head when I spotted, in the simulated version of a national park, a fake rock with a small box next to it. "Caution: Rodenticide. Keep children away," it read. How ironic to see this in a kingdom whose logo is a giant rodent. You like the fake rodent, and kill the real ones.
This is all to say that "the celebration of an imitation" also perfectly describes the Blue Lives Matter fantasy. The entire movement is just that — a fantasy about policing, authority and peacekeeping. Just as with Disneyland, the Blue Lives Matter fantasy is made real through television and film: police procedurals and films that celebrate the inherent goodness of police, their righteous mission, while taking a myopic view of criminality as something that is innate, rather than a result of social problems. One cannot underestimate the extent to which Hollywood is responsible for Blue Lives Matter, and for all our rosy feelings about cops, really.
Yet there's one more piece to the Blue Lives Mickey equation. How does one print those horrifying shirts without running afoul of Disney's lawyers? It turns out you can chalk this up to Silicon Valley "innovation."
Indeed, the Blue Lives Mickey shirts exist because of the contemporary internet marketplace and how it works. Disney is notoriously litigious; upload an image of Mickey, Minnie, or Goofy to the big on-demand t-shirt printing sites like CafePress or RedBubble, and you'll find the image deleted within minutes, and a copyright warning in your email. But there are platforms like Etsy and eBay that do not literally print t-shirts — they are marketplaces of resellers and small businesses who screenprint themselves, and use Etsy and eBay as storefronts. Like Airbnb and Facebook, these so-called platforms don't actually manufacture anything or own much beyond servers; they're just contractor factories who let anyone sell via these platforms, then take a cut of the proceeds. Thus, it is too difficult for Disney to systematically sue any of the thousands of screenprinters in assorted states who are making their own variants on Blue Lives Mickey and shipping them to Officer Buzzcut in Reno just in time for his family trip to Disneyland.
Baudrillard had one final, ironic note about the Disneyland Imaginary. He noted that all of Los Angeles, theme parks and film studios, was complicit in the creation of fantasies that fueled civilization. "Disneyland is not the only one," he wrote. "Enchanted Village, Magic Mountain, Marine World: Los Angeles is encircled by these 'imaginary stations' which feed reality, reality-energy, to a town whose mystery is precisely that it is nothing more than a network of endless, unreal circulation: a town of fabulous proportions, but without space or dimensions. ... As much as electrical and nuclear power stations, as much as film studios, this town, which is nothing more than an immense script and a perpetual motion picture, needs this old imaginary made up of childhood signals and faked phantasms for its sympathetic nervous system."
You could very well say the same thing about American policing. It relies on an imaginary idea of what it is, and what police do, in order to keep functioning. Mickey Mouse has been drafted into that fantasy.
Keith A. Spencer is a senior editor for Salon. He manages Salon's science, tech, economy and health coverage. His book, "A People's History of Silicon Valley: How the Tech Industry Exploits Workers, Erodes Privacy and Undermines Democracy," was released in 2018. Follow him on Twitter at @keithspencer, or on Facebook here.
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FBI vs APPLE: The War of Words Escalates
APPLE ... FBI.... who do you side with? That's the talk around the water cooler and it, at times, can become contentious. After all, we're talking about Privacy vs. National Security. Two new polls indicate that those questioned are split almost 50-50 on allowing the FBI to force Apple to open the iPhone belonging to Sayed Faruk. He's one of the two terrorists who killed 14 people and wounded others during a holiday party in San Bernardino in December. The phone is a county issued one.
If you ask some people why they side with the FBI they'll tell you, as one man did, "Forget the privacy. They're killing people!"
On the other side of the growing debate Apple supporters say things like this statement one man told us, "I think the government is going to far. I think Apple should resist."
Stephen Larsen sides with the FBI. a U.S. Attorney in LA for ten years and a Federal Judge for the same amount of time, Larsen says "Law enforcement has an interest. They want to build their case, but these families and these victims... people that were in the room, they have a lot of unanswered questions. Why did this happen? How could this have happened? Who was involved? Are they still at risk? Who were the terrorists communicating with?
Larsen plans to file an amicus brief March 3rd in Riverside Federal Court supporting the FBI side. That, and all of the other points of view, will come up at a hearing slated for March 22nd.
Meanwhile, Apple CEO Tim Cook fired off a public letter saying "the case is about much more than a single phone or a single investigation. At stake is the data security of hundreds of millions of law abiding people and setting a dangerous precedent that threatens everyone's civil liberties.
Larsen describes the remark as being over the top.
Meanwhile, FBI Director James Comey wrote a public letter asking "everyone to take a deep breath and stop saying the world is ending and use that breath to talk to each other.


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Susie Bright
American writer and feminist
Our society's notions of normality are completely fake and meta-trendy, since they rely on the changing standards of superstition, religion, Christianity and gender bias to define themselves.
Susannah "Susie" Bright (born March 25, 1958, Arlington, Virginia), also known as Susie Sexpert, is a writer, speaker, teacher, audio show host, performer, all on the subject of sexuality. She is one of the first writers/activists referred to as a sex-positive feminist.
Sometimes I wonder if MacKinnon has simply been driven mad by all the sick things people do to one another. I, too, recoil in pain and incomprehension whenever I hear about the latest psychopath who has shot his mother, machine-gunned his coworkers, raped his daughter, or slashed a prostitute. I notice that such men are more likely to have read the Bible than pornography, but I do not hold either script responsible for their actions.
"The Prime of Miss Kitty MacKinnon", East Bay Express, October 1993.
Sexual speech, not MacKinnon's speech, is the most repressed and disdained kind of expression in our world, and MacKinnon is no rebel or radical to attack it.
On Catharine MacKinnon.
"Natural" is a very dangerous word to use about sexuality ... Our society's notions of normality are completely fake and meta-trendy, since they rely on the changing standards of superstition, religion, Christianity and gender bias to define themselves. Americans, in particular, exhibit very childish reactions to sexual practices that are new to them, much like little kids who are offered a vegetable they haven't seen before: "That's disgusting!" "But darling, you haven't even tried it!" "I don't care, I hate it, I hate it!
Introduction, Nothing But the Girl, 1996 ISBN 186047005X.
Take the National Organization for Women — please! They've embarrassed me enough over the years, and now I'm going to give them a taste of their own medicine. They were always so holier-than-thou, systematically getting rid of everyone who wasn't just like them: white, upper-middle class, straight (or closeted), sex-phobic Democratic party apologists. As you can imagine, that's not a huge group anymore — but they still manage to hang onto a name that insists that they represent half the population!
Well, it's all over, sweethearts. I'm taking away your library card, I'm stripping badges and I'm not returning phone calls. Calling NOW feminists is like calling the People's Republic of China communist: Marx and Emma Goldman are both rolling in their graves.
"This shameless hussy ballbuster Clinton scandals", Salon, March 13, 1998.
Andrea presented herself as a street fighter intellectual, a bohemian freedom fighter, and someone who wanted to get to the bottom of things. That quote about Malcolm X is apt. Malcolm pointed out "The problem is WHITE PEOPLE." Dworkin said, "The problem is MEN." And for all the holes that can be poked in that cloth, there is something about that grain that is absolutely true, when you are the short end of the bolt.
"Andrea Dworkin Has Died", Susie Bright's Journal (blog), April 11, 2005.
I'm sorry Andrea Dworkin started a sexual revolution that she ended up repudiating. She never got to see people like me, Carol, and the rest of us little protégées who took her inspiration and flew to a new dimension. She got stuck, and then she got sick, and when you're famous for one thing, no one wants to see you change unless you reject it all, like a pathetic sinner seeking redemption. She was too stubborn and too old-fashioned for that. Andrea Dworkin never would have admitted that she was a SuperStar. She was the animator of the ultimate porno horror loop, where the Final Girl never gets a chance to slay the monster, she only dies, dies, dies, with the cries of the angry mourners to remember her.
At that time, there was general agreement among everyone involved in women's liberation that women should have a defined sexual self-interest.
Keeping people neurotic and depressed and ignorant and self-doubting is oppressive.
People who love science fiction really do love sex.
When AIDS was at its most brutal, frightening, my-God-what-are-we-going-to-do era, that was when vampire stories and stories about blood and trust swept the literary world.
"Bright Ideas", interview by Tamara Wieder, Boston Phoenix, February 11, 2005.
Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good.
Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership... these are scientific values we can point to.
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
I think women need to realize that they would be much better moms if they were well-rested, sexually satisfied, and had some interests going outside their childrearing.
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Wife of a Ph.D. student? Visit the Adelphai Society: Hear from Sandra Lawson, founder and director of Sayers Classical Academy, on the subject of thinking as a part of the great commandment to love God, Monday, Feb. 8, at 7 p.m. in the James P. Boyce Centennial Library. The Adelphai Society is a Southern Seminary student organization for wives of Ph.D. students and exists to expose them to the academic world and provide an atmosphere of critical thinking and fellowship. For more information, visit here.
Learn apologetics at Dialogue with the Dean: Dan DeWitt, dean of Boyce College, and Larry Taunton, author and executive director of Fixed Point Foundation, will discuss the importance of engaging atheists and agnostics in serious, yet compassionate, conversation during Dialogue with the Dean, Tuesday, Feb. 9, at 5:30 p.m. in Sampey Commons.. The conversation will focus on Taunton's relationship with the late, well-known atheist, Christopher Hitchens.
Get to Know Your Library: Tour the library and enter to win free books! Learn which resources are available, where they are located, and what services you may expect from the library staff. Tours start at the Research Hub on the library's main floor. See the library workshop page for more information about workshops and giveaways.
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Learn about overseas missions work at Global Connections: Join Global Connections this Friday, Feb. 12, to hear veteran missionary Dennis Barton discuss key ministry principles gleaned from over 30 years of international missionary service. Barton served with the IMB in Europe as a church planter, strategy leader, and researcher. His experience also includes training and strategy research in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. The event will be held Friday, Feb. 12, from noon – 1 p.m. at Room 17 in the Library basement. RSVP here for a free lunch.
Koinonia event to help women with ministry: All ladies, no matter their age or calling, will be involved in ministry to other women. Attend Tuesday, Feb. 16 from 7 – 9 p.m. in Heritage Hall for an evening filled with helpful "how-to's" on topics ranging from women's leadership to biblical counseling for women to leading a ladies' Bible study. All ladies in the Boyce and Southern community are invited to this evening of dessert, fellowship, and training. Limited childcare is available here.
Hamilton to deliver Commonweal luncheon lecture: James M. Hamilton Jr., professor of biblical theology, will present a Commonweal lecture titled "What We Were Made To Do: Work in God's Creation Project" on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 11:30 a.m. – 12:50 p.m. Lunch is free for the first 60 students and faculty in Heritage Hall. Please register here. The first 20 attendees will receive an 8-GB USB drive.
Attend the first 'What's the Word' Forum: ONE, a student organization supporting racial reconciliation on the campus of Southern Seminary, will hold its inaugural "What's the Word Forum" on Wednesday, Feb. 17, at 10 a.m. in the President's Reception Room. The panel discussion will address the topic of Race and Reconciliation in the evangelical church so students can learn about the current racial climate in the evangelical church and hear how they can be a partner in gospel reconciliation among the people of God.
Pray for the nations with the Student Missions Fellowship: All students are invited to join Student Mission Fellowship to pray for unreached people groups. Each weekday morning, students gather from 7:45 – 8:15 a.m. to learn about and pray for a specific unreached people group. Please join and have your heart moved to see God's kingdom established on earth through the spread of the gospel. Contact Rachel Ware for more information.
Donate Books: Southern Seminary will be hosting a used book sale during T4G for pastors, students, and gospel leaders, April 11-15. Donate Christian books to help complete the bookstore. The donation drop-off is located in the Lifeway book store in the Honeycutt Campus Center. For large donations or questions please contact Lindsay Edwards.
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This video training program "THE KELPIE DOG Selecting & Training", has been described as the most comprehensive Kelpie training and breeding program ever produced. Never before has three eminent Kelpie people such as Gordon McMaster, Joe Spicer and John Gedye come together in one training program.
Gordon McMaster OAM, sheep classifier, is acknowledged worldwide as one of Australia's very best judges of merino sheep. He has Judge and classed merino sheep in every wool growing country of the world. From the ice cold of Siberia in Russia to the dry desert country of South Africa. His enormous genetic experience in selecting and breeding Merino Rams, Gordon has applied to his Kelpie stud WYREEMA which is considered one of the oldest Kelpie studs in Australia. Gordon is also a life member of the Working Kelpie Council of Australia.
Joe Spicer and his partner Sharon Barry, Established the GoGetta Kelpie Stud. Joe has won five Australian Working Yard dog titles and many state and country sheepdog trials. He is regarded by his peers as one of Australia's very best Kelpie trainers. In his training demonstrations, his skill and affection for his dogs is obvious. A Kelpie trained and bred by Joe will give the new owner a lifetime of companionship and service.
John Gedye and his wife Loris established the Scoriochre Kelpie Stud approximately 45 years ago. Since 1973 John and his Kelpies have had considerable success in trials. John has a natural way of handling working dogs, but he mainly concentrates on breeding and selecting working Kelpies traits for owners of dairy cattle or for sheep work. He is also an active member of the Working Kelpie Council of Australia.
These three outstanding Kelpie trainers and breeders have combined experience and knowledge base of 125 years! Bill Robertson, author of, Origins of the Australian Kelpie, requested these three specialists come together for the benefit of the Kelpie type and the breed.
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There's an old adage "Given time, a good trainer can train any dog to work stock". However, while this is basically true, time and effort are valuable commodities that we can ill afford to waste training an unsuitable dog type. Therefore, it makes sense to start with puppies that have heritable working characteristics gifted from their progenitors. That is, the parents must be from good working types. Buying a pup from an established breeder is a good starting point.
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