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Women Filmmakers at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Film Still: "Dead Pigs"
At a time when women make up 50.8% of the U.S. population, just 4.2% of the 100 top-grossing American films are made by female directors; and that statistic hasn't changed over the last decade. It is often through media that we understand ourselves and each other, and so the stories that frame our lives must be inclusive of the full range of voices. This year, of the 122 feature films premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, 37% are directed by women, markedly ahead of the mainstream industry. In celebration of these vital women's voices, see below for a guide to all women-directed media showing at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. From the halls of the Supreme Court, to an infamous axe murderess, to a river of dead pigs and a kaleidoscopic infinity room, these premieres present characters, ideas, and worlds you won't want to miss!
U.S. Dramatic Competition
I Think We're Alone Now (USA)
Director: Reed Morano
The apocalypse proves a blessing in disguise for one lucky recluse – until a second survivor arrives with the threat of companionship.
The Kindergarten Teacher (USA)
Director and screenwriter: Sara Colangelo
Lisa Spinelli is a Staten Island teacher who is unusually devoted to her students. When she discovers one of her five-year-olds is a prodigy, she becomes fascinated with the boy, ultimately risking her family and freedom to nurture his talent. Based on the acclaimed Israeli film.
The Miseducation of Cameron Post (USA)
Director and screenwriter: Desiree Akhavan
1993: after being caught having sex with the prom queen, a girl is forced into a gay conversion therapy center. Based on Emily Danforth's acclaimed and controversial coming-of-age novel.
NANCY (USA)
Director and screenwriter: Christina Choe
Blurring lines between fact and fiction, Nancy becomes increasingly convinced she was kidnapped as a child. When she meets a couple whose daughter went missing thirty years ago, reasonable doubts give way to willful belief – and the power of emotion threatens to overcome all rationality.
The Tale (USA)
Director and screenwriter: Jennifer Fox
An investigation into one woman's memory as she's forced to re-examine her first sexual relationship and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive; based on the filmmaker's own story.
U.S. Documentary Competition
Dark Money (USA)
Director and screenwriter: Kimberly Reed
"Dark money" contributions, made possible by the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, flood modern American elections – but Montana is showing Washington D.C. how to solve the problem of unlimited anonymous money in politics.
The Devil We Know (USA)
Director: Stephanie Soechtig
Unraveling one of the biggest environmental scandals of our time, a group of citizens in West Virginia take on a powerful corporation after they discover it has knowingly been dumping a toxic chemical — now found in the blood of 99.7% of Americans — into the local drinking water supply.
Hal (USA)
Director: Amy Scott
Hal Ashby's obsessive genius led to an unprecedented string of Oscar®-winning classics, including Harold and Maude, Shampoo and Being There. But as contemporaries Coppola, Scorsese and Spielberg rose to blockbuster stardom in the 1980s, Ashby's uncompromising nature played out as a cautionary tale of art versus commerce.
Inventing Tomorrow (USA)
Director: Laura Nix
Take a journey with young minds from around the globe as they prepare their projects for the largest convening of high school scientists in the world, the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF). Watch these passionate innovators find the courage to face the planet's environmental threats while navigating adolescence.
Kusama – Infinity (USA)
Director and screenwriter: Heather Lenz
Now one of the world's most celebrated artists, Yayoi Kusama broke free of the rigid society in which she was raised, and overcame sexism, racism, and mental illness to bring her artistic vision to the world stage. At 88 she lives in a mental hospital and continues to create art.
On Her Shoulders (USA)
Director: Alexandria Bombach
Nadia Murad, a 23-year-old Yazidi, survived genocide and sexual slavery committed by ISIS. Repeating her story to politicians and media, this ordinary girl finds herself thrust onto the world stage as the voice of her people. Away from the podium, she must navigate bureaucracy, fame and people's good intentions.
Seeing Allred (USA)
Directors: Sophie Sartain and Roberta Grossman
Gloria Allred overcame trauma and personal setbacks to become one of the nation's most famous women's rights attorneys. Now the feminist firebrand takes on two of the biggest adversaries of her career, Bill Cosby and Donald Trump, as sexual violence allegations grip the nation and keep her in the spotlight.
World Dramatic Competition
And Breathe Normally (Iceland, Sweden, Belgium)
Director and screenwriter: Isold Uggadottir
At the edge of Iceland's Reykjanes peninsula, two women's lives will intersect – for a brief moment – while trapped in circumstances unforeseen. Between a struggling Icelandic mother and an asylum seeker from Guinea-Bissau, a delicate bond will form as both strategize to get their lives back on track.
Dead Pigs (China)
Director and screenwriter: Cathy Yan
A bumbling pig farmer, a feisty salon owner, a sensitive busboy, an expat architect and a disenchanted rich girl converge and collide as thousands of dead pigs float down the river towards a rapidly-modernizing Shanghai, China. Based on true events.
Holiday (Denmark)
Director and screenwriter: Isabella Eklöf
A love triangle featuring the trophy girlfriend of a petty drug lord, caught up in a web of luxury and violence in a modern dark gangster tale set in the beautiful port city of Bodrum on the Turkish Riviera.
The Queen of Fear (Argentina)
Director and screenwriter: Valeria Bertuccelli, Director Fabiana Tiscornia
Only one month left until the premiere of The Golden Time, the long-awaited solo show by acclaimed actress Robertina. Far from focused on the preparations for this new production, Robertina lives in a state of continuous anxiety that turns her privileged life into an absurd and tumultuous landscape.
World Documentary Competition
The Oslo Diaries (Israel)
Director: Mor Loushy
In 1992, Israeli-Palestinian relations reached an all time low. In an attempt to stop the bloodshed, a group of Israelis and Palestinians met illegally in Oslo. These meetings were never officially sanctioned and held in complete secrecy. They changed the Middle East forever.
Shirkers (USA)
Director: Sandi Tan
In 1992, teenager Sandi Tan shot Singapore's first indie road movie with her enigmatic American mentor Georges – who then vanished with all the footage. Twenty years later, the 16mm film is recovered, sending Tan, now a novelist in Los Angeles, on a personal odyssey in search of Georges' vanishing footprints.
This is Home (USA)
Director: Alexandra Shiva
This is an intimate portrait of four Syrian families arriving in Baltimore, Maryland and struggling to find their footing. With eight months to become self-sufficient, they must forge ahead to rebuild their lives. When the travel ban adds further complications, their strength and resilience are put to the test.
Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist (United Kingdom)
Director: Lorna Tucker
Dame Vivienne Westwood: punk, icon, provocateur and one of the most influential originators in recent history. This is the first film to encompass the remarkable story of one of the true icons of our time, as she fights to maintain her brand's integrity, her principles – and her legacy.
A Woman Captured (Hungary)
Director: Bernadett Tuza-Ritter
A European woman has been kept by a family as a domestic slave for 10 years – one of over 45 million victims of modern-day slavery. Drawing courage from the filmmaker's presence, she decides to escape the unbearable oppression and become a free person.
Leave No Trace (USA)
Director and screenwriter: Debra Granik
A father and daughter live a perfect but mysterious existence in Forest Park, a beautiful nature reserve near Portland, Oregon, rarely making contact with the world. A small mistake tips them off to authorities sending them on an increasingly erratic journey in search of a place to call their own.
The Long Dumb Road (USA)
Director and screenwriter: Hannah Fidell
Two very different men, at personal crossroads, meet serendipitously and take an unpredictable journey through the American Southwest. Cast: Tony Revolori, Jason Mantzoukas, Taissa Farmiga, Grace Gummer, Ron Livingston, Casey Wilson. World Premiere
Ophelia (USA)
Director: Claire McCarthy
A mythic spin on Hamlet through a lens of female empowerment: Ophelia comes of age as lady-in-waiting for Queen Gertrude, and her singular spirit captures Hamlet's affections. As lust and betrayal threaten the kingdom, Ophelia finds herself trapped between true love and controlling her own destiny.
Private Life (USA)
Director and screenwriter: Tamara Jenkins
A couple in the throes of infertility try to maintain their marriage as they descend deeper into the weird world of assisted reproduction and domestic adoption. When their doctor suggests third-party reproduction, they bristle. But when Sadie, a recent college dropout, re-enters their life, they reconsider.
What They Had (USA)
Director and screenwriter: Elizabeth Comko
Bridget returns home to Chicago at her brother's urging to deal with her mother's Alzheimer's and her father's reluctance to let go of their life together.
Documentary Premieres
Generation Wealth (USA)
Director and screenwriter: Lauren Greenfield
Lauren Greenfield's postcard from the edge of the American Empire captures a portrait of a materialistic, image-obsessed culture. Simultaneously personal journey and historical essay, the film bears witness to the global boom–bust economy, the corrupted American Dream and the human costs of late stage capitalism, narcissism and greed.
Half the Picture (USA)
Director: Amy Adrion
At a pivotal moment for gender equality in Hollywood, successful women directors tell the stories of their art, lives and careers. Having endured a long history of systemic discrimination, women filmmakers may be getting the first glimpse of a future that values their voices equally.
Jane Fonda in Five Acts (USA)
Director: Susan Lacy
Girl next door, activist, so-called traitor, fitness tycoon, Oscar winner: Jane Fonda has lived a life of controversy, tragedy and transformation – and she's done it all in the public eye. An intimate look at one woman's singular journey.
Quiet Heroes (USA)
Director: Jenny Mackenzie Co-director: Amanda Stoddard
In Salt Lake City, Utah, the socially conservative religious monoculture complicated the AIDS crisis, where patients in the entire state and intermountain region relied on only one doctor. This is the story of her fight to save a maligned population everyone else seemed willing to just let die.
RBG (USA)
Directors: Betsy West and Julie Cohen
An intimate portrait of an unlikely rock star: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. With unprecedented access, the filmmakers show how her early legal battles changed the world for women. Now this 84-year-old does push-ups as easily as she writes blistering dissents that have earned her the title "Notorious RBG."
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind (USA)
Director: Marina Zenovich
This intimate portrait examines one of the world's most beloved and inventive comedians. Told largely through Robin's own voice and using a wealth of never-before-seen archive, the film takes us through his extraordinary life and career and reveals the spark of madness that drove him.
Never Goin' Back (USA)
Director and screenwriter: Augustine Frizzell
Jessie and Angela, high school dropout BFFs, are taking a week off to chill at the beach. Too bad their house got robbed, rent's due, they're about to get fired and they're broke. Now they've gotta avoid eviction, stay out of jail and get to the beach, no matter what!!!
Revenge (France)
Director and screenwriter: Coralie Fargeat
Three wealthy married men get together for their annual hunting game in a desert canyon. This time, one of them has brought along his young mistress, who quickly arouses the interest of the other two. Things get dramatically out of hand as a hunting game turns into a ruthless manhunt.
Summer of '84 (USA, Canada)
Director: Anouk Whissell
Summer, 1984: a perfect time to be a carefree 15-year-old. But when neighborhood conspiracy theorist Davey Armstrong begins to suspect his police officer neighbor might be the serial killer all over the local news, he and his three best friends begin an investigation that soon turns dangerous.
306 Hollywood (USA, Hungary)
Director and screenwriter: Elan Bogarin
When two siblings undertake an archaeological excavation of their late grandmother's house, they embark on a magical-realist journey from her home in New Jersey to ancient Rome, from fashion to physics, in search of what life remains in the objects we leave behind.
Clara's Ghost (USA)
Director and screenwriter: Bridey Elliott
Set over the course of a single evening at the Reynolds' family home in Connecticut, Clara, fed up with the constant ribbing from her self-absorbed showbiz family, finds solace in and guidance from the supernatural force she believes is haunting her.
Madeline's Madeline (USA)
Director and screenwriter: Josephine Decker
Madeline got the part! She's going to play the lead in a theater piece! Except the lead wears sweatpants like Madeline's. And has a cat like Madeline's. And is holding a steaming hot iron next to her mother's face – like Madeline is.
Night Comes On (USA)
Director and screenwriter: Jordana Spiro
Angel LaMere is released from juvenile detention on the eve of her 18th birthday. Haunted by her past, she embarks on a journey with her 10 year-old sister that could destroy their future.
Skate Kitchen (USA)
Director and screenwriter: Crystal Moselle
Camille's life as a lonely suburban teenager changes dramatically when she befriends a group of girl skateboarders. As she journeys deeper into this raw New York City subculture, she begins to understand the true meaning of friendship as well as her inner self.
I Am Not a Witch (United Kingdom, France, Zambia, Germany)
Director and screenwriter: Rungano Nyoni
After a minor incident, nine-year old Shula is exiled to a witch camp where she is told that if she escapes, she'll be transformed into a goat. As she navigates through her new life, she must decide whether to accept her fate or risk the consequences of seeking freedom.
The Rider (USA)
Director and screenwriter: Chloe Zhao
After a tragic riding accident, young cowboy and rising rodeo circuit star Brady Jandreau is told that his competition days are over. In an attempt to regain control of his fate, Brady undertakes a search for new identity and tries to redefine his idea of manhood in America's heartland.
You Were Never Really Here (USA)
Director and screenwriter: Lynne Ramsay
A traumatized veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe's nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening.
Science Fair (USA)
Director: Christina Maria Costantini
Nine high school students from around the globe navigate rivalries, setbacks, and of course, hormones, on their journey to compete at the international science fair. Facing off against 1,700 of the smartest, quirkiest teens from 78 different countries, only one will be named Best in Fair.
Films and Performance
Narcissister Organ Player (USA)
Director: Narcissister Narcissister
This hybrid performance/documentary film explores how ancestral data is stored in our bodies, impacting the lives we lead. On the personal level, the film investigates how the artist's complex family history compelled them to create the masked, erotic performance character Narcissister.
Awavena (USA, Australia, Brazil)
Lead Artist: Lynette Wallworth
The Yawanawa, an indigenous Amazonian people, see immersive technologies as tools they can co-opt to share their connected worldview. Inviting artist Lynette Wallworth to their community, the Yawanawa share the visions of Hushahu, their first woman Shaman, and our technology renders visible the luminous world they have always known.
Frankenstein AI: A Monster Made by Many (USA)
Lead Artist: Rachel Ginsberg
By challenging dystopian perspectives around Artificial Intelligence, this immersive experience reimagines Shelley's seminal work to examine the cultural ramifications of pervasive, ubiquitous technology. Participants interact with an artificial intelligence, co-creating a shared narrative around the implications of unleashing this naive, intelligent "monster," both mythical and imminent, into the world.
TendAR (USA)
Lead Artist: Samantha Gorman
A humorous and provocative installation that combines interactive storytelling, AR and emotion/face recognition technology to promote discussion about current topics in biometric data and artificial intelligence. Your guide: a fish-like creature who amusingly analyzes the partners collaborating in the experience, their emotions and the world around them.
Virtual/Mixed Reality Installations
Hero (USA)
Lead Artist: Vassiliki Khonsari
An immersive, large-scale installation that explores humanity in our modern era of civilian warfare. In this vérité VR experience with multi-sensory engagement, participants embark upon their own primal journey. When everyday life is disrupted by profound crisis only human connection can inspire hope.
VR_I (Switzerland)
Lead Artist: Caecilia Charbonnier
Blending art with technology, VR_I resulted from the encounter between Swiss choreographer Gilles Jobin and the founders of Artanim, Caecilia Charbonnier and Sylvain Chagué. In this contemplative virtual dance piece, five spectators, immersed together and in real time, use avatars to investigate a performance among surprising effects of scale.
DICKGIRL 3D(X) (United Kingdom)
Lead Artist: Sidsel Meineche Hansen
DICKGIRL 3D(X) is the non-binary version of EVA v3.0, an avatar purchased online and appropriated by the artist. Through DICKGIRL 3D(X), the viewer becomes a post-human pleasure-seeker in an encounter with a submissive clay-like sculpture.
SPHERES: Songs of Spacetime (USA)
Lead Artist: Eliza McNitt
Dive into the heart of a black hole and uncover the hidden songs of the cosmos. In this interactive VR experience, the breakthrough discovery of gravitational waves transforms how we see the Universe. Fall into the darkness, and you will find the light.
Wolves in the Walls (Chapter 1) (USA)
Lead Artist: Jessica Shamash
All is not as it seems when 8-year-old Lucy's imagination proves to be reality. Help her discover what's hiding inside the walls of her house in this immersive fable, based on the work by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean, and choreographed by acclaimed immersive-theater company, Third Rail.
New Frontier Mobile VR Lineup
Dinner Party (USA)
Lead Artists: Charlotte Stoudt, Laura Wexler, Angel Manuel Soto
A short virtual reality thriller that dramatizes the incredible story of Betty and Barney Hill, who in the 1960's reported the first nationally known UFO abduction case in America.
The Sun Ladies VR (USA)
Lead Artists: Maria Bello, Celine Tricart
An in-depth look at the personal journey of Xate Singali: from her roots as a famous singer in Kurdistan, through ISIS sex slavery, and to her new life as a soldier on the front lines as she starts a female-only Iraqi fighting unit called the Sun Ladies.
The Summation of Force (Australia)
Lead Artist: Narelle Autio
In a moonlit suburban yard, two brothers battle one another in a mythic game of cricket. A study of the motion, physics and psychology of elite sport; a cosmic, dreamlike and darkly beautiful metaphor for life.
INDIE EPISODIC
The Adulterers (USA)
Director and screenwriter: Tonya Glanz
Two co-workers engaged in an extramarital affair discover an unexpected but limited intimacy which unlocks a secret world of creativity and freedom.
Franchesca (USA)
Director: Kaitlin Fontana
Comedian Franchesca Ramsey finds communion and culture in this digital series which explores beauty and fashion. The pilot episode finds Franchesca escaping ubiquitous internet trolls as she spends the day with friend Michelle Buteau getting an ornate Japanese gel manicure.
Leimert Park (USA)
Director and screenwriter: Mel Jones
Things get complicated when three friends share a house in South LA's Leimert Park. Despite being married, beats-maker Mickey hasn't had an orgasm in three months, Bridget mistakes sex for love while assisting a visiting artist and Kendra shoots videos of her numerous sexual encounters, hoping for her own art show.
U.S. Narrative Short Films
Agua Viva (USA)
Director and screenwriter: Alexa Lim Haas
A Chinese manicurist in Miami attempts to describe feelings she doesn't have the words for.
The Blazing World (USA)
Director and screenwriter: Carlson Young
Margaret has been plagued with dreams of a strange world since she was a little girl. After a mysterious man with a map visits her one night, she decides to give in to the incessant calls of The Blazing World.
Blue Christmas (United Kingdom, USA)
Director and screenwriter: Charlotte Wells
On Christmas Eve, 1968, in a Scottish coastal town, a debt collector goes to work to avoid confronting his wife's worsening psychosis at home.
Cheer Up Baby (USA)
Director and screenwriter: Adinah Dancyger
A young woman who has been sexually assaulted by a stranger on the subway is rendered with psychological menace and sensory dislocation in this elliptical tale.
End of the Line (USA)
Director: Jessica Sanders
A lonely man goes to the pet store and buys a tiny man in a cage.
EVE (USA)
Director and screenwriter: Susan Bay Nimoy
Eve, a 74 year old widow after 30 years of marriage, journeys through grief, sexual passion, and renewal.
Hair Wolf (USA)
Director and screenwriter: Mariama Diallo
In a black hair salon in gentrifying Brooklyn, the local residents fend off a strange new monster: white women intent on sucking the lifeblood from black culture.
Maude (USA)
Director and screenwriter: Anna Margaret Hollyman
Teeny thought it was just another routine babysitting job – until she's shocked to meet the client. As the day goes on, Teeny decides to become the woman she had no idea she always wanted to be…until she gets caught.
Mud (Hashtł'ishnii) (USA)
Director and screenwriter: Shaandiin Tome
On her last day, Ruby faces the inescapable remnants of alcoholism, family and culture.
War Paint (USA)
Director and screenwriter: Katrelle N. Kindred
A young black girl in South L.A. experiences a series of events at the convergence of racism and sexism during the 4th of July holiday.
International Narrative Short Films
ARIA (Cyprus, France)
Director and screenwriter: Myrsini Aristidou
Athens, present day. Seventeen-year-old Aria, who is working at Jimmy's kebab place, is waiting for a driving lesson with her father.
Careful How You Go (United Kingdom)
Director and screenwriter: Emerald Fennell
A darkly comic three-part short film about malevolent women.
Counterfeit Kunkoo (India)
Director and screenwriter: Reema Sengupta
In a city that houses millions, Smita discovers a strange prerequisite to renting a house in middle-class Mumbai. She would make an ideal tenant, except for one glaring flaw – she is an Indian woman without a husband.
Deer Boy (Poland, Belgium, Croatia)
Director and screenwriter: Katarzyna Gondek
A hunter's son is born with antlers; a reflection on how each man kills the thing he loves.
The Fisherman (Cuba, Netherlands, USA)
Director and screenwriter: Ana Alpizar
A humble Cuban fisherman is having a harsh winter on the open sea. For the sake of his family and against all odds, he needs to capture a fish tonight.
For Nonna Anna (Canada)
Director: Luis De Filippis
A trans girl cares for her Italian grandmother. She assumes that her Nonna disapproves of her—but instead discovers a tender bond in their shared vulnerability.
Fry-Up (United Kingdom)
Director and screenwriter: Charlotte Regan
An intimate portrayal of what could be a family's last day together, set against the urban backdrop of North London.
Garfield (United Kingdom)
Director: Georgi Banks-Davies, Screenwriter: Myra Appannah
Krishna wakes up in a strange place, with a strange guy. As she pieces together how she got there, she realizes that the reasons may be bigger than just the night before.
The Turk Shop (Sweden)
Director and screenwriter: Bahar Pars
A comedy about structural racism at the workplace.
Documentary Short Films
I Like Girls (Canada)
Director: Diane Obomsawin
Charlotte, Mathilde, Marie, and Diane reveal the nitty-gritty about their first loves, sharing funny and intimate tales of one-sided infatuation, mutual attraction, erotic moments and fumbling attempts at sexual expression.
Intimity (Switzerland)
Director and screenwriter: Elodie Dermange
As she is showering, dressing, putting on her make-up, a woman bares her soul.
Judith Loves Martha (USA)
Director: Anna Gaskell
A wily 87-year-old New Yorker, Judith Godwin is one of very few women of the Abstract Expressionist Movement. A creative awakening in college led her to produce the brilliant, gestural paintings for which she is renowned.
Nuuca (USA, Canada)
Director: Michelle Latimer
The oil boom in North Dakota has brought tens of thousands of new people to the region and with that has come an influx of drugs, crime and sex trafficking.
Wild Wild West: A Beautiful Rant by Mark Bradford (USA)
Director and screenwriter: Dime Davis
Where do artists come from? An answer explored through paper, percussion, and one pissed off artist.
RX EARLY DETECTION A Cancer Journey with Sandra Lee (USA)
Director and screenwriter: Cathy Chermol Schrijver
The intense journey of a woman stunned when her routine annual mammogram delivers a cancer diagnosis. This film is unafraid to battle cancer directly, projecting a power to inspire, educate, destigmatize and effect change.
The Trader (Sovdagari) (Georgia)
Director: Tamta Gabrichidze
Gela sells secondhand clothes and household items in places where money is potatoes.
Volte (Poland)
Directors and screenwriters: Monika Kotecka, Karolina Poryzala
Zuzia, 12, has been training for two years and has extraordinary role topping the acrobatic pyramid. At the start of a new season, it's clear that she's lost some grace and lightness. A growth spurt may be the culprit.
Animated Short Films
The Burden (Sweden)
Director and screenwriter: Niki Lindroth von Bahr
A dark musical enacted in a modern shopping center, situated next to a large freeway. The employees of the various commercial venues deal with boredom and existential anxiety by performing cheerful musical turns. The apocalypse is a tempting liberator.
Hedgehog's Home (Canada, Croatia)
Director and screenwriter: Eva Cvijanović
In a lush and lively forest lives a hedgehog. Though he's respected by the other animals, Hedgehog's devotion to his home annoys a quartet of beasts, who decide to confront him.
Manivald (Estonia, Croatia, Canada)
Director and co-screenwriter: Chintis Lundgren
Manivald is still living at home with his retired mother. The day before his 33rd birthday a hot young wolf named Toomas comes to fix their washing machine. A love triangle develops, which leaves Manivald increasingly frustrated.
Nevada (USA)
Director and screenwriter: Emily Ann Hoffman
A young couple's romantic weekend getaway is interrupted by a birth control mishap in this stop-motion animated comedy.
[O] (United Kingdom)
Director and screenwriter: Chiara Sgatti
A film that imitates nature in its manner of operation, depicting animated cycles in a world entirely based on sound frequency and vibration.
PLUR (USA)
Director and screenwriter: Julie Fliegenspan
A claymation adaptation of a series of actual voicemails received after making out with someone at a rave.
The Shivering Truth (USA)
Directors: Cat Solen
An omnibus of painfully riotous daymares, dripping with dream logic; a slate of emotional parables from the deepest caverns of your unconscious, lovingly animated in stop-motion. In other words: it is the Truth.
Vox Lipoma (Sweden)
Directors and screenwriters: Jane Magnusson, Liv Strömquist
A short about Ingmar Bergman's power, sexuality and facial lipoma that gives him no rest.


The left will say that in order to make all outcomes equal, we need to make sure everybody is on Medicare.
And I will say that there should be a stipulation requiring birth control (implant for women, vasectomy for men) if you are receiving govt assistance. 48% were on Medicaid? That's too damn many.
Last edited by specsaregood; 04-12-2019 at 10:01 AM.
48% of the women in the study were, not 48% in the general population.
I hope. If you subsidize it, you get more of it though....now I am afraid to look.
While previous research has estimated about 40 percent of the nearly 4 million annual births in the United States were paid for by Medicaid, the latest study by researchers at George Washington University and the March of Dimes looked at individual state data and estimated that in 2010 about 45 percent of births were covered by Medicaid.
and that was 2010, I bet its higher now.
n 24 of the nation's 50 states at least half of the babies born during the latest year on record had their births paid for by Medicaid, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
I'm with you. I had a hunch though. I recall when my wife was pregnant and she was hanging out on various mommy forums; she would get pissed because she kept reading about people saying things like, "My husband got laid off, so we are trying to have a baby now while its free." and other such crap.
I still think it reasonable to require a non-removable form of birth control if one is on govt assistance of any sort. If you are on govt assistance, you are in no position to be popping out new kids.
If you are on govt assistance, you are in no position to be popping out new kids.
You've gotts be some kind of "ist"!
Don'tcha know it's only because of the decline in births of the indigenous people that we neeeeeeeed immigrants to cover the SSI promises?


Festival Celebrates Korean Culture from Sacred Hearts Academy on Vimeo.
Diverse, entertaining and mouthwatering would best describe the 15th Annual Korean Festival, which was held at the Honolulu Hale Civic Grounds last week. The two-day event showcased many facets of the Korean culture–from food to facial skin-care products.
The festivities opened with a performance by Hawaii Mandarin Academy's Naruwan dance team. The young dancers performed a traditional Taiwanese dance. Following that was HI Force, whose modern dance performance consisted of recent Korean-pop songs, such as "Dumb Dumb" by Red Velvet and "Monster" by Exo.
The second day of the festival kicked off with Korean Farmers Music and Dance. This event presented traditional Korean music and dancers. To get the youth involved, various Korean-pop songs were played throughout the park, inviting many to sing along and dance.
The Royal Hawaiian Band and Taiko Drum Dance troupe also performed, while Taekwondo Honolulu impressed the audience with a series of difficult maneuvers and swift movements.
Under a tented area, festival-goers not only found shade but also vendors selling an array of Korea-fueled products. These included products aimed at facial cleanliness and other beauty remedies. Vendors Body & Brain and Lim's Action Chiropractic offered products to keep the body and mind healthy.
The countless food and snack vendors relieved many excited festival-goers of hunger and thirst. Some crowd favorites included Hawaiian Roasted Corn, Snow Factory, Wood and Bucket, Island Maid and Popcorn Express. Vendors, such as Little Seoul Restaurant II, O'Kim's Restaurant and Seoul Jung, were also there to share traditional and tasty Korean dishes.


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This strong Special Edition Schmiere arises from the latest coup of the Schmiere raven: A barbershop opening on the German "Reeperbahn". The three feathered fellows Chester, Steve and Bob run this traditional business with their dexterous passion which is the base for their day job and of course their subsidiary occupation. Chester is the brain behind the gang and pulls the strings. Let yourself be professionally pampered at Chester's Barbershop. But be on the watch: You could get the trio's plaything for one of their master strokes too.
Scissors are the passion of Steve McScissors which he discovered during many autopsies of human bodies. When others need a scalpel for precision Steve leads scissors in every size and shape with a calm and competent hand. After his dishonorable discharge from the FBI due to drugdealing by cooking autopsy reports he's now part of Chester's gang. With his background knowledge and his dexterity he's a big help for Chester the Brain. Customers of Chester's Barbershop are pleased about his precise haircuts - In contrast the crook duo Chester and Bob is pleased about his clever and promising tactics.
The Special Edition Barbershop Pomade strong by Schmiere has a strong hold. It has a orange-yellow colour and smells appetizingly like marzipan. A small pinch of "italian liquor" is responsible for this very special flavour. The printed and elaborated tin can houses a 140 ml content. Of course this variety by Schmiere is made in Germany also. The Schmiere Pomade Barbershop strong is sold seperately, but is also available in a fantastic Triple Set - packed with a cool raven wobbler.


Regular dash cams are incredibly popular amongst most drivers. Imagine having access to a smart dash camera that takes protecting your car a step further. With the Owl Car Cam, you'll have full control over the security of your vehicle.
This unique device is essential for protecting you while you are driving and while you are parked. With a variety of fantastic features that every driver will love, the Owl Car Cam is incredibly impressive.
As mentioned, this dash cam is designed to take vehicle security and safety a step further. You'll have access to plenty of features that are still as simple to use as with a regular dash cam. It's essentially giving drivers the ability to upgrade the way that they protect their vehicles.
There haven't been any specific upgrades to this model, but its overall design elevates your traditional idea of a dash cam. With the ability to access live streaming from your vehicle to your car, you can protect it from damage and theft. Above all else, it still offers the peace of mind to protect yourself from incorrect blame during an accident.
The Owl Car Cam is actually designed to be easy to use, so any driver can take advantage of its benefits. No matter if you're a first-time driver or a professional trucker, having it at your disposal is essential.
Parents will also love the idea of installing the dash cam in their family vehicle. It will help to capture any evidence of accidents so that you can protect young drivers. You can also keep track of how they drive when you're not in the vehicle.
Dash cams are also advantageous for drivers who want protection from insurance fraud. In case of an accident, you won't have to hope that a witness sticks around to defend you if you're not at fault. You will have access to high-resolution videos and images to prove you were in the right.
When you order the Owl Car Cam, you will receive everything that you need for installation. In fact, installing the camera in your vehicle can be done in less than six minutes. You won't have to really think about hiring a professional installer or dealing with adhesives.
In the box, you'll receive the dash camera, the mount, and an instruction manual.
Dual camera: One of the most interesting features is the camera setup. Not only will you have an outside facing camera, but an inside one as well. This will help you to keep an eye on activity outside and inside of your car at the same time.
Relatively high-quality resolution: Some dash cameras give you the ability to access up to 1080p resolution. However, the Owl Car Cam only offers 1440/720p. It's still a reliable quality; it simply won't give you as pristine of feedback as other cameras.
Anti-theft beacon and flood light: If you're concerned about criminal activity around your vehicle, you'll love the anti-theft beacon. It continually pulses inside your car to let people know that your vehicle is protected. The camera is also equipped with an automatic flood light. This light turns on if someone gets too close to your vehicle.
Two-way talk: Are you interested in communicating with the person who is driving your vehicle? Similar to a walkie talkie, you can engage the two-way talk to talk to the driver from your phone.
Instant video alerts: With the help of the built-in AI technology, the Owl Car Cam will send instant video alerts to your phone. This will keep you up to date on any strange events that might be happening in or around your vehicle.
Built-in WiFi and 4G connectivity: The camera comes with a built-in WiFi connector as well as 4G connectivity. You will easily be able to stay connected to your car no matter where you are. You'll also appreciate the live viewing feature, as this allows you to check in on your vehicle at any time.
Crash response: In the event of an accident, Owl Live Agents will access your camera to check on everyone in the vehicle. If you need help, the Live Agents will dispatch emergency responders to your location.
Quick sharing features: If you capture some amazing content, you can easily edit and share videos in a matter of seconds. All you need to do is use the app to share any videos or photos.
GPS car finder: Worried about where your vehicle is? Or perhaps you forget where you parked it. The Owl Car Cam also comes with built-in GPS so that you can easily find your car when it's needed.
The main point of this dash camera is to give you the protection you need while driving. With that being said, you should install it as soon as you receive it.
Once the camera is installed, you will need to contact Owl's customer service to connect the device. There are different package options that you can choose from, so you can make the most out of its features.
We also recommend installing the Owl Car Cam in a location that will easily capture activity. You'll want to make sure that you have a clear field of view both inside and outside of your vehicle. Additionally, the camera should be able to see the driver and passengers clearly.
Extra-wide field of view: The Garmin Dash Cam gives you a 180-degree field of view when recording activity around your vehicle.
Driver alerts: Plenty of driver alerts can be found on this dash cam. This includes driver impairment warnings, red light camera warnings, and lane departure warnings.
High-quality camera: Compared to the Owl Car Cam, the Garmin Dash Cam 65 offers a 1080p video capture in low-light and bright conditions.
The Owl Car Cam is quite an investment, but it's well worth the money. It allows you not only to review captured videos but to live stream activity in your car.
You'll never have more peace of mind than with a device that keeps you up to date with vehicle activity. No matter if your car is parked or if your kids are driving, you'll always have the protection you need.


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By Larry Rubama
Norview High School head football coach Dealton Cotton leads practice Nov. 16, 2015. (L. Todd Spencer)
Dealton Cotton has coached and played football for nearly his entire life.
The Norview coach heard about the study involving chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Researchers studying the link between football and CTE found that 99 percent of the brains donated by families of former NFL players showed signs of the neurodegenerative disease.
He said the study indicated coaches have more work to do.
"I think it's important for coaches to be coached up enough that they know how to correctly tackle and block," said Cotton, who has coached on the college and high school level. "I think it's our jobs as coaches to teach the right technique to prevent it. You can't prevent everything. There's going to be times when different things happen that are out of our control. But I think it's important for the kids to be educated on it."
Cotton, who played at Granby and was a four-year letterman at East Carolina, said he and other Norfolk coaches attend mandatory clinics through Heads Up Football, a program increasingly used by local schools to teach coaches and athletes safer ways to tackle.
"That helps a lot," he said. "It helps us with drills and with different things that we need to do."
Coaches are trying to make sure the days of head-first tackles and athletes throwing their bodies to make a tackle are gone. A key component to Heads Up is tackling technique.
Oscar Smith coach Scott Johnson said this is crucial in preventing head injuries and concussions. He said it comes down to teaching the "right way" how to play the game.
"If you teach how to tackle and the correct way of not sticking your head where it doesn't belong, that makes the difference," he said.
What bothers Johnson, however, is these studies where "football gets a bad rap."
"You can make statistics say what you want," he said. "I'm not shying away, but the statistics they talked about were from people who already had concussions. They were repeat concussion people."
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Several athletes also were asked Thursday about the study; none had heard about it.
But Princess Anne coach Jelani Fair agrees with Johnson.
"I think there's a lot of guys who didn't play football who are talking about football," said Fair, who played Norfolk State. "I think there's some truth to it and it's worth taking a look at, but I think it's sometimes greatly exaggerated."
All three coaches agree that teaching to tackle the right way will continue to help.
Larry Rubama, 757-446-2273, larry.rubama@pilotonline.com Follow @LHRubama on Twitter.
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Safaricom and Opera Software announce extended Kenyan partnership
Safaricom's over 17 million customers to benefit from fast mobile browser, Johannesburg, South Africa — September 29, 2011
Kenya's largest integrated telecoms operator Safaricom, today announced the extension of its existing partnership with Opera Software to deliver the Opera Mini browser solution to its more than 17 million subscribers. This includes the launch of a co-branded version of the Opera Mini mobile browser, which is now available for download across Safaricom's network in Kenya. This is part of a global agreement between Vodafone and Opera Software.
The deal delivers faster access to websites and easy entry to Safaricom portals. Safaricom subscribers can reach the content they want, with less frustration and expense. With just one click, customers have music, news, games, and information on Safaricom's products and services at their fingertips.
Kenya has 22 million mobile phone users, which is around 55% of the total population. Safaricom, which is 40% owned by Vodafone, is the only network in Kenya that provides broadband high-speed data to its customers through its 3G network, Wimax and fibre. Kenya is also the third largest market in Africa for Opera Mini.
According to Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore, the partnership with Opera Software would significantly improve the internet experience of the firm's growing base of data customers.
"With the launch of the Opera Mini browser, we are leveraging a key partnership to bring our data customers to a new, higher level of experience. This is aligned with our strategy of not just making the internet a mass product in Kenya, but also making it more efficient," said Collymore.
At least nine out of every ten of the 8 million Kenyans who use the internet regularly do so through the Safaricom network.
Already, 121 million people all over the world have discovered how Opera Mini can revolutionize their mobile web experience. Not only does Opera Mini deliver the Web faster to almost any phone, it also cuts data costs by shrinking the pages down before they are delivered, while retaining all the functionality of a normal webpage.
"Africa is a booming market for us, and this deal with Safaricom will bring the best Internet experience possible to millions of people eager for mobile web access," said Lars Boilesen, CEO, Opera Software. "Opera believes that Internet access is a universal right, and being part of bringing that to Kenya is key for us. Opera Software has always striven to develop the fastest and technologically most advanced browsers. As a result, the Opera browser is the choice for the majority of mobile web users."
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How a British Spy Drank His Way Across the Americas—and Missed the Civil War
Richard Francis Burton was one of the great adventurers of the Victorian era, and a spy. But several weeks just before the Civil War are curiously missing from his life's account.
Christopher Dickey
World News Editor
Updated 10.25.17 3:17AM ET / Published 10.15.17 12:00AM ET
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast
PARIS—At the center of a momentous mystery from the middle of the 19th century—one that involves British explorers and spies, the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and the secession of the South—there lies a tale of cocktails.
But to savor the nuances, one must have a broad sense of the times and of the specific eccentric personalities of those involved. So we will begin our rather epic story, which is based on original documents in the British National Archives and other collections, in northern England in 1859:
At Fryston Hall, a windblown estate in the rude, rolling countryside of Yorkshire, Richard Monckton Milnes kept one of the most extraordinary personal libraries, and wine cellars, to be found anywhere in England. About the wines, unfortunately, we have no records. But we know the books reflected his love of freedom in almost every form: artistic, poetic, social, political, and, yes, sexual. Three collections in particular stood out: those about the French Revolution; those about the American Republic; and a vast and eventually infamous library of pornography.
"The books reflected his love of freedom in almost every form: artistic, poetic, social, political, and, yes, sexual."
Milnes had many of the books about France and the United States covered in special bindings: the French in the tricolor blue, white, and red; the American in gold stars and stripes. The erotica required more imagination, and Milnes had a friend in Paris, an Englishman appropriately named Mr. Hankey, whose imagination, it seemed, knew no limits. He supplied Milnes with beautifully illustrated works in gorgeous bindings, smuggling them past British customs officials using diplomatic pouches or a trusted courier who strapped them to his back.
Whatever Monckton Milnes' private predilections he was, as a public figure and a member of parliament, one of the few members of his class who steadfastly opposed slavery wherever and however it was practiced, and especially in the United States, which was a country he had always loved from afar. The big, complex, sometimes frustrating, often astounding union of peoples described by his good friend Alexis de Tocqueville in the classic Democracy in America amazed and delighted Milnes, and he saw slavery for the corrosive and divisive institution that it was.
In his own country, Milnes probably could have been a great progressive politician: he was handsome in his youth, with a patrician nose and strong jaw that gave him a look of firm determination as he grew older. He was confident, soft-spoken, and eloquent enough to be persuasive. He was also closely identified with Lord Palmerston, the dominant political figure of the time, and frequently visited Broadlands, the Palmerston estate near Southampton. But Milnes did not much care for the circus in Parliament. The paradox of aristocratic populism was too hard to sustain.
Milnes liked to work quietly among his vast network of friends at his breakfasts on Upper Brook Street. Or he would invite them for more extended stays at Fryston in the company of his beautiful, artistic wife, Annabel Crewe, whom he'd wed when they were both in their forties.
From his days at Cambridge, Milnes' circle had included Edward Fitzgerald, famous for his translations of Omar Khayyam, the poet Alfred Tennyson and the novelist William Makepiece Thackeray. Indeed, after Thackeray traveled in the United States he used material he'd gathered on his trips to Charleston and other cities to write The Virginians. But much of the novel is actually set on an English country estate generally thought to be modeled on Fryston Hall, "grey with many gables and buttresses and backed by a darkling wood." For years the Milnes country house was so run down and so drafty that Tennyson called it Freezeton.
In the last dog days of the summer of 1859, when the windows of Fryston were thrown wide and the air was rich with the smell of new-mown hay, Milnes invited the polyglot soldier-adventurer-author-explorer Richard Francis Burton to come for a visit. Burton was in almost every sense larger than life, "a wider soul than the world was wide, who rode life's lists as a god might ride," wrote another Fryston guest, the poet Charles Algernon Swinburne.
Burton stood well over six feet tall and had a powerful build; his dark, thick hair grew low on his forehead; his cruel mouth was half hidden by "long drooping moustachios." Burton first made his fame when he took leave from his work as a soldier and spy for the East India Company and traveled to the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina disguised as a Pashtun merchant on the annual pilgrimage, the Haj. But his grandest project and greatest passion was the search for the source of the White Nile.
From late 1856 to early 1859 he traveled to Africa and deep into the Lake Regions. He suffered from debilitating parasites, ferocious fevers and "a sensation of wretchedness." And now that he was back, his personal life was falling apart. His traveling companion on the Nile expedition, John Hanning Speke, betrayed him and claimed credit for a discovery—the source of the Nile itself—that Burton did not believe they had made or, more to the point, did not believe that Speke could prove. Isabel Arundell, Burton's admiring and obsessive fiancée, told him that her parents had forbidden her to marry him. Meanwhile he was buried in the avalanche of notes and sketches he'd gathered in the Lake Regions, trying desperately to write a book that would somehow set it all straight.
"Come with me and eat and drink through America, hmm?"
By the time he got to Fryston, Burton's ashen face showed in bold relief the scars where a Somali spear once ripped through his cheeks. He had come, he told Milnes, maybe only half in jest, to see the famous volumes by the Marquis de Sade and others. "The prospect of a book which can produce horripilation is refreshing," he said.
The guest list at Fryston that week included then-legendary names from the height of the Empire, each one of them identified with the places that had made him famous: Parkins of Abyssinia; Curzon of The Monasteries; Petherick of Khartoum—the sort of men who knew precisely where Burton had been and could imagine exactly what he'd suffered. But they couldn't help him shake his depression. For that, he'd need some new adventure that would take him away from talk of Speke and thoughts of Isabel.
Whether at Fryston that August or a little later—they saw each other often over the course of the winter—Milnes probably nudged Burton in the direction of the United States. And so did Burton's close friend from his days in India, and collaborator on translations of the Thousand And One Nights, a Swiss physician named John Steinhauser.
And that brings us to the question of cocktails, which were seen at the time as a new and delectable invention of that innovative "democracy in America."
As Burton noted in his diary, bottles, flasks and flagons of alcoholic libations were attracted to Steinhausers lip's in great quantity, with much the same powerful impulse, Burton wrote, as the "Magnetic Mount had upon the nails of Sindbad's ship." Then one night in the winter of 1859-1860 at a bistro in the French resort of Boulogne-sur-mer, the good doctor Steinhauser had an idea he thought might shake Burton out of his melancholy.
"I'll tell you what it is I have in mind," said Steinhauser with "a look of inspiration," spreading his hands as if he'd had a revelation. "I'll go to America! Yes, I'll go to America. I'll radically change my meat and my drink." He would eat canvasback ducks and other "provocations of thirst," then quench it with "the mint family, mint juleps, brandy smashes, whiskey skins, gin slings, cock-tails, sherry cobblers, rum salads, streaks of lightning, morning glory. It'll be a most interesting experiment. I want to see what the diet is like after three or four months, so I can drink and eat myself to to the level of the aborigines—like you. Come with me and eat and drink through America, hmm?"
There was, as far as we know, no mention of the coming apocalypse—the American Civil War—although British diplomats like the envoy in Washington, Lord Lyons, and the consul in Charleston, Robert Bunch, certainly saw it coming.
The veteran soldiers and spies Richard Francis Burton and his good friend Dr. John "Styggins" Steinhauser landed in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on May 2, the day the Democratic Party convention were coming to an end, and the party had torn itself apart.
When Burton and Steinhauser went ashore in Nova Scotia they found a friend: a big, brown-eyed, slobbering, black-coated, white-toothed Newfoundland puppy to be their new traveling companion as they meandered south to Boston and then to New York for a little business.
Burton's book, The Lake Regions of Central Africa, a Picture of Exploration, was to be published by Harper and Brothers, and excerpted by Harper's New Monthly Magazine, in the fall. So Burton dropped by the Editorial Room of Harper's on Pearl Street not far from the Manhattan docks.
As it happened, he arrived there just about the same time as Paul Du Chaillu, a French-American explorer of West Africa who was amazing the editors with horrifying stories about "hunts of the gorilla and adventures among the ghoul-like tribes of the Western Interior, who eat their dead, and have even disinterred the buried and putrid corpses of their neighbors to convert them into food."
Those were just the sort of tall tales that sold books, but that Burton found it hard to write. His life and adventures were amazing, but his prose was pedestrian and his books were filled with technical data. He tried to enliven them with glib erudition, but generally failed, and when it was finally published, the Harper's article based on Lake Regions was written entirely by one of the magazine's editors. "It is not good to be a white man in Africa," wrote Harper's, because "all men are liars and thieves" there. "Moreover, they are lazy, they are grumblers, and they live in fear of their own shadows. This is Captain Burton's verdict," or so Harper's Magazine reported.
Burton wanted—needed—to write a big commercial success, which Lake Regions was never likely to be, and the American frontier seemed to have possibilities as a subject. Burton's "migratory instinct," according to Harper's, was "urging him westward to hunt the grizzly bear of our own Rocky Mountains." Burton even spent some time before he left England trying to learn how to forge a Bowie knife, a skill he seemed to think would prove useful as he crossed the American continent.
The so-called Indian Wars interested Burton. So did the Mormons and their new faith that was so violently oppressed and so violent in its response. It seemed to bear a bowdlerized resemblance to the faith of Islam that Burton knew so well: the revelation of the definitive holy text to a single prophet; the persecution of the believers; the migration to a new home for the faithful; and polygamy, of course, or "plural marriage" as the Mormons liked to say. In any case, the popular press portrayed the Mormons as monstrous terrorists, and much of the tiny standing arming of the United States in 1860––about 16,000 men––was deployed to keep them and the Indians in line. So Burton went to Washington and paid a visit to Secretary of War John B. Floyd to get passes to U.S. military outposts.
Floyd, whose sallow skin seemed to hang off the bones of his face, did not cut an impressive figure, but he came from an interesting background. He was raised in Arkansas, graduated from South Carolina College and made his political career in Virginia, where he served as governor in the early 1830s at the time of the Nat Turner slave rebellion. Floyd's predecessor as secretary of war, Jefferson Davis, had been an imperious but impressive administrator, but Floyd quickly made a reputation as a corrupt bungler.
He sent troops to fight the quasi-war, devoid of major battles, with the Mormons in Utah. He was suspected of serious graft and eventually forced to resign because of it. And historians still debate whether this deeply rooted Southerner intentionally tried to arm the slave states with Federal weapons merely for their defense after the John Brown uproar in 1859, or for offense against the Union in the cause of secession, which came at the end of 1860.
What is certain is that in January 1860, Floyd sent 115,000 muskets and rifles to the South and he also sent heavy artillery to Texas. As the Union commander Ulysses S. Grant later wrote in his memoir, "Floyd, the Secretary of War, scattered the army so that much of it could be captured when hostilities should commence, and distributed the cannon and small arms from Northern arsenals throughout the South so as to be on hand when treason wanted them."
All this was rumored while Burton was traveling in the United States, and indeed while he was in Floyd's office in Washington. On his way West, he did notice that the U.S. military was dangerously strung out. But otherwise he seems to have taken no notice. Burton's purpose, he said, was to add the Mormon capital to the list of holy cities he'd visited, and see if the people there were as terrifying as they'd been portrayed in the popular press, which he sincerely doubted. He also wanted to check out one of the planned routes for the transcontinental railroad, which would be of interest to global commerce, especially now that Japan and the rest of Asia seemed to be opening up. (The first Japanese mission to the United States arrived while Burton was there.) And he wanted to see "a little skirmishing with the savages."
The book Burton wrote about that journey, The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California was dedicated, tellingly, to none other than Richard Monckton Milnes: "a linguist, traveler, poet, and, above all, a man of intelligent insight into the thoughts and feelings of his brother men."
Yet Burton appears to have paid no attention whatsoever to questions of cotton, slavery, secession and impending war between the states, which were the most pressing matters of the day for the Americans, for the mills of Lancashire and, increasingly, for Richard Monckton Milnes.
"It may be that, in fact, Burton was sick or just very damn drunk, or both."
The future of South's cotton fields was absolutely vital to the United Kingdom. They produced 80 percent of the raw fiber turned to thread and cloth in the British mills that were at the very heart of the British industrial economy. The Crown made its peace with the fact the South used slaves to grow the cotton, but could not accept the gruesome traffic with Africa. Already, Consul Bunch in Charleston was reporting to the Foreign Office that Southern secessionists would re-open the slave trade with Africa, which Great Britain had spent almost 50 years and huge resources, including the deployment of naval squadrons, trying to stop. This was the kind of thing that interested Milnes, Prime Minister Palmerston, Queen Victoria, and Prince Albert enormously. And in that sweltering summer of 1860, Burton was traveling through the South in a unique position to gather intelligence.
But we have no record of any of it. We don't know who he saw, or even where he was.
This lacuna in Burton's otherwise densely detailed narrative of his own life is both puzzling and suggestive. His many books give an almost day-by-day, sometimes hour-by-hour account of his travels. Yet for several weeks in the summer of 1860, right on the eve of secession and the American Civil War, he seems to have disappeared.
After Burton left Washington, presumably in late May, we know that at some point he landed in New Orleans. In City of the Saints he mentions a conversation there with a Mr. M-----, who warns him against "going among the Mormons." (Perhaps William Mure, the veteran British consul in New Orleans.) Somewhere Burton parted ways with Steinhauser, who died later that year of "apoplexy" in his native Switzerland. Somewhere the dog from Halifax disappeared as well. And we don't have another clear fix on Burton until early August, when he was about to leave St. Joseph, Missouri, on the long trail to Utah and California.
This two-month gap in the Burton record has always fascinated and frustrated his biographers. Maybe he found an American woman (or, less likely, but still possible, an American man) to his liking, and years later his jealous and protective wife destroyed the relevant correspondence. That wouldn't have been out of character. After his death in 1890 she made a bonfire of some other writings that she thought would offend his memory, or hers.
Some scholars suggest another possibility. Just as it was difficult to distinguish a diplomat or detective from a spy in the 19th century, so it was hard to define the differences between an explorer's work and a secret agent's.
"It might be assumed that Burton was on a secret mission arranged by influential friends in London to certain Southern leaders," wrote Edward Rice in his 1990 biography of Burton. "Milnes, who was to favor the North when war broke out, still might have played a role in backing the mission. That so many of Burton's trips had multiple purposes rarely became apparent until years later. Whom Burton saw during his weeks in the Deep South, where he stayed, or what he did remain even more obscure than certain vacant periods in Sind." (Decades earlier in that province in colonial India, among other things, he reported secretly on boy brothels that might have been frequented by British officers.)
I do not think Burton would have been much good as an envoy to "certain Southern leaders." He was a terrible diplomatist. He was a better observer of places than of people, practices than the thinking behind them, and when he wrote about any of his travels did so in exhaustive and sometimes exasperating detail about the topography, agriculture, morals and (Burton being Burton) sexual practices in the land of King Cotton.
Which brings us back to the cocktails. It may be that, in fact, Burton was sick or just very damn drunk, or both, through that summer of 1860 in the South––on a world class binge in the hot, humid lands of white cotton, long-grain rice, and yellow fever.
In her well researched biography of Burton, A Rage to Live, Mary Lovell notes that as he traveled West after resurfacing in Missouri, there was "heavy drinking throughout the trip." But she suggests, improbably, that "the fact that he wrote about it so openly [in City of the Saints] probably discounts any unhealthy dependence on alcohol."
Lovell quotes Burton comparing the refreshing air of St. Jo with Champagne: "briskly chilled Veuve Clicquot." But that's not what he was knocking back. The day before he set out in a coach on the heels of the newly founded Pony Express, Burton was saying goodbye to recent acquaintances and "lamenting over our 'morning glory' the necessity of parting."
That was one of the cocktails Steinhauser had hoped to be drinking when he first suggested the America binge, and it is quite a concoction. When the famous 19th century barman Jerry Thomas included the morning glory in his revised 1887 edition of his Bartender's Guide, he mixed it from three dashes of sugar syrup, two of Curaçao, two of bitters, one of absinthe, an ounce of brandy, an ounce of whiskey, a twist of lemon peel, and two small pieces of ice.
("In those days the drinks were pretty rough and pretty tough," says Laurent Giraud, the redoubtable mixologist at Harry's New York Bar in Paris, France, which preserves many of the old traditions.)
After some weeks among the abstemious Mormons in Salt Lake City, Burton made his way to San Francisco, hitting various watering holes, including the Boomerang Saloon, run by a fellow Briton in the mining town of Diamond Springs, California. In San Francisco in November 1860, he thoroughly enjoyed himself at the Union Club and observed, without much comment, the election of Abraham Lincoln in "a system which has been facetiously called 'universal suffering and vote by bullet,'" but he firmly refused to lecture on his earlier travels, American politics, or cotton grown in India, which was viewed as—and became—the alternative to fiber from the South.
On Burton's way home by steamer to Panama, then by rail across the isthmus, and then again by steamer back to Britain, he continued listing the libations that amused him. At an overnight in Acapulco, frustrated by the impossibility of exploring the hinterland, he "found philosophical consolation in various experiments touching the influence of Mezcal brandy, the Mexican national drink, upon the human mind and body." In Colon, on the Caribbean coast, the railroad superintendent introduced Burton to Italia, "a certain muscatel cognac that has yet to reach Great Britain."
By the time Burton himself reached England in late December, South Carolina had declared "the Union is dissolved," announcing its undying defense of slavery and its independence from the United States. The rush to war had begun. Yet Burton's reports of drinking are more detailed than anything we know him to have written about the causes of the conflict or the costs to the British Empire.
ADDITIONAL COCKTAIL RECIPES:
From the Jerry Thomas guides of 1862 and 1887.
1 table-spoonful of white pulverized sugar
2 ½ do. water, mix well with a spoon
Take three or four sprigs of fresh mint, and press them well in the sugar and water, until the flavor of the mint is extracted; add one and a half wine-glass of Cognac brandy, and fill the glass with fine shaved ice, them draw out the sprigs of the mint and insert them in the ice with the stems downward, so that the leaves will be above, in the shape of a bouquet; arrange berries, and small pieces of slice orange on top in a tasty manner, dash with Jamaica rum, and sprinkle white sugar on top. Place a straw … and you have julep that is fit for an emperor.
Brandy Smash
(This beverage is simply a julep on a small plan.)
½ table-spoonful of white sugar
1 do. water
1 wine-glass of brandy
Fill two-thirds full of shaved ice, use two sprigs of mint, the same as in the recipe for a mint julep. Lay two small pieces of orange on top, and ornament with berries in season.
Gin Sling
(Use small bar glass)
The gin sling is made with the same ingredients as the gin toddy, except you grate a little nutmeg on top.
[Gin toddy:
1 teaspoonful sugar
½ wine-glass of water
1 do. gin
1 small lump of ice
Stir with a spoon]
3 or 4 dashes of gum syrup
2 do. bitters (Bogart's)
1 or 2 dashes of Curaçao
Squeeze lemon peel; fill one-third full of ice, and stir with a spoon.
(Can also be strained into a fancy wine glass with a piece of lemon peel thrown on top and the edge of the glass moistened with lemon.)
Sherry Cobbler
(Use large bar glass.)
2 wine-glasses of sherry
1 table-spoonful of sugar
2 or 3 slices of orange
Fill a tumbler with shaved ice, shake well, and ornament with berries in season. Place a straw.
Post Script: Less than a year after his trip to the United States, the Crown appointed Burton Her Majesty's Consul in Fernando Po, an island in the Bight of Benin that was right in the middle of the African slave traffic. Burton hated it there—and later wrote he felt "uncommonly suicidal" through his first night on its shores. His letters to Milnes are full of ironic commentary. He'd been "generally disappointed" in the lack of bloodshed, he ironized, chuckling about the lurid stories in the British press about the savage potentates of the coast.
"Not a man killed nor a fellow tortured," he wrote. "The canoe floating in blood is a myth of myths. Poor Hankey must still wait for his peau de femme." But the slave trade was every bit as real and horrible as anyone could imagine, and Consul Burton reported on it in exact detail.
"The slave coast offers peculiar facilities for shipping cargoes," Burton wrote in one of several books he churned out while serving in pestilent Fernando Po. "Low, marshy and malarious, it could hardly be held by foreign garrisons. … The bush and jungle conceal the movements of those on land, and the succession of lagoons forming natural canals along the seaboard, enables the trader in human flesh and blood to ship his cargo where and when least expected. The French and English, Spaniards, Portuguese, and Brazilians established themselves there in old times, and by rich presents persuaded the 'tyrant' of Dahomey to supply them with the fruits of his annual raids. In 1842, Captain Broadhead saw 'thirteen vessels lying in the roads of Whydah at one time.' Of late years the vigilance of the cruisers [the British and to a lesser extent the American squadron] has tended materially to check the traffic, and nothing now can be done openly. Still shipments take place. But lately a large vessel, the 'African,' carrying 500 to 700 negroes, ran the gauntlet of the coast-guard."
At one point, Burton reported, the captain of another ship tipped his hat to the slave-trading agent on the African as it sailed by and the agent was so chuffed, and so delighted at the profits he planned to make, that he offered to buy the captain and his men champagne.
Such were the gallantries of the slave trade, and such were the profits. Burton included in his book a ledger of the expenses a slaver might incur and the revenues he could expect:
Cost of vessel and provisions …. $ 25,000
Cost of 500 negroes at $50 … $ 25,000
Ten per cent mortality … $ 2,500
Wages and presents to master and crew . . . $ 30,000
Expenses of landing 450 slaves, at $120 each $ 54,000
Total $136,000
Add one year's interest, ten per cent $ 13,650
Total expenditure $150,150
Sale of 450 slaves, at $1200 a head $540,000
Profit on the adventure $389,850
In today's dollars, by the most conservative calculation, the profit would amount to about $11 million. By that same measure, using Burton's numbers, the loss of an empty slaver would only be $27,500 (about $783,000 today), and if there were Negroes on board the loss would be $55,000 (about $1.57 million), which would be, still, only a very small fraction of the likely profits with a successful run.
"These figures perfectly account for the continuance and persistency of the traffic," wrote Burton, and thus the frustrations of Her Majesty's Navy. "It is said that Great Britain is never without her little war. As far as West Africa is concerned, this dictum is certainly true."
As for Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton, he lost his beloved library and wine cellar at Fryston in 1876, and much of the correspondence that might have cleared up the Burton mystery may have gone up in smoke. The house was well enough restored for Henry James to spend New Year's Eve there in 1878, but has since been torn down.


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Balblair comes from a unique place where the pace of life is easy. Our malt is crafted slowly and, is matured at the distillery in traditional dunnage warehouses on earthen floors. It's the perfect mix of nature and nurture.
At Balblair, we take great pride in what we do. We want to share it with the world, not only through our malts themselves, but by letting people see behind the scenes at our distillery.


Never thought a skull could be cute? Well think again! You will be fawning over this adorable skull charm on this 14 gauge helix earring the minute you see it. Made with a 1 1/2" gold anodized over 316L surgical grade stainless steel straight barbell, this moveable spooky yet pretty clear gem can be worn all year round. This charm allows you to show off your dark side in a lighthearted way.


.NET is one of the popular programming languages and ranked at the top by programmers. With the .net frame, it is likely to create a collection of internet software. There are many high-quality libraries for .NET is available which can be used by .net programmers.
It quickens the development work which has produced a standard change all around. One benefit of this .net framework is a cross-language improvement. With advances in it, everybody is using the internet to get in touch with clients and deliver cutting-edge services.
This Microsoft .net framework can help you in designing multiple sites which can be incorporated with interpersonal networking platforms farther. The stage is a vital dependence on exceptionally advanced level .net application advancement.
Most of all, it's only loved by programmers due to the fact that they will need to compose a couple lines of code and what is offered at the shape of modules and libraries. Additionally, building programs and maintaining them has really easier and much more elastic.
It is actually a scalable programming language which assists in creating more dependable and consistent small business programs. The program development is potential at lower prices comparing to other programming languages that are similar.
Microsoft .net framework is an easy, comprehensive, and uniform programming language together with eye-catching experiences. In conclusion, the .net framework is the best choice to create complex software according to business demands and user requirements.


LANSING — State Representative Bill LaVoy (D-Monroe) announced his support for a Democratic-sponsored package of ethics, accountability and transparency bills that call for an open, honest and accountable Legislature.
Require a corporation that makes independent expenditures to file a notice with the Secretary of State and get permission from shareholders.
Ban elected officials from lobbying for two years after leaving office.
Require committees to file quarterly campaign finance filings in both on and off years to shed more light on campaign contributions.
Create an ethics act for the administration and its employees to strengthen conflict-of-interest concerns for those individuals.
Require financial disclosure from certain elected officials.
Create a lobbying expenditure database.
Require a candidate who switches parties to pay back with interest any contributions collected before the party switch.


Lazy is a fantasy antidote to a busy life. A woman decides that her life can do without her for one day. Her bed transports her to a magical river, surrounded by singing flowers, birds, butterflies and jumping fish. An old style cut out animation turning into a psychedelic fantasy.


A unique looking wall clock that will fit into most any color scheme or decor, this wall clock is very cute!! I hang it on may living room wall, the mechanism clock runs on one AA battery and so far I found it still keep accurate time. So happy with this clock's looking and performance. It would be a practical gift to decor home.I really love the design.


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Wing Luke Museum holds Lunar New Year fair to provide healing after mass shootings
Washington Park Arboretum's Ramp to Nowhere could become a monument
The Ramp to Nowhere may stay somewhere. That's if the Seattle City Council gets its way.
<p>Washington Park Arboretum's Ramp to Nowhere </p>
Author: Chris Daniels
Published: 10/17/2016 7:19:17 PM
Updated: 10:06 PM PDT October 17, 2016
SEATTLE – The Ramp to Nowhere may stay somewhere. That's if the Seattle City Council gets its way.
On Monday, the Council unanimously passed a resolution to ask the State Department of Transportation to preserve a pier and three pillars of the old freeway ramp in the Arboretum. The Council says it would like to study the feasibility of preservation, and potentially take ownership of the small span.
It has stood since the 1960s, when the ramps were built for the R.H. Thomsen Expressway, which was a freeway that was planned to go through the Arboretum and down what is now Martin Luther King Junior Way. Seattle residents objected and blocked construction crews. In 1972, voters killed the project, but the ramps remained.
The State is planning to tear them down to make room for the west approach of the new State Route 520 bridge.
Protesters blocked the R.H. Thomsen Expressway project in 1972. Photo: Courtesy.
Former councilmember Jean Godden, who was part the group which led the blockade back in the day, testified that the pillars and pier could stand as a "memorial for the people who fought so hard."
WSDOT's Steve Peer said nothing has been finalized, and "we need to get down in writing right now, probably by the end of this year, which way we're going to go."
He said there are issues with safety, and the fact that the ramp is "right in the middle of our construction zone, so we have to work around it, which we can do, but we need to know so we can write it into our next contract."
The council could finance the study in the current budget cycle.


Parents have vital role to play in offering guidance on safer internet use and Sydenham High's E-Safety Forum at the end of January provided some help. This informal event provoked some lively discussion about how parents can best support their daughters and challenged their knowledge about all aspects of the internet.
A week later, to mark Safer Internet Day and its 'Play your part #shareaheart' theme, girls across the school wrote positive messages to promote respect and kindness online inside heart symbols and displayed them around school. Messages included: "Don't be mean – you'll be seen"; "Think before you send: you don't know how much it could hurt someone"; "Don't hate, appreciate"; "If you're kind online you'll have a good time, but if you're bad you'll end up sad" and "A safer internet is a safer community" alongside simple actions to protect yourself online.
For further online safety advice, read Sydenham High's Digital Strategy Leader Matthew Llewellin's blog.


Finding affordable places to stay in Legian is luckily not that difficult.
For all you travelers on a tight budget here's a list of 10 low budget places to stay in Legian.
Please leave any tips on cheap accommodations in Legian in the comments!
Set in Seminyak, 800 metres from Seminyak Beach, Bedplus Backpacker features air-conditioned rooms and free private parking. Some units have a seating area for your convenience. Bedplus Backpacker features free WiFi throughout the property.
From IDR 80.000 (6 USD) per night.
Kayun Hostel is a 5-minute walk from Legian Street, and a 10-minute walk from Kuta Beach. This trendy accommodation offers a cafe, an outdoor pool and free Wi-Fi access.
Featuring free WiFi, an outdoor pool and a terrace, Kiki Residence Bali offers accommodation in Legian, 2.1 km from Legian Beach. Free private parking is available on site. All rooms are fitted with air conditioning and a flat-screen TV.
From IDR 112.500 (8 USD) per night.
Set in Legian in the Bali Region, 1.8 km from Legian Beach, Maha Bharata Kuta Inn features a terrace and views of the garden. Free WiFi is offered and free private parking is available on site.
From IDR 129.600 (10 USD) per night.
Located in the Legian City-Centre district in Legian, 800 metres from Legian Beach, RedDoorz @ Legian Street features air-conditioned rooms with free WiFi throughout the property. The rooms come with a flat-screen TV with satellite channels.
From IDR 136.000 (10 USD) per night.
RedDoorz @ Patimura Legian is situated in the Legian City-Centre district in Legian, 1.2 km from Legian Beach and 2.2 km from Double Six Beach. Free WiFi is available and free private parking is available on site.
Featuring free WiFi throughout the property, RedDoorz @ Legian Lebak Bene offers accommodation in Legian, 800 metres from Legian Beach. Every room is fitted with a flat-screen TV. There is a 24-hour front desk at the property.
From IDR 144.000 (11 USD) per night.
RedDoorz @ Mataram Kuta 3 is situated in Kuta, 900 metres from Kuta Beach and 1.1 km from Dewa Ruci Roundabout. All rooms include a flat-screen TV. RedDoorz @ Mataram Kuta 3 features free WiFi throughout the property.
From IDR 144.925 (11 USD) per night.
Offering a terrace and views of the garden, Lolo Beach Inn is set in Legian, 600 metres from Legian Beach. The property operates a 24-hour front desk and offers free WiFi throughout.
From IDR 156.750 (12 USD) per night.
Featuring free WiFi and an outdoor pool, RedDoorz @ Dewi Sri offers accommodation in Legian. Free private parking is available on site. Each room at this guest house is air conditioned and is equipped with a flat-screen TV with satellite channels.
From IDR 158.100 (12 USD) per night.
Located in the heart of Legian, Balisani Padma Hotel offers accommodation with traditional Balinese architecture and décor. The hotel presents 3 dining options, a swimming pool and free parking.
Eazy Suite is located in Legian, a 10-minute drive from Kuta Beach. It features an outdoor swimming pool and air-conditioned suites with a kitchenette. Free Wi-Fi and free transfers from the airport are provided.
Boasting private pools and a spa, Anema Villa Seminyak is conveniently situated a 5-minute drive from Double Six Beach. This tropical retreat features open-concept living space and free Wi-Fi in all areas.
From IDR 1.518.000 (114 USD) per night.
The colourful All Seasons Resort Legian presents a chic and modern holiday experience less than 500 metres from Legian Beach. It has free Wi-Fi in the lobby and an outdoor pool.
From IDR 466.939 (35 USD) per night.
D'Wina Villa Kuta offers a tropical getaway 10 minutes' drive from Kuta area. Free Wi-Fi is accessible throughout the property and free airport pick-up services are provided.
From IDR 1.496.250 (112 USD) per night.
Located just 200 metres from Legian Beach, this property houses a spa and a restaurant. It also provides complimentary on-site parking. Free Wi-Fi is available in the restaurant and lobby areas.
Set in Legian, Rosani Hotel is a convenient 3-minute walk from the famous Kuta Beach. It features a restaurant, an outdoor swimming pool and air-conditioned rooms that overlook the pool. Free Wi-Fi is provided.
From IDR 272.000 (20 USD) per night.
Located in Legian a 5-minute walk from Double Six Beach, Ananta Legian Hotel features an outdoor pool and garden. Free parking is provided. Hotel Ananta Legian is a 5-minute drive from nightlife and shopping options in Seminyak.
From IDR 884.700 (66 USD) per night.
Situated in the Legian area, Losari Hotel & Villas Kuta Bali has 2 outdoor pools and a spa. It also houses a 24-hour restaurant and bar.
From IDR 412.500 (31 USD) per night.
Kick back and relax in one of Adi Dharma Cottages rooms, which feature a balcony facing the swimming pool or the lush gardens of the hotel.
From IDR 718.200 (54 USD) per night.


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This boat is more basic than basic! If you understand what I mean. It is very sturdy and can take some scratches. It is build in Surinam from inland wood. It has a quiet - easy to handle - 10HP Yamaha outboard engine that will bring you anywhere. Under the roof in the front you can have a quiet sleep, away from mosquitos. Cooking is outside, In case of rain the roof can be extended to keep you and the gaz burner dry. There are 4 camping matrasses provided. Bring your own sleeping bags. A chemical toilet will help you to get rid of what you want to loose.
The boat is 12,5 m long and 2m wide. It can take you on a tour around the former Beemster Lake (nowadays an UNESCO status area) and other former lakes to visit the countryside or several small year 1700 historic cities like De Rijp, Edam, Zaandam and Monnickendam. Or cities like Alkmaar and Purmerend . Or the De Woude island. There are good harbour (shower/toilet) facilities everywhere in these places.
But maybe you like to spent the night in the quietness of the canal, all by yourself.
By car: follow A7 or N247 (more sceneric than A7) then N243 in direction Avenhorn/Alkmaar. Near Avenhorn follow Grosthuizen/Oudendijk and follow Oudendijk.
It is countryside in the middle of North Holland. All attractive places can be reached by car in an hour. I personally like wandering around in Hoorn or Edam. Both have a harbour and canals and lots of historic buildings and a museum. Compared to Amsterdam it is rather quiet there.
Available in the harbours. A chemical toilet is onboard if you are out of reach of a harbour.
Hello, when i was a kid I already wanted to spend the night on the water in a little boat. I had to grow up to realise this dream. Though the boat is a little bigger than in my kids time I still enjoy being on the water. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I do!


We have 10 neat & clean double bed rooms ,attached bath in all rooms, facilitate by cable connected LED fan for cooling & electric blanket for heating. One can book separate room on given rate. we could provide extra bed on extra charge.We have free parking & 20 hours open market.Our property is just on the banks of Dal lake so one can enjoy view of Dal lake by walk.


Spreads smoothly and easily leaving no white residual. Natural healing cream. Relieves itchy bites and stings. Apply regularly. Avoid contact with eyes.
Pure South's 100% natural suncreem is very popular - firstly because it is natural, also because it works and is easy to apply.
Pure South Suncreem is a physical (not chemical) suncreem – it reflects the harmful rays away from the skin like a temporary coast of armour.
It contains 5 active sun deflector/protectors – Calcium Bentonite deflects radiation – Raspberry Oil – Sesame Oil – Zinc reflects – Vitamin E is antioxidant protecting against free radicals, and is an emollient protecting cell membranes from light-induced damage.
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Does the thought of shopping make you cringe because you hate having to endure huge crowds? Shopping online is a great alternative. By clicking your mouse, it is possible to get what you want right at home. This article has great tips to use before you start shopping online.
Whenever you shop online, be sure to make good use of discount coupon codes. A variety of discounts are available to you today. Type in coupons and the store name to find what you need. This is a fantastic method of saving money while you're doing online fish suppy shopping.
If you shop online a lot, than you need your antivirus and malware suite to be top-grade and updated. Shopping sites are continually hacked by shady characters looking to steal the personal information of others. Heed any warnings your security software gives you about sites and report suspicious activity to the webmaster of the shopping site.
You should be browsing different stores online in order to compare products and offers. Unless there is a brand you really want, compare products. Choose one that offers the features you want at a great price. Make sure that you're checking out your favorite stores to see when new products are available.
Join the mailing lists of your favorite online retailers. You usually get the best discounts when you first sign up for a mailing list. This is ongoing, so it really pays to opt in to a website mailing list.
Prior to giving a merchant your credit information, examine the URL in your address bar. It should start with "https". If you do not see those letters, you are exposing yourself to potential fraud if you continue entering your information.
Many online fish suppy shopping websites offer the buyer a wealth of information about products that may help me you shop more wisely and avoid buyer's remorse. Seeing reviews from people that have purchased products can be really helpful, particularly when there are many choices.
Live Help and Live Chat are very desirable customer service options for any online retailer. These options enable you to get questions answered quickly without having to wait for an email or make a phone call. They may even offer you steeper discounts and faster shipping. If you are ready to check out, the representative may give you the discount.
When you shop online, you should never pay retail prices. Retailers often stick to a schedule when they advertise sale items. Find out when sales are happening by signing up for email newsletters from your favorite merchants. Then simply have patience and wait for the sales to rack up savings. If waiting is an option, the savings can be tremendous.
Now you can avoid the crowds at the mall for good. Now, you can stay in your pajamas and shop at home if you like. That's a sweet deal! However, before beginning, be sure you thoroughly understand all the knowledge provided in this article so that you will not be sorry you decided to shop online.
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