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In Pursuit of Disobedient Women
A Memoir of Love, Rebellion, and Family, Far Away
By Dionne Searcey
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When a reporter for The New York Times uproots her family to move to West Africa, she manages her new role as breadwinner while finding women cleverly navigating extraordinary circumstances in a forgotten place for much of the Western world.
"A story you will not soon forget."—Kathryn Bigelow, Academy Award–winning director of The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty
In 2015, Dionne Searcey was covering the economy for The New York Times, living in Brooklyn with her husband and three young children. Saddled with the demands of a dual-career household and motherhood in an urban setting, her life was in a rut. She decided to pursue a job as the paper's West Africa bureau chief, an amazing but daunting opportunity to cover a swath of territory encompassing two dozen countries and 500 million people. Landing with her family in Dakar, Senegal, she quickly found their lives turned upside down as they struggled to figure out their place in this new region, along with a new family dynamic where she was the main breadwinner flying off to work while her husband stayed behind to manage the home front.
In Pursuit of Disobedient Women follows Searcey's sometimes harrowing, sometimes rollicking experiences of her work in the field, the most powerful of which, for her, center on the extraordinary lives and struggles of the women she encounters. As she tries to get an American audience subsumed by the age of Trump and inspired by a feminist revival to pay attention, she is gone from her family for sometimes weeks at a time, covering stories like Boko Haram–conscripted teen-girl suicide bombers or young women in small villages shaking up social norms by getting out of bad marriages. Ultimately, Searcey returns home to reconcile with skinned knees and school plays that happen without her and a begrudging husband thrown into the role of primary parent.
Life, for Searcey, as with most of us, is a balancing act. She weaves a tapestry of women living at the crossroads of old-fashioned patriarchy and an increasingly globalized and connected world. The result is a deeply personal and highly compelling look into a modern-day marriage and a world most of us have barely considered. Readers will find Searcey's struggles, both with her family and those of the women she meets along the way, familiar and relatable in this smart and moving memoir.
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Dionne Searcey was the West Africa bureau chief for The New York Times from 2015 to 2019. She won the Michael Kelly Award for courage in international reporting, the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi award for international reporting… More about Dionne Searcey
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"Dionne Searcey's In Pursuit of Disobedient Women offers a candid and riveting backstory of the powerful series she crafted on Boko Haram and independent women in Nigeria during her tenure as West Africa bureau chief for The New York Times. Through Searcey's stunning descriptions and humorously self-deprecating honesty, we gain insight into the relentless (and at times, frustrating) reporting required for such outstanding journalism, while shedding light on the never-ending juggle to balance work and home life as a foreign correspondent."—Lynsey Addario, photojournalist and New York Times bestselling author of It's What I Do and Of Love & War
"In Pursuit of Disobedient Women is an urgent and necessary work, taking the reader into the heart of one of the most dangerous terrorist militias on earth. Searcey's fearless reporting on Boko Haram's survivors is as compassionate as it is unrelenting. It's a story you will not soon forget."—Kathryn Bigelow, Academy Award–winning director of The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty
"In Pursuit of Disobedient Women beautifully chronicles the sometimes harrowing challenges women in West Africa face as well as their triumphs. Searcey portrays African women for what they are: strong and clever, like women everywhere. She weaves stories of family life and motherhood throughout her tales, rounding out a unique and relatable portrait of womanhood."—Oby Ezekwesili, global women's advocate, founder of Bring Back Our Girls and former education minister of Nigeria
"Compulsively readable and searingly honest, Dionne Searcey's account of her tenure as New York Times West Africa bureau chief begins as a personal journey, as she juggles motherhood, career, and guilt, and ends as a testament to the people whose stories she illuminates. There's not enough space on the pages of a newspaper to tell their tales, which lingered with me days after finishing the book. Thought provoking, at times deeply uncomfortable and moving, yet filled with humor and honesty, this is a book that everyone should read."—Yangsze Choo, New York Times bestselling author of The Night Tiger and The Ghost Bride
"In turns funny, wise, sad, and terrifying, Searcey vividly puts the reader in her shoes and compellingly details the often ignored stories of women who live through conflict every day, including her own."—Kim Barker, author of The Taliban Shuffle
"Gracefully moving between the personal and the geopolitical, Searcey gives a poignant and at times harrowing account of one of the more difficult jobs in journalism. A rare book that manages to be both entertaining, thought-provoking, and utterly transporting."—Ian Urbina, New York Times bestselling author of The Outlaw Ocean
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A newborn baby was taken from a Pennsylvania woman by police and a social worker, and the mom is now speaking up.
The mom, Jodi Ferris, recounted the story in a podcast newly posted on the Home School Legal Defense Association's website.
The social worker and police officers took the baby from Ferris at the Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pa., in June 2010, just hours after birth, allegedly because the mom refused to let the baby get a vaccination and because she preferred natural childbirth over hospital delivery. The workers reportedly kept the baby girl for around 48 hours and only let Ferris see the infant every few hours. The infant was eventually returned to Ferris and her husband, Scott, but only after a court order.
"That afternoon a social worker and two police officers came to the hospital and took our baby and kicked us out of the hospital," Ferris said in the HSLDA podcast.
Ferris thinks the infant was taken from her because she refused to let the child be vaccinated for Hepatitis B, according to The Minot Daily News. The baby was born in an ambulance in the medical center parking lot after Ferris was rushed there in premature labor. Ferris had wanted to give birth at home but couldn't because her midwife could not arrive in time.
The HSDLA chairman believes Ferris's daughter was taken because her parents had chosen alternative medical care. Ferris said the hospital staff members became angry because she had challenged their authority.
Ferris also accused hospital staff of lying to her about her daughter. She claims that staff members told her that her daughter was dying when the girl was really healthy.
"At first they told me that I wasn't allowed to see her because she had almost died and they were still working on her," Ferris said of her daughter. In reality the daughter was healthy and was actually being given a bath. Scott Ferris was watching the supposedly dying baby being bathed as her mother worried.
It was after these incidents that police and a social worker came to Jodi's room and escorted her out of the hospital. Jodi claims that the social worker had tried to force her to sign a "safety plan." The plan supposedly involved vaccinations to which Ferris objected. If she did not agree to the safety plan and to "whatever the hospital wanted," she would lose custody of her baby, she was told.
After leaving the hospital the Ferrises had to spend the night in their car in a Walmart parking lot. The next day the couple was able to obtain a court order that forced the hospital staff to release the baby to them.
Jodi Ferris claims that the hospital staff did everything she opposed including giving her daughter a Hepatitis B vaccination. The staff never performed the test.
"We won in court but by the time we got back to her the hospital had done everything we objected to," Ferris said.
The Home School Legal Defense Association has taken the case because Michael P. Ferris believes that parents' right to make decisions about children's medical care is at risk. The Association wants to get a clear court ruling that would prevent incidents like this in the future.
The HSLDA filed a civil rights lawsuit on behalf of Scott and Jodi Ferris. A federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled in favor of the couple and threw out a motion by the hospital to dismiss the case. That means the Ferris case will proceed and could establish an important legal precedent protecting parents to make decisions about children's medical care.
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HANSARD 1803–2005 → 1910s → 1914 → July 1914 → 30 July 1914 → Lords Sitting
EXPORTATION OF HORSES BILL. [SFAIOND READING.]
HL Deb 30 July 1914 vol 17 cc294-6 294
§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
§ LORD LEIGH
My Lords, this Bill seeks to put an end to a traffic which has been the cause of intense and abominable cruelty, and which has roused much public indignation. A large trade in worn-out and decrepit horses exists between this country and Belgium, the fact that a vast majority of these horses are unfit for further work proving that they are intended to be slaughtered on the other side for human consumption. An Act of Parliament was passed in 1910 to regulate this traffic, but it did not go far enough. Section 1 of that Act says that it shall not be lawful to ship or attempt to ship any horse which is not capable of being conveyed to such port or disembarked without cruelty. We submit 295 that a horse which is unfit for further work should not be subjected to the cruelty and suffering that may be entailed on the voyage across.
It has been said that the Act of 1910 prevented weak and ailing horses being shipped, but the facts are otherwise. In November and December of 1913, 5,046 horses were shipped from Great Britain to Antwerp; of these, eight died during the voyage and four were slaughtered at the dock, whilst seventy-one were conveyed in floats from the dock, being unable to walk. All those horses had passed the inspector appointed under the Act. The Act says that no horse shall be on board if it is not capable of being conveyed without suffering or cruelty. What. I have said proves that a vast number of these 5,016 horses did undergo suffering and cruelty. So much for the cruelty on this side.
It is impossible to deny that cruelty does exist on the other side. I hope I may be allowed to read an extract from a letter written to Captain Murray, who had charge of the Bill in another place, by Miss Cole, whom Captain Murray described as a lady who has done more in the interests of these horses than any other human being and whose evidence no one would attempt to disprove. Miss Cole says— Every Monday afternoon when our horses leave quarantine stables marked for death (and liable to wait ten days for that one possible boon) they are beyond all protection, and are considered simply as so much living meat. On the railway some are without food and water for forty-eight hours. Some fall and are trampled under foot. On the road they go twenty-eight miles or more, and arrive sweating, limping, and exhausted. They fall. One fell in Antwerp in daylight, and the drover, who kicked it till an eye was smashed and the mouth bleeding, was not punished or even threatened. (This was not on a Monday—it was a horse leaving for Brussels on Wednesday, exhausted for want of food.) They suffer hunger and thirst before death, and are more often than not cruelly killed. Two people told me that they protested against cruelty to horses marked for death, and received the same answer that they were for killing. Nearly all our old horses 'are for killing.' They are marked for it, and that means that their suffering does not matter. Please remember that this is true of the greater number of our old horses sent here every week. From my own experience in regard to France, the cruelty to the horses there, I fear, is at least as bad. That quotation needs no comment. It is true we are not answerable for cruelty that occurs on the other side of the water, but we can remove the cause by ensuring that these worn-out horses shall be slaughtered on this side.
296 It has been said that the importers will not import dead meat if they cannot get live horses, and in that way a stop would be put to a profitable industry. But though in the case of Belgium they will not import carcases they will import dead meat. Not long ago a cargo of several hundred tons of dead meat was imported front the Argentine, a small tax being put upon it. And in the the case of Holland there are sent there some thousands of carcases of horses slaughtered on this side as being unfit to travel. If the traffic in live horses is stopped the trade will in all probability soon settle down to the altered conditions, for the Belgians will have their horsemeat. I do not think it is necessary for me to say anything more in support of the Bill, and I beg to move that it be read a second time.
§ Moved, That the Bill be now read 2ª.—(Lord Leigh.)
§ THE FIRST COMMISSIONER OF WORKS (EARL BEAUCHAMP)
My Lords, perhaps I ought to say, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, that they give cordial approval to this Bill, and I think the noble Lord and those associated with him in this matter deserve the congratulations of a great many people upon their success in bringing the Bill this session so near success as they have done, and I am sure that all humanitarians will rejoice to think that the Bill will become law at an early date. I do not know whether the noble Lord has considered the date for taking the Committee stage, but I would suggest one day in the middle of next week.
I will put it down for Tuesday.
§ On Question, Bill read 2ª, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Tuesday next.
Back to PIER AND HARBOUR. PROVISIONAL ORDERS (No. 2) BILL.
Forward to FINANCE BILL.

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Q1: How long will the Waterway be?
A1: 26 km from the junction with the Grand Union canal in MK to the junction with the Great Ouse at Kempston. The 6 km of the Great Ouse from Kempston into Bedford will need to be brought up to full boating standard.
Q2: How wide and deep and what size of boats?
A2: It will be a broad canal with a navigation channel 9 metres wide and 1.5 metres deep, but the total width will be 15 metres where possible. The locks will accommodate boats up to 22 metres (72 feet) long, 4.5 metres (14 feet) wide and 1.3 metres (4 feet) deep (draft). Boats up to 9 feet high above water level at their highest point will be able to pass through the bridges which will have a 3 metre clearance above the water level.
The canal will be the focus of a string of waterway parks which will be as wide as planning space allows with paths; planting; leisure space; attractions and facilities on either or both sides of the water. It is a current plan to have a "multi-use" path about 3 metres wide on one side of the waterway which can be set back from the water's edge in some places to allow anglers to fish without obstructing the pathway for other users.
Q3: When will it be built?
A3: This will be done in stages as funds are raised, over the coming 10-20 years.
Q4: How will the canal cross the M1?
A4: The canal will pass under the M1 through a tunnel, using the disused Cattle Creep (20 ft wide and 20 ft high) under the M1 just south of Junction 13 and just north of the Bletchley to Bedford railway tunnel.
Q5: Where will the water come from?
Q6: How long will it take to build the Waterway Park?
A6: The approach being taken is to break the entire project into a number of smaller sub-projects, some of which can be undertaken independently, as funding is obtained. In some cases, work on the Waterway Park will hopefully be linked to the development of the surrounding land.
The Waterway is designed to be a broad canal that can accommodate a wide range of boats on the water and different users on paths beside it.
Because we can design a canal for a variety of uses at the outset, rather than trying to squeeze a variety of uses into a space designed 200 years ago for freight, we have a unique opportunity to apply 'blue skies' thinking to the development of Waterways for the future.
The B&MK Waterway Park will be a prime example of the best in 21st century engineering, landscaping and design – a truly sustainable development.
The first sections to be built will act as a testbed to demonstrate new ways to create value in communities by adding water. Once completed they will provide models not only for completing this Waterway but also for inspiring other urban development projects.


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This is a simple scaffolding project used to test libraries.

## What you can find here

### Libraries

- Rest services with [Express.js](http://expressjs.com/)
- Authentication with [Passport.js](http://passportjs.org/)
- MongoDb connection with [Mongoose](http://mongoosejs.com/)
- BCrypt with [bcrypt-nodejs](https://www.npmjs.com/package/bcrypt-nodejs)

### Features and implementations

- Cors support
- Users collection CRUD with MongoDb persistence
- Access token in [jwt](https://jwt.io/) to handle basic authentication
- Refresh token to create access token

### Related projects

- [Angular2 SPA Frontend](https://github.com/alessandrodeste/angular2-playground.git)
- [React SPA Frontend](https://github.com/alessandrodeste/react-playground)
- [Vue SPA Frontend](https://github.com/alessandrodeste/vue-playground)

## How to use

First install and configure mongodb.
If the mongodb is hosted outside (ex. [mlab](https://mlab.com/))
is possible to configure the URI and the db name in the files /src/env/development.js

Development on localhost or other development environment (ex. [c9](https://c9.io))

```bash
# Install packages
npm install

# Install mongo collection and default user
npm run mongo

# Run application with nodemon
npm run dev
```

In production (ex. [heroku](https://www.heroku.com/)) the environment variables to use are:
- NODE_ENV
- IP
- PORT
- DB_NAME
- DB_URI
- JWT_SECRET

You can find a [Postman](https://www.getpostman.com/) project with all the stub call
exported in /test/nodejs-playground.postman_collection.json.

## What I'm working on and open points

- Server side validation of Google OAuth2 client-side authentication ([tricky](https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/web/server-side-flow))
- Tests
- Yarn
- Remove use of mongoose default mpromise (is deprecated)
- how to improve token lifecycle? I don't like the current result
- how is implemented mongoose id creation? See refresh token in signup
- why signin debug log return 401 but the actual result is 200?
- find a non deprecated libraries for bcrypt

## Thank you

- [Stephen Grider](https://www.udemy.com/user/sgslo/) great Udemy courses
- [Passport flow overview](http://toon.io/understanding-passportjs-authentication-flow/) great guide
- [JWT](http://jwt.io/)
- [csrf and node](http://sporcic.org/2012/06/csrf-with-nodejs-and-express/)
- [Token!](https://auth0.com/blog/2014/01/07/angularjs-authentication-with-cookies-vs-token/) great token example
- [More Tokens](https://blog.hyphe.me/using-refresh-tokens-for-permanent-user-sessions-in-node/)
- [More spanish refresh tokens docs](https://solidgeargroup.com/refresh-token-autenticacion-jwt-implementacion-nodejs?lang=es)
- [Postmessage & OAuth 2.0](http://www.riskcompletefailure.com/2013/03/postmessage-oauth-20.html)
- [Easy Node Authentication: Google](https://scotch.io/tutorials/easy-node-authentication-google)
- [google endpoints](https://better.fyi/trackers/google.com/)

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Department of Epidemiology /
European Journal of Epidemiology /
K.M. Williams (Katie M.), V.J.M. Verhoeven (Virginie), P. Cumberland (Phillippa), G. Bertelsen (Geir), C. Wolfram (Christian), G.H.S. Buitendijk (Gabrielle), A. Hofman (Albert), C.M. van Duijn (Cornelia), J.R. Vingerling (Hans), R.W.A.M. Kuijpers (Robert), et al. R. Höhn (René), A. Mirshahi (Alireza), A.P. Khawaja (Anthony P.), R.N. Luben (Robert N.), M.G. Erke (Maja Gran), T. Von Hanno (Therese), O. Mahroo (Omar), R. Hogg (Ruth), C. Gieger (Christian), A. Cougnard-Grégoire (Audrey), E. Anastasopoulos (Eleftherios), A. Bron (Alain), J.-F. Dartigues, J.-F. Korobelnik (Jean-François), C. Creuzot-Garcher (Catherine), F. Topouzis (Fotis), C. Delcourt (Cécile), J.S. Rahi (Jugnoo), T. Meitinger (Thomas), A. Fletcher (Astrid), P.J. Foster (Paul J.), N. Pfeiffer (Norbert), C.C.W. Klaver (Caroline) and C.J. Hammond (Christopher)
Prevalence of refractive error in Europe: the European Eye Epidemiology (E3) Consortium
European Journal of Epidemiology , Volume 30 - Issue 4 p. 305- 315
To estimate the prevalence of refractive error in adults across Europe. Refractive data (mean spherical equivalent) collected between 1990 and 2013 from fifteen population-based cohort and cross-sectional studies of the European Eye Epidemiology (E3) Consortium were combined in a random effects meta-analysis stratified by 5-year age intervals and gender. Participants were excluded if they were identified as having had cataract surgery, retinal detachment, refractive surgery or other factors that might influence refraction. Estimates of refractive error prevalence were obtained including the following classifications: myopia ≤−0.75 diopters (D), high myopia ≤−6D, hyperopia ≥1D and astigmatism ≥1D. Meta-analysis of refractive error was performed for 61,946 individuals from fifteen studies with median age ranging from 44 to 81 and minimal ethnic variation (98 % European ancestry). The age-standardised prevalences (using the 2010 European Standard Population, limited to those ≥25 and <90 years old) were: myopia 30.6 % [95 % confidence interval (CI) 30.4–30.9], high myopia 2.7 % (95 % CI 2.69–2.73), hyperopia 25.2 % (95 % CI 25.0–25.4) and astigmatism 23.9 % (95 % CI 23.7–24.1). Age-specific estimates revealed a high prevalence of myopia in younger participants [47.2 % (CI 41.8–52.5) in 25–29 years-olds]. Refractive error affects just over a half of European adults. The greatest burden of refractive error is due to myopia, with high prevalence rates in young adults. Using the 2010 European population estimates, we estimate there are 227.2 million people with myopia across Europe.
Keywords Consortium, Epidemiology, Myopia, Prevalence, Refractive error
Persistent URL doi.org/10.1007/s10654-015-0010-0, hdl.handle.net/1765/82902
Journal European Journal of Epidemiology
Organisation Department of Epidemiology
Williams, K.M, Verhoeven, V.J.M, Cumberland, P, Bertelsen, G, Wolfram, C, Buitendijk, G.H.S, … Hammond, C.J. (2015). Prevalence of refractive error in Europe: the European Eye Epidemiology (E3) Consortium. European Journal of Epidemiology, 30(4), 305–315. doi:10.1007/s10654-015-0010-0
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President Trump entertained his Twitter followers with one of his trademark tweets Monday, by mocking Global Warming in response to warnings of brutally cold temperatures expected to pummel parts of the United States this week.
Trump — who often calls Global Warming and Climate Change a hoax — hilariously took aim at climate scientists by pointing out that it will be severely cold in some parts of the country this week.
"What the hell is going on with Global Waming [sic]? Please come back fast, we need you!" Trump tweeted on Monday night.
Forecasters in Illinois predict temperatures could hit negative 27 degrees (negative 33 Celsius) with wind-chill values as low as negative 55 degrees (negative 48 Celsius).
Officials predicted that wind chill readings could plummet to minus 50 in Chicago and minus 60 in Minneapolis.
Forecasters expect Wednesday's high temperature (yes, the high) to be minus 14 degrees Fahrenheit in Chicago and Minneapolis.
If the forecast holds, that would be Chicago's lowest high temperature for a single day since officials began keeping records.
"This is what you would expect when you get into central and northern Canada," said Brian Hurley, a National Weather Service meteorologist.
The vortex, a brutal mass of cold air within strong bands of circulating winds, has spread southward from its normal location near the North Pole in recent weeks, bringing arctic weather to the middle of the United States.
Such weather events have become more common in recent years; scientists are not sure why.
The wind chill could be unbearable as a brutal jet stream moves through the Midwest area, with severe weather warnings in place until Thursday.
"In the beautiful Midwest, windchill temperatures are reaching minus 60 degrees, the coldest ever recorded. In coming days, expected to get even colder," Trump wrote.
Preparations for the bitter cold were being complicated on Monday by a quick punch of snow that blew over the Great Lakes, leaving several inches in major cities and snarling travel.
The polar vortex also prompted emergency preparations and school cancellations in the South, where temperatures were expected to be decidedly less polar, but where residents are less accustomed to dealing with the cold.
In Louisiana, where meteorologists expected one to two inches of snow, the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness said it had activated its crisis action team.
Gov. Kay Ivey of Alabama declared a state of emergency.
Officials appeared the most unnerved in Georgia, which will host the Super Bowl on Sunday.
Gov. Brian P. Kemp said state offices would be closed on Tuesday in 35 counties, including some in the Atlanta area, as parts of the state prepared for ice and up to two inches of snow.
But in Chicago, where Wednesday's high temperature was expected to be 55 degrees lower than Atlanta's, the warnings were far more dire.
"This isn't going to be just irritating — this will be literally dangerous," said Mr. Skilling, the meteorologist.


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Q: How do I take out and change the class of "drukBlokken[i] H! I'm Daan and I got homework...
I basically need to loop through all .block classes and change the stage from stage1 to stage2 (second code block) all good but I just can't find out this part where I need to extract the class from drukblokken[i] to change it and check to what it has to be changed.
Maybe i can sneak another question in, It would be great if the for loop only went over each .block element once cause I'm calling the loop function multiple times

function loop()
{

    drukBlokken = document.querySelectorAll(".block");

    for(i = 0; i < drukBlokken.length; i++)
    {
        drukBlokken[i].addEventListener('click', function(){

            moveFunction = stageVeranderen(drukBlokken[i]);

        });
        console.log("button", i, "ready");

    }
}

function stageVeranderen(blok)
{
    console.log("test");
}

loop();

I'm not really a master JavaScript and most things I haven't leared yet but i hope this isn't a lost cause hehe

A: First inside your click handler, you could use keyword this instead of drukBlokken[i]. Because scope of that function is already set to drunkBlokken[i].
Let me answer what you asked:

*

*You can check elements class by using .className, which returns string of classes used on the selected element. In case of multiple classes this will return a single string same as in the html syntax. If you would like to iterate over all classes on a certain element you could use .classList which returns an array of classes used on your element. So to get class in your second function you can just use blok.className. Then check what is it equal to and change this element class to a new one again using .className. Lets say blok.className = 'second-class';

*To loop over your list just once in case you have dynamic number of elements ( lets  say new elements come after a while). You could change your selector to document.querySelectorAll(".block:not([data-parsed])"). This translates to: Get all elements which class block that don't have attribute data-parsed on them. And once you parse an element in your loop you add attribute data-parsed on that element using this.setAttribute('data-parsed', true);. After this attribute is added to the element it won't get queried by your selector again. Here you could as well use custom class that you append to the element, but this could raise some problems with your class checking code. Well not problems but you would have to keep this in mind when checking which class element has.

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Q: Sharepoint : Find a list based on a content type in a web part? Is it possible to find, in a Web Part, if a list is made from a specific content type?
Or, find all lists that are from a specific content type would do the trick too!

A: You need to get a handle to the specific list first, of course. There's a number of ways to do this. A somewhat inefficient, but globally usable way, would be to start from the SPSite:
using(SPSite site = new SPSite(siteUrl))
{
    using(SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb(webUrl))
    {
        SPList list = web.GetList(listUrl);
        SPContentTypeCollection types = list.ContentTypes;
        foreach(SPContentType type in types)
        {
            if(type.Id == typeImLookingFor.Id)
            {
                //found the content type!
            }
        }
    }
}


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Peacock club then (1988) and now (2021).
Opened originally in 1938 as the "Top Hat Club", it was an immediate hit within the African American community. Former circus performer, Carrie Cunningham, bought and rebranded the club as the "Royal Peacock" in the late 40s which resulted the club becoming even more popular. The club was decorated with colorful painting of peacock feathers. Advertisements even boasted that the club was bringing Harlem to Atlanta. Like the many stores around it, the Royal Peacock then became a black-owned business. The impact that African Americans musicians had on the cultural influence on both the black and white communities of Atlanta is an integral part of Atlanta's African American history. In a town where segregation was rampant, places like the Royal Peacock can be considered outliers in the best possible way—championing black pride and increasing cultural diversity.
Some very prominent figures to have visited the once vibrant club include Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, Louis Armstrong. Experiences in this club were of elite level—people would be decked to the nines and enjoy the music. It was a classy and fancy space that everyone wanted to go to. Because the club attracted such famous performers, white audiences would often frequent the club. In fact, this would happen so much that the club owners felt it necessary to have designated "whites only" nights. Despite their being such a high demand for them amongst the white audiences, black musicians still felt oppression and blatant racism while visiting. Oftentimes needing to be snuck in through the back door of the club or even refused entry. The Royal Peacock was the first place that eventually openly welcomed black artists to perform in front of mixed audiences. In fact, the Royal Peacock and very few other clubs around the nation were deemed the "Chitlin Circuit". To play as a black artist at one of the venues on the circuit meant that you were able to tour the South safely. The Royal Peacock was the first and most notable club for doing this.
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Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, Convicted of Hate Speech Against Muslims, Meets with Trump Advisor Kris Kobach
Stephen Piggott
Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff — an Austrian anti-Muslim activist convicted of hate speech in her native country in 2011 — was invited to meet with Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, in Topeka on March 7.
Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, and State Representative Peggy Mast (gatesofvienna.net)
Sabaditsch-Wolff works closely with ACT for America, the largest anti-Muslim group in the country, and spoke with Kobach about the refugee crisis in Europe. Sabaditsch-Wolff's talking points were published in full by the vehemently anti-Muslim blog Gates of Vienna, and gave insight into what ludicrous conspiracy theories Kobach — an advisor to President Donald Trump — was entertaining during his hour-long meeting.
The Austrian's first point referred to a conspiracy theory about the refugee crisis popular among American Islamophobes ."The most important thing to remember is that it is PLANNED," she said, telling Kobach that NGOs are colluding with human traffickers to "rescue" Libyan refugees shortly after they flee the country by boat. From there, the discussion went to who is funding this "planned" operation. Her answer? George Soros.
"George Soros was definitely involved, and there are strong indications that governments in the Persian Gulf gave financial assistance … they arrived in Slovenia and Austria, refugees bought goods and hired taxis using brand new €500 notes. Those notes are very unusual, and the refugees did not find them on the ground along the way. Someone gave the notes to them — WHO?"
Sabaditsch-Wolff sang the praises of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, calling him the only political leader "resisting the onslaught of migrants." Orbán recently called for "ethic homogeneity," approved measures to begin housing asylum speakers in guarded camps, and is considered responsible in part for the undeniable rise in anti-Semitism in his country.
Moving on to what she believes are the consequences of an influx of refugees entering Europe, Sabaditsch-Wolff focused on the racist tropes branding non-white immigrants as criminals and sex-offenders.
"The European people pay the price for the migration through vastly increased rates of theft and property crimes, violent rapes and assaults, and nightly public disorder. There are numerous no-go zones in cities all across Western Europe. Women do not feel safe in public, especially at night."
She ended by claiming free speech is under attack in Europe, something she likes to point out when discussing her conviction for hate speech. In 2009, Sabaditsch-Wolff spoke at an event organized by the academy of Austria's far-right Freedom Party where she accused the prophet Mohammad of being a pedophile, claiming he "enjoyed having something going on with kids," according to the Austrian Independent. She was convicted two years later of hate speech and ordered to pay a fine.
Kobach himself is no stranger to nativism and xenophobia. He is employed by the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) the legal arm of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) an anti-immigrant group founded by white nationalist John Tanton. In 2015, Kobach spoke at Tanton's Social Contract Press Writers Workshop. He has also been responsible for drafting anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim legislation and government programs.
Kobach was behind the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS) program in the early 2000s which required tens of thousands of Muslim and Middle Eastern visa holders to register with the government and be fingerprinted. He also drafted SB1070, the extreme "papers please" law passed in Arizona and is currently helping shape Donald Trump's most recent nativist executive orders.
And through Kobach, it appears Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff has a direct line to Trump.
In her recap of the Kobach meeting published on the Gates of Vienna blog she wrote:
"The meeting concluded with my promise keep in touch and the secretary's promise to relay the contents of my brief to the White House. Another fine example of transatlantic partnership in action!"


Home Thoughts Opinions Help Here, There, or Everywhere?
Help Here, There, or Everywhere?
I have seen the U.S. come together as a whole in times of crisis. 9/11 and Katrina are just examples of the help our country gives during catastrophic events. We should not wait until a catastrophic event occurs to come together as a nation.
My question is this; are you more likely to give a homeless person a few dollars or give a few dollars to other countries in need? Please do not misunderstand my question. I have given to those in other countries when help was needed. I have given to my own country when needed.
What I notice is my opinion only so please do not take offense. I notice that people will pass by a homeless person in need of a meal or drive past the person stranded on the side of the road. People who feel their time is too valuable to volunteer or change to precious to give to those "undeserving".
Why are we more willing to help out places we have never been or people we have and never will meet. I believe giving should start at home. Our own government is guilty of this as well. Aid from our government will be given to a country or place in need but our country's school funding will be cut or Medicare insurance cut from the budget. Why is it okay for people who live here to suffer and those from far away get benefit concerts, charitable CD's, celebrities telling you to donate, medical supplies, volunteers to dig through rubble, donations asked for and government aid?
I am not devoid of compassion by any means. In fact I have been told that my heart is too big and I need to learn to say no more often. I am only asking that maybe next time you see someone holding a sign asking for work or spare change that you stop and think. If you feel it is safe, take a little time and help that stranded person on the side of the road. Volunteer your time when you can. I assure you that you will feel better about whom you are as a person.
It is better to give than to receive so give a little at home too.


Yahoo! Movies has posted a clip and synopsis for the movie Still Alice starring Kristen Stewart, Julianne Moore, Kate Bosworth and Alec Baldwin. It hits theaters December 1, 2014.
Happily married with three grown children, Alice Howland is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.


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MOVIESTAR
Mainstream Bimonthly Magazine from Germany
- First issue: 1987
- First series was published 1987-1989. Resumed publishing in 1993.
- 100 colour A4 pages.
- Published by MPW (Medien Publikations und Werbegesellschaft mbH) Last updated:
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COVERS FOUND & MISSING
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CONTENTS: 1987 1988 1989 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 All GALLERIES: 1987 1988 1989 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 All
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Glen Eagle Square was faced with a vacant grocery anchor and a tenant mix that no longer fit the needs of the area psychographics. Madison Marquette decided to capitalize on the surging affluent demographic in the Chadds Ford suburb of Pennsylvania through strategic leasing, based on the buying trends and trade area's draw towards up-market, conscientious consumer goods and services.
Madison Marquette repositioned and re-merchandised the center by systematically defining category voids and secured valuable, local, regional and national retailers to appeal to the health conscience, affluent local customer.
Madison Marquette secureda new grocer anchor in Whole Foods, the first within a 20 mile radius. Additionally, the center welcomed Harvest Restaurant, a chef driven, farm-to-table restaurant and Philadelphia Runner. The updated merchandising mix increased national retail sales goals by close to 30 percent and local retailers exceeding sales goals from by almost 40 percent.


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Toward a Cultural Archive of la Movida
Edited by William J. Nichols and H. Rosi Song - Contributions by Francisco Fernández de Alba; Silvia Bermúdez; José Colmeiro; Malcom Alan Compitello; Héctor Fouce; Marcela T. Garcés; Christine Henseler; Susan Larson; Jorge Marí; Alberto Mira; Pablo Wert Ortega; Jorge Pérez; Jon Snyder; Pedro Pérez Del Solar and Dr. Hamilton M Stapell
Toward a Cultural Archive of la Movida revisits the cultural and social milieu in which laMovida, an explosion of artistic production in the late 1970s and early 1980s, was articulated discursively, aesthetically, socially, and politically. We connect this experience with a broader national and international context that takes it beyond the city of Madrid and outside the borders of Spain. This collection of essays links the political and social undertakings of this cultural period with youth movements in Spain and other international counter-cultural or underground movements. Moving away from biographical experiences or the identification of further participants and works that belong to laMovida, the articles collected in this volume situate this movement within the political and social development of post-Franco Spain. Finally, it also offers a reading of recent politically motivated recoveries of this cultural phenomenon through exhibitions, state sponsored documentaries, musicals, or tourist itineraries.
The perception of Spain as representative of a successful dual transition from dictatorship to democracy and free market capitalism created a "Spanish model" that has been emulated in countries like Portugal, Argentina, Chile and Hungary, all formerly ruled by totalitarian regimes. While social scientists study the promises, contradictions and failures of the Spanish Transición—especially on issues of memory, repression, and (the lack of) reconciliation —our approach from the humanities offers another vantage point to a wider discussion of an unfinished chapter in recent Spanish history by focusing on laMovida as the "cultural archive" whose cultural transitions parallel the political and economic ones. The transgressive, urban nature of this movement demonstrated an overt desire, especially among Spanish youth, to reach onto a global arena emulating the punk and new wave aesthetic of such cities as London, New York, Paris, and Berlin. Art, design, film, music, fashion during this period helped to forge a sense of a modern urban identity in Spain that also reflected the tensions between modernity and tradition, global forces and local values, international mass media technology and regional customs.
University Press Copublishing Division / Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
978-1-61147-630-9 • Hardback • November 2013 • $116.00 • (£75.00)
978-1-61147-631-6 • eBook • November 2013 • $110.00 • (£75.00)
Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / Spanish & Portuguese, History / Europe / Spain & Portugal, History / Modern / 20th Century
William J. Nichols is associate professor of Spanish at Georgia State University.
H. Rosie Song is associate professor of Spanish at Bryn Mawr College.
TABLE OF ILLUSTRATIONS
1) Back to the Future: Towards a Cultural Archive of la Movida (William Nichols & H. Rosi Song)
I. Theorizing la Movida
2) "La Movida as Debate" (Jordi Marí)
3) "From the Unrest to la Movida. Cultural Politics and Pop Music in the Spanish Transition" (Héctor Fouce)
4) "The Same in Name, but Different: la Movida madrileña and the other 'Movidas' of Spain" (Hamilton Stapell)
5) "In/Authenticities: Movida Youth Culture in Motion" (Christine Henseler)
II. Peripheral Movidas and Media Revolutions
6) "The Dark Heart of la Movida: Vampire Fantasies in Iván Zulueta's Arrebato" (Alberto Mira)
7) "Peripheral Movidas: Cannibalizing Galicia" (José Colmeiro)
8) "Queer Traces in the Soundtrack of la Movida" (Jorge Pérez)
9) "Party to the People: Heroin and the Spanish 'Lost' Generation" (Francisco Fernández de Alba)
III. Taking Back the City: Politics of Space and Place in Spain
10) "Urbanism, Architecture, and la Movida madrileña" (Susan Larson)
11) "Sketching the Future Furiously: La Movida, Graphic Design and the Urban Process in Madrid" (Malcom Compitello)
12) "Liberty Street, the Liberty of the Street: La Movida and Political Transition" (Juan Pablo Wert Ortega)
13) "FromCarajillo to Madriz: The comics of la Movida" (Pedro Pérez del Solar)
IV. Still in the Present: Ghosts of la Movida
14) "From Counter-Culture to National Heritage: 'La Movida' in the Museum and the Institutionalization of Irreverence" (William Nichols)
15) "Memory and Archive: la Movida, Alaska and Processes of Cultural Archeology" (Silvia Bermúdez)
16) "Ghostly Subjectivities: Photography, Spectral Identities, and the Temporality of la Movida" (Jonathan Snyder)
17) "The Metamorphosis of Memory and la Movida in Recent Documentary Films" (Marcela T. Garcés)


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Liebherr USA Co., breaks ground on new headquarters in Newport News, VA
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Members of the Liebherr family, Executive Management and Newport News city officials gathered last Friday, July 20th for a groundbreaking ceremony on site in Copeland Industrial Park to celebrate the construction of the new Liebherr USA, Co. headquarters.
The commencement of this $45 million expansion project marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter for Liebherr in the United States. The company that has been manufacturing and operating in Newport News, VA for over 48 years broke ground at the site adjacent to its current location. The new facility will serve as the new headquarters for Liebherr USA, Co. and will include the construction of three new buildings: a state–of-the-art four-story administrative building, a carefully designed warehouse and parts distribution center to meet current and future requirements, and a modernized production and workshop facility intended to support the company's cranes, construction and concrete divisions.
Once completed, the new buildings will add over 251,000 square feet to the existing 560,000 square foot Liebherr campus. This investment will greatly impact the company's operations in the U.S. and drive Liebherr's strategy for long-term growth. Construction is expected to be completed in 2020, and will house Liebherr USA, Co. employees working in administration, finance, marketing, human resources, sales and service, product support, production and distribution for eight product divisions.
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Q: Why does the castle turn blue? It has happened to me, twice. I enter the castle and the walls are blue. In which circumstances does this happens? Does it have any effect, or is it just aesthetic?

A: This is caused by playing a descendant with the trait The One.
The trait is purely aesthetic and does not have other effects.
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Archive: February 2018
Boyfriend, Girfriend??!!
Published by Anita Ayela UnderMyblog on February 14, 2018
Sometimes, when someone says or writes something, the writer in me wakes up with a start from a deep slumber of procrastination of regular blogging! I thought it would be appropriate to raise this topic today or forever remain silent!
I have been in the US, a little less than half my life, but one thing that I still can't digest is the concept of 'boyfriend' and 'girlfriend', and that too of teenagers. I always thought whatever be the country, whatever be the culture, parents are all the same around the world, of the same brethren. But I have been proven wrong in this country.
After so many years of staying in this country, it is still a culture shock for me that parents here allow their kids to have girlfriends and boyfriends, who are not friends as the words indicate, but are dating each other. I am curious to know as to why the parents here are not scared to let their little kids get into the harsh real world of love, sex and broken hearts at such a young age.
When I read a mom's post on Facebook that she was helping her kid pick out valentine gifts for her/his boyfriend/ girlfriend, my mind started thinking in several different ways. Why are parents in the US supportive of teenage dating concept? Why do Indian parents feel scared and protective of their teenage kids unlike parents here? And, I am sure, all teenager across the world face the same problems and challenges. The challenges may be different according to the gender, but challenges are there for sure!
I remember when I was teenager, my parents were ok with my classmates, boys, coming home for exchanging notes or for planning events. But I am sure, if I had given the slightest hint that I had a boyfriend, or I like someone, things would have been very different and bad too! And of course, since we had that fear of parents and the society too, we did not even think of dating or romancing at such a young age. It is not that falling in love is not prevalent in India, it is just that it is well understood that love leads to marriage and so everyone puts it behind them until they are of marriageable age. Teenage love stories are a rarity, at least the percentage is very low! Of course, there are exceptions to everything everywhere and I am not denying that.
In India, even after all the modernizations and the vast growth in culture and conditions, it is still a taboo to have multiple partners in anyone's span of life and hence casual sex is not encouraged at all. So, it is but natural that if a boy or girl confess love, it is understood that marriage is coming up. If that doesn't happen, then it is called betrayal and the society looks down at their family. It might seem weird to people who are not from India, but then, we Indians feel that it is the sanctity of relationships that is carrying our culture forward.
Indians who are part of the US now since decades might have changed their norms and moves to gel with people here. Well, I don't blame them for that, the English have left us a saying for every situation and here I would say "In Rome, do as the Romans do". Is that a good thing or a bad thing; I don't want to get into that, that's a personal choice. But for me, it has got nothing to do with culture, religion or country. It has only got to do with the simple fact that it is not necessary for teenagers to go through these unwanted emotions, these relationships of dating at such a young age. Why would I as a parent want my daughter or son to get or make someone pregnant or get diseases? Why would I want my kid to go through heart breaks to get a better person at any stage of their life? Trail and error is good inside the doors of scientific labs, not at hormonal doorways. Surely not if it effects the mind, heart and soul of a teenage girl or boy.
I am not saying that love is not good, but in teenage the dating boyfriends and girlfriends are not really in love… it is just infatuation which leads to physical attraction and then physical intimacy.
Is that right or wrong? Definitely not right if it doesn't lead to a commitment which is impossible when in high school. So, why can't we as parents, curb it when the bud is young and not allow our kids to have physical relationships? Well, how do we stop that? Stop the very concept of dating until they have reached the prime age of marriage. I agree that there may be high school sweethearts who wait till they grow up and eventually get married. That's a different thing altogether, and then, these kinds of people have the patience to endure the wait and hence achieve their love.
My life has a love story too. I met him when I was about to join Masters and he was doing his, an age where you truly know what you want. We courted and then, eventually after five years we got married when we had a job too. Now, that is maturity enough where we had the perseverance to wait and achieve.
But for the teenagers, curiosities must be curbed, and hormones must be tamed! It might sound like old school, but trust me, it will do only good. Nothing can go any wrong than it is right now.
Hope this Valentine's day, makes a girl or a boy cherish the loving and affectionate feelings of the heart and wait for that special person to become their Soul mate when they grow old enough!!!
Addiction of the Youth!
Published by Anita Ayela UnderMyblog on February 1, 2018
Recently I heard someone saying that though we have progressed so much, we bow our head even today like slaves-slaves to electronics. And that person was talking about 'texting' forever, heads down, eyes staring into the screen as fingers dance in tune!!
All kinds of screens have become the 'in' thing now, or as Gen Y kids would say 'fad'! All Apple products, all kinds of Tablets, smart phones, Kindle, all have the same effect on kids all over the world. I know that as the generation is growing and the technology is progressing, people from our generation have a need to understand and support the new generation. But easier said than done!
It becomes quite irritating at times, when kids are forever stuck to these screens. Especially when these screens join us at the dining table too, making weird noises of the arrival of SMS! I'm surprised how the fingers of kids have not gone numb by now by the frequency with which they are used to type messages back and forth!
I always wonder what is it that has pulled the kids away from the playgrounds, from the theatres or the books. I wonder when the playgrounds gave way to the laptops, the theatres to the tablets and the books to the Kindles! I believed that getting the reason out of the horse's mouth would be the best thing and so I talked to some kids of friends and family.
Apeksha, 14 yrs old girl says "We prefer screen time because I think that a lot of the things that we do outside or at a friend's house, we can now do on iPads, and cell phones, and main source of entertainment is now TV. The TV shows that are on TV now, are so much more real and relatable that, I think, that we kids feel that we don't need to go outside and experience it we just want to watch it on the screen."
I'm sure a lot of parents would have encountered this problem in the summer that passed us by-TV! Yes, TV becomes an integral part of vacation, wherever they are, be it home or holidaying in a hotel! They watch and watch and watch; repeats after repeat, making the parents scream in their heads but admonish the teenagers gently! I remember those days when India had just got TVs and the timings of telecast were fixed and so we had time to do other things too. All we had is one channel unlike the numerous ones that are available to our kids now, which obviously allows them to watch more. I don't actually want to think what we would have done as kids if we had so many channels too. Maybe we too would have…
When I talked to another kid, Ria, 12 years old, she said
"I think that kids/teens of today prefer screen time over playing outside because social networking sites such as Facebook, Google+. Twitter, Gmail.. (the list goes on and on.) allows us to talk to friends at any time, on the other hand, if someone was to play outside, your choice of playmates/friends would be limited. Also, social networking makes it easier to communicate and share thoughts and ideas. Websites like these allow kids/teens to say what's on their mind without over thinking about what others will think of you (it gives them a form of confidence) because you are "talking" to a screen not a person."
Well, well, kids do surprise me a lot these days. It might seem like a joke but, I have seen kids' texting to each other in the same house too with just a wall to separate their bedrooms. I, as a parent, fail to understand how communication skills are used these days on these social networking sites and why kids need screens to boost their confidence levels. Human contact and human voices has become a rarity, at least for the majority of kids, or so say a lot of parents.
My daughter said, "Most of our teachers ask us to do our homework online and so we need laptops. No homework done means no grades. We are to type out our assignments and make PowerPoint for projects, how else do we do that if not on the computers? So, laptops and computers are a must for us."
Now, there goes another teenager at my house, telling me that the laptop screen is a must to get grades. Now, do I have a say in that, if grades are important for us too. My memory of note books for homework, and pens and pencils for writing are slowly slipping out of my system, giving way to my kid's way of writing and communicating! However much we as parents think of taking away all these 'screens' from the kids, it is not possible. It is like sending the kids into the stone-age when it is the requirement of the society to adapt to the changing technology.
We all know from experience how kids want the very thing that we don't want them to have.Instead of trying to scream at them , snatch their iPhones or pull our own hair with helplessness, it is essential that we learn the importance of these electronics and then explain it to the kids the limitation of their usage.Maybe we need to have an eye on them while they use these electronics usefully, and set a schedule to use these 'texting' devices and 'gaming' equipment.And last but not the least, tell them the importance of meeting friends in person, taking part in sports or other extra curricular activities outside their bedrooms!!
Well, come to think of it,can we blame the kids enough if we are reading this on a blog or e-magazine, on the laptop or phones, and not in a physical book? What say guys?! 🙂
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Metal Sucks QUESTION OF THE WEEK: DON'T WE LOVE GLENN DANZIG? JOHN PETRUCCI, JEFF LOOMIS AND TOSIN ABASI ANNOUNCE SUMMER...
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The time is now half-past bongload on Friday afternoon, and hey it's great to see u back here for another classy, totally not pointless MetalSucks Question Of The Week, a (sorta) weekly survey of our staff on a recent hot-button issue that's rocking our metal planet. Thanks for coming. Did u bring your famous Oreo dessert?
Fearless. Controversial. Half-baked. We give it to you straight every Friday afternoon. Okay not that straight. Here's this week's topic:
Inspired by MetalSucks' Defending Danzig series by D.X. Ferris and persistent, widespread mockery of its subject Glenn Danzig (The Misfits, Sam Hain, Danzig), we asked our staff the following question:
Do you wish for an end to the open season on Glenn Danzig?
Wat u think? The MS staff's expert answers after the jump!
SATAN ROSENBLOOM
I'm not saying that Glenn Danzig has done nothing to stoke the blazing troll furnace, but can't we pick a more deserving target? The dude is a temperamental grandpa by now, for sure. But at least he's as legitimately cantankerous and irritiable as ever. He hasn't become a caricature of himself or an inoffensive puffball like Hetfield, Ozzy, or Johnny Rotten. Plus, any man capable of inspiring this isn't worthy of derision.
LEYLA FORD
Never! I thought Wednesday's post about his cat album was factual until I read its first sentence. See, this is Glenn Danzig we're talking about, and to us it's normal — hell, expected — that he would do something that nuts. He's got something to say — he fed his kitties today! It's already funny that he, Glenn Danzig, is doing menial stuff but then you add his insane jibber-jabber? We just have sit back and let that crazy train steam ahead.
So, as long as he keeps yelling about bricks and outing Hugh Jackman's Wolverine, then I say everyone else just keep up. Guys like Danzig and Axl Rose are so out of tune with what we'd call Real Life that we can't help but giggle at their shenanigans. And by "giggle" I mean mercilessly dogpile on them. It's better than pitying them, right? Plus, if we couldn't playfully poke at metal's hard-asses, then there'd be no gems like Henry & Glenn Forever. I hear there's a sequel too.
JUSTIN M. NORTON
The reason there is an open season is Glenn Danzig keeps acting like a world-class tool. All of the criticism heaped on him has come after his poor decisions. His musical legacy is untouchable, but it's sad to see a 56-year-old guy picking fights, behaving like a diva, and getting dropped after going off like Razor Ramon.
COREY MITCHELL
No. I need more tales of French onion soup and Wendy's chicken sandwiches to help me make it through another dirty, black Texas summer.
SAMMY O'HAGAR
Absolutely the fuck yes. First, it's one thing for a fan of the Misfits and the first four Danzig albums to rip on Glenn Danzig; it's different coming from a 17-year-old fuckface in a $130 hoodie who thinks music began with Suicide Silence, or a scruffy-bearded bike messenger with a Beach House shirt and an ironically-purchased 30-pack of PBR. But more than that, it's that the snickering at Danzig (Danznickering?) is getting louder than the due acknowledgement of how fucking great he is at his job. Sure, his discography is far from perfect and we can state objectively that he's a ridiculous person. But while Metallica and Ozzy sold out and let their music suffer, the only thing Danzig has done is be Glenn Danzig. And you must be new here if you think a 4'11" New Jersey native with jet black hair and a 12-hour weekday gym schedule will ever possess the self-awareness to avoid being an easy target.
So now it's time to come to terms with his incredible silliness and remember why we ever noticed it in the first place: Danzig has one of the great voices in rock — not just in metal — and his punk, metal, and rock records are some of the best ever. If you love Danzig, you can mock Glenn all you like.
VINCE NEILSTEIN
I believe that Glenn Danzig has no idea he's become a meme. He's the type to isolate himself and remain aloof, intentionally and unintentionally. Even if it has reached his attention, he wouldn't understand what's so funny about him crossing the street carrying a box of cat litter, or the big deal about moving his motherfucking bricks. I just don't think he gets it. And he seems like a guy who, like Axl Rose, surrounds himself with legions of yes-men who dare not speak ill of him.
But I don't feel bad for Danzig. I mean, just look at the guy! He's a friggin' cartoon character. It's just too easy.
ANSO DF
Super yes! And it's an easy fix: At first there was charm in Glenn Danzig's failure to veil his totally natural creeping insanity. Now I wish that, in our reports of that madness, we preserve a baseline respect for the man's music, performances, influence, art and aesthetics, and brazen Satanism. Like, me and my sister reserve the first minutes of each family gathering for "humoring the old folks," a brief suspension of logic and a generous tolerance of unvarnished racism that prevent flare-ups of grouchy martyr syndrome in our clan's near-deads. The party benefits from that little sacrifice. Likewise, metal people will all do better to actively engage Danzig, give him a measure of attention, and nod like zombies at his every gripe. Grant him his due — he has thrice conjured singular brilliance from thin air.
Instead we give Danzig cause to pout by using super-flimsy gossip to do what's tantamount to judging Glenn Danzig, the man, whom we do not know personally. Fuck that. Especially heartless are the jeers of snide youngs not privy to both pre- and post-Glenn Danzig life. It's weird cuz the go-to joke for this annoying demographic used to be Ronnie James Dio, another Italian-American short stack. But the internet justly canonized the super-cuddly Dio, and then his untimely death earned him zero-tolerance protection against jibery. Now Glenn Danzig is in the crosshairs but via a few displays of good humor and humility, he can slyly swing our gun barrel toward a lesser talent/larger twit/non-Italian like Lars Ulrich, Dave Mustaine, or Blackie Lawless. Everybody be cool!
AXL ROSENBERG
No. First of all, Glenn Danzig doesn't get it worse than, say, Ozzy Osbourne. How long has it been since anyone with any sense said a kind word about that guy? He's been a punchline for decades. Danzig is a public figure who does a lot of dumb shit in public. As such, he is subject to ridicule — same as Ozzy, Axl Rose, Dave Mustaine, Fred Durst, or any other (in)famous musician with a doctorate in acting like a dolt.
And I don't think he gets it any easier than those dudes, nor does he deserve to. Why should we cut him slack? Because of his contributions to music? But … so what, y'know? Just because Glenn Danzig is a twit doesn't mean I don't love The Misfits song "Attitude" — and my distaste for Dave Mustaine the man doesn't make his jam "Ashes In Your Mouth" rock any less. We laugh at Danzig because he does laughable things, and those laughs temporarily alleviate our pain at the fact that life is short, meaningless, and followed by nothing. If poor lil' Danzig wants us to stop the clowning, he should stop acting like such a buffoon all the time.
Hmmm berry interesting. So is it the duty of the pack to correct an decrepit omega's aberrant behavior via taunts? Is Glenn Danzig diss-proof on the strength of his like 85 awesome jamz? Is it simply that he's paid his debt and it'd be bigger fun for us to whale on the men of Trivium instead? How about Corey Taylor? Geoff Tate?? Tell us what u think!
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