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Queer spaces and queer safety: the changing culture of gay bars
Max Vos November 6, 2019 LatestPolitics & Economics
All original designs by Lola Baldsing
Content Warnings: Mentions of transphobic and homophobic violence, assault, language and mentions of alcoholism and drug abuse
The names of queer bars mentioned by interview respondents have been redacted and substituted with [LGBT bar] or other where appropriate.
The first and only time I have been in a gay bar, I spent three-quarters of it (about an hour) in the bathroom, in a toilet cubicle, hiding a panic attack. At the time, this was due to having shown up in a skirt and not yet understanding what gender dysphoria was. It was the women's bathroom, a place I'd take another year to understand I didn't belong.
Gay bars are supposed to be places many queer folks feel like they belong. They are meant to be sanctuaries, places of camp acceptance and pride, celebration, escape. One famous example, the Stonewall Inn, was credited with the incitement of queer activism, particularly in response to homophobic violence at the hands of the police. Gay bars can host pivotal moments in a queer person's life, as the one I visited did for me.
However, despite their intended role, the culture of gay bars has been changing a lot recently, and it's not exactly positive.
Queer people should have somewhere they can feel safe and included. Transgender people are still being murdered, at increasingly high rates, and poor transgender women of colour are most at-risk; queer people are still being brutally beaten in public spaces; the government's proposed religious freedom amendments have the potential to infringe on the few rights the LGBTQIA+ community in Australia have scraped up.
Queer people are more at risk for mental health issues. Homophobia and transphobia are alive and unwell, institutionally and on the streets. We need physical spaces of community celebration. There need to be rest stops.
Stonewall Inn, 1969 (Wikimedia Commons)
Stonewall, nowadays
One of the most famous rest stops is the Stonewall Inn, which has become a historic place for the queer community to collect and commemorate past activists. It has made its name as a key part of LGBTQIA+ history. However, reports have shown a disturbing dissonance within queer culture, in an event which occurred at Stonewall in Pride Month.
As Reuters reports, "The scene at New York City's Stonewall Inn on Saturday [June 29 …] showed how long-simmering tensions between transgender women of colour and white gay men have boiled over during the celebration of World Pride and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising".
The instance they're mentioning happened just as June was winding up. According to witness reports (tweets) at the Stonewall bar, an unidentified woman began to read out the names of black transgender women who were murdered. The crowd was hostile in response, shouting at her for spoiling the mood.
A black trans woman disrupted a drag show at stonewall to call everyone out at the hypocrisy at how Pride was all about parties and corporations now even though black trans women are dying. All. Hell. Broke. Loose.
— Aspen (They/Them) (@aspeneberhardt) June 28, 2019
Some people claim that bar attendees at the time also attempted to call the police.
If you know the popular story of what Stonewall is, at least what it represents to the majority of the queer community, you can also understand why this caused such a stir online. It seemed to be in direct conflict with what Stonewall is supposed to represent; the place where fringe, intersectional queer causes are heard.
Not everything is sunshine and rainbows on the inside, it turns out. Even Stonewall is more of an urban legend than a piece of capital-H History.
And it's important to understand now that no place is perfect. Unfortunately, gay bars aren't as safe as we want them to be.
Changing clientele, from the horse's mouth
After conducting anonymous interviews with members of the queer community, many in the LGBTQIA+ community are noticing more cisgender and straight people coming to queer clubs. The interviewees all attended different clubs and bars, queer or not, from once a month to a few times a week. All of them identified as members of the queer community, some submitted their answers anonymously, and 90 per cent of the respondents agreed that they had seen a rise in cisgender heterosexual people attending queer clubs. Some of the respondents said they have no other safe spaces.
It's important to note—as I did with the interviewees—that nobody can tell another person's identity just by looking at them. For example, someone in an apparently straight relationship might identify as bisexual or pansexual, and someone who "looks cisgender" could be transgender (hence the scare quotes). However, a person's behaviour or language can be a great indicator of how involved in and accepting of the LGBTQIA+ community they are. Queer people who attend queer clubs would be able to tell the difference between usual clientele (predominantly queer people and allies) and new clientele who are ignorant of queer norms within these spaces.
In theory, there's nothing wrong with more cisgender heterosexual folks at gay bars. It means more money for an LGBTQIA+ business, (ideally) more familiarisation and less othering of the queer community and it should, in a perfect world, be a neutral subject. It should help people realise that being queer is normal. In practice, it's resulted in queer spaces like gay bars being semi-gentrified by a community they were not created for, a community with more than two main bars in the city to choose from where they can feel a sense of safety and belonging. Queer spaces were made by and for queer people, and were the frontlines of parades against the police and battles for rights for decades before 2019.
As Alexander Cheves writes in an Advocate article called 'Straight Folks, There Are Some Spaces You Don't Belong In':
"Straight people, haven't you ruined enough of our stuff? Haven't you taken enough of our culture and called it yours? You use our cultural terms and watch our TV and degrade us every day and still want red carpet invites to our parties. If we seem defensive of our spaces and threatened by your bachelorette parties, it's because our spaces are aggressively outnumbered by yours. Our bars are disappearing, yet your shitty hetero-centric gastropubs stay open. …You didn't fight for these spaces — we did. You didn't find refuge in drag shows during the height of the AIDS epidemic — we did. You don't escape to the nearest gay bar after years living in the closet so that you may experience community, belonging, and sex for the first time — we do."
These spaces are supposed to be safe, but going by the interviews, they're not always that. The next few quotes are direct excerpts from these interviews.
"I was kissing my wife on the dancefloor and was physically separated by a cis-het man insisting we join him for group sex. After repeated requests he leave us alone and a heated argument, the man was removed from the venue by security staff. I have never felt unsafe or unwelcome in any queer space, despite this encounter."
– Emily, 26
"I've been called a variety of slurs (mostly d*ke, q*eer, and f*gg*t) by cishet women I've unknowingly flirted with in [LGBT bar], been heckled by men who see wlw relationships as a porn show for their consumption, and been treated as a prop for women's 'scandalous' drunken antics ('oh my god can my friend get a snapchat of this?! i can't believe i made out with a giiiirl!')"
– Suzy June, 22
"I've been aggressively misgendered at [LGBT bar] and experienced my first instance of transphobic violence at [LGBT bar] where I was cornered and aggressively interrogated about my gender and presentation."
– Bridge, 24
"It got harder to go to places like [LGBT bar] and [LGBT bar] because the harrassment just escalated massively over time. I got scared to use the toilet there because strangers would grope me to 'figure out if I was a real man'. It was weird, because (early in my transition) I used to come into [LGBT bar] during the day sometimes purely to use the toilet somewhere I knew I wouldn't be harrassed."
– Dylan, 23
"Every time I have been openly romantically involved with another woman in [LGBT bar], we have been 'gawked' at, approached and grossly commented on by (presumably) straight men who see female same-sex relationships as a spectacle that exists solely for their viewing pleasure."
– FS, 18
"During the most recent fringe festival, [LGBT bar] was a pretty awful place to be. It felt pretty much like going to a straight club – disdainful stares and insults if you look like a woman and aren't attractive and young."
– Anonymous, 21
I also asked the respondents why they thought the change had happened in the first place. As Jesse Jones puts it in the Star Observer article 'Dear Straight People: Stay Out of Our Gay Bars': "When cis het people decide they like a gay bar, it stops being much of a gay bar. Straight women start going there so that men won't hassle them, and then the straight men catch on and follow them in to sexually harass lesbians. Hen's nights start being held there, as gaggles of drunk straight women start treating the place as their own personal zoo exhibit: See The Living Homos".
"Cishet women have told me before that they visit queer clubs (particularly [LGBT bar] and [LGBT bar]) to escape the predatory men who flood 'straight' nightclubs, or as a change of pace or new experience. I've also frequently heard people say that they prefer the music played at queer clubs, they find the environment more accepting, or they just 'want to see what gay clubs are like'."
"I stopped going to [LGBT bar] a long while ago because of the increased harrassment and rudeness from cis het people in the spaces. I would assume they are coming more frequently because the space has been renovated, the drinks are well priced and the environment (used to be) very welcoming."
"I think [LGBT bar] is a business first, a queer space second (what else could it be under capitalism?). Naturally, it prioritises profit over how safe and accepting the space is, so it has expanded its "market" to appeal to a wider audience, which includes straight, cisgender people who may have no real interest in the (difficult) realities of being LGBT. However, it still cynically retains queer iconography and performances (such as drag shows), because those things still guarantee that 'niche' queer market."
Another theory is unicorn hunting; when straight couples seek out bisexual women explicitly for the purpose of having a threesome. A few of the respondents corroborated that this happens in Perth's popular queer bars. Approaching strangers in a queer space, assuming that they will be interested in your relationship is disrespectful and ignores people's boundaries. Stick to this easy rule: gay bars are not an appropriate place for you to look for your third.
The queer community's relationship with drugs and alcohol
The queer community has historically struggled with alcohol and drug abuse. Unfortunately, the harm done by this kind of substance abuse to queer communities isn't well-researched. In 2016, an Australian Institute of Health and Welfare study showed that 41.7 per cent of gay or bisexual people recently used any illicit drug, compared with only 14.5 per cent of straight people. According to the same study, gay and bisexual people are more likely to use tobacco, drink alcohol at dangerous levels and use illicit drugs.
Some of the interviewees disagreed that the predominant queer spaces being alcohol-dominant were an issue, instead saying that it helps people come out of their shell, and others saying that they choose not to drink despite the location. These accounts of queer clubs are valid and for some, it is that easy. For others, not so much.
"I started drinking when I started seeking out community and that just escalated until it got completely out of control. When [gay bars and] spaces became unsafe, I didn't stop drinking; I just started doing it in isolation. When queer culture is centred around drinking, it becomes normal to get drunk all the time. It took me far longer than it should have to realise I had a problem because I thought I was just doing what queer people are supposed to do in order to make friends and build community."
Having the predominant (if not the only) queer spaces available simultaneously being places that promote alcohol (and potentially, indirectly, drug) consumption could potentially be making the problem worse.
"Any space influenced by inebriated people will become less safe. You can find in a disproportionate way, queer people do experience more hardships including mental health, financial stability and wellbeing. So alcohol can also affect any person to a limit who is already experiencing health and safety personal circumstances."
– Chris Hall, 21
The relationship between queer people and our few-and-far-between spaces is complicated. They are places of pride and celebration, but they can also be loud and abrasive, overwhelming and stressful. Just like the legendary lesbian comedian Hannah Gadsby (of Nannette) asks: "Where are the quiet gays supposed to go?"
Are these problems opportunities in disguise?
With an understanding that you can't really tell people where to go and what to do, and an understanding that the world around us will always be changing, perhaps a better way to take care of our community is to make more space for ourselves.
This could actually be a golden opportunity for queer spaces that don't serve alcohol, which are safer for minors, queer people who can't access clubs, and queer people who just don't like the clubbing scene. We could be dividing our community between those who enjoy and can handle the clubs and those who need something different.
"Queer teenagers and under-18s need somewhere to be with likeminded people, and to safely ask questions and receive support, and when the only environments available are restricted to over-18s (and predominantly sex-focused, like nightclubs), it can be hard to find a support network or make queer friends."
"I would love any sober space for queer people to congregate regularly. A café would be perfect. Somewhere quiet enough that people can actually have conversations without having to scream over music. Somewhere where I can go where I can spend time around queer people without feeling unsafe."
"Queer cafe's would be amazing. Sometimes I want to be in a safe [space] with friends where we can gush about crushes or discuss queer topics without loud music and alcohol being involved. Even better: a queer bookshop cafe.
– Q, 18
Take this queer cafe in LA, Cuties, whose owner Virginia Bowman says "There's no reason that you have to be at Cuties; you don't. And that's one of the magic things about coffee—it's incredibly accessible".
Can you picture the warm tranquillity of a queer cafe, with flower pots in the window and the golden sunrise blooming through the steam rising from the coffee machine? Maybe it's part-bakery, with fresh pastries every day, the rich smell of warm, soft bread, and vegan options of course. Maybe it's spliced instead with a bookshop, with plush couches and cute recycled coffee tables—a-la the Moon in Northbridge. It might be part gift shop, with every flag under the sun reproduced as pins and patches, and T-shirts with the best gay puns hung on the walls. Maybe it's a discreet clothing shop, where transgender people can buy binders, packers, breast forms, or just where gender-affirming clothes are sold without gendered sections, and a board hangs on the wall for easy size conversions. Maybe we can have all of these things.
The needs of the queer community are as diverse an array as the colours in the rainbow (that should be unsurprising). It's undeniable that queer people need a place to party, to celebrate, to dance together to loud music and to forget themselves on a Saturday night. But we also need places of respite, places to talk to our friends under quiet cafe indie acoustics. We need places to come down and not have to shout to be heard.
There are only two full-time queer-marketed clubs in Perth. Both were approached for an interview, and either declined or did not reply. A shortened version of this article is printed in Grok Magazine's third issue for 2019.
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Why Should I Exhibit?
Exhibitor FAQ's:
Q: Why should I exhibit at the PETE&C Conference?
A: PETE&C is the largest educational technology conference in Pennsylvania. It draws educators and technologists from around the state who want to learn about and purchase products that can benefit their schools. These attendees represent school districts and educational entities that are a huge technology market for hardware, software, web services, furniture, AV products, education programs and more. One of the benefits of being a PETE&C exhibitor is that you are eligible to apply to present pre-conference, concurrent, and special evening educational sessions. Sunday Night Sessions/Hospitality opportunities are also available. Exhibitors receive complimentary conference registrations for their exhibit booth reps.
How Many People Attend PETE&C?
Q: How many people attend PETE&C Conference?
A: In 2019 over 2,300 attendees and speakers were registered and attended the conference with more than 500 exhibit representatives.
What Is The Breakdown Of Attendees By Job Type?
Q: What is the breakdown of attendees by job type?
A: The breakdown by job type is typically: Teachers – 46%; Technologists 28%; Instructional Administrator 13%; Higher Ed 2%, Other 11%
How Many Booths Are Available
Q: How many booths are available?
A: There are a total of 287 exhibit spaces. All exhibit booths are 10' x 10'.
When Can I Sign Up For A Booth?
Q: When can I sign up for a booth?
A: Registration for the next year's conference begins shortly after the previous conference ends. The current year's exhibitors and sponsors get priority on booth selection with the priority points system. Advanced booth sales begin in early April and open up to any interested vendor in May. Booth space sells quickly and sold out by the end of October last year.
What Sizes Are The Booths?
Q: What sizes of booths are available?
A: All booths sizes are 10' x 10' in Pittsburgh.
What is Included In the Booth Price?
Q: What is included in the booth price?
A: Each booth will include a 6' skirted table, 2 chairs, a wastebasket, green and white pipe and drape and a booth sign with your company name and booth number. Registration for four (4) company representatives is included with your booth price along with continental breakfast and lunch served inside the exhibit hall for attendees and exhibitors.
**Electric, internet, carpet and additional furnishings and lead retrieval can be ordered separately at an additional cost. Please see "Exhibit Kit" for more information.
Exhibitor Cancellations/Non-Payments
CANCELLATIONS - A full refund will be made by PETE & C for cancellations of exhibit booth contracts received in the PETE&C office on or before August 31. A $300 service fee per booth will be charged for cancellations received after August 31. No refunds will be made for booths canceled after November 1. (Note: A quad booth is classified as four (4) booth locations. A $300 service fee will apply four (4) times to any canceled quad booth location.)
PAYMENT FOR SPACE - The cost of one exhibit space is due in full along with the submission of this contract. Payment and contract must be received for booth assignment to be processed. Any payment in full not made by July 31 will incur a fee making it the standard non-early bird fee. Any booth(s) that still have a balance due after December 31 will be released without refund and booths will be resold.
Convention Center Guidelines
DAVID L. LAWRENCE CONVENTION CENTER
Please keep in mind that the David L. Lawrence Convention Center (DLLCC) is a union facility. Exhibitors may do the following tasks without hiring a union carpenter:
• Erect/dismantle pop-up booths using hand tools only (no power tools)
• Install custom fit, logo skirting for their tables
• Plug/unplug and turn on/off small (120v) equipment and products
• Wipe down and clean products and equipment
• Hand carry booth materials in one trip without the use of material handling equipment. This does not include briefcases or luggage. One trip only, please
DLLCC LIMITATIONS: The following items are prohibited in the DLLCC; helium balloons, adhesive stickers and decals. All food products must be purchased through Levy Restaurants, exclusive caterer for the DLLCC. Booth attendants, bartenders, kitchen runners and ice services are required to be contracted through Levy Restaurants. Exhibitors are permitted to distribute "sampling" size food items. Allowed portions are four (4) ounce beverages and two (2) ounce food products.
Is The Exhibit Hall Carpeted?
Q: Is the exhibit hall carpeted?
A: No, the exhibit hall at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center is not carpeted. PETE&C will carpet the front entryway inside the exhibit hall and the exhibit aisles only. You can order carpet to be placed inside your exhibit booth for an additional fee. Please see the Exhibit Kit (to be posted in October) for more details.
How Many Booth Representatives Per Booth?
Q: How many booth representatives am I allowed to have?
A: Each exhibiting company gets 4 complimentary conference registrations with each booth and 14 with each Quad booth. Platinum and Gold sponsorships receive one or two free registration(s) as well. These registrations allow reps to attend all conference activities, but no meals requiring tickets are included. Additional reps can be registered for a fee.
How Do I Register My Exhibit Booth Representatives?
Q: How do I register my exhibit booth representatives?
A: Registration opens on October 1. Exhibitors will need to use their username and password as supplied in the booth confirmation email to log in to the Exhibitor Service Center and click "Booth Representative Registration." Follow all the steps through each page until you reach the last page with a green button that states "Print Confirmation." If you have not gone that far you have not registered your representatives and the information will not be saved.
What About Meals?
Continental breakfast and lunch will be served inside the Exhibit Hall for attendees and exhibitors. Meal tickets for Tuesday Night's Event at the Heinz History Center must be purchased in advance. This reception event option can be purchased when registering your representatives. Meal tickets will not be available onsite.
Installing & Dismantling
Exhibit Set-Up (SUBJECT TO CHANGE):
Sunday, February 23 - 12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.**
Monday, February 24,- 7:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
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IAU approves 86 more star names
Posted by Deborah Byrd in Human World | Space | December 15, 2017
"These professional astronomers are claiming the exclusive right to give 'approved' names to the stars. But the stars – and the sky – belong to all of us."
Star map painting by Senior Wardaman Elder Bill Yidumduma Harney, featuring the Milky Way, the moon, and ancestor spirits. The IAU included this image with its announcement of new star names.
There's been a debate among professional astronomers about who should have the right and/or obligation to name stars and other space objects. The visible stars have had many names, because they were named over time by many different people and in many cultures. But, around the 1930s, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) took it upon itself to divide the sky – "officially" – into 88 constellations, and since then the IAU has been naming all sorts of space objects. In recent years, bowing to pressure from outside groups that allow individuals and non-astronomers to name stars (for a price), the IAU ran a global competition to let non-professional astronomers participate in naming stars. It announced 227 star names a year ago, which were chosen in that semi-public process. This week (December 11, 2017), the IAU announced it had formally approved names for 86 more stars, without asking for public input.
These new names have now been added to the IAU's stellar name catalog, and thus the IAU's catalog now contains "approved" names for 313 stars. Many of the names are what we amateur astronomers have been calling these stars all along. Most of the 313 are, after all, among the brightest stars in our skies. But some are entirely new names.
Click here to see the IAU's list of 313 "approved" star names
The new star names are for somewhat fainter stars than those announced last year. The brightest one in this new batch is a 2nd-magnitude star known as Delta Velorum, which has been given the name Alsephina, stemming from the Arabic name al-safinah meaning the ship. Delta Velorum is part of the constellation Vela the Sails, which used to be one large constellation called Argo Navis, the ship of the Argonauts. The IAU got rid of Argo Navis when it "officially" named constellations in the 1930s, dividing the great celestial ship into several smaller constellations. But I digress … easy to do when speaking of names for stars and constellations.
The IAU explained in its recent statement:
Traditionally, most star names used by astronomers have come from Arabic, Greek, or Latin origins. [The 86 new names are] drawn from those used by other cultures, namely Australian Aboriginal, Chinese, Coptic, Hindu, Mayan, Polynesian, and South African.
… Modern star catalogs contain millions or even billions of objects, most of which are identified by designations — strings of letters and numbers indicating their position or ordering. The IAU reviews the names of the brightest and most interesting stars rather than assigning designations using merely strings of letters and numbers. Some bright stars have accumulated dozens of names and spelling variations over the years.
This time, the naming has been done exclusively by the IAU Working Group on Star Names. Eric Mamajek, chair and organiser of this sub-committee within the IAU, said the astronomers had been:
… researching traditional star names from cultures around the world and adopting unique names and spellings to avoid confusion in astronomical catalogues and star atlases. These names help ensure that intangible astronomical heritage from skywatchers around the world, and across the centuries, are preserved for use in an era of exoplanetary systems.
Unless you know the stars well, perhaps the only star name you'll recognize on the IAU's most recent list of named stars is Barnard's Star. It's not a bright star but is one of the nearest stars to our sun. It was discovered by astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard in 1916 and for decades was suspected of having a planet. The IAU said that the name Barnard's Star – which has been in common use for a century – can stay.
I enjoyed reading about the IAU's new Chinese star names for 11 stars. Three of those names came from the Chinese idea of lunar mansions, vertical strips of sky that act as markers for following the nightly progress of the moon, providing a basis for a lunar calendar. There's a logic and history to that that's very appealing, to me.
And certainly there must be equally good reasons for the IAU's new star names from other cultures, as well. It's a thoughtful and careful list.
Read more from the IAU about the new star names
Astronomer Alan Stern. The New Horizons mission to Pluto was his brainchild, and he has also founded a private company in an attempt to give the public more access to naming and defining things in space. The company is called UWingU and donates its proceeds to science research and education. Image via @AlanStern.
Still, it rankles me and some others in astronomy that the professional astronomers of the IAU are claiming the exclusive right to give 'approved' names to the stars. The stars – and the sky – belong to all of us. Other organizations have popped up that will also name these features for you, for a price.
EarthSky doesn't take an "official" view on any of this, but, personally, I don't like fences. I'm always wishing my neighbors would agree to remove the fences in our backyards, for example (although I know they never will), so it'd be like one big yard. That's just my mindset, and I know many of you will disagree; I'm just a person who likes wide open spaces. So you won't be surprised to know I feel a touch of sadness about these new "approved" names. It's like these stars now have little fences, of sorts, around them.
As for the companies that offer to name stars for a price … it's a fact that many people enjoy having stars or exoplanets or planetary features named for themselves. Where's the harm? If it makes your mom, or your sweetheart, or anyone you love feel good, I say … do it!
Bottom line: Astronomers often know multiple names for stars, or call them by their Greek letter names. Now, the International Astronomical Union has chosen "approved" star names for 86 more stars.


Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Chef2, Jan 15, 2019.
I was there that night!
This hit my playlist randomly while I was running this morning. Not uplifting lyrics, but it is so damned catchy. It put a little pep into my step.
Huggy and HC like this.
Great, great, great song and he also did a terrific version of Buddy Holly's "Crying, Waiting and Hoping" in La Bamba. Coulda been one of the greats.
Chef2 and CD Boogie like this.
Bob Dylan's "Beyond the Horizon"
Great call on Spoon. They've got a lot of songs that have that effect.


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Photo Gallery | UC Santa Cruz deserted in wake…
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Photo Gallery | UC Santa Cruz deserted in wake of COVID-19
A field on the west side of the UC Santa Cruz campus that would normally be filled with students on their lunch break on a balmy day before heading back to class is empty and closed in the wake of COVID-19. (Shmuel Thaler -- Santa Cruz Sentinel)
A woman makes her way through the quad Monday at UCSC's Rachel Carson College after retrieving packages from the mailroom. (Shmuel Thaler -- Santa Cruz Sentinel)
A water fountain is covered on the UC Santa Cruz campus as one of numerous steps that have been taken to try to minimize the spread of the coronavirus. (Shmuel Thaler -- Santa Cruz Sentinel)
A bicyclist around midday Monday has a stretch of McLaughlin Drive atop Science Hill at UC Santa Cruz to himself. Normally a bustling stretch of campus filled with pedestrians, vehicles and cyclists during the noon hour, the COVID-19 shelter-in-place directive has left the campus nearly empty. (Shmuel Thaler -- Santa Cruz Sentinel)
Typically filled to capacity during school days, the Core West Parking Structure at UC Santa Cruz is empty on Monday. (Shmuel Thaler -- Santa Cruz Sentinel)
By Shmuel Thaler | sthaler@santacruzsentinel.com | Santa Cruz Sentinel
A bicyclist around midday Monday has a stretch of McLaughlin Drive atop Science Hill at UC Santa Cruz to himself. Normally a bustling stretch of campus filled with pedestrians, vehicles and cyclists during the noon hour, the COVID-19 shelter-in-place directive has left the campus nearly empty. (Shmuel Thaler — Santa Cruz Sentinel)
Shmuel Thaler | Photographer
2016 Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year Shmuel Thaler has been a staff photographer at the Santa Cruz Sentinel since 1987. His photographs have been published in every leading newspaper in the United States as well as in Time and Newsweek, and viewed on the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News and he has been honored three times with awards in the prestigious National Press Photographers Association Best of Photojournalism contest. Shmuel has also co-authored 5 children's books and his photographs illustrate numerous books including his collaboration with George Levenson on 'Bread Comes to Life' and the classic 'Pumpkin Circle', which has more than 100,000 copies in print and is held by every major library system in the country.
sthaler@santacruzsentinel.com


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The Odeon Theater (Continued): Commemorative Virtual Heritage with SketchUp
Select images above to view the model with an audience & side-by-side comparisons to historical photos.
"The past did not happen in 2D and that it cannot be effectively studied or taught as a series of disconnected static images that, for the most part, represent incomplete remains." – Donald H. Sanders, "Why Do Virtual Heritage?"
Did you know that this year marks the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the first queer political protest in the world? Surprisingly, most people do not. What would you say if I offered you the chance to relive that historic moment – when, in 1867, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs took to the stage of the Grand Hall of the Odeon Theater in Munich to protest anti-sodomy laws in front of the five-hundred-member Association of German Jurists? He did so on the basis of a new, communal, queer political identity of which he alone had conceived. He was eventually shouted down, but his efforts inspired generations of queer activists – a lineage that can be traced to the modern LGBT rights movement.
As I previously proposed, virtual heritage makes available that which no longer exists or that which is not easily accessible for all. Three-dimensional modeling recreates spaces in which history was lived, enacted, and experienced. Exploring such recreations is a means of engaging our senses. Visualizing history helps us attach imperfection, emotion and memory to events, contrary to claiming "objectivities" and reciting "facts." This particular representation of the Odeon can help us, as public historians, to humanize and celebrate Ulrichs' activism, and to offer an alternative perspective to the narratives absent in history textbooks and our popular historical imagination.
Contrary to the idea that "virtual environments cause disembodiment, disorientation, discomfort, and social alienation" (Champion, 109), digital surrogates like the one I have created of the Odeon help us to both contextualize the spaces in which historic events took place and attempt to situate ourselves in the roles of the historical actors we study. Through a process of emulation, or approximation of lived experience, we can empathize with our historical subjects – thus improving our historiographies.
Rather than idolizing and, thus, objectifying the past – its significance and historical figures – how may we re-enact, bear witness to, and interpret it as human observers-cum-subjects? This project draws on disjointed fragments of information – synthesizing them into something that is not simply consumable (such as a text or tome), but something that is dynamic and interactive. To be clear, this project is not digital for the sake of being digital; "being impressed by technology is not the same as being inspired by it" (Champion, 109). Rather, this model reveals a version of the Grand Hall that no longer exists (having been bombed and reconstructed a level lower as a courtyard). Indeed, we may conceive of three-dimensional modeling (and other kinds of virtual heritage) as a form of preservation. We are creating large-scale digital records of our past. This project does not reveal historical information so much as it elucidates it. I started out with different pieces of a puzzle; SketchUp allowed me to put them together.
Still, we must be wary of accessibility issues that extend beyond breadth of circulation; the digital divide (issues of class and age that make technology a privilege, not the everyperson's tool), disability and learning style (future expansion of this project that keeps it from remaining exclusively visual), as well as questions of copyright, ownership, privatization and commercialization (of space, history and memory). Problems might arise from using a tool like SketchUp to draw from photographs, then upload the completed product to the 3D Warehouse – where anyone might access and even download it. Is that a wonderful, open source, informational free-for-all or a new frontier for plagiarism?
Double-click to activate the interactive model; click and drag to rotate;
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NCAA MEN'S 1ST & 2ND ROUNDS REGIONALS: LITTLE ROCK
Lance Hurdle
Jack McClinton
THE MODERATOR: Good afternoon. Coach, we will start off with you.
COACH HAITH: Thank you. Obviously a great win for us. I thought we were little stagnant the first half offensively. Defensively we were really good. Second half we got going. I thought we were more patient with our offense and we got some buckets in transition. I thought that was a key for us. A big part of that, too, was our ability to get some defensive stops, which I thought we were able to do consistently.
THE MODERATOR: Our players, Lance Hurdle, Jack McClinton. Questions, please.
Q. Jack, can you kind of talk about how you got yourself going? Looks like were you trying to go to the basket a little bit more. Did that help you out a lot?
JACK McCLINTON: Throughout the whole game, they were playing for me my shots. I was being covered. The second half I was trying to be more aggressive, trying to drive the ball. And once I was able to get a couple drives, the defense was kind on their heels which opened up me for my shot.
Q. Jack, want to talk about specifically your ten-point personal run there at the start of the second half. They were up most of the first half and the second half. You scored ten straight. Can you talk about what was going on with you at that point?
JACK McCLINTON: I mean, my teammates were setting good screens. I was making shots. I mean, I don't know. We just got on a run, and my teammates kept going to me, and I was able to make shots.
Q. What made you decide to start driving to the basket more late in the first half? That really seemed to be what turned the momentum in your favor. Just the way they were defending you?
JACK McCLINTON: Definitely at halftime I was thinking about things I could do to make my team better. They're playing me for my shot. Let me try to do something different, come off screens. Try to drive the ball. It was working for me at first, like I said, and once I started driving, I was able to get my shot off.
Q. Frank, Coach Frank, what type of adjustments did you make at halftime? You were down by five at half, and then it seemed to be a totally different ballgame in the second half. Why do you think that was?
COACH HAITH: Drive the ball. We just told them to drive the ball. We want to dominant the paint area. Whether we drove the ball, got the ball inside to our bigs, we wanted to -- that was the game plan going into the game. We didn't execute that in the first half. We knew they were going to push out on us. We wanted to get the ball in the paint. We just kept emphasizing to our guys, "Continue to drive the basketball."
Q. Lance, when you see one of your teammates like Jack have a night like tonight, how much fun is that for you guys to watch?
LANCE HURDLE: It's a lot of fun to see him do that and big weight off our shoulders. When he's hitting, he's hitting, he's hot. I told you before when he's hot, we're really good. So it was good to see him have one of them games.
THE MODERATOR: Let me pass this along very quickly your questions right now for the players. We will dismiss them when we're through with them and continue with the coach.
Q. Jack, you were one of the guys that were sick this week, and did that have any affect on you? How sick were you? Talk a little bit about that.
JACK McCLINTON: I had a fever a couple days before the game, but, I mean, our trainers got us on the meds. Felt pretty good for the game today. I didn't feel that bad.
Q. Jack, just talk about what it feels like, how much fun it is when you're in that kind of flow and every shot seems like it's going in for you.
JACK McCLINTON: It feels great. My teammates got me open. I trusted my teammates, and we did it together. It wasn't just me. It was a team effort, and we came home with the victory.
Q. Jack, you didn't score your first basket until about three minutes or so left in the first half. Did you get flustered out there? Or do you just stay patient, knowing that the game is going to come to you?
JACK McCLINTON: Coach Haith tells me defense is going to be on their best the first couple minutes of the game. Let the game come to me and relax. That's what I tried to do. As the game progressed, things started opening up and I was able to take advantage.
Q. Lance, just for the -- your defensive side against the Gaels, did you guys just figure down the stretch to let them shoot-out side jumpers? Didn't seem like they were making anything, at times they were just jacking up shots.
LANCE HURDLE: No. They're a really good three-point team. We tried to keep them from getting to the basket and contest when they shoot.
THE MODERATOR: Other questions for the players?
Q. This may seem like an obvious question, Jake, is this the best game of your career especially concerning the situation and circumstances?
JACK McCLINTON: I don't know. That's a good question. What do you think? (Laughter).
Q. Best we've ever seen.
JACK McCLINTON: Maybe it is. I'll have to watch films. Sorry.
Q. Jack, you talked about earlier about the ball bothering you at the ACC Tournament. How did it kind of feel out there today?
JACK McCLINTON: It was great, great feeling.
Q. Lance, can you just talk about as a team how you felt you played and what you're looking to do going forward?
LANCE HURDLE: I think we played well in the second half. The first half, you know, we just had a lot of jitters. I don't think we played too bad. We had a lot of jitters. Second half was Miami basketball. We're really excited about how we played. It's just a blessing to be here in the tournament, period, so we're just excited.
THE MODERATOR: Anyone else? Guys, we appreciate it very much. Thank you.
Questions for Coach Haith.
Q. Coach Haith, we're the hometown newspaper of Patrick Mills, the point guard for Saint Mary's. Not to take the spotlight off the magnificent effort of your team out there, but I was one wondering, just to help me do my job, if could you comment a little bit on Patrick's game.
COACH HAITH: I think he's terrific. He's as good a point guard we played against all year. I thought he was -- he had a great game defensively, also. He did a great job. He guarded Jack most of the first half. He has great pace to his game. He's a tough matchup because he not only can shoot the three ball, but he's great at getting ball to the hole. I mean, for only a freshman, he's going to have a bright, bright future.
Q. Frank, can you talk about the team's struggles at the start of the game. You started off one for ten. How did you guys get out of that?
COACH HAITH: I think the guys mentioned a little bit in terms of just the jitters. This team, you know, was excited about playing. They wanted to play well. I thought we were playing really, really hard, and sometimes when you play really, really hard, you're trying to hard. And our execution wasn't that bad, we couldn't make shots. We were missing some shots in the paint area and took some jump shots, and we just missed them.
I didn't want our guys to get fretted by that. Talked to them about getting lost in the game, getting lost on the defensive end and not put so much pressure on the offensive end, because I thought it was going to happen.
Q. Frank, are you getting used to Jack having these huge second halves? It seems like it happens over and over again.
COACH HAITH: Hey, I love it. Let's keep it going. He was outstanding today. Jack was terrific, and, you know, he obviously got into a rhythm, and I think he scored like ten straight points, maybe more than that. You know, when he gets into those rhythms, he's a tough guard. And the key thing with Jack is just being patient, you know, and as long as he's patient, just let the game come to him. And I thought that's what he did in the second half.
Q. Jack kind of passed off on whether that's the highlight game for him. From what you've seen, where does that fit?
COACH HAITH: Some of you guys were in here the other day and talked about his dad's highlight tape he sent me. It's the best game I've seen him play. He's had games where he's gone on a roll, but the magnitude of this game, the stage, you can't -- I mean the lights are not any brighter than this and thus far in his career. Maybe they'll get brighter if we keep winning, the performance today was outstanding. I can't imagine him having a better performance than today.
Q. What are your emotions going to be like watching this next game? I'm sure you'd like to play 15 seed. One of your good friends out there as well.
COACH HAITH: I always pull for Texas. He's my best friend. I love the guy. I really don't want to play against him, but, you know, if we don't win, I want to pull for Texas because of what he's meant to me.
Q. Frank, just wanted to ask, Jack said he was sick. Were you at all concerned about his condition, where he was at physically?
COACH HAITH: Little bit I was because we had some guys that were really under the weather. Jimmy Graham, he seems to be like this, he hasn't practiced since last Friday. We had the ACC Tournament game, we lost, and he hasn't done anything until yesterday. So I was worried about his conditioning, his wind.
Jack didn't practice until yesterday, and he was a still a little sluggish yesterday. And so I was a little bit concerned. James Dews is another one. Those guys had fevers.
You know, they're on antibiotics. It was amazing that they're able, particularly Jack had the kind of performance that he had.
Q. Frank, maybe not Jack specifically but in general, how easy or difficult is it to preach patience to a scorer and not letting that scorer get frustrated by not getting buckets as often as he would like?
COACH HAITH: Well, you know, Jack is older, so maturity -- you're hoping as much as you can continue to -- Jack has seen that play out for him before. If he hasn't, you know -- he's seen the flow of the game just happen, and then all of a sudden it happens for him in terms of he gets loose and gets open.
So I think if it hadn't happened before, I could see him being, you know, impatient, but he's been able to understand if you get lost into the game, you'll have an opportunity as the game progresses on.
Q. Frank, obviously a big win for you personally for this NCAA Tournament win. What does that mean for the program from where you guys were last year to take this stuff out, your first win here?
COACH HAITH: Obviously this team has been last season, we had a tough season in terms of injuries, in terms of losses, in terms of suspense. It's very gratifying, no question for this program. I think it helps us as we move forward in terms of the building process. I talk about this being the ladder, and we continue to build, and there's no question. I think there's more this program can do and we're still building. We're not where we want to be. We're still growing as a program and this helps. There's no question.
THE MODERATOR: Coach, congratulations to you. Look forward to seeing you again on Sunday.


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Mystic Chants & Bhajans Recorded During Kali Worship. This rare collection of songs and chants recorded live at Kali Mandir's annual Kali pujas in Laguna Beach captures the mood of this ancient sacred ritual and reflects the soulful longing for the Divine Mother by artists from a variety of musical and spiritual disciplines. Featuring Haradhan Chakraborti, Bhagavan Das, Premanand Trikannad, Krishna Gopinathan, Swami Bhajanananda Saraswati, Sudha Srikumar, the David Stringer Kirtan Ensemble, Sumanta Chakrabarti, and Nandu Menon. Total playing time: 70.15 min. Includes an insert with lyrics & translations, artist bio's and pictures. Kali Mandir.


If you store any personal information on a computer, smartphone or web service, your data is at risk from two major computer security exploits: Meltdown and Spectre. What makes Meltdown and Spectre especially threatening is that they affect your computer at the hardware level – specifically the processors inside your device. These flaws exist not because of a bug in computer software designs, but as a result of a feature in computer hardware that's been around since 1995.
Processors are the chips inside of computers that allow them to perform billions of calculations per second and are generally referred to as a computer's brain. Consumers have developed the expectation of computers performing at a faster rate each year. To satisfy this demand, chip developers added a function to processors called speculative execution.
Speculative execution allows the computer to guess what the user might do next and perform necessary calculations for the possible outcomes, staying one step ahead of them. What happens to the predetermined calculations that may not be applicable to your current task at hand? The unused data gets trashed. The problem with speculative execution is that the discarded data is not protected. Anyone who gains access to your trash will then have a door into your daily tasks.
Meltdown and Spectre exploit this feature by using malicious coding to trick your computer into speculatively loading information that it wouldn't normally have access to. You or your anti-virus may not be aware of someone going through your data, since Meltdown and Spectre are exploiting a normal function of your computer's processor.
Meltdown and Spectre may differ in technicalities, but the results both lead to compromised data. Patches for this exploit are available, but they come at a cost as they may affect the overall performance of your device in terms of speed. The patches can protect against some Meltdown and Spectre attacks, but it requires new hardware to be designed and implemented to completely fix the problem. This is enough reason for concern, because computers may still be vulnerable for decades while technology is being upgraded to suit current needs.
It's clear that there is no absolute solution in place for this problem. Do not let this deter you from installing patches onto your device though as staying on top of current trends and threats while losing some performance may well be in the best interests of your overall online security.


Linda Ward Grubbs, 56, of Chesterfield, VA, departed this world for heaven on January 1, 2019. She is preceded in death by her father, Wendell Ward, and mother, Lenora Jacqueline Creasy Ward. Left to cherish her memory are her husband of 25 years, Lonnie Grubbs, daughter, Dana Underwood and husband Joshua, and grandson, Oakery Underwood. She will be fondly remembered by her family and friends. Linda was known for her southern charm, warm and friendly personality, and the ability to make anyone smile.
The family will receive friends for a memorial service at Woody Funeral Home, 1020 Huguenot Road Midlothian, VA on Saturday, January 12, 2019 at 4 p.m. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests that memorial contributions be made to the ASPCA at https://secure.aspca.org/donate/memorial as Linda had a passion for animals.
She is preceded in death by her father, Wendell Ward, and mother, Lenora Jacqueline Creasy Ward. Left to cherish her memory are her husband of 25 years, Lonnie Grubbs, daughter, Dana Underwood and husband Joshua, and grandson, Oakery Underwood.
Dana and family, I am so sorry for your loss. I worked with your mom at UPS Freight, she was a joy to be around, she would always make you laugh and loved her family dearly. When she left we stayed in touch, I will miss her so much. My heart breaks for you and your family. May you find comfort in knowing she is at peace and always with you in spirit.