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LOST IN A LANDSCAPE
Lost in a Landscape: Wayland Wood
There is a darkness in woodland, hiding in the shade of the green canopy, something that retracts in the sunlight in the corner of your vision, beyond the growing and shrinking of the shadows with each revolution of the earth on its tipping axis. Beyond the sterility...
Lost in a Landscape: Stratton Strawless
There is this thing were you travel through a landscape, passing things, that have become lost, part of the blur of the countryside, the unnoticed facets of a landscape which sit just back, away from our arterial routes cut as they are by human traffic. It' is also...
Lost in a Landscape: Wolterton
A bit of a beauty, this was nearer the start of our circuit quite obviously positioned in Wolterton Park next to the main drive; It's another life remnant a piece of the past which has gained purchase in the now by becoming a folly for the gentry. It is very pretty...
Lost in a landscape: Barton Turf
It rained, my god how it rained. A bank holiday hex hanging over Easter. And typically the patterns of various occupations in one household left me on my own staring at a refracted sodden world as the cars trundling along Aylsham Road under a lead grey sky. I went...
Lost in a Landscape: Warham Camp
Warham camp is the best known and best preserved iron age hill forts in Norfolk. Hills aren't that popular in Norfolk, we like our sky to go right up to the edges of everything whenever possible, but that doesn't mean they don't exist, if you think they don't you must...
Lost in a Landscape – Blickling Arborglyphs
Dogs lead sometimes, our is beige, stinks, is opinionated and prefers woods to beaches, muck and leaf mould to sand and pebbles. There's more to sniff and mark an roll in in woods and fox shit beats dead gull hands down in the scent masking stakes for some...
Lost in a Landscape: Kett's Lane, Swannington
I've written about Swannington before. It's a lovely slice of countryside, unspoilt for an area which was for a period in the mid twentieth century a fairly industrialised airfield. It sits between the main axial roads radiating outward from Norwich spidering off...
Lost in a landscape: Little Snoring
When you drive you travel along the edges of things, where modern life has built a wall along the edge of the land, the tall banks, berms and tree lines of the A roads and motorways where the litter and pieces of spent tyre lie in the dust. The piles of scrapings...
Lost in a Landscape: Oxnead
A pasture for the oxen, that's what it means so say various sources. Others indicate that the Ox- may come from the word Ouse (Udso), which is an older form from our ginger forefathers possibly of Celt or proto-Celtic origin probably meaning River. It maybe a rare...
Lost in a Landscape: Bawsey – the Church on the hill
It seemed rude not to, I've been driving past Bawsey for far too long, so on a trip to Derbyshire to drink and take in a band (Phantogram) with my Nephew Rich, I made an attempt to stop. In fact I had two attempts at it, Sundays' mission was stopped by the heavens...
Lost in a landscape: Ditchingham – an eye for an eye
Ditchingham sits just North of the Norfolk Suffolk Border. It is to all intents and purposes a suburb of Bungay albeit in a different county and on the other side of a main road. The town and its satellite village sit on the edge of the gentle yawning line that forms...
Lost in a Landscape: Scottow
Memory has a strange tonal range, there are sparks of colour in between the washes of grey and flat spots of black or white. I have a very distinct memory of first learning to ride a bike. Oddly for some reason that escapes me it wasn't at the hands of a parent...
Lost in a Landscape: Trunch
There's a lot in a name, Trunch has one that doesn't fit in in Norfolk, or in fact in England. Locally it sits uneasily with the profusion of ~hams and ~tons, and ~bys and ~thorps. East Anglia's toponymy is that of the invaded, repeatedly settled. People who move into...
Lost in a Landscape: Rich pickings – Swafield
'Fruit picking' and 'Pick your own', still seen on cardboard hand painted signs still wedged in hedges and gateways, were and are a summer long routine in Norfolk. The memory flickers up from somewhere as I drive, I'm here and not, between sunlight and...
Lost in a landscape: Little Witchingham
There's a sea of barley, the horizon a shadowed thin night cloud line of trees. In the late afternoon heat this far from the coast there's no wind, no air sucked in by the heated land to move the thorned tops. Everything is calm. The summer hasn't advanced enough to...
Lost in a Landscape – Lyng Easthaugh
The lands to the west of Norwich have only a passing familiarity for me. I grew up in north-east Norfolk where I recognise the landscape facets and how they fit together pretty well, the marl pits and churches and the little winding roads that dip in and to of the...
Lost in a landscape: Edingthorpe – Rising toward the surface
Lost in a landscape: Edingthorpe - Rising toward the surface The cloud has almost boiled back, the sun chasing a lowering and disintegrating weak ridge of low pressure, there's a space for early summer between it and the next low dragging in from the south west....
Vanishing Points is a long-form photographic series with accompanying interpretation consisting of stories relating to the landscapes of the Western Front, memorials and some of the figures that peopled them.
A selection of 36 final images was made from over 120 photographs which formed the core of the 2018 exhibition and collection at St Peter Hungate in Norwich, The exhibition was timed to coincide with the centenary of the Armistice and ran for two weeks.
The response was truly staggering.
The original articles can be found on the links below and images can be purchased from the collection in the shop.
Vanishing Point: Dartmoor – father and son
There's a focus, out there. You'll see it in most cemeteries on the old front. The famous dead, the men, and boys who achieve some infamy by dint of their bravery, age or circumstances. Sometimes it's a footballer who scored big in 1912 before signing away four years,...
Vanishing Point: Bernafay Wood
After Carnoy the cloud started to drop, a shield of it obliterated the sun. Within twenty minutes the light had almost completely failed, the air filled with prickles of moisture. It took a good hour to lift as the edge of a small front slid in from the South West. It...
Vanishing point: Courcelette
I've been fortunate at times out on the front, walking the levelled trenches, across the flattened shell holes and in the regrown woods. You meet people, some you know via the curious world of social media, shared interests in a shared space eventually made flesh out...
Vanishing point: Guillemont, Trones and Jünger's Lane.
It suddenly struck me yesterday, what I'm trying to finish the unfinishable. The Great War may have ended in 1918, but it didn't, and so it goes, new layers of images, understanding and history being laid down with every word typed and shutter click. I'd set various...
Vanishing Point: Carnoy to Montauban
I'm not far from here. Sitting in a hotel room on a laptop, near a roundabout and Le McDonalds, watching a dubbed film which was bad enough in English in the first place. So I thought I'd start doing something apart from lazy hotel drinking. Carnoy is just to the...
Lost boys: Sid Northrop
I recently rediscovered this. It was something I'd put on Flickr. It is the tale of another family member and his last few days and hours in the Great War. We visited the panel he is remembered on at Tyne Cot a couple of years ago. He was my grandmother Jesse Parr's...
Vanishing points: The Bull Ring, Etaples
Etaples was one of the main base camps along the coast of Northern France, being a port, a lot of men, thousands of them would have disembarked here. Many more would have embarked. It was known as "The Bullring", as were most of the base camps, but this one was the...
Vanishing Point: Out of sight
Genealogy is an inconsistent science and growing a family tree quickly becomes an obsessive work of semi-fictional detective work. The urge to push further and further backward heading into our peasant laden past, hankering after the occasional sight of a king or...
Vanishing Point – Langemark
Langemark is I feel one of the most desolate corners of the Western front. As I mentioned in another piece on Vladslo there is something so desperately bleak and sad about German cemeteries. They don't lack in any of the respectfulness of the loss or the death or the...
Vanishing Point: Devil's Wood
Oak is a feature of the English psyche, a fabled national wood if there is such a thing. It proliferates throughout our history from warships and traders building an Empire to the familiar furniture and ancient twisting house frames. The royal Oak subverted to shelter...
Vanishing Point: High Wood
The way to start these things is difficult sometimes so here is a Piece of Mackintosh, not perhaps his best poem, but he can sum up the general situation in the area of High Wood better than I can. He knows what it was like because he was there in 1915 and wounded...
Vanishing Point: Fricourt New
The best and the worst of it all are hidden over a brow. You won't find the chattering crowds of the nexus points where death draws itself to a peak, this is not Thiepval or the Menin Gate. Nobody talks, no one sniggers, there is no rustle of frite wrapper when a hush...
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Through glass: Norwich 1960s – part 2, Pubs.
There are a fair selection of pubs in Norwich in this batch, some still exist, some don't, all are interesting in one way or another. These are in no particular order and are pretty much straight out of the box. Norwich 1960s Part 2 The Plough Inn, Farmer's Avenue....
Through Glass: Norwich 1900
A few years ago I was fortunate enough to have a box of glass slides come into my possession, here are a few of them, one day I'll get the whole lot scanned in and shared. But for now here are a selection of Norwich through the glass from about 1890 to 1920. I suspect...
Through Glass: Lowestoft early 1960s
I recently went to visit Phil to take some stuff back. I'm terrible for not getting round to things and I'd had a pile of glass sitting on my desk at work for about three months, it's heavy, he's shut when I'm open and open when I'm shut and I just never got round to...
Through glass: 1960s norwich – part 4, streets
Difficult to subdivide these really, so the obvious one was to produce a post of 1960s Norwich street scenes or buildings which were shot. Some things are instantly recognisable, others less so. some things just haven't changed much beyond a coat of paint, others are...
Through Glass: Norwich Skyline 1890s
I love a bit of glass, particularly when it shows the city spread out like this. Believed to have been taken in 1890 this is a magic lantern slide. It appear to have been taken from St James Hill. You'd probably struggle to replicate the shot now due to the amount of...
Through glass: North Norfolk holiday 1960s
Another small collection of found slides. These ones came via Martin Snelling (@LeftofNever on twitter), ex-Norwich lad, who runs View From This Side; a project which collects found transparencies and slides. I swapped them for a few slides of Albania, because... I...
Through glass: Norwich 1963 – The Phoenix slides part 1.
This is the first of a series of posts. These will be based around a collection of found photographs which were pointed out to me by a friend in possession of someone else I know who didn't really know what to do with them. These were picked up at a jumble sale; a...
Through glass: Great Yarmouth
I'm always on the lookout for old photographs, negatives, slides and plates. In particular, the old, forgotten and unseen. The vague visual detective work involved in trying to work out when the shutter fell as much as where, it is that act of identifying with a fixed...
Through Glass – Philip's Glass: Trams
A few sample images from a batch of glass of Trams in Norwich I've got access to via a friend Phil. There are only three of these and they are in a bit of a state, looks like they weren't fixed terribly well and are quite badly smoked so I've had to pull them back a...
Through glass: North Norfolk, Herbert Thomas Cave
A second set of Philip's glass. These are 6 x 6 inch glass plates, mostly in rather nice condition, a few are de-laminating slightly and they're a bit dotty in places but basically all sound. These are believed to be by a photographer called Herbert Thomas Cave. The...
Mystery: Albert and the returning troops 1916
A mystery photo. Last week Bethan Holdridge who works for the Museums service in Norwich invited me to have a look through her Great Grandfather Oliver Isaac Brown's collection of photos. He was a Suffolk man but lived in Great Yarmouth, a sapper in the Royal...
Through glass: Norwich 1960s – part 3, churches.
There aren't many of churches in the Phoenix collection, but what there are are fairly interesting. A selection and also some of the archaeological dig in near the Garth at Blackfriars and the Art College, Norwich. Norwich in the 1960s Part 3 St Helen's Church,...
Through Glass: Dartmoor
Another set of odd negatives and plates I received a while ago via a very old friend Dave Guttridge. Dave is a photographer, musician and DJ by trade and also has an interest in the past, in particular shellac and the art of the gramophone. He found these while...
Through Glass: The lost villages of Stanta
There's been a few reports and exhibitions of work undertaken by photographers who have delved into the lost landscapes of the Stanford Training Area. There are tours, carefully marshalled around the activities that the army undertake in there as they have done since...
Found photos: The lost boys of Cromer
I go through people's leftovers, their old clothes, the maps of lines on their faces, sit in their seats and eat from their plates; strangers' stuff. They are people I can't know nor ever will in the vast majority of cases, nearly all of them are unreachable; dead,...
REPHOTOGRAPHY
Cinema Ghosts: The Royal Aquarium Great Yarmouth.
This is the Hollywood, and it isn't it's also the Aquarium, a familiar site to nearly everyone who has ever been to Great Yarmouth, sitting as it does to the Northen End of the Town just before you head out through North Denes to Caister. They can see it blip in and...
Rephotography: Ghosts of Reims
Re-Photography of Reims. Vincent Zénon Rigaud Auteur and photographer, born in Reims in 1981. I have practiced photography since childhood progressing on to digital photography. My first passion was studying history while at art school photography has became an...
Blitz Ghost: St Bartholomew
One of the few real reminders of the blitz on Norwich that is easy to visit is the church of St Bartholomew, Heigham, Norwich, it's quite easy to find sitting just of Heigham Street and Waterworks Road. On the night of the 27th of April 1942 when the first of the big...
WW1: Aerial Trench Ghosts Part 1
I did one of these to explain something to someone, then tweeted it and it all went a bit nuts, so it makes sense to put some of them together into posts on here rather than having them scattered to the 00000100 corners of the digital world. Schwaben Redoubt Early...
Blitz in Colour: Curls Store 30th April 1942
Outside Curls store, Rampant Horse Street corner with Brigg Street, 30th April 1942. They're standing in the wreckage caused by the incendiary bombs that fell on Norwich on the second night of the Baedeker Raids on Norwich. So this is the 30th of April 1942. The photo...
Ghosts: Eastern Front
Earlier this year Paul Reed the military historian was on one of his trips, this one to Germany, the East Front, bits of Leipzig and Berlin were taken in. He started to take photos and post them, doing a remarkable job of lining them up with the originals. So, I sat...
Great War ghost: Norwich tank versus taxi 1918
April 1918, Norwich gets a tank for a week, pictured here next to the Guildhall. This was part of the drive to buy more tanks, they did in fact make a huge amount of money to buy lots of tanks, over a million quid was raised nationally. This one was delivered by train...
Great War: Zeppelin raids
A couple of ghost composites to commemorate the Zeppelin Raids on Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn on the 20th of January 1915 for my opening 'ghosting' escapade of 2015. Above is St Peters Villa on St Peter's Plain and below is damage to Drake's Buildings, both in...
Ghosting: Norwich's first computer
The Treasurer's Department takes delivery of its Norwich's first computer at City Hall, in February 1957... and in 2013. I'm curious as to whether Westwood of Beccles is any relation to our Tim... Drop da bomb etc. Original photo courtesy Norfolk Record Office. Love...
Norwich in flames
Norwich in Flames: Here are a selection of George Swain's camera melting exploits. Originally photographed in Black and White. I colourised these, based on looking at modern colour photos of fires and then painting them in, very simply to be honest. They depict the...
Blitz Ghosts: St Giles
Upper St Giles Baedeker Raids again, not entirely sure which night to be honest 27th or 29th, I'm thinking 27th when Barn Road copped a load. What is interesting here though as much as anything is you can see how the new Cleveland Road sliced through the building that...
Blitz Ghosts: Danger UXB
I'm not sure where this is, I can't find any info out, but think it's possibly at Harford dump, which is where most of the defused stuff ended up, or it might be the depot in Ipswich. I'm on my way to getting some names for these chaps. Interesting to note that so far...
Norwich Castle Museum Ghost 1941 > 2012
Parachute troops, bare-headed and wearing 'jump jackets', in Norwich during exercises in Eastern Command, 23 June 1941. (Credit: IWM collection). Original Taken by Lt Puttnam, Official War Office photographer. Image of drizzle and murk, Nick Stone, Official...
Blitz in Colour: The British Gas Light Company, Dereham Road
Post-April 27th 1942, this was the scene at the corner of Heigham Road and Dereham Road in Norwich during some kind of clear up work, probably to do with the gas supply. The whole crossroads here was badly damaged, the pub to the rear of the picture made of sturdy...
Trench Ghosts part 4
Langemark A few trench ghosts I did last week then got distracted and forgot about. One of Langemark and one of the Sugarloaf salient at Fromelles. The Langemark rephoto leaps out straight away. It's also familiar to anyone that's ever visited the German cemetery...
Trench Ghosts part 5 – The Somme – High Wood and Courcelette
A couple of ones that nearly got away, I forgot I'd done the High Wood one until a few minutes ago when someone asked so this makes sense. The Courcelette one is appropriate for today (15th September 1916/2016) High Wood © Nick Stone 2016 IWM/Google, High Wood...
WW1 Aerial photos in colour: Water filled shell holes
I'm not sure where this is as I found it, it could be almost anywhere on the front at various times, a watery landscape where trenches are merely shell holes joined together, It could be Chateau Wood, it could be near Passchendaele or Hooge or somewhere on the front...
Ghosts: Wymondham history part 1
Fairland Street 1900 and now. Part of the touring exhibition – Tradition and Innovation: The Story of Market Towns. From the press release: The exhibition will be touring to museums in Sheringham, Diss, Swaffham and Wymondham from November 2013 to July 2015, before...
Ghosts of D-Day
I rather missed the landing craft with these, I mucked about setting up the post last week in anticipation of the 70th Anniversary and then ran out of time to do it. But here they are in the second wave, lost behind the Tsunami of other Ghosts of D-Day that suddenly...
Lost City Ghosts: Oak Street & St Martins
106 to 114 Oak Street, when George Plunkett pounded the streets in 1936 snapping away at the other end of the time tunnel, these rather lovely Tudor houses were still there, then a period of massive vandalism occurred during which Norwich reshaped itself, partly with...
Blitz Ghosts: Aylsham Road
Aylsham Road, Norwich, April 1942 and nearly now. There are two pictures of the area. Both I believe taken by George Swain. The top Blitz Ghost is the first one I ever did, and the bottom one is the last. A 500kg landed here, it blew the front out of all the houses in...
Blitz in Colour: Rampant Horse Street 30 April 1942
Rampant Horse Street in the aftermath of the second night of the Baedeker raids on Norwich, The Luftwaffe bombed across the centre of Norwich using incendiaries. There were too many individual fires for the wardens to put them all out the fire spread from building to...
City Station – Norwich
A Blitz Ghost of the Portico of City Station, just at the bottom of Barn Road in Norwich being dismantled by one man and a hammer. The Station was bombed on the first night of the raids, Not built on entirely solid ground, it's basically marsh land round there and I...
Lost city ghosts: Pitt Street
Pitt Street, now a scattering of industry and a quite a few nice trees. The entrance to Gildencroft, an alleged old jousting field now opened up to the corner of St Augustines and the churchyard, breathing some green into the traffic. Pitt Street once...
Lost City Ghosts: Botolph Street & The Shuttles pub
This is Botolph Street in 1938 taken by George Plunkett and in 2013 when Botolph Street doesn't really exist, its path altered and it's name changed to New Botolph Street, almost just a bus lane and a way of gyrating the traffic around in an ever confusing manner...
Blitz in Colour: Dereham Road Baptist Church 1942
Opened in 1904. Closed temporarily in 1942 during the Baedeker Raids. Sources point at this being a result of the first raid on the Monday night; the 27th of April; this would fit the pattern of most of the bombing being of the north and north-western sectors of the...
Blitz Ghost: Alexandra Road and Helena Road
Alexandra Road, another Norwich Blitz Ghost. A 250kg bomb took out about 4 properties, quite a precise slice, which is still very evident if you look at the row today the missing block was replaced with a more modern variant of the generic terrace, a pattern you can...
Ghosts: Sheringham
Originally Part of the touring exhibition – Tradition and Innovation: The Story of Market Towns. From the press release: The exhibition will be touring to museums in Sheringham, Diss, Swaffham and Wymondham from November 2013 to July 2015, before making its way to...
Lost City Ghosts: St Andrews Hill
I went for a wander to do some work stuff and the light was wrong for what I was actually supposed to be doing so on the way back up St Andrew's Hill I did these two. Both are George Plunkett photos from 1936, showing the old buildings at the head of the hill where it...
Lost city: St Augustines
I miss this, every time I buy a pork pie or a can of beans in the deep end of Spar I miss it. The cheap hot chocolate, the stinging eyes and the freezing water, those weird "no bombing, no petting..." signs. A post war development, not perhaps the most attractive...
FORGOTTEN OUTPOSTS
Lost in a landscape: Wretham Circles
There's a lightness about Breckland, A dryness and pallor to the soils that make it feel somehow different from the rest of Norfolk. It's in the earth, the thin sand with it's luggage of chalk and flint, the exhausted soldierly lines of Scots pine twisting away as you...
Forgotten outposts: Brandiston type 22
There are hundreds of these scattered across Norfolk, it's not a modern phenomenon either. Defence starts at the gate to your house, there's ramparts and forts, dating from the late Neolithic to fairly recent lumps of Cold War concrete dotted about on awkward corners...
Dead cities: Langham Dome
A sort of anti-axis forces death star type thing. It looks a bit like one of those chocolate bombs or a steamed pudding, but about 18 feet high, made of reinforced concrete and painted black. Nestling on the edge of an abandoned airfield about 4 miles from the coast,...
Dead cities: La Coupole
This is the Ida railway supply tunnel, Bauvorhaben 21 (Building Project 21), Schotterwerk Nordwest (Northwest Gravel Works) at Wizernes, St Omer. Built by Organisation Todt using "compulsory labour" (about 60% French, 40% non combatant German) the tunnel was built for...
Forgotten outposts: The Bure line at Oxnead
You will, as you drive around north and east Norfolk, pass these all over the place. In fact you'll find them all over the county as you will tank blocks and mortar spigots, even the odd trench line still exists all still protecting us from a long dead, now...
Dead cities: RAF Swannington
RAF Swannington, known locally as RAF Haveringland, either way it's a little Gem, I spent the best part of a blisteringly hot afternoon messing around on the edges of an all but invisible Second World War airfield. It's just there, lost in the landscape, the fields...
Dead Cities: Deopham Green
RAF Deopham Green, latterly home to 452nd Bombardment Group (Heavy), becoming USAAF designation Station 142*. The group flew B-17 Flying Fortresses as part of the Eighth Air Force's strategic bombing campaign. This is a remnant of the North Runway and a runaway summer...
Forgotten Outposts: Stella Plage Atlantikwall
A beach in Northern France, Pas De Calais actually, just south of Le Touquet and Etaples. It's a beautiful beach, so I ignored it and took photos of this bunker. I can't find anything much out about it. Except it's a Vf style reinforced personnel bunker, obviously...
Dead cities: RAF Attlebridge
RAF Attlebridge ...the end of the South Eastern runway, Honingham Road, Western Longville. The most accessible publicly visible bit of the airfield left. The first station built in Norfolk for WW2 use. Originally RAF flying Blenheims and Bostons, it passed to USAAF as...
Dead cities: Thorpe Abbotts
In February I was fortunate enough to get invited by Waveney Valley Community Archaeology Group with the permission of Lord Mann on a reconnaissance mission for a project they are doing on studying standing buildings on the site of Thorpe Abbotts airfield; A Second...
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Every Plot Of Every Lesbian Movie, Ever
Two girls fall in love. One will be slightly prettier or more feminine than the other or she'll be cooler in an untouchable way. She will inspire a certain type of awe in the first girl. For the first girl, this love — the first tentative kiss they both gave into right away, followed by a ravenous sexual encounter a few days later — changes everything! Everything is brand new! She's a brand new girl in the world and she likes girls. It's scary but it's also reassuring to know a thing, finally, and to feel like somebody else is in on it. Maybe she expects too much from the second girl. Maybe somebody catches them together. In this story there is no such thing as bisexual. You are one thing or another. There's a boy, then: there's always a boy. He likes the second girl. He offers her a way out of this other, more confusing thing. Maybe he's the first girl's brother or friend. Maybe he's popular but kind. Maybe he's rough and in a band and wants his new girlfriend as far away from that dyke as possible because she looks at her funny. I don't like the way she looks at you, he'll say, his face like a truck of meat. Or maybe he's the son of some friends of her parents, somebody they'd like her to marry, maybe it's that kind of story. Maybe the second girl kisses the boy and it's okay and she gets used to it. She decides to like him or she really does like him. She pushes the first girl away, forcefully or by avoiding her, which means "leaving without saying so." The first girl does or does not confess her feelings. Either way, it goes poorly. The second girl says things like: You know I'm not like that or I can't be what you want me to be. Or I'm not brave like you. I care what people think. Sometimes she'll say I'm sorry. The first girl cries about her for minutes, hours, or years. Maybe the first girl finds another girl, one who isn't ashamed to be with her, maybe somebody with pink hair. Or she goes to the second girl's wedding and stands there crying like a deb while everybody else is dancing. Or the first girl skips town. Or the first girl decides she is a bird and jumps off the roof.
Two girls fall in love. One is younger and one is older. The older one is her teacher, her coach, her friend's mother or a woman she met online, or somebody who hired the younger one to do something related to sex or betrayal. One will ask the other have you done this before? Maybe she has, maybe she hasn't. Sometimes the younger one is much, much younger, and sometimes the older one is married. The older one feels alive for the first time in so many years. She confides in a close female friend. Somebody finds out, sees them, tells somebody. Heads will roll! The husband is furious and says something terrible and cutting towards his wife! The teacher is fired! She doesn't see you as anything but a client! Stop being ridiculous! You are too old for this and she is too young! If it doesn't end well, and it probably won't, everybody involved remains forever changed. Women are like that. They take your clothes off and everything changes.
Two girls fall in love. Not right away, but eventually. When they first meet it's not supposed to be that kind of meeting because the second girl is engaged to her brother, or her friend, or a man she knows very well or not very well at all. Or maybe she's married, or spoken for in some other way, by a man. But these two girls — they are drawn to each other! They cannot resist each other. One of them already knew she was gay or neither of them did. Maybe the first girl is clumsy and the second is rebellious and free-spiritied. Still, nothing like this has ever happened to them before but now there is this and this changes everything. It wasn't Mr. Right I was looking for, it was Mrs. Right. They paw at each other like cats. You make me feel something I cannot feel. They confide in a very close friend. I told you to be nice to her, not fall in love with her! Or they confide in an old person or a co-worker who tells them to follow their heart. The man will be mean about it or else strangely okay with it in a way that reminds you that this is movie. The two girls will leave a trail of broken hearts behind but they'll be happy together. They'll have long shiny hair. They'll laugh just thinking about it — this twist! Falling in love is like tumbling out of a stereo playing world's sweetest song! This life, it's so full of surprises!
Two girls fall in love, but they can't be in love because of the time, the culture, their families, religion. They can't tell their parents, they can't tell the other students. Everything has to be a secret and it's awful. They whisper and have sleepovers and nobody knows what happens at the sleepovers. Maybe they get caught, maybe there are cameras, maybe somebody tells on them, somebody forbids one to see the other. There is a boy or a parent who takes one of them away. She is dying inside and nobody knows why. If there are four parents involved, one will feel okay about it, but one is not enough. Also: girls are not enough. Nothing is enough. This love is everything which means love is a lie and we all die alone.
The first girl is a serial killer or a standard-issue murderer or a succubus or an undiagnosable psychopath or a housekeeper/murderer. Maybe she's possessed by the devil? Perhaps she is a vampire. Perhaps she is bisexual and the film is offensive from start to finish, You know I don't like to wear underwear, don't you? Maybe she manipulates boys and girls, playing with their feelings, and when you watch it you don't care about the boy but you project a lot of your own feelings onto the second girl and feel very badly for her. The second girl is being framed, or lied to, or set up. The first girl is working against the second or she is working with her. Maybe they're in on it together and have always been, or they bring out the worst in each other. Together they'll kill her boyfriend or husband, or they'll steal money from the mafia or they'll kill her mother with a sock full of rocks or they'll kill johns. Or one will kiss the other and it may have just been a dream, but it's hard to say. Nobody will drive a car off a cliff but maybe somebody should.
If the movie is an older movie, say from before 1980 (although it still happens now, too), then the plot will be something like those other plots except that at the end, a woman will die. She'll hang herself, shoot herself, get hit by a car or crushed by a tree. Her house will burn down, she'll be shot in the front or the back. That's what you get!
This woman from history — that model, that queen, that poet, that Yorkshire landowner, that suicidal writer — she was a little bit gay, maybe altogether gay. It's sort of a sidenote, but you should know, that this woman liked women, and sometimes they kissed with tongue. Don't believe everything you read.
What are you talking about? That's not a lesbian movie! Gosh, you read so much lesbianism into everything. You think there's this big conspiracy against you and all your stories aren't being told. Well, too bad, this isn't your story. Can't two women drive off a cliff together? Run the Whistle Stop Cafe? Play baseball while the men are at war? Be a tomboy performing séances in a graveyard? Can't Celie just look up to Shug? Why do you have to sexualize everything?
Two girls fall in love. The second girl introduces the first girl to something new and fantastic, like aerial gymnastics or intense military-style workouts. The second girl teaches the first to ride horses, makes her dance, gives her drugs, moves into the guest house, takes her someplace she's never been before that will still work for the film's small budget. She will laugh, sweating, like look at me! When did I become so silly! Look at me, riding horses and driving backwards on the highway! Who knew girls were so much like drugs or like aerial gymnastics?
These women, all of them, these women at the bar, these women at the wedding, these women at the lake house — they came out a long time ago. This is not that kind of story. This is a story about what happens much later, when you have your gay friends and girls leave each other for other girls. The ending to this movie is happy. The budget is small, the jokes are stale, the story is slow but sweet and well-intentioned. Maybe it was shot in a condo or somebody's backyard. But hey, they tried. They did try, they did do that.
XI.
Sometimes, something else. More and more these days: something else altogether. Something with a budget or a spirit. The first plot, but with a happy ending, where the two girls fall in love and it's okay. We must be out of our damned minds but we are so f-cking cool! Or a whole new story. Like a camp where the children dress in shades of undiluted gender, bright pinks and blues, where colors pop like jokes and the girls steal furtive kisses in the near-darkness, and in the end, they fall in love so loudly they cheer about it. Like a kid who knows about drywall and tire rotations and her lover is dying but has a tireless faith in a tired system, and in the end they beat the system, and they win. Like the dancer teaches the surgeon to let go of her limbs and in the end they fall in love and kiss in public. Like a movie about Bessie Smith, a movie based on The Price of Salt, a movie where a 71-year-old lesbian plays a 71-year-old lesbian, a movie about a bisexual trans girl where nobody gets killed, including her.
Will it ever be different? Will we get a lesbian superhero, a sprawling action-adventure movie with a bisexual heroine who blows things up and comes home to her wife? A movie based on an Eileen Myles book, on Audre Lorde's life, on your life or mine. Historical dramas set in working-class butch/femme bars during World War II, stories about suffragettes that don't erase everybody you could relate to. Big-budget movies starring women who aren't white or skinny or femme or straight.
We have stories, you see, we have so many more stories than the stories you've been telling about us.
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"Big-budget movies starring women who aren't white or skinny or femme or straight."
What I pray for, every day.
How I long for a butch love interest…
Oh this is fantastic and so damn accurate Riese. Reading this I realized that a big part of why I think Saving Face is one of the best lesbian movies ever is because it avoids entirely or references and then sidesteps almost all of the tropes here. Such a great film!
annalou
This is beautiful, Riese. Thank you.
"Women are like that. They take your clothes off and everything changes." Where is the lie, Riese?
busylilro
That quote just kinda sums it up.
This line reminded me of Jeanette Winterson.
I laughed, I cried, it was better than lesbians-with-cats.
EVERYTHING IS SADNESS
This line might be most hard hitting to women loving women vegetarians… it home for me.
"Maybe he's rough and in a band and wants his new girlfriend as far away from that dyke as possible because she looks at her funny. I don't like the way she looks at you, he'll say, his face like a truck of meat".
Homorun, Riese, Homorun.
Homo-run
OMG I'm so stealing that
I wish there was a lesbian movie plot that went something like this: every woman on the planet suddenly realizes she belongs with another woman. The end.
I have infinite appreciation for this.
"They whisper and have sleepovers and nobody knows what happens at the sleepovers." This speaks to me at a very personal level.
I want to name my shelves after these categories and divide all of my DVDs among them
livethequestion
I am all about this article — it made me nostalgic and wistful and hopeful and determined.
"Like the dancer teaches the surgeon to let go of her limbs and in the end they fall in love and kiss in public."
This is my favorite movie of all time. *wipes away a tear* But Saving Face was made over a decade ago, and it's past due for more great lesbian movies like this.
Saving Face is awesome =)
Saving Face, Bound, Imagine me and you
The holy trinity, IMO
Heather Hogan
There are so few perfect things in the world, but this is one of them.
i would nominate you as one too
You know your stuff!
#IX = Dreya Weber?
Because, come on, all her movies are like that.
Every single category jogs my memory for at least three movies.
There's a movie with queer girls and aerial gymnastics? I don't care if it's crap; please name it (or them!) because I have to see it.
The Gymnast
Katie Hoss
Riese might be referring to The Gymnast? I love that movie tbh because it was the first queer movie I watched as a teenager that didn't end with the protagonist dying. Although it does fall into the "lesbian doesn't know she's a lesbian and begins the story married to an awful man" trope.
I'm kinda excited to watch this! Thanks Sonya and Katie!
It might be the worst movie ever made. Did that stop me? No, no it didn't.
yeah i was gonna say! "don't get your hopes up!"
regarding your question,film is called… the gymnast
When Night is Falling?
There's also She Monkeys.
I amused at how the woes of Lesbian movie media revolve around bad ends, bad ends, bad ends, (and bad production quality) while over in yuri land the griping is about how we're drowning in the pleasant blandness of Story A. (and bad production quality)
There's also something to be said for how the place where these movies fail is in putting singular focus on the romance. Those that stand out use the romance as a supplement to character and thematic exploration. Genre stories, especially, have world-building and fantastical plots happening besides the romance, and so the burden isn't on the romance to carry the entire thing. This is also how TV's longform storytelling can so consistently do better than films, as well.
Maybe that's why certain subtext ships have created fervent fandoms much larger than canon romances. The multitude of stories touched upon in the former inspire the mind more than the single avenue explored in the latter, and the latter of which we are content to devour in droves, so long as they are fanfictions for our ships, and not original fiction. We want a little more substance for the canon stuff.
(Who would watch an actual Coffeeshop Romcom movie filled with characters they don't know? But then again, people do do that, in droves, what with that Story A yuri manga glut.)
This is my explanation for why i haven't seen that many lesbian movies- esp. type I. Now whenever someone asks me if I've seen new type I i say, "no, but I've seen old type I and I assume its the same." Except my summary is girl meets girl, girl goes gay for girl, girl takes everything back and realizes she is only into boys.
alayt
precisely. it really pisses me off that queer films feel at such liberty to be so reductive, dismissive, and insulting to bisexuals. it seems to me that the entire foundation of lesbian film is that bisexual women are always cheating and/or betraying bitches. she's always gonna break someone's heart. either it's the heart of the faithful lesbian that the audience is expected to identify with (which then encourages lesbians to identify bisexual women as shallow/cruel heartbreakers) or it's the bf/fiance/husband she's been cheating on with the lesbian, who the audience is supposed to identify with (which actually says lots of really shitty things about what kind of morals lesbians have) and cheer her winning of the "girl" (where the bisexual woman is now reduced to a sexualized, misandrist trophy to be won).
what's bothered me the most, as a bisexual, is that not only has this scared me away from queer film altogether, but that it has made me think much less of lesbians. they're the ones making these movies, watching them, telling me how awesome they are…and in the meantime, i'm thinking–oh, so that's what you really think about me, huh? even mainstream cinema isn't as insulting to bisexual women as lesbian cinema.
I was actually thinking more along the lines of movies like Kissing Jessica Stein, which seem to be more about reassuring their male audience. The protaganist experiments, but isn't gay enough that its threatening to men because ultimately, women cannot replace men and eventually she comes back to them. But yes, films that involve the bisexual character cheating seem awful. Because it perpetuates the whole bisexual people can never be satisfied with having sex with just one gender and thus cannot be trusted. But having not seen that many queer movies, the only one that i know of with the lead character in the gay relationship cheating with a man is the Kids Are Alright, again, obviously catering to their straight male audience because how the fuck do you end up with a "lesbian" movie that has only one sex scene involving two women and 100% of the sex scenes involving a man with a penis. Because even the two lesbians by themselves need male gay porn to get off. I got tired of "lesbian" movies very quickly.
THIS IS SO FUCKING GOOD TIMES 98934U7583485
A devil's advocate kind of cuestión, but how many really original movies of any kind were released in the last years?
Nowadays all you get are comic-based movies, remakes all over the place (most cases are the "how dare you?!" style), crappy biopics and whitewashed history and the never-ending invasion of 3D movies.
If you're looking at Hollywood blockbusters then yeah, I would agree with you
Indies? Not so much…
I think that in the US you can find the same problem I have in my country: multiplex movie theaters, which means a lot of Hollywood blockbusters pieces of crap movies and maybe some indie movie on the side (you know, the smallest theater around and the closest to the bathroom).
And in my country you have and additional problem: not enough films festivals.
yeah no movies in general are the worst these days, which i've written about. nobody wants to gamble on anything, indie cinema isn't what it used to be, movies about women are few and far between… things seem to have gotten SLIGHTLY better within the past year or two, but we saw a lot more diverse stuff coming out in the '90s.
I can take the '90s, but I have this dream when I can go back on time, to the late '70s and early '80s, when you can find some amazing movies like Ordinary People or Dog Day Afternoon.
Fantasy, I know, because those days are gone, never to return.
Come on, Hollywood, take a fucking risk.
This was fucking brilliant
I quite enjoyed placing movies I've seen in their respective categories
This could be an amazing board game.
You know what movie I wanna see, an action/military movie where instead of the hero being a tall muscular white dude it's a tall muscular butch lesbian who happens to be BROWN (cuz us white people are everywhere), doing all the white dude's stuff like kicking ass and getting ass kicked while saving the world with her (not helpless/useless) feminine female sidekick. Why can't somebody make that movie? I'd watch the shit out of that movie.
Would also watch. Would watch very much.
You've basically described the end of The Legend of Korra, except she's bi instead of gay.
I saw the first half of your comment and got really excited that you were about to tell me about some awsome movie. Then you tell me about a cartoon. I am never speaking to you again random internet stranger. *sobs for no reason in a dark corner.*
Michelle Rodriguez could star
Tancita
This is lovely ♥
"Can't Celie just look up to Shug?" but they literally have sex tho how much more obvious do you need things to be lesbian subtext denialists
nightwing186
im still waiting everyday for an amazing Sally Ride movie. whats cooler than the first woman/lesbian in space?
*first american woman
Best thing I've read here. EVER ! Thank you so much for this.
Yess, this is everything
too real.
emmapet
This is the best thing I've ever read
This post speaks directly to my soul. In ways that make my soul reconsider everything it thought it knew about itself and life, and want to put on high-waisted jeans.
Sooo.. How do I start a slow clap in the comments?
Anybodies
What's the movie about the surgeon called? I want to see that!
The dancer and the surgeon? "Saving face." It's really good. It's my most fave movie ever.
A+ Riese
This was excellent.
Oh my heart, my beating heart.
RIESE!!!! Thank you for this!
also, I'm still forever crying/laughing over: "Or the first girl decides she is a bird and jumps off the roof." that movie had so much potential and it was just a hot mess…oh, our stories.
Can someone please comment on this telling me which movie each of these are referring to? Bad or good, I'm always looking for lesbian movies
More than anything, I want a lesbian feel-good movie. No going back to men just to "test it out", no questioning identity, nothing convoluted… on the days when being gay feels complicated and heavy and I don't even know how to be a human, I just want a movie to normalize my gayness. A chick-flick, with all its cliches, but in gay form. Two women meet, maybe one just broke up (with a man or a woman, doesn't matter) and they fall for each other, and it doesn't really say much about their identity, they just start being really cute and adorable together and maybe they fight because one woman won't sacrifice her career for the other but then she realizes she's been using her job to push people away all along so she proposes to the other in the cutest way ever like maybe leaving the ring in her shoe. And you know it's never gonna happen in real life like that but the movies make it so SIMPLE. That's my fantasy.
That being said, my current favorite, regarding adorable uncomplicated love and adorable proposals, is Cloudburst.
Oh and "codependent lesbian space alien seeks same".
anaphase
Now, if Netflix could pick this up as a new series, 'Every Plot of Every Lesbian Movie Ever > coming this Fall'. A+ would watch again (and again).
I just found this today….so good! Thank you!
"I don't like the way she looks at you, he'll say, his face like a truck of meat." #blessed and also #tooreal
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Rodolfo Eduardo Cortés Ferrada (Rancagua, 12 de febrero de 1926-ibíd., 6 de octubre de 1999) fue un político chileno, militante de Renovación Nacional (RN). Se desempeñó como alcalde de la comuna de Rancagua entre 1989 y 1992.

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Nació en 1929, hijo de Ricardo Cortés y Celia Ferrada. Estudió en el Instituto O'Higgins de Rancagua de su ciudad natal. El 26 de abril de 1958 contrajo matrimonio con Clyde Díaz Núñez.

Fue alcalde de la ciudad de Rancagua en el período 1989-1992. En las elecciones municipales de 1992 fue derrotado por el candidato del PPD, Esteban Valenzuela Van Treek, por una pequeña diferencia, ya que Valenzuela obtuvo el 14,2% de los votos, mientras que Cortés Ferrada logró un 13,23% de las preferencias, siendo elegido concejal.

Cortés volvería a presentarse como candidato a alcalde en las elecciones de 1996, pero nuevamente perdió, obteniendo el 6,6% de los votos, por lo que fue concejal nuevamente por el período siguiente. Falleció en el cargo el 6 de octubre de 1999, víctima de un cáncer broncopulmonar.

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Fans of Italian crime/cop fare haven't had much to look forward to lately but that changes at the end of July thanks to RaroVideo's U.S. division: they will be releasing the cult fave Live Like A Cop, Die Like A Man on July 26th. This was a rare venture into the crime film for Ruggero Deodato, director of the infamous Cannibal Holocaust, and stars Euro-cult regular Ray Lovelock. This disc will boast a new HD transfer plus supplements. Read on for all the Neapolitan crime-smashing details…
LIVE LIKE A COP, DIE LIKE A MAN LIVES UP TO ITS REPUTATION
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BOTH Available on DVD JULY 26 FROM RAROVIDEO U.S.
LOS ANGELES (June 23, 2011) – Referenced in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol. 2, Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man (1976) is one of the most violent, censored and unconventional Italian style detective films of its time. The credit goes to both the director Ruggero Deodato, extremely apt at telling stories in a strong tone (he made the infamous Cannibal Holocaust), and the scriptwriter Fernando di Leo, author of the best Italian noir films (Recently released in a DVD boxed set as The Fernando Di Leo Crime Collection – All four films will be available as individual breakouts on July 14 from RaroVideo). Above all, the psychological and behavioral description of the main characters, the two policemen, members of an anti-crime squad who have complete freedom in their actions against crime, had never been seen before. Not only do they not hesitate to brutally kill the criminals they are hunting down, but Alfredo (Marc Porel) and Antonio (Ray Lovelock) do so while maintaining a cynical and light-hearted attitude even in the most threatening situations.
RaroVideo U.S.'s restored version of Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man, will arrive on DVD for the first time ever on July 26. The extensive DVD extras include the documentary entitled, Poliziotti Violenti and a fully illustrated booklet containing critical analysis of the film.
LIVE LIKE A COP, DIE LIKE A MAN has been restored through a new digital HD transfer from the original 35mm negative.
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By Ronda Gooden , February 02, 2018 12:02 PM
Gwendolyn Spencer Prater, Ph.D.
Gwendolyn Spencer Prater, Ph.D. of Madison has been appointed as the new State President of AARP Mississippi. State President is AARP's highest volunteer position in Mississippi, representing 285,000 AARP members in the state. In partnership with the State Director, volunteers and staff, the State President helps the organization achieve its vision, mission and strategic priorities.
Prater previously served as a member of the AARP Mississippi Executive Council where she helped shape AARP's strategic direction in the state.
She is Dean Emerita of the School of Social Work and College of Public Service at Jackson State University. She began her career as a social worker and started her teaching career at Jackson State University. Dr. Prater became the founding Dean of the School of Social Work in 1978. In 2003, she became the founding Dean of the College of Public Service, which encompassed the School of Social Work, the School of Health Sciences and the School of Policy and Planning.
"We are delighted to have Dr. Prater serve as State President for AARP Mississippi," said AARP Mississippi State Director Kimberly L. Campbell, Esq. "She brings extensive experience in policy, community development, advocacy and volunteer leadership. Dr. Prater has the expertise as well as passion to champion positive social change and enhance the quality of life for all as we age."
Prater earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Tougaloo College, Master of Social Work from The Ohio State University, and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Southern California. She also is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She has published extensively and spoken internationally on mental health, community development and leadership. She has served as a consultant for the Mississippi Council on Aging, the University of Mississippi Medical Center Geriatric Center, the Mississippi Public Health Institute, Jackson-Hinds Comprehensive Health Center, the Foundation for the Mid South and the Public Policy Center of Mississippi.
Prater is a native of Vicksburg. She is married to Dr. Wesley Prater, and they have two adult children and four grandchildren. She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and The Links, Inc. Dr. Prater is a member of New Hope Baptist Church in Jackson.
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SuperSport United have confirmed that they made a move for Kaizer Chiefs, Orlando Pirates and Mamelodi Sundowns target Andile Jali.
The South Africa international is currently a free agent having parted ways with Belgian First Division A club KV Oostende last month.
Chiefs, Sundowns and Pirates are known to have registered their interest in Jali ahead of the PSL July-August transter window.
SuperSport chief executive officer Stanley Matthews has now disclosed that they approached Jali's agent, Mike Makaab, but the player's demands were beyond the Tshwane giants' budget.
"I don't think there's a club who wouldn't want to sign Jali. He is fantastic footballer," Matthews told IOL.
"Yes, I did call his agent (Mike Makaab) to inquire about his situation," he said about the hard-working central midfielder.
"But we can't afford him. His demands are too steep for us," Matthews explained.
Chiefs are reportedly leading the race for Jali's signature, but Sundowns are said to be looking to counter the Soweto giants' offer.
Meanwhile, Matthews also confirmed that SuperSport are set to release Kingston Nkatha and Tefu Mashamaite after the club decided against renewing their contracts which are due to expire in June, 2018.
"Kingston and Masha are leaving the club. We didn't renew their contracts," the Matsatsantsa club official said.
Promising defender Denwin Farmer is expected to leave SuperSport and join Maritzburg United on a permanent deal, while Matthews confirmed the signing of Bidvest Wits striker James Keene on a pre-contract.
"We need to find their replacements. Yeye (Reneilwe Letsholonyane) and Morgan (Gould) are staying. Denwin Farmer is joining Maritzburg United on a permanent deal," he added.
"James Keene has also joined us. We wanted to sign him in January but Jose Ferriera (Wits CEO) said no. We lost Jeremy (Brockie who joined Mamelodi Sundowns) and Bradley (Grobler who was ruled out of the season with an injury)," Matthews explained.
"Jose asked us to do the deal at the end of the season when they are in a better position. He is my friend and former colleague, so I respected that," he concluded.


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Fruit flies can be detrimental when they infest citrus trees, as they are not readily noticeable and can reduce fruit to mush. Mediterranean fruit flies tend to attack lemons, mandarins, peaches and pears. Citrus trees are also affected by the Queensland fruit fly, which consumes grapefruit and Meyer lemon trees, among other citrus varieties. An important considerations for controlling fruit flies is to pick fruit early and often, whenever possible.
Remove all ripe and overripe fruit from your trees. Female fruit flies lay eggs in the flesh of citrus fruit. Larvae emerge from the eggs and feed on the inside of the fruit. Check for the white larvae when harvesting to confirm an existing population.
Pick up fallen fruit and bury it deeply in the ground or place it in an airtight space until larvae are dead. Kill pupae before adding the fruit to a compost pile; otherwise, the population continues to prosper.
Combine one-part malathion insecticide with three-parts protein hydrolysate compound. Make sure the insecticide is labeled for use on your specific citrus tree. Mix thoroughly and apply to citrus trees where the flies are nesting, two to four times per month, using a high pressure sprayer.
Apply insecticide mixture to nearby border plants that are listed on the label.
Set a commercially-available glass or plastic trap to lure the fruit flies. Tent traps lure flies with a cotton wick and trap them with a sticky floor. Use simple, yellow sticky boards without attractants.
Warm temperatures promote faster growth cycles in fruit flies, so more rigorous control strategies may be required in the summer.
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Author and activist Dan Savage will moderate a discussion at the Virginia G. Piper Theater at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts for Out@SMoCA. (Submitted photo)
Journalist and activist Dan Savage will speak at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art for a moderated conversation at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 5.
This moderated discussion will take place in the Virginia G. Piper Theater at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts. Out@SMoCA is presented in partnership with the city of Scottsdale Office of Diversity, Scottsdale Human Relations Committee and media partner Echo Magazine.
Mr. Savage, an author, social and political activist, who's a syndicated sex advice columnist, is the editorial director of Seattle's weekly alternative newspaper, The Stranger, according to a press release.
His appearance is part of Out@SMoCA, the museum's ongoing, original series championing diversity in Scottsdale and Arizona. Public conversations are facilitated by nationally recognized personalities who demonstrate the positive role that individuals play in society, according to the release.
Mr. Savage is known for his "take-no-prisoners attitude" in his political and social commentary, along with his approach to sex, love and relationships.
"I tell people to communicate," he says in a prepared statement. "Put your needs out there, and if they reject you, then you know you're not compatible."
His sex advice column, "Savage Love," is syndicated in newspapers and websites in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Asia. He's been a guest on CNN, MSNBC and The Colbert Report, as well NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross, HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher and ABC's 20/20. He regularly speaks on college campuses across the country and Canada, the release noted.
In 2010, Mr. Savage and his husband, Terry Miller, founded the It Gets Better Project to provide hope, encouragement and support to LGBTQ youth, the release stated. What began as a social media campaign from a YouTube video evolved into a multi-media platform reaching millions of youths every year, offering media programming, a network of international affiliates and access to community-based service providers.
The author of many books, his latest book published in 2013, "American Savage: Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics," he shares his thoughts on topics such as marriage, parenting and the gay agenda, the Catholic Church and sex education.
Signed copies of his books will be raffled to benefit ONE Community, a member-based coalition of socially responsible businesses, organizations and individuals supporting and promoting diversity, inclusion and equality for all Arizonans, the release said.
This is the sixth event in the series designed to encourage laughter and dialogue, the release said, noting past speakers including punk legend and anti-bullying activist Henry Rollins and U.S. Women's Soccer star Megan Rapinoe.
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The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Sixty-Eighth (Summer Exhibition), 1936
Start Date: 4 May 1936
End Date: 8 August 1936
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 151,104 paying visitors attended the exhibition. A total of 1,635 works were displayed. 288 works were exhibited by members of the Royal Academy, of which 23 were sculptures. Of the 1,347 works shown by non-members, 110 were sculptures.
Policy: Source contains 'Notice To Exhibitors' which outlines rules for submission, requirements for frames, etc. For example: 'No works which have been already publicly exhibited'.
Exhibition included Daphne - Head
Exhibition included Statue of J. M. W. Turner
Organized by Royal Academy of Arts
Exhibitors included William McMillan
'Statue of J. M. W. Turner '
Selection committee members included William Reid Dick
7 April 1936 - 18 April 1936
Dick served on the Selection Committee, and was responsible for the arrangement of sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1936' (1937), p. 43.
Selection committee members included Ernest George Gillick
He served on the Selection Committee, and was responsible for the arrangement of sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1936' (1937), p. 43.
Annual Report from the Council of The Royal Academy to the General Assembly of Academicians for the Year 1936, 1937 Royal Academy Annual Reports
pp. 25-26, 42-45
The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Sixty-Eighth, 1936
'The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Sixty-Eighth (Summer Exhibition), 1936', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/event.php?id=msib7_1217949696, accessed 01 Feb 2023]


In the first stanza the skater doesn't move, just sits on the ice admiring his skates and thinks of himself as a god of the skates. The skater experiences the world as being as still as him; a world that is tamed, that lays like some sort of an animal; maybe the world is waiting for him to conquer it. He is describing a silent world, frozen and glimmering like and ice-colored stream. Then he discovers a pathway which seems made for him and other wonderers like him. He feels on a path to discovery of hidden palaces where winter's keepers are sleeping peacefully. The skater moves on through the silence and soon he gets the feeling that he awoke a sleeping beast with the noise made by his skates. The skater forgets about the wind and the nature around him for a while as he pays attention only to his mind until he tires and he feels the blood rushing to his brain. When the joy of skating becomes to tiresome that it is almost painful, the skater stops from his power skating and simply drifts for a while. When he stops, he pays once again attention to the nature around him and he feels suddenly frightened. Again he gets the feeling that the noise he made awoke the wilderness. Feeling scared and alone, the skater turns around and runs away realizing that no one should disturb nature.
Select 2 quotations from the poem and show how each reflects a different mood.
In the beginning of the poem the skater expresses a sense of pride and a sureness of self by comparing himself with a god. The idea of god here probably means "master" of the skates, implying that the skater is very skilled. It is also implied that the skater is still and is analyzing his next move; prepares himself for intense skating. What the beginning suggests is that the skater is off to conquer nature using his skills but, by the end of the poem this feeling changes. After attempting to conquer the solitary nature, the skater ends up feeling alone and scared. From being "the god," he ends up saying that he "deep in my heart I heard my fear," right before he turns around and runs away from the lonely and terrifying nature.


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Der Pionier (em português: O Pioneiro) foi um dos órgãos de expressão da anarcossindicalista Associação Livre de Sindicatos Alemães (FVDG).

Com a sua fundação em 1897, a FVDG começou a publicar o jornal Die Einigkeit como órgão oficial. Porém, devido aos conflitos entre a FVDG e o Partido Social-Democrata da Alemanha (SPD), alguns anarquistas do FVDG como Fritz Köster e Andreas Kleinlein ganharam influência no sindicato e conseguiram que, após a ruptura entre FVDG e SPD, a FVDG lançasse outro órgão de expressão destinado especificamente a rebater as posições do SPD. Esse órgão foi Der Pionier, fundado no Congresso de 1908 da FVDG.

O primeiro número foi publicado no outono de 1911 e, desde então, o jornal saiu semanalmente, editado pelo anarquista Fritz Köster numa linha muito mais agressiva do que Die Einigkeit. Face a 1912, eram publicadas 4.500 cópias de cada número.

Durante da Primeira Guerra Mundial, com a FVDG muito limitada pela política de Burgfrieden entre as organizações social-democratas e o governo, os jornais Die Einigkeit e Der Pionier foram encerrados. Em 5 de agosto de 1914, Der Pionier publicou um artigo escrito por Max Winkler e Fritz Kater, líder do FVDG, que reafirmava o antimilitarismo da organização opondo-se frontalmente à política do SPD e do Estado alemão. Foi o último número publicado.

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Posted on January 5, 2016 sports
Stop Blaming Millennials For Your Problems, Especially in Sports
I am tired of the lazy "Millennials are soft" narrative.
Monday night, sports fans were treated to one of 2016's early instant classics as #1 Kansas University went 3 overtimes to fend off Buddy Hield and #2 Oklahoma 109-106 at Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence. It was one of the better regular season basketball games in a long time. Brent Musburger and Dick Vitale nearly lost their voices. It was a great time had by all, thanks to millennial athletes.
Meanwhile, Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver was busy doing his best Grandpa Simpson impression by blaming "Millennial Culture" for his team's second to last place record in the Western Conference.
"My whole view of the millennial culture is that they have a tough time dealing with setbacks," Sarver told the Arizona Republic. "I'm not sure if it's the technology or the instant gratification of being online. But the other thing is, I'm not a fan of social media. I tell my kids it's like Fantasyland. The only thing people put online are good things that happen to them, or things they make up. And it creates unrealistic expectations."
It's cool though, because local journalists are Sarver's version of a Facebook wall to rant on, and his "instant gratification" are hot take sports talk shows like FOX Sports Live (I thought this was supposed to be a highlight show) with panelists echoing his sentiments…because none of them are millennials themselves.
On this particular FSL panel from Monday night, moderator Randy Travis led off the discussion with the typical "We all know Millennials are the most coddled generation…", and I felt more compelled to change the channel than ever. Ironically, everyone on this panel was screaming "Let Johnny Manziel be Johnny Manziel" just beforehand.
I appreciate Sports Illustrated's media reporter Richard Deitsch for pointing out exactly where I wanted to take this on Twitter.
Michael below is exactly the viewer (a millennial w. sports interests) that FS1 needs. Why alienate a group here? https://t.co/HDZVEZVEnR
— Richard Deitsch (@richarddeitsch) January 5, 2016
The group in question is exactly the audience Fox Sports 1 is fighting for with ESPN too. Fox Sports Live was originally packaged to us as the "fun" sports show with entertaining highlights, anchors who get it (like Jay Onrait and Dan O'Toole), and smart analysis. Instead, the network adds former ESPN First Take executive producer Jamie Horowitz – who brings Colin Cowherd and Jason Whitlock with (reasons millennial audiences wanted an alternative) – and we're back to searching for something else again. ESPN then capitalizes by handing the late night SportsCenter reigns to their most millennial friendly talent, Scott Van Pelt.
In case you weren't aware, the millennial generation covers people born between the early 80's to the early 2000's. These are impactful business owners (Mark Zuckerberg), soon-to-be college grads (Jack Gleeson aka Prince Joffrey from Game of Thrones), teenagers standing up for important causes (Malala Yousafzai), and kids who never saw Michael Jordan play live. They love nostalgia (reminiscing about 90's Nickelodeon shows and NES cartridge games) and can't wait for what's next (standing in line around the block for the new iPhone).
Millennials are another young generation, shaped as much by previous generations as they are criticized by them. The people who can't stand anyone younger than them actually gave birth to them and had the opportunity to raise them the way they wanted to. The irony is hilarious. Yet for every Phoenix Suns team, there's a Golden State Warriors roster dominated by 20-somethings on top of the basketball world. The best player in the league currently and millennial athlete, Stephen Curry, had his game influenced by a specialist from the previous generation…his dad.
"HI DAD, GOOD TO SEE YOU. GOTTA GO, BYE!" pic.twitter.com/bplfHVYjnG
— GoldenStateWarriors (@warriors) January 5, 2016
Obviously the disconnect isn't limited to basketball, as Mr. Sarver generalizes. The old folks write pointed letters when Cam Newton dances in the end zone. They take to social media and sports talk radio when Jose Bautista flips his bat. Alas, when a millennial has something to say to defend their generation, they tell you to shut up and stop being so sensitive.
I remember that "wambulance" joke from Modern Family. It was funny the first dozen times the kindergartner on the show used it.
If the Suns are victims to "Millennial Culture", then why are the current Chicago Cubs 7/1 World Series favorites with a projected lineup whose average age is 26? What the Suns are victims of is an organization and leadership that spends more time blaming everything but themselves for their own losing culture…and bad scouting.
Rather than sit back and criticize a generation for your problems, be proactive and either adapt or provide a productive solution. If you don't like what you're hearing, change the channel. Otherwise, this will be you someday.
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Totally agree with you on this one.
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Susan's Spiritual Experiences
July 22, 2018 December 15, 2019 ~ John Horning
I am truly honored to be married to Susan. She has been blessed with some amazing spiritual experiences, and I have been blessed to learn about them. I have asked her repeatedly to write down some of her experiences for the sake of posterity, and, although she has done some of that, she's reluctant, partly because writing is difficult for her, and partly because writing forces her to re-live some very difficult and traumatic experiences.
She has long struggled with spelling and sentence structure, dating back to her youth when her family moved from country to country, and language to language. Her first language was Spanish, but before she could master it, her family moved to an English-speaking country, and before she could master that, they moved again. It caused some major problems for her in school. In fact she wasn't able to read and write with any degree of proficiency until she was in college.
As I mentioned, she has written a few things so I will start there. A few years ago, as part of the BYU Pathway program she had an assignment to write about a spiritual experience. She titled it "I believe in Guardian Angels" (click the link to find it). It's a story of a dark time in her life when the Lord sent a robin to cheer her up. When her BYU professor read it, he was so impressed that he advised her to send it to the church's Ensign Magazine for publishing.
I Believe in Guardian Angels
I believe in guardian angels. I know this may sound foolish and perhaps even childish, as many place guardian angels in the same category as Easter Bunny, Leprechauns, and the Tooth Fairy. I believe that guardian angels come in many forms. Such as a stranger that stops to help someone change a flat tire, or a neighbor who noticed a need and is quick in coming to the rescue. While guardian angels are usually ordinary people following promptings from the Lord, my guardian angel really did have wings.
Many years ago, when I was a young mother with three little ones in tow. The Lord sent me a guardian angel that saved my life. At the time my life was falling apart around me. I was working sixteen hour days, seven days a week, which made it impossible for me to care for the needs of my children. I was feeling like a failure in the most important areas of my life.
My youthful expectations of marriage, family, and life style dreams had all been shattered by reality. My life was nowhere near what I had hoped it would be. Although I thought I had made a wise choice in whom I married, I found myself in a relationship filled with distrust, poor communication, and unrighteous behaviors. I felt there was no way out of the dark tunnel I had wandered into.
How could I face Mother's Day with these feeling of failure weighing so heavily on my heart? I could hear the children in the kitchen with my husband preparing breakfast for me. Breakfast in bed is a wonderful Mother's Day tradition, which I highly recommend! I should have felt loved and joyful in hearing such happy sounds dancing up the staircase, but instead, my heart was heavy and so full of sorrow that it overflowed into uncontrollable tears that washed over my face and soaked the bedding.
As I rehearsed in my mind all my options I felt even more trapped by my circumstances. Then an option I had not thought of popped into my head. Was this the answer? Would ending my life be best for everyone concerned? How could I do this without emotionally harming the children? These dark thoughts swarmed in my mind forming a heavy black cloud that blocked brightness of the sun streaming through the open window. Somehow I uttered, "Oh God, please help me!"
For several months I had felt that my prayers weren't strong enough to penetrate the ceiling, but at that moment the bright sun pierced through the darkness as my eyes searched for the source of the tapping sound coming from my second story bedroom window?! I wiped the tears from my face, and was stunned as a scrawny robin came into focus. I watched it tap, tap, tapping its beak on the closed side of the window. It appeared that winter had not been kind to him. He was so skinny, and his dishevelled dull colored feathers had a bald spot on the left side of what should have been a bright red chest. All in all, he looked like life had beaten him up really bad.
As I watched him, he hopped to the open side and peeked in, as if to say, hello! Then flew to the power line that extended across the back yard. He continued repeating this routine even after my noisy little brewed came bouncing on the bed with their version of breakfast. This little bird was fearless and undeterred.
The distraction lightened my spirits and I was able to enjoy and appreciate my children and the effort my spouse had made in my behalf. It also drew the attention of my family, so they never noticed my swollen tear stained face. The darkness was replaced with light, love, and laughter. I knew my Father in Heaven had hear my plea for help. I felt His loving embrace and knew I was not alone.
Until we moved three months later, my little friend visited me, on a daily basis with a good morning tap on my bedroom window. If I didn't acknowledge him, he would tap on the living room window until I would say, "good morning". It was as if his mission was to start my day out with a smile and a reminder that the Lord was mindful of me. The children and I enjoyed his company when we were outside working or playing in the yard. It was so comforting to know my special guardian angel was close by.
His presences did not resolve the issues that weighed so heavy on my heart, and while I had no idea what I could do to resolve them, I felt that the Lord would guide me in finding the answers I needed. I had the reassurance that I was not alone, my prayers were being heard. Through the Lord's tender mercy he intervened in my behalf by sending me a guardian angel in the form of brave little robin, who bore the scars of unseen dangers and survived life's perils. Through his visits I came to understand that hope is the rejuvenating power that gives us strength to move forward to learn, grow, and succeed, just as Spring is the rejuvenating power that awakens all nature and encourages new life to come forth.
She also wrote of this miraculous experience which she and her family had while in Argentina as they helped the local church members build a chapel during heavy rains. She titled it "Priesthood Power Parted the Clouds":
Priesthood Power Parted the Clouds
I would like to share an experience I had when I was very young. My family was on a building mission in Argentina. A day had been designated for the members of the branch to help lay the foundation of the chapel. There had been many delays that made it critical to accomplish this task on that particular day or the whole project was in jeopardy of being scrapped. As we met on the project sight, it began to rain. Not a light sprinkle, but a torrential rain. Just a few weeks prior, we had experienced a similar storm that produced a flash flood that brought one to three meters of water into our homes. The members where rightfully concerned.
As we huddled together in the small shed, a prayer was offered. That through the power of the priesthood the rain would cease and allowing the work to proceed.
At the conclusion of the prayer it was announced that we had until 5 pm to accomplish the work, but it was still raining, after a short pause the branch president and my father lead the way out the shed and started working. Everyone else followed their example and within a few minutes the rain stopped. That is, it stopped raining on the one city block that was the site of the project. It continued to rain heavily all the way around us. Though, the members were concerned for their homes to my knowledge none of them left the site. We all worked as hard, and as fast as we possibly could. The rain around us was a constant reminder that our time was short.
5:00 pm came and so did the rain. I remember running to the shed with all the others; all but one missionary Elder Pendley and my father, who were still finishing up the final pouring of concrete. As they worked their clothes were moistened only by their sweat. The rain appeared to be bouncing off them as if it were repelled by their presence. But as soon as the work was done, so was their protection from the elements. There before us stood two very wet men, hugging and rejoicing in our Lord.
Susan has also written a few journal entries which you can find here and you can read more here..
Susan has shared two particular experiences with me related to tithing.
The first occurred during her first marriage. Her husband was opposed to paying it at the time, and, even though she was working, her pay was being direct-deposited into a bank account that was under his control, so she was unable to pay even a portion of the tithing owed. As a consequence, they were both unworthy to attend the Temple, which really bothered Susan.
After much prayer, asking the Lord to help her find a way to pay tithing, she was blessed to receive an offer from her school to work as a Spanish translator. She was already employed at the school as a teacher's assistant so this was an additional part-time job. Moreover, they agreed to pay her directly for this work instead of depositing the money directly into the bank.
Susan had mixed feelings about accepting the job. Yes, it meant that she might at last be able to pay tithing, but she was fearful that she wouldn't be able to do the job well because her Spanish had grown rusty over the years through lack of use.
Nevertheless, she trusted in the Lord and accepted the position. That's when she truly learned that he was helping her. She found that when she was "on the clock", helping families communicate with school teachers and administrators, her Spanish was nearly flawless, but the moment she was "off the clock", her Spanish skills seemed to fade and she had trouble carrying on simple conversations.
At length, she was indeed able to save enough money to pay tithing in full thus allowing her and her husband to once again attend the Temple again.
The second experience with tithing occurred several years later, after she separated from her husband. She was struggling mightily to support herself and her 4 teenage children. She realized that there was no way she could afford to support them and pay tithing. That's when she learned of the experience of someone else in a similar situation who had decided to exhibit great faith by paying tithing, not based upon actual income, but upon the income needed to survive.
Susan decided to put it to the test. She determined in advance how much income she needed each month and then paid tithing (10%) first, trusting that the Lord would provide the other 90%. That's when the miracles began to happen. She would receive money unexpectedly, including a refund for an overpayment from years earlier that she wasn't aware of. One day she discovered that her cupboards and refrigerator were completely bare, and then received an expected visit from a dear friend who had been inspired to buy bags of groceries for her and her children.
Her family got through that period — not easily — but they never went hungry.
Spiritual Promptings
When Susan was serving in the Primary Presidency in her ward many years ago, she was given the task of finding a new Primary Chorister. This Primary Chorister taught the children songs during "Sharing Time" every Sunday. Many of the songs they learned were sung during the annual Primary Program held during a Sacrament meeting – usually in September or October, which was a much-anticipated event.
A number of well-qualified sisters came to Susan's mind, but one after another, they were rejected as she submitted their names to the Bishop. Finally she was completely out of names and was beginning to feel desperate because they were running out of time to find someone who could prepare the children for the Primary Program.
In her frustration Susan felt prompted to go to the Temple to seek guidance from the Spirit. Once inside she began to pray and a name immediately flashed into her mind. Her first thought was to push the thought aside. She knew little about the sister and besides she had heard negative rumors about her.
Nevertheless, the thought persisted, and Susan finally realized that she was arguing with the Lord. With that realization, however, the decision became easy. She left the Temple and drove by the Bishop's home to submit the name of this sister as the Primary Chorister. The Bishop nodded his approval and soon the sister was called, sustained, and set apart for her new calling.
Then a miracle happened. It turned out that the sister had an amazing talent for teaching the children to sing. On the day of the Primary Program, they performed beautifully and everyone was impressed.
Susan had learned a lesson she would never forget.
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In this lesson, your tutor will help you go over this topic: fire safety. First, read the following dialogue out loud with your tutor, then switch roles and try again.
Kevin and Dorothy are having a conversation about fire safety.
Dorothy, did you hear about the house fire yesterday near my home?
Yes, it started because of a bad electrical cord.
That's what I heard. Also, I heard the smoke alarms didn't work.
It's true. That's why it's good to test the smoke alarms every month and check the batteries every year.
You're right! It's also good to have fire extinguishers in the house and prepare a fire escape plan.
In addition, you should always have the fire department's phone number with you.
I agree. Do you check your home for fire hazards?
Yes, I do. Fire prevention is really important.
The fire broke out around 2:00 AM.
The electrical cord needs to be replaced so the lamp works.
Every home should have smoke alarms.
You should test the smoke alarms every month to make sure they are working.
batteries (n – plural) a device that is placed inside a machine to give it power.
The flashlight needs batteries to make it work.
The fire extinguishers were used to put out the fire.
The fire escape plan tells me to go out the window in case there is a fire.
The fire department arrived just in time to put out the house fire.
Fire hazards need to be fixed to prevent fires.
Fire prevention is necessary to stop fires from starting.
Where can fires break out in your home?
In reality, they can break out anywhere in the home.
I think fires can easily break out in garages because there are many dangerous things kept there.
Where can emergency phone numbers be kept?
They can be kept in your cell phone.
They can be written on a piece of paper and placed close to your home phone.
What are some ways to prevent fires?
Keep electrical cords away from furniture.
Make your hazardous materials are stored in a safe place.
How can fires be started?
Fires can start because of bad electrical cords.
Fires can start from sources other than electrical ones. They can start if children are playing with matches.
Do you think it's important to educate children about fire safety?
Yes, it's very important to teach them at a young age.
Everyone should be educated and re-educated about fire prevention.
Why is it important to have smoke alarms in your home?
Is it required in your country to have smoke alarms in buildings?
How would you escape from your home if it caught on fire?
Have you ever seen a building on fire? If yes, describe what you saw.
What equipment do fire departments need to put out fires?


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We support the Government's aims to clarify and harmonise the complex laws on managing Crown lands to ensure the environmental and cultural values of Crown lands are recognised and protected.
In our submission, we reiterate recommendations made in previous submissions: our 10 principles for Crown lands management from our 2014 submission on Crown lands; and our Travelling Stock Reserves submission (December 2015).
We also make recommendations about the best process for changing the laws. We recommend public consultation on an exposure draft Crown Lands Bill prior to introduction to Parliament. This would improve the legislation and strengthen community confidence in the process and outcomes of any reforms.