State of Rajasthan Vs. Jainudeen Shekh and ANR.
1. The pivotal issue that emanates for consideration in this appeal, by special leave, is whether the learned Special Judge was justified in granting compensation of an amount of Rs.1,50,000/- to each of the respondents who had been arraigned as accused for the offences punishable under Sections 8/21(B) and 8/29 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for brevity, "the NDPS Act") on the foundation that there was delay in obtaining the report from the Forensic Science Laboratory and further the test showed that the seized items did not contain any contraband article and, therefore, they had suffered illegal custody, and whether the High Court has correctly appreciated the fact situation to affirm the view expressed by the learned trial Judge by opining that the grant of compensation is not erroneous.
2. The facts which are necessary to be stated for adjudication of the limited issue are that on 02.11.2011, PW-5 Nemichand, SHO, PS Bhimganj along with PW4, Umrao, Constable and PW6, Om Prakash, Head Constable while carrying on patrolling duty, noticed the two accused persons together and seeing the police vehicle, accused Jainuddin speedily moved towards the kachcha passage near Mangal Pandey circle and on a query being made, he could not give any satisfactory reply.
The accused was searched in presence of other persons and during the search a polythene bag allegedly containing intoxicant material was found in the back pocket pant of the accused-respondent no.1 but he had no licence for it. The polythene bag weighed 31 gram 170 milligrams. The police prepared two samples of alleged smack weighing 5 grams each and the remaining was kept in the polythene bag and sealed.
Thereafter the accused-respondent no. 1 was arrested at the spot and seizure memo was prepared. At that time accused Shabbir was also taken into custody. Thereafter, an FIR was registered and after investigation, charge sheet was filed under Section 8/21(B) of the NDPS Act against the accused-respondent no.1 and under Section 8/29 of the NDPS Act against the accused Shabbir.
3. The accused persons denied the charges and stated in their statement under Section 313 CrPC that they had been falsely implicated.
4. The prosecution in order to establish the charges, examined six witnesses. Be it noted, the sample that was sent for examination to the Forensic Science Laboratory on 8.11.2011, chemical analysis thereof was done on 9.9.2013 and the report was submitted to the court on 28.9.2013 and it was exhibited as Exhibit P-11. The said document revealed that the sample contained "caffeine" and "paracetamol" and it did not contain Diacetylmorphine (heroine) or alkaloid of "Afeem" (Opium). As the report indicated that the said items were not covered under the category of intoxicant under NDPS Act, the trial court came to the conclusion that the charges were not established in any manner.
5. Learned trial Judge, while recording the said conclusion observed thus: "In the present case certainly it is the matter of concern that the officer executing the seizure has no experience with respect to intoxicant material. Although PW5, Nemi Chand, had found the material as intoxicant in his testimony merely by checking. Certainly it shows ignorance of the officer about identification of intoxicant who executed seizure.
No attempt was made by the officer making seizure that he should have either tasted the material, which was seized, or same should have been provided to other persons, who were present at the time of seizure, to ensure whether such material is intoxicant or not. The officer making seizure identified same as smack merely after smelling the material.
In this perspective it shall be in the interest of justice to mention that in case there being suspicion over the material being intoxicant or not, then it is the responsibility of the State Government that immediately such material should be subjected to chemical analysis, but in the present case the aforesaid report of Forensic Science Laboratory was submitted into the court on 28.09.2013 and the chemical analysis was done by the laboratory on 09.09.2013. So it is clear that aforesaid material was subjected to chemical analysis about 2 years after the occurrence on 02.11.2011 that is after the period of two years, so certainly it cannot be held as just and proper procedure."
6. After so holding, the learned trial Judge opined that despite the Supreme Court giving the guidelines in Criminal Appeal No. 1640 of 2010 to the State Governments and Central Government that every State should have forensic science laboratory at the level of the State as well as the Division, no appropriate action had been taken by the State Government. The learned trial Judge also opined that the State Government had not been able to discharge the responsibility and there should have been an arrangement to obtain the report from the Forensic Science Laboratory within a reasonable time.
Being of this view, he recorded a judgment of acquittal in favour of the accused. Thereafter the learned trial Judge referred to Section 250 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short, 'the Code') and opined that a Court of Session can award compensation to the accused in a case of malicious prosecution and accordingly directed payment of Rs.1,50,000/- each to both the accused persons.
7. We have heard Mr. S.S. Shamshery, learned AAG for the State of Rajasthan. Despite notice, there has been no appearance on behalf of the respondents.
8. Section 250 of the Code confers powers on the Magistrate to grant compensation on certain conditions being satisfied. A procedure has been engrafted in the said provision. There are certain cases in which the learned Sessions Judge can grant compensation. In this context we may refer with profit to the decision in Daulat Ram v. State of Haryana.
"....It is unfortunate that the police officers, namely, Head Constable, Randhir PW 2 and the then Head Constable Jai Dayal, PW 3 foisted a false case on the appellant for reasons best known to them, which is a very serious matter. We are informed that the appellant was in custody for a few days in connection with this case. We, therefore, direct the respondent- State to pay a sum of Rs. 5000 as compensation to the appellant within two months. The respondent-State may however recover the said amount from the police officials, Randhir PW 2 and Jai Dayal, PW 3 (Rs. 2500 each), who are responsible for false implication of the appellant."
9. In Mohd. Zahid v. Govt. of NCT of Delhi, the appellant had preferred an appeal under Section 19 of the TADA. The designated court had found him guilty and convicted him for the offence under Section 5 of TADA and sentenced him to suffer rigorous imprisonment for five years and to pay a fine of Rs.1,000/- and, in default of payment of fine, to undergo rigorous imprisonment for two months more. The Court allowed the appeal and recorded an order of acquittal. In course of analysis, the Court has opined that certain documents had been interpolated, the evidence of certain witnesses was absolutely false and that the appellant therein made a victim of prolonged illegal incarceration due to machination of PWs 5 and 6 and other police personnel and accordingly directed payment of Rs.50,000/- as compensation.
"The High Court has also awarded Rs. 1 lakh as compensation to the accused on the ground that she was illegally detained in the police station and the police personnel committed acts of molestation, obscene violation, etc. It is noteworthy that after investigation, the police has submitted charge- sheet against accused Joy Immaculate. Her application for bail was rejected by the learned Sessions Judge and thereafter by the High Court on 18-1-2002 prior to the decision of the revision. There is absolutely no justification for awarding compensation to a person who is facing prosecution for a serious offence like murder even before the trial has commenced. This direction, therefore, deserves to be set aside."
"Above all, the learned Judge has committed a grave error in awarding a compensation of Rs 1 lakh on the ground that the police personnel committed acts of obscene violation, teasing the respondent herein. The learned Judge has relied upon only on the basis of the affidavit filed in the case for coming to the conclusion and also on the basis of the assumption that the respondent was not involved in the incident which will foreclose the further enquiry ordered by the learned Judge in the matter. There is no justification for awarding compensation to a person who is facing prosecution for a serious offence like murder even before the trial has started."
11. In this context, we may usefully refer to a two-Judge Bench decision in Hardeep Singh v. State of Madhya Pradesh. In the said case, the appellant was engaged in running a coaching centre where students were given tuition to prepare them for entrance tests for different professional courses. The appellant was arrested and a case under Section 420 read with Section 34 IPC and other sections was instituted. He was brought to the police station in handcuffs and his photographs in handcuffs appeared in the local newspapers.
The trial went on for several years and eventually, he was acquitted after 12 years. Thereafter he filed a complaint before the Magistrate which was dismissed for lack of sanction. The High Court being moved had held that complaint was not maintainable and dismissed the same in limini. Thereafter, the victim moved the Government for grant of sanction under Section 197 CrPC for prosecuting the Collector and other government servants which was refused. The said order of refusal came to be assailed in W.P. No.4777 of 2007. The writ petition was dismissed by the High Court. On an intra-court appeal preferred, the High Court dismissed the same.
12. Be it stated, after the acquittal, the appellant had filed writ petition no. 4368 of 2004 contending, inter alia, that he was taken to the police station and was kept there in custody in the night handcuffed by the police without there being any valid reason and his photographs in handcuffs in daily newspapers were published as a consequence of which his elder sister who loved him like a son, died due to shock. It was also contended that the prosecution knew from the beginning that the cases registered against him were false and it purposefully caused delay in conclusion of the trial causing great harm to his dignity and reputation and violating his fundamental right to speedy trial guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution.
A learned Single Judge of the High Court had admitted the writ petition on the limited question of grant of compensation to the appellant for the delay in conclusion of the criminal case against him. Another Single Judge who finally heard the matter opined that there was no case for compensation. In intra-court appeal, the Division Bench reversed the same and granted compensation of Rs.70,000/- which was enhanced by this Court to Rs.2 lakhs.
'The Division Bench further held that there was no warrant for putting the appellant under handcuffs. His handcuffing was without justification and it had not only adversely affected his dignity as a human being but had also led to unfortunate and tragic consequences."
"..... we find that in the light of the findings arrived at by the Division Bench, the compensation of Rs 70,000 was too small and did not do justice to the sufferings and humiliation undergone by the appellant."
13. Regard being had to the aforesaid enunciation of law, the factual matrix of the case at hand is required to be appreciated. On a close scrutiny of the judgment of the learned trial Judge, it is evident that he has been guided basically by three factors, namely, that the State Government has not established Forensic Science Laboratories despite the orders passed by this Court; that there has been delay in getting the seized articles tested; and that the seizing officer had not himself verified by using his experience and expertise that the contraband article was opium. As far as the first aspect is concerned, it is a different matter altogether. As far as the delay is concerned that is the fulcrum of the reasoning for acquittal. It is apt to note that the police while patrolling had noticed the accused persons and their behaviour at that time was suspicious.
There is nothing on record to suggest that there was any lapse on the part of the seizing officer. Nothing has been brought by way of evidence to show that the prosecution had falsely implicated them. There is nothing to remotely suggest that there was any malice. The High Court, as is noticed, has not applied its mind to the concept of grant of compensation to the accused persons in a case of present nature.
There is no material whatsoever to show that the prosecution has deliberately roped in the accused persons. There is no malafide or malice like the fact situation which are projected in the case of Hardeep Singh (supra). Thus, the view expressed by the learned trial Judge is absolutely indefensible and the affirmance thereof by the High Court is wholly unsustainable.
14. In view of the foregoing analysis, the appeal is allowed and the order of the trial Judge granting compensation and that of the High Court giving stamp of approval to the same are set aside.


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Experience History, Architecture & Culture — Along with the food tour, your local guide will share countless fun facts about the neighborhoods, recount stories of Hong Kong's development and lead you to beautiful colonial architecture that still remains. As we meander from one tasting location to another, we will also walk through an open local market, watch how locals trade the products and if you're lucky, you might be able to sneak a peek of a cage of snakes in a shop selling snake soup and wine.
Pick up at a meeting point at around 2:15 pm. Meet your local guide and get some brief introductions of the tour. Exact time and location will be confirmed after reservation.
Wonton Noodle Shop: A brother and sister team now runs this award-winning family restaurant started by their grandfather. Relish the wontons, noodles, and broth with intense flavor.
Roast Meat Restaurant: Taste some succulent roast meat. Find out how the owner perfected roasting such juicy meat over the last 30 years.
Fresh Juice Shop: Feeling a little tired? Sample some refreshing juice before continuing on our walk. Discover how the elements of this juice help balance the other tastings on the tour. This shop is one of the oldest shops in the neighborhood.
Preserved Fruits Specialty House: This little gem has been serving Hong Kong for more than 100 years. It offers a huge array of traditional Chinese preserved fruits. Try various kinds and learn about their benefits.
Dim Sum Corner: A truly family-run business, with brothers, sisters, in-laws, nephews, and nieces all pitching in. Savor a selection of dim sum and look out for others you could try when you return.
Local Bakery: Check out this tiny bakery on a side alley. For dessert, sample one of the tarts hot out of the oven.
Plus many other cultural, historical and architectural highlights.
The tour will be closed for annual summer holiday starting on July 29th and will resume on Monday, August 27th.
The tour is operated in Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays only.
On certain days, some of the local restaurants might be closed. In these case, we will substitute in a very similar replacement.
There is a lot of meat (mostly pork) and seafood (shrimp) in this tour. If you are unable to consume meat and seafood, we suggest you should choose other tours instead.
All tours take place as scheduled except under Red/Black storm warning or Typhoon #8 or above.


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Curve Digital appoints John Clark as CEO to drive global growth
Multi award-winning UK publisher Curve Digital today welcomes John Clark as its new CEO.
The news comes hot on the heels of Curve being named Publisher of the Year for the second year running at the 2020 TIGA Awards, and follows two key acquisitions of Brighton-based Runner Duck, developer of Bomber Crew; and, just last month, of Vancouver studio IronOak, the development team behind For The King.
Clark joins Curve Digital from Tencent, where he held the role of VP Partnerships Europe. Prior to that, he spent 13 years at SEGA Europe, ultimately serving as EVP Publishing and helping to shape SEGA's transition and growth during his time at the publishing stalwart.
"We are delighted to announce John Clark as our new CEO; his experience and reputation in the industry are second to none," said Dominic Wheatley, Catalis Group Chief Executive Officer. "John joins us following another great year for Curve Digital and we look forward to working together to move Curve into our next phase of expansion."
Clark added: "I've been impressed with Curve Digital's growth over the past few years, and I'm delighted and honoured to be joining the team. We have a great portfolio of developer partnerships, some great franchises and have added to our team of talent thanks to the acquisitions of the Runner Duck and IronOak studios. We have a very bright future ahead and I'm looking forward to working with the team to help shape it."
Curve Founder Jason Perkins offered: "We welcome John to the Curve family. This marks a new phase in the development of Curve Digital as we grow our publishing activity, and we look forward to a bright future."
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Killswitch Engage is an American metalcore band from Massachusetts. The band is signed to Roadrunner Records and has released six albums and one live DVD. Currently, the band is in the studio with producer Brendan O'Brein working on their 5th studio album, Killswitch Engage. Their current line-up consists of Howard Jones, Adam Dutkiewicz, Mike D'antonio, Joel Stroetzel, and Justin Foley. On stage, they are known for their humorous antics while performing.
Killswitch Enagage performing live in 2008
Metalcore, heavy metal,Alternative metal
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In December 2013 Killswitch Engage were nominated for Best Metal Performance at the 2014 Grammy Awards for their song "In Due Time".[1]
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Killswitch Engage (2000)
Alive or Just Breathing (2002)
The End of Heartache (2004)
As Daylight Dies (2006)
Disarm the Descent (2013)
(Set This) World Ablaze (2005)
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Q: Getting possible combinations of a set of "STRINGS" - PYTHON For getting possible combinations of set of "characters", syntax would be:
>>>q=[''.join(p) for p in itertools.combinations('ABC',2)]
>>>q
['AB', 'AC', 'BC']

What about getting possible combinations of set of "STRINGS"
for example :

'A1X2','B1','C19'

output should be:
    ['A1X2B1', 'A1X2C19', 'B1C19']

A: just pass strings instead. Instead of iterating on each char of "ABC", combinations iterates on the strings contained in the strings list. And join acts the same (there is no difference between a character and a string in python, characters are just strings of size 1)
strings = ['A1X2','B1','C19']

q=[''.join(p) for p in itertools.combinations(strings,2)]

result:
['A1X2B1', 'A1X2C19', 'B1C19']

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BOND ELECTION: Rec center group begins stumping door-to-door
By Steve Corda, Sun Staff — Apr 17th, 2000
* Bremerton voters will receive ballots on the $16.5 million bond issue starting next week.
The campaign to pass a $16.5 million bond to build a recreation center in downtown Bremerton started over the weekend with supporters taking their first tentative stab at reaching the voters.
There were a few volunteers lined up, said Richard Neville, who is heading up a door-to-door campaign for the Yes To Recreation, or Y2R, Committee. "It's going to be kind of a test market to see how many homes we can get to in an hour."
Neville described the first day of doorbelling as pregame for a much larger effort coming Saturday, the last Saturday before the Kitsap County Auditor's Office will mail bond election ballots to 15,746 registered voters in Bremerton.
Neville said he hopes to have as many as 200 volunteers going door-to-door Saturday and campaigning for the recreation center. The proposed center would be built on Sixth Street between Pacific and Park avenues. The complex, slated for construction between the Admiral Theatre and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, would include an aquatic park, a workout facility, teen and senior facilities and meeting rooms, among other amenities.
The volunteers will be handing out informational pamphlets, which will include information about the proposed center. Testimonials from local residents in favor of the project also will be included.
One testimonial, from Dr. Carol Whitehead, former superintendent of the Bremerton School District, said:
"It is important that we bring new families into this community, and I believe that a new community center, along with high-quality schools, can make a real difference to young families that may consider settling here."
Not everyone is so enamored of the plan.
Donna Rice, owner of Backside Pub and Eatery at 315 Pacific Ave., compared the proposed rec center to an exercise bike.
"Use it for 30 days and hang your coat on it," she said. "Only in this case, there's a pool there and your coat's going to get wet. I don't think it will attract people. I don't think it will be profitable for the city. It will lose money for the city."
Neville said Saturday's doorbelling campaign will culminate in a 2 p.m. rally at West Sound Bank on the corner of Sixth Street and Pacific Avenue.
Neville said 40 percent of the city's voters must mail in their ballots for the election to be valid. It will take a 60 percent majority of the returned ballots to approve the proposition.
"We decided to mail the ballots to make sure that we reached everyone," Neville said. "So that everyone would have a voice in the community. This is a citizen-driven project."
Reach reporter Steve Corda at (360) 792-9209 or at scorda@thesunlink.com.
ROUNDUP: Parking, rec center on agenda
The Bremerton City Council District 4 neighborhood meeting will be from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at West Sound Bank at Second Street and Pacific Avenue. Councilman Ed Rollman will host the meeting where Parks & Recreation Director Cris Gears is slated to discuss the ... [Read More...]
OUR VIEWS: Bremerton faces key decision
* Can the community respond to the recreation center bond defeat by looking for a way to build bridges between supporters and opponents? Bremerton voters have spoken resoundingly on the $16.5 million parks and recreation bond issue. The measure, which needed 60 percent to pass, won ... [Read More...]
DOWNTOWN BREMERTON: Supporters of proposed rec center hit the streets
The most dedicated of Bremertonians walked more than two miles Saturday to show their support for a new downtown recreation center. "I'm a native Bremertonian, and I'd like to see Bremerton get up and get going," Thelma Gurske said. "I think this would ... [Read More...]
BREMERTON REC CENTER: Group proposes new site
* The area between the library on Fifth Street and the Admiral Theatre could become a new recreation center. The proposed downtown Bremerton recreation center may finally have found a home, and it's probably not the J.C. Penney building as originally suggested. A ... [Read More...]
BREMERTON CITY COUNCIL: Rec center clears latest hurdle
Dec 23rd, 1999
* If the project gets final approval next week, voters will be asked to vote on a bond in March. The Bremerton City Council gave tentative approval Wednesday for a bond election to pay for a new downtown recreation center. Sort of. If the ... [Read More...]


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Woman arrested after biting hospital employee, threatens to have kids killed
Jonathan Greco
A 32-year-old woman was arrested over the weekend after police say she caused a disturbance at a metro hospital and bit a hospital employee.Police responded to a disturbance call at about 7:45 p.m. Sunday at St. Anthony Hospital, 1000 N. Lee Ave., where a witness said a woman started acting belligerent after voluntarily admitting herself earlier in the evening, according to a police report. A nurse told police that the woman, identified as Kasey Smith, became argumentative when hospital staff tried to take her phone and started hitting her head against the floor.A security guard came into the room, placed handcuffs on Smith and helped move her back onto a bed, according to the report. He said Smith continued to hit her head against the bed rail and tried to remove a plastic item from her mouth, which is when he said she bit his fingers and wouldn't let go.Smith was arrested on complaints of assault and battery of a medical personnel and assault and battery.While being processed at the Oklahoma County Jail, Smith yelled at detention officers that she wanted her hearing aid and said she had a do not resuscitate order and that officers could not bring her back to life if she died in jail, the report said. Smith then started hitting her head against a wall, reopening a wound on her face.She then suffered a seizure while officers tried getting her under control, the report said. Smith was taken back to St. Anthony Hospital, where she said, "If I go back to that jail, I'll keep banging my head until it kills me" and "If the doctor touches my face to fix it, that mother (expletive)'s gonna get attacked and bit."She also said she would write a letter to have her children killed.Smith was taken back to the Oklahoma County Jail after she was cleared by hospital staff.
A 32-year-old woman was arrested over the weekend after police say she caused a disturbance at a metro hospital and bit a hospital employee.
Police responded to a disturbance call at about 7:45 p.m. Sunday at St. Anthony Hospital, 1000 N. Lee Ave., where a witness said a woman started acting belligerent after voluntarily admitting herself earlier in the evening, according to a police report. A nurse told police that the woman, identified as Kasey Smith, became argumentative when hospital staff tried to take her phone and started hitting her head against the floor.
A security guard came into the room, placed handcuffs on Smith and helped move her back onto a bed, according to the report. He said Smith continued to hit her head against the bed rail and tried to remove a plastic item from her mouth, which is when he said she bit his fingers and wouldn't let go.
Smith was arrested on complaints of assault and battery of a medical personnel and assault and battery.
While being processed at the Oklahoma County Jail, Smith yelled at detention officers that she wanted her hearing aid and said she had a do not resuscitate order and that officers could not bring her back to life if she died in jail, the report said. Smith then started hitting her head against a wall, reopening a wound on her face.
She then suffered a seizure while officers tried getting her under control, the report said. Smith was taken back to St. Anthony Hospital, where she said, "If I go back to that jail, I'll keep banging my head until it kills me" and "If the doctor touches my face to fix it, that mother (expletive)'s gonna get attacked and bit."
She also said she would write a letter to have her children killed.
Smith was taken back to the Oklahoma County Jail after she was cleared by hospital staff.


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The club is also a founding member of the Eastern Region Women's Football League as well as recently affiliating with with East Ringwood Netball Club which presently fields 6 Junior and 3 Senior teams.
The club has enjoyed consistent success over the past 91 years, being ranked as the third highest premiership winners in EFL Division 1 History.
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The ground is used regularly by the EFNL for junior & senior finals matches, and is shared with the East Ringwood Cricket Club.


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Sorry I have been such a slacker on posting. I am back in Kentucky trying to get a job to raise some funds to get back on the road to Alaska. It is very frustrating to me. I am always applying for jobs in my field of audio/video, theatre and such along with jobs just to pay the bills but I rarely even get an interview and very rarely get a job. I apply for around 20 to 50 jobs a day... 7 days a week, anything from temporary, part time and full time position in everything from retail, childcare, to jobs in my field all over the country. It gets really hard for me to stay positive. It is hard to be proud of all the work I have done from spending 10 years to beat my eating disorder and have a handle on my depression along with finally graduating from college and to go on to get my masters. Oh and all those years working with people to help them live life to the fullest and working for non-profits making very little money to learn all that I can about my field. I have had great experiences and am very advanced in my field but it really doesn't matter.
This lack of being able to find a job is why I decided to live on the road. Why live in poverty stuck in one place. I figured I needed to find a way to have nothing but everything all at once. Doing what I love and being happy is worth more than anything and living on the road does that for me. I'm not asking to be rich... I just want to be able to eat and pay my small amount of bills and have gas for Blue to keep us going.
So the last few days I have been feeling sorry for myself... kind of tired of that crap. Maybe I am just suppose to live life a bit different. Even so I should be able to pay my very few bills and be able to eat every day but if I wasn't staying at my parents house I would have no food to eat. And of course right now bills can't even be touched. Only a few hundred dollars I need and I can't do it. Go figure... spent hundreds of thousands of dollars so I wanted to eat and yet I can't afford to eat. Oops, sorry... feeling sorry for myself again.
I think now is time for a new plan... figure out what is needed and be off. Maybe a new business plan to start my own small business... maybe figuring out what I can sell and what is needed... not that I have much these days but surely there is something.
Time to set small goals again to get me thru each day. Today I am going to finish up a hat I started for someone... it is over halfway done so it should be an easy task for today.
I've never doubted you Jackie, you've always accomplished what you set out for.
This is just a little bump in the road on the way to Alaska - I know the pieces will fall into place for you!
Yes, I have been on Elance for over a year and have never got a job. I even did the paid version for a few months so I could apply in more than one area and paid for extra credits... hasn't worked for me yet.


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Q: Overlapping ranks - Creating a block diagram I nearly spent the whole day trying to get a block diagram out of Graphviz. The biggest problem seems to be that I've got vertical as well as horizontal ranking. Easier shown than explained, so here is how the diagram should look:

This is my Dot-Code so far:
digraph block_diagram
{
  graph [ splines=ortho, rankdir=TB];
  node [shape=box, style=filled, fontname=Arial];

  layer_0 [style="rounded,filled", fillcolor="#99ccff", width=15, height=1, label="Layer 0"];

  layer_1 [shape=box, width=5, height=1, label="Layer 1"];
  //emptybox [shape=box,height=1, label=""];
  layer_1_1 [shape=box, width=5, height=1, label="Layer 1_1"];
  layer_2 [shape=box, width=5, height=1, label="Layer 2"];
  layer_3 [shape=box, width=5, height=1, label="Layer 3"];
  layer_4 [shape=box, width=5, height=1, label="Layer 4"];

  application [shape=box, width=3, height=5, label="Application"];

  layer_0 -> { layer_1 application };
  layer_0 -> layer_1 -> layer_1_1 -> layer_2 -> layer_3 -> layer_4;
  application -> { layer_2 layer_3 layer_4 };
}

It looks like this -

I tried to group the nodes and rank them, but in the end all have the same rank and the diagram just looks wrong.
I don't know what to do anymore, and I hope someone can help me.
P.S.: I also don't know to create a shape like 'Layer 1'

A: Summary: This answer presents a variant using auxiliary nodes, still looking for a variant with no extra nodes and clusters.
If you create several invisible nodes within a cluster, you can get desired visual behavior, as in this image:

This is possible through the use of the attribute newrank=true to graph and { rank=same; nodename1; nodename2; ... } for horizontal alignment desired nodes. To hide auxiliary nodes, you need to give them an attribute style=invis, to hide cluster's borders add attribute color=none to cluster.
For vertical alignment, group the desired nodes by giving them an attribute group=g1, here g1 is your custom name for column of nodes.
Layer 1 and Layer 1_1 nodes can be created as table cells.
Bi-directional edges created with dir=both.
To make the line end at the cluster boundary, I used attribute compound=true for graph and lhead, ltail for edge.
Final image:

Script:
digraph block_diagram  {
    graph [
        newrank=true,
        ranksep=0,
        nodesep=0,
        splines=ortho,
        compound=true,
        fontname="Arial" ];
    node [
        shape=box,
        style=filled,
        fontname="Arial",
        fontsize=14 ];

    subgraph cluster_0{
        fillcolor="#99ccff"
        style="rounded, filled"
        layer_0 [
                label=<Layer 0>,
                fillcolor=none,
                shape=none
                width=1 ];
        a1 [group=g1 width=1.5 style=invis]
        a2 [group=g2 width=1.5 style=invis]
    }

    subgraph cluster_1_1 {
        color=none;
        layer_1 [
            group=g1,
            fillcolor=none,
            shape=none,
            margin=0,
            label=  <

                    Layer 1

                    Layer 1_1

>]
        layer_2 [
            group=g1,
            label=<Layer 2>,
            fillcolor ="#ccffff",
            width=1.6 ];
        }

    layer_underline [
        group=g1,
        label="",
        margin=0;
        shape=underline,
        fillcolor=none,
        width=2,
        height=0 ];

    subgraph cluster_1_2{
        color=none;
        layer_3 [
            group=g1,
            label=<Layer 3>,
            fillcolor="#ccff99",
            width=1.6 ];
        layer_4 [
            group=g1,
            label=<Layer 4>,
            fillcolor="#ccff99",
            width=1.6 ];
    }

    subgraph cluster_2 {
        style=filled;
        fillcolor="#dde6ed"
        b1 [group=g2 style=invis]
        application [
            group=g2,
            label=<Application>,
            shape=none
            fillcolor=none
            width=2 ];
        b2 [group=g2 style=invis]
    }

    a1 -> layer_0  [style=invis]
    layer_0 -> a2 [style=invis]
    a1 -> layer_1 [minlen=3 ltail="cluster_0" lhead="cluster_1_1" dir="both" color="#99ccff" penwidth=5 arrowsize=.5]
    a2 -> b1 [ltail="cluster_0" lhead="cluster_2" dir=both color="#99ccff" penwidth=5 arrowsize=.5]

    layer_1 -> layer_2 [style=invis];
    layer_2 -> layer_underline [ color="#99ccff" penwidth=5 arrowsize=.5 dir=back ltail="cluster_1_1"]
    layer_underline -> layer_3 [ color="#99ccff" penwidth=5 arrowsize=.5 lhead="cluster_1_2"]
    layer_3 -> layer_4 [style=invis]

    b1 -> application [style=invis]
    application -> b2 [style=invis]

    layer_4 -> b2 [color="#99ccff" penwidth=5 arrowsize=.5 ltail="cluster_1_2" lhead="cluster_2" dir=both]
    layer_2 -> application [color="#99ccff" penwidth=5 arrowsize=.5 ltail="cluster_1_1" lhead="cluster_2" dir=both]

    { rank=same; layer_4; b2 }
    { rank=same; layer_1; b1 }
    { rank=same; layer_underline; application }
    { rank=same; a1; layer_0; a2 }
}


Absentee writer person reporting for duty! I've been aiming for every two weeks, and this time it's been two months - I did warn you I wasn't cut out to be a blogger! But I had to come tell you that Champagne and Daisies is out today! I love Chelsea and Grant and hope you will too!


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Frances Green
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 21st February 2011 by Jenny Porter
Full length interview with Francis Green
Interviewee: Francis Green
Interviewee Age: 71
Interviewee Gender: Female
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Date of Interview: 8th August 2009
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Frances Walsh Transcript
JP -I'll start by asking your name…
FW-Do you want my name when I lived here, if your going to…hopefully other people will come forward they would recognise my single name and my name was then Corinne and I lived in Whittle which was street.
JP- Right, ok.
So, erm you know the name now of course is Walsh, but that was my name Green, Frances Green.
JP- OK.
FW-And I lived in Whittle Street, went to St. Sebastian School in Lockerby road, so if anybody gets in touch, you know, sort of gets in touch with me would be nice, get a few people together and then as you say we can learn from each other.
JP- Yeah, yeah. (Laughter from both parties) Are we recording? Ok, Great . So, you've just told us your name, but if you can tell us again, that would be great.
FW-Frances Green, er , originally from Whittle Street which was next to Binge Road, which is a well know road in Edge Lane and I went to St. Sebastian's School in Lockerby Road. And er, lived up there till I was sixteen. Lived in Edge Lane till I was sixteen.
JP- Ok. Now were just sort of sat in front of the Gala Bingo and the Iceland. Whereabouts from here was Binns Street then, (interrupted by FW- Binns Road) Binns Road.
FW- It was the road parallel to this something Wavertree Road along here, (JP- That's right, yeah). Well Edge Lane was the next one along running parallel and Binge Road, oh gosh - about half a mile further down. There's a park, Wavertree Park where Littlewoods was and you carried on down going out of the town and on the right hand side was Binns Road but before that you had Whither? Street, Mellowdyn Road, Thistlewood Road, Brompton Road, you had all those roads and then Binns. And at the top of Binns Road was Crawford Biscuit Factory (JP- Oh, yeah, yeah). And Crawford Biscuit Factory took over our street because they wanted to, I suppose a little bit more room for their vans they wanted to extent their garages. So they became our landlords and that was how we came to move. There was a huge cry over it at the time because they were perfectly good houses, a bit on the line of Coronation Street but they were lovely little houses. And erm, a lot of people didn't want to move, of course. And Betsy Braddock was the Labour MP at the time, kicked up a huge fuss over this. That these houses were been pulled down for the likes of a factory to expand, but my mother was up in hand because she wanted to move, saving herself for them- and she wanted to move, because we get a little bathroom, which we did. And er, so people were sort of on two sides, some wanted to go some didn't, but that was the start, I mean they talk about what's been happening on Edge Hill now, but we it actually happened to us all those years ago 1953/54? Yeah, so they came down and gradually they took over the whole street. I mean Crawford's new more but when I was a
child during the war, when you could get sweets the girls they use to work in the chocolate w? Which is the big building in the top of our street, very, very high to a child, they use to throw chocolate down to us on the street. And we'll be skipping or playing leap frog, doing anything really that a child would do. And erm, suddenly flocking like manner, this flock of chocolate would come down from the chocolate room. (JP-Wow)And they of course the girls got the biscuits, I think Tuesday and Thursday were the days for biscuits and so we would go and stand on the corner of Binns Road, the next street, And we'd all stand with are hands like this "biscuit please, any biscuits please" and my poor mother was mortified, because she worked there for a short time. And the though of that I was going round in front of all of her friends begging for biscuits, when she is coming home with bags of them. (Laughter) Crawfords was so many factories, Crawfords, the Automatic, Maccano, I worked in Maccano for a few years and one of those factories you were in danger of being run over by a bicycle. Rather, it was so busy along Edge Lane, of an eve…oh yes sort of 5 O' clock. It was so busy with all the bikes coming out the Automatic. They were very thriving factories and Crawfords biscuits, very , very well known. And The Automatic and the Maccano, Pecksworth. There where so many on Binns Road as you went up Binns Road, they where all the factories and of course this was the little station, Edge Hill Station.
JP-So erm , what did they use to make at The Automatic?
FW-It was something to do with telephones a think, they were very erm, very technical if you like -electrical things, electrical components. During the war they were helping with the war effort. I don't what they made unfortunately but they were helping with the war effort. But I know- I had an uncle who worked there a lot of well known people at the time. Erm, some stayed at worked at The Automatic my Aunt worked there and she with a couple of comedians that were well known in the 50's and early 60's, Ted Ray and Arthur Askey. They both worked in The Automatic. Oh, yes. And then my Uncle worked there but then got the job in the Post office and when you got a job at the Post Office you became, you were established (JP-Right) you could get married then. Its a well know thing, that if you got into the Post Office from The Automatic, they did very similar things, but the Post Office was a little bit cut above and you were established.
JP- Right. So,that was your uncle he got the job at the post office?
FW - Yeah. I think that he put the electricity in for us in Whittle Street. And a think we were one of the first to have electricity in and the little round brown switches, because he was sort of electrical and knew what he was doing, before that it was the gas lamp, which you leave on the table.
J- you were saying before that your granddad use to work at the station… (FW-Oh, yes, yeah.) What did he do?
FW-He was in charge of looking after the lining and taming suppose to safety of the line. And he was the ganger. I would imagine he would have been in charge from Lime Street perhaps to Edge Hill. And because he had that responsibility he was the form, they called it the ganger those days. I looked it up in the dictionary last night it means form of a group of labourers. So that they would get that little bit more money. Which of course is important and that was what he did. And how he got
the job, I don't know. He lived in Crewe from when he was a child, now there's a big railway yard in Crewe , whether or not he started out there I don't go that far back. And then came to Liverpool, came here, I don't quite know. But it was a thriving little station at one time, I do remember it of course, being children we always wanted to play where it was dangerous and remember being chased away from the _and anyone else who was on duty. We'd go round to the station, and erm cause mayhem as you did. And erm, he'd chase us as well, you know. You just had to get off, get away from the station, but then as I say was the big tank, which was a draw for all of the children because it was boarded up so 'cos you immediately wanted to see what was on the other side and I remember pushing a friend in, quite bad. We were getting through the little holes to go in, and I lost my balance, I was totally timid in those days and pushed this child, I can still remember Pattie Thompson and I pushed her in. And she fell and cut her hand. I remember running home and locking myself in because my mother was at work and was only the two of us and locking myself in the house 'cos I thought this girl's mother would come over and shout at me. Anyway, she got over it. I do remember that.
JP-So, that was an old army tank?
FW-I think it was a tank, I think it was during the war for storage for water (JP-Oh, right!) I think that's what it was. But after sort of after war '45-'46 it was, to me there where bombs around here it was a bit of a derelict place really. It was a horrible place, you were always told not to play in the tank because there were broken things, you could-you know quite hurt yourself really. And I remember sort of a lot of rubble bricks, maybe there where houses had been there originally and maybe they had been bombed. I honestly don't know about that but it was just rubble, for many years for a long time after the war, that remained there. Because they didn't, I don't imagine start rebuilding sort of these areas straight away, it would be the city they would be concentrating on.
JP-Yeah, yeah. So that was an old tank, was it near to the station?
FW-Yes it was. It was near, it was more on the Edge Lane side of the station not Wavertree. On Edge Lane, if you walked along Edge Lane you weren't very far from what use to be the Croswell bus depot (JP- Right.) It was just on the other side from the old Croswell depot, a few hundred yards coming back towards the town. So, there was a little station and the tankers on Binns Road just of the back of the houses on the left hand side there was sort of an open plot, if you like and the tank had been put there originally. I don't remember obviously I was too small for that. But the tank had been put there. If you could get someone who sort of was ten years ahead of me, they could probably tell you more about the tank. All I remember is that the tank had been there and this was the remains that we use to play in. And of course when you were young you don't think safety of your parents-what was that there for?
JP-Yeah, yeah. Or what you could of been playing with, you know. Yeah, yeah. So your granddad worked at Edge Hill station, what was his name?
FW-Joe Greene. (JP-Joe Greene?)
FW-Yeah. I'd loved to find out more about what he did. I was so mad when that chap told me, I said if I only came last year. Yeah (JP- Yeah). So he worked here and as I say, there where allotments now, just where they where I don't know-but there were allotments. I think there was really, they might not of died out of the vern now. But erm, I think it was mainly not so much allotments that had always been there but mainly dig for victory. You know, everyone was just given, wherever there was any land and to grow stuff. And my granddad did because he came from a sort of er, I think a bit of a gardening family and he did grow things. But the Rhubarb I do remember, I remember him coming up with Rhubarb, yeah.
It's amazing going back really. I just wish there were more of us here to jog each others memory. During the war there use to be a little shop not far from the station, I remember the name of the shop it was Fleets. And it was off Binns Road, the shop off Binns Road. And erm, they use to sell, have tins of Peanut Butter. But your guttered to go in. My cousin use to come from Norris Green, which in those days was very posh. She lived in Strawberry Road in Norris Green. She use to come to our house sometimes to stay. And erm, she'd go round gives us some Peanut Butter and dumped it on the square of a newspaper. The lady use to keep the old newspapers some of paper s and some of the old papers had Hitler's face on. And you could imagine what they'd be used for? (Laughter) Because you had it in your outside toilet as well. And you say pen or a heap of Peanut Butter and she would just whack it out on to a little square of newspaper, and you came away and dipped in. Nothing tasted as nice. We all kept cats as well. We nearly all kept cats….because in our street the particularly the biscuits and the mice. So you'd find people would borrow your cat if they didn't have one. But er, I was always brought up with a cat in the house. And the cats really didn't need feeding because they would find their own food because the biscuit would feed the mice, you see. So, the idea was to have a cat. (yeah.)
JP-So when you moved to from, you didn't live on Binns Road did you… (FW- No. I lived on Whither Street, the road before Binns Road , if you coming from town.)
JP- Where did you move to from Whither street?
FW-I moved to Knotty Ash where Ken Dodd lived. (laughter) We had to move there didn't we? Because there was the only two of us, we got a little prefab. They were fine in the winter but in the summer they were very hot actually. Because in the winter they were bitterly cold, oh they were bitterly cold. But they did have a lovely bathroom, bathroom heated towel rail, my mother thought she won the pools. Heated towel rail a little fridge, yeah suppose really we did better ourselves if you like, in the prefab. And there is definitely isn't that community spirit, definitely wasn't that community spirit. And the old lady that use to live next door to use , that sort of kept an eye on me after my grand mother died, she moved-she didn't want to move. I mean there was so many houses up to one ....they all came down. This old lady that lived next door to us, she was on her own and she didn't want to move. So we when the old lady down the road died. Which the houses were still standing up, Crawfords moved her into that house. And she was quite happy with that. And erm, she was fine there until every night she use to go across to the local pub, The Wellington and she had a little white jug and she use to go over with the jug to The Wellington and they fill it up for her. And she'd bring right back and she had a lovely little dog Flossy. And wasn't she coming back across Edge Lane one night and one of first hit and run drivers. Yeah, she was killed. It was a thing about it in the paper and everything. I think it was the first sort of what they called it hit and run in Liverpool or something. She was killed coming back over the road. It was only from here to –she only had to cross Edge Lane, the pub was just there for her.
JP-Well you look at Edge Lane now you can imagine it….can't ya?
FW- That's right but in those days, she used to go out in a little coat or cardigan something on her. A little walk and just across with a little jug-she use to have it with her every night. And erm, her husband must of been killed probably during the first war. Because she was on her own, she had no children but she did have a sister that lived up Binns Road and probably that was why she didn't want to move to far from the area.
JP-So, really the area has changed so much…
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I LIVED IN BINNS ROAD OPPOSIT CRAWFORDS OFFICES TILL I WAS 16 YEARS OLD FROM 1947 TO 1963 WORKED IN PATON CALVERTS,MY SISTER WORKED IN THE MECCANO ,MY FATHER WORKED IN THE AUTOMATIC . I WENT TO ST.CUTHBERTS R.C SCHOOL .
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Troy Denning is the author of the New York Times bestseller Waterdeep (under the pseudonym Richard Awlinson) and nineteen other novels, including Pages of Pain, Beyond the High Road, and, most recently, The Summoning. A former game designer and editor, he enjoys hiking, mountain climbing, judo, and any sport that involves going fast with boards strapped to his feet. He lives in southern Wisconsin with his wife, Andria.
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Lolita Midsleeper Combi
Posted September 1, 2018 February 11, 2008 in Categories Kids/Teens, Photo66 Commentsby Randy Cassingham
I thought many readers would like to see the photos that go with a story from the 10 February 2008 issue, and maybe you will have examples of other "inappropriate" products, especially for children. First, the story:
The staff of the U.K. branch of the Woolworths department stores didn't see anything wrong with the bedroom set designed for 6-year-old girls: it was dubbed the "Lolita Midsleeper Combi" and sold for 395 pounds (US$769) on the store's web site. The store refused to withdraw or rename the product because it wanted to "follow current trends," but a U.K.-based child-raising online forum continued to raise a fuss until the store bothered to investigate why "Lolita" might be an inappropriate marketing tactic. The 1955 book Lolita, which was adapted to film in 1962 and 1997, is about the narrator's sexual relationship with a 12-year-old girl. "We had to look it up" online to understand why shoppers were upset, a Woolworth's spokesman said, claiming no one knew who "Lolita" was. "We certainly know who she is now." The bed has been taken off the market, the spokesman confirmed. "We will be talking to the supplier with regard to how the branding came about." (London Times) …Surely it was suggested by the children's department manager, Mr. Humbert.
The photos include a screen shot from the web offering:
Free delivery on all "oders"!
Pregnant with Possibilities
While I was researching this, I found one blogger who particularly chuckled over the bit about the "perfect space-saving solution." Gee, he said: why would a pedophile pay $769 for a bed when the real space-saving innovation would be to have the kid sleep in your bed with you? But certainly that's not something I'd say!
The second shot is a close-up of the item:
At least the kid is boosted up by the window to aid her escape.
What other inappropriate, absurd, perhaps even sexual item have you seen advertised for children? Tell me about it in the comments area. (I do have a previous example from True: "pimp" and "ho" Halloween costumes — yes, for children — and a later one, the Evilstick from 2014.)
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Gail, California
One junk email I received really threw me: Teddy bears "demonstrating" sex toys and "tools".
brigid, atlanta
Did you have to take the screen shot with typo off the page? Because I can't see it…
It's still there. "Orders" is spelled "oders". -rc
Tommy, Texas
The Mattel vibrating Harry Potter broomstick was a great kids toy too, don't you think?
http://www.charchaa.com/files/locker9/Potter-Broomstick.jpg
Gerard, Enniskillen, N Ireland
I recall one of those Shows with Wacky ads from around the world having a wearable tracker device so Parents could check on a kid's whereabouts…the name of the product? "Little Bugger"!
The term isn't used a lot in the U.S., so in case someone doesn't "get" the meaning: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugger -rc
Jess, Canberra
I vaguely recall something called "My First Pole Dancing Set", or something to that effect. It was said to include some play money for tucking into the garter (also included).
Tesco, another British chain, had the set for sale and dropped it in 2006 after an outcry. -rc
Sue in Bremerton WA
A few years ago there was a VERY popular song about Barbie — my 5 year old grand daughter knew every word, with gestures.. but she didn't know what some of the innuendo was, and so I had to talk to her mother about what an almost nasty song it is.
Remember paper dolls? I was looking online one day for some to perhaps give or buy for my granddaughters, and there were three sites offering paper dolls of a totally different type.. nude and scantily dressed 'models' that were actually porn. I don't have a mature filter on my computer, but I don't think it would have mattered anyway.
The little 'Lolita' bed is very cute, too bad it has that name. I'm just glad it isn't Barbie. Smile.
The 1997 "Barbie Girl" song was from a Danish pop group called Aqua, and they were sued over the song by Mattel. I had a great time writing Mattel up for a Stella Award over the suit, since it was so terribly frivolous — parody is an absolute defense in trademark infringement cases, and there was no possible way for them to win. The case is featured in my Stella Awards book. -rc
E, Massachusetts
Well, it wasn't as obvious an issue, but I was in a store recently and saw underwear for little girls. On the package? A VERY suggestively posed little girl, in just the underpants, and her arms crossed over her chest!
Jason in Vancouver BC
Perhaps the people responsible for this bed were Japanese? In Japan there is a whole fashion trend called 'Lolita' which has nothing to do with child abuse. It's all about being girly, pretty, and dressing like a Victorian doll.
I know, because my wife is very into this fashion style. It's very cute and conservative, but tends to result in a lot of confusion here in North America because of the name.
As the ad shows, the company behind the bed is Scandinavian House Ltd, which is decidedly not Japanese. They're based in Leeds, England, and source most of their furniture of this type from Thuka, a Danish brand with strong British presence. -rc
Jerry, Bridgeport, CT
Please don't consider this an elitist comment or assume that I am too old and "out of it" (I am 36) but the failure of a store and its supplier and all of the staff involved in design and marketing of the Lolita bed and not a single one of them knew of either the book by Nabakov or the movies or even the song by the group "The Police" ("Don't stand too close to me"). Isn't it amazing that a whole generation of people don't have a clue about an item of literature that has been around in various forms for the last 50 years? Not even to the point of understanding a reference to the name "Lolita" which plainly is connected to only one idea: sex with an underage female.
I love the internet but there has to be an inverse relationship between the rise of this form of communication and the decline of any kind of reading.
You either hit the nail right on the head (though you omitted reference to the "Lolita" films, including one that got huge publicity in 1997 and starred Jeremy Irons), or they did know all about it and thought it would be a great marketing ploy, and played dumb when reaction was so unfavorable. Frankly, I'm more likely to believe the latter…. -rc
Ari in Virginia
How 'bout the "Jar Jar Binks Monster Mouth Candy Tongue"? This is a cherry lollipop shaped like the Star Wars character's tongue, with a plastic holder shaped like Jar Jar's head on a tube that shields the sticky candy when you're not actively, um, sucking the tongue.
photo: http://www.warpbreach.com/8/jarjarsuck.jpg
Amanda, Montclair NJ
Well, I'm somewhat relieved upon seeing it – I was thinking it would be intended to be sexy-looking. After all it's just a normal IKEA-sort-of-style kids' bed… with a terrible, unfortunate name.
Chuck, MD
Just had to see what the fuss was about "Barbie Girl", so looked up a link to the video.
And the song wouldn't be complete without the lyrics:
http://www.purelyrics.com/index.php?lyrics=fhjpacrk
Lynwood in Charleston SC
Back in 1997 Mattel and Nabisco put out a black Barbie doll covered with Oreo references called "Oreo Fun Barbie". Because Oreo is a racial slur in the USA meaning "black on the outside and white on the inside" (implying that the black person so labeled is a traitor to their race) Mattel recalled the doll.
You have to wonder about executives that could approve such a thing. Obviously they are WAY out of touch with the popular culture that they are targeting with these products!
Scroll down about half way to see the doll:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbie_doll
And for sale on EBay! As of this writing there is one available for about $40.
Kathryn, Richmond VA
To be fair, the two questionable items I saw weren't specifically intended for children. Also, they weren't easily found by the American public–they were offered for sale via an online auction. But the combination of the branding and the fact that they were actually mass-produced (though for an overseas market) gave me pause…
1) "Hello Kitty" 9mm Pistol. A real, functioning gun. Cased in pink plastic and complete with its friendly Kitty on the grips.
2) "Hello Kitty" Dildo. Yep, you read that right. With the friendly Kitty in a (ahem) prominent position at the top.
Mark - Alberta
I remember reading an article about a children's bed from Ikea that was pulled because it was named after a town in Sweden, but in German the name was a sexual slang word.
That was the "Gutvik" bed. "Goot fick" is German for what you likely think it is. -rc
Phil, Gilford NH
In recent years we've received a bunch of mail-order catalogs from assorted vendors (most of them fairly major names) touting outfits for kids as young as 9 and 10 that you'd expect to see worn by either a prostitute or maybe a slutty 18-year-old in a rebellious shock-the-parents phase. There's something wrong when we have headline kiddie-porn scandals, we have news stories about pedophiles trolling online trying to solicit sex from underage kids, and then you open the mailbox and here's Lillian Vernon trying to sell your 13-year-old a stripper costume for Halloween.
Andy, Greenville, PA
How about "Chilly Bang Bang" fruit drink? It consisted of a fruit drink filled water pistol that the tykes are supposed to drink by putting the muzzle in the mouth and pulling the trigger!!
It is noteworthy that the product was on the shelves for only a VERY short time — it was recalled by the Illinois Department of Public Health.
Indeed an incredibly stupid thing to teach children. The shocking part was in the recall notice, the stated reason wasn't any sort of safety issue regarding the idea of a kid sticking a gun in his mouth, but rather that "The opening tab at the end of the gun barrel separates and is a small part which could be ingested by small children and cause choking." Incredible. -rc
Derek, Irvine, CA
When you solicited comments for inappropriate items marketed for kids, I immediately remembered Dan Aykroyd's hilarious routines as Irwin Mainway on the original Saturday Night Live where he shilled toys for kids like bags of broken glass ("Bag O' Glass") and "Johnny Switchblade".
Those were gags on late night TV. Fun to remember, but in a totally different class…. -rc
Jenni - Colorado
At Christmas, underwear for adolescent girls was sold at Walmart that said "who needs credit cards… when you have santa". Walmart pulled them.
Denise, NC
I know it's a British advert, and maybe I'm terribly American-centric, but I would have thought that the Amy Fischer "Long Island Lolita" story would have been infamous enough to make certain any Oprah-watching country would know about it.
As for inappropriate toys, how about the decidedly phallic-looking Dora Aquapet?
CeeJay, OH
My grandmother was named Lolita and in her memory my 4 year-old granddaughter is also named Lolita.
When Christmas shopping this year, I did a search for products named Lolita, found and bought this bed for her.
I remember seeing the book listed on the product search but didn't pay any attention to it as she can't read yet. I had no idea what the book was about until this story hit the news.
Lolita loves her bed and is very pleased about the fact that it is "her" bed with her name. Sleeping in this bed does not harm her in any way and does not make her any more of a target for pedophiles than she was before she got the bed.
The people the bed is targeted for (4-6 year olds) have never heard of the book or movies and have no clue what other meanings the name might have.
Maybe if those mother's had left things alone some of the stigma attached to the name would have been mitigated. Instead they have reinforced the notion that Lolita in some way relates to sexuality and have brought that idea back in to the forefront of the public consience.
I hope that by the time my granddaughter is old enough to understand all this that people will have forgotten about it again.
Good luck. The direction society is going doesn't seem to make that any too likely, which of course is why those mothers made a fuss. -rc
Dain, Bradshaw, MD
There are names that have been ruined by association. You will most likely never find a German boy named Adolph, and Brunhilda has been shifted to Broomhilda, a cartoon witch. You'll probably never find an English girl named Wallis, and even nearly 300 years later, the name Charley Peace brings a wry smile to English faces. Lolita falls into this category. Fortunately it will be easy for the poor girl to change her name when she gets older.
And woe to anyone in an Amazon household who happens to be named Alexa. -rc
Karen, AR
When I was a kid in the 70's, I owned a "Growing Up Skipper" doll by Mattel. When you turned her left arm one way, her torso became longer and her breasts popped out. Turn it the other way to make her shorter, flatter. (Wish I'd kept her, she's worth a bundle now!)
Then about 6 years ago, my daughter received a Mattel toy in her Happy Meal. It was a Barbie figure that came with a wand. When you rubbed Barbie's chest with the wand wet, it made 2 inappropriately placed stars appear on her shirt.
Jeff, CA
I have this Princess Leia figure that came from some fast food promotion a couple years ago. There is a knob on the side you turn to see different Star Wars scenes. To see the scenes, you have to look up her dress…!
Ernest - Junee, NSW, Australia
I'm aware of the story Lolita, but it's also a common girls name in many countries, and has been for a long time – that's why it was used in the book. What is interesting is that several years ago Lolita has entered into general usage in some countries as a term to refer to young girls in the 5 to 10 year age group. I don't know why, but have seen it becoming increasingly more used in reference to young girls in the media and movies and it's usually not used in any sexual manner – but more like you use the term teen or mid teen to refer to an age group.
Being against something because it's called a Lolita set would be like being against something called a Susie set because an infamous female had the same name – some people are just determined to see something wrong in anything. I do wonder how those shocked women had known about the story Lolita?
They apparently read. -rc
Brien, San Diego
Remember the Abercrombie & Fitch stink a few years ago about the thong underwear for 8-10 year olds with "eye candy" and "wink-wink" on them? Here's an archived story and picture.
Greg, TX
And the childish belief that a person's name defines them continues.
I suppose Woolworths' first mistake was listening to the complainers from an internet forum – often the source of so much trouble on a forum and so little benefit.
How about the "Tabitha Midsleeper Combi"? Oh wait, Tabitha was a witch, the daughter of Samantha on the television show "Bewitched".
Boy, finding names for things sure is getting harder – for the small-minded. Or maybe just for the people who have to satisfy the small-minded.
Adam in Atoka, OK
Tabitha's name isn't associated with pedophilia or borderline pedophilia, and most people in North America at least still remember bits of the massive media fiasco that was Joey Butifuco(sp?) and the 'Long-Island Lolita' case, which is how the term 'Lolita' first entered the public consciousness and the national lexicon.
Maybe the store should be spared some of the public backlash for simply not knowing, maybe they should get well and truly burned for not bothering to do the research, but either way they may as well have named this the 'Precocious Slut' Midsleeper Combi.
Swiggy, Elkhart IN
In a newsgroup a while back, one of our members posted a picture of a young girl, maybe 11 or 12 at the most. She was wearing a tank top. Across the chest (undeveloped) was the phrase, "Work in Progress" and at the bottom of the shirt was the phrase "Good to Go" with an arrow pointing to her privates.
At best, it could be called kiddie porn for the public, because the girl is dressed, but the suggestions on her shirt makes it obscene. Yea, I have a copy of it if you are interested in it for your site, and let the readers judge. As to who would buy such a shirt for such a young girl, the group speculated that it was A) an older boyfriend, B) A child molester that she is active with.
It could well have been C) an advertisement. The question is, if you considered it "obscene," why did you keep a copy? -rc
Brian, Indiana
I think it is sad that so many people have so much time to sit around and try to see the dirty side to everything. (No matter how imaginative they have to get.)
Maybe they should just get their dirty minds out of the gutter.
It was simply a young girls bed. Nothing more, nothing less!
John in Lexington, SC USA
You'd think that a film with a British actor (James Mason) that depicted such an inappropriate situation MIGHT have made more of an impression on the people in the UK than it seems to have. Oh how quickly they forget. Humbert Humbert was played by a Brit. Brits forget… Americans remember.
I recall that Mason played the role so well, I really didn't want to watch him in any new roles as it left a seriously sleazy impression, even though it was of course just acting. His own countrymen forget though.
George, Kansas
Couldn't be any worse than the Bratz dolls and clothing. Bratz dolls come complete with hooker heels. Dress your pre-pubescent in a Bratz outfit and provide eye-candy for all pedophiles….
Carol, Ann Arbor, MI
Personally, I thought Lolita was an inappropriate name, as well. I've never heard the name used anywhere but in the book/movies. Sorry, gentlemen, I don't think that makes me small minded. Marketing a bed for little girls named after a little girl used as a sex object is twisted. I'm sure it's not the only infamous name people avoid. How many men to you meet called Judas?
David, nyc
People who don't get the connection to the name need to use any search engine for "lolita" and find out how many porn sites turn up. I don't get that response with any other name I've tried.
Jim, Dalton, GA
Did you miss the website about 10 years ago offering "Monica Cigars"?
Andrew, MI
Re: the "Chilly Bang Bang" gun… Pez Candy did the same thing a number of years ago; that one also got pulled, and for the same reason.
American advertising, in general, seems to be developing more of a proclivity for questionable (or down-right off color) ads and commercials; the current commercial for KY Intrigue springs to mind.
John, BC Canada
I have a great nephew, 28, whose fiance is named Lolita, 24, and both of them are completely unaware of the significance of the name. I am still taken aback when called to say her name.
Janet, chesapeake
I am only thankful my daughter is an adult now. The "prostitot" look missed her by a mile. Marketing to children has crossed a line that was tacitly known and kept for decades.
Linda, North Carolina
Questionable advertising – How about Domino Pizza's BFD? Big "Fantastic" Deal according to the miniscule print on the ads.
Personally, I'm not offended by KY Intrigue. It is a product for adults and marketed as such. I was offended by BurgerKing's Chicken Fries ads with "Chicken Heads" and some girl bobbing for a chicken fry being dangled over her open mouth.
As for kiddie oriented marking that's inappropriate — Guess you missed the Stripper in training "fitness" pole from Tesco, complete with a garter and play money with the catchy tag line "Unleash the sex kitten inside … soon you'll be flaunting it to the world and earning a fortune in Peekaboo Dance Dollars."
How about the Kiddie Tattoo set with 'realistic' inking action. They have one for boys and when I was looking for a link to send you I found a pink airbrush version for girls.
Several other comments note the Tesco "stripper pole," including a fair number that I didn't approve since they didn't add anything to it, as you did. -rc
Could have been worse…
Could have been a teddy bear named after a certain Islamic prophet.
One reason is that I keep copies of nearly every image posted, clean or obscene. This one walks a fine line. As for it being advertising, i doubt it as the photo quality is not in the same league as advertising photos. It looks more like a snapshot that's had some editing.
Pete, USA
What I find disgusting are the very young girls displaying sexualized behavior in beauty pageants. Remember the videos of Jon Benet Ramsey on the news?
As for an innocent looking bed named "Lolita" I thing it's a stretch as something to get worked up about.
Joe, Ohio
I personally believe this is much ado about nothing. I would not have made the connection to the name Lolita. Of course, I have absolutely no interest in reading these types of books or viewing movies of this kind. While I agree that some products are marketed inappropriately, I also find it hard to believe that this bedroom set was intentionally marketed in the assumed fashion.
What I find objectionable is the price of $769.00 USD for a very cheap looking piece of furniture!
Bob, Amsterdam, NY
Is it really inappropriate advertising? Some people get upset, others don't understand what the fuss is about. The fact of the matter is this is a generational issue. Those of us old enough to react to the name Lolita don't realize there is a whole generation out there that doesn't share our experiences or "cultural artifacts". The store personnel's explanation that they had to look it up is a clue that a younger generation is running things. I'm sure we can find other similar generational items, albeit with a less sensitive topic.
Jorge, Guadalajara, Mexico
Lolita or Lola is a nickname for Dolores, an Spanish female name. The meaning of the word 'dolores' is 'grief' or 'sorrow' (www.wordreference.com); and refers to Mary, the mother of Christ's grief after his crucifixion. Its a common name in Spain and Latin America.
The sad fact is that Lolita is the name of a child abuse novel character and after that novel that many Americans relate the name to hispanic women sex related pictures and movies.
Maybe a mistake from the British department store.
Maven in Texas
In response to Bob in Amsterdam's comment, 'The fact of the matter is this is a generational issue. Those of us old enough to react to the name Lolita don't realize there is a whole generation out there that doesn't share our experiences or "cultural artifacts".'
The term "Lolita" is in common usage in the USA usually referring to an under the legal age of consent, overly sexually aggressive female. (AKA-Jailbait)
In addition, it has also been adopted by the Goth subculture to describe a fashion trend where one dresses in frilly Victorian-esque pinafores that are both innocent children's style as well as very sexualized. It is a popular fashion trend in Japan also, with magazines dedicated to the look. The major differences being it is marketed to teens and 20 somethings, not pre-pubescent girls.
Nabakov's novel hasn't been forgotten by a long shot. It has in fact been adopted by a new generation.
Patrick, UK
Perhaps it's the case that modern usage of this term is slightly less known / common in Britain than it is in the USA?
I suspect that if it had not been for the internet, I also would not have understood the problem here…
As a reminder, it was a British parenting web site that raised the alarm in the first place. -rc
Alice Shade @ Odessa, Ukraine
Score another blunder for "specialised" education.
Supposedly, even though the target audience of the product might be a little too young to have read Nabokov yet, advertisement specialists who done the PR research for it don`t quite have that excuse.
What puzzles me most of all, though, is not the fact that no one involved in Woolworth made the connection, but rather that they most definitely had not attempted to even search the name through any search engine to see what kind of associations it pulls.
Term "lolita" or "loli" is actually pretty common around the net as the definition of anything sexual, looking or being overly young. Although yes, origins of term lie in Nabokov`s work, internet usage of word is quite distorted compared to its source…
And, while I'm on topic, I'd like to express my dissatisfaction with equating classic literature and child abuse. Core fabula of the book laid not in sexual overtones, and should not be assumed to be victorian version of textual smut.
Actually, the main motif of the book revolved around a girl, who behaved abnormally maturely for such a tender age and, I have to say, quite aptly at that. Similarly, the issue raised in the book had nothing to do with child abuse – the book had extrapolated on the influence of then-modern world on people, and how the advents of society had pushed children to mature too soon and too fast to keep up with the world.
Had I more faith in humanity, I could've even thought that naming was an elaborate joke – reference to the classics and in the same time a joking promise that such a furniture will help the child to mature.
However, I`m afraid, such a joke would be quite too subtle. Not a lot of people would get it, and even less – have a gall to laugh freely.
Nay… As much as I'd loathe it, it's just an oversight by all-too-lazy PR & advertisement people – another amusing yet depressive brick laid into the wall of inept stupidity.
I'm in my mid-70s. I have never, never heard the word "Lolita" in any other context than that book. I just now called my 28-year-old granddaughter, and asked her if she would name her daughter Lolita. "Whaaat? Never!" So, it's not totally unfamiliar to American young people, at any rate.
Glad to hear! -rc
Dan - Texas
I'm in the Goth subculture, and my girlfriend does occasionally dress in the Lolita style. Calling it a "very sexualized children's style" is inaccurate. Frilly and Victorian, yes. Very sexualized, no. Any girl I've met in the scene that dresses in Lolita-type garb could be accurately described as modest.
/tangent.
Austin,Texas
I am currently working on a Lolita style line, more along the lines of it's current meaning in costuming society. It is indeed kin to children's Victorian wear, and in a society of today's standing, very modest. In my opinion the style has never been overly sexual in nature.
The term Lolita has been defined and changed over time so much that it's no wonder the PR reps for this company had no clue of its meaning. I commend them for finally removing the product, but laugh at their doubts of the origin of the word.
However, if they drop in a twin instead of a small bed and then put a Woolworth's in the middle of the Harajuku district in Japan, they would be unable to keep these in stock.
Jimmy, Oklahoma
The Pimp and Ho costumes from Brands on Sale are definitely appalling. But all you have to do is look at the Brands on Sale website and check the Preteen Girls costume section to see equally inappropriate costumes. Almost every costume in that category is just a smaller sized version of costumes that when marketed for grown women are placed in the "Sexy" category. I mean really, what preteen girl needs a French Maid miniskirt costume? Maybe I'm just old fashioned at the ripe old age of 36, but I wouldn't let my daughters (7 & 9) wear those costumes.
Well, it's no surprise to me that the company that sold the Pimp and Ho costumes has other inappropriate costumes. One could give them the benefit of the doubt and say they're simply allowing all sorts of roleplay, allowing girls to dress up like a lot of careers. But the cop and firefighter outfits feature short shorts, leading an objective observer to wonder whether the object is roleplay, or blatant sexuality…. -rc
John, California
Lolita fashion is big in Japan because many men there do enjoy sexual thoughts of young girls. It is called "Loli-con" for Lolita-complex. There is a huge sex trade industry with girls dressing in baby-doll outfits and school-girl uniforms.
Ken, Pennsylvania
Let's not forget that Lolita is an actual girls' name in some countries, (The manufacturer is called Scandinavian House, though who knows where they're really located) and perhaps this over-reaction is a perfect example of PC gone off the deep end. I find it nearly impossible to believe that anybody could have purposely done this and thought that it would ENHANCE sales. They named it after a girl. period. If it had been Hannah or Marieke nobody would have thought anything of it.
There's a good reason you can't find many (any?) German boys named Adolph, but it's rather silly to have to avoid using the name Lolita because of a book. Get over it.
Now if this was something that was overtly sexual and aimed at little girls, then I can see the problem. A bed isn't in itself overtly sexual, except maybe in a Puritanical society. Oh, now I get it… never mind.
It's not just that "Lolita" is a character in a book, or even movies. Do a little research: Google "Lolita" and see what you find. Then Google "Hannah" or "Marieke" and note the differences. It's not just a book, it's a long-established, wide-spread, societal sexual phenomenon. To "not know" it is to be ignorant — which is precisely what Woolworths was accused of. -rc
Laura, Boston
People are way too sensitive. I've seen Lolita (both versions), I've read the book. I instantly recognized the name, but I didn't think "They're selling that bed so people will have sex with little girls in it!"
I can't imagine anyone paying $769 for a bed purely because it has the name "Lolita" on it (including a pedophile), any more than I can fathom refusing to purchase an otherwise functional piece of furniture because of the name attached to it.
Honestly, if someone has nothing better to worry about than how a foreign company names its products, that person should praise any relevant deity for the fact that he or she has no actual problems.
Peg, Bettendorf, IA
Methinks Randy and some of the media doth protest too much.
It's a bed. It's a girl's name. Anyone who puts 2 and 2 together and thinks "pedophile" has too much time on his/her hands.
I can tell you don't have any daughters. -rc
Andara, California
I've never read the book. I've never seen either of the two movies. But I've heard the name Lolita as a reference to sexually active preteens fairly consistently over the last 20 years.
I'm a big fan of Japanese animation and comics, and Loli-con (previously mentioned to be shorthand for Lolita complex) refers to a common fetish (often sexual) based around preteen or preteen-appearing girls.
From there it's grown to a full fashion trend with Loli style clothes being notably frilly, often with lots of bows, ruffles, and lace; usually in pale colors.
A popular offshoot (also mentioned by another poster) is G-Lol, which is the Goth Loli craze which takes the basic Loli style and recolors it with blacks and deep reds and other colors, and sometimes makes the clothes a little more daring, but still nothing that would be unreasonable.
Culturally speaking, naming anything aimed at young girls in Japan "Lolita" would just be an indication of style. In the US and UK (among other places), it's not a name that conjures up anything you want to associate with your daughters.
Jeannie, Ohio
My daughter (age 11) is a huge fan of Japanese anime, manga and rock music. I am more traditionally Euro-American in my reading and musical tastes. So you can imagine the mental picture that went through my head when my daughter first asked for a Lolita outfit. Needless to say, I have been culturally educated – but she still doesn't have a Lolita.
Theresa in Rhode Island
This brings to mind my mindset when I first saw children running around in Aeropostale brand clothing… a store long-associated with men's clothing and pornography.
No, my 11-year old daughter does not have any, though her cousins do.
What, she prefers French Connection UK stuff? Their logo, of course, is "FCUK". -rc
James, Mexico
Loli-con as a fashion started in Japan from people dressing up as manga and anime characters, something that has been around for a while. It's not just hentai that has girls dressed up in school uniforms, most action manga comics do too — probably because the target audience is largely of teenage years. That being said, it was obviously named after Nabakov's book.
And yes, Lolita is a common name in many countries.
While I don't think the naming of the bed is anything to get too upset about, it was a particularly stupid move on the part of the vendors. When you name a product you research the name, and you don't choose one that could offend or even put off a section of your target audience — in this case parents of young girls. It's the same reason you don't name an airline "Icarus", it's just not the connotation you want.
Jeff, USA
Randy, the FCUK reply is one that would have been great for the newsletter, but a better comeback here would be to point out that the poster is confusing brands.
Aeropostale is a relatively benign clothing company, even if the styles are a bit tart-y for 11-year-olds. A&F (which owns Hollister, among others) was the purveyor of the infamous porn catalog. At least they didn't glorify murderers, like Beneton did in one of its campaigns … Heck, you could probably do a "special edition" of inappropriate ads by clothing brands aimed at teens!
Probably, but teens and prepubescent girls are two very different things! -rc
Jim, California
I can't find them now, but a couple of years ago somebody showed me officially licensed Disney products from Japan: Mickey Mouse and Winnie-the-Pooh "personal massagers." The one was topped with Mickey's gloved hand, and the other had Pooh's "hunny pot" on it.
I swear I am not making this up.
Maybe it's me, but that towel/blanket could have been made to look just a little different….
Maybe you have a dirty mind. 🙂 -rc
I wonder if marketing companies should hire racists, sexists/misogynists, dirty-minded people, etc. People with G-rated minds would create a marketing campaign (television/radio/print ads, catalog art, etc.), then encourage the non-G-rated minds to freely discuss a non-G-rated component of the content if there is one. That may have helped in the recent "cutest monkey in the jungle" debacle:
Employee: "Hey, boss, you're right. This [nice-looking adorable little African-American boy] really does look like a monkey. Got a banana?"
Boss: "Hmm…. I understand why you say that. I'll call the factory to cancel those orders right now."
Bob, Victoria BC
I was quite surprised when I ran across marketing for this. Even more surprised at what my Search turned up, esp. the popularity. No accounting for tastes around the world.
Bob included a 395-character URL for "LoliRock", a French animated television series. Wikipedia describes the plot this way: "Iris is a teenage girl who likes to sing and help others. However, when she sings, strange events happen. Encouraged by her best friend Nathaniel, Iris auditions for a girl rock band, but her power destroys the room and she is later attacked by two strangers. The judges at the audition, Talia and Auriana, come to help her, and they explain to her that she is actually a princess with magical powers who must save her kingdom of Ephedia from the clutches of Gramorr, who has taken over. The only way to save it is to master her powers and to find the Oracle Gems of the Royal Crown of Ephedia, which are scattered across the Earth. Over the course of the series, the three girls try to live as both ordinary teenagers as well as rock stars of the all-girl band 'LoliRock', while training Iris in secret and gathering the gems. But when Gramorr sends twin siblings Praxina and Mephisto to fight them and summon monsters to cause chaos, the girls must work together as magical girl warrior princesses." Sounds plausible. -rc
bandit, Albuquerque
Given the variety of reactions and examples, I started thinking about a particular song.
Google "youtube lehrer smut".
I don't mind having the URL here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jARdWfJulo (and it's worderful, as Lehrer usually is!) -rc