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Walk Ride GM
Walking and cycling in greater manchester
Bikes on Metrolink trams
Traffic-free town centres
Civilise the school run
Pavements for people, not parking
Your Borough
Setting up your local WalkRide group
Hosting a WalkRide meeting
Local WalkRide groups
FAQs on pavement parking
Whatever the position in law, common sense and reasonableness should mean that people do not park in a way which causes inconvenience and disruption to others.
One of our key objectives in Walk Ride GM is to tackle pavement parking. We want to encourage considerate and legal parking and to we want to remind people of rules they may have forgotten. We all need to be able to move around to do the things we want and need to do and we want to enable that movement to be as easy as possible – to make every day safer and more pleasant.
Our ultimate aim is to effect a change in the law – we want to see a clear nationwide law prohibiting pavement parking unless it is specifically permitted. Local authorities can then manage the implementation of the law at local level taking into account specific features in that area.
Q. Is it illegal to park on a pavement?
A. It is not illegal outside of London. London has held a privileged position compared to the rest of the county and that has been the case since 1974.
Under the Highway Code (Rule 244), drivers can still face punishment for pavement parking if they cause an obstruction or serious inconvenience to pedestrians, wheelchair users, people with visual impairments and people with prams and pushchairs.
The Department of Transport are considering rolling out a nationwide ban on pavement parking. If the new law is enforced drivers could be fined £70 for parking on the pavement.
It is illegal to drive on a pavement.
It is illegal to obstruct or park in contravention of waiting restrictions, at a dropped kerb or on a crossing.
Q. Is it legal for motorists to park in cycle lanes?
A. Cars and lorries parking in cycle lanes is a particular problem for cyclists as it forces them out of the relative safety of cycle lanes into moving traffic, often with little warning.
Rule 140 of the Highway Code covers this:
"Cycle lanes. These are shown by road markings and signs. You MUST NOT drive or park in a cycle lane marked by a solid white line during its times of operation. Do not drive or park in a cycle lane marked by a broken white line unless it is unavoidable. You MUST NOT park in any cycle lane whilst waiting restrictions apply."
Put simply, the rules apply depending on whether the cycle lane has a solid or broken white line running down its right side, and whether any signage is in place.
A solid white line indicates a mandatory cycle lane which motorists cannot drive or park in. A broken white line is an advisory marking telling motorists they should not drive or park in cycle lanes unless absolutely necessary.
Motorists who are caught parking in a mandatory cycle lane may be given a £30 Fixed Penalty Notice.
Q. What is Operation Considerate?
A. Operation Considerate is GMP's ongoing campaign to encourage all road users to show each other consideration.
Through Operation Considerate, Greater Manchester Police has responded to increasing demand for submission of video evidence relating to driving/moving traffic offences.
Use the online reporting portal here https://www.service.police.uk/ro/report/rti/report-a-road-traffic-incident/?frc=6 and submit your report within 72 hours of the offence. GMP will then be in touch via email with instructions on how to upload still or video footage. You will be required to submit a statement which will be a pro forma and if necessary you will need to attend court.
Q. Do I report to the police? Or do I report to the local authority? How?
A. Report vehicles parked in contravention of waiting restrictions (yellow lines) on the road next to the pavement to the local authority. Note that waiting restrictions apply from the centre of the carriageway to the back of the pavement (building line). Find your borough reporting details here:
Your local authority pavement parking contacts
Tameside http://www.tameside.gov.uk/parking
Bolton http://www.bolton.gov.uk/website/pages/Streetsparkingandtravel.aspx
Oldham http://www.oldham.gov.uk/info/200303/parking
Bury http://www.bury.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=10385
Trafford http://www.trafford.gov.uk/residents/transport-and-streets/parking/parking.aspx
Wigan https://www.wigan.gov.uk/Resident/Parking-Roads-Travel/Parking/Rules/index.aspx
Rochdale http://www.rochdale.gov.uk/parking-roads-and-transport
Manchester http://www.manchester.gov.uk/travel
Stockport http://www.stockport.gov.uk/services/transport/parking/
Salford https://www.salford.gov.uk/parking.htm
Local authorities have no powers to take action where there are no waiting restrictions.
The parking of vehicles on the pavement can be a danger to pedestrians and could constitute an obstruction of the highway and can lead to damage – these are both offences that should be reported to Greater Manchester Police via 101.
Q. Parking at and around schools – what can we do about this?
A. Apart from the Pavement Parking aspect of this, School Streets is another one of Walk Ride GM's objectives. We want to help to encourage activity in children on their everyday journeys to and from school.
Here is how you can help in your local area:-
Speak to the headteacher of the school to see if they want help to encourage active travel. Contact the local council and see what support the council is offering to schools in the borough. Also contact TfGM to see if they have someone in your area working with schools and find out what is already underway.
Living Streets (the UK Charity for everyday walking) run the award winning WOW scheme. This is a year round Walk to School scheme where children complete a tracker and earn badges. Details of all the fun and resources for schools can be found here. Will your local school get involved in this?https://www.livingstreets.org.uk/walk-with-us/walk-to-school/primary-schools/walk-once-a-week
Friends of the Earth offer schools with Clean Air Monitoring packs – this might help your school with the message to parents and carers about the quality of the air that children are breathing. This might help them consider alternative ways of getting children to and from school.
Sustrans offer help with this too. See resources here https://www.sustrans.org.uk/what-you-can-do/children-and-families/school-run-cycling-and-walking-school
School Streets Scheme. Read about what is possible in terms of closing streets around schools at peak drop off and pick up times. Would this be a target you could strive for in your area? https://www.hackney.gov.uk/school-streets
See other resources here:
https://www.urbanvision.org.uk/supporting-the-childrens-walk-to-school-scheme-in-salford/
Living Streets resource packs and downloadable posters https://www.livingstreets.org.uk/
WHAT CAN YOU DO TO HELP
Contact your local school
Contact your local councillor – https://www.gov.uk/find-your-local-councillors
Contact local residents – consider a flyer, use your local facebook group or community group to gather support
Join or set up a hyper local 'Walk Ride' group – for details on other groups which have started up and what they have done click here
Join our Walk Ride mailing list – click here
Join the Living Streets campaign and see resources at https://www.livingstreets.org.uk/
Join the RNIB Campaign and see resources at https://www.rnib.org.uk/campaigning-campaign-resources-my-street/cars-pavement
Join the Ramblers and see details of their campaign and resources at https://www.ramblers.org.uk/news/news/2018/august/action-needed-on-pavement-parking.aspx
Use twitter with the #pavementsforpeople hash tag.
Submit examples of poor pavement parking to @WalkRideGM using the #pavementsforpeople hash tag.
Report offences to the police via 101 or Operation Considerate, whichever is appropriate.
Report relevant offences to your local authority.
Use template letters to the police, council, media at Living Streets links and RNIB links above.
TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
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Who is free on Thursday to strike a pose on their bike?
Sustrans North@SustransNorth
Do you live in Greater #Manchester & want to inspire more people to cycle to work & school? We're taking photos this Thursday around GM & looking for models. Pls get in touch if you would like to join in! Pls spread the word @OfficialTfGM @evefrancisholt @umbug1000
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Will Norman@willnorman·
Sad to hear the dangerous nonsense being broadcast on @channel5_tv. People who ride bikes aren't the 'scourge of the streets'. They're Mums, Dads & kids helping make the UK a healthier & more liveable place. Pls share my friend @Chris_Boardman's video to send C5 a v clear message https://t.co/vbj6ZQO6BS
Helen Pidd@helenpidd·
Calling Manchester cyclists: do you want to be in a @MIFestival production on your steed this weekend?
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Michael Ellis. Minister for Transport.... we have never run an awareness campaign for pavement parking.
Claire Stocks@stocksyatlarge·
Interesting research on how Walking and Cycling is portrayed in the media - 60% of coverage was negative and majority of pieces on cycling featured photos of white males @WalkRideGM  https://t.co/QrYeSKlQVL


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March, 2004 NEADC Website: www.NEADC.org
NEADC GENERAL MEETING
Immersion Theater at New England Aquarium
"Underwater Digital Photography and Editing"
Guest Speaker: Scott W. Matey. Scott is a local business consultant who spends his free time as a PADI divemaster and underwater photographer. Combining his passion for diving with his technical background, Scott has spent the last several years capturing images digitally from dive sites around the world. He will present the basics of digital photography and equipment along with the underwater variables. He will share his images and equipment and discuss the differences in shooting with digital as opposed to traditional film. Scott will also present the basics of digital editing to demonstrate how everyone who brings any type of camera with them underwater can improve the images they capture.
NOTICE OF AN IMPORTANT VOTE
AT THE MARCH MEETING:
See Page 3 for details regarding the NEAq Fund.
INFORMAL MEETING
The April Informal Meeting will be held on Wednesday, April 7th, at 6:30 p.m. at the home of Janet MacCausland, 26 Lakeview Drive, Raynham, MA. See page 2 for Directions.
NEWSLETTER DEADLINE
Submit your news for the next Newsletter by
Monday, March 29, 2004!
This is for the APRIL EDITION of the NEADC Newsletter. Submissions must be in writing, preferably via e-mail to newsletter@neadc.org. Thank you!
THIS MONTH'S CONTENTS
Officers/Voice Mail/Directions to Informal.................. Page 2
Members' Advertising..................................................... Page 2
NEAq Fund Vote Notification..................................... Page 3
From the Officers............................................................ Page 3
PG Dive............................................................................. Page 5
Care for Cara Fund / ORG Event................................. Page 6
REEF Survey / SECONN Swap / Wrecks.................... Page 7
Dives and Goals / June issue info................................ Page 8
Safety Recall.................................................................... Page 9
Dive In To Earth Day 2004.......................................... Page 10
NEADC Calendar of Events & Dives.......................... Page 11
Membership Application............................................. Page 12
If your address has changed recently please fill out this form and mail it to:
Membership Department, New England Aquarium, Central Wharf, Boston, MA 02110
OLD ADDRESS: NEW ADDRESS:
Name: Name:
Street: Street:
City: City:
State/Zip: State/Zip:
2004 NEADC OFFICERS and CONTACT INFORMATION
President - Maryhelen Shuman-Groh, P. O. Box 70,
Raynham, MA 02767; president@neadc.org
Vice-President - Dick Whitehouse, vicepresident@neadc.org
Business Manager - Jim Carozza, business@neadc.org
Boat Dive Coordinator - Rick Rosa, boatdive@neadc.org
Shore Dive Coordinator - Genevieve Stewart, shoredive@neadc.org
Newsletter Editor - Kerry Hurd, newsletter@neadc.org
Program Director - Al Bozza, programs@neadc.org
Membership Director - Trish Katzman, membership@neadc.org
Secretary - Anna Krowczynska, secretary@neadc.org
Environmental Affairs - Alicia Lenci, environmental@neadc.org
Webmaster - Steve Whitford, webmaster@neadc.org
NEADC VOICE MAIL SYSTEM:
The NEADC Website
Check our website, www.neadc.org, for updated information. The website is graciously hosted by
Jake and Linda Richter.
INFORMAL MEETING INFORMATION
Wednesday, April 7, 2004, at 6: 30 p.m. at the home of Janet MacCausland, 26 Lakeview Drive, Raynham, MA, (508) 824-1569. It is a wooden ranch house with a porch.
From Boston: (about 30 miles):
Take 93/SE Expressway to 128 N/ 95 toward Dedham to Rte. 24 south toward Fall River. That's a left hand exit, so get over soon after merging onto 128.
Now going on 24 south, pass Brockton, and take the Rte. 104 exit (# 15) for Bridgewater and Raynham.
At the end of the ramp, bear right toward Raynham. Go about two miles until you come to a stop sign at a four-way irregular intersection. You will be looking across at a mini-mall with a Tedeschi's, Crown Dry Cleaners, and Post Office. Bear left onto Center Street, which is still Rte. 104.
Take your first right after the mini-mall onto Lakeview Drive. #26 will be the second house on the left.
From Rte 495:
Take the Rte. 138 exit (#8) south toward Taunton.
Go about half a mile and look for a building shaped like a huge milk bottle on the left, and a Texaco. It is a congested area, so slow down and look for, and take, a left hand turn onto Center Street.
Go about a mile and a half to the same four-way intersection above, with the Tedeschi's, Crown Dry Cleaners, and Post Office, but continue straight through. You have the right of way and do not need to stop.
Take the first right after this mini-mall onto Lakeview Drive. #26 will be the second house on the left.
MEMBERS' ADVERTISING
NEWSLETTER AD POLICY: Dive related ads for NEADC Members will be free with the following stipulations: 1. Must be current NEADC member; 2. Ad must be 25 words or less; 3. Ad must be submitted electronically; 4. Ad must be sent to the Newsletter Editor prior to Deadline; 5. Ad will be placed for one month only (ads may be renewed by resubmission as stated above). NOTE: This will NOT affect Website policy. Website does NOT contain member advertising.
COMMERCIAL and NON-MEMBER ADVERTISING RATES
Full Page $90/insertion; Half Page $50/ insertion; Quarter Page $30/insertion; Eighth Page $20/insertion.
10% discount for 4 or more insertions per calendar year. 20% discount for 8 or more insertions per calendar year.
Send questions and submissions to the Newsletter Editor. Ad fees must be paid in advance.
FINS: (1) pair of Scubapro Jet Fins; X-large; black; w/ strap pulls; $60.
Please contact Leonor Desmarais at (508) 485-4903.
BCD: SeaQuest Spectrum II; small ladies'; black with blue trim on pockets; 1992 issue, regularly inspected; comes with original manual; $30. Please contact Leonor Desmarais at (508) 485-4903.
Cottage in Nahant, MA, walking distance to 40 Steps and the NE Marine Research Station.
Bordered by Audubon property. $950/mo. Contact George at (617) 876-0390 or gbeng@world.std.com.
EXCITING NEW DIVE CLUB PROJECT WITH THE NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM
The New England Aquarium Dive Club, Inc. is undertaking an exciting new initiative for which the Board seeks the support of all members. As you are aware, the New England Aquarium is in the midst of a financial crisis. Many of this year's projects were postponed or cancelled due to lack of funding. Dive Club Board members obtained a list of some of these projects and found several that might be within the resources of the Dive Club to facilitate. Although there were many worthy projects, the project chosen was selected because it is within the financial means of the Club and because it involves the Giant Ocean Tank – to provide two cownose rays (Rhinoptera bonasus) for the Giant Ocean Tank.
It has been several years since these beautiful rays have graced the Giant Ocean Tank at the New England Aquarium. The last of the pair of cownose rays died after a long life at the New England Aquarium. During their lives, the pair successfully reproduced and their offspring still populate several other aquaria in the United States. It would be wonderful to have these magnificent and popular members of the shark family back at the Aquarium.
We do need your support and VOTE on this project as it falls outside the regular expenses of operating the dive club and outside the usual level of donation. As mandated by our Constitution and By-Laws, Notice of a Vote to be held at the General Meeting of March 17, 2004 is hereby given to the membership. The vote will be on a motion as follows:
That the New England Aquarium Dive Club, Inc. provide one half of the funding required to provide two cownose rays to the New England Aquarium for the Giant Ocean Tank in an amount up to $700.00. The second half of the funding is to be provided by the weekly 50/50 drawing and other designated fundraising efforts of the Dive Club under the direction of the Board.
There will be a brief discussion period for members to pose questions and/or present arguments for or against the motion prior to the vote.
Please join us in the groundbreaking project to provide direct assistance to the New England Aquarium!
For more information on cownose rays: http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Gallery/Descript/CownoseRay/CownoseRay.html
FROM YOUR VICE PRESIDENT Dick Whitehouse
Hello all. By the time this newsletter reaches you, the Sea Rovers show for '04 will be history. Thanks to all of you who tended the club booth.
There are still a few club shirts with embroidered logo available at the general meetings at the bargain price of $10 each. Logowear can also be ordered from WearGuard. I'll have the latest catalog at the next meeting.
We on the Board are excited about getting a pair of Cownose Rays for the GOT. I hope you all will join us in getting behind this club project by participating in the raffles and candy sales at our meetings. Donations to the Ray fund would be very much appreciated.
See you soon, Capt. Dick.
FROM YOUR SHORE DIVE COORDINATOR Genevieve Stewart
The Dive Planning Meeting will take place on Wednesday, April 28th at 6:30 p.m. Location is the Hauser Board Room on the 22nd Floor of Gadsby Hannah LLP, which is at 225 Franklin Street in Boston. You must RSVP at shoredive@neadc.org in order to get into the building. Parking is available AFTER 4:30 p.m. for $7.00 at the Post Office Square Garage across the street from the building. Hope to see you all there!
FROM YOUR NEWSLETTER EDITOR Kerry Hurd
Thank you to the people who have contributed to the newsletter. Remember, all submissions need to be in writing, and are accepted via e-mail, on CD or floppy, or on paper. Our June issue will have information about almost anything dive related. Please send your submissions to newsletter@neadc.org, or hand them to me at any General or Informal Meeting. Thanks!
Make sure you continue to send in those reports of a favorite dive from last year, and your dive-related goals for the coming year. See page 8 for some that I have received. Let's see your reports next issue!
A recent event that was well attended was the Boston Scuba Show in Marlborough on February 23rd. It was quite enjoyable, as usual, with a variety of speakers. Thanks go to Fred Calhoun and crew!
The upcoming date of April 17 has two excellent events. You may wonder which one to attend, and I say do both! As luck would have it, they both take place in Framingham, MA. The first event is the Wrecks 2004 Show, presented by the MetroWest Dive Club (www.mwdc.org). It starts at 8:30 a.m. and runs throughout the day with four presentations.
The second one is the Oceanic Research Group's Second Annual Benefit. If you choose to do Wrecks all day, then you would miss some of the afternoon event (3-5 p.m.) entitled Shark-A-Thon. It is geared towards children, but kids of all ages are invited. The evening event follows, and is the premiere of "The Silent Wrecks." Since this part doesn't take place until 7 p.m., there will be plenty of time to arrive after attending Wrecks. NEADC members Jonathan and Christine Bird (with the help of baby Elise) manage the Oceanic Research Group. For details, check out www.oceanicresearch.org/benefit.htm. There is no cost for either presentation, but donations are gladly accepted.
Many thanks again to the behind-the-scenes people for their help in putting together this newsletter. Your support is greatly appreciated! I wish you all fun and safe diving!
FROM YOUR ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS DIRECTOR Alicia Lenci
Mark your calendars for these fun events. For info, contact Alicia @ (617) 389-3458, environmental@neadc.org.
Sat, April 24, 2004 Earth Day Dive/Cleanup on Cape Ann; Day Specific Photo Contest
Sun, May 23, 2004 BSC/South Shore Neptunes Annual Treasure Hunt. Join the NEADC TEAM!
Sat, July 17, 2004 GAFC – Halibut Shores - Advanced Dive; Stage Fort Park for NEADC Picnic
Sat, Sept. 25, 2004 CoastSweep 2004/NEU Marine Lab Open House; Cleanup - Great Family Event - Prizes!
More to come throughout the dive season. Check the Dive Calendar on the website, www.neadc.org, and in the newsletters.
FROM YOUR BOAT DIVE COORDINATOR Rick Rosa
First, some business from the 2003 Shore Dive Season - I have heard from everyone who led dives during the 2003 season so the T-shirt order is finally going in. Next year, we plan on having additional goodies (towels, gear bags, water bottles, etc.). Come to the Shore Dive Planning Meeting (April 28) and help lead a dive to your favorite site! The winner of the GOT dive raffle for shore dive leaders was picked at the February Meeting, and is Doug Stevenson. Thanks for all the help in 2003, dive leaders!
Bleach Dives are back!!! Since we lost this benefit in 2003, we didn't have the opportunity to have club members get back in the water and check out their gear before the open water season started. Our new Shore Dive Coordinator, Genevieve Stewart, has arranged with the Newton YMCA to take club members for gear check out dives on Monday nights. E-mail Genevieve (shoredive@neadc.org) or me (boatdive@neadc.org) to sign up for the pool. This is a rare opportunity for our members and I hope you take advantage of it (I will!).
Genevieve has also offered to provide equipment to divers if needed. This will really benefit new/returning divers or members that are just interested in checking out new gear. On top of that, she is offering to do a full scuba refresher class (skills matrix) for club members FREE OF CHARGE. If you haven't been in the water for six months and are heading for the tropics this winter, take us up on this one.
Now for some updates on the 2004 Boat Dive Season - I'm in the process of updating the boat charter list from last year as well as adding a few new charters that I know of. If you have a favorite boat, send me an e-mail and give me a description and I'll add it to the list. Also, I've had several requests for a "what's what" with New England boat charters. Drop me a line with any notes from charters you've been on (what was good/what was bad) and I'll put together a sort of members guide to NE charters. Also stated from last month, I'm putting together a loose schedule for charters so if you have any specific dates or boats in mind, let me know and I'll add them to the schedule. Charters in our area range from beginner's trips (mouth of Folly cove) to advanced wreck diving. I'll be including the level of the dive with the schedule.
Please forward any questions, comments, or dive trip logs to boatdive@neadc.org for the next newsletter.
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In 2007 I sold ROCKBAND.COM to the makers of the video game, and moved my site and community to RockBandLounge.com.
November 22, 2008 by Cheryl Spelts
Rock Star: House Band?
Yeah, you read that right! How about Rock Star: House Band?
If you watched any of the performance shows, on either season of Rock Star, then you may have noticed the musicians backing the singers each week. And if you watched the reality episodes, then you saw the singers interacting with the House Band, as they prepared their songs. And if you watched the performance shows AND the reality episodes, then you most likely fell in love with Paul Mirkovich, Rafael Moreira, Jim McGorman, Sasha Krivtsov, and Nate Morton. They were of course talented – that's a given – but they were also opinionated, interesting, fun to watch, and smart. Smart people on TV is always a good thing – especially smart musicians!
So is it any wonder that so many people have suggested the next Rock Star find a singer to tour and record with the House Band? This week that idea came up again, and if you'd like to voice your opinion, go to RBL and spill! We always love a good conversation…
http://www.rockbandlounge.com/forum/topic.asp?topic_id=9829
Rock Star: Led Zeppelin?
TVweek.com just published an article about reality shows that should be renewed, and guess which show is leading the online voting? Rock Star is far in the lead, currently with 79% of the vote!
https://www.tvweek.com/in-depth/2008/11/adalian-column-no-new-reality/
Seriously, if we want the show to come back, we need to show CBS how popular it is – and the best way to do that is to VOTE, and leave no doubt that Rock Star is the show most deserving of a time slot in the coming year.
The current buzz is that Led Zeppelin is considering doing the show. How do you feel about that? Would you watch? Would it be a smart move for the band? Do you have a better idea?
However you feel, make your voice heard! Take a minute to go vote and to post a comment or two. It'll be worth it when our favorite show comes back next year! After all, once Brooke Burke wins Dancing with the Stars she'll need her "regular" job back!
Adalian Column: No New Reality Ideas? Bring Back Some Oldies
…some had a quick impact, but then faded just as fast. Others never broke through at all, or were halted before they got to the air. Many attracted cult followings and decent ratings, but somehow didn't manage to survive.
Like, for example, "Rock Star"—aka, the most bad-ass show ever to air on the CBS television network.
Produced by Mark Burnett, "Rock Star" was sort of the anti-"American Idol." While it shared the same goal as Fox's iconic series—finding musical superstars—"Rock Star" took a grittier, less Disney-esque approach to the process.
David Goffin, who ran "Rock Star" for Mr. Burnett, said the series gave music fans a peek into "a world that TV had never shown them. And it was real. A real band, real music, a real passion for their craft. Our fans flat-out loved the show."
CBS gave "Rock Star" two seasons in 2005 and 2006 to find an audience. The first was devoted to finding a new lead singer for INXS; the second summer was spent searching for someone to join a made-up supergroup headed by Tommy Lee.
"Rock Star" generated very nice ratings among younger viewers who don't normally watch CBS, but some executives at the network just never got the show. Maybe there were too many long-haired folks with tattoos.
In any case, CBS opted not to renew "Rock Star" after its summer 2006 run. But given how little success the network has had with new reality concepts since then, network reality chief Jennifer Bresnan ought to consider finding a way to revive the show. Mr. Goffin even has some ideas about who might topline the show if it came back.
"I understand Led Zeppelin, or at least Page, Jones and Bonham Jr., want to tour—but [Robert] Plant does not want to sing," he said. "They say they are looking for a lead singer to tour with. The home-run would be 'Rock Star: Led Zeppelin.'"
Something tells me viewers would show a whole lotta love to that idea…
October 18, 2008 by Cheryl Spelts
Quietdrive at the Glass House in Pomona, California
On Tuesday one of my favorite bands, Quietdrive from Minneapolis, Minnesota, released their latest CD and launched a new tour at the Glass House in Pomona, California. The image above was shot after the show in the lobby, with a group of their fans watching – so it's more a quickie than a serious band portrait – but it's still fun!
But the real fun was shooting them live – they're a great band to see in concert! I've posted the slideshow from the concert on RBL and it's big and bold and beautiful – definitely worth watching. And if you've never seen a violin at a rock show, then you really need to look!
http://www.rockbandlounge.com/news/2008-10-quietdrive/
Quietdrive is currently on tour across the United States and the United Kingdom – so catch them if you can. Watch the slideshow above and listen to their music on MySpace, and you'll understand…
July 31, 2008 by Cheryl Spelts
Stars Down in Los Angeles
I posted a little tease last week, but here's more from my session with Lukas Rossi and Stars Down for RBL. We shot it in late June on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles – so if you know the area, you may recognize some of the locations…
The full slide show is at http://www.rockbandlounge.com/news/2008-07-stars-down/ – and it's definitely worth viewing there! It's big and bold and beautiful! And if you have any comments or questions, there's a discussion thread on RBL at http://rockbandlounge.com/forum/topic.asp?topic_id=7184
Rock Band Lounge Magazine
A sneak preview…
June 3, 2008 by Cheryl Spelts
Marty Casey on the Sunset Strip
If you watched my favorite show ever, Rock Star: INXS, this singer/songwriter may look familiar. And even if you didn't watch the show, you may recognize him from the commercials that were all over CBS that summer. Marty Casey was the fan favorite, and millions of people voted for him – he's an amazing musician!
We shot this session on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood – but not at night, when the strip is at it's most recognizable… We shot during the day, and were gifted with soft hazy light for most of the session, and then brilliant sun for the balance. Perfect!
And there's more! To see the whole session, go to Rock Band Lounge!
http://www.rockbandlounge.com/news/2008-06-marty-casey/
Or to discuss it on RBL, go here!
January 25, 2008 by Cheryl Spelts
RBL Rock Star: All-Stars
Back in July of 2006 I was lucky enough to get to go to the party MSN threw for Rock Star at the Roxy. Tommy Lee, Jason Newsted and Gilby Clarke were all there – and all the singers in the cast. That was the night that Dilana told me she loved ROCKBAND.COM and had been reading the posts before she left for the show, and she mentioned specifics that made me know she really had read it all!
The entertainment for the night was Dave Navarro's band, The Panic Channel and my favorite band, the Lovehammers.
So the Lovehammers are finally up on stage, and it had been almost five months since I'd last seen them live, so I'm really looking forward to it. And then lead singer and season one contestant, Marty Casey, makes a comment about how he might have been better suited to the current season – which makes sense on the surface since his music is harder than INXS. So maybe he would have been a better fit on the year with the harder rocking band? And the crowd cheered and Tommy Lee nodded in agreement and the singers all clapped enthusiastically. Yeah, I can buy that.
But later I kept thinking about it, and Marty was the top vote-getter in season one. INXS chose JD Fortune to be their new lead singer, but the public made Marty the top vote-getter. You can't really do better than that! So it got me thinking – what if they did a show with no band, and the winner truly was the popular vote-getter? It's was an interesting premise. And guess what? The exact same thing happened in season two. Toby Rand was the top vote-getter, but Supernova wanted Lukas Rossi. I am ALL for the band choosing who they like best – no disagreements from me on that process! But it is still interesting to consider what would happen if there was no band.
In 2007 CBS failed to renew Rock Star, so at RBL we started the Big Letter Writing Campaign – and I believe we sent in a pile of mail. But still no more Rock Star. Then at the end of the year with the writer's strike looming, it seemed like there was perhaps an opening to get Rock Star back into production. Plus I was looking for a little fun… So we cooked up RBL Rock Star: All-Stars! The premise was to pit the nineteen favorite singers from both seasons against each other in a competition that would last fourteen weeks, and with no band and no judges, it would be the people voting who would select the Ultimate Rock Star.
We've been watching videos and voting like crazy for fourteen weeks, and we're now down to the finale week. And it's been a blast! Our finalists are…
JD Fortune from Canada, winner of season one and lead singer of INXS.
Australia's Toby Rand, the top vote-getter in season two, and lead singer for Juke Kartel.
And finally, the top vote-getter in season one, and lead singer of the Lovehammers, Marty Casey, from Chicago, Illinois.
If you have time on Sunday and Tuesday, stop by and vote! And write a letter to CBS – I want Rock Star back on my TV!
Marty Casey & Lovehammers
These have never before been seen in public – but they're fun, so why not share them?! I was going through some old work last night, and found these, and decided to share them in the discussion thread for our RockBandLounge.com Rock Star: All-Stars – more on that later! But for now, just enjoy the Lovehammers, circa 2006…
And if you're wondering where the inspiration came for these shots, take a look at http://www.harrybenson.com. Harry Benson's shot of the Beatles in the middle of a pillow fight is one of the most iconic images in rock photography – and a personal favorite!
One Million Posts!
It's official! ROCKBANDLOUNGE.COM just hit one million posts.
We have 7000 members – with 4700 participating and the rest only reading. And we've been going strong for a little over two years now, so that's an average of about 1350 posts a day. It's a lot! Last summer we were getting 100,000 unique visitors a day – all coming to read about Rock Star: Supernova. It was a heady time!
But reaching our one-millionth post is also a big milestone. Over 400,000 of those posts still exist.
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Does your church function like the early church in Acts?
Yes, you may see snippets of similarities, but if you look closely, you'll find huge gaps of misalignment.
Consider the early church's astronomical growth. Does your church experience that?
When was the last time someone at your church died for their faith?
Does your church experience Holy Spirit baptism and speaking in tongues? Most don't.
What about sharing all your resources with other believers?
How about supernatural healing, signs and wonders, and exorcisms?
Do you take offerings for other believers and not yourself?
Do you meet daily in people's homes and public spaces?
Is community and getting along more important than about everything else?
Do you minister to one another, serve as priests, and focus on telling others about Jesus?
It's time to realign your thinking. Dear Theophilus, Acts will ease you into it. It gives forty devotional insights from the book of Acts for today's church—and for you.
Read Dear Theophilus, Acts and allow God's Holy Spirit to readjust your perspective about today's church.


There are total 8 letters in Majorcan, Starting with M and ending with N.
a.	- Of or pertaining to Majorca.
In Majorcan M is 13th, A is 1st, J is 10th, O is 15th, R is 18th, C is 3rd, N is 14th letters in Alphabet Series.


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Tenth newsletter on combating trafficking in human beings: France's multilateral commitment
Multilateralism helps to strengthen the fight against trafficking in human beings. France's involvement within international organizations ensures the promotion of our values to protect victims, the fight against criminal networks and the strengthening of technical cooperation to fight effectively against all types of exploitation.
The tenth issue of the quarterly "Fight against human trafficking in South-East Europe" newsletter focuses on the multilateral strategy implemented by France to combat human trafficking.
In an exclusive interview, M. Yuri Fedotov, executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) presents its vision of multilateralism and indicates that working groups and negotiations have an impact on the fight against human trafficking as regards both on the strengthening of the prosecution of network members and the protection of victims.
Indeed, multilateralism would not continue without constant cooperation to promote the application of negotiated instruments. Thus, in terms of contributing to the identification of good practices and trends relating to the exploitation of individuals and their protection, the French delegation regularly participates in the work on trafficking in persons organized by the UNODC.
As an illustration, the technical and judicial cooperation carried out in South-East Europe, as part of the mission to fight against trafficking in human beings and related crime through the Permanent Mission of France to the United Nations and international organizations in Vienna, allows for effective field cooperation involving the various actors in the fight through the organization of seminars and training workshops.
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The Laws of Seduction
This excerpt from Fucking Law by Dr Victoria Brooks is published with permission.
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Fucking Law is an urgent call for everyone to find inventive ways to question the ethics of sexuality. This excerpt is from Chapter 4, Fucking Orgasms.
The most effective judges of her sexuality have not been Ethics Committees. Not at all. To be frank, she did not care what these anonymous bodies thought of her. To be sure though, they had an opinion. Oh yes. Think about it: it was only by chance that her philosopher was not on the committee. It could so easily have been him sitting there, judging not only her sexuality, but her work, too. In fact, despite his absence, he became it. He became the whole committee and, for a long time, her conscience. He sat on her shoulder, with every man she later became intimate with. He checked what she was doing. He reminded her, with flashbacks of pain, that it would be easier to say nothing. He reminded her that the problem was her, and she spent all her time subsequently, and uselessly, proving him wrong.
She had a taste for a certain "type" of man, this was for sure.
The kind of man whose eyes are brown, dark deep wells which mystify and stun her.
She is seduced immediately and it feels like this dark grip in her blood. Like every cell is weighed down by wanting, which makes her hands feel empty without holding his cock, and her arms feel useless without gripping his body. She recognized them immediately and could not resist the swelling in her cunt as the scent of them tickled her.
Because of her body's reply to these men, for a long time, she never thought of there being any kind of ethical problem associated with her attraction. She had sex with them. All kinds of men, with "tiger-eyes," eyes that make you think they will eat you for breakfast, that you will be consumed. And yes, she wanted it. She wanted to be consumed, eaten whole. Fucked until she could not stand. Fucked until she could not breathe. Fucked until there was nothing left of her. To be fair, she got what she wanted.
Why can you not find any men you like at these parties? I see loads of women I want to fuck, so it's your fault, for being too picky. She thought about it. It was a fair question. She couldn't think what it was. In the car, on the way to these parties, her knickers were wet. The thought of being fucked by lots of men excited her. Just the little nugget of possibility excited her.
That she could lay back and be desired and pleasured. That it was all so very naughty, that she could just have any man she wanted, was delicious.
But in her fantasies, the men had no faces. The men had no hands. The reality dissipated her arousal within a second. She pushed at her desire, demanded that it work, shouted and screamed at it to function. But it refused. It stopped dead in her chest, refusing to go south. She sat in darkened rooms, with a glass of wine. Desperately fantasizing to trigger and trick herself into wanting someone. Anyone. She just couldn't do it. She sat with her boyfriend and apologized. She wanted to go home. The truth of it was, that there was no man with tiger-eyes. There was no man there who was cruel enough to dangle love that she could not have before her. There was no man to mistrust her, apart from the man she was with.
Her philosopher met with her in a slightly more coherent state. She at least knew that she was done with sex parties and brothels. The problem perhaps was, that she did not yet know why. It was not until she started to think more carefully about her body, that she realized that there were two massive problems that she alone would not be able to tackle. These problems were intimately and powerfully connected. At the nexus of their connection, she would also find a handy starting point for beginning the infinite task of searching for the ethics of her sexuality. The first problem was one rather unique to law, and indeed to sexuality, rather like the second. The first is judgment, the second is orgasm. It is difficult to know which one to begin with, so the only way to do so is to think a bit more about fucking. Orgasm it is then. At this point it is necessary to warn the reader that there will be some masturbation as she tells you about her relationship with orgasm, as is commonly known to be necessary.
Orgasms. She knew several things about orgasms. She knew that she'd had millions of them. From when she was too young to know what they were.
She knew also that she'd not had one while having sex with another person until she was 22. She also knew that she would never have an orgasm the first time that she had sex with a person. She was simply too stressed about performing well for that to happen. She was not too sure how she would be judged, so she was better off focusing on the man she was with than on her own pleasure. She could always come by herself, later, if need be. Come to think of it, which orgasms could she remember?
The best ones were the surprising ones, where she didn't need to delve into her own fantasies to help her along and she was simply brought to climax by a particular coincidence, where she became space and time, a celestial body, seemingly free of philosophy.
She had just started watching a film on her laptop, having not gone to the beach to do her observations on that day. The night before, she had not slept at all. At 4 a.m., she was sitting in the darkness of her apartment in the naked village, sending heartbroken emails to her philosopher. He had said that he could not stand her being at the Cap and that he was jealous. She sent emails through sickening tears, saying she didn't understand. She was not aroused by the space. Not in the least. They'd had an intensive argument via endless essays during the day.
As the storm quietened, and the words began to soften, she felt her arousal grow.
The sun was high in the sky and despite the curtains being drawn, the apartment was steaming hot. She could barely breathe. He sent her virtual hugs and kisses, which she felt across her body. Alone, she could play with them, feeling his hands wander from her waist, into her bikini, where her clitoris swelled. The terrace door was open, letting in hot and heavy sea air from the beach and the naked foam parties, all happening in her absence. She was safe from it all. She was wrapped in warmth, intimate with herself. She didn't have to touch anyone, but herself. No one would touch her. But she could watch. She could imagine all that delicious penetration and pretend she didn't care about jealousy and possession. Each atom carried on that breeze gaped open, aching to close around another. Molecular orgies drifted through the door and played with her skin, causing its dermis to morph into the almost painfully red and taut surface of a cock aching to fuck.
She wanted to fuck more than ever. The sofa was sticky with sweat, sand and her juice. Her cunt was in that ridiculously wet state, when she felt she cannot continue to exist without something inside her. He sent her messages telling her how aroused he was, describing how he would penetrate her. She wanted to be fucked so badly that she searched for something to penetrate herself with: anything, a deliciously cold cucumber, an erotically shaped shampoo bottle. Penetration was not the only thing though. She needed the weight of a body on top of her. She wanted to open her legs for someone, to lay back and feel like she was being fucked. To feel vulnerable and used, yet safe and powerful, like the opening of her own cunt. From the play of her fingers, she began to feel her orgasm rising in her stomach. It always began there. She felt it like a flavorful yet intensely hot chilli would feel on her tongue: painful yet delicious. The heat would get too much. It would burst out of itself, and in doing so, her whole body felt this heat, like every cell had flip-flopped right then and there in her capillaries. Her breath was withdrawn from her. Her sight was withdrawn and she could hear nothing, not even her own noises. The beautiful sting would twist through every organ, which threatened to burst out of her skin, before there would be, what she thought must be audible, a huge clunk of a contraction in her vagina. Sometimes resulting in a gush of fluid, sometimes not.
Then there was this warmth. Like what she imagined heroin must feel like, on its first injection into virgin veins. A honey toasted warmth engulfing her brain, so that she would either fall to sleep, or exist in a daze for the rest of the day.
There on that sofa, in the middle of the naked village, she had such an orgasm. She was not sure whether it was her proximity, or her distance, to the fucking on the beach, and to him, that caused its intensity. The following day would be another day of jealousy and judgment, only to grow in intensity toward months and years of the same.
She found the location and time of her orgasms to be insightful. On her own, she could come very easily. In her most lust-filled hazes, she could make herself orgasm in public, without being noticed. She could squeeze her thighs together and have the most intense orgasms within a couple of minutes. She had lost count of the times that she had done so after sex with boyfriends too, when they had gone to sleep after climaxing themselves. When she was with another person though, she sometimes would orgasm just as intensely, but it was rare.
You were full of sleep from an afternoon nap in our hotel room bed, just moments from the beach. A few hours before we had walked in the dunes and had been lying together, fully clothed. It was hot. Too hot to be there, really. I had a thought, while we were there. You knew it too. We sat together in silence among those strange plants that grow in that mountainous sand, looking out towards the sea. As much as you didn't want to say, I didn't want to hear. I didn't want any of it to matter. So I took you by the hand and we suddenly got to our feet. We ran down the dunes and I ran toward the sea. I decided to forget it all as we walked along the beach. I decided to forget that you were another philosopher. By the time we woke together in our bed, I felt close to you, and safe again. You didn't speak, but we kissed, a kiss full of the taste of sleep. Our smells were all over us. Contented fucked molecules all around us. I felt your erection against my thigh. My favorite thing. You barely moved. All I felt was your breath and your muscles flinch in pleasure. I felt the tip of your cock in that between place, just before you enter my pussy completely. I rested there a while, while watching your movements quicken.
I fucked you, and it was the softness of feeling the intimacy of our building space, that made me come as intensely as I did that time at the Cap. Even your skin, the surface of your organs, was soft, despite the hardness. Despite and despite, my orgasm is strong.
She maddened herself in thinking about her orgasms. She had little to go on in terms of a guide, if she was honest. The books she read would help a little, but conversations with men, or even other women, did not get her any further. She thought that she had orgasms in places and in situations that were not "normal." She thought her fantasies might be somewhat weird, too. It was not until she found Nicholson Baker and his beautiful, intimate yet completely strange Vox, Fermata and House of Holes that she found playful (completely weird spaceless and timeless) fantasies without jealousy and possession, without tears, and without the violence and boredom of pornography. She was always perfectly happy to watch pornography with her lovers, and sometimes she would watch it herself, when her desire had reached a particularly insatiable peak, and she found herself without a man next to her. But it was a flat orgasm for her.
She found play with concepts to not only be intellectually exciting, but erotically thrilling too. What if she turned jealousy inside out? What if she turned her skin inside-out? What if she played with the boundaries of animal-human, inhuman-human, in her filthy mind?
What if she started fucking with paint, with blood, with pine cones? What if, like in the House of Holes, she forgot about boundaries, identities, right/wrong, straight/gay, human/inhuman, and instead, did whatever she wanted? What if the world started talking a "new round soft language"? Because House of Holes titillated her so much, she was fascinated.
Whenever she read erotic texts, whether Baker's, or Houellebecq's, or Roche's gloriously filthy, stinking Wetlands, or even the slightly more serious Réage's Story of O, she found the wetness of her pussy to be more visceral than in any other circumstances. It was like when her philosopher was emailing her while she sat on that faux leather sofa at the Cap. The power of this perverse body built by erotic words was such that it touched her with more intensity than a human body. It was crazily pure, without any hang-up, no jealousy, no desperation, no frustrated longing, not even a decision, no waiting, not "oh is this OK"; it was as if she had missed the split second of "consent." She did not need to decide; in fact, she couldn't make a decision. She had no choice whether to be aroused by Lanasha fucking a Magic Kentucky Lime fruit in House of Holes, which will give her "extreme cravings for stiff cock" or Shandee's lessons on penis washing, or her relationship with Dave's disembodied arm, or most importantly, the irresistible Deleuzian beauty of Baker's silver egg hatching, where miniature lovers learn how to kiss and fuck inside a tiny silver egg, forever suspended in ecstasy as they fall asleep in each other's silver arms, wrapped in a wash cloth, destined to forever discover sexuality together. She could not resist Roche's schoolgirl musings of holding cum inside her body for as long as she can, a smelly gift that keeps on giving, oozing out of her pussy, "smiling blissfully in my little puddle of sperm" even while listening to the teacher "going on about philosophical attempts to prove the existence of God."
How familiar that sounds. How touched she was not only erotically, but in a more profound—rather ironically—philosophical way.
How futile man's musings are in relation to the existence of God, their attempts to be God through their words, to write the cleverest thing, the rightest thing, and all the while there are these orgasms in places they never imagined. She was convinced that a "soft round language," a language of fucking, was to them, rather trivial.
Good! she thought. Trivial is good. Sexier. More serious. Time: 4:30 p.m. She drew spirals in her field work diary. Round and round and round and round, like a finger, tracing the edge of her nipple, intolerably gently, like the feel of a draping soft and silk cloth, barely touching, then just about barely brushing the pinkness of her nipple. From the outside, the fabric would be tented, a growing nipply tenting. The touch would be so gentle it would cause her skin to erupt in waves, and a hot dull ache in her vulva. The fabric moves to her pussy. The draping is not so successful, since the fabric then sticks, the viscous liquid cooling on withdrawal of the cloth, joyously sticky. Reminiscent of pillows in early mornings and late nights after hot filthy fucking dreams: the cold soft fabric presses desperately against her clitoris. She particularly liked to do this after fucking and being filled with sperm.
The smell was so thick, so intimate, so kind, so warm and so safe that she wanted to eat it. She ground her hips into the sand, feeling the walls of her sticky cunt rub together, as she looked right into the eyes of a man at the back of the beach. Grains of soft sand jumped into the wind and blew across her naked buttocks, sand-dashing them gently, like a light spanking, reddening her grinding cheeks. The beach was quiet and she just looked at him, as he lazily stroked his cock. She thought about rows of erections, playing with the idea of touching each one, finding the folds, maybe licking the tips where a small pearl of tasty liquid might gleam. She would touch all different sized cocks, sniff them, taste them, without feeling bad about not making them come. She wanted women too. She did the same with their breasts, she kissed their necks and she walked on her hands and knees, so she could lick the tasty clitorises that she saw. All the while, she stared at the man at the back of the beach. The sun held her back and her sunglasses hid her pre-orgasmic eyes. She looked at him while another man started to suck him off. Fucking, pure and simple: she came just as the sea was creeping up to her toes, between land and sea, between solid and fluid, and with not a thought of philosophy, or philosophers, or for the saltier side of her sexuality. Not despite, but because.
We can see that she comes in all sorts of ways, both associated with, and disassociated with how one might think female human sexuality is imagined, or how (she thinks in her most frustrated moments) the male version of female sexuality is hoped to be.
She sometimes likes to watch a woman being taken from behind, sometimes she doesn't. Sometimes she feels like she wants to fuck a whole rugby team, sometimes she wants to spend hours with a woman, just caressing. She likes to play, to think about and to read about, without having to do. She would like to sometimes share her fantasies, sometimes keep them quiet. She wants to feel safely in danger. She sometimes wants the touch of things, rather than people. Of fur, rather than skin. Her sexuality fleets and flits and fucks.
Since Deleuzian thought, the orgasm has been very problematic, since it is the genesis of sexual identity. She feels there is a lot of truth in this position (pardon the pun). Identity, whether it be womanhood or masculinity, straightness or gayness, a big bundle of assumptions in relation to how that person gets their orgasms, comes with it. She never knows what box to tick on those wretched Equal Opportunity Forms that you must fill in when applying for jobs or study. Sometimes she feels straight, sometimes she feels gay, sometimes she feels bisexual, sometimes she feels like a woman, a man, or inbetween.
She could select "prefer not to say." She always felt that this would indicate some harmful closeted silence about her sexuality though and in fact, evidence pointed to the fact that this would be the most harmful box to tick. She would prefer to say.
In the space of those little boxes on the form, she was expected to disclose where and how she got her orgasms and it was categorically not possible for her to tick all the boxes.
You see, the site of her orgasms is part of how her identity is built and the things she is allowed to, or assumed to, desire.
This assumption is very important, since it allows the world to know her desire, and therefore, hopefully, tame it and control it, and to stop it causing any problems. Desire cannot be as Deleuze and Guattari had envisaged, as a wave or force that just wants, rather than wants, despite. The vision or image of the space of "despite," or the gap to be filled, is a reflection of outmoded gender politics. It is only through untying sexual desire from pleasure and imaging a future of disruptive gender politics, ranging from eco-politics to the politics of reproduction, that we can give the orgasm back to the body.
The future is well and positively imagined by philosophy. This is a strengthening thought. But what remains is the question of ethics: what do we do when problems arise?
What do we do when our newly imagined and futurist desire, our new and "untied" orgasms cause suffering to something (physical, emotional, psychological), a person, a thing, an animal, a sex robot?
In short, when we shed gender, when we shed sexuality and we shed spatial-temporal orgasmic assumptions, with identity fully disrupted, what would be an orgasmic version of ethics? Ought we not understand more about our own sexuality first and find its orgasmic ethic? While the laws of spaces of socalled radical sexuality, such as the Cap, such as libertine clubs and so on are well known, she suggests that the ethics, or that is, the experiences of men and women who fuck there, are not.
The reality of all this is played out at the Cap, with every round of applause with every male orgasm. Male ejaculation is celebrated explicitly, while the female orgasm is less obvious, either in terms of its genuineness, or its genesis. This seemed to match with her unrelenting feeling that identity was never right. This seemed to not be a problem, until it was coupled with judgment. It is the case that judgment gives us our current ethical framework for our desire; that is, that there is (apparently, so she is told) an ethical code associated with sexuality. The philosophical foundations of this (she is told) are solid and true.
The philosophers who wrote these foundations are (she is told) very clever, and solid and true. The God who breathed life into these words, knows well both her heart, and her clitoris. Spinoza was a clever man, Deleuze too. Her philosophers.
Lots of clever men have written her sexual ethics, so far.
You never told me, but I knew. I would feel her touch on you, as blatantly as I could see the imprints of my feet on the soaked sand. You never told me, but perhaps you thought I knew. I didn't. Or, rather, I did, but only in the abstract. Stupid, I was, wantonly naïve. It took me ten minutes, once I decided to know. Social media can give us away, no matter how careful we are. Within ten minutes, I went from inanely thinking about my day, to contorting with hurt, jealousy, rage and affection on the floor of my apartment. Every swipe of my finger on the screen of my phone brought me another image reporting to me fullness of the potential of the softness I had felt with you in that beach hotel, but with another person. I don't remember when I began to cry, much less when I decided it was not fair to tell you how I felt. What was to be gained from such an exchange, where was the kindness? Yet my heart was broken, anyway. Such a loss. The man I loved was again a married man. Another philosopher. The world seemed to be full of them.
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Victoria Brooks is a writer and researcher in the area of sexual ethics. She writes academic, non-fiction, creative non-fiction, fiction and media essays on the ethics and expression of queer women's sexuality. Victoria has recently published Fucking Law, a creative non-fiction book on the power of women's sexuality to create new regimes of ethics for Zero Books. In literary journals she has published on the power of erotica for Overland, on Bi-phobia for Paragon Press.
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Brad Shearer is being called a hero after he found a girl trapped in her car for 18 hours alive Sunday night.
He says he was outside grilling when the sun light bounced off of the car catching his eye.
West Hempfield Township Police say Saturday night around 11:00, 18-year- old Brooke Spence's SUV was traveling along Marietta Avenue when for unknown reasons, the car crossed into the Westbound lane. It then struck a guide wire for a utility pole, went airborne, and landed in a culvert.
Shearer said the young girl had called for help hours earlier. After some time the girl, hanging upside down, unable to find her phone, grew quiet.
Brooke Spence was taken to Lancaster General Hospital and has been upgraded to fair condition. Shearer says he someday hopes to meet the girl he saved.


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A Coronary angiogram is a procedure that shows up any narrowings or blockages in the arteries feeding the heart.
Prior to the procedure, you will have an intravenous cannula (small plastic tube) inserted into a vein in your arm. This is so we can give you medication or fluids before, during or after the procedure. If you are having the procedure from the leg artery, the nurse may have to shave a little area at the top of you leg. She will also take some routine observations, eg blood pressure, and may do an ECG.
You will be taken into the cath-lab and asked to lie on a flat, thin bed. You will have ECG tabs put on your arms and legs and a clip put on your finger to measure the oxygen levels in your blood.
A coronary angiogram can be done from the artery in your wrist or occasionally from the artery at the top of your leg. The skin over this artery will be cleaned with antiseptic lotion. A large drape will then be used to cover you up and just expose this small area of skin. Local anaesthetic will then be used to numb the skin. This will sting a bit but for a few seconds only. You should not feel any pain during the procedure.
A needle is used to puncture the artery and a wire passed down this needle and into the artery. A plastic tube (called a sheath) is then passed over this wire, into the artery. The wire is then removed. A much longer, thinner, flexible tube (called a catheter) is put through this sheath and passed up the arteries in the body to the heart. An x-ray camera is used to check where the catheter goes. This camera will move around your body during the coronary angiogram but will not touch you.
The catheter is carefully placed at the origin of the coronary artery. Dye is injected down the catheter and a video of the images is recorded. When the dye enters your coronary arteries, it shows up on the x-ray. Any narrowings or blockages can then be easily seen. You should not feel the catheter moving inside you nor the dye being injected although occasionally people feel a hot flush or some mild chest discomfort for a few seconds.
In order to see all your coronary arteries, several different shaped catheters may be needed. These catheters can be removed and re-inserted through the sheath, without you feeling anything.
If the function of the heart needs to be assessed, a catheter is passed into the main pumping chamber of the heart (the left ventricle). A larger injection of dye is flushed through this catheter to show up the whole chamber. This gives a strange warm flush all over and you may feel as though you have wet yourself – you have not!
If you have the procedure from the wrist, a special wrist band will be strapped on to press on the hole as the sheath is removed. The nurse will gradually reduce the pressure on the band over the next hour or so.
If you have the procedure from the leg, a small plug may be inserted into the hole left by the sheath, when it is removed (this plug gradually dissolves over a number of days). Sometimes it is not possible to put a plug in, for example if the leg artery is diseased. Then the nurse just presses on the artery for 10-15 minutes until the artery seals up itself.
Before an angiogram is done we need to check that your kidney function is normal and that you are not anaemic — if you have not recently had blood tests to check this then you will need these simple blood tests taken in the days leading up to your angiogram. You may also need a swab to check you don't have the skin infection "MRSA" — the nurses at the Oaks hospital can arrange this and some GPs offer this service.
I don't insist on you being starved in preparation for the angiogram but you should not have a large meal beforehand. It is very important that you take all your usually medication on the day of the angiogram unless you are given specific advice by the pre-assessment team.
Please bring all your medication with you (we can take a note of this and also give you any you need during your stay). You should bring a nightgown or similar clothing and slippers. You may wish to bring a book or magazine to read before or after the procedure. If you think you may find the procedure stressful, you may wish to ask for a sedative to be given just beforehand.
Coronary angiography is done as a day case procedure. The actual procedure usually takes from 20 to 40 minutes to do. The recovery and monitoring period in the ward after can take a few hours (see next section).
Wrist artery: The nurse will periodically reduce the pressure on the wrist-band. Eventually she will be happy to remove the wrist band. Having the procedure from the wrist means you can be sitting up straight away and in fact will usually just walk straight out of the cath lab into the ward!
Leg artery: If a plug was not inserted to close off the hole, the sheath is usually removed in the recovery ward. To do this, the nurse then needs to press firmly on the hole left by the sheath for about 10 minutes. The nurse will periodically check on your leg over the next hour or two, gradually get you sitting up and eventually sitting out of bed. If you have a plug inserted, the nurse will also make checks on you leg but will be able to get you up much quicker.
After the procedure, the nurses can usually give you an approximate time that you will be fit to go home. They can telephone someone to arrange for you to be picked up. You should not go home alone and you should not drive home. In fact, it is recommended that you do not drive for 24 hours afterward.
You will only need to stay in overnight if you do not have someone at home with you that night (or cannot stay with someone). If you have the procedure at the Angiogram Suite in Colchester, I can arrange an overnight bed at The Oaks and transport to get you there. If you have the procedure at The Essex Cardiothoracic Centre, you can stay over in the Orwell Suite private ward.
The commonest problem is bruising at the site where the artery was punctured.
My complications rates are very low and I work closely with my team at Colchester to constantly monitor and improve the patient experience. To this end, I perform most of my coronary angiograms from the wrist artery and use the latest generation of catheters and sheaths.
Coronary angiography is the clearest way to look at the coronary arteries. It gives the most definitive answer to the question "do I have coronary artery disease and what can be done about it".
Since it is invasive and carries some risk, guidelines recommend we use coronary angiography if it is very likely that you have coronary artery disease. There are other tests that can help in deciding how likely this is (exercise treadmill test, stress echo, perfusions scans and CT coronary angiography). The description of chest pain that you give and the presence of any other risk factors also help weight up which test is the most appropriate.
Coronary angiography is most often used to help diagnose angina. Narrowings or blockages in the heart's arteries are the commonest causes for angina. The test is also done if you have a heart attack to see if the artery can be re-opened.
Other uses for coronary angiography include helping to determine the cause of heart failure or rhythm abnormalities and as part of the work-up for heart valve surgery.


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Афанасий Щапов - историк российской цивиллизации
Федерализм. 2011. № 2. С. 167-182.
Гловели Г. Дж.
This paper is timed to the 150th anniversary of the abolition of serfdom in Russia and dedicated to the heritage of A.P. Shchapov (1831-1876) - one of the distinguished historians and public figures of the epoch of «great reforms» of 1860s, a creator of zemstvo-regional conception of Russian history, who contributed significantly to federalistic and local history thought.
Research target: History and Archeology
Priority areas: economicshumanitarianbusiness informatics
Keywords: zemstvohistory of civilizationcolonizationRussian federalismRussian religious schismOld Belief
Roving Bandits in Action: Outside Option and Governmental Predation in Autocracies
Libman A., Kozlov V. A., Schultz A. Frankfurt School – Working Paper Series. Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, 2012. No. 190.
The paper investigates the influence of outside options on the predatory behavior of autocrats. An outside option is referred to as the opportunity of an incumbent ruler to continue his career outside his current territory of control. The paper uses data on the effectiveness of tax collection and the repressiveness of tax jurisprudence for Russian regions in 2007-2009 and finds that regions ruled by governors with substantial outside options are characterized by more repressive behavior of tax authorities. However, surprisingly, the same tax authorities collect less additional revenues for the public budget. It conjectures that the presence of an outside option induces autocrats to behave like 'roving bandits': they use tax audits to establish control over regional companies, but exploit this control to extract private rents rather than revenues for the regional budget used for public goods provision.
Mapping indigenous Siberia: Spatial changes and ethnic realities, 1900–2010
Sablin I., Savelyeva M. Settler Colonial Studies. 2011. Vol. 1. No. 1. P. 77-110.
This article discusses spatial changes in the ethnic territories of Native Siberians from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. A Geographic Information System (GIS) was developed to model and observe these changes. The GIS also features resource-oriented economic activities, major waterways and railroads. Analysis of the model, textual sources and statistical data made it possible to determine what factors constituted Siberia's ethnographical pattern of the early twentieth century and led to its changes in the ensuing decades and what impact on the indigenous peoples these changes had. Four special maps showing Siberia in the 1900s–10s, 1930s–40s, 1970s–80s and 2000s–10s were produced from the GIS and are included in the article. The current legal status of the indigenous peoples' territories was also examined. This article presents an interdisciplinary macroscale case study.
A Generation of Revolutionaries. Nikolai Charushin and Russian Populism from the Great Reforms to Perestroika
Saburova T., Эклоф А. Б. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017.
Nikolai Charushin's memoirs of his experience as a member of the revolutionary populist movement in Russia are familiar to historians, but A Generation of Revolutionaries provides a broader and more engaging look at the lives and relationships beyond these memoirs. It shows how, after years of incarceration, Charushin and friends thrived in Siberian exile, raising children and contributing to science and culture there. While Charushin's memoirs end with his return to european Russia, this sweeping biography follows this group as they engaged in Russia fin de siecle society, took part in the Russian revolution, and struggled in its aftermath. A Generation of Revolutionaries provides vibrant and deeply personal insights into the turbulent history of Russia from the Great Reforms to the era of Stalinism and beyond. In doing so, it tells the story of a remarkable circle of friends whose lives balanced love, family, and career with exile, imprisonment, and revolution.
Императорская Россия
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Visiones de la conquista y la colonización de las Américas
Volosyuk O. V., Villaverde M. J., Laursen J. C. Alcalá de Henares: Universidad de Alcalá, 2015.
This book brings together contributions from a group of specialists from fields ranging from history to the history of political ideas and philosophy to analyze in comparative key the conquest and colonization of America. Comparisons ranging from the sixteenth to the nineteenth; covering the north and south, they include the look of missionaries and travelers and theorists cabinet that never set foot lands; collect the thought of native and foreign to those worlds; pay attention to philosophical and historical texts, diplomatic documents and private letters: the variety of documents that legitimized the processes of conquest and colonization of the New World.
Состояние и перспективы российского федерализма в общественных представлениях и настроениях
Зайцев Д. Г., Задорин И. В. В кн.: . Гл. 5.1. С. 285-302.
Введение (cовместно с В. П. Богдановым), Филипповское родословие (совместно с В. П. Богдановым), Письмо С. И. Тюфтяева А. А. Исэрову, Стих о XX в., Из архива Г.(Е.) К. Чернышова, К истории Шихалевской обители старообрядцев Филипова учения Поморского потомства (совместно с В. П. Богдановым), Из истории шихалевской братии в дер. Шишкине, От памяти Анфиногента Акимовича и Ирины Савельевны, Географический указатель
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This documentary edited collection is based upon the field research of the Moscow University scholars in the villages of Viatka where the Old Believers allowed to copy their manuscript heritage. It is devoted to Southern Viatka, a region populated by different denominations of the Orthodox Old Belief. It includes the historical and polemical writings, community correspondence, and the folk hermeneutics. Published together, they reconstruct the local history of the Old Believers and also add to our knowledge of the Old Believers of the Volga area, Udmurtia, and other Russian regions.
Mutual Biological Social Evolution, Genetic Diversity And Social Change: The Case Of Alcohol And European Colonization
Scherbak A. N. Sociology. SOC. Высшая школа экономики, 2014. No. WP BRP 45/SOC/2014.
The research project aims to find link between genetic diversity and social change. Although some studies associate certain genes with prosocial behavior, it is hardly to say that any genetic polymorphisms are responsible for social change. We assume that some existing differences in particular genotypes could be explained by extent of ancient urbanization, change in population density and historic pathogen prevalence. The pathogen load might have led to some genetic mutations that in their turn might have caused difference in some allele frequency among regions and populations. Our case study is the use of strong alcohol as factor of European colonization in America, Africa and Eurasia. Historically, alcohol was one of the major trade items between Europeans and indigenous populations. I argue that there is a positive correlation between probability of being colonized by Europeans and particular allele frequency responsible for metabolism of alcohol. The risk of colonization by European powers is higher for indigenous populations which had genotype with lower allele frequencies which could 'protect' them against alcohol abuse. I test this hypothesis using binary logistic regression. The dependent variable is the binomial variable which is coded colonization1900 of a given native population by Europeans from the 1500s to 1900. The unit of analysis is not a state, but a population. Independent variable is allele frequencies of Arg48His polymorphism among 56 populations from Africa, Asia and America. The suggested causal mechanism is uneven trade: the exchange of alcohol for local goods was unfavorable for indigenous populations. Economic dependence was followed by colonization.
Libman A., Kozlov V. A., Schultz A. Kyklos. 2012. Vol. 65. No. 4. P. 526-562.
The paper investigates the influence of an outside option, i.e. the opportunity to continue one's career outside the territory currently controlled, on the predatory behavior of the autocrats. Using the data on effectiveness of tax collection and repressiveness of tax jurisprudence in Russian regions in 2007-2009 it demonstrates that regions ruled by governors with larger outside options were characterized, on the one hand, by more repressive behavior of tax authorities, but on the other hand, by smaller additional revenue of the public budget through the tax collection. It conjectures that presence of an outside option induces the 'roving bandit' behavior by the autocrats: they use tax auditing to establish control over regional business, but in turn exploit this control to extract private rents rather than revenue for the regional budget used to produce public goods.
Российский абсолютизм в сравнительном освещении
Медушевский А. Н. В кн.: Исследования по источниковедению истории России (до 1917 г.). М.: Российская политическая энциклопедия, 2012. С. 35-46.
The article concerns the problem of the Russian absolutist monarchy of the XVIII - the beginning of XX-th centuries in a comparative perspective. The social function of absolutism consisted in national integration, cultural unification and social transformation of traditional society by using of legal and coercive measures. The crucial problem is the changing role of the bureaucracy which could be the main protagonist of reforms or, just the opposite – its main opponent. From this point of view the author summarizes positive and negative aspects of absolutist reforms making outlook on the comparative experience of other absolutist empires of Europe and Asia.
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Author looks at conditions of federal system and its prospects in Russia and in global dimension. He compares various federal models, including special status, from the point of view of containment of separatist menace. On the basis of comparative analysis author expresses preference to non-treaty, territorial, symmetrical federal model.
Жандармы и модернизация местного управления в России (опыт и перспективы изучения).
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The emergence of the Tea Party movement in recent years has shown that under the surface of mainstream political life in the USA there exists a different layer of ideas, which cannot be satisfactorily described in terms of the Republican/Democrat dichotomy. These ideas have their origins in the foundation of the American Republic, which owes a lot to ancient and mediaeval political theory. In the twentieth century there was a revival of these ideas in the form of the so-called "paleoconservative" movements which rediscovered their ancient and mediaeval heritage. This paper focuses on one of them, the Southern Agrarian movement, as exemplary of this radical intellectual project.
"Russische Idee" im politischen Diskurs nach der Perestrojka.
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Upon my arrival to India, one aspect that I immediately noticed was the appreciation for all forms of art. Art seems to come very natural to the people of India and a design as complicated as a kolam, for example, is simple and easy to the majority of them. A kolam is a geometrical design that is drawn on in front of homes and are thought to bring in prosperity. One morning, at the entrance of the guesthouse where we are staying, I observed one of the women who work there designing an intricate kolam freely, with no traces to assist, while laughing and talking with her co-workers. After seeing the finished result, the first thing I thought of was how amazing this design would be as a tattoo! I know plenty of tattoo artists who make similar designs, but not free-handedly or as fast as the women in India. Not to mention how this beautiful design is created using chalk dust. Not chalk, as I imagined it was when I first saw one, but the dust. What they do is they take a pinch of dust and create dots to help with the alignment of the design, and as they release the dust on the ground, they make the kolams. After taking brief lessons at the NGO Mohanam and witnessing how difficult it actually is to make a kolam, it made me appreciate it so much more.
Another simple yet beautiful artistic gesture I've come across many times are the flowers on floating water. The first time I saw this was, again, at the entrance of the guesthouse we resided in. The colorful flowers were laid out on a bed of water in a circular pattern and are changed every so often to different patterns based on what flowers are available that day. In other locations, you can see the bowl of flowers placed near statues of Ganesh, the God of Beginnings and Remover of Obstacles, as well as some lighted incense. Again, something to creative, artistic and a norm in this culture and you can't help but appreciate its beauty and the vision behind the artist.
There is an abundance of plays, films, dance performances, and art exhibitions around Tamil Nadu and what's great about them, besides the obvious creative and beautiful pieces, are the fact that the viewings are mostly free. Tamil Nadu's appreciation for the arts is so full that it is shared with the public at no cost. You can't help but see that the people of India are so rich in their creative talents. I was lucky enough to attend a dance performance at Sri Aurobindo Auditorium of a traditional Indian dance performed by a group of very talented girls. This free performance was absolutely breathtaking, with each precise dance move resembling a pose from a sculpture and every movement imitating the sound of an instrument. The performers were each wearing solid colored saris with jewelry from head to toe that made beautiful ringing sounds with every step. They each had henna designs on their hands and feet that were visible to the audience thanks to the precise dance moves that accompanied the dance called Odissi. Odissi is the classical dance style from the city of Odisha in Eastern India that was ritually performed from 10th century through the 16th. After India gained its independence in 1947, the dance decreased in performance because of its dislike from powerful Hindi rulers; however, in the late 50s, it was picked back up thanks to the locals of Odisha.
It's very admirable to see something traditional being practiced by the youth. It shows how the conservation for culture continues to be implemented in communities across India and although this developing country utilizes modernization as a template for development, they maintain traditional values to not lose their identity which I find to be very important.


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A: It's too easy. It needs 2 string values, old and new one as mentioned below:
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A: Try like this
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