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Global Organizations
Making 34 Million Friends
The night after the Bush Administration announced its refusal to grant the United Nations Population Fund $34 million dollars, Jane Roberts was so outraged she couldn't sleep.
By Emily Biuso
The money had been appropriated to the agency by Congress and was to go to projects in 142 countries providing gynecological services, contraception and prevention of HIV/AIDS and teen pregnancy. The State Department withdrew the funding allocation July 22, contending that the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) tolerates forced sterilization and coerced abortions in China-charges that the Administration has failed to corroborate.
In fact, the State Department's own team of delegates visited China to investigate the allegations, only to recommend that the $34 million be released to the UNFPA.
"I was lying in bed at 3 in the morning, thinking, 'What can I do?,'" says Roberts, of Redlands, California.
But then she had a flash of inspiration. She decided to draft a letter to local newspapers, challenging readers to join her in protesting the Bush decision by sending $1-or more-to the UNFPA. The retired French teacher started e-mailing her call to action to about 300 like-minded friends and fellow activists. Soon a home-grown e-mail campaign was born, which has since gained UN support and the endorsement of a variety of national organizations, bringing the UNFPA more than $73,000 as of November 11 (click here for the latest figure).
What Roberts didn't know when she sent out that first letter was that over 850 miles away, in Taos, New Mexico, another committed reformer was initiating her own grassroots campaign. Lois Abraham, a lawyer, mediator and arbitrator, was busily e-mailing friends and contacts, urging them to help fill the $34 million hole that the Bush Administration created. "In the context of our national budget, the context of our military budget, it's a rounding error. But in the context of the suffering of this human family, it's enormous," Abraham says.
In early August the UNFPA learned about the individual efforts of Roberts and Abraham, introduced them and merged the crusade into the 34 Million Friends Campaign. Groups ranging from People for the American Way to the global population and development group of the Sierra Club have endorsed the campaign. While in New York promoting 34 Million Friends, Roberts received an offer of $5,000 from Face to Face Campaign for Women, money that will go toward college outreach so that campus groups can begin raising money for the effort.
Donations and letters have been pouring into the UNFPA at such a rate that the agency has hired two interns to sort and keep track of the incoming mail. While much of the total has come from $1 donations, the largest contribution was $25,000, and there have been a few $1,000 gifts.
The UNFPA estimates the 12.5 percent resource loss will result in approximately 4,700 maternal deaths; 77,000 infant and child deaths; 800,000 abortions; and 2 million unwanted pregnancies in the 142 countries where the agency funds projects. "These are real people, not numbers," Abraham said.
Dr. Thoraya Obaid, executive director of the UNFPA, has launched the campaign on a global scale, beginning an outreach effort to raise money outside US borders. Abraham, Roberts the UNFPA and their supporters have pledged to keep campaigning until they collect the whole amount-but in addition to raising money, they hope to make a point.
"We do not consider it a substitute for the government doing the right thing," said Dr. Martha Burk, chairwoman of the National Council of Women's Organizations, a coalition endorsing the campaign.
To give the Bush Administration your 2 cents and the UNFPA its $34 million, see www.unfpa.org/support/34million.htm, or send a tax-deductible donation to: The US Committee for UNFPA; 220 East 42nd Street, 28rd Floor; New York, NY 10017. Contributions over $1 are gratefully accepted.
Emily BiusoEmily Biuso is on the editorial staff of The New York Times Magazine.


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March Beauty Hot List Is All About Spring!
Spring is round the corner making this the perfect time to refresh your look. In regards to colour palette, plum is the main focus for makeup while hair focuses on loose braids and ponytails – a desi diva's fave. For skin, keep it bright and dewy for that fresh-faced look.
Here are my top picks for putting a lil' spring in your step!
The shape of your natural brows this season is in focus — groomed and just filled in neatly. An easy trick is to wet an eyeliner brush and gently draw in hairs in the same colour as your hair. Brush out with an eyebrow comb or clean mascara comb. Best tip: never use black or white, as it's too harsh. Dark brown, grey or blond look best.
I love this eyeshadow by M.A.C in Plum Dressing. The colour suits all skin tones and glides on so easily. It's very easy to blend and can be layered for a more dramatic effect.
For a perfect pout, Urban Decay's Revolution Lipstick in Venom provides elegance along with a serious infusion of pigment. Maxi lip technology plumps lips while nourishing oils keep lips moisturized and soft. This shade brings out the beauty in all South Asian skin tones.
Incredible coverage, this Vasanti concealer and foundation in one product boasts a featherlight finish that produces a radiant glow. The bonus – it comes in a liquid foundation providing coverage only where you need it the most for a natural-looking finish. The formulation blends without a trace and evens out skin tone while disguising under-eye circles and camouflaging blemishes plus, it hydrates and brightens for flawless-looking skin. Works on all skin types and tones – perfect for our South Asian variations.?
Hair looks oh-so-feminine this season and is very easy to do. Loose braids are back, along with tendrils alongside the face. The secret to the look? Texturizing wax and a tail comb. I love the Texture Boost Dry Spray Wax by Joico because its perfect for all hair types, from fine to unruly. Gently spray in bursts a few centimetres from your head your hair is flipped over. Use your tail comb to gently tease for added volume. Braid your hair and secure with a clear elastic.
Manicures this season feature negative space. Whether you're just painting the moons of your nails, adding a swipe of polish on the sides of each nail or going for a variety, I love this look. Essie has a variety of nail colours perfect for achieving this style. I love that you can layer the polish from sheer to more dramatic. This season's theme is Flower Power. Colours include bohemian neutrals to mint green and bright teals to pinks and oranges. My fave is this naughty nautical.
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Law Professor Sagers Appointed to Fed Transportation Board
Posted on January 17, 2023 at 12:27 PM, updated January 18, 2023 at 8:32 AM Print
CSU Law Professor Sagers Appointed to Fed Transportation Board
CSU College of Law Professor Chris Sagers has been appointed to serve during 2023 as a Visiting Senior Fellow at the U.S. Surface Transportation Board, the Federal agency charged with the economic regulation of the rail industry. Professor Sagers will be on leave from CSU|LAW while he works with the Surface Transportation Board, and will return to teaching when his federal duties conclude.
A nationally recognized expert in antitrust law and policy, Professor Sagers will help the Board explore avenues to improve the nation's approach to rail regulatory policy. The Board has grappled in the past year with growing supply chain challenges and he will help evaluate existing policy and potential reforms.
Professor Sagers joined the CSU law faculty in 2002 and currently serves as the James A. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Law. He has taught courses in Antitrust, Banking Regulation, Business Organizations, Law & Economics, Administrative Law, Legislation and the Regulatory State. His primary research areas are in Administrative Law, Antitrust, Law and Economics, Business Organizations, Finance and Securities Regulation.
He has testified before the U.S. Congress and the Antitrust Modernization Commission. He is the author of Apple, Antitrust, and Irony (Harvard Univ. Press 2016) and Antitrust Examples & Explanations, co-author (with Theresa Gabaldon of George Washington University) of a casebook on business organizations from Aspen Publishing, and co-author of Sullivan, Grimes & Sagers, The Law of Antitrust, a leading hornbook.
His articles have appeared in the Georgetown Law Journal, UCLA Law Review, and other leading journals. He has been quoted in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Huffington Post, and National Public Radio, and he is a frequent panelist and lecturer. In 2015 he was awarded the University's campus-wide Distinguished Research Award for Faculty, and The law school's alumni association has awarded him the Walter G. Stapleton Award for Faculty Excellence.
"This is not only an honor for Professor Sagers, it's also an honor for our law school," said CSU|LAW Dean Lee Fisher. "Professor Sagers is a nationally recognized expert in antitrust law and policy, and we are very proud of his service to our nation."
Before joining the faculty, Professor Sagers practiced law for four years in Washington, D.C. He earned his law and public policy degrees at the University of Michigan.

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The Winter Reading Issue: By the Book
Eight new tomes by Memphis authors.
by Flyer Staff
Well, the weather outside is, if not exactly frightful, certainly shading toward cold, blustery, and gray. Time-tested local pastimes like porch drinkin' and riverside running are getting a little less comfortable. The good news? Books exist, and Memphians, from Shelby Foote to Katori Hall, have a certifiable knack for storytelling.
Not to go all LeVar Burton's Reading Rainbow on you, but a book really is the least expensive ticket to another world, a new perspective. In this issue, we've turned the page on eight new books by Bluff City authors. They each represent a chance to visit a new place, be it the Memphis music scene of yesteryear, the British Isles in World War II, a fictional dystopian future, or the life and times of a real rock-and-roll legend (a moral giant, if you will). So, whether you're in search of a gift for the bookworm in your family or a cold-weather social-distancing activity for yourself, we've got you covered. Trust me; I've been social distancing since Scholastic Book Fair, 1992. Read on. — Jesse Davis
I Die Each Time I Hear the Sound
by Mike Doughty
Hachette Books, $17.99
I now know exactly what not to say to Mike Doughty, thanks to his new book.
I've seen him around. You probably have, too. He's lived in Memphis now for a few years. I'll see him occasionally at Fresh Market, and we stood in the same line to vote this year. I love his music, but it's distasteful to brace a guy when he's picking produce or a president.
In I Die Each Time I Hear the Sound, Doughty describes the unique unpleasantness of fans telling him how they discovered his old band, Soul Coughing. Many of those stories basically boil down to "my roommate had the CD." Duly noted.
It's an honest insight into a particular moment, unique to an internationally known musician who makes unique music that appeals to a unique audience. The book is filled with these distinctive insights, delivered with a lot of warmth and humor. But Doughty's also nakedly honest about anxiety, depression, and shame. The mix of these gives I Die Each Time I Hear the Sound a fresh, broad appeal. It's a rock-and-roll book about a real person.
For example: How would you feel if David Letterman complimented your guitar — not your music — on national television? What if you responded with snark and he walked away? What if you found out later that Letterman compliments a lot of people's guitars on the show and was trying to be personable?
The book is filled with honest stories from the road, talking to Little Richard in a Los Angeles elevator, eating McDonald's in Tokyo, meeting a drunken Evan Dando at Glastonbury, and arguing/not arguing with his estranged band over the liner notes of a compilation album.
But the book is most brilliant when Doughty describes music, drawing an incredibly accurate atlas of the sounds as he hears them.
Here's how he describes Steven Reich's Music for 18 Musicians on a drive through Washington State: "It was like those undulant marimbas rose from the yellow hills. The melodies change as if you're passing them: a note materializes at the end, a note on the top disappears."
Here's Doughty on "These Arms of Mine": "When Otis Redding sang the word mine — the second repetition, when the note gets higher — the word mine becomes a glowing flower, which expanded into the sky, then the sky opened into the cosmos beyond the cosmos." — Toby Sells
Paper Bullets
by Jeffrey H. Jackson
Algonquin Books, $27.95
Rhodes professor Jeffrey H. Jackson couldn't have known how timely a subject he picked when he began his research into French artists and romantic partners Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe for the book that would become Paper Bullets. Resistance, the key motif of Jackson's just-released (and already lauded — Paper Bullets has been longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-Fiction) tome, has become something of the watchword of the contemporary era, certainly of the last four years, making Jackson's telling of two lesbian artists who put all their considerable talents to use to resist the Nazi occupation of the English Channel island of Jersey a story well-suited to the cultural moment.
Known in the art world as Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, Lucy and Suzanne operated a covert campaign to demoralize the German occupying army, striking at their psyche with their "paper bullets" — notes hidden in magazines and surreptitiously slipped into pockets, photo collages, poems, anything that might make the invaders doubt the morality of their position.
Before their resistance in Jersey, their relationship made Lucy and Suzanne outlaws, of a sort. "Their relationship was not their only secret," Jackson writes in Paper Bullets. "According to Jewish tradition, Lucy would not have been considered Jewish because her mother was not a Jew. However, Nazi racial law made no such distinction."
In Paris, before the war, surrounded by artists and entrepreneurs who were anything but stereotypical and enmeshed in radical politics, Lucy and Suzanne were at the cutting edge of a convention-defying moment in art history, in a Paris still reeling from the heavy losses sustained in the first World War. It was the perfect training ground.
As women working in a male-driven field, as women who loved each other, Lucy and Suzanne had practice viewing the world from a different perspective — and often having to fight for their right to participate. Lucy, too, suffered from chronic illnesses that set her apart from many of her fellows. Their status as unconventional artists working with Dadaists and Surrealists taught them the power of art as a way to subvert expectations.
The bulk of the action in Paper Bullets takes place on the island of Jersey, as Suzanne and Lucy begin to fight back against the occupation, steadily employing more sophisticated methods in their two-woman PSYOPS campaign. This is no dry history; rather, Paper Bullets almost hums with the tension of a tightly plotted thriller. Jackson deftly balances the narrative, though, giving the reader a taste of the romance that fueled the resistors' relationship, the art scene that honed their skills, and the war that compelled them to find a way to fight. Paper Bullets has it all — it's a tale of romance in spite of the odds, a slice of art history, and an inspirational World War II story. It is, simply put, nearly impossible to put down. — JD
The Ballad of Ami Miles
by Kristy Dallas Alley
Macmillan Books, $17.99
The more things change, the more they stay the same. While the world as we know it is broken in Kristy Dallas Alley's debut novel, The Ballad of Ami Miles, many issues that plague our current society are all too rampant. Sixteen-year-old heroine Ami Miles has grown up in relative safety at her family's survival compound, but when she receives a clue about her long-vanished mother's whereabouts, she sets out to learn more about herself, and the world outside the compound.
Ami grows up at Heavenly Shepherd, a survival compound run by her grandfather, Solomon Miles. The America she knows has drifted into a post-apocalyptic collection of small communities after a virus rendered most of the population infertile. Any woman who does have the ability to bear children is quickly gobbled up by government "C-PAF" agents.
That fear prompted Ami's mother to flee when she was a child, leaving her daughter to fend for herself in Solomon's controlling environment. And her grandfather, the worst kind of bigoted evangelical, sees Ami as nothing more than a vessel to continue on the Miles lineage. When he invites a man to the compound to impregnate Ami, all bets are off. Her aunt provides her with directions to her mom's last known location and sends Ami on her way with supplies.
While Ami Miles might have the YA label, Alley doesn't treat her readers with kid gloves. A post-apocalyptic America doesn't mean societal issues have gone away, and Ami tackles racism, homophobia, and plenty of other prevalent social issues for the first time after escaping Heavenly Shepherd. And it's not all smooth sailing for the good-natured protagonist; Alley expertly weaves in a constant thread of deprogramming along Ami's journey. Having basically grown up in a cult, it's hard for Ami to jettison the thoughts and "values" that have been pounded into her since day one. Even as she learns more about the world, even as she makes new friends, and even as another young woman catches her eye, her grandfather's directive to find a man and make a baby sits uncomfortably in the back of her mind.
The Ballad of Ami Miles is an ode to many things: self-growth, finding new experiences, welcoming in ideas that aren't your own. Every step of her journey, Ami is up for the tough challenges that lay in her path. Reading from 2020's perspective, where so many are insulated in their thought bubbles by algorithms, social media, and the like, Ami Miles is the perfect tonic. With a brave face, there's always room for growth and new experiences.
I'm not sure I'm the target demographic for The Ballad of Ami Miles, but Alley's electric pacing kept me hooked until the last page; ultimately, I blazed through in just two sittings. Through Ami, Alley never puts a foot wrong while crafting her narrative. Hard to believe this is a debut. — Samuel X. Cicci
It Came From Memphis
by Robert Gordon
Third Man Books, $19.95
Robert Gordon's 1995 opus, It Came From Memphis, quietly but quickly grew into a cult classic, a must-read for any music aficionado wanting learn about the gritty, Black and white roots of rock-and-roll in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s — and the city where they were planted. Gordon's cast of characters was as wild and eccentric as the river town that made them: Dewey Phillips, Sputnik Monroe, Sam Phillips, Furry Lewis, Mud Boy and the Neutrons, Bill Eggleston, Booker T., Tav Falco. Not to mention a supporting cast of midget wrestlers, motorcycle gangs, and all-around weirdos.
Iconic Memphis musician and Zelig-like guru Jim Dickinson knew many of the characters and their backstories, and he is a primal force in ICFM. His insights, along with Gordon's extensive research, many invaluable interviews, and avid storytelling, give the book its authentic juice, chapter after chapter. There are plentiful you-are-there tales from the city's iconic music studios — Stax, Ardent, Sun. There are long nights, inspired bouts of musical brilliance, booze and blunts and pills, bizarre escapades, and more than a little madness.
Now there's a new 25th anniversary edition of It Came From Memphis, published by Jack White's Third Man Books (the imprint that earlier this year published Memphian Sheree Renée Thomas' Nine Bar Blues). And better yet, it's not just a reprint. Much has been added: all-new photos, updated stories and interviews, and fresh opinions and perspectives from Gordon and others, including Peter Guralnick.
The original classic book is still there. It's just been enhanced — and beautifully so. As Gordon admits in his preface, the original was something of "a guy book," so he has brought more women's voices and influences into this version. It's a seamless and welcome addition.
As the cover blurb notes: "Vienna in the 1880s. Paris in the 1920s. Memphis in the 1950s. These are the paradigm shifts of modern culture. ... Memphis embraced black culture when dominant society ignored or abhorred it. The effect rocked the world."
That it did. It Came From Memphis is essential reading for anyone who wants to deepen their understanding of this city and its musical history. — Bruce VanWyngarden
Baron of Love: Moral Giant
by Ross Johnson
Spacecase Records, $15
Like the author himself (a friend and erstwhile bandmate of mine), this slim memoir (published by Spacecase Records) is a pulsating mass of contradictions that somehow self-assemble into a sentient whole. As such, it captures the way most of us live in fits and starts, and with good humor; but in Ross' case, the fits and starts happened between the buccaneering world of rock-and-roll and the library shelves, first landing you backstage with Iggy Pop and the New York Dolls, then sending you "collapsing into a spiral of self-contempt and regret."
The common thread is Ross' keen eye, sharpened from an early age. With echoes of his father, a journalist in Little Rock, this book is bursting with vivid, keenly observed moments. The memories unfold in a chaotic jumble of brief vignettes, so the evocative tales of rock writing and rock drumming, with which the author made his name and honed his taste, rub shoulders uneasily with snapshots (both literal and figurative) of Ross' youth and the dramas of adulthood. All are rendered in the clean prose of a reporter turning his investigative eye inward as well as outward. And some turns of phrase, be it "toilet club" or "mental patient rock," are sheer poetry.
Without prejudice, Ross objectively notes the brazen racism of his Arkansas childhood, his ex-girlfriend's career as a groupie, the fascistic roots of Alcoholics Anonymous, and the size of Iggy Pop's schlong. Every chapter title might be a line from "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall," as our hero rattles off the wonders and horrors he's seen: "Who's Alex Chilton?," "Roland Janes," "Creem Magazine Saved My Life," "Swerve Into Perv," "Charlie Feathers," "The Klitz," "Guiltabilly." Through it all, his time with the Panther Burns, the band he co-founded with Chilton and Tav Falco, weaves in and out of the narrative like a tipsy driver you just can't shake.
And "Baron of Love," the inspired song/seance he cut with Chilton in 1978, hangs over the highway like a harvest moon.
What saves the book from being mere barstool boasting is Ross' reflective instinct. Dollops of cultural studies and politics inform his musings on the ethics of the sexism, racism, and rockism at play in every scene. It may be more of a moral microscope, but if this be gossip, it's gossip with a heart, and gossip with a brain. — Alex Greene
LGBTQ+ Revolution 2.0
by Jill Fredenburg
New Degree Press, $16.99
With the craziness and hopelessness some have felt in the last four years, it can be easy to forget how far we have come as a country in terms of social issues. In just 50 years, we have gone from segregating people based on the color of their skin to allowing true freedom of marriage. Reflecting on this can be astounding.
Jill Fredenburg's LGBTQ+ Revolution 2.0, to me, is a product of the successes that we have made as a country in recent years. The book, which is structured as a collection of narratives sharing experiences and stories from people on different spots of the LGBTQ+ spectrum, tells the struggles, triumphs, and day-to-day lives of those who are in the LGBTQ+ community. Over 21 chapters, Fredenburg discusses all permutations of the LGBTQ community.
It's not an easy read. At times I found myself angry and frustrated by the injustices faced by those that Fredenburg wrote about. Other times I felt hopeless to help. Fredenburg creates a connection between the reader and those featured in the book so that you can truly understand their lives, and the effect is immediate and intense. For all the sad stories and times of struggle there are also stories of triumph. But in that work Fredenburg also finds hope and strength in the knowledge that the LGBTQ movement is stronger than ever.
"I started writing this book with the hope that the process would help me understand how experiences like Cassandra's and my own fit into the larger movement surrounding LGBTQ+ identity," Fredenburg writes in her introduction. "What I discovered has made me excited for the next wave of LGBTQ+ rights."
Fredenburg's book LGBTQ+ Revolution 2.0 is not an easy read, but it's a needed one. She speaks for the silent other who is often ignored and left out of the conversation, showing the good and the bad, then inviting others into the conversation. Her work is important reading for everyone, and she ends her book with a reminder that I think all people can live and learn by: "Who will you be, who and how will you love, without shame?" — Matthew J. Harris
by Shira Shiloah
Salty Air Publishing, $15.99
Dr. Shira Shiloah is a local anesthesiologist who decided she'd get into the world of writing medical thrillers. Her debut novel is Emergence, set in Memphis and with ample description of familiar sights in and around Downtown. Shiloah also gives us a strong female anesthesiologist (beautiful, highly competent, owns a dog, touched by personal tragedy), a suitably wicked surgeon (an arrogant platinum blonde, owns no dogs, coked-up misogynist), and a sensitive resident doctor (thoughtful, supportive, easy on the eyes, owns a dog).
And there is plenty of lab-coat-ripping romance slathered throughout like a medical grade lubricant. In fact, Emergence rocks back and forth between incisions and intercourse, blending romance and thriller genres.
Allow these excerpts to speak for themselves:
"She could make out the silhouette of his muscular torso. His jeans were as loose as his smile. There were no blood or drapes between them tonight, just clear skin and healthy hormones. His gaze took her in."
And: "He took the knife and expertly sliced him at the level of the jugular vein. The man screamed and struggled to get away, but with one sweep of his hand D.K. stabbed his cricoid, his voice box, so he'd be silent."
If those passages appeal to you, then it must be just what the doctor ordered. — Jon W. Sparks
Memphis Mayhem
by David A. Less
ECW Press, $16.95
If the title Memphis Mayhem sounds like it could be describing either a crime wave or a chip-on-the-shoulder attitude or an era of public turbulence, the new book by Memphis music historian David Less concerns all of those things, but mainly it is history and memoir of the various strains of music that have percolated out of Memphis and defined the river city in its seminal relationship with the outer world.
As the author himself, a writer and archivist and third-generation Memphian, describes his work, "It is a story of a city and a culture and fosters independent thinking in the midst of a strict, conservative society. There is a spirit of self reliance in Memphis. It is born of the poverty and oppression shared by Blacks and whites here, who have nothing to lose and everything to gain."
Parts of Less' narrative are familiar from other sources, but Less does not content himself with a roster of luminaries and a catalogue of styles. His treatment of Memphis' early blues masters, for example, is against a backdrop of the gambling, desperate chance-taking, and crazy optimism that characterized Beale Street and its antecedent neighborhoods. He tells his tale in an episodic style that at first seems somewhat disjointed but is more accurately revealed to be the mosaic that it is.
Almost in the manner of a jig-saw puzzle, the pieces ultimately fit together — Yellow Fever; the band rivalry between two Black high schools, Manassas and Booker T. Washington, and the dispersing into the world of the innovative results; the laboratory of Black and white music sources that was Sam Phillips' Sun Studio; and the serendipity of a second commercial-music wave stemming as much from the self-seeking curiosity of white Messick High students like Steve Cropper and Donald "Duck" Dunn as anything else.
Less explains why it is that Memphis music tends to be "behind the beat," and he notes the importance of landmarks — like West Memphis' Plantation Inn, where white Memphis high-schoolers learned their musical ABCs from innovative Black performers, and the Lorraine Motel, important as a honing place for white and Black musicians before it became a site of infamy and a shrine to the great MLK.
It's all here — the jazz masters of the Crump-ordered "clean-up" period, Daddy-O Dewey, Ardent Studios, Chips Moman, Willie Mitchell, Al Green. And all of it pegged to the hard-boiled but generous local populations that lived in ever-treacherous and sometimes ominous times. (It is surely no accident, by the way, that much of the narrative of Less' book derives from interviews with veterans of the Memphis music wars now living in the plusher confines of Nashville, which has a kind of finishing-school or retirement-home relationship to the dangerous but lively city on the Mississippi.) — Jackson Baker
Cover Feature Mike Doughty I Die Each Time I Here the Sound Jeffrey H. Jackson Paper Bullets Kristy Dallas Alley The Ballad of Ami Miles Robert Gordon It Came From Memphis Ross Johnson Baron of Love Jill Fredenburg LGBTQ+ Revolution 2.0 Shira Shiloah Emergence David Less Memphis Mayhem Cover Story
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Manuscripts Relating to Slavery
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Charles Sumner's The anti-slavery enterprise, 1855
Charles Sumner (1811-1874) was a United States senator from Massachusetts and a campaigner against slavery. This is a draft, ca. 1855, of a version of the speech delivered in New York on May 9, 1855, and published that year under the title "The anti-slavery enterprise." Internal evidence indicates that it was to be delivered to a Boston audience, probably on May 15, 1855.
Jupiter Hammon poem on Anne Hutchinson, 1770.
Untitled poem attributed to Jupiter Hammon, a slave, who belonged to the Lloyd family, proprietors of the Manor of Queens Village in what is now the Village of Lloyd Harbor, N.Y. It was composed as a tribute to Anne Hutchinson, who advocated for civil liberty and religious freedom in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The poem is part of the Townsend family papers, and was written down by Phebe Townsend, youngest of Robert Townsend's three sisters. The Townsends interacted with the Lloyd family. Inscribed at the foot of page [3]: 'Compos[e]d by Jupiter Hammon, A Negro Belonging to Mr. Joseph Lloyd of Q[u]eens Villiage [sic] on Long Island. August the 10th 1770. Phebe Townsend.'
Lysander Spooner papers, 1844-1886
Correspondence, 1844-1886, including letters received and copies of letters sent by Boston lawyer and abolitionist Lysander Spooner. Many of the letters pertain to Spooner's activities as an abolitionist and author of works opposing slavery. Included are 100 letters to or from George Bradburn, 106 letters to or from Gerrit Smith, 7 pieces of correspondence with Charles D. Cleveland, 7 with Daniel Drayton, 19 with Richard Goodell, 10 with Charles D. Miller, 9 with John A. Thomson, 11 letters from Daniel McFarland, and 4 letters from Lewis Tappan.
Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society records, 1832-1870
Correspondence and papers, 1832-1870, of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, originally known as the New-England Anti-Slavery Society. Included are petitions to the legislature, resolutions, donations to the Liberator, lists of members and supporters, letters about slavery, editorials, meetings, a list of fugitive slaves aided by the Vigilance Committee, accounts of fugitive slaves, including the narrative of Jonathan Thomas, a fugitive slave from Kentucky; and lists, letters, editorials, and other papers pertaining to the notorious case of Anthony Burns. Persons whose names appear frequently include: Francis Jackson, Wendell Phillips, Ellis Gray Loring, Edmund Quincy, William Lloyd Garrison, and Samuel E. Sewall.
New-York Manumission Society records, 1785-1849
New-York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves (1785-1849), commonly known as the New-York Manumission Society, was established to publicly promote the abolition of slavery and manumission of slaves in New York State. The society provided legal and financial assistance to manumitted slaves in need of protection, slaves seeking manumission and supported legislation and efforts to enforce laws banning the sale of slaves in New York State. The records include meeting minutes, commission reports, financial records, indentures, and registers from the year of its organization to its dissolution in 1849. Subjects covered include appointments, elections, political activities, finances, reports on individual cases, the sponsorship and operation of the African Free School and African American houses of refuge. Among its active members were: Robert C. Cornell, W. W. Woolsey, Nehemiah Allen, Melancton Smith, William T. Slocum, Samuel Bowne, Adrian Hegeman, Willet Seaman, Thomas Burling, John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, James Duane, John Murray, Jr., William Dunlap, Alexander McDougall, Noah Webster, and Egbert Benson.
Petition of Citizens of New York to Abraham Lincoln, undated [circa 1862].
Undated petition, probably circa 1862, to United States President Abraham Lincoln from citizens of New York requesting that the governor of New York be authorized to raise a number of regiments composed wholly or partly of African American troops, including the signatures and addresses of petitioners. In scroll form, appproximately 25 feet long. Printed document signed., Mss Collection - BV Petitions, New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024, 212-873-3400.
Records of the Association for the Benefit of Colored Orphans, 1836-1972 (bulk 1850-1936)
The Association for the Benefit of Colored Orphans was founded in 1836 and was originally located on Fifth Avenue between 43rd and 44th Streets in Manhattan. The Colored Orphan Asylum was among the earliest organizations in the country to provide housing, training, and employment specifically for African-American orphans. During the Draft Riots of July 14, 1863, the Colored Orphan Asylum was attacked by a mob. At that time, it housed some 600 to 800 homeless children in a large four story building surrounded by grounds and gardens. The crowd plundered the Asylum, then set fire to the first floor. The building burned to the ground. The records of the Colored Orphan Asylum document the activities of the institution from 1836 to 1972, with the bulk of the records falling between 1850 and 1936.
Town Book for Castletown For the Entry of Black Children, 1799-1827
Birth records and deeds of manumission for African American children in the town of Castleton, Staten Island, N.Y. between 1799 and 1827., Castleton is a former town in New York State. It was located in the northeastern part of Staten Island, prior to the incorporation of Staten Island into New York City in 1898., New-York Historical Society
William Fox's A call to the people of Great Britain, to refrain from the use of West India sugar and rum, 1791
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Antislavery movements--Massachusetts--Boston (2) + -
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Plan of an African ship's lower deck, with Negroes, in the proportion of not quite one to a ton, [1789?]
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Have just caught up 'N & His W' after a period of being AWOL. Been getting 'The Nelson Society UK' Facebook page off the ground (do have a look).
To update you further on the Lord Nelson pub at Burnham Thorpe, have spoken with the Greene king Operations Manager responsible for the pub. The Company is determined to re-open the pub and retain its Nelson heritage. As the pub has been leased for over 30 years, little modernisation has taken place and before it can be re-opened it must meet all various rules & regs for an establishment open to the public and serving food and drink e.g. fire safety, asbestos free, kitchens meeting health & safety standards, disabled access and so on. Obviously it will not be opening any time soon.
As for the memorabilia, unfortunately it had been handed on from tenant to tenant and did not belong to Greene King. Although it was a pretty low trick to pull by the last tenant, no law appears to have been broken (although the settles were old it is thought that they were not old enough for Nelson to have sat on them). Greene King offered to buy the items back from the miscreants but they obviously thought they could do better on EBay!
Once the pub is ready for re-opening The Nelson Society is on standby with a stack of pictures and other memorabilia and no doubt others will come forward to contribute. Will update once I have any further news.


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Ballinaglera, officially Ballinagleragh (), is a village in County Leitrim. It is on the R207 regional road east of Lough Allen.

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Ballinaglera GAA is the local GAA club.

See also
 List of towns and villages in Ireland

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Philippine president pardons ex-US Marine in trans woman's killing
Recently pardoned former U.S. Marine Private First Class Joseph Scott Pemberton is shown being escorted to his detention cell in 2015 following his conviction for the murder of Jennifer Laude, a transgender woman in 2014. Photo: Ted Aljibe/AP
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's pardon of a former United States Marine convicted of the murder of a transgender Filipina was harshly criticized and denounced by family, human rights organizations, and critics of the U.S. military.
Jennifer Laude, 26, was killed by former Marine private first class Joseph Scott Pemberton, 25, in 2014.
Virginia Lacsa Suarez, the Laude family's lawyer, called Duterte's pardon disrespectful.
"There is so much disrespect in the manner by which Jennifer was killed — reflective of the disrespect U.S. has for the Philippines' democracy and sovereignty," Suarez wrote in a statement to the media.
Pemberton was convicted of murdering Laude and sentenced to six to 12 years in jail in 2015. He has served nearly six years. The New York Times reported that most recently he was held at Camp Aguinaldo, the Philippine military headquarters in metropolitan Manila.
Suarez referred not only to Laude's brutal murder, but also to the U.S. and Philippine's Visiting Forces Agreement signed in 1998.
Harry Roque, now a spokesman for Duterte but who was the Laude's family's lawyer through the trial, denounced his boss' actions.
"I deplore the short period of imprisonment meted on Pemberton, who killed a Filipino under the most gruesome manner," he said, reported the Gay Times.
Filipino human rights advocates also criticized the pardon.
Karapatan, a leading human rights organization in the Philippines, accused Duterte of "placing the interests of the U.S. government above the Filipino people's demands for justice and accountability by pardoning Pemberton."
"This is a hard slap on the LGBTQ+ community and a blatant affront to our national sovereignty," the organization said in a statement to the media.
"While human rights defenders, activists, government critics, and ordinary folks are being arrested and jailed for all sorts of fabricated and flimsy charges, while elderly and sickly prisoners continue to be denied humanitarian release amid a deadly pandemic, Duterte has granted absolute pardon to a transphobic murderer, who has not shown an iota of remorse for his brutal crime," the organization stated.
UP Babaylan, an LGBTQ organization in the Philippines, said Duterte's freeing Pemberton was "a direct attack not just on Jennifer and her family but to every trans person and every victim of corrupt and unequal justice system," reported the Times.
Pemberton has appealed his case since 2016. His appeals were finally granted by the Olongapo City Regional Trial Court, which directed the Bureau of Corrections to release him September 1.
Duterte pardoned Pemberton September 7.
The Times reported that the pardon came days after Duterte's office blocked the court order to free Pemberton, reported the Times.
Aware of the presidential pardon, Pemberton's lawyer, Rowena Garcia-Flores, told the Associated Press that he was "very happy."
Duterte defended his decision during a televised cabinet meeting, stating he was being fair.
"We should allow him the good character presumption, because there was never a complaint of him going berserk," Duterte said, reported CBS News.
The murder
Pemberton killed Laude at the Celzone Lodge, an Olongapo City hotel, in 2014.
That night, staff at the lodge found Laude slumped on the floor half-naked with her head leaning against the toilet bowl. It appeared she was strangled. Her body was covered with a dozen bruises, bite marks, and cuts.
Pemberton admitted to strangling, but not killing, Laude, claiming self-defense at a court hearing in 2015.
At the time, Pemberton faced up to 40 years in prison for murder. The court reduced his charges, cutting his potential sentence in half to 20 years. He ultimately was convicted and sentenced to serve six to 12 years in prison, which was later reduced to 10 years. His time served in detention was credited to his sentence along with a "good conduct time allowance," which added up to more than his sentence, reported the Times.
The Laude family received $100,000 in civil damages.
Pemberton was originally sent to New Bilibid Prison, a national penitentiary in suburban Muntinlupa City, but ended up at Camp Aguinaldo.
Pemberton's case also carried international military and political implications for the country.
The killing happened six months after the U.S. and Philippines signed the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement to operationalize the VFA. The VFA allows the U.S. military to operate in the Philippines and manage the conduct of service members serving in the country, according to the Mutual Defense Treaty established in 1951.
Duterte's pardon of Pemberton comes after a tense year for the U.S. and the Philippines. Duterte threatened to scrap the agreement in February. He stepped back from his position in June as the situation regarding the ongoing territorial dispute between China and the Philippines in the South China Sea continued to escalate.
The National Union of People's Lawyers in the Philippines called the pardon a "shameless sell-out," reported the Manila Bulletin.
Jakarta police taken to task for 'gay party' raid
Human rights advocates sharply criticized Jakarta police for raiding an alleged "gay party" and violating the rights of the participants last month.
The Indonesian arm of Amnesty International and the Civil Society Coalition for the Protection of the Rights of Vulnerable Groups blasted the police, accusing them of targeting LGBTQ people and violating their rights.
The coalition is a network of the Institute for Criminal Justice Reform, LGBTQ rights group Arus Pelangi, and the Indonesian Legal Aid Institute, among other organizations.
"Raids like these send a terrifying message to LGBTI people," Amnesty International Indonesia Executive Director Usman Hamid said in a September 3 statement from the organization responding to the arrest, calling for the release of the men and for Indonesian authorities to drop all charges.
"[Indonesian authorities] must also stop these arbitrary and humiliating raids and stop misusing laws against loitering or public nuisance to harass and arrest people accused of same-sex activity," he continued.
"No one should be targeted and arrested because of their actual or perceived sexual orientation and gender identity," added Hamid. "The police should be keeping everyone safe, not stoking more discrimination."
Homosexuality isn't illegal in Indonesia, with the exception of the Aceh province, despite the nation having the largest Muslim population in the world.
That hasn't deterred the politicians and the government from using homosexuality as a political weapon against opponents or ushering out harsh crackdowns from education to media for many years.
Police raided a private party of nearly 60 men at a hotel in Kuningan, South Jakarta August 29.
Authorities identified nine of the men as organizers of the party and listed the 47 other men as witnesses.
The police charged the nine men with being pimps and funding or facilitating pornographic services despite organizers not profiting off of the party, the coalition noted.
The pornography law carries a 15-year sentence if the men are found guilty, reported the Jakarta Post.
The coalition accused the Jakarta police of ignoring the law, failing to notify the suspects' relatives of their arrest, and not providing access to legal assistance, which they should have received under their right to a fair trial, reported the Post.
The arrests only came to light five days later during a police press briefing, according to the coalition.
The recent raid isn't the first time the country has been criticized for targeting the queer community.
The United Nations has condemned Indonesia's crackdowns.
The international governmental body has urged Indonesia to combat anti-LGBTQ stigma and to release anyone detained based on perceived or real identity as sexual orientation and gender identity, reported the Associated Press.
Cayman Islands legalizes civil unions for same-sex couples
Same-sex Caymanian couples will be able to legally enter into a civil union before the end of the month.
Cayman Islands Governor Martyn Roper assented to the Civil Partnership Bill, formerly known as the Domestic Partnership Bill, September 4.
He said it struck the right balance between the law and respecting marriage.
"Today we will end the discrimination being suffered by Caymanians and others on our islands whilst protecting the institution of marriage," Roper said in a statement to the media following enacting the law. "This action does not alter or undermine the strong Christian heritage and values of the people of the Cayman Islands. No one is being asked to change their long-held beliefs."
"We recognize this is a huge achievement and step forward on the road to equality for all in Cayman," said Caymanian lawyer Chantelle Day in a statement supporting Roper's passage of the bill on Friday.
Day's marriage equality case was appealed to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the highest court for British Overseas Territories, in London.
She criticized the processes to get legal recognition of same-sex relationships, adding that Roper shouldn't have had to use his reserve powers to uphold the rule of law and the government shouldn't have wasted time and money for this ultimate and "inevitable result."
It is rare that the United Kingdom intervenes in local laws governing in overseas territories. It's been 20 years since the U.K. decriminalized homosexuality for all Commonwealth countries and 29 years since it abolished the death penalty in overseas territories, reported the Cayman Compass.
Same-sex and opposite-sex couples will be able to register their relationships starting September 25.
Under the new law, same-sex couples were granted the same rights as married couples.
Roper used his powers under Section 81 of the Cayman Islands' Constitution that allows United Kingdom government ministers to use their reserve powers to assent on disputed legislation. He justified the move to ensure the Cayman Islands not only complied with its own court order issued in November 2019, but also international law under the terms of the European Convention on Human Rights.
The Civil Partnership Bill was defeated in the Legislative Assembly July 29.
Day and her fiancée, Vickie Bodden Bush, who is from the U.K. and Honduras, appealed their same-sex marriage case to the Privy Council earlier this year after they were granted and then denied same-sex marriage last year. The council hasn't slated a date for the case to be heard.
A similar case is Bermuda, the largest British Overseas Territory, is set to be heard by the Privy Council February 3-4
Cayman Islands LGBTQ rights organization Colours Cayman stated the law was a "significant step forward" while reiterating that same-sex marriage is "the only true means of achieving equality."
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Mexican authorities arrest man in killing of trans activist


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Effect of aging on cardiac function during cold stress in humans
Thad E. Wilson, Zhaohui Gao, Kari L. Hess, Kevin D. Monahan
Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health
To determine whether skin surface cooling increases left ventricular preload and contractility to a greater extent in older compared with young adults we studied 11 young (28 ± 2 yr; means ± SE) and 11 older (64 ± 3 yr) adults during normothermia (35°C water perfused through a tube-lined suit) and cooling (15°C water perfused for 20 min) using standard and tissue Doppler echocardiography. Cooling significantly decreased skin surface temperature in young (Δ2.8 ± 0.3°C) and older (Δ3.0 ± 0.3°C) adults and increased rate-pressure product, an index of myocardial oxygen demand, in older (6,932 ± 445 to 7,622 ± 499 mmHg · beats/min for normothermia and cooling, respectively), but not young (7,085 ± 438 to 7,297 ± 438 mmHg·beats/min) adults. Increases in blood pressure (systolic and mean blood pressure) during cooling were greater (P < 0.05) in older than in young adults. Cooling increased preload in older (left ventricular end-diastolic volume from 106 ± 7 to 126 ± 9 ml and left ventricular internal diameter in diastole from 4.69 ± 0.12 to 4.95 ± 0.14 cm; both P < 0.01), but not young adults (left ventricular end-diastolic volume from 107 ± 7 to 111 ± 7 ml and left ventricular internal diameter in diastole from 4.70 ± 0.10 to 4.78 ± 0.10 cm). Indices of left ventricular contractility (ejection fraction, myocardial acceleration during isovolumic contraction, and peak systolic mitral annulus velocity) were unchanged during cooling in both young and older adults. Collectively, these data indicate that cooling increases left ventricular preload, without affecting left ventricular contractility in older but not young adults. Greater increases in preload and afterload during cooling in older adults contribute to greater increases in indices of myocardial oxygen demand and may help explain the increased risk of cardiovascular events in cold weather.
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Wilson, Thad E. ; Gao, Zhaohui ; Hess, Kari L. et al. / Effect of aging on cardiac function during cold stress in humans. In: American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology. 2010 ; Vol. 298, No. 6. pp. R1627-R1633.
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AU - Hess, Kari L.
AU - Monahan, Kevin D.
N2 - To determine whether skin surface cooling increases left ventricular preload and contractility to a greater extent in older compared with young adults we studied 11 young (28 ± 2 yr; means ± SE) and 11 older (64 ± 3 yr) adults during normothermia (35°C water perfused through a tube-lined suit) and cooling (15°C water perfused for 20 min) using standard and tissue Doppler echocardiography. Cooling significantly decreased skin surface temperature in young (Δ2.8 ± 0.3°C) and older (Δ3.0 ± 0.3°C) adults and increased rate-pressure product, an index of myocardial oxygen demand, in older (6,932 ± 445 to 7,622 ± 499 mmHg · beats/min for normothermia and cooling, respectively), but not young (7,085 ± 438 to 7,297 ± 438 mmHg·beats/min) adults. Increases in blood pressure (systolic and mean blood pressure) during cooling were greater (P < 0.05) in older than in young adults. Cooling increased preload in older (left ventricular end-diastolic volume from 106 ± 7 to 126 ± 9 ml and left ventricular internal diameter in diastole from 4.69 ± 0.12 to 4.95 ± 0.14 cm; both P < 0.01), but not young adults (left ventricular end-diastolic volume from 107 ± 7 to 111 ± 7 ml and left ventricular internal diameter in diastole from 4.70 ± 0.10 to 4.78 ± 0.10 cm). Indices of left ventricular contractility (ejection fraction, myocardial acceleration during isovolumic contraction, and peak systolic mitral annulus velocity) were unchanged during cooling in both young and older adults. Collectively, these data indicate that cooling increases left ventricular preload, without affecting left ventricular contractility in older but not young adults. Greater increases in preload and afterload during cooling in older adults contribute to greater increases in indices of myocardial oxygen demand and may help explain the increased risk of cardiovascular events in cold weather.
AB - To determine whether skin surface cooling increases left ventricular preload and contractility to a greater extent in older compared with young adults we studied 11 young (28 ± 2 yr; means ± SE) and 11 older (64 ± 3 yr) adults during normothermia (35°C water perfused through a tube-lined suit) and cooling (15°C water perfused for 20 min) using standard and tissue Doppler echocardiography. Cooling significantly decreased skin surface temperature in young (Δ2.8 ± 0.3°C) and older (Δ3.0 ± 0.3°C) adults and increased rate-pressure product, an index of myocardial oxygen demand, in older (6,932 ± 445 to 7,622 ± 499 mmHg · beats/min for normothermia and cooling, respectively), but not young (7,085 ± 438 to 7,297 ± 438 mmHg·beats/min) adults. Increases in blood pressure (systolic and mean blood pressure) during cooling were greater (P < 0.05) in older than in young adults. Cooling increased preload in older (left ventricular end-diastolic volume from 106 ± 7 to 126 ± 9 ml and left ventricular internal diameter in diastole from 4.69 ± 0.12 to 4.95 ± 0.14 cm; both P < 0.01), but not young adults (left ventricular end-diastolic volume from 107 ± 7 to 111 ± 7 ml and left ventricular internal diameter in diastole from 4.70 ± 0.10 to 4.78 ± 0.10 cm). Indices of left ventricular contractility (ejection fraction, myocardial acceleration during isovolumic contraction, and peak systolic mitral annulus velocity) were unchanged during cooling in both young and older adults. Collectively, these data indicate that cooling increases left ventricular preload, without affecting left ventricular contractility in older but not young adults. Greater increases in preload and afterload during cooling in older adults contribute to greater increases in indices of myocardial oxygen demand and may help explain the increased risk of cardiovascular events in cold weather.
KW - Age
KW - Tissue Doppler imaging
U2 - 10.1152/ajpregu.00099.2010
DO - 10.1152/ajpregu.00099.2010
SP - R1627-R1633
Wilson TE, Gao Z, Hess KL, Monahan KD. Effect of aging on cardiac function during cold stress in humans. American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology. 2010 Jun;298(6):R1627-R1633. doi: 10.1152/ajpregu.00099.2010


Tringe-san welcome all forumites, AuditionSEA players, dearest FAM members, lurkers and random people that's looking at this post right now!
As many of you know, this will be the place where you can know what's going on with Peridot, Fujiko, Chillibread, Classiemon and myself! Stuffs like, what are our hobbies, what we do sometimes and many more!
We will also organize events and MAYBE just maybe, gatherings too!
So for the first post, we are going to show you guys something very very interesting.
Were you guys ever curious to know.... how does the GM work desk look like? Messy? Clean and tidy? Yes, you are right, I'm here to show you guys some pictures I took when I made my visit to Asiasoft last week!
Best picture of the day!
GM Found unconscious.... too tired from work!
Lets guess which GM is this!
Hehe pretty good pictures don't you think? Tringe-san promise to bring you more interesting and exciting posts!
P.S For forumites/clubbers who wants to put up a link on our blog, feel free to email me (tringeee@gmail.com) your url and description!


We have been working on putting together a bunch of projects of stuff for sale to try and get a crafting/restoration business going to start generating some funds before we make the jump to a new location but it sapping all our energy and some funds with not much in return as of yet.
What was once going to be a website for a completely different business idea has turned into our families crafting/restoration site VintageAeroWorks.com. We have been working on a bunch of projects and posting them on the site. We also have several projects we are just wrapping up to post over the weekend. All of my energies have been going to getting more build projects done.
While building all of this stock and working side-by-side with Tammy are is a good thing in theory, my head is spinning with all of the things that are on hold while I focus on this. Most of it is stuff that would be on hold anyway. I can't justify starting any other projects that would require a lot of time or materials right before making a big move. It just wouldn't make sense. I am trying to cut down the pile of stuff that needs to get moved, not add to it.
Keeping spending down to a bare minimum is also a priority, while still keeping up with what we need to spend money on to get the build projects done.
It's all so tiring, and I can't get my brain to switch off. It's like having 100 projects all running at the same time but having 95 of them all waiting on some outside thing to happen befor you can go any further. You go through the list everyday and try to plan for the next phase of each and every one, but you can't because that outside thing is a variable and the direction of the project hinges on that variable. 95 variables for 95 projects, all floating around in your head while you try to stay on top of all 100 projects and get that small 5 that you are not waiting on anything done.
Just thinking about thinking about it makes my head hurt. Welcome to my head, watch your step, mind the squishy bits.
The basic plan is for a land acquisition in May with a move date sometime around September. I don't know if I can hold out that long. I'm relatively sure my perception is skewed, but it sure seems like the Stupid and Ignorant quotient is getting larger every day, and I'm finding my tolerance for it is in very short supply. Fortunately working from home keeps me out of the majority of it but even going out only a few times a week has become a very trying experience.


From DisneySea to Ippudo and more, Japan is filled with many great things. But the one thing I – a budget traveller – get most excited about is stepping into their convenience stores. Whether it's FamilyMart or Lawson, I know I'm bound to find a slew of interesting food – both hot and cold – including onigiri, soba, dessert cream sandwiches, Japanese cheesecakes and, my personal favourite on a cold Tokyo day, oden!
Also known as konbini, the Japan convenience store culture is alive – and spreading, with FamilyMart arriving near our shores at JB City Square Mall, which is literally just across the Causeway. Here, you will find a plethora of goodies that's similar to the ones in Japan; it's almost as though you've entered Tokyo itself!
Opened in March 2019, this is the closest FamilyMart to Singapore. It is brightly lit and extremely clean and tidy. The queues were, surprisingly, not long too with most of them being fellow Singaporeans.
As written in Tsunagu Japan, the main telltale sign whether a Japanese convenience store is legit, is the myriad of quality, mouthwatering food. And the one at Johor Bahru is no different, with rows of onigiri imported from Japan, including one with a Sakura Ebi filling as well as a rice ball one stuffed with Ajitsuke Tamago. Both are only priced at RM3.90 too, which makes it only ~S$1.30.
If Omurice makes you go omo, you will be pleased to find one there too, priced at RM7.80 (~S$2.62). There's also Katsu Curry Rice at RM10.90 for you to fuel up on back in your hotel room after a day of shopping. If you rather a dessert, there's also Matcha Parfait (RM5.90/~S$1.96) that's nicely plated in a plastic takeaway cup.
The real MVP of the JB City Square Mall's FamilyMart is the oden station. Similar to the one in Japan, it is found near the cashier, with a rectangle hotpot bubbling with fishcakes, daikon, corn and ajitsuke tamago.
Price starts from RM3 (~s$1) a stick, and comes with a choice of broth. Aside from the usual dashi broth, you will also find Tom Yam broth, which is exclusive to the JB outlets.
With FamilyMart in JB, Indonesia, and Thailand, we can only hope they come down to Singapore too!
Featured image adapted from @tursonmun's post.


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Q: How does the following foward-declared multi-inheritance pointer converted code work? In the followint code, how does the pointer conversion & multi-inheritance play together?
class Foo {
  public:
  virtual void someFunc();
};

class Bar;

void someWork(Bar *bar) {
  ((Foo*) bar)->someFunc();
}

class Bar: public Zed, public Foo {
...
virtual void someFunc() { ... do something else ... }
}

Bar bar;

int main() {
  someWork(&bar);
}

My understanding is kinda shaky.
On one hand, someWork knows nothing about Bar, so this shouldn't work; but on the other hand, I have forward declared Bar.
Thanks!

A: This doesn't work and it isn't doing quite what you think it is.  Your use of the c-style cast:
(Foo*) bar

is incorrect in this case.  What you are trying to do is upcast the Bar* to a Foo* (i.e., perform a static_cast from a pointer to a dervied class to a pointer to a base class).
Since the definition of Bar is not available at this point, however, the compiler does not know that Foo is a base class of Bar.  Thus, the static_cast fails and the compiler falls back and uses a reinterpret_cast, which is not at all the same thing.

A: Hmm. My guess is that since the cast is "evaluated" during linking, which is after the class has been compiled. But that's just a guess.

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Accordingly, Mr. Trzaska told his supervisors that he and his team would not file any patent applications unless they believed in good faith that the product was patentable, because otherwise they would be violating the RPCs. Shortly thereafter, L'Oréal offered Mr. Trzaska two severance packages if he would resign. When Mr. Trzaska rejected both offers, L'Oréal fired him, claiming it no longer needed his position.
Mr. Trzaska filed a federal lawsuit, alleging L'Oréal fired him in violation of CEPA. L'Oréal filed a motion to dismiss his case. The District Court granted the motion, finding that since the RPCs only govern the conduct of lawyers and do not apply to L'Oréal itself, Mr. Trzaska could not have reasonably believed the company was violating the law. Accordingly, it concluded that Mr. Trzaska's objections about L'Oréal's quota system were not protected by CEPA.
Mr. Trzaska appealed. In Trzaska v. L'Oréal USA, Inc., the Third Circuit reversed the District Court's ruling and reinstated Mr. Trzaska's case. It concluded that if an employer "instructed, coerced, or threatened" one of its patent attorneys to ignore an RPC, then it would be violating a clear mandate of public policy and thus violate CEPA. Accordingly, the court concluded that a company violates CEPA if it fires an attorney because he refused to follow an instruction that would have violated an RPC.
In support of its ruling, the Third Circuit recognized that patents, by their very nature, are matters of public interest and noted that the relationship between attorneys and the Patent Office requires "the highest degree of candor and good faith." Accordingly, it concluded that "[a]n employer's directive to its employees to disregard" the patent court's professional rules "crosses a clear mandate of public policy." It further explained that although the District Court is correct that RPCs do not apply to L'Oréal itself, CEPA still prohibits an employer from firing an employee because he refused to participate in an activity that he reasonably believes violates public policy, including an activity he reasonable believes violates an RPC.
In addition, the Court held that since CEPA protects employees who object to violations of state or federal regulations, an objection to a violation of the patent office's professional rules, which are codified in federal regulations, is protected by CEPA.
The Court also concluded that Mr. Trzaska did not have to identify a particular baseless patent application that L'Oréal had instructed him to file. Rather, he had in effect objected on the basis that, under the circumstance, to keep his job the quota system required him to file patent applications for products did not believe were patentable.


Charge your Apple watch with this 3D Printed sleek and easy to use stand that will complement your home and office decor.
Compatible with both Apple Watch chargers. It fits the the 42mm Apple Watch is pictured with this listing and the smaller 38mm Apple Watch.
The base product does not include rubber feet, please select the option from the drop down to add the rubber feet.
The Apple Watch stand Model B is printed in ABS using the color of your choice. We print at 200 micron resolution to yield the best look and sturdiness.
The design file by http://www.thingiverse.com/jsc/about is licensed via open source to print freely and available on Thingiverse.
I like the small design, fits great on my nightstand. Hard to get the charger out when I want to use it in a different setting or to travel.
This item is awesome, smaller than it looks in the picture, but does the job very well. Details about shipping were extremely vague, and it took a little bit longer than I expected because of some mix up. Overall love the product, the only deduction in stars was for the shipping problem.
I have the nylon band and have to flatten the band near the Watch face in order to get it to sit right in the carved out spot on the dock. But it works great and was easy to add my cord. Wonder how I will get it out one day but that's a problem for another day!
Nice and as shown. Lacks a cable clip at the back … but serves the purpose well. Easy to set up. Has a cradle to hold the watch which is excellent in the event that the watch has a metal strap and becomes to heavy just of the charge magnet to hold in place.
Good item. Fits watch well.
Just as described and works well.
Works well. Just had to sand down the edges a tad bit in order to get rid of the sharp edges.
Pleasing in both form and function.
I was worried it was still going to be a little light even though it claims to be a heavy base. I won't say it's actually heavy, but I will say it works just fine and I have no complaints. Solid product at a very reasonable price.


I made a free printable cutout donut template for you to print out and have the kids cut out. Use for Sunday school class or in children's church. I made the donut with the words on it that say's, "DONUT You Know Jesus Loves You." I also made templates without words on them and black and white ones in case if you want your kids to color it first before they cut it out. Use for decorating a bulletin board too. These are large templates that will print to fit an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.


An effectfull and provocative performance mixing elements of theatre, dance and installation art.
It deals with our relationship to notions such as truth, reality and illusion. To create the greatest illusion all means are taken into use.
The heavy theatrical illusory machinery is run in position. With painted backdrops, red curtain, smoke machines, confetti-cannons, magic shows, seductive costumes, lots of makeup and hard-pumping disco music.
What constitutes us as human beings?
What kind of social worlds do we inhabite, and why have we created them the way we have?
Reality will never be the same after you've seen this show.
Lille Carl i Dansehallerne (København). Please notice: Friday september 24 sees the premiere of an english version of the piece.


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If Stafford retires, would you trade another down year for Caleb Williams?
Caleb Williams has been touted as the next Patrick Mahomes, is he worth tanking for?
By CliffJackson@CliffJacksonn Dec 14, 2022, 11:20am CST
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The 2022-2023 season has been nothing short of a nightmare for the Los Angeles Rams, as everything that could go wrong has gone wrong for the defending Super Bowl champions. Injuries have occurred all over the roster, resulting in the worst Sean McVay-led Rams team by a country mile.
One of those big-time injuries that L.A. has had to deal with is to their star quarterback Matthew Stafford, as the seasoned veteran is dealing with what has been called a "spinal cord contusion". Stafford's wife Kelly has been very vocal about how she feels about the health of her husband, and understandably so, as something as serious as a spinal cord injury is not to be taken lightly.
With that being considered, there is a real possibility that Matthew Stafford could hang up the cleats following this season, leaving the Rams without the quarterback that led them to a Super Bowl victory.
Now, if Stafford does decide to retire, what would the plan be in Los Angeles? Baker Mayfield had a nice debut for the squad, but is he the quarterback of the future? It's awfully optimistic and, with the team lacking a first round pick this upcoming draft, the Rams most likely will not draft their future starting QB in the 2023 draft. L.A. will not have a first round pick until the 2024 draft, which could be the first time the Rams have made a selection in the opening round of the draft since 2016.
While the Rams more than likely won't find their future quarterback through this upcoming draft, there is a man already playing in L.A. that I am sure coaches and GMs in the NFL are salivating over. USC sophomore quarterback Caleb Williams is coming off a Heisman campaign, displaying unbelievable traits and skills that are only comparable to perhaps the best QB in the NFL in Patrick Mahomes.
Williams will, barring any sort of crazy injuries/setbacks, be the number one overall selection in 2024, which just so happens to be when the Rams will have a first round pick. Caleb Williams has been touted as a "generational talent" by former Saints head coach Sean Payton, and Payton believes NFL teams will tank their seasons in order to have the opportunity to select Williams.
The question is, if Matthew Stafford retires, should the Rams tank their 2023-2024 season in order to grab Caleb Williams? The answer is very simple, YES YES YES.
While tanking in the NFL is not as obvious as a league like the NBA, teams can certainly make moves/decisions that will lead to losing football. Should Stafford leave the team, the Rams should not hesitate to field calls for some of their big money talent and, with the right offers, send away said talent for more draft capital.
Players of the sheer talent and skill level of Caleb Williams only come around so much, especially at the quarterback position, so L.A. should give this a real consideration if they lose their star QB in the off-season. Seeing the impact that Patrick Mahomes, who Caleb Williams' game emulates, on his team should be enough to take another rough season for the potential to have a game-changing player for 15+ years.
What do you folks think, if Matthew Stafford hangs it up in the off-season, would you trade another tough season if it meant the Rams would draft Caleb Williams in 2024?