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Lioness AI has been pioneering sex tech since 2017, but CES 2020 was the first time the company was allowed to exhibit its AI-enabled sex toy at one of the world's biggest tech shows.
After rethinking on its earlier policies, the Consumer Technology Association allows the sex-positive sex tech companies to display their work at CES, which took place earlier this month in Las Vegas.
Here in this giant marketplace of technology, the San Francisco company Lioness.io has also participated with their Lioness Generation 2 AI sex toy which eventually becomes one of the top ten finalists for an award at CES.
Liz Klinger the co-founder and CEO of Lioness said our company made a splash on the internet in 2017 for creating the first vibrator that uses patented biofeedback technology to help you improve your sex life.
The company is launching Lioness Generation 2 in mid-2020 with AI-assisted guidance, based on years of working with Lioness customers. It analyzes data on more than 30,000 orgasms and numerous user studies.
The Lioness Generation 1 was launched back in 2017 and it uses precision sensors with the biofeedback features to show your arousal and orgasm on an intuitive and interactive mobile app.
The Lioness's high-precision precision sensor suite brings technology that previously existed only in research labs into user hands in the form of a sleek, easy-to-use vibrator, with the privacy of their own home.
The tuned algorithms and AI-based system was trained on over 6 years of quantitative and qualitative data from study volunteers, and over 30,000+ anonymized sessions to provide never-before-available guidance.
It comes with an intuitive app experience by engineers and designers from Google and Amazon Lab126.
The Lioness.io is founded by ex-GoogleX and Amazon technologists and developed from more than four years of research and development with sex researchers and doctors worldwide.
A spoke person form VentureBeat spoke with Klinger, who started the company with Anna Lee and James Wang, who put a lot of research and development into the project.
Here's an edited transcript of our interview.
Can you tell me about the background behind Lioness?
Liz Klinger: Our first product, the Lioness vibrator, uses biofeedback and precision sensors, so you can literally see your own arousal and orgasm. You use Lioness like a normal vibrator, and then when you have a session where you want to see what happened, you can go to the app and look at data about yourself.
This is showing force overtime pelvic floor muscle contractions, vaginal contractions. You're able to add different tags and notes about the experience. Some folks track whether they've been stressed, whether they've used this with a partner, whether they've used alcohol or cannabis or CBD, all sorts of different things.
Where are the sensors located? Are they all over the device?
Klinger: The two main sensors are–you see these little knobs here. These are force sensors, detecting how much you squeeze or not. There are other sensors in there to balance out–for example, there's a gyro inside.
You're going to be doing different movements, to balance out whether this is at an angle & other things. There's also a temperature sensor, to automatically start recording a session, & changes in body temperature.
We're trying to find a way to avoid having too many buttons, to make it automated and seamless. When you're using the vibrator, it's just a vibrator experience.
Is this the first product so far for the company, or have you done other stuff?
Klinger: This is our first product, our baby. At CES this year we're rolling out the AI guidance. We launched back in 2017, and over time we've been able to analyze more than 30,000 anonymized sessions.
We put together an algorithm that's able to show these hot spots, where people have higher arousal and more likelihood of orgasm. It's this very regular motion from the pelvic floor, about one to two hertz, very rapid succession. We're also able to show–okay, you're kind of close here, or in other areas.
That's particularly useful for people who–a lot of women have questions about, was that an orgasm? Some people have questions like, "I've never had an orgasm before. Am I getting closer or not?"
Some people want to better understand their own experience. What makes for a better experience for me?
Above: Anna Lee (left), Liz Klinger, and James Wang are the founders of Lioness.
Did you have to run something like a clinical study for this?
Klinger: That's actually one of the next things that we're working on. One of the challenges that we had launching the product was that the more we were setting things up and trying to figure out okay, what sort of information can we offer to people at this point? What's already available in the research?
There's barely any physiological research on the function of arousal and orgasm, particularly for women and people with vaginas. It's unfortunate. A lot of the cutting-edge research was from the 1980s. It's still useful.
There are basic building blocks. It's how we were able to show this is what an orgasm generally is.
One interesting example, with erectile dysfunction for men, you have things like Viagra and Cialis. One of the big things with the blue pill, when that launched out into the market, not only were more men going to the doctor to ask for it, but the doctors knew that when they came in to ask for it.
There might not be a problem with the genitals. There might be overall blood flow issues, heart attack risk.
For women, there's no analog to that, even though heart attacks are the leading cause of death for women. In part because there's just been a lack of research and focus in that area. There's been this jump over that phase of research and understanding for women, even though it's kind of a big deal.
And now you can collect an amount of data that no one ever had access to before.
Klinger: Exactly. And even though a lot of the research on female sexual function today–a lot of it is collected via survey data. There's FSFI, the Female Sexual Function Index, a survey that you fill out.
A lot of different drug companies use it. It's one piece of the puzzle, but it's not necessarily–it's a lot less robust if you just have that compared to having both that and the physiological data.
So product improvement is one reason, but there are also research purposes for collecting these analytics.
Klinger: We're starting to do some of that. Some of the stuff I did over the last two years 1 was a case study that I presented to a rehabilitation nursing conference on the case of a person who'd had a concussion.
She happened to have a Lioness, and she saw an overnight change in her orgasm. It basically flatlined. She also had a lot of head pressure and headaches, so it was very much a struggle.
The realization that it wasn't–she thought the vibrator was broken, which is how we learned about it. But the realization that there was something wrong with her got her to take her injuries more seriously.
She's a derby player. She wanted to get back into the sport and push people around and all that. But this led her to realize that she really needed to take care of herself.
We've also done more fun projects. There's a data project we did with Eaze, the cannabis company, where we got a couple of Lioness users, volunteers, people who already had Lioness, and we worked with Eaze to have them try different products, cannabis and CBD products, and compare the effects of those products.
It's been interesting. There's a huge landscape of all these different questions and possibilities out there about how pleasure plays a role in all these different parts of our lives. I'm excited to explore it all.
There's a bunch of sex tech companies at CES this year, finally. Do you feel like you're doing something different, taking a different route from the others?
Klinger: For us, it's always been more about the biofeedback and the data and insights we're able to offer people with our technology. That's the thing that our customers are really looking for. A lot of these sensors in here are–it's just recently, in the last couple of years, that the costs have started to go down.
Another aspect of it is we have Anna, my co-founder on the team. She used to work at Amazon Lab126 as a mechanical engineer. She knows her way around sensors and everything. She's a specialized person in the space. James, my other co-founder, he's a data scientist.
He used to work at Google and Bridgewater Associates. He knows his way around data, privacy, all those aspects of the product. You need a lot of different specialties to do this. There are also different barriers to entry for things like fundraising, advertising, all the things that sex tech companies have to deal with.
It seems like we have a positive outcome now. I don't know how painful it was behind the scenes, but–
Klinger: Now, yeah. It's nice now, for sure. It's interesting. I've also seen companies that have come up and died because–to be frank, CES and these other large organizations, they're the gatekeepers that determine what's hot or not in technology, setting the trends and the tone for the coming year.
By not having all these different sex tech companies, with a few exceptions here, we're being overlooked as a category, even though it's a category that, like everything else, people buy and use in their daily lives.
It's still useful. It's how we were able to show–this is what an orgasm generally is, the general definition of it. One interesting example, with erectile dysfunction for men, you have things like Viagra and Cialis.
One of the big things with the blue pill, when that launched out into the market, not only were more men going to the doctor to ask for it, but the doctors knew that when they came in to ask for it, there might not just be a problem with the genitals. There might be overall blood flow issues, other things to screen for.
VentureBeat: And now you can collect an amount of data that no one ever had access to before.
VentureBeat: So product improvement is one reason, but there are also research purposes for collecting these analytics.
Klinger: Right. We're starting to do some of that. Some of the stuff I did over the last two years–one was a case study that I presented to a rehabilitation nursing conference last year, on the case of a person who'd had a concussion.
We've also done more fun projects. There's a data project we did with Eaze, the cannabis company, where we got a couple of Lioness users, volunteers, people who already had Lioness, and we worked with Eaze to have them try different products, cannabis, and CBD products, and compare the effects of those products on their overall experience.
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Knives, guns on campus | Inquirer Opinion
Knives, guns on campus
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How should a student respond when he or she becomes the object of bullying?
Philippine Psychiatric Association spokesperson Dr. Babes Arcenas, in an interview with another paper, said that those who are bullied should stand their ground the first time the act of intimidation or harassment occurs: "The first time it is done, show that you can fight back. You have to show that you are in control because if they see you crying, they will think they have power over you. You should be able to tell them to leave you alone or you will report them to the authorities."
Sound advice, except: How do you fight back when there is more than one bully before you? Or when you are in unfamiliar territory, without friends you can run to for help or teachers and persons of authority who can lend you protection? Worse, when the bullies, not content with the might of their numbers, are able to brandish arms right on campus—pepper spray, for instance, or knives and even guns?
Certainly, there was no way Joan Lourdes Reyes, 20, an information technology student of the University of Santo Tomas, could fight back against the sudden attack against her early this month. She had gone to the Far Eastern University campus to watch a film on a friend's invitation. Later, in a corridor, she was approached by five coeds who first asked what she was doing there (she was wearing a UST Engineering shirt). "The next thing I knew, someone sprayed something at me," Reyes said. "It stung my skin and eyes so much that I could not see and breathe. [Then] someone stabbed me in the stomach and another stabbed me in the back."
Reyes suffered five stab wounds and had to undergo surgery to repair her small intestine. While FEU announced that it had identified and suspended one of the attackers, a nursing student who now also faces frustrated homicide charges, Reyes herself remains clueless about the motive for the assault. One theory being offered, which would be laughable if not for the gravity of the crime committed: UST and FEU are basketball rivals, with UST elbowing out FEU this year for a spot in the UAAP finals. If true, this represents a new and chilling low—collegiate sports rivalry gone homicidal (and not even among players, but crazed fans).
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The article in the Wisp'r of 7 March on stereotypical behaviour of polar bears in captivity continues to provoke reactions.
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Deleuzian film studies in memory of David Vilaseca
Image of Ingrid Bergman as Karin in Stromboli (Roberto Rossellini, 1950)
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For [French philosopher Henri] Bergson, the brain does not produce a representation of what it perceives. Perception is the mutual influence of images upon one another, of which the brain is only another image—it does not "produce" anything, but filters impulses into actions or non-actions. The implications for film are two-fold. By addressing the perceiving subject as one image among the world of images, Bergson steps outside models that locate perception and memory within the mind of the subject. I would further suggest, following [Gilles] Deleuze, that Bergson's theory of matter allows us to see film not as a fixed representation, a concrete image of a "real" object, but as an image in its own right, with its own duration and axes of movement. What we might call the film-image thus occurs in the gap between subject and object, through the collision of affective images.
Deleuze's formulation of the film-image as a mobile assemblage (sometimes a frame, sometimes a shot, a sound, or the film as a whole) lends itself to this reading. It refuses to reduce the physical image on the screen to a mere reproduction of an assumed "real" object it represents. Such a formulation similarly reevaluates the relationship between the concrete optical and sonic images that comprise the film. Rather than conceiving of each component as a "building block," it allows for the shifting conglomerations of elements which are themselves dynamic and mobile. A film cannot be distilled to a structure that originates from outside itself. Instead, each film-image is contingent, particular, and evolving.
The distinction between the time- and movement-images becomes more clear in this context. Rather than a question of either content or form, the difference lies in their affective power, whether they are bent toward action, in the case of the movement image, or if they open into different temporal modalities. It is in this second case that the time-image falls, and it is here that Deleuze locates the creative potential of film. This potential does not exist solely within the physical image itself, however, but is contained as well in the modes of perception and thinking that it triggers. Much like the time-image, the mental faculty most attuned to the openness of time, according to Bergson, is that of intuition.
Amy Herzog, 'Affectivity, Becoming, and the Cinematic Event: Gilles Deleuze and the Futures of Feminist Film Theory', in Koivunen A. & Paasonen S. (eds),Conference proceedings for affective encounters: rethinking embodiment in feminist media studies , University of Turku, School of Art, Literature and Music, Media Studies, Series A, No. 49
Film Studies For Free lovingly presents its long list of links to online and openly accessible film-studies resources of note pertaining to the work of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Like lots of continental theorists invoked in Film Studies, 'Deleuze' has been somewhat of a moveable feast, but, as the links below testify, in recent years this particular feast has been a highly nourishing one for a variety of approaches to this discipline.
This FSFF entry is one of two posts to be dedicated to the fond memory of David Vilaseca, Professor of Hispanic Studies and Critical Theory at Royal Holloway, University of London. Professor Vilaseca tragically died in a road traffic accident in London on February 9, 2010. His achievements in life were many, as this touching obituary written by his good friend and mentor Professor Paul Julian Smith eloquently sets out. Both in person and in his writing he was an inspiration. He will be much missed.
FSFF's author had met David Vilaseca on a number of occasions over the years and is a keen follower of his brilliant work on queer, Catalan, and Hispanic culture. She wishes to express her sincere condolences to David's family, friends, and colleagues.
David Vilaseca had a particular interest in Deleuzian philosophy as well as in the critique of Deleuze's work by fellow French philosopher Alain Badiou. Three of his related essays are linked to below, and interested FSFF readers should also look out for his third book Negotiating the Event: Post-deconstructive Subjectivities in Spanish Literature and Film, to be published this Autumn, which will undoubtedly explore further the pertinence of Deleuze and Badiou's work for film studies.
Good Film and Cultural Studies-related Deleuzian websites:
The Pinocchio Theory (Steven Shaviro)
Radio Deleuze
Immanence (Adrian Ivakhiv) (see especially the entries on 'Why Deleuze?' and 'ecology, Deleuze/Tarkovsky, and the time-image')
Spittin' Change (Kara Keeling)
Pirates and Revolutionaries (Corry Shores)
Deleuze Cinema Project 1 (Corry Shores)
Differences and Repetitions blogspot and Differences and Repetitions wiki (Ted Striphas)
Inmanencia
Deleuzian film studies:
Carolyn Abbs, 'Virginia Woolf and Gilles Deleuze: Cinematic e-motion and the Mobile Subject', Interactive Media, Issue 1, 2005
Lisa Åkervall, 'Cinema, Affect and Vision', rhizomes 16, Summer 2008
Don Anderson, 'Deleuze and Horror Film', rhizomes 11/12, fall 2005/spring 2006
Dyrk Ashton, Feeling Time: Deleuze's Time Image and Aesthetic Effect', rhizomes 16, Summer 2008
Jeffrey A. Bell, 'Thinking with Cinema: Deleuze and Film Theory', Film-Philosophy, Vol. 1, 1997
Garnet Creighton Butchart, 'Thinking Through Cinema: On Rodowick's Gilles Deleuze's Time Machine', Film-Philosophy, Vol. 4, 2000
Don Callen. 'Action and Image in The Time of the Dismal Tide', rhizomes 16, Summer 2008
Jinhee Choi, 'Bergson: Before the Deleuze', Film-Philosophy, Vol. 5 No. 35, November 2001
Mary Flanagan , 'Mobile Identities, Digital Stars, and Post-Cinematic Selves', Wide Angle, 1999
D.H. Fleming , 'Review: Patricia Pisters (2003) The Matrix of Visual Culture: Working with Deleuze in Film Theory Stanford: Stanford University Press', Film-Philosophy, 13:1, April 2009
Theresa L. Geller, 'The Cinematic Relations of Corporeal Feminism', rhizomes 11/12, fall 2005/spring 2006
Michael Goddard, 'Beauty Lies in the Eye (So Why Can't I Touch It?) [on 'Deleuze, Guattari and the Philosophy of Expression', special issue of the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée, guest edited by Brian Massumi ]', Film-Philosophy, No. 25, September 1998
Catherine Grant, 'Cinesexuality [review of Patricia MacCormack's book]', Times Higher Education, December 18, 2008
Markos Hadjioannou, 'Into Great Stillness, Again and Again: Gilles Deleuze's Time and the Constructions of Digital Cinema', rhizomes 16, Summer 2008
Amy Herzog, 'Reassessing the Aesthetic: Cinema, Deleuze, and the Art of Thinking', Film-Philosophy, Deleuze Special Issue, Vol. 5 No. 40, November 2001
Will Higbee, 'Ungrounding the Narrative of Nation (Review: David Martin-Jones (2006) Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity: Narrative Time in National Contexts Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press)', Film-Philosophy, 13:1, April 2009
Jan Jagodzinski, 'Michael Haneke: The Spectatorship of Self-refleXivity; Between Lacan and Deleuze', 'The Scope of Interdisciplinarity' Conference, Center for Integrated Studies, November 2008
John Johnston, 'Machinic Vision', Critical Inquiry, Vol. 26, No. 1. (Autumn, 1999), pp. 27-48
Jeff Karnicky, 'Georges Bataille and the Visceral Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow', Enculturation, Vol. 2, No. 1, Fall 1998
Kara Keeling, 'Deleuze and Cinema', Critical Commons, 2010 ("The following selection of film clips from films discussed by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze were compiled in the Fall of 2009 by the participants in Professor Kara Keeling's Critical Studies graduate seminar on Deleuze and Culture at the University of Southern California")
Barbara M. Kennedy, 'Fugitive Spaces -- Between the Critical and the Creative: A Reply to Amy Herzog', Film-Philosophy, Deleuze Special Issue, Vol. 5 No. 41, November 2001
Jeanne Marie Kusina, 'Difference, Repetition, Disappearance, and Death: A Deleuzian Consideration of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Kairo', rhizomes 16, Summer 2008
Matt Lee, 'Taking Deleuze (On)', Film-Philosophy, No. 33, October 1998
Patricia MacCormack, 'Necrosexuality', rhizomes 11/12, fall 2005/spring 2006
Patricia MacCormack on Pleasure, Perversion, Death and the Viewing Body e-book
Laura U. Marks, 'Haptic Visuality: Touching with the Eyes', Framework" the Finnish Art Review, No. 2, 2004 (large pdf - scroll down to p. 79)
David Martin-Jones, 'Site for Sore Eyes', Film-Philosophy, Volume 3 Number 15, April 1999
Antonio Negri, 'On Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus', Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, Volume 18, Number 2, 1995
David Neo, 'Fractal Images of Memory in Mother and Son: Pt 1', Offscreen Journal, November 30, 2001
Jakob Nilsson, ' Crystal Matter: Virtual Structures and the Search for Belief', rhizomes 16, Summer 2008
Jenny O'Connor, 'Quentin Tarantino: Gilles Deleuze's Cinematic "Falsifier"', rhizaomes 16, Summer 2008
Tom O'Connor, 'Uncontrollably Herself': Deleuze's Becoming-woman in the Horror Films of Michael Almereyda', Horror Studies, 1:1, 2010
Edward R. O'Neill, 'Apprehending Deleuze Apprehending Cinema [on Der Film bei Deleuze/Le cinema selon Deleuze, edited by Fahle & Engell], Film-Philosophy, Vol. 2, No. 2, January 1998
Susan Pelle and Catherine Fox, 'Queering Desire/Querying Consumption: Rereading Visual Images of 'Lesbian' Desire in Lisa Cholodenko's High Art',thirdspace 6/1, 2006
Claire Perkins, 'Becoming-democratic: Donnie Darko and other Recent Suburban Utopias', rhizomes 16, Summer 2008
Claire Perkins, 'Cinephilia and Monstrosity: The Problem of Cinema in Deleuze's Cinema Books', Senses of Cinema, No. 8, 2000
Patricia Pisters, 'From Mouse to Mouse: Overcoming Information', Enculturation, Vol. 2, No. 1, Fall 1998
Richard I. Pope, 'In Kubrick's Crypt, a Derrida/Deleuze Monster; or, An-Other Return to 2001', Film-Philosopy, Vol. 7 No. 22, August 2003
Gregg Redner, 'Dmitri Shostakovich's score for Kozintsev's Hamlet', rhizomes 16, Summer 2008
Jason Kelly Roberts, 'Review of The Virtual Life of Film by D.N. Rodowick [London: Harvard University Press, 2007]', Scope, Issue 13, February 2009
D.N. Rodowick, 'Ethics in film philosophy (Cavell, Deleuze, Levinas)', Unpublished essay
D.N. Rodowick, 'An Elegy for Theory' October, 121 (Summer 2007): 99-110
D.N. Rodowick, 'Unthinkable Sex: Conceptual Personae and the Time-Image,' (In)Visible Culture 3 (2000)
D.N. Rodowick, Webcast: from "Immanent Choreographies: Deleuze and Neo-Aesthetics," Tate Modern, London, England, 21-22 September 2001
Ilaria Serra, 'The Female Spectator's Laughter: Anti- Oedipus to Free Female Spectatorship', Deleuze and Feminism special issue, edited by Claire Claire Colebrook, theory@buffalo.edu, no.8, 2003 (scroll down pdf to p. 100)
Steven Shaviro, 'The Cinematic Body Redux', originally published in Parallax 14:1 (February 2008), 48-54, The Pinocchio Theory
Steven Shaviro, 'Emotion Capture: Affect in Digital Film', Projections, Volume 1, Issue 2, Winter 2007: 63-82
Steven Shaviro , 'The "Wrenching Duality" of Aesthetics: Kant, Deleuze, and the "Theory of the Sensible"', The Pinocchio Theory, November 10, 2007
Robert Sinnerbrink, 'Time, Affect, and the Brain: Deleuze's Cinematic Aesthetics', Film-Philosophy, 12:1, 2008
Jacob Skeet, 'Woolf plus Deleuze: Cinema, Literature and Time Travel', rhizomes 16, Summer 2008
Jason Sperb, 'Time Passing in the Simulacrum of Videodrome', Intertheory, Vol. 3, 2006
Andreas Spiegl, 'Empire as Cinema', Afterall, Issue 8, Autumn/Winter 2003
Melanie Swalwell, 'The Senses and Memory in Intercultural Cinema [on Laura U. Marks's The Skin of the Film]', Film-Philosophy, Vol. 6, No. 32, 2002
Michael Angelo Tata, 'Warholian Machinehood II: World Text as External Time Consciousness', rhizomes 16, Summer 2008
Donato Totaro, 'Gilles Deleuze's Bergsonian film Project: Part 1: Cinema 1: The Movement-Image', Offscreen Journal, March 31, 1999
Donato Totaro, 'Gilles Deleuze's Bergsonian Film Project: Part 2: Cinema 2: The Time-Image', Offscreen Journal, March 31, 1999
Donato Totaro, 'Deleuzian film Analysis: The Skin of the Film', Offscreen Journal, June 30, 2002
David Vilaseca, 'Deleuze and the Barcelona School: Time in Vicente Aranda's Fata Morgana (1965), in Cristina Sánchez-Conejero, ed., Spanishness in the Spanish Novel and Film of the 20th Century. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008; pp.21-32 (Two page excerpt - scroll down in pdf)
David Vilaseca, 'Antonio Roig's Kafkaesque Laughter: (Anti-)Oedipal Parody in Todos los parques no son un paraíso', rhizomes 11/12, fall 2005/spring 2006
David Vilaseca, 'How Does One Escape One's Own Simulacrum? Subjectivity and the Asceticism of Being in Terenci Moix's Autobiography', Hispanic Review (spring 2008)
Thomas Carl Wall, 'The Time-Image: Deleuze, Cinema, and Perhaps Language', Film-Philosophy, Vol. 8 No. 23, July 2004
Maria Walsh, 'Zizek, Deleuze, and the Feminine Cinematic Sublime', rhizomes 16, Summer 2008
Edward Willatt, 'Review: Eyal Peretz (2007) Becoming Visionary: Brian De Palma's Cinematic Education of the Senses. Stanford University Press: Palo Alto, CA', Film-Philosophy, 12:1, 2008
James Williams, The Transversal Thought of Gilles Deleuze: Encounters and Influences, 2005 (large pdf)
Daniel Ziegert, 'Radical Measures: 9/11 and | as Deleuze's Time-Image', rhizomes 16, Summer 2008
Nina Zimnik, 'What Will This Century Be Known As? Deleuze and Resistance for Theory on 'A Deleuzian Century?', special issue of theSouth Atlantic Quarterly, Film-Philosophy, No. 16, June 1998
Nina Zimnick, ''Give me a body': Deleuze's Time Image and the Taxonomy of the Body in the Work of Gabriele Leidloff', Enculturation, Vol. 2, No. 1, Fall 1998
Posted by Catherine Grant at 12:50
Labels: aesthetics, Alain Badiou, David Vilaseca, Deleuzian film studies, Film and Philosophy, film philosophy, gaming, Gilles Deleuze, Henri Bergson, philosophy and film, queer film theory
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Catherine Grant said...
Thanks for flagging the omission of Claire Perkins's great article for Senses of Cinema, Jason. No idea how that one passed me by, but I've now added it above. Your comment also prompted my somewhat sluggish memory that you refer to Deleuze in some of your own work and sure enough I discovered that you had published a related online essay (Jason Sperb, 'Time Passing in the Simulacrum of Videodrome', Intertheory, Vol. 3, 2006) which is of course more than worthy of inclusion above. So now I have two omissions to apologise for. Thanks! Can anyone else think of other good items I have missed?
Thanks, Catherine, but no worries of any perceived oversight on my end, perhaps because I've since renounced my own Deleuzian roots. But as you'll probably note, I tend to do that.
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Myanmar: Fighting hunger and feeding hope
U Kyar Hpu's children holding food products from their farm.
Hunger Hunger Crisis Myanmar Nutrition
World Vision's Resilience & Livelihood Technical Programme has launched the Ultra Poor Graduation Model (UPG) in 25 of its Area Programmes since 2020. Ultra Poor Graduation aims to improve the lives of 1,138 of the most vulnerable families like U Kyar Hpu's family in Myanmar. According to the measurement in September 2020, 547 out of 1138 households—48.1% of total UPG households—were graduated according to the graduation criteria.
The nutrition status of under 5 children: The green status of U5 children in underweight has increased from 78.59% to 84.75% and the green status of under 5 children in wasting has increased from 82.76% to 84.17%.
The financial inclusion status: 81.3% of Ultra Poor Graduation households now have a secondary income source, 90.4% of households have savings, and 92.4% of households have a family vision.
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Living with them is their eight-year-old son, Aung Zin Moe - a World Vision-registered child - 14-year-old daughter, Lay May, and 15-year-old niece, Na Ei Shal, whose parents sadly passed away.
Lay May contracted Tuberculosis (TB) when she was just three years old and needed to take TB medicine for a long time. She became malnourished and her brain development was affected. Lay May dropped out of school in Grade 2. Now she helps her parents farming and with the household chores.
U Kyar Hpu's family happy for their improved livelihood thanks to the Ultra Poor Graduation Programme.
Aung Zin Moe is a kindergarten student and Na Ei Shal studied until Grade 6.
"Our farming business didn't do well before and nutritious meals were out of our reach. We had to struggle very hard to make ends meet. We couldn't afford for agricultural inputs necessary for farming," says U Kyar Hpu.
"We couldn't support our children's education and health. We had to rely on loans. Although we had rice seeds in hand, we couldn't afford the cost of cultivation.
"Our family life was marked by a daily struggle for survival. There were sleepless nights. As we are old, it wasn't possible for us to go to countries like Thailand and China to find a job like other people. We had to live with worries."
U Kyar Hpu and his wife at their paddy field.
In November 2019, World Vision Myanmar held a meeting with village leaders in their community to assist the most vulnerable families with food.
They learned about the struggles of U Kyar Hpu's family, selecting them for our Ultra-Poor Graduation (UPG) programme.
Ultra-Poor Graduation (UPG) aims to improve the lives of 1,138 of the most vulnerable families.
"In May 2020, we were selected along with other most vulnerable families for the UPG programme and received food assistance. As monthly food assistance, we received 38.6 kilogrammes of rice, 70 chicken eggs, 3.4 kilogrammes of beans and five litres of cooking oil from World Vision for a six-month period," says U Kyar Hpu.
U Kyar Hpu's family walking to their farm after being enrolled to the World Vision Ultra Poor Graduation Programme
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"We were very happy to see our paddy field growing successful in front of us."
"We also participated in a World Vision's Savings for Transformation Group (S4T) and could save 360,000 Myanmar Kyat (US$225).
"With that money, we could breed five local pigs. We were also able to pay off our debt."
Its all smiles for U Kyar Hpu and his wife Daw Nar Yi in Myanmar, as they no longer have to worry about food.
"In September 2021, we received additional sack of rice and three litres of cooking oil as part of World Vision Myanmar's emergency response. Currently, we do not need to worry about our daily food supply, because we received enough food in the previous months," he says.
"Every day, we really enjoy looking at the green paddy on the hill as well as enjoy eating fresh vegetables from our farm," says Daw Nar Yi.
U Kyar Hpu adds, "Soon after the harvest, we will have enough food for the next year for our family. We pray for World Vision and their donors every time we have our meal, as well as during family prayer time at night. Our family will always remember them in our prayers."
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Q: How to effectively and efficiently group items into paired buckets (if they exist) I'm creating an automated ranked matching system where two candidates optionally rank one another and the system finds the optimal matching pair based on both candidates' rankings.
More specifically, the "poster" creates a post and an "applicant" applies, this application creates two ranking entries to allow both parties to rank one another separately.
I start by fetching these rankings from the database producing an array of data structure:
rankings ==> [ {postID, rankerID, rankeeID, ranking}, ...]

I then bucket these rankings by postID (with Lodash's groupBy):
_.groupBy(rankings, rank => rank.postID);

And this produces bucketed rankings by postID, as an example:
{
  postID_1: [
    { postID: 'postID_1', rankerID: 'applicantA', rankeeID: 'posterA', ranking: 1 },
    { postID: 'postID_1', rankerID: 'posterA', rankeeID: 'applicantA', ranking: 4 }
  ],
  postID_2: [
    { postID: 'postID_2', rankerID: 'posterB', rankeeID: 'applicantA', ranking: 3 },
    { postID: 'postID_2', rankerID: 'applicantA', rankeeID: 'posterB', ranking: 5 },
    { postID: 'postID_2', rankerID: 'applicantB', rankeeID: 'posterB', ranking: 1 }
  ],
  ...
}

Notice how there is not always a complete pairing showing rankings for poster ==> applicant and applicant ==> poster.
Ultimately I want to determine who the best poster-applicant match candidate is based on specific criteria and their rankings, so I need to determine how to transform the above structure to buckets of pairs, as a desired outcome:
{
  postID_1: [
    [
      { rankerID: 'applicantA', rankeeID: 'posterA', ... },
      { rankerID: 'posterA', rankeeID: 'applicantA', ... }
    ]
  ],
  postID_2: [
    [
      { rankerID: 'applicantA', rankeeID: 'posterB', ... },
      { rankerID: 'posterB', rankeeID: 'applicantA', ... }
    ],
    [
      { rankerID: 'applicantB', rankeeID: 'posterB', ... }
    ]
  ],
  ...
}

I'm just having trouble formulating the data transformations while bucketing the (possibly) existing pairings with functional programming.

A: Here you go! We use Array.reduce and check if the "other half of the pair" exist already and complete that if it does. Otherwise we add a new pair.

const data = {  postID_1: [    {      postID: "postID_1",      rankerID: "applicantA",      rankeeID: "posterA",      ranking: 1    },    {      postID: "postID_1",      rankerID: "posterA",      rankeeID: "applicantA",      ranking: 4    }  ],  postID_2: [    {      postID: "postID_2",      rankerID: "posterB",      rankeeID: "applicantA",      ranking: 3    },    {      postID: "postID_2",      rankerID: "applicantA",      rankeeID: "posterB",      ranking: 5    },    {      postID: "postID_2",      rankerID: "applicantB",      rankeeID: "posterB",      ranking: 1    }  ]};

const result = Object.entries(data).reduce(
  (accResult, [key, postData]) => ({
    ...accResult,
    [key]: postData.reduce((acc, val) => {
      const secondHalf = acc.find(
        ([{ rankerID, rankeeID }]) =>
          rankerID === val.rankeeID && rankeeID === val.rankerID
      );
      if (secondHalf) {
        secondHalf.push(val);
        return acc;
      } else {
        return acc.concat([[val]]);
      }
    }, [])
  }),
  {}
);

console.log(result);

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Doctor Who: What the Flux??!?!
Doctor Who: Flux, the third (and final complete) series for Jodie Whitaker's Doctor and Chris Chibnall's reign as show runner, is a compact representation of the 13th Doctor's era. Some great ideas, some fine character beats, some awkwardly forced relationships, and some messy and loud storytelling. Was it enjoyable? For the most part, yes. Would I recommend this season of Doctor Who to anyone who hadn't watched Doctor Who before? Absolutely not. I honestly haven't thought of Doctor Who as a really great show in years and years. That's painful to write, but the show has maintained an enjoyable middle ground. But we're a long way from the heartbreaking sundering of the Doctor/Rose team. Or Donna's tragic fate. Or the beautiful family formed with River, Amy, and Rory.
What was once a sci-fi show that could have fun, explore some big and bold concepts, and give us characters who felt real and struggled through very human things has been replaced by a show that leans too heavily on plot and theatrics. I wouldn't call Doctor Who a bad show. It's just a show I feel less and less connection to as time wears on. I don't think familiarity has bred contempt or anything like that. I still love the format. I really liked both Peter Capaldi and Jodie Whitaker in their roles (with some caveats) but I often found myself wanting to like the show more than I actually did.
From here on out, Spoilers for The Flux abound. Fair warning.
Can You Please Just Stand Still?
Don't get me wrong. There's joy in the current version of Doctor Who. One could argue that it's more like it's old self, in some ways, in Flux where companions are generally afterthoughts and plot is king. The problem is, one of the hallmarks of the new series has been that it's obsessed with always defining who the Doctor is. During Russell T. Davies generally excellent era, the 10th Doctor did start to grate a little with is huge speeches about who the Doctor was. He started to become a little too big and grand for my liking. This didn't really let up during the 11th Doctor's era. And by 12 and 13 it seemed written into the Doctor's DNA, along with the fact that he or she would be sort of frantic at times. Even Capaldi's "darker" Doctor succumbed to this. What worked so well for 10 and 11 has started to really rub me the wrong way.
I think Whitaker's Doctor actually works best (and feels the most Doctorish) when she's not TRYING to "Doctorish." As soon as she stops mugging and frolicking about she has the gravity and sense of purpose you'd want. In the quieter moments where she's relaxed around her companions, I buy their connection utterly. It's just when she's whirling about talking about "Fam" (mercifully absent this season) and the like that it just feels like there's more effort being put forth than I want to see on the screen.
You're All Very Likable But I Don't Particularly Care About You
Doctor Who is fun. I don't mind it being fun. It's one of the things that helps separate it out of the sci-fi crowd. But I just want a little more emotional meat on the story's bones than Flux can provide. The wrinkle introduced last season with the Fugitive Doctor and Division was interesting. Not everyone liked it, and there is the danger that modern Who can disappear up its own bum at times. But I thought it walked the line well, and was an interesting little mystery/puzzle and I liked how it affected the Doctor. The Flux starts out interestingly by quickly dangling answers in front of the Doctor, who wants them desperately. But, ultimately, it's really just playing with us. Will the secrets be revealed in the next three specials? Maybe? But spending six episodes kicking that can down the road wasn't particularly satisfying.
It wasn't just that Flux was needlessly complex. I'd say it was, with way too many characters introduced to care about fully, but I think its worse sin was just the way it was presented. The introduction of Bel with the title card "Bel's story" and having her presence kind of just wandering around for some episodes went nowhere emotionally or story-wise is one example. Yes, you could argue that she and Vinder were in opportune places to keep the plot moving, and yes they had their reunion, but there was both too much time spent on them and not enough time. I felt zero emotional attachment to them. In fact, you can say pretty much the same for everyone except Jericho, who made an emotional impact more through performance than writing.
I would have preferred more time with Dan, and with giving him a more substantial storyline. Or give me more with Yaz. The way the story bounced around, I was left being annoyed when we moved to a storyline I didn't care that much about. I still don't really understand the Grand Serpent's role in all of it. I understood what he did, just not why he was necessary at all in the story. I loved Kate Stewart's reintroduction, and retroactively explaining why UNIT was shut down was fun (I hope it'll be back now). But in the end he was just there to give Vinder some semblance of a story arc and explain why UNIT wasn't around. The latter could have been explained in one line, and the former had zero emotional impact because my lingering impression of Vinder was "he looks cool, and he's wandering around a lot." Also, he already had his storyline with Bel. Also, did they just exile him to a tiny asteroid? Does he not have to eat? Maybe I missed that detail.
Oh, Interesting Villains They Sure Are a Threat and…. Oh, Never mind.
Then we have our two "main" baddies, Azure and Swarm. They had intriguing visuals. The concept of these two people who worship Time (and of Time being some sort of consciousness with motives and an agenda) are interesting. But I would have liked more context around them. I only vaguely understand them. Maybe a re-watch would help this, but I'm not sure if I'm up for one. What the show did do was establish them as a very credible threat to the Doctor's existence. It's too bad they were dispatched in about the most boring way possible.
"The Village of Angels" was the strongest episode of the series, because it really amped up the stakes and made me think we were in for a different kind of Doctor Who story that was going to take some big swings. I should have realized, when the angel-ification immediately melts away at the start of the next episode that I should lower my expectations. Because what we got was pretty much emblematic of current Doctor Who. We're going to be told a lot of nonsense technobabble, things will be resolved by doing technobabble stuff without much ingenuity involved, and the emotional beats will be lost in the chaos. Jericho's sad passing and Karnavista's reaction to his people's deaths were great moments. As one the Doctor's apology to Yaz. But these aren't really integrated with the actual plot. They are all just side effects.
Until Next Time, Doctor…
But then the pocket watch was introduced! What effect could that have on the Doctor? Wait, and see (maybe), I guess. Not since the end of the Titanic have I been more annoyed with someone dropping an object. The story didn't really give a good reason for the Doctor to do this. In fact, if Time's warning is true, knowing her past would have been a blessing, one would think. Maybe there's a clue in there about what Time was talking about. But the Flux isn't about that. In the end, it's just another old-school DW baddie come back to wreak havoc story, only to be blown up by the Doctor until their next appearance. With a lot of toing and froing to eat up time. Which, is emblematic of my least favorite part of old-school Doctor Who.
Is there anything wrong with this? That's where the debate comes in. I'm sure there will be loads of people who enjoy it for what it is. I wouldn't argue with them. It's not that the show is badly produced. I even think the writing is fine for what it is. I just miss when there was more to connect to emotionally along with the big spectacle.
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Vitello graver et hul er en dansk animationsfilm instrueret af Dorte Bengtson, der også har skrevt filmens manuskript.

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Vitello keder sig derhjemme. Hans legekammerater er ikke hjemme, men hans mor sender ham alligevel ud for at lege og siger, at han skal finde en ny ven. Ude på gaden får Vitello en ide. Hvis han kan finde en mønt, så kan han købe en masse slik og på den måde få nye venner og han går straks i gang med at lede efter en mønt på jorden. En nysgerrig dreng, Møgungen, dukker op og begynder at lede med og han ender med at foreslå en bedre ide. De bør grave et hul, som Vitello kan fange en ny ven i. Så de går i gang med at grave et hul på cykelstien bag Centeret. Bagefter ligger de i skyggen og venter på at en ven skal falde i deres fælde. Pludselig lyder et brag og nogen er faldet i. Det viser sig dog at være en meget vred voksen cyklist, som tvinger dem til at lukke hullet. Det fik Vitello altså ikke nogen ny ven af, og dog, for de to drenge ender med at aftale, at de skal lege sammen igen dagen efter.

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The NRA Can't Stop Gun Safety Legislation This Time
Weakened and bankrupt, the NRA is no longer the insurmountable wall it once was.
By Shannon WattsTwitter
The scene at the King Soopers grocery store the day after a gunman opened fired on March 22, 2021, in Boulder, Colo. (Chet Strange / Getty Images)
It's become an all-too-familiar routine in America: A mass shooting in a public place that shakes our collective consciousness is quickly followed by thoughts and prayers, media attention, and calls to action. Then days go by, the news passes, and nothing changes in Congress.
That ends now. This year is different. Not only did the American people send the strongest gun-sense trifecta in history to Washington, but the once-feared National Rifle Association is now desperately trying to stay relevant as its money and power run dry in Washington.
Support for background checks on all gun sales were already overwhelmingly high and bipartisan before two deadly mass shootings in Atlanta and Boulder shook our country—93 percent of Americans support them, including 89 percent of Republicans and 89 percent of gun owners. In fact, voters ranked background checks on par with creating jobs and passing another Covid-19 relief package when it came to priorities for this new Congress and Biden administration in the first 100 days.
But the senseless acts of violence that unfolded at the King Soopers in Boulder and at spas in Atlanta—carried out by two men barely old enough to legally drink—have led Americans from all walks of life to speak with one voice, and urgently: The time to act is now.
While we're still learning more about both shooters, how they built their arsenals and what fueled their rampages, what we do know is that far too often, someone can take advantage of our country's easy access to firearms to turn their hatred deadly. A hate-filled person without a gun cannot commit a mass shooting. Disarming hate must include strengthening our gun laws and closing loopholes in order to stop guns from ending up in the hands of people who shouldn't have them.
Some critics think we are going to replay the same debate of prior years, but this is a different America than it was more than eight years ago, when I started Moms Demand Action from my kitchen counter the day after Sandy Hook. Back then, the NRA was a formidable foe, a flush-with-cash Goliath to our volunteers' humble but fierce David. But with the NRA on the ropes like never before, that is one of the reasons this time, this moment, this opportunity is different. David will finally win.
In 2019, the most recent year for which tax data is available, the NRA was $57 million in debt. The financial situation is so dire that NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre was secretly recorded telling board members the group had taken "about a $100 million hit" between 2018 and 2020, and that he had to pull "about $80 million" from the budget in order to "survive."
In fact, the NRA is so weighed down with its own scandals, allegations of self-dealing, and legal troubles that it paid some $38.6 million to its top lawyer in 2018 and 2019 alone. With troubled finances comes waning influence: In 2020, the group spent roughly half of what it did in 2016 to support Donald Trump and other Republicans, and about one-third less on lobbying.
Revenue from membership dues plummeted 34 percent in 2019 to a seven-year low, partly because there is an increasing awareness that the NRA isn't the voice of responsible gun owners anymore, if it ever really was. It's the mouthpiece of an extremist fringe that stokes fear, racism, misogyny, and hatred for its own purposes.
We are also at a different place culturally than we were after Sandy Hook eight years ago. We've seen brands and corporations stand up to support gun safety and limit weapons in their stores. We've seen gun safety go from a political third rail to an issue to run and win on.
As a country, we have already experienced so much loss during the Covid-19 pandemic. Americans have had to bury their loved ones, battle the virus themselves, and live through more gun violence in 2020 than we've seen in decades. But we've also woken up to the fact that gun violence happens every day and disproportionately in Black and brown communities. And the shootings in Boulder and Atlanta are a national reminder that in America, people are shot and killed at their grocery store, spa, school, or movie theater.
For decades, the NRA's business model has been to pit Americans against one another—stoking fear of a postapocalyptic world. But a country that has lived through a once-in-a-century pandemic—and survived by working together, not building bunkers—simply doesn't want to buy the dystopia the NRA is selling.
The NRA wants you to believe nothing can be done to stop the violence that shattered lives in Atlanta and Boulder from happening again. We all know that is not true. Now is the time to push the Senate to do the right thing and pass background check legislation. Because this moment is different. We are different. And we are stronger than the NRA.
Shannon WattsTwitterShannon Watts is the founder of Moms Demand Action and the author of Fight Like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World.


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A personal injury lawsuit is a civil action where an injured party seeks financial compensation from the responsible party. This is not a criminal case, and is not brought to court by the government. Instead, it is initiated by a private citizen against another party alleging their injuries were the result of careless or reckless behavior.
Do My Injuries Qualify For a Personal Injury Lawsuit?
If you are able to prove these points in a court of law, then you have the basis of a personal injury lawsuit. This could range from circumstances such as a car accident where the other driver was under the influence of drugs or alcohol, a slip and fall at a public mall, or medical malpractice such as an incorrect diagnosis or surgical error.
How Much Can I Sue For In a Personal Injury Lawsuit?
Economic damages are the foundations of your personal injury lawsuit, and focus on financial factors that are directly tied to income statements, bills, and invoices. This includes hospital bills, medical procedure costs, copays and deductibles, recovery costs, and lost wages from time that you have missed from work. In addition to past losses, we will consider any possible future losses such as upcoming medical procedures, additional time away from work, and even the possibility that you will be unable to resume your work to your full earning capacity.
Non-economic damages address issues that do not have tangible costs attached to them, but are equally important impacts to your life. Since they do not have set dollar amounts, it is important that you work with an experienced personal injury attorney to determine a fair amount of compensation. You are owed money for your suffering, and it is important that you get what you are owed; however, it is equally important that you do not approach the court with a requested amount that is unreasonable, because it will damage the rest of your case as well.
In some specific and rare cases, a court will also allow punitive damages to be considered in the case. This is a civil response to criminal actions, such as assault, murder, or other situations where a personal injury was sustained as the result of criminal behavior. This is an uncommon addition to a personal injury case, and most often is applied when the defendant is a major corporation or a party with substantial financial assets.
Can I Sue For An Accident That Happened a Long Time Ago?
Florida has a series of statutes of limitations that outlines the amount of time a plaintiff has to file a civil suit for a personal injury. These times vary depending on the situation, but we suggest beginning the process as soon as possible. The longer you wait, the more likely it is that an insurance company will try to argue that the injury did not occur from the accident in question, even if it is still inside the statute of limitations.
Will I Need To Go To Trial For My Personal Injury?
We will first work with the defendant and their attorneys to negotiate a settlement that is fair to both parties. In many cases, it makes legal and financial sense for a defendant to settle instead of going to trial, because once a trial begins, the defendant loses all ability to manage their own situation and outcome. In addition, they will be able to avoid depositions and discovery phases that may reveal additional factors that they would prefer stays private.
Do not accept any offers from an insurance company until after you have consulted with an attorney. Remember that an insurance company's first order of business is to protect their investments, and will attempt to offer you a lowball settlement in exchange for agreeing to never follow up on the incident. Do not sign anything from an insurance company until you are confident in your legal representation.
There is no law in the United States that says a plaintiff needs a personal injury attorney to pursue a settlement or lawsuit, but it will make your life a lot easier if you choose to use one. The world of personal injury is extremely complicated, and while you are recovering from your injuries, you would be required to take on an enormous amount of stress trying to represent yourself against other highly trained lawyers.
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Just a question.I usually donate kids clothes and toys to St Vincent or I drop them off at Value Villiage.I was just wondering if there was a place that I could bring it to where it was not sold but went directly to people that need it without anyone having to pay for it.
Salvation Army would be the best or Women in Crisis.
They sell it but for really cheap.
I still have a bag of coats for kids women and youths, maybe I can drop it off there at WIC. Is it still on Oakland?
ya, don't drop it off at Value Village... they sell it for outrageous prices... ... the stuff is donated their but they sell it like it was new.. Not worth it.. I go to WIC or Salvation army..
I always bring all items to Salvation Army..they sell for dirt cheap vs the place on Norther Ave.The Salvation army has helped me in the past in countless ways and continue to help countless thousands here in the Sault..
Would Women in Crisis take baby formula and baby food? I have a bunch here I'm never going to use.
Where is the Salvation Army and does it smell there like it does in value village.
no the salvation is on elgin accross from the fabric store... and it does not smell like gross old people in their. And they do sell stuff but for very reasonable prices... last summer i believe they had a stuff a bag of kids cloths for 5$!!! and they get some really nice stuff intheir!!! Worth taking a look.
wasn't there a place on gore st. too ....are they still open ?
The Health Unit at 126 Queen, down from the bus terminal takes childrens clothes for their kids closet that they have. They are not sold and offered to anyone I believe. There are a lot of moms that participate in programs there. I just dropped off some of my kids clothes there not long ago.
Its called MJ's I believe and its still opened.They sell stuff pretty cheap. I've also donated quite abit there.
Not ALL but a lot of the people that get these are people that really need it. Young mothers or low income families. I would donate to either the WIC or the The Health Unit.
thats what i was going to say..
they would probably take the formula and baby food too..i gave them a bunch years ago..
what does it matter if you are donating?? you must be looking, and you are particular if it smells like dog or woman,,, it is called TIDE and JAVEX!! what size are you looking for Macs,,, Small?? must be.
They will take the formula and baby food. They take very few if any toys, but infants clothes are a real godsend to some of these low income moms. I used to bring my sons baby clothes there, and then I had another son. So they go through 2 then go.
YOu can always drop things off at the Soup Kitchen on james St. Always free,,,lots of families with babies and they have a chidlren's program, so the toys can be either given to the program or sent home directly with the children. They may even do a pick up if you call. They are always looking for formula, diapers, clothing and toys for the children.
Last year, I had some stuff to donate for kids. It was pretty much clothes so I called the Fire Station and asked if there were any families in need of clothes etc. They didn't know of any at the time, but they took them anyway for when there are families in need.
The Diabetes Clothsline program has an agreement with Value Village. Clothesline picks up any unwanted household items, and Value Village sells it. The money raised goes towards research and funding. So it's not like the money made by Value Village is just profit for the owners.
I run a clothing depot for women and children, I would LOVE donations for our program. Pm me please and I can give you location and Ph.# of business.
the health unit has a good comunity closet which is free, the community center/soup kitchen on james st will take any second hand stuff and make sure it goes to the people who need it. i remember when i was doing volunteer work there, i got to give the stuff out to the kids and they'd be so happy to get new shoes and stuff.
I thought Value Village donates their profit to charities. Does anyone know for sure?


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- Chester messed up the vocals in the middle of 'The Catalyst'. He stopped singing right before the second half of the song but picked up a second later. Also, Mike stopped playing keyboard for a second on the beginning of the second half of the song because his timing was off.
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Retail trade sales trend in Slovakia 2004-2020
Published by Tugba Sabanoglu, Sep 20, 2021
This statistic displays the trend in volume sales annually for the total retail trade in the Slovak Republic from 2004 to 2020. After a period of slow decline, retail trade sales in the Slovak Republic began to show recovery in 2013. Since then, sales volumes have increased to a indexed value of 109.5 in 2020.
Sales volume of total retail trade in the Slovak Republic from 2004 to 2020 (as index)
Index (2015=100)*
* Index base year 2015 =100.
Data sourced through dataset Production and Sales (MEI) under "Total retail trade (Volume) sa, Index".
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Religious Liberty under Fire: Town of Greece v. Galloway
December 19, 2013 12:00 ET
Like Congress, state legislatures, and local communities across America, the town of Greece, NY, opens its town board meetings with prayer. Any town resident can pray, regardless of their faith. Although the Supreme Court explicitly upheld this practice of legislative prayer in the 1983 case Marsh v. Chambers, militant secularists are attempting to banish this practice nationwide as it has existed for over 200 years. The arguments presented on both sides before the Supreme Court in Galloway could impact every aspect of faith in public life and the public square, as this is Ground Zero for the war on Americans of traditional faith -- especially observant Christians-and the increasing attacks on Christmas and other longstanding celebrations of faith. Galloway could become the most important Establishment Clause case decided by the Supreme Court in decades.
Ken Klukowski is Director of the Center for Religious Liberty at the Family Research Council. A national-bestselling author and constitutional lawyer, Klukowski is on faculty at Liberty University School of Law and senior legal analyst for Breitbart News. A frequent commentator for national media outlets, his scholarly works and legal briefs have been cited by top federal courts and law journals nationwide.
Annual Family Research Council Witherspoon Lecture
This lecture is named for the Rev. John Witherspoon, a pastor and educator during the Revolutionary era whose commitment to the cause of Christ was unwavering.
He was also a dedicated patriot, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a member of the Continental Congress from 1776 through 1782. A drafter of the Articles of Confederation, Rev. Witherspoon was a staunch advocate for the adoption of the Constitution while he served in the New Jersey state legislature.
Rev. Witherspoon was an astute student of both human nature and government, and understood the correlation between private character and public policy. "The people in general ought to have regard to the moral character of those whom they invest with authority either in the legislative, executive, or judicial branches," he wrote. "Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle."
The Witherspoon Lecture is an annual event that highlights the life and legacy of this great Christian and patriot, and is given by someone FRC believes is carrying on Witherspoon's tradition of faithful Christian witness and effective public engagement.
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BUSINESS BEAT: Revitalizing Pompano Beach
Posted on 09 August 2018 by LeslieM
By Karen Lustgarten
Horacio Danovich sits in a conference room at the Pompano Beach City Hall surrounded by maps, master plans and diagrams pinned to the walls. The illustrations reveal the farsighted future of Pompano Beach. As manager of the city's capital improvement programs, he holds the revitalization development vision of the city/CRA partnership putting Pompano Beach on the desirable destination map with innovations from "Smart City" concepts. In fact, revitalization of the 260-acre downtown area will feature one 70-acre section called the Innovation District. Here, most of the city/CRA-owned land parcels are ripe and poised for development right now.
Think designed navigable waterway systems and drainage between I-95 and Dixie Highway and MLK Jr. and W. Atlantic Boulevards. Inspired by Amsterdam's canals, residents and visitors will be able to kayak, canoe and paddleboard along the waterways. These will be bordered by landscaped biking lanes and pedestrian walkways inspired by San Antonio's The Riverwalk.
Picture a surrounding hub of mixed-use commercial office/retail buildings, restaurants, residential dwellings and cultural attractions. The goal of this urban design vision is to develop an enjoyable, livable urban area that's functional and attractive to businesses and residents, and promote connections between people and places with surrounding communities.
"This is a unique type of urban design that does not exist in the State of Florida today," said Danovich. "As a result, agencies like the Army Corps of Engineers and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection will have a difficult time evaluating and permitting it for its intended mixed-use."
He estimates two years for the design and permitting process before construction can begin in the Innovation District, then another two years to build it for a grand total of approximately $750 million (for the entire Innovation District.)
Thus we caught Danovich up to his elbows in federal grant applications to the U.S. Economic Development Administration: $2.5 million toward the first $5 million for the designs of the waterway systems, roadways, bridges, sidewalks, landscaping, lighting, underground utilities and permitting.
If he builds it, will they come? Indeed, the Innovation District Project could generate an estimated 4,000 jobs, he estimates.
"The city is moving very fast in the right direction, ripe for redevelopment," says Mr. Danovich.
Among the construction companies revitalizing the pier and the Atlantic Boulevard bridge are Burkhardt, West, Murray Logan and Whiting-Turner. Brandon Rhodes, Burkhardt Construction's project manager, described the scope of work for the bridge and some challenges with the project. The bridge renovation will feature cantilever walkways underneath, a renovated tender house, decorative fish murals, decorative Wyoming rails, new lighting fixtures and the stunning showpiece — four 50-ft. high tensile sails at each corner of the bridge.
"An initial challenge is creating the tensile structure sails on large posts and the construction of a foundation for each post," he said.
The construction requires potholing existing utilities — hand digging along with machinery down to existing utilities in-ground, then evaluating if the existing utilities are in conflict with location changes needed.
West Construction has begun a yearlong project demolishing and rebuilding the outdated Fire Station 24 that borders Pompano Beach Airpark on NE 10th street. The new two-story fire station will service both the airport and surrounding community with updated equipment and alert systems.
This project has its site challenges, such as working in a fairly tight space with FAA regulations imposing height restrictions for cranes. Nonetheless, notes Michael Lilly, project manager, "It is in a key location that will help toward the revitalization of Pompano Beach. The community really needs it."
"Pompano Beach is positioned like Ft. Lauderdale and Delray Beach were 20 to 30 years ago," says Danovich, "except we learned from their mistakes."
For more information about the Pompano Beach revitalization projects visit www.pompanobeachfl.gov/pages/files.
Karen Lustgarten is President of Multi-Media Works, a multiple award-winning media company specializing in video, PR, print and social media with offices in Broward and Palm Beach Counties. She won awards for writing/producing videos and for website content. Karen founded a newspaper in Washington, DC and was a syndicated columnist and best-selling author. www.multi-mediaworks.com.


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