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Q: Is there an easy way to add a border to the top and bottom of an Android View? I have a TextView and I'd like to add a black border along its top and bottom borders.  I tried adding android:drawableTop and android:drawableBottom to the TextView, but that only caused the entire view to become black.
<TextView
    android:background="@android:color/green"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:drawableTop="@android:color/black"
    android:drawableBottom="@android:color/black"
    android:text="la la la" />

Is there a way to easily add a top and bottom border to a View (in particular, a TextView) in Android?

A: Just as @Nic Hubbard said, there is a very easy way to add a border line.
<View
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="2dp"
    android:background="#000000" >
</View>

You can change the height and background color to whatever you want.

A: You can also wrap the view in a FrameLayout, then set the frame's background color and padding to what you want; however, the textview, by default has a 'transparent' background, so you'd need to change the textview's background color too.

A: My answers is based on @Emile version but I use transparent color instead of solid.
This example will draw a 2dp bottom border.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
    <item>
        <shape android:shape="rectangle" >
            <stroke  android:width="2dp"
                     android:color="#50C0E9" />
            <solid android:color="@android:color/transparent" />
        </shape>
    </item>
    <item  android:bottom="2dp" >
        <shape android:shape="rectangle" >
            <stroke  android:width="2dp"
                     android:color="@color/bgcolor" />
            <solid android:color="@android:color/transparent" />
        </shape>
    </item>
</layer-list>

@color/bgcolor is the color of the background on wich you draw your view with border.
If you want to change the position of the border change the offset with one of:
android:bottom="2dp"
android:top="2dp"
android:right="2dp"
android:left="2dp"

or combine them to have 2 or more borders:
android:bottom="2dp" android:top="2dp"

A: You can do this by this code snippet -
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <!--Minus (-) how much dp you gave in the stroke width from left right-->
    <item android:left="-10dp" android:right="-10dp">
        <shape
            android:shape="rectangle">
            <stroke android:width="10dp" android:color="@android:color/holo_red_dark" />
           <!--This is the main background -->
            <solid android:color="#FFDDDDDD" />
        </shape>
    </item>
</layer-list>

Preview -

A: Why not just create a 1dp high view with a background color? Then it can be easily placed where you want.

A: To change this:
<TextView
    android:text="My text"
    android:background="@drawable/top_bottom_border"/>

I prefer this approach in "drawable/top_bottom_border.xml":
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item>
        <shape>
            <gradient
                android:angle="270"
                android:startColor="#000"
                android:centerColor="@android:color/transparent"
                android:centerX="0.01" />
        </shape>
    </item>
    <item>
        <shape>
            <gradient
                android:angle="90"
                android:startColor="#000"
                android:centerColor="@android:color/transparent"
                android:centerX="0.01" />
        </shape>
    </item>
</layer-list>

This only makes the borders, not a rectangle that will appear if your background has a color.

A: Simplest way to add borders to inset the borders using InsetDrawable,following will show top border only :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<inset xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:insetBottom="-2dp"
    android:insetLeft="-2dp"
    android:insetRight="-2dp">
    <shape android:shape="rectangle">

        <solid android:color="@color/light_gray" />
        <stroke
            android:width=".5dp"
            android:color="@color/dark_gray" />
    </shape>
</inset>

A: In android 2.2 you could do the following.
Create an xml drawable such as /res/drawable/textlines.xml and assign this as a TextView's background property.
<TextView
android:text="My text with lines above and below"
android:background="@drawable/textlines"
/>

/res/drawable/textlines.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
    <item>
      <shape
        android:shape="rectangle">
            <stroke android:width="1dp" android:color="#FF000000" />
            <solid android:color="#FFDDDDDD" />

        </shape>
   </item>

   <item android:top="1dp" android:bottom="1dp">
      <shape
        android:shape="rectangle">
            <stroke android:width="1dp" android:color="#FFDDDDDD" />
            <solid android:color="#00000000" />
        </shape>
   </item>

</layer-list>

The down side to this is that you have to specify an opaque background colour, as transparencies won't work. (At least i thought they did but i was mistaken). In the above example you can see that the solid colour of the first shape #FFdddddd is copied in the 2nd shapes stroke colour.

A: First make a xml file with contents shown below and name it border.xml and place it inside the layout folder inside the res directory
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <stroke android:width="1dp" android:color="#0000" />
    <padding android:left="0dp" android:top="1dp" android:right="0dp"
        android:bottom="1dp" />
</shape>

After that inside the code use
TextView tv = (TextView)findElementById(R.id.yourTextView);
tv.setBackgroundResource(R.layout.border);

This will make a black line on top and bottom of the TextView.

A: Just to add my solution to the list..
I wanted a semi transparent bottom border that extends past the original shape (So the semi-transparent border was outside the parent rectangle).
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
  <item>
    <shape android:shape="rectangle" >
      <solid android:color="#33000000" /> <!-- Border colour -->
    </shape>
  </item>
  <item  android:bottom="2dp" >
    <shape android:shape="rectangle" >
      <solid android:color="#164586" />
    </shape>
  </item>
</layer-list>

Which gives me;

A: Simply add Views at the top and bottom of the View
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <View
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="1dp"
        android:background="@color/your_color"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toTopOf="@+id/textView"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="@+id/textView"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="@+id/textView" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginTop="32dp"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:text="Testing"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />

    <View
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="1dp"
        android:background="@color/your_color"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="@+id/textView"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="@+id/textView"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/textView" />

</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

A: The currently accepted answer doesn't work. It creates thin vertical borders on the left and right sides of the view as a result of anti-aliasing.
This version works perfectly. It also allows you to set the border widths independently, and you can also add borders on the left / right sides if you want. The only drawback is that it does NOT support transparency.
Create an xml drawable named /res/drawable/top_bottom_borders.xml with the code below and assign it as a TextView's background property.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item>
        <shape android:shape="rectangle">
            <solid android:color="#DDDD00" /> <!-- border color -->
        </shape>
    </item>

    <item
        android:bottom="1dp"
        android:top="1dp">   <!-- adjust borders width here -->
        <shape android:shape="rectangle">
            <solid android:color="#FFFFFF" />  <!-- background color -->
        </shape>
    </item>
</layer-list>

Tested on Android KitKat through Marshmallow

A: So I wanted to do something slightly different: a border on the bottom ONLY, to simulate a ListView divider. I modified Piet Delport's answer and got this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
   <item>
      <shape
        android:shape="rectangle">
            <solid android:color="@color/background_trans_light" />

        </shape>
   </item>

    <!-- this mess is what we have to do to get a bottom border only. -->
   <item android:top="-2dp"
         android:left="-2dp"
         android:right="-2dp"
         android:bottom="1px">
      <shape
        android:shape="rectangle">
            <stroke android:width="1dp" android:color="@color/background_trans_mid" />
            <solid android:color="@null" />
        </shape>
   </item>

</layer-list>

Note using px instead of dp to get exactly 1 pixel divider (some phone DPIs will make a 1dp line disappear).

A: I've used a trick so that the border is displayed outside the container. With this trick only a line is drawn so the background will be shown of the underlying view.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
    <item
        android:bottom="1dp"
        android:left="-2dp"
        android:right="-2dp"
        android:top="-2dp">
        <shape android:shape="rectangle" >
            <stroke
                android:width="1dp"
                android:color="#FF000000" />

            <solid android:color="#00FFFFFF" />

            <padding android:left="10dp"
                android:right="10dp"
                android:top="10dp"
                android:bottom="10dp" />
        </shape>
    </item>

</layer-list>

A: Write down below code
<View
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="2dip"
    android:layout_below="@+id/topics_text"
    android:layout_marginTop="7dp"
    android:layout_margin="10dp"
    android:background="#ffffff" />

A: To add a 1dp white border at the bottom only and to have a transparent background you can use the following which is simpler than most answers here.
For the TextView or other view add:
android:background="@drawable/borderbottom"

And in the drawable directory add the following XML, called borderbottom.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:top="-2dp" android:left="-2dp" android:right="-2dp">
        <shape android:shape="rectangle">
            <stroke android:width="1dp" android:color="#ffffffff" />
            <solid android:color="#00000000" />
        </shape>
    </item>
</layer-list>

If you want a border at the top, change the android:top="-2dp" to android:bottom="-2dp"
The colour does not need to be white and the background does not need to be transparent either.
The solid element may not be required. This will depend on your design (thanks V. Kalyuzhnyu).
Basically, this XML will create a border using the rectangle shape, but then pushes the top, right and left sides beyond the render area for the shape. This leaves just the bottom border visible.

A: Add file to res/drawable
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
        <item android:left="-2dp" android:right="-2dp">
            <shape android:shape="rectangle">
                <stroke
                    android:width="1dp"
                    android:color="#000000" />
            </shape>
        </item>
    </layer-list>

Add link on this file to background property

A: Option 1: Shape Drawable
This is the simplest option if you want a border around a layout or view in which you can set the background. Create an XML file in the drawable folder that looks something like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:shape="rectangle" >

    <solid android:color="#8fff93" />

    <stroke
        android:width="1px"
        android:color="#000" />

</shape>

You can remove the solid if you don't want a fill. The set background="@drawable/your_shape_drawable" on your layout/view.
Option 2: Background View
Here's a little trick I've used in a RelativeLayout. Basically you have a black square under the view you want to give a border, and then give that view some padding (not margin!) so the black square shows through at the edges.
Obviously this only works properly if the view doesn't have any transparent areas. If it does I would recommend you write a custom BorderView which only draws the border - it should only be a few dozen lines of code.
<View
    android:id="@+id/border"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/image"
    android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/image"
    android:layout_alignRight="@+id/image"
    android:layout_alignTop="@+id/main_image"
    android:background="#000" />

<ImageView
    android:id="@+id/image"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_...
    android:padding="1px"
    android:src="@drawable/..." />

If you're wondering, it does work with adjustViewBounds=true. However, it doesn't work if you want to have a background in an entire RelativeLayout, because there is a bug that stops you filling a RelativeLayout with a View. In that case I'd recommend the Shape drawable.
Option 3: 9-patch
A final option is to use a 9-patch drawable like this one:

You can use it on any view where you can set android:background="@drawable/...". And yes it does need to be 6x6 - I tried 5x5 and it didn't work.
The disadvantage of this method is you can't change the colours very easily, but if you want fancy borders (e.g. only a border at the top and bottom, as in this question) then you may not be able to do them with the Shape drawable, which isn't very powerful.
Option 4: Extra views
I forgot to mention this really simple option if you only want borders above and below your view. You can put your view in a vertical LinearLayout (if it isn't already) and then add empty Views above and below it like this:
<View android:background="#000" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="1px"/>

A: Try wrapping the image with a linearlayout, and set it's background to the border color you want around the text.  Then set the padding on the textview to be the thickness you want for your border.

A: You can also use a 9-path to do your job. Create it so that colored pixel do not multiply in height but only the transparent pixel.

A: Based on accepted answer of Pi Delport and Emile, I made it a little simpler
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item>  <!--divider TOP and BOTTOM-->
    <shape android:shape="rectangle">
        <stroke
            android:width="1dp"
            android:color="@color/divider" />
    </shape>
</item>

<!--background surface-->
<item
    android:top="1dp"
    android:bottom="1dp">
    <shape android:shape="rectangle">
        <solid android:color="@color/background" />
    </shape>
</item>

A: // Just simply add border around the image view or view

<ImageView
                android:id="@+id/imageView2"
                android:layout_width="90dp"
                android:layout_height="70dp"
                android:layout_centerVertical="true"
                android:layout_marginRight="10dp"
                android:layout_toLeftOf="@+id/imageView1"
                android:background="@android:color/white"
                android:padding="5dip" />

// After that dynamically put color into your view or image view object

objView.setBackgroundColor(Color.GREEN);

//VinodJ/Abhishek

A: <shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

<solid android:color="@color/light_grey1" />
<stroke
    android:width="1dip"
    android:color="@color/light_grey1" />

<corners
    android:bottomLeftRadius="0dp"
    android:bottomRightRadius="0dp"
    android:topLeftRadius="5dp"
    android:topRightRadius="5dp" />

    </shape>

A: <TextView
    android:id="@+id/textView3"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="2dp"
    android:background="#72cdf4"
    android:text=" aa" />

Just Add this TextView below the text where you want to add the border

A: Just to enforce @phreakhead ´s and user1051892 ´s answers, <item android:bottom|android:left|android:right|android:top> if negative, must to be greater than <stroke android:width>. If not, item´s painting will be mixed with stroke´s painting and you may think these values are not working.


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For seven years, Spotify ruled the roost. In 2015, however, our favourite tech brand wanted in on the action; Apple Music was born. Since its launch, Apple Music has gained 16 million paid subscribers. There's no free subscription available, just a three-month free trial for all users. You might think that this would mean that Spotify has the edge, but Apple Music has soared in its first year, proving to be a true competitor.
With two top-notch music streaming services out there, how do you go about working out which one to go for?
You can pay for Spotify via credit or debit card with an online gift card, or add the payment to your monthly phone bill. Apple Music links to your iTunes account so you can pay the same way you do for apps: via credit, debit card, monthly phone bill, online gift cards, or store credit.
Both services offer a wide range of payment options, and if you fancy saving a bit of money, you can actually get your hands on discounted online gift cards for both Spotify and Apple Music. Who doesn't love a bargain?
Despite boasting over 30 million tracks, the major albums not available on Spotify are Taylor Swift's 1989, Kanye West's Life of Pablo, Adele's 25, Jay Z's The Blueprint, and even Prince's Purple Rain.
Don't expect to get Apple Music and be able to listen to The Beatles or Prince anytime soon (where can we actually listen to Prince?!). Apple Music does take the lead here though, as most of the music not available isn't on Spotify either.
We're always on the go and the last thing we want is to drain our precious data. Both Spotify and Apple Music have mobile apps that allow you to download playlists to listen to offline.
Both services do technically allow you to integrate your own library. Although Spotify's process is a tedious desktop based one whereas Apple Music should integrate with your iTunes library automatically. There are still a couple of known bugs with the integration, but it looks like Apple are in the process of ironing out the creases.
There are pros and cons for each of the services. Spotify is still the market leader with the number of subscribers and the number of tracks available, but Apple Music is creeping its way up the ladder, getting the big artists on board and pushing the boundaries of online streaming.
Both Apple and Samsung latest flagship devices pack a Fingerprint Scanner on their home button. Apple introduced fingerprint-scanning technology on the iPhone5S (Touch ID) scanner then Samsung included the same technology on its Galaxy S5 home button.
The iPhone requires you to place your finger on the Touch ID button, while Samsung asks that you swipe your finger, starting above the home button and moving almost directly through the center of it. And while Apple's software suit takes into account unlocking via different angles, Samsung's is sticking to the centered approach.
The Video below compares both device's Unlock Methods.


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Welcome... to Blogtobia. : Thank god it's the weekend.
BLAH. I've just spent the last hour or so on the phone with my bank and with my credit card company... Nothing really out of the ordinary going on, I just wanted to be clear on something I saw when balancing my books and, isn't it funny that it takes SO DAMN LONG for them to clear up the MOST SIMPLE of things? UGH. Sometimes, Customer Service people are the FURTHEST thing from it. Fortunately, things are all worked out.
One of the toughest things about being a dad in the situation I am in is getting used to a new title: Non-Custodial parent. Hi, I am Toby Knapp, Non-Custodial parent of my daughter, Kyla! The title - like the entire "process" of being in a split-parent situation - is cold. It makes you feel like a second class parent when there was nothing you could do about it in the first place. Oh well.
Another one of the toughest things is how the communication between a "non-custodial parent" and the "custodial parent" breaks down. I used to never understand why kids from split parent homes have some issues. Now, I see it clearly. It actually makes me think of the Peter Gabriel song "Games with out frontiers" (i think that's what it's title is)... You'd think that you'd be able to remain somewhat friendly for the good of your child... sadly, it's not always the case.
Anyway... on to brighter things... like Music Midtown in Atlanta. I am still not 100 percent sure, but I think I may head down there to be a part of what is a pretty awesome music festival! Atlanta is not all that far away from here, and, you know abotu me and road trips! It's coming in a couple of weekends... so I have some time to make up my mind. Two years ago, a group of friends and I went down there as guests of a friend of mine who is in a band that was playing there. I was talking to one of them Friday... he was like, "I wish we could get the gang together and go down there"... I do too. God knows we could use the break! He's got his daughter that week (he's in a similar situation that I am in although now, he's remarried) so I understand. If I were lucky enough to have Kyla with me, I'd no doubt be in the same boat. BUT, I'd take her with me!
Funny... I am reminiscing about Music Midtown a couple of years ago... What a good time. It's funny how far we've all come since that trip 2 years ago. My friend met his wife to be on that trip, and I had to twist his arm to get him to go! Another friend is doing radio out west, another got a job out that way too. And me? I'm in the Carolinas now at a new station with new duties... It's funny how far somethings have come and gone... and how some things from that time have come full circle.
Ok - so, I am off to the office to take care of some weekend work I do and then, I am off to the Gym, and then, to Ra later on tonight! I hope you're having a restful weekend and enjoying life. It's a pretty awesome thing, this life, isn't it? Embrace it! Remember that there is amazing power in remaining positive. I know that sometimes here it looks like I am venting... and sometimes, I am, but I always strive to look at the positive side of things. To me, life is worth living when you remember the number one rule: Have fun.
Maybe Tim McGraw was right. Live like you were dying. What powerful things happen when you live letting go!


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Dance as if No One is Watching
by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
Someone once said to me, "Dance as if no one is watching."
Well, today I danced as if the entire world was watching. And if only Fox News had shown up, they could well have been.
This morning I dropped Alexandra at school at the busiest intersection in Hollywood. Sunset Boulevard and Highland Avenue. As we pulled up I noticed some protesters marching in front of Mac Donald's. I had just told her she would have to take the bus home from school when she reminded me that the busses were still out on strike.
This was not welcomed information.
So I said, "I can't believe it. The entire damn city is out on strike. The actors are out, the bus drivers are out, why even Mac Donald's seems to be on strike."
Then Alex pointed out that the Screen Actor's Guild Logo was on the picket signs. So I said, "Oh Wow! We should support our guild. Come on! Do you want to miss first period and join the picket line with me?"
I asked her this knowing how much she hated calculus.
"Uh, no Mom this party's all yours. Just leave the number of your bail bonds person on my cell phone." She replied as she scurried out of the car faster than I have ever seen her move in her entire 16 years on this planet.
I am proud of the fact that she is always so politically correct. "Bail bonds person"… How cute is that?
I eased "The Green Hornet", my old, dented, Balmoral green pick up truck, with the dream catcher hanging from the rear view mirror, into a parking space at Mac Donald's, then casually slid out of the car and sauntered over to where the protesters were marching in circles.
Get this picture. I am wearing a skirt which resembles the American flag. Stars and Stripes forever baby. And I mean forever and ever and ever. A hair-pipe jacket with fringed deerskin epaulets and buffalo nickel buttons. My hair is plaited into long, thick, black braids with feather braid ties fastened to the ends, making them appear to be even longer than their usual 30 inches. I am decked out in all kinds of Indian jewelry, beaded moccasins and a peyote shawl. I look as if I have just escaped from "Dances With Wolves", but it is just my normal every day garb. I really do dress like this every day.
Alexandra is always terrified I might for some reason have to get out of the truck in front of her peers. Sometimes I do it just to get on her nerves. Frequently she tries to buy me a "Little Sally Homemaker" style dress, but I will have none of it. The other day she said to me, "Mom, do you realise that all of your clothes look like costumes?"
I see nothing wrong with this, so I let it slide.
Now I am in the thick of the protesters. People wandering around eating do-nuts and discussing their last movie role. I find the person most likely to be in charge and tell him I would like to picket with them. They seem a little skeptical but once I show them my dog eared S.A.G card they acquiesce. After all, we are out on strike and they need bodies, and here is one hell of a striking body standing right smack in front of them.
They never bargained for what they got!
After a rousing chorus or two of "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night" written about the legendary hero of the radical labor movement, and sung a cappella by yours truly "Little Miss Tone Deaf", I found the only picket signs left were signs which were printed in Spanish, so as everyone else was marching and shouting in cadence there I was, as usual marching to the beat of a different drum. Like some ghost child dancing to the heartbeat drum, there was I, at 7:30 in the morning at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Highland Avenue, in the heart of Hollywood across the street from my own mother's alma mater; the most famous high school in the world, Hollywood High, and now the "home away from home" of my painfully, politically correct teen-aged daughter.
As the yell leader shouted through his megaphone,
- "What do we want?"
And the picketers responded,
-"Fair Pay."
-"When do we want it?"
-"NOW!"
I, in reply to, "What do we want?"
Was shouting,
-"Pago Justo."
-"¡Ahora!" (Fair pay... Now... in Spanish)
I must have looked like the American Girl doll known as Josephina, because everyone thought I was Mexican. (Hispanic-American in Alex-speak). I am a Native American woman whose ancestors are from the Northwestern part of the United States.
Eventually this guy comes up and asks me for my green card, so I said, "I'll show you mine if you show me yours," in my best Spanish accent. Which goes something like this, "I'll cho ju mine if ju cho me jours." I wasn't given a S.A.G. card for nothing... Boy Howdy.
All this time I picture my poor child inside the classroom hearing me shouting, "Pago Whosto Ah ORA" (phonetically) and wanting to crawl under her desk.
It had been pretty quiet up until this time but now we have all these Hispanic truck drivers circling the block and blowin' their horns and whistling as they drive by.
I turned it into what could have been a media circus. But alas, I had to meet friends for lunch, so I sadly turned in my picket sign said, "Adios amigos" to everyone and hit the trail.
We settled the strike about a month later. We had been out for over six months.
I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night
A poem by Alfred Hayes, set to music by Earl Robinson.
I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night,
Alive as you or me
Says I, "But Joe, you're ten years dead,"
"I never died," says he
"In Salt Lake, Joe," says I to him,
Him standing by my bed,
"They framed you on a murder charge,"
Says Joe, "But I ain't dead,"
Says Joe, "But I ain't dead."
"The copper bosses killed you, Joe,
They shot you, Joe," says I.
"Takes more than guns to kill a man,"
Says Joe, "I didn't die,"
Says Joe, "I didn't die."
And standing there as big as life
And smiling with his eyes
Joe says, "What they forgot to kill
Went on to organize,
Went on to organize."
"Joe Hill ain't dead," he says to me,
"Joe Hill ain't never died.
Where working men are out on strike
Joe Hill is at their side,
Joe Hill is at their side."
"From San Diego up to Maine,
In every mine and mill,
Where workers strike and organize,"
Says he, "You'll find Joe Hill,"
Says he, "You'll find Joe Hill."


Artist Statement I am an artist and a poet, living in a small community in Wisconsin with the love of my life, my husband Steve and the always-joyous presence of my two beloved dogs Dixson and Tripper.
I have loved art longer than life and failed and succeeded in both often. Leonardo da Vinci said; "Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art." Concerning my work I have found no truer statement. What I create is a direct expression of the governing spirit within in me. Be it light, I pour out its overflow, be it darkness, I wrestle to relinquish it to the light. Christ has shown me the beauty in both.


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Christian love and unity is God's tool in...
"God so loved the world." (John 3:26)
"I pray not for the world." (John 17:9)
John H. Jowett: "God so loved the world." "I pray not for the world." We are confronted by an apparent antagonism. The two dispositions appear to be contradictory. "God so loved the world." The evangel suggests an all-affectionate inclusiveness. "I pray not for the world." The supplication suggests a partial and severe exclusion. The one describes a circle which embraces the human race; "God so loved the world." The other defines a sphere of benediction which comprehends an elected few; "I pray not for the world." It is well to feel the strain of the apparent antagonism in order that we may enter into the peace of the fundamental consistency.
Now, let us begin here. The Christianized instinct revolts against a spiritual exclusiveness. The culture of the Christian religion is in the direction of an ever-expanding comprehension. Growth in grace is growth in sympathetic inclusiveness. We may measure our growth by the size and quality of our fellowships. Measure the circumference of your love and you have got the amplitude of your Christian life. "Thou shalt love thy neighbor." That is the circle which defines the size of life lived in the days of the early covenant.
"Thou shalt love thine enemy." Such is the incomparably larger circle defined for the privileged possessor of the new covenant in Christ our Lord. "Thou shalt love thine enemy." That is the stretched-out circle of affectionate fellowship enjoined by the Christian religion. It stretches out to include the outermost. There is no one beyond its pale. Within the scope of its far-reaching lines the whole family of man can find a home.
"Thou shalt love thine enemy." "I pray not for the world." Now the Master is never behind the disciple. In this warfare the great Commandant never lags in the rear of the common soldier. In Christ the ideal is realized, and all the law is fulfilled. "I pray not for the world." And yet I know the world is loved, and cared for, is never absent from His yearning an solicitous regard. "I pray not for the world", and yet it was the world that was never out of His sight. "I pray not for the world," and yet the world was the desert which He yearned to grace and adorn with glories from the paradise of heaven.
"I pray not for the world," and yet the world projected itself into His prayers as the goal and boundary of ultimate benediction. Range through the course of this prayer, and see how the salvation of the world emerges as the yearned for product of all His saving ministry. "That they all may be one, as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in us, that the world may now believe that Thou hast sent Me." Do you mark the dazzling peak of the shining gradient? "I pray not for the world. I pray for them, that they may be one . . . that the world may believe."
The apparent exclusion is only a loving design for an ultimate benediction. See how the wealthy purpose again emerges in the subsequent reaches of the prayer. "And the glory which Thou gavest Me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one. I in them and Thou in Me, that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know." Mark again, how the whole thought and purpose rises to a consummation in the illumination and salvation of the world. "That the world may know!"
The whole world is the object of saving benediction, but of benediction through the means and ministry of a chosen few. "I pray not for the world, but for them which Thou hast given Me": but for them, in order that the world, through them, may be blessed and saved.
1. Now, this is the vital doctrine of election, the election of some for the benediction of the whole. "I pray for these that the world may believe." The elect are not called to a sphere of exclusion, but to a function of transmission. They are not elected to privilege, but to service; not to the secret hoarding of blessing, but to its widespread distribution. The elect are not circles, but centers, heat centers for radiating gracious influence to remote circumferences, that under its warming and softening ministry "the world may believe" in the Son of God.
That is the way of the Master. He will work upon the frozen streams and rivers of the world by raising the general temperature. He seeks to increase the fervor of those who are His own, and, through the pure and intense flame of their zeal, to create an atmosphere in which the hard frozen indifference of the world shall be melted into wonder, into tender inquisition, that on the cold altar of the heart may be kindled the fire of spiritual devotion. I pray not for the world, but for these" ... "that the world may believe." Through the disciple He seeks the vagrant; through the believer He seeks the unbeliever; through the Church He seeks the world; through the ministry of Christian men and women the world is to be won for Christ.
2. Now in this great prayer there are one or two clear glimpses of certain convictions which will have to be created before the world can be, constrained to turn to Christ. "That the world may believe that Thou hast sent Me." We have to get that conviction deeply and ineradicably embedded into the mind and heart of the world. And here is another collateral conviction, "That the world may know that Thou hast loved them." The believers are to make that fact shine like the noontide, that the world can no more evade it than it can evade the obtrusive glory of the meridian sun.
Somehow or other the disciples of Christ are to drive this twofold persuasion into the heart of the world:- (1) That Christ was really sent, that what He said was true, that He is grandly dependable; and (2) That we are loved by Him, and that the Christ life is the life of blessedness.
"That the world may believe that Thou hast sent Me"; the dependableness of Christ. "That the world may know that Thou hast loved them"; the blessedness of His disciples. Whatever else the world may do or not do, whatever may be the nature and extent of its revolt, if men will deliberately steer their lives into perdition and hell, we believers in Christ are to see to it that they do it with their eyes open, and with these two convictions sounding through their souls like a great bell, the Lord is dependable, and the life of His disciples is blessed.
How are we to do it? I gather the answer from the prayer of our Lord. These convictions are to be driven home to the world by the force and impetus of redeemed character. See the march and ascension of the wonderful prayer. "I pray not that Thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that Thou shouldst keep them from the evil." And a little later the light breaks upon the primary purpose - "that the world may believe that Thou hast sent Me."
"Kept from the evil . . . that the world may believe." The unworldliness of the believer is to make the world believe in the dependableness of the Lord. Our moral elevation is to be the initial ministry in the world's salvation. By our elevation we are to create a profound conviction that it is possible to resist the gravitation of the world. The strength of our resistance is to placard before the world the might and dependableness of our God.
We are to manifest pure aspiration amid defiling ambition. We are to reveal refined tastes amid appetites that are coarse and defiled. By the strenuousness of Godly living we are to drive the conviction into the souls of men that we are in solemn league and covenant with a mighty God. "Kept from the evil that the world may believe."
Listen again to the Master in prayer - "that they may be one, even as we are one; I in them, and Thou in Me ... that the world may know that Thou hast loved them." Do you see the creative force of the second of these convictions? We are to make the world believe that the Lord loves us by the loveliness of our fellowships. "That they may be one ... that the world may know." Our oneness, the absence of division and strife, the beauty of our communion, the lovely vision of exquisite family kinship, is to convince the world that the love of God has been engaged in so fair a creation. The winsome bloom that rests upon our relationships is to persuade the world that the life is heaven-born. We are to placard the love of God through the loveliness of our communion. "That they may be one that the world may believe."
Here, then, my brethren, is the setting of the divine purpose. Our Lord will work upon the world through us. Through our moral elevation and fine spiritual kinships He would compel the world into primary and fruitful beliefs. Let us place the matter before us in pertinent application. If the organized worldliness of this city is ever to be disturbed, if worldly men and women are to be startled into wonder and incipient belief, it will have to be done through the unworldliness and fine spiritual fellowships of professed disciples of Christ.
Are we ready for the Master's use? Do we really believe in the possibility of the world's redemption? How spacious is our belief; how large is the possibility which we entertain? When we survey the clamant needs of the human race, do we discover any "hopeless cases"? Where have we obtained the right to use the word "hopeless"? What evidence or experience will justify us in saying of any man, "He is too far gone"? In what atmosphere of thought and expectancy are we living? Are we dwelling in the Book of Ecclesiastes, or making our home in the Gospel by John? Let us ransack the city. Let us rake out, if we can find him, the worst of our human race. Let us produce the sin-steeped and the lust-soddened soul, and then let us hear the word of the Master. "Believest thou that I am able to do this"? The first condition of being capable ministers of Christ, is to believe in the possibility of the world's salvation.
Let us become reverently familiar with the glorious evangel until the music of the Gospel rings through every part of our being. Let us ask Him to free us, not only from doubt, but from uncleanness. Let us plead with Him to make us the fitting instruments of His power, that through the beauty and strength of our life, and the steady persistence of our faith, the world may be allured into the fellowship of the saints in light.
by John H. Jowett (of Carr's Lane, Birmingham, England), Chapter xix in "Brooks by the Traveller's Way", New York: A.C. Armstrong & Son, 1902
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Q: How does Groot write his name? What is Groot's "full" name? (First, Middle, Last)
For example, how would he write his name on a job application?

a) First Name: I, Middle: Am, Last Name: Groot
b) First: I am Groot, Middle: I am Groot, Last: I am Groot
c) or just Groot for every field?

How does he write his name?

A: Groot is (apparently) a mononym. Presumably he would be, on the sort of form you're describing

First Name: Groot.
Surname: N/A

He is referred to as "Groot" (no surname) in the prison scene in Guardians of the Galaxy:

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Google Glass app shows you what your partner sees during sex
Get ready to experience "intimate moments" from multiple perspectives.
EJ Dickson
Published Nov 18, 2014 Updated May 30, 2021, 4:41 am CDT
Have you ever wanted to know what you look like during sex? Of course you haven't, because you already know the answer to that question: Sweaty, red-faced, and like Andy Murray while he's playing tennis. But in the event that you actually think you look good in the sack, here's an app to prove you wrong: Glance, which shows what you and your partner look like while you're having sex.
Essentially, Glance is a multiple-POV iPhone app that lets you watch two videos of the same event simultaneously, by recording with both back and front cameras and showing you "both sides, in the same place."
While Glance is not explicitly designed to be used during sex, it was created during a London hackathon last year as a way to capture "intimate moments." In case you need further convincing of Glance's intended purpose, there are sultry black-and-white photos of couples tussling in bed:
Via Glance
It would be logistically difficult to use the Glance iPhone app to capture your partner's O-Face in bed, but Glance has a solution to that problem: It will soon release its Google Glass app, making the process of recording DIY POV porn a lot easier.
All you and your partner have to do is put on your Google Glass, say "OK, Glass, it's time," and start recording the action. Glance will then record what you and your partner are seeing and stream it for the two of you in realtime. To tell Google Glass that your session is over, just say—wait for it—"OK, Glass, pull out." The folks at Glance are a bunch of cheeky monkeys, it seems.
The Glance Google Glass app launch is obviously great news for tech-savvy couples who want to capture their sex lives in a more naturalistic way—without the aid of a terrible webcam or a stationary laptop. However, there are a few potential roadblocks to DIY POV porn.
For starters, Glance is not the first app designed to record X-rated footage on Google Glass. That would be MiKandi's Tits and Glass (NSFW), which allowed users to upload their own racy videos and browse adult content on Google Glass. Google yanked the app from its store shortly after release, due to its notoriously stringent restrictions on nudity and adult content. (You can now only see NSFW content on the Tits and Glass web app.)
It's unclear whether Glance has been approved by Google's team yet. Because Glance is not explicitly marketed as a pornographic app—its Apple Store page in particular makes it look like pretty much any other video-sharing app—it might be easier for it to win Google's approval. But given Google's demonstrated aversion to hosting NSFW content, it makes sense that they might look askance at the sultry, black-and-white boudoir photos on Glance's website.
There's also the question of privacy, or whether Glance is vulnerable to the same security issues that have plagued apps like Snapchat, which are often used for sharing naughty photos. Glance's website says that unless couples choose to save their video, it'll disappear into the ether, and that all videos are hosted on the couple's phones, rather than in a centralized Glance database. We've all heard that song and dance from devs before.
The truth is, there just isn't a foolproof way to protect your sexts and X-rated videos from prying eyes right now. But that certainly hasn't stopped people from sharing their intimate photos and videos, so there might as well be an app like Glance to help them do so responsibly. It remains to be seen if stodgy tech juggernauts like Google feel the same way.
Update: We reached out to Jen McEwen, the co-founder of MiKandi, to get her thoughts on Google Glass and Glance. Here's what she said:
I can't speak for the creators of Glance, but I suspect they encountered the similar obstacles we did. The current business climate is very hostile to sextech companies. Often, companies, services, and apps like Glance and Tits & Glass find themselves either blocked or forced to pivot if they hope to utilize mainstream channels. I would be surprised if Google approved Glance as a sex app for Glass, but I hope they do. What we need are not more blanket restrictions on consensual adult activities, but more apps, services, and companies that empower adults to safely interact with each other without judgment.
H/T Metro | Photo by Matt Brown/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)
*First Published: Nov 18, 2014, 12:30 pm CST
EJ Dickson is a writer and editor who primarily covers sex, dating, and relationships, with a special focus on the intersection of intimacy and technology. She served as the Daily Dot's IRL editor from January 2014 to July 2015. Her work has since appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Mic, Bustle, Romper, and Men's Health.
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Basic drawing class for students at all levels working from still life setups. Improve your observation skills through various exercises. Learn to simplify objects into shapes, see proper proportion and use shading to create the illusion of 3 dimensions. Get tips on perspective and good composition. NOTE: A different still life for each workshop using instructor's objects or your own. Work at your own pace and ability and gradually build your skills with each workshop.
Felting wool is an old craft, but one that never grows old! Make one or two beautiful holiday ornaments to decorate your tree or give as a gift.
Bring along a photo of your pet to turn into a unique piece of treasured art made with colorful wool. This workshop is fun for all ages.
Bring a photo of your favorite guy to turn into a Santa face. Make an heirloom from colorful wool to decorate your home this holiday.
Alive brush strokes! Complete a painting on gessobord in one session. Painting experience will enhance your experience. We use one brush, vibrant colors and energenic brush strokes to complete our lively painting. Bring an apron, roll of paper towels, box to transport your wet (8x10) painting home and a lunch.
This amazing workshop will start with a work-along interaction with the artist as he paints from his easel. You'll capture the essence and the emotion of a landscape during this weekend of painting. Most of your painting supplies (i.e., paint, turps, canvas and paper) are included in the cost. You will receive a supply list before the workshop begins. Bring a lunch.
Greys and neutrals are essential players in your artwork. Learn to create 49 shades of cool and warm greys for beautiful neutrals. We will be using acrylic paints but this method can be translated into any medium.
Watch a demo by this award-winning artist who uses a stick with black ink on watercolor paper. Students will complete two paintings in this fun workshop. Bring a lunch.
Have an adventure in pouring lovely pictures with acrylic paints. They will look complex, yet the technique is easy for all abilities and ages. Once learned, this process has multiple uses. Students will choose their favorite colors for two exciting pictures.
Join us for a fun night painting together! You'll be guided with step-by-step instructions to complete an acrylic painting during each workshop. Great for beginners or for those with experience that want a review. Bring a friend!
Choose fun colors to model an ocean reef with this easy poured technique during week one and then paint a beautiful fish on the top for an underwater masterpiece week two.
Laura is known as The Lipstick Artist and creator of the "Can't You Put on a Little Lipstick?" Collection. Make use of old makeup to create a stunning red Poinsettia painting to start the holiday season with pizzazz! Please bring along your old makeup including eye liner, mascara and of course LIPSTICK as well as a light snack for lunch.
Learn to craft beautiful fall blooms from paper. Students will learn techniques to make classic fall flowers in a color palette perfect for Thanksgiving decor.
Learn how to create trees within the folded pages of hardcover books. Decorate using a theme or design as gifts for friends. You'll also make ornaments to hang from pages in a few different shapes. Artsplace will provide books or you may bring your own.
Learn to craft beautiful paper flowers in shades of red, green and winter white. Students will learn techniques to make classic holiday flowers perfect for holiday decorating.
Learn to make your own tiny art journals out of found paper, with specific types for your mediums. You'll gesso magazine paper so you can watercolor on top and then stitch together to create pages in fun patterns. From 1x1" to 5x5" sizes, tiny journals are great for travel and to cover specific themes. You may bring your own inspiring papers.
These "art journals" can be used for MANY different purposes! If you want a space to write notes and sketch while traveling, we can use paper perfect for writing on. If you want to make your best friend a miniature photo album or make yourself a square Instagram-sized album, we can do that too! (You could either mod-podge photos in to your books or use photo corners.) We could also gesso pages to make them hold heavier washes of watercolors or you can make a space for your kids to color and write their own things. They will make great gifts. We will be working in small format, up to 5x5", but you will walk away with the skills to make journals or books that are much larger. We will try a few different types of binding and we can either rip the papers or cut them perfectly even. Feel free to bring any favorite papers and/or photos (printed on paper or real), or even strings and/or tapes (washi or others) for use in your own pieces! The sky is the limit! I will bring a few different examples. I'm so excited to make a bunch with you all!
Natural dyes are used on a wet silk scarf resulting in unique backgrounds. Patterns are placed randomly under the scarf as a guide. Silk paints are used to complete the project. No experience necessary to create a beautiful, washable silk scarf. Bring a bag lunch.
Make colorful inked prints from simple designs pressed into a foam plate. Have some fun while exploring the magic of printmaking!


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Durante le persecuzioni dell'Ordine dei Templari, intorno al 1311, una testimonianza decisiva di Stephen de Stapelbrugge, comportò per qualche ragione, anche il cedimento di altri importanti templari.

Tra questi, importante era John de Stoke, già stato in precedenza il tesoriere del Tempio di Londra e, in quanto tale, figura vicina alla casa reale di Edoardo I e poi Edoardo II. È pertanto stato il grado più elevato tra i templari inglesi a confessare le proprie eresie. Nello specifico, pare confessò un'affermazione del Gran Maestro Jacques de Molay, secondo la quale Gesù non aveva origini divine ma poiché proclamava di averle, fu per questo crocifisso. Sulla base di questo, secondo Stoke, il Gran Maestro de Molay gli ordinò di rinnegare Gesù secondo la concezione della Chiesa di quel tempo.

Rappresentò per tanto un'importante occasione per la Chiesa da sfruttare nella persecuzione alle eresie imputate all'Ordine dei Templari.

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only one path could succeed, and the other would return with -EINVAL.
vmbus_free_ring(), and this causes a panic later.
BTW, the comment "Check to see if sub-channels have already been created"
Sorry, the name for the last patch on the list will be "scsi: storvsc: Fix a race in sub-channel creation that can cause panic"
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Alibaba affiliate launches Internet bank for SMEs, "little guys"
HANGZHOU, China/BEIJING: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's financial affiliate launched on Thursday Internet bank MYbank, targeting the small- and medium-sized Chinese enterprises that have struggled to obtain credit from major financial institutions.
MYbank, which is 30-percent owned by Alibaba-linked Ant Financial Services Group, has 4 billion yuan (US$644 million) of registered capital and will offer loans of up to 5 million yuan (US$805,503), it said in a statement.
It will only be able to take in deposits when regulators approve a facial recognition technology that allow its customers to remotely open bank accounts, an Ant Financial spokeswoman told Reuters.
"MYbank is here to give affordable loans for small and micro enterprises, and we are here to provide banking services, not for the rich, but for the little guys," said Eric Jing, Executive Chairman of MYbank.
MYbank follows in the footsteps of Alibaba arch-rival Tencent Holdings Ltd, which began trial operations of its WeBank, China's first online bank, in January.
MYbank's target clientele means it will pose little immediate threat to China's big state-owned lenders, who have seen deposits eroded by Alibaba-related wealth management product Yu'e Bao, which his now China's biggest money-market fund.
The Internet bank said its lower overheads from operating online allowed it to offer more competitive interest rates, compared to the bigger banks.
Credit conditions have remained tight for SMEs, despite a series of policy easing, as banks avoid the companies worst hit by an economic slowdown. State-owned banks have also avoided customers such as farmers and smaller businesses because of the difficulties in assessing their credit worthiness and they have little to offer as collateral.
Ant Financial has said it will use its Sesame Credit arm, which analyses data from its payment processing arm Alipay and Alibaba's e-commerce sites to assess risk and price loans for MYbank customers.
Some analysts, however, said MYbank would still face risks.
"The biggest risk for them is more than likely going to be credit costs, and will they be able to properly assess the risks?" said Matthew Smith, a banks analyst at Macquarie.
"It's not clear, if they grow too aggressively, potentially the answer would be no."
(US$1 = 6.2073 Chinese yuan renminbi)
(Editing by Kazunori Takada and Miral Fahmy)
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Fox29's Bolaris attacked in Avalon
by David Gambacorta, Posted: September 11, 2009
John Bolaris thinks of himself as being a pretty down-to-earth, approachable guy.
You spot him in a bar or restaurant, and want to amble over to ask about the weather, maybe take a picture? Go ahead, he's game.
But the Fox 29 chief meteorologist isn't too pleased about an encounter he had last week with a boorish brute who left him bruised and bloodied in Avalon, N.J.
Bolaris, 52, said he headed to his favorite Shore town in the wee hours on Sept. 4, not long after he finished his shift at Fox.
He walked into the Circle Tavern at the Princeton, on Dune Drive near 21st Street, at 1:30 a.m.
"I was supposed to meet some buddies of mine, but they weren't there. I was in there for about 10 minutes, watching highlights of the Boise [State football] college game," Bolaris said.
He left the pub when his pals sent him a text-message, inviting him to their house for a few beers.
Outside, a girl approached and — you guessed it — asked about the weather.
"I told it her, 'It'll be nice.' Then this guy comes over and starts jumping around me in circles, kinda acting strange.
"I looked at him and said, 'You OK, buddy?' He kept moving in circles, then he yells ... and tackles me into the street."
During the ensuing tumble, the weatherman said, his head smacked against a curb, and his finger was cut to the bone.
"There was blood everywhere. The guy took off down an alley," he said, still sounding shocked by the whole thing.
An Avalon police sergeant yesterday confirmed that an ambulance was called to the scene that morning to treat Bolaris for a hand injury.
The weatherman, who thinks he might have suffered a concussion during the takedown, wants justice.
He recalled the incident yesterday morning on the "Preston and Steve Show" on 93.3 WMMR-FM, and later to the Daily News, hoping that someone will help police catch the lunkhead.
"I'm really aggravated that someone would do that and try to get away with it. My head could've cracked open," he said.
"I want to press charges. He needs to sit in a jail cell for a couple of days."
Bolaris described the attacker as a twentysomething white man, about 5-feet-8, 165 pounds, with a blondish buzz-cut.
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Deborah Lupton, Clare Southerton, Marianne Clark, and Ash Watson
The Face Mask In COVID Times
A Sociomaterial Analysis
The simple fabric face mask is a key agent in the fight against the global spread of COVID-19. However, beyond its role as a protective covering against coronavirus infection, the face mask is the bearer of powerful symbolic and political power and arouses intense emotions. Adopting an international perspective informed by social theory, The Face Mask in COVID Times: A Sociomaterial Analysis offers an intriguing and original investigation of the social, cultural and historical dimensions of face-masking as a practice in the age of COVID.
Rather than Beck's 'risk society', we are now living in a 'COVID society', the long-term effects of which have yet to be experienced or imagined. Everything has changed. The COVID crisis has generated novel forms of sociality and new ways of living and moving through space and time. In this new world, the face mask has become a significant object, positioned as one of the key ways people can protect themselves and others from infection with the coronavirus. The face mask is rich with symbolic meaning as well as practical value. In the words of theorist Jane Bennett, the face mask has acquired a new 'thing-power' as it is coming together with human bodies in these times of uncertainty, illness and death.
The role of the face mask in COVID times has been the subject of debate and dissension, arousing strong feelings. The historical and cultural contexts in which face masks against COVID contagion are worn (or not worn) are important to consider. In some countries, such as Japan and other East Asian nations, face mask wearing has a long tradition. Full or partial facial coverings, such as veiling, is common practice in regions such as the Middle East. In many other countries, including most countries in the Global North, most people, beyond health care workers, have little or no experience of face masks. They have had to learn how to make sense of face masking as a protective practice and how to incorporate face masks into their everyday practices and routines.
Face masking practices have become highly political. The USA has witnessed protests against face mask wearing that rest on 'sovereign individualism', a notion which is highly specific to the contemporary political climate in that country. Face masks have also been worn to make political statements: bearing anti-racist statements, for example, but also Trump campaign support. Meanwhile, celebrities and influencers have sought to advocate for face mask wearing as part of their branding, while art makers, museums, designers and novelty fashion manufacturers have identified the opportunity to profit from this sudden new market. Face masks have become a fashion item as well as a medical device: both a way of signifying the wearer's individuality and beliefs and their ethical stance in relation to the need to protect their own and others' health.
The Face Mask in COVID Times: A Sociomaterial Analysis provides a short and accessible analysis of the sociomaterial dimensions of the face mask in the age of COVID-19. The book presents seven short chapters and an epilogue. We bring together sociomaterial theoretical perspectives with compelling examples from public health advice and campaigns, anti-mask activism as well as popular culture (news reports, blog posts, videos, online shopping sites, art works) to illustrate our theoretical points, and use Images to support our analysis.
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Figure 1.--These two children survivied the Titantic disaster in 1912, There seems to be contradictory information about who the children are. The photo has a notation at the top reading "Louis & Lola? Titanic survivors", but the Bain Collection from which the photo comes identifies the children as Louis and Edmond Narvatic as the two children. Source: Bain Collection--Library of Congress.
Michel and Edmond Narvatic (United States, 1912)
These two children survivied the Titantic disaster in 1912, There seems to be contradictory information about who the children are. The photo has a notation at the top reading "Louis & Lola? Titanic survivors", but the Bain Collection from which the photo comes identifies the children as Louis and Edmond Narvatic as the two children. I tend to trust the Bain designation since both of the children look like boys to me and since the notation on the photo itself has a question mark after the names. It has been suggested that the photo might have been taken on the Carpathia, the ship that rescued some of the Titanic survivors, but the background of the photo showing a playground with a wire fence and wooden wall with some leafless shrubery does not look like the setting one would find on a ship. I think the photo must have been taken on land, possibly in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where most of the survivors were taken. There is a famous cemetery in Halifax where a number of the Titanic victims were buried.
The Titanic Disaster (1912)
The sea lanes between Europe and North America were the most important in the world. The industrialization of the United States had greated an economic giant that had begun to rival Europe which in the 18th and 19th centuries as a result of the industrial revolution had become the economic center of the world. In addition to the agricultural, mineral, and industrial products, a lucrative part of the trans-Atlantic trade was the huge number of European emigrants seeking a new future in the United States and Canada. At the time this required an oceanic voyage. Several steamship companies competed for this trade which was extremely lucrative. The most important was British and German companies. The British White Star Line was one of the most important. They contracted Harland and Wolff to serve on the Atlantic route. RMS Titantic at the time was the fastest and most luxurious ocean liner ever built. The accomodations in sterrage where most immigrants traveled were better than the accomodations for better paying passengers on other stramships. Titanic had a capacity of 46,329 GRT. It was 269 meters long and 28 meters wide at its widest point. Titanic to serve on the Atlantic route. White Star advertized Titanic as not only luxurious and fast, but unsinkable. It was widely seen as a technological wonder of the day--emblematic of the optomistic attitude toward technology and progress in the years before World War I. Titanic sailed from Southampton and after a stop in ??? (Ireland) set off fir New York. The captain hoped to set a speed record for an Atlantic crossing on the maiden voyage and disregarded warnngs of sea ice because he believed that the vessel actually was unsinkable. Titanic just before midnight collided with a huge iceberg (April 14, 1912). More than 1,500 people including the captain and other ship personnel perished when the great ship sank. Included among thise lost were many of the rich and famous as many had booked passage on Titanic as it was such a major event. The American millionaires Benjamin Guggenheim, Isodor Straus, and John Astor were among the victims. But even more than the individual victims, the Titanic disaster showed the limits of technology and had a huge impact on public opinion.
The Child Survivors
These two children survivied the Titantic disaster in 1912, There seems to be contradictory information about who the children are. The photo has a notation at the top reading "Louis & Lola? Titanic survivors", but the Bain Collection from which the photo comes identifies the children as Louis and Edmond Narvatic as the two children. We tend to trust the Bain designation since both of the children look like boys to me and since the notation on the photo itself has a question mark after the names. It has been suggested that the photo might have been taken on the Carpathia, the ship that rescued some of the Titanic survivors, but the background of the photo showing a playground with a wire fence and wooden wall with some leafless shrubery does not look like the setting one would find on a ship. I think the photo must have been taken on land, possibly in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where most of the survivors were taken. There is a famous cemetery in Halifax where a number of the Titanic victims were buried.
A HBC reader writes, "You showed this photo last year, and I remember looking up the list of the Titanic Survivours in my copy of the book, A Night to Remember. This does not list any survivors with the name Navratil. Here is the answer. It has their names listed as Hoffman. I gleaned this from the Library of Congress collection on Flickr. which shows the same photo of the two boys and the following comment. 'Photo taken before the 'orphans' of the Titanic were correctly identified and returned to their mother. The boys are French brothers Michel (age 4) and Edmond Navratil (age 2). To board the ship, their father assumed the name Louis Hoffman and used their nicknames, Lolo and Mamon. Their father died in the disaster of the RMS TITANIC, which struck an iceberg in April 1912 and sank, killing more than 1,500 people. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008) which forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)."
Louis, the older boy, wears a tunic suit with loosely buttoned belt, striped knickers, white long stockings and hightop shoes with side buttons. He is holding a ball and looks to be about 4 or 5 years old. The younger child (Edmond?) wears a one-piece romper suit with self-belt, white long stockings, and ankle-strap shoes. Edmond looks no older than 2 or 3 years old. Notice that Edmond seems to be holding a model of a ship--possibly a small replica of the Titanic. A reader remonds us, "Edmond can't be holding a model of the Titanic. The Titanic had four smock stacks. The toy ship has just two." The Titanic was indeed a four stacker. What we find a little suprising is that after his experience on Titanic that the boy would be given a toy ship.
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Kanu's brother claims IPOB leader was arrested in Kenya, demands British govt's intervention
Kingsley Kanu, the brother to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi, said on Wednesday the activist was arrested in Kenya.
He disclosed this in a statement sent to journalists by the IPOB spokesman, Emma Powerful.
Reports had said Kanu was arrested in the United Kingdom last Sunday.
However, the British High Commission in Nigeria had dismissed the report that the separatist leader who is currently standing trial for alleged treason at the Federal High Court, Abuja, was arrested in the European nation.
Kinsley said: "My brother has been subject to extraordinary rendition by Kenya and Nigeria. They have violated the most basic principles of the rule of law.
Whilst visiting Kenya, Nnamdi Kanu was detained and handed over to the Nigerian authorities who then flew him to Nigeria.
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"Extraordinary rendition is one of the most serious crimes states can commit. Both Nigeria and Kenya must be held to account. I demand justice for my brother, Nnamdi Kanu.
"The British High Commission in Nigeria must insist on my brother's immediate release. They must guarantee his safety and security.
"Nnamdi Kanu must be returned home to the UK to his wife and his sons who live here. The Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, must make clear to the Nigerian authorities that they will not tolerate the unlawful detention of British citizens and that the UK government condemns the Nigerians and Kenyans for undermining the rule of law.
"Foreign Secretary, Raab must be clear. There will be consequences for those who resort to extraordinary rendition. The British government must insist upon justice for Nnamdi Kanu."
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300-year-old technology good enough for Savannah National Wildlife Refuge
Simple wooden structures called rice field trunks do a better job of controlling tidal flooding in Low Country rice fields than more modern technology.
Phil Kloer
February 3, 2010, 1:50 p.m.
OLD-SCHOOL: This is a portion of a rice field trunk at Savannah National Wildlife Refuge. (Photos: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
Sometimes the old ways work best.
As far back as the 1700s, rice planters around Savannah, Ga., were using devices known as rice field trunks to control tidal flooding on their fields. Remnants of these original structures can still be seen at the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge.
But even after 300 years of vast technological improvements in other areas, the simple, wooden structures are still the most reliable way to control water in the Low Country of Georgia and South Carolina. Modern versions are still in use today at the Savannah NWR.
Although they wear very well, the trunks, which are usually about 38 feet long and have movable slats to govern the flow of water, need replacing after years of service. So the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will use $97,000 from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, popularly known as stimulus funds, to buy and install a new rice field trunk at the refuge.
"They're expensive to build and install, but they last much longer than normal water control structures," said Jane Griess, project leader at the Savannah Coastal Refuges Complex, which includes the refuge. "In this marine salt water environment, metal structures [which are used to control water flow at most wildlife refuges] don't hold up as well as wooden ones."
The refuge has 6,000 acres of impoundments for migratory waterfowl and other native wildlife, and manages water flow on 3,000 of those acres. In the winter, the impoundments are flooded to support wintering waterfowl, while during the summer months, the wetlands are managed to grow plants which are flooded in the fall in anticipation of the ducks' arrival.
Phil Kloer is a public affairs specialist for the Southeastern region of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
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Writing these posts about cheap and or free things to do with kids in Western MA each month is one of my favorite posts to provide for you each month! I hope you enjoy this great list and that it blesses your family to know what's going on! If you're wondering how I define "cheap" when looking for things in this guide, typically look for events that will either cost the entire family less than $20.00 or no more than $5.00 per person. The majority of this guide is date specific, so grab your calendar and plan your month! Also if you loved this list, share it with a friend! Send it to their Facebook or email them!
September 13: Did you know that the library is full of museum passes? Many offer FREE admission. Check out what yours has to offer and plan an adventure! Free.
September 15: The Big E! opens today! Special admission rate today only! $10.00 for adults. Kids 5 and under, and military are free. West Springfield, MA.
September 16: The Red Sox played the Tampa bay Rays last night! Did they win? Kids eat free at 99 Restaurant with the purchase of an adult meal when the Red Sox win! Check to see who won and head on down!
September 17: Last Day of Lee Founders Weekend, 10:00 am. Downtown Lee, MA. Free.
September 19: Check out this list of 30 Things To Do With Kids In Holyoke MA! There is something for everyone in Holyoke!
September 21: Go for a hike at the Whiting Street Reservoir in Holyoke. Stroller friendly. Free.
September 22: Have you visited a pumpkin patch yet? Plan your trip!
September 23: Visit the Dr. Seuss Sculpture Gardens. Springfield Museums. Free.
September 25: Need an easy weeknight meal? Maid Rite Sandwiches come together quickly and is a family favorite!
September 26: Visit Heritage State Park and take a spin on the Merry-Go-Round. Open Noon-4PM.
September 28: Visit an apple orchard!
September 29: Have you decided what you're going to be for Halloween? Head to a second hand store like Savers and see if you can DIY your costume!
September 30: Explore downtown Northampton and stop at the redesigned Pulaski park with it's brand-new playground. Free.


The 3mm is yet amazingly warm and comfy, as they comprise a natural latex sole, these MISTRAL boots can provide you with an amazing barefoot feeling allied to a very good grip. The Atan boots are claimed to be the most supple and comfortable on the world wide market and the range also includes the split toe MADISSON and the regular MISTRAL, which are both 3mm thick.
As many of you will know that ATAN have for many years made the most flexible and warmest boots available in the market, particularly distinguished from the competition by their incredible "Barefoot feeling" sole, which is achieved by using a natural latex dip process which is unique to ATAN. These boots are light, flexible, comfortable, warm, durable, very supple and competitively priced.
MISTRAL - Surf boot, available in 3mm glued and blindstiched lined with neoprene plush titanium with a fine latex sole, barefoot feeling. Strap around the leg. Easy to turn inside out for easy drying.
The PLUSH TITANIUM neoprene ensures these boots will both be very warm and comfortable. This is attributed to the fact that the plush fabric is glued on the neoprene foam with a titanium glue and this create a metallic mirror which ensures the heat is reflected back into your feet which are ever grateful for warmth. This winter get the barefoot feeling into your water time and leave the wellies at home.
Warm, comfy, supple, and feely.