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Els xinesos a Espanya (en xinès 西班牙華人) és el resultat del moviment migratori de ciutadans de la República Popular de la Xina cap al Regne d'Espanya. Constitueix la quarta comunitat més nombrosa de xinesos residents en el continent europeu i una de les més grans que s'ha disseminat per tot el territori nacional. Cal destacar que al voltant del 70% de tots els immigrants xinesos que viuen a Espanya provenen de la regió xinesa de Zhejiang.

Història de la migració

Les primeres arribades registrades de xinesos a Espanya daten de finals del segle XVI. Bernardino de Escalante al seu Discurso de la navegación (un dels primers llibres europeus sobre la Xina, publicat en 1577) diu que entre les seves fonts d'informació estaven "els xinesos mateixos, que van venir a Espanya ("de los mesmos naturales Chinas que an venido à España"). Juan González de Mendoza a la seva Historia de las cosas más notables, ritos y costumbres del gran reyno de la China, va escriure que el 1585 "tres mercaders de la Xina" arribaren a Mèxic "y no permanecieron hasta llegar a Spaine ya otros reinos más alejados".

Un cas legal va ser presentat davant del Consell d'Índies en la dècada de 1570, en el qual van participar dos xinesos de Sevilla, un d'ells lliure, Esteban Cabrera, i l'altre un esclau, Diego Indio, contra Juan de Morales, propietari de Diego. Diego va demanar a Esteban que donés testimoniatge com a testimoni en nom seu. Diego va recordar que va ser portat com a esclau per Francisco de Casteñeda des de Mèxic, a Nicaragua, després a Lima al Perú, després a Panamà, i finalment a Espanya via Lisboa, sent encara nen. Esteban va atestar que coneixia Diego com un noi a Limpoa (Liampó, el nom portuguès de Ningbo, una ciutat xinesa a Zhejiang), que ell va afirmar ser part de les Índies colonials espanyoles. Aquesta era una afirmació falsa ja que Liampo no estava sota el domini espanyol, i s'especula que Esteban i Diego van mentir sobre això per a ajudar a Diego a guanyar la seva llibertat, jugant en el fet que els espanyols que portaven el cas ignoraven els assumptes asiàtics d'Espanya. Va funcionar al seu favor i al juliol de 1575 el Consell va emetre un siding governant amb Diego. Juana de Castañeda també va atestar en nom de Diego, al·legant que va conèixer a Diego a Lima i també es va casar amb Esteban durant la prova. Juana era una dona nativa de Lima. Juana tenia al voltant de 40 anys quan va atestar en nom de Diego en 1572. Una altra indígena de Panamà, Isabel García també va atestar a favor de Diego, dient que ella el coneixia mentre estava al Panamà. El testament d'Esteban datat el 15 de març de 1599 va deixar la seva propietat a la seva filla Francisca de Altamira ja el seu espòs Miguel de la Creu que era sastre i probablement xinesos com Esteban. Una família de sastres va ser iniciada per Esteban.

Alguns esclaus xinesos van acabar a Espanya després de ser portats a Lisboa a Portugal i venuts quan eren nens. Tristán de la China era un xinès que va ser pres com a esclau pels portuguesos, mentre encara era un nen i en la dècada de 1520 va ser obtingut per Cristobál d'Haro a Lisboa, i portat a viure a Sevilla i Valladolid. Se li va pagar pel seu servei com a traductor a l'expedició Loaísa de 1525, durant la aual encara era un adolescent. Els supervivents, inclòs Tristán, van naufragar durant una dècada fins a 1537 quan van ser retornats per un vaixell portuguès a Lisboa. Els registres del 7 de maig de 1618 mostren que a Hernando de los Ríos Coronel se li va permetre portar de les Filipines a Espanya dos esclaus xinesos, Cosme i Juan de Terrenate, que estava casat amb una dona anomenada Manuela. iversos asiàtics es van aprofitar de les lleis que exigeixen que l'Estat espanyol pagués pel seu retorn a la seva pàtria després de ser traficat il·legalment a Espanya. Un xilè nomenat Juan Castelindala Moreno va sol·licitar ser enviat a casa el 1632.

Els esclaus asiàtics enviats des de les Filipines espanyoles als galeons de Manila-Acapulco a Acapulco a la Nova Espanya (Mèxic) van ser anomenats "Chino", que en realitat eren d'origen divers, incloent japonesos, malais, javanesos, timorencs... I les persones de Bengala, l'Índia, Ceilan, Makassar, Tidore, Terenate i Xinès.- La gent d'aquesta comunitat de diversos asiàtics a Mèxic fou anomenada "los indios chinos" pels espanyols. La majoria d'aquests esclaus eren homes i es van obtenir de comerciants d'esclaus portuguesos que els van obtenir de les possessions colonials portugueses i els llocs avançats de l'Estat de l'Índia, que incloïen parts de l'Índia, Bengala, Malacca, Indonèsia, Nagasaki al Japó i Macau. Alguns espanyols van portar temporalment alguns d'aquests esclaus Xinesos a Espanya des de Mèxic, on posseir i mostrar a un esclau xinès demostrava una classe alta ja que els aristòcrates espanyols van veure als seus esclaus xinesos com a fascinants símbols de moda de la classe. Una dona espanyola, Doña María de Quesada y Figueroa, de Nova Espanya, posseïa un home xinès nascut a la Xina, anomenat Manuel, que abans de ser esclau d'ella va ser pres de Nova Espanya per a ser exhibit a Sevilla fins que va ser retornat a Nova Espanya per a ser donat a Sr. María per a servir com a esclau, pel fill de la dona, doctor Sr. Juan de Quesada, el 1621. Registres de tres esclaus japonesos del , Gaspar Fernandes, Miguel i Ventura, que van acabar a Mèxic, van mostrar que van ser comprats per comerciants d'esclaus portuguesos al Japó, portats a Manila des d'on van ser enviats a Mèxic pel seu amo Pérez. Alguns d'aquests esclaus asiàtics també van ser portats a Lima al Perú, on hi havia una petita comunitat d'asiàtics incloent xinesos, japonesod i malais.

Demografia
Segons el cens de 2003, només l'1,8% dels xinesos residents a Espanya tenia més de 65 anys, una xifra molt baixa comparada amb el 7% de la població de la República Popular de la Xina i el 17,5% d'Espanya; el 17 % tenia menys de 15 anys. Com a resultat de la baixa proporció de persones majors, a més de les llargues jornades de treball i l'estat il·legal d'alguns, els xinesos usen els serveis mèdics molt menys que altres grups ètnics a Espanya.

Quan a distribució geogràfica, els principals centres d'immigració xinesa són:
  Comunitat de Madrid ≈ 63.549 hab.
 Província de Barcelona ≈ 54.642 hab.
 Província de València ≈ 14.451 hab.
 Província d'Alacant ≈ 9.935 hab.
 Província de Màlaga ≈ 8.485 hab.
 Província de Las Palmas ≈ 5.992 hab.

Religió
El 2014 es va obrir el Temple Taoista de Barcelona per la comunitat xinesa local, patrocinat pel sacerdot taoista Liu Zemin, descendent de la 21a generació de poeta, soldat i el profeta Liu Bo Wen (1311-1375). El temple, situat al districte de Sant Martí i inaugurat amb la presència del cònsol de la República Popular Xina Qu Chengwu, consagra 28 divinitats de la província de la Xina d'on provenen la majoria dels xinesos de Barcelona.

Victimització
El setembre de 2004, les protestes a Elx per les sabates barates importades de la Xina que socavaven els mercats locals de sabates van provocar la crema d'un magatzem de sabates de propietat xinesa. La delinqüència és un problema a la comunitat xinesa a causa de les tríades, que estan implicades en el tràfic de persones i l'extorsió dels empresaris xinesos. Tanmateix, les Tríades no s'han establert com a distribuïdores de drogues a causa de la competència d'altres grups.

Personatges rellevants
Entre la població espanyola d'ètnia xinesa (ètnia han?) es troben persones destacades per diferents temes, per exemple:
 He Zhi Wen: jugador olímpic de tennis de taula als JJOO de Londres en 2012.
 Shen Yanfei: jugadora olímpica de tennis de taula als JJOO de Pequín en 2008.
 Gao Ping: empresari.
 Chen Xiangwei: hostaler conegut per simpatitzar amb el falangisme.
 Yong Li: concursant de programes de telerealitat.

Vegeu també
 Relacions entre la República Popular de la Xina i Espanya

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Referències

Bibliografia
 Beltrán Antolín, Joaquín (1 de febrero de 2003), "Diáspora y comunidades asiáticas en España", Revista electrónica de geografía y ciencias sociales (Universidad de Barcelona).
 Nieto, Gladys (2003), "Overseas Chinese associations building up a national identity: specific cases in Spain", in Fernández-Stembridge, * Leila, China Today: Economic Reforms, Social Cohesion, and Collective Identities, United Kingdom: Routledge, pp. 173–195, ISBN 0-415-31267-1

Immigració a Espanya

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Sir Christopher Lee was in a lot of crap, but this one may be the stupidest thing he did in 1979. I guess I haven't seen CAPTAIN AMERICA 2: DEATH TOO SOON, so I don't know.
The plot goes like this: Jaguar (Joe Lewis… who?) is alive. He LIVES! He's basically a lousy James Bond without being cool, good with ladies or having neat gadgets. But, he knows kung fu! Sort of. We never really see that in an impressive manner.
The film begins with Jaguar and his partner driving two different cars real fast. They get to a "monument" and are trying to stop it from blowing up. But, it blows up. Jaguar is knocked unconscious, partner is dead, explosions, guns, etc.
Jaguar wakes up and decides he's gonna fight drug dealers and bad guys the world over.
One of these villains is Donald Pleasance. Pleasance is incredible in this role. He's a dictator who makes headstones for the people he kills. He's like a lame Castro or something. Anyway, he cries when there is gunfire, makes homophobic comments and delivers every line like he's got half a ham sandwich in his mouth.
Somehow Jaguar makes it to someplace where he has to fight a bunch of people as a "trial of strength." I didn't catch why or how he got there.
Then, Sir Christopher Lee shows up.
The entrance of Christopher Lee is as good as can be expected. Lee steals the scene, manages to give heft to lines like, "criminality is never the end, only the means," and wears a killer sweater.
Then, Jaguar says something stupid like, "this war for justice will never end." I was horrified. What if this movie never ended?!? I kept hoping Lee would just stab him in the belly.
Jaguar's partner shows up. What?!?! How could he not be dead?!? What about his son? (Who? He has a son? We weren't told that).
Jaguar fights and wins. End.
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By Margaret Chantung
Build and launch a robot, play Frisbee with a robot, or become a DNA detective. These are just a few of the nearly 100 hands-on, interactive activities and demonstrations that will engage thousands of attendees on Saturday, March 12 at the annual science festival Super STEM Saturday. Held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at California State University San Marcos (CSUSM), this rain or shine event is free and open to the public. Children of all ages are invited to attend. Super STEM Saturday closes the ten-day San Diego Festival of Science and Engineering, the largest celebration of innovation and science education in Southern California.
Held in partnership by The Classical Academies and CSUSM, Super STEM Saturday has grown into a popular North County event that draws 6,000 science enthusiasts each year to the university campus.
"We share the value with The Classical Academies that it's not the job of teachers but it's everyone's job to develop that sustained excitement in science that drives our students into career paths in science, technology, engineering and math," said CSUSM Dean of the College of Science and Mathematics Katherine Kantardjieff.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics, employment in STEM jobs is expected to grow to more than 9 million by 2022. An estimated 1.2 million jobs in science, technology, engineering and math will be unfulfilled by 2018.
"What we take away from our childhood is really meaningful to what we decide to do as adults," said Simon Kuo, vice president of Quality Management at ViaSat. "That's why we believe it's really important to expose kids to science and technology so that it can help them better appreciate it and perhaps even choose a career in STEM."
"Jean-Jacques Rousseau once shared, 'We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them,'" said Cameron Curry, executive director for The Classical Academies. "I am so pleased that we provide the community of North County a day and festival focused on science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). The culmination of educators, organizations and professionals working together allows us to inspire minds, ignite passions and expose students and our community to what is possible with STEM. This annual event for Cal State San Marcos has become the springboard for many to experience what is possible as they plan their futures and continued education. Our tasting opportunity translates into action by many and this speaks to our success."
CSUSM and The Classical Academies thank Super STEM Saturday's Gold-level and community sponsors that are making this event possible, including: ViaSat, Northrop Grumman, Genentech, Supervisor Dave Roberts, Palomar Health, Medtronic, X/3 Management Services, San Diego County District Five Supervisor Bill Horn, the San Diego Business Journal and Nordson.
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Adulteress as Villainess
A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of "The Scarlet Letter" was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus.
—Peter De Vries
Throughout history, women who were caught in adultery have suffered grievous punishments. In India, they might have been burned. In Persia, men favored beheading adulterous women. In Turkey, the traditional punishment was the lash, a painful prospect but one offering more hope than in traditional China, where errant wives might be imprisoned for life.
Under Sharia law in a number of Islamic countries, all it takes is two male witnesses swearing that the woman is an adulteress, and she can be stoned to death even if she never committed adultery.
Countries with Sharia rule. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
In the literature of the Western world, women who are, as they say, "taken in adultery" are not punished as blatantly, but they don't fare well. The world's literature is, of course, written primarily by men and may, consequently, reflect more the position of an outraged husband than it does the sentiments of the outraged wife.
In Dante's Inferno (ca. 1300), Francesca loved not only her husband but also his younger brother, Paolo; and when they were discovered, both were put to death. This sad tale, repeated in other literary versions, is unusual in that both guilty parties were punished. Usually, the double standard results in the errant woman being the focus of concern and punishment.
In Hawthorn's classic novel The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne was forced to wear an embroidered scarlet letter on her dress to show that she was an adulteress and then required to stand in the pillory holding her illegitimate child. In Tolstoy's tragic story of Anna Karenina, the social disapproval of the lovers is so pervasive and extreme that Anna disintegrates and ultimately throws herself under the wheels of a train. There are a plethora of other examples of the same ilk, conveying the message that crime does not pay and that the woman who strays from the domestic hearth will come to a tragic end.
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Beware of the Great Ghost Lover
There is sanctuary in reading, sanctuary in formal society, in the company of old friends, and in the giving of officious help to strangers, but there is no sanctuary in one bed from the memory of another.
—Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave
There's nothing quite so wondrous, quite so awesome, quite so interesting as the first time you fall in love. It may not be with the first man whom you take as a lover . . . indeed, such emotional monogamy is more likely the exception than the rule. The intensity is partly due to ignoring or refusing to accept the possibility that such a feeling can end—not only on his part but also on yours.
If, in addition, the thrill of first love is combined with the thrill of first making love and if that initiation is a satisfactory experience, then it sets up the conditions for a powerful kind of imprinting. Newly hatched goslings will imprint on any moving object they happen to see—a moving wooden cube, the heel of their keeper, a ball of wool—and they will follow that object with all the persistence and devotion that nature intended them to bestow on the mother goose that hatched them. In the same way, a woman whose first love experience coincides with her first sexual experience, or at least her
first erotic and wonderful sexual experience, may for the rest of her days be imprinted upon a certain kind of man.
The man who was your first love may provide an idealized model for masculinity in general. If the first eyes that you loved loved you back, and said so, were let's say, slate gray, then twenty years later, slate-gray eyes across a crowded room will still seem more riveting than they actually are. If the first kisses of great passion were enclosed in a full beard, then twenty years later, a full beard is still a special male plumage of particular appeal. Whether he was tall or short, handsome or gnome-like, muscular or slender, there's a body type, a body image, which continues to hold for your extraordinary potential appeal.
English: Man with beard sleeping. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
If, by chance, you meet someone who seems almost the same as your first great ghost lover from the past, he'll almost win your heart just by standing there and breathing in and out. Beware. Looking the same doesn't at all mean that he's the same. You pick him not for what he is but for the man he reminds you of, which isn't very flattering to him when he figures it out. You will then project on to him the other traits of the great ghost lover and will be duly disappointed when, quite naturally, he doesn't live up to these uncanny expectations.
If you find your first great love reincarnated, recognize the source of your attraction. Talk to him if you can't resist the temptation to do so or if you should want to spoil your illusion with a little reality shock. Take his picture. But don't take him to your bed in an attempt to go back in time. Even if he looks the same, he won't be the same and you'll both be disappointed—you, by his failure to mimic a vanished man he has never met, and he, by your failure to appreciate the fine and unique person that he, in fact, is.
And while you are thinking about your great ghost lover, remember the words of warning from the often-quoted author Bill Vaughan: "It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of it coming back."
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"Marriage Reminds Me of Death"
I never will marry,
I'll be no man's wife.
I expect to live single
All the rest of my life.
—Fred Brooks, "I Will Never Marry"
In the old days, when a man came a-courtin', a young girl's father might take him aside in the parlor and inquire, "Are your intentions honorable? Are you seriously considering my daughter as a wife, or are you wasting her time?"
In the new courtship, which doesn't necessarily lead to marriage, the question is still relevant. While you may harbor no intent to commit matrimony, it doesn't mean that your lover harbors no such intent. If it so happens that your lover is in serious pursuit of a wife, he has a right to know if you would ever consider getting married, and if so, if you would ever consider getting married to him.
The cultural stereotype in our society affirms that, generally, it's the woman who wants to get married and it's the man who must be coaxed or snagged or snaffled into making that commitment. If that was the case in the past, it's not necessarily so today when unmarried women can lead quite different lifestyles than did the spinsters of the past.
Cover of The Marrying Kind
Some women don't want to marry ever. They concur with the spinster aunt in Somerset Maugham's Mrs. Craddock who exclaims, "Marriage is always a hopeless idiocy for a woman who has enough of her own to live upon."
Other women, once burned, never want to marry again. Yet despite being misogamists—one who hates marriage—they sometimes find themselves succumbing to social pressures to marry again. Such women should belong to Divorcees Anonymous, modeled after Alcoholics Anonymous. When they feel the urge to get married again, they could call an emergency number, and Divorcees Anonymous would immediately send over a fat man in a T-shirt, with a six-pack of beer, who settles down in the living room to watch football on the tube.
Women who are ideologically opposed to marriage would go along with Gloria Steinem's commonly quoted maxim: "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle." If, whatever your reasons, you are adamantly not the marrying kind, then it's important for you to make that clear to any man who becomes involved with you. The folk wisdom has been justly critical of the man who seems to court a woman but whose intentions are not honorable—that is, he has no intention of marrying her. A woman is equally at fault if she lets a man hope to marry her when she knows from the start that marriage to anyone—or at least marriage to him—isn't for her.
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The bottom line: it is my bottom that has the honey pot!
—Jadah Vaughn, "The Bottom Line"
Throughout most of the recorded history of the Western world, there's been an implicit assumption that men owned women and that men especially owned a woman's sexuality.
In the beginning, fathers owned daughters; later in life, husbands owned wives who had been given away by their fathers. The wife was a chattel. It would be an overstatement to say she was a slave, but she was a possession. In effect, she sold her sexual services at the time of marriage for the rest of her life. If a husband was made a cuckold by some other man, he had a right to be aggrieved and sometimes even a right to sue for damages. The law gave him not only a right to his wife's body at all times, and under all circumstances, but an exclusive right to it. The wife had control of the husband's honor. If she was wayward, she brought disgrace to him as much as a wayward daughter would bring disgrace to her father. In some cultures today, "honor killings" are based on that assumption.
Even at the beginning of the twenty-first century, there remains a truism which still needs to be endlessly proclaimed. A woman owns her own body. She may decide to share it with a man, or she may not. She may promise to be sexually monogamous, or she may not. She may conceive a child if she wants, or she may not. Having conceived, she may carry that child to term, or she may not. A woman owns her own body.
Whose Body? (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
If you own your own body, then the decisions about what to do with it are in fact up to you. You may give your body to someone in an act of love, but you do not deed it to him for time and eternity.
Self-ownership involves two related principles. The first is that you don't have to give your body to anyone if you don't want to; it's a form of rape, even if the man is your husband, if you are taken against your will. The second principle is that you have the right to give your body to whomever you want.
The bottom line: it's your bottom that has the honeypot.
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You cannot decree women to be sexually free when they are not economically free.
—Shere Hite
If you ask a young man his thoughts about being a gigolo, he would likely reply with some scorn that this isn't a role for a "real man" and that the man who does take up such a role must not be good for anything else. The same young man, however, would be pleased if his sister were dating a rich man who was generous with her, even if that rich man was of questionable physical appeal and devoid of personality.
If you asked the same young man what he would think of finding a rich woman to marry, he would likely reply with some variation on the aphorism, "The man who marries for money earns it."
Gold Diggers (Photo credit: Thomas Hawk)
For the man who thought of this homily, it was, perhaps, an insight. For women, however, marrying money and then having to "earn" it is a fact of life that every girl of sixteen has already considered to be a clear and present option as well as a clear and present danger. If she marries for money, she expects to earn it. She is expected to give up control of her life in exchange for a comfortable lifestyle which will be afforded her as long as she submits to her husband's will.
The young man who arbitrarily rejects a money marriage for himself sees no inconsistency in his profound hope that his cherished little sister will have a "good" marriage, which means a marriage to a man of means even if he is a little dull. For the woman of few resources, a husband to take care of things may be the only solution. With limited education and paltry self-confidence, it may well be better for her to marry for money than to work for peanuts.
If a woman is financially dependent upon a man, she is in his power, no matter how generous he is with her. It's the degree of financial dependence which determines, in large part, the degree of power. Women need to obtain their own resources and to be content to live on them, however modest. If they can achieve a minimum standard of living for themselves, then sexual barter is not necessary.
If a woman has sexual freedom and has a degree of financial and social independence, then she has a new option. She has the luxury of choosing someone to love, and perhaps to marry, not because he is rich and not because he desires her, but because she desires him. Or better still because they desire each other.
Billie Holiday says it well when she sings ruefully, "Mama may have, Papa may have, but God blessed the child who's got her own."
Your Take: Would You Marry for Money? (bargaineering.com)
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Don't Be a Working Girl
The prostitute is the only honest woman left in America.
—Ti-Grace Atkinson
While there may be nothing intrinsically wrong with selling your body, there is something wrong in ending up in an exchange of sexuality for some sort of gain when the situation occurs unintentionally.
There's something decidedly wrong in selling your body when you are not fully aware of what you are doing. You're being exploited when you're conned or manipulated into a "deal" you didn't want to make.
There is something decidedly unwise, and perhaps wrong, in selling your body when the rewards are slight and the exchange is unnecessary. Such selling is usually not worth the price in terms of its psychological and emotional costs.
The well-known feminist, Ti-Grace Atkinson, undoubtedly overstates her case when she claims that the prostitute is the only honest woman in America. However, it is valid to observe that there are many women who don't think of themselves as working girls who are dishonest about the extent to which they use their sexuality for nonsexual reasons. If you find yourself in a situation where you end up having sex for reasons other than the anticipation of a good sexual experience, then you are in fact acting like a working girl.
Working Girls (2010 film) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Margaret Sanger pioneered the Planned Parenthood movement and fought for birth control to free women from the tyranny of pregnancy. However, she also fought for freedom from sexual coercion. Writing way back in 1917 when such sentiments were not usually expressed, she declared, "A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health-giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she has no response, it should not take place. This is an act of prostitution, and is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage
certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding."
What Sanger is talking about is nothing like rape in the usual and violent sense of the word. It's nothing like prostitution in the stereotypical sense of streetwalkers standing under streetlights and taking on all comers. What Sanger refers to is the not uncommon practice of women going to bed as a result of feeling sexually intimidated.
Respectable women, who don't think of themselves as working girls, may have sex for many nonsexy reasons: for protection, for a new diamond necklace, for drugs or a fix, for simple companionship. Many young women act like working girls without realizing it. And having accepted this role, they wonder why it is that under these conditions, they don't enjoy sex very much. They're not in helpless situations, yet they continue to use their sexuality as an informal medium of exchange. Or sometimes they continue to put out simply because they feel they don't have a choice.
If a man asks you to have sex with him, you need not be offended, but neither need you be obliging. A working girl may have sex in the absence of desire and may be tactful and cheerful in putting up with men who are unappealing or who are simply inept lovers. As a non-working girl, you don't have to, and you shouldn't. If you don't want to have sex, your negative reply should be as polite as possible but also firm and unambiguous. The absence of desire is in itself sufficient reason to decline.
The correct answer to continued pressure and harassment from someone you don't feel passionate about is quite simple. "Harry, you're a toad. I don't sleep with toads!" But even if the Harry in question is a toad, nice girls are too considerate and nice to say so in quite those terms. They might even imply it and have Harry look so injured and tearful they then have to go to bed with him just to provide reassurance that he's not a toad.
The correct answer may be that you would rather watch television. That the room is too hot or too cold, and you are too energized or too tired, and he's too big or too small, too young or too old, too this or too that. In any case, the correct answer is simply, "No, thank you, I don't want to."
It's fine to let yourself be seduced, if you decide that's what you want to happen. It's not so fine to let yourself be coerced by force or by emotional blackmail. It's not so fine to let yourself be bribed by presents or trips or dinners or promises of introductions or other benefits. Real sexual freedom, instead of the ersatz kind, is the ability to say no for the simple reason that this particular person, at this particular time, is resistible. When responding to a man's unwanted advances, Helen Gurley Brown, author of Sex and the Single Girl, had this witty response, "You're really lovely, but do you honestly suppose I can sleep with every man who asks me?"
If you pick a man because he really does understand pork-belly futures and he has the Swiss bank accounts to prove it, then you don't have a right to complain that those are the only bellies he understands, and that he couldn't find a clitoris even if he had a global positioning system at his disposal. If you want to enjoy your own sexuality, don't be a working girl.
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It is a silly question to ask a prostitute why she does it. These are the highest paid "professional" women of America.
—Gail Sheehy, Hustling
There's nothing intrinsically wrong with selling your body. It is, after all, the oldest profession. And it is, after all, your body and you have a right to do with it what you will, including making some choices that others may think unpleasant or unwise.
There are a number of circumstances in which some or another variation of prostitution may be a rational choice. If you are young and powerless, if you are young and powerless and poor, then you use what you have. Eva Peron, who became a political icon in Argentina, was a major spokeswoman for los descamisados (the shirtless ones). She herself was born into a slum family and, it's alleged, began her career as a teenage prostitute. Under such circumstances, when all that a woman has is an attractive body, it's difficult to condemn her for doing the best she can with what she has.
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
On a less dramatic level, the trade-offs involved in sexual exchanges can be very useful. Using your sexuality for nonsexual goals is a question of individual choice and is often a legitimate way to get what you want. In Gentleman Prefer Blondes, Anita Loos quite rightly points out that "kissing your hand may make you feel very good, but a diamond is a girl's best friend." It's more or less acceptable for nice girls to prefer men of wealth. While they may be considered gold diggers, they are also considered smart.
Granting sexual favors may not be necessary for survival, but it can be expedient. If the sex acts involved are at least not unpleasant, then having sex can be a convenient way of paying for dinner or of being nice or of exerting control or of creating a useful obligation.
If you want to get money from men, then there is no question about the kind of lover you should pick. Pick a rich one. The richer, the better. If you want to get favors from men, then there is no question about the kind of lover you should pick. Pick an influential one.
The exchange of sexuality for other favors can have important consequences. The legendary Hollywood "casting couch" is based on reality and has its equivalent in many other industries. Television celebrity Barbara Walters assures young women, "I didn't get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!" Perhaps she did not, but many have.
Many young women have come to realize that like Sally Stanford, the last grand "madam" in San Francisco who later became mayor of Sausalito, they too are "sitting on a fortune." The folk wisdom is full of references to such exchanges, which don't involve explicit prostitution but which do involve the trading of sex for nonsexual considerations.
It's not only that one is advised to "go along in order to get along." Women are also advised to "give head in order to get ahead," and that happens at all levels. In a 1981 book The Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People, Irving Wallace reports that when Marilyn Monroe signed her first major contract, she is alleged to have exclaimed, "That's the last cock I'll have to suck."
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Second week in a row where there are no new Hollywood films released, but it didn't stop the overall box office from breaking 150m yuan again. In the end, the scorching hot July set a monthly record with 660m+ yuan, and the momentum is continuing into August. Both Overheard, whose increase surprises me quite a bit, and McDull held up well, sandwiching director Jing Wong's latest comedy. On the opposite side, Harry Potter 6 suffered another steep drop, and with both Up and G.I. Joe opening this week, it is pretty much certain that it won't reach a multiplier of 2 from its first 5 days. In fact, Ice Age 3 would have had a real shot at passing HP6 in total if not for the opening of Up; but instead, similar to what happened in the U.S. when G-Force opened, IA3 should shrink dramatically with the loss of 3D screens and direct competition. Transformers 2 is going to finish with 430m yuan.
The total box office last week was 158m yuan ($23.1m), an increase of 129% from previous year, and the admission rose 109% to 5.1m.


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Community Declaration on land rights by the women who live in rural Limpopo, South Africa
Photo caption: Some of the rural women of Limpopo who participated in the community meeting at Ster Park Guest House in Polokwane, 30 November 2021, to produce this policy declaration. Picture credit: Nkuzi Development Association/PLAAS.
Download the declaration as a PDF here or read it below.
This community declaration was conceived when we, the community members of Limpopo, South Africa, with support from Nkuzi Development Association (Nkuzi) and the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), met in Polokwane on 30 November 2021. This declaration makes demands to the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs; Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development; Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities; Department of Transport; Department of Mineral Resources; Department of Justice; Department of Human Settlement; Department of Sports, Arts and Culture; Department of Tourism; South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) and the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities to promote women's access to use, control, own, inherit and transfer land and natural resources.
"We, the community members, present these demands on land rights developed through a consultative process involving representatives of communities and supported by Nkuzi and PLAAS. All demands presented below were endorsed by all participants."
We demand the following:
Policy and Women's Land Rights:
Government's recognition and respect of customary land rights, whether registered or not;
Legal recognition of women, families, and local communities who have been using the land in good faith for at least five years;
Laws that promote joint and equal ownership of land between husband and wife or wives;
Clarity on the land rights that are associated with the joint ownership for all family members including the girl child and single women with or without children;
Secure land rights for all women including single women with or without children, which are not undermined by other laws such as marital, family, succession and inheritance laws;
Family-held rights to residential and cropping fields, with a regularly updated list of clearly identified and gender-inclusive beneficiaries;
Consultation with women when partners or spouses approach traditional leadership to acquire land such as grazing or ploughing fields;
Support for existing social practices that strengthen poor women's easy and cheap access to customary land;
The banning of social practices that are biased against equal rights for women to inherit, access, own, use and transfer land;
The banning of outdated social practices, like being confined to the yard after dusk, that undermines widows' constitutional freedoms;
The banning of outdated social practices that deepen the division of widows based on their economic status, for example: unemployed, working or self-employed;
Adequate and readily available information on the process of gaining access to land for women;
A guarantee that women's access to land is not compromised in the event of divorce or the death of a spouse; the process of acquiring land following such a death should be free of charge.
Traditional governance
The right to choose under whose traditional governance to be; women must have the right to opt out of discriminatory systems.
An immediate end to the expulsion of locals living on customary land, especially women and children by traditional leaders;
An immediate end to traditional authorities' practice of requiring newly married women to re-register land, which they acquired while single, in their new husbands' names;
An immediate end to the use of force and violence by traditional leaders, which includes beating up women;
An immediate end to the violation of widows' rights and to stop the discriminatory rules that stop widows from accessing burial land for their relatives;
An immediate end to the exclusionary practices by traditional leaders that stop community members – especially women – from gaining access to common property resources such as gravesites; traditional laws that only allow access to land for women who fall under a particular chief must be banned at once, and all women should have access regardless of their status
An immediate end to the predatory practices of extorting money during funeral ceremonies;
A call for traditional leaders and local gangs to stop selling land and instead allocate it according to customary and social norms, in consultation with communities;
Access to the land of their choice for all women, instead of being designated areas where they can access land; this should also apply to their grown children who need land.
A requirement that traditional leaders be mandated to disclose all land allocations on common property resources such as gravesites, forests, grazing land, and rivers;
A clear demarcation of common property land from residential land during land allocation;
Alternative land should be allocated if an individual has been removed from common property;
An end to corruption, bribery, undue influence, violence against women's bodies and sextortion. when it comes to land allocation and governance by traditional leaders;
50-50 participation of women in traditional leaders' committees that govern their land, including representation on the Traditional Councils;
A ban on any discriminatory practices based on gender in the allocation of land and general land governance;
Inclusion of women as traditional leaders;
Accountable governance structures of customary land that consult citizens – especially women;
Capacitating traditional leaders to protect women's land rights, especially in family disputes over land, and supporting their championing of women's land rights;
The establishment of appropriate, easy to access and low-cost dispute resolution mechanisms that allow for redress where women are not happy with the decisions of traditional leaders;
Cost-effective, transparent, and decentralised land administration systems for both state and customary land, that are responsive to the needs of citizens and promote participatory approaches;
Productive assets and social services
50% of land distributed under the land reform program must be allocated to rural women;
90% of rural women must have access to productive assets, including land, by 2030;
State grants and accessible loans that can empower women who are financially poor to participate in self-help agricultural developmental projects;
Social service delivery like maternal clinics, water and dip tanks for all, including women, youth, and people living with disabilities;
Restoration of degraded cropping land and soil, including land affected by drought spells;
Support for women's initiatives, for example, community creches and drop-in centres;
Inclusion of local communities by investors in decision-making over urban and mining development projects;
A clear right for women to say yes or no to urban and mining developments on their land;
Payment of fair and equitable compensation when land is lost in the public interest and ensuring that there are no arbitrary displacements of communities;
All alternatives to displacement should be explored before the decision to displace is made (for both holders and non-holders of Permission to Occupy certificates);
The recognition of social and cultural attachments to land by communities when expropriating land in the public interest
A commitment that the special needs of displaced women are considered in all resettlement processes;
A commitment to obtaining consent from women, youths, and people with disabilities, to ensure that they willingly agree to urban developmental projects in customary areas;
Civic awareness on existing national, regional and international frameworks and safeguards around Large Scale Land Based Investment (LSLBI);
The ratification, implementation, and monitoring of regional and international guidelines and protocols on sustainable investment like the African Union and Voluntary Guidelines on the Governance of Tenure (VGGTs);
Respect for progressive cultural norms and social practices that protect women's land rights;
Custodian over customary land
A commitment that communal land rights belong to the citizens and not to the President, Minister or Traditional leader.
Media can contact:
Primary contact: Shula Lebepe – 082 566 3338
Secondary contact: Mapula Mnisi – 079 719 1840
We would like to thank the Austrian Development Agency (ADA) for their financial support, however these views are entirely our own.
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Q: Why does apache not work as expected (Order/Allow/Deny directives)? I have an apache 2 web server running here. In a directory on that server I have a .htaccess file:
  Order deny,allow
  Deny from all
  Allow From 192.168.1.0/24
  Allow From 10.0.0.0/24

I am on box 192.168.1.20. If I try to reach the directory I get a message about missing permissions on that direcory. If I just comment the second line (#Deny from all) I can reach the location.
As far as I understood I first define to evaluate the deny rules (deny all IPs) and then allow only the specified (here the two private subnets). This should result in a configuration where the location os reachable only from inside my private network.
Why do I get the missing permission error? Is there a possibility to show some more verbose log to search the error?

A: Just to answer shortly: I had a bad configuration in my DNS. Therefore I accessed through the external interface and all was correctly blocked.
Sorry for disturbing.

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Growing up, you assume everything you have in life is normal. So for most of my life, I assumed my mother was normal. I now know that the word normal, in no sense of the word, can be applied to my mother.
Our belief in God has the power to change everything in our life. Promises are unlocked and destinies revealed when we believe what God is saying to us. Nations are changed and lives transformed when we simply believe.
A.J. and I love to work. We genuinely find joy in working hard. Over the years, we've been asked how we get stuff done. We gave some thought to that question and here's what we came up with. Here are seven practical things you can do to help boost your productivity.
Nothing is much harder to put into practice than something, which is why resting is so often overlooked. Carol talked about the need to slow down, the need for stillness, and the need for resting in God's presence. She talked about cultivating a posture of receiving. The term Carol used for all of this was "soaking". In order to soak, one would intentionally set aside time to still yourself before God and to rest in His presence.
I don't want to live a mediocre life. If I have a choice (and I believe I do) I want to be utterly awesome. I want to be an awesome husband. I want to be an awesome father. I want to be an awesome friend. I want to be an awesome pastor. I want everything I do, to be marked by awesomeness, because everything Jesus did was marked by awesomeness.
For a number of years I couldn't be anywhere that required me to be seated in a row. I panicked in confined spaces. I couldn't sit on an airplane without feeling like I was going to vomit and pass out. All of this made life very difficult as you might imagine. It wasn't until years later when Jesus stepped in and removed fear from my life that I realized what it was like to live without fear. I didn't know such freedom was possible.
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"Monophobia" is a song by Canadian electronic music producer Deadmau5 featuring Australian singer Rob Swire. It was released on July 13, 2018, as the first track on Deadmau5's EP and compilation album Mau5ville: Level 1. Prior to its release on the EP, an orchestral rendition of the song was featured on Deadmau5's Where's the Drop?. On release, the song charted on the US Dance/Electronic Songs chart, peaking number 19. A music video for the song was released on Deadmau5's YouTube channel on July 16, 2018.

Background and release
Deadmau5 and Rob Swire had previously collaborated on "Ghosts 'n' Stuff", nine years prior to "Monophobia". The instrumental of "Monophobia" had been created on a Twitch livestream in 2017, and an orchestral rendition of the song was featured as the sixth track on Deadmau5's orchestral compilation album, Where's the Drop?, on March 30, 2018, four months before the original song's official release. The song's release was announced for the EP and compilation album, Mau5ville: Level 1, on July 12, 2018, and was released one day later. The song was also uploaded to the SoundCloud account of Rob Swire's Knife Party on July 23, 2018. Upon the release of Mau5ville: level 1, the song independently charted in the United States, appearing on the Dance/Electronic Songs and Digital Songs charts at positions 19 and 9 respectively. The song also charted in Canada, peaking at number 37 on the Canadian Digital Song Sales chart. Despite the song's success, it was not released as a single.

Music video

The music video for "Monophobia" was released on Deadmau5's YouTube channel on July 16, 2018. It was directed by Nick DenBoer and Kenny Hotz, and produced by the Nick DenBoer Production Company and Generic Versatility Animation. It currently has acquired over 13 million views on YouTube.

The video is acclaimed for its "bizarre" style of computer generated 3D animation by Nick DenBoer, also known as Smearballs. It was filmed in Deadmau5's residence in Campbellville, Ontario, Canada, and shows footage of animated beings dancing and performing various activities in and around his household. Deadmau5 makes physical appearances throughout the video and Tory Belleci of MythBusters fame makes a cameo appearance as well. The surrealism of the video has been compared to Cool 3D World and Cyriak. In an interview with Animation World Network, DenBoer stated

Credits and personnel
Adapted from the music video.

Joel Zimmerman (Deadmau5) – writing, production
Rob Swire – vocals
Nick DenBoer – music video director, visual effects
Kenny Hotz – music video director
Nick DenBoer Production Company – music video production
Generic Versatility Animation – music video production

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A Grant County doctor was convicted Tuesday on 173 drug trafficking offenses.
Sundiata El-Amin, 69, was found guilty by a jury in the U.S. District Court in Covington. The charges stem from a raid of his Dry Ridge clinic. El-Amin was indicted in December 2015.
The conviction follows six days of trial and four hours of jury deliberations. El-Amin was convicted of conspiracy to illegally distribute controlled substances, maintaining a premises for the illegal distribution of controlled substances, and 171 individual counts of illegally distributing controlled substances.
According to the evidence at trial, E;_Amin conspired with his office manager to unlawfully dispense more than 300,000 oxycodone tablets, outside the scope of professional practice and without a legitimate medical purpose, over a period of approximately one year. Prosecutors argued that he repeatedly issued improper prescriptions for high doses of oxycodone and regularly issued these prescriptions without examining patients.
The office manager, Wendy Price, entered a guilty plea in February to conspiring with El-Amin to commit these offenses.
The investigation was conducted by the Drug Enforcement Administration.
El-Amin will appear for sentencing on July 26. He faces a maximum of 20 years in prison for each offense.


It is fair to say that a contract management degree is a specialization within the field of business administration. Fearing that this type of education will pigeonhole a future job applicant, some learners are uncertain if they should opt for this level of focus. Interestingly, the opposite is frequently the case.
The program stretches over 120 semester credit hours, which makes it comparable to other business administration degrees. It presents with the required general education classes that include college algebra and English composition. Mandatory finance and economics courses ensure a well-rounded education. The list of management courses is lengthier. Here, you may learn about international business, critical thinking, business ethics as well as project management.
What sets apart this degree program from others is the variety of electives. Within this selection, the student now can unlock the doors that will open in the future. Examples include corporate taxation, cost accounting, risk management, investment analysis, total quality management, database management, international marketing, human resources management and salesmanship. Far from pigeonholing a future job candidate, the specialization opportunities within the contract management degree serve to pave the way to a broad range of prospective careers.
The Education Advisory Board (EAB) called it the "business major blues." It refers to a condition that indicates a sense of being adrift. Studies show that business majors are more likely to feel this way than those majoring in other disciplines. Lacking interest in the work and missing out on enjoying the tasks, these folks sadly invest in a degree that simply does not appeal to them. Although this is certainly not the case for all business majors, it does apply to a good many of them.
Specialization holds the key for those who need a clearer sense of direction (as well as for students who like to have a firm hand in charting their career courses).
Prepare for a role. Instead of completing one class after the next, the learner assumes the role of a business professional by selecting a concentration within the specialized degree program. For the student with a great head for numbers, the finance concentration will make sense. For the marketer, a focus in this section is ideal.
Practice the techniques. It is not enough to learn the fundamentals of finance in a lower division course. For the dedicated finance learner who wants to apply the knowledge gained already, in-depth study of portfolio management and international banking works well.
Create actionable decisions. Contract management is a discipline that calls for decision-making skills. Unless the student has an opportunity to try a hand a putting together actionable plans and models, the learner will not feel the connection between the course material and the real world application of the lessons.
Unless a course of study resonates with you on a gut level, there is a good chance that you have not yet discovered your place in the world of business. So far, we have addressed that specialization is not a limitation on your ability to spread your wings but rather an opportunity to unlock additional doors. Moreover, we have shown that concentrations within the specialization prevent you from feeling disengaged from (and bored with) the subjects you are studying as well as the future positions that will be available to someone in your field.
At this stage, it makes sense to consider your use of what you will learn. Although attending our classes on campus is a great option for students local to us, many learners live elsewhere. They have the opportunity to remain in their careers or take on entry-level business careers. There, they apply hands-on what they learn in class. Doing so is easy with our online classes. Contact us today to learn more about earning a contract management degree online.


Hey everyone! Kristy and I are back with some more festive cheer! I love Christmas decorations made out of books, but I know Kristy and I feel the same way when it comes to destroying books for art. It's a tough call. But if you're like us, and can't bring yourself to ruin your books for Christmas, enjoy the pictures at least!
I do so love all these bookish Christmas posts you girls are making! :D But still, like I said before, my heart cries at all the book defacing, haha.
Why thank you Chiara! I am glad you like looking at them, and I hope that your heart has recovered from the book defacing.


 Auckland, 19 April 2015 – CBRE today launches the latest Auckland Industrial Property Connector, a publication that showcases an exceptional range of industrial properties for sale and lease across Auckland.
Industrial areas in Auckland, reflecting on what happened in 2014 and trends to look out for in 2015.
Tips on succeeding in a tight industrial market, including future planning for expansion, spatial awareness, geographical focus, new trends to embrace and due diligence.
48 Stonedon Drive, East Tamaki is a short distance from Highbrook Business Park and the SH1 interchange. The premise includes flexible corporate style office areas, concrete yard area for container devanning and truck manoeuvring, ample car parking and is situated in a Business 5 zone.
22 Ha Crescent, Wiri offers high stud warehousing and a distribution facility situated in an up-market industrial estate. With 8.5 metre stud, full drive-around and two truck docks available. This 11,000sqm property is available for lease and should be inspected now.
21 Rennie Drive, Airport Oaks is available for sale, this freehold stand-alone property with excellent access to SH1 and SH20. This 2,297sqm property is partially tenanted and is a great opportunity to secure now.
399 Rosebank Road, Avondale is available for lease. With the Waterview Connection completion due for 2017, this area will be ideally located to access the Port, North and West Auckland as well as Wiri, the airport and SH1 heading south. With a large yard for containers/parking, city and harbour views from the office this is a must view.
4 Henderson Place, Onehunga, a huge stand-alone 10,505sqm industrial building offering full drive-around yard, high stud warehouse and modern offices. The dual road access off Mays Road and Henderson Place adds flexibility to your next potential headquarters.
The Auckland industrial market is currently experiencing record low vacancy and, as highlighted in the recent Market Outlook research event, industrial property is expected to outperform all other segments of the market for the foreseeable future.
With economic growth in 2015 forecast to remain above average, the tight industrial market conditions are set to last.
CBRE can build advantage for clients with our in-depth knowledge and comprehensive research on the differing areas and opportunities that arise in the Auckland industrial market.
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Q: VB Editor pops up for no reason I have an MS Access form, and on a button click it runs VBA code to run the Shell Command.
 private sub cmdOpen_click()
   dim vValue as String
   vValue = Listbox.column(1) 'Retrieving a path name from a list
   shell "C:\Adobe's Path\Arco.exe " & vValue
 end sub

When I first run this script the first time I open this database, it stops running, opens the script editor, and highlights the shell line. There is no error code, in fact if I just hit the Run button it finishes just fine. If run it a second time there is no issue. Only when I close it down and reopen it.
No there is no Breakpoints/stops in the code. Would anyone have any idea why this is happening? I can't seem to fine anyone else with a similar issue.

A: I have had issues with this in Access 2010. I found that there was a breakpoint on that line, and for some reason Access seemed to remember it even after closing the application. For me, it usually happened when I fixed code and someone else ran it.
The only thing I found that seemed to fix it was to set a breakpoint on that line, save the project, then clear it and save it again. Sometimes I had to open and close the project once or twice to get it to completely forget the breakpoint was there.
It seems to me that it's a random, esoteric bug in the Access IDE. It would be fantastic if they would actually make this a feature, but it's not even a bug that can be relied on.

A: I've had similar experiences with Access and what always helped for me is to copy the text into a Notepad .txt file (or other basic text processing program). Then select it all in the .txt and copy it back.

A: Decompiling the Access application will solve this too.
Previous SO question: How does one decompile and recompile a database application?


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Q: Background Glitch while using shared elements I am having two activities,out which first activity contain a recycle view in fragment which is added on the first activity and second activity contain a toolbar in collapsing toolbar layout,i have created a shared element transition between this two activities when a user click on a any Recycle view item which contains a image which i want to use as shared element to the second activity's toolbar image.i have set the transition like this.
First Activity
ChangeBounds changebound=new ChangeBounds();
changebound.setDuration(500);
getWindow().setSharedElementExitTransition(changebound);

Second Activity
ChangeBounds changebound=new ChangeBounds();
changebound.setDuration(500);
getWindow().setSharedElementEnterTransition(changebound);

I am Staring Second Activity from Recycler view onItemClickof the first activity like this
Pair<View, String> imagePair=Pair.create(itemView.findViewById(R.id.imgChannelImage), activity.getResources().getString(R.string.channel_name));
    Bundle mBundle = new Bundle();
    mBundle.putInt("Position", getLayoutPosition());
    mBundle.putString("ChannelName", "One Direction " +getLayoutPosition());
    Intent i = new Intent(activity, ProChannelPageActivity.class);
    i.putExtras(mBundle);
    ActivityOptionsCompat options = ActivityOptionsCompat.
                            makeSceneTransitionAnimation(context,imagePair);
    activity.startActivity(i, options.toBundle());

I am able to have shared element transition between this two.but the problem is having a background glitch i.e we able to see the first activity background for few fraction while image view moving from one activity to another.

A: I can understand your problem.
Basically what is happening is that, you are only sharing the 2 Views you have mentioned. But the Status Bar on the Top, the Navigation Bar on the Bottom (and maybe others, in your case)do not get shared. So it seems like a blink.
You can see this post, see if it helps.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/26748694/2346980


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Short abstract: Refugee Republic is an interactive documentary about the daily life of the inhabitants of Domiz Camp, Iraq, a place that hosts over 64,000 Kurdish-Syrian refugees. In a combination of different media forms the project displays an alternative to the visualization of refugees in mass media.
Refugee Republic is an interactive documentary that allows the visitor to explore and in a way experience a glimpse of everyday life in Domiz Camp, northern Iraq/Kurdistan. Domiz Camp initially provided shelter for about 64,000 predominantly Kurdish-Syrian refugees, but as the number of refugees grew the camp transformed into a makeshift town where people live and work, go to school, start a business, get married, argue and have fun. And despite the imagination and visualization of refugees in the mass media, their world in a camp is often not all that much different from yours and mine. People fall in love, neighbours bicker with each other about noise pollution and teenagers dream of becoming a player at FC Barcelona. Refugee Republic is a collaboration between visual artist Jan Rothuizen, journalist Martijn van Tol and photographer / filmmaker Dirk Jan Visser, who, together with web developer Aart Jan van der Linden, brought to life the inhabitants and places of Domiz Camp in a multidimensional mix of different media forms. In combining 'subjective' observations such as drawings with 'objective' journalistic methods as texts, photographs and film clips, the visitor can scroll through audio-visual narratives, wander through drawings enriched with soundscapes, and meet some of its residents. Like Ahmad, who skips school to look after his bird stall; or the busy circumcision doctor Shixmous, mechanic Mahmoud, or Fatma, a teenager who dreams of becoming a singer by posting videos on Youtube.
Dirk-Jan Visser (1978 | Assen – the Netherlands) is a visual storyteller based in the Netherlands. Collaborating with creative minds from different backgrounds, he tells independent stories with a strong visual narrative. His publishing platforms vary – mainstream media to books; interactive documentaries to exhibitions – as long as the form serves the story. His latest publications include OFFSIDE (2012), a book and travelling exhibition on the situation in Nagorno Karabach; Refugee republic (2014), an interactive multimedia platform showcasing daily life in a refugee camp in Northern Iraq which was awarded with the Dutch Design Award and is currently on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York; and De Asielzoekmachine (The Asylum Seekers Machine, 2016), an interactive documentary that examined Dutch policy on asylum seekers in the Netherlands. De Asielzoekmachine was nominated for a Gouden Kalf at the Dutch Film Festival. Besides his documentary work, Dirk-Jan is one of the initiators and owners of Atelier aan de Middendijk a small farmhouse in northern Netherlands, which has served as a base for artists to create new work in relation to the inspiring surroundings.
Short abstract: Dark times are upon us once again in the Europe of 'austerity'. In Southern Portugal, the globalised iPhone generation is subjected to high rates of permanent unemployment, to 'working poverty', to a significant decline in citizenship rights, and ultimately to the tragic fate of having to emigrate. They have a future, yet they are denied the means of working towards its improvement.
Dark times are upon us once again in the Europe of 'austerity'. In Vila Nova (Southern Portugal), the new generation of young adults faces a world where they are subjected to high rates of permanent unemployment, to 'working poverty' (salaries are generally inferior to the cost of living), to a significant decline in citizenship rights, and ultimately to the tragic fate of having to emigrate to Central Europe to take up jobs for which they are often overqualified. They are culturally globalised, being generally speakers of English, yet they feel deeply betrayed by the European Union and the bankers who control it. They have a future, yet they are denied the means of working towards its improvement. The big city (Lisbon) is the one door to success; everyone tries it at least once. However, due to the twists of fate, about half of each cohort remains bound by a sense of co-responsibility to the home environment. Owing to population decrease over the past decades most of them do have somewhere to live. Furthermore, as rates of divorce remain very high and professional investment is blocked, there is an increased emotional attachment to the extended family and childhood friends. Oddly as it main seem, therefore, this iPhone generation is encouraged by austerity to experience a deep sense of localism. The one certainty they have is their belonging to a family and to a town, where their relatives and their friends get together to support them in the inevitable moments of personal crisis. These young folk are familial persons in the sense that family and place conjugate in the constitution of who they are; as Heidegger would have put it, for them, being-in-place is being-with-others.
João de Pina-Cabral is Professor of Social Anthropology at the School of Anthropology and Conservation of the University of Kent and Research Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. He was President of the Portuguese Association of Anthropology and of the European Association of Social Anthropologists. His principal academic publications in English are Sons of Adam, Daughters of Eve: The peasant worldview of the Alto Minho (Clarendon Press 1986), Between China and Europe: Person, Culture and Emotion in Macao (LSE Monographs, Berg 2002) and World: An Anthropological Examination (HAU Books 2017). He was co-editor of Elites (Berg 2000), On the margins of religion (Berghahn 2008), and The Challenge of Epistemology (Berghahn 2011).
Short abstract: Marchand explores the ways that artist Andrew Omoding creates relations between otherwise disparate things, drawing them together into new constellations of meaning that are forever becoming, without fixed starting points or conclusions. Findings suggest how we come to dwell in practices that afford safety and the possibility for total immersion of self.
Andrew is a prolific London-based artist who attends studio practice one day a week with a regular cohort of fellow artists. It is there, immersed in bricolage, sewing and storytelling that he establishes safe distance from the harassment he is regularly subject to as a person with special needs and escapes the monotony of everyday life in sheltered housing. In the studio, Andrew builds community and makes home. Andrew enters into direct partnership with his materials, allowing their sensible properties to guide his exploratory gestures and fingerwork. In stitching and suturing multiple layers of cloth, cord, ribbon and other found items, he transforms flat canvases into spectacular, undulating topographies of colour and texture that invite touch, handling and meditation from viewers. Snags are smoothly absorbed into the rhythm and tempo of Andrew's work. Satisfying proportion, subtle balance, even distribution, and structural – almost architectural – solidity emerge without need for prior planning, sketches or modelling. He often narrates storybooks that hang alongside or are stitched onto the "tables", "beds", "apartment flats", "cocoons" and "dance floors" that he makes. The stories, he says, bring comfort to the moms, dads, and children that populate his artworks. This presentation examines the ways that this artist creates relations between otherwise disparate things, drawing them together into new constellations of meaning that are forever becoming, without fixed starting points or conclusions. Ultimately, the presentation explores how we, as humans, come to dwell in practices that afford safety and the possibility for total immersion of self.
Trevor Marchand was born in Montreal, Quebec. He is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, and is recipient of the Royal Anthropological Institute's Rivers Memorial Medal (2014). He was trained as an architect (McGill), received a PhD in anthropology (SOAS), and qualified as a fine woodworker at London's Building Crafts College (2007). During the past 25 years, Marchand has conducted fieldwork with craftspeople in Nigeria, Yemen, Mali, and London. His research has been supported by grants from the British Academy, the Economic & Social Research Council, SOAS, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, and the Canadian International Development Agency. His books include Architectural Heritage of Yemen (2017), Craftwork as Problem Solving (2016), Making Knowledge (2010), The Masons of Djenné (2009), Knowledge in Practice (2009, with K. Kresse), and Minaret Building and Apprenticeship in Yemen (2001). Marchand's documentary films include The Art of Andrew Omoding (2016), The Intelligent Hand (2015), Masons of Djenné (2013), and Future of Mud (2007, with S. Vogel). He has curated exhibitions for the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History (Mud Masons of Mali, 2013 – present), the Royal Institute of British Architects (Djenné: African City of Mud, 2010), and the Brunei Gallery in London (Architectural Heritage of Yemen, 2017). Marchand's forthcoming monograph is titled The Pursuit of Pleasurable Work. The motivation behind his research is to challenge popular ideas about the value and intelligence of skilled craftsmanship.
Short abstract: Positioned at the intersection between ethnology, migration research and studies of material culture, this paper argues for recognising the importance of objects and material practices that contribute to the constitution of transnational social fields. They may serve as palpable connections between homes located in different countries and are central to the subjective experience of continuity within transnational dwelling.
Migrants carry, send and receive things across state borders: coffee-makers and teapots, candy and spices, used and new clothes, medicine, books, and a myriad of other items of emotional or practical value. Home-made food is smuggled in overloaded suitcases, old shoes are repaired 'back home', kettles are travelling between the 'here' of residence and the 'there' of origin. The use of objects, products and food from one place in another indicates functioning transnational connections. Rather than ideas and discourses of identity and belonging, this paper explores objects of everyday use. They may serve as palpable connections between migrants, those who stayed behind, and homes located in different countries, and contribute to the (re)production of social ties. At the same time, ethnographic research shows that such objects facilitate familiar material practices that are central to the subjective experience of continuity within transnational dwelling. These are things to hold on to, they help migrants to overcome segregation between distant homes. The sense of self may be dependent on a particular object being in place, which thereby becomes a place of home. But it is not only a matter of embodied memories and sensory recollections; the sense of 'being yourself in your own home' is achieved by practical engagement with objects. Ethnological insights into the practices of transnational dwelling challenge the clear-cut conceptualisations of mobility and stability, of absence and presence, of 'here' and 'there'. The ways some objects appear as material layers of transnational social fields depend on the specific intersections of economy, geography, and biography that are seldom fully contained in migrant categories pertaining to work, study, family, and asylum, or in the ethnic grouping of migrants. Empirical attention to personal engagements with the materiality of transnational dwelling can be opened up for theoretical contributions to critical studies of migration. Investigating the everyday objects of transnational connection rather than prioritising the markers of ethnic identity may help to destabilise the dominant ways migrants are thought of in terms of difference.
Maja Povrzanović Frykman is professor of ethnology and teaches at the Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University, Sweden. She is also participating in research projects at Agderforskning, Kristiansand, Norway, teaching in the PhD programme in Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Zagreb, and coordinating the IMISCOE research group TRANSMIG - Transnational Practices in Migration. Her main research interests are war-related experiences, refugee- and labour migration, diaspora, transnational practices, highly skilled migrants, place, ethnicity, affect, and material culture. She recently completed two projects on the well-being of highly skilled labour migrants in Sweden and Norway and is currently engaged in two projects involving refugees, entitled 'Exploring Integration as Emplaced Practice' (RFFAGDER, at Agderforskning), and 'Museums as Arenas for Integration – New Perspectives and Methods of Inclusion' (AMIF, at Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare - MIM, Malmö University). Her recent publications include two co-edited volumes: Sensitive Objects: Affect and Material Culture (2016, Nordic Academic Press) and Migration, Transnationalism and Development in South-East Europe and the Black Sea Region (2017, Routledge). For more details see http://forskning.mah.se/id/immafr.
How to meet the everyday needs of 'dwindlings' (that is, above all, extremely old persons) has become a topic of private conversations and political discussions, but only rarely has this been focused on in cultural research. Working with historical as well as ethnographic approaches, however, one may question and challenge the widely held opinion that emotional attention toward the aged is declining and neglect is on the rise. The talk will critically look at the development of housing conditions and argue that – on a scale wavering between idleness and commitment – the needle tips in favor of a new valuation of protecting habit.
Hermann Bausinger is professor emeritus of Empirische Kulturwissenschaft (historical and cultural anthropology) at the University of Tübingen, Germany. Best known internationally for his monograph Folk Cultural in a World of Technology (German original 1961, engl. translation 1990), his contribution to transform the field of Volkskunde in the post-war decades had lasting and productive repercussions to the present. In addition to critical, theoretical contributions he has written on a wide array of topics, ranging from narrative research to transforming traditions, often characterized by close observations of everyday life. He has consistently also written for a broader reading public, and participated in regional scholarly endeavors. He served as president of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Volkskunde as well as editor of the Deutsche Zeitschrift für Volkskunde.
Moderator: Regina Bendix (University of Göttingen).


While continuing the walk of the sea promenade, after the small Plaça de l'Univers (did you see the Small Prince and his fox ?), we arrive at the Riells beach. At the time (postcard of 1957), the beach was deserted, the shepherds passed with their sheep flocks… In the distance, on the right, we see the Casa Gran.
Now (picture March 2011), only sand remembers it.