This book quotes two reviews inside its back cover, providing a kind of 'authorised reading'. One mentions 'Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird' and imagism as models for these six poems. The other mentions their "less than conventional syntax".
seeks no answer and will not simplify.
sometimes a fox lies under our bed.
The one clear poem is 'Ways of Looking at a Very Old Lady'. This is written from behind the eyes of an old woman with dementia. That this is the collection's most syntactically regular poem, given its theme, ought to provide pause. Such a perspective is always fraught. This is not a way of looking; this is a way of guessing.
David Grubb has long been one of those names whose presence, on scanning the contents page of a poetry journal, I note with pleasure and anticipation – a quietly but utterly distinctive poet.
So, while the prospect of a sequence of poems taking Wallace Stevens' Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Blackbird as their starting point might have been less than appealing with many other names on the cover, simply because it's so hard to avoid comparison with Stevens' original, I had an inkling that in Grubb's hands it might amount to a lot more than a writing exercise.
He doesn't disappoint. Each of the six poems here uses a structure of 13 numbered stanzas, and each of the stanzas encapsulates a single image, train of thought, or occasionally, narrative (albeit an unfinished, open-ended one). The way these are set apart as discrete entities feels important, too, emphasising that there are countless more ways of looking at each subject, somewhere in the space between each stanza.
Grubb's familiar subject matter – loss, landscape and place, and memory – is present, as is his concern for the overlooked and ignored.
His first poem, Ways Of Looking At A Lost Farm, is perhaps the most successful in pulling these strands together, with lines such as "Selling the fields was like selling the sky" telling of the enormity of the loss without ever overplaying it. And those loose ends I mentioned are hugely effective, too – when the final stanza talks of "the way the boys never came home", you're left to infer just who the boys are, exactly, and why they stayed away.
these hours and days, these endless tapestries.
Finally, there's Ways Of Looking At A Poet, dedicated to Peter Redgrove. It's full of sound advice for anyone who writes ("It seldom ends in the way you expect / and at any moment meaning may / come to destroy everything; / too clever by far."), but it's far from being a poet talking to other poets. Instead, it re-emphasises what Grubb does throughout this little gem of a book, finding poetry anywhere and everywhere, and so making an insistent case for its vital importance.


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Q: Nextcloud server I have a nextcloud server (Nextcloud VM installed within a Kubuntu 18.04 host) that has unexpectedly stopped accepting external connections.
Pinging from an external IP works just fine so I don't think this is an DNS issue. I can access the server from the internal IP as well. But from an external IP address I get the error: "This site can't be reached. example.com unexpectedly closed the connection" when using Chrome.
I confirmed that ports 443 and 80 are forwarded using yougetsignal.com and my router is forwarding those ports to the server. My ip address is not static so I am using dyndns, but I have updated the IP address in the dyndns system manually without resolution to the problem.
This is my first server and I have run out of troubleshooting ideas. How can I fix this problem?

A: The error message is referring to example.com
I am guessing that the trusted_domains setting in your config.php is configured wrong.
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But it could also be your httpd (Apache/NGinX) configuration is at fault.
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Q: Link static library against another static library I am trying to link a static library [1] into another static library [2] with scons.
Unfortunately the emitted call to "ar" never contains any path to library [1].
According to this post How to merge two "ar" static libraries into one it should be possible to merge to archives into one.
Is the usual call to CheckLibWithHeader not sufficient here?
Best regards

A: Have you tried specifying the complete path to library [1] when referring to it with the SCons ar command?
Brady
Adding more info to my original answer:
Since you havent posted your SCons scripts, I'll assume its something like the one I present below:
Normally, the LIBPATH construction variable is used to specify paths to libraries, but that appears to only work with the Program() builder and is not used with the ar command. What needs to be done then is to specify the complete path for the library in question. Assuming I have the following directory structure:
# tree .
.
|-- SConstruct
|-- fileA.cc
|-- fileA.o
|-- libB
|   `-- libmoduleB.a
|-- libmoduleA.a
`-- libmoduleC.a

Here is the SConscript that shows how to do so:
env = Environment()
env.Library(target = 'moduleA', source = 'fileA.cc')
env.Library(target = 'moduleC', source = ['libmoduleA.a', '#libB/libmoduleB.a'])

Or Instead of the relative dir '#libB', you could specify an absolute path. (the '#' in a path means its relative to the SConscript)
And, to make it portable, you should specify the moduleB library (and moduleA) like this:
libBname = "%smoduleB%s" % (env['LIBPREFIX'], env['LIBSUFFIX'])
libB = os.path.join(pathToLibB, libBname)

Here is the result:
# scons
scons: Reading SConscript files ...
scons: done reading SConscript files.
scons: Building targets ...
g++ -o fileA.o -c fileA.cc
ar rc libmoduleA.a fileA.o
ranlib libmoduleA.a
ar rc libmoduleC.a libmoduleA.a libB/libmoduleB.a
ranlib libmoduleC.a
scons: done building targets.

A: You'd need to create a builder which runs the commands in the other SO question you've linked to.
ar -x libabc.a
ar -x libxyz.a
ar -c libaz.a  *.o

Though you might need a scanner to find the files contained in each static library (ar t libabc.a) and then use the output from that as the input to a normal static library builder.
ofiles = env.unArchive('libabc.a')
ofiles.extend(env.unArchive('libxyz.a'))

env.StaticLibrary('az',ofiles)

Something like the above should work.


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Estonia has been a member of the European Union since 2004, and with its 1.3 million inhabitants is one of the 'Baltic countries' along with Latvia and Lithuania. Within reach of ferries from Finland, Estonia shares with its Nordic neighbour a language from the same Finno-Ugric family and a love for saunas. In this country of 45 000 km², with the highest point at 318 metres, conifer forests and lakes are never far away. The largest of these, Lake Peipsi Järv, six times the size of Lake Geneva, forms, in the east, a long natural frontier between Estonia and Russia. In spring and summer, the lake banks and placid watercourses come alive with thousands of fishermen and keen canoeists, and the forests are invaded by families who have come to pick red berries.


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Video: Brahmastra star Ranbir Kapoor was seen handling pregnant Alia Bhatt, fans gave the tag of best couple
Bollywood actress Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor are enjoying the success of their film 'Brahmastra' these days. Even after the release of the film, he has continued the promotion work of it. Recently both the stars appeared in a college event to promote their film. Where Ranbir Kapoor was seen protecting wife Alia Bhatt. This video of both the love birds is making a splash on social media.
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A timeline of notable events relating to Jazz FM, a radio station in the United Kingdom, and its predecessors 102.2 Jazz FM and 100.4 Jazz FM.

1990s
1990
4 March – Jazz FM, a station playing mainly soul and jazz music, launches in London with an Ella Fitzgerald concert at the Royal Albert Hall.

1991
No events.

1992
No events.

1993
July – Jazz FM's licence is put up for renewal by the Radio Authority. As well as Jazz FM, there is a bid for the licence from Euro Jazz London, which includes ex-Jazz FM employees.
September – Jazz FM retained its licence to broadcast.

1994
9 May – Jazz FM is changed to JFM in order to appeal to more listeners who may have been put off by the name "jazz", and who thoink that Jazz FM only plays jazz records. The station spends £500,000 on publicising the name change.
1 September – 100.4 Jazz FM is launched in Manchester as 100.4 JFM.

1995
Richard Wheatly is appointed as Jazz FM's chief executive officer to revive the station, which has three months cash remaining in the bank. Golden Rose Communications was floated on the stock exchange in the early part of 1995. Wheatly subsequently sells sister station Viva AM which was losing £100,000 a month before the sale for £3 million to Mohamed Al-Fayed as part of his cost-cutting plans.
Autumn – JFM is rebranded back to Jazz FM after Wheatley asks the Radio Authority for permission to change the station's name. The change back to Jazz FM is reported to have cost £900,000.

1996
No events.

1997
No events.

1998
No events.

1999
No events.

2000s
2000
7 June – Jazz FM launches ejazz.fm, on 7 June 2000 a website focused on the wide genre of jazz and including free and subscription based jazz content as well as two continuous jazz music streams for uptempo and downtempo jazz. The website is designed by the DDW agency. Club ejazz for a subscription of £5 a month allows listeners to listen to exclusive one-hour specialist shows from Jazz FM presenters as well as live and recorded concert material.

2001
No events.

2002
6 June – The Jazz FM stations are purchased by the Guardian Media Group, and subsequently become part of the company's radio division, GMG Radio Holdings Ltd. 100.4 Jazz FM is closed and rebranded the following year.

2003
GMG Radio conducts market research into the type of music that listeners in the north-west of England want to hear on the radio. The study concludes that many people are dissuaded by the name Jazz.

2004
10 February – Dave Lincoln, a well-known radio personality in Northwest England, and former Radio 1 presenter Andy Peebles will head the line-up when 100.4 Jazz FM is relaunched as 100.4 Smooth FM in March.
13 February – 100.4 Jazz FM closes ahead of its relaunch.
1 March – 100.4 Jazz FM is relaunched as 100.4 Smooth FM.
12 July – The Guardian Media Group relaunches the ejazz.fm website. The site includes more than 200 specially commissioned programmes, with five new programmes being added each month from Jazz FM's presenters such as Sarah Ward, the late Campbell Burnap and Peter Young, as well as jazz news and features, including the ejazz.fm artist of the month. The subscription fee for Club ejazz is dropped but user registration remains.

2005
14 February – GMG Radio confirms plans to rebrand 102.2 Jazz FM in London with the Smooth name after being given permission to do so by Ofcom. As part of the changes, Smooth has committed to continue to play 45 hours of jazz content each week.
27 May – 102.2 Jazz FM closes at midnight, ahead of its relaunch. The last song to be played on the station is "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" by Ella Fitzgerald.
7 June –
London's 102.2 Jazz FM is relaunched as 102.2 Smooth FM.
Alongside the launch of 102.2 Smooth Radio, the ejazz.fm website is renamed to jazzfm.com. The station also broadcasts on free-to-air digital satellite and via the Sky platform.

2006
10 April – It is announced that Jazzfm.com will no longer be available in Yorkshire from summer 2006 after Leeds United and the multiplex owner, MXR Yorkshire agree a deal to launch a new sports and music radio station, Yorkshire Radio.

2007
No events.

2008
14 March – GMG Radio announces plans to relaunch Jazz FM from the jazzfm.com service which broadcasts on DAB in Glasgow, online and on a DAB multiplex in London, and requests that Ofcom remove the 45-hour jazz commitment for its Smooth Radio stations in London and Manchester.
22 April – Ofcom declines GMG Radio's request to remove the Smooth Radio jazz commitment. GMG relaunches Jazz FM despite having to retain the jazz commitment.
8 October – GMG Radio relaunches Jazz FM on DAB.

2009
No events.

2010s
2010
5 August – With the announcement that Smooth Radio will become a national station from 4 October, the jazz commitments for London and the North West are also ended.

2011
No events.

2012
19 February – Jazz FM issues an apology after listeners heard five minutes of what appeared to be an adult film played over the beginning of one of its programmes the previous evening. Ofcom later launches an investigation into the incident after receiving three complaints.
23 April – Jazz FM is found to be in breach of Ofcom's broadcasting code after the transmission of a pornographic soundtrack during an edition of one of its programmes. However, the station is not fined over the incident.

2013
5–7 July – Jazz FM's inaugural Love Supreme Festival, the first greenfield jazz festival to be held in the UK for twenty years, is held at Glynde Place in East Sussex.
26 July – Jazz FM is heard on DAB in Northern Ireland for the first time as digital radio is switched on there, allowing a further 1.4 million listeners to hear the station.
29 November – Robbie Vincent announces he will leave Jazz FM. His final show airs on Sunday 1 December.

2014
1 January – Jazz FM stops broadcasting on the national Digital One multiplex, but continues to be available on DAB in London, online and through satellite television. Its Digital One slot is temporarily taken over by the return of Birdsong Radio, with plans for a permanent replacement in February.
11 February – LBC 97.3 launches nationally on the Digital One platform, taking over the slot formerly occupied by Jazz FM.
15 September – The Jazz FM schedule receives an overhaul, which includes an hour of specialist jazz programmes each day, and Lynn Parsons taking over as presenter of The Jazz Breakfast.

2015
4 March – Jazz FM celebrates its 25th anniversary with a series of clips from its archives.
12–15 November – BBC Radio 3 joins with Jazz FM to operate a four-day pop-up station called BBC Music Jazz.

2016
29 February – Jazz FM is made available nationally as a digital station again when it launches on the Sound Digital multiplex.
22 June – Jazz FM announces it will extend its morning business programme, Business Breakfast from 30 minutes to an hour on 24 June to cover the results of the EU membership referendum.
15 August – Jazz FM introduces a new schedule. Clare Anderson's The Late Lounge is dropped, while Mark Walker succeeds Helen Mayhew as presenter of Dinner Jazz. New one-hour programmes are also introduced at 6pm.

2017
5 July – Jazz FM confirms its presenter Peter Young, known as PY to listeners, has stepped down from his presenting role after 27 years at the station due to ill health. The station also announces a new schedule beginning on 8 July, which will see three new presenters – Tony Minvielle, Tim Garcia and Anne Frankenstein – join its weekend lineup.

2018
21 March – Jazz FM have signed singer China Moses to present their late night weekday programme Jazz FM Loves.
16 August – Bauer Radio purchases Jazz FM.

2019
No events.

2020s
2020
30 May – Saxophonist and broadcaster YolanDa Brown joins Jazz FM to present the Saturday afternoon programme YolanDa Brown on Saturday.
26 September – Simon Phillips joins Jazz FM to present Weekend Breakfast.

2021
24 January – Clare Teal joins Jazz FM to present a Sunday evening show dedicated to Big Band and Swing music.
21 February – David Jensen joins Jazz FM to present a six-part series about his love of jazz music. The programme will also highlight his work for Parkinson's UK.
28 March – Jeff Young presents his last Sunday morning show for Jazz FM, having announced the previous weekend his intention to leave the station after ten years.
4 April –
Jazz FM begins a new Sunday presenting line up which sees Tony Minvielle moving from a late night slot to replace Jeff Young's show, and the fulltime return of Robbie Vincent.
Jazz FM begins the ten-part series The Definitive History of Jazz in Britain, presented by BBC journalist Clive Myrie.
4 May – Bauer Radio announces plans to launch premium online subscription services to compliment Jazz FM as well as Scala Radio, Planet Rock and Kerrang! Radio, with an extra 20 stations available ad free and with extra content.

2022
9 January – Jazz Meets Classical, a six-part series exploring the relationship between jazz and classical music begins airing on both Jazz FM and Scala Radio.
19 August – Jazz FM launches its occasional Guest Head of Music feature, allowing an artist whose music is played on the station to choose the day's playlist. The first Guest Head of Music is Emma-Jean Thackray.

References

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Want Better Leads? Get Sales and Marketing on the Same Page
Autumn Sullivan | Apr 09, 2019
Are your Sales and Marketing teams still operating in silos? The stereotype of Sales and Marketing behaving like rival siblings fighting over your sales pipeline is still as relevant today as it was a decade ago, but it doesn't have to be that way.
And if you want your business to reach its full potential, it's time for these two departments to sit down, shake hands, and start working together.
There is no funnel, but there is a sales pipeline
When HubSpot CEO Brian Halligan shared HubSpot's new flywheel growth model, it effectively killed the traditional marketing funnel analogy forever. RIP funnel, good riddance to closed-marketing systems. What does still exist, however, is the Sales Pipeline.
At the beginning of the sales pipeline are the leads your business receives, and at the end is the number of won deals or new customers you converted. What happens in the middle is usually thought of as the work of Sales alone and involves a lot of phone calls, emails, meetings — and if we're thinking movie stereotypes — a lot of expensive lunches.
The truth, though, is that Marketing plays two important roles in your pipeline. The first happens at the beginning: Marketing's prime directive is to bring high-quality leads into your Sales pipeline. How do they do it? Well, if they have an effective inbound strategy, chances are they do a lot of it by producing helpful content that drives organic traffic to your site. Organic traffic consists of folks who Google a question or problem, then click on your site.
We find that new leads from your site's organic traffic tend to be higher-quality. They're actively searching for keywords you're targeting and they're showing interest by submitting their information on a form on your site. Not getting the numbers you need from organic traffic? Before you ditch content strategy and inbound altogether, try advertising your content. Putting a small budget behind your best content exposes it to more audiences, increasing your website traffic and helping to fill that sales pipeline.
Not every lead is born ready.
I downloaded an ebook a few weeks ago. Confession: I download a lot of premium content pieces. Before the PDF was finished rendering, I had an email from a sales contact at the company. The email was asking for a phone call and demo of the product. I ignored it, because what I wanted to do — what I had expressed a desire to do — was read the guide.
I got two more emails that week from the company, and both were again from the sales department and asked me to schedule a demo. Here's the problem: I wasn't ready to convert, and the company didn't offer me any stepping stones to get from "I just want this ebook" to "Man, I think I should schedule that demo!"
When Sales treats all leads as equals, it does a disservice to both your business and your prospective customers.
Marketing and Sales need to work together to create a hierarchy of leads. The first step is to define them. Here's a cheat sheet:
These are the folks who subscribe to your blog, newsletter, or podcast. They are not leads at this time, and a percentage of them may never become leads. Your competition may be on this list, as well as admirers of your content who have no need of your product or service. If they take an action, such as downloading a content offer, engaging with your website's chat function or filling out a form on a landing page, they will become a lead.
Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs)
As a lead moves through their journey, Marketing will be vetting their actions and responses, adding or subtracting value to the lead's total score. When a lead reaches a threshold score, it is said to have been qualified by Marketing. It is now ready for a Sales handoff.
Sales Qualified Leads (SQLs)
Once Sales has a lead, the vetting process begins again. Sales will engage in conversations with the lead in order to determine if the lead needs more nurturing (handed back to Marketing) or is ready to open up a deal and become an Opportunity.
There are other systems of lead scoring that vary from the one I've shared here. This is the model I have learned and that works for my clients. Your Sales and Marketing leadership team should decide on the definitions for your company.
Let's explore the process in a real-world example. If you publish an ebook and it generates 1,000 downloads, only a percentage of those will fit the bill for Sales and be ready to close a deal. These are Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) – leads that have been vetted by Marketing and are ready for a handoff to Sales. Many of your leads may have some of the Sales criteria but not all. Some may never convert at all. What is more important is that while all of these new contacts have shown interest in your content, they have not yet expressed enough interest in your product or service to move to a Sales conversation.
Once the two departments agree on which leads need to go to Sales, Marketing can step in to nurture the rest. Instead of the cold ask to schedule a demo, Marketing can send a thank you email that shares a follow-up piece of content. A second email might ask the lead to complete a short survey sharing their feedback on the content so far.
Lead nurturing needs to be a collaborative effort
Each new email should offer a new engagement or ask for feedback. Marketing can "warm up" the lead, delivering value and asking for small commitments along the way. When the lead is finally ready, Sales picks up where Marketing left off.
You can also nurture through paid advertising. If you're promoting a piece of ungated, high-performing content, like a YouTube video or blog, you can remarket to this audience with follow-up content. Repeat the process as many times as needed to qualify a lead for the handoff, then advertise a landing page for them to submit their information.
Sales knows the message that convinces the waffling client to sign, what feature is a dealmaker and what pain point is a deal breaker.
In order to nurture and qualify leads, Marketing needs a robust library of content that matches the pain points of a lead throughout the buyer's journey. What does that mean? Glad you asked.
A prospective customer goes through three stages on their path to purchase: Awareness, Consideration, and Decision. Marketing can create content and messaging that helps a buyer move through these stages by mapping out the buyer's journey and matching content types to the stage. This is called a personal content matrix.
But, for the Consideration and Decision stage content to be truly effective, Sales ought to be in the brainstorming meeting. Sales knows the message that convinces the waffling client to sign, what feature is a dealmaker and what pain point is a deal breaker. They also have a treasure trove of client anecdotes ripe for case studies.
With a packed persona-oriented content matrix and a strategy to qualify leads from their first marketing touchpoint to their eventual handoff to Sales, your business is already seeing an improvement in the Sales pipeline. The next step is improving efficiency.
Automate the handoff
Still sending each nurturing email manually? Scrambling to assess and rank MQLs so Sales can get on the phone? You need a marketing automation platform and CRM.
We use HubSpot, because it's user-friendly and built for inbound marketing. As long as your CRM allows you to build workflows — automated actions based on contact criteria or triggered by specific activities — and to automatically "score" a lead based on those criteria and activities, you're in good shape. Workflows should include conditionals for more targeted messaging. If a new lead doesn't open your nurturing emails, send them a final "stay in touch." If the lead is opening and clicking on every email, they should proceed through the workflow until they get the invite to talk to Sales.
All of this opening, clicking, responding and engaging is important for qualifying leads. Each action either adds or subtracts points from the lead's total score. Other criteria can include:
Deal size
Email domain
And even which pages they've visited on your site and which form they filled out
Lead scoring keeps the non-leads, like marketers who are only downloading your guide for inspiration or research, out of the hands of Sales and makes it easier to prioritize the hottest opportunities in the pipeline.
When a prospect reaches a threshold score on the CRM, they are automatically changed from a Lead to an MQL and Sales is notified. Check out the contact's history and see every page they've visited, every blog they've liked, and every email they've opened. The relationship is already started, now it's time to close the deal.
Lead scoring is also great for Marketing. If a majority of MQLs are coming back from Sales as lost deals, the trouble may not be with the leads Marketing is bringing in. It may be an issue with the Sales messaging or a gap in service. Dig in and see why those leads didn't work.
If a lead is kicked back from Sales as "not ready yet," don't look at it as a failure. Move that lead to a new nurturing drip campaign. Stay in touch. Invite them to follow you on social media and subscribe to your newsletter. It may take a few months or even a year, but if and when they're ready, they'll remember you.
It's not a handoff; it's a handshake
Rather than fighting like jealous siblings, Sales and Marketing should be BFFs. The best way to tear down those walls is to start collaborating. That means sitting down regularly to discuss your goals, challenges, and successes.
Review leads together, in a non-judgemental process that seeks to improve the buyer's journey content and the hand-off:
Did this lead come too late?
How can we flag deals like this in the future as high priority?
Why did this lead fail to close?
What can we do differently in the future?
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Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad during a press conference at the Great Hall of the People, Beijing, August 20, 2018. Photo: AFP/How Hwee Young
Chinese buyer beware in Mahathir's Malaysia
Malaysian leader aims to bar foreign, spelled Chinese, buyers from the US$100 billion Forest City real estate project he has lambasted as a Chinese 'enclave'
ByNile Bowie
A vast real estate development under construction in Malaysia's southern state of Johor is in the spotlight over a widening political row pitting the country's wily nonagenarian premier against a large private Chinese property developer backed by the state's influential ruler, Sultan Ibrahim Ismail.
The ambitious US$100 billion mega-project, known as Forest City, is administered in partnership with an investment entity whose largest shareholder is the sultan. It is designed to span four artificial islands built adjacent to neighboring Singapore and if fully built will alter the area's map by creating a new private residential township expected to accommodate 700,000 residents by 2050.
Though Forest City is at an early stage of development and barely inhabited, Chinese nationals reportedly make up some 70%, or two-thirds, of apartment buyers so far, with Malaysians accounting for just 20% of sales. Foreign property buyers from 22 other countries, including Indonesia, Vietnam and South Korea, have also invested in units.
Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad announced in late August that foreigners could no longer buy properties there, surprising many – including Johor's state government – and contradicting Malaysian law, which allows for foreign citizens and companies to acquire land and property subject to the prior approval of state, rather than federal, authorities.
Johor's Chief Minister Osman Sapian, a member of Mahathir's Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (PPBM) political party, pushed back against the premier's remarks and defended the project's contributions to both the state and national economy, suggesting the national leader was not given "a clear explanation" of the state's property policy.
Prospective property buyers view a scale model of the Forest City development on a man-made island on the Malaysian side of the Straits of Johor. Photo: AFP/Roslan Rahman
The push-back appeared to cause Mahathir to revise his stance by conceding that foreigners would be allowed to purchase resident units, but pledging instead to refuse the issuance of residency visas to buyers. That has stoked concerns that the Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H) scheme, under which foreigners can obtain a renewable social visit pass with 10-year validity, will soon be axed.
Mahathir's strident criticism of Forest City, which he panned as a "foreign enclave" in early 2017, had set the stage for an election campaign that cast Chinese-backed mega-projects as evidence of his predecessor, ex-premier Najib Razak, selling the country out to Beijing to cover financial shortfalls caused by his administration's fiscal mismanagement and alleged corruption.
"This is not Chinese investment, but a settlement," he remarked ahead of his shock victory in elections held on May 9. He has at times compared the China-backed development with Singapore's establishment as a British colonial settlement and stoked nationalistic fears that foreign property buyers would eventually become Malaysian citizens with voting rights.
Despite that vocal opposition, Mahathir had appeared to endorse both the long-stay visa scheme and the Forest City project during his visit to China last month at an August 16 meeting with Yeung Kwok Kwong, chairman of Country Garden Holdings, the Hong Kong-listed property developer whose subsidiary is leading the project's construction.
According to the company's director of strategy, Ng Zhu Hann, Mahathir's latest public barbs against the sprawling real estate project were at odds with the private stance he took during last month's 40-minute closed-door meeting, where he said the premier "reiterated that he welcomes foreign investments which could create employment opportunities."
Azmin Ali, economic affairs minister and deputy president of the ruling coalition's largest party, added to the confusion when he alleged that Country Garden was behind a "special scheme" to award free condominium units at Forest City to incentivize investment in China. Both the developer and Johor's chief minister have denied the unsubstantiated claim.
With prices of a fraction of what similar-sized units cost in downtown Shanghai or Beijing, Chinese buyers represent 70% of Forest City's sales. Photo: Asia Times
Still, Putrajaya's pronouncements raise the possibility of unilateral action taken to change investment conditions previously agreed to with the last administration, a move that analysts say would undermine foreign investor confidence over fears that private developments elsewhere could become targets of project-specific discrimination.
Others, however, regard Mahathir's public remarks as tactical political posturing for mostly domestic consumption.
"Mahathir wants China to be more cognizant of Malaysia's domestic sentiments when they invest in the country," says Mustafa Izzuddin, a fellow at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore who believes the premier's private remarks were intended "to ensure the Chinese leadership that Malaysia is still open to China for investment."
Mahathir has made the recalibration of ties with China a key foreign policy priority. During a recent state visit to China, he repeatedly welcomed Chinese trade, technology and investment and spoke of promoting bilateral and economic ties, even as he publicly cautioned against a "new version of colonialism" emerging from China's outward investment.
Unlike the recently deferred High-Speed Rail (HSR) project with Singapore and the China-financed East Coast Rail Link (ECRL), the Forest City project – Malaysia's largest foreign property investment – has no links to the Chinese state, nor does its construction rely on public expenditure that would further aggravate Malaysia's substantial national debt.
While his moves to reset the terms for dealing with China were a signal to domestic constituents of Malaysia's dignified return to a policy of non-alignment, Mahathir's opposition to Forest City pertains to sovereignty concerns and racial inequity, the defense of which give the premier political mileage to stave off right-wing opposition headwinds.
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed (L) and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang talk during a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People, Beijing, August 20, 2018. Photo: AFP/Pool/How Hwee Young
Chinese state media has been relatively cautious in its response to Mahathir's remarks and policy changes. Though careful not to criticize Malaysia's newly elected government, especially as Beijing aims to court trade-reliant Southeast Asia amid rising trade tensions with the United States, certain publications have signaled a creeping sense of malaise.
"China should understand and adapt to Malaysia's internal adjustments and remain consistent in cooperation with the country while Chinese firms should protect their own interests," proclaimed an editorial in the nationalist tabloid Global Times which called on the Chinese government to help Chinese companies "safeguard their interests."
Another factor is the historical animosity between Johor's sovereign ruler Sultan Ibrahim and Mahathir, who pushed through constitutional amendments during his first premiership to curb the powers of Malaysia's royals, stripping them of legal immunity from criminal prosecution after two assault cases involving the Johor royal family in the 1990s.
Johor's charismatic ruler openly laments the Mahathir-era limitations, which prevent royals from exercising veto power on legislation. Addressing the Forest City controversy last year, the monarch leveled a stern rebuke against Mahathir, calling him "selfish and opportunistic" and accusing him of "creating fear, using race, just to fulfill his political motives."
Sultan Ibrahim, constitutionally ascribed as one of the symbolic guardians of Malay culture, is also a wealthy businessman and champion of Iskandar Malaysia, a special economic zone in Johor touted as the "next Shenzhen." Forest City is the largest among dozens of projects in the zone poised to become three times the size of Singapore when completed in 2025.
Malaysian Sultan of Johor Ibrahim Ismail in a 2014 file photo. Photo: Facebook
"Relations between Mahathir and the Johor royalty will continue to be strained, with the Johor royalty resenting any undue interference by the Mahathir-led federal government," says Mustafa. "At present, the strained relationship is being managed privately and diplomatically so that it does not get amplified publicly."
Political leaders from Pakatan Harapan, the ruling coalition led by Mahathir which governs the state of Johor, "want to cultivate good relations with the Johor royalty as the Sultan is revered by the people of Johor," he says, adding that Sultan Ibrahim's support is "important for Pakatan to govern the state effectively."
The ministry of housing and local government announced in the wake of Mahathir's recent salvos that it is looking into the possibility of imposing restrictions on foreign ownership of Forest City properties, with the aim to further constrain Johor state's laws and policies that permit up to 70% foreign ownership in the mega-project.
Johor's government has reportedly proposed reserving 30% of Forest City units for Malaysian buyers in a bid to allay xenophobic fears of an influx of Chinese residents, however, the Mahathir-led federal government appears intent on imposing tighter restrictions on foreign buyers, a move that will aggravate the premier's already fraught ties with Johor's sultan.
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When it comes to makeup, I love natural, clean looks. I also hate spending a ton of time and having a myriad of products, so when I was given the opportunity to try out Evian's facial spray, I jumped at it.
The natural mineral water spray is nothing but natural mineral water from the French Alps, sealed at the source to prevent contamination, and nitrogen. The canister creates a fine mist which can be used to hydrate skin, intensify makeup, set makeup, and revive it throughout the day.
One use of the spray is to intensify makeup, which is done by spraying the brush and then charging it with eyeshadow to create a more pigmented, less chalky look. I loved the initial look, but I must note that the spray did not prevent the eye shadows from shifting into the crease of my eyelids after a few hours.
The aspect of the spray that I was most invested in was the ability to set makeup. I really hate when my makeup transfers to my white collars and necklines of my sweaters, button downs, and blazers. It looks terrible and is a pain to remove, so for the true test, I put on my new white striped sweater. By the end of the day my collar was makeup free!
Because I have oily skin, I did not feel the spray worked especially well for reviving my makeup unless I first used a blotting paper or two, but I was not expecting the spray to eliminate the oil from my face. It is however, quite refreshing and I enjoyed using it throughout the day.
If Evian mineral water spray is something you'd like to try, this full size, 5 oz size retails for about $7. You can also enter a giveaway to win a spray - The Wilkes Group is giving away 20 full size sprays!
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This is a sponsored post. Evian Facial Spray was provided to me by the exclusive USA distributor, The Wilkes Group for the purpose of this post. All views and opinions are my own.
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I wonder how different this is from using other makeup setting sprays...I may have to check it out!
I have a little bottle of this in my purse- I use it to freshen up throughout the day. Especially good for summer days when you need a quick cool-down!
I have always loved to drink Evian. Your makeup looks beautiful. Must give this a try!
I've always been intrigued by mineral water sprays. I recently got my first one from Avene and I have to say, so far I quite like it - I use mind primarily for moisturizing, since my skin seems to be going through a dry phase, and so far I've seen really good results. Plus, it's so refreshing to put on first thing in the morning!


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If you wake up every morning and stagger over to your coffee machine to brew up a pot of joe, chances are you're also brewing up a bunch of mold. Luckily, there's an easy solution to this disgusting problem.
A 2011 study from the Public Health and Safety Organization found that the reservoir of a standard drip coffee maker was the fifth-most germ-ridden item in an average household. Researchers found yeast and mold in half of all the coffee machines that they surveyed.
Gross, right? Happily, all you need is white vinegar to clean out all the filth — and your coffee will taste better too.
Simply brew a full pot of a mixture that's half vinegar and half water. Turn the machine off when half of the pot has been brewed and allow everything to sit for about half an hour before finishing.
You're probably going to want to brew a couple pots of just pure water to ensure that the vinegar has all been flushed out before you go back to making regular java, but the mold will be all gone.


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Massive landfill gas-to-biomethane project in Spain
The Can Mata landfill site is one of the largest in Spain.
The Ferrovial Servicios group, a leading global service operator, has selected Waga Energy to produce biomethane at the Can Mata landfill, one of Spain's largest landfill, near Barcelona.
The WAGABOX® unit at the Can Mata site will be commissioned in 2022. It will treat up to 2,200 m3/h (1,365 scfm) of landfill gas and inject 70 GWh (250,000 mmBtu/262,680 GJ) of biomethane per year into the gas network of the Spanish operator Nedgia, which is equivalent to the annual energy consumption of 14,000 Spanish households or a fleet of 200 lorries. The project will avoid the emission of 17,000 tonnes of CO2 per year by substituting renewable gas for natural gas.
One of the first PPAs in Europe for green gas
This is the first ever landfill gas injection project to be financed by a long-term power purchase agreement in Europe. This method of financing is common for renewable electricity projects, but rarely used for green gas projects, generally unable to provide buyers with a competitive price over the long term.
This first-ever "Biomethane Purchase Agreement" has been made possible thanks to the proven efficiency of the WAGABOX® technology, combined to Waga Energy's unique expertise in the management of landfill biogas injection projects.
The two partners have adopted a business model that guarantees high performance throughout the project cycle. Waga Energy will purchase part of the landfill gas from the Can Mata site from Ferrovial Servicios, finance the construction and operation of the WAGABOX® unit, as well as manage relations with the gas network operator and the sale of the biomethane. Waga Energy will invest 7.5 million euros to commission the unit and connect the Can Mata site to the gas grid, located four kilometers away.
The Can Mata landfill site is one of the largest in Spain. It covers 68 hectares in the municipality of Els Hostalets de Pierola, about 40 kilometers from Barcelona. Ferrovial Servicios has operated the site for the last 20 years, treating more than 20 million tons of waste. The waste stored in Can Mata generates nearly 40 million cubic meters of biogas per year. This biogas has so far been used to provide electricity and fuel for a neighboring ceramic factory. The WAGABOX® unit will greatly increase energy yields.
Antonio Aliana, Regional Director of Ferrovial Servicios in Catalonia: "The agreement signed with Waga Energy strengthens Ferrovial's commitment to sustainable development. This circular economy project will make it possible to produce biomethane, for the benefit of our citizens, thanks to the most advanced technology for the recovery of biogas from waste gas. We hope that this innovative green energy project will be extended to other sites that we operate, as part of our strategy to transform waste into resources".
Mathieu Lefebvre, CEO and co-founder of Waga Energy: "This significant project with the Ferrovial Servicios group marks the culmination of three years of hard work by both parties. Landfill gas-to-biomethane injection projects are complex from a technological, regulatory, and financial point of view. Our unique expertise in this area, combined to our commitment to the energy transition, have enabled this major renewable gas project in Spain to materialize."


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"All the years I've been in this business I've never seen anybody pack a box like Paul can. You could throw one of his boxes off a building and it would be fine," said Pat, print shop manager.
Pictured above: Small box of business cards expertly packed by Paul, bindery and packaging specialist at HANYS Printing Services.
"Snail mail still works in ways that digital can't. Some things just have to be printed." That's what ROI expert/Marketing Strategist John Luginbill, told everyone when he saw this notebook at the HANYS' Communications Conference.
He explained how despite best digital strategies, sometimes a message will only get through to potential customer if it lands in their mailboxes at the end of the drive way, not a computer. We couldn't agree more!
We've been working on a simple and keepable giveaway for people who come to the HANYS' Communications Conference, which we're sponsoring. And of course, that means a pocket-sized notebook with 32 lined pages! Just before packing them up, Paul inspected how well the cutter trimmed the folded part of the notebook and then he made a small adjustment to get a crisper cut on the edge.
Fresh off the folding machine, these lined sheets are ready for the next step...trimming!
We're proud sponsors of this year's HANYS' Communications Conference, so we're printing a special little item for everyone to take home. Here it is going through the scoring machine.


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Clifford Brown was one of the 20th century�s greatest trumpet players. He represented the highest level of instrumental excellence and influenced a generation of jazz musicians. Dizzy Gillespie called him "the next major voice in the line of trumpeters." As impressive and historically important as his musical accomplishments were, his personal impact on those who knew him is also quite extraordinary. His profound work ethic, personal integrity, kind-hearted nature, and commitment to excellence deeply affected his friends and fellow musicians. Jazz legend Sonny Rollins once remarked "Clifford was a profound influence on my personal life. He showed me that it was possible to live a good, clean life and still be a good jazz musician."
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Clifford Brown was born and raised at 1013 Poplar Street in Wilmington, Delaware. As a young developing musician he was very active on the Philadelphia music scene, playing many engagements at Philadelphia clubs such as Peps. Show Boat, The Blue Note, Club Harlem, and at the jam sessions held regularly at Elks Lodges such as O.V.Catto Lodge at 16th and Fitzwater. After forming the Clifford Brown - Max Roach Quintet in Los Angeles in 1954, Clifford returned to Philadelphia where he and his wife LaRue purchased a home at 4624 Sansom Street. He lived there until his death in an automobile accident on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in the early morning hours of June 27, 1956.
Clifford Brown - trumpet, composer, recording artist, bandleader Born: October 30, 1930 | Died: June 27, 1956
Clifford Brown is considered by many musicians and scholars to be the most brilliant trumpet player of his generation, a dynamic stage presence and a true legend of modern jazz.
Clifford Brown was born October 30, 1930 in Wilmington, Delaware. As a young Howard High School student Brown began playing trumpet and within a very short time was active in school bands and other musical groups led by his jazz instructor Boysie Lowery. By his late teens he had attracted the favorable attention of leading jazzmen, including fellow trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and Fats Navarro.
In 1949 he entered Delaware State College as a math major but soon transferred to Maryland State College to play in the jazz band there. In 1952, following recovery from a serious automobile accident, he made his first records with Chris Powell and the Five Blue Flames, a rhythm and blues group. In June of 1953 he began his jazz recording career making albums with Lou Donaldson, Tadd Dameron, and Jay Jay Johnson. In the autumn of 1953 he was a member of the big band that Lionel Hampton took to Europe. Liberally filled with young talent, this band attracted considerable attention during its tour. Contrary Hampton�s policy, many of the young musicians moonlighted on various recordings and Brown in particular was singled out for such sessions. Brown then joined Art Blakey and in mid-1954 teamed up with Max Roach to form the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet. The quintet was quickly recognized as one of the outstanding groups in contemporary jazz and Brown as a major trumpeter and composer.
At a time when many modern jazz trumpeters sought technical expertise at the expense of tone, Brown, like his major influence Fats Navarro, had prodigious technique but also developed a rich, full and beautiful tone. His work combined a highly intellectual mastery of the contemporary bebop language with deeply emotional content.
Many of his compositions became standards, including �Daahoud,� �Joy Spring�, and �Sandu.� His recorded solos on �Cherokee� and �Donna Lee� are considered by many to be the definitive recorded versions of these pieces.
In the early morning hours of June 27th, 1956, while driving to Chicago for an engagement at The Blue Note, Brown and another quintet member, pianist Richie Powell, and Powell�s wife Nancy, were killed in an auto accident on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Clifford Brown was twenty-five years old.
After Brown's death, Benny Golson composed "I Remember Clifford," a moving tribute to the young trumpeter. It has become a jazz standard.
Two comprehensive biographical works about Clifford Brown have been completed: Clifford Brown: The Life and Art of the Legendary Jazz Trumpeter by Nick Catalano, Oxford University Press (2000); and Brownie Speaks: A Video Documentary, directed by Don Glanden, which premiered in 2008 at The University of the Arts.
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I loved Clifford. Some people called him Brownie, but I called him Pogo after a cartoon character from a newspaper comic strip, because he was little and cool, and he wore this funny Pogo hat. He was the sweetest, humblest, most intelligent cat in the world and the greatest trumpet player I�ve ever known. - Quincy Jones
Now, I knew that among all the younger players, Clifford was head and shoulders above the rest, at least in my opinion he was. - Miles Davis
You can easily trace how the crown was passed down - and sometimes usurped. On trumpet, for example, the order might run something like this: Buddy Bolden, Joe Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Cootie Williams, Roy Eldridge, Ray Nance, Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Clifford Brown, Miles Davis ... Similar sequences of highly influential musicians, each with popular imitators, can be made for all the other instruments. - Duke Ellington
And to this day I don't think anyone has had the impact of Clifford Brown. In my opinion no one has played as great. - Red Rodney
I can get publicity until I'm a hundred. That's not gonna make me be on the level with cats like Miles or Clifford ... - Wynton Marsalis
It was bebop, the style that was created by Charlie Parker, everybody got into that. But as it went along, the sound changed through the way that Clifford Brown played. He used to attack every note, and all the trumpet players are playin' like that now. - Dizzy Gillespie
What set him apart from his contemporaries was his sound ... of all the so-called modern trumpet players, post-Gillespie players, he had the most beautiful sound. - Dan Morgenstern
At the places where people talk about jazz they are saying he was one of the "greats" of the modern school of jazzmen. And it's not just a glory enhanced by death. They were saying it three years ago when Cliff came to Europe with the Lionel Hampton band. - Mike Nevard, Melody Maker
When he started to play something happened to me that never happened before or since ... when he started to play these tones came out and they hit me in the face and it was like something you could put your hands on and feel and hold ... I'll never forget that afternoon at the Blue note in Philadelphia. - Benny Golson
Nicknamed Brownie, Charlie Parker found [him] during his last visit to Philly. Since his return to New York, "Bird" could not stop talking [about] this young trumpeter that he came to discover. - Billy Washington, Jazz Magazine
He was definitely the next major voice in the line of trumpeters. - Dizzy Gillespie
All Brown is valuable, it should go without saying, because his brief four years of productivity influenced the development of modern trumpet more than any other of his contemporaries or successors... - Litweiler, Downbeat
Clifford Brown, and I use a word when I think about him that I don't use very often, I really don't ... Clifford Brown was a genius. He really was. He evidenced it in his music. He was an innovator. He was ahead of his time. He didn't follow anybody, he lead. - Benny Golson
He's what I would want to have as a son. If I had a son, I would want him to be like Clifford. - Dizzy Gillespie
Clifford was a profound influence on my personal life. He showed me that it was possible to live a good, clean life and still be a good jazz musician. - Sonny Rollins


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Ulelli: Hi, this is Ulelli and I am here with…?
Ulelli: So, thanks for agreeing to do this project with me Antony. So, just tell me a bit about yourself, a bit about your work.
Antony: Well, I basically peer educate; I go out into the fields, let's say at bars and restaurants, and so on, and I distribute condoms and I communicate with persons on a day-to-day basis with the ongoing HIV virus that is spreading. We do prevention and HIV testing and yes, that is basically what I do.
Ulelli: Ok, so tell me a bit about yourself in terms of your home life.
Antony: My home life, in general, my home life is as normal. I have a loving Mom and Dad. I don't have any discrimination or anything. I don't have any hatred going on but what I really have right now is a good family and they are really accepting towards me. It's like, I feel just fine and I am just me, just that person.
Ulelli: Nice. Why I asked you to do this project is because I saw you, I saw a photo of you on Facebook and I thought it was pretty cool and interesting that you were brave enough to dress the way you do. Can you tell me a bit about the shoes, the ones you are so in love with?
Antony : Well, the shoes that I am so in love with, I was long searching for a guy, like a male shoe, that has heels with it and I am so glad that I finally found it. Especially for the person that made it. I am very glad that they made it to suit, imagine a person like me actually wanted a shoe like these and it is possible, and that person that made it, I am very thankful and it makes me feel satisfied right now because with this shoes I feel satisfied because it is one thing I have accomplished in life and that I could actually walk with it in society and I feel free to walk with it in society. I feel very... it's like three inches and I feel it pushes me up and even when I went in a place to have a line up, I am actually seeing over everyone how it's like three inches tall. Yes, so it is cool, very cool. I would encourage any guy to wear it. It doesn't mean that you are dressing in any opposite way. It could suit any guy. A guy could walk in very masculine and he could wear this shoe and he could look masculine, even more masculine and all, because guys back in those days with their afro and so on - like, in the 70s I am talking about - used to wear this shoe and they used to look awesome with it. The only thing is that I wear the pencil bottom which is quite different from the 70s when they use to wear the bell bottom which used to cover the shoes and you don't see the shoes but it's quite awesome. Very awesome shoes.
Ulelli: How do people behave? What is your experience when you walk in the shoes on the street and where do you go?
Antony: Well, basically, I just walk around like anywhere. When I have some "me time", I basically just go out and have a walk, have a lunch and so on, you know, at some restaurant and I basically just walk around in town like any other normal person. I don't feel anyway whilst walking in the shoes but whilst walking through the streets I get some good remarks and some bad ones also as you know, it's something strange, it don't usually worn in Guyana. And it looks quite strange to some persons especially persons who don't know much about the 70s. They might say, "What is that he is wearing?" or, "What is this, what is going on here?" You know? And it is quite funny. I just laugh it off and I don't like show any negative. I try to be as happy as possible, being happy is the greatest thing. The good comments that persons would usually say are, "Wow, that's an amazing shoe"' I was in the pharmacy the other day and I was like checking out this product and a guy was like, "Damn man, where you get that shoe from? That shoe look so cool, man! Where did you get it from?" I told him online and he said, "Oh ok, that is cool, is that the only colour they have in them?" Because this one is a white and I was like, "No, that is not the only colour, it has black, it has silver, it has white, and it also has some funny zebra-looking colours but I don't find that one interesting." But I find the white, the pure black and the pure silver very nice. It has some shiny ones too. If you could go online you could check it out and very cool stuff. And especially ladies, for the woman, especially the vendors, they would say, '"I like your shoes, I like your shoes." And so when I walk around in town, yeah, very great. Those are the comments I usually get.
Ulelli: So, what do you want to tell people who do not understand much about gender expression, how people dress differently to suit their feelings? What do you want to teach them? What do you want them to know?
Antony: I want them to know that you can. For me, my gender expression, I decided to look for something that is close to masculine but it could suit anybody, anybody could wear it and it's like close to my gender. These shoes, you can see from the front, it looks like masculine shoes and so on, and the only thing is that the heels make it look different. But guys used to wear these shoes and for me, my gender expression is very, I don't like put out myself into the public one, but my gender expression is, I try to keep it as normal as possible. But all persons out there that decided to do anything that would distract the public and so on, I encourage them to do it but just know your limits and your laws and so on. Because, each country is run by laws and it could be quite not easy for some persons, especially guys who want to wear a female heel in public. It could be very… that is why they have to do it in the nights and so on; at a party where there is persons like you, you can be able to associate with and it's quite normal to wear it there. In public, there are persons of different cultures and different backgrounds and so it might not be easy for persons and so gender expression is you needing to know your limits and I would encourage anybody, we are not in a normal society, especially if you wear something strange, it could be strange forever, since persons don't know and the opposite gender, you wearing it could be quite strange. You could get discrimination and those things but wearing shoes in public, I have not received any, I have received bad remarks but it is just talks only. It is just really talks, it's just like a gay person walking through or a person of the LGBT community walking through and they getting these remarks. It's just something like that.
Ulelli: Alright, is there anything else you want to add?
Antony: Well, I am very glad that I am doing this gender expression project and that they can feel free to express themselves but do it in a cautious way so that you could blend in society, whatever society you are in.


first time I see this brand of jeans!
oh and thanks for the comment on my blog! thanks for the compliment!!
ha hilarious. genius marketing campaign.
haha love this!!! Never heard of this brand though but great ad!