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Alastair Cavendish
Young people, you will be shocked to hear, have been rebelling against authority, for what may be the first time in recorded history. The Secretary of State for Education has decreed that muzzles shall be worn in schools, and that pupils must take lateral flow tests to prove that they are legitimate seekers after knowledge rather than deadly plague-rats. Admittedly, he has provided no evidence for the efficacy of masks, and it is generally admitted that a lateral flow test is rather less use than an ashtray on a motorbike, but education, surely, is a matter of blindly accepting whatever your elders and betters tell you. Sadly, no one seems to have inculcated the virtues of mindless obedience in these feckless youths. In one Lancashire school, the NASUWT plaintively told the BBC last week, a mere 67 children out of 1,300 were willing to wear a mask and take a test. In the good old days, they would have been shoved hastily down a mine or up a chimney to choke on coal dust.
Perhaps these "children" (some of whom are seventeen or eighteen years old, though the teaching unions, the press and the government persist in infantilising them) have concluded that their elders do not have their best interests at heart. Perhaps they have noticed that Members of Parliament seldom wear masks (and when they do, the choice is theirs) and that government ministers spend most of their time swapping Prosecco-infused spit at bring-your-own-variant parties. Perhaps they are aware that none of the po-faced Covid zealots, from Adolf Ferguson to Heinrich Hancock, have ever bothered to obey the rules they are so eager to impose on others. Perhaps they have seen footage of Allegra Stratton and her ilk sneering at those stupid enough to take any notice of these rules. Perhaps they have decided that adults who have shown no interest in their education, or in any aspect of their mental and physical well-being, are not worth listening to. If they have, do you blame them?
It may well be that young people, who have been bullied, browbeaten, neglected and abused to an extraordinary degree over the last two years, will lead us out of the current crisis. As a university lecturer, it has been my privilege to spend much of my time over the last two decades with people in their late teens and early twenties. What I have generally noticed is that they have a lot more sense, creativity and intelligence than their elders. It is an unalloyed pleasure to escape from tedious meetings in which soulless administrators talk about money and faculty windbags talk about themselves, into a classroom where people still young enough to have ideals and principles and thoughts of their own are eager to discuss poetry, philosophy, drama, the human experience and everything that makes life worth living.
I do not suppose the dullest teacher who ever lived (not me, by the way, I have the evaluations to prove it…) ever managed to grind so much of the joy out of learning as the politicians and bureaucrats have done over the last two years. University, in particular, is not an experience adequately replicated by sitting in one's bedroom for a few years watching YouTube videos and occasionally masturbating like a gibbon. Education, like sex, is much improved by the input of others. If a malevolent regime wanted to torture children and young people, it could scarcely have found a more effective way than wrenching them apart from their friends, while continually preaching at them that they are filthy, disease-ridden monsters who are responsible for the deaths of their grandparents. Perhaps, at some point, we shall discover that the true task with which the legions of government scientists were charged was to create an epidemic of mental illness and suicide amongst the young. We will then be able to conclude, at last, that Ferguson and his myrmidons did a very good job.
The tormentors of youth may not be as successful as they expect, however. Many of their victims possess a quality so alien to them that they do not recognise it, and barely have a name for it any more. One might use the word "integrity" but, despite sniggers from the peanut gallery, I prefer the old-fashioned word: bottom. The reason why I like this word is because it provides a sound visual image for the quality it describes. A great tankard stands ready to be filled with ale or cider or, for that matter, Champagne. The bottom of the tankard is heavy and solid. It will not fall over, and the drink will not leak out. The moral principles and even the aesthetic tastes of a man or a woman or a child are like this heavy base. They keep you upright and strong. They keep you from failing in your task.
There is a famous, probably apocryphal story about Bernard Shaw (or Lord Beaverbrook, or Winston Churchill or Groucho Marx or W.C. Fields) asking a beautiful woman whether she would sleep with him for a million pounds, or some such magnificent sum (which varies from source to unreliable source). When she gave an equivocal but somewhat favourable answer, he asked if she would do it for one pound. "What do you think I am!" the woman exclaimed. "We've established that," snapped Shaw. "We are now discussing the price."
We take it as read that every man and woman in public life has his or her price. Since Boris Johnson, by the standards of the current cabinet, is not a particularly wealthy man, it is now uncomfortably clear that his price is relatively low. The British Prime Minister can be bought for a few rolls of wallpaper and a designer sofa. The apex of influence in our unhappy state can be acquired for the cost of redecorating a central London flat to look like a knocking shop in Marrakech. Precisely what sum the Prime Minister would accept to eat a place of fried worms, or crawl through a tunnel of excrement, or cook and eat each one of his fifty-seven children live on television is not clear. What everyone knows is that, in each case, there is a cash price that would persuade Johnson to do such a thing. The same is true of every member of the government and the opposition. Some of them are rich, and the price would be correspondingly high, but not one of them has bottom, which would prevent them from performing the foul act at all.
Take (please, and as far from me as possible) the cartoon giraffe that is Jacob Rees-Mogg. He is a wealthy man and has no possible need of the public money he receives for his complete failure to do his job. He is also ostensibly a Catholic and a libertarian whose principles, if they existed, would be in direct conflict with the policies of this government. An honourable man or member, a person with bottom, would refuse to be part of such a gang of thieves, and resign. I do not know how much you would have to pay the Lord President of the Council to eat a plate of fried worms. It's probably not worth it, to be honest. But if you're rich, and bored, and want some entertainment in these grim times, go knock yourself out. You have only to find out his price.
As Chesterton remarks, one's education is not complete until one acquires a certain contempt for education. Most of the Cabinet are fairly well-educated, with the obvious exception of Priti Patel, who is dumber than the rocks among which she sits. One of the first things we commonly do with children is to educate the basic morality out of them. A child's first reaction on hearing the story of Macbeth is that Macbeth is a bad man. Their literature teachers tell them not to say this, because no exam board will give you any marks for saying it, so the process of literary criticism becomes, in part, an exercise in finding excuses for the conduct of a psychopath (most of which, not incidentally, involve blaming women).
Nonetheless, it takes a lot of time and effort to educate the bottom out of our children altogether, and with some of them, the attempt is never entirely successful. Everyone who has ever had anything to do with young people is familiar with the complaint, uttered in tones of bafflement or fury or both: "That's not fair." Perhaps it is a heresy against the gospel of morally relative adulthood to suggest that snapping back "Well, life isn't fair" is not always the perfect response to this criticism. Perhaps it is naïve of me to suggest that listening and thinking about how life might be made fairer would be a more creative and intelligent response. Nonetheless, I do suggest it.
Look around the world now, and you see the so-called world leaders: Biden, Trudeau, Macron, Morrison, Ardern and all the other viciously corrupt crooks and cowards spouting the same poisonous rubbish with all the integrity and originality of speak-your-weight machines. If no New World Order conspiracy is afoot, there certainly seems to be a conspiracy among these dismal, broken people to suggests that one is. Then again, one might reflect, as I often do, that just as bank robbers all over the world rob banks without the need for an international conspiracy, so politicians the world over conduct themselves in the same despicable way without the necessity for collusion. No one has less bottom than Boris Johnson, but almost everyone has more capacity for focus, which is why such countries as France and Australia are now further down the road to ruin than Britain. Macron and Morrison were concentrating on being full-time Nazis, while the British Prime Minister was distracted by garden parties and adultery.
If there is a conspiracy (I say IF, since the moguls of the World Economic Forum never tell me about their plans for world domination, for some reason) then it is probably no accident that the plotters waited until the greatest generation were all dead or in their extreme dotage. My grandfather, a war hero, a captain of industry, and a knight of the realm, was not a man given to profanity, and was generally supportive of Conservative governments, but I can well imagine his response to Matt Hancock telling him that he was not permitted to leave his house, and that response would not have been polite or conciliatory. One of my greatest difficulties throughout the last two years has been a complete failure to understand why my current fellow citizens have ever reacted any differently. We are all free people with a long heritage of liberty. When public servants attempt to curtail that liberty, with some pathetic, bureaucratic excuse about managing hospital admissions, the only possible response to their insolence is a good old-fashioned two-fingered salute.
This is where the quality of bottom comes in. Lockdown is an obscenity, to be opposed completely and unequivocally by all free people everywhere. I am not a lockdown sceptic. I am not hesitant or uncertain about the matter. I am not particularly interested in debating the numbers or performing a cost/benefit analysis, though it does seem to me that those who want to do so have a good case. My response to anyone who attempts to order me to accept house arrest is the same as my response to someone who asks me to eat a plate of worms, or crawl through a tunnel of excrement, or cook and eat some children. No. That's it. Not for a million pounds. Not for a billion pounds. Not for all the tea in China or all the wallpaper in Downing Street. Not for a phoney peerage or a corrupt PPE contract. No.
Cheering thoughts, as Christina Rossetti almost said, are thin on the ground in the bleak midwinter. Earth stands hard as iron, water resembles a stone, and even the wind appears to be moaning. Heaven alone knows how the great poet would have felt if she had been forced to listen to the bleating of Boris Johnson and the drivelling of Emmanuel Macron in addition to the kvetching breeze. Nonetheless, there is one point which is worth bearing in mind and repeating frequently when you see the ranks of plug-uglies (most mercifully muzzled) ranged against you: they are all cowards. They are, as Alice suddenly saw, nothing but a pack of cards. A gust of wind will blow them over. They have no bottom.
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Sane people want freedom; mad people want power. The most intractable problem which now faces humanity is how to wrest power from the hands of tyrannical lunatics, who are desperate to hang onto it, a
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If you enjoy irony, here's a Christmas present. After almost three years of brutal, pointless lockdowns, the Chinese Communist Party is ready to try a new policy. Their last magnificent effort on this
Being Told What To Do
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(Bonn, Germany, 20 May 2016) – Starting today, young people are invited to tell the world how they are shaping a more sustainable future by entering the second annual Global Youth Video Competition on Climate Change.
Young people between the ages of 18 and 30 can enter via the tve awards website until 30 August 2016.
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Daphne Krinos
Fine jeweller Daphne Krinos is known for her bold and architectural designs. Creating unique, one-off pieces entirely by hand, she works with recycled gold, black oxidised silver and precious gemstones.
Originally from Greece, Daphne established her studio in London in the early 1980s. Her distinctive work has captured a broad and loyal following, from collectors to artists, architects and lawyers. Daphne's pieces can be found in the permanent collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Goldsmiths Company and the Crafts Council amongst others.
Daphne's sculptural jewellery is instantly recognisable, defined by bold use of colour, form, shape and texture. Graphic lines of black oxidised silver offset vivid translucent stones, dramatic articulated or layered compositions combine angular, geometric forms in a mixture of metals. Daphne's playful character shines throughout the work; every piece displaying fresh ideas and exploring processes.
Daphne's distinctive work has earned her a global profile, her work being bought by international collectors and stocked in galleries throughout the UK, Europe, USA and Japan.
Beyond running her own studio, Daphne is a co-director of Studio Fusion Gallery, beneath London's OXO tower, and a founding member of the COSMIMA collective who have been holding their annual show in London since 2005.
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Flow Gallery, London
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? DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of this proposal is to identify potentially causal DNA methylation markers that driver breast cancer development. Aberrant DNA methylation plays an important role in breast cancer initiation and progression via inactivation of tumor suppressor genes and activation of oncogenes. Identifying causal epigenetic markers that drive breast cancer development remains a major challenge. Conventional approaches comparing DNA methylation profiles in tumor and adjacent non-tumorous tissue have shown that changes in DNA methylation contribute to deregulation of gene expression in breast cancer. However, such approaches are unable to distinguish causal DNA methylation alterations, which drive tumorigenesis, from reactive ones that are influenced by the tumor. In addition, important cancer-related methylation changes may have been missed when a suboptimal baseline control (adjacent non-tumorous tissue) was used in previous studies. We hypothesize that an individual's genetic susceptibility and environmental risk factors (e.g. diet, lifestyle) contribut to alterations in causal DNA methylation for breast cancer development, and that such causal changes have already taken place in normal breast tissue before tumor occurrence. To test this hypothesis, normal breast tissue from healthy women is required to prospectively assess the effects of these risk factors on DNA methylation. We propose an integrative genomic and epidemiological approach that combines the regulation of DNA methylation in normal breast tissue and differential DNA methylation profiling in tumor and normal breast tissue. Specifically, we will generate and integrate multiple layers of data on environmental exposures and genome-wide genomic variations (germline and tissue-specific DNA methylation variations). We will examine the impact of genetic and environmental regulation on DNA methylation in normal breast tissue, and determine the association of these epigenetic changes with breast cancer development and occurrence. Normal breast tissue from healthy women will be used as the most desirable baseline control in comparison with tumor, as well as the most desirable target tissue to identify changes in potentially causal DNA methylation markers before tumor occurrence. We are uniquely positioned to conduct the proposed research as we have ready access to unique normal breast tissue through the Susan G. Komen Tissue Bank at Indiana University Simon Cancer Center. This resource represents the only biorepository in the world for large numbers of epidemiologically annotated, optimally prepared normal breast tissue specimens (>3200) from healthy women in a wide range of ages and environmental exposures. This project will contribute significantly to our understanding of the key, early biological processes during breast cancer development, in particular the complex mechanisms among genetic variation, environmental and lifestyle risk factors, and epigenetic changes. It will lead t breakthroughs for breast cancer management in developing novel, more effective prevention and treatment strategies that specifically target causal DNA methylation markers.
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Making its third consecutive appearance, Velodyne LiDAR will be on hand during this week's Small Unmanned Systems Business Exposition (http://susbexpo.com/) at San Francisco's Fort Mason, brandishing one of the hottest technologies in the UAV market – its VLP-16 LiDAR Puck.
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Various Artists – SIN-atra
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Released By : Armoury Records
Genre : Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Tribute Album
Links : http://www.eagle-rock.com/
01. New York, New York [feat. Devin Townsend]
02. I've Got You Under My Skin [feat. Glenn Hughes]
03. Summerwind [feat. Geoff Tate]
04. It Was a Very Good Year [feat. Dee Snider]
05. Witchcraft [feat. Tim "Ripper" Owens]
06. Fly Me to the Moon [feat. Robin Zander]
07. Lady Is a Tramp [feat. Eric Martin]
08. Strangers in the Night [feat. Belladonna]
09. High Hopes [feat. Franky Perez]
10. I've Got the World on a String [feat. Doug Pinnick]
11. Love and Marriage [feat. Elias Soriano]
12. That's Life [feat. Jani Lane]
The simple fact here is that this album never stood a chance of really working. Sure these are absolute classic songs that may well get a re-introduction to a new audience via this release, but the approach taken with some of these songs falls flat. I guess the biggest surprise for me personally when I listened to this album was that I never realized just how many Frank Sinatra songs I actually knew all the words to! (Basically every song on this collection if you were wondering).
Though the majority of the cuts here aren't really anything to get excited about, there is a few however that are actually quite brilliant. Probably none more so than the ever-frantic DEVIN TOWNSEND who takes New York, New York apart and reconstructs it in his own weird way…Don't ask me how, but for some reason this track is absolutely excellent. The king of the freaks DEE SNIDER absolutely nails a kick-ass version IT WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR and we find him in as good a touch as he's been in a long time. ERIC MARTIN'S version of LADY IS A TRAMP was a highlight for me, but to be honest I could listen to this guy sing just about anything (Except for the horrible Japanese only Mr. Vocalist releases, but don't get me started on those) so that may be a bit of a biased choice. Jani Lane also (As much as I personally can't stand the guy) brings his A-game here for a great run through THAT'S LIFE.
There is also a few disasters here too but I won't get into them too much here…Suffice to say though Joey Belladonna may be a very favored artist, but his version of STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT….uughhh!! It also pains me to say that GLENN HUGHES' version of I've GOT YOU UNDER MY SKIN is pretty disappointing too.
It's hard to see where the market for this album lies… Obviously olden day Sinatra fans will have a heart attack if they ever venture out far enough to sample these versions of some timeless tunes, and hard rock fans for the part would usually demand more than some of the sub-par efforts here, but for all of its downfalls there is definitely something about it that draws you in. Be sure to check it out, just as a curio if nothing else.
Written By ZeeZee
Rating : 7/10
Tagged 2011, Album Review, conflicted never be tamed, Dee Snider, Devin Townsend, devin townsend interview may 2011, ERIC MARTIN, eric martin interview, Geoff Tate, Glenn Hughes, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Jani Lane, Metal, online interviews geoff tate 2011, Rock, Tribute Album, Various Artists
Jamie Alimorad – Cornerstone/Words Left Unsaid Review
If there's one artist I would like to highly recommend at the moment then it is JAMIE ALIMORAD. Now this is how AOR should sound like! Forget all those European AOR wanna-bee bands and all the AOR label organised projects, because here we have something really original in the shape of a multi-instrumentalist/ singer/songwriter, who is able to write original catchy AOR/Melodic Poprock tunes in the style of the American/Canadian tradition of legendary artists like VAN STEPHENSON, RICK MATHEWS, RICK SPRINGFIELD, BRYAN ADAMS, BUTCH WALKER, BERNIE LABARGE, STAN MEISSNER and even STAN BUSH!
Skull Daze – Skull Daze
SKULL DAZE are very new band from Italy who play an eighties inspired brand of sleazy hard rock that bears some striking similarities to RATT, DOKKEN and even some early day DANGER DANGER for good measure. They have only been around since 2007 and after releasing an E.P in 2008 won an award to record a full-length album. This self-titled debut is the result and I can tell you one thing…
Hinder – All American Nightmare
The simple fact is that their third album ALL AMERICAN NIGHTMARE is destined to share the same fate and I totally expect it to get destroyed in the wider music journalism world. But you know what, screw that!! I quite enjoyed the new album, even though it isn't much different from the previous one it still shows a band that wants to me modern but is still willing to pay tribute to those gone before…
Eliminator – We Rule The Night
Of Wrath And Ruin – Conquering Oblivion


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Reflections on last week's discrimination against LGBTs at the polls
Does the long arc of history bend toward justice?
by Steven Petrow
By now we know the devastating news that occurred in polling stations across the nation last week. Specifically, I'm thinking of the ballot measures in California, Arkansas, Arizona and Florida that codified discrimination against couples of the same sex and, frankly, the entire LGBT community.
Take note that I did not say the "devastating news for gays and lesbians," because the stain of the defeat for marriage equality in California, the backward measure to prevent unmarried couples from adopting in Arizona, and The Sunshine State's approval of a blatantly mean-spirited constitutional amendment barring same-sex marriage and civil unions taints all of us, regardless of sexual orientation.
Much of what we're been in reading in the news since Election Day consists of two themes. First, the LGBT community, appropriately, is in an uproar about these widespread defeats. The headlines capture that zeitgeist: "Thousands protest LDS [Mormon] stance on same-sex marriage" (Salt Lake Tribune), "Utah boycott urged after California vote" (Washington Post), and "Prop 8 protest at Mormon temple" (San Francisco Chronicle). Meanwhile, the ACLU, Lambda Legal and the National Center for Lesbian Rights have filed multiple lawsuits before the California Supreme Court seeking to invalidate Prop 8.
The other major theme is summed up perfectly in a post-election New York Times editorial, titled "Equality's winding path." After highlighting its "disappointment" with the LGBT-related election results, the Times' editorial board continued: "We do not view these results as reasons for despair. Struggles over civil rights never follow a straight trajectory, and the ugly outcome of these ballot fights should not obscure the building momentum for full equality for gay people, including acceptance of marriage between gay men and women."
Sorry to disagree with the esteemed Times, but I am in despair and I am angry. And I am not alone.
How many times this past week have we readin regard to Barack Obama's historic victory, or in reference to the passage of the anti-gay measuresthat "the long arc of history bends towards justice," which is meant to help us put events in their proper perspective. This always sounds patronizing to me, like, "There, there, young fellow. Everything will be just fine. You just wait."
A few days ago, our national poet Maya Angelou beautifully buttressed this idea on CBS News, reading from one of her seminal works, "Rise," to an audience in the millions:
"You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lies, you may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise. Out of the huts of history's shame I rise up from a past rooted in pain I rise. I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise into daybreak miraculously clear I rise. Bringing the hopes that my ancestors gave, I am the hope and the dream of the slave. And so, we all rise."
Amen, as far as the African-American struggle goes. But how much easier it is to see the arc of history when you have the prize in hand.
While less eloquent than Angelou, one LGBT group made the same "long road" argument in an e-mail blast to its supporters: "The path to equality is not a straight road, so to speak. We advance, and then we go backwards. So the question to ask is: Overall are we moving forward? The answer ... is a resounding yes."
I do not share that perspective. I cannot view the big picture when I see today's hatred of lesbians and gays expressed and then codified in state after state.
We are being counseled, from within and from outside our community, to be patient, to savor the small victories, like the election of Jared Polis, who will become the third openly gay member of Congress, and the defeat of Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave, the author of the federal Marriage Amendment. We are also being asked to remember some of our breathtaking victories of late, including the Connecticut Supreme Court's recent decision to allow same-sex marriage and the defeat last week in that state to call for a Constitutional Convention to overturn that very decision.
I am mindful of all that, but even in middle age, I find all this talk of patience and "the winding path of equality" bitter pills to swallow. Yes, so much was rightly made this past week of the great distance we have come by electing an African-American to the White House, specifically of the roadblocks and setbacks along the way: the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. 40 years ago this spring; the 1963 bombing of the Birmingham church, resulting in the deaths of four little girls; and the small-town terrors and cross-burnings by the KKK over the decades.
Yet I have read not a word in the mainstream media this week about the murder, 30 years ago this month, of the gay civil rights leader of our time, Harvey Milk (except perhaps as part of a promotion for Gus Van Sant's new film, Milk); or the slaughter of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard, 10 years ago this fall, outside of Laramie, Wyo.; nor the point-blank shooting murder of Lawrence "Larry" King in a Ventura County, Calif., junior high last year, by a fellow eighth grader, because of the young man's sexual orientation.
I have not read a word in the national press about the Miami Beach condo association that recently turned away a gay family because of their sexual orientation; nor about last month's protest at a Louisville, Ky., McDonald's after an employee repeated called five visitors "faggots"; nor about the fact that the murderer of 20-year- old Sean Kennedy in Greenville, S.C., in 2007 got a meager 30 months' prison time for killing Kennedy because he was gay.
All these heinous crimes are not acts against simply the LGBT community: They are crimes that should exact pain, despair and anger in every heartno matter straight or gay. These are crimes that stain our entire fabric of life, not just one community.
So, yes, the LGBT community has risen in arms, but this is not solely a gay rights struggle, as the black civil rights movement was not simply a black issue. Where are youand your mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters and childrenin this fight? And, to my fellow LGBT friends, where are ours? How do we bring them into this fight?
When I was 15 years old in 1973, my mother took me to the Nixon counter-inaugural in Washington, D.C., sporting a button that read "Another Mother for Peace," a loosely knit group of anti-war mothers from coast to coast. Remember, it was only when the mothers (and fathers) of this country turned against the war that Nixon changed course on his Vietnam policies. It wasn't enough that students, leftists and disaffected others had taken to the streets.
The same is true today. Until our families, friends and colleagues embrace same-sex equality in greater numbers, we will not see victory at the polls. Perhaps it's time for a new button, one that reads "Another mother for LGBT rights." Or "One more dad for marriage equality." As for patience, please don't talk to me about that. I simply can't do that to the memory of Harvey Milk. We still have too much distance to travel for me to take the long view.
A protest about Prop 8 is planned for Saturday, Nov. 15, at 1:30 p.m. at the State Capitol, 1 E. Edenton St., in Raleigh 46 E. Lane St., Halifax Mall (between Wilmington and Salisbury streets, behind the N.C. Legislative Building), downtown Raleigh. See jointheimpact.com for details.
Steven Petrow is a former president of the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association and a contributor to the Huffington Post.
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Mummy's Little Blog: Bit of a sado when he goes!
Today I'm upset nothing too bad, my husband leaves today for three weeks to work at this Christan even called spring harvest! boo! I will really miss him its not fun on the holidays without him! I'm sure we will do lots of fun things without him! we will survive i will miss that extra pair of hands and someone other than the kids to talk to! We will see him next week as we join him for a week but its not the same! least there is no school runs to do hee hee!
Will have to plan to do some things in the holidays if the weather improves, then maybe craft Pants has got to the age (at long last) where he can sit to do some craft so maybe i can persuade him to come of ps3/ipod to do something like that! Every year my husband does spring harvest so I'm used to it! i usually write him letters every day but i forgot and the time came round so quick! how is it Easter already this year if flying by! maybe will have to send an email each day! oh well! When ever he goes away i watch videos of him on you tube (there is a few short films hes made with him self in these)! my mum always says too absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Although we did go out for breakfast so both the boys are happy!


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Current: Gynotician Alert of the Week: June …
Gynotician Alert of the Week: June 27-July 3
By Emmy Boyd | July 2, 2015, 2:24 p.m.
Category: Abortion Access, State Attacks
Last week: Ohio Gov. John Kasich signed a state budget that may cause more health care centers to close; meanwhile, a law forcing 48-hour wait times for women seeking safe, legal abortion went into effect in Tennessee.
O-HI-No
Even More Ohio Abortion Clinics May Be Forced To Close, Thanks To Anti-Abortion Restrictions Snuck Into The State Budget
Wednesday, July 1, 2015, By Lauren Holter, via Bustle
Governor Kasich and the Ohio legislature are not-so-slowly getting rid of the state's abortion clinics. The eight facilities in Ohio now aren't even enough to care for the more than two million Ohio women of reproductive age.
Lady Brain Reflection Time
181 New Laws Take Effect Today In Tennessee
Wednesday, July 1, 2015, By Associated Press, via Times Free Press
Hedy Weinberg, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee, said her group opposes the abortion laws because "they interfere with a woman's ability to make personal, private health care decisions." She said the requirements interfere with the doctor-patient relationship, are burdensome for women and interfere with women's health and safety.
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Q: jQuery select2 plugin using display:none I'm using the select2 plugin and i'm having a hard time doing the style="display:none".
This is my code:
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<select class="selectPretty" name="charge_to">
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A: When you render a select2 this html is usually generated:

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If id is not defined for your select in html, then it usually generates an id like 's2id_autogen1'.
Here is the JSFiddle using CSS to hide it and also a jQuery selector to use:
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