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Police said surveillance video shows a Florida man fuse a machete to fend off an attempted robbery. (Sarasota County Sheriff's Office)
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At about 4:45 a.m. Thursday, police received a report of a suspicious person armed with a rifle at a home in the 2100-block of Dodge Avenue in Sarasota. Police arrived and discovered the victim had disarmed the suspect and was holding the suspect for police.
The victim told police more suspects were involved and police located a vehicle matching a description of the suspect's vehicle and four more suspects were apprehended.
Police said surveillance video captured the entire incident, showing the suspects enter the home armed with a shotgun, machete and crowbar. The suspects attempted to rob the victim, but were seen fleeing while the victim armed himself with a machete.
Five people were taken into custody and charged, police said. Alen Beltran-Vazquez was charged with two counts of armed robbery and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Ronier Jauregui-Lorente and Angel Cabrera-Basulto were each charged with two counts of armed robbery. Jorge Valido-Leyva and Roberto Salcedo-Balanza face two counts each of principal to armed robbery.
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Muriel Casals i Couturier (Avignon,  6 april 1945 – Barcelona, 14 februari 2016) was een Catalaanse econome en hoogleraar.

Biografie
Casals werd geboren in 1945 in ballingschap in Avignon, uit een relatie van een Franse moeder en een Catalaanse politieke vluchteling na de Spaanse Burgeroorlog en de staatsgreep door dictator Francisco Franco. Tijdens een familiebezoek nam de Guardia Civil haar vaders papieren in beslag, zodat hij niet naar Frankrijk kon terugkeren. Haar jeugd heeft ze doorgebracht in Sabadell, toen een belangrijk centrum van de textielindustrie. Vanuit haar eigen Frans-Catalaanse jeugd en opvoeding begrijpt ze het gevoel van een dubbele culturele identiteit of nationaliteit van veel mensen goed.

Ze heeft economie aan de Autonome Universiteit van Barcelona gestudeerd. In 1981 behaalde ze de doctorstitel met een verhandeling over de gevolgen van de eerste wereldoorlog op de textiel- en wolindustrie.  Ze was gasthoogleraar aan de Universiteit van Edinburgh, de London School of Economics en de Universiteit van Wales in Bangor. Ze had een vaste column in het weekblad El Temps.

Als voorzitster van de cultuurvereniging Òmnium Cultural was Casals samen met Carme Forcadell i Lluís van de Assemblea Nacional Catalana de drijvende kracht achter de manifestatie van 11 september 2014, tijdens welke, al naargelang van de bron, één tot twee miljoen mensen in gele en rode T-shirts een elf kilometer lange Catalaanse vlag uitgebeeld hebben. Met haar charisma en diplomatische kracht heeft ze een grote rol gespeeld in de verzoening tussen de centrum rechtse partij Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya (CDC) en de links-republikeinse Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC), met als resultaat het kartel Junts pel Sí, een lijst waarop ze stond als onafhankelijke. Op 26 oktober 2015 werd ze verkozen als afgevaardigde van het Catalaans Parlement voor dat kartel. Vanaf 26 januari 2016 was ze voorzitster van de parlementscommissie voor het «grondwettelijk proces», die de toekomstige Catalaanse grondwet voorbereidt. Ze was het gezicht van de burgerbeweging die voor onafhankelijkheid opkwam.

Op 30 januari 2016 werd ze aangereden door een fietser. Op 14 februari 2016 overleed Muriel Casals i Couturier aan de verwondingen die ze bij dit ongeluk opliep.<ref>Núria Orriols, Marc Colomer, "Mor Muriel Casals, símbol de la lluita per la independència de Catalunya", Ara, 14 februari 2014</ref>

Werk
 L'Economia de Sabadell. Estructura, diagnòstic i perspectives (1983) (De economie van Sabadell: structuur, diagnose en vooruitzichten)
 La indústria a Catalunya. Tèxtil i confecció (1992, met anderen) (De industrie in Catalonië: textiel en confectie)
  La cultura, el mercat i la política (2000) (De cultuur, de markt en de politiek)
 "Women and Work in Catalonia: Is Catalonia Still a Working Society?" in: Eberhard Bort (red.), Networking Europe: Essays on Regionalism and Social Democracy. Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2000,
 Solving the "National" problems of Europe'' (2007)

Econoom
Hoogleraar
Catalaans activist

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or force. Feudalism had a phraseology to express the varieties of fiefs which existed under it; modern international law has no generally-accepted terminology for the still greater variety of states which now exist. These varieties tend to multiply, and it is difficult to reduce them all to a few types. The theory that states are equal, and possess all the attributes of sovereignty, was never true. It is still more at variance with the facts in these days when a few great states predominate, and when the contact of western states with African and Asiatic states or communities gives rise to relations of dependence falling short of conquest. The division into federations, confederations and alliances is not complete. Jellinek has suggested this classification (Die Lehre von den Staatenverbindungen, p. 58): (a) Unorganized associations, including — (1) treaties; (2) occupation of the territory of one state and administration by another, as in Bosnia and Cyprus; (3) alliances; (4) protectorates, guarantees, perpetual neutrality; (5) Der Staatenstaat, the feudal state, of which Jellinek gives the Turkish Empire and the old Holy Roman Empire as examples, (b) Organized associations, including — (1) international commissions (Internationale Verwaltungsvereine, such as international postal and telegraph unions, &c); (2) the Staatenbund or confederation of states; (3) real unions of states as distinguished from personal; (4) the Bundesstaat or federal state. 1 Most of the existing varieties may be conveniently ranged in the following classes: —
1. States which have complete independence, complete autonomy, external and internal, and which are recognized in international law as sovereign states.
2. States which have complete external independence, but are more or less subject permanently to other states as to their internal affairs. Of this class there are now few examples. Per- haps, however, such states as permit, permanently or normally, of interference by others on behalf of certain classes of subjects may.be so described. The general principle is that a treaty does not detract from sovereignty. As Jellinek expresses it. " Der Staatenvertrag bindet, aber er unterwirft nicht " (Gesetz und Verordnung, p. 205); or as Grotius (1. ch. 3, 22, 2) expresses it, " Nee regi aut populo jus demit summi imperii."
3. States which enjoy complete autonomy as to internal affairs, but which are more or less subject to other states as to foreign relations. Some writers would place in this category all states forming part of a true confederacy. It includes states which are united temporarily — cases of inorganic unity, to use Jellinek's expression. It includes also permanent alliances or organic unions. These are some examples: —
a. Protectorates and Suzerainties. — The status of certain states, such as Bulgaria and Rumania and the late South African Republic, were peculiar. Even before the independence of the two first- named states, they undoubtedly were for many purposes sovereign.
b. The unions between a superior and inferior state, e.g. the re- lations of the various states to the old Holy Roman Empire; the relations of the Ottoman Porte to its Christian provinces. In the middle ages the question was often mooted whether states subject to feudal superiors, or the states forming the empire, were sove- reign. According to one common definition they were not: a true sovereign state was universitas quae non superiorem recognoscit. " Celui est absolument souverain qui ne rien tient apres Dieu que del'espee. S'il tient d'autruiil n'est plus souverain." The prevalent opinion, however, was that sovereignty was compatible with rights such as were possessed by the Reich over the princes of Germany; that there might be fiefs held in full sovereignty; and that vassal states, when subject only to " nude vassalage," were sovereign. That was the view of Grotius (1. 1. ch. 3, 23. 2), who holds that the nexus feudalis is consistent with summum imperium.
4. States which have, by treaty or otherwise, parted with some portion of their sovereignty and formed new political units: what Herbert Spencer calls " compound political heads," or, to use Austin's expression, " composite states." The most important examples of this class consist of federal or composite states which by treaty or otherwise have surrendered certain of their powers, or which have created a new state (Staatenbund). For many years one of the burning questions in the politics of
1 The distinction between the Staatenbund and the Bundesstaat is discussed in the articles Con*ederation andiFEDERAL Govern- ment.
the United States was the question whether the individual states of the Union remained sovereign. According to the theory of J. C Calhoun, the states had entered into an agreement from which they might withdraw if its terms were broken, and they were sovereign. According to the theory expounded in the Federalist, the individual states did not, after the formation of the constitu- tion, remain completely sovereign: they were left in possession of certain attributes of sovereignty, while others were lodged in the Federal government; while there existed many states, there was but one sovereign. Even if the origin was a compact or contract, after the " United States " were formed by a " consti- tutional act " there no longer existed a mere contractual relation: there existed a state to which all were subject, and which all must obey (von Stengel, Staatenbund und Bundesstaat; Jahrbuch fiir Gesetzgebung, 1898, p. 754; Cooley, Principles of Constitutional Law, pp. 21, 102). According to Austin: " In the case of a composite state or a supreme federal government, the several united governments of the several united societies together with a government common to these several societies, are jointly sovereign in each of these several societies and also in the larger society arising from the federal union, the several governments of the several united societies are jointly sovereign in each and all " (5th ed., vol. i. p. 258). In point of fact, there are fields of action in which A is sovereign, others in which B is sovereign, and certain others in which A and B are jointly or alternately sovereign. To take the American constitution, for example, the states are sovereign as to some matters, the Federal government as to others.
5. Another division includes anomalous cases, such as Cyprus or Bosnia, in which one government administers a country as to which another state retains certain powers, theoretically large.
6. The territories governed or administered by chartered companies form a class by themselves. Nominally such com- panies are the delegates of some states; in reality they act as if they were true sovereigns.
7. Two other classes may be mentioned: (a) cases of real union between states, e.g. that between Austria and Hungary; (b) personal unions, distinguished from the above-named forms — for example, the union of Great Britain and Hanover.
8. A small group consists of instances of condominium or arrangements similar thereto; for example, the arrangements as to the Samoa Islands from 1889 to 1899.
According to modern usage the appellation " sovereign state " belongs only to states of considerable size and population exer- cising without control the usual powers of a state, e.g. able to declare peace or war. Leibnitz, discussing this subject in his Tractatus de jure suprernatus (Opera, 4. 362), says: " Itaque valde etiam dubito, an possit Reipublicae illi Italiae, quam vocant Sancti Marini oppidum, concedi suprernatus, Slzeot tametsi jure liberam esse nemo negat," a remark State. which would apply also to the .republic of Andorra: " Illi tantum vocantur souverains ou potentats, qui territorium majus habent, exercitumque educere possunt; atque hoc demum illud est, quod ego voco suprematum, et Gallos quoque arbitror, cum de rebus ad jus gentium spectantibus, pace, bello, foederibus sermo est, et ipsi aliquos vocant souverains, eos non de urbibus liberis loqui, nee exiguorum territoriorum dominis, quae facile dives Mercator sibi emere potest, sed de majoribus illis potestatibus, quae bellum inferre, bellum sustinere, propria quodammodo vi stare, foedera pangere, rebus aliarum gentium cum auctoritate intervenire possunt " (4. 359).
With this view, may be compared that of a writer in the Law Magazine (1899) xxv. 30, who argues that the republic of San Marino is a state in the full sense.
It is sometimes suggested that self-governing colonies are to be regarded as true states. Undoubtedly some of them can no longer be regarded as colonies in the old sense. The Co/on self-governing colonies forming part of the " multi-cellular British state," as F. W. Maitland describes it (Political Theories of the Middle Ages, p. x.), have an essentially " state-like character." If Liberia is a state, the same may surely be
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Q: Using `pam_access` with `substack` errors I am implementing pam_duo for multifactor authentication for SSH on a Redhat 9 system, but I want to only require it when the user is outside the network.
The file /etc/security/access-duo.conf contains the IP addresses that I want to have different rules for.
+ : ALL : 192.0.2.0/24 10.0.0.0/8
- : ALL : ALL

Users are authenticating with Kerberos, using SSSD. The /etc/pam.d/password-auth is the stock configuration set by authselect.
# Generated by authselect on Thu Jun 23 14:34:23 2022
# Do not modify this file manually.

auth        required                                     pam_env.so
auth        required                                     pam_faildelay.so delay=2000000
auth        [default=1 ignore=ignore success=ok]         pam_usertype.so isregular
auth        [default=1 ignore=ignore success=ok]         pam_localuser.so
auth        sufficient                                   pam_unix.so nullok try_first_pass
auth        [default=1 ignore=ignore success=ok]         pam_usertype.so isregular
auth        sufficient                                   pam_sss.so forward_pass
auth        required                                     pam_deny.so

[[Other types - account/password/session]]

I copied these rules and made two modifications for pam_duo:
auth        required                                     pam_env.so
auth        required                                     pam_faildelay.so delay=2000000
auth        [default=1 ignore=ignore success=ok]         pam_usertype.so isregular
auth        [default=1 ignore=ignore success=ok]         pam_localuser.so
auth        sufficient                                   pam_unix.so nullok try_first_pass
auth        [default=1 ignore=ignore success=ok]         pam_usertype.so isregular
auth        requisite                                    pam_sss.so forward_pass
auth        sufficient                                   pam_duo.so
auth        required                                     pam_deny.so

The change is pam_sss is now requisite and pam_duo is added and is sufficient.
I modified /etc/pam.d/sshd to skip rules based on pam_access:
auth       [success=1 default=ignore]      pam_access.so accessfile=/etc/security/access-duo.conf
auth       substack                        password-auth-duo
auth       [success=ignore default=1]      pam_access.so accessfile=/etc/security/access-duo.conf
auth       substack                        password-auth
auth       include                         postlogin

When I try to connect with SSH, I am able to successfully authenticate and a Duo prompt is only shown if I am connecting from outside the network, but then the SSH connection is suddenly closed and the server logs the error in /var/log/secure:
sshd[94170]: fatal: PAM: pam_setcred(): The return value should be ignored by PAM dispatch

I have also tried with the exact same content in /etc/pam.d/password-auth-duo and  /etc/pam.d/password-auth and I still have this issue, so it isn't Duo related.
If I copy all the rules from the substack into /etc/pam.d/sshd, everything works, but it makes the files difficult to read, so I would like to keep them separate.
I found very few results in a search for this error - most of them are pretty old and don't have obvious implications for my situation.
What am I missing? Is this a configuration issue or a PAM bug?

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Roberto Batista de Paula Filho (São Paulo, 3 de setembro de 1952), mais conhecido como Roberto Bacuri ou simplesmente Bacuri, é um ex-futebolista brasileiro que jogava como volante. É o 14º maior artilheiro do Paysandu, com 78 gols, chegando a estar entre os dez primeiros. Destacou-se exatamente pelo número alto de gols para a sua posição, mais recuada, além de um futebol vistoso no meio-campo. Foi o grande ídolo do clube ao longo da década de 1970.

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Início
Formado nas categorias de base da Portuguesa, subiu rapidamente ao time de aspirantes, sendo campeão estadual da categoria em 1973. Porém, não conseguia ser promovido à equipe adulta, cujo forte elenco venceria o estadual de 1973 - o terceiro e último da história da "Lusa".

Roberto chegou a receber propostas do futebol francês, não efetivadas sob promessa de que logo teria oportunidades no elenco principal. Elas não vieram e o jogador foi emprestado inicialmente ao Operário de Campo Grande, ainda em 1973. Em 1974, o Paysandu passou a ser treinado pelo paulista João Avelino "71", que recomendou a contratação da promessa rubroverde.

Foi o próprio Avelino quem criou-lhe o apelido de bacuri, fruta típica do Pará, para Roberto, como o jogador era até então conhecido; em função do tamanho diminuto, já tinha apelido similar de bacurau, que influenciou na nova alcunha, criada também para diferencia-lo do atacante Roberto - que na mesma época já tinha renome local como ídolo do rival Remo. Em 2015, Bacuri relembrou que "eu nem sabia o que era bacuri, nunca tinha visto antes sequer uma fruta, até que o Omar chegou a casa um dia com um bacuri e uma faca e eu fui abrir igual a uma laranja e ele ficou rindo de mim".

O empréstimo de Bacuri visaria apenas o Brasileirão de 1974, onde destacou-se na boa campanha alviazul, encerrada já na fase semifinal. Uma das partidas mais recordadas da campanha nacional foi justamente um clássico Re-Pa, encerrando em 0-0 no estádio rival. Foi o primeiro clássico de Roberto Bacuri e terminou em drama: o árbitro Romualdo Arppi Filho hesitou em confirmar um gol que daria a vitória aos visitantes, apesar da validação do bandeirinha. Bacuri teria sido um dos alviazuis mais revoltados, visto como um dos que mais teriam insuflado a invasão de campo que se sucedeu - em confusão cada vez mais generalizada, a incluir quatro torcedores baleados, embora sem vítimas fatais. O jornal A Província estampou em sua manchete que "Bala acabou com o Re-Pa". O placar foi confirmado em 0-0 horas depois do encerramento forçado.

Bacuri agradou no novo clube e terminou adquirido em definitivo, participando também do estadual daquele ano, realizado no segundo semestre. Em outro 0-0, fora de casa, em 12 de outubro, ele e colegas garantiram o primeiro turno, mas adiante o arquirrival terminou campeão. Foi um período em que o Remo venceu em três anos seguidos a competição, mantendo-se invicto na rivalidade, acumulando 23 Re-Pas seguidos sem perder entre 1973 e 1976 - a maior sequência invicta no duelo até a década de 1990.

A grande fase

O tabu foi encerrado em 31 de março de 1976, em vitória por 3-1 dentro do estádio remista na qual Bacuri marcou dois gols, em partida válida pela Taça Cidade de Belém. Ela foi marcada por diversas confusões; chegou a haver interrupção de vinte minutos e seis azulinos foram expulsos, assim como dois jogadores alviazuis e seu treinador, Juan Álvarez. Com a vitória, o "Papão" faturou de forma invicta o torneio.

O Paysandu emendou outros cinco clássicos invictos após aquele. No primeiro deles, em amistoso em 21 de abril, ganhou, novamente no estádio azulino, com um gol contra de Aderson, em lance protagonizado por Bacuri: ele cabeceou a bola na trave, e na sequência ela rebateu no adversário e entrou - no último minuto. A jogada de "sorte" foi uma das mais recordadas em meio à ótima fase que Bacuri viveu no ano, marcada por outros gols aparentemente casuais, algo que ele refutou em entrevista na época à revista Placar: "sorte coisa nenhuma. Quando a gente está bem fisicamente, tudo dá certo. O negócio é batalhar e insistir, que os gols acabam saindo". Dias depois, em 1 de maio, Bacuri estreou pela seleção paraense, que não se reunia desde 1971. Em amistoso contra a seleção amazonense, marcou um dos gols de vitória por 2-0, comemorada com gritos de "olé" nos minutos finais.

Neste embalo, o Paysandu obteve adiante também o estadual de 1976, em nova campanha invicta. Nela, Bacuri voltou a marcar no Re-Pa, na vitória por 2-0 que deu ao "Papão" o primeiro turno, em outro triunfo no campo rival. Na final do segundo turno, chegou a ser expulso, mas os colegas triunfaram na decisão por pênaltis. Bacuri foi personagem de destaque também nos clássicos com a Tuna: marcou gols em três, em dois empates em 1-1, no primeiro e no terceiro turno, e na decisão do terceiro turno, vencida por 1-0 sobre os cruzmaltinos - após outra vitória prévia no Re-Pa, este por W.O. do principal rival. Naquele ano, o "Papão" chegou a acumular uma invencibilidade de 31 partidas. Foram ao todo seis gols de Bacuri na campanha, terminando na vice-artilharia do elenco alviazul.

O título de 1976, porém, seria o único do clube entre 1972 e 1980, com o Remo obtendo um novo tricampeonato entre 1977 e 1979. Em 1977, chegou a marcar duas vezes no Re-Pa, em 1-1 pelo Torneio Pará-Maranhão e na vitória de 4-1, na casa rival, pela Taça Cidade de Belém. Em 1978, marcou um dos gols na vitória por 4-0 da seleção do Pará sobre a seleção uruguaia juvenil, na inauguração oficial do Mangueirão.

Em 1979, Roberto Bacuri tornou-se o primeiro jogador do Paysandu a marcar três gols em uma mesma partida do Brasileirão, em vitória por 4-2 sobre o Botafogo da Paraíba. Ao fim do ano, marcou um dos gols em vitória por 2-1 no Re-Pa, a dar ao "Papão" o título do terceiro turno do estadual daquele ano. Embalados com a contratação de Dadá Maravilha no decorrer da competição, os alviazuis venceram o terceiro e o quarto turnos, após o rival ter vencido os dois primeiros. Bacuri fez 17 gols na campanha, e o veterano Dario, 16. Porém, na finalíssima o time terminou derrotado pelo Remo, resultado que rendeu críticas ao desempenho de Bacuri.

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Bacuri, que jamais havia sido oficialmente profissionalizado (sendo remunerado apenas por luvas e chegando a receber menos que coadjuvantes embora fosse um dos destaques do clube), resolveu ir em 1980 ao Ceará, onde foi enfim profissionalizado. No primeiro semestre, participou do Brasileirão daquele ano, marcando um gol no empate em 3-3 com o São Paulo. Permaneceu no Nordeste no segundo semestre, defendeu o América de Natal no campeonato potiguar de 1980, onde seu clube terminou campeão.

Em paralelo, o campeonato paraense de 1980 desenrolou-se a princípio favoravelmente à Tuna Luso, campeã dos dois primeiros turnos enquanto os alviazuis trocavam constantemente de treinador. João Avelino "71" reassumiu a equipe para os últimos dez jogos. Avelino ordenou o retorno de Bacuri, que, já profissionalizado, impôs-se nas negociações. Reestreou já no terceiro turno. O clube iniciou boa fase, garantindo o turno com antecipação em vitória por 5-0 sobre o Izabelense. Foi o único gol de Bacuri na campanha (onde revezou-se com Patrulheiro na titularidade), na qual a produção maior de gols ficou sob outro reforço da reta final, Chico Spina. Adiante, o "Papão" confirmou o título nas finais com a Tuna.

Em 1981, ele aceitou oferta do interior baiano e foi defender o Itabuna na Taça de Prata do Brasileirão, mas sofreu com três meses de salários atrasados. Voltou ao Paysandu, que já não era treinado por Avelino, cujo substituto exigiu que Bacuri se sujeitasse a testes. Ele recusou e, com a recusa do clube em vender seu passe ao rival Remo, Bacuri preferiu encerrar precocemente a carreira, não chegando a participar do título paraense daquele ano.

Tornou-se recluso do meio futebolístico, passando a residir no interior paraense, em Bragança, administrando uma pizzaria local. Segue como 14º maior artilheiro do Paysandu, com 78 gols. Quando parou, era o nono maior; foi depois superado por Cabinho (quinto maior, com 127 ao longo da década de 1980), Zé Augusto (sétimo maior, com 118 entre as décadas de 1990 e a de 2010), Edil Highlander (décimo maior, com 95 entre as décadas de 1980 e de 2000), Robgol (11º maior, com 91 na década de 2000) e o ex-colega Patrulheiro, que fez um a mais até deixar o clube em 1986.

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América de Natal
Campeonato Potiguar: 1980

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Published by News Staff on Mon, 12/23/2013 - 9:44am
Wilhelm Bernhard "Bill" Domasch died Friday, Dec. 20, 2013 at St. Mark's Medical Center in La Grange. Bill was born on Jan. 3, 1922 in Warda to Alvin and Lydia (Pietsch) Domasch. He was baptized at Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Warda on Jan. 22, 1922 by Rev. Gottfried Buchschacher and confirmed at Bethany Lutheran Church in Greens Creek on April 13, 1936 by Rev. Paul C. Eifert. Bill was united in marriage to Aura Lee Wendler on Dec. 13, 1940 in Houston. He was a farmer and rancher who had also been employed as an electrician, carpenter and truck driver. He enjoyed being outdoors, hunting and fishing. He taught each of his great-grandchildren how to fish. He is survived by his two aughters and sons-in-law, Barbara and Larry Spence of Rosanky and Helen and Innis Wagner Jr. of Warrenton; two grandchildren, Denise Wolff of Austin and Carrie Wagner of Warrenton; two great-grandchildren, Tyler Wolff of San Antonio and Chris Baumbach of La Grange; four nieces, Evelyn Strangemeyer of Brenham, Ann Schwinger of Houston, Julie Strong of Austin and Myra Nowicki of Ledbetter and a nephew, Michael Albers of Waldeck. He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife; two sistersin- law, Minnie Albers and husband, Eddie, and Zita Albers and husband, Alfred; two brothersin- law, Hubert Wendler and wife Clara, and Arno Wendler and wife Maxine. Visitation will be held on
Friday, Dec. 27, 2013 from 11 a.m. until 9 p.m. and on Saturday, Dec. 28, 2013 from 7 a.m. until 8 a.m. at Phillips & Luckey Funeral Home in Giddings. The family will be present for visitation Friday evening from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m
Funeral services for Bill Domasch, 91, of Ledbetter will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 28, 2013 at Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Warda with Rev. Dennis Tegtmeier officiating. Burial will follow in the Giddings City Cemetery.
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Featuring Barack Obama, Celia Paul, a Vermeer thief, and more
November 25, 2020 By Book Marks
Barack Obama's A Promised Land, Celia Paul's Self-Portrait, Ed Caesar's The Moth and the Mountain, Anthony M. Amore's The Woman Who Stole Vermeer, and Pryia Basil's Be My Guest all feature among November's best reviewed memoirs and biographies.
1. A Promised Land by Barack Obama
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8 Rave • 9 Positive • 3 Mixed
"Reading Barack Obama's deeply introspective and at times elegiac new presidential memoir, I thought often about something the writer James Baldwin said in 1970, two years removed from the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and despairing about America from abroad. 'Hope,' an exhausted Baldwin told a reporter from Ebony magazine, 'is invented every day.' … A Promised Land often reads like a conversation Obama is having with himself—questioning his ambition, wrestling with whether the sacrifices were worth it, toggling between pride in his administration's accomplishments and self-doubt over whether he did enough. Written in the Trump era, under an administration bent on repudiating everything he stood for, his elegant prose is freighted with uncertainty about the state of our politics, about whether we can ever reach the titular promised land … this 701-page tome—part one of two—isn't the usual post-presidential legacy-burnishing project. There is a literary grandness, to be sure—references to Hemingway and Yeats and dramatic renderings of moments high and low captured in sometimes Sorkin-esque dialogue. But the triumphs are tempered with brooding reflections about the inevitable limitations of the presidency. In this surprisingly fast-moving volume, the audacity isn't in the hopefulness but the acknowledgment of its low ebb."
–Eli Stokols (The Los Angeles Times)
2. Self-Portrait by Celia Paul
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8 Rave • 3 Positive
"It's an account of a life so rigorously dedicated to art and family that fame seems beside the point … As a writer, she's possessed of a heightened sensibility, a particular vantage on to the world … Self-Portrait illuminates what Freud's long shadow obscured: Celia Paul herself, and an altogether different way of being an artist … Paul speaks of Freud not as a teacher, but a lover, a man who both delighted and frustrated her. She does not engage in the question of what effect his style might have had on her artistic development, nor does she answer whether her youthful experience modeling for Freud informed her own practice of painting … Celia Paul is a more gifted writer than she has any business being; it's almost unfair … Self-Portrait reads like a novel. Paul alights on a topic, offers asides and digressions, circles back to her main point. The work is written with intention but wears it lightly … Her painting is not an act of close observation—she's seen these people before—but some deeper communion with the person she's aiming to fix on canvas. It's impressive that she's able to render them in words, too, on the page: Freud, her parents, and, of course, herself. "
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3. The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War, and Everest by Ed Caesar
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"This tale of a 'driven and defiant' amateur and his dream is true and presented with brio by Ed Caesar … The author is a talented storyteller with a flair for detail. His subject's absurdity is not lost on him. Yet Mr. Caesar also displays a handsome refusal to laugh at anyone's dreams … Wilson's story is an entry less in the annals of mountaineering than in the Book of Life. That such an extraordinary person even existed is cause for celebration … To give every detail of Wilson's tenacious struggle upon Everest would be to spoil an outstanding book … returns readers to a romantic era when Everest was terra nova rather than an experience to be bought. It remained unvanquished. From the first page we know Wilson never stood a chance. But no one ever made a more dashing attempt."
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4. The Woman Who Stole Vermeer: The True Story of Rose Dugdale and the Russborough House Art Heist by Anthony M. Amore
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Read an excerpt from The Woman Who Stole Vermeer here
"As Amore illustrates with an irresistible blend of wryness and affection, [Rose's] adopted proletarian role was not always convincing or particularly noble … Amore's winning detachment is unchanged as Rose evolves from debutante to desperado … Amore's publisher has falsely advertised his droll, engaging book as an 'unbelievable' heist story. Ocean's 8 (or 11, 12, 13) it's not, Dugdale is more Fawlty than Ocean. Yet this in no way diminishes the pleasures of The Woman Who Stole Vermeer. Rose is terrific company: clever, forthright and flamboyant."
–Max Carter (The New York Times Book Review)
5. Be My Guest: Reflections on Food, Community, and the Meaning of Generosity by Priya Basil
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"Reading this slender, rich exploration of what it means to cook for others is like pulling up a chair at the ideal dinner party. The food is mouth-watering—creamy curries, candied baobab seeds, fat slices of homemade pizza—but just as nourishing is the conversation, which embraces hospitality in its many guises, from the strained welcome received by Syrian refugees in the author's adoptive Germany to the langar, a free meal served in Sikh temples … Add a pinch of Derrida and a slug of retro pop culture, and you've got an irresistible amuse-bouche."
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Six months after masked assailants broke in to Naftali Base to steal weapons additional break-in sees soldier's personal rifle stolen, prompting fears that thieves received assistance from someone inside the base
Maor Buchnik|Published: 06.15.13 , 15:24
Only half a year after masked assailants broke into the IDF's Naftali Base, near the Golani Junction in the north of Israel, attacking a soldier and stealing four rifles, an additional break in was reported Saturday.
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During Saturday's break-in, also in the Naftali army base, the personal rifle of one of the soldiers serving at the base was stolen. Military Police have launched an investigation.
It appears that during the late hours of Friday night, unknown thieves broke into the base and stole the weapon of one of the soldiers who not only serves at the base but was actually present at the base at the time of the break-in.
The IDF's Spokesperson Unit has confirmed the report. The Northern Command said it would conduct an investigation of their own, parallel to that of the Military Police, that would include the questioning of senior base commanders.
The investigation aims to reveal whether soldiers were involved – or attacked – during the incident, and whether the weapon was taken with or without resistance on their part.
Last October, masked assailants broke into the base. An investigation into the incident revealed that the thieves managed to reach the guard's position near the armory, and disable the soldier in charge of guarding the warehouse.
The thieves, who tied the soldier, managed to steal his personal rifle as well as those of three other soldiers serving at the base.
Military police fear the group received assistance from within the base.
It is worth noting that the Naftali Base is not the only IDF base which have successfully been breached by thieves. Last July, a Palestinian managed to break into an army base in the Jordan Valley. The man, a metal thief, was caught and transferred to military police for investigation.
Elior Levy contributed to this report
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FILE PHOTO: Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds a news conference on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in London, Britain on Mar 29, 2021. (Photo: Hollie Adams/Pool via REUTERS)
05 Apr 2021 07:25AM (Updated: 05 Apr 2021 07:42AM)
LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will set out plans to reopen the economy and eventually relaunch international travel on Monday (Apr 5) when he updates the coronavirus roadmap, aided by one of the fastest vaccine roll-outs in the world.
As much of Europe enters new lockdowns to tackle surging cases, Johnson will give an update on his staggered plan to ease restrictions in the coming months, a huge boost for one of the worst-hit countries during the pandemic.
Johnson is expected to confirm that non-essential retail, outdoor hospitality and hairdressers can reopen on Apr 12 in England, while he will also give more details on vaccine passports and international travel.
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Airlines are fighting for survival after a year of nearly no travel, and the government's plan to use a traffic-light system for countries based on infection and vaccination levels gives a glimmer of hope that some form of holidays could take place.
Under the current plan international travel will not resume until May 17 at the earliest. The Financial Times said Johnson was not expected to set out a specific timeframe.
The gradual relaxation of rules will also be aided by an increase in testing availability, with everyone in England entitled to take a rapid COVID-19 test twice a week to prevent outbreaks and find those people not displaying symptoms.
"As we continue to make good progress on our vaccine programme and with our roadmap to cautiously easing restrictions underway, regular rapid testing is even more important to make sure those efforts are not wasted," Johnson said in a statement.
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Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are following their own, similar paths out of a strict lockdown that was imposed at the beginning of this year.
Britain is able to pursue a recovery after it gave AstraZeneca and Pfizer shots to more than half the adult population. A reopening of schools in March has also not yet led to a spike in cases, despite a ramp-up in more testing.
But the United Kingdom has been badly hit by the pandemic. With almost 127,000 deaths, it has the fifth-highest toll in the world behind the United States, Brazil, Russia and India.
In 2020 its gross domestic product fell by 9.8 per cent, the most in more than three centuries and one of the deepest contractions in the world. Households have saved however, and sterling has gained against the euro ahead of the reopening.
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NASHVILLE – Moses Kingsley had 12 points and 13 rebounds as the third-seeded Arkansas Razorbacks beat Vanderbilt 76-62 on Saturday in the Southeastern Conference Tournament semifinals.
The Razorbacks (25-8) won their third straight to reach the championship for the seventh time. They will play eighth-ranked Kentucky, a 79-74 winner over Alabama , for the second time in three years Sunday.
Arkansas simply smothered Vanderbilt, especially in the paint where the Razorbacks had a 46-16 scoring edge.
Jaylen Barford led Arkansas with 18 points. Dusty Hannahs added 16 and Daryl Macon 15.
Playing a third game in as many days took its toll on seventh-seeded Vanderbilt (19-15). The Commodores snapped a three-game winning streak after reaching the semifinals for the first time since 2013.
Riley LaChance scored 12 points for Vanderbilt. Joe Toye added 12, and Jeff Roberson and Matthew Fisher-Davis each had 10.


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Fantasies and nightmares
The red-blooded media
by Valerie Miner
from Jump Cut, no. 26, December 1981, pp. 48-50
copyright Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, 1981, 2005
Her throat is exposed her toes are pointed. She is asking for it. She is enjoying it. A little pain never hurt anybody. There is a line through the middle of the picture. There is a knife in her belly. She is a doll, a pear tree, a piece of meat. She is a ridiculously proportioned, naked witch. She is tits; she is ass. She has pubic hair (sometimes). She is roped and raped. She is goggled and gagged. She is asking for it. She is enjoying it. She is mouth and vagina. Orifices that must be fed, perhaps stuffed. She has wide eyes, which do not see. She is dressed in red, the same shade as her blood. She is a nude mannequin in a downtown department store window, chained to a nude mannequin in the next window which is thrust upside-down into a washing-machine-for-sale. She is asking for it. She is enjoying it. She is bitch-mother-whore-virgin-prostitute-Playgirl-of-the-Month. She is the willing victim. She is Black and Blue from the Rolling Stones and she loves it. She is exposing her crotch to the bared teeth of a vicious dog. "She is young … but not too young to be a 'slave of pleasure.'" She is everything you could want in a kinky, funky fantasy. She is asking for it. She is enjoying it.
We rarely consider the daily dose of pornography we get in our red-blooded mass media. Recently many radicals have become uneasy with the proliferation of hardcore porn, but most of us remain unconscious of the amount of pornography in the popular media. The record-album covers feature battering or rape. The misogynist lyrics of Top 40 punk rock. The chic Vogue layouts, laced with exotic sadomasochism. The tasteless tidbits in feature films. The popular men's magazines that boast progressive politics as they surround their muckraking articles with photos of nude women in full-color gloss. Of course, we tell ourselves, we're not forced to look at the stuff. We can close our eyes, turn the page, walk out of the theatre. Once we start protesting pornography, we fear, we're threatening the First Amendment, which is precious to a radical forum. So we hesitate. We want to distinguish pornography from the healthy pleasure of erotic art and the necessary explicitness of sex education. After all, we don't want to be Victorian, alarmist, or rhetorical.
It's a tricky Issue for the American mass media with its liberal pretensions. The game of "objectivity" demands two sides of the story. On one side, feminists claim that pornography is not only sexist, but brutal. Their broadening campaign links pornography with wife-beating, rape, incest, and child abuse. On the other side, beleaguered defenders of the First Amendment say that banning pornography would further erode the shaky ground of free speech. Reporters are already panicking about weak shield laws and heavy libel suits.
After spending months looking at pornography, reading academic-political-government papers on the subject, and arguing endlessly with friends, I cannot discuss the subject with even a pretense of dispassion.
I am still overwhelmed by questions: Why is our culture so tolerant of pornography? How much of that has to do with confused civil libertarian premises? Why do we scrutinize X-rated films for our children when violent sexism like Hustler magazine is available on corner newsstands? Why has the Left waffled so much on pornography?
Perhaps the biggest quandary is a good definition of pornography. We can turn to dictionaries and court transcripts, but no definition is all-inclusive and every definition can be misread or misused. Right-wing activists have labeled birth-control information as pornographic. A portion of the left says there is no such thing as pornography. Some of us give up and say, "We know it when we see it." For the purposes of this article, and this is my own definition, Pornography is the representation of sexual images, often including ridicule and violence, which degrades human beings for the purpose of entertaining or selling products. An important corollary is that Pornography is more about the exercise of power than about the expression of sex. This article will focus on the abuse of women's images although pornography ultimately exploits all people.
THE PORNOGRAPHY INDUSTRY
Like everything else in the American mass media, pornography has its price. It is already a $4 billion industry in the United States, according to the California Department of Justice. In San Francisco last year, pornography profits reached $20 million. Los Angeles Police estimate that sales of pornographic movies have increased from $15 million in 1969 to $85 million in 1976. In New York, the porn shops in Times Square often gross $10,000 a day. Across the country, child pornography is available in 260 different periodicals. Six of the 10 bestselling newsstand monthlies are "men's entertainment magazines." Hugh Hefner, personally, has created a $150 million sexploitation empire, which ranges from his "groundbreaking" Playboy magazine to movies, books, records, a syndicated TV show and dozens of Playboy Clubs all over the world.
The distinction between hardcore and softcore pornography is at best a temporary one. The Presidential Commission on Obscenity and Pornography observed that
"by August 1970, the most explicit materials available 'above the counter' were approximately equivalent to the most explicit materials ever produced for covert sale. However, in all media and for all audiences, the degree of explicitness has greatly increased since 1960."
The soft-core porn of the mass media tends to numb public awareness and create a tolerance and/or appetite for more brutal forms of pornography.
ACTING OUT THE FANTASIES
Pornography has increased in the mass media too quickly for many people to ask why. One clue to its popularity is the shock value. In this sensory-overloaded culture, we have developed a self-protective media numbness. Porn sells commodities and ideas. It gets our attention and keeps the product in our minds. Whether they're selling Noxzema on TV ("Take it off; take it all off …") or deodorant in a magazine ("You'll love Tickle with its big, wide ball"), this shock can be very profitable.
Also, as Canadian writer Myrna Kostash has pointed out, pornography takes the responsibility — or mutuality — from sex. It commercializes individual pleasure. It reinforces our right to be separate, regardless of how that impinges on our need to connect. Pornography trains us as voyeurs to be satisfied in our alienation. It's hard to talk about "decadence" without sounding like Anita Bryant or Jim Jones. But I think that our society has tipped the balance between autonomous pleasure and a kind of self-destructive decadence. It has become much easier to consume pornography than to experience sex.
The increase of porn in mass media is also part of the backlash against feminism — a1ong with the assault on abortion rights, the trashing of feminist presses, the packaging of the "Total Woman." Laura Lederer, coordinator of Women Against Violence in Pornography and Media (WAVPM), explained.
"Enough women have been rejecting the traditional role of subordination to men to cause a crisis in the collective male ego."
The women's movement, following the civil rights campaign, proved a devastating blow to the status quo. Also, feminism has surfaced at a time of declining economic and political stature. In the last decade, American men have lost job security, self-esteem, and have been confronted with massive guilt. They feel angry, threatened, impotent. Women are accessible targets. In the old days there used to be one in every kitchen.
We might be tempted to dismiss pornography as pathetic petulance, as we ignore the impudent schoolboy drawing resentful caricatures of his teacher. However, pornography is both a form of assault itself, and an indirect permission to, larger violence.
The escalation of hardcore pornography and softcore mass media parallels a rise in physical abuse of women. The FBI reports that every 30 seconds a woman is raped in this country, and every 18 seconds a woman is battered. Police observe that rape is increasingly accompanied by whippings, beatings, or mutilation.
Countries that have liberalized their policies about pornography have documented large increases in the reports of rape and attempted rape. In Copenhagen during the first six years that pornography was freely available, the cases of proven rape rose from 150 to 218. In southern Australia, hardcore pornography was legalized in 1970. The rate or reported rapes has multiplied five times by 1976. Meanwhile, C.E. Walker in his 1970 study, "Erotic Stimuli and the Aggressive Sexual Offender," found that a significant minority (39%) of the sex offenders indicated that "pornography had something to do with their committing the sex offense they were convicted of." The Presidential Commission on Obscenity and Pornography published his study.
Despite such evidence, the Commission dismissed any connections between pornography and violent crime. The 17 men and two women decided that none of the testimony was conclusive enough to warrant further regulation of the industry. In fact, its final report of 1970 called for the legalization of all soft- and hardcore pornography. The Commission's opinion was influential in shaping the landmark Supreme Court decision in Miller v. California on June 21, 1973, which virtually gagged local anti-pornography laws. Since then, there has been a large decrease in the arrest and conviction of pornographers throughout the country.
The predominantly male bias of the Commission report is evident in its casual description of lesbianism as "obscene" and in its acceptance of stag films as "a familiar and firmly established part of the American scene." The Commission's conclusions are shaky on several points. First, the findings are severely outdated because of the escalation of pornography in the last nine years. Also. the studies used tested for aggressive behavior in very limited ways. Sadism, pederasty, and bestiality were excluded from the materials sampled despite their currency on the market.
It's hard to prove the connection between one pornographic photograph or one violent TV program and a growing climate of brutality. Usually, our attitudes and actions are stimulated by an accumulation of media images. One startling exception was NBC's 1974 drama, BORN INNOCENT, which showed a teenager being raped with a plumber's plunger. After the program was aired, three girls and a boy, aged nine to 15, raped a nine-year-old girl with a beer bottle in San Francisco. The eldest of the three girls admitted in a deposition that the rape scene in the television program had turned her on. Attorneys for the victim claim that she suffered physical and emotional damage. They sued NBC for negligence. The case, which has been through several rounds in the last five years, is now in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
According to Beth Goldberg, an active member of WAVPM and WAVAW (Women Against Violence Against Women),
"We have learned how media violence fosters aggressive behavior in its viewers. This shows that media victimization of women increases the chances of all women being victimized."
Goldberg points to more than 50 studies involving 10,000 children which have demonstrated a consistent relationship between the amount of TV violence a child digests and the child's aggressiveness.
Another study conducted by the Commission was published by Michael J. Goldstein and four others in 1971. 55% of the rapists they interviewed indicated that they had used their victims to experiment with sex activities seen in pornography. Meanwhile, 77% of those who molested small girls got their impetus from pornography. Dr. Natalie Shainness, a psychoanalyst practicing in New York City, has observed that as rape becomes more common in the media, rapists stop seeing themselves as abnormal.
The Presidential Commission ignored not only the stimulus to violence from the audience, but the actual brutality against models in the industry. Rumors of "Snuff" films, showing the actual assault and murder of women for the screen, are neither the beginning nor the end of this exploitation. Models and actors who survive filming report broken bones from contorted poses and frequent beatings from photographers and moviemakers. One woman who worked as a model for three years told WAVPM that she was raped after one assignment. When she reported the rape to her agency, she was told the photographer was a "lady's man" and that they could not harass him over such a "little thing."
RACISM AND SEXISM
The parallels between racist propaganda and pornography abound. Both racism and sexism thrive on the use of physical brutality and ridicule. The approach is often vengeance or humiliation. The object is to maintain or regain power. Racist propaganda has been considerably threatened since the 1952 Supreme Court decision in Beauharnais v. Illinois, which saw the defendant indicted for distributing pamphlets which portrayed blacks as a sexually craven influence on American cities. He was convicted of inciting violence by promoting literature negative to a minority.
Like racism, sexism flourishes in sarcastic asides, snide jokes, and caricatures. Humor is one of those covert corners of bigotry in the liberal consciousness. Some of the earliest cartoons — drawn in the late 1400s — were explicitly anti-Semitic. We have continued to endure stereotypes about avaricious Jews, sly Asians, and oversexed blacks — the last, long after the alleged demise of Jim Crow.
Racism is explicit in current pornography. Third World women and children are popular models here and in Europe. One reason is that they are particularly easy to exploit, often being economically desperate and naive about the pornographer's intentions.
Both "pretty porn" and hardcore films like BLACK AND CHAINED and SLAVE GIRL trade on the special sexual mystique of the non-white woman. Sabrina Sojourner, a black publicist, told me,
"Pornography often exaggerates the exoticism of Asian women and the allure of black women. We still retain some of the Victorian philosophy about preserving the virginity of white women. They're fair game. So pornography further objectifies people who are already objectified."
Pornography also serves racial self-hatred. The Ohio Players, a Black group, manage to tangle their anti-woman images with their racism. One of their album covers, "Pleasure," reveals a Black woman, with a shaved head (a sign of humiliation) being hanged by a chain. Their "Climax" album shows a Black woman making love on the front cover while on the flip side she is stabbing her man in the back.
Given all these intersections between racism and sexism, we shouldn't be surprised at the outrageous, often gratuitous, racism in the mass-circulation men's magazines. Hustler's October 1978 issue illustrates an article on the Kennedy-King assassinations with a grotesque layout of a black man (completely covered in black leather mask and clothes) raping a blond woman who is painted white. Their symbolic message about the violation of pure white justice by black power is not very subliminal.
POLITICS AND PORNOGRAPHY
The power expressed in pornography is revealed in the political tension over the issue. Both the Right and the Left have righteously deplored pornography, while people of all political shades have manipulated it.
The traditional Right Wing objection comes from an opposition to sexual freedom — whether it is the right to choose an abortion or the prerogative of unmarried people to cohabit. The Right's opposition to pornography is not so much a protection of women as it is a defense of the family as a basic unit of capitalism. Fundamentalist belief assigns a woman's body to God, her husband and herself in that order.
The rationales for linking feminist protest with right-wing money and power are tempting. After all, pornography could be the issue that feminizes conservative women, much as the peace movement politicized many Catholics. Both the Catholic Church, with its Legion of Decency, and the Mormons, through Brigham Young University Press, have manifested a consistent, considered opposition to pornography. However, the differences in final goals are too vast for a successful coalition. The feminist criticism of pornography is the exploitation of women's images. And the Right sees fit to include literature about abortion and contraception in their definition of pornography.
A socialist criticism might begin with the description of pornography as a sexist, racist, profiteering commodity. Pornography objectifies people, thereby exploiting the models, the purchasers and the society at large. Although porn pre-dates capitalism, mass porn is one of the great capitalist success stories. Marxists recognize that under late capitalism, pornography proliferates as a marketable object: The market expresses the "need." The need is met temporarily, only to stimulate and create larger needs. These needs create the values. Under capitalism, the only source of legitimate needs and values is the marketplace.
Ironically, the Left has often celebrated pornography as revolutionary. Pornography is associated with revolt and accepted as an aesthetic by radical men. This is very evident in the mass media of Eurocommunism. Italy's new wave of liberated television runs amateur striptease, blue movies and features like NUDE ON PARALLEL BARS. In both Spain and Portugal, the new regimes are reported and analyzed in macho Left periodicals rife with sexist illustrations. To a certain extent, this kind of sexual preoccupation is rationalized as a break with the censored patriarchal past. But it would take a real stretch of the imagination to applaud such Commie porn as a vindication of the banning of the Three Marias.
Here in the United States, pornography flourishes around the heavy-duty investigative journalism that some radicals define as "political work." These journalists claim that the only places brave enough (and rich enough) to print their potentially libelous muckraking are magazines like Playboy and Penthouse, which have a combined readership of twenty-nine million. Also, some journalists explain, Playboy and Penthouse give them access to a working class audience.
This last argument ignores the whole audience of working class women who don't usually read the skin magazines and who are often most victimized by them. Besides, we know from reading the advertisements, letters to the editor and other articles, that these popular magazines actually reach a large base of middle class men.
There's also the question of context. How credible is a corporate exposé placed between the left and right thigh? Finally, despite all our conceit about the value of journalism, how much of the audience bothers to turn from the pornographic pictures to the articles?
Clearly, freelance journalists are facing a crisis of survival. With one magazine folding after another, many muckrakers want to do assignments for a publication that's going to stay afloat long enough to print them. The pay rate of the skin magazines, between $1,500 and $4,000 per article, is not, perhaps, incidental to the other arguments for publishing in them. The issue presents radical men and women with an agonizing examination of conscious. Some magazines, Mother Jones among them, receive crucial funding from the Playboy Foundation. It is not an easy issue.
Several years ago, before I had done any thinking on the subject, I submitted a short story to Playboy. Their rejection letter is one of the few I remember with gratitude. By now I'm convinced that men's entertainment magazines use progressive journalism as a front for their real business. Come the time for indictment against pornography, the radical journalist will be right there on the witness stand, drawling on about free speech. Although the crusading cowboy may think he's ripping off the system (by criticizing corporations in the capitalist media and getting paid several thousand bucks for it), it's pretty clear that he's the one who is being ripped off. His politics and his byline are being used to legitimize pornography.
Mass media porn is also a legacy of the sixties "sexual liberation," The Counter-Culture flaunted denim, drugs, socialism and fornication against the Establishment. According to Todd Gitlin, former President of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and now a professor of sociology at U.C. Berkeley,
"One of the problems with New Left politics in the 60s was that it was characterized by middle class radicals fighting for other people's interests. For politics to be successful, it must involve a certain amount of self-interest. Many student and ex-student radicals interpreted their self-interest as something they called sexual liberation — access to porn was part of that. But we've got to remember that people look for forms of escape that reproduce the oppressive structure. For instance, they watch commercial sports (which is run like work — with the same kind of stereotyped individualism and regulation). Pornography reproduces the oppressive domestic structure."
"Fuck" became a rallying cry. "Fuck Johnson!" "Fuck the War!" (Remember, "Girls say yes to boys who say no.") One of the most popular figures of sexy revolution was the irreverent Realist magazine. The editor, Paul Krassner, later went on to become editor of Hustler. On the Berkeley campus the Free Speech Movement of 1964 was preceded by the "struggle" to sell the scatological Spider Magazine. The right to peddle pornography was inexplicably and inextricably linked with the right to speak out against capitalism, racism and imperialism. Sexist was not yet part of the political vocabulary.
In the 70s, the confusion of pornography with liberation has been exacerbated by the human potential movement and its validation of personal expression as liberation. The crucial difference between sexist power and sexual expression is often overlooked. Throughout the 60s and the 70s, the New Left's attitude toward pornography, lacking in personal sensitivity and theoretical base, reveals the extent to which sexism is still excluded from serious socialist analysis.
Todd Gitlin told me,
"The Left should always object to pandering like pornography. To the extent that pornography exploits real needs and creates models which debase human desire for decent existence, it is outrageous."
Gitlin suggested that we re-read a familiar passage from Marx, substituting "pornography" for "religion."
"Religious suffering is at the same time an expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of men is a demand for their real happiness. The call to abandon their illusions about their conditions is a call to abandon a condition which requires illusions."
MASS MEDIA IMAGES
The most familiar examples of mass media porn are in advertising — the focus on women's asses, the acrobatic spread of the model's legs, the mountainous regions of cleavage, all of which have no relation to the product. This type of "pretty porn" makes clever use of camera angle, lighting, color, and props. The subliminal messages start with the fragmentation of female bodies. Male rumps, for instance, are usually seen in relation to their full bodies, but women's asses are often the whole focus of an add for jeans or stockings. Sometimes the sexism or brutality is not so subtle. Max Factor's publicity for a moisturizer somehow turned into the threatening slogan, "A Pretty Face Isn't Safe in This City." In response to many letters of complaint from women, the company eventually eliminated the ad.
Pornography also seeps out into our programming and our editorial content. The obsession with flesh on CHARLIE'S ANGELS is a hackneyed complaint by now. As parental protest forces violence off the screen, there is a noted increase in sex on television, according to Caren Deming, assistant professor of broadcasting arts at San Francisco State University. She told me,
"In the mid-60s, violence reached a high point in TV and other media. Because of protests from groups like the PTA and the AMA, advertisers pulled intensely violent shows off prime time. They were replaced with sex. (This is natural. Our fantasy lives contain a great deal of sex and violence, as has been demonstrated by tests on dreams.) But TV sex is synthetic sex. It's partial undressing and close-ups. It's not erotic. It's plastic."
Clearly, the most explicit TV pornography comes on videotapes. In the San Francisco Bay area, the hottest-selling videocassettes are not cowboys or talk shows, but X-rated sex. Producer David Friedman bragged about the state of the videotape business to Forbes magazine last year:
"At least 10% of the people who buy tapes will want a collection of hardcore films for their libraries. It's an absolute natural for homes, for parties, when the boys come over for a beer. The man who buys a copy of PATTON may look at it one or two times, but the one who buys SEVEN INTO SNOWY is going to look at it 10-15 times."
The motion picture industry has survived numerous regulatory techniques. The movie mogul is forever shouting "art" while the cleric is denouncing "obscenity." If we could interrupt these two gentlemen, we might move beyond the flap about suggestive romances to the violent sexism on the screen. The loopholes in the rating system are cavernous. LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR, for instance, received an "R" rather than an "X" because the nude scenes focused on fragments of the woman's body. The Presidential Commission noted:
"The increased sexual content of movies not only has been dramatic but also has occurred in a very short period of time. The rapidity of change is exemplified by the treatment of the female body on the screen. In 1967, flashes of female genital exposure appeared in BLOW-UP, a general-release movie. Today, partial female nudity (breasts and buttocks) is very common, and full female nudity is becoming quite common in general-release pictures produced by major studios."
The distinction between general films and hardcore films is getting blurrier. Penthouse has recently invested $15 million in a pornographic version of Gore Vidal's CALIGULA, starring John Gielgud and Malcolm McDowell. The reason for the movement to porn is financial. The Adult Film Association claims that in 1977 its 100 feature-length pornography films grossed $3.5 million weekly — which matches one-tenth of the receipts from all other movies playing in the entire country.
So what are the lines between erotic art that is sexually oppressive and pornography? Audre Lorde, a black feminist poet, said in her essay, "The Uses of the Erotic:"
"The very word 'erotic' comes from the Greek word eros, the personification of love in all its aspects — born of chaos and personifying creative power and harmony … The need for sharing deep feeling is a human need. But within the European-American tradition, this need is … almost always characterized by a simultaneous looking away … And this misnaming of the need and the deed gives rise to that distortion which results in pornography and obscenity — the abuse of feeling."
The distinctions between pornography and erotica are uncomfortable, messy, and subjective. They waver around the issues of mutuality, power and coercion. Some absolutists declare that in eliminating pornography we will censor erotic art. But, as I said at the beginning of this piece, any definition of oppression is necessarily an exposure of moral conscience. The difficulty of making distinctions does not absolve us of our ability and responsibility to make them, especially when the lives of individual women and the sexual fabric of the culture are at stake. The real danger to erotic art is not the feminist protest of misogyny but the increase of pornography.
Last November, 3000 women and men marched through San Francisco's sleazy Broadway to "Take Back the Night." The next month, a similar protest against pornography and dangerous street conditions took place in Times Square. Meanwhile, across the country, women are experimenting with a series of consumer tactics — petitions, letter writing, re-zoning laws, picketing, boycotts, vandalism against porn shops, and class action suits. Taking the lead from other feminist campaigns, woman are asking embarrassing questions of their male friends, making charges at public officials and generally fighting pornography as a political issue.
In Los Angeles, Women Against Violence Against Women was formed to protest brutal images on record album covers, such as the gang rape featured by Black Oak Arkansas. Another target was the Rolling Stones' Black and Blue billboard. Now a national group, WAVAW has organized a boycott of records from Warner, Electra and Atlantic. Although the boycott has by no means bankrupt the record firms, it has been successful in drawing national press coverage to record album pornography. In New York, the feminist protest ranges from legislative lobbying to vigilante window-breaking. In Cologne, Germany, a woman named Red Zora (after Zorro) has proclaimed herself "an avenger of the oppressed." She has raided sex shops of $50,000 in goods, and the porn merchants have posted a $1500 reward for her arrest. The protests are increasing among individuals and such groups as the National Organization for Women (NOW), Women for the Abolition of Pornography, Men Against Sexist Violence, and Women Against Pornography, a Manhattan-based group that grew out of WAVPM. The slogan of the anti-pornography movement is summed up on those little orange stickers that we are suddenly noticing everywhere: "Pornography Is a Crime Against Women."
SOLUTIONS: CENSORSHIP, ETHICS, EDUCATION
It is too easy to make the mistake of assuming allies by identifying mutual enemies. Liberals often think they're fighting repression by defending pornographers. In a great First Amendment flurry last year, 89 publishers, editors, and writers, including Woody Allen and Gore Vidal, took a large ad in the New York Times which compared Larry Flynt, the publisher of Hustler, with the Soviet dissidents. At such times, one is reminded that the American tradition of free speech is almost as long as the tradition of violent genocide.
Censorship is an issue that divides even those who have worked side-by-side against pornography. The dangers of banning are frightening. Most journalists are born of an arrogance that turns to belligerence when any kind of restriction is introduced. Liberal consumers of the media who deplore pornography would die for its right to be printed, confusing in their tender consciences Stephen Daedalus with Chester the Molester. Likewise, many feminists are afraid that censorship laws could be turned right around against them.
Aside from censorship, the solutions to the explosion of pornography in the mass media include consumer remedies, vandalism, media self-regulation, and public education. The most effective solution would involve a combination of these.
Susan Brownmiller favors the banning of all pornography portraying rape, torture, murder, and bondage for sexual stimulation. She told me she isn't worried about the First Amendment because,
"It was never intended to cover pornography. The Constitution was written to defend freedom of political dissent."
She points to the already-accepted limitations on free speech regarding libel, slander, perjury, contempt of court, copyright violation, disrespect to commanding officers, plagiarism, yelling "fire" in a public auditorium and misleading advertising. Brownmiller prefers legal sanctions that can be shaped by public opinion to laws created in the courtroom on the personal persuasion, taste, or morality of an individual judge.
However, other feminists are more wary of the boundaries of legal protection. Camille Le Grand, an attorney active in the anti-rape and anti-battering movements, told me,
"All enforcement against pornography is political. As long as women hold such little power in this country, that's dangerous."
Le Grand claimed that there are enough laws on the books to restrict violent pornography, like regulations against obscenity and the sale of pornography to minors. She said that these laws can be better enforced.
Perhaps the biggest danger with the censorship debate is the way it draws a curtain on further discussion of pornography, Censorship would not control the waves of misogynist images in the mass media or the growth of a profitable black market. Before and after any censorship laws must come consumer activism and self-regulation within the media itself.
Within the mass media, editors are answering some challenges about their professional scruples. During the last couple of years, display ads for sex films have been removed from the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Sacramento Bee, Fresno Bee, San Diego Union, Long Beach Independent Press-Telegram and the Seattle Times. These cuts were made despite the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars, one million a year in the case of the L.A. Times. In Sweden, feminists organized a protest against Dagens Nyheter, the largest daily paper in Stockholm. Women journalists successfully supported them in pressuring editors to eliminate pictures advertising sex shops and theatres. In Britain, the powerful National Union of Journalists has passed a code advising about the portrayal of women as subjects, workers, and images. Each of these measures has been limited in its scope and enforcement. The solutions are more tedious than censorship and — precisely because of their slow-hammering effect — more powerful than legislation.
The decline of pornography begins with public education. Consumer tactics and professional ethics only budge the stubborn lever of public consciousness. Just as we eventually encountered slavery and the Holocaust in the classroom, the brutality against women will surface there some day. The issue is already addressed at a few courses in journalism, women's studies, and sociology. However, much of the research is financially restricted or burdened with sexist prejudice. Schools and universities still require teachers and researchers to separate advocacy and academia. This separation has kept the discussion outside most classrooms so far. Of course, the real classroom in this country is the living room and the most effective teachers are the network television programs or the daily newspapers. The ultimate irony is that if Americans are going to be educated about the dangerous escalation of pornography in the mass media, they will have to be educated by thoughtful, honest coverage within the mass media.
EVERYWOMAN'S NIGHTMARE
What may be one man's fantasy is every woman's nightmare. I'm finding it a terrible strain to write about pornography in a reasoned voice. I imagine that Zimbabweans would feel the same tension discussing Rhodes' theories of colonization, or that Jews would have the same problem with Nazi propaganda, so I would like to part from this rational exegesis to tell you a story about this story. This is what happened to me after a day of researching pornography, on one particular night:
I cannot sleep. Even after I have checked in all the closets and under the bed, locked the windows and each door twice, switched on the hallway light, placed the telephone by my bad, I cannot sleep. I do not feel safe. I check the can of Mace and my sound-alarm and my flashlight, but I cannot sleep. I try drinking — which is expensive and unhealthy, but it keeps my mind off Stinky, who has committed sixty (?) rapes. I fall asleep — or rather, I grow numb.
At 3 a.m. I awake to nausea and a headache and a slight sound of shuffling from the kitchen. I lie paralyzed for a moment. The sound is louder (closer?) this time. I move to the side of the bed and switch on the light, hoping to frighten the sound. I can still make it out the front door. That's why, when I sleep alone, I wear a good flannel nightie. I will be dressed to run outside in the cold dark. Maybe all the way to the 7-11 Store where the speedy-dosey clerk, who is used to coping with nocturnal complaints, can phone the police for me. I can still make it to the door. I hear the sound again. Now I am angry. I get belligerent. I'll be dammed if I'm driven out of my home as well as my sleep.
"George," I say, coaxingly, with just an edge of fear. "George," I say, pretending there is a large, strong George sleeping next to me in the bed. A "George" to frighten the rapist. But it doesn't work. There is the sound again. I am humiliated. I have had to enlist an imaginary defender and still the rapist has no caution. I am damned if he is going to win. I slip over the side of the bed and pick up the mace as I approach the front door. Quickly, I button the nightie. People have appeared at the 7-11 in worse. There's the sound again. Please, god, if I believe in you this once, will you let me out, let me go?
I am awake now. When I next hear the sound, it is not so frightening. This scene — which I have rehearsed so often in my half-awake states — is a farce after all. Now that I have broken through my hard-won sleep, I recognize the sound too well, as the sighing of my ancient water heater. I am alone again, vulnerable and sleepless.
I don't sleep because I an afraid. Afraid of being raped or beaten or mutilated or killed with a Penthouse stiletto or a Hustler meat-grinder. I am a single woman, living alone. This is my penance. Otherwise, I should be able to sleep. I am happy. I jog three miles in the mornings. I work hard all day. I am in love. I am, by most accounts, a fairly capable person. I have traveled around Africa alone, given lectures to large groups of people, driven my bicycle through daily rush hour traffic. But on nights like this, when I sleep alone, I do not sleep well.
No sense in wasting the night. I get dressed and head over to the 7-11 anyway. I'll buy some wine and some typewriter paper as alternate solutions. The street is dark and poorly lit, but I can see the bright fluorescence of the 7-11 Store from a block away. It seems a strange synthetic haven in the inhospitable night. The clerk looks more ready for sleep than I do. Ignoring him and the only other customer, I collect my sedatives. Then, as I approach the checkout counter, I see what I have been afraid to see.
The customer is leafing through a copy of a magazine. I don't notice the name. But I do notice the photograph of a woman — struggling against a chain around her breasts and through her mouth.
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Should a new independent commission be created to investigate corruption in Albany?
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