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As the Climate Changes, Climate Fiction Is Changing With It
In four new novels set in the present and future, writers confront the contradictions of our climate-addled age.
By Kiley Bense
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In his third autobiography, the famed abolitionist and author Frederick Douglass lingered on the impact of a novel that he deemed "a work of marvelous depth and power." When "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was published in 1852, Douglass wrote, "nothing could have better suited the moral and humane requirements of the hour. Its effect was amazing, instantaneous and universal."
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" sold 1 million copies, inspired stage adaptations, songs and merchandise, and became wildly popular across the U.S. and the United Kingdom, where it sparked anti-slavery petitions and rallies. Southern writers were so incensed by its contents that they hurried to publish "Anti-Tom" novels defending slavery in response. Estimation of Uncle Tom's influence hasn't waned; writing in The New Yorker in 2011, the historian Annette Gordon-Reed called it "one of the most successful feats of persuasion in American history."
Whether or not Abraham Lincoln really did refer to its author, Harriet Beecher Stowe, as "the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war" hardly matters: "Uncle Tom's Cabin" established a precedent for protest literature, setting the stage for reform-minded books like Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" and Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring," and showed what it was possible to achieve with a story, well-told.
Is it still possible for literature to change the world, or at least to change minds? For today's writers of climate fiction, it's a question that has never been more pressing. In 2022, unlike in Stowe's 19th century, "novels don't necessarily have the reach of a film or TV show," said Amy Brady, the executive director at Orion Magazine and co-editor of a new anthology called "The World As We Knew It: Dispatches from a Changing Climate." "But I think that climate fiction can get to people who wouldn't otherwise think about climate change or want to talk about it."
The tools of fiction can be useful for forging connections with audiences who may feel distant from the frontlines of the climate crisis or who have trouble personalizing such a complicated, sprawling topic. "Climate fiction can help readers to be more empathetic," Brady said, "and to see climate change as a part of larger global systems and a part of history" in a way that scientific studies and news articles may not.
Fiction can also make threats that might otherwise seem amorphous or far-off feel immediate and visceral, turning the metaphorical into the real, if only on the page. In "Anthem," which takes place in a dystopian near-future, author Noah Hawley starts a section titled "Now" with this chilling premise: "The summer our children began to kill themselves was the hottest in history."
The climate crisis, in "Anthem," is one of many intractable problems fueling a global conflagration of teenage suicides, so many that society soon collapses into heartsick chaos, with weeping parents marching in the streets, desperate for a cure for their children's despair. No one seems to realize that despair is born not only of the knowledge of the harm being done to the planet but of the shock that so little is being done by adults to rectify it. "Did grown-ups know this?" one of the protagonists wonders, after first learning about the dangers of global warming.
The world of Sequoia Nagamatsu's "How High We Go in the Dark" is somehow even darker than the violent, anarchic America the characters inhabit in "Anthem"; we spend a chapter at an amusement park created for the purpose of quickly and painlessly euthanizing kids. "How High We Go in the Dark" peers centuries into a future wrecked by climate plague, a virus unearthed in melting permafrost which kills children in unfathomable numbers. Both books transform an abstraction (we are making the planet unsafe for future generations) into a nauseating reality that is much harder to shrug off. Like George Orwell's "1984," these books offer a warped reflection of our present—and a warning about our future.
"Anthem" and "How High We Go in the Dark" share elements of sci-fi and fantasy, genres that were once the sole province of writers who wanted to explore climate change in fiction. In 2016, the novelist and essayist Amitav Ghosh posited that the 2010s could someday be known as "The Great Derangement," his term for "a time when most forms of art and literature were drawn into the modes of concealment that prevented people from recognizing their plight." Ghosh lamented the lack of serious engagement with climate change in literature, particularly outside of science fiction and fantasy, and predicted an "imaginative and cultural failure" if more writers did not act to fill the climate silence.
Perhaps because the effects of extreme weather have become increasingly hard to ignore, the literary landscape that Ghosh surveyed in 2016 has changed. In fact, climate fiction may someday cease to exist as a genre at all. "I believe that over time, the notion of climate fiction is going to go away," Brady said. "To write a novel will be to talk about climate change because it's the world in which we live. It affects every aspect of our lives, and increasingly so."
In a 2021 essay titled "Climate Crisis Is Here; So Is Climate Fiction. Don't You Dare Call It a Genre," the writer Lydia Millet makes a passionate case for realist climate fiction, intimate stories of ordinary life that unfold in the present day. "The climate crisis can't and shouldn't be relegated to the realm of make-believe," she writes. "Because our literary grappling with that crisis…is a direct engagement with the real."
Millet's "Dinosaurs" is one example of this form of climate fiction, a quieter, quotidian story that follows Gil, a brokenhearted man who moves to Arizona and gets entangled in the lives of his neighbors, both human and not. Gil is well aware of what the climate crisis has wrought; he can see and feel its repercussions all around him. Like so many of us, he is still "performing small tasks. Planning his own minor life. As though there were no emergency in sight."
Gil's preoccupation with—and affection for—the birds who live and die in his backyard becomes the reader's, too. Birds in this novel are a symbol of nature's fragility and its resilience; after all, birds are descendants of the survivors of the last mass extinction. "Without the last of the dinosaurs," Gil says to himself, "the sky would be empty." Near the end of the novel, Gil asks birds for their help, a flight of fantasy as he casts around for answers. "If only the birds would take up the fight," he thinks, a fight that is about our survival as much as theirs. Eventually, he has to face the truth about the animals he has come to love. They have "no hands to write with. Or hold weapons. And no words at all."
Fiction can furnish us with possibilities and scenarios and dreams; it can imagine worlds and futures; build hellscapes and utopias; focus our attention and open our eyes; invite speculation and wonderment and horror. It can show us many paths, but it cannot tell us which one to choose; it cannot solve the riddle of our own inaction. In "Companion Piece," Ali Smith's strange, beguiling novel, the kind of book, like Millet's, where the tremors of climate collapse hum in the background of the plot like eerie hold music, the narrator responds to a young girl who is clamoring for solutions. It's clear that she may also be understood as a stand-in for the author, speaking directly to her anxious readers. "A story is never an answer," she says, matter-of-factly. "A story is always a question."
Kiley Bense
Kiley Bense is a writer and journalist whose work has previously been published in the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Believer, and elsewhere.
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Handling the dough: Your gluten free bread will be more moist and delicious if you keep it relatively loose and pour it into baking forms. You can even squeeze out the dough to form rolls or cakes using a paper cone or a plastic bag with a corner cut off.
Properly raising the dough: Add 1-3 teaspoons of sugar or baking syrup to the dough. This will support and feed the raising process.
How to get a smooth surface on the bread: Using a brush, apply water to the formed dough and carefully even out the moist surface with a spoon or skillet. You can also drizzle sunflower seeds, sesame or buck wheat flakes onto the dough before baking if you wish. Alternatively, if you don't want to add seeds to the surface, you can spray your bread with cold water towards the end of baking.
Keeping your bread fresh: The best way of keeping gluten free bread is to freeze it. Let the newly baked bread cool, then slice it and place in freezing bags. Later your frozen bread slices can easily be put directly into your toaster or baked in the oven with cheese or other toppings.
Even more fiber: If you want a bread even richer in fiber, simply replace ¼ of the flour mix with fiber mix.
Avoiding dust: Gluten free flour tends to be dustier than normal flour. The best way to avoid excess dust is to first turn the flour mix in a bowl using a spoon or wooden fork. After that you can choose to work the dough using a dough machine or hand held mixer.
Successful baking of buns: When you are baking buns you should aim for a smooth and nice looking surface. You can place the dough buns closely together on the baking plate so they will become conjoined when raising – this way they will support each other. If you apply margarine or oil to the upper surface as well as the sides of all the buns before baking it will be much easier to separate them afterwards.
Soft cakes: Mix your flavor ingredients together with the flour mix before working on the dough in the bowl. This way you won't have to work the dough as long and your cake will become lighter.
Practice makes perfect!: Why not bake a 'test batch' when you are baking cookies, rolls or other things? If you see your cakes misshapen during baking, because of the dough being too runny, simply add a little more flour mix to your dough. If it proves too difficult to shape your cakes or cookies and the dough is flaky you can add a bit more margarine or fluid to the dough. Testing will help ensure your final result is perfect.
Making a perfect pie dough: Gluten free pie dough will often be flaky and hard to work with. It will be easier, though, if you place the dough between two plastic sheets before working to flatten and shape it. Carefully remove the top plastic sheet and lift the dough in the lower sheet as you place it in your pie form. Then remove the bottom plastic film and gently press the pie dough to fit the pie form. Pre-bake the pie dough for about 10 minutes at 175° before adding your filling.
Mjölmix in cooking: Sauce for 1 portion: 3/4–1 teaspoon cooking fat, 2 teaspoon Finax Mjölmix, 1 dl fluid (cream, milk, water, stock or fond).
Stew for 1 portion: 3/4–1 teaspoon cooking fat, 1 teaspoon Finax Mjölmix, 1 dl fluid (cream, milk, water, stock or fond).


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That They All May Be One
What a moving week this was! Of course, the Pope went to Poland, the homeland of our late beloved Pontiff, John Paul II. The visit was significant just for that reason alone—after all, John Paul II did so much for the Polish people. After almost a century of persecution, John Paul II gave the people of Poland a new hope. It is well known that he was greatly loved there.
The new pope—Pope Benedict—is German. The Polish people greatly suffered at the hands of the Nazis. The most infamous concentration camp—Auschwitz—wasn't too far from where John Paul II grew up. It's hard to imagine what a German flag or a German symbol evokes for Polish people—it's a reminder of the Holocaust, the persecution, the oppression they suffered at their hands.
But here I think we get a glimpse into the beauty of the Catholic Church. Catholic, of course, means universal. It truly is a universal Church—it's a Church of Polish people, American people, Nigerian people—and yes, also German people. Here comes a German Pope to Poland. He weeps with the people of Poland. He walked through the death camp. He talked with survivors—people who suffered at the hands of his own countrymen.
Benedict said, "To speak in this place of horror, in this place where unprecedented mass crimes were committed against God and man, is almost impossible -- and it is particularly difficult and troubling for a Christian, for a Pope from Germany. In a place like this, words fail; in the end, there can only be a dread silence -- a silence which is itself a heartfelt cry to God: Why, Lord, did you remain silent? How could you tolerate all this? In silence, then, we bow our heads before the endless line of those who suffered and were put to death here; yet our silence becomes in turn a plea for forgiveness and reconciliation, a plea to the living God never to let this happen again."
He went on:
"…I could not fail to come here… I had to come. It is a duty before the truth and the just due of all who suffered here, a duty before God, for me to come here as the successor of Pope John Paul II and as a son of the German people -- a son of that people over which a ring of criminals rose to power by false promises of future greatness and the recovery of the nation's honor, prominence and prosperity, but also through terror and intimidation, with the result that our people was used and abused as an instrument of their thirst for destruction and power."
Later he said, "Auschwitz must not be forgotten, and the other 'factories of death' in which the Nazi regime tried to eliminate God in order to take his place!" the pope said. "We must not cede to the temptation of racial hatred, which is at the origins of the worst forms of anti-Semitism!"
Of course, for Pope Benedict, Auschwitz is a symbol of a world without God. John Allen, a Catholic journalist summed it up the Pope's thought this way: "Either we see the world as a gift from God with a moral law that regulates what we can do to one another, or the only reality is human power. If that's the world sooner or later it ends in Auschwitz -- as well as Rwanda, Bosnia, and all the other monuments to arrogance and hatred that mar human history."
Throughout all of this, I think what you see is the beautiful vision of humanity the Catholic Church has to offer. One visible head—the Pope—who unites all believers. It's not a matter of forgetting our differences—ignoring different ethnicities, cultures, traditions—it's not a matter of homogenizing all the distinctions. Faith means retaining those things which make us unique and celebrating the way Christ unites us all—each in all our uniqueness—in Himself, in His body, the Church.
Of course, many people today think that differences or distinctions are a bad thing. In our post-modern world, people think we have to pretend that there are no differences between men and women; we have to imagine a world without different nations. In other words, we all need to obscure what makes us unique. We need to be "color blind." Racism and sexism are wrong—there's no doubt about that. But to ignore our differences is also wrong. That's not the Catholic vision. And I don't think that's a truly human approach either.
How appropriate is it that the Pope made this wonderful visit the week before Pentecost. At Pentecost we have the great ingathering—the birth of the universal Church. Sin divides—as the episode at the Tower of Babel demonstrates. But the Spirit brings forgiveness, reconciliation and restoration.
For more on Pentecost see my post on the meaning of the feast here.
Steve Bogner said...
A universal, global, diverse church. That's a fact we've lost sight of here in the US, in my opinion. It's not so much our outward piety that bonds us, but the internal connection to Christ's one body.
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It is my privilege to present this report on the activities of the Vietnam Veterans (Neville Wallace Memorial) Children's & Grandchildren's Trust for the period 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016.
During the past year the Trust received $12,569 in donations and this, combined with capital gains from our equities portfolio, saw the Capital Fund increase by over $25,000 to $600,193.
I particularly acknowledge a second generous donation from the Ranfurly Veterans' Trust. For our part we will be associating that donation with the award of the Stan Kidd Memorial Bursary. We certainly value the relationship we have with this Trust and look forward to cementing it further in place.
Since its inception the Trust has made a total of 525 grants ranging in value from $159 to $2,500. In 2016 we awarded a total of 31 bursaries (c/w 32 in 2015) with an average value of $516 The assistance given continues to be wide and varied encompassing the whole gambit of education, sporting and cultural endeavour. 81% of the bursaries awarded went to first time applicants; 87% went to applicants resident in New Zealand; 32% were to the children of Vietnam veterans while female recipients were ahead of their male counterparts 52% to 48%; 68% were aged < 20 years of age; 6% were aged between 20 and 30 years while 26% were aged 31 >.
Our website www.evsayouthtrust.org.nz continues to attract considerable interest so much so that the site register counter reset after it recorded visitor 99,999. I acknowledge the professionalism of our webmaster Wayne Cribb. Wayne is barrister who has an interest in website design. He works for gratis and we thank him for that. I also acknowledge and thank Jimmy Jack's Ribshack of Paihia as the sponsor of our website.
I acknowledge the ongoing support we continue to receive from NZ Post by way of standard post-paid envelopes.
There were no changes to the Board and I acknowledge both their professionalism and support. Anita Killeen continues as our Honorary Legal Advisor and I thank her too. The Trust is in good shape. We can face the future with confidence.


British Gas New Energy has bought low carbon solutions company Semplice Energy for £1.5 million.
The division of energy giant Centrica will initially pay £1.2 million with a further £0.3 million payable in two years depending on performance.
Semplice Energy employs 21 staff and provides a range of clean technology solutions in the UK including consulting, design and systems integration to help businesses reduce their energy usage.
Clients include McDonald's, Tesco and Travelodge.
The deal follows on from British Gas' recent acquisitions of Solar Technologies Group Ltd and BMSi Ltd and technology partnerships with Ceres Power, Disenco and vPhase.
Heating of the main school building was provided by coal.
A site appraisal was conducted with results recommending the conversion of the existing boilers to run on wood pellets.
By doing so the school has reduced CO2 emissions to the atmosphere by 300 tonnes per year.
During the summer of 2003 two wood pellet conversion kits were installed into the two existing 600kW output boilers. The original bunkers were thoroughly cleaned and new bunkers for the wood pellets were built within the original area. The conversions are fully automatic and include automatic ignition and full modulation which has increased efficiency by over 20 per cent.
The original boilers were coal fired with efficiencies measured at 60 per cent.
After installation of the Wood Pellet conversion measured efficiencies of 83 per cent were achieved.
This equates to 300 tonnes per year of CO2 reduction.


Though VPNs are rock solid and offer many security benefits, they do still have a couple small problems. For example, your VPN will fail to connect if you don't have the right ports open or if your ISP blocks VPNs across their network (which is a rarity). But the biggest problem is the threat of a DNS leak, which could completely compromise your security and allow entities such as your ISP to be able to analyze and control your data even if you are using your VPN tunnel. Fortunately, we're going to help you protect yourself so this never has a chance of occurring in the first place.
For those of you who don't understand DNS, you need to know that this protocol links domain names with IP addresses. Each domain name has its own unique IP address, but humans don't remember numbers as well as we remember names. So your web browser needs to translate a domain name into a network address before it can send it data. For example, www.reddit.com has the IP address of 198.41.209.140, and DNS binds these two pieces of information together. Most often your ISP provides you with DNS services, meaning that your computer communicates with their DNS servers to determine a website's IP address.
However, when you use a VPN tunnel, you should use your VPN service's DNS servers instead of your ISP's DNS servers. Basically, your DNS requests need to flow through the tunnel instead of bypassing the tunnel and hitting your ISP's servers. But here's where things become problematic. Windows (among other systems, but Windows is the largest offender) will often use default values that cause your DNS requests to bypass your VPN tunnel. This scenario is referred to a DNS leak, and it allows your ISP to see every website you connect to – even if you are using your VPN tunnel. You can consult my full guide on how to verify if your VPN connection is secure, but below is an updated summary on how to avoid leaks all together while using a VPN connection.
You can't fix a problem unless you know it exists in the first place, but the good news is that it's not too hard to identify a DNS leak. Just use the online tool and make sure that the IP addresses are familiar. More specifically, if you see IPs that show a location far from your VPN server or ones that are from your ISP, then you have a leak. For example, if you are connecting to a VPN server in the UK but the IP addresses are from your neck of the woods, you have a problem.
The simplest measure you can use to prevent DNS leaks is to enable a DNS leak setting with your VPN client. Some service providers include a checkbox under their settings menu that will enable you to prevent DNS leaks. Unfortunately, there are many software clients that lack this option.
As an alternative, you can use software called VPNCheck. They offer a free edition that is a little watered down and a pro version that removes service restrictions. After you download it, install it, and run it, simply click on the "Config" button. Then, simply check the box that allows you to enable DNS Leak Fix. You'll only see this option if you use the paid version of the software, though, as it isn't present in the free version. After you have enabled this feature, you need to go back to the main screen and either click on Cycle IP: Network or Cycle IP: Task. Though you can use a limited free trial, the paid version of this software costs about $25.00 total. It isn't a monthly fee, and some people see a lot of value in this because it adds an extra layer of protection ensuring that their ISP won't accidentally see what they're up to online.
One of the reasons a DNS leak is allowed to happen in the first place is because of a mechanism called DHCP, which will automatically assign the DNS servers. This is a huge problem because the protocol could inadvertently connect you to a new DNS server when you change networks or as a service goes up and down. To nip this problem in the bud, simply assign a static DNS server that will trump any automatic assignments.
VPN service providers have their own DNS servers and if you contact support they will give you their IP addresses. Some even list them in service documentation. Alternatively, you could statically assign a DNS server using Comodo Secure DNS or OpenDNS. Any one of these services will work since they are not servers controlled by your ISP.
To statically assign a DNS server, the process will vary slightly between different Windows versions. However, the process is more or less the same. In Windows 7 and Windows 8, open the Control Panel, click on the Network and Sharing Centre, and then click on Change Adapter Settings. Right click on the connection you want to edit (either your Ethernet or wireless interface) and click on Properties.
Scroll down to the bottom and look for the IPv4 settings. Click on this option and click the properties button. If you look at the bottom, you will likely already see that DNS servers have been automatically configured. Record these addresses somewhere in case you want to revert your changes. Then, if you wanted to statically configure your connection to use a public DNS simply type the two servers' IP addresses in the DNS fields. If you want to use another DNS service, you can easily Google other open DNS providers and their servers' IP addresses.
Using a static DNS IP address will ensure that your DNS service doesn't accidentally get switched to your ISPs DNS service by DHCP. If you statically set your DNS to an open DNS server like Google DNS you will be able to browse the public Internet just about anywhere without a hitch and your ISP will be none the wiser.
However, be forewarned if you use the laptop you made a static DNS assignment on in a work setting. Many times businesses will implement their own private DNS service that only works for hosts connected to their corporate network. If you bring your computer to this type of environment and your network card is statically assigned to use Google DNS, there's no way you're going to be able to access internal corporate resources without either typing the IP addresses into your browser manually or switching to automatic assignment.
The DNS in Windows 10 behaves a little differently than it does in previous versions of the operating system. A feature called "Smart Multi-Homed Name Resolution" will send out DNS queries on different interfaces. By sending out requests to DNS servers at the same time, Windows 10 can find the fastest servers – thereby improving web performance. You should disable this setting if you want to use your VPN tunnel without your ISP knowing what you're doing.
The whole goal of using a VPN is to make sure that your ISP can't wrongfully snoop around and see what you're up to. But a DNS leak can easily defeat the purpose of using a VPN tunnel. In addition, you may want to go ahead and setup a VPN kill switch in case your VPN connection drops unexpectedly. While Windows does fall victim to DNS leaks more so than other operating systems, Apple devices and Linux systems are not exempt from having these types of problems – so it is a good idea to check to make sure you don't have a leak regularly if you use these operating systems.


Learning Independency is crucial for students. Additionality, learning independence helps students to be responsible and grows the willing of learning. The management of the use of pocket money creates a feeling of responsibility, commitment and discipline. The finale of this research to know learning independence and the use of pocket money influence the learning achievement in Economics subject on VII and VIII of SMP Semesta Boarding School in the Academic year of 2011/2012. The populations of this research are all VII and VIII grade studentsof SMP Semesta Boarding School. Learning Independency and The use of Pocket Money act as free variable, while studentslearning achievement acts asbound variable. The data was gathered from interview, questionnaire and teachers documentation. The analysis of the data applies double regression linear analysis.Based on the double linear analysis simultaneously, it is revealed that Learning Independency and The use of Pocket Money influene the learning achievement in Economics subject on VII and VIII until up to 51,3%. Partially, thev ariable of Learning Independency influence the learning achievement in Economics is 66,2% and The use of Pocket Money influene the learning achievement in Economics is 62,5%.According to the result of the research above, it can be concluded that learning independence and the use of Pocket Money influence the learning independence and the use of pocket money influence the learning achievement of Econimics subject for VII and VIII grade of SMP Semesta Boarding School Semarang in the academic year of 2011/2012 on simultan and partially . Based on this research, hopefullythe, 1) School give a little change to student when they go home. 2) Parents observe give of pocket money by the students activity in the dormitory.3) student hopefully to progress their learning independency actually to the learning achievement that still under minimum criteria (KKM).
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Princess Madeleine of Sweden has announced she and her family will be moving to Florida for her husband Christopher O'Neill's new job.
The 36-year-old has three children with the British-American investment banker - Princess Leonore (four), Prince Nicolas (three) and Princess Adrienne (five months) - and the Swedish Royal Court said in a statement the family will be moving stateside this autumn.
They are currently based in London, where Mr O'Neill works, but often return home to Sweden to fulfill royal duties and all of their children were baptised in Drottningholm Palace Chapel in Stockholm, Sweden.
"The timing and opportunity for the United States is good while the children are of preschool age," the statement read.
"Mr. Christopher O'Neill has previously been working in the United States but will continue his business in Europe. The family thus leaves the accommodation in London."
Madeleine is the youngest of King Gustaf and Queen Silivia's three children with Crown Princess Victoria next in line for the throne, followed by her two children, then her brother Prince Carl Philip and his two children. However, according to Swedish rule, you remain in line for the throne if you've attended school in the country from the age of six, which leaves two years for Leonore to potentially move home and retain her royal rights. The couple previously said they are more focused on achieving the best education and providing a happy home.
"The answer is that we do not know, and therefore we take all steps to prepare them for what we could call a normal life. A good education, for starters," O'Neill recently told Swedish magazine King. "We are in the queue for schools in London, which we need to do four years in advance, but we take a year at a time."
In the same interview, he praised his wife of five years, describing her as the love of his life. "I've met the woman of my life, the woman I love. But it is clear that it has its challenging sides to be married to a princess. Of course, it has complicated my life, for obvious reasons," he said.
"I have no desire to achieve any kind of fame, nor have any benefits of it in my professional life. It happens that I'm mad about Madeleine. But in the end, you learn to live with it.


AOL has bought mobile software company Wildseed for an undisclosed sum. At the same time, it has created a new unit for mobile services.
Wildseed makes Linux-based software for mobile devices and will become part of the newly created AOL Wireless unit. In addition to Wildseed, AOL Wireless will include Tegic Communications, which AOL bought in 1999 and which specialises in simplifying the entry of text into mobile devices.
AOL Wireless will also absorb AOL Mobile, which includes several AOL services for mobile devices, such as instant messaging, e-mail, photo storage, radio, search and mapping.
Wildseed is best known for its SmartSkin interactive accessories. Its Linux-based OS includes support for Game Boy-style games, MP3 and video and remote device management.
"Data-related mobile technologies are on the cusp of mainstream adoption," explained AOL's digitial services CTO John McKinley. "The wireless industry is focused on bringing additional rich media experiences and a new generation of interactive services to the mobile consumer, and we are committed to being a leader in that arena."
AOL Wireless will be led by Craig Eisler. Wildseed employees and operations will be integrated into AOL's offices and Wildseed CEO Eric Engstrom will become AOL Wireless' senior vice president of wireless products.


Poinsettias are added into this living wall during the holiday season.
Living walls, also known as green walls, are vertical surfaces that are densely covered with vegetation. Planterra's living walls offer a practical solution of adding greenery into buildings with tight areas or limited square footage. They provide the perfect focal point for reception areas, entrances or seating areas.
Planterra's practice is to match the client site with a living wall system that will work best for the space and the overall objectives of the project. Living walls can be achieved using a variety of methods and living wall systems, ranging from trailing ivy trellises to irrigated pre-grown planted panels.
Systems where plants are rooted into a non-perishable material such as foam, synthetic fiber or rock-wool are the most durable panel-based systems available. This method is most applicable in large-scale commercial walls because it requires built-in irrigation systems, drainage and either natural light or artificial lighting supplements.
Systems that use soil or organic growing media are separated into two categories: panel based and potted plant based.
Panel systems are walls where plants are pre-grown into panels made from organic fibers. These panels can be very effective in creating a flourishing environment for plants and their roots. However, like all organic material, the media will erode over-time and re-planting will be required.
Potted plant systems are structure that hold plants in either 4" or 6" grow-pots. These systems are ideal for areas that require frequent and efficient rotations, such as living wall displays with flowering plants or areas with low-light. Most potted plant systems are pre-manufactured with water tight panels. Although the individual plants can be supplied in a soil-less growing media, the frequency of the plant rotations do not necessarily warrant this practice, as the plants will be exchanged before the media disintegrates and erodes overtime. These walls require the plants to be on a rotation or replacement schedule. Depending on the location and the size of the wall, this is often the most cost-effective technique to install and maintain a live green wall.
If your installation doesn't require an immediate green wall, a trellis system is a simple yet effective method which fills into a green wall overtime. The speed of growth is dependent on the plants selected, growing conditions and the compatibility of the trellis to the plant's natural growth patterns. Some types of trellis systems can be purchased pre-grown with common plant ivies.


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By O'Sullivan Estate Lawyers LLP posted in Family Law on Tuesday, March 25, 2014.
A common consideration when completing or updating your estate planning is often how best to protect assets in the event of marital breakdown--whether your own marriage, including a second marriage, or an intended beneficiary's (e.g., a child or grandchild). The need to protect certain assets may be even more pressing when the property is a home or cottage that has been in a family for generations, carrying strong emotional ties and significant memories. Protecting this property can be complicated, however, if it qualifies as a matrimonial home under Ontario's Family Law Act.
A matrimonial home is any property occupied by married spouses or by a spouse and their children as a family residence and in which at least one of the spouses has an 'interest'. Married couples may have more than one matrimonial home. If a property qualifies as a matrimonial home, it is subject to a special set of rules. Our Advisory "Estate Planning and Marital Property Considerations" reviews some of these rules in relation to equalizing family property. In addition, both spouses have possessory rights in every matrimonial home while the spouses are still married regardless of whether they have an ownership interest in the property. Further, under the Act a spouse who does not hold title is entitled to receive notice of and must consent to any encumbrance or sale of the property.
We've recently discussed marriage contracts (see our January 7, 2014 post) as valuable and sensible tools for protecting certain property down the road in the event of separation or divorce. Properly negotiating and finalizing a marriage contract that will be enforceable in future, however (especially in the face of a pending marriage), may be easier said than done.
Our May 2013 post "Great Family Cottage Memories? Keep them that Way" mentioned that a carefully drafted discretionary trust may keep a spouse from acquiring an ownership interest in a property, thereby preventing it from becoming a matrimonial home. The 2012 Ontario Court of Appeal decision in Spencer v. Riesberry supports this position.
Sandra Spencer and Derek Riesberry were married in 1994. Prior to their marriage, Sandra's mother Linda purchased a property and on the same day it was purchased, she settled a trust called the Spencer Family Realty Trust ("SFRT") and transferred the property's ownership to the SFRT. Linda was the trustee as well as the beneficiary of the trust while living. Upon her death, the capital of the trust at that time would be divided equally among her surviving children (or in the case of a deceased child, his or her issue). Linda transferred three more properties to the trust--each of which was occupied by one of her four children and the child's respective spouse. Sandra and a sister eventually replaced their mother as trustees of the SFRT.
Derek and Sandra separated in 2010. A trial was held to determine, among other matters, whether their family residence was a matrimonial home under the Act. If it was, Sandra had to include its full value in her net family property on the date of separation. The trial judge found that because Sandra only had an interest in the SFRT and not any specific asset held by the trust, the home did not qualify as a matrimonial home. This conclusion was subsequently affirmed on appeal.
Because the property in Spencer v. Riesberry was not a matrimonial home, the value of Sandra's interest in the SFRT on the date of marriage was also deductible from her net family property and only the increase in value of her trust interest during the marriage was includable for the purposes of the equalization calculation. Other important implications of the court's decision include that Derek would have had no possessory right to remain living in the home for a time upon separation and his consent would not have been needed if the property had ever been sold or mortgaged during the marriage.
The decision in Spencer v. Riesberry has important implications, including the use of a trust to protect an interest in a matrimonial home. If you are considering similar planning, professional assistance is necessary to ensure its proper implementation and other matters are considered, such as tax implications. Thought should also be given to whether other assets owned by the spouse outside of a trust would be available to satisfy any equalization payment.
Please watch for our next blog on the topic of digital assets from an estate planning and administration perspective.


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After cotton, moong under whitefly attack in India
Date:2020/9/14
After the cotton crop, moong-growers are facing similar conditions as almost the entire moong crop is suspected to have perished due to whitefly attack in Hisar and adjoining areas. Moong is cultivated on 22,000 hectares in Hisar.
The farmers complained that it would be difficult for them to repay the seasonal loan taken under the Kisan Credit Cards (KCC) this season as the losses have accumulated and they have no other source of income.
Farmer Charan Singh of Bandaheri who sowed moong on 20 acres has lost the entire crop and incurred a loss of around Rs 2 lakh. He is set to overturn his entire moong crop which has been damaged due to whitefly attack.
Agriculture officials said the moong crop was also under whitefly attack. "Like with the cotton crop, farmers are unlikely to get a profitable yield from the 'moong' crop. The yield of 'moong' is likely to go down by around 70 per cent," said an official.
Farmers Naresh Kumar of Gorchi village, Dilip Singh of Dobhi village, Ramniwas of Kharia village and others said that despite the spray of pesticides, they were unable to save the crop from getting damaged due to whitefly.
Deputy Director Agriculture Balwant Saharan said that both cotton and moong have been attacked by whitefly. "The moong plants have started becoming yellow and the yield is likely to go down. We will submit a report to the state government about the condition of the kharif crops," he said.
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The hip is a ball and socket joint of the hip. Necrosis or death of the femoral headmeans that the ball part of the joint is no longer properly functioning. This is due toloss of the blood supply to the femoral head. This may result from a growthabnormality or trauma.
It is a hereditary condition of small breed young dogs, especially terriers. It may alsooccur after trauma or injury to the leg or hip.
Usually slowly increasing lameness and inability to bear weight are the main clinicalsigns. It may begin in one leg and progress to both legs, especially in young pets. Onclinical examination there is usually reduced hip joint movement, lack of muscle massand apparent limb shortening. Owners often report that their pet has become increas-ing irritable. The diagnosis is made by taking x-rays of the hips.
What happens to the joint if part of the hip is removed?Healing involves the laying down of fibrous tissue and in a very short time a false joint is created. Within months, most dogs are running and playing as if nothing happened.
Complications are rare following this type of surgery. A small percentage of dogs will always experience some limping or discomfort and require long term anti-inflammatory medication. Others will require a second surgery to remove any residual bone that may cause discomfort.


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Tom Score Joins KZSW Advertising
By Jack Schultheis
KZSW Advertising, a full-service advertising agency located in Setauket, NY, recently announced that Tom Score has joined the agency as a Senior Vice President. Tom comes aboard with several accounts he's handled for many years and will work to attract new business as well. "It is with great excitement I join forces with Jack Schultheis and Michael Welch, two outstanding ad guys that I've admired for many years. I look forward to helping KZSW continue to grow and to create effective strategies and campaigns that produce bottom line results for our clients."
"For 35 years, KZSW has prospered despite a notable shortcoming: we're so focused on our existing clients that we sometimes neglect to pursue new ones. Tom will fix that," said agency president Schultheis. "He has a proven track record for getting and growing new accounts. He's a true professional, skilled in every aspect of this business. And he has the most important characteristic we look for in all our people: he's a quality human being."
For over 25 years, Tom has managed advertising for some of the world's largest, most prestigious firms. His work has included oversight of nationwide branding campaigns, sophisticated websites, direct-response marketing, public relations programs, major trade show installations, and many other initiatives.
He founded KDJ Advertising in 2003 and managed all day-to-day operations while identifying and pursuing new business opportunities with offices in Man- hattan and on Long Island.
Tom established a strong niche in financial services marketing while also serving clients in the nonprofit, hospitality and family entertainment industries. His team served as the de facto marketing department for flagship account North Fork Bank (now Capital One Bank), managing all advertising and marketing and spearheading North Fork's entry into the competitive New York City market. Additional accounts included Atlantis Marine World Aquarium, Coalition Against Child Abuse & Neglect (CCAN), DTCC, Interactive Data Corp, Mashreq Bank (Dubai) and several top Long Island restaurants, including Prime and Tellers.
Among Mr. Score's career highlights:
Managing and directing North Fork Bank's entry into the NYC/Metro market through branding strategy and new product introductions, raising North Fork's industry profile and setting the stage for North Fork's eventual purchase by Capital One.
The national rollout of the FEMA Flood Insurance Program.
Rebranding of Sandler O'Neill after September 11, 2001.
A national campaign to establish ProTrader Securities as the leader in electronic trading – a positioning that resulted in the company's sale to Instinet for $152 million.
Received the 2008 Gold Sabre Award for Herald National Bank corporate media relations program (Business Media).
Winner of over a dozen Telly Awards for Excellence in TV commercial production, and many other industry awards.
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Q: Prevent users from installing software, altering desktop (files, icons, &wallpaper), changing Start menu I've read several Q&A here that each address one of these restrictions, but found none addressing several or all of them together.
Context: Windows XP PCs in teaching labs have two accounts, one with administrator privileges (and a good password, students don't use it) and one with regular user privileges used by all students.
In XP the regular user may:

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*install software in their account

*put files on the desktop

*move Desktop icons around

*change the desktop wallpaper

*change the Programs submenu of the Start menu

I'd like to prevent all these (especially 1, 2, and 3, they usually don't do 4 nor 5). Students must:

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*ask the admin if they need new software

*put their files in a subdirectory of My Documents

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*not impose their taste on other users

I'm looking for a unified way to accomplish all these. I've read about something called "group policies" that may be the way to go:

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*do you confirm it is?

*can you tell me the procedure?

*will this work the same in Windows 7?

A: Yes, group policies are what you need. You can start the editor by pressing the Windows key + R and typing gpedit.msc. Then you can just navigate around and turn options on and off. It will work almost the same on all Windows versions.
In addition to that you can set UAC to high. If they want to install new software, the computer will ask for an administrator password. You can do this in control panel > user accounts > user accounts > change settings for user account control (or something like that, i am not English). It works on 7, i do not know for sure if it works on XP.

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Guest post by Pecha Kucha competition winner.
This event takes place worldwide with community events happening all around the world where speakers talk about different and exciting topics. For the 40Th Pecha Kucha event in Cape Town, we went in search for the best glamping tweet.
But then! One of my besties, Robyn, tweeted a hilarious, punny Tweet & won herself a weekend at Kam'Bati for 5!
And I was invited, obvs.
It's such a beautiful spot, just over 2 hours outside of Cape Town, and what some folks like to call Glamping (Glamourous Camping).
Our tent was kitted out with everything we needed, including tea, coffee, sugar and washing up liquid, plus the most incredible bedding and electric blankets (it was SO CHILLY when we arrived) and towels for each of us. The only thing we needed to sort out was food for ourselves (BUT! there are options for Breakfast and Dinner packs at an extra cost).
This seems like an even better place to return to in Summer, as they have Berry Picking, Canoeing, Horse Rides and a Spa! I'd recommend it if you're looking to relax, as there's no Wifi and it's incredibly quiet and tranquil. Take a book or a magazine and some delicious snacks and you're good to go!
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Cabin Fever ebook
B.M. Bower
A classic tale of the Old West by B.M. Bower. This one is one of her earliest (1918). This was an interesting story about a man who quarrels with his young wife and goes out into the world to try to forget her. "Cabin Fever" gets Bud Moore into a peck of trouble now and then. Bud is a bit too trustful of strangers and before he knows it, he has injected himself into a situation that could prove to be disastrous. Bud then heads for the hills and meets up with another stranger. Then, one day, Bud finds a child who has been stolen by an Indian squaw and takes him in. How will the child's presence change the two hardened men? The surprise ending is a nice touch, by the author.
Good Indian
The Lookout Man
Lonesome Land
The Lure of the Dim Trails
Her Prairie Knight
The Uphill Climb
The Quirt
Jean of the Lazy A
Cow-Country
The Thunder Bird
The Long Shadow
The Gringos
Rowdy of the Cross L
The Flying U's Last Stand
The Phantom Herd
The Trail of the White Mule
I. THE FEVER MANIFESTS ITSELF
II. TWO MAKE A QUARREL
III. TEN DOLLARS AND A JOB FOR BUD
IV. HEAD SOUTH AND KEEP GOING
V. BUD CANNOT PERFORM MIRACLES
VI. BUD TAKES TO THE HILLS
VII. INTO THE DESERT
VIII. MANY BARREN MONTHS AND MILES
IX. THE BITE OF MEMORY
X. EMOTIONS ARE TRICKY THINGS
XI. THE FIRST STAGES
XII. MARIE TAKES A DESPERATE CHANCE
XIII. CABIN FEVER IN THE WORST FORM
XIV. CASH GETS A SHOCK
XV. AND BUD NEVER GUESSED
XVI. THE ANTIDOTE
XVII. LOVIN' CHILD WRIGGLES IN
XVIII. THEY HAVE THEIR TROUBLES
XIX. BUD FACES FACTS
XX. LOVIN CHILD STRIKES IT RICH
XXI. MARIE'S SIDE OF IT
XXII. THE CURE COMPLETE
THERE is a certain malady of the mind induced by too much of one thing. Just as the body fed too long upon meat becomes a prey to that horrid disease called scurvy, so the mind fed too long upon monotony succumbs to the insidious mental ailment which the West calls "cabin fever." True, it parades under different names, according to circumstances and caste. You may be afflicted in a palace and call it ennui, and it may drive you to commit peccadillos and indiscretions of various sorts. You may be attacked in a middle-class apartment house, and call it various names, and it may drive you to cafe life and affinities and alimony. You may have it wherever you are shunted into a backwater of life, and lose the sense of being borne along in the full current of progress. Be sure that it will make you abnormally sensitive to little things; irritable where once you were amiable; glum where once you went whistling about your work and your play. It is the crystallizer of character, the acid test of friendship, the final seal set upon enmity. It will betray your little, hidden weaknesses, cut and polish your undiscovered virtues, reveal you in all your glory or your vileness to your companions in exile–if so be you have any.
If you would test the soul of a friend, take him into the wilderness and rub elbows with him for five months! One of three things will surely happen: You will hate each other afterward with that enlightened hatred which is seasoned with contempt; you will emerge with the contempt tinged with a pitying toleration, or you will be close, unquestioning friends to the last six feet of earth–and beyond. All these things will cabin fever do, and more. It has committed murder, many's the time. It has driven men crazy. It has warped and distorted character out of all semblance to its former self. It has sweetened love and killed love. There is an antidote–but I am going to let you find the antidote somewhere in the story.
Bud Moore, ex-cow-puncher and now owner of an auto stage that did not run in the winter, was touched with cabin fever and did not know what ailed him. His stage line ran from San Jose up through Los Gatos and over the Bear Creek road across the summit of the Santa Cruz Mountains and down to the State Park, which is locally called Big Basin. For something over fifty miles of wonderful scenic travel he charged six dollars, and usually his big car was loaded to the running boards. Bud was a good driver, and he had a friendly pair of eyes–dark blue and with a humorous little twinkle deep down in them somewhere–and a human little smiley quirk at the corners of his lips. He did not know it, but these things helped to fill his car.
Until gasoline married into the skylark family, Bud did well enough to keep him contented out of a stock saddle. (You may not know it, but it is harder for an old cow-puncher to find content, now that the free range is gone into history, than it is for a labor agitator to be happy in a municipal boarding house.)
Bud did well enough, which was very well indeed. Before the second season closed with the first fall rains, he had paid for his big car and got the insurance policy transferred to his name. He walked up First Street with his hat pushed back and a cigarette dangling from the quirkiest corner of his mouth, and his hands in his pockets. The glow of prosperity warmed his manner toward the world. He had a little money in the bank, he had his big car, he had the good will of a smiling world. He could not walk half a block in any one of three or four towns but he was hailed with a "Hello, Bud!" in a welcoming tone. More people knew him than Bud remembered well enough to call by name–which is the final proof of popularity the world over.
In that glowing mood he had met and married a girl who went into Big Basin with her mother and camped for three weeks. The girl had taken frequent trips to Boulder Creek, and twice had gone on to San Jose, and she had made it a point to ride with the driver because she was crazy about cars. So she said. Marie had all the effect of being a pretty girl. She habitually wore white middies with blue collar and tie, which went well with her clear, pink skin and her hair that just escaped being red. She knew how to tilt her "beach" hat at the most provocative angle, and she knew just when to let Bud catch a slow, sidelong glance–of the kind that is supposed to set a man's heart to syncopatic behavior. She did not do it too often. She did not powder too much, and she had the latest slang at her pink tongue's tip and was yet moderate in her use of it.
Bud did not notice Marie much on the first trip. She was demure, and Bud had a girl in San Jose who had brought him to that interesting stage of dalliance where he wondered if he dared kiss her good night the next time he called. He was preoccupiedly reviewing the she-said-and-then-I-said, and trying to make up his mind whether he should kiss her and take a chance on her displeasure, or whether he had better wait. To him Marie appeared hazily as another camper who helped fill the car–and his pocket–and was not at all hard to look at. It was not until the third trip that Bud thought her beautiful, and was secretly glad that he had not kissed that San Jose girl.
You know how these romances develop. Every summer is saturated with them the world over. But Bud happened to be a simple-souled fellow, and there was something about Marie–He didn't know what it was. Men never do know, until it is all over. He only knew that the drive through the shady stretches of woodland grew suddenly to seem like little journeys into paradise. Sentiment lurked behind every great, mossy tree bole. New beauties unfolded in the winding drive up over the mountain crests. Bud was terribly in love with the world in those days.
There were the evenings he spent in the Basin, sitting beside Marie in the huge campfire circle, made wonderful by the shadowy giants, the redwoods; talking foolishness in undertones while the crowd sang snatches of songs which no one knew from beginning to end, and that went very lumpy in the verses and very much out of harmony in the choruses. Sometimes they would stroll down toward that sweeter music the creek made, and stand beside one of the enormous trees and watch the glow of the fire, and the silhouettes of the people gathered around it.
In a week they were surreptitiously holding hands. In two weeks they could scarcely endure the partings when Bud must start back to San Jose, and were taxing their ingenuity to invent new reasons why Marie must go along. In three weeks they were married, and Marie's mother–a shrewd, shrewish widow–was trying to decide whether she should wash her hands of Marie, or whether it might be well to accept the situation and hope that Bud would prove himself a rising young man.
But that was a year in the past. Bud had cabin fever now and did not know what ailed him, though cause might have been summed up in two meaty phrases: too much idleness, and too much mother- in-law. Also, not enough comfort and not enough love.
In the kitchen of the little green cottage on North Sixth Street where Bud had built the home nest with much nearly-Mission furniture and a piano, Bud was frying his own hotcakes for his ten o'clock breakfast, and was scowling over the task. He did not mind the hour so much, but he did mortally hate to cook his own breakfast–or any other meal, for that matter. In the next room a rocking chair was rocking with a rhythmic squeak, and a baby was squalling with that sustained volume of sound which never fails to fill the adult listener with amazement. It affected Bud unpleasantly, just as the incessant bawling of a band of weaning calves used to do. He could not bear the thought of young things going hungry.
"For the love of Mike, Marie! Why don't you feed that kid, or do something to shut him up?" he exploded suddenly, dribbling pancake batter over the untidy range.
The squeak, squawk of the rocker ceased abruptly. "'Cause it isn't time yet to feed him–that's why. What's burning out there? I'll bet you've got the stove all over dough again–" The chair resumed its squeaking, the baby continued uninterrupted its wah-h-hah! wah-h-hah, as though it was a phonograph that had been wound up with that record on, and no one around to stop it
Bud turned his hotcakes with a vicious flop that spattered more batter on the stove. He had been a father only a month or so, but that was long enough to learn many things about babies which he had never known before. He knew, for instance, that the baby wanted its bottle, and that Marie was going to make him wait till feeding time by the clock.
"By heck, I wonder what would happen if that darn clock was to stop!" he exclaimed savagely, when his nerves would bear no more. "You'd let the kid starve to death before you'd let your own brains tell you what to do! Husky youngster like that–feeding 'im four ounces every four days–or some simp rule like that–" He lifted the cakes on to a plate that held two messy-looking fried eggs whose yolks had broken, set the plate on the cluttered table and slid petulantly into a chair and began to eat. The squeaking chair and the crying baby continued to torment him. Furthermore, the cakes were doughy in the middle.
"For gosh sake, Marie, give that kid his bottle!" Bud exploded again. "Use the brains God gave yuh–such as they are! By heck, I'll stick that darn book in the stove. Ain't yuh got any feelings at all? Why, I wouldn't let a dog go hungry like that! Don't yuh reckon the kid knows when he's hungry? Why, good Lord! I'll take and feed him myself, if you don't. I'll burn that book–so help me!"
"Yes, you will–not!" Marie's voice rose shrewishly, riding the high waves of the baby's incessant outcry against the restrictions upon appetite imposed by enlightened motherhood. "You do, and see what'll happen! You'd have him howling with colic, that's what you'd do."
"Well, I'll tell the world he wouldn't holler for grub! You'd go by the book if it told yuh to stand 'im on his head in the ice chest! By heck, between a woman and a hen turkey, give me the turkey when it comes to sense. They do take care of their young ones–"
"Aw, forget that! When it comes to sense–-"


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Tag: Cecil Beaton
The Critics (1927) by Henry Scott Tuke.
• Geeta Dayal talks to ambient musician Midori Takada about Through The Looking-Glass (1983), an album being reissued this month by Palto Flats/We Release Whatever The Fuck We Want Records.
• Jacob Brogan reviews The Abominable Mr. Seabrook by Joe Ollmann, a graphic biography of writer, occultist, explorer and determined cannibal, William Seabrook.
• More from the usual suspects (on these pages at least): Jonathan Meades on his new cookbook and a recent bout of heart surgery; and Iain Sinclair on The Last London.
The law only applied to men, but that didn't mean same-sex relationships between women were immune to opprobrium. Dorothy Todd was hired as the editor of British Vogue in 1922. Under her visionary stewardship, the magazine became a bastion of high modernist style, swapping petticoats and corsets for Picasso, Cocteau, Man Ray and Woolf. Todd lived with her lover, the fashion editor Madge Garland. Sacked in 1926 because of declining circulation, she planned to sue the magazine, but was silenced when the publisher Condé Nast threatened to publicly expose her "morals".
In such an inimical climate, it's not surprising that art became a zone of enchantment as well as resistance. The plenitude of camp aesthetics, the lush excess, the cross-pollination of high and low forms might be conceived as a direct response to the paucity and hostility of the culture at large. From the mannered decadence of Aubrey Beardsley's naughty woodcuts, to Cecil Beaton's portraits of Stephen Tennant as a radiant boy prince, to the cabaret high jinks of Danny La Rue, to the wickedly doctored library book covers made by the playwright Joe Orton (a crime for which he received a jail sentence), camp offered a way of remaking the world, cutting it down to size and reassembling it in richly strange and strangely rich new forms.
Olivia Lang on the British artists working in defiance of iniquitous laws prior to the (partial) decriminalisation of homosexual acts in 1967.
• Due for publication later this year, You Should Come With Me Now, a new collection of short fiction by M. John Harrison.
• Daniel Marner reviews Scarred For Life Volume One: The 70s, a book about the dark side of British pop culture.
• Jay Babcock talks to Erik Davis about the end of Arthur magazine and his new life in the Californian desert.
• The nature photography of Nobuyuki Kobayashi and the ruin photography of Gina Soden.
• Jon Forss of design team Non-Format on his time designing The Wire magazine.
• Mac McClelland on how doctors treat mental illness with psychedelic drugs.
• Mix of the week: Secret Thirteen Mix 216 by WSR.
• Hisham Matar on Jorge Luis Borges.
• London Boys (1976) by T. Rex | Last Train To London (1979) by Electric Light Orchestra | London (2004) by Patrick Wolf
Author JohnPosted on March 26, 2017 Categories {architecture}, {art}, {books}, {borges}, {comics}, {design}, {drugs}, {electronica}, {gay}, {horror}, {magazines}, {music}, {painting}, {photography}, {television}Tags Arthur magazine, Aubrey Beardsley, book covers, Cecil Beaton, Daniel Marner, Danny La Rue, Dorothy Todd, Electric Light Orchestra, Erik Davis, Geeta Dayal, Gina Soden, Henry Scott Tuke, Hisham Matar, Iain Sinclair, Jacob Brogan, Jay Babcock, Joe Ollmann, Joe Orton, Jon Forss, Jonathan Meades, Jorge Luis Borges, M. John Harrison, Mac McClelland, Madge Garland, Man Ray, Midori Takada, Nobuyuki Kobayashi, Non-Format, Olivia Lang, Patrick Wolf, Stephen Tennant, T. Rex, William Seabrook, WSR (musician)2 Comments on Weekend links 353
Gervase and Patrick
Gervase (left) & Patrick Procktor (right).
Once upon a time in the 1960s: painter Patrick Procktor and friend photographed by Cecil Beaton at Beaton's home; no wonder David Hockney used to come and visit. Procktor made Gervase Griffiths the subject of his work on more than one occasion, see here and here. Thanks to Little Augury for the picture details.
Update: For more about Procktor, see Patrick Procktor: Art and Life (2010) by Ian Massey.
• Further back and faster
Author JohnPosted on January 8, 2011 January 18, 2011 Categories {art}, {eye candy}, {gay}, {painting}, {photography}Tags Cecil Beaton, David Hockney, Gervase Griffiths, Little Augury, Patrick Procktor
The Surrealist Revolution
The riddle of the rocks by Jonathan Jones
It was the art movement that shocked the world. It was sexy, weird and dangerous—and it's still hugely influential today. Jonathan Jones travels to the coast of Spain to explore the landscape that inspired Salvador Dalí, the greatest surrealist of them all.
The Guardian, Monday March 5, 2007
I AM SCRAMBLING over the rocks that dominate the coastline of Cadaqués in north-east Spain. They look like crumbling chunks of bread floating on a soup of seawater. Surreal is a word we throw about easily today, almost a century after it was coined by the poet Guillaume Apollinaire. Yet if there is anywhere on earth you can still hope to put a precise and historical meaning on the "surreal" and "surrealism", it is among these rocks. To scramble over them is to enter a world of distorted scale inhabited by tiny monsters. Armoured invertebrates crawl about on barely submerged formations. I reach into the water for a shell and the orange pincers of a hermit crab flick my fingers away.
The entire history of surrealism—from the collages of Max Ernst to Salvador Dalí's Lobster Telephone—can be read in these igneous formations, just as surely as they unfold the geological history of Catalonia.
I sit down on a jagged ridge. What if I fell? Would they find a skeleton looking just like the bones of the four dead bishops in L'Age d'Or, the surrealist film Luis Buñuel shot here in 1930?
Buñuel had been shown these rocks by his college friend Dalí years earlier. It was here they had scripted their infamous film Un Chien Andalou. Dalí came from Figueras, on the Ampurdán plain beyond the mountains that enclose Cadaqués, and spent his childhood summers here, exploring the rock pools and being cruel to the sea creatures. In most people's eyes, this is a beautiful Mediterranean setting. It certainly looked lovely to Dalí's close friend, the poet Federico García Lorca, when Dalí brought him here in the 1920s: in his Ode to Salvador Dalí, Lorca lyrically praises the moon reflected in the calm, wide bay…
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Author JohnPosted on March 5, 2007 December 29, 2011 Categories {art}, {film}, {painting}, {sculpture}, {surrealism}Tags Alan Moore, Alexander McQueen, Alfred Hitchcock, André Breton, Cecil Beaton, David Lynch, Edward James, Igor Wakhévitch, JG Ballard, John Constable, Jonathan Jones, Joseph Cornell, K-Rob, Lorca, Luis Buñuel, Man Ray, Max Ernst, Meret Oppenheim, René Magritte, Salvador Dalí, Walt Disney6 Comments on The Surrealist Revolution
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Mick Jagger by Cecil Beaton (1968).
Donald Cammell thought Mick Jagger to be a more provocative rock star than Elvis Presley because Jagger was willing to experiment with his masculinity. Elvis, although extraordinarily erotic to a generation of young women, never did. What this difference suggests, among other things, is that Mick Jagger's appeal is not Elvis's—and never was. Critic Greil Marcus has argued that what Elvis did was to purge the Sunday morning sobriety from folk and country music and to purge the dread from blues; in doing so, he transformed a regional music into a national music, and invented party music. Elvis popularized an amalgam of musical forms and styles into "rock'n'roll," a black American euphemism for sexual intercourse. What the Rolling Stones did to rock music, some years after Elvis made sex an integral part of its appeal, was to infuse rock with a bohemian theatricality, at first through Brian Jones, who was the first British pop star to cultivate actively a flamboyant, androgynous image. For a time, Brian even found his female double in Anita Pallenberg. Brian Jones and the Stones thus re-introduced into rock music its erotic allure, and hence made it threatening (again).
From an excellent piece by Sam Umland for PERFORMANCE: A Photographic Exhibition featuring the work of Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg at the Drkrm. Gallery, Los Angeles, opening on January 20th. Umland wrote the recent biography of Donald Cammell with Rebecca Umland (published by Fab Press) for which I designed the cover. Featured in the exhibition are prints from the Del Valle Archive, including eleven photographs of Mick Jagger taken by Cecil Beaton when Performance was being filmed.
"When are Warner Brothers going to do the right thing and release Performance on DVD?" I asked in April last year. Well now they are, although it remains to be seen which version of the film has been used; several exist, some of them shorter than others. Release is scheduled for February 13th in the US and March 12th in the UK.
PERFORMANCE: A Photographic Exhibition
featuring the work of Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg
Drkrm. Gallery
2121 San Fernando Road
• Quite a performance
• Borges in Performance
Author JohnPosted on January 19, 2007 July 19, 2008 Categories {film}, {music}, {photography}, {work}Tags Anita Pallenberg, Brian Jones, Cecil Beaton, Donald Cammell, Elvis Presley, FAB Press, Greil Marcus, Mick Jagger, Nicolas Roeg, The Rolling Stones


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docker-compose.yml
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Embattled Negev Textile Offered NIS 3 Million Loan to Head Off Its Closure
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A proposed NIS 3 million loan may keep the troubled Negev Textile company open, although the owner of the plant has yet to accept the deal outlined last Tuesday.
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The factory, which is located in Sderot on the border with the Gaza Strip, had been on the verge of closure, and management had been seeking a NIS 3 million government grant to save the jobs of its 50 or so employees.
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The Negev Textiles plant shut down in 2013.Eliyahu Hershkovitz.
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Night Time Industries Welcome CBD Lockout Scrap
by Leone Cruden on September 9, 2019 in News & Announcements
The announcement from NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian that the NSW Government will be rolling back lockout laws in Sydney's CBD has been welcomed by the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA).
Michael Rodrigues, Chair, NTIA – representing a diverse range of stakeholders and venues from the hospitality, entertainment, and arts and culture sectors – said, "To say the repeal of the CBD lockouts is welcomed is an understatement.
This is going to give parts of the city's nightlife a unique opportunity to work with the community and the Government to rebuild a vibrant and thriving future for our night time in the city area – but the work isn't done yet."
"The Government's inquiry into Sydney's night time, shed light on many issues, including the reputation damage done to Sydney as a whole, due to how downgraded our nightlife culture has become.
We're keenly looking forward to the report from this inquiry due 30 September which we expect will more fully address the suite of reforms needed to unlock the power of Sydney's night time economy," said Mr Rodrigues.
Mr Rodrigues also further commented, "Our concern in the interim remains that as long as lockouts are in place in Kings Cross, Sydney's global brand reputation will be unnecessarily tarnished."
Mr Rodrigues explained there was an urgent need to get the message out there that – all of Sydney is here for everyone to enjoy, and not locked u.p –
"There is going to need to be a lot more work done beyond lockouts to restore the perception of Sydney and put the region back on the map as a global destination.
Of course Sydney can have a safe and inclusive entertainment culture, that recognises the valid concerns of police and health service providers. But we can do this in a way where we can seize the opportunity to create a thriving nightlife, creating jobs and contributing millions to the economy. If other cities around the world can do it, so can we.
We look forward to this being one of many steps the Government will take to revitalise our city's nightlife." concluded Rodrigues.
Media enquiries: Claire Maloney | 0431 279 785 | claire@thebraveryishere.com
Available for interview: Michael Rodrigues, Chair, Night Time Industries Association
Previous media commentary from Mike Rodrigues and NTIA:
Sydney Morning Herald; 'Sydney should shine after dark' (Feb 2019)
Daily Telegraph; 'Resurrect live music industry' (Feb 2019)
2SER; 'How NTIA plans to save Sydney's night life' (March 2019)
TimeOut; 'Why Sydney rated 10th worst, and what can we do about it?' (March 2019)
More about Night Time Industries Association:
The Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) is here to promote Sydney as a vibrant and creative city, and to build a new positive narrative for Sydney's nightlife.
The NTIA consists of members representing: hospitality (bars, pubs, clubs, restaurants), entertainment venues, festivals, retail operators, arts and culture organisations, precincts and other commercial businesses with an interest in the night time economy.
Members include; APRA AMCOS, Sydney Festival, Sydney Theatre Company, Australian Venue Co, Sonos Australia, Playbill Venues, Century Venues, Committee for Sydney, Live Nation, Mary's Group, Music NSW, Oxford Art Factory, Solotel Group and Ticketmaster – to name a few – for more, go to ntia.org.au
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© Night Time Industries Association, 2019 | Photography © Time Out/Daniel Boud/Anna Kucera


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Hackers are using phishing attacks to target internet routers and steal data, according to the security vendor Proofpoint.
Malicious emails purporting to be from Brazilian telecoms companies use dodgy URLs to in combination with known vulnerabilities on affected routers to hijack a person's network, exploiting the fact that many people do not change passwords on their routers after they are set up.
Writing on its website, Proofpoint said: "This case is striking for several reasons, not the least of which is the introduction of phishing as the attack vector to carry out a compromise traditionally considered purely network-based.
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The hackers have also set up a backup service for their own domain name service (DNS) used in the attack, which comes into use if the primary malicious DNS is disrupted to avoid raising a victim's suspicions.
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Once the attack has been carried out the hacker is able to eavesdrop on internet conversations, facilitating their access to confidential data, including "email communications, web sites, logins and passwords".
Despite the campaign currently targeting Brazilians, Proofpoint warned that the campaign is likely to spread beyond the South American country.
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