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Cameron chairs last cabinet as British PM
Wed, Jul 13, 2016 - 7:51 AM
David Cameron chaired his final cabinet meeting on Tuesday after six years as Britain's prime minister, as incoming premier Theresa May prepared to form a new government to deliver Brexit.
[LONDON] David Cameron chaired his final cabinet meeting on Tuesday after six years as Britain's prime minister, as incoming premier Theresa May prepared to form a new government to deliver Brexit.
Ms May led tributes to Mr Cameron at the meeting, which was described by ministers as "emotional", and posed for photographers on the steps of the premier's 10 Downing Street residence afterwards.
Mr Cameron's end has come sooner than expected after dramatic twists in the contest to replace him led to his swift exit from power less than three weeks after the nation's seismic vote to quit the European Union.
Ms May is already under pressure to set out a timetable for Brexit from EU leaders who warn that a delay could prolong damaging economic uncertainty.
"That's what I think a lot of people expect and hope and call for," the European Commission's economy chief Pierre Moscovici said in Brussels.
SEE ALSO: Britain replaces warship in Gulf, to maintain continuous presence
On a visit to the headquarters of the governing centre-right Conservative Party she now leads, Ms May issued an appeal for unity following a referendum campaign that divided the country.
"Now, more than ever, we need to work together, to deliver on Brexit, to build a country that works for everyone, and to truly unite our party and our country," she said.
She dismissed calls for an early general election - the next one is not due until 2020 - saying the Conservatives should use the next four years to build support.
The opposition Labour party is currently in no state to contest an election, as its leader Jeremy Corbyn battles a revolt by MPs.
In a major boost to his efforts to keep his job, the party's National Executive Committee ruled late Tuesday that he would automatically be included on a leadership ballot, setting up a contest with rival MP Angela Eagle.
Ms May, 59, will become Britain's second female prime minister after Conservative titan Margaret Thatcher.
Mr Cameron announced he would step down after leading the failed campaign for Britain to remain in the EU in the June 23 referendum.
Ms May, his interior minister for the past six years, was declared the new Conservative leader on Monday after junior energy minister Andrea Leadsom, her only remaining challenger for the post, withdrew from the contest.
One of Ms May's first decisions will be when she plans to trigger Article 50 - the formal procedure for withdrawal from the EU - which would set a two-year deadline for completing exit negotiations.
While she supported Britain staying in the bloc, she maintained a low profile during the referendum campaign and insists she will honour the popular vote, stressing repeatedly: "Brexit means Brexit".
"The sooner the negotiations start, the better it will be for everybody," said French foreign minister Jean-Marc Ayrault.
Mr Cameron will face MPs in parliament for a final time on Wednesday in the weekly prime minister's questions session, before meeting Queen Elizabeth II to tender his resignation.
The monarch will then invite Ms May, the leader of the majority party in parliament, to form a fresh government.
As she fills the major roles in her government, Ms May will have to keep Brexit-supporting heavyweights onside if she is to heal the splits in the party caused by the referendum.
On the markets, the pound rebounded against the US dollar, shooting back above US$1.30 on the political developments.
As removal men arrived in Downing Street to help Mr Cameron and his family pack up, Mr Corbyn won a boost for his own efforts to stay as Labour leader.
He has refused to quit despite losing a confidence vote by 172 votes to 40, pointing out that he was elected on a strong mandate from grassroots party members only last September.
Ms Eagle launched a challenge on Monday, after months of criticism over Mr Corbyn's performance crystallised over his perceived lacklustre efforts to keep Britain in the EU.
She and any other potential leadership candidates will need the support of 20 per cent of lawmakers to stand - but the NEC vote means that Mr Corbyn will not, and can focus on rallying his grassroots supporters.
Speaking to cheering fans outside the meeting, Mr Corbyn said he was "delighted" that he had been confirmed on the leadership ballot and would campaign across the country on issues of inequality, poverty and opportunity.
"That will strengthen our party in order to defeat this Tory government and bring in a government that cares for the people," he said.
Ms Eagle had earlier urged Mr Corbyn to "get control" of his supporters after a brick was hurled through her office window. He condemned the violence and called for calm.
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use bbn;
use bbn\Appui\Passwords;
use bbn\Appui\Option;
use bbn\X;

/**
 * VCS\Svn class
 * @category Appui
 * @package Appui\Vcs
 * @author Mirko Argentino <mirko@bbn.solutions>
 * @license http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html MIT License
 * @link https://bbn.io/bbn-php/doc/class/Appui/Vcs/Svn
 */
class Svn implements Server
{
  use Common;

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For All It's Worth: Reading Literature
When we get into the rut of asking the same questions of literature every time we read, we no longer are reading stories for all they're worth.
by Erin Goheen Glanville
March 14 th 2012
Editor's Note: This article is adapted from a lecture titled "For What It's Worth: Reading and Being a Christian," delivered as part of the 2011 Geneva Society Lecture Series.
Despite its apparent lack of practical usefulness, literature functions in unique ways that help us to participate in the world better. Literature extends the horizons of our imagination, encourages cosmopolitan citizenship, entertains and delights and so much more.
But let's take the discussion one step further. If that's what literature potentially does, how do we make sure we are reading literature for all it's worth? Literature is supposed to present us with a more nuanced view of the world, but often our study of literature can simplify a story and reduce its worth. For me, this danger often takes the form of separating my intellectual and emotional reading experiences. Some books are for Friday night entertainment and some books for critical engagement. When we get into the rut of asking the same questions of literature every time we read, we no longer are reading stories for all they're worth; the breadth and depth of the reading experience has been lost.
For the sake of discussion, I'll argue that if we want to study literature for all it's worth, we need to recognize the multifaceted nature of literature, or, to put it in a way reminiscent of the Dutch philosopher Hermann Dooyeweerd, we need to understand the various modes within which literature functions.
Here's a story to illustrate: In 2008 I ran a workshop on reading refugee narratives. I ran it twice. The first time was for church-based advocates for refugees and the second time was for Christians who were refugees in that same city. Together we watched a clip from a Hollywood film "Beyond Borders," starring Clive Owens and Angelina Jolie, a hip hop video for K'Naan's hit song "Soobax," a short story by a Canadian writer, Neil Bissoondath, and a newspaper article from our local newspaper. All of them were about refugee experiences. I was trying my best to make literature practical and useful for refugee-ed people and for church-based advocates.
During the second workshop, we were discussing the Hamilton Spectator's representation of refugee-ed people in a poorly researched and hastily written article on Mexican asylum seekers. One participant asked, "Is it a good newspaper to read?" It was an evaluative question—is it good?
I began to explain, to the best of my knowledge, the strengths and weaknesses of the paper's reporting by commenting on political bias and parochial writing, but the participant interrupted me with the more urgent question: "Jobs?" The person wanted to know if the Spectator had a healthy "Help Wanted" section. I hadn't even considered that as a way of evaluating the newspaper. I had a job, and I was trying to understand representations of refugees in the newspaper. I was asking questions of the text that came out of my cultural studies background. What I thought was important about the text—what I thought was the thing to learn—was, in fact, only one thing to be learned.
Later, we were having a fascinating discussion about how to get readers to move from watching a film about refugees and feeling sympathetic to watching a film and doing something about what they've seen. A participant abruptly stood up and asked if there might be a fax machine here or across the road at the pharmacy and then disappeared to send a fax. When the person returned from the errand, we found out that this person's asylum claim had been rejected the day before. Now the participant was facing deportation. The expectations I had of literature to be of practical value to the participants were not this person's expectations. I was speaking at a theoretical level about issues that were urgent, life-and-death concerns for some of the participants.
Looking back over the transcripts of the two workshops I ran, I saw that this problem surfaced over and over. We had all come to talk about literature, but we all were asking different questions of the literature based on what we thought literature was.
Richard Macksey has written a foreword to The John Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism (JHG)—the literary theory Bible for literary scholars. In it, he provides a brief and insightful introduction to the multifaceted nature of literature. He lists a dozen or so ways to read a text, each of which prioritize certain questions. Critics who attach themselves to one or another of these schools often cannot hear the value in each others' criticism. But his analysis isn't limited to critics because we all read literature with certain assumptions and questions in mind. So his descriptions might help us to understand our own reductions or simplifications of literature. The categories he offers sound ominously academic, but they're actually quite interesting: ontological, epistemological, teleological, archaeological, descriptive, interpretive, performative, normative, historical, cultural, psychological, appreciative, and metacritical. We'll return to these in a moment.
The discussions Macksey is referencing about what literature is and how to read it for all it's worth are not always polite discussions. Debates rage about whether we should study English literature in the traditional, formalist way, or if we should study texts more generally through the lens of cultural studies. Nasty things have been said to colleagues. Scathing things have been written in public newspapers. Emotions run high when people hold to a single way of reading a text. I would argue that whenever we hold ideologically to a single way of reading a text, we reduce its worth.
I interpret Macksey's thirteen critical approaches as a helpful way of categorizing the many modalities or aspects of a text. In order to get at the full breadth of a text, we shouldn't only ask about its cultural influence. We shouldn't only ask if we enjoyed it, or only discuss which is of a superior aesthetic quality. We shouldn't only ask what the author is intending to communicate. We shouldn't ask only how the story relates to our own lives. We should ask all those questions. Working through a text with each of these approaches provides a richer interpretation of a text than would be possible with only one approach. This richness is what I had a taste of in the workshop, but is also what I was not prepared for because I had so fully committed myself to one approach.
Let's look very quickly at just four of these aspects to help us understand how the different modalities add to the richness of the practice of reading and depend on one another for unearthing the full potential of literature:
The cultural approach sees literature as a cultural object and asks, "How do literary documents (and popular culture generally) illuminate our understanding of cultural groups, ethnic and gender interests, marginal segments of society, and so on?"
The descriptive approach sees literature as an aesthetic object and asks, "What can be said formally about the intrinsic characteristics of the work itself?"
The appreciative approach sees literature as entertainment, and asks, "Is reading and analyzing the text enjoyable for the reader?"
The performative approach sees literature as a script, and asks, "How does a reader and/or context animate the text?"
My questions, as you can imagine, were squarely in the cultural mode. I wanted to know how that newspaper article represented a vulnerable population: asylum seekers. Without realizing it, I had reduced literature to a single aspect to a cultural object. I had lost the richness of what could be learned from the newspaper article if I were also to see it as functioning within these other modes.
In addition, I hadn't taken into account the way these different aspects are dependent on one another. For example, if people hadn't been trained in the descriptive mode of literature that is, they couldn't see or describe a character's development through a story they couldn't make the connection to understanding cultural representations of refugees in that particular narrative. Also, if people enjoy a text, they are so much more willing to spend time trying to understand it. And really importantly, I discovered that different texts had pedagogical potential for different audiences (which is the insight of the final aspect): for people who were already supportive of government-sponsored refugees but skeptical about asylum claimants crossing the border, the story of an asylum claimant was the best narrative to help them understand why it's necessary for some refugees to arrive at the border. For people who were unaware of what causes people to flee, showing a film that details the suffering of refugees was not such a bad text to study (despite my own resistance to the voyeurism it encouraged).
What is literature worth? Its economic worth is $20 at the bookstore. It is worth an author's life in some instances—a political and religious worth. I believe it is worth my academic energies because of its cultural influence. For my toddler , literature is worth a giggle, as entertainment and education. And literature is worthwhile as an object of art to be studied for its skill with language. In these ways and so many more, literature declares its worth as a part of God's creation: enriching, stimulating, entertaining, changing, moving, enlightening, and expanding readers. Reading literature for all it's worth requires listening to voices in schools of thought other than our own and intentionally broadening the kinds of questions we ask when we read a piece of literature.
Topics: Literature
Erin Goheen Glanville is an independent scholar with a Ph.D. in English and Cultural Studies. Her thesis, "Storied Displacement, Storied Faith," explores fictional narratives of displacement as pedagogical tools for church-based refugee activism. Most recently she coedited a volume Countering Displacements: The Creativity and Resilience of Indigenous and Refugee-ed People, published by University of Alberta Press. Erin's family (partner Mark, daughter Mahla) straddles two continents, most recently relocating to Vancouver, Canada from Sydney, Australia. Her greatest delight is creating and working alongside her daughter.
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Q: Calculate shortest distance between a point and line in mysql
Suppose I have a line AB as MULTIPOINT(52.3641917981 4.87673850395, 52.3821782019 4.90619949605) and a point P as POINT(51.3641917981 2.87673850395) in MYSQL. I want to calculate the shortest distance D between point P and line AB. Please help me regarding this problem.
Thanks in advance.

A: I'm sure MySQL has the ST_Distance method for ordering by the distance?
order by st_distance(geom1, geom2)

And for calculating the distance, you can reference this blog:
MySqlPerformanceBlog
It shows how to define a user function (haversine) for making the calculations.

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China lifts censorship of game consoles
The black market has many connotations: illegal drug sales, organ trading, human trafficking — all very horrible — but the most surprising of these illegal trades is actually the sale of dedicated video game consoles in China. At least, it would continue to be if it were not for China's complete lift of the console ban on July 27.
Back in 2000, China banned the sale and ownership of major, at-home video game consoles for many cultural reasons. China is historically a communist state, and as such, the culture is, from a western perspective, very reserved and narrow-minded in its laws and beliefs. The ban stemmed from China's ideas of media censorship, and the Ministry of Culture, at the time, believed that the ban on video game consoles "was the best way to protect Chinese youth from wasting their minds on video games, after a parental outcry," Lisa Hanson from market researcher Niko Partners explained to Kotaku.
Beliefs had a huge part to play in this ban, as China's censorship reaches all branches of media. Things related to porn, politics, social movements and more are censored from TV, books, news and even instant messaging. This is simply because the government, for a very long time, felt that video games in particular could be a threat to security, unity, social order, state secrets and infringe personal rights, amongst other things. Any video games that are perceived to be in these violations are strictly banned from importation in the country.
Kotaku's article continues to explain that, for a long time, the reaction to the ban was plug-and-play consoles that weren't truly considered to be dedicated gaming consoles. These were the kinds of consoles that could plug directly into TV sets and be used to play ported games from franchises like "Legend of Zelda," "Mario" and more. This also helped prevent piracy, which is apparently a huge problem in the country.
However, the ban didn't stop the buying and selling of video game consoles. Like everything in life, there's always a loophole. For China, it was the black market, or in this case, the gray market. Here, Chinese gamers could buy and sell video game consoles and games cheaply and have them modified.
But, in 2014, this ban on consoles was partially relieved. Neoseeker reports that the ban was lifted in an 11-mile radius known as Shanghai's free trade zone. Within this zone, any consoles, like the PS4 and Xbox One, produced could be sold legally within the country. Any consoles manufactured outside of this zone were considered illegal.
Now, the entire ban has been lifted. All video game consoles are now able to be freely throughout the country, and it's sure to be a positive for the industry. 1.4 billion people have yet to be reached!
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Interesting facts about Connecticut can be found here for your viewing and laughing pleasure. Consider these Connecticut fun facts as you make your road trip plans.
Connecticut was the fifth state to join the union with official statehood taking place in January of 1788. The state bird is the robin and Hartford is its capital. Do you want to know more interesting facts about Connecticut? Are you ready to laugh with some gut shaking Connecticut fun facts?
If so, come right along for the following list of interesting facts about Connecticut. This is an exciting state to learn about and an even more exciting state to visit. A great addition to your road trip plans.
Your about to increase your knowledge about Connecticut, but we have added in some Connecticut fun facts to lighten up the learning process. Enjoy!
Next time you see someone with a short bob, point at them and yell "pumpkin head!"
They may not understand the insider joke, but anyone up on their interesting facts about Connecticut will get it right off.
In colonial times New Haven residents cut pumpkins and used the shells to guide their haircuts, giving them the nickname of "pumpkin head."
Phone books aren't good for anything but maybe starting fires and propping open doors today, but back in 1878 the New Haven District Telephone Company took great pride in releasing the very first phone book. Too bad they didn't go on to discover Internet based phone books or they would be rich today.
Connecticut was also the first to bring lollipops to the market. A man named George Smith brought a lollipop machine to the public in 1908. The sweet treat was actually named after a well known racehorse in those times.
In 1901, the state of Connecticut decided it was time to get speeders under control and make the highways a safer place to roll along.
They passed the very first speed limit: 12 mph.
Set your RV to 12 mph and see how you put-put along.
How long will it take you to get to Connecticut at this pace?
36 years after setting the first speed limit, Connecticut decided to make cars register their cars and wear the nation's very first permanent license plates.
1937 goes down in history as the day cars were marked for life.
No more hiding in the shadows of the bigger cars or speeding anonymously.
The "Town Bicentennial Emblem" of New Hartford was designed by a 7 year old named James. Who says kids are to be seen but not heard?
We depend on nuclear submarines to protect our country every single day, but can you guess where the very first one was brought into the world? Connecticut, of course!
Many parents also depend on Pez candy to keep their children happy in grocery stores and in doctor's offices. Can you guess who makes this candy? Of course...Connecticut! It is made in a city named Orange.
Everyone wants to be the youngest, most beautiful person in the room and Connecticut gets to enjoy that pleasure.
Since the current landscape was created by a melting glacier event about 15,000 years ago, its surface is much younger than the earth in other states.
There have been two other glacier melting events in the history of this state.
Do you believe in the dinosaurs? No one can honestly say no to this question, but if there is ever any doubt just visit Rocky Hill where tracks were found in 1966.
Are you enjoying these interesting facts about Connecticut? We're going to break for some Connecticut fun facts and silly willy laws still sitting on the books. Something to think about while your doing your road trip plans.
Connecticut residents love pickles just as much as anyone else in the world, but they have one special law that most people don't have to worry about: in order for a pickle to be officially considered a pickle, it has to bounce.
Anyone signing up for spring pickle ball?
I hear it's a juicy good time.
You've been training for that triathlon and your leg muscles are roaring to go.
That's wonderful, but don't bike too fast behind the RV in Connecticut. There is a state law prohibiting bikers from exceeding 65 mph.
How does your dog like her new tattoo? You better tell her to put a coat on in Connecticut, since residents running into tattooed dogs have to report the crime to the police. Fluffy, pull out the long sleeves, we're almost in Connecticut!
You may be a skilled gymnast and walking on your hands may feel perfectly normal in your world, but don't try it while vacationing in Connecticut.
It is illegal to walk on your hands when crossing the street.
If you ever move to New Britain, pray very hard that your house never catches on fire. There is a law forbidding fire trucks from going over 25 mph when heading to a fire. The best houses on the market are always those located next to the fire department with no travel delays.
Do you like to clam? This is illegal activity after dark, so make sure you don't head out before sunrise.
Birthday parties aren't that much fun in Southington, Connecticut. Silly string has been banned, probably at the special request of mothers who love their carpeting pristine. Kids all over the city are buying it on the underground market and hiding it under their pillows.
Enough Connecticut fun facts for one page! There is just one more small tidbit of information everyone should know about this state before entering: what is the state known for?
You probably noticed a lack of interesting facts about Connecticut that involved natural wonders. This is because the state is not known so much for beauties of the land as for the riches of the people who live on the land.
Connecticut is one of the wealthiest states and is home to many exclusive gated communities most people know nothing about. This is one of the lesser know interesting facts about Connecticut but something to consider while you are making road trip plans.


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2013 Rushing Success by Number of Backs - Carl Yedor
NFL offenses are continuing to shift away from the traditional multiple back sets of old, using a single back formation on running plays 60 percent of the time in 2013, up from 56 percent in 2012 and 53 percent in 2011.
San Diego Chargers linebacker Thomas Keiser sued over attack of employee at barleymash - Melissa Mecija
The civil lawsuit filed in San Diego Superior Court says the trouble began the night of Dec. 29, 2013, when Keiser's father was told he was being cut off and would no longer be served alcohol. Despite the warning, Keiser bought a drink for his father anyway.
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Gates' paternal grandfather, Henry Hank, was a professional boxer in the 1950s and '60s who fought 97 professional bouts as a middleweight and light heavyweight, winning 62 of them. His 1962 fight against Joey Giardello was voted the Fight of the Year by Ring Magazine. Old photos show a striking resemblance between Gates and his grandfather. Gates' cousin, Tony Harrison is one of boxing's top young middleweights. Harrison has started his career 18-0 with 15 wins by knockout.
Sports acupuncture scores major points among fitness enthusiasts - IndiaToday.in
As a sports acupuncturist, Callison has been treating athletes for 11 years. Three of those years were spent with the Minnesota Vikings during their playoff run, and he now treats many of the San Diego Chargers.
Cam Thomas trades in sun for Steelers' tradition - Andrew Tie
The defensive tackle has settled in and enjoys Pittsburgh but still misses the California sun. "I got spoiled in San Diego with the weather all the time," Thomas said. "When that storm stuff was going on out here (during the winter), I was out there jet skiing."


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Some UP student leaders are planning to overhaul the student section at basketball games. Let's hope this catches on!
This is great news--I am glad to see some student leadership once again stepping up to lead the charge!
I think it is smart to pick a new name at this point, and having invested parties (i.e. a Board) is a critical component that has been lacking.
The goal of the project is to establish an organization focused on creating a game day experience that is both dynamic and engaging for the student body. It will be led by an executive board — consisting of a President, Vice President, Director of Communications, Graphic Designer and Program Director... Each member of the board would have an annual stipend of $3,000, according to Donkers.
But I must gently point out that several members of this message board - which may or may not include yours truly - along with several friends all pitched in something like $50 of our own money to buy the first run of t-shirts for what eventually became Purple Pride. (Back when it was entirely student organized, not operated by athletics.) This was back in 2004-05, and I will not so humbly aver that in the years following the student section has not really come close to being as good as it was then. Students do still show up in decent numbers (well, for weekend games at least), but they are quiet, rarely stand, and only do half-hearted cheers even at key points in the game.
I am very hopeful for what will come of this, but I am still of the belief that a student section at its best arises organically and doesn't operate under the umbrella of student government or the athletic department.
As far as a name, I'm in the "what is old will one day be new again" camp... would love to see Purple Haze or Co-Pilots make a return.
I must admit that this is something I attempted to do with our student section while at UP too. But, my efforts were not nearly as thought out as theirs appear to be. I have to second Stonehouse's comments. The money doesn't make sense to me and they are fighting a lot of apathy. It's hard to replicate organic (see Villa Drum Squad).
Before me there was also Pilot Riot, which had its ups and downs for a few years before disappearing with the leaders as they graduated.
SouthCarolinaPilot wrote: Before me there was also Pilot Riot, which had its ups and downs for a few years before disappearing with the leaders as they graduated.
This has been the largest issue for UP student groups - even if some students do manage to get something off the ground, once the leaders graduate it's really hard for it to continue on. That certainly happened in our case. The guy who took over after us tried to turn it into a personal money-making/meet-freshmen-girls venture and it was all downhill from there... all the momentum we built flamed out.
I love the fact that ASUP and/or the athletic department are willing to invest this type of money in student leadership. I just hope that the student leaders don't only focus on getting students in the building and also give some real time and effort on what those students do once they are there. Give me 50 students standing in the first few rows and being loud on every possession over 500 kids who show up for free pizza, sit there texting, and then leave at halftime.
Since I can't help myself... a bit of unsolicited advice for the new executive board, just in case they somehow end up reading this.
1) Figure out a way to survey the incoming freshmen class BEFORE they arrive on campus. Ask them if they attended basketball games at their high school, and if so, if they stood and cheered during the games. Have them do a little Likert-scale gauging their interest in doing the same during college.
Take all the people that respond positively, and start communicating with them a ton over the summer. Involve them with your planning for the upcoming season once they arrive on campus. Charge each one with recruiting 10 friends. Invite them to come watch practices, have the coaches meet with them, give them a chance to get to know some of the players, etc etc. Make them feel like they are a part of something important... before the season even begins.
I have long, long, long dreamed of figuring out a way to gather all the kids who came from high schools with a tradition of supporting basketball, and joining them together while they are still excited about college and before the inertia sets in and they become unmotivated by our current lack of support.
2) While working on building a core of freshman, do your best to identify a solid group of upperclassmen that live off campus. Ideally, find 2-3 houses of people that are "influencers"... people who have a lot of friends and maybe have been known in the past to host some "student socials" on the weekends. We had three houses of guys, all of whom had wide circles of friends and brought in a huge variety of people through their personal relationships. Do whatever you can to get these people on board.
3) Don't put too much value on a "Midnight Madness"-style event. You can end up spending LOTS of time and money and energy on having this big successful event, and even if you get a lot of students to show up... there's no guarantee that will carry over to them showing up for (let alone cheering at) games. For the first year at least, make the season opener the "Midnight Madness" and spend all that time and money and energy getting the kids to show up to an actual game.
4) Pay for a mass text-messaging service. Use it.
5) Never underestimate the power of actually going out and talking to people. It's way too easy to rely on social media and emails and posters to get the message out. But speaking from personal experience - when we were ready to start selling Purple Pride shirts, a handful of us just started walking around to the dorms and talking to people. It worked like a charm, and it also helped us build personal relationships and a better sense of community for our fan group. This is where the people from point #2 can come in real handy. Most (if not all) freshmen want to feel like they are welcomed and included, and what better to help make them feel that way than to have some well-known and friendly juniors/seniors (especially those that host parties!) personally invite them to take part in something. There is *real* power in that. Don't overlook it.
Initially the money is coming from the Athletic Department. Here are the people you should probably copy and paste your comments to, Stoney, but I'm sure you know others who should also read your comments....just in case this forum is not widely read by those who can make a difference.
While I applaud the athletic department trying something new, I feel like they won't be able to stay out of the way. A few years ago we had a pretty good student section until someone from the athletic department came in and shut down an inappropriate chant. While I would like the students to keep it reasonably clean, the heavy hand of the athletic department disenfranchised those students. The student section was never the same that year.
blacksheep wrote: While I applaud the athletic department trying something new, I feel like they won't be able to stay out of the way. A few years ago we had a pretty good student section until someone from the athletic department came in and shut down an inappropriate chant. While I would like the students to keep it reasonably clean, the heavy hand of the athletic department disenfranchised those students. The student section was never the same that year.
It wasn't the chanting about the San Diego point shaving scandal was it? I did something to that extent was was reprimanded.
Or was it the endless BYU -type chants?
I don't remember the details of the chant, but only remember the heavy hand of the administration.
This coming Saturday (6/24) at 4pm in the Chiles Center there will be a rare opportunity for Pilot fans and Pilot players to get to know one another.
Instead of the usual Alumni Game that is played during Reunion Weekend, this year there will be a "meet and greet" of fans, players, and coaches.
NCAA rules do not allow the players to scrimmage in public prior to the regular school year, but the players and coaches will be able to introduce themselves and answer questions from the fans.
All 11 new guys, including the Porter brothers, should be on campus to begin Summer Session II, so it should be a can't-miss opportunity for Pilot fans....especially the kids!
As there are many Pilot fans who do not read PilotNation during the summer, please pass the word so that no one misses out on this great opportunity to meet the players and coaches.
Fans, alums and kids, bring your shoes and get ready to lace them up for a little shoot-around with the Pilots on Saturday.
Plans are still being formalized, but the hope is Pilot players from the past and present will, in addition to introducing themselves and answering questions, have the opportunity for an informal shoot-around with everyone interested in getting out on the Chiles Center court and away from the 90+ heat.
Standby for details, but it sounds as if it will be a lot of fun for anyone who is a follower of UP MBB. Start time 4pm.
Does UP expect anyone at all to attend this event? It is happening three days from now and there is no mention of it anywhere on the entire internet other than a post on a message board. Not even an e-mail to season ticket holders.
I believe that some of the Pilots' attendance woes in basketball is due to a lackadaisical marketing department. This event is a minor yet illustrative example.
NoPoNeighbor wrote: Does UP expect anyone at all to attend this event? It is happening three days from now and there is no mention of it anywhere on the entire internet other than a post on a message board. Not even an e-mail to season ticket holders.
It has been a part of the Alumni Reunion Weekend planned activities mentioned in numerous mailings to UP Alums and on the UP Alumni website since February....of course non-alums and season ticket holders are also invited.
As this has morphed from the annual Alumni Game into more of a "meet and greet" in just the last few days, I think season ticket holders will see an email today inviting them to meet the players and coaches in the HOF Room between 4 and 5 on Saturday.
DoubleDipper wrote: This coming Saturday (6/24) at 4pm in the Chiles Center there will be a rare opportunity for Pilot fans and Pilot players to get to know one another.
Can we get a report from the Alumni weekend? Did anyone show up?
Something to make you feel better about basketball: Top Mid-Majors in Each State.
Looks like they'll be in Leicester 8/13-19, playing the New Castle Eagles and the Leicester Riders. Then in London playing Barking Abbey Academy.
The team will also have 10 days of formal practice in advance of the tour, which will be of great value as the Pilots welcome nine newcomers to the roster for the 2017-18 season.
10 extra days of practice plus the trip... very nice to have all that extra time to help all the new guys mesh.
Stonehouse wrote: 10 extra days of practice plus the trip... very nice to have all that extra time to help all the new guys mesh.
At the end of those 10 days, on Thursday August 10 at 7PM in the Chiles Center, we'll all have a chance to see the Pilots scrimmage, buy tickets, learn about the schedule, and meet and greet the players.
Tyson and Hartwich have shown considerable improvement over the summer, and Diabate and McSwiggan are demonstrating they could one day be All-WCC.
There will be a meet and greet, a chance to ask questions, and a discussion of the 2017-2018 schedule.
Sounds like a great opportunity to see some of our new guys. Unfortunately, I'm not going to be able to make it.
Didn't make it to the scrimmage.
Any comments from those who did attend?
I was told the Porters were impressive and at least three guys didn't play due to injury.
It's tough to judge considering that the team has so many new faces and they have had very limited time together, but overall I came away with a sense that the team has a bit more size and noticeably more athleticism than the past few years.
The pace was pretty up-tempo and there was a lot of ball movement. Didn't look like they were working too many halfcourt sets, though what the hell do I know.
* Walker, Clark, and Fahrennsohn weren't dressed and didn't play. Austin Stone was dressed, but didn't play.
* Diabate made the biggest impression on me. He was very active, had good instincts around the hoop (offense and defense), and seemed to always be in the mix for rebounds and tip-ins. Showed a bit of range with his shot too. It will be fun watching him grow, and I bet he'll play a significant role this season.
* McSwiggin has good size and a lot of confidence attacking the basket and he showed off the best outside shooting on the team (though to be honest, that's not saying a whole lot - on the whole, our shooting was pretty poor). He got himself into trouble a few times driving into the paint - I think Diabate had something like 3-4 blocks on him alone.
* Franklin Porter is all-around solid. Can handle the ball, good passer, can shoot, solid defense... he's going to play a ton of minutes this year.
* Hartwich looked improved. I thought he battled down low pretty well. Smoyer looks noticeably bulkier and showed off a nice shooting range.
* Malcolm Porter showed a nice range of floaters and is a crafty finisher around the hoop. He was a capable ball handler too.
* Not the best night for Marcus Shaver. He ran the point almost the entire scrimmage and did fine handling the ball and made some good passes, but he had a tough time getting buckets.
* Hogland battled down low, but didn't do a whole lot. He's listed at 6'9", but I'm not entirely sure I believe that.
* Poor D'Marques couldn't get anything to fall, despite several good looks. Rashad looked confident and had some nice finishes around the basket.


1) Use your lunch break. Visit your local gym, pool or yoga studio, or ask your OHS officer to consider an in-house yoga, pilates or meditation class at lunch. You can even get your colleagues together for a lunchtime run or walk, or soccer or basketball game. It can be fun to work towards a collective goal, for instance a fun run or a step challenge.
2) Ergonomics: Aim for a neutral, comfortable posture at your desk. Standing desks can minimise the number of hours you spend sitting each day.
3) Share healthy food ideas: Use an office bulletin board as a place to share healthy recipes or lunch ideas.
4) Drink water: As well as keeping you hydrated, drinking more water helps you get up and out of your chair more often.
5) Avoid temptation: Keep healthy snacks like nuts or fruit in the office rather than facing the constant temptation of chocolates, biscuits or other unhealthy treats. Better yet, encourage your office to swap the biscuits in the kitchen for dried fruit and nut mix!
6) Take a stand: Use any chance you can to get out of your chair – stand up when you answer your phone, walk to a colleague rather than call or email them, and use a printer that's further away to add small walks into your day. Or why not start a one minute dance party to get everybody up and out of their chairs?


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Gateshead Council
Shame of school governor
A boy recovering from cancer was left black and blue after being attacked by a school governor.
Craig Eade, 10, suffered bruising after being grabbed by Andrew Black.
Now Ray Eade, the boy's dad, is demanding Black resigns or is forced to quit.
"It is disgusting that a person be allowed to be a school governor after something like this. It is not a very good example for the pupils," said Mr Eade, 39, who lives next door to Black in Chilside Road, Felling, Gateshead.
Black, 46, denied assaulting Craig after the boy accidentally threw an ice cream cone into his garden. But South Shields magistrates found him guilty and gave the governor at Gateshead's Thomas Hepburn School a conditional discharge for six months.
He was also ordered to pay #250 costs and #25 compensation to Craig, who suffered bruising in the assault in July.
The court heard how Craig was in his garden eating an ice cream. He didn't want the cone and threw it towards his bin. It hit the fence and went into Black's garden.
Black came out and shouted at the boy who ran off with Black in pursuit. After a 300-yard chase he caught Craig, grabbed him by the top of his arms and shook him.
A neighbour saw what happened and shouted at Black to leave the boy alone.
Craig, who has twice beaten cancer, was left black and blue by the assault.
The youngster was only three when he developed a brain tumour.
He underwent difficult and dangerous surgery to remove the tumour to the relief of his dad, mum Sharon, two brothers and sister. But their joy turned to heartache nine months later when the tumour grew again and the youngster had to go through a second tricky operation.
Although Craig plays football like boys of his age, his parents worry their nightmare may start again. He has to go for scans twice a year to make sure that the tumour has not returned.
"Everybody in the street knew Craig had had cancer," said Mr Eade. "What kind of man would do something like this? I wish he would move away."
Craig goes to Driver Primary School, Felling, and is due to go to nearby Thomas Hepburn School, in September, a situation, self-employed Mr Eade is not happy about.
He said: "I don't want him going to that school if Black is still a governor there. He should have to resign or if he refuses, then the council should make him."
The offence follows a long history of disputes between the Eades and Black's family, which has led to police being called to both homes on various occasions. Black's future as a school governor now hangs in the balance.
Malcolm Dawson, head at Thomas Hepburn School, is meeting the chairman of the governing body, Coun Ian Means, deputy leader of Gateshead Council, to fix a date to discuss the issue.
He said: "This is a matter for the governing body. They are an experienced group and they will meet to discuss the matter.
"We will be doing this at the earliest opportunity because this is an important matter."
Craig's mum, Sharon, 43, said: "Between the ages of three and seven, Craig was never out of hospital and every six months he has to go back for an MRI scan.
"The tumour is still there, though it isn't active and I live my life on a razor's edge, worrying it will come back.
"We don't wrap him in cotton wood but I worry every time he bangs or bumps himself. He is a normally healthy boy, but I can't stop worrying, knowing that is still inside his head."


What do you get when you cross a dog and a frog? Known as froglegs, frog doggin', or in the corgi world, the sploot, this belly-down, legs akimbo position says relaxation. Corgi people love it so much, they've been known to put it on their t-shirts, and we can't really blame them.
This bad boy is $16.99 on Amazon.
Why do dogs sploot? Some enjoy lying like this on a cold floor on a hot day, and some only do it when they're very tired. Others sploot all the time. Aside from the corgi, the French bulldog is a notorious full-time frog dogger.
#Frogdoggin at its best! ?
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Pérez Galdós, Benito, 1843-1920
Don Lope is a Don Juan, an aging but still effective predator on the opposite sex. He is also charming and generous, unhesitatingly contributing the better part of his fortune to pay off a friend's debts, kindly assuming responsibility for the friend's orphaned daughter, lovely Tristana. Don Lope takes her into his house and before long he takes her to bed. It's an arrangement that Tristana accepts more or less unquestioningly— that is, until she meets the handsome young painter Horacio. Then she actively rebels, sets out to educate herself, reveals tremendous talents, and soon surpasses her lover in her open defiance of convention. One thing is for sure: Tristana will be her own woman. And when it counts Don Lope will be there for her.
Publisher: New York : New York Review Books, 2014
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Additional Contributors: Costa, Margaret Jull - Translator
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Tristana follows the trials and tribulations of the youthful, orphaned Tristana and the two lovers in her life. The first lover is her guardian, Don Lepe, an aging Don Juan who couldn't resist one last conquest of the young girl. The second lover is Horacio, a painter with a similar background as Tristana. The more time Tristana spends with Horacio, the more she tends to rebel against Don Lepe. She seeks to educate herself and develop her nascent talents, dreaming of a life of independence on her own terms. An illness and infection causes her to lose a leg, dashing many of her hopes for the future.
It's a wonderful book full of Galdosian ambiguity and irony. If you haven't read anything by Galdós, Tristana provides an interesting (and maybe problematic) introduction to the writer. It's a book that the author seemed to dismiss before its release while many of his supporters and critics were left disappointed by the author's unsatisfying (to them) ending.
It's a wonderful little novel because Galdós avoids an easy answer, not catering to ideological resolutions that would have felt false while still providing plenty of social commentary along the way. Very highly recommended.
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What is to come is something very important to each one of us. In fact you could argue that the prospect of tomorrow informs much of our living today.
We set in motion contingency plans to be well prepared for unforeseen eventualities, we draw up bucket lists of the things we want to accomplish or experience, we make financial investments in the hope of high yield returns, we commit to study hard so we'll be all set for the big exam to come, and we train our bodies so that we can do our team proud when the day of competition finally arrives.
We are far more forward-looking in our actions and priorities than we perhaps realize. The prospect of the future (whatever we think it holds) is what helps us make sense of our past; it influences many of the decisions we make, and priorities we adopt here in the present.
But have you ever thought about ultimate future things? Do you ever take time to consider the bigger story that God is unfolding all around us?


Stan was born in Oak Harbor, Washington and had the privilege of growing up as a "Navy Brat". His Dad served over 20 years in the U.S. Navy which allowed the family to see different parts of the United States and experience different cultures. After Stan's father retired from the Navy the family settled in the mountain town of Mullan, Idaho in 1984 giving Stan the opportunity to build strong relationships with his Dad's side of the family. Stan graduated from Mullan High School in 1989 and has remained in Idaho ever since. Living abroad has given Stan a great passion for what Idaho has to offer and deep respect for the natural beauty and serene setting that comes with living here. The 4 seasons, numerous mountain lakes, excellent schools, easy commuting, and friendly people are just a few reasons to love where we live. It's these reasons and many more that prompted Stan to became a Realtor. Everyone deserves the opportunity to have a lifestyle that offers recreation, relaxation, community, and a safe environment to raise a family...that's Idaho and it's my goal to help you experience it too.


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Footnoting a post-truth world
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An episode in the latest series of Dave Gorman's Life is Goodish caused me to wake my snoozing sofa companion with mild alarm when I exclaimed, "And that's why you don't fact check with Wikipedia!" The reason for my outburst goes something like this: Dave Gorman discovered that someone had added a statement on his Wikipedia page that was untrue. This statement was then reported as fact by a local newspaper. Several other local newspapers did the same, giving the story widespread credence. When Dave Gorman pointed out the false statement on Wikipedia was, in fact, false, it was promptly removed, only to reappear sometime later, this time with a footnote to the first newspaper article that had reported the incorrect statement from Wikipedia in the first place.
The circularity of this set of circumstances, which resulted in a lie being given the veneer of truth, thanks to the inclusion of a superscript number in a pair of square brackets, neatly sums up the political landscape in which we appear to find ourselves. We now inhabit a Wikipedia world; a world in which everyone gets the opportunity to editorialise according to their own inclination and/or impishness. Not only do we inhabit this post-truth world, in which facts (as slippery as they can be) are only facts if people chose to believe them, and if not can be discarded as swiftly as an ex-X-Factor finalist, but we seem also to live in a fantasy footnote world, where sources can be made up and scattered throughout the internet like gold-plated confetti at any one of Trump's three weddings.
I'm a fan of the footnote. Footnotes support analysis and interpretation, they can provide proof of objective facts, offer evidence for supposition and conclusion and they signal the research structure around which good historical writing is built. But the mere existence of footnotes does not make something factually accurate. They offer a breadcrumb trail that can be followed, to find that bedrock of both historical research and contemporary reportage: the source.
History is all about sources and they come in all shapes and formats: written, visual, oral, quantitative, qualitative, political, economic, social, formal, informal. From amongst the jumble of sources available to us (including those that are absent: the sources that have been silenced, lost, ignored or destroyed) the past can be jigsawed together. But those sources should never be taken at face value; they should always be read critically and approached with respectful caution, because no source is unproblematic. We teach students of history to ask searching questions of historical sources: how reliable is it? who wrote it? why did they write it? can it be verified? what evidence is there to support it? The study of history demands that we consider concepts such as bias, subjectivity, objectivity, provenance, motive and audience, in order to think critically and analyse intelligently. And the present demands no less of us than the past. This is why history is so important, for when we learn how to question the past, we learn how to question the present.
At a time when we have never had so many facts, when social media has broken down the old ways of creating, transmitting and consuming information, we have never needed the skills of the historian more. Fake news items have not only permeated our culture, but also our political discourse and have the potential to threaten our future safety. Facing a post-truth future, we need history to remind us that the mere existence of footnotes verifies nothing. It's where the footnote might lead us that matters. We need to follow the breadcrumbs, and then to analyse and assess in order to make informed judgements as to whether the sources we find are objectively accurate, rooted in reality and verifiably true, rather than merely leading back to themselves and verified only by their existence on a Wikipedia page.
The Eye of the Bird and the Worm
Posted by kateilescroft in feminism, history, women
feminism, history, women
Leo McGarry, the fictitious White House chief of staff from The West Wing, observed in the episode Five Votes Down, "There are two things in the world you never want to let people see how you make 'em: laws and sausages." For some reason this quote popped into my head recently, as I was travelling to work and happened to catch a glimpse of the front page of the Metro. I don't remember what the headline was. It could have been referring to any number of stories that are dominating the news cycle at the moment: the American Presidential election; Brexit; ISIS; the migrant crisis; Syria. Regardless of how I feel about any one of these stories (one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter; one woman's sexual predator is another woman's saviour – apparently) I got the feeling that, at the moment, the making of history has become visible.
History is made every day and it is as much a process as an event. It's in the history of small things and the accumulation of the every day that historians can, with hindsight, piece together the stories of the past, providing a narrative, or more accurately, narratives of what went before and how we ended up where we are now. The people whose present became our past, passed through the every day, so enfolded and enmeshed in the various events, and in the immediacy of their own lives, that history is usually formed unseen. But sometimes there are events so dramatic that they push through the fabric of the present and we become aware of their significance, not just for us but also for the future.
Looking back at the past gives you, with the privilege of hindsight, a bird's eye view that allows a bigger picture to emerge, but it also hides the grim and gritty reality of the everyday. The trend in recent years for historical recreation programming is still healthily alive if the latest BBC offering, The Victorian Slum, is anything to go by, and while these programmes can be jolly good fun and poignantly revealing, they cannot truly recreate the smelly, noisy, hungry, dangerous and painful reality. Nor should they, because if they did, several centuries of progress, supposedly embodied in legislation and changed social attitudes (hello Health and Safety laws and several anti-discrimination acts), would disappear in a puff of a nineteenth-century coal fires smoke (cue redtop headline: Child forced up chimney for BBC-funded entertainment shock!!)
But right now, it's not a bird's eye view we have, it's that of the worm and with it comes a grim and gritty reality that we can't avoid. Not only is history being made, but we are witnessing a regression, when old conflicts open up, old attitudes reappear and old ideas are resurgent; reconfigured, but still resurgent.
The results of these events are still unknown. We have no idea what the outcome of the vote by 52 per cent of the British population to leave the European Union will be; if Hillary Clinton will become the first female American President or Donald J. Trump will become one of the most ill qualified. I don't know when or if we will see peace in Syria; if ISIS will be defeated or will strengthen; if the thousands of displaced men, women and children will ever feel safe enough to return to their homeland, or find peace and acceptance in a new country. For millions of people, their every day has changed forever with the loss of their home, their family and country. For millions more, the consequences of their actions, of exactly in which box they choose place a simple cross, has and will change their future. The accumulation of small things is coinciding with the massive shifts in the geo-politics of nations. In each of these events, history is being visibly made; and like the making of laws and sausages, it ain't pretty.
The Shadow of Eve
Once all the wittering and twittering over the Tim Hunt affair has died down, what are we left with? Ill-judged comments that deserved to be ridiculed, a glimpse into the sexism that female scientists and academics encounter on a daily basis and a well-respected Nobel prize winner's career clouded in controversy.
As the storm in a test tube begins to abate, what remains is a simple but wearisome idea – women really, REALLY shouldn't have a presence in spaces that men self-identify as theirs. In the Lab, opined Hunt in his subsequent non-apology, it's TERRIBLY IMPORTANT that people are on a level playing field. The implication being that scientific playing fields which are made up solely of chaps, will always be level and that class, education, sexual orientation, experience, personality, personal and professional allegiances will make not a jot of difference. No, its the GIRLS that are the problem. Girls (not women) are distracting, they cry if you criticise them and oh, you would not believe the sexual tension that arises over a Bunsen burner. With so many chemical substances already flying around the lab, the introduction of oestrogen into the mix is just too much and it is the poor innocent science that suffers!
It's all utter nonsense, but perhaps the reason his comments touched a nerve and the whole incident spiralled into Twittermob meltdown is that they typify both the anti-female zeitgeist of our current times and the age-old misogyny that has proved to be remarkably cockroach-like in its ability to evolve and survive.
From Gamergate to Twitter, from campaigning for Jane Austen to be on the £10 note to presenting BBC history programmes, from a presence in the boardroom, laboratory or lecture theatre to any sort of online presence, women are currently being horrendously abused and threatened simply for being there and participating. Since Hunt's now-notorious speech, we've had London's Garrick Club voting to remain a male-only enclave and Ellen Pao forced out of her job with Reddit due to vicious online abuse, to name but two recent examples of the desperate desire of some men to colonise various places and spaces.
Why? Because of the simple contention that men and women are different and within that difference lies inequality. This is nothing new and the shadow of Eve hangs over us still. For millennia female subordination was predicated on the outcome of the most ill-fated garden stroll in history, and for some, it still is. Even when Enlightened science and philosophy began to undermine the old, long held prejudices, Eve's legacy lived on in the new ways people found, and continue to find, to justify the subordination of women. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, science began to replace God as the reason for female inferiority and it was biology, rather than sin, that justified women's submissive role. Women have children and for that reason, their own reason is subordinated to their womb. To produce and raise their husband's children is both the only, and supreme, role of women.
"The whole education of women ought to relate to men. To please men, to be useful to them, to make herself loved and honoured by them, to raise them when young, to care for them when grown, to counsel them, to console them, to make the lives agreeable and sweet – these are the duties of women at all times and they ought to be taught from childhood," wrote Jean-Jacques Rousseau in 1764, summing up the new attitude of a world which was no longer quite so sure of the validity of the old religious truths, but desperate not to allow women to think all the chatter around the new and exciting concept of 'rights' could apply to them.
Trouble is, women were already thinking exactly that: "If all Men are born Free, how is it that all Women are born Slaves?" asked Mary Astell in 1700, beating Rousseau's revelation that, "Man is born free, but everywhere is in chains" by sixty-two years and signalling the beginnings of the intellectual debate about the basis on which male superiority was built.
Women have always challenged the idea that there are spaces, physical and metaphorical, into which they should not enter and for it they have been sneered at, abused and too-often killed. They have been branded heretics and witches; infuriated the sour-faced John Knox into blasting his first trumpet against their monstrous regiment; likened to hyenas in petticoats, and dismissed as unsex'd creatures. Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea summed it up in verse:
"Alas! a woman that attempts the pen,
Such an intruder on the rights of men,
Such a presumptuous creature, is esteemed,
The fault can by no virtue be redeemed.
They tell us we mistake our sex and way;
Good breeding, fashion, dancing, dressing, play
Are the accomplishments we should desire;
To write, or read, or think, or to inquire
Would cloud our beauty, and exhaust our time,
And interrupt the conquests of our prime;
Whilst the dull manage of a servile house
Is held by some our outmost art, and use."
The vitriol directed at these women has always revealed more about the insecurity on which the gender hierarchy has been based, than the women themselves, and has largely been based on the notion that there is a naturally 'right' way for women to behave, and the natural space in which they should exist is the domestic one. If they should they have ambitions beyond it or don't behave in the way sanctioned by society as feminine, then they should be made to know their place. They should be threatened, harassed and intimidated back into the dark places of subservience and submission.
Today, after the first, second and third wave feminisms which has fought for and won many victories for the notion that women are, in fact, rational creatures and not children of a larger growth, we find ourselves once again facing the vitriol of gender insecurity. The language is different, but the arguments are the same. Women shouldn't intrude on the rights of men. Whether it is the right to science, business, politics, the digital space or the public space, somehow we are still labouring under the notion that these are spaces that are presumptively gendered and that gender is male.
Glimmers of hope exist. The Garrick Club's vote to continue to exclude women didn't pass without controversy and many of its members were infuriated not that women should be allow in, but that they continue to be kept out. But they are glimmers only, and they are lost in a culture still saturated by a petulant sexism; a sexism that ultimately hurts both men and women in its continued desire to draw rigid and uncompromising lines of demarcation between the genders.
So maybe the real significance of Tim Hunt's comments is that they have no significance; they are simply a continuation of Eve's legacy, reminding us of the battles still ahead. But history tells us that too much progress has been made by too many people, men and women alike, for us to sink beneath its shadow now.
Twisting the Ribbons of Time
Posted by kateilescroft in heritage, history
heritage, history, museums
In the 1990s television series Quantum Leap, the central character Sam Beckett (played by the magnificent Scott Bakula) posited the following theory of time travel. A person's life is like a piece of string; tie the two ends together and the string becomes a loop. Roll the loop into a ball and points in one's life criss-cross, making it possible to leap forwards and backwards in time.
It's not surprising the idea of past and present crossing each other for brief moments appeals to me; of time, like a ribbon, curling back and two disparate points in history touching. During my adventures in research there have been plenty of instances when it felt like time had done just that; folded in on itself and my present has touched another's past. The day I first found Sabrina's name in the Foundling Hospital Records; the moment I unfolded the Apprentice Indenture that bound her to Richard Lovell Edgeworth; sitting in the National Library of Ireland holding her letters; standing before the slab of stone worn blank in Kensal Green cemetery that marked her grave.
During the past few weeks I have visited both the National Arboretum at Alrewas in Staffordshire and the Red at Night event at the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley. Both got me thinking about how the past and present interact.
One of the criticisms of heritage sites and the ways in which the past is presented is that, in order to be acceptable the past has to be sanitised, neutralised and commodified. The grime and smells, the illness and death, brutality and grinding dullness of our ancestors lives have to be erased from their stories, otherwise heritage just won't sell – and let's face it, selling our past is, in some cases, the only way it is going to survive. But to some, this is fraught with danger and the past becomes some sort of banal Heritage Fun Park.
The response to last year's installation at the Tower of London to mark the start of the First World War is a case in point. Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red drew a particular harsh response from the Guardian's art critic Jonathan Jones, who called it "a deeply aestheticised, prettified and toothless war memorial." Jones dismissed the installation as fake nobility and included a handy link to what he clearly saw as a more appropriate memorial, Otto Dix's images of the waste and hell of the battlefields of 1914 – 1918.
I have some sympathy with Jones. The First World War was a monumental waste of human life; the culmination of centuries of imperialism, empire-building, one Royal, extended family's dysfunction writ large and the quieter patriotism of ordinary people put to the ultimate test. It was brutal, vile, dehumanising and devastating and the images of Dix should be seen and not forgotten.
But here's the thing – people flocked to see Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red. It touched a cord; something happened to awaken an understanding in some people, possibly for the first time, of the impact of four years of war, one hundred years previously. Just for a brief moment, the past spoke to the present, even if it was only to visually represent the sheer numbers of British men who lost their lives.
People also flocked to the Black Country Living Museum for the Red by Night event. "Deeply aestheticised, prettified and toothless" is a phrase that some might apply to the Black Country Museum, and Ironbridge Gorge Museums, Beamish Living Museum of the North and most other heritage sites in the country. As the evening darkened, crowds flocked to the Halahan Mill, replicated within the museum from the Birchley Rolling Mill at Oldbury, as men demonstrated the skills of dragging and throwing red-hot steel in and out of a rolling mill.
Hand rolling steel at the Red by Night event at The Black Country Living Museum
Across the heritage site, smoke from the strategically placed braziers, also blazing bright with light and flame, sent a pall of thin smog into the night air, giving a small sense of the blackness by day and redness by night that the event was trying to recreate.
But it would be nothing compared to the heat, the smell, the noise, and the grime of the real thing. Nothing will bring back those days, because nothing can, for no other reason than the Clean Air Acts have done their job. The past is precisely that; the past, gone, we cannot bring it back as it was; we cannot experience what our forefathers and mothers experienced (would they want us to?). We cannot feel the full sensory experience of a region in the full throes of an industrial revolution (or, as is possibly more accurate, an evolution) or the full horror of the First World War battlefields; all we can do is remember.
But remembering is a powerful act. While we can't reclaim the past, we can listen to it, we can find ways of reaching out and touching it, briefly. We can try to imagine some of the grimness of life in an industrial town; the hard work, disease and industrial accidents, and be thankful for the progress made to change and make life better. But we must also remember our ancestors loved, laughed, danced and sang. The past was made up as much colour as darkness.
And surely we can find more than one way of remembering the death fields of the wars that have gone before; sometimes through ceramic poppies, sometimes through the war art of men like Otto Dix.
Last year, I attended a memorial service to mark ANZAC day. I stood on Cannock Chase on a breezy April morning, listening as the fallen of that most iconic of wars were remembered. Amazing Grace was sung, The Last Post was played and Laurence Binyon's words were spoken,
I saw an elderly gentleman, the medals lined across his overcoated chest testifying to his service, struggle with his emotions. In front of me lines of British Legion standards were raised, lowered and raised again in honour of the dead. Young men carried some of those standards and in the crowds were teenagers and children, listening and watching. On that Sunday, the past and the present touched and for a fleeting moment, generations met and remembered the lives, death and sacrifices of those who had gone before. Maybe there is no nobility in war, but there is a nobility in remembrance and that can only happened when the past and present meet.
If history does anything, it does this. It allows the past to whisper to us, not of its full horror, or even its full joy, that we cannot know; but of its existence, its stories, its lessons, its part in the on-going chain of life, of which we too are part. We are both the present of today and the past of future generations. If, as a part of history, heritage and remembrance sites do anything, they do this; find places for the past and present to meet, twisting the ribbons of time so the past is not forgotten.
Memorial at the National Arboretum, Alrewas.
Fifty Shades of Subtlety
Labour MP Chuka Amunna recently commented during BBC's Question Time that when it comes to politics, people want only black and white answers. As disconcerting as it is to find yourself agreeing with a politician, this echoed a thought that has been bothering me for some time. If anybody wanders into the public domain and offers an opinion or observation that isn't bombastic in conviction and absolute in content, they get lambasted or ridiculed. It seems that, unless they come complete with a blindfold, leather whip and incredibly dodgy prose, we really do not like shades of grey.
The problem with this is that most of life is exactly that – grey. Life is nuanced, problematic and shifting. The issues we face every day, both personally and collectively, often require a thoughtful and balanced response and do not have black and white answers. Yet as soon as you look at the debates around those issues you find strident voices telling you black and white is all you have. Problems with the NHS? Blame the immigrants, No jobs? Blame the immigrants (again), Too many immigrants? Blame the EU, Don't like the EU? Leave and all our problems will be solved. Society breaking down? Blame anybody – immigrants, schools, working mothers, single mothers, feckless dads, feminism…
And so we come to feminism. Most of the most ridiculous blacknwhite rhetoric I've ever come across revolves around feminism; what it is and what it isn't – its aims, its impacts, its history, its winners and its losers. The debates into which feminism, both ideologically and practically, can be brought are many and varied, but in all of them it doesn't take long for blacknwhitism to surface. At one level the statements, on both sides, are so crude they are laughable; feminism is a Marxist plot (or a capitalist one) to destabilise society; housewives are stupid; feminists hate men; men can't be victims and so on. But as crude as these statements are, they pose a problem for those of us who do accept and embrace the grey, because they block positive, healthy debate. In this sort of debate, we accept not every one will agree and people may draw different conclusions from the same source. This type of debate, where we have the possibility of gaining insight and change, can only occur if we step into the grey. In the grey, we can discuss why, and if, we needed feminism and where it came from historically. We can explore that history (or histories) and it's various alliances with other political ideologies, while seeing it as a diffuse and developing idea. We can acknowledge that, while feminism is celebrated by some, others including both men and women, view it only as a negative and argue for its reversal.
As a feminist historian the grey is important to me, because if there are those who argue that feminism has made things worse (a common contention), then you have to accept the past was somehow better. And that is a tricky argument to make, precisely because of the grey. Not only is life nuanced, problematic and shifting, it always was and trying to unearth the historical reality of people's lives is a complex task. More than that, it is a task that will rarely uncover hard "facts" about those lives from which can be drawn the blacknwhite statements so beloved of contemporary commentators. "Facts" are notoriously slippery things. So no, history doesn't tell us all women were desperate for feminism nor does it tell us all women were blissfully happy under patriarchy, it tells us something far more difficult and subtle; that the truth (another problematic concept, but one for a different time) lies somewhere in the middle, in the grey.
In the grey, the observation can be made that both patriarchy and feminism have a checkered past, but only by looking to that past and the lessons it teaches us can we move forward and try and meet in middle.
So this is a call to arms for those of us who understand that life is not black and white and that it is in the shades of grey that understanding, change and progress is to be found. We will never stop those who revel in blacknwhitism, either because they can't see the grey or don't care too. But those of us who appreciate the grey can try and find it in our debates and discussions, and by doing so can make life a little more colourful. Step into the grey and you just might find the rainbow.
And on that note – who wants to discuss religion?
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Vicious Fun – Horror-Comedy Collaboration
by Chewie March 2, 2020
Turner Latin America's New Movie Banner, Particular Crowd, Partners with Breakthrough Entertainment and Black Fawn Films on Horror-Comedy, Vicious Fun
Vicious Fun is a key feature on Particular Crowd's inaugural roster of films
TORONTO, CANADA (March 2, 2020) – Life comes terrifyingly close to imitating art in Vicious Fun, the new horror-comedy from Breakthrough Entertainment and Black Fawn Films in partnership with Turner Latin America's new movie banner, Particular Crowd.
Behind the scenes photo credit Miz Monday.
The film follows Joel, a caustic 1980's film critic for a national horror magazine, who finds himself unwittingly trapped in a self-help group for serial killers. With no other choice, Joel attempts to blend in with his homicidal surroundings or risk becoming the next victim.
"An outrageous mash-up of dread and humour, Vicious Fun lives up to its title," said Craig McGillivray, Breakthrough Entertainment's Vice President of Distribution. "We are thrilled to have Turner Latin America's new movie banner, Particular Crowd, as a partner on this film, and look forward to sharing the howls and horrors we've created together."
Shot in Hamilton, Ontario, Vicious Fun is directed by Cody Calahan, produced by Chad Archibald and Calahan and written by James Villeneuve. The film features an incredible cast including David Koechner (Anchorman, Cheap Thrills), Evan Marsh (Shazam!, Riot Girls), Amber Goldfarb (TV's Bad Blood), Julian Richings (TV's Supernatural, Man of Steel), Robert Maillet (300, Immortals), Ari Millen (TV's Orphan Black, I'll Take Your Dead) and Sean Baek (TV's Killjoys).
"It felt like the right time for us to branch out and make something outside our comfort zone," said Director Cody Calahan. "These characters are wacky, satirical and genuinely funny. I can honestly say that I've never had so much fun on set and I think that translates directly to the screen. Vicious Fun marks the start of a new slate of films for us and we're committed to pushing ourselves in new directions."
"We're delighted to be starting this collaboration with Vicious Fun. We've really enjoyed working with the Breakthrough team and feel that Cody and Chad are creative powerhouses and hope this will be the first of many movies we'll be working on together," said Peter Bevan, Particular Crowd VP.
Breakthrough Entertainment is an award-winning producer and distributor of original, premium content for audiences around the world. One of Canada's most established and respected production companies, Breakthrough boasts a library of 50-plus feature films and 3,000 television episodes which air on major networks and digital channels worldwide. Notable titles include the multi award-winning
comedy series Less Than Kind for HBO Canada and the Anne of Green Gables trilogy, starring Emmy award winner Martin Sheen.
Web: www.breakthroughentertainment.com
Twitter: @breakthru_ent
ABOUT BLACK FAWN FILMS
Black Fawn Films Inc. is an award-winning Canadian film production house dedicated to bringing creative and innovative talent together in order to create unique and high-quality genre projects. With over 25 feature films under their belt (The Oak Room, I'll Take Your Dead, Let Her Out, Antisocial, Bite), Black Fawn Films has become a staple in the Canadian and international film industry.
Web: www.blackfawnfilms.com
Twitter: @BlackFawnFilms
ABOUT PARTICULAR CROWD
Particular Crowd is the new film banner from Turner Latin America, a division owned by WarnerMedia. The banner has a growing slate of over 30 completed films and continues to develop and produce projects at a high volume in order to deliver 60 more titles in 2020. Particular Crowd offers English-language films within the most popular genres: comedy, rom-com, horror, thriller, teen, and family. This is a content-driven, contained budget production initiative that aims to provide compelling storytelling to audiences on a wide variety of platforms, including TV (TNT and SPACE), theatrical, festival, and digital spaces. Select movies will also be available in serialized episodic format across a variety of social media platforms. Based in Los Angeles, Particular Crowd encompasses development, production and co-financing and has established key content partnerships with leading production companies. The banner seeks to discover new talent to provide access and opportunities for the next generation of filmmakers.
Web: www.particularcrowd.com
ABOUT TURNER LATIN AMERICA
Turner Latin America, owned by WarnerMedia, is a global entertainment, sports and news company that creates premium content and provides exceptional experiences to viewers throughout the region when and where they choose to watch their favorite content. These efforts are fueled by data-driven information and industry-leading technology. Turner owns and operates some of the most valuable brands in the world, organized into five content groups: Kids (Cartoon Network, Boomerang and Tooncast), General Entertainment (TNT, TNT Series, Space, TCM, I.Sat, Warner Channel, TBS, HTV, MuchMusic, Glitz * and truTV), News (CNN International, CNN in Spanish, CNN Chile and HLN), and Sports (TNT Sports, Esporte Interativo Digital and CDF). In the free-to-view TV space, the company also owns the Chilevisión channel in Chile. Its brand portfolio is completed with its new movie banner Particular Crowd.
Web: https://prensa.turner.com/
ABOUT WARNERMEDIA
WarnerMedia is a leading media and entertainment company that creates and distributes premium and popular content from a diverse array of talented storytellers and journalists to global audiences through its consumer brands, including: HBO, HBO Now, HBO Max, Warner Bros., TNT, TBS, truTV, CNN, DC Entertainment, New Line, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Turner Classic Movies and others. WarnerMedia is part of AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T).
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