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STILL STANDING 2022
AN EXHIBITION FOR YARRA RANGES ARTISTS (& beyond)
STILL STANDING - 2021 Exhibition -
Exhibition Open from: 4th - 13th March at Kapi Art Space, Kalorama
Opening Celebration: Sunday 6th March - 2pm
Theatre Performance: Sunday 6th March -3pm
This event is run by Kapi Art Inc. and in partnership with the Yarra Ranges Council.
Kapi Art Space Inc. is a not-for-profit arts organisation based in the Yarra Ranges encouraging supportive and inclusive arts-based activities and events. Its focus is on building resilience, capacity, and wellbeing in individuals & communities through education, connection, and creativity.
STILL STANDING 2022 is an art exhibition featuring artists in the Yarra Ranges region who use arts and creativity to facilitate the journey through management and recovery of their mental health and wellbeing. It follows the widely noted Endure Exhibition for Women held at Kapi Art Space in 2019 and Endure e-merge on-line exhibition in 2020.
As we still linger in the pandemic restrictions and lockdowns, and we rebuild and recover from the devastating storm that so deeply affected our beautiful Community, this exhibition will undoubtedly speak to and bear the marks of this unique historical moment in our lives, as the testimony and legacy of the work of the people that, despite the challenge, still stand tall, create and overcome.
No matter if art is a hobby, or the manifestation of a dream or aspiration, or is a job; no matter in which form, but art has always been an instrument to express our more intimate and true self; a way to decompress and unburden our soul and heart; a way to cope with the anxiety of life, even more in this particular moment in time; it may tell of things that we have lost or may lose, or it may speak of hopes for the future to come.
The creative and artistic works showcased in this exhibition will play a significant role for both artists and audience; it will make them share a common connection with the experience of lockdown and devastation, we do still stand in this together, everyone in our own way, but we are all connected.
The exhibition will be officially launched on Sunday 6th of March and will be running to Sunday 13th of March.
We have invited artists, writers, musicians, and performers who live, work or play in the Yarra Ranges area to share and submit the artworks they have created, we have over 50 pieces of art and around 35 artists participating for 2022.
Participating artists have a fantastic opportunity to both expose new or existing work to a supportive local community and the broader online community and gallery visitors, as well as giving voice and validation to experiences of mental health illness and recovery; reducing the social stigma attached to those experiences.
To encourage community engagement in this important social experience, a People's Choice Award will be offered in two categories:
- Youth aged 12-17 years - art pack valued of $200
- Adults aged 18+ - art pack valued of $300
You can vote for your favorite artist with a voting form at the Kapi Art Space Gallery.
Key Dates for Artists
Application and Fee payment closes ( Over 18 - $35 for 1-2 entries, Under 18- $10 per 1-2 entries ) - Last day for applying is Tuesday 15th February
Accepted artworks notified: Monday 21st February
Artwork delivered: Wednesday 2nd March, between 11am - 8pm
Exhibition Open: Friday 4th - Sunday 13th March
Exhibition Opening Event: Sunday6th March, 2pm
Peoples Choice Awards announced: Sunday 13th March, 2pm
Pick up artworks: Wednesday 16th March, between 11am - 8pm
Yarra Ranges Council


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Farmers Need Freedom, Not a Guardian Angel
The following is an article published in the June 2007 edition of the Freedom First magazine. Mr. Sharad Joshi, in this piece titled 'Farmers Need Freedom, Not a Guardian Angel', wrote about the need to free farmers from the shackles of all sorts of bureaucracy. While reflecting upon the developments during that time, he brought forth farmers' issues which have plagued India's republic since a long time but never understood as part of the problem.
A senior member from the treasury benches of India's Parliament has proposed the establishment of an autonomous board for ensuring remunerative prices for the agricultural produce of farmers through fixation of minimum support prices; compulsory purchase of the produce by governmental agencies and compulsory market intervention by such governmental agencies in cases of bumper crops.
This concern for the farmer is to be appreciated. The question is, is establishing one more comprehensive and potent authority for carrying out the work, at present entrusted to the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), the Food Corporation of India (FCI), The National Agricultural Federation (NAFED) and the large number of state bodies, the right direction for improving the situation of our farmers?
So far, the Central government has been trying to attribute the epidemic of suicides by farmers to water scarcity, lack of credit, high cost of production, low productivity of agriculture, smaller holdings and lack of extension services. A seditious attempt has also been made to put the blame on a general failure in their social moral standards. Some state governments have even tried to organise programmes with the help of some venerable spiritual gurus to contain the epidemic of suicides.
Given this background, it is indeed commendable that a prominent member of the treasury benches of the House is admitting that low prices are the main culprit. He ought to be further complimented for admitting the under-remunerative nets of the prices obtained by the farmers at present. The remarkable thing is that the author proposes an authority whose job will be to fix prices that will cover the 'costs of production' as opposed to 'index based prices' proposed by some of the economists or 'income assurance plans' of the type resorted to in countries like the United States of America or 'blue box' schemes of the type resorted to in various countries. All these alternative schemes involved massive bureaucratic machinery and intervention that is unlikely to work with any chances of success in a country like India. The proposed board is not supposed to try and bring down the prices of agricultural inputs as an alternative method of making agriculture a remunerative vocation.
It is rather unfortunate that the contemplated board will be given a mandate to calculate the remunerative prices practically by the same methodology that is deployed by the CACP for some years now. The author, evidently, is unaware that the basic methodology for calculating the cost of production by the CACP itself is full of holes and the method of collecting cost data from the sample fields and working out some kind of a statistical average thereof brings out costs of various elements that do not relate to any living farm. That is the reason why the old Agriculture Prices Commission (APC) had calculated for the year 1976-77 Rs. 0.01 as the cost of pesticide per hectare of wheat in Punjab. It is the averaging method, which is responsible for numerous cases of contradictions. The cost of manure was calculated at Rs. 1.27 per quintal in the year 1997-78. Curiously enough, the cost for the same thing was even lower in 1980-81 (Rs.1.14 per quintal). The examples of this kind can be multiplied till the cows come home. The irrigation cost per hectare was calculated at Rs. 181.45 in 1916-17. This could not have met even the electricity charges of it too well. Surprisingly, the same cost is shown to have drastically gone down to a bare Rs. 70.86 in 1980-81.
To one's surprise, the cost estimates of the state committees that calculate the costs of production in their states are around 20 per cent higher than the costs computed by the CACP. If agriculture is a state subject, it is difficult to understand why the calculation of costs is not left entirely to the state governments. Further, farmers have been demanding that the CACP switchover to the "synthetic model method" which gives structured costs that are logically linked with each other and correspond to real situations in the field.
Coming from a distinguished member of the treasury benches of the House, one could not have expected a confession that successive post-independence governments have been deliberately trying to depress agricultural prices in order to provide a fillip to industry moved by the kind of economic theory that prompted Stalin to send tanks against kulaks in Russia. That is the reason why those who moved the idea of establishing a new authority are, at the same time, supporting the government's plan to put a ban on the futures market for wheat and paddy and backing the government's moves to keep private traders out of the wheat market in order to provide a clear field for the benefit of the Food Corporation of India.
The basic question is, do we need to have elaborate machinery that is even more complex than the existing one for calculating remunerative prices, ensuring procurement and the operation of minimum support prices mechanism in order to ensure that the farmer gets the price that covers, at least, his cost of production? The price that a producer gets in a free-market must cover his cost. Why then have elaborate bureaucratic mechanisms for this simple task? If the government scraps the Essential Commodities Act that puts restrictions on storage, transport, processing and export of agricultural commodities, the farmer will automatically get a price that covers his cost of production.
lnformation Technology (IT) has now opened up before the farmers two possibilities. Before IT he could not take advantage of the much higher prices that, he knew, would invariably come within the two months of the harvest, because he had no waiting capacity. The farmer was not able to get the advantage of higher prices prevailing at distant places because he had no capacity to transport his produce there. The advent of IT and the futures markets have made it possible for the farmers to add time and space utilities without having to move in time or space. It is rather unfortunate that the government has moved in with clay to block this escape route for the farmers. The government forgets that no prison walls have ever succeeded in containing the spirit of freedom. The farmers in Punjab and Haryana have already provided this by refusing to give their wheat to the Food Corporation of India.
Meanwhile anti-farmer forces will try to create the illusion that not freedom but a more benevolent and efficient State authority will improve the lot of the farmers.
The original article can be accessed here.
Related contents and articles.
A Viable Agriculture Policy for Sustained Growth
Two Greater Enemies of Freedom
Sharad Joshi on The Unchanged Quarter Century for Farmers
Sharad Joshi on The Tragedy of Being a Farmer in India
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2017 Healthcare Industry Predictions Webinar – Where do we go from here?
Welltok today announced that it will be hosting a free webinar with Jeff Margolis, chairman and CEO of Welltok and Tom Main, partner and founder of the Oliver Wyman Health Innovation Center. The webinar, "2017 Healthcare Industry Predictions – Where do we go from here?" will take place on Wednesday, December 7 at 1:30 p.m. ET / 10:30 a.m. PT.
With President-elect Donald Trump entering the White House, there is much speculation around the future of the Affordable Care Act. Margolis, one of the industry's most successful health IT entrepreneurs and Main, a leading health strategist, will discuss and debate a potential repeal of Obamacare, how a Trump administration could impact progress and the role of industry incumbents.


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March 31, 1999 News & Views » Columns
Death penalty fight
A sometimes heated public hearing in Pontiac last week may signal what's ahead as the Legislature considers putting a death penalty proposal before Michigan voters.
Detroit activists in a newly formed coalition say they plan to give capital punishment advocates the political fight of their lives.
Joint Resolution C, introduced to the Committee on Judiciary by Sen. David Jaye (R-Washington Twp.) and six other officials in January, would put before voters an amendment to the state Constitution to allow the death penalty, which Michigan abolished in 1846.
Carrying signs and wearing large pins with a red slash through the phrase "Death Penalty in Michigan," demonstrators stood in aisles and along walls in the rear of a packed auditorium at the Oakland County Service Center, where the March 23 public hearing took place.
Sen. George McManus (R-Traverse City) was the first speaker to give testimony opposing the placement of Joint Resolution C on Michigan voter ballots. By the end of the two-hour hearing, 167 people joined McManus, Wayne County Prosecutor John O'Hair, and Macomb County Prosecutor Carl Marlinga in filing verbal or written opposition. Five individuals spoke in favor of the proposal.
Jaye, who was loudly jeered as he took the podium, testified that his proposal was for the "protection of the community at large" and the "protection of prison guards," whom he argued face increased jeopardy from inmates serving life sentences for first degree murder.
Wayne State University law student Heather Bendure distributed literature while wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the words, "Why do we kill people who kill people to show that killing people is wrong?"
"This is the home of Rosa Parks, the civil rights hub, and to think that the first English-speaking jurisdiction in the world to abolish the death penalty could bring it back, we won't stand for it," Bendure said.
At a news conference before the hearing, a diverse group of lawyers, educators and activists, including members of the newly formed Coalition to Prevent the Death Penalty, made the case that states that impose capital punishment have crime rates as high or higher than those without capital punishment. Other data were presented to illustrate that those most frequently sentenced to death are the poor and people of color.
"Basically, we don't have a system that can't ensure, and never will have a system that can ensure, that only the guilty will be convicted, and that is why we oppose the death penalty," said Detroit lawyer James Krogsrud, chairman of the Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan's capital punishment committee.
Also during a news conference, Detroit Council Member Maryann Mahaffey announced the Council's unanimous opposition to Senate Joint Resolution C.
Jennifer Davis and Jerry Goldberg, members of the Coalition to Prevent the Death Penalty, said their three-week-old group will continue producing literature and sponsoring forums to educate the public.
State Senator William Van Regenmorter (R-Hudson), who served as chairman of the hearing, said no committee decision about the proposal is expected until the fall.
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eTail Highlights: Charis found eTail to be a unique environment for organic networking and she loved having the ability to tailor her conference experience through the subject tracks.
At eTail, my speaking was just the start of the conversation.
What brought me to eTail for the first time was the speaking opportunity I was offered. I thought eTail looked like a great conference to be a part of, and attending and speaking turned out to be a really positive experience, nervous as I was at the beginning. I hadn't spoken at other events before, so it was truly my first time diving into it. After my presentation, I received a lot of different feedback, and have even had a couple of people reach out to me with great follow-up questions after the event. Even when you join a session on something tactical, like improving conversions, the conversation extends well beyond the event and ends up touching on more strategic issues, like how to build the right relationships to drive those changes.
eTail let me find the people who do what I do, and learn from them.
For me, the value of the event goes beyond general networking. The beauty of the separate subject tracks is that they allow you to get a more focused experience within your field, and meet people who actually do what yo u do. The tracks helped me budget my time and create an agenda that was a great fit for me. From a business perspective, that really helped because I heard how people in my peer group are approaching different things I'm also working on. I also noticed that there was a sense of discipline that presenters had around their subjects. I noted this especially in the case of one of the UX presentations I attended. There was a certain rigor there, and they were illustrating their actual process. At other conferences, I've seen presentations that felt more like the presenters were simply introducing a problem and a solution, but this session was really focused on how the UX team handled their actual logistics. It was great to see the thought process behind how they set up the project's framework, because that is the kind of information I can actually take back to my team and use in my own projects. That kind of insight is really very powerful.
I made connections at eTail, even when I wasn't in the sessions.
I liked eTail because the structure and location are much more conducive to organic networking. The way that the conference was set up, you could go and sit at the bar and still wind up talking to somebody interesting. There were people there while I was just eating dinner, and when I noticed they were also at the conference, we started talking and learning things. I've been to a handful of other conferences where the networking sessions feel too forced, but it didn't feel that way at eTail. At other events, networking feels like you are just superficially introducing yourself, so the ability to meet people more organically at eTail was special. If you wanted to be part of the sessions and listen in, then you went to the actual meeting rooms and the exhibit halls. If you decided you just needed to take a break, I still found that I'd see colleagues and we could start a conversation, even if we were just there taking a phone call or a rest in between sessions.


Pac-Man (c) 1980 Midway Mfg. Co.
Export release by Bally/Midway for North America. Game developed by Namco and originally known as Puckman in Japan. For more information about the game itself, please see the original Japanese release entry, "Puckman [Upright model]".
Pac-Man was released in October 1980 in North America by Bally/Midway, under license from Namco. 96,000 units were produced in America.
Reportedly, when Bally/Midway obtained the rights to Pac-Man, Namco was offering four different games, which ended up being licensed to Game Plan and Bally/Midway. Game Plan's Ken Anderson reports that he and Bally's Dave Marofske flipped a coin to see who would get first crack at the games. Game Plan won and chose a tank game (which they released as "Tank Battalion") over Pac-Man. The other game they got was released as "King & Balloon". Bally/Midway, meanwhile, took Pac-Man and "Rally-X".
- The game's name (and likewise its main character) has been changed to Pac-Man. Refer to the Namco Upright version entry, Trivia section, for details behind this name change.
- Notice that the pink ghost's nickname remains unchanged from the Japanese version.
- Unlike the Japanese version, the American version has no DIP switch for alternate ghost names.
The game's cult status in the early 80's was such that it inspired a hit song by 'Buckner and Garcia' called 'Pac-Man Fever', released in 1982 on the album of the same name.
The game also spawned a virtual cottage industry of best-selling how-to books strategy guides on how to beat the game by using patterns with names like the "Bazo's Breaker", the "Donut Dazzler" and the "GET pattern" (named after the first initials of the members of a team of players from Davis, California: George Huang, Ed Bazo, and Tom Fertado).
A Pac-Man unit appears in the movie 'Getting There', in the 1982 movie 'Jekyll & Hyde - Together Again', in the 1982 movie 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High', in the 1983 movie 'WarGames', in the 1983 movie 'Joysticks', in the 1983 movie 'Koyaanisqatsi - Life out of Balance', in the 1985 movie 'The Heavenly Kid', in the 1985 movie 'Better Off Dead', and in the 1986 movie 'The Color of Money'.
A Pac-Man unit appears in the pilot of Season One of 'The A-Team'. It is where Amy (Melinda Culea) meets Murdock (Dwight Schultz) for the first time.
MB (Milton Bradley) released a board game based on this video game in 1982 (Pac-Man Game, 'As Much Fun as the Action Packed Arcade Game of the Same Name'). In this board game, the dots in the maze are represented by white marbles. There are also yellow marbles representing the power pills in the maze. There are also two ghosts pawns of the same color in the game. The object is to roll the dice and move your Pac-Man playing piece around the maze gobbling up as many marbles as you can using the count on one die, and move either ghost pawn using the count on the other die. There are yellow dots imprinted on the game board to lay out the path each character must take; these dots do not count as spaces. Use the ghosts to try to catch your opponents. When this happens, that opponent is sent back home and surrenders two marbles to the player who moved the ghost. If a Pac-Man gobbles up a yellow marble, that player earns the right to gobble a ghost. When this happens, the gobbled ghost is returned to the ghost pen, the player takes two marbles away from any opponent, and the player's yellow marble is returned to the game board. Once the maze is cleared of white marbles, the game is over and the player with the most white marbles (yellow marbles do not count) is the winner.
'Pac-Man' is also the nickname of the Filipino boxing champion Manny Pacquiao. The two-time world champion earned the distinction as the only boxer who has knocked down both future Mexican 'Hall of Famer' Marco Antonio 'Baby Face Assassin' Barrera (knocked out in 11th round) and Erik 'El Terrible' Morales (knocked out in 10th round). Pacquiao has been on the top 10 list of the best 'pound-for-pound' fighters in the world.
In the multi-racial country of Malaysia, 'Pac-Man' is a slang term coined to describe men who only date ladies of other races.
The name 'Pac-Man' has been given to a nebula, cataloged as NGC 281. The Pac-Man Nebula is an H II region in the constellation of Cassiopeia. It includes or is near the open cluster IC 1590, the double star HD 5005, and several Bok globules. The shape of the nebula resembles the famous video game icon, Pac-Man. It is visible in amateur telescopes from dark sky locations.
The Cassini Robotic spacecraft (Cassini-Huygens) were captured images during a close pass to the moon of Saturn named 'Mimas', and collected by the composite infrared spectrometer (CIRS). The images show the fluctuating temperatures experienced by Mimas. The combined map with this images form a shape of this character Pac-Man.
On May 21, 2010, to celebrate Pac-Man's 30th Anniversary, Google, the famous internet search engine, has created the first ever interactive Doodle! This doodle allowed people to play Pac-Man on the home page (at the place of the original logo).
Midway's new revision program for Pac-Man was released in December 1981; the new program increases the difficulty of the game and adds a new challenge to players already familiar with the original.
NOTE: Only ports released in North America are listed here. For ports released in other regions, please see the original Namco (Japanese version) upright entry.
Atari 2600 [US] (1981) "Pac-Man [Model CX2646]"
Atari 5200 [US] (1982) "Pac-Man [Model CX5208]"
Mattel Intellivision [US] (1983) "Pac-Man [Model 70251]"
Nintendo NES [US] (November 1993) "Pac-Man [Model NES-P7]"
Sony PlayStation [US] (July 31, 1996) "Namco Museum Vol.1 [Model SLUS-00215]"
Nintendo 64 [US] (October 31, 1999) "Namco Museum 64 [Model NUS-NNME-USA]"
Sega Dreamcast [US] (June 25, 2000) "Namco Museum [Model T-1403N]"
Sony PlayStation 2 [US] (December 4, 2001) "Namco Museum [Model SLUS-20273]"
Microsoft XBOX [US] (October 9, 2002) "Namco Museum"
Nintendo GameCube [US] (October 9, 2002) "Namco Museum [Model DOL-GNME-USA]"
Sony PlayStation 2 [US] (August 30, 2005) "Namco Museum - 50th Anniversary [Model SLUS-21164]"
Microsoft XBOX [US] (August 30, 2005) "Namco Museum - 50th Anniversary [Model NMO-2201A-NM]"
Nintendo GameCube [US] (August 30, 2005) "Namco Museum - 50th Anniversary [Model DOL-G5NE-USA]"
Microsoft XBOX 360 [XBLA] [US] (November 4, 2008) "Namco Museum - Virtual Arcade [Model 21022]"
Sony PlayStation 3 [US] (July 16, 2009) "Namco Museum Essentials [Model NPUB-30086]"
Sega Game Gear [US] (1991) "Pac-Man [Model T-14018]"
Nintendo Game Boy [US] (April 1991) "Pac-Man [Model DMG-PC-USA]"
SNK Neo-Geo Pocket Color [US] (July 31, 1999) "Pac-Man [Model NEOP00551]"
Nintendo Game Boy Color [US] (August 1999) "Pac-Man - Special Color Edition [Model DMG-AACE-USA]"
Nintendo Game Boy Advance [US] (July 12, 2001) "Pac-Man Collection [Model AGB-APCE-USA]"
Sony PSP [US] (August 23, 2005) "Namco Museum Battle Collection [Model ULUS-10035]"
Nintendo DS [US] (September 18, 2007) "Namco Museum DS [Model NTR-YNME-USA]"
Nintendo 3DS [US] (July 26, 2011) "Pac-Man & Galaga Dimensions [Model CTR-APGE-USA]"
Tandy Color Computer [US] (1981) "Pac-Tac"
Atari 800 [US] (1982) "Pac-Man [Model CXL4022]"
PC [Booter] [US] (1982) "PC-Man"
Tandy Color Computer [US] (1982) "Ghost Gobbler"
Tandy Color Computer [US] (1982) "Pack Maze"
Commodore C64 [US] (1983) "Pac-Man [Model RX8502]"
Tandy Color Computer [US] (1983) "Pac Jaws"
Tandy Color Computer [US] (1983) "Pac-Tac II"
Texas Instruments TI-99/4A [US] (1983) "Pac-Man [Model RX8500]"
Tandy Color Computer [US] (1990) "Pac-Dude"
Apple II GS [US] (1992) "Pac Man GS"
Apple Macintosh [US] (1992) "Mac-Man"
PC [MS Windows 95, CD-ROM] [US] (1995) "Mac-Man", part of "Windows Arcade Pack"
PC [MS Windows 95, 3.5"] [US] (March 31, 1996) "Microsoft Return of Arcade"
PC [MS Windows, CD-ROM] [US] (2000) "Microsoft Return of Arcade Anniversary Edition"
PC [MS Windows, CD-ROM] [US] (October 25, 2005) "Namco Museum - 50th Anniversary"
Apple iPhone/iPad [US] (March 31, 2010) "Pac-Man for iPad [Model 363297482]"
VFD handheld game [US] (1981) by Coleco.
Arcade [US] (1996) "Namco Classics Collection Vol.2"
Arcade [US] (2000) "Ms. Pac-Man/Galaga - 20th Anniversary Class of 1981 Reunion" as a hidden game.
Arcade [US] (2005) "Pac-Man - 25th Anniversary Edition"
Apple iPhone/iPod [US] (July 9, 2008) "Pac-Man [Model 281656475]"
BlackBerry [US] (June 30, 2009) "Pac-Man [Model 967]"
Apple iPhone/iPod [US] (March 31, 2010) "Pac-Man for iPad [Model 363297482]"
Arcade [US] (2010) "Pac-Man's Arcade Party"
Android [US] (March 22, 2013) "Pac-Man + Tournaments"
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Trump supporter with MAGA cap shoves BBC cameraman during Texas rally, screams 'F#ck the media'
Trump, who noticed the altercation, checked whether Skeans was alright by giving him a thumbs-up. He continued his rally after the cameraman responded with the same gesture
A Trump supporter, center, is restrained after he storms the media area, as journalists including BBC reporter Gary O'Donoghue, second left, work during a rally with U.S. President Donald Trump in El Paso, Texas, U.S., on Monday, Feb. 11, 2019.	Adria Malcolm/Bloomberg
A Trump supporter, sporting a MAGA cap, attacked a BBC cameraman while at the U.S. president's campaign rally in El Paso, Texas.
Footage of the incident shows a man pulled away and escorted out of the arena by security after roughly shoving cameraman Ron Skean, while screaming "Fuck the media".
Skeans said he and his camera was almost knocked over twice before the protester was wrestled away. "I didn't know what was going on," said Skeans.
Just attended my first @realDonaldTrump rally where my colleague BBC cameraman Rob Skeans was attacked by a Trump supporter. The crowd had been whipped up into a frenzy against the media by Trump and other speakers all night #TrumpElPaso pic.twitter.com/Oiw8osPms3
— Eleanor Montague (@EleanorMontague) February 12, 2019
However, BBC Washington Editor Eleanor Montague, whom he was with, told BBC the protester had attacked other crews within the rally but Skean "got the brunt of it."
Trump, who noticed the altercation, checked whether Skeans was alright by giving him a thumbs-up. He continued his rally after the cameraman responded with the same gesture.
The assault coincided with the president's speech, during which he criticized the media for misrepresenting him and producing "fake news."
Just a sample of the sad scene we faced at the Trump rally in Tampa. I'm very worried that the hostility whipped up by Trump and some in conservative media will result in somebody getting hurt. We should not treat our fellow Americans this way. The press is not the enemy. pic.twitter.com/IhSRw5Ui3R
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) August 1, 2018
A Trump spokesman for the rally suggested that the protester was drunk.
This isn't the first time Trump supporters have become violent towards news crew at a Trump rally. Last year CNN filmed protestors yelling abuse and swearing at reporters covering a rally in Florida.
Trump, in turn, has often supported and joked about violence against reporters and the media, going so far as to praise Rep. Greg Gianforte after he allegedly threw an American reporter to the ground in the final days of his bid for Congress.
"Any guy that can do a body slam, he's my kind of — he's my guy," Trump said, according to the Washington Post.
"I'm very worried that the hostility whipped up by Trump and some in conservative media will result in somebody getting hurt," tweeted Jim Acosta in response to the Florida incident.
UN experts last August warned that Trump's attacks "increase the risk of journalists being attacked with violence" and suggested that his rhetoric was "strategic."


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Sex in the City: Reactionism, Resistance and Revolt – AAG #Geosex16 sessions in San Francisco (March/April 2016) **POST 1/5 – SESSION I**
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Sex in the City: Reactionism, Resistance and Revolt – AAG #Geosex16 sessions in San Francisco (March/April 2016)
A couple of weeks ago I returned from the Association of American Geographers conference in San Francisco. The conference was a great opportunity to catch up with friends/colleagues (old and new!) and San Francisco was a lot of fun. I also had a week in Las Vegas, where I did a talk at UNLV and lots of holidaying. Taking a drive up to the Grand Canyon in Arizona was definitely a highlight. Here is me on my first look out:
Now onto our #geosex16 sessions. Paul (@planographer), Martin (@Zebracki) Clarissa (DrClarissaSmith) and I were completely overwhelmed with the response that we got from the call for papers and the sessions went really well. We had a range of presenters, including academics (early and established careers), sex workers, sex worker academics and the quality of papers was excellent. Here is Paul's interview with Xbiz.com about the sessions: http://business.avn.com/articles/novelty/Sex-Work-to-Receive-Platform-at-AAG-Annual-Conference-640645.html.
I tried to take some notes during the sessions in order to be able to report on some of the papers in this blog for those who couldn't attend. Some are more comprehensive than others – this was due to me having to undertake chairing duties/wrist-ache and/or I was charging the laptop. I have incorporated elements of the paper abstracts with the notes taken by me to enable some of the gaps in note-taking to be filled. Due to my over-enthusiastic note-taking(!), I'll be posting the entries session-by-session.
Session I – Performance, Production & Politics
Zahra Stardust (@ZahraStardust) (University of New South Wales): "Queer feminist pornography as a social movement: Protest, resistance and radical politics"
Zahra kicked our sessions off excellently, with her paper about queer feminist pornography. Based upon 19 qualitative interviews with porn producers, Zahra's research explores how they maintain political integrity and ethics whilst navigating the regulatory framework. She argued that porn acts as a protest mechanism against state censorship and government intervention while also deliberately and poetically violating laws designed to closet non-normative practices.
As Zahra outlined, in Australia, the production, exhibition and sale of pornography is criminalised, attracting fines and imprisonment; thus, porn producers are 'sexual outlaws'. Customs and Classifications have prohibited pornography depicting female ejaculation, small breasts (which look 'underdeveloped'), genital detail and fetishes (eg BDSM). Resistance to such laws include the recent 'face-sitting' protest outside Westminster (UK) in 2014. Despite this, Australia has a queer feminist porn community whose work receives notoriety worldwide.
Zahra explained how shooting porn is a guerrilla operation. Porn sets operate as temporary autonomous zones (such as warehouses, the bush, backyards), organised by word of mouth in transient locations. Smartphones are also turned off to avoid identification by authorities. Porn production involves skill-sharing, resource-lending and a DIY approach with the capacity to create mobilised, empowered communities. New technology has democratised porn: of which there is a multitude of different types. Zahra outlined how the producer, distributor, consumer boundary is now much more blurred, and who can produce porn/who can represent others is also now changing as a result. Performers are becoming directors, and directors are becoming facilitators; enabling more control of representation and revenue, and helping the performer's experience to be prioritised (eg the micro-geographies of working conditions). Therefore, more collaborative and facilitative models of production are forged, and performers can more readily 'forge one's own space instead of looking elsewhere to be represented', which is creating more 'participatory spaces', as well as greater potential for entrepreneurial opportunities.
Zahra's research shows that production fosters an 'ethics of care' and ongoing dialogue about community standards that resists patriarchal state regulation. Zahra argued that 'leaders abdicating power is the future of queer feminist and ethical porn', with a redistribution of wealth and a trickle effect on every other aspect of the business being possible. Due to the "accountability to community" that ensues from the blurring of roles (as opposed to the producer-performer boundary being clear-cut), this also improve working conditions, health and safety, and creates clearer policies and better contracts for performers.
I particularly liked Zahra's final statement: that porn is "art, work, and business", with binaries in class and taste being presented as "good" or "bad" porn being unhelpful. She stated that "it is essential to tackle stigma directly" instead of such unhelpful categorisations, in order to more effectively tackle issues such as exploitation and to ensure appropriate working conditions for performers.
Gemma Commane (@GemCommane) (Birmingham City University): "RubberDoll: The Queer Art of Failure and the Significance of Sexual Otherness"
Gemma's powerful paper presented a case study of RubberDoll (http://rubberdoll.net/): a hard-core fetish latex model, performance-artist and full-time kinkster. Gemma outlined that the Rubberdoll brand originated in the 1990s, with photos of her modelling rubber clothing, and progressed to performances at clubs etc (of which there is a high demand for appearances). The act includes multiple ways of expressing sexuality, and is more dominant than submissive – which is evident in stage shows, dvds etc. Gemma outlined that "latex is a flexible subject", which has the ability to embrace "pervy heavy rubber" and elegant "couture".
Gemma argued that RubberDoll's latex-encased lifestyle and artistic expressivity is cleverly mixed across and within a range of hybridized forms of technologies and leisure-time environments, where she continuously presents a journey to the outer-limits of fetish and kink. The social nature of the spaces of performances, Gemma explained, enable great opportunities for personal expression and to explore self-identity. Such spaces also cater for Rubberdolls' sexual appetite and preferences, reproducing them via music choices, act choices and ambience – "irrespective of external ideological forces which represent her as a failure of femininity, morally corrosive and dangerous". The creativity in crafting such performative spaces and use of layers in performance is "artistic gendered activism".
Using Ahmed's definition of queering something as to 'disrupt the other of things', Gemma argues that via managing herself and expanding on how (her) sexual expressivity and kink can be communicated, RubberDoll queers the cis-gendered male gaze and develops the political significance of sexual otherness. I think my favourite statement of the paper was that "alternative feminists should be valued as socially and politically significant: acts like Rubberdoll are reproducing alternative routes to success". Gemma outlined how repressive ideological values, which deem 'Other' women such as Rubberdoll as insignificant due to their lack of ability to conform to heterosexual norms (eg relating to coupling, intimacy, desire and pleasure), can and should be disrupted. Rubberdoll's failure to conform and radical undermining of normative scripts, Gemma stated, is not only important in seeing identity as having endless possibilities (e.g. that femininity is not owned by one type of woman only, and is not one-dimensional), but it has been key to her entrepreneurial success. Her business empire has survived multiple barriers against female entrepreneurs such as status, networks, funding and she is now one of the top fetish artists. As Gemma's abstract states: "this has also been in the face of the issues and tensions that intersect and are expressed when a woman engages with pornography, sexual deviancy, and kink. This makes visible the potential of a flexibly-queer community of difference, where kinky-queer women are able to live their self-identity both personally and professionally".
Lucy Neville, BA (Hons), MSc, PhD, PGCertHE (@blue_stocking) (Middlesex University): "A Forum Of One's Own: Female Slash Writers And Online Embodiment"
Lucy's paper drew on a piece of wide-scale mixed-methods research (n=351) that examined how women who write gay male erotica and pornography utilise online spaces as places for exploring their own gender and sexuality. Her research investigates the ways in which online space provides what is perceived by participants as a 'safe' environment for creatively examining issues around gender, sexuality and sexual performance – particularly challenging heteronormativity and gender conformity. Lucy drew from Feona Atwood's extensive work, arguing that the boundaries between online erotic content and real life sexuality can be blurred via such spaces. Previous work has looked at how online slashfic communities might provide a space for exploring gender performance and sexuality in a way that constitutes Foucault's vision of 'creative practice' as a form of political dissent (Hayes & Ball, 2009).
Other work has observed a tension between writers and readers who see the online community as 'safe queer space' to explore their own lived queer identities, and those who only 'play at queerness' exclusively within the online environment (Lothian, Busse, & Reid, 2007). Lucy argued that, as the virtual plays a constitutive role in the materialization of gender, sexuality, and embodiment in both digital and physical spaces (van Doorn, 2011), the distinction between 'online' and 'lived' experiences needs to be better examined.
Lucy's findings suggested that the online can provide a narrative safe haven; to develop the strength necessary to find a sense of belonging and meet like-minded individuals. She also discussed that the action of writing and consuming gay male erotica, for her participants, isn't just about sex, but about having an online space, free from heteronormative conditions, where they can talk about life and sexuality in a way that is less restricted by such boundaries. Lucy discussed the importance of spaces in the public sphere for subcultural practices, be they physical or virtual, and for changing political views more generally.
Some of the underpinning questions to Lucy's research included: does tension exist between authentic queer experience and queer tourism; and how do the women in these communities feel about it?
Some findings: the majority of respondents said they used material to masturbate, that it wasn't just a political crusade (although 68% of what participants read or watched had some sort of political angle, e.g. seen a gateway to activism), but had a tremendous important role in their everyday practices/lives. The majority were against the shaming of women's sexual fantasies/practices. One highlighted quote from a participant was: "it made me more open about accepting/understanding people who are not sitting in one labelled box". Lucy outlined that there was also cross-identification and fluid gender identification going on within the sample. She did outline, however (although in the minority), that some participants experienced backlash for using the spaces – one having been called a homophobe, and one stating that "as a woman my experiences are considered invalid". Generally, though, the space is seen as inclusive and also a space to learn – to open up beliefs and to expand knowledge about sexuality, gender, and sex. Also, it is considered a space to be happy – "gay guys are never allowed to live happily ever after in literature; one or both end up dead!".
Prof. Clarissa Smith (@drclarissasmith) (University of Sunderland): "Because life without porn would be boring." Thinking about Young People, Pornography and Everyday Spaces"
Clarissa's paper centred on recent moral crusades regarding the 'pornification' of society and changes in UK legislation, with a particular focus on how young people have been described and problematized in such discourse. She discussed how arguments about pornification offer a view of public and private spaces as entirely permeated and shaped by pornography. In relation to young people, she argued, such talk conflates a range of issues: about protection, childhood, space and place and privacy. The range of recent UK legislation, she states, has sought to 'protect' young people and to keep 'vile images' out of the home.
Clarissa argued that such legal and protectionist discourses have marked the Internet as a major threat to the sanctity and innocence of the family home; cyberspace is figured as an alluring yet dangerous space for young people. In the UK, 3 major reports have been written for government since 2008, with changes being made such as 'opt-in' adult content filters online, and age verification. These adaptations have also been accompanied by documentaries such as Porn on the Brain (Channel 4) – which insinuated that pornography is 'turning our children into psychopaths'. Clarissa highlighted how 'exposure' gets used over and over again in legislative discourse, with porn considered 'a poison in the home' (Fagan), putting our children 'in harm's way'. Such documentaries and legal discourses also discuss addiction, with consumers being portrayed as either victims or as having become perpetrators. Some of the imagery used in media include "bags under 'Charlie's eyes, his spots, his moodiness, etc'" as being directly a result of porn use by young people. Clarissa also outlined how the documentary "used pictures of the home in very particular ways eg young people making cakes with mum"; contrasting the differences between 'other' activities and what 'should' happen in the home.
Clarissa also outlined how concerns surrounding engagement in non-normative sexual activities e.g. anal sex, and the nostalgia for another time are encapsulated in the motivations for UK legislation change – the notion that porn used to be different (Dines) and fears around where/what it will lead to next. A key claim, she argued, is that "porn has developed outside the knowledge of ordinary parents/adult and needs urgent redress". The dominant model, she said, is that porn is a singular form, it slips under adult radar, is portrayed as a new phenomenon, and the remedies are clear. The role of the Internet as a socialising space also comes into such discussions. However, she argued that 'the social relations through which young people engage with pornography are rarely examined', and certainly not with a critical lens that does not singularly centre on young people as victims. The complexities of young peoples' use of the Internet as a means of escaping adult interference whilst also a space of parental surveillance are ignored in most policy investigations. Her research, including a complex online questionnaire (100 under 18s) combining quantitative and qualitative questions into the meanings and pleasures of pornography, challenges these accounts. The data complicates any notion that young people encounter sexual media by inadvertent 'exposure' to it and suggests that sexually explicit materials have intricate connections to young peoples' understandings of family and the household space, and have multiple significances for their senses of themselves as sexual subjects.
Some findings: the home, which is generally seen as a place of safety, was also considered a "place of secrets" by participants. Participants discussed understanding that 'adult things were going on' and wanting to know what they are. She outlined narratives including looking to find out what the adult secret of sex was eg under beds, in cupboards. The internet is seen as a vast playground in which young people want to map their own ways through, and that young people eventually move into spaces of their own via preferences – "rather than the degenerative 'slippery slope discussion like we get in policy reviews, 'ending up' in fetish material". Clarissa also outlined that what people mean by 'fetish material is not necessarily antagonistic, violent material' – nor that exploration is simply a one-way street, moving backwards and forwards; people do have histories and connections with porn over time. She finished by discussing the play-off between kinds of ways of thinking about porn as something to enhance one's life/be playful, but also that it can also be a part of one's identity, reflecting something about oneself.
'De-sexing porn: An account of the non-porn porn at the Musee D'Orsay'. A guest post by Dr Erin Sanders-McDonagh (@erinsandersmcd) about her visit to the the Splendeurs & Miseres Exposition
October 7, 2015 Liminographer Uncategorized	Art, Exhibition, History, Pornography, Prostitution, Sex, Sex Work
Image from: http://www.hotels-paris-rive-gauche.com/blog/2015/08/27/exposition-splendeurs-et-miseres-au-musee-dorsay-du-22-septembre-2015-au-17-janvier-2016/
De-sexing porn: An account of the non-porn porn at the Musee D'Orsay
Opening at the Musee D'Orsay in Paris last Saturday the 22nd of September 2015, the Splendeurs & Miseres Exposition traces images of prostitution from 1850-1910. Having read Sciolino's piece in the New York Times) the day before, I have some idea what to expect – paintings from artists such as Manet, Picasso, Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec – and an exhibit that shows us images of prostitutes through the artist's eye. There is another queue for the exhibit once inside, and the docent at the ticket desk tells me they are expecting higher than average numbers for this particular exhibition. Walking into first room, the mauve-painted walls and soft lighting invoke an almost hushed atmosphere. There are no written guides to the exhibit, only audio guides – and I am forbidden from taking pictures of the textual descriptions (written in both French and English) on the walls. The introduction to the exposition sets out not its purpose, but rather a rationale – making clear why the exposition includes the images we are about to see:
'Its [prostitution] ever changing nature, which defied easy definition, was an enduring obsession among novelists, poets, playwrights, composers, painters and sculptors. Most artists in the 19th and first half of the 20th century addressed the splendor and misery of prostitution'
This idea of splendor and misery is borrowed from Balzac's Splendeurs et miseres des courtisanes (published in the 1830s), also known as Harlot of High and Low – which describes the rise and pitiful fall of the courtesan Esther Van Gobsecka, and frames prostitution as both a class issue and a moral question. The current exhibit at the Musee D'Orsay tries, to some extent, to engage with similar issues and questions, but the exhibit itself poses some moral questions of its own.
The first few rooms of the exhibit feature a variety of painted images, mostly rendered in oils, of women working as sex workers. A potted history of sex work in Paris is essentially recounted here – and the paintings feature well-dressed prostitutes promenading streets; shop girls, some who were known to sell sex to gentleman customers; and ballet dancers and actresses interacting with 'patrons' in the back stages of the Paris Opera. The descriptive text on the wall, and some of the specific text under key paintings, refers to class and position in relation to sexual exchanges, but there is little moralizing discourse written into the guiding text.
All of the prostitutes pictured are of course women – and the clients are gentlemen of rank and class. As the exhibit continues, there are dozens of rooms displaying the bodies of sex working women – from a range of different sex working hierarchies.
Mid-way through the exhibit, visitors over the age of 18 are invited to sweep through a red velvet curtain. What lies behind this curtain is clearly more provocative than what was being displayed in the main rooms. Entering into the dimly-lit space, spectators are invited to peer through binocular-like devices, 'stereoscopes', to see images of couples having sex, or engaging in sexual activity. Still photographs adorn the opposite wall, and around the corner a black and white pornographic film plays on a loop. These photographic and celluloid images signal an important shift – evidenced not only by the red curtain partitioning the obscene from the beautiful, but also by the accompanying text. The writing on the wall (literally), tells us that 'by consuming the [photographic] image, viewers became virtual clients'. What then, of the museum spectators who have paid 12 euro each to consume the same images? Are we, the museum spectators, not also virtual clients?
While there are a great many questions that the exposition raises in relation to prostitution and sex work, I would like to focus here on how it is that we, viewers of pornography, have managed to avoid any aspersions cast on our character? How can a male spectator viewing this film in the early 1900s be seen as voyeuristic, described as a 'virtual' client, while we, the contemporary spectators in 2015, are freed from any moral dilemmas?
I stood for some time looking at the faces of people watching the film, and listening to the conversations. Reactions ranged from disinterest, to laughter – it was clear that we as the audience were not meant to be sexually aroused by this in any way – but rather, bemused and analytical, and we followed the rules.
The politics of looking, and the importance of visual consumption of sexual images are central to debates on pornography. The extent to which looking at bodies engaging in sexual activity renders them object/abject, and the impact that this type of viewing has on the visual consumer is key in framing pornography as morally dubious. However, as I have recently argued (Sanders-McDonagh, in press), understanding the impact and importance of pornography requires not just an analysis of content, but a contextual account. We do not watch pornography in a vacuum – we watch naked bodies in particular spaces and places, and the space and place where we are located fundamentally shapes our experiences.
For me this is the most problematic element of the show – not so much that women's naked or splayed bodies are on display (yet again), or that the prostitute features as both hapless victim and conniving temptress (yet again), although these of course warrant further debate and discussion – but rather that the way the images are presented and described, and the assumptions that are in play about who is looking and how, are fundamentally relevant to any analysis of the exposition.
The Musee D'Orsay, as is true with most art galleries across the world, appeals to a middle-class demographic and welcomes over 2 million visitors every year. There is an expectation that these visitors here have not only the requisite economic capital, but also a great deal of cultural capital to make sense of what they are seeing, and to recognize and evaluate the artistic merit of some representations, and the debased nature of others. Indeed, a few metro stops away in Clichy or Pigalle, one could easily buy a pornographic film or magazine at one of the many sex shops in the area, but there is clear demarcation between the high and the low here, and their symbolic separation.
Tellingly, the gift shop that you enter after leaving the final room of the exhibit has a range of book and DVDs for sale. If you have 45 euro, you can buy the official book for the exposition. A hefty price (and a weighty tome), but a material reminder of your visit, and full of the images of naked women you have just consumed in the exposition. If you have less money but would still like a book, you could buy a copy of Emile Zola's Nana, or perhaps a biography of a Parisian courtesan. You could also buy a DVD – maybe an art house movie that won a prize at Cannes and almost coincidentally features a prostitute (obviously displayed naked on the cover, but tastefully arranged), or else a glossy art/fashion publication that features a range of intelligent analyses of prostitution, as well as stylish images of red-lit women. Purchasing any of these items – which would be placed gently into the well-designed Musee D'Orsay bag – would be far different from purchasing a similar item from a shop in Pigalle. Here, you could not be so sure that this is a tasteful purchase; it would be placed in a black plastic bag, to hide the grubby item lurking inside, and, even more problematically, you would have to venture into and out of such a shop, in such an area, to purchase such an item. The naked women in display in your expensive Musee D'Orsay book are guaranteed to meet certain standards of taste – whereas the women in display on anything in such a shop in such an area come with no guarantees.
While the exhibit works hard to make clear where the acceptable boundaries of high and low are situated, and implicitly assumes that the visual consumers, the museum-goers, will be able to position the sex on display behind their red curtain (as not sexual, as artefact) vis-à-vis Other pornographic images or movies (that are intrinsically sexual, because they are not displayed in the appropriate context), there is the possibility of confusion. For that reason, the velvet curtain is introduced, because even within an exhibit that features almost exclusively depictures of prostitutes and images of naked women, there is an internal hierarchy between the higher oil-based naked women, and the lower silver-gelatin naked women. Everything has a place and an order – there is highest-high-low-lowest – and this order must be made clear.
And indeed, I would imagine that many visitors, the ones I watch as they watch the black-and-white movie on the wall, walk away bemused. Perhaps their conversations over that evening's apero, or tomorrow night's dinner party, will include witty analyses of the images, and perhaps their friends will decide to go because it sounds so intriguing. I would doubt that many of these dinner party conversations would include suggestions about which production company features the most realistic lesbian porn, or if anyone has accidentally stumbled onto an excellent chem-porn site while browsing through Tumblr…. and as I imagine these dinner parties conversations, I remember what Stallybrass and White have to say about the high and the low:
The 'top' includes the 'low' symbolically as a primary eroticized constituent of its own fantasy life. The result is a mobile, conflictual fusion of power, fear, and desire in the construction of subjectivity' (Stallybrass and White in Walkowitz, 1992: 20).
Watching the pornographic movie on display in the Musee D'Orsay is no different to watching the same pornographic movie at home – the images and the representations are the same and the content of what is being consumed is identitical. However, watching this in the hallowed chamber of a well-known museum is vastly different to watching the same movie on your smartphone on your sofa. The fundamental question is not what you watch, but where. The top includes the low – it requires the low for the sustenance of fantasy, but our views on what kinds of naked images are tasteful, and which are obscene require constant attention to the context, and to place, to ensure that the images can be read appropriately, and that it is clear when nakedness and sexual representations should offend us, or enthrall us.
Feona Attwood (2005) reminds us that the cultural practices of looking and seeing are critical to a meaningful analysis of pornography. While debates rage in the UK on the harms of pornography, middle-class visitors can quietly consume images of naked woman rendered on canvas, or watch a naked man and woman fucking on-screen – shocking perhaps, or maybe funny, but not sexually stimulating, and nothing to be offended by – but only deep in the heart of the Musee D'Orsay.
By Dr Erin Sanders-McDonagh (@erinsandersmcd)
Attwood, F. 2005. "What to do with porn? Qualitative research into the consumption, use and experience of pornography and other sexually explicit media." Sexuality and Culture 9(2): 65-86.
Sanders-McDonagh, E. (in press) 'Porn by any other name: Women's consumption of public sex performances in Amsterdam' In Porn Studies. DOI: 10.1080/23268743.2015.1100092.
Walkowitz, J. 1992. City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London. London: Virago.
CfP for AAG2016 San Francisco 29 March – 2 April
September 29, 2015 September 29, 2015 Liminographer Uncategorized	BDSM, Conference, Disgust, Disorder, Feminism, Geography, LGBT, Pornography, Reactionism, Resistance, Revolt, Sex Work, Sexualities, Sexuality, Sociology
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Sex and the City: Reactionism, Resistance and Revolt
(#GeoSex16)
Convenors:
Dr. Paul J. Maginn (UWA) – @planographer
Dr. Emily Cooper (Northumbria) – @e_cooper2
Dr. Martin Zebracki (Leeds) – @zebracki
Prof. Clarissa Smith (Sunderland) – @DrClarissaSmith
Sponsored by: Sexuality and Space Specialty Group (SxSSG)
The presence and regulation of sexualised bodies, sexuality, sex work/erotic labour, porn and BDSM/fetish in the city has taken an interesting turn in the 21st century. For some, it is argued that we have entered a period of hyper-sexuality whereby highly sexual imagery and 'deviant' sexual practices have given rise to a pornified culture where plastic bodies (and products) engage in 'unspeakable acts'. This has led to calls for the filtering/banning of internet pornography and the criminalisation of the recording/distribution of certain sexual acts (e.g. face sitting, fisting and female ejaculation). Relatedly, anti-porn activists have pushed for the introduction of mandatory condom use in porn production in California. Simultaneously, adult entertainment performers/producers have resisted such proposals arguing that pre-existing testing regimes for STIs and HIV/Aids are more than sufficient and that overregulation will push the porn industry to relocate elsewhere.
In relation to sex work/prostitution various (conservative) politicians and radical feminist organisations have advocated the introduction of the 'Swedish model' proclaiming that it will 'end demand and exploitation' and 'stop human trafficking'. Canada and Northern Ireland have recently adopted this regulatory approach. There have been high-profile raids and/or restrictions of brothels/massage parlours in places such as Soho (London) and Edinburgh (Scotland) and online escort websites such as Redbook, Backpage and Rentboy in the US, often under the glare of the media. The conflation of human trafficking and sex work as one and the same issue is challenged by International bodies such as WHO, UN AIDS, the ILO, Amnesty International, and sex workers/sex work advocacy groups who have all called for sex work to be decriminalised.
There have been calls for other forms of sexual imagery (e.g. Page 3 in The Sun newspaper and 'lads magazines' in newsagents) and adult entertainment (strip clubs/lap-dance bars) to be banned or closed down. LGBT relationships have also been under the spotlight in recent years. Whilst Ireland recently moved to legalise same-sex marriage via a referendum, Northern Ireland and Australia have steadfastly refused to move forward on this issue. Interestingly, despite the various calls to 'stop porn/raunch culture' an increasing number of people appear to be consuming and/or engaging in different forms of sexual practices. For example, BDSM/fetish/kink practices appear to have gripped suburbia if sales of 50 Shades of Grey and sex toys are any measure of society's sexual inquisitiveness.
Ultimately, what we appear to be seeing is a kaleidoscopic (sub)urban sexscape wherein the tectonic plates of conservatism/feminism/religion and capitalism/individualism are locked in deep socio-political competition with one another in relation to all matters pertaining to sex and sexuality. This special session, then, seeks papers that speak to the ideas of (i) Geographies of Reactionism; (ii) Geographies of Resistance; and (iii) Geographies of Revulsion/Revolt as they apply to the social/cultural/economic/historical meanings, consumption/production/distribution and regulation of sexual imagery, sexuality, adult retailing/sex shops; sex work/prostitution; adult entertainment/erotic labour, pornography and BDSM/fetish/kink practices within urban, suburban, rural and virtual spaces.
We welcome abstracts/papers by scholars and research-minded sex workers/sex work activists, adult entertainment performers/activists as well as those who oppose/campaign against the 'sex industry' from a range of ideological/theoretical/methodological/empirical standpoints.
If you are interested in taking part in this special session please send your title and a 250 word (maximum) abstract to the co-convenors at GeoSex16@gmail.com by no later than 23rd October 2015. Full details on abstract submissions here – http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/call_for_papers.
Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting 2015, Chicago
April 6, 2015 April 9, 2015 Liminographer creative methods, ethnography, exclusion, geography, LGBT, Pornography, Regulation, research, sex industry, sex work, sexualities, sociology, space, stigma	Geography, Pornography, Regulation, Sex Work, Sexualities, Sociology
So it is a mere two weeks until the AAG annual meeting in Chicago and I am very excited for the fantastic sessions we have lined up, as well as the meet/tweet ups with several colleagues/friends. It also just struck me that I was in New York this time last year – hopefully the USA visit is an April tradition I can keep up! 🙂
Paul (@Planographer), Martin (@Zebracki) and I have spent the last few months organising the logistics for our sessions, which are entitled: (De)Sexualisation & (De)Politicisation of Space I-7. We have a diverse range of speakers including early career and established academics, researchers, sex workers and journalists. Here is the line up (click the links for the abstract details):
(De)Sexualisation & (De)Pornification of Space I: Methodological Frontiers (Thursday 23rd April) http://http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=22314&cal=true
*Robyn Longhurst, PhD – University of Waikato – Skype Sex, Love and Romance
*Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo, PhD – Montana State University – Virtual Spaces of Possibility in the Classroom: Teaching Porn, Sex Work and Sexuality in Unlikely Spaces
*Olga Castro – Aston University, Birmingham – Sex in the Media: A Discourse Analysis of Prostitution Ads in the Spanish Press
*Andrew Fogg – Hot spots! Geographic distribution of sex workers and the contribution that sex work/prostitution makes to the UK economy.
(De)Sexualisation & (De)Pornification of Space II: Insider/Outsider Perspectives (Friday 24th April) http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=22329&cal=true
Christina Parreira, M.A. – University of Nevada, Las Vegas – Auto-Ethnographic Reflections on Selling Sex in the Nevada Desert
*Lucy Neville, PhD – Middlesex University – 'I don't want to be presented as some sort of freak-show… but you're 'one of us": Researching women's engagement with gay male erotica from within the community
Amy E. Ritterbusch, PhD – Universidad de los Andes – "My Life in Four Blocks": The Geopolitics of Transgender Sex Work in Colombia
Tessa Wills – CHARGE: Economies of Desire In The Performance Practice of Tessa Wills
(De)Sexualisation & (De)Pornification of Space III: Sex Work(er) Markets and Mobilities (Friday 24th April) http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=22547&cal=true
*Ari Bass, JD – From Frisco to Vegas: The Economic Geography of the American Commercial Pornosphere
*Trevon D. Logan – The Ohio State University – Men on the Move: The Traveling Patterns Of Male Sex Workers In The U.S.
*Kristien Lieve Gillis – University of Antwerp – The economic organization of street prostitution in the Alhambra area in Brussels
*Nick Skilton – University of Wollongong – Mining and Sex Work: Recentring the margins of unequal labour laws.
(De)Sexualisation & (De)Pornification of Space IV: Queerying Sex Work, Sexuality and Public Spaces (Friday 24th April) http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=22550&cal=true
*Chen David Misgav – Tel-Aviv University – Gay-Riatric: Spatial Politics and Activism of Elderly Gay Men in Tel-Aviv Gay Center
*Martin Zebracki – University of Leeds, United Kingdom – Virtually Mediated Encounters with 'Pornographic' Public Art
Victor Minichiello, PhD – La Trobe University; John Scott, PhD – Queensland University of Technology; Denton Callander, PhD – University of New South Wales – Men who sell sex (and risk) online: Using the Internet to examine the sexual practices of male escorts
Michal Pitonak – Charles University in Prague – Four years of Prague Pride: a celebration, political march or something else?
(De)Sexualisation & (De)Pornification of Space V: Governance and Regulation of Sex Work (Saturday 24th April) http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=22556&cal=true
*Laura Graham – Durham University – Governing Sex Work Through Crime
*Derek Eysenbach – Sonoma State University – From Streetwalkers to Slaves: Prostitution Discourse and Regulation in Sonoma County, CA
*Emily Cooper, Ph.D – Northumbria University – Cohesion, codes and cosmic ordering: understanding community impact when researching and regulating spaces of sex work
*Lynn Comella, Ph.D. – University of Nevada – Las Vegas – Geographies of Porn: Public Policies and Industrial Practices
(De)Sexualisation & (De)Pornification of Space VI: Consuming/Producing/Regulating Sexualised Spaces (Saturday 24th April) http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=22871&cal=true
*Katie Hail-Jares – Georgetown University – Meeting the New Neighbors: Trans- Identity, Sex Work, and Gentrification in the Nation's Capital
Curtis Winkle – University of Illinois at Chicago – The Dynamics Gay Commercial Districts and Their Regulation, Chicago 1920-2010
*Ingrid Olson, PhD Candidate – University of British Columbia – The Hermeneutics of the Dungeon
(De)Sexualisation & (De)Pornification of Space VII: The (Im)Moral Landscapes of Sex Work (Saturday 24th April) http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/SessionDetail.cfm?SessionID=23331&cal=true
*Erin Sanders-McDonagh – Middlesex University – Women's Consumption of Live Sex: Understanding Public Sex Performance in Thailand and the Netherlands
*Paul J. Maginn, Assoc. Prof – University of Western Australia; Graham Ellison, Dr – Queen's University of Belfast – Who needs evidence when you have blind faith on your side? The ethno-religious and gendered politics of sex work/prostitution in Northern Ireland
*Serpent Libertine, Community Organizer, Activist – SWOP-Chicago, Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) – Displaced: The Role of Moral Panics in the Destruction of Sex Worker Spaces
*Melissa Gira Grant – Journalist – w4m: The End of the American Red Light District _________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Air Force Brigadier Calls Lula ...
Brazil's Lula Should Win Today's ...
Air Force Brigadier Calls Lula and the PT Brazil's Biggest Gang of Outlaws Ever
by Rodolfo Espinoza October 28, 2006
For the third time since the beginning of Lula's campaign for reelection former members of Brazil's Armed Forces high command have broke their silence to harshly criticize the president and the ruling Workers Party.
In the latest attack, on the eve of Sunday's (October 29) presidential elections, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the PT are called the "biggest gang of graduated outlaws ever in national history."
The most recent assault, published in the homepage of the Military Club's Internet site, is signed by reserve Air Force brigadier, Ivan Moacyr da Frota, who is also the president of the Brazilian Air Force Club. The manifesto is called "Poor Brazil Country."
The abrasive note starts by saying that "The electoral polls for president suggest the embarrassing indication that more than half the Brazilian population is conniving with corruption and the criminal hoaxes that the current government has been charged with."
Frota continues, "The country seems to have been occupied by a true gang that, supported by a political party assembled the biggest gang of graduated outlaws ever in national history. (Brazilian Penal Code: Article 288 – Gang formation).
The first step Lula and his gang took, says the manifesto, was to infiltrate the State and strategic sectors of society with members of the Workers Party. For that end, congressmen were bribed, bankers and businessmen were extorted and PT militants were placed in strategic positions all across the country, including public offices, media and artistic milieu.
"Finally, it became evident, with use of public money, the insidious and humiliating tactic of buying the electoral adhesion of several million innocent voters from the poorest social classes especially in the country's North and Northeast, in exchange for the institutional alms represented by the Bolsa Família (Family Voucher).
"The dramatic conclusion to all of this, as widely reported by the press, is that if this government is reelected, it will have been by the rotten side of the Brazilian society, each component having been bought for a price."
The statement goes on to say that the first round's campaign was already filthy and corrupted while the second round exposed whatever rotted bowels had remained hidden.
"In the unexpected runoff, the felons' supergang was taken by despair when faced with the threat of losing their privileges and jobs – the extorted private posts, and the inflated public ones."
The document also accuses the government's machine of probably using public money to offend the family of the opposition candidate. It also charges it with committing terrorism when it spread the rumors that the opposition wishes to privatize state-run companies.
"What authority has a government that sells out the country's patrimony, with several members sued for corruption, to accuse anybody of venal privatization of public property, when, recently, it ratified itself law 11.284, of 03/02/2006, that encourages the indiscriminate use, for 60 years, of public forests in the Amazon region, which constitutes an explicit transfer of parts of the national territory to foreign ownership?"
The note goes on to accuse the Lula government of auctioning oil-rich areas to foreign companies to explore.
"So much falsehood, hypocrisy and deceit, put in the unsuspecting mind of the less enlightened populations!"
The retired brigadier, who was already a presidential candidate by the PMN party, urges other Brazilians to get out from this hypnotic trance and do something to prevent what he calls the big looting of the Nation, and the threat of an institutional destabilization.
People have to take sides he says: or they are part of the gang organized to rob the nation or they choose to belong to that side that abhors corruption. And Frota concludes with a short comment:
"I want to make it clear that I present this statement as a citizen, as an individual, and, not as the president of the Air Force Club. The national present moment is very serious and, having to choose between verbal nonsense and omission's cowardice, I opted for the first."
Ivan Frota
Rodolfo Espinoza
Brazil's Lula Should Win Today's Elections with About 60% of Votes
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the previous post is correct :
Brazilian leaders, whoever they are, from left to right or the Army, are PREDATORS even against their own citizens ! After having canibalized their own society, they want now to canibalize the rest of the world with non reciprocal rules and laws !!!
In the Brazilian dictionary the words Reciprocity, Justice, Fairness DONT EVEN EXIST !!!!!!
You will fail miserably and lamentably….ONCE MORE, just as you failed during the last centuries. You can only export iron ore and some other ores, meats, grains/meals for cattles feeding, sugar and ethanol, orange juice.
And the remaining exports such as cars/trucks etc etc are not only from foreign companies established in Brazil but also with their own technologies, NOT YOURS !
Brazil is a backward country…where nothing is smooth except corruptions, corruptions, corruptions, red tape, bureaucracy, taxes, taxes and taxes, violence, insecurity and crimes that are growing at a far higher rate than your economy !
You have a small minority (The Predators) living as well as the people in developed world, but YOU keep the majority of your society in comparable situation to SUB SAHARAN countries and societies !
Even a World Bank director and report says so !
ch.c.
finally….the truth….from a Brazilian !
– The accusations are dead right…on the corruptions !
– Lula is proud of preserving the Amazon, due the the reduction in deforestion, while at the time, he was in favor of Law 11.284 saying the exact opposite ! That is how Lula shines…in his own muddy contradictions !
On the other hand, it is quite strange that the Army critizes Foreigners….in the Amazon….knowing that 95 % and more of the deforestation is made by Brazilians and not foreigners.
Also quite strange that the Army critizes the oil exploration from foreign companies, knowing that Petrobras controls well over 80 % of this inudtry in Brazil.
And if they are against exploration and production of oil from foreign companies,
Why do they agree that it is quite normal that Petrobras explore and produce oil in the Gulf of Mexico (U.S. side) and in many foreign countries ? Same thing for Cia Vale
who not only is buying foreign companies and explore and produce iron ore, alumina, and other minerals in many foreign countries !
IN THAT SENSE, THE REGULAR BRAZILIAN WAY OF THINKING IS COMING TO THE SURFACE AGAIN :
THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO BUY FOREIGN COMPANIES, THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO EXPLORE AND PRODUCE IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES….BUT THE OPPOSITE IS NOT NORMAL….OF COURSE !!!!!!
Conclusion : Whoever was/is/will be at the helm of the country, Brazil will remain an archaÀƒ¯c country, ready to have the benefits of the globalization process but not providing the reciprocity to other countries !!!!!!
That is why at this tricky and dirty game, where Brazili cheat all the time everyone, they will not win.
Just compare your economic growth rate with the economic growth rate of ALL the other developing countries and Brazil is at the queue of the queue. Chose yourself the timing of the comparisons, 1 year, 2,3, Lula first mandate, and earlier if you wish.
And with all your cheating even internally, you are the country with the highest poverty rate when compared to your GDP per capita.
And sadly Brazil prefers to export US$ 50 billion in agricultural products annually, instead of feeding in priority the tens of millions citizens under nourrished and the millions in hunger ! Only this fact…..demonstrate your own INJUSTICE, that you wish
to export all around the world : Everything for a few Brazilians, the residues for the vast majority !
alltheway
In the U.S. you will not see active duty (he is not retired) speak out like this. Bravo, for a real patriot, one of the first I have seen in 16 yrs in Brasil. putting his country ahead of himself in what is expected to be a losing cause (albeit a winning election for Lula) But does it really matter?, Fenando was thought of as the great hope and look what he did. As i have learned it can all be summed up on one word — BRASIL
ex pat
They sound pissed
Is this the same gang of military mighties that produced that veiled threat of a military coupe just one month ago?
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Zbůch () je obec v okrese Plzeň-sever v Plzeňském kraji. Žije v ní  obyvatel. V obci je základní škola a mateřská školka. Obcí prochází silnice I/26 z Plzně k hraničnímu přechodu u Folmavy.

Název
Název obce pravděpodobně pochází ze staročeského výrazu zbóh či zbuoh, což znamená zbůhdarma, zbytečně. Možnost, že název pochází ze zkomoleného hornického pozdravu Zdař Bůh, je podle jazykovědců nepravděpodobná.

Historie
První písemná zmínka o obci pochází z roku 1253. Velký rozvoj vesnice způsobilo zahájení těžby černého uhlí na začátku dvacátého století.

V letech 1911–1977 byl na severním okraji vesnice v provozu černouhelný důl Obránců míru (původně Austria jubilejní). Založil jej Západočeský báňský akciový spolek, který zde od roku 1889 provozoval důl Austria I. (těžní jáma), přejmenovaná roku 1918 na Masaryk I. Větrnou jámou dolu byla Austria II., přejmenovaná postupně na Pokrok II. (1918), Masaryk II. a  (po roce 1939). Obě jámy dosáhly hloubky 421 metrů a byly zasypány v roce 1965. Areál dolu poté využívaly opravny kolejových vozidel.

Obyvatelstvo

Části obce
 Zbůch
 Červený Újezd

Pamětihodnosti
 Kaplička na návsi
 Hornické muzeum

Rodáci
 Antonín Dvořák (1916–2003), pilot 312. československé stíhací perutě RAF

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Obce v okrese Plzeň-sever
Vesnice v okrese Plzeň-sever
Sídla v Plaské pahorkatině
Mikroregion Plzeňské západní rozvojové zóny
Mikroregion Radbuza
Těžba černého uhlí v Česku
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I've been having another rethink on my first chapter, after having tried a slightly different arrangement of words and which character reveals the sad news. But it just doesn't work so I've been rethinking again, and I'm ready to try another version.
So if like me you've ever pondered the start of your novel then you'll probably find this blog post 'What Should be on the First Page of Your Novel?' by Della Galton really helpful.
Don't change it too much - you may lose its power.
I agree about not over thinking and changing too much - sometimes, our initial instinct is correct. On the other hand - often we don't know exactly how to open a novel until the rest of it is complete! Off to check that link.
Diane, my first chapter is going into the Good Housekeeping competition, so I can't leave it as I would normally have done.
The chapter is also the key to all that happens in the rest of the novel.
Thanks, Rosemary. I'm going with my insticts which feel right to me. I just have to jiggle a bit of the dialogue and add some essential bits.
Hate to think how many times I've rewritten the opening to my work. until it sound right when its read aloud.
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