Recently we have been inundated with emails asking us to how to bust ghosts. I don't know if it is because we are a month away from Halloween or if people are just jumping on the ghost bandwagon because it's trendy.
It is written on our index page and I will say it again: WE ARE NOT GHOST BUSTERS! Our intention is to collect data. Admittedly on one occasion we did try to send a poor spirit on its way, however that was not our goal initially. So please, please, please do not write to us asking how to get rid of your ghost before it is even determined that you may even have one.
Many times, people will write to us and tell us they heard a door creak, or that the light in their bedroom went out, therefore they must have a ghost. Certain things have to be eliminated prior to determining whether or not you have a haunting. Was the bulb in the lamp ready to go or was it defective? Did the door creak because a breeze caught it? Have you documented or kept a record of the occurrences to determine if there is any pattern? If the same strange noise you hear happens every morning at 3:00 a.m., have you determined whether or not there may be a work crew in the area, or whether the area train goes by at that particular time? Is your cat knocking stuff down in the kitchen?
I'll give you an example. At my mother in law's house, throughout the night the bed shakes. It is very disconcerting when it starts happening when you are in a sound sleep. It is a rather rude awakening. The fault, however, is the Salter Street bus, which goes by at odd hours of the night and which is only about 70 feet away. It just so happens that there are a group of coincidental circumstances, which line up perfectly to cause the bed in that particular room to shake when the bus goes down Salter Street. There is a vibration from the corner of Salter, which runs through the storm drains to my mother in law's street then hits that portion of her house directly under that very bedroom window. If they ever fix the street (which hasn't seen a work crew in at least 12 years) or storm drains it will probably never happen again, unless the circumstances allow it once more.
If you think you may be having paranormal activity, please find yourself a writing pad or notebook and start documenting what is happening. Be sure to address the time of occurrence, where, what was the mood of the household occupants, temperature, weather, condition of the home, what did you see, what did you hear, could you account for it in any other way at the time of the occurrence etc. etc.
If you have been keeping records and cannot explain what is happening after looking over all your notes, then you may have a case. With respect to getting rid of a ghost and without knowing what has been happening, our best suggestion is try talking to it out loud, asking it to leave. Believe it or not this works a lot of the time. The next suggestion we can offer is to contact your clergyperson and have your home blessed.
Some of you may be convinced that you need a psychic to rid your home of a ghost, however I must warn you that there are a lot of con artists out there quite willing to part you with your hard earned money. If a psychic approaches to help you then asks for cash, keep walking. The same advice holds if you approach a psychic who asks for cash. Although it is your call and your money, there are those out there that truly want to help or assist and do not require cash. It should go without saying that it would be a nice gesture to offer them traveling expenses or gas money or any other expenses they incurred to get to your location. When I did clear homes for people (and note-I DO NOT render that service to the public anymore, no exceptions) my fee was for them to donate any amount of money they wished, to their favorite charity large or small. Might I also add that I could not offer guarantees either. Anyone who says they can guarantee the removal of spirit needs to be seriously questioned. You might as well believe that the government will guarantee no tax increases.
So please document your suspicions and go over them thoroughly eliminating any possible physical explanations before jumping to the conclusion that you may have a ghost. With respect to having research teams look into it, their job will be to collect data and document their observations, NOT get rid of the haunting for you. To find a research team in your area, use a search engine and use the key words: GHOST RESEARCH, HAUNTING RESEARCH or PARANORMAL RESEARCH. Once you have found a few sites, look them over very carefully and determine if you want these people in your home and if they can meet YOUR needs and requirements and not theirs. If they would like to publish their data with respect to your case naming specifics AND it's ok with you, make sure that the report keeps your address and name anonymous. We, in particular, do not publish private home investigations very often and ALWAYS change the subject name and area.The last thing you need are strangers standing on your front lawn pointing at your house. So please take common sense precautions in choosing an active plan with respect to your haunting should you indeed have one.
Is The Proof In The Photo?
We must look at thousands of photos that people send to us that look like paranormal anomalies. My favourites are the orbs and ectos. Most of the time it can be explained as camera movement or camera flaws of some kind. We can never be sure. We have caught several "anomalies" ourselves, but 99% of the time we can explain our own photos as camera quirks. We have come to the conclusion that even if we capture a full blown apparition on film or digital, it will prove nothing except to us. So why do we keep doing this you ask?
This is one of our field investigators. He is not a ghost, just a fault of the camera because of his quick movement. The camera caught the original shot showing the background and then caught part of the movement while the aperture was still open. This particular photo was taken with a digital camera.
We have here what looks like an orb light whizzing through the air. I could call it that and a few would question it, however, what it is, is our investigator holding a flashlight as he moved out of camera range. What you see is the light from the flashlight, but no investigator. Northing paranormal about this pic.
We have been fortunate in compiling a team of people in our organization that are enthusiastic about what they do, regardless of their opinion with respect to spirits/ghosts. Some of us are believers in the afterlife and some of us are still questioning whether spirits exist at all. It makes for a good balance with respect to what we do. Although we have, as a group, seen various phenomena that are indeed questionable, we still process it differently. I have no doubt as to the existence of spirit whereas Steve will have to be smacked in the head by a spirit in order to quench any doubts he has and even at that I have my reservations on whether or not he would accept that as proof.
We enjoy sharing our views and opinions with the public through our website and we, at no time, ask you to believe what we present or report. It is totally up to you to come to your own conclusions. We do these investigations to answer our own questions, which are obviously numerous and vary because of the number of people on our team. We simply try to report our findings on this site as best we can and share with you what we have found as accurately as possible.
We have come to the realization that even if we were to post a photo of a full-blown apparition that we have seen with our own eyes, as a group, there would still be those out there that would say "balderdash" and not in any way believe what they are seeing. So what it comes down to is that no matter what equipment and/or gadgets that we use in an investigation, the public is not going to be convinced that our evidence is real. We however will know what we have captured and it will be up to any individual reader to accept or deny what we share.
Here we have a nice black blob which I have seen in thousands of paranormal photos, described as black ecto. Again there is nothing paranormal here. This was on of our team moving quickly through the woods, as well as me moving while I took the photo. The bit of red you see to the right of the black blob is the team member's flashlight.
We do not wish to 'convince' anyone that ghosts do or do not exist. We believe that we have relayed that precise message to our readers, in that we have yet to receive any mail that takes us to task for insisting that ghosts either do or do not exist. The bottom line is that we know what we have experienced as a group and as individuals and we draw our personal conclusions from those experiences. Although we go to great lengths to report what we find accurately, we do not ask anyone to believe us. It is entirely up to you to review this website as the truth, fiction or plain entertainment. We can't control what information you wish to use or discard.
Although we have been asked to expand and franchise our organization in Vancouver and Alberta, we have declined to do so because we do not want to lose our initiative or the controls we use to attain the information we do gather. We do this to provide ourselves with answers to our questions. What about the media? Yes, we have used it to get our opinions across, but we will never be one of the big sites because of it. We realize that there are a million new ghost sites out there offering all sorts of things. Some are in it for the money; some are in it for the prestige, others to be the biggest and best known but a lot of the websites are there for the sake of research, as are we. We are in it to satisfy our own curiosities and in the meantime share what we find with you. If others don't agree with that we aren't particularly worried about it.
We do however, encourage you to go to as many and varying websites on the paranormal and read whatever you can get your hands on. Use whatever information you see fit. Keep in mind that no one has a definite answer in this game, as it is all speculation in the end whichever way you want to dress it. To be armed with knowledge of all kinds is the best way to draw a conclusion you can live with and there is definitely no shortage of information out there on the paranormal. Use it to your satisfaction.
Check out our links page for other sites. Some of the sites you will find there are excellent, others not so great, however there is information for you to peruse on all.
Think you have a ghost?
"I stood there in the back of the bus and I could feel a definite presence of some sort near me. Then I heard the clicking noise again. When I had heard this noise earlier while driving the bus I passed it off as something to do with the bus while it was running. But this time the bus was shut off and the clicking noise started again near the side seats behind the driver's seat.
It was really cold all of a sudden and the spider web effect was all over my face. I then took another picture and I was surprised to capture what appears to be the spirit of an old lady sitting in the seat.
She seems to be about 75 years of age wearing a kimono, with a sad look to her face. What is really amazing is that she appears to be holding a gun in her left hand. Was it the chamber of the gun I heard making clicking noises????
I know that this bus had nobody that died in it. My theory is that this lady had either committed suicide by shooting herself in a car or she had died of carbon monoxide poisoning. I would suspect that the car she had passed away in, her spirit would be bound to that car. The car then would have been recycled and the recycled material from the car was implemented into the material used for the bus."
His obvious intention was to relate his personal experience and offer proof through a genuine ghost photo that he himself captured. The problem with this is that the man used an image lifted from a site called "Getty Images" to create his 'genuine spirit photo'.
This image from Getty Images was used to perpetrate the hoax .
He did indeed photograph the bus, however he superimposed the Getty Image photograph on his photograph and dared to call it a personal capture of a spirit. The founder of yet another group in Ontario spotted the hoax.
It is beyond my imagination to even try to figure out what his purpose was other than to blatantly try to pull the wool over everyone's eyes. The man has done incredible damage to our area of research. There is a whole society of researchers out there, including ourselves, that takes this very seriously and they are just as outraged as I am.
When this certain webmaster was called on the obvious fraud, his reaction was to delete all the objections to his hoax from his guest book and message board, and then simply make the photo and article disappear. No explanations. I guess he thinks we'll all just forget about it and the boomerang effect will just go away. To make matters worse, one of his associates, is steadfastly denying, on his behalf, that the photo was a fake and insists he took it down "because they did not want the publicity." Hey give me a call I have a bridge in Brooklyn I am willing to let go for half price.
Update: Some of the fans of this disreputable site accused the person who discovered the hoax of framng their webmaster in order to discredit him. First problem with that reasoning is that, if this were so, the particular webmaster would have had absolutely no reason to delete his article, comments or his photo. The Second problem occurs in that quite a few of us saw the actual hoax photo for ourselves on this guy's site before he removed it. I do not depend on others to draw my conclusions and this editorial would never have been written had I not seen the hoax photo on the guy's site myself. What I saw on his site was indeed the above photo faded out and superimposed on his photo of the inside of the bus.
Psychics; Charlatans or For Real?
I watched yet another news article on television the other night about some poor gullible woman getting fleeced out of $450.00 U.S. That's what got me started on this rant. I sit back and watch this stuff and can do nothing but shake my head. This particular woman was having financial difficulties and figured a psychic could remedy everything. Heads up people, THERE ARE NO QUICK FIXES.
Unfortunately there are those people out there that have a sign on their forehead that says, "take advantage of me" and there are those who zero in on them. If you were having a hard time financially, why in the world would you hand over money that you don't have to a complete stranger and expect it back? I feel bad for desperate people who will try anything to remedy their problems, but the truth is a little common sense goes a long way.
When a psychic asks for money, especially large sums, it is no different than a stranger coming up to you and asking you to support them because basically that is what they do for a living, con people into supporting them. If you are curious enough to go to a psychic and have the spare change to pay for a $50.00 reading, then go ahead but look at it as entertainment, not a life altering plan to erase all your troubles.
I don't have a problem with a psychic setting up a booth and charging for readings because what they are doing is right there on the table and you know what you are purchasing before you lay your money down. However, if they proceed to tell you the age old tale that "you have a curse over your head" and that the only way to clear it is to have them "clean your money and lift the curse", have a good giggle and walk away. If these psychics could actually do such a thing, don't you think it would be all over the news? If they had the answer to all your problems and could fix them that easily, wouldn't they be famous and running the country? Please, please, please question anyone who throws you a quick fix, regardless of what it concerns. It comes down to the old adage: "if it looks too good to be true, it probably is."
I have been a sensitive (I hate using the word psychic, because of the negativity attached to it these days) all my life and there is no set, solid pattern to it. I have heard various psychics say they can call up your passed-over loved ones and give you definite answers to definite questions on demand. Baloney.
This 'gift' works randomly. Sure I can ask a question but there is no guarantee I'll receive an answer, nor can I call up my lucky lotto numbers. If alleged psychics could do that, they wouldn't be looking to con you out of your money would they? I only wish it did work that way, I'd be driving a new truck every six months and letting someone else cook my meals and do my laundry.
As an experiment, a friend placed a photo I had never seen before on a table in front of me, picture side down. There were three other witnesses in the room. He proceeded to ask me what was in the photo. I accurately described almost every detail in the photo with no problem; however, I can't tell you from where the information came. I can't honestly say whether I pulled it out of the universe, from a spirit guide or simply gained the information from him through ESP. I have been doing things like this since I can recall, but I still can't tell you how it works with any solid and absolute certainty.
While investigating haunted locations, I use my gift, as does my daughter, however we like to caution people that what we pick up is not fact unless we can validate it through good old fashioned research at the library or from interviewing people with personal knowledge of the location we are investigating.
Again I can't say with absolute certainly where the information comes and neither can anyone else. I know that when I think I have contact with someone who has passed over, I can usually see them mentally, but is that who I am communicating with or am I getting that information from someone still alive and in possession of the information that I am receiving? Could I be getting the information from the person I am doing the reading for?
While on investigations, I am always, without fail, asked if I am "picking up anything" however I can't always answer "yes". Sometimes I do and sometimes I don't. I can't turn it off and on (although I can block things out when I wish) every time I want to utilize it. It just doesn't work that way. It comes when it comes. I have, however seen psychics who feel they must perform even when they are picking up nothing, just because they are labeled psychic. That bothers me.
You can see why I doubt those who claim they have full control and can give you definite answers with respect to psychic impressions. I also have a problem with psychics who claim that what they see in your future is absolute fact. Again, baloney! Things can change and often do. There is no set scheme of events that HAS to take place. People change their paths all the time. What I see, when someone's future is presented to me, is a probable outcome, not the undeniable outcome. This is also one of the many reasons why I do not do readings anymore. I don't like influencing someone with respect to how they will handle their life or the path they will take, that's not my responsibility. Some people take psychic impressions far too serious. I will admit that occasionally I will do a reading for the sake of entertainment only and I keep it light. When it starts getting into too many facts, I'll cut it short and find some other form of entertainment.
I personally know of one case locally wherein a man broke up with his girlfriend and fiancé of 6 years simply because a psychic told him it wouldn't work, no other reason. Unfortunately this man will not take responsibility for his own life and doesn't make any decisions without first going to his psychic, who by the way, should know better. However she's making good money off of him by throwing him this garbage.
1. If you do have a reading done, don't take it too seriously.
2. If any psychic asks for money other than their reading fee, immediately run the other way.
3. The only person who can alter your future is you.
4. Always have a good healthy skeptical approach to the unknown and remember to be skeptical does not mean to completely dismiss, it simply means to question.
5. If you are concerned about your future or problems you may have, then do something about it; don't rely on someone else to handle it for you.
6. No one has the power to orchestrate your life unless you give up your power.
Just what do you investigate when it comes to choices?


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Magazine|When Girls Will Be Boys
When Girls Will Be Boys
By ALISSA QUART MARCH 16, 2008
It was late on a rainy fall day, and a college freshman named Rey was showing me the new tattoo on his arm. It commemorated his 500-mile hike through Europe the previous summer, which happened also to be, he said, the last time he was happy. We sat together for a while in his room talking, his tattoo of a piece with his spiky brown hair, oversize tribal earrings and very baggy jeans. He showed me a photo of himself and his girlfriend kissing, pointed out his small drum kit, a bass guitar that lay next to his rumpled clothes and towels and empty bottles of green tea, one full of dried flowers, and the ink self-portraits and drawings of nudes that he had tacked to the walls. Thick jasmine incense competed with his cigarette smoke. He changed the music on his laptop with the melancholy, slightly startled air of a college boy on his own for the first time.
Rey's story, though, had some unusual dimensions. The elite college he began attending last year in New York City, with its academically competitive, fresh-faced students, happened to be a women's school, Barnard. That's because when Rey first entered the freshman class, he was a woman.
Rey, who asked that neither his last name nor his given name be used to protect his and his family's privacy, grew up in Chappaqua, the affluent Westchester suburb that is home to the Clintons, and had a relatively ordinary, middle-class Jewish childhood. Rey, as he now calls himself, loved his younger brother, his parents were together and he was a good student, excelling in English and history. But he always had the distinct feeling that he wasn't the sex he was supposed to be. As a kid, he was often mistaken for a boy, which was "mostly cool," Rey said. "When I was 5, I told my parents not to correct people when strangers thought I was a boy. I was never a girl, really — I questioned my own gender, and other people also questioned my gender for me." When Rey entered puberty, he felt the loss of the "tomboy" sobriquet acutely.
"My body changed in freshman year of high school, and it made me depressed," Rey said. That year, he started to wonder whether he was really meant to become a woman. His friends in high school were almost all skater boys and musicians, and he related to them as if he were one of them. He began to define himself as "omnisexual," although he was mostly attracted to women.
The idea that he might actually want to transition from female to male began to take shape for Rey when he was 14 or 15; he can't quite remember when exactly. "A transmale speaker guy" gave a talk at a meeting of his high school's Gay Straight Alliance, and Rey was inspired. Then he took a typical step for someone going to high school in the first years of this century. He went home and typed "transgender" into Google.
At the end of his freshman year in high school, he met Melissa, a student at Smith College who was back in Westchester for summer break and later became his girlfriend. During one of their days together, Melissa, who was immersed in campus gender activism, mentioned the concept of being a "transman" and spoke of her transmale friends. Rey confided his questions about his gender identity to her, and she encouraged him to explore them further. For most of high school, Rey spent hours online reading about transgendered people and their lives. "The Internet is the best thing for trans people," he said. "Living in the suburbs, online groups were an access point." He also started reading memoirs of transgendered people. He asked Melissa to explain the gender theory she was learning in college.
In his senior year, he took on the name Rey. At 17, he finally felt ready to come out as trans to his family, who according to Rey struggled to understand his new identity. Around that time, he also visited a clinic in Manhattan, hoping to start hormone therapy. He was told that unless he wanted his parents involved in the process, he'd have to wait until he was 18. In the meantime, Rey began to apply to colleges. He wanted to go to "a hippie school," as he put it, yet he felt pressure to choose a school like Barnard that hewed to an Ivy League profile. Though he decided on Barnard, he still planned to start on testosterone as soon as he turned 18. When I asked him why he wanted to start hormone therapy so soon, he replied simply, "You live your life and you feel like a boy." Of course, living life like a boy is not what an elite women's college has historically been about.
At 18, Rey is part of a growing population of transgender students at the nation's colleges and universities. While still a rarity, young women who become men in college, also known as transmen or transmales, have grown in number over the last 10 years. According to Brett-Genny Janiczek Beemyn, director of the Stonewall Center at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, who has studied trans students on college campuses, adults who wished to transition historically did so in middle age. Today a larger percentage of transitions occur in adolescence or young adulthood. The National Center for Transgender Equality estimates that between a quarter of a percent and 1 percent of the U.S. population is transgender — up to three million Americans — though other estimates are lower and precise figures are difficult to come by. Still, the growing number of young people who transition when they are teenagers or very young adults has placed a new pressure on colleges, especially women's colleges, to accommodate them.
The number of young people who openly identify as transgendered has grown for a few reasons. Some parents of young children who are "gender nonconforming" — usually children who identify psychologically with the opposite sex but also children who have hermaphroditic traits, like indeterminate sex organs — now allow their kids to choose whether they are referred to as "he" or "she" and whether to wear boys' or girls' clothing. And some of these parents, under a doctor's supervision, have even begun to administer hormone blockers to prevent the arrival of secondary sex characteristics until a "gender variant" child is old enough to make permanent choices. The Internet also offers greater access to information about transmale and gender-variant identities.
In addition, 147 colleges and universities nationwide now include "gender identity and expression" in their nondiscrimination policies, and students will often use gender-neutral pronouns like "ze" and "hir" — especially if they post on campus message boards. At Wesleyan last year, students initiated a survey of bathrooms, checking to see if they were transgender-friendly — open to all sexes. Many colleges now have Transgender Days of Remembrance in memory of victims of gender-identity-related hate crimes. Students at the University of Vermont hold a yearly "Translating Identity Conference" for trans college students that draws hundreds of people from around the country. The increasing number of trans college students has even given rise to a surprisingly deft reality television show, "Transgeneration," on the Sundance Channel, which featured a transmale student at Smith College.
The conventional thinking is that trans people feel they are "born in the wrong body." But today many students who identify as trans are seeking not simply to change their sex but to create an identity outside or between established genders — they may refuse to use any gender pronouns whatsoever or take a gender-neutral name but never modify their bodies chemically or surgically. These students are also considered part of the trans community, though they are known as either gender nonconforming or genderqueer rather than transmen or transmale.
At many of America's first-tier women's colleges, the growth of the trans community has led to campus workshops on transgender identity. According to students at Smith, a good number of restrooms have been made over as "gender neutral." And some professors make sure to ask students to fill out slips indicating their preferred names and pronouns. Students at several women's colleges have also created trans groups to reflect their experiences and political views. According to one transmale student I talked to at Wellesley, there are at least 15 gender-nonconforming students at the college, ranging from full-on trans to genderqueer, who have formed their own group. Other women's colleges, like Smith, have in the last few years had on-campus gender-nonconforming groups with up to 30 members, more than 1 percent of that school's population.
Which doesn't mean it isn't sometimes a struggle to be trans or gender-nonconforming on campus. Many trans students feel themselves to be excluded or isolated at women's schools and at coed colleges. Some talk of being razzed or insulted by fellow students. And even within a college's gender-nonconforming population, students are often divided among those who define themselves as men but don't transition medically, those who do and those who prefer not to define themselves as either male or female.
These difficulties are a natural part of being a minority that is still fighting for acceptance. But trans students' problems can also be institutional. The presence of trans students at women's colleges can't help raising the question of whether — or to what degree — these colleges can serve students who no longer see themselves as women.
From his first week at Barnard, Rey told me, he felt he was struggling. The women on campus seemed to Rey to be socially conservative and archly feminine, and he felt he had to seek solace elsewhere. At the Callen-Lorde Community Health Center in downtown Manhattan — the medical facility for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people that he visited while he was still in high school — he began to get biweekly testosterone "T" shots (he turned 18 in September). Rey had psychological counseling elsewhere first; typically a letter of referral from a mental-health professional is required before anyone between 18 and 24 can receive hormone therapy. Rey also began to bind his breasts. But binding hurt, he said; it made it hard for him to breathe. He especially hated "having to alter your body every morning so you can go through the world and people will accept you."
Rey in his apartment near Columbia University. Credit Gareth McConnell for The New York Times
But as a transmale student in a sea of women at Barnard, he felt alone. He longed to be with his girlfriend, Melissa, and with transmale friends, some of whom, like Rey, were attending women's colleges. Even as he sought to adopt a more conventionally male appearance, he wanted to maintain his ties with his former self. "I am all for not rubbing out my past as female," he told me.
But it was not to be that simple. As a transmale college student, he was something of a pioneer. And he began to hit some walls.
In the first week of September, he found out that his roommates had complained to the college's freshman housing director about being asked to share their rooms with a man. They wanted Rey to find somewhere else to live. According to Dorothy Denburg, the dean who spoke to Rey about the situation, these young women were disturbed when Rey told them on the first day "that he was a transboy and wanted to be referred to by male pronouns." Rey's roommates had, after all, chosen to attend a women's college in order to live and be educated in the company of other women. Barnard doesn't have singles for freshmen. As Rey saw it, he was simply shut out by his two roommates — and by the rest of the school. A week after learning of his roommates' disapproval, Rey, together with the dean and his parents, decided that Rey should transfer to Columbia's School of General Studies.
Rey felt lost. He slept on people's couches and stayed with one friend, a Columbia student and fellow trans activist, for a week. The story of his rooming travails ultimately wound up on the gossip pages of The New York Post. The Post squib cast Rey as an infiltrator in one of the last girls-with-pearls bastions.
"They were very typical feminine girls," explained Rey. "I didn't fit in. It's why I didn't hang out with straight girls for most of high school — I hung out with queer women. Around the Barnard women, I felt extremely other."
Rey described the days that followed as "the worst semester ever." As his new hormone regime began to take effect, he started to go through male puberty, which meant increased bone mass and a deepening voice and facial hair. He struggled to lead the normal life of an arty college student: eating vegan, going to clubs, keeping his grades up. Only recently, Rey says, has his life brightened. Indeed the transformation from the person he was to who he has become is startling. The second time we met, on a street corner near Columbia in Upper Manhattan, was a cold but sunny day in January, and Rey was aglow, smiling and laughing. Accompanied by his girlfriend, Melissa, now a graceful college senior, he greeted me with a hug.
The reason for this cheer, he said, was that he finally felt on the way to becoming who he really is. The testosterone shots he had received every other week since October had lowered his voice a few octaves. He was in the process of legally changing his name to a male name, although he couldn't decide whether to go casual (Rey) or Old Testament (Asher). And in December Rey underwent what he called "chest reconstruction surgery," also known as "top surgery," which he paid for out of pocket.
Melissa helped Rey through it, feeding him antibiotics and massaging his postsurgery chest with arnica cream. He joined a campus trans organization, GendeRevolution. In a few short months, he had become a full-blown activist. He quit smoking. To cap it off, he was bar-mitzvahed in Israel in January. He'd had his bat mitzvah at 13, but as Rey put it, he didn't feel "connected to the experience." He was bar-mitzvahed without his parents in attendance, but he took the rite of passage to heart. After all, at 13 he'd become a woman. Now, at 18, he was a man.
Despite the seriousness of the issues Rey has dealt with, all in such a short time, he often seemed like a giddy teenager, probably because he still was one. Clad in his usual uniform of baggy pants and a B-Boy cap covered with images of euros, he gossiped about his friends, music, sex and food, from time to time throwing his arm around Melissa, who is pixielike, slim and Rey's height — a little over five feet. She was wearing skinny jeans and ballet flats. She was so supportive of Rey's transformation that she was taken aback when I asked if his period of postoperative recovery had been hard for her.
"He's so much happier now," she said. Even though Melissa always defined herself as a lesbian, she said her partner's transition made sense to her. Part of the couple's sangfroid is generational — she and Rey see themselves as genderqueer rather than gay. For them, sexual orientation is fluid. Like some of their peers, Melissa and Rey want to be — and sometimes imagine they already are — part of the first generation to transcend gender.
On the face of it, it's not surprising that students like Rey would choose to attend a women's college. Same-sex colleges have always been test beds for transformations among American women. Set up as places where women could flourish without men, colleges like Barnard, Wellesley, Smith and Mount Holyoke have always had dual personalities, serving both as finishing schools and as incubators of American feminism. Smith College's alumnae include not only Barbara Bush and Nancy Reagan but also Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem and Catharine MacKinnon.
The schools that decided to remain single-sex in the 1970s, when many colleges around the country went coed, represented a significant and even controversial challenge to liberal ideas about gender equality. And in refashioning their identities for the time, many became loci for the interrogation of gender roles. It was, after all, at all-female schools that many young women first began to question the very notion of femininity. And this questioning found echoes in the curriculum. Scholars like Esther Newton, Gayle Rubin, Anne Fausto-Sterling and Judith Butler ushered in an era that reconceived gender as a social construct, distinct from both a person's sex and sexuality. For Butler and others, femaleness did not automatically produce femininity and maleness did not produce masculinity: gender was fluid and variable, something to be fashioned, and could shift in character depending on the culture or the time period. As some see it, the presence of trans students at single-sex colleges is simply a logical extension of this intellectual tradition.
Indeed, as one transmale student I spoke to at Wellesley pointed out, women's colleges are uniquely suited to transgender students. "There's no safer place for transmen to be than a women's college because there's no actual physical threat to us," he told me, adding, "I have more in common with women because of that shared experience than I do with men." And even though Rey chose to leave Barnard for a coed school, he also says that women's schools can — and should — act as havens for transmale students, that they are, in fact, natural beacons for trans people, because "feminists and trans activists are both interested in gender."
In a sense, transgender and genderqueer students could be said merely to be holding women's colleges to their word: to fully support women's exploration of gender, even if that exploration ends with students no longer being female-identified. As Judith Halberstam, a professor of English and gender studies at the University of Southern California and the author of "Female Masculinity," put it, feminist theory offers students a way to think about gender as performance, to create a trans self or a genderqueer one — and give that self contours, definition — in a way that was simply unavailable 30 years ago. Indeed, Rey discovered his own trans identity reading queer theory, and even transitioning to be a man hasn't changed his core sense of himself. "I'm still queer even though I am a man now — it's the beauty of the term," Rey said.
"I think gender is a spectrum — gender is more complicated than sex," Rey continued. He sees everyone, and not just transmen, as having "their own gender," just as they might have their own personality or temperament. Rey's point isn't merely academic. A good number of gender nonconforming students I spoke to at women's colleges agreed with him. Most did not have operations but rather defined gender simply by how they experienced it, seeing themselves as existing on a "gender continuum" with their more conventionally feminine college friends. I met with one such student, Jordan Akerley, a 22-year-old senior at Wellesley. As we sat in the student-run on-campus cafe where Akerley works, Akerely explained what it is like to live out a theory of identity that doesn't exactly conform to one gender or the other.
"I find pronouns cumbersome and self-limiting," Akerley told me, which is why friends use the name Jordan, a name that Akerley says she intends to make official this year. Akerley, a co-captain of the school's soccer team, takes no hormones and has no plans to have an operation. Akerley's look and entire manner is quite unremarkable, even conservative: hair combed in a modified Tin Tin do, sporty, plain cotton shirt, jeans and sneakers. The only sign of an "alternative" or outsider identity — other than appearing masculine enough to be frequently mistaken on campus for a female student's boyfriend — is Akerley's eyebrow ring. Akerley's affect could be that of an aspiring politician: amiable, physically attractive, clean cut, inoffensive and articulate.
Jordan Akerley, a senior at Wellesley College, eschews pronouns. Credit Gareth McConnell for The New York Times
"My identity is fluid; it may evolve and fluctuate," Akerley explained. "My preference is not to use gender pronouns. My work is not always grammatically correct because of the lack of pronouns."
Though women's colleges may seem a haven for trans or gender-nonconforming students, accommodating such students requires balancing a complex set of needs and expectations — inside and outside the college. Barnard, like many women's colleges, has an admissions policy of accepting only "legal" women. The college's president, Judith Shapiro, who wrote an article on transsexualism in the 1980s, is clearly sympathetic to the trans population in general, but when I spoke to her she wondered aloud why a transmale or male-identified student "would want to be in a woman's college." She went on to explain her position this way: "Having been very involved in second-wave feminism, I am interested in gender revolutionaries, but I still think gender is a major category in our society." In many ways, Shapiro could be said to represent the position women's colleges now find themselves in: caught between wanting to embrace a campus minority that their own interrogation of gender roles has helped to shape and defending the value of institutions centered on the distinct experience of being female.
Colleges must also navigate the attitudes and expectations of their alumnae. While some alumnae have readily accepted the presence of trans students on their campuses, others, like Suzanne Corriell and Regis Ahern, graduates of Mount Holyoke, see it as a betrayal of the foundational principles of their alma mater. Corriell and Ahern recently wrote an angry letter to The Mount Holyoke Alumnae Quarterly, charging that admitting transmale students was, in effect, a way of "passively going coed" and that the "lifestyle choices" of these students was a bald negation of a women's college charter. Trans students, they wrote, were simply "men seeking to take advantage of Mount Holyoke's liberal and accepting atmosphere."
When I called Corriell, who is 28, at the law library at the University of Richmond, where she works, she explained her feelings to me this way: "I am a strong believer in women's education, and I think the colleges are a dying breed that need protection. I respect their agenda, which is educating women." She paused, then said: "Educating trans students in a same-sex residential community produces difficulty — when a student no longer identifies as a woman, the privilege to attend these schools is lost. Men have lots of schools they can go to — why must transmen go to women's schools?"
Of course, many trans students identify first as women — as lesbians or feminist activists. They are attracted to women's schools precisely because of their reputation as safe harbors for exploring these identities. As a result, many transmale students apply to women's schools and attend them before they have fully come out as "gender nonconforming" — and this is likely to be the case for years to come.
Denburg, the Barnard dean, acknowledges that women's colleges have always been places "where women can explore definitions and dimensions of gender." But it is only in the last five years of her tenure as dean, she says, that she has encountered transmale students. She had, she said, no objection to Rey's attending Barnard. The school has helped other gender-nonconforming students, among them a resident adviser in his senior year, who had to inform his female dorm mates about his gender transition over the summer. Denburg described her work with these students "as an educational journey for me as well, that has helped me to better understand the drive of someone who feels they are in the wrong body."
That said, Barnard does not have the kind of groups for trans students or awareness campaigns and gender-neutral bathrooms that some of the other women's colleges do. And it has not been as affiliated with women's and gender activism as some of its sister schools. Rey's case, as Denburg put it, "caught us off guard," mostly because administrators had never encountered a student who wanted to transition physically at such a young age. To Denburg, 18 still seems very young for such a decision.
Many people would agree that going on hormones carries risks: there are few studies on the long-term effects of hormone therapies on transmen. Some transmen in their 20s and 30s have told me they worry about the hormones' potential side effects — an increase in "bad" cholesterol and the risk of heart disease and stroke. For transmen, finding appropriate health care is complicated by the fact that student health services typically need to refer such students to outside clinics or hospitals for their care — and transmen may need additional insurance or be required to bear at least some of the medical costs themselves.
Rey always expected to go off-campus for his transition. He wound up being operated on by a private surgeon in New York City. (He received no "bottom surgery," as it is known — few transmen do, in part because the operation is thought to be too rudimentary and in part because many transmen view it as unnecessary.) While many gender-nonconforming students don't have "top surgery" in their freshman years, they may still struggle with their colleges' medical services, not because they want specialized treatments but because they want health care that is sensitive to their new identities. As one gender-noncomforming student complained to me, he hated that health services insisted on treating him "like a girl."
Colleges, trans activists and advocates say, are even less prepared for advising students on how their gender-variant identities may affect their futures, including their professional lives. After all, many states don't have protection for gender-nonconforming people in the workplace, and "gender identity" was recently dropped from the 2007 Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA. "There's no professional development for trans kids at colleges," said Shannon Sennott, a founder of Translate, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit group that holds workshops on trans awareness at women's colleges. "The majority disappear into big cities, working as bartenders with advanced degrees because there's real prejudice against trans workers." Hadley Smith, a recent Wellesley graduate and a Translate founder who describes himself as gender-nonconforming, said that unemployment or limited employment is par for the course for many transgendered people, but those limits may seem starker when high-achieving graduates from educationally competitive schools like Smith College feel, out of fear of discriminating employers, that they have to abandon, at least temporarily, their professional aspirations.
Some transmale students ultimately go "stealth" after graduation, not mentioning their earlier lives as women. When I asked Rey how he hoped to handle it, he said he had no intention of hiding and was planning to be out as a transman for the rest of his life. With all the bravado of youth, he said: "I won't get a career that I can't be out and trans in. I'm not planning to go into business.
"I've learned not to try to see my future — to do the best I can in the space I am in," he continued, and then added shyly, "I would like to, you know, make public art."
On a winter afternoon, I visited Rey at his new workplace at Columbia University's Office of Multicultural Affairs, where he was organizing a series of trans awareness events on campus. Rey was being paid by the college to create the series, and at the moment he had two chores on his list: booking a transmale photographer as a speaker and creating signage for gender-neutral bathrooms. To achieve the latter, Rey was busy sketching possible new symbols. Melissa, his girlfriend, was helping him. First they turned the familiar female stick figure into a rocket ship, making her legs into a flame. Rey created a few variations of the sign with a ballpoint pen. Then he drew a confused-looking person standing in front of both a male and a female bathroom, not knowing which one to pick. Next, he tried a single circle with the male and female symbols attached to it. Melissa laughed mockingly at the drawing of the confused man, but she nodded her head in approval at the two other symbols.
The dynamic between the two is often like this — teasingly supportive. Earlier at lunch, Melissa joked about whether they were even in a relationship, "I'm not sure: Rey doesn't do labels." Then she told Rey, "I've saved 20 voice mails of your voice changing over the last four months." He looked at her adoringly as they ate French fries in sync: Melissa was not only his girlfriend but also the historian of his identity.
"Before I was on hormones, people would get confused when I spoke over the phone — they thought I was male, and then they'd start asking questions about how old I was," Rey said. "I didn't want to stay a prepubescent boy."
When talk turned to the couple's plans for the future, Melissa was more concerned about Rey leaving "wet towels on the floor," she said, and "tracking mud in the house" than about his medical transition. His lack of housekeeping skills was particularly on her mind, since the two are planning to move in together over the summer. "We'll stay together," Melissa said. "That's unless you go gay . . . again." She laughed. She was talking about the possibility of Rey's coming out a second time — going from being a woman who loves women to a man who loves women to a man who loves men. The remark was meant lightly, but nonetheless it got to the heart of the radical gender leaps both she and Rey were making in their everyday lives.
Then Rey grew more serious.
"Some transmen want to be seen as men — they want to be accepted as born men," he said. "I want to be accepted as a transman — my brain is not gendered. There's this crazy gender binary that's built into all of life, that there are just two genders that are acceptable. I don't want to have to fit into that."
Alissa Quart is the author, of "Branded" and "Hothouse Kids: The Dilemma of the Gifted Child." She is at work on a book about America's subcultures.
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Right after debuting his initially in-household sneakers from his eponymous vogue label, Heron Preston is once once more catching attention with his 1st Nike footwear collaboration.
The previous Swoosh employee and shut affiliate of the two Virgil Abloh and Kanye West showcased his Huarache E.D.G.E. sneakers on the Paris Style Week runway today as component of his Drop/Wintertime 2019 demonstrating. The shoes, which come in the two black and white-centered colorways, insert Preston's operate zone-like flair to the modernized runner. Both of those footwear attribute literal pull tabs along with the designer's signature Russian-motivated branding.
Preston's Instagram tales reveal a couple far more information of the collab, which includes translucent tongue badges and medial help wings, alongside with reflective facts on the lateral side. Somewhere else, the model maintains its bootie design and chunky, pod-adorned midsole.
"Acquiring worked at Nike and understanding the full breadth of solution classes the model has to present, I wanted to be the person to just take on the problem of identifying and celebrating new stuff," Preston said in a press launch.
The Heron Preston x Nike Huarache E.D.G.E. is set to release solely in the U.S. on Friday, Feb. 1.
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After pulling strings for 25 years, puppeteer Ronnie Burkett and his Theatre of Marionettes returns to Vancouver with his newest creation, Penny Plain. It's also a return to the roots of his art for Burkett, who found himself veering slightly off course with his previous show.
With earlier shows focused on such weighty subjects as AIDS, the Canadian blood crisis, and censorship, in 2008 Burkett experimented with Billy Twinkle: Requiem for a Golden Boy, a semi-autobiographical piece in which he plays the title role alongside his marionettes.
Even before the critically acclaimed Billy Twinkle had completed its tour last Halloween, he was hard at work on Penny Plain and eager to get back to more familiar territory.
With a laugh, Burkett blames David Suzuki and the pseudo-documentary television series Life After People for his new apocalyptic dark comedy.
If his earlier works explored more overtly political subjects (not without a little outrage), and Billy Twinkle was more personal, Burkett sees Penny Plain as the bridge between.
In staging Billy Twinkle, Burkett found himself in what he called his "invisibility period" — caught somewhere between being young and groovy and being charming and elderly. It was perhaps not surprising that he chose to play a character himself, rather than simply pull the strings.
With this newfound bravery comes the realization that at 54, he can give up some of the spotlight to his creations, knowing that what's going on personally matters as much as maintaining a hold on his youthful and more political past.
In Penny Plain that goofy 14-year-old resurfaces in Burkett's ability to make us laugh as the world crumbles around his characters.
But the more introspective Burkett makes no secret of his desire to connect with his audience through his marionettes. Though he says it doesn't work every night, when it does, it is magical.


This disclosure describes a method and system for determining position using a WLAN-PS estimated position as an initial position. In some embodiments, the method can include calculating a WLAN position estimate of the WLAN and satellite enabled device and using the WLAN position estimate as an initial position in satellite position system to determine the location of the WLAN and satellite enabled device.
HPE estimation device 205 is the module which estimates the expected error of the position estimate of the mobile device. The HPE, or Horizontal Positioning Error is calculated based on previously scanned APs and their characteristics and also characteristics of the received signal, as it was explained in co-pending Skyhook Wireless application Ser. No. 11/625,450 entitled "System and Method for Estimating Positioning Error Within a WLAN Based Positioning System," the entire disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference.
In some embodiments, the system can include a positioning module which can include a WLAN module for receiving information from one or more WLAN access points and calculating a position estimate of the WLAN and satellite enabled device and a satellite positioning module for obtaining satellite information from at least four different satellites, wherein the satellite positioning module can use the WLAN position estimate as an initial position for a final position estimate.
using the WLAN position estimate as an initial position in satellite position system to determine the location of the WLAN and satellite enabled device.
a positioning module comprising: a WLAN module for receiving information from one or more WLAN access points and calculating a position estimate of the WLAN and satellite enabled device; and a satellite positioning module for obtaining satellite information from at least four different satellites, wherein the satellite positioning module uses the WLAN position estimate as an initial position for a final position estimate.


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Q: c++ 11 std::chrono Measure time Elapsed I'm working on a Timer class that calls a function once every time interval. I have noticed that the clock is running slightly slow because the function is not taking into account the amount of thine the code took to operate when setting up the wait amount for the clock. I have been having trouble figuring out how to measure the amount of time that has elapsed during the function call and then subtract that from the interval time in order to produce an accurate wait time.
#include <iostream>
#include <chrono>
#include <thread>
#include <functional>

namespace Engine {
    template<class return_type,class...arguments>
    class Timer{
        typedef std::function<return_type(arguments...)> _function_t;
        typedef std::chrono::system_clock::time_point time_point;
        typedef std::chrono::duration<size_t,std::micro> _duration;
    public:
        Timer(size_t interval,bool autoRun,_function_t function,arguments...args){
            _function = function;
            _interval = interval;
            if (autoRun) {
                Enable(args...);
            }
        }
        ~Timer(){
            if (Running()) {
                Disable();
            }
        }
        void Enable(arguments...args){
            if (!Running()) {
                _running=true;
                enable(_interval, _function, args...);
            }
        }
        void Disable(){
            if (Running()) {
                _running=false;

                delete _thread;
            }
        }
        volatile bool const& Running()const{
            return _running;
        }
    protected:
        void enable(size_t interval,_function_t func,arguments...args){
            _thread = new std::thread([&,func,interval,args...](){

                while (_running) {
                    //measure time starting here
                    func(args...);
                    //end measurement here
                    //calculate interval- time elapsed
                    //use that value in the line below in place of "interval"
                    std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::microseconds(interval));

                }
            });
            _thread->detach();
        }
    protected:
        _function_t _function;
        volatile bool _running;
        size_t _interval;
        std::thread* _thread;

    };

}

If anyone has a suggestion on how to do this using the std::chrono library please let me know. Please not boost though. I don't want to have do deal with it at the moment.
Thanks In Advance.
EDIT:
Here is the updated code:
#include <iostream>
#include <chrono>
#include <thread>
#include <functional>
#include <atomic>

namespace Engine {
    template<class return_type,class...arguments>
    class Timer{
        typedef std::function<return_type(arguments...)> _function_t;
        typedef std::chrono::system_clock::time_point time_point;
        typedef std::chrono::duration<size_t,std::micro> _duration;
    public:
        Timer(size_t interval,bool autoRun,_function_t function,arguments...args){
            _function = function;
            _interval = interval;
            if (autoRun) {
                Enable(args...);
            }
        }
        ~Timer(){
            if (Running()) {
                Disable();
            }
        }
        void Enable(arguments...args){
            if (!Running()) {
                _running=true;
                enable(_interval, _function, args...);
            }
        }
        void Disable(){
            if (Running()) {
                _running=false;
            }
        }
        std::atomic_bool const& Running()const{
            return _running;
        }
    protected:
        void enable(size_t interval,_function_t func,arguments...args){
            _thread =std::thread([&,func,interval,args...](){
                std::chrono::duration<long long,std::nano> inter(interval);
                auto _interval = std::chrono::microseconds(interval);
                auto deadline = std::chrono::steady_clock::now();
                while (_running) {
                    func(args...);
                    std::this_thread::sleep_until(deadline+=_interval);
                }
            });
            _thread.detach();
        }
    protected:
        _function_t _function;
        std::atomic_bool _running;
        size_t _interval;
        std::thread _thread;

    };

}

Thanks For the help.

A:             while (_running) {
                //measure time starting here
                func(args...);
                //end measurement here
                //calculate interval- time elapsed
                //use that value in the line below in place of "interval"
                std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::microseconds(interval));

            }

Your comments are exactly correct. You can find documentation on std::chrono here: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/chrono
            while (_running) {
                auto start = std::chrono::high_resolution_clock::now(); //measure time starting here
                func(args...);
                auto end = std::chrono::high_resolution_clock::now(); //end measurement here
                auto elapsed = end - start; //calculate interval- time elapsed
                //use that value in the line below in place of "interval"
                if (elapsed < interval)
                  std::this_thread::sleep_for(interval-elapsed);

            }

The above assumes you change interval to be a std::chrono::duration type. You really should avoid using generic integral types, because you don't get any type safety from them in terms of whether a tick represents a microsecond, a millisecond, or whatever. Users have to check the documentation and that doesn't work very well. Also if you template functions based on the duration then users can pass whatever duration type they like and you can handle any necessary conversion behind the scenes.

Some other comments.
The way you're using variadic templates does not enable perfect forwarding. You may get some extra copies of the parameters besides the one that's needed to ensure the arguments live long enough.
volatile does not enable atomic accesses. Your write to _running is not sequenced with the reads and therefore causes a data race, leading to undefined behavior. The simplest fix is std::atomic<bool>, but there are some other possibilities as well.
The bool autoRun parameter leads to the so called "boolean trap". Instead use an enum that will be more readable.
You don't need _thread to be a pointer. In fact since you immediately detach it and never use it for anything except delete, you don't need this member at all. But IMO you'd be better off using std::future and std::async instead of a detached thread.
There's no point in Enable() and Disable() using the public Running() function since they already have to know about the implementation of Running(). It's safer to just access _running directly. Another alternative would be to introduce a counterpart to Running() that is responsible for setting _running, and then Enable() and Disable() would not have to access _running directly at all.
The detached thread could continue running for a time after the timer object has been destroyed, causing it to access members of the Timer after they are no longer valid. If the thread is accessing member variables (such as _running) then you must wait for the thread to complete before destruction completes.
Disable() already checks if the task is running, so the extra check in the destructor is unnecessary.
The order of arguments in the constructor can be changed so that passing an interval and a function with no autorun or arguments defaults to not auto running and not using ...args. E.g.  auto draw_loop = Timer(microseconds(10), DrawFunc); draw_loop.Enable(foo, bar);
It's a good idea to avoid default captures in lambdas because then you may not be sure what's getting captured. For example in your code use use reference capture by default, but then capture all the local variables by value. And since _runnable is a member variable it does not get captured by reference. Instead the lambda captures this by value and accesses _runnable through that.
You can use the _function and _interval member variables in your loop instead of capturing new copies.
Instead of using std::function and templating Timer on return_type and arguments you can simply template Timer on a generic Function type. That way you don't pay the expense of std::function and don't have unnecessary return_type and argument types that you don't use anywhere.
template<typename Function>
class Timer {
    using duration = std::chrono::nanosecond;

public:
    enum class AutoRun { no, yes };

    template<typename Duration, typename... Arguments>
    Timer(Duration interval, Function function, AutoRun run = AutoRun::no, Arguments &&...args)
      : _function(function)
      , _interval(std::chrono::duration_cast<duration>(interval))
      , _running(false)
    {
        if (AutoRun::yes == run) {
            Enable(std::forward<Arguments>(args)...);
        }
    }

    ~Timer(){
        Disable();
    }

    template<typename... Arguments>
    void Enable(Arguments &&...args){
        if (!_running) {
            _running=true;
            enable(std::forward<Arguments>(args)...);
        }
    }

    void Disable() {
        if (_running) {
            _running = false;
            _thread.get();
        }
    }

    volatile bool const& Running() const {
        return _running;
    }

protected:
    template<typename... Arguments>
    void enable(Arguments &&...args) {
        _thread = std::async([this] (Arguments &&...args_copy) {
            auto time_to_wake = std::chrono::steady_clock::now();
            while (_running) {
                _function(args_copy...);
                time_to_wake += _interval;
                std::this_thread::sleep_until(time_to_wake);
            }
        }, std::forward<Arguments>(args)...);
    }

protected:
    Function _function;
    duration _interval;

    std::atomic<bool> _running;
    std::future<void> _thread;
};

A: Use std::this_thread::sleep_until to keep the intervals between events as uniform as possible:
void enable(size_t interval,_function_t func,arguments...args){
    _thread = new std::thread([&,func,interval,args...]{
        auto interval = std::chrono::microseconds{this->interval};
        auto deadline = std::chrono::steady_clock::now();

        while (_running) {
            func(args...);
            deadline += interval;
            std::this_thread::sleep_until(deadline);
        }
    });
    _thread->detach();
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"It's stunning how much time U.S. political leaders spend defending a foreign nation even if it means attacking free speech rights of Americans".
"It's all about the Benjamins baby", Omar wrote.
Meanwhile Omar, the congresswoman for Minnesota, said she is working to bring some balance to the United States position, which now gives priority to Israel.
Omar's office did not immediately return a call and email from Yahoo News seeking comment.
The chair of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep.
"Anti-Semitism in any form is unacceptable, and it's shocking to hear a Member of Congress invoke the anti-Semitic trope of "Jewish money.' I fully expect that when we disagree on the Foreign Affairs Committee, we will debate policy on the merits and never question members" motives or resort to personal attacks".
As of Monday afternoon, Omar had not deleted the "Benjamins" tweet or released an official statement on the controversy.
She did respond to a tweet from Clinton, saying she'd be "happy to talk".
Omar has drawn criticism from tweets she posted regarding Israel.
Critics of the tweet included many Republican members of Congress, former first daughter Chelsea Clinton and former ambassador to Israel under President Barack Obama Daniel B. Shapiro. He has insisted that "the overwhelming majority of the House Democratic Caucus is strongly pro-Israel".
The lawmaker said he doesn't "believe she would harbor those sorts of views as they've been characterized". Unlike many other news organizations, we have not put up a paywall.
Omar is also one of the few Congresspersons who support the Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which seeks to strangle Israel by pressuring countries and companies to stop doing business with the Middle Eastern country.
Last month, Omar expressed regret for saying in a 2012 tweet that Israel "has hypnotized the world" while carrying out "evil".
"Rep. Omar's use of an anti-Semitic stereotype was offensive and irresponsible".
"We condemn these remarks and we call upon Congresswoman Omar to immediately apologize for these hurtful comments", the statement read.
"The leaders" statement came in the hours after a pair of powerful House chairman rebuked Omar for the remarks. "I'm going to support Israel and the Jewish people".
"At the same time", she wrote, "I reaffirm the problematic role of lobbyists in our politics, whether it be AIPAC [the American Israel Public Affairs Committee], the [National Rifle Association] or the fossil fuel industry". Some even called for her to be removed from her committees, just as Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) was for his racist comments.


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Published 27 November 2008	Democracy , Heritage , History , Justice , Movies , Patriotism , Politics , Power 2 Comments
Tags: 'National interest', Film-making, Malaysian politics
The government has allocated a sum of RM15 million for the sole purpose of encouraging Malaysians to make films of 'national interest'.
According to a Bernama report, Unity, Culture, Arts and Heritage Minister Shafie Apdal said that this film project would 'serve to contribute to the enhancement of national unity and celebrate the many human tales and case studies of courage and endeavour'.
Noble aims, but the underlying and crucial questions here are, whose 'national interest' would be served, and whose history and cultural heritage would these films be expected to foreground?
Additionally, it would be interesting to know the composition of the selection panel of experts or group that is expected to address questions such as the above.
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 26 (Bernama) — The Government has approved the setting-up of a RM15 million fund for the making of films of national interest, said Unity, Culture, Arts and Heritage Minister Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal.
"We believe that support should be given for the production of films with historical, cultural and heritage themes," he said in his speech at the welcoming night of the 2nd Kuala Lumpur International Film Festival (KLIFF 2008), here Wednesday night.
Shafie said the development would also serve to contribute to the enhancement of national unity and celebrate the many human tales and case studies of courage and endeavour.
This development alone will increase the local investment for the production of films by at least 40 percent," he said.
He said within the next three years, it was estimated that the Malaysian film industry would produce no less than 35 mainstream feature films a year.
"This figure does not include the increasing number of digital films, short films, documentaries and animation movies that are coming online due to the increasing demand from various televisions stations and satellite TV," he said.
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President Donald Trump speaks during the USMCA signing ceremony as Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, and Mexico's President Enrique Pena Neto, left, look on, Friday, Nov. 30, 2018 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
For farmers in Utah, one of the most important things Congress can do is bring stability and certainty to the North American market. In the midst of so many trade disputes, nothing is more important that passing the new NAFTA now known as the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA, and regaining our key export markets to our country's top trading partners.
This comes at a critical time as farmers across our state are making plans for spring planting as well as larger ones about the future of their farm or ranch. It also comes at a time of great uncertainty. For my family that has run a dairy farm in Ogden for six generations, these are the toughest times we have ever seen. On our farm, low prices for our milk have dropped our monthly revenues significantly. It has led us to look for ways to diversify income sources to stay afloat. We now operate a pumpkin patch and corn maze for kids in the fall, and we are growing things like onions and other produce for your dinner table.
Our state's agriculture economy represents approximately 79,000 jobs and $3.5 billion in compensation, but I worry if market forces continue as they have, how many of my longtime fellow farmers on the verge of shutting down will have to make that last, hard decision. In the dairy industry alone, we are down to approximately 150 dairy farms in the state, but I'm not sure we'll have that same number at the end of 2019. A farm or ranch shutting down is traumatic for that family business, but the ripple effects will also be felt in our communities. Situations like these are a reminder that an international trade crisis has very local ramifications.
The answer to this problem isn't just drinking more milk, buying more vegetables or eating more hamburgers here in America — though that is always a good idea — the answer is expanded market opportunities through trade.
Trade is a major economic driver in Utah. Our state's agriculture economy is responsible for $21 billion in total economic output — 15 percent of the state total. Utah's dairy industry alone turns out roughly 2 billion pounds a year of milk (about 245 million gallons), but we don't consume that much milk in our state. We also export a lot of hay, beef, fruit and more. We rely on being able to export these agricultural products to Mexico and Canada — as do many other small businesses and manufacturers with what they produce in our state.
The time to act is now. Passing the USMCA would give farmers like me a sense of stability that would allow us to create smart business plans for the future. Trade is about trust, and we have built this trust through the strong relationships we have built over the years with specific people and companies in Mexico and Canada. I was able to witness firsthand how trade agreements impact companies and communities when I participated on a trade mission to Mexico last year with Utah Gov. Gary Herbert. The USMCA would send a message to everyone that our trading relationships matter and are secure going forward.
It also should bring an end to the uncertainty that has driven up our costs of production and the retaliatory tariffs that have punished American agriculture exports. Simply put, it's high time to put aside costly disputes and get back to business with our allies in Canada and Mexico. I urge our Congressional delegation to pass the USMCA and bring an end to the threat of tariffs. Please contact your congressman today and ask them to support Utah's farmers and ranchers by passing the North American trade agreement.
Ron Gibson is a 6th generation Utah dairy farmer, and president of the Utah Farm Bureau Federation.